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I Don't Hear the Guitar Anymore [1991]
Philippe Garrel crafted a magnificent example of personal filmmaking – thematically and formally – with the haunting, introspective and intensely self-critical masterpiece I Don't Hear the Guitar Anymore. This extraordinary chapter in his faux autobiographical series, which he'd begun with L'Enfant Secret and Emergency Kisses, touched upon diverse subtexts – impermanence, the veneer of marital bliss, reconciliations between past and present, how time often converts a bohemian into a bourgeois before one even realizes it. Melancholic and subtly affecting, yet avowedly unsentimental in its portrayal of complex transitions in relationships, it was lacerating in its self-infliction on incredibly personal memories. Dedicated to his former lover Nico, the German pop-icon with whom he had a decade-long affair, the film chronicled their turbulent journey filled with emotional upheavals and poignant intimacy, including trysts with reckless freedom, disregard for conventional mores, heroin addiction, moments of doubt and insecurity, falling apart, and futile attempts at moving on. Johanna ter Steege gave an unforgettable turn as the frizzy-haired, freckled, impulsive, self-destructive and tragically beautiful Marianne, with whom Gérard (Benoît Régent) has a doomed affair. When their relationship collapses, he gets married to Aline (in a courageous turn by Garrel's then-wife Brigitte Sy) – but Marianne continues to haunt both even in her absence, and more so when she makes a fleeting reappearance into their lives that ends up putting in disarray the fragile equilibrium in their domestic bliss, ironically presaging Garrel and Sy's real-life marital dissolution as well. Shot in muted, washed out colours, and set to a low-key, mournful score, I was almost expecting Leonard Cohen's heartbreaking So Long Marianne to be played as the end credits rolled for this alternately blazing and poetic pièce de résistance.
Director: Philippe Garrel
Genre: Drama/Romantic Drama/Marital Drama/Film a Clef
Labels: 1990s, 5 Star Movies, Drama, Essential Viewing, French Cinema
Volver [2006]
Almodóvar crafted a gem suffused with intimacy, seductive beauty, melancholic pangs, heartbreaking moments, strong feminist undertones and a teasing hint of magic realism, with the charming and engrossing Volver. While it might not appear to have same degree of jaw-dropping bravura as All About My Mother had, it nevertheless formed a fabulous combo with the latter in the way it celebrated womanhood, in its assured use of melodrama to capture the characters' neuroses and pathos, and in the string of difficult and discomfiting themes it covered, albeit cloaked with a delectable layer of joie de vivre – viz. sexual abuse, pedophilia, unreconciled memories, complex familial bonds, mortality, grief and loss. The intricately weaved tale is centered on its ensemble working-class women characters – Raimunda (Penélope Cruz), a striking, luscious, straight-talking and enterprising woman who, through a mix of smarts, allure, doggedness and culinary skills, must financially survive and also protect her daughter (Yohana Cobo) who's accidentally committed a murder; her naïve, fidgety sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) who runs a beauty parlour in her tiny apartment; their gentle-natured mother Irene (the former Almodóvar regular Carmen Maura) who died 5 years back in a fire accident and whose ghost has returned to reconnect with her daughters; and Raimunda's childhood friend Agustina (Blanca Portillo) who's afflicted with cancer and is searching in futility for her hippie mother who's been missing for years. Luminously photographed, comprising of a sumptuous score, and set in the La Mancha region where the Spanish giant was born, this sensual, infectious and warm-hearted film contains excellent turns by all, led by a magnificent performance by Cruz in the way she effortlessly complemented toughness of spirit with deep emotional vulnerabilities.
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Genre: Drama/Comedy/Family Drama/Ensemble Film
Labels: 2000s, 5 Star Movies, Comedy/Satire, Drama, Essential Viewing, Spanish Cinema
Sacred Games (Season 2) [2019]
The moody, compelling Season 1 of the Netflix original Sacred Games had laid out a sprawling, operatic, politically provocative and immensely addictive double-narrative centered around its two protagonists – sidelined Mumbai cop Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan) defiant on unraveling a potential terror threat; and the turbulent, spectacular journey of Bombay don Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui). The 2nd season continued from where it left off as the two strands – the present and the past – gradually and inevitably merge. Sartaj, who's now heading the against-the-clock investigation, starts connecting the murky dots which leads him to an enigmatic religious cult, a promiscuous pedagogue (Kalki Koechlin), a hyper-nationalist rabble rouser (Girish Kulkarni) and his deceased father. Gaitonde's eventful saga, meanwhile, continues 1994 onwards as he's banished to Mombasa where he becomes a mobster as well as a henchman on leash for dogged, poker-faced Intelligence Officer Kusum (Amruta Subhash), begins a strangely affecting telephonic affair with the sassy, foul-mouthed madam (Surveen Chawla) of a high-end brothel, and becomes drawn towards a sinister Hindutva "guru" (Pankaj Tripathi) who's harbouring apocalyptic plans. While Nawaz continued to be arresting as the hilariously crude, eccentric and increasingly contemplative force of nature, Saif was excellent too in portraying Sartaj's dilemmas, loneliness and grief over estrangement with his wife (Anupriya Goenka). And, while Tripathi, Kulkarni and Neeraj Kabi (as a corrupt cop) were good as always, Subhash and Chawla provided the standout performances this time around. Though still operatic, sprawling, politically provocative and addictive, the 2nd season lacked the wicked humour, gleeful unpredictability, frenetic energy and grimy pull of the 1st season. That, combined with the overused trope of a mastermind villain keen on nuking mankind for its own good, made this comparatively more formulaic and banal.
Director: Anurag Kashyap, Neeraj Ghaywan
Genre: Crime Thriller/Gangster/Political Thriller/Police Procedural/TV Series
Labels: 2010s, 3.5 Star Movies, Crime/Gangster, Indian (Hindi) Cinema, Thriller, TV Miniseries / Series


