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Why I’m Looking Forward to the Cetis 2014 Conference

About the CETIS 2014 Conference

Audrey Waters will speak at the Cetis conferenceThis year’s Cetis conference, Cetis 2014, will be held at the University of Bolton on 17-18 June. The theme of this year’s event is “Building the Digital Institution“. As described on the conference web site:

This year’s conference focuses on the digital institution and explores how technology innovation can support and develop every aspect of university and college life, for teachers and learners, researchers and developers, service directors and senior managers.

In this post I will summarise the reasons why I am looking forward to the conference.

The Keynote Talks

There will be two keynote presentations at the conference. Phil Richards, the Chief Innovation Officer at Jisc, will open the conference and the conference will close with a talk by Audrey Watters, Education and Technology Journalist.

If you’ve not come acriss either of these speakers before you may like to watch video recordings of the speakers.

A few days ago Phil Richards facilitated a workshop session on Digital approaches to smarter working  and in this video interview he summarises the workshop and shares some ideas generated about how Jisc could work with universities.

Audrey Watters is described as “a journalist, a high school dropout, and a PhD dropout — though she did complete a Master’s degree in Folklore. As a freelancer writing about educational technology, her stories have appeared on NPR/KQED’s MindShift blog, in O’Reilly Radar, on Inside Higher Ed, in The School Library Journal, on ReadWriteWeb, and in the Edutopia blog”.

Last November Audrey gave a keynote talk on the second day of the Open Education Conference. I have to admit that I’d not heard of Audrey before but when I came across a tweet from Dave Kernohan, Jisc in which he told us to “STOP EVERYTHING .. #CETIS14 @audreywaters is keynote” I was intrigued. I therefore watched the recording of her talk which is available on YouTube and is embedded below.

The Parallel Sessions

The keynote talks at the conference will be worth listening to. But, for me, the parallel session at Cetis conferences provide the opportunity for greater interaction and discussions. This year there will be two sets of parallel sessions. On  Tuesday 17th June from 13.20-16.50 there will be sessions on

The next day, Wednesday 18th June, the following sessions will run from 09.15-12.45:

Unfortunately as I’ve agree to be involved with sessions on both days (Open Knowledge: Wikipedia and Beyond and Building an Accessible Digital Institution) I won’t be able to attend any other sessions. On the first day I would have liked to attend the sessions on Developing a Learning Analytics Strategy for a HEI (in light of my involvement with the LACE project) and to have address the question Open Education: a New World Order?. The sessions on Web Services or Cloud, Open Source or outsourced? (“..how we revamp our IT procurement processes in an environment where “build vs buy” looks quaint and simplistic given the range of options we now have to weigh up“) and Open Education: from Open Practice to Open Policy  on the second day also look interesting.

The Old Man and Scythe

Ye Olde Man and Scythe.
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Opportunities to Network

Having opportunities to develop and maintain one’s professional networks is always important at conferences. I have to admit that I’ve enjoyed going to pubs which serve real ale at previous Cetis conferences (such as the Sacks of Potatoes near Aston University).

For this year’s event my colleague David Sherlock has helpfully written a blog post on Cetis Conference 2014 – fringe activities in which he suggests that:

History fanatics and beer drinkers will want to check out the Ye Olde Man and Scythe which is one of the the 10 oldest pubs in Britain. The 7th Earl of  Derby was executed here during the civil war, his ghost has appeared in the book Bolton’s most haunted and plenty of YouTube videos

I hope to get to this pub at some point during the Cetis conference!

Note that the registration fee for the conference is of £120 (although an early bird registration fee of £100 may still be available). This includes the conference dinner, although accommodation has to be booked separately.

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  1. For proper beers, Barristers just around the corner is a better bet. Very ‘proper pub’ too :)

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Giants Handle Panthers 36-7

Some early thoughts before we get our hands on the All-22 film of the Giants 36-7 spanking of the Carolina Panthers on Thursday Night Football.

…the formula for beating the Panthers was quite simple for the undermanned Giants on Thursday. So simple that Andy was able to sum it up in less than 140 characters before kickoff—-

@ultimatenyg Offensive Gameplan w/o Nicks/Hixon: SMALL BALL. RB flares, screens, use the TE. They'll double 80, so get rhythm w others #nyg.

Couldn’t have been more on point then he was with that. The Giants came out to start the game with a small ball attack, coming at the Panthers with a series of runs and quick passes keeping them on their heels on the way to a 10-0 Giants’ lead. Perhaps this is why the Giants were so successful getting the ball deep down the field later on in the 2nd quarter and were able to have the 2nd unit in for about half of the 4th quarter. Great effort across the board. Great plan. Great execution of the plan.

Andre Brown was first a hit on Youtubebecame a fantasy commodity last week and for an encore, established himself as an all-around force in the backfield for the Giants on Thursday. The 2009 4th round pick, a survivor of multiple cuts and an Achilles injury, seized his opportunity in a big way for the second consecutive week. As an NC State alum, Brown explained that he learned better than anyone how to deal with adversity. "Never give up. I learned that in college," he said. "Jim Valvano." (via @mikegarafolo tweet)

Brown got it done by contributing in all three facets of the RB game—receiving, pass protection and rushing. The last of which Brown may have shown he is the best at on the Giants’ roster.  What Brown lacks in speed or shiftiness he has made up for with his strong running style, one that shows a commitment to running downhill and gaining the ugly yards. Brown also possesses a combination of vision and paitence as highlighted on several first half rushes. The Giants' were in desperate need of that. In the limited sample that we have from him, he has shown a knack for  getting positive yards and if he can continue to do that then he will stay on the field, regardless of who is dressed for Big Blue.

…Ramses Barden turned in an effort that cleared up any doubts as to whether or not the 4th year receiver has what it takes to be a contributor in the NFL. A 9-catch 138-yard performance will do that. The Giants’ 3rd round draft pick in 2009 came up big in a game where the Giants needed him too. The coaching staff finally felt comfortable calling upon Barden and the big man rewarded that faith.  Combine that with what he has always had, an impressive set of hands (see @ NE last season) and athletic ability, and the Giants may have found themselves a second gem from deep down on their own depth chart. I could be wrong, but on the post game set I believe that Eli mentioned that in an effort to find ways to use Barden when they are at 100%, we may see him line up in the slot or at tight end. Interesting.

…for those keeping track at home that is two more members of Reese’s 2009 draft class.

…hats off to the o-line for their second solid performance in as many weeks. The group nearly pitched their second shutout in a row before allowing a late third quarter sack with the game in hand for the Giants. Beatty picked up his first start of the season at LT and looked as comfortable as he has ever been, doing a great job in pass pro and contributing in the run game, often on the back side. Perhaps Beatty is showing the promise that made him the Giants only top-3 round OL draft pick since 2005. Snee, maybe still upset about the unit’s performance in week 1, turned in another all-pro caliber performance on Thursday. The Giants ran behind Snee for a good portion of the night and the RG responded. He was downfield all night whether it be locked up on a helpless DT or holding off a LB at the second level. We will see how the unit responds with some much tougher tests on the horizon but they have certainly answered the bell in the last two weeks.

