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Yusef Salaam is the inspirational speaker and prison reform activist, who, at age fourteen was one of the five teenage boys wrongly convicted and sentenced to prison in the Central Park jogger case. In 1997, he left prison as an adult to a world he didn't fully recognize or understand. In 2002, the sentences for the Central Park Five were overturned, and all Five were exonerated for the crime they didn't commit.
Yusef now travels the world as an inspirational speaker, speaking about the effects of incarceration and the devastating impact of disenfranchisement. He is an advocate and educator on issues of mass incarceration, police brutality and misconduct, press ethics and bias, race and law, and the disparities in the criminal justice system, especially for men of color.
About Better, Not Bitter:
This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, that will inspire us all to turn our stories into tools for change in the pursuit of racial justice.
They didn't know who they had.
So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one's life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam's seven years of wrongful incarceration as one of the Central Park Five, he grew from child to man, and gained a spiritual perspective on life. Yusef learned that we're all "born on purpose, with a purpose." Despite having confronted the racist heart of America while being "run over by the spiked wheels of injustice," Yusef channeled his energy and pain into something positive, not just for himself but for other marginalized people and communities.
Better, Not Bitter is the first time that one of the now Exonerated Five is telling his individual story, in his own words. Yusef writes his narrative: growing up Black in central Harlem in the '80s, being raised by a strong, fierce mother and grandmother, his years of incarceration, his reentry, and exoneration. Yusef connects these stories to lessons and principles he learned that gave him the power to survive through the worst of life's experiences. He inspires readers to accept their own path, to understand their own sense of purpose. With his intimate personal insights, Yusef unpacks the systems built and designed for profit and the oppression of Black and Brown people. He inspires readers to channel their fury into action, and through the spiritual, to turn that anger and trauma into a constructive force that lives alongside accountability and mobilizes change.
This memoir is an inspiring story that grew out of one of the gravest miscarriages of justice, one that not only speaks to a moment in time or the rage-filled present, but reflects a 400-year history of a nation's inability to be held accountable for its sins. Yusef Salaam's message is vital for our times, a motivating resource for enacting change. Better, Not Bitter has the power to soothe, inspire and transform. It is a galvanizing call to action.
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Phoebe Zerwick, director and associate professor of the practice, is an investigative journalist, narrative writer, and web-based documentary maker who teaches writing and journalism in the Journalism and Writing programs. She came to teaching after 20 years at the Winston-Salem Journal, where she was a reporter, columnist and editor. In 2003, Zerwick wrote a series about the wrongful murder conviction of Darryl Hunt, which led to his exoneration. Zerwick has written for a wide range of publications, including Glamour, Parents, National Geographic, O, The Oprah Magazine, Our State, the Duke Law Magazine, and The Nation and her work has been recognized by The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists, Columbia University, and the North Carolina Press Association. Zerwick has a BA from the University of Chicago in General Studies (1982) and an MS from Columbia University in Journalism (1987).
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Ambac says may go bankrupt this year; shares sink
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ambac Financial Group Inc ABK.N, which was the second-largest U.S. bond insurer before suffering huge losses on risky mortgages, said it may file for bankruptcy protection as soon as this year after skipping a bond interest payment.
Ambac shares fell as much as 59.8 percent before closing down 50.4 percent, or 41.9 cents, at 41.2 cents on the New York Stock Exchange. Ambac bond prices tumbled and the cost of protecting Ambac debt against default rose.
The announcement is the latest setback for Ambac, which has struggled to stay solvent after the housing market collapse. Ambac had pursued higher profit by expanding beyond municipal bond insurance and starting to insure riskier debt. That move backfired as credit tightened and more borrowers defaulted.
In a regulatory filing, Ambac said it has been unable to raise capital to avoid bankruptcy and is in talks with a group of senior bondholders to pursue a bankruptcy filing that would preserve a $7 billion tax benefit.
Ambac said if it cannot agree on a "prepackaged" bankruptcy in the near term, it intends to seek Chapter 11 protection this year, perhaps without the support of creditors. It said this would cause $1.62 billion of debt to be payable immediately.
The New York-based company previously said it might seek a prepackaged bankruptcy, but that its liquidity might not run out until the first quarter of 2011. Failure to win creditor support could result in a lengthy reorganization.
"Ambac has been a corpse for some time," said Matt Fabian, managing director of Municipal Market Advisors, an independent research firm. "With the credit crisis ongoing and getting worse, it will make any kind of bankruptcy restructuring more difficult, and painful for creditors. The bankruptcy process appears to be going faster than investors expected."
Shares of Ambac topped $70 as recently as October 2007.
STOCK, BONDS FALL
Ambac and larger rival MBIA Inc MBI.N had been the largest bond insurers before losses on risky debt, including mortgages, caused them in 2008 to lose the "triple-A" credit ratings on which they depended to insure debt in the $2.7 trillion municipal bond market.
Ambac decided not to make a $2.8 million payment due November 1 on its $75 million of 7.5 percent bonds maturing in May 2023. It said it will be in default if it fails to pay within 30 days and bondholders may demand it repay all principal.
The next interest payment on Ambac debt is due November 15.
"We are actively working with an ad hoc committee of senior bondholders" toward a prepackaged bankruptcy, Ambac spokesman Peter Poillon said on Monday.
Ambac bond prices fell by about one-third on Monday, according to bond pricing service Trace.
Credit default swaps rose to 75 percent up front from 68.6 percent, plus 5 percent annually for five years, according to Markit. That means it costs $7.5 million up front plus $500,000 a year to protect $10 million of Ambac debt against default.
In March, Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Sean Dilweg, who regulates the company's Ambac Assurance Corp unit, seized $64 billion of Ambac's worst assets.
On October 8, he filed a rehabilitation plan for a segregated account containing those assets, which would pay policyholders a combination of cash and notes for their claims.
A state judge in Dade County, Wisconsin on October 25 rejected challenges by several banks acting as trustees for bondholders to the creation of the segregated account.
Hedge funds including Aurelius Capital Management LP and King Street Capital LP that say they own more than $1 billion of residential mortgage debt insured by Ambac Assurance are suing Ambac to stop it from siphoning assets from that unit.
A spokesman for Dilweg declined to comment. The hedge fund group did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
MBIA is also in litigation, defending against an investor lawsuit over a $5.4 billion restructuring coordinated by its main regulator, the New York State Insurance Department.
Fabian said Ambac can "at least for now" cover most claims in the municipal market, but may have trouble longer-term.
"The Wisconsin proceedings make any bankruptcy proceedings for Ambac that much less predictable," he said.
Assured Guaranty Ltd AGO.N, backed by billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, has been effectively the last insurer to write new municipal bond business after Ambac and MBIA backed away. But it lost its triple-A rating from Standard & Poor's on October 25.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel; additional reporting by Emily Chasan and Chris Sanders; Editing by Derek Caney, John Wallace, Dave Zimmerman, Andre Grenon and Richard Chang

