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Arvillard ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Savoie in der Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (vor 2016 Rhône-Alpes). Sie liegt im Arrondissement Chambéry und dem Kanton Montmélian (bis 2015 La Rochette).

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Arvillard liegt etwa 26 Kilometer südöstlich von Chambéry. Umgeben wird Arvillard von den Nachbargemeinden Valgelon-La Rochette und Presle im Norden, Saint-Rémy-de-Maurienne im Osten, La Chapelle-du-Bard im Süden sowie Détrier im Westen.

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Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Kartäuserkloster von Saint-Hugon, im 12. Jahrhundert gegründet, heute buddhistisches Zentrum Karma Ling
 Reste der Burg Arvillars

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It's Good Friday: Do You Know Where Your Sepulchres Are?
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The Unceremonious Junking Of Me is an album full of sweet sounding love songs and death ballads steeped in old world charm and the dark folk music of yesteryear. Recorded live to 1 ½ inch tape by Myles Mumford (Rolling Stock Recording Rooms) over three sessions in Ballarat's historical Main Bar, the album maintains a raw fragility reminiscent of evenings Hollick has spent singing on the porch of her country home. The accompaniment from Kat Mear (of Cash Savage and the Last Drinks) on fiddle and Pete Fidler (Bill Jackson, Bluestone Junction) on dobro and mandolin, sheds light on Hollicks inspirations drawn from Appalachian, cajun and early blues recordings.
Mastered by David Briggs (formerly of Little River Band).
Release date: 11th November 2016.


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No room for Joyce in championship panel
Bernie Ni Fhlatharta
Date Published: 03-May-2012
FRANK FARRAGHER
Galway have settled on a panel of 31 players for their Sunday, May 20, Connacht championship quarter-final joust against Roscommon in Hyde Park (4pm) – Killererin's Nicky Joyce is the most notable absentee from the panel confirmed last week.
The 29-years-old former St Jarlath's College player went through a chequered league campaign this season under Alan Mulholland's new management reign, getting an unexpected first game call-up against Derry in Celtic Park when Cormac Bane had to cry-off due to illness that morning.
Joyce went on to score five points in Galway's surprise 1-15 to 1-11 victory over Derry, sparking hopes that his prolific scoring power could be a major boost to the county's league and championship campaign in 2012.
However things did not run smoothly after that with indifferent displays against Louth and Westmeath, although Joyce did land a seven point tally in Galway's 1-12 to 1-11 league victory over Meath in Pearse Stadium.
Matters again came to a head in Galway's end of March league match against Monaghan in Longford when Nicky Joyce did not turn up at Pearse Park for the tie, again fuelling rumours that his tenure on the panel might be coming to an end.
That day, Alan Mulholland's side had turned in a great second half performance to record a 1-14 to 0-12 victory, a win that secured their Division 2 league status.
Galway then turned in another powerful second half display against Kildare before being caught in Pearse Stadium by a late penalty goal for the Lilywhites that forced a draw, denying the home side a place in the Division 2 league final. Nicky Joyce had to retire early in the second half due to injury in that game.
Last week, it emerged though that Joyce was not on the 31 man panel announced for the Roscommon match, on the basis of the Killererin clubman not being in a position to give the required commitment for the championship campaign, although management have stressed that the panel will remain open-ended through the season.
On the good news front, the return of Caltra's Michael Meehan (27) to the panel is a great boost. By all account he made a good impression when Galway defeated Laois – quite convincingly – in Ballinasloe last Friday evening.
For more, read this week's Galway City Tribune.
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The way we were – Protecting archives of our past
Judy Murphy
People's living conditions less than 100 years ago were frightening. We have come a long way. We talk about water charges today, but back then the local District Councils were erecting pumps for local communities and the lovely town of Mountbellew, according to Council minutes, had open sewers," says Galway County Council archivist Patria McWalter.
Patria believes we "need to take pride in our history, and we should take the same pride in our historical records as we do in our built heritage". When you see the wealth of material in her care, this belief makes sense.
She is in charge of caring for the rich collection of administrative records owned by Galway County Council and says "these records are as much part of our history as the Rock of Cashel is. They document our lives and our ancestors' lives. And nobody can plan for the future unless you learn from the past, what worked and what didn't".
Archivists and librarians are often unfairly regarded as being dry, academic types, but that's certainly not true of Patria. Her enthusiasm is infectious as she turns the pages of several minute books from Galway's Rural District Councils, all of them at least 100 years old.
Part of her role involved cataloguing all the records of the Councils – Ballinasloe, Clifden, Galway, Gort, Loughrea, Mountbellew, Portumna and Tuam. These records mostly consisted of minutes of various meetings.
When she was cataloguing them she realised their worth to local historians and researchers, so she decided to compile a guide to their content. The result is For the Record: The Archives of Galway's Rural District Councils, which will be a valuable asset to anybody with an interest in history.
Many representatives on these Councils were local personalities and several were arrested during the political upheaval of the era, she explains.
And, ushering in a new era in history, women were allowed to sit on these Rural District Councils – at the time they were not allowed to sit on County Councils.
All of this information is included in Patria's introductory essay to the attractively produced A4 size guide, which gives a glimpse into how these Rural Councils operated and the way political thinking changed in Ireland during a short 26-year period. In the early 1900s, these Councils supported Home Rule, but by 1920, they were calling for full independence and refusing to recognise the British administration.
"I love the tone," says Patria of the minutes from meetings. "The language was very emotive."
That was certainly true of the Gort Rural District Council. At a meeting in 1907, following riots in Dublin at the premiere of JM Synge's play, The Playboy of the Western World the councillors' response was vehement. They recorded their decision to "protest most emphatically against the libellous comedy, The Playboy of the Western World, that was belched forth during the past week in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, under the fostering care of Lady Gregory and Mr Yeats. We congratulate the good people of Dublin in howling down the gross buffoonery and immoral suggestions that are scattered throughout this scandalous performance.
For more from the archives see this week's Tribunes here
Real Galway flavour to intermediate club hurling battle in Birr
Date Published: 23-Jan-2013
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Athenry fail to take chances as they bow out of Junior Cup
Athenry FC 1
Kilbarrack United 2
(After extra time)
For the second year in succession Athenry were done in extra time in the FAI Junior Cup as last season's beaten finalist's came from behind to snatch an excellent game in Moanbawn on Sunday afternoon.
On a heavy pitch that was only playable following extensive groundwork by club officials all morning, the home side were by far the better side in the opening half, but failed to take advantage of a number of opportunities that came their way.
An Alan O'Donovan penalty gave them a merited advantage just after the restart, but thereafter were on the back foot as Kilbarrack took over, but for all their pressing, the home rearguard were dealing comfortably with their forays.
However they were struck a body blow just six minutes from time, as big striker Keith Kirwan was left all alone at the far post to head the equaliser and from that point on the Dubliners were the better side.
They started off the extra time in the ascendancy and enjoying all the momentum before striking for a good winning goal on 104 minutes. A strong bench allowed them to make some necessary changes and it was not a facility that was available to Athenry manager Gabriel Glavin.
With Gary Forde and Gary Delaney out through suspension following their sending off against OLBC in the previous round, and Seamie Crowe injured, it left their bench rather threadbare with just a number of young squad players available.
Playing with the aid of the slight incline and any wind advantage going, the home side had a Connor Cannon effort on target in the opening minute, while John Meleady was just over with a flick at the other end.
Meleady then tested Andrew Walsh who saved comfortably, before the goalkeeper pulled off a brilliant double save on 14 minutes.
Firstly he went full length to push away a Meleady shot and was then back on his feet to parry David Jackson's close-range rebound.
For more, read this week's Connacht Sentinel.

