Your very own rock star slash alternative vocalist Mr. Ali Azmat has made his comeback by inputting his excellent vocals of the original soundtrack "Kahan Hoon Main" to a newly created drama serial Rasm-e-Dunya which is an epic and will be launched soon on ARY Digital. This masterpiece is written by Imran Nazir and directed by Roomi Insha with the togetherness of a heart wrenching and soul shacking serial. The soundtrack is beautifully sung by Ali Azmat and has put a pure feel to comprehend the crux of this drama , although the video for the OST has not been on aired but the teasers are definitely tantalizing our urge to watch the full fledged trailer at earliest.
The song is composed by the gifted musician Waqar Ali and is written by Saabir Zafar which has instigated the feel of the dimension this play is all about and is creating a sense of an amazing plot of family betrayal and a lot of uncertainty. No doubt, Ali Azmat has done a justice to the song and sooths our ears with his wonderful vocals .
The amazing cast of the drama consists of the gorgeous Armeena Khan as Haya who is stuck between the two brothers that contains heart feelings for her. The elder brother role is playing by the handsome Sami Khan as Harib who is suffering from a paranoia which leads him to different mental episodes and eventually ruins his relationships. The younger brother character is playing by Bilal Abbas Khan as Haris who acts all careless and a rebel lover boy but is scared from his elder brother simultaneously.
Can't wait to watch this masterpiece on television at ARY Digital and anticipates the excitement, until than lets endure with the soundtrack .


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Audree Lauraine Norton (January 13, 1927 – April 22, 2015) was a deaf actress and educator. She was born in Great Falls, Montana and raised in Minnesota.

Biography
Audree's parents were Lauraine (née Greenman) and Joseph Bennett. At three years old she became Deaf from spinal meningitis. Two years later her parents divorced and soon after she and her mother moved to St. Paul, Minnesota. Her mother enrolled her at the W. Roby Allen School in Faribault, Minnesota. The Allen School used the oralism method that taught speech and lip reading and did not permit the use of sign language. Audree's mother learned that if Audree was to attend Gallaudet College (now university) she would have to attend the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (MSAD) that was located across the street from the Allen School. Once at MSAD Audree flourished finally able to use sign language. A 1952 graduate of Gallaudet University, she was one of the founding members of the National Theatre of the Deaf. In 1974, she was the first Deaf person to earn a master's degree in Rhetoric from California State University, East Bay.

She performed one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems to music on the television series An Experiment in Television. She also performed in episodes of Family Affair, The Man and the City, Mannix and The Streets of San Francisco. In 1967, she was the first deaf actor to have a photograph featured in Time magazine.

In 1978, she was the center of a controversy towards Deaf actors and actresses. Norton auditioned to appear in an ABC Afterschool Special titled Mom and Dad Can't Hear Me, but was told by the casting director that she could not have the part because he would rather have people who can speak. Norton complained to the Screen Actors Guild, which launched protests by deaf people in the United States. After this incident, Norton never performed on television again.

She was the lead actress for the Kodak TV commercial "Memories", which was directed by Stuart Hagmann. It won a Clio Award for Best Commercial of the Year (1974).

In 2012, Norton received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Gallaudet University.

In 2015, Norton died in Fremont, California.

Audree was married to Kenneth Norton for sixty-three years. She had three children: Nikki (née Norton) Rexroat (married to Gary Rexroat), Kurt Norton, and Dane Norton; two grand children: Tessa Bailey (née Rexroat) Paine (married to Justin Paine) and Travis Alexander Norton Rexroat (married to Sophia Pellicoro); and two great-grandsons: Wesley Draper Paine and William Bennett Paine.

Filmography
NBC Experiment in Television (1967) (National Theater of the Deaf)
Mannix (1968) (Jody Wellman) (The Silent Cry)
Family Affair (1970) (Dr. Robinson) (The Language of Love)
The Man and the City (1971) (Ann Larrabee) (Hands of Love)
The Streets of San Francisco (1975) (Deaf Witness, uncredited) (Web of Lies)

References

External links

American deaf actresses
Gallaudet University alumni
20th-century American actresses
1927 births
2015 deaths
People from Great Falls, Montana
Actresses from Montana
Actresses from Minnesota
21st-century American women

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Los dugónguidos (Dugongidae) son una familia de mamíferos placentarios del orden Sirenia, cuyo único miembro superviviente es el dugongo; además de este, incluía a la vaca marina de Steller, extinta hace casi 250 años. Se distinguen de los Trichechidae, la otra familia del orden, por tener cola bífida.

