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Humphrey Bogart’s Secret

Stefan Kanfer’s biography gets what made him so great.

Tough Without a Gun.

The career of a Hollywood actor, like the lifespan of butterflies and replicants, is a tragically foreshortened thing these days. Nicholson, Duvall, and Hackman all hit their peak in their 40s; but George Clooney’s is about the only head of gray hair we are allowed to lay eyes on, and even he was pre-matured in television, currently the only known source of Authentic Stonewashed Masculinity. The days of actresses dreading 40 are long gone. These days, post-Gwyneth, 30 is the new watershed, the time by which you are supposed to have won your Oscar or must make way for the fresh batch of Mickey Mouse club graduates. Have you noticed how there are no “child” actors anymore? Or, rather, everyone is a child actor. Hathaway. Williams. Dunst. The Gyllenhaals. The Fannings. In the accelerated metabolism of today’s Hollywood, starting work at 11 is no longer anything unusual. It’s simply a good start.

All of which is another way of saying that the single most resonant fact in Stefan Kanfer’s Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart is that Bogart was 37 when he got his break in movies and 41 before he went over big with an audience. Already on his second marriage, the death of both parents under his belt, he was no wunderkind, with his lean smoker’s physique and receding gums that turned every smile into a grimace, “a map of distress” in Kanfer’s words. In Hollywood, faces are destiny; the first real sign that Kanfer is serious as a Bogart scholar—the only requisite qualification, really—is the amount of time he spends scanning that mug, with its fissures and fault lines and unexpectedly beautiful mouth. “It was very full, rosy, and perfectly modeled,” noted Louise Brooks, no slacker in that department herself. “To make it completely fascinating, at one corner of his upper lip a scarred quilted piece hung down in a tiny scallop.”

The stories vary as to how he got the scar—a blow from his father in a drunken rage, a scuffle with a prisoner during his time in the Navy, a passing U-boat shell—but it lent his voice its trademark lisp, which Bogart kept to a minimum by keeping his volume low. He never seemed to be speaking to more than one person, even when rattling off exposition. He’d spent most of his 20s playing upper-class twits in Broadway farces: the chap in the striped jacket and ducks who cleared the stage with a cry of “tennis anyone?”

To hardened Bogart fans the idea of Bogie in tennis whites seems like pre-drip Jackson Pollock, or Archimedes before his bath, but such casting was not necessarily stupid. As every biographer gets to point out, this toughest of tough guys was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, a Holden Caulfieldish wastrel raised on an Edwardian 55-acre estate with its own lake, and educated at Phillips in Andover, Mass., the oldest boarding school in the United States, where he topped off his school uniform with a black derby, thus giving him the appearance of a racetrack tout.

“The harder the screws are put on the better it will be for my son,” wrote his father, Belmont, to one headmaster exasperated by Humphrey’s plummeting grades, thus suggesting that if Belmont’s practice as a doctor ever fell through he could always have found work as a film critic; his son would spend his entire career having the screws put on him by everyone from Jack Warner to Sydney Greenstreet, all of them eventually finding that he came out of the experience better than they did, like tungsten steel. “He was devilish if he though you were a phoney,” Katharine Hepburn said. “Like a cat with a mouse, he’d never let you off.”*

The needling he picked up from his mother, a cold, critical woman who worked as a children’s book illustrator and who suffered from migraines and bawled out her children for the slightest misdemeanor. “Cruel as it may sound, Maud was not a woman one loved,” said Bogart upon her death. “For such was her drive, her singleness of purpose, that none of us could really get at her.” He could easily have been talking about his own bullet-like progress, both through scenes—nobody could hit their marks like Bogart—and also his marriages, a nonstop barrage of “bottles, dishes pots and pans,” until he met Lauren Bacall and enjoyed his first relationship that didn’t involve ducking the furniture.

He was on his third, to Mayo “Sluggy” Methot, when he got his break into movies, with The Petrified Forest(1936), by which time, Bogart’s years had begun to catch up with him. * At 37, he was beginning to doubt he had a career in movies. Perfect, in other words, for the hard-bitten fatalism of a condemned criminal on the run—”well built but stoop shouldered, with a vaguely thoughtful saturnine face,” as the script had it. Bogart had to grow into his face before the movies would have him. “Bogart was a medium-sized man,” said John Huston. “Not particularly impressive off screen.” Put him on camera, however, and “those lights and shadows organized themselves into another nobler personality, heroic.”

Bogart’s entire film career was to rest on a single, judiciously prolonged piece of miscasting: His stiff patrician bearing was slightly redundant when deployed in the service of patricians, but transplanted into the bodies of toughs, condemned men, and private eyes—the closest the modern world has to the knights of the round table—the result was a brand of hard-bitten, rueful integrity that fit the times like a glove. Caught between the hardships of the Great Depression and the heroism of the Second World War, audiences found both in Bogart, the hardship written on his face, the heroism carefully hidden so they got to find out something for themselves.

When Bogart is pinned down on a lonely mountain top at the climax of High Sierra(1941), only to be brought down by the crack of a rifle, something clicked with viewers, almost chiropractically. Nobody died like Bogart. Certainly, nobody died as often as Bogart. In his first 34 pictures he was shot in 12, electrocuted or hanged in eight, blasted out of the sky, killed by hand grenade, mauled by lion, and beheaded by Mexican bandits.

“We’re wrong in looking forward to death,” said Seneca. “Death is a master of all the years that are behind us.” Nobody came as close to embodying this as Bogart, who could literally look back on all the times he had died on-screen and whose essence, as first André Bazin and later Ken Tynan realized, was stoic: He endured. On-screen, he withstood the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, not in a spirit of masochism, but rather as his due, the price of a man’s course through the world. These days, we measure toughness by the damage dished out to others—by body counts and kill ratios. Bogart’s toughness was an inside job. “When a man is sick, you get to know him,” said the doctor who treated him for the cancer that finally brought him down. “You find out whether he’s made of soft wood or hard wood. I began to get fonder of Bogie with each visit. He was made of very hard wood indeed.”

Kanfer has sounded him out beautifully with this swift, smart, scrupulous book. It brims with insights no less piercing for the modesty with which they are framed. I loved the way he finds in Bacall’s relationship with Bogart—which began on the set of To Have and Have Notand continued, steadfastly, until his death in 1957 *—an echo of the oedipal comfort sought by an entire nation whose sons had just been sent to war and whose authority figures were, for the most part, father- or grandfather figures like General McArthur (64), George Marshall (64), Patton (59), and President Roosevelt (62). By this measure, Bogart shapes up as the “Ike” of movie actors. He was the grizzled paterfamilias, the old dog surrounded by young pups like Brando, Clift, and Dean, who emerged from the actor’s studio to bare their chests on behalf of a traumatized nation—the “scratch your ass and mumble” school of acting, Bogart called it. The old dog could still bark.

You could say he never stopped. Bogart is one of the few Hollywood actors recognizable entirely in silhouette—the true mark of an icon. Kanfer devotes two chapters to his extraordinary afterlife, eulogized by Jean-Luc Godard in Breathless, parodied by Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam, watched and rewatched by generations of Harvard students bracing for their exams and finding no better model of resilience than Sam Spade or Rick Blaine. In 2008, in an article entitled “Hollywood He Men Are Bumped by Sensitive Guys,” columnist Sharon Waxman used Bogart to beat up on an entire generation of current movie stars. Her attack sparked a rash of articles in which journalists tried to figure out why the muscled tree trunks of yesteryear had given way to the sprightly young metrosexuals like Tobey Maguire, Keanu Reeves, and Leonardo DiCaprio. “Impersonators don’t do Tobey Maguire or Brad Pitt or Leonardo Di Caprio or Christian Bale,” writes Kanfer, tellingly.

In large part this is a matter of shifting demographics, as Hollywood’s pursuit of an ever-younger audience, together with obeisance to new laws of movie physics inculcated by computer generated imagery, singles out the young and the lithe for combat. The rest of us can get on with the job of mourning the gradual erasure of lived experience from movie screens. Here’s something that’s almost gone from American movies: fate. A film like Inception, in so many ways the grandson of The Maltese Falcon, not least in its smoky femme fatale and noirish plotting, remains strangely unfogged by anything that would mess with those pristine snowscapes: blood, emotion, even death, which now becomes something reversible, an optional extra, something to be scrolled through in a menu and then redone, as if in some eternal video game in which the game is never over.

What lends singularity to Bogart’s films is the sense of irreversible actions, with moral consequences, being borne by a man standing as if waist-high in a river, braced by events. The action held him in place. Once things happened to him, they didn’t un-happen. He didn’t get a do-over. When he got slugged, he rubbed his jaw like a kid coming away from the dentist.  “When he sweated you could have wrung his shirt,” said François Truffaut, doubtless thinking of the first scene The Big Sleep, in which Marlowe comes across Major Sternwood in his hothouse, living off heat like a newborn spider, surrounded by orchids whose flesh so reminds him of the rotten sweetness of corruption.

