Evre Başak was born and raised in Istanbul, a grand old, culturally diverse metropolis in which exists a rare example of how antiquity and modernity can blend together in perfect harmony. She has been drawing and painting ever since she worked out how to hold a pencil. Since graduating from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University 7 years ago, she has been a professional senior fashion and print designer. Meanwhile she has continued to refine her drawing and painting skills while maintaining a consistent output of original work. Examples of her work have been exhibited at The Marmara Pera Gallery, Milk Gallery, Mtaär Gallery and at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. In 2008, she won the international design award, "The Future of National Textile Design Award".
Evre's artistic passion is nourished by the mysterious power of Mother Nature, the animal kingdom, the universe; and the dark, fantastic romanticism and captivating characters found throughout history and in fairytales. She is trying to capture the positivity, beauty and romance of "the darkness" in order to show that without it, we cannot see the stars.
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Converted farm including owner's accommodation and adjoining gite. Th Small fenced garden with terrace 10m away (garden furniture, barbecue). 2 ski areas: Le Claret et La Sure. Mountain biking.
Converted farm including owner's accommodation and adjoining gite. The gite is on one level: open plan sitting rm. Kitchen (dble sofa bed), Bedrm.1 (1 dble bed), bathroom-wc. Elec heating, w/machine, TV. Small garage (ski and bikes rm), cellar. Small fenced garden with terrace 10m away (garden furniture, barbecue). 2 ski areas: Le Claret & La Sure. Mountain biking.
Week: 273 to 546 €.


Feature walls give your home character and are a great way to personalize a space. Common types of feature walls include textured walls, exposed brick, wooden paneling and wallpaper. Here are some tips on how to match your feature wall concept to the overall color palette of the room.
WARM COLORS: If you are leaning towards warm colors like red or yellow then an exposed red brick wall would work well, also a textured wall in orange or chocolate might be interesting.
NEUTRAL COLORS: If you are biased towards neutral colors then consider wooden paneling, other suggested options are whitewashed exposed brick or black and white wall paper.
COOL COLORS: For a cool color palette, with blues and greens, consider turquoise color wall paper or texture paint.
BUDGET TIP: For a feature wall on a budget, paint one wall in a contrasting color and place picture frames, mirrors and book shelves of varying sizes to create a feature.
NOTE: Make sure the walls are waterproofed before installing the feature wall so that it doesn't get damaged with moisture.
Hope this gets you thinking about that feature wall for your room.


Please feel free to use any or all of these materials for inclusion in parish bulletins or in other educational opportunities.
Months listed are suggested dates. For those inserts with time-sensitive information or dates, we have provided a "nonspecific" version to use after the stated time period.
Both are saved as Word documents so that information for your local pregnancy resource center can be added. Save as PDF before printing to ensure proper formatting and printing. If you need assistance, please contact johanna.coughlin@archbalt.org.
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Canada and the UN: Building Bridges to Overcome HIV/AIDS, 1994
What was the greatest threat to societal peace in 1994? The rapidly spreading HIV/AIDS epidemic was surely a contender for this dubious distinction. By the mid-1990's, AIDS had killed 6 million people worldwide, some 21 million people were living with HIV, and in five different countries of hardest-hit Africa, more than one in ten adults were HIV-infected.
The UN system, particularly WHO, had begun developing programs to help affected countries. But these programs were uncoordinated, narrowly-based, and devoid of any inter-agency focus.
Recognizing this, two WHO staff members approached Canadian UN delegates, asking us to take the lead in creating a joint and co-sponsored UN program, later to be known as UNAIDS. We accepted this challenge, and set our sights on getting a UNAIDS resolution adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
This was no easy task. Traditionally UN economic and social resolutions are formulated through bargaining sessions between donor and recipient countries, with the former wanting to do less and the latter wanting to have more. This is often a debilitating process, more conducive to erecting walls than building international bridges.
So we decided to dispense with this usual procedure in favor of reaching out to the most affected regions right from the outset. We established a small core group, initially including Canada, Uganda (with one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world) and India (with the highest absolute number of HIV/AIDS cases).
Ugandan and Indian delegates then gathered support from other African and Asian governments, while we expanded our core group to Sweden to get the Europeans on board; and, Argentina to gather support from the Americas region. We also worked closely with Australia, whose delegation would chair all 1994 ECOSOC meetings on this subject.
We asked the UN development system to put together an outline describing what UNAIDS would look like, but they were not yet able to do so. So we developed this outline ourselves, and attached it to the draft UNAIDS resolution we had already crafted. This two-part document then became the focus of ECOSOC negotiations.
In the end, negotiations were a breeze. With our united inter-regional front, our resolution gained the sponsorship of 50 countries, and was adopted, without opposition, during ECOSOC's 1994 summer session.
Congratulating Canada on its leadership, Sweden called it "probably the most significant single decision" of the session.
And so UNAIDS was created, with an initial membership of UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA, UNESCO and the World Bank. Later five other organizations joined, for a total of eleven. To this day, the UNAIDS family remains the focal point for UN advocacy and programming aimed at overcoming the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
By: DJ Kiddo

