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The Great Scenes: "Drug Deal Gone Horribly Wrong" from BOOGIE NIGHTS
August 20, 2010 Ben Flanagan
Movie: Boogie Nights
Spoiler Level: High (but who cares?)
The Setup: In Paul Thomas Anderson's epic portrait of the adult film industry underbelly, his main character finally hits rock bottom. Just as he comes to this realization where the only next step would be redemption, it might be too late. Porn superstar fallen from grace Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) and his buddies Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly) and Todd Parker hope to score some quick cash by selling a fake bag of cocaine (actually baking soda) to crackhead druglord Rahad Jackson (the brilliantly whacked-out Alfred Molina). Thinking they'd be in and out in a hurry, Rahad, clad in a silk robe and underwear, wants them to stick around and party with his muscle-bound, pistol-packing bodyguard and mute Asian buddy inexplicably setting off firecrackers as his Awesome Mix Tape provides the musical backdrop for a maniacal evening.
Why It's Great: Movies rarely affect me to a point where I want to leave the room during a given scene or scenario. In Rahad's living room, I felt just as trapped as our three would-be drug dealer/con artists Dirk, Reed and Todd. Their anxiety was my own with each POP! of a firecracker, several of which you confuse with gunshots, especially when Rahan, high on crack-cocaine, pulls out a revolver to play a little Russian roulette. Every single person has been to that guy's house they never wanted to go to in the first place where things get as weird/dangerous as you think they will. All you're thinking is, "Let's get the f*ck out of here now."
Once Dirk has that feeling, as Anderson and cinematographer Robert Elswit hold the camera still on Wahlberg's stone-faced inflection (a high mark for him as an actor, and for the film as the central character finally has the epiphany that awakes him from the murky depths to which he's hopelessly traveled), he nearly escapes just in time. But his buddy Todd (Jane, in his best performance, not coming close to equaling it since) wants to stick around and press Rahad for more cash in a bedroom safe. Todd pulls a pistol before Rahad rushes into another room and his bodyguard opens fire on the misplaced trio. Then all hell breaks loose.
In fact, going back to the beginning of the scene, once Rahad's front door opens, you get a sense that you're entering hell along with these three troubled characters. It's the worst place you could possibly end up. And regardless of the moral implications of what these people do professionally, their intentions were once relatively pure until cocaine entered the mix and corrupted their bodies and minds.
Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl," Night Ranger's "Sister Christian" and Nena's "99 Luftballoons" will all taken on new meanings, as Anderson gets as much of the unexpected potential these seemingly innocent pop songs (not unlike his predecessor Martin Scorsese).
I don't like to throw around too much hyperbole, but I often consider this to be my favorite movie scene of all time. For me, while what preceded this certainly soars on its own and exhibited Anderson as a filmmaker to watch (one with a clear idea of his own film grammar), the deal gone bad at Rahad's catapulted him to an elite level of talent and storytelling. I will never, ever tire of this movie, thanks primarily to this scene.
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ADB lends US$500 million for Indonesian green energy
Loan supports reforms to boost sustainability, governance, private investment, recovery
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$500 million loan to support Indonesia's energy sector reforms aimed at boosting fiscal sustainability and governance, expanding private sector investments in clean and renewable energy, and promoting green recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
ADB will also administer a US$15 million loan for the third sub-programme of the Sustainable and Inclusive Energy Programme funded by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Infrastructure Fund through its Asean Catalytic Green Finance Facility.
In addition, the project will include an equivalent of US$292 million in co-financing from the German Development Cooperation, through KfW, and US$60 million from the Economic Development Cooperation Fund.
The subprogramme includes electricity tariff reforms and better targeting of subsidies, with support for the most vulnerable populations, including households headed by women. These actions have led to significantly reduced fuel and electricity subsidies through the programme period, helping the government manage the sharp increase in international energy prices in 2022.
As well, the sub-programme supports the government's initiatives for promoting renewable energy production with a new pricing mechanism, regulations to promote floating solar, solar rooftop photovoltaic systems, electric vehicles, and energy efficiency standards and measures.
The programme also supports the government's commitment for developing strategies for the early phase out of coal-fired power plants in the country and clean energy transition, which will be the focus of the bank's support to the Indonesian energy sector going forward.
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What Time Did Einstein Wake Up
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Ryhope Comprehensive School
DICK COPLAND
RYHOPE PEOPLE
© 2018 by The Ryhope School Project
End of an era...
After only 19 years in existence, Ryhope Comprehensive School finally closed its doors for the last time in July 1988.
A lot has been said as to why the school was allowed such demise and the injustice it had to fight throughout its life but they can never take away the fond memories of Staff and Pupils who attended this institution.
We leave the last word to an article from the local newspaper:
Sunderland Echo Wednesday July 6th 1988
THE SOUND of the bell signalling the end of the day's lessons will echo through the corridors of Ryhope School for the very last time on Friday, July 22.
For after 77 years filled with the buzz of young voices and the clatter of feet rushing from classroom to classroom, the old building will fall silent – a victim of falling rolls and the local authority's cost-cutting axe.
Stomachs churning with nerves and anticipation, the school's first ever intake of pupils – 74 boys and 81 girls – arrived for lessons of September 16, 1911.
They were the first to attend classes at the school that over the next three quarters of a century was to set new standards and break new ground in its constant efforts to advance secondary education.
The intake increased steadily after the first year, but the smooth day-to-day running of the school under its first headmaster Ralph Williams was to be shattered by the outbreak of war in 1914.
Rationing was enforced, school supplies ran low and senior boys went off to fight for their Kings and country, 14 never to return.
It was the second World War that saw the arrival of the school's second headmaster Stanley Graham.
He recounted his vivid recollections of his first visit to Ryhope in his Golden Jubilee address to the school in 1961.
He said: "Visiting Ryhope for the first time in the summer of 1940 was an unusual experience and what newly appointed headmaster could think otherwise?
"Arriving by special invitation early in the afternoon, I found the school completely deserted, barrage balloons flying high, fighter aircraft overhead and masters and boys in the air raid shelters."
