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Mets top Yanks 6-3 in Subway Series matchup of leaders
By RONALD BLUM The Associated Press
New York Mets' Starling Marte gestures after hitting a home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Frank Franklin II]
NEW YORK (AP) — Eduardo Escobar crossed the plate and skipped joyfully back to the Mets dugout after his tiebreaking, two-run homer capped a four-run, first-inning rally — a drive a fan behind the left field fence caught one-handed with a leap.
Most of Citi Field was dancing by the time Edwin Díaz struck out Gleyber Torres with two on, ending the Mets' 6-3 win over the Yankees in Tuesday night's rare Subway Series matchup of first-place teams.
"It was honestly like a World Series home run," Escobar said through a translator. "I've never played in an environment like that."
Aaron Judge and Anthony Rizzo quieted many of the 42,364 fans with opposite-field home runs on consecutive first-inning pitches from Taijuan Walker (8-2).
But the Mets stormed right back in the bottom half when Starling Marte homered with one out against Jordan Montgomery (3-3). Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso followed with back-to-back doubles, and Escobar's two-run, two-out homer put the Mets ahead 4-2. The ball was caught barehanded by a fan in a Mets jersey and Yankees hat.
New York Mets' Eduardo Escobar celebrates as he approaches home plate after hitting a two-run home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Frank Franklin II
New York Yankees starting pitcher Jordan Montgomery reacts as New York Mets' Eduardo Escobar runs the bases after hitting a two-run home run during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
New York Mets' Eduardo Escobar hits a two-run home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
New York Mets relief pitcher Edwin Diaz (39) celebrates after a baseball game against the New York Yankees Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. The Mets won 6-3. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
New York Mets' Francisco Lindor hits a double during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
New York Mets' Taijuan Walker pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
New York Yankees starting pitcher Jordan Montgomery, right, huddles with teammates during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
The New York Yankees play the New York Mets during the third inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Fans watch during the third inning of a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the New York Mets Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
New York Yankees' Isiah Kiner-Falefa reaches second baseas New York Mets second baseman Jeff McNeil is unable to make a throw to first base during the fourth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
New York Mets' Starling Marte hits a double during the third inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
The Mets held on for a victory before just their third home sellout this year, what they hoped is a World Series rehearsal. Both teams had been in first place when they met in only one previous season, a three-game series from April 24-26, 2015, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
"If we're playing against each other in November, that would be awesome," Alonso said before the game. "If that happens, the city will just be on fire."
Two of baseball's big boppers went head to head. Judge's major league-high 38th home run gave him 82 RBIs, tying for the big league lead. Alonso surged back ahead with his 83rd in the bottom half and went 3 for 3 with a walk.
The Yankees arrived a big league-best 66-31 with a 12 1/2-game AL East lead. The Mets had the second-best National League mark at 59-37 and a two-game NL East edge over Atlanta.
Walker improved to 5-0 in his last eight starts, allowing three runs and seven hits in six innings.
"It was electric," Walker said.
Montgomery, 0-2 in his last seven starts, allowed five runs — four earned — and five hits. He needed 71 pitches for seven outs, and when Boone came to the mound to remove him, he stared at his manager and said: "Why?"
"I wanted to be out there," Montgomery said. "Obviously, I needed to be pulled."
The Yankees went 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position and hurt themselves when Isiah Kiner-Falefa was picked off in the third and Rizzo was caught at second on an attempted double steal in the seventh.
After former Met and Yankee Darryl Strawberry threw out a ceremonial first pitch, Judge and Rizzo combined for the Yankees' 14th back-to-back homers. They tied the team record set in 2009, and Rizzo ended a 14-game homerless streak with his 23rd this season.
Walker had not previously allowed a home run at Citi Field this year
The Mets opened a 5-2 lead in the third when third baseman Josh Donaldson hit Lindor with a throw near first base, and the ball caromed into right field as Marte scored from second.
DJ LeMahieu had an RBI grounder in the fourth, when Rizzo stranded the bases loaded with a flyout to to Brandon Nimmo a step in front of the center-field wall.
Jeff McNeil ended an 0-for-19 rut with a run-scoring single off Albert Abreu in the eighth.
After Adam Ottavino got five outs, Díaz set off the crowd with his entrance music of Blasterjaxx & Timmy Trumpet's "Narco" — Mr. Met played a trumpet and many fans mimicked a horn with their water bottles.
Díaz struck out out pinch-hitter Joey Gallo to strand a runner in the eighth, then fanned LeMahieu, Rizzo and Torres around a hit and an error in the ninth, getting his 22nd save in 25 chances.
"I've never played in a major league playoff game before, but if I had to guess, that's what it would be like," Alonso said. "Looking to change that this year."
BUCK'S QUIPS
Mets manager Buck Showalter on the 3-hour, 27-minute game: "That's pretty good for us — 4 is the old 3." … When asked whether he would have let Ottavino face Kiner-Falefa if Gallo had not pitch hit, Showalter wondered whether he had to answer and was reminded that reporters don't have subpoena power. "In today's world, that doesn't mean you tell the truth, anymore — sometimes." Showalter said.
CANHA — LIKE BANANA
Wearing an ESPN microphone during Sunday night's game, Mets outfielder Mark Canha said his last name probably should be pronounced "Khan-ya" since it is of Portuguese origin. Not so, said his wife, Marci.
"Don't get me wrong, if we moved to Lisbon tomorrow, then yes, we would pronounce it the way 'NH' is properly pronounced in Portuguese," she tweeted. "Until then, it rhymes with banana."
Yankees: OF/DH Giancarlo Stanton was put on the 10-day IL because of left Achilles tendinitis, a move retroactive to Sunday.
RHP Domingo Germán (0-1, 15.00 ERA) starts for the Yankees after allowing five runs over three innings at Houston in his season debut. RHP Max Scherzer (6-2, 2.28) is 1-1 with a 1.78 ERA since returning from a strained oblique muscle in his left side.
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"What More Can I Say" is a song performed by Christian Borle (Marvin), Andrew Rannells (Whizzer) from the musical FALSETTOS and is written by William Finn and James Lapine.
And I'm not usually indiscreet.
The earth begins to sway.
How confused am I by our happiness?
I cannot tie my shoe.
You might think my words come cheap.
It's been more than words can tell.
Just like how you read about.
Damn it, even I'm surprised.
We take it day by day.


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This AJC file photo shows Jimmy Carter at his surprise 90th birthday party in Plains. The former president's 94th birthday is Monday, Oct. 1 and you can celebrate it at his namesake Atlanta library and museum. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM
Photo: Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com
Celebrate Jimmy Carter's 94th birthday and other things to do in Atlanta on Monday, Oct. 1
Jill Vejnoska, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We did it, Atlanta! We made it to October.
(Whether summer and its 90-plus degree temperatures will stubbornly insist on coming along with us is pretty much anyone's guess at this point).
This month always sends a jolt through the air as it unofficially kicks off the holiday season. Just check out all the Halloween displays already up around town if you don't believe us.
So it's OK to start celebrating by doing some fun things around town on this particular Monday. Starting with a public and nearly free event marking a certain someone's 94th birthday.
"JIMMY CARTER'S BIRTHDAY AT THE CARTER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY"
The former president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner turns 94 years young on Oct. 1. And to celebrate, his namesake library and museum in Atlanta is offering 94 cents admission on Monday. Plains resident Carter won't be there himself, but there will be a big card to sign or people can bring their own birthday cards and the staff will make sure it all gets to him. Check out the great exhibitions, and, as the icing on the proverbial birthday cake, the Atlanta Symphony's Brass Quartet will perform in the lobby from noon to 1 p.m. 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m. 94 cents. Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta. www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov
"LAWRENCEVILLE GHOST TOUR"
Kick off the month fright, er, right, by taking this spooky tour of possibly haunted sites and spinetingling tales in one of metro Atlanta's oldest and most historic cities. Led by a professional storyteller, the 90-minute tour begins and ends at Aurora Theatre and promises to cover "some of Lawrenceville's most interesting places and the stories behind its most bizarre events." 7:30 p.m. $12 adults, $9 ages 11 and younger. 128 East Pike Street, Lawrenceville. www.auroratheatre.com or www.scarystroll.com
"AN EVENING WITH THE ENGLISH BEAT"
The pioneering band that first came along in the late 1970s and helped propel the U.K.'s music scene to new prominence with its unique blend of punk, Ska, reggae and more is still going strong courtesy of longtime leader Dave Wakeling. This current lineup plays all the hits and other loved songs by the Beat and General Public, as well as other new music. 8 p.m. $40-$55. City Winery, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave. NE, Atlanta. www.citywinery.com/atlanta
>>See what's in store on the weather and traffic front before you head out
Looking for more? Listen to our weekly accessAtlanta podcast, which offers more ideas for things to do in and around Atlanta

