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Tom Holland's 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' surpasses Leonardo DiCaprio's 'Titanic' at box office
"Spider-Man: No Way Home," dominated at the box office in its fourth weekend.
According to Reuters, the film starring Tom Holland collected a leading $33 million from 4,108 theatres between Friday and Sunday, boosting its domestic tally to $668 million.
The news agency reported that after this weekend's haul, "Spider-Man: No Way Home" stands as the sixth-highest grossing movie in history at the domestic box office, surpassing "Titanic" ($659 million) and "Jurassic World" ($652 million). At this rate, it'll soon take the No. 5 spot, which currently belongs to "Avengers: Infinity War" ($678 million).
It's no small feat that "Spider-Man: No Way Home" generated $30 million in a single weekend this far into its theatrical run. In pandemic times, most movies would be lucky to sell that many tickets in their opening weekend, much less after playing in theatres for nearly a month – all while a highly contagious COVID-19 variant continues to rapidly spread. But, as this weekend illustrates, audiences aren't willing to leave the house and visit their local multiplex for just any movie.


The Sister Spit Tour happens March 2-16, 2019!
This year marks the tour's 22nd anniversary of bringing powerful, provocative, vital queer writers and performers on the road. Tour alum include Eileen Myles, Dorothy Allison, Justin Vivian Bond and Chinaka Hodge.
The tour will be traveling along the West Coast with booking opportunities in California, Washington and Oregon.
Email info@radarproductions.org for booking information.
Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American artist, writer, and musician. Through visual art, storytelling, and punk rock music, C.Road has thrived to testify the beauty of the imperfect since she began creating art in her hometown of Miami, FL. She grew up as a self-taught figure drawing artist with a penchant for all things that questioned society and began publishing Green'Zine in 1997-- a fanzine which was originally devoted to the punk rock group, Green Day. C.Road graduated from the the Ringling School of Art and Design in 2004 with a BFA in Illustration. In early 2006, C.Road released her first illustrated novel, Indestructible (Microcosm Publishing), a 96-page narrative about high school; and later in 2007, a collection of postcards entitled Distance Makes The Heart Grow Sick (Microcosm Publishing). In 2008, she released Bad Habits (Soft Skull Press), an Illustrated story about healing from an abusive relationship; and lastly in 2013, her most recent book, Spit and Passion (Feminist Press, 2012), is a coming-out memoir about Cuban identity, discovering Green Day, and surviving in the closet. C.Road's curent project is The Next World Tarot (2017), a 78-card tarot deck detailing themes of justice, knowledge, accountability, and reclaimed magic.
Austin Hernandez is a Tejano designer and writer living in Brooklyn. His creative work is strongly influenced by his mom's second-wave feminist teachings, his family's Mexican-American or Hispanic or Chicanx or Mexica or "just American" origins, and high school riot grrrl mix tapes. Through traveling, sharing, and storytelling by film and spoken word, he focuses on the feeling of estrangement from society and analyzing seemingly conflicting identitiestransman with strong lesbian roots, a monolingual mestizo with bilingual family, and a working-class Texan, raised on homemade flour tortillas and fast food, turned tech anti-bro. He recently left an international corporate life to become a civic technologist, improving the ways governments provide services to the public. He sits on the board of directors for Maven, a nonprofit that empowers LGBTQ+ youth to use technology for social change.
Katherine is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Trinidad and Tobago. She recently graduated from the MFA program in Writing from UC - San Diego and now lives in San Francisco. You can find her writing in Yes Femmes, Anmly, the Black Warrior Review and forthcoming in Feminist Studies.
Itoro Udofia is a first generation Nigerian writer, cultural worker, educator, and singer-songwriter based in Oakland, CA. You can find some of her writing in Slice Magazine, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, and the anthology Two Countries: US Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents published by Red Hen Press. She has received residencies and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, SAFEhouse Arts, Afro Urban Society, the San Francisco Writers Grotto, The Edward Albee Foundation and Summer Literary Seminars (SLS). She recently won third place in the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for her story, "To the Children Growing Up in the Aftermath of their Parents' War." Her music has been featured in the Black Choreographers Fest and the documusical based on Octavia Butler's life, Octavia of Earth. Itoro's currently writing her first novel, The Soil Below, a story following four generations of Nigerian women grappling with generational trauma, migration, and change as they weave themselves into the American fabric.
Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer, historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award, and a finalist of the Clark- Gross Novel award, shes the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants (Aunt Lute 2017) which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017). She's received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The SF Grotto, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in various publications. Shes the creative director of RADAR Productions.


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Section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a section that constitutionally guarantees Canadian citizens the democratic right to vote in a general federal or provincial election and the right to be eligible for membership in the House of Commons or of a provincial legislative assembly, subject to the requirements of Section 1 of the Charter. Federal judges, prisoners and those in mental institutions have gained the franchise as a result of this provision, whereas the restriction on minors voting was found to be permissible due to section 1.

Section 3 is one of the provisions in the Charter that cannot be overridden by Parliament or a legislative assembly under  Section 33 of the Charter, the notwithstanding clause. Section 3's exemption from Section 33 provides extra legal protection to the right to vote and it may prevent Parliament or the provincial governments from disenfranchising any Canadian citizen for ideological or political purposes, among others.

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Under the heading "Democratic Rights," the section reads:

History
No formal right to vote existed in Canada before the adoption of the Charter.  There was no such right, for example, in the Canadian Bill of Rights.  Indeed, in the case Cunningham v Homma (1903), it was found that the government could legally deny the vote to Japanese Canadians and Chinese Canadians (although both groups would go on to achieve the franchise before section 3 came into force).

Interpretation

Voting
The section has generated some case law expanding the franchise.  In 1988, section 3 had been used to grant suffrage to federal judges and those in mental institutions.  A more controversial example is Sauvé v. Canada (2002), in which it was found that prisoners could vote.  They did so in the 2004 federal election, despite public opposition from Conservative leader Stephen Harper.

In the 2002 case Fitzgerald v. Alberta, the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta found that although a minimum voting age of 18 violated section 3 of the Charter, it was justifiable under section 1 of the Charter. The decision was upheld upon appeal.

Candidate Requirements

In Figueroa v Canada (AG) the court determined that Section 3 explicitly grants both the right to vote and the right to run for office to all Canadian citizens. In Szuchewycz v. Canada the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta found that the $1000 federal candidate deposit requirement violated Section 3 and could not be justified under Section 1. Justice Inglis noted in paragraph 59 "I agree that the potential to prevent a serious and impressive candidate from running in an election, due to the financial pressure a $1000 deposit could create, is a real risk of the requirement. In my opinion, the impugned Deposit Requirement Provision would infringe many individuals' – including the Applicant's – ability to communicate their messages to the public, and participate meaningfully in the electoral process as a candidate."

