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The 'Friends' reunion is finally upon us, can we stop talking about it now? Please?
May 27, 2021 May 27, 2021 by Therese Odell, posted in Uncategorized
It's Thursday! And here is a very amenable penguin in Antarctica.
If you've ever wondered how much people get paid to be on those Bachelor shows, wonder no more! Two former Bachelorette contestants and contenders to be the Bachelor let slip how much they were offered for Bachelor in Paradise and how much they were negotiating for to be The Bachelor. What I find most interesting about this is the revelation that they get paid per episode (at least for Bachelor in Paradise — but maybe this applies to being a contestant on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette?), which helps explain why some of these people would want to stay on that show even when they haven't made a romantic connection.
The final ratings breakdown for the weirdest television season EVER is here, and in the top 10 series that aren't football, CBS claims 5 slots. Still! People love them those Chicago shows which are 3 of the top 10!
And this is just a little tangent, but I had always wondered about the programming decision to take shows that were related to each other, like the Chicago series, and put them on different nights instead of creating a programming block of them on one night. I suppose the philosophy was if a franchise is popular, the networks should try to spread it out over multiple nights and sprinkle some of that success dust onto other unrelated shows. Recently, networks have been grouping franchises together — particularly on NBC and ABC — and it seems to be paying off for them? Anyway, these are the things that rattle around in my brain, thank you for letting me share.
Kelly Clarkson will be your new Ellen. Hopefully with less bullying.
Better Call Saul is filming at a Breaking Bad location.
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#bettercallsaul sighting in abq. I thought he was saying "Saw" like the movie 😭😅
♬ original sound – Panda Kwiot
Showtime is going to stream over 50 hours of LGBTQ programming for free for Pride next month.
I dunno, maybe they could have just shot it in a real gas station?
Dick Wolf compares his shows to soup.
Alan Dershowitz is suing Netflix and the makers of Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich for defamation.
That time Moonlighting created the most expensive hour of television ever (at the time).
The BET Awards have announced their nominees.
Pete Davidson sure sounds like he's done with Saturday Night Live.
Howard University is renaming its College of Fine Arts after alum Chadwick Boseman, who, interestingly enough, led protests as a student against plans to absorb the college into the College of Arts & Sciences. It was re-established as its own department when Boseman returned in 2018 to give the commencement address.
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— Howard University (@HowardU) May 26, 2021
There are roughly one bajillion stories out there about the Friends: The Reunion which debuts today, but I'm guessing if you really care about what happened, you'll watch it yourself? In the event that you kinda care but not enough to actually pony up for an HBO Max subscription, I'll point you to these two "surprising facts" articles about the reunion and call it a day because OH MY GOD WHY ARE WE ALL FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS DUMB REUNION?
A Los Angeles radio personality, Tim Conway Jr. (yes, the son of THAT Tim Conway), and his producer Sheron Bellio have been suspended after they did a sketch in which Bellio pretended to be an Asian woman with a heavy stereotypical accent in an interview with Conway. Listeners, horrified, demanded that the station pull the segment. I mean … what were they thinking?
On that same topic, Hari Kondabolu, comedian and the creator of The Problem with Apu, spoke at an Amazon event about comedy and this concept of "cancel culture," arguing that, "As a stand-up, you should be able to talk about whatever you want, but that doesn't mean there's not repercussions. Now … you have to deal with the repercussions of what you say, more than ever before. But I think that's a good thing." Also: "Times change, audiences change, and you go with it. That's the nature of entertainment," he said. "[It's also] a part of learning and growing, and ultimately, I think it makes you a better artist."
Which brings me to Seth Rogen who said basically the exact same thing but received A LOT more attention for it. In an interview with Good Morning Britain, he was asked about cancel culture and said, "To me when I see comedians complaining about this kind of thing, I don't understand what they're complaining about. If you've made a joke that's aged terribly, accept it. And if you don't think it's aged terribly, then say that."
I mean, it's obvious but it's true. Culture changes and comedy has to adapt with it instead of insisting that there is some sort of objective comedic truth that remains impervious in the face of change. That's bullshit, and maybe comedians who are upset that their racist, sexist, homophobic material isn't being warmly received anymore should do a little more introspection.
Speaking of introspection, Rick Santorum could use some.
And then there's Tucker Carlson who spent the night before the anniversary of George Floyd's death by calling Black Lives Matter a "national humiliation."
After promising to meet with Black leaders and the NAACP, country singer Morgan Wallen ghosted the organization. So good for the CMAs for shutting him out of all solo categories this year.
John Boyega has something nice to say about Disney!
The HFPA has hired a bunch of lawyers and consultants to help them reform their disaster of an organization.
Breeders has been renewed for a third season on FX.
Firefly Lane has been renewed for a second season on Netflix.
NewsBeat, a news program hosted by drag queens Nina West and Bianca Del Rio and featuring other drag queens, including Lady Bunny, Lyle, and Delta Work, is being developed by Clay Aiken and while this feels like a weird Mad Lib, I WANT THIS IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW.
Evil Dead Rise is being made at HBO Max.
Garbage Pail Kids is being turned into an animated series for HBO Max, produced by Danny Boyle.
The Killing Kind is being adapted into a limited series.
A documentary about great white sharks off the coast of Cape Cod is in the works at HBO.
Val, a documentary about Val Kilmer for some reason, is coming to Amazon.
Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb is being adapted into a limited series.
Meet Your Makers Showdown has been greenlit at Discovery+.
Jac Schaeffer has signed an overall deal with Marvel Studios and 20th Television.
Chris Noth will indeed return as Mr. Big on Sex and the City: And Just Like That …. on HBO Max.
Parker Posey is joining the amazing cast of The Staircase at HBO Max.
Michiel Huisman has been cast in Echo 3 on Apple TV+.
Thomas Ian Griffith is joining Cobra Kai as Terry Silver.
Christopher McDonald has been added to Secret Invasion on Disney+.
Tobias Menzies and Sophie Okonedo have been added to Modern Love on Amazon.
Jeremy Irvine has been cast in Green Lantern on HBO Max.
Nat Wolff has joined Joe Exotic on Peacock.
Rory Cochrane, Danny Burstein, Austin Aaron, Ta'Nika Gibson, Edwin Hodge, Terence Davis, and Ja'Quan Cole have been added to the L.A. Lakers movie at HBO.
Omari Hardwick, John Ortiz, and Molly Parker have joined the cast of The Mothership on Netflix.
Christine Ko, Malcolm Barrett, Sally Pressman, Cedric Joe, Riki Lindhome, Tim Heidecker, Gabriel Bateman, Cyrus Arnold, Arjun Athalye, Jack Gore, Logan Gray, Elisha Henig, Rachel Marsh, Jy Prishkulnik, Megan Stott, Henry Thomas, and Izabela Vidovic have been cast in Just Beyond on Disney+.
Aubin Wise, Jason Robert Moore, Dominic Goodman, Phillip Mullings Jr, Elizabeth Mitchell, Will Swenson, Gracie Dzienny, Dylan McNamara, MK xyz, Jonas Dylan Allen, Roberto Mendez have been cast in First Kill on Netflix.
Mary Carillo, Andrea Joyce, and Jimmy Roberts will be covering the Tokyo Olympics for NBC.
Juan Williams is leaving The Five, but not Fox News. (Yet.)
Mark Your Calendars
Physical will premiere on Apple TV+ on June 18.
Kevin Can F**k Himself will premiere on AMC on June 20.
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars moves to Paramount+ on June 24.
Dexter returns on Showtime this fall.
Cobra Kai will return on Netflix soon.
The Bachelorette returns on ABC on June 7.
Jungle Cruise will debut on Disney+ and theaters on July 30.
Fantasy Island will premiere on Fox on August 10.
Generation returns on HBO Max on June 17.
In the Dark returns on The CW on June 23.
Leverage: Redemption will debut on IMDb TV on July 9.
Chesapeake Shores will return on Hallmark Channel in August.
The House of Flowers, The Movie will premiere on Netflix on June 23.
The Naked Director will return on Netflix on June 24.
So Not Worth It will debut on Netflix on June 18.
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist will air a marathon this weekend beginning on May 30.
Modern Love will return on Amazon on June 13.
Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy will air on CBS on May 31.
Icon: Music Through the Lens will premiere on PBS on July 16.
The Me You Can't See: A Path Forward will stream on Apple TV+ on May 28.
Infinite will debut on Paramount+ on June 10.
Shark Week will begin on Discovery on July 11.
Queen of the Universe will premiere on Paramount+ on December 2.
Put a Ring on It returns on OWN on June 25.
The BeatBuds, Let's Jam! will debut on Nickelodeon on June 7.
NBC has announced their summer premiere dates:
American Ninja Warrior: May 31
Small Fortune: May 31
America's Got Talent: June 1
Capital One College Bowl: June 22
Making It: June 24
Olympic Dreams Featuring Jonas Brothers: July 21
Ultimate Slip 'N Slide: Aug. 8
Family Game Fight: Aug. 11
Kevin Clark, Musician and child actor who starred in School of Rock
John Davis, One of the real voices behind Milli Vanilli
Eric Carle, Author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and more than 70 other children's books
Friends: The Reunion: The reunion they couldn't stop talking about is finally upon us. But don't hold your breath for an appearance by Marcel. Premiere. HBO Max
Plan B: This raunchy teen comedy about a couple of girls in desperate search of a Plan B pill after a wild party is receiving glowing reviews. Hulu
Panic: In this new thriller, teens compete to escape a small Texas town in a series of dangerous challenges. Series premiere. Amazon
Rugrats: Reboot premiere. Paramount+
Ragnarok: Season two. Netflix
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Michael Douglas, Billy Porter, Mustafa
Late Night with Seth Meyers: Joel Edgerton
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Bradley Whitford, Carlos Watson
The Late Late Show with James Corden: Emily Blunt, Elle King
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Emma Stone, Rory Scovel, Chloe Moriondo
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Wright State to Keep State Money, Despite Dropping Debate
Posted on: Thursday, August 11, 2016
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – Ohio's Wright State University says it has no plans to repay the $220,000 in state money it received to upgrade security for the first presidential debate, which it pulled out of last month due to increasing security costs.
An Ohio Department of Higher Education spokesman tells The Cincinnati Enquirer the Dayton university doesn't have to return the money because it was allocated and spent during the previous fiscal year.
Lawmakers in December gave the university money to help with the costs. But the university has said it couldn't persuade donors to contribute enough money to cover the increasing costs and the school couldn't cover them itself.
The university spent the state money on cyber security software.
Hofstra University in New York will now host the Sept. 26 debate.
Wright State University To Host First Presidential Debate in 2016 Wright State Raising Tuition, Cutting Expenses, Staff Wright State University President to Retire Next Year Ohio Elections Chief: No State Money Needed to Run Office

