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package coyote.commons;

//import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Test;

import coyote.commons.security.BlowfishCipher;
import coyote.commons.security.Cipher;
import coyote.commons.security.NullCipher;
import coyote.commons.security.XTEACipher;

/**
 *
 */
public class CipherUtilTest {

  /**
   * @throws java.lang.Exception
   */
  @AfterClass
  public static void tearDownAfterClass() throws Exception {}

  /**
   * Test method for {@link coyote.commons.CipherUtil#pad(byte[])}.
   */
  @Test
  public void testPad() {

    byte[] data = null;
    byte[] bytes = new byte[1];
    data = CipherUtil.pad( bytes );
    assertTrue( data[7] == 7 );

    bytes = new byte[2];
    data = CipherUtil.pad( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 8 );
    assertTrue( data[7] == 6 );

    bytes = new byte[3];
    data = CipherUtil.pad( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 8 );
    assertTrue( data[7] == 5 );

    bytes = new byte[4];
    data = CipherUtil.pad( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 8 );
    assertTrue( data[7] == 4 );

    bytes = new byte[5];
    data = CipherUtil.pad( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 8 );
    assertTrue( data[7] == 3 );

    bytes = new byte[6];
    data = CipherUtil.pad( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 8 );
    assertTrue( data[7] == 2 );

    bytes = new byte[7];
    data = CipherUtil.pad( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 8 );
    assertTrue( data[7] == 1 );

    bytes = new byte[8];
    data = CipherUtil.pad( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 16 );
    assertTrue( data[15] == 8 );

    bytes = new byte[9];
    data = CipherUtil.pad( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 16 );
    assertTrue( data[15] == 7 );

  }

  /**
   * Test method for {@link coyote.commons.CipherUtil#trim(byte[])}.
   */
  @Test
  public void testTrim() {

    byte[] data = null;
    byte[] bytes = new byte[16];
    bytes[9] = 7;
    bytes[10] = 7;
    bytes[11] = 7;
    bytes[12] = 7;
    bytes[13] = 7;
    bytes[14] = 7;
    bytes[15] = 7;
    data = CipherUtil.trim( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 9 );

    bytes = new byte[16];
    bytes[8] = 8;
    bytes[9] = 8;
    bytes[10] = 8;
    bytes[11] = 8;
    bytes[12] = 8;
    bytes[13] = 8;
    bytes[14] = 8;
    bytes[15] = 8;
    data = CipherUtil.trim( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 8 );

    bytes = new byte[8];
    bytes[7] = 1;
    data = CipherUtil.trim( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 7 );

    bytes = new byte[8];
    bytes[7] = 2;
    bytes[6] = 2;
    data = CipherUtil.trim( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 6 );

    bytes = new byte[8];
    bytes[7] = 3;
    bytes[6] = 3;
    bytes[5] = 3;
    data = CipherUtil.trim( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 5 );

    bytes = new byte[8];
    bytes[7] = 4;
    bytes[6] = 4;
    bytes[5] = 4;
    bytes[4] = 4;
    data = CipherUtil.trim( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 4 );

    bytes = new byte[8];
    bytes[7] = 5;
    bytes[6] = 5;
    bytes[5] = 5;
    bytes[4] = 5;
    bytes[3] = 5;
    data = CipherUtil.trim( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 3 );

    bytes = new byte[8];
    bytes[7] = 6;
    bytes[6] = 6;
    bytes[5] = 6;
    bytes[4] = 6;
    bytes[3] = 6;
    bytes[2] = 6;
    data = CipherUtil.trim( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 2 );

    bytes = new byte[8];
    bytes[7] = 7;
    bytes[6] = 7;
    bytes[5] = 7;
    bytes[4] = 7;
    bytes[3] = 7;
    bytes[2] = 7;
    bytes[1] = 7;
    data = CipherUtil.trim( bytes );
    assertTrue( data.length == 1 );
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetCipher() {

    // get the default cipher
    Cipher cipher = CipherUtil.getCipher( NullCipher.CIPHER_NAME );
    assertNotNull( cipher );
    assertTrue( cipher instanceof NullCipher );

    cipher = CipherUtil.getCipher( BlowfishCipher.CIPHER_NAME );
    assertNotNull( cipher );
    assertTrue( cipher instanceof BlowfishCipher );

    cipher = CipherUtil.getCipher( XTEACipher.CIPHER_NAME );
    assertNotNull( cipher );
    assertTrue( cipher instanceof XTEACipher );

    cipher = CipherUtil.getCipher( "biff" );
    assertNull( cipher );

    cipher = CipherUtil.getCipher( null );
    assertNull( cipher );

    cipher = CipherUtil.getCipher();
    assertNotNull( cipher );
    assertTrue( cipher instanceof BlowfishCipher );
  }

  @Test
  public void testEncryptString() {
    String originalText = "Man is distinguished, not only by his reason, but by this singular passion from other animals, which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.";
    //String originalText = "FooBar";

    String cipherText = CipherUtil.encipher( originalText );
    //System.out.println( cipherText );
    assertNotNull( cipherText );

  }

  @Test
  public void testRoundTrip() {

    String originalText = "The doctrine of Right and Wrong, is perpetually disputed, both by Pen and the Sword: Whereas the doctrine of Lines, and Figures, is not so; because men care not, in that subject what be truth, as a thing that crosses no mans ambition, profit, or lust. For I doubt not, but if it had been a thing contrary to any mans right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, That the three Angles of a Triangle, should be equall to two Angles of a Square; that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of Geometry, suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able.";

    String cipherText = CipherUtil.encipher( originalText );

    //System.out.println("Using a key of "+ new String(CipherUtil.encode( CipherUtil.DEFAULT_IV )));

    String text = CipherUtil.decipher( cipherText );

    assertEquals( originalText, text );
  }

  @Test
  public void testgetKey() {
    String key = CipherUtil.getKey( "123abc" );
    assertNotNull( key );
    //System.out.println("key:'"+key+"'");

    key = CipherUtil.getKey( "123abcdef" );
    assertNotNull( key );

    key = CipherUtil.getKey( "1" );
    assertNotNull( key );

    key = CipherUtil.getKey( "" );
    assertNotNull( key );

    key = CipherUtil.getKey( null );
    assertNotNull( key );
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetKey() {

    String plaintext = "x9qW19]s3";

    String key = CipherUtil.getKey( plaintext );
    assertEquals( "eDlxVzE5XXMz", key );

    //System.out.println( key );
  }

  /**
   * Test the most common use case for the CipherUtil fixture
   */
  @Test
  public void testCommonCase() {
    // Pull the key from the system properties -Dsnapi.key="something"
    String key = "eDlxVzE5XXMz";

    // Pull the cipher name from the properties -Dsnapi.cipher="blowfish"
    String cipherName = "blowfish";

    // Data we want to protect
    String confidentialText = "I like Hello Kitty";

    // Encipher the given text using the given named cipher using the given key
    String cipherText = CipherUtil.encipher( confidentialText, cipherName, key );

    //System.out.println( cipherText );

    // Now decipher the text to get the original text
    String plainText = CipherUtil.decipher( cipherText, cipherName, key );

    //System.out.println( plainText );

    assertEquals( confidentialText, plainText );
  }
}

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I'd like to congratulate Courtney Matessa on putting together a 2K walk, held on March 18th 2012, to raise funds for the African Rural Schools Foundation (ARSF). I was Courtney's advisor for her senior project, and she designed and hosted this walk at North Boundary Park near Pittsburgh. I also helped Courtney research colleges, explore options of majors, and ultimately to find a program for interior design. She was accepted at Kent State, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Valdosta, Edinboro, LaRoche, Bowling Green, the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Courtney is a senior at Seneca Valley School District and is an honors student. She and plans to attend the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the Fall of 2012.
The African Rural Schools Foundation funds education in Uganda, and the proceeds will be used to make improvements to the current schools. They badly need improvements in sanitation, plumbing, buildings, and purchases of basic necessities like beds. A "wish list" of the school's needs is here. Courtney met with Reverend Renee Waun, who is the Founding Sponsor of ARSF, to coordinate her efforts. As part of her senior project, I referred Courtney to Reverend Waun, whom I know professionally and through sponsoring a child through ARSF.
If you would like to learn more about African Rural Schools Foundation, please visit their website at africanruralschools.org. Again, congratulations to Courtney on a job well done.