Taxonomía
 Familia Dugongidae
 Género †Anisosiren
 Género †Indosiren
 Género †Miodugong
 Género †Paralitherium
 Género †Prohalicore
 Género †Sirenavus
 Subfamilia Dugonginae
 Género †Bharatisiren
 Género †Corystosiren
 Género †Crenatosiren
 Género †Dioplotherium
 Género Dugong
 Género †Nanosiren
 Género †Rytiodus
 Género †Xenosiren
 Subfamilia †Halitheriinae
 Género †Caribosiren
 Género †Eosiren
 Género †Eotheroides
 Género †Halitherium
 Género †Metaxytherium
 Género †Prototherium
 Género †Thalattosiren
 Subfamilia †Hydrodamalinae
 Género †Dusisiren
 Género †Hydrodamalis

Referencias

 D. P. Domning. 2008. Sirenia. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America II:629-638.

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The History and Story Behind the Warner Animation Group Logo
ByLily Wordsmith Posted on September 23, 2020 November 11, 2021 Updated on November 11, 2021
The Warner Animation Group has its roots in the Warner Bros film production company that was first launched in 1923. Through the decades the logo has undergone a few changes. It's a fascinating story of four brothers who came together to create one of the most successful companies in the industry. It's endured for nearly 100 years. The Warner Animation Group is a division of this iconic production company, so to fully appreciate the current logo, we look at the history and story of the Warner Bros logo and its evolution to the current Warner Animation Group logo.
1 The first logo
2 Warner Bros logo in 1929
3 Warner's habit of interchanging logos
The first logo
The first Warner Bros logo was created in 1923 and it was used until 1929. It featured a black and white, sometimes brown and white color scheme. By 1927 when "The Jazz Singer" was released, it was presented with a pink hue along with the original formatting, symbols and text.
Warner Bros logo in 1929
In 1929 we can see that the logo evolved to remove the dot in between the W and the B enclosed fully within the slightly rounded triangular outline that was shaped to accommodate the shape of the W and B letters. The iconic logo was placed within an image box for displaying a prominent film theme, with the words, "Warner Bros Pictures Inc ( at the top) and directly below the text "with VITAPHONE Corp., with the logo symbol in the middle, and at the bottom, the word "present." The font style offered a few variations. This was used at the beginning of a film through 1934 with the same color variations of black and white, brown tones and a pink hue.
In the third iteration, clouds were added to the background. The dot reappeared between W and B and the VITAPHONE Corp was dropped. Some examples of the logo from the 1934 through 1936 period simply featured the logo against a blue or cloudy sky background without additional text. From 1937 through 1948 The logo appeared in a 3D representation against a background that provided highlights to draw attention back to the symbol with the text "Warner Bros. Inc. Presents placed as a banner in the center of the logo. The logo changed to a more modern style with a different font and styling of the letters from 1967 through 1970, including change in the text to read "Warner Bros. and Seven Arts Presents." The style was again changed from 1970 through 1972 when the Kinney company bought the company, alongside the iteration of a retro style that went back to a previous version and more like the current logo. Saul Bass created 3 color versions of this logo in 1973 through 1974, and it has been used as recently as 2012 for the film "Magic Mike."
According to its Wiki fandom, Warner Bros Feature Animation was launched in 2013 by Jeff Robinov. It evolved into Warner Bros. Animation. It took the place of the hand drawn animation team. The logo for the Warner Animation Group was based on the previous logo of Warner Bros. with a great resemblance, but text that distinguished the new division from the parent group.The basic shape of the enclosure around the large letters WB remained the same but it is framed in a thick 3D white outline with a red solid center. The letters W A G are displayed in the place of W B in the center of the frame with the banner Warner Animation Group wrapping neatly around the bottom.
Warner's habit of interchanging logos
Warner Bros (including the Warner animation group), initially stuck with the same logo design in the early years of the company. As time moved forward, they developed a habit of bringing back older versions of the logo, and using them for new projects. There are also multiple versions of the Warner Animation Group logo currently used. They feature a variety of styles from modern to retro. There are thirteen major logos with dozens of variants that seem to mix and match the styles, so it's not possible to catalog them in accordance with their dates after the period of the late 1940s era. Regardless of the fact that some of the changes have been significant, it's still a logo that is easy for most to recognize.
The Warner Bros. logo is an iconic symbol of entertainment and fond memories for most of us who grew up on the film and animation releases from the company. We grew up seeing the logos displayed at the beginning of every feature film or show, and it has become ingrained in our memories. We've come to equate the logo with memories and classic movies that seem to never go out of style with the public. Our children watch the same things we did when we were their age, and they too become familiar with the various logos used throughout the years.
Warner Bros Animation has taken an icon and made their own edits to the logo, and those who view the projects that are released are building a database of the logo variations that this department uses. WAG is following along with same pattern as the Warner Bros parent division by surprising us with tons of takes on the iconic logo. If you were to compare the differences, without prior reference you might not recognize a few of them, but for the most part, our exposure to the various iterations over the years has programmed our minds to be on the lookout for the WB whether it's conscious or a deeper process.
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Q: Coldfusion Components:- The argument passed to the function is not of type numeric I have a simple form
form.cfm:-
 <cfset Registr = createObject("component", "forms.Registr") />
 <cfset setFoo = createObject('component','forms.Registr).putNUsr(username,password,rating) />

    <form name="regFrm"  action="#cgi.script_name#" method="post" onsubmit="submitform();" >

Username:

    <input  type="text" name=" Username" value="#form. Username#" >

Password:
    <input class="" type="password" name="password" value="#form.password#" >

Rate:

                <select name="rating" >
                    <option value="" ></option>
                    <cfloop query="qGetReting">
                        <option value="#rating_id#" <cfif form. rating eq prof_id>selected</cfif> >#rating#</option>
                    </cfloop>
                </select>

