Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. –October 22, 2013: AlsoEnergy Inc., a Boulder, CO based renewable energy monitoring and portfolio-management company, and DECK Monitoring LLC, a Portland, OR based direct-to-customer PV (photovoltaic) monitoring firm today announced the creation of the preferred provider of independent PV monitoring systems in the U.S. market. AlsoEnergy acquired DECK Monitoring in a definitive agreement between the two privately held companies. The terms of the agreement have not been released. AlsoEnergy CEO Robert Schaefer leads the combined company. DECK Monitoring will continue to do business as an independent subsidiary of AlsoEnergy. The DECK Monitoring management team led by president Cosmos Corbinwill continue to run the DECK Monitoring organization. The combined company now manages over one Gigawatt of PV and two Gigawatts of power quality equipment.
"The combined company is now the market leader among independent PV monitoring vendors in the U.S. based on 2012 new Megawatt count," according to Cedric Brehaut, Principal at SoliChamba Consulting. Brehaut is the go-to source for quantitative assessment of the PV monitoring market, and author of the'Global PV Monitoring: Technologies, Markets and Leading Players, 2013-2017' report (published July, 2013 by GTM Research).
"With this acquisition, Also Energy brings together their strength in OEM sales to third party owners, and the DECK Monitoring strength in the solar integrator channel for direct-to-customer solar sales." commented Cedric Brehaut. "This creates a new market leader, an independent monitoring powerhouse for the U.S. commercial and utility-scale PV space."
"We brought the companies together from a position of strength, to provide customers the winning combination of products, services and experience," said AlsoEnergy CEO Robert Schaefer, "We are combining complimentary and market leading solutions in analytics and superior support. This combination immediately broadens customer choices from a financially strong provider, poised to continue innovating best-in-class energy monitoring solutions."
"Our team has a strong commitment to both product lines. Customers can expect the same teams, the same products, the same service, and the same dedication to our customers moving forward," said DECK Monitoring president Cosmos Corbin. "Our focus will continue to be providing the best value and service in the energy monitoring industry."
"Our collective long term mission is to strengthen both product lines, ultimately incorporating the best aspects of each product into both," commented Also Energy CTO Holden Caine. "We have the opportunity now to further mature the components of our solution and bring a larger engineering group together to enhance value in each of these areas.We will continue to provide best-in-class data acquisition and control hardware customized to fit the needs of all of our customers."
DECK Monitoring's mission is to help businesses and individuals with the energy intelligence they need to effectively measure and manage energy. For more information, visit www.deckmonitoring.com.


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Q: how to fix Typescript error in ionic 3? index.d.ts This is the error I'm having right now

this is my package.json
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this is the code it is referring to
export type CustomEventName<T> = T extends EventNameString ? never : T;

this is my tsconfig.json
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    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "lib": [
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P.S if I save a file, It will be fixed
thanks in advance guys!
EDIT:
after following sir john's advice, only one error is now left.