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13 May 2019 / SF News / Joe Kukura
Massive 5M Office and Condo Project Set To Begin Construction In SoMa
The humongously ambitious 5M development, named for its Fifth and Mission locale, promises an "urban melting pot of new cafes, eateries, and galleries" — but you're more likely to notice the big, shiny 450-foot condo spire and the hulking collection of new office buildings.
If you've ever drank at the Tempest, you know a little alley called Natoma Street that certainly has its charms, but is not the most glamorous section of town. It's about to get a very dramatic facelift that will apply to seven parking lots and eight buildings, covering a span of more than five whole blocks. The San Francisco Business Times reports that the enormous 5M condo, office space, retail, and public park complex will break ground this summer as current developer Brookfield Properties finally has all its permits in place and lawsuits settled.
Image: Brookfield Properties
A very exciting 22,000 square-foot rooftop park atop the soon-to-be-renovated Chronicle building is hyped as one one of the crown jewels of this project, but passersby are certainly more likely to notice the gigantic high-rise condominiums and office buildings. The staggering scope of the 5M project is pretty well explained by this illustration from Sitelab Urban Studio, and you'll see that the condo and office space complexes tower over anything else in the neighborhood.
The origins of this megaproject go back to 2007, when the Hearst Corporation (which owns the Chronicle) started exploring plans to redevelop not only the Chronicle building, but also four acres of mostly parking lots and run-down buildings around Mission and Howard Streets. The plans were formally introduced in 2014, with admittedly rather handsome architecture, but it quickly drew the ire of affordable housing advocates and then-supervisor Jane Kim, who charged the development would gentrify and "accelerate speculation" and possibly displace the many SROs in the neighborhood. Community groups filed appeals, but Sup. Kim eventually endorsed 5M when developer Forest City promised to make the project 40% affordable housing, and the Board of Supervisors gave it the thumbs up in late 2015 with that concession.
You'd think that would have settled things, but people, this is San Francisco. Critics charged that none of this 40% affordable housing was actually on-site, it was just a payoff to the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation to build units that they were already building (Current plans call for 58 "affordable" units in one of the smaller new buildings). A coalition of neighborhood groups sued the city to block the project in early 2016, successfully delaying (but not derailing) 5M for three and a half years. In that time, one of the vacant buildings caught fire to further complicate the project.
But the neighborhood activists' appeal was ultimately denied, as the Chronicle reported in March, after a panel of judges gave 5M its (presumably) final approval. During these proceedings, Hearst Corp. sold many of the buildings to Forest City. Then Forest City was bought up by Brookfield Asset Management, so the developer is now "Brookfield Properties," still an out-of-town real estate giant but one whose South of Market jackpot looks ready to finally materialize.
There are nearly 700 units of housing here, and the distribution of market-rate and affordable units is pretty complicated. "The project is approved for 400 market-rate condos, 211 market-rate rental apartments and 91 units targeting middle-income households earning between 100 percent and 150 percent of area median income," the Business Times reports. "In addition to the 91 on-site affordable middle-income units, 83 units of senior housing are being built on the same block. Another 71 units of family housing, including 19 units for formerly homeless families, are being funded a few blocks from 5M at 168 Eddy St. as part of a project by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp."
The 5M project's official website makes the whole thing look like an "artist and maker" playground where predominantly people of color will enjoy "vibrant" food truck parties and all manner of cultural events. And yes, Brookfield Properties is shelling out a half million bucks to the SF Arts Commission and to adjacent renovation or restoration projects. But they certainly downplay the obvious fact that this is a colossal condominium and office complex, and that's how this billion-dollar project plans to make its developers even more insanely wealthy.
Still, there was a whole lot of give-and-take as this thing inched through its years-long approval process, and the city won a very large number of generous developer concessions. If the pretty renderings you saw throughout this post end up resembling reality, this will be a spectacular upgrade to an underused, eyesore slice of downtown. It's tempting to think that the system actually worked this time. But San Franciscans with good memories know that even the most fabulous developments have curious ways of sinking and tilting, developing cracked beams, or just not being everything they were cracked up to be.
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The new replacement restaurant in the former Chow space, called Cook Shoppe, and the new steakhouse in the former Beso space, Blind Butcher, are both open as of this past weekend.


Hello trader's here's the weekly market news recap. Have a great weekend and wishing you all a Happy Holidays !
Global stock markets extended a sharp selloff on Friday, with Japan's Nikkei hitting its lowest since mid-September 2017, as worries over global economic growth and imminent shutdown of the US government continued to affect risk appetite.
Dow futures were down 0.42%, while S&P 500 futures fell 0.44% and the Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 0.51%. European shares were also in the red.
The dollar edged lower at the start of the week as sentiment in financial markets remained weak on growing concerns over political uncertainty in the US.
The US dollar index stood at $96.20, dropping 0.25% against a basket of six major currencies.
Japanese government bond yields plunged to multi-month lows on Tuesday as US political instability hit global financial markets, resulting in the worst day for Tokyo stock prices in more than two years.
As risk-off dominates, the benchmark 10-year JGB yield dropped to zero percent for the first time since September 2017, before recovering later in the session to trade down at 0.010%.
US Treasury yields continued to descend on Wednesday as developments in Washington further raised investors' worry over a slowing global economy.
The 10-year note stood at 2.73% to mark its lowest since early February, while the 2-year bond yield hit a five-month low of 2.58%.
China's industrial profits marked its first decline since December 2015, as weakening external and domestic demand left businesses with more pressure to deal with by next year in a sign of growing risks to the world's second biggest economy.
Earnings at the China's industrial firms dropped 1.8% in November from 2017 to 594.8 billion yuan or $86.33 billion, the National Bureau of Statistics reported on Thursday.