    </form>

Now there is this cfc called Registr.cfc  in the "forms" folder which has an insert-function called 'putNUsr'the code for 'Registr.cfc' is as follows.
<cfcomponent>
<cffunction name="putNUsr" returntype="void" displayname="" output="no">
        <cfargument name="password" type="string" required="true">
        <cfargument name="rating" type="numeric" required="true">
        <cfargument name="username" type="string" required="true">
            <cfquery datasource="#application.xyz#" name="q_putNUsr">
                insert into
           users (username
                , password
                , rating)

                 values(

            <cfqueryparam value="#arguments. username#" cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR" />,
            <cfqueryparam value="#arguments.password#" cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR" />,
            <cfqueryparam value="#arguments.rating#" cfsqltype="CF_SQL_INTEGER"  )

                    </cfquery>
</cffunction>
 </cfcomponent>

I am able to populate the DB with the data if I do not use the form field "rating" which
is numeric.
Else i am getting the error as follows:-
The RATING argument passed to the putNUsr function is not of type numeric.
If the component name is specified as a type of this argument, it is possible that either a definition file for the component cannot be found or is not accessible.

KINDLY
HELP
-S Vali

A: You've defined the order of the parameters in your function as password, rating, username but your passing them in in the order username, password, rating.
You do have the option with ColdFusion as passing in the parameters as named-parameters eg putNUsr(username = 'me', password = 'letmein', rating = 5). When you do this you can pass them in in any order

A: Gary already found your bug. Another thing regarding the rating is you could wrap it in the Val() function which will give you 0 for an empty string...

A: The default (first) option item of your rating select passes an empty string to the putNUsr component. An empty string is not numeric and therefore fails the type validation.
You will have to put some additional logic into your putNUsr component to address that or simply set the default rating option in your form to 0 (as an example).

A: I have found the same issue in the code. It was solved when I replace the Parameter 'Password' with other name like 'PasswordVal'. For some reason, Coldfusion does not read the parameter named 'Password' and throw the error. If you change the name of Password by some other name, then code would starts working.

