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Tim Prebble
Tim Prebble is an alchemist of sound, adept at combining audio from many sources to evoke mood and emotion. His work has enhanced everything from feature films to television drama series, shorts, and documentaries. The common thread in his output is a deep sensitivity to theme and story.
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For me 'good' sound occurs when it is invisible, you do not notice it. But 'great' sound is when that same process occurs and yet sound is making a significant contribution. Tim Prebble
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One Thousand Ropes
2017, Camera - Music clip, Editor - Music clip, Composer - Film
Writer/director Tusi Tamasese won multiple awards for his first feature, Samoan drama The Orator - O Le Tulafale. This New Zealand-set follow-up involves a Samoan father whose daughter Ilisa (Shortland Street's Frankie Adams) returns home, pregnant and badly beaten. Uelese Petaia (star of Albert Wendt adaptation Sons for the Return Home) is the boxer turned baker, in a tale of family, redemption and revenge. One Thousand Ropes debuted in the Panorama section of the 2017 Berlin Film Festival. The clip captures the recording of the movie's soundtrack in a Wellington chapel.
Everything We Loved
2014, Composer - Film
In writer/director Max Currie's debut feature, a magician conjures his greatest illusion – a little boy – to try to help return happiness to his wife and family after the loss of their son. But the trick falls apart when a child abduction hunt closes in on them. Everything We Loved was funded through the NZ Film Commission's Escalator film scheme, and produced by Tom Hern (The Dark Horse, I'm Not Harry Jenson) and Luke Robinson. It was chosen for the 'New Voices/New Visions' section of the Palm Springs Film Festival and premieres locally at the 2014 International Film Festival.
Voices of the Land: Ngā Reo o te Whenua
2014, Sound Designer, Sound Editor - Film
Paul Wolffram's film melds sounds from noted musicians Richard Nunns and Horomona Horo, recorded in spectacular locations around New Zealand, to demonstrate that the sounds of the natural world are a form of music too. Nunns is a renowned expert in taonga pūoro - traditional Māori instruments like wood and bone flutes. Debuting at the 2014 Wellington Film Festival, Voices of the Land pays tribute to Nunn's role in their revival, while Wolffram's powerhouse creative team use image and sound to show ways "landscape and the voices of the land can be heard".
Mr Pip
2013, Sound Designer - Film
As a bitter civil war tears apart the lives of his students, an isolated English school teacher in Bougainville (House star Hugh Laurie) finds a unique way to create hope; 14-year-old Matilda (Xzannjah Matsi) is enthralled by his Charles Dickens-infused disaster survival lessons. The life during wartime tale was directed by Kiwi Andrew Adamson (Shrek), and adapted from the 2006 Booker Prize short-listed novel by Lloyd Jones. Adamson spent time in Papua New Guinea, as the teen son of missionary parents. Laurie and Matsi won best actor gongs at the 2013 Moa Awards.
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
To create award-winning A Year on Ice Antarctic photographer Anthony Powell spent 10 years (and nine winters) clocking the continent on camera: from the 24-hour darkness of winter to desolate, stunning polar vistas (blazing aurora, freezing ice storms) and the creatures and humans who are based there. Time-lapse imagery — Powell's speciality — evokes the ever-changing patterns of polar life. Powell's images have screened on National Geographic, Discovery and in BBC's Frozen Planet. A Year on Ice has inspired awe and acclaim at film festivals worldwide.
Goutte d'Or
2013, Sound Designer - Short Film
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
Haikyo
2012, Composer - Short Film
The Orator - O Le Tulafale
2011, Composer, Sound Designer - Film
Tusi Tamasese's first feature tells the story of a taro farmer (played by real life farmer Fa'afiaula Sagote) who finds the courage to stand tall for his family and culture, and stand up to sceptical villagers. Variety called it "compelling drama". Though previous films (e.g. Flying Fox on a Freedom Tree) had told stories inspired by Samoan writers, The Orator was the first feature written and directed by a Samoan — and the first filmed in Samoan. When it debuted in September 2011 at the prestigious Venice Film Festival, it won a special jury mention in the Orizzonti (New Horizons) section.
Director Paul Murphy follows Second Hand Wedding with a romance featuring comedian Rhys Darby, songs by Queen and ... a duck. Darby plays heartbroken nice guy Doug: after a close encounter with a native duck (a paradise shelduck) with emotional problems, he enlists expert help from a sassy animal specialist (played by Brit Sally Hawkins, a Golden Globe-winner for feature Happy-Go-Lucky). True to rom-com form, love ensues ... eventually. NZ Herald reviewer Russell Baillie called Love Birds "an endearingly funny, if sugar-coated local romantic comedy".
Super City - First Episode
2011, Sound Design - Television
Actor Madeleine Sami transforms into five very different Aucklanders in this Taika Waititi directed comedy series. Cheerleader Pasha is desperate to hang on to her youth; Linda tries too hard with her middle-aged clique; Azeem the Iranian taxi driver is obsessed with Māori culture; homeless Georgie makes a shock discovery, and gym instructor Jo secretly loves a female colleague. Rachel House, Rose McIver and Antonia Prebble appear in this series opener. Super City creator Sami (The Breaker Upperers) co-wrote the scripts, and won an Aotearoa award for Best Actress.
Blank Spaces
2010, Sound Editor - Short Film
This short film presents Dave, a tramper at a South Island high country tarn, with a chance to make his mark on the map. But will the stars (and satellites) align to realise his ingenious idea? Made by director and editor Rajneel Singh, Blank Spaces was one of five finalists in 'Your Big Break': a 2010 filmmaking contest run by Tourism New Zealand that gave the finalists a chance to have their script realised with the help of producer Barrie Osborne (The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings). The brief was to "capture the spirit of 100% Pure New Zealand — the youngest country on earth".
The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell
A tale of infuriating fathers and very fast go-karts, The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell marks Robyn Malcolm's first leading role on film. Malcolm plays Gail, long-suffering wife to the charming, ambitious Gazza Snell. Obsessed with go-karting, Gazza has banked heavily on the hope his sons' racing talents will result in motorsport glory. But Gail is unconvinced. Australian talent William McInnes (Unfinished Sky, SeaChange) plays Gazza; the script is by Insiders Guide to Happiness award-winners David Brechin-Smith and Brendan Donovan (who also directs).
Taika Waititi's blockbuster second movie revolves around an imaginative 11-year-old East Coast boy (James Rolleston) trying to make sense of his world — and the return of his just-out-of-jail father (Waititi). Intended as a "painful comedy of growing up", Boy mixes poignancy with trademark whimsy and visual inventiveness. The film was shot in the Bay of Plenty area where Waititi partly grew up. A winner in its section at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival, Boy soon became the most successful local release on its home soil (at least until the arrival of Waititi's 2016 hit Hunt for the Wilderpeople).
Home by Christmas
Home by Christmas sees Gaylene Preston returning to the hidden stories of ordinary New Zealanders. Inspired by attempts to get her father Ed to reveal his WWII experiences, this finely-balanced docu-drama moves between three strands: Preston's father (Goodbye Pork Pie's Tony Barry, in a Qantas award-winning performance) retelling his story; recreations of Ed's wartime OE; and life for the woman he left behind in Greymouth. The dream cast sees Preston's own daughter Chelsie Preston Crayford playing Preston's mother Tui, alongside Martin Henderson.
Russian Snark
Writer Stephen Sinclair's feature directing debut was inspired by a Russian couple who sailed to Aotearoa in a lifeboat. From there, he created this witty and unusual love story about Mischa (Stephen Papps) — an uncompromising filmmaker fallen on hard times — and his wife, looking for a country more appreciative of his art. But Mischa also has to reconcile his art with his humanity — with help from his neighbour (Stephanie Tauevihi, in an award-winning performance). The 15 minute making of documentary offers a cautionary tale for creatives looking to work with poultry.
Va Tapuia - Sacred Spaces
2009, Sound, Sound Editor - Short Film
Taro planter Lui's grief for his dead wife is blighting his life and crops. A widow, Malia, is bound by anger to the grave of her abusive husband, as the rising sea slowly drowns it. When Lui and Malia meet by chance, he's provided with a path from his hurt. Filmed in Samoan on the island of Upolu, and directed by Samoan-born Tusi Tamasese, the short is a fable-like meditation on communion, cooking and sacred places. It was selected for the Clermont-Ferrand and Hawaii film festivals, and was the precursor to Tamasese's Venice-selected debut feature, The Orator.
Under the Mountain
Maurice Gee's classic novel about aliens running amok under Auckland has rarely gone out of print, since its debut in 1979. First adapted as a memorable 80s TV series, this movie retooling sees teenage twins Theo and Rachel stumbling across shape-shifting creatures that are hiding beneath Auckland's extinct volcanoes. American showbiz magazine Variety praised Black Sheep director Jonathan King's "solid helming", and the excellent acting of Sam Neill as the mysterious Mr Jones. Oliver Driver plays lead villain Mr Wilberforce, under four hours of make-up.
