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WE NEED MORE FOOTBALLERS NOW
You are most likely wondering what this piece is about considering the fact that we have millions of professional footballers worldwide but the truth is that football as we know it is going into extinction.
How excited do we get about watching matches in recent years compared to yester years times? What exactly do major tournaments like the UEFA Champions League, World Cup or the so called Big games like the El-Classico, Manchester Derby or the Milan Derby offer now besides formations, tactics and the pragmatic approaches that is common at all levels in recent years and which I consider BORING.
In case you still don't understand what I am driving at, let me start with the top two players of this decade, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Not only have they shared the supreme individual award in the game, they have also broken almost every record that existed before their duopoly took the game by storm but are they still as skillful and mesmerizing as they used to be? In my opinion their obsession for goals, competitive spirit and the pragmatic tactics of coaches has robbed us of all that.
He's most guilty of sacrificing good football for goals
The world of football is now void of players who make fans stand up instantly whenever they get the ball, players whose aura sends goosebumps and chills across the stadium because fans all over know they can do almost everything with one amazing flick, trick or mesmerizing piece of skill.
I grew up watching players like Austin Jay Jay okocha; a player "so good they named him twice". He made football look like child's play. Okocha was known for his pace on the ball, technique, creativity, and dribbling skills, as well as his use of feints, in particular the stepover, the former Bolton wanderers and Fenerbache man easily perforated the philosophy and game plan of opponents, elevating the art of football in process.
So much trickery and skill in one picture
In Europe there was a certain Zinedine 'Zizou' Zidane who happens to be my favourite player of all time. The three time FIFA world player of the year and Ballon D'or winner is arguably the greatest midfielder ever. Renowned for his elegance, vision, ball control and technique, Zidane was named the best European footballer of the past 50 years in the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll, his solid physique combined with his silk touch on the ball was divine as the legend was good at virtually everything.
Also, from Brazil a nation that eats, drinks and sleeps football we had several mesmerizing players like Luis Ronaldo 'D elima', rivaldo, Pele, Ronaldinho to mention a few but even Brazil as a nation is no longer as entertaining as they use to be. Samba football as we know it is now extinct maybe as a result of the massive export of their players from Brazil to the world at large.
Not shining the light on Ronaldinho in an article like this will be a sin. The two time world footballer of the year is the perfect explanation of the word "Entertainment". Renowned for his technique, tricks, dribbling, overhead kicks, no-look passes and free kicks, he was always terrorizing oppositions in various ways. He is so skillful words cannot describe. You just never know what he will do next! Personally his exquisite assist to Ludovic Giuly in the Milan versus Barcelona 2006 UEFA Champions League match which was undisputedly one of the great occasions in world football still lingers in my mind and that is just a token of the many things he did as his showmanship is unrivaled till date.
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Apart from the players in the preceding paragraphs, we also had great dribblers like Johan Cryuff, George Best, Gorge weah, Pele and the great Diego Maradona, all of whom really made football joyous in the past.
Now, we have to contend with the likes of Yannick Bolasie, Douglas Costa, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar, Eden Hazard, Argen Robben, Luiz Suarez, Nani, Frank Ribery, Juan Cuadrado, Willian – good players in their own right. The real question is, are they really as skilful as the players of the past?
Why haven't we seen individual showmanship in football like in the past? Are we lacking skilful players or are managers becoming more tactically aware at the expense of showmanship or as football become too technical to be entertaining in a theatrical way? Whichever one it is, what is the solution or am I alone on this?
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In this example you will learn how the Spring JDBCTemplate simplifies the code you need to write to perform the database-related operations. The insertForum() method below shows the amount of code you need to write to insert data using JDBC.
As you can see they are mostly boilerplate code required to manage the resources and handle exceptions. The code below shows how the Spring JDBCTemplate can simplify this task for you.
Using JDBCTemplate you write code only related to inserting the data and all the other boilerplate code are taken care by the template itself. Different update() methods are available, you can implement the one that is simple and suites your need. The one we implemented here takes a sql query and an array of Object that contains values to be bound to indexed parameters of the query. JDBCTemplate is suitable with JDK 1.4 and higher.
The selectForum() method below shows the amount of code you need to write to retrive data using JDBC.
Now see how you can remove the boilerplate code using the Spring JDBCTemplate.
Here you need to implement the mapRow() method of the RowMapper callback interface. In the mapRow() method, map the single row of the result set to the Forum object. The queryForObject() method takes a sql query, an array of Object that contains values to be bound to indexed parameters of the query and a RowMapper object.
You need not handle any database-related exceptions explicitly instead Spring JDBC Framework will handle it for you. All the exceptions thrown by the Spring JDBC Framework are subclasses of DataAccessException. The DataAccessException is a type of RuntimeException, so you are not forced to handle it. The SQLException is a checked exception, when you throw the SQLException here the Spring JDBC Framework will wrap this checked exception inside one of the subclasses of DataAccessException and rethrow it, this eliminates the need to explicitly handle them.
In the Spring bean configuration file you need to first configure a datasource and then inject it to the DAO class.
Here we use Jakarta Commons Database Connection Pools (DBCP) to configure the datasource. The BasicDataSource can be easily configured and supports connection pooling. To use DBCP you need to have the following jar file in the classpath commons-dbcp.jar and commons-pool.jar. After creating the datasource inject the datasource to the DAO class. In the DAO class we use this datasource to create the JDBCTemplate object.
The following jar files are required to run the example. All the JDBCTemplate related files are located in the org.springframework.jdbc-3.0.0.M3.jar file and the all the DataAccessException related classes are located in the org.springframework.transaction-3.0.0.M3.jar file.
To execute the example run the following Main class.


In Uganda, a ruling this week in a landmark case of two journalists seeking to compel their government's disclosure of multinationals oil deals highlighted the challenges to public transparency just before media leaders, press freedom advocates, officials, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter gather in Ghana next week at the African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information.
Senior reporter Angelo Izama and Charles Mwanguhya Mpagi of Uganda's leading independent newspaper Monitor filed the case to appeal the refusal of Uganda's attorney general to provide them with certified copies of oil exploitation agreements—because of alleged confidentiality clauses in the documents—according to news reports. The journalists argued that the information was of public interest: Ugandans must be able to hold the government and its partners accountable for the exploitation of the oil.
However, Chief Magistrate Deo Ssejjemba said in his ruling that the petitioners had not proved either of the public benefit of disclosing the information to the public, according to news reports. The journalists, along with their partners the Open Society Institute's East Africa Initiative and Human Rights Network Uganda (HURINET), said they were considering appealing the ruling.
The case was originally filed by lawyer and Member of Parliament Abdu Katuntu under Uganda's Access to Information Act, a legislation he introduced in 2005. Patrick Tumwine of HURINET told CPJ a local coalition of civil society organizations has been raising awareness about the law. More than 50 percent of Ugandans requesting information about resources allocations, local government affairs, or cases with security agencies get turned down, he said.
