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Prisoner (original title)
50min | Crime, Drama | TV Series (1979–1986)
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The lives of women behind bars in a female prison.
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Mum pleads with Bea to give herself up to the police. Judy and Doreen finally admit they were setting up Margo. Meg tries to matchmake when she realises Terry Harrison is interested in Vera.
Rita counsels Kath and stops her killing herself. The women find a weapon to defeat Rodney with. Rita tells Alice she has some big plans that nothing - and no-one - can interfere with.
Joan surprises everyone when she volunteers to be Rita's constant help. Harry makes an unexpected announcement.
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The Hollowmen (2008)
Mockumentary that follows the daily situations in which the staff from the Australian Prime Minister find themselves.
Stars: Lachy Hulme, David James, Neil Melville
Wentworth (TV Series 2013)
Crime | Drama
Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison.
Stars: Kate Atkinson, Robbie Magasiva, Katrina Milosevic
The Gruen Transfer (2008–2011)
Documentary | Comedy
The Gruen Transfer (TGT) is a show about advertising, how it works, and how it works on us. Hosted by the inimitable Wil Anderson, TGT decodes and defuses the commercial messages that swirl... See full summary »
Stars: Wil Anderson, Russel Howcroft, Todd Sampson
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
British hard-hitting drama about the staff and inmates of a women's prison.
Stars: Kika Mirylees, Victoria Alcock, Helen Fraser
Spicks and Specks (2005–2019)
Comedy | Game-Show | Music
Adam Hills hosts this lighthearted music quiz show.The two teams are captained by Myf Warhurst and Alan Brough.
Stars: Adam Hills, Alan Brough, Myf Warhurst
Thank God You're Here (2006–2009)
Comedy | Game-Show
Thank God You're Here is about well known performers doing a scene which they have no idea what's going on. It may be a Roman dungeon, a boardroom or a late night talk show. The only thing ... See full summary »
Stars: Shane Bourne, Tom Gleisner, Daniel Cordeaux
Have You Been Paying Attention? (TV Series 2013)
Have You Been Paying Attention? is an Australian topical quiz show with a mix of news and comedy
Stars: Tom Gleisner, Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang
The Chaser's War on Everything (2006–2009)
The show features sketches mocking social and political issues, and often feature comedic publicity stunts.
Stars: Julian Morrow, Andrew Hansen, Chris Taylor
The Games (1998–2000)
Mockumentary about the organisation of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
Stars: John Clarke, Bryan Dawe, Gina Riley
Neighbours (TV Series 1985)
Australian soap opera exploring the lives and relationships of the residents of Ramsay Street in Erinsborough.
Stars: Stefan Dennis, Alan Fletcher, Tom Oliver
All Saints (1998–2009)
With Ward 17 closed down, the team from All Saints face big changes as they are split up and some are moved to the fast paced world of the Emergency Department, headed by Director of Emergency Frank Campion.
Stars: Judith McGrath, Georgie Parker, Tammy Macintosh
A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Follow the highs and lows of the townsfolk of Wandin Valley. This drama TV series revolves around the daily happenings of a 'small town' rural Australian hospital, its doctors, nurses, ... See full summary »
Stars: Shane Porteous, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond
Complete series cast summary:
Elspeth Ballantyne ... Meg Morris / ... 669 episodes, 1979-1986
Betty Bobbitt ... Judy Bryant 430 episodes, 1980-1985
Sheila Florance ... Lizzie Birdsworth 405 episodes, 1979-1985
Maggie Kirkpatrick ... Joan "The Freak" Ferguson / ... 389 episodes, 1982-1986
Val Lehman ... Bea Smith 376 episodes, 1979-1983
Patsy King ... Erica Davidson 354 episodes, 1979-1985
Gerda Nicolson ... Ann Reynolds / ... 319 episodes, 1981-1986
Colette Mann ... Doreen Burns / ... 295 episodes, 1979-1985
This Australian series has, after 692 episodes, received cult status all over the world. The series takes place in Wentworth, a prison in Australia. Wentworth is a high-security female prison. The women are there for all sorts of crimes. We get to follow how they got there, their life in the prison and what becomes of them afterwards. We also get to follow the staff, their work in the prison and their personal relationships. Written by Jens Andersson
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The cult phenomenon from down under.
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50 min (692 episodes)
Cassandra Lehman made an uncredited appearance in a flashback sequence as Bea Smith's daughter, Debbie. Cassandra is the real-life daughter of Val Lehman, who played Bea Smith. Her other daughter Joanne Lehman appeared as Yvonne, a cocky youth Bea encounters on the run. See more »
During some scenes where a prisoner is speaking with a legal representative an officer is present, this is fixed in the later seasons as a prisoner has the right to see their lawyer alone. See more »
Franky Doyle: She bumped into me.
In the version shown by Channel 5 in the UK, episode 601, there was a cut of around 20 seconds when Wendy is threatening the women. She says, "Same goes for the rest of you scabs. Lou wasn't too rapt when she heard you broke the strike so I hear [from here onward, it was cut] (to Nancy) Oh what are you looking so scared about? You're name on the list is it? Eh? I wouldn't bet my boots on big chief Moron doing anything to help yous lot. He's too full of himself to worry about you lot. You should have known what side your bread was buttered on girls! Oh don't tell me [this is where the cut ended] Bird Brain's got something to say!" See more »
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Ahhhhh Nostalgia, Prisoner was great fun!!!!
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Prisoner Cell Block H was a mainstay on T.V here in the U.K, back in the 80's/early 90's it was shown every week, it was great fun, it had everything, great characters (good and bad), brilliant story lines and it was very addictive, it was truly great, lots of the actors have since appeared in programmes like Home and Away and Neighbours.
In this day and age we have a prison drama series called "Bad girls", it try's to be like Prisoner in many ways, but there will only ever be one "Prisoner Cell Block H", this was a classic and i will never forget it.
If you're a younger person and are a fan of prison drama's or generally great T.V programmes then i urge you to seek out the awesome Prisoner Cell Block H, you will soon become addicted.
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Scott has a passion for finding creative solutions for complex problems. In his time at Spire he has worked to improve and create new features for SpireCMS. He has also created custom Registration, Online Course, and E-Commerce systems for clients as well as improve Server and Web Security. As Lead Programmer, he enjoys working with the Creative and Marketing teams at Spire to help bring their ideas to life, developing new and improved ways to help their clients succeed.
While working on his degree in Computer Science at Ashland University, Scott had the opportunity to be involved with many local events working with the AU Technical Productions Crew, as well as numerous Philanthropic endeavors. He quickly fell in love with the small town environment of Ashland while living both on campus and in the community. As an Alumnus he is proud to work with the young men of the Theta-Nu Chapter of Kappa Sigma as an Assistant Alumnus Advisor.
As a senior at AU, Scott was given the opportunity to intern at Spire. While the time they were a young company and mainly focused on web design, Scott quickly became invested in Jeremy's vision for the company as a leading full service Marketing Company. Six years later, he is very excited to see how far Spire has come and where they are headed in the future!
Outside of work he enjoys spending time at home with his wonderful wife Holly and their three cats. They also enjoy attending tastings of fine wine, food, and craft beer. They enjoy spending their weekends touring new locations in Ohio or enjoying time on the Lake Erie beaches. As much as he loves technology, he tries to unplug as much as possible to keep his sanity.


This beautiful, Barclay 8x8 Corner Summerhouse is a bright and extremely spacious garden building, which will fit lovely into the corner of your garden.
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Dear Residents – A liquor outlet has been proposed in the Stonefields Market. The outlet requires a liquor license under the Sale of Liquor Act 2012 and the application is open to public submissions.
Lion Liquor Retail, 27 Napier Street, Freemans Bay, Auckland has made application to the District Licensing Committee at Civic Building, 1 Greys Avenue, Auckland for the issue of an Off Licence in respect of the premises situated at: 30-68 Stonefields Avenue, Stonefields, Auckland known as Liquor King/LK.
The general nature of the business to be conducted under the licence is: "bottle store".
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Hallmark Channel Movie Preview: A Ring By Spring [VIDEO and PHOTOS]
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Witches of East End's Rachel Boston migrates over to Hallmark Channel this weekend for a brand new original film, A Ring By Spring.
Lifetime Movie Preview: The Trip to Bountiful [VIDEOS and PHOTOS]
Lifetime Television goes highbrow this weekend with a new adaptation of the multi award-winning The Trip to Bountiful, starring Ciciely Tyson, who won a Tony for her role in the play just last year on Broadway and is directed again by Michael Wilson, in his first film.
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Last year, Gospel Music Channel TV rebranded itself as UP (or Uplifting Entertainment) and they've thrown a gauntlet into the family-friendly flick fray, premiering original movies throughout the year–many starring the same folks who also regularly pop up in original films over on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel (the […]
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[Warning: General spoilers in synopsis, images, and video]. I've talked a little bit before about TV networks and their "farm teams"–most notably, The CW. But Hallmark Channel and Lifetime have them, too. Saturday night, Hallmark Channel keeps it in the family with Chance at Romance, a new movie starring Erin Krakow, […]

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Zhu Rui (; born 23 April 1998) is a Chinese ice hockey player and member of the Chinese national ice hockey team, currently playing in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) with the KRS Vanke Rays. She previously played in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) with Kunlun Red Star WIH in the 2017–18 season and the Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays in the 2018–19 season.