The second feature film directed by writer Anthony McCarten (Ladies' Night) is a small tale with some big themes. Set in a New Plymouth car yard, the film chronicles an endurance contest in which a car will be awarded to the person who manages to keep their hands on it the longest. As night falls, solo mother Jess (Melanie Lynskey) finds herself fending off the attentions of an obstinate competitor (Craig Hall), with a much harsher vision of the world than hers. Inspired by similar real-life contests, McCarten based the film on his novel Endurance.
2007, Sound - Short Film
Ricky is shy and has an overbearing father. He and extroverted misfit Telly (Chelsie Preston Crayford) slip out into the night, commandeering Ricky's father's fishing boat and heading out into the freedom of the fog. Peter Salmon's short film highlights oppression, boredom and sex in a small New Zealand town. Fog was shot in Ngawi, an isolated fishing village on the Wairarapa coastline. It was invited to 20 international film festivals, including the Critics' Week section at Cannes. At the 2007 NZ Screen Awards, Chelsie Preston Crayford was awarded for Best Performance in a Short Film.
2007, Supervising Sound Editor - Film
A mutant lamb escapes from the lab after dodgy genetic experiments, and herds of sheep are turned into bloodthirsty predators. Three hapless humans are stranded on the farm as the woolly nightmare develops. They discover a bite from an infected sheep has an alarming effect on those bitten. With his first feature, director Jonathan King (Under the Mountain) provides splatter thrills and attacks a few sacred cows. Black Sheep was invited to 20+ international festivals, where it scored acclaim and multiple awards. The interviews include King, Weta's Richard Taylor, and the cast.
A Very Nice Honeymoon
2006, Sound Design - Short Film
This Simmonds Brothers short zips through five generations of their family history, from Croatia to the Kapiti Coast, plus a shipwreck near Auckland. Described as a 'documation', the voices of yarning family members are married to their cartoon likenesses, to comic and ultimately moving effect. The film opens with Mariano and Elizabeth Vella's great great granddaughter and moves to a dramatic re-enactment of the Dalmatian settlers' so-called "very nice honeymoon" on the steamer SS Wairarapa, when it was wrecked off Great Barrier Island in 1894 (131 people died).
During WWII the Post Office photographed letters, enabling mass mailing to soldiers via rolls of film. Post Office worker Ngaire (Yvette Reid) deals with mail for soldiers serving overseas. On this small, handsomely-framed canvas, writer-director Paolo Rotondo explores how war and distance affect relationships. Dead Letters makes a persuasive case that the memories preserved in words and film contain their own magic, even when that magic is tinged with sadness and death. It won best short screenplay at the 2006 New Zealand Screen Awards.
Nanna Maria (Ruby Dee), the matriarch of a Fijian family living in Auckland, feels that the heart has gone out of her clan. She demands that her grown grandchildren put on a traditional feast, at which she will name her successor. The grandchildren — Soul, Charlene, Hibiscus, Erasmus, and Tyson — reluctantly turn up. But tiffs send the day into chaos. Nanna calls the whole thing off. This lovo-warmed love letter to his Mt Roskill hometown was the debut film for director Toa Fraser (Dean Spanley). It screened at many festivals; it won the World Cinema audience award at Sundance in 2006.
Set in gritty backstreets somewhere in downtown Auckland, this short film follows the vicissitudes of Evan, a teenager whose life changes when he skips school and meets a beautiful and troubled stranger. Directed by Michael Duignan (A New Way Home) and produced by Rachel Gardner (Apron Strings, A Show of Hands), Truant is a convincing portrayal of that potent mixture of curiosity and desperation peculiar to adolescence. Truant screened at a number of festivals including the prestigious short film festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and the London Film Festival.
Boogeyman
2005, Supervising Sound Editor - Television
Inspired by the ageing Burt Munro — who took his home-engineered motorbike to America, and won a land speed record — this passion project was Roger Donaldson's first locally made film in two decades. Variety called it a "geriatric Rocky on wheels"; Roger Ebert praised Anthony Hopkins' performance as one of the most endearing of his career. The result sold to 126 countries, spent five weeks in the Australian top six, and became Aotearoa's highest-grossing local film — at least until Boy in 2010. Alongside an excerpt and making of material, Costa Botes writes about the film here.
Set in a small New Zealand town, Closer is the story of a deaf teenage boy trying to come to terms with the death of his older sister. An emotionally locked-down father who has limited knowledge of sign language compounds his struggle. Written and directed by David Rittey (We The Living), and co-written by poet Therese Lloyd, Closer is a moving portrayal of the power and complexity of silence. Closer won Best Short Film and Best Performance at the 2005 NZ Screen Awards, and was selected to compete for the top short film prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Solo mum Leeanne Rosser (Jean's Kate Elliott) is rejected by her Christian mother. She tries to stay close to her brother Brent (Jared Turner), unaware of his secret life as a thief. One day a burglary goes wrong, and a woman is badly injured. The incident causes repercussions for all the members of the two families, and relationships begin to fracture. Based on Maurice Gee's novel Crime Story, Fracture was the second feature directed by Larry Parr. Its release was delayed by the collapse of Parr's company Kahukura in 2002. The Press called Fracture "competent, confident and complex".
Procrastination and denial taken to absurd lengths hammer home a point about global warming in this technically ambitious black comedy. A family living in a gully are too wrapped up in their own worlds to heed impending doom. Daughter Mary (seven-year-old Paige Shand-Haami) is the only one who sees the future. Water was shot over 14 days — with cast and crew spending 10 of them waist deep in water — on a set in a Wellington swimming pool. It was directed by Chris Graham, and partly funded from a SPADA Young Filmmaker Award won by producer Karl Zohrab.
New Zealand's so-called 'cinema of unease' is stretched in new directions in this psychological drama, inspired by real-life interviews with criminals and victim's families. Writer/director Stuart McKenzie's feature debut follows Lisa (Michelle Langstone), a young woman haunted by the rape and murder of a former teenage acquaintance. Lisa's fascination leads her to the victim's parents - and to prison, to interview the charismatic killer (Tim Balme). The result is an intelligent examination of the after effects of violent crime. Shayne Carter provides the soundtrack.
One night in a West Coast pub, Melanie (Australian actor Rachel Blake) meets a handsome stranger (Sam Neill) and accepts his invitation to go back to his place. When they board his boat she discovers it is further than she thought (a shack on a deserted island). Once they arrive he treats her like a princess. However it slowly dawns on her that she's been kidnapped. Terrified, she also knows that he's her only way off the island. As events play out in Gaylene Preston's twisted thriller, Melanie's feelings change from anger and fear — to desire.
Skin and Bone
2003, Sound Designer - Television
Twenty three years after Foreskin's Lament became a Kiwi cause célèbre, writer Greg McGee brought his classic play to television. Skin and Bone "asset strips" and updates the story to reflect rugby (and society's) evolution. Here Seymour (Outrageous Fortune's Antony Starr) — falteringly pursuing a professional career — returns home to play a last game for his rural club side. The brutality he witnesses leaves him questioning the morals of the code. The role of the old guard coach is reprised by Roy Billing, in McGee's opinion "the first and definitive Tupper".
In this first feature film from writer/director Greg Page, two urban bloke best friends take off on a surfing weekend. Their prospects of finding fun go down with the sun. Instead of enjoying surf and black sand, the boys find themselves lost in a rural nightmare, battling an inescapable curse and nocturnal field bogans. Page, known for his high energy music videos, wheel-spins city limits phobia into the Waikato heartland for a Kiwi twist on thriller genre thrills. Horrorview.com called it: "different and inventive enough to stand out from the crowd."
Toy Love
The third feature from writer/director Harry Sinclair (The Price of Milk, Topless Women ...) is a fleet footed anti-romance about sex and infidelity. Love is a game for Ben (Dean O'Gorman), who cheats on girlfriend Emily with ease — until he falls head over heels with unpredictable vixen Chlo (Kate Elliott). When Emily confesses that she too has cheated, Ben self-righteously dumps her and runs to Chlo. But Chlo has a rule: she won't date available men. To win her love, Ben must be unavailable. This excerpt features much bed hopping and 20-something mat-ters.
The Other Side of Heaven
Kids World (feature film)
2001, Sound Effects Editor - Film
For her first feature, writer/director Gillian Ashurst wanted a "big wide road movie; big skies; big long roads." Cruising the Canterbury landscapes are small-town dreamers Alice (Heavenly Creature Melanie Lynskey) and Johnny (future Almighty Johnson Dean O'Gorman). But the duo's adventures go awry after encountering a charming American cowboy. Reviews were generally upbeat: praising the talented cast, plus Ashurst's ability to mix moods and genres. Snakeskin won five awards at the 2001 NZ Film and TV Awards, including best film and cinematography.
Stickmen
Three friends tour the Wellington pub scene, playing pool with ever-increasing stakes. Then they enter a tournament run by vicious crime boss 'Daddy'. Narrator Kirk Torrance (Outrageous Fortune) guides us through their mission to pocket the money. Hamish Rothwell's only feature to date was a Kiwi take on the UK urban underbelly genre (Lock, Stock etc). "Smart, stylish and effortlessly entertaining" (Dominion Post) the film was a hit with young males and won several 2001 NZ Film and TV Awards (including best director, script, and actor). It sold to over 30 countries.