A: Okay add skipLibCheck so that it will skip type checking of all declaration files (*.d.ts) on compilation.
should be like this
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Rhetorical Appeals and Strategic Cooptation in the Rise and Fall of The New International Economic Order
Orfeo Fioretos
The global governance institutions that structure economic relations between industrialized and developing countries have been contested since their inception. This contribution revisits elements of the struggle over the 'new international economic order', or NIEO, in the 1970s. Contemporaneous observers and political leaders saw the initiative as part of the first major shift in global power after 1945. Using strategies of rhetorical coercion and persuasion that aimed to radically reform global economic governance, a large coalition of developing nations proposed a reform agenda designed to expand the authority of the United Nations and reduce the importance of Bretton Woods institutions. In response, a small coalition of industrialized countries adopted strategies of cooptation that entailed 'case‐by‐case' cooperation with developing countries with the goal of limiting overall reforms. The contribution uses historical archives from deliberations within and among industrialized countries to reveal the sources behind their response to the NIEO and follow‐up initiatives. It shows that industrialized countries chose to deemphasize strategies of argumentation in favor of strategies of cooptation in their efforts to limit transformative change in global economic governance.
Global economic governance has been historically contested, but fundamental reform has been elusive. The scope of reform has remained heavily constrained by institutional designs from the 1940s and efforts by large industrialized economies to limit reform. Contemporary balances of global power make it unlikely that past impasses will be overcome.
Supporters and opponents of fundamental change in global economic governance have used a variety of rhetorical and bargaining strategies to shape paths of institutional development. Industrialized economies have long favored cooptation strategies, while developing nations have shifted from strategies of rhetorical coercion to strategies of principled persuasion. Major shifts in these choices are unlikely given existing distributions of global power.
A necessary condition for fundamental reform to global economic governance is agreement among G7 members. While the role of the G7 is less apparent today in a context of more organizations and populist nationalism, the reliance on strategies of cooptation by G7 members have had long legacies that continue to give its members disproportionate power over global economic governance reform.
Unity among developing nations is not sufficient to produce major changes in global economic governance. Coalitions of developing nations face formidable obstacles in transforming global economic governance. Reform is more likely to come in incremental steps than through transformative agendas.
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Section 215 Sunsets, but Congress Must Do More to Protect Privacy
WASHINGTON D.C. — Tonight at midnight, Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act will expire, which means the bulk collection of Americans' telephone records by the NSA under that particular authority will end (although other provisions will allow other forms of mass surveillance of Americans without any connection to national security threats). The Senate also voted to end debate on the USA FREEDOM Act, a package of surveillance reforms that includes an end to all bulk collection programs — setting the stage for a vote this week on that bill and a scramble to amend the bill to either weaken or strengthen its reforms.
"The authors of the PATRIOT Act didn't set out to create a surveillance state, but they set expiration dates on the law's vaguest provisions to guard against that possibility," said Berin Szoka, President of TechFreedom, citing the intelligence agencies' sweeping interpretation of Section 215's "any tangible thing" language as the basis for bulk collection. "The Section 215 sunset allowed for careful reconsideration of a program that's proven to be illegal, intrusive, ineffective, and costly. Congress now has an opportunity to replace mass surveillance with more carefully crafted intelligence programs that protect our constitutional rights — without jeopardizing our safety."
"Ending bulk collection under Section 215 is a victory for privacy, but ending all bulk collection requires the kind of reforms contained in the USA FREEDOM Act," continued Szoka. "And without legislative reforms, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court will continue to operate as a Star Chamber. National security hawks will undoubtedly use Section 215's expiration as an excuse to push for weaker reforms or a return to the pre-sunset status quo. Instead, Congress must redouble its efforts to reset the balance between privacy and security — not just for the intelligence agencies, but for law enforcement, too. That means finally protecting Americans' emails from warrantless searches by police — a reform supported by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the House."
We can be reached for comment at media@techfreedom.org. See more of our work on surveillance, including:
Coalition letter opposing data retention mandates on the private sector
"McConnell is Playing a Dangerous Game with the PATRIOT Act," a statement from TechFreedom
"The Senate Should Move Quickly on Surveillance Reform," a statement from TechFreedom
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Joey Logano wins at Watkins Glen, saves fuel this time
McMahon seniors facing third season of canceled sports
'A gentle giant' Staples senior basketball player Timari Rivera dies...
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JOHN KEKISAP Sports Writer
Aug. 9, 2015 Updated: June 11, 2016 8:10 p.m.
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) -- Connecticut native Joey Logano kept his foot on the gas pedal a little bit longer than usual after taking the checkered flag at Watkins Glen International, a huge cloud of smoke wafting toward victory lane.
This time he had more than enough left in the tank of his No. 22 Ford.
"It makes up a lot for last week," Logano said Sunday after notching his first Sprint Cup victory on a road course and second of the season. He also won the season-opening Daytona 500.
"It's nice it played out this time. We may not have had the fastest race car, but the execution of the day is what won us this race. What goes around comes around, I guess."
A week after running out of gas while leading at Pocono with three laps to go, Logano passed Kevin Harvick on the final turn of the 90-lap race as Harvick ran dry.
Logano completed the first NASCAR weekend sweep at the track after winning the Xfinity race Saturday. He also gave Roger Penske his first Cup victory at The Glen.
"It means an awful lot to Team Penske," team vice chairman Walt Czarnecki said. "I believe this is our winningest track in the whole history of our company going back to the Trans-Am and Can-Am, so this is particularly meaningful for us."
Kyle Busch, who ran out of fuel on the last lap at Pocono while leading, finished second and moved to 30th in points, the cutoff to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup title as he continued his remarkable surge.
Joey Logano (22) passes Kevin Harvick coming into the last turn on the way to winning a NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Watkins Glen International, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, in Watkins Glen, N.Y. (AP Photo/Douglas Ford Rea)
"I had a chance. I could've raced the 22," said Busch, six points ahead of Cole Whitt and just one behind Justin Allgaier. "I felt like I was better than he was, but my crew chief (Adam Stevens) called in scared on the fuel situation from last week and I don't blame him. We didn't want to do the same thing."
Harvick coasted home third, Matt Kenseth was fourth, and Kurt Busch fifth. Clint Bowyer, Brad Keselowski, Carl Edwards, Sam Hornish Jr. and Jimmie Johnson rounded out the top 10.
Tony Stewart, who qualified third, was competing at Watkins Glen for the first time after missing the previous two Cup races at the track. He was nursing a broken right leg two years ago and sat out last year's race after the sprint car he was driving in a race at nearby Canandaigua struck and killed 20-year-old driver Kevin Ward Jr. the night before Stewart was scheduled to race at Watkins Glen.
On Friday, Stewart again had to revisit that tragedy. Attorneys representing the Ward family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Stewart, another hurdle in what has been a season without much hope until recently, and Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of Ward's death.
Stewart, a five-time winner at The Glen, was greeted warmly by fans during driver introductions but finished last after his car broke a rear gear midway through the 90-lap race.
"I guess for me it's big picture," said Stewart. "The way our season has been, we've picked up. At the end of the day, the results don't show it, but I feel like we are starting to gain some momentum."
The prerace greeting Stewart received put a smile on his face.
"Real good all the way around," he said. "We had a good weekend, as good as it could be. Happy to get to race here today. That is something I have been looking forward to."
In the last road race of his NASCAR career, Jeff Gordon had brake problems and finished 41st to take another big hit in points.
The race turned on strategy. Martin Truex Jr., who started second, pitted after a red flag just past the midpoint of the race as the top drivers stayed out.
Harvick, who pitted two laps before Truex, then gained the lead on a restart on Lap 61, passing Kenseth and pulling out to a lead of over a half-second with Truex third.
Harvick's crew told him he was two laps short on fuel as the race wound down, but he did enough conserving to salvage a podium finish.
"I thought I'd done a pretty good job of saving fuel under the caution," Harvick said. "Really, I was just running as fast as I needed to. Once the 22 got there, I had to pick up the pace."
Truex's chances disappeared when he suffered a flat left front tire and was forced to pit with 22 laps left around the 2.45-mile natural terrain course. He finished 25th.
Busch had to pit from the lead with just over 30 laps left and dropped deep in the field. He then steadily mounted an aggressive charge back and got past Harvick for second after the final turn.
"I ran hard that whole run," said Busch, who has won four races since coming back from a broken leg and foot suffered in an Xfinity race at Daytona in February that forced him to miss the first 11 races of the Cup season. "I never quite got close enough to him. I couldn't afford to run out of gas."
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SACRAMENTO, CA – The Sacramento Sports Commission, a division of the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau (SCVB), is proud to announce that the Bassmaster Elite Series will be coming to Sacramento in 2015. The Bassmaster Elite Series, a nine-tournament event, is the premier fishing tournament series in the world, and will be held in Sacramento from April 30 – May 3, 2015, at Discovery Park. An estimated 15,000 spectators will gather to watch the 110 professional anglers compete over four days for a $100,000 top prize.
Fishing is the third most popular outdoor activity in America today, with an estimated 1.2 million freshwater anglers fishing every day. B.A.S.S., the oldest organization in the fishing industry with over a half a million members, is dedicated to conservation and preserving the culture and resources. The 2015 Bassmaster Elite Series event is expected to generate more than $1.6 million in direct economic impact for Sacramento with a projected 2,944 room nights over the four days of competition.
B.A.S.S. is the largest media company in the world that reaches anglers, and is the ultimate authority on bass fishing. Bassmaster reaches an audience of more than 3.5 million, with a circulation of 520,000. Digitally speaking, Bassmaster.com averages over 500,000 unique visitors monthly. The Bassmasters is the most widely distributed tournament-based fishing show in the U.S., reaching 168MM households. Over 40 hours of programming on ESPN2 covers the Bassmaster Elite Series and the Bassmaster Classic, the "Super Bowl" of fishing.
About the Sacramento Sports Commission The Sacramento Sports Commission was created in the 1980s as a joint city-county advisory board to attract and develop major professional and amateur sporting events in the capital region. On Jan. 1, 2013, at the request of the Sacramento City Council and County Board of Supervisors, the Sacramento CVB took over the responsibilities of the Sacramento Sports Commission. This new Sacramento Sports Commission, a division of the SCVB, will be responsible for fostering economic development of the region by securing, promoting and sustaining highly visible sporting events, tournaments and conventions.


Symplicity Corporation, the global leader of student employability solutions and an H.I.G. Capital portfolio company, has announced the acquisition of Contratanet, the largest integrated network of career portals for jobs and internships in Brazil. With the acquisition, Symplicity strengthens its operations in the country, offering local support and services and a more expansive employer network to universities.
"In Grupo A, we are always looking for innovative and efficient educational solutions for our clients. The partnership with Symplicity last year filled a fundamental gap in our portfolio regarding employability and career building for higher education students. The acquisition of Contratanet adds a solid local operation designed from specific demands of the Brazilian market to Symplicity's expertise," said Rodrigo Madeira, Grupo A's New Business Manager. "Our biggest goal as a company is to be the best partner for Brazilian universities. Today we feel more complete and ready to help them prepare and refer their students to the labor market".


