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Oscar winners who owe their win to Academy Home Screeners
bienville October 22, 2003, 11:08am #1
Just in case some folks don't know what Screeners are:
Before votes for Academy Awards nominations are due, voters have always ("always" in the years since home viewing media has made this possible) been able to get copies (videotape/DVD) of submitted films so they could review the submissions that they may not have gotten a chance to see in the theaters.
This practice has had a significant effect in leveling the playing field (a bit) so that smaller films, that were not able to manage as wide a release as the Hollywood Giants, could be seen by voters.
Now, because of that whiney little shit with the painted beard, the Academy will no longer allow voters to have access to screeners. A voter can't very fairly consider a film without seeing it. Without screeners many smaller films will go unacknowledged.
Who are some past winners who Y'all think never would have won (or been nominated) without the "leg up" provided by Screeners?
I'll start off:
Marcia Gay Harden for Pollack
This film was only out on one screen in Los Angeles for only one week before nominations were due. Almost everyone who voted for this film only saw it at home- thanks to Screeners.
Marcia Gay Harden and this film NEVER would have been acknowledged otherwise.
Zebra October 22, 2003, 2:27pm #2
Halle Berry Monsters Ball
Hillary Swank Boys Don't Cry
Gwen Paltro Shakespear in Love (each screener came with a 100 dollar bill)
Another thing is that small films do not have the money to rent theatres to hold screenings. The studios do.
Kaspar_Hauser October 22, 2003, 4:05pm #3
Who's the whiny little shit with the painted beard?
Mal_Adroit October 22, 2003, 4:16pm #4
Yes I wish to learn the identity of this scurvy creature as well.
MovieMogul October 22, 2003, 4:48pm #5
Actually, the MPAA has changed its mind and allowed Academy members to receive the screeners after all. However, it has not changed its mind in prohibiting guild members, film critics, and other press from receiving the screeners. So, this should not affect the Oscars directly, although it may indirectly (since the year-end guild and critics awards may be impacted by the decision).
Cervaise October 22, 2003, 8:22pm #6
Red Violin probably got a big boost from home viewing; I doubt it would have won for musical score otherwise.
Tangent October 22, 2003, 8:36pm #7
*Originally posted by Kaspar Hauser *
**Who's the whiny little shit with the painted beard? **
Have you been to a movie lately and seen the anti-piracy ad during the previews where the guy with brown hair and a red goatee talks about how pirating movies doesn't hurt the wealthy producers and actors, but it does hurt the 'little guys' like the tech people, set design, painters, carpenters, etc. who work on making movies.
I think that guy is who they're referring to as the whiny little shit with the painted beard.
susan_foster October 22, 2003, 8:52pm #8
SHAFT!
(So, so sorry…)
bienville October 23, 2003, 9:28am #9
David Goldstein
I don't mean to persecute poor David, I was really just using him as a metaphor for the whole whiny anti-piracy campaign. I'm sure David is a perfectly nice, even if easily manipulated, person.
Anyone else with ideas of winners who needed their screeners?
I'm glad to hear the Academy has rethought this!
Zebra October 23, 2003, 1:42pm #10
I thought they were talking about me for some reason.
Spurious_George October 23, 2003, 5:10pm #11
Adrien Brody for The Pianist.
He was even mentioned in a Variety article last week, as a recent winner who would have never had a shot in a no-screener year.
MovieMogul October 23, 2003, 7:31pm #12
I'm glad they have other trailers coming–I'm sympathetic to Mr. Goldstein and all, but am getting a little tired about him meeting his wife on The Big Chill set, etc.
I'd venture to say all of The Pianist nominations (especially the surprises–Cinematography or Costume Design) and all three wins were helped by the screeners.
I'd further venture Spirited Away and Talk to Her (both foreign upsets) also benefitted.
I'd also guess the acting Oscars for Monster's Ball and Iris last year.
DMark October 23, 2003, 7:48pm #13
Billy Bob Thornton for Sling Blade
Martin Landau for Ed Wood
Cartooniverse October 24, 2003, 1:04am #14
Um. As a technician who works with the likes of the much-maligned Mr. Goldstein, I approve wholeheartedly of the fact that he spoke up. Sure, they wanted to use him to deflect from their profits, but yanno what?
Hourly rates are stagnant, there is the runaway business going to Canada and Australia. People are losing their homes, while the Producers get fatter and fatter, the stars paid more and DVD's cost more. The below-the-line technicians lose out bigtime, and meanwhile, WE MAKE THE MOVIES.
Wag a civil tongue, and you know what? It's in the nature of such things to run for many many months, it stands to reason that you're tired of hearing about the Big Chill…
Cartooniverse
MovieMogul October 24, 2003, 10:42pm #15
Hey Hey Cartooniverse, no offense intended. I work in the industry so I'm well aware of the situation with a lot of the "nameless" craftspeople out there. I think the trailer's well-done and appropriate–maybe my problem is I go to too many movies, so after the 15th exposure or so, I'm entitled to wish they would get a bigger variety into steady circulation (having worked in the exhibition industry as well, I know this is do-able). But 15th or 115th wouldn't change my views, which is that his comments are on the mark.
The OP should've blamed the bloated Jack Valenti for the pointless screener policy, not Mr. Goldstein (neither whiny, nor a shit).
bienville October 25, 2003, 7:24am #16
*Originally posted by ArchiveGuy *
**The OP should've blamed the bloated Jack Valenti for the pointless screener policy, not Mr. Goldstein (neither whiny, nor a shit). **
O.K., Cartooniverse and Archive Guy,
Now you've made me feel bad. I really was just using David Goldstein as a metaphor. I know that he's not the bad guy- quite the opposite: he's actually one of the many that are getting the fuzzy end of the lollypop.
I only chose him for my metaphor for imagery purposes- we've all been seeing him OVER and OVER for the past two or three months. So, YES, it is getting pretty annoying! I use him as a metaphor because the studios are using him as a metaphor and I really feel like they are exploiting him and the many hard-working technicians like him.
The trailer is annoying not only because I've seen it about 30 times, but because it frustrates me to watch someone like this being manipulated into serving the true whiny little shits: the producers who, as you've mentioned, ARE getting fatter and fatter. They are using the piracy scare as a scapegoat so that they can justify the corner-cutting measures that make it so hard for "regular guys" like David Goldstein to get work. They would never dream of taking a pay cut themselves. Now the wealthy studio heads would have a pretty difficult time getting any sympathy from the general public so they take a guy like David Goldstein, convince him that they really are concerned about guys like him, then use him to put a sympathetic face on their whiny little message. The producers could CHOOSE not to go to Canada! But they make it seem like piracy is forcing them to go. They make plenty of money, it is insulting that they would go to people like David Goldstein with a message of brotherhood, when in fact they don't have his best interests in mind at all.
It's also annoying because they are running this ad in MOVIE THEATERS!!! They are preaching to the choir. Not only the choir, but a choir that has paid way too much to get in to see the movie in the first place. I don't pay $10.50 to be chastised for something that I'm doing the exact opposite of. Besides which, the bulk of piracy comes from industry insiders anyway and only a small percentage comes from in-theater recording.
Also, putting an end to piracy will not get more people into theaters. People who choose pirated copies of film are not real movie fans, they are people who will happily accept a copy that looks like absolute shit. These are people who, if they were unable to get a cheap copy of a movie, they would just go without seeing the movie at all. Instead of discouraging piracy they should be ENCOURAGING people to go to the theater by putting out a better quality product and lowering ticket prices! There used to be a time when going to the movies was just the thing that people did on the weekends. Now it seems that the only people who go to a movie theater more than once every two months are people who are avid movie fans like myself. People who only have a cursory interest in movies just don't go to movie theaters because they DON'T LIKE PAYING $10.50 FOR COMPLETE SHIT!!!
Yes, there is piracy going on and the new technology that facilitates it does have an effect on the industry. But in the face of new technology, the industry should be becoming more competitive rather than whining. And if they are going to whine the studio heads should be up front enough to whine themselves rather than manipulating people who they don't truly care about.
Again, I hope that all technicians will accept my apology for picking on Mr. Goldstein. I'm on his side, I just think he's fighting the battle on the wrong front.
Equipoise October 25, 2003, 3:15pm #17
All of Topsy-Turvy's wins
Francis McDormand for Fargo
Geoffrey Rush for Shine
Bill Condon for Gods and Monsters
Lizzy Gardiner, the costume designer for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
You ask for wins, but nominations are important too. Nominations get people and pictures much needed attention in the weeks after the nominations are announced, even if they don't ultimately win much or anything. Even if they're known in the industry and to film buffs, their name gets better known to more casual filmgoers.
Emily Watson and Breaking The Waves and Hilary and Jackie
Laura Linney and You Can Count on Me
Janet McTeer and Tumbleweeds
Brenda Blethyn and Secrets & Lies and Little Voice
John Sayles and Lone Star
Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth
Ian McKellan for Gods and Monsters
Fernanda Montenegro and Central Station
Samantha Morton for Sweet and Lowdown
Jude Law for The Talented Mr. Ripley
Chloë Sevigny and Boys Don't Cry (Chloë seems to be working more than Hilary)
Terry Zwigoff and Ghost World
The Quiet American (Michael Caine nom)
Requiem for a Dream (Ellen Burstyn nom)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch nom)
Sexy Beast (Ben Kingsley nom)
The Apostle (Robert Duvall nom)
L.A. Confidential (Best Picture nom)
Ulee's Gold (Peter Fonda nom)
The Wings Of The Dove (Helena Bonham Carter nom)
Afterglow (Julie Christie nom)
Mrs. Brown (Judi Dench nom)
A Simple Plan (Billy Bob Thornton nom)
The Straight Story (Richard Farnsworth nom)
Sweet and Lowdown (Sean Penn nom)
Magnolia (Tom Cruise nom)
The list goes on, of movies that were helped by screeners (and not just for Academy members, The critics' groups and the Golden Globes give movies and people a boost too, going into the Academy Awards)
Talk To Her
Far From Heaven
The Man Who Wasn't There
About Schmidt
Monster's Ball
The Royal Tenenbaums
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Gosford Park
I know there are many more, but I'm exhausted. I'm sick at heart about this whole anti-Indie business (no, it's nothing to do with piracy, anyone who believes that…I've got a bridge…)
Alzarian October 25, 2003, 4:20pm #18
I had heard that there was a compromise being suggested where the screeeners would still go out, but in videotape form and not DVD form. Watchable, but not really ideal for pirating.
Cat_Fight October 25, 2003, 4:50pm #19
Equipoise, what was Ghost World nominated for?
Adapted Screenplay. It lost to A Beautiful Mind. :rolleyes:


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Jannetta's make Mara Seaweed Ice-Cream for Crail Food Festival
June 13, 2015FestivalFoodParticipants
Two local food producers have collaborated to create a delicious lemon and Mara seaweed ice-cream for Crail Food Festival. The innovative ice-cream is made from Shony, a unique blend of seaweeds hand-harvested by Mara Seaweed from the seabed around Crail.
Developed jointly by Jannettas Gelateria in St Andrews and Mara Seaweed, the ice-cream will be sold during the Crail Food Festival on 13 and 14 June 2015.
Owen Hazel, Co-owner of Jannettas Gelateria commented,
"We've created a new ice-cream, combining lemon and Mara's Shony blend, enhancing the taste of the lemon. Being in the food industry, we are passionate about food and where it comes from. When Crail Food Festival approached us with the idea of collaborating with Mara, we thought it was a fantastic idea. It has been a fun challenge to see how we could combine the flavours. It has been great working with Mara and we believe it highlights how local food producers can come together and showcase the very best ofScottish produce, particularly during this landmark year of Food and Drink. If the Shony seaweed ice- cream is a hit during the festival, we may sell it within our St Andrews Gelateria and further afield."
Fiona Houston, CEO and Co-Founder of Mara said,
"Our Shony blend – which has won Gold Taste awards for two years in a row – is an intriguing mix of sweet and salty seaweeds, that can be used in sweet and savoury dishes. We first combined Shony with lemon when Paul Hollywood came to visit us in Crail and we made him a Shony and lemon polenta cake, which he described as "inexplicably delicious" and then went on to feature on his BBC "Pies and Puds" show. It has been great fun working with Jannettas, as I have been a huge fan of their ice-cream ever since my school days."
"We have developed our harvesting base in the East Neuk of Fife since 2011, and the seaweeds in the Shony blend are all sustainably hand-harvested by Mara harvesters under Crown Estate licence in the East Neuk, and slowly dried to retain flavour. Seaweed has been traditionally harvested around the coastline of Scotland for centuries and Mara is reviving what is a valued ancient tradition."
Mara is participating in the Crail Food Festival with Tansy, local "Mara Maid" displaying and selling Mara's range of seaweed seasonings throughout the weekend.
Graham Anderson, Founder of Crail Food Festival added,
"Our festival is five years old this year and what delights me is the enthusiasm and support for our event shown by the food and drink producers within Fife. We have more venues this weekend, new themes and returning favourites such as our cookery theatre and iconic Sunday lunch at the harbour. There are plenty of foodie sessions on both days and it should be relaxed enough, with time to stroll between venues and maybe grab a seaweed cone on the way!"
Crail Food Festival is supported by EventScotland, the events team at VisitScotland through the National Programme as part of the Year of Food and Drink.
The festival, which is in its fifth year, brings the picturesque Fife coastal village alive with a full weekend of activities designed to showcase the very best in outstanding local produce with over 80 participants taking part.
Jannettas Gelateria in St Andrews is open between 9am and 10pm, seven days a week – Jannettas Gelateria.
For more information about Mara, visit Mara Seaweed.
Images with thanks to Charmaine Duthie
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Feature LP January 11, 2023 January 11, 2023
Wednesday 1/11/23 8pm ET: Feature LP: Metallica – Master of Puppets (1986)
Master of Puppets is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on March 3, 1986, by Elektra Records. Recorded in Denmark at Sweet Silence Studios with producer Flemming Rasmussen, it was the band's last album to feature bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a bus accident in Sweden during the album's promotional tour.
The album's artwork, designed by Metallica and Peter Mensch and painted by Don Brautigam, depicts a cemetery field of white crosses tethered to strings, manipulated by a pair of hands in a clouded, blood-red sky, with a fiery orange glow on the horizon. Instead of releasing a single or video in advance of the album's release, Metallica embarked on a five-month American tour in support of Ozzy Osbourne. The European leg was canceled after Burton's death in September 1986, and the band returned home to audition a new bassist.
Master of Puppets peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200 and received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised its music and political lyrics. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential metal albums of all time, and is credited with consolidating the American thrash metal scene. It was certified six times platinum by the RIAA in 2003 for shipping six million copies in the United States, and was later certified six times platinum by Music Canada and platinum by the BPI. In 2015, Master of Puppets became the first metal recording to be selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
"Battery" 5:13
"Master of Puppets" 8:36
"The Thing That Should Not Be" 6:36
"Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" 6:27
"Disposable Heroes" 8:17
"Leper Messiah" 5:40
"Orion" 8:27
"Damage, Inc." 5:32
James Hetfield – vocals, rhythm guitar, 1st guitar solo on "Master of Puppets", 2nd guitar solo on "Orion", production
Kirk Hammett – lead guitar, production
Cliff Burton – bass, backing vocals, production
Lars Ulrich – drums, production
Jason Newsted – bass and backing vocals (bonus tracks only)
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Thursday 7/28/22 9pm ET: Feature LP: Metallica – Load (1996)
Load is the sixth studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on June 4, 1996 by Elektra Records in the United States and by Vertigo Records internationally. The album showed more of a hard rock side of Metallica than the band's typical thrash metal style, which alienated much of the band's fanbase. It also featured influences from genres such as Southern rock, blues rock, country rock, and alternative rock. Drummer Lars Ulrich said about Load's more exploratory nature, "This album and what we're doing with it – that, to me, is what Metallica are all about: exploring different things. The minute you stop exploring, then just sit down and fucking die." Load is the first of Metallica's albums to feature only three songwriters, the other being 2016's Hardwired… to Self-Destruct. At 79 minutes, Load is Metallica's longest studio album.
Load received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, debuting and spending four consecutive weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. Load sold 680,000 units in its first week, making it the biggest opening week for Metallica as well as the biggest debut of 1996. It was certified 5× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipping five million copies in the United States. Four singles—"Until It Sleeps", "Hero of the Day", "Mama Said", and "King Nothing"—were released as part of the marketing campaign for the album.
"Ain't My Bitch" 5:04
"2 X 4" 5:28
"The House Jack Built" 6:39
"Until It Sleeps" 4:28
"King Nothing" 5:30
"Hero of the Day" 4:22
"Bleeding Me" 8:18
"Cure" 4:54
"Poor Twisted Me" 4:00
"Wasting My Hate" 3:57
"Mama Said" 5:20
"Thorn Within" 5:52
"Ronnie" 5:17
"The Outlaw Torn" 9:49
James Hetfield – vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar on "2 X 4", "The House Jack Built", "King Nothing", "Thorn Within" and "The Outlaw Torn"
Kirk Hammett – lead and rhythm guitar
Jason Newsted – bass
Lars Ulrich – drums
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Wednesday 7/6/22 1am ET: Live Track Show
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Cheap Trick, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Everything But The Girl, Specials, Jimi Hendrix, Elton John, Journey, Neil Young, Heart, Korn, Def Leppard, Metallica, Roy Orbison, Radiohead, Who, Harry Chapin, Carole King, Sara Bareilles, Nils Lofgren, Steve Winwood, Eagles, Rolling Stones with Ike and Tina Turner, Doobie Brothers, Queen
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Tuesday 11/19/2020 1:15am ET: Feature LP: Metallica – S&M2 (2020)
S&M2 is a live album by American heavy metal band Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony. The album is a follow-up to S&M, a live collaborative album released in 1999. Like S&M, the album was recorded during a live performance in San Francisco at the Chase Center in 2019. The performance was also filmed and released theatrically on October 9, 2019.
On April 21–22, 1999, Metallica, in collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Kamen, recorded and filmed a concert at the Berkeley Community Theater. The performance was released as a film and a live album in November 1999.