Zhu represented China in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

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A look at key members of Matt Nagy's Bears coaching staff for 2018.
As Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy steer the Bears into the first player acquisition cycle of their partnership, they must navigate tricky dynamic. The Bears are again in transition now that Nagy has taken over as a first-time coach with his focus on igniting the offense.
Transitions often take time, but in Pace's fourth season as general manager, his 14-34 record demands immediate signs of progress.
Free agency and the draft offer the Bears opportunities to build Nagy's program with a longview while also upgrading the roster for gains in the 2018 standings. Throughout the roster-building process, we'll learn more about Nagy's vision and what to expect from these Bears.
With the NFL scouting combine beginning Wednesday in Indianapolis, what should we hope to learn about Pace and Nagy over the next two months? What potential roster additions or changes could help the Bears transition to Nagy's program with the necessary urgency?
Rich Campbell: Because Pace had his contract extended in January, Dan, and was empowered to hire his second head coach, Nagy did not arrive at Halas Hall with a clean slate. The upside to that: There are building blocks that Pace installed and the last coaching staff developed— Mitch Trubisky, Jordan Howard, Tarik Cohen, Akiem Hicks, etc. The downside, though, is that there's significant pressure on Nagy to engineer the type of quick turnaround John Fox was expected to produce.
We've cited the Rams often, and that example is relevant again in this discussion. A new coach with an incumbent GM can turn the team around quickly. Yet we've already heard Nagy emphasize how it will take time to elevate the Bears' offense to the level of success his Chiefs achieved last season. And, to me, that's reasonable, given the Bears' relative inexperience at quarterback and deficiencies at other positions.
Now, I'm eager to see whether Pace maintains the disciplined "shotgun" approach to free agency that has produced mixed results at best through his first three seasons. After three straight double-digit-loss seasons, there must be some degree of temptation for him to pay for a top-of-the-market cornerback, for example. Will Pace be affected by the weight of three poor seasons, or does Nagy's arrival relieve any compulsion to change his approach?
Wiederer: You know my annual mantra this time of year. Wake me on May 1. By that point, we'll have the comprehensive docket of the additions (and subtractions) the Bears have made during free agency and the draft. And at that point we can reassess what the 2018 Bears look like on paper.
Before then? Truthfully it's a waste of breath and energy to spend too much time doing needle-in-a-haystack prognostications on what newcomers may be wearing the navy and orange when organized team activities begin.
However, what we can do well is assess the Bears' wish list and needs and try to decipher how the Pace-Nagy union will shape the moves in the months ahead. So let's start with the needs. The Bears need a back-up quarterback, an overhauled corps of receivers, added depth on the offensive line, more teeth in their pass rush and more stability in their secondary.
And that's just at the top of the list. So yes, these next nine weeks are going to be quite busy and pressure-packed for Pace. The fourth-year GM can't get to this point next year and still be looking at a roster with this many holes.
The Nagy hiring last month coupled with the retention of Vic Fangio as defensive coordinator sparked a wave of optimism and a belief in some pockets of the fan base and media corps that these Bears can suddenly hit a springboard back towards playoff contention. But I'm firmly stuck in "wait-and-see" mode. And for me, right now, we need to wait and see how this regime approaches free agency and the draft.
Campbell: On the precipice of free agency, the Bears struggle with the same question that has dogged them since last preseason: How are they going to score?
Pace already made a huge move toward answering that by hiring Nagy and, by extension, offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich and consultant Brad Childress. Schematically, the Bears will be different in Trubisky's second season, and because of the experience he amassed in 12 starts, they should be more advanced.
But what about the supporting cast? The Bears' quarterback uncertainty last March made them a relatively unattractive destination for free agents. For example, they believed they were set to sign Ted Ginn before he reconsidered the opportunity to play with quarterback Drew Brees for the Saints. Here's thinking Ginn doesn't regret it.
Will the Bears have better luck on the open market this year with an offensive-minded (but inexperienced) coaching staff and a young quarterback who showed promise? Keep in mind, the supply of quality free agent receivers is not as plentiful as the Bears would like.
The Bears charged into the offseason by hiring coach Matt Nagy to replace John Fox, a move that triggered a slew of other staff changes in January. After Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis on Feb. 4, it won't be long before league business heats up again.
Here's a rundown of meaningful dates and deadlines that make up the Bears' 2018 offseason calendar.
Wiederer: I've always referred to NFL free agency as a glorified flea market. A lot of junk. A handful of worthwhile purchases. Some good bargains if you search hard enough. Maybe a couple of hidden gems.
Here's a sampling of the top receivers who were available in free agency last year: Alshon Jeffery, Terrelle Pryor, DeSean Jackson, Pierre Garcon, Kenny Britt, Michael Floyd, Torrey Smith, Kenny Stills, Cordarrelle Patterson, Kendall Wright and Ted Ginn.
In 2016, the crop included Marvin Jones, Travis Benjamin, Mike Wallace, Mohamed Sanu, Jermaine Kearse, Brian Quick and Percy Harvin.
The year before that? Greg Jennings, Michael Crabtree, Brian Hartline, Cecil Shorts, Eddie Royal, Dwayne Bowe, Andre Holmes.
With still a couple of weeks before free agency begins this year, we're looking at a receiver shelf that could include Pryor, Marqise Lee, Donte Moncrief, Albert Wilson, Taylor Gabriel and Jordan Matthews.
For three years now, Pace has stayed true to his free agency philosophy, vowing to remain ultra-disciplined with his shopping, expressing aversion to signing the so-called "big ticket" players and instead looking to spread his resources out with low-risk investments on a handful of players with potential. Will that overriding philosophy change this year? Probably not. Does it need to be tweaked? Perhaps a little.
Campbell: Beyond that, I wonder what we might glean in the coming weeks about Nagy's personnel preferences and what his offense will look like.
So far, we know Josh Sitton (at age 32 with an $8 million salary) didn't fit their vision. Hopefully they'll share insight about that evaluation.
What about the types of receivers the Bears are after? Will they seek a deep threat like Paul Richardson of the Seahawks? Does Markus Wheaton still have a role within the quick, horizontal passing concepts that make up Nagy's West Coast offense?
And what did Nagy and his coaches see when they scouted the 2017 Bears? What do they believe they can get out of players like Tarik Cohen and Adam Shaheen in their second seasons?
Our questions about the defense seem less open-ended because of the continuity they ensured by retaining Fangio. Still, the needs you mentioned above are plainly evident. I'm eager to see how Pace and his lieutenants value Kyle Fuller's body of work. His case is interesting given the contrast between his lost 2016 and productive 2017, not to mention the Bears' overt need for cornerbacks.
Wiederer: The Fuller scenario is a tough one. On the one hand, the quickest path toward sustained success involves drafting good players, developing them and doing everything possible to retain them. In that regard, Fuller is a first-round talent, 26 years old and a homegrown starter coming off the best season of his career. That would lead one to believe he should be a priority for the Bears in the coming weeks, especially given their obvious needs at the position. Yet using the franchise tag or transition tag on Fuller seems impractical and out of whack with Pace's m.o.
Paying more than $15 million on the franchise tag and north of $13 million on the transition tag for a player who had two interceptions last season and missed the entire 2016 season after an arthroscopic knee procedure? I don't know. I can't reasonably put Fuller anywhere near that top shelf of NFL corners.
The sensible approach would seem to be to let Fuller hit free agency and test the market and use that as the ideal measure of his true worth. But, as the Bears saw with Alshon Jeffery a year ago, that gives the player final say on where he wants to play. And at least some backlash can be expected if the Bears let another key starter walk away without an obvious Plan B in place.
Pace has so many decisions to make in the weeks ahead and it further emphasizes how big this puzzle really is and how challenging it will be to put together. After four consecutive last-place finishes, the Bears remain a team in transition.
Campbell: Championships aren't won in March. Heck, drawing conclusions and making predictions after the draft is perilous enough. At this point, though, anything to satisfy our curiosity about the 2018 Bears is worth digesting through the proper filter. And until the Bears' list of roster strengths outnumbers the list of holes, the pressure on Pace will only build.
Wiederer: Look, I understand the urge of optimistic fans who haven't seen a three-game winning streak in five years and want to believe this latest wave of changes will produce immediate positive results. New offensive-minded head coach? A strong and promising defense with continuity on its side? The prospect of a smart free agency shopping spree and a solid draft class? Rapid turnarounds happen all the time in the NFL. Why not in Chicago? Why not forecast nine, 10, 11 wins in 2018? It beats the alternative of fearing another rerun of the stumbles and struggles that have kept this organization out of the playoffs since 2010.
But we know so very little yet about the 2018 Bears. Almost nothing really. So let's give this feeling-out process some time. At least, we'll start to learn more this week at the combine. At least there will be breaking news and significant developments in the weeks ahead. Let's see where it all leads.
The first day for clubs to designate a franchise or transition player. It's unlikely the Bears will use either tag to protect their negotiating rights with a pending free agent. The top candidate is cornerback Kyle Fuller, but that would require a guaranteed one-year contract more expensive than Fuller's expected market value. In 2017, the franchise tag tender for a cornerback was $14.2 million.
The NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis. Executives from all 32 teams will attend to evaluate college prospects and begin meeting with agents about the upcoming free agency period. During this week, the market for free agents begins to take shape in earnest. Coach Matt Nagy and general manager Ryan Pace probably will address media Feb. 28.