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Continuous Development of our Mobility Platform
April 22, 2020 | Technical Blog
I remember our early production deployments at Bestmile, back in 2016. There were three main software components at the time. The "core" component — holding the seed of Bestmile's Fleet Orchestration Platform; our homemade API Gateway — holding the plumbing around the core; and finally, the Dashboard web front-end.
This early version of the platform was not serving thousands of customers. Yet, the deployment felt uncomfortable. I remember these deployments for two reasons:
• We had to do it "after hours", when our main customers had parked and shut down their autonomous shuttles, which put the deployment in the middle of the afterwork-beer time.
• We had to plan it carefully, and manually deploy each component individually in the right order, making it difficult to actually drink the beer.
These were the early days and since then, Bestmile's platform grew beyond three components (30+ as of Q1 2020). While the complexity increased, Bestmile's customers' operations were growing in size and requirements:
• Features — and bugs, sometimes — kept pouring in the product requirements.
• Operations, driven by autonomous fleets and new business models that kept evolving and changing, brought new features.
• New, bigger customers required more technical abilities and proofs, better performance, and shorter time to market.
• Most importantly, there were soon to be no such things as "after hours" as businesses would run almost 24/7 around the world.
Continuous Development is one of those "non-functional" product requirements that are not visible, yet unavoidable to keep the platform running 24/7, while at the same time reducing the time for new features to come to life.
What is Continuous development?
Continuous Development is an umbrella term usually including both Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD), as well as the processes (human and automated) around specifying, delivering, and operating software continuously.
CI is the technical process where software code is built, tested and validated automatically. It gives software engineers feedback on the quality of their development.
CD usually happens after CI and is the automated or semi-automated process of continuously pushing the result of the CI process to environments where the software can be operated — eventually to a production environment used by customers.
At first, for someone not used to software development lifecycles, it might sound counter-intuitive to push code continuously to production in a system that is critical to daily transport operations. That means the product would be continuously changing, though not always visually changing. Still, the advantages of Continuous Development exceed the drawbacks.
For business teams, Continuous Development drastically reduces the time-to-market of new features and fixes. From specification to delivery, time can be reduced from months to days.
For product teams, more frequent and smaller changes mean quicker and more focused feedback from internal stakeholders and from customers. It also helps with innovation, when we don't always know in advance what will work well and need to experiment in a real production setup. In a changing mobility market, that is gold.
For engineers, making sure production systems are always up and running leads to smaller changes in the code. Smaller changes are more stable and controllable. Smaller changes also mean easier rollbacks when something goes bad. With a Continuous Development mindset (a.k.a. DevOps), developers are also owners of production systems. They see the result of their work sooner and can adapt faster.
What are the risks and drawbacks?
Continuous Development without a good testing strategy will lead to catastrophes in production. With the testing strategy becoming central, the role of the QA Engineer changes drastically in this setup. Instead of being a gatekeeper, the QA Engineer becomes a coach and a developer focused on quality. Automated test-suites become part of the product and cover the whole pyramid of tests, as "manual testing" becomes the exception in a Continuous Development setup. That is a significant effort distributed among developers and testers.
Automated tests, automated deployments, and monitoring are essential to making CD work. Bringing new tools means supporting the infrastructure for them, or paying for 3rd parties. This costs both money and effort upfront.
What about engineers' roles?
In the old days, each "role" had his own time in the process: Design, Architecture & Security, Development, Testing (QA) — including Perf and Security — and Deployment.
With a Continuous Development process, all these roles are merging, and the responsibilities associated fall back on all developers.
At Bestmile the QA role transformed from a "pre-deployment-gateway" role to a "quality strategist" role. Testing is now the responsibility of each developer and starts at the Unit Test level (bottom of the pyramid). The QA Engineer is here to identify the bigger risks, catch quality gaps as early as during specification process, and own the testing infrastructure and automation scripts.
Regarding deployments, each engineer has the right, duty, and responsibility to perform deployments in production. There is no deployment group.
Bestmile's transformation towards continuous development
Continuous Development is not only about the tools. It's also the mindset. Being in the context of a startup, with very scarce resources (money and time), and with engineers who need to take care of wide breadth of features and other non-functional requirements, Continuous Development becomes "one of the many things" on the table.
Transforming the way code is deployed requires the right mindset, teamwork, and specific cross-team processes that need to evolve with the product.
There is never one point in time where someone could say at Bestmile: "That's it, we have Continuous Development setup and working". Instead, it has become one of those non-functional platform features that we keep evolving along with the product.
The first step for this transformation is the mindset of the engineering team, and all other actors such as product managers and customer facing teams.
The mindset, and "the continuous development of continuous development"
First rule of the Continuous Development club: do not talk about it… err. Actually, you need to talk about it early, and all the time. The goal being to make not only the engineers, but also the larger team understand how code changes are going to hit production, and what that means regarding SLAs, quality, impact on customers, documentation, and communication.
Below are a few rules we set that are part of every development effort. Spoiler: they are pretty standard in the software industry.
#1 — All developers publish their code in production
There is no handover to any dedicated "Deployment" team. By publishing to production, developers are more aware of the conditions necessary for their code to work. They are also in the best position to support any following issues.
By having the responsibility and the ownership to deploy to production, every developer will also make sure that they factor in the right level of quality into their work. They have very good incentive to block development work that would jeopardise production stability.
#2 — Feature promotion: have a clear and fixed promotion path from the developer's machine to the production environment, even for hotfixes
To be able to automate testing, and to build predictability regarding the feature's reach to production, it is necessary to define a clear path. When is the feature being integrated? When is it tested and by which test phase? How do we rollback and hotfix and what is the impact on the deployment process? Bypassing these promotion paths puts the quality at risk.
At Bestmile, the feature promotion is done automatically, based on a gitops process (see below), and looks like this:
#3 — Backward compatible by default
This is probably one of the most important rules, and also one of the costliest. When changes are applied to the code, developers need to identify any breaking change in terms of function signature (REST API e.g.) but also behavior.
At Bestmile, as development is happening fast, endpoints are all versioned independently. When a breaking change is necessary, the endpoint's versions are usually "bumped", and the compatibility with lower versions is guaranteed as much as possible.
As a rule of thumb:
• Adding properties and functionalities, no migration needed
• Removing or renaming, you will need a new version
There are some corner cases, but all developers at Bestmile are aware of and follow backward compatibility principles
#4 — Dissociate deployments (to production) from deliveries (to clients)
Continuous Deployment of code means that the code is reaching production before the full readiness of an end-to-end feature. It's especially true in bigger, more complex systems.
Some features might require multiple sprints to be fully ready for a customer to use. In a more traditional deployment format, features used to be ready-to-use when the code was deployed to production.
With a Continuous Deployment approach, some components might be ready in sprints, if not months in advance, while the full feature is not yet usable.
#5 — Feature flags
Feature flags are a mechanism that allows the user (or an admin) to enable/disable the usage of the feature for customers.
Linked to rule #4 above, this allows us to orchestrate the development of a feature at different speeds between teams. That way, even if the full feature is not available yet, we can already start using part of it, or we can enable it earlier to some preselected and trusted customer. This allows faster feedback loops. The drawback of this is that you need to account for these flags in advance, and document them.
What about the product design itself?
Customer facing teams need to understand the orchestration of delivery vs. deployment to know when to communicate what to customers. On the other end, we found that product management teams have a big role to play in that orchestration.
Some leading companies in the software field call that the BusProdDevOps (Business+Product+Development+Operations) mentality, related to what was known in software as DevOps (Development+Operations)
This highlights the need for business and product to be aligned with how the software is built.
The technical stack
The details of what works for Bestmile at the moment are going to be shared in a separate article. Below is a summary (and spoiler!).
Bestmile leverages Kubernetes and Docker container technologies to orchestrate 0-downtime, Continuous Deployments using out-of-the-box rolling updates strategies.
But installing Kubernetes is only the first step. We had to prepare all our services to support this kind of deployments, and shape the tools that would fit our team processes.
Stay tuned for more details of how we use and orchestrate those technologies in the follow-up part of this article.
Our takeaways so far
• Our time to market for most of our features is faster and shorter than before, sometimes as short as a few days, while complexity increased. This would have not been possible without the groundwork on Continuous Deployment done during those years.
• Deployments of the platform in the product happens in average every two days. This is a significant achievement given the size of the team, and the size of our stack.
• The development work deployed is smaller, more stable, and easier to control. This has shown also in the product specifications. The scope is smaller and more agile as a result.
• Being forced to be backward compatible is a frustrating consequence sometimes. But it also helped us orchestrate the work better between teams, and improved our quality. Not all teams and customers are forced to migrate right away when you have to push a change.
• As most non-functional requirements, ROI of some tools or investment in automation is very hard to sell upfront, especially when the time and effort is competing with features that are critical for winning in the market. It is even harder if the market (the mobility and public transport industry) is not yet aware or used to software engineering processes such as Continuous Deployment.
• The main bottleneck is not necessarily technical. Tools exist today to help with technical bottlenecks. To deploy fast you need to specify fast also, and you need to plan the time to build your pipelines. Continuous Development is hard to sell when faced with clear feature gaps.
• Today the business and the product teams see the indirect business value in CICD. Which helps us plan time to improve our processes and tooling. This requires human efforts, training, and processes.
• Training and communication of teams and customers. There is a biased perception of causal effects that is hard to fight: "If today you deploy every month, and you bring down the production every two deployments, that means that if you deploy every day, you're going to break the production every two days"
The last point proves to be wrong, as smaller incremental deployments tend to break less, are more stable, are easier to roll back, bring feedback sooner, and are also easier to fix (in case a rollback is not an option).
Stability keeps improving, as engineers get better at deployment and build habits and tools, spread the mindset, the skills and the processes around this deployment practice.
Issues still happen, but they are less critical, less frequent (or at least not more), and last for a shorter amount of time.
The state of our current Continuous Development process, in numbers
As of the publication of this article our Platform and Dashboard now totals
• 300+ deployments per month on Staging
• 20+ deployments per month on Production
• 9000+ Unit tests

