American Hustle you can watch in good quality on a smartphone, tablet and PC. Supported operating systems Androyd and iOS. Enjoy.
Sign in with Facebook Other Sign in options. After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.
Joy Mangano movie, about creator of Miracle Mop and Huggable Hangers, to proceed with script by Bridesmaids writer and Christmas release date. A neatly timed Mandela pic is intelligent but fusty, while glittering performances abound in American Hustle, writes Guy Lodge.
He has a belly the size of a beer keg and a torturously complicated comb-over that he arranges with the fastidiousness of a Michelin-starred pastry chef.


I tried out @carolsdaughter Rhassoul Clay Shampoo and Conditioner. They both smelled really nice! The shampoo lathered up well and did a great job of cleaning my hair. The conditioner had a different texture than what I'm used to (not silky like most conditioners), but that's not a bad thing. It was easy to use and made my hair soft and smell really good. I received these products free for testing and review purposes from @pinchme and all opinions are my own.
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I tested out the @tonymoly.official Tomato Face Mask Sheet. It's VERY moisturizing. So much so that the mask was dripping while I was wearing it, and I'm not complaining! I felt a cooling sensation while I was wearing it and my face felt very moisturized afterwards. I will definitely be purchasing this in the future, I'm very impressed with this mask.
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I had the opportunity to test the Yadah Collagen Mask Pack which comes with 12 masks inside the box. I felt a cooling sensation as I was wearing the mask and it felt very hydrating. I love these kinds of masks because you just take them out of the package and apply them to your face; super easy. My face definitely looked and felt moisturized after leaving the mask on for the recommended 20 minutes. I think the packaging is super cute too! And I like the scent of the mask too. It's a light scent, it isn't strong or anything. I received this product free for testing interview purposes and all opinions are my own.
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Do yourself a favor every day and smile! This simple act changes your blood flow so that your brain sends out endorphins, or happy feelings, throughout your body. Even if you're in a bad mood, sometimes smiling can trick you into changing your mood. Smiling allows you to feel more relaxed and draws in more people to you. Do you need any more reasons to smile?
If you're going to start smiling all the time make sure that your smile is up to par and take extra special care of it! Brushing your teeth twice a day along with regular flossing is the basis of any oral care routine, along with regular visits to your dentist. How can we further protect and perfect our best accessory?
At-home teeth whitening systems are more than plentiful now and there seems to be one for every budget! If you would like to take the most basic approach to whitening your teeth, add some baking soda on top of your toothpaste when you brush and follow brushing with a whitening mouthwash. For ladies' night out, apply lipstick. Pale pinks, sheer berry tints, blue undertones and intense red shades make your teeth appear whiter while nudes and shades with yellow or golden undertones make teeth appear more yellow or dull.
As we age our teeth may shift a bit from our post-braces perfect smile, but that doesn't mean we have to go back to braces or live with it. Invisalign is an easy fix to straighten out a smile. Your dentist will make a cast of your teeth and create a custom-fitted mold of your teeth and over time as your teeth readjust themselves, your mold will change to accommodate for further straightening. What's nice about the Invisalign is you can keep popping them back in, most likely at bedtime, to maintain the straight appearance.
While there are so many options out there, possibly one of the most important things you can do is to watch your diet. Try to avoid foods that are high in sugar, foods and beverages that stain your teeth (coffee and red wine), hard chewy candies, etc. If you're craving something sweet much on some fruits or raisins, you can even opt for dark chocolate! Drink plenty of water to encourage saliva production and limit alcohol, which can cause your body and mouth to become dehydrated.
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The inaugural ITA Division II National Men's Team Indoor Championship will kick off on Friday in Oklahoma City at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center. The top five programs in the country are competing this weekend. No. 9 Hawaii Pacific, No. 14 Flagler, and Midwestern State round out the field.
The top 7 teams from the 2019 Final Oracle/ITA Division II National Rankings received an invite with one spot reserved for Midwestern State University. In the case of a decline, the next team in the rankings is selected until the field of eight is solidified.
Reigning NCAA champion Barry will face off against host Midwestern State on Friday in the opening round. The Buccaneers have played in the NCAA championship match for the last three years straight. The field boasts the NCAA champions dating back to 2013.
No. 2 seed Columbus State has not dropped a dual match this season. The Cougars will test their mettle against the Saint Leo Lions in the opening round of the championship.
Both the Sunshine State Conference and the Peach Belt Conference will be represented during the first Indoor Championship by two programs. The PacWest, Gulf Shore Conference, South Atlantic Conference, and the Lone Star Conference each have one program competing.
The Championship will run Feb. 28 – March 1 in Oklahoma City. Live results will be provided by Tennis Ticker.
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The biggest event in the Hong Kong art calendar is back! With Art Central having already kicked-off Hong Kong Art Week, Art Basel Hong Kong now returns for its fifth edition, gathering more than 3,000 artists and 242 galleries from 34 countries and cities. From up-and-coming talents to established names, enjoy amazing artwork and creations throughout the three-day event. Visit the booths of 10 of our favourite local galleries participating in the international fair and pop along to the home of one of the top art galleries in Hong Kong or find things to do for the weekend afterwards.
The Central gallery showcases the debut of Shi Guorui's newest series, Light Frequencies. The camera obscura photographer has spent more than three years using early photographic technologies to create stunning large-scale pinhole photographs, capturing the iconic Hong Kong skyline in monochrome. Booth 1D35.
Gallery Exit is always proud to bring local artists and emerging talents to a wider audience, and there's no bigger stage than at Art Basel. The Aberdeen gallery is presenting a selection of works by 20 local artists they believe the public should keep an eye out for, which includes Stephen Wong, Cheung Ting-ting and Chow Chun-fai. Booth 1B24.
Returning to the fair for its fourth consecutive year, Osage Gallery is featured in not one but three sectors. Presenting the curatorial project Movers and Tremblers, Osage is showcasing innovative artworks by Jiang Zhi, Shen Shaomin and Zhao Zhao. Visitors can also view Shen's large-scale sculptures of deceased Communist leaders laid in glass coffins, which question the relevance of Socialist ideals in today's society. Insights Booth 3D39, Encounters Booth 1E06, and Theatre 2.
Committed to showcasing local artists on a larger platform, Blindspot Gallery is joining the Art Basel line-up with an exciting display of provocative works by Chinese artists Chen Wei, Jiang Pengyi and Ren Hang, as well as the unique vision of local creatives Angela Su, Eason Tsang Ka-wai and Trevor Yeung. Blindspot can also be found in the new specially curated Kabinett sector featuring Wang Qingsong's latest video work. Galleries Booth 3C40.
Showcasing a mix of video art, paintings and mixed media artworks, the Southside art gallery is shining the spotlight on eight artists from Asia, each the possessor of a unique skillset and vision within their chosen discipline. Pop along to the booth and see Liang Ban's creative iPod videos, Atsuko Tanaka's canvas piece made from synthetic resin and enamel, as well as Chinese-French artist Chu Teh-chun's abstract paintings. Booth 3E05.
You can find Galerie du Monde in the Insight sector showcasing representative work by Fifth Moon Group, pioneers in Taiwan's contemporary art scene. Their incorporation of American abstract expression into traditional ink paintings gave birth to a new artistic movement and viewers have the chance to enjoy rarely seen works at this Basel booth. Visitors can also view an extension of the same exhibition over at their Central gallery. Booth 3D27.
Edouard Malingue is putting on a group presentation centred on the theme of Alter States, exploring the possibilities beyond perception and reality. Artists on display include Cho Yong-ik, Laurent Grasso, Eric Baudart, Su-mei Tse and Fabien Mérelle, each bringing their particular individuality, vision and practice. Also don't miss Wang Wei's major installation in the Encounters section of the fair challenging the concepts of reality and artifice. Booth 3C09.
Titled Protein Boy, am space's exhibition is presented in the form of a short novel and installation project created by Taiwanese artist Huang Po-chih. Typically, Huang is interested in and critical of socio-economic issues. For Art Basel, his pieces explore the relationship between food consumption, sexual appetite and mental disorder while referencing the works of Polish writer Bruno Schulz. The exhibition is an interesting imagining of the future of food and psychological development. Booth 1C48.
The contemporary fine art gallery is focusing, intriguingly, on 'perceptions' for this year's Art Basel. Presenting a carefully-curated group exhibition featuring works by a mixture of Mainland and emerging local artists including Peng Jian and Halley Cheng, Galerie Ora-Ora invites visitors to reflect upon self-censorship and peer pressure and to view these Chinese contemporary artworks through different lenses and paradigms with regards to culture and globalisation. Booth 3C31.
Forget the exalted confines of Art Basel and let your hair down during art week at the more relaxed setting that is Art Central, back at the Harbourfront for 2017.