…Martellus Bennet caught his third touchdown in three weeks and moved to 15 total receptions on the season. Bennett has shown the ability to get down the middle of the field. The 6'6'' 280 pound tight end is showing why he has the ability to be a major tool in Eli's now crowded toolbox. Like anyone else I was a big supporter of Jake Ballard, but doesn't the hoopla over his departure feel a bit overstated now? Not only does Bennett provide the Giants with another offensive weapon but he provides them with a UNIQUE option in the passing game, a void that has existed since the early Shockey years.

…Eli was once again the great facilitator for the Giants and continues to play as well as any passeer int he league as a steadying force for this entire organization. Outside of a few balls that came out of his hand a little loose, Eli was the surgeon that we have come to expect. He was also awarded with the Thursday Night Football player of the game, which earned him this red gift bag from the group, featuring Deion's CD. The unexpected bromance between the two continues. As always he provides some unintention laughs on the set with the crew and it is defnitiely worth a watch

…it was certainly an improved night for a secondary that may have had nowhere to go but up.  Regardless, the group responded with a solid performance after back-to-back debacles to open the season. The spark came as a result of the return of Prince Amukamura, an improved game for Corey Webster, or the second start under the belt of Jayron Hosley. Hosley was impressive again, showing a knack for the football as he recorded his first career NFL interception. He was also impressive in hurrying Newton as he blitzed from the left side in the first quarter. The undersized rookie isn’t afraid to throw his hat on a guy to make a tackle.  Post-draft Jerry Reese described Hosley as “not knowing his size” and as someone who plays with "atheltic arrogance." That athletic arrogance was on display last night as Hosley showed confidence in his ability to make plays on the football and it showed.  He continues to show that he is an impact player and if he can remain healthy will be a major contributor for the Giants defense this season. Prince also found himself on the stat sheet with his first defended pass of the season and nearly got an interception on a Cam Newton deep ball on the Panthers' opening drive. Not condoning thee1 15-yard penalty  (how does he get one after the refs let Webster/Smith slide with their mini brawl) but it is nice to see Prince showing some emotion out there.

…the defensive line continued to make strides towards getting back into form and when they get there JPP wil be waiting for them. The 3rd year DE continues to be a superstar for the Giants as he makes the extraordinary look quite ordinary on a regular basis. He recorded three knockdowns (may have been more) one of which he almost turned into the play of the year when he turned and looked to intercept the ball after batting the bass away. He was also in the backfield all night “disrupting the integrity of the Panthers’ plays,” as Mike Mayock said continued to point out. It seems like the guy is learning right along with us that he has the physical tools to make plays that few in the league, and in the history of the league, have had.  Osi got on the board with his first sack of the season but was targeted by the Panthers in the run game, who ran their zone read to his side often on Thursday. Umenyiora, an aggressive rusher, struggled with these plays and often found himself caught in no man’s land. Justin Tuck on the other hand did not record a sack but was a disruptive force in the Panthers’ backfield, especially on the zone read play. And unlike Umenyiora, Tuck’s game is predicated on playing with a controlled aggression and the ability to break down inside the box and behind the LOS to make plays. As a whole though the d-line set the tone for the Giants' ability to slow down the Panthers' zone read attack. As Carl Banks said on the radio this morning on Joe and Evan, the Giatns gave the formula for stopping the read option–focus in on one of the two options and take him out of the lay!

…plenty of time to get healthy for Philadelphia as the Giants begin their second “mini-bye” of the young season. Couldn’t have come at a better time as we all know how banged up they are already. We'll have plenty more analysis on this one before we get to the big NFC East Sunday night football clash, the Giants' 3rd primetime game of the year thus far.

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Chaperone Enzyme Provides New Target for Cancer Treatments

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - UNC scientists who study how cells repair damage from environmental factors like sunlight and cigarette smoke have discovered how a "chaperone" enzyme plays a key role in cells' ability to tolerate the DNA damage that leads to cancer and other diseases.

The enzyme, known as Rad18, detects a protein called DNA polymerase eta (Pol eta) and accompanies it to the sites of sunlight-induced DNA damage, enabling accurate repair. When Pol eta is not present, alternative error-prone polymerases take its place – a process that leads to DNA mutations often found in cancer cells.

In one known example, faulty DNA repair due to Pol eta- deficiency is responsible for the genetic disease xeroderma pigmentosum-variant, which makes patients extremely susceptible to skin cancers caused by exposure to sunlight. However, scientists did not know how the cells selected the correct DNA Polymerase for error-free repair of each type of DNA damage.

“We found that the mechanism that promotes the ‘chaperone’ enzyme to recruit Pol eta to sites of DNA damage is managed by another signaling protein termed ‘Cdc7’ which we know is essential to normal regulation of the cellular lifecycle,” said lead author Cyrus Vaziri, PhD, who is an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Thus cells employ Cdc7 to ensure accurate DNA repair during the stage of their lifecycle that is most vulnerable to cancer-causing mutations.

The study was published in November in the Journal of Cell Biology.

According to Vaziri, the dual role that Cdc7 plays in the cell lifecycle and DNA repair offers a promising target for potential cancer therapies.

“We know that cancer cells have high levels of Cdc7 activity and can evade some DNA-damaging therapies such as cis-Platinum through Rad18 and Pol eta activity. We may be able to target this pathway in platinum-resistant tumors to prevent DNA repair and enhance cancer cell killing by platinating agents,” he said.

Other members of the research team include Komaraiah Palle, PhD from UNC’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tovah Day, PhD, Laura Barkley, PhD, and Ying Zou, PhD, from Boston University, Naoko Kakusho, PhD, and Hisao Masai, PhD, from the Genome Dynamics Project at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Satoshi Tateishi, PhD, from Kumamoto University, Japan, and Alain Verreault, PhD, from the Universite de Montreal, Canada.

The research was funded by grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.

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News Stories, 30 May 2014

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Sergeant Kim Seung-hun training in Beirut, Lebanon.

SEOUL, South Korea, May 30 (UNHCR) -- To colleagues at the Korean Army 37th Division, Sergeant Kim Seung-hun was known as bit of an oddball. Unlike other soon-to-be-discharged servicemen, Kim never seemed to be at ease or to join others at leisure. Instead, he was using every bit of his free time running.

"I had no choice," the 22-year-old sergeant said during an interview with UNHCR. "If I idle away a day, I would have to run twice as much the next day, which was unbearable."

Entering Korea's mandatory military service in August 2012, Kim first came across refugees during his dispatch to Lebanon as part of the Dongmyeong UN Peacekeepers Unit from last July to February this year. He promised himself that he would donate US$1 to Syrian refugees for every kilometre he ran after returning to the army base in South Korea. With his goal set at 1,000 km and his army discharge slated for May, Kim felt not a minute could be wasted.

In late March, Kim was able to keep the pledge he made to himself and refugees. He donated $1,000 to UNHCR Korea with an email saying he hoped the money could be used for Syrian refugees "as soon as possible" and "in the best way possible".

"In a way, I received much more through this small donation," Kim said. "I got to know the true meaning of sharing and became a healthier, happier person."

The epiphany came at a fast food restaurant in Lebanon, where he met two Syrian refugee children begging for leftover burgers. Instructed by his unit not to communicate with the refugees personally, Kim ignored the children and put the leftover in the trash.

Later, waiting in the car, Kim saw the children taking out the food from the waste bin. While eating, the children were looking straight at Kim, who became overwhelmed with a mix of feelings.