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Bowling Green, KY townhall Friday night to explain plan for Syrian resettlement there
We've been reporting on the Rutland, VT 'pocket of resistance' to a new resettlement office in Bernie-land, but although there has been an office (of the same federal contractor—USCRI) in Bowling Green for a long time (we have a large archive on it because they have had many problems there over the years), now Syrian Muslims will join the Iraqi Muslims in Rand Paul-land.
Little notice for a public meeting to be held at 5 p.m. on a Friday evening! What is up with that, unless the whole idea is to make sure few average working (taxpaying!) people can't make it!
Albert Mbanfu took over the leadership of this USCRI subcontractor in 2013 here: http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/mbanfu-taking-over-as-international-center-director/image_68ff7ec2-4d2b-5336-9f17-4e5f998865e7.html
And, as far as I know they have no one attending who will help develop the whole story as Simpson did in Rutland this week.
From AP at the Lexington Herald Leader (hat tip: Joanne):
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — A plan to accept Syrian refugees in Bowling Green is raising concerns. In response, the organizations involved have scheduled a town hall to address any questions.
The Bowling Green International Center plans to help resettle refugees, including a group of 40 from Syria, in October.
Center Director Albert Mbanfu said he hopes to address concerns about the screening process and explain how these refugees come to the United States. [Bet you a buck he has already sent the plan to Washington—ed]
"My objective is that people will leave this town hall with a sound knowledge on how refugee resettlement works," he said.
City Commissioner Melinda Hill has called the resettlement risky. [Commissioner Hill must demand to see the R & P Abstract prepared by USCRI! It should look like this one from Reno! because USCRI is the major contractor there too.—ed]
Commissioner Sue Parrigan wants more immigrant workers in Bowling Green.
"This is not against the people," Hill said. "Our federal government has not put in place a good vetting process."
Mbanfu says the federal government won't put the country at risk of potential terrorist infiltrators.
"The community deserves to come out and be heard," said City Commissioner Sue Parrigin.
The Daily News (http://bit.ly/27SlBxp ) reports that the town hall is scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday at the Professional Development and Learning Center.
Follow that link in the last paragraph and learn more, including the statements by Commissioner Parrigin who says they need more workers in KY.
And, if you are new to RRW, or perhaps you live in the Bowling Green area, I will bet you have never seen all the news Bowling Green has made over the years with refugee overload and including the news about Iraqi refugee terrorists arrested (and now in prison) who had been resettled there. Click here for background. I bet we have stories there going back to 2008!
Somebody needs to make sure that Senator Rand Paul's office is represented! This is his home town! You can forget Senator Mitch McConnell because he has turned a blind eye to the program for decades. (Meatpacking and chicken plant money??? Just guessing!)
Rutland, VT citizens hear from James Simpson in advance of heated public meeting
This is not an exhaustive report on what happened in Rutland over the last two days. I am sure we will have more later, but just wanted to let readers know that James Simpson was invited to speak in Rutland, VT this week (go here to see our previous posts). See also 'Remaking Rutland' at American Thinker, here.
Here is a news account from MyChamplainValley about Simpson's presentation on Tuesday.
On the hotseat: Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program Director Amila Merdzanovic (left) and Stacie Blake, director of government and community relations at the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, speak at a meeting in Rutland. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger
Then here are two accounts of the meeting held last night (Wed) by the Board of Alderman to further educate the public about the plan to bring 100 Syrians to Rutland this coming fiscal year. (See here and here).
The second of those links, here, at VTdigger is worth reading in its entirety because the whole idea of the secrecy with which this plan was hatched is discussed in some detail.
Note that they are holding a public meeting AFTER the plan has been sent to Washington. I bet the mayor hasn't even seen that plan (the R & P Abstract)!
RUTLAND — In a heated public meeting Wednesday, the members of the Rutland Board of Aldermen and community members scrutinized a plan to resettle refugees in this central Vermont city.
While some came in support of the proposal, the majority raised objections to the way the plan had been formulated.
The proposal, announced by Mayor Chris Louras last month, would bring 100 Syrian refugees to Rutland for resettlement over the course of a year beginning in October.
Last week, the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program submitted the proposal to resettle Syrians in Rutland to the federal government. They anticipate they will hear a response in July.
Many residents bristled at Louras' approval of the project because he didn't consult with city aldermen and they raised concerns about the impact the resettlement will have on the community.
In a meeting that stretched longer than three hours, the aldermen and residents expressed frustration with Louras' decision, which they said was carried out behind closed doors and without an appropriate level of community input.
Amila Merdzanovic, the director of the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program, and Stacie Blake, director of government and community relations at the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, answered questions from board and community members for hours Wednesday evening.
Continue reading here!
Be sure to see that USCRI rep Blake says refugees are not placed in unwelcoming communities…hmmmmm!
Also, just keep in mind that, at this very moment, plans for all of the old and new resettlement sites are being prepared and sent to Washington. It is our contention that those plans (see the Reno plan here) should be released to the public in advance of going to Washington for approval for your money to be spent!
More later…..

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Orleans County will reap revenues from Batavia Downs Gaming success
By Tom Rivers, Editor Posted 23 December 2021 at 9:24 am
ALBION – Orleans County will see its revenue from Batavia Downs Gaming go up significantly this year with the race track and its 879 video lottery terminals having a record year.
Orleans was getting about $35,000 eight years ago as a part owner of the Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. That was money from OTB betting surcharges and profits from the gaming facility.
That was up to $51,822 in 2019 and is on pace for $85,000 this year, said Ed Morgan, the county's representative on the WROTB board of directors.
"It is a banner year," Morgan told county legislators on Monday.
The gaming floor has generated $60,656,682 during the 11 months so far this year. That doesn't include December. That is already ahead of the previous record high in revenue for a 12-month period – $60,087,894 from April 1, 2019 to March 30, 2020.
The net revenue has averaged $6 million a month at Batavia Downs Gaming since April, a pace for $72 million over 12 months.
The profit is divvied up with 39 percent to state education, 10 percent to gaming and administration, 41 percent to the operator (WROTB), 8.75 percent to horse racing purses and 1.25 percent to horse breeders.
The Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. owns and operates Batavia Downs as well as OTB branches. There are 15 counties and the cities of Rochester and Buffalo that make up WROTB, and they split revenue based on their population. Orleans receives about 1.5 percent of the total. Erie County, the largest county by population, gets 24.5 percent.
WROTB projected $61,260 for Orleans County in 2021, but passed that through the first three quarters of the year with payments at $63,027.
Batavia Downs was shut down about five months in 2020 due to Covid restrictions and then operated a reduced capacity for many months until July 2021 when the full gaming floor was reopened.
Morgan said Batavia Downs Gaming experienced a surge in revenue when the Covid restrictions were eased.
"People just wanted to be out," he said.
WROTB also bought a hotel next to the race track track/gaming facility and has offered "stay and play" promotions that have increased the occupancy rate from 60 percent to 85 to 92 percent on weekends, Morgan said.
"There has been a big increase in hotel occupancy, and they use the gaming floor," he said. "We believe that has made a huge factor in the third quarter."
A summer concert series at Batavia Downs also has brought many people to the gaming floor and race track, Morgan said.


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The Political Leadership Question: Who Governs Britain?
At a time when Britain needs strong political leadership, I look again at the leadership characteristics we need from our next Prime Minister.
Post author By Trevor Sherman
Post date 9th December 2019
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Number 10 Downing Street at Christmas
The political leadership question is back on the agenda. This time it's more important than ever. This time we decide who will govern Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the next five years. Who will resolve Brexit, unite the country and build a prosperous economy for the future.
In June 2019 I published an article Political Leadership Revisited outlining the eleven leadership characteristics with which to judge the political leadership capability of the two candidates who sought to be leader of the Conservative Party. Boris Johnson won that election and succeeded Theresa May as Prime Minister. Who could have predicted just five months later Mr Johnson would find himself in a position where he needed to call a General Election to settle the question of who governs Britain. This is the political leadership question.
The leadership election in June 2019, when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, was settled by just 160,000 members of his party. In the General Election on 12th December 2019 there will be about 46 million people eligible to vote in 650 parliamentary constituencies. Who will they select to be the new resident of that famous address at 10 Downing Street London SW1? Who will they vote for, and how will they choose their Member of Parliament, the Political Party they will back and who they want as their next Prime Minister? This is a complex subject at a crucial time in our nation's history. There are a lot of factors to consider. But since my job is write about leadership, I once again offer a set of characteristics by which to judge the political leadership capability of the two candidates seeking to be the next Prime Minister.
For the General Election I've added one item to my previous list and come up with a dozen leadership characteristics to look for. The first 11 were research from the political leadership characteristics of two of our most notable post-war Prime Ministers: Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. For this article I've also looked at the leadership characteristics of two additional post war Prime Ministers – Harold Wilson and Tony Blair. For item number 12 – 'Team Building' – I've called on my experience as a leadership assessor, coach and trainer.
Who are the would-be Prime Ministers?
Boris Johnson is the leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister. Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition. The political leadership question – which one will become our new Prime Minister on 12th December?
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.
Here are the political leadership capabilities I think we should be looking for from our next Prime Minister.
BELIEF: having a vision you believe in backed up by strong conviction, authenticity, honesty and a moral compass.
CONFIDENCE: having well formed opinions and clear goals; staying in touch with other people's needs and perspectives; no compromises.
COURAGE: being decisive, bold and taking action; seeking and speaking the truth.
COLLABORATION: carrying people with you against a vision; welcoming debate and push back; empathy and engagement; taking decisions with trusted advice.
COMMITMENT: being driven by strong personal values; setting goals and seeing them through despite opposition and barriers.
DETERMINATION: 'not for turning'; confronting destabilising forces and people.
PASSION: fighting for the key policies you believe in.
PERSISTENCE: 'never give up'.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING: forging strong political alliances and personal relationships; building bridges with people who hold alternative views.
RESILIENCE: rising from the ashes in order to inspire hope for others .
VISIBLE COMMUNICATION: influential with gravitas; being seen by and with the people.
TEAM BUILDING: selecting the right people and guiding the team to become an efficient and cohesive functioning unit.
My experience in the business world leads me to believe selecting and building a strong Top Team is crucial to leadership success. You are the sum of your people. Their success is your success. Here are the Top Teams offered by each of the party leaders. Of course this may well change once the General Election is over. That's politics!
Party Conservative Labour
Leader Boris Johnson Jeremy Corbyn
Chancellor Sajid Javid John McDonnell
Home Secretary Priti Patel Diane Abbott
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab Emily Thornberry
Margaret Thatcher Leadership Qualities to note
Margaret Thatcher: Leadership skills of the Iron Lady
3 Leadership Qualities of Winston Churchill
6 Winston Churchill Leadership Style Doctrines
Lessons from Harold Wilson – Labour's forgotten leader
Four Leadership Lessons from Tony Blair
Blair, and the end of New Labour
A Prime Minister … or a CEO?
What Makes for an Effective British Prime Minister?
Rating 20th Century British Prime Ministers
The 10 leadership tricks that make a successful British prime minister
Tags Boris Johnson, general election, Jeremy Corbyn, political leadership, prime minister
By Trevor Sherman
Trevor Sherman: Author, Blogger and Coach.
What do I do? I develop leadership training material and personal learning modules. I am the owner and operator of this Blog. I coach senior executives for their development and role transition. I am based in Northamptonshire UK and operate globally - in person and through technology.
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Joyce Summers / Kristine Sutherland
Joyce Summers works at an art gallery, where she acquires and sells art pieces. She is divorced from Hank Summers, whom she met at a Homecoming dance during her freshman year of college. Joyce remained oblivious to the fact that Buffy was the Slayer (despite many clues that something was odd about Buffy's life) until Buffy finally told her the truth at the end of season two. Joyce came to accept it, but she didn't like it, and she worried about Buffy. Despite this, the two seemed to have a good relationship. Joyce didn't date a lot after her divorce; she did get pretty serious with Ted, who turned out to be a robot-doppelganger of a guy from the fifties who had killed his past four wives. She also showed interest in Giles, and when they were under the influence of poisoned band candy, the two had sex; they avoided each other and the subject after that. Joyce wasn't a central part of Buffy's life when Buffy first went to college, however the addition of Dawn to the family changed that, as Buffy moved back home to protect Dawn from Glory. Joyce was aware of Dawn's supernatural origin, but loved her anyway. Joyce developed a brain tumor, which was successfully removed, though sadly she later died from an aneurysm (a side effect of the operation), and Buffy discovered her body lying on their couch. A grief stricken Dawn attempted to magically resurrect her, but she canceled the spell after learning of the possible terrible consequences of it, and after receiving support and reassurance from Buffy.
Kristine Sutherland, 64, loved her job on Buffy. She said that she used her role as the mother of a teenager to prepare herself for when her own daughter hits adolescence. Kristine feels very motherly toward and protective of both her young co-stars and their fictional characters: she worries, for example, about Sarah Michelle Gellar working too hard, and about Buffy not having a father around. Kristine is a big fan of the show, and says that she gets very caught up in the story lines. She's always liked fantasy and science-fiction, but she doesn't like horror; she even gets scared watching Buffy sometimes. Interestingly, Joyce auditioned for BtVS on the same day that David Boreanaz did — she saw him waiting with about four other guys, and he was the one that struck her (women's intuition, maybe?). Kristine hadn't had a whole lot of roles before playing Joyce, but you might recognize her from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids or her Hoover vacuum commercials.
Birthdate: April 17, 1955
Birthplace: New York
Height: Unknown
Eyes/Hair: Brown/brown
Husband: John Pankow (best known as Ira on Mad About You), since 1985
Children: One daughter, Eleanore
Siblings: At least one brother
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PETA and hunters and drones, Oh My! One would expect the first big flap over the use of drones would be contained to the protection of personal privacy of the US citizen. Not the case here. Hunters have taken up the call to put a stop to PETA's Air Angels program that monitors the actions of game hunters.
"If they spot any illegal activity, PETA members are advised to report it to a local game warden and not take any further action themselves.


