Microstructural variations affect deformation response of materials and it is not presented in most of plastic flow prediction models. This work presents a unified description for the deformation response of Ti-6Al-4V (Ti-64) that successfully captures the differences in strength between microstructures produced by conventional cast & wrought routes (C&W) and those obtained by Additive Manufacturing (AM), under various deformation conditions. In the developed model the grain morphology, grain size, phase volume fractions and phase chemical compositions have been linked to the mechanical properties of the studied Ti-64 alloys to predict the effect of processing routes on deformation behaviour of the materials. The model performance has been tested on seven different microstructures from C&W to AM processing routs. It has been found that altering the microstructure greatly affects the yield strength of the tested materials. Additionally, the strength of Ti-64 was found to be mostly affected by the relative volume fraction of α, β and α′, and their respective morphology. The results showed that the model not only successfully predicts the strength of martensitic structures generated through AM but also those obtained by quenching in conventional C&W processing. The findings from this study also suggest that the model could be extended to other titanium alloys within the α + β family.
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Urban Naxal Case: What Is The Case About, Who Have Been Detained Following The Police Raids And Why
The Pune police on Tuesday detained 4 alleged Maoist sympathisers, viz., Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bharadwaj and Arun Ferreira, in what is being called as the biggest crackdown on 'Urban Naxals'
Written By Shatabdi Chowdhury | Mumbai | Updated On: August 28, 2018 22:52 IST
Meanwhile, Gautam Navlakha has been put under house arrest after Delhi High Court stayed his detention.
All search warrants and detentions were carried out under anti-terror UAPA law and IPC sections 153A, 505(1)(b), 117, 120(b) and 34.
Top police sources have told Republic TV all those detained "are members of the core committee group of urban Naxals and that they were involved in almost all the Naxal activities happened in the recent times". The top Pune police sources have also told Republic TV that Rona Wilson and other accused in the month of June were used to report to these people.
The said people were detained following a raid carried out by the Pune police on the residences of people suspected to have Maoist links. The raids were in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence.
READ | In Multi-city Crackdown, Police Teams Raid Maoist Sympathisers In Connection With Bhima-Koregaon Caste Violence. Details Here
BHIMA-KOREGAON VIOLENCE
Violent clashes had broken out in Bhima-Koregaon village in Pune district on January 2, leaving one dead and injuring several others. The violence started at an event of Elgar Parishad, attended by a huge crowd of Dalits at Perne village on the Pune-Ahmednagar Road to mark the 200th year of the Battle of Bhima Koregaon.
The Battle of Koregaon was fought between the British East India Company and Pesha faction at Koregaon Bhima on January 1, 1818. After defending their position for nearly 12 hours, the British East India Company had defeated the Peshwas. To commemorate the battle, a "victory pillar" was erected in Koregaon.
The battle and the victory of the British East India Company is significant to the Dalits as the victory pillar features names of 29 Dalits among other soldiers, who were a part of the East India Company. Soon, the obelisk became a memorial for the Dalits for defeating the high-caste oppression. Later in January 1, 1927, BR Ambedkar visited the site, following which his followers started to visit the memorial every year to mark his visit.
WHAT IS THE CASE ABOUT?
Earlier this year, the unfortunate turn of events during the commemoration of the Battle of Bhima-Koregaon, led to caste-based clashes in various regions of Maharashtra, including Mumbai.
As a part of the probe in the Bhima-Koregaon violence, Pune police had arrested 5 people, namely, Surendra Gadling, Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson, Shoma Sen, Mahesh Raut and Rana Jacob, in June, for allegedly delivering hate speeches and distributing disputed pamphlets. Later in June itself, while addressing a press briefing, Ravindra Kadam, Joint CP, Pune, had confirmed that the 5 accused persons have links with Naxals. During the briefing, Kadam said that their Naxal links were confirmed following the information and material ascertained from them. Kadam also said that a some among the arrested have been booked earlier for their Naxal links. After the arrests, the police have also recovered a letter containing the plan of a Rajiv Gandhi type assassination plot for Prime Minister Modi.
READ | Maoist Letter Revealing Sinister Plot To Assassinate PM Modi Recovered. Read It Here
After the PM Modi assassination plot letter surfaced, Republic TV accessed another letter, detailing Maoist attacks carried out by them "in the guidance of Naxal sympathiser Varavara Rao and comrade Surendra Gadling, which have gotten them national-level fame".
However, after the 5 arrests, Arun Ferreira, the lawyer of Surendra Gadling had accused the police of fabricating the papers, recovered during the raids to link the incident with Maoists, instead of finding the real cause behind the Bhima-Koregaon violence.
Now, the recent detentions by the Pune police are being seen as the outcome of the arrests of the 5 people in June and information ascertained from them.
WHO HAVE BEEN DETAINED NOW FOLLOWING THE POLICE RAIDS & WHY?
Maoist sympathiser and writer Varavara Rao has been detained in Hyderabad under UAPA or Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Rao is one of the founders of Virasam, the popular acronym for Viplava Rachayitala Sangam (Revolutionary Writers' Association). The association is infamous for supporting and propagating Naxal ideology.
