Well here goes nothing. It was time to travel almost the length of the entire country in pursuit of historical sites and animal watching. Mustapha shined immediately. He walked up to the pesky taxi guys outside the hotel and chatted with them to get a good price. Apparently he didn't like the price available because we only took that first cab to a place where there were more cabs, then we switched. I have to admit he was good at that, but that's about all he was good at. I kept thinking he's taking us to hell but he's doing a good job getting us there.
We drove past Arch 22, built to commemorate the military coup d'etat of July 22, 1994. It's the most interesting sounding landmark in the whole country that I'm aware of, and has some sort of museum inside. Can we stop at this political and historical landmark? Nope, we're gonna drive 6 hours to nowhere and look at birds.
I made it rain dalasis.
We headed back to Banjul to take the ferry back across the river. Now that it's Sunday, the crowds went from ridiculous to ridiculous plus. We asked Mustapha how many people can fit on the ferry. "3,000". How many are on it now? "5,000". Lovely.
I hope that our tickets cost more than normal people's because we were treated pretty preferentially. A handful of white people were allowed near the ferry so that they could board as soon as the vehicles were loaded. Everyone else was stuck behind these padlocked gates like cattle. By the time the local folk were allowed on we'd already claimed many of the seats on the top of the ship. Not only did this feel kind of greasy but I would have rather been on a lower deck to stay out of the sun.
Once again there were ladies selling all sorts of interesting snacks. This lady was selling pre-peeled oranges to these eurotrash individuals.
Once on the other side of the river we stopped at his house and his aunt's house in the village of Essau. Both were pretty real. I don't think that either had doors. His aunt's house had several of his relatives there who we sat and chatted with a while. I could see a hen strutting around in another little room, and there were chicks wandering around their living room. Mustapha said that his dad died some years ago so he was the head of the household now. (Eyeroll). I thought it was an awesome opportunity to see how people live here, but I felt like a large reason for this detour was of the guilt trip variety. Oh well, onward!
Next on our list was Kunta Kinteh Island, named after the character from the Roots book and miniseries. On the boat ride over I kept thinking that if this is anything like that freak show Goree Island that I am going to have an outburst.
I got way too much sun on the ride over. Unsurprisingly there was no sunblock available for purchase around these parts.
The island changed hands multiple times between the British, Dutch, French, and a thing I had not heard of called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Anyhoo, the island is home to Fort James, which was a big deal in the slave trade, starting as a place to hold slaves headed for the New World, and later on as a place where the British attempted to stop slavers once slavery had become illegal in the British Empire after the passing of the Slave Trade Act in 1807.
Cannons are so awesome. Where do I need to go to get to shoot one? The cannon's little wheeled apparatus looks exactly like one I saw at a school playground in Jamaica.
This is a UNESCO site, so I could be safe in assuming that this wasn't all BS. There were lots of good signs in English to help gather the important parts of the story. We had a "guide" following us around but with the signs present I wished he would just shush his mumbling and let me read. The guide was especially annoying because he kept saying things like "Kunta was here, and Kunta did this." Dear Gambia: Kunta Kinteh is a CHARACTER, much like Spiderman but without the cool powers. Not only is he not real but the author of Roots, Alex Haley, didn't even come up with the character on his own. He plagiarized it from a novel entitled The African by Harold Courlander, got sued real bad, got whooped real bad, and settled out of court, probably for a bathtub full of money. So no, sir, Kunta did not plant that tree over there.
We learned a fun little fact around this time. The little kids have been calling me Twobob this whole time without me knowing it. Apparently it's just a catchall term for white people. Back in the colonial days the British would pay the local two bobs, two shillings, for whatever little task and the name stuck. Now everyone just take two steps away from me because I'm not giving you any money.
What could go wrong when climbing a painter's ladder out of a boat onto a dock? Nothing, that's what.
Wikipedia says that symbol on the guy's chest is the yaz. "The yaz symbolizes the "free man", which is the meaning of the Berber word amazigh, the Berbers' own name for themselves."
Back on the mainland in Albadarr Mustapha informed us that the taxi that we came in was having mechanical problems, that he didn't trust it to take us the rest of the way, and now we had to drive all the way back to the ferry town of Barra to get another one. Oh my. Mr. Fatty the truth stretcher told us that traveling from the good hotel to the bad hotel would take 6 hours. We were on about hour 5 and now we had to back track. Evan said that if he'd known there'd be so much driving that he would have stayed at the resort, and then I screamed inside my head for an hour.
I took a little video just to give an impression of what the road was like.
The broken cab's driver had something up with his right eye. No big deal, buy some eye drops when you get a chance, right? Well when we sideswiped a tree on our right side I realized a two eyed driver is probably optimal. Evan was taking a little nap on that side of the car when it happened and I may or may not have laughed when he was jarred awake by the impact. You have to find happiness in the little things.
Looking out the cab window at the countryside I can see termite mounds easily taller than I am.
I asked Mustapha if he'd ever seen the Lion King. He'd never even heard of it.
We switched cabs yet again back at Barra, this time for a van which everyone appreciated. I noticed the speedometer was broken, but then again the police here don't have radar guns so even-steven I say.
Speaking of police, their main strategy of keeping control out in the countryside seems to be a speed bump next to a little guard house in every town. All of the drivers really respected these, and always waited for permission to proceed even if the police office manning the check was busy or far away.
Top shelf is where I keep my hat, bottom shelf is where I keep my mold.
Toilet seat? Only when the president is in town I bet.
I laid on the bed a bit to relax and felt some movement under my shirt. I jumped up and did the "oh my god something is in my clothes!" dance to shake it out. It was a cricket.
There's plenty of space between the door and the door frame so the mosquitoes don't feel left out.
Even my anger at Mustapha for lying to us and screwing us with this nasty hellhole is frustrated. This is still probably better than his house. Can I be mad at him? Maybe he legitimately thinks this is nice and if I tell him I hate it I'll hurt his feelings. Surely though he knows there's quite a difference between this hotel and the previous one, especially considering the time he spent there creeping around looking for us.
I think it's like a basic problem when interacting with people both here and in Senegal. I'm so much better off than they are that there is huge reward in it for them to try to trick me. And we are both aware of that fact so if they do trick me it's like "Sorry I had no choice because life here is so hard" and I have no choice but to agree. I hate having to be suspicious of everything everyone says to me here all of the time.
These two want dinner so we wander around in the dark in a small town in Africa looking for restaurants. What could possibly go wrong? And what the hell kind of guided tour is this? Have you done this before? Did you do any planning beforehand? How about some local history or something dude?
We stepped into this restaurant that has one little light bulb in the corner of the room, and is effectively dark. I don't want to eat here. I have to be able to SEE what I'm eating, especially in a place like this. Mustapha and the cook chat about it and decide the lighting is better outside. OK. So now we are sitting outside. In rural Africa. At night. With a bare light bulb hanging over our heads from a tree. Believe it or not but a lot of bugs are interested in that light. And many of them are bouncing off of it and falling on my head. Do I want a big plate of food right now? NO I FREAKING DON'T! I just ordered a beer and put the cap back on top in between sips. I would have just walked back to the hovel but I wouldn't be able to find it in the dark. I sat and endured these two's riveting conversation on such topics as: "Are dinosaurs real? Are dragons real?" The conversation I was having with myself was more like "How much could buying a helicopter possibly cost? Maybe I could fake a heart attack and they'd airlift me to Europe?"
This picture was taken inside a restaurant.
All sorts of species hustlin' out here.
At the end of the meal one of the staff could probably tell I was trying to set fire to the place with my eyes because he came over to shake my hand and told me "Thank you for your business. You know when people come here to visit they stay in the lodge and they eat in the lodge. That's why we hassle you to come in." I've never been so uncomfortable and felt so guilty for feeling so uncomfortable in my life.
I kept hearing this little beeping sound that was like a bunch of tiny submarines tracking me. It turned out I wasn't far off. It was bats.
Back in the hovel I tried to pretend I was camping. I wished I was because then the tent zipper would be able to keep these little beasts at bay. I finally managed to fall asleep.
I woke up sweaty at around 3am. What the heck is going on? Well the power went out in the night, which killed the fan. And it stayed out. I didn't want to use my phone because I was now unable to charge it and it contained the next day's hotel reservation. So I just laid in bed in the dark and listened to the bats and the monkeys and the bugs and waited for sunrise. Call your travel agents now folks.


