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Get to Know the Children of The Country Legend, George Jones
Growing up to a famous dad must have been quite an experience for George Jones' children. Despite being a country music royalty and his highly publicized battle with drugs and alcohol, Jones was a loving father.
Let's get to know George Jones' kids below, and let's find out who among the four followed his footsteps.
Susan Jones Smith
Susan and Harmon Smith with their daughter Jennifer and her twins Jason and Laura. Susan your daddy would be so proud of his great grandchildren!
Posted by George Jones on Wednesday, April 26, 2017
In 1950, George Jones married his first wife, Dorothy Bonvillion. The couple had a daughter, Susan Jones Smith. But Jones and Bonvillion's union was short-lived that they divorced even before Susan turned one.
Susan shied away from the spotlight. She is now living a quiet and happy life with her husband, Harmon Smith. They have two children, Jennifer and Michael, and two grandchildren, twins Laura and Jason. Susan's family lives nearby Jones'. "The kids come over and see us all the time," Jones said.
In George Jones' 1992 interview with People, the country legend said that he's proud of Susan. And it seems like he was too with his great-grandchildren. In 2017, Jones' official Facebook page shared a photo of Susan and the rest of her family. He wrote in the caption: "Susan, your daddy would be so proud of his great-grandchildren!"
Bryan and Jeffrey Jones
My brother Jeff, me, my niece Emery and my brother Bryan. Celebrating Thanksgiving early…..love spending time with my family!!! Hate to leave tomorrow.
Posted by Georgette Jones on Sunday, November 24, 2013
In 1954, George Jones married Shirley Ann Corley, with whom he had two sons, Bryan and Jeffrey. Jones' two sons have strayed far from their father's music career path. Jeffery Jones owns a flooring business in Vidor, Texas, while Bryan Jones sells auto parts in Huntsville, also in Texas.
In 2013, Bryan and Jeffrey joined the oldest, most loyal fans of George Jones as they packed the small hall for a Southeast Texas Tribute to the country legend. It was organized by the venue's owner and a group of musicians and friends of the late Jones.
"I think he would be proud that people remembered him for the down-to-earth person that he was," Bryan Jones said.
Unfortunately, George Jones had a fall out with his two sons in 1995. Bryan and Jeffrey said the country legend had wronged them by denying them profits from some of his hits, which ended up in a federal lawsuit.
The two sons claimed that their father, along with Broadcast Music Inc., refused to honor the terms of his divorce agreement with their mother in 1968. The agreement called for Shirley Ann Corley to receive half the rights to all songs written by George Jones and published or controlled by BMI before 1968.
When Corley died in 1991, the royalty payments stopped in 1992 and were reverted to Jones. The lawsuit said Corley bestowed her share to her sons. Jones sadly admits he failed as a father to his two sons. "That's one of the things I really missed out on in life. On the road so much, you don't get to know them."
But all's well that ends well, Bryan said he had accepted the demands that came from his famous father's "music life." He said, "George Jones was sent here to do country music, and he knew it."
Tamala Georgette Jones
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In 1969, Jones married country queen Tammy Wynette, with whom he later recorded several top hits. The power couple had a daughter, Tamala Georgette Jones, the youngest of George Jones' children. However, Jones and Wynette's marriage was turbulent and led to a painful split in 1975. Georgette Jones was only four then.
The day Georgette Jones was born, Billy Sherrill was ready with a signed record contract. Billy, who was recognized as one of the best producers in the business, sent the new mom a dozen roses along with a signed contract for the baby. Take note, a signed contract! After all, her parents were considered country music royalty.
Billy was definitely betting on the future. And just how did the future play out? Guess the American record producer got that one right. Out of all her siblings, Georgette is the only one who followed in her parents' footsteps.
She is not only a very talented singer and songwriter, with a pure voice reminiscent of her mother, but she also chose Country as her primary genre. She admitted that music was not her initial career choice, even though she had been singing with her parents since she was only three. Instead, Georgette worked as a registered nurse for 17 years.
The first reason she chose to be out of the music industry was her children. Georgette knew that it would be difficult for her and her children, especially when she starts touring. So she waited for them to turn 16 years old.
As for the second reason, Georgette confessed it was actually the fear she felt. She didn't want to be compared with her parents musically speaking. Luckily, that thought doesn't bother her anymore, and nowadays, she is confident enough to pursue a career in music.
In 2011, Georgette also released a book, "The Three of Us, Growing Up Tammy and George," where she detailed her dealings with the blessing and the curse of being born to famous parents. In this memoir, Georgette recounts her parents' divorce and Wynette's fall into prescription pill addiction and ill-timed death at the age of 55. Georgette also wrote about her broken relationship with her father and what it took for them to come back together.
As Georgette developed as an artist, she made peace with her past and reunited with her troubled, often absent father before he died. They recorded "You, Me and Time," a song Georgette wrote in his honor.
At the moment, Georgette, who is now 50, is still active in her music career, performing in clubs and pubs. She is using her social media accounts to promote her shows and announce the status of her upcoming album.
Posted by Georgette Jones on Monday, September 12, 2016
Although fame and fortune brought trouble to the country legend along with the good things it brought, George Jones' children still think he was "a loving family man."
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Noah Hawley—the writer and producer behind the hit TV show Fargo—really understands how to set a scene and ratchet up tension. His spectacularly suspenseful thriller begins with a private plane crashing off the Long Island coastline, then weaves craftily between past and present to paint a picture of the passengers onboard. Only two people survive the wreckage: the four-year-old son of a media mogul and the stoic painter who ferries him to safety, only to be sucked into a whirlpool of suspicion. With its intriguing characters and jarring twists, Before the Fall is an A+ read.
Emmy-, Golden Globe , and Peabody Award winning television producer and screenwriter Hawley's fifth novel is a masterly blend of mystery, suspense, tragedy, and shameful media hype. When a corporate jet carrying 11 crashes into the ocean just 16 minutes into a nighttime flight from Martha's Vineyard to New York in August 2015, only two people survive Scott Burroughs, a middle-aged former drunk and minor artist, and a four-year-old boy. Scott saves the boy, swimming to shore and into a frenzy of media-shaped hero worship, federal investigations of terrorism and criminal activity, and sudden media-driven accusations of financial exploitation. Hawley cleverly uses flashback chapters for each of the passengers to reveal that one victim was a wealthy mogul, head of a 24-hour cable news network that didn't just report the news, but proudly manufactured it; one victim was a Wall Street financier about to be indicted for money laundering; and the other victims, including an armed bodyguard, also had curious pasts. Scott's life is an escalating nightmare of media hounding and federal suspicion. His only salvation is a thoughtful, deliberate NTSB investigator who focuses on facts, not speculation. This is a gritty tale of a man overwhelmed by unwelcome notoriety, with a stunning, thoroughly satisfying conclusion.
Poor editing, predictable, ho-hum sort of book.
Reading this book while vacationing in Montauk, NY made this book quite problematic for me. So many basic facts are wrong, inconsistent with reality and make a reader wonder if the author even bothered to go to Montauk before choosing this location. How can significant events take place in a remote trendy resort town that has in reality no hospital and no places even remotely resembling places in the story line's past or current time lines. I found many of the characters quite unbelievable and contrived. Honestly felt that this was a poorly written work by an author who can do better. Perhaps the fact that I'd just read The Underground Railroad and the new Harry Potter play made this novel even worse. This is a mediocre effort that I found a complete waste of time.
Overall this was a good read, following the main survivor of the plane crash. Written with unfolding tales of passengers and crew. However, can't give it more than 3 stars because I found the sexual commentary and some of the characterizations way too mysogynistic. Even if some of the male characters were mysogynists, the rough commentary did not add anything to the story and was extremely distracting. The quick wrap up at the end also took a bit away from the investment in the story but did not bother me overall. Just be prepared for a lot of completely unnecessary mysogynistic sexual comments by characters.
After reading the glowing reviews for "After the Fall" I couldn't wait to start reading it. I am not a fan of alternating chapters especially with so many different characters. I find it a cheap trick an author uses to maintain interest and build suspense where there isn't any. The cast of characters were paper board cutout caricatures . The loving but neglected wife, the uber rich husband who takes his family for granted, the evil banker, his loving but naive wife, the adorable children, the single good looking man with a troubled past, the young unhappily wife who needs rescuing. They are all there following a predictable path. Please! And the climax. Huh? I did not realize the book had ended until I turned the final page and that was it. Another monotonous feature is having every single character run an interior monologue. Every character sounded the same. No different voice among them. This book was nothing more than an opportunity for the author to babble on about existentialism.