Sudha Bharadwaj has been detained under UAPA, whose letter to one comrade Prakash was exposed by Republic TV on July 4. The accessed letter allegedly established a link between urban Naxals and Kashmiri separatists. Sudha Bharadwaj, who is living in Chhattisgarh for 29 years now is a representative of multiple organisations, including Jagdalpur Legal Aid and Bastar Solidarity Network.
READ | Explosive Letter Exposes Urban Naxal Link To Kashmir Terror. All Details Here
Human rights activist Gautam Navlakha has been put under house arrest in Delhi under anti-terror act. Navlakha, who had in past in Kashmir, was currently focussing his area of work in Chhattisgarh, whose large parts are under Maoists' influence.
VERNON GONSALVES
Vernon Gonsalves has been detained in Mumbai. In past, too, he had spent time in jail for his alleged links with banned Maoist groups. He was picked up by Maharashtra ATS on August 19, 2007, on charges of having Naxal links and for possessing explosives.
Arun Ferreira was detained in Mumbai. He is a human rights activist, who has been accused of having alleged links with Maoists. He was also the lawyer of Sudhir Dhawale and had accused the Pune police of fabricating papers to link Bhima-Koregaon incident with Maoists.
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Was it just my computer or did the video aspect get shut off and only audio recorded? Prophet song went black a third through, which is alright because I had my eyes closed anyway.
Stunning how clean and tight they sounded. As close to perfection as a musician can get.
julymorning wrote: Was it just my computer or did the video aspect get shut off and only audio recorded? Prophet song went black a third through, which is alright because I had my eyes closed anyway.
It was the only video footage I found. I had two choices. Let the music continue in black, or stop it right there.
Gary Mullen has never interested me. I am not sure if I can explain why, but something that always puts me off is when someone tries to copy every move, clothes etc. To me Marc Martel is perfect. At times he really sounds like Freddie, other times not. He has his own style and by chance there is something that really hits a nerve in me. He kinda looks like a relative of Freddie without trying to.
A wooden performer? He certainly isnt as daring as Freddie was when it comes to language and clothes. But to me that is alright. I like Marc, and I like his style on stage. I actually enjoy seeing him perform the way he does it.
Yaff, I really respect you in many ways, but OMG, please don't post Gary Mullen videos on QE threads. This is the second time someone has done that and I cannot STAND GM's performances. He gives me the creeps big time!
I never could stand him..I caught videos of him on youtube parading around mimicking Freddie's mannerisms and every move before the assembling of QE and before I knew of this forum.
Please? State your opinion, lord knows everyone has one, but no more showing Mullen off here. Make him his own thread.
I positively feel the need to go rip my skin off and bleach my eyes.
ICK, now Rog, you had to quote it.
julymorning wrote: Yaff, I really respect you in many ways, but OMG, please don't post Gary Mullen videos on QE threads. This is the second time someone has done that and I cannot STAND GM's performances. He gives me the creeps big time!
I'm getting a very subtle. faint, distant impression you don't like Mullen. I'm just saying a frontman doing the full Freddie is more of a tribute than just Martel pacing the stage when not sitting at the piano. He's a bore (a devout Christian singing a flamboyant gay man's music with virtually no emotion) I admit I'm a little bothered and jealous by/of Martel that he is able to sing so close to Freddie and it has made him famous. Not for anything he actually achieved mind you. As much as I can't stand Lambert's woeful attempts at singing rock I think QAL is probably closer to the spirit of Queen just not the sound. I also find it absurd that this site is promoting a product by it's own tribute band when there's tons of real Queen they could release. But I've long come to accept it that Brian & Roger as "Queen" has mostly been absurd since John left. And I believe I have a feeling I know why John has little to do with these two clowns other than cashing checks. Yes I said "clowns" but as you know I'm a great admirer of Brian for his concern for animals and his vegetarianism.
Put it another way. If I was on a cruise ship and on came a Queen tribute band I would fully expect the singer to act and try to sing like Freddie. That's what it's supposed to be about. In the past on two separate cruises I saw a Beatles tribute and an Elton John tribute. They did all the moves and costume changes. That to me makes more sense than QEX, which is just karaoke with a live band.
Wow! That Gary Mullins guy is amazing! Crazy! Were those bubbles real?
If you blended Marc Martels voice with Adam Lamberts flamboyance. That would probably be as close to Freddie as you could get. I like em both, there both talented singers.
Masonic wrote: If you blended Marc Martels voice with Adam Lamberts flamboyance. That would probably be as close to Freddie as you could get. I like em both, there both talented singers.
I've seen both of them live. Marc has the musician background whereas Adam is a natural entertainer with charismatic stage presence!
But seriously! I want to see AdamMethos back on this forum. Any sign of her lately?
Another_Roger wrote: But seriously! I want to see AdamMethos back on this forum. Any sign of her lately?
She's on vacation...I won't say where, but I will say I wouldn't be thinking about this place if I was in her flip flops.
Is she working for secret service or something? Hopefully she's having a good time and will be back soon.
I doubt it, I just don't think, as a fb friend, I should give details of her whereabouts. As a member here, she can do that herself if she wishes.
julymorning wrote: I doubt it, I just don't think, as a fb friend, I should give details of her whereabouts. As a member here, she can do that herself if she wishes.
Of course not. I was just kidding.
Here is Fat Bottomed girls from Hammersmith. It starts off with a long speech from Marc about the different songwriting from the Queen members.
There were some drum bits in there from Tyler that gave me shivers! I would say they have provided him with a darn good kit!