When Strangers Appear
2001, Additional Sound Editor - Film
Willy Nilly - Episode One
Willy Nilly (TV Series)
2001 - 2003, Supervising Sound Editor - Television
Street Legal - First Episode
Running an impressive four series, stylish crime show Street Legal centred around a struggling Auckland law firm, home base for unorthodox lawyer David Silesi (Jay Laga'aia), and sometime girlfriend Joni Collins (Kathleen Kennard). 'Ellis's Restaurant', the first episode made following the pilot, sees Silesi defending an ex-junkie on a possession charge, and facing off for the first time on screen against Sergeant Keens Van Dam (Charlies Mesure). The episode also sees the debut of Silesi's beloved 1944 Ford Jailbar, after his Ute unexpectedly ends up in pieces.
2000, Sound Editor - Television
Savage Honeymoon
The Savages are a working class West Auckland family who like drinking, and living by their own rules. Savage Honeymoon is a celebration of their passion and leather pants - and a snapshot of a couple worried their children may not be as lucky as them. Mark Beesley's debut feature won good reviews (The Herald praised its "self-confident swagger") – and headlines, after being downgraded from an R18 to R15. The film pre-dated the Westie family of Outrageous Fortune - though Beesley then hated the Westies label, disliking the word's negative connotations.
Over four seasons, Street Legal's slick Kiwi take on urban crime and law genres racked up a stack of award nominations - including a 2003 NZ TV Award for best drama series. Although initially wary that the Auckland setting might alienate viewers, writer Greg McGee chose a Samoan lawyer (Jay Laga'aia) as his main character, to exploit the show's inner-city Ponsonby setting (where cafe society bumps into Pacific Island immigrant culture). Other key characters included Silesi's lawyer ex-girlfriend Joni, and her new partner Kees, an overstressed sergeant.
1999, Sound - Television
Greenstone is the tale of a beautiful, missionary-educated Māori woman (Simone Kessell) whose romantic life is subject to the shifting loyalties of her father, Chief Te Manahau (George Henare). The cross-cultural elements of this ambitious colonial bodice-ripper were reflected off-screen as well: created by Greg McGee in response to a call by TV One for a local drama 'saga', the series saw major English creative input through being developed as a co-production with the BBC. After the withdrawal of BBC funding, the Tainui Corporation helped fund the eight-part series.
1999, Sound - Film
In 1996 Tony Sutorius got his hands on a new digital video camera, days before the start of an election campaign in Wellington Central. Made on the proverbial shoestring, this feature-length documentary chronicles five of those battling for the crown as a new political age — MMP — dawns. Richard Prebble joins a new party called Act, the National candidate joins United New Zealand… and one of the five will be sacrificed by their own party. Sutorius sat through 55 hours of footage to forge the result, which won enthused, sellout audiences at the 1999 NZ Film Festival.
Channelling Baby
A dark and mystery-filled drama about a 70s hippy (Danielle Cormack) who falls in love with a Vietnam vet (Kevin Smith). But has fate brought them together, only in order to drive them apart? And what exactly happened to their child? This twist-filled tale of seances, damaged people, and conflicting versions of truth marked the directorial debut of short filmmaker Christine Parker. At the 1999 New Zealand film awards, Channelling Baby was nominated in six categories, including best actress and best original screenplay. Read more about the film here.
Greenstone - First Episode
Greenstone is the tale of a Māori woman whose beauty is used as a pawn by her ambitious father, Chief Te Manahau. In episode one, the missionary-educated Marama (Simone Kessell) travels to England with her father (George Henare), who sets about arranging an arms deal while she falls for their English host, ex-military man Sir Geoffrey Halford. Created for TV One by Greg McGee, the ambitious series was initially developed as a co-production between local company Communicado and the BBC. Local iwi Tainui helped fund the series, after the BBC withdrew.
Lawless
Lawless saw Kevin Smith in one of his biggest roles: as undercover cop turned private investigator John Lawless. The character's career arc was told across three tele-movies. In this self-titled debut, Lawless struggles with divided loyalties while working for a dodgy drug lord (Joel Tobeck). Next thing, a robbery leaves Lawless framed by the good guys. This stylish Kiwi take on American crime shows won good reviews and a stash of awards, including gongs for Tobeck, co-star Angela Dotchin, director Chris Martin-Jones and best drama programme.
Thinking about Sleep
Street Legal - Pilot
One of a trio of late 90s Kiwi crime-based pilots, Street Legal was the only one that would successfully spawn a series - four series, in fact (though Kevin Smith vehicle Lawless saw two further tele-movies). The Street Legal pilot provides a stylish big city template for the show to come, as Auckland criminal lawyer David Silesi (Jay Laga-aia) enlists the help of an over- enthusiastic journalist (Sara Wiseman) in the hope of winning an out-of-court settlement over a hit and run case. Meanwhile Silesi's lawyer girlfriend smells something fishy - with good reason.
1998, Sound Editor - Film
Willy Nilly
This bawdy backblocks comedy follows the efforts of two middle-aged males to adjust after the death of their Mum (Dorothy McKegg). The somewhat dim brothers (played by Mark Hadlow and Sean Duffy) are lost without her cooking and advice on Judy Bailey's attractiveness, and getting close to goats…until the hired help (Alison Bruce) arrives. The short film was the first production by Big House, a collaboration between director Mike Smith and editor John Gilbert. Invited to the revered Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in 1999, it inspired a hit TV series of the same name.
Saving Grace sees spiky street kid Grace (Kirsty Hamilton) get taken in by enigmatic carpenter, Gerald (Jim Moriarty). As Grace falls under (much older) Gerald's spell, she's flummoxed by his claim that he is the messiah. Could Gerald be Jesus of Cuba Street or is he a delusional dole bludger? The screenplay was adapted by Duncan Sarkies (Scarfies) from his stage play. Botes' dramatic feature debut converted fewer viewers than his earlier work, the classic hoodwinker Forgotten Silver; although critic Nicholas Reid welcomed an NZ film that offered "style and brains".
The Frighteners
Peter Jackson's fifth feature is a playful blend of comedy, thriller and supernatural horror and was an effective Hollywood calling card for Weta FX. Frank Bannister (Michael J Fox) resides in Fairwater, where he runs a supernatural scam. Aided by some spectral consorts, he engineers hauntings and "exorcises" the ghosts for a fee. When a genuine spook starts knocking off the locals, the FBI suspects Frank is the culprit. To clear his name, Frank must deal to the real perpetrator – none other than the Grim Reaper ...
Tala Pasifika - A Day in the Life
Tala Pasifika was a pioneering Pacific Island drama series. This episode was one of six films that screened on TV One in 1996. The short drama follows teenage school friends Siosi (Johnny La'ulu), Matt (Faifua Amiga) and John (Robert Luisi), who are awaiting their School Certificate results. On the day he receives his grades, Siosi is beaten by his father (Ene Pataia). The following day, he discovers a tragedy has occurred within his circle of friends. This acts as a catalyst to resolve his own troubles at home. A Day in the Life won two awards at Canadian indigenous festival Dreamspeakers.
Marlin Bay - Series Three, Episode 11
Created by writer Greg McGee, Marlin Bay was one of the first primetime drama series from South Pacific Pictures. It follows the events of a far-north resort and casino; a number of well-known actors made up the cast of earthy locals, wealthy foreigners and city weekenders, including Ilona Rodgers, Don Selwyn, Andy Anderson and Katie Wolfe. Kevin Smith received a 1995 Best Supporting Actor nod for his role as villain Paul Cosic. In this episode the swarthy Cosic cooks up an illegal smuggling scheme to diversify a farm's income stream.
Bradman
A social cricket match in Cornwall Park needs a third umpire after a bogan's dog swallows the ball in this short film. As the men in white struggle to field the ball, a statistics-obsessed sport crosses absurd boundaries. A line-up of contemporary NZ comedic talent features on the field— plus New Zealand Black Caps cricketers (and 1992 World Cup bowlers) Chris Pringle and Willie Watson. Bradman was written and directed by Peter Tait (actor in classic shorts The Singing Trophy and Kitchen Sink). The film includes classic song 'Bradman' by Australian singer Paul Kelly.
Deepwater Haven - First Episode
A big budget New Zealand-French-Australian co-production, kidult series Deepwater Haven screened on TV2. It followed the fortunes of Waitemata Harbour tugboat skipper Jack Wilson (Vince Martin of Beaurepairies advertising fame) and his two kids, Georgie (Jay Saussey) and Peter (Peter Malloch). This opening episode sees Jack struggling to keep his business afloat; the local cafe is burgled; and Peter, marooned at a dry dock while on the run from bullies, is rescued by a street kid (future Pluto singer Milan Borich). Saussey won a NZ Film and TV Award for her role.
Marlin Bay
1992 - 1994, Sound - Television
Marlin Bay was a drama series following the comings and goings of a far-north resort and casino. Andy Anderson, Ilona Rogers, Don Selwyn, Pete Smith, Katie Wolfe and others made up the cast of earthy locals, wealthy foreigners, and city weekenders. Created by writer Greg McGee, Marlin Bay was one of the first primetime drama series from South Pacific Pictures. Kevin Smith received a 1995 Best Supporting Actor nod for his role as villain Paul Cosic.
The Ray Bradbury Theatre
1985 - 1992, Sound Effects Editor - Television

