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Final Fantasy XIV is going back on sale on January 25 – Destructoid
Yep, they literally shut down digital sales because the game was too popular
Last month, Final Fantasy XIV made headlines across the globe when Square Enix informed its userbase that they were temporarily shutting down sales of the game. It was a pretty insane time for the game, and it's been in an interesting place ever since. While queues as a whole have been going down, a lot of people are still playing the game. Now even more folks will be able to flood in on January 25.
Yep, Square Enix has confirmed that on January 25, 2022, at 5:00PM JST (that's 3AM the morning of January 25, in US ET), digital sales will be resuming. In short, if you wanted to buy into Final Fantasy XIV, you can.
There's two big reasons for Square Enix choosing that date:
The Oceanic data center will be open at that time, with five worlds (servers) to accommodate both transferring players and new ones
"The play time and log in frequency of current players is steadily returning to normal levels."
I hope this new expansion of players holds. Anecdotally, things have been getting back to normal again. While the first few weeks of Endwalker's launch were hectic, rife with queues hundreds of players long with disconnects during said queues; a lot of players are reporting under 100 (or less) maximum queues in January.
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Wednesday Wow: My Candidate did NOT WIN last night!
The votes have been counted. All the wings and spicy shrimp and chips are all eaten, and the "Vote For Me" street signs have all gone and I'm left wondering how such a great guy miss the mark.
You gotta see his video—> Ramuntu For Mayor <—–Click there!
He does what he says he'll do. I don't always like it but I know what to expect.
As a back up, I had just two other candidates I considered voting for the mayor seat. It was DAVID Howard and Jennifer Roberts. Here's what news since last night election.
Exhausted, emotional, tired, disappointed are all words that could describe how I feel this morning…..and to some extent, I have felt them all. However the overriding feeling I have this morning is one of PRIDE! My campaign was counted out so many times since we started in January, and yet we raised over $250,000 and came so close to forcing a run-off. We also introduced and shared a progressive and pragmatic vision for moving Charlotte, a city I love with all my heart – forward.
I have received dozens of well wishes and thoughts since last night…..and will respond to every one of them. I just wanted to say that Mary and I could not be more appreciative of the hard work everyone put into making the 'HOWARD FOR MAYOR' campaign one we can all be proud of. It was based on real ideas for real people. One of integrity, dedication, compassion and focused on keeping Charlotte competitive for decades to come.
I'm not sure what comes next, but am excited about having that conversation with God. Stay tuned, and again THANK YOU everyone that volunteered, worked and/or that prayed for the 'HOWARD FOR MAYOR' campaign.
And my other is favorite: Jennifer Roberts.
She is could very well be our next mayor ! She has proven to be friend to environment, business and education alike!
Good luck to whom ever wins the Mayor of Charlotte race.
The 2016 presidential election is still several months away from now. We can still make further and deeper research to know who really is the one who will become the best president for our country.
Let us vote based on the capability, effectiveness and efficiency of the person, not on his or her popularity. Let's vote for a president who will develop, not only our own province, but our whole country. Let's support leaders, not because we are their solid loyalists, but because they can provide solid services.
Let's elect leaders who will transform our nation into progress, not leaders who will transport our money to their pockets.


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Nuala's Bar & Restaurant
Co Clare
Email: nualastuamgraney@gmail.com
Website: http://www.nualas.ie
Nuala's Bar & Restaurant provides a friendly & warm environment where visitors to the area can mingle with the locals and enjoy and soak up all that is good in the social life in Ireland.
This family business, now known as Nuala's Bar & Restaurant was originally established in 1850, as Mc Cormacs. It was first run by Patsy Mc Cormac who later handed it down to his only daughter Bridget. Known locally as Baba, Bridget later married John Durack after which the pub became known as Duracks. Baba ran the pub until 1997 when she retired.
It is now run by Nuala and Paul Kilkenny. It has only had three different licensees in one hundred and sixty five years, a rare occurrence in pubs in Ireland.
The food trade was established in 1999 and quickly grew. The new kitchen, cold rooms and staff facilities were built on in 2000 and since then the food trade has grown from strength to strength. It has now got a very strong reputation for very good quality food and friendly service.
The quality and taste of our Irish beef is widely praised as the best in the country and the restaurant and pub have won awards for quality. While quality of the product we sell is very high priority to us we pride ourselves on the warmth of our welcome. It is of great importance to us that each and every visitor coming in the door gets a good old fashioned Irish welcome and is made to feel at home.
B&B's

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package com.google.android.gms.example.interstitialexample;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.CountDownTimer;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.google.android.gms.ads.AdRequest;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.InterstitialAd;

/**
 * Main Activity. Inflates main activity xml and child fragments.
 */
public class MyActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

    private InterstitialAd mInterstitialAd;
    private CountDownTimer mCountDownTimer;
    private Button mRetryButton;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_my);

        // Create the InterstitialAd and set the adUnitId.
        mInterstitialAd = new InterstitialAd(this);
        // Defined in res/values/strings.xml
        mInterstitialAd.setAdUnitId(getString(R.string.ad_unit_id));

        // Create the "retry" button, which tries to show an interstitial between game plays.
        mRetryButton = ((Button) findViewById(R.id.retry_button));
        mRetryButton.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        mRetryButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                showInterstitial();
            }
        });

        // Create the game timer, which counts down to the end of the level
        // and shows the "retry" button.
        final TextView textView = ((TextView) findViewById(R.id.timer));
        mCountDownTimer = new CountDownTimer(3000, 50) {
            @Override
            public void onTick(long millisUnitFinished) {
                textView.setText("seconds remaining: " + ((millisUnitFinished / 1000) + 1));
            }

            @Override
            public void onFinish() {
                textView.setText("done!");
                mRetryButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            }
        };
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.my, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

    @Override
    public void onResume() {
        // Initialize the timer if it hasn't been initialized yet.
        // Start the game.
        super.onResume();
        startGame();
    }

    @Override
    public void onPause() {
        // Cancel the timer if the game is paused.
        mCountDownTimer.cancel();
        super.onPause();
    }

    private void showInterstitial() {
        // Show the ad if it's ready. Otherwise toast and restart the game.
        if (mInterstitialAd != null && mInterstitialAd.isLoaded()) {
            mInterstitialAd.show();
        } else {
            Toast.makeText(this, "Ad did not load", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            startGame();
        }
    }

    private void startGame() {
        // Hide the retry button, load the ad, and start the timer.
        mRetryButton.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder().build();
        mInterstitialAd.loadAd(adRequest);
        mCountDownTimer.start();
    }
}

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Red Ribbon Week is in full swing at Rockwood Elementary. All students participated in a grade level activity decorating the school. Sixth grade was in charge of designing positive chalk art using this year's theme. Many students wore red to wear their support on kick-off day. Below are some of the sixth grade students who decorated the school.


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Q: I cannot connect to my mongodb database - why? I have a mongodb installed and I have the following entries in mongod.conf:
processManagement:
  fork: true  # fork and run in background
  pidFilePath: /var/run/mongodb/mongod.pid  # location of pidfile

# network interfaces
net:
  port: 27017
  bindIp: [0.0.0.0]

security:
  authorization: enabled

Now, in database earlier on I create 2 users with the following queries:
use admin
db.createUser({user: "user1", pwd:"myPass1", roles: [{ role: "root", db: "admin"}]})

db.createUser({user: "user2", pwd:"myPass2", roles: [{ role: "readWrite", db: "myCollection"}, { role: "read", db: "myCollection"}]})

when I do
sudo service mongod stop
sudo mongod --fork --logpath /var/log/mongodb.log --config /etc/mongod.conf

and I type:
sudo mongo admin -u user1 -p myPass1

I'm getting error:
MongoDB shell version v3.4.3
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/admin
MongoDB server version: 3.4.3
2017-04-03T13:56:30.687+0000 E QUERY    [thread1] Error: Authentication failed. :
DB.prototype._authOrThrow@src/mongo/shell/db.js:1459:20
@(auth):6:1
@(auth):1:2
exception: login failed

However, when I comment out the lines:
security:
  authorization: enabled

from mongo.conf then I can log in to my mongo with command sudo mongo (without providing any credentials).
How can I log in to mongo, while keeping it secure and disallow logging in without user and password?