In March 2019, Metallica announced the S&M2 concert. The concert, which was similarly performed in collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony, was planned in celebration of the 20th anniversary of S&M. The concert was recorded and filmed at the Chase Center in San Francisco on September 6 and September 8, 2019 with Edwin Outwater and Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the symphony orchestra. The concert also marked the grand opening of the Chase Center. Filming was directed by Wayne Isham, who also directed S&M.
1. "The Ecstasy of Gold" (instrumental) 2:41
2. "The Call of Ktulu" 9:14
3. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" 4:37
4. "The Day That Never Comes" 8:27
5. "The Memory Remains" 5:42
6. "Confusion" 6:41
7. "Moth into Flame" 6:18
8. "The Outlaw Torn" 10:03
9. "No Leaf Clover" 5:30
10. "Halo on Fire" 8:17
1. "Intro to Scythian Suite" 5:17
2. "Scythian Suite, Opus 20 II: The Enemy God and the Dance of the Dark Spirits" 3:39
3. "Intro to the Iron Foundry" 1:03
4. "The Iron Foundry, Opus 19" 4:16
5. "The Unforgiven III" 8:19
6. "All Within My Hands" 6:13
7. "(Anesthesia) – Pulling Teeth" 7:27
8. "Wherever I May Roam" 6:32
9. "One" 9:23
10. "Master of Puppets" 8:29
11. "Nothing Else Matters" 6:39
12. "Enter Sandman" 8:45
RadioMax Shows March 30, 2019
Sunday 12am: Saturday Night Rock Show
Another edition of the Rock Show – This week we feature music from – Argent, Metallica, Robin Trower, Doobie Brothers, Alice In Chains, Deep Purple, Built To Speed and more . . .
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Feature Artist January 3, 2018 January 3, 2018
Wednesday 7pm: Metallica
We continue our January feature with Metallica.
Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. The band was formed in 1981 by drummer Lars Ulrich and vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield. The band's fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the founding "big four" bands of thrash metal, alongside Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer. Metallica's current lineup comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. Guitarist Dave Mustaine (who formed Megadeth) and bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted are former members of the band.
Metallica earned a growing fan base in the underground music community and won critical acclaim with its first five albums. The band's third album, Master of Puppets (1986), was described as one of the heaviest and most influential thrash metal albums; its eponymous fifth album, Metallica (1991), the band's first to root predominantly in heavy metal, appealed to a more mainstream audience, achieving substantial commercial success and selling over 16 million copies in the United States to date, making it the best-selling album of the SoundScan era. After experimenting with different genres and directions in subsequent releases, the band returned to its thrash metal roots with the release of its ninth album, Death Magnetic (2008), which drew similar praise to that of the band's earlier albums.
In 2000, Metallica led the case against the peer-to-peer file sharing service Napster, in which the band and several other artists filed lawsuits against the service for sharing their copyright-protected material without consent; after reaching a settlement, Napster became a pay-to-use service in 2003. Metallica was the subject of the acclaimed 2004 documentary film Some Kind of Monster, which documented the troubled production of the band's eighth album, St. Anger (2003), and the internal struggles within the band at the time. In 2009, Metallica was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band wrote the screenplay for and starred in the 2013 IMAX concert film Metallica: Through the Never, in which the band performed live against a fictional thriller storyline.
Metallica has released ten studio albums, four live albums, a cover album, five extended plays, 37 singles and 39 music videos. The band has won nine Grammy Awards from 23 nominations, and its last six studio albums (beginning with Metallica) have consecutively debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Metallica ranks as one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, having sold over 125 million records worldwide. Metallica has been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by magazines such as Rolling Stone, which ranked them at no. 61 on its 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list. As of 2017, Metallica is the third best-selling music artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, selling a total of 58 million albums in the United States. – Wikipedia
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Monday 10pm: Feature LP: Metallica – Death Magnetic (2008)
Death Magnetic is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on September 12, 2008 through Warner Bros. Records. It was the band's first album to be produced by Rick Rubin, making this their first album since …And Justice For All (1988) not to be produced by Bob Rock. The album was the first by the band to feature bass guitarist Robert Trujillo.
Musically, Death Magnetic is a radical departure from Metallica's previous album, St. Anger (2003), which featured simple instrumentation, downtuned guitars, stripped-down production, and an absence of guitar solos. This album, on the other hand, features more complex musical compositions and long, technical guitar solos from both Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield, and standard guitar tuning in most songs, marking a return to the band's thrash metal roots. The album received mostly positive reviews upon release, with critics describing it as a return to the musical style of their early albums. Despite its praise, there was much criticism aimed at the album's production, which featured an overly compressed dynamic range that caused some songs to feature poor sound quality.
Death Magnetic was the band's first album released through Warner Bros., although they still remain with Warner Music Group, which also owns their previous label, Elektra Records. Outside of North America, they are distributed through Universal Music Group as they remain signed to Vertigo Records in the UK. The album was also Metallica's fifth consecutive studio album to debut at number 1 on the US Billboard 200, making them the first band ever to do so. In support of the album, Metallica commenced on the World Magnetic Tour from 2008 until 2010. All of Death Magnetic was made available as downloadable content in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. – Wikipedia
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Artist Singles August 18, 2015
Feature Artist: Metallica (Singles) 6pm ET
Metallica is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California. Metallica was formed in 1981 when vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield responded to an advertisement posted by drummer Lars Ulrich in a local newspaper. The band's current line-up comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. Lead guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted are former members of the band. Metallica collaborated over a long period with producer Bob Rock, who produced all of the band's albums from 1990 to 2003 and served as a temporary bassist between the departure of Newsted and the hiring of Trujillo. – Wikipedia
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At the end of 2022, we produced two lists to show everyone the Top 15 Most Popular Colorized Photos of 2022 on Facebook and the Top 15 Most Popular Colorized Photos of 2022 on Instagram that were shared on the HistoryColored pages. Due to the popularity of these lists, we have decided to create another to show the most popular videos shared on the HistoryColored Instagram page in 2022. These old historical videos have been restored and "colorized" using AI, which is different from the manual colorization process that is seen on the colorized photographs shared on the website. As a result of using AI, the colorizations can not be guaranteed to be historically accurate. We hope you enjoy watching the top 10 restored and colorized historical videos of 2022!
10. Victorian Era police walk past children, 1901
Restored footage from 1901 of two police officers walking past a group of children in Rotherham, England.
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Q: ADB shows unknown device I've been developing in several Android devices since now but this one has me totally puzzled. ADB in Windows detects the device just fine, but I cannot make ADB recognize this device in Linux (Ubuntu 12.04).
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
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*Device is in USB debugging mode.

