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Complete Batman Begins L.A. Junket Roundtable Interview: Christopher Nolan & Emma Thomas
Q: This didn't strike me as a movie that's pitched particularly young—I thought had an adult appeal. A few jokes at the kid level at the end—you know, "Lighten up," that sort of thing—but mostly it struck me that it wasn't going in that direction. Am I right, or am I misperceiving?
CN: No, I think you're right. But I think that over recent years there's been sort of this increasing misperception that kids will necessarily not respond to something that's also for adults, and so forth. When I look at the films I liked when I was a kid, they were—in internal terms—they were sophisticated and grown up. You know, kids my age all loved 'em. And I think that there's often that tendency to underestimate kids.
Q: Coming from doing smaller projects, and having such a successful—because it is going to be a successful film—how do you approach future projects? Are you looking forward to tackle bigger projects now?
CN: To be honest, I don't think they really come much bigger than this one. I would certainly love to do something on this scale again because I've enjoyed it. But I would also be interested to go back to something smaller as well. I mean, I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
G: This film has a lot of relevance to the post 9/11 world, with the fear-toxin anthrax and the terrorism and response to that. How did you hit on that angle, and how helpful is Batman as a model of response to human devastation?
CN: I think we hit on it as a model simply through drawing from the history of the comics and relating thematically to what's most interesting about Batman, which to me was the idea of fear and the use of his symbolism of his greatest fear to turn fear against his opponents. Everything really stems from that. There really wasn't any conscious attempt to reflect the world we live in. I just think that—myself and David Goyer, in writing the script—you know, we all live in the same world, and we're influenced by the same things. But certainly, everything came very much from the comics and mythology of the comics. As far as Batman as a model of response, I mean, I—he's a very dangerous model of response, but that's partly the point of the story. I think that if one were to see the film for a second time or be watching a particular way, there are quite a few drawbacks that are presented to his approach and his response. But that's what's interesting about him as a character. He is flawed. He has very dark impulses, and whilst he's channeling those into something heroic—and there is a great deal of positivity and heroism relating to that—there is a price to be paid for it.
G: The climax with the last bad guy is a very ambiguous moment in that way.
CN: Yeah.
G: How do you read that as—how much of his anger is really under control by the end of this film?
CN: Well, I think that it's harnessed, you know. And that is a form of control. It doesn't mean it's not there, and it doesn't mean that it's suppressed, but it's channeled and it's harnessed. And that, to me, is what keeps him as a character frightening to his opponents and to all of us to some extent.
Q: Given the historic iconography of this character, what was sort of the creative mandate for you going in and reinventing and reviving him for a new generation—a new audience?
CN: Well, the creative mandate was really to do something fresh and original. And that was coming straight from the studio, and it was the reason I wanted to get involved with the project—because it's pretty rare to have an iconic figure that's now owned and controlled by a studio that's asking you to do something different with it. But that really was the mandate. And for me, what that became was my desire to do something I hadn't seen before, which is a superhero story that is told in a realistic fashion and doesn't step outside itself and acknowledge the form or the medium that it's come from, but one in which the audience is hopefully just immersed in the reality of what's going on.
Q: What was your inspiration for Gotham City? It's so different from what's been in the comics or in the previous movies. Is there anything in particular that—?
CN: We tried not to be too specific—when Nathan Crowley, my production designer, started discussing the look of the film, we immediately rejected any reductive notions. The driving force was not to "Okay, they've done an art deco city; we'll do a modernist city" or anything like that. We wanted something that reflects the reality of a large modern city, which is a tremendous variety of architectures, a tremendous variety of periods in which things are built. We wanted to have a history to the place, as well as a contemporary feel. So what we wound up doing was—the way in which we approached Gotham as an exaggeration of New York, say, or an exaggeration of a modern American city, was to look at interesting geographical features of certain cities of the world—a lot from New York, some from Chicago, a lot from Tokyo—the sort of elevated freeways and monorail systems and things. From Hong Kong, we took the walled city of Kowloon as the basis for the Narrows, which is this kind of walled-in slum. So what we were really doing was putting together a lot of the elements that allow you to exaggerate all the socio-economic factors that feed into Gotham as an exaggeration of a modern American city: stratification and so forth.
Q: Do you see yourself —do both of you guys see yourselves tackling the sequels coming up? Would you like to handle the sequels to this film?
CN: Well, I enjoyed making this film very much. So I would be open to it. But I don't — I wouldn't want to jump into it straight-away.
ET: Again, you know, I also absolutely loved making the film. Um. We're having a baby in July: I'm kind of hoping for a holiday! (Laughs.)
Q: One of the most remarkable elements of this film is how many practical effects are undertaken in this movie. What kind of challenge did that present for you—especially in a franchise where historically it has been prided on doing a lot of overblown, unrealistic action?
CN: Well, I mean the challenge wasn't really to me. The challenge was really to the stunt co-ordinator and the physical effects guys. And they rose to it admirably, and I think they actually—in a day and age where so much is done with computers—they really rose to the opportunity; they really enjoyed the opportunity of getting back to what they're best at, which is performing amazing feats and building amazing things that can actually work in the real world. For me, once I sort of set that all in motion, it was really just a question of filming it and trying to be disciplined about not listening to the little voice in your ear that says, "Well, you could do this with visual effects, you can leave it for now, you can move on and not perfect it." And I was very glad that we held to that discipline because it meant in post-production, when we did get into our visual-effects component, we had all the right materials to make that stuff look great and not have to do too much of it. And we had the time to do what we did do; we had the time to perfect it because we weren't doing four or five times the number of shots that we'd said we were going to do, which is what happens in a lot of these films.
Q: What's the next comic book franchise that you would like to tackle?
CN: Gosh. I don't really—I mean—I don't know what I want to do next. My brother is actually working on a screenplay that is based on a comic called The Exec, that, you know, we're quite excited about, but I don't really know how I wind up choosing my next project—it just kind of happens. When the time is right.
Q: The actors were very flattering of your role in the movie. Can you talk about your approach with actors? They said you're also kind of quiet, and it was a quiet set.
ET: (Chuckles.)
CN: Yeah. I mean, my approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. You know, direction, to me, is about listening, and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they've figured out for themselves, really. And this was a very, very talented bunch of actors, and they were very specific in what they wanted to do. What was nice about that is they were very relaxed with the notion that I had a lot of other things to worry about on this film because of the scale of the film. In the past with my films, I've been able to concentrate very, very much on performance and on actors. With this film, there were all kinds of other things to be taken into consideration. But, as very talented actors and very generous actors, they allowed me to do that without feeling shortchanged or whatever. They seemed to accommodate that very easily.
Q: If you were to come back for a sequel, have you given any thought to what the story would be? Obviously the last scene in the movie was a great tease for a possible sequel.
CN: Yes it was. But it's also really just there, for me, to send the audience out of the theatre with a sense of possibility and a sense of excitement about where these characters could go. I certainly share that sense and have certainly talked and thought, in vague terms, about how you could follow on from this film—I mean, absolutely. But at the same time, it's very important that this film stand on its own.
G: Readers linger on comic book frames, but obviously movies are about motion.
CN: Yes.
G: What was your visual agenda for the film, and how much was discovered in the editing room?
CN: Well, you're always discovering a lot in the editing room. Particularly with action, you have to overshoot a lot, and you have to shoot an enormous amount of material because those type of sequences very much have to be discovered in the editing and manipulated in the editing. But for the rest of it, my shooting style was really identical to what it's been on previous films, actually. I don't think there was any accommodation. And for me, one of the trickier things was to have the guts, really, to build colossal sets and then not shoot them—you know, and just shoot the scene the way I felt it should be shot. But, you know, everybody was okay with that. (He and Emma laugh.) It worked out.
Q: In casting Katie Holmes, what do you think is her appeal?
CN: I think she's got a wonderfully warm and generous presence that is very much sort of—very glamorous, but very "girl next door" at the same time. But she also has this maturity beyond her years which the character really needed because Rachel is—you know, she really is Bruce Wayne's conscience in a sense. She has to stand for a couple of things. She has to be this sort of—the life he might have had, you know: that, what he's lost. But she also has to be the voice of his conscience, you know, keeping him on his toes, really. And I think Katie does both those things very marvelously.
Q: Did you and Christian talk about expressiveness through the mask by using his mouth more to be expressive?
CN: Umm, yeah, to a certain extent. But he also—he was very specific in what he wanted to do, and he drew from a lot of the same influences that I had been looking at, in terms of the graphic novels and so forth, and a lot of, I think, what he was able to turn into performance comes from that material....
G: Thank you.
CN: Thank you.