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import org.apache.spark.SparkContext;
import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
import org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame;
import org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext;

import java.util.Map;

public interface InputHandler {
  DataFrame open(String inputName, JavaSparkContext sc, Map<String, String> properties);
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Q: Keras (tensorflow backend) getting "TypeError: unhashable type: 'Dimension'" Hi I get a dimension error when fitting this model, would anyone know why?
num_classes = 11
input_shape = (64,64,1)
batch_size = 128
epochs = 12
X_train = tf.reshape(X_train, [-1, 64, 64, 1])
X_test = tf.reshape(X_test, [-1, 64, 64, 1])

model = Sequential()
model.add(Conv2D(32, kernel_size=(3,3), strides=1, activation='relu', input_shape=input_shape))
model.add(Flatten())
model.add(Dense(128, activation='relu'))
model.add(Dense(num_classes, activation='softmax'))

model.compile(loss=keras.losses.categorical_crossentropy,
          optimizer=keras.optimizers.Adadelta(),
          metrics=['accuracy'])

model.fit(X_train, y_train,
      batch_size=batch_size,
      epochs=epochs,
      verbose=1,
      validation_data=(X_test, y_test))

The dimension of each variable is
X_train = (27367, 64, 64, 1)
X_test = (4553, 64, 64, 1)
y_train = (164202, 11)
y_test = (27318, 11)

A: This is because you are using tf.reshape, which returns a Tensor, and the fit method of Keras models don't work well with tensors.
Consider using np.reshape instead, which will do the exact same thing.

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Q: Updating Varchar Field So That Number Within Field is to 3 Decimal Places This is a fairly odd question... I believe it would involve some sort of regex with MySQL.
Say I have a query on a table as such below:
    >select description from foo;
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  Kitten, 3 in., Lightsaber
  Mouse, 5.5 in., Luke Skywalker
  Dog, 9.000 in., Death Star

Is there a way to update foo such that the "inches" (in.) portions are to three decimal places.
i.e. After the update:
    >select description from foo;
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 |   description                    |
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  Kitten, 3.000 in., Lightsaber
  Mouse, 5.500 in., Luke Skywalker
  Dog, 9.000 in., Death Star

Any advice/guidance is greatly appreciated! Thanks.

A: According to the documentation, that's not possible in a SELECT command.
REGEXP only tells you if it's a match or not; it does not provide match indexes or substitution.
You should export the data to a flat text file, treat it with your favorite Regex enable text editor and re-apply the data to a brand new data structure. Seriously, you have to change your DB design.
Update
After further investigation, it seems like my answer should be: it's not possible out of the box.
Check this topic: How to do a regular expression replace in MySQL? You can do that via SQL through UDF.


The area just within the city wall – the Great Wall Road – is kept clear of buildings. In times of siege, or when the monsters of the wild lands press close, that broad space is used to muster and drill troops, to rush supplies and reserves to wherever they are needed, to hold the livestock that will be butchered to help feed the city, to stockpile supplies, to rally the militia, and to watch for signs of sappers. It's where the priests set up to bless the walls and heal the defenders, where sentinels watch for infiltrators, and where – on rare occasions when dark powers are abroad – the mages and priests work to reinforce the wards and protect the entire city. Buildings too near the the wall would interfere with all of this, and would be a hindrance and fire hazard in times of war – easy to ignite from the outside, and thus a peril to the wall and it's defenders. There are an assortment of wells near the wall and pools by the buildings within, which serve to supply water and firebreaks for fighting fires, to add a margin of safety against incendiary missiles, and to farm fish – in addition to being decorative and providing relatively safe places for children to splash about.
The Town Wall has proved it's worth many times. It helps to keep monsters, and bandits, and hordes of orcs, and similar hazards at bay, serves as an anchor for the cities wards, and provides sheltered yet elevated posts for sentinels. The Wall Road, (or Wall Street), is an important part of the Town Wall. It's maintenance is a military matter; you can't build there.
That doesn't mean that you can't hold fairs and markets and put up tents. You can even put up rather long-term tents arranged in sprawling communities. You just have to be ready to fold them up and get out of the way when one of the periodic drills is held. Those sprawling communities of tents are home to many of the cities poor – and when they're knocked down, or a fire breaks out, or there's a sudden monster attack, or any of a dozen other disasters happen, they are swept away – only to rise again as soon as it's relatively safe.
These are the Tumbledowns – a bustling circular market/slum/tent carnival filled with colorful tents (the merchants pay apprentice mages a few coins to pass through the area and cast coloring cantrips on the drabber ones; it helps keep the customers enthused), outdoor games, very junior craftsmen and merchants manning their booths, the cheapest of mystical services, prostitutes, and even more dubious services, stray children, salesmen hawking their wares, the farmers markets (patronized by the poor seeking the cheapest of overage foodstuffs and by the servants of the rich, seeking the freshest), lines of washing, pushcart-vendors, day-laborers looking for work, and the most petty of petty thieves. The occasional larger events, such as traveling entertainers, gypsy caravans, visiting religious preachers, magical duels, and so on, may either clear a space or – for a modest payment to the city and as long as they are strictly temporary – briefly use one of the practice grounds the city keeps clear to train the militia in. Inevitably, the area is hazy with dust and smoke when it isn't muddy.
Evading pursuit is easy enough in the Tumbledowns – but evading notice and recognition is very hard indeed; few keep as sharp an eye on their possessions and possible threats to them as those who have very little. It's always easy to wave over an urchin child and give him or her (it's often hard to tell the difference) a half-copper to guard your wares, run errands, keep an eye on someone, get a recitation of all the local rumors and news, carry your packages, or locate the less legal (and more mobile) services. Working for farmers at the markets is especially popular with the kids; the farmers often pay with a really good country meal – plentiful, and sometimes with a bit of actual meat in it – instead of with hard-to-come-by coin.
While the troops stationed along the wall will intervene in major disturbances, really petty thievery and cheating – a bit of short measure, a thumb on the scales, or shortchanging some rich adventurer – is rife in the Tumbledowns. Still, anything much more than that attracts too much notice eventually, usually resulting in a few more gruesome executions, public punishments, or slave-sales beside the western gate.
The Tumbledowns do NOT host the great fairs – the major mercantile gatherings which bring in so much of the towns money in fees and taxes (and thus are tightly controlled, regulated, and taxed). Most of those are held in the fields beyond the gates, although the most expensive goods and biggest deals are often handled in small private meetings in the more expensive inns without anything so crass as actual goods or money ever putting in an appearance.


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Matthews Preparing Senate Run?
Updated Apr. 25, 2017 4:38PM ET / Published Dec. 04, 2008 8:42AM ET
Is Chris Matthews preparing to run for the Pennsylvania senate seat vacated by Arlen Specter, or is he just jockeying for a better salary? Politico reports that Matthews has, according to one associate, already chosen a home in Philadelphia in order to establish residency. Matthews's $5 million annual MSNBC contract doesn't expire until June, but has been advised that, if he is serious about pursuing his "boyhood dream," then he should step down from the network immediately as to protect it from charges of bias. Some, however, think he is simply trying to get the network to up its ante when it comes to renewing his contract. "He's trying to show, 'I have this alternative opportunity,'" said a friend.
Read it at Politico


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Just as the French took Melon De Bourgogne and created something great out of it in the guise of Muscadet, so to is Sicily doing the same with Catarratto. Once known for blending, this grape has finally found its place on you palate. Tenute Regaleali lets this wine sit on the lees for 4 months in stainless steel tanks to bring depth and balance to the wine. The result is a great, simple summer sipper with mineral-driven notes of candied grapefruit and citrus. If it is a day for sipping seaside, this is your wine.