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1st Test bowls off tomorrow; bowlers may dominate series
England tour of the West Indies…
– Kookaburra balls replaced by swinging Dukes
By Brandon Corlette
The first Test match will bowl off tomorrow, Wednesday, January 23, 2019 from 10:00h at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados.
The Jason Holder-led West Indies team will have at the back of their minds that the Duke ball will suit the English swing-kings, Stuart Broad and James Anderson. In the last five Test matches between West Indies and England, West Indies lost three matches and won two. The Duke balls that will be used in the Test series are slightly altered from those used in England: they last longer in the abrasive Caribbean conditions.
In May 2015, West Indies registered a five-wicket win against the Englishmen at the familiar Kensington Oval venue. Jamaican Jermaine Blackwood was the star of the show, in his player-of-the-match performance that saw Windies chase down a target of 192. England took first strike in that encounter and scored 257 runs all out, with Alistair Cook scoring 105 and Moeen Ali contributing 58. Jerome Taylor and Jason Holder had three wickets each in a disciplined bowling effort. Windies' first innings saw a familiar batting collapse when they were bundled out for 189, with Blackwood scoring an aggressive 85.
Joe Root and Jason Holder
Windies returned with the ball in the second innings, and bowled out England for 123 when Holder and Taylor repeated their disciplined bowling performance with three wickets each. Darren Bravo and Jermaine Blackwood took Windies over the line with scores of 82 and 47* respectively.
The other instance where West Indies defeated the Englishmen was the monumental win when Shai Hope's twin centuries took the Caribbean team across the line.
West Indies have included two newbies in the squad for the upcoming match in Shamarh Brooks and John Campbell. Brooks is a 30-year-old middle-order Barbadian batsman, who came through the ranks, as a natural leader. The right hander played 67 First-Class matches scoring 3347 runs at an average of 33, including five centuries and 19 half-centuries.
Meanwhile, Campbell is the more likely candidate for the first Test to open the batting with Kraigg Brathwaite. Campbelle is a 25-year-old left-handed Jamaican opener, who has 55 First-Class matches under his belt. The elegant Campbell has 3037 runs at an average of 30 with three centuries and 18 half-centuries.
Duke balls will replace Kookaburras
Darren Bravo, who is returning to the Test squad, will bring his wealth of experience to the table. He is expected to play his 50th Test on Wednesday; the stroke maker has 3400 Test runs at an average of exactly 40 with eight centuries and 16 half-centuries.
The classy Hope will be the batsman to watch out for along with the dangerous Shimron Hetmyer and the valuable all-rounders, Jason Holder and Roston Chase. Shane Dowrich is expected to score some runs in the lower order for the West Indies. Windies bowling department will be led by Shannon Gabriel, Kemar Roach and the ever-consistent Holder.
England players have acclimatised in the pair of two-day matches played at the Three Ws Oval; the batting will be led by world-class batsman Joe Root, and the bowling department will heavily depend on Anderson and Broad.
The England Head Coach Trevor Bayliss is hoping that the specially designed Duke balls play into their hands in the Test series. Research has shown that the English bowlers struggle with the Kookaburra balls, but the England team had their first look at the ball in the practice matches, where they took 30 wickets in two days.
Cricket West Indies (CWI) executive Johnny Grave decided that the use of the Duke ball would provide more entertaining cricket to avoid the attritional encounters that were seen in recent times. However, Graves believes that the Windies bowling attack is potent, although Anderson and Broad have 998 Test wickets between themselves.
Test series between England and West Indies in the past have been exhilarating contests; from the Brian Lara record-breaking feat and the Jerome Taylor burst to English support from the large "Barmy army". Looking beyond Test series between these two teams, the World T20 final in 2016 which England will always remember for the Caribbean team ending their World T20 dreams. The Kensington Oval is expected to be transformed into an exciting stage, where Windies and the Caribbean supporters will battle against their former masters.
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Trey Songz is putting down the mic to flex his acting chops. The R&B singer has signed on to star as one of the leads in the upcoming horror flick The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, another remake of Tobe Hooper's 1974 classic.
Songz will star as the male lead and the boyfriend of previously announced cast member Alexandra Daddario. John Luessenhop (Takers) has been tapped to direct from a script written by Adam Marcus and Debra Sullivan.
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Disney Logo [1]
Disney is a leading producer, owner, and distributor of media that owns, among many other things, broadcast network ABC; movie studios Pixar, Walt Disney Animation, Marvel, and Lucasfilm; Walt Disney Parks and Resorts that attracted nearly 150 million people in 2015 [2]; and cable sports network ESPN [3]. Between ABC, its affiliates, and ESPN, Disney operates more than 300 channels worldwide, while its movie studios own the rights to The Avengers family and Star Wars [4]. The last Star Wars release became the highest grossing domestic film earlier this year and with another releasing this December, the company's film division remains strong [5]. However, fluctuating results on the television side have led Disney to invest in new technologies and a desire to expand international reach birthed a new theme park in China, which opened earlier this year.
CEO Bob Iger [1]
Disney's Chief Executive since 2005, Bob Iger helmed the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm. Since Iger's promotion from Chief Operating Officer, Disney's stock price has risen more than $70 while it's TV division has come to account for half of the company's profit [6]. Nearing the end of his career, Iger has repeatedly delayed his retirement and most recently set 2018 as the expiration date for his own tenure. His last task will be selecting his successor, after a recent candidate failed to last as heir.
Disney's Organizational Chart [7]
Beyond Iger, various chairmen run each of Disney's major compartments and the company's board of directors is comprised of 11 members. However, it is this organizational chart, distributed by Walt Disney Studios in 1943, that largely explains Disney's management philosophy [7]. Rather than the typical hierarchy, the chart displays an interlocking web of managers, producers, and creators that are needed to produce a film. This organization is intended to encourage creativity and teamwork by emphasizing collaboration rather than chain of command. Each role supports, instead of merely instructing, another.
Annual revenue, profit, and net income have increased yearly since at least 2013, as has Disney's valuation of its assets and balance sheet as whole. Disney's revenue dwarfs that of most of its competitors in media, exceeded only by Sony and other conglomerates that produce and own as much content as Sony and Disney. Disney's stock price is similarly higher than most competitors, currently hovering around $100 [8]. The company's price per share seems to be inextricably linked to the success of ESPN, which is struggling with subscriber losses and adapting to the future (see "Investments in Technology" section below).
Disney's Stock Price for last two years [8]
Investments in Technology
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Disney's future focus is in technology as it attempts to revitalize ESPN and stay on the cutting edge of content creation and media. Primarily, in August the company invested $1 billion for a 33% stake in Major League Baseball's BAMTech, a leading television streaming company. The deal included an option for Disney to take a majority stake in the company down the road. The first collaboration between the two will be BAMTech's creation of a standalone streaming service for ESPN, which Disney hopes will help ease the network's subscriber losses and struggling ratings. BAMTech adds 7.5 million paid subscribers across a multitude of streaming platforms to Disney's already massive user base [9]. The investment in BAMTech isn't completely black and white, however. Television's trend toward skinny bundles complicates the relationship between every content producer and cable provider, with Sling, DirecTV, Hulu, and more getting into the live over-the-top business. Disney's BAMTech investment suggests a possibility that Disney itself could run a direct-to-consumer cable distributor itself [10].
Throughout this year, rumors swirled about the possibility of Disney purchasing Snapchat, Twitter, and/or Netflix, though analysts agree: none of these are likely. Twitter's struggle to remain profitable and stabilize its stock price creates nonstop purchase rumors, but it seems that Disney doesn't stand to benefit much from a Twitter acquisition [11]. Snapchat has proved to be a unique outlet for Disney's content, but doesn't seem to be a likely purchase for the social media company [12]. Though the investment in BAMTech signifies Disney's interest in streaming, Netflix doesn't appear to be a perfect partner, either. Netflix's dominance in the streaming market has waned as challengers such as Amazon and Apple have stolen subscribers [13].
Star Wars Moana banner [17]
After the November 23 release of Moana, Disney is nearing $2.5B in total domestic box office gross for 2016 [14]. With the top four grossing films of 2016 thus far (Finding Dory, Captain America: Civil War, The Jungle Book, and Zootopia), the company topped $6B in worldwide box office gross for the first time in its history [15]. This new record will only increase as Moana and Doctor Strange continue to screen and Disney's final 2016 film releases: the newest film, Rogue One. Beyond the box office, movies like Star Wars, Finding Dory, and Moana provide massive profits in merchandising, both in America and abroad. In 2013, Disney merchandise sales brought in over $40B.
