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MovieChat Forums > Line of Fire Discussion > 2 hr Series Finale May 30th
2 hr Series Finale May 30th
posted 17 years ago by kspenser
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[–] HeavyRaines 17 years ago
At least they are ending it with some sort of closure. Too bad, though. It could have been a good show if it was promoted and the writing team would have worked together a little more.
"I'm not even supposed to BE here today!!!!!!!!!!!!"
[–] nevrmore 17 years ago
Judging from the descriptions of the last 2 episides, it sounds like they will be opening more doors rather than wraping up the story, but I'm sure they had no notice when ABC pulled the plug. Still, I will be glad to see more of this great show.
[–] mariam_in_out 17 years ago
I want to know about the serie "Line of Fire". In this sunday, May 30, 2004, will be the last 2 series, it will be finale season or finale episodes? If it will be finale episodes, it will not be returning again this series in the future? If it will not be returning again this series in the future, really I'm sad but the actors and the actresses who are working in this serie, they are working others series and others movies in the future, these are their working-acting professional. Really, I like to watch this serie but no finale episodes, I like that this serie continue... I don't understand nothing about the last 2 series, why are the last 2 series, if it will be finale espisode? For me, this serie is very good of drama about the war of worlds (FBI and mob).
I wait that you can answer me about "it will be finale season or finale episodes?". I think that the ABC have problems to take many programs (series, films, games, and etc), but I don't know, which are their problems?
Is English your third or fourth language?
I know we've known each other four weeks and three days, but it seems like nine weeks and five days
[–] wise-5 17 years ago
This pretentious if stylistically interesting cop melodrama just collapsed under it's own weight.
While it had a lot going for it, the two-hour season finale flushed almost almost all the interesting character building that had been done in earlier episodes in favor of a string of plot-driven cliches that tied things up way too neatly.
Do not get me wrong - this was way more interesting than most of what gets on to network TV, but when character and suspense go by the boards, what do we really have left:
- Painful opening credits (sort of an anti-Alaias thing going on)
- Rehash of the child-in-jepordy theme (already overused in this series)
- Awkward hospital drama (as if ER had never happened ...)
- A nifty car crash ending
This show could have been so good ... too bad it got cashiered tonight.
[–] stutter_man 17 years ago
With the exception of Paymer's "lets be good to each Other" speech(Lurie's kryptonite), I thought it was good. For all the press Paymer gets, I think Brian Goodman was the show's strongest performer.
[–] intrepid22 17 years ago
I missed it last night & forgot to TiVo it. Does anyone have a copy? E-maol me at [email protected] if you do.
[–] TheDude2277 17 years ago
if you find out, I'd like to know too...I missed the last episode too.. thanks...[email protected]
[–] dave2112 17 years ago
I just watched the 2 hour movie - I Tivo'd it from Sunday.
A friggin shame they are taking this show off the air...I know about 10 people that watched it religiously, and everyone loved it.
Anyway - I was going to delete it off of Tivo until I jumped on the web to see if there was any truth about the show being over. THen I noticed that people missed the finale.
If anyone is interested in a copy, email me at [email protected]
It is a shame...this had the potential to be a really good show. There is such a lack of quality on TV (excluding HBO Shows) and it saddens me that they are taking a show like this off the air. I hope either ABC or another station reconsiders on the show...
[–] endocrn 17 years ago
hi- my tape ran out during the scene when bowen is watching lisa cohen's son leave the house- do you mind detailing the rest of the episode for me as i missed it- thanks in advance
[–] TommyandTiffany 17 years ago
Please help! We missed the final episode! email me if you have a copy! I can't believe they cancelled this show. Glad to see there are others that loved it too. It's gonna be hard to let this one go... :( [email protected]
THANKS! Viva LOF!!
[–] dan22 9 years ago
koo ill watch that

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I would like to begin by thanking the Russian Government for hosting this meeting. Never has it been more important for the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers to come together to address the challenges facing the global economy.
According to our Employment Outlook launched this week, unemployment is set to remain high in the OECD area, around 8% well into 2014, not very far from the peak reached at the depth of the crisis in 2009. But there are also growing disparities across countries; while unemployment is gradually declining in the United States, Mexico and Japan, it is increasing in the Euro area. In emerging economies, tackling low paid employment in insecure jobs with little social protection remains a key challenge.
The impact of the crisis has been extremely harsh for youth. In fact, youth unemployment has risen to alarming levels: exceeding 60% in Greece, 55% in Spain, 52% in South Africa and approaching 40% in countries like Italy. To compound things further, as countries shift their fiscal stance from stimulus to tackling unprecedented deficits, pressure on social spending continues to increase further.
Declining job prospects, rising unemployment, diminished social spending and rising inequalities - never has your role as Labour and Employment Ministers been so important to promote inclusive growth and jobs.
In the context of this session on "Labour Activation, Equity And Inclusion" I would like to share with you the OECD's assessment of the urgent need to address some key labour market challenges.
High unemployment cannot be addressed without a return to sustained growth.