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1989 Porsche 911 Speedster
Stunning 100% original, two Southern California owner 1989 Porsche 911 Speedster with a mere 3,767 original miles and finished in Grand Prix White over Cashmere Beige leather with factory color matched Grand Prix White Fuchs wheels.
A dedicated website for this Speedster can be found at:
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Offered for sale for the first time in nearly 27 years is a stunning 100% original, two Southern California owner 1989 Porsche 911 Speedster with a mere 3,767 original miles and finished in Grand Prix White over Cashmere Beige leather with factory color matched Grand Prix White Fuchs wheels. One of 2,104 Speedsters produced, 823 of which were built for the US market, this remarkable example was originally ordered through Max Dial Porsche of Inglewood, CA by Cabiglio, S.p.A. of Signal Hill, CA, the firm owned by Southern California Porsche authority and broker Sam Cabiglio. If you were a celebrity or high profile collector in search of a Porsche in the greater Los Angeles area during the 1980s and 90s, Sam Cabiglio is who you'd turn to for sourcing the best possible example, and in later years he become well known as Jerry Seinfeld's advisor and collection manager.
Cabiglio S.p.A. sold the Speedster to a Mr. James Franklin of Long Beach, CA for $80k (total $86,850) on 7/18/90 with 48 miles on the odometer. Mr. Franklin enjoyed the car for the next 20 months and +/-2,200 miles before it was acquired on 3/11/92 by its current owner, a doctor and collector from Santa Barbara, CA. The car joined the doctor's tasteful collection, sharing a garage with a Porsche 930 and 928, one of the first Beck 550 Spyders, a Lamborghini Miura, DeTomaso Mangusta, Ferrari Testarossa, Acura NSX, etc., etc. The doctor would drive the car sparingly – 1,483 miles to be exact – between 1992 and 2013, at which point health issues caused it to put away in storage. Now being offered on behalf of the second owner's trust, the Speedster was recently mechanically gone through and sorted by well-known local Porsche specialist Schneider Autohaus following its +/-6 years of storage, and is now ready to be enjoyed by its next owner.
Remaining 100% original and having been in the care of two fastidious owners for the past three decades, the Speedster is in predictably exceptional condition. The factory original Grand Prix White finish is gorgeous, marred only by a handful of exceedingly minor imperfections (detailed below and in the photo gallery), cloaking an entirely straight body that's never been involved in any accidents whatsoever, retaining factory consistent panel fits and gaps. All of the original glass, trim and rubber are in excellent condition, as are the color-matched Fuchs wheels, wrapped in brand new Pirelli P-Zero Rosso tires. The car's undercarriage is free of any damage or rust, retaining much of its original cosmoline.
The car's interior is equally as clean, the original Cashmere leather seats, carpets and interior panels are effectively in showroom condition. The dash is free of any cracks or warping, as are the door pockets/armrests. Sheepskins were fitted on the seats in the 1990s for preservation, so there are soft depressions in the leather caused by the covers' elastic that will recede with time. The original Blaupunkt Charleston radio functions as intended, as do all electronics and gauges. The climate control system is fully functional, however the A/C does not blow cold. The original soft top is free of any noticeable wear, retaining a clear plastic rear window.
The inspection performed by Schneider Autohaus references scuffs on the left rear fender and front bumper cover, however those issues were entirely superficial and polished out during detailing. The car's only minor cosmetic imperfections are documented in the photo gallery and are as follows:
Tiny rock chip in the hood, below the badge to the left.
Soft depression and hairline crack in the finish on the rear decklid.
Wear marks on the left and right corners of the rear decklid's third brake light (likely caused by a tight car cover).
Small wear mark on the top corner of the driver side rear fender where the soft top meets the body (the adjacent black mark is glue from the seal that must have seeped during factory installation).
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This article concerns the term "general jurisdiction" as used in reference to subject matter jurisdiction. For information on the use of the term in reference to personal jurisdiction, see personal jurisdiction.
A court of general jurisdiction is one that has the authority to hear cases of all kinds - criminal, civil, family, probate, and so forth.
Courts of general jurisdiction in the United States
All federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. Many U.S. States have divided their courts between criminal and civil, with some making further divisions, assigning probate, family law, and juvenile cases, for example, to specialized courts.
General jurisdiction and judicial immunity
One significant effect of the classification of a court is the liability that a judge from that court might face for stepping beyond the bounds of that court. Judges are able to claim judicial immunity for acts that are not completely beyond their jurisdiction. For example, if a probate judge were to sentence a person to jail, that judge would not have immunity and could be sued because a probate judge has no jurisdiction to effect a criminal sentence. However, a judge in a court of general jurisdiction who happened to be overseeing a probate case would be immune from suit for sending a party to jail, because handing down a criminal sentence is not completely beyond the jurisdiction of such a judge.
In the United States, this principle was established by the Supreme Court in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349 (1978). The Court found in that case that an Indiana judge was immune from a suit brought by a young woman whom the judge had ordered to be sterilized, at the behest of the woman's mother. Because the Indiana court was a court of general jurisdiction, and no law of Indiana expressly prohibited the judge from issuing such an order, the Supreme Court found that the order was not completely beyond the jurisdiction of that judge.
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Grant Toch, one of the six candidates running for Great Neck Public Schools (GNPS) Board of Education trustee on May 16 has pulled out of the race.
Another candidate, Michael Golden, withdrew on Thursday, April 27. Toch withdrew today, Friday, April 28.
Both candidates were running for the board seat currently held by Lawrence Gross, who is not seeking reelection. The remaining candidates for the seat are Nikolas Kron and Jeffrey Shi.
Rebecca Sassouni and Ilya Aronovich are running for the other open seat, currently held by Susan Healy, who is not seeking reelection.
In accordance with New York State Education Law 2018, the Board of Education is now required to reopen the end-date for the filing of nominating petitions until Tuesday, May 9, at 5 p.m. Petitions may be picked up from the Office of the District Clerk at 345 Lakeville Rd., on school days, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The lottery for ballot position for Gross's seat will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 10, in the Office of the District Clerk.
The Board of Education trustee election will be held from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Tuesday, May 16. Qualified district residents who live north of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) can vote at the Baker School, located at 69 Baker Hill Rd. Residents who live south of the LIRR may vote at South High School, 341 Lakeville Rd. For voter registration and absentee ballot information, call the office of the district clerk at 516-441-4020.
Read "And The School Board Trustee Nominees Are…," and more about Sassouni, Kron, Shi, Golden, Toch and Aronovich.
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Does a grand exterior make up for a degenerate organization?
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If you're a Catholic, I'm telling you right now you are not going to like this article. I apologize. But if you are a Catholic, I have to ask: Why?
The middle of last year, the Irish government's commission investigating charges of abuse in Catholic institutions – keeping in mind that, for most of the last century, "Catholic institutions" meant not just the church on the corner, but most of the school system – concluded that there was "a substantial level of sexual abuse of boys in care that extended over a range from improper touching and fondling to rape with violence. Perpetrators of abuse were able to operate undetected for long periods at the core of institutions. Cases of sexual abuse were managed with a view to minimising the risk of public disclosure and consequent damage to the institution and the Congregation. This policy resulted in the protection of the perpetrator. When lay people were discovered to have sexually abused, they were generally reported to the Gardai [the police]. When a member of a Congregation was found to be abusing, it was dealt with internally and was not reported to the Gardaí.
"The desire to protect the reputation of the Congregation and institution was paramount. The documents revealed that sexual abusers were often long-term offenders who repeatedly abused children wherever they were working. Contrary to the Congregations' claims that the recidivist nature of sexual offending was not understood, it is clear from the documented cases that they were aware of the propensity for abusers to re-abuse. The risk, however, was seen by the Congregations in terms of the potential for scandal and bad publicity should the abuse be disclosed. The danger to children was not taken into account. When confronted with evidence of sexual abuse, the response of the religious authorities was to transfer the offender to another location where, in many instances, he was free to abuse again."
In the wake of that report, four Irish archbishops have resigned. Last month it came out that the current cardinal of Ireland, Sean Brady, serving in 1975 as secretary to Bishop Francis McKiernan, was present at meetings where children signed confidentiality agreements concerning their abuse at the hands of a priest. So far, the Cardinal has resisted calls for his resignation.
Last week the Associated Press reported that there have been over 15,000 complaints of abuse in Ireland alone. Opening those floodgates has resulted in abuse charges beginning to come in from other European countries as well. There have been hundreds of complaints in the Netherlands. Germany, home of the current pope, is getting complaints as well, including some from the Regensburg Boys choir, long directed by the pope's brother.
According to Fergus O'Donoghue, editor of the Irish Jesuit journal Studies, "The pope was no different to any other bishop at the time. The church policy was to keep it all quiet — to help people, but to avoid scandal. Avoiding scandal was a huge issue for the church."
What he's referring to is the pope's previous job: For more than 20 years before he became the pope, Cardinal Ratzinger led the Vatican office that had responsibility, among other issues, for response to child abuse cases. An archbishop wrote letters to that office in 1996, calling for disciplinary proceedings against priest Lawrence Murphy. This has been confirmed by Church and Vatican documents. Murphy is believed to have molested some 200 boys at St John's School for the Deaf in St Francis, Wisconsin, between 1950 and 1974. While a canonical trial was initiated by Cardinal Ratzinger's secretary, it was ended by the future pope himself after his receipt of a letter from Murphy in which Murphy said he was ill and wanted to live out the remainder of his time in the "dignity of my priesthood".
