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In 1972, following his remarkable search for the Tasmanian Tiger, and inspired by the occasional giant logs which the timber men called 'single riders' (one to a truck) that he saw while he was in Tasmania, Jeremy Griffith had the idea of making unadulterated wooden furniture from beautiful bark to bark slabs cut from giant logs. While such complete bark to bark slabs or 'flitches' are now commonly seen in table and bar tops, no one was using such pure slabs of wood in furniture design in those days. Indeed, on Jeremy's return from Tasmania he went to the Wood Technology Centre in Sydney to seek their advice on his slab furniture idea and they laughed saying that the slabs would warp. However, while sitting in their waiting room, Jeremy saw in one of their wood working journals, pictures of a saw mill on the far north coast of New South Wales that was seasoning timber in slabs rather than the usual cut down state. Undeterred by the Sydney experts, Jeremy hitch-hiked the 800 kilometres (500 miles) to the sawmill and spoke to the timber seasoning expert there who told him that as long as the slabs were treated the same on both sides he thought they would stay reasonably flat. So Jeremy walked across their timber yard and pulled out the biggest slab he could find, purchased it, and transported it four kilometres (over 2 miles) on a wheelbarrow to a joinery shop where he had it planed and dressed. From this slab he made his first table in an abandoned truck shelter. Over the next four years Jeremy worked on his simple, unadulterated designs and in 1976 he and one of his brothers, who had come to join him, had saved enough money to purchase a 54 hectare property in the foothills where they established Griffith Tablecraft.
Advertisements for Jeremy's furniture from 1990 Australian home decorating magazines.
Jeremy's vision was to create a range of furniture free from embellishment that highlighted the natural beauty and simplicity of the timber. The range was free of processed materials: no screws, nails or bolts, staples, glue, stain, plastic, paint or metal; no curves, moulding or turning; constructed using dry joints, wood pegs and pins, leather straps and twitched rope. All the pieces were fully demountable with all the elements in each piece being a multiple of one thickness of wood as illustrated in the advertisements above.
4 minute video of Tim Macartney-Snape and Jeremy Griffith
talking about Jeremy's furniture and demonstrating its simple
construction and the ease with which it can be demounted
(taken from Part 2 of the 2009 Introductory Video titled
'The World Transformation Movement')
At the time that Jeremy was establishing the furniture business the Australian Government was offering grants to encourage people to create businesses, but when Jeremy applied they said he would have to locate the business in a conventional industrial estate. Jeremy wanted to be out with nature, so, fund-less, but with the help of a local bushman who was proficient in using poles to build farm hay sheds, he designed a massive workshop with all the frame built out of timber poles, which was far less expensive to build than a conventional steel-framed shed. Since Australian hardwoods are so strong, large all-pole-framed sheds have been built in Australia, but this one, when it was completed, was said to be the biggest ever (the roof poles all span 12.2 metres or 40 feet)! Those men building the shed that you can see sitting on the rafters in the photo below (top left) were members of the Uki tug-of-war team and they had been undefeated at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney for something like 10 years in a row, so they were very big men, which gives some idea of the immense size of the workshop! Jeremy designed the building to be so large so there would be room for the huge flitches of timber to be stored. In time a solar kiln was built beside the workshop. A showroom and museum complex was also built nearby, and eventually an art gallery and a fully facilitated restaurant. From these buildings, which were also built from poles (centre left photo), a walkway extended up into the pole frame of the workshop so visitors could look down on the whole manufacturing process from the log to the finished furniture item (centre right photo).
The showroom with display boards documenting each year's progress and a wall of timber samples
Jeremy's ingenious designs were to gain much admiration and acclaim. Articles about the furniture featured in prominent Australian design magazines. Furniture was commissioned not only from private buyers but for commercial interiors, restaurant fit-outs, and even a chapel. Each table made was numbered and a piece of the wood kept as a record. By 1991, when Jeremy sold his share in the business, the Griffith Tablecraft Furniture Park had become a popular tourist destination with a staff of 45 people.
Read or print a selection of articles from Belle: Interiors, Architecture, Decorating
and Design; House and Garden; Craft Australia; and Women's Day magazines
Jeremy working in the showroom at Griffith Tablecraft
The showroom in Surry Hills in Sydney
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The Griffith Tablecraft Dream
As was explained about the idealism of the unresigned mind in the description that was given of Jeremy's search for the Tasmanian Tiger, working within and maintaining an uncompromised, honest, uncorrupted framework, as opposed to the compromised, artificial, dishonest framework of the resigned world, was and has always been of paramount importance to every one of Jeremy's unique undertakings. For Griffith Tablecraft that framework was encapsulated in a document Jeremy wrote in 1982 (and further elaborated on later) titled The Griffith Tablecraft Dream (shown on the right). This was a manifesto for the designs of the furniture and the running of the business. It was displayed in the Griffith Tablecraft museum where it was bound in chains to emphasise the importance of maintaining Jeremy's uncompromised philosophy in everything at Griffith Tablecraft. As the last paragraph says, 'No one must be allowed to break these chains that hold our dream. In fact the reverse must happen—we must be helped and encouraged to hold onto our dream because then the truth, the world, and we, will truly win.' All of Jeremy's life has been dedicated to having idealism triumph over realism, a journey that ultimately required explaining reality, the human condition no less, because that and only that is what can allow humans to return to an uncorrupted, soulful, true, ideal state.
This extract from FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition sums up Jeremy's vision for his furniture. It was during his furniture design days that Jeremy began writing about the human condition in the first fresh pre-dawn hours of every day before his Griffith Tablecraft workday began. Eventually he would dedicate all his time and energy to solving this crux issue for humans, to finding an explanation for the madness of the resigned world and its desperate need for embellishment and distraction:
"Just to illustrate the change that is going to come to our old materialistic way of living, in front of me is a teaspoon—well, the monetary value of all the human-glorifying, egocentric content and effort that has gone into its ornate, embellished design, extravagant silver plating and competitive salesmanship and marketing to sell it to me, etc, etc, could feed a starving person for a week! Almost everything I see in front of me—my extravagant watch, my fancy shirt, my sophisticated pen—is in truth obscenely extravagant in a human-condition-free world. I should re-design all these items so they are not so extravagant, and it won't be long before I and everyone else in the world will be doing just that. In fact, I idealistically once designed and manufactured a full range of wooden furniture that was free of embellishment and artificial content before realising that for such integrity to be tolerated the human condition needed to be explained. Imagine if all the car makers in the world were to sit down together to design one extremely simple, embellishment-free, functional car that was made from the most environmentally-sustainable materials, how cheap to buy and humanity-and-Earth-considerate that vehicle would be. And imagine all the money that would be saved by not having different car makers duplicating their efforts, competing and trying to out-sell each other, and overall how much time that would liberate for all those people involved in the car industry to help those less fortunate and suffering in the world. Likewise, imagine when each house is no longer designed to make an individualised, ego-reinforcing, status-symbol statement for its owners and all houses are constructed in a functionally satisfactory, simple way, how much energy, labour, time and expense will be freed up to care for the wellbeing of the less fortunate and the planet." (FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition)
See also Jeremy's remarkable search for the Tasmanian Tiger and
Jeremy Griffith's artwork. For insights into Jeremy's ability to grapple
with and solve the human condition, see Freedom Essays 49 to 51.


