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Groundwater is a valuable resource both in the United States and throughout the world. Groundwater depletion, a term often defined as long-term water-level declines caused by sustained groundwater pumping, is a key issue associated with groundwater use. Many areas of the United States are experiencing groundwater depletion.
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Groundwater is a valuable resource both in the United States and throughout the world. Where surface water, such as lakes and rivers, are scarce or inaccessible, groundwater supplies many of the hydrologic needs of people everywhere. In the United States, it is the source of drinking water for about half the total population and nearly all of the rural population, and it provides over 50 billion gallons per day for agricultural needs. Groundwater depletion, a term often defined as long-term water-level declines caused by sustained groundwater pumping, is a key issue associated with groundwater use. Many areas of the United States are experiencing groundwater depletion.
Excessive pumping can overdraw the groundwater "bank account"
The water stored in the ground can be compared to money kept in a bank account. If you withdraw money at a faster rate than you deposit new money you will eventually start having account-supply problems. Pumping water out of the ground faster than it is replenished over the long-term causes similar problems. The volume of groundwater in storage is decreasing in many areas of the United States in response to pumping. Groundwater depletion is primarily caused by sustained groundwater pumping. Some of the negative effects of groundwater depletion:
drying up of wells
reduction of water in streams and lakes
deterioration of water quality
increased pumping costs
land subsidence
What are some effects of groundwater depletion?
Pumping groundwater at a faster rate than it can be recharged can have some negative effects of the environment and the people who make use of the water:
LOWERING OF THE WATER TABLE
Pumping has removed water from storage in basalt aquifers and caused declines in many areas of the Columbia Plateau.
The most severe consequence of excessive groundwater pumping is that the water table, below which the ground is saturated with water, can be lowered. For water to be withdrawn from the ground, water must be pumped from a well that reaches below the water table. If groundwater levels decline too far, then the well owner might have to deepen the well, drill a new well, or, at least, attempt to lower the pump. Also, as water levels decline, the rate of water the well can yield may decline.
There is more of an interaction between the water in lakes and rivers and groundwater than most people think. Some, and often a great deal, of the water flowing in rivers comes from seepage of groundwater into the streambed. Groundwater contributes to streams in most physiographic and climatic settings. The proportion of stream water that comes from groundwater inflow varies according to a region's geography, geology, and climate.
Groundwater pumping can alter how water moves between an aquifer and a stream, lake, or wetland by either intercepting groundwater flow that discharges into the surface-water body under natural conditions, or by increasing the rate of water movement from the surface-water body into an aquifer. A related effect of groundwater pumping is the lowering of groundwater levels below the depth that streamside or wetland vegetation needs to survive. The overall effect is a loss of riparian vegetation and wildlife habitat.
The basic cause of land subsidence is a loss of support below ground. In other words, sometimes when water is taken out of the soil, the soil collapses, compacts, and drops. This depends on a number of factors, such as the type of soil and rock below the surface. Land subsidence is most often caused by human activities, mainly from the removal of subsurface water.
INCREASED COSTS FOR THE USER
As the depth to water increases, the water must be lifted higher to reach the land surface. If pumps are used to lift the water (as opposed to artesian wells), more energy is required to drive the pump. Using the well can become prohibitively expensive.
One water-quality threat to fresh groundwater supplies is contamination from saltwater intrusion. All of the water in the ground is not fresh water; much of the very deep groundwater and water below oceans is saline. In fact, an estimated 3.1 million cubic miles (12.9 cubic kilometers) of saline groundwater exists compared to about 2.6 million cubic miles (10.5 million cubic kilometers) of fresh groundwater (Gleick, P. H., 1996: Water resources. In Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, ed. by S. H. Schneider, Oxford University Press, New York, vol. 2, pp. 817-823). Under natural conditions the boundary between the freshwater and saltwater tends to be relatively stable, but pumping can cause saltwater to migrate inland and upward, resulting in saltwater contamination of the water supply.
Where does groundwater depletion occur in the United States?
Groundwater Depletion in the United States (1900–2008). A natural consequence of groundwater withdrawals is the removal of water from subsurface storage, but the overall rates and magnitude of groundwater depletion in the United States are not well characterized. This study evaluates long-term cumulative depletion volumes in 40 separate aquifers or areas and one land use category in the United States, bringing together information from the literature and from new analyses. Depletion is directly calculated using calibrated groundwater models, analytical approaches, or volumetric budget analyses for multiple aquifer systems. Estimated groundwater depletion in the United States during 1900–2008 totals approximately 1,000 cubic kilometers (km3). Furthermore, the rate of groundwater depletion has increased markedly since about 1950, with maximum rates occurring during the most recent period (2000–2008) when the depletion rate averaged almost 25 km3 per year (compared to 9.2 km3 per year averaged over the 1900–2008 timeframe).
From Groundwater Depletion in the United States (1900-2008), USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5079.
Groundwater depletion has been a concern in the Southwest and High Plains for many years, but increased demands on our groundwater resources have overstressed aquifers in many areas of the Nation, not just in arid regions. In addition, groundwater depletion occurs at scales ranging from a single well to aquifer systems underlying several states. The extents of the resulting effects depend on several factors including pumpage and natural discharge rates, physical properties of the aquifer, and natural and human-induced recharge rates. Some examples are given below.
ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN - In Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island, New York, pumping water for domestic supply has lowered the water table, reduced or eliminated the base flow of streams, and has caused saline groundwater to move inland.
Many other locations on the Atlantic coast are experiencing similar effects related to groundwater depletion. Surface-water flows have been reduced due to groundwater development in the Ipswich River basin, Massachusetts. Saltwater intrusion is occurring in coastal counties in New Jersey; Hilton Head Island, South Carolina; Brunswick and Savannah, Georgia; and Jacksonville and Miami, Florida (Barlow).
The chart below shows monthly-mean water levels from 1964 to 2003 for a well in Cook County, southwest Georgia. The well is used for irrigation and public-supply purposes and offers a good visual representation of long-term groundwater declines due to excessive pumping. Periods of drought also have an effect on groundwater levels, as replenishing water infiltrating into the aquifer would be reduced.
WEST-CENTRAL FLORIDA - Groundwater development in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area has led to saltwater intrusion and subsidence in the form of sinkhole development and concern about surface-water depletion from lakes in the area. In order to reduce its dependence on groundwater, Tampa has constructed a desalination plant to treat seawater for municipal supply.
GULF COASTAL PLAIN - Several areas in the Gulf Coastal Plain are experiencing effects related to groundwater depletion:
Groundwater pumping by Baton Rouge, Louisiana, increased more than tenfold between the 1930s and 1970, resulting in groundwater-level declines of approximately 200 feet.
In the Houston, Texas, area, extensive groundwater pumping to support economic and population growth has caused water-level declines of approximately 400 feet, resulting in extensive land-surface subsidence of up to 10 feet.
Continued pumping since the 1920s by many industrial and municipal users from the underlying Sparta aquifer have caused significant water-level declines in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
The Memphis, Tennessee area is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world that relies exclusively on groundwater for municipal supply. Large withdrawals have caused regional water-level declines of up to 70 feet.
HIGH PLAINS - The High Plains aquifer (which includes the Ogallala aquifer) underlies parts of eight States and has been intensively developed for irrigation. Since predevelopment, water levels have declined more than 100 feet in some areas and the saturated thickness has been reduced by more than half in others.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST - Groundwater development of the Columbia River Basalt aquifer of Washington and Oregon for irrigation, public-supply, and industrial uses has caused water-level declines of more than 100 feet in several areas.
DESERT SOUTHWEST - Increased groundwater pumping to support population growth in south-central Arizona (including the Tucson and Phoenix areas) has resulted in water-level declines of between 300 and 500 feet in much of the area. Land subsidence was first noticed in the 1940s and subsequently as much as 12.5 feet of subsidence has been measured. Additionally, lowering of the water table has resulted in the loss of streamside vegetation.
These pictures show a reach of the Santa Cruz River south of Tucson, Arizona. In the 1942 picture vegetation is growing in the riparian (river bank) area the river, indicating that sufficient water in the soil existed at a level that plant roots could access it. The same site in 1989 shows that the riparian trees have largely disappeared as a result of lowered groundwater levels.
Perennial streams, springs, and wetlands in the Southwestern United States are highly valued as
a source of water for humans and for the plant and animal species they support. Development of
ground-water resources since the late 1800's has resulted in the elimination or alteration of many
perennial stream reaches, wetlands, and associated riparian ecosystems. As an example, a 1942 photograph
of a reach of the Santa Cruz River south of Tucson, Ariz., at Martinez Hill shows stands of
mesquite and cottonwood trees along the river (left photograph). A replicate photograph of the same
site in 1989 shows that the riparian trees have largely disappeared (right photograph). Data from two
nearby wells indicate that the water table has declined more than 100 feet due to pumping, and this
pumping appears to be the principal reason for the decrease in vegetation.
CHICAGO-MILWAUKEE AREA - Chicago has been using groundwater since at least 1864 and groundwater has been the sole source of drinking water for about 8.2 million people in the Great Lakes watershed. This long-term pumping has lowered groundwater levels by as much as 900 feet.
This map shows contours of water-level declines, in feet, in the Chicago-Milwaukee area from 1864 to 1980.
Source: Alley, William & Reilly, T.E. & Franke, O.L.. (1999). Sustainability of Ground-Water Resources. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1186. Public domain.
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Ground-Water Depletion Across the Nation, USGS Fact Sheet 103-03
Sustainability of Ground-Water Resources, USGS Circular 1186
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Discussion in 'FedEx Discussions' started by Playmaker88!, Aug 28, 2018.
The process usually takes 3-4 weeks give or take. If you have a clean record, chances are they'll hire you. However, before you get gung-ho about being a courier, do some homework about Express like reading some of the threads on this forum. Perhaps you'll see why there's many positions available.
With the UPS contract situation still unresolved they may be stocking up on reserve manpower in case the lid blows off over at UPS.
12 new hires at my station. That's just to fill current vacant routes. Let's see how long they stay.
You're in a much better position with the new pay plan than couriers in previous years. It's a hectic job, but not as physical as it used to be since a lot of freight went to Ground. At this point if they sent you for a physical and a drugscreen they're waiting on your background check. That usually takes some time. Good luck!
Next step is a physical, PM me your address.
Someday you may get that address and brag about it on the UPS side.
Be careful what you ask for. or .
You have trks for 12 new hires? We cant hire anyone cause there is nothing left to drive out of our ancient fleet. Routes have been blown out for months and folks are getting mighty weary and injuries are way up.
I think most open routes are PM routes. As it is we get a broadcast almost every day saying that there are no available trucks in the building and that pickups will go on AM couriers until PM couriers get a truck. A manager just told me yesterday that they will have some extra couriers "on the bench". Lol.
Rtes are so blown out here there are no "AM" couriers, everyone is bulked out w at least 110-130 stops. Today I had 115 and a full pup rte. My 900 was a brick leaving the station. Have not seen anyone back in before 1600 and our out bound leaves at 1745.
I was just wondering how everybody else's turnover is at their station. We're hovering around 35% since Dec 26 of 2017...and just lost 2 more people in the last week.
At what point does Sr. Mgmt/Director/Memphis look at the turnover and make some changes?
Start slamming station and executive management on the sfa on a station level and that will get their attention.
There must be a second opinion rendered by Dr. Indecisi0n. That will be your required P.U.C.K.E.R. physical. Welcome aboard SEaMEN.
Better yet, file a grievance and have @MAKAVELI represent you as your union steward.
Someone sure thinks everywhere is the same. We don't play that on the west coast.