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Q: why does a file sometimes appear empty when being written to by another process We have a situation where files are uploaded to a folder by FTP and then served by nginx. We've found that if the GET request immediately follows the modification of the file nginx returns files with 0 bytes.
In trying to debug this problem I wrote 2 python scripts to see if I could reproduce the error in a simple way.
The first one writes to a file
  while True:
      with open('testfile' , 'w') as f:
          f.write("test")

And the second one reads
  while True:
      with open('testfile' , 'r') as cf:
          print(cf.read())

when running these files in 2 separate processes the output of the reader is either "test" or "" indicating that sometimes the file seems empty to the reader. This does not seem to be related to the python implementation as I can reproduce the effect with bash like this:
(writer.sh)
  while true; do
      echo test > testfile
  done

(reader.sh)
  while true; do
      cat testfile
      printf "\n"
  done

The file system is ext4 and the OS is Ubuntu 16.04.
So:
Why does the reader sometimes see an empty file (around 50% of the time)?
Why do we never see a partial write ("te", "tes" etc)?
Thanks in advance for you help.

A: Kudos, you've just discovered file buffering. When writing to disk, you can either use buffered writes or direct I/O writes. For performance reasons, most software (including the Python interpreter) defaults to buffered writes. If you need to perform direct I/O, there is a nice python module aptly named directio that does just that.
However most of the time you don't need direct I/O, unless you're writing to some log file, or a database.

A: Others have described how this is buffered I/O, where you see the truncated file before its contents were flushed.
Some more details on a couple ways to address this:
Upload files to a temporary directory on the same file system as the target, then mv into place.  The rename is an atomic operation, so readers will only see the old file or the new file, not something in between. However, the kernel still gets around to finishing writes to disk on its schedule, unless the application calls fsync(). Closing the file or waiting some arbitrary time does not reliably cause the file to be on disk.
Or, change the application to be backed by a database. Let the database provide a consistent view of the document in memory and on storage, that's what they do. Possibly not worth the implementation effort if the only reason is to get rid of very small window of inconsistency.

A: You are likely experiencing a race condition where:

*

*the write truncates the file due to the redirection (">").

*the file is read by the reader (empty file).

*the file is written by the writer.

If you put a short sleep in the writer loop, you should see this much less frequently.
You can avoid this by using an atomic action to create the file such as:
while true do;
    echo test > file.tmp
    mv file.tmp testfile
done

Your original code will continually truncate and write the same file.  The loop above will continually create new files.  The mv command is atomic, and the reader will always see a file with data.  This will be either the file deleted by the mv or the new file.

A: Files tend to be written on blocks (subsets of the full data), the size of these blocks is determined by a combination of the function being used and the available system resources, from this the OS will usually try to optimize the block size. What happens is that the block will get written into RAM before being written to disk and then a full block will be written to disk at once with no time for a read during that block write. This leads to much faster write then otherwise possible.
In your case writing the word, "test" is going to be smaller than any block size the OS picks so it will all be written all at once. For your test, you should write a much larger test and probably set the block size (though it's best to let the OS decide most of the time).
I suspect what is happening in your test is that half the time you are catching the empty file before it is written to and the other half it is catching it after the block is written. If you try writing an amount of data larger than your block size I think you will see the partially written fils.