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History & Heroes: Five Fast Facts- Joseph W. McClurg
Posted August 21, 2018 by pulaskicountyusa
Joseph W. McClurg, 19th Governor of Missouri, was the namesake of McClurg Street at Richland, Missouri in Pulaski County.
Joseph Washington McClurg. Image by Mathew Brady, retrieved via Wikipedia.com.
1. McClurg once served as deputy Sheriff in Saint Louis County.
2. An 1893 Shelbina Democrat news article describes McClurg as "an Ozark pioneer" and "The Prince of Merchants."
3. To curb the rising costs of salt to his customers, McClurg, then a merchant at Hazelwood, Missouri, rode on horseback to Jacksonport, Arkansas where he boarded a steamer to New Orleans. At the Crescent City he purchased 1,000 sacks of salt. He loaded the commodity on a northbound steamship returning to Jacksonport. The country between Jacksonport and Hazelwood was "wild and traversed only by tortuous trails, which could hardly be called roads." Undaunted, McClurg cut and partly graded a hundreds mile long wagon road through the rugged region. In 1893 this road, known as McClurg's Old Salt Road, was "one of the most noted highways of the Ozarks."
4. In 1871, Joseph Washington McClurg returned to Linn Creek to resume his business enterprises. Along with his sons-in-law Charles Draper and Marshall Johnson, McClurg founded Draper, McClurg and Company. Merchandising profits funded surface mining on lead and iron in the Central Lead District near the Osage River. The firm operated steamboats on the Missouri and Osage Rivers and their landings became trade centers for the shipment of railroad ties. The company gained government contracts for the removal of sandbars on the Osage River. By 1885, falling profits lead to the seizure of one of the steamboats by creditors and within a year, McClurg sold his Camden County properties.
5. McClurg resided in Lebanon, Missouri at the time of his death December 2, 1900. He was laid to rest at Lebanon City Cemetery. On December 7th, 1904 Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) members alongside their Confederate counterparts paid tribute to the former Governor at the unveiling of a monument erected by the State of Missouri at McClurg's gravesite. The monument stands 22 feet high and is made of granite from Barre, Vermont. It rests on a bottom base 6 feet square, surmounted by a second base 4 feet, 5 inches square, which is surrounded by a die 3 feet 4 inches square upon which rests the shaft 16 feet long. The monument was featured on tourist maps produced during the WPA era.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120411091708/http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/findingaids/rg003-19.pdf
Shelbina Democrat (Shelbina, Missouri)25 October 1893
Gasconade County Republican (Owensville, Missouri) 9 December 1904
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Chronicles of Zostera: Recruitment variation and the benthos - connected or not?
Recruitment variation and the benthos - connected or not?
For years, the "supply-side" ecology has been a common theme describing mechanisms for benthic species distributions and densities. In general terms, the amount and extent of a particular organism is driven by the supply of larvae to a given area. This larval supply can thus be seen as driving benthic community structure, especially for marine invertebrates - as their life cycles contain a planktonic larval stage which allows for dispersal over relatively long distances. Thus, many of these populations are considered "open" and their continuation is dependent on some large supply of larvae. This makes sense, and it has been demonstrated many times in the literature. However, this has often been demonstrated on hard bottom communities. Soft bottom benthos don't always display similar patterns. A recent paper by Dr. Megan Dethier from the Friday Harbor Laboratory at the University of Washington, details an experiment conducted investigated very small, post set, infaunal recruits. Sampling these habitats is often difficult due to the 3-D nature of soft sediments. She was able to demonstrate that for a number of taxa she was working with, the strongest recruitment was not in areas where the largest adult populations existed. This suggests that for many of the soft bottom benthos she studied, the supply of larvae is not limiting the adult populations, but rather some post-settlement processes, such as predation, competition or abiotic stressors.
This is a particularly interesting article, because "supply-side" ecology doesn't always hold true in soft bottom benthos. I have observed this first hand with the scallop restoration work on Long Island. Over 6 years, we have monitored larval supply of scallop spat at a number of different locations, and then each winter and spring, we conduct benthic surveys for juvenile densities. There isn't always a match between sites where we had the highest numbers of post-set and the highest juvenile densities. The main causes for this mismatch is likely to be predation or physical factors.
On another project, I am investigating scallop settlement on artificial seagrass units. I design collectors to mimic seagrass, each collector has 10 artificial seagrass shoots. Half of the collector (5 shoots) is enclosed in a mesh bag (just under 1mm) and the other half exposed to predation. There is an order of magnitude difference between the number of available settlers (those inside the bags) when compared to those actual "recruits" (those scallops outside the bags). This low pattern of surviving recruits holds up regardless of location within the grass mats (either on small or large mats, at the center or the edge). This indicates to me that predation is a major contributing factor structuring the scallop populations, at least in the estuary in which I work, Hallock Bay, Long Island.