Getting started with the planning of wedding is an exciting time. This moment makes your day memorable and valuable. Planning is the foremost matter to go with your lifetime venture. The venues to celebrate wedding ceremonies come in different waysdepending on your budget. Backyard wedding is the best way to save your money and time. It can fit more of your close and dear ones. Here are some ideas to make your wedding day exceptional.
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Backyard wedding is a unique idea. To cook it more special you just need to start making arrangements on time. You can save time and money by adding up some spins and turns to the backyard area thereby making it a perfect place for wedding ceremony.


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Re: The New QE
« Reply #20 on: Mar 26, 2009, 07:01 PM »
I have registered my interest for one of the voyages for the Queen Elizabeth. In a letter from my travel agent Cunard have moved the goalposts with the bookings and introduced the famous fluid pricing in the maiden sailings. In a nut shell as the bookings fill up the fares will increase in 5% increments upto a miximum of 30% and this they expect to happen every few minutes over the 20 minutes that they estimate the voyages will take to sell out.
The same pricing policy was in place with the final voyages of QE2.
For some reason lm more interested in this ship than the QM2 or the QV, at the moment l couldnt give two hoots about them.
highlander0108
Ken M
Quote from: Cunardqueen on Mar 26, 2009, 07:01 PM
I am shocked. Must be smitten with the name Myles. I would be interested in the maiden transatlantic crossing, whenever that will be, but I am not sure which ship I'd rather be on. My sneaking suspicion is that there will be a tandem crossing with QM2 in the schedule for Cunard to maximize exposure with the press. Somehow seeing two nearly identical ships crossing together, if they go with QV, is not appealing at all to me. For that matter, why don't they have all three cross together for another first......
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Re: Another Queen Elizabeth...
« Reply #22 on: Mar 27, 2009, 07:19 AM »
I must admit I laughed at the Times writer saying he'd rather swim behind the ship than travel in her. And If I'm FORCED to go Carnicunard, I'd pick the Mary. As Rob has said she IS an Atlantic liner, not a Vista-class wannabe.
Isabelle Prondzynski
« Reply #23 on: Apr 01, 2009, 08:21 PM »
Could this be an April Fool story?
Apr 01, 2009 11:54 ET
Fastest Selling Voyage in Cunard History
Queen Elizabeth Maiden Voyage sells out faster than QE2 Final Voyage
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - April 1, 2009) - The October 2010 Maiden Voyage for Cunard's new ocean liner Queen Elizabeth, which was placed on worldwide sale to past guests at 1300 hours BST today, Wednesday 1 April, sold out in an amazing 29 minutes 14 seconds - easily making this the fastest selling voyage in Cunard's 170-year history. In fact this voyage sold out quicker, and involved more guests, than QE2's Final Voyage when it went on sale in June 2007 setting a record then of 36 minutes.
Something less than generous in me hopes that it is... More here :
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Cunard-Line-Limited-969235.html
Scott Ebersold
I heard a rumor from a travel agent friend of mine (after being on hold with Cunard for an hour and getting no tickets for his clients) that it may be a marketing ploy. And then, magicallly all the waitlisted folks will suddenly get rooms.
And then he sent me this ....
http://content.cunard.com/announce/?mMBR0EbTJcNKZuYdZ-3bmbAvzqGcSLRvm
Fastest Selling Voyage in Cunard Line History
April 1, 2009 -- The October 2010 Maiden Voyage for Cunard's new ocean liner Queen Elizabeth, which was placed on worldwide sale to past guests at 8:00 a.m. today, sold out in a record 29 minutes – easily making this the fastest selling voyage in Cunard's 170-year history. In fact, this voyage sold out quicker involving more guests than QE2's Final Voyage when it set a previous Cunard sell-out record of 36 minutes in June 2007.
More than half of Queen Elizabeth's remaining Maiden Season, comprising six voyages from October to December 2010, was sold within the first two hours.
"This is an impressive record set by what will be an impressive ship and speaks volumes about the Cunard brand as well as for the resilience of the cruise sector as a whole in these challenging times," said Carol Marlow, president and managing director of Cunard Line. "It is also very encouraging to see the level of interest in Queen Elizabeth coming from all our international markets, with bookings in the UK, US and Germany particularly strong. I urge our travel partners and those guests who have not yet booked to move fast in order to secure their place in history on Queen Elizabeth during her maiden season," added Marlow.
One of the youngest fleets in the industry, Cunard's famous state-of-the-art award-winning vessels Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria will be joined by Queen Elizabeth, and all three will take Cunard's 170 years of history, heritage, impeccable service and tradition far into the 21st Century. This is a legacy recognized by Cunard guests, with up to 97% saying they will recommend Cunard to a friend and 98% saying they will return.
Queen Elizabeth will feature the unique Cunard traditions linking her with her sisters Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria and their predecessors, along with some exciting features that will give the vessel her own style and personality, plus all the modern day luxuries Cunard's guests have come to expect.
Named after the first Queen Elizabeth, one of Cunard's greatest ships, the new Queen Elizabeth will reflect her predecessor in interior grandeur, décor and style, but with a modern twist. From the outside, her distinctive black and red livery will hint at an experience that differentiates a Cunard liner from a modern-day cruise ship. This will be most evident in the ship's adherence to liner traditions, with elegant double and triple height public rooms on a grand scale, luxuriously endowed with rich wood paneling, intricate mosaics, gleaming chandeliers and cool marbles. Art Deco features will pay homage to the original Queen Elizabeth and will allow the new ship to reflect a more civilized era of travel.
Queen Elizabeth's maiden 2010 season will consist of six voyages, calling on 32 distinct ports in 18 countries. Her Maiden Voyage, now sold out, will depart from Cunard's homeport of Southampton on October 12, 2010, en route to the Atlantic Isles.
The ship will then embark on five celebratory inaugural voyages, for which space is still available but selling fast:
Mediterranean Premiere – A 14-day voyage departing Southampton on 25 October 2010 with maiden calls to Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Florence/Pisa (Livorno), Rome (Civitavecchia), Naples (for Capri and Pompeii), Cartagena and Gibraltar. Fares start from $2,795 per person.
Aegean Introduction – An 18-day voyage departing Southampton on 8 November 2010 calling on Malaga (for Granada), Malta (Valletta), Venice, Dubrovnik, Kusadasi (for Ephesus), Athens (Piraeus) and Alicante. Fares from $3,295 per person.
Gallic Debut – A five-day voyage departing Southampton on 26 November 2010 with maiden calls to Rotterdam (for Amsterdam), Brussels/Bruges (for Zeebrugge) and Cherbourg. Fares start from $1,195 per person.
Iberian Discovery – A 13-day voyage departing Southampton on 1 December 2010 with calls to Vigo (for Santiago de Compostela), Lisbon, Seville (Cadiz), Gran Canaria (Las Palmas), Tenerife (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), La Palma (Santa Cruz de La Palma) and Madeira. Fares start from $2,395 per person.
Festive Debut – A 22-day holiday voyage departing Southampton on 14 December 2010 with calls in the Caribbean, including Madeira (Funchal), Tortola, Dominica, Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua and Azores Islands (Ponta Delgada). Fares start from $4,795 per person.
For more information and to book a voyage, consult your Travel Professional, call toll-free 1-800-7-CUNARD or go to www.cunard.com.
Scott - what a long list! -
Yet... no mention of a Maiden tour around Great Britain !
Says it all!!!
(Sorry for the mildly veiled rude-to-QE3 approach here, it's a question of everlasting affection for the QE2!
btw - does anyone know when, who by and where the QE3 launch will take place?!!)
« Last Edit: Apr 01, 2009, 10:39 PM by twynkle »
Andy F
« Reply #27 on: Apr 02, 2009, 02:17 AM »
Quote from: twynkle on Apr 01, 2009, 10:37 PM
does anyone know when, who by and where the QE3 launch will take place?!!)
Nothing confirmed as yet nor likely to be for some time but fair to assume she will be named in Southampton by a 'Royal' as per the norm. Purely speculative but my bet would be on HM doing the honours once again (as with QE2 and QM2), especially given this is QE. As for the date, probably (but not necessarily), the day she embarks on her maiden cruise.
As for the maiden, it was always going to sell out fast and before going on public release but who as for Cunard's claim of selling out faster than QE2's final, 'interesting'.
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Chris Frame
It looks to me, from the deck plans, that the new QE will have the newly restructured (as seen on Arcadia & other Vista's) totally square back with aft facing accommodation. Has anyone seen any artists impressions of her side elevation or aft views so we can see how this will look?
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Quote from: Andy F on Apr 02, 2009, 02:17 AM
When QE2's farewell sailings went to market everyone was in a state of shock / depression - hence it took a bit longer to dial the numbers to make the bookings!!
Nothing confirmed as yet nor likely to be for some time but fair to assume she will be named in Southampton by a 'Royal' as per the norm. Purely speculative but my bet would be on HM doing the honours once again (as with QE2 and QM2), especially given this is QE.
I'm not so sure, personally... An italian cruise ship built for an American-owned company... I think she made an exception for QM2 because it was clearly a special one off ship, but I thought they deliberately snubbed them by sending Camilla for QV. If you were another cruise ship operator operating in the UK, wouldn't you complain about why you were being treated differently?
The days of the "real" Queens were a whole different kettle of fish. British jobs, british craftmanship, British 'ship of state' etc etc.
« Last Edit: Apr 02, 2009, 07:06 PM by Rob Lightbody »
Well Rob, time will of course tell but failing that, they could always ask Helen Mirren; after all, when she named Ventura at least the bottle broke!
We had a Queen Elizabeth pub near us once
Think it was opened by Marty Feldman...........
I am certain, absolutely certain, that thousands of people booked QE2 cruises for the first time ever, in her final 18 months of service after the announcement. Maybe it was even 10s of thousands.
I am also certain that the experience will have made them thirsty for more - and I think this is a factor in the QE sellout (although I don't actually believe its as simple as a complete sell-out - there must be some spin going on here... also people only have to put down 10% now... lets see how many actually go!).
However for me, QE is not a "suitable replacement" for QE2, and I don't know why they keep calling her that. What does that make QM2 then?
I just wish they'd called her something else, something not beginning with Q. She's not a Cunard Queen. There have been 4 Cunard Queens, although for many people, there's only really been 3...
I've just added Queen Elizabeth (3) to my website including images kindly provided by Michael Gallagher at Cunard Line:
http://www.chriscunard.com/queen_elizabeth.htm
« Last Edit: Apr 05, 2009, 07:26 AM by Chris »
Thank you Chris -
Although I think you'll understand that this qe3 (Idea! - use small case! ) could never, ever be as GREAT as The RMS QE2
« Last Edit: Apr 05, 2009, 09:59 AM by twynkle »
I suspect that no ship will ever be as great as Queen Elizabeth 2 - she is, and will always be my favourite
« Last Edit: Nov 14, 2009, 12:49 PM by Chris »
Quote from: Chris on Apr 05, 2009, 10:26 AM
I suspect that no ship will ever be as great at Queen Elizabeth 2 - she is, and will always be my favourite
and rightly so!
Quote from: Andy F on Apr 05, 2009, 02:03 PM
Has anybody booked to go on the Queen Elizabeth ?
I was just wondering if anyone has book a voyage on the new Queen Elizabeth
We have managed to get a place on the Maiden Voyage next October, and as we have never been on a Maiden Voyage before, wondered if there was anything special we could expect
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Q: SQL Server 2012 row_number ASC DESC performance In a SQL Server 2012 version 11.0.5058 I've a query like this
SELECT TOP 30
    row_number() OVER (ORDER BY SequentialNumber ASC) AS [row_number],
    o.Oid, StopAzioni
FROM
    tmpTestPerf O
INNER JOIN
    Stati s on O.Stato = s.Oid
WHERE
    StopAzioni = 0

