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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne denounced Trump's unauthorized use of "Crazy Train" in a Twitter video mocking the 2020 Democratic primary candidates.
The video, posted Thursday morning, opens with footage of the technical difficulties that marred Wednesday's first Democratic primary debate and pairs it with the intro to Osbourne's 1980 hit. Eventually, the video fades to black and reemerges with footage of Trump walking up to a podium.
Thank you @MSNBC, real professionals! @chucktodd @maddow https://t.co/7ZCkcUQ4yA
2:36 AM - 27 Jun 2019 139K 42K
Rolling Stone – 27 Jun 19
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne Slam Trump Over Unauthorized Use of 'Crazy Train'
"We are sending notice to the Trump campaign (or anyone else) that they are forbidden from using any of Ozzy Osbourne's music in political ads or in any political campaigns," couple wri…
New York City mayor and 2020 presidential candidate mocked after Bill de Blasio quoted Che Guevara at Miami campaign stop.
" Hasta la victoria siempre!" de Blasio shouted, according to video taken by a CBS Miami reporter. That phrase, which translates to "Until victory, always!" or "Ever on to victory!" may sound nice, but unfortunately it's well known because Guevara was famous for using it during the 1959 Cuban Revolution
Miami New Times – 27 Jun 19
Bill de Blasio Roasted for Quoting Che Guevara at Miami Campaign Stop
New York politics and Miami politics are not the same. This may seem like an obvious statement. But at a rally today for striking workers at Miami International Airport, New York City mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Bill de Blasio broke the...
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) plans to press charges against the person who threw a drink at him earlier this month as he was leaving a town hall event, because he feared similar incidents happening to him or his staff in the future.
Gaetz was hit with a drink outside a town hall event in Pensacola, Fla., earlier in June. Video shows Gaetz surrounded by protesters when a drink comes flying out of the crowd and appears to hit him in the arm.
TheHill – 27 Jun 19
Matt Gaetz says he will press charges against woman who threw drink at him
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said this week that he plans to press charges against the person who threw a drink at him earlier this month as he was leaving a town hall event.
Turingtest 2019-06-28 23:36:52 UTC #27
**Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) plans to press charges against the person who threw a drink at him…
I guess if you can drink yourself to death, you can drink Matt Gaetz to death… .
This one is technically news…
AP NEWS – 29 Jun 19
The Latest: Trump urges Xi to 'even it up' on trade
OSAKA, Japan (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's trip to Asia (all times local): 11:55 a.m. President Donald Trump says he believes the U.S. and China can "do something" that...
President Donald Trump says he wants to inspect the heavily-fortified Korean demilitarized zone as an example of what a "real border" looks like.
Trump invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to meet him for a handshake at the DMZ. He praising the layers of barbed wire, mines and other security measures that form the armistice line between the two still-technically-warring Koreas.
Says Trump: "By the way, when you talk about a wall when you talk about a border, that's what they call a border. Nobody goes through that border."
He adds, "That's called a real border."
Trump made curtailing illegal immigration and building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border a central theme of his 2016 campaign, though he has struggled to fulfill his pledge.
Parham Ghobadi (ParhamGhobadi)
Ivanka Trump appears to be trying to get involved in a talk among Macron, May, Trudeau and Lagarde (IMF head). The video is released by French Presidential palace. https://t.co/TJ0LULCzyQ
2:00 PM - 29 Jun 2019 54K 18K
patt (Patt Reid) 2019-07-01 09:56:30 UTC #30
If being spit upon is winning…?
This is the downgrading of America, Trumpification, reduced to our lowest ever.
WTF WTF WTF. Tanks…
Lets bring on big boy tanks…
Tweet @joshdawsey
Trump tells pool in Oval Office there will be tanks at July 4 celebration, as we reported this morning. "And we're gonna have some tanks stationed outside…. So we have to put them in certain areas but we have the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abram tanks."
Josh Dawsey (jdawsey1)
Trump tells pool in Oval Office there will be tanks at July 4 celebration, as we reported this morning. "And we're gonna have some tanks stationed outside... So we have to put them in certain areas but we have the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abram tanks."
2:26 PM - 1 Jul 2019 312 231
The Independent – 11 Aug 17
Indian diplomat likens Ivanka Trump to 'half-wit Saudi prince' as she leads US...
'It is a shame that the US should be compared to a kingdom,' says diplomat
On Tanks at 4th of July parade, the City Council of DC has spoken…
"Tanks, but no tanks…"
@councilofdc
We have said it before, and we'll say it again: Tanks, but no tanks. (PS: The @DeptofDefense agrees, see highlighted area below)
Council of DC (councilofdc)
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Statement from the Press Secretary | The White House
The Iranian regime took action today to increase its uranium enrichment. It was a mistake under the Iran nuclear deal to allow Iran to enrich uranium at any level. There is little doubt that even before the deal's existence, Iran was...
"UberEats with guns…" Pompeo has his security detail pick up his food orders without him in the car.
Just another entitled Cabinet-level appointee, Pompeo who fat-cats his way around … whistle blower involved.
Washington (CNN)Democrats on a key House congressional committee are investigating allegations from a whistleblower within the State Department about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his family's use of taxpayer-funded Diplomatic Security – prompting agents to lament they are at times viewed as "UberEats with guns".
Congressional investigators, who asked for the committee not to be named as they carry out their inquiries, tell CNN that a State Department whistleblower has raised multiple issues over a period of months, about special agents being asked to carry out some questionable tasks for the Pompeo family.
In April, for example, an agent was asked to pick up Chinese food—without Pompeo in the car. The whistleblower said this led agents to complain that they are now serving as "UberEats with guns," which has created a buzz within the department, according to multiple Democratic congressional aides who cited the whistleblower.
On another occasion, the whistleblower told aides, a Diplomatic Security special agent was given the job of picking up the Pompeo family dog from a groomer.
Exclusive: Democrats investigating whistleblower claims Pompeo's security picked...
Democrats on a key House congressional committee are investigating allegations from a whistleblower within the State Department about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his family's use of taxpayer-funded Diplomatic Security -- prompting agents to...
These Major Booksellers' Description Of 'Mein Kampf' Sounds Like It Was Written By A Nazi
Hitler's manifesto was marketed on Amazon, Walmart, Barnes and Noble and Books-A-Million as "what we must do if we want to survive as a people and as a Race."
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d1a76f7e4b07f6ca5821f69
Manu Raju (mkraju)
National Park Service spox says it "has issued a permit to Tighe Barry to hold a First Amendment demonstration on the National Mall on July 4 that includes the inflation of a 'Baby Trump' balloon."
8:19 AM - 2 Jul 2019 5K 1.5K
NY AG James (NewYorkStateAG)
Sorry for not responding to your tweet earlier, Mr. President. We were a little busy standing up for the true values of our nation, and fighting for liberty & justice for all. We're glad the #2020Census will begin printing without a citizenship question. Enjoy your 4th of July. https://t.co/crdD3xOY2z
People are fleeing New York like never before. If they own a business, they are twice as likely to flee. And if they are a victim of harassment by the A.G. of the state, like what they are doing to our great NRA, which I think will move quickly to Texas, where they are loved.....
4:21 AM - 2 Jul 2019 75K 16K
Court Orders Release of Sealed Docs About Jeffrey Epstein's Alleged Sex Ring
In a blow to the billionaire pedophile and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, a federal court ordered the release of sealed court records in a case brought by an alleged victim.
The Daily Beast – 3 Jul 19
I like the odds - 50% chance of T-storms
The threat of thunderstorms looms over President Donald Trump's Fourth of July celebration…
Donald Trump is taking over Fourth of July in DC - CNNPolitics) in Washington DC, but the Interior Department says the event will take place rain or shine.
Attendees can expect sweltering temperatures and partly cloudy skies when gates open in the afternoon Thursday. Temperatures should reach over 90 degrees, but with the humidity, it will feel more like 100. Chances of rain for the District should be about 50%, with the highest chance from 4 to 9 p.m. ET. The Salute to America events are scheduled to begin at 6:30 pm. and will conclude the day's festivities in Washington around 9.30 p.m. ET.
Thunderstorm threat looms over Trump's Fourth of July show
The threat of thunderstorms looms over President Donald Trump's Fourth of July celebration on the National Mall in Washington DC, but the Interior Department says the event will take place rain or shine.
GracieC 2019-07-04 16:50:03 UTC #41
dragonfly9:
Attendees can expect sweltering temperatures and partly cloudy skies when gates open in the afternoon Thursday.
Even Mother Nature is against this!


