NEW TRANSLATIONS JULY 2018—click here for the CRN-I translation center with links articles relevant to international regulatory science for nutrients and food (dietary) supplements, proceedings from past CRN-I symposiums, and more—available in English, with translations in languages including: Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Dr. Griffiths is responsible for CRN's science-based international policy and regulatory work, and is the CRN staff liaison for CRN-International (CRN-I). He has more than 30 years of experience in the area of food safety and regulatory affairs. Prior to joining CRN, he spent five years with the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) where he managed food and dietary supplement strategic initiatives, including those related to global food and dietary supplement alliances. He began his career as a regulatory review toxicologist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. His background also includes various scientific and regulatory positions at Burdock and Associates, the Flavor & Extract Manufacturers' Association, International Specialty Products, Avon Products, and others. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed publications and has an adjunct faculty appointment at the JSS University System in Mysore, Karnataka, India. Dr. Griffiths holds a B.A. in biology from Columbia Union College in Maryland, earned his Ph.D. in Toxicology from Rutgers University & Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, and completed post-doctoral training at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Dr. Wong is an integral part of CRN's science and regulatory affairs department, responding to emerging scientific and regulatory issues as well as advocating for science-based nutrition. Her regulatory expertise includes a working knowledge of international health claims, preparation of technical submissions to international regulatory agencies, and designing regulatory strategies for marketing products in global jurisdictions. Prior to joining CRN, she worked as a senior scientific and regulatory consultant for the highly respected consulting firm Intertek Cantox, formerly Cantox Health and Sciences International, in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Wong has published in scientific journals, including Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. Dr. Wong earned her B.S. in Life Sciences from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Ontario.
Ms. Atkinson serves as a resource for CRN's member companies seeking advice on their quality control programs. As part of the Scientific & Regulatory Affairs department at CRN, she assists CRN members with understanding and complying with federal cGMP regulations and other regulatory requirements. She has more than 15 years of experience in quality control and management, having served in management positions for a number of dietary supplement companies, including Renew Life Formulas, New Chapter, and SwissCaps. Ms. Atkinson has a B.S. in Microbiology with a minor in Biotechnology from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Dickinson is a consultant on dietary supplement regulation and food and nutrition policy, and is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota. She worked in Washington, D.C., for over 30 years for the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association of the dietary supplement industry. During that time, she was responsible for regulatory and scientific affairs for CRN and served as the association's President prior to her retirement and move to Minnesota in 2005.
Dr. Dickinson is the author of CRN's publication The Benefits of Nutritional Supplements, a comprehensive review of the evidence demonstrating the health benefits of core nutritional supplements including multivitamins. She was appointed in 2002 to serve a 3-year term on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Advisory Committee. She was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels (1995-1997) and has been a frequent witness before the U.S. Congress and at other public forums. Her expertise includes the legal and technical aspects of marketing dietary supplements, including provisions relating to labeling, advertising, and good manufacturing practices. She earned her Ph.D. in nutritional sciences and her M.S. in food sciences from the University of Maryland.


The Supreme Court opened its new term this week, but hardly anyone noticed. Instead the attention is drawn to the one empty seat and the process to fill it. The descriptive terms in the media tell us all we need to know about the faulty process: chaos, contentious, meltdown, Armageddon, battle, wounds, nuclear option, battle lines. One justice's retirement has opened up bitter divides and has led to all-out warfare in Washington.
Surprise primary victories by "democratic socialists" in New York and Pennsylvania have created a buzz about millennials and socialism. Bernie Sanders was the prophet of this movement, attracting strong support among young people for his ideas about democratic socialism in the 2016 presidential campaign. Still, people were surprised when a YouGov poll showed that young people (under 30) preferred socialism to capitalism 43 to 32 percent. With these recent political wins, some wonder whether the Democratic Party will undergo a socialist realignment, just as Donald Trump led a populist reinvention of the Republican Party.
In the 2016 presidential campaign, tiny Denmark found itself front and center as Bernie Sanders pointed to it as a model for his democratic socialist ideals, and Hillary Clinton felt compelled to admire it in one of the debates. But something was wrong, if not rotten, about that characterization of the state of Denmark. Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen clarified that his country was not socialist, but rather "a market economy" with "an expanded welfare state." High taxes and lots of government benefits, yes, but not a government-controlled economy. Ah, there's the very important difference.
It would appear that today's millennials are most interested in free college education, retirement of student debt, and help getting into the difficult housing market, but less interested in government controlling the means of production and distribution. In fact, a 2014 Reason-Rupe survey of young people (ages 18-24) confirmed their admiration for socialism at 58 percent. But when pollsters then asked whether they wanted governments or businesses leading the economy, they preferred markets by a two-to-one margin.
The real problem is that millennials do not seem to have a good understanding of what socialism is. In a 2010 NYT/CBS poll, only 16 percent of young people could accurately define socialism. (Not to be too hard on millennials, older folks only responded appropriately to that question at a 30 percent clip).
I am not suggesting that there are no hard-core socialists in the mix. The Democratic Socialists of America has grown dramatically since the Bernie Sanders campaign, from 7,000 members to 37,000. They could fill a small island, if not an actual city or state. But they are true believers, calling for "popular control of resources and production, economic planning and equitable distribution" in their Constitution. And they have endorsed their fellow democratic socialists in New York and Pennsylvania.
But the real question is about the millions of millennials, and I think this generation, which has been coddled by helicopter parents and seeks "safe spaces" when they go off to college, basically wants more free stuff from the government. Their concern is not who controls the means of production and distribution — in fact, they do not even understand that is what socialism is. Besides, with the voter turnout among millennials so poor — only half of those eligible voted in 2016, compared with two-thirds of older cohorts — it will be awhile before their vote will show up and make a difference. By then, the old saw says they will have paid enough taxes and experienced enough government regulation that they are likely to view things differently.
Mark me down as skeptical that a huge socialist millennial wave is about to hit our shores.


