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#1 Crush -Release Blitz
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Title: #1 Crush
Series: #1 Series #1
Author: T. Gephart
Tia Monroe was smart, sassy and successful. Sure, she could get a little crazy at times—life around Tia was never boring—but that was part of her appeal. And while she didn't see herself as 'classically beautiful', she had no shortage of options in the boyfriend department. She just hadn't found one who held her interest.
Until she laid eyes on Eric Larsson, and then it was lust at first sight.
He packed the perfect mix of smoldering sexy and unapologetic cool into his blond-haired, blue-eyed, ridiculously hot six-foot-four frame. One smile from him was enough to twist her insides, making her girlie bits tingle in the most delicious way. But it wasn't just his looks, he was smart and funny—charming in the most a-dork-able way.
The only problem was . . . Tia had never actually met him.
Eric Larsson was one of Hollywood's hottest movie stars, rising to the top of his game and leaving a trail of disintegrated panties in his wake. Tia's were no exception—but she wasn't delusional. Love, marriage and happily-ever-after were not part of her fantasy; she just wanted to meet him. Just one time. One time. Confident that just seeing him in the flesh would get him out of her system.
So, with her resolve steeled, Tia set off on a quest to make it happen while avoiding her mug shot being splayed across the five o'clock news.
The journey no doubt will make for one hell of a story.
"Oh my God." The words wheezed out of me as all the oxygen escaped from my lungs. My chest tightened like I'd been kicked right in between my ribs.
There he was a few feet behind me slowly making his way toward me.
"Eric, look here."
"Eric, this way."
Both sides of the line screamed at him as he patiently walked from side to side, signing autographs and taking selfies. Each step he took inching him closer to where I had frozen, my eyes bulging out of my head like a complete lunatic.
There he was.
Eric Larsson, right in front of me.
And not even internet stalking could have prepared me for what he looked like in real life.
Breathtaking.
So handsome he almost didn't seem real, and as much as I tried I couldn't stop staring.
Say something my mouth begged as my brain continued on its mental vacation. My eyes scanned every inch of his body like it was planning to build a 3-D replica.
Holy hell he was wearing the absolute fuck out of that suit. Every inch of the fabric curling around his delicious body like its life depended on it. And believe me, even though he was covered from head to toe in tailored Tom Ford perfection—I'd seen photos of him in this particular suit before—it did nothing to hide how obscenely hot he was.
My heart thumped loudly as he took another step closer, his eyes remaining on the crowd.
"Larsson."
It rang out clear despite the noise around us. It took me a minute to realize that while my brain had stalled, my mouth hadn't suffered the same fate. My lips still open as his name left them.
Who the hell yells out his last name? I panicked, unable to tear my eyes from him as his head lifted and his eyes settled on me.
Dear. Lord. In. Heaven. And. All. The. Saints.
Eric Larsson was looking at me.
At me.
At ME!
His brow lifted in acknowledgement as his lips curled, momentarily blinding me as he flashed his trademark smile.
Well, if that wasn't an invitation, I didn't know what was.
So, even though I was struggling to breathe—my ability to remain upright also not guaranteed—my feet moved me closer toward him. My internal pep talk worked overtime as I reminded myself we were on a mission. Two minutes of eye contact, conversation . . . and something about me finding out what an asshole he was.
"Hi." The best I could do given the circumstances.
Intellectually I knew the man was tall. I mean, in my head I figured I knew what six-foot-four looked like. But as I lifted my eyes, it didn't come close to where I should be looking, my gaze hitting his chin before I tilted my head even higher.
"Hi," he responded, the single word sent a shiver down my spine as he unleashed another blinding smile.
Those eyes were something else. The clearest blue I had ever seen, and though I knew it wasn't possible it seemed like they illuminated from the inside out. Like magical orbs, the weight of their stare hypnotized me, pulling me in closer like a force field. I couldn't have looked away if I'd tried. Not that I tried, and not that I wanted to.
And oh Lord have mercy, did he smell good. Mouthwatering. Ridiculous that it would even get a mention given I already had those eyes, his face and his delectable couture-wrapped body to contend with. Yet there was his scent wafting up my nose uninvited. A sadistic mix of sexy, clean and masculine—probably Calvin Klein—overwhelmed me as I fought the urge to bury my head in his neck and inhale him like a line of cocaine.
Say something you dumbass. My mouth begged as my hand, completely of its own accord, reached out and rested on his arm.
Holy. Freaking. Shit. I. Was. Touching. Him.
Do not moan, I reminded myself.
"Congratulations on the movie." Words poured out of my mouth, thankfully in a sequence that made sense, as my fingers struggled not to caress the fabric of his suit. My fingers didn't listen, slowly stroking in small—slightly inappropriate and rather suggestive—circles.
Wow, this is a really, really nice suit.
Do not lick it.
T Gephart is an indie author from Melbourne, Australia.
T's approach to life has been somewhat unconventional. Rather than going to University, she jumped on a plane to Los Angeles, USA in search of adventure. While this first trip left her somewhat underwhelmed and largely depleted of funds it fueled her appetite for travel and life experience.
With a rather eclectic resume, which reads more like the fiction she writes than an actual employment history, T struggled to find her niche in the world.
While on a subsequent trip the United States in 1999, T met and married her husband. Their whirlwind courtship and interesting impromptu convenience store wedding set the tone for their life together, which is anything but ordinary. They have lived in Louisiana, Guam and Australia and have traveled extensively throughout the US. T has two beautiful young children and one four legged child, Woodley, the wonder dog.
An avid reader, T became increasingly frustrated by the lack of strong female characters in the books she was reading. She wanted to read about a woman she could identify with, someone strong, independent and confident and who didn't lack femininity. Out of this need, she decided to pen her first book, A Twist of Fate. T set herself the challenge to write something that was interesting, compelling and yet easy enough to read that was still enjoyable. Pulling from her own past "colorful" experiences and the amazing personalities she has surrounded herself with, she had no shortage of inspiration. With a strong slant on erotic fiction, her core characters are empowered women who don't have to sacrifice their femininity. She enjoyed the process so much that when it was over she couldn't let it go.
T loves to travel, laugh and surround herself with colorful characters. This inevitably spills into her writing and makes for an interesting journey - she is well and truly enjoying the ride!
Based on her life experiences, T has plenty of material for her books and has a wealth of ideas to keep you all enthralled.


It's surprising how long this past year has felt and yet how quickly the last few months of 2018 have flown by. Here we are, though. A brand new year and a new set of goals to look towards. I don't usually do the resolution thing. Normally, I like to plan out some achievable things and set some high reaching goals and go from there. They are never hard and fast resolutions, though. So far, I'm looking to increase my social activity with my comics peers. There's a lovely weekly meet up that happens at my favourite comic book shop, Books With Pictures. I've gone a couple of times now and while my work schedule runs over the start time, I'm still able to swing by for an hour to work on scripts and to hang out with fellow artists and writers. It's been nice. I'm looking forward to building up more of a connection to my Portland comic folks.
Currently, I'm working on a couple of scripts for anthologies. I'm hoping to get into more and more of those as they come up. Plus, I'm digging the practice. There's a few stories in the works and I hope to be able to share more with you soon. In the meantime here's some things I'm totally into lately.
Lookit the amazing commissions I received from Valentine Barker! I love Carnage and Venom, so these are absolutely perfect!


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Andy Weatherall vs. Ivan Smagghe
Getting deep down and dirty at The Nest
Gregory Paratore
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 23:00
Last weekend, there was no escaping that a certain festival was taking place Somerset. In fact, there was no escaping that pretty much the whole world and his dog (probably on a string) was going there. Some of us, however, weren't, meaning that we were even more excited about the prospect of taking to the severely depleted streets of East London.
The Nest in Dalston, formerly Bardens Boudoir, has been building in strength since it opened at the end of last year with mid-week and weekend line-ups taking in the best in house, techno, disco and bass sounds that go boom in the night.
So last Friday while Glastonbury (yeah, we said it) was dancing in the mud to tax dodgers and general has beens U2, DJmag were instead on hand to witness the ever popular pairing of Andy Weatherall and Ivan Smagghe.
Sporting suitably East End facial topiary, and facing a penned in capacity crowd, this was never going to be a set for happy clappy hippies with flowers in their hair. Instead what we got was the aural equivalent of a dark night of the soul, deep, disturbed and relentless, acidic beats and dissonant synths building as the pair gathered steam and offered their uncompromising take on the legacy of acid house.
There might not have been any mud, but it was dirtier than anything on offer anywhere else and a reminder that for gritty, noir house and techno, these two have no match.
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Q: Group array items by multiple values and sum the groups I have 2D array (showed bellow) - output of wp_query (Wordpress).
I need to group the arrays by index 0, 1, 2 values (lets think that the primary key is composed from these values and it should be unique in result table) and sum the index 3 values.
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 1"
  [1]=>  string(6) "Jack"
  [2]=>  string(6) "Daniels"
  [3]=>  string(2) "10"
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 1"
  [1]=>  string(3) "Jan"
  [2]=>  string(6) "Novak"
  [3]=>  string(2) "33"
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 2"
  [1]=>  string(4) "John"
  [2]=>  string(3) "Doe"
  [3]=>  string(2) "11"
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 2"
  [1]=>  string(4) "Jane"
  [2]=>  string(3) "Doe"
  [3]=>  string(2) "18"
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 1"
  [1]=>  string(6) "Jack"
  [2]=>  string(6) "Daniels"
  [3]=>  string(1) "5"
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 1"
  [1]=>  string(3) "Jan"
  [2]=>  string(6) "Novak"
  [3]=>  string(2) "33"
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 2"
  [1]=>  string(4) "John"
  [2]=>  string(3) "Doe"
  [3]=>  string(2) "11"
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 2"
  [1]=>  string(4) "Jane"
  [2]=>  string(3) "Doe"
  [3]=>  string(2) "18"
}

ETC...