Electoral participation and political spending
Generally, the courts have interpreted section 3 as being more generous than simply providing a right to vote.  As stated in the case Figueroa v. Canada (2003), the section has been viewed as a constitutional guarantee to "play a meaningful role in the electoral process," which in turn encourages governmental "respect for a diversity of beliefs and opinions."  This does not mean, however, that interest groups have complete freedom to promote their beliefs and opinions.  Since the voter must have an opportunity to balance various ideas in his or her own mind before meaningfully participating in an election, the Supreme Court has, in the case Harper v. Canada (Attorney General) (2004), upheld laws that limit the amount of money a single group can contribute in the election (to prevent a monopolization of the campaign).

Sizes of constituencies
Although one cannot see this on the face of the Charter, the Supreme Court has also ruled that section 3 guarantees a measure of equality in voting.  In Reference re Prov. Electoral Boundaries (Sask.) (1991), it was found that constituencies should have roughly the same number of voters, although perfection was not required.  The reasoning behind this expansion of section three's meaning was that it supposedly reflected the original purpose of the section, namely to allow "effective representation."  The concession that perfection is not required stemmed from the fact that perfection would be impractical, given geographical limits in drawing boundaries and a general desire to give minorities more representation.  While Saskatchewan's constituencies were found to be valid in the 1991 decision, Prince Edward Island's were later deemed unconstitutional by the courts and the province's electoral map had to be redrawn.

Referendums
While section 3's reach has been expanded to cover the sizes of constituencies, it has not been extended to guarantee the right to vote in a referendum.  In Haig v. Canada (1993), it was ruled that since section 3 was designed in specific reference to electing representatives, the right could not include participation in a "device for the gathering of opinions".  It was also noted that unlike elections, governments do not have to hold referendums, nor do governments have to commit themselves to the result of a referendum.  Thus, how a referendum is administered is within governmental discretion.

References

External links
Overview of section 3 case law in the Canadian Legal Information Institute
 Fundamental Freedoms: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms - Charter of Rights website with video, audio and the Charter in over 20 languages

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Elections in Canada

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It's genuine. I got that message, too. Not sure whether I like the new layout though. All a bit boxy with gimmicks I don't need. I prefer the style of Windows 7 HP. Unless it emerges there's a good reason to upgrade I'm unlikely to bother.
I'm still on Windows 7 and I won't do the free upgrade, for multiple reasons but mostly because I'm still more than happy with W7. as well as privacy-concerns and such.
However, I'll be getting a new PC in the coming months, and no doubt that will come with Windows 10. Hopefully, by then, we will have more insight in all those privacy concerns, and how to tweak/alter those.


Just follow us into the cave, Ash, it's totally safe.
Last Thursday night, against my better judgment, I re-entered the grim world of Pokémon.
Armed with my new turtle-friend and a few dozen red-and-white Pokéballs, I set out in search of more bizarre critters with the goal of "catching 'em all," or at least as many as I could before my phone battery died.
Pretty soon, though, people started asking questions. Does it hurt Pokémon when they faint in battle? What's it like inside a Pokéball? When you send your extra Pidgeys back to the lab in exchange for candy, what does the professor do with them? And what's in that candy, anyway?
What the hell kind of research is Willow up to?
Yes, we know that none of this is real, but given our current 'Pokémon GO' obsession, I thought I'd run the project by Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University. He assured me that I was right to be concerned. Whatever Willow's doing in the world of Pokémon, it's definitely not good and probably illegal.
"You have to get permission," Caplan told me. In the bad old days, he explained, animals were captured and subjected to all kinds of experiments, including some he described as "gruesome." Now, researchers have to get permission from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). IACUC requires a lot of details before it approves animal experimentation, including specifics about where they'll be living, how they'll be treated, and what happens to them after the research has ended.
I explained to Caplan that I was gathering my Pokémon using Pokéballs, which expand to catch Pokémon and shrink to pocket-sized for easy transportation of my monsters.
"I wouldn't send you out with tiny little cages unless you have tiny, tiny little animals," he told me. He also said my method — throwing stuff at wild animals — was pretty unscientific. "How effective are you at preventing injury? It would be better if you throw a dart at them and knock them out," he said, pointing out that an animal struggling against a Pokéball could hurt themselves in all kinds of ways.
"Shrinking them also raises some questions," he added. I hadn't thought of that. No one wants to suddenly find themselves a tenth of their normal size and confined in a magic sphere.
Then there are the battles, undoubtedly roughest part of a Pokémon's existence. "That's called dogfighting and cockfighting," he said, "and that's illegal ... In the real world, the result of fighting is death."
But Professor Willow told me this is training, I protested, the idea is to see how they develop and evolve. Anyway, I have potions and revive crystals to bring them back!
"You can't use them," he insisted. Even graciously ignoring the fact that this is certainly not how animals evolve, Caplan told me that animal research relies on a baseline of healthy, normal animals. If all the Pokémon Willow receives are stressed out, battle hardened creatures that have been shrunk and regrown and brought back to life endlessly, there is no normal.
After all, Pokémon don't want to be caught — just this morning, a Bulbasaur whipped his vine-tentacles at me when I tried to capture him. By the time he gets back to Willow, he'll be suffering both the psychological and physical effects of prolonged confinement and maltreatment. If I sent an animal like that to a legal lab, Caplan said, it would have to be euthanized on arrival.
"It raises other questions," Caplan went on. Other questions? If, he continues, Pokémon are the result of genetic engineering, it presents some very difficult questions about how humans shape the animal world. That's not science fiction, either — Caplan points to the problems some purebred dog breeds have after generations of deliberate breeding, including hip dysplasia and breathing problems.
At the end of the day, of course, Pokémon is fiction, and fictional animals don't feel pain. But Caplan wondered if there would be a way to design a game that more realistically represented animal research. Maybe Willow (or a more reputable scientist) could study the effects of human interference on Pokémon. How do they actually behave in the wild? Are they always aggressive? Or do they cooperate?
In the end, he describes the world of Pokémon as "hellacious," and I'm starting to think he's right. There's just one last question, and I'm not sure I want to know the answer.


A man has been charged with attempted burglary after officers were called to a business in Cromer in the early hours of yesterday morning.
A Google map view of Garden Street, Cromer, where a burglary took place.
Eugene Gould, 49, is due to appear before Norwich Magistrates Court today, Tuesday, February 12.
Gould, of no fixed address, was arrested at the scene of the attempted break in at a property, described as a business, on Garden Street in the early hours of Monday, February 11.
Norfolk police were called to the street in Cromer's town centre at approximately 4am.
Officers were called after receiving reports of suspicious activity, and arrested Gould at the scene.
A spokesperson for Norfolk constabulary said the incident was not being treated as linked to any other investigations.


