(June 4, 2013) International visitors to Vietnam in May estimated 558,751 arrivals, increase 19.7% over the same period last year. Total international arrivals in 5 months reached 2,973,112, down 1.4% over the same period last year.
(June 3, 2013) Vietnam Investment Construction and Trading Joint Stock Corporation (Constrexim) on May 30 began the construction of its five-star Indochina International Hotel in the tourism town of Sa Pa, Lao Cai northern province.
(June 3, 2013) VietJetAir officially launched a new route on June 1 with seven flights per week between Hanoi and Bangkok. Flights will depart from Hanoi at 10.50 am and land in Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport at 12.40 pm. Return flights will take off at 13.45 pm and arrive in Noi Bai International Airport at 15.25 pm.
(June 3, 2013) An Bang beach in Hoi An and Bai Dai (Long Beach) in Phu Quoc were placed 86th and 93rd on the list of the 100 best beaches in the world, as announced recently by CNN Travel News.
(June 3, 2013) (TITC) - On 30th May 2013, in Ha Noi, Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) in collaboration with Viet Nam Tourism Association (VITA) and Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism (ESRT) Capacity Development Programme organized a conference on Viet Nam Tourism Promotion.


The following terms have been added to or are already in the Zoning Ordinance. The definitions provided paraphrase the actual language of the Ordinance.
This is a garage for your vehicle. It is considered "attached" if it has a common wall with your house or is connected to your house by a breezeway which is under 20 feet long. If your garage is not attached in this manner, is it considered to be "detached". This will be important when determining how large your storage structure may be. To determine how large your garage can be, see the following for what is allowed in your zoning district.
This is a building or structure not used for storage, but for recreational or hobby purposes such as a greenhouse or gazebo. No more than two (2) detached supplemental accessory building shall be permitted. The total floor of all supplemental accessory buildings combined shall not exceed three hundred (300) square feet.
Building height is how tall the building is measured from the ground to the roof. Different types of roofs require a different way to measure what the "top" is. For example: if a roof is flat, measure to the highest point of the roof surface, if a roof is a mansard roof, measure to the deck, if a roof is a gable, hip or gambrel roof, measure to halfway between the eaves and the ridges.
Where can my garage and other accessory structures be located?
Garages and accessory structures must be placed a certain distance from property lines and other structures. This distance is called a "setback" requirement. Attached garages and storage structures must meet the same setback requirements as those which apply to your house. Regulations for detached accessory structures vary based on the nature of the structure and the zoning district in which it is located.
What does my garage need to look like?
If you would like to construct a new garage, the design should "fit in" with your house. This means using the same or similar building materials and general type of construction.
The allowable floor area of an attached or detached residential garage shall not exceed fifty (50) percent of the total floor area (excluding basements) of the principal dwelling or nine hundred (900) square feet in the R-1A district and twelve hundred (1,200) square feet in the R-1B, R-1C and R-1R districts, whichever is greater.
In the case of a combination of an attached and detached garage, the total allowable square footage shall not exceed the amount set forth in section 5.03.1.b (2).
How big can my storage building be?
To calculate lot/parcel size: Multiply length of property by width of property to reach square footage or use Acreage amount. Click on Printable Forms and Permits for the worksheet specific to lot/parcel size.
Where can I put a deck?
Not be larger than the ground floor of your house.
Meet the same front and side yard "setback" requirements which apply to your house, but may encroach into the rear yard setback by 10 feet. The part that extends into the rear yard cannot be above the elevation of the first floor of your house, nor can there be any enclosed or covered structures in this portion.
Must meet the 25 foot natural feature setback requirement.
Where can I put a Swimming Pool?
Be located behind the front of your house.
What if I have Historic Structures or Outbuildings on my property?
The square footage of the historic structure will not be counted towards your maximum allowable square footage.
If you expand your existing historic structure, the square footage of the expansion will be counted towards the allowable square footage.


Collins Plastics manufacture a large range of shop front signs for customers all over Ireland from our base in Ballina, Co. Mayo. Most of our sign work is in trade but we also manufacture one off signs upon request.
We make signs using a variety of techniques including vinyl stickers and cut out letters, cut perspex and acrylic. We can make engraved and rastered signs, poster displays, light boxes and laser cut acrylic signs. Most of our sign work is done for sign manufacturers all over Ireland.


Why should you choose Birmingham AL apartments for rent? - Where Can You Find Apartments In Tallahassee FL?
Choosing Birmingham AL apartments for rent can be a pleasure due to many reasons. Birmingham, a city in the US state of Alabama, belongs to the Jefferson County where there is lots of focus on certain industries and aspects that make the city a truly beautiful place to live in.
This industry is so big here that the city name Birmingham was taken to represent the Birmingham area of England which is UK's most major industrial city. Here city steel mills, as well as blast furnaces, give lots of competitive advantages over other Midwest as well as Northeast areas.
When it comes to the Southeastern United States, Birmingham is one of the most important business centers. It also has great banking sectors in the whole of the USA where Fortune 500, Regions Financial, Fortune 1000 companies are just a few to name.
Mining used to be a primary livelihood for the people living in Alabama. There used to be different types of mining industries. This includes different areas, but coal mining is an exception because it is still very popular here. Therefore, this place is great for labor to work as well.
Looking at the different types of classes Birmingham can cater to, these apartments for rent are the best for people to live comfortably. The rent also makes it easier for them to have quality life side by side. Hence, they prove to be the best choice for accommodations in Birmingham.
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Al-Quds Al-Arabi () är en oberoende panarabisk dagstidning publicerad i London sedan 1989. Massmediet ägs av palestinska utflyttade, och leds av Abd al-Bari Atwan, som föddes i ett palestinskt flyktingläger i Gazaremsan år 1950. Dess motto är  ("daglig, politisk, oberoende"). Dess upplaga uppskattas till någonstans mellan 45 000 och 55 000.

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Dagstidningar startade 1989
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The Mars Agency Opts For Intelligent Notification As A Way To Keep Communication Open Throughout Complex Business Network
Global shopper-marketing agency chooses mass notification as tool for emergency communication.
SAN DIEGO (July 21, 2015)—MIR3, Inc., the innovator of real-time Intelligent Notification (IN™) and response technology, today announced that The Mars Agency, a leading shopper-marketing agency for over 40 years, has chosen Intelligent Notification as its emergency notification system throughout the agency network.
"The MIR3 Intelligent Notification system has provided us with a comprehensive and effective solution to manage emergency communication across our entire agency network when normal communication channels are not available," said Kathleen Curran, VP of Communications for The Mars Agency. "Overall, MIR3 and its products are a great fit for our agency's needs."
Curran says the product implementation was turnkey, the set-up and maintenance easy, and the solution scalable. The Mars Agency has already used the system in cases of inclement weather and power outages. Future plans including use of Intelligent Notification for event coordination and promotion, and to incorporate it further into routine emergency procedures such as fire drills, pandemic planning, etc.
"This kind of forward thinking is one reason the Mars Agency stands ahead of the competition," said Maz Ghorban, VP of corporate development for MIR3. "Having a reliable notification system in place is an important step in ensuring business continuity."
Intelligent Notification delivers important messages to any number of people in the case of business interruptions, threats or simply for day-to-day communication. Available as a hosted (SaaS), on-premise, or hybrid solution, Intelligent Notification is used for business continuity and disaster recovery, IT event management, weather alerts, emergency notification, and to enhance efficiency and productivity throughout the enterprise.
About MIR3
MIR3, Inc. is the leading developer of Intelligent Notification and response software, which helps organizations and companies enhance communication, protect assets, and increase operational efficiency. MIR3 technology provides a common communication platform that enables advanced rapid, two-way communication for IT, business continuity, and enterprise operations for many of the Global Fortune 100 companies, as well as government entities, universities and companies of all sizes in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit onsolve.com. Follow MIR3 on Twitter: @MIR3.
About The Mars Agency
The Mars Agency creates Unifying Ideas that drive profitable, sustainable growth for brands and retailers. Proudly independent and woman-owned for more than 42 years, this global shopper marketing agency is both respected and retained by Fortune 500 clients for its ability to build connective marketing solutions that are brand inspired, shopper focused and retail activated.