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Rees Lloyd Longtime civil rights attorney and veterans activist whose work has been honored by, among others, the California Senate and Assembly, and numerous civil rights, workers rights, and veterans' rights organizations. He has testified as a constitutional expert at hearings before the U.S. House and Senate representing The American Legion. Rees also writes for News With Views and World Net Daily. "His article: Ted Cruz Joins Trump To Defeat Hillary,"
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A Pat on the Back
by Ben Stein
Thirty-five years ago this Sunday, August 9, 1974, I stood next to my girlfriend Pat in the East Room of the White House, about twenty-five feet from where Richard Nixon stood, with his wife, Pat, his children, Julie and Tricia, their husbands, David Eisenhower and Ed Cox, and watched Mr. Nixon give his farewell to the White House staff and the Cabinet and their families.
It was a hot, muggy day and it was raining in my heart. I believe that Mr. Nixon's speech was the most candid Presidential free associating I have ever heard of. Tales of his father and mother, talk of poverty and triumph, but what I remember most is his parting words to us.
"It's always a new beginning. Always. The young must know it. The old must know it….Always a new beginning. This isn't good-bye. The French have a word for it. 'Au revoir,' We'll see you again." (This is a paraphrase…it was long ago.)
My parents were sitting in the first row of Cabinet people, my mother as ashen and tear sodden as I ever saw her, my father, then Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (sic), as devastated as if he had lost a parent, and in a way he had.
When the remarks were over, Mr. Nixon went out to the South Lawn with his wife, Tricia, and Ed Cox. Julie stayed behind to pack.
We all waved good-bye, cried more tears. Then my girlfriend (who worked for the Council of Economic Advisers) and I headed west through the White House to get back to our stations in the Executive Office Building. Even now, it's hard to say just how lost and sad I was. I felt as if something awful had happened to a man I admired. I felt terribly for Julie. But most of all, I thought my life was over, at age 29. I would lose my job. No one would ever hire me again, and I would be destined for a life of misery and penury. I had just bought my first house with my first mortgage. I was scared.
As I walked out the double doors to the blasting heat of West Executive Avenue, in a miasma of fear and confusion, I felt an amazingly reassuring touch on my back.
A firm, sympathetic pat on the back. I turned to see a wan but warm smile on the face of Fred Dent, Secretary of Commerce, who was a great pal of my father and whose beautiful wife, Millie, was a close friend of my mother. It's been thirty-five years and I really cannot tell you just how much that pat on the back — without a word — reassured me.
Fred was a South Carolinian, a major power in the world of textiles, a legendary GOP fundraiser, and a magnetic personality. I had met him a few times before, but always under incomparably less stressful circumstances. For him to have extended himself to me in that moment was somehow transfiguring. I felt instantly better and reassured. With friends like Fred Dent behind me, life would go on.
Time passed. I was a speechwriter for Mr. Gerald Ford. I was a columnist at the Wall Street Journal. Then I came to California. I was a TV writer, a screenwriter, a columnist for major newspapers and magazines. For years, I taught law and economics at Pepperdine University in Malibu. I was an expert witness in trials about securities law issues, a witness before Congressional Committees.
By total chance, life made me a movie and TV cult figure. Time and chance, which happeneth to all men, gave me money, took away money, gave me back some money, gave me great highs and great lows.
I learned the virtues of constant work, of endless inner mobility and flexibility. In a real sense, I started running scared the day Richard Nixon resigned and I realized I had a mortgage to pay — and I am still running scared. When I meet people who do not work every single day, I am amazed. That's the only kind of life I have known for 35 years. When I talk to a young person without a job who tells me her day's job hunting that day was to go to a few websites and then to play golf, I am simply baffled. When I meet an unemployed person who goes out for sushi without a dime in savings, I am bewildered. My long ago girlfriend and I ate Hamburger Helper after Mr. Nixon resigned. (It was darned good, too.) In a way, the fear that was stuck into me when Mr. Nixon rode off on that helicopter to San Clemente was the best teacher I have ever had. I can exactly date the beginning of the work ethic that got me into a position of modest affluence and prominence to that day in August 1974.
I can also say that I am still pals with many of the people I worked with in the Nixon White House — my fellow members of the speechwriting shop, John Coyne, Aram Bakshian, Ken Khachigian, and our boss, Dave Gergen, who all gave me their own pats on the back later on. Even now, with my parents gone, Mr. Nixon gone, dear friends my age gone far too young, I can say that I learned the value of a touch at just the right moment on August 9, 1974 at the encouraging hand of Fred Dent, who has had his own terrible losses, but is still stalwart in South Carolina. "A little touch of Harry in the night," referring to King Henry V casually and individually rallying his men the night before battle, said Shakespeare, was largely the reason for the British victory at Agincourt. For such small victories as I have had since 1974, much is owed to that pat on the back from Fred Dent as I walked into the sweltering, brutal August, Washington, D.C. pressure cooker. Bear it in mind when you see someone in fear. The human touch of sympathy can turn night into day.
Just today, August 5, 2009, I spent most of the day on Lake Pendoreille in my boat in the sun and wind. As the day wore down, and as I thought about how old I am and how much of my life is over — suggested, I guess, by the setting sun — I passed under the immense railroad bridge. Just as I emerged into daylight, a bright yellow Burlington Northern Santa Fe locomotive appeared pulling an immense freight train. Silhouetted by the sun, mirrored in the water, the train was such a mighty sight that I waved my right arm enthusiastically at the lead locomotive's engineer. I was answered at once by three deafening blasts on the train's horn, greetings, pats on the back from a fellow traveler on the planet, in glorious North Idaho. I felt euphoric.
"It doesn't get much better than that," said my pal and boating instructor, Tim Farmin. No, encouragement in this fragile life from a freight train makes a day complete. God bless you, BNSF engineer. God bless you, Secretary Dent and John Coyne and Aram and Ken and Dave and Phil and Wlady and Bob and Julie and above all, Mom and Pop, and my saint wife, and all who got me through to an afternoon on an Idaho lake where for a few hours, maybe I wasn't running scared after all.
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Share this Story: London agency showcases immigrant entrepreneurs in new campaign
London agency showcases immigrant entrepreneurs in new campaign
Jennifer Bieman
Kay Habib, owner of Skilled Accents, is one of the London-area immigrant entrepreneurs featured in the London and Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership's 2019 I Am London social media campaign. Habib immigrated to Canada in 2006 and started a decorative pillow business that now employs nine Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Photo by Jennifer Bieman/The London Free Press
From newcomer to new business owner.
The London and Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership is launching its I Am London social media campaign , a three-month initiative showcasing area entrepreneurs who immigrated to Canada.
London agency showcases immigrant entrepreneurs in new campaign Back to video
"We want to share these kinds of inspirational stories with everyone," said Huda Hussein, project co-ordinator for the London-area resettlement agency.
"Everyone comes with objectives; to raise their children, to have a better life and to contribute, most importantly."
The campaign has two goals: to show the public stories from local immigrants and inspire newcomers in London by highlighting the successes of people just like them, Hussein said. Each story will be shared on the agency's website and social media feeds.
The agency has been running the fall social media campaigns for six years, each one with a different immigration-related theme. This year's initiative highlights nine immigrant entrepreneurs in the London-area.
Kay Habib, an interior designer and owner of Skilled Accents, grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, and came to Canada with her husband and son in 2006. She worked in the corporate world before striking out on her own and starting an interior design business.
By May 2018, Habib expanded her business by rescuing discontinued fabric samples and swatches to manufacture decorative pillows. Her company now has a showroom in northwest London and employs nine Syrian and Iraqi refugee women.
"It's an honour to be featured," said Habib. "There's two aspects to my business: social and environmental. I really want to convey that message."
Vasile Caniuca, a Romanian immigrant and owner of luxury homebuilder Millstone Homes, is also being featured in the first month of the annual campaign. Caniuca arrived as a stowaway in shipping container at the Halifax Harbour, claimed refugee status and built a life and business in Southwestern Ontario.
The social media campaign is launching as Canada gears up for a federal election, one where immigration reform has become a key platform of one party. Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada has pledged to drastically cut the number of immigrants and refugees allowed in each year. Bernier has also promised to prioritize immigration applicants with in-demand skills the Canadian workforce needs.
Though it's just a coincidence the social media initiative and the federal election line up, the initiative has some important messages for the public and politicians alike, Hussein said.
"Canada is a land of immigration," she said. "We are in a community, we all live together. If one person succeeds, we all succeed."
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'David Gilmour Live At Pompeii' is an audio-visual spectacle, featuring lasers, pyrotechnics and a huge circular screen on which specially-created films complement selected songs, but paramount above all is the astonishing music and stellar performances from an all-star band. The show includes songs from throughout David's career, as well as many Pink Floyd classics, including 'One Of These Days', the only song that was also performed at the band's 1971 show.
Both concerts also saw very special performances of 'The Great Gig In The Sky' from 'The Dark Side Of The Moon', which David rarely plays as a solo artist. This concert performance film includes highlights from both shows, filmed in 4k by director Gavin Elder . 'David Gilmour Live At Pompeii' shows an artist at the top of his artistic game, performing incredible material with his world-class band, in a unique setting, on one very special occasion.