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Downey, Houghtaling, Jasey & Singleton Bill to Require State to Provide Education of Student Living in Homeless Shelters Outside of School Districts Clears Assembly Panel
Downey Education Houghtaling Jasey News & Releases Singleton
(TRENTON) – An Assembly panel on Monday approved legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Joann Downey, Eric Houghtaling, Mila Jasey and Troy Singleton to require the state to pay educational costs of students who reside in a homeless shelter outside of their district of residence for more than one year.
"Children and youth who experience homelessness face many barriers to education," said Downey (D-Monmouth County). "School can be a source of stability for a young person and family who has lost their housing."
"The legislation will help ensure that each homeless child and youth has equal access to a public education," said Houghtaling (D- Monmouth County). "Education is important to every child, and even more critical to a child who has endured homelessness and other unfortunate experiences in life."
The state is currently required to pay the educational costs of any student who resides for more than one year in a domestic violence shelter or transitional living facility located outside the student's district of residents.
This bill (A-3785)provides that, in addition, the State will pay the educational costs of a student who resides for more than one year in a homeless shelter located outside the student's district of residence.
"For a child whose life is filled with uncertainty and loss, school can be a place of safety, structure, and opportunity," said Jasey (D-Essex, Morris). "Eliminating barriers to school enrollment and for children facing homelessness ensures the opportunity for academic success."
"When forced to relocate to a shelter in another school district, homeless children and youth often are unable to attend, or even enroll in, school, which prevents them from obtaining the education that is both their legal right and their best hope of success as adults," said Singleton (D-Burlington). "This bill removes a barrier for these children and their families by ensuring that they will be able to attend school wherever they are residing at the time."
A series of administrative law decisions have ruled that if a homeless family continues to reside in a particular school district for more than one year, then the family is considered to be domiciled in that district, and the district becomes responsible for the costs of the child's education. This bill will avoid concentrating the educational costs of students who live in homeless shelters for an extended period of time on the communities in which shelters are located.
The bill was approved by the Assembly Education Committee and will now go to the Assembly Speaker for further consideration.

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Saxicoris is een geslacht van wantsen uit de familie van de Piesmatidae (Amarantwantsen). Het geslacht werd voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door Slater in 1970.

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A tuned radio frequency receiver (or TRF receiver) is a type of radio receiver that is composed of one or more tuned radio frequency (RF) amplifier stages followed by a detector (demodulator) circuit to extract the audio signal and usually an audio frequency amplifier. This type of receiver was popular in the 1920s. Early examples could be tedious to operate because when tuning in a station each stage had to be individually adjusted to the station's frequency, but later models had ganged tuning, the tuning mechanisms of all stages being linked together, and operated by just one control knob. By the mid 1930s, it was replaced by the superheterodyne receiver patented by Edwin Armstrong.

Background
The TRF receiver was patented in 1916 by Ernst Alexanderson.  His concept was that each stage would amplify the desired signal while reducing the interfering ones.  Multiple stages of RF amplification would make the radio more sensitive to weak stations, and the multiple tuned circuits would give it a narrower bandwidth and more selectivity than the single stage receivers common at that time.  All tuned stages of the radio must track and tune to the desired reception frequency.  This is in contrast to the modern superheterodyne receiver that must only tune the receiver's RF front end and local oscillator to the desired frequencies; all the following stages work at a fixed frequency and do not depend on the desired reception frequency.

Antique TRF receivers can often be identified by their cabinets. They typically have a long, low appearance, with a flip-up lid for access to the vacuum tubes and tuned circuits.  On their front panels there are typically two or three large dials, each controlling the tuning for one stage.  Inside, along with several vacuum tubes, there will be a series of large coils.  These will usually be  with their axes at right angles to each other to reduce magnetic coupling between them.

A problem with the TRF receiver built with triode vacuum tubes is the triode's interelectrode capacitance.  The interelectrode capacitance allows energy in the output circuit to feedback into the input.  That feedback can cause instability and oscillation that frustrate reception and produce squealing or howling noises in the speaker. In 1922, Louis Alan Hazeltine invented the technique of neutralization that uses additional circuitry to partially cancel the effect of the interelectrode capacitance. Neutralization was used in the popular Neutrodyne series of TRF receivers. Under certain conditions, "the neutralization is substantially independent of frequency over a wide frequency band." "Perfect neutralization cannot be maintained in practice over a wide band of frequencies because leakage inductances and stray capacities" are not completely canceled.  The later development of the tetrode and pentode vacuum tubes minimized the effect of interelectrode capacitances and could make neutralization unnecessary; the additional electrodes in those tubes shield the plate and grid and minimize feedback.