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Lack of transparency is one of the ugliest trends in game development. Sometimes it's necessary, sometimes even legally required, but the standard of not talking about what's going on with development can't help but hurt old studios and new kids alike. There are a lot of pitfalls in this industry. It's a shame to see people falling into the same ones again and again.
There are people out there setting up Kickstarters who have no idea what they're doing or how they'll allocate the money. Sometimes these people get nothing – or sometimes they get hundreds of thousands of dollars. When these teams fail, their follow-ups tend to be face-saving PR statements or grave silence, depending on which is more fiscally advisable. And thus, the way is cleared for another generation of well-intentioned misappropriations.
When we at Pyrodactyl Games launched our Kickstarter last June, we promised that we'd give our backers and the general public a frank postmortem. Now, we never did get in over our heads. We made mistakes, and to some extent I think you can argue we were in over our heads to begin with, but we managed to deliver a game we're proud of. But we saw a lot of ways this project could have gone south, and part of what we're here to accomplish is to make sure future teams deliver as well. This report comes from thirteen months in the trenches; it is based on experience.
But this post isn't just for indie devs, and it's not just for our backers: it's for anyone who considers backing a game in the future. Before you support a project, it's important that you know what money does for indies and what making a game with a small studio looks like. This is something that even the press sometimes doesn't understand, if some of the questions we've gotten are any indication.
First warning: the content that follows may come off a little bittersweet. That's just what things are like for indie developers. Know before I continue that we are all personally, deeply, humbly grateful for each and every person who took a chance and backed Unrest. We loved making Unrest, we are all incredibly proud of it, and that we hope it will succeed. I don't know if I've ever worked on something I thought was so wonderful, different and rule-breaking. I'm deeply grateful to the people who made it possible.
Next warning: I am going to be talking about things that are almost always considered taboo. I will discuss my salary. I will discuss the salaries of other team members. I will discuss what my work situation was like and how we stand to fare in the future. I will do this because practically no-one else does, and it's a gaping hole in the discussion.
But first—let's talk about the biggest mistake you can make.
A lot of people (even members of the press) assume that independent studios have a lot more freedom than big studios. That's true and not true, but the major assumption is that small indie teams are free-wheeling democracies that get by on goodwill and mutual trust. Again; that's true and not true.
The real question is: did we have contracts, deadlines, lawyers, chains of command—all the stuff the squares in Triple-A need?
Arvind, our team lead, was very smart about this. The fact is that our team knew each other, liked each other, worked beautifully with each other. I promise you without hesitation that we didn't need any of the contracts, hard deadlines, soft deadlines, or formal/semi-formal hierarchies of direction that outlined our workload. We would have done it all perfectly anyway.
Our freedom in being scrappy, independent underdogs was not that we didn't have contracts and deadlines and chains of command; our freedom was the ability to fudge, overlook, or slacken these bonds by mutual consent when it was good for the development process. That's one thing you can get away with when you have a personal and informal relationship with every member of your team that you can't get away with when you're running a big studio.
It was one of our greatest strengths, and we made damn sure it couldn't possible become a weakness. If somebody had fallen asleep at the wheel—or worse, taken the money and run—we would have been able to tighten those bonds at a moment's notice. Our team lead was far from a domineering iron-fisted dictator, but with the contracts we signed and the systems in place he could have been any second if he'd needed to be. And I'm sincerely glad about that.
Valve is famous for structuring its company as a level playing field that lets people pursue projects driven purely by the need to create, without infrastructure or deadlines or executive meddling. That's great; we all want to work in an environment like that. But as a friendly message to the Kickstarter developers of the world: you are not Valve. You don't have an endless stream of cash, endless leisure, a huge team that can cover any sudden holes, and all the chances in the world to get something right. You have nothing but your small team and other peoples' money, and before you write one line of code, you need to cover your backs.
Pyrodactyl Games' pre-Kickstarter budget was driven mostly by profits from its last game, the "sleeper hit" Will Fight for Food. What constitutes a "sleeper hit" for an indie developer like Arvind? About US $1000. That should set the tone for this section.
How did we get by on that much? We didn't, really. I was a student, Mikk was taking in other work, Arvind lives in a place with low cost of living, and we were all just…not making very much. We worked on the game because we thought it needed to exist and because we hoped it'd do well and give us more money for next time. In other words, we were 99% of independent developers out there.
When we got it in our heads to do a Kickstarter, we knew we weren't going to get hundreds of thousands—you needed trust or at least recognition to do that well. So we set a goal for what we though we could achieve, which was about $3000. With $3000 we could pay for a little extra art and justify continuing to work for a few more months. We thought we'd be lucky to get that much. Some team members quietly "knew" we'd crash and burn.
When we ended up with over $35,000—well, that was a surprise, to say the least. I don't think any of us could have expected to do that well. It was a pretty great day for the team when we crossed the finish line, and a great headline for when the game would eventually release.
A little more than $5,000 was eaten up by Kickstarter fees, Amazon fees, wire transfers, and international taxes (to all individuals planning a Kickstarter: for the love of God, check whether your gains will be flagged as taxable income). The rest went to fund the next thirteen months of development, which was what we felt we needed to deliver the game we promised—the game backers paid for. Which meant paying existing team members and freelancers. But since we now had a magnificent pile of cash, that wouldn't be a problem— right?
Before the Kickstarter, I was making about $250 a month and was on board for around two months of work. After the Kickstarter, we adjusted our schedule to make the best game we could—and by my final math, for the thirteen months of post-Kickstarter development, I was making $230 a month. Before taxes.
By the time this period of development began I was no longer a student. I spent a lot of time looking for work that would accommodate my script-writing duties. By that, I don't mean, "gave me lots and lots of time to sit in a breezy studio writing prose," I mean legally allowed me to write for games at all.
Which discounted a surprising number of positions in unrelated industries. At least one tech writing job I made it to phone interviews with told me side work for any kind of writing-related industry was a no-go. From what I'm told, it's similar for most programmers—you're a freelancer or you're salaried, and you can't be both.
So where did I end up working to supplement my $230 a month—which, incidentally, I agreed (out of mutual necessity) to be paid after the game's completion?
I was a sales associate at a home improvement store. For those unfamiliar with English professional terminology, sales associates are the ground-level employees that do stocking, customer service, and cleaning. It wasn't a bad job. Tiring, since my department handled all the stuff that wasn't quite heavy enough to justify using a power loader, but not bad. I worked an average of 20-30 hours a week and wrote the game on my days off or before going to a shift. Writing after a shift turned out to be pretty impossible.
My schedule at the store was pretty much wholly out of my hands if I wanted to get any hours. Sometimes, I'd have four or five days straight where the shifts were murderous and I couldn't get any decent game-writing done at all. I started working much harder when I did have the chance.
I left that job towards the end of Unrest's development due to the health of a family member and the demands of finishing the game. And now that our magnum opus has swept onto the indie scene like the majestic jewel-spangled dream ship it is—I'll be reapplying to that same home improvement store. Because even though I get a very generous percentage of all sales (10% of our cut), sales are by no means guaranteed. Chances aren't bad I'll be writing my next game in between shifts as well.
What am I getting at here? It's not "feel sorry for me," because I'm sure a lot of you are in similar or worse situations. What I'm trying to communicate is that even when you're a "Kickstarter success," these are the circumstances under which indie games are developed. It's a constant tension between scraping up what free time you can to make your game and needing to release it as soon as possible, so you can actually get paid and see a return on your investment. We make do on small budgets because we are untested and untried—rightfully, nobody has faith in us, so nobody's going to pay us to do what we do.
Every time we release a game, we pray it does well enough that we can afford to make another. And here's the really hard, ugly truth that applies to almost all indie devs, even the ones that did "well" on Kickstarter: when you get down to the simple, honest mathematics, the same developer cannot make the same game in twelve months on an independent budget that he could have with a publisher's money. I wrote Unrest in between shifts loading and unloading bags of river rocks. I am more proud of Unrest's script than I have been of any other work I've done in my entire life, public or private, professional or amateur—but if you're asking me if I could have done more if I'd spent my life-sustaining river-rock time writing the game instead, the only possible answer is, "Yes." To give any other response would be delusional.
So as a member of a team that only asked for $3,000, what do I think when I see teams of established, trusted professionals asking for hundreds of thousands for a similar-sized team to make a game in the same window of time? Frankly, I think "good for them and good for their customers." Our unknowns-making-a-cool-game Kickstarter yielded far more than we could have ever asked for—and it was about half of a professional salary for one person for one year when we had five team members and thirteen months to spread it across.
Absolutely, positively be angry when a team of game developers takes hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money and delivers nothing in return. But don't be angry they asked that much in the first place. Believe me when I say that if we all would if we could, and assuming the game gets made, it would be the best thing for everybody.
It's not romantic, but it's true. Money is a powerful tool for making games better; it buys the time to make them and to make them better. Don't be afraid of giving it to developers; just make sure they're not going to waste it. Make sure up-front that actual legal processes are in place to make sure the team doesn't dissolve and the cash doesn't flap away to the four winds. That's the best thing you, and they, can do to secure the investment.
A: Let me put it like this. If it's a choice between getting [X] amount of dollars from Kickstarter or [X] from a publisher– close call, but I think Kickstarter wins.
The advantages of a publisher are things that some people might take for granted—things like QA testing, proofreading, getting reviewers to notice you exist, and getting you on Steam might seem trivial if you haven't actually tried to do all those things while juggling game development duties and part-time work, but be assured they're not. So if we're assuming those are included along with the [X] amount of money, and not charged up-front out of sales (which in our experience, they usually are for devs like us), then those are valuable services.
But Kickstarter gives you freedom—well, as much freedom as you can afford, anyway—and that's a rare thing in any creative industry. So for indie devs just starting out, I'd say Kickstarter is a more favorable master.
The problem comes when a publisher offers more money than a Kickstarter could. Like, if for some reason a publisher had offered us a huge load of money and hadn't demanded changes to our fundamental creative vision? Perversely, that would have given us more freedom than having no boss at all. Economic freedom cannot be discounted. The leisure to make more significant changes and implement more sprawling plans is something most starving indie devs with the steadily-depressing-low-down-mind-messing-working-at-the-carwash-blues just don't have.
Q: Why didn't you just use the money to develop Unrest full-time for a few months instead of part-time for thirteen?
A: A lot of reasons. For one thing, several members of the team really did have to work pretty much non-stop. They got paid a little more—but not a lot more. It helped that rent is lower in some parts of the world than others. For another thing, let's say the whole team's schedule revolved around my "ideal" scenario, where I get paid enough that I can spend eight hours a day writing the game and still cover my rent and the game gets launched the moment I personally finish. I'm groovy for the (generously) two months my salary would last for. Now the game is released, all of our money is spent, we have no guarantee of making enough to pay anybody's salary after that, I have no part-time work to fall back on, and…what was the point? If it was "during the two months I was salaried, I had a modest apartment," great. Now it's month three and I've got a lease and no salary. Even if doing otherwise were realistic, slow and steady's the only sustainable way to develop a game.
A: Because that wouldn't be fair to the people who backed the game. We secured our additional funding by promising more. We have no regrets about doing that, and certainly no regrets about how Unrest turned out.
A: Of course not. This was a great project to work on and I'm glad to have been part of it. I knew exactly what I was getting into, I have no regrets, and—I cannot stress this enough—I think the game we've made is fantastic.
A: Nothing significant, no. We pretty much did the best we could have. Make sure your team is solid and will be there tomorrow and you'll have no regrets.
A: I really, really do. I want that because writing for games is one of the most rewarding things there is to do, and I'd like to do it every day instead of chipping away at a project between shifts. I want that because our team has done so well even under all of our burdens, and I know that without them, we could make something really amazing. I want to see the game Pyrodactyl makes after thirteen months of full-time, professional work—especially after all the lessons we learned during Unrest's development. And not least, I want the game to succeed because I think it deserves to. I think more people need to know a game like this can be made. I think it does something no other game does, and I don't just want it to succeed—I want it to soar.


