Wearing frayed jeans and dying your hair purple doesn't mean you're a bad kid, said Williamsport High School junior Kris Fischer.
But both will get you in trouble under the school's strictly enforced student dress code, said Fischer, who believes the dress code is unnecessarily restrictive and infringes on the rights he's been guaranteed by Washington County Board of Education policy.
"I have pants that are declared disruptive because they're frayed and have some patches sewn onto them, and I'm not allowed to dye my hair," said Fischer, 16.
He said he believes the language in the school board's "Students' Rights and Responsibilities" policy forbids his school from banning hair dye and patches that make political statements.
He and others will protest the dress code after classes Friday afternoon at the school board's central office, said Fischer.
He said school-level complaints haven't been able to sway Principal James Hardin.
The 2 p.m. protest is being organized by the Western Maryland Anarchists Collective (W.M.A.C.), a group comprised mostly of area high school and college students, said member John Kautz, who attends Hagerstown Junior College.
It's a matter of principle for Kautz, who said the nonviolent group's aim is to educate local people about various forms of discrimination, animal rights and other freedom-oriented issues.
"We live in Hagerstown. It's like a big town with a small mind," he said. "I think the dress code adds to the close-mindedness. They're promoting it's wrong to be an individual."
Individuality isn't the issue, said Hardin. The student dress code - outlined in the school's student handbook - is meant to ensure students' health, safety and a positive learning environment, he said.
For example, very large safety pins and thick chains are banned because they can be used as weapons, Hardin said. Sandals without heel straps are not allowed because they can increase a student's risk of tripping.
Health and safety aren't the only factors in the dress code, which lists "torn, holey, frayed or cut-off clothing" and "shorts or skirts above fingertip length" under examples of inappropriate dress.
The way Hardin sees it, his school is a business for learning and students should dress appropriately for the workplace and not attract undue attention.
While not specifically mentioned in the dress code's examples, hair dyed "extreme colors" is covered under "personal attire that may create disruption to the educational process," he said.
Most students have no problem with the dress code, said Hardin, who said many of the complaints about inappropriate clothing come from students.
"The great majority of students think we're fair and take a lot of pride in their appearance," he said. "We have some pretty good standards here. We don't want the tail wagging the whole dog."
As Fischer sees it, the dress code and its enforcement have disrupted the school.
"My friends have been threatened because of the way they dress, and there have been fights because people dress differently," he said.
School principals have a great deal of latitude in interpreting the school board's policy on dress to meet the needs of their schools, said William McKinley, director of secondary education.
Outdoor apparel such as hats, bandanas, sunglasses.
Offensive clothing relating to suggestive sexual allusions, obscene language, alcohol, drugs or any illegal substance.
Torn, holey, frayed or cut-off clothing.
Shorts or skirts above fingertip length.
Clothing that is too tight, that exposes torso, or that is see-through. Midriff cannot be exposed.


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Q: Bash sed command issue I'm trying to further parse an output file I generated using an additional grep command. The code that I'm currently using is:
##!/bin/bash

# fetches the links of the movie's imdb pages for a given actor

# fullname="USER INPUT"
read -p "Enter fullname: " fullname

if [ "$fullname" = "Charlie Chaplin" ];
code="nm0000122"
then
code="nm0000050"
fi

curl "https://www.imdb.com/name/$code/#actor" | grep -Eo
'href="/title/[^"]*' | sed 's#^.*href=\"/#https://www.imdb.com/#g' |
sort -u > imdb_links.txt

#parses each of the link in the link text file and gets the details for
each of the movie. THis is followed by the cleaning process
for i in $(cat imdb_links.txt)
do
   curl $i |
   html2text |
   sed -n '/Sign_In/,$p'|
   sed -n '/YOUR RATING/q;p' |
   head -n-1 |
   tail -n+2
done > imdb_all.txt

The sample generated output is:
EN
⁰
    * Fully supported
    * English (United States)
    * Partially_supported
    * Français (Canada)
    * Français (France)
    * Deutsch (Deutschland)
    * हिंदी (भारत)
    * Italiano (Italia)
    * Português (Brasil)
    * Español (España)
    * Español (México)
****** Duck Soup ******
    * 19331933
    * Not_RatedNot Rated
    * 1h 9m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10

How do I change the code to further parse the output to get only the data from the title of the movie up until the imdb rating ( in this case, the line that contains the title 'Duck Soup' up until the end.

A: Here is the code:
#!/bin/bash

# fullname="USER INPUT"
read -p "Enter fullname: " fullname

if [ "$fullname" = "Charlie Chaplin" ]; then
  code="nm0000122"
else
  code="nm0000050"
fi

rm -f imdb_links.txt

curl "https://www.imdb.com/name/$code/#actor" |
  grep -Eo 'href="/title/[^"]*' |
  sed 's#^href="#https://www.imdb.com#g' |
  sort -u |
while read link; do
   # uncomment the next line to save links into file:
   #echo "$link" >>imdb_links.txt

   curl "$link" |
     html2text -utf8 |
     sed -n '/Sign_In/,/YOUR RATING/ p' |
     sed -n '$d; /^\*\{6\}.*\*\{6\}$/,$ p'
done >imdb_all.txt

A: Please(!) have a look at the following urls on why it's a really bad idea to parse HTML with sed:

*

*RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

*Using regular expressions to parse HTML: why not?

*Why it's not possible to use regex to parse HTML/XML: a formal explanation in layman's terms
The thing you're trying to do can be done with the HTML/XML/JSON parser xidel and with just 1 call!
In this example I'll use the IMDB of Charlie Chaplin as source.
Extract all 94 "Actor" IMDB movie urls:
$ xidel -s "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122" -e '
  //div[@id="filmo-head-actor"]/following-sibling::div[1]//a/@href
'
/title/tt0061523/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1
/title/tt0050598/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2
/title/tt0044837/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3
[...]
/title/tt0004288/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_94

There's no need to save these to a text-file. Just use -f (--follow) instead of -e and xidel will open all of them.

For the individual movie urls you could parse the HTML to get the text-nodes you want...
$ xidel -s "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061523/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1" -e '
  //h1,
  //div[@class="sc-94726ce4-3 eSKKHi"]/ul/li[1]/span,
  //div[@class="sc-94726ce4-3 eSKKHi"]/ul/li[3],
  (//div[@class="sc-7ab21ed2-2 kYEdvH"])[1]
'
A Countess from Hong Kong
1967
2h
6.0/10

...but with those class-names I'd say that's a rather fragile endeavor. Instead I'd recommend to parse the JSON at the top of the HTML-source within the <script>-node:
$ xidel -s "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061523/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1" -e '
  parse-json(//script[@type="application/ld+json"])/(
    name,
    datePublished,
    duration,
    aggregateRating/ratingValue
  )
'
A Countess from Hong Kong
1967-03-15
PT2H
6

...or to get a similar output as above:
$ xidel -s "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061523/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1" -e '
  parse-json(//script[@type="application/ld+json"])/(
    name,
    year-from-date(date(datePublished)),
    substring(lower-case(duration),3),
    format-number(aggregateRating/ratingValue,"#.0")||"/10"
  )
'
A Countess from Hong Kong
1967
2h
6.0/10

All combined:
$ xidel -s "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122" \
  -f '//div[@id="filmo-head-actor"]/following-sibling::div[1]//a/@href' \
  -e '
    parse-json(//script[@type="application/ld+json"])/(
      name,
      year-from-date(date(datePublished)),
      substring(lower-case(duration),3),
      format-number(aggregateRating/ratingValue,"#.0")||"/10"
    )
  '
A Countess from Hong Kong
1967
2h
6.0/10
A King in New York
1957
1h50m
7.0/10
Limelight
1952
2h17m
8.0/10
[...]
Making a Living
1914
11m
5.5/10