*lsusb shows it as Bus 003 Device 005: ID 18d1:0003 Google Inc.

*/etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules file has the following line: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666"

*~/.android/adb_usb.ini has 0x18d1 in a line by itself

What I've attempted so far:

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*Restart ADB server - no luck

*Start ADB server as root - no luck

*Add this line SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="0666", GROUP="adbusers" to 51-android.rules and add myself to adbusers group. Restart udev and ADB - no luck

A: The USB port was defective. It worked fine in another USB port.

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More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Mrs. Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.
Donors who were granted time with Mrs. Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladeshi government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran, a Wall Street executive who sought Mrs. Clinton's help with a visa problem and Estee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Mrs. Clinton while her department worked with the firm's corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa.
SEE ALSO: Clinton Foundation asked Huma Abedin for favors at State Dept.
The meetings between the Democratic presidential nominee and foundation donors do not appear to violate legal agreements Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton signed before she joined the State Department in 2009. But the frequency of the overlaps shows the intermingling of access and donations, and fuels perceptions that giving the foundation money was a price of admission for face time with Mrs. Clinton. Her calendars and emails released as recently as this week describe scores of contacts she and her top aides had with foundation donors.
The AP's findings represent the first systematic effort to calculate the scope of the intersecting interests of Clinton Foundation donors and people who met personally with Mrs. Clinton or spoke with her by phone about their needs.
The 154 did not include U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives. Mrs. Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign governments that donated as much as $170 million to the Clinton charity, but they were not included in AP's calculations because such meetings would presumably have been part of her diplomatic duties.
Mrs. Clinton's campaign said Tuesday that the AP analysis was flawed because it did not include in its calculations meetings with foreign diplomats or U.S. government officials, and the meetings AP examined covered only the first half of Mrs. Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
Last week, the Clinton Foundation moved to head off ethics concerns about future donations by announcing changes planned if Mrs. Clinton is elected.
On Monday, Mr. Clinton said in a statement that if his wife wins the presidency, he would step down from the foundation's board and stop all fundraising for it. The foundation would accept donations only from U.S. citizens and what it described as independent philanthropies, while no longer taking gifts from foreign groups, U.S. companies or corporate charities. Mrs. Clinton said the foundation would no longer hold annual meetings of its international aid program, the Clinton Global Initiative, and it would spin off its foreign-based programs to other charities.
Those planned changes would not affect more than 6,000 donors who have provided the Clinton charity with more than $2 billion in funding since its creation in 2000.
Former senior White House ethics officials said a Clinton administration would have to take careful steps to ensure that past foundation donors would not have the same access as she allowed at the State Department.
"If Secretary Clinton puts the right people in and she's tough about it and has the right procedures in place and sends a message consistent with a strong commitment to ethics, it can be done," said Norman L. Eisen, who was President Obama's top ethics counsel and later worked for Mrs. Clinton as ambassador to the Czech Republic.
Mr. Eisen, now a governance studies fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that at a minimum, Mrs. Clinton should retain the Obama administration's ethics commitments and oversight, which include lobbying restrictions and other rules. Richard Painter, who was an ethics adviser to President George W. Bush and is currently a University of Minnesota law school professor, said Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton should remove themselves completely from foundation leadership roles, but he added that potential conflicts would shadow any policy decisions affecting past donors.
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence said the AP analysis was evidence of "pay to play" politics at Mrs. Clinton's State Department. He called for the foundation to be shut down and for an independent prosecutor to be appointed to investigate.
Some of Mrs. Clinton's most influential visitors donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and to her and her husband's political coffers. They are among scores of Clinton visitors and phone contacts in her official calendar turned over by the State Department to AP last year and in more-detailed planning schedules that have covered about half of her four-year tenure. The AP sought Mrs. Clinton's calendar and schedules three years ago, but delays led the AP to sue the State Department last year in federal court for those materials and other records.
S. Daniel Abraham, whose name also was included in emails released by the State Department as part of another lawsuit, is a Clinton fundraising bundler who was listed in Mrs. Clinton's planners for eight meetings with her at various times. A billionaire behind the Slim-Fast diet and founder of the Center for Middle East Peace, Mr. Abraham told the AP last year that his talks with Mrs. Clinton concerned Middle East issues.
Big Clinton Foundation donors with no history of political giving to the Clintons also met or talked by phone with Mrs. Clinton and top aides, AP's review showed.
Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering low-interest "microcredit" for poor business owners, met with Mrs. Clinton three times and talked with her by phone during a period when Bangladeshi government authorities investigated his oversight of a nonprofit bank and ultimately pressured him to resign from the bank's board. Throughout the process, he pleaded for help in messages routed to Mrs. Clinton, and she ordered aides to find ways to assist him.
American affiliates of his nonprofit Grameen Bank had been working with the Clinton Foundation's Clinton Global Initiative programs as early as 2005, pledging millions of dollars in microloans for the poor. Grameen America, the bank's nonprofit U.S. flagship, which Mr. Yunus chairs, has given $100,000 to $250,000 to the foundation — a figure that bank spokeswoman Becky Asch said reflects the institution's annual fees to attend Clinton Global Initiative meetings. Another Grameen arm chaired by Mr. Yunus, Grameen Research, has donated $25,000 to $50,000.
As a U.S. senator from New York, Mrs. Clinton, as well as Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts and two other senators, sponsored a bill in 2007 to award a congressional gold medal to Mr. Yunus. He got one but not until 2010, a year after Mr. Obama awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Mr. Yunus first met with Mrs. Clinton in Washington in April 2009. Six months later, USAID, the State Department's foreign aid arm, announced that it was partnering with the Grameen Foundation, a nonprofit charity run by Mr. Yunus, in a $162 million commitment to extend its microfinance concept abroad. USAID also began providing loans and grants to the Grameen Foundation, totaling $2.2 million over Mrs. Clinton's tenure.
By September 2009, Mr. Yunus began complaining to Mrs. Clinton's top aides about what he perceived as poor treatment by Bangladesh's government. His bank was accused of financial mismanagement of Norwegian government aid money — a charge that Norway later dismissed as baseless. But Mr. Yunus told Melanne Verveer, a longtime Clinton aide who was an ambassador-at-large for global women's issues, that Bangladesh officials refused to meet with him and asked the State Department for help in pressing his case.
"Please see if the issues of Grameen Bank can be raised in a friendly way," he asked Ms. Verveer. Mr. Yunus sent "regards to H" and cited an upcoming Clinton Global Initiative event he planned to attend.
Mrs. Clinton ordered an aide: "Give to EAP rep," referring the problem to the agency's top East Asia specialist.
Grameen America's Asch referred other questions about Mr. Yunus to his office, but he had not responded by Tuesday.
State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau acknowledged this month that agency officials are "regularly in touch with a range of outside individuals and organizations," including nonprofits, nongovernmental organizations and think tanks. But Ms. Trudeau said the State Department was not aware of any actions that were influenced by the Clinton Foundation.
In another case, Mrs. Clinton was host at a September 2009 breakfast meeting at the New York Stock Exchange that listed Blackstone Group Chairman Stephen Schwarzman as one of the attendees. Mr. Schwarzman's firm is a major Clinton Foundation donor, but he personally donates heavily to Republican candidates and causes. One day after the breakfast, according to Clinton emails, the State Department was working on a visa issue at Mr. Schwarzman's request. In December that year, Mr. Schwarzman's wife, Christine, sat at Mrs. Clinton's table during the Kennedy Center Honors. Mrs. Clinton also introduced Mr. Schwarzman, then chairman of the Kennedy Center, before he spoke.
Blackstone donated $250,000 to $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Eight Blackstone executives also gave $375,000 to $800,000 to the foundation. Blackstone's charitable arm has pledged millions of dollars in commitments to three Clinton Global aid projects from the U.S. to the Middle East. Blackstone officials did not make Mr. Schwarzman available for comment.
Mrs. Clinton also met in June 2011 with Nancy Mahon of the MAC AIDS, the charitable arm of MAC Cosmetics, which is owned by Estee Lauder. The meeting occurred before an announcement about a State Department partnership to raise money to finance AIDS education and prevention. The public-private partnership was formed to fight gender-based violence in South Africa, the State Department said at the time.
The MAC AIDS fund donated $5 million to $10 million to the Clinton Foundation. In 2008, Ms. Mahon and the MAC AIDS fund made a three-year unspecified commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative. That same year, the fund partnered with two other organizations to beef up a USAID program in Malawi and Ghana. In 2011, the fund was one of eight organizations to pledge a total of $2 million over a three-year period to help girls in southern Africa. The fund has not made a commitment to Clinton Global Initiative since 2011.
Estee Lauder executive Fabrizio Freda met with Mrs. Clinton at the same Wall Street event attended by Mr. Schwarzman. Later that month, Mr. Freda was on a list of attendees for a meeting between Mrs. Clinton and a U.S.-China trade group. Estee Lauder has given $100,000 to $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation. The company made a commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2013 with four other organizations to help survivors of sexual slavery in Cambodia.
MAC AIDs officials did not make Ms. Mahon available to AP for comment.
When Mrs. Clinton appeared before the U.S. Senate in early 2009 for her confirmation hearing as secretary of state, Sen. Richard G. Lugar, Indiana Republican, questioned her at length about the foundation and potential conflicts of interest. His concerns were focused on foreign government donations, mostly to the Clinton Global Initiative. Mr. Lugar wanted more transparency than was ultimately agreed upon between the foundation and Mr. Obama's transition team.
Now, Mr. Lugar hopes Mr. and Mrs. Clinton make a clean break from the foundation.
"The Clintons, as they approach the presidency, if they are successful, will have to work with their attorneys to make certain that rules of the road are drawn up to give confidence to them and the American public that there will not be favoritism," Mr. Lugar said.