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Federal Marijuana Law GuideChristian2022-12-14T10:58:08-07:00
Marijuana was first criminalized in the US under the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, which was replaced by the 1970 Controlled Substances Act (CSA) that remains in force to this day.
The CSA classifies drugs under five 'schedules' determined by the presumed addictiveness and potential for abuse of the substance weighed against its medical value. As a Schedule I substance under the CSA, cannabis is considered to have no medical value with high potential for addiction and abuse, alongside drugs such as heroin and cocaine.
Conflicting Federal and State Cannabis Laws
Federal marijuana criminalization was largely uncontested by states for decades until 1996 when California became the first state to pass legislation – spurred by a voter-approved ballot initiative – to legalize medical marijuana. Under cannabis federal law, doctors in California couldn't 'prescribe' it but they were able to 'recommend' it under the First Amendment.
This isn't to say California's medical cannabis program operated in its early years free of federal interference. Before it got off the ground, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) threatened to take action against doctors suspected of recommending marijuana to patients, while the US House of Representatives resoundingly approved a symbolic resolution against California's decision to legalize medical cannabis.
Even as other states soon joined California in reforming their marijuana laws to recognize the plant's therapeutic value and expand access to patients, federal law enforcement was frequently hostile to state-legal medical marijuana activity. Between 1996 and 2012, the federal government spent nearly half a billion dollars interfering in states' medical cannabis programs. More than 500 raids and dozens of prosecutions were dished out against groups and individuals acting in compliance with state law.
These raids and prosecutions continued in spite of the judicial and executive branches of the federal government softening their approach, at least in rhetoric, toward state-legal medical marijuana programs. In a 2008 campaign pledge, President Barack Obama said he would not seek to interfere in state's medical cannabis programs, while a 2009 DoJ memo advised "prosecutorial discretion" when it comes to enforcing federal law against state-legal medical cannabis programs.
The conflict between state and federal marijuana laws only started to seriously tilt in favor of states seeking to reform their marijuana laws in 2012, when Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize for recreational use and did so without significant federal blowback. On the contrary, the following year the DoJ published another set of federal cannabis law guidelines – the Cole memo – concerning states that had legalized adult-use cannabis. Its guidance echoed those of the 2009 memo regarding medical marijuana, yet federal agencies and prosecutors now appeared to take its instructions more seriously. Raids and prosecutions against marijuana operators in compliance with state law tapered off.
The advisory force of the two DoJ memos was strengthened in 2015 when the US House of Representatives passed a federal budget rider – the Rohrabacher–Farr amendment – prohibiting the DoJ from using federal funds to interfere with state medical marijuana laws. While the vote didn't change the legal status of cannabis and must be renewed every fiscal year, it marked – at the seventh attempt – the first time either chamber of congress voted to protect access to medical marijuana under state law. These protections were upheld in several landmark federal court rulings, such as the 2015 U.S. v Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana (Northern District of California) where the presiding judge ruled the Rohrabacher–Farr amendment "forbids the Department of Justice from enforcing this injunction against MAMM to the extent that MAMM operates in compliance with state California law."
Not long after, the DoJ dropped its case against Harborside Health Center, a medical cannabis dispensary in Oakland. A few months later, state-legal medical marijuana operators scored their biggest victory yet in the August 2016 case of US vs McIntosh in the federal 9th Circuit Court. Not only did the judge order the DoJ to abide by the Rohrabacher–Farr amendment, he also ruled that in future federal prosecutors must prove at a preliminary hearing that the defendant violated state medical marijuana laws.
This tacit acceptance of state-level marijuana legalization, now by all three branches of the federal government, has taken the US past the point of no return. The heavy-handed days of enforced prohibition appear over in states that decided to diverge from federal marijuana laws. A rupture has now been established between the nascent state-legal cannabis industry and federal marijuana law that's yet to be resolved.
Why Federal Marijuana Law Reform Is Both Necessary and Inevitable
While the federal government accepted that enforcement of federal marijuana laws is not desirable in states that passed marijuana legalization legislation, this truce is not a long-term solution. There are serious shortcomings to the current protections that will need to be addressed sooner or later.
This much was made clear when President Donald Trump's first pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, decided to rescind the Cole memo in 2018, while Trump himself considered removing the Rohrabacher–Farr amendment from the 2021 federal budget. In practice, however, these episodes served only to prove the difficulty the federal government faces in rolling back newly-established protections for states that legalized cannabis. Trump quickly backed down while Jeff Sessions' call for a "return to the rule of law" barely registered a change in states where marijuana was now legal. This is because the federal government is more or less entirely dependent on state police forces to enforce federal cannabis laws, and those police forces primarily act under the authority of state attorney generals who – at least in states that legalized marijuana – do not share Sessions' zeal for enforcing federal marijuana laws.
So while the federal government cannot easily force a return to marijuana prohibition across the US, the de facto suspension of federal marijuana laws in states that opted to legalize is also not a tenable long-term proposition.
The Cole memo doesn't automatically confer legal protections or rights on state-legal cannabis businesses or consumers if a prosecutor chooses to ignore the advice and pursue a marijuana-related conviction, however unlikely that conviction may prove to be. The memo also does nothing to ensure state-legal cannabis businesses can access banking and legal services, as those providers may fear federal reprisals. Marijuana businesses also can't be sure of intellectual property rights, insurance protections or even the enforceability of standard business contracts without the support of federal law. Cannabis consumers in legal states also face repercussions with regards to, for instance, employment, naturalization, probation, parole and family law settlements.
There's also the broader issue of inequity under US law. How can a person in one part of the country be serving a life sentence for an offense that another person engaged in the same practice in another part of the country is earning millions from? This discrepancy has led federal judges to refrain from following federal sentencing guidelines for cannabis offenses, with one judge who issued a reduced sentence doing so on the basis that the offense "bears some similarity to those marijuana distribution operations in Colorado and Washington that will not be subject to federal prosecution."
If going back to federal marijuana prohibition across the US is impossible, and the de facto suspension of federal cannabis laws in states that legalized marijuana is untenable in the long-run, then the only option left is for legislative action on marijuana reform at the federal level.
Federal-level Marijuana Reform Efforts
In the years since these minimal protections for state-legal cannabis programs were established, marijuana legalization's momentum has gone into overdrive. As of February 2021, 15 states have legalized adult-use cannabis, while 46 states have passed laws allowing some form of medical marijuana. This momentum is reflected both in nationwide polling on the issue which consistently finds majority support for federal marijuana legalization and its near-unanimous adoption by Democrats as a policy position, in spite of President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee's hesitancy to embrace the measure.
This hasn't gone unnoticed by federal lawmakers. Recent years have seen a flurry of cannabis reform bills submitted to both chambers of congress, such as the Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act to deschedule cannabis from the CSA and the STATES Act to ensure state-level marijuana legalization is recognized in federal law. In 2018, President Donald Trump signed the Farm Bill into law which legalized hemp containing less than 0.3 percent THC across the US. In 2020, the House of Representatives included provisions of the SAFE Banking Act – passed as a standalone bill in 2019 – in its initial coronavirus relief package to ensure access to financial services for state-legal marijuana businesses, but these were removed from the final version following a standoff with Senate Republicans.
Most tellingly, at the end of 2020 the US House of Representatives moved to federally decriminalize cannabis when it passed the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act – the first time a chamber of congress voted to end federal marijuana prohibition. In previous years, when the Republicans controlled the Senate, it's more than likely the MORE Act would now be lying around the upper chamber gathering dust. Now, with the Democrats in control of both chambers, there's every chance of federal-level marijuana reform in 2021.
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describe "FSEventStream" do
  it "watches directories for changes with a delegate" do
    eventStream = FSEventStream.alloc.initWithPaths(['/tmp', '/tmp'], delegate:self)
    eventStream.should.be.kind_of?(FSEventStream)
    eventStream.delegate.should == self
  end