“Why did you have to go on?” Lauren Bacall asks him.

“Too many people told me to stop,” he replies.

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Correction, Feb. 8, 2011: This article originally stated that Bacall and Bogart’s relationship began on the set of
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Corrections, Feb. 9, 2011: The piece originally misspelled Katharine Hepburn. (Return to the corrected sentence). It also referred to Mayo “Sluggy” Methot as Bogart’s second wife, rather than his third. (Return to the corrected sentence)


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The Lies, Exaggerations, and Obfuscations That Came Out of Trump’s Mouth While He Called the Media “Dishonest”

President Trump spouted false statistics while calling the media’s dishonesty “out of control.”

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The self-proclaimed “least anti-Semitic person you’ve ever seen,” who is also the “least racist person,” who is also the president of the United States, held a press conference on Thursday to inform the media that they are “fake news” and that their dishonesty is “out of control.”

“Many of our nation’s reporters and folks will not tell you the truth and will not treat the wonderful people of our country with the respect they deserve,” President Trump said at the outset of the briefing, whose ostensible purpose was to announce his new pick for secretary of labor. (It’s R. Alexander Acosta.) For that reason, he said, he felt it was necessary to address the American people directly.

What followed was a stunning display of Trump’s ability to lie, exaggerate, obfuscate, and mislead the public while insisting that it was actually the media who were doing all of those things.

Over the next hour and 15 minutes, Trump proceeded to berate the press for negative coverage of his administration, shout down reporters who asked questions that he deemed unfriendly, dismiss evidence that his campaign aides had contact with Russia as “fake news,” defend WikiLeaks while calling for a crackdown on leakers in his own White House, and complain that the country he inherited was “a mess.” He also lamented that “drugs are becoming cheaper than candy bars,” spouted a deeply misleading statistic about the federal court that blocked his immigration ban, maintained that the ban had a “very smooth rollout,” and falsely claimed that he had won the Electoral College by a larger margin than any president since Reagan. In response to a question from an Orthodox Jewish reporter about a wave of anti-Semitic attacks, Trump cut the reporter off, told him to sit down and be quiet, and called him a liar, while declaring himself “the least anti-Semitic person you have ever seen in your entire life.” Trump added that he is also “the least racist person.”

At the same time, Trump waved away the well-documented dishonesty of his own national security adviser, Michael Flynn, which led to Flynn’s resignation. Flynn “did nothing wrong” by calling Russia’s ambassador to discuss U.S. sanctions while Barack Obama was still president, Trump said. Rather, Trump has repeatedly blamed “the fake media” for treating Flynn “very, very unfairly.”

It’s the media’s dishonesty, Trump insisted again Thursday, that’s the real story here. Asked by CNN’s Jim Acosta how, if the leaks about his aides’ Russian contacts are real, Trump could call them “fake news,” Trump offered no evidence. But he reiterated that “the reporting is fake” and said he didn’t appreciate the negative tone of CNN’s coverage. “You know the word tone?’” he asked sarcastically. “I mean, it’s story after story after story is bad,” Trump said. “I won. I won.” Trump also objected to the use of the word chaos by someone on CNN to characterize the early days of his administration. “There’s zero chaos,” he said. “We are running, this is a fine-tuned machine.” His chief of staff Reince Priebus, Trump added, spends half his time “putting out lies by the press.” (The full exchange is here.)

Yet it was Trump who was caught in a blatant falsehood Thursday, when NBC’s Peter Alexander challenged him on his claim that his electoral-college victory was the largest since Reagan’s. And once again, his response revealed that he is only outraged by perceived falsehoods when they come from the media. You can watch his shoulder-shrugging, mealy-mouthed dismissal below.

Got that, American people? Straight from the president’s mouth. When Trump or his advisers say things that aren’t true, it’s not their fault; the real villains are the media who report on it.

“The public just doesn’t trust you people anymore,” Trump lectured CNN’s Acosta at one point on Thursday. Perhaps, but it wasn’t the “dishonest media” who mangled the truth Thursday. It was the dishonest man on the other side of the podium.

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Cloud based 3D-CAD

SLOWorks is now also started to use cloud based 3D-modelling software. The most biggest advantage to the customers is that now all can see and comment the same 3D-model, with browser or phone. Only internet connection is needed. There is no need to send anything through email or put pdf’s to cloud service and try to keep them updated when the models are revisioned elsewhere.


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Waveshare KitiBot Tracked Robot Building Kit for micro:bit

Regular price $199.95

This sturdy robot for the BBC micro:bit (included), boasts a sheet metal body and a recharge circuit for Li-ion batteries, as well as multi-coloured LEDs, stable line-following sensors, and a distance sensor mounted on a pan/tilt bracket. Oh, and did we mention it runs on tracks for navigating more interesting terrain?

Documentation and code examples are available here.

Note: this product requires one 18650 battery to work, which are NOT included and should be purchased separately.

  • Onboard connector for plugging in micro:bit
  • Integrates the MP2636 Li-ion battery charger with system boost, allowing charging of the battery whilst in use
  • Integrates the DW01+8205S Li-ion battery protection circuitry: reverse protection, over charge/discharge protection, over current protection, and short circuit protection
  • Integrates the TB6612FNG dual H bridge motor driver, which is high efficiency, and low heating
  • Integrates the PCA9685 PWM controller, micro:bit IO expansion
  • Integrates the TLC1543 AD acquisition chip, allows connection of multiple analog sensors to the micro:bit
  • Integrates 4x APA102 colorful LEDs, dual-line control, with no more conflicts between the WS2812B RGB LED and Bluetooth
  • Onboard buzzer to play music

  • micro:bit connector – for connecting micro:bit
  • MP2636 – power management, for both charging and boost discharging the battery
  • 8205S – dual N-Ch MOSFET, for circuit protection
  • DW01 – Li-ion battery protection charge/discharge protection
  • RT9193-33 – 3.3V voltage regulator, supplies power for micro:bit
  • MLT-8530 – buzzer
  • PCA9685 – PWM controller, micro:bit IO expansion, I2C interface
  • TB6612FNG – dual H bridge motor driver
  • TLC1543 – 10-bit AD acquisition chip, allows connect line tracking analog sensor to the micro:bit
  • APA102 – dual-line control RGB LED
  • 18650 battery holder
  • Power switch
  • Micro USB power interface – for charging the Li-ion battery
  • Indicators
    WARNING: Li-ion battery reverse warning
    CHG: charge mode
    BOOT: boost mode
    PWR: power
  • Module connectors (bottom side) – for connecting servo, ultrasonic module, line tracking module
  • Motor connectors (bottom side)

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Foot Traffic Ahead: Ranking Walkable Urbanism in America's Largest Metros

Foot Traffic Ahead

Walkable real estate development projects and places are on the rise nationwide, but certain metro regions are progressing faster than others, according to a new report released today by the Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis at George Washington University School of Business in conjunction with LOCUS: Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors, a program of Smart Growth America.

The report, Foot Traffic Ahead: Ranking Walkable Urbanism in America’s Largest Metros, ranks the country’s top 30 metropolitan areas based on the amount of commercial development in Walkable Urban Places (WalkUPs). The study finds higher education levels and one-third higher GDP per capita in high-ranking cities. Additionally, a series of forward-looking metrics examine the future development patterns in these metro areas to predict how walkable or how sprawling their future development is likely to be.

Major findings include:

  • The top ranking metros have an average of 38% higher GDP per capita as compared to the low ranking metros.
  • Office rent in urban WalkUPs rent at a 74% higher premium per square foot over drivable sub-urban areas.
  • Projections for which metros will contain the most walkable places in the future.

“In a sweeping survey of our nation’s top 30 metro areas, Foot Traffic Ahead reveals just how important Walkable Urban Places are,” said Chris Leinberger, president of LOCUS and author of the report. “As economic engines, as talent attractors, and as highly productive real estate, these WalkUPs are a crucial component in building and sustaining a thriving urban economy. Cities with more WalkUPs are positioned for success, now and in the future.”

“This is an important study underlining the economic power of walkable places, and identifying which metro areas are adding them fastest,” said Geoff Anderson, president and CEO of Smart Growth America. “Cities that want to thrive in our new economic and demographic realities will need to find ways to create and support more of these dynamic, productive walkable districts that are in high demand.”

While metro areas like Washington, DC, New York City, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago ranked among the top current areas for walkable urbanism, the report found that other cities including Miami, Atlanta and Detroit are well positioned for future growth of walkable places given current efforts in those the communities.

“Creating new Walkable Urban Places is a goal that elected officials and developers alike can get behind,” said Emerick Corsi, President, Forest City Real Estate Services and Development. “Based on the trends in Foot Traffic Ahead, there is the potential for market demand for tens of millions more square feet of walkable urban developmentand hundreds of new WalkUPsin America’s cities. Meeting that demand is an opportunity to create huge value for these communities.”