Jane Poupelet: Woman Bathing Sculpture is rated 5.0 out of 5 by 1.
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Our reproduction is molded directly from an original bronze, Femme à sa toilette (Woman at her Toilet), from around 1909 in the Museum's collection by Jane Poupelet (French, 1878–1932). Born in the rugged and beautiful Dordogne region of France, Poupelet reportedly began creating glazed earthenware figures of the barnyard animals and villagers from her rural surroundings at the age of three. Poupelet's talent as a sculptor and draftsman was recognized early on, and her work admired for its "quality of design" informed by a "delicate sense of volume in light" and "harmony of form."
Rated 5 out of 5 by Sculpturefan from A gem This replica is very well cast. Patina is even and works very well with the piece and size. Gorgeous sculpture and one we have enjoyed for many years.


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How Our Hawaiian Islands Were Formed
http://library.thinkquest.org/5410
GRADE LEVEL: 2-8
Here is a fun and interactive way to learn about the volcanic formation of islands in the Pacific, specifically the enchanting Hawaiian Islands. The site includes an animated learning module, a game, a set of Hawaiian legends, and more!
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The site is fully illustrated with images and animations created by the young authors of the site.
The site features a navigational bar on the left that changes according to where you are in the site. Use the ukulele player icon to return to the index page.
Here is yet another outstanding site produced for the ThinkQuest Junior competition. How Our Hawaiian Islands Were Formed won a well-deserved platinum award. The site features a fun, detailed, and fully animated interactive learning module about the formation of the Hawaiian Islands. The module is divided into chapters and could be used as a set of lessons forming a short unit. Don't miss the quiz/game to save the village from the Hawaiian demi-goddess Pele's lava flow! Users must answer a series of questions about the information given in the learning module to save the village! The site also has a brief description of each island, a page of Hawaiian creation legends, and photos taken by the fourth-grade authors in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. These talented kids have created a truly outstanding site!


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It is 5 p.m. at Hillcrest retirement home in La Verne, and the residents are filing in for their homemade gourmet dinner. The smell of cream of cauliflower, garlic-herbed meatloaf and sautéed mushrooms fill the open dining room, and the sound of a busy kitchen hums in the background. The residents serve themselves helpings of delicious food and find their way to a beautifully set table. By 6 p.m., the dining room is completely full and buzzing with chit-chat among residents. One man, however, stands out in his long-sleeved white shirt and larger white hat. He slowly makes his way from table to table, talking to each person and engaging in conversation. He smiles and hugs many of the residents like they are old friends. "Do you like the meatloaf?" he asks. "How is the cauliflower? Any suggestions for next time? How is your family, Sue?" The man in the white hat is French chef Christian Laire, who has brought more than 25 years of culinary experience to Hillcrest.
Christian's first experience with cooking came at age 12. He was watching over his two brothers after school while his mother and father were stuck with car troubles in their little town of Lyon, France. Usually his mother would prepare dinner for the hungry children in the house, but Christian knew that dinner would not cook itself that night. He knew how to prepare a basic dish because he had watched his mother do it many times before. He took out a sauté pan and began searing fresh peas for his siblings. When his mother came home she was surprised when she tasted the peas. "Wow, these are really good. You should be a chef," she told him.
Eventually he opened up his own hotel, bar and restaurant, called La Residence, in his hometown of Lyon, where he served up his favorite French dishes. "It was a beautiful place, and it was my own. I got to make up my own French dishes using my favorite herbs," Christian says as he spins a tea bag into hot water in the now empty Hillcrest dining room. Christian eventually moved on, cooking in French cities such as Alsace, Geniva and Mon te Limar. He was then hired as a chef at the four-star restaurant inside the prestigious Le Hotel De Paris, where they used delicacies such as fois gras and only prime cuts of meat. Every dish was cooked to order.
After a stint in Switzerland, Christian moved to the U.S., and settled in California. "I don't know why I moved here exactly. Sometimes I ask myself why I did it too," he laughs. "But I like it here, and I regret nothing." Christian first worked at the French restaurant Le Chêne in Santa Clarita for 12 years, and then opened his own restaurant in Montclair, Calif. called Opinel. When rent costs got too high, Christian decided to close Opinel, and worked as a chef in other restaurants around California while he studied nutrition. Then in 2007, he interviewed at Hillcrest retirement home. "I needed a job, and I was actually offered other jobs at the time, but I chose Hillcrest. My gut told me to come here. I knew it was the right fit for me," he says.
Christian starts work around 6 a.m. each morning, preparing Hillcrest's three kitchens for the daily meals. Everyday, he walks through the bustling kitchen, giving his staff directions and advice. "Make sure to test that, it may have too much salt," he says. Although he does not cook every day, he is the voice behind every dish prepared at Hillcrest. Christian trains all the cooks to constantly taste test and make sure every dish is perfect, because in his mind, every person at Hillcrest deserves the perfect bite.
He also uses fresh and local ingredients to prepare the meals at Hillcrest and has introduced many of the residents to French food. Christian loves to incorporate his favorite seasonings and ingredients into the meals. He believes that every spice benefits health, so he has taught his staff to use herbs de provence, basil, rosemary and even Indian seasonings like garam masala. His favorite dish to make for the residents is a sautéed fresh white fish with his famous bourgeois sauce, made with wine, cream and shallots.
Christian plans events for the residents as well, such as "Cooking with Christian" to encourage healthy and delicious eating that the residents can cook themselves since many of them live independently on the Hillcrest grounds, with their own kitchens. He also organizes the event "Passport to Food," where he introduces residents to different international cuisines each month. In March residents explored Irish food for St. Patrick's Day. Each month features a different dish for a different country, and the residents receive a stamp in their own personal food passports each time they participate. At the end of eight months, the residents put their passports into a drawing, and the first seven chosen receive a private meal prepared by Christian.
Mix brown sugar with half the amount of vinegar, cook and let caramelize to dark brown, then add remaining vinegar, wine, orange juice and zest, bay leaves, cranberry jelly and juice, and bring to boil for 10-15 minutes. Add the cornstarch mixture. Blend the mixture until smooth and bring back to a boil before serving.