Chapter 2 considers some of the earliest European encounters with yogins during the seventeenth century and goes on to analyze their increasingly inferior status during colonial rule. Nineteenth‐century Orientalist scholarship, it is suggested, consolidated the position of the yogin, and the first English translations of haṭha texts evidence a deep‐seated hostility to the very practices they present. Also considered here are the nineteenth‐century roots of modern medical yoga, one of the conduits by which "haṭha" practices could eventually be reclaimed by twentieth‐century pioneers like Kuvalayananda.


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Q: Setting individual StyleCop rules as build errors According to this blog, you can set all/certain projects to treat StyleCop violations as build errors instead of warnings:

By default, StyleCop violations will show up as build warnings. To turn StyleCop violations into build errors, the flag StyleCopTreatErrorsAsWarnings must be set to false. This flag can be set as an environment variable on the machine, or within the build environment command window. Setting the flag this way will cause StyleCop violations to appear as build errors automatically for all projects where StyleCop build integration is enabled.
Alternately, this flag can be set within the project file for a particular project. Open the .csproj file for your project again, and find the first PropertyGroup section within the file. Add a new tag to set the StyleCopTreatErrorsAsWarnings flag to false.

This doc shows where you can turn on/off individual rules, but it doesn't seem to support setting the severity, only completely turning them on/off.
Is it not possible to have more granular control of which rules result in errors vs. warnings?

A: It's not supposed to, but if you really want it.. why not?
Here is an idea, not a complete solution.
There are two useful lines in StyleCop.Targets file. First one imports StyleCop task:
<UsingTask AssemblyFile=".\StyleCop.dll" TaskName="StyleCopTask"/>

and this one calls it:
<StyleCopTask
  ProjectFullPath="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)"
  SourceFiles="@(StyleCopFiles)"
  AdditionalAddinPaths="@(StyleCopAdditionalAddinPaths)"
  ForceFullAnalysis="$(StyleCopForceFullAnalysis)"
  DefineConstants="$(DefineConstants)"
  TreatErrorsAsWarnings="$(StyleCopTreatErrorsAsWarnings)"
  CacheResults="$(StyleCopCacheResults)"
  OverrideSettingsFile="$(StyleCopOverrideSettingsFile)"
  OutputFile="$(StyleCopOutputFile)"
  MaxViolationCount="$(StyleCopMaxViolationCount)"
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So you basically need to call it twice, first one specifying TreatErrorsAsWarnings as false (so that it fails if there are any warnings), and second one with true (resulting in just warning).
Also, you will need to use two separate settings file - first one with stylecop 'errors', second with 'warnings'.

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Me and Shannon went on a walk. Took a nap. Me, her, Bryan, and Kathy went to see "Phenomenon." Excellent. Shannon came to Dad's with me. Went to O'Charley's for dinner. Played basketball at Marie's. Me and Shannon watched "Braveheart." Went to bed.


