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Africana Islamic Studies
Edited by James L. Conyers Jr. and Abul Pitre - Contributions by Jinaki Muslimah Abdullah; Charles E. Allen Jr.; Toya Conston; James L. Conyers Jr.; Malachi D. Crawford; Rebecca Hankins; Kelly O. Jacobs; Bayyinah S. Jeffries; Emile Koenig; Abul Pitre; Ula Taylor; Christel N. Temple and C. S'thembile West
Africana Islamic Studies highlights the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. It specifically focuses on the Nation of Islam and its patriarch Elijah Muhammad with regards to the African American Islamic experience. Contributors explore topics such as gender, education, politics, and sociology from the African American perspective on Islam. This volume offers a unique view of the longstanding Islamic discourse in the United States and its impact on the American cultural landscape.
Pages: 202 • Trim: 6 x 9⅛
978-0-7391-7344-2 • Hardback • March 2016 • $88.00 • (£68.00)
978-1-4985-3039-2 • Paperback • August 2017 • $42.99 • (£33.00)
978-0-7391-7345-9 • eBook • March 2016 • $40.50 • (£31.00)
Series: The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies
Subjects: Social Science / Islamic Studies, Religion / Islam / General, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Regional Studies, History / African American
James L. Conyers, Jr., is professor and director of the African American Studies Program and director of the Center of African American Culture at the University of Houston.
Abul Pitre is professor and department head of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Prairie View A&M University.
Introduction, Abul Pitre
Chapter 1. "Raising Her Voice": Writings by, for, and about Women in Muhammad Speaks Newspaper, 1961–1975, Bayyinah S. Jeffries
Chapter 2. Take Two: Nation of Islam Women Fifty Years after Civil Rights, C. S'thembile West
Chapter 3. Elijah Muhammad, Multicultural Education, Critical White Studies, and Critical Pedagogy, Abul Pitre
Chapter 4. Bismillah—Message to the Blackman Revisited: Being and Power, Jinaki Abdullah
Chapter 5. The Nation of Islam: A Historiography of Pan Africanist Thought and Intellectualism, James L. Conyers Jr.
Chapter 6. Understanding Elijah Muhammad: An Intellectual Biography of Elijah Muhammad, Malachi Crawford
Chapter 7. The Peculiar Institution: The Depiction of Slavery in Steven Barnes's Lion's Blood and Zulu Heart;Rebecca Hankins
Chapter 8. Islam in the Africana Literary Tradition, Christel N. Temple
Chapter 9. Martin L. King Jr. and Malcolm X, Charles Allen
Chapter 10. Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam: Separatism, Regendering, and a Secular Approach to Black Power after Malcolm X (1965–1975), Ula Taylor
Chapter 11. "My Malcolm": Self-Reliance and African American Cultural Expression, Toya Conston and Emile Koenig
Chapter 12. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the Modernist and Minister Malcolm X the Postmodernist?: An Analysis of Perspectives and Justice, Kelly Jacobs
In Africana Islamic Studies, editors James L. Conyers and Abul Pitre have assembled a knowledgeable coterie of scholars on a diversity of issues pertinent to understanding Islam, both its domestic and global implications. I was reminded of Steven Barboza's American Jihad, and Africana Islamic Studies brings additional depth to the subject and expands the religion's historical importance via Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz).
— Herb Boyd, co-editor with Ilyasah Shabazz of The Diary of Malcolm X


I was a freshman in college the first time I saw Les Miserables on Broadway. I loved it. I spent hours with a borrowed soundtrack in the radio station listening to the songs on (of all things, an ancient artifact) the newsroom turntable. So I was skeptical that I would love the movie version of this grand story of the French student uprising of 1832 and the inner turmoil of the characters of Fantine (Anne Hathaway), Jean Valean (Hugh Jackman) and Javert (Russell Crowe).
Plays often don't translate well to the big screen in my opinion but Tom Hooper, the movie's director does a great job in dismissing that in the opening scene where prisoners sing the chain-gang opening "Look Down" while pulling a massive boat to shore as waves crash all about them. You even don't recognize an emaciated Jackman as Valjean and get to sneer at Crowe as he walks a ledge above them as they taunt him…the taunts from below that eventually drive Javert to his suicidal death.
The story is really less about a group of revolutionary students being put down by the oppressive government, as it is about the inner-turmoil of both Valjean and Javert. Valjean is a paroled prisoner, who was sent away for 5 years for stealing bread so that his niece might survive the night (we never know if she does, and I often assume she doesn't, driving his hatred for the law further) and then nearly 15 more for trying to escape. Now free, he discovers that he must reinvent himself to survive because nobody will give an ex-con a chance, a fate that often befalls many who have served their time. So he breaks parole and tries to live life on the lam from Inspector Javert who is obsessed with bringing him to justice. He successfully becomes a Mayor of a small town and runs the town factory–a seamstress factory presumably. It is there we encounter Fantine, who is fired from her job by one of Valjean's underlings after a scuffle with her co-workers who have treated her unjustly. Forced to the streets to sell her body—and not just as a prostitute, she sells her hair and teeth too, to support her daughter, Fantine curses her life.
Add one more to the list with Hathaway's "I Dreamed a Dream" which is the highlight of the film. Hooper has his actors sing live instead of matching a lip synched version with a soundtrack and the results are unpredictably off the charts fantastic, but more so, with Hathaway's haunting, chin-quiverring, tear soaked solo. She shows great acting chops here, as well as a great voice and probably has the Oscar for Best Actress wrapped up. Here's some of it in the trailer.
It's the biggest moment of the show, but it's not the only highlight. Jackman as Valjean, initially left me a bit flat at the start of the film. He lacks a bit of depth and seems at times overmatched by the high falsettos required. Colm Wilkinson, who invented this role on stage has a cameo as the Bishop who saved Valjean and sends him off to become a better man. However, after the death of Fantine, Jackman comes into his own in the role, comforting the young Cosette and taking her into his care. It's the sensitive Valjean that he plays well, while the haunted Valjean never heats up until we get to the barricades and the sewers.
Russell Crowe has a weaker voice than Jackman in general, but he over-delivers in this, capturing Inspector Javert perfectly. I've heard Crowe sing before and he's often good and here his tones are a bit muted, but that fits the conflicted Javert well.
The surprise of the film comes in the form of Eddie Redmayne who plays Marius, the young revolutionary who falls in love with Cosette and who Valjean saves from harm so that he can care for her. His rendition of "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" is believable, appropriately sad and well-acted and sung. His duet with Eponine "A Little Fall of Rain" (Played by Elizabeth Barks, who also starred in the role on stage and also shines here) is also well done. A nice surprise.
Less of a surprise but, a wonderful respite from the melancholy story is Sasha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter who play the Thenardiers, the so-called "Master of the House" and his wife. They have taken Cosette into their care but they abuse her and then try to shyster Valjean into overpaying for her after Fantine's death. They are comic relief and not at the same time. "Wickedly delightful" is how I would describe the role and they both deliver well, Cohen especially. The cinematography here tries a bit too hard, but the acting is superb, especially when Cohen gets the child's name wrong on several occasions.
Crowe shines in Javert's suicide and for the first time, this character's actions add up to his eventual choice. In previous versions it didn't seem to make sense to me that Javert would choose to kill himself but, here Crowe makes the case both believable and haunting. He walks the tightrope on the ledge more than once providing great foreshadowing and excellent acting and singing. The fall into the water is gripping and is one of the places that the film takes advantage of the opportunity it provides over the stage version.
Lastly, there is the role of religion in the film. Besides the obvious of the Bishop's forgiveness and Valjean's running to the convent and the schmaltzy final words of Valjean "To love another person is to see the face of God" religion's role is stronger here than in the stage version. Redemption is the central theme. What kind of God would have the poor suffer in such a way? As the students are slaughtered, including a horrid scene of a child being shot (Gavroche), one cannot help but think that the age old question not of why-do-bad-things-happen-to-good-people, but rather, why-do-GOOD-things-happen-to-BAD-people instead. Valjean on the run never really catches much of a break, while the hateful Javert lives shielded by law and order.
Forgiveness also runs through the film as a secondary theme. Fantine wants forgiveness from her daughter for placing her in harm's way. Hathaway's appreciation of Valjean seems to get him off the hook, albeit for Valjean's inability to forgive himself for what he knows is an imperfect life despite his valor. It is only in Marius where Valjean can have redemption. The wide-eyed revolutionary who is too headstrong but has honor and a heart for the poor ends up back with his bourgeois family, but something seems to change both him and his family tree. Perhaps a light at the end of the tunnel, rests now in the prodigal son's return to his family, now forever changed by the experience of nearly losing him? Or perhaps it is the realization that upholding the law does not equate to grace?
Whatever the case, we'll not know from the film. But the Victor Hugo book explored that theme throughout and is well worth a re-visit.
Head out and catch the film, it's well worth it. And not only will you hear the people sing, but you'll find yourself doing that as well.
But as good as the film is, there's nothing like the play.