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Old Hollywood Films
TCM Picks for the Week of Feb. 18, 2019
There's stars aplenty on TCM this week. The 31 Days of Oscar lineup has both the 1937 and the 1954 versions of A Star Is Born on Saturday night (the photo above shows Judy Garland performing "The Man That Got Away"), two Oscar winners from Spencer Tracy on Tuesday, and two films about much-married monarch Henry VIII on Wednesday. Note: All times are ET and the highlighted text has links to full-length articles.
Here's a link to the complete schedule for Feb. 18-Feb. 24.
Monday Pick of the Day
Lionel Barrymore and Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (1931)
A Free Soul (1931) at 12:15 am Monday, Feb. 18: This movie about a famous lawyer (Oscar winner Lionel Barrymore) whose daughter (Norma Shearer) gets mixed up with one of his gangster clients (Clark Gable in a star-making performance) is one of the best of MGM's pre-code melodramas. Barrymore's bravura courtroom scene, which almost certainly nabbed him the statuette, remains one of old Hollywood's unforgettable moments. Part of a late-night lineup of Oscar-winning performances from the Barrymore family.
The Best of the Rest for Monday
Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952)
Khartoum at 10:45 am Monday, Feb. 18: This epic about a famous 19th century siege is one of a fascinating series of sixties films (Zulu, Lawrence of Arabia) that criticize British imperialism while at the same time buying into it. Laurence Olivier is all kinds of cringe as the Mahdi, but the rest of the cast does fine work, especially Ralph Richardson as Prime Minister William Gladstone, and the battle scenes are on a grand scale.
Ben-Hur (1959) at 4 pm: The Charlton Heston epics continue with this 11-time Academy Award winner about a Jewish nobleman who has a life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ.
High Noon (1952) at 8 pm: This classic Western about a sheriff's lone fight against evil inexplicably lost the best picture Oscar to circus epic The Greatest Show on Earth, but it remains one of Old Hollywood's great morality tales.
None But the Lonely Heart (1944) at 2 am: The great actor Ethel Barrymore won her Oscar for a touching performance as Cary Grant's terminally ill mother in this drama about a Cockney drifter.
Tuesday Pick of the Day
Bette Davis in The Little Foxes (1941)
The Little Foxes (1941) at 11 am Tuesday, Feb. 19: Bette Davis gives a fearless, Oscar-nominated performance as a greedy Southern woman who will do literally anything to get her hands on her husband's money. Based on Lillian Hellman's Broadway hit, The Little Foxes received a total of nine Oscar nominations including best picture and best director for William Wyler. Part of a daytime lineup of movies about families.
Two From Spence
Spencer Tracy became the second actor to win two Oscars in a row (the first was Luise Rainer) when he received consecutive best actor trophies for his performances as a charming Portuguese fisherman (clip above) in Captains Courageous (1937) at 8 pm Tuesday, Feb. 19 and as the idealistic Father Flanagan in Boys Town (1938) at 10:15 pm.
Wednesday Pick of the Day
The High and the Mighty (1954) at 12:15 am Wednesday, Feb. 20: John Wayne is large and in charge in director William Wellman's Oscar-winning disaster flick. One of the most entertaining of the fifties blockbusters this movie features a great all-star cast (Claire Trevor, Phil Harris, Robert Newton), but nobody can quite top the Duke's he-man bluster. Part of a night of 1954 best score winners.
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) at 8 pm Wednesday, Feb. 20: Oscar winner Charles Laughton shows off his feasting skills in this fanciful biopic about the much-married English monarch.
The Best of the Rest for Wednesday
Vanessa Redgrave as Anne Boleyn and Robert Shaw as Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Fury (1936) at 6:15 am Wednesday Feb. 20: Director Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film was the powerful tale of a lynch mob in a small town. Part of a daytime lineup of courtroom dramas.
12 Angry Men (1957) at 6:15 pm Wednesday: This all-time classic about a group of jurors who must decide the fate of a young man accused of murder is one of old Hollywood's great social-justice films.
A Man for All Seasons (1966) at 10 pm Wednesday: The clash between Henry VIII (Robert Shaw) and his chief minister (Paul Scofield) is told in this multiple Oscar winner.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) at 3 am Wednesday: This toe-tapping musical was one of the best score winners for 1954.
Thursday Pick of the Day
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) at 3:15 pm Thursday, Feb. 21: Oscar nominee Ingrid Bergman is transcendent in this biopic of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary to China during World War II. This film has one of the great tearjerker endings in old Hollywood history. Part of a daytime lineup of movies set in exotic locales.
Foreign Film of the Week
Giulietta Masina in La Strada (1954)
La Strada (1954) at 10:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 21: This foreign-language film Oscar winner about a young woman (Giulietta Masina) who becomes the companion of a circus strong man (Anthony Quinn) is perhaps the great Italian director Federico Fellini's most accessible film. It's fluid cinematography, haunting score, and focus on a typically marginalized female character are all quite similar to current Oscar nominee Roma. Part of a night of Fellini films.
Friday Pick of the Day
Claude Jarman, Jr., in The Yearling (1946)
The Yearling (1946) at 5:30 pm Friday, Feb. 22: This saga of Florida pioneer boy (Claude Jarman, Jr.) and his pet deer won Oscars for cinematography and art direction and received five more nominations. One of old Hollywood's great family films, The Yearling is a powerful reminder of both the gentleness and awesome power of nature. Part of a daytime lineup of films about animals.
The Best of the Rest for Friday
Elizabeth Taylor with The Pie in National Velvet (1944)
The Friday daytime lineup of animal movies brings Mighty Joe Young (1949) at 7:30 am stomping across Hollywood and a young Elizabeth Taylor dreaming of horses in National Velvet (1944) at 3:15 pm. Humphrey Bogart is brilliant as the unstable Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny (1954) at 11:15 pm. You can wrap up the evening with another Taylor movie: this time she's with husband and fellow sixties superstar Richard Burton in the Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew (1967) at 4 am.
Saturday Pick of the Day
Charles Bickford, Judy Garland, James Mason, and Jack Carson in A Star Is Born (1954)
A Star Is Born (1954) at 10 pm Saturday Feb. 23: The fourth remake of this oft-told tale is making the rounds in this year's Oscar race, but it's still hard to top the 1954 version, which features Judy Garland as a talented nightclub singer who is discovered by an alcoholic movie star (James Mason). Garland gives a titanic lead performance, bringing down the house in "The Man That Got Away," "Born in a Trunk," and "Lose That Long Face."
Alternative Saturday Pick
Janet Gaynor gets a makeover in A Star Is Born (1937)
A Star Is Born (1937) at 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 23: The 1937 original starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March is also worth watch for its inside look at old Hollywood's star-making process (GIF above).
Weekend Watch
Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn in Captain Blood (1935)
Captain Blood (1935) at 9:30 am Saturday, Feb. 23: Put off your weekend chores for a few hours, and settle down on the couch for this fun swashbuckler that was the first screen pairing for Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn. This movie is lots of old-fashioned fun with one of the great sword fights in old Hollywood history.
Noir of the Week
Thomas Gomez, Marc Lawrence, and Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo (1948)
Key Largo (1948) at 3:30 am Saturday, Feb. 23: Edward G. Robinson gives his last great gangster performance in this noir about a Miami mobster who is trying to get to Cuba with a pile of counterfeit cash. Despite great work from Oscar winner Claire Trevor and an understated Humphrey Bogart, this is Robinson's movie; he dominates every frame he's in as the vicious, amoral Johnny Rocco.
Sunday Pick of the Day
Grand Hotel (1932) at 10 pm Sunday, Feb. 24: MGM's all-star film about the various guests at a swanky hotel remains one of the landmark films of the 1930s. Greta Garbo's wounded ballerina is the movie's centerpiece, but Joan Crawford as a lonely-hearts stenographer is the real revelation. Part of a night of films of solo best picture winners.
The Best of the Rest for Sunday
Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in a publicity still for Easter Parade (1948)
Get in the spring mood with the delightful MGM musical Easter Parade (1948) at 7 am Sunday or pay a visit to the good folks of River City, Iowa, in The Music Man (1962) at 2:15 pm. Finally, there's the fascinating pseudo-documentary Eskimo (1933) at 2 am, which features location shooting in the Arctic and several Inuit actors.
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Commonly asked questions about Early Onset Scoliosis, it's treatment, and what to expect.
Definitions for terms and words commonly used when discussion EOS.
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Melanie Grant And Elisabetta Cipriani On Their Exhibition, 'Force Of Nature'
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Art and jewelry aficionados Melanie Grant and Elisabetta Cipriani are holding their first-ever selling exhibition, in collaboration with The Serpentine gallery. It will be held at The Elisabetta Cipriani gallery in London, from November 18-27, with the public being able to make appointments from 22-27 November to view and purchase jewelry. In this interview, Melanie and Elisabetta tell us about the gallery, how the collaboration between the two of them came about, and their mission to break barriers between art and jewelry.
Left: Melanie Grant, Right: Elisabetta Cipriani
You've invited 17 renowned contemporary artists to showcase their wearable sculptures. Is there a common thread between each of the artists? How did you choose whose work to feature?
Melanie: The underlying theme of the show is Naturalism and how our connection to nature has shifted in the solitude experienced by everyone as a result of Covid. I'm interested in how that will manifest in our relationship with jewelry specifically.
I invited this diverse selection of artists to come together to celebrate freedom. Freedom from the hierarchy that still remains — placing decorative art below fine art, freedom from the boundaries that often separate established artists and emerging talent, and freedom from self-doubt. I produced my first-ever jewel with the gallery, and I had to ask myself, did I have the right to create a piece of wearable sculpture? There are so many things holding us back as creatives that to be free, we have to question them all.
I choose the artists themselves for their avant-garde rebellion because each rebels against the system in their own way. Fabio Salini uses the industrial material carbon fiber instead of gold to illustrate his idea of preciousness. Bibi Van der Veldon has ants crawling all over her tulip choker, and Liv Luttrell has black oxidised spikes for earrings which aren't pretty at all and go against the very notion of perceived beauty. The idea is to challenge what we think of as worthy in terms of art and what we think of as beautiful in terms of jewellery.
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Nature's Nature by Wallace Chan
There are going to be a lot of firsts in this exhibition. What are you most excited about?
Melanie: The mix of fine and jewellery artists is very exciting for me as well as the fact The Serpentine are inviting their patrons. Also, that Wallace Chan, who makes between 16-20 pieces a year, is giving us two jewels. And of course that I'm collaborating with the gallery to make my first piece.
Elisabetta: There are many firsts in the exhibition, but I am very excited to present Melanie's first-ever designed jewel, which is entitled Self. The piece was made in collaboration with my gallery in a limited edition of eight. What I love most about this piece is that it is a mix between medieval and contemporary art, a weapon and a talismanic object, a piece that one would never imagine is made by a non-jewellery designer. To me, Melanie is a visionary.
Self by Melanie Grant
Melanie — You are very inspired by nature. What about it inspires you as a writer and curator? Where else do you find inspiration?
Melanie: I love the vastness and wildness of nature. I was recently in the Caribbean and almost drowned in the sea. A hurricane was moving past the island I was on, and the sea was deceptively calm, but the rip tides beneath were ferocious. I have to say, my life flashed before my eyes as I got pulled out from the shore, and it occurred to me at that moment how insignificant we all are. How brief our time is to offer some small contribution to the human experience. Nature does that to you. It humbles you with its power, and sometimes in a city like London, I forget that.
For me, jewelry acts as a vessel for human emotion, love, and profound moments. When connecting to something bigger than myself, I want to share whatever knowledge and ideas I have with others in various forms, like writing and curation.
I'm also inspired by art movements, like Modernism that often begins on the cusp of events such as pandemics and war. Coming together in a type of collective creativity, as we have done for Force of Nature, is very rewarding. I suspect that the next art movement on the horizon will be a joyous celebration of life as we move on from everything we've gone through over the last couple of years. Whatever comes next, nature will be part of its story, I'm sure, and even though we have work to do on things like climate change, it's nice just to pay homage to it as a concept.
Nomoli Totem earrings by Satta Matturi
Elisabetta — You have been immersed in the art world for a very long time and continue to redefine the boundaries between fine art and jewelry. What has been a pivotal moment for you throughout your career?
Elisabetta: I am constantly looking for creativity and innovation. It is a true challenge to convince an established visual artist to create a small sculpture to wear. But, the pivotal moment of my career is when my clients change their perception of accepting jewelry as art. It sparks within them a true passion to carry a sculpture everywhere they go.
Roman Romance brooch by Fabio Salini
How did the collaboration between the two of you come about?
Elisabetta: I met Melanie three years ago at a talk at 5 Hertford Street Club on the subject of jewelry as art. Since then, we have never stopped seeing each other. When her book launched a year ago, I suggested she do an exhibition, perhaps selecting a chapter from her book and inviting those artists to do a piece for the occasion. Then Melanie confessed her secret dream, to design a jewel and our relationship became stronger.
Melanie: I was doing a talk on the relationship between jewelry and art for PAD a few years ago. In the audience was this rambunctious woman with wild auburn hair and fantastic Italian hand gestures. She was highly opinionated and smart, and we became friends. I went to her gallery to interview her for my book, Coveted, and stayed for hours trying on literally all the jewelry she had. She was incredibly patient, and eventually, we decided to create an exhibition together to celebrate and elevate jewelry as an art form, and here we are. I admire her willingness to consider jewelry on its individual merits and not lump it together as a homogenous thing. She has impeccable taste and a flamboyance that is thoroughly Italian!
Ant and Tulip Choker by Bibi van der Velden
What does the name Force of Nature mean to you?
Melanie: It's a double entendre. On the one hand, it refers to the power of nature and how we wear that power. It is easy to forget that the jewelry itself — the stones and metals — come from the earth before they are reconfigured artistically. On the other, it is about the people involved with the exhibition, most of which are exceptional characters and forces to be reckoned with.
Elisabetta: Inspiration always comes from nature, we as well. We are surrounded by nature, and with the pandemic, many of us experienced a stronger connection to it. To me, Force of Nature could be an erupted volcano, but it is not a visual experience but rather an internal feeling of strong emotions. It is also a celebration of life.
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Q: Enumerating results view for data in an SSRS report I have to inventory about 400 reports, and what I need to do is pull all the sql out of the reports.  I'm able to XmlDocument load the results and navigate the information in VS and find the information i'm looking for.
In each report I have to click Results View
I have to drill down results view for the following Elements.
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A: You can have the report server report on the reports. See the forum posts by jcoe on XML Queries at Home » Article Discussions » Article Discussions by Author » Discuss content posted by Michael Davis » Report Server Diagnostic Reports Page 9 and Page 10.
Or to continue with your current approach, here's a Linq query that will parse out what you're after from the rdl file:
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ARC will be attending and presenting at the ICS Cyber Security Conference next week in Atlanta. ICS is a big event for those in the world of ICS cybersecurity and is organized by SecurityWeek magazine. I will be delivering a presentation on cybersecurity as it relates to the process of supplier selection. There isn't a very clear roadmap for the growing market of ICS cybersecurity solutions, and many end users don't have key cybersecurity-related criteria built into their selection process for things like DCSs, process safety systems, and other systems, applications, and devices. This presentation will provide some more detail on how ARC views the selection process as well as some of the key elements of success, best practices, and some of the more unique aspects of the world of ICS that can make it so challenging.
There is a full agenda of good speakers at this conference, including Edna Conway of Cisco, Robert Lee of Dragos, and Juan Lopez. Jr. of Oak Ridge National Labs. Some of the key topics include threat hunting, cybersecurity and process safety systems (TRITON/TRISIS), training, standards, and more.