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Introduction Academic Article
© The Institute of French Studies at New York University and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. This introduction outlines Ivan Jablonka's theory and practice of writing the social sciences as foregrounded in three of his most noted, recent books, A History of the Grandparents I Never Had, History is a Contemorary Literature, and Laëtitia. As he outlines in his own contribution here, Jablonka advances rigorous, methodical research that nevertheless details the subjective investment of the researcher while at the same time utilizing creative "literary" techniques to engage a wide spectrum of readers well beyond the habitual circles of academic specialists. The essays contributed by Julie Fette, Sarah Fishman, Melanie Hawthorne, Don Reid, and Nathan Bracher explore various facets of Jablonka's approach, including, respectively: writing history with family stories, resisting the erosion of factual reasoning in the Trump years, pursuing biographies of supposedly non-descript lives, appreciating the importance of Communist cultural networks in postwar France, and revisiting the role of the subject in the social sciences.
Bracher, Nathan
Bracher, N.
Berghahn Books Publisher
French Politics Culture & Society Journal
10.3167/fpcs.2018.360301


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"""Helper functions for the Broadlink integration."""
from base64 import b64decode

from homeassistant import config_entries
from homeassistant.const import CONF_HOST
import homeassistant.helpers.config_validation as cv

from .const import DOMAIN

def data_packet(value):
    """Decode a data packet given for a Broadlink remote."""
    value = cv.string(value)
    extra = len(value) % 4
    if extra > 0:
        value = value + ("=" * (4 - extra))
    return b64decode(value)

def mac_address(mac):
    """Validate and convert a MAC address to bytes."""
    mac = cv.string(mac)
    if len(mac) == 17:
        mac = "".join(mac[i : i + 2] for i in range(0, 17, 3))
    elif len(mac) == 14:
        mac = "".join(mac[i : i + 4] for i in range(0, 14, 5))
    elif len(mac) != 12:
        raise ValueError("Invalid MAC address")
    return bytes.fromhex(mac)

def format_mac(mac):
    """Format a MAC address."""
    return ":".join([format(octet, "02x") for octet in mac])

def import_device(hass, host):
    """Create a config flow for a device."""
    configured_hosts = {
        entry.data.get(CONF_HOST) for entry in hass.config_entries.async_entries(DOMAIN)
    }

    if host not in configured_hosts:
        task = hass.config_entries.flow.async_init(
            DOMAIN,
            context={"source": config_entries.SOURCE_IMPORT},
            data={CONF_HOST: host},
        )
        hass.async_create_task(task)