Freedom to information is enshrined as a fundamental human right by the United Nations, and upheld by the African Charter on Human and People's Rights. The Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa explicitly states: "Public bodies hold information not for themselves but as custodians of the public good and everyone has a right to access this information, subject only to clearly defined rules established by law." However, to this date, only five countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Uganda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Angola) have passed freedom of information legislation, according to Mukelani Dimba, the deputy chief executive officer of the South Africa-based Open Democracy Advice Centre and an expert on the topic.
Progress in the enactment of such legislation remains sluggish, even stalled for a dozen countries that have crafted draft bills. In Mozambique for instance, parliament has yet to table a draft bill presented by a platform of civil society organizations since November 2005, Alfredo Libombo, who heads the Mozambican branch of the Media Institute of Southern Africa told CPJ. The same is true in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania, according to Dimba, while legislative chambers in Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zambia have struggled to push through tabled draft bills.
Even the handful of countries with legislation in place have mightily struggled to translate their laws into meaningful reality. For instance, Zimbabwe's deceptively named Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act has almost invariably been used to censor the press.
All these issues will surely be discussed by the "more than 125 persons from 40 countries" expected during the Feb 7-9 conference, organized by the Carter Center in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, where, just last month, hundreds of journalists and activists organized a protest march in response to parliament's delay in passing "Right to Information" legislation.
Good work Mr.Keita for this article on the difficulties that journalists face in getting access to information on matters of vital concern to citizens such as those in Uganda.
Journalists in Uganda are facing serious repression. Radio stations are closed frequently, journalists are afraid to publish freely anything critical of the Government. They face expensive law suits, torture and intimidation, prison, closure of their papers...And this of course is worse in this year leading up to elections. The government wishes to deny the Opposition any forum for disseminating information about their platforms and programs.
Thank you Mr.Keita for the insightful exposure.The Ugandan case is just an eye-opener as similar cases are now coming up on a daily basis in neighboring Kenya,my country.I am a journalist with the Standard newspaper in Kenya and i understand what my colleagues are going through in Uganda because i have been through similar treatment.We have new laws that the Kenyan Government put in place early this year to force us reveal sources of our information,on top of the Government being able to read and disseminate our information before it is published.We urge the world not to just look at us.Please come to our aid.We need you now,more than ever before.Mr.Keita,be blessed.
I salute you for your excellent work of advocating for the press freedom and freedom of expression in Africa.
Like in most of Africa, independent journalists in Rwanda are facing serious government repression, harassement, threats intimidation, illegal detention etc. The government uses the state-controlled judiciary (exclusively partial) to crack down on critics.
Most journalists face trumped-up and fabricated charges, aimed at silencing them from doing their professional, critical and analytical work. The enacted media laws that are repressive in nature and substance were pushed by the government through a state-controlled parliament---a rubber-stump.
However, all is not lost! With concerted effort from CPJ, the few independent Rwandan journalists and other international media networks, coupled with pressure from the international commmunity, the Rwanda government will yield and allow independent journalists, people and politicians not aligned to the ruling party, human rights activists, freedom rights activists to work freely and without fear and threats.
I am delighted to learn from this blog about the forthcoming conference about Freedom of information.
Whatever is happening to our media comrades in Uganda, is not exclusively a Ugandan affair. African governments are known for their systematic denial of information to journalists; so much so that public information in some countries like Rwanda (where I am an indepedent journalist) has become "classfied information".
Therefore, this conference comes at the right time, and it is my hope that speakers and facilitators in this conference will push for continental and international sanctions against repressive governments, like the Rwandan government who persistently deny the journalists to the freedom to information, the existence of a free and independent press.
From my own journalistic work, one can only talk about freedom to access information, when assuming that there's press freedom in a particular country. Presumably, this conference will exchange about all freedoms associated to our journalistic work, as our freedoms are all intertwined and linked to one another.
The Carter Conference ought to tackle and expose (and shame)countries like Rwanda whose threat to freedom of information, denial of a free and press freedom and flourishing of an independent media is evident and hurting Rwandans.
Bravo CPJ colleagues for keeping us posted on what is happening in the world.
thank u so much for keeping us informed on what is happening in the world and provoking me into reacting to what is taking place in my own Home district-Hoima where oil is being explored.
The ruling by the Ugandan magistrate in a case where two journalists were seeking government to reveal the contracts its signed with the oil companies is worrying and leaves us in the dark. it said government is not obliged to disclose these agreements, where do we go from here?
First of all, let thank the owner of this blog Mr. Mohammed Keita of CPJ for his informative journalistic work. I am a veteran journalist in Kampala, and proud of working in the media sector for over 20 years.
When I read on this blog about the forthcoming Carter conference in Ghana about the Freedom to information, I was extremely excited about it. And moreso, I read a comment of my old friend and mentor Sanyu John Bosco who was feared dead in 2008. Like most journalists who have been trained by him and worked with and under him in East Africa, we were shocked to learn that the dictatorial Kagame regime had killed him.
I thank God that he's alive, and hope to get in touch with him. Kudos to CPJ for running his comments, because now we know he's alive and kicking. As regards the Carter topic, I think freedom to information is a big challenge to the media industry. The question here is; on one hand government's myth of shelving public information and stubbornly refusing to surrender to the scribes, and on the other hand, how scribes uses the information.
Throughout my career, I have seen journalists who misrepresent facts even when armed with resourceful facts from reliable sources. In most cases, such journalists have either been planted in the news room by the powers to be, or are just opportunists. While I am a stronger believer and activist for the freedom to access public information without any restriction, but at the same time the few colleagues who abuse this freedom of information ought to be grilled and persecuted for undermining our faith in this freedom.
Personally, I am pertubed by the Museveni crumbling regime that have vowed to crack down on us for exposing her weaknesses. Because this regime is crumbling, it has targeted journalists as their worst enemy, and we are ready to do our job and receive bullets from Kayihura's black mamba. The US secretary of State has recently said that Obama administration will closely monitor Uganda's next presidential and parliamentary election. Though I applaud her for stating this, she and her government should openly condemn Museveni, ask him to disband the electoral commission, ensure the our media freedoms are respected. Unless our freedom of expression, freedom to information (like the accessing the oil documents) is respected in entirety, then the US will not be considered serious. The US and the International community should unanimously and transparently come out to save Ugandans and media scribes this corrupt and bankrupt regime.
I hope the Carter Conference invited some of our respected and courageous media gurus who have stood up against their dictatorial governments, namely Sanyu John Bosco against the Kagame's regime, and Mwenda Andrew against Museveni's regime.
Bravo CPJ and Carter foundation!
Good job CPJ as Usual.