One of the deaf victims, Arthur Budzinski, said through an interpreter: "Ratzinger can have all of the colonels and lieutenants they want fall on the sword for him, but eventually he has to 'fess up."
Meanwhile, The New York Times has recently reported that in 1980, when the pope was archbishop of Munich one of the priests under him, Peter Hullermann, was accused of child abuse. The priest spent a couple days in counseling, then was returned to a pastoral position. He was convicted of molesting boys in 1986.
If this all sounds a bit familiar, it's because it is. It's the same story that played out in the U.S. in 2002, which resulted in the resignation of Boston Archbishop Bernard Law.
Since this is all so familiar, I come back to my original question for Catholics… why are you still one?
When a business does something despicable, such as banks accepting bail-out money then turning around and giving multi-million dollar bonuses to their executives, we get irritated. (In fact, a grass roots movement has started recently to encourage all of us to 'vote with our wallets,' and take our business to other banks.) Can't you do the same thing with your religion? Yes you can, but few do.
Why not? People seem to equate "being Catholic" with being, I don't know, blonde, or Guatemalan or diabetic… as though it's something you're born with that can't be changed. But religion is not genetics. It's pretty easy to change, just write a letter to your former church and tell them to take you off their rolls, like you would do with the PTA if you disagreed with them. Why don't more people do that?
Mainly, fear. The PTA doesn't threaten you with eternal damnation if you leave. (At least, I don't think they do… I've never actually been a member of the PTA.)
The Church has been using scare tactics for centuries. The catholic – meaning universal – church is so named for a reason. It came into being in the fourth century when emperor Constantine was looking for a way to solidify his kingdom. For reasons that have become murky with time, he decided that Christianity was going to become the common denominator of his realm. But not the Christianity of the Bible. God forbid! After all, true Christians of that time had already proven they would rather be eaten by lions than burn a pinch of incense as an act of worship to the emperor. Instead, he invented a conglomerate religion to which everyone could bring their own beliefs, as long as they also brought their allegiance.
Your church believes that priests should wear funny hats? No problem, we'll have our Christian priests start wearing funny hats. Your church has a holiday on December 25th? Cool, we can do that. Your church believes in eternal torment in a burning hellfire? Great! We can use that to keep people in line.
I'm not making this up; Google 'origin of hellfire' sometime. The hellfire doctrine was adopted from ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, and Assyrian religions. It is not a biblical concept.
But since lay people were forbidden from reading their Bibles, they had no way to know this. The Catholic Council of Toulouse in 1229 decreed: "We forbid the laity to have in their possession any copy of the books of the Old and New Testaments." That decree was reaffirmed by Pope Pius IV in 1564, and by Pope Leo XIII in 1897. Even up to the 1960s Catholics were being discouraged from reading the Bible.
And understandably so. If Catholics were to read the Bible, they'd see Jesus referring to a dead man as "sleeping." (John 11:11) They might read Solomon's description of all of the dead as "unconscious" (Ecclesiastes 9:5) and begin to question how an unconscious, sleeping person could be tormented in hellfire. Worse, they might read Jesus' command not to call anyone "Father" (Matthew 23: 9) and stop respecting those filthy pedophiles, I mean priests. Worse still, they might even read the prophecy in 1 Timothy 4:3 in which it was foretold that in the last days an apostate church would forbid certain people to marry, and start to wonder why their own church forbid priests to marry.
If the church is condoning actions of which God disapproves, should that matter to you? Absolutely. There is such a thing as "community responsibility." We've all seen the corny bumper stickers that read, "Don't blame me, I voted for…" There is a certain underlying truth to that. If you voted for Nixon, for example, you share some responsibility for the pain inflicted on the country by Watergate. If you support the Catholic Church – with your funds, your attendance, or even by simply having your name on their rolls – you will ultimately bear some responsibility for the Church's actions. That's why you and I are told, in Revelation 18:4, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues."
Come out, come out wherever you are…
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God's justice is poetically on display in our Old Testament reading as we wrap up the Book of Esther. While we are made to wait for God's justice and our coming vindication let us remember that the Lord is faithful and will always right every wrong. In Acts 6 we read of the importance of the leaders of the church being committed to the word of God and prayer. We also see how important it is that all Christians faithfully serve in the role God has called them to and equipped them for.
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Esther 7-10
7:1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, "What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." 3 Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. 4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king." 5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has dared [1] to do this?" 6 And Esther said, "A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
Haman Is Hanged
7 And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king. 8 And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?" As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face. 9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, "Moreover, the gallows [2] that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman's house, fifty cubits [3] high." 10 And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
Esther Saves the Jews
8:1 On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. 2 And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
3 Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews. 4 When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, 5 Esther rose and stood before the king. And she said, "If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. 6 For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?" 7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, [4] because he intended to lay hands on the Jews. 8 But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked."
9 The king's scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language. 10 And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud, 11 saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods, 12 on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. 13 A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies. 14 So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king's command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.
15 Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown [5] and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced. 16 The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor. 17 And in every province and in every city, wherever the king's command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them.
The Jews Destroy Their Enemies
9:1 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them. 2 The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples. 3 All the officials of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and the royal agents also helped the Jews, for the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. 4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful. 5 The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them. 6 In Susa the citadel itself the Jews killed and destroyed 500 men, 7 and also killed Parshandatha and Dalphon and Aspatha 8 and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha 9 and Parmashta and Arisai and Aridai and Vaizatha, 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they laid no hand on the plunder.
11 That very day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was reported to the king. 12 And the king said to Queen Esther, "In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled." 13 And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows." [6] 14 So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged. 15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.
16 Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder. 17 This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness. 18 But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness. 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.
The Feast of Purim Inaugurated
20 And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, 21 obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year, 22 as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
23 So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them. 24 For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them. 25 But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. [7] 26 Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them, 27 the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year, 28 that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every clan, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.
29 Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew gave full written authority, confirming this second letter about Purim. 30 Letters were sent to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, in words of peace and truth, 31 that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther obligated them, and as they had obligated themselves and their offspring, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting. 32 The command of Queen Esther confirmed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded in writing.
The Greatness of Mordecai
10:1 King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea. 2 And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? 3 For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.
Seven Chosen to Serve
6:1 Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists [8] arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. 2 And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, "It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. 3 Therefore, brothers, [9] pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. 4 But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word." 5 And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. 6 These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.
7 And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
Stephen Is Seized
8 And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. 9 Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen. 10 But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. 11 Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God." 12 And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council, 13 and they set up false witnesses who said, "This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law, 14 for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us." 15 And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
[1] 7:5 Hebrew whose heart has filled him
[2] 7:9 Or stake; also verse 10
[3] 7:9 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
[4] 8:7 Or stake
[5] 8:15 Or headdress
[6] 9:13 Or stake
[7] 9:25 Or suspended on a stake
[8] 6:1 That is, Greek-speaking Jews
[9] 6:3 Or brothers and sisters
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Q: Is there always $B\subseteq A$ with $f(B)=B$? Let $f:A\rightarrow A$ be a function between finite sets. Is there always a non-empty subset $B\subseteq A$ with $f(B)=B$ ?
I think there is, but I am not sure how to prove it.