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Investigating the reliability of SiC MOSFET body diodes using fourier series modelling
Roozbeh Bonyadi, O. Alatise, S. Jahdi, J. Hu, L. Evans, P. A. Mawby
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
Using the Fourier series solution to the ambipolar diffusion equation, the robustness of the body diodes of SiC MOSFETs during reverse recovery has been studied. Parasitic bipolar latch-up during the reverse recovery of the body diode is a possible if there is sufficient base current and voltage drop across the body resistance to forward bias the parasitic BJT. SiC MOSFETs have very low carrier lifetime and thin epitaxial drift layers, which means that the dV/dt during the recovery of the body diode can be quite high. This dV/dt coupled with the parasitic drain-to-body capacitance can cause a body current. The paper introduces a new way of assessing the reliability of SiC MOSFETs during the reverse recovery of the body diode. The impact of switching rates, parasitic inductances and carrier lifetime on the activation of the parasitic BJT has been studied.
2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2014
https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2014.6953427
Ambipolar diffusion equation
Body diode
Fourier series
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Bonyadi, R., Alatise, O., Jahdi, S., Hu, J., Evans, L., & Mawby, P. A. (2014). Investigating the reliability of SiC MOSFET body diodes using fourier series modelling. In 2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2014 (pp. 443-448). [6953427] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2014.6953427
Bonyadi, Roozbeh ; Alatise, O. ; Jahdi, S. et al. / Investigating the reliability of SiC MOSFET body diodes using fourier series modelling. 2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014. pp. 443-448
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By: Scott L. Hunsaker & Fatma A. K. Al-Lawati
Estimates of the total U.S. Muslim population are difficult to make, but rigorously controlled surveys place it somewhere between 1.9 to 2.8 million, with 36.8 percent between ages 5 and 15. Islamic population growth has accelerated establishment of private Islamic schools that foster Muslim children's religious and educational needs, with estimates indicating 250 to 300 such schools.
The acts of September 11, 2001, involved extremist Muslims, raising residual concern that Muslims constitute a threat to U.S. security. However, most students in Islamic schools are proud of their dual identity as Muslims and Americans. Muslim parents in the United States are often faced with the dilemma of wanting their children to be Americans involved fully in U.S. life, while maintaining their activity as good Muslims. Muslim students ...
Hunsaker, S., & Al-Lawati, F. (2009). Islamic american, gifted. In B. Kerr (Ed.), Encyclopedia of giftedness, creativity, and talent (pp. 497-498). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971959.n218
Hunsaker, Scott L., and Fatma A. K. Al-Lawati. "Islamic American, Gifted." In Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent, edited by Kerr, Barbara, 497-98. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971959.n218.
Hunsaker, S. and Al-Lawati, F. 2009. Islamic American, Gifted. In: Barbara Kerr Editor, 2009. Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 497-498 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971959.n218> [Accessed 21 Jan 2021].
Hunsaker, Scott L. and Fatma A. K. Al-Lawati. "Islamic American, Gifted." Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent. Edited by Barbara Kerr. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009, pp. 497-98. SAGE Knowledge. 21 Jan 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971959.n218.


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Awards & Appointments Research
Congratulations to Dr Xiao Wan from Professor Eric O'Neill's group for her success in obtaining an NC3Rs Training Fellowship for 'Developing human organotypic perfused bioreactors for physiologically reproducible therapeutic compound screening of a tumour microenvironment'.
Xiao's research at the CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology in the Department of Oncology focuses on developing bioreactors that more accurately recapitulate the tumour microenvironment, including the interplay of tumour and stromal cells, than current in vitro systems, by including perfusion by blood vessels.
In 2017, the National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) announced seven new fellowships, a commitment of nearly £1.2 million, to support talented early career scientists in the discovery and development of new technologies and approaches to replace, reduce and refine the use of animals in scientific research. The NC3Rs provides two type of fellowships awards: Training Fellowships for researchers with less than three years postdoctoral experience and the intermediate career stage David Sainsbury Fellowships for researchers with two to six years of postdoctoral experience.
Using the funding from the Training Fellowship, Xiao hopes to develop highly interdisciplinary tools for creating artificial tissue in perfusion culture to replicate physiological and pathological processes with less chemical fluctuation and biological stress.
Xiao commented: "The outcome will benefit the oncology research communities, including researchers in Oxford as well as my collaborators in China, by enabling them to test their therapeutics in a better-defined tissue microenvironment compared with petri-dish methods. The techniques optimised by this project will have the potential to replace and reduce the use of animals in the preclinical evaulation of therapeutics, especially those targeting at tissue microenvironment, such as the epigenetic events in cancer development."
Further information about Xiao's project can be found on the NC3Rs website.