How it works

The classic TRF receivers of the 1920s and 30s usually consisted of three sections:
one or more tuned RF amplifier stages.  These amplify the signal of the desired station to a level sufficient to drive the detector, while rejecting all other signals picked up by the antenna.
a detector, which extracts the audio (modulation) signal from the radio carrier signal by rectifying it.
optionally, but almost always included, one or more audio amplifier stages which increase the power of the audio signal.

Each tuned RF stage consists of an amplifying device, a triode (or in later sets a tetrode) vacuum tube, and a tuned circuit which performs the filtering function.  The tuned circuit consisted of an air-core RF coupling transformer which also served to couple the signal from the plate circuit of one tube to the input grid circuit of the next tube. One of the windings of the transformer had a variable capacitor connected across it to make a tuned circuit. A variable capacitor (or sometimes a variable coupling coil called a variometer)  was used, with a knob on the front panel to tune the receiver.  The RF stages usually had identical circuits to simplify design.

Each RF stage had to be tuned to the same frequency,  so the capacitors had to be tuned in tandem when bringing in a new station.  In some later sets the capacitors were "ganged", mounted on the same shaft or otherwise linked mechanically so that the radio could be tuned with a single knob, but in most sets the resonant frequencies of the tuned circuits could not be made to "track" well enough to allow this, and each stage had its own tuning knob.

The detector was usually a grid-leak detector. Some sets used a crystal detector (semiconductor diode) instead.  Occasionally, a regenerative detector was used, to increase selectivity.

Some TRF sets that were listened to with earphones didn't need an audio amplifier, but most sets had one to three transformer-coupled or RC-coupled audio amplifier stages to provide enough power to drive a loudspeaker.

The schematic diagram shows a typical TRF receiver.  This particular  example uses six triodes. It has two radio frequency amplifier stages, one grid-leak detector/amplifier and three class 'A' audio amplifier stages.  There are 3 tuned circuits T1-C1, T2-C2, and T3-C3.  The second and third tuning capacitors, C2 and C3, are ganged together (indicated by line linking them) and controlled by a single knob, to simplify tuning.  Generally, two or three RF amplifiers were required to filter and amplify the received signal enough for good reception.

Advantages and disadvantages
Terman characterizes the TRF's disadvantages as "poor selectivity and low sensitivity in proportion to the number of tubes employed. They are accordingly practically obsolete."  Selectivity requires narrow bandwidth, but the bandwidth of a filter with a given Q factor increases with frequency. So to achieve a narrow bandwidth at a high radio frequency required high-Q filters or many filter sections.  Achieving constant sensitivity and bandwidth across an entire broadcast band was rarely achieved. In contrast, a superheterodyne receiver translates the incoming high radio frequency to a lower intermediate frequency which does not change.  The problem of achieving constant sensitivity and bandwidth over a range of frequencies arises only in one circuit (the first stage) and is therefore considerably simplified.

The major problem with the TRF receiver, particularly as a consumer product, was its complicated tuning.  All the tuned circuits need to track to keep the narrow bandwidth tuning.  Keeping multiple tuned circuits aligned while tuning over a wide frequency range is difficult.  In the early TRF sets the operator had to perform that task, as described above.  A superheterodyne receiver only needs to track the RF and LO stages; the onerous selectivity requirements are confined to the IF amplifier which is fixed-tuned.

During the 1920s, an advantage of the TRF receiver over the regenerative receiver was that, when properly adjusted, it did not radiate interference.   The popular regenerative receiver, in particular, used a tube with positive feedback operated very close to its oscillation point, so it often acted as a transmitter, emitting a signal at a frequency near the frequency of the station it was tuned to.  This produced audible heterodynes, shrieks and howls, in other nearby receivers tuned to the same frequency, bringing criticism from neighbors.   In an urban setting, when several regenerative sets in the same block or apartment house were tuned to a popular station, it could be virtually impossible to hear.  Britain, and eventually the US, passed regulations that prohibited receivers from radiating spurious signals, which favored the TRF.

Modern usage
Although the TRF design has been largely superseded by the superheterodyne receiver, with the advent of semiconductor electronics in the 1960s the design was "resurrected" and used in some simple integrated radio receivers for hobbyist radio projects, kits, and low-end consumer products.   One example is the ZN414 TRF radio integrated circuit from Ferranti in 1972 shown below

See also
Tuner (radio)
Crystal radio
Regenerative circuit
Superheterodyne receiver
Low IF receiver

References

Further reading

External links

1916 in radio
Radio electronics
Wireless tuning and filtering
History of radio
Receiver (radio)


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Die Loma Mountains sind ein Gebirgszug im Nordosten des westafrikanischen Staates Sierra Leone, an der Grenze zu Guinea. Die Loma Mountains bilden die höchste Erhebung Sierra Leones. Der höchste Gipfel des Gebirges, des Landes und ganz Westafrikas ist der Bintumani (Loma Mansa) mit .

Das Gebiet ist als Teil des Loma-Mountains-Nationalparks geschützt.

Literatur
 Aaron Peter Kortenhoven: Use of Gallery and Non-Gallery Forest by Ungulates Inhabiting the Loma Mountains Non-Hunting Forest Reserve, Sierra Leone, West Africa, University of Miami 2009. (PDF; englisch)