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Why we still need permanent plots for vegetation science
Posted on October 18, 2020 by David Zeleny
Prepared by Francesco de Bello, Enrique Valencia, David Ward & Lauren Hallett
A dedicated researcher (Jan Lepš, Šuspa, with the help of Tereza Dudíková) doing an annual sampling of species frequency in a species rich meadow, Ohrazení, south Bohemia (photo from 2008). The sampling is now running for more than 20 years with the same sampling approach, and by the same person, ensuring consistency in the data. At the same time, the researcher also recognizes that his taxonomical abilities to distinguish the more complicated species in the site, often only using vegetative parts, improved with time while his vision abilities worsened. Photo credit: Jana Macková née Karbulková.
Permanent-plot studies have been identified among the six most important tools in vegetation science. However, most field and experimental observations are conducted only over short periods, often due to funding limitations, except in some exceptional occasions (see the above photo of Jan Šuspa Lepš and his student). At the same time, environmental drivers work over long time periods, the response of vegetation could be delayed (see extinction debt; Helm et al., 2006) and that the effect of management may have long-term legacies (Spiegelberger et al., 2006). With some notable exceptions, field and experimental observations do not exceed a few decades, often overlapping with the career of a few dedicated researchers. However, permanent plots are essential to highlight the inherent non-linear variability in plant communities and how community composition and function respond to global change drivers.
To stress the importance of permanent-plot studies, and their different applications to answer a variety of ecological questions, we organized a collection of studies for a Special Feature in the Journal of Vegetation Science. The papers in this Special Feature (with open access for six months from their publication) cover a number of long-term studies that show how permanent plots can be essential to answering a broad variety of important ecological questions. To test a variety of long-standing ecological theories, some papers focus on the unique characteristics of individual sites (Brambila et al., 2020; Burge et al., 2020; Collins et al., 2020 Fisher et al., 2020; Herben et al., 2020) or intensive long-term experimental manipulations (Hédl and Chudomelová, 2020; Liu et al., 2020; Rychtecká and Lepš, 2020; Ward et al., 2020). Others combine long-term datasets to identify general patterns across biomes (Ward et al., 2020, Valencia et al. 2020). This collection of studies provides several answers to the original question raised by Bakker at al. (1996), in another Special Feature in JVS, of why do we need to invest time, effort and funding in permanent plots. It aims at demonstrating the need for special funding schemes not based on short-term funding cycles.
A schematic representation of the variation of permanent plot data and their use to answer questions related to temporal trends and components of ecological stability (including resistance and resilience after pulses, stress and exceptional weather conditions). The overall stability is the result of the interplay between variations in environmental conditions and biotic interactions. Notice that, in practice, permanent plots usually cover shorter time intervals than resurveys of historical plots. The schema is Fig. 1 from this study.
In our introductory paper to the Special Feature, we also highlight the important distinction between permanent plots and vegetation resurvey. Both approaches are very useful to assess medium- to long-term trends in vegetation (see the schema above). The possible downside of vegetation resurveys (well covered recently in a stimulating Special Feature on Vegetation Resurvey in the sister journal Applied Vegetation Science) is the potential risk of relocation and sampling biases since the specific location of the resurvey plot is not always exact. Permanent plots, contrastingly, are based on regular observation of the temporal dynamics of vegetation using sampling units with a clearly fixed location in time, while keeping the sampling approach consistent (as in the first photo of this post). As further discussed in this Special Feature, frequent and regular sampling using permanent plots also allows the assessment of non-linear species dynamics and community stability (see the schema above) in addition to longer-term trends.
The collection of studies presented in this Special Feature embodies the output of many hours of dedicated field sampling and shows different directions and potential applications in the use of long-term sampling schemes using permanent plots. Indeed, we still need many efforts in the near and far future to maintain existing sites and inspire more ecologists to invest their energies in these rewarding sampling approaches (see the schema above).
Bakker, J.P., Willems, J.H., & Zobel, M. (1996). Long-term vegetation dynamics: Introduction. Journal of Vegetation Science, 7, 146. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-1103.1996.tb01958.x
Brambila, A., Chesnut, J.W., Prugh, L.R., & Hallett, L.M. (2020) Herbivory enhances the effect of environmental variability on plant community composition and beta diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31, 744–754. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12862.
Burge, O.R., Bellingham, P.J., Arnst, E.A., Bonner, K. I., Burrown, L.W., Richardson, S., et al. (2020). Integrating permanent plot and palaeoecological data to determine subalpine post-fire succession, recovery and convergence over 128 years. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31, 755–767. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12887
Fischer, F. M., Chytrý, K., Těšitel, J., Danihelka, J., & Chytrý, M. (2020). Weather fluctuations drive short-term dynamics and long‐term stability in plant communities: a 25-year study in a Central European dry grassland. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31, 711–721. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12895
Hédl, R., & Chudomelová, M. (2020). Understanding the dynamics of forest understorey: Combination of monitoring and legacy data reveals patterns across temporal scales. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31, 733-743. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12882
Helm, A., Hanski, I., & Pärtel, M. (2006). Slow response of plant species richness to habitat loss and fragmentation. Ecology Letters, 9, 72–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12882/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00841.x
Herben, T., Hadincová, V., Krahulec, F., Pecháčková, S., & Skálová, H. (2020). Which traits predict pairwise interactions in a mountain grassland. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31, 699–710. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12872
Liu, D., Zhang C., Ogaya, O., Estiarte, M., & Peñuelas, J. (2020). Effects of decadal experimental drought and climate extremes on vegetation growth in Mediterranean forests and shrublands. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31, 768–779. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12902
Rychtecká, T., & Lepš, J. (2020). Species traits are better determinants of mobility than management in a species rich meadow. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31, 686–698. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12926
Spiegelberger, T., Hegg, O., Matthies, D., Hedlund, K., & Schaffner, U. (2006). Long term effects of short‐term perturbation in a subalpine grassland. Ecology, 87, 1939-1944. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1939:LEOSPI]2.0.CO;2
Valencia, E., de Bello, F., Lepš, J., Galland, T., E-Vojtkó, A., Conti, L., et al. (2020). Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year-to-year asynchrony. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31, 792–802. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12916
Ward, D., Kirkman, K.P., Tsvuura, Z., Morris, C.D., & Fynn, R.W.S. (2020). Are there common assembly rules for different grasslands? Comparisons of long-term data from a subtropical grassland with temperate grasslands. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31, 780–791, https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12906
This is a plain language summary for the paper of de Bello et al. published in the Journal of Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12928).
Drivers of biodiversity depend on spatial grain and plant group: new paper from the EDGG Field Workshop to Bulgarian dry grasslands
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Q: The gaussian integers modulo a pair of complex numbers
Taking a pair of Gaussian integers $u,v$ satisfying
There exist $a,b \in \mathbb Z$