Macroeconomic policies – supportive monetary policy, fiscal consolidation, and banking sector reform – remain vital. These must be complemented by a broad range of structural reforms.
Increasing competition and productivity through product market reforms and labour market reforms is essential to deliver more and better jobs. The OECD was called on by the G20 Leaders to monitor progress with structural commitments under the Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth. It is crucial that employment measures have a central role in this process and that you, as Labour and Employment Ministers, be closely involved.
Macroeconomic and structural policies are just two key parts of the solution to re-ignite and strengthen economic growth and job creation.
At the same time, the OECD's background report on "Activation Strategies for Stronger and more Inclusive Labour Markets in G20 Countries", highlights the critical role of activation policies in all G20 countries to build more inclusive labour markets. This can be achieved by taking action now to help youth and the long‑term unemployed get (back) to employment quickly and to strengthen the labour market attachment of other groups that face significant employment barriers, such as women, migrants, the disabled and older workers.
The objective of these policies is to complement short-term policies to promote job creation and economic growth. But there are significant long-term gains to be achieved, which can be visible in lowered poverty and strengthened well-being, reduced economic and social inequalities and ultimately stronger, more resilient, economies and labour markets.
There is no "magic formula" for designing effective activation policies conducive to more inclusive labour markets.
First, a comprehensive strategy along various lines of action, carefully tailored to each country's circumstances, is required. The responsiveness and effectiveness of activation policies have, in many countries, been improved by overarching institutional reforms to improve coordination and coherence in the provision and delivery of both social protection measures and employment services.
- Poor households and recipients of welfare benefits require broad and integrated packages of support, services and incentives as well as a delivery model that can successfully bring these services to the families that need them the most. Conditional cash transfers can link benefit receipt to a broad range of integration measures and programmes to address structural and long-term poverty (Oportunidades in Mexico; Bolsa Família in Brazil). Where comprehensive social protection systems remain lacking, public work schemes (such as the case with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee in India; the Community Work Programme in South Africa; and construction of village infrastructure in Indonesia) have an important role to play as emergency safety nets. China has several public employment projects targeted to particular groups at higher risk of poverty, such as men over 50 years old.
- In the case of measures for the long-term unemployed, the provision of paid work linked to skills acquisition and work experience offer promising outcomes; the Work Programme in the UK and Work Experience Phase in Australia are two telling examples here. Efforts in this direction need to be combined with intensive and specific case management and interventions, such as the individualised action plans and employment service centres in Japan.
- For youth, different forms of hiring incentives,such as the Youth Contract in the United Kingdom or the Zérocharges Jeunes in France and the tax incentives introduced recently in Italy, could be considered as short-run measures targeted to provide job opportunities, especially for the low‑skilled youth. Other countries have focussed more on the role of infrastructure projects as a vehichle to acquire work experience in the private sector (Jóvenes Constructores de la Comunidad in Mexico; or Programa Jóvenes con Futuro in Argentina; internships in SMEs in the Republic of Korea).
- In the medium- to longer-run, many countries need to introduce better and more attractive options for allowing youth to combine study and work experience and for encouraging their participation in vocational education and training. Useful examples in this direction are provided by the German and Australian experiences. China has also taken measures in this sense, recently.
- For school drop outs and other disconnected low‑skilled youth, intensive second-chance programmes may be needed, with US Job Corps and Employment Generation and Marketing Mission in India being two telling examples. The promotion of Youth Guarantees is also an important policy option. In the EU, countries are now encouraged to put in place measures to ensure that young people up to the age of 25 receive a good quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed.
- For women,opportunities to work, and to return to work after child‑related breaks need to be strengthened. In all G20 economies, a range of measures can be used to address the needs of working women, including adjustments in the tax systems, in out-of-work transfers, in childcare support and in parental-leave provisions.
- In emerging economies, basic social protection measures can assist women in accessing earnings opportunities. This is the case for example with the Child Support Grant in South Africa. The promotion of gender-equal employment opportunities can also be reflected in the regulation as has been the case with the Employment Promotion Law in China. Affordable and high quality childcare – the Rio de Janeiro public day care programme -- and parental leave policies -- Dad and Partner Day in Australia -- also play an important role in supporting female labour force participation in all G20 countries.
- Last but not least, for informal workers stuck in low-productivity, low-pay jobs, further extensions of social safety nets may be required. Action in this direction needs to be combined with financial incentives for employers to fully and transparently disclose their employees and greater efforts are to be undertaken to strenghten tax and labour inspections. In many countries, overly strict employment protection may also contribute to make employers more reluctant to formalise employment relations.
The third area for lessons pertains to evaluation. This is key to both deciding which measures should be expanded, adapted or ended, and which interventions might work best as part of a package in combination with other measures. Our report shows that several knowledge gaps remain outstanding. Most evaluation results are from a relatively small number of economies with a longer activation "tradition" and conclusions may not be easily transferrable to other country contexts. Evaluations also are usually focused on short‑term outcomes and thus results on the longer‑term impacts of policies are scant.