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Nestled into the heart of the Leeward group of the Society Island in French Polynesia is the small island of Bora Bora. Thousands of miles into the Pacific Ocean, Bora Bora is a land of rich cultural heritage and magnificent flora and fauna. It is a global tourist spots where thousands of tourists every year come to reside into the French Paradise that can unite their bodies and mind with spirituality.
Mouthwatering cuisine and exciting activities are big tourist draws in Bora Bora. Most of the activities are adrenaline driving adventures that make for an exhilarating week of fun, adventure and rejuvenation. Local handicrafts are attractive enough to lure tourists.
Food is always one of the primary attractions when you plan to visit a new place; it's often said that the real ethnicity and culture of place can be gauged through its dishes and culinary styles. The main food of Bora Bora Island is fish.
This island is excellent in local cuisine where French style dishes mend with the local source of delicious fish and juicy fruit. Bora Bora is one such place that is known for its extensive cuisines and sumptuous delicacies – be it for breakfast, lunch, snacks or dinner. You will never be in loss of experimental food out here.
This dish was first introduced in South East Asia which is prepared with fish and rice. In Bora Bora sushi is prepared with the fresh fish which has been directly brought from the ocean with local ingredients and sweet rice. Sushi is a fresh meal prepared with fresh fish catches in the island.
This is a famous French dishes which is prepared with Bora Bora's unique techniques. A foie gras is a mixture of seeped in purple egg plant with spices of a island is a wonderful twist on the customary dish.
This dish is best dish cooked with fresh pork and the slices with pineapple are the finest way to pamper your taste. It is a local famous dish of island which promises a fresh taste of the island.
It is usually prepared with vanilla sauce. The tourists of Bora Bora really enjoy this dish and appreciate them. The vanilla they used in this dish is grown in Bora Bora Island so we can see fresh vanilla dishes in this island. This dish is considered as best dish in Bora Bora.
It is an Island-grown orchid which produce vanilla distinct any other. It is prepared with fresh cream and sugar which is chilled with vanilla; this smooth dessert is a definite blaze after dinner enjoyment.
This purees known as po'e is the most popular dessert served on the island. The purees are usually baked, covered with sugar and coconut milk.
It is a national dish of French Polynesia. Poisson cru means a raw fish in French which tastes best. Firstly, the fish is lightly cooked in lemon juice and then it is mixed with fresh salad and bathed in coconut milk. Mostly the poisson cru is prepared with fresh tuna and also includes chicken, pork, sweet potatoes, bread fruit, rice, local fruits too.
It is a famous fruit pudding found in all restaurants. It is a traditional dish of the island. Originally the pudding was covered in banana leaves and then to be baked in the fire pit. This easy baked edition is easier in the current kitchen.
It includes royal seafood salad with lobster, tiger prawns and caviar, and seared ahi tuna with vanilla oil, potatoes and lemon juice, while entrees include mahi mahi in a banana curry crust with mashed sweet potatoes and mango sauce.
This dish is prepared with Tahitian fish for a real taste of French Polynesia. This dish includes island flavors like vanilla, curry or lime. It is the favorite dish of the tourists of bora bora.
Let us have a glance at top ten adventure-packed activities in Bora Bora that would surely leave you wanting for more.
Go inland. Visit the interior of the lagoon with a jeep touching three native villages and the remaining cannons from the World War II era. The whole safari package also includes a fruit tasting session and an informative tour into the pearl farm.
Witness the world below the turquoise waters of the Pacific Ocean with this fun adventure sports. A progressive hydraulic platform immerses the one manned scooter into the bottom of the lagoon with another experienced diver. This gives you the opportunity to look up to your kingdom as well as the surrounding one through a fish eye vision.
Take a submarine ride into the rich marine life and vibrant coral reefs under the beautiful Bora Bora lagoon. Turtles and moray eels are the biggest attraction and very rare to spot altogether. Other lives such as a stingray, lemon shark, damsel fish, etc. are also sighted.
A 2-hour long tour in your private boat will take you to untouched territory of pearls and coral gardens and even give you the opportunity to swim with the sharks and stingrays.
Imagine walking under the Pacific Ocean with nothing but a swimsuit and a helmet to breath. Find yourself surrounded by marine lives of all shapes and sizes. This 2 hour tour into the hearts of the lagoon gives you an insight into their territory of joy.
Wouldn't it be fun to witness the underwater world of Bora Bora without getting wet? Bora Bora Glass Bottom Tour also provides you with an opportunity that could sail you through the pages of history of this island nation.
It's fun? Check. It's adventurous? Check. It's scary? Double Check. Jet Ski adventure sport is everything you have ever wanted to do and even more. Race against time and watch the beautiful Bora Bora islands pass you by as you enjoy the cool waters of the lagoon.
Bring home fishes like jack, rainbow runner, needle fish, etc. from the calm waters of the lagoon. And what's more is that here; the fishes won't test your patience.
Get a bird's eye view of the whole island as you sail over the turquoise waters of the Pacific and realize that for whatever its worth, you have experienced it all.
Trained personnel will train you with the essentials of this session as well as equip you with all the safeties. But whatever it is, kite surfing is something that shouldn't be missed.


On Saturday, February 20 we invite you to join us at the American Legion Post, 3105 Campbell Rd. for a BBQ Ribs dinner with all the trimmings! The event begins at 6:30 p.m. You won't want to miss this fun event! Musical entertainment is provided by Danny Jones & friend. We'll also have great prizes at our silent and live auctions! Bring your friends and family! Tickets are on sale now. Price is $20 for adults, $10 for children under 12 years (free for 3 years old and younger). This fundraiser will provide seed money for our Charity Bazaar in the fall. Please call the church office at 713-462-5448 if you'd like to attend. The public is invited!


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Traffic: Lagosians embracing water transport, says LASG (Punch)
The Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) has said the gridlock being experienced in the state has made more Lagosians to embrace water transport. The General Manager, LASWA, Mr Damilola Emmanuel, stated this in Ikoyi on Thursday at the LASWA 10th anniversary and workshop for boat captains, with the theme, 'Building Capacity for a Safer Lagos Waterways.' Read more
Lagos fights drug abuse in schools (Punch)
The Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development said on Thursday that the fight against drug abuse has been taken to all government-owned primary and secondary schools in the state. It stated that other relevant stakeholders in the educational sector were also involved in the campaign to save youths of the state from drug menace. Read more
Nigerians react on Twitter as Kemi Adeosun (Punch)
Nigerians on Twitter have been reacting to the alleged resignation of the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun. While some applauded her action and called it a dignified step, considering her lingering National Youth Service Corps certificate scandal, others are calling for her arrest and a refund of the salaries she had been paid while in office. Read more
Your predictions are fake, psychological warfare – FG replies HSBC, Economists (Vanguard)
The Federal Government called the prediction by two British based institutions, HSBC and the Economists over the 2019 elections fake and a psychological warfare against the administration' anti-corruption policies. The Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed replied the two institutions on Friday in Lagos when he paid advocacy visit to Channels Television to drum up support for national campaign against fake news. Read more
Davido reacts as EFCC freezes 7 accounts belonging to Adeleke family (Independent)
Nigeria's multiple award-winning popstar, Davido, on Friday reacted on social media to reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) allegedly froze seven accounts belonging to members of his family, the Adelekes. Many say the EFFC purported freezing of the accounts is not unconnected with Senator Ademola Adeleke's bid to become the next Governor of Osun after the September 22 gubenatorial election. Read more
Okowa receives US Ambassador to Nigeria (Vanguard)
To ensure a peaceful and more progressive country, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has called on the international community to engage in the sponsorship of training programmes for Nigerian youths in the area of skill acquisition. Governor Okowa made the call yesterday when the Ambassador of the United States of America to Nigeria, Mr Stuart Symington paid him a courtesy visit in Asaba. Read more
Zimbabwe crowdfunds to tackle cholera (BBC)
Zimbabwe has launched a crowdfunding campaign to deal with an outbreak of cholera that has so far killed 25 people, mostly in the capital, Harare. New Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube sent an appeal on Twitter, sharing a mobile payment account number. Read more
Why Afghanistan is more dangerous than ever (BBC)
Huge death tolls that would once have made headlines are becoming commonplace in Afghanistan, as the Taliban and other militant groups flex their muscles daily against a US-backed military struggling to cope. There remains no clear end in sight for a war that has turned into a bloody stalemate, as the BBC World Service's Dawood Azami explains. Read more
US announce new N Korea sanctions (CNN)
The US announced new sanctions against North Korea Thursday, taking aim at a Chinese company, its North Korean CEO and its Russia-based sister company. The two information technology companies are actually North Korean-controlled entities, the Treasury Department said in a statement Tuesday that accused the Russia-based company Volasys Silver Star, China-based China Silver Star and its CEO Jong Song Hwa of violating US sanctions. Read more
Can health services handle the Apple Watch? (BBC)
When Apple announced two major new healthcare features this week, it billed them both as terrific innovations that may well keep us alive. Later this year, its Watch will be able to automatically call emergency services if it detects you have suffered a fall and are no longer moving. And it will also let you know if you have heart problems and should perhaps visit your doctor as soon as possible. Read more
Man arraigned for kidnapping three men (Nation)
A 26-year-old man, Solomon Ojo, was on Friday brought before an Ebute Meta Magistrates' Court in Lagos for allegedly kidnapping three men. Ojo appeared on a two-count charge of conspiracy and kidnapping. Read more
Friends in court for stealing car valued N2m (Nation)
Two friends, who allegedly stole a car valued at N2 million were on Friday charged before an Ikeja Magistrates' Court. The accused are Onyema Nwakwo, 32, and Ijeoma Onuwa, 27, both car wash men, who reside at Agege, a suburb of Lagos. Read more
Sarri wants Terry to return to Chelsea as coach (Punch)
Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri has opened the door for former captain John Terry to return to Stamford Bridge as part of his coaching staff. Terry left Stamford Bridge after 22 years' service in June 2017 for a season-long stint with Aston Villa and rejected a move to Spartak Moscow this week. Read more
West Ham co-owner wants to stop agents 'sucking' money from football (Punch)
The co-chairman West Ham, David Gold, has backed proposals to stop clubs spending millions on football agents. At a meeting of Premier League clubs on Thursday, a proposal was made to prevent the same agent representing both the club and the player in transfer deals and receiving a fee from each — a system known as dual representation. Read more
NYSC: Davido postpones US tour (Punch)
Ace Nigerian and award-winning singer, David Adeleke a.k.a. Davido has postponed his tour of the US to complete the mandatory National Youth Service Corps programme. The `Assurance' crooner took to his Instagram handle @Davidoofficial to announce that he had cancelled the latter part of his concert in the US to concentrate on serving his fatherland. Read more
Boxer shattered as he discovers he's not 14-year-old son's biological father (Punch)
A Ghanaian boxer, Emmanuel Tagoe, has discovered that he is not the biological father of his fourteen-year-old son. According to Yen Ghana, Tagoe, decided to do a DNA test, when he suspected his baby mama and her family of conspiring to blackmail him. Read more
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Killings rising because Buhari thinks he knows everything — PDP (Punch)
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I didn't know most of my ministers in 2015 – Buhari (Guardian)