In 2003, when Manny Gigante was 29, he suffered a stroke. He was playing paintball as a referee and suddenly felt weak. Manny tried to drive a stickshift car back home 10 miles away from where he was playing. He had no idea how he made it home. By the time he opened the door, Manny lost the strength in his leg and collapsed. Manny's wife rushed him to the Emergency Room.
Before the stroke, he was a network engineer and technology consultant in the Silicon Valley. He worked so hard that his working hours sometimes exceed 23 hours a day.
After stroke, Manny spent 2 years in a wheelchair. In 2005, Manny lost his son due to an accident.
Although he was supported by his wife and three other kids, Manny found it hard to adjust to this sequence of tragedy. He disconnected himself from his old friends and even family members. Manny sank into deep depression. However, he later realized there were so many things to be grateful for. Instead of playing sports with his kids, he could coach them to be better human beings. Local support groups turned out to be very helpful.
Many years later, Manny has totally reinvented himself. He entered real estate business. Now he is working as a social network specialist for a number of startups in Silicon Valley. Manny is devoting a lot of time to help the local stroke community.
Manny's daughter who is 21, wants to become an Occupational Therapist because of her dad's experience.


At Greenhouse, we're big advocates for living sustainably – from cycling to work to choosing organic whenever possible. But how often do we stop to think about how what we put on our bodies is just as important as what we put in them?
The way our beauty products are sourced and produced can have a big impact on the planet. We strive to support brands that focus on using sustainable ingredients, reducing their environmental footprint and ensuring a fair wage for producers.
Sustainability is part of Neal's Yard Remedies' DNA. Founded in 1981, they were one of the first beauty brands to be certified by the Soil Association and now make almost all of their products at their eco–factory in Dorset. This Earth Day, they celebrated 10 years of being Carbon Neutral, after becoming the UK's first high street retailer to do so in 2008.
Sales of their Bee Lovely range have ensured 50 million bees will be supported by 2020. Local communities are also seeing benefits, with one third of donations going towards support for supplier development.
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As part of their new brand purpose, "Clean to skin. Clean to planet" they recently pledged a commitment to transition to zero waste by 2021. As part of the pledge, the brand will partner with the Surfrider Foundation and their UK affiliate Surfers Against Sewage to protect clean water and healthy, plastic-free beaches.
All products are made from natural botanicals, nourishing vitamins and pure essentials oils sourced from UK suppliers. The Soap Co also tick boxes when it comes to sustainability by using old milk bottles which have a 45% lower environmental impact than regular PET bottles. The film on the bottle is made from renewable wood pulp and the sticky labels used can be composted.
• Build bio-bridge to protect and regenerate 75 million square meters of habitat helping communities to live more sustainably.
• Develop three sustainable packaging innovations.
• Power 100% of stores with renewable or carbon balance energy.
• Reduce the environmental footprint of store refurbishments.
Skin and Tonic like to do things simply, honestly and ethically. We love that they use ingredients that are certified organic by The Soil Association and source from Fair Trade women's co-operatives in Ghana. The women in this co-operative earn an income by collecting, processing and selling shea nuts, shea butter or coconuts. The income generated helps them provide an income for their families and send their children to school.
The brand uses 100% recyclable glass containers and will soon be providing refills to save on packaging – helping us all on a journey towards closing the loop!


Until women reach true equality in the workplace, they will likely continue to suffer higher rates of workplace anxiety than their male counterparts.
Who are some of Ethiopia's leading women?
More often than not, quotas aren't presented as the answer to a systematic problem, but rather another form of driving social division and discriminating against men.


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A digital learning platform is an integrated set of interactive services online that give teachers, parents, learners, and administrators information, tools, and resources, to enhance educational delivery and management. When it is used correctly, it can reduce teacher workload, minimize expenditure on administration and IT, and improve the quality of teaching experience and learning.
Digital learning has the power to bring a classroom to life with adequate features that benefit both the teachers and students. These platforms work well with students to master content. They also prepare them with the technical knowledge and skills needed for the future courses and carriers. The following are the benefits of digital learning platforms.
Digital learning platforms improve the organization of communication and information. They do so by assisting a school in ensuring that every parent, teacher, student and administrator is provided with the access to the information they need.
Using digital learning platforms provide parents with information about the progress of their child and school news. This, in the end, enables the learner to get more support from their parents to keep going on with their learning.
Online education platforms have provided bigger opportunities for interaction and collaboration between schools and teachers to merge resources and expertise, and better collaboration between learners.
These learning platforms provide many benefits to teachers and administrators by saving several labor tasks they need to do every day. As a result, the school gets more time for focusing on their teaching activities.
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Reminiscent of Mission style furniture, this style showcases the beauty of wood's fine grain.
A classic Arts & Crafts style made in the tradition of Mission type furniture — a design that emphasizes simple horizontal and vertical lines and flat panels that accentuate the grain of the wood. Mission Style is a design that emphasizes simple horizontal and vertical lines and flat panels that accentuate the grain of the wood.


Ed interviews Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute (and the man who helped draft President Reagan's epochal "Tear down this wall" speech in 1987) about his new Ricochet.com venture with Mark Steyn and Rob Long.
James Lileks on President Obama's press conference yesterday, and the odds of North Korea crossing the 38th parallel.
From PJTV's Trifecta, Steve, Bill Whittle, and Scott Ott of Scrappleface on the MSM's ever-so cordial reception to Rand Paul's national debut.