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Born in Copenhagen Denmark, Markus Schwartz grew up in an American household surrounded by Jazz, and has devoted more than twenty-five years to learning the wealth and complexity of traditional Haitian religious music. Moving in and out of Haiti since the early 1990s, Markus followed the lead of Haitian percussionists on pilgrimages into the countryside to learn the intricate and powerful drumming styles of the various lakou—historic religious compounds—such as Badjo, Soukri and Souvenance.
Settling in Brooklyn in the late 1990's, Markus became a sought-after drummer at Haitian religious ceremonies, and was instrumental in creating the ground-breaking Haitian Jazz quintet Mozayik, bringing his informed arrangements of Vodou rhythms to jazz standards, Haitian traditional songs and Mozayik's original compositions. He has since become a first-call percussionist on the NYC Haitian music scene, performing and recording with a diverse array of artists across many genres.
With an extensive discography as a featured artist on myriad projects, Markus has also released three seminal recordings as a leader thus far; Tanbou nan Lakou Brooklyn (2008), Equinox (2011) and Vo-Duo Nou La w/ Monvelyno Alexis (2013). Current projects include his own ongoing band Lakou Brooklyn, as well as membership in Grammy-winning saxophonist David Sanchez' Carib project, and We All Break, led by the iconic drummer Ches Smith, along with pianist Matt Mitchell and Haitian master drummer Daniel Brevil. Markus maintains an active freelance schedule as well, appearing locally and abroad with a host of talented artists from the Haitian community.


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Colorful works by New York artist C. Mari' Pack at LSJ Studios through May
The artist in process
"Forces of Nature'' by C. Mari' Pack.
"Tectonic'' by C. Mari' Pack
"Convective Forces'' by C. Mari' Pack
KATHY DAMINGER | Staff Writer
It was a mistake that led New York artist and self-described perfectionist, C. Mari' Pack, to discover her artistic niche.
While rekindling her passion for art in her basement studio several years ago, the young mother had begun trying different abstract art techniques.
"One day I absolutely hated what I did, and I started squirting paints on it and pouring water and I started to like it,'' explains Pack, whose exhibit, "Tectonic,'' is on display through May at LSJ Studios on West King Street. "So I moved it around, and I began loving the process.''
The process has evolved into an art form in and of itself, culminating in often large and always vibrant works of churning, swirling, dancing color.
"It's almost like a giant inkblot,'' Pack says of her work, referring to the way different people see very different things in each painting.
"I work on the ground, pouring the paints,'' she says, which limits her visual perspective. "When the piece is finished I hang it on the wall and I'm so anxious to hear what people see."
Through trial and error, she has learned how different types of the acrylic paints she uses will react when poured on canvas, allowing her to be more deliberate in her design.
"Metallic paints are more dense, for example,'' she says. "I know instinctively now how the different paints will move. That's what has taken time for the process to evolve.''
She has also learned when to move the paint around on the canvas and when to let it be.
"It's just as important to know when to stop as how to start,'' she says. "You can overwork it and it just looks muddy.''
The process of pouring paint, adding water or alcohol and moving the canvas can be tedious.
"It all has to be done in one sitting. That's the good and bad thing about acrylics,'' she says.
"Bigger pieces can take up to an hour and a half to pour. Then I sit there for hours watching the pools form.
"Its a very organic process but I do manipulate it. I can sit there for six hours watching paint dry."
But while it has its tedious aspects, Pack's time in the studio is the time she feels most relaxed.
"I came from a family with very high expectations,'' says the Albuquerque, New Mexico, native. Her parents were fine with her pursuing art - but only after she got a sensible degree. After a couple false starts, she ended up majoring in accounting, and worked in the field for five years.
And while she describes herself as very methodical and a control freak, she says "the studio is the one time I let myself just break rules.''
"When I get in the studio, I'm free,'' she continues. "Free from anybody needing me, free from staying in the lines.''
While Pack's work is decidedly abstract, the artist is fascinated with how people respond to both the movement and the colors in her works.
"Our brains can pick up imagery in color and movement and shape,'' she says, adding that there's a whole science behind the effects of color on the human brain.
Unless she is going into the studio with a specific concept in mind, she allows the piece itself to suggest a name to her.
"I'll finish a piece; I'll tip it one way, rotate, sit and stare and sit and stare,'' she says, until a name reveals itself.
In her current exhibit, "Tectonic,'' in Loryn Spangler Jones' new studio/gallery at 110 W. King St., she entered the studio with a concept in mind.
She researched the geology behind the tectonic plate theory - which basically explains the movement of the earth's surface over billions of years.
"This exhibit was almost metaphorical to life,'' she says.
"One piece, "Forces of Nature," reminds me of weather patterns,'' she says. It brought to mind how things that bring destruction often bring freedom, too.
She has accompanied each piece in "Tectonic'' with an artist statement.
But to Pack, it's more important to take away your own personal interpretation of her works.
If nothing else, to let yourself experience the beauty of their movement and color.
"I try to find beauty in everything,'' she says. "I think there's enough ugly in the world.''
If you go:
"Tectonic'' exhibit by C. Mari' Pack
Continues through May
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Fri. and Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free.
LSJ Studios, 110 W. King St.
381-5032. lsjstudios.com
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A Fund That Bought Tesla For Less Than $30 A Share
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Primecap Management Company is an under-the-radar adviser that doesn't talk to the media. But it did something no other tracked fund did: it bought Tesla for less than $30 a share in 2011 and hung on to it through the stock's explosion this year. That's an estimated gain of 469%.
Primecap advises the Odyssey Funds, which consist of a stock fund, growth fund and aggressive growth fund. Its investment profile reads like that of most typical value advisers, looking to uncover undervalued stocks whose fundamentals will develop beyond Wall Street's expectations. With a long-term approach, the managers identify changes in a company that could increase value in three-to-five years, such as new products or management, and then wait.
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 04: A Tesla car is displayed in a showroom at a Brooklyn Tesla dealership on... [+] April 4, 2017 in New York City. As of Monday, the start-up car maker founded by Elon Musk had passed iconic car manufacture Ford in market value, riding a 7 percent share-value surge to a market capitalization of about $48.7 billion. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Jack Bogle, founder of $2.3 trillion firm Vanguard Asset Management, kicked off Primecap in 1984 with $100,000 initial capital. Little information about Primecap's portfolio managers exists, but Theo Kolokotrones, a Primecap founder, is chairman of Primecap Management and co-CEO of Primecap Odyssey Funds, a role he shares with Joel Fried and Alfred Mordecai. In addition to the Odyssey Funds, Primecap manages Vanguard's Primecap Fund, Primecap Core Fund and Capital Opportunity Fund.
Their Tesla investment started back in 2011, when the fledgling brainchild of science wizard Elon Musk was coasting above its IPO price of $17, at an average in the second quarter of $27 per share. Musk's Silicon Valley team had begun selling its first electric car, the Tesla Roadster, in 2008. Primecap invested as the company was preparing to launch the world's first premium electric car, the Model S, in 2012. The new model could spring from zero to 60 miles per hour in five seconds and won Motor Trend's 2013 Car of the Year award, competing with stalwarts like GM (NYSE:GM), Honda and Ford.
The launch of the model S also ignited Tesla's share price, but not before Primecap could increase its holdings from 65,000 shares originally to 2,041,090 shares by the end of 2012, at average quarterly share prices of no higher than $32 each. Tesla's share price doubled in each of the proceeding two quarters, to $75, and then to $148.
Primecap took some gains from the holding as Tesla's price continued to soar but still held 1.02 million by the third quarter of 2016 before making another successful move. Managers increased the position by almost 15% as shares sank to $197 in the fourth quarter, their lowest price in three years.
Year to date, Tesla's rocketed a further 47%, closing at $312.17 per share, rounding out Primecap's almost five-fold gain over five years.
Other funds have cashed in on Tesla, though to a lesser degree. Ron Baron (Trades, Portfolio), founder of Baron Funds, who owns the biggest percentage of funds tracked at 0.96% of outstanding shares, started participating Tesla in early 2014 for around $200 per share. His average price for all of his share purchases is $217, for an estimated gain of 43%.
Yet, Baron has declined to leap at media appearances to "take a victory lap" for the investment, he said in his first-quarter shareholder letter this week, saying it was "too early for us to claim victory."
"In fact, we think it will still be too early in 2020 or 2021 when we think Tesla could sell one million cars per year, produce $70 billion in revenue and more than $7 billion in operating profits before reinvesting in its business to grow several times larger," he said. "A lot has to go right for that to take place."
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We all love to get out of the house and spend a cozy evening with our best friends or with family. To do this, we go to our favorite institution, it can be different kinds of bars, pubs, restaurants, cafes or something else. Often in these institutions plays some background music, which is aimed at creating an additional pleasant atmosphere of the institution.