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News about Zhang Yimou, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
The withdrawal of the film by the noted Chinese director Zhang Yimou comes amid a broader crackdown on the discussion of sensitive subjects in China.
Zhang Yimou's costume spectacle offers drooling creatures, glowering warriors, a swaggering mercenary and a message about China's might.
The Chinese box office attracts major studios, but the attempts to court it ("The Great Wall," "Transformers: Age of Extinction") have been a mixed bag.
The largest-ever China-Hollywood coproduction, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Matt Damon, opened on Friday to mixed reviews.
As the epic fantasy movie begins its global release, it will show whether the Chinese film industry is ready to become an international player.
Peter Loehr, chief of Legendary East, discusses the making of the $150 million co-production, the biggest so far, and criticism over the casting of its star, Matt Damon.
Amid the Cultural Revolution, a father is imprisoned, his teenage daughter denounces him, and a family tries to recover from that pain in this film by Zhang Yimou.
"The Great Wall," a $150 million film directed by Zhang Yimou, is the largest-ever Hollywood-China co-production, which will exempt it from China's strict import quota on foreign films and entitle its foreign production partners to a larger share of the box-office revenue.
Shen Bolun and Wu Xia, who are not married, celebrated the smooth delivery of a healthy girl in Beijing on Sunday, but it came at a price: A government fine of about $7,200.
"Impression Melaka" would have been the first of the series co-directed by Zhang Yimou, the prominent filmmaker, to take place outside China.
A film from mainland China has yet to win an Academy Award, and Chinese officials are eager for the cultural validation that an Oscar brings.
The director, Zhang Yimou, and his wife were ordered to pay $1.24 million as a penalty for having three children.
The prominent Chinese film director acknowledged that he had two sons and a daughter with his current wife but denied rumors that he had seven children with four different women.


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The breach of an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) is an offence under section 14 of the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007. It is a serious offence and carries a maximum penalty of 2 years imprisonment and a fine of $5,500. This is partly because it involves not only the breach of a court order, but also threatens the safety of those considered by the court to be vulnerable and in need of protection.
WHAT CONSTITUTES A BREACH OF AN AVO?
Exactly what conduct constitutes a breach will depend on the terms of the AVO.
The breach must be intentional and the offence only covers those who "knowingly" breach an AVO. For example, if an AVO prohibits a defendant from approaching or communicating with another person (the protected person), and the defendant intentionally visits the protected persons house, or telephones the protected person intentionally, that is likely to be a breach. However, if the defendant comes across the protected person in public inadvertently, the defendant has not necessarily breached the order. If, however, the defendant fails to move away from the protected person after the initial contact, that is likely to be held to be a breach.
In cases where it is the protected person who approaches the defendant, and the defendant continues the conversation and does not leave after the initial approach, even though it was the protected person who initiated the contact, the defendant may still be found to have breached the AVO if the AVO prohibits any contact. It is not a defence to argue that it was the protected person who approached the defendant.
Although all instances of breaching an AVO are considered serious, generally, those offences involving physical contact or threats will be considered the most serious.
If the breach involves some act of violence against a person, the court must consider a sentence of fulltime imprisonment (see below section on sentences).
A person is not guilty of this offence unless the prosecution can prove that the defendant was served with a copy of the AVO before the alleged breach, or if the AVO was made by a court, the person was present in court when the order was made. See s.14(2) of the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007. The prosecution normally rely on Affidavits of Service to prove that the AVO was served. Alternatively, they may rely on the recording or transcript of the court proceedings to prove that the defendant was present in court when the order was made.
Additionally, often the facts which the prosecution allege are disputed. For example, the defendant denies that the incident actually occurred or occurred exactly how the prosecution allege.
Upon conviction, a person is liable to imprisonment for up to 2 years. However, the maximum penalty is for the most serious offender and usually reserved for someone who also has a past criminal history or where the breach involves actual violence.
The likely penalty will depend on the nature of the breach, any extenuating circumstances, and other factors including whether the defendant has a criminal record or has demonstrated remorse or contrition.
If the offence involves actual violence, the court must impose a sentence of imprisonment unless the court orders otherwise. See s.14(4) Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007.
As with any offence, even after a finding of guilt a court can still decide not to record a conviction under section 10 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999.


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using namespace pcl;

std::list<SearchMove> IGVCSearchProblem::getActions(SearchLocation state)
{
    pcl::KdTreeFLANN<pcl::PointXYZ> kdtree;
    std::list<SearchMove> acts;

    auto deltat = DeltaT(state.distTo(Start));

    if(Map == nullptr)
        return acts;

    if(!Map->empty())
        kdtree.setInputCloud(Map);

    double delta = DeltaOmega;
    double Wmin = MinimumOmega;
    double Wmax =  MaximumOmega;
    for(double W = Wmin; W <= Wmax; W+=delta)
    {
        SearchMove move(Speed, W, deltat);
        SearchLocation result = getResult(state, move);
        pcl::PointXYZ searchPoint(result.x, result.y,0);
        std::vector<int> pointIdxRadiusSearch;
        std::vector<float> pointRadiusSquaredDistance;
        if ( Map->empty() || kdtree.radiusSearch(searchPoint, Threshold, pointIdxRadiusSearch, pointRadiusSquaredDistance) == 0 )
        {
            acts.push_back(move);
        }
    }
    if(ReverseEnabled && acts.size() == 0)
    {
        for(double W = Wmin; W <= Wmax; W+=delta)
        {
            SearchMove move = SearchMove(-Speed, W, deltat);
            SearchLocation result = getResult(state, move);
            pcl::PointXYZ searchPoint = pcl::PointXYZ(result.x, result.y,0);
            std::vector<int> pointIdxRadiusSearch;
            std::vector<float> pointRadiusSquaredDistance;
            if ( Map->empty() || kdtree.radiusSearch(searchPoint, Threshold, pointIdxRadiusSearch, pointRadiusSquaredDistance) == 0 )
            {
                acts.push_back(move);
            }
        }
    }
    if(PointTurnsEnabled){
        SearchMove move(0, TurningSpeed, deltat);
        SearchLocation result = getResult(state, move);
        pcl::PointXYZ searchPoint(result.x, result.y,0);
        std::vector<int> pointIdxRadiusSearch;
        std::vector<float> pointRadiusSquaredDistance;
        if ( Map->empty() || kdtree.radiusSearch(searchPoint, Threshold, pointIdxRadiusSearch, pointRadiusSquaredDistance) == 0 )
        {
            acts.push_back(move);
        }
        move = SearchMove(0, -TurningSpeed, deltat);
        result = getResult(state, move);
        searchPoint = pcl::PointXYZ(result.x, result.y,0);
        pointIdxRadiusSearch.clear();
        pointRadiusSquaredDistance.clear();
        if ( kdtree.radiusSearch(searchPoint, Threshold, pointIdxRadiusSearch, pointRadiusSquaredDistance) == 0 )
        {
            acts.push_back(move);
        }
    }