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South Wales Port Authority begins operations
Improving efficiency in this critical part of the NSW transport network
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Minister for Roads and Freight Duncan Gay announced the start of operations of the new Port Authority of New South Wales and welcomed the appointments of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
"I am very pleased to announce that the Port Authority of New South Wales is now officially operating and it is with great pleasure that I welcome the Chairman Nicholas Whitlam and the CEO Grant Gilfillan," Minister Gay said.
"The new authority was formed from the amalgamation of the Sydney, Newcastle and Port Kembla Port Corporations.
"The NSW Government's port governance review of the three Port Corporations found there were opportunities to improve efficiency in this critical part of the NSW transport network.
"The amalgamated Port Authority of New South Wales will ensure these ports can continue to meet the needs of our port users efficiently and effectively," Minister Gay said.
CEO Port Authority of New South Wales Grant Gilfillan said the amalgamation was a win for NSW businesses and port users.
"This enlarged single corporation will deliver a more efficient and robust ports business for the state with the benefits of commercial discipline provided under the state-owned corporation model," Mr Gilfillan said.
"We have an exciting future ahead of us and I am confident the expanded corporation will deliver even better services and outcomes for our major stakeholders and the people of NSW."
The Port Authority of New South Wales will continue to be responsible for harbour masters and pilotage, navigation services, dangerous goods and marine pollution and emergency response. It is also responsible for managing Port Jackson, Yamba and Eden, and the Hunter Valley Coal Export Framework.
Source: Transport NSW
Tags: Port Authority ports
Multi Modal Terminal at Sahibganj, India to be complete in August
Qatar ports mark significant growth in first half of 2019
Mexico to add four new terminals at Port of Manzanillo
US container ports to see a modest rise in imports
Green C Ports project to enhance ports sustainability