During this war 34 Ryhope Old Boys lost their lives and 15 were decorated while back at home pupils did "their bit" for the war effort when the school became the first in the region to form a unit of the Air Training Corps.
Not all the school's innovations were as well received – a decision by the school governors to omit the singing of the national anthem at the 1932 speech-day had been greeted with public outcry.
The early 30s were a time of change for the school. From 1929, the number of girls attending declined through the opening of nearby Seaham Girls Grammar and in 1933, Ryhope became an all-boys school.
The loss of female students was mourned by one master who claimed they were harder workers and produced better examination results than the boys.
The school's first headmaster, Ralph Williams – just one of three during its 77-year history – made it renowned for its academic grind.
The silver
His reputed dislike for games was recalled by many pupils, although one master remembers the head treating him to a demonstration with a coal shovel of a famous batsman's strokes in his study.
In 1936, the school celebrated its Silver Jubilee, unaware that the next quarter century was to see many more changes.
The previous year Ryhope Modern opened its doors across the road as demand for school places rose.
In 1962, Ryhope Grammar School was extended as girls were once again admitted to the school.
But it was 1969 and the advent of comprehensive education that was to open the most controversial chapter in the school's history.
September 2, 1969, saw Ryhope School's new headmaster Dick Copland acting as lollipop lady t the latest intake of pupils.
He said: "Ryhope Grammar School and Ryhope Modern across the road had been amalgamated, but the foot-bridge had not yet been built".
But before he took his first class at the school Mr Copland, who is still at the head of the school today despite attempts to despose him, had already broken new ground.
He said: "Before I started at Ryhope, I was asked to submit a list for staff organisation and I put down a careers teacher as a requirement.
"The Deputy Director of Education at the time said "over my dead body" – but the school won.
"That was my first battle and we went from strength to strength".
But it was Mr Copland's decision to ban corporal punishment that saw him with a real fight on his hands and almost forced him to quit as head of the school.
He said: "Right from day one, I abolished corporal punishment. I explained to my staff I was in favour of courtesy and consideration, but that there were ways other than using corporal punishment to get it.
"No one will learn satisfactorily if they are fearful or afraid. They have got to feel secure and there has to be mutual respect."
The abolition of the cane resulted in a chain of events that led to the then Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph ordering an investigation into the running of the school and its discipline.
The school governors then told Mr Copland that unless he adopted an 18-point programme which influenced the school's policy, they would meet to consider his suitability to continue as head of the school.
Mr Copland accepted the board of governors' proposals for the future running of the school.
He said: "It was a very demanding time for me physically and mentally. I was lucky to have the support of my family, many of the teachers, people from the community and many of the pupils to help me through."
"I still maintain it is up to each adult to measure for themselves the value of their education and I hope the lessons that former pupils have learned have been of value to them."
Looking back over the history of the school, Mr Copland hopes it is not the "troubles" that people remember, but some of the many high spots and great achievements for which the school also made its name over recent years.
The school's innovative curriculum is one of the things the Head is most pleased about.
Ryhope was champion of sexual equality in the classroom and won awards for its efforts to give both boys and girls equal opportunities in all subjects.
Subjects such as Motor Vehicle Studies and Rural Science were introduced to the timetable and pupils were encouraged to develop as people – school uniform was abolished and pupils were encouraged to put forward their views on the running of the school.
Mr Copeland has three thick files of press clippings detailing the achievement of pupils, past and present and it is these achievements he would like to see the school remembered for.
Most of the column inches, in both the local and national press, are devoted to the event Ryhope School is perhaps best know for – its momentous production of the rock-operas Tommy and Stardust under the guidance of drama teacher Malcolm Gerrie, who went on to produce The Tube.
Mr Copland recalled the staff meeting at which the final details of the production of Tommy were resolved.
"At that time, tickets for the school productions were 10p or 15p in more affluent areas.
"A deathly silence fell when Malcolm suggested charging 50p for Tommy, but on the first night, tickets were changing hands at £2 each and we had a long queue outside the school".
The school's next production; Stardust was to attract not just the attention of the folk of Ryhope. It wasn't long before the national press focussed its attention to the musical, and TV crews arrived at the school.
The rock opera Stardust became the subject of an Aquarius documentary – the programme that was the forerunner of today's South Bank Show.
The spirit that saw the school launch itself headlong into these ambitious productions still prevails at the school despite the fact that this term is the last.
Mr Copland: "I asked staff at the beginning of the year that we were by no means to approach it as period of winding-down. We have put as much effort into it as in previous years and so far, it has proved one of the most productive.
The capsule
"So many people have put so much into the school towards the development of education, we want it to finish strongly."
To ensure the school's memory lives on after its final day, parents, pupils and staff are now collecting information to place in a time capsule.
The school has been divided into working teams with the target of discovering and recording details of the school, its pupils and Ryhope community.
It will include two video films and interviews with locals. Sunderland museum will lock in this "living" text-book in a capsule for 50 years.
So as the old school bell rings for the last time, Ryhope School will go out with a bang and not a whimper!
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N.C. Court of Appeals sides with retired state workers in State Health Plan suit
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals upheld this morning a 2013 trial-court ruling favoring a group of retired state employees led by former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverly Lake. The retirees are challenging State Health Plan changes in a breach-of-contract complaint. Today's ruling means the suit will be able to move forward, since appellate judges rejected the state's attempts to dismiss the suit.
Among other Court of Appeals opinions released this morning:
A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a trial-court ruling favoring Duke University in a lawsuit involving the shooting death of a man panhandling outside the Duke Hospital entrance in 2010.
A unanimous three-judge panel overruled a trial court and will force the New Hanover County school board to reconsider its 2012 decision not to renew the contract of an assistant principal who had documented run-ins with some superiors.
A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a ruling favoring the N.C. Department of Transportation in a dispute over attorney's fees linked to a long-running court battle over access to a 190-acre Davidson County subdivision.