Output should be someting like:
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 1"
  [1]=>  string(6) "Jack"
  [2]=>  string(6) "Daniels"
  [3]=>  string(2) "15" (5+10)
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 1"
  [1]=>  string(3) "Jan"
  [2]=>  string(6) "Novak"
  [3]=>  string(2) "66" (33+33)
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 2"
  [1]=>  string(4) "John"
  [2]=>  string(3) "Doe"
  [3]=>  string(2) "22" (11+11)
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>  string(6) "Team 2"
  [1]=>  string(4) "Jane"
  [2]=>  string(3) "Doe"
  [3]=>  string(2) "36" (18+18)
}
}

I tried to do this by recursive for loops, but I cannot find the reason why is it not working properly.
$vysledna_tabulka = array();
$aktualni;

foreach($seznam_vsech_hracu_vsech_tymu as $radek){

    if(empty($vysledna_tabulka)){
        array_push($vysledna_tabulka,$radek);
    } else{
        foreach($vysledna_tabulka as $vysledny_radek){
            if($vysledny_radek[0]==$radek[0] && $vysledny_radek[1]==$radek[1] && $vysledny_radek[2]==$radek[2]){
                $vysledny_radek[3]+=$radek[3];
            } else {
                $aktualni = $radek;
            }
        }
        array_push($vysledna_tabulka,$aktualni);
    }
}

I think there should be a better way to do this. Is there anyone who could help me?
Thanks.

A: I would create a key from the first three values of your array elements and then create a new array using this key. Like this:
<?php

$teamArray = [
  [
    "Team 1",
    "Jack",
    "Daniels",
    "10",
  ],
  [
    "Team 1",
    "Jan",
    "Novak",
    "33",
  ],
  [
    "Team 2",
    "John",
    "Doe",
    "11",
  ],
  [
    "Team 2",
    "Jane",
    "Doe",
    "18",
  ],
  [
    "Team 1",
    "Jack",
    "Daniels",
    "5",
  ],
  [
    "Team 1",
    "Jan",
    "Novak",
    "33",
  ],
  [
    "Team 2",
    "John",
    "Doe",
    "11",
  ],
  [
    "Team 2",
    "Jane",
    "Doe",
    "18",
  ]
];

$result = [];
foreach ($teamArray as $team) {
  $key = $team[0] . $team[1] . $team[2];
  if (isset($result[$key])) {
    $result[$key][3] += $team[3];
  }
  else {
    $result[$key] = $team;
  }
}

var_dump($result);
var_dump(array_values($result));

This gives you:
array(4) {
  ["Team 1JackDaniels"]=>
  array(4) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "Team 1"
    [1]=>
    string(4) "Jack"
    [2]=>
    string(7) "Daniels"
    [3]=>
    int(15)
  }
  ["Team 1JanNovak"]=>
  array(4) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "Team 1"
    [1]=>
    string(3) "Jan"
    [2]=>
    string(5) "Novak"
    [3]=>
    int(66)
  }
  ["Team 2JohnDoe"]=>
  array(4) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "Team 2"
    [1]=>
    string(4) "John"
    [2]=>
    string(3) "Doe"
    [3]=>
    int(22)
  }
  ["Team 2JaneDoe"]=>
  array(4) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "Team 2"
    [1]=>
    string(4) "Jane"
    [2]=>
    string(3) "Doe"
    [3]=>
    int(36)
  }
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>
  array(4) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "Team 1"
    [1]=>
    string(4) "Jack"
    [2]=>
    string(7) "Daniels"
    [3]=>
    int(15)
  }
  [1]=>
  array(4) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "Team 1"
    [1]=>
    string(3) "Jan"
    [2]=>
    string(5) "Novak"
    [3]=>
    int(66)
  }
  [2]=>
  array(4) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "Team 2"
    [1]=>
    string(4) "John"
    [2]=>
    string(3) "Doe"
    [3]=>
    int(22)
  }
  [3]=>
  array(4) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "Team 2"
    [1]=>
    string(4) "Jane"
    [2]=>
    string(3) "Doe"
    [3]=>
    int(36)
  }
}

If you need to remove the keys from your $result array you could use array_value as shown above.

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About Semuliki National Park
Semuliki National Park Uganda is found in the Bundibugyo District of western Uganda. It is one of the newest national parks in Uganda and in October 1993 was made as a national park which covers an area of 194 kilometers2 on 75 sq. miles of East Africa's only lowland tropical rainforest is found in the park. Semuliki National Park stretches across the floor of the Semuliki Valley along with the western parts of the Rwenzori Mountains. Semuliki national park is dominated by the easternmost extension of the Ituri Forest of Congo, of which it is among Africa's most ancient and bio-diverse forests and also one of the few to survive the last ice age, 12-18,000 years back.
The park is surrounded by 4 ethnic groups such as Bwamba farmers who stay along the base of the Rwenzori, the Bakonjo cultivate the mountain slopes of Rwenzori, Batuku cattle keepers occupy on the open plains, and Batwa pygmies who live on the edge of the forest and traditionally hunter-gathers.
The park is the richest place of fauna and flora diversity in Africa plus many bird species of about 441 birds. The park is protected by Uganda Wildlife Authority and all tourist attractions entire conservation of the park is controlled by UWA.
Semuliki national park is assisted by the Semuliki River, which is about 160 kilometers long Semuliki River overflow from the Rwenzori Mountains to Lake Albert and the Nile, this evidencing ancient geographer who saying that the Nile flows from a snow-capped mountain in the heart of Africa.
The Semuliki Valley contains several features in central than eastern Africa. Thatched huts are shaded by West African oil palms, the Semuliki River is a miniature version of the Congo River, the forest is a natural habitat to various Central African wildlife species, and also a home of the Batwa pygmy community that comes from the Ituri. Therefore Semuliki national park provides a taste of Central Africa as well as Uganda.
Semuliki national park is the only park which is found in lowland tropical forest in East Africa, with over 441bird species, 63 mammals, 9 primates, 374 species of butterflies, 336 plant species, 40 of it are restricted in the park, and it is among the best top birding destination which attracts most of the visitors to visit Uganda.
The park experiences an average rainfall of 1,250 mm in Uganda, this starts between March to May and from September to December. During the wet season, most of the areas in Semuliki experience flooding, and its temperature varies from 18 -30 °C (64 to 86 °F), with relatively small daily variations.
Activities within the park.
Tourists in Semuliki national park can do bird watching as it is among the best destinations in Uganda with over 441 bird species, game drives around the Savannah grassland, hiking Kirumia Trail which takes about 13 kilometers, and hot springs which the most trending activity in the park, and visitors use this hot water to boil their materials. In 2016, Semuliki National Park is upgraded as 68th out of 120 things to do in Uganda. That is why Semuliki national park is among the best safari destination which attracts most of the tourists to visit Uganda.
Semuliki National Park has the Semuliki River and Lamia, which are provide water for many animals. There are also two hot springs in a hot mineral encrusted swamp that is the female and male hot spring. They attract a large number of shorebirds and their water is mixed with salt which also forced many animals like Forest buffaloes that are always seen coming to leak the salty waters of the hot springs.
Semuliki National Park hosts over 441 bird species like the lyre-tailed honeyguide. Among these birds, 216 are true forest birds, including the rare Forest Ground Thrush and Sassi's Olive Greenbul plus 9 species of hornbills in the park.
Semuliki National Park has about 63 mammal species, which include the forest buffalos, hippos, leopards, elephants, bush babies, Mona monkeys, water chevrotains, civets, and the pygmy flying squirrel. With 9 duiker species including the bay duiker, and there are also over 374 butterfly species.
This has made the park to be among the unique destinations one should not miss out on tourism safari in Uganda due to its amazing tourist attractions like Sempaya hot spring which has a memorable experience.
After visiting Semuliki national park, you can plan to visit Kampala for a city tour, Bwindi impenetrable forest national park for gorilla trekking, Kibale forest national park for chimpanzee tracking, Mgahinga gorilla national park for tracking the rare golden monkey. Or you can go and do mountain climbing in the majestic Rwenzori, and many other national parks.
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FRESNO — With severe irrigation water cutbacks this year, food lines again will form with unemployed workers and their families on the San Joaquin Valley's west side, local leaders said Monday.
Two congressmen and farmworkers joined them in a downtown Fresno news conference to tell the public that the cutbacks will cost thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in the California economy.
The news conference was arranged by the Latino Water Coalition, a group formed in 2007 to advocate for water improvements in California. Coalition members attended from the cities of San Joaquin, Mendota, Parlier, Orange Cove, Huron and Fowler.
They were reacting to the announcement last month of a 20 percent allotment of federal irrigation water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The projection was 5 percent lower than the disappointing 25% announced in February.
Mendota had 41 percent unemployment at one point in 2009, which was part of a multiple-year drought. In a big swath of the country's most productive farmland, some people couldn't stock their own kitchens with food.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says the water cutback this year is tied to the dry season. The snowpack is about half its average size. But federal leaders also say less water is available because Endangered Species Act protections for delta smelt forced water pumping reductions.
The reductions resulted in the loss of more than 800,000 acre-feet of water, which leaves the massive San Luis Reservoir in Merced County far below full.
The smelt is only part of a much bigger problem that includes the need to protect chinook salmon, Central Valley steelhead and green sturgeon.
The delta has been in decline for years. Scientists have blamed invasive species, drought, pollution, discharges of treated waste water and water pumping.
For seven years, the state has been working on a fix as part of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. This year, leaders are releasing a $23 billion proposal to restore endangered fish and improve reliability of diverting fresh water for farms and cities.
The proposed fix includes construction of twin tunnels to take some fresh water for cities and farms before the water enters the sensitive delta. Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, on Monday supported the tunnels — which also are supported by many city water districts, Valley farm water leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown.
Costa said he believes the delta is being managed with flawed science right now. "We must break this cycle of water insecurity," he said.
Costa, Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, and others at the news conference Monday said the delta fix is years down the line, but the Valley needs help right now.
Kings County Supervisor Richard Valle agreed. He said he has been in office five years, and this is the second water crisis he has seen.