To thank people for waiting in line, Forever 21 employees handed out multi-colored ribbon hair ties about 20 minutes before the opening. At promptly 10 a.m., the line already started moving pretty quickly. Being somewhere in the 400s, I had expected to wait outside for a while after doors opened, but was pleasantly surprised when I was already inside within 15 minutes.
After unpacking all of the boxes, the merchandise is split off into different shops for certain types of consumers. These shops are based off of trend forecasting research for the area. According to Williams, the store receives nearly 250 boxes of merchandise per day that all have to be sorted into a certain shop. Many of their newer spring elements are sorted into the "now girl" shop, which includes trendier pieces such as long trenchcoats and joggers.
After speaking to Williams and despite original intentions of not purchasing anything, I did a little of my own shopping. The store had a few opening specials, including basics such as leggings and V-neck T-shirts, but nothing too extravagant. After picking up a few items, I got into a line that had wrapped completely around the first floor and weaved in and out of the merchandise, making it extremely difficult to shop for other customers. The line took almost an hour to reach the cashier and was disorganized to the point of frustration. Surprisingly little to no shoppers left the line, fully determined to walk out of the store with their brand-new grand opening purchases. I guess they waited so many months for the store to arrive that the extra hour flew by quickly in comparison.
Now that Forever 21 has opened, along with other recent fashion retailers Uniqlo and Nordstrom Rack, shopping at Chestnut Street is beginning to rival that of Walnut Street.


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JOHN MICHAEL SPELMAN, Executive Director
john@campaldersgate.com
John has a long history with Aldersgate, which spans over fifteen years as a camper, volunteer and staff member, including being the Program Director for two years. He has been working with staff and volunteers for a seamless transition of leadership to be well prepared for the winter retreats and 2018 camp season.
John earned his Bachelor Degree in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island with a minor in International Development. As part of his collegiate experience, he spent time working for a non-profit in Kenya and brought that experience back to Aldersgate to create a global village/social justice emphasis to the summer program. As Program Director, John was directly involved in two accreditation processes and will be taking leadership to ensure Aldersgate maintains its American Camping Association (ACA) accreditation.
John has a passion for adventure/outdoor education and social justice programming; "Aldersgate provides opportunities for campers to unplug, reconnect with nature, and understand the way human rights are manifested every day in both big and small ways. The cornerstone of the Aldersgate experience is creating a sacred, safe place for people to grow in their faith and their relationships with others."
John is a lifelong resident of Rhode Island and grew up in Asbury United Methodist in Warwick, RI. As an active member of the East Greenwich United Methodist Church, John leads the Methodist Youth Fellowship and looks forward to continuing and strengthening partnerships between the New England Conference, churches, and Aldersgate. John is married to Rikki Spelman, who also has a long history with Aldersgate as a camper, volunteer, and staff member. They were married at Aldersgate in October 2013. While not at camp, they spend their time volunteering, hiking, and traveling.
BUD GEARY, Maintenance Director
Bud joined Aldersgate's team in 2012 and became our full-time maintenance director in January 2013.
CHRISTINE ENOS, Guest Services Director
christine@campaldersgate.com
Usually the voice on the other end of the phone, Christine's main role is as our Guest Services Director, also excelling as our Summer Camp Registrar, Accounts Payable & Receivable Clerk and our Donations and Campaign Administrator. Christine has been part of Aldersgate family going on three years.
Christine has a deep passion for camping. With over fifteen years of camp experience, both as a camper and staff member at numerous camps in Rhode Island, she believes all children should have the opportunity to experience camp.
Christine loves gardening, photography, and just being out in nature hiking the Aldersgate trails with her daughter Isabella and tiny dog Hazel.
Megan Lynch, Program Director