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Earlier this month, ska legends The Specials played to a sold-out crowd at the TLA, celebrating 40 years of making a sound that originated in the Caribbean, specifically Jamaica. | Image: Wikicommons
Ska, in black and white: Screening of ska doc at PhilaMOCA portrays impact on music landscape
It was born in the ghettos of Jamaica in the late 1950s with its walking bass lines and its mix of Caribbean mento.
Later fused with traditional American R&B and offbeat British colonial swagger, ska has forever been the original, fully integrated, multi-racial, rocksteady sound of inclusion.
While Kingston reggae overlords Prince Buster and "Coxsone" Dodd turned it into sound system fodder on Jamaican home turf, the punks of Britain made ska's short, sharp, aggressive skanking rhythm an often politicized black-white membership mash-up. The latter was associated with the two-tone label ska revivalists of the late 1970s and acts such as The Specials and The Selecter.
America's Warped Tour, the first place where young hardcore punks became acquainted with ska, got a scent of that pulse and welcomed everyone from Fishbone to The Skatalites to its party. Philadelphia added its own ska acts to the ranks with the likes of Public Service, Ruder than You and Santi White's (now Santigold) Stiffed. Of course, we can't forget reggae-riffic godfathers Philly Gumbo.
All of the above will be remembered through a new documentary highlighting the origins of ska and it's underground appeal with, "PICK IT UP! Ska in the '90s." Locally, the doc is scheduled for a screening at PhilaMOCA on July 7 with a live gig from Rathskeller.
All rude boys are welcome — black and white.
"Philly has always been a ska town," said Jere Edmunds, an African-American male old enough to have been young while working at the Hot Club — Philly's first live punk bar in the mid-1970s — and vintage enough to remember its trajectory. "This city always had a mix of kids from the Caribbean and white and black punks into ska's rhythm."
As someone who lives in West Philly at present, Edmunds was quick to say that ska and reggae are still part of a daily soundtrack in the neighborhood as pockets of Jamaican families inhabit homes in his area.
In June, while The Specials hit Theater of Living Arts for a sold-out run at its 40th anniversary (where we ran into Edmunds), the Warped Tour ends its 25 years of skanking and punking on June 29-30 along the beaches of Atlantic City with its final shows. The Skatalites — one of this fest's original acts and the ensemble behind the classic "Guns of Navarone" — will be part of Warped 25, as will another 49 acts such as Blink 182 and Andrew WK.
Relying on its usual stiff upper lipped snarky anti-Thatcherism as its lyrical base, the reunited Specials — special because original, Caucasian vocalist Terry Hall and black-Brit co-singer/guitarist Lynval Golding were onboard — rode ska's ceremonial rituals for all they could on the languid but dramatic trombone-led sound of "Rat Race" as well as the juke-and-jutting pulse of "Gangsters" and "A Message to you, Rudy."
Just as they had in their past, The Specials toyed with ska traditionalism with everything from haunting melody and dense ambience ("Man at C&A," "Ghost Town"), organ trio jazz ("Friday Night and Saturday Morning"), Latin lover, bachelor pad lounge tones like "Stereotype" and even hip hop on "10 Commandments," featuring guest vocalist Saffiyah Khan.
It was The Specials' continued battles against injustice and social disservice that painted the stage's backdrop with signs reading "Vote," "Resist" and "Think" that marked their activist, anti-apathy lyrical return on songs such as "Do Nothing" and "Doesn't Make It Alright."
At a time when old bands reunite for nothing more than a paycheck, The Specials are coming with both fresh (their new album "Encore" went straight to No. 1 in the UK) and vintage ska with lyrics as multi-racially focused as its frenetic and soulful sound.
"Ska was a huge part of our roots at Warped, the poetic and the political and the good old fashioned fun stuff," said Warped Fest founder Kevin Lyman. "Hell, man, I was the manager [for early 1990s ska giants] Less Than Jake before I started Warped, through their peak periods and all that."
Decisive as he's been regarding hosting multi-racial ska acts on Warped Fest's bills was one of punk's first shows of inclusion. "I never felt as if we were forcing ska on people, but rather exposing such music — music that's saying something important — to those who might not have known otherwise," Lyman said.
Bringing young punk black and white audiences together to skank and skateboard promoted racial equality and tolerance long before those ideas became 21st-century buzzwords. Even though 1990s festivals such as Lollapalooza hosted the likes of Ice T, Ice Cube and Public Enemy ("I was Lalapalooza's first stage manager," Lyman said), they still drew predominantly white audiences. But Warped Fest has always hosted a mix of black, white and Latino audiences.
"Ice T used to tell me that I was colorblind, that I only saw ignorance," Lyman said. "I always felt giving all people exposure to the widest array of stuff was healthy and smart. We were very reflective of the communities we're playing as part of — say, having largely Latino crowds in Los Angeles. Warped was a diverse lineup, still is, and that's what made me feel best, seeing kids of all colors holding forth at punk rock summer camp."
Pick it Up! Ska in the '90s screening | July 7, 4:30-7pm. $12-15. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St. ticketfly.com/event/1865163/
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Ruder Than You
Two-tone
Jere Edmunds
Black-brit Co-singer/guitarist
Lynval Golding
The Warped Tour
Original, Caucasian Vocalist
Hot Club
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Kevin Lyman
The Selecter
Saffiyah Khan
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PUBG Lite: Yay or Nay?
Published 7:00 pm IST | July 15, 2019 By Yadullah Abidi
Ever since its release on PC, PUBG was seen as a game that needed a monster PC to run, and you still might run into bugs. Fast forward to date, almost all the bugs have gone, and PUBG PC has come out to be a gem of a game. It's well polished, has good mechanics and everything works just fine. However, you still need a good PC to run it, and it has a somewhat steep price tag.
Now, while the price is justified by the game, combined with the system requirements, it becomes sort of an entry barrier to a lot of people. In developing countries like India, where the online gaming community is still evolving from its early stages, not everyone has the means to play such a game.
To counter this, PUBG has released a new version, called PUBG Lite. PUBG Lite isn't PUBG, rather it's a free-to-play adaption to the original game. Here we take an in-depth look at the game to find out what it's all about.
Also read: COD Mobile vs PUBG Mobile
PUBG PC Lite
Note that I say PUBG PC Lite because there's a PUBG Mobile Lite version too. So don't get confused, we're talking about the PC one here.
Talking about what is one of the biggest strengths of the game – it's free. Yes, you read that right. This has lowered the entry barrier for people. People can try out the game on their PCs without making any purchases and see if they can run it. The game is in closed beta at the moment, and pretty much everyone I know already has it.
The second biggest strength and the whole point of the game — its ability to run on lower spec systems. It's PUBG 'Lite' after all.
The claim by the publisher is that PUBG lite can run even on an integrated graphics card, Intel HD 4000 to be specific. This means that this game can run on pretty much every PC out there unless you own like a really, really old one.
I can run the game at 720p (that's the maximum my laptop's resolution goes), Ultra settings at about 40 FPS on an Nvidia 940MX with an i5-6200U and eight gigs of RAM. For comparison, PUBG PC ran at about 15-23 FPS with the lowest possible settings.
This gameplay offered is actually quite good and balanced. It isn't as hard as PUBG PC but isn't as easy as PUBG Mobile on PC (emulator). It lies perfectly in between the two.
The looting mechanics are identical to PUBG PC. The shooting is also pretty much the same. For those migrating from the emulator, you'll find that all the attachments you pick up automatically goto a compatible weapon. You'll also get a firing icon on your minimap pointing towards the general direction of the firing. There's no footstep icon though.
There are also a bunch of unique elements in the game. The game is focussed on delivering a personalised experience for people depending on their geolocation. For example, you'll find a lot of Indian cosmetic items in the game. Holi shirt/pants, kurta/pyjama and even turbans are available. The game also offers you BP as you survive through the various phases of a match.
There is one con, though. The game launches via a launcher that requires you to log in every time you open it. Nothing too big, but feels a bit annoying personally.
Where to Download?
PUBG lite is supposed to be played using a client which can be downloaded from lite.pubg.com. Currently, the game is available in the following countries in the South East Asia Region (SEA).
The official launch date hasn't been announced yet and can right now be played in beta, pre-registration for which concluded on July 3.
Although it's in open beta, PUBG lite is a well planned and polished game. WIth no price tag, extremely low system requirements and a lot of local content, PUBG lite serves as a bridge to get more people on board the PUBG PC train. As you play the game, it naturally will drive you towards the more heavier PC version.
Overall, it is an excellent game which is getting popular by the hour and will surely see a considerable rise in player percentage once it releases.
Also read: Ring of Elysium: Does it live up to the expectations?
Yadullah Abidi
Someone who writes/edits/shoots/hosts all things tech and when he's not, streams himself racing virtual cars. You can reach out to Yadullah at [email protected], or follow him on Instagram or Twitter.
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These funds are specifically to enable ministers and their spouses, if applicable, to experience an international missions trip.
Helpful "how to" on downloading and filling out grant applications.
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Opinion: Columns
TSSAA's tepid gesture to home-schoolers too little, too late
February 13, 2011 | by Steve Barrett | Copyright © 2022
More than 50,000 children in Tennessee are home-schooled, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association. Their parents save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year by opting to handle their children's education at their own expense -- while still paying taxes to support public schools.
In a world where home-schooling families were not dismissed as misfits and paranoiacs, public schools would be high-fiving them for helping keep government budgets balanced. Instead, home-schoolers remain an object of contempt and discrimination, at least among some in the public education establishment.