    return acts;
}

SearchLocation IGVCSearchProblem::getResult(SearchLocation state, SearchMove action)
{
    SearchLocation result;
    if(abs(action.W) > 1e-10)
    {
        double w = action.W;
        double R = action.V / action.W;
        double ICCx = state.x - ( R * cos(M_PI - state.theta) );
        double ICCy = state.y - ( R * sin(M_PI - state.theta) );
        using namespace Eigen;
        Matrix3d T;
        double wdt = w*action.DeltaT;
        T << cos(wdt), sin(wdt), 0, -sin(wdt), cos(wdt), 0, 0, 0, 1;
        Vector3d a(state.x - ICCx, state.y - ICCy, state.theta);
        Vector3d b = T*a;
        Vector3d c = b + Vector3d(ICCx, ICCy, wdt);
        //Vector3d b(ICCx, ICCy, wdt);
        //Vector3d c = T * a + b;
        result.x = c[0];
        result.y = c[1];
        result.theta = c[2];
        while(result.theta < 0)
            result.theta += 2*M_PI;
        while(result.theta > 2*M_PI)
            result.theta -= 2*M_PI;
    }
    else
    {
        result.theta = state.theta;
        result.x = state.x + ( cos(M_PI_2 - result.theta) * action.V * action.DeltaT );
        result.y = state.y + ( sin(M_PI_2 - result.theta) * action.V * action.DeltaT );
    }
    return result;
}


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Home/General News/Life support has been turned off for U.S. actor Anne Heche 9 days after the Accident
Life support has been turned off for U.S. actor Anne Heche 9 days after the Accident
John Michael Send an email August 15, 2022
(Reuters) – LOS ANGELES, Aug 14 (Reuters) – According to a spokeswoman for her family, American actress Anne Heche was taken off life support on Sunday, nine days after suffering catastrophic injuries in a terrible car accident. This occurred as a result of the identification of a suitable recipient for her donated organs.
Heche, 53, had been declared legally dead since Friday, but she could still feel her heartbeat. According to her representatives, she was kept on life support to preserve her organs for donation.
Anne Heche's spokesman, Holly Baird, announced in a statement that "Anne Heche has been gently taken off life support."
On August 5, Heche's Mini Cooper lost control, collided with a house, and caught fire. This resulted in an agonizingly long hospital stay, during which her family and representatives sent increasingly ominous messages.
On Friday, one of her two sons, Homer Laffoon, 19, issued a statement saying, "My brother Atlas and I have lost our Mom."
Heche, who appeared in films such as "Donnie Brasco," "Wag the Dog," and "I Know What You Did Last Summer," struggled for decades with the effects of a traumatic childhood and was part of a groundbreaking same-sex partnership in the 1990s. In 2016, Heche passed away.
Heche, who won a Daytime Emmy in 1991 for her roles as identical twin sisters in the NBC soap opera "Another World," went on to co-star in the adventure comedy "Six Days Seven Nights" with Harrison Ford in 1998. She also appeared alongside Demi Moore and Cher in the HBO TV movie "If These Walls Could Talk."
They were one-half of Hollywood's most famous same-sex couples at the time when they were together. Her girlfriend at the time was actress and comedian Ellen DeGeneres. In defiance of her production company's demands, Heche made her public debut at the red carpet premiere of the disaster film "Volcano" in 1997, with DeGeneres as her date.
After being together for more than three years, Heche decided to end their romantic relationship.
In an interview with the entertainment website Page Six in October 2021, Heche stated that she was "blacklisted" by Hollywood because she was romantically involved with DeGeneres. "I hadn't done a studio shoot in ten years. I was let go from a $10 million film deal, and my performance was never used in a studio-produced film."
In the year 2001, she married Coleman Laffoon, a cameraman. Following the dissolution of their marriage, Heche formed a committed relationship with actor James Tupper, which lasted until 2018.
Anne Celeste Heche was the fifth and final child, and the youngest of the five, when she was born on May 25, 1969, in Aurora, Ohio. She was taken aback by both the news that her father had secret gay connections and the fact that he died of AIDS when she was only 13 years old.
Heche stated in an interview with CNN's Larry King in 2001 that "he was in utter denial until the day he died." In 1998, she stated that his death had taught her that telling the truth is the most important thing a person can do in their lifetime.
Three months after their father was killed, Nathan was killed in a car accident.
Heche claimed that her father sexually abused her as a child, causing her to suffer from mental health issues for many years afterward, including recurring delusions that she was from another planet.
"I'm not crazy," Heche told ABC News in 2001, at the time of the publication of her memoir "Call Me Crazy: A Memoir."
"But living here is an adventure. It took me 31 years to overcome the insanity instilled in me as a child by my insane family."
Nancy Heche, Heche's mother, has called her daughter's claim that she knew about the sexual abuse "lies and blasphemies." Furthermore, Heche's sister, Abigail, has stated that the "memories surrounding our father are false." She claimed that Anne Heche had questioned her memory of what happened during that period.
Heche went on to play a senior member of the Defense Intelligence Agency in the NBC television series "The Brave" later in her career. She also appeared on the reality competition show "Dancing With the Stars" in late 2020.
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City of Breckenridge to host ice cream making contest
With last month reaching what some international scientists have said are record-breaking high temperatures and several 100-degree days forecast for the upcoming weeks, many local residents may be looking for a good way to cool off this summer. The City of Breckenridge has just the thing: the Breck Trade Days Summer Freeze-Off.
The Summer Freeze-Off will be a homemade ice cream making contest, and it's scheduled for Saturday, July 20 in the Breck Trade Barn in the Breckenridge City Park. Contestants may begin churning their ice cream at 9 a.m., and judging will begin at 11:30 a.m.
The winner will receive $100, and the second place ice cream maker will win $50. The winner of the People's Choice Award will get a cutting board and "braggin' rights."
The contest is open to anyone, but each contestant may only have one entry. There is no fee to enter.
The ice cream can be any flavor, and each contestant will be asked to name their ice cream. The ice cream may be cooked and/or mixed at home, but it must be churned on site at the contest.
Contestants are responsible for providing all ingredients, utensils, ice, ice cream freezer, tables and extension cords. The ice cream mixture must be kept chilled at all times.
The organizers of the contest recommend that ice cream mix made "from scratch" should be cooked to 165 degrees F to destroy salmonella organisms. Cool mix to 120-130 degrees F then refrigerate at 40 degrees F or below until freezing. Always use pasteurized milk.
The ice cream will be judged by a panel of judges who will consider taste and quality. Ice cream is to remain in the churn/freezer for judging
For more information or to register, call Pam Wright at City Hall, 254-559-8287.
(Top image courtesy of Gordana Stanisic from Pixabay)
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When I paint I am intrigued by the erection of hidden mechanisms that highlight unsuspected qualities in mundane or even quirky subjects. Therefore, my work is a conscious effort to provoke a contemplative response in the audience, which in the best of cases leads to the instant of lucidity and a simple smile.
I have lived in the Caribbean since 1995. Here beauty is found everywhere: in the sea, the boats, the local houses. That's why I prefer to look beyond the obvious, to dig and expose the unobvious, giving it a fresh twist or perspective (literally and figuratively).
An idea, subject, theme may occur to me in an instant, although the R & D will take much longer. I research the word, the history; I analyze the shapes, feel the color, contemplate the composition; I study the concept, the palette, the technique; I select the materials and use them unorthodoxly, whether it be watercolor, which I may make thick and rich, or oil, which I apply in thick or thin layers on a vivid acrylic underpainting. This way I honor the subject and allow it to dictate the essence of the paintings.
Currently, I was given the opportunity to hang my art at the newly opened Greg Norman Golf Clubhouse on Anguilla. Struck by the beauty of this course setting and landscape along with fond memories of growing up with my father as an avid golfer, I immediately decided to paint a series about golf. Upon my usual research and development, I was astounded by the amount of information, details, rules, and emotions that I discovered.
All the better for endless material to draw from for my paintings…a gold mine of ideas!