  it "watches directories for changes with a callback" do
    b = Proc.new{}
    eventStream = FSEventStream.alloc.initWithPaths(['/tmp', '/tmp'], onChanges:b)
    eventStream.should.be.kind_of?(FSEventStream)
    eventStream.callback.should == b
  end
end

class Receiver
  attr_accessor :status

  def initialize
    @status = :waiting
  end

  def handleEvents(events)
    @status = :called
  end
end

describe "An FSEventStream" do
  it "starts and stops watching directories" do
    eventStream = FSEventStream.alloc.initWithPaths([Dir.tmpdir], onChanges:Proc.new {})
    eventStream.start.should == 1
    eventStream.stop
  end

  # it "calls its callback on changes" do
  #   tmpdir = Dir.tmpdir
  #   receiver = Receiver.new
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  #   eventStream = FSEventStream.alloc.initWithPaths([tmpdir], delegate:receiver)
  #   eventStream.start.should == 1
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  #   filename = File.join(tmpdir, 'fsevents-test')
  #   FileUtils.rm_f(filename)
  #   FileUtils.touch(filename)
  #   File.should.exist(filename)
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  #   started = Time.now
  #   while (receiver.status == :waiting) and (Time.now - started) < 3
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  #   end
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SPRING BREAKERS: VARIETY REVIEW
Posted on September 2, 2012 by Aaron
Variety have posted the first review of "Spring Breakers", click here to read it or read below:
Korine revamps teen dream
By ANTHONY KAUFMAN
Has Harmony Korine, the enfant terrible who wrote "Kids," and directed "Julian Donkey-Boy" and "Gummo," grown up?
With his latest film, "Spring Breakers" — premiering in Venice on Sept. 5 — the provocative filmmaker has tackled his most ambitious and possibly most commercial project to date: A girls-gone-wild Florida-s et adventure, starring James Franco and former Disney Channel stalwarts Selena Gomez ("Wizards of Waverly Place"), Vanessa Hudgens ("High School Musical") and ABC Family vet Ashley Benson ("Pretty Little Liars").
"Technically, it was the hardest thing I've ever done," says the filmmaker, now 39. "We had 12 cameras break; cranes collapsing; boats sinking; at some points, there would be more paparazzi than crew members; you'd have news helicopters entering the shot; 1,000 screaming teenagers with signs trying to destroy the campers — every day felt like some mild form of warfare."
Korine, who shot on 35mm film, added that he wanted huge production values. "I wanted things to look and feel incredible. It would have been much easier if I didn't have ambition."
The last time Korine was on the festival circuit, in 2009, he was promoting a far different project. Called "Trash Humpers," the 78-minute experimental movie, shot entirely on a VHS camcorder, chronicled the creepy escapades of a family of masked maniacs engaged in objectionable, lewd or just plain weird behavior, including yes, humping garbage. "It was a provocation," Korine admits.
But with "Spring Breakers," it wasn't just about creating something "shocking or seductive," as he says, referring to the original image that sparked the idea of teenage girls in bikinis, wearing ski masks and carrying guns. "This film is different from anything I've done," he explains. "It's the narrative: It's very liquid and boozy, and freed up. It's more like a pop poem."
Another big difference is the cast, of course. With Disney Channel icon Gomez in one of the key roles, along with "High School Musical's" Hudgens, the film is drawing far more attention than Korine's previous work, increasing the stakes for the filmmaker.
For Gomez, the more risque project also presents a potential hazard.
"Obviously, I have a younger generation (of fans), and I really appreciate that," says the 22-year-old actress, who got her start on "Barney & Friends." "I want to respect that and I still want to do things that will earn me that respect. But I also want to do things that challenge me and put me out of my element."
Korine had always wanted Gomez and the other young female stars for the movie. "I liked the idea of having these girls in the film specifically," he says. "They are of this pop culture, and that added a whole new element that was exciting for me."
Entrusting Korine, a director known for his glue-sniffing, date-raping outcasts, with America's next top starlets on an indie budget, might appear like a risky move. But the director says, surprisingly, he was fully encouraged by his team, including CAA, which packaged the project.
"There was no lack of confidence (in Korine)," says Muse Films' Chris Hanley, who has known the director since the mid-'90s, and had been talking to him for two years about exploring, he says, "a more pop, and therefore commercial" side of his aesthetic.
"Even as the intention was to make a pop commercial bikini movie," continues Hanley, "it has its intelligent side, (which) shows there is an underworld to every seemingly perfect and happy setting. So while it is commercial, it makes you think a lot too — this is something Harmony does very well."
According to Hanley, the investors were kindred spirits, including former members of the Andy Warhol Factory ("Baby" Jane Holzer) as well as Stella Schnabel, daughter of artist Julian Schnabel, and designer Agnes B., who backed Korine's 2007 feature "Mister Lonely."
Korine, himself, is upbeat about the results.
"I can't wait for people to see it," he says. "As a filmmaker, I did things I've never done before that I've always wanted to do, that I couldn't have done five years ago or 10 years ago. I just didn't understand moviemaking in this way. This one feels special."
FIRST FOOTAGE FROM "SPRING BREAKERS"
Posted on August 30, 2012 by Aaron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gq3Z30MUA
"SPRING BREAKERS" ALSO PREMIERING AT TIFF 2012
The Toronto Film Festival, having previously screened films from Harmony Korine before, has announced it will screen his new film "Spring Breakers". The schedule of the festival is announced on August 21st. We will inform you of showing times when it becomes available. Information from the site:
Director: Harmony Korine
Principal Cast: Selena Gomez, James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Heather Morris
Int. Sales Agent: Kinology
U.S. Sales Agent: Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
James Franco, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens star in the wild new film from perennial provocateur Harmony Korine (Trash Humpers), about four flat-broke co-eds whose spring fling in Florida turns into a booze, drug and violence-fuelled bacchanal.
The overly bright sunshine begins to hurt your eyes. The semi-nude bodies grind in a tequila-fuelled haze. A waft of violence floats through the atmosphere until it dominates the scene, aware of its hold on everything and everyone. You feel all-powerful and totally alone. This is spring break in Florida, captured through the transformative lens of Harmony Korine's imagination.
Korine's impressive canon of films poetically chronicles the minor heroics and self-aggran-dizing intensity of marginalians, unseen, ignored and dismissed by a willfully ignorant world. In Spring Breakers, his attention turns to four female co-eds (Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Rachel Korine) in an unnamed college town. Desperate to hit the beach, but flat broke, they rob a coffee shop with fake weapons, steal a car, head south and start to party hard. Their fun gets rudely interrupted when the cops bust into their apartment and find things young girls should not be enjoying. Locked up with no bail money, they despair until a local petty gangster (James Franco) springs them. Two of the girls stay with him as his entourage and, ultimately, his hitmen; while the other two drop out, exhausted, disoriented and longing to experience that rush of freedom one more time.
Spring Breakers is Korine's first film since Mister Lonely to feature professional actors. He challenges his impressive young cast in unexpected ways, with long, seemingly improvised takes and a demand for shifting tones of sweetness and menace.
The film lands on the more narratively linear end of Korine's career and has moments that recall each of his previous films, especially the virtuosic tableaux of Gummo and the agonizing desperation of Mister Lonely. But Spring Breakers also brings a few new tricks to the table, including remarkable shifts in mood and a breathtaking cinematographic confidence; there are signature moments of montage in this film that will influence generations to come.
Harmony Korine thinks in pictures that no one else could even dream up.
Noah Cowan
"CAPUT" SCREENING IN LA (AUGUST 9)
Posted on August 6, 2012 by Aaron
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BRAIN DEGRAW REFLECTS ON "SSAB SONGS" RECORDING PROCESS
Back in the mid to late '90s Harmony Korine and Brian DeGraw colllaborated on a one track album entitled "SSAB Songs". While they were not the only musicians to play on the album (which was commercially released in 1998) they were the driving forces behind the idea. Back in November of 2011, DeGraw spoke to Hillbilly Magazine and reflected on the time spent recording "SSAB Songs".
Hillbilly : You collaborated some years ago with Harmony Korine on SSAB Songs. Whats your thoughts on the collaborative process?
Brian DeGraw : Those collaborations were done in an interesting time shortly after i moved to NYC from DC. Harmony was someone who i connected with instantly. We met when a mutual friend asked me to go to this recording studio where Harm wanted to make an album of some sort. So he had asked this guy to round up a bunch of musicians to show up there and just work out some sort of jam. It was hilarious. I showed up there…in this dirty basement studio on Allen street that smelled like rotting fish and there were like ten or twelve people in there with Harm and everyone was trying to figure out how to go about this and nothing was really getting done at all and for some reason Harm and I just looked at each other and sort gave each other this nod of affirmation and we sort of just left the place and went off on our own to his place and just jammed for hours and recorded on four track cassette. After that we continued to do that for a few years. We made so many weird recordings….most of which are lost I think. We would go up to his apartment in Gramercy park with broken keyboards and banjos with no strings and bicycle wheels and whatever we could find that made a sound…..and we would just go crazy all night. We did a lot of stuff over the answering machine too….like we would call Bjork and have her sing through the fax while we jammed in the apartment. It was truly cacophonous and beautiful.
HARMONY KORINE TO DIRECT MUSIC VIDEO(S) FOR RIFF RAFF?
Recently, rapper Riff Raff spoke to Pitchfork about his new ventures and branching out. He also spoke on his new found friendship with director Harmony Korine:
RR: I'm working on the movie situation right now. Me and Harmony Korine are in conjunction doing multiple big activities. He's going to be doing some of my videos. He's back. He's had movies in the past, like Kids and Gummo, that earned him such a big underground following. So for him to come and want to do large, ridiculous things on the big screen with me and Diplo just showed what a genius mind he has. He's about to be a full-fledged force to be reckoned with.
Pitchfork: How did your relationship with Korine begin?
RR: Somebody wrote me, "Hey, somebody wants you to be in this movie [Spring Breakers]"– I get so many emails every day so I have someone who screens them and says, "Hey, you might want to look at this." When I finally researched his stuff, I saw he directed Kids and Gummo, and was like, "Oh shit. Damn, is this for me?" Those movies are kind of old, but I knew they were great.
Now I've actually met him and seen what kind of person he is: really interesting, innovative. There are a lot of people who are successful and have a lot of money, but you can almost see their limitations because they have these walls around them. Harmony Korine exceeds those walls, and those are the types of people who go on to exceed people's expectations.
SPRING BREAKERS TO SCREEN IN COMPETITION AT VENICE
Posted on July 26, 2012 by Aaron
Variety are today reporting that Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers" is scheduled to make it's international debut in competition at the 69th Annual Venice Film Festival. The films in competition are as follows, alternatively you can view them at the festival's official website:
"To the Wonder," Terrence Malick (U.S.)
"Something in the Air," Olivier Assayas (France)
"Outrage: Beyond," Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
"Fill The Void," Rama Bursztyn and Yigal Bursztyn (Israel)
"Pieta," Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)
"Dormant Beauty," Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
"E' stato il figlio," Daniele Cipri (Italy)
"At Any Price," Ramin Bahrani (U.S., U.K.)
"La cinquieme saison," Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth (Belgium, Netherlands, France)
"Un giorno speciale, " Francesca Comencini (Italy)
"Passion," Brian De Palma (France, Germany)
"Superstar, " Xavier Giannoli (France, Belgium)
"Spring Breakers," Harmony Korine (U.S.)
"Thy Womb," Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
"Linhas de Wellington," Valeria Sarmiento (Portugal, France)
"Paradise: Faith," Ulrich Seidl (Austria, France, Germany)
"Betrayal," Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)
RIFF RAFF & HARMONY KORINE VIDEOED TOGETHER
Posted on June 27, 2012 by Aaron
After some speculation with regards to James Franco's character in the film "Spring Breakers", rumours started flying around that upcoming rapper "Riff Raff" was supposed to be in the film and that Franco's character is based on the character itself of Riff Raff – which Franco has since denied. Regardless of this, Riff Raff recently uploaded a video to his YouTube channel in which Harmony Korine appears on the basketball court with him and his friends. See below:
DAN COLEN: PIGS AND PIGS AND PIGS
A new paperback book by Harmony Korine is set to go on sale on August 7th 2012 entitled "Dan Colen: Pigs And Pigs And Pigs". The site Rizzoli USA is stocking it for $60. Amazon has also announced they will stock it, but for a cheaper price of $37.42.
This artist's book documents Dan Colen's 2011 exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York, as well as his June 2012 Gagosian exhibition in Paris. Drawing from mass media, local environment, and subculture, Dan Colen's art imbues the ordinary, the disenfranchised, and the tribal with provocative new status. This publication includes over fifty new works, including Colen's series of Grass, Gum, Confetti, and Stud, with extensive details of the works.
"GOLD ON THE CEILING" VIDEO SURFACES
Posted on May 31, 2012 by Aaron
Late last year the news that The Black Keys had shot a music video with Harmony Korine was all over the internet and when they finally released an altogether different music video for the same song ("Gold On The Ceiling"), Korine fans were burdened with the fact that this would, yet again, be something by the filmmaker we'd never see.
But alas, thanks to the wonder of YouTube The Black Keys have made the video available for viewing. See below:
For the video, Korine utilises the same technique seen in his 2006 video for Bonnie Prince Billy, 'No More Workhouse Blues':