The need for activation policies to make labour markets more inclusive has been further reinforced by the global financial crisis. Going forward, the potential for policy dialogue and for sharing experiences are of utmost importance in the field of activation policies.
The G20 process can play a pivotal role in this context, in helping countries identify effective policies. The OECD stands ready to assist the G20 in this process.


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Video of a man expertly lassoing a calf from the hood of a cop car as it races down a highway in Tennessee has racked up more than 2.5 million views online in two days.
Local farmer David Bevill just happened upon the scene when the sheriff enlisted him into help.
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"Hi folks, I've got David Bevill on the front of my control car and we got a calf found in the middle of the highway," Sheriff Belew breathlessly explains in the viral video.
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The End of a Brief Era: Recent Appellate Decisions in "Copyright Troll" Litigation
August 13, 2014 by Bart Huffman
The onslaught of "copyright troll" litigation began only a few years ago, with lawsuits implicating hundreds or even thousands of "John Doe" defendants, who were identified by IP addresses with timestamps corresponding to alleged uses of BitTorrent services to share and download video content without authorization. Recently, federal appellate opinions confirmed growing consensus in district courts concerning this type of litigation.
These cases raised issues of jurisdiction, joinder, and potential abuses associated with the disclosure of personal information in response to subpoenas issued pursuant to expedited, ex parte discovery orders. In practice, claims rarely were litigated because plaintiff lawyers coerced settlements from subscribers who, regardless of whether they were using the Internet account at the specified time, may have wanted to avoid the expense and embarrassment associated with being accused of illegal downloads (typically of pornographic content with salacious titles). Once enough settlements were obtained, the cases were dismissed.
Subscribers, Internet service providers, and public interest organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation pushed back. The courts began to require that the IP addresses in a given suit should be limited to those that could be geolocated to the forum (in the absence of any other method of determining the likely place of the defendants' residence). They also decided that only one Doe (or a small number) should be sued at a time, and they began to impose other protective measures (such as court review of settlement communications and/or Doe anonymity through the discovery period). Today the typical BitTorrent copyright infringement lawsuit is only brought against a single Doe defendant who is believed to reside in the forum.
Federal appellate courts have finally had the opportunity to address these cases and the zeal of plaintiffs' counsel in pursuing them.
On May 27, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an opinion in a case that implicated over 1,000 putative "John Doe" defendants from across the country. The appellate court vacated an order of the district court, holding that issues of personal jurisdiction and venue could be raised by ISPs in response to the plaintiff's subpoenas. Such issues normally should be raised by the defendants themselves, but "[d]ifferent principles apply where, as here, a plaintiff seeks not just to file a complaint, but instead attempts to use the machinery of the courts to force a party to comply with its discovery demands … why require a party to produce information the requesting party has no right to obtain?" If the subpoena is improper, "the burden it imposes, however slight, is necessarily undue." The D.C. Circuit's opinion makes clear that a plaintiff must have a good faith basis for contending that personal jurisdiction and venue are proper when filing suit and that the practice of suing numerous "John Doe" defendants without regard to likely geolocation is patently improper.
The D.C. Circuit also addressed the issue of joinder of multiple members of a BitTorrent swarm in a single lawsuit – an issue as to which courts have reached a number of different conclusions (including that joinder of multiple defendants is never proper in the special circumstances of these cases). Here, the court found, "we may assume that two individuals who participate in the same swarm at the same time are part of the same series of transactions within the meaning of [the federal joinder rule]." Similar to players at a blackjack table at various times over the course of an evening, "the mere fact that two defendants accessed the same file through BitTorrent provides an insufficient basis for joinder."
Then, on July 31, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued an opinion upholding a sanctions order and a related contempt order against several attorneys who were amongst the most active in filing these cases (all of whom were related at one time or the other to the same firm that prosecuted the D.C. case). The underlying litigation was a "hacking" case involving pornographic website content and implicating over 6,000 subscribers – so-called "co-conspirators" – located across the country. Early on, a group of ISPs had challenged the plaintiff's subpoenas and obtained extraordinary relief from the Illinois Supreme Court, ordering that the subpoenas be quashed. Instead of moving on, though, the plaintiff named a defendant and then also sued the ISPs as co-conspirators. The ISPs removed the case to federal court, where the plaintiff brazenly sought the very same discovery that the Illinois Supreme Court had already ruled improper.
After some motion practice and, eventually, a voluntary dismissal by the plaintiff, the federal district court found that the case against the named defendant "smacked of bullying pretense" and that an award of attorneys' fees incurred by the named defendant and by the ISPs was proper under 28 U.S.C. § 1927, which provides for sanctions against an attorney who "multiplies the proceedings in any case unreasonably and vexatiously."