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Jewish actor converts to Catholicism: the Virgin Mary 'is my most beautiful love'
Gad Elmaleh / Our Lady of Lourdes | Credit: Georges Biard (CC BY-SA 3.0) / Credit: Public domain
By CNA Staff
CNA Newsroom, Nov 10, 2022 / 16:00 pm
The famous Jewish actor and humorist Gad Elmaleh, beloved in France, announced his conversion to the Catholic faith, a process in which he says the Virgin Mary played a crucial role.
Elmaleh, 51, was the partner of Charlotte Casiraghi, the daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco, with whom they have a son named Rafael.
His conversion to Catholicism is depicted in his new film, "Reste un peu," ("Stay a while").
The Jewish actor, who according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo will take the name of Jean-Marie when he is baptized, has studied theology in Paris, and in 2019 he participated in a musical in London about St. Bernadette Soubirous, the visionary who saw Our Lady of Lourdes.
Elmaleh told the French newspaper Le Figaro that "the Virgin Mary is my most beautiful love" and expressed his surprise that in France the "vast majority of Catholics don't live their faith openly."
As a child, he recounted in the interview, he entered a church and saw an image of the Mother of God.
"It wasn't a vision, just a simple statue, but I was petrified. I began to cry and hid for fear of being discovered by my family, for fear of curses and superstition. I kept it a secret for my entire childhood," he recalled.
The new movie
In an interview on the program "L'invité" ("The Guest"), posted Nov. 9 on YouTube, Elmaleh spoke about the film "Reste un peu," which will open in France Nov. 16.
The actor's actual parents are in the film, who are not very "happy" with his decision to convert to Catholicism but who have chosen to give him their support.
The actor and humorist said that "it's true that it's a spiritual, religious coming out. There's a lot of mixture of fiction and reality," but "it's true that I question myself at the age of 50."
"It's a search in which I ask myself where, who, when, there's a God, there is no God," he said, but he affirms that "the Virgin Mary calls me and protects me."
In the interview, Elmaleh recounted that he saw an image of the Mother of God "when I was a boy in Morocco, in Casablanca, where there were Christians, Jews, Muslims, a country that's an example of incredible fraternity; but at the same time a certain taboo with Christianity and the churches."
"I couldn't go into the churches because it was a sin, it was prohibited; but when I was 6 or 7 years old, I entered one and said to myself, 'It's not bad here, why do they prohibit me?'" the actor said.
Elmaleh said he hopes the film engenders "some questioning" in people who see it and stressed that it is "mainly [a] testimony, a love story."
This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.
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Experts: N. Korea Especially Vulnerable to Effects of Climate Change
By Kim Eunjee
FILE - A man walks on a dirt path between cornfields in Nampho, North Korea, in June 2015, when the country was enduring what state media called "the worst drought in 100 years."
SEOUL - Climate change could have a serious impact on North Korea by worsening the country's chronic food shortages, experts and international agencies have warned.
According to the Hydro-Meteorological Service, North Korea's state agency that provides weather forecasts, the country's average annual temperature has gone up 1.9 degrees Celsius over the past decade. The temperature in the capital city, Pyongyang, has risen 1.6 degrees. Chunggang County, a northern county known as the coldest area in the country, has had a similar increase.
Kim Hyun-kyung, a meteorologist at South Korea's state-run Korea Meteorological Administration, said North Korea is more vulnerable to climate change than neighboring South Korea because of its geographical location.
"North Korea is more likely to be affected by climate change because it is located closer to a continent and it is on a higher latitude compared to South Korea," said Kim.
In a recent survey conducted by the Korea Environmental Institute, South Korea's state-run institute that studies environmental policies, more than 70 percent of North Korean defectors reported they had experienced a significant climate event such as a heat wave, heavy rains or a cold spell while in North Korea.
In early August, major floods caused by seasonal rains hit the country, affecting 22,000 people and 4,000 hectares of agricultural land, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In June, North Korea's state media reported the country had suffered "the worst drought in 100 years."
North Korea's food production has often been hampered by droughts or flooding. Last month, the Food and Agriculture Organization projected the country will produce 3.7 million tons of rice and corn this year, a 14 percent decrease from last year, due to a severe drought. The U.N. agency warned the communist country's food shortages could worsen next year.
Some experts in Seoul say a severe devastation of the country's forest land and poor infrastructure also are weakening North Korea's ability to cope with disasters caused by climate change.
"It is important to have capabilities to minimize damages caused by climate change. If a drainage facility or a reservoir are well set up, heavy rainfalls would not cause much damage," said Myung Soo-jeong, a researcher at the Korea Environmental Institute.
North Korea appears to be trying to address the situation. In a rare move, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un acknowledged the country's weather forecasting technology is outdated and called for improvement during his field guidance trip to the Hydro-Meteorological Service last year. Kim said there have been many "incorrect forecasts as the meteorological observation has not been put on a modern and scientific basis," according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
Jee Abbey Lee contributed to this report, which was produced in collaboration with the VOA Korean service.
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Octone/Legacy/RCA Music Group Set to Release 'Ricky Jay Plays Poker'
One of the World's Foremost Sleight-of-Hand Artists Compiles Rich Amalgam of Songs to Shuffle By
'Ricky Jay Plays Poker' Deluxe Edition Includes CD of 21 Top-Draw Card-Playing Songs + DVD of Ricky Jay Discussing Poker Moves + Book Featuring Song Annotations & Essays By Ricky Jay + Sealed Deck of Ricky Jay Playing Cards
In Stores Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Ricky Jay, the world-renowned sleight- of-hand expert, author, actor, historian and consultant, has personally compiled 21 of his all-time favorite card-playing songs -- "a mix of blues, folk, calypso, country, R&B, techno, rap, gospel" -- on "Ricky Jay Plays Poker," in stores Tuesday, November 21, 2006.
"Mercifully you will not hear me sing on any of these tracks," writes Ricky Jay in his extensive liner notes (which include essays on poker and song-by-song annotations), "thus I am able to bet my entire stack that you will enjoy the tunes I've selected ...."
Ricky's perfect hand includes:
1.  DARKTOWN POKER CLUB - Phil Harris and his Orchestra
2.  RAMBLIN' GAMBLIN' WILLIE - Bob Dylan
3.  TURN THE CARDS SLOWLY - Patsy Cline
4.  FIVE CARD STUD - Lorne Greene
5.  DON'T TURN THE CARD - Memphis Minnie
6.  POLITICS AND POKER - Howard Da Silva
7.  ACE IN THE HOLE - Anita O'Day
8.  LITTLE QUEEN OF SPADES - Robert Johnson
9.  ETIENNE GONNA DIE - Saint Etienne
10. MR. MUDD AND MR. GOLD - Townes Van Zandt
11. POKER PLAYING BABY - Harry Willis
12. GAMBLER'S GUITAR - Merle Travis
13. DARKTOWN POKER CLUB - Bert Williams
14. DOLAN'S POKER PARTY - Frank Crumit
15. POKER WOMAN BLUES - Blind Blake
16. WILD CARD - Tex Williams
17. ACE OF SPADES - O. V. Wright
18. ROVING GAMBLER - The Country Gentlemen
19. BED SPRING POKER - Mississippi Sheiks
20. ACE IN THE HOLE - Dave Van Ronk
21. POLITICS AND POKER (reprise) - Howard Da Silva
The deluxe edition of "Ricky Jay Plays Poker" comes with an exclusive DVD giving viewers a ringside seat at Ricky's poker table as the master demonstrates some tricks of the trade, showing why, in this golden age of poker resurgence, he refuses to participate in celebrity matches. "In my grandfather's words," says Ricky. "'If I win they'll think I'm cheating and if I lose they'll think I'm a bad magician.'"
Ricky Jay has written several essays on the historical, political, and aesthetic aspects of poker, as well as full explications of his song selection in the book included in the deluxe edition of "Ricky Jay Plays Poker."
"Shuffling and manipulating cards to the sounds of R&B hits are among my few vivid memories of childhood," he writes. "Even though I had some chops with the pasteboards at that early age, my first poker pleasure came from watching the great Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko delightfully fleecing the boys in the barracks at Fort Baxter. To this day I still love to listen to 'Good Beats' with a pack of cards in my hands."
In addition to the CD, DVD, and annotated book, the deluxe version of "Ricky Jay Plays Poker" comes with a special edition deck of Ricky Jay playing cards. (A CD-only version of "Ricky Jay Plays Poker" will also be available on November 21.)
Over the years, Ricky Jay has been closely associated with the American playwright David Mamet. Ricky's one-man shows, the Obie-winning "Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants," and "Ricky Jay: On the Stem," were directed by Mamet, who cast Ricky in "House of Games," "Homicide," "Things Change," "Spanish Prisoner," "State and Main," and "Heist." Ricky Jay may also be seen in many other films including "Boogie Nights," "Magnolia," and the James Bond film, "Tomorrow Never Dies." Ricky Jay starred in the heralded episode of the X- Files, "The Great Maleeni," and ran the faro, craps, and poker tables at the Bella Union saloon in the HBO hit television series "Deadwood."
He has written and hosted his own television specials for CBS, HBO, and the BBC, and was the host and narrator of the first documentary mini- series on conjuring, "The Story of Magic," for the A&E network. He presented of a series of films on con games for Turner Classic Movies and in March of 2003 he debuted as a weekly essayist on the National Public Radio station, KCRW, in Los Angeles.
Ricky Jay is a founder of the biennial Conference on Magic History and is the former curator of the Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts. He is the author and co-designer of "The Magic Magic Book," an illustrated history of the earliest trick conjuring books, published in the Writers and Artists Series of the Whitney Museum of American Art. His book "Jay's Journal of Anomalies," based on his fine press periodical of the same name, was recently named one of the "Notable Books of the Year" by the New York Times and one of the "Best Books of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times. His most recent book, with photographs by Rosamond Purcell, is "Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck."
Ricky Jay's consulting firm, Deceptive Practices, has provided expertise on projects as diverse as the film "Forrest Gump" and the Broadway production of "Angels in America: Perestroika." He was a consultant on the Devices of Wonder exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and was the guest curator for an exhibition on conjuring at the Harvard Theatre Collection.
www.legacyrecordings.com
SOURCE: Legacy Recordings
CONTACT: Tom Cording, VP of Media Relations, Legacy Recordings, SONY BMG
Music Entertainment, +1-212-833-4448, Tom.Cording@sonybmg.com
Web site: http://www.legacyrecordings.com/