Is In Vitro Fertilization Abroad Safe? Where to go for Treatment?
Due to the growing issue of infertility, In Vitro Fertilization has become more significant over last decades. It developed into increasingly popular way of treating couples' inability to procreate. Because of the boost in demand the patients expect more convenient and comprehensive therapy and do not want to face any limitations or difficulties. Also the price plays a role in decision-making and that is why the infertile couples are willing to travel to even a distant location in order to get the best and most suitable healthcare tailored for their specific needs. Along with the development of medical tourism more and more patients ask themselves whether it is safe to get IVF abroad and how to make sure they make the best decision.
In Vitro Fertilization is the most universal and effective and therefore the most popular method of assisting reproduction and solving infertility problems. Thanks to the fact that it involves combining the female and male reproductive cells and developing embryos in laboratory conditions allows to bypass all of the major infertility factors. That is why both patients are interested in the access to the treatment and the clinic offer more and more complex treatment options. Today In Vitro Fertilization is available in most of the bigger towns and cities in almost every place in the world. Most couples have the access to it in their area, not mentioning number of treatment possibilities within their country. However, the proximity of the fertility centre is not always the most important incentive for choosing particular place.
First and the most important factor taken into consideration is the safety of the procedure. Patients need to know that the contact they found is reliable, the clinic is of high reputation and that they will not be somehow mislead. Also they seek the verified facilities of the highest standards that would not fear to trust with their health, time and money. Also other factors are important to patients choosing IVF clinic. For both financial and effectiveness-related reasons patients usually look for the clinic of not only good reputation but also high success rates, high standards of care and affordable prices. All of those factors combined are far more likely to be found in other countries. You do not need to choose between safety and good price or between high standard and cost-effectiveness of a cycle. Best clinics in many countries offer top-quality care highest safety standards with competitive costs of treatment as well as high efficacy. That is why at the decision stage it is crucial not to limit oneself about possibility of other country as potential localisation of infertility treatment.
Deciding on a country for In Vitro Fertilization patients should consider all available options. The choice is very broad and include many popular destinations that offer not only best care and procedures but also great conditions of accommodation, transportation and multiple ways of spending leisure time between tests and treatment. It is a wonderful way of spending a free time to travel and at the same time prepare for a parenthood but also it is a great opportunity to use some recreation and relaxation during the infertility treatment which can influence in a positive way the possible outcome of the whole treatment. The most popular destinations are Spain, Greece, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine or Cyprus, offering different landscapes and top-quality of treatment.
Choosing carefully the clinic in which we would like to undergo the infertility treatment is a very important process. We need to make sure that our facility of choice is the best available, offers effective IVF procedures with different treatment options such as egg donation or cryopreservation, have the best clinicians and at the same time offers low expenses. The example of such facility are number one centres in Poland – INVICTA Fertility Clinics in which the cutting-edge technologies and best-qualified staff are combined with the most affordable prices, few times lower than in western European countries.