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Clever Girl
Product Number: WEB87978
Business Term: OBOU 2 Years or 36 Circs
Publisher: Vintage Digital
All the qualities that readers praised in The London Train are present in Clever Girl, Tessa Hadley's brilliant new novel. It follows the story of Stella, from her childhood as the daughter of a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s into the mysterious shallows of her middle age. The story is full of drama - violent deaths, an abrupt end to Stella's schooldays, two sons by different fathers who aren't around to see the boys grow up - but as ever it is her observation of ordinary lives, of the way men and women think and feel and relate to one another, that dazzles. Yes, you think. This is how it is. Tessa Hadley is the author five highly praised novels, Accidents in the Home, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Will Be All Right, The Master Bedroom, The London Train and Clever Girl, and two collections of stories, Sunstroke and Married Love. She lives in London and is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker and other magazines.
Author(s): Tessa Hadley
Original Publish Date: 02 May, 2013
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Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is necessary for the manufacture of collagen, which maintains the structure of the body, ie. tendons, connective tissue, cartilage. It is also necessary for the proper function of the immune system. Its best known role is in the prevention of scurvy. Many studies have confirmed that vitamin C has antioxidant properties and gives us protection against free radicals. Because of its role in cleansing and preventing oxidation, vitamin C is a useful addition in most nutritional therapy cases.
Bioflavonoids from citrus fruits are added to make this supplement as similar to natural vitamin C as possible. This is proven to enhance the bioavailability of ascorbic acid, making it more easily absorbed by body tissues.
1 - 6 capsules daily or as directed by practitioner.