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Бангладеш : государственные праздники, нерабочие дни банков, школьные каникулы
Бангладеш : полный список государственных праздников, нерабочих дней банков и фондовых бирж, школьных каникул, торговых выставок, культурных и спортивных мероприятий, фестивалей, карнавалов, выборов, которые состоятся в течение следующие 2 месяца
Мусульманская община, индуистской общины и христианская община может выбрать другой религиозный праздник
Internet domain: .bd - telephone code: +880 - International dialing code: 00
Валюта Taka (BDT) ... Конвертируйте здесь!
Выходной: пятница
Дакка международной торговли ярмарка DITF* четверг 2 январь, 2020
зимние каникулы (конец) четверг 2 январь, 2020
Школьные праздники* вторник 7 январь, 2020
Мусульманское паломничество* суббота 11 январь, 2020
факультативный праздник* понедельник 27 январь, 2020
Ѕуддизм (Ваджраяны)
Дхакская международная ярмарка пластико* четверг 13 февраль, 2020
Праздник эстонского языка* пятница 21 февраль, 2020
Рахман Шейх Муджибур день* вторник 17 март, 2020
День Детей вторник 17 март, 2020
День Матери* воскресенье 22 март, 2020
факультативный праздник* воскресенье 22 март, 2020
Ислам, Суфи
Банки закрыты среда 25 март, 2020
только банки
День независимости** четверг 26 март, 2020
Национальный праздник
факультативный праздник* среда 8 апрель, 2020
Шаб -э- Барат* четверг 9 апрель, 2020
факультативный праздник* понедельник 13 апрель, 2020
Ѕуддизм (Тхеравады)
Бенгальский Новы Год* вторник 14 апрель, 2020
¤акультативный праздник -
пятница 1 январь, 2021
Светский праздник :
Дакка международной торговли ярмарка DITF -
четверг 2 январь, 2020
Выставки : Lasts 1 month - at the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar - www.ditf-epb.gov.bd/about_ditf We carry the 2020 confirmed calendar
Contact edit@edit.fr to get the calendar for this event or one file containing confirmed calendars of most international WW tradeshows.
Зимние каникулы (конец) -
Школьные праздники -
вторник 7 январь, 2020
Школьные каникулы : Information provided by the Ministry of Education
www.moedu.gov.bd
2020 calendar can be viewed here (in Bengali): https://www.bmion.com/2017/11/Bangladesh-School-Holidays.html Bangladeshi schools observe 85 days of holidays, following Islamic celebrations
Schools are closed on Friday
Contact edit@edit.fr to purchase the full calendar for Bangladesh or one file containing confirmed calendars of 550 countries and regions.
Бангабандху Homecoming день -
Культура : On this day in 1972, Bangabandhu returned to independent Bangladesh after over nine and a half months' confinement in a Pakistan jail. The political icon termed his homecoming a journey from the darkness to light .
Мусульманское паломничество -
суббота 11 январь, 2020
Культура : Tablighi Jamaat literally the Outreach Society or the Society for Spreading Faith, is a non-political global missionary movement that focuses on urging Muslims to return to practising Islam as practiced during the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and particularly in matters of ritual, dress, and personal behavior. The organisation is estimated to have between 12 million and 150 million adherents (the majority living in South Asia), and a presence in somewhere between 150 and 200 countries. It has been called one of the most influential religious movements in 20th century Islam
понедельник 27 январь, 2020
Ѕуддизм (Ваджраяны) : Bhawasma Budhbar - Chinese New Year
Дхакская международная ярмарка пластико -
четверг 13 февраль, 2020
Выставки : Lasts 5 days - in Dhaka - www.bangla-expo.com/IPF/ We carry the 2020 confirmed calendar
Праздник эстонского языка -
Светский праздник : This day commemorates the lives sacrificed to make Bengali one of the national languages when Bangladesh was part of Pakistan. The West Pakistani regime tried to force Urdu as the national language. A demonstration by Bengalis was shot at by police, leading to the death of 4 demonstrators. The nascent Bengali patriotism lead to the birth of Bangladesh. Shaheed Dibosh (Martyrs' Day)
°ахман Шейх Муджибур день -
вторник 17 март, 2020
Светский праздник : The Aug. 15 holiday was scrapped in 2002 by the government of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, after she won a 2001 election by defeating Mujib's daughter Sheikh Hasina, another former prime minister. Mujib was killed with most members of his family in a military coup in 1975, which began years of rule by army generals, including Khaleda's husband Ziaur Rahman, who was killed in a 1981 mutiny. Mujib formally gave the directive for a guerrilla war to gain independence from Pakistan in March 1971. He was arrested by the Pakistani army but his followers led the war to achieve independence in December 1971.
День Детей -
Культура :
День Матери -
воскресенье 22 март, 2020
открыткицветы : Mother's day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother's day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year. One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world. Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day. In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women's suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother's Day, with her Mother's Day Proclamation. Called "Mothering Sunday" in the UK
Ислам, Суфи : Shab-e-meraz
Банки закрыты -
среда 25 март, 2020
только банки :
День независимости -
четверг 26 март, 2020
Светский праздник : В 1970 году,лидирующая политическая партия Пакистана, Лига Авами, выиграла выборы. Её лидер, Шейх Мужибур Рахман, должен был стать премьер-министром, но президент Пакистана отказался. Мужиб провозгласил независимость Народной республики Бангладеш 26 марта 1971 года. Гражданская война длилась в течение девяти месяцев.
Светский праздник : Sri Sri Harichand Thakur was born in 1812 at Safaldanga, Gopalgaunge. He experienced atmadarshan (self-realisation) and preached his ideologies and religious philosophy in twelve commandments. His followers consider him as God (Thakur) Harichand and as an avatar of Vishnu. [Wikipedia]
ёаб -э- Барат -
четверг 9 апрель, 2020
только банки : Muslims believe that on the night of Shab-E-Barat god writes the destinies of all men for the coming year by taking into account the deeds committed by them in the past. Shab-E-Barat means the night of forgiveness or Day of Atonement. People pray to god both in preparation for Ramadan and for the forgiveness of the sins committed by them.
Ѕуддизм (Тхеравады) : Choitro Shonkranti
Бенгальский Новы Год -
вторник 14 апрель, 2020
только банки : Under the Mughals, agricultural taxes were collected according to the Hijri calendar. However, as the Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar, it does not coincide with the harvest. As a result, farmers were hard-pressed to pay taxes out of season. In order to streamline tax collection, the Mughal Emperor Akbar ordered a reform of the calendar. Accordingly, Fatehullah Shirazi, a renowned scholar and astronomer, formulated the Bangla year on the basis of the lunar Hijri and Bangla solar calendars. The new year subsequently became known as Bфngabdo or Bengali year

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Newly-released body cam video shows 'white substance' on hood of GSU quarterback's car
Updated: Aug. 9, 2019 at 5:01 PM CDT
BULLOCH COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - One week after one of the strangest arrests many have ever seen, Georgia Southern University quarterback Shai Werts is back in the huddle for the Eagles.
The Saluda County, South Carolina Sheriff's Office released the body cam video Friday afternoon - one day after dash cam and in-car footage of the July 31 arrest was released. It comes after the university announced Friday morning that Werts' suspension for the cocaine arrest is over and he is back in full standing with the program.
After misdemeanor cocaine charges were dropped against Werts, it didn't take long for the school to announce the indefinite suspension has been lifted. There was an air of relief for Werts at practice Friday morning, after speaking with Athletic Director Tom Kleinlein to discuss the situation.
"He called me. He called me to let me know he had talked to his lawyers and that the charges were dropped, so we both kind of shared a moment of relief, and then I shared with him that here's an opportunity to go out and take advantage of this situation and grow as a human being," Kleinlein said. "What he was accused of was very hard for me to believe because I've watched this young man work for three years."
Like the rest of the public, Kleinlein never saw the video of the arrest until Thursday. He called it 'eye opening,' but says he came away proud of Werts' demeanor in tough circumstances.
"What struck me most from the video was how he handled himself when he kind of knew that this was not right, that this was not the right information. He was a professional and as courteous as he could be in that process."
It's been a strange ordeal for the red shirt junior and the entire Georgia Southern football program, but after a week of questions surrounding their star, Kleinlein says he's glad everything around Werts can now get back to football.
"Shai's a leader. you know, Shai understands what he has to do to lead this football program; be a leader in our athletic department, and be a leader for our university. I think he's going to come through this a better person. Unfortunately, he went through some challenging times, but I think he's going to come through this in a better way," Kleinlein said. "At the end of the day, we're going to move forward from this, and the best way he can get back the perception of what he really is, is doing the things he's done every single day he's been here, which is be a leader in our community and a leader of our football program."
WTOC caught up with some Eagle fans Friday in Statesboro to see how they're feeling after this roller coaster of a week. There were questions of whether Werts would be under center for Game 1 against LSU in Death Valley on the Aug. 31, but after his charges were dropped, Eagle fans were able to breathe a sigh of relief.
"I was kind of concerned with it; holding my judgement until I found out all the facts, so, you know, everybody was kind of confused up front; didn't really know what was going on and all that. Kind of weird to have something on the hood of a car, so it was kind of strange from the beginning," one fan said.
"I saw last night that he had been freed from the charges, I was like, 'Yay, so I'm glad!' I'm real glad for the Eagles and the quarterback, because I'd hate to be accused and then suffer from that," another fan said.
No one from the football program was made available to the media, but we are expected to hear from Werts on Saturday after the Eagles' first scrimmage of the fall.
Previous stories:
Georgia Southern quarterback cleared of drug charge, player suspension lifted
Cocaine or bird poo? Investigation continues after GS quarterback arrested
2 Georgia Southern football players arrested, suspended from team
Arkansas State football continues to assemble 2022 coaching staff
Arkansas softball #8 in preseason D1Softball poll
Arkansas State men's basketball hosts UT Arlington Thursday night
Arkansas State women's basketball plays at South Alabama Thursday night
Region 8 HS athletes sign to play college sports (2021-2022)