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Seven movies is a lot.
That's like four more than most series usually get.
That's like thirteen to fourteen hours of movies.
That's like Police Academy territory.
And really the only thing most people remember about Police Academy is that there were too many of them.
The difference with The Fast and the Furious is that the first three are mostly separate pieces — boots and reboots of a core concept that basically reads, "this is a movie about cars." The first Fast and Furious was about street racing at its most bloated, decaled, body-modded, and giant-spoiler-winged, where all the drivers had to do was press a steering-wheel-mounted button for a Mario-Kart-mushroom-esque speed boost. The second was a tossed-together monstrosity and is, in all the ways that matter, a perfect embodiment of how and why sequels don't work. The third, Tokyo Drift, was theatrically released despite its predecessor's scorched-earth-level deficiencies, and was a resetting of location and character types away from America and towards one of the most popularly misconstrued cultures in the world. Technically, there still hasn't been even one actor who's appeared in every installment, and it's not until the fourth, simply titled Fast & Furious, that we actually officially caught up with the fully assembled crew that started it all (minus Leon, 'cause who knows what happened to that guy, and Jesse, 'cause he dead, bro).
It wasn't until Fast Five that we completed a trilogy in the sense of attempting closure for the characters that introduced us to this world. Paul Walker's Brian O'Conner went from undercover cop to actual street racer to FBI agent to on-the-run fugitive to pardoned anti-hero; Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto went from thieving, scofflaw, king of the streets to hardened criminal to international criminal to pardoned anti-hero (in the same deal as Brian's); Letty went from beleaguered girlfriend/sidekick to believed dead to amnesiac mercenary; and everyone else did something that revolved around Brian or Dom in some way or another.
We are very good friends, good buddies sharing a special moment, laughing and enjoying our friendship, and someday we'll look back on this with much fondness.
By that measure, it's not until Fast Six that we entered into overt excess, and luckily by that point the series had managed to find greater success as a straight-ahead action movie that happened to feature cars for a lot of the stunts. Through that lens, what we have with the sixth and now seventh is more of a different series that happens to star familiar characters, only this time most of anything that could be called an arc has largely been resolved and now the producers are just grasping at story straws as an excuse to continue with a franchise that's made more money in its sixth installment than it did in its first three combined.
You can call the Fast and Furious series good or bad, even if a more accurate label would probably be unnecessary or opportunistic. Honestly, one of the main reasons it's experienced popularity as widespread as it has is precisely because it's so stupid, but like it or not, it did help to give birth to the car cultures and action cultures and bro cultures of the early 21st century thus far. The latter may be bad, but the former two are far from the worst things I've ever seen.
But I have seen a lot.
The year 2001 was a strange time to be alive, probably because it was basically like today, only computers were mostly desktops, there was no Wi-Fi, and we couldn't look everything up on our smartphones, so when Paul Walker showed up on screen in an impressive-looking green car running at seemingly high speeds, we couldn't easily find out that he was just driving a Mitsubishi Eclipse, at least not right away.
The watch word for the very first entry in the series was street racing, and it's a world that's taken entirely too seriously in a movie that now feels like it could only exist in a pre-Internet-proliferated society — you just kind of had to not know anything about cars to get any real enjoyment out of the movie. Floor pans came flying off cars just because they were driving too fast. "Granny shifting, not double clutching like you should." People still drove Civic del Sols.
The Fast and the Furious introduces us to Paul Walker's Brian, an undercover cop trying to determine which group of L.A.-based street racers is responsible for highjacking semi-trucks throughout California. Infiltrating Dominic Toretto's group, Brian finds they are less a gang and more a family after ingratiating himself to Dom and dating his sister Mia, and soon finds himself conflicted as he discovers mounting evidence implicating Dom in the highjackings.
If I'm being honest, the movie had a huge influence on me as a teenager; I had only spent a small portion of my childhood obsessed with cars, and it had been a long time since I had given them much thought, especially since I felt so far away from owning a car of my own. I first watched the Fast and the Furious in theatres and would go on to buy it on DVD on its first day of release, watching it more obsessively than I should have while harbouring dreams of cold air intakes, ground effects, and giant spoilers. Later I picked up a JDM legend of my own after a year of driving an '86 Dodge Caravan and then an '89 Mazda MPV (at least the Mazda had air conditioning), but soon enough things like home theatre equipment and going out and not living with my parents would start to eat up the balance of my cash, and my ambitions of modifying that car fell by the way side, as had any thoughts of The Fast and the Furious. Having watched it again recently, it totally doesn't hold up.
Go speed racer, go!
It's a self-serious, clichéd piece that lacks essential depth and isn't aware of how ridiculous it looks. I think a friend of mine put it best when he said it's basically Point Break, only with cars and worse. It's a dumb movie, but one with just enough heart and soul and hopes and dreams to spark a franchise.
The Fast and the Furious final score: 6
Best Car: Dom's Dodge Charger R/T
Worst Car: Vince's Nissan Maxima
Dom: "You can have any brew you want." As long as it's the bottle of Corona Vince was just drinking from, because that's not gross.
Oh for the days when a truck full of VCRs, mini TVs, and camcorders were considered a money load. Nowadays, not only would they be impossible to fence, you would have to pay someone else just to haul all that junk away.
To this day I still think Michelle Rodriguez knocking out Johnny Tran's cousin is one of the best on-screen punches I've ever seen, regardless of gender.
"I miss Ja Rule," said nobody.
If I was speaking these words out loud and you could hear the tone in my voice as I write this, you could probably tell how little I want to talk about 2 Fast 2 Furious. I'd considered skipping it altogether as that would've sent a strong message about how I feel about it, but ultimately that would've been kind of a cheat, and I hate cheaters (except when I cheat, because then it's justified, as are all the things I do [and have done]).
Taking place after Brian let Dom go in the first (because bros before PoPos), Brian has become nothing more than a dirty, filthy, no good, rotten street racer. Picked up by the Miami police for street racing, Brian's former boss offers him the chance to have his record wiped clean if he agrees to go undercover to infiltrate the operations of ruthless importer/exporter/drug lord, Carter Verone. Offering the same deal to former friend and ex-con Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) and enlisting the help of mechanic Tej Parker (Ludacris), Brian and Roman become Verone's wheelmen, assisted by Verone's girlfriend Monica (Eva Mendes), another mole in Verone's organization. That guy was not a good judge of character.
No matter how little you may think of the original Fast and the Furious, you should've been able to detect that there was a little bit more to the movie than its superficial, uninformed waster appearance might suggest. There's a feeling you'll sometimes get, no matter how a movie looks or ultimately turns out, when something of substance forms. The Fast and the Furious may not be a great movie, particularly in retrospect, but it is a movie with substance, even if it's overblown and underdeveloped.
In sharp contrast, 2 Fast 2 Furious feels calculated, disingenuous, and not something anyone wanted to make for any other reason than to make money. It's a movie that's just as silly and excessive and ultimately cynical as its title. You can tell something is wrong from the very first race, as we're taken through a world designed to emulate and then trump the excesses of its predecessor without the ambition or design or ability to say anything new or meaningful or necessary. That first race presents us with two heroes, Brian and Suki, and two villains, Orange Julius and Slap Jack (wtf?), each with their own self-contained mini races within the larger race in a shallow attempt to let both heroes win. There is no prize for second place, Suki.
Y'never had me! Y'never had your car!
Beyond introducing us to Roman and Tej, the legacy of 2 Fast 2 Furious lies mostly in temporarily derailing the franchise, and the only joy I've ever derived from its existence is applying the same naming convention to its successors, as in the upcoming 7 Fast 7 Furious.
2 Fast 2 Furious final score: 4
Best Car: Brian's Yenko Camaro
Worst Car: Suki's Honda S2000
Suki: "Smack that ass!" And then she ruins her car and doesn't win any of the money.
Why in the hell is Brian wearing khaki pants with All-Stars? And then he switches to board shorts and a West Coast Choppers tee? What a fool.
"I miss Devon Aoki," said nobody.
I think there's a strong argument to be made that Tokyo Drift is the first in the Fast and Furious franchise's steps towards becoming a modern movie series. Looking back, as I just have, the first two feel like separate pieces, relics of a pre-information age, whereas Tokyo Drift feels a lot more like a movie that could come out today. Technically, and until the release of Furious 7, Tokyo Drift was also chronologically the last in the series since every movie that followed it kept pushing back the significant events of this movie in order to include Sung Kang's Han Seoul-Oh.
When high-school student Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), a brand new character to the series, finds himself in car-related trouble, he's forced to move in with his to-that-point absent military father, uprooting him (and the series) from America to Japan. Where he gets into more car-related trouble.
Sean's fish-out-of-water story presents us with all the usual Karate Kid conventions, including lovable best friend Twinkie (Bow Wow), hard-to-identify background friends, D.K., bad guy representative of a greater evil empire, and beautiful, unthreatening girlfriend material, Neela, but of all of the principals, it's really Han as Sean's benefactor and mentor that injects the movie with anything meaningful. By this point in the series chronology, he's clearly a hardened man, and it's interesting to see how his current life's philosophies are informed by what he will go through in the chronologically earlier Fast and Furious movies that would follow.
Of all of the Fast and Furious races, I like Tokyo Drift's Monte Carlo-Viper in the housing development race the most simply because it looked more real than anything else in the series and, therefore, had more visceral impact. I also prefer this movie's drifting to most of the other races in general as it comes across as more nuanced and better choreographed than most anything else in the Fast and Furious repertoire of over-the-top, computer-generated, non-believable mayhem.
There goes D.K.'s sidekick.
-Did he die?
What am I, a doctor?
Overall, and especially to this point in the series, Tokyo Drift is the Fast and Furious with the strongest sense of soul. There's just something a little more delicate and considered about it, but it's also really hit or miss with fans and many people's' second least favourite (because everyone hates 2 Fast). At the least, it does beg the question of why these mid-20's gangster-types spend so much time with high school students, and it does boil down to little more than two dudes had a fight about a girl, but I still think it's one of the best in the series.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift final score: 7.5
Best Car: Han's Veilside RX-7
Worst Car: Sean's Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII (for crimes against grip driving)
Home Improvement kid's girlfriend: "Guess I got a new date for prom."
What a slut.
"Videotaping this destructive, illegal race was the best idea we've ever had!"
I don't have a lot to say about Lucas Black's accent… but man, that accent.
What in the f*ck was Sean supposed to learn in a school that doesn't speak his language? Lucky for our main character Japan is full of people who not only speak English, but apparently prefer speaking it to their native language.
Sean: "You're, like, the Justin Timberlake of Japan, right?"
An S15 isn't too many people's favourite, but watching Sean smash up that car is still really painful.
Despite the American film industry's indifference toward accurate Asian casting, the producers still somehow managed to cast one main character who is actually Japanese and actually able to speak Japanese.
"I miss Bow Wow," said nobody.
Finally, the series returned to its roots, reuniting the original cast in a story that made many of us wonder why this didn't happen sooner and what the hell the producers were thinking with the last two. As shallow as the series may have been, the first three Fast and Furious movies at least hinted at a continuing narrative between installments, and somehow it wasn't until the fourth in the series that we would see a true sequel to the first. This time around, our heroes are caught in a tale of revenge, with Dom returning to America after the death of Michelle Rodriguez's Letty, and Brian, now an FBI agent, hunting down those responsible.
I remember expecting to like this one a lot more and coming away not so much disappointed as bored. After eight years apart, it was nice to see Brian, Dom, Mia, and Letty back together. Okay, maybe not so much Mia and Letty, because neither got to do enough in the original for anyone to care about them, but it was satisfying to at least get Paul Walker and Vin Diesel back together, and for the first half of the movie everything was about as good as it should've been. Brian and Dom put together their own investigations into Letty's death and built cars reflective of their personalities, and luckily by 2009, the world had been distilled down to a more tasteful vision of car styling, sans decals and neon lighting, and a more balanced view of Japanese, American, and European autos.
Too bad nothing else worked.
At this point, The Fast and the Furious had never been known for its bad guys, and by the time we got to John Ortiz's Braga, we had the vision of a man who might be better suited playing a stressed-out, put-upon husband suffering anxiety attacks rather than the surreptitious leader of a drug empire. It's not that Ortiz doesn't do a decent job with the material and it's not that his enforcers don't seem threatening, it's just the fact that an actor like John Ortiz just seems too friendly and likable and normal. He's just a little miscast as Braga, and it wouldn't matter if he were bigger or younger, he just looks like he wouldn't hurt a fly. And, at his size, maybe couldn't.