The term martial art has become associated with the fighting arts of eastern Asia, it originally referred to the combat systems of Europe as early as the 1550s. The term is derived from Latin, and means "arts of Mars", the Roman god of war. Some authors have argued that fighting arts or fighting systems would be more appropriate on the basis that many martial arts were never "martial" in the sense of being used or created by professional warriors.


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Mellen ist der Name mehrerer Orte:

 Mellen, Ortsteil von Balve (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
 Mellen (Lenzen), bewohnter Gemeindeteil der Stadt Lenzen (Elbe) im Landkreis Prignitz in Brandenburg
 Mellen, früherer Name des Ortsteils Mellensee, Gemeinde Am Mellensee, Brandenburg
 Mellen, Dorf in der Woiwodschaft Westpommern in Polen; siehe: Mielno (Węgorzyno)
 Mellen (Wisconsin), Vereinigte Staaten
 Mellen Township (Michigan), Vereinigte Staaten

Der Name Mellen bezeichnet außerdem:
 James Mellen (* 1996), US-amerikanischer Radsportler
 Prentiss Mellen (1764–1840), US-amerikanischer Politiker

Siehe auch:
 Edwin Mellen Press, Fachverlag mit Sitz in Lewiston

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Q: Crysis crashes on Windows 8 Pro - what to do? I recently got a new PC, which came with Windows 7. I installed Crysis on it and worked just fine. A few days later, Windows 8 was released and I had the option to update  - which I did.
I re-installed all of my games, and they run without any glitches as far as I can tell, all except Crysis. The errors I am getting range from an error has occurred... (with a long error code and message that makes no sense to me) to a black window that opens up for a few seconds and then crashes. Similar issues have been reported on the Steam forums and on the MyCrisis forums here and here.
I tried running it in compatibility mode with all the older operating system options as suggested in this post, but no luck, I get the same results.
I also tried patching the game with the latest 1.2 and 1.2.1 patches, it doesn't work either.
How can I get Crysis to work under Windows 8?

A: I appreciate all the useful info you guys have posted there. Here is what worked for me:

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*Un-installed the game completely

*Install with minimum option (no additional languages, no punkbuster)

*By default, the shortcut to the game was using the 64bit version of the game, use the 32bit version instead.
And Voila!
The game started working again.
I hope this helps someone

A: Try installing DirectX 9.0c.  Some of the older DX9 files that were included in Windows 7 have been removed in Windows 8, and as a result, many games don't work.  You can run the web installer found here or the standalone offline installer found here.

A: I had Crysis running yesterday, in Windows 7 compatibility mode.  Today I got the same error about the operating system.  The only program I loaded today was Steam.  I opened the task manager, stopped Steam from running then removed it from the start up list.  After I rebooted, Crysis loads and runs just fine!

A: Do you have the latest hardware drivers? In particular, try updating the driver for the graphics adapter. If that doesn't help, try downloading the reference drivers from ATI or nVidia (depending on the brand of graphics adapter) and see if that helps.
You could also be unfortunate, that you have faulty hardware, e.g. faulty RAM. It is not at all improbable, that running Crysis on Windows 7 would not exercise a faulty piece of RAM, but running it under Windows 8 would. Depending on your RAM configuration in your computer, and your technical expertise, you could try removing a RAM block at a time, and see if it helps with the problem.

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Our traditional survey again looks at how many types of taxes there are in Hungary. The number of Hungarian taxes has fallen by one again this year, so we've counted 58 this time. The decrease, however, is of a technical nature only, while at the same time we continue to live with taxes such as the seemingly ineradicable charge payable on household employees or the newly introduced poster tax - comments Tamás Fehér, leading tax lawyer at Jalsovszky Law Firm.
The re-regulation of the excise tax has resulted in the formal scrapping of the energy tax, so this year we again have one less tax in Hungary - with the current total standing at 58. In other words, the number of Hungarian taxes has just fallen for second year in a row.
On the other hand, there are now several different types of taxes that can be identified in numerous laws, the excise tax being a case in point. An excellent example is the amendment to the Act on Local Taxes effective from 1 January this year, which introduced the so-called "poster tax" within the context of the building tax. This specifies the advertising medium as a new tax object, and allows municipalities to impose on it a maximum tax of HUF 12,000 per square metre. However, as neither the object (property) nor the basis of taxation (area) differ significantly from those of the building tax, the poster tax cannot be considered a separate type of tax.
There are no surprises at the top of the revenue list: the budget derived more than HUF 3,500 billion in revenue from VAT in 2017. This tax generated a 7% revenue growth year on year, despite the fact that the list of reduced-rate products and services is expanding continuously. Although this phenomenon may in part result from growing consumption and gradually rising inflation, efficient tax collection is at least as important. Furthermore, the introduction of online invoicing during the year could give another boost to VAT revenue growth.
The corporate tax rate was cut from the previous 10/19% brackets to a mere 9% in 2017. At the same time, the revenue derived from it (approx. HUF 625 billion) dropped relatively little, by just 8.5% year on year, and is far above the 2015 revenue figures. So at first sight less can actually be more. Nevertheless, the 40% lower revenue target for 2018 (approx. HUF 363 billion) indicates that the figures are heavily distorted by temporary items, probably resulting from the growth tax credit.
If we look at the so-called small taxes, it is noticeable that the government derived more revenue from KATA [the flat-rate tax for small taxpayer enterprises] (approx. HUF 98 billion) than from EVA [the simplified entrepreneurial tax] (approx. HUF 64 billion) for the first time last year, while the revenue derived from KIVA [the small business tax] (approx. HUF 22 billion) increased by 65% year on year. It seems that the tax administration's intensive marketing campaign is starting to bear fruit, and taxpayers are beginning to understand and like the new, simplified types of tax. Nevertheless, EVA, which was introduced in 2003, continues to generate far more revenue than KIVA, despite the fact that it can no longer help taxpayers achieve any real tax savings as compared to the regular corporation tax.
To evaluate the tax system, it is still worth paying particular attention to the fate of small taxes or those that bring in inexplicably little revenue. There's no change in this category as, based on 2017 preliminary data the charge payable on household employees claimed the negative record again, generating HUF 29 million in revenue over the year.
The future may hold some excitement as far as types of tax are concerned. Some parties preparing for the elections have proclaimed their intentions to reduce the number of taxes, while their programmes include ideas for at least 9 new tax types. So we cannot rule out the possibility that next year we will face new types of tax such as the "speculation tax", the "greenhouse gas tax" or the "unoccupied property charge".