*

*$v^2 = av+bu$

*$u^2 = av+bu$

*$uv = av+bu$
(Diffrent $a,b$)
define the equivalence relation $\sim$ by $z\sim w \iff \exists a,b \in \mathbb Z, z-w=au+bv$
Let $\mathbb Z[i]/\sim$ be the gaussian integers modulo $u,v$

For example, if $u=2i,v=2$ we get a four element ring with $0,1,i,1+i$ with the multiplication table:
$$\begin{matrix} \cdot && 0 && 1 && i && 1+i \\ 0 && 0 && 0 && 0 && 0 \\ 1 && 0 && 1 && i && 1+i\\ i&& 0 && i && 1 && 1+i \\ 1+i && 0 && 1+i && 1+i && 0\end{matrix}$$
Are these objects studied?
Do any of you have a reference to an article about them?
if not, I have some questions:

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*is there a way to use $u,v$ to find properties of the ring? for example, in the example there was a nilpotent element, $1+i$, how could I have predicted it using $2,2i$?

*Do there exist pairs for which this is a field? if so, is there a criterion for these?

*Is there a criterion for when this is the zero(trivial) ring?

*Can this be expressed as some "multiplication" of normal cyclic rings? For example, the ring I mentioned is isomorphic to $\mathbb Z_4$($0 \mapsto 0, 1 \mapsto 1, 2 \mapsto i+1, 3\mapsto i$), I've been trying to do it on $2-2i,2+2i$ and have not managed it.

A: Another way to state your assumption about $u$ and $v$ is that the additive subgroup generated by $u$ and $v$ is closed under multiplication. Thus, this additive subgroup is close to being an ideal, but in general it need not be!
As a result, multiplication on $\mathbb{Z}[i]/\sim$ is not always well-defined. For example, let $u = 2, v = 3$. Then $u^2 = 4 = 2u + 0v$, $v^2 = 9 = 0u + 3v$, and $uv = 6 = 3u + 0v$. Note that $1 - 0 = (-1)u + 1v$, so $[1] = [0]$ in $\mathbb{Z}[i]/\sim$ (where $[\bullet]$ means "the equivalence class of $\bullet$"). If multiplication were well-defined, we would get
$$[m] = [m][1] = [m][0] = [0]$$
for all $m \in \mathbb{Z}[i]$, but this is not the case, for example $[i] \neq [0]$.
In fact, $([x],[y]) \mapsto [xy]$ is a well-defined ring multiplication operation on $\mathbb{Z}[i]/\sim$ if and only if the additive subgroup generated by $u$ and $v$ is an ideal. This turns out to be equivalent to the following:

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*There exist integers $a$ and $b$ such that $iu = au + bv$

*There exist integers $a$ and $b$ such that $iv = au + bv$
These two conditions actually imply the three conditions you gave! Note that your example of $u = 2i$, $v = 2$ does satisfy these conditions, which is why you got an actual ring out in the end.
For the rest of this answer, I'll suppose we've imposed the two conditions above instead of the three conditions you gave, so that these quotients always make sense as rings. Let $I = \{au + bv : a,b \in \mathbb{Z}\}$, which we now know is an ideal of $\mathbb{Z}[i]$, and let $R = \mathbb{Z}[i]/I = \mathbb{Z}[i]/\sim$. Let me try to answer your questions:

Are these objects studied?

Yes! It turns out that these objects are just arbitrary quotient rings of $\mathbb{Z}[i]$. Quotient rings are a basic construction in ring theory, and $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ is very well-studied.
Why are these things arbitrary quotients of $\mathbb{Z}[i]$? This is the same as saying that every ideal of $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ is generated, as an additive group, by two elements. This is true because every ideal of $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ is principal ($\mathbb{Z}[i]$ is a Euclidean domain), and the principal ideal $(x)$ is generated by $x$ and $ix$ as an additive group.

Do any of you have a reference to an article about them?

No, this would be like finding an article about cyclic groups -- these objects are too basic to be the focus of an article. To learn more about them, I'd recommend reading some introductory abstract algebra books (ring theory in particular). To dive a little deeper, you could read some introductory algebraic number theory, where $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ is an important classical example.