SEVENTY-FIVE people took part in a hastily arranged Henley Santa fun run.
The traditional event, which began six years ago, was cancelled last month by the town council, which said it cost too much to organise.
Mayor Kellie Hinton then persuaded Henley parkrun organiser James Barr to allow the event to piggyback his run, which takes place at 40 Acre Field every Saturday.
Mr Barr launched the 5km run in July and it is part of a national network of events with runners' times logged on a website. Entry is free.
Councillor Hinton was among those who took part in Saturday's run dressed in festive costumes along with fellow town councillors Will Hamilton, Glen Lambert and Sarah Miller.
Santa hats were provided for runners who needed them.
The ground was frosty and hard as the runners went round the field in below-zero temperatures.
The first runner home was Gavin Mead, who finished in 20 minutes and eight seconds. Carrie Hoskins, of Watermans Road, finished in 21 minutes and 13 seconds, a record time for a woman.
Cllr Hinton said: "It was a really fun event. I was the tailwalker so I walked behind everyone else, which suited me perfectly.
Cllr Hinton thanked Mr Barr for his support and said it would make sense to combine the Santa fun run with parkrun in future.
Saturday's event raised £23.20, which will go towards the running costs of the Henley parkrun.
The previous Santa fun run was started in 2011 by then Mayor Pam Phillips and involved a two-mile jog, starting and finishing in Mill Meadows. As many as 150 participants took part and small prizes were awarded to the fastest runners as well as for the best fancy dress outfits.
The event made up to £500 each year for the Mayor's charities.


Joan Catterall, one of the founder members of the Friends of Gunnersbury Park in 1981, died on 24 February after a long illness. She was our very active Membership Secretary from the beginning until she stepped down in the spring of 2010. To many people Joan was the greatest Friend of Gunnersbury and she was adept at keeping in touch with what was going on in Park and Museum.
A lifelong Brentford resident, Joan had a part in everything the Friends did over her 29 years' involvement. She ran many of the organisation's early events (including summer fetes in the Park), usually with her daughter, Lucy, in tow. She worked with Marianne Booth on fund-raising bric á brac stalls until the growing number of charity shops reduced the amount of good material available to sell. Joan was also one of the Friends group that spent many weekends restoring the Victorian Kitchens in the large Mansion when they were no longer used as a base for painting boats and park benches on wet days. Joan and her husband, John, also toiled for many hours as volunteers on projects in the Park, including planting thousands of bulbs.
Joan served for many years as one of two Observers from the Friends on the Gunnersbury Park Joint Committee until it was wound up in April 2007. Because they lived on the edge of the Park, Joan and John often found themselves on the receiving end of people's complaints about the management of the Park. Opponents of the Mela, and more recently of the restoration proposals, caused her some stress.
On her retirement Joan studied for a fine art degree. She was delighted when she and John both obtained part-time posts as stewards in the Museum; they were there faithfully on many weekends and Bank Holidays. She offered visitors a warm welcome in her own very personal style.
Joan worked tirelessly for her Brentford community. She chaired the board of the Brentford Community Resource Centre, was governor of Lionel Road School, served as a co-opted member of Hounslow Council's Isleworth and Brentford Area Committee and was associated with many other local organisations.
Her funeral at Mortlake Crematorium on Thursday 10 March was attended by a crowd of Joan's friends and colleagues from the local authority and a number of organisatgions, who returned to the Small Mansion Terrace Room at Gunnersbury Park afterwards to reminisce and to celebrate her achievements.


More freedom of movement in an open world setting teased.
Marvel's Spider-Man is a pretty big priority for Insomniac Games but that doesn't mean that the studio doesn't have other games in development. It recently released a new video called "Reclaim Your World", discussing its evolution over the years, and teases a new sci-fi VR title for Oculus Rift. More information for the same will be coming on June 7th.
Interestingly, Insomniac wishes for its community to be involved in the game's development. More freedom of movement in an open world – with players going wherever they want – and an interesting story are discussed as well. Whatever this new game is, it should be a step up from Insomniac's last VR offering The Unspoken.
Either way, we'll learn more information next week. If you were still holding out for this being Sunset Overdrive 2, it's sadly not happening right now. Insomniac is looking to make strides in the VR space but how this title ultimately looks is worth watching out for.


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Big East Expansion: No Villanova Decision Expected At Spring Meetings
By Anson Whaley@AnsonWhaley May 22, 2011, 8:56pm EDT
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So Big East representatives are getting together for the annual Spring meetings this week. Much is sure to be discussed including a new television deal. But while football expansion will also be a big part of the discussion, one thing you cannot expect is a final decision on Villanova or any other team for that matter:
The conference won't divulge its official agenda, and commissioner John Marinatto has a gag order on expansion talk. But league sources confirmed the obvious: expansion will be a hot topic. However, expect it to be more of a matter of discussion than actual action, because school presidents -- who have the ultimate say on such matters -- won't be in Florida for the meetings.
"It's not even possible for there to be any decisions made on expansion next week," said Nick Carparelli, the Big East's associate commissioner for football.
That shouldn't come as much of a surprise, since the conference was expected to take its time after not admitting Villanova. This could be drawn out for a while longer as the conference looks to wait until it's absolutely sure about bringing in new schools for football.

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About Adobe Illustrator for Windows. Vector graphics software that was created and developed by Adobe Systems in 1985 is Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator was first developed for Apple Mac followed by the invention in Microsoft Windows in 1989.... 5/04/2005 · Next, Draw a line from the top to the bottom of the circle, but extend the line beyond the circle (make sure the distance is equal top and bottom). Now use the rotate tool, hold down the option key (Alt on PC) and click on the center point of the circle with the line (only) selected.
06. Adobe Illustrator Tutorial – Add your information and style your text. By typing your name and your information, press T (Text tool) and click any text block to start adding your information.... Run Adobe Illustrator and create a new document (Cmd / Ctrl + N), set the required sizes of an artboard, and choose RGB color mode… Create a black rectangle corresponding to the size of an artboard, and three circles, which will set the locations of celestial bodies.
The line begins to curve and a slope line appears. Drag the tool in different directions to change the size and angle of the slope line, which changes the curve in the erased outline.
06. Adobe Illustrator Tutorial – Add your information and style your text. By typing your name and your information, press T (Text tool) and click any text block to start adding your information.