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Paul welcomes readers' suggestions and suggestions and strives to cultivate a robust dialogue with Hearst Connecticut Media's audience. The higher-growth category now incorporates anything from vibrators to vitamins as customers appear for extra holistic solutions rather than just solutions. For 2021 the brand is anticipated to report worldwide sales in excess of $100m. Premium cosmetics organization Chantecaille has been acquired by German-primarily based multinational Beiersdorf. Below C.A.R.E.+, also announced in 2019, the business pledge to invest an more €70-80m per year into new markets, innovation, digitalisation and upskilling.
Ryleigh Jae Hanson, sophomore, Dean's List, College of Arts and Sciences, biological sciences.
Katherine Anne Mohr, junior, Dean's List, College of Agricultural Sciences and All-natural Resources, animal science and pre-veterinary medicine.
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Jaylin Williams was unable to go Friday evening just after testing optimistic for COVID-19 earlier in the week.
The tool makes use of a variety of aspects for categorizing the players into four categories. Some of these aspects deemed for evaluation are economic overall performance more than the final 3 years, development methods, innovation score, new product launches, investments, growth in market place share, and so on. The premium cosmetics market place share growth by the on-line distribution channel segment will be substantial in the course of the forecast period. In April 2021, L'Oréal, a France-primarily based private care enterprise, acquired Takami Co. for an undisclosed quantity. The acquisition would allow L'Oréal to expand its enterprise in Japan and other Asian countries. Takami Co. is a Japan-based organization that develops premium skincare products.
Complications can affect lots of organs and often incorporate otitis media, laryngotracheobronchitis, pneumonia, stomatitis, and diarrhoea. Neurological complications are uncommon but really serious, and can happen in the course of or quickly after the acute disease or months or even years later . Patient management primarily involves supportive therapy, such as vitamin A supplementation, monitoring for and remedy of secondary bacterial infections with antibiotics, and rehydration in the case of extreme more bonuses diarrhoea. There is no distinct antiviral therapy for the treatment of measles, and illness handle largely depends on prevention. Even so, in spite of the availability of a protected and helpful vaccine, measles is still endemic in numerous countries and causes considerable morbidity and mortality, specifically among children in resource-poor settings.
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In 1984 Beiersdorf shut down its soap manufacturing facility and delegated production to newly acquired subsidiary Hirtler GmbH, which had higher experience and state-of-the-art equipment. The acquisition of Futuro strengthened the company's presence in the market place for therapeutic hosiery. Through the 1920s, even so, the enterprise brought out some 70 new or substantially modified products. About half were individual care things such as tooth powders, hair items, children's creams, lavender soaps, hair removal creams, sunburn creams, and insect bite salves.
But it was the company's selective cosmetics segment, featuring its La Prairie brand, that posted "the biggest growth rates" for the complete year thanks to recovery in travel retail. Total sales for the prestige cosmetics brand were up six.1% in Q4 and up by a lot more than 30% for the full year. In China, La Prairie sales rose above average, returning to "far above" the pre-crisis level of 2019, and there was also "strong recovery" in the US for the brand, Beiersdorf said. You did mention the performance was broad-based, but asking yourself if you could offer some colour on NIVEA's development in the sun care segment in Q2 specifically.
Rebel Grace Sjeklocha, junior, Dean's List, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, agricultural and environmental sciences communication. Tanner Vanek, senior, Dean's List, College of Education and Human Sciences, nutrition and health sciences. Brianna Hopping, freshman, Dean's List, College of Arts and Sciences, political science Dean's List, College of Journalism and Mass Communications, advertising and public relations.
Force versus displacement data for sample four are shown in Fig.7h–i, and here it can be noticed that there was incredibly substantial non-elastic compression of the epoxy. As with sample three, the shape of the superconducting transition in the Sr2RuO4 was the exact same just before and after application of huge stress. Over regions where the sample and epoxy deformed elastically, the combined spring constant was 1.45 N/μm. The spring constant of the flexures in the carrier, on the other hand, is calculated to be ~.03 N/μm, meaning that virtually all of the applied force was transferred to the sample. Another feature of the electronic structure that varies oppositely beneath a- versus c-axis compression is the interlayer coupling.
Hannah Marie Van Osdel, junior, Dean's List, College of Education and Human Sciences, elementary education. Angeline Marie Luther, sophomore, Dean's List, College of Arts and Sciences, laptop science and mathematics. Nicole Catherine Tubbesing, senior, Dean's List, College of Journalism and Mass Communications, advertising and public relations. Lauren Vincenzia Rothgeb, junior, Dean's List, College of Arts and Sciences, biological sciences and Spanish.
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"We attempt to make it unique for them, since who desires to be in the hospital – even if you're getting a child – on Christmas."
Matt Anderson, senior, Dean's List, College of Arts and Sciences, biological sciences.
In spite of sales recovering for a time in the course of the year and double-digit growth in China, the brand was unable to match its powerful prior-year figures.
Sydney Robin Extended, junior, Dean's List, College of Journalism and Mass Communications, sports media and communication.
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Your parents didn't do nicely at college, and can barely read themselves and never study to you. You're bullied since your clothes are tatty and smelly and you come from a poor background. We can come across $16b to give to anybody over 65, like multi-millionaires and landlords, but can't obtain much less than $1b to abolish the have to have for student loans.
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Marty's Musings, October 13th: Crunch Time
The Jays and Royals are in a win-or-go-home scenario, meanwhile, the NLDS series are tied with all four teams having won one game. What a week of baseball we have on tap!
By Steven Martano@SMartano Oct 12, 2015, 2:51pm EDT
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Welcome to another edition of 'Marty's Musings', my weekly column of numbers summarizing the past week in Major League Baseball. I am your guide for taking an analytic look at last week and digging into the upcoming matchups, identifying numbers that are generally not found in a standard box score.
Oh boy. Where to begin this week? The Mets / Dodgers series took an emotional turn when Chase Utley took out Ruben Tejada, the Blue Jays put themselves in a hole against an unlikely Rangers team, Dallas Keuchel continues to roll against the Royals, and Jake Arrieta takes the hill this evening.
It's this week's Musings.
Numbers - NLDS Style
7.09(e) - If, in the judgment of the umpire, a base runner willfully and deliberately interferes with a batted ball or a fielder in the act of fielding a batted ball with the obvious intent to break up a double play, the ball is dead. The umpire shall call the runner out for interference and also call out the batter-runner because of the action of his teammate. In no event may bases be run or runs scored because of such action by a runner.
Chase Utley supposedly broke the rule written out above with his take-out of Mets' shortstop Ruben Tejada, warranting a two-game suspension from the league. Utley is famous (or infamous) for his 'take out' slides, and, on a play not that dissimilar from the one that ended Jung Ho Kang's season, puts Tejada on the shelf for the remainder of the year.
2005 - The last time the Houston Astros won a playoff game at home before taking game three from the Royals on Sunday afternoon. Sunday's win lacked in drama as the Astros took a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning, added an insurance run in the sixth and held on for a 4-2 victory.
1 - Number of pitchers in the history of the game to post double-digit strikeouts and zero walks in a complete game postseason shutout. Arrieta threw the CGSHO at PNC Park, shutting down the Pirates who never gained any momentum in the wild card game. The stat is a tad disingenuous, as Arrieta did hit two batters, but he put together a fantastic outing despite having command issues throughout the game.
44 - Arrieta set a personal record, throwing a career high 44 sliders ---- the most he's thrown in any single game.
2 - Hits in 14 plate appearances by Blue Jays shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. Tulo entered Sunday's must-win game carrying an 0-fer in the ALDS, but came through with a three-run home run in the sixth inning of game three to help drive the Jays to their first postseason win in over 20 years
41 - Age of R.A. Dickey who will make his first postseason start of his career. Dickey will become the oldest starting pitcher to make a postseason debut, and only the fifth 40+ year old to make his postseason debut on the hill. Old timers Dazzy Vance (1934), Mike Ryba (1946), Satchel Paige (1948), and Chuck Hostetler (1945) threw their first postseason innings after the age of 40 though non started their respective game.
It's Crunch time for all, Win or Go Home for Some
The Blue Jays season falls on the hands (or knuckles?) of R.A. Dickey. Dickey takes the hill this afternoon against Derek Holland and the Rangers. Dickey has performed like a league-average pitcher at best this season, and if his pitches do not dance in Arlington, the Blue Jays may find themselves on the golf course much sooner than most of us expected.
Jake Arrieta takes the hill Monday against Michael Wacha and the Cardinals. Arrieta was sterling in the wild card game, and is looking to become the 2015 version of Madison Bumgarner. He'll take on a potent Cards lineup he faced four times this season; in those outings he posted a 2.42 ERA in 26 innings and struck out 25 batters. Wacha struggled against the Cubs in his four starts, giving up 16 earned runs in 21 innings, though he did strikeout 20 batters.
The Mets v. Chase Utley. Utley and the Mets have history. Utley manned second base for the Mets' division-rival Phillies and the theatrics in taking out Ruben Tejada on Saturday night will not be forgotten any time soon. At the time of this writing, it looks as if Utley will appeal his suspension and likely play the rest of the NLDS (regardless of whether the suspension is upheld). Tensions will run high in Queens over the next two days.
Houston looks to take down the defending AL Champs Monday afternoon with Lance McCullers taking the hill against Yordano Ventura. Ventura started Game 1 but was lifted after a rain delay. McCullers, meanwhile, has not pitched since October 4th when he went five innings and gave up two runs against the Diamondbacks. The Astros would like nothing more than to defeat KC in Houston rather than risk a winner-take-all game five ---- a game Dallas Keuchel will not be available to start.
Steven Martano is an Editor at Beyond the Box Score and a Contributing Prospect Writer for the Colorado Rockies at Purple Row. You can follow him on Twitter at @SMartano.