Is there a way to use $u,v$ to find properties of the ring? for example, in the example there was a nilpotent element, $1+i$, how could I have predicted it using $2,2i$?

Yes, there is a way to use $u$ and $v$ to find properties of the ring. Since $u$ and $v$ generate $I$ as an additive subgroup, they also generate $I$ as an ideal. Now $I$ is generated (as an ideal) by $x = \gcd(u,v)$. Note: the choice of $\gcd$ is non-unique, but any $\gcd$ will generate $I$, and you can compute a $\gcd$ using the Euclidean algorithm. In your specific example, we can take $x = 2 = \gcd(2,2i)$.
Now $R = \mathbb{Z}[i]/I = \mathbb{Z}[i]/(x)$ will have nilpotent elements if and only if $(x)$ is not a radical ideal (this is just by definition of "radical"). $(x)$ is radical if and only if $x$ is square-free (standard argument about PID's). An element of a ring is said to be square-free if $y^2 \mid x \implies y$ is a unit, and in $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ the units are $1, -1, i, -i$. In your specific example, $x = 2$ is not square-free, because $2 = i(1-i)^2$, so $R$ has a nilpotent element. In this case, we can choose the nilpotent element to be $[1-i]$ (which is equal to $[1+i]$), because $(1-i)^2 = (-i)2 \in I$. In general, to check whether or not $R$ has nilpotent elements, we do the following:

*

*Compute the prime factorizations $u$ and $v$ in $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ (there is an algorithm for doing this).

*Use these prime factorizations to compute $x = \gcd(u,v)$ and its prime factorization.

*If $x$ has any repeated prime factor, so $x = p^2 y$ for some gaussian prime $p$, then $[py]$ will be nilpotent in $R$ (in particular, its square will be zero). Otherwise, $R$ will not have any nilpotent elements.

Do there exist pairs for which this is a field? if so, is there a criterion for these?

Yes, $R = \mathbb{Z}[i]/I$ will be a field if and only if $I = (x)$ is a maximal ideal, if and only if $x$ is prime. This is actually particularly easy to check: $x = a + bi$ is prime if and only if one of the following holds:

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*$a = 0$, $\lvert b \rvert$ is prime, and $\lvert b \rvert \equiv 3 \pmod{4}$

*$b = 0$, $\lvert a \rvert$ is prime, and $\lvert a \rvert \equiv 3 \pmod{4}$

*$a \neq 0$, $b \neq 0$, and $a^2 + b^2$ is prime

Is there a criterion for when this is the zero(trivial) ring?

Yes. $R = \mathbb{Z}[i]/I$ is the zero ring if and only if $I = \mathbb{Z}[i]$, if and only if $1 \in I = (x)$, if and only if $x$ is a unit, if and only if $u$ and $v$ are coprime. Again, this is computable by just finding the factorizations of $u$ and $v$.

Can this be expressed as some "multiplication" of normal cyclic rings?

This is a little tricker, and the answer is no! See here for a general discussion of how to compute the isomorphism type of the quotient. Important examples are:

*

*If $x = a + bi$ with $a$ and $b$ coprime, then $R \cong \mathbb{Z}_{a^2 + b^2}$

*If $x = 3$, then $R \cong \mathbb{Z}_3[X]/(X^2+1)$ is a field (as discussed earlier), and we have $\lvert R \rvert = 9$ since this field is $2$-dimensional over $\mathbb{Z}_3$. Thus, $R \cong \mathbb{F}_9$ is not a product of quotients of $\mathbb{Z}$.

All of this is (more or less) elementary abstract algebra, so I'd recommend learning more abstract algebra if you want to understand these things more deeply.

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Physorg.com reports on a publication (December 2009 issue of Lab on a Chip) by IBM researchers about a microfluidics device that can monitor 5 ul of blood for antibodies against C-reactive protein which is released after a heart attack. The device features an architecture that reduces bubble formation and a closed pump driven flow that allows for detection of low amounts of C-reactive protein. The study states that the chip can detect 10 ng/ml of C-reactive protein in 3 minutes and below 1 ng/ml in 14 minutes. The chip can easily be adapted to other antigens by changing the antibodies in the reaction chamber.
This technology has great potential for rapid, accurate and affordable diagnosis. Future enhancements should make it possible to add more antibodies to the same reaction chamber and thereby detect several disease antigens at the same time. It should also be possible to perform a PCR or RT-PCR reaction which would then make it possible to detect RNA or DNA in the chamber thereby allowing the detection of living organisms faster than detecting them via antibodies.
Tagged with Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Microfluidics, Myocardial infarction, Polymerase chain reaction.


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Some pet pythons also might have escaped from a breeding facility destroyed during Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
The python was carrying 73 developing eggs.
The state has also sponsored removal programs with prize incentives, such as the Python Pickup Program and regular public hunts. The Everglades is a vast area with a tropical climate flawless for pythons to hide and thrive, CNN reported.


