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This is a bundle of seasonal behavior brag tags for the months of March, April, and May.

Each of the three sets includes 9 brag tags to celebrate good behavior.

Brag Tags that are included:

-Leaping for good behavior! (leprechaun)
-Your behavior is as good as gold! (pot of gold)
-A rainbow of good behavior (kids with rainbow)
-Chirping for good behavior! (bird in nest)
-I've got some high-flying behavior! (kite)
-A little bird told me that you have great behavior! (bluebird)
-Eggcelent behavior! (Easter egg in the grass)
-It's not luck! You've got great behavior! (girl with horseshoe)
-Fantastic behavior in March! (boy and girl with shamrock)

-Splashing good behavior! (boy jumping in puddle)
-Your behavior is so sweet! (peeps)
-A basketful of good behavior (Easter basket)
-Somebunny has great behavior! (bunny with flowers)
-Swinging for good behavior (girl on swing)
-Chick out my great behavior! (chick)
-A world of good behavior (kids with the Earth)
-It's raining good choices! (boy catching raindrops)
-Fantastic behavior in April! (bear in raincoat with umbrella)

-Blooming good behavior! (basket of flowers)
-Fluttering by for good behavior (butterfly)
-Hoppin' good behavior (frog)
-Growing some great behavior (girl with flowers)
-Sailing for good behavior (boy with toy sailboat)
-No quacks about it! I've got great behavior! (duckling)
-Spotting good behavior (ladybug)
-Cheep! Cheep! You've got great behavior! (birds in nest)
-Fantastic behavior in May! (bear with flowers)

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Rapoo Releases the T120P Wireless Touch Mouse

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Archive - March 2016

J68 is now booting from User Flash Memory on the BEMICRO MAX10 FPGA board
Still debugging the attachment of User Flash Memory to the J68….
LCD Test image and pixel-level detail

J68 is now booting from User Flash Memory on the BEMICRO MAX10 FPGA board

I’ve been struggling for quite a few nights and weekends over the last month or so.

I’ve now successfully attached the J68 to the built-in User Flash Memory. This means that the 16KB (actually about ~13KB) of the ROM monitor VUBUG is now out of the pre-initialized m9k’s configured as a ROM, and now into FLASH. Which is non-volatile, and will survive a reboot. The most important part of this is that it frees up our valuable high-speed on-chip m9k’s.

The solution involved waiting for rd_ena (read enable) to go high, and combining that with the address that makes it a ROM READ, and then passing that to the Altera IP Flash avalon-mm bus interface. Since the latency is a fixed-cycle delay, then I just shift that read-enable pulse to become the “data is ready pulse”, aka data_ack and feed that back to the J68.

I had some more complicated solutions including a state machine, but this way is clearly superior. I had created some bolt-on hardware to help troubleshoot the problem. While it helped initially, when I had the problem fixed, some symptoms in the add-on hardware hid the fact that it was actually working….

The SDRAM controller works in simulation when connected to the J68, and hopefully will be tested on hardware very soon. This puts the ROM code in FLASH, and the RAM on the 8MB memory chip where it belongs. This will give us what we need for future development, including the GPU!

Still debugging the attachment of User Flash Memory to the J68….

So if I take my working UFM avalon-mm Master controller (which if you recall, connects to the Altera Flash Memory IP core), and attempt to attach it to the J68, the J68 no longer boots the ROM monitor code.

Since it’s not booting, I really don’t have many indications as to why. I decided that writing a ROM bus sniffer that records ROM memory requests and responses, including how long it took to satisfy that request, was worth the trouble.

In the image below, you’ll see four 32-bit columns of data on the left. Each row is a separate request.

They are:

  • A 32-bit counter that increments once a master clock cycle. Right now, I’m just running at 33.333mhz, but this J68 works upwards to 100mhz. This is recorded at the time of the request — at the time rd_ena goes high.
  • The ROM memory address being requested (first column on the left in BLUE)
  • The 32-bit counter at the time data_ack goes high, which means the request has been handled
  • The actual 16-bit data value. Ignore the 0xFAFA — that’s just padding. (rightmost column in BLUE)

Note that the requests are being handled the next clock cycle, right now, with the M9k’s serving up the ROM file. So you see 0x3A request, 0x3B response. 0x40 request, 0x41 response, and so on. The flash will not be as quick, and there should be something like (5) cycles between them.

My plan is to attach my newly working debugger to the new J68 solution with the UFM, and compare it. I think the problem will be obvious once I see what is happening…..

LCD Test image and pixel-level detail

So I’ve managed to get a semi-working test pattern image up on the LCD.

Here are a couple shots:

If we zoom in about 10 times, we can see how the LCD really works, on an individual pixel level:

Pretty challenging to get a decent image out of this, but here you can see the individual LEDs that make up the TFT screen that we’re using….. Interesting that the roughly-purple color comes from Blue and Red mixed…. except they aren’t mixed, just very close together.

Here’s an idealized image…..looks pretty similar to mine!

I actually don’t think that the colors above in my test image are right….there seem to be documentation problems for the pinouts on the BEMICROMAX10…….


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Tight spaces make lubricants misbehave.

As engineers design ever smaller mechanical and electronic components, they need to reconsider the types of lubricants they use to keep those devices working smoothly. New research has confirmed that lubricating molecules confined to narrow spaces do not behave the same way they do in bulk form. A polymer lubricant, when squeezed between two pieces of mica separated by just a few nanometers, will act more like rubber than oil, says Steve Granick, a materials scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Granick compared the energies needed to slide these plates when separated by the polymer, and when farther apart and separated by oils or rubbers. The polymer films proved less fluid and more elastic than scientists had thought, he says.