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Alumnus Wins Professional Award
Master of Development Practice graduate, from The University of Queensland, Nguyen Thi Le Huyen is the 2012 winner of the UQ-Vietnam Professional Development Seminar Series (UQ-VN PDSS) Alumni Award.
The UQ-VN PDSS Alumni Award is open to all Vietnamese UQ graduates who participate in the UQ Vietnam Professional Development Seminar Series.
The award funds the winner to attend a conference or seminar as part of a structured professional development visit to UQ.
Huyen was chosen as the recipient of the $5000 Alumni Award for her dedication and determination in enhancing her leadership skills.
UQ Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & International), Professor Alan Lawson said the applications for the 2012 UQ-VN PDSS Alumni Award were of a high standard.
"The selection panel considered that Huyen had actively participated in the seminar series and was able to articulate her desire and a plan to develop her leadership skills within her field through the program," Professor Lawson said.
The UQ-VN PDSS is designed to enhance the career and personal growth of UQ graduates in Vietnam through discipline-based and broader professional skills seminars.
"The seminar topics and speakers in the program are very interesting and meaningful in the Vietnam context and provide an opportunity to keep connected with other UQ alumni from Vietnam," Huyen said.
Huyen will receive her award at a ceremony to be held in Hanoi in early December.
She will visit UQ during 2013 and looks forward to reconnecting with her faculty while attending a conference or seminar in her field.
After graduating in 2009, Huyen was successful in finding a job as an advocacy officer in a non-profit organisation focusing on sustainable agriculture and environment in Vietnam.
"This job gave me a chance to apply and practise what I had learned and experienced during my Masters," Huyen said.
"I was able to contribute to the planning and designing phase as well as implementing processes to improve the livelihood of communities in the mountainous area of Northern Vietnam."
Huyen is a technical officer (HIV/AIDS Prevention) with FHI360 - an NGO based in Hanoi with branches in over 60 countries around the world.
UQ alumni and institutional partners attended the 2012 UQ-VN Professional Development Seminar Series held in Hanoi, Danang, Hue, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Healing runs in the family
Professor Deborah Terry AO announced as the new UQ Vice-Chancellor and President
UQ Vets team member wins 2019 Student Vet Nurse of the Year
Ms Lisa Backhouse - Journalist and Presenter, Alumni Summit ...
Alumni Engagement Award
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Patrick Tighe, FAIA
Patrick Tighe, FAIA, courtesy of Patrick Tighe Architecture.
Firm : Patrick Tighe Architecture.
Location : Santa Monica, CA.
Firm Size : Six architects.
Honors : Interior Design Best of Year Awards; AIA Los Angeles and National awards; Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design American Architecture Award.
Bio : Patrick Tighe is Principal and lead designer of Patrick Tighe Architecture. The firm is committed to creating an authentic, contemporary Architecture informed by technology, sustainability and building innovation. Since its inception in 2004, a strong and diverse body of projects has been realized that includes city developed affordable housing, commercial, mixed-use projects, civic art, installations and residences. Patrick Tighe Architecture has produced over 30 buildings within the culturally diverse communities of the greater Los Angeles area and nationwide. Projects are now in development in Morocco, China and the Middle East. Tighe received a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to establishing his firm, Tighe worked in the office of Frank Gehry and was an associate at Morphosis for seven years. Tighe is a Professor, Adjunct at the University of Southern California.
Completed Projects :
From a Different Angle: Patrick Tighe Reinvents Mid-Century A-Frame House
Winning the Lottery: A Striking Affordable-Housing Project by Patrick Tighe