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MUMBAI: Bollywood actress Sunny Leone considered as the latest bombshell which is in demand. What's more with her rise in popularity chart has already started receiving dividend as she getting roles offered to someone else. So whose role has Sunny whisked away?
According to media media reports, Welcome sequel was to retain most of the original cast with new additions. But rumor has it that Mallika Sherawat has been removed by Sunny Leone. zoOm has been tracking Sunny Leone's popularity and she is definitely a rage amongst the youth.
Has Mallika Sherawat lost her charm? Well the filmmakers are having better opinion that she isn't as hot as she was during the making of Welcome.
Mallika Sherawat did post a few pictures of herself on a social networking site recently, but clearly they proved to be no match for our very own Leila Leone.
Well, looks like the makers of Welcome have welcomed Bollywood hot property Sunny Leone with open arms!
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Home / News / International Hospitality: a new double-degree MBA-MSc with Glion Institute of Higher Education
International Hospitality: a new double-degree MBA-MSc with Glion Institute of Higher Education
Grenoble Ecole de Management is partnering with Glion Institute of Higher Education, one of the leading hotel management institutions in Switzerland, to offer a new, unique double degree; an MBA combined with an MSc in International Hospitality in September 2018.
Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) continues its development in the fields of hospitality and luxury management with a double MBA-MSc degree from September 2018 with Glion Institute of Higher Education, one of the largest management schools hotelier in the world.
Designed to enhance career progression, the dual-degree program allows students to obtain an MBA and Master of Science in International Hospitality Business in only one academic year and one additional year on the job. This unique master's program combines an intensive practical curriculum with a focus on contemporary management challenges and key operational concepts. It prepares students to be holistic managers with a global view of business and strategies, to think critically and strategically and to adapt to a changing global environment.
The innovative format will require students to spend a year on the Glion campus following lectures delivered by both Glion and GEM faculty members, combined with a 12-month blended-learning experience while on the job. In order to earn their degrees, candidates will need to complete both a Final Management Project and a Hospitality Capstone Project.
"We are proud to partner with Grenoble Ecole de Management to (GEM), a triple-accredited institution to offer this dual-degree program. Students will obtain a Master of Science in International Hospitality Business, a graduate degree that transfers all the necessary skills for managing business operations and people in hotels and hospitality companies, together with the strategic skills of an MBA to become the undisputed leaders of tomorrow." said Georgette Davey, Managing Director of Glion Institute of Higher Education.
Apart from obtaining two specialized advanced degrees from two world-class institutions, graduates will have the opportunity to connect with industry experts, receive full access to the career services of both schools, as well as full membership to the alumni networks of both schools.
« Our MBA program at GEM stands out for its internationality and its emphasis on well-rounded professional development. Together with Glion's long-standing hospitality expertise and tradition of excellence, we will be able to deliver a stimulating double-degree program with a rigorous academic curriculum that directly applies to the dynamic hospitality industry." says Phil Eyre, MBA Program Director at Grenoble Ecole de Management .
GEM and the Hospitality and Luxury industry
Double-degree Hospitality and Management with l'Ecole Ferrières (Grande Ecole Program )
MOOC : The Geopolitics of Hospitality with l'Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne
MSc in Fashion, Design and Luxury Management on GEM's Paris and Grenoble Campuses
"Invitation to tableware" classes taught by Lycée des Métiers de l'hôtellerie et du tourisme de Grenoble (Program Grande Ecole)
MBA combined with an MSc in International Hospitality with Glion Institute of Higher Education
Career Talk : Line Andraos, Group Mergers & Acquisitions Director at Capgemini
What are the daily missions of a M...
Financial Times: Career, a strength of the MSc MIB
Published by the Financial Times on Monday 13th September, the Master in Management Ranking consolidates the MSc MIB strength on Career outcomes. The programs tops at 9th rank in France and 42nd rank worldwide, four ranks better than the performance...
La carrière, un point fort du MSc MIB selon le Financial Times
Le MSc MIB voit les avancées de carrière de ses diplômés consolidées par le classement Master in Management Ranking du Financial Times paru ce lundi 13 septembre. Le programme est classé dans le top10 Français, à la 9ème place, et se positionne à la...
QS Rankings: five programs of Grenoble Ecole de Management recognized in the rankings
QS Rankings are an annual event for five programs of Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM), since four years. Released by QS on September 9, the Master rankings 2022 evaluates the MBA and three thematic programs, in addition to the EMBA Ranking's...
Executive Education: A freshly revised program for Information System Managers
The Executive Education department at GEM revised its Information Systems Manager Program in order to better meet the needs of companies. Shorter, more flexible and divided into three distinct certificates, the revised program facilitates access for...
Is "fast fashion" coming to an end?
H&M, Zara, Forever 21, Gap, Bershka… Fast fashion brands are recognizable around the world. Despite representing 10-20% of the global fashion market, is this business model coming to an end?
Fast fashion : la mort annoncée ?
Le modèle économique low-cost, porté par quelques mastodontes du prêt-à-porter, s'essouffle-t-il au profit d'une mode plus « durable » ?
Grenoble Ecole de Management TOP 25 in Europe
GEM is ranked 6th best French Business School and 25th best European Business School in the final Financial Times' Ranking of the year. Announced December 9, this European Business School Ranking compiles all 2019 results.
Influence: a driving force in leadership
"Leading by influence", or the ability to convert the opposition and create alliances around a shared goal... Discover a new program focused on the importance of influence for effective leadership.
Global MBA Ranking: 5th place in France
The Financial Times has ranked Grenoble Ecole de Management's Full-Time MBA 28th in Europe, as published in the Global MBA Ranking on January 28th, 2019.
The Financial Times launches a new criteria: CSR
The 2018 EMBA Financial Times Ranking also introduces a new criteria: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM), was ranked 21st European program on this criteria.
MSc Finance: an international programme rising up
On June 18th, the Financial Times released the 2018 pre-experience Master in Finance's ranking. Our MSc Finance is ranked 16th worldwide (+5 ranks), 13th in Europe (+4 ranks) and 6th in France.
Rankings: Part-time MBA shows the quality of its participants
Grenoble's Part-time MBA is ranked 64th worldwide in the new EMBA ranking published on April 26, 2018 by QS.
New MSc International HR Management in the digital age
When Digital Systems are dramatically changing the way we work on a daily basis, Human Resources professionals have to adapt too. To that end, GEM continues to innovate and is now one of the first – if not the first – business school to introduce a...
LVMH & Grenoble Ecole de Management
Two significant events in collaboration with LVMH group and Grenoble Ecole de Management: Nicoletta Giusti , MSc FDLM Program Director, has been chosen for her expertise to be the school ambassador for LVMH inside event. Also, the representatives of...
Grenoble Ecole de Management and GISMA Business School open campus in Berlin
Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) is now delivering its Master in International Business (MIB) and MBA programs in Berlin, thanks to a partnership with GISMA Business School, which has opened its new campus in Berlin in January 2017.
Grenoble Ecole de Management retains top spot in France in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2017
Grenoble Ecole de Management is ranked 3rd best MBA in France and 92nd best in the world (gaining two places from last year) in the Financial Times Global MBA ranking published on 30th January 2017.
MBA : 3ème place française pour Grenoble Ecole de Management
Dans son édition de lundi 30 janvier 2017, le Financial Times classe le MBA de l'école grenobloise dans le top 100 des meilleurs MBA du Monde à la 92e place (en progression de deux places par rapport à 2016).
A Russian's Take on French Work Environments
A Russian perspective: "French marketing tries to provide a framework for customers and even change their point of view."
Témoignage : Le Français est diplomate et soigne son discours
Moscovite, Tatiana Okutina, responsable de la communication des projets d'aménagements chez Leroy Merlin, expose les différences de pratiques professionnelles
A jump of 20 places in the FT Emba world ranking 2016
Grenoble Ecole de Management's part-time MBA is ranked in the Financial Times 2016 Executive MBA ranking, published on Monday 16, October. The Grenoble program gained 20 positions . It is performing the highest progression in this year's ranking.
MBA enters the Financial Times top 100 Global MBA ranking
Grenoble Ecole de Management/GGSB's MBA is ranked 94th best MBA in the world, according to the Financial Times most recent Global MBA ranking, published on 25th January 2016.
New programs