On June 16, Disney's fourth international theme park opened in Shanghai, with the tagline "authentically Disney, distinctly Chinese" [16]. The company avoided western branding and symbols by changing street names within the park and by filling the concessions with 70% Chinese food. Traditional Disney characters can be seen wearing traditionally Chinese silk costumes and speaking the native language. The Shanghai Disney Resort seeks to take advantage of the massive potential offered by China and the wider Asian market.
Shanghai Disney Resort [18]
Despite Disney's losses in television, its massive successes at the box office in 2016 have made up for it. The control of Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar promises success in the motion pictures department nearly every year. Further, Disney's land holdings of theme parks underscore the company's finances with physical propoerty–while most media conglomerates own intellectual property, Disney holds more tangible assets as well. The company's investments in technology put it in a good place for the future–its theme parks' MagicBands have already proven successful. But while the company must hope these investments pay off, it also faces the uncertain future of navigating an evolving marketplace with a new CEO. Iger's selection of his successor is by far the most important storyline to follow within the massive world of Disney.
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Gardner, Hannah. June 16, 2016. USA Today. Disney's new Shanghai park is supersized. Retrieved November 28, 2016. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/06/15/disneys-new-shanghai-park-supersized/85920926/
Disney. Moana. Retrieved November 28, 2016. http://movies.disney.com/moana
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Posted on December 1, 2014 by kawalek
by Lynn Walek
Image Courtesy of the Official Disney Fan Club (www.d23.com)
Robert "Bob" Iger Alan F. Horn
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Chairman
The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Studios
Robert "Bob" Iger – Image Courtesy of The Walt Disney Company
Alan F. Horn – Image Courtesy of The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 when Disney brothers Roy and Walt sold the Alice Comedies. The star of the company, Mickey Mouse, was not seen until five years later when Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon, was released in 1928. The Disney Company continued to push boundaries releasing the first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937. [1] The company has grown and expanded into many aspects of entertainment. [2] Currently Walt Disney Studios owns Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Marvel, Touchstone, and Disneynature. In 2012 Disney purchased Lucasfilm, which most notably includes the Star Wars franchise. [3] [4]
With the end of the 2014 fiscal year, Disney announced a record year. The fourth quarter earning report quotes CEO Bob Iger as saying: "Our results for Fiscal 2014 were the highest in the Company's history, marking our fourth consecutive year of record performance." [5] This year's revenues are up from 45 billion to 48.8 billion, an eight percent increase. Net income increased from 6.1 billion in 2013 to 7.5 billion in 2014, a 22 percent increase. With the future slate Disney is set to release "21 tentpole movies…over the next three years, compared to only 13 in the last three". [6] The increase in "tentpole" movies means Disney has the opportunity to continue breaking records as it expands franchises under its many banners. [5] [6]
Current Slate
Image Courtesy of IMDb
Released October 10, 2014 this film is based on the popular children's book of the same title. Despite comedy giant Steve Carell and well known actress Jennifer Garner headlining the film, it was only a mild success. It opened at number three at the box office and quickly fell out of the top five. It grossed 63 million domestically and 82 million worldwide with a production budget of 28 million. [7]
Released November 7, 2014, this is the first animated Marvel film. Disney CEO Bob Iger had high hopes for the film when he spoke to investors the day before its release, and it did not disappoint. [6] It grossed more than 205 million worldwide with a production budget of 165 million. It opened as number one at the box office and then held second place during its second and third weeks. The film follows the adventures of Hiro, a young boy, and his robot best friend, Baymax who according to IMDb "team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes." [8] Big Hero 6 has faced little direct competition until the November 26 release of Penguins of Madagascar. [8] [9] [10]
This film will be released on December 25, 2014 (see trailer below [a]). This is a big screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical and boasts big name actors Meryl Streep and Johnny Depp. The film will feature a new song written for Streep. The film focuses on a witch (Streep) teaching lessons to various fairytale characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Rapunzel. The film will be up against another family musical, Annie, as well as the third installment of family comedy franchise Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. Both of these competing films will be released before Christmas on December 19. [10] [11]
Future Slate
Because Disney's fiscal 2014 is over, the emphasis is on what is to come in the next fiscal year. In his address to investors on November 6, 2014, Bob Iger emphasized the future slate and franchise expansion. Disney has released several long term plans. [6]
Image Courtesy of marvel.com
Marvel was acquired in 2009 and has become an instrumental part of Walt Disney Studios success. Currently Disney is working on two Marvel franchises, The Avengers (2012) and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). There are 11 Marvel films planned for the next five years (see table 1). [6]
Table 1 Table created in Microsoft Word by Lynn Walek [6]
The next release on the Marvel docket is Avengers sequel Age of Ultron, which hits theaters in May 2015. Director Joss Whedon will return to lead stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, and Mark Ruffalo who will reprise their superhero roles. The trailer (see below [b]) which was originally set to air on October 28 during Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was leaked on October 22. Marvel and Disney responded by quickly posting the official trailer which got 34.3 million global views in its first 24 hours. This number shattered the previous record held by the Iron Man 3 trailer. [12] [13]
In the 2014 fiscal year, Guardians of the Galaxy had the highest domestic gross and the second highest worldwide gross. It grossed more than 770 million dollars worldwide. [14] Additionally, the success of Big Hero 6 proves that Marvel can produce successful animated films and they will likely continue to do so. [9]
Image Courtesy of lucasfilm.com/starwars
Disney will produce a new trilogy of Star Wars movies: Episodes VII, VIII and IX. The title and teaser trailer for Episode VII have now been released. It will be called Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the trailer can be seen below [c]. This film will be released December 18, 2015. Episode VIII will be released in 2017 and Episode IX will be released in 2019. In 2016 Disney will release the first of their "stand alone" films within the Star Wars universe. [6]
Image Courtesy of official Disney Pixar Facebook
Noticeably absent from the 2014 slate Pixar will be back in June 2015 with Inside Out. This film is not a franchise expansion but it lists big name stars, Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, and Bill Hader. Poehler, Kaling and Hader will voice three of five emotions from inside the mind of a little girl. Pixar will continue two successful franchises in 2016 and 2017. Finding Dory, sequel to Finding Nemo, will be released in 2016. The recently announced Toy Story 4 will be released in June 2017 and boasts the return of director John Lasseter who was at the helm of the first two installments of the Toy Story franchise. Lasseter is also the chief creative officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios and principal creative advisor of Walt Disney Imagineering. [6] [15]
Disney Pictures
Image Courtesy of waltdisneystdudios.com
Following the success of Maleficent, which grossed 757 million dollars worldwide, Disney will continue to produce live action fairy tales. [16] The official Cinderella trailer was released on November 19 (see below [d]). This film is scheduled to be released in March 2015. Other live action fairy tales announced are The Jungle Book and Alice in Wonderland 2. Disney will also release another film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. [6]
Sources*
[1] History of The Walt Disney Studios
[2] List of Disney Businesses
[3] List of Walt Disney Studio Businesses
[4] USA Today Disney's Lucasfilm Purchase
[5] Walt Disney Fourth Quarter Earnings Press Release
[6] Walt Disney Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call Transcript
[7] Box Office Mojo – Alexander…Bad Day
[8] IMDb – Big Hero 6
[9] Box Office Mojo – Big Hero 6
[10] Box Office Mojo Release Dates
[11] Playbill – Into the Woods New Song
[12] IMDb – Avengers: Age of Ultron
[13] Deadline – Age of Ultron Trailer Leak
[14] Box Office Mojo – Guardians of the Galaxy
[15] Walt Disney Exec Bio – John Lasseter
[16] Box Office Mojo – Maleficient
Trailer Sources*
[a] Disney Movie Trailers YouTube – Into the Woods
[b] Marvel Entertainment YouTube – Avengers: Age of Ultron
[c] Star Wars YouTube – The Force Awakens
[d] Disney Movie Trailers YouTube – Cinderella
*Note: All sources were last accessed on December 1, 2014.
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Q: How to read Hbase table based on two family in a Table I want to read a HBase table based on two family like name and age.
How do we do that?