This bead crochet pattern uses 3mm Miyuki drops in black and white and 11/0 Czech seed beads. This bracelet is done with slip-stitch bead crochet, and the pattern includes instructions for beginners who have a hard time starting a bead crochet tube. Pattern includes a DB chart and detailed instructions for either an invisible join, or the completion of the bracelet with a clasp. Picture shows bracelet on its side, and the insert shows how the drops look when worn. The Czech seed beads are on the underside of the bracelet, making it very comfortable to wear. The drops are on the upper side and show the beauty of the Miyuki beads, as well as the diagonal design, when you have the bracelet on your wrist.


View of Earth and Jupiter from Mars on May 8, 2003.
Alignment of Earth and Jupiter as seen from Mars on May 8, 2003.
North and South America were in view.
What does Earth look like when viewed from Mars? At 13:00 GMT on 8 May 2003, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) had an opportunity to find out. In addition, a fortuitous alignment of Earth and Jupiter---the first planetary conjunction viewed from another planet---permitted the MOC to acquire an image of both of these bodies and their larger satellites. At the time, Mars and the orbiting camera were 139 million kilometers (86 million miles) from Earth and almost 1 billion kilometers (nearly 600 million miles) from Jupiter. The orbit diagram, above, shows the geometry at the time the images were obtained.
Because Jupiter is over 5 times farther from the Sun than Earth, two different exposures were needed to image the two planets. Mosaiced together, the images are shown above (top picture). The composite has been highly contrast-enhanced and "colorized" to show both planets and their satellites. The MGS MOC high resolution camera only takes grayscale (black-and-white) images; the color was derived from Mariner 10 and Cassini pictures of Earth/Moon and Jupiter, respectively, as described in the note below.
Jupiter/Galilean Satellites: When Galileo first turned his telescope toward Jupiter four centuries ago, he saw that the giant planet had four large satellites, or moons. These, the largest of dozens of moons that orbit Jupiter, later became known as the Galilean satellites. The larger two, Callisto and Ganymede, are roughly the size of the planet Mercury; the smallest, Io and Europa, are approximately the size of Earth's Moon. This MGS MOC image, obtained from Mars orbit on 8 May 2003, shows Jupiter and three of the four Galilean satellites: Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa. At the time, Io was behind Jupiter as seen from Mars, and Jupiter's giant red spot had rotated out of view. This image has been specially processed to show both Jupiter and its satellites, since Jupiter, at an apparent magnitude of -1.8, was much brighter than the three satellites.
A note about the coloring process: The MGS MOC high resolution camera only takes grayscale (black-and-white) images. To "colorize" the image, a Mariner 10 Earth/Moon image taken in 1973 was used to color the MOC Earth and Moon picture, and a recent Cassini image acquired during its Jupiter flyby was used to color the MOC Jupiter picture. The procedure used was as follows: the Mariner 10 and Cassini color images were converted from 24-bit color to 8-bit color using a JPEG to GIF conversion program. These 8-bit color images were converted to 8-bit grayscale and an associated lookup table mapping each gray value of that image to a red-green-blue color triplet (RGB). Each color triplet was root-sum-squared (RSS), and sorted in increasing RSS value. These sorted lists were brightness-to-color maps for their respective images. Each brightness-to-color map was then used to convert the 8-bit grayscale MOC image to an 8-bit color image. This 8-bit color image was then converted to a 24-bit color image. The color image was edited to return the background to black. Three separate color tables were used: one each for the Earth, Moon and Jupiter. Jupiter's Galilean Satellites were not colored.
To view the unprocessed Earth/Moon image, download the following to your desktop and view with your favorite image viewing or processing tool: R05-00763.gif.
To view the unprocessed Jupiter image, download the following to your desktop and view with your favorite image viewing or processing tool: R05-00762.gif.


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It's Only a Play is a play by Terrence McNally. The play originally opened off-off-Broadway in 1982. It was revived off-Broadway in 1986, and on Broadway in 2014. The plot concerns a party where a producer, playwright, director, actors and their friends eagerly wait for the opening night reviews of their Broadway play.

Productions
It's Only a Play was revised from an unsuccessful 1978 play originally entitled Broadway, Broadway, which had closed during tryouts in Philadelphia in 1978. Geraldine Page and James Coco were in the Philadelphia cast, and the play was set to open on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. However, the Philadelphia reviews were negative and the Broadway opening was canceled. In 1984, McNally said that after Broadway, Broadway closed he was no longer confident, but finally realized that having a show close is not the worst thing that could happen.

The play, rewritten and retitled, was produced off-off-Broadway by Manhattan Punch Line at the Actors and Directors Theatre, in November 1982. Paul Benedict directed, with a cast that included Frances Cuka as Julia Budder, Richard Leighton as James Wicker, Paul Guilfoyle as Frank Finger, Ken Kliban as Ira Drew and Harriet Rogers as Emma.

The play was revived off-Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center Stage 1, with previews starting December 17, 1985, and running from January 11, 1986, to January 26, 1986. Directed by John Tillinger, the cast featured Christine Baranski (Julia Budder), Paul Benedict (Ira Drew), Mark Blum (Peter Austin), James Coco (James Wicker), David Garrison (Frank Finger), Joanna Gleason (Virginia Noyes) and Florence Stanley (Emma). John Tillinger was nominated for the 1986 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play.

A revised version was produced by the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the Doolittle Theatre, Los Angeles, California, in April 1992. John Tillinger directed, with a cast that featured Eileen Brennan (Virginia Noyes), Sean O'Bryan (Gus, a waiter), Charles Nelson Reilly (James Wicker), David Hyde Pierce (Frank Finger), Dana Ivey (Julia Budder), Paul Benedict (Ira Drew), Željko Ivanek (Peter Austin) and Doris Roberts (Emma).

It's Only a Play began its Broadway run at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on August 28, 2014, in previews and officially opened on October 9, 2014. McNally rewrote the play again to bring the setting to the current day, and replaced the character of Emma with Gus, an aspiring actor. It was originally scheduled for a limited 18-week engagement, through January 4, 2015, that was later extended to June 7, 2015. Tom Kirdahy produced and Jack O'Brien directed, with a cast that starred Nathan Lane as James Wicker and Matthew Broderick as Peter Austin. Also featured in the cast were Megan Mullally as Julia Budder, Stockard Channing as Virginia Noyes, F. Murray Abraham as Ira Drew, Rupert Grint as Frank Finger, and Micah Stock as Gus. In November 2014, it was announced that the play would extend its run through January 18, 2015, at the Schoenfeld, and then transfer to the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in a run from January 23, 2015, to March 29, 2015. Martin Short replaced Lane in the role of James Wicker as of January 7, 2015. Additionally, Katie Finneran and Maulik Pancholy replaced Mullally and Grint.