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Archive for new music
MISS MAY I Releases Official Music Video for New Single 'Gone'
Posted in All Metal, Artist Watch, New Music, News, Previews, Releases, Uncategorized with tags At Heart, For the Fallen Dreams, metal, metalcore, Miss May I, Monument, New Album, new music, Revolver Golden Gods, Rise of the Lion, Rock on the Range, Up close and personal tour. on February 28, 2014 by Randy
New Album 'Rise Of The Lion' Drops in North America on April 29, 2014 via Rise Records – Pre Order Today via www.MMIRiseOfTheLion.com
Upcoming "Up Close And Personal" Headline Tour Hits the U.S. East Coast in April/May 2014 with For The Fallen Dreams – Ticket Price Includes a Hard Copy CD!
MISS MAY I's blistering new offering, Rise Of The Lion, is set to hit stores in North America on April 29, 2014 via Rise Records (April 28 in the UK, April 25 in Australia). This is MISS MAY I's fourth album and the first to be produced by the legendary Terry Date (Pantera, Deftones, White Zombie, Bring Me The Horizon). The countless fan letters the band has received over the years are the inspiration for the tracks on Rise Of The Lion, and each track is written from the perspective of those fans or responses to them.
Today, the band slams out of the gate with a double dose of metal, offering up their brand new single 'Gone' along with its accompanying music video via the official Rise Of The Lion launch site, www.MMIRiseOfTheLion.com. Take a listen now and while visiting the site, check out the band's three studio updates, as well as tour date information. Beginning today at the site, you can pre-order the album in digital, physical CD, and vinyl versions, as well as special pre-order packages including exclusive Rise Of The Lion shirts, necklaces, posters, and more!
"We wanted to release a video that showed the true bare bones of our band," states frontman Levi Benton. "We really found ourselves on this new record and we felt we needed a video that had no bells and whistles and was just five guys jamming and thrashing. It also shows the creation of the album artwork, which is a real statement about MISS MAY I. The lion logo that is being tattooed represents our band as a whole."
Levi adds, "'Gone' is about heartbreak and feeling like you are lost within that heartbreak. We know everyone has felt this, so as this record being letters back to our fans we wanted to address this. One too many times I have read a letter about someone feeling so broken they felt they felt like they couldn't make it and that our music helped them find a way. This song is for them!"
The worldwide release of Rise Of The Lion will be supported by a brief headline tour of the United States this April and May, with support from For The Fallen Dreams. MISS MAY I's "Up Close and Personal" Tour will stop in eight cities, including a closer in their home state of Ohio at Rock On The Range. Get this – each ticket price includes a copy of Rise Of The Lion hard copy CD!
MISS MAY I U.S. Tour Dates:
4/29 Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
4/30 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme
5/1 Pontiac, MI @ The Pike Room at Crofoot Ballroom
5/2 Pittsburgh, PA @ Smiling Moose
5/3 New York, NY @ The Studio at Webster Hall
5/4 Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar
5/6 Philadelphia, PA @ The Barbary
5/18 Columbus, OH @ Rock On The Range
After the resounding underground success of their debut full-length release Monument, MISS MAY I took a step beyond the metalcore world they had grown up in with the release of their album At Heart in 2012. The record, produced by renowned record producer Machine (Lamb Of God), proved to be one of the strongest and most surprising metal records of the last few years, spawning huge singles in the songs 'Hey Mister' and 'Day By Day'. Entering the Billboard Top 200 charts in its first week at #32, At Heart saw the band embrace a more mainstream metal approach to their music. During their 2012 Vans Warped Tour main stage onslaught, the At Heart campaign made massive leaps, seeing MISS MAY I nominated for 'Best New Talent' award at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards, as well as headlining the Alternative Press 2012 Tour, and picking up support at Active Rock Radio for the first time. On the live side, the band was hand-picked for tours with the likes of Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engage and Bullet For My Valentine.
LACUNA COIL Announce April 1 Release Of New Studio Album 'BROKEN CROWN HALO'
Posted in All Metal, Artist Watch, New Music, News, Releases, Shows with tags Album, Black Crown Halo, Cilver, eyes set to kill, Lacuna Coil, New Album, new music, Revolver Hottest Chicks in Rock Tour, Sick Puppies on January 15, 2014 by Randy
Band Set For REVOLVER HOTTEST CHICKS IN ROCK TOUR With SICK PUPPIES, EYES SET TO KILL & CILVER
Tour To Run February 20 – March 20 In North America
LACUNA COIL are proud to announce the April 1, 2014 release of their new studio album 'BROKEN CROWN HALO' in North America (March 31 in Europe, Australia, New Zealand). The album is the band's seventh studio effort, and the highly-anticipated follow-up to 'Dark Adrenaline', which was released in January 2012 and saw the band tour with acts including Megadeth, Motorhead, Volbeat and Sevendust after debuting at No. 15 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart.
The band will return to the road to introduce North America to 'BROKEN CROWN HALO' as part of the REVOLVER HOTTEST CHICKS IN HARD ROCK TOUR, which launches February 20 and features LACUNA COIL sharing a stage with SICK PUPPIES, Century Media Records labelmates EYES SET TO KILL, and CILVER. The tour launches in Wilmington, NC, and runs through March 20 in Anaheim, CA. See complete itinerary below, and visit www.hottestchickstour.com for additional details and VIP packages.
LACUNA COIL have this to say about 'BROKEN CROWN HALO':
"What conflict could run so deep that it takes you to the deepest corners of your inner world? Today we are surrounded by a lot of lies, aliases, and people acting like they are wearing an invisible crown – but you better have thick skin if you want to wear this crown! 'BROKEN CROWN HALO' is a cinematic album that could be the soundtrack of our days – it is a dark vision of a near future when survival is second nature, and failure is not something to be avoided, but rather cultivated with lessons learned along the way.
We set the bar pretty high with 'Dark Adrenaline' and it hasn't been easy bringing our sound to the next level, but we have lived, learned and grown through a year full of personal issues and changes. We learned to be strong and get stronger, and we felt an inner vibe in this band that we haven't felt before. We locked ourselves in an age-old studio in Milan, Italy, where history was strong and the past met with our future, vintage gear and the influence of classic Italian horror movies and bands like Goblin meeting the fresh and rough sounds of the modern world with unique and invigorating results. 'BROKEN CROWN HALO' is Lacuna Coil introducing a new order, and letting nothing stand in our way…"
LACUNA COIL were joined in their native Italy by producer Jay Baumgardner [P.O.D., Sevendust, Evanescence, Papa Roach] and engineer Kyle Hoffmann [P.O.D., Bush, Zebrahead]. 'BROKEN CROWN HALO' was mastered by Howie Weinberg, whose credits include Rammstein, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Deftones and Sheryl Crow.
REVOLVER HOTTEST CHICKS IN ROCK TOUR
LACUNA COIL with SICK PUPPIES, EYES SET TO KILL & CILVER
FEBRUARY:
20: Wilmington, NC – Ziggy's By The Sea
21: Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
22: Lexington, KY – Buster's
23: Springfield, VA – Empire
24: New York, NY – Irving Plaza
26: Worcester, MA – Palladium
27: Lancaster, PA – Chameleon Club
28: Columbus, OH – Alrosa Villa
01: Joliet, IL – Mojoe's
02: South Bend, IN – Club Fever
05: Broussard, LA – The Station Live
06: Houston, TX – Scout Bar
07: Austin, TX – Infest
08: Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey
10: Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
12: Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
14: Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
15: Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
19: Los Angeles, CA – House Of Blues
20: Anaheim, CA – House Of Blues
LACUNA COIL online:
www.lacunacoil.it
facebook.com/lacunacoil
twitter.com/lacuna_coil
www.emptyspiral.net
COMEBACK KID Announce Headlining Tour and New Album Title
Posted in Artist Watch, Featured, New Music, News, Previews, Releases, Reviews, Shows, Uncategorized with tags Backtrack, Comeback Kid, Die Knowing, Downpresser, New Album, new music, To The Wind, Tour, victory records, Xibalba on December 13, 2013 by Randy
2014 is off to a killer start as Victory Records is excited to announce thatCOMEBACK KID will embark on a headlining tour this February and March. The 'Die Knowing' tour pulls its name from the title of the upcoming new studio album from COMEBACK KID, which is tentatively scheduled for a March release date that will be announced later! Support on the trek comes from BACKTRACK, XIBALBA, DOWNPRESSER and TO THE WIND!
2/19 – Burnsville, MN @ The Garage
2/20 – Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
2/21 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme
2/22 – Pontiac, MI @ Pike Room
2/23 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater
2/25 – Boston, MA @ Middle East
2/26 – New York, NY @ Santos Party Haus
2/27 – West Springfield, VA @ Empire
2/28 – Reading, PA @ Reverb
3/01 – Charlotte, NC @ The Casbah
3/02 – Nashville, TN @ Rockettown
3/04 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
3/05 – Tampa, FL @ Epic Problem
3/06 – Orlando, FL @ Backbooth
3/07 – Lake Worth, FL @ Speakeasy
3/08 – Jacksonville, FL @ Atticus Bar
3/09 – Birmingham, AL @ The Forge
3/10 – Tupelo, MS @ Goodtime Charlie
3/12 – McAllen, TX @ Never Say Never Festival
3/14 – Austin, TX @ SXSW (TBA)
3/15 – Houston, TX @ Walters
3/16 – Dallas, TX @ South By So What
3/19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Pub Rock
3/20 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
3/21 – Lancaster, CA @ Industry Theater
3/22 – Oakland, CA @ The Metro
3/23 – Ventura, CA @ Rock City Studios
ICED EARTH Launch 'PLAGUES OF BABYLON' Video Teaser
Posted in All Metal, Artist Watch, Featured, New Music, Photos, Previews, Releases, Shows, Videos with tags Iced Earth, Lyric Video, Music Video, New Album, new music, North America, Plagues of Babylon, Revamp, Sabaton, Teaser, Track Listing, Worldwide Plagues Tour on December 7, 2013 by Randy
New Studio Album Out January 21 In North America
'WORLDWIDE PLAGUES' North American Headlining Tour
To Launch April 2; SABATON And Revamp To Support
"Plagues Of Babylon" Lyric Video Out Now
With the release of new studio album 'PLAGUES OF BABYLON' approaching, metal titans ICED EARTH have launched a video teaser to preview the album and their upcoming WORLDWIDE PLAGUES headlining tour. The video can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4QeOBChcDw
'PLAGUES OF BABYLON' is set for a January 21, 2014 release in North America (January 6 worldwide) on Century Media Records. The band will bring the new album to their North America homeland when their headlining WORLDWIDE PLAGUES TOUR hits our shores April 4 for a six-week run with SABATON and REVAMP in support. See complete tour dates below.
You can view the official "Plagues Of Babylon" lyric video by clicking here.