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Youngest ever Briton mother, 11, gives birth to healthy baby
Kathy Vittetoe 06/28/21, 00:11
A baby rests in a blanket on Sept. 1, 2016. (Pexels via Pixabay)
An 11-year-old girl has become the youngest mother to give birth in the United Kingdom.
The child was only 10-years-old when she first received the news, and was pregnant for more than 30 weeks before successfully giving birth in early June 2021. The infant is in good health and temporarily in the care of primary health professionals.
"This is the youngest mother I have heard of," doctor Carol Cooper said according to the New York Post.
Cooper suspects there might be a link between obesity and the growing number of reported teenage births. Although the average age a girl begins puberty is 11, the process can happen anytime between 8 and 14.
"Weight affects many hormones," she said. "Because children are heavier, puberty is happening earlier these days."
However, the doctor does not recommend deliberately pursing teenage pregnancy because it can cause a number of health challenges.
"There is a higher risk of a low-birthweight baby, pre-eclampsia, premature labour and many infections," she said according to the Sun newspaper.
The school girl, who is too young to identify, caught many of her family members off guard when she was found to be pregnant.
"Around one in every 2,500 births happens to someone who does not know she is pregnant [or has hidden it,]" Cooper said according to the paper.
The Department of Health and Social Care and police are investigating the circumstances in which the girl became pregnant.
This is not the first time a record-breaking adolescent pregnancy was reported. The previous record-holder was Tressa Middleton, who was only 12-years-old when she gave birth back in 2006.
The United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and abortion compared to Western Europe.
According to figures from the Office for National Statistics, the average teen pregnancy rate in England and Wales was 23.3 for every 1,000 women aged between 15 and 17. There were a total of 5,740 pregnancies under the age of 18 in the three months to June 2014, compared to 6,279 for the same period in 2013.
In 1999, the then left-leaning Labour Party government launched a 10 year Teenage Pregnancy Strategy for England to halve the conception rate for under-18s.
The strategy involved sex and relationships education, access to effective contraceptives, coordinated support for young parents, and a communications campaign targeting both youth and parents.
This steadily decreased the rate of under-18 conceptions, with the 2014 under-18 conception rate 51 percent lower than the 1998 baseline. There were also considerably fewer cases in high-poverty demographics.
United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA's) 2013 report "Adolescent Pregnancy: a Review of the Evidence" only supports procreating in adulthood due to the "irreparable consequences" of adolescent pregnancy.
"It violates the rights of girls, with life-threatening consequences in terms of sexual and reproductive health, and poses high development costs for communities–particularly in perpetuating the cycle of poverty," UNPFA said in the report.
Teenage pregnancies are also linked to lower educational attainment and poverty. In wealthier countries, it frequently occurs outside of marriage.
Adolescents, who are more exposed to sexuality in the media, are also more likely to participate in sexual activities. Teens exposed to the "most sexual content on TV are twice as likely" to become pregnant before reaching the age of 20, according to Time Magazine.
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Home / Latest / Apple unveils rumoured iPad mini, new iMac and MacBook Pro
Apple unveils rumoured iPad mini, new iMac and MacBook Pro
Julian Yeo
Apple has called upon their throngs of press members to help gaze upon their fancy new wares, just over a month since their iPhone-related press conference.
Unveiled to the crowd was the device that spun rumour mills after the iPhone 5 was announced. The iPad mini is essentially a scaled down version of any non-retina display iPad with a 7.9-inch screen that's still able to be held (barely) with one hand. The screen contains a 1024×768 resolution like that of the original iPad and the iPad 2. The device is only 7.2mm thin, has a FaceTime HD camera, a dual-core A5 chip, Siri and uses the new Lightning dock connector. The iPad mini is expected to go on sale in Singapore in November. Pre-orders on Apple's website start October 26th from S$448.
iPad with Retina Display
I suppose calling it the "new-new" iPad didn't go well with marketing. Apple also unveiled a refresh on the current-generation iPad (The New iPad) by giving it a boost with a dual-core A6X quad-core graphics chip. The iPad with Retina Display retains its retina display from its predecessor and also uses the new Lightning dock connector. "Predecessor" is right. Apple is taking The New iPad model with the 30-pin dock connector and replacing it entirely with the iPad with Retina Display. The iPad 2 still gets to hang around, though. The iPad with Retina Display will go from S$658.
This was the one that blew me away. Apple showed-off their new iMac that is only 5mm thick at the edge. First impressions was the iMac was 5mm-thick all around, but that isn't the case. The iMac still needs room to house it's hardware, so it has a convex back. But having that 5mm edge and everything held more compactly means it's lighter and uses less materials. It also calls for some serious new technology, so the iMac is "welded" together through friction stir welding, the same process used for aircraft hulls. The new iMac naturally loses its Optical Drive (it's available sold separately). Apple is trying to tell us something, like they did with the floppy disc drive. Prices start from S$1788.
13″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display
When Apple released word of a 15″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display, some of us went, "It's a big resolution, but is it too big?" So to those naysayers, Apple released the 13″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Like its 15″ brother, it has no optical drive, and completely makes use of flash storage. The 13-inch is capable of a 2560×1600 resolution or have things scaled down to a maximum of 1680×1050 (the 15-inch has a 2880×1800 retina resolution). The 13″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display is naturally a more-affordable version of the line, for those who want to lug something smaller around. Prices start from S$2388.
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The European Union values diversity and inclusion; yet at the level of its member states, many examples of exclusion and polarisation can be found, whether the focus is on gender, ethnicity, religion or sexuality. The research project "Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies (QUING)" tackled these issues to provide the knowledge for inclusive gender+ equality policies. QUING was funded within the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme over a period of 54 months (2006-2011).
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EU minimum wage proposal should make sure workers in the east 'get their fair share'
Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, has said that the idea of a common, uniform minimum wage for the whole of the European Union is "unrealistic", and "totally impossible".
"It would be irresponsible," he told the press this week after presenting a Commission proposal that seeks to ensure workers throughout the Union are protected by adequate minimum wages allowing for a decent living wherever they work. "What we want is better convergence, reducing gaps, improving wages, creating a positive dynamic around minimum wages, and around wages in general," he said. "But this does not mean the introduction of a uniform minimum wage, this is not the case. It would destroy the economy of Bulgaria if the country adopted the same minimum wage as Luxembourg. Tomorrow there would be no Bulgarian economy."
Bulgaria currently has the EU's lowest minimum wage, 312 euros per month, while Luxembourg has the highest, at 2,142 euros.
According the European Commission, almost 10 per cent of workers in the EU are living in poverty.
"People who have a job should not be struggling to make ends meet. Minimum wages have to play catch up with other wages which have seen growth in recent decades, leaving minimum wages lagging behind. Collective bargaining should be the gold standard across all member states. Ensuring adequate minimum wages is written in black and white in Principle Six of the European Pillar of Social Rights, which all member states have endorsed, so we are counting on their continued commitment," added Mr Schmit.
The Commission believes that ensuring a decent living for workers and reducing in-work poverty is not only important during the current crisis brought about by Covid-19, but is also essential for a sustainable and inclusive economic recovery.
"The proposal for adequate minimum wages is an important signal that even in times of crisis, the dignity of work must be sacred," added President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. "We have seen that for too many people, work no longer pays. Workers should have access to adequate minimum wages and a decent standard of living. What we propose today is a framework for minimum wages, in full respect of national traditions and the freedom of social partners. Improving working and living conditions will not only protect our workers, but also employers that pay decent wages, and create the basis for a fair, inclusive and resilient recovery."
President von der Leyen promised to present a legal instrument to ensure that the workers in the EU have a fair minimum wage at the start of her mandate and repeated her pledge in her first State of the Union address in September.
Minimum wages currently exist in all EU member states. While 21 countries have statutory minimum wages, six (Denmark, Italy, Cyprus, Austria, Finland and Sweden) offer minimum wage protection via collective agreements. Yet, in the majority of member states, workers are affected by insufficient adequacy and/or gaps in the coverage of minimum wage protection. In light of this, the Commission's proposal would create a framework to improve the adequacy of minimum wages and for access of workers to minimum wage protection in the EU.
Some EU member states – notable Denmark and Sweden – are opposed to a bloc-wide framework, however.
"It is the unions and the employers who negotiate collective agreements every year or two years or whatever the length is, and that has worked very well," said Hans Dahlgren, Sweden's European affairs minister. "We don't want this directive."
The Commission's says that its proposal fully respects the subsidiary principle: it sets a framework for minimum standards, respecting and reflecting member states' competences and social partners' autonomy and contractual freedom in the field of wages. It does not oblige member states to introduce statutory minimum wages, nor does it set a common minimum wage level.
Executive Vice-President for an Economy that Works for People Valdis Dombrovskis, said: "It is important to ensure that low wage workers also benefit from the economic recovery. With this proposal we want to make sure that workers in the EU earn a decent living wherever they work. Social partners have a crucial role to play in negotiating wages nationally and locally. We support their freedom to negotiate wages autonomously, and where this is not possible, we give a framework to guide member states in setting minimum wages."
Organisations representing Europe's workers have broadly welcomed the proposals.
"Commissioner Schmit's proposal is a positive step as it is the only way to achieve real change," said Esther Lynch, deputy general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). "Workers throughout the EU, in particular in the east, are as productive as in the west but they are not getting their fair share."
The ETUC is calling for a threshold of decency – below which statutory minimum wages cannot fall – to be included in the legal provisions of any directive that emerge from the proposals. The ETUC has suggested that the threshold be 60 per cent of the median wage and 50 per cent of the average wage.
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namespace MessageBird\Resources\Voice;

use MessageBird\Common;
use MessageBird\Exceptions;
use MessageBird\Objects;

/**
 * Class Recordings
 *
 * @package MessageBird\Resources\Voice
 */
class Recordings
{
    /**
     * @var \MessageBird\Common\HttpClient
     */
    protected $HttpClient;

    /**
     * @var Objects\Voice\Recording
     */
    protected $Object;

    /**
     * @param Common\HttpClient $HttpClient
     */
    public function __construct(Common\HttpClient $HttpClient)
    {
        $this->HttpClient = $HttpClient;
        $this->setObject(new Objects\Voice\Recording());
    }

    /**
     * @param $Object
     */
    public function setObject($Object)
    {
        $this->Object = $Object;
    }

    /**
     * @return Objects\Voice\Recording
     */
    public function getObject()
    {
        return $this->Object;
    }

    /**
     * @param string $callId
     * @param string $legId
     * @param array  $parameters
     *
     * @return Objects\Voice\Recording
     */
    public function getList($callId, $legId, $parameters = array())
    {
        list($status, , $body) = $this->HttpClient->performHttpRequest(
            Common\HttpClient::REQUEST_GET,
            "calls/$callId/legs/$legId/recordings",
            $parameters
        );

        if ($status === 200) {
            $body = json_decode($body);

            $items = $body->data;
            unset($body->data);

            $baseList = new Objects\BaseList();
            $baseList->loadFromArray($body);

            $objectName = $this->Object;

            foreach ($items as $item) {
                $object = new $objectName($this->HttpClient);

                $itemObject = $object->loadFromArray($item);
                $baseList->items[] = $itemObject;
            }
            return $baseList;
        }

        return $this->processRequest($body);
    }

    /**
     * @param string $callId
     * @param string $legId
     *
     * @return $this->Object
     */
    public function read($callId, $legId, $recordingId)
    {
        list(, , $body) = $this->HttpClient->performHttpRequest(Common\HttpClient::REQUEST_GET, "calls/$callId/legs/$legId/recordings/$recordingId");

        return $this->processRequest($body);
    }

    /**
     * @param string $callId
     * @param string $legId
     *
     * @return self|string
     */
    public function download($callId, $legId, $recordingId)
    {
        list($status, , $body) = $this->HttpClient->performHttpRequest(Common\HttpClient::REQUEST_GET, "calls/$callId/legs/$legId/recordings/$recordingId.wav");

        if ($status !== 200) {
            return $this->processRequest($body);
        }

        return $body;
    }

    /**
     * @param string $body
     *
     * @return Objects\Voice\Recording
     * @throws \MessageBird\Exceptions\RequestException
     * @throws \MessageBird\Exceptions\ServerException
     */
    public function processRequest($body)
    {
        $body = @json_decode($body);

        if ($body === null or $body === false) {
            throw new Exceptions\ServerException('Got an invalid JSON response from the server.');
        }

        if (empty($body->errors)) {
            return $this->Object->loadFromArray($body->data[0]);
        }

        $ResponseError = new Common\ResponseError($body);
        throw new Exceptions\RequestException($ResponseError->getErrorString());
    }
}

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The Londoner Magazine "Times Higher Education" chooses the top 100 most prestigious universities worldwide every year. More than 10.000 scientists voted for their ten favorites, that is, which universities they felt are the most renowned. This year, for the first time, two German rank among the top 40. The Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich occupied the 35th place, closely followed by the University of Heidelberg (also known as Ruperto Carola University) on the 38th place. Last year, the University of Heidelberg ranked 50th.
It doesn't come as a surprise that Ruperto Carola enjoys greater prestige than ever. The oldest university in Germany enjoys an excellent reputation not only in Germany but worldwide. In winter semester 2014/2015 almost 5.400 foreign students enrolled in the University of Heidelberg. It is famous for the wide range of degree programmes it offers – there are more than 100 majors students can chose from – and the fact that all its faculties are known for the quality of their teaching and research. Moreover, the location of Ruperto Carola in the center of Heidelberg's old town, famous for its beauty and a popular tourist attraction, is another reason for the university's popularity.
Heidelberg University has been Alma Mater to many thinkers, scientists and Nobel laureates, such as Max Weber, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Robert Bunsen, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel or Harald zur Hausen. The growing recognition of the university by both students and scientists alike proofs that its title as "elite university" is well-justified.