Volume Indicator shows summary information for total volume orders in the each bar. This information visualize situation of trading on the world exchanges. Usually, the volumes spikes are signal of stopping of current trend. It does not mean reverse of trend because the market is still active and usually for reverse it may strike last peak but with less volume. You can see divergence between indicator and price peaks.
This is not only one description of using of this indicator. You can use it with VSA patterns. Premium Volume indicator use additional library so it can download data in background mode so this does not any effect like freezing to your terminal. Then next advantage that Premium Volume indicator shows data in Online mode without delay.
This version of volume indicator show histogram in the chart window.
HELP_URL (default value "http://my.clusterdelta.com/volume_chart") - text comment that does not affect to indicator. This parameter contains URL of indicator description.
Instrument (default value "AUTO") - The brokers can use different tickers on the same instruments so you can use name of exact futures to get data from it. On value "AUTO" server try to determine futures using broker's ticker name.
MetaTrader_GMT (default value "AUTO") - each broker setup his MT server with different GMT. Unfortunately there are no bultin methods to determine it so server compares last time from terminal with its own. During any periods while market is off you should adjust this parameter manually.
Update_in_sec (default value "12") - indicator has two methods of getting data online and session. This parameter set frequency of update by session method.
Days_in_History (default value "0") - this parameter adjust length of history in days. With value "0" server adjust it to optimal value depends on timeframe.
Custom_Start_time (default value "2017.01.01 00:00") - if Custom_Start_Time and Custom_End_Time are different to value "2017.01.01 00:00" server loads history using custom period related to your parameters.
Only_On_TimeFrame (default value "0") - with this parameter you can display data on different timeframes. Bultin filter for "displaying on timeframes" does not work for some objects so you should adjust it manually. For displaying data on the different timeframe find sum of digits related to timeframe and put it in the parameter. For example if you want to see indicator on M5 and H1 you have to add 2 and 16, and set the result "18" into the field. "0" - means that indicator visible on all timeframes.


How would an expert tackle this? How might a ________ view or solve this? What's the most authentic way to learn/experience/present/share this?
What am I learning from this? What questions will help me to learn more? What strategies will help me to learn best? What process makes most sense? How will I apply what I'm learning to other situations?
What's the impact of what I'm doing? How do others view this problem? What are the various perspectives on this problem and the approach I'm taking? How can I work with others to tackle this problem?


In Outlaw, you begin the adventure by gathering basic resources. Your character is not the ultimate savior and the best warrior - you need to learn everything from scratch. With our guide, you will learn how to survive the first hours of the game Outward. Your first task is called Castaway - it will begin immediately after the creation of the character.
Your adventure begins with the arrival on the island. You landed there because your boat crashed into the rocks. At this point, you have nothing with you - no armor, food, nor weapons.
Use the moment of peace and collect the things lying on the beach. There, you will find a lot of food and raw materials. At the beginning, you can also pick up a torch, which will facilitate moving in in dark rooms and open areas when night falls.
Traveling along the beach, you will encounter a person called Yzan Argenson. He's kneeling in the house. Talk to him, he'll help you.
According to his recommendation, go to sleep in the sleeping bag. After the game loads, you will wake up at home in a lighthouse.
From the table, located near the bed, lift the clothes. Put them on.
On the ground floor, you will find your first bag. It will make it easier for you to carry items. Remember, however, that it significantly impairs your combat abilities.
When you leave the house, you'll meet a group of people. You have to give them 150 silver to keep your house. You have 5 days to settle the debt. You can collect money by talking to your debtors, killing monsters and collecting resources and selling them.
If you don't collect the required amount in time, you will not be able to enter the house. However, the people will make another offer - you will be able to decorate your home for 300 silver.


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Q: Replace Backward Slashes with Forward Slashes Javascript I'm Getting some images from API with Backward Slashes , and when I tried to display these images on my page its working fine on Chrome but on other browsers like FireFox and IE it's not working , after some googling I get to know that I have to pass URL with forward slashes , So I tried replacing it but it's not working ..
Following is the code that I tried...
Input
var test ="http:\\www.xyz.com\xy\ab\1324\1324.jpg";
var final = test.replace(/\\/g,"/");

Output
http:/www.xyz.comxyab13241324.jpg

Please Let me know where I'm going wrong ,
Thank you

A: This is not possible — with the provided example-string or anything similar.
\x is the first problem here. JavaScript thinks this is a Hexadecimal escape sequence, that's why the JavaScript-Interpreter is throwing an appropriate error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid hexadecimal escape sequence

And even if we take another example string: 'http:\\www.xyz.com\yy\ab\1324\1324.jpg' it will fail.
JavaScript thinks that the backslashes are there to escape something as Octal escape sequence — that is why just entering this string into a JS-Console and hitting return gives you back:

"http:\www.xyz.comyyabZ4Z4.jpg"

To visualize it even more, enter into your console: 'http:\\www.xyz.com\yy\ab\1324\1324.jpg'.split('');
You'll see that even \132 gets converted to Z.
I tried many things right now, like replacing/escaping, trying JSON.stringify, using a text-node, using CDATA inside a virtual XML-document, etc. etc. – nothing worked. If somebody finds a JavaScript-way for doing this, I'd be happy to know about it!