Witness the slight, calculated loosening by the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association of broad restrictions against home-schoolers who want to take part in sports at public schools.
The relaxed constraints stem not from a sense of justice, but from fear that the General Assembly may take the matter into its own hands, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. In fact, even the limited number of home-schoolers to whom the TSSAA now purports to grant access have no guarantees, because the new rule merely encourages, rather than requires, schools to let them play. And where permission is granted, players can be charged up to $300 per sport.
In short, the TSSAA wants credit for doing the right thing without actually doing the right thing. (Its website should include a tribute to Machiavelli.)
But even the veneer of fair play in the rule change was too much for one Knox County school board member.
"If you decide you're not going to be in public schools, you're giving up the extracurricular activities associated with public schools as well," Thomas Deakins said in the Knoxville paper.
To which a member of the Blount County Home Education Association had a fine riposte. Not letting home-schoolers play public school sports, Laurie Leslie said, "makes no more sense than saying everybody who chooses to drive their own car should be forbidden to use public buses ever again because you're choosing to do part of the work yourself."
How fortunate that most home-schooling parents don't reciprocate the smallness to which they're often subjected. Imagine how quickly they could torpedo education budgets by flooding schools across the state with 50,000-plus students. Heck, think what panic would grip superintendents from Schenectady to San Diego if 2 million home-schoolers nationwide showed up next fall demanding the average $10,000-a-year education that their parents' taxes have paid for but that they have previously forgone. Wonder how much cash would be left over for any sports then.
The timing of the TSSAA's rule change suggests the organization has a strategic, not a principled, interest in equality. So if state lawmakers plan to halt the exclusion of home-schoolers from public school athletics, they should not be dissuaded by the pre-emptive crumbs the TSSAA is cynically tossing. If the organization tweaked its rules only for fear that Republican legislators and a GOP governor will ensure equal access by force of law, it may reverse course the moment a bigoted, anti-home-schooling majority regains power in Nashville.
No sense leaving that to chance.
Killing us loudly
On the subject of Christina Aguilera's mangling of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl, I'll mostly defer to John Nolte, of the fun blog bighollywood.breitbart.com.
He writes: "I was simply blown away (and moved) by how passionately the NFL puts its love for America and our troops out there for the entire world to see. ... But when it was Hollywood's turn to turn on the patriotism, one of their biggest stars couldn't even remember the words to her own National Anthem. ...
"Some fifteen years ago, I attended a heavyweight title fight in Nashville. George Jones sang the National Anthem and it was quite simply the most beautiful rendition I've ever heard. ... What a contrast. No wonder the NFL and country music continue to thrive as DVD sales sink and pop music collapses."
On the plus side, though I abhor her dime-a-dozen warbling, Aguilera managed to get out the notes more or less on pitch -- which was a step up from the offensively untalented halftime "entertainers," the Black Eyed Peas.
I'll never eat legumes again without a vague sense of terror.
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3 JUNE 2019 - Freelancing work is very much in vogue these days. It's okay to call yourself a freelancer and not be seen as some kind of outcast. However, a small cabal of employers are yet to get on board with the idea and offer respectable rights to the people they employ to create content for them, and that is not acceptable.
Today I received an email from a company for whom I've done a large amount of work over the last few years. They have never paid well, but it has been a decent relationship on the whole. And I really like the colleagues who work there. In the email they offered me the chance to write a book for them. Now this is supposed to be a moment of jubilation for a writer; the culmination of years of hard work, honing the craft and wrestling with the empty page. Apart from this time they were offering what would amount to £0.99 an hour after all my tax and costs are factored in (and that was me being generous with the workings). This doesn't take into account one key additional thing: Freelancers don't receive any benefits from their commissioners. Companies don't pay a penny of: Pension, holiday pay, sick pay, amenities, office space rental, training, professional equipment (cameras, desks, computers etc.), insurance, or even petty cash items. Nothing.
So to offer crap pay like that is just maddening. And what's more annoying is the commissioners with whom I have first contact are not at fault, they are being forced to do this as a result of bad management. Ignorance and poor leadership from the top. It's important from a freelancer's perspective to realise that the person who's contacting me is not at fault here, they're being asked to basically make unfair offers from their managers. And it's those managers who NEED to read this.
At the time, I headed over to Twitter to vent and instead saw the post of a colleague who lamented that when she challenges insulting rates, she often gets bullied, to boot. One can only assume, but I think it's fair to say that this is driven by sexism. So I didn't vent because I thought, well actually, others have it far worse than me. And in fact these days, laughable offers are rarer. And I like working with this company; the staff are amazing and they work their asses off.
I'm really fortunate. I make a living off freelancing. But it wasn't always that way. So to celebrate this, my inaugural blog post, I decided that no, it's not about how bad you get treated relative to others, because it's all part of the shared experience of being a freelancer, and more importantly, of being human. So I figured I'd write this piece to remind commissioners and their budgets that you're dealing with professional humans who have costs and well-being concerns and you don't pay us benefits so you need to start factoring that into your fees please. And for god's sake, stop the sexist bullying. Freelancers have every right to contest poor offers. You have no right to belittle anyone for that.
It could be worse, sure, at least some money is being offered. But that wasn't always the case. I was expected to provide content for free in the past. And so, to cap this off, below I've reposted in full an article I wrote for a company, for which they didn't pay me a penny. I accepted the work, so ultimately, they are not to blame fully. I'm learning to value myself more now (although 'tis but a work in progress). I think this article below showcases an ability, a skill set, that even then, when I was starting out, deserved to be paid for. It's also an article of value to anybody interested in screenwriting and/or story structure and indeed in my favourite film, Apocalypse Now.
"How do you make a film about moral ambiguity that is not ambiguous?"
Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now Press Conference 1978)
Apocalypse Now Redux Screenplay: The History
In 1969 Francis Ford Coppola ordered a Vietnam War screenplay to be penned by a relatively unknown John Milius. It was loosely based on the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness with the setting transplanted to Vietnam. A decade later one of the most troubled productions in film history received eight Oscar nominations and won two. The final film resembled only portions of Milius's first screenplay.
The two main characters Captain Willard (played by Martin Sheen who had a heart attack during production) and Colonel Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando who insisted on rewriting all his own lines) represent the two extremes of Nietzsche's image of the human condition. As Coppola states, the film is about "walking the tightrope between the primitive man, which is in us, and the Godly man".
Milius notes that Heart of Darkness was about Kurtz "giving oneself over to the forest, to primitivism." While he was starting to think about adapting the book, many of his friends were returning from the war in Vietnam. He had wanted to fight but his asthma kept him out. At the insistence of George Lucas, Milius began to write, using Heart of Darkness more like an allegory rather than a direct adaptation. Coppola wanted to make a war film that was unique. Today it still stands out as the pre-eminent work in the genre.
"I felt my audiences are familiar with a war film, so first I would like to win their confidence and say 'Come with me on a trip. It's not a movie, it's a trip, it's a journey.' I take you by the hand and say 'come with me. We start in a movie that you understand, that you've seen before. We go a little further we get stranger. We go a little further we get stranger. Until after a while you are in a new place where you've never been before. But still, come with me'. So that after a while the only way I thought I could show the film was the way I made the film. Because I started in a regular movie. And then I made it stranger and stranger. So I take the audience on the same trip that I did."
Originally casting Harvey Keitel as Captain Willard, Coppola decided that the chemistry was just not right. Keitel was sent home after a week of shooting. Martin Sheen, who was battling alcoholism at the time, stepped in. The film would take almost two years to shoot, 19 months longer than first planned and budgeted for. Walter Murch, the film's editor was responsible for ordering the chaos, so that the script was once again reworked in post production.
"Apocalypse Now is not about Vietnam; it is Vietnam. And the way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We had access to too much money, too much equipment; and little by little we went insane."
Francis Ford Coppola in Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Apocalypse Now Screenplay: The Structure
A very strong external goal motivates the story from start to finish.
"I needed a mission and they brought me one. After that I wouldn't need another."
Captain Willard
Willard starts the film as a lost and forlorn figure (perhaps today he would be classed as having Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). He wallows in booze, misery and divorce, waiting for a second tour to escape a return to an America that will never be the same to him. And so the classified mission to hunt down and kill a rogue Colonel who has become a destructive ghost becomes both Willard's and the film's driving force throughout.
There's much of Homer's The Odyssey in the film as Willard has to overcome a series of obstacles (mythological beasts in human form) to reach his goal. Kilgore is the first of these obstacles. Milius likens Kilgore to the Cyclops, the Playboy Bunnies to the Sirens and so forth, so that by Act Two, the journey of the crew aboard the PBR unit boat already seems fraught with impossibility.