But I am afraid I have to say that Dawit Kebed's opinion is not correct. Dawit said that there was some improvements after the establishment of a Communication Office in Ethiopia. I wish that did happen, but that is not the reality. Dawit himself complains about the media environment in Ethiopia every time he writes his editorial. And this is a strange opinion. Addis Neger boys fled their country after the establishment of that office. Who are running that office after all? It is Bereket and his boys, the same old dogs who can't learn new tricks. I understand the environment Dawit works in, and I might not give a d/t opinion if I were in his shoe. The Addis Neger guys gave the same opinion for the same question a week before they fled their country. My fear is that we may send wrong messages to the international community by speaking what is not in our heart. Dawit knows he can't even publish articles written from his own former colleagues for fear of reprisal from the dictatorial regimes. I wish my former colleague has said the truth.
Great analysis Mr. Keita. The struggle to have a Right to Information legislation is still raging on the Tanzania and I salute the brothers in Uganda for the attempt to use the courts. Perhaps we should give it consideration on our end since our government has been dilly dallying for the past 4 years since it presented a draft bill on the Right to Information law.


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Engel receives Association of University Research Parks award
Kate Engel, director of communication and culture for Nebraska Innovation Campus, was honored with the Rising Star Award from the Association of University Research Parks on November 6.
The award, among several of the association's Awards of Excellence, recognizes an individual under the age of 40 that exhibits significant contributions to the development and success of communities of innovation.
"I am honored and humbled to receive this inaugural award," Engel said. "Recognition by AURP and my research park peers is an incredible compliment."
Engel noted that she is grateful to be part of the team at Nebraska Innovation Campus focused on connecting private sector businesses and the University of Nebraska.
"It is a testament to Kate's hard work and dedication that she received this honor the first year AURP gave out this award," said Dan Duncan, NIC executive director.
NIC is currently home to over 45 partners, both private and public entities. Construction on 455,000 square feet of office, conference center, lab, pilot plant, and greenhouse space has been completed. Construction on a six-story hotel is planned to begin in 2020.
At full build-out, NIC will be a 2.2-million-square-foot campus with uniquely designed buildings and amenities that inspire creative activity and engagement, transforming ideas into global innovation.
AURP is a non-profit organization focused on creating communities of innovation and education for research parks both operating and planned, plus innovation districts, incubators, accelerators and the businesses that support the research park industry. Engel accepted the award at the association's annual international conference in Atlanta, Georgia.


Rowan Dorin is a historian of western Europe and the Mediterranean, primarily during the high and late Middle Ages. Much of his research tries to understand how law and society interact with each other, especially where legal norms conflict with social practices. Another strand of his research explores the history of economic life and economic thought, especially medieval debates over usury and moneylending. He has also written on the circulation of goods, people, and ideas in the medieval Mediterranean.
Rowan's current book project uses the banishment of Jewish and Christian moneylenders as a lens for exploring the origins of mass expulsion in late medieval Europe. A second ongoing project examines the ways in which medieval canon law was adapted, reinterpreted, or resisted in local contexts in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Born and raised in western Canada, Rowan did his undergraduate and doctoral work at Harvard University, earning an MPhil in Medieval History from the University of Cambridge along the way. Before coming to Stanford, he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.


In New Brunswick, we speak English, French, or both. You will hear English and French spoken throughout Canada, but New Brunswick is Canada's only officially bilingual province.
The Government of Canada works with provincial governments, school boards, community colleges, and immigrant and community organizations to offer free language training for adult permanent residents. LINC, which stands for Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada, has centres in New Brunswick to assess your language skills and find the training program that would be best for you. In French, this program is known as CLIC, for Cours de langue pour les immigrants au Canada.
It will be important for you to be comfortable communicating in English or French. Once you learn one or both of these languages, you will find it easier to get around, talk with your new neighbours, get a job, and assist your children, who will be learning in English or French at school. You will also need to know English or French to become a Canadian.
You will find that there are many language courses available, some of them are free of charge. Sometimes these courses are called "ESL" for English as a Second Language, or "FSL," for French as a Second Language.
Universities, New Brunswick Community College, private language schools and community organizations offer language classes. Remember to ask about fees, since these courses may not be free.
A collection of materials to welcome newcomers, and also raise awareness of the growing cultural diversity in New Brunswick, is available at local public libraries and bookmobiles throughout the province. The collection includes English as a Second Language and French as a Second Language resources, online language training, as well as materials on multiculturalism and diversity.
For a list of Settlement Agencies in New Brunswick, refer to Immigrant Settlement Agencies to Help You.


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Extraterrestrial sugar
Published on November 21, 2019 November 21, 2019 by zooks777Leave a comment
The coding schemes for Earth's life and evolution (DNA and RNA), its major building blocks and basic metabolic processes have various sugars at their hearts. How they arose boils down to two possibilities: either they were produced right here by the most basic, prebiotic processes or they were supplied from interplanetary or interstellar space. All kinds of simple carbon-based compounds turn up in spectral analysis of regions of star formation, or giant molecular clouds: CN, CO, C2H, H2CO up to 10 or more atoms that make up recognisable compounds such as benzonitrile (C6H5CN). Even a simple amino acid (glycene –CH2NH2COOH) shows up in a few nearby giant molecular clouds. Brought together in close proximity, instead of dispersed through huge volumes of near-vacuum, a riot of abiotic organic chemical reactions could take place. Indeed, complex products of such reactions are abundant in carbonaceous meteorites whose parent asteroids formed within the solar system early in its formation. Some contain a range of amino acids though not, so far, the five bases on which genetics depends: in DNA adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine (replaced by uracil in RNA). Yet, surprisingly, even simple sugars have remained elusive in both molecular clouds and meteorites.
Artist's impression of the asteroid belt from which most meteorites are thougtht to originate (Credit: NASA/JPL)
A recent paper has broken through that particular barrier (Furukawa, Y. et al. 2019. Extraterrestrial ribose and other sugars in primitive meteorites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Online; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1907169116). Yoshihiro Furukawa and colleagues analysed three carbonaceous chondrites and discovered traces of 4 types of sugars. It seems that sugar compounds have remained elusive because those now detected are at concentrations thousands of times lower than those of amino acids. Contamination by terrestrial sugars that may have entered the meteorites when they slammed into soil is ruled out by their carbon isotope ratios, which are very different from those in living organisms. One of the sugars is ribose, a building block of RNA (DNA needs deoxyribose). Though a small discovery, it has great significance as regards the possibility that the components needed for living processes formed in the early Solar System. Moon formation by giant impact shortly after accretion of the proto-Earth would almost certainly have destroyed such organic precursors. So, if the Earth's surface was chemically 'seeded' in this way it is more likely to have occurred at a later time, perhaps during the Late Heavy Bombardment 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago (see: Did mantle chemistry change after the late heavy bombardment? In Earth-logs September 2009)
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Where is Celia Weston today? What happened to her? Wiki
1 Who is Celia Weston?
2 Where Is Celia Weston Today? What Happened to Her?
3 Celia Weston Wiki- Age, Childhood, and Education
5 Rise to Prominence
6 Continual Success
7 The 2010s and Recent Endeavors
8 Celia Weston Net Worth, Height, Weight, and Appearance
9 Celia Weston Personal Life, Is She Married? Hobbies, and Interests
Who is Celia Weston?