*

*When I use ORDER BY SequentialNumber ASC it takes 400 ms

*When I use ORDER BY DESC in the row_number function it takes only 2 ms

(This is in a test environment, in production it is 7000, 7 seconds vs 15 ms!)
Analyzing the execution plan, I found that it's the same for both queries. The interesting difference is that in the slower it works with all the rows filtered by the stopazioni = 0 condition, 117k rows
In the faster it only uses 53 rows
There are a primary key on the tmpTestPerf query and an indexed ASC key on the sequential number column.
How it could be explained?
Regards.
Daniele
This is the script of the tmpTestPerfQuery and Stati query with their indexes
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tmpTestPerf]
(
    [Oid] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
    [SequentialNumber] [bigint] NOT NULL,
    [Anagrafica] [uniqueidentifier] NULL,
    [Stato] [uniqueidentifier] NULL,

    CONSTRAINT [PK_tmpTestPerf]
      PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([Oid] ASC)
)

CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_2]
   ON [dbo].[tmpTestPerf]([SequentialNumber] ASC)

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Stati]
(
    [Oid] [uniqueidentifier] ROWGUIDCOL  NOT NULL,
    [Descrizione] [nvarchar](100) NULL,
    [StopAzioni] [bit] NOT NULL

    CONSTRAINT [PK_Stati]
      PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([Oid] ASC)
) ON [PRIMARY]

CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [iStopAzioni_Stati]
   ON [dbo].[Stati]([StopAzioni] ASC)
GO

A: The query plans are not exactly the same.
Select the Index Scan operator.

Press F4 to view the properties and have a look at Scan Direction.
When you order ascending the Scan Direction is FORWARD and when you order descending it is BACKWARD.
The difference in number of rows is there because it takes only 53 rows to find 30 rows when scanning backwards and it takes 117k rows to find 30 matching rows scanning forwards in the index.

Note, without an order by clause on the main query there is no guarantee on what 30 rows you will get from your query. In this case it just happens to be the first thirty or the last thirty depending on the order by used in row_number().

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This blog is part of a 3-part series on ambience and context in personal digital experiences, and how they enable productivity.
In my first post in this series, I talked about personal digital experiences providing choice, convenience and efficiency that transcend work-life boundaries. Now we'll look at how the same kinds of context and ambience are set to make a bigger impact at the office.
At the office, we carry devices around because they carry our digital context. You use your laptop because your files are on it and it has your configuration. It's set up for you. What if that personalization could follow you based on the kind of work you want to do? What if you could work from any station you happened upon? Just a screen to display visuals and a computing device that delivers your available activities based on the fact that you sat down and identified yourself? Imagine that your files, your work in progress, and your schedules, recordings and meeting notes are there. Anything you tell the virtual assistant at that desk station or smart wall, adds to your context.
That part is not too farfetched. It's just a matter of accessing familiar tools in new ways — with a little support from the cloud. Now, scale it to a 10-person meeting room. The AI tech in the room knows who is present in the meeting and for how long. It compiles agenda topics, notes and action items. It integrates with the project management system to mark tasks complete. It interfaces with back-end systems to provision the servers, containers or storage you need for a new development initiative. It books travel. All using electronic requests with predefined fields. No redundant forms to fill out.
How much administrative work would we eliminate if this was a reality today? How many of these services already exist, but need the power and relational understanding of Virtual Assistant (VA) technologies to bring them together? The rooms we use to get work done as teams are already getting smarter and wire-free. The next step in this evolution, merging this new found help of the VA with the always-there context of our cloud productivity services, is naturally a workspace (whether shared or single) that's smart enough to understand YOUR productive needs, provide for and fulfil them wherever possible, and do so without as much physical, single-use technology requiring personalization.
The modern non-executive dream: administrative assistants for everyone!
And the cool part is that this is all coming soon to an enterprise near you.
In my 3rdand final blog in this series, I'll look into how artificial intelligence and cloud solutions create a naturally productive workplace.
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Rabbi Richard Zionts of the Har-El Institute for Study and Worship in the Reform Tradition cordially invites the clergy and people of St. Margaret's to celebrate their "simcha" (שִׂמְחָה, or "gladness") at an Adult Bar and Bat Mitzvah service, Friday, May 11.
A pre-Service reception in Meyers Hall at 4:30 p.m. will be followed by the service at 5 PM in the church upstairs. Rabbi Zionts and Cantor Joseph Gole will preside, and Brent Reynolds will serve as organist.
Don't miss this holy celebration of accepting the Jewish ritual law, tradition, and ethics, akin to our own rite of Confirmation.