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National Column: Conservatives show little regret after Scheer win
Jun 6, 2017 Columns, Editorial & Opinion, National News Comments Off on National Column: Conservatives show little regret after Scheer win
by Chantal Hebert
For all the talk about a split party and the possibility that all was not right with the vote count, there is little evidence to date that many Conservatives are having second thoughts about Andrew Scheer's leadership victory.
Those of us who covered the 2006 Liberal leadership campaign and StÈphane Dion's come-from-behind win know what buyer's remorse looks like. In Dion's case, the first symptoms of what would eventually become a widespread party malaise manifested themselves in the minutes after his victory was announced.
Those initial doubts were particularly acute inside Dion's caucus and within the Liberal ranks of his home-province. His first question period duel with then-Prime minister Stephen Harper did little to dispel them. Dion was never a House of Commons natural, a fact compounded by his limited effectiveness in English.
As Thomas Mulcair has recently demonstrated, a strong performance in question period is not a harbinger of an election victory, but in opposition it does go a long way to unite a caucus behind a leader. Between a leadership victory and an actual election campaign, question period is the main venue where party members get to see a rookie leader in action.
On that score, Scheer, who spent the last Conservative mandate in the Speaker's chair, has the benefit of knowing the Commons inside out.
The need to balance the expectations of caucus loyalists with the necessity of building bridges to other leadership camps is usually one of the first challenges of an incoming leader. Dion never had that problem for few of his colleagues, in particular in Quebec, had supported his bid. As a result, from Day 1, his back was more exposed than average to whatever knives would come his way.
If there was a Dion look-alike on the final Conservative ballot, it was not Scheer but rather his main rival Maxime Bernier.
The Beauce MP did better in Quebec than Dion had, but he polarized his home-province in much the same manner.
Since the leadership vote, La Presse has broken down the Quebec results. From a different angle, so did the CBC.
The numbers essentially show that both front-runners benefited from the party's chronic weakness in the province.
Of Scheer's 10 best scores, La Presse found that seven were registered in Quebec ridings. At 89.06 per cent, the new leader's score in Richmond Arthabaska – the seat of MP Alain Rayes – ranked a close second to the result in his own Saskatchewan riding. A mere fraction of a percentage point separated the two.
At Saturday night's annual press gallery dinner, Scheer joked about owing his victory to a lobby of Quebec dairy farmers, but as La Presse's research illustrates, the contribution of that lobby to the result was real enough.
Scheer's support came massively from rural Quebec. Some of his largest margins of victory were registered in the province's dairy industry heartland, in ridings where opposition to Bernier's plan to do away with the supply management system ran highest.
But Bernier's Quebec score also rested on flimsy foundations.
The CBC reported that fewer than 100 votes had been cast on the first ballot in 43 of Quebec's 78 ridings. Notwithstanding the modest size of their membership, those ridings were worth as many points as those that were home to thousands of Conservatives.
Bernier won 30 Quebec orphan ridings. In the greater Montreal area, a region that consistently gave the Conservatives the cold shoulder over the Harper decade and still does to this day according to the polls on voting intentions, he won all but one riding.
The dairy farmers who backed Scheer may not have as strong an incentive to support the Conservatives against pro-supply management Liberal, New Democrat and Bloc QuÈbÈcois candidates in 2019. But Bernier's strength in his home province was at least in part based on the party's relative absence in urban Quebec. It is typically hard to build on a vacuum.
Like most Quebec Liberals in 2006, most 2017 Quebec Conservative MPs believed their re-election odds would be better with an out-of-province leader than with one of their own.
In between those two leadership campaigns, Stephen Harper and, to an even greater degree, Jack Layton demonstrated that a political outsider could be competitive in Quebec.
In time, Scheer may fail to live up to the high hopes of his party. But if that happens, it will not be because he brought a weaker Quebec hand to the table than that of his main leadership rival.
Copyright 2017 and distributed by Torstar Syndication Services
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Q: Haskell Not in Scope: Type constructor or class `PushInt' I have my own data type that states:
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and I have a function, with which I'm trying to extract the number from the PushInt with:
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But when I try to run this, I get an error stating:
Parser.hs:32:19:
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As far as I knew I was allowed to extract a field from data with this method. I'm pretty sure that this is just a really simple mistake, but any help is appreciated.

A: Wow, was I right about a 2 am mistake. The function
extractNum :: PushInt -> Int
extractNum (PushInt n) = n

should be
extractNum :: Commands -> Int
extractNum (PushInt n) = n

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Footballers from two of Shropshire's best known companies will get a chance to display their skills at Shrewsbury Town's Greenhous Meadow Stadium on Friday, April 28.
For the third year running, award winning caravan dealership Salop Leisure in Shrewsbury will take on rivals from Greenhous Group in their annual charity football match, which this year is raising money for playground equipment at Severndale School in Shrewsbury. Entry costs £1 and match kicks off at 7pm.
The score to date is 2-0 to Salop Leisure but the men from Greenhous Group won a cricket match between the companies.
Mike Harris (left) from Salop Leisure and Paul Smith, Greenhous Group's captain, prepare for the annual charity football challenge.


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Q: Does a process waiting on a network response take cpu/ram resources? For example, a Ruby script that sends an HTTP GET request. Whilst waiting/receiving the response, is that process using CPU or RAM resources?
If the response takes 500ms, does that mean thats 500ms CPU/RAM is taken and cannot be used? Or does the process go into a kind of "sleep" state until the request is received, freeing up resources in the mean time?

A: It doesn't consume your CPU but it will not free the memory that is already allocated. It will just wait (sleep) till the data is available.


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This is a lovely submission by my friend and poet, Christine Poreba, who specializes in many arts, among them, dog poetry. Enjoy!
What need do dogs have for time?
command for I'll see you soon.
Count the days off on your paw.
missing, then that joy again.
Would you like to be entered to win a free, autographed copy of Counting Backwards? Submit your poem to lauralascarso(at)yahoo(dot)com during National Poetry Month (April) for your chance to win!


About :Checco, a guy who works as a bouncer at a nightclub in Brianza, dreams of becoming a policeman, like his uncle Joseph Capobianco, but for a series of funny circumstances, is rejected at the interview with Colonel Gismondo Mazzini three times in a year. But thanks to a recommendation of the Archbishop of Milan, he finds himself working as a security officer at the Cathedral: here, at work (not quite done in the best way), knows Farah, an Arab girl who pretends to be a student of architecture to have access to Madonna, at whose feet actually meditates to deposit an explosive device with the help of his brother and two other accomplices Sofien Arab terrorists to avenge the killing of her family in a bombing unspecified. He became guardian of the Virgin Mary, Checco immediately hooked bait Farah, he Puglia Taranto mother and her "French mother Bina" (North African), but not what the guy imagine is that the greatest threat to the next and the Italian artistic heritage is represented by the same Checco. Farah, however, refuses to carry out his plan through his friendship and humanity shown by Checco and his family forced to return to his country, delivery Checco that the suitcase would contain the bomb, but there is no (in case there is only one model of the house Checco, which conceals the activation mechanism of the bomb), because the girl he left in a dilapidated property trullo Checco, inherited from the grandfather of Alberobello (for the that demolition was necessary and he 10,000, triggering the bomb and making it explode, has solved the problem).


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Montana law provides that individuals or other business groups may start a Montana corporation for either business or charitable purposes. After deciding which kind of corporation to establish, filers can go online and obtain filing forms from the Montana Secretary of State. Filers fill out the forms and submit them with a corporate filing fee to start a corporation in Montana.
Go online to the Montana Secretary of State's "Business Forms" page at Sos.mt.gov/Business/Forms/index.asp. On this page, you can find links to the two relevant filing forms for Montana corporations. Click on the "Domestic" links under for-profit corporations to start a business. Use the "Domestic" link for Montana nonprofits to start a charity, church, school or similar non-business organization.
Fill out the appropriate "Articles of Incorporation" for the Montana business you wish to form. These forms provide only the generic minimum articles for creating a Montana corporate business. You should consult a Montana business attorney if you have any questions or concerns. For example, obtaining federal tax-exempt status for a charity requires the use of certain provisions in your nonprofit "Articles of Incorporation." Look up and study Publication 557 on the IRS.gov website to determine how to handle the process for obtaining tax exemption for your Montana nonprofit.
If you have additional questions, you may call the Business Services office at 406-444-3665.
Note: Before completing and submitting your articles, you should check to make sure that your desired corporate name is still available. Montana has a "Business Entity Search" page at App.mt.gov/bes/ for this purpose. Enter the name you would like to use and run a search to determine if your name is already registered by a different company. Choose a different name to avoid legal problems if a name is already in use.