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Response to Campus Censorship and Nakba Denial
By Omar Zahzah and Dana Saifan
On May 26th, the Daily Bruin ran an opinion piece co-authored by Inbar Goren and Tali Moore entitled "Jews not to blame for Palestinian displacement." The article was a response to a submission several of us Palestinian members of SJP had written explaining what Nakba Day means to us, and how we will continue to share our families' stories of forced exile and advocate for Palestinian rights in the face of Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing and displacement of our people.
Unbeknownst to us, an outcry followed the publication of our piece: an article by Shani Shahmoon claims that "As a result, 15 members of the Jewish and pro-Israel community wrote an email to the Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Jerry Kang, and The Bruin's outgoing editorial board, insisting that publishing such language was 'offensive' and a form of bullying that can 'marginalize' members of their community." Shahmoon describes this letter as an "attempt against limiting opinion."
Unfortunately, the Daily Bruin seems to have caved in to this attempt--Goren and Moore's piece appears to be an edited version of this letter turned into op-ed form, as it contains all of the hallmarks of the email, accusing us Palestinian UCLA students of introducing "divisiveness, ignorance and hate" to the UCLA campus due to our use of the term "ethnic cleansing" to describe Israel's treatment of Palestinians. The Daily Bruin subsequently refused to run a rebuttal piece by an SJP member explaining why the term "ethnic cleansing" was in fact an accurate description of Israel's practices. Indeed, no matter how uncomfortable it may make some individuals, use of the term "ethnic cleansing" to describe Israel's actions is not unheard of even for Israeli sources--for instance, the Israeli historian Ilan Pappé wrote a book entitled The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. The outcry over our article seems even more strange when we consider that this was not even the first time that SJP members had used the term in reference to Zionist policies (which were also compared to Manifest Destiny).
So, why the backlash all of a sudden?
Simply put, our piece represented Palestinians taking full agency over our narratives and refusing to be cowed into silence, or to accept propagandistic rewritings of historical injustices. It is not hard to understand why those invested in maintaining an oppressive status quo would find such agency intimidating, but to call it bullying is nothing short of laughable. Our family members were displaced and continue to face the repercussions of their traumatic expulsions. Having our family histories denied, and further having our narratives turned against us in accusations that we are victimizing others by telling our families' stories, is inexcusable.
It is unfortunate that the Daily Bruin, an official publication with all of the support and backing of the institution, seems to have been intimidated into practicing censorship by limiting our ability to respond to these accusations. As individual students, we cannot expect nearly the same protection, but we will nevertheless not give in to these attacks on our character or our narratives, no matter how formidable the opposition may be or how willing our institution may be to block pro-Palestinian views out of fear of reprisal.
Furthermore, while we revealed our SJP membership for the sake of transparency, we find it disturbing that neither co-author Tali Moore nor the Daily Bruin saw fit even to mention that as of October 2015, Tali Moore was a campus fellow for the Zionist Organization of America, a formidable lobbying organization that regularly tries to curb pro-Palestine activism on university campuses and falsely describes Students for Justice in Palestine as a group promoting "hatred and intolerance," even going so far as to equate SJP with the Klu Klux Klan. Moore's position requires students to engage in various forms of pro-Israel advocacy on campuses in exchange for a $1,000 stipend and a trip to Israel. The distinction is crucial, as SJP members engage in grassroots advocacy and activism for nothing except dedication to the cause of a free Palestine, only to come up time and time again against powerful lobbying groups that disguise their efforts to shut down all debate around Palestine/Israel through the appropriated rhetoric of powerlessness and victimization (something that Oren and Moore's piece also tried to do while calling for the Daily Bruin to stifle the perspectives of pro-Palestine and Palestinian students in the future). Whatever one's stance on Palestine/Israel, it is at least important to acknowledge this stark imbalance of power and resources. Unlike what Moore and Oren claimed for our co-written piece, we are not saying that the Daily Bruin never should have run this submission. We are simply saying that not revealing this affiliation gives the reader an impression of authorial objectivity that is decidedly false, especially given the material incentives the Zionist Organization of America fellowships offer their fellows for regular pro-Israel advocacy.
We may have been displaced, but we will not be silenced, and we will never stop sharing our families' stories until Palestine is finally free.
Our Money, Our Responsibility
By Kaleb Herman Adney
It was my understanding upon entry into the University of California, Los Angeles that Bruins upheld the "highest standards of excellence and integrity" while making "ethical choices" that "respect the dignity of others" as asserted by Gene D. Block, the UCLA chancellor. These values are hypothetical and they ignore the reality at our university: our integrity is conditional and the dignity of others is subjective.
The University of California is not upholding any standard of integrity in its blatant disregard for the dignity and human rights of Palestinians. Our university invests in companies that contribute to systemic discrimination and violence against Palestinians. These companies include Caterpillar, Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH), Cemex, General Electric, and Hewlett-Packard. UCLA has not made a stance against the dehumanizing behavior of these companies and has, therefore, become implicit in their actions.
Caterpillar, for one, has ignored reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International about its violation of Palestinian dignity in providing the equipment, including heavy-duty tractors and bulldozers, used to demolish homes, water storage units, agricultural lands, and refugee camps in the West Bank and in Gaza. Destroying homes and residential property, as well as upholding segregation, are commonplace activities for Caterpillar.
Cement Roadstone Holdings and Cemex have both contributed to the construction of the separation barrier, a wall that reaches twenty-five feet high in some places. CRH and Cemex provide concrete and aggregate materials that the Israeli government has used in its construction of this wall, which separates family members from one another, farmers from their land, and children from their schools. These two companies have also upheld the construction of illegal settlements and military checkpoints dividing residential areas.
Hewlett-Packard has been an integral part of the checkpoint system in the West Bank. HP provides the technology for the Basel System, a complex network used in checkpoints, 85% of which are in the Palestinian West Bank not on the Israeli border, to collect and store information about Palestinians. This system prevents people from moving freely between their places of work, schools, orchards, and homes. One of my acquaintances in Ramallah, for example, is separated from his family in Jerusalem by these checkpoints and is unable to legally spend evenings with his wife and children.
General Electric is a company that provides parts for A64 Apache helicopters, which the Israeli Defense Forces have used to indiscriminately attack citizens in Gaza. The United Methodist Church, along with human rights groups such as Amnesty International, have condemned GE for its contribution to violence in the Occupied Territories.
Each of these companies contributes directly to violations of Palestinian rights and benefits economically from violence against Palestinians. These companies are not neutral; they are invested in the oppression of people. To be clear, they make money off of this situation. When we students allow the university to invest in companies that behave this way we allow laissez faire economics to subjugate our ethical will.
Divestment is not a term for any student on campus to fear. It is a tactic by which we reclaim our political agency, as shown most recently by the "Resolution to Divest Undergraduate Students Association Council and UC Los Angeles Finances from Corporations Profiting from the Prison Industrial Complex", which passed unanimously on February 4. It is us as students taking responsibility for what we are invested in and benefit from. It is us saying that these companies don't live up to our standards as a university, and should not be in our endowment and retirement funds until they do live up to those standards.
Right now, UCLA is invested in these companies and thereby we are taking a stance against Palestinians' freedom to move and live safely. The ethical choice that would respect the dignity of others is to not invest in these companies. To stand on the right side of history we should condemn the oppression of Palestinians. We need to divest.
Defeating the anti-BDS bill: Letter from Stanford Students for Palestinian Equal Rights on divestment and the campus
On October 22nd, the UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council voted to defeat a resolution that threatened the ability for students to pursue divestment from companies tied to the Israeli occupation. The resolution, entitled "A Resolution In Support of Positive Steps Towards an Israeli-Palestinian Peace" framed divestment as a source of tension on campus, while also calling for "positive investment" in a basket of companies loosely affiliated with both Israelis and Palestinians. . During the effort to defeat this bill, we received solidarity statements from around the world, explaining the futility of the bill's "positive investment" clauses and the importance of divestment as a non-violent response to the occupation. For more, please see our press release. Here is a statement sent by Stanford Students for Palestinian Equal Rights on their divestment campaign and its positive effects on campus discourse.
To our peers at the University of California - Los Angeles,
We write to you from Stanford University, where just months ago our campus was asking similar questions to the ones you are now. We write to you to say that discussing divestment from the military occupation of Palestine has not destroyed our campus climate or relations. In fact, divestment turned out to be one of the most unifying topics our campus has recently addressed. Support for divestment generated the highest and most diverse turnout for any topic our senate had addressed. Over 75 students from virtually every community on campus came to our student union and lined the entire length from the entrance of the building, up two flights of stairs, all the way our Senate meeting room, which you can see in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onB_sVNrNMM
The bill before you calls for dialogue but has the opposite effect of promoting conversations. We encourage you to recognize that political action and divestment is one form of dialogue--in this case between students concerned with justice, a people living under an illegal military occupation, and an occupying state that refuses to listen to anyone--including international law, the United Nations and its close ally, the United States. With many of our own members having been in Palestine this summer, we can say without a doubt that investing money in Palestine will not erase the effects of living under military occupation. While money is important for the safety and security of a people, social responsibility and the freedom to live without external control or fear are paramount. People can have all the money and all the respect in the world from their peers. But if the government of these respectful peers continues to build walls around them, raid their homes at night, and detain their children, something needs to change.
We hope that you can understand that this occupation is not something that money can fix. Ending the occupation of Palestine and its people is the largest positive step we can take towards peace.
Yours in justice,
Stanford Students for Palestinian Equal Rights
Defeating the anti-BDS bill: Letter from Sam Bahour about "positive investments"
On October 22nd, the UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council voted to defeat a resolution that threatened the ability for students to pursue divestment from companies tied to the Israeli occupation. The resolution, entitled "A Resolution In Support of Positive Steps Towards an Israeli-Palestinian Peace" framed divestment as a source of tension on campus, while also calling for "positive investment" in a basket of companies loosely affiliated with both Israelis and Palestinians. . During the effort to defeat this bill, we received solidarity statements from around the world, explaining the futility of the bill's "positive investment" clauses and the importance of divestment as a non-violent response to the occupation. For more, please see our press release. Here is a statement sent by Sam Bahour that addresses "positive investment."
Sam Bahour Statement to UCLA Student Government by SJPatUCLA
UCLA solidarity can help Palestinians attain equal rights
By Lila Suboh and Dana Saifan
"Remember, there was no Palestine as a state – (it was) part of the Ottoman Empire. I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and who were historically part of the Arab community," stated Newt Gingrich, a U.S. Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
That's right, Palestinians are "invented" people. The 4.3 million people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the 5 million Palestinian refugees are "invented" people.
Maybe it is because Palestinians are "invented" that they don't deserve basic human rights, such as access to water, roads, electricity, food and medical supplies? Or maybe they don't deserve a homeland of their own because they are "invented" people? Or maybe, just maybe, it is because Palestinians are "invented" that they are subjugated to live under Israel's occupation, which has been deemed illegal under international law?
The truth is, we are all "invented" people, living in "invented" nations that were birthed at the expense of indigenous peoples, disregarding those human beings' real identities, histories and experiences prior to the invention of nations.
Despite the superficial invention of labels for strips of land spread across vast oceans, the people on these lands are very real. UCLA students and Los Angeles residents are very real. The Palestinian people are very real.
Likewise, the struggles of students on campus and Palestinians are real and concern us all. Last week, UCLA students rallied against a proposed 20 percent hike to University of California Student Health Insurance Plan fees and caps on student benefits.
In a more severe struggle for access to health care, the Palestinian people face worsening health conditions as the Israeli military's checkpoints impede pregnant women, the sick, and the elderly from reaching hospitals in the West Bank.
The Israeli blockade prohibits vital medical supplies, such as needles and medicine, from reaching Palestinians in Gaza whose lives depend on them.
While the Palestinian struggle for basic health needs, as a matter of life or death, is more critical and overt than UC struggles to maintain health care, the understanding of access to health care as a basic human right is universal.
As UCLA students, we face budget cuts and fight for access to higher education. Palestinian students persist through roadblocks (both physical and financial) each day to attain their education, despite the chilling reality that only $192 is spent on each non-Jewish Palestinian child per year by the Israeli government, compared to $1,100 on each Jewish Israeli child, according to the Washington Report.
And just as our minority communities around Los Angeles are racially targeted and incarcerated, Palestinians are deemed "security threats" because of their race.
According to Palestinian human rights organization Addameer, 700 Palestinian children under the age of 18 are prosecuted each year through Israeli military courts and more than 4,700 Palestinians are in prison as of Jan. 1, 2013.
We are all "uninvented" human beings that are equally deserving of our human rights, from UCLA students to Palestinians.
This week, Students for Justice in Palestine is hosting its annual Palestine Awareness Week, a program dedicated to educating the UCLA community about Palestine and its people who resist Israel's oppression within the Palestinian territories, within Israel and around the world. This is an opportunity for UCLA students and faculty to learn why this conflict is not as complicated and controversial as many have portrayed it to be.
As human beings, Palestinians deserve equal rights – it's as simple as that. With the solidarity of UCLA students and faculty, these rights are possible to attain, just as it was possible for students and faculty to help deconstruct South African apartheid in the 1980s.
As Archbishop Desmond Tutu emphasized, by standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, "You are doing the right thing. You are doing the moral thing. You are doing that which is incumbent on you as humans who believe that all people have dignity and rights, and that all those being denied their dignity and rights deserve the solidarity of their fellow human beings."
Click here to read this in the Daily Bruin