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Q: oracle plsql to_date format to mm-dd-yyy SELECT check_date
FROM check_header;

Which returns me  3/14/2014 3:24:08 PM
but I need to format this to MM-dd-yy and should be returned as 03-14-14
I tried this:
 SELECT to_date(check_date,'MM-dd-yy')
             From check_header;

but it is giving me a error invalid month

A: Try with to_char():
SELECT to_char(check_date,'MM-dd-yy') From check_header;

A: You need to use to_char instead of to_date:
SELECT to_char(check_date,'MM-dd-yy') from check_header;

to_date converts a string into Oracle's internal date representation, which is then displayed according to your NLS settings.
to_char converts from Oracle's internal date representation to a string using the format you specify.


Kuta Lagoon Resort sets in a tranquility atmosphere in the center of Kuta legendary nightlife and entertainment.
shops and restaurants. Kuta Lagoon Resort is a perfect accommodation to visit other interesting part of this island. Steps only 10 minutes to swim over the famous Kuta Beach.
The Kuta Lagoon Resort comprises of 75 spacious guest rooms including private villas. All rooms are fitted with air conditioner, mini bar, television with satellite channels, in house movie, IDD telephone, en-suite bathroom, safe deposit box, 220 electricity power and balcony.
Deluxe Room (29 rooms) - Sets on the 2nd floor the hotel main building overlooking the pool and parking area.
Pool Access (23 rooms) - Located on the ground floor with direct access to the swimming pool.


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Stealthy cards
Card Thief is striking, fast-paced, and addictive [Android Game of the Week]
Sneak across a deck of cards in this awesome card game.
Source: Jordan Palmer / Android Central
A lot of card games on the Play Store have real-world, physical analogs, with the mobile version often being a digital adaptation. There's nothing wrong with that — Exploding Kittens is a part of our Best Android Games and Best Card Games lists, after all. However, several titles started as digital-only and have remained thus.
I'm talking games like Hearthstone and Gwent, and my pick for our Android Game of the Week: Card Thief. Whereas Hearthstone and Gwent are player-versus-player, Card Thief is you against the game (or PvE). It's solitaire-style with quick, hard-hitting rounds and a mobile-only design. It's perfect for commuters, thanks to its fast-paced gameplay.
Card Thief is easy to play, but its unique premise is difficult to master fully. The game encourages deep strategies as you stealthily pickpocket guards, extinguish torches, and of course, steal everything you can. It's not just a strategy card game, sitting somewhere firmly between that and a puzzle.
Card Thief's visual design, striking in its own way, reminds me of the dark design of the Thief games. Card Thief looks like nothing else I've ever seen, and that alone made it a pure joy to play, gameplay aside. The fantastical elements play well together without ever being or looking depressing.
This is a game about risk and reward; the further you push things, the more your rewards (and risks) increase. Not every decision will lead you to great riches, however, and you'll have to adapt your strategies to meet the new challenges. I've already mentioned that this is also a stealth game, and you need to be aware of your surroundings. That means line of sight, light sources, and enemy distraction all play key roles in your success or your failure.
The visual design of Card Thief reminds me of the old Thief games.
While it's much more complicated than this, the game's basic goal is to steal a treasure chest card and safely make it to an exit card. Along the way, you'll deal with different guards and their dogs, and you'll need to plan your way across the grid of cards. Light plays a key role in Card Thief. It can reveal your position or prevent you from entering through a door card if a light source is adjacent.
Your precious, finite resource is sneak points. These are required if you want to move across the board. As long as you have some, you'll remain undetected, but as soon as you lose all of them, the guards and such can find you. Running out of sneak points isn't game over, though, and you can still win with a negative balance.
Card Thief may be akin to solitaire, but it's truly its own unique thing and a perfect choice for our Game of the Week. Be sure to pop by our best Android games roundup, where you'll find all sorts of goodies, and check out past Games of the Week, too.
Card Thief
Stealth fans get their own card game with Card Thief. Each game is only a few minutes long, but there's a steep learning curve to truly master it.
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Dr. Paolucci is great. See her once and you will not be disappointed. I have been to many dentists throughout my life and she is by far the best. I recommended her to my son and daughter-in-law and they are both very pleased with her. If you want the best, see Dr. Paolucci.
I absolutely love this dental office!! The front desk girls are so knowledgeable and friendly! The dental hygienists are very thorough and my teeth always feel so clean when I leave. Dr. Gabriella is so gentle and does a great job of taking care of my teeth. I highly recommend this dental office.
My family have been long time patients of Dr. G. She is highly professional and very knowledgeable about her craft. Her staff are very friendly and accommodating. I might also add that visiting is a very pleasant experience as her office has a spa like feel to it. You don't feel as if you are in a dental office.
Dr Paolucci is the best dentist I have ever had. She genuinely cares about her patients and actually makes going to the dentist an enjoyable experience. Everyone that works there is friendly, helpful, and seems to love what they do. I would definitely recommend them to everyone! It is even worth a commute! Thank you for everything!
Dr. Paolucci has the highest standard of excellence in my 50 years of dental exposure. I've seen over 20 different dentist in my lifetime and she far excides them all! She holds her small staff to high standards of performance as well as her labs and suppliers. I would say she is always driven to the highest quality for a healthy lifetime smile. Over three years ago she finished the reconstruction of almost all of my teeth. My teeth have never felt and looked better since then. I will never hesitate to recommend her.
It was an excellent experience...on time, friendly, and thorough!
Very friendly staff, Excellent work and attention to detail. Extremely satisfied.
My son had an appointment for a cavity to be done and we were in and out very quick. The girls there are always very nice and schedule around our schedule.
caring, friendly atmosphere ... Dr. Paolucci and her staff do everything to make the patient feel comfortable with their visit.
It's always a pleasure to see the same smiling faces. The cleanliness and cheery surroundings. Best of all is the consideration you have for my well being. Stay as sweet as you are...everyone.
The staff is always warm and welcoming and Dr. Gabriella is great! Highly recommended to anyone!
Great staff, excellent explanation of services and fees. Dr. explained the procedure to me and made me feel comfortable through out my time in the office.
I will never have another dentist. The entire staff - from front desk to dentist - is outstanding. Wish I had found them years ago.
Dr. Paolucci is an exceptionally good dentist, and her staff is great.
She is the best dentist around, I would highly recommend her, she is very gentle with her patients.
6 month cleaning went well. Started on time and got done quickly. Everyone was so nice as usual!
Dr. Paolucci is an excellent dentist! She is gentle and makes sure your teeth look great. She is all about making the patient comfortable and satisfied. Also, the hygienists do a very thorough job cleaning your teeth.
As usual, my experience with Dr. Paolucci was excellent. I had bad experiences with multiple dentists prior to her. My family and I have been going to her for the past year and we always leave happy after our appointments. Great staff and great dentist!
My experience was great, Reception was friendly. Assistants were comforting and Dr.Paolucci herself is a lovely person. I'm so happy I made the switch. I'm only sorry that living in this area for ten years and I just now get to meet her. I would recommend her office to anyone, especially if they are nervous because they put you at ease.
I just lucked out picking this dentist an ad. Dr. Paolucci was excellent and had such a soft touch. Sara the hygienist was wonderful also. The whole experience was top notch from the moment I walked in the door.
Dr. Gabriella is a great dentist and her staff is awesome!
When I first moved to the area I picked the first dental group that came up in an internet search. After a couple years I realized I had made a big mistake. The second time I did a lot more research and decided to try Gabriella Paolucci. I have been very pleased with her talent and quality of work. An added plus has been the personable staff. Everyone there takes a personal interest in each patient.
Dr. Paolucci is an excellent dentist! I have been a patient for 20 years and know that any experience at her office will be a good one.
For the 1st time I can say that I look forward to going to the dentist. I never have to wait over 5 minutes and the staff are all friendly and helpful. Dr. G is great.
Even though my husband is terribly afraid of dentists, Dr. Paolucci got us right in and put him at ease. The hygienist was superb and he was willing go back to finish his treatment. I can't thank you guys enough!
ON TIME !! Very courteous staff. DR was proffessional but I DID NOT FEEL like a number. I FELT LIKE she really took her time and made me feel comfortable and important to her as aperson.
I was able to have a stain on one of my front teeth that has bothered me for years fixed beautifully in minutes! The office is also gorgeous! I don't think I've ever been so comfortable at the dentist! I actually felt pampered! You rock Dr. Poalucci and staff!
Being a patient in this office makes the dental experience a pleasure, not something to be dreaded.
Everyone is so nice at this office that it is almost fun going to the dentist!
Starting with my first visit I always received excellent service and in a great environment.
Excellent, caring & compassionate as always! Love my dentist & staff!
An excellent experience! Couldn't be more satisfied with the work of Dr. Gabriella Paolucci as as well as the performance of the entire office staff!
Dr. Paolucci is a great, gentle dentist with an excellent staff!
Dr. Paolucci is a great dentist! She is professional, thorough, caring, and knowledgeable. She can make me laugh even when she is drilling into my teeth!
Im really happy that I have Dr Paolucci as my Doctor she is very friendly she treats you like family.I really like the receptionists are so very friendly and caring. Thank You.
Everyone is always very nice and pleasant. The facility is immaculate. My dental experience is always a pleasure.
Try her once and you will be hooked. She has the best equipment and her staff are great. I had a prior dentist for 15 years, but all it took is one visit to see she was so much bettter than my prior dentist.
I love Dr. Paolucci and her staff they are very nice and friendly and her office is always clean.
My experience was great. Liked all the employees, the Hygienist was great, and I like Dr. very much. The office is very clean and orderly. I received very good advice and didn't feel I was being pressured.
The moment you walk in the door you are greeted by an inviting atmosphere and an elite staff. The wait times are usually under 15min. Again the staff is fabulous along with the the Dr. Her attention to detail ranks higher than any other Dentist I have ever been too. The updated decor and options they have avaiable really make this experience a pleasant one. But the staff and Dr really are unparalleled to any other.
When you can say going to the dentist is a delightful experience, that's saying something! Everyone was very pleasant and the office was beautiful. Would have no hesitation recommending this dentist and her staff to someone seeking a dentist!
Dr. Gabriella has been my dentist for over 20 years! She cares about her patients and their children, and is as particular about thier teeth as if they were her very own. She is truly gifted! I have had to have extensive work performed, and it is holding up beautifully, and looks as great today as the day it was done!
Dr. Paolucci and her staff were incredibly attentive while giving me a play by play of everything that was happening during my visit. I felt comfortable and reassured. They were professional and took a very direct approach to my care all while being warm and welcoming.
It was a very comfortable environment and impressed with the professionalism of the staff and Dr. Paolucci. Dr. Paolucci was recommended by several members of my family and they were 100% right. One of the best dentist office's ever!