A: HBase has Tables, Column Families, and Column Qualifiers.  The general advice is to create as few column families as possible (<<10).
A row key specifies the particular data.  So, if you want to get a particular row you construct a Get:
Get g = new Get(rowkey);

Once you have a result your can pull out a given column qualifier by specifying the family/qualifier:
HTable t = new HTable(tablename);
Result row = t.get(g);
byte[] value = row.getValue(family, qualifier);

You can also iterate through all of the key/value pairs from the row (where the key contains the column family/column qualifier):
List<KeyValue> list = row.list();
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}

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Jennifer & Ryan | Mountain View Engagement Session | Not your average wedding blog.
I have shot weddings and everything else in quite a few "extreme" conditions. I have done outdoor wedding photography when the weather was in the 30's with wind chill of 19. That might not sound like much, but remember I am shooting. I can't wear gloves! Well, I could.. but imagine my clumsy fingers trying to get your photos in perfect exposure with a nice thick pair of gloves on. It ain't pretty! Instead, my hands were purple by the end, and the shots look great! I have also shot weddings and family portraits until the very last month of pregnancy when it was 99 degrees outside. And I always wear black to work. Oh yes, I hold on to my professional look in the worst of climates. But for Jennifer and Ryan's engagement session, it was a whole different story. In the hours before their shoot, I was struck down with food poisoning. (at the time I simply thought I was dying.. ) Knowing they were coming from Houston, and only for one night, I was absolutely NOT canceling. My husband knows I'm mildly insane and he still asked for me to cancel. My mom kindly agreed to drive me to Mount Bonnell where their engagement photos were supposed to be, and I reached the sickest point about one minute before pulling into the parking spots. Keep in mind Mount Bonnell is one of the best spots to see the sunset in Austin. I got a huge rush of "I feel great" since I had left every other bit of sickness on the side of the road. Enter Jennifer and Ryan! Oh these two were wonderful. I was so relieved to look through the lens and just take a deep breath and know it would all turn out fine. They took guidance so well and were just so sweet on each other that I didn't have to stress over making moments happen, they just did. We had golden hour and took full advantage. Nearing the end of that hour I started getting waves of the poison set in. Yes, I need to be dramatic, it was horrible! So thankfully these two were completely ok with me taking the last set of photos sitting down. Ok, hunched. I am laughing now thinking just how professional I must have looked as people started rushing in to watch the sun set. I haven't even mentioned their wonderful fur child! Finn the labradoodle was such a great pup, very photogenic and yes you can follow him on Instagram. We didn't have to leash him up in between photos, since my mom was already there, we doubled her as a dog watcher! Finn was also the main part of their engagement, so we made sure to get him with the ring. I was so impressed and just pictured my dog flinging the ring over the mountain side. I could not be more thankful for how understanding Jennifer and Ryan were and how adventurous they are in going to the edge for great photos! Now I am even more excited to shoot their wedding… and I will aim to not have food poisoning!
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I just love these sunset photos; makes me want to visit austin!!
Thanks Jenny! Mount Bonnell is probably the best place to watch the sunset in Austin! You wouldn't be disappointed 😀 Being an engagement and wedding photographer in Austin is so much fun!
Such a beautiful setting! I would love to have engagement photos like that in Austin, Texas! I love how you captured the dog with the ring too!
Thank you Rachel! Doing engagement photography in Austin is so unique since there are so many locations and venues with different Texas feels! Their labradoodle, Finn was just perfect 😀 I love when couples add their dog in for engagement sessions.
Sorry you weren't feeling well, Amy, these mount bonell sunset engagement photos are breathtaking! Love the yellow dress, too! Great outfit choice for an engagement session wardrobe!
Thank you so much Ashlee! And everyone should visit Austin, Texas! I am so proud of my city and I feel like everyone would fall in love. Especially being a wedding photographer in Austin! Their pup coming along for their engagement session was just a bonus! Love puppy pictures!
These are such cute engagement photos! And what a great story, I'm sure the couple will remember the experience of their shoot as they look at the photos, even after their wedding! What a trooper!
Beautiful Mountain View engagement shoot! Your dedication to getting what couples want despite the conditions are what make you a true pro. Beautiful work as always!


Grilled breakfast sandwiches served on multigrain english muffins Featuring One Year Aged Cheddar from Springside Cheese.
Paninis served on Multigrain ciabatta bread featuring cheeses from Springside cheese.
Grilled Chicken, creamy artichoke, jalapeño and Jack with greens.


should you join a franchise or start your own juice bar?
Exploring all things relating to opening and scaling a successful juice bar business. In this episode, we discuss franchising vs opening your own store. Enjoy this episode with your host Andrew McFarlane, founder of the Start A Juice Bar Agency and multiple juice bars, and consultant to juice bar entrepreneurs around the world for nearly a decade.


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Simple dropdown component. See [examples](https://cravefood.github.io/farmblocks/index.html?selectedKind=Dropdown) on storybook

## Installation

```
npm install @crave/farmblocks-dropdown
```

## Usage

```
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
import {Dropdown, DropdownItem} from '@crave/farmblocks-dropdown';

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Dropdown text='Select fruit'
                align='left'
                handleSelection={(value, event) => console.log('handle selection', value)}>
        <DropdownItem value={1}>Banana</DropdownItem>
        <DropdownItem value={2}>Apple</DropdownItem>
        <DropdownItem value={3}>Strawberry</DropdownItem>
      </Dropdown>
    );
  }
}

render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));
```

This code will render:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17936244/35000319-3a1b4d12-facb-11e7-9f2a-1b3024772f0f.png)

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17936244/35000359-5cff49e6-facb-11e7-864f-b4abdb32e639.png)

## API

### Dropdown

| Property        | Description                                                                                | Type                     | Required | Default            |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | -------- | ------------------ |
| children        | Pass children of DropdownItem instances                                                                                | node                     | x        |                    |
| text            | The dropdown label. Renders only the icon if this property is empty                                                                     | string                   |          | ''                 |
| handleSelection | Function to handle selection of a DropdownItem. The first argument is the value, the second is the event                                | function                 |          | () => false        |
| align           | Align of dropdown items container                                                                                | oneof(['left', 'right']) |          | left               |
| zIndex          | z-index passed to the dropdown items container                                                                                | number                   |          |                    |
| width           | Custom dropdown items container width                                                                                | string                   |          |                    |
| size            | One of the constants in `buttonSizes` from `farmblocks-button` package. For convenience, `buttonSizes` is also exported on this package | string                   |          | buttonSizes.MEDIUM |
| buttonProps     | Props to be forwarded to the button trigger                                                                                | Object                   |          |                    |

### DropdownItem

| Property | Description                                                                                | Type             | Required | Default |
| -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- | -------- | ------- |
| children | content to be rendered as the item text                                                                                | node             |          |         |
| text     | This property is rendered as children of the item component. If passed, it suppress the children property              | string           |          |         |
| value    | Option value. This property will be passed as the first argument on `handleSelection` property from Dropdown component | string or number |          |         |
| footer   | Flag to use on a last item to behave like a footer, without hover color and regular cursor                             |                  | false    |

## License

MIT

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The Mythos
The Bookseller
The Cursed Book
Rutledge Productions
Geek Public Radio
Cover Artist
Time Garvanliev
Time Garvanliev is an artist and graphic designer from North Macedonia, working in the industry for 10+years. He loves creating artwork that's are dark, ambient, surreal, and evocative for comics, music, books... As an imaginative and reliable artist, he have a burning desire to create every vision and dream into a unique creation. Also a huge music fanatic, but sadly a really bad dancer
Interior Artist
Jonathon Espinoza
Jonathan Espinoza is an Illustrator and Graphic Designer for the publishing house TuKiosko. With more than 10 years of experience, he has also worked with other publishers in Bolivia. From an early age, an attraction for drawing and 2d animation emerged in him, which today are his greatest passions. He has published short comics "CLON a minute before death", "Stone Hurricane" among others. He is currently working on a new comic of his authorship.
Topher Chambers
Topher Chambers was born in Anderson, Indiana. On his second marriage with a teenage son, Chambers was an archaeological field technician with several CRM and environmental firms in the Midwest. With anthropology training and a psychology degree, Chambers looks at the world a little differently than most people. He has lived all over the country, settling back in his hometown of Alexandria, IN. where he owned a used bookshop with his wife, then moved onto running an online radio station. When not writing his own books, he writes and directs his own films and series.
©2021 Rutledge Productions and GP Comics