I grew up in Indiana, graduated from Indiana University with a B.S. in marketing and worked several years at a catalog company before starting a family. We moved to Seattle in 2001 from Wisconsin, and even though I miss the friendly vibe of the mid-west, the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest is hard to beat.
I began working at Acupuncture for Pregnancy in the fall of 2015, however, I actually met Patrice many years ago, when I sought treatment from her for tennis elbow. Acupuncture was new to me, and I was, and continue to be intrigued by how our bodies can respond to treatment modalities outside of Western medicine. It has been a pleasure reconnecting with Patrice and being part of such a warm and loving practice.
My organizational skills and attention to detail allow me to handle what most patients and providers dread - working with insurance companies. I actually enjoy advocating for our patients and working with their insurance companies to make sure they are receiving the benefits their premiums cover. One of the best parts of my job though is seeing or hearing about a patient's relief right after their acupuncture treatment. It's a constant reminder to me how important it is to tend to our bodies.
Outside of work, I love to row, play tennis, read and spend time traveling and creating memories with my husband and three children.


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When a scandal-type story breaks, be honest and get the whole story out as fast as possible.
A drip, drip, drip approach means the story has time to grow, capturing more media attention, informing more people, spinning out more speculating, allowing for more time and occasions for details to be told inconsistently and then parsed, and for the emphasis to include discussions of dishonesty and character.
While the Cain campaign is fundraising on this, claiming that liberals are behind the story (when the most likely source was the campaign of one of his rivals), the most that approach can deliver is a short term political boost.
Besides the plain fact that it's simply right to be honest and direct, doing so is smarter politics.


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Who's the next new winner in the Cup Series?
By Mike HembreeJan 4, 2023, 3:00 PM EST
Among the surprising developments in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season — and there were many — is the fact that five drivers rolled into a Cup Victory Lane for the first time.
Rookie Austin Cindric started the points season with a stunner by winning the Daytona 500. Chase Briscoe scored at Phoenix. Ross Chastain (COTA), Daniel Suarez (Sonoma) and Tyler Reddick (Road America) all recorded their first Cup victories on road courses.
What does 2023 hold for drivers looking for a breakthrough victory? Although strange things are possible in NASCAR's new world, it doesn't seem likely that the new season will see as many as five first-time winners.
Approaching the start of the season, the three top candidates to join the list of Cup winners might be Ty Gibbs, Ryan Preece and Noah Gragson.
MORE: NASCAR Power Rankings: Things to watch for in 2023
Preece replaces Cole Custer in the No. 41 car at Stewart-Haas Racing, a team that has been sagging a bit but remains a threat to win almost every week. Preece has raced in Cup 115 times without a win, but the move into a full-time ride at SHR clearly gives him his best shot.
A veteran of numerous racing series, Preece has won twice in Xfinity and twice in trucks. And he'll have the extra surge that comes from trying to cash in on a long-time-coming opportunity.
Gibbs will draw unusual amounts of attention in his first full season in Cup. He replaces Kyle Busch at Joe Gibbs Racing in one of the sport's best cars, and he'll be expected to perform more quickly than the average rookie.
Gibbs won the Xfinity Series championship last season but created a string of controversy along the way, most prominently by wrecking teammate Brandon Jones on the last lap at Martinsville, preventing Jones from a win that would have put him in the Xfinity Championship Four.
Gibbs' aggressive racing style might be more difficult to sustain at the Cup level.
MORE: NASCAR, ARCA 2023 schedules
Gragson will be the season's wild card. His offbeat personality and fast-forward driving style made him a star in the Xfinity Series, where he won 13 times. He moves to the Petty GMS team to start his full-time Cup career. Petty GMS has been a second-level team but won last year's Southern 500 with Erik Jones and could be on the upswing with Gragson's talent and the addition of new co-owner Jimmie Johnson.
Spire Motorsports' two drivers — Corey LaJoie and newcomer Ty Dillon — are looking for first wins. LaJoie has had one top-five finish in five mostly-full seasons. Dillon has had two top fives in 202 starts.
Harrison Burton had one top-five finish in his rookie season with Wood Brothers Racing last year. The next victory for the Woods, who are winless since the 2017 season, will be the team's 100th in Cup.
Todd Gilliland, another rookie last year, had one top-five run for Front Row Motorsports and returns to that team this season.


iBooks is the most popular free app in the Apple App Store this week according to Apple. followed by the Kindle app, then the Audible app. Tips & Tricks iPhone Secrets joins the list at No. 4. Also new to the list this week is Architectural Electronic Systems' new app for Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Raven.


The first thing to know about finding HGH kits for sale online is that the companies that advertise this option are often located in China or other foreign countries. They do not provide entire "kits" for people to use, merely the medication that they are offering up as human growth hormones.
In order to purchase HGH legally in the US, a doctor's prescription is required, and this will only occur after a blood test shows that a growth hormone (GH) deficiency is present.
Many of the so-called "HGH kits" that are advertised for sale are sold by the color of the cap rather than a brand name, and come in boxes containing 10 vials of "medication" and nothing more. These are generic products that are often manufactured in unregulated warehouses or factories. Products of this nature have often been found to be contaminated, diluted, contain unsafe chemicals or ingredients, or ineffective for use.
The standard package mentioned above is everything that will be needed regarding a proper basic HGH injectable system. There are no other supplies to go searching for, unlike the shipments that will typically be coming from Mexico, China, or even Costa Rica.
All in one units where the cartridge containing the HGH medication is part of the actual pen. Once empty, the entire unit is discarded and a new one is opened.
Replaceable cartridge pen systems that allow for a new cartridge to be inserted into the actual pen chamber when the previous one is empty.
In order to proceed with the safe purchase of real HGH online, a person should first contact a doctor who specializes in hormone replacement. Buying HGH injections without a prescription is against the law, and subject to prosecution and confiscation of the medications during shipment.
Contact National HRT® to arrange for a blood test. The consultation is free of charge.
Get a physical exam and have the results sent to us.
Complete our online health history form.
If the doctor diagnoses growth hormone deficiency, you will then be able to discuss the various types of complete program HGH kits that are available in the dosage that has been prescribed for you. All medications and supplies are shipped together from a licensed US pharmacy and are brand name HGH injectables that can be trusted for quality and safety.