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When requested how he conceived the thought for Disneyland, Walt Disney, as soon as mentioned he imagined there ought to be a fascinating place for fogeys and youngsters to have memorable instances collectively, however, this tangible story is extra complicated. Enchantment generally is a deadly job, and at Disneyland, the components for making goals come true consists of not solely pixie mud and engaging props and rides, however, the arduous work of very mortal beings performing in a dangerous world the place typically, issues go gravely flawed. And that's what occurred to a promising younger woman on the verge of getting the world at her ft, her goals have been reduced quick on that deadly day, and nobody will ever know what actually occurred whether or not it was a deadly mishap or sheer negligence. The loss of life of Debbie Stone is the only real fatality of a Disney solid member until date.
Deborah Gail Stone was the primary little one of Invoice and Marilyn Stone and was born on June 18, 1956, in Santa Ana, California.
Stunning and proficient, she excelled in teachers in addition to athletics particularly monitor and swimming. She graduated from the Santa Ana Excessive College with prime honors and obtained the Principal's Award for her excellent accomplishments.
She had simply enrolled herself for freshman 12 months on the Iowa State College and, as an excited teenager, longed to work within the land of goals―Disneyland.
As a way to save for her school tuition, she utilized for a summertime job at Disneyland and shortly landed herself with the coveted job of being a Disneyland hostess.
How did Debbie Stone Die?
On June 28, 1974, a musical extravaganza debuted in 'America Sings', whereby the automated wall rotation was reversed; the partitions moved in direction of one another on the left-hand aspect of the stage and closed in place to separate every theater from the opposite.
It's speculated that after the final present, around 10.30 pm, when the phases have been shifting place, the hostess (who at all times stands on the left-hand aspect of the stage), Debbie Stone might need crushing between the partitions of the 2 theaters.
At Disneyland, a significant trip referred to as 'Carousel of Progress' was redesigned to change into a brand new attraction, 'America Sings'. On June 28, 1974, an automatic musical extravaganza that paid tribute to the musical historical past of America debuted.
The trip featured six phases within the central nucleus of the constructing, these six theaters rotated round in sequence in order to permit the theater viewers to expertise every standard efficiency in sequence. The efficiency consisted of a 24-minute present that includes 4 large musical acts with a medley of interval tunes sung by animated animals. Throughout such a present, it was the job of the Disney hostess to face on the left-hand aspect of every stage and greet the viewers firstly of every present and bid them farewell on the finish of every present.
The one glitch was that within the earlier trip 'Carousel of Progress', the theaters moved across the nucleus in a clockwise route. This meant that the partitions on the left-hand aspect of the stage moved away from one another. However, in 'America Sings', the rotation was reversed, which meant that the partitions moved in direction of one another on the left-hand aspect of the stage and closed in place to separate every theater from the opposite.
On the fateful evening of July 8, 1974, Debbie Stone had a night shift at 'America Sings'. Simply earlier than her shift, she referred to as up her dad and mom and exclaimed to them that she was in love and needed their permission to get engaged, clearly her dad and mom have been joyful for her.
Somewhat later, at around 10.30 pm, when the final present obtained over and the phases have been shifting place in between the 45-second interval, a visitor from the adjoining theater heard a blood-chilling scream. When he and the operators rushed to the scene, they have been horrified to see Debbie Stone crushed between the partitions of the 2 theaters.
To this present day, nobody is aware of what precisely went flawed, there have been quite a few theories. Some state that Debbie could have been inclining in direction of the adjoining stage to speak to a fellow solid member, or she could have tried to leap from one stage to the opposite, or she could have been distracted and stepped backward without noticing. Regardless of the motive, the actual fact stays that Debbie was crushed alive because the rotating wall closed towards the stationary one.
After the ugly incident, Disneyland closed the trip for 2 days and the stage on which Debbie died remained closed for 12 months. Later, the phases have been put in with sensory lights to warn the operator if somebody went too near the partitions and extra adjustments have been made by fixing breakaway partitions in case the sensors failed, the trip remained operative until 1988. Then it was shut down, and the constructing remained out of date until it was refurbished in 1998 for a brand new attraction 'Innoventions'.
Debbie Stone was identified for her kindness and compassion and the folks whose lives she had impacted have been quite a few, most outstanding being a former classmate who claimed to have kicked his drug dependency due to her assist. Through the years, her household obtained quite a few letters from strangers and mates alike, who expressed their help and gratitude.
Her alma mater Santa Ana Excessive College renamed a pool after her and raised a plaque honoring her. Her classmates funded a 'Deborah Stone Award' to be given to probably the most excellent pupil in her accolade.
There have been city legends and Disney solid members declare that they've seen her spirit and may hear a voice warning 'Be Cautious' on the unlucky web site. Whether or not these rumors are to be believed or not, one factor is for certain, Debbie is guiding and serving to others even by way of her loss of life.
Debbie Stone could have lived a brief life, however, her recollections dwell on with those she beloved.