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Finalists announced for Male World Athlete of the Year 2020
by taadmin Tuesday, November 24, 2020 8:22 am
With just 12 days to go until the World Athletics Awards 2020, the names of the five finalists for the Male World Athlete of the Year 2020 have been confirmed.
In spite of the many challenges presented by the global Covid-19 pandemic this year, the five athletes, who represent five countries and three area associations, have excelled, producing brilliant performances across nearly all athletics disciplines in 2020.
The finalists are (in alphabetical order):
Joshua Cheptegei, Uganda
– broke world records at 5000m (12:35.36), 10,000m (26:11.00) and 5km on the roads (12:51)
– was fourth at the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships on his debut over the distance
Ryan Crouser, USA
– undefeated in 10 shot put competitions
– his 22.91m world-leading performance moved him to equal third on the world all-time list
Mondo Duplantis, Sweden
– broke the world record in the pole vault twice (6.17m and 6.18m) and produced the highest outdoor vault of all time (6.15m)
– undefeated in 16 competitions
Johannes Vetter, Germany
– won eight of his nine javelin competitions
– threw a world-leading 97.76m, the second farthest throw in history
Karsten Warholm, Norway
– ran a world-leading 46.87 in the 400m hurdles, the second fastest performance in history
– undefeated in nine 400m/400m hurdles races and set world best of 33.78 in 300m hurdles
The male and female World Athletes of the Year will be announced live at the World Athletics Awards 2020 to be staged as a virtual event on Saturday 5 December and streamed live on the World Athletics YouTube channel, its Facebook page and via Twitter.
Voting procedure for 2020 World Athletes of the Year
A three-way voting process determined the finalists.
The World Athletics Council and the World Athletics Family cast their votes by email, while fans voted online via our social media platforms. The Council's vote counted for 50% of the result, while the Athletics Family's votes and the public votes each counted for 25% of the final result.
Voting for the Male World Athlete of the Year closed on 15 November.
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Zurich Diamond League 2022 final entry list released
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A new study claims that children can improve learning in school by taking omega-3 fish oil supplements to boost their concentration.
In the study, boys aged eight to 11 who were given doses once or twice a day of docosahexaenoic acid, an essential fatty acid known as DHA, showed significant improvements in their performance during tasks involving attention.
The findings indicate that fish oil could help pupils to study more effectively and potentially help to tackle both attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression since a lack of DHA has been implicated in ADHD.
ADHD can seriously impair a child's education because they have trouble concentrating and are often disruptive in class. A lack of DHA has also been associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Dr Robert McNamara, of the University of Cincinnati, who led the team of American researchers, said: "We found that, if you take DHA, you can enhance the function of those brain regions that are involved in paying attention, so it helps people concentrate," said McNamara. The benefit is that it may represent an intervention that will help children or adults with attention impairments."
The study is reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.


Your power bill will go up next year if Southern California Edison gets permission from state regulators to spend nearly $600 million to make its equipment less likely to start wildfires.
Adding high definition cameras, small weather stations and drones to better detect and track fires.
The bottom line for your bill if you're an average Southern California Edison customer? About $1.20 more per month, increasing the typical $111.32 monthly charge to about $112.45.
"The reason we're doing this is to address the increased wildfire risk and to provide a better, safer, more resilient (power) grid," said Bill Chiu, SCE director of grid resiliency and public safety.
IT'S ALL PART OF THE "NEW NORMAL"
As temperatures rise, and drought continues, fires have become more frequent and destructive. California utilities say this "new normal" requires changes, including higher bills to help pay for it.
Eight of the state's 20 most destructive fires have happened since 2015, five of them in 2017, Chiu said. He is directing the project to make Edison lines less likely to cause or spread fires.
Consumer advocates are watching any rate changes closely.
"You can nickel and dime people to death," with these incremental increases in utility bills, said Mindy Spatt, spokeswoman for TURN, a nonprofit utility watchdog organization. The test for Edison's new plan, which she had not seen yet, would be whether it is a cost-effective expenditure, and really does make Edison equipment less likely to cause expensive, destructive fires.
A bill awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown's signature calls on investor owned utilities like Southern California Edison to do more to reduce the fuel load — the foliage and debris and millions of dead trees that keep fires burning once they're sparked — in wildland areas near homes. Spatt has described the bill, SB 901, as one that "gives utilities a blank check" to pass costs to consumers.
SCE is already supposed to be clearing trees and vegetation from around power lines. This new request filed Monday with the California Public Utilities Commission, involves additional steps and permission to pass on the cost to customers.
For example, Edison says it will take a more aggressive approach to clearing vegetation near power lines in high fire risk areas.
"We're not proposing to completely clean out all vegetation," within 200 feet of power lines, said Bill Chiu, SCE director of grid resiliency and public safety. "What we're proposing is to take a much more aggressive action to inspect and identify trees that potentially could pose a hazard."
The focus would be on diseased trees or ones with structural defects, that could fall onto power lines or lose limbs in a high wind that could land on power lines.
The company proposes to replace bare power lines with insulated wires in some fire-vulnerable areas, adding about 4,000 miles of insulated lines by the end of 2025.
Edison already has state approval to cut power to communities on those dry, windy red flag days when its equipment is especially likely to start or spread fire. It proposes to to make those shutdowns more palatable to affected communities by rolling in portable generators where residents can charge their phones and computers.
Edison plans to install equipment to help it detect fires earlier. It will place up to 160 high-definition cameras to help firefighters respond faster to fires, helping limit their spread. The company will also install up to 850 new weather stations that can feed data to weather modeling tools that can forecast weather conditions for very small areas.
The company also plans to tackle another issue that causes problems in a fire — controlling when power lines get re-energized. Edison wants to install more devices that, on hot, dry, red flag days, will keep power lines from being automatically re-energized after power is lost. In a high fire risk area, the automatic devices can re-energize a power line that has been hit by a flammable branch, causing a new fire. The new spending would pay for drones to help inspect power lines before power begins flowing through them again.


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Birds: Another Reason People Should Flock to Pittsburgh
Yup, birds. Finally, the National Aviary is getting its due.
Margaret J. Krauss,
In a springtime-themed listicle from the Huffington Post's Travel blog, writer David Landsel highly recommends that readers with a little time on their hands this season visit our fair city.
Landsel cites the usual suspects: Our geographical setting is deemed pretty great; our bustling streets are likened to a little Manhattan ("even a subway!"); we've got art and great food and the Strip and Fallingwater and birds.
Yup, birds. Finally, the National Aviary is getting its due. The organization's more than 600 residents were not surprised Landsel was impressed. However, they're rather peeved it took this long for someone at HuffPo to crow about it.
PHOTO COURTESY TBWA/Hakuhodo
#Libations: Ad company makes coolest ice cubes ever
Ice is the unsung hero of the modern age: the ally of backyard parties everywhere, the answer for all sports injuries, lemonade's best friend. Ice enabled the modern grocery store by allowing longer shipping and storage times, and it made drinking distilled spirits the art we know today.
But just when you thought ice couldn't get any better, ad agency TWBA Hakuhodo used the inverse of 3-D printing to carve elaborate ice cubes for a Suntory Whisky campaign. A guitar, an astronaut, a menacing Batman locking eyes with the imbiber over a line of hooch, it's the perfect medium for Pittsburgh's iconic visuals.
Why just chill your drink when you could appreciate an incline car or a Heinz ketchup bottle? We'd like to sip around an ice-Cathedral of Learning.
PHOTO BY DAVE DICELLO
#CampusHousing: Pittsburgh could see an Austin infusion
Campus Advantage, a student housing company based in Austin, Texas, is seeking zoning board approval to build a 13-story building at 3407 Forbes Ave. in Oakland, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
Valued at roughly $25 million, the 137-unit complex would be quite a departure from many of the off-campus rooms currently rented by students: The company organizes life skills seminars, volunteering opportunities and issues a handbook of residence policies instead of just four walls and the last tenant's lingering presence.
Though the market rate apartments will be geared to students, they are available to non-students. Campus Advantage still is in the process of purchasing the property from UPMC.
#Transparency: Contract negotiations between city, police open to the media
The first labor contract negotiation meeting between the Fraternal Order of Police and the city will take place this week. Both parties invited members of the media to attend. The goal of opening the meetings is to create more transparency between the public, the city, and the police.
"We welcome and encourage the media to attend all police union bargaining sessions, and we look forward to open and honest discussions for the betterment of our police officers and our entire city," said Mayor Peduto in a statement.
Greater visibility in such negotiations has been the aim of Mayor Peduto's administration as well as other mayors across the state. The first meeting is Wednesday, April 8 at 10 a.m. on the sixth floor of the City-County Building.
This article appears in the April 2015 issue of The 412.
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The utilities industry, with its smart grids, is becoming one of the world's most connected industries. Managing all that data is challenging.
It's time for Controlled Connectivity. With Controlled Connectivity, utilities can centralize the planning, management and assurance of their smart grid communications networks.
Denmark is one of the world leaders when it comes to developing tomorrow's green, flexible and intelligent power system. A power system where the generation, transport and consumption of power is linked intelligently. The so called Smart Grid. This film tells you the story.


In terms of one-on-one with employees, being a mom helps me ground my roots to humanity.
When the ball swings around to your man, they never come in one-on-one.
The entourage, so out of place in the one-on-one battle arena, soon left the stage.
If you don't botch the questionnaire, you are summoned for a one-on-one interview with Pierre.
But as far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.