A unanimous three-judge panel reversed the N.C. Industrial Commission and ruled against the Department of Correction in a dispute involving a former Correction worker who's been collecting disability benefits since the mid-1990s.
A unanimous three-judge panel, in an unpublished opinion with limited precedential value, dismissed Clayton's appeal of a court order favoring a recycling company in a dispute with the town over a temporary-use permit issued to a competitor.
A unanimous three-judge panel, in an unpublished opinion with limited precedential value, reversed a trial-court ruling and favored the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles in a dispute over license suspension and civil penalties assessed against a company that performed vehicle emissions tests.
Restoring the Separation of Powers in North Carolina
Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
"Family mourns 83-year-old man killed after being shoved by thief at Home Depot"


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A dribble, a drabble -- below, please find babble...
three kahluas to the wind
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A drabble is 100 words. It just is. If it's 300 words long, or 500 words long, or 98 words long, the term you're looking for is "short story" or perhaps "ficlet" or "flashfic" but it is not "drabble." It's exactly like saying, "Well, I like the sound of the word 'sonnet' and it sort of seems like it should mean 'Any poem in iambic pentameter that rhymes,' so I'm going to use it that way."
People who say "Er, no, that's not a sonnet; it's a very nice poem, but it fails as a sonnet because it has too many lines," aren't being tightasses, they're just making a statement that what's been written here doesn't fall under the rules of that specific literary form. Nobody's saying it has to comply with a specific literary form, but if you don't want to be limited to the rules that have been established for that form, all you have to do is not call it that (or in the linked case, admit that it was an honest screwup). It's a problem that solves itself.
I think what bugs me about the way 'drabble' is being used recently in fandom to mean 'any really short story' or at best 'any short story of a pre-assigned round number of words' is that when done well, the 100-word drabble is a lot like a very carefully-crafted poem. I haven't regularly written poetry for years, but it was my first love and it's still the art-form I have the most formal study in, so I love drabbles that recapture that feeling (whether I wrote them or am reading them) of crafting and shaping where every. single. word. and its placement counts at a very intense level. Use of 'drabble' to mean any old short fic bothers me because I sense that the meaning-shift has come because the word sounds like "some little thing that dribbled out of my pen," and that association then attaches itself to the 100-word ones as well, that people have worked hard on to make meet the requirements of the form.
(And I'm not saying people didn't work hard on the 120-word stories and the 500-word stories; I'm just saying that they didn't specifically work hard to make a story that says something touching or clever and says it in exactly 100 words, no more, no less.)
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Edit: But then there's people who don't know the original meaning of 'drabble' because they've only seen it used in fandom, by someone else who learned it from someone else who... etc. I'm not bitching at them (or even really at the people who know the literary meaning and have tried to adapt it to different word counts) -- I'm just sort of bitching into the wind that this is what happens when word-meanings become more and more inclusive, moving from the specific to the general. We lose, as julia_here pointed out, meaning, in our quest for inclusiveness.
I like words.
My cat's breath smells like catfood.
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ladycat777
Tangential wank:
In my undergrad creative writing class, my 'professor' told us about sonnets. She did so by writing a sixteen line poem that consisted of one word each. When I raised my hand and said no, that's not a sonnet, though it is a good poem (have we noticed the trend of never shutting up, even when I really should?), she grew very angry with me. It's the idea of a sonnet, she said. The rules don't matter. It just feels like one.
That's when I decided never to take another creative writing class at Brandeis, as she headed the department. Dear god, the stupidity. I just ... gah.
That said, I use drabble wrong all the time. Meep :)
*makes note to change 'drabble' to 'ficlet' from now on*
P.S. How the hell can a sonnet not, you know, follow the rules of a sonnet? I don't understand this! Six years later and I still don't.
amand_r
Re: your prefossor. It is people like this that make me totally disassociate with the educational system. I wish they would all take a header off the Ivory Tower. I'd write a sonnet about that.
I'm a rules oriented person, and so I think that when one creates something that is a formula, that formula should be used to create the thing with the formula's name; strawberry shortcake should be what we all recognize as strawberry shortcake, and not goulash or something. A drabble is 100 words, and if you write something that is short, even if it's in the spirit of the drabble, and it's not 100 words, then you call it something else. Gah.
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ide_cyan
Hear, hear...
I don't think I'm quite brave enough to actually go on a quest to reclaim the word, myself! It took pre-mixed alcoholic beverages before I got ambitious enough to even rant about it in my own space.
There's also that nifty aha! rush when you manage to get your thoughts across in exactly 100 words.
Unless yor name is Humpty Dumpty in which case sonnet and drabble can mean whatever you want.
Exactly, to both points. Yes, language shift exists, but thre'sa difference between language shifting over time, and language shifting while you watch, to no discernable benefit, since there's already words to cover "short fic" but no word to cover "100 word story" except drabble.
reremouse
Well, oops!
I thought a "drabble" was a very short story written in increments of 100 words since that's how it gets used so often.
I'm going to be using the phrase "drabble or ficlet" a lot more in my near future, I can tell!
Unless it's a novel.
Very quickly written.
ETA time: the community info for slashthedrabble has been changed to note the difference. We'll be making a note of that in all future community challenges too.
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julia_here
Polite applause.
Prolonged, polite applause.
Julia, holding the line on meaning whenever possible
I like meaning. I like playing with meaning, too. Just get driven nuts by meaning shifting with no particular positive reason behind it, from the specific to the general.
47_trek_47
Amen, sister! Hear, hear!
The drabble as a meaningful catagory of fic is threatened by letting the 100-words rule slide. I mean, a story in 98 words is just... a really, really short story. A story in 100 words exactly is a story you had to put a lot more thought into, I think. It's a wonderful exercise for learning to streamline your prose.
That's why i love them, definitely. It lets you teach yourself a certain kind of editing, and word-flow.
Shh! Not so loud! The philosophy majors might hear you! ;-)
bunnyohare
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elucidate_this
You have beautifully elucidated something that has been bothering me pretty much since I discovered that people were calling various short pieces drabbles.