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package io.pivotal.pa.rabbitmq.jms.raw.config;

import javax.jms.Connection;
import javax.jms.ConnectionFactory;
import javax.jms.JMSException;
import javax.jms.Session;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Profile;

import com.rabbitmq.jms.admin.RMQConnectionFactory;

import io.pivotal.pa.rabbitmq.jms.raw.properties.AMQPProperties;
import io.pivotal.pa.rabbitmq.jms.raw.properties.AppProperties;
import io.pivotal.pa.rabbitmq.jms.raw.properties.JMSProperties;

@Profile("!usage")
@Configuration
public class JMSCommonConfig {

	private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(JMSCommonConfig.class);

	@Autowired
	private AppProperties appProperties;

	@Autowired
	private AMQPProperties amqpProperties;

	@Autowired
	private JMSProperties jmsProperties;

	@Bean
	public ConnectionFactory connectionFactory() {
		RMQConnectionFactory connectionFactory = new RMQConnectionFactory();
		try {
			if(amqpProperties.amqpUri != null && !"default".equals(amqpProperties.amqpUri)) {
				connectionFactory.setUri(amqpProperties.amqpUri);
			}
			else {
				connectionFactory.setHost(amqpProperties.host);
				connectionFactory.setUsername(amqpProperties.username);
				connectionFactory.setPassword(amqpProperties.password);
				connectionFactory.setPort(amqpProperties.port);
				connectionFactory.setVirtualHost(amqpProperties.vHost);
				connectionFactory.setSsl(amqpProperties.amqpSSL);
			}
			log.info("Creating connection with URI: "+connectionFactory.getUri());
		} catch (JMSException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return connectionFactory;
	}

	@Bean
	public Connection jmsConnection(ConnectionFactory connectionFactory) {
		Connection connection = null;
		try {
			connection = connectionFactory.createConnection();
		} catch (JMSException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			connection = null;
		}
		return connection;
	}

	@Bean
	public Session jmsSession(Connection connection) {
		Session session = null;
		int ackMode = 0;
		boolean transacted = false;

		ackMode = getAckMode();
		transacted = (ackMode == Session.SESSION_TRANSACTED);

		//Create the session
		try {
			log.info("Creating session (transacted="+transacted+", ack="+jmsProperties.ackModeStr+")");
			session = connection.createSession(transacted, ackMode);
		} catch (JMSException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			session = null;
		}
		return session;
	}

	private int getAckMode() {
		int ackMode = -1;

		//Apply rules for modes driven by certain properties
		if(appProperties.batchSize>0) {
			log.info("batchSize is "+appProperties.batchSize+", turning transactions on.");
			jmsProperties.ackModeStr = "SESSION_TRANSACTED";
		}
		else if(appProperties.poisonTryLimit>0) {
			log.info("Poison message consumption enabled, setting mode to SESSION_TRANSACTED");
			jmsProperties.ackModeStr = "SESSION_TRANSACTED";
		}

		if("AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE".equals(jmsProperties.ackModeStr) || "1".equals(jmsProperties.ackModeStr)) { ackMode = Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE; jmsProperties.ackModeStr = "AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE"; }
		else if("CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE".equals(jmsProperties.ackModeStr) || "2".equals(jmsProperties.ackModeStr)) { ackMode = Session.CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE; jmsProperties.ackModeStr = "CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE"; }
		else if("DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE".equals(jmsProperties.ackModeStr) || "3".equals(jmsProperties.ackModeStr)) { ackMode = Session.DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE; jmsProperties.ackModeStr = "DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE"; }
		else if("SESSION_TRANSACTED".equals(jmsProperties.ackModeStr) || "0".equals(jmsProperties.ackModeStr)) {
			ackMode = Session.SESSION_TRANSACTED;
			jmsProperties.ackModeStr = "SESSION_TRANSACTED";
			if(appProperties.batchSize<1) {
				log.warn("ACK mode set to SESSION_TRANSACTED, but batchSize not set.  Setting it to 1.");
				appProperties.batchSize = 1;
			}
		}
		else {
			log.error("ACK mode \""+jmsProperties.ackModeStr+"\" not set to a known type or value.  Using AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE.");
			ackMode = Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE;
			jmsProperties.ackModeStr = "AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE";
		}
		return ackMode;
	}
}

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June 8, 2016 2016 campaigns, George Bennett, redistricting.
State Sen. Joseph Abruzzo, D-Boynton Beach, (left) will quit the District 29 Senate race to run in House District 81. State Rep. Kevin Rader, D-Delray Beach, is quitting his House District 81 race to run in Senate District 29.
State Sen. Joseph Abruzzo, D-Boynton Beach, and state Rep. Kevin Rader, D-Delray Beach, are switching races less than three weeks before Florida's candidate qualifying deadline.
Abruzzo, a senator since 2012, announced today that he's scrapping his campaign for the newly drawn District 29 Senate seat and will instead run for the House District 81 seat held by Rader. Rader announced that he will abandon his bid for a third House term in District 81 and will instead run in Senate District 29, which includes Boca Raton and its western suburbs, Wellington and Belle Glade.
State Rep. Irving Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, is pondering a run in Senate District 29 or 31.
The maneuver comes 16 days before Florida's June 24 deadline for candidates to submit paperwork and pay filing fees to secure their places on the 2016 ballot.
Senate districts were redrawn in December after courts ruled the Republican-led legislature illegally gerrymandered districts in 2012. The new plan throws three incumbent Democratic Senators — Abruzzo, Jeff Clemens of Atlantis and Maria Sachs of Delray Beach — into the same Senate District 31.
Abruzzo, whose old Senate district includes many District 29 residents, planned to move into District 29 to run there. But the move has not happened, and in a video Abruzzo released to the online Village Sentry newsletter at Century Village of Boca Raton, he noted that Rader's district is "where I live." He also said that he and Rader have had "an incredible partnership" in Tallahassee.
State Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, has mulled running in Senate District 29 or 31 or not at all.
Abruzzo was the only announced candidate in Senate District 29, but he faced potential Democratic primary challenges there from Sachs, who has also represented many District 29 constituents in the past, and state Rep. Irving Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, whose House seat includes a large chunk of District 29.
Sachs announced this afternoon that she's not running this year.
Slosberg said he's continuing to consider running in Senate District 29 or in District 31 against Clemens.