Setting the story against the backdrop of Letty's murder helps propel the movie foward, and the fact that Letty was actually working with the FBI in an attempt to clear Dom adds a depth to the story that I could at least appreciate, but once you get past Dom and Brian's first race, we're not left with much. The biggest problem with Fast & Furious is that so much of the action takes place in the dark tunnels that formed the infrastructure of Braga's cross-border drug network. The action wasn't too hard to follow, I just wasn't looking for muted tones and poor lighting in my chase scenes. The last fifteen minutes of the movie really drag, and what we're told is a suicide mission for Brian and Dom as they attempt to capture Braga turns out to be the two of them just sneaking up on him when he's alone, then running away with him. Sure, that's followed by another dark tunnel chase, but that sequence isn't tense so much as it's… another boring dark tunnel chase. Finally, it was also disappointing to see how little the writers did in establishing the Dom and Han relationship hinted at in Tokyo Drift.
Just get out of here, Han, before I have to have a real conversation with you.
I think Fast & Furious is the chapter in the series where the producers realized that the foundation they'd set with its predecessors wasn't enough to sustain a series. It does contain my favourite stunt in the series, when Dom slipped his Grand National underneath the exploding gas tanker that was barreling towards himself and Letty in the movie's opening, but we'd have to wait for the next movies before we'd get anything else that would match that level of action. Fast & Furious is just really unsatisfying, and it's the chapter in the series that started the Star Trek-esque odds and evens theory of the series where the odds are the good ones.
I would probably agree with that theory more if the first held up better.
Fast & Furious final score: 6.5
Best Car: Mia's Acura NSX
Worst Car: Unnamed driver's Nissan Silvia
Brian: "Letty was my friend, too."
I don't think Brian and Letty said one thing to each other in the entire first movie. And they definitely didn't have any scenes together in this one.
Weird that the guys playing Braga and Agent Stasiak both ended up in Silver Linings Playbook.
Where the preceding four installments helped form the spine of the Fast and Furious fandom, Fast Five is really the chapter that broke the series open to the masses. Up until this point, every element of the Fast and Furious movies revolved around street racing as the core, and that was starting to become the series' albatross as it made the movies and the entire series easy to ignore for a lot of people. Rather than follow the same formula, the Fast Five producers wisely made street racing just another orbiting piece around the core elements of action and family, and we had what's probably the best Fast and Furious movie of all time.
Dom, Brian, and Mia have escaped to Rio de Janeiro after breaking Dominic out of his prison sentence in a dramatic daytime breakout that, by the looks of it, must've killed at least a few of the other people on that bus. Desperate for cash, the three take a job from former friend Vince (from the first one!) to steal cars from a moving train car only to be double crossed by their employer, Brazilian crime lord Herman Reyes, after they learn the nature of what they were stealing. Now implicated in the murder of the DEA agents that were killed while guarding the seized cars, the three find themselves on the run from US D.S.S. Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) and in direct opposition of Reyes. Assembling a team made up of everyone even mildly useful still left in the Fast and Furious universe in what would be a crazy "What If…?"-type scenario if any of them were bigger stars on stronger career paths, the now expanded Toretto clan hatch a plan to take down Reyes' empire and steal his $100,000,000 fortune.
Consistent with its immediate predecessor, Fast Five starts out relatively heavy handed with our heroes on their lowest ebb, establishing a bit of a downer atmosphere before busting the whole thing wide open. It almost feels like two different movies, the first act dealing with both the literal and tonal left overs of the world our heroes were leaving behind, allowing the rest of the movie to become something different and better. Where the action in the Fast and the Furious could verge on the unbelievable, the first signs of the shift towards balls-out absurdity showed up in the first major action set piece. Brian and Dom had been tough characters before, but in Fast Five they became nearly invincible heroes, jumping from high-speed trains and defeating anyone in their path on their way to a bone-breakingly high desert chasm drop with nothing more than a fun story to tell their grandchildren. These were no longer the boys who once struggled to help their friend Vince off the trailer truck he'd become tethered to, they'd become the type of men who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn, and it's right when they start naming team members for their heist plsn that you should start getting a huge grin on your fence and start going "Whaaaaaat?"
Dom must've brought a couple of phone books to stand on top of for this scene.
With Tokyo Drift's Han as team chameleon, 2 Fast 2 Furious' Tej and Roman as tech support and team fast talker respectively, and Fast and Furious' Giselle as utilities and weapons expert and those two weird Spanish guys for demolitions, honestly the movie strains more than a little bit trying to justify everyone's inclusion, but that's the fun of the whole thing. Fast Five isn't significantly more than "Let's get everyone and hope it all hangs together… also, the Rock," and luckily it does hang together. Fast Five is widely considered the best in the series, and while that can be individually disputed, it's certainly the most fun and action packed. Importantly, it also doesn't lose sight of its car roots, only trading in the quaint notion of rebuilt Civics and Paseos for world-class cars like a GT3 RS, two (!) Koenigseggs, and even cultural rarities like a De Tomaso Pantera.
I still have a tough time with the ending and believing that two Chargers could haul a giant money vault all over Rio, even with all the NOS in the world, and I refuse to believe that the team's actions didn't lead to a massive amount of innocent civilian casualties. With the way they destroy the city in that scene, it also seems like they did so much damage that even if they gave the $100 million they stole back to the city it wouldn't be enough to cover the cost of repairs. And of course they didn't give the money back.
On the other hand, the one that counts, Fast Five is just a really fun movie, one that transcends logic and reason. It feels like the reward we, the audience, and they, the actors, have earned after so many more serious installments, none of which were ever really that good. If you can buy into the series' expansion as a balls-out action franchise, you can smell what the Rock is cooking, and you just want to have fun with an engaging movie that doesn't insult you with incomprehensible camera movements and tone-deaf storytelling, I can't imagine you not liking Fast Five.
Fast Five final score: 8.5
Best Car: Mia's Ford GT40
Worst Car: The gang's Subaru WRX STI (again, for crimes against grip driving)
How hot did Mia look behind the wheel of that NSX? And those bangs!
Roman: "Eleven million? Sounds like a whole lotta vaginal activity to me."
Is Hobbs' entire team sponsored by Under Armor or something?
I know the big fight was Dom and Hobbs, but they still should've found a more intimidating enforcer for Reyes than Zizi.
I wish they had done either more or less with Elsa Pataky's character. She had an arc, but not one that was well served as is, and her continued inclusion, paired up with Dom, just leaves us with a messy obstacle later on when they needed to write her out. And they knew they were bringing back Letty anyways, so that's an obstacle that could've been avoided.
It's with Fast Five that the Fast and Furious series became a world-beating juggernaut of a movie franchise, as evidenced by its box office take, and it's also the movie that finally allowed the characters and concepts to really start creeping their way into our hearts. If the series had simply ended with Fast & Furious, we'd probably only have a forgettable series of movies notable only for glorifying immature boy racers, but Fast Five was the one that allowed us all to love these characters and this world. Fast Five was so fun and so ridiculous and such a departure from the series' once self-serious storytelling that suddenly it was okay to like the world of The Fast and the Furious. Even if it defined the shut-your-brain-off-and-watch movie-going experience, it was good enough and strong enough and earnest enough to gain loyal followers. Fast Five set a high bar for the series, and Fast & Furious 6 had a lot to live up to.
In the wake of their successful Rio heist, our heroes have settled into lives of comfort and privilege, but when Agent Hobbs discovers that Dom's former accomplice and love interest Letty may still be alive and working with former British Special Forces officer Owen Shaw and his evil, twisted, mirror-image team in various bits of car-related evil-doing, he enlists the help of Dominic Torreto and his crew to take down Shaw and get Letty back.
The thing I most appreciate with Fast & Furious 6 is that it involves and resolves plot threads that have been established all throughout the series' history, with Letty's mysterious return, Brian's time with the FBI, Braga's ongoing involvement, and Han's ultimate fate. The movie proceeds through all of these points without allowing them to weigh it down, and it's a testament to the writers that most of it comes across organically (if not necessarily or realistically). At least compared to the writing in the rest of the series.
For me, Fast & Furious 6 started off on the wrong foot with its incredibly clichéd "you're gonna be a great dad or I'll kill you" dialogue between Dom and Brian, and it's such an eye-rolling moment that I almost couldn't get over it. More objectively, I'm fine with and even enjoyed most of the rest of the movie, particularly Dom's teams initial confrontation with Shaw's team and the bridge tank scenes (though the latter stretches into incredulity without as much of a payoff as Fast Five's… overall incredulity). The movie slows down a bit too much in the middle and the characters just don't seem in their element following clues and investigating Shaw, and, really, a paramilitary strike force should probably kick the sh*t out of a street racing gang. To be honest, I also kind of lost the plot immediately because it's too intricate for what I was looking for in a Fast and Furious movie (I still don't remember what that computer chip does, and I just watched the movie again). But I'm still okay with all of that.
So there are hot girls in Britain. I knew it!
What really kills the movie is that final set piece on the world's longest runway. It just doesn't hang together or make any sense, and it's not even that visually striking until we see the cars speeding ahead of the burning plane. It's also ridiculous with who lives and who dies, fulfilling the series continuity by writing Gal Gadot's Giselle out, essentially having her disappear into the darkness because it would be too hard for audiences to watch such a pretty lady smashed into the ground, but allowing Dom to live through one of the most certain-looking deaths in the series (after surviving the other most certain-looking death on the bridge).
If you've accepted what these movies are about and stuck by the series this long, however, none of that matters so much that you wouldn't want to see Fast & Furious 6, and Shaw's group, particularly with the flip car really was a pretty cool and credible threat to our group. The movie solidified the Rock's Agent Hobbs as a member of Dom's extended family and it's still pretty good up until the runway scene, just not as good as Fast Five.
Fast & Furious 6 final score: 7
Best Car: Brian's Ford Escort
Worst Car: Roman's Ford Mustang (Mustangs suck, period)
Letty: "Klaus, aren't you team muscle? Don't make me go over there and make you team pussy."
Y'know what's not very good for breaking a fall propelled by a car moving at high speeds? Another car.
Oh yeah, Gina Carano was in this. Yeah, she sucks.
So did they tell Luke Evans to do his best Jason Statham impression or did that just happen naturally?
Look, I'm not saying that the Fast and Furious series has been a great series, that it doesn't fall apart the more you think about it, that it's not shallow and deliberately immature, or that it's a diverget beacon of hope in an otherwise bleak movie landscape of sequels and remakes. I don't think anyone's trying to make those arguments. In fact, other than a couple of installments, it's not even that good or even that notable, and its finer points are pretty lazily written. It is not, however, a lazy series. It's full of inspired action choreography, a surprising amount of practical effects, ipeople who love what they're doing and are proud of the work they're putting out, and it's just got a lot of heart. It's not hateful or cynical or spiteful of its audience the way other, more egregious (but still highly profitable) recent action series have been, and it's a series that rewards its fans with a message that's heartwarming and hopeful and ultimately appreciative of the chances its been given.
It's a series that lives its life a quarter-mile at a time, and four those two hours or less, it lets its fans be free.
And the next one has Kurt Russell, and g*ddamnit, that's exciting.
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Back in The Game: International Humanitarian Law-Making by States
Berkeley Journal of International Law (BJIL), Forthcoming
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 19-03
64 Pages Posted: 14 Dec 2018 Last revised: 17 Mar 2020
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Yahli Shereshevsky
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Date Written: December 6, 2018
This article is the first to identify and analyze the recent tendency of states to use unilateral, non-binding, lawmaking initiatives in the context of international humanitarian law (IHL), also known as the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC). While there was minimal direct state involvement in IHL-making initiatives in the first decade of the 21st century, in recent years states have taken an active part in IHL making. This article analyzes the policies of two states that stand in the middle of this debate – the U.S. and Israel – to provide a detailed account of contemporary state-led IHL-making. It argues that these new initiatives are an attempt by states to regain their influence over IHL from non-state actors. This suggests three broad implications for international lawmaking. First, unilateral lawmaking documents might be adopted more often as an alternative to traditional lawmaking and soft law initiatives when contracting costs are high. Second, the new lawmaking initiatives tend to adopt non-state actors' strategies to influence the debate, as an expression of states' internalization of the horizontal nature of contemporary international lawmaking. Third, states often cooperate with non-state actors that share their interpretive positions in the international lawmaking process.
Keywords: international lawmaking, IHL, LOAC, non-state actors, cyber
Shereshevsky, Yahli, Back in The Game: International Humanitarian Law-Making by States (December 6, 2018). Berkeley Journal of International Law (BJIL), Forthcoming, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 19-03, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3296997
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Q: Pass ArrayList from one activity to another activity on android I've stored ArrayList<Double> on my bean class,
I've the bean class on my main activity,
How to pass the ArrayList<Double> ,from my main activity to another activity.?
My array list is double.  how to pass double arraylist ?