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Long Slow Exhale is an American women's basketball drama television series created by Pam Veasey for Spectrum Originals and BET. From Paramount Television Studios, Veasey executive produced alongside her former L.A.'s Finest collaborators Anton Cropper and Jon Dove, bringing the trio back to Spectrum after the Bad Boys spinoff served as their first scripted originals foray. Cropper also directed the series. Also executive producing were Bruna Papandrea and Casey Haver for Made Up Stories. The series premiered April 4, 2022 and was canceled after one season in June 2022.

Premise
A competitive women's college basketball team head coach, J.C. Abernathy, finds herself in a potentially career-ending sexual abuse scandal. As she tries to find the truth among the many secrets she uncovers, she has to make hard decisions that will affect her, her family and the team of female athletes who all rely on her.

Cast and characters

Main
 Rose Rollins as J.C. Abernathy, Head Coach
 Josh Lucas as Hillman Ford, Athletic Director of the university
 Ian Harding as Eddie Hagan, Assistant Coach
 Lyriq Bent as Garrett Carter, J.C.'s husband
 Shalini Bathina as Emily Fisk, Associate Head Coach
 Enajite Esegine as Jordan Malone
 Brittney Elena as Corrine Porter
 Jazmine Stewart as Verdell
 Isabella Star LaBlanc as Elfrina
 Carmen Flood as Nikki Dessandro
 Erin Croom as Lorna Avery

Recurring
 Famke Janssen as Dr. Melinda Barrington, Chancellor of the university
 Samantha Bartow as Shannon Crawford, the star three-pointer on the Clayton Hall Cougars
 Brent Sexton as Arlin Swayne, a former Atlanta police officer
 Tony Gonzalez as Desmond, Corrine's father, a former professional football player and Clayton Hall superstar
 Jaiden Kaine as Deputy Belmont
 Gabrielle Byndloss as Vivian, J.C.'s assistant
 Enya Flack as Jillian Porter, Corrine's step-mother
 Melissa Saint-Amand as Claire Brockman
 Britt Rentschler are Rachel Fleming
 Betsy Borrego as Jessica Owens
 Anabella Raye as Kate Ford

Episodes

Production
The show was announced on February 9, 2021, with the cast announcement of Rose Rollins. There would be twelve episodes in the series. The series, from Paramount Television Studios, would launch first on Spectrum and then on BET after nine months. It was noted that this windowing strategy "is a way to split the costs of producing high-end scripted fare during a time in which many media companies are focusing less on linear networks."

The show was in development/pre-production in Atlanta, GA. It was reported that filming would begin in Atlanta in March.

Josh Lucas was announced on February 19, 2021. Jeff Schine was announced on March 4, 2021 but due to scheduling conflicts, he was replaced by Ian Harding as announced on March 24, 2021. Famke Janssen was announced on March 9, 2021. Lyriq Bent, Shalini Bathina, and the series regulars and recurring cast were also all announced on March 24, 2021. Melissa Saint-Amand was announced on August 4, 2021.

References

External links

2020s American drama television series
2022 American television series debuts
2022 American television series endings
Television series by Paramount Television
Television series by Made Up Stories
Spectrum Originals original programming
BET original programming

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Q: LINQ to SQL, Generalization I am struggling a bit to figure this one out.
I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC project, using LINQ to SQL for my data layer. The database consists of 10 or so different "exceptions" tables, e.g. "Exceptions.LADM", "Exceptions.USB", "Exceptions.GPO". Basically these tables are tracking user+machine information for relaxation of various security procedures.
My LINQ to SQL model has been generated. I have different classes for each table available to me. However, I am not sure how to use them in controller without having to generate separate Controller Actions for each exception type. For List action, I want to do something like this:
// Example Request:  /Exceptions/List/ladm
// Routing:   Controller = "Exceptions", Action = "List", type = "ladm"

// Controller Action:

public ActionResult List(string type)
{
    string viewname = "List-" + type;   // refer to "List-ladm" view.
    if(type == "ladm")
    {
       var items = _repository.ListAllLADMExceptions();
    }

    return View(viewname, items);
}

My repository implements ListAll<XXXXXX>Exceptions methods for each table. Is there a way to avoid 10 different if/else statements? It looks ugly and I'm sure there is a better way that I cannot think of. May be I'm approaching it from incorrect angle.
Any suggestions would be welcomed.
Thanks.

A: The typical pattern is one controller per table. How about repartitioning the variability into multiple controller classes using a common base class? Something like this:
public abstract class ExceptionsBaseController<T> : Controller where T:class
{
    protected abstract Table<T> ExceptionsTable { get; }

    public virtual ActionResult List()
    {
        var items = ExceptionsTable;
        return View(items);
    }
}

One benefit as I see it would be easier to handle differences between the exception classes and add new ones. It probably won't help your total code line count though, but maybe it can awake ideas.

A: You could try dynamic method dispatching by using reflection (it's pretty costly, performance-wise):
object items = _repository.GetType().GetMethod("ListAll"+type+"Exceptions")
                          .Invoke(_repository, null);

I would write a switch statement (not if/else) for 10 cases however. It's not that bad.
switch (type) {
    case "ladm": return View("ladm", _repository.ListAllLADMExceptions());
    case "....": return View(....);
}


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Запаметяващо устройство с магнитна лента или ЗУМЛ е енергонезависимо запаметяващо устройство с носител на информация магнитна лента. То е едно от първите външни устройства за запаметяване на данни, използвано доста преди изобретяването на първите твърди дискове като периферно устройство. Тъй като то позволява само последователен достъп до данните (за разлика от твърдите дискове), в наши дни подобни устройства се използват преди всичко при архивиране (backup) на големи масиви от данни.

История

През 1970 г. колектив от ЦИИТ разработва първото българско запомнящо устройство с магнитна лента ЕС 5012, за което е удостоен с Димитровска награда през 1971 г.

Устройство
То се състои от четящ механизъм и лента, като лентата може да бъде:
 на бобина
 в касета

Лента
Магнитната лента е тънка пластмасова лента, едната повърхност на която е покрита с железен окис, който може да се променя под въздействието на магнитно поле. Посредством прилагане на подходящи магнитни полета, малки участъци (петна) от покритието могат да се намагнетизират, а други да останат ненамагнетизирани. Информацията се записва, като компютърът кодира един бит с едно петно и намагнетизираните петна са 1, а свободните – 0. Петната са подредени в редове по ширината на лентата и по колони – наричани още пътеки или канали – по дължината ѝ. Редовете са 9 на брой, като на един ред се събират 8-те бита на един байт плюс 1 бит за четност. Битът за четност има стойност 1, ако броят на 1-те в байта е четен и 0, ако е нечетен.

Количеството данни, които могат да се запишат на единица площ, определя плътността на записа:
 напречна – по ширината на лентата
 надлъжна – по нейната дължина
 диагонална – записът се извършва под определен ъгъл.

Напречната плътност се измерва в пътеки на инч (, tpi). Плътността на запис е много съществен параметър, който отразява пряко върху капацитета на носителите и скоростта на предаване на данните.

Ролка
Ролката е предназначена за съхраняване на ленти. Първоначално на нея са се съхранявали киноленти и тъй като технологията и инфраструкутурата са били вече създадени, тя е използвана и в първите ЗУМЛ. Използва се също при магнетофоните.