By the midpoint of the film, Willard's mission passes the last American outpost on the Nung River. From there the delve into 'the strange' is magnified. Willard tries to keep his dwindling crew content without telling them what their mission really is. The challenges he face to remain good, to remain true to his mission come to an apogee when Willard and the two remaining crew members arrive at Kurtz's Valhalla and he is imprisoned. Finishing what he had started becomes his final test of faith.
Apocalypse Now Screenplay: The Characters
The exploration of the darkness in humanity is brought to life through the characters. It is the kind of journey that requires a seat belt. Some of the characters, like Kurtz, are immortalised in celluloid grandiosity. The soldiers on the PBR unit – the boat, aptly named Erebus, a Greek God of the underworld – are mostly souls trapped in the war, trying to get out alive, almost always out of their depth. Within the context of war, the spectrum of this humanity is explored through its characters. The good and evil of Willard and Kurtz respectively straddle the others who fall somewhere in between these extremes.
CAPTAIN BENJAMIN L. WILLARD
Martin Sheen plays Willard with slow, deliberate strokes. He feels almost anaesthetised at points in his delivery. He represents many positive traits, courage, morality, and yet the sense of the good in him being doused by war is ever noticeable. This is only exacerbated as the mission moves deeper into the unknown.
COLONEL WALTER E. KURTZ
Kurtz plays antithesis to Willard. He is in many ways the man Willard could have become if he had allowed the war to drag him down. Instead Willard kept to the righteous path, while Kurtz ventured far from it; into the woods never to return. In doing so he strayed from all notions of morality. It's not that he is immoral exactly. Instead there is a sense that Kurtz has embraced primitive animalism so completely that he is rendered amoral.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL BILL KILGORE
Originally called Colonel Carnage in earlier drafts, Kilgore (played by Robert Duvall) exists right in the middle of Willard and Kurtz on the morality scale. War suits his temperament. He is clearly bored of it, or no longer surprised by war, but actually seems to enjoy the unique experience of war that is unparalleled elsewhere. His actions are always within the parameters of acceptable wartime conduct: he even cares for a wounded enemy with his guts hanging out, but will not think twice about decimating the enemy from above either.
"Any man brave enough to fight with his guts strapped in can drink from my canteen any day".
Apocalypse Now Screenplay: The Beats
Inciting Incident – minute 17 – Willard is cleaned up and handed a classified mission. He must go upriver into Cambodia to find a once brilliant US army Colonel (Kurtz) and 'Terminate his command…Terminate with extreme prejudice".
Strong Movement Forward – minute 35 – Kilgore offers to take the crew and the boat to the start of the river by Air Cav, and heck, why not destroy a Vietnamese outpost while they're at it? This offers the prospect of forwards momentum, while Kilgore's madness and surfing obsession threaten to derail the trip.
End of Act One Turn – minute 49 – The first act turn in the 193 minute Redux comes with real fanfare. After Colonel Kilgore attacks a Vietnamese village with Wagner blaring then waxes lyrical on napalm odour, Willard takes the opportunity to escape Kilgore's carnage with his crew and begin the journey by boat for the first time.
ACT II-A
First Trial – minute 67 – In need of fuel and supplies without being able to provide any details of their classified mission, Willard is forced to get tough at the army store. Meanwhile the crew have their first taste of the playboy bunnies whose very presence among the soldiers causes a stampede.
Combat – minute 93 – A routine yet unnecessary stop of a sampan boat leads to Willard's trigger happy crew killing some innocent Vietnamese civilians. This is the first time there is disunity between the crew and the beginning of increasing disharmony within as well as without.
Midpoint – minute 103 – Willard's mission reaches Do-Lung Bridge, the last American outpost on the river. Nobody is in charge, madness reigns and beyond this point the feeling of a safety net for Willard's mission is completely gone. Now they enter Viet Cong country.
ACT II-B
Assumption of Power – minute 136 – When Chief Phillips is killed ("A spear!"), Captain Willard has to literally take command of the boat. Phillips had previously been the most outspoken and level-headed crew member. It was his boat and Willard was his cargo with superiority. Willard now has to assume real responsibility for the boat, the mission and his remaining crew.
End of Act Two Turn – minute 142 – The remaining three, Willard, Chef and Lance, reach their final destination – Kurtz's camp. Eerie silence greets the crew as they sail past hundreds of villagers in war paint lining banks and filling canoes.
Decision – minute 150 – Captain Willard is resolved to meet Kurtz and talk with him. Flanked by the nervously energetic Journalist (Dennis Hopper), he trudges past the hallmarks of Kurtz's madness – severed heads and corpses hanging from the trees. Willard tells Chef to remain on the boat with orders to radio in a carpet combing if his mission fails. "If I was still alive it was because he wanted me that way".
Point of No Return – minute 171 – It seems as though somewhere in the confusion of captivity and Kurtz's ramblings, Willard becomes confounded, unsure of whether his mission is just. We know he is not the first man sent to kill Kurtz. The last guy sent works for Kurtz now. Seeming as though all is lost, it is Kurtz himself who spins Willard back around. "You have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that. But you have no right to judge me."
Climax – minute 179 – One of cinema's best ever climaxes. With The Doors providing a psychedelic score, the gruesome end of Kurtz at the hands of Willard is intercut with the ritualistic slaughter of a water buffalo by the villagers. Cinematic perfection packed into every single moment. This ending also ties up the thematic triumph of good over evil.
"I was really desperately looking for a way to end the film, as the original script had an ending more appropriate for a war film in the style of A Bridge Too Far. So I decided, after much thought and conversation, to have Martin end by assassinating the great king (Kurtz), and utilise the fact that the Ifagao (sic) people were going to sacrifice their water buffalo on our last day of shooting."
Apocalypse Now Screenplay: The Analysis
1 – Interview between Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZswrVALi2M
2 – Press conference with Francis Ford Coppola c.1978 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0RjSteJaOU
3 – Documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse – the making of Apocalypse Now
4 – TCM http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/188688%7C0/Apocalypse-Now.html
5 – The Literary Traveller http://www.literarytraveler.com/articles/coppola_cambodia/
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LTC Edward Higgins White, II
Birthdate: November 14, 1930
Birthplace: San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, United States
Death: January 27, 1967 (36)
Cape Kennedy, Florida, United States
Place of Burial:
West Point, Orange County, New York, United States
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Nov 14 1930 - San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States
Jan 27 1967 - Cape Canaveral, Brevard, Florida, United States
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Cause of death: Smoke inhalation, Flash fire - Jan 27 1967 - Cape Canaveral
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About Lt. Colonel Edward H. White
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Edward Higgins White, II (Lt Col, USAF) (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967) was an engineer, United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. On June 3, 1965, he became the first American to "walk" in space. White died along with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for the first manned Apollo mission at Cape Kennedy. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his Gemini 4 spaceflight and was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
White was born in San Antonio, Texas, where he attended school and became a member of the Boy Scouts of America. After graduation from high school, he was accepted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where in 1952 he earned his Bachelor of Science degree and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. White then chose a commission with the U.S. Air Force and attended flight school, a course that takes more than a year. Following graduation from flight school, white was assigned to the 22nd Fighter Day Squadron at Bitburg Air Base, Germany and would spend three and a half years in Germany flying in F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre squadrons.
In 1958, White enrolled in the University of Michigan under Air Force sponsorship to study aeronautical engineering, where he earned his Master of Science degree in 1959. Following graduation, White was selected to attend the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base and was then assigned as a test pilot at the Aeronautical Systems Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. During his career, White would log more than 3,000 flight hours with the Air Force, including about 2,200 hours in jets, and would ultimately attain the rank of lieutenant colonel.
In 1953, White married Patricia Finegan, whom he met while at West Point. The Whites would have two children, Edward White III (born 15 September 1953) and Bonnie Lynn White (born 15 May 1956). White was a devout Methodist.
NASA career
Project Gemini
Main article: Gemini 4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_4
White was one of nine men chosen as part of the second group of astronauts in 1962. Within an already elite group, White was considered to be a high-flier by the management of NASA. He was chosen as Pilot of Gemini 4, with Command Pilot James McDivitt. White became the first American to make a walk in space, on June 3, 1965. He found the experience so exhilarating that he was reluctant to terminate the EVA at the allotted time, and had to be ordered back into the spacecraft. While he was outside, a spare thermal glove floated away through the open hatch of the spacecraft, becoming an early piece of space debris in low-earth orbit, until it burned up upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. There was a mechanical problem with the hatch mechanism, which made it difficult to open and to relatch, which added to the time constraint of the spacewalk, and could have threatened the lives of both men if McDivitt had been unable to get the hatch latched, as they could not re-enter the atmosphere with an unsealed hatch.
This is the saddest moment of my life.
— Astronaut Edward H. White while reentering the spacecraft after his EVA