Urging the Centre to take cognizance of the repeated boundary tussle with China, Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said on Friday that the country needs to shift focus from its border with Pakistan to that with China. Rawat asked the Centre to first implement properly its 'neighborhood first' policy.
In a press conference on Friday, the same day when four Supreme Court judges wrote a historic letter to the Centre, General Bipin Rawat said that Chinese troops were ramping up pressure along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). During the press conference, the Army Chief stressed that although China maybe a powerful country, India is not a weak nation.
The media address came on the eve of the Army Day. Rawat said that India must continue to extend support to countries like Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan so that a better policy with China can be established. "We cannot allow the neighbourhood to be drifted away from us — whether it is Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or Afghanistan. These nations have to be kept on board, and I think we have to put in our wholehearted effort to ensure we continue to support them," he said.
"…we have kept our focus on the western front. I think time has come for us to focus on the northern border. Therefore, our infrastructure development on the northern border has to be speeded up. We are seeking support of other nations, group of nations in the region, to see that we are not isolated completely in a situation in Asia against an assertive China. That is the next step that is being taken and, therefore, you will find that a quadrilateral is formed," he added.
India's standoff against China at Doklam was the first highlight of tensions brewing between the two countries regarding the establishment of boundaries.


Child support continues to be a front-and-center issue when couples divorce. Agreements between divorcing spouses must be considered and negotiated between parents and attorneys, but sometimes, the court must decide. Can compromise work? Sometimes, but not always. A key thing to remember, though, is that the financial responsibility in caring for children lies with both parents, not just one.
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You want the best for your child, especially after you have divorced. How will you pay for your child's essential such as food, clothing, and health and school costs? This is when child support matters come to the forefront. With more than 50 years of experience practicing family law, we are assertive, knowledgeable and determined in securing the agreement that your family needs. For a free consultation, please contact our lawyers at 301-856-3030.


We found that Searches for Marmite went up by 600% following on from Tescos and Unilevers standoff.
Now that things have calmed down between the two brands, lets hope this is the last time we see products taken off the shelves after the Brexit backlash.
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Tag group of objects to be rendered to a layer in rpf or psd. So all carscan be rendered on a lyer and the bg on a lyer and a depth for each object or group.
Mmh, you can do this (sort of) already using Special buffers... Trouble is, they are tied to surfaces, so adding such functionality on a per object basis would not be too bad ;o).
Having it tied to the spreadsheet and scene editor would allow for one to create favorites so that matte objects could be rendered as well with specialized groups.