The pleasure of doing an exercise like this is I get to write about Disney films that are my personal favorites--the ones I enjoy (or don't enjoy) the most. It's not about dissecting which Disney films were the most groundbreaking, influential or technically accomplished. I may touch on some of those ideas as we progress, through this thirty-day experiment, but that's not my main objective. I'm just here to keep score and have some fun.
That said, my favorite Disney film is Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Sacrilege, you say? Out of all the classic Disney films--Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia--I had to choose a special-effects laden slice of Jerry Bruckheimer bombast produced nearly 40 years after Walt's death?
Like I said, I chose my favorite film, not necessarily the best one.
"I invoke the right of parlay."
"You can keep doing that forever. The dog is never going to move."
"A short drop and a sudden stop."
"You are without doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of."
"This is the day you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow."
"Easy on the goods, darling."
"You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner. You're in one."
And those are just the lines I can remember without referring to IMDB.
With all the marketing overkill that became the original Pirates trilogy and continues unceasingly towards May 20th's On Stranger Tides, it's easy to lose sight of how good The Curse of the Black Pearl was. This was a movie that defied the odds. In 2003, the pirate genre had long since fallen out of favor in Hollywood and--come on--the movie was based on a theme park attraction. There wasn't a whole lot of hope riding on Captain Jack and his crew.
And yet...the movie was well scripted by Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott (even if the story did meander a bit in the third act) and had dazzling special effects that served the story without overwhelming it (At World's End anybody?). It had swashbuckling action, a budding screen romance between two attractive young stars (Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley), and mostly, it had Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, a fearless comedic performance full of tics, staggers and sways that would've ruined a lesser actor. Such an indelible character was ole' Jack, that last year Entertainment Weekly ranked him #13 on their list of the "100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years."
Oh yeah, POTC 1 also raked in $305 million at the box office and earned Johnny his first Oscar nomination. I'd call that icing on the cake.
If it wasn't so late, I'd be popping Black Pearl in the Blu-ray player just about now.
"And really bad eggs. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho!"
Tomorrow: What happens when Disney gets a classic adventure story horribly wrong. My least favorite Disney film.


The truth is, swag does matter. Even the humble sticker can communicate so much about identity and interest. On OpenSource.com Rikki Endlsey wrote about Open source sticker culture. Rikki details how people share their support for and help promote projects and people by using stickers, including more exclusive "earned" stickers showing achievements or events attended.
My friend Kristof Van Tomme, who works within several networks, can demonstrate his affiliations and connections quickly. Something as simple as a sticker can spark the next important conversation he has.
I think it's pretty clear we need to have some nice stickers, with designs for events and as rewards. But we want to develop some other ideas. What we want to avoid is "bad swag". Bad swag might be poor quality and wasteful swag.
We can promise that we will never make a comedy unibrow mug.
Realex Payments' "Bad Swag" campaign made a point in saying that some companies consider "developer relations" to be about making swag, forgetting that swag is just a symbol of a relationship with developers, not the relationship itself.
At GitLab, we don't want to focus only on building tools for developers that we forget to support the community and help them connect. So let's talk about good swag. What is some good swag you've seen?
Among other great swag ideas, Hubspot lists "Unique Food Items" as great swag. We did stroopwafels for OSCON in Amsterdam. Everyone loves a good stroopwafel!
We're also thinking of ways to use alternative materials, create locally, and support makers. I love the Resketch notebooks by Shawn Smith which use reclaimed materials to make fun notebooks. I like that this kind of product reduces waste. Have you seen other cool products like that?
A while back, I asked a talented craftsperson I know, A Million Paper Stars, to make a bag for me to carry my various computer charger, mouse, etc. I wanted to get creative and try something different. Would you be interested in handmade swag?
I'm really curious about the great swag you've seen. Creative ideas welcome! Please let us know about your favourite swag, from stickers to surprises, and don't forget to share your #swagportrait if you'd like to be in with a chance to win some of GitLab's first swag shop offerings.
When you add your name to this list you'll be put on our "Swag Alert" list. We'll contact you to find out more about your swag ideas. And as soon as the swag shop is open, you'll be the first to know. Then whenever we have a new product, we'll tell ya.
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Introduction to Transfusion Medicine
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This is where I came from—the chlorine and the salt are blood and bones.
I envision this every time I see myself passing to the other side. Gliding, sliding throught to streams unknown, crystal clear, alive with the remnants of the bones of the ages of shipwrecks and sorrows of war. Fleets of a world lost and won.


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A Dog Year (2009) Pictures, Trailer, Reviews, News, DVD and Soundtrack
A Dog Year (2009)
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Sometimes change comes on four legs. Oscar nominee Jeff Bridges stars in a true story of two souls transformed through one unlikely alliance: "A Dog Year". Based on the real-life 2003 memoir by best-selling author Jon Katz, this film tells the story of a 50-something writer in a mid-existential crisis who impulsively agrees to adopt a well-bred but high-strung border collie. As the dog wreaks havoc on his suburban household, Jon's angst-ridden attempts to rein him in meet with little success. But a move to a rural farmhouse, combined with behavioral lessons from a real-life dog whisperer and her herd of sheep, slowly yields dividends for the dog and, most importantly, for Jon.


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Даниэль Эшли Аддо (; 3 сентября 1989, Кейп-Кост) — ганский футболист, защитник

Биография

Клубная карьера
Даниэль начал карьеру в клубе «Веномус Вайперс». В 2007 году перешёл в клуб «Секонди Хасаакас», а в следующем году в «Кинг Файсал Бейбис».

24 января 2011 года как свободный агент подписал контракт на пять лет с луганской «Зарёй». В 2013 году перешёл в «Кайрат», на правах аренды, до конца сезона, с возможностью последующего выкупа игрока. В январе 2014 года был на просмотре в махачкалинском «Анжи».

В январе 2016 года стал игроком ганского «Ашанти Голд».

Карьера в сборной
В своем активе Даниэль Аддо имеет семь матчей за молодёжную сборную Ганы на чемпионате мира среди молодёжных составов в 2009 году. Обыграв в финале сборную Бразилии по пенальти со счетом 4:3 Аддо, вместе со своей сборной стал молодёжным чемпионом мира.

В 2012 году, был вызван в национальною сборную Ганы, для подготовки к отборочным матчам чемпионата мира 2014 года.