A: The sequence $A,f(A),f(f(A)),\ldots$ is decreasing, but it cannot decrease strictly for more than $|A|$ steps, so for some $n$, $f^n(A)=f^{n+1}(A)=f(f^n(A))$.

A: If you want $B\neq A$, then no: Let $A=\{1,2\}$ and $f(1)=2$, $f(2)=1$. More generally, a cyclic permutation of $A$ will work.

A: This seems to fall to strong induction. Suppose it is true for subsets of size $n$ or smaller.
Take $A$ of size $n$. If the function is bijective we are done (take $B=A$). Otherwise pick $x$ that is not in the image of $f$. Notice that the image of $f$ restricted to $A\setminus\{x\}$ is a subset of $A\setminus \{x\}$. So we apply the inductive hypothesis with the function $f$ restricted to $A\setminus \{x\}$ and find an appropriate "fixed" subset.


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Charlie Kaufman Talks Shop
By Stax
Updated: 17 Jun 2012 6:35 pm
Posted: 13 Mar 2002 8:00 am
In the latest issue of Creative Screenwriting, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich) discusses his craft and upcoming films, including Adaptation and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. The former project is in post-production and was directed by Spike Jonze with Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep starring; the latter project is now being filmed with co-star George Clooney making his feature film directing debut. Kaufman, known for his reticence in speaking to the press, opened up to the mag, telling them that as far as Dangerous Mind is concerned, he's "not really involved in that. I hear what's going on, but I'm not participating in it, so I don't have much to say about it."
Adaptation, on the other hand, is a project Kaufman discusses at great length. "Adaptation is an interesting thing because it's an extremely modular structure. The order is completely open. It isn't arbitrary. ... We're probably about two-thirds of the way through (editing the film) at this point, and we still have to shoot. So we'll see what kind of shape it takes."
Adaptation was supposed to have been a straightforward adaptation of the fact-based novel The Orchid Thief but instead Kaufman turned his script into the story of his problems adapting such a difficult book for the screen. "I didn't tell (Columbia Pictures) what I had in mind because I wasn't sure what I'd do when I took the job. And when I decided I wanted to take the material in this direction, I felt like I needed to write it before showing it to them. Because if I pitched it, I thought I'd be, you know, dismissed! ... (The book) seemed to be about something other than the usual stuff I get offered. So I took (the job). I kind of thought I would figure it out, and I guess this is how I figured it out. Or not. The reaction should be interesting."
Have you seen Adaptation.?
And how did the studio react when they read his radically re-imagined screenplay Adaptation? "They did like it. To my surprise. I really thought I was ending my career by turning that in!"
Adaptation will open sometime later this year while Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (finally) hits screens on December 27th, 2002.
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Adaptation.
The story of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his difficulties adapting a book called "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean.
Genres:Comedy, Drama, Other
Platforms:Theater, DVD
Producers:N/A
Distributors:Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia TriStar
Release Date:January 10, 2003
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Life goals are a must-have for everyone.
Recently I listened to an inspiring and wise man who said humans don't need life goals. That our existence is a goal on its own.
While I think we should be grateful for our existence; I also believe we need goals to propel us. We thrive on motivation, and having life goals gives us the motivation we need to keep getting out of bed every morning.
It's only when we make self-centered life goals that life becomes unfulfilling for most people.
So, what are the 5 qualities of the most fulfilling life goals?
Your life goals will fulfill you to the end of time if they are focused more on others and less on yourself.
It's much more fulfilling to have a life goal to help the needy than to have one where you want to own a house with ten bedrooms.
Nothing wrong with wanting to have goals that focus on nice materials things for yourself: a nice house, a lovely car etc.
But your goals will be much more fulfilling if you focus on life itself, and life is much larger than our material wants.
Setting goals to be happy, content, peaceful, patient, kindhearted is much more fulfilling than setting life goals to own several houses in the world's largest cities.
There's nothing wrong with good influence from others. But we face more bad than good influence in making our life goals.
You might feel pressured to set life goals that will make your loved ones happy, rather than give you fulfillment.
You might also be tempted to set life goals so you can keep up with the Joneses.
Read how to stop comparing yourself with others so you can set yourself free to make life goals free from the bad influence of others.
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Your loved ones should only be of good influence. Remind yourself why a simple healthy lifestyle requires healthy relationships.
Life goals that are dependent upon you having a certain amount of money won't carry you far.
Fulfilling goals should be goals you can implement right here right now, regardless of the weight of your pocket.
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Setting goals the right way can maintain our fulfillment to the end of time, making us live longer, and productively.
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Cllr Dave Mitchell asked to see what the front elevation would look like. Cllr Elderton stated that there was a nineteen person petition against the application. He asked if there was a ward councillor present? There wasn't.
Cllr Dave Mitchell asked about the raised elevation to the rear, which Cllr Elderton described as "quite dramatic". The officer said they had a sketch of the rear elevation. When this was shown to Cllr Dave Mitchell he said it was "sufficient for me not to like it". Cllr Salter said it would be about a hundred metres from the front, well inside the Mariner's area, not pronounced or on a corner. Cllr Stuart Kelly said it was a pity the petitioner had not met the threshold, he had a concern about the very open aspect. He had seen additional plans on the internet and felt it was "too big, intrusive and alien". He said it "looked horrible" and he was not "enamoured by the impact".
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Documentaries have always been a little dry because of their factual basis and more than a little depressing because of their social and political subject matter: war; poverty; disease. They have also been, for the most part, the arena of more left leaning ideas. Now Michael Moore, with a little help from Errol Morris, has done the unthinkable, he's made docs fun as well as intelligent. Webster's defines a document as "anything used as proof" and documentary as a film or TV program that "shows news events/social conditions in a dramatic story based mainly on facts." Along comes Moore who adds humor and irony to the genre, and poof, people are lining up to see documentaries. The problem is that as his work has become more popular, it has ceased to resemble a documentary and leaves the genre in danger of following the path of reality TV into entertainment over substance. That said, I was taken aback when I saw Michael Moore's FAHRENHEIT 9/11, and not because of Moore's and not because he reveals Bush to be a ninny in a power-suit with his finger on the button, but because one of our best political watchdogs and documentarians seems to imply that by replacing one man, we can end the vile international joke that US politics has become, and, with the exception of the Florida footage, he does it with tongue in cheek using facts that any savvy NPR listener has put together for themselves over the last four years.