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Facebook earnings: Spotlight on mobile
by Julianne Pepitone @julpepitone January 30, 2013: 3:25 AM ET
Investors are watching Facebook for further signs of mobile sales growth.
After spending six months as the stock everyone loves to hate, Facebook impressed last quarter in the area Wall Street is most concerned about: mobile. The company has to prove itself again when it unveils fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday afternoon.
Facebook's mobile problem became a focus in the days before its May IPO. The company acknowledged that a growing number of users were accessing the site on mobile devices, where it didn't "generate any meaningful revenue."
That meant Facebook (FB) was completely missing out on making money from a large chunk of its audience. Wall Street doesn't like that.
Those mobile concerns, coupled with other worries like Facebook's high rate of spending, sent the stock plunging to about half of its $38 IPO price in the weeks after its debut. Naysayers held Facebook up as an example of dumb money thrown into a tech bubble.
But Facebook is now laser-focused on mobile. The push began in earnest in August, when Facebook launched a much-improved new Apple (AAPL) iOS app and began showing mobile users ads, including Sponsored Stories and other nudges to "like" company pages.
In October, Facebook proudly revealed that 14% of its third-quarter ad revenue -- about $152 million -- came from mobile. At the same time, its mobile customer base rose 61% over the year to 604 million active users.
Facebook shares have risen more than 50% since that third-quarter report and currently trade at about $32 each. Now, the company will have to prove that it can keep making money off its ever-growing mobile audience.
Expectations are high. Research firm Trefis said in a note Monday that it expects Facebook to "make significant progress in ramping up" its mobile ad business. Facebook has been increasing the number of ads shown on mobile devices, Trefis noted, and "their effectiveness is also driving ad pricing up."
Related story: California doesn't like Facebook stock price
Raymond James analyst Aaron Kessler went even further, upgrading his rating on Facebook shares to "outperform" from "market perform." He cited the nascent mobile monetization and improving usage stats, led by mobile users, as part of his rationale for the upgrade.
Kessler was also bullish on Facebook Ad Exchange, a system launched in September that lets advertisers bid on Facebook's display ad space. It also lets them put cookies on users' computers to track people as they crawl the Web, and "retarget" those users with related ads when they log back on to Facebook.
Facebook's other recent, big product launch came earlier this month with Graph Search, a tool that lets users search their social connections for information that their friends have shared. It focuses on "natural language" queries such as "music my friends like," "people who like soccer and live near me," or "photos of my friends before 2004."
Still, mobile remains the big focus for investors, and they'll be looking for continued growth.
In October, during last quarter's conference call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was defensive on the mobile front. He called the concerns overblown, saying "our opportunity on mobile is the most misunderstood aspect of Facebook today."
He also complained that company watchers were looking at numbers from earlier in the year, "when we weren't really trying yet" on mobile.
Facebook is trying now. That has pulled the social network out of its post-IPO slump, but the company still has a long way to go to quiet the tech-bubble naysayers.
CNNMoney (New York) First published January 30, 2013: 3:25 AM ET


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The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment carries out final preparations
The Royal Wedding Official Photographer
The Band of the Coldstream Guards set to entertain crowds along the procession route
An update: The Royal Wedding Online
The Official Souvenir Wedding Programme
How to access the Royal Wedding online
Trumpeters from the Central Band of the RAF will accolade Prince William and Catherine Middleton on 29th April
My grandmother once said that grief is the price we pay for love.
A speech by Prince William at the memorial service in Christchurch, New Zealand
It's knowing that so many of Scotland's finest brains and greatest achievers gained – and continue to gain - inspiration from this place
A speech by Prince William at St. Andrews University, Scotland
God speed you in your dangerous, gallant work.
A speech by Prince William at Trearddur Bay lifeboat station, Anglesey
Official Royal Wedding coin goes into production at the Royal Mint
Royal Wedding Charitable Gift Fund
Prince William and Catherine Middleton have set up a Charitable Gift Fund for the Royal Wedding
Prince William to visit Australia and New Zealand- Thursday 17th to Monday 21st March 2011
A message from Prince William to The Prime Minister of New Zealand
Wedding invitations have been sent out
HRH Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine Middleton to undertake a Royal tour of Canada
Prince William to be Patron of the University of St. Andrews 600th Anniversary Appeal
An update on Maid of Honour and Bridesmaids, Best Man and Page Boys
Prince William appointed as Colonel of the Irish Guards
But the effect of homelessness is the same for everyone: a crushing sense of hopelessness and despair.
An article by Prince William for the Street News Service
Truly a FIFA World Cup for the world.
A speech by Prince William on the 2018 England World Cup Bid
We all know that we could not be as we are, collectively and individually, without their selfless duty.
An article by Prince William on the appeal for the National Memorial Arboretum, The Sunday Telegraph
This is where the stars of the future will first discover their talents.
An article by Prince William in The Sun on Fields in Trust
Each one of those young men died for you and for me.
An article by Prince William about Bomber Command, Daily Express
Prince William to become Patron of the Imperial War Museum Foundation's First World War Centenary Appeal
Message from HRH Prince William of Wales to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
A fire alarm had thrown us together. Either that or Fate.
A speech by Prince William at the 100 Women in Hedge Funds Gala Event
Prince William takes part in first rescue as an RAF Search and Rescue Pilot
Prince William becomes a fully operational Search and Rescue Pilot
Here reigns courage, humour, compassion and, above all, hope for the future.
A speech by Prince William at the opening of the new Help 4 Heroes rehabilitation centre at Headley Court
Sport, to a great degree, also reflects society – good and bad.
A speech by Prince William at The FA Cup Respect and Fair Play awards, Wembley Stadium, London
Prince William and Prince Harry to visit Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa
Prince William to be posted to RAF Valley after successful completion of training