"Sadness doesn't do justice to what I felt that day. The scene just made me feel bad, really awful," said Kim. "I saw a need there -- a need to help these children get their ordinary, dignified life back."

The encounter made him think of issues that had never crossed his mind before. "I came to realize how important it was to have a country, a government that can protect and look after me," he said. "Most of all, these children reminded me of us, the Koreans, who used to beg for a dollar from U.S. soldiers during the Korean War."

With this realization, Kim promised himself he would do something for the Syrian children immediately after he returned to Korea. And it didn't take long for him to link his pledge with a long-time passion.

Running was a habit Kim took up long before he was enlisted. Joining the running club at college and taking part in marathons, Kim learned the joy of setting up goals and accomplishing them, an aspect he finds similar to making donations.

"Consistency is important both in running and making donations," he said. "I don't believe in massive one-off donations. Running little by little and donating little by little. That's what really makes a difference."

Kim, who returned to being an ordinary university student earlier this month, plans to keep on running, donating and meeting "good people" who share his views.

While some think donation means sacrifice, Kim believes it can actually be a chance to change one's own life for the better.

"Look at me. Through this donation method, I was able to lose 10 kg and became a healthier, happier man," he said. "Making this donation changed my life. I am overwhelmed by all the attention I'm getting for doing something so small, but I hope my story will be able to change some other people's lives for the better."

Kim also has something to say to refugees: Keep running. Run for hope.

By Heinn Shin in Seoul, South Korea

The Anguish of Syria's Refugees Enters a Fifth Year

These are the faces of Syrian refugees - more than 3.8 million in neighbouring countries alone - who fled their homes to escape a war that's unleashed one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time. They imagined their exile might last weeks or months. Now the conflict is raging into a fifth year.

Many refugees reached safety after treacherous journeys by car, bus or a motorcycle. Others walked across deserts and rivers, or climbed over mountains to escape persecution and death in Syria.

They made their homes in informal settlements across Lebanon, in organized camps in Turkey and Jordan, and in unfinished buildings and other insecure dwellings around Beirut, Amman and Istanbul, stretching their hosts' resources, and hospitality, to the limit.

UNHCR has appealed for billions of dollars to help bring aid to Syria's refugees. With partners, the refugee agency is providing shelter, medical care, food and education. But what the refugees need most is an end to the devastating conflict, so they can regain hope of returning to Syria and rebuilding their broken homeland.

The Anguish of Syria's Refugees Enters a Fifth Year

From Paris With Love, Toys for Syrian Children

Every year, the Quai Branly Museum in Paris organizes a collection of toys from schoolchildren in Paris and, with a little help from UNHCR and other key partners, sends them to refugee children who have lost so much.

The beneficiaries this year were scores of Syrian children living in two camps in Turkey, one of the major host countries for the more than 1.4 million Syrians who have fled their country with or without their families. Most of these traumatized young people have lost their own belongings in the rubble of Syria.

Last week, staff from the museum, UNHCR and the Fédération des Associations d'Anciens du Scoutisme gathered up the toys and packed them into 60 boxes. They were then flown to Turkey by Aviation Sans Frontières (Aviation without Borders) and taken to the kindergarten and nursery schools in Nizip-1 and Nizip-2 camps near the city of Gaziantep.

A gift from more fortunate children in the French capital, the toys brought a ray of sunshine into the lives of some young Syrian refugees and reminded them that their peers in the outside world do care.

These images of the toy distribution were taken by photographer Aytac Akad and UNHCR's Selin Unal.

From Paris With Love, Toys for Syrian Children

Angelina Jolie visits Syrian and Iraqi refugees in the Middle East

In her new role as UNHCR Special Envoy, Angelina Jolie has made five trips to visit refugees so far this year. She travelled to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey in September 2012 to meet some of the tens of thousands of Syrians who have fled conflict in their homeland and sought shelter in neighbouring countries. Jolie wrapped up her Middle East visit in Iraq, where she met Syrian refugees in the north as well as internally displaced Iraqis and refugee returnees to Baghdad.

The following unpublished photos were taken during her visit to the Middle East and show her meeting with Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

Angelina Jolie visits Syrian and Iraqi refugees in the Middle East


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Ah, Jamie, how nice to see you.

The British producer bounds out of nowhere with this misty little track called “Sleep Sounds.” The track will comprise one half of a single called “Girl” / “Sleep Sounds,” which marks Jamie’s first since he released “Far Nearer” in 2011. His label Young Turks will release it on May 5, so pre-order here if you’re so inclined.

If you’re looking to see Jamie or his band, The xx, anytime soon, you might be S.O.L. After finishing up a series of sold-out gigs in New York City, the band’s heading out on a small U.S. tour. According to Revolt, tickets are still available in the Mid-South for shows in Memphis and Oxford, Miss. Snag ’em while you can. Oh, and listen to “Sleep Sounds” below.

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Some NFL teams gave Charlie Weis a call during Notre Dame's bye week (who could possibly be looking for a new coach?), but the former New England offensive coordinator is going nowhere

"Everyone knows I'm staying here until they fire me or I die. I'm here for life. That's what I said I was going to do. So why would I not be a man of my word?"

Gee, I wonder why Charlie Weis isn't going anywhere. Probably because he doesn't like the sling and crane necessary to move his fat ass around. I mean, I'm sorry his gastric bypass didn't work, but c'mon. His face has the sunken eyes and ashy complexion of someone who's already had three heart attacks. He's staying at Notre Dame until he dies, all right. I'll put the over/under at 2.5 years.

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Minnesota Twins batboy fail

Yesterday we shared with you a clip of Philadelphia Phillies ballgirl Genevieve Haney snagging a foul ball and paired it with a dozen or so Instagram photos of her sunbathing or hanging out with the Phillie Phanatic. Genevieve loved the post and shared it with her friends, because that’s how she rolls.
Now, on the opposite end of that coolness spectrum we have Tuesday night’s Minnesota Twins ballboy. In this GIF (courtesy of the always stellar Tom Fornelli at South Side Asylum), the poor guy is tasked with taking Ryan Doumit’s bat and royally eats it, slipping on the grass and nearly taking Doumit down with him. He gets a pat on the butt for his troubles, and sad Charlie Brown walks back to the dugout knowing only Doumit, the people in the stands, the people watching at home and everyone on the Internet noticed it.
Much like the lovely Geneieve, Minnesota Twins bat boy is a big fan of Instagram, so I’ve put together a collection of my favorite snaps from his collection. You’ll really want to see these.

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Guns N' Roses -- minus legendary guitarists Slash and Duff McKagan -- kicked off a world tour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday night, and let's just say that lead singer Axl Rose looks like he prepared for the tour by eating a Krispy Kreme shop.

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Union for Reform Judaism Urges Feeding the Hungry

New York –As the stage is set for a clash of titans on the football gridiron, millions will spend a cold and wet February Sunday celebrating what’s become a new American Holiday: the Super Bowl. But is there a way to make this secular holiday Jewish?

While most North Americans, regardless of their team affiliation, will watch some of this classic showdown, snacking on chips, chili and other Super Bowl treats with friends and family, millions of homeless Americans will be left in the cold. The Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism suggests taking some action off the field – or the couch – to celebrate Super Bowl Sunday Jewishly.