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11 Books From Tupac Shakur's Bookshelf That Are Still Relevant Today
In the documentary film Thug Angel, Shock G from the rap group Digital Underground said it best about Tupac Shakur. "When people say 'Pac is the best rapper of all times, they don't just mean he's the best rapper. They just mean what he had to say was most potent, most relevant, and that he was the better human being."
Before his tragic death at age of 25, Tupac rapped about poverty, violence in the black community, police brutality, black empowerment, political strategy and spirituality. When you learn what books Tupac read, it's evident that literature had a big influence on his life and music. We compiled a list of books that Tupac talked about in interviews and ones that close friends remembered him reading. We picked books that are still very much relevant today.
11 Books From Tupac Shakur's Bookshelf
Book 1: The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
Why It's Relevant: In early 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival, Fox Search Light made a record-breaking $17.5 Million deal to purchase the world rights of Nate Parker's film The Birth of a Nation, a film about Nat Turner – an American slave who led a slave rebellion in 1831. Parker is fulfilling one of Tupac's dreams. In the book Holler If You Hear Me, film producer Preston Holmes revealed to Michael Eric Dyson that Tupac wanted to produce a film about Nat Turner.
Book 2: The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley
Why It's Relevant: The world wept on June 3, 2016 when the greatest fighter of all time, Muhammad Ali passed away. Ali inspired so many people with not only his footwork in the boxing ring, but also with his courage to stand up for what's right – starting with his refusal to enter the Vietnam War. Not many people know that Malcolm X was a mentor and inspiration for Ali. It was Malcolm X's influence that made him want to join the Nation of Islam and change his name from Cassius Clay to Cassius X, and eventually to Muhammad Ali.
Book 3: The Buying of The President - Charles Lewis
Why It's Relevant: This year's campaign for the 45th President of the United States is one of the most expensive political campaigns in American history. If you've ever wondered why presidential campaigns are so expensive, you should read this book.
Book 4: In Contempt - Christopher Darden
Book 5: How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday- Gerry Spence
Why They're Relevant: It's been two decades since the OJ Simpson trial rocked American culture with a powder keg filled with clashes of race and class. In recent months we've seen the trial of the century reemerge with the FX channel's The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and ESPN's latest 30 for 30 documentary O.J.: Made In America. These books are from two people who had front row seats to the case. Author Christopher Darden was on the prosecution team against Simpson and Gerry Spence is a lawyer who has never lost a criminal case and was a legal consultant who covered the trial for NBC.
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Book 6: Roots: The Saga of an American Family - Alex Haley
Why It's Relevant: Alex Haley's novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family was first published in 1976 and then the TV miniseries followed in 1977. Memorial Day 2016, the History channel premiered a remake of the miniseries executive produced by Will Packer (of Think Like a Man, Ride Along, The Wedding Ringer and Straight Outta Compton).
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Book 7: Assata: An Autobiography- Assata Shakur
Why It's Relevant: Since President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro announced efforts to improve the relationship between the United States and Cuba, reports of pressuring Cuba to release Assata Shakur (aka of JoAnne Chesimard) has remained in the news. Assata was convicted (many believe wrongfully) of killing one state trooper and wounding another in 1973 in New Jersey. The former Black Panther has had political asylum in Cuba, after escaping prison and fleeing the U.S. in 1979. Tupac's stepfather (Mutulu Shakur) also connects him to Assata. Mutulu was accused and convicted of helping Assata escape prison.
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#8 Ponder On This: A Compilation - Alice A. Bailey
#9 The Phenomenon of Man - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
#10 Thoughts and Meditations- Kahlil Gibran
#11 The Tibetan Book of the Dead - Karma - Glin-Pa, W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Why It's Relevant: Spirituality is where most people turn to for healing and understanding. With recent news of mass shootings and deaths of celebrities who made strives to help humanity; these books are timeless and are a much needed read in times like this. Tupac often referenced God and spirituality in his music. Towards the end of his life it's clear that he was wrestling with pain after being shot and spending time in jail.
Written by Tanisha Blakely.
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\subsection{Accessing and Storing the Data}
We used a modified Python wrapper for the RT REST API to query the tickets \cite{python-rt}. The REST API provided a simpler interface for querying all ticket metadata and content than querying the RT MySQL backend directly, however it does not access deleted tickets. Gathering the email correspondences was also simpler with this API. However, due to the communication through email, many of the ticket transactions have reply chains, which leads to repeated information in each transaction. Not all users continue to reply with the entire quoted message, so using only final transaction was not an option. For the full content dataset, we left the emails with the repeated correspondences. The RT front-end seems to know where the quoted message starts, so an email parser could possibly fix this.

We stored the data locally in text files. Since there were under 70,000 tickets, this was feasible and faster than performing an API request. We attempted to primarily store the data in  Elasticsearch\footnote{https://www.elastic.co/}, but decided against it as we needed access to the text tokenization. Elasticsearch, essentially a wrapper for Apache Lucene, provides customization for how text should be tokenized and which similarity metric to use, but did not provide an easy way to request the vectors or tokens for all the tickets in an easy pipeline for feature engineering. Further, when we tried making a dashboard with Kibana, the interface was more difficult than making a custom one with something like Dash.\footnote{https://dash.plot.ly/}

\subsection{Cleaning the Data}\label{sec:data-cleaning}
We do not alter the ticket metadata, but the ticket content is cleaned using standard natural language processing techniques (NLP). We process the content as follows:
\begin{enumerate}
	\item remove non-English characters
	\item replace the automated reply footer with `` footer "
	\item convert the content to lowercase
	\item remove domain-specific stop words (tickets, ticketing, mailto, wrote, re, fwd)
	\item replace phone numbers with `` phone\_number "
	\item preserve email addresses and URL/file paths by replacing ``http(s)?://" with ``http\_" and ``@" and ``-" with ``\_"
	\item remove general symbols
	\item replace hex with `` hex\_number "
	\item stem words with NLTK Snowball Stemmer \cite{Loper02nltk:the}
	\item join defined bigrams (high performance computing, los alamos, etc.)
	\item replace all whitespace with a single space
\end{enumerate}
The regular expressions for the cleaning and tokenization are in Table \ref{tab:cleaning_regex}. For greater flexibility, we did not store the ``clean" data with removed English stop words or with pre-defined tokens. This was so that we could experiment with the types of tokens and inclusion of stop words (e.g. whether to include file paths or tokens with only alphabetical characters).