Team of Arkeologi Nasional Jakarta (Jakarta National Archaeological) led by Prof. Harry Truman Simanjuntak will conduct research and DNA testing millennia-old human skeletons that found in Gua Harimau (Tiger Cave), in Padang Bindu Village, Ogan Komering Ulu (OKU) regency, South Sumatra, Indonesia.
According to Wuryantari, a researcher from the Eijkman Molecular Biology Institute (Lembaga Biologi Molekuler Eijkman) as confirmed on the sidelines of the research in Gua Harimau, Baturaja on Monday, May 26, 2014 saying that DNA tests conducted aiming to identify the status of the relationship of human skeleton was found with today's modern society.
"We want to reveal whether it still has a human skeleton in genetically close kinship with the indigenous tribe in Ogan Komering Ulu," she said. She explained Similarly, DNA tests were conducted, among others, to examine the leg bones of the skeleton and take teeth sample.
"The bones are actually nice to be sampled, but the conditions must be compact in the sense of a thick layer of bone is not brittle and the best are the teeth," she said. She argues, that studied only four individuals of 78 skeletons have been found, ie the skull of the E11 sector, Individuals 54, 48 and 49 because it is most excellent to be tested.
"Later we will bring to Jakarta to analyze the possibility of civilization," said Wuryantari. According to her, the research done already digging in Gua Harimau to a depth of more than four meters in order to look for other human skeletons.
The results, while the two skeletons are buried and find the tools and human combustion performed earlier times. "Excavation of two meters is expected frame was 14 thousand years ago, when the depth of four meters allegedly living human skeleton 20 thousand years ago," he said.
Head of Tourism of Ogan Komering Ulu, Aufa Sarkomi stated that DNA tests performed are expected to know the possible relationship ancient human skeletons and modern times today. He said that so far have found as many as 78 human skeletons of two different races, ie the Austronesian and Austromelanesid. Subsequently, the next steps for making the teeth test and carbolic acid in the soil is one way to facilitate the research of human skeleton ages," he said.
Among the human skeleton that discovered by the Jakarta National Archaeological team alleged skeletons of the mother and child were buried in the same hole. "It's very attractive and has a very touching story because the position of the mother skeleton was holding his child on her stomach," said Prof Truman simanjuntak and accompanied by the Head of Tourism Ogan Komering Ulu (OKU), Aufa Sarkomi in Gua Harimau, Baturaja on Tuesday, May 27, 2014.


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Although proslavery forces are usually identified with a strong states' rights position, the legislature of Wisconsin adopted (1859) resolutions defending state sovereignty after the Supreme Court overruled the Wisconsin courts and upheld the conviction of an abolitionist editor for violating the fugitive slave law. Ultimately the proslavery states used states' rights doctrines to justify their secession.
: A Justification for Secession : Although proslavery forces are usually identified with a strong states' rights position, the legislature of Wisconsin adopted (1859) resolutions defending state sovereignty after the Supreme Court overruled the Wisconsin courts and upheld the conviction of an abolitionist editor for violating the fugitive slave law. Ultimately the proslavery states used states' rights doctrines to justify their secession.


This Puchie Deer Soap Dispenser is so adorable. I have got two of the yellow ones, which I bought at a Dutch gift shop (in Utrecht). They brightened up the kitchen and toilet, but to be honest I got a bit tired of refilling them.
Bento boxes shapped like animals and a loaf of bread. The loaf used to be sold in many other colours, but I think the product is retired now.


I only have a couple of photos to share at this point, but will post more as soon as these quilts are returned. The doll you see pictured is one my daughters dolls she played with when she was little. Yes, the outfit is one that I made for my nephews baby. Isn't it CUTE!!!!


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Supreme Court rejects releasing jailed pro-independence leaders until verdict is out
Nine politicians and activists in preventive detention can be transferred back to Catalan prisons, Supreme Court decides
21 June 2019 01:02 PM
ACN|Madrid
The Supreme Court has ruled that the nine imprisoned leaders will have to remain in preventive detention until the verdict is out. It has decided to keep them in prison a week after the end of the trial's last phase prior to sentencing.
These nine pro-independence politicians and activists have been in jail for their role surrounding the failed 2017 Catalan independence bid, some for more than 20 months while awaiting their case's resolution.
The judges emphasized the need to "protect" the whole proceedings, meaning that they want to make sure that the imprisoned officials do not abscond and that they fulfill their sentences when the verdict is announced.
Reaction to UN calls for release: 'Lacking common sense'
Regarding the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's call on the Spanish judiciary to release them, the Supreme Court stated that "[their opinion] is not binding."
Despite acknowledging the influence of such institutions, it says that its report on the issue includes "bizarre statements, lacking any common sense and impossible to fit" in Spain's courts system.
Prisoners return to Catalonia
As for their transfer to Catalonia, the judges said "there is no obstacle for this to be made effective."
All nine spent months in penitentiary centers in the Madrid region immediately after being detained before being granted permission to be transferred to Catalan jails last July.
Yet in February, they were moved back to Madrid to attend the trial sessions.
This means that the seven male jailed officials will return to Lledoners prison, in central Catalonia, while Carme Forcadell will be moved to the Mas d'Enric center, in Tarragona, and Dolors Bassa to Puig de les Basses, in northern Catalonia.
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Cancer affects a person physically and emotionally. Feeling stressed, anxious or depressed is common during a cancer diagnosis. Individual counseling with a professional oncology social worker can provide emotional and practical support for those who are affected by cancer. Oncology social workers are experts in helping people find new ways to cope with the stress of a cancer diagnosis while providing guidance and support to people living with cancer and to their loved ones.
Seeking professional counseling is a positive coping behavior when you are feeling overwhelmed or are adjusting to a cancer diagnosis. Face-to-face or telephone counseling provides a safe space to share and examine various situations and challenges that you may face.
Learn new ways to cope with cancer. It can be devastating to hear the words "You have cancer" from a doctor, and the period immediately following a diagnosis can often be chaotic.. Managing doctor's visits, organizing your finances and understanding treatment options can be overwhelming. Individual counseling can help you prepare for what's ahead and identify ways you are already coping. An oncology social worker can help you identify your feelings and explore new ways to cope with the anxiety and stress that often accompany a cancer diagnosis.
Manage financial challenges. Cancer is an expensive illness and can magnify any financial burdens you are already facing. Even with health insurance, most people will have out-of-pocket costs for their medical care. Oncology social workers can help you research your financial assistance options that are available and that best fit your needs. This can include co-payments for medications, transportation assistance and help with living expenses such as rent or mortgage, utilities, car payment, insurance and food.
Talk to your loved ones about cancer. Cancer is a difficult subject to talk about. You may feel that the diagnosis is yours alone to cope with or feel the need to isolate yourself from others. Recognize that confronting a cancer diagnosis may bring you and your loved ones closer together. Keeping the lines of communication open with the people in your life can allow you to feel more connected to a network of support. Identify family and friends who are supportive and be open with them about your needs as you go through treatment and after.
For parents coping with a diagnosis, some may try to avoid the topic in fear that they will upset their children. What to say about cancer, how to say it and how much information to share with a child are common concerns. Counseling can help you understand how you are reacting to cancer, how you feel, what you are doing (or not doing) and how to talk to your children about your diagnosis.
Improve communication with your health care team. The relationship you have with your health care team can make a big difference in how you cope with these challenges. The more you feel that you can openly discuss any matters of concern to you, the better you are likely to feel about your care over the long term. An oncology social worker can provide guidance and tips on ways to improve communication with your health care team to ensure your needs are being met and help you become an active participant in your treatment and care.
Find reliable information. One of the biggest challenges for people with cancer is sorting through different treatment options. There is a vast amount of information available on the internet, some of it unreliable. Oncology social workers can help you find trustworthy materials from reliable sources.
Understand your rights as a patient and your insurance. It's important to have the contact information of the individual you should call in your doctor's office or hospital when your insurance company has a question. There are also rights you should know about if you want to continue working during your cancer treatment like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).