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THE BUG December 24, 2020 Australia, Australian politics, Entertainment, Exclusive, Media, The Arts
Soap opera's big changes
The Seven Network has announced a dramatic revamp of its popular Home and Away soap opera for 2021.
Home and Away's head writer, Cliff Hanger, told me that regular viewers would notice dramatic changes when the 2021 season of the long-running program aired.
"Home and Away first screened in January 1988 and like all such serials its cast has undergone many changes and the storylines have always adapted to or reflected changes in the real world," Mr Hanger said.
"The show has always been set in the fictional beachside town of Summer Bay and outdoor scenes have always been shot in and around Sydney's Palm Beach and other localities in the northern beaches.
"But the current COVID-19 cluster in the northern beaches has really thrown a spanner in the works for us.
"We really don't know what the coming weeks and months may hold and we can't plan on business as usual, that's for sure.
"So we're going to retool the whole show over the Christmas-New Year break."
Mr Hanger told me that viewers tuning in next year will first notice a change in the program's name to Home and Home.
"We can't plan on having any storylines that take our characters outdoors because in the real world we may well be in total lockdown once again," he said.
"While that will save us money on production costs for Home and Home we're going to have to rewrite all the episodes already scripted.
"There'll be other changes and while the revamp of the program can be described as dramatic, the acting still won't be so our hardcore fans shouldn't be too upset.
"I can't say too much right now but I can reveal that we plan to have the Alf Stewart character contract coronavirus."
Alf is the only character left from the very first episode and has been played for almost 33 years by veteran actor Ray Meagher.
"I broke the news to Alf, I mean Ray, the other day when I found him on the set during a lunch break," Mr Hanger said.
"He was chewing the scenery as usual, quite literally, (main picture) and he took it all in his stride like the professional he is," Mr Hanger said.
Posted in Australia, Australian politics, Entertainment, Exclusive, Media, The Arts and tagged Alf Stewart, COVID-19, Home and Away, northen beaches, Palm Beach, Ray Meagher, Seven Network, Summer Bay, Sydney. Bookmark the permalink.
PM wears award with pride
True reason for PM's gong revealed!