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James and Dave Franco are producing a television show based on Masters of Doom
That's weird.
(Image credit: ID Software)
Masters of Doom is a 2003 book about the creation of the groundbreaking FPS Doom, with a particular focus on the two dominant personalities behind it, John Carmack and Johm Romero. It's an outstanding behind-the-scenes look at a genre-defining studio—we called it a "must read" in our 2018 reminiscence on pulling the trigger of the BFG-9000 for the first time—and the tale may soon be headed to the small screen, courtesy of... the Franco brothers?
According to Variety, USA Network has ordered a pilot based on the book, with James and Dave Franco signed as executive producers. Gears of War 4 lead writer Tom Bissell, who also has writing credits on Tales From the Borderlands, Uncharted 4, What Remains of Edith Finch, and others, will write the series and is also credited as an executive producer.
If the pilot is picked up as a series, Masters of Doom would become the first part in an anthology, with subsequent seasons detailing other "seminal moments in videogame history." There's no word on casting yet, but there's one obvious question hanging over the whole thing right out of the gate: Which Franco will play Romero?
Although shortly after the announcement, Brenda Romero asked an even more pointed question:
Who will play John's hair on TV? https://t.co/Bs2MQxNEJkJune 27, 2019
Romero, who's currently heading up development of a new strategy game for Paradox called Empire of Sin, also confirmed that her husband is not directly involved in the project.
He does think it's cool, though.
This news seems pretty cool. I hope I'm played by someone of my heritage. Any suggestions? https://t.co/rfNZ96sqCB #DOOM @davidkushner pic.twitter.com/hPCG8yEHypJune 27, 2019
Romero's Doom-Mastering partner, John Carmack, said on Twitter that he's not involved in the project either.
I wish them well and hope for the best. There are, of course, many opportunities for disaster, but I'm not going to dwell on things out of my influence.June 27, 2019
John Romero
John Carmack

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This blog is re-integrating to Disloyal Opposition to Modernity.
While this blog is not defunct, I have been very busy since moving to Mexico. The literary journal and the North Star eat up a lot of my time, and I am slowly disengaging for a lot of other writing. I have also been ill lately and have no had the resources to blog. Soon I will list my new writings and the podcasts I appeared in recently.
Volunteer-political publications both eat time and very little bits of money, but mostly it is draining to deal with all the opinions thrown at you. I will try to write me here soon.


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Zaïdi comenzó a destacar como jugador internacional en el Campeonato Mundial de Balonmano Masculino Junior de 2017, en el que fue el máximo goleador.

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Join us Thursday, April 4 at 10 a.m.- 12 p.m at the Hendersonville Campus in the Student Building. Special guests for the luncheon will be Larry and Connie Baird. They will be performing a funny comedy routine based on an old couple, "Homer and Ethel" from "Fogg Hollow in Hickman County." The fun begins when they talk about love, marriage, and old age!
Pot Luck Luncheon, please bring your favorite dish to share. For more information, please email Roni at roni.martin@longhollow.com.
Join us Thursday, April 11 at 10 a.m.- 12 p.m at the Gallatin Campus. Special guest for the luncheon will be Pastor Tim LaFleur. He will share his personal testimony with the group.
Our Hendersonville and Gallatin luncheons are open to both campuses and to all senior adults 55 and above! Please join us and bring a friend!


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Citations Needed, Episode 06: The Media's Default Setting of White Supremacy
(Artwork pictured by @/yesitsalex___)
On Episode 6 of Citations Needed, Adam and I explore how the media both consciously and subconsciously works to smear black victims, protect the police, and works overtime to ameliorate the sensibilities of white media consumers.
The white supremacist regime at work in the media can be broken down into three main narrative devices:
The use of language to downplay state violence and assert false parity
The uncritical dissemination of exaggerated or made up threats to police to turn the aggressor into the victim
The posthumous smearing of black victims to rationalize their killing after the fact.
In this episode, we examine the mechanisms of these genres, how they influence public perception and why they create the media environment that makes more Mike Browns all but certain.
Dr. Jared A Ball is a professor of Media, Communications, and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Maryland. Dr. Ball is a prolific writer, speaker, and multimedia producer at imixwhatilike.org. His commentary can be read everywhere from the Washington Post to The Nation, the Grio to the Root, and beyond. A forthcoming book from Third World Press entitled, Not Our President: New Directions from the Pushed Out, the Others, and the Clear Majority in Trump's Stolen America, will featured his essay "Agent Orange: Donald Trump as Political Chemical Warfare."
Here's the episode:
Show Notes for this episode can be found here.
Citations Needed is a media criticism podcast, hosted by Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi, political commentators and media analysts working to call bullshit on (usually corporate) media's ubiquitous reliance on and regurgitation of false and destructive narratives, tropes and stereotypes.
Citations Needed is produced by Josh Kross and Florence Barrau-Adams. Our theme song is 'Nonphenomenal Lineage' by Grandaddy.
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Citations Needed, News Brief: Charlottesville, The...
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No, LA Times, That's Not What Nuclear 'Breakout Ti...
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import { Tool } from "./Tool";
import { generateActionId } from "../Actions";
import simplify from "simplify-js";
import { PenDrawing } from "../drawing_objects";

export class DrawTool extends Tool {
  constructor(manager) {
    super(manager);

    this.pointBuffer = [];
    this.drawingObject = null;
    this.cursor = null;
  }

  eventNamespace() { return "Drawing"; }
  minimumLineDistance() { return 0; }
  saveAction() { }
  isFog() { return false; }
  createDrawingObject() { }
  handleMouseMove(location) {
    location = this.roundPoint(location);
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    this.drawingObject.setPoints(simplify(this.pointBuffer, 1, false));
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  ensureDrawingObject() {
    if (this.drawingObject === null) {
      this.drawingObject = this.createDrawingObject();
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        this.board.drawingLayer.addFogAction(this.drawingObject);
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        this.board.drawingLayer.addAction(this.drawingObject);
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      self.ensureDrawingObject();
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    this.board.event_manager.on('mousemove.' + this.eventNamespace(), function(mapEvt) {
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      self.handleMouseMove(mapEvt.mapPoint);
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    this.board.event_manager.on('dragstop.' + this.eventNamespace(), function(mapEvt) {
      self.saveAction();
      self.pointBuffer = [];
      self.removeDrawingObject();
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  disable() {
    this.saveAction();
    this.removeDrawingObject();
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    this.board.event_manager.off("." + this.eventNamespace());
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  removeDrawingObject() {
    if (this.drawingObject) {
      this.board.drawingLayer.removeAction(this.drawingObject.uid);
      this.drawingObject = null;
    }
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}

export class Pen extends DrawTool {
  constructor(board) {
    super(board);
    this.width = null;
    this.color = null;
    this.backgroundColor = null;
  }

  buildOptions() {
    this.options.add(this.toolManager.sharedTool("drawingColor"));
    this.options.add(this.toolManager.sharedTool("drawingWidth"));
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  optionsChanged() {
    this.width = this.options.get("width").value;
    this.color = this.options.get("color").value;
  }
  minimumLineDistance() { return this.width / 2; }
  eventNamespace() { return "Pen"; }
  createDrawingObject() {
    return new PenDrawing(generateActionId(), this.board, this.pointBuffer, this.width, this.color, this.board.pcMode, this.board.getLevel().id);
  }
  draw() {
    if (this.cursor) {
      this.board.drawing.drawCircle(this.cursor[0], this.cursor[1], this.width / 2, 2, this.color, this.color)
    }
  }
  saveAction() {
    if (this.pointBuffer.length > 0) {
      var action = {actionType: "penAction", version: 2, level: this.board.getLevel().id, isPcLayer: this.board.pcMode, color: this.color, width: this.width, points: simplify(this.pointBuffer, 1, true).map(p => [p.x, p.y]), uid: generateActionId()};
      var undoAction = {actionType: "removeDrawingAction", actionId: action.uid, uid: generateActionId()};
      this.board.addAction(action, undoAction, true);
    }
  }
}

export class Eraser extends DrawTool {
  constructor(manager) {
    super(manager);
    this.width = null;
  }

  buildOptions() {
    this.options.add({type: "size", name: "width", label: "Width", sizes: [20, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200], value: 75 });
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  optionsChanged() {
    this.width = this.options.get("width").value;
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  createDrawingObject() {
    return new PenDrawing(generateActionId(), this.board, this.pointBuffer, this.width, -1, this.board.pcMode, this.board.getLevel().id);
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  enable() {
    super.enable();
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    var self = this;
    this.board.event_manager.on('click.' + this.eventNamespace(), function(mapEvt) {
      self.ensureDrawingObject();
      self.handleMouseMove(mapEvt.mapPoint);
      self.saveAction();
      self.pointBuffer = [];
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  disable() {
    super.disable();
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    var cursorColor = "#FFFFFF";