Предимства:
 утвърдена технология
 лесно следене на движението на лентата
 поддържа по-голяма дължина и ширина на лентата
Недостатъци:
 отворена – директно подложена на действието на въздуха и по-точно праха във въздуха
 изисква допълнителна кутия за съхранение
 няма никакъв механизъм за защита от запис

Касета
С развитието на технологиите плътността на магнитната лента се увеличава, което позволява намаляването на размерите на лентата и бобината и позволява поставянето им в малка кутийка, което решава някои от предишните проблеми

Четящо устройство
Четящото устройство следва технологията, използвана за съхранение на лентата. съответно биват за:
 бобина – подобно на магнетофона, който познаваме, но с по-висока точност на позициониране
 касета – в някои домашни компютри през 80-те се използва дори и обикновен домашен касетофон, но сегашните модели са специализирани

Стандарти
 ленти – специфични за производителя
 касети

Компресия
Въпреки все по-нарастващия капацитет на магнитните ленти с по-голяма скорост нараства обема от данни, който трябва да се запише. На помощ идва компресирането на данни – технология, позволяваща чрез математически преобразувания и без загуба на данни да се запаметят по-голямо количество данни в по-малко място чрез елиминиране на "излишъка" (варианта с не е актуален за резервно копиране на данни).

Видове
 Програмна – извършва се от централния процесор
 Хардуерна – извършва се в самото устройство от специализиран процесор
Типичен коефициент на компресия е около 2:1, като той зависи много от типа данни.

Периферни устройства
Запаметяващи устройства


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"Успение Богородично" е православна църква в село Бараково, България, част от Неврокопската епархия на Българската православна църква.

История
Бараково в 1894 година минава в Неврокопската епархия. Църквата е построена в османско време като митническа сграда и е разположена веднага вляво след моста на Рилската река, по която до 1912 година минава османско-българската граница. След освобождението на Бараково през Балканската война, в 1913 година сградата е преустроена в църква. Майсторите на храма са Мите Атанасов Донин, Чиме Митев, А. Митев, Хр. Митев, В. Томов, Ан. Христов и Ст. Воденичарски. Храмът е осветен на 20 октомври 1920 година от митрополит Макарий Неврокопски. В храма служи горноджумайският свещеник Аврам Младенов. След основаването на самостоятелна енория, пръв духовник става свещеник Александър Миленков.