Christmas landscape. © Bruce Stambaugh 2014.
I love to read to children.
As an elementary student, I feared being called on to read. I was in my glory when the instructions were to read silently. I had my immature reasons, most of which were cemented in fear of reading aloud, mispronouncing words and the ensuing public chastisement.
I got over it, but I still don't like to read out loud in front of groups. There was an exception, however. When I became an elementary teacher, I enjoyed reading to my own students because they respectfully listened.
Often times I read right after the noon recess. Intermediate school children played hard. I wanted them to be ready for the afternoon lessons. I found reading timely, age-appropriate stories perfect for getting the students calmed and cooled down.
All they had to do was listen, even with their heads on their desks. Reading allowed me to refocus, too.
This time of year, I always read Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol." I still read it to myself every year. It's one of my Yuletide traditions.
The book is a classic with a timeless story of a changed heart and helping the poor. Set in 19th century London, Dickens beautifully played out the true meaning of Christmas through the tension he created between Ebenezer Scrooge and the other main characters in the book, mainly his nephew, Fred, and Scrooge's desk clerk, Bob Cratchit.
I marveled at how well the students paid attention. After I finished reading for 10 or 15 minutes, the students always begged me to read on. Most wanted to hear what happened next. Some, of course, just wanted a further delay in doing the afternoon lessons.
I read and continue to read "A Christmas Carol" because it is incredible literature, very well written, and a commentary on the societal situations at the time. I also enjoy the spirit that the book imbibes. It clearly reflects the true meaning of Christmas.
Reading to grandkids. © Bruce Stambaugh 2014.
In the opening scene, the stage is set. Two men enter Dickens' accounting office to ask for a monetary donation to help the poor. Scrooge asks them if the poor houses and the workhouses have disappeared, knowing they have not.
Scrooge shoos the men out, and in the process lets in his happy-go-lucky nephew, Fred. He promptly invites Scrooge to a Christmas party, to which Scrooge imparts his legendary "Bah Humbug" retort. Fred leaves, disappointed but not discouraged.
Dickens' classic still rings true today. As technologically advanced as we are today, as quickly as we can communicate with others, as good as we have it in our North American society, the poor are still among us.
I am thankful for all of the organizations, churches, businesses and individuals that give freely of their time and money to provide food, clothing, and shelter for the less fortunate at Christmastime.
These kind and generous acts exemplify the Christmas spirit in action, much the way Dickens' fabled tale does. Because I have read the story so many times, I know what's coming. But because the story is so well written, still apropos, I keep reading "A Christmas Carol." Its message to help the poor is intended to reach far beyond the holiday season.
If you haven't ever read "A Christmas Carol," I won't spoil it for you. Read it. Your Christmas will be brighter for it, and maybe, just maybe, someone else's life will be richer because you did.
Helping the poor anytime of year any way possible is always appreciated. © Bruce Stambau gh 2014.


While Samsung and Apple may want to quickly forget about the sub-par performance of their smartphone portfolios during the final calendar quarter of 2018, it looks like Huawei is not the only company that can be proud of its mobile device shipments in a time of general industry stagnation.
Lenovo's Mobile Business Group (MBG) managed to somehow generate a quarterly profit for the first time in nearly five years, although it's unclear exactly how much money the company's smartphones made between October and December. We're probably not talking about massive gains, as Lenovo recorded an overall net profit of $233 million during this timeframe.
Both the MBG and the PC and Smart Devices (PCSD) business contributed to that result, which marks a solid improvement for Lenovo's financial position after the Chinese tech giant lost $289 million in the same quarter of 2017. Lenovo is obviously proud of its PC market-leading status and how its computers have managed to outperform the industry, but that unspecified worldwide profit generated by the mobile division is actually a more significant achievement if you ask us.
That's because Lenovo acquired Motorola back in 2014, struggling to combine the two brands and integrate Moto's business in a seamless and lucrative way ever since. At long last, the company executed a strategy to "reduce expenses, streamline the Group's product portfolio, and focus on core markets" in "masterful" fashion.
As a result, it seems Moto-branded handsets sold like hotcakes during the holidays in North America, while a "range of new products under the Lenovo brand" quadrupled the company's revenue in China.
Unfortunately, we don't have actual sales numbers to share, but Counterpoint Research ranked Lenovo in eight place in global smartphone shipments for the entire year, behind LG. That means you don't need to sell that many phones to make a profit. But you do need a coherent strategy and a "masterful execution" of said strategy.
Moto G series turn to be Garbage series while Z play turnout to be expensive and P10 turn out to be a copycat of iPhone X,XS & E series has buried under G7 power name to remain a battery champ.Moto Z has went unnoticed till last year hope it get better this year.
I've seen many more Motos in the wild lately.
I'm amazed that this is working considering how many models they release in the different price ranges.
Motorola is like one of the top smartphone vendors in South America. They are also big in Africa.
Because consumers know you don't need a higher SOC just to have a decent phone. I bet you don't know that.