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Pipeline Integrity Management

Key to safe and efficient natural gas distribution

Pipeline integrity management (PIM) involves ensuring safe, reliable, spill-free and incident-free operation of natural gas pipelines. To ensure the integrity of pipelines, a city gas distribution (CGD) operator must constantly assess the risks that are associated with a pipeline and then devise risk mitigation programmes to offset them.

Need for a strong PIM system

The natural gas pipeline industry has seen a number of pipeline failures. These include major incidents such as the 2014 explosion at GAIL India Limited’s 18 inch underground gas pipeline at Nagaram in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. Such accidents result in tremendous loss of lives and property, besides disrupting gas supply to consumers. Thus, a strong PIM system is necessary to minimise the impact of pipeline failures on the lives of people and the environment.

Laying the right foundation

For setting up a PIM system, operators should begin by selecting the right pipeline route, and proper material for the mainline pipe and its associated pipe fittings. This should be followed by designing the station and the mainline in a suitable manner. Intricacies such as selecting a proper coating for the pipeline, adding the necessary safety equipment during pipeline design like valves, launching and receiving barrels, understanding the environmental and external factors causing risks to the pipeline and devising safety measures that are vital for laying a strong pipeline infrastructure should also be considered. For example, operating a pipeline in a desert involves a higher safety factor than operating a pipeline in an urban area, where the lower safety factor must be considered as failures in urban areas could be more perilous.

PIM process

The PIM process can be broadly classified into four steps:

  • Risk assessment and integrity management planning: Integrity management begins with assessing the various types of risks associated with pipeline operations using a risk matrix-based assessment method. Risk is calculated numerically as a product of the consequence of failure and the probability of failure of a pipeline. Any project that falls in the red zone of the risk assessment matrix is flagged off as a high-risk project and suitable mitigation measures are accordingly put in place.
  • Inspection, monitoring and testing: Once the risks have been assessed, the pipeline operator has to prepare an inspection plan for the pipeline. Based on the inspection plan, the operator defines the inspection, monitoring and testing processes needed for the pipeline.
  • Integrity assessment: Based on surveys such as direct current voltage gradient (DCVG) and current interruption potential survey (CIPS) undertaken by engineering auditors, the operator analyses the integrity of a pipeline.
  • Mitigation, intervention and repair: After the integrity of a pipeline has been assessed, it is checked if the pipeline can be operated within the specified parameters. If the integrity check identifies the need for any repair, then the operator repairs the pipeline and modifies its inspection plans accordingly.

Key threats to PIM

A number of physical threats including mechanical factors and material defects. can cause internal and external damage to pipelines. Some of the major threats are:

  • Corrosion, which leads to metal loss or cracking.
  • Mechanical damage to the pipeline, which causes fatigue, dents, gouges, buckles and third-party damage. For example, while laying a pipeline, other pipelines in the same right of way could get damaged.
  • Material defects such as those caused due to faulty manufacturing or welding/fabrication.
  • Other defects caused due to pilferage, wash-out, sabotage as well as miscellaneous operational errors.

Ensuring pipeline integrity

Ensuring pipeline integrity is a two-stage process. Under stage I, the operator has to select a proper design, and suitable material, and then undertake high quality construction of the pipeline. Once the pipeline has been laid, the operator must ensure smooth operation and regular maintenance of the same. To ensure integrity of their pipelines, operators can make use of the following tools:

  • Inline inspection: This is done by using a geometric tool such as a pipeline inspection gauge. The device collects data in the form of mechanical inputs, which can be used to detect anomalies, and identify the areas of corrosion and other defects in the pipeline.
  • Direct assessment: This includes directly assessing the pipeline using standard tests such as current attenuation test (CAT), DCVG, CIPS, bell hole inspection or pressure tests, which directly highlight the defect in the pipelines.
  • Socio-economic methods: Under this, an operator visits residential areas near the pipeline route and makes people aware of the risks associated with pipelines. This method can also help in identifying pilferage and illegal tapping. Residents may have constructive information, which may lead to the detection of natural gas thefts.
  • Other methods: Pipeline integrity can be managed by performing XYZ graph mapping, which shows the areas adjoining the main pipeline plotted on a graph so that the necessary risk mitigation measures can be taken to avoid any failures near residential or other sensitive areas. Optical fibre cable-based intrusion systems can also be used to detect any significant activity near the pipeline such as vehicular activity, drilling or walking near the pipeline. This allows the operator to assess any threats in real time. Other methods such as using corrosion coupons for checking external corrosion and electrical resistance probes for assessing internal corrosion can be used to detect corrosion in the pipeline.

As per the Vision 2030 document released by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board, the regulator is planning to have over 30,000 km of natural gas pipelines in the country at a design capacity of over 800 million metric standard cubic metres per day by 2030. A large part of this pipeline infrastructure is planned to be set up near residential areas, where the consequences of a pipeline failure could be very dangerous. With such large-scale pipeline infrastructure being planned, it becomes imperative for CGD operators across the country to maintain the integrity of pipelines on a continuous basis through a strong and robust PIM system.

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Mobile internet speeds up the Arab countries, but fixed broadband lags behind

  Lebanon, Egypt, and Oman all made gains for mobile internet speeds in August 2018, according to Ookla’s Global Index, which ranks mobile and fixed broadband speeds around the world. Yet, it is interesting that many of the Arab countries have improved mobile internet speed, but they rank lower in fixed broadband as Lebanon, Egypt […]

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Omani Activist Hassan al-Basham Passes Away in Prison

Social media activists are mourning the death of Hassan al-Basham, an Omani activist who died in Oman’s Samail Central Prison on April 28 after his health deteriorated. Al-Basham “defended prisoners of conscience…and carried out activities on the social in humanitarian levels,” according to a statement by the Omani Coalition for Human Rights, confirming the news […]

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Turning Laws into Data on Arab Digital Rights

  Have you ever wondered how many anti-cybercrime laws are in force in Arab countries? What about anti-terror laws? Or how many laws govern free expression online in a given country? Or whether your online privacy is protected? Or if some countries are leading the way with access to information or data protection legislation? Until earlier […]

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Digital Citizen 3.6

Digital Citizen is a biweekly review of news, policy, and research on human rights and technology in the Arab World. BAHRAIN On 11 August, Al-Wasat, the country’s only independent newspaper, resumedpublishing following a government ban that lasted a few days. The newspaper was suspended by the Information Affairs Authority on 6 August for its “repeated […]

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Everything We Know About Bandai’s 20th Anniversary Remake Of The Original Digimon V-Pet

Some time ago, Bandai Japan updated the official Digimon: Digital Monsters website to feature a countdown timer alongside an interesting graphic sporting both series mainstay Tyrannomon accompanied by the original V-Pet, released in 1997. The timer was obviously counting down to the re-release of the V-Pets we came to know and love in our youth. Not only was it the images that gave it away, but the long line of re-makes and re-releases that Bandai have been rolling out over the past year. Well today that timer finally hit zero, and with it came the reveal of what is indeed a pair of very exciting re-makes.

Now, I have spent a great deal of my day attempting to translate the onslaught of information that came with the announcement, but that is not the hardest feat I have attempted to accomplish today…it is this; relaying it to you all in an understandable and concise manner. Considering I do not read, write, or understand Japanese, I have had to use a series of translation applications to discover what is now in this article, but I wasn’t going to let that stop me!

Bandai will be releasing these items in two colours which will also represent two different versions: Brown, the version that will feature Agumon and it’s evolutionary chain, and Grey, the version that will feature Gabumon and it’s evolutionary chain. Both devices will allow Tamers (that’s you!) to raise Digimon from across all five of the originally-released V-Pet versions, with Agumon and Gabumon being the only exclusives.

After a Digimon passes on to the next life another Digi-Egg will appear, with every new generation of Digimon coming from a different type of egg. The style of egg will directly correlate with the Digimon that will be raisable. Example: A version one egg will produce Digimon from the version one release of the V-Pet. Simple.

Bandai have stated that there will be five special eggs that will be made available only after certain conditions are met. Of the five eggs, two have been revealed to contain the evolutionary lines of Hackmon and Dracomon respectively. Dracomon, as you may know, was released as a part of the franchise’s tenth anniversary, and Hackmon as a part of it’s fifteenth, so it only makes sense as to why they’d appear.

A third egg/Digimon was also greatly detailed, but I bet you’ve never heard of this one ever before: It’s name is Zubamon, and it has been created specifically to celebrate Digimon’s twentieth anniversary. It is a Rookie Digimon with the ability to transform into a weapon titled the Legend-Arms. This apocalyptic weapon could act as the key to the Digital World’s salvation…or it’s demise, and it is locked within the small frame of the newly-introduced Zubamon. Zubamon does indeed have it’s own evolutionary chain, but that is to be revealed in due time. As of right now, Bandai are choosing to keep it very much under lock and key.