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Protection Work Notices – what are they?
Property owners, building professionals and developers should understand a landowner's obligation to ensure neighbouring properties are adequately protected when carrying out building work.
As high-density development increases to accommodate an expanding population, the need to consider and budget for the protection of nearby properties when planning building work is critical.
When is protection work required?
The Building Act 1993 (Vic) requires all property owners proposing to carry out building work to ensure that any adjoining property is protected from potential damage. A property owner must consult with the owner of adjoining property if there is a risk of significant damage.
Adjoining property includes 'land (including any street, highway, lane, footway, square, alley and right of way) which is so situated in relation to the site on which building work is to be carried out as to be at risk of significant damage from the building work'.
Building work means 'any work for or in connection with the construction, demolition or removal of a building'.
How is the need for protection work determined?
The need for protection work is determined by the relevant building surveyor at the time that an application is lodged for a building permit. The land owner (or agent) must provide the surveyor with detailed information of the proposed work to be carried out.
The surveyor plays a crucial and impartial role in determining the need for protection work and oversees the consultation process and the adequacy of any work required.
A range of matters are considered when determining if protection work is required including, but not limited to, the plans and specifications, the materials and methods to be used for the proposed work, any demolition, excavation and / or construction of party and retaining walls required for the work, and the nature and likely extent of damage on the stability or otherwise of an adjoining property as a result of the proposed building work.
What happens if protection work is necessary?
If protection work is required, an owner must serve a Protection Work Notice on the adjoining owner detailing the proposed building work, and a protection work proposal. The proposal should include the relevant timeframe and duration of the proposed work and be supported with technical details and information to establish that the protection work will eliminate any risk to the adjoining property that might otherwise eventuate.
Within 14 days of service of the notice, the adjoining owner must respond by either agreeing to the proposed protection work, disagreeing, or requesting additional information from the owner.
An adjoining party wishing to dispute the proposed protection work must act promptly as failure to respond to the notice within 14 days constitutes an agreement to the proposed work and the owner may then carry out the work.
If the adjoining owner agrees or does not respond to the Protection Work Notice, then the owner must obtain any necessary permits or approvals for the work and arrange insurance cover for the building work and the adjoining property before commencing.
Insurance must be for a sum agreed between the property owner and adjoining owner, cover the adjoining property for any damage caused by the protection work, and for any liabilities incurred to adjoining occupiers and the general public for the duration of the building work and for 12 months thereafter.
The parties must cooperate in arranging a dilapidation report to identify any defects in the adjoining property and detail its current condition. The report is signed by the parties to acknowledge its present state. The report is used to compare 'before and after' defects and may be admitted as evidence in any subsequent proceedings in the event of a dispute.
What type of protection work might be necessary?
The nature of protection work required will depend on the building work to be undertaken and the type of risk to which the adjoining property is exposed. The work may be temporary or permanent and can add considerably to a project's costs. Examples include:
ground anchoring and shoring up of adjoining property
underpinning existing footings
stabilising works to footings and barriers
construction of retaining walls and bored piers
provision of lateral and vertical support
overhead protection for the adjoining property
protective works against variation in earth pressures
Who pays?
Unsurprisingly, the property owner / developer is responsible for the direct and incidental costs relating to a Protection Work Notice. This includes the costs of carrying out the actual protection work itself, as well as costs reasonably incurred by an adjoining owner to adequately protect its interests to assess the proposal and supervise or monitor the protection work. These costs can add considerably to a proposed development as the legislation specifically allows an adjoining owner to obtain independent technical advice and to be reasonably compensated for such costs.
Adjoining owners who do not agree to the proposed protection work must notify the owner and relevant building surveyor within 14 days of service of the Protection Work Notice.
The relevant building surveyor must consider the objection and proposed work, determine their appropriateness or otherwise, and provide a written determination to the parties.
Further disputes regarding protection work may need to be referred to the Building Appeals Board. Applications may be made by the owner (or agent), the person or entity carrying out the building work, the adjoining owner, or the relevant building surveyor.
Applications must be carefully prepared with detailed submissions referring to the relevant legislation, the grounds of the application and outlining the preferred outcome. Evidence in the form of drawings, plans, photographs or expert reports should support the application and submissions. Legal advice and guidance are recommended when applying or responding to an application.
Matters before the Building Appeals Board are determined by a panel of members with specialist building and technical knowledge. The panel's decision is generally binding and may only be appealed at the Supreme Court on a point of law.
The potential for a building project to require a Protection Work Notice should be carefully considered at the planning stage of all building projects. Non-compliance with a Protection Work Notice can expose life and property to risk of injury and damage and may result in substantial liability for the exposed party.
If you are developing property or have been served with a Protection Work Notice, it is prudent to obtain comprehensive technical and legal advice.
If you or someone you know wants more information or needs help or advice, please contact us on call 03 5221 7077 or email [email protected].
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Like Ouroboros eating its own tail or the infinity sign trapped in a never-ending loop, I'm concluding this session of Breaking the Bonds by starting back with the Bond that began it all: with Sean Connery, in his last appearance–official or otherwise–as James Bond. This movie is a non-canonical (i.e. non-Eon Productions) entry in the series thanks to a rather clumsy handling of the intellectual property of Thunderball. Considering that Thunderball is one of the worst Bond movies I've seen so far, I'm less than excited about this movie, but at the same time I also think it's a rather appropriate bookend to this project.
Immediately I am not pleased to see that this movie clocks in at a whopping 2 hours 14 minutes, and the credits sequence starts immediately instead of a cold open action sequence. The helicopter from the opening sequence of The Shining flies over a wetlands environment, and we see Connery Bond run up to a compound. He punches a dude out, and the opening song sounds like Sade if she didn't care about how her music turned out. Bond tosses a distracting Frisbee up in the air, which makes a bunch of these goons run after it like they were dogs. He zip lines across a phone line to strangle a dude to death and then uses a blow dart to take out another guy. It's kind of silly, and man, does Sean Connery look way too old to be James Bond.
He throws a flash grenade into a filthy hovel and then rappels into the room to blow everybody away. After those guys are dead, he goes to save a woman tied to a bed but some guy starts some static with him so he beats him up. After freeing the woman, she stabs him in the ribs. Then some dude is watching this on video and Connery's getting chewed out by M. Well, off-brand "new" M for kind of fucking this up. I guess this was just a training exercise, so whatever. Connery says hey, I'm a teacher by this point, and this new M says you're eating too much red meat and drinking martinis. You're soft, Bond. Reaaal soft. So you gotta go get in shape, you flabby old bastard. New Moneypenny says something on his way out but there's no flirting because Bond is in his 50's by this point and that would be gross.
"No, Bond. No. No, no, no, no, no. No. Gross."
Bond goes to a spa to get his shit in shape and we're "treated" to Sean Connery shirtless. This is really, really similar so far to Thunderball, except it's a little more sad since Bond is so old and is getting a physical. But enough of that: here's some lady checking in on her safety deposit box. But instead it's a secret tunnel entrance to….somewhere. Oh, this is an off-brand SPECTRE meeting and this time Max "The Seventh Seal" von Sydow is playing Blofeld. I feel like I could just repost my Thunderball recap beat-for-beat and it wouldn't be any different. Well, at least the film looks sharp. #12 (that's the lady spy's number) is sent to take over the whole eye-switching plot.
Anyway, Bond runs into a nurse who says she has an appointment with him for some back-cracking. CUT TO said back-cracking. I wonder if Connery wondered why he was doing a movie again that he made 20 years earlier, but the dump truck full of money that pulled up to his house probably silenced those kinds of questions. So the captain who's going to be replaced with a SPECTRE henchman is also in this spa, and Bond answers his door to that same back-cracking nurse, who's bringing him a healthy dinner. But he has a whole suitcase filled with all of the unhealthy shit that everyone told him he has to stop eating: caviar, foie gras, and a giant bottle of vodka. Jesus, Bond! Are you sure you weren't supposed to be assigned to rehab?
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."
There's Agent #12 getting her mission going while that air force captain's looking a little freaked out in his room. She comes in his room and starts beating him, and Bond hears the ruckus while laying in bed with that nurse and nursing a drink. Across the way, he sees Agent #12 beating the shit out of this dude so he puts on a robe and investigates. When he gets there, though, it looks like the nurse is doing nurse-like things (well, minus showing off her garter belt and kissing the patient), and then he puts his head into some weird eye machine. But Bond's losing his touch as he gives himself away peeping into the window. Agent #12 uses her infrared binoculars to spot Bond staring intently at the window, and she identifies him immediately because secret agent.
The next morning, a doctor tells him he needs an herbal enema which, gross, and he's just kind of doddering around. He checks the air force dude's room for signs of spy stuff and finds his pack of smokes and air force wings under the bed. So that's something. Then he goes to work out while a big, burly dude knocks out a janitor. While Bond weight lifts, this burly dude comes in and figures out the best way to kill Bond: by letting go of the weights and smashing in his chest with the weight lift bar.
"I guess this isn't working out. Oh, now's not the time to quip. I'm a real dumbbell."
But this guy didn't take into account that James Bond has two working legs, which he uses to kick him away. So Bond starts smashing him with dumbbells, which do nothing, and then a wooden bench, and is this like an off-brand Oddjob? I bet it is. More smashing and fighting occurs, and they fight in the background while a group of people watch a boxing match on TV (GET IT?). A chef spots this fight as Bond flies through the kitchen window, and then Bond gets tossed around for a while. James tosses everything he can get his hands on to stop this dude and eventually lands in an innocent woman's room to scare the hell from her. More getting tossed through windows and shelves holding a lot of glass occurs, until Bond tosses…his own urine sample in his face? This debilitates this dude, and I guess that's the end of that. That's some fucked-up urine, Bond. Seek help.