Went to this vernissage at Galerie UQO which is collaboration with CUAG.
In the production of her work, Emmanuelle Léonard collaborates regularly with individuals in their work environments. Here, the workplace and the worker's function become the collaborative vector between the artist and the worker/image maker.
For "Statistical Landscape" and "Dans l'oeil du travailleur", employees took photographs in their workplace at the artist's request. The former is a series of twenty photographs representing the twenty employment sectors in Toronto in 2004, according to Statistics Canada. The size of each photograph is proportional to the number of workers in the employment sector it represents. The second work is a newspaper comprising photographs of various industrial sectors.
"General Motors, Ste-Thérèse (the end)" documents the closing of the Sainte-Thérèse GM plant after thirty years of operations (putting an end to the Quebec auto industry). Léonard first shows a union meeting of former GM workers, members of CAW local 1163, at the union's offices in Boisbriand. Documentation of the parking lot and traces of the sign on the closed plant's façade are the final tangible traces of this workplace.
In "Les marcheurs", Léonard photographed textile industry workers arriving at De Gaspé Street around 6:30 each morning for a month. Her camera captured the workers' approach as they crossed through this last remaining industrial district in the heart of Montreal. An image of an adjacent vacant lot shows the workers' footpaths through the snow.
"Les travailleurs de l'église Sainte-Rita, Nice" reveals the six workers of the Sainte-Rita Catholic church in Nice posing for the camera: Youcef Ben-Mohamed, Marie-Thérèse Caruana, Père Normandin, Joseph Paletta, Julien Pauliau and Roxana Ponchier-Alforo.
The exhibition runs until February 16, 2019.
The gallery is located on 101 Rue Saint-Jean-Bosco, Gatineau.


Local Alternative Water Supplies (LAWS) have an important role to play in a diversified regional water supply strategy. They can improve drought security and resilience and make a community more self-sufficient.
Working with the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), Bligh Tanner identified a range of issues and barriers that pertain to the development of decentralised water systems in South East Queensland including recycled water, harvested stormwater and roofwater. Strategies to overcome the barriers to better facilitate the development of LAWS schemes were recommended.
A commitment to LAWS could supply 25-30% of regional water demand.


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Q: Python trouble with returning value of a variable When I run the first function it prints the correct URL. However, when I run the second section it shows an error saying that fullurl is not defined.
Can anyone help me with this?
Here is my code:
def urlmaker(format_mtg):
    fullurl = url + format_mtg.get() + "-constructed-league-" + date.get() #adds the users options to the url
    print(fullurl)
    return fullurl

def htmltotxt(fullurl):
    print(fullurl)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(fullurl) #requests the ability to open the website, which magic.wizards.com allows
    html = response.read() #reads the html data from the open website
    html = str(html) #saves the data as a string
    make_lists(card_name_regex, card_number_regex, card_number_list, html)

A: Your code without comments and with proper indentation and spacing:
def urlmaker(format_mtg):
    fullurl = url + format_mtg.get() + "-constructed-league-" + date.get()
    print(fullurl)
    return fullurl

def htmltotxt(fullurl):
    print(fullurl)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(fullurl)
    html = response.read()
    html = str(html)
    make_lists(card_name_regex, card_number_regex, card_number_list, html)

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*Paste the necessary imports (the ones that are used in the shown code), at least urllib should be imported.

*You are using 5 variables that we don't know: url, date, card_name_regex, card_number_regex, card_number_list. date may not even be a variable but something imported. Define their values or give an example value so that we can reproduce your errors.

*You are not showing how you call your functions, so we don't know the values of the format_mtg and  fullurl arguments. I can deduce that you are using the result from the first function as an argument for the second but still measing format_mtg.

*Paste the exception you are getting so that we can help you.

Without those 4 things, we can't find your problem.

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This weekend is Oktoberfest and in honor of it we are breaking out the wine, the beer, and the BRATs.
We are excited to release our new El Dorado Syrah. Grown above 2000 ft of elevation on fields of magma soil and cool breezes these grapes develope a lovely level of acidity to balance out the sugars in a way which can't be achieve down in the valleys of Napa and Sonoma. Our last Syrah sold out in record time so stock up on this one while supplies last. $8.99 per 750mL, no limits on quantity.
We are also releasing our new Chocolate Stout that Chase has been brewing over the last month. You can buy a glass or bring your growlers in and fill to go. We have have a limited supply of 64oz and 32 oz growlers if you don't already have one. $21 fills a 64 oz growler and $14 fills a 32 oz growler. We will also have our Pale Ale and Citra Session available if you like things on the lighter size, same prices apply.
Chef Brandon will be bringing you all the lovely things for your mouth like fried chicken, our amazing 45 day dry aged burger, the Impossible Burger, and he made some amazing bratwurst just for this BYOB. Of course he will be slinging out all the sides, salads, and soft serve too. No one ever leaves BYOB hungry ...or thirsty.
Though a limited supply, growlers can be purchased on site! Pricing rules apply if you're sizing down (I see you, "Howler" fans). Bottles down, bottoms up!
Chef Brandon Cavazos and the kitchen team will be serving some finger-licking-good food to keep you fed and happy. It's our dinner stuff, sandwich-style.
Come and fill up while you can: quantities are limited. As always, no outside food permitted.


The Logistics Association of Australia, in conjunction with the Logistics Bureau, is proud to announce two new programs designed to support tertiary education in logistics and supply chain management. These will take the form of National Tertiary Study Scholarships and a National Research Award. Details of the two programs were recently released by LAA NSW President, Mal Walker.
The National Scholarship Program will provide an incentive for undergraduate & postgraduate tertiary students to undertake logistics and supply chain streams and majors, with the aim or pursuing logistics careers.
There will be five scholarships available- three scholarships of $2500.00 each at undergraduate level and two scholarships of $5500.00 each at postgraduate level. Each award includes membership of the LAA and will contribute to course related costs. Criteria for the awards will be set by the LAA and applications will be judged by representatives from the LAA and the Logistics Bureau. Students who complete the program will receive a certificate of successful participation.
Mentors will be sought from the membership to offer encouragement and counsel to the students throughout their courses and, where relevant, share work experiences.
Universities that register for inclusion in the program, will be advertised on the LAA website and in its newsletters.
The National Research Award of $7500.00 will be given for excellence in post graduate research assignments conducted in the logistics and supply chain fields. It is open to post graduate students studying at Masters or Doctorate level.
The closing date for applications will be 30th June each year, with the winners announced in October. For further information and application packs, please contact Keith Campbell on 1300 651 911.