Tamers can now raise two Digimon at once, with a new mechanic introduced that allows two Digimon to not only live together but to battle and, possibly, fuse with one another depending on the circumstances. Battles can now be fought, between friends or between yourself and the CPU, in one of two ways; single or double battle.

These double battles have been labelled “Tag Battles” and, as mentioned, if done enough times your two resident partner Digimon may indeed fuse to become one. Breakdramon, Slayerdramon, and Examon are just a few of the many fusion Digimon that can be unlocked thanks to this updated mechanic. Speaking of which; those with opposing versions of the V-Pet, meaning one with Agumon and the other with Gabumon, once at the stage of Mega can fuse to create Omnimon; arguably the most devastatingly powerful Digimon to exist.

Raising Digimon is now far easier and far quicker than the originals. When the V-Pet was first released it took one hour for a Baby to turn into an In-Training, two days to become a Rookie, four days to become a Champion and six days to become an Ultimate, with the Mega Digivolution not being made available at the time. With the re-makes it will take ten minutes for a Baby to become an In-Training, six hours to become a Rookie, twenty-four hours to become a Champion, thirty-six hours to become an Ultimate, and two days to become a Mega.

The Digimon of your friends can now be registered to your own Digivice to be battled against later. As well as this, you can register your own Digimon online to compete in the D-1 Gran Prix which. This, however, hasn’t been detailed too heavily by Bandai themselves so we should know more about this as we grow closer to the official release.

The 20th Anniversary Digimon V-Pet is now up for pre-order through the Bandai Premium webstore, click here, and will be shipped out on the 23rd of March. They are currently selling for 3,780 yen, and quantities are limited so if you’re living outside of Japan you has better jump on to your favourite proxy buyer now before all units are spoken for.

For more images and information, if you care to translate further yourself, can be obtained by going to the official Digimon website, which you can get to by Clicking Here.

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A short introductory Video from Siggraph of a successful attempt in creating holograms using Lasers. The "floating light Points" have been suitably dubbed "Plasma Voxels". As with 3D printing, a voxel representation for 3D data seems to be the best route for holograms as opposed to polygons.

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I love a good giveaway and am delighted to have found some bloggers with which I can team up to offer my readers some great prizes between the hours at the sewing machine.  And today I was fascinated by this offer – not just the ‘meaty' prizes and the $50 Amazon Card, but there is one thing about this Valentines offer that my husband would LOVE – DRY ICE.  Find out more and click through to the Rafflecopter to enter.

Welcome to the “Give Him Some” Giveaway, hosted by Stay a Stay at Home Mom and co-hosted by Mamal Diane and Mom to Bed by 8.

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Kay Young

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A watercolour painting of a snow leopard by artist Kay Young S.O.F.A.

  • medium: watercolour
  • size: 288mm x 288mm

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Responsibilities of a Chapter

  • Maintain a membership of a certain level or higher as set by the Board (currently 15 dues-paying members)
  • Hold at least three chapter meetings per year, at which at least six members are present. Maintain minutes of all meetings.
  • Have an annual fundraising plan and hold at least one fundraising event per year. Annual chapter fundraising goals are set at $1,000 a year, minimum.
  • Set goals on local issues and work to meet them

Chapters are also strongly encouraged to:

  • Increase membership by at least 5% every year
  • Allot at least one member to serve on SOCM’s standing committees during the first year, two for the second year, and three for the third and succeeding years
  • Encourage at least three members to attend the SOCM Annual Meeting
  • Follow an issue adoption process. At least six members must be willing to be active on an issue and at least one willing to provide leadership (i.e. call and chair meetings, etc.) on that issue before the chapter takes on the issue.

Chapter Leadership Positions

  • Helps schedule meetings and works with members to craft agenda
  • Facilitates meetings and sees that agenda is followed.
  • Assists in the delegation of tasks and supports the chapter’s work
  • Acts as a liaison to SOCM staff to coordinate activities
  • Serves as a contact for people to voice concerns
  • Seeks and assigns subcommittee chairs
  • Bottom line person (responsible for making sure the Chapter carries out its responsibilities such as fundraising and recruiting, and for making sure that other leaders are doing their jobs)
  • Ensures all members are heard that want to speak
  • Serves as a representative of the Chapter on the Board of Directors
  • Attends Board Meetings and is present on Board conference calls
  • Reports the results of Board meetings to the chapter
  • Discusses administrative and policy-related topics with the chapter
  • Brings Chapter concerns to the Board
  • Takes action if Chapter is not carrying out Board directives
  • Analyzes and takes action on outside requests for SOCM support from Chapter.  Responsible for bringing request to chapter and responding to request and alerting staff of decision
  • Works with staff to create and implement fundraising plan
  • Pulls together fundraising team and coordinates fundraising activities
  • Helps coordinate volunteers for phone-a-thons
  • Coordinates with the SOCM Director of Development and counterparts in other chapters during statewide fundraising campaigns
  • Responsible for meeting Chapter fundraising goal
  • Initiates phone tree for Chapter meetings and works to ensure high attendance of meetings
  • Works to recruit new members and coordinate membership drives for the Chapter
  • Aides in membership retention by reminding existing members to renew their dues
  • Identifies events with potential for recruiting and involving more people (tabling, conferences, etc.)
  • Relays names of new or potential members garnered at events to main office and follows up with new or potential members
  • Maintains supply of membership materials and distributes as needed to new or potential members
  • Relay any change in membership information to main office
  • Liaison to Communications Coordinator (CC) and works with CC on member communications and publicity for Chapter
  • Writes period blog posts about the Chapter to be published on the SOCM blog
  • Works with the CC and Organizers to write articles for E-News and The Sentinel or recruit potential writers for the articles
  • Works with CC on press releases and serves as local contact for the media
  • Serves as the Chapter’s media spokesperson
  • Helps craft social media marketing campaigns for the Chaper and coordinates with the CC to manage SOCM’s online presence
  • Keeps CC updated about upcoming events
  • Works with Chair and other coordinators on logistics for events that the Chapter hosts
  • Helps to delegate tasks to members to assist in the implementation of events
  • Recruits volunteers to work at Chapter events
  • Creates a budget for the event and provides copies of the budget to Chapter membership for approval

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Mission, Vision, Values

  • Your chapter should be committed to the broader vision of SOCM, not just a particular issue
  • Identify common goals among membership
  • Ensure all activities conform to SOCM’s organizational values

Issues, Strategies, Actions

  • Successful chapters are multi-issue and acknowledge the interconnectedness of problems facing our communities
  • Adopt an issue selection system to identify issues that members want to work on and focus efforts
  • Choose issues that build membership and advance the chapter’s long term efforts
  • Utilize direct action and public events to draw attention to your chapter, build support, and empower your community

Build Relationships

  • Always be working to build the chapter’s membership, ensuring intergenerational support and diverse backgrounds of members
  • Provide avenues for people of different skills and talents to contribute to the chapter’s work
  • Build a sense of community

Leadership Development

  • Always be working to build the chapter’s membership, ensuring intergenerational support and diverse backgrounds of members
  • Provide avenues for people of different skills and talents to contribute to the chapter’s work
  • Ensure young people of the chapter have the chance to take up leadership roles
  • Build a sense of community

  • Form a committee to develop your yearly fundraising plan and have the plan done by February of each year
  • Have consistent focus on raising money through membership drives, sales, and events
  • Be creative in designing your fundraising events
  • Utilize fundraising events to connect to the community and grow your membership

Commitment to Democracy

  • Being committed to democracy means being committed to giving everyone equal say in the activities and decisions of the chapter
  • Ensure that all voices are heard and respected
  • Try to come to a consensus in chapter decisions, avoiding majority votes if possible

Media Management and Communications

  • Develop efficient internal communication systems to keep members informed and active
  • Build relationships with local media representatives to get visibility for the chapter
  • Take advantage of modern technology to ease communications, especially social media tools
  • Become citizen journalists, utilizing Facebook, Twitter, and the SOCM blog to bypass traditional media

Research, Planning, and Measurement

  • Research issues and see where power lies
  • Develop strategies by examining successful case studies and best practices
  • Identify metrics to measure the success of campaigns and periodically evaluate the progress of the chapter’s work
  • Evaluate and learn along the way

Have Fun!

  • Make sure chapter meetings include a social element to build friendships between members
  • Provide opportunities for members to gather outside of formal meetings
  • Celebrate everyone’s efforts and contributions on a regular basis
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Poe, Ann Elizabeth
Birth: Friday, April 18, 1930 in Patuxent Beach, Maryland
Residence: Great Mills, Maryland
Death: Sunday, February 28, 2016 at the age of 85
Laid to Rest: Thursday, March 03, 2016 in the Charles Memorial Gardens, Leonardtown, Maryland
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Ann Elizabeth Poe, 85, of Great Mills, MD formerly from Patuxent Beach, MD passed away on February 28, 2016 at her home. Born on April 18, 1930 in Patuxent Beach, MD she was the daughter of the late Mazie Elizabeth Pilkerton Jones and John Hillary Jones of Patuxent Beach, MD.