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What is The Hardest Material on Earth?
After Russia pledged to scale back its military operations around Kyiv and in northern Ukraine, the prices of most industrial metals fell, led by aluminum, showing people's concerns for supply shortage eased.
At an earlier time, the West imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, which aroused concerns about the supply problem because Russia is a major producer of nickel, aluminum, and copper.
Russia is also a major gas supplier to Europe, where potential supply disruptions are seen as hitting power-intensive aluminum and zinc boron nitride,graphene are still very uncertain.
Of all the materials discovered or created on earth, diamond is the seventh hardest. There are six materials being harder than diamonds.
6. Wurtzite boron nitride
Besides carbon, many other atoms or compounds can form crystals, and boron nitride is one of them. The combination of boron and nitrogen, fifth and seventh on the periodic table, can produce a variety of possibilities, including amorphous, hexagonal (similar to graphite), cubic (similar to diamond but less structurally strong), and wurtzite.
The last of these is extremely extreme, but also extremely hard. The substance is formed during volcanic eruptions, and so far only very small amounts have been found, so we can't test its hardness experimentally. But the latest simulations show it can form a different type of lattice, tetrahedral rather than a face-centered cube, and 18 percent harder than diamond.
5. Lansdale stone
If there are no impurities in the blue Adele stone, its strength and hardness will be better than pure diamond.
Imagine a carbon-rich meteorite hurtling through the atmosphere and colliding with the earth's surface. You might think that a meteorite falling at high speed would become extremely hot from the inside out, but in reality, only the outer layers of a meteorite get hot. The inside is still cool.
But at the moment of impact, the pressure inside the meteorite would exceed any reaction on the surface, causing the graphite in the meteorite to compress into a different crystal structure. The new structure is not a cube-like diamond, but a hexagonal crystal system that is 58 percent harder than a diamond. Although bluestelle stone often contains a lot of impurities in practice, resulting in hardness lower than fossils; in theory, if a meteorite made of pure graphite with no impurities hit the surface, the resulting material would be far harder than all diamonds on Earth.
4. Dyneema
Dyneema is the strongest fibrous material known to man.
Puma is a thermoplastic polyethylene polymer with high molecular weight. Most molecules we know of are only a few thousand atomic mass units, but UHMWPE's chains are so long that one molecule can weigh millions of atomic mass units.
With such a long chain of molecules, the interactions between molecules are greatly enhanced, resulting in a material that is naturally hard to overlook. The material has the highest impact strength of any known thermoplastic and has been called the strongest fiber in the world, outperforming any anchor rope or tow rope on the market. Not only does it weigh less than water, but it's also bulletproof, and it's 15 times stronger than its steel equivalent.
3. Palladium micro-alloy glass
Palladium micro alloys are the best-known materials for combining high strength and toughness.
All physical materials have two important properties: strength and toughness; Strength refers to the force required for a material to deform, and toughness refers to the force required for a material to fracture or break. Most ceramic materials are of great strength and have insufficient toughness. It is easy to be broken when clamped too tightly or accidentally dropped. Rubber and other elastic materials are just the opposite, although not easy to break, but very easy to deformation, hardness is very low.
Most glass materials are fragile, with high strength and low toughness. But in 2011, researchers created a new type of micro-alloy glass that contains phosphorus, silicon, germanium, silver, and palladium. Palladium forms shear bands that allow the glass to deform under stress without breaking. The material's combination of extreme strength and toughness not only beats steel handily, but no other material on this list comes close. In short, it's the hardest carbon-free material in the world.
2. Bucky paper
Bucky paper made of carbon nanotubes can block the passage of particles larger than 50 nanometers in diameter. It has unique physical, chemical, electrical and mechanical properties. Although it can be folded or cut, the material is extremely strong. With no impurities at all, it can be 500 times stronger than steel of the same volume.
Since the late 20th century, a type of material called carbon nanotubes has enjoyed the reputation of being harder than diamonds. The material belongs to the hexagonal crystal system, the structure of the overall elliptic, more stable than any structure known to man. If you combine lots of carbon nanotubes into a flat surface, you get a thin sheet of paper called bucky paper.
In addition to bucky paper, there is an equally hard structure called a buckyball, which consists of sixty carbon atoms bound together. Buckyballs are also natural materials that can form in certain cosmic environments. Although buckyballs have been used in the nanosphere, they haven't been quantified enough to be useful on a macro scale, so they don't make the list.
The nanotubes that makeup bucky paper, by contrast, are only two to four nanometers in diameter, but the structures are so strong that they can be combined into large sheets of material. It weighs only 10 percent as much as steel but is hundreds of times stronger. In addition, this material has fire resistance, high heat conduction efficiency, and outstanding electromagnetic shielding ability, which has rich application prospects in material science, electronic components, military, and even biological fields. But bucky paper can't be made of 100 percent nanotubes, so it didn't make the top spot.
1. Graphene
Graphene is the most basic structural element of carbon nanotubes, which are widely used.
For its thickness, graphene is the strongest material known, with unrivaled thermal and electrical conductivity and a light transmittance close to 100%. The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their experiments with graphene.
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Pom-poms can add a fun element to so many projects. Use them for gift wrapping, slippers, hats, or just about anything you can think of. It is easy to make a pom-pom with nothing but your hands, yarn and scissors. Below is a photo tutorial on how to do just that!
1. Take your yarn and wrap it around three fingers on one hand (see photo). I usually wrap it close to 30 times for an average size pom-pom with regular worsted weight yarn. **For a smaller pom, wrap around two fingers. Use more or less yarn to adjust size.
2. Cut about a foot of yarn from your ball or skein of yarn. Squeeze that yarn through your fingers and tie it around the middle of your yarn, just as if you are about to tie a shoe. Your entire "wod" of yarn is now wrapped and tied. Tie it as tight as you can.
3. Carefully slip the yarn off your fingers, and leave yarn as is. Tighten the yarn again and knot.
4. Slip your scissors through the loops and begin to cut, avoiding to cut the yarn that you just tightened which holds your pom together.
5. Trim your pom-pom until you like how it looks. The more you trim, the neater and fluffier it will become!
6. Tie it on to whatever you would like!
What do you like to add pom-poms to?
I just love the pom-pom, I like the face that you don't use yet another item, which I would have to buy and store, just yarn and scissors. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome Jeanette. For sure, I always avoid buying anything if I don't have to. Thanks for your kind words!


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Featuring ten elegant en-suite tents and a prime location in the heart of the Shaba National Reserve, Joy's Camp provides guests with exclusive and stylish safari lodge accommodation in Kenya's wild north.


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Q: Better design pattern for allowing callbacks to access parent function data I am using async's eachSeries method to scrape an array of RSS feeds, and then building an object to pass to async's waterfall method (not featured in the code).
To allow the callback to call the next() function, and to allow the array of RSS feeds to be built, I am making them accessible globally on the window object.
I can't help but feel there is a better way to design this without going full pyramid and also using best practices to avoid variable collision.
Here is the code:
var async = require('async');
var parser = require('rssparser');
// let me know if you would like me to post the rssFeeds array object

var numberOfItemsToScrape = 1

// receives the scraped data and builds the object
function loadData(err, data){
  var items = [];

  for (var i = 0; i <= numberOfItemsToScrape - 1; i++) {
    items.push(data.items[i])
  }

  feedToMutate.items = items

  rssFeedsToExport.push(feedToMutate)
  nextFunction();
}

// scrapes the data and passes it to a callback
function scrapeRss(rssFeed){
  parser.parseURL(rssFeed.url, parserOptions, loadData)
}

// calls async.eachSeries on the rssFeeds array
function scrapeRssAndLoadData(rssFeeds, cb){
  rssFeedsToExport = []

  async.eachSeries(rssFeeds, function(feed, next) {
    scrapeRss(feed);

    feedToMutate = feed
    nextFunction = next
  },
  function (err) {
    // when used in the context of the async.waterfall pattern,
    // this will look like cb(null, rssFeedsToExport)
    console.log(rssFeedsToExport);
  });
}

scrapeRssAndLoadData(rssFeeds, cb)

Is there a better way to design this code to avoid variable collision?

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Ray Stedman - February 27, 1965
Truth for Youth
Scripture References: Ecclesiastes 11:9
From Series: "The Christian and Moral Conditions"
Central issues of the family, insights into sex in marriage, the differences between the sexes, single life as a Christian, and common issues faced by young people. Ray says, "This message begins a series on the general theme 'The Christian and Moral Conditions' in which we shall take a square and forthright look at the moral conditions of our day, the powerful forces behind them, and what the Bible has to say on this theme. I hope this will prove to be practical, enlightening and helpful. I shall begin with what I consider to be the heart of the whole matter: the home. Never before in all history has there been such a concerted, world-wide, all-out assault upon the home. As an amateur student of history, I know there have been many times in the past where conditions as we see them today have combined to destroy the home life of a nation, but never before on such a world-wide compass has this taken place. The family is the oldest institution known to man. It is coexistent with the human race, and predates by considerable time the other great institutions of humanity---human government, the school, and the church."