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Dont say a word. (Zeitgeist Films)
Film Reviews: 300, East of Havana
LA Weekly March 7, 2007
Spartans, ripped and ready for battle (Warner Bros. Pictures)
300 Long
ago there reigned a clan of Speedo-wearing, militaristic psychopaths
called the Spartans. They lived beneath a copper-colored sky, on a
copper-colored land, amid copper-colored fields, in copper-colored
homes made from copper-colored stone. Legend has it they would outline
their copper-colored pecs and abs with ash to enhance their manly
buffness, and yet these were men of action and honor, not "philosophers
and boy lovers" like their namby-pamby rivals the Athenians. Such
machismo was memorialized by Frank Miller in 300, his
graphic-novel retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, in which the
titular quantity of Spartan studs fended off a billion gazillion
Persian invaders. Marshaling the full resources of high-end computer
imaging and the full capacities of hardcore fan-boy nerditude,
writer-director Zack Snyder (he of the unexpectedly decent Dawn of the Dead
remake) has now brought Miller's book to "life." Slathering pancake
makeup on its actors, then pasting them into digital backgrounds, 300 takes the synthetic blockbuster one step closer to total animation; its bland, weightless monochromatics make Sin City
look like the grungiest neo-realism. It's a ponderous, plodding,
visually dull picture that escapes inertia only in certain action
scenes, of which there are enough to satisfy the action-buff blood lust
the film seeks to aggravate and sate. Here and there, Snyder makes good
use of the lesson of The Matrix, slowing the slices, dices and
decapitations to a digitally calibrated crawl, the better to relish all
360 degrees of their stupendous ass-kickery. Tolerate the lobotomized
dialogue and some half-assed political intrigues and you'll find a good
10 minutes of 300 worth posting on YouTube. Delicacies of dismemberment aside, 300
is notable for its outrageous sexual confusion. At first glance, the
terms couldn't be clearer: macho white guys vs. effeminate Orientals.
Yet aside from the fact that the Spartans come across as pinched,
pinheaded gym bunnies, it's their flesh the movie worships. At once
homophobic and homoerotic, 300 is finally, and hilariously, just hysterical. (Citywide) (Nathan Lee)
EAST OF HAVANA "I've had a tough life," says Magyori, a female musician and rapper featured in East of Havana, a vital look at Cuba's tenaciously grass-roots hip-hop scene. "And my music, my lyrics, my friends, my personality: They're all tough." Co-directors Jauretsi Saizabitoria and Emilia Menocal were both born of Cuban parents but raised in the United States, and they share the desire to connect with the mythology and mystery gilding that toughness (often referred to as Cubaneo, meaning the struggle of Cuban life), as well as a curiosity about a rare sociocultural movement flourishing on Castro's watch. Following Magyori and fellow rappers as they prepare for an international hip-hop festival taking place in Havana in 2004, East of Havana sets their individual stories against the bitter, resilient landscape of Cuba's political history. For the youth in the film, music doesn't just have a purpose, it is a purpose, and the artists find in hip-hop a "mental freedom," a lyrical and ideological purity that recalls American hip-hop before it crusted over with diamonds and demagogues. (Grande 4-Plex) (Michelle Orange)
HOST See film feature (Showtimes)
PICK INTO GREAT SILENCE Apart from their well-tended Web site, the French Carthusian monks in German director Philip Gröning's fascinating documentary live lives largely unmodified by the 11 centuries that have passed since their order was founded by St. Bruno of Cologne. Though not as silent as Trappists, they speak very little and — aside from regular Gregorian chants, a weekly communal meal, a Monday-morning hike where they twitter like birds and whoop with joy while sliding down a snowy hill — eat and pray alone in bare cells. Built around a premise antithetical to our over-informed, over-opinionated world, the monks' days may be austere, but they're also profoundly sensual. Everything this self-sufficient community does — from preparing food and sewing garments to chopping wood and evaluating novices — is a sacred ritual offered to God. Their silence is full to the brim with incidental sound that functions as both score and narration in this hyper-empathic film, and counterpoints the brief cuts away to gaggles of assembled tourists or a plane flying overhead. Framed in doorways or followed around by Gröning, who lived with them for months and shot the film without help, the monks (not all of whom were thrilled by his presence) go about their unchanging business like serene children. Gröning makes us fully feel the rhythms of their lives, but for the same reasons that most of us couldn't or wouldn't last in such a stripped-down environment, the movie, at just shy of three hours, starts to feel oppressive after two. At which point the part of me that longed to move in and rest was in full combat with the devil within who itched to go shopping. (Nuart) (Ella Taylor) See film feature
MAXED OUT Goddamn if we didn't have the bejesus freaked out of us after 9/11, but, hey, President Bush knew just what to say to reassure the citizenry: Travel, go shopping, take the kids to Disneyland. Our way of life may have been under attack, but our credit rating was strong, and we were called on to fight back not with guns but funds, brandishing our credit cards in the face of the heathens. According to James Scurlock, it was this memorable moment of late-capitalist dementia that provoked him to film Maxed Out, a documentary concerned with predatory lending and the American debt crisis, and to write a book of the same name. Surveying the culture of debt, Maxed Out the book skims over government deregulation of the banking industry, the proliferation of bottom-feeding debt collectors, and the real estate industry, illustrating how the latter functions as a "debt-delivery mechanism." It's a wiser investment than a ticket bought to the documentary, a slapdash piece of work totally indebted to secondhand rhetorical strategies (the '50s educational film; glib Bush-bashing) and threadbare indignation. (Sunset 5) (Nathan Lee)
THE NAMESAKE See film feature (Showtimes)
NISHABD Writer-director Ram Gopal Varma's scandalously anticipated new film was preceded by shrewd tactical whispers to the effect that it was a Bollywood remake of Lolita, with the 64-year-old masculine icon Amitabh Bachchan (think Eastwood or Newman) becoming enamored of a slinky 18-year-old. But Nishabd (The Silence) turns out to be an undeniably stylish, if also dizzyingly uneven, mixed bag, deeply affecting one minute and ludicrous the next; the fetishistic slow-motion shots of ingénue Jiah Khan cooling herself with a garden hose would not be out of place on a Playboy DVD. The sleek Khan is certainly a von Sternberg–worthy object of obsession, but Varma is locked into presenting her as an emblem of free-spirited modern youth, which for him seems to be synonymous with callow and rude and almost pathologically self-absorbed. For Jiah, Bachchan's solid and self-contained Vijay is a prize she's fixed on with a whim of iron, and if Varma had pushed her manipulations a bit further, the movie would be more interesting. In fact, our interest picks up considerably after the halfway point, when the movie teeters on turning into a thriller with the arrival of Jiah's bouncy young college boyfriend, who hides out on the premises to surprise her unbeknownst to anyone but Vijay. No Hitchcock movie ever had a better setup for a stalk-and-kill finale, but Varma is after a bigger, more slippery fish — the "fear of aging and death" that draws the old man to the young girl. Varma's honesty and seriousness are impressive, if not his showmanship. (Naz 8) (David Chute)
THE ULTIMATE GIFT In the latest release from the faith-based division of 20th Century Fox, an oil-rich billionaire (James Garner) kicks the bucket and leaves a special bequest for his trust-fund-suckling grandson (Drew Fuller) — a gauntlet of hard work and hardship designed to give the boy an appreciation for the true value of a greenback. Among the tasks: toughing it out as a Texas ranch hand; living as a homeless person; and showing some genuine compassion for a debt-addled single mom (Ali Hillis) and her leukemia-stricken daughter (Abigail Breslin). If he succeeds, the "ultimate gift" of the movie's title will be his — which, in case you haven't figured it out, is one of those things you can't buy with a MasterCard. Directed with accomplished impersonality by Michael O. Sajbel (One Night With the King), The Ultimate Gift means well and has a few surprises in store — this is not a movie you expect to climax in a tense jungle standoff with Ecuadorian drug runners — but too often feels like yet another self-flagellating Hollywood exercise about the corrosive power of wealth and the restorative benefits of getting down with the real soul people. It's The Pursuit of Happyness made from the ivory tower looking down, instead of from the street looking up. (Selected theaters) (Scott Foundas)