James "Macka" McKenzie is an Australian competitive Call of Duty player.
The largest cash prize that Macka has been awarded from a single tournament was $5,000.00 from ANZ CWL Stage 2 Playoffs on July 17, 2016. He placed 3rd-4th, making up 32.78% of his total prize money won.


Model Kelleth Cuthbert is the individual who photobombed some of the biggest names in Hollywood during the Sunday, January 6, event in Los Angeles, but while everyone was talking about her perfect product placement in almost every picture, the Toronto native didn't know she caused such a stir.
Cuthbert appeared behind stars such as Idris Elba, Amy Adams and Dakota Fanning, but her favorite moment came with comedian Jim Carrey. "I grew up on his movies and think he's a really funny person to be lurking behind," she gushed.
Cuthbert was on hand to photobomb guests Alec Benjamin and John David Washington on The Late Late Show with James Corden on Monday, January 7. "Does this count as a @j_corden photobomb? Tune in tonight!" she captioned an Instagram picture of herself pointing to a poster of host James Corden shortly before the show aired.


Mediwe has lots of customers sending them data with the API. This data eventually results in cases and activities being created with lots of custom data. For some customers these custom fields need specific defaults, no matter what the API data is! So even if the API sends CiviCRM the value goat the actual custom field should always have the value donkey and the goat should simply be overwritten. But only for specific customers! The reason they do this is that sometimes the staff entering data at the customer do unexpected stuff and make mistakes. They want to make sure these mistakes do not hinder the actual process and are corrected before they get into CiviCRM.
This extension enables this but only for data coming in with the CiviCRM API!


IT Manager Fred Brown practices compressions while tax supervisor Joe DeMartinis observes.
HR coordinator Suzanne Schultz takes a turn.
During the week of May 17, staff members in REM's Broadway, Long Island, and New Jersey offices received life-saving training. Those who volunteered for the three-hour course were trained to perform adult, child, and infant CPR; to properly use an automatic external defibrillator (AED); and to dislodge obstructions in choking victims and perform resuscitation (if necessary) in adults, children, and infants. Volunteers are part of the firm's First Responder Team and are expected to respond should an emergency situation arise.
Proofreader Alex Barnett clears the area before administering a "shock" with the AED simulator device. Tax senior Dylan Brady stands clear.
REM has offered the course to its employees since 2009. The firm absorbs the cost of the training and individual certifications (good for two years), as well as providing multiple AED devices and first aid kits in all REM locations.


Live Three Card Poker is so much more than just your average poker game. What makes this game unique is that players have just 3 cards in a hand, plus multiple players play against the house instead of against each other. There's an RTP up to 96.63%, as well as a Pair Plus Bonus where you can win up to 100 to 1 and a 6 Card Bonus with additional chances to win big. And did we mention you can interact with the dealer and your fellow players? So, what do you say? Login and play now!


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Sampling Microbiota in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | Intestinal Microbiota
Angele P. M. Kerckhoffs, Melvin Samsom, and Gerard P. van Berge Henegouwen
Department of Gastroenterology, Utrecht University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Louis M. A. Akkermans and Vincent B. Nieuwenhuijs
Department of Surgery, Utrecht University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands Maarten R. Visser
Department of Microbiology, Utrecht University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
INTRODUCTION General Introduction
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was the first to describe numerous microorganisms from the gastrointestinal tract, which he described as "animalcules," having designed the first glass lenses for the microscope that were powerful enough to observe bacteria. His curiosity brought him to investigate samples taken from his own mouth and other people who never brushed their teeth, and he compared these findings with people who brushed their teeth daily and used large amounts of alcohol. He even investigated his own fecal samples in a period of diarrhea, compared these findings with fecal samples of animals, and reported these observations to the Royal Society in London (1).
We now know that the mucosal surface of the human gastrointestinal tract is about 300 m2 and is colonized by 1013-1014 bacteria consisting of hundreds of different species. The prevalence of bacteria in different parts of the gastrointestinal tract depends on pH, peristalsis, oxidation-reduction potential within the tissue, bacterial adhesion, bacterial cooperation, mucin secretion containing immunoglobulins (Ig), nutrient availability, diet, and bacterial antagonism. The composition of the Gram-negative, Gram-positive, aerobic, and anaerobic microbiota has been extensively studied by culturing methods, and shown to change at the various sites of the gastrointestinal tract (Fig. 1).
The stomach and proximal small bowel normally contain relatively small numbers of bacteria because of peristalsis, and the antimicrobial effects of gastric acidity. An intact ileocecal valve is likely to be an important barrier to backflow of colonic bacteria into the
Large Intestine Problems