Back at HQ, New M chews out Bond for being the target of assassins while at a health spa and Bond quips his way out of this mess. Elsewhere, some military tests are occurring. Fake Air Force Pilot Guy does some sneaky shit around here, using that eye machine he was messing with earlier to use his crazy eye implant that tricks the security system to think he's the president. This is to replace the dummy warheads with actual warheads. You know, I don't think this ever has, or will, be the procedure for anything: just because you're the president doesn't mean you can change military procedures or sequences of loading warheads on planes. That's a level that the president just doesn't have access (or time) to dilly-dally with. So this is all kind of silly.
Anyway, a plane loaded with actual nuclear warheads lets fly two of these suckers, and the special effects of their flying reminds me of Flight of the Navigator or Explorers. Agent #12 zooms up to match Fake Air Force Pilot Guy's car driving down the road to tell him good job and then throws a snake into his car, which makes him drive off the road. She goes up to his wreckage to plant a bomb and retrieve her snake. This lady's pretty weird, even for a murderous secret agent. His car blows up and she listens to some awful faux-jazz as she drives away.
Pictured: A cold-blooded, heartless reptile. And also a snake.
Back to the missiles: they fly around and around and some dudes on a ship are waiting to get those darn nuclear warheads. These missile effects suck and their radar sounds like an Atari game. The US military notices that their missiles are going down and they're like, dig up, stupid! It's just Thunderball all over again, except instead of sinking a plane with nuclear warheads, they just sink the nuclear warhead missiles. Oh good, more underwater sequences. Blofeld broadcasts his threats to the world leaders and I keep wondering why I'm suffering through a retread of Thunderball. This time, Blofeld's looking for an astonishing 25% of all countries' annual GDP, which is a jump from the $100 million he was looking for back in 1965. A military dude says hey, don't blame me: I voted for Kodos, while NATO is stuck with the bill. A decision is made to reactivate the double o's.
Bond's getting a com-pu-ter briefing when Moneypenny tells him hey, you gotta go see M because shit's going down in Chinatown. Largo is also a character in this as Blofeld's proxy for the missiles, and my God, it really is a beat-for-beat retelling of Thunderball. Largo gets to his ship and walks into a control room saying good morning like an upbeat boss would. Bond meets with New M, who gives him the lowdown with the stolen missiles, and another dude shows up to say this is all rather bad form, old beans. Bond says this could have all happened because of a false eye, but Not M says well that's just stupid. Back at Largo HQ, he puts on some funky tunes while he peeps in on Kim Basinger jazzercising. Well here's one bright spot in the movie: a young Kim Basinger, who looks unbelievable. She's playing Largo's mistress in this, and she's a lot more enthusiastic of him than the original girl was in Thunderball. Largo looks like Phil Collins, while Kim Basinger looks like Kim Basinger. He gives her a bauble while he plays piano and nuzzles up to her, and they have a cute little moment with each other, until he reminds her that if she ever leaves him, he's going to cut her throat, so that takes the air out of the moment just a bit.
In short: based on this scene, this movie's fantastic.
Bond gets some target practice in while Q-Not-Q shows off his new missile pen. Not Q complains that they slashed his budget and don't even put the heat on in his lab. He shows off some coo-coo gadgets but this is a significant downgrade from the old Q lab. It looks like the basement of a poly tech. Anyway, Q bitches about management and hopes that they're "going to have some gratuitous sex and violence," which whoa Q, you gotta get out of this basement more often. Oh, and this time there's a laser watch.
CUT TO Bond in the Bahamas. Bond flirts with a woman on a boat who's somewhat age-appropriate, which is nice to see, and his contact Nigel is played by Rowan Atkinson(!) as not-Mr. Bean. He kind of sucks as a secret agent, but he's new to this and looks constantly damp. He gives Bond the low-down about Largo and asks that Bond doesn't make any trouble. Bond says fuck off, Nigel, and he fucks off.
Bond stands at a bar and looks at photographs of boats and checks out the woman he was flirting with on the boat, who's hot-dogging on water-skis in the harbor. She splashes him and gives him a glare. Then she goes up the ramp into the bar(?) and falls into his arms. Her name is Fatima Blush (WHAT?) and they engage in some single-entendres. She's pretty, while Bond looks like an alligator suitcase.
"Sooo….dinner tonight?" "You're still 15 years older than me." "Damn."
The next thing you know, they're on her boat and Bond is just standing next to the captain like he thinks this guy doesn't know what he's doing (racist), until he's called by Fatima. We see Sean Connery start to undress and there's nothing sexier than a shirtless over-middle aged man. He says at some point, "Going down, one should always be relaxed," which is disgusting. They get to the sex and we actually get a glimpse of Fatima's nipple, which may be a first for a (although non-canonical) Bond film. Also, this sex scene is wildly unappealing and gross.
Hey! Then they're in the water and I don't care because I already saw this shit the first time this movie was made when it was called Thunderball. There's another abandoned sunk ship, and they explore it. Connery's thinning hair is very apparent in these scenes. Fatima leaves him alone on the wreck and signals…a remote-controlled shark…to chase after James Bond. That's really stupid. Anyway, Bond tries to ditch a shark underwater, which is stupid, and the soundtrack music is, like, two semitones away from being the Jaws theme. Also, there's some real-life shark brutality in this scene, which is always unpleasant to watch.
Bond finds the homing device that's drawing the shark towards him on his suit, but the shark totally knocks off his mouthpiece. Bond tosses (rather, lightly drifts) the homing device into the ship, where the shark gives chase, and then pulls on that lady that he was flirting with the Boat Lady's fishing line. She's shocked to still see him alive, and….that's the end of that scene. Because now Fatima's on shore dancing to calypso music? Anyway, she spots Bond having a grand old time and freaks out. She places an explosive device in Bond's room and splits.
Bond—in overalls—goes to make time with said Boat Lady (didn't catch her name, but I also am not sure if they gave her one, so there's that), and another gross sex scene occurs. I guess this stuff is only gross to me because of Bond's advanced age, but I'm a human being with eyes, so. Thankfully, Nigel writes and lets Bond know that Largo's boat is headed towards the south of France, and then that woman presses the detonator. However, Bond's in that Boat Lady's place, so he just shrugs the explosion of his hotel room across the way off and gets back to his unthinkable sexing.
"Yes. Yes. Yes. I am interesting in changing my provider. No, I'm not busy at all at the moment."
NOW TO FRANCE, where we see a dude gripping a wooden ball and waiting for Bond. And then some Frenchy chick zips up to him to give him info and be the next victim in his wandering penis parade. But wait! This dude with the wooden ball is the new Felix! And he's black! Anyway, everyone says hello and they laugh and laugh, and goddammit does Sean Connery look old. There's something in a U-Haul attached to French Lady's car, but enough of that: the south of France looks wonderful. They pull up to an incredibly cool-looking Modern house, where Bond spies on Largo's ship. He witnesses Kim Basinger-as-Domino doing her jazzercise on the deck, and he and Felix flap gums until the scene's over. Domino is then seen going on-shore, where she looks a little dazed. Bond follows her like a fucking creep. She checks into a spa, and Bond also checks in. Then we're treated to shots of some lovely ladies in bikinis, followed by Bond looking like an idiot in a gray turtleneck. Talk about cognitive dissonance!
He pretends to be someone who works there to sexually assault Domino, and he pushes the towel down as far as Kim Basinger's contract would allow and starts interrogating her about Largo. His massage looks terrible, but he gets the information he wants. For some reason, Domino finds his awful flirting intriguing instead of disgusting, but Bond can barely keep his cover up. What the fuck kind of spa is this? He gets his hands on her buns, which even he figures is creepy, and ducks out when the actual masseuse comes in. Domino looks confused and more than a little violated at this news. But she smiles anyway because women are supposed to find this leathery old oaf irresistible.
Oof, that paunch. Those greying temples. Those veiny hands. Have I mentioned that Sean Connery looks old in this movie yet?
He shows up at Largo's swanky party while Fatima follows. Bond just walks in like he owns the goddamn building and punches the maitre d' in the penis. He holds this dude up with a gun and puts a bomb in his hand that will go off if he moves. Then he just keeps going into the party like the world is his and his alone. He looks around this smoky room filled with Frenchies, resisting the temptation to gamble, and spots Domino. Then he keeps a bead on her from across the room and follows her around. Weirdo. She goes into an arcade(?) while Fatima follows. She plays Gravitar, which is a cool game, while Bond introduces himself and buys her a drink.
Bond orders himself a vodka on the rocks (what the fuck? Was a dry martini, "shaken, not stirred," copyrighted?) while Fatima tells Largo that Domino's going to turn on him. They have a weird conversation that's way more personal and odd than anyone in this fucked-up business should allow, and Largo comes across as kind of a loser. Domino says she's looking forward to seeing her brother, but before he can tell her that he's fucking dead lady, Largo strolls up and says hey James Bond, I know exactly who you are. Do you like games, stupid-face? Let's go play a game. So there's this insane game that Largo put together to play against Bond.
It's an antique table with joysticks (what?) and a video screen they both have that pop out of it (what?) and a holographic screen that generates between them in the center of the table (WHAT?). It's pretty much just Missile Command and Defender. They start playing this impossible game, and it's watching James Bond play a goddamn video game. It gives a shock every time the opponent loses, and this is pretty stupid. Fatima pushes her way through the crowd to watch this fake bullshit, and we find out that Bond sucks at video games. But he gets the hang of it (I guess if you can figure out how to play baccarat, you can figure out video games), and none of this is visually interesting or engaging in any way. Bond gets shocked off his seat and Large strolls over to gloat. This is stupid.
Well this is just goddamn stupid. Or it's the Nintendo Switch. I'm not sure.
But whatever, James Bond says, let's play a game for the rest of the world (even though it's just a stupid video game), and nobody thinks this is a good idea, but whatever, Largo says sure you Luddite, let's do this thing. I can't really figure out what the hell this game is, or how it's being played, but I guess since video games were popular in 1983, they decided to really push this idea in this movie. Bond movies are really susceptible to fads. Largo loses this last game, however, and everyone stands around murmuring to each other while he writes Bond a fat check. But Bond's like, fuck your money, and Largo strolls away while Bond dances with Domino.
This dance number is goddamn ridiculous. This movie's ridiculous. They do a little interrogation tango and Bond lets her know that her brother's goddamn dead, you twit. Then he says Largo's the suspect, and your brother was used, and this is all really boring. Fatima and Largo conspire further and he says go kill Bond, OK? And I just realized that Fatima is Agent #12 from the beginning. It's very hard to follow all of this poorly edited claptrap. Largo stops the dance and says have lunch with us tomorrow on my lunch, dig? Also, Largo lets slip that her brother's not coming any time soon and they leave. Then Bond gets that "bomb" back from the maitre 'd he socked in the gut earlier, which was just his cigar case. Holy shit, was this a long sequence. I almost forgot about this guy. AND END SCENE!
Elsewhere, Bond returns home to the mansion he's staying in, grabbing an apple along the way, and walks up the ultra-modern rail-less stairs to his room. He hears some banging around but says whatever, I'm going to bed. Reaching…a room…he suspects something sneaky's afoot and pulls his gun. Checking a water bed, he finds that lady from before drowned and dead in it. Then some snazzy jazz plays as he witnesses Fatima running away. She giggles to herself (what?) as she runs into her car. So Bond gets his motorcycle out of its Styrofoam casing and chases after her.
Wow, a motorcycle! Never seen one of them before. How fantastic.