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Bankster Lobbyists Writing Regulatory "Reform" Legislation
by Tom Burghardt / May 28th, 2013
Nearly six years since massive financial fraud and speculative market manipulation drove the global capitalist economy off the rails, congressional grifters in both benighted political parties have turned over the legislative process to bankster lobbyists.
Talk about technocratic efficiency!
Last week, The New York Times revealed that "Bank lobbyists are not leaving it to lawmakers to draft legislation that softens financial regulations. Instead, the lobbyists are helping to write it themselves."
According to emails leaked to the Times, a bill that "sailed through the House Financial Services Committee this month–over the objections of the Treasury Department–was essentially Citigroup's."
Despite huge losses during the capitalist economic meltdown, which included heavy exposure to toxic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) which cost shareholders some 85 percent of asset value by early 2009, by 2012 the bank had built up an enormous cash horde to the tune of $420 billion (£277.7bn), derived from selling some $500 billion (£330.6bn) of "special assets" placed in Citi holdings that were guaranteed from losses by the US Treasury Department; this included untaxed overseas profits of some $35.9 billion (£23.74bn) according to Bloomberg.
As I reported last month, Citigroup was handed some $45 billion (£29.78bn) in TARP funds while the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve secretly backstopped more than $300 billion (£197.31bn) in toxic assets on their books. In addition to receiving "$2.5 trillion [£1.64tn] of support from the American taxpayer through capital infusions, asset guarantees and low-cost loans," as Wall Street on Parade analyst Pam Martens pointed out, like other too-big-to-jail banks such as Wachovia and HSBC, the Citi brand has long been associated with washing dirty cash for drug cartels.
Hit with a toothless Consent Order by the Federal Reserve in March over "deficiencies in the Banks' BSA/AML [Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering] compliance programs," federal regulators charged that Citigroup and their affiliate Banamex "lacked effective systems of governance and internal controls to adequately oversee the activities of the Banks with respect to legal, compliance, and reputational risk related to the Banks' respective BSA/AML compliance programs."
The Federal Reserve "action" followed an anemic Consent Order last year by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) which also cited Citi's failure to "adopt and implement a compliance program that adequately covers the required BSA/AML program elements due to an inadequate system of internal controls."
Additionally, the OCC charged that the "Bank did not develop adequate due diligence on foreign correspondent bank customers and failed to file Suspicious Activity Reports ('SARs') related to its remote deposit capture/international cash letter instrument activity in a timely manner."
Nevertheless, as with other criminogenic banks such as JPMorgan Chase, similarly hit with an equally toothless Consent Order by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in January, in their infinite wisdom the Federal Reserve averred that their Citigroup action was issued "without this Order constituting an admission or denial by Citigroup of any allegation made or implied by the Board of Governors in connection with this matter, and solely for the purpose of settling this matter without a formal proceeding being filed and without the necessity for protracted or extended hearings or testimony."
In other words, let's sweep this under the rug as quickly as possible and move on. But before we do, let's step back for a moment and wrap our heads around a few salient facts.
Here's a bank with a documented history as the GAO revealed in 1998, of laundering drug money for well-placed Juárez and Gulf Cartel crony Raúl Salinas de Gortari, the brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas, charged with amassing a multimillion dollar fortune from narcotics rackets and then squirreling it away in London, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.
Does this evoke any memories?
According to GAO investigators, "Mr. Salinas was able to transfer $90 million to $100 million between 1992 and 1994 by using a private banking relationship formed by Citibank New York in 1992. The funds were transferred through Citibank Mexico and Citibank New York to private banking investment accounts in Citibank London and Citibank Switzerland."
Beginning in 1992, Citibank "assisted Mr. Salinas with these transfers and effectively disguised the funds' source and destination, thus breaking the funds' paper trail." And they did so by creating "an offshore private investment company named Trocca, to hold Mr. Salinas's assets, through Cititrust (Cayman) and investment accounts in Citibank London and Citibank Switzerland," and then failed to "prepare a financial profile on him or request a waiver for the profile, as required by then Citibank know your customer policy."
Keep in mind that when Swiss prosecutors completed their money laundering investigation, The New York Times disclosed that "Swiss police investigators have concluded that a brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari played a central role in Mexico's cocaine trade, raking in huge bribes to protect the flow of drugs into the United States."
That Swiss report stated, "When Carlos Salinas de Gortari became President of Mexico in 1988, Raúl Salinas de Gortari assumed control over practically all drug shipments through Mexico. Through his influence and bribes paid with drug money, officials of the army and the police supported and protected the flourishing drug business."
Does the name of former Banamex CEO Roberto Hernández ring any bells?
Described as "the single biggest winner" of Mexican bank privatizations engineered by the Bush and Clinton regimes during the 1990s as Narco News disclosed, a subsequent investigation revealed that "Hernández had been accused–publicly and via a criminal complaint–by the daily newspaper Por Esto! of trafficking tons of Colombian cocaine through his Caribbean costa properties on that peninsula since 1997."
And when Citigroup acquired Banamex in 2001 for the then-princely sum of $12.5 billion (£8.27bn), it was described as the largest US-Mexican corporate merger in history. Should it surprise us that this Citi subsidiary was named alongside parent Citigroup by the OCC and Federal Reserve for repeated failures to adequately police dirty money flowing into their coffers?
Members of the House Financial Services Committee should examine why they would turn over the legislative process to a criminal financial cartel!
As Times' journalists Eric Lipton and Ben Protess reported, "Citigroup's recommendations were reflected in more than 70 lines of the House committee's 85-line bill. Two crucial paragraphs, prepared by Citigroup in conjunction with other Wall Street banks, were copied nearly word for word. (Lawmakers changed two words to make them plural.)"
Proving yet again, that Washington lawmakers are beholden to their Wall Street masters, MapLight, a nonpartisan research group that "reveals money's influence on politics in the US Congress," disclosed that legislators "serving" on the House Financial Services Committee "approved six bills that would roll back pieces of the Dodd-Frank Act designed to improve regulation of the derivatives market."
Lawmakers who voted "yes" on HR 992, the Orwellian-named Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act, "received, on average, 2.6 times more money from top banks than committee members" who voted "no." MapLight further disclosed that lawmakers who voted "yes" on this pernicious piece of legislative detritus "received, on average, 3 times more money from the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate (FIRE) sector," than committee members who voted "no."
The $700 trillion derivatives market, 93.2 percent of which is controlled by the four largest too-big-to-fail-and-jail US banks, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, is a cash cow and shadow market for crooked financial insiders. HR 992, which rolled-back a key provision of 2010's anemic Dodd-Frank financial "reform" legislation, Sec. 716, would have required banks to spin off their derivatives activities into separate units that would not have access to federal bank subsidies; i.e., taxpayer bailouts.
"In recent weeks, the Times reported, "Wall Street groups also held fund-raisers for lawmakers who co-sponsored the bills. At one dinner Wednesday night, corporate executives and lobbyists paid up to $2,500 to dine in a private room of a Greek restaurant just blocks from the Capitol with Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, Democrat of New York, a co-sponsor of the bill championed by Citigroup."
Responding to questions, Financial Services Committee member Jim Himes, a former Goldman Sachs banker, third-term Connecticut Democrat and one of the top recipients of Wall Street largess to the tune of $194,500 according to OpenSecrets told the Times: "It's appalling, it's disgusting, it's wasteful and it opens the possibility of conflicts of interest and corruption. It's unfortunately the world we live in."
No, Mr. Himes, it's the world you live in.
While your colleague across the aisle, Stephen Fincher (R-TN), cites Bible verses to justify gutting federal nutritional assistance to 47 million hungry Americans while being the "the second largest recipient of farm subsidies in the United States Congress" according to Forbes, and received some $3.48 million (£2.3m) since 1999 in USDA farm subsidies while doing the "Lord's work" according to the Environmental Working Group, the US Congress, including "liberal" Obama Democrats have promoted every filthy piece of legislation that facilitates Wall Street's plundering of the American people.
Referencing the recent vote on HR 992, the Center for Responsive Politics reported that in the first quarter of 2013, members of the Financial Services Committee "received more than $1.3 million in donations to their campaigns and leadership PACs from the securities and investment industry and commercial banks."
According to OpenSecrets, "By far the largest source of cash from the two industries was the Investment Company Institute, a trade association representing Wall Street firms. The ICI gave at least $129,000 to members of the House Financial Services Committee. Other trade groups representing banks and investment firms, including the American Bankers Association and the Independent Community Bankers of America, were also major contributors."
OpenSecrets reported that "Banking industry companies increased their contributions in 2013 to $640,286, from $497,169 in early 2011. Citigroup, in particular, jumped from $19,500 in donations to committee members to $39,500. UBS went from $64,250 to $88,000. Wells Fargo also opened its checkbook a little wider this year, giving $80,000, compared with $31,250 in 2011."
Commenting on this latest gift to Wall Street criminals, the World Socialist Web Site observed:
Flush with the $85 billion in cash printed up and handed to the banks every month by the Federal Reserve, business at the Wall Street casino is booming. Stock values are at record levels and so are bank profits, amidst declining wages and mass poverty.
"Under these conditions," Marxist critic Andre Damon averred, "the banks have been pushing to rip up even the very modest restrictions on financial speculation, while broadening the scope of government bailout laws. The aim is simple: to give banks the maximum ability to speculate without constraint, while getting the maximum possible government assistance if and when the bubble collapses."
None of this should surprise anyone who has paid the least attention to the cronyism and financial parasitism of the Obama regime.
From get-out-of-jail-free-cards passed out to drug money laundering banks by Eric Holder's Justice Department, to the appointments of Citigroup alumnus and Cayman Islands tax-dodger Jacob Lew as Treasury Secretary, Debevoise & Plimpton partner Mary Jo White over at the Securities and Exchange Commission to the nomination of billionaire Hyatt Hotel heiress, subprime mortgage "pioneer" and union-buster Penny Pritzker to lead the Commerce Department, it's a bankster world, all the time.
How's that for Hope and Change™!
Tom Burghardt is a researcher and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His articles are published in many venues. He is the editor of Police State America: U.S. Military "Civil Disturbance" Planning, distributed by AK Press. Read other articles by Tom, or visit Tom's website.
This article was posted on Tuesday, May 28th, 2013 at 8:00am and is filed under Capitalism, Crime, Finance, Politics, Wall Street.