A: This one helps you...
public Intent putParcelableArrayListExtra (String name, ArrayList<? extends Parcelable> value)

For more info look at putParcelableArrayListExtra
EDIT:
If you have a double[] then you can use
void putDoubleArray(String key, double[] value) of Bundle class..
Inserts a double array value into the mapping of this Bundle, replacing any existing value for the given key.
And pass this bundle to Intent to Other Activity.
Update:2
FirstActivity:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, OtherActivity.class);
ArrayList<Double> listDouble = new ArrayList<Double>();
listDouble.add(1111.00000);
listDouble.add(13331.00000);
intent.putExtra("arraylist", listDouble);
startActivity(intent);

OtherActivity: (Retrieve Double ArrayList)
ArrayList<Double> listDouble = (ArrayList<Double>) getIntent().getSerializableExtra("arraylist");
System.out.println("...serialized data.." + listDouble);

A: Refer below method to pass data from one activity to other
Eg 1
putIntegerArrayListExtra(String name, ArrayList<Integer> value)
putParcelableArrayListExtra(String name, ArrayList<? extends Parcelable> value)
putStringArrayListExtra(String name, ArrayList<String> value)
putCharSequenceArrayListExtra(String name, ArrayList<CharSequence> value)

Then you can read from you next activity by replacing put with get with key string as argument,eg
myIntent.getStringArrayListExtra("array");

Eg 2
Intent i = new Intent(this,name.class);
Bundle b = new Bundle();
b.putIntegerArrayListExtra(String name, ArrayList<Integer> value);
//b.putParcelableArrayListExtra(String name, ArrayList<? extends Parcelable> value);
//b.putStringArrayListExtra(String name, ArrayList<String> value);
i.putExtra(String name,b);
startActivity(i);

A: You should consider passing parameters to an other activity though Intent Extras :
Intent.putExtra()

A: This code will demonstrate that how to pass a double array object  to other activity  through inent
String [] my_dblArray=new Sting[no];
   //put some value in the array and then pass through intent
Intent intnt=new Intent(this,YourReqActivity.class);
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putDoubleArray("doubleVal",my_dblArray);
intnt.putExtra(bundle);
startActivity(intnt);

// At Receiver side put this line of code.
 String [] dblval=Bndl.getDoubleArray("doubleVal");

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Q: Issue with kendo datepicker in Spring MVC I have a form for adding students. For the date of birth i want to use kendo ui datepicker, but i don't know how the controller is making the binding with the model. If the name attribute of the date picker matches the class element, then i get the following error: The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect.  If the name attribute of the date picker is different, then on save button clicked the student is inserted into the database, but with the field date of birth being null.
Below is the content of the jsp file, the controller and the Student class.
What i am doing wrong?
jsp file

Add student

<form:form commandName="addForm" method="post">

        First name <input
            class="input k-popup k-list-container k-group k-reset" type="text"
            name="firstName" />

        Last name <input
            class="input k-popup k-list-container k-group k-reset" type="text"
            name="lastName" />

        Date of birth
        <kendo:datePicker name="dateOfBirth"></kendo:datePicker> //name attribute

        Cancel
        <input class="k-button" type="submit" name="add" value="Save">

    </form:form>

Controller
@RequestMapping(value = "/menu/addStudent", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String addStudent(@ModelAttribute("addForm") Student model) {

    logger.debug("Received request in add student post");

    // insert in database
    StudentDatabaseAccess.addNewStudent(model);

    return "redirect:students";
}

Student
public class Student {
    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;
    private Date dateOfBirth;
    //getters and setters
}

A: You can try adding a DateTimeFormat annotation on the dateOfBirth field
public class Student {
    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;

    @DateTimeFormat(pattern = "yyyy/MM/dd")
    private Date dateOfBirth;

    //getters and setters
}

This will tell spring how to convert the data from Date to String and from String to Date.
Make sure the pattern you set in the annotation is the same as the one you probably set on the kendo datepicker field in javascript.