Conclusion
I don't know of any way for doing this inside JavaScript. There seems to be no chance.
Your only solution as I see it, is to escape it on the server-side.
In your case you will have to write a little server-script, that calls your used API and converts/escapes everything to be ready for your JS. And your JS calls this little server-script.

A: Its working fine with escaped backslashes.

var test ="http:\\\\www.xyz.com\\xy\\ab\\1324\\1324.jpg";
var final = test.replace(/\\/g,"/");

console.log(final);

A: Taking a guess at piecing all of these things together:

*

*Sebastian is correct in that something like var test ="http:\\www.xyz.com\xy\ab\1324\1324.jpg"; is not valid HTML.

*However, no API in javascript will actually easily allow you to create such a string. So, the real question is where is the string coming from? If it is some kind of buffer being decoded then your problem lies in that library, wherever it is. Given that that has to be javascript somewhere, your best bet would be to either modify the source or monkey patch it at runtime.

*My spidey sense tells me that your variable is a proper string, and that your regex would work properly if inserted into your real code. However, for your test case, to create a string with the \ character, you have to escape it, so you would want var test = http:\\\\www.xyz.com
One way to check your work is to use JSON.stringify to come up with the actual value that you need to type in your source code. E.g.:
var test = 'http:\\\\xyz.com';
console.log(test); // prints "http:\\xyz.com"
console.log(JSON.stringify(test)); // prints "http:\\\\xyz.com"


Quite aside from the Robin-Hood-In-Reverse economic effects of the proposed GOP tax bill, the bill already poses practical difficulties in planning. Take for instance, the proposed change in the tax treatment of alimony that I previously discussed .
Imagine that there is, right now, an ongoing negotiation of a divorce separation agreement. The stronger economic party (generally the husband) puts an offer on the table that is less than optimum for the weaker party (generally the wife). Since the effective date of the change in alimony rules applies for separation agreements entered into after December 31, 2017, the stronger party can credibly say: "Look, take this deal now. It will only get worse for you if you wait since the tax benefit will disappear after December 31. At that point, I can't offer you as much alimony since the effective rate on the entire economic package, including any amount that I pay you in alimony, will go up." Thus, assuming two well-informed parties, the proposed bill has already affected the bargaining process since the pressure tactic can have real teeth.
Another example is one that I am facing in my practice. Client intends to lease commercial real property and operate his business out of that property. The lease is supposed to give my client an option to purchase the real estate. The preliminary documents provide that the option was to be fully assignable, but the other side has now raised an objection to the free assignability of the option. However, the ability to freely assign the purchase option takes on greater importance in light of proposed changes under the GOP tax bill.
As a consequence, my client cannot be flexible on this point since he really doesn't know (i) whether the bill will pass, (ii) if it does pass, the precise details of the new material participation rules, and (iii) what sorts of tax planning issues he will face ten years out as the law under the new rule develops.
"Regime uncertainty is a concept developed by Robert Higgs, that describes a pervasive lack of confidence among investors in their ability to foresee the extent to which future government actions will alter their private-property rights."
To be fair, transitional (as opposed to structural) uncertainty applies just as much to progressive proposals, say for a wealth tax, as to reactionary ones. They are part of the cost of doing politics. The objection to the GOP tax bills is that they are terrible policy on any metric but gains to the super-rich.
"Tax Simplification" is a nice title for a proposed legislation, but it's one of those things that simply doesn't mean anything anymore.
I remember many years ago a Republican cartoon that, though it was disingenuous, was genuinely funny. It was the plan for the new Democratic Party income tax simplification legislation. Picture a simplified form 1040. Line one says "How much did you make?" At the right side, there is a blank to fill in the amount. Line 2 says "Send it in." There is a blank at the right to fill in the amount, with a small-print note below the blank: "Fill in the amount from line 1."
If you substituted, for the line "Send it in," a line that says "Send in X percent of it," it might gain a lot of favor on both sides of the aisle. The disagreements could thus be vastly simplified. We could forget quarreling about exemptions, deductions, rebates, etc., and focus on one simple question–what's the right percentage. We wouldn't agree on that either, but at least we'd know what we were disagreeing about.
Alas, Mencken's Law. Because rich people and smart accountants. The reasonable answer to "How much did you make?" depends endlessly on the details of how you made it. Otherwise "independent-contractor" drivers who have to pay gas and insurance out of their wages may be making more on paper than an executive who lives in a company-owned dwelling and has a car, driver and entertainment expense account entirely for the company's convenience. Sure, some of that complexity could be pruned, but the vast majority of it came about for a reason.
"How much did you make?" Sounds like a simple question. It is a simple question. The answer is not simple, though.
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This Week on Broadway for March 5, 2017: Wakey, Wakey and Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)
Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino and Michael Portantiere review 9 Circles @ Sheen Center, Concert of An American Victory @ 54 Below, Wakey, Wakey @ The Pershing Square Signature Center, Beauty and the Beast (2017 film), and Dog Sees God @ Hemlock Theatre Co (Staten Island). This Week on Broadway has read more
This Week on Broadway for January 15, 2017: LaChanze
Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with LaChanze about her new show, "Feeling Good". After, we review The Present, The Metropolitan Opera's production of Roméo et Juliette, directed by Bartlett Sher, Dinner at Eight from Minnesota Opera @ 54 Below, and Jim Caruso's Cast Party. We discuss the new movie read more
This Week on Broadway for September 25, 2016: Andrew Lippa
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Matt Tamanini speak with Andrew Lippa. Michael Portantiere join in for our reviews, including ChipandGus @ Soho Playhouse, A Taste of Honey @ Pearl Theatre, Melissa Errico @ Feinstein's 54 Below, and Miss Saigon (Filmed 25th anniversary production from the West End) ———————————- This Week on Broadway has read more
This Week on Broadway for August 31, 2015: Annie Baker's "John", Remembering Kyle Jean-Baptiste and Joshua Park
James Marino talks with Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone, of The Ensemblist Podcast, about their upcoming show at 54 Below. Peter Filichia and Michael Portantiere join in after to review Annie Baker's, "John" @ Signature, A Delicate Ship, Drop Dead Perfect, The Oresteia @ CSC, Screening of West Side read more
This Week on Broadway for May 17, 2015: Walter Willison and Grand Hotel, The 25th Anniversary Concert at 54 Below
Peter Filichia and James Marino talk with Walter Willison about the upcoming Grand Hotel: The 25th Anniversary Concert at 54 Below. Peter gives us a report from London including: Miss Saigon, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Play That Goes Wrong. read more
This Week on Broadway for January 4, 2015: The Merry Widow at The Metropolitan Opera
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Merry Widow at The Metropolitan Opera, Michael's review of Into The Woods movie, and Michael Padgett and Anthony Logan Cole @ 54 Below… plus Peter Filichia's Trivia Challenge! ———————————- This Week on Broadway has been coming to you (mostly) every read more
This Week on Broadway for July 13, 2014: Robin De Jesús
Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk with Robin De Jesús. We also talk about International Thespian Festival in Nebraska, Holler If Ya Hear Me, Tick Tick Boom, 54 Sings 1776, Meeting Our Heroes (NYMF Event), West Village Musical Theatre Festival and a revisit to Rocky. Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. read more