On January 29, 2015, it was announced that the play would further extend its run until June 7, 2015. Nathan Lane returned to the cast on March 31, 2015, (after the play he was in, The Iceman Cometh, ended). Additionally, T.R. Knight joined the cast as Frank Finger on March 31, 2015.

On December 17, 2014,  it was announced that the play had recouped its "$3.9 million capitalization". Variety noted the "consistent strength of the show's box office" and called it a "megaseller".

Plot
A wealthy first-time Broadway producer, Julia Budder, is throwing an opening night party for The Golden Egg at her luxurious Manhattan home. The playwright, Peter Austin, is joined by the director, a lead actor, and assorted friends and hangers-on (including a critic) as they nervously wait for the late-night reviews printed in the newspapers. As they wait, they gossip and name-drop celebrities who are in attendance and chat about their respective theater experiences. Virginia Noyes, the star of the show, is taking drugs. James Wicker, an old friend of the playwright, is now a successful TV actor who turned down the lead in the play, and is relieved and secretly thrilled about the bad reviews that arrive. And, although Ira Drew is a theater critic, he is very critical of the theater because he has no talent to actually participate, despite his secretly writing plays. Not discouraged by the bad reviews for The Golden Egg, the assembled parties eagerly make plans for their next play, which they know will be a hit.

Cast of characters

 James Wicker, television actor and Peter's best friend who passed over the lead in The Golden Egg
 Julia Budder, a rich, first-time solo producer of Peter's play and hostess of the opening night party
 Peter Austin, the playwright of The Golden Egg
 Virginia Noyes, dissolute, aging star of the play
 Frank Finger, the young, egomaniacal, "genius" British director
 Ira Drew, savage theater critic
 Gus P. Head, the coat-check boy who aspires to be on Broadway
 Emma, a no-nonsense taxi driver (dropped from the 2014 revival)

Principal cast

Critical reception
John Simon, in his review of the 1982 off-off-Broadway production for New York Magazine called the play "truly amusing", while noting that the play is missing "the interaction of characters on a plot as well as confrontational level."

Michael Kuchwara, in his review of the 1986 off-Broadway production for the Associated Press, called the play a "maliciously funny diatribe about the desperate and demented business of producing a play on Broadway."

Awards and nominations

References

External links
Internet Broadway Database Listing
Internet Off-Broadway Database Listing
Dramatists Play Service

Plays by Terrence McNally
1982 plays
Plays set in New York City

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SENSORIAL SKINS–WOVEN BY NATURE: Edith Doove in conversation with Annemarie Maes and Camilla Colombo
LASER | Learning April 20, 2021 July 4, 2021
20th April 7:00 PM Brussels / This event is CET (UTC+1)
Panelists: Annemarie Maes, Camilla Colombo
Moderator: Edith Doove
Chaired by: Alexandra Dementieva
LASER Talks Brussels is a series of 4 online discussions held in the framework of a double exhibition SENSORIAL SKINS – WOVEN BY NATURE by AnneMarie Maes at PILAR, House for Art and Science and iMAL, Art Center for Digital Culture and Technology.
Sensorial Skins (8-23 April 2021), the first chapter of a double exhibition by artist AnneMarie Maes, presents investigations into the sculptural potential of organic materials, transformed into fabrics, membranes and biofilms whose surfaces arouse our senses through their materiality, their texture, their colours and smells. In these sculptures and installations, the skins become interfaces between the human and the non-human, the macroscopic and the microscopic, transforming the natural into the cultural realm.
Woven by Nature (29 April – 16 May 2021), the second chapter of a double exhibition by artist AnneMarie Maes, presents a selection of sculptures and installations about the potential of algae and bacteria. Investigating the origin of life as we know it, the works are plunging the viewer in an aquatic atmosphere where blue-green algae are cultured in handmade glass containers that grow on metal structures. Woven by Nature recalls the alchemical element of water, that, according to Greek philosopher-mathematician Thales of Miletus was believed to be the original matter out of which the world was created.
'Disappearance' – slow process experiment, sculpture. Bacteria, plexi glass, glass, metal. 40cm x 40cm x 65cm.
AnneMarie Maes is an artist who has been studying the close interactions and co-evolutions within urban ecosystems. Her research practice combines art and science, with a keen interest in DIY technologies and biotechnology. She works with a range of biological, digital, and traditional media, including live organisms. Her artistic research is materialized in techno-organic objects that are inspired by factual/fictional stories; in artifacts that are a combination of digital fabrication and craftsmanship; in installations that reflect both the problem and the (possible) solution, in multispecies collaborations, in polymorphic forms and models created by eco-data. On the rooftop of her studio in Brussels, she has created an open-air lab and experimental garden where she studies the processes that nature employs to create form. Her research provides an ongoing source of inspiration for her artworks. Bee Agency as well as the Laboratory for Form and Matter – in which she experiments with bacteria and living textiles – provide a framework that has inspired a wide range of installations, sculptures, photography works, objects, and books – all at the intersection of art, science, and technology. In 2017, she received an Honorary Mention in the Hybrid Art category at Ars Electronica for the Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive project.
Camilla Colombo is a curator and producer whose practice focuses on arts and sciences. She curated exhibitions in collaboration with the Museum of Ixelles, at BOZAR, PILAR and iMal in Brussels, and she collaborated with z33 (Hasselt) and Atelier LUMA in Arles (France). With a background in the performing arts and in advocacy for the arts at the European level, Camilla worked in Italy, the UK, and Belgium. Interested in hybridization and crossing of disciplines, she served in art organizations of all sizes as well as with independent artists, focusing on multidisciplinary and multimedia productions. Since 2016 she is based in Brussels where she started merging her multilayered and multidisciplinary experiences in her curatorial practice. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Ohme, an organization curating and producing through collaborative practices at the nexus of arts and sciences. In 2019 she co-founded SALOON Brussels, a network for women working in the art scene of the Belgian capital. Aside from her curatorial practice, Camilla regularly organizes and moderate panel talks usually gathering artists, scientists, researchers, and civil society.
Dr. Edith Doove is a curator, writer, and researcher, specifically interested in notions of emergence and contingency, cross and transdisciplinary collaborations. She started curating in 1987 in Antwerp and worked as a freelance curator and art critic in Belgium until 2010 when she moved to the UK. Since 2018 she lives and works in France, currently in Rouen where she teaches at ESADHaR Le Havre-Rouen. She is a postdoctoral advisor with Transtechnology Research at Plymouth University where she attained her Ph.D. in November 2017. She's a regular contributor to Leonardo Reviews since 2010, co-convenor of Currer Bell College since 2019, and a member of AICA and C-E-A, the French Organization of Curators. With BUREAU DOOVE, which she started in 2014, Doove continues to develop a unique bespoke way of collaborating, working, with, for and alongside artists and researchers.
The Leonardo/ISAST LASERs are a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public to over 52 cities around the world. The mission of LASER is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building.
In September 2020, CYLAND Media Art Lab has become the official representative of The Leonardo / LASER Talks in St. Petersburg, Russia