This rubbery nature means that as computer hard drives or engines start up, they may be subject to damage because the lubricant in narrow spaces isn't doing its job, he adds.

In addition, "dry" lubricants, called boundary layer systems, do not always act as expected, reports Jacob N. Israelachvili of the University of California, Santa Barbara. These lubricants consist of hydrocarbon chains that anchor into the surface being lubricated. They are most useful in devices employed in clean and high-vacuum environments.

Using a surface forces apparatus, he and his colleagues determined that these chains sometimes develop a different sort of slip-stick, the motion in which surfaces slide in jerks (SN: 5/30/92, p. 360). The molecules become tangled and untangled and switch from exerting normal friction to exerting very low friction, so they slide by each other more easily. "It's like combing your hair. It starts out messy, then [the comb] suddenly goes smoothly," says Israelachvili.

At high velocities, "one might be able to have low friction, an order of magnitude lower than one normally has." he adds.
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Companies more than double spending on mobile video ads as Britons watch clips, TV and movies on smartphones

Internet advertising spend surged above £10bn in the UK last year as companies more than doubled the amount they spent on mobile video ads.

The year-on-year increase of 17% on 2015 comes as many advertisers have pulled campaigns from Google and YouTube after it emerged that some ads have been running around inappropriate content such as extremist videos.

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Yesterday, Pepsi pulled its new ad in less than 24 hours. Reality star Kendall Jenner giving a police officer a soft drink to calm a protest was immediately called the ‘worst ad of all time’. Can big business ever have a place in social activism?

When Nivea ran a recent Facebook ad with the supremacist-friendly tagline “White is purity”, it would have been reasonable to assume that, as far as misguided promotional campaigns go, it had cornered the market. Then Kendall Jenner stepped forward and offered a police officer a can of Pepsi.

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Kevin Roberts, the former chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi who resigned after a sexism row, has taken a role chairing a UK communications group that says 70% of its leadership team are women.

In August, Roberts was put on leave and subsequently resigned from Publicis Groupe, the parent company of Saatchi & Saatchi, after provoking fury with his comments about women in an interview with Business Insider.

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Christmas marketing campaigns by the major retail brands have become more elaborate by the year, with social media now playing an integral part. The latest John Lewis ad, featuring Buster the Boxer and a host of wild animals trampolining, has been named the world’s biggest Christmas TV ad on YouTube. It used Snapchat to drive the campaign and is currently one of the most shared ads on social media. Snapchat users are given the opportunity to add a lens to a photo of themselves that transforms them into Buster the Boxer.

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The supermarket will launch its three-minute ad, which took seven weeks to animate using hitech 3D-printing techniques never previously used in the UK, on Monday, making it the last of the major retailers to kick off its festive campaign.
 Continue reading... Retail industry J Sainsbury Supermarkets Advertising Media Business Marketing & PR UK news Television industry Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:01:32 GMT Photograph: Sainsbury's Photograph: Sainsbury's Sarah Butler 2016-11-14T00:01:32Z Can advertising support a free internet?
Brands have shifted large amounts of marketing budgets into online advertising, which must now up its game to pay the internet’s bills

The supporters of an open, democratic internet, funded mainly by advertising, are facing some big questions about how their vision will unfold. A freely accessible digital world, where websites and social networks are open to all, is the dream of many. But critics wonder if this is desirable or even possible.

Brands have shifted a huge proportion of their marketing budgets into online advertising in recent years, fuelling the growth of the internet and becoming the main source of funding for most websites and social networks. But while many campaigns hit the spot, others can be irritating, intrusive and irrelevant.
 Continue reading... Media & Tech Network Marketing & PR Appnexus Roundtable Advertising Media Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:00:42 GMT Photograph: pixdeluxe/Getty Images Photograph: pixdeluxe/Getty Images David Benady 2016-11-07T10:00:42Z Christmas TV ads - the search for a cracker, the fear of a turkey
Anticipation is building ahead of the latest John Lewis Xmas ad. So popular have they become it’s easy to forget they are meant primarily to boost sales

It may be seven weeks until Christmas but with John Lewis due to launch its latest tear-jerker next week, the unofficial start of the annual festive battle for the hearts and minds – and, ultimately, wallets – of the British public is about to commence in earnest.

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Sarah Vizard of Marketing Week chooses the Christmas ads that stand out – for good and bad reasons

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Whether you want to create the next big Christmas ad or dream up a viral social media campaign, our experts advise how to start a career in advertising

Would you love to be the creative mind behind the next Coca-Cola Christmas advert, or do you fancy making something as catchy as Compare the Meerkat? Great ads can leave a lasting impression. Whether you want to dazzle people with your copy, dream up new ideas or decide where the advert will be seen, there’s a wide range of careers in the industry. So where to start?

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 Continue reading... Guardian Careers Career choices Advertising Work & careers Marketing & PR Business Job hunting Fri, 04 Nov 2016 07:00:11 GMT Photograph: John Lewis/PA Photograph: John Lewis/PA Suzanne Bearne 2016-11-04T07:00:11Z UK Christmas ad spend to hit record high of over £5bn
Google and Facebook to benefit most as top brands target online audience with bumper budgets

UK advertisers are set to spend a record £5.6bn in the run-up to Christmas, as bumper digital budgets for Google and Facebook more than make up for a tougher festive season for TV and newspapers.