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Kabir Khan's '83, with Ranveer Singh playing Kapil Dev, inspired by Team India's first World Cup win, has locked another cast member. The popular actor-singer from Punjab, Ammy Virk will be playing the role of fast bowler Balwinder Singh Sandhu who delivered the most memorable ball in the final match, castling West Indian Gordon Greenidge with a devastating in-swinger.
Former cricketer Balwinder Sandhu is also coaching Ranveer Singh and the actor recently shared a picture with his coach from a practice session. The movie will be shot in four months, from May to August.
One of the producers of the film '83, Madhu Mantena, is delighted to have the Punjabi star Ammy Virk on board. Talking about the film Mantena said, "We are in the process of casting and will rope in actors from film industries across India in the true spirit of the film."
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Going back to recreate the historic victory of 1983 world cup, Kabir Khan's upcoming directorial will star Ranveer Singh as the former captain of the Indian Cricket Team Kapil Dev.
There has been a lot of exitement amongst the audience to witness the magnificent event to be recreated on the silver screen.
Earlier, the makers had hosted an event to announce the film along with the entire former team that lifted the world cup in 83.
The film is directed by Kabir Khan, the sports film will present one of the most important event in the Indian cricket history. The film will be shot at real locations and will be going on floors early next year.
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Led by the then captain Kapil Dev, who led the Indian cricket team to it's maiden World Cup win, 1983's World Cup stays to be one of the most etched events in the minds of the cricket fans.
While Ranveer Singh is all set to play the lead, the film will be backed by a talented support cast. The casting of the other cricket players will be announced soon.
Presented by Reliance Entertainment and Produced by Madhu Mantena, Vishnu Induri & Kabir Khan will be releasing on 10th April 2020.
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  declare export type Presets = {
    elevator: Animation,
    fade: Animation,
    accordionVertical: Animation,
    accordionHorizontal: Animation,
    none: null,
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    left: number,
    height: number,
    width: number,
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    props: $PropertyType<React$Element<*>, 'props'>,
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Q&A: What happens when a volcano beneath a glacier erupts?
Researchers Jim Ciarrocca, Ben Edwards and Ellie Was study lava under Iceland's Gigj�kull glacier.
In 2010, Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano -- its crater covered by glacier ice -- erupted, spewing clouds of ash that led to delays in flights to and from Europe. Now Katla, another Iceland volcano, is rumbling. To mark Earth Science Week, Oct. 9-15, 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) spoke with geologist Benjamin Edwards of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., and Sonia Esperanca, a volcanologist and program director in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences, about Eyjafjallajökull and other volcanoes hidden under glaciers. NSF's Division of Earth Sciences supports Edwards' research.
Q: How often do volcanoes covered by snow and ice erupt?
Esperanca: Volcanoes at high latitudes on continents are often covered by ice and snow, sometimes through the summer months. Volcanologists are always concerned when a volcano beneath a glacier becomes active. When scalding-hot lava melts vast amounts of ice and snow, for example, severe mudflows may result.
Q: Is Eyjafjallajökull Iceland's only glacier-covered volcano?
Edwards: Iceland has many glacierized volcanoes [volcanoes at least partly covered by ice], including the recent earthquake-rattled Katla, Grímsvötn, Bárðarbunga and others. However, even Iceland's ice-free volcanoes like Hekla can have ash-rich eruptions. The key to knowing where ash will go during an Iceland eruption is to follow the Northern Hemisphere jet streams. Sometimes, they flow across Iceland and head into the Arctic, where much of the ash falls into the ocean; at other times they can quickly whisk the ash into northern Europe.
Q: Did lava from the 2010 eruption flow beneath the glacier's ice?
Edwards: Yes, a lava flow traveled down the Gigjökull glacier, which covers Eyjafjallajökull. In part, the lava followed pathways left by floods that melted ice at the beginning of the eruption. Other lava flows twisted and turned along pre-existing drainage tunnels beneath the ice. We found lava in these passageways when we first visited the eruption site in 2011. Since then, the roofs of most of these ice tunnels have completely melted.
Q: Is this the first time under-ice lava has been observed?
Edwards: Although this isn't the first time lava has traveled beneath ice at a modern-day volcanic eruption, these ice-lava deposits are probably the best documented. Our team made several flights over the eruption site during and immediately afterward. While the lava was flowing, however, the area was too dangerous for close observations.
Q: Does under-ice lava create special hazards for people living downstream?
Edwards: It can. Our work shows that ice-melting increased from lava traveling beneath the glacier. The rate of melting depends on how fast the lava is flowing and how much ice comes into contact with it, or is close enough to be affected by the lava's heat. Explosive glaciovolcanic eruptions usually produce the most rapid ice-melting.
Q: The process of lava flowing under ice must create beautiful, if ephemeral, structures in a glacier. Did you see tunnels, arches and other formations?
Edwards: We observed lots of arches in the ice in 2011, but these were mostly gone by 2012. Overall the response of Gigjökull glacier to the eruption was mixed. A canyon carved in the upper part of the glacier had "healed itself" by 2012. However, the damage to the lower part of the glacier seems to have been severe enough that, coupled with melting due to climate change, the end of the glacier lost about half its width. It doesn't seem like it's going to recover, based on views in 2014.
Q: Does ice "cool" burning-hot lava?
Edwards: Theoretically, lava can melt about five to ten times its own volume of ice -- if all the heat from the lava, which could be 1,200 degrees Celsius [about 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit], melts the ice. But nature generally is not that efficient, in part because meltwater can quickly carry heat away from the lava-ice interface. Also, because about 20 percent of the potential heat released by the lava comes from crystals that grow inside the lava, quickly turning it into glass, some of the potential heat is lost.
Q: Can new snowfall "rebuild" a glacier that has lost ice to an eruption?
Edwards: Yes, depending on how badly the ice was damaged and how much snow falls. At Veniaminof Volcano in Alaska, lava flows come out of a cone that sits above a caldera filled with ice. The flows melt into the ice for 30 to 50 meters [98 to 164 feet], but after one or two years are again covered by ice and snow. At Gigjökull in Iceland, part of the glacier seemed to recover very quickly, and other parts seem to have been damaged beyond repair.
Q: Is there anywhere else on Earth such glacier-volcanoes exist and have erupted, or might in the near future?
Edwards: Our work shows that at least 180 volcanoes around the globe have glaciers that have been mapped to within 1 kilometer [about two-thirds of a mile] of a known volcanic vent. More than 400 may be within striking distance: a 5 kilometer [3.1 mile] radius of damage from volcanic ash or lava flows.
Q: Can Iceland residents and visitors get close enough to the Eyjafjallajökull glacier-volcano to see the effects of the 2010 eruption?
Edwards: Yes, anyone can take a bus or a four-wheel drive vehicle to the base of the Gigjökull glacier, with its now-empty lake basin that once contained a glacial lagoon. If you look carefully, you can just see the end of the lava flow.
View of the Eyjafjallaj�kull crater. By 2012, ice had again covered the crater floor.
The glacier is covered with volcanic ash, and steam rises as glacial meltwater meets lava flow.
View looking down the volcano's flank; the lower part of the lava flow has a "blocky" surface.
An empty lagoon, where a glacial dam burst during the eruption, is at the glacier's lower end.
Two years after the eruption: A view upward showing the lower end of the lava flow and the glacier.


and large, heavy like the David's, heavier.
in my blue book. I will hold you.
on sinners, scanning the congregation.
stop getting up and playing video games in the dark?
Stop turning out the lights and then talking?
Stop not talking? Stop hating her for listening?
for the VA to pay, for the government to pay.
What should she pray? How can God answer?
what is meat or meet, what is finished, if anything is finished in the midst.
saying to the makers of the dark zippered burkas, where have you laid them?
Kim Garcia is the author of The Brighter House, winner of the 2015 White Pine Press Poetry Prize, DRONE, winner of the 2015 Backwaters Prize, and Madonna Magdalene, released by Turning Point Books in 2006. Her chapbook Tales of the Sisters won the 2015 Sow's Ear Poetry Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Mississippi Review,Nimrod and Subtropics, and her work has been featured on The Writer's Almanac. Recipient of the 2014 Lynda Hull Memorial Prize, an AWP Intro Writing Award, a Hambidge Fellowship and an Oregon Individual Artist Grant, Garcia teaches creative writing at Boston College.


The Essentia Healthcare campus in Duluth, MN employs 6,500 people in a total of 2 million square feet. It's not surprising that the 5 main buildings are connected with skyways to protect patients and staff from the harsh Minnesota winters and the lake-effect snow that blows in from Lake Superior.
The Miller-Dwan building was the ideal initial candidate for a SiteSync® wireless clock system in 2007 due to the age of its Simplex wired clock system. The biggest drive for a new system was the OR Director pushing to potentially recoup thousands of dollars lost in billing inaccuracy.
If a patient record shows leaving one area at 11:30 am and arriving at 11:28 am in another area, the insurance company refuses to pay either case because the patient can't be two places at the same time.
A synchronized clock system solved that situation in a hurry. Miller-Dwan installed 35 clocks in the Operating Rooms and another 85 clocks throughout the building. "The guys in maintenance were practically doing back flips knowing they would have accurate clocks. They used to manually advance the clocks through the old Simplex master clock and then walk the entire building to double check for accuracy. Now, after the Daylight Saving Time change, we come in the next day and we can count on the fact that the clocks don't skip a beat. Before the upgrade, we spent at least $10,000 on clock maintenance, labor and repair every year. Without even including the billing accuracy piece, our wireless clock system easily paid for itself within the first two years", said Maintenance Manager, Terry Anding.
The Director of Maintenance expects every clock to be accurate to 20 seconds of each other, so all the buildings providing patient care need synchronized time from clock to clock and building to building. American Time beat expectations and ensured the clocks were accurate within 1 second of each other. The powerful wireless time signal covers the Polinsky building next door to Miller-Dwan, so Anding and the Manager of Rehab work together to use one clock system for both buildings.
"Once the word gets out about our accurate clocks, everyone needs synchronized time. The Polinsky building next door provides Physical Therapy and Operational Therapy so accurate time is extremely important to them, too. Since our signal works just fine over there, the Manager of Polinsky calls when she needs more clocks and I order them out of her operational budget. We do everything we possibly can to be fiscally responsible, accurate and efficient", explains Anding.