Ann was the loving wife of the late Thomas Francis Poe whom she married on January 15, 1970 in Leonardtown, MD, and who preceded her in death on January 1, 2008.

Ann is survived by her children: Anthony William Albert (Sandi) of California, MD, Joseph Robert Albert of Hollywood, MD, Mary Ellen Albert of Great Mills, MD, Sandra Jaye Littleford (Jimmy) of Lusby, MD, James Robert Anthony Albert (Marina) of Leonardtown, MD, Ann Margaret Hills (Jay) of Great Mills, MD, 9 Grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren, and sister Cathrine Marie (Kitty) Lee.

She was preceded in death by her son; David Todd Poe, siblings; John Woodley Jones, Jean Francis Ashley, James Leon Jones, and Mary Lou O'Dell.

Ann worked for the Department of Social Services for St. Mary's County Government as a social Worker, retiring on April 30, 1992.

The family will receive friends on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 from 5:00PM - 8:00 PM with prayer recited at 7:00PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonardtown, MD. A Funeral Service will be held on Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 10:00 AM in the Funeral Home Chapel with Father Ray Schmidt officiating. Interment will follow in Charles Memorial Gardens, Leonardtown, MD.

Pallbearers will be: Robbie Albert, Nicholas Alioto, Ricky Clevland, William Farr, Daniel Alioto and Logan Bell Albert. Honorary Pallbearers will be Billy Schrader. Contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Mary's, P.O. Box 625, Leonardtown, MD 20650. Arrangements provided by Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home.
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Allan Furniss, Kenmore Bridge & Ben Lawers Loch Tay - 1940s watercolour painting

An original 1940s watercolour painting, Allan Furniss Kenmore Bridge & Ben Lawers, Loch Tay.

A striking painting produced in wartime Scotland, with a strong graphic quality that owes much to the art of the railway poster.

Unsigned. Inscribed lower left.
There are two vertical creases running down the paper, left of centre, plus some minor foxing to the margins.
18.5cm x 26.3cm.

This picture forms part of a collection of works that we have for sale by Allan Furniss dating from around the period 1938 to 1948. Focusing on the rural landscapes of southwest Scotland and the steam train lines that traverse them, these pictures owe much to the art of the railway poster, which, since the 1920s, had been an increasingly influential art form. Like railway posters, these works are images of high visual impact, employing elements of Art Deco, with stylised graphic crispness, photographic vantage points and inclusion of train locomotives, boats and buses. In 1940s Scotland the use of horse and cart was still commonplace, so these images represent the opening up of the nation’s more remote landscapes made newly accessible by rail. At the same time, they evoke a nostalgia for Britain’s countryside during wartime and its diminishing rural landscapes in the face of the rising tide of modernity.

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Your sexy little guide to finding the perfect outfits for your boudoir session

I want you to do a quick exercise with me, and think about your favorite photo of yourself. Go ahead.. I'll wait.

I bet when you think of that picture 2 things come to mind. You obviously like the way you looked that day but more importantly..

You remember the way you felt.

Like a frickin' bombshell. Ready to turn all the heads. Sexy. Happy. Maybe all of the above if you were having a REALLY good day;)

Well, the whole goal for your boudoir session with me is to create that same emotional connection with your photos. It may sound intimidating, but at the end of the day my job is to reunite you with your femininity, your sensuality, your sexuality, and your womanhood.

To help us get you to the point where you're confident and love every aspect of your figure (ok maybe that's a little bit of wishful thinking on my part), I've created this guide that will help you shop for the perfect pieces to buy.

Midsection Show-Off

  • Classic bra and panty set
  • Topless with denim shorts or fishnet stockings
  • Artistic nudes

things to consider

The style of panty you choose (g-strings are a no no! Thongs and cheekies are the best!) and what type of bra fits you the best. I know its tempting to pull out a bra you might wear every day – but try to look for something a little sexier, special. Something that is meant to be seen!

Mom boobs: Yep, I can say that because I'm rocking a pair myself... If this is an issue for you, SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT! Don't bring a sheer bra without support if you don't love the way your breasts look naturally.

Before you try on push-up bras (even if you’ve had a baby, lost weight or feel that you need a bit of a boost), look for demi cup bras, or underwire bras that offer strong support without adding too much size first. Good support is more important than padding any day.

If a great tush shot is on your list, I recommend panties that show just enough, but not too much. I prefer cheeky or Brazilian bottoms over thongs. Many teddies and body suits are cut in the back to show off some tush. Those are a great option too! (Please stay away from Gstrings – they don’t always flatter!)

We all want long gorgeous legs and even if you don’t have them, we can give the illusion that your legs are longer than they really are with a few simple tricks. Look for high cut undies, teddies, bodysuits. The higher the leg opening, the longer your legs will look. You can also bring a pair of nude heels which will add some length.

Contrary to popular belief, many women think that having a boudoir session means taking off all their clothes. This isn’t true!

If you consider yourself “curvy” or “modest” and feel more comfortable with less skin showing, this section is for you!

Arms are sometimes a concern for women. If this sounds like you, look for long sleeved body suits, lacy robes/dresses, or throw a crisp white button down over some killer lingerie. Presto - no worry needed.

If you’re worried about showing your stomach, there are some gorgeous shape wear options out there like bustiers and corsets that cinch the waistline and give support. You can also do a lace robe over a bra and panty set, a tank top with lacy cheekies, the list goes on and on…

Always stick with a style that will still show off your shape – like a bodysuit or a slip. The worst thing you can do is hide behind a lot of fabric – like a babydoll for example. More fabric will only make you look heavier than you actually are. We want to see your gorgeous shape no matter what you wear or how covered you are.

If you have a curvier waistline, a lacy bralette and panty set under a blazer is an option you might not have thought about. With posing guidance, it's easy to accentuate the smallest part of your waist in a blazer that is tapered in the middle and because there's very little under it, it's still sexy as hell.

Also, pairing pieces with accents such as the silver buttons on this boyfriend top with matching panties helps to accentuate the curves of your body.

There are so many different types of lingerie to choose from, and honestly before I started doing boudoir photography, I wasn't even familiar with all of them myself.

My first tip for you is to GET FITTED to make sure you are wearing the right size bra! (Most lingerie places do it for free, just ask!)

Do NOT be discouraged when you walk into Victoria's Secret and can't find a damn thing, because they offer a very limited selection for a very small genre of women. Instead, scroll down for links to some online store options (INCLUDING PLUS SIZES!!!)

TEDDY *NMB Favorite*

A teddy is a garment that covers the torso and crotch all in one, and is usually lacy. It is similar in style to a one-piece swimsuit or bodysuit but is typically more sheer and definitely sexier.

Corsets are meant to cinch your waist and give you killer curves. They usually have ties in the back that help create your shape, and might also have boning inside for a more sleek look. They are hard to put on, but I’ve got your back girl – I will help you!

A bustier is similar to a corset in coverage, but it has cups built in that give nice breast support. They don’t normally cinch the waist like corsets do, but there are some hybrid styles out there that combine a little waist cinching and breast lifting.

When shopping for these, proper fit is extremely important. Be careful of push up bras as they often make you look unnatural. Make sure the area near your armpit looks nice and smooth and you’re not coming out of the cups. (I highly recommend being fitted - Victoria’s Secret does it, just ask!)

A babydoll is a short, sleeveless, loose-fitting nightgown. It sometimes has formed cups called a bralette for cleavage with an attached, loose-fitting skirt. Normally, it falls in length between the upper thigh and the belly button.

Clothing is a fantastic option for boudoir! It might sound counterintuitive but think about what makes YOU feel sexy; ripped jeans and a sexy bra; off the shoulder sweaters; a sheer T-shirt. There are so many options for clothing that can be just as sexy, if not sexier, than lingerie.

You can also mix the two. Try a beautiful bra with a full skirt, a tank top with a lacy thong or high socks. You can definitely have fun and be creative!!

I recommend bringing at least one pair of black or nude heels with you. No ankle straps please!! If you want to bring more shoes, fantastic, but keep in mind that we may not use them.

Feel free to bring any jewelry you might want to wear. I can help you choose what looks nice with your outfit and what will flatter depending on the poses that you will be doing.

I HATE props. This session is about YOU. Your body, your features, your eyes, hair, skin. It's not about a fishing pole or a frickin poker set for God sake. If you are planning 1 or 2 photos as a gift for a significant other (because that's all they get! The rest are for YOU WOMAN!), bring a tie or a piece of jewelry you've been gifted. Less is more, remember that!

Try to stick with simple classic colors: Black, white, gray, nude. Complementary colors to offset your hair/eyes are also ok. For example, if you have green eyes, a deep purple will accentuate your eyes beautifully. Stay away from anything bright pink, turquoise, orange, bright red, bright green, etc.