Weblinks
 visitsierraleone.org-Loma Mountains & Mount Bintimani (Landkarte, sowie Beschreibung der Tier und Pflanzenwelt, zuletzt geprüft am 27. Juni 2011)
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HELSINKI PHOTOMEDIA 2022
Keynotes 2022
Michelle Henning
Ben Burbridge
Adel Abidin
Keynote Abstracts
Atmospheric Affects: Photography Dispersed
Photography's relationship to the world is not a one way process of representation, but one of mutual interpenetration. It is a mobile and evanescent medium that responds to, and is shaped, not just by light, but by atmosphere and environment. I will discuss 'atmosphere' in two senses, the first referring to the air, gases and vapour surrounding the planet (including air pollution, such as smog and fumes, and air temperature), the second referring to shared and pervasive mood or affect. Both kinds of atmosphere do not simply exist, are not simply 'natural', but are worked on, altered and manipulated. They also work on the photographic, which is materially sensitive to atmosphere as well as able to depict it. The term 'fogged', for example, describes not only the hazy appearance of contaminated film and prints, but the origins of this contamination in adverse atmospheric conditions, in actual fogs.
The connection to affective atmosphere, always present in photographs, takes on new significance in emergent digital practices, centred on what I term 'affective realism'. I use corporate video tutorials to show how photographers are being taught to measure the realism of an image according to its 'truth to feeling'. Affective realism does not require that an image conforms to what is, or was, objectively present in the world, but rather that it corresponds to and feeds into an idealised, and appropriate affective atmosphere. Image editing software become affect-management technologies. Instead of contaminating the photographic, the external world becomes a prop for the solipcism of the photographer or audience. Ccontemporary digital photography is being reinvented as a set of procedures to defuse and contain our environment and climate at the very moment of collapse.
This paper addresses photography's dispersal 'among us', not only as images, but as a set of technologies and practices. It builds on my recent book on photography's technical mobility, and my argument that concepts of 'capture' and 'freezing' are insufficient for understanding photographic images. It also develops out of my research in the archives of the photographic company Ilford Limited, and my analysis of Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom tutorials on Lynda.com. Drawing on all of these, I attempt to respond to the idea of photography as disintegrated and dispersed across media, as something that is elusive, transitory and yet deeply embedded in our culture and material surroundings. The phrase 'images among us' implies that there is something weirdly alien about photographic images, although they resemble us and our world. I suggest instead that the alien, and alienating, aspect of photography derives from the corporate reinvention of the medium as a solipsistic one, which reduces it to a mirror for our feelings.
Mapping Photography: Some thoughts on 'Critical Practice'
While studies of contemporary photography pay considerable attention to the ubiquity of photographic images, much less has been said about the diverse forms of labour on which photographic cultures rely. When we think about networked photography, for example, it is typically in terms of image content, visual communication and the behaviour of social media users, not mineral extraction in the Congo, smartphone manufacture in Shenzhen, the unpaid self-promotion of freelance creatives, content moderation in the Philippines, or the gruelling work involved in training machines to see like humans.
Exploring a range of practices through which this labour has been made visible—in art, scholarship, advertising, and the media—I consider in precisely what senses this work can be regarded as 'critical'; particularly as, when understood as labour, the practice of critically reflecting on and through photography is so often situated within similar economic systems to those being scrutinised. Examining the potential of photography's much-trumpeted ubiquity as a means to make the complexity of larger systems legible at the level of individual actors, I turn my attention towards the social, intellectual and political objectives we hope critical practices might serve, along with their implications for our thinking about both criticality and practice.
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"Argument from authority is a well known logical fallacy. The authority could be from experience, reputation, or just simply a title. But just because Socrates or Thomas Jefferson—or even Joshua Dorkin himself—said something, well, that don't make it true. Unfortunately, our minds naturally think in ways that are packed full of logical fallacies. And one of the most obvious is the power of authority."
"That being said, you don't just want to become an authority on real estate investment through education and experience; you want to display that authority to the world. This can be through simple things such as getting a nice website, owning quality business cards, and dressing well when meeting with lenders and the like. (Although I should note that you don't want to dress too nicely when meeting with sellers; it can come off salesman-ish. Remember, you want to connect with them on a friendly and relatively casual level.)"