Katy Perry: "Everybody's So Naked"
Katy Perry has urged her fellow female popstars to stop getting naked.
The Roar singer - who is currently No.1 on the UK album chart with Prism - told US radio station NPR that she believes there are too many artists losing their clothes.
K-Pez explained: "I'm not talking about anyone in particular, I'm talking about all of them. I mean everybody's so naked. We know you've got it, I've got it too."
She continued: "I've taken it out here and there and I'm not necessarily judging, I'm just thinking sometimes it's nice to play that card, but sometimes it's nice to play other cards."
In the same interview, the Teenage Dream hitmaker went on to address the struggles she encountered when starting out in the music industry, admitting: "I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way.
"My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home. And I went back home to Santa Barbara and my Taylor guitar I got for my 16th birthday and started working at an antique shop."
Perry also hit the headlines last week after admitting she kept locks of Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift's hair in her purse.


Orhan Pamuk is one of the best in World Literature as he portrays his country Turkey so beautifully. His books My Name is Red, Snow and Istanbul are haunting to say the least, and they fetched him a Nobel Prize in 2006. Istanbul is a beautiful city and it comes perfectly alive in Pamuk's words. If you wish to read more about Turkey, its people and the economic and political situations there – Pamuk is the author you must read.
Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karatas has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he'd hoped, at the age of twelve, he comes to Istanbul-"the center of the world"-and is immediately enthralled both by the city being demolished and the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father's trade, selling boza on the street, and hopes to become rich like other villagers who have settled on the desolate hills outside the booming metropolis. But chance seems to conspire against him. He spends three years writing love letters to a girl he saw just once at a wedding, only to elope by mistake with her stand though he grows to cherish his wife and the family they have, his relations all make their fortunes while his own years are spent in a series of jobs leading nowhere; he is sometimes attracted to the politics of his friends and intermittently to the lodge of a religious guide. But every evening, without fail, he still wanders the streets of Istanbul, selling boza and wondering at the "strangeness" in his mind, the sensation that makes him feel different from everyone else, until fortune conspires once more to let him understand at last what it is he has always yearned for. Told from the perspectives of many beguiling characters, A Strangeness in My Mind is a modern epic of coming of age in a great city, and a mesmerizing narrative sure to take its place among Pamuk's finest achievements.


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Home Featured Coke Studio Africa Targets Fans With A Music App
Coke Studio Africa Targets Fans With A Music App
Posted By: Guest Writeron: November 25, 2016 In: FeaturedTags: Africa
Coke Studio has made it easier to enjoy watching and listening to music from the TV show via a mobile phone. Coca-Cola Central East and West Africa launched the Coke Studio Mobile App, available on both theGoogle play store and the Samsung store. The mobile application is built on the Android platform and it enables its users to stream, download and create playlists of music from Coke Studio Africa Season 2, 3 and 4.
The Coke Studio Mobile App launch is timely and relevant for the African continent, particularly in Ugandawhich has a 64% (23,488,000) mobile phone penetration and 32.5% (11,927,000) internet penetration. (Internet Live stats, GSM Intelligence and Google statistics)
Speaking during the launch, Simon Kariithi, the Internet and Mobile Director for Samsung Electronics East Africa expounded on their involvement with the app.
"Samsung is a global leader in innovation, and we always have our consumers at heart. By embracing a platform like the Coke Studio mobile app, we believe that we have an opportunity to create great experiences for our esteemed consumers as they discover new music. Hosting this application on our Galaxy Apps store is part of our ongoing commitment to technology and consumer trends," he said
The app, which gives consumers a chance to listen to and discover music from over 50 African artists, is available in 5 languages: English, French, Portuguese, Swahili and Amharic, making it a truly Pan-African experience.
Waithera Kabiru, Digital Marketing Manager, Coca-Cola Central, East & West Africa, expounded on the role the app will play on the consumer journey.
"We are very excited to launch the Coke Studio mobile app, as it will enablemillions of youth around Africa wholove music to be able to access great content on their phones. Throughthe mobile app, users are able to listen to content on demand from the TV show via audio streaming or video, and download the music or create playlists for future listening" she said. "It's truly a revolutionary experience".
To keep up with all Coke Studio Africa related information including songs, artistes, music collaborations and television airing times, follow the hashtag #CokeStudioAfrica and find us online on the following pages:
Twitter: @CocaColaAfrica and @CocaCola_NG and @CocaCola_GH
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'Carousel' Regents Park Open Air Theatre- Review
August 10, 2021 by Lucy Foxell 1 Comment
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Musical 'Carousel'
One of the highlights of London summers has to be an evening at Regents Park Open Air Theatre watching a show in their iconic auditorium underneath the stars, whatever the weather. In our case, for the opening night of Carousel, it did rain a little but the show went on…
The theatre has a long history of bringing top-class shows including an annual musical to the stage, and this year is no exception. In 2020 they managed to stage their big summer musical, but because of social distancing regulations it meant it couldn't be the scheduled revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical 'Carousel', but instead a concert version of the previous hit 'Jesus Christ Superstar'.
However, this year the classic post-war Broadway musical 'Carousel' originally set in Maine in 1945 has made it to stage. Flamboyant artistic director Timothy Sheader has reinvented this great tale of small-town tragedy removing it from its past and setting it in a Northern British coastal town with the actors using their authentic accents.
Tom Scutt's effective set design is a stark and simple large wooden revolving stage, which is flanked by a wooden ridged slope that cleverly creates different levels, whilst the orchestra sits at its rear. There are no set changes and locations are only enhanced by the use of props. The costumes, designed by Molly Einchcomb and co-designed by Tom Scutt, create a suitable dourness and a good timeless depiction of working people.
Carousel tells the story of two young women living in a working-class community – the fresh-faced Julie Jordan (Carly Bawden) and the upbeat Carrie Pipperidge (Christina Modestou) both of who work together in a mill. On an evening out at the fairground Julie meets charismatic Billy Bigelow (Declan Bennett); the carousel barker, a handsome man whose job it is to attract the customers.
They fall in love and quickly marry much to Carrie's disapproval who warns her against Billy who by this time has lost his job at the Carousel. Carrie makes a more sensible decision and matches with the amusingly geeky Enoch Snow (John Pfumojena) who dreams of running a sardine factory.
The marriage quickly goes downhill and behind doors, Julie is being beaten at the hand of her husband. This is not a light and fluffy musical with romance at its heart but a tale that deals with difficult themes of domestic violence and coercion which make queasy watching for the modern-day audience.
The original production uncomfortably allowed the audience to empathise with Billy regardless of his abusive behaviour, but here in its more contemporary context Sheader has attempted to tell it from the woman's perspective. Sadly, it's a timeless tale of girls falling for the magnetic bad boy and yet loving him regardless of his brutal actions and often not having the strength and support to step away.
This comes at a time when domestic violence is at an all-time high which became more public knowledge during lockdown. The program shockingly draws attention to the Crime Survey for England and Wales which between March 2019 and March 2020 it was reported that 1.6 million women and 757,000 men had experienced domestic violence abuse crimes. But worse still during the first lockdown (between April and June 2020), there was a 65% increase in calls to the National Domestic Violence Abuse helpline.
However, amongst the darker themes, there is a wonderfully vibrant and joyful musical. Drew McOnie's choreography is an absolute winner, fresh, witty, gritty and energised, it's a complete triumph. It's complemented by Tom Deerling's cleverly re-orchestrated music which brings both delight and atmospheric stirring tones. He has omitted the lush strings and instead incorporated a brass band which dramatically takes the stage in the opening scene.
There are some lovely moments including the impassioned opener, which the ensemble delivers with infectious energy clearly defining the sexes and setting the narrative to come.
I was especially was moved by Carly Bawden's beautiful voice in Julie and Billy's heart-rendering duet, 'If I Loved You' and later in 'What's The Use of Wond'rin'. The characterful Nettie played with great charm by Joanna Riding, who is Julie's aunt gives a wonderfully moving rendition of the all-time classic 'You'll Never Walk Alone', which later proves to be a poignant finale song as the women one by women turn to face the audience leaving the men in the dark.
I thought the second half went a little astray…. Billy having discovered that Julie is pregnant and unable to provide is persuaded by Jigger to take part in a robbery during the annual clam bake. When it all goes wrong, awash with shame he takes his life, only to be resurrected. A dreamlike sequence takes place where Billy witnesses his 16-year-old daughter Louise (played with great aplomb by newcomer Natasha May-Thomas) perform an emotive dance sequence. Billy is able to observe her vulnerability in the face of aggressive and manipulative men, only then to be confronted about his own propensity for violence by a group of women.
The modern-day Carousel has its faults within the confines of the original script, however with its strong physically expressive cast, uplifting score, spirited direction and stunning choreography it successfully takes you on a powerful emotional rollercoaster. A perfect way to spend a summers evening.
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, to September 25
Box Office 0333 400 3562* | openairtheatre.com
Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4NU
Lines open Mon-Fri 9am – 8pm / Sat 10am – 8pm / Sun & Bank Holidays 10am – 6pm.
For other productions, this season at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, check our preview
https://openairtheatre.com
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About Lucy Foxell
Lucy comes from a background in the Theatre. She loves to soak up the wealth of live theatre and cultural activities London offers. She's passionate about photography and an enthusiastic foodie and fervent traveller, keen to explore as much of the world as possible.
flora.coleman@hotmail.com says
It was ok but the photos are better than the show itself…