“The Torah says: ‘The world stands upon three things: study, prayer and righteous deeds,’” said Rabbi Marla Feldman, director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, which recently published a Building Relationships: A Social Justice Program Guide for National Holidays. “By performing the deeds found in this program guide, these acts of loving-kindness before or after the game we can all elevate ourselves as Jews, as human beings and football fans.”

Asking fans to plan a trip to the local food pantry or help organize a community wide to project to help end hunger, the program guide aims to raise awareness and help individuals and congregation fight injustice even while enjoying the game.

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A cyclist bikes past a "no bicycling" sign on Chappell Road in Albuquerque. The signs will be covered and bike lanes will be added after a campaign by the local cycling community. Photo: KOAT Albuquerque

No more. This New Mexico city redeemed itself in the eyes of bike advocates when city officials said Friday that not only would they take down the “No Bicycles” sign on Chappell Road, but they would be adding two bike lanes on the road to improve cycling safety.

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I would also like to thank coffee for some of the same reasons that Kimber mentioned with a few additions. Did anyone else feel like the holidays were never going to come and now they’re thinking, “Was I in a time warp for the last month” or, “Did November even happen?”

That is what most weeks are like on the Eagle training bus…

If the pace of life feels too fast, then it’s time to get faster. I’ll see you on the way.

For me, it started Monday with an amazing day at the OTC in Chula Vista. We start with a little prehab to get the joints moving and warm up core for the day’s events. Then it was fitness testing time. Needless to say, I was a little nervous to be basically racing the fittest and fastest rugby players in the country. We had a blast though, and there’s something so motivating about seeing where you are versus where you have come from. And while I certainly don’t have the same anaerobic capacity these sevens players have, the 15s workouts have yielded some positive results in speed and agility.

That was just the morning, though. For our afternoon training session, we played conditioning games, which is a fancy term for running until your mind can no longer move your legs. Your body will slow to a crawl but your brain will think you are still running even though you resemble a wounded calf hobbling away from a lion. Either way, it was one of those sessions that is both humbling and rewarding. The best part is consistently pushing beyond your boundaries with your teammates and knowing you gave it your all. Monday’s over. Recover. Eat. Sleep. Sprint.

After that, it was time to switch gears and fly helicopters the rest of the week. One day flight, one simulator, a night vision goggle fastrope support mission and two checkrides later, I can’t believe I made it to Friday. Flying is like rugby in that every time you plan a flight and sit in the cockpit, it’s gameday. Because that takes up a full work-day, you have to fit practice in when you can, and for flying, practice is hitting the books and knowing what your aircraft is capable of, what you are and aren’t allowed to do, and how to do it. The pace is a sprint mentally (for me anyway), and you have to be on your game in the air and fit in the rugby training during lunch, breaks, and before or after work. Study. Train. Plan. Fly. Eat. Sleep. Sprint. Repeat.

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    You can be all you aspire to be! Keep it up!
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Template::Tiny 0.09 gets ported to JavaScript

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Because it works entirely through the creative use of regular expressions, it turns out that it is relatively easy to port as long as you have good enough regex support.

And so that's exactly what fREW Schmidt has done with his Template.Tiny JavaScript port.

Template.Tiny.js contains 600 lines of cloned code to provide an upgrade XRegexp package, and then 150 lines of plain JavaScript to implement the Template::Tiny clone.

Of course, we've already had Jemplate for a while, so it's not like you couldn't use Template Toolkit in JavaScript before.

But this gives you an alternative solution for smaller fragments that doesn't require any server side work at all and allows pure inline client-side templating, a kind of Jemplate.Tiny. :)

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Monday May 20, 2002
03:45 PM

Junk English

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Dear Log,

Here's an interesting book that I saw talked up by its author on BookTV the other day: Junk English . In theory, it sounds like all of it can be reduced to "say it in a few simple words, and don't use shill-talk". But the book actually works through phrases and formulations that you should not use: don't say "the thought process" when you can say just "thinking", don't say "on a daily basis" when you can say just "every day", etc.

Notably, the author independently arrives at something I've complaining about for years: "issue" when used as a twee synonym for "problem", as in telling your network admin that you're having "bandwidth issues" instead of "bandwidth problems". My standard line on this is: "Whether mankind has free will is an issue. If it's something that doesn't work, it's a problem."

An interesting possibility here is programming word-processors to catch a lot of these things, since so many of them are set phrases that you almost never actually want; and other things from the book are sort of "red flag" words that are often (but not always) abused: "process", "issue", "unique", "revolutionary", "visionary", etc. Other things are a bit harder to get a computer to see -- like to know that "broad overview" is redundant.

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  • Ha! I saw the same thing. I was contemplating having him at OSCON as an interesting diversion, but he didn't seem entirely comfortable speaking. Perhaps it was the cameras.

    He had great examples of horrendous twisting of the language: "concretize" was the one that stuck with me. His point wasn't just that these sorts of neologisms are ugly, but that they're deliberately designed by advertisers, PR lackeys, and politicos to conceal the truth and inflate.

    An interesting twist on the same would be a "How

  • I'm no big fan of "utilize", as it's nearly always clearer as "use". My big peeve lately is "methodology". Supposing we were to study ways of developing software, would we call it "methodologyology"?

  • ... the other Perl programmer at work keeps telling me that I have "issues." :)

    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
  • George Orwell wrote a good essay on this, Politics and the English Language [], two bits of which I liked in particular:

    It is easier -- even quicker, once you have the habit -- to say "In my opinion it is not an unjustifiable assumption that" than to say "I think".

    And this set of rules for writing well:

    1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
    2. Never us a long word where a short one will do.
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Thursday January 31, 2002
03:01 PM

Win32::GUI 0.0.558 kicked my butt

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That particular version of Win32::GUI happens to be very broken. If you follow the tutorial in the documentation, the first exmaple is Hello World. There, you call the method AddLabel() on your main windows at which point windows doesn't even let your program run.

Ok, tried re-installing it, ActivePerl, tons of other things. Finally grabbed an earlier version and tried to use PPM to install it. That was a mess. You can't specify a version to install, and I couldn't make it look on my local HD correctly.

Finally just copied files to the correct locations and now it works. I shouldn't have to do that. Moreover, where did go, Aldo?

Also, Win32::GUI isn't -w safe, so I have to do the following:

{ local $^W = 0; Win32::GUI::Dialog() }

Or, 'no warnings' for those of us with newer Perls.

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Emacs: copy current isearch-string

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In my .emacs I have this neat piece of code which I found on PerlMonks a while ago. It allows me to list all occurrences of the current isearch-string by typing Ctrl-o while searching.

I-search is really, truly useful (and along with having dabbrev-expand bound to Alt-Space is something I'd like to have working in all programs I use). The function above is a nice twist.

One thing I've wanted for a long time though is to be able to I-search (using Ctrl-w to expand the search string until I found the proper match) and then copy the string into the clipboard (or killing it in Emacs-speak).

I wouldn't be surprised if it's possible to actually do that already, but I haven't found anything after quite a bit of searching. So I hacked together this by adapting the occurence code:

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    (let ((case-fold-search isearch-case-fold-search))
        (kill-new (if isearch-regexp isearch-string (regexp-quote isearch-string)))))

(define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "C-k") 'isearch-kill-string)

Feel free to code review the elisp, I'm sure it can be improved in one way or the other.