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Introducing St Maroun
Posted on April 17, 2019 by Fr Yuhanna Azize
Who was St Maroun (St Maron)?
Maronite history is controversial. This controversy is partly possible because there are so few sources for Maronite history for the period from its beginning up until the last two hundred years. For the very earliest periods, the few shreds of surviving evidence are often unclear, incomplete, and vigorously controverted. Although historians acknowledge that the sources are thin, they nonetheless try and fill them in as much as they can. In this course we shall try and be impartial, and not overstate the evidence in any direction or for any purpose. It is not possible to avoid all controversy, but I think we can avoid the practice of criticising others who offer conjectures, while doing the same ourselves. The most important book on early Maronite history is Peter El Khouri's Aramaic Catholicism. Incidentally, so that there is no confusion, I have altered all spellings of "Marun" or "Maron" to "Maroun", whatever my source may have written.
Theodoret's Life of Maroun
Ancient Cyr, also known as Cyrrhus and Kurros, in Syria was founded in about 300BC, and was named after the city of Kurros in Macedonia. It was in northern Syria, not far from Aleppo and the modern Turkish border. Theodoret was bishop of Cyrrhus between about 423 and 458. We are almost totally reliant upon his History of the Monks of Syria. Theodoret is uneven in his treatment of the monks, and aimed to relate what he had seen of these monks for himself, or learned from those who had themselves met the relevant monk.[1] Unfortunately for us, it appears that Theodoret did not ever meet St Maroun,[2] and perhaps for this reason, commentators observe that Theodoret's brief account is very thin for such an important monk.[3]
St Maroun is an enigma. He is important in Christian history: no other Catholic rite is, so far as I know, exclusively named after one person, yet little is known of what he said and did which made him so important – except for the essential points. We shall begin with the only biography of him, chapter 16 of Theodoret's writings on the holy hermits and monks of Syria.[4] It reads:
1 After Akepsimas, I will call to mind Maroun, for he adorned the godly troop of the holy ones. Maroun embraced life under the sky, taking for himself a certain hill-top which had long ago been honoured by the impious. And having dedicated to God the sacred precincts of the demons in that place, he passed all of his time there, pitching a small tent, but making little use of it. Maroun did not only employ the customary labours, but he conceived others also, gathering together the wealth of wisdom.
2 The judge measured out grace for these labours: so richly did the munificent one grant to him the charism of healing, that Maroun's fame ran about everywhere, and everyone from everywhere was attracted, so that experience taught them the truth of the report. It was seen that fevers were quenched by the dew of his blessing, shudderings ceased, and demons fled – many and varied sufferings were cured by the one remedy. For the race of physicians applies to each illness the corresponding medicine, but the prayer of the holy ones is the common antidote to all pathologies.
3 But Maroun healed more than bodily weaknesses alone: he also applied the bountiful cure for souls. He heals the greed of this man, and the anger of that man. For one man, Maroun proffers the teaching which leads to self-control, while for another man he bestows lessons in justice; he tempers the man of intemperance, and arouses the sluggish. Farming in this wise, Maroun cultivated many crops through his wisdom: it was he who planted the paradise which now blooms in the land of Kurros. The great Yakobos (James) was a product of this cultivation: of him and of all the others whom I shall recall individually with God's help, one could rightly apply the famous prophetic saying: "The just man will flower like the palm tree, and will be multiplied like a cedar in the Lebanon."
4 Caring in this way for the garden of God, doctoring to both souls and bodies alike, he patiently suffered but a short illness. Maroun, teaching us the frailty of our nature and strength in commitment, withdrew himself from this life.
Quarrelling broke out between the neighbours over his body, a violent quarrel. A populous bordering village came out in a body, scattered all of the others, and seized this most-desired treasure. They built a great sacred enclosure, and even to this very day they reap the profit, honouring Maroun the victory-bearer with a public feast. And even we, who are at a distance, reap his blessing, for it is not Maroun's tomb which contents us, but his memory.
In addition, Theodoret mentions Maroun in some other places, translated by the author:
Chapter VI, Symeon (Not St Simon the Stylite)
(summary) 2 Some Jews were journeying to a citadel which lay outside of our "inhabited world" (oikoumene). They lost their way in a storm, and came upon Symeon in his cave. Symeon offered them guides to put them back on the right road, and summoned two lions, who at Symeon's direction, led the Jewish travellers back onto their road.
3 "But no one is to think the narrative is fabulous, for I have as witnesses to its truth, those who are usually foes of the truth. Indeed, the very Jews who met with this good service continued to praise this act. And this was told to me by great Yakub himself, who stated that he had been present when the Jewish travellers related the miracle to the divinely-voiced Maroun." [Theodoret then stresses that this was an instance where Jews witnessed a miracle wrought through a Christian.]
Chapter XXI, Yakub
(summary) Yakub had been a companion of Maroun, who had lived in a place once holy to the pagans, and protected himself from the elements only by retiring to a tent made of "hairy skins" in rain or snow.
Chapter XXII, Limnaios
2 Limnaios had been a pupil of Thalassios, and then went to Maroun at the same time as Yakub, and after this, being eager for the "life under the sky", took possession of another hilltop, lying above the village of Targalla.[5]
Ch. XXIV Zebinas
2 Zebinas was admired by Maroun, who advised all who visited him to obtain Zebinas' blessing. Maroun wished to be buried in Zebinas' grave.
Chapter 30 mentions Maroun only to say that Domnina emulated his life. Price states that St Maroun professed himself "the disciple of Zebinas".[6] However, this is not what the text says. Incidentally, as we have seen, "Zebinas" was also the name of a bishop of Antioch. It shows only that the name was not unique among Christians.
It should not be forgotten that St Maroun lived before the great Christological battles which broke out. Disputes had begun, but not the great conflicts. The life of St Maroun was not the life of a controversialist: it was the life of a missionary of Christianity in a very disciplined form. Whether he was indeed the first hermit to live an open-air existence, as opposed to in a town, or in a desert cell, is not to my mind as important as the example of holiness. He was not so extreme as some others, as he had a small hut to which he could retire in extreme weather. That his way of life impressed contemporaries is not in doubt, and his exposure to the elements will have assisted in that. But that ascetic life was a means to an end: it is the end which is significant.
To be continued, Joseph Azize (Fr Yuhanna), 17 April 2019
[1] (Prologue, 11)
[2] Price (1985) 119, n.1.
[3] Price (1985) 119, n.1. Cavinet and Leroy-Molinghen (1979) 28-29, n.1.
[4] Théodoret de Cyr: Histoire des moines de Syrie, two volumes, Pierre Canivet and Alice Leroy-Molinghen, Sources Chrétiennes 234, Les éditions du cerf, Paris, 1977 and 1979.
[5] p. 153, n.2 Price: Targalla is not identified.
[6] Price (1985) 119.
[7] Gelston (1992) 21-22.
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Q: How to wait until the previous post request is completed in JavaScript+Node.js? I am trying to do two post requests in JavaScript (client-side), but the second one seems to run before the first one is completed.
This is the code I have:
Client-side code:
$.post("/startGame", {username: username});
$.post("/lookingForAPlayer", {});

Server-side code:
var idPlayer;
app.post('/startGame', function(req, res) {
    const idPlayerProm = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        dbConnection.getIdPlayer(req.body.username).then(data => {
            resolve(data)
        });
    });

    Promise.all([idPlayerProm]).then(data => {
        idPlayer = data[0];
        console.log("idPlayer1: " + idPlayer) //Here idPlayer has a value
        const gamePromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            dbConnection.addGame(idPlayer).then(data => {
                resolve(data);
            });
        });
        Promise.all([gamePromise]).then(data => {
            idGame = data[0];
        });
    })
});

app.post('/lookingForAPlayer', function(req, res) {
    console.log("idPlayer2: " + idPlayer); //Here idPlayer is undefined
});

Result:

As you can see, it even prints idPlayer2 at first when should be printed after idPlayer1.
I am guessing I need to do some sort of Promise in the client side, but I am not sure how as I am new at doing them on the client-side.
Any help?
Update for @DanMossa (I cannot get the value I send from the server with his/her answer).
app.post('/startGame', function(req, res) {
    dbConnection.getIdPlayer(req.body.username).then(data1 => {
        dbConnection.addGame(data1).then(data2 => {
            res.end(JSON.stringify([data1, data2]));
        });
    });
});

app.post('/lookingForAPlayer', function(req, res) {
    //Here I will also res.end() as I do in /startGame.
});

A: Working off of @Yousaf 's post, using async/await might make it easier to mentally visualize.
try {
  const res = await fetch('/startGame', {
    method: 'POST',
    body: JSON.stringify({ username: username }),
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  });

  await fetch('/lookingForAPlayer', {
    method: 'POST',
    body: JSON.stringify({}),
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  });
} catch (error) {
  console.log(error);
}