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Last Will and Testament of Edward (Ted) Kennedy
Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy (1932 – 2009)
Ted Kennedy was a life-long Democrat and a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 until his death on August 25th, 2009. He was the last surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., killed in action in World War II. His will is a classic example of a pour-over will, which is used in conjunction with a living trust. For more information about Ted Kennedy, please see his biography in Wikipedia.
EDWARD M. KENNEDY
I, EDWARD M. KENNEDY, of Hyannisport, Massachusetts, make this my last will, hereby revoking all earlier wills and codicils. I do not by this will exercise my power of appointment other than the powers exercised in Article SECOND below.
FIRST: I give and devise all my property, of whatever kind and wherever located, that I own at my death to the then trustees of The Edward M. Kennedy 2006 Trust established earlier this day by me, as Donor, with myself and Paul G. Kirk, Jr., of Marstons Mills, Massachusetts, as trustees (my "2006 Trust"), to be added to the principal of my 2006 Trust and administered and disposed of in accordance with the provisions thereof, as from time to time hereafter amended, whether before or after my death, as if a part of said principal at the time of my death. I have provided in my 2006 Trust for my wife, Victoria R. Kennedy, my children and more remote issue and for the payment of my debts, funeral and burial expenses and the expenses of administering my estate, and for the method of paying all federal and state taxes in the nature of estate, inheritance, succession and like taxes occasioned by my death. References in this will or a codicil to "children" mean descendants in the first degree only and references to "issue" mean descendants in the first, second or any other degree, in each case meaning lawful descendants, whether by blood or adoption.
SECOND: Under the provisions of Article FIFTH of The Edward M. Kennedy Blind Trust established March 13, 1978, by me, as Donor, of which John C. Culver, of Washington, District of Columbia, is currently the trustee (the "Blind Trust"), and under the provisions of Article FIFTH of The Edward M. Kennedy 1987 Blind Trust, established September 25,1987, by me, as Donor, with Joseph Anthony Kouba, of Los Angeles, California, as trustee (the" 1987 Blind Trust"), I have, in each case, the power to appoint by will the trust property held thereunder at the time of my death. In full exercise of said powers I hereby appoint the trust property remaining at my death in the Blind Trust and in the 1987 Blind Trust to the then trustees of my 2006 Trust, to be added to the principal of my 2006 Trust and administered in accordance with the provisions thereof, as from time to time hereafter amended, whether before or after my death, as if a part of said principal at the time of my death.
THIRD: I name Paul G. Kirk, Jr., of Marstons Mills, Massachusetts, as my executor and temporary executor; if for any reason he fails to qualifY or ceases to serve in either capacity, I name my son Edward M. Kennedy, Jr. as my executor or temporary executor, or both (as the case may be), in his place; and if for any reason he fails to qualify or ceases to serve in either capacity, I name as my executor or temporary executor, or both (as the case may be), that person designated in writing by the trustees of my 2006 Trust and filed with the Court in which this will is offered for probate. References in this will or a codicil to my "executor" mean the one or more executors (or temporary executors or administrators with this will annexed) for the time being in office. No executor named in this will or a codicil need furnish any bond or surety on any official bond. In any proceeding for the allowance of an account of my executor, I request the Court to dispense with the appointment of a guardian ad litem to represent any person or interest.
FOURTH: In addition to other powers, my executor shall have power from time to time at discretion and without license of court: To retain, and to invest and reinvest in, any kind or amount of property; to vote and exercise other rights of security holders; to exercise options to buy securities and, in connection therewith or with the sale of any securities acquired upon such exercise, to take such action as is customary or, in the opinion of my executor, appropriate, including the giving of investment representations; to make such elections for federal and state estate, gift, generation-skipping transfer and income tax purposes as my executor may deem advisable; to compromise or submit to arbitration any matters in dispute; to borrow money, and to sell, mortgage, pledge, exchange, lease and contract with respect to any real or personal property, all without notice to any beneficiary and in such manner, for such consideration and on such terms as to credit or otherwise as my executor may deem advisable, whether or not the effect thereof extends beyond the period of settling my estate; and in distributing my estate, to allot property, whether real or personal, at then current values, in lieu of cash.
WITNESS my hand this [25th] day of [August, 2006].
Signed, published and declared by the above-named Edward M. Kennedy as and for his last will, in the presence of us two who, at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other, hereto subscribe our names as witnesses, all on the date last above written.
Residence Address
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Barnstable, ss.
Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared Edward M. Kennedy, [Judith A. Campbell] and [Caroline Gannon] , known to me to be the testator and the witnesses, respectively, whose names are signed to the foregoing instrument, and all of these persons being by me duly sworn, Edward M. Kennedy, the testator, declared to me and to the witnesses in my presence that the instrument is his last will, that he willingly signed it, and that he executed it as his free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed; and each of the witnesses stated to me, in the presence of the testator and in the presence of each other, that he or she signed the will as a witness at the request and in the presence of the testator and in the presence of each other, and that to the best of his or her knowledge the testator was eighteen years of age or over, of sound mind and under no constraint or undue influence.
__________[Judith A. Campbell]_________________
___________[Caroline Ganon]__________________
Subscribed and sworn to before me by the said testator and the said witnesses, this [25th] day of [August, 2006]. Notary Public
My Commission expires: [April 11, 2008]
Ref: Last Will and Testament of Edward M. Kennedy


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Q: Sort an array From highest to lowest I am trying to sort an array in Java, I want top 3 value only.
// A:55,B:45,C:5,D:35,E:35,F:1
       int a[] = {A,B,C,D,E,F};

       float first =0;
       float second=0;
       float third =0;

       for (int i=0; i<a.length; i++){
           if(first <= a[i]){
               first=a[i];
           }
       }System.out.println("first largest is "+first);

       for (int j=0; j<a.length; j++){
           if(a[j] <=first && a[j] > second){
               second = a[j];
           }
       }System.out.println("second largest is "+second);

       for (int k=0;k<a.length; k++){
           if(a[k]<=second && a[k]>third){

               third =a[k];
           }
       }System.out.println("third largest is "+third);

Another thing here is that if A and B are equal, it should give me A and if D and E are equal it should provide D as answer. So final answer should be ABD.