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For fans of professional golf, there is one player that the modern game owes everything to. Yes, Arnold Palmer brought swagger to the game, and Jack Nicklaus certainly redefined what it meant to be dominant in the sport, but before either of them hit the scene there was one man demonstrating a level of skill that to this day remains legendary.
Ben Hogan played the game of golf as well, if not better than it had been played before or since. His focus, willpower, and unquestionable talent earned him a slew of tournaments that will keep his name in the records forever.
Perhaps even in more significant, Ben Hogan demonstrated one of the most remarkable come backs in the history of sports. Today we will be taking a look at this incredible player's life.
Ben Hogan was born in Stepenville Texas in the year of on August 13, 1912, to parents Chester and Clara. Unfortunately, tragedy struck home for young Ben Hogan at an early age when his father took his own life at home.
This tragedy would ultimately deprive Hogan of his childhood. After Chester's passing the Hogans encountered financial struggles that would require the three children to take jobs to help their seamstress mother maintain the household.
When Hogan was eleven he would take a job as a caddy at a local country club where he would learn the game of golf, and even establish a friendly rivalry with tour legend to be, Byron Nelson, who was also working as a caddy at the club.
Hogan would ultimately master the game very quickly, dropping of high school at the age of seventeen, just several months short of his high school graduation in order to turn pro at the Texas Open in the year of 1930.
Though there is no denying that Hogan was a great talent the early years of his career were a great struggle, to the point that he had to take a low paying job as a teaching pro to pay the bills.
For ten years, Hogan would fight a severe hook that would that would keep him from securing a victory. Things were not all bad, however. During these tumultuous years of his career he met his wife Valerie while working as a golf pro.
The couple would marry in 1935 and Valerie would stand by him even during times of great financial difficulty that would see their family go broke three times.
Of course, things would eventually work out. Hogan cured his hook, and in the year 1940 he would win three consecutive tournaments.
Between the years 1940-1959 Hogan would win sixty-three times, even despite the fact that his career was put on pause as he went to serve in the army during World War 2 between the years 1943-1945. Of those sixty-three wins, nine of them were majors.
As famous as Hogan is for his tremendous skill and his many wins, he is perhaps equally well known for making one of the biggest comebacks of all time.
In 1948 Hogan was involved in a life-threatening head on car accident with a Greyhound bus that would very nearly take his life.
At impact, Hogan threw himself over his wife to protect her from the crash. In the process, her life was saved but his was put into even greater danger as the steering column came into direct contact with his torso.
The car accident would leave Hogan with a double-fracture of the pelvis, a fractured collar bone, a left ankle fracture, a chipped rib, and near-fatal blood clots. The diagnosis was quite severe: not only was Hogan never expected to play golf again, but there was a very good chance that he wouldn't even be able to walk.
Of course, that isn't what happened. Fifty-nine days after the accident Hogan walked out of the hospital.
The road to recovery was long and difficult, but after extensive physical therapy Hogan made his return to the tour in November of that year, where he would tie for the lead in the Los Angles Open, but ultimately lose in an eighteen hole play off to his tour rival Byron Nelson.
There have been many great seasons in professional golf, but few if any can match Hogan's 1953 season during which he would win five of six tournaments that he entered, including three majors (The Masters, U.S Open, and British Open).
This feat is now known as the triple crown in golf and has been accomplished only one other time by Tiger Woods in 2000.
That season Hogan was not even eligible to compete in the PGA Championship to complete the single season grand slam because it overlapped with the British Open.
Post car accident, Hogan would routinely miss the PGA championship both because the match play format did not fit his strategy, and because many days would require thirty-six holes of play which was very difficult for him to do after his injuries.
Despite the fact that Hogan was only able to enter into six tournaments that season, it remains a landmark achievement that few golfers are ever likely to match.
Hogan would slow down significantly in the sixties but would remain a presence in the game of golf until his death in 1997 at the age of 84.
Ben Hogan is a legend for more than just his famous golf swing, or his many victories. Few athletes of any sports have overcome more to play their game than Ben Hogan.
The man was more than just a champion, he was a courageous respectable man that set a standard for professional golf that endures to this day. Between his hard work, his service to his country, and his selflessness in risking life for that of his wife one thing is clear: Ben Hogan was one of the great gentlemen of the gentleman's game.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing.
There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
Good golf begins with a good grip.
I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.
You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don't make a big deal out of an easy shot.
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
You wouldn't have had to call a penalty on me, I would've called I on myself. I'm the sole judge of my standards.
I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play.
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course.
If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it's a joy that very few people experience.
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.
People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.
If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.
Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.
I have really enjoyed every minute I have spent in golf- above all, the many wonderful friends I have made. I have loved playing the game and practicing it. Whether my schedule for the following day called for a tournament round or merely a trip to the practice tee, the prospect that there was going to be golf in it made me feel privileged and extremely happy, and I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
A well hit golf shot is a feeling that goes up the shaft, right through your hands and into your heart.
When a golfer has completed his left-hand grip, the V formed by the thumb and forefinger should point to his right eye.
Up to a considerable point, as I see it, there's nothing difficult about golf, nothing. I see no reason, truly, why the average golfer, if he goes about it intelligently, shouldn't play in the 70s.
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Covid-19: Disparate Impact - Statement
Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 6:00 pm on 27th October 2020.
Baroness Berridge Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for International Trade) (Minister for Women), The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education 6:00 pm, 27th October 2020
My Lords, I welcome this review and quarterly report, which has been published and sent to the Prime Minister, who has endorsed its recommendations, as the noble Baronesses said. First, I pay tribute to the enormous number of NHS workers from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Unfortunately, it is not the case, as outlined by the noble Baroness, Lady Hussein-Ece, that we know the evidence. We know that there are disparities but, even now, we do not fully know the cause of them. We know much more about the disease and those disparities than we did three months ago, but the picture is not complete. With £4.3 million, we have funded six further research projects, because we need to understand what is causing these disparities.
I assure the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, that the healthcare plans for the NHS, facing the second wave of the epidemic, particularly the plans for the extremely clinically vulnerable, will take into account the evidence from this report and the PHE review of the disparities. It is important and has been accepted that death certification must include data on ethnicity. There is cross-government data sharing on this now, which is how some of this data will be used. That group also works with PHE and the Office for National Statistics, which is our expert on statistical data. We are monitoring the policies of at least 10 departments to see how they are affecting ethnic minority communities.
We have been listening to local government and we are aware that public health is part of local government's responsibility. Some £25 million is going to be targeted to specific local authorities where we are aware that the public health messaging has not necessarily penetrated to grass-roots level. In addition to the action that has been taken, we are funding community champions with links with the grass-roots to build on those communities and ensure that the message is getting out, because communication and awareness is so important here. The Government have also reached 5 million people through social media influencers to try to ensure that black and minority ethnic communities have awareness raised. Billions of pounds has also been given to local government, much of which is not ring-fenced.
On the review of the noble Baroness, Lady Lawrence, I pay tribute to her work. I will be sending that review to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which has a call for evidence at the moment and is dealing with other matters of structural inequality. Many of the recommendations made in that review have already been enacted: the NHS, for instance, has purchased over 2,000 powered respirators so that healthcare clinicians, such as Sikhs who wear turbans, can be protected when wearing a mask is not possible. Much of what is outlined in risk assessments in the workplace is already in health and safety law and enforced through the Health and Safety Executive. However, there have been two updates since the public health report in June on guidance in the workplace—one in July and one in September—outlining the responsibility of employers to risk-assess their workplaces to ensure that precautions are taken in relation to Covid risks.
We have also responded to specific risks for black and minority ethnic populations, for whom disparities are caused by socioeconomic and geographical factors but also by occupation. That is why it is now compulsory to wear a face covering in a private hire vehicle; that specific protection was changed. Also, the advice relating to the hospitality sector has changed, so specific action has been taken.
Of course, there are other groups in society for whom there are disparities. The two main factors associated with Covid are age and gender, but there are issues around those with disabilities. Dr Emran Mian is leading the wider piece of government work on Covid disparities. I will have to write to the noble Baroness about the specific timing of the local government light-touch review so that we can learn from best practice. There is a specific health adviser in relation to LGBT issues.
As I outlined at the start, unlike in most workplaces, where the workplace itself is assessed, the NHS is assessing staff, particularly BAME staff, who are at the front line. Over the summer, 95% of BAME NHS workers have been individually risk-assessed, so the NHS is taking its responsibility seriously.
On public health information, there has been increased language translation of public health messaging, particularly the recent "Hands, Face, Space," which seems to have reached different communities better.
Unfortunately, it would not take just a few weeks to publish risk assessments of all employers on a government portal; we are talking about millions and millions of workplaces. When I send a report to the commission, I will look at the recommendation from the Lawrence report. It is not a simple overnight fix. The work of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities remains open and that information will be passed on.
Turning to the questions raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Hussein-Ece, about women, there have been significant support schemes. There are 1.7 million self-employed women in this country, and there have been specific initiatives such as self-employed income protection and investment in businesses started by women. We have seen a greater take-up of investment in companies set up by mixed gender groups. In fact, it accounts for 82% of the Future Fund, which is £720 million. By way of comparison, the Female Founders Fund report said that only 10% goes to mixed gender groups. So, we are focused on that issue.
On the question of women and the pandemic, we have given enormous support to the childcare sector. The entitlements money, £3.6 billion a year, has been given to those providers regardless of the number of children who are actually going through the door. That is carrying on until the end of the year to support those businesses, many of which are female-owned.
So, we have taken action on this issue; we have not rested on our laurels. We have more evidence now as to the cause of these disparities but, as I say, the picture is not yet complete. I will update the House further when there is more evidence.
(Citation: HL Deb, 27 October 2020, c209)