The film that brought him into the public eye, ROGER AND ME is stunning in its philosophical questioning of how much social responsibility a large company owes it's workers. His Academy Award winning documentary, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, is also a high point in documentary history as Moore is able to capture the culpability of an entire town and by extension, US society, for the school shooting at Columbine. Perhaps Moore's attempt to go from local issues that become national, to national issues that are global that is the cause of his less than stellar turn in FAHRENHEIT 9/11. Moore distills the Iraq war, the 2000 election debacle and the US obsession with OPEC oil down to one man: George W. Bush and his misleading of the American people into the Iraq war by tricking them into believing that Iraq was at the root of 9/11. Is a politician manipulating the people's opinions unexpected? And more importantly, is it possible for one man to be responsible for such an act?
The manipulation of the public to get it to support war has a fine tradition in this country: World War I; Vietnam; the Gulf War. And while people who do not remember history are not necessarily doomed to repeat it, they should be able to explain, if only to themselves, that strange feeling of déjà vu when the sequel to the last bad war shows up at a theater near them. HIDDEN WARS OF THE DESERT is an excellent user friendly documentary that lays out the reasons for the continued American political interest in Iraq, in other words why we can't seem to stop bombing the life out of it. Painful in its narrative of American motivation, it shows how, in the last Gulf War, headed by Bush, Sr. the US administration told the American people that Iraq had to be invaded to defend Kuwait. What they didn't tell anyone, though you could find the information if you looked hard enough, was that Iraq had asked the US if they had a pact with Kuwait to protect it if Iraq invaded and the US administration said, no. Next, and this may sound familiar, the UN wanted to mediate the problem but the US said war was the only answer. The US Army proceeded to do operational training with just this scenario: what if Iraq invaded, say, oh, um, Kuwait? Why the deception and sacrifice of Kuwait? To show Saudi Arabia that Iraq troops were massing at its border so we could be the first country with a military base of operations in an OPEC country.
While Bush is evil in means and action, he is not a new breed of dog. He is also not the sole manipulator of our political motivation toward war, as Moore would have you believe. One of Bush's most important allies in the coalition in the battle for the support of the good US citizens for his war was the Fox Network, owned by Rupert Murdoch, who, by the way, owns: over 100 cable stations; over 100 radio stations; over 100 magazines; and the list goes on. One man, who thought that Reagan was a god, owns the main news source for millions of voters. He is against liberal thought, against Democrats, against same sex marriage and for Christianity, conservatism and George W. Bush. His CEO, Roger Ailes, is the former Media Strategist for the Reagan and both Bush administrations. Murdock is one of 5 men/companies that own ALL of the major news sources in the country. Think about that, there are 5 companies, all interested in turning a profit, (and who helps companies turn a profit better than the Republicans), that give the news on which millions base their opinions about the world. Moore completely ignores this source of support for Bush and instead focuses on comedic things like Bush's thin grasp of the English language, which is funny, but nowhere near as frightening as the exploitation and monopolization of unbiased news in our country. Moore goes for the easy horror: footage from 9/11.
In his amazing documentary OUTFOXED, Robert Greenwald chronicles the Fox Network's bold, unchallenged use of opinion tainted facts in order to support everything the Bush administration has done. In their simplest manipulations Fox puts catch phrases, like "the war in Iraq is going well", directly from the White House briefings into their broadcasts. Greenwald shows us at least 10 instances of "reporters" on Fox using the exact words given to them by briefings to report the "news." This is not news reporting, this is kissing ass and controlling public opinion. Their most subtle, at least for people who don't think for themselves, attempt to sway opinion against Bush's opposition in the coming election is the current, constant references to John Kerry and how he looks "very French" hoping to evoke the French hating craze of the previous year. Greenwald's is the documentary to watch if you want to understand the complex workings of the politics of the Bush administration's manipulation of Americans. Greenwald gives us a documentary that outlines the problem, and gives a laundry list of things people are doing to fight back, including buying low frequency radio stations so they can report local news in their area and play whatever music they like.
Yet another documentary that is in many ways better at documenting issues is last year's Academy Award winner for documentary, Errol Morris' THE FOG OF WAR, a discussion with Robert McNamara: Air Force strategist during WW I; CEO of Ford Motors; Secretary of Defense under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations; and finally president of the World Bank for many years. Morris has made some amazing docs: GATES OF HEAVEN, about the pet cemetery industry; THE THIN BLUE LINE, that actually helped get an innocent man off of death row; and MR. DEATH about an electric chair repair man who was a holocaust denier. In FOG OF WAR, McNamara discusses the real responsibilities of defending the US against a real threat, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the problems of running an unpopular and most likely immoral war like Vietnam. McNamara is a strong speaker in the twilight of his life and, having had time to reflect on the rights and wrongs of his actions, gives a brutally honest telling of how politics work when the president wants war and the people do not.
Where Greenwald gives us a damning chronicle of the Bush administration and its foot soldiers, and Morris give us food for thought about what goes into making difficult moral decisions when you are actually in charge of them, Moore gives us documentary-light. One comedic sketch after another about the Keystone Cop named George W. Bush. So Bush manipulated the public; so he is friendly with a foreign OPEC family for whom he does favors; so he wants to do anything to be reelected. He is a politician folks there is no mystery to his actions. Moore ignores that a conspiracy takes more than one person and makes Bush the boogie man of the hour and the simple act of making sure he does not get elected again a way to keep the monster out from under the bed. Make no mistake, removing Bush from office is an important goal for all voters, but it is not a catch all for solving the threat to democracy that allowed him to be elected. We're going to have to do more than show up at the polls for this mess to be cleaned up.