Mauli (2018) is a Marathi Movie.
Mauli (2018) is a Marathi action-drama film directed by Aditya Sarpotdar and produced by Riteish Deshmukh under Mumbai Film Company Productions banner. It stars Riteish Deshmukh, Saiyami Kher, and more. Following is the Mauli Movie Details (Cast, Crew, Story, Trailer, Budget, Box Office, & More).
"As an actor, I always wanted to experiment with various genres and thankfully in the last few years, I have got the opportunity to do so," Riteish said in a statement here.
"'Lai Bhaari' made me believe I could attempt action drama genre and after I read the script of 'Mauli', I knew I was ready for my second Marathi film," he said.
Genelia said 'Mauli' is one of the most ambitious films produced by both of them.
Initial release 14 Dec 2018.
Star Cast Riteish Deshmukh, Saiyami Kher, and more.
(Cost + Publicity) ₹10 Crore+ (INR).
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Angels & Unicorns
Date Friday - March 27, 2009
Guests Diana Cooper, Open Lines
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Cooper: Angels
Cooper: Unicorns
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In the first half of the program, George was joined by author Diana Cooper for a discussion on angels and unicorns. Cooper explained that she had no religious background before an angel came to her during a very low period in her life 25 years ago. According to Cooper, that angel took her on a mind-opening journey and told her that she was destined to be a teacher.
Cooper described angels as beings from the 7th dimension (heaven) who are "with us at all times to help and guide us." Everyone has a guardian angel assigned for life, she continued, noting that we can ask them to aid us with seemingly insignificant things, like finding a parking space. Cooper pointed out that angels can sometimes be seen as orbs when photographed.
Also inhabiting the 7th dimensional angelic realm, at a higher frequency than that we can normally see or hear, are unicorns. Cooper believes the magical creatures, who she said once dwelled in Atlantis during its golden age, are now returning to Earth to provide enlightenment for humanity. Cooper revealed that a unicorn's horn is actually a spiral of light coming from their third eye. Unlike angels, who grant wishes of the heart, unicorns work with desires of the soul, she added.
During Open Lines, callers continued the conversation on unicorns and angelic/spiritual encounters, as well as spoke about conspiracy theories and the government bailouts. The final half hour featured George's 2/8/08 interview with actress Cassandra Peterson, best known for her role as late-night horror hostess Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
Appearing briefly at the start of the show, Dave Smead talked about this weekend's Second Annual Veterans "Welcome Home Reunion" in Crossville, TN. More info at ccvietnamvets.com.
Then, researcher Lloyd Pye announced that the famous Starchild skull will be featured on The History Channel's UFO Hunters: The Greys Conspiracy on Wednesday, April 1st.
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A photo of an eerie figure peering from the window of a ruined fortress has experts puzzled. The shot, captured last year at Tantallon Castle in Scotland, appears to show a rather stern-looking person wearing fifteenth century dress. Ghost skeptic Richard Wiseman is baffled, as the castle is "not the sort of place that has dummies or costumed guides," and the photographer claims no one was present when the picture was taken. More at The Sun.
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Carly's Song
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This week I have something special to thank my readers! Since the seasons are changing here are my spring favourites! Also I have teamed up with Luvocracy to help you start your spring well, read to the bottom to find out details about the giveaway!
During spring I tend to opt for a lighter more natural look. I like to have a 'fresh face' look in comparison to my bold looks from the winter months. The following will not be full reviews but a little bit on why I love these items for spring. I can write lengthier reviews on the products bellow if you guys would like just leave me a comment with the product name!
This was the first thing I thought of when gathering my spring favourites. It is a beautiful sweet rose smell and it will remind you of spring and flowers. The perfume comes in the signature Chloe bottles but with a cute little rose pink ribbon instead of the original tan. You really must go to a perfume counter to smell this!
This is for the jasmine lovers! I find the smell of jasmine so beautiful and subtle and this was definitely a find! It is rare to find the smell of jasmine well replicated in perfumes, but L'occitane did an amazing job while mixing it with a hint of bergamote to create a beautiful fresh scent.
L'occitane carries an amazing collection of shea butter hand creams, and this would be my choice for spring time. If you love the smell of peonies you should definitely give this one a go! This moisturizes your hands without leaving a greasy or sticky residue and smells amazing.
One of the best mousses I have tried! I love the body and volume it provides without the heavy and sticky feeling in my hair. I did a full review on this product, click here to see it!
This BB cream does not feel or apply like the Korean or Japanese BB creams on the market. The Tarte BB cream is instead a combination of a silicone based primer and a foundation. It is about a medium coverage with amazing ability to blend into the skin flawlessly. The BB cream felt amazing and smooth on my skin, it did not look or feel like I was wearing foundation. This is my go to foundation when it comes to doing a natural 'no-make up' make up look. Lastly, it also contains SPF 30 sunscreen, to protect your skin from the sun.
The Tony Moly eyebrow pencil is a decent dupe for the Anastasia Brow Wiz and a lot cheaper. It is almost as slim as the Anastasia Brow Wiz and gives you a very natural look to your brows. They also come in about 6 shades from black to light brown, giving you a good spectrum to find the perfect colour. I love to use two similar colour on my brows to give them a little more depth and dimension.
I use this in combination with the Tony Moly eyebrow pencil to create brows that look naturally full. I opt for 2 different pencils because using one looks flat and 2-dimensional. When I use both my brows do not show obvious signs of using a pencil at all, yet they still look full.
I love using this on my lips to complete my natural look. It hydrates my lips without feeling greasy and gives my lips a very subtle and sheer natural red to my lips. Not only does it look great but it is also made with 100% natural ingredients, this product is a great value for what you get.
I have team up with Luvocracy to do giveaway for my readers! Luvocracy is an amazing site where you can look at items that people have 'luved' and purchase them right off the site! We want you to start your spring off well so all the products above can be found in my 'Spring Beauty Favourites' collection on my Luvocracy page.
To enter the giveaway you must sign up to Luvocracy through the link I have provide bellow. It is important that you use the link I have provided, as it is their way of tracking you. The giveaway ends on MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 and the winners will be notified through email on TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014. Once you have been notified, you must respond within 5 days or the prize will be forfeited.