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Ed Markey repeats push for monthly $2,000 COVID stimulus checks, which Republican opponent Kevin O'Connor blasts as extreme
Updated: Oct. 18, 2020, 4:17 p.m. | Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 4:16 p.m.
By Benjamin Kail | bkail@masslive.com
Hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi laid down a two-day deadline for Democratic leaders and the Trump administration to advance a COVID-19 stimulus deal before Election Day, Sen. Ed Markey on Sunday repeated his push for recurring payments to Americans grappling with the pandemic's economic fallout.
In the 7 months since this pandemic began, Americans have received a single payment of $1200. Every day that passes where we fail to provide direct, recurring cash payments is another day that more and more families struggle to make rent and put food on the table.
— Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) October 18, 2020
"In the 7 months since this pandemic began, Americans have received a single payment of $1200," Markey said, referencing the direct checks cut as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act signed by President Donald Trump in late March. "Every day that passes where we fail to provide direct, recurring cash payments is another day that more and more families struggle to make rent and put food on the table."
In May, Sens. Markey, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris called on the federal government to provide monthly $2,000 checks to millions of Americans during the course of the outbreak. The proposal would provide payments to Americans who earn up to $100,000; those who file as head of household are eligible up to $150,000, and married couples earning up to $200,000 would receive a combined $4,000 monthly. Families with children would receive $2,000 per child, up to three children.
Republican attorney Kevin O'Connor, who's challenging Markey for the Senate seat on Nov. 3, has blasted Markey's plan, calling the idea far too costly and noting checks could wind up going to non-citizens.
"Senator Markey's been an extremist throughout and never offered any moderation on this issue," O'Connor said during their GBH debate earlier this month.
O'Connor, whose father nearly died of COVID-19 and whose cousin did die from the disease, called the senator's "very highly charged rhetoric" targeting the president's pandemic response "misguided."
"What we don't need is career politicians politicizing this issue," he argued.
The $2,000 payments proposal did not gain traction in the Senate, though one-time stimulus payments are part of the latest $1.8 trillion package being hammered out by Democrats and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Pelosi on Sunday said negotiators are nailing down language in the new proposal, particularly around $75 billion set aside for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing. Democrats are pushing for stronger requirements and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while Trump aides want states to take more of a lead role.
Trump says he'll support a larger package including stimulus payments, extended unemployment benefits, a boost to small business loans and funding for testing and schools. But many Republican senators have balked at any plans exceeding $1 trillion.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled votes this week on smaller packages.
On Tuesday, the Senate will hold a vote on a $500 billion bill to expand the Paycheck Protection Program, which has helped many American businesses keep workers and stay afloat during the pandemic.
On Wednesday, the Senate will vote on a previously-proposed "skinny" bill of about $500 billion, which included some bipartisan-backed measures such as enhanced unemployment insurance, a PPP boost and funding for testing and vaccine deployment. Democrats have already blocked the proposal, dismissing it as inadequate.
Trump town hall: President Donald Trump tells Nancy Pelosi he's ready to sign a 'big, beautiful' COVID stimulus
At least 187,00 COVID stimulus checks remain unclaimed in Massachusetts as Oct. 15 deadline approaches
Latest on COVID stimulus battle: Trump administration presses for small business boost to break stalemate