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    if (this.cursor) {
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    if (this.pointBuffer.length > 0) {
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Why you'd want to live in Aurora
Aurora is a Home Rule Municipality in the U.S. state of Colorado, spanning Arapahoe and Adams counties, with the extreme southeastern portion of the city extending into Douglas County. Aurora is one of the principal cities of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area (Metro Denver). The city's population was 325,078 in the 2010 census,[9] which made it the third most populous city in the state of Colorado and the 54th most populous city in the United States. Before European settlement, the land that Aurora sits on was the territory of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-t?v?-p?_ (Ute), and Oceti Šakówi? (Sioux) tribes.[12] Aurora originated in the 1880s as the town of Fletcher, taking its name from Denver businessman Donald Fletcher who saw it as a real estate opportunity. He and his partners staked out four square miles (10 km2) east of Denver, but the town - and Colorado - struggled mightily after the Silver Crash of 1893. At that point Fletcher skipped town, leaving the community with a huge water debt. Inhabitants decided to rename the town Aurora in 1907, after one of the subdivisions composing the town, and Aurora slowly began to grow in Denver's shadow becoming the fastest-growing city in the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Aurora is composed of hundreds of subdivisions thus carries the name of one of the original development plats from which it sprang. A large military presence has existed in Aurora since the early 20th century. In 1918, Army General Hospital #21 (later renamed Fitzsimons Army Hospital) opened, with the U.S. government expanding and upgrading the hospital facilities in 1941 just in time to care for the wounded servicemen of World War II. Lowry Air Force Base was opened in 1938, straddling the border of Aurora and Denver. It eventually closed in 1994, and has been redeveloped into a master-planned community featuring residential, commercial, business and educational facilities.
Aurora Market Report
AVERAGE PRICE OF 1,076 HOMES
AVERAGE PRICE OF 261 NEWLY BUILT HOMES
AVERAGE PRICE OF 118 HOMES WITH A POOL
AVERAGE PRICE OF 18 REDUCED PRICE HOMES
Aurora Home Price Trends
Total Listings 1,269 1,598 1,850 2,026 2,024
Avg Price Change +2.41% +0.13% -0.80% -0.50% -1.00%
Med Price Change +0.74% -0.18% -0.68% -2.09% -2.34%
Avg Bedrooms 2.97 beds 3 beds 3.04 beds 3.09 beds 3.11 beds
Avg Bathrooms 2.46 baths 2.5 baths 2.5 baths 2.54 baths 2.61 baths
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Q: Interstitial Ads not loading any longer I had a code that successfully loaded Admob test Interstitial Ads, but suddenly, without changing anything it doesn't load them any longer.
This happened to me once before and it was because they had changed the unit id needed to show interstitial ads, but now as much as I look it looks that it hasn't been changed.
Maybe, it's just that google has his server for test interstitial Ads down, but I'd like to check.
This is the code that was working just about 30 minutes ago:
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Now it doesn't matter how much I wait, onAdLoaded never fires, as a the interstitial ad is never loaded.
Ironically, I'm also displaying a banner and the banner displays nicely.
What could be happening?