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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Just Called Out the Golden Globes' Lack of Black Voters
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that votes on the Golden Globes, has zero Black members.
"The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is made up of about 90 international no-Black journalists," cohost Tina Fey quipped in the opening monologue at the Golden Globes on Sunday, February 28.
It's true—there are 87 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group of international journalists responsible for giving out Golden Globes. Not one of them is Black. In fact, Variety notes, the HFPA hasn't had a Black member for at least 20 years. The consequences of that exclusion is clear: Black creators and performers were snubbed outrageously by the Globes this year. I May Destroy You, Insecure, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, resounding critical successes, were passed over in major categories.
"Everyone is understandably upset with the HFPA and their choices," cohost Amy Poehler said during the opening monologue, joking that the HFPA is a notoriously frivolous award show. But she added, more seriously, "A number of Black-led actors and products were overlooked." Fey continued, "Even with stupid things, inclusivity is important. And there are no Black members of the HFPA. You gotta change that."
It's an important point that filmmaker Ava DuVernay expanded upon on Twitter. "To be clear, pressure applied to the Globes and its partners from now on isn't about validation," she wrote, in a statement posted just hours before the Globes.
"The truth that's not often discussed is that awards play a part in the economic reality of Black filmmakers, artists of color, and women creators in this business." It's hopeful to see that the first two winners of the night are fabulously talented Black actors—Daniel Kaluuya and John Boyega.
The #OscarsSoWhite push started five years ago. A public reckoning with racism has been shaking the world since the killing of George Floyd over the summer. And yet looking at the membership of the HFPA, it's as if none of that ever happened. Parts of mainstream Hollywood have avoided even the bare minimum when it comes to bringing about equity and fair representation. In a statement to the L.A. Times, which recently reported on alleged corruption within the association, the HFPA wrote, "We understand that we need to bring in Black members as well as members from other underrepresented backgrounds, and we will immediately work to implement an action plan to achieve these goals as soon as possible."
"There are nuances, as an organization of immigrants, who write for our home country, that search [for international Black journalists] has not been easy, but that doesn't mean we will give up," former HFPA president Meher Tatna told Variety of the controversy. "We will keep trying, and we will be part of the solution." That explanation doesn't make much sense. It's not just hard to believe that there are few Black critics outside of America; the L.A. Times reports that "relatively few [members of the HFPA] work full time for major overseas outlets."
Fey and Poehler join a number of groups calling out the HFPA. Time's Up, the women-led celebrity justice organization that was founded at the height of the #MeToo movement, called out the HFPA days before the Globes, calling for a deep and systemic change in Association. "Hollywood Foreign Press Association: Not a Single Black Member Out of 87," reads a graphic on Time's Up social media accounts, boosted by performers including Kerry Washington and Amber Tamblyn.
SAG-AFTRA, the union that comprises screen and radio performers, also put out a statement calling out the Globes. "It's a big, diverse world and if the HFPA is to remain relevant in today's media environment, it must fully embrace inclusion among its membership and across its operations," their statement read.
Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can follow her on Twitter.
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Guinea Bissau Sanctions Start, US Back & Forth, Mutaboba For Gambari?
UNITED NATIONS, June 20 -- When Morocco held its first meeting Wednesday charing the new Guinea Bissau sanctions committee of the UN Security Council, the media interest consisted of four reporters.
Perhaps it was not only that the exports of Guinea Bissau are cashews and bauxite and cocaine; perhaps since it was the first meeting of the sanctions committee, it takes time to drum up interest. But the stakes and likelihood of success seem low.
The committee is thinking of add more names to its sanctions list, from a European Union list. But many say those named don't travel anyway, except perhaps to Senegal. Who will stop them? If they have drug money to offer for bribes?
The overarching question is just how easy will things be for the leaders of the coup? One has lived in Morocco, which now chairs the committee.
As to the rest, the US at first said it could work with them, them rectified and clarified the statement. But now, it's said, the US ambassador to Senegal who covers Guinea Bissau is ready to work with the coup leaders, contrary to what Inner City Press was told on camera at the stakeout.
Another question on Africa put to the US Mission on Wednesday morning was still unanswered Wednesday night.
And so attention turns to who might replace Joseph Mutaboba, the UN envoy who first sheltered a drug kingpin then missed the signs of the coup. A strange suggested emerged on Wednesday: why not Ibrahim Gambari?
As Inner City Press exclusively reported, Gambari came to New York and resigned from his Darfur post. But what's next for him? Guinea Bissau might be small, but it seems to be a place Gambari could erect a $600,000 mansion for himself and his five guards, like he did in El Fasher.
Gambari's alread partied with an ICC indictee: after that, a coup leader is a walk in the park. Gambari's with the Angolans, and thus the Lusophone. It would be a step down, sure. But there's a lot of opportunity or at least money in Bissau. Watch this site.


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Action brought on 21 December 2009 - Canga Fano v Council
(Case F-104/09)
Applicant: Diego Canga Fano (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: S. Rodriguez and C. Bernard-Glanz, lawyers)
Defendant: Council of the European Union
Application for annulment of the defendant's decision not to include the applicant on the list of officials promoted to Grade AD 13 under the 2009 promotion procedure.
The applicant claims that the Tribunal should:
annul the appointing authority's decision not to include the applicant on the list of officials promoted to grade AD 13 under the 2009 promotion procedure;
annul, so far as necessary, the appointing authority's decision rejecting the applicant's complaint;
order the appointing authority to pay the applicant a sum fixed on equitable principles at EUR 150 000, in respect of compensation for the non-material harm suffered, plus default interest at the legal rate from the date on which it became payable, and a sum fixed on equitable principles at EUR 50 00, in respect of compensation for the harm to his career, plus default interest at the legal rate from the date on which it became payable;
order the Council to pay the costs.


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Der Spiegel scandal: When the right hate is more important than the right facts
By Abe Greenwald
December 23, 2018 | 10:42pm	| Updated December 24, 2018 | 3:49pm
The latest issue of German newsweekly Der Spiegel, addressing the scandal surrounding fired reporter Claas Relotius Getty Images
Der Spiegel star reporter fabricated stories for years
The German weekly Der Spiegel, one of the top-selling publications...
The German magazine Der Spiegel last week fired Claas Relotius, one of its star reporters, for fabricating sources and details in at least 14 articles and perhaps as many as 55. There was an unmistakable thread tying together Relotius' tall tales: seething anti-Americanism.
In his downfall, we see the crisis of left-liberal journalism in microcosm: Animosity toward Red America too often trumps reporting the facts — a blind spot that leads astray the prestige press on both sides of the Atlantic.
Relotius' embellished stories could plausibly be collected in a book-length portrait of the ugliness and violence of American life — that is, if they were true.
There was his award-winning "The Last Witness," about an American woman who volunteers to watch the execution of death-row inmates (he made the whole thing up). There was "Number 440," which Der Spiegel described as "the gripping account of a Yemenite wrongly imprisoned in Guantanamo" (it contained multiple fabrications).
And then there was the article that got him busted: a "report" on American vigilantes guarding the US-Mexico border, complete with a hand-painted "Mexicans Keep Out" sign that didn't exist.
Relotius was no small-time hack. He won CNN's Journalist of the Year award in 2014 and last year made it to Forbes' "30 Under 30" list for European media.
His anti-Americanism fit in nicely with Der Spiegel's worldview. This is the same magazine, after all, that in May published an editorial announcing its "Resistance Against America."
On Friday, US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell called for an independent investigation of anti-American bias at Der Spiegel. In a letter to the magazine's editor-in-chief, Grenell wrote: "The fundamental question is how such blatant anti-Americanism could be published without an editor questioning its accuracy."
The answer is simple. Saying bad things about middle Americans and conservatives is the surest way to safeguard your writing against close editorial scrutiny. Stories that advance a left-liberal worldview are often too good to fact-check. If it's anti-American, or anti-conservative, it has to be true.
And if it's not strictly factually true, then it's thematically "true enough." The key is to leave readers feeling disgusted by your enemy.
There were examples closer to home this year. The New York Times reported that Nikki Haley, America's outgoing UN envoy, had spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on curtains for her apartment in the Big Apple. But it turned out the Obama administration had purchased the fancy curtains.
The New Yorker ran a series of stories about a woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct — without any corroborating evidence of an incident that supposedly took place in the early 1980s.
CNN fell hard for North Korean PR at the Winter Olympics. "If 'diplomatic dance' were an event at the Winter Olympics," the network breathlessly claimed, "Kim Jong-un's younger sister would be favored to win gold."
If a mainstream journalist ever filed stories that weak, but with a conservative or pro-American bent, his reporting would be fact-checked out of existence; the articles mentioned above went viral.
Yes, Relotius is a special type of pathological fabulist who comes along only every few years. Americans might remember Stephen Glass, who got caught writing hoax stories at the New Republic in 1998, and Jayson Blair, who imploded spectacularly at the New York Times in 2003. Such writers seem to have a congenital need to push the bounds of reality until their careers self-destruct.
But Relotius is also an extreme representative of an ideologically driven press.
There's been much talk about President Trump's penchant for attacking the media. It's true that his labeling the press "the enemy of the people" is dangerous. But activist journalists have harmed their profession far more than Trump ever could.
The Times Square Alliance recently announced that New Year's Eve in Times Square will be an official celebration of journalism. It's a fitting way for the left-liberal media to end the year, with the ceremonial dropping of the ball.
Abe Greenwald is senior editor of Commentary.
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Q: git still in status rebasing after reset to ORIG_HEAD I got myself into trouble with an interactive rebase: Since I could not abort the interactive rebase via
git rebase -i --abort

I tried to
git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD

However, when I run git status, I now get
On branch feature1
You are currently rebasing.
 (all conflicts fixed: run "git rebase --continue")

nothing to commit, working tree clean

Is there a way I can reset git to the status before the interactive rebase?