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  • It seems strange to me that you're pulling the isearch string (and quoting it) rather than the matching buffer text. Is that what you really want to do? If not, I think you could instead snap up the text between '(point)' and 'isearch-other-end'.
    • Good point! I was looking for the equivalent of isearch-other-end but couldn't find anything among all the names.


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Experimental Archaeology at Pennsic, Summer 2007.

I conducted two open fire cooking experiments at Pennsic. The first experiment was cooking Tavche Gravche (Macedonian, beans in a pot) while the second experiment was to cook Mjaddarah (Arabic, traditional lentil dish) over an open fire.

Tavche Gravche is a dish that I prepared at Pennsic during 2006; I modified the experiment during 2007 by preparing the dish in a glazed, straight-wall casserole dish that I had purchased in the Khan El Khalili (Cairo's old market) during March 2007. I also modified the experiment by using dry herbs instead of fresh herbs.

The recipe and directions for Tavche Gravche were provided by Christopher Sulincevski (a native Skopje and international project supervisor for St. Louis Community College).

Raw Ingredients: 6 heaping handfuls of white beans (soaked overnight), 4 minced cloves of garlic, olive oil, sweet paprika, and water. I used a heaping handful onions that had been commercially fried and dried.

Dried thyme and dried rosemary were used to season the stew. The red spice is paprika.

The cooking fire was made in a shallow earth pit.

Beans, onions and spices waiting to be stirred.

Tavche Gravche stirred and placed near the edges of the coals.

I used the base of a glazed Tajeen for a lid because the curbside pottery seller in Cairo did not have a lid large enough for the casserole. I had purchased the Tajeen in Morocco. The covered casserole came to a low boil and cooked for 5 hours. The beans were still not fully cooked because the heat level of the fire had not be maintained during the day. Undercooked beans can cause food poisoning, so I cooked the dish for another 2 hours over a more intense heat. The Tavche Gravche was delicious. It was actually easier to cook in the casserole than in the "cooking pot" that I used during Pennsic 2006. The glazed casserole was far easier to clean than the unglazed cooking pot used in 2006.

The second cooking experiments was with the SPCA (Stewpot Period Culinary Association).

Lentils were soaked for 6 hours, drained, then placed to cook in the Egyptian casserole with water and salt.

The second day of cooking experiments used a separate firepit to create coals for cooking.

I used fresh onions for the Mjaddarah.

One and a half onions were chopped by hand for the dish and kept in a smaller Egyptian casserole.

The chopped onion was fried in a flat bottom frying pan made by Lynn McAdams (SCA Elaine Ladd from the Middle Kingdom). It took approximately 30 minutes to fry the onion in two batches. The frying pan was already hot becaused Lynn McAdams had fried onions in it for her bean dish. Olive oil was used in the frying.

The lentils and onions cooked in the covered casserole for 4 hours, then were removed from the coals to cool. The last step in the preparation was to add one cup of commercially produced sour cream, and stir. Normally, I would have preferred plain yoghurt, but it was not available. The sour cream was a perfect match for the lintels and fried onions. Several individuals at the resulting feast indicated that they would not have been able to eat the yoghurt (for medical reasons), but that the sour cream created no problems. The Mjaddarah was excellent and two individuals asked for the recipe.

Lynn McAdams (SCA Elaine Ladd from the Middle Kingdom) cooking a meal of beans, sausage and onions.

Lynn McAdams was very pleased to get a rolling boil in her cooking pot containing the beans, sausage and onions.

Another set of cookfire experiments included roasting a chick and a beef roast using string.

One problem with string roasting method is that the string can fail if the heat from the fire is too intense.

The heat from the burning wood eventually proved too hot for string roasting. The string roasting experiment was moved to the area above the cooking pots in the bed of coals. That heat level was perfect.

A chicken was also prepared in a dutch oven made from cast iron.

Seasoned leg of lamb prepared in a dutch oven made from cast iron.

The SPCA cooking experiment also included a dozen bluegil fish that were caught from Cooper Lake and immediately cleaned.

The fish were cooked in olive oil in a metal wok over the fire by Lord Stefan li Rous (Mark Harris). They had been salted and seasoned with Aunti Awren's Rusian Spice mix.

Lamb cut up and served in the smaller Egyptian casserole.

Deboned chicken that was cooked in the dutch oven.

The SPCA cooking experiment was conducted in Flip's camp while a blacksmith student was creating a fire poker under the supervision of Flip.
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Scene: One person acts as a lamp post, shining a flashlight on the ground. Another is groping around in the pool of light. (He's Scout One).

A third person enters, sees Scout One, and asks: "What are you looking for?"

Scout One: "A quarter that I lost".

He joins # 1, and helps him search. A fourth and fifth enter and repeat the above scene.

Finally one of them asks Scout One: "Where did you loose the quarter ?"

Scout One: (Pointing away) "Over there"

Other Scout: "Then why are you looking here ?"

Scout One: "Because the light is better over here!"

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It should come as no surprise to any employer, business leader or industry sector that the skills needed for the talent workforce of the 21st Century are critically different from those we relied upon in the agricultural or industrial age. The current knowledge/digital age brings inherent expectations of competing in a global economy with a global workforce. Technology has brought about a convergence of skills, abilities and access, along with a blurring of borders.

This convergence emerges not only in the baseline skillsets required for any employee in most jobs for the 21st century—writing (both technical and communicative), math, technology adeptness, team problem-solving, critical thinking, data analytics and leadership for the person and/or team—but also in how education and training are developed and delivered. No longer can separate disciplines be taught in isolation. The ivory towers of the past now become integrated marketplaces.

Nanotechnology embraces the sciences, information technology (IT), advanced manufacturing, English and math within its competencies. Geographic Information Science (GIS) is created through the intersections of science, IT, geography, math, surveying and geospatial mapping for industry sectors including healthcare, criminal justice, aerospace, etc. Advanced manufacturing in areas such as composites include non-destructive testing, sciences, technical writing and math. These examples of career fields for the 21st century go on and on, with the common threads of integration of disciplines, along with a great reliance upon the science, technology and math.

Yes, the advancement of STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) skills we so often read and hear about are essential to educating tomorrow’s workforce. However, these skills are built upon foundationally and not merely in college. The fundamental learning begins in preschool and progresses through primary, middle and high school. Without strong basic skills, sequential and sophisticated levels cannot be achieved. The edge we long for in the global race for innovation, entrepreneurship and job growth begins quite earnestly in these early years of education, where convergence of another type must occur.

This convergence is one of education systems working together along with business and industry to ensure a relevancy for learning and a continuum of consistency. The public and policymakers must also understand and support the importance of education from preschool on, and this education must be coordinated and aligned with the essential building blocks for reading, numerical literacy and sciences. Convergence here involves not only policy, funding mechanisms and business engagement, but a concerted effort from the systems of public and higher education to build the chronological blocks of learning that embeds a relevancy for the learning.

Building blocks or stackable competencies in the areas of science, math and technology bring attention to identified and demonstrable learning outcomes, as well as to the acknowledgement that the analogous time clock of industrial age seat time is no longer applicable to measuring the progress and success of students. Rather, education must be constructed in meaningful and relevant modules of competencies that build and stack towards specific career paths supporting the new global economy.