Roaring Brook Press, 2017. 100 pages.
Oliver's back! He's the cat with the pet human, Freckles.
In this book, Freckles goes to school and Oliver decides to tag along. This gets Freckles to join the Fur-Ever Friends Club, where she decides to foster a kitten.
Oliver is not excited about sharing his human with a kitten! To make matters worse, Freckles has plans for Oliver and the kitten to participate in a pet talent show put on by the club.
This book has five chapters with pictures on every page. The dialog is all done with speech bubbles, but there is some narration from Oliver's perspective as well, so it's not quite a graphic novel.
But it is a delightful and funny chapter book for beginning readers. They will enjoy how the world looks from the perspective of a cat.
This is a beginning reader in the classic "two friends" tradition. We learn how Pig meets Goose on the first day of Spring.
It was spring at last.
Pig was in a good mood.
"The sun is shining!" said Pig.
"The sky is blue!" said Pig.
Pig is anthropomorphic, wearing a dress and gathering things from her cozy home into a picnic basket. On the way to the pond, Goose lands beside her. She admires how well Goose flies, so Goose offers to teach her.
You can figure out how the flying lesson will end up! But I like the way they collapse into a pile of good-hearted laughter after they try it. And then they go together to eat the picnic by the pond.
The second story is "A Picnic Lunch." They share lunch and talk about how spring is the best season but then agree that all the other seasons are best, too. Pig naps in the sunshine and dreams of flying like Goose. When she wakes up, she learns that Goose can also swim. What an amazing new friend she has!
That story ends with Pig inviting Goose to the party she's having that evening, her First-Day-of-Spring Party.
The final story is about the party. Pig introduces Goose to her many friends. Pig made wonderful food to eat, tells delightful stories and jokes, and laughs and dances with her friends.
After the party, Goose tells Pig how wonderful she is – and I like that the author doesn't have to explain to the reader why that is, they've already seen how delightful she is. Even her exuberant cry (repeated often) of "Goody Gumdrops!" tells us how enthusiastic she is about her joys.
This is a picture book about friendship and about simple joys. And I like the way it shows us that each friend has something of their own to offer.
I'm glad we can peek in on the start of this beautiful friendship.
Picture Window Books (Capstone), 2017. 96 pages.
Here's a lovely beginning chapter book. There are three stories with three chapters each. There are full color beautiful pictures throughout.
I like the story because it's about a great big family. I have a great big family, and these are rare in children's books. This particular family is Hispanic and they have brown skin. Their speech is peppered with Spanish words (printed in red and defined in the back), but otherwise these are simply fun family stories.
In the first story, the whole big family is going to spend a week at the beach. Sofia decides to pack games instead of very many changes of clothes. (This won my heart right from the start.) When they get a rainy day, Sofia's a hero.
The final story is about the whole family going shopping for school supplies and the preschool-age cousin getting lost in the store.
Again, this is all done with big colorful pictures, simple language, short chapters, and Sofia's personality shining through. This is a great new heroine for kids ready for chapters.
Gecko Press, 2017. Originally published in Sweden in 2016. 108 pages.
A Case in Any Case is part of the Detective Gordon series. It's a gentle woodland mystery series for readers ready to begin chapter books. It's got twelve short chapters with abundant colorful illustrations, and is very child-friendly.
Police Chief Gordon, a toad, is trying to retire. He has left Detective Buffy in charge of the woodland police station. She is a small mouse. She tries to be brave when she hears a mysterious scrabbler outside the station at night. But she thinks perhaps she should call in Detective Gordon.
Police Chief Gordon is not enjoying retirement. In fact, he finds himself drawn back to the police station….
But when the two meet up, they don't get a chance to investigate the mysterious visitor, because two small children are missing! In the investigation that follows, the talents of both officers are needed to save the day.
This is a classic friendship early chapter book – with a mystery twist. It's a gentle read, with subtle humor, but leaves you smiling when you're done.
HarperCollins Children's Books, 2016. First published in Great Britain in 2015. 94 pages.
I'm going to list this book with Beginning Chapter Books, but there aren't actually any chapters. However, the pace, length, and reading level are consistent with other Beginning Chapter Books. There are black-and-white drawings by Judith on every spread, keeping young readers interested.
The story opens with Mister Cleghorn sitting on his balcony watching the sunrise, wondering how he will get through the whole day.
I should never have sold the shop, thought Mr Cleghorn, even though the people who bought it had paid him a tidy sum. Whatever am I going to do with myself?
Later that day, Mr Cleghorn gets an invitation to visit his cousin and his family. Cousin William is a fisherman, and William's son Tommy has been watching a cute seal pup by the shore. Mr Cleghorn takes an interest in the pup as well.
Then one morning he found the little pup lying listlessly on its rock. It looked up for a moment at the sound of the oars, but turned its head away at once and lay down again. It seemed sad and thinner than before.
William tells him that some seals were shot the day before, and the pup's mother must have been one of them. It can't live without its mother, so they should put the pup out of its misery. But Mr Cleghorn can't bear to let the pup be shot, so he decides to take it home with him. He plans to take it to the zoo right away.
Next comes the adventure of getting the pup home and figuring out what to feed it. Once there, he needs to hide it from the janitor.
When he accidentally leaves the water running with the pup in the tub – he meets his downstairs neighbor, the lady with the birdcage. She becomes his ally in hiding the pup from the janitor. Her father was a vet, and she even knows the keeper at the local zoo.
But when the two of them go to the zoo, it has a new owner and has fallen into disrepair. The rest of the book is about trying to find a permanent home for the seal pup, yet keep him hidden while they are looking. The eventual solution makes everyone happy.
I always loved this story. I wished I could have known the little seal, and I wished more than anything that the story could have had a happy ending. Perhaps that is why, more than a hundred years later, I have made up a different story, which has one.
I'm thinking of this as a quieter version of Mr. Popper's Penguins. Charming.
Henry Holt and Company, 2016. 120 pages.
Bunjitsu Bunny's back! Isabel the Bunjitsu master is back in this third book of short stories about fighting well and knowing when not to fight.
As before, most of the short well-illustrated chapters have some kind of kicker to the story. My favorite is "The Floating Rabbit" where their teacher challenges them to get from one circle drawn on the floor to another on the other side of the room without touching the floor. Isabel figures out to ask her friends to carry her.
There are 13 short chapters in this book. The print is large and there are pictures on each spread, so this is a perfect choice for kids ready to start chapter books.
Everyman's Library Children's Classics, 2013. First published 1924. 157 pages.
Last year I wrote Project 52 – each week reflecting on one year of my life. Which brought back memories. And one of the memories was about which chapter books I read when I was still small, before we moved away from Seattle.
One of those first chapter books was The Poppy Seed Cakes.
I hadn't read The Poppy Seed Cakes in years. But remembering it made me want to get a copy and hold it in my hands and read it over again. So I looked on Amazon and was delighted to find an Everyman's Classics edition.
Once the book arrived, I read it immediately. All the pictures and page decorations are there! And I remember every single one and greet them all as old friends. There are many full-page illustrations, alternating between color and black and white. But there are also decorative patterns on each page, with each chapter having its own theme, and the pattern enclosing the text. For example, the chapter "The White Goat," has a stylized picture of a goat parading across the top of the page. "Erminka and the Crate of Chickens" has chickens across the top, and "The Picnic Basket" has a goose reaching for a picnic basket.
I am very sad I didn't think of ordering this book when my own children were small, because I find it's a book that begs to be read aloud. In fact, I'll admit that I read some of it aloud even when sitting in my own home all alone. The phrase "Andrewshek's Auntie Katushka," which appears over and over just doesn't want to remain silent in your head.
The stories are old-fashioned and quaint – but do stand the test of time. And the language! First we have stories about Andrewshek and Andrewshek's Auntie Katushka. Andrewshek's Auntie Katushka asks him to do something while she is gone – and Andrewshek consistently chooses to do something else – with varying results. Though they usually manage to deal with said results.
Then we have stories about Erminka and her red topped boots. They are her brother's, and they are too big, so wearing them gets Erminka in trouble more than once.
At the end of the book, the stories come together when Erminka comes for a tea-party at Andrewshek's house. With poppy seed cakes.
Andrewshek's Auntie Katushka spread a clean white table cloth on the table under the apple tree in the garden. She brought out two plates of poppy seed cakes and five cups and saucers and five spoons and five napkins. Then she went back into the house to get some strawberry jam.
The white goat and the kitten and the dog and the two chickens came and sat down on the bench beside the table under the apple tree in the garden. They sat very quiet with their hands folded.
Andrewshek's Auntie Katushka came out on the porch with a bowl of strawberry jam in her hand. She saw the white goat and the kitten and the dog and the two chickens sitting quiet on the bench, with their hands folded.
Simple stories and simple concerns, with a happy ending. Though a modern child probably won't hang out with geese and goats and chickens like Andrewshek and Erminka, they will understand how easy it is to be distracted, the lure of new boots, and the delight of eating poppy seed cakes.
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The Incoterms rules or International Commercial terms are a series of pre-defined commercial terms published by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) that are widely used in international commercial transactions. A series of three-letter trade terms related to common contractual sales practices, the Incoterms rules are intended primarily to clearly communicate the tasks, costs, and risks associated with the transportation and delivery of goods. Costs and liabilities of export packing are therefore also partly organized and structured by the Incoterms.
The 7 rules defined by Incoterms 2010 for any mode(s) of transportation are:
EXW – Ex Works (named place of delivery)
The seller makes the goods available at its premises. The buyer is responsible for unloading. This term places the maximum obligation on the buyer and minimum obligations on the seller. The Ex Works term is often used when making an initial quotation for the sale of goods without any costs included. EXW means that a seller has the goods ready for collection at his premises (works, factory, warehouse, plant) on the date agreed upon. The buyer pays all transportation costs and also bears the risks for bringing the goods to their final destination. The seller doesn't load the goods on collecting vehicles and doesn't clear them for export. If the seller does load the goods, he does so at buyer's risk and cost. If parties wish seller to be responsible for the loading of the goods on departure and to bear the risk and all costs of such loading, this must be made clear by adding explicit wording to this effect in the contract of sale.
FCA – Free Carrier (named place of delivery)
The seller hands over the goods, cleared for export, into the disposal of the first carrier (named by the buyer) at the named place. The buyer pays for carriage to the named point of delivery, and risk passes when the goods are handed over to the first carrier.
CPT – Carriage Paid To (named place of destination)
The seller pays for carriage. Risk transfers to buyer upon handing goods over to the first carrier at place of Import.
CIP – Carriage and Insurance Paid to (named place of destination)
The containerized transport/multimodal equivalent of CIF. Seller pays for carriage and insurance to the named destination point, but risk passes when the goods are handed over to the first carrier.
DAT – Delivered at Terminal (named terminal at port or place of destination)
Seller pays for carriage to the terminal, except for costs related to import clearance, and assumes all risks up to the point that the goods are unloaded at the terminal.
DAP – Delivered at Place (named place of destination)
Seller pays for carriage to the named place, except for costs related to import clearance, and assumes all risks prior to the point that the goods are ready for unloading by the buyer.
DDP – Delivered Duty Paid (named place of destination)
Seller is responsible for delivering the goods to the named place in the country of the buyer, and pays all costs in bringing the goods to the destination including import duties and taxes. The buyer is responsible for unloading. This term is often used in place of the non-Incoterm "Free In Store (FIS)". This term places the maximum obligations on the seller and minimum obligations on the buyer.
Sea and inland waterway transport
The four rules defined by Incoterms 2010 for international trade where transportation is entirely conducted by water are:
FAS – Free Alongside Ship (named port of shipment)
The seller must place the goods alongside the ship at the named port. The seller must clear the goods for export. Suitable only for maritime transport but NOT for multimodal sea transport in containers (see Incoterms 2010, ICC publication 715). This term is typically used for heavy-lift or bulk cargo.
FOB – Free on Board (named port of shipment)
The seller must load the goods on board the vessel nominated by the buyer. Cost and risk are divided when the goods are actually on board of the vessel. The seller must clear the goods for export. The term is applicable for maritime and inland waterway transport only but NOT for multimodal sea transport in containers (see Incoterms 2010, ICC publication 715). The buyer must instruct the seller the details of the vessel and the port where the goods are to be loaded, and there is no reference to, or provision for, the use of a carrier or forwarder. This term has been greatly misused over the last three decades ever since Incoterms 1980 explained that FCA should be used for container shipments.
CFR – Cost and Freight (named port of destination)
Seller must pay the costs and freight to bring the goods to the port of destination. However, risk is transferred to the buyer once the goods are loaded on the vessel. Insurance for the goods is NOT included. This term is formerly known as CNF (C&F). Maritime transport only.
CIF – Cost, Insurance and Freight (named port of destination)
Exactly the same as CFR except that the seller must in addition procure and pay for the insurance. Maritime transport only.
Container information
Allocations of costs buyer/seller according to Incoterms 2010