White's next assignment after Gemini 4 was as the back-up for Gemini 7 Command Pilot Frank Borman. He was also named the astronaut specialist for the flight control systems of the Apollo Command/Service Module. By the usual procedure of crew rotation in the Gemini program, White would have been in line for a second flight as the Command Pilot of Gemini 10 in July 1966, which would have made him the first of his group to fly twice.
Project Apollo
But in March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot (second seat) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil "Gus" Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space. The mission, which the men named Apollo 1 in June, was originally planned for late 1966 (perhaps concurrent with the last Gemini mission), but delays in the spacecraft development pushed the launch into 1967.
Main article: Apollo 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
Launch of Apollo 1 was planned for February 21, 1967, when the crew entered the spacecraft on January 27, mounted atop its Saturn IB booster on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, for a "plugs-out" test of the spacecraft, which included a rehearsal of the launch countdown procedure. Mid-way through the test, a fire broke out in the cabin, killing all three men. White's job in an emergency was to open the hatch, which he apparently tried to do; his body was found in his center seat, with his arms reaching over his head toward the hatch. This was an impossible task, as the hatch opened into the cabin and was held in place by greater than atmospheric pressure. The fire increased the pressure to the point where the cabin wall ruptured, and the astronauts were killed by asphyxiation and smoke inhalation.
The fire's ignition source was never determined, but their deaths were attributed to a wide range of lethal hazards in the early Apollo Command Module design and workmanship, and conditions of the test, including: the highly pressurized 100% oxygen pre-launch atmosphere; many wiring and plumbing flaws; flammable materials used in the cockpit and the astronauts' flight suits; and the hatch which could not be opened quickly in an emergency. After the tragedy, these problems were fixed, and the Apollo program carried on successfully to reach its objective of landing men on the Moon.
White was buried with full military honors at West Point Cemetery while Grissom and Chaffee are both buried in Section 3 (GPS Coordinates: 38.873115 N, -77.072755 W) of Arlington National Cemetery.
In 1997, White was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. White was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1993 and the National Aviation Hall of Fame on July 18, 2009.
His wife Patricia remarried and continued to reside in Houston. On September 7, 1983 she committed suicide after surgery earlier in the year to remove a tumor.
Many schools have been named in honor of Lt Colonel White:
Edward White Elementary Career Academy in Chicago
Edward H. White Middle School in San Antonio, Texas
Ed White Elementary School in El Lago, Texas
Edward White Elementary School in Eldridge, Iowa
Ed White Memorial High School in League City, Texas
Edward H. White High School in Jacksonville, Florida
Edward H. White Elementary School in Houston, Texas.
Ed White Middle School in Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and has strong community ties to the space program. At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for White's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates.
One of two Apollo 1 memorial plaques at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34. Edward White Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Edward H. White II Park in Fullerton, California. Fullerton has also named parks in honor of Chaffee and Grissom.
Island White, an artificial island in Long Beach Harbor off Southern California.
Edward H. White Hall is a dormitory at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas. White Hall houses the 365th Training Squadron which train aircraft avionics troops.
Edward White Way, a service road at Oakland International Airport, Oakland, California.
Edward White Drive in Amherst, New York.
McDivitt-White Plaza is located outside of West Hall at the University of Michigan. West Hall formerly housed the College of Engineering and counts James McDivitt and Ed White among its alumni (McDivitt earned his B.S. and White earned his M.S. at the University of Michigan).
The dismantled Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral bears two memorial plaques: One says, They gave their lives in service to their country in the ongoing exploration of humankind's final frontier. Remember them not for how they died but for those ideals for which they lived. and the other, In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice so others could reach for the stars. Ad astra per aspera, (a rough road leads to the stars). God speed to the crew of Apollo 1.
The star Iota Ursae Majoris was nicknamed "Dnoces" ("Second", as in "Edward Higgins White the Second", spelled backwards).
White Hill, 11.2 km (7.0 mi) northwest of Columbia Memorial Station on Mars, is a part of the Apollo 1 Hills.
A photograph of White performing his Gemini 4 space walk is included as one of several images on the Voyager Golden Record.
Philatelic
Eight months after his death, in September 1967, a postage stamp was issued by the United States Post Office, commemorating White's space walk, the first-ever by an American. It was the first time in USPO history that the design was actually spread over two stamps (one which featured White, the other his Gemini capsule, the two connected by a tether), which was considered befitting the "twins" aspect of the Gemini mission. White's name did not appear on the stamps.
White in the movies
White was played by Steven Ruge in the 1995 film Apollo 13 and by Chris Isaak in the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.
Weight: 176 lb (80 kg)
Height: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Hair: Reddish Brown
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Jodi Arias Alleged Murder Victim Was Not A Sex Monster - Shouldn't Be The One On Trial, Says Friend
By:dfairall
Feb. 15 2013, Published 7:02 a.m. ET
Jodi Arias' defense team's constant portrayal of her alleged murder victim, Travis Alexander, as a monster, pedophile and a crazy sex fiend, is a blatant attempt to escape a possible death sentence, and couldn't be further from the truth, the late motivational speaker's close friend tells RadarOnline.com exclusively.
"Travis should not be the one on trial here, he is the victim," Alexander's former work colleague Jesse Macpherson charges.
"There is no evidence that he abused Jodi, other than her own testimony. You can make up stories and try to deface his character and turn him into a sexual devaient but there is nothing to support it other than they were a couple in a consenting sexual relationship.
"It was obvious to me that they were sleeping together," explains the pal from Pre-Paid Legal, who stayed in the master bedroom of the Mesa, Arizona, house where Travis, a devout Mormon, was brutally killed just six months later in June 2008. "I think some people thought, 'There's no way he was having sex' but the only people who were shocked were the Mormons."
After six days of eye-opening and sexually graphic testimony from Arias that was packed with dramatic bombshells about kinky bedroom games, role play, and a very raunchy phone sex recording, Macpherson believes it's all just a defense team tactic to tarnish Travis' name.
"I think it is just something for the defense to hinge on. Something to distract from the fact that Jodi stabbed him 27 times and shot him in the head - that is not self defense," he maintains. "Nine times in the back? No scratches on her?"
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As for the Mormon couple's admittedly adventurous sex life that definitely did not adhere to the Mormon church's vow of chastity, Macpherson, from Redondo Beach, California thinks it is irrelevant.
"You can be a freak in the sheets – I don't care. That does not mean you deserve to die," he tells Radar.
"If you look at how much she called and followed him around, she was under his control like he had some magic ability – it is crazy, she was obsessed with him and still is. She is now claiming he is a pedophile, which is the worst thing on the planet that you can call somebody, and she is doing it to distract from the real thing.
"Great! They had phone sex, I've had phone sex, half the people in that room have had phone sex and the others wish they could but they aren't open enough to do it and try something risky and adventurous in the bedroom," Macpherson says.
"The only thing Arias' lawyers have is to try and turn this guy into a monster and crazy sex fiend who was supposed to be Mormon," he says. "If he was hiding all that, then he must have been hiding how crazy he was from the whole world, and Jodi is the only person in the whole world that knew Travis who could tell us what he was really like…It is just bulls**t!"
Rather than being the boyfriend-from-hell as Jodi claims, Travis was "the greatest person you would ever meet, the kind of guy who would give you the shirt off his back," says Macpherson.
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Announcement: Interim Chief Campus Counsel
Carol Christ Chancellor
I am writing to announce the appointment of UC Berkeley Associate Campus Counsel David M. Robinson as Interim Chief Campus Counsel, effective immediately. David will take over the position left vacant when former counsel Chris Patti was tragically killed in a bicycle accident in August. David will serve in the role until the search for a permanent replacement can be completed later this academic year. During the interim period, Associate Campus Counsels Therese Leone and Julie Conner will assume additional responsibilities to ensure that the campus has adequate legal support during this transition period.
David has been a member of Berkeley's Office of Legal Affairs since 2011, and before that spent a decade in the University of California's systemwide Office of the General Counsel, where he was a leader in its construction and legislative affairs groups. Prior to joining UC, David was a partner at the law firm of Goldfarb & Lipman in San Francisco. He is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and the UC Hastings College of the Law.
While David has particular expertise in construction, real estate, land use, and environmental law, his long career at our university has brought him into all manner of complex legal matters involving academic and student affairs, business affairs, constitutional rights, and other issues. The depth and breadth of his knowledge – coupled with his characteristic thoughtfulness and warmth – ensure that he will provide a steady hand during a period of transition for the Office of Legal Affairs. I hope you will join me in welcoming David to his interim role and thanking him for his continued dedication to our community during this difficult time.
In closing, I would again like to recognize our late colleague Chris Patti, a brilliant lawyer, longtime campus servant, and friend to many, whose life was so shockingly cut short several weeks ago. I encourage you to read more about Chris and his contributions to campus in this eulogy in Berkeley News.
Carol Christ