It's a chase scene, and I don't recap those because what's the point? See you in a bit when something noteworthy happens. He's captured by being forced into a truck, but at the last moment escapes, popping a wheely on his way out. More chasing occurs. His motorcycle has a rocket on it, so he leaps over one of the cars. Batman music starts. More rocket motorcycle stuff. Then he's knocked off the motorcycle by Fatima using a jib. She holds him at gunpoint and disarms him. How long until this movie's over? Another 49 minutes? Damn.
She's going to shoot him in the bait-and-tackle while he insinuates that she's a lesbian and continues to self-aggrandize. She makes him write some confession about how she was the best he ever had, but he has his secret spy pen in his hand, so he shoots her with it. But she cackles at this and takes aim, but it's a rocket pen that has a delayed explosion. So she explodes. Whatever, movie. Here's another Austin Powers reference: in that first movie, there's a femme fatale that seems impossible to kill, and Fatima is that character. Again: Fuck you, Austin Powers series. Lazy.
Felix shows up and says fuck this noise, this is some crazy shit; let's split. So they dress up like…gay Frenchmen(?) and escape. Anyway, back at Largo's boat, more swinging jazz plays while Bond and Felix snoop around in scuba gear. It's still just a retread of Thunderball, which makes it deeply uninteresting. Bond enters the ship through a secret panel at its bottom(?), seemingly on accident, but he makes thunderballs out of balls and decides to snoop. When he pops up through a manhole, a servant is waiting for him with a robe to let him know that Largo's been expecting him. And there's Largo, expecting him. Meanwhile, Felix surfaces and watches the boat zip away.
Largo gives Bond a little tour around his operations while Bond enjoys a martini. He's being a hospitable host for this man that he's planning to kill, but I guess that's a Bond villain trademark by now. So James is left to his own devices, which leads to snooping around. But Domino finds him in the hallway, and WHOA! Kim Basinger's in a sheer top. So thanks, James Bond movie? It's kind of incredible this movie got the rating it did.
It feels rather nippley, uh, nippy in here.
Bond puts on jazzercise music while he and Basinger talk about what's going on, and in his Creep Cabin, Largo watches while trying to filter out the music to hear what they're talking about. Domino says that they're headed to North Africa and Bond needs her help to transmit a message out of here. Then he says he's going to kiss her to provoke a reaction. Sure, Bond, whatever you say. Largo bursts into the room, but it's too late: Domino sets off the emergency alarm while Bond sneaks into the Creep Cabin to get out a message. Largo starts smashing the jazzercise room apart in a fit of rage while Bond smugly watches him, and back in Britain New M receives said message. Then CUT TO I don't know, North Africa, with Bond standing on the deck with Domino as Largo stands around like a creep. They go into his weirdo castle that he owns, which is pretty sweet, and he says this was all for you, Domino. Bond looks like he's a trillion in these scenes. Anyway, Bond's ushered away by armed goons while Largo acts like a nutjob around Domino. Largo admits that he killed her brother, while Largo continues to be a goddamn monster-man. She calls him crazy, which he seems cool with, and then whistles like the goddamn Joker.
Next time we see her, she's in a burka and tied up, being led to her death. She's tied to a post while Bond is tied up into a hawk-filled dungeon to view her death. Largo's on-hand to gloat and then goes to split. He asks Largo where he hid the bombs, and Largo just straight up and tells him where at least the first bomb is (under the US president's feet). Then he says that's enough: goodbye. So at least he only gave away half his plan instead of all of it.
Largo puts on the same music that Domino and Bond danced to for her execution, and then splits. Bond uses his laser watch to break free (Hey! See, it came back!) and some banditos show up to I guess kill this woman based on some horrible Muslim law. It'd be offensive if it wasn't true! Oh, Islam: why are you so terrible so often? Anywhoo, a guard goes to check on Bond because he hears the wailing of a hawk (what?) but finds that Bond has escaped through melting the metal bars of the window. Well, kind of: Bond's just outside of the window and pulls him out to fall to his death.
Outside, these fucking creeps barter to I guess violate Domino before killing him, and Bond steals a horse while smoking a cigarette because why the fuck not smoke during this time of emergency? He gets Domino onto the horse and they gallop away to freedom. Meanwhile, I'm not going to cover a horse chase just like I won't cover a car chase because that's enough of that. But wait: HE JUMPS A FUCKING HORSE OFF THE SIDE OF THIS CASTLE AND LANDS IN THE WATER HUNDREDS OF FEET BELOW AND SURVIVES. That's just fucking crazy. But we get to see Kim Basinger in a sheer negligee underwater where she looks practically naked, so that's something. But Felix and Co. show up to rescue them in an inflatable motor boat, and they GTFO.
"Hunh. We're alive. How's the horse? Wait, if the horse is dead…" (Scene from The Six Sense: The Remake)
CUT TO Bond scrubbing a naked Domino in the shower (gross), and Bond says he's still going after Largo. She says she cares about Bond, but why? Anyway, M calls in to say that they have to find that second bomb dammit, but Bond is bored by this anyway. Poor young Kim Basinger looks uncomfortable being in old Sean Connery's arms in this scene.
So they're all just hanging out on the control room of a submarine figuring out what the fuck to do, and apparently the pendant that Domino's brother gave her is the key to finding the bomb. That's stupid. I mean, why would you give a pendant that marks the spot where the bombs exactly are to your sister? Did he get that specially made for her? Was this insurance policy? Who knows.
Anyway, we get to see…is it? Yes! It's Son of Blippy from Thunderball! That jaunty little submersible from that movie which captured my heart. So good to see something fun like this in such a god-awful Bond adventure. I guess it's fan service, but whatever: Blippy Lives! The bad guys are looking for the bomb, and now Bond is looking for a little submersible himself to find it. And…WHAT THE FUCK? He gets launched into the air in a little personal rocket ship, and it's goddamn ridiculous. And Felix has one too! That's crazy. That's stupid and crazy like Moonraker was stupid and crazy. They get on-shore, put on scuba gear, and then head back into the water. What? Then why did they use those little rockets to get to the surface? Stupid. So, so stupid.
Blippy's on the hunt for the nuclear bomb, and they found it, so. It's brought into their secret cave base while Felix and Bond search around. Goddammit, do I hate underwater scenes. They find the secret base…somehow…and then go in for the snoopin'. And hey! They immediately find the underground operations!
Bond goes Encyclopedia Brown-ing by himself and infiltrates this cave dwelling. Blofeld's on the line to celebrate this victory and wonder why he's not in an Ingmar Bergman movie, and the stupid bomb is being lowered and positioned to fuck everything up. Largo seems to be enjoying himself at this moment, and Bond's weird hairy legs topple a gigantic archaeological wonder in an attempt to kill people. Felix starts firing on these suckers because he's cool while Bond looks for more history to destroy for his purposes.
"Now this is more like it! What? I only have 5 minutes screen time? Dammit!"
Special forces show up to back up Felix and it's another chaotic firefight between henchmen and the good guys in the evil lair that looks historically important but is being shot to pieces because fuck history, right? The bomb is armed to fuck up the world's oil supply (note from the future: don't worry; time does that anyway), and it's launched on Blippy! Oh, Blippy. And Largo goes with it because he's a hands-on manager. After destroying this World Heritage Site, Bond reconnoiters with Felix to let him know that he's going to save the day and Felix is like, that's cool, I'm going to stay here and kill more people.
CUT TO Bond on a swing suspended by a chopper, which looks fun/terrifying. He drops into the water to find Blippy & The Bomb, while I'm relieved to find out there's less than 10 minutes of this movie to watch. Anyway, Large and Bond have a good old-fashioned knife fight underwater, which I've seen before thanks to the original movie this one is based on, and Blippy blips away with the bomb. Bond catches up to Largo and they tussle, but Blippy starts crushing Largo against a rock while Bond goes to deactivate the bomb. Then Domino(!) shows up with a spear gun and finishes of Largo while Bond finishes deactivating the bomb. Domino weirdly waves goodbye(?) to Largo, and the Good Guys swim to the surface.
When did this movie turn into the end of The Life Aquatic?
CUT TO Domino diving into a pool looking fantastic while Bond lazily relaxes in a Jacuzzi. She brings him a drink and they start making out (gross), but a sinister person shows up. Bond goes to check it out, affording us yet another shirtless Connery moment, and he scuttles about to find the perpetrator. He tosses this fuckhead into the pool, but it's just that idiot Nigel. He says hey, M's concerned about Bond not being in the service, and he says, "Never," to which Domino replies, "Never?" He kisses her (gross) and then winks at the camera. WE DIDN'T EVEN GET A TITLE DROP IN THIS FUCKING MOVIE AND NOW IT'S TOO DAMN LATE BECAUSE IT'S OVER.
This wasn't good. This was crappy. Off-brand, generic cereal "Colonel Crisp" crappy. As mentioned, this wasn't an "official" James Bond franchise movie but a weird off-shoot that they lured Sean Connery back into the titular role with a boatload of money. And even then, it's just a re-telling of Thunderball, the third-worst James Bond movie that had been made up to this point.
I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't be ageist, but Sean Connery is too damn old to be playing Bond at this point. His skin looks like leather, his physique is disturbing, and when he interacts with a 20-year-old Kim Basinger it makes me want to vomit. He looks bored and tired, much like Roger Moore looked in his last spin as the title character. I guess if the character was growing old with its intended audience that started circa 1960, it makes sense, but nobody wants to watch a geriatric James Bond in modern times. It just doesn't make sense, and besides that, it kind of kills the whole excitement thing that we should be feeling for the character.
The movie's just Thunderball. Literally and legally, it's just Thunderball. The guy who played the villain, whose name is Klaus Maria Brandauer, does a great job as Largo, but who cares? Kim Basinger looks phenomenal in what must have surely been her film debut, if not damn near it, but she's playing the same thinly drawn character that Domino was in Thunderball. Outside of that, there's almost nothing in this film that makes it interesting. I hated Thunderball, and its 80's update does little better. At least they cut down the underwater scenes for this one. And that's it.
Stray Note
This is my last Bond review in this series. I got through 3 different Bonds and watched 15 movies, and now it's the end of November, which was the cutoff for this project, and I'll be concluding this little endeavor for now. Up next are Christmas movie recaps, which will be created as time and interest allows. It's the holidays, after all. I want to finish all of the movies, but I'm getting Bond Burnout at this point and will take a break from the film series until at least early next year to finish this project. I hope you enjoyed reading it! It was fun to write but also exhausting sometimes. I'll be posting a conclusion post tomorrow/next post to wrap up this idea and what I've learned from the series.
Not great. This whole project has disappointed me, since I've watched now 15 Bond movies over the course of a month and found nearly half of them terrible. When James Bond is great, it's top-notch entertainment; sadly, it only achieves this (less than) half of the time. This movie—while not part of the canonical Bond franchise—continues that floppy tradition, providing a lackluster final entry for Sean Connery in the role that he originated on-screen. As a farewell—just like Moore's last outing—it's a crummy note to go out on. One out of four Bonds.
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Bond kind of looks like Alan Partridge in some of those screenshots.
Largo's 3D video game is called "Domination" and it looks cool but it's impossible to follow what's going on just by the visuals. You have to wait for the movie to tell you who's winning.
It probably helps that I hadn't seen Thunderball when I first saw this movie, so it was all new to me.
Bond may look old here but that's part of the premise: an over-the-hill Bond, back for one more mission.