As major brands prepare to follow Burberry and Harrods by launching their Christmas advertising campaigns, with the John Lewis commercial due on 10 November, advertisers appear to have put aside Brexit fears to cash in on the festive shopping period.

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 Continue reading... Advertising Retail industry Christmas ads Media Marketing & PR Business Consumer spending Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:15:15 GMT Photograph: Harrods Photograph: Harrods Mark Sweney 2016-11-02T17:15:15Z Matthew Freud sells £12m luxury yacht to own company
PR guru’s accounts show his business acquired Kingdom Come last year, as he received massive dividend payout

The public relations guru Matthew Freud added the luxury yacht Kingdom Come to his company’s assets for £12m last year, as he pocketed more than £23m from his PR and marketing agency group.

The latest accounts for the parent company of the PR chief’s operations, Freud Holdings, also show that it acquired £1.37m in artworks from Freud “on an arm’s length basis at open-market value”.

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Shifting to video advertising may seem simple, but as Facebook’s miscalculation shows, the industry needs to know what viewability really means

News that Facebook had been erroneously reporting one of its measures of video watch-time has sparked a series of ad industry debates around trust, accountability and ultimately ‘viewability’. While these are important discussions to be having as digital marketing matures, now is also a key time to more widely consider what we mean by a video view and how that needs to increasingly influence our creative direction.

Over the last couple of years Facebook’s newsfeed has grown from hosting almost no native video to being increasingly dominated by the format, attracting billions of ad dollars in the process. Whilst the revealed measurement error didn’t affect any of the metrics by which Facebook video advertising was bought or sold, the over estimation of watch times may have accidentally helped cover up their platform’s potential Achilles heel.
 Continue reading... Media & Tech Network Media Facebook Marketing & PR Technology Social networking Advertising Thu, 06 Oct 2016 07:00:02 GMT Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Jerry Daykin 2016-10-06T07:00:02Z Cultivating the creative industries - roundtable debate
They’re worth more than £80bn a year to the economy – so why are the UK’s creative industries undermined by an education system that regards artistic subjects as second class?

Being creative in today’s fast-moving, tech-driven world requires a particular set of skills that goes beyond fact-based learning: problem-solving; creative thinking; and the ability to experiment, fail and try again. The UK’s creative industries – which are worth about £84.1bn a year, and grew by 8.9% in 2014 – need these skills.

But is our education system set up to deliver innovation and creativity in this rapidly expanding and fast-moving sector? If not, why not? And how can it help to meet those needs? These were the questions under discussion in a roundtable debate hosted by the Guardian and sponsored by the Marketing Agencies Association (MAA).

We need to encourage and celebrate failure, experimenting and getting things wrong
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As the Olympic swimmer’s reputation took a dive, his sponsors were quick to distance themselves. But was this a clever response – and what are the lessons for advertisers?

As Olympians return victorious from Rio 2016, it’s likely that many will be offered lucrative sponsorship packages from brands eager to harness Olympic glory. As advertising is increasingly avoided and ways of talking to consumers proliferate, celebrity sponsorship is set to continue its meteoric growth.

If it works, the sponsorship route can cut through the clutter of today’s marketing. Take Dove’s association with the Wales rugby team. Dove Men+ Care’s Twitter account has 32.4k followers; meanwhile Wales International’s George North has an impressive 325k. So when he tweets “Thanks Dove Men+Care” alongside a picture of the product (as he did only recently), the brand not only gains far more exposure, but the message is delivered through a trusted, respected source, meaning it’s likely to have far more impact.

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Sir Martin Sorrell’s group says British advertisers held back spending in the first half of the year – but says there could be signs of a ‘post-Brexit vote recovery’

Sir Martin Sorrell has stuck by his grim predictions for Britain after Brexit despite business picking up for his advertising company WPP since the vote to leave the EU.

Sorrell was one of the leading business voices campaigning for Britain to stay in the EU. Shortly before the vote on 23 June he warned the UK was in danger of sleepwalking into a black hole that would damage economic growth.

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With brand identity becoming increasingly complex, chief marketing officers are more important than ever. What habits should they try to develop?

Marketing has become a tricky territory. The dynamics of many industries, from hospitality to consumer packaged goods to automotive to beauty have gone through an overhaul thanks to the on-demand economy, platforms and competition from unpredictable places. Think Netflix being nominated for Emmys. Think Airbnb becoming a hospitality company. Think Yoox Net-a-Porter being the world’s biggest fashion store.

The rise of direct-to-consumer businesses dramatically flattened organisational structures of traditional industries. It also introduced a market dynamic where competitiveness is defined by seamlessness, convenience, speed and efficiency of service. Products became as good as the service and experience that surrounds them.

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Donna Summer: stars pay tribute to disco diva - video

Bono, Quincy Jones, Macy Gray and Roberta Flack pay tribute to disco queen Donna Summer, who has died from cancer aged 63. Fans gather on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame in Los Angeles to remember the singer who revolutionised electronic dance music in the 70s and also won Grammys in the categories of R&B and rock


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A taxi driver's tour of Durban, South Africa - video

South Africa's third-largest city is a unique blend of Zulu, Indian and European influences. Taxi driver Moosa Kajee takes Kevin Rushby on a tour of his city, stopping at the Victoria Street market for souvenirs, a cafe serving local fast food favourite Bunny chow, and the beachfront where he comes to chill out at the end of the day


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Councils and NHS could owe female workers millions after court ruling

Councils and NHS could owe female workers millions after court ruling

Local authorities and NHS trusts could be forced to pay millions of pounds to female public sector workers after a crucial appeal court ruling today.