The Seventh Circuit wholeheartedly agreed. After discussing the history of the case and other findings in similar cases, the appellate court confirmed the groundless nature of the conspiracy claim against the ISPs (which the court noted was "all the more outrageous given the fact that the Illinois Supreme Court quashed a functionally identical abusive subpoena") as well as the other claims asserted against the ISPs. With respect to the unjust enrichment claim, for example, the court noted:
To this day, the [sanctioned plaintiff attorneys] have provided no support for the idea that every time an internet user does something unlawful online, the user's ISP is unjustly enriched because it continues receiving subscriber fees from the malefactor. The law in fact is to the contrary. See 17 U.S.C. § 512(a).
The use of BitTorrent and similar online services to infringe copyright is wrong. The "Digital Millenium Copyright Act" does not provide a good solution. But that does not excuse abuse of the legal system to extract "settlement" payments from thousands of Internet subscribers outside of the normal advocacy process, in cases with no actual defendants. Fortunately, by the time these two federal appellate courts reached the issues, district courts across the country had already learned what was really going on, and the ex parte, expedited discovery motions of the plaintiffs in these cases had become anything but routine.
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New Document3D Suite 2021 streamlines technical publishing with new import, publish and authoring tools.
Allen, Texas – July 23, 2020 – Today, QuadriSpace™ announced the immediate availability of Document3D Suite 2021. The suite includes Pages3D for technical documentation and Publisher3D for technical illustrations, both products are available separately as well. The software repurposes 3D CAD files and associated data to for the rapid creation of technical documentation and graphics. The 2021 version of the software includes new features to address the overall needs of manufacturing documentation.
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The Yuuzhan Vong invasion spreads death and destruction across the galaxy, leaving behind ravaged worlds with little hope of survival . . . Artorias, the homeworld of the Galfridian family lay in the path of the Yuuzhan Vong armada -- and now, though separated, Finn, Kaye, Nina, and Caled work to fight the invaders with the hope that one day they will again be together on their peaceful planet.
Finn studies at the Jedi temple with Luke Skywalker and the grown Jedi children of Han Solo and Princess Leia! Kaye and Nina use a Yuuzhan Vong slave ship to attack their former captors! Caled raises forces on Artorias -- not knowing the danger from one of his trusted allies!


It's not every day that a West End show stars an Olympic gold medalist—and skating champ Robin Cousins' 1980 medallion is actually on display in a Tiffany box in the foyer of the Garrick Theatre, where the athlete-turned-actor is playing Billy Flynn in Chicago. What's more, Cousins will be performing in the musical while monitoring the synchronized swimming team at London's 2012 Olympic Games. Broadway.com spoke to the enthusiastic 54-year-old about life on skates vs. the stage and how he feels about being in the closing cast of Chicago, which is set to end its West End run on September 2 after an astonishing 15 years.
Your run in Chicago makes history in all sorts of ways, both as an Olympic champ performing a West End show during the London Olympics and also the fact that you will close the show in six weeks' time.
Well, I like to think that I'm in the show while it closes, not that I am closing the show [laughs]. But, yes, I do feel very honored to have the role and to be the final Billy in the current incarnation. It makes sense to go out on a sort of high so you don't lose the energy that Chicago is all about.
You must have known the musical pretty well already.
Absolutely. I once skated to "Razzle Dazzle" in an NBC special with [previous Billy Flynn] Alan Thicke singing. I remember him saying, "You never know, you might end up in the show one day," and I thought, "Ha ha!" This is one of the shows that I actually saw first time round, when I was skating competitively back in the '70s. I was a huge fan of [original Billy] Jerry Orbach.
How did this gig come about?
Theater work has been more prevalent in my career in the last 10 years, and I found myself looking at Chicago and thinking, "When will I have that opportunity?" I actually auditioned for [producer] Barry Weissler the week the show moved into the Garrick, and he was extremely complimentary. So for it to coincide with the Olympics and to have this incredible excitement and buzz is just thrilling.
You're actually performing the night of the opening ceremony [July 27], when most West End shows are going dark.
I turned down an invitation to be in the opening ceremony because we've got two shows that day! But, hey, I signed a contract and I will be thrilled to walk out on to the Garrick Theatre stage. I am missing one Friday matinee [on August 10] for the synchronized swimming final, since I've been working with the team since last October.
It's about the athletic mentality and the fact that they're hungry for information. And I think they relish the chance to work with someone who's outside their sport: I got Michael Crawford to do the voiceover for their free routine and I've taught them skating lifts to do in the water as well.
You're a very busy man at the moment!
A little bit [laughs]! But I'm not complaining. We like to be working, and I feel it's important to be one of the Team GB ambassadors; in practical terms that means that there are 26 of us who are former silver or gold Olympic medalists, at both summer and winter games, who are able to give information to the team so that they never have that "what if" moment. The thing about the Olympics is that there is no manual for it; you learn by being there.
So, how does the regimen of a West End show compare to that required of an Olympic-level athlete?
Eight performances a week are a breeze when you've done 15-show weeks on the ice, with six-performance weekends and 180 minutes of choreography. People say to me, "You're doing all eight shows," and I'm, like, "Duh, that's what I'm here for!" Sure, the body isn't quite as able as it was 30 years ago, but people wait their entire lives for an opportunity to be in a show, let alone one like this, so why on earth would you want a day off?