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Q: How do I get the URL of a request? I am using Jeresy Jax-RS to build a web service. Now I need to get the url of the request with the port # if one exist.
So if my service runs on http://www.somelocation.com/web/services I want to capture the www.somelocation.com
How can I do this ?

A: You can add a UriInfo parameter to your operation.  From there you can access the URL:
@POST
@Consumes({"application/xml", "application/json"})
public Response create(@Context UriInfo uriInfo, Customer customer) {
    ...
}

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Reference is made to Ocean Yield ASA's ("OCY" or the "Company") stock exchange notice on 6 May 2015 where OCY announced its intent to purchase up to 150,000 treasury shares in connection with its incentive scheme for employees. OCY has 6 May purchased 35,000 shares in the Company on Oslo Børs at an average price of NOK 56.7186 per share, which implies a total consideration of NOK 1,985,151. The purchase of treasury shares was carried out in accordance with an authorization granted by the Annual General Meeting of the Company held 22 April 2015.
Following the transaction OCY holds a total of 58,070 treasury shares, constituting approximately 0.04% of the Company's shares and votes.


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Q: No Converter Found Error when using Custom JsonSerializer In a Spring application I want to use my own JsonSerializer  with a RestController. My JsonSerializer is registered in a Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder. So far so good, but when I annotate the respective fields with @JsonSerialize Spring MVC complains that there is no converter found for my class. Here is the code:
public class DurationAsHourSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Duration>{
    @Override
    public void serialize(Duration value, JsonGenerator gen, SerializerProvider serializers)
            throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
            gen.writeNumber(value.toHours());

    }
}

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class AppConfig {
    @Bean
    public Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder jacksonBuilder() {
        Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder b = new Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder();
        SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule();
        module.addSerializer(Duration.class, new DurationAsHourSerializer());
        b.modulesToInstall(module);
        return b;
    }
}

@EqualsAndHashCode
@ToString
public class Order {
    @Getter
    @Setter
    private String id;

    @Getter
    @Setter
    @NotNull
    private String customerId;

    @Getter
    @Setter
    private ZonedDateTime validFrom;

    @Getter
    @Setter
    private ZonedDateTime validTo;

    @Getter
    @Setter
    @JsonSerialize(as=DurationAsHourSerializer.class)
    private Duration maxDuration;

    @Getter
    @Setter
    @JsonSerialize(as=DurationAsHourSerializer.class)
    private Duration actDuration;
}

@RestController
@RequestMapping("order")
public class OrderController {

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public ResponseEntity<?> createOrder(@RequestBody @Valid Order order) {
        HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
        headers.setLocation(ServletUriComponentsBuilder.fromCurrentRequest().path("/" + order.getId()).build().toUri());
        return new ResponseEntity<>(null, headers, HttpStatus.CREATED);
    }

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public Order getExample() {
        Order order = new Order();
        order.setMaxDuration(Duration.ofHours(10));
        return order;
    }
}

When I send a request to getExample(), I get the following error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No converter found for return
  value of type: class com.sap.sptutorial.rest.Order    at
  org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor.writeWithMessageConverters(AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor.java:178)
  ~[spring-webmvc-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE]

Why can't the Converter use my serializer, or why does my serializer make the otherwise existing converter unavailable?
PS: This is a follow up to How do I use a custom Serializer with Jackson? where I tried to use a Field Formatter for the same job, and learned that Formatters are not used for the Jackson Serialization.

A: It reason behind this could be, because there is already another object of Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder constructed by Spring and it is still using it.
You need to make sure you make this @Bean as the default to be used by spring or use @PostConstruct rather that @Bean to modify the same instance of Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder initialized by Spring
@Autowired
private Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder builder;
............

@PostConstruct
public Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder jacksonBuilder() {
    Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder b = new Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder();
    SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule();
    module.addSerializer(Duration.class, new DurationAsHourSerializer());
    b.modulesToInstall(module);
    return b;
}

A: The error is that I used the wrong attribute with the @JsonSerialize annotation. Instead of @JsonSerialize(as=DurationAsHourSerializer.class) you have to declare the serializer to use with @JsonSerialize(using=DurationAsHourSerializer.class)


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bb-net visits the CRN Club again
At CeBIT 2016, too, the industry newspaper CRN invited various manufacturers and service providers to come to the big stage in Planet Reseller in the relaxed atmosphere of the CRN Club. Also this year was the reprocessed hardware from tecXL, presented by Marketing Manager Matthias Ress.
The CRN Club, which convened several times every day of the fair, has now almost become an institution for product presentations. In an informal live conversation with the editors Lars Bube and Peter Tischer, company representatives have the opportunity to talk about news about their products and services. We are pleased that, as in previous years, bb-net was one of the selected companies this year.
Following the ideas of the companies OCZ and AVM, Marketing Director Matthias Ress presented the second brand tecXL and a Lenovo Thinkpad T430s prepared according to tecXL standards. After a general optical and technical overhaul, the notebook was equipped with a complete "carefree package". With a preinstalled Windows 10 operating system, an ESET Smart Security annual license, the office applications Office 365 Home as a trial version and the full version of Libre Office, the device that was once used is by no means a thing of the past.
At the end of the sympathetic round of talks, the products presented were then traditionally raffled among the audience.
You can view the shortened version of the tecXL website again here:
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/**
 * @jsx React.DOM
 */
'use strict';

var assert = require('assert');
var makeHref = require('../makeHref');
var getPattern = makeHref.getPattern;
var descriptors = require('../descriptors');
var Routes = descriptors.Routes;
var Route = descriptors.Route;

function makeMatchTrace(routes, ref) {
  return descriptors.getTraceByName(routes, ref).map((route) => {
    return {route, match: {}};
  });
}

describe('makeHref', function() {

  describe('getPattern()', function() {

    var scoped = (
      <Routes name="e" path="/e">
        <Route>
          <Route name="f" path="/f" />
        </Route>
        <Route name="g" path="/g" />
        <Route name="h" path="/h">
          <Route name="i" path="/i" />
        </Route>
      </Routes>
    );

    var routes = (
      <Routes>
        <Route name="a" path="/" />
        <Route name="b" path="/b">
          <Route name="c" path="/c"/>
        </Route>
        <Route>
          <Route name="d" path="/d" />
        </Route>
        {scoped}
      </Routes>
    );

    it('generates href by absolute route ref', function() {
      var matchA = {
        route: routes.children[0],
        trace: makeMatchTrace(routes, 'a')
      };

      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, '/a', matchA), '/');
      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, '/b', matchA), '/b');
      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, '/b/c', matchA), '/b/c');
      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, '/d', matchA), '/d');
      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, '/e', matchA), '/e');
      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, '/e/f', matchA), '/e/f');
    });

    it('generates href by relative route ref', function() {
      var matchA = {
        route: routes.children[0],
        trace: makeMatchTrace(routes, 'a')
      };

      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, 'a', matchA), '/');

      var matchE = {
        route: routes.children[3],
        trace: makeMatchTrace(routes, 'e')
      };

      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, 'e', matchE), '/e');
      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, 'e/f', matchE), '/e/f');
      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, 'e/g', matchE), '/e/g');
      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, 'e/h', matchE), '/e/h');
      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, 'e/h/i', matchE), '/e/h/i');

      var matchH = {
        route: routes.children[3].children[2],
        trace: makeMatchTrace(routes, 'e/h')
      };

      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, 'e/h', matchH), '/e/h');
      assert.equal(getPattern(routes, 'e/h/i', matchH), '/e/h/i');
    });

  });

  describe('makeHref()', function() {

    var routes = (
      <Route>
        <Route name="a" path="/" />
        <Route name="b" path="/:lastName">
          <Route name="c" path="/:firstName"/>
        </Route>
      </Route>
    );

    it('generates link by absolute route ref', function() {
      var matchA = {
        route: routes.children[0],
        trace: makeMatchTrace(routes, 'a')
      };
      assert.equal(
        makeHref(routes, '/a', matchA, {}),
        '/');
      assert.equal(
        makeHref(routes, '/b', matchA, {lastName: 'ln'}),
        '/ln');
      assert.equal(
        makeHref(routes, '/b/c', matchA, {lastName: 'ln', firstName: 'fn'}),
        '/ln/fn');
    });

    it('generates link by relative route ref', function() {
      var matchB = {
        route: routes.children[1],
        trace: makeMatchTrace(routes, 'b')
      };
      assert.equal(
        makeHref(routes, 'b', matchB, {lastName: 'ln'}),
        '/ln');
      assert.equal(
        makeHref(routes, 'b/c', matchB, {lastName: 'ln', firstName: 'fn'}),
        '/ln/fn');
    });

    it('throws meaningful error in case route reference cannot be resolved', function() {
      var matchA = {
        route: routes.children[0],
        trace: makeMatchTrace(routes, 'a')
      };
      assert.throws(
        () => makeHref(routes, '/x', matchA, {}),
        Error,
        'Error: Invariant Violation: cannot resolve "/x" route reference'
      );
    });
  });
});