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Promising uptown life at its finest, the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York is brimming with refined culture, history, and lush, green spaces –offering a reprieve from downtown's hustle and bustle. With upscale boutiques, sophisticated storefronts, eateries, and luxury apartments, the Upper East Side is considered one of the most affluent neighborhoods in New York City.
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Before Europeans settled in the city, the Upper East Side was the center for rural farmlands and market gardens.
The Upper East Side continued to grow as farmland after the American Revolution. It wasn't until 1837 when the New York and Harlem Railroad allowed commercial development to begin. And when the El trains helped link the Upper East Side to other parts of the city, the local population grew rapidly.
86th Street and its surrounding area became the hub for Upper East Side's commercialization and would eventually be known as Yorkville. Farmlands were subdivided, excluding 66th to 76th Streets and from Third Avenue to the river, which became Lenox Hill. American and foreign immigrants flocked to the city in the second half of the 19th century, fueling a boom that forced populations to move outside of downtown districts. This led to the Upper East Side becoming a prime location for residential real estate development by the 1880s.
In the 1910s, the Upper East Side earned the reputation as the premier elite residential destination. With the surge in land values and the enactment of federal income tax in 1913, only the country's wealthiest could afford to call this neighborhood home. During the early 20th century, construction of luxury apartment buildings began to accommodate more people who were eager to move to the flourishing neighborhood.
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The Upper East Side encompasses three smaller neighborhoods: Carnegie Hill, Lenox Hill, and Yorkville. The area is one of the priciest locations in New York real estate-wise, with the current median price for listed properties approximately being $1,500,000. The median price for sold properties is approximately $97,000. On the other hand, renting a one-bedroom apartment will cost around $2300, while a four-bedroom apartment will go up to $4240 –almost 50% higher than the NYC standard.
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An upscale neighborhood will have affluent roots. Some of America's most famous families have called the Upper East Side home: the Roosevelts, Kennedys, and Rockefellers. And today, some of the most popular celebrities and influential people contribute to this legacy by finding homes in this posh enclave. Famous neighbors include Bill Murray, Christopher Walken, Donald Trump, Drew Barrymore, Mariah Carrey, Kelly Rutherford, Emeril Lagasse, and Ricky Martin, just to name a few.
In addition to charming brownstones, sleek new condos, and the likely chance of bumping into a celebrity, there's a lot more happening on the Upper East Side. The city's best museums (most notably, New York's famous Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue) are located right within the neighborhood, drawing art enthusiasts for its high culture. Other museums to visit include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum of the City of New York, and National Academy of Design.
An iconic shopping district and a destination frequently featured on movies and TV
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Sinister 2 is a disappointing sequel that doesn't earn a majority of its scares, yet we jump anyway. And that's unfortunately all this lazy compilation of homemade horrors strives for.
Coming from a man who once relied on a nightlight to ward off evil closet-dwelling monsters, the original Sinister sufficiently creeped me out. Evil dead children, a demon with a reputation for popping out of nowhere, and intolerable home movies – Scott Derrickson's haunted house rehash scored some serious points in my book. But after watching Sinister 2, I now understand that it wasn't Buhguul's terrifying hypnosis that sent chills up my spine. Not in the least. It was Derrickson's direction and tone that ensured each of Buhguul's scares dug its fangs deeper than the last, while Sinister 2 is a wholly different beast of a sequel with a laxer grasp of horror under the guidance of Citadel director Ciarán Foy.
Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill return to unleash Buhguul on another unsuspecting family, bringing along a familiar face in James Ransone's "Ex-Deputy So & So" character (seriously, that's how he's credited). Taking place shortly after the events surrounding Ellison Oswalt's untimely death, Ransone's deputy reveals himself to be obsessed with disrupting the legend of Buhguul and his collection of unsightly recordings. The deputy's methods are simple – find a house where Buhguul presumably struck, and burn it down so he can't return. This pattern works until he's about to burn down a quaint little farmhouse with a Buhguul-infested backyard church, where he meets a young mother named Courtney (Shannyn Sossamon) and her two boys. Worried that he may already be to late, the ex-Deputy begins to root around the home looking for clues, and that's when Buhguul makes his presence known.
So begins another tale of murderous children in Sinister 2, which sees the focus shift primarily from an adult's perspective to that of Buhguul's young target. In this case, Courtney's son, Dylan (Robert Daniel Sloan), introduces us to the "innocent" souls that Buhguul has already captured. We learn that it's actually the children (not Buhguul) who corrupt other children by holding midnight screenings of their own bloodthirsty offerings. Night after night, Dylan is woken up by Milo (Lucas Jade Zumann) and ushered downstairs with the promise that his nightmares would stop once all the film reels are watched. The children are a conduit for evil this time around, but that also means another more disappointing fact – limited action for Buhguul.
Don't get me wrong – Foy whips up some truly demented home recordings with the help of Derrickson and Cargill. From a swampy alligator feeding frenzy to a group of rats who are forced to eat their way to safety (through people, if you needed that visual), Sinister 2 will make you squirm. I guarantee it. But Foy's ability to deliver gore doesn't translate into scares, and what's even more depressing is Buhguul's banishment to the backseat.
We've already been subjected to Buhguul's quick jump-scares through still images, so all those moments come as no surprise, but it's his hands-off mentality that really undersells what horror could have been conjured. Buhguul looses his imposing nature far too early into Sinister 2, and in the few scenes where Mr. Boogie does make a grand entrance, he's gone before we can even manage a scream. That, and he reuses every jolting trick from his Sinister arsenal in a sad attempt to stumble upon the same scares that worked so well in Derrickson's original. It's like Buhguul is an afterthought in Foy's sequel, which becomes a tremendous blunder given how his ghost children simply can't strike the same chills.
Only dampening Sinister 2 is the sad fact that a character dubbed "Ex-Deputy So & So" simply cannot be anything more than a sidekick, yet he's asked to be a main character who commands the screen. Ransone tries so hard to be this generation's Deputy Dewey (David Arquette in Scream), but pushes the boundaries of bumbling and ill-equipped into an annoyingly stereotypical land of boring frustration. This goes doubly for Lea Coco's abusive father figure Clint, whose villainous nature only exists for us to hate, but at least Shannyn Sossamon escapes relatively unscathed as a struggling mother with a Southern strength. Without Sossamon, we're left watching a mute monster, his ghoulish children, a food-flinging dad, and the unusual protagonist who obviously shouldn't be hunting ghosts – a collection of horror pawns that are moved incorrectly time and time again.
Sinister 2 is an unfortunate sequel to a much more entertaining predecessor, as Derrickson started something Ciarán Foy's boxy scenework simply couldn't keep alive (soap-opera-like kitchen table scenes). The scares aren't earned, Buhguul's terrifying nature is stripped away, and Ethan Hawke's previous sidekick becomes a main character in what could be the film's most confusing tactic – it's both a rehash and an embellishment of the least interesting parts of Sinister. But it does give Foy a chance to play around with grotesque kills that remind us of homemade Saw traps, and for that, points are awarded on the gorehound front.
It's just a shame that little (to nothing) else sticks. You'll be sleeping easy after this watch, I'm sad to say.