Celia Weston is an American award-winning actress, who has achieved fame through the role of Jolene Hunnicutt in the TV series "Alice" (1981-1985), and later in her career a number of supporting roles in films such as Mary Beth Percy in the film "Dead Man Walking" (1995), as Mrs Krensler in the film "Hulk" in 2008, and as Molly in the film "Knight and Day" in 2010, among other roles.
Where Is Celia Weston Today? What Happened to Her?
Celia is now in her late '60s, so her career has been active for over 40 years. She has most recently finished working on the film "The Secret: Dare to Dream", based on the highly successful self-help book "The Secret" (2006), written by Rhonda Byrne, but the premiere of which didn't justify expectations, as it received mostly negative critiques.
Celia Weston Wiki- Age, Childhood, and Education
Born Celia Watson on the 14th December 1951, in Spartanburg, South Carolina USA, she changed her surname to Weston, as there was already an actress with the same first and last name. Celia went to Spartanburg Day School, from which she matriculated in 1966. She took interest in acting from an early age, and with the help of her mother overcame stage fright. However, she also feared that her father wouldn't approve of her as an actress, so she didn't pursue professional acting until 1979, meantime studying psychology at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and later enrolled at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
After obtaining an Artist Diploma, she moved to London, where she continued her acting training by enrolling at Rose Bruford College of Theater and Performance in Kent. She moved back to the US in 1977, and signed under Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof.
Celia's debut happened in 1979 when she was selected for the part of Maraya in the play "Loose Ends", portraying the character through 1980. She has since featured in several plays, on and off-Broadway – her most popular role was as Reba Freitag in the play "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" in which she performed from 1997 to 1998, and was nominated for both Drama Desk Award and Tony Award, though she didn't win any.
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Her latest on-stage appearance was as Aunt Ruth in the play "Marvin's Room" in 2017.
Celia's on-screen debut was in 1980 in the TV series "Ryan's Hope" as Gloria D'Angelo. The following year she secured her first notable role, as Grace in the action-comedy film "Honky Tonk Freeway", starring David Rasche, Paul Jabara and Howard Hesseman, and in the same year was selected for the part of Jolene Hunnicutt in the sitcom "Alice". At first Celia didn't want the role, but had to accept it as she needed the money, and the pay for the series was very good. However, in later statements, Celia claimed that the role of Jolene Hunnicutt hindered her career. After the end of "Alice", she continued her career with roles in independent films, appearing in such projects as "Stars and Bars" and "A New Life" both in 1988, and "Lost Angels" in 1989.
Rise to Prominence
Already a popular actress, Celia continued her rise to stardom in the '90s, appearing in several successful films, such as the drama about the boy genius "Little Man Tate" (1991), portrayed by Adam Hann Byrd, and also starring Jodie Foster and Michael Shulman. Then in 1995 she had a supporting role in Diane Keaton's Academy Award-nominated comedy-drama "Unstrung Heroes", starring Andie MacDowell, John Turturo and Michael Richards. The same year, she had a supporting role in the Oscar-winning crime-drama film "Dead Man Walking", with Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon as the stars.
Before the decade ended, Celia also featured in the romantic war-drama film "Ride with the Devil" (1999), and played Aunt Joan in the multiple Academy award-nominated crime-thriller film "The Talented Mr. Ripley", with Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in the lead roles.
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Continual Success
Nothing changed for Celia with the start of the new millennium, as she continued to appear in popular films. She was Katie Grinnel in the crime-drama film "In the Bedroom" (2001) – nominated for five Academy Awards, and starring Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, and Nick Stahl. She then played Doris Archer in the sci-fi mystery film "K-PAX", starring Kevin Spacey. The following year, she appeared in the Golden Globe award-nominated comedy-drama film "Igby Goes Down", and also had a memorable role in the multiple Academy Award-nominated film "Far from Heaven", with Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid and Dennis Haysbert starring.
In 2004 she portrayed Vivian Percy in another Oscar Award-nominated film "The Village", written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and starred Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt and Joaquin Phoenix, while in 2005 she was Peg in the comedy-drama film "Junebug". Two years later, Celia secured one of few starring roles in the film "Joshua", next to Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga. Before the decade ended, Celia made a few more notable appearances, first as Mom in the comedy crime-drama film "Observe and Report" (2009), then as Lana Burns in the fantasy-drama film "The Box", also in 2009.
The 2010s and Recent Endeavors
From 2010 onwards, Celia became more focused on television roles. She was selected for the role of Paula Ann Hendricks in the TV comedy crime-drama series "Memphis Beat", appearing in all 20 episodes of the award-winning series.
Also in 2010, she was chosen for the recurring role of Barb Tucker in the popular TV comedy series "Modern Family", and from 2010 to 2016 appeared in five episodes of the Golden Globe Award-winning series. From 2014 to 2015 she was a cast member of the anthology series "American Horror Story", portraying Lillian Hemmings, and in recent years she was Florence in the film "Freak Show" (2017), played Dottie in the TV series "Hunters", and most recently appeared in the drama film "Adam" (2020).
Celia Weston Net Worth, Height, Weight, and Appearance
Celia has made appearances on both screen and stage, and all of her efforts have contributed to her wealth. According to sources, Celia Weston's net worth is as high as $4 million, as of mid- 2020.
Celia has blonde hair and blue eyes. She stands at 5ft 8ins (1.73m) tall, while she weighs approximately 145lbs ~ 66kgs, and her vital statistics are 34-23-34, bra size 34B.
Celia Weston Personal Life, Is She Married? Hobbies, and Interests
Celia Weston's personal life is a mystery; she has never talked about her aspirations other than professional. According to sources, Celia is single, has never married and doesn't have children, and there's no mention of boyfriends or affairs.
In addition to acting, she also loves singing, which helped her a few times to obtain roles, mostly on stage. Celia is a huge basketball fan and one of her favorite players is Zion Williamson, the new star of the New Orleans Pelicans, who is a graduate of Spartanburg Day High School.
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Research on the inexpensive drug Metformin has shown that not only does it help treat those with type 2 diabetes, but it may help with nicotine withdrawal.
It's great to hear about a drug that actual helps without having to read a laundry list of risky side effects.
This could be a huge breakthrough for those that are trying to quit smoking, permanently.
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Metformin, a drug commonly used to treat people with type 2 diabetes, might help curb nicotine withdrawal without side effects, according to a study of mice.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania found the inexpensive drug was effective in treating mice induced with a nicotine addiction. Their findings were published Thursday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Metformin, marketed as Glucophage and other trade names, was discovered in 1918. After it was discontinued due to toxicity and the increased availability of insulin, the drug was found to be less potent than other glucose-lowering biguanides and was subsequently reintroduced in France in 1957 and the United States in 1995.
Common therapies -- such as nicotine replacement, an antidepressant and a medication used to mediate the pleasurable feelings smokers associate with cigarettes -- already exist to help people kick their nicotine habits.