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The City Group Way: How Montevideo City Torque is Changing Uruguayan Football
By Kelvin Loyola -
The City Football Group purchased Montevideo City Torque in 2017, and since then the team has had a steady climb from the dregs of Uruguayan soccer to competing in their first ever Copa Libertadores in 2022.
When Alexander Callens buried his penalty kick to win NYCFC's first ever MLS Cup, the celebrations were heard in New York, Manchester, and of all places Uruguay, where Montevideo City Torque, just like their sister club in New York, are also slowly building something special and different.
Unlike NYCFC, who had to make a big splash to get the attention of a tough New York sports market with huge signings in David Villa, Andrea Pirlo, and Frank Lampard, Montevideo City Torque is on a tighter budget. But the City Football Group has its goals for the club clearly defined.
Originally named Club Atlético Torque, the club was founded in 2007 by two Uruguayan businessmen and began playing at the local level, the Punta Carretas League, in an upper-class neighborhood in Montevideo. The young club had climbed slowly from local pastime to serious second division club in Uruguayan soccer.
In 2017, Club Atlético Torque, who by then had been languishing in the second division, began the process that could change the way things are done in Uruguayan soccer forever. Héctor Javier Nóblega, Montevideo City Torque's Director of Business, explains the process.
"The City Football Group was looking at establishing roots here in South America, a continent where soccer is a passion," he said. "City Group knew that this was a rich continent with regards to soccer talents, and after exploring various countries, Uruguay was chosen mainly because it's a country that respects investment norms. But above all legal and financial conditions, City Football Group chose to come here because of the miracle that Uruguay is with regards to the sport of soccer, for being able through various generations produce world-class level talent in the sport."
Once The City Football Group purchased Torque, the board of directors began building a team with a strong foundation to make a push to get the club to the first division. Players they identified included domestic talents Diego Martiñones, Ernesto Goñi, Hernán Figueredo, Martín Bonjour, Jonathan Cubero, and Julián Lalinde, as well as imports such as Venezuelan Nahuel Ferraresi, Colombian Javier Calle, and Argentine and future MLS Golden Boot winner Valentín Castellanos.
Torque would reach the first division by the end of 2017, only to be relegated the following season, but they made their return to the top flight in 2020.
Innovators in a Country of Conservatives
In 2020, Club Atlético Torque officially changed their name to Montevideo City Torque, with a logo redesigned in the vein of Manchester City and their other sister clubs to give them that City Group stamp of approval. The club's return to the first division was accompanied by news that the team would build a new academy and sports complex in the outskirts of Montevideo. The academy's goal is to be one of the best centers in all of South America.
Montevideo City Torque in a short time has become the most visible privately-owned soccer club in Uruguay. In Uruguayan soccer, the clubs are in a way social sporting clubs, in which the socios, or club members, can democratically vote presidents in and out of their position after usually three or four years. The two biggest clubs in Uruguay, Nacional and Peñarol, are run via this system, along with most of the powerful clubs in South America. This is also a system that has economically ruined most of the teams on the continent.
The upper echelon of Uruguayan soccer is complex, and it would be no easy task for a privately owned team to shake the tree so to speak. But Montevideo City Torque has its goals clear.
"Our primary goal, something we can never lose sight of, is to form soccer players from our academies both locally and in some cases internationally," Nóblega said. "As a consequence of this we hope to win titles, build on our brand, and compete internationally, but our objective is forming soccer players that can graduate to other teams within the group or out of City Group."
Unlike Nacional and Peñarol, whose constant focus on winning at times leads to poor investments and a carousel of coaches, Montevideo City Torque knows that being privately funded and working on a budget allows for decisions and steps to be taken slowly.
"We are on a growth curve not only for a soccer team, but as an institution," Nóblega said. "We haven't reached the ceiling yet. Right now we are consolidating the first team in the first division, we will play our second international tournament, the first being the Copa Sudamericana, and now in 2022 the play-in round of the Copa Libertadores. We are building our youth academies, we are about to open our sport sciences department — we are on the right path."
Nóblega was diplomatic when discussing how the City Football Group's modus operandi could be perceived as a threat to the established order, however.
"The perception may be varied — some may see us as a threat, others as an example, and others [are] indifferent," Nóblega said. "Looking at it from a Uruguayan's eyes, this is a very good project for Uruguayan soccer, because it elevates the bar. In some aspects Uruguayan soccer is ahead with the kind of players we produce, but light years behind in infrastructure. I think this project will bring professionalism and proper organization to running a soccer club. Many clubs ask us about our structure and want to take our road in running their own clubs."
Building From the Ground Up
To walk through the Montevideo City Torque complex is to see a tight but modern view of what is to come for the club, with space to grow. What is there now is the best structure for any player. The youth academy will be key to Montevideo City Torque's goal of climbing the ladder of Uruguayan soccer.
The club is open minded that Montevideo or Uruguay is the nucleus. The club opened the mandatory five divisions of youth soccer a team needs to be considered professional and is using the City Football Group's scouting network to detect talents not only from all of Uruguay but from Argentina to Chile as well. Nonetheless it's not just all about soccer, there is a method of teaching values as well, taking a page from former Uruguayan head coach Óscar Washington Tabárez's playbook.
All youth teams learn values both on and off the field, and during my interview with Nóblega, each youth player greeted any visitor to the club. One player made his way from getting water to say hello to us. There seems to be a sense of pride and belonging by the youth players, something that is essential in creating a stronger fan base down the road for a new club.
Sharing Ideas With the Sister Clubs
Valentin "Taty" Castellanos (right) is one of Montevideo City Torque's early success stories. Since playing for the club, he's moved onto sister team NYCFC, where he's won an MLS Cup and Golden Boot.
Being a part of the City Football Group opens up a lot of doors. The biggest for NYCFC was to come across former Montevideo City Torque players Valentín Castellanos and Santiago Rodríguez, who both played roles in the recent MLS Cup-winning campaign.
Castellanos could be one of City Group's biggest success cases, starting in Torque and moving to NYCFC. The MLS Golden Boot winner is rumored to be moving to bigger things in the January transfer window at a fee of no less than $6 million, something unimaginable five years ago for a player who would have taken Castellanos' path.
Nóblega explains that while each club has their own place within City Football Group, information is shared as high as Manchester City and as close as NYCFC.
"CFG is growing year after year, and it's a network of clubs that show that any player who becomes a part of the CFG, be it at a professional or youth level, there is a firm path they have before them," he said. "To be able to show that to a player is fundamental, it's another chip we have to get a player. We are always in contact with members from the sporting and business aspect of each club, sharing ideas and experiences."
Building a Brand and Growing a Club
Montevideo City Torque is following the steps of sister club NYCFC — building a fan base one game, one call, one social media post at a time.
"We are just starting our road to capture a fan base," Nóblega said. "We have a free sign up of fan club supporters at around 6-7,000 in our database, with benefits with regards to tickets and official merchandising. It's with that database that we have launched our new paid supporters' program and in two months we have 200 paid club members.
"In December we will raffle a trip to Manchester for all of our paid club members and this connects us to the Manchester City brand, which is very attractive. The main objective through our paid members program is for the fans to be a part of a club that tries to do things the right way."
Montevideo City Torque knows it cannot yet compete with the big teams in Uruguay in regards to fans, but they have plans in place to capture a younger audience, an audience that can grow with the club. It is a long-term investment the club feels will pay dividends in the decades to come.
While South American soccer is stuck in the past, in a way of doing things that does not reflect the modern way soccer teams are operated, it should come as no surprise that privately-owned clubs have already left a dent in the continent. Red Bull Bragantino of Brazil, which was purchased in 2020 by Red Bull GmbH, has already made it to the final of the Copa Sudamericana, albeit in a losing effort. Like Montevideo City Torque, Bragantino will play in the 2022 Copa Libertadores. A trend, while small, is forming in South America, with teams utilizing the European model of club ownership achieving success in record time.
For Nóblega, Montevideo City Torque is a long-term project, and he is optimistic about where the club will be in 50 years' time.
"My personal opinion and desire is that this is a project that is incredible and that it does not have any limit, and I believe that we are on the right track," Nóblega said. "In 50 years it will be a reference point in South America in the forming of top soccer players, almost like a university.
"I think right now we are in the early stages of the project. City Football Group has a mentality of going one step forward, and to break down walls, and that working culture is why they came to Uruguay. That is why in 50 years this club will have many titles at the local level and aspire to win international championships and be a club like Independiente del Valle in Ecuador that has a clear structure, clear club goals, and clear business model."
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**The project has been accepted by Hyperledger Community as [fabric-sdk-py](https://gerrit.hyperledger.org/r/#/admin/projects/fabric-sdk-py).**

Python SDK for [Hyperledger fabric](https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric).

Currently, we support two branches:
* [restful](https://github.com/yeasy/hyperledger-py/tree/restful)(Stable) : implementated based on restful APIs.
* [grpc](https://github.com/yeasy/hyperledger-py/tree/grpc)(Under development): implementated based on grpc.

This restful branch will follow the [Hyperledger API](https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/tree/master/docs/API) to let users use those APIs by importing a simple python library. e.g.,

```python
>>> from hyperledger.client import Client
>>> c = Client(base_url="http://127.0.0.1:7050")
>>> c.peer_list()
{u'peers': [{u'type': 1, u'ID': {u'name': u'vp1'}, u'address': u'172.17.0.2:7051'}, {u'type': 1, u'ID': {u'name': u'vp2'}, u'address': u'172.17.0.3:7051'}]}
```

If you want a quick start with a hyperledger cluster without any local
configuration and vagrant setup, please use this
[compose-file](https://github.com/yeasy/docker-compose-files#hyperledger).

## Installation
The stable version is always available on PyPi.

```sh
$ pip install hyperledger --upgrade
```

The latest version is on [github](https://github.com/yeasy/hyperledger-py).
```sh
$ git clone https://github.com/yeasy/hyperledger-py.git
$ cd hyperledger-py
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python setup.py install
```

## Change Logs
See [change log](docs/change_log.md).

## Documentation
The source is available in the [docs](docs) directory.

* [API Usage](docs/api.md)

## Testing
All testing code is under [tests](tests) directory.

After installation, you can run a quick full-functional testing (deploy,
invoke, query chaincode, etc.) with your hyperledger cluster by

```python
$ python tests/function_test.py HYPERLEDGER_API_URL
```

## Contribution
Please see [Contribution Instruction](docs/contribution.md).

## Acknowledgement

This work is highly inspired by the following projects:

 * [Hyperledger](https://github.com/hyperledger/hyperledger)
 * [requests](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests)
 * [docker-py](https://github.com/docker/docker-py)

## License

This work is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for full license text.