In my mind, the whole point, the whole beauty of the drabble is the trimming down, the precision and economy of language.
I am less bothered by the faux!drabbles that are still a precise number of words...but still kind of bothered.
I wonder why people feel compelled to overuse the word. Is it just that the word drabble is funny? Ficlet is a funny word, why isn't it good enough? *feels sad for the poor maligned ficlet*
[fyi, because I am a huge dork avoiding writing a paper brilliant and funny, this reply is precisely 100 words, not including this little note]
Mwhahaaha! *loves on you* I should make a note in the main post that all further replies must be exactly 100 words, no more, no less.
I wonder why people feel compelled to overuse the word. Is it just that the word drabble is funny?
My instinct is maybe more that it doesn't seem threatening? It's such a small-sounding word that it seems much easier to write than a 'story' or 'fic.' Yet like Kyuk..ky..kuu... Grace said, because it is a *specific* name, it feels like that small non-threatening thing still has legitimacy in the eyes of Laura Mars fandom.
Ficlet is a funny word, why isn't it good enough? *feels sad for the poor maligned ficlet*
Actually, the whole big usage of 'flashfic' for fics of around or exactly 1000 words (that's mutated in the last year or so too, so I don't know how it was originally defined in fandom) came about because people were saying that 'ficlet' seemed wrong and dismissive of short stories, as if because they were short, they weren't complete. Cue a round of people playing with the idea of what a flashfic might be, and then the very first ficathon (at least by that name), as far as I know, grew out of that.
I think that people have a bias against short fic, but that drabbles are seen as more acceptable, thus they want that perceieved legitimacy that the label of drabble brings to their fic. Honestly I do. I can't think of any other reason why people would continue to mislabel their fics when they know the correct term.
That's one of my thoughts on it too. That, or just a sort of stubbornness that in a way I can understand, of not wanting to let go of a name once they *thought* they had a word for what they were writing. (as in "I like calling it a drabble! It's a neat word! Stop harshing my mellow, man!")
To me, a 200 word fic where the author set that 200 words as a goal for themselves and edited it to be just perfect is more in the spirit of a drabble than a 100 word fic where the author just wrote a random 100 words without putting any thought into it. But still, neither is a true drabble.
And maybe we do need a word for "story of fixed length" that incorporates all sorts of different lengths. That could help with the problem somewhat, if anybody could agree on whatthat word or phrase should be.
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The sonnet rules were something that I was aware of.
I had no idea that a drabble meant precisely 100 word. I must have been absent that day.
So there you are. It might not be that people are playing with the net down as much as is that they don't know that there needs to be a net.
Yeah, I get that (see edit to post) -- the usage of the word is spreading faster than the meaning of the word, at times. Both through Chinese Telephone where each person makes a little change and 10 people later it's mutated into something completely different, and through the simpler issue of being absent that day --
by which I mean, if I post a 100 word story that's a slash PWP and call it a drabble, but don't say it's a drabble because it's a 100 word story, you could look at my story and go "Oh, cool, a very short story is a drabble" or "oh cool, a quickie PWP is a drabble" etc. Because words get picked up from context, and sometimes there's not enough context to convey what aspect of the story made it a drabble.
glossing
Oh, thank you. Thank you.
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Can I lick you and feed you some strawberries? OH MY GOD. You have said what I have been itching to say for months now.
When I started writing fanfic, I started with drabbles. 100 words, no more, no less. I wrote at least a dozen such drabbles, spaced out over months, and months, carefully thought out, not tossed off like a dribble. I did this because the first fanfic community I ran across after joing LJ was sunday100 (now called open_on_sunday), a slashy BtVS drabble community. The very NAME of the community has the '100' in it, so I took the definition to be exactly that.
Then, a few months ago I saw a zillion people on my friends list referring to three hundred-word things they had written as 'drabbles'. three hundred, five hundred, even, god, a thousand. I was very depressed about it, because it made all the work I did on the one hundred word ones seem wasted.
Thank you for speaking out against the dilution of an admirable form of writing.
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My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Well, yes. Ours have cat food breath from time to time as well. The only bad time is when they exit the litter box, do a quick pit stop at the food dish, and then jump up on your lap and purr and shove their urine-smelling asses toward your face. The cat food breath gets you when they purr, and when they do the 180 in preparation for lying on your lap, the litter box smell gets you, too. WHAM. "Hi mommy, pet me, pet me!" Purrrr. Ew. But so cute.
Heeee! That was meant to be my best Ralph Wiggum impersonation, to indicate that I am at times a very simpleminded child -- but all my cats' breath does smell like catfood. Also yes, and eww, to the catbox+face combination.
Fred in particular likes to reverse this by racing down the basement stairs when one goes to the bathroom (which is a basementy-type bathroom with a hanging-track door that a cat can walk right under) and trying to jump on one's lap at a most inopportune moment.
pronaea
I did know that a drabble was exactly 100 words. That's precisely why I've never written one. I've always been more of a babbler than a drabbler. :P However, I didn't know the drabble-y history from your link so ta for the info. :)
Also, someone should spank the prof that bent the sonnet. Just on principle. I thought that was the sort of thing that the students were supposed to try and then do an, "uh, gee, but it's still a poem, right?" (Why, yes, I did attend complete some courses at a community college *mumble* years ago! How could you tell? *blink*)
I didn't know all the drabble-y history either -- I knew it had more or less defined as a form, but not when, how, or by whom, until I went searching for backup tonight. :)
Yeah, the sonnet thing gets me, half funny, half annoyed. The idea is you teach people the formal forms first and get them to at least attempt them, and then let 'em improvise. But when they've played around and improvised, you don't call it by the name of the formal form. Maybe "Variations on a theme"


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Tim Bowness – zang
Mike Bearpark – gitaar
Peter Chilvers – piano, drummachine
Myke Clifford - saxofoon, dwarsfluit, percussie

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Bij de persing (9 tracks) werd besloten een tweetal nummers met andere samen te voegen. Ze staat wel apart op de tracklist achter op het album vermeld (11 nummers).