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Denny Lee Brandon
August 29, 1947 ~ November 11, 2018 (age 71)
Denny Lee Brandon age 71, formerly of Mt. Vernon, IL passed from this life and went to his reward by the grace of Jesus, Sunday, November 11, 2018 after a brief illness at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, TN.
He was born August 29, 1947 in Tuscola, Illinois and preceded in death by his parents, Max and Betty (Dyar) Brandon. On April 14, 1968 Denny Lee Brandon married Marilyn (Fenton) Brandon in Sims, IL and they were blessed with 50 years of marriage together.
He is survived by his wife Marilyn (Fenton) Brandon, by one son, Aaron Brandon of Wilmington, Ohio, by two grandgirls, Chloe Williams and Miranda Thrasher, and by two brothers and their wives, Darrel (Sandy Fishel) Brandon of Minier, Illinois, and Don (Deanne Fiensy) Brandon of Johnson City, Tennessee, and by one sister and her husband, Debbie (Mike) Kilgallin of Ferryville, Wisconsin, and by a foster sister and her husband, Maurine (Harvey) Collett of East Peoria, by loved ones, Cindi Williams, Trevor Thrasher, brother-in-law Ken (Linda) Fenton, and by sister-in-law, Evelyn Fenton Bond, as well as by 13 nieces and nephews and many other relatives and countless friends.
The life of Denny Brandon was unique and very full. He graduated from Eastern Illinois University with an Education degree in English and history, along with minors in Russian, economics, political science, and geography. He also received his master's degree in English literature. He taught high school English for 7 years. In 1992 Denny received an additional master's degree in business administration from Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1980, a new career was begun in management with 3M Corporation, first in Cincinnati, and later in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work sent him to many corners of the globe and almost every continent in the world.
He and Marilyn retired in 2007 and became a vibrant part of the Tellico Village community near Loudon, Tennessee, as well as taking an active role with the Community Church of Tellico Village, their Men's Bible Class, and by being a facilitator with Kairos Prison Ministry where Denny traveled to area correction facilities and spent weekends with prisoners teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As a result of Kairos efforts, recidivism is reduced on average by more than 50%.
Denny Brandon loved learning. His special love for current events, world affairs, history, music, and finance made him an expert in many fields. He researched out the genealogies of his family line and was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
A Memorial Service will be held at 11 AM on Friday, June 21st 2019 at The Archie L. Sanders Memorial Chapel in Wayne City, with Mike Kilgallin and Darrel Brandon officiating. Visitation will begin at 10 AM and continue until the time of service. Interment will be at Thomason Cemetery in Wayne City.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Thomason Cemetery and will be accepted at the Archie L. Sanders Memorial Chapel or at Young Funeral Home in Wayne City, which is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www.youngfuneralhomellc.com


What are constructive ways teachers can deal with issues of race and class in the classroom?
So, given the existence of race and class issues, how can we teachers best engage with them?
Today, three educators -- Ashanti Foster, Melissa Bollow Tempel, and P. L. Thomas -- and a number of readers share their thoughts on this challenge.
In addition, you can listen to a ten-minute conversation I had with Ashanti and P.L. on my BAM! Radio Show where they elaborated on their written responses. And, by the way, my interview with Emily Geltz and Linda Rief on working with student teachers can now also be found at the same link.
We were studying World History in my English Language Learner classroom, and had reached the textbook chapter on the Middle Ages. The textbook's authors listed several key facts about feudalism: People spent most of their time working in the fields, they didn't own the land they farmed, and their homes had one or two rooms. The book flatly declared that feudalism had ended with the Renaissance. Instead of having students memorize these facts, I asked students to think about them, write about whether they'd experienced any of these conditions in their home culture, and ask their parents and grandparents the same question.
After their family discussions, every student commented that they were either experiencing some of those "feudal" conditions currently or had done so very recently - either before their families emigrated or while they lived in refugee camps. The class concluded that the textbook was mistaken in saying feudalism had ended and we sent a letter to the authors, though we never received a reply (in retrospect, this would have been an excellent opportunity to invite School Board members or other District leadership to class for a class conversation about if it was time to change textbooks).
Examining parallels between their lives and the lives of people in the Middle Ages strongly engaged students. Many clamored to read more challenging texts about the Middle Ages. This unit provided countless opportunities for my students to learn reading strategies, academic vocabulary, and grammar. They embraced those opportunities because the lessons took place within the framework of their own stories and those of their families.
During my 19-year community organizing career (prior to becoming a teacher), our primary strategy was to learn people's stories, have them share those stories with others, and then help them develop a new interpretation of those stories. This new interpretation then was the engine that would propel themselves to action. It's similar to a challenge we face in the classroom--we need to help students connect our lesson content to their background knowledge and then, with their help, attach new understandings and learnings to it.
This story-sharing-and-interpreting strategy can be just one in many to deal with issues of class and race in the classroom.
Race and social class are just two ways that schools and students are assessed, provided resources and looked upon for effectiveness. Acknowledging teacher bias is the foundation of working with and being comfortable having and supporting race and class discussions in the classroom.
In order to feel comfortable teaching an individual or group of students that an educator may not connect with, we must search for resources, seek guidance from peers and arm ourselves with compassion and understanding for all learners.
Providing a safe place for students to explore and discuss various topics while relating the discourse to the content being taught is when teaching becomes art. A safe environment is built with group norms, empathy and seeking to understand, rather than to be heard. Environments with literature that represents various cultures, races and time periods for students to reflect upon who they are the contribution they bring to the class, the school and the world.
Educators must guide students in crafting a common vision for the environment to include classroom norms, routines and incentives/consequences for how expectations are implemented. When students create the expectations there is greater buy-in and accountability. Teaching students to build communities within the classroom, regardless of race and social class, helps students see each other as human beings. Incorporating activities that highlight similarities over differences and placing the spotlight on common goals leaves little room for division. What we build is an academic culture for teaching and learning which crosses all racial and economic areas.
However, it is important to acknowledge that we are different also. Have every student answer this question: What makes you unique or what can you do that no one else in the room can do? What sets you apart from others on the team? Think about how you would feel if someone didn't take the time to practice the actual pronunciation of your name? Differences are what make a collaborative team vibrant. Mixing strengths and weaknesses, experiences and dreams, failures and triumphs while learning together is essential.
Educators can facilitate the 'Find Someone Who' activity where various characteristics are listed on a piece of paper with a place for student signatures. Students travel from classmate to classmate trying to obtain signatures from the person born outside of the U.S., the only child and the person who lives in an apartment, to name a few. Next, the teacher can instruct students to group themselves into various categories to show how they can be the same and different simultaneously. For example, four girls may have the favorite color purple but only two enjoy swimming. This kinesthetic representation shows students that people of different races can operate under one academic culture - the one in which they built, together.
We all have a story to tell, a heart that heals and a mind to believe in one common goal.
Almost daily, I hear students who feel they've been treated unfairly call a teacher "racist". Usually, these students do not understand the meaning of words like "racist." But they understand its power. It's important that teachers stop to address this each time they hear it, just as one would stop to address students who hurl insults such as "retard" or "gay". If we take the time to discuss these words, their various meanings and uses, and the differences between terms like racism, discrimination, prejudice not only will students stop using them inaccurately, but when students do experience or witness racism they will be able to identify it as such and do something about it. This video by Jay Smooth is a good starting point for secondary students. For more on dealing with issues of race in the classroom, check out Rita Tenorio's, Race and Respect Among Young Children and more in Rethinking Multicultural Education by Wayne Au.
My favorite children's book for addressing class, "Those Shoes" by Maribeth Boelts, was recommended to me by teacher, Angela Aranda. The book is about a boy who wants so badly to have the same overpriced shoes everyone else is wearing but can't afford them. Before reading the book, Aranda asks students to describe what it means to be poor. During and after reading the book, Aranda has students analyze the text to determine whether or not the main character is poor and if it's possible to be happy if you don't have enough. Aranda also recommends, "Gettin' Through Thursday" and "The Lady in the Box" to spark conversation on issues of class and poverty.
Have you ever heard, "He can afford those $120 sneakers but he can't pay for the__________"? It's difficult to refrain from judging students' socioeconomic situation based on their material possessions. We don't know how or why families make the financial decisions that they do. Who hasn't purchased items they can't afford because they provide a moment of happiness? In my classroom, I make sure that I never charge more than $10 for a field trip, and I try to keep the cost to families below $5. All my students are given an opportunity to attend all field trips. I ask families to provide supplies but I don't nag the students to bring them. Yes, that means sometimes I am coughing up my own money. No, I shouldn't have to. The book Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education by Paul Gorski and Seema Pothini is an excellent resource. The education system we live in may perpetuate unfair policies and unjust practices, but they will never have a place in my classroom.
Two of the most powerful lessons I learned during the first several years of teaching high school English--lessons that shifted my lessons away from being teacher-centered and transmissional and toward greater engagement by my students--included replacing learning objectives with essential questions and expanding the texts explored in class in terms of genre, medium, and mode.
This is where I would start to confront difficult concepts such as race and class, as well as the related racism and classism.
One guiding essential question as an entry point into these lessons is, Who are in U.S. prisons? Students are likely to respond well to start their consideration of this question by looking at data. Along with building a foundation for discussing race and class, students should consider the power of statistics and graphic representations of data.
The data can be supplemented by authoritative texts, such as The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander as well as a number of online responses to her work.
Especially effective in an ELA setting, a second essential question as an entry point into race and class is, How are race and class (along with racism and classism) reflected in our attitudes toward language?
Two powerful texts can supplement this question well: Ralph Ellison's "What These Children Are Like" and James Baldwin's "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?"
Raising questions about race and class are central to building constructive lessons for the classroom, but students also need multi-genre and multi-media entry points in order to find the ways in which they are more capable of stepping back from their own assumptions. Some students will respond to non-fiction print texts while others will be compelling by videos of powerful speakers addressing race and class.
Non-fiction by Martin Luther King Jr., "Final Words of Advice" and "Where Do We Go from Here?" (I prefer to use texts from King students are unlikely to see in the traditional canon), and by James Baldwin, "A Report from Occupied Territory."
Videos of talks or interviews with Toni Morrison and James Baldwin pair well with the print-only essays above as a multi-media non-fiction unit. These talks and interviews also serve as effective entry points into long-form non-fiction, such as documentaries. Two documentaries set in schools and confronting race and class that have worked well with my students are Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later and Prom Night in Mississippi.
Fiction, however, may provide the best context for students to step away from assumptions. For example, having students read or view X-Men comics/ graphic novels and films, since the central motif of that superhero narrative is prejudice and minority statuses (see two blog posts here and here about the comic book series and recent film adaptations).
More traditional works of fiction that serve well to examine race and class are An Untamed State, Roxane Gay (see a review here) and "The Lesson," Toni Cade Bambara.
Conversations about race and class are rare in the U.S., except in ways that are not productive--claims we are a post-racial society or lingering racist and classist discourse. However, our classrooms can begin the sorts of conversations that will serve our students and society well, if we take the care to make the opportunity available.
Most of my students come from working-class, blue-collar families involved in agriculture.
Earlier this year, I was doing a short story unit with my Sophomores. We read Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl," and discussed the stream-of-consciousness style. To contrast, we watched/listened to "I Enjoy Being a Girl" from Roger and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song musical from 1958. I had students discuss and write a response to the two notions of "girl" that we looked at, and how these experiences of femininity were constructed. My students came down to the idea that Kincaid's "Girl" was born out of poverty and necessity, whereas Flower Drum Song's "Girl" was socially and financially wealthy, and could afford to be frivolous.
It was an interesting conversation, especially with a class of 23 boys and 4 girls. We went on to write our own gender stories, based on what we'd been taught on how to act like a man or woman from family, coaches, friends, and media.
Thanks to Ashanti, Melissa, Paul and to many readers for their contributions!