"This is a seriously heavy album with a seriously brutal album cover," says Jon Schaffer of 'PLAGUES OF BABYLON'. "I'm sure it will go down as a classic in the epic ICED EARTH catalog. We feel that the package with SABATON and REVAMP is very strong and we are very excited to tour the U.S. and Canada again and kick some major ass!"
Exclusive VIP packages for the entire ICED EARTH North American tour are available now at www.enterthevault.com. VIP packages will remain onsale while supplies last.
Beginning with their groundbreaking self-titled debut album, ICED EARTH has remained steadfastly committed to championing heavy metal and continues to be one of America's greatest classic metal bands. 'PLAGUES OF BABYLON' is no exception. From the sheer power of the title track and neck-breaking thrashers like "Among The Living Dead," to the haunting "Cthulhu" and the colossal "If I Could See You" and "Spirit Of The Times," 'PLAGUES OF BABYLON' takes fans on the thundering power trip that has become ICED EARTH's trademark.
A few things to know about 'PLAGUES OF BABYLON':
Songs 1-6 form the 'PLAGUES OF BABYLON story line, part of the ongoing 'SOMETHING WICKED' Universe™
Cover and additional artwork by Eliran Kantor [TESTAMENT, ATHEIST, HATEBREED]
Recorded at Principal Studios – Senden, Germany [KREATOR, IN EXTREMO, GRAVE DIGGER]
Mixed at NHow Studios – Berlin, Germany
Guest vocals on "Highwayman" by VOLBEAT frontman Michael Poulsen and SYMPHONY X/ADRENALINE MOB singer Russell Allen
Guest vocals on "Plagues Of Babylon," "Among The Living Dead," "Democide," "Resistance" and "If I Could See You" by BLIND GUARDIAN vocalist Hansi Kürsch.
'PLAGUES OF BABYLON' Track Listing:
1. Plagues Of Babylon
2. Democide
3. The Culling
4. Among The Living Dead
5. Resistance
6. The End?
7. If I Could See You
8. Cthulhu
9. Peacemaker
11. Spirit Of The Times
12. Highwayman
WORLDWIDE PLAGUES TOUR – NORTH AMERICA
ICED EARTH with SABATON & REVAMP in support:
04: Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
05: Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
06: Chicago, IL – House Of Blues
07: Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
09: Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
10: Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
11: Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom
12: Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
14: Toronto, ONT – Phoenix Concert Theatre
15: Quebec City, QC – Imperial Theater
16: Montreal, QC – Corona Theatre
17: Philadelphia, PA – The Trocadero
18: New York, NY – Best Buy Theater
19: Worcester, MA – The Palladium
21: West Springfield, VA – Empire
23: Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
24: Orlando, FL – House Of Blues Orlando
25: Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
26: Saint Petersburg, FL – State Theatre
29: Dallas, TX – Trees
01: Tempe, AZ – Club Red
02: West Hollywood, CA – House Of Blues Sunset
03: San Francisco, CA – Slim's
05: Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory Concert House
06: Seattle, WA – El Corazon
07: Vancouver, BC – The Venue
09: Edmonton, AB – The Starlite Room
10: Calgary, AB – Republik
11: Regina, SK – Riddell Centre
12: Winnipeg, MB – Park Theatre
14: Denver, CO – The Summit Music Hall
15: Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
16: Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
ICED EARTH online:
www.icedearth.com
facebook.com/officialicedearth
NYC'S SKATERS ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM RELEASE DATE OF FEBRUARY 25, 2014, AND NEW SINGLE
Posted in Featured, New Music, News, Previews, Releases, Reviews, Shows, Uncategorized, Videos with tags Black Friday, Deadbolt, Deap Vally, new music, New York City', NYC, Palma Violets, Record Store Day, single, Skaters, video on October 9, 2013 by Randy
FIRST SINGLE, "DEADBOLT," DUE DIGITALLY OCTOBER 29TH AND ON 7″ VINYLNOVEMBER 29TH IN THE U.S.
"DEADBOLT" LYRIC VIDEO PREMIERS ONLINE TODAY
BAND ON THE ROAD WITH PALMA VIOLETS IN THE U.S. AND DEAP VALLY IN THE U.K. THIS FALL
October 8, 2013 – (Burbank, CA) – New York City's very own SKATERS have announced that their upcoming debut album will be released by Warner Bros. Records on February 25, 2014 in the U.S. and February 24, 2014, in the U.K. The album's first vinyl single is "Deadbolt," and will be released digitally on Oct 29th, and pressed on glorious 7″ vinyl and available for sale on Black Friday / Record Store Day, Nov 29th. The single has already been released in the U.K. (its first public broadcast was Oct 2nd on the ultra-cool Huw Stephens' BBC Radio show) where the band are quickly amassing an ardent following.
A brand new lyric video has been created for "Deadbolt," andwill premiere on PureVolume.Combeginning today. The clip was directed by Bill Richards and can be viewed here
Beginning tomorrow, NME.Com in the U.K. will premiere the song. Go to http://www.nme.com/
To hear the track.
What the U.K. press has been saying:
"We present to you SKATERS – the best band to emerge from Manhattan since…great writing and an incessantly creative arrangement. Gloriously inventive grooves, wonderfully nonchalant vocal and constantly engaging composition. SKATERS have got that vintage lo-fi pop sound down to a tee so what are you waiting for?" – ThisFeeling.Com (UK)
"Like the Beach Boys, who famously didn't surf (Dennis Wilson excepted), SKATERS don't skate… [songs] reeking of subways and steam hissing from backstreet vents with a clattering urgency . It's the end of the world as we know it … and SKATERS feel fine." – The Guardian (UK daily)
Back home in the USA, the media know what's up:
"New York band SKATERS want to be your new party soundtrack. Wait, scratch that – this band doesn't want to deliver the late-night anthems only to you. They want to serve 'em up to your friends, your little brother, and pretty much everyone you know." These guys are well on their way to cementing their place on the sweaty dark dance floors everywhere." – NylonMag.Com
"There's no covering up their romantically ragged edges" — The New York Times
The domestic tour w/ Palma Violets begins tomorrow. Dates are as follows:
10/08 Philadelphia, PA Boot & Saddle
10/09 New York, NY Webster Hall
10/14 Seattle, WA Neumos
10/15 Vancouver, BC Venue
10/16 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
10/18 Berkley, CA UC Berkley/ ASUC Superb 10 Esheleman Hall #4500
10/19 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theater
On Oct 14, the "Deadbolt" video will make its worldwide debut via NME.Com in the U.K. Shortly thereafter, SKATERS will tour overseas w/ Deap Vally. Those dates are:
10/29 Sheffield The Leadmill
10/30 Oxford Oxford Academy 2
11/01 Brighton Concorde2
11/02 Bristol Trinity Centre
11/04 Nottingham Rock City Basement
11/05 Manchester Club Academy
11/07 Birmingham Birmingham Academy 2
11/08 Leeds The Wardrobe
11/10 Newcastle Warehouse 34
11/11 Edinburgh Liquid Room
11/12 Glasgow Oran Mor
11/14 London Electric Ballroom
http://www.skatersnyc.com
http://www.facebook.com/skatersnyc
http://www.twitter.com/skatersnyc
http://www.youtube.com/skatersnyc
New Music: MicLordz & Sauce Funky
Posted in Artist Watch, New Music, News, Videos with tags funk, hip-hop, MicLordz & Sauce Funky, music, My World, new music, rock, The Rock Tribune, TheRockTribune.com on November 11, 2011 by Randy
Listening to MicLordz & Sauce Funky is like getting punched in the face by Awesome…but seeing MicLordz & Sauce Funky LIVE? That's more like getting baseball batted in the face…by Awesome.
Miclordz & Sauce Funky (MLSF) formed in Windsor, Ontario, during the fall of 2006. An amalgamation of an existing hip-hop act and three outside muscians, the fivesome came together from diverse musical backgrounds, but with a common goal – to play legendary live shows and to push themselves to new heights.
Over the last five years the group has made it their business to grind: a business that they have grown to excel at. This work ethic has garnered them an array of D.I.Y. successes, and also left them with a reputation for being professional, reliable and dedicated, making them a favourite among promoters, tour managers, club owners, producers, and fans alike. They're live shows are second to none, with an energy that is unrivalled and uncompromised, an energy that never dwindles or stutters, whether they're rocking for 1000 people or 10.
The sound is an extraordinary hybrid of rock, hip-hop and funk, often likened to raw collision of Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Rage Against The Machine. It is bursting with an undeniable edge that grabs the audience, whether witnessing the live event or listening at home. The group continues to write these high-energy songs while encompassing ever-stronger song writing techniques that are helping their music find mass appeal, while never losing touch with their roots, their fans, or their reasons for making music in the first place.
In April/May of this year Miclordz & Sauce Funky entered the studio again, more prepared than ever with true songwriting in mind as they laid it down. They are armed with new songs that truly represent their talent, creativity, and professionalism. We are sure you'll agree.
The music is real. The band is real. Their story and struggle is real. Allow yourself a pat on the back, for you have stumbled upon a gem. Welcome to the world of MLSF.
http://www.miclordz.com/
Stay tuned for the exclusive Rock Tribune interview!
New Music: The Things They Carried
Posted in Artist Watch, New Music, News, Videos with tags music, new music, New Ocean Media, The Rock Tribune, The Things They Carried, TheRockTribune.com on November 3, 2011 by Randy
Long Island's The Things They Carried, or 3TC as they are affectionately called by their hometown fans, is a band on a mission. After recording their first EP "Attention Crisis" in spring of 2009, the band hit the road with a vengeance touring the east coast for just over a year. By summer of 2010 3TC knew it was time to head into the studio again and make a record. "We wanted to create something that all of us were equally excited about. We wanted every song to be as good as the next, no fillers!" singer/songwriter Steve Schwartz explains. The band headed to Shoreline, Washington just outside of Seattle to work with famed producer Casey Bates (Chiodos, Pierce The Veil, Isles and Glaciers, Fall of Troy). With Casey on board the band knew that this record would be exactly everything they wanted and everything that there fans would hopefully want.
Released on Dec.17th 2010. The album titled "There's Something I Can't Tell Anyone" talks about many issues that people can relate to whether it be a relationship gone sour, feeling like you don't belong, a secret that you're afraid to share with anyone, or self image issues. "I like to write about issues that people don't really talk about and keep locked inside" explains Steve Schwartz. 3TC
has definitively created a sound they can call their own, while including aspects that fans love to hear. The band's ability to switch from intense screaming and heavy breakdowns to epic sing along choruses will keeping you asking, "What's Next?" Live, 3TC, leaves it all on the stage. "Without an amazing live show to back up a record, you can't really move forward" says drummer Andy Illiano.
With a 2011 tour in the works The Things They Carried are focused on making their mark and continuing to write music that they are proud of and hopefully inspires others. The bands philosophy is best summarized by frontman Steve Schwartz: "Music, we believe is about taking risks, putting yourself out there, and hopefully people grab on to it."
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thethingstheycarriedband
Myspace: www.myspace.com/thethingstheycarriedband
Twitter: www.twitter.com/tttcband
Youtube: www.youtube.com/tttcband1