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Rock Your Disney Side Entertainment Announced for Disneyland Resort
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The Rock Your Disney Side 24-hour party kicks off in the Esplanade at the Disneyland Resort and the entertainment keeps on rocking for 24 hours.
Entertainment at Disneyland includes Mickey's Soundsational Pararde at 6:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., Fantasmic! at 9 and 10:30 p.m., and Magical fireworks at 9:25 p.m.
A DJ will be located outside Sleeping Beauty Castle where he'll be spinning tunes until 5 a.m., and there will be a live band in the Royal Theater at Fantasy Faire from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. There will also be a Rock Your Disney Side dance party at the Tomorrowland Terrace until 5 a.m.
The Magic Eye Theater in Tomorrowland is hosting an Avengers Super Hero Movie Marathon that includes Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger.
Over in Disney California Adventure, guests can enjoy live music from 11:55 a.m. on May 23 until 2:30 a.m. on May 24 at the Paradise Garden Bandstand.
There are extra performances planned for Disney Junior – Live on Stage and Disney's Aladdin – A Musical Spectacular. Muppets Theater is hosting a sing-along screening of Frozen beginning at 11:30 a.m., and there will be a sneak peek of Maleficent in the Bug's Life Theater.
World of Color will be presented at 9:45 p.m. and again at 3 a.m.
Disney Parks Announces 24-Hour 'Rock Your Disney Side' Kickoff to Summer on Both Coasts
Disney's Hollywood Studios Celebrating Summer with 'Rock Your Summer Side' Dance Party
'World of Color' Breakfast Announced at Disneyland during Rock Your Disney Side Event
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FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why?
FreeBSD moving to Git: Why
With luck, I'll be writing a few blogs on FreeBSD's move to git later this year. Today, we'll start with "why"?
There's a number of factors motivating the change. We'll explore the reasons, from long term viability of Subversion, to wider support for tools that will make the project better. Today I'll enumerate these points. There are some logistical points around how the decision was made. I'll not get into the politics about how we got here, though. While interesting for insiders who like to argue and quibble, they are no more relevant to the larger community that the color of the delivery truck that delivered groceries to your grocer this morning (even if it had the latest episode of a cool, scrappy cartoon cat that was involved in a multi-year arc wooing the love of his life by buying food at this store).
Apache has moved on, so has llvm
The Apache Foundation used to be the care taker and main user for Subversion. They used Subversion for all their repos. While they still technically the caretaker of Subversion, they've moved all their repositories to git. This is a worrying development because the foreseeable outcome of this will be less Subversion development. This will mean the FreeBSD project will need to undertake to support Subversion if we remain on it in the long term. FreeBSD is now the last, large Open Source project using Subversion. LLVM has made its transition to git recently. There are very real concerns about the health and viability of the Subversion ecosystem, especially when compared to the thriving, vibrant git ecosystem.
Better CI support
Git have more support for newer CI tools than subversion. This will allow us, once things are fully phased in, to increase the quality of the code going into the tree, as well as greatly reduce build breakages and accidental regressions. While one can use CI tools outside of git, integration into a git workflow requires less discipline on the part of developers, making it easy for them to fix issues found by CI as part of the commit/merge process before they affect others.
Better Merging
Git merging facilities are much better than subversion. You can more easily curate patches as well since git supports a rebase workflow. This allows cleaner patches that are logical bits for larger submissions. Subversion can't do this.
Git also allows integration of multiple git repositories with subtree rewriting via 'git subtree merge'. This allows for easier tracking of upstream projects and will allow us to improve the vendor import work flow.
Robust Mirroring
Git can easily and robustly be mirrored. Subversion can be mirrored, but that mirroring is far from robust. One of the snags in the git migration is that different svn mirrors have different data than the main repo or each other. Mirroring in git is built into the work flow. Since every repo is cloned, mirroring comes along for free. And there's a number of third party mirroring sites available, such as GitHub, GitLab and SourceForge. These sites offer collaboration and CI add ons as well.
Git can sign tags and commits. Subversion cannot. We can increase the integrity of the source of truth though these measures.
Features from 3rd Party Sites
Mirroring also opens up more 3rd party plug ins. Gitlab can do some things, Github other things, in terms of automated testing and continuous integration. Tests can be run when branches are pushed. Both these platforms have significant collaboration tools as well, which will support groups going off and creating new features for FreeBSD. While one can use these things to a limited degree, with subversion mirrored to GitHub, the full power of these tools isn't fully realized without a conversion to git.
The wide range of tools available on these sites, or in stand-alone configurations, will allow us to have both pre-commit checks, as well as long-term post-commit tests running on a number of different platforms. This will allow the project to leverage existing infrastructure where it makes financial sense to let others run the tests, while still allowing the project to retain control of the bits that are critical to our operations.
Improved User-Submitted Patch Tracking and Integration
One area we've struggled with as a project is patch integration. We have no clear way to submit patches that will be acted on in a timely fashion, or at least that's the criticism. We do have ways, but they are only partially effective at integrating patches into the tree. Pull requests, of various flavors, offer a centralized way to accept patches, and have tools to review them. This should lower the friction to people submitting patches, as well as making it easier for developers to review the patches. Other projects have reported increased patch flow when moving to git. This can also be coupled with automated testing and other validation of the patch before the developer looks at it, which addresses one of the big issues with past systems: very low signal to noise ratio. While not a panacea, it will make things better and more widely use the scarce developer time.
Some have said that git, strictly speaking, isn't a pure source code management system. It is really a collaboration tool that also supports versioning. This may sound like a knock on git, but really it's git's greatest strength. Git's distributed model allows for easier and more frequent collaboration. Whole webs sites have been built around this concept, and show the power of easy collaboration to amplify efforts and build community.
Skill Set
All of this is before the skill set arguments are made about kids today just knowing git, but needing to learn subversion. That has had increasing been a source of friction. This argument is supported both by anecdotal evidence of people complaining about having to learn Subversion, about professors having to take time to teach it, etc. In addition, studies in the industry have shown a migration to git away from other alternatives. Git now has between 80% and 90% of the market, depending on which data you look at. It's so widely used that our non-use of it is a source of friction for new developers.
Developers are already moving
More and more of the active developers on the project use git for all or part of their development efforts. This has lead to a minor amount of friction because all these ways are not standardized, have fit and finish issues when pushing the changes into subversion, and cause friction. The friction is somewhat offset by the increase in productivity they offer these developers. The thinking is that having git as source of truth will unlock the potential of git even more to increase productivity.
First, git has no keyword expansion support for implementing $FreeBSD$. While one can quibble over the git add-ins that do this sort of thing, the information added isn't nearly as useful as Subversions'. This will represent a loss. However, tagged keyword expansion has been going out of style for a long time. It used to be that source code control systems would embed the commit history in files committed, only to discover weird things happened when they were imported into other projects so the practice withered. We ran into a similar issue years ago with $Id$ and all the projects switched to $FooBSD$ instead. This was useful when source code tracking was weak and companies randomly imported versions: it told us what versions were there. Now, companies tend to do this with git, which has better tracking to the source abilities. The value isn't zero, but it's much lower than when we adopted it in the 90s. Git also doesn't support dealing with all the merge conflicts it causes very well. Since the tool rewards people for importing in a more proper way, more companies appear to be using it that way, lessening the need for explicit source marking. [edit: some don't consider this a loss at all].
Second, git doesn't have a running count of commits. One can work around this in a number of ways, but there's nothing fundamental that can be used as a commit number as reliably as subversion. Even so, the workarounds suffice for most uses, and many projects are using git and commit counts successfully today.
Third, the BSDL git clients are much less mature than the GPL ones. Until recently, there was no C client that could be imported into the tree. While one might debate whether or not that's a good idea, there's a strong cultural heritage of having all you need in the base system that's hard to shrug off. OpenBSD recently wrote got which has an agreeable license (but a completely different command line interface, for good or ill). It has its issues, which aren't relevant here, but is maturing nicely. Even with the current restrictions, it is usable. There is an active port of got to FreeBSD due to the large number of OpenBSDisms that are baked in (some necessary, some gratuitous). The OpenBSD people are open to having a portable version of got, so this is encouraging.
Finally, Change Is HARD. It's easy to keep using the same tools, with the same work flows with with the same people as you did yesterday. Learning a new system is difficult. Migrating one work flow to another is tricky. You have to balance the accumulated knowledge and tooling benefits vs the cost it will take to move to something new. The git migration team views moving from subversion to git as the first step in many of improving and refining FreeBSD's work flow. As such, we've tried to create a git workflow that will be familiar to old users and developers, and at the same time allow for further innovation in the future.
Although it's not without risk and engineering trade offs, the bulk of the evidence strongly suggests that moving to git will increase our productivity, improve project participation, grow the community, increase quality and produce a better system in the end. It will give us a platform that we can also re-engineer other aspects of the project. This will come at the cost of retooling our release process, our source distribution infrastructure and developers needing to learn new tools. The cost will be worth it, as it will pay dividends for years to come.
Posted by Warner Losh at 9:52 AM
Labels: freebsd, git
Sun Tzu said...
Don't. I am shocked. Did you try to take over the subversion project to align with BSD?
A path that BSD took is going recently is to finish that project. People already think BSD is a Linux distribution. This is sad.
bsdimp2 said...
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
Terrible news :(
Git isn't the best option for everything. It's a trend to jump to Git but that won't last forever.
aZsupport said...
It's good news. Git is more useful tool.
Warner Losh
Warner Losh has been interested in computers since a very early age. He got his degree from a small school in the middle of New Mexico where he used 4.2BSD on the VAX 11/750. He's done a little GUI work, and a lot of kernel work in BSD, Solaris and even Linux. He became interested in the MIPS architecture when he was given a Deskstation rPC44 in 1994 and has wanted a FreeBSD MIPS port ever since then. In the mean time, he's amused himself and his employers by writing or improving FreeBSD's PC Card, CardBus, USB, SD/MMC, PCI and device configuration subsystems. He's embedded FreeBSD into products for the past 9 years. He serves on the FreeBSD core team and has specialized in handling "problem children" in the FreeBSD project and sorting out the complexity of open source software licensing. In the past 8 years, he's worked in the high precision time and frequency domain. He delivered systems that are used to montior the cesium clocks at NIST and USNO; used to recover UTC from GPS satellites; and used to synchronize digital video broadcasting stations. These systems were a mix of C++ user level code, kernel device drivers and specialized "timing" hardware.
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Lost Lanes has been written by podcaster Jack Thurston and will be available next month. Thurston hosts eclectic bicycle show on Resonance FM, The Bike Show. He also writes for magazines such as Rouleur and Cycling Plus. This is his first guidebook. It's almost more of a first person travelogue than a standard go-here-do-that guidebook. The book contains 36 rides, from gentle spins to weekend camping adventures and energetic hill climbs, all on quiet lanes and byways. Each ride is accompanied downloadable route instructions plus a GPX navigation file for GPS devices and smartphones.
'Lost Lanes: 36 Glorious Bike Rides in Southern England' also has a great many evocative photographs, most by Thurston himself.
The book will be co-promoted by The Bike Show.
"My intention was to present cycle touring in a slightly different light than the common images of endless miles of hard toil," said Thurston.
"I wanted to get away from both the epic and the fusty and to replace it with the appeal that I might describe as 'accessible sublime' – something to inspire and tempt people who don't fancy Lands End to John O'groats or a round-the-world-adventure. 20-30 miles can be plenty for a great day out, though there are rides that are longer than this."
He said his book will hopefully inspire people to "spend time exploring the countryside, travell to interesting and beautiful places, and take an interest in the surroundings, stopping along the way for food, drink, a snooze, a swim."
That was the ethos of cycle guidebooks in previous decades, said Thurston, "but it's become a little lost with the fitness and count-the-miles approach that we see so much of these days. I wanted to present cycle touring as something that anyone with a bike can do. You don't have to have lots of gear, and you don't have to go to exotic places. There's places enough within easy reach of anywhere in the UK, even – maybe even, especially – London.
"I wanted to present a positive image of the kind of carefree, safe cycling that's possible on all the tens of thousands of miles of lost lanes in the English countryside. These roads are perfect for cycling, and need no infrastructure intervention."
He added that the routes he describes in Lost Lanes "make for the most joyful cycling – better even than Holland! I was surprised by the number of Dutch cyclists on holiday that I met while out doing the research.
"By writing the rides up as I experienced them, in the first person, I hoped to convey more of the atmosphere and the experience of cycle touring than a simple 'turn left, turn right' type of guide book."