Our curriculum meets the statutory regulations of the national Curriculum 2014 and through our enrichment curriculum ensures a creative experience that engages, develops, and inspires. We provide an innovative curriculum with varied opportunities to allow children to express themselves, with children placed at the centre of the curriculum and their learning. They are encouraged to take on both challenges and ownership in a happy and safe learning environment.
At Ravenscroft the curriculum gives children the opportunity to achieve the highest possible standards of English and Maths, whilst ensuring they can become confident in physical, artistic, practical and social skills. We provide a broad and balanced education that allows for the individual needs of each child to be met within well-planned learning experiences. We provide an innovative curriculum with varied opportunities to allow children to express themselves, with children placed at the centre of the curriculum and their learning.
We aim to provide a Maths curriculum that is accessible and meaningful to all children, giving them the skills and knowledge they will need for future learning and living. Pupils are encouraged to make connections across procedures and concepts to ensure fluency, reasoning and competency in solving problems.
At Ravenscroft, we believe that the basic skills in maths are fundamental to ensuring a child is able to progress. We practise counting, representing numbers in a variety of ways, explore relationships between numbers as well as carrying out intelligent practise of number bonds and times tables. Children are able to work towards their Bronze, Silver and Gold awards to demonstrate their ability to recite times tables and to recall multiplication and division facts rapidly.
We have high expectations of the children in Maths and children are able to use concrete apparatus and pictorial representations to demonstrate their understanding or to help them reason and solve problems. Children's learning is deepened by carefully chosen questions and challenges to allow further connections to be made. Assessment is used regularly to inform planning and intervention so that children can receive additional support quickly.
Children learn about a wide range of living things, materials and phenomena. They investigate by exploring, observing, asking questions and collecting evidence. They learn to work independently and with others, communicating their ideas by using scientific language, diagrams, charts and graphs.
At Ravenscroft we believe that computing is an essential part of the national curriculum. Computing is an integral part of modern day life and therefore provides a wealth of learning opportunities, explicitly within computing and also across other curriculum subjects. Through the study of computing, children are able to develop a wide range of fundamental skills, knowledge and understanding that they will need for the rest of their lives. Computers have become a part of everyday life. For most of us, technology is essential to our daily lives, at home and at work. 'Computational Thinking' is a skill children must be taught in order to provide them with essential knowledge and skills that will enable them to participate effectively in the digital world.
The new national curriculum defines three clear aspects of computing curriculum: Computer Science (CS), Information Technology (IT) and Digital Literacy (DL). Children will be given the opportunity to develop their knowledge and understanding in each area from the Foundation Stage to Year 6.
The study of history helps children understand how the past has influenced today's society, how they fit into that as an individual and as a member of a community. Children consider how the past influences the present. What past societies were like, how they organised their politics and what beliefs and cultures influenced their actions.
Children studying Geography develop knowledge of places and environments throughout the world, an understanding of maps and a range of problem solving skills. It is a focus for understanding and resolving issues about the environment and for children to explore cultural diversity.
Children are provided with opportunities to stimulate their creativity and imagination. Our curriculum aims to engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. Children will develop their skills through a variety of techniques, including painting, drawing, textiles, pottery and 3D work. They will explore ideas and meanings in the work of artists, crafts people and designers from different cultures.
At Ravenscroft we recognise that children are living in a highly developed technological world. In Design Technology we provide children with the opportunities to develop and use a range of skills that will prepare them for a constantly changing society, increasingly dependent on technology. Children learn to think creatively to design and make products that solve real problems in a variety of contexts – understanding the processes involved from planning through making, to evaluation and refinement. Children will also develop the skills and knowledge associated with healthy living, nutrition and cookery.
Singing is at the heart of our school – we are a Platinum Sing Up school. Children learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music of their own and with others. Children have the opportunity to perform in either the KS1 singing club or the KS2 choir. Regular performance opportunities are offered to all children (e.g Sing Up annual assembly).
KS2 children have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument. All children in KS2 will have learned at least one instrument by the end of the key stage. Instrumental lessons are delivered by music specialists. The inter-related dimensions of music are explored during music lessons as pupils listen with attention to detail to music across a range of historical periods. The works of the great composers and musicians are studied throughout their time at Ravenscroft and children will appreciate and understand a wide range of music drawn from different traditions. Children are able to use technology as well as classroom instruments to compose their own pieces.
Through P.E. children learn new skills, discover their aptitudes and abilities and make choices about how to become involves in life- long physical activity. At Ravenscroft we provide opportunities for children to be creative and competitive, to face different challenges as individuals and in teams. In the Summer Term Y6 pupils have the opportunity to attend a Residential. They take part in team building and outward bound activities.
PSHE and Citizenship help to give children the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed active, responsible citizens. Children are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the curriculum, contributing fully to the life of the school and community. In doing this they will learn to recognise their own worth, work well with others and become increasingly responsible for their own learning, reflecting on experiences and issues that are a part of growing up.
Collective worship, broadly Christian in nature, is offered daily. Religious Education helps children develop a framework of values, attitudes and beliefs and a respect for beliefs and values of other races, religions and ways of life. The right to withdraw for both children and teachers on the grounds of conscience is respected at Ravenscroft.
We aim to develop an enthusiasm for languages through KS2. The language we teach across KS2 is French. We hold yearly Creative Curriculum days that develop and enhance children's knowledge of different cultures and languages.
We do have a homework policy which is available to parents. The homework is tailored to meet the needs of the children in the year that they are in. The homework mirrors the learning that takes place in school. We strongly believe that homework does benefit the children as it strengthens the links between home and school. We do however want the homework to be fun and a pleasurable time for parents and children. If there are problems or concerns over homework we are happy to help. We run a KS2 homework club after school on a Wednesday.
Maths and English are taught daily across the school. Science, RE, ICT, and PE are taught weekly. Some Foundation Subjects are taught as a block across a half term depending on the theme for example Art and Technology, History and Geography.


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General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Which 16th century Cretan painter, sculptor and architect sculpted the Miracle of St. Ildefonso on the frame of the painting El Espolio?
Who would be interested in a "miller's thumb"?
Philatelist
Ornithologist
What name is given to a compound of carbon and hydrogen in various proportions?
Hydroxide
Hydroxyl
Sir Peter Blake led a team which won what in 1995 and 2000?
The America's Cup
Whitbread Round the World Race
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Horatio was a legendary Roman hero who defended a bridge against which army?
The General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, opened in 1962 and named after a distinguished hero of the War of Independence in the country, spans what?
Orinoco River near Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela
Guanabara Bay, connecting the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói, Brazil
Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela
Riachuelo River, connecting Buenos Aires to its outskirts, Argentina
"A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Private Resort", "Platoon", "Cry-Baby" and "Edward Scissorhands" are the first five films starring which actor?