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2,4(1H,3H)-Pyrimidinedione (C4H4N2O2)
Name(s): 2,4(1H,3H)-Pyrimidinedione
1H-Pyrimidine-2,4-dione
2,4-Dioxopyrimidine
2-Hydroxy-4(1H)-pyrimidinone
2,4-Pyrimidinediol
2,4-Dihydroxypyrimidine
2,4-Pyrimidinedione
Hybar X
Pirod
Pyrod
uracile
1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-2,4-dioxopyrimidine
RU 12709
2,4-(1H,3H)-Pyrimidindion
2,4-Pyrimidindiol
2,4(1H,3H)-Pyrimidindion
1,2,3,4-Tetrahydropyrimidin-2,4-dion
CAS-RN: 66-22-8, 766-19-8, 4433-21-0, 4433-24-3, 42910-77-0, 144104-68-7
Classification: no charge; nitrogen heterocycle; 6RingOnly; 6ring; urea; amide; lactame; 1fragment
2,4(1H,3H)-Pyrimidinedione – C4H4N2O2 – 66-22-8
Derivative isotope: 2,4(1H,3H)-Pyrimidinedione-1,3-d2
Analogue other chalcogen: Deracil
Analogue other chalcogen: 4-Thiouracil
Analogue other chalcogen: 2,4-Dithiouracil
Analogue other chalcogen: 2,4-Diselenouracil
Structure Data of Organic Crystals: Vol. III/5a 2:4-4-37, p.121 III/5a
C4 (311 - 571): C4As - C4H6 (311 - 383): Vol. III/10A 2:354, p.63 III/10a
Diamagnetic Susceptibility: Vol. II/27b 7.1.4:254 II/27B
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Data - 17O: Vol. III/35e 2.2.1:106 III/35E
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Data - 19F & 15N: Vol. III/35b 3.2:186, p.138 III/35B
Nuclear quadrupole resonance data tables: Nitrogen: C4H4D4N2O3.ClD.D2O - C4H9NO2.H2O: Vol. III/20a 3.2:6-7 III/20a
Structure and Molecular Constants
Molecular Constants Mostly From Microwave, Molecular Beam, Electro Spin Resonance and Sub-Doppler Laser Spectroscopy: Vol. II/19b 2.5.2:369 II/19b
Molecular Constants Mostly From Microwave, Molecular Beam, Electro Spin Resonance and Sub-Doppler Laser Spectroscopy: Vol. II/19c 2.6.4.2:156 II/19c
Structure Data of Free Polyatomic Molecules: Vol. II/25c 3:1555 II/25C
Data in diagrams and tables: Organic compounds: Vol. IV/4 7.2.2:1145, p.305 IV/4
Vapor Pressure of Chemicals: Vol. IV/20c 2.3:448 IV/20C
Title: Molecular Constants: Rotational, Centrifugal Distortion and Related Constants of Diamagnetic Asymmetric Top Molecules
Author: Demaison, J.; Hüttner, W.; Vogt, J.; Wlodarczak, G.
Editor: Hüttner, W.
Keyword: organic compounds; molecular constants; spectroscopy; microwave spectroscopy
RefComment: XI, 488 pages.
Abstract: Volume II/19 Molecular Constants mostly from Microwave, Molecular Beam and Sub-Doppler Laser Spectroscopy is a supplement to the earlier volumes II/4, II/6, and II/14. The slight change in the title reflects current trends in the applications of spectroscopic methods. Together, the four volumes collect all the critically evaluated data published up to 1989/90 on constants of free molecules obtained by classical and modern spectroscopy. Volume II/19 is divided into four parts to record the growing number of investigations, especially in the microwave and millimeter wave regions, where modern techniques like Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy have made new objects of interest such as molecular complexes and clusters accessible to study. Subvolume II/19b contains corresponding data on diamagnetic asymmetric top molecules.
Title: Molecular Constants: Dipole Moments, Quadrupole Coupling Constants, Hindered Rotation and Magnetic Constants of Diamagnetic Molecules
Author: Demaison, J.; Hüttner, W.; Tiemann, E.; Vogt, J.; Wlodarczak, G.
RefComment: 8 figs., XI, 295 pages.
Abstract: Volume II/19 Molecular Constants mostly from Microwave, Molecular Beam and Sub-Doppler Laser Spectroscopy is a supplement to the earlier volumes II/4, II/6, and II/14. The slight change in the title reflects current trends in the applications of spectroscopic methods. Together, the four volumes collect all the critically evaluated data published up to 1989/90 on constants of free molecules obtained by classical and modern spectroscopy. Volume II/19 is divided into four parts to record the growing number of investigations, especially in the microwave and millimeter wave regions, where modern techniques like Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy have made new objects of interest such as molecular complexes and clusters accessible to study. Subvolume II/19c contains tables for diamagnetic molecules giving further spectroscopic parameters: quadrupole coupling constants, potential barriers, and data from Stark and Zeeman effect measurements.
Title: Structure Data Of Free Polyatomic Molecules: Molecules containing Three or Four Carbon Atoms
Author: Graner, G.; Hirota, E.; Iijima, T.; Kuchitsu, K.; Ramsay, D.A.; Vogt, J.; Vogt, N.
Editor: Kuchitsu, K.
Keyword: Free Polyatomic Molecules; Carbon Atoms; Molecules
RefComment: VIII, 481 pages. Hardcover
Abstract: This volume contains data on the geometric parameters (internuclear distances, bond angles, dihedral angles of internal rotation etc.) of free polyatomic molecules including free radicals and molecular ions. This survey on structure data is made of four subvolume, each containing the geometric parameters determined in the gas phase either by an analysis of the rotational constants (and sometimes the vibrational constants) obtained from microwave, infrared, Raman, electronic and photoelectron spectroscopy or by an analysis of electron diffraction intensities. Most of the structures listed in the tables are for molecules in the electronic ground state, but structures for electronically excited states have also been included as far as they are available. In this third subvolume, the structure of molecules containing three for four carbon atoms are listed.
Title: Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy Data: Nuclei D ... Cl
Author: Chihara, H.; Nakamura, N.
Keyword: NQR
RefComment: IX,677 pages. Hardcover
Abstract: Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy has become a standard method for structural research in molecular and solid state physics as well as for different branches of chemistry. The volumes cover data for more than 8,000 substances in the solid state. Data for free molecules have been published in volumes II/14 and II/15 of the New Series. The tables are arranged according to the atomic number of the elements.
Title: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Data: Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Fluorine-19 and Nitrogen-15
Author: Balasubramanian, M.; Gupta, R.R.; Jain, M.; Perumal, S.
RefComment: VII, 242 pages. With CD-ROM. Hardcover
Abstract: This volume provides a comprehensive and evaluated compilation of nuclear magnetic resonance data. Chemical shifts and coupling constants of boron-11 and phosphorus-31 (subvol. A), fluorine-19 and nitrogen-15 (subvol. B), hydrogen-1 (subvol. C), and carbon-13 (subvol. D) compounds are tabulated together with the gross- and structure formulas and the most readily available solvents. Due to the large amount of the data merely chemical shifts are presented in the printed versions, and all the data, chemical shifts and coupling constants are provided on CO-ROM's.
III/35E
Short: III/35E
Title: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Data: Chemical Shifts for Oxygen-17
Author: Duddeck, H.; Toth, G.; Simon, A.
Volume: III/35E
Keyword: Alipathic and Aromatic hydrocarbons; Coupling constant j; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; chemical shifts δ
RefComment: VII, 230 pages. With CD-ROM., Hardcover
Abstract: This volume provides a comprehensive and evaluated compilation of nuclear magnetic resonance data. Chemical shifts and coupling constants of boron-11 and phosphorus-31 (subvol. A), fluorine-19 and nitrogen-15 (subvol. B), hydrogen-1 (subvol. C), carbon-13 (subvol. D), and oxygen-17 (subvol. E) compounds are tabulated together with the gross- and structure formulas and the most readily available solvents. Due to the large amount of the data merely chemical shifts are presented in the printed versions, and all the data, chemical shifts and coupling constants are provided on CD-ROM's.
IV/20C
Short: IV/20C
Title: Vapor Pressure and Antoine Coefficients for Nitrogen Containing Organic Compounds
Volume: IV/20C
RefComment: VII, 197 pages