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Skylar Grey at Granada Theatre April 26
Skylar Grey performed not too long ago at Granada Theatre, April 26 and Larissa Shouga was there to capture some of Skylar's epic moments through out her performance. Skylar Grey has collaborated with major artists such as Eminem, Kaskade, Big Sean, Travis Barker, Dr. Dre, Yelawolf and many more. Also having a her hit song on 50 Shades of Grey movie, "I Know You" Skylar's music and rythym sets her aside from mosts artists because of her talent. Stay tuned for more from this artist.
"Room For Happiness" Kaskade ft. Skylar Grey
HAPPY MONDAY YOU ALL! Currently in Dallas it looks like bed time for majority of us, complete darkness with severe thunderstorms. Here is one for this special Monday. For so many years I would here this song and try to figure out what on earth it's called. When EDM talent collaborate with beautiful and darkness you "Room For Happiness" by Kaskade featuring Skylar Grey. This track knocks anything by Armin Van Buuren out of the water in my opinion. Correct terminology for this kind of music is Progressive House. If you like this kind of music or don't I highly advise you give this track a chance. | SharFez |


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Recipes for Success: Online! Maj - 2019-03-05 10:30
Removal of Resources Purchasable from NPCs
Dopple Temple Elixirs
The first major update of the year is available now! On the menu: the new Ascension Island rotation, changes to the economy, and much more to discover in this new changelog.
The rewards from rotation 1 have been distributed. The final rankings for this rotation are available here!
Rotation 2 starts now and will end on April 23, 2019, with the weekly maintenance.
A new level-200 weapon has been added. Other equipment will arrive later in the rotation.
Achievements completed in rotation 1 will be unlocked at a later time. The rewards will still be provided, but take note that it will not be doubled if you've completed it on rotation 2.
Several problems with the Ascension Island monsters and boss have been fixed.
The NPC Talok now correctly offers the right dialogues at the right time in the "Illumina Nui" quest.
The zone music is now correctly triggered when you arrive on Ascension Island.
The in-game leaderboard has, for its part, been pushed back for technical reasons. We're sorry for the delay.
As you saw this past year, we've tried to showcase the resources you can buy with Almokens in all the new recipes added to the game.
Now that the number of recipes using these resources seems, in our opinion, to have reached a sufficient minimum, we have removed kamas from the Almanax rewards. We will continue to add new recipes using Almanax resources.
Thus, it will still be possible to generate a profit by doing the Almanax quests but in a much more healthy manner for the game as the money obtained will be the result of trades between players and not money created from nothing (which amounted to injecting a huge amount of money into the game every day).
We know that this decision won't please all players, but it is necessary to ensure the economic longevity of the servers and therefore ensure the game's longevity. The Almanax was the largest source of kama generation in the game, well before bots arrived in these quests. We had already discussed this in the DOFUS Touch Missive #10 in early 2018.
Now, you need to complete the main Almanax quest from Magus Ax before being able to do the daily quest, and be at least level 20.
We have removed the resources that could be bought from NPCs. These resources are now obtained directly by fighting monsters or via crafting, distributed among different professions.
We made these changes because we think that buying resources in kamas from NPCs doesn't really have a place in DOFUS Touch's economic system (the system is not designed to work with resources in infinite quantities with fixed prices) and because we would prefer that players can get rich by obtaining these resources themselves and selling them to other players. The panel of monsters from which resources can be obtained will grow over time.
Many recipes (notably for Hunters and Fishermen) using these resources have been changed to require more suitable quantities.
The recipes for all the elixirs used to go to the Dopple temples have been simplified.
These recipes seemed abnormally complicated and as a result were not very often used. This will let you make the Dopple rounds more quickly!
In exchange, the drop rate for the Blop drops previously used in these recipes has been decreased noticeably.
The AP display issues when using the spells Precipitation, Smell and Cog have been fixed.
In some situations, some cells, aka "dead cells", were no longer available or accessible. Several problems causing these dead cells have now been fixed.
When a player is under the effect of the Kaboom spell and Rogue bombs explode next to the player, the bonuses are now correctly displayed in the timeline.
Damage from Sram traps and Rogue bombs is no longer displayed in yellow as if it were a critical hit.
Tournament mode is no longer active on come Kolossium maps.
The infinite loading problem in the professions interface has been fixed.
The inventory display is no longer cut off when a Dragoturkey inventory is opened.
The Astrub Bestiary no longer displays "indefinite" monsters.
In the achievement interface, the score is now properly centered.
The additional character slot service has been pushed back.
The equipment conditions for the Bubotron Sword have been removed.
The trade channel (/b) is now unique to a whole server, as is the recruitment channel (/r). The delay between two messages by a single player in this same room has been extended.
The god Iop quest no longer needs to be completed to access the Hall of the Valiant zone (tournament zone).
Some of the maps in the tournament zone have been adjusted. The Sadida map is now mid-range, and the placement slots on the Rogue map are further back.
The NPC dialogues in the Hall of the Valiant zone have been adjusted accordingly.
The Kwismas decorations have been taken down.
The Perceptors have returned to their normal appearance.
A Perceptor can now be placed on the Royal Coco Blop map.
When doing the "The New World" quest that gives access to Otomai Island, the reappearance time for pirate monsters on the boat has been fixed and is no longer abnormally long.
The NPC Chaga Lachance is now also present in front of the Incarnam Inn.
Certain fishing resources that were not accessible in Incarnam have been fixed.
Corrections have been made to various texts and dialogues.
Corrections have been made to several maps in the World of Twelve.
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GARFIELD TWP, MI -- Funerals have taken place for what's believed to be a father and son killed in a rural Bay County house fire, though what sparked the blaze remains a mystery.
Police have said they believe the bodies recovered from the charred ruins of a house at 2131 W. Newberg Road in Garfield Township on Nov. 1 were those of Richard L. Stevens Sr., 77, and his son, Richard L. Stevens Jr., 50. However, DNA testing is still pending to technically and irrefutably identify the bodies.
Memorial services were held for the pair on Thursday, Nov. 8, at First Baptist Church in Bridgeport.
The elder Stevens worked for General Motors and retired in 1993, according to his obituary. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and riding his Harley-Davidson.
His son had been employed for several years at Stevens Cycle Sales and more recently worked as a flooring contractor, and "had a passion for riding and working on motorcycles," according to his obituary.
The cause of the fire remains unknown, and it's likely to remain so due to the heavy damage the structure sustained, an investigator with the Bay County Sheriff's Office said.


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