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'Our Patients Aren't Dead' – Inside Cryogenic Freezing Facility with 199 Humans on Ice
For some people in Arizona, time and death is 'on pause'.
Inside tanks filled with liquid nitrogen are the bodies and heads of 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved with the hopes of being revived in the future.
Many of the patients – as Alcor Life Extension Foundation calls them – are people who were terminally ill with cancer, ALS or other diseases with no cure in the present day.
One of the patients is Matheryn Naovaratpong, the youngest person to be cryogenically frozen.
Alcor's former CEO, Max More, pointed to a picture of the girl as reporters were given a tour of the facility.
'A little girl from Thailand who had brain cancer. Both her parents were doctors and she had multiple brain surgeries and nothing worked, unfortunately. So they contacted us,' More explained.
Naovaratpong's case is one of only a few at Alcor that is public. Another with a terminal disease is Hal Finney, who passed away from ALS. Finney is well-known in the cryptocurrency community for being the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction.
When it comes to famous figures, Paris Hilton has reportedly signed up for cryopreservation. America's Got Talent, Simon Coldwell, had publicly announced his membership in 2011 but later opted out.
Rumors about Walt Disney being frozen have circulated for decades, but that was debunked by his own family.
Legendary baseball player, Ted Williams, who died in 2002 is currently one of Alcor's frozen patients.
More says he thinks of cryonics as an extension of emergency medicine.
'We come at the stage where doctors today have given up. Today's medicine and technology is not sufficient to keep you going. But we're saying instead of just disposing of the patient, give them to us.
'We're going to stabilize them, stop them getting worse, and hold them for as long as it takes for technology to catch up and allow them to come back to life and continue living,' he said.
Natasha Vita-More, futurist and author, is married to Max Moore, and also one of the company's 1,392 living members. The couple met in 1992 during a futurist event in Los Angeles and discovered both were members of the company.
Vita-More is signed up to be 'neurosuspended', meaning only her brain will be cryopreserved.
Best case scenario, Vita-More says, is that patients who were frozen, will meet in the future with other family members or pets who were also preserved. 'And the destination would be the future where a person who had a cancer or ALS or some other type of injury or disease is revived,' she said.
'The disease or injury cured or fixed, and the person has a new body cloned or a whole body prosthetic or their body reanimated and meet up with their friends again.'
But there are skeptics in the medical world.
Doctor Arthur Caplan, director of the Division of Medical Ethics and professor of Bioethics at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, reckons the idea is far-fetched.
'The only group that you really see getting excited about the possibility are people who are sort of, people who specialize in studying the distant future or people who have a stake in wanting you to pay the money to do it,' he said in a Zoom interview with news agency Reuters.
Cryonics is based on anticipation and in the hope that one day science will be advanced enough for the restoration of cryopreserved humans. Alcor does not make any promises or guarantees, but that hasn't stopped people from giving the company their money.
It costs a minimum of $200,000 (£180,000) to freeze a body and $80,000 (£72,000) for the brain alone.
Alcor says that the vast majority of its members don't have that money, so they use life insurance equal to that amount, making Alcor the beneficiary of the policy.
Of course, there are various ongoing running costs associated with the facility, which Alcor says can depend on what's being frozen and for how long.
'Alcor knows quite accurately the total costs involved in keeping all its patients cryopreserved, the allocation of those costs among specific patients is not so clear cut,' the company says.
It won't go into specifics surrounding individual costs per patient because of the sums involved. But, suffice to say, keeping your body and brain cryopreserved for generations doesn't come cheap.
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Daniël, Daniel of Daniëlle kan verwijzen naar:

 Daniël (voornaam), een jongensnaam

Bijbel
 Daniël (boek), een Bijbelboek
 Daniël (Hebreeuwse Bijbel), hoofdpersoon van het Bijbelboek Daniël
 Daniël (zoon van David); Koning Davids tweede zoon.
 Een man die met Ezra teruggekeerd is uit de ballingschap in Babel.

Ook
 Daniël (heilige), een Welshe bisschop en heilige
 Daniel (1971), een Nederlandse film uit 1971
 Daniel (1983), een Amerikaanse film uit 1983
 Daniel (nummer), een nummer van Elton John uit 1973
 Daniel (Utah), een plaats in de Verenigde Staten
 Daniel (Wyoming), een plaats in de Verenigde Staten
 Daniel (berg), een berg in Oostenrijk
 Daniel (raket), een Franse experimentele raket
 Fontaine-Daniel, een plaats in Frankrijk

 Jack Daniel's, een Amerikaans whiskeymerk
 Daniel Deronda, een roman uit 1876 van George Eliot

Maronitische patriarchen
 Daniel van Shamat was de 24ste patriarch van de Maronitische Kerk van 1230 tot 1239
 Daniel van Hadshit was de 27ste patriarch van de Maronitische Kerk van 1278 tot 1282

Personen met de achternaam Daniël of Daniel
 Antonius Daniel, Frans jezuïet en missionaris
 Brittany Daniel, Amerikaans actrice
 Joelij Markovitsj Daniël (pseudoniem: Nikolaj Arzjak), een Russisch schrijver en dichter
 Marcos Daniel, Braziliaans tennisser
 Thomas Daniel (1954), Amerikaans botanicus

Zie ook
 Daniels (doorverwijspagina)

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When was the last Bakat Muda Sezaman? As the seminal institution through which many young Malaysian artists made their mark in the contemporary art scene from the seventies to the nineties fade into what seemed like a distant past, the inaugural Malaysia Emerging Artist (MEA) Award, the prize-giving and opening ceremony held last Sunday, has come to take its place as a new competitive platform.
I'm not necessarily a fan of art competition. They are often conservative in taste and subjective in choice. Even the supposedly controversial Turner Prize winners are often late recognition, if anyone gets their modern and contemporary art history right. On the other hand, to me, the kind of media attention, spectacle and drama that surround an art award (the stuff that art purists would balk at) form the appealing recipe for creating the much needed buzz and encouragement to introduce new comers into the heady, treacherous yet occasionally rewarding art life.
Officiating the event was Dato' Seri Abdul Azim bin Mohd. Zabidi, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, National Art Gallery. He pointed out rightly that an event like this is what the National Art Gallery should be doing. By now, it is obvious what drives the Malaysian artworld is the private market forces that aren't weighed down by the bureaucracy and politics most government-based or government-linked cultural institutions in Malaysia face.
The MEA is shaped as an investment in the future of Malaysian artists by Galeri Chandan and House of MATAHATI (HOM) in collaboration with Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM). Somehow I wish this investment has less tangible economic goals, not that I'm slighting the increasingly robust and expanding art market we have locally. Debates (or complains) sometime back in ARTERI, around whether restricting the entries to two and three dimensional artworks severely limit the range of art forms, underlines the importance of recognising practices that are either process-based or non-object-based. After all, contemporary art is a nebulous phenomenon and art prizes with a serious goal towards recognising its future should acknowledge this. In this respect, Bakat Muda Sezaman should be commended for recognising this. Where else in nineties Malaysia could then emerging UiTM graduate Roslisham Ismail aka Ise Parkingproject stage his brave and challenging 3m x 3m x 3m performance/video documentation?
Perhaps more practical concerns come to mind. The Soka Gakkai hall has only that much space. In spite of the above, participating entries make a strong showing of the versatility and confidence of painters and sculptors in Malaysia, although knowing how artists work, the entries only began flooding in at the eleventh hour. Artists being, after all, artists.
The five winners are not hard to guess, they easily surpass the rest of the entries either by their technical/formal accomplishment or conceptual potential. Samsudin Wahab, Gan Chin Lee, Shaifuddin Mamat, Mohd Al-Khuzairie Ali, Mohd Bakir Baharom each take home a cash prize of RM 3,000, a trophy, RM 2,000 in vouchers for art supplies and a much coveted solo-exhibition. They also receive a travel grant to Southeast Asia art hub Yogyakarta where I'm sure a heady programme-packed kretek-filled tour of Indonesia's creative capital will create the much needed networking opportunities that have increasingly come to shape contemporary art dialogue and exchange in this region.
With a jury panel comprising of 16 art world professionals, I was a little dismayed that the catalogue did not include any judges report. The sort of weighty pronouncement, whether collective or individually written, would have account for the choices in winners. Not so much as a form of justification but more as a reflection of the process in which the selection was made. Besides, some drama could have been borne out of dissent. That nothing gets more attention than two judges quibbling over the winner of the Man Booker Prize (in the literary scene) is a clear indication of the potential cultural impact and interest art prizes can generate.
Be that as it may, the MEA Award is off to a good star. Let's hope the organising committee take the suggestions mentioned above into consideration. Viva la MEA!
This article was first posted on the original Arteri site on 14 October 2009.


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