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Daniel de Oliveira (actor)
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(1977-06-19) June 19, 1977 (age 42)
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Vanessa Giácomo (2004–2012) Sophie Charlotte (m.2015)
Daniel de Oliveira (born June 19, 1977) is a Brazilian actor.
2.2 Theater
2.3 Soap Operas
He was married to Brazilian actress Vanessa Giácomo from 2004 to 2012, they have two children. In 2014, he began dating actress Sophie Charlotte, they married in 2015 and have one son.
Films[edit]
2000 - O Circo das Qualidades Humanas - Bosco
2004 - Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára - Cazuza
2004 - A Dona Da História - Paulinho Oliveira (special participation)
2005 - Chicken Little (Brazilian voice dubbing)
2006 - Zuzu Angel - Stuart Angel
2006 - 14 Bis - Alberto Santos-Dumont
2006 - Baptism of Blood - Frei Beto
2006 - Happy Feet - Mumble (Brazilian voice dubbing)
2009 - A Festa Da Menina Morta - Santinho
2010 - 400 Contra 1 - Uma História do Crime Organizado -
2010 - 31 Minutos -
2011 - Happy Feet Two - Mano (Brazilian voice dubbing)
2012 - Boca - Hiroito de Moraes Joanides
2013 - Latitudes - José
2013 - Road 47 - Guimarães
2014 - Blue Blood
2017 - Liquid Truth - Rubens
Theater[edit]
Alice no País das Maravilhas (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) - Belo Horizonte
O Sítio do Picapau Amarelo - Belo Horizonte
Lucrécia, o veneno dos Bórgias - Belo Horizonte
Êxtase - Rio de Janeiro
Soap Operas[edit]
1998 - Brida
1999 - Malhação - Marcos Almeida (Marquinhos)
2001 - A Padroeira - Priest Gregório
2004 - Um Só Coração - Bernardo
2004 - Cabocla - Luís Jerônimo
2005 - Hoje É Dia De Maria - Quirino
2005 - Hoje É Dia De Maria (second phase) - 10 different characters
2006 - Cobras & Lagartos - Daniel Salgado Miranda (Duda)
2007 - Desejo Proibido - Henrique
2009 - Som & Fúria - Jacques Maia
2009 - Decamerão - A Comédia do Sexo - Filipinho
2010 - Passione - Agnello Mattoli
2011 - A História do Amor - 64 different characters
2016 - Nada Será Como Antes - Otaviano Azevedo Gomes
Prêmio Qualidade Brasil - Best cinema actor (2004) for Cazuza - O tempo não pára
Grande prêmio Tam de cinema Brasileiro - Best actor (2004) for Cazuza - O tempo não pára
Prêmio da APCA - Best cinema actor (2004) for Cazuza - O tempo não pára
Brazilian Cinema festival in Miami (Festival de Cinema Brasileiro de Miami) - Best actor (2004) for Cazuza - O tempo não pára
Prêmio ACIE de Cinema - Best actor (2004) for Cazuza - O tempo não pára
Prêmio BEA (BEA Award) - "Best male revelation of Brazilian Cinema"
Ibero-Americano LaCinemaFe Cinema festival - for his interpretation - in Cazuza - O Tempo não Pára, by Sandra Werneck and Walter Carvalho.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Daniel de Oliveira.
Cazuza-O tempo não pára[dead link]
Zuzu Angel[dead link]
Daniel de Oliveira on IMDb
Gramado Film Festival Best Actor Award
Carlos Kroeber (1973)
Othon Bastos (1974)
Eliezer Gomes (1975)
Joffre Soares (1976)
José Lewgoy (1977)
Reginaldo Faria (1978)
Helber Rangel (1979)
José de Abreu (1980)
José Dumont and Nelson Dantas (1981)
Walmor Chagas (1982)
Lima Duarte (1983)
José Dumont (1984)
Paulo César Pereio (1985)
José Wilker (1986)
Wilson Grey (1987)
Antônio Abujamra and Adriano Stuart (1989)
Marcos Palmeira (1990)
Hugo Carvana (1991)
Federico Luppi (1992)
Darío Grandinetti (1993)
Vladimir Cruz and Jorge Perugorría (1994)
Pedro Vicuña (1995)
Chico Díaz and Cassiano Carneiro (1996)
Cláudio Marzo (1997)
Ricardo Couto (1998)
Diogo Infante (1999)
Salvador del Solar (2000)
Tony Ramos (2001)
Alexandre Moreno (2002)
Milton Gonçalves (2004)
Lázaro Ramos (2005)
Antonio Calloni (2006)
Gustavo Machado (2007)
Daniel de Oliveira (2008)
Leonardo Machado (2009)
Caio Blat (2010)
Marat Descartes (2012)
Irandhir Santos (2013)
Nelson Xavier (2014)
Breno Nina (2015)
Paulo Tiefenthaler (2016)
Paulo Vilhena (2017)
Osmar Prado (2018)
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Sophie Charlotte (actress)
Sophie Charlotte Wolf Silva is a German Brazilian actress. Sophie was born in Germany, her mother is German and her father is a Brazilian from the state of Pará. She moved to Brazil at the age of seven. At age 19, she left her parents' home in Niterói to live in Rio de Janeiro with her friend Carolinie Figueiredo, with whom she shared an apartment. In the telenovela Caras & Bocas by Walcyr Carrasco she played Vanessa, she played the role of an antagonist in the telenovela Ti Ti Ti. She played Maria Amália, the daughter of the protagonist and the sister of her real life boyfriend Malvino Salvador in the 2011 telenovela Fina Estampa. She's acted in As Brasileiras. In May 2014, Charlotte began dating Daniel Oliveira, they married on December 2015 in Niterói. She gave birth to their first son, Otto, on March 14, 2016. Sophie Charlotte was nominated for the 11th Contigo Award in category "Best Female Newcomer Award" for her work as Angelina in Malhação. Sophie Charlotte on IMDb Sophie Charlotte on Instagram
Hugo Carvana
Hugo Carvana was a Brazilian film and television actor. He had appeared in 65 films since 1955. Os Cafajestes Os Fuzis O Bravo Guerreiro Entranced Earth Antonio das Mortes Pindorama The Seven Headed Lion All Nudity Shall Be Punished Tati A Queda Tenda dos Milagres Avaete, Seed of Revenge God Is Brazilian The Greatest Love of All Hugo Carvana on IMDb
Walmor Chagas
Walmor de Souza Chagas was a Brazilian actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1965 and 2013. São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima Xica da Silva Asa Branca: Um Sonho Brasileiro Luz del Fuego Sonho Meu Memórias Póstumas Esperança Caminhos do Coração A Favorita A Coleção Invisível Chagas died on 18 January 2013, in his home in Guaratinguetá, São Paulo, he was found with a bullet wound in the head. It is believed. Walmor Chagas on IMDb
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian inventor and aviation pioneer, one of the few people to have contributed to the development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, Santos-Dumont dedicated himself to aeronautical study and experimentation in Paris, where he spent most of his adult life. In his early career he designed and flew hot air balloons and early dirigibles, culminating in his winning the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize on 19 October 1901 for a flight that rounded the Eiffel Tower, he turned to heavier-than-air machines, on 23 October 1906 his 14-bis made the first powered heavier-than-air flight in Europe to be certified by the Aéro-Club de France and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. His conviction that aviation would usher in an era of worldwide peace and prosperity led him to publish his designs and forego patenting his various innovations. Santos-Dumont is a national hero in Brazil, where it is popularly held that he preceded the Wright brothers in demonstrating a practical airplane.
Countless roads, schools and airports there are dedicated to him, his name is inscribed on the Tancredo Neves Pantheon of the Fatherland and Freedom. He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1931 until his suicide in 1932. Santos-Dumont was born on 20 July 1873 in Cabangu in the Brazilian town of Palmira in the state of Minas Gerais in southeast Brazil, he was the youngest of seven children born to Henrique Dumont, an engineer of French descent, Francisca de Paula Santos. Santos-Dumont's father managed a coffee plantation on land owned by his wife's family, bought land in Ribeirão Preto on which he established a plantation of his own, his extensive use of labor-saving inventions earned him a fortune, he was known for a time as the "Coffee King of Brazil." Santos-Dumont was fascinated by machinery, while still a child he learned to drive the plantation's steam tractors and locomotives. He read a great deal of the works of Jules Verne, he wrote in his autobiography that the dream of flying came to him while contemplating the magnificent skies of Brazil from the plantation.
After basic instruction with private tutors, Santos-Dumont studied for a time at the Colégio Culto à Ciência in Campinas, after which he was sent to the Colégio Morton in São Paulo and the Escola de Minas in Minas Gerais. In 1891 Santos-Dumont's father was paralyzed by a fall from a horse, he went to Europe with his wife and Santos-Dumont in search of treatment. In Paris, Santos-Dumont contacted a balloonist with the intention of making an ascent; the price quoted was 1,200 francs for a two-hour flight, plus payment for any damage caused and for returning the balloon to Paris. This was a considerable sum of money, Santos-Dumont decided not to make the flight, reasoning that "If I risk 1,200 francs for an afternoon's pleasure I shall find it either good or bad. If it is bad the money will be lost. If it is good I shall want to repeat it and I shall not have the means." After this he bought a Peugeot automobile, which he took with him when he returned to Brazil with his parents at the end of the year.
In 1892 the family returned to Europe, but Henriques felt too ill to continue on to Paris from Lisbon, Alberto made the journey on his own. His father's health deteriorated and he decided to return to Brazil, where he died on 30 August 1892. For the next four years Alberto lived in Paris, studying physics, chemistry and electricity with the help of a private tutor, returning to Brazil for short holidays. During this period he sold his Peugeot, replacing it with a more powerful and faster De Dion motor-tricycle. In 1896 he returned to Brazil for a longer period, but began to miss Paris and so returned to Europe in 1897. Before embarking he had bought a copy of an account of Salomon Andrée's attempt to fly to the North Pole by balloon, written by the constructors of the balloon, MM. Lachambre and Machuron. In his biography Santos-Dumont describes the book as "a revelation", resolved to make contact with the balloon constructors when he reached Paris. On arrival in Paris Santos-Dumont contacted Lachambre and Machuron and arranged to make a flight, piloted by Alexis Machuron.
Taking off from Vaugirard, the flight lasted nearly two hours during which the balloon travelled 100 km, coming down in the grounds of the Château de Ferrières. Enchanted by the experience, during the train journey back to Paris Santos-Dumont told Machuron that he wanted to have a balloon constructed for himself. Before this was completed he gained experience by making a number of demonstration flights for Lachambre. Santos-Dumont's first balloon design, the Brésil, was remarkable for its small size and light weight, with a capacity of only 113 m3. In comparison, the balloon in which he had made his first flight had a capacity of 750 m3. After numerous balloon flights, Santos-Dumont turned to the design of steerable balloons, or what became known as non-rigid airships, which could be propelled through the air rather than drifting along with the wind. A dirigible powered by an electric motor, La France, capable of flying at around 24 km/h had been flown in 1884 by Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs, but their experiments had not progressed due to a lack of funding.
His first design was wrecked during its second flight on 29 September 1898, he had less luck with his second, abandoned after his first attempt to fly it on 11 May 1899. A major cause of the accidents to his first two airships had been loss of pressure causing the elongated envelope