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ARTWORK UPDATE: Singles from Carmen Miranda Collection
--Artwork added to previous announcement--
**20th Century Fox** has announced a June 17th release date for The Carmen Miranda Collection.
The 5 disc DVD set will include:
Greenwich Village (1944) - NEW TO DVD
If I'm Lucky (1946) - NEW TO DVD
Something For the Boys (1944) - NEW TO DVD
Doll Face (1944) - Former Alpha release
The Gang's All Here (1943) - Released last year and remastered for this set.
Unlike most of Fox's recent releases, such as Mr. Moto and Charlie Chan, this set will release all the films as singles. And not at the $19.98 price point you might expect, but for $14.98 each. The set will retail for $49.98, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $37.99 while singles can be had for just $10.99. Just some of the stars include: Carmen Miranda, Vivian Blaine, Dennis O'Keefe, Perry Como, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Harry James, Phil Silvers, Edgar Buchanan, Michael O'Shea, Glenn Langan, Alice Faye, Phil Baker and Benny Goodman.
Posted by David K. at 3/27/2008 06:48:00 PM
Huge Tyrone Power Set in July - 3 DAY SPECIAL PRICE
**Fox ** has announced a July 29th release date for The Tyrone Power Collection, Vol. 2. This spectacular five disc DVD set will feature 10 NEW TO DVD films and is a great bargain too retailing at $49.98. It is available at Classicflix.com for only $37.99, however, for 3 days only (until March 30th), we'll have it for the SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE of $33.99. More details to follow...
Titles (Not Available as Singles):
Cafe Metropole (1937)
Girls Dormitory (1936)
Johnny Apollo (1940)
Daytime Wife (1939)
Luck of the Irish (1948)
I'll Never Forget You (1951)
That Wonderful Urge (1948)
Love is News (1937)
This Above All (1942)
Second Honeymoon (1937)
Stars include:
Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Herbert Marshall, Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Lloyd Nolan, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Ann Blyth, Thomas Mitchell, Adolphe Menjou, Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon, Warren William, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Lionel Atwill, Joan Davis, Lee J. Cobb, Jayne Meadows, Joan Fontaine, Claire Trevor and Gladys Cooper.
Posted by David K. at 3/27/2008 07:02:00 AM
Blues in the Night, Pete Kelly's Blues in July
**Warner** has announced a July 22nd release date for two musical dramas: Blues in the Night (1941) and Pete Kelly's Blues (1955). Each will retail for $19.98, but are available at Classicflix.com for only $14.49.
Bonus features are not yet known, but stars include Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Carson, Wallace Ford, Billy Halop, Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin, Ella Fitzgerald, Jayne Mansfield and a pre-directorial Elia Kazan.
ARTWORK UPDATE: Man of a Thousand Faces
Ten years to the month Image Entertainment released Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), **Universal** will come out with the long awaited re-release. Scarcity has kept the collector price at about $100 for the 1998 release, but the upcoming June 24th release will retail for $19.98. It will be available at Classicflix.com for only $14.99. No additional specs at this time.
Batman: The Movie (Blu-Ray) in July
**20th Century Fox** has announced a July 1st release date for the Blu-Ray debut of Batman: The Movie - Special Edition. Tons of bonus features will be part of this Hi-Def DVD including some new Hi-Def featurettes. It will retail for $39.98, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $30.99. Details below.
The four greatest super-criminals of The United Underworld - The Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler and The Penguin – combine forces to dispose of Batman and Robin as they launch their fantastic plot to control the entire world. Can the dynamic duo stop The United Underworld before it's too late?
BONUS FEATURES:
Commentary by actors Adam West and Burt Ward
Commentary by screenwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
Isolated Score Track 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio (Lossless)
All-new high-definition featurettes:
Batman: A Dynamic Legacy
Caped Crusaders: A Heroes Tribute
Gotham City's Most Wanted
35th Anniversary Piece Featuring Interviews with Adam West and Burt Ward
The Batmobile Revealed with George Barris
The Batmobile Interactive Tour
A 360 Degree Navigational Tour
Batman on Location: Mapping the Movie
Holy Pop-Up Trivia Track, Batman!
Original Teaser and Theatrical Trailers
From the Vaults of Adam West
Interactive Pressbook
ARTWORK UPDATE: Carmen Miranda Collection
High Noon - Ultimate Collector's Edition in June
**Lionsgate** has announced a June 10th release date for High Noon (1952) - Ultimate Collector's Edition. The 2 Disc DVD set will retail for $19.98, but is available at Classicflix.com $14.99.
No word on restoration, but the bonus features on this Ultimate Collector's Edition don't look too different than 2002's single disc release. The additional bonus feature is a "Behind High Noon" featurette. And unlike the previous release, this set does include English and Spanish subtitles. Details below.
In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, lawman Will Kane (Gary Cooper) stands to lose not only the town but his new wife (Grace Kelly). On the day he gets married and hangs up his badge, Kane is told that a man he sent to prison years before, Frank Miller, is returning on the noon train to exact his revenge. Having initially decided to leave with his new spouse, Kane realizes he must go back and face Miller. However, when he seeks the help of the townspeople he has protected for so long, they turn their backs on him. Now, Kane must stand alone in his fight for justice.
Audio Commentary with Maria Cooper-Janis, Jonathan Foreman , Tim Zinnemann and John Ritter
"Inside High Noon" – 50-Minute Documentary on the Making of High Noon
"Tex Ritter: A Visit to Carthage, Texas" – Portrait Piece on the Tex Ritter Museum
Full-Length Tex Ritter Performance of Oscar-Winning Original Song "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'" on the Jimmy Dean TV Show
"The Making of High Noon" Featurette
"Behind High Noon" Featurette
Radio Broadcast with Tex Ritter
A Date with Judy, Merrill's Marauders in April
Previously only available exclusively through a single major retail website, **Warner** has announced the general distribution of A Date with Judy (1948) and Merrill's Marauders (1962) for release on April 22nd. Each DVD release retail for $19.97, but can be purchased here at Classicflix.com for only $14.49.
Man of a Thousand Faces in June
Route 66 - Season 2, Vol. 1 in May
**Infinity Entertainment** has announced a May 20th release date for Route 66 - Season 2, Vol. 1. It will retail for $29.98, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $19.99. Also set for release on the same day will be a repackaging of Volumes 1 and 2 from season one into Route 66 - The Complete First Season. It will retail for $49.98, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $29.99.
The Three Stooges, Vol. 2 (1937-1939) in May! - SPECIAL 3 DAY PRICE
**Sony** has announced a May 27th release date for The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 2 (1937 - 1939). Volume 2 will continue the chronological format in what may be the best of all sets released in this series with shorts like Cash and Carry, Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb, Tassels in the Air, Termites of 1938 and Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise to name a few. It will retail for $24.96, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $19.99. However, for 3 days only (until March 20th), we'll have it for the SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE of $17.99. Details below.
Back to the Woods
Dizzy Doctors
Goofs and Saddles
Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
Playing the Ponies
The Sitter-Downers
Tassels in the Air
Three Dumb Clucks
Violent is the Word For Curly
Wee Wee Monsieur
Grips, Grunts and Groans
Termites of 1938
A Ducking They Did Go
Calling All Curs
Flat Foot Stooges
Mutts to You
Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
Three Little Sew and Sews
Three Missing Links
Three Sappy People
We Want Our Mummy
Yes, We Have No Bonanza
The Real McCoys: Season 3 - SPECIAL 3 DAY PRICE
**Infinity Entertainment** has announced a June 17th release date for The Real McCoys - The Complete Third Season. It will retail for $39.98, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $27.99. However, for 3 days only (until March 19th), we'll have it for the SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE of $22.99. More details to follow.
The Furies (1950) from Criterion in June - 3 DAY SPECIAL PRICE
**Criterion** has announced a June (exact date yet unknown) release date for The Furies - Criterion Collection. It will retail for $39.95, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $29.99. However, for 3 days only (until March 18th), we'll have it for the SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE of $25.99. The usual plethora of bonus features accompany this Criterion release and stars Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston (his last film), Wendell Corey, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez, Beulah Bondi, Wallace Ford and was directed by Anthony Mann. Details below.
Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston are at their fierce finest in master Hollywood craftsman Anthony Mann's crackling western melodrama The Furies. In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T. C. Jeffords (Huston, in his final role) butts heads with his daughter, Vance (Stanwyck), a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and, finally, ownership of the land itself. Both sophisticated in its view of frontier settlement and ablaze with searing domestic drama, The Furies is a hidden treasure of American filmmaking, boasting Oscar–nominated cinematography and vivid supporting turns from Judith Anderson, Wendell Corey, and Gilbert Roland.
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary featuring film historian Jim Kitses (Horizons West)
A rare, 1931 on-camera interview with Walter Huston, made for the movie theater series Intimate Interviews
New video interview with Nina Mann, daughter of director Anthony Mann
Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes photos
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Robin Wood ans a 1957 Cahiers du cinéma interview with Mann, as well as a new printing of Niven Busch's original novel
Hiya, Kids!! 50's Saturday Morning Fun in May
**Shout Factory!** has announced a May 6th release date for Hiya, Kids!! - A 50's Saturday Morning. The four DVD set will retail for $34.99, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $23.99. Details below.
What were some of your favorite Saturday morning rituals when you were growing up? Some dreamed of a chance to be in the "Peanut Gallery" of Howdy Doody. Some begged their parents for a dog just like Lassie. Many wore cowboy hats to watch The Roy Rogers Show. In the 1950s, television was new and exciting, full of imaginative shows for children. Looking back, these shows had a significant impact on the children of the first TV generation and helped to shape the medium as it increasingly became a part of our culture.
Shout! Factory will bring a sumptuous collection of the best kids' TV programs from the infancy of the genre to every home through the DVD release of Hiya, Kids!! A '50s Saturday Morning. The 4-DVD box set is packed with 21 complete episodes culled from some of America's iconic television classics, including Kukla, Fran And Ollie, Howdy Doody, Lassie, Annie Oakley, Flash Gordon, Time for Beany, The Paul Winchell Show, The Roy Rogers Show, Captain Z-RO, The Rootie Kazootie Club, Winky Dink And You, Super Circus, Andy's Gang, The Cisco Kid, Sky King, The Magic Clown, Kids And Company, Junvenile Jury, The Pinky Lee Show, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Each DVD from Hiya, Kids!! is designed like a Saturday morning programming block from the era, with shows for the very young first on the menu. As the older siblings "wake up," the programs become more and more "sophisticated.
Episode from Kukla, Fran And Ollie 1948 – 1957
Kukla, Fran And Ollie debuted as a local Chicago show entitled Junior Jamboree and was renamed in 1948 when the installation of a coaxial cable linking the East Coast to the Midwest expanded its broadcast range. Established radio star Fran Allison played herself on the show as the perfect counterbalance to the antics of the puppets, and her uncanny ability to ad-lib allowed the show to run completely unscripted and unrehearsed.
Kukla, Fran And Ollie featured the creations of Burr Tillstrom, considered one of the greats in puppet history. He voiced and performed all of the puppet characters on the show and is credited with creating the puppeteering technique of watching the action on a small monitor while performing the characters, a practice still in use today.
Episode from Howdy Doody 1947 – 1960
Howdy Doody evolved from The Triple B Ranch, a radio program that featured the voice of "Buffalo" Bob Smith as himself and a character named Elmer who opened the show by saying "Howdy Doody." When Howdy Doody premiered on television it was an hour-long series that aired on Saturdays, but in 1948 it became the first network children's show to run five days a week, and eventually was broadcast in color in 1955. "Buffalo" Bob Smith created and hosted the show, as well as providing the voice of Howdy Doody.
For the show's final episode, Clarabelle the Clown—who never uttered a word throughout the program run—finally spoke the series' very last two words, saying, "Goodbye, kids."