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The Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission Gets It Right on Courthouse Cell Phone Bans
By Jake Hofstetter | Research and Policy Associate
In just two decades, cell phones have gone from convenient accessories for making calls to essential tools in our everyday lives. Without our phones we lose not only our capacity to entertain ourselves in waiting rooms, but also the ability to access a repository of information we need for every aspect of our lives. Because of our reliance on our iPhones, there are only a few places where visitors are banned from possessing cell phones: prisons, secret military installations, and, more surprisingly, 56 Massachusetts courthouses. Although well-intentioned, these bans separate court visitors and litigants from an essential tool in managing their cases, leaving many court users without attorneys at a serious disadvantage.
Cell phone bans exist to minimize distractions and make sure courthouses remain safe and confidential. Ringing phones and noises from videos or apps disrupt the functioning and integrity of legal proceedings. On the darker side, gangs or other criminals may use cell phones for photographing or intimidating witnesses and undercover police officers. Although these concerns are legitimate, they shouldn't outweigh the harm that cell phone bans cause as well as the common-sense solutions that can prevent the misuse of cell phones without banning them.
Evidence from reporting, independent research, and the court system's own internal investigation continue to show that cell phone bans are harmful to court users representing themselves without attorneys. A report from the Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice published last summer demonstrated that cell phone bans prevent court users from presenting evidence, scheduling court dates, and referencing information needed for filling out legal forms. The fact that lawyers can bring their cell phones to court makes these policies even more unfair for those representing themselves. The court system's own internal investigation, released by the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission last month, also found that blanket cell phone bans created "unacceptable hardships" and should be replaced with more permissive policies such as universal exceptions for those with official business at the court and storage options for facilities that truly need to prohibit cell phone use for security reasons.
Besides frustrating the efforts of those trying to represent themselves in court, cell phone bans also create serious burdens for all court visitors and users. Court users regularly use cell phones to manage childcare, transportation, and their absences from work. Since many people do not know about cell phone bans before coming to court and there are no options for storage, some court users may be left to decide whether to attend their court appearances or not. Others choose to hide their phones outside courthouses in the bushes or pay private businesses to store their phones. These options may lead to court users losing their phones or having to pay extra money, that they may not have to spare, to store them.
Most courthouses don't need cell phone bans to be safe or orderly. In fact, many courthouses in Massachusetts (and across the country) do not have cell phone bans and function without serious disruptions or witness intimidation. Unfortunately, a minority of court users will always take calls in inappropriate places or, worse, record court proceedings for nefarious purposes. As the court system's own internal investigation noted, however, it is fairer to court users to regulate the use of cell phones rather than the possession of cell phones. The first approach leads to reasonable policies where cell phone use can be restricted in certain facilities or courtrooms. The second approach creates an unfair burden on those who cannot afford to hire an attorney to represent them and makes it difficult for all members of our technology-attached society to use courthouses.
Changing cell phone bans in courthouses may seem like a small step, but it is an important one in expanding access to justice in Massachusetts. The growing numbers of people who must represent themselves in court already have trouble navigating our complex legal system without having to give up an essential tool like their smartphone. The court system and Access to Justice Commission deserve credit for their willingness to study this issue as well as their recognition that cell phone bans are harmful and should be replaced with more permissive and effective policies. These changes will also assure that our legal system remains fair and up to date with the rapid technological change occurring all around us.
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CEO Profiles:
What Is Your Role as CEO?
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In each issue of our Franchise Update magazine, we profile franchise CEOs and presidents, asking each the same set of questions. Their responses say a lot about who they are, their culture, their values, and where they're taking their companies. We focus the Q&A on four areas: Leadership, Management, Personal, and the Bottom Line.
Throughout the year, we'll be selecting one of those questions - and providing answers from the previous year's profiles. If you'd like to learn more about these franchise leaders and what they have to say on other topics, we'll also provide links back to their full profile.
The first question in this series is the first question we ask in every CEO profile: "What is your role as CEO?"
Shannon Hudson, CEO and Co-Founder, 9Round Franchising
The job requires me wearing many hats, from recruiting franchisees, to training those franchisees and trainers, to maintaining an active role in their operations. But one of my primary roles as CEO is to push along the company's growth. Even with more than 740 studios open worldwide, I think we still have a very long way to go before reaching a maximum number of locations. I can see the brand at potentially 5,000 locations worldwide in the next few years. See full profile here.
Michael Poates, President and COO, Mr. Gatti's Pizza
To inspire performance with our corporate and franchise locations and those who serve this endeavor. And to demonstrate commitment to success and to doing things the right way. See full profile here.
Nicole Ossenfort, CEO and President, Liberty Tax
I am passionate about Liberty Tax, and I am focused on its growth and prosperity. See full profile here.
Rob Price, CEO and President, School of Rock
My primary role is to listen to our owners, school teams, and students to shape a set of priorities to strengthen the delivery of our mission. We are a growing, passionate community dedicated to enriching lives through performance-based music education. As leader of this community, I have to make good choices about what, when, and how. My role also is to ensure high standards and follow through on our commitments. See full profile here.
Larry Oberly, President and CEO, SpeedPro Imaging
I have three major roles. 1) Be the face of the organization and set and communicate the mission and vision for the network. It's my role to think about immediate needs, but also five or more years ahead. Our regional developers and studio owners have invested in the brand, and it's my role to help them maximize the return on their investment and help ensure we are positioned to provide the best, most creative and responsive products and services to our customers. 2) Grow existing studio sales and profits. This goes hand in hand with the first point as we need to leverage more from what we do today and also look at innovation as an important growth vehicle for our studio owners. Without successful and growing studios, we could never achieve our collective goals. 3) Increase the number of studios. Adding more studios works along with better, same-studio metrics. Having more studios makes it easier to reach and serve the end user and provides more muscle for our brand marketing and awareness campaigns. See full profile here.
Tammy Whitworth, Chair and CEO, Window World
It's not easily defined. I'm in the office three or four days a week, so I rely on our president and a very capable team of individuals to oversee the day-to-day activities. My responsibility is to focus on overall strategies and long-term goals and visions. I'm also committed to keeping the company in line with our core values and history of giving back through our charitable arm, Window World Cares. See full profile here.
Carl T. Howard, President and CEO, Fazoli's
To continue to foster the relationship between our guests and the brand. Being guest-centric is critical in today's rapidly changing economy. My overall responsibility is very broad, but besides our passion of exceeding our guest expectations we want to provide a great experience for our team members and investment partners. When you can hit the trifecta of happy guests, happy employees, and happy investors it is a very fun role. See full profile here.
David Lopez, CEO, Dental Fix Rx
I oversee the strategy and drive the vision and actionable steps needed to move the company forward. My main role is strategic planning and sitting the team down with a 90-day road map on a quarterly basis. I'm always looking 3 to 4 years ahead, and this allows me to present the trends, the strategy to address what is and isn't working, and to understand the opportunities available. Once the 90 days are up we review how we did and map out the next challenge. See full profile here.
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Tag Archives: Cory Booker
Posted on January 31, 2017 by carlosdev
Outside the windows conditions remain murky.
(2016) Documentary (Netflix) Angela Davis, Cory Booker, Van Jones, Newt Gingrich, Grover Norquist, Ed Koch, Dolores Canales, Khalid Muhammad, Charles B. Rangel, Jelani Cobb, Kyung-Jee Kate Rhee, Nicholas Turner, James Kilgore, Bryan Stevenson, Kevin Gannon, Michael Hough, Ken Thompson, Marc Maurer, Michelle Alexander, Deborah Small, Marie Gottschalk. Directed by Ava DuVernay
The 13th Amendment was supposed to have abolished involuntary servitude (i.e. slavery) but it left a very deliberate loophole; convicted criminals could be sentenced to hard labor without remuneration. That has led to the exploitation of African-American males essentially since the Civil War ended.
Ava (Selma) DuVernay's Netflix documentary is up for an Oscar for Best Documentary feature and it's easy to see why. This serves as an important historical document on the history of racism right up to present day. Images from the D.W. Griffith master-race-piece Birth of a Nation are cheek by jowl with images of civil rights marchers being beaten and firehosed in the Sixties.
There are a lot of talking heads and oddly DuVernay identifies most but not all of them. Some of them are fairly well known – there's no mistaking Rep. Charlie Rangel and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and those who watch Real Time with Bill Maher ought to recognize Grover Norquist but some of the speakers here aren't as well known visually and some information on who is talking and why their opinion should matter would be welcome. I must say it was great seeing Angela Davis, who is currently a professor at UC Santa Cruz. She looks terrific and minus her trademark Afro she looks a lot different but the fire is certainly still there and the intelligence as well. She is one of the most engaging speakers in the film.
The movie shows how the prison system has moved from using convicts for hard labor, helping to rebuild the post Civil War south to the War on Drugs which filled prisons with largely African American males in for minor offenses to help Nixon and his appeal to hard line conservative "Law and Order" voters to today when prisons have been privatized and the despicable ALEC organization which includes several corporate incarceration facility entities among its members has written laws to help increase prison sentences and has led to a prison population that was just under 350,000 in 1970 to the 2.3 million prisoners the United States has behind bars today. As a percentage of our total population, we have more people in prison than almost any nation on Earth by sheer number of the incarcerated I believe we have the greatest number of prisoners of any nation. We're number one!
The narrative sometimes gets strident and overly dramatic and I can understand the former but a little bit of restraint might have gotten the point across more effectively than the cinematic hysterics DuVernay sometimes indulges in. When you're preaching to the converted, a little drama doesn't make a difference but when you're trying to win hearts and minds it can make things a little more difficult than it needs to be.
Still, even with all that this is a powerful and moving documentary that richly deserves the nomination that it received. I also found it impressive that DuVernay includes the conservative side of things as well which some left-leaning documentarians often fail to do. However, she never loses sight of the fact that she's giving a voice to a segment of society that hasn't traditionally had, or at least one that was being heard. If it is occasionally uncomfortable and strident it is forgivable. The point is that we are watching legal, institutionalized slavery going on under our very noses and unless we decide to do something about it as a people it will continue to go on for as long as the powers that be can get away with it.
REASONS TO GO: An important document on the history of racism. An impressive amount of conservative commentary is included. A voice is given to those who generally have to scream in order to be heard.
REASONS TO STAY: The film can be strident and occasionally veers into the overly dramatic. The graphic flashing of the word "criminal" every time the word is mentioned is irksome.
FAMILY VALUES: There is a little bit of foul language and some disturbing images.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The title comes from the 13th Amendment which prohibits slavery – except in the case of convicted criminals.
BEYOND THE THEATERS: Netflix
CRITICAL MASS: As of 1/31/17: Rotten Tomatoes: 97% positive reviews. Metacritic: 90/100.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: I Am Not Your Negro
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New Releases for the Week of May 23, 2014
Posted on May 22, 2014 by carlosdev
(20th Century Fox) Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Peter Dinklage, Nicholas Hoult. Directed by Bryan Singer
The original X-Men, living in a future devastated by mutant-hunting Sentinels who have begun hunting all life down, must send Wolverine back into the past to fight alongside their younger selves and convince a young and bitter Professor X to bring the X-Men together. He, however, is not so willing no matter what the cost. Singer returns to the franchise he originated.
See the trailer, promos, clips, interviews and B-Roll video here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard (opens Thursday)
Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of intense sci-fi violence and action, some suggestive material, nudity and language)
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
(Lionsgate) Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, James Earl Jones, Melissa Leo. A Brooklyn man, notorious for his ill temperament, goes to see a doctor about a raging headache. When she tells him that he has a brain aneurysm, he demands to know how long he has. He finally bullies her into telling him – 90 minutes. He sets out to make amends with those he has wronged in his life in the short time he has left. She, filled with remorse, sets out to find him and bring him to the hospital before the angriest man in Brooklyn becomes the angriest corpse in Brooklyn.
See the trailer here.
Release formats: Standard
Rating: R (for language throughout and some sexual content)
(Fox Searchlight) Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson. Dido Elizabeth Belle was the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a British Royal Navy Admiral in the 19th century. Raised by her aristocratic great-Uncle, she exists in a strange half-life of the privileged class but due to the color of her skin unable to participate fully or take advantage completely of her circumstances. Her passion, dignity and spirit inspire her great-Uncle to be one of the catalyzing forces in ending slavery in England.
See the trailer, interviews, clips and B-roll video here.
Genre: Historical Drama
Rating: PG (for thematic elements, some language and brief smoking images)
(Warner Brothers) Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Kevin Nealon, Joel McHale. Two single parents are set up on a blind date by his boss and her roommate who are dating. Date ends in disaster. Boss and roommate break up. African safari that they were going to go on is up for grabs. Single parents grab the spots. Single parents take their kids. Single parents hate each other. Laughs (hopefully) ensue.
See the trailer, clips, interviews and B-Roll video here.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Rating: PG-13 (for crude and suggestive content, and language)
(Open Road) Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara, John Leguizamo, Dustin Hoffman. Frustrated at having his culinary inspiration curtailed by a control freak owner, a classically-trained chef quits the fine dining establishment in a move viewed by some of his friends as career suicide. Without prospects, he sinks everything he has into buying a food truck. Taking along his ex-wife and best friend for the ride, he takes to this new trend in great food and re-discovers his passion not just for cooking but for life.
See the trailer, clips and B-roll video here.
Rating: R (for language, including some suggestive references)
(Magnolia) Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Noah Taylor. A drone in a retro-futuristic industrial setting, Simon James is a mousy sort who pines away for a co-worker but does nothing to pursue her. A hard worker, his accomplishments are overlooked and indeed few even know his name. Then one day, the company hires a new worker – James Simon, who looks exactly like Simon. To his horror, the outgoing and charismatic James begins to take over Simon's life; even the girl of his dreams falls for the man who looks exactly like him. One of my films from this year's Florida Film Festival, look for my review this Sunday.
See the trailer, a clip and find a link to rent the full movie for streaming here.
Genre: Drama/Black Comedy/Fantasy
Rating: R (for language)
(Radius) Michele Simon. Rocco diSpirito, Senator Cory Booker, Jamie Oliver. The epidemic of childhood obesity and adult-onset diabetes has led nutritionists and medical professionals to rethink our concepts of diet and exercise. The food industry with its emphasis on prepared foods, salt, sugar and fats make it nearly impossible for us to eat responsibly. This documentary will open your eyes as to the way you eat and the things you take for granted.
For more on the movie this is the website .
Rating: PG (for thematic elements including smoking images, and brief mild language)
(Weinstein) Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Angela Sarafyan. At the turn of the 20th century a Polish woman is emigrating to the United States with her sister. When they are separated, she falls prey to a charming but wicked man who forces her into prostitution. Her only salvation may come at the hands of an enigmatic stage magician – who happens to be her tormentor's cousin.
See the trailer and clips here.
Rating: R (for sexual content, some nudity and language)
The Love Punch
(Ketchup) Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie. Richard and Kate are happily divorced and looking to go into their sunset years blessedly apart from each other. When an unscrupulous businessman screws them out of their pension, the two are forced to team up and get back what they worked their whole lives for.
See the trailer and a clip here.
Genre: Caper Comedy
Rating: PG-13 (for some sexual content, language and rude humor)
(CineGalaxy) Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, Nagajurna Akkineni, Naga Chaitanya, Samantha Ruth Prabhu.Two souls encounter each other again and again during a hundred year period. Inspired (very) loosely by Back to the Future. This would be Rao's final film; the veteran Bollywood star passed away shortly after filming wrapped.
Genre: Bollywood
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Q: A date sorting algorithm Note, this works, this comparator.  I just wonder whether there is a more elegant way to do it?
Basically I have a LinkeList of dates in the form mm/dd/yyyy (or MM/dd/yyyy).  Doing a regular string sort will, for obvious reasons, not work as 1/1/2015 would come before 12/12/1997.  So I wrote this comparator.
One catch, though.  Sometimes the date could be null (or blank) so it should come first ascending, or last descending.
I wrote this comparator which I send to Collections.sort().  Remember, it does work but there's got to be a simpler way?
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention is this one declaration:
public class DateFormats {
    ...
    public static final SimpleDateFormat PTL_MMddyyyy = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
    ...
}