But none directly treats nicotine withdrawal symptoms, according to Dr. Sangwon Kim, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
"In cigarette smokers, nicotine has been shown to reduce anxiety," the researchers wrote. "Given the lack of studies on the effects of nicotine in nonsmokers, it is unclear whether nicotine reduces anxiety in the absence of withdrawal; however, numerous studies in rodent models have demonstrated dose-dependent anxiolytic effects of nicotine in drug-naive subjects.
"There is considerable evidence that withdrawal-associated anxiety contributes to poor adherence to smoking cessation treatments as well as relapse rates, with many smokers experiencing anxiety symptoms during acute abstinence periods."
"This is the first-ever study to examine AMPK's relation to nicotine dependence," Kim said in a press release.
When nicotine-treated mice were given metformin for one week, they displayed no anxiety or other negative effects of withdrawal. The drug use did not affect weight, food consumption or glucose levels in the mice.
If clinical trials in humans confirm the findings in mice, metfomin has "real potential" as a smoking cessation aid, Kim said.
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Uruguay 0-0 South Korea, World Cup 2022: how fans saved the most boring match, report from Qatar
They never cease to amaze. Fans from Korea saved the match at the 2022 World Cup
Andrey Pankov
100 people shouted over the entire stadium.
South Korea and Uruguay have played another goalless draw in this World Cup. This game could definitely be called the worst in the tournament. If not for the Korean fans. More precisely, a small island outside the gate on the lower tier, where about 100 people gathered. which formed behind the gate on the lower tier.
Are we watching the World Cup for boring matches? Even Suarez and Cavani looked terrible
At the beginning of the game, they pounded the drums and fell silent only during the break: they sanded chants in both English and Korean. One of the charges was very reminiscent of the charge of Spartak fans, so at some point you could feel like you were at a match in your native RPL. The level of football was definitely not better.
"Football for Korea is everything, it is our slice of life," said Kwon, one of the fans. "We will never scold our players, they are the best for us."
These words were perfectly illustrated by a moment in the first half, when one of the South Korean attackers missed the goal from the best position. The Koreans not only did not scold him, but on the contrary showed him the thumbs up and applauded. They also shouted out the name of every player who came on as a substitute.
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Photo: "Championship"
What else distinguishes Korean fans? Their suits. One could see both the grandfather sensei and two masters of the Korean martial arts school.
Asian fans will definitely compete at this World Cup with Arab and African fans in terms of how to support their team. But after the surprise yesterday, the Japanese, and how the Koreans were sick today, I will definitely vote for Asia. At least for the fact that today they slept a dull match.
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Polio campaign targets 2.1 million Ethiopian children
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 16 October 2003 – A house-to-house polio campaign targeting 2.1 million children under five years of age is being launched tomorrow by the Ministry of Health as part of the Sub-National Immunisation Days (SNIDs).
The polio campaign begins Friday, 17 October, in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) targeting almost 1.8 million children under the age of five. Some 274,000 children under the age of five in Afar and another 70,000 in Gambella will be immunised by the end of the year. Ethiopia is not yet free of the scourge of polio, a crippling disease which needs three years of close surveillance without new cases before the country can be certified polio-free.
The total cost of the polio campaign is USD 1.45 million and is funded by the United States Government through the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as well as by the Japanese Government and Rotary International. Almost 100 Rotary members from the US, Canada and Europe have travelled to Ethiopia to help facilitate the campaign and immunise as many children as possible. To conduct this campaign successfully, 10,438 health workers (vaccinators and guides) will be deployed.
Ethiopia is no longer among the polio endemic priority countries since the last case of wild polio virus was reported in January 2001. However, to reach the goal of polio eradication by 2005, the MOH with support from partner agencies has been regularly conducting polio immunisation campaigns since 1996.
From October through December 2003, some 10.1 million children between 6 months to 14 years of age will be provided with measles and Vitamin A supplementation in 16 zones in Oromia, Amhara and Tigray regions. The measles – Vitamin A campaign has been supported by the Measles Partnership (American Red Cross, UN Foundation, CDC, WHO and UNICEF) and by CIDA, USAID, SIDA, DFID, as well as the Governments of Japan, the Netherlands and Belgium. The total available funding for the 2003/2004 measles – Vitamin A campaigns is USD 10.75 million.
Measles remains a major childhood killer disease in Ethiopia. Children, weakened by malnutrition, are particularly susceptible to the disease, which can lead to blindness, deafness, brain damage and death. WHO estimates that there are 1.72 million measles cases and 69,000 child deaths annually in Ethiopia due to the disease. The measles – Vitamin A campaigns, which started in December 2002, aim to protect all children under 15 years of age in Ethiopia with particular emphasis on drought-affected areas. By the end of 2003, some 22 million children will have benefited from measles - Vitamin A campaigns. Next year, an additional 8.3 million children will be targeted for measles and Vitamin A supplementation.
In addition to measles – Vitamin A and Polio Campaigns, the MOH, in collaboration with partner organisations, will conduct a third round of Tetanus Toxoid vaccinations in Oromia and Amhara regions in November, targeting a total of 2.6 million women of childbearing age between the ages of 15 to 49 years. The aim of this campaign is to help Ethiopia achieve the goal of Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination (MNTE) by Year 2005. The MNTE campaigns have been made possible through the generous support of the US Committee for UNICEF, the UK Committee for UNICEF and the Portuguese Committee for UNICEF. The total cost of the campaign is estimated at USD 2.32 million.
MOH, telephone 251-1-517011, ext. 210
UNICEF, telephone: 251-1-515155 or 444400; fax: 517111
WHO, telephone: 251-1-444231/49; fax 251-1-514037


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A popular '50s and '60s singer, actress, and dancer, Mitzi Gaynor was recognized for not only her singing and dancing abilities but also her bright-eyed personality and chirpy charm. She brought zest and vivacity to all the Broadway shows and films she starred in. Known for her dancing techniques, she starred with such singing and dancing greats as Bing Crosby in Anything Goes, Frank Sinatra in The Joker Is Wild, and Gene Kelly in Les Girls. Her career has spanned all media, including films, television specials, and Broadway, and she continues to sing and dance on the nightclub circuit.
Born Franceska Mitzi Marlene de Charney von Gerber in Chicago on September 4, 1930, Mitzi Gaynor is said to be of Hungarian ancestry. Her mother was a ballerina and greatly influenced Mitzi to pursue dancing at the age of four. At the tender age of 12, she became a member of the corps de ballet of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. After performing in many plays and musicals she finally made her professional acting debut in 1950 when she starred in the film My Blue Heaven. She also signed with the Fox studio in 1950, making numerous musicals such as Bloodhounds of Broadway, Down Among the Sheltering Ponds, and Take Care of My Little Girl. However, many of these films were unsuccessful, and the Fox studio dropped Mitzi in 1954.