Always bring more outfits with you than you plan to wear, this way we have options!

I also recommend bringing at least one outfit totally out of your comfort zone. You don’t have to wear it, but you just might want to!

I ALWAYS recommend visiting your local lingerie boutiques to get your lingerie. This way you can get help from knowledgeable ladies about what you should consider in their store. However, there are some gorgeous options for lingerie online- so here are a few that I recommend for their great selection and quality.

* REMEMBER* If you do decide to purchase online, make sure to order far enough ahead of time that you can return/replace the lingerie if it does not fit you correctly.

Bringing properly fitting outfits is key to achieving beautiful, sexy photos! The goal is to feel comfortable in what you have on, and let me take care of the rest. If you don't feel comfortable, it will show in your facial expressions and body language, and unfortunately that's not something I can fix.

If at any time you have questions or concerns about the outfits or wardrobe you are considering for your shoot, please don't hesitate to give me a call or drop me an email! I am always here to help.

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The Divine: A Play for Sarah Bernhardt

The Spatial Experience:

When I entered the room where the stage was, I found that I was pretty excited for the play to begin, the room was cool, and there were lots of people dressed up in formal clothing telling us where to sit. I was seated in the 2nd row, right in front of center stage. This made my experience wonderful because I felt fully immersed in the play, they actors and actresses were looking directly at me when what they were saying pertained to the audience. I also did not miss anything, being so close to the action. When the lights dimmed i could feel the anticipation in the room from me and all my friends that went to see it with me. It was cold in the room and we were ready for the play to get started. The auditorium's size was very large, however I was seated in the smaller front section of the theater, so it really didn't seem as large. The stage encompassed us on three sides. The room had great acoustics as well. The role place in the Good Life is to give us a perspective on how we live everyday. It helps shape our values and opinions, because opinions all tend to differ depending on where people are "standing" on an issue.

The Social Experience

I attended the performance with a couple of friends from my hall and who happen to be in the Good Life. I also went with my roommate as well. To get ready for the play I read the online study guide to get an idea what the play was about and learn who all was in the play. I also was interested in what the writer of the play's origin and passions were. I also put on a collared shirt, to look more formal at a play. Attending with friends made it much more meaningful. As we realized what the play was about and the seriousness of the subject, the little jokes and whispers stopped. Everyone realized that this was no subject to joke around with and it made the play more memorable for me. The role of experiencing things with friends is that it exposes people to different view points. The differing opinions helped shape my own opinions of the play, and gave me another way of looking at it. This can happen on a larger scale as well.

The Cultural and Intellectual Experience

The setting and time line gave a new perspective on how that area of history is a gloomy one that included lots of exploitation of children. Even though there is not much history to come out of Quebec during this time, it is a story that could be mirrored in many other big cities during this time period. The central issue addressed in this play was the manipulation and exploitation of children in poverty during this time period. I knew that during this time period child labor laws were not being enforced properly, and that poor children had a very tough life. The church rapes have been a plague on many denominations through the years, and is more of a side story in this play. However, this side story is a sad tale of what can happen when poor children are backed into a corner. It changed my views about how manufacturing regulations sometimes can be very intense and be more of a power grab. The exploitation of children, I now see, is the reason some of these regulations exist, to ensure that people are not exploited. Fortunately, the subject matter does not have many parallels to my life. I work for a family business where everyone does things legally and most of all, everyone working for the company is happy.

The Emotional Experience

The Divine: A Play for Sarah Bernhardt gives us a chance for Katharsis because it allows us to see the issues in life during this time period. The social issues displayed during this time can allow us to reflect on what is going wrong in our lives, and how we can help to fix it. We can help by bringing awareness to issues like the ones that this play brings about. It gives us a chance to "come clean" by cleansing our conscious of any guilt or misgivings we have.

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Keep your customers happy and loyal with an in-store Spark ATM
Keep your customers happy and loyal with an in-store Spark ATM

Key Benefits

ATMs have become an integral part in many businesses because they offer multiple benefits to the merchant and consumer, including:

  • Increased Sales

An ATM is a revenue-generating tool as customers spend a large portion of the withdrawn cash on the premises. Depending on the nature of the business, this amount can be between 20-80% of the cash.

  • Increased Footfall

Your premises become a destination simply because an ATM is hosted on site, thereby attracting increased footfall and patronage.

  • Cash Deposit Fee Savings

Treat the ATM as your own ‘mini-bank’ and recycle excess cash through the ATM, thereby saving on expensive bank deposit and cash handling fees. Whatever cash is dispensed by your ATM is reimbursed directly back into your nominated account without any fees.

  • Earn Rebate Income

We pay you a R1.00 rebate per ATM withdrawal. Your ATM is therefore a revenue-generating asset.

  • Reduce Credit and Debit Card Fees

By promoting the use of cash in your business, you can reduce your credit and debit card processing fees, thereby also reducing cheque-related fraud, dishonored cheques and credit card charge-backs.

  • Customer Service

Customers like to have access to their cash in a familiar, safe ATM environment. By providing your customers with this service, you will keep them satisfied, earn their loyalty and ensure they don’t go to your competitors for this service

  • Marketing

The ATM receipt and colour screen offers an ideal opportunity to promote your latest promotion or advertising campaign

* Statistical information obtained from Harris International Marketing Consumer Tracking Programme.


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Get better familiarized with the tools you depend on to make you productive. We'll cover tricks unique to jQuery development and techniques for faster iterations within your team, through collaborative debugging.

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Monday, 12.11.2018

Dominant Celtic strike on the counter against Rangers

Steven Gerrard’s Rangers suffered their first loss together at the hands of city rivals Celtic in his first dugout duel with Brendan Rodgers. A stubborn defensive display in the first half was followed by an altogether more expansive game in the second, though ultimately Celtic’s relentless pressure saw them record yet another victory against the Ibrox side.

Congestion on the flank

Basic first half formations

Rangers’ compact, lop-sided 4-5-1 midfield block creaked slightly under Celtic’s first half pressure without breaking, keeping the champions off the scoresheet before the break. Not unlike their defensive scheme away to Maribor, they sought to force the hosts to the flank before blocking their progression there with intense and compact defending. However, the inclusion of Kyle Lafferty saw Gerrard mimic Rodgers in employing an asymmetric system, with the former Hearts man fulfilling a considerably different role than his right-sided counterpart Ryan Kent.

Kent’s presence and strong ability to threaten interceptions with his clever reading of opponents and excellent acceleration made it difficult for Celtic to integrate Tierney effectively, or indeed safely, in the early stages. The timing of the left back’s advances often took him away from positions where he could receive the ball to feet, even with Olivier Ntcham dropping out to bridge the gap to left centre back Ajer. This weak connection to the flank risked conceding dangerous counter attacks after ball losses in midfield, or even in moments of high pressing from the guests, though such scenarios rarely materialised.

Using Tierney more directly as a depth option was similarly problematic. Callum McGregor’s typical movements from left wing see him play almost exclusively between the lines, as opposed to the benched Scott Sinclair. As such, depth in the left flank was given almost exclusively by Tierney, with Edouard occasionally spinning in behind. However, with Scott Arfield blocking routes to McGregor effectively through his cover shadow, Tavernier was not so strongly compelled to follow the Celtic midfielder as he dropped in off the back line. The Rangers captain was therefore able to hedge his positioning more strongly towards depth balls, making progression for Celtic down the flank exceedingly difficult.

Furthermore, the hosts were largely unable to break through the left with combination play. Of course, this Celtic team is not noted for their strength in this regard, but with Arfield stepping forwards towards the ball-carrier on the left flank to maximise his cover shadow, combined with Tavernier readily stepping back to cover depth, there was opportunity for Brendan Rodgers’ side to play in the space between the two, and launch attacks from there. Indeed, in Edouard and McGregor they had two players around these areas who excel in accelerating play to facilitate the breaking through of an opponent’s back line. However, without consistent and coordinated depth runs to push the defensive line back, they struggled to open this space enough to use it with any great regularity.

Ajer’s aggressive dribble pins Arfield, while McGregor’s space-opening movement allows for Edouard to be introduced between the lines, where he can break through the Rangers midfield. Meanwhile, Tierney and McGregor’s spacing reduces Tavernier’s coverage of potential passing options. Despite the chipped layoff, Celtic create an opening through the free Tierney, leading to Edouard’s good chance.

Despite their massive domination of possession and territory, the result of this congestion down the Rangers right was a procession of slow Celtic attacks, punctuated by the occasional switch to bring Forrest and Rogic into play. This brought Celtic often to the final third, though their attacks typically ended in long shots, set pieces, and crosses against a packed and ready Rangers defence.