The decision by Lord Justice Mummery effectively outlaws gender discrimination in so-called pay protection schemes, which have been widely used to compensate staff in male-dominated jobs for the loss of bonuses abolished under equal pay legislation.

Although today's case only involves staff at two councils in the north-east, its findings apply to many female local authority and NHS staff across England and Scotland.

The judges said the impact could well be felt beyond the public sector and affect the way all employees and unions approach issues of equal pay and job grading.

"The sums involved in the proceedings are very large indeed," said Mummery, who delivered the ruling today.

The women who brought today's case would typically receive around £2,000 each in back pay, according to Rachel Crasnow, a barrister with the specialist equal pay chambers Cloisters, which argued the case on behalf of the women. She described the ruling as a "major headache" for local authorities and the NHS.

"[It] could pave the way for thousands of new equal pay claims against local authorities and the NHS," she said.

"This would be in addition to the thousands of equal pay claims which are already in the system."

The test case involved two groups of council workers, among them cleaners and lollipop ladies, who did not receive the pay protection given to predominantly male staff in manual jobs such as street cleaning and refuse collection.

Pay protection schemes were introduced by many local authority employers after a re-rating of pay scales under an agreement introduced in 1997, known as the Green Book, which was intended, among other things, to iron out pay discrimination due to gender.

This abolished many anomalies under which women were paid less for doing jobs of equal status, often by reducing male workers' pay. Under the pay protection schemes, typically lasting four years, men were given an extra sum, reduced in increments each year, to compensate for the lower wages.

Today's decision ruled that the two councils involved, Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough, had unfairly denied female staff the same pay protection.

Pay protection "actually reinforced the pre-existing sex discrimination in the workplace because it meant that male employees were, in effect, receiving the same discriminatory bonuses, just under a different label," Crasnow explained.

"In essence, the women were being discriminated against again."

Councils had previously argued that they did not have sufficient money to offer pay protection to all staff, she said.

"The councils would say, 'We just can't afford to pay this to everyone, we might have to make some redundancies.' Of course, budgets are limited but it's not fair to simply blackmail female staff."

The women won their cases at an employment tribunal. However, an employment appeal tribunal ruled in favour of the Redcar staff but against the Middlesbrough employees.

This prompted the court case, held in January, which was argued under the equal pay act and EU equal pay rules.

John Wadham, legal director at the equality and human rights commission, welcomed the ruling. "The quagmire of equal pay in local government needs to be ended now, and the thousands of women involved deserve money in their pockets now, not in another 10 years' time," he said.

"There is no simple solution, but it may not always be possible to deliver change overnight. Practical and fair transitional arrangements are necessary but it is right that we set a strict test for when these arrangements can be justified."

Equal pay claims lodged with tribunals have spiralled in the past year, driven by cases brought by women working in local government. The service has reported a 155% increase over the past year, with the number of claims rising above 44,000.


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The Alicia Silverstone Diet: Steak and Doughnuts

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Actress Alicia Silverstone is, like, totally into healthy eating and living close to nature.

Which is cool, especially since no one has thought about Alicia Silverstone this decade and it's nice to hear how she's doing.

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But as satisfied as Silverstone, the Clueless and Aerosmith music video star, is with her daily life nowadays, believe the Melissa Joan Hart look-alike when she tells you it wasn't always the case.

Steak and doughnuts were among her dietary staples before she cleaned up her eating habits and went vegan, the actress reveals in the newest issue of InStyle Home.

"Now I'm a total health nut," says Silverstone, 30.

"I don't get sick very often and when I do it's for a short period."

Britney Spears, you're on notice.

She attributes her health to her diet and active lifestyle, something you're not likely to experience if you're on the Sienna Miller diet, either.

"It's empowering to know that you're responsible for how you feel each day because of the way you treat your body," said Silverstone.

One of her favorite workouts? Jumping on the trampoline in the backyard of the L.A. home she shares with her husband, musician Christopher Jarecki, 36.

"It's great exercise and really makes you giggle," she says.

Which is exactly what Olivia Mojica says about... forget it.

Silverstone is also passionate about being environmentally responsible. She drives a hybrid car, uses energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs and has solar panels on the roof of her house. Al Gore would be proud.

"I love living this way," she says. "It's so satisfying and inspiring."

Well. It's good to see that for all the Nicole Richie type train wrecks out there, some stars are still grounded and leading fulfilling, happy lives.

Alicia Silverstone Quotes

Infants who are left in their diapers all day get out of tune with their bodies ... because they get used to walking around in a toilet...So step away from the Pampers.

Your chichi is the most absorbent part of your body.


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Matt Damon on Running For President: No Sir!

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Sorry, Michael Moore. You tried your best.

The filmmaker recently praised actor Matt Damon for standing up for his political beliefs and called upon the star to launch a presidential campaign.

It's not gonna happen, unfortunately.

Matt Damon on Piers Morgan

A photographer recently questioned Damon on whether he has any plans to enter the political world, prompting the actor to reply: "No sir!"

Damon said: "I think there are probably better choices out there."