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DEFINITION: The king of Persia from 522-486 BC, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty, who was known for his great building projects and his administrative abilities. Darius extended his kingdom to India and Thrace and attempted several times to conquer Greece; his fleet was destroyed by a storm in 492, and the Athenians defeated his army at Marathon in 490. The details of his accession, which extinguished the rule of the senior branch of his family, are clouded by the fact that we have only his side of the story, notably in his great rock inscription at Behistun. His change of the royal capital from Pasargadae to Persepolis was important in his accession. His tomb survives, carved in the cliff face at Naqsh-i-Rustam, near Persepolis.
DEFINITION: The 13th son of his long-lived father, Ramesses II, Merneptah was nearing 60 years of age at his accession in about 1213. Because of the extraordinary length of the reign of Ramesses II (1279-1213 BC), at least twelve of his sons died before him, including Khaemwaset, who was for several years the appointed heir. Early in Merneptah's reign, his troops had to suppress a revolt in Palestine by the cities of Ashqelon, Gezer, and Yenoam. Merneptah's greatest challenge, however, came from the Libyans who were encroaching on Egyptian lands. About 1209, Merneptah learned that some Sea Peoples were roving the Middle East, had joined and armed the Libyans, and with them were conspiring to attack Memphis and Heliopolis. He is responsible for the great victory over the Libyans and Sea Peoples, in which they lost nearly 9,400 men. Merneptah ordered the carving of four great commemorative texts in celebration. One of these, the famous Israel Stela refers to the suppression of the revolt in Palestine. It contains the earliest-known reference to Israel, which Merneptah counted among the peoples that he defeated. Hebrew scholars suggest that the circumstances agree approximately with the period noted in biblical books from late Exodus to Judges. A fragmentary stela from the Sudan also suggests that the king quelled a rebellion in Lower Nubia, probably after his Palestinian exploits.
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DEFINITION: An Egyptian king's first cartouche name, which he adopted on his accession. It is a statement about the god Re, later with additional epithets, e.g. Menkheprure (Tuthmosis IV) Re is enduring of manifestations". It is also the term for the given name or forename of a Roman personal name; the family name was the nomen."
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Naomi Osaka apologizing for winning is the other tragedy of the U.S. Open
It's a dynamic familiar to many women
Naomi Osaka. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters/Lily illustration)
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When U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka won against Serena Williams this weekend, she apologized.
"I just felt like everyone was sort of unhappy up there," she said on NBC's Today show. "I just felt very emotional, and I felt that I had to apologize."
As the events from the U.S.Open continue to play out, we are watching unfair gender dynamics take shape in real time. We are watching Williams, one of the game's greatest players being penalized for behavior that male players carry out all the time.
[ Serena Williams and the epidemic of policing black women's anger]
In the interim, there's been much-needed debate about double standards around gender, race and anger. Tennis great Billie Jean King summed it up perfectly in a tweet:
(2/2) When a woman is emotional, she's "hysterical" and she's penalized for it. When a man does the same, he's "outspoken" & and there are no repercussions. Thank you, @serenawilliams, for calling out this double standard. More voices are needed to do the same.
— Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) September 9, 2018
But perhaps the most heartbreaking part of the final was Osaka's apology for winning.
"I'm so sorry it had to end like this," she told the crowd, who booed during the trophy ceremony, with Osaka in tears over what should have been a moment of joy and triumph and a highlight of her career.
She later told the Today show that "I felt a little bit sad. I wasn't really sure if they were booing at me or if it wasn't the outcome they wanted."
"I could also sympathize, because I've been a fan of Serena my whole life, and I knew how badly the crowd wanted her to win."
Which goes to the heart of one of the stickiest and most toxic expectations put on women, be it at work, in relationships, or simply during any part of their existence alongside other people: We are constantly made to worry about other people's feelings.
Women have been socialized from childhood to take care of other people's emotions, to make sure that everyone else is okay, and to neglect their own needs and wants in the process.
Let's go back to that key line: "I felt that I had to apologize."
Even in her moment of glory, Osaka displayed classic feminine socialization.
Even worse, the feeling that she had to somehow apologize for her brilliance and downplay her achievements is a quandary women still grapple with.
Feminist author Lois Wyse once said that "men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths".
Yet again, a woman was made to feel ashamed for her hard work because it made other people feel bad.
The irony is that her opponent was a woman, and her opponent wasn't the person putting this expectation on her. Having to shoulder the mistakes of someone else (in this case, a male umpire) is a reflection of how women have been raised and continue to be treated.
It's a dynamic familiar to many women. When someone else makes a mess of things, women are made to feel guilty and obliged to clean it up, to make sure everyone else feels okay (in this case the crowd) and to apologize.
The U.S. Open final has made us very rightly talk about how men and women's behaviors are treated on the court, and our conflicting expectations around gender, race and anger.
Now, let's also start talking about why women have to apologize and worry about everyone's feelings when they've done nothing wrong, and especially when they've shown their greatness and strength in the process.
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Gender inequality is not just a moral issue. It's an economic and environmental one. On International Women's Day, Catriona McLean reveals why gender equality is essential for developing greener, fairer economies.
Today marks International Women's Day. Its timing is pertinent. Today, over 4 billion people lack basic opportunities – a decent job, healthcare, an education - simply because they are young, a woman or both. Experts tell us that the gender gap won't close until 2234 - that's over two centuries from now. All the while, sexual harassment scandals continue to reverberate across the world in a range of industries from the media to finance, from politics to the aid sector.
The surge in activism for women's rights - #MeToo, #TimesUp and #StillMarching – send a strong global message: women have had enough. Fuelling the powerful sentiments driving these campaigns, there is now compelling evidence to show that reducing the gap between genders is essential for tackling humanity's greatest challenge: to develop fair economies within our ecological limits.
What has gender got to do with nature?
Gender equality and environmental sustainability are two sides of the same coin - both women and the environment are undervalued in our global systems and economies. And both are essential if we are to see transitions to inclusive and sustainable economies.
In the same way that the natural capital which underpins our economies is too often treated as an economic externality, so too is the unpaid work carried out by the majority of the world's women on a daily basis. Yet unpaid care and domestic work makes a very real contribution to our economies. At the same time, women own between 10 and 20% of the world's land yet produce the majority of the global food supply. Women consistently earn less and fewer women occupy corporate executive positions. Worldwide, the majority of women work in informal markets, mainly concentrated in the lowest-paid and least secure forms of work. And women carry out between two and ten times as much unpaid care work as men. The global value of this work each year is estimated at $10 trillion – one-eighth of global GDP.
The poorest people across the world (of which women make up the majority) rely overwhelmingly on natural resources for their livelihoods and very survival. So while environmental degradation and climate change have severe consequences for all people, they disproportionately affect women and children.
Gender equality is good for the economy. Recent studies find that progressing towards gender parity could increase global GDP by between US$5.3 trillion and US$12 trillion by 2025. And whether looking at governance in community institutions or global corporations, the evidence is clear that the meaningful involvement of women supports more effective institutions, decision-making, profitability and value creation.
Gender equality is good for the environment. Women tend to have smaller ecological footprints than men and engage in more sustainable behaviours. Women and men approach environmental issues differently, and have different levels of use, access to and control of environmental resources. In many parts of the world women's extensive experience also makes them an invaluable source of knowledge and expertise on more sustainable environmental management.
Women around the world are powerful agents of change and can play a vital role in the greening of economies.
Greener economies holds great potential to reduce gender inequalities and increase women's economic participation. It offers the opportunity to make women's contributions to society and the economy visible as well as to revalue them.
But green policies aren't automatically fair policies. Which is why, here at the Green Economy Coalition, we explicitly recognise that green economies must also be fair economies. Without taking a gender perspective to green economy policies and practices, the barriers to women's participation in the brown economy risk being perpetuated in the green economy.
Actions are needed to address the issues that currently impede women from economic participation such as barriers to education, lack of time, limited access to productive inputs, lack of land rights, access to finance etc. Since women are over-represented in the informal sector this should also be considered when assessing the potential for women's participation in greening, particularly in relation to improving working conditions to ensure green jobs are decent jobs.
While there are concerns that the emerging jobs in key green sectors tend to be male-dominated and highly skilled, there is also the opportunity to recognise this and support both women and men to learn new skills for green jobs.
Sectors such as agriculture, forestry and energy will also be a major focus of the transition to green economy. Given their high participation in these sectors, women could use their knowledge of and dependency on natural resources to access green and decent job opportunities. In many developing countries, though often unrecognised and undervalued, women as farmers, forest stewards, natural resource managers and entrepreneurs already engage in green economic activities.
How can we work better together on this?
Achieving sustainable and equitable societies and economies means recognising the value of natural resources and healthy environments as well as the value of the contributions of women – as decision makers, CEOs, entrepreneurs, natural resource managers and community leaders along with their traditionally perceived roles of raising children and running households.
To achieve this structural and economic changes are needed and no single approach will fit each local context or set of national priorities. Gender responsive policies need to be developed and implemented with the meaningful engagement of all relevant stakeholders – and this particularly needs the creation of space for both women and men to actively participate in and inform decision-making that affects their lives and livelihoods.
Policies and actions need to assess in what ways different members of society depend upon natural resources, and how the financial and social effects (benefits and costs) of environmental policies are distributed. Only then will it be possible to ensure that these policies will increase gender equality and enhance women's participation to make economic development more inclusive and sustainable.
So, while International Women's Day reminds us to celebrate the inspiring women catalysing change all over the world, let's keep this conversation going to continue to #PressforProgress in the transition to green and fair economies.
This blog was originally published to mark International Women's Day in March 2018.