A: you can store in the variable first,second,third the index instead of value
I rewrite the code quickly it not optimal but I think it can help
    public static void main(String[] args) {

    char names[] = {'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'};
    int values[] = {55, 45, 5, 35, 35, 1, Integer.MIN_VALUE};

    int first = values.length - 1;
    int second = values.length - 1;
    int third = values.length - 1;

    for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
        if (values[first] < values[i]) {
            first = i;
        }
    }
    System.out.println("first largest is " + names[first]);

    for (int j = 0; j < values.length; j++) {
        if (j != first && values[second] < values[j]) {
            second = j;
        }
    }
    System.out.println("second largest is " + names[second]);

    for (int k = 0; k < values.length; k++) {
        if (k != first && k != second && values[third] < values[k]) {

            third = k;
        }
    }
    System.out.println("third largest is " + names[third]);

}

I added the Integer.MIN_VALUE to the end of list to be as the initial index for the variable first ,second and third you cad replace it with 0 if you need but it will never work with negative number then

A: Max Heap data structure is your friend:
public static void main(String[] args) {
    char[] arr = { 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F' };

    List<Character> sorted = sortAngGetTopThree(arr);

    System.out.println("first largest is " + sorted.get(0));
    System.out.println("second largest is " + sorted.get(1));
    System.out.println("third largest is " + sorted.get(2));
}

public static List<Character> sortAngGetTopThree(char... arr) {
    Map<Character, Integer> map = Map.of('A', 55, 'B', 45, 'C', 5, 'D', 35, 'E', 35, 'F', 1);

    Comparator<Character> sortByValueAndLetterDesc = (one, two) -> {
        int res = Integer.compare(map.get(two), map.get(one));  // sort by number desc first
        return res == 0 ? Character.compare(one, two) : res;    // sort by letter asc second
    };

    Queue<Character> maxHeap = new PriorityQueue<>(sortByValueAndLetterDesc);

    for (char ch : arr)
        maxHeap.add(ch);

    List<Character> res = new ArrayList<>(3);

    for (int i = 0; i < 3 && !maxHeap.isEmpty(); i++)
        res.add(maxHeap.remove());

    return res;
}


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33RP
Brad Hand's Fantasy Scouting Report
Expect Brad Hand to be a reliable fantasy starter the rest of the season. His 227.17 projected fantasy points puts him at #15 behind Giovanny Gallegos and ahead of Kirby Yates. He has averaged 4.38 fantasy points in his past 60 games, which is more than our projected per game average. He is projected to average 3.79 fantasy points. His rank based on avg proj (#17) is worse than his rank based on total fantasy points. He is overrated if you compare his ownership based rank with his projection rank. At 90%, he is the #11 most highly owned reliever. Brad Hand is expected to come up short of last season's #6 fantasy position rank.
BRAD HAND WEEK 3 AND 4 FANTASY OUTLOOK
Brad Hand is projected for 8.86 fantasy points in 3 games in week 3 which ranks him as the #18 projected reliever for the week and a starter for most fantasy teams. This is projected to be a better than average week with more fantasy points per game than he is projected to average per game the rest of the season. He is ranked above Kirby Yates but behind Edwin Diaz. Week 4 is projected to be slightly better based on projected rank (#15). He is projected for 9.48 fantasy points.
MLB rumors: 3 teams pursuing Brad Hand
MLB rumors: Marlins eye Contreras
MLB rumors: Dodgers re-sign Treinen
Brad Hand: Clears waivers
Indians' Brad Hand: Waived by Cleveland
MORE PITCHING STATS
2020 CLE 23 0 22.0 2 1 16 29 4 13 2.04 0.77 0 0
2019 CLE 60 0 57.3 6 4 34 84 18 53 3.29 1.23 0 0
2018 CLE 69 0 72.0 2 5 32 106 28 52 2.75 1.11 0 0
2017 SD 72 0 79.3 3 4 21 104 20 54 2.15 0.93 0 0
2016 SD 82 0 89.3 4 4 1 111 36 63 2.92 1.10 0 0
2015 MIA 38 12 93.3 4 7 0 67 32 107 5.30 1.48 0 0
2014 MIA 32 16 111.0 3 8 1 67 39 112 4.37 1.36 0 0
2013 MIA 7 2 20.7 1 1 0 15 8 13 3.11 1.03 0 0
2012 MIA 1 1 3.7 0 1 0 3 6 6 19.6 3.75 0 0
2011 FLA 12 12 60.0 1 8 0 38 35 53 4.20 1.46 0 0
Career (10 Seasons) 24 - 21.0 1 1 15 33 8 19 3.42 1.28 0 0
2020 CLE 8 5 0 2 0 9 27 0.3 0 0 1 7.77 0
2019 CLE 21 21 6 4 5 27 56 0.5 0 0 0 11.77 5
2017 SD 20 19 9 7 1 63 63 1.0 0 0 4 9.19 5
2016 SD 32 29 8 1 4 82 71 1.2 1 0 7 10.07 6
2015 MIA 55 55 9 3 1 111 88 1.3 0 0 2 13.69 0
2014 MIA 56 54 10 2 3 146 108 1.4 0 0 5 12.41 0
2013 MIA 7 7 2 0 0 24 22 1.1 0 0 1 9.36 0
2012 MIA 7 7 1 0 1 3 5 0.6 0 0 0 33.75 0
2011 FLA 32 28 10 1 1 42 94 0.4 3 1 0 13.35 0
Career (10 Seasons) 0 8 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12.43 3
Pitching Situations
vs. Lefthanded Batter 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. Righthanded Batter 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
RISP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Runners on Base 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bases Empty 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
with 1 out 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. Leadoff 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pitching Innings
Other Pitching Situations
1st 9 Batters 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
< 5 Days Rest 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Days Rest 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 5 Days Rest 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Last 7 Appearances 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SVO (incl. Holds) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Night 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
August 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Post All-Star 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Grass 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Great American Ball Park 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Progressive Field 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
07/24 vs L 0-0 1 0.00 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 20
07/29 vs L 0-1 0 27.00 0 0 0 0.3 1 4 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 22
08/04 @ L 0-1 1 13.50 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 13
08/09 @ L 0-1 0 9.00 0 0 0 0.3 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 12
08/29 @ L 0-1 1 3.00 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3
09/05 vs W 1-1 0 2.45 0 0 0 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 21
Brad Hand is Projected to Be the #4 Reliever...Behind Kenley Jansen and Ahead of Craig Kimbrel the Rest of the Season
Brad Hand is Projected to Be the #3 Reliever...Behind Roberto Osuna and Ahead of Kenley Jansen the Rest of the Season
Brad Hand is Projected to Be the #3 Reliever...Behind Liam Hendriks and Ahead of Kenley Jansen the Rest of the Season


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April 2009 marked an important milestone for ASMQ as the first public order of treatments was completed by Brazilian government.
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Mom's vs. Kiddos dying Easter eggs! Big thanks to the Dad's who gave us a break and let us be crafty, catch up, and chat without the toddlers running around!
Zadie was 2 years 2 weeks old.
From Super Daddy in the morning to Super Hubby at night, Russell is my #ManCrushMonday #MCM !