Happy Feet is a 2006 computer-animated musical comedy film directed, co-written by George Miller. It stars the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, E. G. Daily. An international co-production between the United States and Australia, the film was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros. Village Roadshow Pictures, Kingdom Feature Productions, was released in North American theaters on November 17, 2006, it is the first animated film produced by Animal Logic. Though an animated film, the film does incorporate motion capture of live action humans in certain scenes; the film was released in both conventional theatres and in IMAX 2D format. The studio had hinted. However, Warner Bros. the film's production company, was on too tight a budget to release Happy Feet in IMAX digital 3D. Happy Feet received positive reviews from critics, won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a first for Warner Bros. as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film.
It was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film. A sequel, Happy Feet Two, was released on November 18, 2011; every emperor penguin sings. If the male penguin's heartsong matches the female's song, the two penguins mate. Norma Jean, a female penguin, falls for Memphis, a male penguin and they become mates, they lay an egg, left in Memphis' care, while Norma Jean leaves with the other females to fish. While the males struggle through the harsh winter, Memphis drops the egg; as a result, their son, Mumble, is unable to sing. He is enamored with Gloria, a female penguin, regarded as the most talented of her age. One day, Mumble encounters a group of hostile skua, with a leader, tagged with a yellow band, which he says is from an alien abduction. Mumble narrowly escapes the hungry birds by falling into a crevice. Now a young adult, Mumble is ridiculed by the elders. After escaping from a leopard seal attack, Mumble befriends a group of Adelie penguins called "the Amigos", who embrace Mumble's dance moves and assimilate him into their group.
After seeing a hidden human excavator in an avalanche, they opt to ask Lovelace, a rockhopper penguin, about its origin. Lovelace has the plastic rings of a six pack entangled around his neck, which he claims have been bestowed upon him by mystic beings. For the emperor penguins, it is mating season and Gloria is the center of attention. Ramón, one of the Amigos, attempts to help Mumble win her affection by singing a Spanish version of "My Way", with Mumble lip syncing, but the plan fails, Gloria finds it embarrassing. In desperation, Mumble begins tap dancing in synch with her song, she falls for him and the youthful penguins join in for singing and dancing to "Boogie Wonderland". The elders are appalled by Mumble's conduct, which they see as the reason for their lean fishing season. Memphis begs Mumble to stop dancing, for his own sake, but when Mumble refuses, he is exiled, prompting him to curse revenge on the elders for their blind belief. Mumble and the Amigos return to Lovelace, only to find him being choked by the plastic rings.
Lovelace confesses they were snagged on him while swimming off the forbidden shores, beyond the land of the elephant seals. Not long into their journey, they are met by Gloria. Fearing for her safety, he ridicules Gloria. At the forbidden shore, the group finds a fishing boat. Mumble pursues it solo to the brink of exhaustion, he is washed up on the shore of Australia, where he is rescued and kept at Marine World with Magellanic penguins. After a long and secluded confinement in addition to fruitlessly trying to communicate with the humans, he nearly succumbs to madness; when a girl attempts to interact with Mumble by tapping the glass, he starts dancing, which attracts a large crowd. He is released back with a tracking device attached to his back, he challenges the will of the elders. Memphis reconciles with him, just as a research team arrives, proving the claims of the existence of "aliens" to be true; the whole of the colony Noah the leader of the elders, engages in dance. The research team returns their expedition footage.
The governments realize they are leading to the banning of all Antarctic fishing. At this, the emperor penguins and the Amigos celebrate. George Miller cites as an initial inspiration for the film an encounter with a grizzled old cameraman, whose father was Frank Hurley of the Shackleton expeditions, during the shooting of Mad Max 2: "We were sitting in this bar, having a milkshake, he looked across at me and said, 'Antarctica.' He'd shot a documentary there. He said, 'You've got to make a film in Antarctica. It's just like out here, in the wasteland. It's spectacular.' And that always stuck in my head."Happy Feet was partially inspired by earlier documentaries such as the BBC's Life in the Freezer. In 2001, during an otherwise non-sequitur meeting, Doug Mitchell impulsively presented Warner Bros. studio president Alan Horn with an early rough draft of the film's screenplay, asked them to read it while he and Miller flew back to Australia. By the time they'd landed, Warner had decided to provide funding on the film.
Production was slated to begin sometime after the completion of the fourth Mad Max film, Fury Road, but geo-political complications pushed Happy Feet to the forefront in early 2003. An earlier cut of the film seems to have included a
Belo Horizonte is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, the thirteenth-largest in South America and the eighteenth-largest in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area, ranked as the third most populous metropolitan area in Brazil and the seventeenth most populous in the Americas. Belo Horizonte is the capital of the state of Brazil's second most populous state, it is the first planned modern city in Brazil. The region was first settled in the early 18th century, but the city as it is known today was planned and constructed in the 1890s, to replace Ouro Preto as the capital of Minas Gerais; the city features a mixture of contemporary and classical buildings, is home to several modern Brazilian architectural icons, most notably the Pampulha Complex. In planning the city, Aarão Reis and Francisco Bicalho sought inspiration in the urban planning of Washington, D. C; the city has employed notable programs in urban revitalization and food security, for which it has been awarded international accolades.
The city is built on several hills and is surrounded by mountains. There are several large parks in the immediate surroundings of Belo Horizonte; the Mangabeiras Park, 6 km southeast of the city centre in the hills of Curral Ridge, has a broad view of the city. It has an area of 2.35 km2. The Jambeiro Woods nature reserve extends over 912 hectares, with vegetation typical of the Atlantic Forest. More than 100 species of birds inhabit the reserve, as well as 10 species of mammals. Belo Horizonte was one of the host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Additionally, the city shared the host of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the football tournament during the 2016 Summer Olympics; the metropolis was once a small village, founded by João Leite da Silva Ortiz, a bandeirante explorer from São Paulo. The explorer settled in the region in 1701, he established a farm called "Curral d'el Rey", archaic Portuguese for the "King's Corral", which in modern Portuguese would be spelled Curral do Rei. The farm's wealth and success encouraged people from surrounding places to move into the region, Curral del Rey became a village surrounded by farms.
Another important factor contributing to the growth of the village was the migrants from the São Francisco River region, who had to pass through Curral d'el Rey to reach southern parts of Brazil. Travelers visited a small wooden chapel, where they prayed for a safe trip. Due to this fact, the chapel was named Capela da Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem, which means "Chapel of Our Lady of the Good Journey." After the construction of Belo Horizonte, the old baroque chapel was replaced by a neo-gothic church that became the city's cathedral. The previous capital of Minas Gerais, Ouro Preto called "Vila Rica", was a symbol of both the monarchic Brazilian Empire and the period when most of Brazilian income was due to mining; that never pleased the members of the Inconfidência Mineira, republican intellectuals who conspired against the Portuguese dominion of Brazil. In 1889, Brazil became a republic, it was agreed that a new state capital, in tune with a modern and prosperous Minas Gerais, had to be set.
In 1893, due to the climatic and topographic conditions, Curral Del Rey was selected by Minas Gerais governor Afonso Pena among other cities as the location for the new economic and cultural centre of the state, under the new name of "Cidade de Minas," or City of Minas. Aarão Reis, an urbanist from the State of Pará, was set to design the second planned city of Brazil. Cidade de Minas was inaugurated in 1897, with many unfinished constructions as the Brazilian government set a deadline for its completion. Inhabitation of the city was subsidised by the local government, through the concession of free empty lots and funding for building houses. An interesting feature of Reis' downtown street plan for Belo Horizonte was the inclusion of a symmetrical array of perpendicular and diagonal streets named after Brazilian states and Brazilian indigenous tribes. In 1906, the name was changed to Belo Horizonte. At that time the city was experiencing a considerable industrial expansion that increased its commercial and service sectors.
From its beginning, the city's original plan prohibited workers to live inside the urban area, defined by Avenida do Contorno, reserved for the public sector functionaries, bringing about an accelerated occupation outside the city's area well provided with infrastructure since its beginning. The city's original planners did not count on its population growth afterwards, which proved intense in the last 20 years of the 20th century. In the 1940s, a young Oscar Niemeyer designed the Pampulha Neighbourhood to great acclaim, a commission he got thanks to then-mayor, soon-to-be-president Juscelino Kubitschek; these two men are responsible for the wide avenues, large lakes and jutting skylines that characterise the city today. A 1949 American government film favorably reviewed the building of the city. Belo Horizonte is fast becoming a regional centre of commerce; the Latin American Research and development centre of Google, situated in Belo Horizonte, was responsible for the management and operation of the former social networking website Orkut.
It continues to be a tren
Antônio Abujamra
Antônio Abujamra was a Brazilian theatre and television director and actor. Majored in journalism and philosophy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in 1957, he started a career as a theater critic while directed and acted his own plays for university theater. Professionally, he debuted as a theatre director in 1961, as an actor in 1987, acting in both theatre and television. In 1989, he became known nationally by his role as Ravengar in Rede Globo's telenovela Que Rei Sou Eu?, which became his most known role. In that same year, Abujamra won the Best Actor Award at the Gramado Film Festival for his role in the film Festa. From 2000 onward, he was the presenter of TV Cultura's interview program Provocações. Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil Terra Nostra Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion Começar de Novo Poder Paralelo Assalto ao Banco Central Brichos – A Floresta é Nossa Corações Feridos Antônio Abujamra on IMDb