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Thanksgiving marks last day for Commander's Palace chef
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009 file photo, Executive Chef Tory McPhail cooks Lemon and Garlic Crusted Wild Shrimp at Commander's Palace in the Garden District of New Orleans. Tory McPhail, who has been the executive chef at Commander's Palace for 19 years, marked his last day at the legendary restaurant on Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, 2020. He is moving to Bozeman, Montana. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
It was an emotional rollercoaster of a Thanksgiving for longtime Commander's Palace chef Tory McPhail, who is leaving after nearly three decades at the legendary New Orleans restaurant.
Thursday marked McPhail's last day at Commander's Palace, where he's worked for 27 years including 19 years as executive chef. He hands over the reins of the culinary institution to Meg Bickford. She's the first woman to take on the head chef role.
"I love the folks of New Orleans, and thank you for the years of service," he told WVUE. "I'm very proud and honored to have been your chef here at this amazing restaurant for as long as I have."
McPhail noted how Commander's is often a place for special family gatherings and how honored he was to be part of those celebrations.
McPhail has helped navigate the restaurant through the coronavirus pandemic, which has hit restaurants especially hard. Commander's was closed for months for dine-in service and reopened in September. They have also started doing takeout service and online wine-and-cheese gatherings.
He was also head chef during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when the restaurant was closed for 13 months.
Previous top chefs at Commander's Palace have included Emeril Lagasse and the late Paul Prudhomme. Now Bickford, who has worked at Commander's since 2008, steps in to one of the top culinary jobs in the city. According to McPhail, the restaurant is in very good hands.
"I could not have asked for a better transition in Chef Meg. She's a firecracker. She's got an amazing palate," he said.
McPhail is moving with his wife to Bozeman, Montana, where they will help run three restaurants. The move will also put them closer to family.
Dining and Drinking
The legends: SD's oldest restaurants
Serving up pot pies, egg foo yung, tamales and comfort for 50+ years
Now more than ever, the world needs art
As San Diego slowly reopens, local artists agree that art — seeing it, experiencing it — can prove to be powerful connections in an isolated world
Andra Day rises up to music stardom
Fresh from her strong Grammy Awards performance, the San Diego-bred singer, songwriter and Stevie Wonder duet partner discusses her life and career
San Diego's Ilan Rubin will be youngest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee ever as member of Nine Inch Nails
The 32-year-old drum wiz and versatile multi-instrumentalist is also a member of Angels & Airwaves and leads his own band, The New Regime
Nonprofit arts boards play crucial (and complex) role
When things are going well at a nonprofit arts organization — revenue up, audiences engaged, creativity flourishing — the glory often goes to the group's top executive (or executives).
Commentary: In the arts, the role we all play is important. What's your role?
Here at the beginning of a new year, I wonder where we are, what we've achieved, and what can be done. What is the role we all play in creating a more equitable society?
For my list of Top 10 San Diego Italian restaurants, I could only find 7
Me: Well, this pasta isn't very good. Everyone: Why are you so picky about your Italian food?