Dual roles

Meanwhile Lafferty was positioned distinctly higher on the left. From here he acted almost as auxiliary striker, moving with Morelos to cover the centre as the Colombian pressed on the right, whilst also closing down Lustig when Celtic try to play out through their situational back three. With Celtic’s double pivot of Ntcham and Brown typically so instrumental in their founding of stable possession, Lafferty’s dual role was a way for Steven Gerrard to try to ensure his side were not carved open through the centre.

As well as lightening Morelos’ workload in pressing Celtic’s first line build-up, Lafferty’s pressure from the left served to further direct play towards the well-guarded right. Though this opened up the Rangers left side somewhat, Celtic’s structures and dynamics in possession did not allow them to exploit the larger spaces. With the exception of James Forrest’s diagonal dribbling, the home side had little presence in the right halfspace, as Tom Rogic pushed more towards the right flank. Though the Australian brought Celtic to the final third now and then with his remarkable close control, often evading the attentions of multiple opponents, these situations were difficult to convert into concrete advantages.

Rogic’s central positioning demands the attention of Ejaria and Jack, opening more direct routes diagonally through the middle. If Tierney reads this sooner, Celtic can break through with a dangerous overload on the left side.

Along with diligent backwards pressing from Lafferty, this was in part down to the pressing of Ejaria. With Rogic moving mostly away from the middle, there was little for the on-loan Liverpool midfielder to protect as the left of three central midfielders. This allowed him to act independently from Ryan Jack in a more wide-reaching way, oftentimes as a nominal left midfielder in a situational 4-4-2. From that position he had much better access not only to Rogic, but also to Forrest on the flank, allowing Rangers to congest the right flank just as they did the left.

The deeper and quite passive positioning of Lustig offered some potentially interesting solutions, especially through the pressure it drew from Lafferty, had Celtic occupied the Rangers midfield more effectively. A central Rogic would either prevent Ejaria from moving out to press Forrest, while the Celtic winger’s positioning in line with the Rangers midfield could take him away from Barisic or open large spaces behind the defensive line if the fullback followed him. Cover from Jack would invite quick switches or diagonal actions towards McGregor and Tierney.

Deep eights and counter attacks

While Rangers’ approach with the ball in the first half was somewhat one dimensional, with direct balls to a largely unsupported Lafferty preferred to more stable build-up play through Jack, Gerrard’s tweaks in the second half saw the guests improve in this regard. The deeper positioning of Ejaria and Arfield gave Rangers an even stronger presence in those areas, making stable build-up a less risky and more viable option.

Additionally, with Celtic’s man-orientations in their higher pressing, Brown and Ntcham were frequently pulled away from their defensive line. In the increased space between the lines, Kent was able to move intelligently inwards to receive and attack the defence directly, while Lafferty’s hold-up play was able to be more effective without Brown immediately shutting him down from the front.

Katic dribbling past Rogic brings him onto the midfield line, where he can punch through with a straightforward pass to Barisic – now free from the attention of Forrest. Lafferty’s positioning pins Lustig and Boyata, further opening the position for Rangers.

Meanwhile on the flanks, Rangers were finally able to introduce some of their wing play, though without the usual sophistication and variety. When not found directly, the left side was ably served by Katic dribbling by Rogic before pinning Forrest and playing into Barisic. Lafferty in these moments timed his movement well, staying on Lustig to dissuade the Swedish fullback from jumping onto Barisic, before peeling away to arrive in the box as his teammate received the ball.

From these wide progressions, Rangers primarily looked for crosses, often from deep. Celtic dealt with these comfortably for the most part, with Boyata particularly effective in clearing the box, and ultimately it was the Hoops who benefited most from Rangers’ more aggressive wing play. With Kent and Lafferty playing more centrally in the final third, Gerrard’s fullbacks were largely responsible to hold down their flanks. This saw the far fullback push up as his counterpart delivered crosses, to pick up short clearances or overhit deliveries, thus continuing the attack. However, committing both fullbacks forward was only covered by the two centre backs and one player protecting the space between the box and halfway line.

With such a sparse rest-defence, it came as no surprise that Celtic were able to launch counter attacks without much resistance. To expect Ryan Jack to prevent counter attacks from forming across the whole width of the pitch against a team of Celtic’s calibre is extremely ambitious at best. For comparison, in almost all of Celtic’s games under Rodgers they have operated with a 1-3 rest-defence, with Brown and two others patrolling entry to the middle third. Meanwhile, Thomas Tuchel mentioned that during his time at Dortmund he felt five players were required for an adequate rest-defence.

An assured victory at an important moment for Brendan Rodgers’ side. That Celtic did not win by a greater margin speaks to the performance of Alan McGregor in the Rangers goal, as well as the strong penalty box defending against an unrelenting stream of crosses and corners. Indeed, such was their dominance in the first half that it is perhaps surprising that their only goal came in the second.

Perhaps most significantly, Celtic’s typically high-level performance along with Rangers’ clear tactical plan in the first half and prudent adjustments in the second go to show the development of tactics and strategy in the Scottish game. The effect Brendan Rodgers has had on Scottish football extends further than a widening of Celtic’s trophy cabinet. More and more teams are looking for, and in some cases finding, creative tactical solutions to contain and beat the champions. Hopefully the benefits of a more tactically developed domestic league will translate to the national team. Sooner rather than later.

Leen September 6, 2018 um 1:56 am

What he says is absolutely correct if your an employee of Sky who have backed a Sevco revival with, rangers legend souness being interview before the match and no Celtic legend?? Every break had Sevco scoring goals through ladbrokes adverts , no sign of Celtic either. Nicholas also had a second stint for us and was mince and we couldn’t lay a glove on the huns, so he knows how McGregor and Lafferty feel, but he doesn’t want that brought up!!☘

AC October 24, 2018 um 5:23 pm

‘Leen’. What an incoherent rant. Typical.

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In todays NFL there are two types of tight ends; glorified receivers, and mini offensive linemen (and of course former basketball players). On a rare occasion, there will be a player that completely changes this notion by combining those two prototypes. Rob Gronkowski, Travis Kelce, Tony Gonzalez, Jason Witten, and Greg Olsen are examples of elite tight-ends that fit both of these molds. Now it’s time to add 49ers sophomore George Kittle to that list.

At the University of Iowa, George Kittle was primarily used as a blocking tight end. Iowa mishandling Kittle’s skills helped him fall all the way to the fifth round. Not only did 49ers general manager John Lynch take a chance on the tight end that could block, but he also took the opportunity at a player with one of the best combine showings ever at his position. Kittle ran a 4.52 40-yard-dash (for reference, DeAndre Hopkins ran a 4.57), jumped 132 inches on his broad jump, accomplished a 35-inch vertical leap, put up 18 reps on a 225-pound bench press, all while being measured at 6’4″ and nearly 250 pounds. These absurd numbers are just a preview of how good Kittle can be.
Through the first half of the 2018 NFL season, Kittle is establishing himself as one of the best tight ends in the NFL. Putting up some massive numbers. He’s second in the entire NFL (not just tight ends) in yards after the catch with 367, putting him ahead of everybody not named Saquon Barkley. He’s third in the NFL for tight ends in first down catches with 27. Third in yards for a tight-end with 584, while he also has two touchdowns. He does all of this while boasting a 64.91 catch percentage. What makes those stats even more impressive? Jimmy Garoppolo hasn’t played since week four.
So just how has Kittle been so good?
Kittle is the perfect Y tight-end for Kyle Shanahan’s scheme. For Shanahan’s playbook to work to its full potential, a tight end that can run a large route tree was needed. Shanahan needs a tight-end that could command the middle of the field, not only for his gain but to enable Marquise Goodwin and Dante Pettis to take the top off the defense. Kittles height and athletic abilities mix perfectly with that scheme as Kittle has been featured in many looks that send him far from the line of scrimmage. When Kittle plays near the line of scrimmage, he’s just as effective. Per Samuel Gold, most of Kittles targets are on outside routes near the line of scrimmage, which are two to five-yard routes. Kittle averages 9.6 yards per catch on these routes. On dig routes, he averages 14.6 yards per catch. Those are just two of Kittles routes based on his route tree, he has shown that he can catch screens for significant gains (15.4 yards per catch), and his seam routes (go route in the middle of the field) are second to none, which I will get to later.
To kick off this film review of a tight-end, an 82-yard scamper to the end zone seems (seams?) appropriate.
Notice how Kittle attacks the seam here. The Chargers are in a cover-three look, essentially meaning that the safety Jahleel Addae (No. 37) must focus on Kittle running the seam. Addae does just that, but Shanahan and Kittle knew that would happen, so Kittle runs a nod stem to fake Addae into leaving that area. Kittle executes this perfectly, selling a deep out route, then quickly cutting back in to take advantage of the open space. After Kittle catches the ball in open space, he shows off that 4.52 speed by blazing past defensive backs for an 82-yard touchdown. The play by Shanahan was fantastic, but Kittles quick route-running as a tight end and sharp timing made this play work to its full potential.
This next play showcases Kittle playing as a de-facto receiver. He moves from the tight end position all the way to the left side of the field in a bunch formation as the outside receiver. The Cardinals are in cover-two (two deep safeties, underneath coverage by cornerbacks, outside linebackers, middle zone drop by the linebacker), Kittle runs a 12-yard dig (inside cut) route to attack the middle of the field that was vacant. The center of the field was so empty because the Cardinals sent a four-man blitz with a linebacker in man coverage to contain the running back.
Watch Kittle blow past defensive backs, and leave them looking for answers on a delayed inside cut. His speed is scary. Defensive coordinators should always keep a linebacker posted in the middle of the field to contain him.
Kittle can undoubtedly attack the soft spots of various zone coverages, but he also excels in beating linebackers in man coverage. On this next play, the Rams are running cover-two-man (two deep safeties, everyone else in man). Kittle is faced opposite of Cory Littleton, and he makes a fool of that matchup. Notice how runs a shorter dig-route on this play. He rubs close to Cory Littleton, then cuts inside. That rub-cut forces Littleton into thinking Kittle is running a curl route (obvious to tell when Littleton sits there thinking Kittle is behind him). Instead, Kittle just keeps running that dig. Whether or not that dig was planned is up to Shanahan, but Kittle does an excellent job of selling something completely different to get into open space and run an extra 22 yards for a 35 yard gain.
While Kittle is a fantastic player with the ball in his hands, his route-running also happens to be some of the best in the NFL at the tight end position. Note the play below. Kittle is running a slant route to expose the soft spot in zone coverage. He plans on beating the pressed linebacker with a quick in’n’out cut, but, he slips. Despite Kittle slipping, he quickly gets his right foot outside then proceeds to run the slant route for a first down. Not a regular play, but still impressive.
Now let’s look at a play where the field is a little less slick to fully show off Kittle’s route running abilities. Of course, this is another slant route. I swear I don’t have a thing for slant and dig routes, Kittle just runs a lot of them.
Notice how Kittle uses a lunging jab with his right foot to shake safety Quandre Diggs (No. 28). A lot of tight ends aren’t as nimble as Kittle to make this type of cut, but Kittle is not like most tight ends. Those type of cuts and quick burst route running allow for Kittle to separate himself from the pack of other receiving tight ends.
This is the last play in which I showcase Kittle’s abilities as a receiver. This is a screen directly to Kittle. The play should be engrained to opposing defensive coordinators as not many tight-ends (if any) can do what Kittle does here.