Credentials need to be clearly aligned with performance objectives that have been closely collaborated on between educational institutions and employers and targeted to address rigorous international standards. These credentials must also encompass workforce readiness skills and certifications along with academic achievements. It is not enough for an employee to possess a degree or industry-based certification if he or she does not show up at work, cannot work in a team or utilize technology for efficacy in the job.

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I work in an environment that makes heavy use of mainframe systems. These systems are costly to maintain, so a decision was made years ago to replace the mainframe with web based systems.

As more people move off the mainframe to the web, a common request is that we implement autotabbing (i.e. automatically move the cursor to the next field once the current field has been filled in). I am generally opposed to autotabbing, but have no data to support my position.

Are there any quantifiable arguments for or against autotabbing? Specific research in this area would be much appreciated.

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My case? Enter something into a field, get auto-tabbed. Realize I screwed it up. Click back into field to try and edit, get auto-tabbed. Grr. Click back into field, get auto-tabbed. Argh! Click back into field, get auto-tabbed. RAGE!!!! –  Karen Mar 15 '12 at 19:56
@Karen - a great example of a naive implementation of autotab ("move to the next field if full"). A proper implementation is a lot more complex, but can be worthwhile. –  Bevan Mar 16 '12 at 1:16
@Bevan, can you give details on what might be involved with a proper implementation? –  superduperfly Mar 16 '12 at 2:13
I think the issue is generally that autotabbing is implemented poorly. The fault is not with autotabbing itself but with most implementations (e.g. if you implement autotabbing, you may wish to "swallow" the next tab press if it's entered directly following an auto-tab, and you need to support backspacing over multiple fields). –  Kit Grose Mar 16 '12 at 2:17
@Bevan: D'oh, sorry, must have been asleep. –  Marjan Venema Mar 17 '12 at 8:45

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I've had my fair share of mainframe -> web refactoring projects over the years, and auto-tabbing topic comes up once in awhile.

As long as you are consistent in how you apply auto-tabbing, it can be a really good time-saving feature for data-entry intensive tasks.

For example, set up tabbing rules, and follow them rigidly for ALL fields.

  1. Make sure all INPUT fields have fixed-width font like Courier/mono-space applied.
  2. Make sure all INPUT fields have appropriate 'size' and 'max-length' attributes applied.
  3. Auto-tab when user has exhausted all the space in input field.

The first two are important because it lets user accurately gauge when the system will auto-tab. If we didn't use fixed-width font, then "iiiii" and "WWWWW" would take up different amount of space in input field, and users wouldn't be able to tell how many characters they have left until auto-tab kicks in, since they do not have the benefit of the character count hyphen "_ _ _ _ _" of mainframe.

I sympathize with OP, because when you are working with small and defined set of users who become expert of their application, conventional usability guidelines that are geared towards consumer-centric apps can be a tough sell.

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It's a matter of expectations. Normally on web forms, a person isn't expecting the cursor to automatically jump around the place and would want to be in control of tabbing back and forth as they desire.

Your application may be very niche or have a very specific user base, however, and maybe it makes sense in that situation.

One suggestion would be to consider making it a user preference that individuals could enable if the so desired.

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Making it a user preference is actually a really good idea I hadn't thought of. Thanks! –  superduperfly Mar 16 '12 at 2:10

Okay, so the first question is... why don't you like autotabbing? Answering that will give you your case against applying it.

Autotabbing is an unusual behaviour on the web, and it doesn't work well unless users will only ever submit data to a field of a particular length and format. Applying autotabbing to specific tabs only is going to mean unexpected and inconsistent behaviour unless there's always a clear rationale to the user, or if your users are already exposed to the concept through tools they already use in the domain. A user who incorrectly expects autotabbing is going to stumble, which erodes their confidence in their ability to grok the way your application works, and a user who doesn't expect it is going to be similarly surprised - and if other messages appear when the new field takes focus, I would expect users to assume that they'd accidentally triggered an event of some kind.

So that means that autotabbing is going to have to be applied throughout at least a particular class of forms, and that's going to apply a rather strict constraint. Constraints are kryptonite to software development because, as we all know, requirements change, and the reasonable constraint of yesterday becomes a point of crisis tomorrow.

That being said, if your biggest issue with autotabbing is that you can't update existing software, you have far bigger problems than UX. Applications should encapsulate their view logic well enough to stop this being a problem. Then again, it sounds like you've inherited some legacy software, so the horse may have already bolted on this one.

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I think another thing to consider is what works for your users- if they're requesting it, do some quick tests to see if it really works well in your app or not. The same behavior might be awesome for some people and frustrating for others.

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I had this discussion several times, and we use it on date fields only.

Our solution auto-tabs after all spaces are used in the field, but only if its validated.

Year, inserted 3000 (outside possible range), background turns red, and will not yump to next field.

Year, inserted 2010 (inside), background flashes green to show that it is saved, and jumps to next field.

Month, inserted 04, (...)saved and jumps to next field

Month, inserted 13, (outside possible range), background turns red, and will not yump to next field.

Possible issues:

Month, inserts 4, will not jump because does not fill the input (2 letters). We do have labels showing MM below the input, so users should understand the required input. Even though we accept a single 4 as a month, but the users has to tab themselves.

This is still a discussed feature whit us, and feedback from users are both pro/con. I think the only way to decide if this works or not for your specific case, is to follow Kit Grose and Jung Lee's answer and start a thorough usability test in your environment.

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Those interested in registering for the 3.1 mile loop, which supports VSU students in the orchestra, may sign up and pay the $20 entry fee by Friday, March 4, at https://www.runningintheusa.com/Race/SignUp.aspx?RaceID=33571 . People may also sign up the day of the race, but only pre-registered entrants will be guaranteed an event T-shirt.

Awards for the 5K will be given to the overall male and female, the top masters male and female, as well as, the top two finishers in the following age categories: 13 and under, 14-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, and 60 and up.

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The only thing that could make grinning villain venture capitalist Tim Draper look more sinister and insane than campaigning to divide California into six poorly named states is laughing maniacally on the Colbert Report. Now, we can cross that off the list.

In one of many missed chances for self-awareness, Draper—wearing a tie with six small Californias on it—insists he has no interest in entering politics if his plot succeeds. Instead, he'll leave the fate of the smashed territory "up to Californians." Sort of!

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MONTREAL – Coscient Group, Quebec’s largest TV production company, has filed a prospectus with the Quebec Securities Commission to issue 3.7 million class B shares for net proceeds to Montreal-based Coscient of C$16.9 million ($12.5 million).

Of that, $6 million from the public offering will be used to pay the cash portion of the payment for the recent acquisition of Astral Distribution and Astral Programming Enterprises from Astral Communications of Montreal.

“The rest is for strategic acquisitions and internal growth,” said Marie-Christine Dufour, vice president of public affairs at Coscient Group. “We’re looking for complementary acquisitions.”

The share issue is expected to close Dec. 17. Coscient’s shares trade on the Montreal and Vancouver stock exchanges.

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Upscale Nippon males turn out for Tarantino actioner

It was different strokes for different folks last week: Some relished watching George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones lock horns in “Intolerable Cruelty” and others salivated over Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu dueling in “Kill Bill Vol. 1.”