\begin{table*}
\centering
\caption{Regular expressions used in cleaning and tokenizing the ticket content for analysis. The regex was implemented in Python and might need to be modified for other languages. Note: the string patterns matching the beginning and end of strings and whitespace is used instead of the default word boundaries to avoid breaking on non-alphanumeric characters (keeps URLs intact).}
\begin{tabular}{cc}\toprule
\textbf{Task} & \textbf{Regex} \\ \midrule
non-English characters & \verb|r"[^\x00-\x7f]"| \\ \midrule
phone numbers & \verb~"(\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})|\d{3} \d{3}-\d{4}"~\\ \midrule
hexadecimal & \verb~"0x[0-9a-f]+|[0-9a-f]{16}"~ \\ \midrule
unwanted symbols & \verb@"[!#<>:\[\]\{\}€,\"\(\)\*;]+|[\.\?]\s|:[-_~=\.]{2,}"@\\ \midrule
Token pattern: only alphabetical characters & \verb~r"(?:\s|^)([a-z]{2,})(?:\s|$)"~ \\ \midrule
Token pattern: alphanumerical that start with a letter & \verb~r"(?:\s|^)([a-z]\w+)(?:\s|$)"~ \\ \midrule
Token pattern: alphanumerical and include URLs and file paths & \verb~r"\b[a-zA-Z\/][\w\/\?\.\=]+\b"~ \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:cleaning_regex}
\end{table*}

\begin{figure}
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{plot_tickets_over_time.png}
	\caption{Plot of the LANL HPC Consult team Request Tracker (RT) ticket dataset over time by month. There were a total of 60,702 tickets between 2008 and 2019. These numbers do not include rejected or deleted tickets.}
	\label{fig:tickets_over_time}
\end{figure}

\begin{table*}
\centering
\caption{Basic anatomy of a ticket. There are other fields available in the RT system, but they are not used (e.g. request priority).}
\begin{tabular}{cc}
\toprule
\textbf{Component} & \textbf{Description} \\ \midrule
Requestor & Person who submitted the request (i.e. user)\\ \midrule
Consultant & Employee assigned (or self-assigned) to resolve requestor's issue\\ \midrule
Date & Creation date of ticket\\ \midrule
Contact Method & How the requestor contacts customer service (i.e. email, phone)\\ \midrule
Status & \begin{minipage}{\hcolw}Current status of ticket. (i.e. deleted, new, open, rejected, resolved, stalled, waiting on user)\end{minipage}\\ \midrule
Subject & \begin{minipage}{\hcolw}Brief subject line for request. It is user-generated when the request is created via email, and can be Owner-generated when the request is submitted over the phone.\end{minipage}\\ \midrule
Category & \begin{minipage}{\hcolw}Label describing the nature of the request. In the RT system, a ticket can be assigned multiple categories but usually only one is used.\end{minipage}\\ \midrule
Comment & \begin{minipage}{\hcolw}Owner notes that are not sent to the user. Usually to track attempted solutions for future similar problems.\end{minipage}\\ \midrule
Article & \begin{minipage}{\hcolw}A ``reply template" a consultant can send to a Requestor (e.g. "submit form A to so-and-so to open ports on machine X")\end{minipage}\\ \midrule
Transaction & \begin{minipage}{\hcolw}History of updates to the request. Includes free-text correspondences and assigned metadata (i.e. updating status and assigning a category).\end{minipage}\\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:request_anatomy}
\end{table*}
\subsubsection{Category Trends}
As shown in Figure \ref{fig:category_distribution}, most tickets are assigned to the broader categories such as ``Environment-System". The overall distribution of categories is interesting, but we were also curious about the distribution on a per-consultant basis, shown in Figure \ref{fig:cat_consult_graph}. As expected, the general categories are more popular than specific ones like ``Shell," and consultants tend to specialize and gravitate towards certain types of problems more than others. The preference of general categories over specific ones questions the need for specific categories at all. Next, we use text clustering algorithms to automatically generate categories.

\begin{figure}
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{plot_category_consultant_graph.png}
	\caption{A graph showing the relationship between consultants and the categories from their tickets. For ease of reading we only used categories that had at least 200 tickets. The lines are scaled by consultant to accommodate for differences in the number of tickets (i.e. Consultant 1 might have more tickets than Consultant 2 assigned category X, but a higher percentage of Consultant 2's tickets deal with category X.)}
	\label{fig:cat_consult_graph}
\end{figure}

\subsubsection{Defining New Categories}
Since the most used categories are vague, we explored using the techniques behind our feature sets from category prediction (see Section \ref{sec:category_prediction}) to define new categories to replace the current list of 93 categories (see Figure \ref{fig:category_distribution}). We used LDA topic modeling and Word2Vec to cluster words in the combined content of the entire dataset (i.e. subject, create message, content, and comments of all non-rejected tickets) and then used consultant input to add labels. Word2Vec is part of Doc2Vec, but is only the vector representations of words and not entire documents \cite{DBLP:journals/corr/MikolovSCCD13, Mikolov2013EfficientEO}.

\paragraph{LDA Topic Modeling} In topic modeling, ``topics" are analogous to categories. For more human-readable topics, we set the topics at 10 and only used tokens with alphabetical characters (see Table \ref{tab:cleaning_regex}). The Consult Team helped assign labels to the words from each topic. Overall, we were very pleased with the generated categories, each one seemed coherent and did not require much imagination to assign a label. Example generated categories are in Table \ref{tab:cat_lda}.

\paragraph{Word2Vec} Word2Vec uses a neural network to create a vector representation of words based on their context (i.e. surrounding words). We used the Gensim implementation of Word2Vec \cite{rehurek_lrec}. Unlike the LDA categories, clustering the Word2Vec vectors did not return any useful or easily identifiable categories (Table \ref{tab:cat_word2vec}). We tried multiple clustering methods (KMeans, KMedoids, DBSCAN) and distances (Euclidean and cosine), and the KMedoids clustering of cosine distances returned the most coherent clusters. We also tried different ways of picking the words to represent each cluster. Using the word's frequency in the dataset produced more coherent clusters than using a word's distance from the cluster center or using a weighted combination of the two metrics. In addition to clustering the vectors, we found similar words using cosine similarity on the word's vector representation. The model recognized relationships in the data and was able to identify cluster names. Example queries are shown in Table \ref{tab:word2vec_query}. We were surprised that the model did not generate useful clusters, since it works very well on an individual word basis.

\begin{table*}
\centering
    \caption{A sample of LDA topic modeling auto-generated categories (topics=10, alpha=10, beta=1.0, iterations=2000, stopwords removed ). Note that some words are stemmed (e.g. \{module, modules\} $\rightarrow$ modul). Descriptions were added by consultants.}
    \begin{tabular}{cc}
    \toprule
    \textbf{Description} & \textbf{Keywords} \\ \midrule
    ASC Trinity and DATs & node trinity subject run dat test pm cc job reserv start request time knl trinitite \\ \midrule
    Group Accounts & account group user request project access hpc subject email approv pm rt machin submit add \\ \midrule
Filesystem and Storage & file unknown directori space error data hpss archiv ls permiss rank root info user scratch copi delet quota mon tri \\ \midrule
User Application & error modul load compil file code version mpi line work intel librari instal tri build status set problem number command \\ \midrule
Job Submission & job node run time user msub submit error script problem alloc moab state standard start queue slurm jobid process \\ \midrule
DST & system dst user schedul ant hpc work team inform comput complet time end offic avail action support \\ \midrule
Cluster login and Tri-lab access & ssh connect tri work access file network server user machin password rt problem system log port email \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
    \label{tab:cat_lda}
\end{table*}

\begin{table}
    \caption{Auto-generated categories using Word2Vec with KMediods. The most frequent words were chosen to represent each cluster.}
    \begin{tabular}{cc} \toprule
    \textbf{Cluster} & \textbf{Keywords} \\ \midrule
   1 & node ing access system time trinity link wed ssh \\ \midrule
    2 & hpc machin thu cc default connect import script \\ \midrule
    3 & email project back ace turquois close yellow week \\ \midrule
    4 & \scale{0.35}{job file error unknown updat status start product submit network} \\ \midrule
    5 & run pm test code check instal limit trinitite today server \\ \midrule
    6 & problem dst schedul fix send phone day permiss dec morn \\ \midrule
    7 & \scale{0.35}{team modul info command comput mon fail process complet fri} \\ \midrule
    8 & user subject request directori issu set cielo creat tue data \\ \midrule
    9 & assign child custom number question make date hour \\ \midrule
    10 & work group rt account messag open load url end \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
    \label{tab:cat_word2vec}
\end{table}

\begin{table}
\centering
    \caption{Example queries and results in our Word2Vec model. ``DST" is ``Dedicated System Time", ``red" is the name of the secure network at LANL and ``Grizzly" is one of the HPC machines. Words are similar if their cosine similarity is close to 1.}
    \begin{tabular}{cc}
    \toprule
    \textbf{Query} & \textbf{Similar Words} \\ \midrule
    dst & \scale{0.35}{outag dsts upgrad mainten downtim decommiss noon reschedul aam reboot} \\ \midrule
    red & \scale{0.35}{secur turquois yellow turqois registri turq turquos redston neural ibf} \\ \midrule
    grizzly & \scale{0.35}{snow wolf badger kodiak mustang moonlight woodchuck pinto trinitite trinity} \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
    \label{tab:word2vec_query}
\end{table}