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VerteCore Technologies Raises $344,894 for New Mobile Back Pain Relief Medical Device
Chiropractor Explaining How a VerteCore Lift Can Help Overweight Patients with Back Pain Relief
More than 740 backers will receive affordable, convenient, and comfortable back pain relief beginning July 2016
Dallas, Texas – VerteCore Technologies announced that the company's Indiegogo "Instant Back Pain Relief" crowdfunding campaign continues to exceed fundraising expectations raising more than 424% of the planned crowdfunding goal of $65,000, which makes it one of the Top 10 most crowdfunded health projects on Indiegogo. To continue this momentum the crowdfunding campaign team has decided to add several more last minute perks/rewards and a Memorial Day Special for Veterans that will allow enthusiastic customers to order the new "VerteCore Lift" before the price goes back up to the MSRP of $599 on June 5, 2016.
VerteCore Technologies Soars 410% Past Indiegogo Crowdfunding Goal to $266,151
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"Due to the heavy demand that the Indiegogo campaign has generated to date, we have decided to extend our crowdfunding campaign through June 4th in order to allow as many customers/channel partners as possible to take advantage of our specials and discounts before the price goes up," Leake continued. "We have had added some cool new stretch goal incentives/product bundles that will make the VerteCore Lift even more attractive as our fundraising campaign comes to an end."
"This crowdfunding campaign is a text book example of what can be achieved by utilizing a two-month crowdfunding prep-work campaign prior to launching a crowdfunding campaign to enhance social media credentials, build a very large crowd of crowdfunding campaign supporters and generate as much positive publicity as possible before the crowdfunding campaign begins," Hoskins added. "This process also allows companies to build relationships with new customers and engage with them to receive important pre-campaign feedback so that 99% of wrinkles can be ironed out of crowdfunding profiles, pitch videos, perks and calls-to-action prior to the fundraising effort, not during the actual crowdfunding campaign."
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Heavy Demand from Golfers, Hunters and X-Gamers Propels X-Mount Video System for iPhone and Android to 34% of Kickstarter Goal
The X Mount Video Stand Solution Is Small Enough to Fit in an Average-Sized Purse or Backpack and Takes Quick Hands-Free Photos, Filming and Recording Technology to a Whole New Level
ProtoSports X Mount Remote Video Shooting Solution for Golfers, Hunters, X Gamers and other Outdoor Recreation Advocates
In response to ProtoSports X Mount Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, golfers, hunters, skate boarders, outdoor adventure guides, X gamers and many other types of professional sports enthusiasts have pre-ordered the remote site video mounting system offers a great way to use iPhones, Androids and other Smartphones to shoot remote sites videos to record their trips, tricks, stunts and practice sessions to improve their game.
"Unlike other expensive tripods and bulky video stands, the X Mount provides an affordable, light weight design that allows the entire kit to be rolled up and carried in any average-sized backpack," said Kyle Stiles, ProtoSports' CEO. "The portable design makes it easy to carry around and setup when the perfect opportunity presents itself."
Golfers can use the X Mount in golf carts with the clamp attachment for GPS or videos and use the cross clip backing to turn their alignment rods into a mobile monopod to record swings anywhere on the golf course. Skate boarders can shoot a video from the bottom of a perfect stair rail as they grind their way to perfection. Hunters and anglers can set up the X Mount from a tree stand or on the bow of their boat to document their trophy acquisitions as they happen, even the ones that got away will be caught on video.
In addition to videos, the X Mount can also be utilized by photographers who want to take still shots at group events, weddings, parties and other types of events.
To pre-order an affordable X Mount Smartphone mount via the Kickstarter campaign, please visit: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/667763688/x-mount-not-your-typical-smartphone-mountits-mobil
There are many different Smartphone mounts, but they usually serve a particular purpose. They may be designed for cars, tripods, outdoor video, etc., but the X Mount can do it all. It is designed with a spring loaded body to ensure that phones are safe and secure.
One of the coolest accessories for the X Mount is its bendable attachment arm. The arm is equipped with a clamp at one end that allows you to attach your device to any surface edge. Another option is a spiked rod that can be inserted into ground for remote shots in outdoor environments.
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More ProtoSports X Mount News Stories:
Golfers Record Golf Swings Using the X Mount Remote Video System from Protosports
Hunters Now Carrying X-Mounts in their Hunting Backpacks to Film Client Hunts with Smart Phones
Skateboarders in San Jose Grinding with Quick Setup Remote Video Trick Recording Solution
Spring Breakers Now Ordering X Mount for iPhones and Androids to Capture 2014 Spring Break Videos
Tags: Android, Camping, Golf, Hunting, iPhone, Outdoor Adventure, ProtoSports, Remote Sites, Skateboarding, SmartPhone, Spring Break 2014, Tripod Replacement, Video Stands, X Games, X Mount
Categories Android, Camping, Crowdfunding Campaign Launch, Crowdfunding PR Campaigns, Donation-Based, Gadgets, Golf, Hunting, iPhone, Kickstarter, Kickstarter Crowdfunding, Outdoor Adventures, Perks-Based, Pets, Pitch Videos, Rewards-Based, United States
Top 5 Tips on How to Produce a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign Pitch Video
Kendall Almerico, ClickStartMe's CEO, released a video explaining five things every good crowdfunding video should do to maximize the chances of success. Almerico speaks not only from his experience operating the hottest new crowdfunding site on the Internet, but also from his background as a television and radio producer and host.
"A good video is a necessity if you want a successful crowdfunding project." Almerico says. "More than 50% of crowdfunding projects with a video are successful. Conversely, only 30% of those without a video succeed."
Almerico's new video explains the five things that make or break a crowdfunding video. "Your video doesn't have to be a Spielberg epic to be a good crowdfunding video," Almerico notes. "But, it needs to follow five simple rules to give you the best chance of success."
Here are Almerico's five tips:
1. Good video and audio quality make a difference. While a good quality crowdfunding video can be shot on an iPhone or with a camcorder, care must be taken to assure good lighting and audio. Recording a video in a well-lit room or outdoors makes the lighting part easier. The sound is another issue. If using a phone to record the audio portions, speak loudly, clearly and not too close to the phone, or too far away from it. Listen to a sample. If it sounds too hollow or if words that start with a P make sound "pops," do it over. Also, beware of echoes. If shooting outdoors, this is usually not a problem. But recording indoors in a room with wood or tile floors is asking for trouble. By trial and error, it is easy to find a room that works.