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Balance Lug Design Ideas.
Discussion in 'Sailboats' started by LP, Jul 20, 2013.
Location: 26 36.9 N, 82 07.3 W
LP Flying Boatman
I recently ran across this thread.
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/sailboats/junk-lateen-yawl-22225.html
It struck me more as a balance lug rig with full battens rather than a "junk lateen" as it is presented. The key component of interest to me in the design was the offset of the lug so that it is separated from the mast and the possibility for a clean sail on a balance lug. The main problem I see with a cantilevered support at the top of a mast is the couple that is created at the weakest portion of the mast.
I've drawn something up that addresses these issues and I'm presenting them here for some member feedback. The biggest underlying question is whether the unconventional design components are going to be justified by performance returns or other benefits.
In order to have an offset lug, the couple moment at the top of the mast needs to be negated and I think that I have done this by incorporating a set of spreaders at the top of the mast. One side separates the lug from the mast and the other is used to balance the load forces of the tensioned sail. The loads induced by the sails, spars and downhaul are carried back to the hull by means of a head strap and single shroud on the opposite side of the mast. I have essentially taken a free standing mast and converted it to a stayed mast and utilized the sail as part of the staying mechanism. The single shroud is not loaded while the sail is stowed and only tensions in response to the hoisted and tensioned sail.
The possible benefits of the rig are better performance due to a cleaner sail shape, especially when combined with full length battens. A possible lighter rig due to smaller mast since it is stayed laterally. Less windage due to a more aerodynamic rig.
To the rig's detriment, the reduction in mast width may be limited by the fact that the rig becomes unstayed when the sail is lowered. This impacts the windage aspect and we also have the increased windage due to the added shroud. The net performance enhancement could be negligible or negative.
I think that the critical element to a successful enhancement of this rig type would be whether or not there is a substantial reduction in mast width and the accompanying weight and windage reductions. There is nothing so simple as an unstayed mast and this idea may end up being a bunch of mental gymnastics. I suspect that unless I can determine a way to keep the mast stayed while the sail I anywhere, but hoisted and tensioned, I will still need the full dimensions of an unstayed mast. The gain in performance on one tack vs. the additional rig drag on both tacks could very well be counter-productive. A second shroud would be one solution, but I feel that the lug is starting the get too encumbered in it's own rig.
I'll leave it at this for now. Feedback and ideas are appreciated.
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Bless the open minded people of the world. LP
LP, Jul 20, 2013
Timothy Senior Member
I thought about running the halyard through the mast head and down to a block on a chainplate to windward but I think yours is a much better idea.
Timothy, Jul 20, 2013
I had actually thought about that, too. It would have been great to get double duty out of the halyard, but the problem that I saw was that it would need to be fixed to provide any staying action and it would need to run free to act as a halyard. And again, the mast would be unstayed if the sail was down.
My current thoughts are towards a spectra type shroud on the sail side that only comes into play when the sail is released. I'm thinking it could be loosely sheeted(shrouded? ) while the sail is lowered and when the sail is hoisted and the down haul tensioned, it would either fall slack and lay against the sail or be released enough not to interfere with the sail or the lug. It would not need to be a strong line as it only comes into play when the sail is down, but caution says to make it strong and only slack it if it is interfering with the lug.
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I've thought of another way to offset the Boom and Yard from the mast.
The offset strut would be attached to a hard sleeve, roughly double its length, which would travel up the mast.
The two would form a rigid 'T' shape with the strut forming the stem of the 'T'. This would be a rigid attachment, so the strut could not flop up or down.
The other end of the strut would have to rigidly attach to the yard, so the yard would be free to pivot up and down, but not side to side, in relation to the strut.
The Boom would have a similar arrangement.
There isn't much profit in slimming down the mast, as the rig should be short for its sail area and you could streamline it with a collapsible sock ( you may have to pay Mr. Hoyt a license fee for the sock, as he has no doubt patented the idea, if at all possible).
This set up would have all the virtues of Mr. Hoyt's similar design, but not the major vice, which is the yard stays at the top of the mast, when the sail is furled or reefed.
The one vice this proposal would have is the Yard and Boom would not be able to be stacked together, as the sleeves would hold them apart.
The solution to the problem would be to abandon the 'T' connection in favor of an 'L' connection, with the Yard's sleeve pointing up and Boom's sleeve pointing down.
I never learned a thing from an argument I won.
sharpii2, Jul 20, 2013
It took me a moment to grasp your T concept. It makes a lot of sense and certainly distances the sail from the mast on all points. I think I would want the sleeves removable without unstepping the mast. How would you plan the downhaul; a strop around the base of the mast that can swing with the T or L fitting?
It might be verging on gadgety as is mine with the addition of another shroud. If my mast didn't have to be up in the eyes of the boat, It would be tempting stay it in three direction, resize the mast to a stayed mast, fly a jib off of the forestay and bowsprit and position the boom so the forward end cleared the mast entirely.
One of the features of the balance lug that I want to take full advantage of is the fact that it needs no mast attachment. To get proper sail shape with the rig, it take a lot of down haul tension. So much so that the entire sail is strung between the halyard and the downhaul (and of course the sheet). I think that there is great potential in have almost half of the luff free of any wind blockage. I would also like to add aerodynamics to the lug, but I'm still studying the rig and I'm not sure about how the lug should flex to get it to de-power during gusts. I'm thinking that it might need to flex in the lateral and vertical and that will limit spar shape to balanced sections.
So here is a dual shroud version along side the original and then there is an unstayed version thrown in that really makes the stayed versions look a whole lot more fiddly. I lengthened a spreader on the dual shroud version to gain some clearance on the lug and routed a halyard strop though the spreader. It might be just as functional to run the spectra shroud to an attachment on the head strap.
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LP said: ↑
It took me a moment to grasp your T concept. It makes a lot of sense and certainly distances the sail from the mast on all points. I think I would want the sleeves removable without unstepping the mast. How would you plan the downhaul; a strop around the base of the mast that can swing with the T or L fitting?...
STAND OFF BALANCED LUG
You don't need a shroud on your halyard side, as the windward side only has tension on it when the sail is hoisted. Other than that, the mast as shown, should best be left free standing. Rigs with yards don't like stayed masts very much, as there is so much opportunity to foul. This is probably why the gaff was invented. To keep the would be yard tightly secured to the mast at its butt end.
I have had other ideas for a stand off BL over the years.
One was to have parallel masts with a cross piece joining them at the top.
The Yard would be suspended from the center of this cross piece.
The disadvantage is, when the sail is reefed, there is so much line between the cross piece and the Yard, that the Yard will tend to creep over to the lee mast.
One remedy for this is to have the bitter end of the halyard attach to the top of one of the masts. Then have the halyard reeve through a block on top of the Yard then over a sheave at the top of the other mast, then down.
This will alleviate the problem somewhat, but will call for a halyard that is twice as long (which you may need, anyway, for sufficient mechanical advantage).
What would make the most convincing cure would be to have a sliding cross piece, beneath the fixed one, which the yard would be attached to. This would insure that the Yard stays centered between the masts.
But to make this rig, or even the one you are proposing, or the stand off strut one I mentioned earlier, you have to go to a lot of trouble.