A: You can use promise chaining along with fetch api
fetch('/startGame', {
   method: 'POST',
   body: JSON.stringify({username: username}),
   headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }
})
.then(res => {
   // do something with response

   // make second request
   return fetch('/lookingForAPlayer', {
      method: 'POST',
      body: JSON.stringify({}),
      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }
   });
})
.then(res => { /* do something with response */ })
.catch(err => console.log(err));

Keep in mind that second POST request will be sent only after first POST request is successful and client has received the response from the server

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For Grades 5-8 , week of Apr 12, 2021
1. All-Star Game Moved
When the state of Georgia passed a new law placing greater restrictions on the right to vote, many wondered if — or how — corporations and other public institutions would respond. Major League Baseball wasted little time taking a stand, pulling the yearly All-Star Game out of Georgia and moving it to Denver, Colorado. "Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box," Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a prepared statement. "Fair access to voting continues to have our unwavering support." The move, which will cost Georgia as much as $100-million in lost revenue, prompted a bitter response from Georgia Republicans, who had pushed the bill through the legislature after the state went Democratic in the last presidential race and in two U.S. Senate elections. President Biden supported the move, while former President Trump called for a boycott of Major League Baseball games. Efforts to restrict voting or make it more difficult are under way in many states beyond Georgia. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read stories about such efforts. Use what you read to write a political column analyzing the efforts, how supporters justify them and what opponents say.
2. 'Godzilla vs. Kong'
Among the hardest hit businesses during the coronavirus epidemic have been movie theaters. Stay-at-home orders and social distancing rules shut down or closed most theaters, and people turned to live streaming movies on their TVs or computers. Now, with restrictions and communities returning to normal, movie theaters are poised to make a comeback. And the newly released "Godzilla vs. Kong" has given them a big boost. The movie about a giant ape and a radioactive lizard sold more than $49-million in tickets in its first week in the United States. That total is far smaller than those of past blockbusters — "Avengers: Endgame" had more than $357-million in ticket sales in its first weekend — but it has encouraged movie-makers that better days are ahead. The movie industry has struggled during the coronavirus epidemic. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read stories about the challenges it has faced. Use what you read to prepare an oral report on what kind of movies might help the industry recover and get people going back to theaters this summer. In your report, include how theaters can overcome customers' reservations about gathering in public.
Common Core State Standards: Conducting short research projects that build knowledge about a topic; citing specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions.
3. History Maker
In 18 years as men's basketball coach at the University of North Carolina, Roy Williams made a lot of history — 903 wins, three national titles and two other appearances in the March Madness Final Four. When he announced he was retiring earlier this month, he paved the way for North Carolina to make even more history. The university has hired Williams' assistant Hubert Davis to replace him — the first African American to hold the head coaching position in the history of the school. The 50-year-old Davis does not have previous head coaching experience, but he has deep ties to the university. He played for Carolina as a college student, helping the Tar Heels to a pair of ACC tournament titles and a trip to the NCAA Final Four. In his senior year he averaged 21.4 points per game and earned second-team all-conference honors. His uncle, Walter Davis, played for North Carolina from 1974 to 1977 and is considered one of the greatest players ever for the school. In the sports world, people are achieving new milestones in many ways. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read a story about someone who has done this. Use what you read to write a sports column detailing how the person's groundbreaking achievement can inspire young people and others. Discuss with family, friends or classmates.
Common Core State Standards: Engaging effectively in a range of collaborative discussions; writing opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
4. 'Wormnado'
Heavy spring rains often bring hundreds of earthworms to the surface to escape the water. They usually wriggle about as individuals on grass or pavements. In the state of New Jersey, however, a woman out on a morning walk saw hundreds of worms wriggling together on the edge of a sidewalk. What's more, the worms had formed a spiral shape on the ground that looked like a tornado. When the woman reported her discovery to officials in the city of Hoboken, a city councilor posted it on Facebook and said that it looked like "a tornado of worms." Soon one reader took it step further, and the term "wormnado" was born. Scientists consulted about the event could not say why the worms had formed a spiral shape in Hoboken. But they noted that other worms have been observed herding in clumps scientifically known as "blobs" (really). All anyone could agree on was the observation of the local city councilor, who noted "This is something I've never seen!" Unusual events in nature often are in the news. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read a story about one such event. Use what you read to brainstorm an idea for a creative story based on the event. Share with family and friends.
5. Transformers Indeed
Since they first came out, Transformers toys have been hugely popular in movies, TV shows, video games, comic books — and of course in playrooms and family rooms. Year after year, kids have been attracted to the figures that can transform into cars, animals, robots and more by shifting a few parts. In the Asian nation of China, a group craftsmen has created a set of Transformers like none that fans have seen before. The larger-than-life action figures are built out of used car parts and other scrap metal. The figures change shapes as they do in the action movies and some are huge. A model of an Optimus Prime Transformer, for example, stands nearly 40 feet tall. "This is so awesome," one fan noted when a video of the giant Transformers circulated online. "Their childhood dreams have finally come true." Artists are often inspired by popular culture items and events to create new things. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read a story about an artist doing this. Then find something from the entertainment or popular culture world that could inspire an artwork of your own. Draw a sketch of your artwork and give it title. Share and discuss with family, friends or classmates.
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Pursuant to certain amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), Villanova University must adopt and implement a plan to combat illegal file sharing. The following are the three primary requirements of the file sharing provisions of the HEA and the University's plans for ensuring compliance with them.
To satisfy the requirement of using technology-based deterrent to reduce illegal file sharing, Villanova has chosen to use a Next Generation Firewall to block all P2P applications. In an effort to combat illegal copyright infringement, the University reserves the right to implement additional filtering measures as appropriate.
Publishing the Student Handbook, which outlines the criminal and civil penalties for violation of copyright law.
Maintaining a website for the University plan to combat illegal file sharing that includes: a posting of this plan document; an outline of the disciplinary sanctions and criminal and civil penalties for violation of copyright law; educational material describing legal and illegal examples of file sharing; and links to legal sources of music, videos, books and other copyrighted material.
Distributing occasional articles on copyright issues via email and web to the University community.
Annually providing all students with information about the University's copyright policy via an email communication.
Requiring students to acknowledge acceptance of the University's Policy on the Ethical Conduct for use of IT Resources.
Presenting information on the University's copyright policy during the annual Orientation program for all freshmen, Orientation Counselors and Resident Assistants.
Training Tech Zone student workers on copyright law to enable them to assist other students with issues.
Villanova's plan to educate and inform the community about illegal file sharing has several components.
Villanova's plan to combat illegal file sharing is designed to provide maximum flexibility in dealing with different situations. The University will also utilize a wide range of disciplinary measures to discipline users found in violation of the policies regarding copyrighted material and use of the internet. Violating users may be subject to the full range of criminal and civil penalties. Students found in violation of University policies will be subject to a full range of disciplinary action, up to and including expulsion. Repeat offenders will be referred to the Dean of Students' Office for action. Faculty and staff found in violation of University policies prohibiting unlawful file sharing may be subject to disciplinary action ranging in severity from a warning up to and including termination of employment.
The University will also combat the unauthorized distribution of copyright material by continuing to respond to DMCA copyright infringement notices using the procedure detailed here.
On an annual basis, Villanova will review the effectiveness of its plan in achieving a reduction in illegal file sharing. The review will be performed by University Information Technologies (UNIT), The Office of the General Counsel, The University Compliance Office and the Chief Information Security Officer. The University will use both process-based and outcome-based criteria in conducting this review. Such process-based criteria may include whether Villanova is following current best practices developed either by similar institutions or copyright holders. Two measures of outcome-based effectiveness will be the number of DMCA notices and the recidivism rate of violators. The University will also continue to examine potential new cost-effective technological deterrents, in addition to possible revisions to the educational portion of the plan.
Make an annual disclosure that informs students that the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials may subject students to criminal and civil penalties and that describes the steps the University will take to detect and punish illegal distribution of copyrighted materials.
The University will circulate an annual disclosure notice to current students that apprises them of the criminal and civil penalties, as well as the University disciplinary sanctions, for violations of copyright laws. The University also places its policy prohibiting illegal file sharing in the Student Handbook in the policy section of the University Information Technology (UNIT) website, in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report and on a website dedicated to this topic.
On Villanova's website dedicated to illegal file sharing, the University will provide links for legal sources of music, movies and other material, which will be supplemented from time to time in the event the University becomes aware of additional sources for lawfully obtaining copyrighted material. Villanova will endeavor to continue to locate and provide to the community additional sources for obtaining copyrighted material in a legal fashion. The University will make available the results of this periodic review of legal alternatives on the same website.


