C member Penelope Spheeris took the floor after Adler, regaling the audience with the story of her last film, which was shot on digital and high-definition video. "I was able to shoot more than 250 hours of raw footage and then cut it down to 90 minutes. It wasn't an easy process, mind you, but it was a lot easier than it would have been with raw film stock." Spheeris went on to urge all DGA members to read the Creative Rights Handbook, which is published by the Guild's Creative Rights Committee. "I've only been a Guild member for ten years, even though I've been making films for 25 years. I didn't realize my rights until I read that little book." The Handbook is a virtual bill of rights for filmmakers, Spheeris pointed out, and is essential for independent filmmakers in particular. "When most of us first start out we are, quite frankly, clueless when it comes to knowing what our rights are. Producers and studios will push the limits as far as they can, to have all the power they can. We need to be able to tell them when they've reached the limit."
A question-and-answer session followed Spheeris' comments, where the members discussed topics ranging from how to finance a low-budget film, to how to ensure certain types of ratings, to the possible impact of a strike by SAG and/or the WGA. Regarding the controversy over the MPAA ratings system,
Gil Cates, Jr., whose first feature Spent found distribution via the IDC's "Director's Finder" series, echoed Soderbergh's sentiments that the MPAA ratings system needs an overhaul, and that the IDC is correct in addressing it. "A lot of people are saying, 'It's up to the parents. The parents have to control their kids and monitor what they see and do.' Well, that's easy to say. But you can have great parents, which I did, and still get into tons of trouble and do stupid things when you're a kid, which I also did. What more could my parents have done, except lock me in a cage? I think something needs to be done with the ratings system, and there also needs to be responsibility in how we present our films."
DGA Third Vice President Paris Barclay also commented on some of the positive contributions the IDC has made. "It was through the work of the Committee that the DGA took the position that the NC-17 rating needed to be changed. We heard from a lot of independent filmmakers that they weren't able to make serious, adult films because the NC-17 rating has such an unfair stigma attached to it. The entire Guild united behind this stance."
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Well, it’s been quite some time since I’ve released a new MariaDenmark pattern (I’m afraid I have been very busy with my Danish online sewing magazine). But now I’m proud to introduce: MariaDenmark 407: Annika Boat Neck Dress Annika is a...Q: "Multiplying" by denominator of quotient module Let $R$ be a ring, $A$ be an $R$-module, and $B, C$ be submodules such that $A = B \oplus C$. Then we can say that $\dfrac{A}{B} = \dfrac{B \oplus C}{B} \cong \dfrac{C}{B \cap C} = \dfrac{C}{0} \cong C$ (using the second isomorphism theorem). My question is: is the converse true? 

If we have $\dfrac{A}{B} \cong C$, can we somehow deduce that $A \cong B \oplus C$? 


A: While this is true for vector spaces (that is, if your ring $R$ is a field), the property you consider is false in general.  For instance, taking $R=\mathbb{Z}$, $A=R$ and $B=2\mathbb{Z}$, you get that the quotient is the torsion group $C=\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$.  No subgroup of $\mathbb{Z}$ can be isomorphic to $C$, so $A$ is not isomorphic to $B\oplus C$.
Rings having the property you consider are called semisimple rings.

A: No. For example, let $R = A = \mathbb{Z}$, and let $B = 2\mathbb{Z}$. Then $\frac{A}{B} \cong \mathbb{Z}/\mathbb{2Z}$, so $B \oplus C \cong \mathbb{Z} \oplus \mathbb{Z/2Z}$, which cannot be isomorphic to $A$ as $B \oplus C$ has an element which is annihilated by $2$, which $A$ does not.
Why pick up takeout when you can make delicious peanut noodles in your own home?
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add noodles and cook until firm to the bite. Drain.
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There are many types of lights that you can use in your house and LEDs are always the best choice that you can come up with. Well, do you know why? There are numerous reasons behind that, and we are going to help you with it in this source. You need to wait for a little, and it will surely help you to get all that reasons that you have been looking out for in these things.
LED or the light emitting diode is popular from its release in 2012, and it is all that you need. You can get so many things done with the help of LEDs, and there are so many Led Light Manufacturers that can help you to get the best type of LEDs. Anyways, it is not at all a rat race, but still, if we took a look at the stats then in 2012, there were over 49 million LEDs that were used in the US alone. You need to know that, and it can help you in the long run.
Why prefer using LED lights?
For instance, if you choose up the normal bubs, then you will see that the bulbs don’t have a longer life that means you need to replace them every now and then. The second thing is the efficiency and a sudden drop in your electricity can help you to save upto 80% of your bucks. This is a huge amount of money and what else is worth of these small LED bulbs.
2) What are the best Uses of LEDs?
These are the places where all these LEDs are used, and you can get some great benefit from it.Abt Associates: Bold thinkers driving real-world impact
Jill Khadduri, an authority on the relationship between neighborhood revitalization and school quality, appeared on March 17 before the House Committee on Financial Services in Washington, D.C. to discuss the role of school improvement in the proposed Choice Neighborhoods Initiative. Khadduri was one of a panel of seven witnesses.
Choice Neighborhoods is the Obama administration's proposal to revitalize severely distressed public and assisted housing. It will replace the HOPE VI revitalization program and challenges public, private and nonprofit partners to extend neighborhood transformation efforts beyond public housing and to link housing interventions more closely with school reform and early childhood programs. In doing so it recognizes that a major contributor to the cycle of poverty is the poor quality of the schools available to children who live in high-poverty neighborhoods.
In her prepared testimony Khadduri said that the current legislative proposal has many strengths but argued that it could be improved in several ways. For example:
In her concluding remarks Khadduri noted that the draft legislation asks HUD to report each year on the impact of grants made under the Act. She argued that such impacts cannot be measured in the early years of a major effort to change a neighborhood. Instead, HUD should be required to document how grantees have demonstrated the neighborhood's potential for long-term viability. She also called for a true evaluation of the program with collection of baseline and follow-up data measuring change in the Choice Neighborhood and comparison neighborhoods.
Click here for a PDF of the prepared testimony. For an archived webcast of the hearing, visit the House Committee on