In South Korea, policy tools and priorities are set at the national level and are controlled through both budget allocations and audits conducted on an annual basis. I look at the degree to which local officials adapt their budget allocations to address local rather than national concerns in securing better air quality, using three different theoretical models: principal-agent, representative bureaucracy, and democratic responsiveness. I raise questions about the degree of control a unitary state can exercise over local problems and how this is reflected in local policy choices, especially in areas where the national government's zone of indifference is large, such as environmental policy. Panel data across 5 years (2007 to 2012) and from 9 geographically and socioeconomically diverse areas within South Korea indicates that local officials respond to local environmental conditions by allocating more resources when needed. I discuss the implications for autonomy in a local policy space.


Rebecca Welz was born in Sausalito, California. She received her BFA from the Boston Museum School of Fine Art. Currently, she lives in New York and works as Adjunct Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute.
Beautifully skating on the brink of organic and planar, fluid and architectonic, Welz explores the exoskeletal qualities of suspended form. Materials permissive to light yield gentle, hand-painted color transmutations. The artist's work educes an amalgam of sensations, evoking the palpable texture and color of organic life, and the ephemeral nature of dreams and memories. Welz's sculptures utilize Plexiglas, painted and sanded to a translucent texture. The flat, rectilinear material is folded on a strip heater into curving forms, which are then connected with wire and fine steel cables that give the pieces some flexibility.
2006 Carl Little, Review, Art in America, Jan.
2002 Robert Morgan, Review In Art News, Dec.


Some folks think smelling like a pirate is something that just happens – go someplace hot, engage in some sort of manual labor (like gutting spaniards), and let the sweat do the rest. And to be honest, this method is highly effective. But it also explains why so many pirates had to pay for their female companionship.
So what does a pirate do if he wishes to emit a manly scent – one that bespeaketh of robust skullduggery, and yet still makes the ladies' toes curl? That's where Black Phoenix comes in. Black Phoenix carries an enourmous variety of scented oils, many of them aimed at the graveyard crowd. But if you're willing to do some digging, as with John Hawkins, there's treasure to be found. They in fact offer several pirate-specific oils, reviewed here, and also several pirate-friendly oils (with names like Voodoo and Port Royal,) which I've not had opportunity to review, but probably smell perfectly piratey as well.
Jolly Roger: Leather, rum, wood – and yet it all adds up to something sweet, but not too much so. The gentleman pirate – refined, but dangerous.
Black Pearl: More subtle than Jolly Roger, but also deeper and more mysterious. Musky.
Grog: You don't need to spend the night drinking rum to smell like you have. "Grog" is the ultimate truth-in-labeling – it smells like rum raisins, and is happy to do so.
Anne Bonney: Who says guys should have all the fun? Spicey, seductive, and sweet. And perfect for the seagoing woman with a penchant for filleting spanish officers.
Bluebeard: Much like Jolly Roger, but less defined and darker. It has a sharpness about it underneath, much like that dagger stashed in your sleeve.
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On behalf of Payne & Associates, PLLC posted in Family Law on Friday, April 21, 2017.
Many people hear the phrase "amicable divorce" and assume that it would never work for them. Instead, these couples prepare to do battle in court.
While there are times when litigation is the only option, this isn't the path you have to go down. Instead, you and your former spouse may be able to benefit from collaborative divorce.
Simply put, this is when the couple works together, outside of court, to deal with any disputes arising from their divorce. With the help of an attorney, both sides can work through matters related to property division, child custody, child support, alimony and any other details.
There are many benefits of collaborative divorce, including the fact that it puts the couple in charge of making key decisions. This is in contrast to litigation in which a judge is staffed with the responsibility of making decisions related to the divorce.
Also, it's important to note that collaborative divorce is often less expensive and more efficient than litigation. If you're interested in saving money or if you're interested in putting an end to the process sooner rather than later, this may be the best strategy.
There will always be people who feel that an amicable divorce is impossible. However, a growing number of couples are realizing that collaborative divorce is something they should at least consider. As you get involved with this process, you may realize that it is one of the best decisions you could have made.
Don't go into the divorce process looking for a fight. Instead, take the approach that you can split in an amicable fashion.


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JAMES S. HOVANEC SR.
James S. Hovanec Sr. Formerly of Beaver James S. Hovanec, Sr., 65, passed away suddenly in his home in Denver, N.C., on September 30, 2019. Born July 28, 1954, in Beaver, Pa., a son of the late Steve and Elizabeth Hovanec. Jim "Sal" was survived by his love and "Babe" for the last 18 years, Deborah Carlin; his children, James (Angela) S. Hovanec, Jr., Jennifer (Justin) Tice, Christina Brown, and Cynthia Brown; as well as his grandchildren, Austin, Zoey and Ashton Tice, Seana and Quintin Mahovlic and Jahnaiya Toney. Jim was known for his incredible generosity, witty sense of humor and fun use of puns and "dad" jokes. One of the fondest memories his grandchildren had of Jim was him saying "He was with us too short a time, but like they say: time flies like an arrow....fruit flies like a banana." Jim loved playing pool and riding his prized Harley Davidson. Jim retired from work in the nuclear field as an RP technician. He was cherished by many and will be greatly missed. No services will be provided per Jim's request. The arrangements are being entrusted to Robert Morgan Funeral and Cremation Service, LLC. Family requests that donations can be made in his name to National Motorcycle Safety Funds, https://nmsfund.org


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Q: How to attach gdb to python subprocess in VS code I have a python script that calls a c++ binary and would like to debug its source code in VS Code:
proc = subprocess.Popen( Command, shell=True    ,
                         stdout=sys.stdout      ,
                         stderr=subprocess.PIPE  )
return_code = proc.wait()
message = proc.stderr.read().decode()

So I look up the python debugger's PID, and do the following GDB attach:
{
            "name": "(gdb) Attach",
            "type": "cppdbg",
            "request": "attach",
            "program": "/My/virtual/env/bin/python",
            "stopAtEntry": true,
            "processId": "${command:pickProcess}",
            "MIMode": "gdb",
            "setupCommands": [
                {
                    "description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
                    "text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
                    "ignoreFailures": true
                }
            ],
            "miDebuggerPath": "/usr/bin/gdb",
        },

VS code calls pkexec and attaches gdb, or so it seems, however, if I continue the python script, the c++ code doesn't get caught.
Could sb tell me what the problem is or how I could solve it?

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Pearl Jewelry is a favorite with many women. Most women who wear jewelry have at least one set of pearls, which holds a place of pride in their collection. If you want to buy pearls for yourself or a loved one, you won't have to go far. There are many sites online which offer pearly jewelry. The vast collections will definitely hold something that suits your tastes. Many sites also offer great discounts on the jewellery. Here are a few tips for you, if you are planning to buy jewelry of pearls.
Find out if you want natural, cultured or imitation pearl jewellery. Each has a different price band. You might want to go for genuine pearls. These are naturally formed and will have some flaws in shape. They are very rare and cost much more than cultured and imitation pearls. Cultured pearls are formed by artificially inserting a nucleus in to an oyster and allowing the pearl to form. These are usually round and large in size. Imitation pearls are not pearls at all. They are made of glass or plastic and only have a surface shine. Real pearls have an inner glow.
The pearls come from many sources as well. You can choose freshwater pearl jewellery or cultured pearls. The varieties that are usually in demand are Tahitian pearl, Akoya pearl , Freshwater pearl jewellery and South Sea pearl jewellery. The Akoya variety has the best luster and surface shine. This makes it one of the most sought after variety of pearls in the market today. Tahitian pearl jewelry comes in beautiful shades of black. They have a rich tint which is unique to this variety. Freshwater pearls are an eternal favorite as they come in irregular shapes and lend originality. There are many varieties when it comes to shape and color as well. You can have pearl jewellery made of pearls which are round or tear-drop shaped. Pearls can be white, pale cream or black in color. You should keep your complexion in mind when you purchase pearl jewellery. The glow and luster of the pearls can make a big difference.
If you want to purchase wedding jewellery, pearl jewellery is a fine choice. Pearl wedding jewellery are classic and elegant and match every wedding dress. You should take into consideration what sort of neckline and detailing your dress has. If you have a low neckline, you can wear more jewellery. If your dress has a lot of detailing, you might want to buy simple jewellery to balance the overall appearance. If you have a dress with a high neck, then you must go in for earrings and a bracelet. This will highlight your dress better.
Many online sites offer various brands like sarah coventry, coro jewellery and vintage jewellery thereby offering a wide range of pearl jewelry. You can choose from designs that are classic or contemporary. There are many gorgeous pieces available at extremely affordable prices. Most sites have a money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with the product. You can have a whale of a time, shopping online for these beauties from the sea.