Still, both films are performing erratically in some markets. “Intolerable Cruelty” opened in the top spot in Spain, Australia, Austria, Portugal, Israel and Hungary. But it bombed in Sweden and was wounded in a shootout with Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill Vol. 1″ in Norway, Denmark and Finland.

Exhibs in Britain were underwhelmed by the romantic comedy’s preem; one opined it’s “too eccentric for mainstream auds and considered a sellout by die-hard Coen brothers fans reared on more authentic product.” Yet UIP says the weekday figures were terrific, it expects a strong hold and predicts it’ll become the Coens’ highest grosser in Blighty. Battle-of-the-sexes caper was jaunty in Germany, although it trailed local click “The Miracle of Bern,” which expanded in its soph session, drawing folks of all ages, and in Holland. The frame’s pacesetter overseas, “Cruelty” wooed $13.1 million from 2,405 engagements in 22 markets; its cume through Oct. 28 hit $22.3 million and by Nov. 2 will have raced past its puny domestic total.

Although Tarantino’s splatterfest was the victor in Japan, making a record debut for Miramax, some execs in Tokyo were expecting a much bigger bang, since nearly 50% of the pic is set in Japan and in part it’s an homage to Nippon’s martial arts canon. Pic is skewing upmarket, resonating much better in the key cities than in provincial areas and hooking young males rather than femmes who usually comprise the majority of moviegoers. “Bill’s” bow in Italy outgunned those of “Air Force One” and “Gone in 60 Seconds,” coming in behind “Cruelty’s”‘ triumphant second turn. Tarantino’s opus experienced acceptable drops in the U.K. and Germany (after a muted entry, hurt by the age-18 tag) but fell more sharply in Oz, where it’s appealing chiefly to the helmer’s aficionados. Its estimated cume climbed to $31 million in 20 countries, and it appears to have enough momentum to reach $100 million.

Driven by holdovers, “Bad Boys II” surged to $102.7 million in 48 territories, with only Japan ahead. The 20th title to cross the century mark this year, buddy-cop caper held stoutly in France but plunged in Italy.

Now playing everywhere, “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” was poised to reach $100 million by the weekend, eclipsing domestic’s $65.8 million.

While it was a lethargic frame in the U.K., Germany, Spain and Italy, receipts in France shot up by 47%, driven mostly by comedy “Tais-Toi” (Shut Up), toplining Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno. Crix don’t rate it as one of the better films from helmer/co-writer Francis Veber (“The Closet,” “The Dinner Game”), but word of mouth is terrif. Also spurring the Gallic B.O. was Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant,” feeding off its Palme d’Or and director prizes at this year’s Cannes fest.

“Finding Nemo” ruled the high seas in the U.K. for the third consecutive weekend, propelling its cume to $136 million in 26 markets, with Japan and continental Europe on the horizon. Michael Caine/Robert Duvall headliner “Secondhand Lions” squeaked in the U.K., its first major market, dismissed by one booker as “an absolute disaster. … Kids don’t want to go and see a film about old people.”

Ending its foreign tour in Italy, “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life” opened about as well as in most other places, prompting local exhibs to say it might have done better had it been released much earlier. Led by Japan’s $15.3 million, Angelina Jolie starrer has grossed an estimated $85.5 million — $20 million more than at home.

Clint Eastwood’s admirers turned out in reasonable numbers for “Mystic River” in Italy (a career best for Clint) and Spain. Crime saga doesn’t open big but holds tenaciously, as evidenced by skimpy declines in the U.K. and France. Italo pirate tale “Singing Behind the Scenes” (a Miramax pickup in the U.S.) saw a hearty launch at home, helped by the local cast and the fact it was shot in Rome. But it wasn’t as accessible as “Caterina Goes to the Big City,” saga of a young Italian girl’s first political experiences, which went out on nearly twice as many prints.

“Once Upon a Time in Mexico” fired blanks in France. Oddly, given its moniker, pic bowed handily in Mexico but couldn’t topple the third stanza of “Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over,” which posted a company-record debut for Miramax in Russia.

Entering Spain, “Hollywood Homicide” cracked $1 million in its initial weekend — the first time that’s happened in a foreign journey that has yielded a meager $12.6 million in 40 territories. Credit that to Harrison Ford’s stature in Spain and his promo visit to Madrid. Even so, some Spanish exhibs still talk of the market’s B.O. crisis, despite local success “Football Days,” a laffer about losers.

After a limp showing in France, “Dogville” tanked on a relatively wide 74 prints in Germany, where one programmer noted, “It’s gotten a lot of press in the film community, but it’s not a film for mainstream audiences.”

John Hopewell in Madrid, Sheri Jennings in Rome, Liza Klaussmann in Paris, Archie Thomas in London and Ed Meza in Berlin contributed to this report.

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New gig for stage booker

Matt Chinn, formerly exec VP at legit tour booker AWA Touring, has taken a new gig at Madstone Prods., the Gotham outfit producing arty Off Broadway buzz magnet “Sleep No More.”

Chinn will oversee the company’s production development and touring operations, which currently include the Irish music offering “Celtic Woman.” He’ll work with Madstone prexy Jonathan Hochwald.

Along with “Sleep No More,” the dance-installation “Macbeth” redux settling in for what seems to be the foreseeable future in Gotham, Madstone is at work on the developing tuner version of “A Christmas Story,” opening at the Windy City’s Chicago Theater this holiday season. Next year, company also will present the tour of musicians Human Nature.

Chinn, who’s worked in legit touring for more than 15 years, has repped domestic and international tours of shows including “A Chorus Line,” “Cats,” “Dreamgirls” and “American Idiot.” Before AWA, he worked at Columbia Artists Theatricals and at Pace Theatrical Group.

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Montreal Just for Laughs 2012: The Honorees

Comedy Person of the Year
Chelsea Handler
With her 5-year-old E! talkshow renewed through 2014 and her $12 million salary reportedly making her the top TV earner per viewer (besting the likes of Letterman and Jon Stewart), Chelsea Handler could potentially slow down — if she wasn’t such a self-confessed workaholic.

“My secret is, I just work really hard all the time,” she says. “Although I like a finished product, I don’t really enjoy the act of doing anything. The show’s great because it’s on that night; I like finishing a standup show, walking offstage and having a drink; and it’s great to write a book when it’s published.”

A driven actress, standup and author (including the 2008 bestseller “Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea”), Handler is already working on her fifth book. “Here’s a scoop: It’s called ‘Fifty Shades of Chartreuse — This Time It’s Personal,’?” she says.

Although NBC canceled Handler’s “Are You There, Chelsea?” sitcom in May, the comedienne says she wasn’t surprised: “I didn’t have that much invested in it, and the past year has been the best ever for me. And now the show’s moving in October to a huge new stage, so we’re getting a bigger audience. That’s pretty exciting.”

Rising Comedy Star of the Year
Hannibal Buress
Chicago-bred, New York-based standup Hannibal Buress disputes recent published reports that a tough childhood informs his acerbic standup routine. “It was fine,” says the comic, whose self-described “no bells and whistles” style earned him writing gigs on “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” (where he appears as “homeless guy”), as well as appearances on David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Craig Ferguson.

“I just talk about everyday stuff and my experiences — whatever I think’s true and funny,” he says of his standup act. “I like writing OK, but I prefer the rush of performing live.”