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Performing under pressure: Invoking hardship in energy and natural resources contracts
David Haverbeke
Long-term agreements in the mining, energy and natural resources sectors often contain hardship clauses allowing one of the contracting parties to request to a re-negotiation of commercial terms. David Haverbeke and Guillian Baclin* examine the case for such clauses and how practice is outpacing policy in many jurisdictions.
The hardship theory, a notion embodied in differently in various legal systems, such as the German "Wegfall der Geschaftgrundslage" or the French "Théorie de l'Imprévision", broadly refers to the unforeseeable external modification of a contractual relationship that renders performance excessively onerous for one side to fulfil.
This theory is particularly significant in the energy and natural resources sector, which is governed by powerful and often erratic external factors including price volatility, cross-border relationships, complex supply chains and long-term agreements – all of which are vulnerable to modification.
Even though different legal systems have reached common ground on definitions of hardship, its application in practice has proved more troublesome.
Some recent codifications, notably in France and Belgium, have provided greater legal certainty respecting hardship.
Reluctant to wait for the law to catch up, however, the natural resources industry has developed contractual solutions to hardship cases.
Risk response
Given the high level of risk in natural resources markets, energy and mining companies struggle to prevent negative consequences from changes in circumstances, which could not have been foreseen or avoided.
These consequences typically make it much more difficult and expensive for a party to fulfil their side of the contract than was factored into the original agreement – for example, if input costs rise or logistical delivery mechanisms (such as pipelines or shipping arrangements) are cut off.
The classic clause companies seek to rely on in such cases is "force majeure", which renders performance technically impossible on a temporary or definitive basis.
Contractual practice provides for remedies in force majeure situations, such as suspension or termination of the contract, without allocating any damages to the suffering party.
In contrast with force majeure, which is well-established in most jurisdictions, hardship, which merely renders performance harder or more onerous to an unreasonable and/or radical extent, has been more complicated to deal with.
As hardship is more open to interpretation and generally less accepted or even rejected by courts, contractual arrangements have been of paramount importance in establishing hardship as a functioning legal device – especially in energy contracts.
Common components of hardship
Usually, the factual elements required to trigger hardship consist of a change of circumstances, an impediment to the performance of the party, a fundamental alteration of the equilibrium of the contract, or the vanishing of the basis of the contract – i.e., creating "turmoil" within the agreement.
Importantly, it is not the change of circumstances in itself which triggers hardship, but the consequences stemming from it.
If parties fail to agree on whether or not hardship has occurred, evaluation of the threshold at which hardship is triggered – i.e., the gravity of the turmoil – is generally left to the courts to determine on a case-by-case basis.
Even though it could theoretically promote legal certainty, it is very difficult to pre-set a numerical threshold for hardship, as every case will have its own unique circumstances.
Three main criteria are unconditionally required to trigger hardship, namely:
The origin of the hardship must be external and not be caused by the behaviour of the aggrieved party, even indirectly;
The origin event or events must not have been foreseen or foreseeable at the moment of conclusion of the contract between the parties;
The aggrieved party must have taken reasonable steps to prevent negative consequences on the economical equilibrium of the contract stemming from the event.
There is also a hypothetical element of the hardship theory: it concerns the probability that the party which suffers the negative consequences of the hardship would not have entered the contractual relationship under the new economical balance between the parties created by the hardship.
In practice, the hypothetical element can be very delicate to establish and usually comes down to what the contract states about risks and remedies.
Legal remedies
Once hardship has been established, the aggrieved party is then free to access remedies.
Generally, remedies involve adapting contract terms with the aim of reinstating the previous balance with the contractual agreement, or establishing a new balance agreeable to both sides.
While some legal systems vest judges with the power to modify agreements, it is more common to allow the aggrieved party to demand a renegotiation, or oblige the other party to offer this.
The ultimate commonly provided remedy is termination of the contract, which usually happens if the parties fail to renegotiate or if the adapted contract remains impossible to perform.
Contractual approaches to hardship in the natural resources sector
Energy and natural resources contracts are generally characterised by lengthy terms and often have international components.
This means agreements are highly vulnerable to changes of circumstances within political, economic, legal and even technical spheres.
In such cases, comprehensive contracts have proved to be the best shield against the intervention of harsh, sudden and unforeseen contractual distortions and imbalances.
Hence, hardship clauses have been developed and inserted in many types of contract, including power purchase agreements (PPAs), SWAP agreements, concessions, public-private partnerships (PPPs) and sale agreements.
A high degree of precision and forethought is required for the layout and shaping of the hardship clause to offer the best chances for contracting parties to preserve their interests and the longevity of their relationship.
The clause will need to cover in detail:
The effects of the triggering event on the contract (what these are and how serious these need to be for hardship to exist);
The arrangement of the renegotiation process and the desired consequences;
The remedies available to the parties if renegotiation fails (these might include resorting to a judge or arbitrator, or termination of the contract);
And, finally, the conditions that must be met to resort to termination.
If an agreement does not provide for renegotiation through a hardship clause, it may be possible to make a case for impossibility of performance, or rely on a force majeure clause. However, in most cases, it is desirable to include a hardship clause to guard against turmoil.
The future of hardship
The concept of hardship as a practical alternative to force majeure in circumstances where contracts are disrupted but not frustrated appears to have been welcomed in most European jurisdictions.
Its contractual embodiment has been well developed through international "soft" law and contractual practices, but recent developments have shown that equity, good faith and the protection of the purpose of the contract have been harder to reconcile with the hardship theory in formal legal codes.
Adaptation of the law has been achieved in France, Belgium and Germany, as the logical consequence of long and well-established contractual practice and it is possible that other European jurisdictions will eventually follow suit.
These developments are largely positive for the energy and natural resources sector in particular, as guarantees of legal certainty and long-term continuous contractual interactions in what are by their nature are often high-risk deals.
Nevertheless, clients in these sectors are only well served if the hardship clauses are well-drafted by industry experts with the necessary experience to deliver precise, comprehensive contracts.
*David Haverbeke is partner in the energy and utilities practice in Fieldfisher's Brussels office and visiting scholar at the University of Aberdeen. Guillian Baclin is legal assistant in the energy and utilities practice in Fieldfisher's Brussels office and LLM student in energy and climate law at the University of Groningen. A full version of the article "Hardship in the Energy Sector" can be accessed via Oil, Gas & Energy Law D. Haverbeke; G. Baclin (2019) "Hardship in the Energy Sector" (OGEL, ISSN 1875-418X) August 2019, www.ogel.org.
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Study Finds Medical Cannabis Is Effective At Reducing Opioid Addiction
Credit:UNM
A new study conducted by researchers at The University of New Mexico, involving medical cannabis and prescription opioid use among chronic pain patients, found a distinct connection between having the legal ability to use cannabis and significant reductions in opioid use.
The study titled, "Associations between Medical Cannabis and Prescription Opioid Use in Chronic Pain Patients: A Preliminary Cohort Study," and published in the open access journal PLOS ONE, was conducted by Drs. Jacob Miguel Vigil, associate professor, Department of Psychology and Sarah See Stith, assistant professor, Department of Economics. The results from this preliminary study showed a strong correlation between enrollment in the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program (MCP) and cessation or reduction of opioid use, and that whole, natural Cannabis sativa and extracts made from the plant may serve as an alternative to opioid-based medications for treating chronic pain.
(UNM Economics Assistant Professor Sarah See Stith and Psychology Associate Professor Jacob Vigil.)
Today, opioid-related drug overdoses are the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States killing approximately 100 Americans every day. Conventional pharmaceutical medications for treating opioid addiction, such as methadone and buprenorphine-tapering, can be similarly dangerous due to substantial risks of lethal drug interactions and overdose.