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Rebetiko is the urban popular Greek music of the poorest classes of the first half of the 20th century. As of December 2017, rebetiko is inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity created by UNESCO. The list is made up of elements that help demonstrate the diversity of the world heritage and raise awareness about its importance. Rebetiko was chosen by the Intergovernmental Committee who deemed it "a living musical tradition with a strong symbolic, ideological and artistic character". As an intricate cultural concept, it is linked with music, song, dance and -especially in the past- with a particular attitude and way of life: the life of the outcast, the vagabonds and the displaced, but also of the labouring classes in large cities of newly industrialised Greece of the early 20th century.
Rebetiko is basically an umbrella term, comprising several forms of music that evolved in Greece and Greek speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire during the mid and late 19th century, until they unified in the early 20th century to form the distinctive sound that is associated with the rebetiko today. It is largely based on oral tradition has been accurately described as "Greek urban blues".
The term was coined relatively late in the evolution of the genre, and was basically popularised by scholarly studies in later decades. It derives from rebétis (pl. rebétes), a word of uncertain etymology, denoting a person (usually a man) of the prewar era, with a certain aspect and attitude, often involving a disregard for the law and a life in the margins of society. This type of character was usually dubbed mángas, koutsavákis, aláni, vlámis or mortis at the time – also depending on the region. Their music was more often referred to as laïká (urban folk), from the word laós (the common people).
The origins of this music are indeed closely linked with outcast life and subculture, since they can be traced back to the prisons of Athens at the time of the Bavarian government, in the 1830's. This type of music, based on the sound of the famous bouzouki – a modern variation of the byzantine string instrument tambouras – gradually gained popularity among the poorer, lower social classes of the big (chiefly port) cities, like Piraeus. At the same time, the Greek populations of Constantinople, Smyrna and other major cities of Anatolia had created their own popular music, based on traditional Greek and oriental rhythms, often performed in music parlours called Café Aman.
The Young Turk movement and the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) led to a huge influx of Greek-speaking refugees and migrants in major Greek cities. Thus, the 1920's mark the time when various musical traditions and styles merged together, creating the typical sound of what became known as rebetiko. By that time, this was basically the music of the common folk in large cities, not having yet completely shed its ties to underground culture. They were performed in taverns but also in tekédes (hashish dens), hence the drug and jailbird references in many song lyrics.
In the late 20's and early 30's, however, more and more music labels began recording rebetika songs. The genre met with increasing popularity, and was gradually assimilated by the mainstream, making rebetika and laïká the most popular type of music in Greece to this day. Many consider the 30's to be the "golden era" of rebetiko in its most authentic form, especially considering that this was the time when some of the greatest musicians wrote, performed and recorded some of the classics that are still treasured today.
Zeibékiko, aptálikos, karsilamás: Some of the most common styles of dance and, by extension, music within the rebetiko genre.
Baglamás: A smaller version of the bouzouki, pitched an octave higher. An even smaller version is tzourás.
Peniá: A musical phrase, corresponding to a guitar riff. It derives from pena, the word used for a flatpick.
Taxími: A musical improvisation – often a bouzouki solo. From the Turkish word taxim.
Panagiotis Toundas - "Barbayiannakakis": Toundas was a composer hailing from Smyrna and his songs are typical examples of the Eastern influences of rebetiko.
Kostas Skarnelis - "Go ahead, alani": Singer Roza Eskenazi -here performing a song by Skarvelis- came from a poor Sephardic Jewish family of Constantinople. She was arguably the most iconic female performer of rebetika songs.
Vassilis Tsitsanis - "Gloomy Sunday": Tsitsanis was a prolific creator and seminal figure in the evolution of the genre, also collaborating with composers such as Mikis Theodorakis.
Markos Vamvakaris - "All of the world's rebetes": Born in the island of Syros, Vamvakaris was the patriarch of rebetiko, forming part of "the Famous Piraeus 4", the most renowned rebetiko music ensemble.
Giannis Papaioannou - "Before the dawn": Born in a city on the coast of Marmara Sea, Papaioannou came to Greece as a refugee. His music encompasses elements from serenades together with the music of the Greek islands and Minor Asia.
Apostolos Hatzihristos - Tramp's grievance: Born in Smyrna, Hatzihristos (dubbed Smyrniotáki) came to Greece as a refugee after the Smyrna Catastrophe. He performed the songs of many composers, as well as his own.