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Q: How To Seprate Email and Number In Php What I need :
Parse a string such as:
purchasing@is.com3940602685554

The problem I'm facing:

I cannot parse domain name and number

What I have tried so far:
$myString = ' purchasing@isdaf.com3940602685554 ';
$myArray = explode('.', $myString);
print_r($myArray);

My Goal:
HTML code:
   <select multiple id="e2" name="team[]" style="width:300px">
   <option value=" purchasing@is.com3940602685554 ">Purchasing</option>

I have to insert the domain name and id another field.
So my query would be like:
    $team=$_POST['team'];
    teamname=mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['teamname']);

   foreach ($team as $t) {
    $query = "INSERT INTO teamname(People_Name,User_id,Team_Name) VALUES ('".$t[0]."','".$t[1]."','".$teamname."')" ;
  }

A: You should try regular expressions
$string = "purchasing@is.com3940602685554";
preg_match('/^(.+\.[a-z]{2,4})([0-9]+)$/', $string, $matches);
$email = $matches[1]; //purchasing@is.com
$number = $matches[2]; //3940602685554

Or if you want only domain name try
$string = "purchasing@is.com3940602685554";
preg_match('/^.+\@([a-z0-9]+\.[a-z]{2,4})([0-9]+)$/', $string, $matches);
$domain = $matches[1]; //is.com
$number = $matches[2]; //3940602685554

echo $domain;
echo $number;

And if you want to insert into DB Try
foreach ($team as $t) {
    preg_match('/^(.+\.[a-z]{2,4})([0-9]+)$/', $t, $matches);
    $email = $matches[1];
    $number = $matches[2];

    $query = "INSERT INTO teamname(People_Name,User_id,Team_Name) VALUES('".$email."','".$number."','".$teamname."')" ;
}

A: try with preg_match()
$str = 'purchasing@is.com3940602685554';
 preg_match_all('/([a-zA-Z@.]+)([0-9]+)/', $str, $matches);
echo  $domain = $matches[1][0];//urchasing@is.com
echo  $number = $matches[2][0]; //3940602685554

or
 $str = 'purchasing@is.com3940602685554';
 preg_match('/([a-zA-Z@.]+)([0-9]+)/', $str, $matches);
 echo  $domain = $matches[1]; //urchasing@is.com
 echo  $number = $matches[2]; //3940602685554

A: Use this code..If you only targeting .com
  $string = "purchasing@is.com3940602685554";
preg_match('/^(.+\.[a-z]{2,4})([0-9]+)$/', $string, $matches);
$emailID = $matches[1];
$Contact = $matches[2];

echo $emailID."<br/>";
echo $Contact;


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Securian To Buy Pan-American Life Retirement Business
NU Online News Service, Aug. 12, 2003, 10:43 a.m. EDT -- Pan-American Life Insurance Company, New Orleans, has agreed to sell its retirement plan ...
By Trevor Thomas | August 12, 2003 at 08:00 PM
NU Online News Service, Aug. 12, 2003, 10:43 a.m. EDT – Pan-American Life Insurance Company, New Orleans, has agreed to sell its retirement plan business to Securian Retirement Services, a unit of Minnesota Life Insurance Company, St. Paul, Minn.
The price of the deal and other financial terms were not immediately available.
Pan-American has announced several major efforts to reach small and midsize employers in the past year, but Pan-American executives now say they have decided the company is too small to compete on its own in the retirement plan market.
Pan-American manages about $800 million in plan assets for 1,100 plans and 50,000 participants.
Securian manages $5.7 billion in retirement plan assets for 2,500 plans and 180,000 plan participants.
Securian hopes to complete the Pan-American deal in November. Securian says it may add up to 40 sales, service and operations jobs in St. Paul to handle the Pan-American business.