The Oscar winner supported President Barack Obama in the 2008 elections, but recently admitted he has been disappointed by Obama.

Damon also attended a teachers' rally last month to support changes to standarized testing and tore into a critic of teacher tenure.

Political opinions aside, he will next star with Gwyneth Paltrow and Marion Cotillard in Contagion, which opens on September 9.

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Wendy & Brian • Ashley Gillett Photography

Wendy & Brian, Wedding at The Mast Farm Inn

"We have a charmer of an NC wedding to share with you, with images from Ashley Gillett Photography. This country side fete took place at the historic Mast Farm Inn in the mountainside village of Valle Crucis, North Carolina. Wendy & Brian’s pink, green and white color palette was carried out throughout their outdoor ceremony and then their indoor reception with their floral decor from Pearls Garden, and their cake from Hallmark Cakes. Their intimate affair was perfectly set at the charming Mast Farm Inn, from the mountainside setting of the Inn to the cute farm animals {we heart the miniature donkey!}.  Enjoy the wedding {goodness}!" ~ Wedding Row Charlotte

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Ashley Gillett Photography • I’m a Wedding Photographer in Asheville, NC. Your wedding is going to be fabulous and I can’t wait to be a part of such a special day. Here’s a little bit about me: My style is simple and genuine. Its about showing happiness and joy through photos. I know it may sound cheesy, but I love love. I mean, how could you not? It just makes me happy – plain and simple. Now tell me something about you! Are you fun and flirty, laid back and nerdy, outgoing and spunky? I want to hear all about how you met, your favorite tv shows, do you love to go out to eat? What kind of amazing North Carolina wedding are you going to have?

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Senior DevOps Engineer

ROBLOX – The Imagination Platform

Be part of an amazing team that’s building the world’s largest social platform for play. Every month, over 48 million players come to Roblox to become an overnight retail tycoon, compete as a professional racecar driver, solve a murder mystery, or simply build a dream home and hang out with friends. We’re looking for engineering rock stars who are inspired to power the imaginations of people around the world, one player at a time.

Our ambition is to build a global infrastructure to rival that of any big social network out there. We currently operate more than 15,000 servers in 40 data centers globally. Over the next few years, we expect that number will grow to over 50,000 servers.

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in helping us scale our software stack and hardware infrastructure at a time of incredible growth for our business. At Roblox, you’ll have boundless opportunities to shape the future of the Imagination Platform™ and demonstrate your passion for delivering awesome solutions in front of a global audience. If you know what it takes to build systems that can sustain over one million concurrent players year-round and you take play as seriously as we do, you’ll fit right into our highly-skilled and ever-expanding engineering team.

You are:

  • Experienced: you have a BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with several years of experience.
  • A coder: you’re comfortable writing code in at least Ruby or Python, and you excel at perl and/or bash; awk/sed, etc. have no secrets for you.
  • A Linux (Ubuntu) and/or Windows guru: you have rock solid administration skills in either OS, expert level system-analysis, configuration, and troubleshooting experience.
  • Passionate about automation: you don’t like doing the same job by hand twice and you have some experience with at least one configuration management solution (Chef, Puppet, etc.).
  • Up-to-speed on all things Cloud: you have working experience with public cloud (AWS preferred) and private cloud (OpenStack preferred) solutions.
  • Ambitious: you boldly go where no man or woman has gone before;,, etcd, Docker, Mesos, InfluxDB etc. might not be technologies you’ve used, but you are keen to learn and grow.
  • Adaptable: you are capable of adjusting to new challenges, and experimentation is in your blood.

You will:

  • Develop and support solutions to meet the requirements of large scale, real time and 5 9s uptime to ensure our community has an awesome experience on the Imagination Platform™ from anywhere in the world.
  • Identify and solve critical problems and prevent them from reoccurring via root cause analysis and automation.
  • Create, influence and improve the development platform, infrastructure, standards, and methods to ensure our goals of scalability and high availability.
  • Develop and share best practices with development teams to improve scalability and reliability of the Imagination Platform™.
  • Work with a team that is currently distributed throughout the US and Canada, and soon to be globally.
  • Be part of our on-call team that keeps the Imagination Platform™ running 24/7/365 globally.

Perks & Benefits:

  • Work with an awesome team of smart and motivated people on cool and unique projects that are used by millions of active users every day
  • ROBLOX Admin badge for your avatar, and rockstar status with our community
  • Unlimited paid vacation
  • Gym reimbursement
  • Free catered lunches & a fully stocked kitchen with unlimited snacks
  • 401K
  • Robust medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Free onsite parking & other commuter benefits

Roblox is the largest social platform for play that allows kids to imagine, create, and play together in immersive 3D worlds. Over 22 million user-generated online games have been produced on the Roblox platform with over 40 million players visiting Roblox every month to create adventures, play games, roleplay, and learn with friends in a family-friendly environment. Roblox is accessible on all modern smartphones, tablets, desktops, Xbox One, Oculus Rift, and other popular VR platforms. Roblox was ranked #37 in the Consumer Products and Services category for overall revenue in Inc. Magazine’s 2016 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America.

Roblox – Powering Imagination.

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Isaiah guides team workflow for ROBLOX's product development. He troubleshoots and streamlines the process, and supplies the tools and support to help team members thrive.

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Jessica builds ROBLOX's smart and simple web, mobile, and Xbox-compatible features—and empowers ROBLOX users to create and share imaginative game experiences.