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TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE FROM BELOW: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CHANGE
by Kieran McEvoy and Lorna McGregor (eds). Oxford, UK, and Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2008. 233pp. Paperback. £30.00/$63.00. ISBN: 9781841138213.
Reviewed by Lesley A. Jacobs, Law & Society Program, York Centre for Public Policy & Law, York University. Email: jacobs [at] yorku.ca.
When political transition and regime change occurs, in particular when the move has been towards democratization, the historical legacy of the previous regime often includes gross violations of human rights and sometimes, indeed, crimes against humanity. The idea of transitional justice is at its core grounded on the belief that there is a need to address that historical legacy rather than just ignore it. This need to take seriously transitional justice stems from its importance for the political stability and legitimacy of the new regime. The most common metaphor is a medical one – heal past wounds before moving on to meet future challenges.
Measures designed to address concerns with transitional justice are not an especially new phenomenon. They are, for example, evident in many of the initiatives made by Congress in the reconstruction period immediately following the American Civil War. However, it was only in the post WWII period that transitional justice received careful scrutiny. The most familiar example is the Nuremberg trials where some individuals from the Nazi regime were held accountable for their actions. Those trials were formal, and the US Chief Prosecutor was Robert Jackson, a judge on leave from the US Supreme Court. A nice contrast is to efforts to address transitional justice in the People's Republic of China after 1949. There, the government supported a practice of "suku" which was much more informal than the Nuremberg trials. In effect, this practice involved many millions of people telling their stories in public places – village squares, and the like – about the pain and suffering they had experienced during the previous regime and under Japanese occupation, to show how much better off they were under the new communist regime. Unlike the tribunals in Nuremberg, in China neither the ideal of the rule of law nor lawyers played any role in its scheme of transitional justice.
In their new book, TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE FROM BELOW: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CHANGE, editors Kieran McEvoy and Lorna McGregor have gathered together a collection of articles about transitional justice in many parts of the world, including Colombia, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Russia, South Africa, and Timor-Leste. The thirteen authors have diverse backgrounds, although many have done research in Northern Ireland. Most of the papers address international law and situate their case studies in a comparative context. What the editors have sought to do is illustrate the diverse ways in which transitional justice is pursued in different countries. [*118]
In her contribution to the book, Lorna McGregor usefully identifies two phases in the development of transitional justice since WWII. The first phase involves familiar quasi-legal institutions such as war crime trials and sanctions. Transitional justice in this stage involved targeting individuals and holding them accountable for their actions by legal means. The Nuremberg trials are of course the paradigm example. The second phase is marked by truth commissions such as those utilized in Latin America and South Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These commissions were concerned less with individual accountability and more with healing, social cohesion, and reconciliation. They typically involved a process that was not modeled on traditional legal dispute resolution. Indeed, these commissions were often premised on granting blanket amnesties for individual wrongdoers. These two phases have produced two corresponding meta-models of transitional justice. One is the trial court model; the other is the truth and reconciliation commission model.
In the international law community, when the need for transitional justice arises, these two meta-models are often presented as exhausting the alternatives. McEvoy and McGregor challenge this, claiming "Transitional Justice is and should be a contested space" (p.2). Various chapters in the book illustrate that neither of these meta-models accurately capture how transitional justice works and that instead there is immense diversity and plurality in the modes of transitional justice. This is evident if you look below the formal institutions at how transitional justice plays out in particular communities. Yet, among international lawyers, the focus is almost exclusively on national transitional justice initiatives. Laura Arriaza and Naomi Roht-Arriaza write,
national-level initiatives by themselves are insufficient to capture the meaning of the conflict for people living in specific villages, towns, 'hills', or other local spaces, whose experience may vary widely from that of people elsewhere in the country. When it comes to post-conflict interventions aimed at reconstructing a shattered society, international and national policy-makers have treated countries as an undifferentiated whole . . . such efforts ignore existing local dynamics aimed at reinforcing or transforming the power relations that are often most relevant to people's lives . . . In transitional justice as elsewhere, all politics is local (p.144).
Indeed, often the local politics can be in tension with national transitional justice initiatives. Catalina Diaz in a chapter on Columbia discusses the community response to the demobilization of paramilitary units and, in effect, the amnesty for ex-combatants under the 2005 "Justice and Peace" Law, enacted by the national government. Under this law, ex-combatants were not required to make reparations to victims. Nonetheless, in the communities where these ex-combatants and their victims both lived, local governments have developed ways to hold the ex-combatants accountable. In the city of Medellin, for instance, Diaz describes a program that returns property and houses held by ex-combatants back to their legitimate owners in spite of the "Justice and Peace" Law.
Many of the chapters distinguish between top-down approaches to [*119] transitional justice and transitional justice from below. The main idea is that top-down approaches are directed by international organizations or national governments, typically modeled on one or the other of two meta-models noted above, with little input from local communities or victims about their design. Elizabeth Stanley, in her chapter on transitional justice in Timor-Leste, effectively makes the point that top-down approaches can be ineffective at addressing the injustices that underpin the conflict. The context for her study is the treatment of the Timorese minority by the Indonesian majority and national government. Stanley argues that national transitional justice schemes provided political cover for many Indonesian political elites, marginalized and "othered" the Timese minority, and failed to problematize the power structures in Indonesian society. Yet, transitional justice from below schemes have a host of other problems, many of them stemming from a lack of critical distance from cultural traditions and practices. In Timor-Leste, Stanley emphasizes the corrupting influence of nepotism and the ways in which women are silenced in the process.
The lingering question in the book is the extent to which the rule of law, lawyers, and judges are a constitutive part of transitional justice. Clearly, in the case of the meta-model of the trial court, there is no real question or contest. But, for those who favor the meta-model of the truth commission or pure bottom-up approaches to transitional justice, it is less clear. Kieran McEvoy, in his chapter, tries to make the case that, while "law matters" in transitional justice, its significance is often greatly exaggerated, especially by legal professionals. And this leads to an unnecessary distance between schemes of transitional justice and "justice which is actually 'embedded' in communities that have been directly effected by violence and conflict" (p.29). Instead, he argues that there is need to recognize the limitations on law and its functions, that there exist human rights traditions outside the legal paradigm, and that many of the injustices that are the subject of transitional justice schemes are best understood through an interdisciplinary criminology. Whilst all of these points strike me as reasonable, it would, I believe, have been instructive in the book to have a case study that examined a transitional justice scheme that genuinely did not rely on law whatsoever such as the example of "suku" from the People's Republic of China I mentioned at the outset.
© Copyright 2009 by the author, Lesley A. Jacobs.