Kittle sells the block to seal the edge, then subtly turns around to catch the screen. After that, he reads his blocks correctly and bursts through them for a considerable gain. This was a fantastic play call from Kyle Shanahan.

While Kittle is one of the best tight ends in the NFL both before and after the catch, he’s not a one-trick pony. George Kittle is a big reason why the 49ers are sixth in the NFL in rushing yards per game with 133.6 yards per game. Not only is Kittle a sound run-blocker using great positioning, but he also gives so much effort into plays when that effort isn’t even needed. His ability to block and be one of the best receiving tight ends in the NFL make him a top-five talent at his position, and a focal point for the 49ers offense.
During this crafty play by Kyle Shanahan, neither Matt Breida (No. 22, the sweeping player that actually ran the ball) nor Dante Pettis (No. 18, a wide receiver who lined up as a back) is the focal point of this play (crazy right?). Kittle is. Even though Kittle doesn’t touch the ball, his block to seal the edge is essential to make this play work, if he can’t perform this block the play is most likely a minimal to loss of yards outcome.
Watch Kittle’s positioning on this play. Instead of immediately attacking the C gap (between himself and the tackle), Kittle remains patient to let Joe Staley attack the C gap on the outside zone run. While Kittle waits, he remains in a strong position to use his legs to retain the block. Once cornerback Jamal Agnew comes to make the play in the backfield, he is immediately met by Kittle with momentum. Not only was Kittle in excellent form, but he was aware of scanning the gap assignments to help the run nearly get to the end zone.
Notice this next play where Kittle seals the edge along with fullback Kyle Juszczyk (No. 44). He stands firmly with his block against Josh Bynes (No. 57). Which lets him deliver a great block. Despite the stable block, Tre Boston and Budda Baker were quickly able to sniff out the play.
George Kittle isn’t just a fantastic blocker because of his positioning and football intelligence. He’s a great blocker because he puts everything he has into his blocks, forcing defenders downfield to never allow them to make a play near the line of scrimmage. This play below is a quality example of that notion.
Watch how he rams safety Antoine Bethea (No. 41) all the way into the end zone. You don’t see that type of energy and willingness from skilled receiving tight ends. That willingness to make those blocks is what makes Kittle such a fantastic player. This a clean, legal block that most tight ends wish they could execute.
Like most second-year players, Kittle has some things to work on. At times he can drag his feet while running routes. He also has a few dropped balls on the year. To combine with those two habits, he needs to learn how to come back to a bad pass. These things can each easily be improved on as they are just bad habits that he gained before playing for the 49ers.
So what do you get when you combine an athletic marvel of a tight end with the willingness to play anywhere and a creative head coach in Kyle Shanahan? A top five tight-end on a rookie contract. Not only is George Kittle putting up great statistics for the 49ers, but he’s also improving their run game with his energy and strength. He’s a polished albeit not perfect player in only his second year in the NFL. I’d like to see Kittle utilized more on short yardage touchdown situations, but currently, I don’t believe that C.J. Beathard has the touch to get the ball to a jumping George Kittle. Despite that, Kittle will continue to get better and dominate the middle of the field for the 49ers. I hope you are as excited as I am about the future of the 49ers offense.
-Avery Duncan *shout out to u/GeorgeKitleHypeTrain for inspiring this story*
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Cowboys Cut Longtime Kicker Dan Bailey

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Cowboys Cut Longtime Kicker Dan Bailey
Cowboys Cut Longtime Kicker Dan Bailey

The Dallas Cowboys released longtime starting kicker Dan Bailey as the team trimmed its roster to reach the 53-man limit on Saturday.

Bailey, who went undrafted out of Oklahoma State in 2011, played seven full seasons with Dallas. The 30-year-old has connected on 88.2% of his career field-goal attempts, marking the second-most accurate figure in NFL history.

Last season, Bailey made 15-of-20 field-goal attempts, appearing in 12 games while dealing with back and groin injuries.

Bailey was owed a base salary of $3.4 million each of the next three seasons, according to Dallas Morning News' Brandon George. In 2014, Bailey had signed a seven-year, $22.5 million contract.

The Cowboys retained the services of kicker Brett Maher. In April, Dallas signed Maher, who had spent most of his professional career in the Canadian Football League after going undrafted out of Nebraska in 2013. Maher had a brief stint with the Cleveland Browns last season, but did not appear in a game.

Maher also doubles as a punter. Maher kicked only two field goals this preseason, both during the Cowboys' finale. He made each attempt, hitting from 57 and 41 yards out.

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Can Manchester United disrupt Watford’s perfect start?

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Watford made history when they beat Tottenham in the last round. It was not only the best ever start to a season for ‘The Eagles’ but was also the first time three Premier League clubs have been perfect after four rounds. Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United comes to Vicarage Road to try and stop Watford’s impressive winning streak.

Kick-off: Saturday, 15th September, 18:30 CET

Venue: Vicarage Road, Watford

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United come into this game following a much-needed victory on the road at Burnley, courtesy of two Romelu Lukaku strikes. The win calmed the nerves of many Red Devils supporters, who were getting tired of Mourinho’s antics and anxious to see their team play well. Now, it’s off to Watford, where the perfect Eagles await.

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Javi Gracia is doing his best Claudio Ranieri impression. None of us saw this coming, but there were signs that something like this may occur in the pre-season, where Watford won three and drew two games, losing none. They’ve managed to squeeze in a cup victory against Reading in between those four PL victories as well. Gracia’s players come into this fixture riding a hot wave, although it certainly cooled down a bit following the international break of which is notorious for disrupting club teams’ rhythm.

Manchester United Team News

Jose Mourinho will be without Marcus Rashford, who received a three-game ban following his red card against Burnley. Luke Shaw suffered a severe concussion after taking a massive blow to the head from Dani Carvajal in international play. He’s out as well, and so is Phil Jones. Marcos Rojo and Marouane Fellaini are questionable, whereas Diogo Dalot is not match-fit, but should be available from the bench.

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Javi Gracia should have Gerard Deulofeu back. The same can’t be said about Younes Kaboul and Tom Cleverley, who is out for the foreseeable future.

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Taking on Manchester United will not be easy. Watford lost both matches against Saturday’s opponent last season but did win their home fixture a season prior in what was their first victory against United since 1986. 1986 was also the year these two shared the spoils last time. There hasn’t been a single draw in the last 16 editions of this encounter. At home, Watford has lost only twice in their last 12 league games (W7, D3, L2).

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Watford 4.33 (10/3)

Draw 3.6 (13/5)

Manchester United 1.95 (10/11)

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