Have you been able to physicalize the role of Billy?
I give "Razzle Dazzle" a bit of the soft shoe. But the way I look at it right now, it's about using the amount of energy required for the occasion, whether it's running the 500-yard-dash or playing Teen Angel in Grease, which took all of six minutes in act two [laughs]. I played that role on the West End and on tour, and it was great fun. I learned a great deal about singing falsetto and also getting the number out there.
My first audition was for [producer] Cameron Mackintosh for that show! I ended up playing Munkustrap in the first UK national tour; my current Amos [in Chicago], Tony Timberlake, was Gus and Growltiger, so it's fun for us to be playing together again. I do remember thinking [at the Cats audition], "What's the point of getting into a panic? All they can do is say, 'Thank you very much' and 'no.'" People wait their entire career for the opportunity to be in front of these people.
As I listen to you, I detect an American accent—though you're from Bristol.
Well, I'm talking to you, and also my other half [Pennsylvania native Mark Naylor] is an American, so the accent is just sort of there. At the moment, I am speaking as I would need to on stage.
You mention your partner. Is the world of theater easier than that of sports in terms of acceptance? One gathers that athletics can be very homophobic.
Sure, but first of all, I came from figure skating so it never occurred to me one way or the other. I grew up in a family that allowed myself and my older brother to be who we were, and I just assumed all families were like that. In any case, there are all sorts of reasons people can apply for being the type of people they are. As someone once said to me very succinctly, "Someone else's opinion of you is none of your business," and I've never made it any of mine.
Are there any musical theater roles you covet once Chicago comes to an end?
Thenardier [in Les Miserables]! I'd love to do that. But I'd also love to leave the singing behind, having been given this chance as Billy to use the acting chops in my scenes onstage.
Might we see you one day in a play at, say, the Royal Court?
My feeling is I would do Pitlochry Rep [in Scotland] if it was a chance to learn more about the craft. I say bring it on!


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The plantar fascia is a thick band of tissue that runs along the bottom of the foot that connects the heel to the toes. This band acts as a kind of shock absorber to cushion the foot. Repeated strains and stretching of the plantar fascia can cause small tears that can become chronically inflamed, leading to heel pain. This condition is known as "plantar fasciitis." It occurs in runners, in individuals who are overweight or in those who wear shoes that don't provide enough support. Plantar fasciitis also tends to occur in occupations that keep people on their feet throughout the day. The fascia gradually loses its ability to spring back to support the foot. As a result, individuals can experience chronic discomfort in the heel.
Plantar fasciitis can cause heel pain first thing in the morning when you get out of bed and start moving around on your feet. The pain can dissipate after being on your feet a while, but it can return later in the day after sitting for a long period. The pain can also increase after exercising. Plantar fasciitis can become a chronic problem that impacts your ability to function well at work and at play. Finding the right treatment option can relieve the tissue inflammation, so you can resume your normal activities without discomfort.
Plantar fasciitis can be a stubborn problem. Generally, the condition can be helped by using special orthotics that fit into the shoes that help support the bottom of the foot. However, these measures may not be sufficient to eliminate heel pain entirely. Over-the-counter pain relievers can reduce the inflammation and discomfort from plantar fasciitis. In some cases, steroid injections to reduce pain and inflammation. For severe cases, surgery may be necessary.
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Franny y Zooey: Pan Caliente
Written by José Galván Feb. 07, 2014 World Music
The best part of finding new music from different parts of the world is constantly finding bands that defy preconceived notions of what music from those regions should sound like.
Take, for instance, the Carribean & Tropics. They are territories associated with raucous party musical styles such as Reggaeton, Merengue and Bachata with strong roots in Reggae, Dancehall, and traditional African music.
But like most parts of the world in close proximity to the U.S., there has been a steady influence and consumption of rock-n-roll for the better part of 4 decades. So naturally, once you start to dig a little deeper than the Billboard Latin charts you will find that a constant stream of rock music is being produced on these gorgeous islands.
Case in point is a very young project out of the Dominican Republic called Franny & Zooey.
If you're wondering if their name is a nod to JD Salinger's book, the answer is yes, and no their lyrics are not steeped in Eastern religious philosophies.
It was mere happenstance that a member of the band was reading this book during the weeks in which their EP was finalized, so they decided that Franny & Zooey was as good a name as any.
When I first heard Franny & Zooey's music, I loved that it resembled bands like Best Coast, Warpaint and Asobi Seksu rather than their country's main musical export, Juan Luis Guerra. It was intriguing to hear Dream Pop influences interpreted by these young kids from the Dominican Republic.
On their mid 2013 EP release, "Franny & Zooey", aka Juan Julio Peña and Victoria Linares, take their shared a love of 60's pop music and affinity for surf rock rhythms and combine it with clever existential songwriting in both English and Spanish. It's not quite loud enough or ethereal to fully classify it as Shoegaze, but this band is so young I wouldn't doubt that maybe some of the songs on their forthcoming album will contain heavier sounds.