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Jimmy pressed his nose against the window, scowling. Soft drum beats of rain rippled over the other side of the glass.
"It's the first rain in three months, and that's how you react?" Kate was standing behind him with eyebrows raised.
"I had plans for today," he replied.
"How exactly can I have fun now?" asked Jimmy, clambering to his feet to face his unwanted challenger.
Kate's expression did not budge.
"Not in here, silly," she said. "Out there!" Finger rises to point out the window.
Two old t-shirts and two old shorts. Barefoot. Open the door and the furious cacophony of water bouncing off concrete echoes into the hallway. Shrieking with delights, two spirits younger than their years leap forth onto the sodden grass. Highland jigs, some frenetic jazz and a rapid waltz are punctuated by wet, whipping hair, water slaking from skin and glorious thunder. Five minutes, then two transformed sea-creatures swim back to the shore.
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Come On In My Kitchen
Recorded and Written by Robert Johnson
This song is a great example of Johnson's craft. Let's look at the seemingly simple lyrics.
Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm…
Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm.
You better come on in my kitchen:
Babe, it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors.
Ah, the woman I love, took from my best friend.
Some joker got lucky, stole her back again.
Baby, it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors.
Oh-ah, she's gone… I know she won't come back.
I've taken the last nickel out of her nation sack.
Oh, can't you hear that wind howl?
When a woman gets in trouble, everybody throws her down.
Lookin' for her good friend, none can be found.
Winter time's comin', it's gon' to be slow.
You can't make the winter, babe, that's dry long so.
Cause it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors.
Now let's listen to Johnson's first delivery of the chorus, to get a feel for the tone of the music. (Audio clip – 112K.)
Note that the pace of the song is slow and measured, the tone of Johnson's delivery is deeply felt, and the accompanying guitar is delicate, even if stinging at times. So whereas the lines that he sings could be interpreted to be suggestive, or leering, or sexually assertive, his delivery conveys none of this.
Johnson begins the song by humming the first two lines of the first verse. This does a couple of things: it allows him to suggest a depth of feeling that is not yet associated with any particular characters or events, and it allows the repeated refrain to be delivered as the first words of the song, placing the thematic emphasis on the refrain, rather than the events described later.
The events of the song are not quite connected enough to form a linear story. Instead, they seem to describe a condition. The women in the song go from one situation to another, one liaison to another, with little or no power or resources of their own, no lasting relationships, no security. At its most narrow, this could be the condition of black women in the American South in the early 1900's, but there are no details in the song, other than what we know about the singer himself, to restrict our focus this narrowly. Certainly the song could easily be considered to be about the fate of women in any age and any society.
The refrain itself is wonderful in its simplicity and its resonance. What is the singer offering? Certainly, in the context of the song, one does not expect that the offer is being made out of pure generosity or sympathy for the woman's condition, yet the fact that no strings are overtly attached leaves the offer mysterious, open-ended. And the line "It's going to be raining outdoors" is rich with symbolism and drama, suggesting that the woman will need protection from the elements, will need a relationship with the singer.
Two lines in the middle of the song are softly spoken rather than sung, when Johnson asks "Oh, can't you hear the wind howl?" then uses his guitar to evoke the sound of the approaching storm. The effect, again, is to dramatize the plight of the woman who has no place to stay, no protection.
It is important to note that, while the words of the song are tremendously simple, this simplicity is not constrictive, but rather suggestive. It is not that Johnson has little to say, but that he has suggested so much with so few words. With a few bold lines, he has drawn a simple sketch, yet one that clearly outlines a world of shifting and uncertain relationships, a world of setbacks and disappointments, a world that cares little for the plight of a single woman, and yet a world that also includes this offer of protection, this open door into the singer's kitchen.
The notes of the song rise and fall, pausing and then moving on, fittingly representing the circumstances of the woman's life. Johnson's voice is rich and moving, with his guitar lines fitting like a glove to a hand, supporting and extending his vocals, suggesting a delicate frailty.
Note too that, while Johnson's vocals are emotional, the emotions are much more than simple, transient reactions to a single person in a particular time, place and situation—they are deeply felt, filled with ancient wisdom, sadness and power: as Dylan says of Johnson, "Neither forlorn or hopeless or shackled." ( Chronicles: Volume 1 )
It is interesting to see how much variation Johnson uses in this simple song structure. He hums the first two lines. Later on in the song he speaks two lines instead of singing them. And when singing, "Lookin' for her good friend, none can be found," note how he varies his accompaniment, using his guitar to match the vocal melody, seemingly emphasizing the sadness of the song. (Audio clip – 48K.)
Just for fun, let's see if we can find some echoes of this simple Johnson song in later works of rock music. John Lennon uses the weather and a similarly simple set of words to describe a universal condition in "Rain" Dylan uses an approaching storm and a similarly open-ended dramatic situation in "All Along the Watchtower" Dylan uses a similarly simple refrain based on the weather in "Blowing in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." And the tone of Johnson towards the woman in this song seems similar to the tone of Dylan towards a woman in hardship in "Like A Rolling Stone"
Like many of Johnson's tracks, "Come On In My Kitchen" is a masterwork in which words, vocals and guitar parts are all perfectly crafted to deliver a single, unified artistic effect. Those who followed him would spend hours, days, weeks and months surrounded by sophisticated recording equipment, trying to achieve similar effects, emulating this almost unknown bluesman whose only opportunities for immortality were a few hours in makeshift recording studios hastily set up in hotel rooms. Yet those few hours were enough for Johnson to alter the course of music decades later.
As one of his students admitted:
If I hadn't heard the Robert Johnson record when I did, there probably would have been hundreds of lines of mine that would have been shut down—that I wouldn't have felt free enough or upraised enough to write.
— Bob Dylan
Chronicles: Volume One
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Ethiopia agreed to form Travel Bubble with India
One of the latest countries to agree to form a travel bubble with India is Ethiopia.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation announced in their latest tweet where they said, "Attention travellers! An air travel arrangement has been established between India and Ethiopia. Designated carriers of both countries are permitted to operate flights between the two countries. Please plan your travels accordingly."
And accordingly, flight from and to Ethiopia are operational with set guidelines which include:
From India to Ethiopia
Residents of Ethiopia, stranded nationals, or foreign travellers traveling to Africa with transit in Ethiopia can travel to Ethiopia.
Any Indian national traveling to Africa and should hold a valid visa for the destination country. In such a case, the airline should be concerned and responsible to ensure that there are no travel restrictions for Indian nationals to enter the foreign country with a particular visa category before a boarding pass is issued to them.
People traveling via Sea and those who hold Indian Passports would have to get clearance from the Ministry of Shipping and should be destined to countries of Africa only.
From Ethiopia to India
Indian nationals who are stranded in any countries in Africa.
All Person of Indian Origin (PIO) and Overseas Citizen of Indian (OCI) cardholders holding valid passports.
All foreign nationals from any countries in Africa and those except those holding tourist visas and are intending to visit India for any purpose.
People traveling via Sea from any African countries.
Currently, Including Ethiopia, India shares a bi-lateral travel agreement with the United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Canada, Bhutan, France, Kenya, Iraq, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Maldives, Qatar, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and the United States.