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Reginald Cyntje
Fri, February 21
11PM / $15 Get Tickets
REGINALD CYNTJE (born in Roseau Dominica and raised on St. Thomas, USVI) is a trombonist, educator, producer, and composer. He has created and performed an eclectic range of music. When you listen to Cyntje perform, you hear a passion for life and love in his sound.
Growing up in the US Virgin Islands (USVI), he was steeped in the rich cultural music known as Quelbe (the official music of the USVI). Quelbe was Reginald's introduction to improvised music.
With cultural heritage at the forefront and social justice as the message, he has "a deep-seated knowledge of Caribbean music and culture which has settled into his jazz trombone playing" (NPR Music).
To date, Cyntje has recorded five albums as a leader. Rise of the Protester (2019), "Equal parts love and righteous force" (CapitalBop), is his most recent album.
Spiritual Awakening (2015) was featured on NPR's Jazz Night in America. This album won Cyntje the title of Washington City Paper's Composer of the Year.
Elements of Life, best DC album of 2014 Washington City Paper, released in 2014.
In 2013, Cyntje released his sophomore album, simply titled Love. The Washington City Paper said Love "is thoughtful and surpassingly gorgeous." After debuting at #3 on the CMJ Jazz chart, Love made it to #10 on the CMJ Top 40 Jazz Chart.
His first album, Freedom's Children: The Celebration, was released in August of 2011.
Cyntje has appeared on over 30 recordings from jazz to hip-hop. He's performed with such luminaries as Amiri Baraka, Dr. Billy Taylor, Illinois Jacquet, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Dion Parson and the 21st Century Band, Ron Blake, Marc Cary, Cyrus Chestnut, George Duke, Benny Golson, Wycliffe Gordon, Sean Jones, Jason Moran, Johnny O'Neal, Nicholas Payton, Vanessa Rubin, Terrell Stafford, Gary Thomas, Tim Warfield, Larry Willis, and many other extraordinary artists.
In 2017, Cyntje had the honor of being invited to Cochabamba, Bolivia to conduct master classes and perform with the D Jazz Big Band for the 60th Anniversary of Centro Boliviano Americano. The trip was sponsored by the US Embassy in Bolivia.
Cyntje, "blessed with impressive facility and an immediacy of sound" (The Independent Ear) now resides in the Washington DC area. Capital Bop views him as "arguably D.C.'s most agile and expressive trombone player."
Cyntje is a graduate of the University of the District of Columbia and received his master's degree at the University of Maryland. Additional studies include semesters at Berklee College of Music, Howard University, Montgomery College, the Naval School of Music, and Interlochen. He is also a veteran of the US Army (389th Army Band) and the DC National Guard. Currently, he leads his own groups and works as a sideman in numerous bands.


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> o.k., I set the PATH to /root/cvs/apps/bluetooth/sdp_server/ !
> Is this the right setting for the sdp_server executable ??
but if that is not done the above should work.
> Setting write_scan_enable in USB module!
What happens if you try to start the sdp_server manually?


We found more records about Valderi Kayser.
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Valderi Kayser was 12 years old when During the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours after landing on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC; Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Michael Collins piloted the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon's surface. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21.5 hours on the lunar surface before rejoining Columbia in lunar orbit.
Valderi Kayser was 20 years old when Star Wars is released in theaters. Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star.
Valderi Kayser was 26 years old when Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, was released. Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he was one of the most popular entertainers in the world, and was the best-selling music artist during the year of his death. Jackson's contributions to music, dance, and fashion along with his publicized personal life made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.
Valderi Kayser was 37 years old when The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority government. An estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed during the 100-day period from 7 April to mid-July 1994, constituting as many as 70% of the Tutsi population. Additionally, 30% of the Pygmy Batwa were killed. The genocide and widespread slaughter of Rwandans ended when the Tutsi-backed and heavily armed Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) led by Paul Kagame took control of the country. An estimated 2,000,000 Rwandans, mostly Hutus, were displaced and became refugees.


Brexit will see the creation of an immigration system that "works in the best interest of the UK", Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said.
Mr Javid made the comments as the Prime Minister signalled Britain will stand firm on its Brexit demands in talks with the EU.
The Home Secretary, in an interview with the Express, said Brexit will ensure "we are in control of our own borders".
He said: "After we leave the EU we will end free movement and put in place an immigration system which works in the best interest of the UK.
As the deadline to Brexit approaches, London is intensifying its withdrawal agenda with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt at an EU meeting in Austria on Thursday, and Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab due to hold talks in Brussels on Friday with the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said a "huge amount of effort" would be needed to come to a Brexit agreement.
Speaking as he arrived at an informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers in Vienna, he said: "Of course Brexit will come up, not as one of the main topics of discussion, but our priority here is to make sure that there is political will on all sides; we believe it is possible to come to an agreement.


Hello! Here is another set of brushes. Inside are all sorts of screw heads. Most are old, dented and rusty ones - great for grunge effects. I've also added a cleaner version for some of the brushes to give them a less worn look. Aside from screws I also threw in some extra nuts and washers.. Anyway as always, hope you find these useful. Enjoy!
Rotate the brushes (Window » Brushes or F5) to get variation with the screws. Just note that its highlights and shadows will also be rotated, which can produce inconsistencies on your lighting.
Try adding a Drop Shadow and/or Bevel and Emboss layer effect.
Experiment on duplicating the layers for the screws and adjusting its blending modes.
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Q: Beta sites should be in the Data Explorer The Stack Exchange Data Explorer is a very nice and useful tool, but it has one very large drawback: Beta sites are not included at all.
Excluding beta sites probably made a lot of sense when the beta phase was supposed to last only 90 days and when updates to the Data Explorer were performed manually. With sites staying in the beta phase for years now this exclusion doesn't seem justified to me anymore.
All publicly launched sites should be included in the Data Explorer, there are more beta sites than launched sites in existence right now and excluding them does not really make any sense anymore.

A: Sites in public beta will now appear in the data explorer, refreshed weekly like everything else.

A: Yes, this!
I don't know why I didn't think of it before. The single most significant thing about a site getting out of beta to me is access to the DE. I've always taken the answer that "beta sites aren't in the DE" as just the way it had to be, but come to think of it there doesn't seem to be a good reason for this any more.

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*It should take almost no time on the part of developers.

*Since beta sites are relatively small in the scheme of things, it shouldn't take up many resources.

*The beta phase is exactly when it would be most useful to find certain kinds of trends that only the DE will reveal.

*Early beta users are the most likely to be enthusiastic about examining "their baby".

*Data dumps are available for failed betas and successful betas. Why not active ones?

*Unicorns.

Pretty please?

A: This is in the works, so hopefully beta sites will have their data become available in SEDE within the next few weeks (as of this edit), now that Data Explorer has been moved back to proper hardware.

A: To elaborate on @Caleb's post, here are two specific examples of how the lack of Data Explorer support for beta sites hurts us:

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*We would like to compare performance against graduated sites

*We would like to target specific kinds of posts for action

Please??


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Web Browser 'Browzar' Branded Adware
Software that claimed to provide increased privacy whilst surfing the web has been criticised by computer experts and the blogging community.
The application Browzar has been branded "adware" by many because it directs web searches to online adverts.
Some technical experts also say Browzar, which claims to leave no trail of webpages visited, does not work.
Browzar's developers say they are examining the feedback but strongly deny that it is adware.
Mr Ajaz Ahmed, founder of internet service provider Freeserve and the man behind Browzar, told the BBC News website that he thought people were misusing the term.
"This is not adware at all," he said. "Like every search engine, Browzar has sponsored advertising."
Adware is typically a piece of software that generates advertising on a user's computer.