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The solar industry has given a mixed reaction to the Victorian Government's decision to scrap feed-in tariffs from 25 cents to just eight cents, saying the program deserves more support but also welcomes the chance for renewables to stand on their own legs.
States have been slashing feed-in tariffs for months now, especially in states with Liberal and Coalition governments, due in part to rising demand. The more homes using solar power and contributing to the grid has meant more payouts.
Victorian Energy Minister Michael O'Brien announced the changes yesterday, saying the new rate will take effect from next year.
The changes to the scheme also mean that some incentives will now include a range of other technologies as well.
The Victorian Government will set the price until 2016 based on wholesale electricity prices, after which the price will be set by the market. The decision was based on recommendations made by the Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission.
But John Grimes, chief executive of the Solar Energy Society of Australia, told SmartCompany the announcement is a bittersweet one.
However, Grimes says as states continue to cut tariffs there are a growing number of people taking up solar regardless of government support.
But at the same time, it cannot be denied the rolling back of government support has led to a volatile market, especially for SMEs.
Several have collapsed in the past year as governments have wound back support. Adelaide-based Solar Shop, one of the largest solar companies in the country, collapsed into administration last year.
Grimes says the industry wants to work together with government to make sure users get the best outcome, as the current situation isn't ideal.


The new year is definitely here. Resolutions are being made and broken, my gym is heaving with well-intentioned women, and Facebook is full of inspirational quotes. I never really make resolutions because I have a memory like a sieve. I do, however, fully support those who make plans to eat healthier/be fitter/strive harder in the new year.
Also involved in this post are two small businesses that you should resolve to get behind this year.
The adorable tea towel was provided by Kookery. Their linen is printed with cute, cooking-related humour and is pretty to look at too! Owner, Amy recently opened up a shop and cafe in WA and I reaaally wish there was one in Sydney!
The second small business is Grace Taylor Art. Everything this girl does is beautiful. Seriously, even her business card was a teeny tiny work of art. The moment I saw her little bird mug on Etsy I knew that I had to have it. I've had it for ages (I even instagrammed it!), but I only got around to including it in the post now.
Grace is having a 20% off sale right now if you enter the word WOLVES at the checkout of her Etsy shop. What are you waiting for?
As a little nod to those people who are slogging it out in the new year, I have some reasonably healthy biscuits. They're also ridiculously delicious; they're chewy and coconutty and moist. They're also gluten free, butter free and free of refined sugars. Tempted yet?
Preheat your oven to 180° and line a flat baking tray.
Cream together the coconut oil and honey. This results in a delicious honey butter type substance. Don't eat it. I used High Valley honey, which I discovered on a recent trip to Mudgee (that I'm yet to blog about).
Beat the egg into the mixture, along with the salt, bicarb and vanilla.
Add in the almond meal in two halves, mixing thoroughly as you go. Almond meal is coarse, so you don't want to mix it all in at once and be left with lots of clumps. Add in the cornflour and mix until there are no lumps.
Finally, add in the choc chips. if you want to make this recipe even healthier, replace the choc chips with cacao nibs instead. Conversely, you're welcome to add in more choc chops if you feel like it as well!
Scoop a modest tablespoon of mixture and shape roughly into a ball onto your prepared tray. If you find that you're getting too much mixture on your hands, wash them and partly dry them, then carry on mixing. These biscuits are great because they round themselves in the oven, which means less work for you.
Pop them in the oven for 14-15 minutes or until they start to brown.