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One of the biggest myths about the Occupy Colleges movement, similar to misconceptions about Occupy Wall Street, is that there is a lack of focus. Occupy Colleges originated in the same way as its “mother” movement—spur of the moment, without a strong idea of what the future would look like, but with a sustained focus on problems that specifically affect colleges and universities across the nation, student debt being the most obvious example.

In an attempt to gain both focus and traction, Occupy Colleges is staging National Solidarity Teach-ins on November 2nd and 3rd. The purpose in holding these teach-ins is to educate interested university community members about Occupy Wall Street, cultivate new ideas and possible solutions and ways to contribute, and effectively participate in steering the course of the largest social movement our generation has yet to see.

The Occupy Colleges website provides resources for students to make organizing teach-ins not too arduous a task. In addition to helpful guides, here are some other details to keep in mind when aiming to conduct the most effective teach-in possible.

Keep it local. While it’s important to address Occupy Wall Street on a broad scale and within an international context, it would be problematic for colleges to ignore local concerns occurring in their own backyards. Giving your teach-in a local perspective is necessary in order to create an inclusionary social movement. Colleges and universities, especially private institutions, often attain reputations for being “ivory towers on the hill” and separating themselves from local off-campus communities. Working together with the local city or town that your college is geographically situated in is integral to the teach-in and the Occupy movement in general.

Address ‘the right’ issues. Each campus is unique in its current struggles and the issues that face the surrounding local community. Seek out a representative from the local movement who can most accurately speak to these issues at the teach-in, but also remember to present the unified issues that Occupy Colleges and Occupy Wall Street stand for on a national level — higher taxes on the "one percent," the closing of corporate tax loopholes, student debt forgiveness, a more regulated financial services industry and a forthright, well-funded effort to put people back to work.

Reserve an appropriate space on campus. Students are more likely to attend the teach-in if it’s physically accessible to them. It’s also important to reinforce one of the founding ideas behind Occupy Colleges: university students are capable of bringing the Occupy movement to their own schools, even if it’s not feasible to attend a protest in one of the big cities in which the movement has taken root. The room’s general set up is also an important component to consider—allow for sufficient space and seating, and try to find a comfortable environment.

Acknowledge your social location. Coming to terms with our own sites of privilege and oppression in relation to the other unique experiences of Occupy Colleges, Occupy Wall Street and teach-in participants is necessary when attempting to organize a cohesive and balanced social movement. In an effort to avoid further oppression and the perpetuation of privilege within the Occupy movement, it’s not only essential to include a variety of perspectives in the teach-in but also for each student to be aware of their own intersections of race, class, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc. when organizing ideas and discussion topics.

Recruit informed, involved, and willing participants
. Seek out professors, students, and faculty members who will contribute accurately and effectively, and also challenge common misconceptions about the movement. Actively engaged individuals will provide interesting dialogue and increased awareness about Occupy Wall Street. Campus activists, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and researchers can simultaneously provide different and important perspectives and, in turn, spark mass interest.

Students shouldn’t hesitate to jump on the Occupy bandwagon and bring this social movement to their own campuses. These are issues worth fighting for and directly affect our futures as students, Americans, and members of the 99 percent. We’ve reached a point where we can no longer accept the false stereotypes of a “quiet generation”—there is nothing more important than participating in the largest demonstration of social change in our lives and contributing our own perspectives to the movement.


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C4D-Dynamics 101 and the Matrix Effect

Pixel Lab Training C4D

In this tutorial I’ll give a brief overview of dynamics, including a couple useful tips about it, and show you how to slow down time, ala the Matrix effect.

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      NICE! You do an amazing job of telling us what your doing without being confusing or taking all day to explain something. Much Apreciated.

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      This is super cool. Would you mind explaining how you made the splatter on the floor?

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      The splatter on the floor was super easy, done in After Effects. I brought in the footage to AE, but put a object buffer on the cubes, so I can have the ink behind/under them. Then I just made a mask with a big feather and had the mask scale up from zero to reveal the splatter quickly. I’ve also done that in C4D before, with the technique of using an alpha channel with grunge loaded on it. If you did that, you could put it on the floor, and then keyframe the texture so the scale goes from zero to 100 and the grunge would be revealed on the floor. Hope that helps! You can see the grunge technique here: https://www.thepixellab.net/cinema-4d-201-tutorial-adding-grunge-to-objects

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      Cool, thanks! I’ll give that a try. I haven’t done much with object buffers, but I should figure out how to use them.

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      Maybe I’ll have to make a quick tutorial on them! Thanks for checking out the site!

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All About Hand Sewing

Learn Hand Sewing Basics, Information and Projects

Hand sewing can be the quickest way to do quick mending chores. It can also be the best way to create "invisible" stitching so the sewing doesn't distract from the design of the garment. Learn how hand sew a variety of hand stitches so you can make quick repairs, invisible hems, decorative elements on anything and more, by following these links to easy to follow hand sewing information.

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    Hand sewing needles are not expensive, but the choices when you go to buy them can seem over whelming. Learn all about hand sewing needles so you can make an informed decision when you purchase hand sewing needles.
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    Sure you can poke the fabric and drag thread through layers of fabric to join it together... but will you be happy with how it looks when you are done? Hand sewing for different reasons requires different stitching techniques. Some are decorative stitches and others are constructive stitches for durability.
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    How to Sew Evenly Spaced Hand Stitches when Hand Sewing

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    When you sew with a sewing machine the stitches are all the same and evenly spaced. You can achieve the same uniform stitching with a little practice and this quick tip.