After a temporary setback in the acting profession, Mitzi Gaynor met talent agent Jack Bean and married him in 1954. With a talent agent for a husband, her performing career took off once again. She began starring again on Broadway in such hits as There's No Business Like Show Business, The Birds and the Bees, and Anything Goes. Those successes on Broadway and performing with many great leading men led producer Joshua Logan to choose Mitzi to star in his screen version of South Pacific in 1958. She performed in her last film, For Love or Money, in 1963. During the '60s and '70s, Mitzi Gaynor performed in several successful musical television specials.
Although her career was a roller coaster ride of films and television specials, her boisterous personality exists in the success of several Broadway musicals. Her nightclub performances and singing debuts remain a large part of her career.


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Republican Sen. Bob Corker is seriously questioning whether President Trump knows how to be a statesman. Trump "has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful," the Texas senator told reporters at the Rotary Club of Chattanooga Thursday.
Corker was especially dismayed over Trump's rhetoric in regards to the racist display in Charlottesville, VA last weekend. While the president did denounce the KKK and white nationalism Monday from the White House, the media accused him of backtracking the very next day.
"There's blame on both sides" for the carnage, Trump insisted at Trump Tower Tuesday, again failing to directly condemn the white supremacists who organized the deadly rally.
"He also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of this nation," Corker said. "He has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great and what it is today."
"Morning Joe" anchor Joe Scarborough thanked Corker for his comments, calling him a true patriot.
Thank you, Senator Corker, for standing up for American values.
Trump has been hard pressed to find Republicans willing to stand behind him after his Charlottesville response. Most every top Republican, including Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, etc., have either expressed their disappointment or asked him to apologize.
It seems only his vice president, Mike Pence, has expressed his support - at least publicly.
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3 to 7 years Jail sentence for 5 accused in Provident Fund forgery case
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Bhopal : The Special Judge for CBI Cases, Bhopal has convicted 12 accused persons including 5 from Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in a Rs.45 lakh forgery case. Further, a 7 years Rigorous Imprisonment(RI) with a fine of Rs.38 lakhs has been slapped on the then LDC Gajendra Singh Chauhan (EPFO). The then Section Supervisor (EPFO) also gets 5 yrs Jail and has to pay 4 lakhs fine amount. Others sentenced include Ranchander (Retd APFC), R.D.Paranjpaee (then Enforcement Officer, EPFO), Manish Gaur, Balram Chauhan and Rakesh Kaushal.
A complaint was lodged by the CBI (under section 120-B, 419, 201, 420, 467, 471 and 477-A of Indian Penal Code & Section 13(2) and 13(1)(d) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988) by the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in 2005 and a case was registered against Gajendra Singh Chauhan and others.
It was alleged that Chauhan, the then Lower Division Clerk (LDC) construed a criminal conspiracy and along with other co-accomplices committed cheating, fraud, forgery and illegal settlement of 11 Provident Fund claims in unregistered names.
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CBI arrests EPFO enforcement officer
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Pune: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an Enforcement Officer of Employee's Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) from Golibar Maidan in Pune (Maharashtra) and a private person in a bribery case.
A case was registered against the Enforcement Officer of EPFO, Golibar Maidan, Pune under section 7 of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 on a complaint alleging demand of Rs. 8000 as bribe for verification of registration documents. The complainant requested the accused to reduce the bribe amount and the officer agreed to reduce it to Rs. 5,000.
The accused told the complainant to handover the documents and the bribe money to a Consultant. CBI laid a trap and the Consultant was caught while demanding and accepting the bribe amount of Rs. 5,000 on behalf of the public servant. During further investigation, the Enforcement Officer was also arrested. Searches were conducted at the premises of the accused and the concerned file and other incriminating documents were recovered.
The arrested accused were produced today before the Court of Special Judge in Pune and remanded to 3 days police custody.
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3 to 7 years jail sentence for 21 accused in a Provident Fund fraud and cheating case
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Bhopal: The Special Judge for CBI Cases in, Bhopal (Madhya Pardesh) has convicted 21 accused persons for causing loss to Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and sentenced Gajendra Singh Chouhan former LDC, Sub Regional Office, EPFO, Bhopal to undergo seven years rigorous imprisonment with total fine of Rs. 66 lakhs.
Also sentenced in this case are Pratap Singh, the then Section Supervisor, EPFO at Bhopal to undergo five years rigorous imprisonment with a total fine of Rs. 7.55 lakhs, C.T. Joseph, the then Section Supervisor, SRO, EPFO, Bhopal and D.K. Chandane, the then Assistant Accounts Officer, RO, EPFO, Bhopal – both to undergo five years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2.30 lakhs each. Sachin Chouhan, the then Lab Technician, Community Health Centre at Gogava in Khargone district (MP) has been sentenced three years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 20,000. Besides, 16 private persons – Rajendra Singh Thakur, Manish Gaur, Ravi Khandane and Ms Rinku Sikarwar have been sentenced 3 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 50,000 each. Twelve more accused – Ms Sharda Pawar, Kishore Singh, Bhagwan Singh Chandre, Bharat Rao, Yogesh Dube, Surendra Pawar, Rajesh Kumawat, Nirman Kumar Rathore, Ramesh Hyder, Sunil Chouhan, Vinod Chouhan, and Dushyant Sonawane will undergo 3 years rigorous imprisonment with a total fine of Rs. 20,000 each.
CBI had registered a case under section 120-B, 420, 467, 468, 471 & 477-A of IPC and Section 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 on May 31, 2006 on the basis of a complaint received from Employees Provident Fund Organization, Sub Regional Office, Bhopal against Pratap Singh, the then Section Supervisor, Gajendra Singh Chouhan, then LDC, and other unknown persons and officials of EPFO, SRO, Bhopal. It was alleged that Pratap Singh and Gajendra Singh had Chouhan, then LDC during the year 2001 to 2003 entered into a criminal conspiracy with unknown officials of EPFO and some private persons and fraudulently settled the 26 PF claims in the name of persons who were not the members of EPFO. The accused had committed the offence of forgery, cheating by using forged douments for final settlement/part payment and withdrawal of PF claims from 26 PF accounts leading to an alleged loss of Rs. 73,18,877 to EPFO.
After completion of investigation, a charge sheet was filed on December 31, 2007 in the Court of Special Judge for CBI Cases in Bhopal against 22 accused persons under section 120-B read with 419, 120-B read with 420, 467, 468, 471 and 477-A of Indan penal Code and Section 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
The Trial Court found 21 accused guilty and acquitted a private person.
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Internet cafe and computer repair workshop. At 14, Avenue Sadi Carnot, Arles (13).
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Internet cafe at 46 Impasse Auguste Picard in La Garde (83).
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Windrush scandal victim died under 'enormous stress'
Dexter Bristol faced '10 month trek through almighty bureaucracy'
24 May, 2018 — By William McLennan
Dexter Bristol
NEIGHBOURS of a man who died while under "enormous stress" caused by the government's clampdown on children of the Windrush generation have said that his treatment was "disgusting".