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What Did the Ethereum Founder Say About Elon Musk?
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is sounding off on Elon Musk's recent Twitter censorship spree, saying the site's banning of accounts over the past few days is putting Twitter on "the path authority".
Responding to a post praising Musk, Buterin said that Elon Musk is launching a plan he calls "the central strategy as a whole," in which Musk introduces policies that "seem to be in line with Elon's vision. in specific situations.
The latest scandal started when Musk banned the accounts @ElonJets, which tracks Elon's jets, and @CelebJets, which tracks various private jets of celebrities. These bots extract publicly available information and publish it, which is hosted in the United States. But Musk saw it as a threat to his privacy and security and went ahead by banning the account of Jack Sweeney, the creator of the Elon Jets Twitter bot.
Musk then quickly implemented new rules on Twitter that banned "any tweet or account that shares a person's location", the only exception being in relation to "crisis situations to aid humanitarian efforts or relationships and public participation programs".
The ban is part of a backdoor effort to reduce live sharing despite Musk's previous statement that he would not ban Sweeney's tracking account in the name of "freedom".
When one user asked that Elon Musk was "only responding to system input" by applying a quick ban of these tracking accounts, Buterin argued the same.
"Acting quickly and decisively in response to the motivators "when the action is prohibited is the way of the government's authority," said Buterin. Buterin also criticized Elon Musk's ban on linking to Mastodon, a competing social media website, calling the move "really bad." It is unclear why Mastodon's link is currently banned, although Mastodon's official Twitter account has been banned for sharing links to its "ElonJet" account type.
Twitter did not immediately respond to Decrypt's request for comment. It seems that many Twitter users refuse to ban accounts for sharing user sites that used to be public. In a poll conducted by Elon Musk with more than 3.1 million votes, 59% of voters said that these accounts should be opened "now" and not in a week as Elon Musk suggested.
Which type of Twitter will Buterin choose?
One that tries to make mistakes rather than putting bias and personal experience, and one that doesn't analyze competitor sites. "Good laws should be decided behind the veil of ignorance, and implemented," Buterin said.
He also suggested that Twitter give users a month's notice before the new content modification policy goes into effect. "There will be a gradual ban on speeding despite the big problems that come from this type of approach," Buterin said.
Although Buterin is clearly against sudden, rapid bans on Twitter, he is not necessarily in favor of following popular airlines. "The problem is that the type of decision-making and these bans are very close to the behavior of the previous Twitter regime in which people rightly rebelled," Buterin said.
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185. Finding Love Over 50 During COVID – Guest Expert Treva Brandon Scharf
Treva Brandon Scharf is an ICF-certified life coach, dating expert, fitness pro, blogger, and marriage first-timer at 51. Listen Now
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Before online dating, before dating apps, social media, and the internet, there was this thing called a "Blind Date." Your friends or family would fix you up with someone--like their cousin or cute dentist--and you'd say yes. First, you'd ask some questions, get some general information,…
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity." – Epictetus * * * I have a client who just broke up with her longtime boyfriend, and even though she's heartbroken, she knew it had to end. The…
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Treva's Statement On COVID-19
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Falling In Love Is Scary AF
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When 12,000 Guests Spend the Night
How a Megahotel Tries to Seem Small; 20 Brides in a Weekend
By Andrea Petersen
Here is just some of what it takes to run the country's biggest hotel each day: 26 limousines, 46 tons of clean linens, 3,000 poolside deck chairs and more than 8,000 employees.
With 5,043 guest rooms in towers overlooking the city's famed strip, MGM Grand Hotel & Casino is not your typical hotel. Even in Las Vegas, where hotels with 3,000 or more rooms are a feature of the landscape, the size of MGM Grand hasn't been surpassed since its opening in 1993. Around the world, just a few properties are as big.
And even in an era when small "boutique" hotels are generating buzz and growing in numbers, MGM Grand and its giant cohorts are chugging along. In the second quarter, MGM Grand reported an occupancy rate of 96.8%, which it estimates works out to about 12,000 guests per night, with an average daily room rate of $125. Though Las Vegas hotels were hit hard by the economic downturn, average daily room rates in the city rose 10% and occupancy rates reached more than 85% in the first seven months of the year, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
One key to megahotels' survival: Increasingly, they are working to counter the perception that they're crowded, filled with long lines and just too big to give good service.
Running the Biggest Hotel in America
With more than 5,000 guest rooms, 124 acres and almost 9,000 employees, the MGM Grand in Las Vegas is a lot more than just a hotel. Andrea Petersen on Lunch Break takes us behind the scenes at the biggest hotel in America.