\subsubsection{Methods}
We created a dataset from resolved tickets that were emailed (so that we had access to the initial create message from the user) and were in a currently used category that had at least 10 tickets. We discarded the multi-categorized tickets (2\% of all tickets) for ease of model evaluation. With this dataset of 23,385 create messages and subjects labeled by assigned category, we used standard text analysis techniques to create a numerical representation of the text for a machine learning classifier to predict the assigned category. We created vector representations (``feature sets") of the cleaned ticket subject lines and create messages with latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling\cite{McCallumMALLET, Blei:2003:LDA:944919.944937}, latent semantic analysis (LSA) \cite{scikit-learn}, and Doc2Vec\cite{rehurek_lrec, DBLP:journals/corr/LeM14}. The algorithm and model parameters are in Table \ref{tab:predict_cat_settings}. We included all alphanumerical tokens, URLs, and file paths (see Table \ref{tab:cleaning_regex}). We used a Scikit-learn implementation of random forest classifier\cite{scikit-learn} to predict the assigned ticket category. The models were evaluated using weighted precision-recall metrics and ``accuracy at 3." Precision is the ratio of tickets that the model correctly predicted as category X to all tickets predicted as category X, recall is the ratio of tickets that were predicted as category X to all tickets assigned category X, and F1 is the harmonic mean of the two. For a precision-recall score, a value closer to 1 is better. Accuracy at 3 means a model's prediction is correct if the assigned category is in the top 3 predicted classes. This metric is good for evaluating how useful the model would be as a category suggestion tool. For this experiment, we considered the assigned category to be the ``correct" category, and did not ask other consultants for second opinions. We discuss the subjectivity and complications of category assignment in Section \ref{sec:improvements}.

\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Parameters for generated feature sets.}
\begin{tabular}{cc}\toprule
LDA 10 topics &\scale{0.3}{topics=10, iterations=1000, alpha=10, beta=0.005, stopwords removed} \\ \midrule
LDA 500 topics & \scale{0.3}{topics=500, iterations=1000, alpha=0.01, beta=0.005, stopwords removed} \\ \midrule
LSA & dimension=100, stopwords removed \\ \midrule
Doc2Vec & \scale{0.3}{min count=5, dimension=400, context/window=10 (Note: we used the normalized vectors)} \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:predict_cat_settings}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}
	\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{plot_category_prediction.png}
	\caption{Results from predicting assigned ticket category using each feature set with a Random Forest model (10 estimators). We averaged 200 trials for the results.}
	\label{fig:category_prediction}
\end{figure}

\subsubsection{Results}
When evaluated on prediction, the model achieved F1 scores of 20\%-40\%, and performed considerably better when evaluated on suggestion (i.e. ``accuracy@3"), with scores of 50\%-70\%. The LDA 500 and LSA feature sets performed the best across all metrics. We think the generally low model performance can be attributed to the vast number of categories (we explore new categories in Section \ref{sec:cat_anal}). We also considered the idea that not all problems are readily apparent from just the user's initial message, but roughly 60\% of all resolved emailed tickets were assigned a category by a human after viewing only the create message. For future work, model performance could be improved by including different tokens (see Table \ref{tab:cleaning_regex}) or tweaking classifier parameters. The results are shown in Figure \ref{fig:category_prediction}.

\section{Introduction}\label{sec:intro}
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\section{Related Work}\label{sec:related}
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\section{Available Data}\label{sec:avail_data}
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\section{Ticketing Tools}\label{sec:ticket_tools}
\subsection{Automatic Assignment of Ticket Category}\label{sec:category_prediction}
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\subsection{Ticket Recommendation}\label{sec:ticket_recommend}
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\subsection{Automatic Ticket Reply}\label{sec:auto_reply}
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\section{Ticket Exploration and Analytics}\label{sec:exploration}
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\subsection{Category Analysis}\label{sec:cat_anal}
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\section{Suggested Improvements}\label{sec:improvements}
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\section{Conclusion}
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\section*{Acknowledgments}
The authors thank Mike Mason, Ed Rose, Malachy O'Connell, and Hugh Greenberg for access to data and the NERSC ticketing team for loose conceptual collaboration. We also thank Mike Coyne and Rob Derrick for letting Alexandra shadow them, and Ben Santos, Lena Lopatina, and Hunter Easterday for their suggestions and time reviewing results.

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}

\subsection{Community Analysis}
We represented the ticketing ``community" as a graph by assigning nodes to the consultants and users and weighting edges by number of tickets. The graph is not shown here because it was too large to visualize usefully and did not reveal any interesting macro-level trends.  Restricting the graph to only a single user or consultant and including nodes for Category and machines could uncover trends in user and machine issues. Another way to reduce the scope of the graph would be to group users by project or lab division. Unfortunately we did not have access to that information, since the ticketing system is separate from other employee information systems. Ideas for adding outside information to the ticketing system is in Section \ref{sec:improvements}.

\subsubsection{A Note on Named Entity Recognition (NER)} Since we were looking at the community, we thought it would be interesting to see what a named entity recognition tool would find for us. We used the StanfordNER tool \cite{Finkel:2005:INI:1219840.1219885}. Unfortunately, the results were not precise enough to be useful, however the tool did pick up on cluster names and identified them as proper nouns. We realized that using the metadata fields, or even a known list of cluster and program names, to search for in the tickets would give us better results than an NER tool. An interesting application would be training an NER classifier to find new software that users ask questions about, as maintaining a list of all new software would be tedious.

\subsubsection{Methods}
For this similarity demo, we used a subset of the tickets from January 2017 to July 2019. We applied the same algorithms and parameters as the category prediction (Section \ref{sec:category_prediction}), shown in Table \ref{tab:predict_cat_settings}, to the create message and subjects and to the ``combined" ticket content (i.e. subject, create message, content, and comments). The feature sets were re-generated on the subset of data. As a pseudo-baseline we included the results from an Elasticsearch ``more like this" query and a ``naive" calculation of percent words in common. For the LDA, LSA, and Doc2Vec feature sets, we say a ticket is ``similar" to another ticket if their representative vectors have a cosine similarity close to 1, where cosine similarity = 1 - cosine distance.

\subsubsection{Issues with Model Evaluation}
For feature set comparison, we created a simple GUI that takes a ticket ID and shows the top 3 results from each feature set, shown in Figure \ref{fig:similarity_demo}. Even though each feature set returns a score of how similar a ticket is to another ticket, this score represents the closeness of the ticket vector representations (cosine similarity), not necessarily the return tickets' helpfulness or relatedness. We need human experts for that evaluation. We also ran an experiment with a random sample of 200 tickets and collected information on the ticket category. Because of this, our presented results are a mix of statistics of model results and qualitative review of results based on a small informal discussion with LANL HPC Consult Team. For the discussion, we presented the demo with the ``combined" ticket content and primarily discussed the query results of a very common ticket, a consultant-created weekly email draft for general user information, and a user-created ticket concerning a specific Firefox issue.

\subsubsection{Results}
\paragraph{Model Results}
The results from our experiment supported our notions on the relatedness of tickets in a single category.  From the trials with 200 sample tickets, on average under 1 ticket in the top 3 returned from the feature sets shared a category with the query ticket. This follows the results that category is not a good metric for ticket relatedness. Further, it was pointed out to us by a consultant that only returning tickets in the same category is not especially useful since they already have the ability to query by category. Because of this, our presented results are purely qualitative and based on a small informal discussion with consultants.