The simplest thing to do would be to add a chafing patch to the sail, that is a different color, and easily removable, when it wears out. It can be made of a material that is quite chafe resistant, as it has no other function.
Another simpler solution is to split the sail and have the aft portion attach to the mast with lacing or hoops. I have thought of a way of doing it, that I think is so fiendishly clever, (probably not) that I'm thinking of trying to patent it.
This solution also has its problems. Such as, how do you reef the free flying forward part of the sail? It can be done, but its like reefing two sails, not just one. And now the sail must be attached to the mast, as well as the Yard and Boom.
BTW, forget about having the entire rig free of the mast, except for the halyard and down haul.
This may well work on very small boats, such as canoes and pram dinghies, where the crew is large enough, in proportion to the sail, to man handle the spars. Imagine trying to reef a rig like that with 1,000 sf of sail.
The Yard, at least, is going to need a parallel, to keep it reasonably close to the mast, as it comes down.
Phil Bolger used to think of the BL as an inshore rig. Its Dipping Lug cousin is the one he thought of as a blue water one.
sharpii,
Many good points. I agree that the sail side shroud is redundant on the sail side. My concern is if the mast is dimensioned to be stayed and the sail is not hoisted. If memory serves me correctly, a mast can be subjected higher loads in this state than when under a full press of sail, especially in a sea state. It would become static when the sail is hoisted, though it would still present fouling potential.
I think that the only way this rig has any potential is if it is stayed and mast sizing is reduced accordingly so that weight aloft and windage is reduced. Otherwise, the rig is getting complicated (vs. a standard balance lug) introducing added windage for questionable gains.
I've considered the dual mast idea too, but couldn't convince myself that the mast pair could be equal to or less than the weight of a single unstayed mast. With a proper downhaul, I think that sail drift to leeward when reefed may only be a minor concern. I'm assuming an A-frame type mast where the masts diverge as they approach the deck.
sharpii,...I'm assuming an A-frame type mast where the masts diverge as they approach the deck.
That wasn't my original idea, but it may even work better.
As the Yard gets lower, the lee mast gets further away.
Just as you suspect this added complexity will almost certainly increase the weight.
With my parallel mast idea, I was considering a very short hoist/Yard length ratio of less than 1.0.
If the mast is half as tall, it can be twice as heavy and have the same VCG.
So, weight of the mast system took a secondary consideration.
Every one of these schemes, except perhaps, the stand off strut one, suffers Yard control problems, as the sail is being lowered for reefing or furling. It well tend to kite off to leeward, and may move forward as well. The bigger the Yard, the bigger the problem.
The parallel mast system (dead vertical and joined with a crosspiece on top, or an 'A' frame) at least always has a mast to the lee of the yard to keep it from kiting off the boat.
One problem that I failed to mention with the stand off strut scheme is the Center of Area (CA) of the sail will move forward on one tack and aft on the other. This may not be that big a deal, but it's something to consider (especially when calculating the best strut lengths).
I think that I'll let the split mast (?) go by the way side. I just ran across this thread.
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/frame-masts-47703.html
I've not read all of the links, yet, but I think it is fairly conclusive that a single mast is more a is more effective than twin masts. That being said, the performance advantage came from the sail being attached to the mast and effecting the airflow around the mast. This is not the case with a balance lug and so a split mast arrangement may still be an effective option for the balance lug. On the pro side of a split mast is the ability to place the mast(s) anywhere along the length of the boat and still keep a clear cabin. My current rig plan is heavily driven by this limitation.
Here is a split-mast rig with a distinctive heritage. I'm tempted to spend the few dollars to study the rig.
http://www.dngoodchild.com/divide_for_sail_boats.htm
You'll have to scroll down to Sailski under multi-hulls. #5666. I think we will have to call this one a lateen.
I think I have seen several incarnations of this idea: Sling a lateen yard under the apex of an 'A' frame mast. This usually works when the boat is a multihull, as it is quite wide for its weight.
I don't think really tall split masts are worth the trouble, due to weight and windage issues. But short to moderately tall ones may well be.
I envision a BL which has just enough luff for two even area reef points, so the first reef point reduces the SA by 1/3rd, the 2nd one by another 3rd, leaving just a small boom lateen standing, for the final 3rd.
This would require a hoist to Yard length ratio of about 1.00, plus, of course, deck clearance. The mast should still be quite short for the SA carried. The Yard would have to have close to a 1:1 rise/run pitch, or close to it to get adequate area. Whether it is an 'A' frame, or it has a cross piece, it could be easily be made so it could be pivoted down to the deck with almost no fear of mishap, as it will only pivot fore and aft, not side to side. It could be held up with just a pair of shrouds on each side. These shrouds would not have to go all the way to the top.
The 'A' frame version would have to be taller than the cross piece one, so there would be enough room for the Yard to pivot. Even so, it would still probably be lighter, as it wouldn't need corner gussets like the cross piece version would.
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Just MHO but it would be KISS to have the lug spars rigged traditionally and have the sail 'loose footed' in both ends..
BR Teddy
TeddyDiver, Jul 26, 2013
TeddyDiver said: ↑
I think that would be a traditional 'dipping lug' (see attachment).
A good idea. they were common on both sides of the English Channel, back in the days of sail.
They work best when you always have the yard to the lee of the mast.
This means you have to move it there during each tack.
There are various ways of doing this that make it far easier to do than it sounds. Phil Bolger came up with a scheme where a lifting line attached to the aft end of the Yard to raise the aft end, so the front end could be tucked behind the mast. The Tack of the sail could then be hauled around to the other side, behind the mast, much the same way the Clew of a jib is hauled around in front of the mast.
The whole operation could conceivably be done by just one crew.
Boats that carried a Dipping Lug tended to be narrow for their weight (but not necessarily heavy for their length) so they would not lose way while the sail was being moved to the other side of the mast.
The system LP and I are discussing could work on wider boats that are light for their beam.
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I like KISS and I understand your concerns Teddy. I think it's great that we have such a sounding board here at BD to explore possibilities. After these explorations, I am leaning towards the traditional unstayed rig for my main mast. My mizzen, jigger or whatever is offset to accommodate my tiller steering. This makes it a prime candidate for utilizing an offset stayed version of the rig to bring he sail back towards centerline. The mizzen will make a nice test bed for the rig design and I'll have traditional to make comparisons to. At least as far as ease of use and set-up are concerned. Should mizzen be a problem child, I'll have to build an unstayed stick and refit.
The balance lug is such a simple sail and it has so many positives to it's use, the temptation remove the "bad tack" is very strong.
Improving a traditional rig is not an easy task. I think that most traditional rigs exist because they worked and most likely worked well. Maybe, one of us will get lucky and be successful in updating an old rig.
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Karn says the journey of getting into acting when he was actually 16 to making it 16 million views sounds fascinating on paper but the amount of hard work, patience that it has taken is certainly reaping the fruits now but at the same time there is a long way to go.
Karn also believes that no award is bigger than the audience's love for your movie. The audience has enjoyed the movie which was completely content-driven and of course, had a stellar cast at the same time and it getting so many nominations at reputed award functions was certainly motivating Karn Mehta and the crew as well. I'm also happy that our audiences are making song covers from our movie, it really means a lot to us. From what I understand Ankhiya De Nede has been quite their favourite.
Karn is equally grateful Rasa Communications, who manages him on social media and his main team for how they've handled everything all throughout 2020.
Karn can be followed on his Instagram
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