This is one of my all time favorite images. There was something so special about these people. They are the grandparents of a groom from a Cescaphe Event Group weddng. I made this photo during the family photo portrait session. I escorted the grandparents over to this bench after I photographed them with their families. I glanced back at them a few times and couldn't help notice how amazing their interaction was with one another. I excused myself from the family session to make a few frames of them without their knowledge. This is, without a doubt, one of my favorite wedding photos in Philadelphia that I've ever captured. It was taken near the Second Bank of the United States on the grounds of Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. Wedding photos in Washington Square Park are great to do because the light is probably the best in the city. Wedding photos by the Second Bank of the United States, and wedding photos all around Independence National Historical Park truly stand out because of the incredible mix of compositional scenarios. In order to shoot in this location, you'll need to acquire a permit from the Independence National Historical Park Commission. Use this link, and you can download the form to submit. Some minor fees are associated with the permit, however, it's well worth it. I have found that we're usually asked for a permit when we don't have one!
Before my wedding photography career, I was a photojournalist with the Philadelphia Inquirer for 15 years. In 1998, I entered the wonderful, wacky world of weddings, and I haven't really looked back. Some may believe that wedding photography would be an easy transition after a career in photojournalism. Contrary to that belief, it took some time to adjust. Rather than a goal of just telling a story with an interesting image, my new goal as a wedding photographer was multifaceted. I needed to become a better photographer, not just a photojournalist. I had to become proficient in all areas of the craft- not just photojournalism. I had to learn to make the bride look beautiful, how to make everyone look their best, and still be able to make visually interesting, compelling images that told a story. When it comes to capturing these moments during the wedding day, nobody will ever outwork me. I pride myself on that. As a wedding photographer today, I do my best to manipulate the scene as little as possible. I may help the light along in a given situation, but I still prefer to allow things to occur organically. I think brides prefer it that way as well. The energy I give for each and every event is spent on anticipating, and reacting to real moments in time. I'd rather wait for the moment, than to make the moment. Every once in a while, however, a gift is given to us right before our eyes. This image was such a gift. It may not be a stand out image for some, but I really do like it. It hit me square in the face while I was anticipating the beginning of the wedding at the Cescaphe Event Group. Capturing images like these keep me motivated to continue my pursuit of moments at every event.


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