"Current levels and dangers of opioid use in the U.S. warrant the investigation of harm-reducing treatment alternatives," said Vigil, who led the study. "Our results highlight the necessity of more extensive research into the possible uses of cannabis as a substitute for opioid painkillers, especially in the form of placebo-based, randomized controlled trials and larger sample observational studies."
Cannabis has been investigated as a potential treatment for a wide range of medical conditions from post-traumatic stress disorder to cancer, with the most consistent support for the treatment of chronic pain, epilepsy and spasticity. In the U.S., states, including New Mexico, have enacted MCPs in part for people with chronic, debilitating pain who cannot be adequately or safely treated with conventional pharmaceutical medications.
Like other states, New Mexico only permits medical cannabis use for patients with certain debilitating medical conditions. All the patients in the study had a diagnosis of "severe chronic pain," annually validated by two independent physicians, including a board-certified specialist.
New Mexico, Vigil notes, is among the U.S. states hardest hit by the current opioid epidemic, although the number of opioid-related overdose deaths appears to have fallen in recent years, perhaps the result of increased enrollment in the NM MCP, which currently includes more than 48,000 patients.
"MCPs are unique, not only because they allow patients to self-manage their cannabis treatment, but because they operate in conflict with U.S. federal law, making it challenging for researchers to utilize conventional research designs to measure their efficacy," Vigil said.
The purpose of the researchers' preliminary, cohort study was to help examine the association between enrollment in a MCP and opioid prescription use. The study observed 37 habitual opioid using, chronic pain patients that chose to enroll in the MCP between 2010 and 2015, compared to 29 patients with similar health conditions that were also given the option, but ultimately chose not to enroll in the MCP.
"Using informal surveys of patients enrolled in the MCP, we discovered a significant proportion of chronic pain patients reporting to have substituted their opioid prescriptions with cannabis for treating their chronic pain," said Vigil.
The researchers used Prescription Monitoring Program opioid records over a 21-month observation period (first three months prior to enrollment for the MCP patients) to more objectively measure opioid cessation – defined as the absence of opioid prescriptions activity during the last three months of observation, with use calculated in average daily intravenous [IV] morphine dosages. MCP patient-reported benefits and side effects of using cannabis one year after enrollment were also collected.
By the end of the observation period, the data showed MCP enrollment was associated with a 17 times higher age- and gender-adjusted odds of ceasing opioid prescriptions, a 5 times higher odds of reducing daily prescription opioid dosages, and a 47 percentage point reduction in daily opioid dosages relative to a mean change of positive 10 percentage points in the non-enrolled patient group.
Survey responses indicated improvements in pain reduction, quality of life, social life, activity levels, and concentration, and few negative side effects from using cannabis one year after enrollment in the MCP.
The researchers' findings, which provide clinically and statistically significant evidence of an association between MCP enrollment and opioid prescription cessation and reductions and improved quality of life warrant further investigations on cannabis as a potential alternative to prescription opioids for treating chronic pain.
According to Stith, "The economic impact of cannabis treatment should also be considered given the current burden of opioid prescriptions on healthcare systems, which have been forced to implement costly modifications to general patient care practices, including prescription monitoring programs, drug screening, more frequent doctor-patient interactions, treatment of drug abuse and dependence, and legal products and services associated with limiting opioid-related liability."
"If cannabis can serve as an alternative to prescription opioids for at least some patients, legislators and the medical community may want to consider medical cannabis programs as a potential tool for combating the current opioid epidemic," Vigil said. (Source: UNM Newsroom Media Contact- Steve Carr, Supervisor, Communications University of New Mexico, scarr@unm.edu )
The New Mexico Medical Cannabis Advisory Board Hearing that was held on, Friday November 3rd 2017, at the New Mexico Department of Health was the second meeting for 2017. The advisory board consists of eight practitioners representing the fields of neurology, pain management, medical oncology, psychiatry, infectious disease, family medicine and gynecology. The practitioners shall be nationally board-certified in their area of specialty and knowledgeable about the medical use of cannabis. The members are chosen for appointment by the Secretary of Health from a list proposed by the New Mexico Medical Society.
The Medical Cannabis Advisory Board (MCAB) Duties and Responsibilities according the medical cannabis program law, LECUA Act 2007: The advisory board shall convene at least twice per year to: review and recommend to the department for approval additional debilitating medical conditions that would benefit from the medical use of cannabis; recommend quantities of cannabis that are necessary to constitute an adequate supply for qualified patients and primary caregivers; accept and review petitions to add medical conditions, medical treatments or diseases to the list of debilitating medical conditions that qualify for the medical use of cannabis and all lawful privileges under the act and implementing rules; issue recommendations concerning rules to be promulgated for the issuance of registry identification cards; and review conditions previously reviewed by the board and approved by the secretary for the purpose of determining whether to recommend the revision of eligibility criteria for persons applying under those conditions or to review new medical and scientific evidence pertaining to currently approved conditions.
For the Petitions that were heard on Friday, November 3rd 2017:
November 2017 MCAB Petitions
Petition Action & MCAB Vote (Y-N)
Health Conditions To Add Petitions:
ADD/ADHD & Tourette's Syndrome -Recommended to add to MCP with 5-0 Vote
All Forms of Arthritis -Accepted Condition under Chronic Pain
Cystic Fibrosis -Accepted Condition under Chronic Pain
Degenerative Neurological Disorder / Neuroprotective Applications
-Recommended to add to MCP with 5-0 Vote
Diabetes -Not heard and No reason given
Dysmenorrhea -Accepted Condition under Chronic Pain
Eczema / Psoriasis -Recommended to add to MCP with 4-1 Vote
Muscular Dystrophy -Recommended to add to MCP with 5-0 Vote
Polymyalgia Rheumatica -Accepted Condition under Chronic Pain
Post-Concussion Syndrome & TBI -Recommended to add to MCP with 5-0 Vote
All Types Seizures (such as: psychogenic neurologic disorders; Motor Disorders / Motor Development Disorders) -Recommended to add to MCP with 5-0 Vote
Substance Abuse Disorder(s) -Recommended to add to MCP with 5-0 Vote
2017-44 Opioid Use Disorder: 11-06-2016 Vote of 5-1 to recommend, Secretary Gallagher denied the recommendation and did not add Opiate Use Disorder as a qualifying condition Petitioner for Opioid Use Disorder would like to present technical evidence from: -Petitioner -Dr. Steve Jenison - Drug Policy Alliance November Vote was -Recommended to add to MCP with 5-0 Vote
Medical Treatment Petitions:
Medical Treatment; Pediatric Oncology & Medical Cannabis Use for Antiemetic in State Hospitals -Recommended to add to MCP with 5-0 Vote by sending a letter of support to Legislature to add into LECUA Act, 2007.
Medical Treatment; Medical Cannabis Program Research & Education Established
(Petition was not heard at this meeting - "they are beyond the scope of the Medical Advisory Board.")
Medical Treatment; ADA language for Section 8 of LECUA; Medical cannabis registry
Medical Treatment; Medical Cannabis 3 yr registry identification cards.
Medical Treatment; Recognition of nonresident medical cards.
Medical Treatment; Adequate Supply: LNPP Plant Count Increase
3 of the 5 MCAB members made public comment that they feel this is part of the scope of work they do for the program and further said they (MCAB) should have been able to hear this petition as it does pertain to adequate supply in the medical cannabis program.
Medical Treatment; Increase MCAB membership
All Petitions Provided by Lynn & Erin Compassionate Use Act Patients Coalition (LECUA) of New Mexico Can Be Viewed Online At: LECUA NM MCP MCAB Petitions
(http://lecuanmmcpmcabpetitions.blogspot.com/)


中環 "Chung Wan" or "Central"?
Central, Hong Kong (中環) is an interesting place to work, especially for ladies, I guess. As a boy and a young man visiting 中環, it never registered in my mind how special Central is. People seems to dress up a little (like my mom), and most of the time people were quite nice to me.
Having seen how things had changed over the years in 中環, I guess I've taken many things for granted (or simply not sensitive enough to care). As a tourist, I miss having the Star Ferry terminal right in 中環 for a fun tourist harbour trip but when I was still living in HK, I almost always took the MTR for the Central to TST trip for speed!
When the time comes, I think I will mostly remember 中環 by my great memories with my elders (長輩) and us young kids (小朋友) I met when I was little via my 中環 connection. I care about the people and was saddened to heard one of the 長輩 had passed away. I'm much less sentimental about things, buildings, and even "good" food like roast goose at Yung Kee (which wasn't as good as before) .
I guess, to me, these kind of small memories are the ones that I will remember.
And I will miss this old lady/entrepreneur at her Pottinger Street (known locally as Stone Slab Street) stall. I tried to find her last time I visited HK but I missed her. I hope she is well.


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