Бележки

Община Кочериново
Църкви в Неврокопската епархия


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Cucina Urbana pops up temporarily on Hancock Street
Camp Cucina, Cucina Urbana pop-up at the Julep events venue on Hancock Street in San Diego.
The restaurant is now operating as a pop-up dining and drinks experience at the Julep events center
By Pam Kragen
Longtime fans of popular Cucina Urbana restaurant in Bankers Hill feared the worst when it didn't reopen in the spring like all of its sister restaurants in the Urban Kitchen Group.
But last week company officials announced that Cucina Urbana is only temporarily closed. In the meantime, it's operating as a pop-up dining and drinks experience at the Julep events center near Middletown.
With Snake Oil Cocktail Co., Cucina will be offering a limited alfresco menu and cocktails at the indoor/outdoor Julep venue at 1735 Hancock St.
Billed as Camp Cucina, the menu features pizzas, pastas, antipasti and desserts. Dinner is served from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. For details and reservations, visit julepvenue.com/campcucina.
Pam Kragen writes about restaurants for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.
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Pam Kragen
Pam Kragen is a feature writer who specializes in writing human interest, dining, theater and opera stories. She joined The San Diego Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper's longtime arts writer and theater/opera critic. She is the president and co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera/classical music criticism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She reports from the U-T's North County office in San Marcos.
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When the President Came to Town
by Tevi Troy
https://tevitroy.org/13708/president-new-york
Last year, presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney campaigned in just ten states once the primary season was over. New York wasn't one of them. Both candidates knew that the state sat immovably in the Democratic column; they visited New York City only to raise funds.
But before the ossification of the electoral map gave us Red and Blue America, presidential aspirants had to visit New York for their own good. Politically contested and electorally vital, New York was central to presidential races. And the relationship between the nation's chief executives and its greatest metropolis produced countless episodes, ranging from crucial to merely colorful, that shaped our history.
From 1785 to 1790, New York was America's capital; then Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison struck the famous "dinner table bargain" (in New York, by the way) that created Washington, D.C. But even after the capital moved to Washington, New York maintained its outsize role in American politics. Through most of the nineteenth century, New York boasted more electoral votes than any other state and often had the power to swing presidential elections. In the election of 1844, for example, New York had 36 electoral votes, far more than runner-up Pennsylvania's 26. That year, James Polk carried New York over Henry Clay by just 5,106 votes. If Clay had won New York, he would have become president. (Ironically enough, Polk's policies led to the eventual statehood of California and Texas, which became instrumental in the diminution of New York's political might.) Four years later, New York switched from Democratic to Whig, allowing Zachary Taylor to defeat Lewis Cass for the presidency. Once again, if New York had gone the other way, the election would have, too. During the nineteenth century, 21 of 25 election winners carried New York.
Because of the state's political importance, presidents made it their business to visit New York City—especially its theaters. In the days before TV and radio, attending plays was an important way to see and be seen by voters; in fact, every American president has been to the theater at least once, according to historian Thomas Bogar. These visits often had an impact on the audience as well as the politician. In 1819, five years before his close-but-no-cigar first presidential run, Andrew Jackson saw a production of the comic opera The Poor Soldier. When the performers made extemporaneous references to the visiting general, he received loud cheers from the crowd. Years later, in 1833, Jackson attended four theatrical performances on a trip to New York. That was too many for the president, who was in his mid-sixties. He fell ill after his four-show binge and "never set foot in a theater again," Bogar writes.
New York was vital to the presidential aspirations of Abraham Lincoln. In February 1860, Lincoln delivered an antislavery speech at New York's Cooper Union that, according to biographer Isaac Arnold, "probably did more to secure his nomination, than any other act of his life." As New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley wrote when he reprinted the speech, "No man ever before made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience." The same day he gave the speech, Lincoln sat for photographer Matthew Brady's soon-to-be-famous portrait. "Brady and the Cooper Institute made me president," Lincoln supposedly said later.
Lincoln's top general, Ulysses S. Grant, moved to New York City after his own tenure in the White House. In 1884, he went bankrupt in a financial scandal, and he was diagnosed with throat cancer a few months later. Hoping to make some money for his family before he died, he began work on a memoir, receiving both writing and business advice from his friend Mark Twain, who also lived in New York and eventually published the book. Only when Grant had five weeks left to live did he leave the city and move upstate to Mount McGregor. With the New York Times running a deathwatch on him, Grant managed to finish the manuscript just before he died. The book became a hit—selling 300,000 copies, restoring his family finances, and serving as a model for future presidential memoirs. Grant was interred in Manhattan's Riverside Park, becoming (along with his wife, Julia) the answer to the enduring riddle: "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?"
A year after Grant's death, President Grover Cleveland went to New York to watch memorial parades in Brooklyn and Manhattan. It was a week before his wedding to Frances Folsom, and excited citizens and reporters swarmed him. Marching bands greeted him with love-themed songs, such as Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" and "He's Going to Marry Yum-Yum," from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Ten years after that—in October 1896, a month before the presidential election pitting William McKinley against William Jennings Bryan—Cleveland returned to New York to see a production of The Geisha with Bryan. Despite this demonstration of Democratic unity, McKinley won New York and with it the presidency.
McKinley's vice president soon became president himself—the only president born in New York City. This was Theodore Roosevelt, who had also served as the city's police commissioner before becoming governor of the state. His relations with the city were extensive—not only beyond the scope of this article but likely meriting their own.
New York entertainment offered much more, of course, than theater. In the 1920s, the city was home to the nation's biggest star: George Herman "Babe" Ruth. The Yankee slugger met or corresponded with every president from Wilson to Truman. He even took a picture with George H. W. Bush in 1948, when the future president was captain of the Yale baseball team. As a number of presidents would learn, though, interactions with the Babe could be unpredictable. In 1920, Warren G. Harding's team sought Ruth's endorsement. Ruth's reaction: "Hell no, I'm a Democrat." Calvin Coolidge had a more famous encounter with Ruth, who greeted him, one hot day in 1924, with the words, "Hot as hell, ain't it, Prez?" (Some accounts have Ruth saying this to Harding.) Though he probably meant little by it, Ruth's crack signaled that presidents were growing less respected and professional athletes more. By the following year, a New York Times editorial could argue that "it involves no disrespect to Calvin Coolidge . . . to suggest . . . that the Home Run King is the first citizen of the land."
Coolidge's successor suffered even greater indignities at Ruth's hands. In 1928, Herbert Hoover's campaign organization asked Ruth to pose for a picture with its candidate. Ruth, who supported Hoover's opponent, New York governor Al Smith, refused. Reporters learned of the rebuff, which threatened to make trouble for the Babe with some of his business interests—notably, the GOP-leaning papers that ran his syndicated column. He relented and posed with Hoover but also posed for a photo with Smith, along with eight other New York Yankees and their batboy. It did no good: the team's home-state governor lost the election. Two years later, as Ruth was negotiating for more pay, someone pointed out that his staggering $80,000 annual salary was higher than President Hoover's $75,000. Ruth replied, "I had a better year than he did"—a crack that later, as Hoover grew inextricably linked with the Great Depression, became symbolic of his ineffectiveness.
Though Ruth flummoxed some presidents, he delighted others. While running for president against the unfortunate Hoover, Franklin D. Roo- sevelt—from Hyde Park, New York—traveled to Chicago and threw out the first pitch in Game Three of the 1932 World Series, between the Yankees and the Chicago Cubs. This was the game in which Ruth hit one of baseball's most famous home runs: the "called shot" off Cubs pitcher Charlie Root. Ruth, in response to taunts by Chicago fans, apparently pointed to the outfield—the grainy film footage is inconclusive—before clobbering the ball into the center-field bleachers. FDR had to be careful not to cheer too loudly as the big slugger rounded the bases, though, as he wanted Illinois' 29 electoral votes. He got them, along with New York's.
In October 1945, President Harry Truman visited Brooklyn's Navy Yard to commission a ship, the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, named after his former boss. From the deck of the USS Missouri, he viewed a procession of 1,200 Navy planes and 50 warships—"a spectacle of national power such as no Commander in Chief had ever beheld," as biographer David McCullough puts it. Truman then rode to Central Park with New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia for a Navy Day speech, driving past cheering crowds exceeding 3 million.
Later in his presidency, Truman visited New York's Jewish Theological Seminary, one of the centers of American Jewish intellectual life. Truman had supported establishing the State of Israel despite strong State Department opposition. A factor in the president's decision was his boyhood reading, which included the Bible and the multivolume history Great Men and Famous Women, edited by Charles Horne. One of the book's heroes was Cyrus the Great, the sixth-century BC Persian emperor who permitted the exiled Israelites to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their temple. During the seminary trip, Truman's former business partner, Eddie Jacobson, referred to the president as "the man who helped create the State of Israel." Truman promptly corrected him: "What do you mean, helped create? I am Cyrus, I am Cyrus!"
Dwight Eisenhower lived in New York before becoming president, serving as president of Columbia University from 1948 until 1953 (though he spent part of that time on leave, serving as NATO's supreme allied commander). Ike enjoyed New York but never became fully comfortable there, refusing to walk the streets of Morningside Heights at night without his service revolver. In June 1950, he attended the opening of the Irving Berlin show Call Me Madam. Berlin later retooled one of the show's songs, "They Like Ike," into "I Like Ike," which became both a slogan and a song for Eisenhower's 1952 presidential run.
No president in the last 50 years has had a closer relationship with New York City than John F. Kennedy. Before his presidency, he often stayed at a suite at the Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side and enjoyed the city's entertainment. On a postelection trip to New York in December 1960, the president-elect met with United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld, but his press team also announced that he would attend the musical Camelot. That show, of course, became an important part of Kennedy lore when Jacqueline Kennedy, in a post-assassination interview with journalist Theodore White, described JFK's supposed love of it. But that day, at least, Kennedy didn't see Camelot; he opted instead for The Best Man, by Gore Vidal—who shared a stepfather with Jackie Kennedy and who sat next to Kennedy during the performance. The play was overtly political; one of its protagonists, Joe Cantwell, was a philandering politician described as a "fancy Dan from the East." The parallels between Kennedy and Cantwell were so overt that Kennedy even asked Jackie: "Is Gore writing about me?" The number of Secret Service agents surrounding JFK at the Morosco Theater prompted Variety to observe: "If Abraham Lincoln had had this kind of protection, he would have been around to applaud the final curtain of Our American Cousin."
In January, while still president-elect, Kennedy again flew into New York for a one-night stay at his Carlyle suite—the hotel never rented it out before checking with the Kennedy staff—and saw Henry Fonda in Critic's Choice. He departed the next day, but soon returned to see the musical Do Re Mi at the St. James Theatre. While Kennedy managed to duck the crowds at the first show by leaving as soon as it ended, he couldn't escape at the second, getting so swarmed at intermission that the Secret Service decided to remove him from the theater just before the final curtain. As Bogar notes, the incident showed Kennedy and his protectors that "any theatergoing during his presidency would have to be rigidly controlled."
As president, Kennedy returned to the Carlyle so often that it was dubbed "the New York White House." His suite became a place of legend. It's widely rumored that he spent the night with Marilyn Monroe there after her breathy, seductive performance of "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" at a star-studded birthday event in Madison Square Garden in May 1962. As the story goes, Monroe arrived at the Carlyle suite via a series of secret tunnels. New York reported later that these "tunnels" may have been just a passageway in the subbasement connecting the Carlyle to an adjacent building.
Unsurprisingly, Lyndon Johnson had a much more casual relationship with New York City than Kennedy did; he preferred to spend vacations on his Texas ranch, and New York's cultural offerings held little appeal for him. But LBJ did have at least one refreshing New York experience. On April 4, 1968, four days after he announced that he wouldn't seek another term as president, Johnson visited Saint Patrick's Cathedral for the installation of Archbishop Terence Cooke, even though the unpopular, Vietnam-burdened president had been limiting his appearances to such places as American Legion posts and army bases, where he was unlikely to encounter protesters. That day, however, buoyed by editorials praising his decision not to run again, Johnson heard an unfamiliar sound: an ovation from the crowd of 5,000. Cheering crowds even greeted him in the streets. The New York trip was a welcome respite from Johnson's troubled time in the White House—though a fleeting one, as Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated that very day, setting off race riots across the country and ending Johnson's brief approval-ratings spike.
Unlike Johnson, Richard Nixon had a connection to New York before becoming president: he lived there while working as a lawyer. It was in Gotham that he met Len Garment, who would become one of his White House aides. Nixon and Garment also played music together, Garment on the clarinet and Nixon on the piano, at Garment's place in Brooklyn. According to Theodore White, Nixon's New York period served as a kind of cultural awakening, a time when the future president read more, attended classical music performances, and went to the theater regularly.
After Nixon, relations between presidents and New York became significantly rougher. Perhaps the most notorious recent intersection of New York and presidential politics was announced by a newspaper front page on October 30, 1975, the day after President Gerald Ford announced that he wouldn't bail out the bankrupt city. The Daily News's immortal headline FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD forever poisoned New Yorkers' views of the president.
The truth was more complicated. Ford held no animus toward New York; he simply believed that it shouldn't get federal assistance until it enacted fiscal reforms, and he wanted to encourage it to tighten its belt. "The problem was New York had a bad policy of paying too much in pensions, paying too much in salaries to New York City employees," Ford later recalled. "And the City was going bankrupt because of this irresponsible fiscal policy. And I was not, as president, going to bail them out unless they took corrective action." Mayor Abe Beame eventually agreed to spending cuts, and Ford signed a law bailing out New York two months later. Nevertheless, he was pilloried in New York for his tough stance. Manhattan congressman Ed Koch, who would later become mayor and balance the city's budget, denounced Ford as "immoral." As Koch put it in his typically hyperbolic way: "We are a city surrounded by Mongol hordes, and I look out the window and the faces aren't those of barbarians; they are those of the White House."
As mayor, Koch gave Ford's successor a tough time as well. Jimmy Carter's policies toward Israel were unpopular in America's most Jewish city and with that city's Jewish mayor. Koch criticized Carter on Israel so often that the president, pulling the mayor aside, once told him: "You have done me more damage than any man in America." When Carter ran for reelection in 1980, Koch's on-again, off-again support for his fellow Democrat tormented the Carter team. One of Carter's aides told Koch that his thinking was of greater interest to Washington insiders than that of Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. In the end, Koch nominally backed Carter but also made it clear that his opponent, Ronald Reagan, wouldn't be so bad. He invited Reagan to a courtesy visit at Gracie Mansion and even praised Reagan during the campaign at a time when the Democrats were trying to demonize him (see "The Last Sane Liberal," Winter 2012).
Another New York–related aspect of the 1980 race involved the South Bronx. In 1977, Carter had visited the Bronx's Charlotte Street and blamed the borough's blight on one of his predecessors, asking his secretary of housing and urban development a leading question: "Most of this occurred in the last five years after Nixon cut off the urban renewal funds?" During the 1980 campaign, Reagan employed much the same tactic and visited the Bronx, which was little improved from the days of Carter's 1977 trip. Reagan said that he had not "seen anything that looked like this since London after the Blitz." Thanks in part to Koch and to the Bronx imagery, Reagan won New York, a Republican feat hard to imagine today.
Reagan held little natural affection for New York; during the 1975 budget crisis, he had said, "My sympathy is not of the greatest in regard to New York City." But on a March 1981 visit to New York, the newly elected president announced that he was unfreezing funding for two city development projects important to Koch. The mayor, for his part, told reporters at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel: "I'm not here to defend Ronald Reagan, but I'll tell you I like him. He's a man of character." A White House aide in the back of the room asked a reporter: "Three guesses who we help more, Koch or Hatcher?" He was referring to Richard Hatcher, the mayor of Gary, Indiana, who had recently attacked Reagan publicly over the president's budget. The New York Times's Steven Weisman noted that "the White House officials were, in effect, commending Mr. Koch for his political acumen—a seeming recognition that deep cuts are inevitable and that soft words might be more effective in taking the sharp edge off their impact."
President Reagan gave one of his finest speeches in New York. On July 3, 1986, he welcomed French president François Mitterrand, Chrysler president Lee Iacocca, and thousands of New Yorkers to celebrate the centennial of the Statue of Liberty. The speech is best remembered for Reagan's reference to America as a "shining city upon a hill," an elaboration on John Winthrop's formulation of "a city upon a hill," which the Puritan leader drew from the Sermon on the Mount. Less noted is how New York–heavy the speech was, as when Reagan quoted Harry Truman: "I've never seen anything that looked so good as the Liberty Lady in New York Harbor."
Reagan was the last Republican to carry New York in a presidential election. The state that had swung the balance in so many presidential contests has been solidly blue since 1988. In 1992, President George H. W. Bush's reelection campaign was so sure that it would lose the Empire State that running mate Dan Quayle even called out New York as an example of failed liberal welfare policies. This movement of New York into the permanently blue column has damaged the previously vibrant relationship between presidents and America's largest city. These days, presidential trips to New York seem artificial. Presidents still go there for the United Nations General Assembly, for example, but it always seems more like a foreign trip than like a visit to the Big Apple.
George W. Bush's trips to New York following the 9/11 terror attacks were exceptions to that artificiality. When Bush visited Ground Zero for the first time, he was pressed to give impromptu remarks to the rescue workers gathered there. The president, who had not yet given an inspiring post-attack speech, joined a retired firefighter on the rubble and started to speak into a megaphone. At first, Bush wasn't sure what to say, and a voice in the crowd shouted: "We can't hear you!" The comment seemed to energize Bush, who replied: "Well, I can hear you. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd loved it, and the chants of "USA! USA!" showed that the president had given the nation the inspiring moment it needed.
Another memorable post–9/11 moment came on October 30, 2001, when Bush visited Yankee Stadium to throw out the first ball in Game Three of the World Series between the Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Security was tight, and Bush wore a bulky bulletproof vest under a dark blue Yankees jacket. While he was warming up his arm in the Yankee clubhouse, shortstop Derek Jeter approached and asked, "Hey, Mr. President, are you going to throw from the mound or from in front of it?" Given the restrictions of the vest, Bush thought he might throw from in front of the mound, an easier task, but Jeter didn't think that was a good idea. "Throw from the mound," he urged the president. "Or else they'll boo you." Bush agreed. Then Jeter added another suggestion: "But don't bounce it." Fortunately for Bush, he threw a solid strike. Later, he remembered that Jeter's warning made him so nervous that "the baseball felt like a shot put."
September 11, an extraordinary circumstance, merited multiple presidential visits to New York. But these days, the logistical challenges of getting a president to the city, which include security so extensive that it creates traffic nightmares, often make the trip more trouble than it's worth. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, President Barack Obama offered to come to New York, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked him not to: "We would love to have him, but we've got lots of things to do." Bloomberg stressed that he meant no disrespect; Obama visited New Jersey instead.
New York remains an occasional entertainment destination for American presidents, but most frequently, they use the city as a political cash machine, holding big-money fund-raisers there because of New York's abundance of wealthy donors. Most of these visits are dull in-and-outs to the duplexes of hedge-fund moguls, though Obama has managed to capitalize on New York's celebrity scene to raise money: he held a "Barack on Broadway" evening at the New Amsterdam Theatre with James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Stockard Channing, and Patti LuPone, and he appeared at a fund-raiser cohosted by Vogue's Anna Wintour and Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker.
If current trends continue, twenty-first-century stories of presidents and New York City will likely pale in comparison with the rich and varied tales of earlier eras. That's a loss for New York, to be sure, and likely a loss for the presidents and the nation as well.