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In the introduction, it is already written that a very big number of law firms experience past due accounts. If the small law firms that give low charges experience this situation continually they can have a problem. But big firms who had already established their own system and coping mechanism cannot be hurt that much. But past due account is already late and so they should be given into consideration and attention. The reason for it should be found so that it could be managed for the sake of the whole business. A very good dress makes you look more charming. A creative vintage dress is one of the example. This looks very elegant and great design.
In the last part of the infographic, they had presented the steps and methods for finding the solution to the problem. The first process is to know the problem and to make it into writing like a uniform billing process. After that look at the ways that you can receive the payments or fees easier and faster. Another step is to conduct an analysis and make a conclusion on it and implement what is best. This is where you should visit when it comes to dress matters. You check this out to know where to go. This is where I usually shop for my beautiful dresses.


The Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) is aiming, for the first time, to have people with Down syndrome put on the endangered species list. Their newest campaign is a video featuring people with Down syndrome dressed up as threatened species.
Due to genetic screening, fewer people are being born with Down syndrome and, according to the CDSS, the occurrence of Down syndrome is estimated to be present in approximately one in 800 births in Canada. This decline in births basically means fewer funding, not to mention the community has less access to housing, education and other necessities.
Through their application to be on the threatened species list, the CDSS is asking for the same types of "funding, protections, government intervention and public awareness that species on the Endangered List receive".
Some people have described the campaign as "tone deaf", but many others agree it highlights important issues for the Down syndrome community.
To learn more, visit the Endangered Syndrome website.