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FIFF steht für:
 Fajr International Film Festival, iranisches Filmfestival, siehe Internationales Fajr-Filmfestival
 Festival International de Films de Fribourg, Schweizer französischsprachiges Filmfestival, siehe Internationales Filmfestival Freiburg
 Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, belgisches internationales Filmfestival für Filme in französischer Sprache

FIfF steht für:
 Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung, aus der Friedensbewegung hervorgegangener deutscher Verein

Siehe auch:
 FIF
 Pfiff

Abkürzung

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Zofia and Lesion, on the other hand, are getting slight nerfs.
Following yesterday's reveal of Rainbow Six Siege's Operation Wind Bastion, Ubisoft has released patch notes that detail a batch of lower-profile changes coming alongside the new operators and map. The patch mostly consists of small bug fixes, but some notable changes include a loadout change for Mute and another nerf for Zofia.
The blog post begins by detailing new operators Kaid and Nomad and introducing new map Fortress, all of which we've detailed in our hands-on impressions. For Wind Bastion's first round of operator balancing, Mute, Clash, Zofia, Lesion, and Smoke are under the microscope.
Zofia is back into the balancing crucible, and is losing another concussion grenade this time around: from 3 to 2. Ubi says Zofia still has "too many projectiles at her disposal, and is able to offer too much utility when compared to her teammates." This is hard to argue with. At launch, Zofia had 4 concussion grenades along with her impact rounds. An even 2-2 split on her utility should mean she's still plenty powerful.
Wind Bastion is going to be a rough season for Clash. To get ahead of this and to answer for her low pick rate following a previous nerf, her taser shield damage is going up from 3 to 5 damage per zap. "She is now very weak and underpicked, and we anticipate that Nomad will be a hard counter against her," the post reads. This is an understatement. For Nomad, taking down Clash is as easy as firing an airjab at her face and shooting her while she's defenseless on the ground. I don't anticipate this damage buff improving such a one-sided encounter.
Lesion has never been top-of-mind in the community as someone in need of balancing fixes. He's a great operator and very accessible, but apparently Ubi sees him as slightly too strong. The damage of his T-5 SMG is being slightly decreased by an unspecified amount to bring him in line with where Ubi wants him.
This change is a bit out of left field, but the trajectory of all thrown gadgets will be changing in Wind Bastion to make them "easier and more comfortable to use," as Ubi explains. The one exception to this change is the Nitro Cell, which won't be changing. So expect your friends' grenade tosses to be a little sporadic until everyone gets used to it.
Wind Bastion will also introduce a new shop interface that will replace the antiquated and confusing menus Siege has used for years. The new shop will allow players to more quickly navigate items, immediately equip cosmetics, and adds an "equip all" button to skins. Currently, players have to dive into a dozen layers of menus to equip one skin on several operators or weapons. The screengrab Ubi shared looks snazzy, but I'm interested to see if the shop is still navigational mess.
There are a bunch of other bug fixes coming to specific maps and operators. For a full list, head over to the official post. Tomorrow marks the beginning of the Technical Test Server for Wind Bastion, so expect the unspecified information on damage changes and throw trajectory to be clarified this week by players. Wind Bastion still has no official release date, but history tells us it'll likely come out between December 4-7, so stay tuned.