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    If you've ever tried to entertain a child when the power is out, you will understand the value of teaching them how to hand sew... in the car, on the beach... anywhere or ay time a sewing machine is not available.

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    How to knot hand sewing thread. Debbie Colgrove, Licensed to

    When you are hand sewing, you don't want the thread to slip through the fabric and you don't want a big lump of thread as a knot. Learn how to knot the end of a hand sewing thread.

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    An Assortment of Sewing Machine Presser Feet. Debbie Colgrove, Licensed to

    Threading a sewing needle can be a challenge when you need a needle with a small eye. There are tricks to make the process of threading a needles easier that you would expect!


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Fourth of July Cocktail Recipes and Patriotic Party Planning

How to Create a Red, White and Blue Cocktail Menu

Celebrate the Fourth of July with a Patriotic Drink Menu
Create a Red, White, and Blue cocktail menu for the Fourth of July!. Gregory Olsen / E+ / Getty Imges

The Fourth of July is the premier summer holiday in America and the day is filled with family, friends, fun, food, and fireworks. Of course, every great party needs a great drink or two and there is no shortage of fine cocktails for this occasion.

The Red, White, and Blue Cocktail Menu

One of my favorite ways to celebrate any occasion is to design a cocktail menu that fits the theme. It just so happens that the Fourth of July is one of the easiest to work with.

You can quickly and easily design a cocktail menu using the patriotic colors of the holiday: simply think "Red, White, and Blue."

You will find below just a few suggestions for cocktails of each color in a variety of styles. Whether you want to stick with short and neat martinis, served tall sippers or fire up the blender for frozen delights, there are colorful options available.

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Appleby College wins right to defend pot-smoking student’s expulsion

Private school to contest ruling that quashed expulsion of pot-smoking student.

Gautam Setias' expulsion in 2010 is still being contested in the courts.
Gautam Setias' expulsion in 2010 is still being contested in the courts.

The fight over a school’s decision to expel a student who smoked marijuana on campus during the last night of his graduation year is moving to the Ontario Court of Appeal.

A panel of three judges granted a motion on Friday to Appleby College of Oakville for leave to appeal a divisional court ruling that quashed the expulsion of student Gautam Setia. The appeal court did not provide reasons.

Appleby, a private international boarding school, had effectively expelled Setia in June 2010 for allegedly lighting up a bong with marijuana and then smoking it in a friend’s dormitory room as they celebrated the end of Grade 12.

His family sought a judicial review to get the prestigious Appleby diploma and cancel the expulsion. In a majority decision last November, a divisional court didn’t order Appleby to give the diploma but said the school should reconsider it; the court also quashed the expulsion.

The 102-year-old school, which has 725 students, filed a notice for leave to appeal on the grounds that the lower court erred by allowing a private school’s disciplinary decision to be subject to judicial review.

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Appleby argued the question of whether decisions concerning administration and discipline by private schools are subject to judicial review is a matter of public interest and importance which will affect the development of jurisprudence.

The legislature formed the private school in 1911 under a special act rather than under the Ontario Corporations Act. In their decision, the divisional court ruled that because of the special act, Appleby’s decisions are an act of statutory power and are subject to judicial review.

Setia, then 18, had attended the school since Grade 7 and posted good grades with no record of misconduct until the incident. Appleby did not give Setia’s parents a formal hearing regarding the punishment to their son, who admitted to smoking but not lighting the bong.

Under Appleby’s rules, lighting a bong on school property would mean mandatory expulsion but the divisional court said there was no evidence he did that. Smoking marijuana gave the school’s head a range of options, according to the court.

In addition to expelling him, Appleby barred Setia from graduation ceremonies and his name did not appear in the list of graduates in the school’s quarterly magazine. He still received his Ontario secondary-school diploma.


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Ontario’s LCBO should spend more on alcoholism prevention: Editorial

The Ontario Medical Association is right to call on the LCBO to spend more on programs to fight alcohol abuse.

Ontarians' appetite for alcohol is good for provincial revenue but there's a negative social and health impact.
Ontarians' appetite for alcohol is good for provincial revenue but there's a negative social and health impact.  (Dreamstime)

If there’s one business model that’s not hurt by slow economic times, it’s the government-owned Liquor Control Board of Ontario. Indeed the LCBO, as it’s fondly known, has just posted yet another year of record profits, pumping $1.71 billion into provincial coffers for education and health care.

That’s a huge benefit for a cash-strapped provincial government — but those spectacular profits would not exist if, well, Ontarians didn’t like their drink. And that’s why the Ontario Medical Association used the LCBO’s happy moment to suggest that it increase spending on education programs to limit alcohol abuse. However counterintuitive (at least for those stellar profits), Ontario’s doctors are right to demand better programs aimed at preventing alcohol-related problems such as liver disease, pancreatic damage and fetal alcohol disorder.

From binge drinking in youth to slow, steady alcoholism in adulthood, heavy booze consumption leads to a host of debilitating health problems that further financial strain the health system. Indeed, a new report by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health pegs the annual direct and indirect costs of alcohol use in Ontario at $2.9 billion. So, if Ontarians spent $4.89 billion on LCBO-provided wine, spirits and beer in 2012-13, then surely the agency should develop programs to at least try to control those urges — especially among young people.