Episode from Lassie 1954 – 1974
Originally created in 1938 by Eric Knight for a short story published in the Saturday Evening Post, Lassie became an immediate sensation that spawned a full-length novel, a feature film starring an 11-year-old named Elizabeth Taylor, a radio show and, in 1954, the Lassie television series.
The series—which ran for an amazing 20 years and won two of six Emmy Awards for which it was nominated—originally starred 13-year-old film veteran Tommy Rettig as Jeff Miller, Lassie's faithful owner and best friend for 110 episodes.
Episode from Annie Oakley 1954 – 1957
The real Annie Oakley, on whom this character was loosely based, was a sharpshooter with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in the late 1800s. As a television series, Annie Oakley hit the entertainment bull's-eye every week for three years in the mid-1950s.
Having appeared in dozens of both big- and small-screen Westerns, including 14 features with Gene Autry, Gail Davis was a natural to play the title role in the television series. In fact, Autry's own Flying 'A' Productions coproduced Annie Oakley's syndicated 81-episode run.
Episode from Flash Gordon 1954
Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon comic strip, which debuted in 1934, has been translated into radio serials, animated television series, numerous feature films, comic books and novels over the past 50 years. This incarnation—filmed in Germany less than a decade after the end of World War II—was the first, and only, live-action television series up until 2007 and starred chiseled Steve Holland as Flash Gordon, operative of the Galaxy Bureau of Investigation.
Episode from Ding Dong School 1952 – 1959
Dr. Frances R. Horwich, known simply to audiences as Miss Frances, took a leave of absence from her position as chairman of the education department at Chicago's Roosevelt College to host Ding Dong School, which became monumental in paving the way for preschool television.
Originally filmed in Chicago, and later in New York, Ding Dong School was so popular that after just six weeks it was picked up by NBC and was soon seen by millions of children throughout the United States.
Episode from Time For Beany 1949 – 1954
While viewers may be more familiar with Bob Clampett's Beany And Cecil in their cartoon incarnations, the public was first introduced to the silly, seasick serpent and his beanie-topped companion when they premiered as puppets, voiced by the talented Daws Butler and Stan Freberg. Though the series began as a local show in Los Angeles in 1949, by the following year Time For Beany had gone national and continued with much success through 1954.
One of the most famous fans of Time For Beany was none other than Albert Einstein.
Episode from The Paul Winchell Show 1956 – 1960
In 1956 self-taught ventriloquist Paul Winchell starred in Circus Time, only one of his many television series. After a year Circus Time was revamped and renamed The Paul Winchell Show, a moniker it retained until the show ended in 1960.
Giving voice to his own Jerry Mahoney puppet, Gargamel on The Smurfs and Tigger of Disney's Winnie The Pooh animated films, Paul Winchell brought heart to the characters he created. A true renaissance man, Winchell was also an inventor who held 30 patents, including one for an early model of an artificial heart he built in 1963. He also studied and practiced acupuncture and hypnosis and wrote widely on theology.
Episode from The Roy Rogers Show 1951 – 1957
The "King of Cowboys," Roy Rogers was no stranger to America by the time he starred in The Roy Rogers Show, having already appeared in over a hundred movies by 1951.
In 1947 Rogers married Dale Evans, who became the "Queen of the West." Together they were one of America's most beloved couples. Along with many honors, they have the distinction of being the only married couple to serve as Grand Marshals of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade.
You can't think of The Roy Rogers Show, which ran from 1951 to 1957, without remembering "his golden palomino" Trigger and Bullet "the wonder dog." Visitors to the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum in Branson, Missouri, can actually see a taxidermist-prepared Trigger, stuffed and mounted, rearing up on his back legs, as one of the museum's most popular exhibits.
Episode from Captain Z-RO 1951 – 1956
Captain Z-RO came to us from a remote, uncharted region of a planet called Earth. When Captain Z-RO debuted in 1951, it was a 15-minute local show from San Francisco. In 1954, however, the show became syndicated and went national, switching to a 30-minute format and continuing with original episodes until 1956. It stayed on in reruns through 1960.
Captain Z-RO received much praise for its outstanding educational value, including honorable mention at the Twentieth American Exhibition of Educational Radio-Television Programs in 1956.
Roy Steffens, who also created and wrote the show, portrayed the title role of Captain Z-RO.
Episode from The Rootie Kazootie Club 1950 – 1954
Created by Steve Carlin, who at the time was in charge of RCA's children's phonograph records, The Rootie Kazootie Club met over the airwaves from 1950 to 1954 with "Big Todd" Russell, Mr. Deetle Doodle and, of course, Rootie Kazootie!
"Big Todd" Russell wasn't just comfortable with the juvenile members of The Rootie Kazootie Club, nosirootie. He also hosted quiz shows on radio such as Double Or Nothing and Strike It Rich and is perhaps best remembered as the creator and producer of The $64,000 Question.
Rootie Kazootie was extremely popular and led to a series of Rootie Kazootie Golden Books.
Episode from Winky Dink And You 1953 – 1957
Get out your Winky Dink kit, because it's time for Winky Dink And You—a show you didn't just watch . . . you actually got to play! Winky Dink And You was the first interactive television show, allowing children the opportunity to be a part of the show by placing a clear "magic window" on the television and drawing on it with crayons.
Jack Barry, who already had a successful run with Juvenile Jury, hosted the show. Barry later went on to emcee the 1970s game show Joker's Wild, but is perhaps most famous as the host and coproducer of the wildly popular Twenty-One, which created a great scandal by providing answers to contestants, nearly ruining Barry's career and prompting Congress to develop new laws that prohibited the fixing of quiz shows.
Winky Dink And You ran from 1953 to 1957, and if Winky Dink sounds a bit familiar, it's because the voice was provided by Mae Questel—best known as the voice of Olive Oyl and Betty Boop.
Episode from Super Circus 1949 – 1955
From 1949 to 1955, the small screen was transformed into the big top during Super Circus featuring Ringmaster (and former radio announcer) Claude Kirchner.
Ringmaster Kirchner, clowns Cliffy, Nicky and Scampy, and the various circus acts thrilled the kids. But it was bandleader Mary Hartline who became the real attraction.
Mary Hartline had a certain appeal, and suddenly fathers were happy to watch television alongside their kids. Hartline wasn't just popular with the dads, however. Kids adored her, which led to an abundance of merchandise such as Mary Hartline dolls, paper figures, apparel and books—even comic books titled Super Circus Featuring Mary Hartline.
Episode from Andy's Gang 1955 – 1960
"Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!" Andy's Gang was an immensly popular variety show for kids starring Andy Devine ("Cookie" in over 400 Roy Rogers Westerns, and "Jingles" in The Adventures Of Wild Bill Hickock). Along with Froggy the Gremlin, Midnight the Cat, Squeaky the Mouse and some other oddball regulars, there were skits, book-readings and weekly serials such as Little Fox (included in this episode) and Rhama Of The Jungle.
The show, the format, even Froggy the Gremlin all derived from Ed McConnell, who had been a children's radio host since the 1920s, and his 1943 program Smilin' Ed McConnell And The Buster Brown Shoe Gang. In 1950 Smilin' Ed brought the show to television under the title Smilin' Ed's Gang. When Ed died unexpectedly in 1955, Andy Devine took his place, and the show became Andy's Gang.
Episode from The Cisco Kid 1950 – 1956
"Here's adventure! Here's romance! Here's O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the Old West—The Cisco Kid!" While each episode of The Cisco Kid began with those words, very little about the television Cisco Kid harkened back to O. Henry's version.
In his 1907 book of short stories, The Heart Of The West, O. Henry introduced the Cisco Kid in "The Caballero's Way." The character was not Hispanic, he had no sidekick and, according to O. Henry, the Cisco Kid " . . . killed for the love of it—because he was quick-tempered—to avoid arrest—for his own amusement—any reason that came to his mind would suffice."
There were numerous films about the Cisco Kid as early as 1914 and even a radio series, but in the 1945 film The Cisco Kid Returns, Duncan Renaldo was introduced to audiences in the title role. He continued to make Cisco Kid films and was paired with Leo Carrillo as Pancho in his last five features.
In 1950 Renaldo and Carrillo reprised their roles for the Cisco Kid television series, ending each episode with the exclamations: "Oh, Pancho!" "Oh, Cisco!"
Episode from Sky King 1951 – 1959
"Out of the clear blue of the Western sky comes Sky King," a '50s television series about an Arizona rancher and pilot who stumbles upon danger in every episode and then saves the day. Kirby Grant, who played as Schuyler "Sky" King, had appeared in dozens of films and was an accomplished aviator, which contributed to the believability of the show. The plane Sky flew was the Songbird and his ranch was called The Flying Crown.
Gloria Winters played Sky's niece, Penny. Winters was a well-rounded actress who appeared in many films and onstage. In 1964 her book Penny's Guide To Teen-age Charm And Popularity was published as an etiquette guide for teenage girls.
2 Episodes from The Magic Clown 1949 – 1954
The Magic Clown was definitely sponsored by Bonamo's Turkish Taffy. The live and at-home audience sang the Bonamo's theme song, they said the magic word ("Bonamo"), and if they wanted the magic face kit, they could send in 20 cents . . . plus a wrapper from Bonamo's Turkish Taffy (which everyone in the studio seemed to be chewing). The Magic Clown might even make Turkish Taffy appear as part of his magic tricks.
The two ostensibly Turkish men making taffy on the wrapper of Bonamo's Turkish Taffy wore fezzes, so everyone on the program donned the headgear as well: from the Magic Clown—portrayed by several actors throughout the program's run—the audience, and even the puppet, Laffy (rhymes with "taffy"). Ironically, in 1925, the fez was banned in Turkey and to this day is not usually worn.
In 1971 internationally renowned magician James Randi revived the series as The Magic Clown, but while the clowns may have changed, Bonamo's Turkish Taffy certainly did not.
Episode from Kids And Company 1951 – 1952
Originating in New York, this 1950s American Idol of the moppet world showcased kids with various abilities, but if you didn't have a great talent it was no matter. If you rescued a kid from quicksand or from the jaws of an alligator, there was a good chance you'd get your few minutes of fame on Kids And Company as well.
Kids And Company was hosted by Johnny Olson, who went on to become the announcer for successful game shows such as Match Game, To Tell The Truth and What's My Line? and, in 1972, went on to popularize one of the greatest catchphrases in game show history: The Price Is Right's "Come on down!"
Episode from Juvenile Jury 1947 – 1954
Before Joker's Wild, and even before Winky Dink And You, Jack Barry hosted Juvenile Jury. Beginning on radio, the jury made their first televised deliberation in 1947 and continued offering their unpredictable verdicts until 1954.
A panel of five children between the ages of three and 12 appeared on the program every week to make pronouncements on dilemmas posed by viewers and audience members. Questions ranged from simple matters of opinion to advice on everyday problems of interest to children, with Barry skillfully managing to keep the participants at ease. Aside from the obvious entertainment value of the cast's candid responses, Juvenile Jury is also notable as the first commercially sponsored network television series (in this case, by General Foods).
Juvenile Jury was revived twice, in the 1970s (with Jack Barry returning) and again for a short time in 1983 with host Nipsey Russell.
Episode from The Pinky Lee Show 1954 – 1956
Pinky Lee was doing a show with Vivian Blaine called Those Two when producer Lawrence White found himself in need of a new host for a children's show after The Gabby Hayes Show was dropped. White's son begged him to hire Pinky Lee, and thus Lee was able to add "children's show host" to his résumé.
The fast pace of The Pinky Lee Show, which aired from 1954 to 1956, was quite ahead of its time, more comparable with the shows of today. A former burlesque performer, Pinky Lee brought a squeaky clean version of burlesque to his children's show.
Although the show ran until 1956, an illness caused Lee's absence from 1955 until the end of the show's run.
Episode from Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle 1955 – 1956
Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle first swung onto television screens in 1955, but Sheena's history jumps back to 1937 where the character was introduced in Wags, a British tabloid magazine. The following year Sheena appeared in Jumbo Comics, and that's when her popularity started to grow. She appeared in each issue and was even spun off into her own comic book, making her the first female to be a title character, three months ahead of DC's Wonder Woman.