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Digital replicas are not soulless – they help us engage with art
Erich Hatala Matthes
Recent advances in digital technology have some art-lovers on edge. Now that we have the ability to digitally scan and 3D-print works of art, will we be compelled to abandon our interest in originals, occupying ourselves with cheaper and more abundant replicas instead?
Examples of this angst are abundant. In a recent Wall Street Journal article about museums supplying donors with digital replicas of their former works, Julian Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, reassures readers worried about copies creeping into museum collections: 'We still believe in the aura of artists' works,' he said. 'People who come here need to see the originals.' In line with this concern, Noah Charney insists that digital replicas cannot share in the 'aura' of the original. He fears that if digital replicas become too common, we 'risk the loss of the most important thing to those who truly know and love art and history: the soul.' And in response to recent discussions about using digital technology to reproduce the ruins at Palmyra, Jonathan Jones urges that Palmyra 'must not be turned into a fake replica of its former glory.'
However, although advocates of the artwork's aura are heavy on handwringing about our future in the digital wasteland, they tend to offer little argument for their concerns. Charney's considerations against digital replicas tend to just beg the question. For instance, he worries that replicas might erode interest in original artworks, but it wouldn't obviously be worrisome if replicas detracted from our interest in originals unless originals have a special aura. Thus, independently of whether there is in fact something special about originals, critics who take this line presuppose what they mean to establish.
So long as we continue to talk of replicas in the same breath as forgeries and copies, we misconstrue their potential function. Granted, Charney, for one, is quick to distinguish digital replicas from the skillful forgeries of art history, such as van Meegeren's Vermeers, but he does so only to emphasise that these forgeries were great works in their own right, whereas digital replicas are not. Nevertheless, his emphasis remains on telling the replica apart from the original. He claims that 'experts and passionate amateurs' can 'just feel' the difference between originals and replicas, through an 'innate' process that appears to be akin to magic. I suppose those of us who didn't receive our owl-post admitting us to Hogwart's School of Artistic Pretension are doomed to our soulless replicas.
Artists working on a replica of Lascaux. Photo: © D Nidos-Département
But maybe replicas can do something besides bring about the end of civilisation. The power of digital replicas becomes clear when we acknowledge what they can do beyond merely stand in for originals. Rather than thinking of replicas as knock-offs, we could conceive of them as akin to maps or models. Maps and models are obviously not replacements for the things that they represent; if they were precisely the same as the places or objects that they modelled, they would cease to be useful (think of the map of the empire described in Borges's brief story 'On Exactitude in Science' which is itself the size of the empire). Rather, they offer us a vantage point that is often otherwise unavailable.
A map allows you to plot a route through the mountains. A model allows you to see the cruciform of the church. Digital replicas offer the promise of allowing us to interact with art in new ways. As art crime specialist Erin Thompson has recently discussed, one advantage of digital replicas is that interested art enthusiasts can touch them, a privilege usually off limits to a typical museum patron. She is particularly interested in the role that digital replicas can play in curbing antiquities looting, but the interest in touching art and artefacts certainly extends beyond the collectors who help drive the market in illicit antiquities. Digital replicas can thus serve as models offering a new form of access to famous artworks: the sense of touch.
The possibilities don't end there. Digital technology has allowed us to better envision what painted classical antiquities might have looked like, an effect that could be further enhanced by 3D printing. By modulating scale, material, and other features, digital models open up a range of new avenues for exploring and understanding art. As I have recently argued, together with moral and political considerations, these methods could be utilised to help restore our relationship with history. The possibilities for engagement provided by digital replicas could very well increase our interest in originals, prompting us to compare our experiences of models with their source.
Crowds taking photos of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. Photo: Matt Biddulph/Flickr (used under Creative Commons licence [CC. BY 2.0])
The worry that replicas will lead us to lose interest in originals is just speculation, and it's not clear what supports it. It's not as if the ubiquity of reproductions of the Mona Lisa has decreased the size of the throng in the Louvre clamouring to take their own digital photographs. Indeed, this seemingly bizarre practice might indicate something important about digital replicas and their relationship to originals.
The philosopher Carolyn Korsmeyer has argued that an interest in touch (even if only 'implicit' touch through proximity) helps to explain our obsession with genuine art and artefacts. Korsmeyer suggests that the experience of genuine items has a distinctive phenomenology, though it is one that is available to anyone, not just connoisseurs. As she puts it, experiences of genuine historical artefacts 'evoke an impression that gaps of time have been momentarily bridged, bringing the past into the present.' While this can be a wondrous experience, there is nothing magical about it. Historically significant objects are real-world time-travellers: they only move forward in time, like the rest of us, but their age gives us a kind of transitive access to times that are beyond reach for beings bound by physical laws. It's a real connection: historical artefacts were actually there, and thus put us in touch with the past in a non-metaphorical sense.
It may seem as if I have just identified a specific way in which digital replicas are lacking: contra Thompson's contention, replicas cannot put us in touch with the past, because they actually weren't there. To some extent, I think this is true, though it just confirms my original claim that replicas are not meant to be replacements for originals to begin with. But the behavior of the Louvre photographers also suggest that this conclusion may be too hasty. They don't want just any digital photo of the Mona Lisa (some copy of a copy of a copy): they want the one they took themselves, at the source. One way of explaining this is by noting that it decreases the levels of removal between the digital reproduction and the original. It suggests that even where digital reproductions are concerned, people still care about the proximity of the replica, and themselves, to the genuine article.
There are still many difficult and interesting questions posed by digital reproduction of art and artefacts. Who should produce them? Who should own them (if anyone)? Should they be open access? What should be reproduced? But once we acknowledge that the power of digital replicas goes beyond some misconceived attempt to replace originals, we can see that they have the power to enhance our engagement with art in new and exciting ways. We should not foreclose on that possibility before we have even begun to fully realise its potential.
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Bernard Poulin Mar 24 2017 at 2:01 pm
There is nothing wrong with replicas as long as replicas, copies, reproductions, knock-offs are tagged, presented, indicated legitimately identified as such. Many visual artists top up their incomes by offering reproductions (euphemistically called prints) to that part of their client base which cannot afford >originals> Not a bad idea as long as we are honest and up-front about what we are selling to them. Also, we must take into account that there is a hell of a difference between artwork created on a computer (which has yet to be looked upon as a legitimate creativity tool) and reproductions of hand-wrought artwork which are nothing more than giclee off-shoots of something which has been copied.
somsoc Apr 9 2017 at 4:05 pm
Aura is kind of a problematic term in general but especially when used to refer to one-of-a-kind pieces. The assertion is that reproductions don't get to borrow that aura because it's an innate and magical quality – but we can still see this 'aura' in mass produced art such as films, so we obviously have the ability to replicate this sensation creating aspect. And what about those artists whose art takes the form of limited production runs? Their work still attracts huge attention, each piece still gives off the requisite 'buzz'. There is apparently no copy-loss when the art by design is created in multiples.
I think it is mostly about how the community has been instructed to respond to these different kinds of art. It is clearly in the galleries' interests to maintain that the special 'other' quality exists in the paintings on their walls, and only in those paintings, but replicas don't diminish this aura – they elevate it. Even taken to the logical extreme – every art school on the planet has a gallery with the Mona Lisa in it – it doesn't diminish the act of creating it in the first place. Everyone poring over their copy is still paying homage to the original. Regardless, it's a boon on so many levels to increase access to art.
This is not a new thing. Artists have always used whatever methods they had at their disposal to increase the volume of their output, to sell, or just to increase exposure of their work. If da Vinci was alive today I have no doubt he would be leading this reproduction vanguard, if he hadn't invented it himself.
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Shane's Discovery List of 2020
by Shane Singletary
During the lockdown of 2020, Shane went hard into the past and found minor and major classics.
2020 was a harsh year for everyone. People around the world had to deal with some form of setback whether it was health, work, or family-related due to the unprecedented pandemic we find ourselves living in. It's no surprise that in such a year we all looked for an escape. When I'm feeling stressed I like to escape the real world in a dark movie theater. Unfortunately, we couldn't really make it to a theater this year, which is why I spent so much time diving into some of my blind spots and I'm glad I did. Here are some of my favorites.
Honorable Mentions: The War Room, The Stuntman, Local Hero, Blue Collar, Body Heat, Paris, Texas, American Ninja 2: The Confrontation, Ninja III: The Domination, The Hidden
10. The Last Detail (dir. Hal Ashby)
Making a film in the 70s must have been a wild time. Can you imagine making a film with Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, and Randy Quaid as they travel up the east coast drinking and causing trouble? The Last Detail is a comedy/drama about two naval men who are ordered to escort a young prisoner upstate to serve a sentence. Of course, they decide to show him a good time along the way. First, it's crazy to see Quaid this young on film and he's actually really good. But this film is Nicholson's all the way. He's front and center for the entire film and you can practically feel his charisma oozing off of every frame. I'm always a sucker for a good road movie and this one had me from the very start. A near-perfect film by Hal Ashby featuring some of the best work Nicholson has ever put to the screen.
9. Do the Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee)
What more can be said about a film as important and transcendent as Do the Right Thing? All I can say is I cannot believe it took me so long to catch up to this film and I'm glad I finally did. It certainly lives up to all the hype. Long live Spike Lee and NYC films.
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Last year, while most of America was enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner with family and friends, Omar Garcia was preparing to start a new job. It was November 27, 2014 and Garcia was in Bridgeport to begin work as an Area Supervisor for AffinEco. A longtime building services veteran, Garcia had signed on for a night job with AffinEco while keeping his day job as a facility manager for Southwest Community Health Center, a Connecticut nonprofit health center with six sites in Bridgeport.
Wayne Cullen, AffinEco Operations Manager for the Stamford to West Haven district, says he got familiar with Garcia because Southwest Community Health is an AffinEco client.
Cullen cites Garcia's incredible thoroughness, as well as his professionalism, as qualities the company was seeking in an area supervisor.
"When he goes into a building to check the cleaning, no one comes close to his level of attention to detail," said Cullen.
If you ask Garcia how he approaches the job, he says, "I want everything perfect and make sure it is that way." It's why he believes customers in the Bridgeport area buildings he oversees are consistently satisfied.
Garcia manages 23 cleaners every night and provides reports on the work that's done to Jimenez and other senior AffinEco managers after each shift. Cullen says Garcia's crews consistently do excellent work. And that's gratifying for Garcia. "On the job, I see the employees all doing the right thing and that makes me happy," he said.
If there are problems, Garcia jumps right in. According to Cullen, Garcia is the kind of manager who respects his workers and listens to them. And, if a crew is shorthanded, he rolls up his sleeves and gets cleaning. He acknowledges he will do whatever he must to get the job done.
When he's not working, Garcia enjoys time with his 7-year-old daughter. When he is on the job, he is focused on making sure things run as smoothly as possible. He says he's instituted some changes to how his buildings are serviced and he is proud of the improved results—buildings are clean and people are happy.
Chances are Garcia will always remember Thanksgiving as the day he began working for AffinEco. Cullen says the company is thankful Garcia jumped on board.