2. Plan the video in advance. Trained public speakers or actors can turn on the camera and talk without a plan. For others, this is is a recipe for disaster. Write a script, and try to stick to it. When writing the script, think about how a journalist tells a story. Give the "who, what, when, where and why." In addition:
a. Tell the story.
b. Talk about the rewards.
c. Give people a reason to get excited.
d. End with "the ask" and a thank you.
"The ask" is the portion of every crowdfunding video at the end where the project creator asks for donations.
3. Only talk about two or three rewards, not all of them. People do not want to hear about every reward being offered. Highlight some of the best rewards. Pick one from the low end, one from the middle range, and one high-end reward and discuss them. Remind the viewer that there are other rewards they can see by reading the project text. Most importantly, get excited to pitch the rewards. Excitement is contagious, and the viewer will also get excited about it if done correctly.
4. Add update videos as the project continues. People should update their crowdfunding project constantly, adding rewards and trumpeting their successes. Consider posting additional videos when these things happen. Not only do videos get more interest for the crowdfunding project, but they get lots of additional plays on Facebook and social media when they are posted. An update video is particularly effective down the home stretch, when trying to get everyone excited again to fully fund the project as the end approaches.
5. Keep it short and simple, but end with a bang! The video should be no longer than 3 minutes unless absolutely necessary. The last 10-15 seconds should be "the ask" where the project creator requests donations and ask for help spreading the word. This should be clear, carefully worded, and create a sense of urgency and action. Tell people what to do, and do not leave it up to them to figure it out on their own. Check out these examples:
Bad Ending: "Thank you for watching my video and for your attention."
Good ending: "We only have 30 days to raise $10,000 and we need your help, now! Donate today and, just as important, spread the word by sharing our project with everyone you know. Thank you for helping to make our dream, a reality."
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FarmShorts Launches Indiegogo Campaign to Provide Crowdfunding Videos for Sustainable Farmers
Not surprising to FarmShorts Founder Kala Philo, it took less than a week for Dodge Ram Truck's "So God Made a Farmer" ad to reach 10 million online views. The Superbowl airing of the commercial provided the initial exposure, but it was the gripping content — the powerful visuals and the farmers' resonating role in all our lives — that got everyone buzzing.
FarmShorts Launches Indiegogo Campaign to Produce Crowdfunding Videos for Sustainable Farmers
Philo, a professional video producer, understands more than most the impact video can have in promoting local, sustainable farm and food businesses, each with a story to tell. But evocative, high-quality, video-based storytelling is expensive, and typically prohibitive to cash-, technology- and time-starved farmers.
So Philo launched FarmShorts.com, a collaborative video project and tech-savvy marketing initiative.
FarmShorts pools time, resources and expertise to provide gorgeous web video and distributable content about, and for, sustainable farms and food producers. Through crowdfunding, sponsorship and community support, FarmShorts aims to offset what would be thousands of dollars in marketing costs for an individual farm.
"Very few sustainable farms and food producers — less than 1% — market with video, even though quality web shorts are a viral medium with long shelf lives offering exponential return," says Philo. "With FarmShorts, they now have a way to share their stories."
Besides addressing video needs and extending promotional reach via online and mobile channels, FarmShorts is leveraging the marketing muscle of the community, enlisting all stakeholders — local farms, food producers, artists, supporters and a multitude of sustainability advocates — to co-promote these initiatives through virtual, social and real-world networks. Such social capital is prized currency for independent farmers who must stay focused on tending land and beast.
"On any given day, farmers with limited resources are pulled in a hundred different directions. It's difficult to prioritize marketing and technology investments," says Paula Manalo Gaska, who co-owns Redwood Valley, Calif-based Mendocino Organics with her husband, Adam Gaska.
"Programs like FarmShorts help farmers promote themselves beyond their base and to an increasingly tech-savvy audience."
FarmShorts is planning region-specific video productions throughout California, for which local crowdfunding campaigns will be activated. The FarmShorts North Bay campaign, targeting farmers north of San Francisco, is now live at IndieGoGo and features the following initial participant farmers:
Mendocino Organics
Tara Firma Farms
Canvas Ranch
Wild Boar Farms
Full Table Farm
Victorian Farmstead
Felton Acres
Full House Farm
Stewart Ranch
Cow Track Ranch / The Bunk House
Tags: crowdfunding videos, Dodge Ram, FarmShorts, Kala Philo, Northern California, So God Made a Farmer, Superbowl, Sustainable Farms, Trucks
Categories Crowdfunding PR Campaigns, Donation-Based, Farming, Indiegogo Crowdfunding, Perks-Based, Pitch Videos, Top Crowdfunding Sites
CircleUp Explored: Crowdfunding Insight from Co-Founder, Rory Eakin
by Jonathan Sandlund, The Crowdfund Cafe
I had the pleasure to sit down with Rory Eakin, co-founder and COO of CircleUp. Rory gave a wealth of insight into the pioneering equity crowdfunding model him and his team have built to fund underserved companies in a targeted industry vertical (emerging growth consumer product and retail companies). I've distilled and summarized key themes below for convenience, but the full interview offers far more depth. So make sure to carve out 20 minutes to give it a view.
Currently only open to accredited investors (as legislation permits), CircleUp is a front-runner in the investment crowdfunding space. It's one of a handful of platforms "crowdfunding" (personally defining as executing transactions entirely online) from accredited investors today; to date eight companies have raised a total of ~$7.5 million on CircleUp's platform.
I've paid acute attention to CircleUp because (i) it has traction, i.e. data exists, and (ii) i'm a big believer in the merit its crowdfunding model is proving out. Broadly, it couples domain expertise and curated partnerships with technology to efficiently and transparently deliver high-quality, shepherded deal-flow to investors. It's a model championed by many other platforms—e.g. RealtyMogul and Fundrise attacking real estate—and I have no doubt it will be applied to nearly many other industry verticals in time. It just makes tremendous sense; on so many levels.
Tags: CircleUp, Crowdfunding Case Study, Crowdfunding Research, Equity Crowdfunding, Fundrise, RealtyMogul, The Crowdfund Cafe
Categories Case Studies, Equity-Based, Pitch Videos, Real Estate, Research Reports, Subject Matter Experts, White Papers