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Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's semi-autobiographical black-and-white drama, Roma, and Yorgos Lanthimos' dark comedy, The Favourite, emerged as big winners at the 72nd edition of the BAFTA Awards.
The Favourite, which had 12 nominations, dominated the ceremony with seven wins, including for leading actress (Olivia Colman), supporting actress (Rachel Weisz) and outstanding British film. Roma, Curaon's memoir of childhood set in 1970s Mexico City, claimed the top prize of best film, alongside director and cinematography honours. Roma also won the BAFTA for film not in the English language.
Cuaron thanked Netflix for having the "faith and courage to get behind a black-and-white film about a domestic worker, subtitled from Spanish, and bring it to audiences around the world. To see a film about an indigenous domestic worker embraced this way in an age when fear and anger propose to divide us means the world to me.
"Reverting back to a world of separation and isolation is not a solution to anything. It is simply an excuse to hide our fear within our basest instincts."
Colman, who won best actress for her role as Queen Anne in The Favourite, drew some of the biggest laughs and applause of the ceremony from the audience for her speech.
She started by thanking "All the producers. We're having an amazing night aren't we? We're going to get so pissed later." The actor went on to thank her co-stars Weisz and Emma Stone, calling them "the coolest honour guard anyone could have."
Colman said they were all leads and it was "weird" only one of them could be nominated for lead. "This is for all three of us. It's got my name on it but we can scratch in some other names," she said.
Weisz, who claimed the best supporting actress trophy, defeated co-star Stone, Amy Adams (Vice), Claire Foy (First Man) and Margot Robbie (Mary Queen of Scots) in the category. "I had the most extraordinary luck in that I played opposite two of the most glorious women: Olivia Colman and Emma Stone," she said following her maiden BAFTA win.
First-time nominee Rami Malek took home the best actor award for his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Malek thanked Mercury, who he called "the greatest outsider of them" for being "unwavering, unflinching and uncompromising in every way". The film also won the award for best sound.
Mahershala Ali nabbed the best supporting actor trophy for Peter Farrelly's Green Book. He was nominated alongside Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman), Richard E Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) Sam Rockwell (Vice) and Timothee Chalamet (Beautiful Boy). "The work itself has always been the reward for me so to get this sort of thing is always a bit surreal," Ali said in his acceptance speech. It is Ali's first BAFTA having been nominated in the same category two years ago for Moonlight, for which he won an Oscar.
The Favourite writer Deborah Davi, who picked up the original screenplay award along with Tony McNamara, thanked BAFTA for "celebrating our female-dominated movie about women in power". Black Panther actor Letitia Wright won the EE Rising Star Award, the only award voted for by the public. "I want to thank everybody who gave me a chance," said Wright.
The actor said she had previously considered giving up acting but her faith had helped her through. Wright encouraged "anybody that is going through a tough time" to know that "God made you and loves you. Let your light shine". Black Panther won the prize for special visual effects, the only category in which it was nominated.
Spike Lee registered his first BAFTA with BlacKkKlansman in the adapted screenplay category, while Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse took home the award for best animated film.
A Star is Born, which was nominated in seven categories won the best original song award. The trophy was collected by director and star of the film Bradley Cooper as Lady Gaga was off to Los Angeles to attend the Grammy awards.
The ceremony's in memorium section paid tribute to figures such as Albert Finney and Nicolas Roeg, with saxophonist Jess Gillam playing the title track from Love Story in the background.
The highest honour, the BAFTA fellowship, was given to film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, a three-time Oscar winner and one of Martin Scorsese's closest collaborators, who has worked on 22 of his features. The special BAFTA award for outstanding British contribution to cinema was presented to producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley of Number 9 Films.
The biggest snub of the awards night was First Man, which had seven nominations, equal to Bohemian Rhapsody, Roma and A Star is Born, but went home empty-handed.
Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War couldn't convert any of its four nominations into wins, while Can You Ever Forgive Me? ,Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Poppins Returns and Stan & Ollie also missed out on any trophies despite three nominations each.


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Sinn Féin Spokesperson on the Environment, Community and Local Government, Brian Stanley TD, today condemned the government for their unwarranted attack on CE Schemes.
He said "The savage cut of 66% to the Material and Training Allowance will make many CE Schemes unviable. They depend on this money to pay for training, insurance, rent, equipment and tools, ESB and telephone bills.
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Comeback je český televizní sitcom z produkce televize Nova. První díl s názvem "Křeslo" byl premiérově vysílán 4. září 2008, poslední díl s názvem "Slepák" byl uveden 24. října 2011.

Na každém dílu pracoval scenáristický tým, jehož členy byli jak profesionální scenáristé, tak bloggeři a další nadšenci. Tým vedl Tomáš Baldýnský.

V divácké anketě ANNO 2008 o nejoblíbenější pořad TV Nova získal Comeback třetí místo a představitel Ozzáka Martin Dejdar byl zvolen "Mužem roku". V roce 2009 Comeback své umístění zopakoval, Martin Dejdar se umístil na třetím místě.

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Přípravu svého původního sitcomu zahájila Nova již v květnu 2007, kdy uspořádala workshop s názvem Sitcom Projekt. Na ten televize pozvala lidi nejrůznějších profesí, o kterých se domnívala, že by mohli být vtipní. Workshopu se tak zúčastnili nejen scenáristé, ale i herci, textaři, režiséři, novináři, spisovatelé nebo bloggeři. Americký televizní tvůrce John Vorhaus, autor knihy The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You're Not, se ujal jejich sitcomového školení. Několik účastníků workshopu se stalo základem scenáristického týmu, který se ale později ještě rozšiřoval.

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Seriál vypráví příběh pohaslé socialistické popové hvězdy Tomáše Pacovského, přezdívaného Tomi Paci. Nyní vlastní obchod s hudebními nosiči a spolu se svým bratrem Františkem alias Ozzákem, metalovým nadšencem, vychovává dceru Ivu. Ozzák problémy často řeší v Hospodě u Jezevce, jejíž majitelka je Simona Bůčková, od níž utekl manžel i se vším nábytkem a děti jí nechal, od té doby jsou chudá rodina. Je sousedkou Pacovských a její dvě děti, dvojčata Saša a Lexa, jsou pravděpodobně u Pacovských více než doma. Saša je nejlepší kamarádkou Ivy. Prochází krizí, protože si myslí, že je pro každého neviditelná, o čemž se často přesvědčuje. Lexa je hudební nadšenec, který našel vzor v Ozzákovi. Navíc je zamilovaný do Ivy. V neposlední řadě je tu Marcelka, fanynka Tomiho Paciho, která zachrání jeho obchod před vymahači a poté zde začne pracovat jako prodavačka a Tomášova manažerka. Ozzák ji nesnáší a přezdívá ji "Mamba".