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7/11 Returns to Cybertron with this non-surprising black redeco of the very cool BB-02 Legendary Optimus Prime for the Bumblebee Movie. The figure is being released exclusively at 7/11 stores and on their Seven Net website in Japan in September of 2019.
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"Company" means GlobalConNet LLC, with the legal address of 9675 NW 117th Ave Suite 405, Miami, FL 33178.
"Website" means this Website or the Website of any one of GlobalConNet LLC 's subsidiaries or unincorporated operating divisions, as appropriate.
"GlobalConNet" means GlobalConNet LLC, its subsidiaries, and its unincorporated operating divisions.
the natural person who is the principal of any electronic agent(s) using this Website, regardless of the number of layers of electronic agency that may exist between the natural person principal and the electronic agent(s) using this Website.
In this Agreement, the Company and YOU may sometimes be referred to collectively as the "PARTIES." Where this Agreement uses the term "PARTIES," it intends both YOU and the Company.
Your use of this Website and any components of this Website are at your sole risk, and you voluntarily assume that risk. This Website and all of its components are provided on an "AS IS," "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, unless such warranties are legally incapable of exclusion and provided by the manufacturer or service provider or carrier.
The Company hereby disclaims all WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE or any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.
No advice or information given the Company shall create a warranty of any kind. The Company does not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free or that any information, software, or other material accessible on the service is free of viruses, cancelbots, worms, logic bombs, trojan horses, or other harmful contents or components.
The Company is not responsible for the contents of any website to which this Website links, or any link contained in a linked website, or any changes or updates to such websites. The Company is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the Company to which this Website links, nor shall any link create any express or implied warranty binding on the Website.
The merchandise, products or services (collectively, the "merchandise") offered for purchase through this Website are provided by third parties who are not under the direction or control of the Company Nor does the Company either expressly or impliedly claim to be an authorized dealer or representative of any of the individuals, companies, or organizations (collectively referred to as "vendors") who are offering or promoting merchandise through the Website. The Company neither represents nor warrants nor endorses the accuracy or reliability of any information or advertisements uploaded, displayed, or distributed through this Website. The Company in no way either expressly or impliedly takes responsibility for the quality of any merchandise available for purchase through This Website.
The Company further disclaims all warranties on the merchandise, either express or implied, including but not limited to the IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, NON- INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
The Vendors selling the merchandise through this Website are solely responsible for the representations regarding the merchandise advertised on this Website. In no event shall the Company, its parents, it subsidiaries, it members, its partners, its joint ventures, its affiliates, its suppliers, its licensors, its contractors, or their respective employees be held liable for costs or procurement of substitute goods or services, lost profits, lost data, business interruption, attorney's fees or any direct, indirect, special punitive, incidental, exemplary or consequential damages, or any kind of damages whatsoever, even if the Company or any of the other persons or entities identified in this paragraph have been advised of the possibility of such damages, whether in an action under contract, negligence, tort or any other legal or equitable theory of recovery, arising out of or in connection with the use, inability to use of performance of the information, merchandise and materials available from the Website.
By YOUR agreeing to this disclaimer, YOU are indicating that YOU will not for any reason take any legal action against the Company, its parents, its subsidiaries, its members, its partners, its joint ventures, its affiliates, its suppliers, its licensors, its contractors, or their respective agents or employees with respect to any matter covered by the aforementioned disclaimers.
Disputes between YOU and any vendor mentioned in this Website should be addressed to and taken up with the particular vendor, carrier and/or service provider and not with the Company.
Furthermore, YOUR acceptance of this disclosure also indicates that YOU will in no way use the Company as a mediator or witness in any disputes between YOU and any vendor.
The Company's entire liability and your exclusive remedy with respect to use of this Website and any components of this Website, as well as the Company's liability to you for breach of the General Terms of Service are limited solely to the amounts you have paid to the Company. Because some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states, the Company's liability is limited to the extent permitted by law.
In no event shall the Company be held liable for costs or procurement of substitute goods or services, lost profits, lost data, business interruption, attorneys' fees or any direct, indirect, special, punitive, incidental, exemplary or consequential damages, or any kind of damages whatsoever, even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages, whether in an action under contract, negligence, tort or any other legal or equitable theory of recovery, arising out of or in connection with the use, inability to use or performance of the information, merchandise, and materials available from this Website, or any part thereof, or your reliance on or use of information, services, or merchandise provided on or through this Website, or that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, errors, defects, delays in operation or transmission, any failure of performance, computer virus, communication line failure, theft, destruction, or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of your account, whether for breach of contract, negligence or under any other cause of action. In the event that the Company is found liable under any circumstance under the terms of this agreement, the Company's liability shall be limited to the liability as stated in this disclaimer.
YOU may not revise any of the terms of this Agreement without expressed prior authorization and written agreement signed by a duly authorized Officer or Manager of the Company.
The Company serves a variety of customers, retailers, and distributors, and cannot negotiate separate contracts with each of its customers. The Company is able to offer competitive pricing and billing by using standard Terms of Service contracts for all of its customers.
The Company reserves the right to, and may, revise this Agreement at any time, and such revisions shall become effective thirty (30) days after the Company posts the revised Agreement for public viewing. The revisions to the Agreement shall include notice of the date of posting the most recent revision to the Agreement.
YOUR continued use of this Website more than thirty (30) days after the Company posts revisions to this Agreement, as described above, shall be conclusively deemed YOUR assent to the additional terms and conditions made part of this Agreement by such revisions.
The Company grants YOU a limited, non-exclusive, and nontransferable license to use This Website and its various components to purchase prepaid airtime refills from third-party carriers or to refer third parties to This Website for the sole purpose of purchasing such services. This license is subject to the restriction, that, except to the extent expressly permitted by law, YOU may not translate, reverse engineer or reverse compile or de-compile, disassemble or make derivative works from the software residing at or used to operate This Website. YOU may not modify the Website in any manner or form, or use it in any way which is not expressly authorized by the Company, other than to access this Website, as authorized by this Agreement, including, without limitation, for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to the Website's service or data (also known as "hacking"). YOU agree to abide by the United States and other applicable export control laws and regulations and not to transfer, by electronic transmission or otherwise, any information, including the Website's software in either source, object, or executable form, which is subject to restrictions under such laws to a national or destination restricted under such laws without first obtaining and then complying with any required Website government authorization or licensing requirements and without first providing the Company with a certified copy of said license or written government authorization, evincing compliance with all applicable export control laws and regulations.
Subject to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement and all applicable laws, YOU may access, for YOUR sole use, the Company's proprietary content offered at This Website and accessible through the Website's home page on the World Wide Web.
The Company will provide YOU with such customer and technical support related to YOUR use of This Website, at no additional charge, subject to the restrictions posted on the Customer Support area of This Website.
YOU understand that the Company will rely on YOUR agreement to keep YOUR password secret and confidential and that YOU will not reveal YOUR password to any other person or entity, except as required by law.
YOU understand that disclosure of YOUR password to any other person or entity, except as required by law, could cause irreparable damages to the Company, including, but not limited to compromise of the Company's confidential and proprietary business information and trade secrets, compromise of the integrity of the information and communications of the Company's other customers, interruption of the Website's services, lost profits to the Company, and damages to the Company's business reputation and goodwill.
In the event that YOU disclose YOUR password to any other person or entity, YOU shall and hereby do forever agree to defend, hold harmless, and indemnify the Company from any harm or damages whatsoever resulting directly or indirectly from YOUR disclosure of YOUR password to any other person or entity.
YOU agree to provide the Company with accurate, complete, and updated registration information, and failure to do so shall constitute a breach of this Agreement and unauthorized access to the Website's service, and may result in immediate termination of YOUR account and subject YOU to civil and/or criminal liability. YOU further acknowledge that it is a Federal and State criminal offense to purchase any product from the Website by fraudulent means.
The rates and charges for airtime refill products available from the Website, as well as the methods of payment shall be those posted on this Website, as amended or revised from time to time.
If YOUR chosen payment method for the Website's service is by credit or debit or prepaid card , and the Company has not received payment from the card issuer or its agents, YOU agree to pay all amounts due upon demand by the Company.
YOUR card issuer's agreement governs YOUR use of YOUR designated payment card in connection with This Website, and YOU must refer to such agreement and not this Agreement with respect to YOUR rights and duties as a cardholder.
Upon written request, the Company will provide YOU with a written statement of charges. Unless YOU notify the Company of any discrepancies within ninety (90) days after they first appear on the written account statement, they will be deemed acceptable by YOU for all purposes, including resolution of inquiries made by YOUR card issuer or bank.
YOU release the Company from all liabilities and claim of loss resulting from any error or discrepancy that is not reported to the Company within 90 days of its publication to YOUR account.
YOU shall be responsible for all charges resulting from YOUR use of this Website and the use of this Website by any other person who uses your user name and password, regardless of whether YOU have actually authorized such charges.
If YOU misplace YOUR user name or password or both, or suspect that someone else may be using them without YOUR authorization, YOU agree that YOU will notify the Company immediately. Failure to notify the Company may result in YOUR being liable for unauthorized charges.
The Company reserves the right to suspend or terminate YOUR account and YOUR access to this Website for any amounts past due. Amounts past due include, but are not limited to denied charges and dishonored checks.
Termination of YOUR account and/or YOUR access to this Website shall not relieve YOU from the obligation to satisfy outstanding invoices and to pay to the Company all amounts YOU owe to the Company pursuant to this Agreement, or otherwise.
In the event the Company utilizes an attorney at law to collect any unpaid amounts from YOU, YOU shall be responsible for the payment of all of the Company's attorneys' fees and costs, in addition to any penalties allowed under applicable law, in the collection of those sums.
In any given 24-hour period, the number of purchases and the aggregate monetary value of the purchases YOU may make from this Website is limited. YOU agree that the Company reserves the right to change these limits at any time without notice and that the Company shall not be liable to YOU in any manner, for any reason, under any legal theory as a result of changing such limits. YOU further agree that YOU will not exceed or attempt to exceed these limits.
All Content the Company provides on any and all of its pages on this Website, any and all files, software, and databases the Company uses to operate this Website, and any and all files the Company makes available to YOU for use, viewing, browsing, or downloading, are protected by copyright pursuant to U.S. law, international conventions, and other copyright laws as individual works, and as a collective work and/or compilation, and the Company claims and owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such Content.
Third persons not parties to this Agreement shall retain all rights they have to intellectual property rights to Content they own and which they enjoy by law. YOU agree not to infringe upon any such rights and agree to defend, hold harmless, and indemnify the Company from any infringement YOU cause to the rights of any third party in any intellectual property rights that may result from YOUR use of this Website.
YOUR Duties Under this Agreement.
YOU agree to abide by and to follow all applicable laws in using This Website and, to the extent allowed by law, YOU agree to defend, hold harmless, and indemnify the Company from any damages caused by YOUR violation of any applicable laws.
YOU acknowledge that access to or use of this Website may not be legal in certain countries. If YOU access or use this Website outside the United States of America, YOU do so at YOUR own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which or from which YOU access or use this Website.
YOU may not use this Website or any products or services you purchase by way of this Website for any unlawful purpose.
The Company reserves the right to discontinue furnishing service or to limit the use of this Website necessitated by conditions beyond its control; or if YOU use this Website or any products or services you purchase by way of this Website in violation or attempted violation of the law.
Violate any of the rules, regulations and policies of those networks, computer systems, telecommunications carriers, or Internet service providers that YOU use to access this Website.
Unless YOU obtain prior written permission from the Company, YOU shall not register for, apply for, or otherwise obtain multiple accounts or means of accessing this Website. YOU agree that if YOU register for, apply for, or otherwise obtain multiple accounts or means of accessing this Website without obtaining prior written permission from the Company, the Company may immediately terminate all of YOUR accounts without notice to YOU.
Once YOUR account in this Website or YOUR access to this Website has been terminated, for any reason, YOU shall pay in full any delinquent, past due, or unpaid accounts and shall resolve all issues in dispute with the Company before YOU may register for, apply for, or otherwise obtain a new account to use this Website.
YOU agree not cause or attempt to cause traffic levels to the Website's related servers and networks, or other networks to rise without reason or for any malicious purpose, by any means, including, but not limited to, transmitting large files to email, ftp, or other servers for malicious purposes, "mailbombing," transmissions intended to raise the cost of another network provider's access through excessive traffic levels, or repeatedly sending the same content to the Website for the purpose of harassment.
YOU agree not to attempt to cause, or actually cause, any disruption of service on this Website or any other network or any server housing this Website, including but not limited to malicious traffic generation, attempted or actual violation of any security system in place on the Internet and its resources, or any unauthorized access to any computer or resource on the Internet.
YOU agree not to abuse or attempt to abuse the system and resources of this Website in any manner.
YOU agree not to violate or attempt to violate the security of the authentication and accounting procedures of this Website.
YOU agree not to attempt to or actually undermine, hinder, damage, or disrupt the hardware, software, or security of this Website or any of its various components.
Indemnification of the Company by CUSTOMER.
Upon request of the Company, YOU agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its parents, its subsidiaries, its members, its partners, its joint ventures, its affiliates, its suppliers, its licensors, its licensees, its agents, its contractors, or their respective agents and employees, and all their respective successors and assigns from all liabilities, claims, losses, judgments, damages, and expenses, including, without limitation, attorney's fees and costs of litigation, arising from breach of this Agreement by use of, or in connection with, the transmission by or through YOUR account of any content or communications.
The Company reserves the right, at its own expense and at its sole discretion, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by YOU hereunder, and in such event, YOU shall have no further obligation to provide indemnification for such matter.
YOU shall promptly notify the Company in writing of any claim arising or potentially arising under this indemnity.
Either YOU or the Company may terminate this Agreement at any time. YOUR sole right with respect to any dissatisfaction with any term of this Agreement, as revised or amended from time to time, or the Company's performance of this Agreement is to terminate this Agreement by notifying the Company in writing.
YOU and the Company agree first to try to resolve the dispute informally between ourselves through good-faith negotiations. If it proves impossible to reach a mutually satisfactory solution to the dispute by negotiation, then YOU and the Company agree to use mediation as described below.
YOU and the Company agree to try to resolve the dispute informally and in good faith with the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator. The mediator shall have such qualifications and experience as YOU and the Company shall agree upon.
If YOU and the Company cannot agree upon the choice of a mediator, then YOU shall submit to the Company the names of three qualified candidates acceptable to the Company to mediate the dispute between us and the Company shall select as mediator one of those three candidates whose names YOU have submitted to the Company.
Alternatively, if YOU cannot submit to the Company the names of three qualified candidates to serve as a mediator, then the Company shall submit to YOU the names of three qualified candidates acceptable to the Company to mediate the dispute between us and YOU shall select as mediator one of those three candidates whose names the Company has submitted to YOU.
The mediation shall be conducted in good faith and on such terms and conditions as the mediator, YOU, and the Company shall agree.
YOU and the Company shall each pay the mediator one half of the fee for the mediator's services, regardless of the outcome of the mediation.
If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution through mediation, YOU and the Company agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association.
The arbitration may be conducted by one impartial arbitrator by mutual agreement or by three arbitrators if YOU and the Company are unable to agree on a single arbitrator within 30 days of first demand for arbitration. All arbitrators are to be selected from a panel provided by the American Arbitration Association. The chair of the arbitration panel shall be an attorney at law, and the other arbitrators shall have a background or training either in computer or Internet law, computer software, or Internet telecommunications technology, the marketing of computer software products, or electronic commerce conducted via the Internet.
Upon request of either YOU or the Company, the arbitrators shall have the authority to permit discovery to the extent they deem appropriate.
The arbitrators shall have no power to add or detract from the agreements of YOU and the Company and may not make any ruling or award that does not conform to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
The decision of the arbitrators shall be final and binding on the parties and may be entered and enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction by either YOU or the Company.
For all purposes, this Agreement shall be deemed to have been made within the State of Delaware. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to Delaware's choice of law and conflicts of law rules, and the Company.
The Company shall not be liable or deemed to be in default for any delay or failure in performance under this Agreement or interruption of service resulting directly or indirectly from acts of God, civil or military authority, acts of public enemy, war, riots, civil disturbances, insurrections, accidents, fire, explosions, earthquakes, floods, the elements, strikes, labor disputes, shortages of suitable parts, materials, labor or transportation, magnetic interference, interruptions of electrical power or other utility service, unavailability of any telecommunications service or connection to any telecommunications service, or any cause beyond the reasonable control of the Company.
Non-transferability of Right to Use Service.
The rights to use this Website and YOUR account are not transferable. Accounts and access to this Website are for YOUR sole use. YOU shall be responsible for the confidentiality of YOUR password. Loaning YOUR account, user name, or password to other persons is expressly prohibited.
Violation of those terms shall constitute theft of the Company's service and property and may be prosecuted under civil and criminal law.
Notices Pursuant to this Agreement.
YOU agree to notify the Company if YOU move or otherwise change YOUR postal or email address or phone number, and to list a truthful name, postal address, e- mail address, and telephone number on all forms YOU supply to the Company.
YOU may notify the Company by email at support@wirelessrefills.com.
No Waiver of Provisions of this Agreement.
The Company's failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provisions of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between YOU and the Company nor any trade practice shall act to modify any provision of this Agreement.
No Oral Modification of this Agreement.
This Agreement may not be modified orally. This Agreement may be modified only by a written instrument signed by YOU and a duly authorized Officer or Manager of the Company. If email is used for the writing, the signatures shall be electronic digital signatures that are publicly registered with a duly authorized certification authority in the jurisdiction in which the Company operates its business.
Limitation of Actions Arising Under this Agreement.
All disputes arising under this Agreement shall be resolved subject to the Alternative Dispute Resolution provisions of this Agreement. Any cause of action or dispute YOU may have with respect to the Company's performance or alleged non-performance of this Agreement must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is forever barred. For purposes of the Alternative Dispute Resolution provisions of this Agreement, the commencement to which this paragraph refers is the date on which YOU notify the Company in writing of a dispute.
Attorney's Fees and Costs in Litigation.
In any action between the Company and YOU to enforce any of the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall be entitled to recover expenses from YOU, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorney's fees.