Intel has officially unveiled its new Kaby Lake G processor family, infused with AMD's next-gen Radeon Vega GPU with 4GB of HBM2 on-board. This new Intel/AMD processor has now had some benchmark numbers leak, and I don't really know what to expect from here on out.
We now know that there are prototypes in the wild, which should arrive as the Core i7-8809G and the Core i7-8705G. The flagship Core i7-8809G has a board name of 694E:C0, while the Core i7-8705G is the 694C:C0.
AMD's custom multi-chip modules (MCMs) will feature the Vega GPU and offering up 24 compute units, with 1536 stream processors in total. GPU clocks should be at 1000MHz for the 694E variant, while the 649C variant is 20% faster at 1190MHz. The faster version should rock 3.3 TFLOPs of compute performance, which is around half that of the APU inside of the new Xbox One X console, a semi-custom design that AMD also worked on.
Inside, the chip features 4GB of HBM2 memory, while the CPU side of things is a 4C/8T processor with Intel's current-gen Kaby Lake CPU architecture. We should see the CPU clocked at 3.1GHz base, and 4.1GHz under Turbo, while the HBM2 is clocked at 800MHz on the faster SKU, and 700MHz on the slower SKU.
GFXBench results have shown that the flagship Core i7-8809G is close to 50% faster than the lower-end Core i7-8705G. This will be a result of the lowered GPU clock speeds, and lowered HBM2 clocks, which would reduce performance and memory bandwidth, respectively.
These prototypes are nowhere near final hardware so expect some larger performance numbers, with lowered power consumption as well.
GeekBench results see the Core i7-8809G dropping its clock speeds in order to not blow out the power consumption, with max clock speeds of 1GHz on the GPU compared to 1190MHz on GFXBench.
3DMark scores see the Core i7-8809G performing at around 30% faster in graphics tests than its sibling, showing the higher GPU/HBM2 clocks are going to make the flagship processor the one to buy if you want the beefiest hardware.


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Amolops bellulus é uma espécie de anfíbio da família Ranidae.

Pode ser encontrada nos seguintes países: China e Myanmar.

Os seus habitats naturais são: regiões subtropicais ou tropicais húmidas de alta altitude e rios.

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Anfíbios descritos em 2000

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Martin Scorsese introduces this cinematic retelling of the Cain and Abel story, based on the novel by John Steinbeck, and directed with verve and passion by Elia Kazan. The emotionally charged tale of "good brother, bad brother," with both siblings vying for their father's love and approval, takes place on a lettuce farm outside Salinas, California just before World War I. Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Jo Van Fleet, Richard Davalos and Lois Smith also star in the film that made James Dean a national sensation. His quicksilver performance as the bad brother Cal Trask is raw, intense, and alive -- full of psychological revelations. Like Marlon Brando, Dean was a force of nature; like Brando, he revolutionized American acting. But it was Kazan who helped them both unlock their great gifts. The son of an immigrant Greek rug merchant who went on to become one of the most influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history, Kazan is credited with redefining American acting on the screen. The way he handled contemporary themes, fought for independent productions, and wrote his own work set a standard for personal creativity. This screening of East of Eden kicks off the Actors Studio's tribute to Kazan, its beloved founding father. In the next year, most of his films, from Panic in the Streets to The Arrangement, will be shown in various venues in New York, so that students and young artists can acquaint themselves with the craft and genius of this master director.
Born Elia Kazanjoglous in Constantinople, now Istanbul, Elia Kazan (1909-2003) immigrated to New York City with his family in 1913. A graduate of Williams College, Kazan studied at Yale, acted with the Group Theatre, and cofounded the Actor's Studio, emphasizing the importance for the actor to personalize each role through the prism of his experience. Known as "The Method," it became the hallmark of Kazan's achievements as a theatre and screen director. After attaining enormous success with a string of stage productions now considered classics, Kazan directed the first of his 19 films, 1945's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, for which James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner gave the first two of what would turn out to be 10 Oscar-winning performances guided by him. Kazan twice won directing Oscars - 1947's Gentleman's Agreement and 1954's On the Waterfront, both of which also won Best Picture. He was awarded a Career Achievement Oscar in 1999.


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British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994)
How To Use Karl Popper In A Sentence
[14] yet the dictionary doesn't yet recognize it exculpatory often used in the phrase "exculpatory evidence," it took nearly 50 years to develop this term after origination of the legal term suggesting guilt: "incriminate" falsifiability first emphasized by Karl Popper in 1934, this helps define science: if a proposition is false, then it can be shown to be false. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Science must always allow itself doubt in order to advance: it is not simply a case of complying with Karl Popper's strictures on the need for theories to be vulnerable to disproof.
In his writings Karl Popper questioned the positivism and teleological historicism of the modern age.
In his autobiography, he describes himself as 'an unregenerate Popperian,' an adherent of Karl Popper's concept of 'predictionism, that is, the idea that theories must ultimately be judged by the accuracy of their prediction.'
Apart from his celebrated writings on the 'open society' and its enemies, Karl Popper is chiefly known as a logician of science who has denied that science employs induction, and who has claimed that what demarcates science from nonscience, in particular metaphysics, is that scientists seek the truth by vigorously trying to falsify their theories. The Romantic Rationalist
Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate, the term conspiracy theory started to carry negative connotations after the philosopher Karl Popper wrote, during the Third Reich, that conspiracy theories propelled the paranoid ideologies that gave rise to totalitarian regimes such as that of Adolf Hitler. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Karl Popper endorses fallibilism, which he defines as 'the view, or the acceptance of the fact, that we may err, and that the quest for certainty (or even the quest for high probability) is a mistaken quest.'
Although Karl Popper really described himself as a liberalist, these factors made people naturally infer that he would hold rightist stance in politics.
The other two great liberal theoreticians, Friedrich Hayek and Karl Popper spotted something remarkable in the young swotty New Yorker and encouraged him to argue beyond the closed world of academic text books.


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Monaster Grgeteg (serb. cyrylica Гргетег) – prawosławny klasztor w kompleksie Fruškiej Gory. Święto monasteru przypada w dzień Przeniesienia Relikwii św. Mikołaja.

Dokładny czas powstania oraz fundator monasteru nie są znane. Najprawdopodobniej powstał on między upadkiem Despotowiny w 1459 a ostatecznym podporządkowaniem sobie Sremu przez Turków w 1521. W XVI–XVIII w. należał do zamożnych serbskich wspólnot monastycznych, był w stanie wykupić od Turków swoje winnice, ogrody i pola oraz opłacać nałożone przez nich podatki od produkcji rolnej. W 1702 był zamieszkiwany przez 25 mnichów.

W 1739 w klasztorze Grgeteg schronili się mnisi z monasteru Slanci, uciekający z Serbii w granice austriackie z obawy przed Turkami. W tym samym roku do monasteru przeniesiono kilka ikon z kaplicy patriarchów serbskich. Monaster został spalony w czasie wojny turecko-austriackiej w 1688, przez co został całkowicie porzucony. Odbudowę klasztoru podjęto w 1691, kiedy też ponownie osiedlili się w nim mnisi. W 1841 kompleks budynków klasztornych ucierpiał w pożarze, po czym został odnowiony po raz kolejny. W XIX w. wykonano również nowy ikonostas dla głównej cerkwi klasztornej, zastępując dawny, osiemnastowieczny, składający się z 85 ikon, z których do naszych czasów przetrwały dwie.

Na przełomie XIX i XX wieku monaster Grgeteg został całkowicie przebudowany z inicjatywy jego przełożonego, archimandryty Hilariona (Ruvarca). W latach 1902–1904 powstał wykonany z metalu i marmuru ikonostas z 21 ikonami autorstwa Uroša Predicia i drewnianymi carskimi i diakońskimi wrotami. Artysta wykonał ikonostas z naruszeniem niektórych zasad ich tradycyjnego konstruowania: ikony Chrystusa i Matki Bożej znalazły się w drugim rzędzie, nie zaś po obydwu stronach carskich wrót, wizerunek Trójcy Świętej pojawił się w rzędzie świąt, obok ikon Narodzenia Pańskiego i Zmartwychwstania. Całość wieńczy postać Chrystusa na krzyżu.