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Help ... There are no instructions for how to remove eggs from the site.
Also, it seems to add one's entire scroll automatically.
I usually just fog mine and they are removed that way.
I temporarily changed my scroll to not accepting aid from others, but am not sure if this did the trick. There really is no way to tell.
ETA: rubyshoes, I just went in and fogged all 10 of my eggs/hatchlings individually. It was a pain. Now I have to check to see if they were removed from the other sites where I added them, all while not being sure if they were removed from DC Mansion.
ETA: nope. Fogging did not remove them from two fansites plus a third I am using for one, so I do not believe that fogging works.
Some fan sites don't remove fogged eggs but I believe DCM does but it can take a while for the fogged eggs to be removed.
Problem is, there is no way for users to verify whether their eggs have been removed or not. To me, this site is a security risk. Anyone could add our eggs and we have no way of verifying.
Ah, I see. So what you'd like is for the site to change the way it works/add some features? I can't help with that, sorry. But the developer of the site should see your posts when they check in on their thread.
Well, 1. I want my eggs/hatchlings removed from their site and I am not convinced that they have been. 2. I am kind of surprised that with such a format this site is allowed to operate, since it seems like a prime candidate for viewbombing attempts. 3. There is no way for us to even verify whether our own eggs are on the site.
Agreed, this is something that the owner needs to take care of.
Well, 1. I want my eggs/hatchlings removed from their site and I am not convinced that they have been. 2. I am kind of surprised that with such a format this site is allowed to operate, since it seems like a prime candidate for viewbombing attempts. 3. I say that since there is no way for us to even verify whether our own eggs are on the site.
I also think TJ should be made aware of this, in the event the site owner does not fix the issue.
You might be interested in this thread http://forums.dragcave.net/index.php?showt...hl=view+bombing It hasn't been posted in in a while but the info is still valid.
In the first thread, the suggestion is made to require scroll names. (And passwords, but at the least, scroll names. Then, discussion ensued.) DC Mansion requires scroll names, but it doesn't change the fact that DC Mansion has a security flaw not found on other fansites, since the scroll owners cannot check to see if their own eggs or hatchlings are on the site.
I will check the other two threads. I agree that viewbombing is a problem that needs to be addressed, but it does not dismiss an individual fansite from having measures in place so that we can easily see whether our eggs have been added to the site.
View bombing will happen regardless of being able to check your eggs. Our fan site automatically removes fogged dragons as soon as the page is loaded.
The only way to keep view bombing from happening no matter what is to keep your dragons fogged when you are not at the computer.
I have been view bombed, so I understand your worry. TJ himself told me the only way to make sure my eggs and hatchlings make it is to keep them fogged if I can not watch them or check.
DCM makes it to where you can add an egg or a whole scroll for the simple people who want to use it for an er or a whole hatch site.
Thanks for getting this site running since AoDN is down.
One tiny suggestion... tone down the colors a bit! I was trying to give some views, but if I actually 'viewed' the screen while doing so I got a headache. I think it is just your site because all other webpages look fine with my screen settings. Us old folks have a hard time with the dayglow colors!!
*grumble* Apparently I can't just CHECK if my dragons are posted here, I just accidentally added my scroll to it.
I can't fog them all because they are in transfer links, waiting to be picked up.
I tried to remove them from every fansite I know and even some of which I didn't know before, yet they were STILL gaining stats - and I don't want them to hatch before transfer.
Don't you just LOVE "helpful" people?
This is why I do not use this site. There is no way to check if your dragons are in it or not. It loads your scroll automatically, and you are correct about the fogging.
removal off your own eggs works by fogging them or hiding your scroll.
Remember my co-owner (husband and coder) and myself both have a life and children to care for. DCM is a fun side thing I wanted to do my husband just made it possible.
DCM coding is the last thing on our priority list.
Which is what one cannot do with dragons in transfer. And unfortunately I only noticed that they are *still* posted somewhere after the transfer links were sent out.
You may want to notice that neither I nor Missy asked for any additional coding. Our posts were just warnings to others that some things are different here.
Hiding your scroll with make your whole scroll disappear from all fansites records. You can not view your scroll at all unless you are logged in by password. So yes it does work with transfer eggs.
Both missy and yourself has asked for a way to check your dragons that are on my site. So yes that is additional coding.
Hiding my scroll, okay, I had no idea that this would work. Will do that next time.
Hiding your scroll with make your whole scroll disappear from all fansites records.
This may be the case for DCM, but it is definitely not true for all fansites. The only thing hiding your scroll does for most fansites is prevent users from adding/removing dragons by scroll name. Any dragons already in the system typically remain there, since they can still be monitored (for cleaning purposes) by code.
I really dislike the fact that there's no indication that inputting your scroll name automatically adds all of your eggs and hatchlings, rather than sending you to a menu where you can manually select which ones you want to add.
Likewise, while there are instructions in this thread about how to remove your eggs if you added some that you don't want receiving views yet (VERY easy to do with the lack of auto-add warning!) there is no such info on the site itself, making it easy to jump to the conclusion that eggs/hatchlings can't be removed.
I understand that you guys may not have the time to code things so that users can manually add/remove/check on their eggs, but could you please at least add some text to the site explaining how to use it? It would cut down a lot on players assuming that it works like other hatcheries and then panicking when they find out it doesn't.
I can't open the site now.
Heh, I had actually read and interpreted that as "all of this fansite's records," since only one of the other fansites I know & use stores dragons by scrollname - every other site seems to store them independently from their scroll of origin (which is how I find traded eggs and hatchlings already in them when I enter my scrollname).
Also, for accessibility: The site seems to be down.
Site still seems to be down. Hopefully it will be back soon.
Recently had someone attempt to view bomb me, and I'm going to second (or third, or fourth) the request for easier, more definitive way to remove all of your dragons from this site. Pretty please?
Fog them. It is the ONLY way. I THINK it's one of the sites that remove fogged ones automatically after a few hours, when it updates.