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COMING FRIDAY 7 PM PST. BARBARA HANNAY AUTHOR OF: OUTBACK BRIDES OF WIRRALONG: JENNA (SEE EXCERPTS)
BARBARA HANNAY
Can she keep a safe distance?
Jenna Matthews is a city girl, no question. Despite a childhood spent in the Outback, she's committed to her fast-paced life and the competitive world of corporate law. When her best friend asks her to be bridesmaid, Jenna finds herself in Wirralong and wildly attracted to the best man. A fling? Why not?
Dangerously sexy Sam Twist runs his vast family sheep property and is as keen as Jenna to keep their relationship at fling status. Then the authorities turn up on his doorstep and Jenna jumps in to help despite Sam's protests.
She soon learns that after years of drought, there are others in the district who need her skills. Her dilemma? Spending too much time around Sam is perilous. He could rob a girl of her heart.
Jenna Matthews emerged from the bridal boutique's change cubicle in a halter neck, crepe de Chine gown of palest mint and with her phone buzzing in her hand.
'Oh, you look absolutely gorgeous!' Cate, Jenna's best friend, who was also the bride to be, beamed at her. 'I love that dress on you. I think we've found the perfect – ' Cate stopped in mid gush as Jenna held up the phone.
'Sorry.' Jenna grimaced. 'Just need a moment to take an important call.'
Cate's grin vanished. 'Can't it wait five minutes?'
No, not really, Jenna wanted to reply. The client was from the top rung of Melbourne's financial circles and she'd been thrilled to land his case. After years of slogging away in highly competitive corporate law, she'd finally reached the point where she was trusted with major clients. That achievement, however, meant being on call, virtually twenty-four seven.
Normally, Jenna didn't mind these demands, but right now she also remembered that Cate had tried three times to book a date to find a bridesmaid's dress and there were limits to a girlfriend's patience. And the boutique's sales assistant was looking daggers at her as well.
Lifting a hand to momentarily placate them, Jenna spoke into her phone. 'Simon, I'm sorry. I'm – in a meeting right now. Can I call you back? Say around seven pm?'
Luckily, this was acceptable, although the concession was made grudgingly. Okay. With that settled, Jenna figured a seven pm deadline should give her plenty of time to shop with Cate, as well as enjoying the mandatory drink at their favourite bar, while Cate filled her in on details of the wedding.
Jenna could then work on till eleven or so, which wasn't unusual for her. Working late gave her quite a buzz actually, not unlike the buzz of facing each day with a mountain of new files on her desk. It was all about meeting the challenge.
Still, these things could be overdone.
Ending the call, she turned to Cate and the sales assistant, who were, she was pleased to note, all smiles again. 'This dress feels great,' she told them, honestly. She really loved the swish of the skirt as she moved and the way the lining skimmed silkily against her body.
'It looks fab,' enthused Cate. 'That pale mint colour really suits you and it'll be perfect for a country wedding.'
'A country wedding?' Jenna couldn't quite hide her shock.
'Well yes, of course.' Cate gave a helpless shake of her head. 'You can't have forgotten, Jen. You know the wedding's in Wirralong.'
'Oh, yes, of course,' Jenna quickly covered, hoping she hadn't caused even more distress for Cate. 'Sorry. Momentary lapse.' Except that she hadn't known this at all, or if she had been told, she'd somehow forgotten. How could she have overlooked such an important detail?
Jenna knew, of course, that Cate and her fiancé had both grown up in the Wirralong district in rural Victoria. She also knew they'd met up again in their hometown six months ago and their romance had been a whirlwind affair. But despite Cate's country roots and her plans to spend her married life buried back in the bush, Cate had also spent a decade working in Melbourne.
Jenna had met her when they were both newbies in the firm, fresh out of uni – Cate as an accountant and Jenna as an intern. They'd even shared a flat in those early years, embracing the café and clubbing scene with regular enthusiasm.
Jenna had assumed her friend was still as enamored as she was with everything the city had to offer. For heaven's sake, Melbourne provided a veritable host of absolutely, brilliant wedding venues. And they were all so wonderfully convenient.
Unfortunately, this matter of convenience was yet another stumbling block for Jenna. Of course, she'd known that the wedding would take up an entire Saturday, but that was fine. While she worked most weekends, she would happily give a full day to her girlfriend, taking Cate out for breakfast before the necessary hairdressing and makeup appointments.
But a trip into the country was quite another matter entirely. Almost certainly, Jenna would need to drive out to Wirralong on Friday afternoon, and she wouldn't be back till late Sunday.
Her problem wasn't just the huge time suck. Jenna didn't do country. Not ever.
When had she not been paying attention?
This was her mistake, though, and it was way too late to question or complain about the plans. Jenna certainly wouldn't let her good friend down. She would have to view this wedding as yet another challenge, albeit a much more personal challenge than corporate law, but one worthy of her best effort.
Resolute as she turned to the full-length mirror, Jenna took a closer look at her reflection. Wow. The dress really was amazing, and Cate was right – it suited her perfectly. The halter neck showed off her shoulders, which were possibly her best asset and it was ages since she'd worn such a feminine, softly flowing skirt.
Jenna's usual apparel consisted of dark suits (mostly black – this was Melbourne, after all) and silk shirts in white, cream or grey. These she combined with the highest heels she could manage, a necessity required by the gap between her average height and the lofty heights of the men who filled her working life.
It was a bit of a shock now to see herself looking so undeniably feminine.