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Rock Island premier auction hits $8 million
Inaugural sale at new facility a huge success
The inaugural auction of Rock Island Auction Company's new facility brought firearms enthusiasts of every level, from veteran firearms collectors to first time bidders, to the massive 86,000 sq. ft. facility. Every chair (300 now compared to the previous 175) was full as auctioneers Pat Hogan, and his son Kevin took the podium May 20-22.
Collectors were able to preview items at their own pace with plenty of room to look down a bore or through a scope without bumping into a buddy. With all the additional interest from the new facility and the impressive collection of firearms up for auction, bidders drove up prices on more than 2,700 lots to a total of over $8 million, bringing the total for the first two auctions of 2011 to more than $10 million.
Factory cased, St. Louis inscribed Sharps Model 1851 sporting rifle. Sold for $40,250.
Of the over 120 Colt Single Action Army revolvers offered, none were more impressive than an exceptional documented U.S. Lewis Draper inspected Colt Model 1873 single action cavalry revolver which sold above the estimate at $69,000. There were more than 400 Colts in the sale, including a fully automatic Colt 1921/28 "Navy" overstamp submachine gun with FBI type carrying case, two drum and three stick magazines that sold for $31,625.
This auction also featured the finest collection of Sharps to come to auction since the Frank and Karen Sellers collection. This outstanding collection was highlighted by a rare and historic, St. Louis inscribed, factory cased, Sharps Model 1851 sporting rifle which brought $40,250. A very rare documented Sharps Model 1874 No. 1 Creedmoor rifle went well above the estimated price of $8,500-$14,000 and sold for $28,750. A Sharps panel scene Gustave Young engraved Model 1853 sporting rifle left the building with a final sale price of $25,875, and a custom Sharps Model 1874 sporting rifle by Henry Slotterbek of Los Angeles, California realized $10,350.
Custom engraved gold inlaid Winchester Model 21 two barrel set 28 and 410 gauge Grand American double barrel shotgun with case. Sold for $31,625.
Rock Island Auction brought to auction an outstanding collection of Lugers in rare and desirable configurations, as well as other German military arms, Nazi hats, uniforms and militaria. The highlight of more than 250 lugers was an exceptionally rare documented, cased, gold-plated, factory-engraved, carved ivory-stocked Krieghoff presentation Luger pistol which reached a final sale price of $69,000. Other top luger lots were a scarce Borchardt semi-automatic pistol with shoulder stock, holster and spare magazine selling for $25,875 and a DWM Model 1900 U.S. Army test luger pistol with original Rock Island Arsenal holster with a selling price of $23,000.
Other German military arms attained high prices including a cased WWII German Luftwaffe issue Model 30 survival drilling with case and accessories which sold for $25,875, and a Mauser Tankgewehr-18 bolt action single shot anti-tank rifle with bipod which sold for $31,625.
Civil War New Haven Arms Co. Henry lever action rifle. Sold for $51,750.
The more than 300 U.S. military arms were highlighted with an impressive sale at $48,875 of a rare Pedersen device with metal case and U.S. Model 1903 Springfield Mark I rifle, a rare late WWII original inland "T3" carbine with M2 infrared sniper scope with accessories sold for $23,000, and a rare U.S. trials Colt Model 1907 Army contract semi-automatic pistol with factory letter sold at $14,950.
A Civil War New Haven Arms Co. Henry lever action rifle sold for $51,750. A rare engraved Spencer sporting rifle brought an impressive $19,550 and a rare Confederate second model Griswold and Gunnison revolver sold after a flurry of bidding for $21,850. Intense bidding drove up prices for early Martial Arms including a rare U.S. Springfield Model 1882 Chaffee-Reese rifle selling for $8,050.
U.S. Lewis Draper Inspected Colt Model 1873 single action Cavalry revolver with factory letter. Sold for $69,000.
The event had reached $8 million in sales when the final hammer fell.
Upcoming RIAC evnts include the July 16 and 17 Regional Firearms auction, and the next Premiere Auction Sept. 9, 10 and 11. RIAC is currently seeking consignments for upcoming auctions. For more information on selling at auction, contact Pat Hogan or Judy Voss at 800-238-8022 or visit the website www.rockislandauction.com.
Cased, gold-plated, factory-engraved, carved ivory-stocked Krieghoff presentation Luger pistol. Sold for $69,000.
Mauser Tankgewehr-18 bolt action single shot anti-tank rifle with bipod. Sold for $31,625.
Pedersen device with metal case and U.S. Model 1903 Springfield Mark I rifle. Sold for $48,875.
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For most of this course you have done work in reducing the frequency and intensity of your experience of anger, increasing your awareness of your experience of anger anger and its triggers. It is good to remind yourself that the goal is not to eliminate anger—the goal is to manage it.
Even when heavily practiced and mastered, effective communication and acceptance do not get rid of anger. The two together will certainly reduce how often you feel angry but you will still feel angry at times. That is totally normal.
You've heard this a hundred times by now but what makes a difference is the way you react to feeling angry. Anger itself does not necessarily mean a scarred relationship, broken possessions, or burned bridges.
Anger can work as motivation for change. Think back to any civil rights movement. What feeling helped fuel that movement? You can bet it was not contentment or complacency.
When things stack up against you unfairly, it is okay to feel angry. Once again, anger itself is not unhealthy. Instead of turning to unhealthy or destructive expressions of anger however, turn that anger into fuel for finding a solution or for finding change.
Helen has a great paying job that is relatively close to where she lives. She has been employed there for years. This past year her boss, Edward, has been treating her pretty unfairly. He continuously gives her work to do, expecting to work overtime but without the increased pay rate of overtime. She's expected to do tasks at home, at night, and on the weekends. He even calls late at night, assigning her more duties.
She is capable of doing these things but she soon begins feeling overwhelmed. Instead of going out with her friends or travelling for holiday, she feels stuck at work. She tried on multiple occasions to bring this issue to Edward, being mindful and assertive while communicating. It doesn't help.
When she asks for time off to visit her mother, who is very sick, and Edward denies the request, Helen feels angry. This is the last straw. She decides she deserves a job that respects her time and effort. She realizes that just because she is paid well, it doesn't mean she is content. She gives Edward her two weeks notice and quickly finds a job that isn't as monetarily profitable but isn't as taxing on her well-being.
Anger also serves as a great warning system. It informs us that something is out of balance. It may be something within our bodies, such as hunger or illness for example. It may be informing us that a personal boundary has been violated, sometimes making us take ownership of crossing our own boundaries.
Look back on conflicts and anger that you have written about. How many were due to you feeling as if you were not being respected or feeling uncomfortable? Were you able to change the situation or find a solution? It may just take some assertive communication to the other party, as sometimes people act mindlessly and do not realize the effect they have on others.
Continue practicing assertive communication and self-awareness. Continue writing down feelings of anger and what kind of response you have to it. Take time this week to look back over your journal. What kind of progress have you made?


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These cuban heel pantyhose with back seam are a great option to give a retro look to those tight fitting dresses and skirts. Wear with the 'Sophia' wiggle dress or the 'Carmen' pencil skirt. These stockings are 20 Denier and have a reinforced toe and heel. Available in both standard and plus size.


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Streak thin (approximately one cell thick) smears across a sterile slide by means of a second slide or cover glass. Air dry quickly.
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Add 2.0 ml distilled water or Phosphate buffer pH 6.5 and let stand twice as long as in step 1.
Rinse stained smear with water or the Phosphate buffer pH 6.5 until the edges show faintly pinkish-red.
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