A: Before Git 2.30 (Q1 2021), "git rebase -i"(man) did not store ORIG_HEAD correctly.
See commit 8843302, commit a2bb10d, commit f3e27a0, commit e100bea (04 Nov 2020) by Phillip Wood (phillipwood).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit c042c45, 18 Nov 2020)

rebase -i: stop overwriting ORIG_HEAD buffer
Reported-by: Caspar Duregger
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood

After rebasing, ORIG_HEAD is supposed to point to the old HEAD of the rebased branch.
The code used find_unique_abbrev() to obtain the object name of the old HEAD and wrote to both .git/rebase-merge/orig-head (used by rebase --abort to go back to the previous state) and to ORIG_HEAD.
The buffer find_unique_abbrev() gives back is volatile, unfortunately, and was overwritten after the former file is written but before ORIG_FILE is written, leaving an incorrect object name in it.
Avoid relying on the volatile buffer of find_unique_abbrev(), and instead supply our own buffer to keep the object name.
I think that all of the users of head_hash should actually be using opts->orig_head instead as passing a string rather than a struct object_id around is a hang over from the scripted implementation.
This patch just fixes the immediate bug and adds a regression test based on Caspar's reproduction example. The users will be converted to use struct object_id and head_hash removed in the next few commits.

Note: from the Git mailing list:
git-rebase -i
# edit XYZ
git-reset HEAD~
git-commit -C ORIG_HEAD -a
git-rebase --continue
git-show ORIG_HEAD

ORIG_HEAD does not point at the previous HEAD of the rebased branch.
ORIG_HEAD points to XYZ
"git reset" will update ORIG_HEAD to the current HEAD before resetting
so here ORIG_HEAD gets updated to point to XYZ.
One can use the reflog to get the previous HEAD of the rebased branch after rebasing.
Immediately after the rebase, branch-name@{1} will point
to the pre-rebase HEAD.

A: I found a solution to my problem:
I am normally using Git Portable in a Windows command line. Running git rebase --abort or git reset --hard on the last commit had no effect there. git status still revealed that I am in status rebasing.
However, switching to the bash-shell of Git Portable, git reset --hard on the last commit brought me back to a non-rebasing status of git status.

A: I was seeing this issue and I found a top on a similar question that fixed it for me.
git rebase --quit


Handset distributor Brightpoint will re-enter Poland, expanding its wireless supply chain service capabilities to its partners in the country.
Brightpoint pulled out of Poland in 2009 but has returned to take advantage of a strong demand for new handsets, over-the-air technology and an improved mobile network which operate in the country.
Brightpoint EMEA president Anurag Gupta (pictured) said: "Poland is one of the largest markets in Europe with a growing demand for wireless devices.
"The decision to re-enter Poland is in line with our global strategic plan to expand our geographic footprint and deliver unique services to the wireless industry.


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Toolchefs has announced the first client wins for Atoms Crowd, its new crowd-simulation system.
The software, a standalone application that integrates with Maya, Houdini and Katana, is now in use at Emmy Award-winning effects house Base FX and Taiwanese studio Moonshine Animation.
We didn't manage to cover Atoms Crowd on its release late last year, so this seems a good time to revisit an interesting new tool.
Below, you can find a mini Q&A with Toolchefs co-founder and CEO Daniele Federico – but first, a bit of background about what Atoms Crowd is, and how it compares to other crowd-simulation software.
Atoms Crowd enters what, for a specialised tool, is already a competitive market, veteran AI-driven crowd system Massive having been joined in recent years by newer rivals Golaem and Miarmy.
Its potential selling points include its status as a standalone application, helping it slot into mixed effects pipelines: as well as Maya, Atoms Crowd integrates with Houdini and, as of earlier this month, Katana.
Moonshine Animation cites this as a key factor, with pipeline TD David Lai noting the "loss of detail" that used to occur when the studio passed data from Maya – its primary tool for crowd simulation – to Houdini in order to add interactions between crowd agents and the ground, such as dust clouds.
Atoms Crowd is also purely skeleton-based, rather than piggybacking on the particle system of its host app: something that can make the placement of agents more intuitive, but that can lead to animation artefacts.
And perhaps most significantly, its creators have hands-on experience of this kind of work: although not its orginal creator, CTO Alan Stanzione was the main developer of ALICE, MPC's in-house crowd simulation tool, used on movies like World War Z, while Daniele Federico used to be core pipeline developer at Framestore.
CG Channel: Crowd simulation isn't a big market. Why create another new application for it?
Daniele Federico: We think that Atoms Crowd has the right foundation for becoming one of the leading solutions for VFX. As we worked for in the industry we know exactly what major studios need. For that reason, we focused on animation quality and having customisable software: we have a C++ and Python API; our system is totally open.
Also, as Atoms Crowd doesn't rely on any [individual] 3D package, we can integrate it in any application. We are only targeting Houdini, Maya and Katana at the moment, but [will support] more software soon.
Finally, Atoms Crowd is completely user-driven: the artist decides everything about the simulation. There's very little AI at the moment, even though we are planning to add more this year.
CGC: How come? Many people would assume that AI is important for realistic crowd behaviour.
DF: In our experience, AI should be avoided as much as possible in a crowd show. You never know what a director is going to want in a shot, so you cannot have the software taking decisions for you. You need to able to tweak every single crowd agent.
CGC: Do you expect your users to be running both Maya and Houdini in production?
DF: We think that most will use both, like Moonshine. We know that studios do not stick to a single software [package] nowadays. They might do FX in Houdini and animation/crowd [simulation] in Maya.
Also, they use different renderers [so] having a shared solution does simplify their lives.
CGC: Why make the software a purely skeleton-based system?
DF: It's easier to achieve [good] animation quality. Our crowd has a foot-locking system (which also rebuilds the skeleton pose), preventing the 'sliding feet' issue you often get with a particle-based solution.
CGC: Most of your demos show flat terrain. Can Atoms Crowd handle more complex 3D geometry?
We've done several tests with 3D height fields and all of them worked fine [including] tests with more complex meshes. We're also releasing a new flocking behaviour this month.
CGC: Who do you expect to use the software? Is it purely for final effects?
DF: We have also been talking with previz studios, some of [which] have never used a crowd solution before. They always found them too hard to use.
Atoms is very easy to use once your project is set up (character definitions, animation clips, and so on), which means that non-technical artists can do crowd shots. [That's also] a great advantage if you are in crunch time and need to scale your team. It's quite hard to find skilled artists in a short period of time.
Atoms Crowd is available for Windows and Linux. The software is rental-only.
Prices start at €350/month or €3,000/year (around $430/month to $3,670/year) for one licence of Atoms Crowd and five of Atoms Procedurals, required for rendering or to use viewport proxies.
The core software integrates with Maya 2015-2017, Houdini 15+ and Katana 2.6, and is compatible with Arnold 4+, RenderMan 20+ and V-Ray 3.5+. The integration plugins are free.


UPDATE: The multiplayer mode for Arkham Origins will not be coming to the Wii U.
The Arkham games will no longer be a single-player experience.
WB Montreal announced today that Batman: Arkham Origins will come with a multiplayer mode that will be pitting teams against each other.
Two teams of three composed of Bane and Joker thugs will take on each other to take control of certain points on a map. Each thug will be equipped with weapons to take out their opposing forces. Also during the match, a player will be able to take control of their gang's leader and be able to use special abilities that make them stronger than an average hoodlum.
However, the two teams won't be the only people to control in this mode. One team of two will take on the roles of Batman and Robin and will be tasked with mission of stopping the two other teams. Batman and Robin's gameplay will function as an online version of Predator Mode as they do their best to stay hidden and take out the thugs silently and swiftly using the gadgets and tactics we have become so familiar with the series.
The multiplayer mode will be available at launch when the game arrives on October 25.


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Wise Dan est un cheval de course pur-sang anglais américain né en 2007. Membre du Hall of Fame des courses américaines, il a été élu deux fois cheval de l'année aux États-Unis.