Former model Irish McCalla played Sheena, despite never having done any acting before she was asked to audition for the part while pregnant with her second child.
Before the Nickelodeon & More Melies in April
More early cinema has been announced by **Kino** for release on April 22nd. The DVD's are: Before the Nickelodeon - The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter & The Magic of Melies. Before the Nickelodeon is a 1982 documentary narrated by silent-movie actress Blanche Sweet that has three additional shorts. The Magic of Melies is a good compilation set of previously released shorts, but doesn't hold a candle to the exhaustive and just streeted Georges Melies - First Wizard of Cinema from Flicker Alley. Each single disc release will retail for $24.95, but can be purchased here at Classicflix.com for only $17.99. Details below.
Before the Nickelodeon - The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Noted film historian Charles Musser (The Emergence of Cinema) co-wrote and directed this definitive tribute to Edwin S. Porter, Thomas Edison's mechanic and cameraman. From the time of his hugely successful The Great Train Robbery (1903) until Griffith started at Biograph (1908), Porter held center stage in early American cinema. Sadly, however, Edison quickly discarded Porter once his approach to filmmaking seemed to have become old-fashioned.
Narrated by silent-movie actress Blanche Sweet, Before the Nickelodeon is a treasure trove of rarely seen material, including hand-colored photographs and sixteen complete Porter films, among them The May Irwin Kiss (1896), The Sunken Battleship 'Maine' (1898), Jack and the Beanstalk (1902) and Life of an American Fireman (1902-3).
Three additional Porter shorts / Music composed and performed by Ben Model:
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902)
Waiting at the Church (1906)
Life of a Cowboy (1906)
The Magic of Melies
Fifteen Fantastic Works by the Cinema's First Special Effects Wizard, including the documentary Georges Méliès: Cinema Magician. Decades before the term "special effects" was coined, audiences of the newborn cinema were witnessing spectacular screen illusions, courtesy of the medium's first master magician: Georges Méliès.
Such films as The Eclipse (1907) and Long Distance Wireless Photograph (1908) not only demonstrate Méliès's astounding employment of double exposure, makeup, editing and theatrical trickery but provide mesmerizing insight into the social context of his work, which blended Victorian approaches to astronomy, superstition and feminine beauty with the unnatural wonders of 20th-century technology and heavy doses of slapstick. The centerpiece of the collection is The Impossible Voyage (1904), presented with the authentic frame-by-frame hand-coloring and narration penned by Méliès himself.
In addition to the aforementioned short films, this Kino DVD also brings the 20-minute documentary Georges Méliès: Cinema Magician directed by Patrick Montgomery and Luciano Martinengo.
Music Composed and Performed by Alexander Rannie
List of Short Films include:
The Impossible Voyage (1904)
The Untamable Whiskers (1904)
The Cook in Trouble (1904)
Tchin-Chao, The Chinese Conjurer (1904)
The Wonderful Living Fan (1904)
The Mermaid (1904)
The Living Playing Cards (1905)
The Black Imp (1905)
The Enchanted Sedan Chair (1905)
The Scheming Gamblers Paradise (1905)
The Hilarious Posters (1906)
The Mysterious Retort (1906)
Good Glue Sticks (1907)
Long Distance Wireless Photography (1908)
KINO'S PRESS RELEASE
KINO RELEASES TWO NEW DVDS COMBINING SHORT WORKS AND EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTARIES ON CINEMA PIONEERS EDWIN S. PORTER AND GEORGES MÉLIÈS
Kino International is proud to release two unprecedented DVDs collecting seminal and in some cases, previously unreleased works, from two masters of the silent cinema era: Edwin S. Porter, the director of The Great Train Robbery, and Georges Méliès, the first special effects maven in the history of world cinema.
Both DVDs come with an SRP of $24.95 (each) and a prebook date of March 25. Their street date is April 22.
The first DVD, BEFORE THE NICKELODEON: THE EARLY CINEMA OF EDWIN S. PORTER, brings a 60-minute documentary co-written and directed by film scholar and Yale Professor Charles Musser, who also wrote the extensive historical notes included in Kino's landmark 4-DVD collection Edison: The Invention of the Movies.
This definitive tribute to Edwin S. Porter, Thomas Edison's mechanic and cameraman, explains how Porter became the first U.S. filmmaker to successfully make films with continuous action from shot to shot, instead of following the formula of single-scene films common at the time. Moreover, Charles Musser's documentary highlights the biographical keystones of this movie industry pioneer while also illuminating the foundational steps of the very structure of North American narrative cinema.
Additionally, BEFORE THE NICKELODEON brings three previously unavailable (on DVD) Porter shorts: "Waiting at the Church" (1906), "Life of a Cowboy" (1906) and "Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show" (1902). All three shorts feature music composed and performed by acclaimed silent film musician Ben Model.
The second DVD from this series, THE MAGIC OF MÉLIÈS, also collects in one DVD an illuminating short documentary with 15 exclusive films directed by Méliès himself.
Focusing on the filmmaker's life and integrating rare photographs, early drawings and numerous clips from his most admired works, GEORGES MÉLIÈS: CINEMA MAGICIAN charts Méliès' rise from shoe factory worker to proprietor of Paris's mystical Theatre Robert-Houdin, where he learned the skills to become a cinematic illusionist and developed an interest in the supernatural – exquisitely represented in films like The Mysterious Retort (1906) and The Black Imp (1905).
The Count of Monte Cristo and The Ghost Goes West
Released a few weeks ago under the radar by some company named **FireCake Entertainment**, The Robert Donat Collection features three Donat films on one disc.
The Titles are:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) - NEW TO DVD
The Ghost Goes West (1935) - NEW TO DVD
The 39 Steps (1935) - Previously released by Criterion
We're just getting around to posting it to the site because we wanted to take a look at it first to make sure the prints are decent and that it is indeed a Region 1 pressed DVD and not a DVD-R. Well the prints aren't anything special and certainly haven't been restored, but are about what one can expect from public domain prints. The best of the three is The Ghost Goes West and all three have a "ghosting" effect which isn't too bothersome. And if you're like most classic film buffs, having films on DVD in any shape is usually better than not having them at all. It is an NTSC Region 0 pressed DVD which means it will play in any DVD player.
I must say however, when I played it in my region free player, the image tended to skip a few frames every 15 to 20 seconds, but when I put it in a region 1 player it played fine. The bonus features listed are 2 PDF books (The Count of Monte Cristo & The 39 Steps), 3 MP3 radio plays and a Robert Donat Bio. However, the only thing I could find on either side of the DVD was the pitiful bio.
Overall, certainly a must-see for Robert Donat and/or Jean Parker fans, fans of mid-30's cinema and completionists. More details below.
The Ghost Goes West (1935, 85 min)
When an American family purchase an old Scottish castle from its struggling owner they get more than they bargained for when, shipping it stone-by-stone to Florida, they discover an unexpected resident... An eighteenth century ghost intent on avenging a family insult from a rival clan in Rene Clair's charming whimsical comedy.
The 39 Steps (1935, 86 min)
Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) meets a mysterious woman who confesses herself as a British spy escaping foreign agents. When she turns up dead at his apartment, he finds himself at the center of a conspiracy and the most wanted man in the country. On the run, he must not only prove his innocence but break the spy ring in a race against time in Alfred Hitchcock's fast paced romantic thriller.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934, 113 min)
Restored to it's original length, for the first time on DVD, comes the legendary 1934 version of Alexandre Dumas' immortal novel... Snatched from his betrothed, convicted without trial and condemned to a living death... the soul of the simple sea captain died. In its place emerged a flaming figure of vengeance... The Count of Monte Cristo!
BONUS FEATURE:
Brief Robert Donat Bio
Fanny (1961) in June
**Image Entertainment** has announced a June 17th release date for Fanny (1961). It will retail for $24.98, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $18.99. Details below.
From legendary stage and screen director Joshua Logan (South Pacific, Picnic, Camelot) comes a timeless romance starring Leslie Caron (Gigi) as a young and beautiful girl in Marseille whose declaration of love for handsome Marius (Horst Buchholz) forces him to choose between a life with her and his father's plans to send him off to sea for five years. Also starring Maurice Chevalier (Love in the Afternoon) and Charles Boyer (Gaslight), this colorful classic features stunning cinematography by the legendary Jack Cardiff (The Red Shoes) and was nominated for five Academy Awards.
BONUS FEATURES NOT YET ANNOUNCED
Sergeant's 3 as a Single and More Sinatra Artwork
Earlier this month, Warner Bros. announced four Frank Sinatra sets all to be released on May 13th. With the exception of the titles in The Rat Pack Ultimate Collector's Edition, each title is made available as singles. This upset some because as part of The Rat Pack Ultimate Collector's Edition, Sergeant's 3 was the only title that hadn't been previously released on DVD forcing a $45 purchase for essentially one movie. But now, **MGM** has announced a May 13th release date for Sergeant's 3 (1962). It will retail for $14.98, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $10.99.
Also below is the remaining cover art for the Sinatra Boom. The are from the Frank Sinatra - The Golden Years set.
Blu-Ray: The Sand Pebbles & The Longest Day in June
**20th Century Fox** has announced a June 3rd release date for two Blu-Ray titles: The Sand Pebbles (1966) and The Longest Day - 2 Discs (1962). Each will retail for $39.98, but are available at Classicflix.com for only $30.99.
The Sand Pebbles tells many stories. It's the story of China, a slumbering giant that rouses itself to the cries of it's people - and of the Americans who are caught in its blood awakening. It's the story of Frenchy (Richard Attenborough), a crewman on the U.S.S. San Pablo who kidnaps his Chinese bride from the auction block. It's the story of Shirley (Candice Bergen), a teacher and her first unforgettable taste of love. It's the story of Captain Collins (Richard Crenna), ready to defy anyone for his country's defense. Most of all, it's the story of Jake Holman (Steve McQueen), a sailor who has given up trying to make peace with anything - including himself. McQueen gives what is probably the best performance of his career. It's not surprising that he, Mako and the movie were up for Oscars. Portraying a character with conflicting loyalties to friend and flag, McQueen expertly conveys the confusion that leads into his final line: "What the hell happened?" It's to his credit that we already know.
Commentary by: Robert Wise, Candice Bergen, Mako and Richard Crenna
Isolated Score Track with Commentary by Music Producer Nick Redman, Film Music Historian Jon Burnlingame and Screenwriter & Film Historian Lem Dobbs
Trivia Track
13 Deleted "Road Show" Scenes
Featurettes:
The Making of Sand Pebbles
Steve McQueen Remembered
Bob Wise in Command
A Ship Called San Pablo (Narrated by Richard Attenborough)
The Secret of the San Pablo (Narrated by Richard Crenna)
Radio Documentaries (Narrated by Richard Attenborough):
Changsha Bund and The Streets of Taipei
A Ship Called San Pablo
This special collector's commemorative edition has been issued in honor of the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of France, which marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination over Europe. The attack involved 3,000,000 men, 11,000 planes and 4,000 ships, comprising the largest armada the world has ever seen.
The Longest Day is a vivid, hour-by-hour recreation of this historic event. Featuring a stellar international cast, and told from the perspectives of both sides, it is a fascinating look at the massive preparations, mistakes, and random events that determined the outcome of one of the biggest battles in history. Winner of two 1962 Oscars (Special Effects and Cinematography), The Longest Day ranks as one of Hollywood's truly great war films.
Historical Commentary
Patton Trailer & Tora! Tora! Tora! Trailer
Longest Day: A Salute to Courage
Backstory - The Longest Day
D-Day Revisted
Richard Zannuck on The Longest Day
ARTWORK UPDATE: MGM Westerns
--Day of the Outlaw not yet available--
**MGM** is rolling out the Westerns in May! All are new to DVD except The Westerner (which was released by HBO 10 years ago and is very rare). More details to come...
From MGM - May 13th (All retail for $14.98, but can be purchased at Classicflix.com for only $10.99)
The Way West (1967)
Man With the Gun (1955)
Man of the West (1958)
Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
The Westerner (1940)
Navajo Joe (1966)
ARTWORK UPDATE: Singles from Carmen Miranda Collec...
Huge Tyrone Power Set in July - 3 DAY SPECIAL PRIC...
The Three Stooges, Vol. 2 (1937-1939) in May! - SP...
The Furies (1950) from Criterion in June - 3 DAY S...
Blu-Ray: The Sand Pebbles & The Longest Day in Jun...