Belo Horizonte [videos]
Belo Horizonte is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, the thirteenth-largest in South America and the eighteenth-largest in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area, ranked as …
Belo Horizonte plan in 1895.
Founding of the city in 1897.
Minas Gerais [videos]
Minas Gerais is a state in the north of Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product, and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte, is a major …
Town of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos c.1821–1825
Maxakalisaurus.
Baruch, 18th century Baroque sculpture, by Aleijadinho
People of Minas Gerais in the 1820s
Alberto Santos-Dumont [videos]
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Childhood home
Caricature from Vanity Fair, 1899
Santos-Dumont's first balloon, the Bresil
Happy Feet [videos]
Happy Feet is a 2006 computer-animated musical comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by George Miller. It stars the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, and E.G. Daily. An international co-production between the United States …
Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy and Nicole Kidman at the film's European premiere in London, UK.
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Happy Feet Two [videos]
Happy Feet Two is a 2011 computer-animated disaster musical comedy film directed, produced and co-written by George Miller. It is the sequel to the 2006 film Happy Feet, and The film features an ensemble voice cast that includes Ava Acres, Elijah Wood, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Sofia Vergara …
Robin Williams, who voiced Ramon and Lovelace, at the film's Australian premiere in Sydney
Director George Miller at the film's Australian premiere in Sydney
Fantástico [videos]
Fantástico is a Brazilian weekly television newsmagazine broadcast on Sunday nights on Rede Globo since August 5, 1973, created by José Bonifácio de Oliveira Sobrinho. — It lasts two hours, including …
Glória Maria and Pedro Bial, 1996-2007.
Penultimate change presenters, 2014.
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Brazilians [videos]
Brazilians are citizens of Brazil. A Brazilian can also be a person born abroad to a Brazilian parent or legal guardian as well as a persons who acquired Brazilian citizenship. Brazil is a multiethnic society, which means that it is home to people of …
Some of the main immigrant groups
Young Brazilians
Vanessa Giácomo [videos]
Vanessa Mendes da Silva Lima, commonly known as Vanessa Giácomo, is a Brazilian actress. She won the Most Promising Actress award at the 2005 Prêmio Contigo, Brazil, for Cabocla, and was nominated for the Best Actress …
Giácomo (2011)
Sophie Charlotte (actress) [videos]
Sophie Charlotte Wolf Silva is a German Brazilian actress. — Biography — Sophie was born in Hamburg, Germany. Her mother is German and her father is a Brazilian from the state of Pará. She moved to Brazil at the age of seven. At age 19, she left her parents' home in Niterói …
Sophie at TV Brasil
Chicken Little (2005 film) [videos]
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Baptism of Blood [videos]
Baptism of Blood is a 2006 Brazilian film directed by Helvécio Ratton, based on Frei Betto's book of the same name. Starring Caio Blat and Daniel de Oliveira as Frei Tito and Betto respectively, it follows the Dominican friars' resistance against Brazilian military …
31 Minutos [videos]
31 minutos is a Chilean children's television programme and franchise which takes the form of a mock news broadcast, and is fronted by puppets who present various items. It was first aired in March 2003 on Televisión Nacional de Chile and TV Chile. The programme was devised …
Title card in 2014.
Boca (2010 film) [videos]
Boca is a 2010 Brazilian crime-drama film directed by Flavio Frederico. The film was screened at the 2010 Festival do Rio.Inspired by the autobiography of Hiroto de Moraes Joanide, the film is set in the Boca do Lixo, a prostitution zone in São Paulo during the 1950s …
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Latitudes (film) [videos]
Latitudes is a 2014 Brazilian romance-drama film directed by Felipe Braga, starring Alice Braga and Daniel de Oliveira. The film tells the story of a couple who finds themselves in several places around the world, such as hotels, airports and train stations, in cities like Paris, London, Venice …
Road 47 [videos]
Road 47 is a 2013 drama film written and directed by Vicente Ferraz, based on real events, about Brazil's involvement in World War II. The film stars Daniel de Oliveira, Richard Sammel, Sergio Rubini and Julio Andrade. — The film follows the trajectory of some men of …
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Blue Blood (2014 film) [videos]
Blue Blood is a 2014 Brazilian drama film directed by Lírio Ferreira. It was screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. — Cast — Daniel de Oliveira — Caroline Abras — Sandra Coverloni — Rômulo Braga — References — External links …
Film poster
Cobras & Lagartos [videos]
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Nada Será Como Antes [videos]
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Actor José Dumont.
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Con: Vote no on I-976, which will slow our traffic and the economy
Oct. 11, 2019 at 11:30 am Updated Oct. 11, 2019 at 2:33 pm
Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times
Steve Mullin
Special to The Times
Every year, Washington residents spend hundreds of hours commuting and stuck in traffic. Our state has grown by 1 million people in a dozen years, making transportation for people and goods even more challenging.
The public has been clear and consistent: We need better roads and more transportation options. As a result, investments at the local and state level are being used to prioritize road improvements, increase safety for bridges and overpasses and expand mass transit services where they matter most.
Initiative 976 threatens to undo all of that, and will slow our traffic and the economy.
This isn't just about commute times, it's also about jobs. Huge amounts of raw materials, agricultural goods and manufactured products move via roads and railways. That's why our state's business, labor and environmental leaders have all come together to oppose I-976. We agree that I-976 threatens our economy and our environment. It is far too costly.
Pro: Vote yes on I-976 to reject dishonest vehicle taxes
In 2015, the Washington legislature passed a bipartisan transportation package that invests in all parts of our state. I-976 guts that package by cutting funds needed for projects like the widening of Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass, the west end of Highway 520, the widening of Interstate 405, and the desperately needed Highway 167/Highway 509 Puget Sound Gateway project in South King and Pierce counties.
I-976 cuts $4 billion in state investments in roads, bridges, overpasses, ferries and transit service over the next 10 years. That's not all. It would also cut $15 million per year from the Washington State Patrol, and threatens services like bus passes for low-income families, dial-a-ride, disaster relief transit, and tribal transit operations. Senior citizens, youth, veterans and people with disabilities depend on these services for basic mobility.
I-976 would also cut projects that have already been approved by voters, including Sound Transit. Cutting Sound Transit funds means the agency will have to borrow even more money to deliver on projects, and it will have to pay higher interest rates. Just like a pay cut makes it harder and more expensive to get a mortgage, the $7 billion cut to transit revenue leads to $13 billion in extra borrowing costs between 2021-2041, for a total $20-billion impact.
Our state allows cities and counties to raise local dollars to solve local transportation problems. I-976 promoter Tim Eyman wants to eliminate that money, too. Seattle's voter-approved Transportation Benefit District (TBD) pays for an extra 350,000 bus hours every year, helping to create the nation's only transit system with growing ridership. More than 60 cities use their local TBD for road repair and local maintenance projects. I-976 repeals cities' authority to use this tool.
In addition to the practical and human costs, I-976 hurts our environment. Transportation is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, and a robust transit system is critical to reducing emissions in our region and our state. Cuts to transit will force more drivers onto the roads, slowing personal and commercial traffic.
Eyman glibly suggests that the state could fund transportation out of the "rainy day" fund, but that's not a real choice. Rainy-day funds are needed to help us recover from major disasters and to protect schools, health care, social services and public safety during recessions. The only disaster here is the one Eyman proposes to create.
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Concerns about how car values are assessed are legitimate, but make no mistake, that's not what I-976 does. If it passes, we will have to go back to the drawing board and decide, once again, which projects get done, and which projects don't.
I-976 will cut funding support for our entire transportation system — roads, transit, bridges, ferries, rail corridors, and everything between. When that funding gets cut, all of us — individuals, families, workers and employers — pay the price.
Larry Brown is president of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, which represents the interests of 550,000 union members in the state.
Steve Mullin is the president of the Washington Roundtable, a nonprofit organization run by a board of senior executives from companies around Washington that supports education and economic development.
Alex Hudson is the executive director of Transportation Choices Coalition, a statewide policy and advocacy nonprofit bringing Washingtonians more and better transportation choices – real opportunities to take a bus, catch a train, ride a bus, or walk.
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Banking is our business – community is our passion.
Bendigo Bank's Community Bank® concept was initiated in the late 1990s in response to major banks withdrawing services from communities like ours.
Realising this opportunity, a band of local Ku-ring-gai identities lead the way to return banking services back to our community centre with Ku-ring-gai Financial Services Limited opening for business with the Turramurra Community Bank® Branch franchise in 2002.
In 2011 the Lindfield Community Bank® Branch was opened to further support the growing needs of our community.
Since 2002 the Turramurra and Lindfield Community Bank® Branches of Bendigo Bank have given back over $2 million to local not-for-profit charities and organisations that benefit our local community.
Programs providing funds to community groups include;
Community Grants Program
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Q: when to use hijack in golang? I don't understand why we use hijack, since I can write something into response body directly, could anyone explain this?
func writeSome(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    fmt.Fprintf(w, "write some thing")
}