Dexter Bristol, 58, collapsed and died in the street outside his home in Holborn. Police told neighbours at the time that he had suffered a heart attack. His family's lawyers have said that his death is "attributable to the problems he had trying to prove he was a British citizen".
Lauren Navarro, who lived next door, said: "He was just such a nice guy. I was happy to have him as a neighbour. He was very quiet, a bit of a recluse."
Mr Bristol died outside his home at Mullen Tower, Mount Pleasant, on March 29. Born in Grenada, he arrived in the UK in 1968, aged eight, to join his mother Sentina. A British subject, she was a nurse who moved to England to help out the NHS labour shortage.
His solicitors said his "life changed forever" in May last year when a job offer fell through after he discovered he could not prove his British citizenship.
His right to benefits was also challenged. He then faced a "10-month trek through an almighty bureaucracy", attempting to track down landing cards, birth certificates and other proof of his arrival in the country five decades ago. The saga was said to have put him under "enormous stress".
On the day he died, his lawyers had sent a letter with details of the progress they were making. Tragically, he died before reading it. The envelope was found, unopened, inside his front door.
Ms Navarro, whose grandmother moved from Saint Kitts to work as a nurse in the 1960s, shares a similar family history to her neighbour. She said that Mr Bristol's treatment by the Home Office was "disgusting".
Fear of being persecuted had driven his isolation, she believes.
"He never answered the door and now I know why," she said. "I call it impostor syndrome and I see it in my relatives, too. They don't think they have the right to speak out. They think: OK, we're British, but are we British enough?"
His case follows that of Michael Braithwaite, a teaching assistant who lost his job at Gospel Oak Primary School in 2016 when his citizenship was challenged. After two years in limbo, the 66-year-old, who arrived from Barbados with his family in 1961, had his citizenship confirmed in April, two weeks after Mr Bristol's death, as pressure mounted on the government.
Amber Rudd was forced to resign as home secretary last month after she misled parliament, wrongly claiming the Home Office had no targets to remove illegal immigrants. Tighter measures, requiring employers to run immigration checks, were introduced in 2013 when Theresa May was home secretary.
Mr Bristol's local Labour councillors and MP Keir Starmer said that, according to their records, he had never made contact to request assistance.
Councillor Julian Fulbrook, a retired barrister who founded the prestigious Doughty Street Chambers, said: "I'm really sorry. I think we might have been able to help him, but he didn't come forward. It's a real shame. He probably just thought: Hide away, until the problem goes away. The stress must have been absolutely unbelievable."
He said the Windrush scandal was "absolutely outrageous". Mr Bristol's lawyer, Jacqueline McKenzie, said: "The fact that British people have been made to feel so unwelcomed and unworthy in their own country is a damning indictment of a government proud to predicate its immigration policy on the basis of hostility."
Patrick Vernon, director of mental health organisation Black Thrive, launched a crowdfunding drive to help pay for Mr Bristol's funeral, which was held last week.
The Home Office said: "Our condolences are with Mr Bristol's family and friends at this clearly difficult time." He had made no applications to the Home Office and, at the time of his death, was "not the subject of any removal action", it added.
Tributes to Martin Morton, the last Conservative leader of Camden Council
04 July — By Dan Carrier


For the most part all of my videos have come over ok except for some from my ancient 2001 digicam so i will need to reformat them.
Its not accepting them so I ran a few through iskysoft converter - trying both .mp4 and .avi and both get the same red error when I try to upload them into a gallery.
Other videos taken on my iphone have uploaded fine. It seems to be the ones sent to me via SMS.
I am also a former Phanfare user and have used Smugmug for a couple years. I sometimes have this problem with Smugmug with some of my videos as well. Some of my videos from my older cell phones don't get uploaded to Smugmug and get a red "x," especially my old .3gp videos. These old .3gp videos are small files, 320 x 240 in dimensions. So, I go to (www.online-convert.com) and convert them to 640 x 480 in mp4 format (http://video.online-convert.com/convert-to-mp4) - that is, at "optional settings," I type in "640 x 480" where it says "Change screen size" -- and then these videos are able to be uploaded to Smugmug.
I will have a bit of a play with what you have suggested - thanks cameradad.
Hi Cameradad - just feeding back a thankyou.
I created a "favourite conversion mode" in iskysoft for all iphone videos from my sister in law (her iphone is an old 4) to ensure they are always done as 640x480. Todays ones have all uploaded into smugmug fine.
Wondering if you happen to know of a good ap or freebie program for rotating videos ? Obviously I got into the habit of Phanfare doing it for me.


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The question of the fact that John Kerry gave virtually nothing to charity has been removed from Yahoo ask, so what does that lead us to believe.
Kerry gave virtually nothing to charity while Romney gave something on the order of $4 million...in addition to his entire inheritance from his father.
I just remembered. Romney is Republican.
Kerry and the Kennedy's are Democrats.
Also, Romney worked for his money.


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By Jonathan Schwartz
Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Music
About All in Good Time
All in Good Time is a luminous memoir about growing up in the shadow of the golden age of songwriting and Sinatra, from the celebrated radio personality and novelist Jonathan Schwartz.
"Dancing in the Dark." "That's Entertainment." "By Myself." "You and the Night and the Music." They are part of the American Songbook, and were all composed by Arthur Schwartz, the elusive father at the center of his son's beautifully written book.
Imagine a childhood in which Judy Garland sings you lullabies, Jackie Robinson hits you fly balls, and yet you're lonely enough to sneak into the houses of Beverly Hills neighbors and hide behind curtains to watch real families at dinner.
At the age of nine, Jonathan Schwartz began broadcasting his father's songs on a homemade radio station, and would eventually perform those songs, and others, as a pianist-singer in the saloons of London and Paris, meeting Frank Sinatra for the first time along the way. (His portrait of Sinatra is as affectionate and accurate as any written to date.)
Schwartz's love for a married woman caught up in the fervor of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and his other relationships with both lovers and wives, surround his eventually successful career on New York radio.
The men and women who have roles to play include Richard Rodgers, Nelson Riddle, Carly Simon, Jimmy Van Heusen, Bennett Cerf, Elizabeth Taylor, and, of course, Sinatra himself.
Schwartz writes of the start of FM radio, the inception of the LP, and the constantly changing flavors of popular music, while revealing the darker corners of his own history.
Most of all, Jonathan Schwartz embraces the legacy his father left him: a passion for music, honored with both pride and sorrow.
About Jonathan Schwartz
JONATHAN SCHWARTZ has gathered a wide and attentive radio audience for his programs devoted to the American Songbook. His novels and short stories are frequently animated by the music he knows so well. His own three CDs, secretly released, pay… More about Jonathan Schwartz
Jun 14, 2005 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812973624
Published by Random House
Mar 12, 2009 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780307554192
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"Here is a prose blues full of many things: a much-loved father; wives and children; lovers and other strangers; solitude and fear; booze and remorse; along with the Boston Red Sox, avocados, Beethoven string quartets, dark laughter, Sinatra, lost highways, the Western desert, pianos in empty ballrooms, Paris, friends, the endless search for home, and the spooky music of time."