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First impressions are everything! We recommend creating Welcome Campaigns as they are a great way for your brand to introduce yourself and familiarize customers with your brand.
Did you know that customers are most likely to engage with your brand when they are new? Put your best foot forward and set up a welcome campaign in Zaius today.
Before we begin, we will want to understand what will trigger this first campaign to go out in your current welcome series.
Create a filter. This filter could be called 'email subscribe' with event type = "list" and action = "subscribe".
**Note: Customer fields should not be used in filters for event-triggered campaigns. When a customer's profile is updated to include any new field or event, such as logging when a user has opened or clicked an email, the entire customer profile is updated, so using a customer field in an event-trigger may cause users to receive the campaign multiple times.
Then, on the campaign configuration page, choose 'Customers that Match an event' and select the filter you just created "Customers that match Email Subscribe" as the event that will trigger the campaign to send out to the user.
When sending event-triggered campaigns, scheduling is Not Applicable because the sends are triggered when Zaius receives a user's subscribe event.
With this second touchpoint configured, users who subscribe on your site will immediately receive the Welcome 1 touchpoint, and then 2 days later, they will receive the Welcome 2 touchpoint.
*Advanced Use Case: In Zaius, edit your campaign to treat the new customers who have purchased different from those who have not yet purchased. For more ideas on this, reach out to your Customer Success Manager.


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Week in Campaigning
by Will Tavlin, Hannah Maier-Katkin & Jack Brook
Illustration by Grace Zhang
Getting Colder
Rhode Island kicked off its new tourism campaign last week only to face immediate international ridicule, accusations of financial mismanagement, and calls for officials' resignations. The brouhaha erupted after Governor Gina Raimondo tweeted the campaign's official video out to her followers last Tuesday. Users on Twitter quickly pointed out that the video ad—which asks the viewer to "imagine a place that feels like home" and praises Rhode Island's "uniqueness"— shows footage of a skateboarder outside of the Harpa concert hall in Reykjavik, Iceland. Faced with media scrutiny, irate Rhode Islanders, and questions as to how $120,000 went into such a project, Rhode Island Commerce Corporation marketing director Betsy Wall resigned shortly thereafter.
The video is just one of many headaches in what has quickly become a sea of migraines for the state's $5 million dollar campaign to attract tourism and business: the newly launched tourism website (www.visitrhodeisland.com) cited Rhode Island as home to 20% of the United State's historic landmarks (it's actually two percent); two restaurants listed were in fact out of business (the chef of one, George Germon, died last year); a quick reverse Google image search revealed many of the website's photos were purchased from stock photo websites. GoLocalProv estimates that there were nearly 100 errors on the website upon its release.
Raimondo later tweeted that Rhode Island will recoup the $120,000 it spent on the tourism ad—but the state has bigger issues on its hands. The marketing campaign's slogan, "Cooler & Warmer," was also pulled after residents and lawmakers lambasted its clarity and questioned what "Cooler & Warmer" means on a syntax level. "'Cooler & Warmer' is not a tagline Rhode Islanders like," the governor announced at an April 1 press conference. "We're going to work hard to get this right for Rhode Island because this is important. This campaign matters. It's going to create jobs."
But critics aren't pleased yet; Raimondo also stated in her press conference that the equally controversial 'Cooler & Warmer' logo—a square made by three blue-grey, red-orange, and orange-yellow convex masses that also form the image of a sail—will remain. "Any marketing major would have known that those colors are not calming, they're not inviting—nothing," one Providence resident told NBC 10. Raimondo defended the logo, and with good reason. The concept, crafted by Milton Glaser, the designer behind New York's iconic "I Love New York" identity, cost taxpayers $550,000—not including the nearly $1.5 million already spent on promoting it.
A number of Rhode Islanders, taking matters into their own hands, designed new logos that circulated around the web last week—the most popular, done by graphic designer Missy Hardesty, titled: "Sea To Believe." It looks like Hardesty's efforts might just get acknowledged. Raimondo told reporters that the state will accept submissions for a new slogan to surround the sail logo. "Make it great, make it fun," she said. "Most of all, make it your Rhode Island story."
Just remember to keep it local.
-WT
It's Not EU, it's Me
"Brexit," the celebrity couple name-style portmanteau of 'British' and 'exit' heralding a national departure from the European Union, is making waves across the Atlantic. At the forefront of this political discourse is the Leave.EU campaign. Supported by the Eurosceptic, populist United Kingdom Independence Party, the Leave.EU platform states, "As the world's fifth largest economy, the UK is well placed to supply its own labour." This desire to leave the EU is primarily framed in terms of Britain's ability to implement greater border restrictions, which Leave.EU insists would allow Britain to "welcome the right talent…rather than having to accept all EU migrants regardless of skill level."
It turns out that letting in the 'wrong' talent isn't really an issue for Britain: Contrary to the fear that low-skill EU immigrants are stealing British jobs en masse, the majority of those who do come from the EU—according to the research organization UK in a Changing Europe—already have white-collar jobs waiting for them. While the 2015 UKIP manifesto calls for Britain to split from the EU in order to "take back our border," UK government statistics show that the majority of immigrants to the country fall under the category of "non-EU citizens," who are already subject to strict border controls. While UKIP is equally resistant toward non-EU immigrants, their current rationale for leaving the EU misrepresents the geographical reality of immigration to the UK.
Ironically, it appears that the Leave.EU campaign relies partially upon immigrants to spread its message of exclusionary politics. Reporters for The Guardian discovered last week that Leave.EU employs four staffers who are immigrants from EU countries—including Rudolph Svat of Slovakia. Svat, despite being a foreign national whose migration to Britain was made possible by decreased border restrictions between EU countries, says that, after his time working at Leave.EU, he believes the "Brexit" is "a good thing for this country."
Brexit is gaining momentum in the lead up to the June 23 referendum. Even if Britons avoid the nasty breakup, the xenophobic rhetoric of Leave.EU and UKIP will doubtlessly continue to fester. The UK needs only to look across the pond to see how crazy such politics can get.
- HMK
Delegate Drama
The fine plainsfolk of North Dakota have found a way to capture mainstream media attention in a way not seen since Fargo won best picture twenty-years ago. Formerly best known for having the highest number of churches per capita, the "Roughrider State" has found itself a political powerhouse in the 2016 Republican primary elections.
The 25 North Dakota Republican delegates (not including three super delegates) are entirely unbound to any candidate. Each of the delegates is essentially a free agent going into the GOP convention. Normally, the presidential candidate would already have been decided by then; however, unless Trump can attain a majority of delegates through state primaries—an increasingly unlikely possibility—there will be a contested convention. In such a scenario, every delegate that is still up for grabs would become a hot commodity.
The lucky North Dakota delegates can expect to find themselves treated as VIPs by the GOP presidential candidates. The state will join American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and Puerto Rico in the ranks of often forgotten regions that have garnered attention all of a sudden due to the independence of their delegates. Why didn't we think of this, South Dakota mutters enviously.
In addition to being courted by Cruz, the North Dakotan delegates were treated to private meetings with Trump's newest friend, Ben Carson. "I'm really…advocating for America" Carson said, during a "heartfelt" pitch for Trump. He rallied the delegates at the convention with a speech focused on the importance of faith and his efforts to "teach Trump religion." ("He is a person who…thinks deeply, and does have, uh, some openness to spiritual things,").
The North Dakota delegate debacle foreshadows the behind-the-scenes squabbling that will only become more pronounced in the weeks prior to the convention. Cruz has already been laying the groundwork for a delegate heist, playing the cutthroat game like a seasoned Washington insider. Indeed, his team managed to get most of their preferred delegates on the slate for North Dakota, leading Cruz to claim "victory." Not one to be outdone, Trump informed his supporters, in a refreshing reassurance of the integrity of our political system, that he has "a guy going around trying to steal people's delegates."
It's anyone's guess what will happen two months down the road. But if there's one political winner at the moment, it's probably those North Dakota delegates who will be getting more than a few phone calls from groveling politicians in an effort to buddy-up.
A private tour of Trump tower. A Texas BBQ lunch with Ted. A manipedi with Ivanka. As a North Dakota delegate, the electoral world is your oyster.
-JB