it is same as this:
func hijack(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    hj, _ := w.(http.Hijacker)
    _, buf, _ := hj.Hijack()
    buf.WriteString("write some thing")
    buf.Flush()
}

I am confused

A: You can see one library (martini) which introduced hijack: issue 45
(Note: I don't recommend Martini, which is not idiomatic, but it is mentioned here only to illustrate hijack)

Would it be possible for your responseWriter type to implement http.Hijack?
  This would allow libraries like this websockets one to work with martini.

That issue refers to the following go-nuts thread, where one tried to embed the interface http.ResponseWriter in order to record statistics like bytes written and request duration.

Later on somebody pointed out some other interesting features of the http library, such as the CloseNotifier interface, and I realized the above code might not be such a good idea.
  Since I'm embedding an interface, I can't automatically inherit *http.Response's implementations of CloseNotifier and Flusher.

So, if you want to take over the ResponseWriter in order to:

*

*record more information (status, size, ..., calling hijack is probably overkill here),

*implement another protocol (like websocket, which "Upgrade" an HTTP server connection, calling w.(http.Hijacker))

Then you can consider using hijack.
But, as documented, after a call to Hijack(), the HTTP server library will not do anything else with the connection.
It becomes the caller's responsibility to manage and close the connection.
If not, as illustrating in this other question, then hijack isn't interesting.

A: Use Hijack when you don't want to use the built-in server's implementation of the HTTP protocol. This might be because you want to switch protocols (to WebSocket for example) or the built-in server is getting in your way.
The two snippets of code above do not create the same output on the wire. The output from the first snippet will include a response header:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 03:37:57 GMT
Content-Length: 16
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

write some thing

The second snippet bypasses the built-in server code and writes
write some thing

directly to the output.


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Q: The program scss is not currently installed I have been trying to install scss from here.  After sucessfully running pip install scss, I then tried to run scss as follows:
scss -i

However, I then got the error that
The program 'scss' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install ruby-sass

This is confusing because pip says that scss was installed correctly, and that the commands it tells me to install scss with is not the actual way to install scss.  How can I install scss?
Edit:  This is a ubuntu platform and doing import scss from the command line resulted in the error ImportError: No module named scss.

A: Make sure you have the original SCSS/SASS installed from here.

A: On Ubuntu, if I do the following, the python version of scss appears to work fine (mind you, I don't have experience with this module).
$ virtualenv so1
New python executable in so1/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip...done.
$ cd so1
$ source bin/activate
$ pip install scss
Downloading/unpacking scss
  Downloading scss-0.8.73-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Downloading/unpacking pyparsing (from scss)
  Downloading pyparsing-2.1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (42kB): 42kB downloaded
Installing collected packages: scss, pyparsing
Successfully installed scss pyparsing
Cleaning up...
(so1)$ python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import scss
>>>
(so1)$ which scss
<path>/so1/bin/scss
(so1)so1$ scss -i
SCSS v. 0.8.73 interactive mode
================================
Ctrl+D or quit for exit
>>>
Bye bye.
(so1)$

I've edited-out the paths above on my machine as those aren't relevant.
There should be no dependency on the ruby version of scss, as far as I can tell.  The only requirements are as stated in the python-scss documentation:
> python >= 2.5
> pyparsing >= 1.5.5

As I mentioned in the comments, your pip install scss probably failed for some reason.  You'll probably want to capture the log as suggested here.


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Xi Jinping orders China to become more self-reliant in technology
Elles Houweling 1st June 2021	(Last Updated June 2nd, 2021 09:53)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a national address on Friday that the country should accelerate its efforts in becoming self-reliant when it comes to science and technology.
At an annual conference consisting of the country's top scientists, Xi emphasised that China's scientific and technological independence should be seen as a "strategic goal for national development."
"The scientific and technological development must target the global science and technology frontiers, serve the main economic battlefields, strive to fulfil the significant needs of the country and benefit people's life and health," he said.
Xi also reiterated the country's goal of becoming a global leader in science and technology, saying that the Party Central Committee "firmly grasps the strategic goal of building a world power in science and technology and embraces the opportunities for global technological development as a core mission."
The speech comes months after the government pledged it would invest in major national scientific and technological projects to boost the country's self-reliance as part of its five-year plan.
Previously, China indicated its aim to supply 75% of its semiconductor demands with domestically manufactured chips by 2025. By 2035, the country wants to be fully self-sufficient in the semiconductor market.
According to GlobalData's thematic research, China has announced a $1.4tn state program to support R&D in key enabling technologies over the next five years. These include semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, 5G and 6G, data centres and cloud, quantum computing technologies, and low-earth orbit satellites.
This endeavour has undoubtedly been intensified by the continuing trade war with the US. Amid the tensions between Washington and Beijing, many Chinese companies have been banned from doing business with US corporations.
In this process, the US semiconductor industry is likely to shrink as China pushes forward with its domestic chipmaking abilities. The country has already made significant progress in 28nm and 14nm chip technology, a domain in which China aims to achieve parity with the US by the end of this decade.
In his speech on Friday, Xi also urged researchers to spend more time in labs and less time on events – a gesture that was broadly welcomed among the scientific community.
The President said that scholars ought to be freed from "unnecessary distractions, such as meaningless functions, events and administrative paperwork," saying that this was a necessary condition for China to become a technology superpower.
Xi's call for the country's top scientists to focus on their own disciplines and avoid too many external responsibilities can be read as a criticism of the country's bureaucratic distractions faced by many of China's top scientists.


text: Q: internet connection is suspended whenever I run an MS Access query Whenever I run a query in Access 2010, I can't use the internet.  My pages won't load until the query finishes and my downloads hang.  Anybody know why that is and how it can be corrected?


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The United States is setting a new record of violence
Joshua William November 29, 2022
Violence has increased dramatically in the United States this year. Gun attacks are happening almost regularly somewhere in the country. Along with that, the number of casualties also increased. According to the Gun Violence Archive, a US research organization, more than 600 people have been killed in gun violence in the United States as of November this year. 2022 may even be the second highest year for gun violence in the United States.
Residents of the country are spending their days in fear as a result of these attacks. Citing information from the Gun Violence Archive, an organization working on the use of weapons, CNN reported in a report that 3,179 people were shot in 607 gun attacks in the United States as of November 22 of this year. Among them, 637 people were killed and more than 2500 were injured.
More than 600 people have lost their lives in gun attacks this year
Statistics show that this number was slightly higher at the same time last year. In 2021, there were 690 gun attacks in the United States. A total of 3 thousand 267 people were shot. 645 of them died. On the other hand, in 2020, 2,873 people were shot in 610 attacks across the United States. Among them, 463 people were killed.
Analysts fear, there is still one more month left for the end of this year. If there are more deadly attacks this month, 2022 will become the second-highest year for gun violence.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been more gun attacks in the United States than the total number of days of the year so far. This trend has continued since 2019. In just one week in mid-November, 24 people were killed and at least 37 injured in gun violence across seven US states. There have been at least 32 gun attacks in the country since the beginning of November until the 22nd. A total of 177 people were shot and 43 killed in all the attacks. In the same period last year, 160 people were shot and 34 killed in 36 attacks.
Special precautions for travelers to the United States
Many countries around the world are concerned that gun attacks in the United States have become a casual affair. Therefore, several countries like United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Germany and Israel have advised the travelers of their own countries to follow the necessary precautions while traveling to the country.
The country's government has urged those wishing to travel from Australia to the United States to follow local guidelines and regulations. Canadians are urged not to travel to the US-Mexico border at night. The British government advised not to travel alone in isolated areas with the same instructions.
On the other hand, Germany, one of the closest allies of the US in Europe, has also told its citizens to follow the necessary precautions. Japan, New Zealand and Mexico have given the same advice. Also, despite strong ties, Israel has asked citizens to be cautious when traveling to the United States.
According to a report by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published last April, there are 390 million firearms in the hands of 320 million citizens of the United States because the opportunity to legally own firearms is very open. Demands for control of these firearms have been raised at various times, but no action has been taken due to the pressure of arms manufacturers and traders. Conversely, gun violence has increased during the coronavirus pandemic.
Firearm deaths in 2020 among children ages 1 to 19 increased by 33.4 percent over the previous year. In past years, the leading cause of death for young Americans was car accidents, followed by gun violence.
According to CDC research, 29.5 percent of the overall child and adolescent fatality rate in the United States is firearms. In addition to murder, shooting deaths include suicide, 'negligent' and 'accidental' deaths. Earlier, a separate study published last February in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that 7.5 million US adults bought a firearm for the first time in April 2021, which is about 3 percent of the population.
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Virginia Cora-Lee Seal, 25, of Jacksboro, appeared in court Thursday on aggravated child abuse and neglect charges.
According to the arrest report, an officer was called to Waggin Tails Pet Resort the morning of Oct. 9. Employees and a neighbor told the officer that they heard crying in the woods around 8:30 a.m. They walked into the woods and found the 23-month-old in a patch of brambles that they said used to be a hog pen.
A pit bull was sitting outside the lot and authorities said it appeared to be protecting the child. The little boy was wearing diapers and had a pink blanket.
DCS was called to take custody of the child, who was taken to the hospital for treatment of some fresh cuts and bruises.
Meanwhile, another officer was flagged down nearby by Seal. She said "there was a lot of people here last night and something went wrong." She admitted that she was high on meth and had taken her son into the woods and "gave him to a man in a blue fireman's jacket and that she heard her dad's voice and left." She later said she hoped it was her dad.
Seal was arrested and charged. Her case was bound over to a grand jury to see if a grand jury will indict her. She is being held in lieu of $100,000 bond.