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Q: How do I avoid having two objects actually being the same (having equal memory address)? I have created a Node class which takes the a value (int) in the constructor. It also can store another Node as 'next'. I have found out that when I create a Node like this:
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in a method, and then on another call of the method creates the exact same object if the input is the same. Why is this? What can I do to avoid it? It's cauing issues with my program.


Una delle band rivelazione del panorama indie europeo. Il loro ultimo lavoro 'Siesta' da poco pubblicato da Fire Records (label che annovera nel suo roster Jane Weaver, Death And Vanilla, Rats on Rafts, Virginia Wing, Noveller e molti altri) ha suscitato pareri entusiasti dalla critica di settore ed è una delle uscite più attese di questo 2018. Una meravigliosa miscela tra indie pop, psichedelia sixties e melodie oniriche, tra Mazzy Star e Alvvays, tra i Pretenders e i Radio Dept, non perdeteveli!
It's been a quick rise for Swedish indie pop quartet Hater. Formed by friends in Malmö, the band released an EP with PNKSLM Recordings, earning them comparisons ranging from The Pretenders to Alvvays. They then released their full length debut 'You Tried', proclaimed by Gorilla Vs. Bear to be one of the best albums of 2017. Taking their musical cues from the likes of Alvvays, The Pretenders, Neil Young and The Radio Dept, all led by Landahl's gorgeous vocals, Hater soon drew a lot of attention, including praise from international music publications such as The FADER, The Line of Best Fit and Stereogum. The band made their debut UK show in London in 2017, and have since played at Roskilde Festival and around Europe. The band has then signed with Fire Records, joining Jane Weaver, Death And Vanilla, Rats on Rafts Virginia Wing, Noveller and Modern Studies at the forefront of the label's new roster. Hater are Caroline Landahl, Måns Leonartsson, Adam Agace and Lukas Thomasson.


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Week 26: How the Sitcoms Did
We only have final numbers through Wednesday, so we won't give the first four nights' numbers this week. That and the ratings analysis will return next week, if all goes well. We do however have this week's sitcom numbers below, but Thursday sitcoms are prelim ratings only, so that is why I don't have the ratings in total viewers for that night.
Last Sunday Sitcoms (counts for week of March. 5-11)
The Simpsons (Fox) - A new episode following NASCAR did 8.79 million...should be a bit better.
The Winner (Fox) 2 episodes - 6.39 million at 8:30, not good...5.56 at 9:30, even worse. Can't hold the lead-in's numbers well.
Family Guy (Fox) - 8.05 million...should be a bit better than that.
Monday Sitcoms
Old Christine (CBS) 2 episodes - The show returns from a short hiatus with 2 all-new episodes in an earlier slot...didn't pay off at all. Just 7.59 and 8.34 million, below average for the hour that CBS usually does, which is also not that great.
Two and a Half Men (CBS) - 12.71 million for a repeat....how good is that?
Rules of Engagement (CBS) - 11.47 million for a new episode...pretty good retention from lead-in...series low, though.
CW Monday Comedies: Chris, All of Us, Girfriends, The Game. A repeat episode of Chris started it off with 2.3 million, the highest of the block. The rest ranged 1.66 to 1.89 million. Consistent...
Tuesday Sitcoms
Wednesday Sitcoms
George Lopez (ABC) - 6.19 million...about what it usually does lately.
According to Jim (ABC) 2 episodes - A repeat at 8:30 was OK with 5.79 million, but a new episode against Idol at 9 did just 5.69 million, down more than 2 million from last week when it didn't face Idol.
In Case of Emergency (ABC) - 4.66 million...also down about 1.5 million from last week.
Til Death (Fox) - Best ratings by far ever because it followed Idol. 14.07 million...still lost 1/2 of Idol's 9pm half hour numbers.
Thursday Sitcoms
The Office (NBC) 2 episodes - 2 repeats, with new footage, did about the same as usual repeats do...4.3 and 4.2 HH rating.
Scrubs (NBC) - New episode followed with a 4.1 HH rating, held most of its lead-in's numbers, but that was a repeat...
Andy Barker, P.I. (NBC) - Just a 3.7 HH rating for the series premiere. Will it do worse next week?
Family Guy (Fox) 2 episodes - 2 repeats on a Thursday did a 3.8 and 3.4 HH rating. The second episode tied Barker's premiere in 18-49 with a 2.4 rating...SAD!
Friday Sitcoms
Saturday Sitcoms
Airing tonight (Sunday) are new and repeat episodes of Fox comedies.
Summing it up. Two and a Half Men, 'Til Death, and Rules of Engagement were impressive for the week. Everything else was OK (such as Old Christine, George Lopez) or just plain old terrible (such as Andy Barker, P.I. and In Case of Emergency).
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Columbus, Ohio – The Ohio State men's golf team will travel to Bryan, Texas, April 16-17 to compete in the 2005 Aggie Invitational. Texas A&M will play host to the event at the par 72, 7,235-yard Traditions Golf Club.
The event will tee off at 8 a.m. CST on Saturday with teams competing in 36-holes during day one competition. The tournament concludes with 18 holes, with play beginning at 8 a.m. CST on Sunday.
Complete tournament results will be available on the internet at www.aggieathletics.com at the end of each day. Live scoring can be obtained by visiting www.golfstat.com.
The Ohio State men's golf team posted its second-best three round total carding rounds of 276, 286 and 287 respectively en route to its best finish of year this past weekend at the 2005 Marshall Invitational. The Buckeyes lowest three-round total of the season came during the 2004 Barona Intercollegiate in San Diego, Calif., where the squad finished fifth.
Colin Biles, Scott Anderson and Zach Randol all finished in the Top 10 at the 2005 Marshall Invitational as they tied for seventh and ninth respectively, which marked the first time all season Ohio State had placed three individuals in the Top 10.
The Buckeyes have made a habit of finishing each tournament of the season on a high note as the squad has averaged just fewer than four fewer strokes in round two and three in tournaments this season. In round one the Buckeyes are averaging a score of 296.2. In rounds two and three Ohio State is averaging 292.5 and 292.7, respectively.
The Ohio State men's golf team posted its best finish of the 2004-05 season as it placed third with a total of 849 at the 2005 Marshall Invitational. Marshall University played host to the event at the par 71, 6,446-yard Guyan Golf and Country Club in Huntington, W. Va.
Colin Biles led all Buckeye individuals with a tournament total of 210. Biles carded a final round of even par 71.
The Buckeyes also received strong performances by Scott Anderson and Zack Randol. Both tied for ninth with a three-round total of 211.
The University of Louisville won the event with a tally of 837, while the University of Akron's Blake Sattler set an individual 54-hole record by posting an 11-under, 202 (69-68-65), breaking the record set by Ohio State's Kevin Hall in 2004 (206).
The Ohio State men's golf team returns to action April 23-24 as it competes in the 2005 Kepler Intercollegiate in Columbus, Ohio.