There are as many ways to produce good coffee as there are to produce bad ones. This is why from the farm to your cup, the processes involved are more than just a matter of measuring and machinery. It is in fact both a science and an art. Beyond roasting, there are many factors and techniques at work that enhance the quality of the coffee that you enjoy.
These precious beans take a long journey from the farm where they are planted until they end up expertly brewed in your cup. Each of the carefully calculated and artistically orchestrated step is crucial in bringing out the nuances in flavors and aromas that make coffee such a well-loved drink all over the globe.
So whether you're an avid coffee drinker or a ritual-oriented brew master, it helps to know the different processing methods and how they bring out the best in your coffee.
There are different techniques in processing coffee that are employed by farmers or producers throughout the world. These coffee processing techniques are done to showcase the coffee bean's inherent qualities, maintain a long-held tradition, or to coax new flavors to uncover a new profile. Among these techniques, two are most dominant: natural and washed coffee processing.
Which of these methods are the best to use? Let's find out.
Also, known as the Dry Process or the Sun-dried Method, this coffee processing technique is the oldest and most basic. Upon harvesting, the coffee cherries are sorted. Ripe ones must be picked out among the green, unripe cherries as well as any leaves and twigs that may have been mixed in. These ripe cherries are then simply put out to the sun to dry. The cherries are spread thinly on a flat surface and are raked regularly to maintain even drying and temperatures throughout the many layers of the cherry down to the bean inside.
Drying like this takes between ten days and a month. For larger coffee farms, drying is accelerated with the help of mechanical driers.
This drying process is crucial in coffee production to ensure brittle beans, which are then roasted to bring out its bold flavors. It also ensures that there is no excess moisture, which may cause the development of fungi and molds that may ruin an entire batch of beans.
Once dried, the cherry turns into a shriveled fruit. This is then stripped off using a special hulling machine. In this process, the pulp and skin are hulled so that only the seeds inside will remain. These seeds, though still green, are what will soon become coffee beans.
While the natural process produces a robust, full-bodied brew that may have subtle citrus notes, it can easily go wrong. The coffee cherry's fruit can impart flavor to the bean in this process. Therefore, if the coffee's moisture content has not been completely drawn out, the fruit can ferment, turn rancid, and taint the coffee's flavor. This can translate to an "off" tasting cup.
Dry processing can be risky, especially if you are sourcing from multiple farms or origins, or if you have big precious batches of harvested coffee. Therefore, many producers and exporters choose the wet process.
Wet coffee processing takes out the cherry pulp early in the process so that it doesn't decompose with the bean, which can cause the off flavor coffee producers avoid.
After harvesting the freshly picked cherries, they go through a pulping machine. This machine separates the fruit pulp and the thin parchment that surrounds the green coffee seeds. From here, the beans are sorted as they pass through a water channel. The lighter beans will float, while the heavier ripe ones will sink to the bottom. Then, the ripe ones are collected and passed through several rotating drums to separate them by size.
After sorting, the beans then go into big fermentation tanks filled with water. Here, they will sit for 12 to 48 hours in order to remove the mucilage layer that is still attached to the bean. Fermenting in these tanks, the beans will start to produce enzymes that will dissolve this slick layer. This mucilage may also be removed by mechanically scrubbing the beans together. Once this layer is removed, the beans are rinsed multiple times before they go to the next step, which is drying.
This next step requires the beans to be dried to 11% moisture level, on drying floors or in machine-powered tumblers, so that they can be properly stored. Once dried, these beans are called parchment coffee because of a paper-thin layer surrounding the beans.
At this point, the coffee beans undergo more steps, such as hulling, which removes the parchment. An optional process, called polishing, can also be done to create more superior beans. Finally, they are graded and sorted according to size and weight, where the flawed and defectives ones are removed either by hand or special machinery.
With wet processed coffee, since the fruit is removed at the beginning, it does not impart any flavor to the final coffee bean product. This means that the coffee gets its flavor distinctly from its origins and from the environmental conditions from which it grew. Many specialty coffee producers use this coffee processing method exclusively for this reason.
There are many other kinds of coffee processing techniques that are used by various coffee producers in different countries. Between the robust, sweet natural or a crisp, tart washed, there are different processing methods that explore a middle ground.
However, there is no right or wrong way of processing coffee. One is not better than the other. What determines the kind of process to be used on particular coffee beans rely on the beans' inherent qualities and what method can best showcase these for the ultimate enjoyment of the coffee drinker.


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Taking a painting from initial concept to finished artwork takes many steps for me. Below is the condensed, step-by-step process.
I start with small, black-and-white thumbnail sketches so that I can view the impact of the design. Once I select my design and format, I proceed to 5x7" color studies to find my palette.
color, Blue as the secondary, and Red as a discord (or accent) color.
When I am planning a large painting, I will often do a smaller one to work out areas I am unsure of. Below is a 19 x 13" painting that is headed for the recycling bin. I worked and re-worked areas until I had a design that I liked.
The final painting is 29 x 19" (30 x 29" after framing). I made a few design changes in the drawing then started with loose washes in the background.
I continue coming forward from the background, covering big areas. I try to keep the background looser, saving the details for the foreground and figure.
I work my way down the painting, often referring to my original color study for guidance.
Finished up the details in the foreground, made a few changes to the background, and it's done!


Sweet, salty, with a little spicy kick, if you like, this quick and easy Korean Ground Beef over Rice will please your taste buds! Done in 20 minutes or less. Can be made Paleo-friendly.
Cook the beef and minced garlic in a preheated skillet until the meat turns brown. I cook the beef until it's dark brown as I want the meat to be a little crunchy.
In a small bowl, mix together the soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, grated ginger (or ground ginger) and red pepper flakes (if using). Replace with paleo-approved ingredients if doing paleo. Use fresh ginger if you can as it adds a lot of flavor. Pour all the sauce into the beef and mix well. Cook just until everything is heated through. NOTE: If you're able – use fresh ginger as it just so delicious with it!
Serve on top of freshly cooked rice (or cauliflower rice and lettuce wraps, if preferred). Garnish with roasted Sesame seeds and sliced green onions. Enjoy!


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It provides a useful summary of all the different workstreams related to AI. It ranges from funding to different Commission's work plans that have an impact on AI, to the different activities the Competitiveness (COMPET) Council has been working on. There are several points within the text that include the integration of digital skills. Highlighted below is the context in which digital skills were specifically included.
The Digital Europe Programme, the first pan-European programme dedicated to the digital transformation. Endowed with a proposed total budget of €9.2 billion. It will cover high performance computing, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills and interoperable solutions in areas of public interest.
The InvestEU Fund will provide access to finance with its four policy areas – sustainable infrastructure; research, innovation and digitisation; small and medium-sized businesses; and social investment and skills.
Through Horizon Europe investments in AI-related research and innovation are expected to continue, including investments in High Performance Computing, Cybersecurity, digital capacities, interoperability and skills.
The Competitiveness Council will operate under the Presidency's goal of "Securing prosperity and competitiveness through digitalisation". The Presidency Council meetings will therefore aim to boost industrial competitiveness for the EU, leveraging opportunities that come with digitalisation. A new, holistic and strong European Industrial Policy Strategy shall take full advantage of developments such as digital transformation, the potential of AI and the need for skilled labour. The Presidency aims to deliver input related to the necessity of skills.
A policy debate is planned at the COMPET Council on September 27th on the topic of "Rethinking European Industry: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics". This debate will build on the discussions at informal meeting of Competitiveness ministers addressing digitisation of industry with a special focus on AI, skills and investments.