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Flavorwire Interview: Legendary Filmmaker and "King of the B's" Roger Corman on Feminism, Poe, and the State of Independent Filmmaking
Roger Corman has earned his title "The King of the B's" after making movies for more than six decades. A quick search on IMDb shows that the filmmaker has more than 400 movies to his credit. He's known for his cult low-budget films and exploitive storylines, featuring colorful characters and sensational titles, and his eight acclaimed pictures inspired by the literary works of Edgar Allan Poe. Corman has been an invaluable mentor to many up-and-coming directors and helped start the careers of some of cinema's finest, including Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.
Starting July 31, Anthology Film Archives will highlight the works of studio American International Pictures — a production company in which Corman played an integral role in making a success with over 40 films. "Ever-adaptable, AIP in the 1950s produced (and/or distributed) dozens of low-budget westerns, racecar, sci-fi, and horror films, as well as pioneering the explicitly teenage-themed movie," Anthology Film Archives explains. "In the '60s, the company invented the beach party genre, imported re-worked versions of Russian and other Eastern European sci-fi films."
Corman will be attending the AIP series for several screenings. "It was an exciting time. We're old friends," he explained to Flavorwire of AIP heads James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff. "We were working commercially, but we were attempting to put a little thought into the films and make the films better than the competition. It was a great, creative, and fun time. Every old guy says, 'Well, the old days were better.' But, it was a fun time, particularly in the '60s when everything was moving up and down." We spoke to Corman about his time at AIP, his own independent production studio New World Pictures, feminism, and the risk of making an independent film today.
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Flavorwire: I've read that AIP used to come up with movie titles and posters before working on scripts and direction. Many people believe that AIP was all about quantity over quality since you made movies very quickly, but perhaps working this way offered more creative freedom. Do you agree?
Roger Corman: Well, it's not really true. I don't remember ever having a poster before we made a picture. Very often, we would start with a title. Generally, we would start with a subject — for instance, the Poe pictures [starting with House of Usher in 1960], which were the ones that really set AIP up with Jim Nicholson and Sam Arkoff.
One of the reasons the company succeeded so well is due to a clear differentiation of the responsibilities. Jim was responsible for the producing end of the pictures. Sam was a lawyer in charge of business and affairs. They never interfered in each other's areas, whereas with other companies, I've seen guys in business affairs trying to make creative decisions and things like that. There, it was very clear. Sam handled the business. Jim handled the creative.
The company started when I made a picture and sold the title to Universal. I made a car-racing picture called The Fast and the Furious [in 1955]. I was looking around for distributors. I had offers from a number of established distributors. Jim and Sam were trying to start a company called American Release — we would later change the title to American International — and they made me an offer, because they didn't have any pictures. They could start their company with The Fast and the Furious. I said I would do it, but I wanted to do it as what's known as a "pick-up." I wanted the cost of my picture back and a distribution deal, for two more pictures.
That started American International. I worked with them on making other films. Generally with those, it wasn't the title we started with, it was the subject matter. Jim and I would decide on one subject. The title would come later. Occasionally, the title came before it.
I just spoke with Penelope Spheeris about The Decline of Western Civilization. And I asked about making Suburbia with you. She said, "Roger has a rule. And the rule is: he wants sex or violence every ten minutes. It's like a formula." You also used to say a good director has to be part artist and part businessman.
[Laughing] Well, the first rule was never a rule. I never had anything about sex and violence every ten minutes. The second one is something. Motion pictures are part business. That's the reason they're the number one contemporary art form.
What rules about filmmaking have you shed along the way?
Well, when you talk about sex, there was no sex in any of my pictures until the late '60s, I think starting with The Trip . Some nudity came in. We continued that from the late '60s up until around '80 when we started stepping away from it. It was nothing more than R-rated, anyway. I would call it nudity more than sex. Nudity was something new and very saleable. But in the '80s it had been used so much, we stepped away from it. In the last ten years, I don't think I've made one picture that has any nudity in it. It no longer has any particular commercial value. There's just so much on the Internet and everywhere else. There's no saleable element there. That doesn't mean I wouldn't put nudity in a film, but I never thought it was necessary.
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Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock
One of the most exciting things about the AIP days is that there's this great anything-is-possible vibe — an adventurous spirit. The Trip is your opus for the counterculture. You took LSD before making the movie. And you worked with some real '60s counterculture personalities, who became icons, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. It was the same with The Wild Angels . You cast several members of the real Hells' Angels. Did you set out wanting to create something that really embodied the time period, or did you just want to have some fun?
I was one of the older of the young counterculture filmmakers. I believed in what I was doing. I had been doing the Poe pictures primarily in studios, and I wanted to move out into the streets. I wanted to deal with the counterculture. So, I believed in what I was doing. We all did at the time. We took it seriously.
It's been said that Jack Nicholson wrote the screenplay for The Trip based on his own experiences with LSD and his marriage breaking up. He wanted to play the part of John, but you wanted him to focus on things behind the scenes instead. Was this true? What was your reasoning?
Yes. It isn't so much that he particularly wanted the role. He simply wrote the script. I hired him, because I knew he was a very good writer. He had written several scripts before. His career wasn't really doing that much at that time. I knew he had experience with LSD, so I hired him as a writer. I was thinking of possibly using Jack for the role that Bruce Dern played. But I wanted to repeat some of the casting, particularly Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern from The Wild Angels, so I went with Bruce for that reason.
Can you give us an update about Joe Dante's biopic about you and the making of The Trip, The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes ?
Yes. He seems to have found some financing. He had some financing at one time, and it fell through, but he has new financing. I know there's a new writer working on a re-write of the script.
Who do you hope will play you in the film?
At one time, he was in discussions with Colin Firth from The King's Speech. But after that picture, his price went too high. So, Colin is not going to be playing me, unfortunately.
You'll be presenting X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes at Anthology Archives, which was a big achievement considering your budget and the additional burden of getting the early special effects right. Is this one of your prouder moments from the AIP days?
Yes. It was a successful film, but it wasn't as successful as some of the others. I thought it was a very original idea. I shot it in 15 days, which is sort of my standard. I did the best I could with the special effects. It's one of the films I'm thinking about possibly remaking, because the idea was good. With the special effects that are available today with computer graphics and so forth, you could really do what we tried to do even better. As a matter of a fact, it's become sort of a cult film. Stephen King wrote about it [in 1981's Danse Macabre ] — and even wrote an alternate ending. And I thought, 'You know what? Maybe his ending is better than mine.'
Are you actively trying to remake it now, or is it just an idea for the time being?
It's in-between. I'm discussing with a major studio remaking a couple of my old films. We've already agreed on one. And I'm discussing another, which might be X.
One of your crowning achievements is the Edgar Allan Poe cycle. You've talked a lot about how much you loved working with Vincent Price. What's something important you want us to know about these great movies that you haven't been able to share before? I know they have a special place for you.
Yes, they do. One of the problems was that the Poe stories were very short. So, what [writer] Dick [Matheson] and I did very often, particularly in, say, The Pit and the Pendulum — where Poe's story was entirely about the man under the pendulum — was that we used his story as the third act, and then created our own first two acts, in this case with John Kerr [who played Francis Barnard in the film]. We tried to put ourselves in Poe's mind — which is impossible, but you know what I mean — to create the first two acts to lead us to the Poe story. That wasn't the plan in all of them, but in a lot of them it was.
The other thing was that I was fortunate to have a really good crew around me, particularly Floyd Crosby as — we used to say cameraman — director of photography, who was very, very good. He won one of the first Academy Awards ever given [Crosby won the award for F.W. Murnau's Tabu in 1931, which was the last silent film to win for Best Cinematography]. And he was semi-blacklisted. He was never officially blacklisted, but he had difficulty getting work. For instance, he did High Noon for Fred Zinnemann, but then couldn't work for the same studio again, because Fred insisted on Floyd, and the studio went along with him. But with other producers or directors, who weren't as powerful, the studio would not hire Floyd.
[As a result of that], I was in a position where I was able to work with an Academy Award-caliber cameraman on low-budget films. And Floyd became a good friend of mine. It was very good for me for a variety of reasons. He was an excellent cameraman, but also he knew how to work quickly. There are a lot of excellent cameramen who take all day to light a set. There are other cameramen who can light a set very quickly, but the results were not good. The beauty of working with Floyd was that he understood what had to be done under the time constraints, about three weeks, and he was able to give me comparatively first-class work.
I was [also] fortunate to have Dan Haller, who was a really good friend of mine, as the art director — today it's production manager. Danny did brilliant work on a very, very low-budget, to create a very big look for the film. I was fortunate having a crew that had worked with me over the years. It became actually known as the "Corman crew." When they weren't working with me, other independents would just hire the whole crew. So, we were sort of a team working together.
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Photo by Reed Saxon/AP/REX/Shutterstock
One of your first films for New World Pictures, which you co-founded in 1970 after AIP, was Student Nurses , directed by Stephanie Rothman. You gave a lot of well-known directors their start in the industry, but you gave a lot of women directors their start in the industry when no one else would. Can you talk a little bit about your decision-making with that?
People have praised me for going out of my way to hire women and being at the forefront of the feminist movement in Hollywood. It wasn't exactly that way. It wasn't that I was looking to hire women. I was looking to hire the best person available for the job. And it made no difference to me whether they were men or women. So, very often, the best person was a woman. I would hire that person, simply on the basis of ability. When you figure that the population is roughly 50% women — I'm making this number up, but you know what I mean — roughly half the time you're going to be hiring a lot of women.
Do you consider yourself a feminist?
I have two daughters. I support them, and I think in general I would be a bit of a feminist. But, I still only hire on the basis of ability.
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Photo by New World Pictures/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
The Slumber Party Massacre has two women behind it. The film was directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by Rita Mae Brown, who was an activist in the feminist movement. There's so much subversive feminist commentary in this film, it's fantastic. It's great to see some exploitation directed at men and male bodies. I know it was written as a parody of sorts, but I've read that you filmed it straight. Can you talk about this?
It started off simply as horror film. Rita Mae Brown wrote the script. Amy Holden Jones directed it, but worked with Rita and me — although it was primarily their work. They put together a picture that satisfied what the requirements were. And we did have nudity in that picture. But, they also put some personal thoughts of their own in it, and they put a little bit of humor in it as well. Rita is an excellent writer. And Amy has gone on to have a very, very good career. These were two very talented women working on a subject that in other hands could have been a cheap exploitation film. It is still an exploitation film, but it has a quality that enabled it to stand alone. They understood they were making an exploitation film, but they also knew they had a great deal of freedom.
You are known for some degree of sex and female exploitation in your movies, but your handling of female sexuality in your films has always been pretty straightforward. As my editor and I once agreed, everyone has their fair share of sleazy moments.
You also offer us some social commentary in films like Student Nurses where women enjoy sex, and they're liberated, but there's also an abortion subplot. I know your wife Julie has worked closely with you behind the scenes. Has she been a source of advice about your depiction of women or women's subjects?
These pictures started before Julie was working with me. But I remember with the scripts for a number of them, for quite a while, I would explain to the writer what I wanted. And I would get back — always in treatment form, I believe in treatments before going to the screenplay — the girls set up the way I wanted. They would have a problem to be solved. But in these scripts, their boyfriends would solve the problem. And I remember how many times I would say to the writer, 'No, they must solve the problem themselves.' It killed the whole idea if their boyfriends come in and solve it. That was something that seemed, to me, self-evident, but I remember many times having that same discussion.
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Photo by Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
The state of independent filmmaking is in a really strange, but exciting place. We have some massive successes, but then we have masters of their craft like Abel Ferrara and Frederick Wiseman turning to crowdfunding for support to make new movies and coming up short. They're not getting funded. I feel like it's incredibly tragic that we've let some of our most creative filmmakers fall by the wayside. What's your take on this? And what can we do to help?
I wish I had an answer. It is easier to make a low-budget picture today than it has ever been. When I first started, we had those big, heavy cameras. All the equipment was heavy, hard to move around, and built for studio work or large crews. Today, you have these small digital cameras you can hold in your hand. And the other equipment, the lighting, the sound, the grip, everything is light and easy to work with. It's portable and cheaper to make a film with.
So, it is easier to make a low-budget film today than it has ever been. But, it is [also] harder to get distribution for a low-budget film than it has ever been. This is a problem I'm dealing with myself. When I first started, every picture I made, no matter how inexpensive, got a full theatrical release. I have not had a picture in a number of years that has had anything other than maybe a token theatrical release, just to set it up.
Today, very few independent medium and low-budget films get a theatrical release. Occasionally, one or two will, and every now and then they will be successful, but they're really exceptions to the rules. So, the directors you mention, Ferrara and so forth, are facing exactly the same problem. It doesn't make much difference anymore whether you're a veteran, such as me, or somebody just starting out. We're all faced with the same problem. It's easy to make a picture and very, very difficult to get enough of a distribution in order to break even and get your money back.
Do you have any advice for filmmakers who are trying to get distribution? What can they do?
The only thing is — and this is so obvious, it's almost a little dumb to say it — you just have to make a better picture than somebody else. Make a better quality picture, generally, and make a better picture on a commercial subject. Most of the successes are still on commercial subject matter. There's a huge amount of independent production being made — as I say it's so easy to make — but almost all of them fail commercially.
I know people younger than I am who are retired. They just say, 'I made my money, and I'm not going to beat my head against a wall. I'm quitting.' I was having lunch with [ Piranha producer] Jon Davison a few weeks ago, who came to me as a young guy straight out of the NYU film school and went on to make a number of big-budget films, and he's retired. I said, 'Jon, you're a young guy who is retired. Maybe it's time for me to retire.' And he said, 'You're too old to retire.' [Laughing] That's a line I'm going to use. I like the line.
Is there a production company or filmmaker working today in the same vein you've been working in for many years that you've taken notice of?
Well, a number of them. The first name that comes to mind is Jason Blum. Jason has had solid success with these low-budget exploitation films. He went on, last year, to produce Whiplash. So, maybe he's moving more towards major films, I don't know, but Jason is the closest to what I was doing. He really does do what I said — he makes them better than the other guys.