To be fair, the LCBO does ongoing work on alcohol awareness, including a liaison with MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), a holiday taxi partnership, and publishing information cards for a provincial alcohol information hotline. Store staff last year also challenged 7.8 million customers who appeared either underage, already tipsy or were likely buying for a teen.

That’s all well and good. But Ontario’s doctors are seeking money for a targeted, scientific approach, including alcohol reduction programs that have been demonstrated, in trials, to limit consumption. LCBO posters like Prom Tips (“Alcohol is like your Parents. It doesn’t belong at your Prom”) don’t quite cut it among cynical teens of the day. Besides, most of their drinking is done before the dance.

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As a symbol of the corporate responsibility it promotes, the LCBO should adopt the OMA’s suggestions as its own. Consider it a call for moderation, to ensure that those profits keep rolling in.


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MENTION the name of Miloslav Mecir to those tennis aficionados of a certain age and there will be respectful sighs of appreciation. The player widely known as the Big Cat was one of great style and somebody who certainly deserves to figure prominently in any discussion of the most talented never to win a Grand Slam title.

The Czechoslovak player was somebody who finessed the ball rather than bludgeoned and possessed the ability of supreme court-coverage despite his size. Here in Paris they had their own special name for him: Le Prestidigitateur (The Conjuror).

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COLIN MONTGOMERIE has been on the ropes of late, a man battered by revelations about his private life and the very public break-up of his marriage. Yesterday, he sought refuge within the ropes instead and made what he considered “a new start” to his life, in the first round of the British Masters tournament at the Forest of Arden in Warwickshire. All things considered, it was a pretty impressive effort.

Montgomerie pulled out of a tournament in China last week when news of his marriage difficulties broke into the public domain and he admitted after a creditable level-par round of 72 yesterday that, while he had considered delaying his return to the competitive arena, he was glad that he had not done so.

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We need a national road safety campaign aimed at everyone, and fewer excuses.

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MAASive Lates is the new(ish) art after hours offering from the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, held at their flagship venue, the Powerhouse Museum. This edition of MAASive Lates is all about celebrating super heroes – to coincide with the exhibition The Art of the Brick: DC Comics, featuring comic-book creations by LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya.
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Duncan Wu finds drama in the smallest gesture in a finely nuanced account of an unexpected passion

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Starring Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain and Aure Atika

Released in the UK on 23 September

What makes a film "intelligent"? If the answer lies in a refusal to patronise its audience or an acute sensitivity to the nuances of human psychology, Mademoiselle Chambon fits the bill. Stéphane Brizé's film demands attentiveness and unabashed emotional engagement, because much of the drama is enacted with the smallest gesture - a glance or silence - rather than by speech. Indeed, the experience of watching this remarkable film makes one aware of how lesser film-makers than Brizé overuse language.

Freely adapted from Éric Holder's novel, the film tells the story of a builder, Jean, who lives contentedly with his wife and son in a French provincial town. One day he meets his son's teacher, Véronique Chambon, and falls in love with her. Vincent Lindon enacts this scene perfectly; he plays a contented man not given to adventuring or philandering, whose natural home is the building site, unexpectedly in the grip of a passion that will not release him.

Lindon is excellent not just in evincing surprise at emotions he has not previously experienced, but in articulating inarticulacy. Brizé shows him sitting alone, and by his skill as an actor - doing literally nothing - Lindon communicates all the confusion of a man whose life has not prepared him for a love awakened for the first time.

Sandrine Kiberlain is impressive as Véronique. Although more sophisticated than Jean, she is just as thrown by the emotions that spring up between them. There are a number of scenes in which she is shown at her flat, doing nothing other than pondering her emotional turmoil. It is a triumph not merely for the actress but for her director.

There is nothing pretentious about such understatement; indeed, it is all the more effective for being true to human experience. People sit alone in rooms all the time, reflecting on their lives - yet how often does one see it in films, or indeed any kind of drama? Mademoiselle Chambon is courageous not only for acknowledging such things as part of life, but for using them as drivers in its narrative.

Its theme will encourage comparisons with David Lean's Brief Encounter (1945), but Brizé's film could not be more different in style. Where Lean melodramatises, Brize eliminates theatrical elements as far as possible. It is no accident that Véronique has on her wall a poster illustrating the work of the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi, the tone of whose cool, low-key interiors the film incorporates.

And where the theatrical staging of Lean's film makes it seem over-enunciated, Brizé shoots at an oblique to the action, catching people's heads from behind, so that we are compelled to intuit their expressions and emotions. The act of reading this film becomes something close to our experience of life, in which we are often compelled to make judgements on the basis of what is glimpsed rather than presented full on.

This kind of film-making makes demands of an audience. Instead of handing us its characters' inner lives on a plate, Mademoiselle Chambon demands a similar kind of imaginative involvement to that which we are more used to giving to novels or poems. Perhaps that explains why it has taken so long to cross the Channel (it was made in 2009). All I can say is that rewards for the viewer are greater here than in films that treat us as if we were incapable of understanding anything without having it stated in triplicate.

You could argue that Mademoiselle Chambon tells a story we have heard many times over, echoing those of Emma Bovary and Lady Chatterley, to name but two. Yet there is nothing hackneyed about the way it is imparted. This film should be judged by the freshness and immediacy of the emotions it evokes in us, not the vintage of its plot. Its intensity of vision is a tribute to the expertise of its makers.

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