Buress, who’s touring and working on a follow-up to his recent album, “Animal Furnace,” says: “Even though doing standup isn’t easy, I can’t ever see me stopping doing it, and right now I’m really enjoying co-hosting ‘The Eric Andre Show’ on Adult Swim. It’s different from anything else I’ve done — and just so much fun.”

Comedy Writer of the Year
Michael Bacall
Twenty-five years after the hit TV series “21 Jump Street” kickstarted Johnny Depp’s career, Michael Bacall’s clever comedic spin on the property has similarly catapulted the scribe to the front of the line.

“I loved the show as a kid, with its really edgy vibe, but I didn’t want to go the parody route,” says the L.A. native, who developed the story with “Jump” co-star Jonah Hill. “Our concept was to update it as a hard-R buddy-cop movie with a strong emotional throughline.”

That he succeeded so well is a tribute in part to his own parallel career as an actor, (“Inglourious Basterds,” “Free Willy”). “It’s really helped me with my writing and understanding plot construction,” he says.

Though Bacall began acting at 9, he didn’t take up writing until 1997 after graduating UCLA. Next up, he has already finished a “Tropic Thunder” spin-off featuring Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman character for Paramount and is writing a “Jump” sequel.

Breakout Comedy Star
Key & Peele
The world offers no shortage of Obama impressions, though Comedy Central’s “Key & Peele” deserve credit for cracking a fresh angle on the presidential parody: While Jordan Peele plays the ever-diplomatic commander-in-chief, sketch partner Keegan Michael Key “translates” the aggressive subtext of his words.

“We recently met Obama at an ‘undisclosed location’ — OK, it was the Beverly Hilton,” Key says.

“He told us he and Michelle love the show, and not just the Obama stuff,” adds Peele. “His endorsement has been huge for our careers in the past year, and it’s because of him that we even have a show and are able to do a lot of the subject matter we tackle.”

The bi-racial team (both have white moms and black dads) began collaborating as regulars on Fox’s “MADtv” a decade ago. “We’re still trying to figure out what bi-racial humor is,” quips Peele.

Both see movies as the next step: “Maybe remake the Hope-Crosby road movies,” suggests Key.

Comedy Short of the Year
‘Love and Germophobia’
It sounds like a punchline, but Tyler Spindel, who moved to L.A. after graduating from Harvard to pursue standup comedy, swears that what he “really” wants to do is “direct and write” — and he’s not wasting any time.

Last November, he wrote, directed and co-produced “Love and Germophobia,” which premieres at Just for Laughs. The 10-minute short tells the story of a guy visiting his girlfriend in hospital: “She wants a hug, but he doesn’t want to get sick,” describes Spindel, who has been back in Boston this summer directing second unit — “doing all the stunts and crashes” — on Adam Sandler’s “Grown Ups 2.” Next, he will helm a standup special for comedian pal Greg Fitzsimmons.

“I’m also writing two TV ideas and two movie scripts,” says Spindel, who’s acted in various features, including “Funny People” and “Paul Blart: Mall Cop.” “To be honest, I don’t do too much acting or standup anymore. Directing is my real passion now.”

Comedy Director of the Year
Seth MacFarlane
By Seth MacFarlane’s own admission, 2012 has been “an amazing year,” thanks to the surprise success of his feature debut, “Ted.” Capturing a mainstream aud with his irreverent sense of humor, the irreverent “Family Guy” creator wrote, produced and directed the film, while also supplying the voice of its title character, a randy, pot-smoking teddy bear. The laffer has earned more than $180 million in the U.S.

“Its success was definitely unexpected, especially for an R-rated movie,” he says. “But directing felt very comfortable and I can’t think of any better training ground to do this than television animation. I found the two processes to be very similar. As you have few budget limitations for sets, extras and special effects in television animation, you often find yourself staging pretty complex sequences.”

MacFarlane says he “definitely” wants to direct more, admitting there’s already pressure to do a sequel — “but I haven’t decided yet.”

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Each play packs a wallop, figuratively and literally; the combination of Hynes, her designers and a strong cast of Irish actors makes the marathons exceptional viewing.

Theatrical fireworks exceeding anything seen over the Hudson River on July 4th are on display at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater courtesy of “DruidMurphy,” part of the Lincoln Center Festival. Here are three unrelated but complementary dramas by Irish scribe Tom Murphy, imported from the Galway-based Druid Theater and directed by founder/a.d. Garry Hynes. Ten-day fest visit includes two single performances of each title, plus two full-cycle marathon days. Each play packs a wallop, figuratively and literally; the combination of Hynes, her designers and a strong cast of Irish actors makes the marathons exceptional viewing.

All three plays hinge on Irish emigration, from different viewpoints. Set in the mid-1970s, “Conversations on a Homecoming” (1985) is a 10-year reunion of pals in a Cork pub, welcoming back a friend from an unsuccessful New York stint as an actor. The play’s sympathies can be found in a hallowed portrait of John F. Kennedy over the bar, which is not so subtly named the White House.

“A Whistle in the Dark” (1961), Murphy’s first and most important play, is about an Irish emigrant living in London whose home is invaded by his brutal and sadistic father and brothers.

Thematic centerpiece is “Famine” (1968), which traces the root problem of national identity to the Irish Potato Famine — and the resulting enforced emigrations — of the 1840s. It’s a compelling and evocative piece, although non-Irish/English patrons at the marathons might have trouble keeping focused.

Hynes has devised the cycle with the direct participation of the 77-year-old Murphy, who wrote the plays independently of each other. Hynes gathers an excellent team of collaborators for the well-executed project, including set designer Francis O’Connor, who places the three plays within a frame of corrugated metal sheets. “Famine” — with drought and hunger progressing to starvation and despair, over 12 scenes — calls for the most creative work from the other departments, and the results are haunting.

Acting company is uniformly strong, the impression magnified by the power of the 10 who are double or triple cast. These include Marty Rea, with a smooth and handsome facade hiding his overseas failure as the returning emigre in “Conversations” and masking his internal conflict as the intellectual brother trying to escape his violent family in “Whistle”; and Aaron Monaghan giving a flesh-crawling turn as the sadistic brother in “Whistle” and a nuanced perf as a crippled man in “Famine.” Also standing out are Niall Buggy, as the chilling patriarch in “Whistle”; Brian Doherty as the Job-like potato farmer at the center of “Famine”; as well as Garrett Lombard, Beth Cooke and Gavin Drea.

Gerald W. Lynch; 599 seats; $80 top/$240 cycle

A Druid Theater Company/Lincoln Center Festival presentation of three plays ("Conversations on a Homecoming," "A Whistle in the Dark," "Famine") by Tom Murphy. Directed by Garry Hynes.

Set, Francis O'Connor; costume design, Joan O'Clery; lighting, Chris Davey; sound, Gregory Clarke; composer, Sam Jackson; movement, David Bolger. Opened July 5, 2012, reviewed July 8. Closes July 14. Running time: 7 HOURS, 15 MIN.

With: Niall Buggy, Edward Clayton, Beth Cooke, Gavin Drea, Garrett Lombard, Treasa Ni Mhiollain, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen, Michael Glenn Murphy, Rory Nolan, John Olohan, Frank O'Sullivan, Marty Rea, Eileen Walsh, Joseph Ward.

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