As a teaser for their 2014 release, they uploaded a free single in December entitled "Otto y Ana" which takes their echo encapsulated melodies and existential lyrics and applies them to an 80's style Spanish pop. Creating a fast paced ode to Julio Medem's 1998 mystery romance film Los Amantes del Circulo Polar (Lover's of the Artic Circle). It's cute, kitchy and a great lover's anthem (ahem….Feb 14th around the corner…)
Definitely excited about hearing more from this band and highly anticipating their full length release.
— Jose Galvan


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A: you closed do's bracket after the while.
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A: Your comparisons will always return false because the input coming from the user will be a string, which you are comparing to a number. Either parse the input as an int, or compare against strings:
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This tutorial will show example codes on how to convert Java String To Float. Performing conversion from String to float is a common scenario when programming with Core Java.
The Float.parseFloat() static method parses the string argument and returns a float value.
The parameter s will be converted to a primitive float value. Note that the method will throw a NumberFormatException if the parameter is not a valid float.
This is the most common and popular solution when you need to convert a String to float. Note that the resulting value is not an instance of the Float class but just a plain primitive float value.
The Float.valueOf() static method will return a Float object holding the value of the specified String.
Note that the method will throw a NumberFormatException if the parameter is not a valid float.
This is the most common method when you wish to convert a String to Float. Note that the resulting value is an instance of the Float class and not a primitive float value.
Another alternative method is to create an instance of Float class and then invoke it's floatValue() method.
The class java.text.DecimalFormat is a class that can be used to convert a number to it's String representation. It can also be used the other way around - it can parse a String into it's numerical representation.
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D. Lambert, F. Middle, M. L. Hamshere, R. Segurado, R. Raybould, A. Corvin, E. Green, E. O'Mahony, I. Nikolov, T. Mulcahy, S. Haque, S. Bort, P. Bennett, N. Norton, M. J. Owen, G. Kirov, C. Lendon, L. Jones, I. Jones, P. Holmans
M. Gill, N. Craddock
Bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) is a common psychiatric disorder with complex genetic aetiology. We have undertaken a genome-wide scan in one of the largest samples of bipolar affected sibling pairs (ASPs) using a two-stage approach combining sample splitting and marker grid tightening. In this second stage analysis, we have examined 17 regions that achieved a nominally significant maximum likelihood LOD score (MLS) threshold of 0.74 (or 1.18 for the X-chromosome) in stage one. The second stage has added 135 ASP families to bring the total stage 2 sample to 395 ASPs. In total, 494 microsatellite markers have been used to screen the human genome at a density of 10 cM in the first stage sample (260 ASPs) and 5 cM in the second stage. Under the broad diagnostic model, two markers gave LOD scores exceeding 3 with two-point analysis: D4S392 (LOD = 3.30) and D10S197 (LOD = 3.18). Multipoint analysis demonstrated suggestive evidence of linkage between BPAD and chromosomal regions 6q16-q21 (MLS = 2.61) and 4q12-q21 (MLS = 2.38). 6q16-q21 is of particular interest because our data, together with those from two recent genome scans, make this the best supported linkage region in BPAD. Further, our data show evidence of a gender effect at this locus with increased sharing predominantly within the male-male pairs. Our scan also provides support for linkage (MLS ≥ 1.5) at several other regions that have been implicated in meta-analvses of bipolar disorder and/or schizophrenia includinq 9p21, 10p14-p12 and 18q22.
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Lambert, D., Middle, F., Hamshere, M. L., Segurado, R., Raybould, R., Corvin, A., Green, E., O'Mahony, E., Nikolov, I., Mulcahy, T., Haque, S., Bort, S., Bennett, P., Norton, N., Owen, M. J., Kirov, G., Lendon, C., Jones, L., Jones, I., ... Craddock, N. (2005). Stage 2 of the Wellcome Trust UK-Irish bipolar affective disorder sibling-pair genome screen: Evidence for linkage on chromosomes 6q16-q21, 4q12-q21, 9p21, 10p14-p12 and 18q22. Molecular Psychiatry, 10(9), 831-841. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4001684
Stage 2 of the Wellcome Trust UK-Irish bipolar affective disorder sibling-pair genome screen : Evidence for linkage on chromosomes 6q16-q21, 4q12-q21, 9p21, 10p14-p12 and 18q22. / Lambert, D.; Middle, F.; Hamshere, M. L.; Segurado, R.; Raybould, R.; Corvin, A.; Green, E.; O'Mahony, E.; Nikolov, I.; Mulcahy, T.; Haque, S.; Bort, S.; Bennett, P.; Norton, N.; Owen, M. J.; Kirov, G.; Lendon, C.; Jones, L.; Jones, I.; Holmans, P.; Gill, M.; Craddock, N.
In: Molecular Psychiatry, Vol. 10, No. 9, 09.2005, p. 831-841.