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package org.apache.spark.ml.dsl.utils.messaging.xml

import com.tribbloids.spookystuff.utils.CachingUtils
import com.tribbloids.spookystuff.utils.CachingUtils.ConcurrentCache
import org.apache.spark.ml.dsl.utils.Verbose
import org.apache.spark.ml.dsl.utils.messaging.MessageAPI
import org.json4s._
import org.json4s.reflect.TypeInfo

object XMLWeakDeserializer {
  case class ExceptionMetadata(
      jValue: Option[JValue] = None,
      typeInfo: Option[String] = None,
      serDe: SerDeMetadata
  ) extends MessageAPI

  case class SerDeMetadata(
      reporting: Option[String] = None,
      primitives: Seq[String] = Nil,
      field: Map[String, String] = Map.empty,
      custom: Seq[String] = Nil
  )

  val cached: ConcurrentCache[Long, ParsingException] = CachingUtils.ConcurrentCache[Long, ParsingException]()

  trait ExceptionLike extends Throwable with Verbose {

    //    def metadata: ExceptionMetadata

    override def getMessage: String = detailedStr
  }

  class ParsingException(
      override val shortStr: String,
      cause: Exception,
      val metadata: ExceptionMetadata
  ) extends MappingException(shortStr, cause)
      with ExceptionLike {

    {
      cached.put(System.currentTimeMillis(), this)
    }

    override def detail: String =
      s"""
         |"METADATA": ${metadata.toJSON()}
         |""".trim.stripMargin
  }

  case class UnrecoverableError(
      override val shortStr: String,
      cause: Throwable
      //      override val metadata: ExceptionMetadata
  ) extends Error
      with ExceptionLike {

    override def detail: String =
      s"""
         |### [RECENT XML EXCEPTIONS] ###
         |
         |${cached.toSeq.sortBy(_._1).map(_._2).mkString("\n")}
         |""".stripMargin
  }
}

abstract class XMLWeakDeserializer[T: Manifest] extends Serializer[T] {

  import XMLWeakDeserializer._

  // cannot serialize
  override def serialize(
      implicit
      format: Formats
  ): PartialFunction[Any, JValue] = PartialFunction.empty

  def exceptionMetadata(
      jValue: JValue,
      typeInfo: TypeInfo,
      formats: Formats
  ): ExceptionMetadata = ExceptionMetadata(
    Some(jValue),
    Some(typeInfo.toString),
    SerDeMetadata(
      Some(this.getClass.getName),
      formats.primitives.toSeq.map(_.toString),
      Map(formats.fieldSerializers.map(v => v._1.getName -> v._2.toString): _*),
      formats.customSerializers.map(_.toString)
    )
  )

  def wrapException[A](ti: TypeInfo, jv: JValue, format: Formats)(fn: => A): A = {

    lazy val metadata = exceptionMetadata(jv, ti, format)

    try {
      fn
    } catch {
      case e: MappingException =>
        throw new ParsingException(
          e.getMessage,
          e,
          metadata
        )

      case e: Exception =>
        throw e

      case e: Throwable =>
        throw UnrecoverableError(
          e.getClass.getSimpleName,
          e
        )
    }
  }

  final override def deserialize(
      implicit
      format: Formats
  ): PartialFunction[(TypeInfo, JValue), T] = {
    val result: ((TypeInfo, JValue)) => Option[T] = {
      case (ti, jv) =>
        wrapException(ti, jv, format) {
          _deserialize(format).lift.apply(ti -> jv)
        }
    }
    Function.unlift(result)
  }

  def _deserialize(
      implicit
      format: Formats
  ): PartialFunction[(TypeInfo, JValue), T]
}


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'Running Mate': 4 workout tips for runners
Shane Newell
Running is a process of learning and unlearning.
In order to get better, it's vital to implement new techniques and habits. It's also important to train your body to overcome bad ones.
If you're getting set to take your running up a notch, here are 4 workout tips to incorporate into your weekly routine:
As a runner, pace is something that should always be taken into consideration.
It's easy to think that in order to become a faster and stronger runner, one must push their body to the brink during every workout. But the growing number of people who rely on heart-rate training think otherwise.
The crux of heart-rate training, according to Runner's World, is to train one's heart and aerobic system without working the body's other systems too hard.
"By working out in each heart rate zone, you're making sure you're not just pushing yourself to the max, you're also holding yourself back from pushing too hard, which can help you avoid overtraining," the magazine stated.
Following a heart-rate training plan will ensure you know how hard to go and for how long. Some runs may seem slow under this plan, but the long-term benefits could be worth it.
Watch what you eat
Like training, diet is one of the most important factors in determining how a runner is going to perform.
While some runners may enjoy greasy carbs or alcohol after a long run, most cannot afford to do so on a weekly basis.
With running, it's very important to consider what you eat before a long and strenuous workout. If one devours a 600-calorie-plus breakfast, they should wait at least three hours before going on a run, in order to let the body digest the food, according to Runner's World.
"When we have a large amount of food in our stomach, running is difficult or uncomfortable because our body is simply not designed to do both digestion and exercise at the same time," Runner's World stated. "Stomach cramps, stomach aches, or gastrointestinal (GI) distress are the most common complaints when trying to run on a full stomach."
If anything, it's best to err on the side of waiting more time between breakfast and long runs than not.
Also, avoid fiber at all costs. It's not worth it.
Never forget to stretch
Stretching is crucial.
Consider doing dynamic stretches before a run and static stretches afterward.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, dynamic stretching is recommended by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Why? It warms up the body and moves them in their full range of motion.
"Dynamic stretching combines the art of stretching with movement which helps to prepare the body for activity," the Cleveland Clinic stated.
"Examples of dynamic stretching include walking knee hugs to stretch the hips and glutes, walking leg pulls behind the back to stretch the quads, pump stretches for the calves and low back, the Spiderman stretch for the groin and hips and the inchworm stretch for the hamstrings," the clinic added.
Static stretching, which doesn't involve movement, is best done afterwards.
Cross-train, cross-train, cross-train
Running seven days a week is probably not a good idea.
The Des Moines Marathon said cross-training can work to prevent injuries, promote recovery and improve fitness.
In particular, strength training can help avoid muscular imbalances. Low-intensity workouts such as biking or the elliptical can ensure one's legs and joints aren't pounding the asphalt or concrete everyday.
Moreover, it helps prevent overtraining.
So next time you feel you must run more miles to get faster, think again about what your body might need.
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AG Heroes | The Invisible Killer
Written by Adri Hunsaker
Feb 12, 2020 8:00:00 AM
Tennessee — When George answered the a cell phone call on his drive home, he didn't expect to hear an AvantGuard operator on the other line.
Operator Tylin informed him that there was a carbon monoxide alert from George's alarm, and that anyone in the building should vacate immediately.
George was confused, as the building in question was his metal art design studio, and he didn't know what could be the cause of the alarm. He told Tylin that no one had been inside the building for the past two hours.
As required by law when a carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the local fire department had been dispatched to the location. Knowing that they would need access to the building, George decided to turn around. He lived 10 miles away, and informed Tylin that it would take about twenty minutes before he could reach the studio. Tylin said he would let the dispatch know, and the two signed off.
Later, a follow-up call was placed by AvantGuard operator Chelsey. She asked if George would like a system end test ran on his carbon monoxide alarm, to make sure it was still functioning normally and prevent a false alarm.
Instead, George informed Chelsey that he was currently with the fire department, and that the alert had been a real one, telling her, "I think that alarm just saved my building."
Known as the "invisible killer", carbon monoxide is caused by burning fuel, and when the gas builds up in enclosed spaces, it becomes poisonous to breathe in. While we did not receive a report of exactly what caused the carbon monoxide leak in George's art studio, winter does cause a higher rate of incidents, as people turn on their heating systems more frequently. It was fortunate that no one was inside when this happened, and that the fire department was able to respond quickly to the alarm George had installed.
AvantGuard is glad that thanks to the professional monitoring provided, the timely action taken by the fire department, and George's ready response, the situation was able to be safely handled. Having someone monitor your company even while you're away can help protect from otherwise hard-to-detect events, like carbon monoxide leaks. To learn more about monitoring for your business needs, reach out to AvantGuard.
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