Carrière de courses
Né dans le Kentucky et castré dès son plus jeune âge (ce qui le prive d'emblée de toute perspective de carrière classique), Wise Dan est poulain de basse extraction et son mentor, Charles LoPresti, ne fait pas partie du gratin des entraîneurs américains. Il commence sa carrière à trois ans au début de l'année 2010 et commence à faire parler de lui en octobre lorsqu'il remporte un groupe 3, les Phoenix Stakes, sur l'hippodrome de Keeneland. Cette victoire lui donne un sésame pour participer à la Breeders' Cup, qui se tient cette année-là près de chez lui à Churchill Downs. Aligné dans le sprint, il se comporte honorablement et termine sixième.  La deuxième saison de Wise Dan débute mal, par une série de défaites qui conduit Charles LoPresti à tester son cheval sur une piste en gazon. Et ce petit dépaysement le remet d'aplomb : Wise Dan s'impose avec autorité dans un groupe 2, le Firecracker Handicap. A l'automne, il se frotte aux meilleurs dans le Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes et termine bon quatrième derrière le champion Gio Ponti. Le cheval a franchi un cap et d'ailleurs il revient avec succès sur le dirt en raflant les Fayette Stakes, qu'il enchaîne avec son premier groupe 1, le Clark Handicap, monté pour la première fois par John Velazquez, qui devient alors son jockey attitré. En fin d'année, Wise Dan reçoit de la FIAH un rating de 121, ce qui fait de lui le cinquième cheval américain de l'année.

Wise Dan a changé de statut. Pour sa rentrée en 2012, il défait Big Blue Kitten, futur cheval de l'année sur le gazon, dans un groupe 3 à Keeneland, les Ben Ali Stakes, où il bat le record de la piste. Battu ensuite de peu dans le Stephen Forster Handicap, un groupe 1, il s'impose brillamment dans le Fourstardave Handicap puis s'en va quérir le Woodbine Mile au Canada et enchaîne avec le Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes. Le voilà prêt, et favori pour la Breeders' Cup Mile, une course qui sourit régulièrement aux Européens. Ceux-ci ont délégué des milers de talent, notamment la Française Moonlight Cloud et l'Anglais Excelebration. Mais Wise Dan ne s'en laisse pas compter et l'emporte avec brio devant le champion Animal Kingdom, lauréat l'année précédente du Kentucky Derby et futur vainqueur de la Dubaï World Cup, et Excelebration. Une performance et un chrono exceptionnel de 1'31"78, record de la piste, à 37 centième du record du monde sur le mile, qui lui vaut tous les éloges. Avec un rating de 129, le cinquième meilleur rating au monde en 2012, il est officiellement le meilleur cheval entraîné aux États-Unis. Et les Eclipse Awards tournent au triomphe : Wise Dan est élu cheval d'âge de l'année, meilleur cheval sur le gazon et, consécration, cheval de l'année. C'est la première fois qu'un cheval réalise un tel grand chelem depuis le légendaire John Henry en 1981, et Wise Dan devient le troisième hongre après Forego et John Henry à obtenir le titre suprême.

L'année 2013 est tout aussi fructueuse que la précédente pour Wise Dan qui semble plus fringuant que jamais à 6 ans. Il rentre victorieusement dans le Maker's Mark Mile puis enchaîne avec le Turf Classic et conserve son titre dans le Firecracker Handicap. Il est intouchable et remporte une neuvième victoire consécutive dans le Woodbine Mile, s'appropriant là aussi le record de la piste en 1'31"75 et conserve également son titre dans le Shadwell Turf Mile. Enfin, il conserve son invincibilité en réussissant le doublé dans la Breeders' Cup Mile devant le Britannique Olympic Glory. Crédité à nouveau d'un rating de 129, il termine troisième des classements mondiaux de la FIAH et réédite son exploit aux Eclipse Awards, étant une nouvelle fois sacré cheval d'âge de l'année, meilleur cheval sur le gazon et cheval de l'année.

Insatiable, Wise Dan reste à l'entraînement à 7 ans et poursuit sa litanie de victoires. Un nouveau doublé, cette fois dans le Maker's Mark Mile, puis un autre dans le Turf Classic. Une frayeur toutefois, le 16 mai : le champion fait une crise de coliques, un mal souvent fatal pour les chevaux. Mais il est opéré et sauvé, et son entourage annonce qu'il va reprendre sa carrière. Et trois mois plus tard, Wise Dan est de retour, un retour gagnant, d'un nez, dans le Bernard Baruch Handicap, un groupe 2 disputé à Saratoga. Il est toujours le roi, et en apporte la preuve avec un nouveau succès dans le Shadwell Turf Mile en octobre, son treizième groupe 1. Le dernier aussi. Quelques jours plus tard, Charles LoPresti annonce que le cheval est blessé, qu'il est forfait pour la Breeders' Cup (où il devait tenter d'égaler le record de trois victoires de Goldikova) et, qu'à son âge et avec une telle carrière, il ne reparaîtra en piste qu'à la seule condition d'avoir recouvré l'intégralité de ses moyens.

Wise Dan surmonte sa blessure, revient à l'entraînement à l'été 2015 et se prépare pour une rentrée dans le Woodbine Mile. Mais une nouvelle blessure, qui n'a rien à voir avec la précédente, oblige son entourage à renoncer au come back. Et Wise Dan de couler une retraite bien méritée, partagée entre la propriété de son entraîneur et Old Friends Equine, une sorte de maison de retraite où de nombreux champions viennent finir leurs jours dans les herbes grasses du Kentucky. En 2020, il est élu au Hall of Fame des courses américaines.

Résumé de carrière

Origines
Wise Dan est issu d'un modeste étalon, Wiseman's Ferry, qui en piste n'eut pour seul titre de gloire une victoire dans un groupe 3 en Virginie. Sa mère, Lisa Danielle, une fille du champion sud-africain Wolf Power, se transcenda au haras puisqu'elle donna, outre Wise Dan, plusieurs chevaux ayant fait une honorable carrière, et surtout un autre cheval de premier plan, Successful Dan (Successful Appeal), vainqueur au niveau groupe 2 et plusieurs fois placé de groupe 1.

Pedigree

Références

Cheval de course
Cheval de course né en 2007
Animal né en 2007
Lauréat d'un Eclipse Award
Cheval de l'année aux États-Unis
Membre d'un Hall of Fame des courses hippiques

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Melbourne's most senior Catholic says he will go to jail rather than inform police if someone told him during confession that they had sexually abused a child. Instead, Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli wants priests to have protections similar to journalists' sources and lawyers and their clients. New laws introduced into Victoria's parliament on Wednesday will make it mandatory for religious leaders - alongside police, teachers, medical practitioners and early childhood workers - to report suspicions of abuse. The laws would bring Victoria into line with a number of other states and territories. "I don't think in contemporary and mainstream times, knowing what we know now, that we can do anything other than say the rights of children trump anyone's religious views," Attorney-General Jill Hennessy told reporters on Wednesday. "Ultimately, this is about making sure that we start to right the wrongs of systemic abuse." Under the laws, priests and religious leaders face up to three years' jail if they don't report child physical and sexual abuse allegations. Archbishop Comensoli told ABC radio he was prepared to go to jail rather than break the confessional seal. He said if someone admitted to child abuse during confession he would convince them to go to the authorities and ask them to 'fess up' outside the confessional so he could report it. "The presumption here is that I know who's there in front of me. That's not the practice of confession," Archbishop Comensoli said. He added he had practised mandatory reporting for years outside confession, as it was a requirement during his previous posting in NSW. In a statement, Archbishop Comensoli urged the government not to infringe on religious freedoms. "Confession doesn't place people above the law. Priests should be mandatory reporters, but in a similar way to protections to the lawyer/client relationship and protection for journalists' sources," he said. Clergy are already subject to mandatory reporting laws in South Australia and the Northern Territory, while Western Australia and Tasmania have announced plans to compel religious leaders to disclose knowledge of abuse. Victoria's reforms will also allow survivors of institutional abuse to apply to the Supreme Court to overturn "unfair" compensation settlements previously signed with churches. Chrissie Foster, who fought for years for compensation after her two girls were abused by a Catholic priest, pointed to the case of priest Michael McArdle, who told 30 priests he had abused children 1500 times before being jailed in 2003. "There's no excuse that they did not stop this," Ms Foster said. "This is children being raped for decades, centuries. It's astounding, unbelievable." Victoria's Liberal-National opposition has previously indicated it would back the laws, but Opposition Leader Michael O'Brien wants to see the details. Australian Associated Press
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Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli would go to jail before breaking a sex abuser's confession.
Melbourne's most senior Catholic says he will go to jail rather than inform police if someone told him during confession that they had sexually abused a child.
Instead, Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli wants priests to have protections similar to journalists' sources and lawyers and their clients.
New laws introduced into Victoria's parliament on Wednesday will make it mandatory for religious leaders - alongside police, teachers, medical practitioners and early childhood workers - to report suspicions of abuse.
The laws would bring Victoria into line with a number of other states and territories.
"I don't think in contemporary and mainstream times, knowing what we know now, that we can do anything other than say the rights of children trump anyone's religious views," Attorney-General Jill Hennessy told reporters on Wednesday.
"Ultimately, this is about making sure that we start to right the wrongs of systemic abuse."
Under the laws, priests and religious leaders face up to three years' jail if they don't report child physical and sexual abuse allegations.
Archbishop Comensoli told ABC radio he was prepared to go to jail rather than break the confessional seal.
He said if someone admitted to child abuse during confession he would convince them to go to the authorities and ask them to 'fess up' outside the confessional so he could report it.
"The presumption here is that I know who's there in front of me. That's not the practice of confession," Archbishop Comensoli said.
He added he had practised mandatory reporting for years outside confession, as it was a requirement during his previous posting in NSW.
In a statement, Archbishop Comensoli urged the government not to infringe on religious freedoms.
"Confession doesn't place people above the law. Priests should be mandatory reporters, but in a similar way to protections to the lawyer/client relationship and protection for journalists' sources," he said.
Clergy are already subject to mandatory reporting laws in South Australia and the Northern Territory, while Western Australia and Tasmania have announced plans to compel religious leaders to disclose knowledge of abuse.
Victoria's reforms will also allow survivors of institutional abuse to apply to the Supreme Court to overturn "unfair" compensation settlements previously signed with churches.
Chrissie Foster, who fought for years for compensation after her two girls were abused by a Catholic priest, pointed to the case of priest Michael McArdle, who told 30 priests he had abused children 1500 times before being jailed in 2003.
"There's no excuse that they did not stop this," Ms Foster said.
"This is children being raped for decades, centuries. It's astounding, unbelievable."
Victoria's Liberal-National opposition has previously indicated it would back the laws, but Opposition Leader Michael O'Brien wants to see the details.