'We'll need to take the hemline up a little,' the sales assistant was saying as she whipped a tape measure from around her neck. 'But that's not a problem. We have an in-house dressmaker who can deal with that in a flash.'
'Excellent,' Cate responded with a beaming smile. 'So, are you happy with this dress, Jen?'
Jenna glanced again at her reflection, imagining her hair released from its usual neat updo and a bouquet of blossoms in her arms. She would be almost unrecognizable and, for some reason, she couldn't quite explain, that possibility appealed. 'Yes, I am,' she said. 'Very happy.'
'Great.' Cate clapped her hands, clearly delighted and no doubt relieved to have another wedding detail locked in.
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Leo . . . how could you live such an ordinary, respectable life and then leave me with such a mystery?
A year after her husband Leo's death, widow Daisy invites her three adult children to join her for a holiday in beautiful Venice. It will be wonderful, her chicks under one roof again in their father's birthplace. But is it possible to recapture the past?
Marc's marriage is in jeopardy, but for his mother's sake, he convinces his wife to keep up appearances. Anna's trying to hide the truth about the dismal state of her London acting career; and Ellie, enjoying a gap year and uncertain about her future choices want to avoid family pressure to conform.
Despite the magic of Venice, family ties are tested to the limit, especially when a shocking secret from Leo's past is revealed. Now everything they value about love, family, commitment and trust must be re-examined.
How can one family holiday require so much courage? Will Daisy's sentimental journey make or break them?
From the multi-award-winning author, Barbara Hannay comes a moving and heartfelt family drama about difficult choices and finding happiness in the most unexpected places.
Marc hesitated, twisting the beer glass in front of him without lifting it to his lips. He said, 'I'd really like you to come, too.'
Bronte gasped. Was Marc for real? Did he honestly expect her to front up to his family as if they were still together? As if she hadn't walked out on their marriage? As if she'd never confessed about that night with Henry?
Apparently, the answer was yes. Marc did expect all of the above. He sat very still, watching Bronte with a worried intensity, ignoring his smartphone, instead of pouncing on it as he usually did whenever it pinged with a message.
Alarmed, she tried to think straight, to get her head around this impossible scenario. 'Marc, you know I can't go on a holiday with you.'
'I know it would be hard, but –'
Hard? It was impossible. 'There aren't any buts.' Bronte was firm. Don't weaken now. 'I'm sorry, but you'll have to tell them I won't be there.'
His face twisted in a grimace. 'It would wreck the whole plan.'
'Too bad,' she snapped, her anger welling as she remembered all the reasons she'd walked out on this man. 'You can't do this to me now. It's always the same. Every time I've tried to talk to you about things I want, you've fobbed me off. Just six more months, you say, but nothing changes. You're so bloody selfish.' Bronte's voice had risen during this tirade and she was aware of people at nearby tables turning.
Let them stare, she thought. This was one battle she couldn't afford to lose. She picked up her latte, as yet untasted, and took a sip, annoyed to discover it had already cooled.
'You're right,' Marc said with unexpected humility. 'I've been a selfish prick and I know you're – I know we're –' Pain shimmered again in his blue eyes. His jaw tightened as if he was struggling to hold himself together.
Bronte looked away. She couldn't bear this. Don't weaken.
'Bronte,' Marc said more calmly.
Super-cautiously, she dragged her gaze back to meet his.
'Look,' he said. 'I'm not at all comfortable about asking you to do this. But it isn't for me.'
Stay strong. If she caved on this, it would be like taking a leap into freedom only to find a rope still tied around her waist.
Marc continued. 'I'm only asking this for my mother's sake. She's so excited about this holiday plan. On the phone, she sounded so happy, almost like her old self and if I told her the truth – about us – it would ruin everything.'
(published by Penguin Random House, available for pre-order and to be published August 6th 2019)
Five years ago, my husband and I moved from Townsville, where we had raised our family, to the quiet and peace of the Atherton Tablelands. We think this is a pretty special corner of the world in the mountains behind Cairns in Far North Queensland. We have rainforest and beautiful freshwater lakes on our doorstep, and from our house, a wonderful view over rolling green farmlands.
Depending on the weather, this view can provide clear blue skies, loaded with sunshine, or it can turn delightfully cool and grey and misty. We love it in all seasons and weathers. As you can imagine, our front veranda, overlooking this view, is a great place for me to sit with my husband and brainstorm story ideas. I'm lucky that he's a willing contributor used to my knocking his ideas on the head, while we both "throw spaghetti at the wall", testing ideas to see if they're "cooked".:) Oh, and our sunsets are divine!!!
Needless to say, the office where I write is at the back of the house, well away from the distracting views.
When I'm not writing, I enjoy pottering in my country garden, growing both tropical and temperate plants that survive quite well in the highlands.
We've taught ourselves how to make dry-laid steps and we've enjoyed hunting through second-hand shops and demolition yards to find old windows, doors, and shutters which we've recycled while extending our country cottage.
These stained glass windows that feature in our dining room and bedroom are from the old Ayr hospital. We found them in a demolition yard in Townsville. There were six in all!
I write in my novels about "proper" rural folk on vast outback cattle stations, while my husband and I only "play" at being farmers, growing vegetables and raising chooks, although I must add that Elliot has become quite a successful raiser of pigs and his home-smoked hams and bacon are sensational - a big hit with friends and family alike.
The lifestyle seems to blend very well with writing. I feel immensely lucky.