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Three kilometres off the coast of the city of Sidon, a huge crane on the back of a ship manoeuvred the military hardware into place over the water before dropping them down to the seabed one after the other.
The initiative to create an 'underwater park' is spearhead by a local group, Friends of the coast of Sidon, which got the Lebanese army to hand over some of it old vehicles for the project.
'This will be a paradise for divers and a place where we can develop underwater life,' said NGO representative Kamel Kozbar, who hopes seaweed will soon cover the vehicles.
Lebanon boasts some 200 kilometres of Mediterranean coast but beaches have not been spared from a waste and garbage crisis that has plagued Lebanon for years.
The tanks have been placed with their turrets facing towards Lebanon's southern foe Israel 'out of solidarity for the Palestinian people', Kozbar said.


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import unittest
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from precis.generate import Generator
from precis.base import Measure
from precis import abbreviate
from precis import plot as sp
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from helpers import get_test_data_path as tdp
from os.path import join

class TestBase(unittest.TestCase):

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        measure = Measure(X=join(tdp(), 'items.txt'), y=join(tdp(), 'scales.txt'), key=join(tdp(), 'key.txt'), missing='drop')
        abb = abbreviate.TopNAbbreviator(max_items=8, min_r=0.3)
        gen = Generator(abbreviator=abb)
        gen.run(measure, n_gens=3)
        cls.generator = gen

    def test_scale_intercorrelation_plot(self):
        am = self.generator.abbreviate()
        sp.scale_correlation_matrix(self.generator.best)

    def test_evolution_plot(self):
        sp.history(self.generator)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()


BOARDMAN — The Boardman location of Ankle & Foot Care Centers, which operates 20 offices in Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana and Stark Counties, has been tapped by a Swiss firm to conduct clinical trials on a new medical device designed to treat heel pain. The Centers will be one of only six facilities nationwide who will participate in these trials.
Patients drawn from the Centers' 17 locations will volunteer to participate in a study that will test the effectiveness of extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT), a newer treatment modality for plantar fasciitis. This condition, which afflicts connective tissue at the bottom of the foot, leads to chronic heel pain and heel spur syndrome.
Traditional treatments for plantar fasciitis include anti-inflammatory medication, physical therapy and orthotics. When these methods fail, the next step has been surgery. However, ESWT offers a non-surgical, non-invasive approach that uses shockwave treatment.
By applying controlled localized trauma to affected areas, the shockwaves actually stimulate the body's own healing properties. Side effects of this treatment are minimal, and improvement in the plantar fasciitis condition may be seen immediately, or may take from three to six months.
The device involved in the clinical trials, which is manufactured by the Swiss firm Storz Medical AG, is actually a smaller version of one already being used successfully in hospitals and ambulatory centers. It is hoped that this new, smaller device will enable ESWT to be performed in physicians' offices.
As is standard in such trials, half of the patients will receive a placebo treatment, so that the effectiveness of the trials can be judged objectively. Participants will receive three treatments over a three-week period, and their progress will be charted over the course of one year. Patients must sign a consent form committing to the one-year evaluation period and acknowledging that they may receive a placebo. Participants in the clinical trials will not be charged, so those who do not have insurance coverage have the opportunity to receive treatment at no cost.


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Some moments in history are so significant, so iconic and so, well, historic that it is easy to forget that they were negotiated by humans. Humans with strengths and weaknesses. Humans with agendas to pursue and legacies to protect. This is just what director, Dror Moreh, set out to explore in his timely and fascinating documentary, The Human Factor.
In his film, Moreh examines three decades of negotiations in the Israeli-Arab peace process from the perspective of the key American mediators involved. This is a conflict, Moreh reminds us, over "the same narrow strip of land in the Middle East" and is "the most enduring and violent in modern times, posing a major threat to world peace".
The Human Factor begins by taking us back to 1991. The Cold War has ended, leaving the US as the only global super power. The film explains that, to further assert its influence, the US decided to act as a peacemaker between Israel and its Arab neighbours.
This venture would, of course, require some extremely challenging negotiations. As Gamal Helal (an interpreter and diplomat who played many vital roles in the process) observes, in the Middle East everyone thinks they can "reinvent the wheel".
The concept of negotiation is defined in the documentary as not manipulation but as the willingness to establish a relationship of credibility, empathy and trust. Meanwhile, you cannot ignore the human factor. Success will always depend on the personalities involved.
Moreh focuses on the individuals behind the peace talks. How much did they manage to achieve? Why were there such devastating failures? The Human Factor features an impressive number of talking heads and all speak remarkably candidly about their experiences.
Their stories are set against a powerful backdrop of archival material - making this documentary a surprisingly immersive experience. It feels as if we are being taken behind the scenes at critical moments in the peace process.
The Human Factor features the recollections of a number of key American negotiators. For example, we hear from Dennis Ross, known as "the architect" of the Arab-Israeli peace process, Martin Indyk, who twice served as US Ambassador to Israel between 1995-2001, the aforementioned Gamal Helal, and Aaron Miller who became the US State Department's top analyst for Lebanon and the Palestinians in 1980 and went on to become Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator to Dennis Ross.
While the global political stakes were, of course, overwhelmingly high, Moreh never lets us forget about the individuals at the centre of these negotiations. It is absolutely fascinating to hear them talk about their hopes, their frustrations and the insights they now have with the benefit of hindsight.
For example, Dennis Ross explains the challenge of facilitating talks between Isreali Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and Palestinian political leader and chair of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Yasser Arafat. The nerve-wracking negotiations involved in organising a public handshake between these two men is a gripping and compelling story in itself.
Ross and Martin Indyk remind us how tantalisingly close Israel and Palestine came to finding peace during President Bill Clinton's time in office. The ingredients seemed to be there - including that critical human factor - and the stage was set for a significant move forward in the process.
However, in emotional scenes, Ross explains how this precious chance for peace was lost when Rabin was shot and killed in November 1995.
As well as documenting America's key Middle East negotiators, The Human Factor examines the country's position in the peace process. Moreh explores the impact of the all Jewish US negotiating team and America's close relationship with Israel - the country was, we are told, far from an "honest broker".
While the negotiators in the film all talk about their desire for peace and a good outcome for all sides (and they have, of course, dedicated their lives and careers to this ambition), they freely admit that mistakes were made. "It's a history of missed opportunities," says Martin Indyk. "It's a terrible tragedy."
Aaron Miller recalls hearing President Clinton conclude that trying and failing in the Middle East was much better than not trying at all. Miller remembers feeling inspired by this comment. In hindsight, he now believes that, while this is a fine slogan for a college football team, it is "no substitute for a foreign policy of the most consequential nation on earth".
"Failure costs," Miller explains. "We saw the world the way we wanted it to be. We did not see the world the way it was."
The Human Factor was inspired by a meeting that Moreh had with Dennis Ross back in 2015. "I asked if he would be willing to share those intimate moments from within those rooms during his 25 years of work trying to achieve peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours," Moreh remembers. "Not what happened in front of the camera but behind the scenes, with the leaders and the other American negotiators. Ross wanted to think about it - after all it's his life's work and memories – but after a few days he agreed."
This is, of course, a story with global significance. However, it also has a very personal connection to Moreh. "On 4th November 1995, which happens to be my birthdate, Prime Minister Rabin was shot. Ever since that night my life was turned around. It ended up as the driving force behind The Gatekeepers, my previous film, and it fed a deep desire to really understand why although a huge American effort had been invested into the peace process, all attempts to reach peace went so badly wrong since that horrible November night."
In some ways, Moreh sees The Human Factor as a companion piece to The Gatekeepers. He believes that the documentary "answers that question from within the negotiating rooms, from the perspective of those who were there, from those who spent days, months, years to bring peace. I wanted to revisit those moments with the individuals at the heart of the negotiations.They were working closely with leaders on all sides and, through their perspective, I wished to decipher what were the real reasons for that failure.
"More than that, The Human Factor explores on a more fundamental psychological level, the human beings who are the political leadership, the core of diplomacy and decision making - and portray them as they really are."
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