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Queer Visitors From The Marvelous Land Of Oz
At the dawn of the 20th century, L. Frank Baum created a world of wonders that was to hold a permanent place in the culture of America: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . Then in 1904, to promote his second book, Baum, along with master cartoonist Walt McDougall, brought his famed characters to Earth in a new medium, the comic strip. Queer Visitors from Marvelous Land of Oz had arrived. At this same time, Oz illustrator W.W. Denslow, offered his own Sunday feature, Scarecrow and the Tinman. Now both of these rare cartoon features are collected for the first time, magnificently restored and presented in full broadsheet size. Join these timeless characters and explore the culture that was America over 100 years ago. You surely won't be in Kansas (or anyplace like it) anymore!
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The government plans to suspend its popular "cash for clunkers" program amid concerns it could quickly use up the $1 billion in rebates for new car purchases, congressional officials said Thursday.
The real reason isn't that the government was afraid it would run out of money (hey, thanks to you and me, they never run out!), but the reason for the suspension was because the government was damn near bankrupting the same people they claimed to be trying to help — does that sound familiar?
This entire endeavor was another example of genius government thinking. Just one of the huge flaws in this was that the dealers take it in the shorts for the "credit" to the buyer on the new purchase, and only get reimbursed after the government agrees that the "clunker" that was turned in qualifies under the gov't regs. Only then does the dealer receive the gov't reimbursement. But, that takes quite a while, as you'd imagine.
People were turning in clunkers so fast that dealers were incredibly upside-down on the front end with no back-end reimbursements coming in from the gov't — so they're moving all these cars but still can't even meet payroll & operating expenses in some cases. Essentially some dealers were going short-term broke because of this and had not enough cash flow to continue to operate. I talked to one dealer who was going to suspend the program himself because he couldn't afford to take the short-term hit with nothing yet coming in on the other end — but the gov't beat him to it.
Yet another example of the brilliant leadership we have in Washington. Too many theoreticians, not enough people with real-world business experience — or even simulated business experience.
You don't even need to check resumes to know Obama and his team of campus dreamers don't have business experience, because anybody with business experience would never let the government get involved with private-sector business in the first place.
The only "clunkers" in "Cash for Clunkers" are the people who thought of the idea in the first place.
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Farahd Hamo: IS defeating will be exceptional, international event
Farhad Hamo has stressed that the announcement of the defeat of the alleged caliphate of IS mercenaries would be an exceptional international event, indicating that this would be a major supporter of political benefits after the elimination of terrorism.
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The statements were delivered by a member of the Presidential Council of the Syria Democratic Council SDC, Farhad Hamo to Hawar news agency (ANHA), commenting on the declaration of the Commander of Al-Jazeera Tempest campaign, saying IS is nearing to defeat in the last pocket of the countryside of Deir-ez-Zor.
Hamo said that Al-Jazeera Tempest campaign had reached its conclusion, IS gangs are being besieged in small geographical area in a few hundred meters in the countryside of Deir-ez-Zor, where the obstacles still exist like protecting civilians who use them as human shields."
Hamo pointed out that Syrian Democratic Forces SDF, which are composed of the various components of the region, have undertaken the task of eradicating terrorism on behalf of the whole world, and since the launch of liberation campaigns from IS grip arriving to Deir-ez-Zor, which is imminent to be eliminated completely.
Farhad Hamo said that the final declaration of the defeat of the alleged caliphate would be an exceptional international event. "In the pages of history, they will say that the Syrians who carried the national democratic project have defeated terrorism that terrorized the entire world," he said.
Hamo noted the challenges still remained, and completed "especially the security ones, which are the cells and the hard-core ideology that they have planted in the region."
Hamo explained that some regional countries are trying to destabilize the region. "The Turkish regime, which does not want the victory of the national democratic forces in Syria, is trying by various means to obstruct our struggle against terrorism."
The member of the Presidential Council of the Syrian Democratic Council Farhad Hamo, at the end of his speech, highlighted the challenges of political entitlement to be activated seriously after the defeat of terrorism, stressing that the declaration of victory will be a key supporter in the face of all these challenges.
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The CARE Faculty is excited to announce a number of new developments that have taken place so far this year.
What follows is an update on the programs the CARE Gastroenterology faculty has developed in the last quarter of 2016, as well as upcoming CARE events.
The CARE Gastroenterology Faculty recently attended the ACG 2016 conference (Las Vegas, NV - October 14-19) and the UEGW 2016 conference (Vienna, Austria – October 15-19). The CARE Perspectives on ACG/UEGW 2016 Conference Report covers a wide variety of content presented at the conference within irritable bowel syndrome and inflammable bowel disease.
The NOR-SWITCH trial was presented at UEGW 2016, and investigated the impact of switching from the infliximab originator biologic, to its biosimilar. The CARE Faculty, led by Drs. John Marshall, Alain Bitton, and Brian Feagan, have looked at this trial in more depth. Stay tuned for their Canadian perspectives on this subject!
The CARE Gastroenterology Faculty, led by Drs. John Marshall, Remo Panaccione, and Thomas Walters, have been working on a CARE publication that focuses on the advances in IBD. The three themes in the report include optimizing current therapy, innovation of new therapies, and increase competition in the field of IBD. This Gastro-Times publication will be available later in 2016.
Impact of Biosimilars in Canada Part 1: What have we learned so far?
Impact of Biosimilars in Canada Part 2: What trials are underway in Crohn's disease?
Impact of Biosimilars in Canada Part 3: Where is the landscape headed?
Dr. Vipul Jairath invites you to join us for the CARE Regional Congress on Biosimilars!
Dr. John Marshall invites you to register for the CARE Congress on SEBs/Biosimilars!
CARE is hosting the CARE Congress at the Toronto Marriot Eaton Centre Hotel on January 13th, 2017. This congress will be led by a panel of multiple CARE faculty in the field of gastroenterology, oncology, hematology and rheumatology. The CARE faculty will facilitate a speaker line up that will include clinicians, nurses, hospital pharmacists, health Canada, ethicists, medical legal, patient advocacy groups and payers to share their understanding and position regarding the integration of SEBs in the Canadian healthcare system.
The congress will be open to a diverse audience of multiple specialties including but not limited to hematology, oncology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, respirology, and dermatology. This audience will be comprised of physicians, patient's groups, pharmacists, nurses, payers, members of government and sponsoring industry.


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Ex-Editor stabbed just days after anti-censorship press rally
Kevin Lau, the former editor of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao, was stabbed early this morning. The attack occurred in broad daylight and followed a rally on Sunday where thousands marched in the streets to denounce censorship. A central cause for the march was the sacking of Lau the previous month.
The South China Morning Post Hong Kong reports that Lao is currently in a critical condition in hospital, having sustained three knife wounds across his back and legs. The assailants are believed to have escaped by motorbike.
Lau had previously published articles exposing corruption and protesting human rights abuses. He had been replaced by a Malaysian editor viewed as being more pro-China.
Journalist organisations were quick to condemn the attack, emphasising the public unease at recent infringements on press freedom. The Hong Kong Journalists Association stated, "The attackers must be brought to justice as quickly as possible to allay public fears."
Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club also put an emphasis on the attack being part of a trend, "The Club reiterates its view that the growing number of attacks against members of the press in Hong Kong needs to be taken seriously by the local administration. Hong Kong's reputation as a free and international city will suffer if such crimes go unsolved and unpunished."
The government of Hong Kong responded by denouncing the attack, with Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying visiting Lau in hospital and remarking, "The SAR government and myself are very concerned about the incident, feel indignant about such an act of violence, and we strongly reprimand it. Hong Kong is a society of the rule of law, and we are absolutely intolerant about violence of this kind."
Andrew Heslop, WAN-IFRA Press Freedom Director, commented, "WAN-IFRA calls for a thorough investigation into the attack on Mr. Lau and urges the local Hong Kong administration to do more to guarantee the safety of journalists working in the territory," he said. "There have been reports of a steady increase in threats and attacks on journalists, as well as growing pressure from tighter censorship and more prevalent editorial restrictions. Today's shocking escalation raises further concerns over the extent and influence of forces whose interest is to silence the Hong Kong press."
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E-Mail: wpimlott@gmail.com


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Birdman had to fork over nearly $2 million to the IRS recently.
Birdman just can't seem to catch a break these days. As if the ongoing battle with Lil Wayne over the release of Tha Carter V, his crumbling Cash Money empire and handling his next protégé, Young Thug, wasn't enough, Birdman just got over dealing with another little bit of money trouble.
According to TMZ, the Forbes' Wealthiest list topper recently had to fork over nearly $2 million to the Internal Revenue Service. He was allegedly hit with two federal tax liens from December 2014 and February 2015 for neglecting to pay $1,942,400.58 in back taxes.
Unlike the funds Weezy is seeking from the Cash Money boss, Baby was able to pay off the taxes within months.


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There Will Be Four Million 3DS Handhelds Available On Planet Earth
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Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has revealed that for the remainder of the company's fiscal year, there will be four million 3DS handhelds available to customers. Worldwide.
Remember, that's for the fiscal year, which ends March 31. So it's basically only covering the 3DS' immediate launch window, not the entirety of 2011.
Of that total, 1.5 million are being kept for the Japanese market (where the unit launches in February), while the remaining 2.5 million are for...everyone else. That latter figure would be difficult to satisfy the needs of American customers, let alone those in Europe (who will also be seeing the handheld in March), so it appears some pre-orders are in, well, order if you want to be playing one on launch day.
Before you cry havoc and let slip the dogs of internet indignation ("WHY AREN'T THERE MORE??"), this isn't the first time Nintendo (or any other manufacturer) has launched a console in low numbers to high demand, and it won't be the last.
ニンテンドー3DSの幼児使用への警告は一部専門家の見解=任天堂CEO [WSJ]


The monkey is officially off his back! After numerous chances and goal posts, Cole Edgerton finally has his first goal with the Surrey Eagles. Edgerton scored his fourth goal of the season in beautiful fashion in Prince George against Spruce Kings netminder Keenan Rancier.
Edgerton was acquired on January 10th from the Coquitlam Express along with future considerations for Ty Westgard and Aaron White. He picked up his first point as an Eagle relatively quickly, in his fourth game, but the goal took a little longer than expected.
The line of Corey Clifton, Matthew McKim, and Edgerton has shown great chemistry of late – and it was only a matter of time before Edgerton was rewarded with a goal.
Check out the highlight in the video below!