Lambert, D, Middle, F, Hamshere, ML, Segurado, R, Raybould, R, Corvin, A, Green, E, O'Mahony, E, Nikolov, I, Mulcahy, T, Haque, S, Bort, S, Bennett, P, Norton, N, Owen, MJ, Kirov, G, Lendon, C, Jones, L, Jones, I, Holmans, P, Gill, M & Craddock, N 2005, 'Stage 2 of the Wellcome Trust UK-Irish bipolar affective disorder sibling-pair genome screen: Evidence for linkage on chromosomes 6q16-q21, 4q12-q21, 9p21, 10p14-p12 and 18q22', Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 831-841. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4001684
Lambert D, Middle F, Hamshere ML, Segurado R, Raybould R, Corvin A et al. Stage 2 of the Wellcome Trust UK-Irish bipolar affective disorder sibling-pair genome screen: Evidence for linkage on chromosomes 6q16-q21, 4q12-q21, 9p21, 10p14-p12 and 18q22. Molecular Psychiatry. 2005 Sep;10(9):831-841. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4001684
Lambert, D. ; Middle, F. ; Hamshere, M. L. ; Segurado, R. ; Raybould, R. ; Corvin, A. ; Green, E. ; O'Mahony, E. ; Nikolov, I. ; Mulcahy, T. ; Haque, S. ; Bort, S. ; Bennett, P. ; Norton, N. ; Owen, M. J. ; Kirov, G. ; Lendon, C. ; Jones, L. ; Jones, I. ; Holmans, P. ; Gill, M. ; Craddock, N. / Stage 2 of the Wellcome Trust UK-Irish bipolar affective disorder sibling-pair genome screen : Evidence for linkage on chromosomes 6q16-q21, 4q12-q21, 9p21, 10p14-p12 and 18q22. In: Molecular Psychiatry. 2005 ; Vol. 10, No. 9. pp. 831-841.
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Feds Urged To Tackle Rampant Florida Water Pollution
Tags: clean water, DEP, EPA, Florida, pollution
For Immediate Release: Apr 18, 2018
Contact: Kirsten Stade (202) 265-7337
Lack of State Enforcement vs. City of Lynn Haven Triggers Intervention Petition
Tallahassee — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency needs to address an "imminent and substantial threat to public health" posed by wastewater violations by the City of Lynn Haven, Florida, according to an administrative complaint filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The filing cites a pattern of non-enforcement by Florida's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) despite ongoing, blatant violations as the main reason that EPA intervention is required.
Lynn Haven is a city in Bay County north of Panama City. Its wastewater discharge facility has a discharge permit authorizing 2.5 million gallons-per-day (MGD) of effluent into St. Andrews Bay, a waterbody that is supposed to allow for fish consumption, water recreation, and healthy fish and wildlife habitat. The permit also allows land application of an additional 1.0 MGD of wastewater.
Lynn Haven's facility has habitually exceeded or violated the terms of its permits. For most of the period from the 2nd quarter of 2001 through the 3rd quarter of 2015, the facility has been noncompliant, listed on quarterly noncompliance reports for 37 of 65 quarters, 13 of those quarters were due to effluent violations, including pollution exceedances.
"Lynn Haven is a persistent, prevalent, and profound water polluter," stated Florida PEER Director Jerry Phillips, a former DEP enforcement attorney. "The concern is a pollution load dumped into St. Andrews Bay in excess of the millions of gallons of effluent per day that Lynn Haven is permitted to discharge."
The PEER complaint asks EPA to intervene to take enforcement action and bring the Lynn Haven facility back into compliance. Among the other violations, the complaint cites –
Multiple sanitary sewer overflows in 2016 and 2017. Curiously, the facility registers almost all of these spills as exactly 1,000 gallons, the trigger point for a requirement of health notification;
Effluent quality was also out of compliance, including fecal coliform violations. Improper meter calibrations masked values of parameters such as chlorine, pH, turbidity, and dissolved oxygen. Nor did the facility file all of its pathogen monitoring reports; and
In addition to the Bay, Lynn Haven had groundwater exceedances violating permit limits for dissolved solids and fecal coliform.
Despite this long regulatory rap sheet, there is no record of DEP enforcement records dating back to 2012.
"Unless there is some enforcement action taken against significant permit violations, the Clean Water Act will become a complete dead letter in Florida," added Phillips, noting that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has promised tough action, saying, "We are going to do enforcement, to go after bad actors and go after polluters." "EPA did not give away its Clean Water Act jurisdiction to Florida, it shared it. EPA policy requires that it step in when national standards are seriously in jeopardy due to state inaction, as is clearly the case here."
Look at the evaporation of Florida pollution enforcement under Gov. Scott


Like last year, Litquake, San Francisco's 17-year-old literary festival, held an insightful panel on The Art of the Novel this past Saturday.
The panel provided an inspiring push to prepare for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) next month. As I plan to write my first NaNoWriMo novel in less than two weeks, I attended the panel and found the following as key takeaways. NaNoWriMo's own Grant Faulkner moderated Ramona Ausubel, Jan Ellison, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Ellen Sussman, and Gina Frangello with a series of engaging questions to help the writers in attendance learn from the panelists. I found the following talking points inspiring or helpful in my journey towards NaNoWriMo. If you want to learn more, leave me a comment below or reach out to the individual panelists on Twitter or Facebook.