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Las Vegas shooter's motive still elusive after deadly attack
Eric Andrew-Gee
This article was published more than 5 years ago. Some information may no longer be current.
Police found a further 19 firearms at Stephen Paddock's home in Mesquite, along with thousands of rounds of ammunition, and pounds of the exploding target material Tannerite.Robyn Beck/AFP / Getty Images
Two days after Stephen Paddock killed dozens and injured hundreds more in a hail of bullets from the window of a Las Vegas hotel room, far more is known about how he committed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history than why he did it.
The image of Mr. Paddock painted by acquaintances and family in U.S. media reports has been puzzlingly ordinary – a sharp contrast from the killer who showered gunfire on a country-music festival on Sunday night before shooting himself dead as police converged on his 32nd-floor suite.
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But if the wealthy gambler and happily retired accountant is hard to square with the notorious mass murderer, his personal armoury of guns, ammunition and explosives point to weeks of cold-blooded planning on the part of the resident of Mesquite, Nev.
Investigators found 23 guns in his room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, media reports said Tuesday, including a range of military-style rifles such as the DDM4, the AK-47 and the AR-15. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of Clark County, Nev., said Mr. Paddock had scopes for some of his weapons.
Authorities said on Monday that Mr. Paddock transported his arsenal to his room using more than 10 suitcases before the attack. After breaking the windows of his suite in two places with a hammer, he fired on the crowd of more than 20,000 for about nine minutes.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Mr. Lombardo said Mr. Paddock had cameras inside and outside his room during the shooting.
Police found a further 19 firearms at Mr. Paddock's home in Mesquite, along with thousands of rounds of ammunition, and pounds of the exploding target material Tannerite. An undisclosed quantity of ammonium nitrate, a common component in homemade bombs, was found in Mr. Paddock's car.
Another cache of five handguns, two shotguns and a "plethora" of ammunition was discovered at a home of Mr. Paddock in Reno, Nev., Mr. Lombardo said. That brings Mr. Paddock's known stock of firearms to 49.
The size of his arsenal suggests the shooting was "preplanned extensively," said Mr. Lombardo, who added that the speed of the police response saved "hundreds" of lives.
Reports from three gun shops in Nevada and Utah say that Mr. Paddock bought many of his guns legally, passing federal background checks. Nevada does not require the registration of firearms or a permit to buy them, according to the National Rifle Association.
Even as details of his weapons stockpile add up, facts pointing to Mr. Paddock's motive for the massacre remain elusive. It emerged on Tuesday that he had worked for the U.S. Postal Service and the Internal Revenue Service decades ago.
A 2013 study by the Congressional Research Service found certain demographic and psychological trends in the previous 30 years worth of data on American mass shooters. Mr. Paddock does not appear to fit the bill.
The study found that the shooters tended to be young men with an acute interest in weapons; Mr. Paddock was 64 and until recently was not known by his family to be a gun enthusiast.
Mass shooters also tend to feel aggrieved by life and dwell on past slights, believing themselves to be on the outside looking in, the study found; by all available accounts, Mr. Paddock was content with the simple life he led, satisfying his gambling habit with a small fortune accumulated through real estate investment and dispersed during frequent trips to Las Vegas, just over an hour's drive from the suburban home he shared with a long-time girlfriend.
Mr. Lombardo said on Tuesday that the girlfriend, Marilou Danley, 62, was currently in the Philippines and was considered a "person of interest" in the investigation, although police said on Monday that she is not believed to have been involved in the attack.
NBC News reported on Tuesday that Mr. Paddock wired $100,000 to a bank account in the Philippines in the days leading up to the shooting.
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TVU Networks has announced that it will provide rental packages and on-the-ground technical support throughout this summers' international football tournament in all 12 Russian cities that will be hosting matches. The tournament will commence next month, with over 150 pieces of TVU Networks equipment and local SIM Cards already lined up to enable broadcasters to successfully deliver matches and tournament news to consumers across the globe.
Solutions hired will include the TVU One, which transmits signals over 3G, 4G/LTE wireless portable and fixed video transmitters. The portable solution for remote, anywhere live broadcast and streaming also incorporates TVU's proprietary technology Inverse StatMux Plus (IS+). This secures bandwidth by transmitting the video signal over multiple channels simultaneously. This technology enables broadcasters of the tournament to guarantee their top-tier connectivity at the event by being able to push a larger amount of data over the network.
Inverse StatMux Plus also combats network instability through intelligently monitoring each network connection in real-time, making corrections and adjustments as network conditions change. Use of the HEVC/H.265 video compression standard also reduces video production costs as less data is used while shots are still of the highest quality.
"TVU Networks has the solutions required for live video broadcasting of high profile national and global events from sports tournaments through to coronations, natural disasters and elections," explained Paul Shen, CEO, TVU Networks. "We are constantly looking for ways to help our customers reduce their video production costs while allowing them to deliver the best live shots regardless of the transmission environment. We're excited to be part of this world-renowned sports event and look forward to supporting broadcasters using TVU equipment, whether owned or hired, at this event and many other international sport competitions in the future".


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President Clinton, responding to a Mexican complaint, has told President Ernesto Zedillo that the United States should have informed Mexican authorities about an American undercover money-laundering sting there, the White House said today.
''President Clinton expressed regret that better prior consultation had not been possible in this case,'' said the White House spokesman, Michael D. McCurry. Mr. McCurry confirmed that Mr. Clinton had called Mr. Zedillo after Mr. Zedillo had condemned the secret use of American undercover agents in his country.
Mr. Clinton called on Friday, after Mexico had formally complained about the three-year inquiry. The sting culminated last week in 160 indictments, including at least 24 Mexican bankers. Many were lured to the United States, where they were arrested.
Mr. McCurry said the Presidents had agreed that ''the U.S.-Mexico counterdrug partnership is vital to success'' of fighting drug trafficking.
American aides they did not notify Mexico out of fear of endangering the agents.


The latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC spells it out very clearly: we have no time to waste in our efforts to limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5 ºC above pre-industrial levels. Even if we achieve this, we need to be prepared for wide-ranging changes to ecosystems, biodiversity and pose high risk to human systems supported by ecosystem services (i.e. all of us).
Waiting for the global community to agree on the science, targest, mitigation measures, we've collectively wasted too much time already.
Well, each of us can start with questioning our personal addiction to STUFF and our gullability when it comes to marketing arousing our desire for STUFF.
My (no) Time to Waste! series of posts will be a diary of wastefulness: Our calendars are punctuated with celebrations that are essentially about love. Most of them have been hijacked by people who make a lot of money from producing, shipping, selling us STUFF we don't need to celebrate, and in many cases deflect our attention. And a lot of this STUFF involved is of such poor quality and short-lived of appeal that it rapidly becomes waste, which opens up another can of worms: waste management – or lack thereof….
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The BBC and ITV are in the concluding phase of talks to establish a strategic partnership to bring a new streaming service, BritBox, to UK audiences. The broadcasters are have agreed a joint vision for the service and are now working on a formal legal agreement. They anticipate that other partners will be added to BritBox and both will speak to regulators and the wider industry about their proposals.
The number of households using two or more SVOD services has risen by 40% from 2.8 million to just under 4 million in the past year.
Not a complete guide but here's some of the material that we cover when a new starter joins VOD Professional.


Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) will host an exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birthday of James Robertson, a leading nineteenth-century photographer.
Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) is hosting an exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birthday of James Robertson, a leading nineteenth-century photographer. The exhibition features Robertson's original photographs and watercolor paintings from the Ömer M. Koç Collection, curated by Bahattin Öztuncay. Titled "Robertson, Photographer and Engraver in the Ottoman Capital" the exhibition will be open till February 2, 2013 in the RCAC's gallery in Istanbul.
A selection of works by the renowned photographer James Robertson (1813-1888) who served as chief engraver of the Ottoman Imperial Mint, will be on display between November 27, 2013 and February 2, 2014, in the RCAC's gallery on İstiklal Street, Istanbul. "Robertson, Photographer and Engraver in the Ottoman Capital" will feature examples of his photographs and watercolor paintings as well as his works from the Imperial Mint. Curated by Bahattin Öztuncay, all of the original photographs and watercolors in the exhibition are selected from the Ömer M. Koç Collection.
Robertson, one of the most notable names of nineteenth-century photography, received his vocational training in the London Royal Mint and remained the chief engraver of the Ottoman Imperial Mint for forty years, serving four successive sultans including Sultan Abdülmecid and Sultan Abdülaziz. He prepared designs, molds and models for gold and silver coins and in the 1850s also started to develop an interest in photography. James Robertson is the first photographer working in Istanbul known to have taken 360° panoramic photographs of the city. He gained much renown with his Istanbul photographs, as well as with the photo series he produced of Athens in 1854, of the Crimean War between 1854 and 1855, and of Jerusalem and Cairo, which he prepared in 1857 and which were displayed in exhibitions in London and Paris.
"Robertson, Photographer and Engraver in the Ottoman Capital" features not only his outstanding works for the Imperial Mint, but also reveals his mastery and manifold talents as an artist capable of creating stunning photographs and watercolor paintings of his adopted city's colorful life, of its unique scenery, and its matchless monuments and art objects. The exhibition also includes numerous photos from Athens, the Crimea, Jerusalem and Cairo. An accompanying exhibition catalogue, prepared by Bahattin Öztuncay, presents Robertson's biography alongside his works.
"Turkish Woman in outdoor dress", Robertson, 1855, Ömer M. Koç Collection.
"The Span of the Ecce Homo Arch, Jerusalem", Robertson & Beato, 1857, Ömer M. Koç Collection.
"Porter", Robertson, 1855, Ömer M. Koç Collection.
"Galata, Azapkapı Fountain", Robertson & Beato, 1857, Ömer M. Koç Collection.
"Tophane Coast and Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque", Robertson & Beato, 1857, Ömer M. Koç Collection.
"James Robertson and Felice Beato", self-portrait, 1855, Ömer M. Koç Collection.
"Galata Tower", Robertson & Beato, 1857, Ömer M. Koç Collection.
"Büyükdere, Istanbul", Robertson & Beato, 1857, Ömer M. Koç Collection.
- 1813, 7 November; baptised in the Church of St. Martin in the Fields, in London.
- 1833; started to work for the Royal Mint in London..
- 1833-1840; four medals produced by Robertson were exhibited at the London Royal Academy until 1840.
- 1840, 30 April; Sultan Abdülmecid's rescript ordering the reform of the coinage and the procurement of the necessary tools and equipment from London.
- 1841; arrival of the machinery and a team of engineers and foremen from the Royal Mint to install it and get it operating in Istanbul.
- 1843, 17 January; strucking of the first gold coins from the dies produced as a result of James Robertson's efforts.
- 1844, 3 May; first modern silver coins went into production struck from dies prepared by Robertson.
- 1844-1877 on the basis of official mint records, Robertson was responsible for the design and execution of no less than 26 different medals between 1841 and 1877.
- 1853, summer; getting started in photography as a sideline.
- 1853, October; his first photographs of Istanbul published in "Photographic Views of Constantinople" in London.
- 1853, November; Prince Albert purchased a selection of his Istanbul photographs; on the basis of the expenditure records of the Privy Treasury, these are the first photographs purchased for the royal family's collections.
- 1853/54; opening of the studio on Grand Rue de Pera, 293 at the corner of Rue de la Postes; (presently the location of the Arter building).
- 1854 May; the first Istanbul photographer known to have taken 360° panoramic photographs of the city from the Beyazıt Tower.
- 1854, taking photographs in Athens; published under "Grecian Antiquities" in London.
- 1855, January-February; showing a selection Istanbul photographs during the International London Exhibition.
- 1855, 19 April; marriage with Matilda Beato in the Saint Helens Church of Pera.
- 1855, May; taking his first Crimean War photographs.
- 1855/57; cooperation with Felice Beato, his brother-in-law.
- 1855, 15 May-15 November; taking part at the International Paris Exhibition with Istanbul and Athens photographs.
- 1855, 11 September; new Crimean War series after the capture of Sebastopol by Allied Forces.
- 1855, December; showing of Istanbul and Crimean War images at the Kilburn studio in London.
- 1856, summer; taking photographs in Malta.
- 1856, 20 December; sent his Istanbul panorama to the exhibition of the "Edinburgh Photographic Society of Scotland".
- 1857; took a second panoramic view from the Tower of Beyazıt together with his partner Felice Beato.
- 1857, March-April; taking photographs in Jerusalem and Cairo.
- 1857, 5 May-17 October; sent Crimean War images to the exhibition of "Manchester Art Treasures".
- 1858, January; taking part at the exhibition of the "Architectural Photographic Association" in London with his Istanbul, Athens and Malta photographs.
- 1858, March; Felice Beato's departure from Istanbul, travelling to India and China; then settled in Japan.
- 1858, December; taking part at the next exhibition of the "Architectural Photographic Association" in London with his Cairo photographs.
- 1860, January; sent Istanbul and Jerusalem images to the third exhibition of the same institution.
- 1867, September-November; the sale of the studio and abandoning his career as a photographer.
- 1869, June; appointed as a member of the "Imperial Coinage Commission" at the Ottoman Mint.
- 1881, April; showing a series of his six watercolors of Istanbul views and costume studies at the II. Fine Arts Exhibition of the Club-ABC in Pera.
- 1881, 29 October; a farewell ceremony in his honor was held at the Imperial Ottoman Mint and he went into retirement after 40 years of service under four sultans.
- 1881, 9 November; departure from Istanbul by sea with his wife Matilda and their three daughters.
- 1882, 2 February; arrival in Yokohama, Japan; where his brother-in-law, Felice Beato was living as a successful businessman.
- 1887, 6 January; marriage of his 27 years old daughter Beatrix in Yokohama.
- 1888, 18 April; James Robertson dies in Yokohama, at the age of 75.
- 1888, 18 June; news of his death took two months to reach Istanbul and was reported by The Levant Herald.
- 1892, 10 April; Matilda Robertson and one of her daughters left Yokohama by ship, never to return again.


Computer Application Services (CAS) has thrown its support behind a new coding academy aiming to train up Scotland's next generation of world-class software developers.
There is a shortage of about 11,000 skilled digital professionals in Scotland and Edinburgh-based CodeClan is planning to help fill that gap.
CAS has become an Employer Partner of CodeClan, pledging support by providing master-classes and coaching sessions for budding new programmers.
In return CAS will get access to the bright new talent who have taken the intensive 16-week courses offered by CodeClan.
Chris Ellis, Chief Technical Officer at CAS, says: "One of the big problems facing software organisations in Scotland and the rest of the UK is access to qualified technical staff. There simply aren't enough of them.
"Apparently Edinburgh is now the third largest centre for technology in the UK so there is considerable demand for talent.
"As a small organisation our needs for new staff are not substantial but even so we need to make sure we can recruit high quality software developers.
CAS has a dedicated team of software developers who create and update our case and complaints management software Workpro.
CodeClan has also been supported by the Scottish Government, Scotland's digital trade body ScotlandIS and Skills Development Scotland.
Michael Pavling, Director of Curriculum and Learning at CodeClan, says: " Our mission is to produce high quality job-ready software developers who have the skills employers really need.


In the countries inside the European Community the Bachelor of Arts is automatically recognized as a final university degree, complying with the directives of the European Parliament concerning degrees recognition.
The B.A. does not refer to Italian systems such as the MIUR or the AFAM, nor to the Regio Decreto of June 4th 1938. Jam Academy vision broadens the horizons, focusing on quality of the services, innovation and real needs of the music industry.
Our B.A. is released directly by British universities and boards, Institutional Approval procedures are held during the courses to control the quality of the service we provide. Our Degrees are immediately aknowledged in the UK, Commonwealth, European Union and United States and they can be aknowledged in Italy with the "Equipollenza del titolo" procedure. All of this allowed, since 2003, an excellent international mobility of our alumni.
B.A. and Italian University Degree: are they the same thing?
No, they are not! Our degree is a foreign diploma giving the same amount of CFU (educational credits) of an Italian degree, but still remains a foreign diploma. In Italy, to redeem the validity of our degree the students must request the "Equipollenza del Titolo" procedure (for more informations see CIMEA Centro Informazioni Mobilità Equivalenze Accademiche). This procedure is rather complex and we suggest you look for on of the many extensive guides found on line on the topic.
Ask for more informations by contacting our Educational Tutor.
* E.Q.F. = European Qualification Framework come da indicazione del Parlamento Europeo.