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Klingenberg ist ein deutscher Familienname.

Herkunft und Bedeutung
Klingenberg ist ein Herkunfts- bzw. Wohnstättenname für Personen, die entweder aus einer Ortschaft Klingenberg stammen oder an einem Klingenberg wohnen.

Namensträger

 Andreas Klingenberg (* 1978), deutscher Althistoriker

 Dirk Klingenberg (* 1969), deutscher Wasserballspieler
 Emma Klingenberg (* 1992), dänische Orientierungsläuferin
 Ernst Klingenberg (1830–1918), deutscher Architekt
 Fritz Klingenberg (1912–1945), deutscher SS-Obergruppenführer, Kommandeur der 17. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen"
 Georg Klingenberg (1870–1925), deutscher Elektrotechniker und Ingenieur
 Georg Klingenberg (Jurist) (1942–2016), österreichischer Rechtswissenschaftler
 Gerhard Klingenberg (* 1929), österreichischer Schauspieler, Regisseur und Intendant
 Goswin Klingenberg († 1416), deutscher Politiker, Bürgermeister von Lübeck
 Heinrich Klingenberg (1868–1935), deutscher Maler
 Heinrich II. von Klingenberg (um 1240–1306), Bischof von Konstanz

 Henrik Klingenberg (* 1978), finnischer Musiker
 Hermann Klingenberg (1908–1982), deutscher Politiker (SPD)

 Kirsten Klingenberg (* 1968), deutsche Rechtsanwältin
 Konrad von Klingenberg (Konrad IV. von Klingenberg; † 1340), deutscher Geistlicher, Bischof von Brixen
 Ludwig Klingenberg (1840–1924), deutscher Architekt
 Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg (1933–2009), deutscher Historiker und Geschichtsdidaktiker
 Meghan Klingenberg (* 1988), US-amerikanische Fußballspielerin
 Paul von Klingenberg, deutscher Postbeamter in Dänemark
 Philipp Reinhard von Klingenberg (1720–1762), deutscher Offizier

 Odd Klingenberg  (1871–1944), norwegischer Rechtsanwalt und Politiker
 Olaf Klingenberg (1886–1968), norwegischer Rechtsanwalt und Politiker
 Sverre Klingenberg (1882–1958), norwegischer Ingenieur und Politiker
 Sverre Olafsson Klingenberg (1844–1913), norwegischer Rechtsanwalt und Politiker
 Thea Klingenberg (* 1983), norwegische Journalistin
 Walter Klingenberg (1881–1963), deutscher Architekt
 Wedekin Klingenberg († 1350), deutscher Politiker, Ratsherr in Lübeck
 Wichmann von Klingenberg (1668–1750), General der Kavallerie und Gouverneur

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