\paragraph{Discussion}
Since the similar ticket demonstration only presented a couple of tickets and their query results, there was not enough information to determine which feature set model (e.g. Doc2Vec) overall performed the ``best." However, there was a similarity in the kinds of results. Between LDA 10 and LDA 500, LDA 500 would pick up on more specific keywords, which makes sense due to the higher granularity of 500 topics instead of only 10. This is a similar pattern to the LDA feature sets performance on the category assignment task from Section \ref{sec:category_prediction}.

On the example common ticket, a weekly email draft, all feature sets performed very well by returning other weekly email drafts. This set an easy baseline. On the next task of picking up on information from a more specific ticket, the results were mixed. Elasticsearch did the best on returning tickets that were most similar to the original ticket, and the others tended to have more of a variety in their results, where one ticket would be very similar and the others related in some way. We were told that both types of results could be helpful for the main use cases mentioned earlier. Looking at more of variety of related tickets could be more beneficial for problem solving, but finding tickets with the exact same issue is better for reporting and tracking issues. A possible solution is to use different feature set models for different tasks, such as the more specific Elasticsearch model for querying tickets for reporting and then LDA 500 for reading more general, but still related, tickets for researching solutions.

A concern that came up was the models' ability to pick up on variations in vocabulary for the same concept, beside misspellings and verb tense which are dealt with stemming, such as ``machines" and ``computers", or ``permissions" and ``policies." With this concern we expect Doc2Vec to fare better because of how it represents words based on their surrounding context, which would be similar across vocabulary for the same concept. We show the results of a Word2Vec word similarity model, which is part of Doc2Vec, in Table \ref{tab:word2vec_query}. As for general UI feedback, we were asked for the option to show more tickets (default was to show top 3 closest tickets) and to filter (or weight) the results by metadata such as consultant or date range.

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What's Up With All The Home Runs? MLB Hired Scientists. Here's What They Found Out : The Two-Way A panel of experts studied the issue for months but couldn't come up with much more than ballpark determinations as to why home run rates are spiking.
Atlanta Braves outfielder Ender Inciarte watches a home run hit by the Washington Nationals' Matt Adams fall into the stands during the ninth inning of a game at Nationals Park on April 11.


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It's the first Friday of spring, so let's make it count!
1. Lena Waithe graces the cover of Vanity Fair. This has certainly been the year of Lena Waithe and deservedly so. The out lesbian writer, actor and creator won an Emmy, debuted a new show, appeared in a major motion picture and much more. Now, she's on the cover of Vanity Fair and pictured inside (with photos by Annie Leibovitz) cuddled up on the couch with her fiancée Alana Mayo. It's a fabulous in-depth piece, so check it out.
Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon playing "Speak Out" is more than I can handle. pic.twitter.com/1fHPftx5Xn
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 21, 2018
2. Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis play Speak Out with Ellen. This will put a smile on your face for sure. McKinnon and Kunis are on a press tour for their new comedy, The Spy Who Dumped Me, and stopped by Ellen's show to play a little game. Hilarity ensued.
3. Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman is now on Hulu. After spending a couple weeks on VOD, this story based of the life of Wonder Woman creator Marston and the women who inspired him, is now available on the streaming service. Out lesbian director/writer Angela Robinson is at the helm of the film, and devotes much attention to the polyamorous relationship, especially the connection between Olive Byrne and Elizabeth Holloway Marston.
4. Winona Ryder, Elizabeth Olsen and a lot of ladies get their dance on for H&M. Clothier H&M took a pleasant route to show off their spring line, and it involves a lot of women dancing together, including actresses Ryder and Olsen. I'd watch this movie.
Photo via Leida Torres Facebook
5. A same-sex couple got married…at Walmart! Now Walmart might not be what you think of when you think same-sex marriage ceremony, but it was the perfect spot for couple Leida Torres and Chrissy Slonaker Torres. The two met at the Walmart in Pennsylvania and decided to tie the knot in the garden section under a canopy so that their friends who were working at the store could attend. That's awfully adorable.
*Feature picture via Vanityfair.com
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Manuel Altolaguirre, född 29 juni 1905 i Malaga, död 26 juli 1959 i Burgos, var en spansk poet tillhörande Generation 27.

Altolaguirre debuterade som poet 1926 med Las islas invitadas y otras poemas. Hans diktning var liksom de övriga författarna inom Generation 27 influerad av såväl klassiker som Luis de Góngora, något äldre föregångare som Juan Ramón Jiménez och nya strömningar som surrealism.

Altolaguirre startade flera litterära tidskrifter, bland annat inflytelserika Litoral tillsammans med Emilio Prados, och drev även ett tryckeri där flera av hans vänner från Generation 27 strålade samman och fick sin första verk tryckta.

1939 flyttade Altolaguirre till Mexiko där han fortsatte att ge ut dikter och tidskrifter. Under sina sista år blev han involverad i den mexikanska filmindustrin som manusförfattare, producent och regissör. 1959 återvände han till Spanien för att deltaga i filmfestivalen i San Sebastián. Efter festivalen var han inblandad i en bilolycka och dog några dagar senare i Burgos.

Ett urval av Altolaguirres dikter har tolkats till svenska av Anders Cullhed i boken Generation 27! (1996).

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Elstree School > Admissions > Public School Destinations
Boys leave Elstree to attend the country's leading Public Schools. The formal process of consultation on which senior school will be the right one starts in Years 5 or 6, but the Headmaster is available at any stage in a boy's career at Elstree to give advice to parents on which senior schools could suit their son.
Indeed the Headmaster's experience and knowledge of the senior schools is extensive and he has good relationships with many Public School Headmasters, Housemasters and Registrars. Such advice and the high esteem in which Elstree boys are held by senior schools are reckoned to be great advantages of an Elstree education. The Headmaster's main priority in such advice will always be based on the belief that the boy must be comfortable with the academic demands of the senior schools that are in the frame for him.
Representatives from Senior Schools visit Elstree on a regular basis to meet pupils and parents to help them to make informed decisions about future destinations in an informal setting. Public School Destinations.
The Scholarship class operates in parallel with the last two years of Common Entrance preparation. Those boys identified as Scholarship 'hopefuls' are taught by Heads of Department, and study all aspects of the Common Entrance syllabus as well as extra tuition for those who have shown strengths in the creative arts or sport to allow them the opportunity of sitting Entrance Scholarships to their chosen senior schools. Our record of success in Scholarship preparation speaks for itself, with regular academic, music and art and sports scholarships being awarded by some of the finest senior independent schools in the country, including Eton, Harrow, Radley, Marlborough, Bradfield and Winchester.
A summary of scholarship awards can be see below.
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Apple's Renewable Energy Projects Creates Jobs
8:59 AM GMT+0000 on Apr 12, 2021
When a leading tech giant pivots in the marketplace, people take notice. Indeed, the whole world was watching when Apple issued its inaugural $1.5 billion green bond back in February 2016, right on the heels of global adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement. A little over a year later, following the US government's announcement that it would be withdrawing from the international accord, the company released a second $1 billion green bond. A third follow-up came in November 2019, this time launched in Europe, consisting of two additional green bonds valued together at about $2.2 billion.
To date the company behind such popular products as the iPhone and the Mac has green bond issuance amounting to a whopping $4.7 billion, and it has made sure to put these funds into projects guaranteed to have a positive environmental impact. As Lisa Jackson, vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives at Apple, stated in a recent press release, "Apple is dedicated to protecting the planet we all share with solutions that are supporting the communities where we work. We all have a responsibility to do everything we can to fight against the impacts of climate change, and our $4.7 billion investment of the proceeds from our Green Bond sales is an important driver in our efforts."
Where exactly is all this money going? Apple has fully allocated all $2.5 billion from the 2016 and 2017 bonds, and it spent $329.6 million of its 2019 bonds over the course of last year – putting over half of the green bond funds to work. The 17 projects funded in 2020 span across low-carbon design and engineering, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and carbon mitigation and sequestration. The goal is to help Apple "reach carbon neutrality across our entire carbon footprint, including the full product life cycle, by 2030."
And Apple is well on its way to reaching that target. The company expects these 17 projects to generate 1.2 gigawatts of renewable energy globally. Collectively, the renewable projects will avoid 921,000 metric tons of carbon emissions every year, similar to taking almost 200,000 cars off the road. These projects added 353.7 megawatts of renewable energy capacity and are expected to produce 1.26 gigawatts of renewable energy every year, guaranteeing the company continues to get 100 percent of electricity from renewable sources for its offices, retail stores, and data centers in 44 countries.
The most recently completed and perhaps the most captivating projects are among Apple's work in renewable energy. In March, the company announced that it had completed construction of the Turquoise Solar Project in Reno, Nevada, in collaboration with Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company (GREC). The now-operational site occupies 180 acres of the Reno Technology Park that acts as an energy source for the company's data center in the state.
Turquoise Solar now contributes 50 megawatts of power to the data center, on top of the 270 megawatts already provided by three previously completed renewable energy projects. While many of these projects serve Apple's data centers, local communities also benefit. Construction of the Turquoise Solar Project provided 236 jobs, and more than 90 percent of those employees were Nevada residents.
Meanwhile, other projects have created positive externalities for corporate actors. In particular, Apple partnered with Etsy, Akamai, and SwissRe to purchase 165 megawatts of renewable energy capacity from a solar photovoltaic plant near Fredericksburg, Virginia and 125 megawatts from a wind farm close to Chicago, Illinois. In total, the 290 megawatts of capacity is far more than any of the smaller companies could have accessed on such agreeable terms without Apple's reputation and purchasing power.
Jackson said of the partnership, "[W]e've charted a course for other companies and organizations to purchase renewable energy and transition their own operations to greener power. The collaboration . . . shows how companies of all sizes can address climate change by coming together." Apple is not only cleaning up the world, then; they are benefiting everyone in it.