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 Stránky seriálu na Nova.cz

 Fanouškovské stránky seriálu Comeback

Televizní seriály TV Nova
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Televizní seriály vysílané od roku 2008
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This was an exciting year for botanical discoveries in New York state parks. Everyone heard about the federally-threatened Isotria medeoloides (small whorled pogonia) that turned up in Orange County in May. But there were eight more new state-rare plant populations documented in state parks this year.
Five of these species were found on Long Island, which was a focus area for the NYNHP state parks surveyed this year. Three of the species found are listed as state-endangered; these are Juncus brachycarpus (short-fruit rush, S1) at Montauk Point State Park, Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata (twining screwstem, S1) at Connetquot River State Park, and Polygonum aviculare ssp. buxiforme (Small's knotweed, S1) at Hither Hills State Park. The discovery of another population of short-fruit rush is particularly exciting, as there is only one other extant population known in the state. The other two species found on Long Island are Eupatorium torreyanum (Torrey's thoroughwort, S2) and Desmodium ciliare (hairy small-leaved tick-trefoil, S2S3), both found at Shadmoor State Park and listed as state-threatened.
Back up north, during additional surveys for Isotria medeoloides, a new population of the state-endangered Endodeca serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot, S2) was discovered at Highland Lakes State Park. At Taconic State Park, Symphyotrichum boreale (boreal aster, S2, threatened) was discovered, and at Chenango Valley State Park, a new population of Botrychium oneidense (blunt-lobe grape-fern, S2S3, endangered) was found.
All of these discoveries point to the need for continued survey efforts for rare plants throughout New York. It's a big state and we still have a lot to learn!
From Steve Young, NY Natural Heritage.
In August and early September I searched grassland habitat on Long Island for Sandplain Gerardia, Agalinis acuta. There are only a few sites left on Long Island for this federally endangered plant but some new sites have been established by planting seeds in the last decade. With the help of volunteers Rich Kelly, Mike Feder and Carole Ryder we explored known grasslands and some new sites to see if sandplain geradia has been overlooked recently. Unfortunately we did not see any new populations but saw other interesting plants during our search. Most of the native grassland areas on Long Island are small and are now growing up to shrubland since active management has been reduced in recent years by budget cuts and other factors. Here are some of the plants and habitats we saw.
Our quarry. Flowers of Agalinis acuta are pink and have a notch in the upper margin. Photo Carole Ryder.
The Hempstead Plains is a remnant of a much larger grassland in Nassau County that is now hemmed in by development. It is a managed preserve and contains Agalinis acuta.
A small population of green milkweed, Asclepias viridis, still survives there despite nearby invasive species.
Here is a closeup of the distinctive flowers.
This plant of Agalinis in bud shows the narrow branches and leaves.
Also here are large populations of goat's-rue, Tephrosia virginiana, with its twisted pods.
It also contains one of the largest populations of stargrass, Aletris farinosa, a state-rare plant in the Lily family. Its tall stalks of white flowers turn to tan fruit in late summer.
Butterfly weed is another chacteristic plant of these grasslands. Its orange flowers and erect pods are hard to miss.
The old grass airstrip and surrounding shrubland openings of Montauk airport seemed like a good place to find Agalinis.
No Agalinis but there was another pink flower here, on the Natural Heritage watch list, cross-leaf milkwort.
The tops of the eroded bluffs at Camp Hero at Montauk Point contain grassy openings that could harbor Agalinis (there are small populations on bluffs to the west) but they turned out to be too small or too weedy.
The bluffs are covered with maritime shrubland.
The light blue fruit of Bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, are common here.
As are the bright yellow flowers of golden aster, Chrysopsis mariana.
Below the lighthouse is a small grassland area but no Agalinis.
Turn around and you see one of the state's most recognizable landmarks.
When exploring shrublands and grasslands at this time of year we had to put up with the masses of tiny red larval ticks that can end up on pant legs looking for their first blood meal. Fortunately they don't contain disease but can leave an itchy bite. They are often confused with chiggers which probably don't live in New York.
On the way back to home base I stopped to check on a population of whorled-pennywort, Hydrocotyl verticillata, in Montauk. Its small white flowers are in multiple tiers above the round peltate leaves. Some years the water is so high here the plants are not visible but this year they were easily seen.
Steve Young, New York Natural Heritage Program – During our last week of searching Steuben and Allegany Counties for the federally threatened Northeastern Bulrush we did not find any additional populations but we encountered good habitat dominated by other plants.
This marsh was fairly deep and dominated by Carex comosa and cattails.
Downstream the marsh turned into a pond with clumps of pickerel-weed in duckweed.
Another vernal wetland in Steuben County is dominated by grasses.
Some wetlands looked good on the aerial photos but turned out to be dug ponds. David Werier looking disappointed.
This round vernal wetland looked like it had an excellent chance of containing bulrush but was dominated by Carex gynandra.
Another excellent candidate but this time it was dominated by Carex tuckermanii. It was a new species for Steve Daniel (on the right).
In a state forest in Allegany County the dominant plant in the small wetland was Calamagrostis canadensis.
The last little wetland I searched was dominated by turtle-heads, one of the biggest populations of this plant I have seen.
Here is a closeup of the inflorescence with flowers and buds.
From Steve Y0ung, NY Natural Heritage Program – This federally-threatened plant is known from Virginia north to Vermont. Learn more about it at the Center for Plant Conservation website HERE. In New York, there was only one historical collection, from the Putnam Mountain area in Washington County in northeastern New York, from September 1900, and it was listed as extirpated from the state. The location for the historical record has been searched numerous times but no plants have been found again. In recent years more populations of the bulrush were found in adjacent Vermont and in northern Pennsylvania in a county adjacent to New York. It was frustrating that we couldn't find it in New York – it was so close by.
This year I received funds from the US Fish and Wildlife Service to look for it again in the Southern Tier of New York to see if there were populations extending north from Pennsylvania. On the second day of searching small wetlands in Steuben County, south of Corning, I finally found it. It was growing in a small (40 m diameter) vernal wetland at the top of a hill that I had identified as a place to search using topographic maps and Bing birds-eye-view aerial photos on the web. One month shy of the 110th anniversary of its last collection in New York, it was back in our flora. I spent two more days searching other wetlands in the county, and I have more days to search later in the month so I hope I can discover more populations. Dr. Rob Naczi from the NY Botanical Garden will also be searching areas near Vermont. Let's hope he will find some in that area as well. Stay tuned to this blog . . .
Below are some of the photos from the population in Steuben County.
This is what the wetland looked like as I approached through the hemlock woods.
In the middle was a small open muddy area surrounded by Northeastern bulrush.
The species has rays that arch down from the top of the culm.
The culms usually lay down and root in the mud.
The peripheral open muddy areas had different plant species but the area covered by the bulrush was almost a monoculture.
From Steve Young – NY Natural Heritage Program. In New York two varieties of Viburnum dentatum are found, var. lucidum, northern arrowwood, also called Viburnum recognitum in some books, and var. dentatum, southern arrowwood. Viburnum dentatum var. dentatum is found south of New York. Viburnum dentatum var. lucidum is found throughout the state while Viburnum dentatum var. venosum is found only in Suffolk County in New York and mostly on the very eastern end of Long Island. It is presently considered a rare plant by the New York Natural Heritage Program and ranked as S2 – threatened. In June I surveyed the area around Montauk west to Southampton on the South Fork of Long Island to see how common this shrub really is. On Eastern Long Island it occurs in maritime shrubland with the more common var. lucidum but it can be distinguished fairly easily by leaf and reproductive characters. It flowers and fruits about two weeks later than var. lucidum and its leaf petioles and undersides are covered with stellate hairs that are absent on var. lucidum. The photos below show the difference.
Northern and southern arrowwood beside each other. Northern on the left in bloom and southern on the right in bud in early June.
When southern arrowwood is in bud.
Southern arrowwood has stellate petioles and twigs.
Northern arrowwood has glabrous twigs and petioles or with small straight hairs in the petiole groove.
Can you tell which species is which here?
Variety venosum on the top and var. lucidum on the bottom.
The brown rough bark with white lenticels looks similar on both varieties.
Because these plants flower at different times, their leaf characters are different, and they occur together instead of separated geographically, I would tend to call them different species rather than varieties. Variety venosum has been described as a species, Viburnum venosum, in the past and I would tend to agree with that taxonomy from what I have seen on Long Island. I surveyed many roadsides and shrublands on the South Fork in June and southern arrowwood was present in good numbers in most of them. I am now recommending that its rank be lowered from threatened to rare and it put on the Heritage Watch List. Even though it is more common than we thought it should still be monitored because the non-native viburnum leaf beetle (Pyrrhalta viburni) has been completely defoliating this and a few other viburnum species in parts of New York.
After the initial discovery this summer of Isotria medeoloides in Orange County, a follow-up survey was done this week and almost 100 more plants were counted. That is an encouraging sign that the plant is doing well and may be in other areas. The New York Natural Heritage Program is planning to evaluate and search additional habitat in Orange County to see if the orchid occurs anywhere else nearby.