Comparator follows:
public static class dateSort implements Comparator<String> {
    @Override
    public int compare(String cur, String nxt) {
        String veryEarlyDate = "01/01/0001";
        Date curdate = null;
        Date nxtdate = null;
        cur = ((cur != null && !cur.trim().isEmpty()) ? cur : veryEarlyDate);
        nxt = ((nxt != null && !nxt.trim().isEmpty()) ? nxt : veryEarlyDate);
        try {
            curdate = DateFormats.PTL_MMddyy.parse(cur);
            nxtdate = DateFormats.PTL_MMddyy.parse(nxt);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Bad date " + cur + " or " + nxt);
            assert (false) : e.getMessage();
        }
        return curdate.compareTo(nxtdate);
    }
}

A: You should implement comparable in your DateFormat class. Then, implement the compareTo method and compare the objects. Return 1 if bigger, 0 if equal and -1 if smaller.
public class DateFormat implements Comparable{

...

   public int compareTo(Object o){
       DateFormat df = (DateFormat)o;
       int result;
       ... //do desired comparison
       //and set result to -1, 0 or 1 depending on result.
       return result;
   }
}

Then you could use the Arrays.sort(DateFormat[] dateFormatArray); to sort the collection of DateFormat objects.

A: Not sure if I got right what you want, but an easy way I could think of is turning the dates into ints and then comparing them.
MM/dd/yyyy -> yyyyMMdd (yyyy * 10000 + MM * 100 + dd)
1/1/2015   -> 20150101
12/12/1997 -> 19971212

A: Java's Data and Jodatime's LocalDate are already Comparable, as such no additional code is required.

A: I think it would be more elegant(simplicity + logical) if your LinkedList used an Object[] instead of String.
When you add the String to the linkedList, parse it at that time.  I would avoid parsing it in the comparator.
if(string != null)
    Object[] toAddToList = new Object[]{string, PTL_MMddyyyy.parse(string)};
else
    Object[] toAddToList = new Object[]{null, null};

Then
    public static class dateSort implements Comparator<Object[]>
    {
        public int compare(Object[] cur, Object[] nxt)
        {
           //TODO: add null check
           return ((Date)cur[1]).compareTo((Date)nxt[1]);
        }
    }

A: Use Date-Time Objects
Some experienced people have suggested a better policy is to work with natural data types rather than strings. Number values should be numeric objects, UUID values should be UUID objects, and date-time values should be date-time objects.
You business logic should utilize these objects. Rendering to strings should happen only for:

*

*Presentation to the user (localization) (Use DateTimeFormatter in Joda-Time)

*Output to storage or other systems (serialization) (Use ISO 8601 format)

Joda-Time
As some folks suggested, Joda-Time is the way to go, rather than the notoriously troublesome java.util.Date/.Calendar classes bundled with Java. Alternatively, you can use java.time built into Java 8 (inspired by Joda-Time).
Comparable
Joda-Time implements Comparable. So, ready for sorting.
Example Code
Here is some example Joda-Time 2.6 code.
// Simulate input.
List<String> listInput = new ArrayList<>();
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern( "MM/dd/yyyy" );
listInput.add( formatter.print( LocalDate.now() ) );
listInput.add( formatter.print( LocalDate.now().plusDays( 5 ) ) );
listInput.add( formatter.print( LocalDate.now().minusDays( 13 ) ) );

Convert Strings to LocalDate objects. This class represents a date-only value, without time-of-day and without time zone.
// Convert strings to LocalDate objects.
List<LocalDate> listLocalDate = new ArrayList<>();
for ( String s : listInput ) {
    try {
        LocalDate x = formatter.parseLocalDate( s );
        listLocalDate.add( x );
    } catch ( IllegalArgumentException e ) {
        // …
        // Handle invalid data input.
    }
}
Collections.sort( listLocalDate );

Dump to console.
System.out.println( "listInput : " + listInput );
System.out.println( "listLocalDate : " + listLocalDate );

When run.
listInput : [12/17/2014, 12/22/2014, 12/04/2014]
listLocalDate : [2014-12-04, 2014-12-17, 2014-12-22]


I'm happy to announce a pretty big milestone for us in the G-C labs, ANJP v3 Beta! If you've been watching the forensic lunch you know about the new features and capabilities we've been adding as we work our way to a commercial tool release to go along side our free parser. We think that this beta release is a pretty significant step forward towards that goal.
We've ported the GUI from win32 to WX which means once we figure out the details we'll have GUI compiled versions of ANJP for Mac and Linux alongside windows.
We've developed a XML based rules engine that we've populated with some sample rules. The rules engine is still under development to expose all the underlying options within the MFT/USN/$Logfile but its very functional right now.
You can now specify your owl rules or IOCs and the parser will show you what matches.
Adding rules will not require you to reparse the data!
Our plan is to take the module once completed to CPAN so the DFIR perl developers of the world can come back into equal footing with our python brethren.


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Masayuki Okano ou 岡野雅行 est un footballeur japonais, né le  à Yokohama.

Biographie
En tant que milieu, Masayuki Okano fut international japonais à 25 reprises (1995-1999) pour 2 buts.

Il fit partie des joueurs nippons sélectionnés por la Coupe des confédérations 1995, mais il ne joua aucun match.

Il participaà la Coupe d'Asie 1996, où il fut une seule fois titulaire contre la Chine et trois fois remplaçant contre l'Ouzbékistan, le Koweït et la Syrie. Le Japon est éliminé en quarts de finale.

Il participa à la Coupe du monde de football de 1998. Il ne joua qu'un seul match, en tant que remplaçant, contre la Croatie, mais le Japon est éliminé au premier tour.

Sa dernière compétition la Copa América 1999. Il fut titulaire contre la Bolivie, mais le Japon est éliminé au premier tour.

Il débuta à l'Université Nihon pendant deux années, puis il signe à Urawa Red Diamonds de 1994 à 2001. Il fait partie en 1996 de la J-League Best Eleven.

Il partit pour trois saisons à Vissel Kobe. Il ne remporta rien.

Il revient à Urawa Red Diamonds. De 2004 à 2009, il remporta une J-League, deux coupes du Japon, une supercoupe du Japon.

Il signe en avril 2009 dans le club hongkongais de TSW Pegasus. Il fut finaliste de la coupe de Hong-Kong en 2009. Il joue actuellement au Japon, à Gainare Tottori.