Earth Day and Arbor Day Have Come Again!
How will you celebrate your Earth Day and Arbor Day this year?
Each and every year, Earth Day and Arbor Day serve as a reminder to step outside and remember the beauty and value of our green world. Though we should take a little time to show the natural world a little love, these two days mark special occasions to do so. Today we're going to be talking about how you can make the most of your Earth Day and your Arbor Day! Let's jump in!
Celebrate Earth Day by making the world a greener place.
The true spirit of Earth day is all about making an effort to take care of the environment, and there are many ways to do this. The simplest way to celebrate this day is to head outside and simply enjoy your wonderful landscape. You can also spend a little time planting some perennials, annuals, or any other type of plant. Digging down into the dirt and bringing forth some new, green life into your world is a great way to spend your Earth Day. You can also start a new recycling initiative in your home or office, donate to a green cause, or cut down on driving. All of these activities help to preserve the beauty of the Earth!
Arbor day should be spent with trees, of course.
The most traditional way to observe Arbor Day is to plant a tree, but maintenance is a great alternative if you don't think you can fit another tree into your current landscape. Trees need plenty of love and care to keep them looking their best, which is something that your friends over here at JFK Lawn and Landscape are more than happy to help with!
For over 13 years, Jason Kahler and his team at JFK Lawn & Landscaping have been providing outstanding landscaping services to homeowners and businesses throughout Howard County, and recently expanded to Montgomery County and Carroll County. Family owned and operated since 2004, JFK offers services including lawn maintenance, turf enhancement, general landscaping, gutter cleaning, and power washing, as well as snow removal services in the winter months. To learn more about what we do, check out our About Us page or our FAQ section.
If you have any questions or concerns about your lawn and landscaping needs, please feel free to give us a call at (410) 531-6208 or send us an email using our contact form.
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The Christmas season is surrounded by a feeling of joy and family traditions. However, the Christmas season has a much darker side. It results in tons of waste. One million tons a week, to be blunt. Everything from artificial trees, to inefficient lighted decorations, to gift wrap, to Christmas cards, and the plastic junk everyone got everyone else for Christmas all results in a huge carbon footprint.
So, in the spirit of the season of giving, why don't we give back to the planet that affords us so much? We are all stewards of this land we call home, we can all make a difference. Here are ideas for a more sustainable Christmas.
Yes, yes you can replant your Christmas tree. Artificial is not usually the way to go (except my friend Jess over here at the 104 Homestead does have a compelling argument as to why artificial may be better for you). Despite the fact that artificial trees are used for an average of 8 years, most people toss them. Unless you live in an area where you can recycle it (our local recycling does not accept artificial trees), or you try to donate it, it's going to wind up in a landfill, lasting forever. Also, a tree grown, even on a tree farm, helped produce oxygen the entire time it was here. The carbon footprint is not near as large as an artificial tree manufactured with petroleum products overseas. So, buy a real tree and replant it when you're finished. Stay tuned for how to do that….
Christmas cards are nice. It's pleasant to see a festive card in the mailbox instead of a bill, I'll admit. There are over 2.5 billion Christmas cards sold in the United States alone every season. That's a lot of paper which accounts for a lot of trees. Think about what you do with your Christmas cards after the season is over…. Only send out a few important ones instead of everyone in your address book. When you're finished displaying yours after the season is over, be sure to use the tutorial above to make some Christmas boxes!
I'm not saying don't go see your family across the country for the holiday. I'm saying, decrease the amount of traveling you do. Opt for a more simple Christmas and stay at home. Go to the important events that you don't want to miss and stay out of the shopping malls. Which brings me to another point….
We all indulge in the convenience of packaged goods now and again, even the most foodie person of us all. We'd be lying if we said we didn't. However, when making your holiday goodies and meals, try to source local and organic ingredients. Use things you have preserved yourself when possible and go from there. Amazingly, you can usually source local ingredients year-round for a large portion of your holiday cooking. This reduces your footprint (less shipping travel), supports local, small, farmers, supports the local economy and organic is better for you and the environment!
If you've got the means to raise your own hog or turkey and cure your own holiday ham, go for it, seriously! We don't (yet), so our Christmas meal will be made using not only local, organic ingredients, but a local, pasture raised, cured ham as well. While it's important to know where your food comes from, I believe this is especially true of your meat. I feel a lot better knowing that the ham on my table came from a well treated, healthy, happy hog.
Gone are the days we use candles to light up our trees (thankfully). A little tidbit of information, it was 1882 that the first electrically illuminated Christmas tree was displayed. Wow! Anyway, also gone are the days of expensive, power sucking miniature lights. While led bulbs to cost a bit more to invest in, they'll use so much less power and they'll last a lot longer than traditional bulbs. So, use some leds on your Christmas tree and for your other lit decorations.
Contrary to what my kids seem to think, you don't need to leave your Christmas lights (or little used appliances) plugged in all hours of the day. We light our tree for about 4 hours a day, maximum. The lights go on at dark and go off at bed time. The only day this isn't true is Christmas eve where we will leave the tree lit overnight.
As for appliances, don't leave things you're not using plugged in. There is such a thing as drawing power even though the appliance is turned off. If you're leaving for a weekend or longer trip, unplug even things you use on the daily (except for the obvious, like your refrigerator).
It's cold outside (well, it's supposed to be, though it seems to be chickening out) and of course we don't want it cold inside. That doesn't mean it needs to be a sauna. Turn down your thermostat even a degree and save some fuel (be it electricity or actual fuel) and in turn save some money. It's better for the environment and your pocket book will sing hallelujah.
Leaving on a weekend or longer trip? Turn it down even further! No since keeping a toasty warm, empty house 🙂.
Jar Candles from Deer Fat – Live the Old Way note: you could use any fat.
Billions of pounds of food are wasted each year in the world. Billions! You can help decrease this by composting some of that food waste. You can compost your fruits and vegetables along with your Christmas tree as far as everything is concerned. So, what better time than now to start a compost pile to feed your garden?!
This should go for more than just Christmas, but we can start here. When you go out shopping, take reusable bags with you. No need for all of those plastic bags. Reduce waste and your footprint by using reusable, cloth shopping bags.
It's not about accumulating more. It's about spending time with your loved ones. Enjoying the traditions and the memories made. Drop the hustle and bustle, slow down, and enjoy the moment. That in and of itself will help you have a more sustainable Christmas.
These are just the tip of the iceberg on ways that you can make your Christmas more sustainable. Also, it doesn't just stop with the holidays, you can live this way all the time!
How do you keep your Christmas season sustainable? Share below!
hung in it for wildlife & birds.
My grandparents saved wrapping paper each year & stuck it between couch cushions.
I always unplug everything except the fridge & freezer, it's made a difference in the hydro bill.
Food doesn't go on landfill from our house…keep onion skins and aging bits of veg in old ice cream tub in freezer and make veggie stock once filled, veggie scraps go to worm bin then. Veggie peelings & scraps that are fresh get blended up and added to my pack of dogs food.(raw fed).