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Jet Airways launches in-flight video streaming service
The airline claims the service is a first in the industry for domestic carriers and comes close on the heels of the civil aviation ministry hinting at allowing onboard Wi-Fi access. Representational Image. Image Source: IANS
Jet Airways on Friday launched an in-flight entertainment service under the 'JetScreen' label that allows fliers to stream 220 hours of digital content on smartphones, tablets or laptops for free.
The airline claims the service is a first in the industry for domestic carriers and comes close on the heels of the civil aviation ministry hinting at allowing onboard Wi-Fi access.
"As of today, JetScreen is live on six of our 75 narrow-body aircraft, and we hope to introduce the facility on all our planes (narrow-body) by March. These facilities are available on two of our Delhi-Mumbai flights, apart from one each on the Delhi-Bangkok and Delhi-Lucknow sectors and two in the Southern sectors," Jet senior vice-president for sales and marketing, Colin Neubronner, told reporters.
It can be noted that Vistara had such a facility in the beginning on one of its planes. But it was offering this using their own devices. Earlier, the now-grounded Kingfisher Airlines was the first to offer onboard entertainment on fixed screens on the domestic flights. It was later emulated by national carrier Air India but discontinued for long now, though the screens are still on the planes.
Without disclosing the quantum of investment, Neubronner said the company has invested heavily into the service by way of hardware and content licensing but will not charge the passengers for using the facility.
"It's part of our service and delivers on our commitment to offer enhanced full-service experience to our guests," he quipped and said the airline has no immediate plans to monetise it.
JetScreen uses an onboard wireless streaming technology, licensed from the American company Global Eagle Entertainment, which is a global leader in media content and offers 220 hours of media library including movies, television shows, music and games apart from a special offering for the kids under the JetKids label, he said.
Neubronner said the initial focus is on domestic flights as the airline already offers in-flight entertainment on fixed screens on its international flights using the wide-body planes, except on the short haul sectors like the Saarc and Gulf region, where the airline deploys narrow-body aircraft.
All that a passenger has to do is download the 'Airtime Player' app, available for free in all major App stores, on their Wi-Fi enabled personal devices to access the full content while some of the content do not need even this, he said.
When asked about how soon the airline can offer onboard broadband-enabled Wi-Fi connectivity, Neubronner said it depends on when the government will allow such an offering.
"We aim to provide digital connectivity, subject to regulatory approvals, on board and the introduction of wireless streaming is the first step in that direction," he said.
Jet Airways whole-time Director Gaurang Shetty said, "Streaming of content on personal devices has become extremely popular globally, and we are confident that this initiative will appeal to all our guests, especially the millennials who prefer to access content on the move."
As many as 36 airlines offer this service on more than 800 planes now and many global studies show that three-fourths of passengers prefer to watch on their personal devices and not on the fixed screens, Belson Coutinho, vice president for marketing, e-commerce & innovations at the airline, said.
Jet operates to 67 destinations using a fleet of 117 aircraft, comprising Boeing 777-300 ERs, Airbus A330-200/300s, Boeing 737s and ATR 72-500/600s.
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This Is the Most Trusted Computer Brand of 2021, According to Consumers
by Nicolai in Smarter Living on September 28, 2021
Whether you are particularly tech-savvy or a total luddite, purchasing a new computer can be an intimidating endeavor. There are so many options to choose from on everything from functionality to durability to price. But even if you don't know exactly what you're looking for, for a good jumping off point, Best Life consulted the most recent American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Household Appliance and Electronics Study to determine the most trusted computer brand of 2021.
The ACSI Household Appliance and Electronics Study 2020-2021 is based on interviews with 7,960 customers, chosen at random and contacted via email between July 7, 2020, and June 26, 2021. Customers were asked to evaluate their experiences with recently purchased personal computer products—which include laptops, desktops, and tablets—from eight major brands. The responses were then used to score each brand on a 100-point scale, which Best Life used to rank the companies from lowest score to highest score, or worst to best. Read on to discover the most trusted computer brand of 2021.
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ACSI score (out of 100): 74
Amazon's tablet products may have earned an ACSI score four points lower than last year, but some consumers seem pleased with the devices—especially if you use them in the ways they were designed to be used.
"Whether you want to watch something on Amazon or HBO, do some gaming, fire off some emails, or just surf around the net, this 10.1 Fire tablet will put a smile on your face," one reviewer wrote on Amazon.
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Maintaining a respectable ACSI score of 77 in both 2020 and 2021, ASUS is a brand that consumers have come to associate with reliable and long-lasting products.
"I have been utilizing ASUS products for years. They are dependable and innovative," one verified reviewer wrote on ConsumerAffairs. "The corporation consistently provides free updates so that the system is always renewed without purchasing new products. Their products last forever!"
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Improving its 2020 score by two points to earn a 2021 ACSI score of 78, Lenovo products may not be perfect, but they are a solid personal computer option, according to consumers who have done their market research.
"I have a Lenovo Chromebook. It works well and has few problems, just wish they put a little more storage space in it," a mostly satisfied verified reviewer wrote on ConsumerAffairs. "They seem reliable and of good quality compared to many other brands."
Dell is a veteran player in the personal computer game. But the company has not grown stagnant, earning a 2021 ACSI score of 78, one point higher than the company received the year prior.
"I'm on my second computer from Dell. Their products last a long time and are well made," explains one loyal Dell user on ConsumerAffairs. "They also have excellent technical support for a very low yearly price which is worth every penny as your computer gets older and has occasional issues."
Samsung makes everything from dishwashers to big screen TVs. They also make a pretty popular tablet computer, fittingly called the Tab. Consumers like everything about it from the price to its easy-to-use interface.
"The Tab a is an excellent tablet computer," says a verified ConsumerAffairs reviewer. "Lets you do everything you want in a small footprint computer. It's fast, it's affordable, [and] it's a snap to use."
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While Acer seems to have more mixed reviews than some of the other brands on this list, those that stand by the company's products say they are a high-quality, dependable option worth considering next time you are in the market for a personal computer.
"I've had my Acer Aspire for a while and have had no trouble out of it at all," a satisfied Acer user wrote in a review on Sitejabber. "Simply put, it's a quality computer at a great price. If I were buying a new computer today it would be an Acer."
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HP is the second highest rated personal computer brand on this list. And the reason for that is simple, according to consumers. The company has a reputation for making quality products at affordable prices.
"Great computer, reputable company, and great price," a verified reviewer recently wrote on ConsumerAffairs. "HP is known for wonderful products. When you find great quality, always go for the very best. I gave my sister an HP computer and she is absolutely thrilled by this beautiful product."
It should come as no surprise that Apple earned the highest ACSI score of 2021 and is the most trusted computer brand. There are many reasons consumers prefer Apple products, not the least of which is their reputation for being well-protected from harmful computer viruses.
"I am a fan of the Apple iMac because I have never had to worry about viruses," a verified ConsumerAffairs reviewer said in a recent review. "Going forward I think I will only buy Apple products for my [personal comnputer] needs based on their security features alone. I also like the picture quality when I am watching videos online and it has plenty of memory to begin with. It is a great product and I highly recommend any Apple [personal computer] product."
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Malaysia says no case against PM-in-waiting Anwar over sex assault allegations
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By John Franklin Last updated Jan 14, 2020
President of the People's Justice Party Anwar Ibrahim reacts during their general assembly in Melaka, Malaysia, December 7, 2019. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia's solicitor general on Tuesday ruled out new charges against prime-minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim over allegations that he sexually assaulted a former male aide, saying there was not enough evidence to proceed.
The former aide accused the former deputy premier last month of trying to force him to have sex in September 2018. Anwar denied the accusation, describing it as "politics at its worst".
Solicitor general Engku Nor Faizah Engku Atek said that the investigation would be closed.
"Upon careful evaluation of all the evidence gathered in the investigation papers submitted by the (police), we found contradictions of material facts which could not support the prosecution of any person," she said in a statement.
Engku Nor Faizah also said there was insufficient evidence to prosecute.
The solicitor general's statement did not name Anwar or the accuser, but referred to allegations against a "political personality" in early December.
Anwar and Muhammed Yusoff's lawyer did not have an immediate comment.
Anwar spent nearly a decade in jail on two separate counts of sodomy and for corruption, charges that he and his supporters maintain were aimed at ending his political career. He was first jailed in 1999.
Same-sex acts are illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia and carry penalties of up to 20 years in jail.
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 94, has promised to hand over power to Anwar despite the allegations.
Anwar was first jailed during Mahathir's first 1981-2003 tenure as premier. The pair joined forces to lead the opposition to an unexpected election victory last year.
Last week, Malaysia's attorney general declined to prosecute anyone linked to a series of leaked videos purportedly showing a senior cabinet minister having sex with a man. The minister, Azmin Ali, had denied links to the videos, saying they were a plot to end his political career.
Azmin has been regarded as a possible challenger for the premiership promised to Anwar.
(Reporting by A. Ananthalakshmi and Joseph Sipalan; editing by Nick Macfie)
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Virtual reality has been the buzzword of the last few years, and while we did all the talking so far, it's now time to walk the walk, as the first commercial and affordable 360 cameras and VR headsets roll out. One such camera that plays great with the latest smartphones is the Samsung Gear 360.
Equipped with two 195-degree cameras that overlap, the Gear 360 captures 360 photos and videos (at nearly 4K resolution) by combining the videos from the two on-board cameras. This smart collage happens on your phone and the camera is compatible with Samsung's top-end devices that are capable of taking this load: the Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge +, Note 5, Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.
We knew all of this already but one pressing question about the Gear 360 remained unanswered: what's its price? B&H has now listed the camera in its catalog and reveals its full retail price: $350.
It will still be a while until the Gear 360 is available - Samsung has said it will go on sale in Q2 2016 (which likely means the end of June) - but you can already start saving up those pretty pennies.
Ouch...I'd much rather use an app that utilizes my SmartPhone's camera, similar to Google's Street View app's Photo Sphere feature, but for VR purpose of course.
But with those app you need to move to create your basic 360 Photo (what a mess). Here, you just record whatever you want to record directly in 360.
I think it's supposed to be the high end 360 camera because of it's price point. Also, in the future, I can see it mounting to drones.
My guess before looking at the price was $299. Oh well. If the reviews are good I will still buy for my motorcycle.
There is one with only 199.00$ cheaper.
1.00+ per degree? Ouch! Gottta rack up the money since its going to have very niche sales. If they dropped it to 199, they would sell a lot of them, unless they dont really want too.
If only it is IP68 certified.
Forget about the IP68 and all other 360 cameras just wait for the Nikon KeyMission 360 it's waterproof to depths of 30m/100ft, shockproof from heights up to 2m/6.6ft, and has electronic image stabilization.
Isn't IP53 of this camera is quite good enough for general use?