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Students gather in virtual ceremony to commemorate a year of leadership growth
April 1, 2021 —
On March 20, the second cohort of the President's Student Leadership Program (PSLP), the James W. Burns Leadership Institute's marquee initiative, gathered in a virtual celebration to mark program graduation and achievements.
Twenty-two post-secondary students from the University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, Red River College and Brandon University were selected to participate in the second cohort of the unique-in-Canada immersive learning opportunity. Representing a diverse range of backgrounds and academic disciplines, the students participated in an 8-month long fully funded program that included workshops with thought leaders, engagements with senior leaders in a range of fields, peer learning, and team leadership service projects. The students explored important societal challenges while gaining insights, knowledge, and skills to contribute as leaders in their careers in any field.
The final celebration event, marking successful program completion, included more than 50 guests comprised of students and their family members, community leaders, university leaders, PLSP mentors and PLSP alumni from the first cohort.
Margaret Lavallee, Traditional Ojibway Ikwe and Elder in Residence at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences of University of Manitoba and Dr. Gady Jacoby, Dean of Asper School of Business opened the event with welcome messages.
As an event highlight, guests were treated to an inspiring slideshow created by the PSLP graduates, where students expressed leadership through imagery and poetry.
Paul Mahon [BComm(Hons)/96], President & Chief Executive Officer of Canada Life – one of the organizations endowing the James W. Burns Leadership Institute – has been a key advocate of the program. Speaking at the virtual ceremony, Mr. Mahon recounted necessary leadership traits amidst the ongoing pandemic. Sharing his valuable insights, he encouraged the young leaders to strive for authenticity and genuine care when leading other people and to leverage diversity through inclusiveness.
Luke Cecelon, a recent Red River College graduate, was elected valedictorian by his peers based on his collaborative leadership. In his acceptance speech, Cecelon emphasized the integral role of leadership during a crisis. He recalled the enriching and complex topics covered in the program and highlighted his interactions with leaders and lessons learned.
In his closing comment, Cecelon recognized his fellow participants, "I feel lucky to have met you all because it is difficult to find a group that cares about what's happening to people in society. I have not met many in my life, and I am glad that I met you here."
The ceremony also received messages of congratulations from Dr. Michael Benarroch, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manitoba and Anne Mahon, Chancellor of the University of Manitoba.
"The work you did within Winnipeg and with two Manitoba First Nation communities is only the beginning of the impact you will have on our society," said Chancellor Mahon. "Through this rich experience, you have begun to learn to work in a leadership team in this ever-changing environment. The experience you gained in this program will serve you well in life because our world demands empathy, collaboration and adaptive problem-solving."
The ceremony closed with a touching video made by PSLP graduates as a thank you to Dr. Suzanne Gagnon, Associate Professor and Canada Life Chair in Leadership Education and Director of the James W. Burns Institute (JWBLI), and Melissa Gayle, Program Coordinator.
"We are proud of the commitment and the hard work of development and growth shown by our participants this year. We salute their resilience and their great contributions during an unforeseen context," said Dr. Gagnon, who designed the Program as part of her mandate as inaugural director of the Institute. "We have recently completed the recruitment process for the next cohort, and look very forward to working with them and seeing their development and impact as well."
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No matter where you are in the adoption process, whether you have just started your Home Study or have already connected with a Birthparent, choosing an attorney to help you through the process is one of the most important choices you will have to make. I have worked in adoptions for over nine years and I want to stress to you that choosing an attorney that specializes in adoptions or has significant adoption experience is highly important. Although as an agency we do a lot of the legal work ourselves with our own attorney, we also conduct Home Studies for couples who are doing independent adoptions, meaning they are going through an attorney rather than an agency. Most of the mix-ups and botched adoptions we see are typically associated with attorneys that do not practice adoption law or who know very little about adoption law.
When choosing an attorney to use in an independent adoption, I always recommend choosing one that is a member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (also known as AAAA or Quad A Attorneys). Adoption law is typically state specific except for a few federal laws, so you want an adoption attorney that is well versed in the adoption laws of your state. Things get even more complicated if Birthparents live in one state and the adoptive family lives in another. This is called an interstate adoption. Not only are you dealing with the laws in each state, but you are also dealing with the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, a Federal law that regulates children being placed for adoption in a different state than where they were born. The adoption disruptions that we see played out in the media typically happen because something was not done legally the way it was supposed to be done. For this reason it is imperative that you use an attorney that knows the adoption laws for your state.
I teach monthly adoption seminars, which include a section on adoption law. During this session I always share the example of how both the lawyer and judge in a rural county in my state did not do things correctly, which ended in an adoption disruption. In this case the adoption was finalized in Juvenile Court, which cannot happen in my state as adoptions are finalized in Chancery or Fourth Circuit Court. But, even worse, the Birthmother never signed a Surrender to surrender her parental rights. You cannot finalize an adoption if one or both of the Birthparents still have parental rights to the child. Since her parental rights were still in place, when she went to the court five years later the adoption was overturned and her daughter was returned to her.
The purpose of sharing this story is not to scare prospective adoptive parents. I share it to educate them and to reinforce the importance of using an attorney who just practices adoption law or one who has done adoptions in their practice for at least five years. By doing adoptions for five years I don't mean two or three adoptions over the past five years. I mean someone who does them on a regular basis. Even if you know a lawyer who is a good friend or one who is doing the adoption just to help you, if they do not know adoption law they could end up hurting the adoption in the end.
Even if there is not a AAAA Attorney in your area, you should contact the AAAA Attorney that practices closest to you. They might travel to you or they could recommend someone in your area that knows adoption law. For instance, the AAAA Attorney that my agency uses along with most other agencies and adoptive families in the area has a list of attorneys that she contacts for adoptions in counties that are about two hours or more from her. If she is not busy, she will travel, but because she has such a good reputation she usually stays busy and she often refers families who live further away to other attorneys. She also will tell you which attorney to not use if she knows an attorney who has repeatedly done adoptions not according to the law, which is important information for adoptive families to have.
If you are beginning to search for an attorney to help with your adoption, the first thing you should do is to see if there is a AAAA Attorney in your area. You should always check their credentials and talk to families who have used them. It is also good to talk with other adoptive parents to see which attorneys they used and to find out if they had positive or negative experiences. The way an attorney handles or mishandles an adoption can literally make or break it. This is not a chance that you want to take when it comes to your family. You need to choose an attorney that will follow adoption law correctly and one that will make sure that the needs of everyone involved in the adoption process are met.
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Sweet and tangy pomegranate makes beautiful music when combined with a dry red wine. I channel that melody in the sauce for this brisket. Your brisket will come out of the oven absolutely melting apart, surrounded by a flavorful, creamy gravy.
Sweet and tangy pomegranate makes beautiful music when combined with a dry red wine. I channel that melody in the sauce for this Pomegranate-Red Wine Brisket. Your brisket will come out of the oven absolutely melting apart, surrounded by a flavorful, creamy gravy.
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Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Prepare a roasting pan with Oil.
Sprinkle Brisket with salt and pepper on both sides. Place in roasting pan.
Mix remaining ingredients with with a whisk until the cornstarch is fully dissolved.
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The Parliament, not afraid of them now, and boldly led by Hollis, voted that the King's concessions were sufficient ground for settling the peace of the kingdom. Upon that, COLONEL RICH and COLONEL PRIDE went down to the House of Commons with a regiment of horse soldiers and a regiment of foot; and Colonel Pride, standing in the lobby with a list of the members who were obnoxious to the army in his hand, had them pointed out to him as they came through, and took them all into custody. This proceeding was afterwards called by the people, for a joke, PRIDE'S PURGE. Cromwell was in the North, at the head of his men, at the time, but when he came home, approved of what had been done.
What with imprisoning some members and causing others to stay away, the army had now reduced the House of Commons to some fifty or so. These soon voted that it was treason in a king to make war against his parliament and his people, and sent an ordinance up to the House of Lords for the King's being tried as a traitor. The House of Lords, then sixteen in number, to a man rejected it. Thereupon, the Commons made an ordinance of their own, that they were the supreme government of the country, and would bring the King to trial.
The King had been taken for security to a place called Hurst Castle: a lonely house on a rock in the sea, connected with the coast of Hampshire by a rough road two miles long at low water. Thence, he was ordered to be removed to Windsor; thence, after being but rudely used there, and having none but soldiers to wait upon him at table, he was brought up to St. James's Palace in London, and told that his trial was appointed for next day.
On Saturday, the twentieth of January, one thousand six hundred and forty-nine, this memorable trial began. The House of Commons had settled that one hundred and thirty-five persons should form the Court, and these were taken from the House itself, from among the officers of the army, and from among the lawyers and citizens. JOHN BRADSHAW, serjeant-at-law, was appointed president. The place was Westminster Hall. At the upper end, in a red velvet chair, sat the president, with his hat (lined with plates of iron for his protection) on his head. The rest of the Court sat on side benches, also wearing their hats. The King's seat was covered with velvet, like that of the president, and was opposite to it. He was brought from St. James's to Whitehall, and from Whitehall he came by water to his trial.
When he came in, he looked round very steadily on the Court, and on the great number of spectators, and then sat down: presently he got up and looked round again. On the indictment 'against Charles Stuart, for high treason,' being read, he smiled several times, and he denied the authority of the Court, saying that there could be no parliament without a House of Lords, and that he saw no House of Lords there. Also, that the King ought to be there, and that he saw no King in the King's right place. Bradshaw replied, that the Court was satisfied with its authority, and that its authority was God's authority and the kingdom's. He then adjourned the Court to the following Monday. On that day, the trial was resumed, and went on all the week. When the Saturday came, as the King passed forward to his place in the Hall, some soldiers and others cried for 'justice!' and execution on him. That day, too, Bradshaw, like an angry Sultan, wore a red robe, instead of the black robe he had worn before. The King was sentenced to death that day. As he went out, one solitary soldier said, 'God bless you, Sir!' For this, his officer struck him. The King said he thought the punishment exceeded the offence. The silver head of his walking-stick had fallen off while he leaned upon it, at one time of the trial. The accident seemed to disturb him, as if he thought it ominous of the falling of his own head; and he admitted as much, now it was all over.
Being taken back to Whitehall, he sent to the House of Commons, saying that as the time of his execution might be nigh, he wished he might be allowed to see his darling children.