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After cooking a dead dog in the street, have vegan activists gone too far?
Australian shoppers have been left reeling after an encounter with one of the most extreme local protests in recent memory. In an attempt to hammer home the horror of the meat industry, Sydney vegans took to the streets, accompanied by what looked like a dead dog, a barbecue kit, and a banner reading "If you wouldn't eat a dog, why eat a lamb?" They then proceeded to cook the animal in front of a traumatised crowd of onlookers.
PETA, who organised the protest, stressed that their intention wasn't to offend or disturb, but to get people to really think about why we differentiate between domestic animals and those that we eat. However, the reaction was predictably hostile.
Children were reported to have left the scene in tears. Commentators from both sides of the debate were quick to call into shows as far away as England and America to add their two cents and, before long, everyone was angry with everyone else. Two weeks have passed and the dust is still settling on this bizarre situation.
To anyone familiar with PETA's methods, the gruesome barbecue dog stunt won't have come as a shock. Since their inception, the organisation has favoured bold gestures and extreme visual demonstrations, often emphasising the blood and guts at the heart of modern food. These protests have been met with a mixture of mockery and acrimony. However, as the tried and tested shock-and-awe tactics have begun to lose their impact, some activists have decided that their strategy needs to become even more unconventional.
Last year, stories from around the world began to identify a new wave of protests, focused not on public displays, but targeted assaults on the businesses that rely on meat. In the summer, for instance, French butchers begged their government to step in and offer companies more protection following incidents of vandalism and physical violence at some of their stores. The Guardian reports that "Seven butcher shops were vandalised and sprayed with fake blood in the Hauts-de-France region," while, "A butcher and a fishmonger in the north had seen windows broken, with the slogan 'Stop speciesism' left behind in spray-paint by the vandals." Incidents such as these are not unique to France.
In many ways, the vegan debate is more polarised than ever. While it's true that people are converting to the lifestyle in record numbers, extreme actions and responses on both sides are also helping to deepen the divide. In Canada, when a chef taunted vegan protestors outside his restaurant by butchering a deer leg in the window, the abuse the restaurant received was dwarfed by praise for the chef taking a stand against those who were trying to ruin his business. You could easily argue that such aggression only helps create sympathy for those on the receiving end and is actually more likely to put people off joining the movement in the first place.
Certainly, recent events have helped give rise to a narrative of "extreme veganism" in the media. Provocateurs like the objectionable Piers Morgan relish the chance to sink their teeth into an act of illegal protest from a campaigner - whatever the issue. Their influence should not be underestimated.
When action deteriorates to the point where business owners feel genuinely threatened, as they seem to have done over the last year, it becomes that much easier to demonise the cause that's being advocated rather than discuss the efficacy of any points being raised.
The questions posed by the Sydney protesters may well have some legitimacy. However, there remain serious concerns over whether or not this method is the most effective way of converting people to the cause. An example of a motivator that may prove even more powerful than animal welfare are the revelations over just how significant the impact of a vegan lifestyle can be for the environment.
Dozens of recent reports have highlighted how reducing or eliminating industrialised meat from our diet could be the most significant step we could take to reduce the effects of climate change. One study from the University of Oxford found that cutting out meat and dairy could help shrink your carbon footprint by 73 per cent, while others have highlighted how many natural resources the farming industry uses every single day. While many vegans' primary concern remains animal welfare, increasing environmental awareness seems to be playing a part in the lifestyle's growing popularity.
Fairly or unfairly, vegans have a hard-to-shake reputation for forcing their opinions on others. Ignoring whether or not you agree with the principle, barbecuing a dog in a Sydney street doesn't do an awful lot to get rid of the tag. If the objective is to get the whole world to listen to what you have to say, divisive stunts such as this may not be the best way forward. As we've seen, the reaction usually falls somewhere between an eye-roll and anger. The truth is that are loads of good reasons to move to a non-animal diet. If we talked more about them, rather than unwarranted attacks on butchers, maybe more of us would get on board.


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Isla Sabi (también escrito Sabi Kyun o bien llamada  Isla Trotter) es una isla en el archipiélago de Mergui en la Región de Taninthayi, al sur de Birmania (Myanmar). Se encuentra entre la Isla Money (Ngwe Kyun) hacia el sur y la isla de Parker en el norte. El estrecho canal entre la isla Ngwe Kyun y la isla de Sabi es más bien superficial, pero el canal de media milla de ancho entre Sabi e Isla Parker es bastante profundo. La isla es muy boscosa y tiene pequeñas bahías con playas de arena en el lado oeste. el punto más alto está a 326 m sobre el nivel del mar. El Coral de Whaleback, que se encuentra a unos tres cuartos de milla de la parte noreste de la isla, está expuesto a unos 8 metros en marea baja.