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Morgan Stanley beats earnings estimates
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Revenue up 50%25 to %247.9 billion
Adjusted earnings were %241 billion or 50 cents a share
Wealth management unit%27s profit doubled to %24668 million pretax
Morgan Stanley said its third-quarter profits touched $1 billion, beating analyst estimates, as the smallest of the nation's six so-called megabanks saw gains in investment management, stock trading and investment banking offset a big drop in bond trading.
Income from continuing operations was $888 million, or 44 cents a share, compared with a $1 billion loss a year ago. Analysts had expected Morgan Stanley to earn 40 cents a share on revenue of $7.05 billion. Reported revenue was $7.9 billion, up from $5.3 billion last year, when the top line took a $2.3 billion accounting charge reflecting changes in the value of the bank's derivatives positions.
Morgan is benefiting from a strategy to focus on less-risky businesses, including the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney stock brokerage and mutual fund unit, CEO James Gorman said. Third-quarter profit in that division more than doubled, reaching $668 million before taxes, after Morgan bought out Citigroup's minority interest in the business. That strategy and improving economic prospects are helping Morgan Stanley, chief financial officer Ruth Porat said.
``The impasse in Washington has been an unfortunate tax on the economy,'' Porat said on a conference call. But signs of confidence are accumulating, including a backlog of clients interested in executing mergers and initial public offerings, she added. ``We expect the economy to resume the pace it was on.''
Morgan also used a similar formula to the one its rival Goldman Sachs used to bolster third-quarter profit: Contain compensation expense to help offset the effects of the slowdown in bond trading. Compensation expenses were virtually the same as last year, pushing the percentage of adjusted revenue spent on pay and benefits to 49% of revenue, down three percentage points from last year.
Excluding a new derivatives-related accounting adjustment, Morgan Stanley's third-quarter 2013 revenues were $8.1 billion, and earnings per share from continuing operations were 50 cents.
The firm's investment advisory business, its largest reporting unit, posted mixed results. Bond trading revenue fell to $835 million from $1.5 billion, offset by a boost in stock trading and gains on investments in an insurance broker and an investment banking joint venture in Japan.
And the company's investment management business saw earnings rise more than 50%, to $300 million before taxes, as an improving commercial real estate market boosted the value of some of its holdings.
Shares of Morgan Stanley rose 76 cents, or 2.6% to $29.69 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.


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The 'Experts' Are Wrong: The American Health-Care System Is World-Beating
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Our system needs many fixes, but when it matters most, there's no better place to get sick.
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he most tedious allegation that critics of the U.S. health-care system make is that we spend exorbitantly for poorer results compared with socialized systems in other rich countries. It underpins the Democrats' ongoing mission to expand Medicare and levy price controls on prescription drugs.
But these critics distort the truth. If a person is going to get sick — and we all are at some point — there's no better place to do so than the United States.
The drive to give the federal government more control over our health care derives political nourishment from organizations such as the Commonwealth Fund, which …
Sally C. Pipes is the president, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute. Her latest book is False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All (Encounter 2020). Follow her on Twitter @sallypipes. @sallypipes


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Les Phosfées est une série de bande dessinée pour la jeunesse de Johanna. Publiée dans divers fanzines au cours des années 1990, elle a ensuite fait l'objet de trois albums inédits chez Delcourt de 2000 à 2002.

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 L'Arbre bavard, 2002 .

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Peter joined HealthBridge in 1998. As Nutrition Advisor he is responsible for ensuring the technical quality of all of HealthBridge's work in food and nutrition research and programming. Much of his work has been in the Americas (Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil) where he has conducted research and managed programmes in food system research, nutritional assessment and food fortification.
His work emphasizes nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and food systems. He brings to his work a command of data analysis, which enables novel insight into program evaluation. This includes analyses showing the impact of the recently completed chicken and egg intervention in Bolivia, an integrated nutrition and agriculture intervention in Malawi, and the widely cited review of nutrition impacts of agriculture programs.
Berti PR, Jones AD. Biodiversity's contribution to dietary diversity: Magnitude, meaning and measurement. In: Fanzo J, Hunter D, Borelli T, Mattei F, eds. Diversifying Food and Diets: Using Agricultural Biodiversity to Improve Nutrition and Health. UK: Routledge; 2013.
Efroymson D, Berti P, Daniel K. Exercise and life expectancy. Lancet. Mar 3 2012;379(9818):799-800; author reply 800-791.
Effects of a participatory agriculture and nutrition education project on child growth in northern Malawi.
Bezner Kerr R, Berti PR, Shumba L. Effects of a participatory agriculture and nutrition education project on child growth in northern Malawi. Public Health Nutr. Aug 2011;14(8):1466-1472.
Breastfeeding, complimentary feeding practices and childhood malnutrition in the Bolivian Andes.
Cruz Agudo Y, Jones AD, Berti PR, Larrea Macias S. [Breastfeeding, complimentary feeding practices and childhood malnutrition in the Bolivian Andes]. Arch. Latinoam. Nutr. Mar 2010;60(1):7-14.
An adequacy evaluation of a 10-year, four-country nutrition and health programme.
Berti PR, Mildon A, Siekmans K, Main B, Macdonald C. An adequacy evaluation of a 10-year, four-country nutrition and health programme. Int. J. Epidemiol. Apr 2010;39(2):613-629.
Bezner Kerr R, Berti PR, Chirwa M. Breastfeeding and mixed feeding practices in Malawi: timing, reasons, decision makers, and child health consequences. Food Nutr Bull. Mar 2007;28(1):90-99.
A review of the effectiveness of agriculture interventions in improving nutrition outcomes.
Berti PR, Krasevec J, FitzGerald S. A review of the effectiveness of agriculture interventions in improving nutrition outcomes. Public Health Nutr. Aug 2004;7(5):599-609.


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IDP / Dipl. / Master Thesis: Visual Recognition of Surgical Actions Using a View-Invariant Descriptor
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab
Supervision by: Vasilis Belagiannis, Dr. Slobodan Ilic.