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USA Diving announces 2016 FINA World Cup team
By USA Diving | Dec. 21, 2015, 9:13 a.m. (ET)
(Note: The roster was updated on December 23. For the latest news, click here.)
Following the conclusion of the 2015 USA Diving Winter National Championships, which ended December 20, USA Diving has announced its roster for the FINA Diving World Cup. Two individuals and one synchronized team per event were selected to the team.
Amy Cozad, Kristian Ipsen and Steele Johnson each won two national titles at the Winter Nationals to be selected to World Cup team in two events. Abby Johnston and Jessica Parratto also were selected to compete two events after both finished Winter Nationals with a national title and a silver medal.
The World Cup, to be held February 19-24 in Rio de Janeiro, will serve as the final opportunity for countries to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games. The U.S. has secured two of a possible 12 Olympic quota spots so far, having already qualified one men's 10-meter and one women's 10-meter spot. Each country may earn a maximum of two quota spots in each individual event and one in each synchronized event. All spots are for the country, not the athlete. USA Diving will select its Olympic team at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for diving in Indianapolis from June 18-26, 2016.
USA Diving roster for FINA Diving World Cup
Men's 3-meter
Kristian Ipsen (Clayton, Calif./Stanford, Calif.)
Michael Hixon (Amherst, Mass./Bloomington, Ind.)
Women's 3-meter
Kassidy Cook (The Woodlands, Texas)
Abby Johnston (Upper Arlington, Ohio/Durham, N.C.)
Men's 10-meter
Steele Johnson (Carmel, Ind./West Lafayette, Ind.)
David Dinsmore (New Albany, Ohio/Coral Gables, Fla.)
Women's 10-meter
Amy Cozad (Indianapolis, Ind./Bloomington, Ind.)
Jessica Parratto (Dover, N.H./Bloomington, Ind.)
Men's synchronized 3-meter
Kristian Ipsen (Clayton, Calif./Stanford, Calif.)/Sam Dorman (Tempe, Ariz./Coral Gables, Fla.)
Women's synchronized 3-meter
Abby Johnston (Upper Arlington, Ohio/Durham, N.C.)/Laura Ryan (Elk River, Minn./Athens, Ga.)
Men's synchronized 10-meter
David Boudia (Noblesville, Ind./West Lafayette, Ind.)/Steele Johnson (Carmel, Ind./West Lafayette, Ind.)
Women's synchronized 10-meter
Amy Cozad (Indianapolis, Ind./Bloomington, Ind.)/Jessica Parratto (Dover, N.H./Bloomington, Ind.)
Coaches: Randy Ableman, Oleg Andriyuk, Drew Johansen, Vince Panzano
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Kristian Ipsen
Steele Johnson
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"What about my daughter, Mr Gary ? Please bring her home to me," was the heart-breaking cry today of Shondel Shallow, mother of missing 16-year-old Shindlar Cuffy.
She called on Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith to intervene and help find her daughter.
When told of the mother's plea, Griffith promised to speak with investigators about the teen's disappearance.
Today is a week since the form five student of the Marabella North Secondary School, who was wearing her uniform at the time, disappeared without a trace.
On November 26, the girl was put in a taxi (white AD wagon) by her mother on the Southern Main Road in Claxton Bay near their home. At the time there were two other passengers in the car.
School staff said the girl did not come to school that day.
Speaking to Newsday today, Shallow said she has been reading the newspaper and listening to the reports of cases where women have gone missing. She said with the intervention of Griffith, the victims were found.
"I really think if Mr Gary works with the police, they could find my daughter. Please, please I am begging, don't forget about my baby. Please, please find her, " she said during an interview with Newsday.
Shallow said she could only imagine what other mothers went through after learning their daughters were missing.
That Monday morning, Shallow had hugged and kissed her daughter goodbye. Shindlar, who was expected to travel back home by taxi, did not return. At about 3.30 pm, Shallow became worried and called her daughter's cell phone but the calls went to voicemail.
Shallow went to the school and learnt that her daughter had not shown up.
She has given a description of the car to the police, as well as a photograph of Shindlar, which was circulated to police stations across the country.
After questioning several drivers last week police still have not found any clues. The Anti- Kidnapping Unit is investigating.
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Taste, Hear, and Smell the Future: "Virtual Vacations" Coming Soon
DiscoblogBy Boonsri DickinsonMarch 7, 2009 3:07 AM
Imagine what it would be like if you could instantly feel the heat of the Aruban sun, smell the ocean, and hear the sound of waves on the sand as you sip a Caribbean cocktail—all without leaving your living room. U.K. researchers from the University of York and the University of Warwick are hoping their new virtual reality gadget will allow people to do just that, essentially becoming "virtual tourists." While virtual reality has been used in video games, helped soldiers cope with war trauma, and even allowed a women to commit "virtual murder," the experience has been limited to two senses (sight and sound). But the new Virtual Cocoon helmet can mimic all five senses, so that people can truly experience the trip. The Daily Mail illustrated how the machine actually works: 1. First, a complete record of a place is taken. Everything about the smells, sights, sounds and tastes are captured on camera and other devices. 2. The data is then sent to a satellite. 3. The "virtual tourist" at home receives the satellite data on his or her computer, and then the information is relayed through the Virtual Cocoon. Once a person puts on the helmet, he sees images on a HD screen that are far better than the images typically seen on TV. He smells the salty ocean when chemicals are released through a tube that is positioned right by his nose. And when a "squirting" device sprays sweet, sour, meaty, salty, or bitter flavors directly into his mouth, he gets a taste of the local cuisine. Surround sound can bring in the noising stream of cars in New York and fans and heaters can create the heat and humidity that you'd feel in Florida. Don't hold your breath: the device is still in development stage. When it's ready though, the Virtual Cocoon might revolutionize the way humans experience the world. Related Content: Reality Base: Virtual Reality in the Muslim World 80beats: Body Swapping DISCOVER: Jaron's World: Virtual Horizon
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