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Bob Dylan born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota in the USA, is a truly great American popular songwriter and performer, at the very highest level, his only true peers the legends Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Ray Charles. Like each of those men, Dylan has produced works of genius in more than one genre of music.
Most of his best work is from the 1960s when his musical shadow was so large that he took on political influence. The civil rights movement has no more moving anthem than his song "Blowin' in the Wind." Millions of young people embraced his song "The Times They Are A-Changin'" The radical political group The Weathermen named themselves after a lyric in Dylan's song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" ("You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows").
Dylan was raised in a Jewish family in Hibbing, Minnesota and spent much of his youth listening to the radio, at first the powerful blues and country music stations and later early rock and roll. He formed his first band, The Golden Chords, while still at highschool. An able, but by no means brilliant student, he started university studies 1959 in Minneapolis, during which time he was actively involved in the local "Dinkytown" folk music circuit. However, he quit studying in early 1961 moving to New York City to perform, and to visit the ailing Woody Guthrie. Living in Greenwich Village and playing in small clubs, he gained some recognition after a review in New York Times (11/29/1961) by critic Robert Shelton, that led to (jazz legend) John Hammond signing him to Columbia Records.
At the time his voice, musicianship and songwriting were still raw. His performances, like his first Columbia album (1962's Bob Dylan), consisted of traditional folk, blues and gospel material interspersed with his own songs. By the time of his next record, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), he had begun to make his name as both a singer and composer, specialising in protest songs, initially in the style of Guthrie but later practically creating his own genre. His songs of the time are typified by "Blowing In The Wind": a simple folk melody coupled with lyrics questioning the social and political status quo. Whilst, with hindsight, the lyrics some of these songs appear naive and unsophisticated, compared to the largely anemic popular culture of the 1950s they were a bresh of fresh air, and the songs caught the zeitgeist of the 1960s. "Blowing In The Wind" itself was widely recorded and a huge hit for Peter, Paul and Mary, and was later the subject of some controversy over its authorship. Somewhat overlooked among the protest songs on Freewheelin', however, was a mixture of finely crafted bittersweet love songs ("Don't Think Twice Its Alright", "Girl From The North Country") and jokey, frequently surreal talking blues ("Talking World War III Blues", "I Shall Be Free"). This eclecticism would continue to inform his material for much of his career.
Whilst a fine interpreter of songs, Dylan was by no means a beautiful singer, and many of his songs first reached the public through versions by other artists. Joan Baez, a friend and sometime lover of Dylan, took it upon herself to record a great deal of his early material as did many others including The Byrds, Sonny and Cher, Jimi Hendrix, and The Hollies. (So ubiquitous were these covers by the mid-1960s that CBS started to promote Bob with the tag: "Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan".)
By 1963, Dylan was becoming increasingly prominent in the civil rights movement, singing at rallies and performing at the same march at which Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream" speech. Dylan's next album, The Times They Are A-Changin', reflected an more sophisticated, politicised and cynical Dylan. The bleak material, concerned with such subjects as the murder of civil rights worker Medgar Evers and the despair engendered by the breakdown of farming and mining communities ("Ballad of Hollis Brown", "North Country Blues"), was lightened only by a single anti-love song, "Boots Of Spanish Leather". By the end of the year, however, he started to feel both manipulated and constrained by the folk-protest movement. Accepting the "Tom Paine Award" from National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee at a ceremony shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy a drunk and not-entirely-coherent Dylan questioned the role of the committee and claimed he saw something of himself in Lee Harvey Oswald. The message, both from Dylan and the elements in the crowd that booed, was clear: Dylan and the civil rights movement were drifting apart.
Perhaps inevitably then, his next album -- the accurately but prosaically titled Another Side Of Bob Dylan (1964) -- had a lighter mood than its predecessor. The surreal Dylan re-emerged on "I Shall Be Free #10" and "Motorpsycho Nitemare", "Spanish Harlem Incident" and "To Ramona" were touching love songs while "Ballad in Plain D" and "I Don't Believe You" mourned his breakup with long-time girlfriend Suze Rotolo, who had been pictured with him on the front of Freewheelin'. Musically, he had changed too. Dylan's piano playing was featured on many of the tracks, with the beat and bass of his left hand presaging his return to rock music the next year. Perhaps more important to his later development, however, were two of the new songs. "Chimes Of Freedom" was the first of a new type of Dylan song: lengthy and impressionistic its retains an element of social commentary but with the topicality of his earlier work replaced by dense metaphorical landscape, a style later characterised by Allen Ginsberg as "chains of flashing images". "My Back Pages", in a similar style, is even more personal, a scathing attack on the dichotomous simplicity and arch seriousness of his earlier work. By way of excuse, or even apology, he offers only that
I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now.
No one has summed up the transition in his work from 1963 to 1965 better.
However, his artistic development moved so fast that he frequently left both critics and fans behind. In 1965 (influenced by the folk rock of The Byrds) he angered folk music purists by performing with an electric rock and roll band and his new style of poetic, impressionistic lyrics were to have a lasting effect on the industry.
Soon after the release of the double album "Blonde on Blonde" in 1966 Dylan was injured in a motorcycle accident and used his convalescence to escape the pressures of stardom. Retiring to Woodstock in New York and playing with the musicians who would later become The Band his output became more influenced by traditional US and country music, which can be heard on the albums John Wesley Harding (1968) and Nashville Skyline (1969), the latter of which is often considered to mark the beginning of an artistic decline. After some mediocre output in the early 1970s ("What the hell is this shit?" asked Rolling Stone magazine about "Self Portrait"), he returned to form with "Blood On The Tracks", an excellent and honest portrayal of his estrangement from his wife.
In the late 1970s he became a born-again Christian and released three records of primarily religious songs; of these three, some fans regard "Slow Train Coming" as most worth attention. He remained in the doldrums throughout the 1980s while crossing the world on his "Neverending Tour." He did take part in the Travelling Wilburys album project. The 1990s again saw something of a renaissance, first with "Oh Mercy" (1989) and later returning to his folk roots with two albums covering old folk and blues numbers: "Good As I've Been To You"(1992), "World Gone Wrong" (1993). In 1997, he released an album of original songs, "Time Out Of Mind"(1997) - for which he won a Grammy Award.
In 2001, his song "Things Have Changed", from the movie Wonder Boys, won an Academy Award for best original song in a motion picture.
Recommended albums:
/Bob Dylan (1962)
/The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
/The Times They A-Changin (1964)
/Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
/Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
/Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
/Blonde On Blonde (1966)
/Blood On The Tracks (1974)
/Desire (1975)
/Slow Train Coming (1979)
/Infidels (1983)
/Oh Mercy (1989)
/Time Out of Mind (1997)
/Love and Theft (2001)
Film : Renaldo and Clara (1978)
Play: Ho Shi Min in Harlem
The most famous songs :
The Times They A-Changin'
Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Mr. Tambourine Man
Only a Pawn in Their Game
Slow Train Coming
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Ballad of a Thin Man
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Lay Lady Lay
See Columbia Records' BobDylan.com for a near complete list of lyrics and audio clips.
References: Dylan's speech to the NECLC: http://www.corliss-lamont.org/dylan.htm
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NBA Finals Game 3: Everything's Bigger in Texas, Including 3-point Shooting
By Artem Altman
Just as it appeared momentum had swung violently in the Miami Heat's direction in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, the San Antonio Spurs reeled back on their home court to hand the Heat their worst playoff loss in franchise history. As basketball savants would dictate, the Spurs would have needed its "Big 3" of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili to play well at the same time.
As it turned out, it was the Spurs' supporting cast that came up big against the Heat's own deflated "Big 3." I'm going to boldly suggest that the Spurs were the originators of the Big 3 concept, at least when it comes to the modern era of basketball—1990s to the present.
While Duncan notched another double-double—12 points and 14 rebounds—the game was won with the three-point barrage by Danny Green (27 points), Kawhi Leonard (14 points) and Gary Neal (24 points). The trio combined to make 15 of 16 three-point field-goals, setting a new NBA Finals record.
Also, I am starting my campaign for Danny Green as the Most Valuable Player of this championship round.
I'm starting now: DANNY GREEN FOR MVP. #BMF #NBAFinals
— Baller Mind Frame (@BallerMindFrame) June 12, 2013
Considering that Parker injured his hamstring in the second half, the strong play of guys like Green, Leonard and Neal is of paramount importance. And nothing in Game 3 gave me any indication that hot shooting won't carry over into Game 4 this Thursday.
For the third straight game, the Spurs defense, and mainly Leonard's, held LeBron James under 20 points. James finished with 15 points, which was just one less than the team-leading total of 16 points from Dwyane Wade. Mike Miller scored 15 points of his own, all of them coming off three-pointers, shooting a perfect 5-for-5 from the field.
"It's not just us stopping him," said the Spurs' Green about LeBron. "He's kind of stopping himself out there, and we're getting a little lucky."
James said that he has to play better after the game, in which he missed 14 of his 21 field-goal attempts. "I can't have a performance like tonight and expect to win." That is certainly true, because, unlike the torrid pace at which the Heat were playing up until the NBA Finals, James' game was once again more akin to the 2011 title series against the Dallas Mavericks.
Besides displaying obvious bias against the Heat, what gives me a reason to think that the Spurs' domination will not simply be a one-game aberration is that San Antonio displayed a higher level of physicality on the defensive end, allowing them to stretch out their late-game lead to stratospheric proportions. As opposed to the Heat making the majority of their shots, which allowed them to run away with the victory in Game 2. As laws of percentages dictate, if you are making your shots now, then you are bound to miss just as much later.
With everything I know about the Spurs' Gregg Popovich, it leads to me believe by the next game his team will be that much closer to putting the final nail into the Heat's coffin. It's not my outright distaste for the Miami Heat and their plethora of bandwagon fans, nor the fact that the next two games are in San Antonio, either.
I've got a good feeling about this. Something the Heat don't know anything about right now.
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