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Immigration activist reacts to Obama's announcement
January 30, 2013 By Brian Moon
The head of Milwaukee-based Voces de la Frontera was among those in Las Vegas when President Obama announced his immigration reform proposal Tuesday. Christine Neumann-Ortiz says there was a lot of energy at the event. She adds the president showed "a lot of leadership" but she was hoping for more details on the president's plan and how it stacks up with a bi-partisan Senate proposal released this week.
She says the path to citizenship in the senators' plan would give priority to those who've already applied for a visa. Other illegal immigrants would be on a probationary period but could qualify if they can verify an official employment record. Neumann-Ortiz says this disregards the immigrants who've been working in the informal sector such as day laborers and domestic workers.
Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, a long-time opponent of illegal immigration, chimes in on the Senate proposal. In a statement, the Republican lawmaker says, "Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters. We are a nation of laws, and I will evaluate any proposal through that matrix."
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Long Island Capital Alliance Announces Participants for Healthcare Capital Forum on January 22, 2016 Keynote Speaker: David L. Calone, President & CEO of Jove Equity Partners & Congressional Candidate2016-01-222018-10-18/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/lica-logo.jpgLong Island Capital Alliance/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/lica-logo.jpg200px200px
Melville, NY – January 13, 2016 – The Long Island Capital Alliance ("LICA"), Long Island's leading non-profit capital formation and business development organization, today announced the keynote speaker, presenting companies, investor panelists and remaining agenda for its Healthcare Capital Forum to be held on Friday, January 22, 2016. The capital forum will feature presentations by companies which have connections to the Long Island region and are building business around innovative medical device and process technologies that improve diagnostic and therapeutic efficacy, enhance patient comfort and reduce healthcare costs.
At the capital forum, five healthcare companies will present to an audience that will include venture capital firms, investment banks, private equity firms, and angel and high net worth investors. Each of the companies selected by LICA for presentation at the capital forum possesses unique medical innovations and intellectual properties with catalysts for growth. A panel of healthcare investment professionals will be on hand to review the presentations, offer their insights on the presenters' commercial viability and prospects for market success and provide expert commentary on investment conditions in the healthcare industry.
Healthcare Capital Forum on January 22, 2016 — Participants
David Calone, President & CEO, Jove Equity Partners: David L. Calone is the President and CEO of Jove Equity Partners, LLC, a private equity and venture capital firm which invests in the internet, software, digital media, real estate and health care industries. He created the LI Emerging Technologies Fund to help launch new technology companies that start in local research laboratories. Mr. Calone is also chairman of the Suffolk County Planning Commission. He is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School and has an economics degree from Princeton University. He is a candidate for Congress in the 1st District of New York.
Panel of Investors:
The following investment professionals will participate in the investor panel at the Healthcare Capital Forum:
David Weild IV, CEO, Weild & Co: Mr. Weild is the founder and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Weild & Co., a technology-driven capital facilitation platform and of its broker-dealer subsidiary. Mr. Weild is a recognized expert on capital formation and capital markets. He has co-authored a number of definitive white papers, studies and articles which have been cited by legislators, regulators, academics, the IPO Task Force, the Equity Capital Formation Task Force and the White House Jobs Council and is widely considered to be the father of the JOBS Act, which has rejuvenated the micro-cap public market.
He also has served as:
Vice Chairman, Executive Vice President and Head of Listed Companies, and a member of the Executive Committee of The Nasdaq Stock Market.
Vice President and Equity Syndicate Manager, Managing Director and Head of the Global Equity Transaction Groups at Prudential Securities Inc., as well as Managing Director and Head of Corporate Finance and President of PrudentialFinancial.com and PrudentialSecurities.com.
Senior Advisor Capital Markets at Thornton LLP, a leading public accounting firm.
Lishan Aklog, M.D., Chairman & CEO, PavMed: Dr. Aklog has been recognized for his distinguished career as an academic cardiac surgeon and innovator as a medical device entrepreneur. He is Co-Managing Partner of HCFP, a financial advisory and investment firm and a co-founding Partner of Pavilion Holdings Group (PHG) , a medical device holding company and Pavilion Medical Innovations, a venture-backed medical device incubator. Dr. Aklog has been recognized as one of America's Top Doctors in the Castle Connolly Guide. Dr. Aklog received his M.D., cum laude, from Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Aklog previously served as:
Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Vortex Medical Inc., a PHG portfolio company, until its acquisition by AngioDynamics Inc. (Nasdaq: ANGO) for $55 million
Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery and Chair of The Cardiovascular Center at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center's Heart and Lung Institute in Phoenix, Arizona
Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York
Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School
Director of the Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory and an attending cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
Joshua R. Lamstein, Partner, KEC Ventures: Mr. Lamstein has broad experience in private equity, venture capital, and investing in and managing early stage ventures, including the public healthcare market. Mr. Lamstein is a Partner in KEC Ventures and is a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of HCFP, a financial advisory and investment firm.
He also:
Is a director of Penske Media Group, a global media company, as a designee of Quadrangle Group, a private equity firm
Co-founded Soli, a global mobile marketing company, and served as its Chief Operating Officer until its acquisition in November 2012 by Acision Nederland B.V., a leading SMS provider to the world's largest telecommunication companies
Was a founding member of GF Capital Private Equity Fund and served as a Director and a Managing Director
Worked at Apollo Advisers, a global private equity firm
Harvey Brofman, Investor: Mr. Brofman is a seasoned professional and entrepreneur in healthcare informatics, transaction processing, relationship marketing and healthcare IT. He has been a pioneer in the development and adoption of new systems technology in the medical, pharmacy, pharmaceutical and pay or components of the healthcare industry. His specialties include IT systems development and integration, User Interface and User Experience focused multi-point, and multi- touch integrated solutions combining on and off-line tactical strategies.
He also served as:
President, Nine 4-Bit Slices, a company that owns and invests in companies in various markets with particular interest in healthcare, marketing, analytics, web, mobile applications and alternative energy
President, Integrated Tactics
Vice President & Strategic Partner Development at Cegedim Relationship Management
President and Chief Executive Officer of OPUS Health LLC
Healthcare Presenting Companies:
Remote Medical Technologies: Real-time, high definition video collaboration and communication for pathologists, surgeons, and radiologists to make impactful time sensitive decisions.
Theragnostic Technologies: A next-generation MRI contrast agent uniquely safe for kidney patients with superior image quality, longest imaging time window, and novel nano-based multi-functionality.
Soteria: The developer of Oxxy/Gen, the world's first affordable, oxygen generating, personal escape respirator.
High Pressure Processing: A natural alternative using pressurized water to purify a wide range of food products compatible with consumer demands for natural, fresh, safe and ready to eat foods and beverages.
Neural Tourniquet: An innovative procedure to apply electrical stimulation to the vagus nerve to reduce bleeding during surgery.
LICA is hosting the Healthcare Capital Forum on Friday, January 22, 2015 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at 68 South Service Road, Melville, NY, 11747. The capital forum provides an opportunity to meet capital providers, entrepreneurs, industry executives and businesses seeking capital, as well as to hear a panel of industry experts discuss financing alternatives for emerging medical technology, life science and medical device companies.
About Long Island Capital Alliance
Since 1984, the Long Island Capital Alliance (www.licapital.org), formerly known as Long Island Venture Group, has been promoting business growth on Long Island. LICA seeks to create a productive and business-friendly environment that will afford area businesses access to the resources necessary to compete successfully in today's markets. LICA serves as a focal point for the exchange of ideas among new and existing business enterprises, successful entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers. Through quarterly capital forums and special meetings, LICA brings together members of the region's business community, and has been recognized as the place to turn to when small businesses need equity, debt, or other financing, or for investors to find an attractive investment opportunity.
LICA's mission is to encourage economic development on Long Island by facilitating capital formation for a broad range of companies in various industries, from early stage to mature, middle market, closely held and publicly-traded businesses. LICA accomplishes this primarily through education, networking, quarterly capital forums, periodic special educational meetings, and alliances with other regional organizations. LICA brings together members of the region's business community and serves as the finance arm for significant local business and organizations.
For more information on LICA and its next event, please contact LICA today or register online.
Jordan Darrow
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Long Island Capital Alliance
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