The task of action recognition inside the operating room can help on identifying the phase of an operation. It can also support the analysis of the workflow of an operation. Activity recognition has attracted a lot of attention during the past three decades, initially using a single camera and more recently multiple cameras [1]. In the current project, the task of surgical action recognition will be accomplished using a multi-camera system. The setup includes four CCD cameras installed on the ceiling of an operating room. The reason for the big number of cameras is the complex set-up of the operating room. It is not possible to cover the whole operating room with a single camera because of the occlusion and its dynamical environment. The proposed framework will be based on the idea of the Self-Similarity descriptors, which have been proved to give excellent results on the task of action recognition [2]. A view-invariant descriptor will help to recognize the same action from different cameras simultaneously.
The student will accomplish the following tasks:
Understand the concept of the Self-Similarity descriptors.
Implement the descriptor for trajectory based and image based similarities.
Annotate data from operating room sequences.
Train a classifier and evaluate the descriptors.
Evaluate with standard sequences.
The student should have experience in C++ and/or Matlab.
[1] Moeslund, T.B. and Hilton, A. and Krüger, V., A survey of advances in vision-based human motion capture and analysis (CVIU 2006)
[2] Junejo, I.N. and Dexter, E. and Laptev, I. and Perez, P., View-independent action recognition from temporal self-similarities (TPAMI 2011)
Vasilis Belagiannis: belagian@in.tum.de
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Title: Visual Recognition of Surgical Actions Using a View-Invariant Descriptor
Abstract: The task of action recognition inside the operating room can help on identifying the phase of an operation. It can also support the analysis of the workflow of an operation. Activity recognition has attracted a lot of attention during the past three decades, initially using a single camera and more recently multiple cameras [1]. In the current project, the task of surgical action recognition will be accomplished using a multi-camera system. The setup includes four CCD cameras installed on the ceiling of an operating room. The reason for the big number of cameras is the complex set-up of the operating room. It is not possible to cover the whole operating room with a single camera because of the occlusion and its dynamical environment. The proposed framework will be based on the idea of the Self-Similarity descriptors, which have been proved to give excellent results on the task of action recognition [2]. A view-invariant descriptor will help to recognize the same action from different cameras simultaneously.
Director: Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab
Supervisor: Vasileios Belagiannis, Dr. Slobodan Ilic
Area: Computer Vision
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Although we have an idealized idea of a "perfect" or "normal" family, there really is no such thing. All families have their own unique structures, challenges and strengths. Societal changes have led to alterations of ways people now think about family life and recognize a variety of family structures. Life in these family structures can be frustrating, yet satisfying.
Family structures are continually changing. Today's modern family quite often no longer consists of a mother, father and children in one household. Modern families are much more complex and harder to define and describe.
In order to deal successfully with all of the various issues that are present in today's modern families, family members often need to examine and explore their family structure, patterns, relationships and traditions. The Today's Modern Family Issues Workbook provides assessments and self-guided activities to help family members explore old patterns of interaction and behavior which may no longer be effective, and identify ways to develop more effective interactions and behaviors. Many choices of self-exploration assessments and activities are provided for family members to use collaboratively with other family members to develop a healthy family unit.
This chapter helps family members determine how effective they have been in establishing a new family identity of their own.
This chapter helps family members explore how well they get along, communicate and resolve conflicts that arise.
This chapter helps family members identify how committed they are to each other, and how often they are tolerant and enjoy spending time to each other.
This chapter helps family members explore how successfully the discipline, rules and boundaries have been established for the family unit.
Need a creative way to start your session? Use the Today's Modern Family Issues Card Deck. The open-ended questions will break the ice with both kids and adults and stimulate conversation. Use them alone or in conjunction with the corresponding page in the book.


How to exploit the email New Opportunities?
Email has been in existence for close to five decades and more than 2 billion people are using e-mail. This information provides many opportunities for anyone planning to start a business.
Accessing inbox has become a routine or a ritual one does every day. The smartphones have made accessing e- mail easy anytime and anywhere.
The benefits are also accompanied by disadvantages such as e-mail clutter, spam, virus, obnoxious messages which have become n irritants. One may end up wasting time.
Even if one has opted to get the information that mail has been delivered there is no guarantee that the recipient has read it. For all we know, it might end up in trash.
Many of these tips which we think are not common, are, actually,commonsense.
The subject line is the key to attract the attention of the targeted person. It should arouse interest.
Communicating by email is almost instantaneous, which can enhance communications by allowing for quick dissemination of information and fast response to customer inquiries. It may also allow for quicker problem-solving and more streamlined business processes. As a result, small business owners can accomplish more in less time.
Email marketing occurs when a company sends a commercial message to a group of people by use of electronic mail, most commonly through advertisements, requests for business, or sales or donation solicitation. Email marketing is an efficient way to stay connected with your clients while also promoting your business.
With email marketing, you can easily and quickly reach target markets without the need for large quantities of print space, television or radio time or high production costs. Thanks to effective email marketing software, you can maintain an email list that has been segmented based on several factors including the length of time addresses have been on the list, customers' likes and dislikes, spending habits and other important criteria.
Email lets businesses market to targeted audiences. Customers can opt in to receive email communications about products they own, sales or new items. Customers who receive targeted emails based on their preferences are likely to be more receptive. For example, a business can tailor messaging to new customers, existing customers and repeat customers.
The startup cost and entry barriers are low.
E- mail can be automated. Several professional consultancy businesses can be setup.
Cloud services to store mail is a possibility.
"Right now may just be the perfect time for entrepreneurs to jump on the email-based startup bandwagon.
The evolution of email, from a standalone tool of communication to a powerful platform with unlimited potential for ad-on apps, is far from over. The inbox has become a permanent fixture in our lives, but one that continues to evolve, transform and surprise.
The best example is Mailchimp.
More than 12 million people and businesses around the world use MailChimp. Their features and integrations allow customers to send marketing emails, automated messages, and targeted campaigns. Their detailed reports help businesses to keep improving over time.