Palmarès
 Coupe du Japon de football
 Vainqueur en 2005 et en 2006
 Coupe de la Ligue japonaise de football
 Finaliste en 2004
 J-League
 Champion en 2006
 Vice-champion en 2004, en 2005 et en 2007
 Supercoupe du Japon
 Vainqueur en 2006
 Finaliste en 2007
 Coupe de Hong Kong de football
 Finaliste en 2009
 Ligue des Champions de l'AFC
 Vainqueur en 2007

Liens externes

Footballeur international japonais
Joueur des Urawa Red Diamonds
Joueur du Vissel Kobe
Joueur du Gainare Tottori
Étudiant de l'université Nihon
Naissance le 25 juillet 1972
Naissance à Yokohama

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There are some brands that far surpass class, elegance and sophistication. So high quality are their products that they just stand there, taking pride of place on my dressing table, in front of everything else, strutting their elite stuff on the catwalk of my beauty room. These brands have the ability to stop you in your tracks as you walk past their stores, to lure you towards their displays and convince you to purchase new additions to your collection without a second thought. Such high regard for a brand and it's products doesn't come along very often – in fact we'll all only have one or two of these brands who've never let us down, or who make us feel that tingle of class and elegance when we own their products.
For me, one of those brands is Jo Malone.
It wasn't until this year that Jo Malone became more than a wish-list brand for me. But after I bought my first products, I was hooked and instantly wished I'd not left it as long to finally get some of their perfume. I started with Tuberose Angelica, which is one of their intense colognes, and it's still a favourite of mine now. But the ultimate has to be Wood Sage and Sea Salt.
I was introduced to it by my lovely friend Leah at Devoted To Pink. Who I will be forever grateful to for making that introduction! The scent itself is absolutely beautiful. Described as one of their 'woody' colognes, it's fresh and lovely – something I wear because it's feminine and light but musky enough to be long lasting. I hate weak scents, so this lovely and fresh cologne is beautiful to wear because it sits nicely on the skin without fading too quickly. I only need one re-spritz mid way through the day and I'm good to go.
To me, Wood Sage and Sea Salt is the epitome of femininity.
It's light, womanly and beautifully delicate. I think less of walking outdoors and more like walking through the garden of a stately home, between the flower beds on a warm and sunny day. To me, that's what Wood Sage and Sea Salt smells like. It's utterly divine, classy and timeless.
It's the perfect everyday scent for me and I'm getting through it at an alarming rate because it's the bottle I'm reaching for the most at the moment! It's at the front of my dressing table, standing proud and looking as pretty as it smells.
But not content with the cologne, Jo Malone create matching candles to their scents – and I can't recommend them enough. The Wood Sage and Sea Salt candle adds a hint of sophistication to my home. That same class and elegance I love about wearing the perfume, is wonderful to have lingering slowly from room to room. It's exactly the same, with femininity and loveliness – without being overpowering.
Each 200g candle in the Jo Malone collection has a burn time of approximately 45 hours – so it's going to last through the winter and make your cosy evenings calm and relaxing. The strength and quality that you find in all Jo Malone products is equally as present in their wonderful candles, and after only 5-10 minutes burn time, the scent is already making it's mark. Which is always the sign of a great quality scented candle.
First the cologne, now the candle. My love for Wood Sage and Sea Salt means I am desperate to try the Body and Hand Wash next…And while I'm at it, I might just ask Santa for the Body Creme too.
If you're a Jo Malone fan, a bottle of their cologne is the original way to steal the scent-show and the candles are a wonderful way to further indulge the love of that favourite scent in a truly luxurious way. They make great gifts and the joy of a Jo Malone purchase means you can get a bottle of your favourite cologne and a matching candle, all gift wrapped in a trademark box with bow. Perfect for a really wonderful gift.
Have you tried a Jo Malone scent recently? What's your favourite, or on your wish-list?


If you are a cigar lover, you will not be able to do without this lighter. Its electronic ignition makes it very easy to light. Then, it produces no less than four powerful and durable flames. You will have plenty of time to light your cigar in the best conditions. If you find that the flames are too bright, you can adjust the intensity, using a knob under the lighter. In addition, the red tint of the transparent tank blends with the deep black lighter. Refillable gas, this lighter will fill his office under the shower or in the squall.