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'Gotham' EP Says Superhero Fans Don't Bring in TV Ratings
Eric Francisco
Gotham executive producer Bruno Heller told the crowd at the Edinburgh Television Festival on Thursday that superheroes "don't work very well" on TV. Maybe that's why there haven't been any superheroes in his DC show.
"The comic book constituency has become so large and visible with the whole Comic-Con thing that it is very easy to assume that the audience is purely comic book enthusiasts," Heller told those in attendance at the festival in Scotland. "But I operate the show on the basis that it is a mistake to just go there."
He's not wrong. A lot of people who tuned into these popular shows aren't comic book experts. That's why, if we're being honest, our primers on obscure comic characters do well.
That said, Heller's other statements are pretty bizarre – at least, coming from someone whose job it is to put on a show about a superhero's origin. "TV is about real people and faces, and not so much about magic and the supernatural things," he said. No one tell him about Supergirl or The Flash.
It should be noted that Gotham isn't about superheroes. Portraying Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) before he becomes the vengeful Batman, Gotham is a gothic crime drama that is half gritty realism, half bonkers science fiction. There's hardly anything fantastical in Gotham, but next season is going to have Poison Ivy age from a preteen to a young adult because she meets a monster who rebirths her into a grown woman. But, you know, realism.
"Every season is moving towards the world, in which Batman has to emerge to save the day," said Heller. "So every season is doubling down on the chaos and anarchy that is overtaking Gotham. So, things keep getting worse."
Yes, we're sure.
Gotham returns September 19 to Fox.
Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special trailer casts a smutty spell over Gotham
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Bruce Timm's Justice League was a blueprint for the superhero team-up series
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The MCU could bring back a hero from its most underrated TV show
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Pizza in the Hudson Valley: Where to Find the Best Pies
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Accenture launches NewsPage update for Asia Pacific market
09 January 2020 Consultancy.asia
Professional services firm Accenture has selected SAP Cloud Platform for its latest NewsPage update, which acts as an integrated distributor management and sales automation system.
Accenture has launched the latest generation of its NewsPage platform for the Asia Pacific, which is described as an integrated distributor management and sales automation system that helps consumer products companies better manage traditional trade channels, promotions, and sales processes. The fresh edition, NewsPage 9, has been built on SAP Cloud Platform and the SAP HANA service.
"Accenture NewsPage 9 will create a single source of customer data, with machine learning and microservices that power real-time sales execution," said Accenture's Fabio Vacirca. "Our collaboration can better enable consumer products companies to capture new consumption in untapped traditional trade as well as complex, multi-layer supply chains, ultimately gaining revenue and profitability."
According to the firm, its NewsPage solution already has over 160,000 users serving more than 5,000 distributors and three million retail outlets across 60 countries – yet it points to Asia, the global driver for ecommerce and most mobile region in the world, as still having in excess of 25 million under-served retail outlets. This represents a huge opportunity for the region's consumer products companies says Accenture.
Targeting companies in fast-growth markets such as ASEAN and China, NewsPage9 offers distribution management, sales force automation, and merchandising capabilities – and in covering the complete down-stream supply chain including secondary sales data will allow companies to improve their view of demand signals and streamline inventory and sales processes to enhance productivity and plan for growth.
Developed in the APAC region and to be distributed globally, NewsPage9 has been built on SAP Cloud Platform and the SAP HANA service, with Accenture taking advantage of the SAP PartnerEdge - Build engagement model, through which solution providers and software vendors can quickly design, develop, integrate and commercialise their applications under a single, comprehensive partner programme.
"With next-generation route-to-market capabilities like Accenture NewsPage 9 that are built using SAP technologies, we are jointly helping our customers win the front office by connecting the demand chain to the supply chain and enabling every part of the business to serve and retain their consumers," said SAP's Singapore-based Asia Pacific and Japan president Scott Russell, who kicked off his career with PwC.
Vacirca, who as a senior managing director leads Accenture's Products operating unit for the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (also out of Singapore), and previously headed the professional services giant's global consumer goods and services practice, added that; "Accenture is committed to building solutions that help our clients drive greater efficiency and effectiveness through intelligence and integration."
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A Tale of Two Cases: Fair Use in Who's Holiday!
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Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel) at work on a drawing of a grinch, the hero of his forthcoming book, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna | Courtesy of the Library of Congress
We would like to thank Authors Alliance legal research assistant Allison Davenport for writing the following analysis.
Two courts in the Southern District of New York recently decided two fair use cases that, on the surface, may appear to be similar but ultimately reached different outcomes. In one, a beloved children's classic is grown-up for an adults-only stage adaptation. In another, classic adult novels are presented as colorfully illustrated children's books. Yet, the former was judged to be a fair use and the latter was not. What led the court to these opposite rulings, and what can it teach us about how fair use works?
Fair use is a limitation on U.S. Copyright law which allows authors to use portions of a copyrighted work without permission or payment, so long as that use is "fair." Courts consider at least four factors when determining whether a use is fair: 1) the purpose and character of the challenged use (often asking if the use is "transformative"), 2) the nature of the copyrighted work, 3) the amount and substantiality of the copyrighted work used, and 4) the effect on the potential market for the copyrighted work. These four factors do not work in isolation and must be carefully weighed together to determine if a work is fair.
Who's Holiday! – Matthew Lombardo and Who's Holiday, LLC v. Dr. Seuss Enterprises
"In creating these juxtapositions, the Play, rather than trading on the character of Cindy-Lou Who and the setting of Who-Ville for commercial gain, turns these Seussian staples upside down and makes their saccharin qualities objects of ridicule."
Who's Holiday! is a one-woman stage play by Matthew Lombardo which features a 45-year-old Cindy-Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas recounting the circumstances that led to her life as a drug addict living in a trailer, alone on Christmas. In the play, Cindy retells the events of Seuss' story but then goes on to describe how she became pregnant with the Grinch's baby at 18, married him, and suffered through unemployment and starvation before eventually killing the Grinch and being imprisoned for his murder. The play is told in rhyming couplets similar to the style of Seuss' original, with a few exceptions.
The district court found that Lombardo's use of the characters and settings from How the Grinch Stole Christmas was a fair use largely because the work was a parody of Seuss' original. Whether or not a work is a parody falls under the first factor of fair use. If a work is judged to be a parody, it has an "obvious claim to transformative value" because it has a different expression, meaning, and message than the original. The court characterized Who's Holiday! as a parody because it used the characters, settings, and style from How the Grinch Stole Christmas in an exaggerated way to criticize the original and make it appear ridiculous. Specifically, the court found that the vulgar and distressing subject matter of the play here was intended to contradict the utopian society depicted in the children's book.
When a work is a parody, the remaining three factors are unlikely to tip the balance against fair use. Although How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a creative work and, as such, the court found that factor two weighed against fair use, this factor is weighed less heavily in parody cases. Under the third factor, because parodies must use enough of a work for audiences to recognize the original, the court found that the amount used was reasonable in light of the purpose. The court also found that the fourth factor weighed toward fair use because there was "virtually no possibility that consumers will go see the play in lieu of reading Grinch or watching an authorized derivative work, such as the 2000 film Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. . ." and thus Lombardo's work did not supplant the market for the original or any derivatives that Dr. Seuss Enterprises would be likely to license.
KinderGuides – Penguin Random House, et. al. v. Moppet Books
"Fair use, however, is not a jacket to be worn over an otherwise infringing outfit. One cannot add a bit of commentary to convert an unauthorized derivative work into a protectable publication."
KinderGuides, by Fredrik Colting (who previously claimed fair use in a case involving The Catcher in the Rye) and Melissa Medina, retell classic novels in the form of illustrated children's books. The aim of these books was to make adult novels accessible to children by making the books shorter and removing adult themes and language. Four books were published before the lawsuit was filed (On the Road, The Old Man and the Sea, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and 2001: A Space Odyssey), and KinderGuides planned to release a total of 50 retellings of classic novels.
Once again, the most important factor in this case was the first. KinderGuides argued that their works are transformative because they shortened the books, took out adult-oriented material, and included study guides in the back of each book. The court, however, found that these changes were not enough because the KinderGuides "seek to fairly represent the original" with no new "insights or understandings." Because KinderGuides tried to stay as faithful to the originals as possible, the few additions of study questions at the end were not enough to make their use transformative. Additionally, the fictional character of the original works led the court to find that the second factor weighed against fair use. The court also determined the third factor weighed against fair use because the majority of the KinderGuides content was devoted to retelling the original stories rather than analysis (there were about two pages of study guide for a book of several dozen pages). Finally, the court found that the fourth factor of fair use weighed against KinderGuides because it was usurping the existing potential market for children's books based on classic novels.
What can we learn from this?
These two decisions turn on the transformative qualities of the works claiming fair use. While there are many other ways a work may be considered transformative, parody and criticism are almost always considered transformative. For works claiming to be a parody, a good rule of thumb is to ask whether the new work needed to use the original to make its point or if any copyrighted work would have sufficed to fill the space. Here, Who's Holiday! would not have been able to achieve the same effect (the juxtaposition of the harsh realities of life with Seuss' utopian vision of Who-Ville) without making reference to the original work through the use of its characters and rhyme scheme. KinderGuides, however, could have used any number of underlying classics in their children's books, and in fact planned to do just that.
For critical works, fair use generally allows the new work to use an amount of the original reasonably necessary to support the arguments or analysis. For example, using stills from a film in a review or using quotes from a novel in an academic paper would likely be considered fair use. Where Who's Holiday! used small details from the original such as character names, places, and rhyming style in order to criticize the naiveté of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, KinderGuides faithfully retold the entire stories of the original novels with only a short, poorly integrated analysis at the end of the book. The criticism in Who's Holiday! was pervasive, and in KinderGuides, it felt more like an afterthought (in fact, the authors of KinderGuides admitted to the court that they added these study guides so they could later claim fair use).
Another important takeaway from these cases is the way the fourth factor is interpreted. Part of the justification for the fair use doctrine is that it creates an outlet for works which would not normally be licensed by the original creator, such as criticism or parody. An author's refusal to license derivative works is not enough to justify fair use, however. The use must be one where the type of derivative work being made does not fall into "traditional, reasonable, or likely to be developed markets." For example, while an author may want to license their work in traditional derivative markets such as film and television, it is unlikely they will ever license it for a blistering criticism or parody which makes fun of the original work. Thus, the difference between children's versions of adult classics and a play which introduces themes such as drug abuse and murder into a children's book is that the former takes advantage of a fairly traditional and widespread derivative market that authors would likely wish to exploit for themselves, while the latter is unlikely to ever be officially authorized by the copyright owner of an original work.
Fair use decisions may seem complicated, but looking at real cases and using best practices guides are excellent ways for authors to navigate the legal landscape of fair use. Authors Alliance has a long history of advocating for a robust interpretation of fair use, filing amici curiae briefs in both the Google Books and Cambridge University Press cases, in which we argued that making fair use of works in these cases helps authors keep their works discoverable and in the hands of readers. We also offer resources to authors who wish to learn more about fair use on our Fair Use Resource Page, and we are in the process of developing our own fair use best practices guide for non-fiction authors.
This entry was posted in Blog, Fair Use, Issues, Law and Policy, News on September 28, 2017 by Authors Alliance.