Véase también
 Geografía de Birmania
 Geografía de Asia

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Mapa de localización de la Isla en Wikimapia

Islas del archipiélago de Mergui

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This is the eighth year of publication of the Medical Palm Review. It has gone through several changes in format and delivery. Starting to feel a little stale so I decided to try delivering it as a blog.
Blogs have some advantages over the website format I have been using recently. I can log on from anywhere to add content when I feel like it, instead of aggregating news and commentary in monthly chunks. It's also easier for readers to offer comments and feedback. Up until now, almost all the mail I have ever received at the contact address listed in every issue has been spam. Now I can retire that address.
Disadvantages include the possibility of even more spam, which might also clutter up the blog site if I am not careful. And there is the risk that readers might not like the change in style that the new format entails. Many of the features for visually challenged users which I added to the MPR will not work the same on a blog and will need to be relearned.
This month's issue can be found at The Medical Palm Review blog site. I am still learning and experimenting. Let me know how you like it. Your comments can influence how we continue.
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Now that the 3D and AR technologies are getting mature enough for enterprise tools, their wider adaptation really only comes down to matching the actual use cases - the kinds where the new technologies can provide some real benefit - with the reliability and usability of the devices. For taking these new gadgets out in the field, the question is how reliably and accurately they can provide the geospatial data without a sky-high price tag.
I had the privilege to participate in a really cool workshop with representatives from the biggest Finnish electric utilities from all over the country, held last month during the Finnish Trimble User Days. The workshop went by the name of 3D and augmented reality for distribution utilities, but it actually focused mostly on mixed reality - combining and positioning virtual and real objects with one another - and finding ways for utilities to make it beneficial, for real.
For it goes without saying that as exciting as these new technologies are, implementing and adapting them to actual use takes a lot more than just buzzing. The workshop clearly brought out the cost issue - not just in purchasing the devices, but also in collecting high-quality data (not everyone has had the habit of recording the Z coordinate, to start with), setting up seamless data flows for enormous amounts of data and training the people so that it all works like it's supposed to. Also the usability raised discussion - not only the attitudes of the users, but there are people of different sizes and skill levels, not to mention different types of tasks. And to top that, the new gadgets need to be compatible with helmets and all the other gear, in all kinds of weather conditions.
When the workshop participants were asked where they see their utility with the use of AR tools in 5 years, half replied they see "some use" and the other half "fairly significant use". It may not be shocking - in fact, it may be the expected - but one must note that none of the participants saw "extensive use" for their utility. So clearly we're not quite at the adaptation phase yet - but what would it take for these technologies to become the next boom?
"Somewhere around here" isn't accurate enough for a location - by far".
Because it's not like we can't all see the advantages. Where it may be an investment to get the new technologies up and running, cost savings could be significant. With the immediately available, easy-to-absorb data, processes run smoother, service quality improves and overall flexibility increases. The money you put in pays back in the form of outage compensation savings, reduced site visits, efficiency in spreading information to various people without always a need for a face-to-face, and so on. And, you're able to provide a better experience for your customers and stakeholders - just think about the WOW effect of splashing a 3D mixed reality visualization of your land use plans for a property owner on-site!
Another big theme that stood out in the workshop was the improved safety. The participants ranked it high in importance, finding that the mixed reality tools could really help in drawing the needed focus on the known dangers or other details that need attention, right where and when it's needed. From a broader perspective, the visualized data makes it so much easier to verify that everything has been done as it should be, and that goes across all utility functions - from maintenance to investments to operations.
However, all of this becomes useful only if the used data is accurate enough. Spatial data is always tied to the real world, to a given environment, but "somewhere around here" isn't good enough for a location - by far. Instead, you preferably need to get down to a few inches in accuracy for your data to become reliable and usable enough for the real-world use cases. And actually when showing, say, the locations of underground cables or the boundaries of danger zones on-site, using mixed reality tools becomes not just a disadvantage, but also a safety issue if the data isn't accurate. It must be to the point, or it won't get used at all.
Equally important is the cost issue. Like with any new technology, we can only anticipate a boom after there's no need to invest significantly into expensive and difficult-to-use devices. Tied together with the need for seamless data flows and usability out in the field, the workshop saw more use for a "poor man's AR" in a mobile device rather than picturing their linemen walking around wearing futuristic visors.
While it's true that there are still many questions to be answered, we are undeniably living exciting times - it seems that new breakthroughs keep popping up behind every the corner.


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#include <typeinfo>
#include "core.hpp"

namespace parse_ll { namespace operation {

    /**
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    template <class ParserTag> struct describe <ParserTag> {
        template <class Parser> const char * operator() (Parser const &) const
        { return typeid (Parser).name(); }
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Adin D. Falkoff (19 December 1921
– 13 August 2010) was an engineer and computer systems and programming systems designer who was mostly known for his work on the programming language APL and systems for IBM.

Career
Falkoff, born in New Jersey, received a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Ch.E.) from the City College of New York in 1941, and a Master's degree (M.A.) in Mathematics from Yale University in 1963.

He was a researcher and manager at IBM Research since 1955 for over forty years before retiring. He collaborated with Ken Iverson from 1960 to 1980 on the design, development, and use of the APL programming language and interactive environment.

Of special note is his landmark article, A Formal Description of System/360, describing the then new IBM System/360 computer system, formally, in APL programming notation.

Falkoff was a visiting member of the faculty of IBM's Systems Research Institute, and taught computer science at Yale University. He was one of the researchers who established and managed the IBM Philadelphia Scientific Center and received many awards for his work, especially with APL.

Representative publications
Adin D. Falkoff, "Algorithms for Parallel-Search Memories". Journal of the ACM 9:4:488-511 (1962)
Adin D. Falkoff, Kenneth E. Iverson, Edward H. Sussenguth Jr., "A Formal Description of System/360". IBM Systems Journal 3:3:198-262 (1964)
Falkoff, A.D., and K.E. Iverson, APL\360 User's Manual, IBM Corporation, August 1968. full text in PDF
Falkoff, A.D., and K.E. Iverson, "The Design of APL", IBM Journal of Research and Development 17:4, July 1973. full text in PDF
Falkoff, A.D., and K.E. Iverson, "The Evolution of APL", ACM SIGPLAN Notices 13:8, August 1978. full text in PDF
Falkoff. A.D., and K.E. Iverson, A Source Book In APL, APL Press, 1981
Falkoff, A.D., "The IBM Family of APL Systems", IBM Systems Journal 30:4, December 1991. full text in PDF

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IBM employees
APL implementers
City College of New York alumni
Yale University alumni
1921 births
People from New Jersey
2010 deaths
People from Pleasantville, New York


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Thursday 13 December 2018 10:08 am
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic tourist spaceship successfully touches the edge of the world in today's test flight
Emily Nicolle and Jessica Clark
Rocket man and Virgin billionaire Richard Branson's commercial space programme successfully reached the edge of the world's atmosphere for the first time in its fourth test flight across the US today.
The Virgin Galactic Spaceship Two rocket, which was carried up to a height of above 12,000 metres by a specially-designed plane before igniting its motors, reached 82.7km above the ground which is above the altitude at which space begins according to Nasa.
The rocket motor burnt for 60 seconds and the aircraft travelled at 2.9 times the speed of sound in today's test flight.
Richard Branson said: "Many of you will know how important the dream of space travel is to me personally. Ever since I watched the moon landings as a child I have looked up to the skies with wonder. We started Virgin nearly 50 years ago dreaming big and loving a challenge.
"Today, as I stood among a truly remarkable group of people with our eyes on the stars, we saw our biggest dream and our toughest challenge to date fulfilled. It was an indescribable feeling: joy, relief, exhilaration and anticipation for what is yet to come.
"Today, for the first time in history, a crewed spaceship, built to carry private passengers, reached space. Today we completed our first revenue generating flight and our pilots earned their Commercial Astronaut Wings.
"Today, we have shown that Virgin Galactic really can open space to change the world for good. We will now push on with the remaining portion of our flight test program, which will see the rocket motor burn for longer and VSS Unity fly still faster and higher towards giving thousands of private astronauts an experience which provides a new, planetary perspective to our relationship with the Earth and the cosmos.
"This is a momentous day and I could not be more proud of our teams who together have opened a new chapter of space exploration."
The company posted on Twitter: "White Knight Two is taking Spaceship Two to release altitude at which point Spaceship Two will be released and the rocket motor ignited."
SpaceShipTwo returns from space ? ? pic.twitter.com/UscFxNMF6J
— Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) December 13, 2018
It then said "Spaceship Two is flying free, having separated cleanly from its mothership White Knight Two" before tweeting "Spaceship Two, welcome to space".
More than 600 people have all bought tickets to be on the first round of commercial space flights in six-passenger rockets by Virgin for up to $250,000 (£200,000) a ticket.
Here's what happened last time SpaceShipTwo took to the skies. pic.twitter.com/HQgRZosWsv
Today's powered test over California's Mojave desert marks the fourth flight since an accident three years ago which left one pilot dead.
Branson has been embroiled in an ongoing race to bring tourists to the stars with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' firm Blue Origin and Tesla chief Elon Musk's Space X.
While Blue Origin has said it hopes to create colonies on the moon one day, Space X already provides fulfilment services through its rockets to the International Space Station.
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There is something in the air on Christmas Eve that brings with it feelings of hope, love and excitement. Much the same as we would imagine, as the Shepherds and the Angels anticipated the birth of baby Jesus, on that beautiful December night so many, many years ago. It was indeed a night, so silent and holy. Silent Night, the most famous carol to ever have been written, gives the listener a true gift. It's words and soft melody seem to embrace the heart with a feeling as though one was there looking on, in that humble, sweet stable.
Today, we are reminded all around us, of the coming of Christmas! There is nothing quite as sacred and meaningful, as taking the time to feel the stillness late on Christmas Eve. The stars shine brighter and Heaven seems very near. As a stanza from this prize carol reminds us…."Silent night, holy night….Son of God, love's pure light…." To this day, He is our light.