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Sundance Selects: "The Quiet One" Opens in Theaters and On Demand
HelenHighly - May 13, 2019 - film festivals (us), NEWS, nyc, releases, screenings
The Quiet One, a cinematic memoir of The Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, opens in New York and Los Angeles on June 21. Also Available On Demand starting June 28. Features never-before-seen footage and photos from Wyman's extensive archive, collected over his lifetime.
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Tarantino's Hateful Eight, Extended Version, is Now a Netflix Miniseries
HelenHighly - May 13, 2019 - industry, LATEST, NEWS, out now, releases
Netflix surprised Quentin Tarantino fans when it announced in March that an extended version of the director's 2015 wild-west-thriller-mystery-horror flick, The Hateful Eight would be available for streaming. The movie is now available on Netflix as planned, although with an even bigger surprise: The movie has been uploaded as a miniseries with four episodes, each running approximately 50 minutes. The film's theatrical edition continues to stream on Netflix as a feature film, as well
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Carrie Fisher / Debbie Reynolds Combo Obituary & Film Review: "Bright Lights"
HelenHighly - December 29, 2016 - editorial, FEATURES, festival, industry, NEWS, releases, REVIEWS
It's a Mother and Child Reunion (as Carrie's ex would say). In the recent HBO documentary, "Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds," a film that depicts the most famous (and most notorious) mother-daughter duo of all time, Carrie Fisher, weary from the ongoing self-examination (and public scrutiny) of a complicated life that included fame from birth, bipolar disorder, addiction, sensational stardom in her own right, impressive amounts of both accomplishment and ridicule, and a spectacular array of variously disastrous and glorious events, all survived with her renowned wit and tenacity… Carrie Fisher says "You know what would be really good? To get to the end of my personality and just lie in the sun."
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SXSW & TFF 2016: Starz Wins Bidding War for My Blind Brother Distribution
HelenHighly - May 18, 2016 - film festivals (us), industry, NEWS, releases
Starz has picked up Sophie Goodhart's romantic comedy, My Blind Brother, which premiered at South by Southwest Film Festival and also played at Tribeca Film Festival, Variety reports. The magazine says that the acquisition "will likely be the biggest sale out of this year's South by Southwest" and is estimated to be in the low seven-figure range. The comedy was reportedly…
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"Bikes vs Cars", Inspiring a New Approach to Urban Planning
Steve Rickinson - September 24, 2015 - LATEST, NEWS, nyc, releases
BIKES vs CARS, a new documentary film by Fredrik Gertten (BANANAS, Big Boys Gone Bananas) that advocates for bike-friendly cities in the 21st century, will be released in theaters starting Friday, December 4. The film, and a related app, has been inspiring a new approach to urban planning that could lead to better designs, smarter…
Tags: Alive Mind Cinema, bikes vs cars, Documentary, Frederik Gertten, Kino Lorber, Los Angeles, New York
The Interecept & First Look Media Launch 'Field Of Vision' Documentary Series
Steve Rickinson - September 12, 2015 - LATEST, NEWS, releases, spotlight
Field of Vision is a new, filmmaker-driven documentary unit that will commission and create forty to fifty original episodic and individual short-form nonfiction films each year, pairing filmmakers with developing and ongoing stories around the globe. Field of Vision is co-created by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, filmmaker AJ Schnack, and curator and producer Charlotte…
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Climate Change Doc 'This Changes Everything' On Tap For Global, Multi-Platform Release
Process Driven ALLURE Brings Occupy Wall St On Demand