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Royal wedding: Prince Harry tells Meghan Markle, 'You look amazing' at altar
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during their wedding ceremony at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle near London on Saturday. Credit: AP / Dominic Lipinski
By The Associated Press Updated May 19, 2018 7:40 AM
WINDSOR, England - Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gazed into each other's eyes Saturday at the altar in St. George's Chapel as a soprano sang a work by Handel to celebrate their trans-Atlantic union in front of hundreds of celebrity guests and millions of viewers around the world.
The American actress arrived to fanfare and walked down the aisle accompanied part of the way by Prince Charles, and by 10 young page boys and bridesmaids. The children included 4-year-old Prince George and 3-year-old Princess Charlotte, children of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge.
Markle's sleek white dress, designed by British designer Clare Waight Keller, had a boatneck and was made of silk. Her veil came to her waist in front and billowed out for many feet behind her long train.
Prince Harry and best man Prince William wore dark formal military dress, with white gloves and the frock coat uniforms of the Blues and Royals. Harry kept his full red beard intact.
As they stood at the altar, Harry said to Meghan, "You look amazing."
A host of celebrities and athletes — including Oprah Winfrey, Idris Elba, Elton John, George and Amal Clooney, Serena Williams, James Corden and David and Victoria Beckham — arrived in the bright sunshine at Windsor for the ceremony.
Prior to the festivities, Queen Elizabeth II honored her red-headed, 33-year-old grandson with a new title: the Duke of Sussex. That means that Markle will become the Duchess of Sussex when she says "I will."
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The wedding is a global event, thanks to Harry's status as a senior British royal and Markle's celebrity after starring on the U.S. television series "Suits" for seven years. The wedding pomp and ceremony — complete with Anglican prayers and tradition, classical music, a gospel choir and horse-drawn carriage ride through Windsor — was beamed live to tens of millions of TV viewers across the world.
Relatives at the ceremony included Charles Spencer, the brother of Harry's late mother, Princess Diana, and Harry's cousin Zara Tindall and her husband. Also in attendance was the family of Prince William's wife Kate: Parents Carole and Michael Middleton, sister Pippa Middleton and brother James Middleton.
Harry's ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy was also among the congregation, as was Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, the ex-wife of Harry's uncle Prince Andrew.
Outside the castle, thousands of fans crammed the streets of Windsor. Irene Bowdry, a lawyer from California, was aboard the jammed early train to Windsor. She booked her trip to England as soon as the wedding date was announced.
"An American in the royal family, isn't that so exciting?" she said.
The weather was balmy and clear, bathing the ancient stones of Windsor Castle in a beautiful spring light. Royal fans had been camping outside the castle for days, and British police stepped up security, with sniffer dogs, barricades and patrols all over town.
"Windsor is absolutely bursting with excitement," said royal historian Hugo Vickers. "There are cardboard cutouts of Meghan and Harry in every shop window, virtually. There's bunting all over the place. I've never seen so many people in the streets of Windsor."
Everyone is waiting to see which designer Markle has chosen for her wedding gown. Prince Charles, the groom's father, walked Markle to the altar after her own father became too ill to attend.
It is a time of transition for the British monarchy, one that seems filled with hope as William and Harry — the two sons of Charles and the late Princess Diana — step ever more confidently into the limelight. Many in the crowd, like Ana Karukin, a Brazilian nurse living in Florida, said they came to witness a moment of history.
"We've got to be here for him and for her, my Meghan, my special girl, to support them, because it's a beautiful time," she said. "I wish that Diana was here, but she's in heaven watching over them."
The brothers found the time amid the wedding hoopla to stroll outside the castle Friday evening to thank fans for coming. A smiling Harry gave a thumbs up and answered "Great, thank you!" when asked how he was feeling on the eve of his wedding.
And it seems to be a time of joy for the 92-year-old queen and her 96-year-old husband, Prince Philip, who plan attended the ceremony despite recent hip replacement surgery. She is seeing her grandson marry a woman who clearly has brought him the happiness he's often said was missing from his life after his mother's premature death.
The family tableau played out on the broadest possible stage. Dozens of broadcasters set up on the castle grounds for a visual feast. The chapel itself is a masterpiece of the late Gothic style, and Windsor Castle has been home to British sovereigns for nearly 1,000 years.
After the ceremony, the newlyweds were to ride a horse-drawn carriage through the streets of Windsor, flanked by a British military procession with many officers on horseback.
Then it will be off to the first of two gala receptions. The first will be hosted in the afternoon by the queen — with finger foods, wine and champagne. The second, smaller reception is being thrown by Charles. A three-hour break in between will allow for a rest and change of outfits for the lucky 200 invited to the evening soiree.
The chapel service will reflect Markle's American roots. The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, the African-American leader of the Episcopal Church, delivered a sermon, and the musical selections included versions of Ben. E. King's "Stand By Me" and Etta James' "Amen/This Little Light of Mine."
Markle was accompanied by her mother, Doria Ragland, when she was driven to the chapel, and many of her closest friends and some co-stars from "Suits" were in the audience. She opted not to have a maid of honor but there were 10 young bridesmaids and page boys, including 4-year-old Prince George and 3-year-old Princess Charlotte, the elder children of William and his wife, Kate.
Harry was joined by some of his buddies from his 10 years of military service — an experience that included tours of duty in Afghanistan — and from many of the charities he supports, which have focused on helping wounded veterans or encouraging a more open discussion of mental health issues.
The couple has made an effort to honor the memory of Harry's mother, Diana, whose older sister, Jane Fellowes, gave a reading during the wedding service.
After seeing the couple up close, Curry said Friday that he saw "two real people who are obviously in love."
"When I see them, something in my heart leaps," he said. "That's why 2 billion people are watching them."
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