MailChimp has been around since 2001. The company started as a side project funded by various web-development jobs. Now they are the world's leading email marketing platform. They send more than a billion emails a day. They have democratized technology for small businesses, creating innovative products that empower customers to grow.
E- Mail is ubiquitous and has become part of our life. This has reduced the cost of communication. Mastering the best e-mail practices will enhance customer engagements.
E-Mail has also opened up low cost startup opportunities.
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Students in Carson High School's Comedysportz team say they've gained confidence and public speaking skills through improv comedy. (Image courtesy of HS Insider)
Comedysportz team brings laughter to Carson's campus
blakefabreDecember 6, 2019
Comedysportz is an after school improv team celebrating its fifth year on our campus. The players compete against each other for laughs in a competitive sports genre show.
Using this format, teams all over the U.S. and even in Manchester, England compete professionally. Comedysportz L.A. is the local division that Carson High's team is registered under.
CSZLA has a permanent residency at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood and is housing three of its four competitive ensembles: the Main Stage Team, the Sunday Team and the College League.
At Carson High School, the team is officially recognized as part of the final ensemble, the High School League. The High School League includes schools from all the way in the Napa Valley to the Southernmost part of the state, such as San Diego and Encinitas. The High School League was meant to bring improvisation to a young crowd and teach them the skills that come tenfold with the art of improv.
"It encouraged me to talk in public more and put out my personality," Carson junior Brianna Barrera said.
Along with public speaking skills and the ability to learn confidence, Comedysportz offers other valuable skills for anyone open and willing to take the risk of attending practices.
Barrera said being a part of Comedysportz has helped her gain more confidence.
"It took me a while, but if you're surrounded by the right people with an encouraging environment you can [learn] at your own pace."
The low pressure environment of Comedysportz allows many students to improve how they handle situations where they feel uncomfortable.
"It gave me valuable things like social skills and helps with talking to people," she said. "Comedysportz truly does create a safe space where all are welcome and where kids can try new things, laugh with each other and learn how to laugh at themselves."
Carson's team is led by two managers who are Carson seniors that have gone through the program and ran the practices and organize the games.
"Being able to run a practice is quite hard. Managers must work closely together in order to put together a set schedule," Comedysportz Co-Manager Mia Molina said.
The managers are also expected to make connections and contact other high schools to organize home and away games along with introducing games to the students who attend practices every week.
"[Teaching and creating the agenda] is the hardest thing we do. We basically act as teachers and try to give our students the best possible lesson to improve their improv," Molina said.
Team advisor Marcia Barryte keeps in close touch with the managers and help them to approve dates for games and outside activities. An example is the semi-annual GameCon, which is a Comedysportz conference where all the High School League teams gather and play improv games together and take classes taught by professionals who play at the El Portal Theater.
Five times throughout the year, one of the professionals, Eric Zipper comes to the school and teaches improv workshops to Carson's team.
Carson's Comedysportz team practices after school on Tuesdays from 5 to 6 p.m. Other teams' practices times and dates may vary. For a better taste of the laughter you can visit the El Portal Theater on Fridays through Sundays or their website cszla.com.
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EducationNewsNigeria"The Removal was a Monumental Mistake", FG Says as it Reintroduces History in School Curriculum
By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 25, 2022
The federal government on Thursday formally announced the reintroduction of history in Nigeria's basic education curriculum 13 years after its abolition.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu, made the announcement at the inauguration ceremony of the reintroduction of the teaching of history in schools on Thursday in Abuja.
The minister, who was represented by the minister of state for education, Rt. Hon. Goodluck Nanah Opiah said the abolition of history from the education curriculum in 2019 was a 'monumental mistake' which has eroded the 'knowledge of the evolution of Nigeria as a country'.
"History used to be one of the foundational subjects taught in our classroom but for some inexplicable reasons, the stream of teaching and learning was abolished," he said.
"As a result, history was subsequently expunged from the list of subject combinations our students could offer in both external and internal examinations compared to the subjects that were made compulsory at basic and secondary levels in Nigeria.
"This single act no doubt relegated and eroded the knowledge and information that learners could otherwise have been exposed to. It was a monumental mistake and have already started seeing its negative consequences.
"The loss created by the absence of this subject has led to a fall in moral values, erosion of civic values, and disconnect from the past. More worrisome was the neglect of the teaching of this subject at basic and post-basic levels of education which invariably eroded the knowledge of the evolution of Nigeria as a country."
The minister added that the focus of the re-introduction was the training and retraining of teachers to enhance their capacity development which would lead to the mastery of the subject.
Speaking, the executive secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, said a total of 3,700 history teachers have been selected, pro rata, from the 36 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for the training: 100 teachers from each state and the FCT.
He added that the training would equip the teachers with the requisite skills needed to teach the subject, especially with the modification of the subject content.
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There is a high demand for compact, room-temperature sources operating at millimeter-wave and terahertz (THz) frequencies for space instruments and terrestrial applications. This part of the electromagnetic spectrum is by far the least explored because of the difficulty of generating energy at these frequencies. Continuous-wave oscillators based on either electronics or photonics are limited in output power for fundamental reasons. Varistor and varactor frequency multipliers have shown outstanding performance in terms of output power, but further technical development will be essential to solve the lack of efficient and compact terahertz sources. In this paper, we present the status of heterostructure barrier varactor (HBV) diode frequency multipliers. The performance and prospects for THz applications in which HBV diode technology can offer advantages over conventional solutions are discussed. For instance, such a device can be easily scaled by increasing the number of barriers to produce and handle higher power. The inherent symmetry confines the power generation to odd harmonics, thereby simplifying the design of high-order frequency multipliers. For example, high-power triplers (x3), quintuplers (x5), nonlinear transmission lines (NLTLs) and grid multipliers utilizing HBV diodes are presented. Overall, HBV technology is a natural stepping stone from high-power microwave amplifiers to higher frequencies and can both simplify and improve the performance of terahertz sources.


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