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Parler website comes back online with 'lovers and haters' note
New York Daily News (TNS)
The website for Parler, the social media app popular with right-wing groups, returned to the internet Sunday afternoon with a message for the company's "lovers and haters."
"Now seems like the right time to remind you all — both lovers and haters — why we started this platform," the message reads. "We believe privacy is paramount and free speech essential, especially on social media. Our aim has always been to provide a nonpartisan public square where individuals can enjoy and exercise their rights to both. We will resolve any challenge before us and plan to welcome all of you back soon. We will not let civil discourse perish!"
Parler, which refers to itself as a "free speech" alternative to Twitter, was booted out of the Apple App Store and the Google Play store and kicked off of Amazon Web Services last week after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in Washington, D.C.
According to CNN, Parler is now hosted by Epik, which supports Gab and 8chan, which are popular among far-right groups because of their lax moderation standards.
Parler filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Amazon last week after AWS cut off Parler's service, but Amazon fired back, defending its decision because Parler had shown an "unwillingness and inability" to remove violent content. Several Parler users encouraged "bloodshed" during the D.C. riot.
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AMD processor usage is now over 20% according to Steam hardware survey
By Joanna Nelius 04 December 2019
Two years ago, AMD processor usage was only 8 percent.
(Image credit: AMD)
AMD drummed up a lot of excitement leading into summer 2019 with the release of its 3rd gen Ryzen 3000 processors and RX 5700-series Radeon graphics cards. The fever didn't quite catch on with its new graphics cards, but AMD is becoming a much stronger competitor in the CPU space with no signs of slowing down. According to the latest Steam hardware survey for November 2019, AMD processor usage is now at 20 percent—a massive jump considering where it was just two years ago.
Looking back at processor usage via archives, it's easy to see where the peaks in usage coincide with AMD releasing a new generation of Ryzen CPUs. The number of users with an AMD processor was just 8 percent in January 2018, but by June had sharply risen to 16 percent—basically doubled in six months. AMD's CPU prospects changed favorably with the initial release of its Ryzen family, but the Ryzen 7 2700X arguably turned that tide further, giving consumers a better quality and cost-effective alternative to Intel CPUs. The 2nd gen Ryzen CPUs released during this time period, which undoubtedly contributed to that sharp rise in percentage.
After June 2018, the percentage continued to steadily rise until July 2019, which saw a near 2-percent increase through November—which, again, makes sense to attribute to the release of the 3rd gen Ryzen CPUs. And now, for the first time, AMD is closing the gap between it and Intel, with usage at just over 20 percent.
The number of cores per CPU is also an interesting statistic to look at. 6-core processors, like the Ryzen 5 3600/3600X, saw the biggest change in percentage in November, up nearly 1.5-percent since October 2019. Unfortunately, the survey doesn't break these statistics down into Intel verses AMD, which would be nice to know considering Intel has 6-core processors as well. It's likely that people are buying new Core i5 and Ryzen 5 chips.
Also, AMD GPU usage has remained in the 15 percent range for some time. The RX 580 and 570 are still the most popular graphics cards, with barely any percentage share going to the new RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT at all. Maybe the next generation of Radeon cards will catch on like the Ryzen processors.
Joanna Nelius
When Joanna's not writing about gaming desktops, cloud gaming, or other hardware-related things, she's doing terrible stuff in The Sims 4, roleplaying as a Malkavian, or playing horror games that would give normal people nightmares. She also likes narrative adventures.