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4 Things You Need To Know About Thibaut Courtois' Girlfriend Delaney Royle
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Delaney Royle
This pretty young gal is Delaney Royle; according to certain sites she is or used the girlfriend of Belgian soccer player Thibaut Courtois, the 6'6 goalkeeper for Premier club Chelsea and the Belgium National Team.
He gave a start to his career at a football club Bilzen V.V. in 1997 where he spent 3 years before moving to Genk. At first he played as a left defender but the goalkeeping craft appealed more to him.
When Thibaut signed for Genk in the season of 2008/09 no one expected that the footballer would make his first appearance on April 17, 2009 against Gent at the age of 16.
Two years later in the season 2010/11 Thibaut became a starter for Genk and was awarded the best goalkeeper of the Belgian championship (Pro-League) conceding 32 goals in 40 games with 14 clean sheets.
Before the beginning of the season 2011/12 Thibaut was transferred from Genk to Chelsea having signed a 5-year contract but soon he was loaned by Atlético Madrid for a year.
That was a right choice as Thibaut played for Atlético so well that the Spanish team decided to loan him for another season thus letting him play in La Liga of 2012/13 as a first-choice keeper. Courtois was one of those to conquer the UEFA Europa League Cup of the season 2011/12 and help the 'rojiblancos' reach their fifth position in the championship.
Here are 4 things you need to know about Thibaut Courtois' relationship with Delaney Royle:
-In June 2017, photos of Courtois with a young gal in the south of Spain proved that had moved on from his previous relationship.
-At the time the girl with the black and white bikini remained unidentified; however, media later confirmed that her name was Delaney Royle.
-She had been working as his dog-sitter.
-19-year-old Delaney from Chatham, Kent, the daughter of Jonathan and Sacha Royle met the Belgian star after he messaged her on Instagram to ask her about her Pomeranian named Rio.
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Arborist Fred Breglia said the tree has the potential to be named largest of its species in the U.S.
Melissa Manno
Dec. 9, 2022 Updated: Dec. 10, 2022 12:11 p.m.
Fred Breglia and his wife Erin Breglia measure what they believe is the largest documented tree in New York state on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The Eastern Cottonwood has a circumference of about 34 feet and is located along the Hudson River in Schaghticoke, NY. (Jim Franco/Times Union)
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2of23Fred Breglia stands next to what he believes is the largest tree in New York state on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The Eastern Cottonwood has a circumference of about 34 feet and is located along the Hudson River in Schaghticoke, NY. (Jim Franco/Times Union)Jim FrancoShow MoreShow Less
4of23Fred Breglia measures what he believes is the largest tree in New York state on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The Eastern Cottonwood has a circumference of about 34 feet and is located along the Hudson River in Schaghticoke, NY. (Jim Franco/Times Union) Show MoreShow Less
5of23Fred Breglia and his wife Erin Breglia survey what they believe is the largest tree in New York state on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The Eastern Cottonwood has a circumference of about 34 feet and is located along the Hudson River in Schaghticoke, NY. (Jim Franco/Times Union)Jim FrancoShow MoreShow Less
7of23Fred Breglia measures what he believes is the largest tree in New York state on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The Eastern Cottonwood has a circumference of about 34 feet and is located along the Hudson River in Schaghticoke, NY. (Jim Franco/Times Union)Jim FrancoShow MoreShow Less
10of23Erin Breglia measures what she believe is the largest tree in New York state on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The Eastern Cottonwood has a circumference of about 34 feet and is located along the Hudson River in Schaghticoke, NY. (Jim Franco/Times Union)Jim FrancoShow MoreShow Less
11of23Fred Breglia measures what he believes is the largest tree in New York state on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The Eastern Cottonwood has a circumference of about 34 feet and is located along the Hudson River in Schaghticoke, NY. (Jim Franco/Times Union)Jim FrancoShow MoreShow Less
13of23The thick, coarse bark of an Eastern Cottonwood that Fred and Erin Breglia think is the largest tree in New York state on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The tree has a circumference of about 34 feet and is located along the Hudson River in Schaghticoke, NY. (Jim Franco/Times Union)Jim FrancoShow MoreShow Less
14of23Fred Breglia stands next to what he believes is the largest tree in New York state on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The Eastern Cottonwood has a circumference of about 34 feet and is located along the Hudson River in Schaghticoke, NY. (Jim Franco/Times Union)Jim FrancoShow MoreShow Less
16of23An Eastern Cottonwood tree that Fred and Erin Breglia think is the largest tree in New York state on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The tree has a circumference of about 34 feet and is located along the Hudson River in Schaghticoke, NY. (Jim Franco/Times Union)Jim FrancoShow MoreShow Less
SCHAGHTICOKE — In the rural outskirts of Rensselaer County, an enormous eastern cottonwood rests in a floodplain, outstretching its branches toward the Hudson River and blending into the surrounding canopy of trees.
Those who drive past might not notice it, but for arborist Fred Breglia, the town's primeval tree is a dream come true. The forester said it is the biggest documented tree in the state of New York and has the potential to be crowned the largest of its species in the world.
"I would call it a relic," he said while measuring its 34-foot circumference.
Breglia, executive director of the Landis Arboretum, has devoted most of his life to cataloging majestic trees for the statewide register. While other trees might stand taller or spread their branches farther, Breglia said this tree is the state champion due to the record-breaking point total it received from measuring guidelines delineated by American Forests, a nonprofit conservation organization, that considers circumference, height and size of "crown" or leafy cover overhead.
As he and his wife determined with a laser tree measurement tool, the tree stands roughly 108 feet tall, extending its branches of winter buds into the sky. He estimates it to be between 200 to 300 years old, but closer to the latter — a testament to its strength as it's a fast-growing but short-lived species that typically only survives 70 to 100 years on average.
"It's not just the biggest cottonwood in New York, it's actually just the biggest tree, regardless of species, in the state because if you compare it with any other trunk and any other species there's nothing coming up with this point total," Breglia said, clarifying that all the measurements need to be verified before it officially secures the sought-after title.
Some larger limbs in its over 100-foot-wide canopy spread have been lost to time and worn by weather, but despite its old age, the tree is still alive and surprisingly healthy, the forester said.
Breglia plans on confirming the age of the rarity by drilling into it and pulling out a plug of its interior to count its rings. But since there isn't a drill big enough to pierce through the entirety of the trunk, he will have to get permission from landowners to climb it and drill into one of its original branches.
In performing these botanical escapades, Breglia reminisces about his early childhood in Richmondville where he was told stories of a nearby oak tree large enough for his entire family to wrap their arms around without touching each other. At the age of 5, when his mother finally brought him to the site of the tale, the old tree left a profound impression on him and set him forth on a lifetime of forestry studies.
He commenced on his mission to identify the state's biggest tree in 1999 and, along the way, has emerged an unsung leader of a group of enthusiasts around the world looking to connect and learn more about the world's most majestic of trees. His Facebook group, Big Tree Seekers, has garnered more than 192,000 members nationwide.
It's a community full of passionate hobbyists, professional arborists and, most of all, competitive spirit — with many keeping careful watch as current champion trees grow older and bigger and face a growing risk of falling. When a crown holder does topple over, the door opens for new trees (and tree seekers) to get their moment in the spotlight.
But for Breglia, the main motivation is to raise awareness of the ecological importance of protecting old growth forests, which make up less than 1 percent of the world's forests and less than 3 percent of forests in the U.S.
In 2007, Breglia helped to pass the Bruce Kershner Heritage Tree Preservation and Protection Act — named after the late author and environmentalist from western New York — which puts old growth forests in the state Nature and Historical Preserve category, protecting them from being harvested as timber.
But because this contending tree, as well as many other state champions, is located on private property, it's not protected under the law. Breglia said he hopes to work on amending the bill to extend to trees like the Schaghticoke eastern cottonwood, but until then, he hopes its grandeur and antiquity is enough to keep landowners from demolishing it.
After finding the state's second largest tree in Coeymans (also a cottonwood) just months ago, Breglia said the discovery heralds to others that there might just be another out there that's larger, sitting tall and wide and waiting to be discovered by a curious big tree seeker. To encourage the quest for bigger and better, the Landis Arboretum will host a Big Tree Hunt this spring, which will award a cash bounty to the individual who locates the biggest tree in New York.
The Rensselaer County tree, sitting humbly in its floodplain on the border of four separate private properties, is the one to beat. And in the upcoming months, if it is crowned the largest eastern cottonwood in the country, Breglia said it will likely win largest of its kind in the world since the species known scientifically as Populus deltoides grows best in northeastern North America.
For the passionate arborist, it would be a victory emblematic of a lifetime spent off the beaten path, seeking out vestiges of the past among the towering treescapes.
"I think it's really important to document these old trees because people just have no clue," Breglia said. "It's about preserving the past for the future."
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the circumference of the tree. The tree has a circumference of 34 feet.
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            'type' => 'integer',
            'repeatable' => false,
            'attribute' => false,
            'elementName' => 'CategoryID'
        ],
        'Name' => [
            'type' => 'string',
            'repeatable' => false,
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            'elementName' => 'Name'
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            'attribute' => false,
            'elementName' => 'Order'
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No one can stop this Barça Intersport. This Saturday the Blaugrana defeated Caja 3 BM Aragón at the Palau Blaugrana by 42 to 28, thus securing their 25th victory in the league. In addition to tonight's victory, Barça Intersport also set two new records - they scored the most amount of goals in a single game (up until today, the record stood at 41 goals) and they reached the 21,000-goal mark in the Liga Asobal.


today i'm going to show my first lazy hairstyle tutorial!
as promised on the facebook page, i'm going to share this hair style!
i've got a facebook page!
all you need is 5-10 minutes, a curler and a pin!
pull the longer hair to the side... push it upwards a little bit to create a fluffier fringe..
do it for the other side too!
remember to spray with those wavy hairstyle to keep the curls throughout the day!
you can put one part behind your ear too!


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Smith Kicks for Family Legacy
Commodore won starting punter job as walk-on
by Chad Bishop
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt sophomore Harrison Smith hasn't followed an easy path to becoming his team's starting punter.
And for anyone who knows Smith's story it would have been more than understandable if at any point in the past few years he would have chosen to hang up his cleats. But that's not in his family's nature.
His parents taught him the power of perseverance.
"Because of them two – the drive they had," Smith said when asked why he continues on his current road. "(My dad) was a neurosurgeon. He would get up at 5 a.m. and go to work and come back at 5 p.m. My mom is a nurse.
"Both of them were driven people and that's what I saw growing up. That's how I want to be."
Smith's father, Harold Smith, was a former neurosurgeon and a die-hard college football fan. A Texas native and University of Texas graduate, Harold Smith even took his then two-month son Harrison to a Texas football game and snapped a picture in front of the scoreboard while holding up the Hook 'em Horns hand signal.
But by the time Harrison had reached the age of 8 his father's health was beginning to sign shows of declining. Harold Smith was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and the illness began to worsen over time – so much so that Harrison and his mother, Amy Smith, had to place Harold Smith in hospice care when Harrison was in middle school.
On Oct. 19, 2016, Harold Smith died at the age of 67 in Nashville.
Also a graduate of Vanderbilt's medical school in 1975, Harold Smith studied eight more years after that to become an accomplished pediatric neurosurgeon. He practiced for 25 years at Nashville's Baptist Hospital.
His son is now a Commodore following in his father's footsteps.
"I've always had an interest in medicine," Harrison said. "I shadowed this past summer, actually, a neuroscientist surgeon. So to get the hands-on experience made it where I knew that's what I really want to do. Rather than just hearing from my dad I got to see it for myself."
Harrison was a junior in high school when he lost his father. The following year didn't provide much respite.
Mother Amy Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer that year. She fought that diagnosis and won. Now she cheers on Harrison during his own battles every week.
This Saturday, when Vanderbilt hosts UNLV at 3 p.m. at Vanderbilt Stadium, the Commodores will honor all those affected by breast cancer, including Amy Smith.
"She's always pushing me, she comes to all the games, she's probably the one that's always like, 'You got to bear down and get your stuff done,' " Harrison said of his mother. "She's the one that really keeps pushing me in what I do."
From nearby Brentwood Academy, Smith came to Vanderbilt as a walk-on. He earned the starting job coming into 2019 and the early returns are nothing short of remarkable.
Smith now ranks 20th nationally with an average punt of 45.4 yards. He's also placed 14 of his 37 punts inside the opponent's 20-yard line and has booted nine kicks of 50 yards or further.
And while he's ecstatic to be the team's No. 1 option at punter, he said his only mindset this preseason was to try to make the special teams unit as a whole get better. From there it was fine-tuning his craft when very few people were around to watch.
"In practice, we'll get like nine team reps, which is obviously not enough. So it's a lot of on the side work. Kicking is a lonely position," Smith said. "We'll be out there in the summer, just us, getting our work done, just doing our own thing on the side."
Smith won a pair of state championships and was an all-state and all-region selection at Brentwood Academy. He was also on the wrestling, tennis, and track and field teams.
Now he walks the same West End campus his late father did while playing the game his father once loved, always remembering who ignited his passion for the game – and for the Commodores.
"Usually I write my dad's initials on my right cleat where I want to hit the ball," he said. "So every time I hit it, that's where I want to go."