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The Admission Office
Learn more about the Admission Team below. Not sure who to contact? Email us at admission@cate.org and we'll be happy to help.
Charlotte Brownlee '85
Assistant Head of School for External Affairs
Acting Admission Director
Charlotte_Brownlee@cate.org
Cate School 1985
BA, Harvard University
MBA, University of California, Los Angeles
A Cate alumna, Charlotte Brownlee was the Director of Admission and Enrollment at Cate from 2007 – 2017 and has recently reprised the role. She returned to her alma mater in 2004 to lead the School's annual giving and alumni relations programs. She made the transition to boarding school after serving as the Executive Director for Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Her previous experience includes serving as a manager with Deloitte Consulting, where she focused on change management and reengineering projects for high-tech and consumer-products companies. Charlotte holds an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Charlotte particularly enjoys heading up the Cate Student Historical Society. She serves on the boards of the National Partnership for Educational Access (NPEA) and of the Gateway to Prep Schools. She lives on the Mesa with her husband, Alex, and their two sons.
Kyle Mason
Director of Outreach & Recruitment
kyle_mason@cate.org
BA, Boston College
Appointed: 2008
Kyle comes to Cate with a host of global experiences and passions for music, travel and working with young adults. After graduating from an east coast boarding school, Kyle continued onto Boston College where he majored in Communications and Education Policy. His passions, purpose and commitment to service through education has led him to teach and serve in a variety of settings from Newark, NJ to Africa and Thailand. His experiences, positive attitude and boundless energy lend a global perspective that is shared and celebrated at Cate.
In addition to serving on Cate's Admission team, Kyle's presence is felt throughout campus as an Advisor, and Head Track & Field Coach.
Vanessa Cruz Santana '06
Director of Financial Assistance and Admission Officer
Vanessa_CruzSantana@cate.org
Hamilton College B.S.
University of Pennsylvania MS. Ed.
Vanessa first arrived to Cate as freshman boarder from Santa Ana, California through the A Better Chance Program. She graduated from Cate in 2006 and ventured to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. After graduating, Vanessa returned to Cate for two years to start her career in admission. In 2012 Vanessa moved to the New York City area to grow professionally and to pursue a graduate degree in education at the University of Pennsylvania. Though not new to Cate, Vanessa has recently come back to be Cate's Director of Financial Assistance. What keeps her coming back? The community, the campus' beauty, and Cate's commitment to offering young people a quality education that includes so much more than academics without sacrificing academic rigor. In addition to her work in Admission, Vanessa is a dorm parent in Long House and serves as a student advisor.
Faimie Kingsley
Assistant Director of Admission
faimie_kingsley@cate.org
BSBA, University of Denver
MS, University of Florida
Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Faimie comes to Cate School's Admission team from a unique background. After graduating from the Hotchkiss School in 2009, Faimie received her undergraduate degree in marketing and played Division I volleyball at the University of Denver. It was not even a month after moving back to New York post graduation that Faimie signed a one-year contract to play professionally in Poland. Even though she had a great experience overseas, Faimie found the opportunity to coach at Columbia University a compelling enough reason to return to New York. After three seasons, Faimie left Columbia and went back to school to pursue her Master's in Sport Management while coaching high school volleyball at Trevor Day School and at the club volleyball level with New York City Juniors. Having loved her own boarding school experience, Faimie is not only very excited about her role in admission, but also her roles as an advisor, Schoolhouse dorm parent, two-sport coach, and Class of 2022 Advisor.
Dave Soto '08
david_soto@cate.org
Cate 2008
BA, Gonzaga University
Dave is a Carpinteria native, growing up in the city known for the California Avocado Festival and the "World's Safest Beach". After graduating from Cate in 2008, Dave found his way to the inland northwest, completing four years at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA where he graduated with a degree in broadcast studies and journalism. During his time at Gonzaga, Dave worked with several media outlets as well as working in digital journalism. He also served as the vice president of the Kennel Club, Gonzaga's student athletic fan club…Go Zags!
Dave returned to the Mesa after graduation to take a role in Cate's communications office. Now in the admission office, Dave looks forward to looking for and working with the next group of Rams. When he's not in the office, Dave can be found coaching football and baseball at Cate or walking his dog, Sammy, around campus. Dave lives in High House with his wife, Maureen.
Lynn Dinning
Admission Office Manager
lynn_dinning@cate.org
Lynn came to Cate in 2001 as the Admission Office Manager. Oftentimes, Lynn is the first person from Cate to speak with a prospective student and their family as she sets up campus visits or clarifies the application process. While many prospective families see Lynn as their Cate liaison, she also does a lot of work behind the scenes managing Enrollment and Re-enrollment, organizing financial aid applications and managing the admission database.
Lynn lives in Carpinteria with her husband Jim and their two sons Ryder '17 and Gage.
Nichole Gonzales
Admission Associate
nichole_gonzales@cate.org
With most of her background in the Financial Services realm, Nichole works well with people of all social and economic classes. Her desire to work in a "family" environment while having a purpose is a great addition to this community. In her spare time, she can be found in the football stands cheering on her eldest son, Tommy. Or heading to the park with her other children, Max and Bella.


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The company's 'short term financing facilities' also got upgraded to '[ICRA] A1+' from '[ICRA] A1.
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The improved ratings are a result of the company's significant improvement in profitability ensuing from breakeven at standalone plants (Pune and Hosur, Tamil Nadu) and subsidiaries like Clarton Horns and MJ Casting, rise in operating margins across product segments, decrease in rejection rates and increased cost efficiencies across product segments and subsidiaries.
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It may take a bit longer to cook, but the result is worth it. Go for it whenever you have some spare time in the morning to prepare it but also to enjoy it! I love it in quiet winter mornings I can spend at home.
The key to an amazing and delicious porridge is of course good quality ingredients and the right techniques.
Try to go for organic always you can. For creamy porridge I prefer to use medium-ground oats, they may be more proccesed but are the key for an incredible smooth texture.
Also to consider is the type of liquid we use, a high fat milk like full fat cow's milk, almond milk or coconut cream, will give you a richer texture. Although I like to use half water, half milk.
The technique is easy, just cook the oats under low heat for longer time so those oats will break down and will release the starch in the oats making a creamier porridge.
And last but not least, salt. A tiny bit of salt while cooking, will bring out the sweetness of any toppings.
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Underneath you will find specific details for getting the top creamiest porridge and one of my favourite toppings. It is classic but it is always a success.
Place the oats in a saucepan, pour water and milk and add turmeric (if using) and the salt. Put it over medium heat until boiling and let it simmer around 15-20 minutes, stiring from time to time to avoid sticking to the pot.
Add more milk if it gets too thick. It is important to get it extra creamy To serve, pour into bowls and top with fruit, nut butter and maple syrup.