Art Klepchukov, Senior UX Engineer at TheRightMargin (TRM), talks about his creative beginnings and what keeps him crafting words. His favorite modern authors are Lauren Groff and John Irving, while Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Bradbury rule the classics section of his shelf. Art is currently reading a delightful hardcover of Gary Kamiya's Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco.
This weekend I attended LitQuake 2015's excellent panel, The Art of the Short Story. Thanks to Mark Peterson for moderating Jodi Angel, Tom Barbash, Grant Faulkner, and Siamak Vossoughi. This is a summary of my largely paraphrased notes.


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A History Lesson On Bastille Day
By JOHN GOULD
The recent repetitive restoring of the Bastille was duly noted here in Maine. We held our usual observance with appropriate patriotic remarks and our traditional evening feast of knockwurst, hot German potato salad, pumpernickel, and sauerkraut topped off with a Black Forest chocolate cake.
Bastille Day is a favorite here, because it is the best example of how history, or perhaps historians, have abused the facts to create emotional excuses for the populace to rally to political, and other, purposes of the moment.
For one thing, there was no need whatever to storm the Bastille. It was obsolete, and its history was tarnished. The days of Richelieu were long gone. So when the mob stormed the fort and the Revolutionary government of Paris razed it, it was to carry out an emotional pitch that King Louis XVI had already arranged for in a peaceful manner.
He had set aside funds to demolish the Bastille by a contractor and to restyle the area in an urban renewal project well ahead of its environmental time.
The contractor, cheated of his job, was able to salvage chips of the Bastille masonry, and at a few sous apiece he gained a great fortune offering them at the flea markets of the time. He gave a free Bastille stone to the city hall of every town in France, to advertise this opportunity. When the United States Frigate Constitution was rebuilt at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in 1925, the same was done with chips of the ``original'' wood, and I have such a chip from the keel.
History affirms that not only the wood from Old Ironsides, but also some 800,000 board feet of new lumber, fresh from Maine sawmills, aided this project, which made a great number of shipwrights rich.
So the Bastille was stormed, and then the fairy tales came into style. Instead of liberating great throngs of political prisoners from the terror dungeons of the Bastille, the crowd actually led forth just seven men, two of whom were convicted counterfeiters who had been lawfully sentenced after appropriate court action, and who disappeared at once into the crowd and kept on going.
Others had been lodged there by their families for ``good care'' and would have them simply moved to a hotel. The one with the long-haired Santy Claus whiskers was cheered by the populace and gave Charles Dickens something to write home about. He was not a man of high intellect and was in the Bastille accordingly.
So, the French Revolution began. Every year on the 14th of July, we honor the moment with our faintly French connections. In that connection, I'd like to mention that in the Province of Quebec, there is a town on the highway from Woburn to Lennoxville by the name of La Patrie. It is a small community, and its only school is on the principal street, so in passing the traffic goes by the front door.
One afternoon as we were on our way to visit friends in Sherbrooke, we came along just as the two teachers were shepherding the scholars from the building into the school buses. Each child had the customary Quebec schoolbag of the Province, and in orderly manner obeyed the teachers step by step. The children were singing:
Allons enfants de La Patrie.
Perhaps I should add that today there is no particular reason for youngsters in Quebec to be aware of Mother France, and that La Marseillaise was written maybe 400 years after the earliest colons came to settle New France.
Bastille Day, accordingly, has no special significance along the St. Lawrence River, or here in Maine where a good third of our people are descended from French-speaking Canadians.
While considering our French connection, we ought to dwell a moment on the romances of les filles du roy, which is a yarn fully as good as that of Evangeline, and I rate it better.
The first settlers of Canada were young men recruited to take up land explored by Champlain and others in France's dream of an empire.
This was well ahead of our Pilgrims and southern colonels. These chaps, to become the ``Coureurs de bois'' of Canadian fame, were celibate and remained so for several years.
Then the king, who was interested in extended France, began recruiting young ladies to send to America. These, about to become the mothers of Canada, were called the girls of the king, les filles du roi.
Their arrival by vessel after vessel was eagerly anticipated, and arrangements were made for special nuptial masses to accommodate the situation. Each young lady received a dot of 50 from the king, and each shipload of brides was decently chaperoned by elderly companions.
It was a most practical solution. There are adequate records of how things worked out.
The priests must not marry young men under 16 or young ladies under 14. We are told most marriages took place soon after the ships arrived.
On the Isle of Orleans the parish priest saw a ship coming up the St. Lawrence, and surmising what she bore, he rang the church bell so the gentlemen were on the pier when the gangplank was positioned.
As les filles du roi disembarked, they were taken in hand and two-by-two the couples marched to the church, where a single nuptial mass took care of 150 weddings. Bastille Day? Vive la France!
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