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Q: Does TCP has Response code system like HTTP response Pardon me for my ignorance
HTTP Response code has this format
1xx informational response – the request was received, continuing process
2xx successful – the request was successfully received, understood, and accepted
3xx redirection – further action needs to be taken in order to complete the request
4xx client error – the request contains bad syntax or cannot be fulfilled
5xx server error – the server failed to fulfil an apparently valid request

Does TCP has similar or any Response code system
if yes how to access it ?

A: TCP is a transport layer protocol and does not understand application level semantics. That would be provided by an application layer protocol like HTTP.
TCP is essentially a unix socket. So if you are looking for some kind of error codes, all the socket related error codes that your operating system gives you is what you should use. For example, Linux (POSIX) provides things like ENOENT, EIO, etc. For Linux see: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/5bfc75d92efd494db37f5c4c173d3639d4772966/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/errno-base.h

A: TCP is a bidirectional byte stream with no inherent semantics. There is no concept of a message in TCP and thus also not of requests or responses - and therefore also not response codes. Such semantics are added by the application protocols which use TCP as the transport layer.

A: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E13203_01/tuxedo/msgq/msgq40a/mvscli/html/trouble.html
YES and NO
it sends socket signals like ECONNREFUSED .


Family and friends of the 4-year-old Jersey City preschooler who was found unresponsive in his classroom and later died have opened their hearts and purse strings.
More than 400 people have raised more than $23,000 to help with funeral arrangements for the Cordero School student, who never woke up after "nap time" Thursday and then was pronounced dead at the RWJBarnabas Health Jersey City Medical Center.
The total surpassed the initial goal of $15,000. Marie Bagunu, the organizer of the page, said in the description that all contributions will go toward defraying the funeral travel expenses of having the boy buried in his home country.
The boy's death is being investigated by the Hudson County Prosector's Office, but it is not considered suspicious at this point. The boy's name has not been released and Bagunu, the GoFundMe page organizer, nor the boy's parents, could be reached for comment.
The School District of Jersey City also took to Facebook expressing their sorrow in the death of the student.
The Cordero PTA Facebook page shared Principal Derek Stanton's message to the school community.
An update on the investigation from the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office was not immediately available.


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