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Other forms of media were used to take advantage of the online publishing environment Signe chose. Short clips of audio are used to provide "voices" to LA's citizens (just roll your cursor over the photos of the citizens to hear their thoughts). Webtext (with links and stills) is used to "set the table" for the broader debate in LA, the politics of trash, and the international scope of the story. Various digital elements such as Google Maps, a Timeline, and infographics help Signe round out her multimedia coverage of this issue.
Every element of this multimedia news product — video, audio, text and digital — was created and completed by Signe alone. She even partially coded the site (with the help of a template). While she did received feedback and guidance from Annenberg faculty, Signe worked on this entire project by herself for less than one semester. This was her Graduate Capstone Project at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism; what the school uses instead of a thesis to decide if students have progressed enough to earn a diploma from our Journalism Master of Science program.
All those elements Signe completed for this project share one key starting point, one major idea: how do you answer the questions concerned consumers have about all the garbage they know they are producing every day? In order to get those answers, Signe conducted a major amount of research and tried to visit every major hub along LA's "trails of trash." She hiked across landfills, spent time in huge recycling plants, and gained access to industrial-sized incinerators operating in or near LA. At every stop, she made sure to try and get answers to the consumer questions she had collected.
The result is a textured body of multimedia reporting that takes the site's visitors across the LA-area as that city tries to deal with its sanitation issues. But that is not the end of the story. This project also draws connection between California, Japan, China and some European countries as they all try to deal with (and profit from) the massive amount of garbage generated world wide.


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On The Mysteries of Laura Season 2 Episode 4, we were treated to a very exciting cat and mouse chase. It was a true throwback to The Mysteries of Laura Season 1 Episode 1 and brought the case against Captain Hauser full circle and redeemed his character a little bit in the process.
Let's not waste anymore time and discuss, "The Mystery of the Convict Mentor."
I couldn't blame Laura for not wanting to take Hauser's calls considering he easily would have killed her had she not emptied his gun. At least Hauser was able to provide Laura with some intel on Tommy "The Irishman" Mullens. Of course Santiani would want Laura and Jake on another case, but Laura using cramps as a way to get out of said case was a genius move; though I'm surprised it worked.
Thankfully Laura kept the information of who her CI was until after her and Jake found the bodies because Jake would have never gone with her had he known the truth. I understand why Jake got upset because Hauser did try to kill Laura and, even though his tip panned out, she was putting a lot of trust into a man who was a convicted murderer.
I was a little surprised to hear Jake get mad about how quickly Laura is trusting Hauser, but she has no problem throwing the things Jake did in the past in his face. Looking at the big picture, what Jake did was wrong, but he has proven himself time and time again by being there for the boys and Laura. Still, Laura continues to keep him at arms length.
I'm sure Laura putting all of her trust in Hauser just made Jake even more angry. He made some valid points about forgiveness and trust – what does Jake have to do to earn Laura's trust back? Jake can only wait so long before moving on with his own life.
Going back to Hauser, did he really think Laura was going to make small talk with him? The fact she even showed up to talk to him was more than enough kindness. My only complaint about Laura talking to Hauser in prison is the previews gave away the twist of Hauser and Mullens escaping, so it wasn't a huge shock to the audience when it happened.
Of course Laura was going to be snarky about Hauser breaking out of prison, but she did make a good argument. They wanted all this information before she investigated Hauser's cell, but they neglected to keep a close eye on their own prisoner and could have easily prevented him from escaping.
I actually don't blame Captain Santiani for suspecting Laura was involved in Hauser's escape given the fact that everything lined up with her being involved. Captain Santiani had to do what was best for the precinct during the investigation, but Captain Santiani should have figured out by now, you can't make Laura do something she doesn't want to do.
Laura was the perfect one to be on Hauser's case considering she was with the guy constantly for two years and knew everything about his personality and could read the clues he left behind. I was happy to see Captain Santiani let Laura persuade her to go after the lead – I am slowly beginning to warm up to Captain Santiani.
In the end, the team was able to take down Mullen's who was about to shoot Hauser; though the most bittersweet moment came in the vent end when Hauser talked about losing Laura and apologizing which resulted in Laura giving him a hug. It was such a kind scene and showed how difficult it is to forgive people, but Laura is working on being a little more opened to forgiveness.
What did you think of Hauser coming back? Do you think Laura will eventually forgive Jake?
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On The Mysteries of Laura Season 2 Episode 5, when a woman, who was married to a big shot media reporter, is driven off the West Side Highway is murdered the team uncovers a shocking clue, but will they be able to find the man who killed her? Find out Wednesday, October 21 at 8/7c on NBC.
Quotables for Week Ending October 8, 2015.
Max: You will never in a zillion years guess who's on my phone.
Jake: Question, how is it that second graders have ten pages of math homework a night?
Laura: They have ten pages a week, I just make them do all ten on your night.
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