Wnętrze głównej cerkwi klasztornej nie jest dekorowane freskami o tematyce religijnej, a jedynie malowidłami z motywami florystycznymi. Współczesny wygląd świątynia ta przybrała w czasie restauracji wykonywanej od 1898 do 1901 według planów architekta Hermana Bolea, poświęcenie obiektu miało miejsce 10 czerwca 1901. W czasie II wojny światowej klasztor poważnie ucierpiał. Jego odbudowa była prowadzona stopniowo od 1953 do 1988.

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Community Picket Lines Set Up in Hamilton and Windsor
Thursday November 29 2018
Ottawa – This morning, we were informed that union and community members in Ontario set up picket lines at the Hamilton Processing Plant in Hamilton last night and the Tecumseh Post Office in Windsor today. In solidarity with postal workers, the protest-line will allow workers in, but will not allow mail out.
These actions come a day after members from several major unions in British Columbia disrupted mail delivery with demonstrations outside the Pacific Processing Plant in Richmond the third largest mail plant in the country.
"You cannot legislate labour peace," says CUPW National President Mike Palecek. "There are fifty thousand union members that have been prohibited from picketing at post offices in this country, and three million who haven't. We are not the only ones willing to defend the right of free collective bargaining."
Over the last 10 years, 55 percent of the workforce in Tecumseh Post Office has been eliminated and the remaining workers have been forced to pick up the slack, working 10 to 12-hour days almost year-round. Overburdening and overwork are real issues at Canada Post that need to be addressed.
What we're seeing in Windsor today, and Vancouver and Hamilton yesterday, is that instead of resolving our dispute with Canada Post, the Trudeau Government has picked a fight with labour. "An injury to one is an injury to all" is much more than a slogan.
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High school basketball schedules battered by pandemic interruptions
Sports // High School
Mitch Stephens
Jan. 3, 2022 Updated: Jan. 3, 2022 7:50 p.m.
The always anticipated Bruce-Mahoney game between Sacred Heart Cathedral and St. Ignatius was postponed last week.
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There are 101 varsity boys and girls basketball games to be played Tuesday in the Bay Area, according to MaxPreps' master schedule.
Some advice: Double-check with schools, coaches and websites before heading to the game.
The excitement of the New Year and the start of league play have been tempered by now familiar opposition: COVID-19 concerns, positive tests and health and safety protocols.
Several teams planning to play in holiday tournaments last week — including Chronicle-ranked boys teams Salesian-Richmond, Dublin and Bishop O'Dowd-Oakland in Southern California — had to cancel at the last moment. Dublin had made the 370-mile trek to La Verne (Los Angeles County) only turn around and drive right back home.
Other Metro teams completed long journeys — including the Riordan boys, who went to San Antonio — while others played games short-handed or had their schedules shortened.
There were Bay Area disruptions, too. The Bruce-Mahoney boys basketball game between St. Ignatius and Sacred Heart Cathedral — which had been scheduled for Tuesday at USF — was postponed last week due to "the rising prevalence of cases of the Omicron variant," according to a release from both schools. Details on a new date will be provided "once details are confirmed."
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Two other WCAL boys openers scheduled for Tuesday were postponed, including St. Francis at Mitty. "We're working on rescheduling now," Mitty coach Tim Kennedy texted. The only WCAL boys game still on for Tuesday is Valley Christian at Bellarmine.
West Coast Jamboree: Eight teams dropped out of the 100-plus-team, 15-division West Coast Jamboree girls tournament, but with adjustments, 13 teams were crowned champions. Foothill-Pleasanton was declared the Garnet Division winner when Petaluma was unable to play in the title game due to health and safety protocols.
Because two teams dropped out of the top Platinum Division, Carondelet-Concord moved up a class and reached the final, beating previous No. 1 Mitty (61-50) and No. 6 Bishop O'Dowd (61-54) before losing to DeSoto (Texas), the nation's No. 2 team, 56-50.
Stanford-bound guard Talana Lepolo (15 points, seven assists, six rebounds in the final) was named all-tourney for the Cougars, who moved from No. 3 to No. 1 in The Chronicle rankings. Teammates Nya Epps and Jaime Kent also made the team as did Mitty's Morgan Cheli, who had 15 points and 10 rebounds in a 65-52 win over Salesian in the third-place game. Makiah Asidanya was all-tourney for Salesian.
Pinewood rebounds: Elle Ladine had 30 points and Kaile Cruz 12 as Pinewood-Los Altos Hills (5-1) rebounded from its first defeat of the season with a 59-48 championship-game victory over host St. Francis in the St. Francis Invitational. Jess Oakland had 13 points for the Lancers (10-1).
Just short: A contested shot in the lane by Javon Johnson fell just short Thursday, as did second-ranked De La Salle-Concord in a 55-54 loss to Mater Dei-Santa Ana in the championship game of the Desert Holiday Classic in Palm Desert (Riverside County). Johnson and freshman Alec Blair had 10 points apiece for the Spartans (10-2).
Streak snapped: The top-ranked Campolindo-Moraga boys saw their 25-game winning streak over three seasons snapped in a 69-64 loss to Dallas power Oak Cliff Faith Family Academy at Torrey Pines near San Diego. St. Mary's College signee Aiden Mahaney scored 26 to lead the Cougars, who then won three straight to start a new streak. Campolindo isn't scheduled to play again until Jan. 13 at home against No. 20 Clayton Valley-Concord.
One unbeaten: Dougherty Valley-San Ramon (12-0) is the only remaining unbeaten ranked boys team in the Bay Area after winning its own Dougherty Valley Classic. Junior guard Ryan Beasley had 40 points in a 96-54 semifinal win over Tracy; he is the state's second-leading scorer (31.9 points per game) and is averaging 6.2 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 3.7 steals.
MaxPreps senior writer Mitch Stephens covers high school sports for The San Francisco Chronicle.


Samvardhana Motherson Reflectec (SMR), one of the largest manufacturers of rearview mirrors for passenger cars in the world, is expanding its Marysville, Michigan, location. The company will invest $18.6 million in an 85,000-square-foot expansion that will result in the creation of approximately 200 jobs over the next three years. Once completed, the new facility will be used for assembly and warehousing of product. The project also includes the acquisition of land for additional parking.
SMR operates 110 facilities spread over 25 countries on 6 continents. As an established Tier-1 and Tier-2 supplier globally, the company develops, produces and distributes exterior mirrors, interior mirrors, blind spot detection systems and a wide range of other automotive components. The company has 22% of the global market share in production of exterior mirrors for passenger cars, commercial vehicles and heavy trucks and is one of the leading experts for camera-based sensing systems in the automotive industry.
The expansion continues recent investments by SMR, which included the addition of new paint plant facilities and a warehouse in Port Huron in 2014, adding more than 300 jobs. With this announcement, SMR will soon become one of the largest employers in St. Clair and Macomb counties with nearly 1,000 jobs. After the building expansion is completed, its four-building campus will exceed 400,000 square feet.
A collaboration led by Marysville City Manager Randy Fernandez and EDA, supported by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, St. Clair County Metro Planning and St. Clair Community College, worked over many months to solve site issues and provide programs and other support to train the new workers. Recently, a grant was awarded from the Michigan Department of Transportation to assist the city to add deceleration and bypass lanes on Busha Highway. St. Clair County will be administering a Community Development Block Grant of $2 million to train the new hires.
"SC4 is excited to see the continued expansion of SMR Automotive," said St. Clair Community College President Kevin Pollock. "We are proud to provide training to SMR employees and look forward to continuing our partnership with SMR in the future." SC4 is utilizing a $430,000 grant from the Michigan New Jobs Training Program to train current new hires, and will be supporting the company's training needs next year as well.
City of Marysville will be considering a tax abatement on the new construction, as a local match for the CDBG grant.
The Economic Development Alliance (EDA) of St. Clair County is a private non-profit organization that provides general purpose economic development services throughout St. Clair County and works to foster a strong business climate and grow the local economy. EDA offers a wide variety of services involving business attraction, business retention, and economic gardening with an overall goal of enhancing the quality of life for residents in St. Clair County. EDA services and initiatives are made possible by support from a membership of over 100 businesses from the private & public sector. www.edascc.com.
Listen to a Podcast from WPHM's Paul Miller radio interview with Marysville City Manager, Randy Fernandez about SMR's investment and job creation as well as other great developments and collaboration in the Blue Water Region. Listen Now.