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As the genomic characterization of cancers transitions from a pure research endeavor to a means of providing clinically relevant information for cancer medicine, interpreting the data from next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based clinical assays presents an ongoing challenge . This is a consequence of several realities brought on by more comprehensive testing that is enabled by NGS. At present, most tertiary academic cancer centers in the United States perform an NGS-based test that surveys the known cancer genes, either by sequencing each gene in its entirety or, at a minimum, sequencing the frequently mutated pathogenic sites in these genes. These assays are typically performed for metastatic cancer patients who have failed the standard of care therapy in order to identify one or more alternative therapies that might be available as US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs, or in the context of a clinical trial. Such gene-panel or whole-exome sequencing typically delivers many somatic alterations for each cancer patient tested. Because we do not understand the functional impact of most mutations in cancer genes, assigning causality to specific alterations is quite complex. In addition, the amount of clinical trial- and literature-based information about drug–gene interactions in different cancer types has become overwhelming, so the ability to "keep up" with emergent discoveries is nearly impossible, especially for busy clinicians. In principle, if we expect NGS-based testing to be adopted more broadly in cancer diagnostic medicine, addressing these difficulties in data interpretation is critically important.
Ideally, the output of clinical NGS assays is an annotated diagnostic report that clearly directs the oncologist to the cancer gene-based vulnerabilities of each patient's tumor, indicated therapies, and clinical trials, and to any other actionable information, such as poor or good prognosis alterations, accompanied by literature-based information to support these assertions. Taken together, intelligently designed computational tools can play an important role in easing the bottleneck at this stage of data interpretation. Such a tool would have two primary functions. First, it would coalesce available data across many patient and tumor samples to build the broadest evidence base for gene variants of unknown functional impact having or lacking causality, as well as identifying known cancer functional alterations in genes. Second, the tool would organize and present this gene-specific analysis of known and predicted functional impact with accompanying current information on therapeutic-, literature-, and clinical trial-based annotations—in essence, the diagnostic report.
Recently, Genome Medicine published two studies describing such tools, each developed independently by two different groups but aimed at the same goals. Each tool has unique aspects that may indeed facilitate the interpretation bottleneck of NGS-based cancer diagnostics. One article describes the Cancer Genome Interpreter (CGI) tool  developed under the leadership of Nuria Lopez-Bigas, whose group has previously contributed important tools that predict cancer variant functionality  and identify cancer driver genes [4, 5]. The CGI tool is based on a set of "catalogs" that contain (1) known cancer driver genes, (2) validated alterations of these genes that are known to contribute to cancer onset or progression, (3) a curated database of biomarkers of cancer drug response, and (4) a compendium of small-molecule drug–gene interactions. In addition, CGI has a bioinformatics-based predictor of functionality for unknown variants in genes that identifies those alterations that are most likely to contribute to cancer, so they can be interpreted alongside known cancer driver alterations. CGI uses these catalogs and its functional predictor to systematize the interpretation of cancer genomes by identifying all known and likely tumorigenic alterations, including variants with unknown functional impact, and then annotates those variants that constitute biomarkers of drug response and organizes them according to distinct levels of clinical evidence. At its essence, the main utility of CGI is to direct attention to known and predicted cancer drivers for the consideration of therapeutic indications or prognosis, as appropriate, based on the data available in its catalogs.
The second article describes a tool, MTB report, from Tim Beißbarth and colleagues , that automatically matches cancer patient-specific genomic alterations to treatment options based on support from the literature, clinical trials, and publicly available databases as a means of facilitating the use of NGS in clinical practice. This tool includes information about off-label therapy use (i.e., approved therapies for a specific target that have not yet been approved for the tissue site in the patient being assayed) that may be applicable in advanced-stage patients, thereby expanding the treatment options delivered in the report it produces. This information is delivered as a six-level system that ranks variant–drug associations according to the strength of evidence for each drug as determined by (1) evidence of activity in cancer type, and (2) evidence of drug approval or clinical trial status (including preclinical studies). The resulting tool was evaluated using publically available patient data obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)  and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)'s Project Genomics Evidence Neoplasia Information Exchange (GENIE) , then applied as a proof of concept to the analysis of 11 cancer cases from the Nationales Centrum Für Tumorerkrankungen (NCT) Molecularly Aided Stratification for Tumor Eradication (MASTER) trial. In the latter evaluation, concordance was high but not perfect, mainly due to some information lacking in the MTB report tool-associated databases, which will no doubt improve over time and with end-user feedback.
Importantly, both groups have made their source code available publicly, enabling uptake and customization of the tools by many institutions and researchers. This availability is to be championed, as is open sharing of data, software source code, and databases that enhance the performance, breadth, and accuracy of these tools in this rapidly advancing field. Another strength of both tools is the consideration of multiple types of DNA alterations (beyond point mutations), since large-scale genomic characterization studies have fully demonstrated that all types of alterations can contribute to cancer development . Additional sophistication in these tools will result from the inclusion of RNA-based expression-level data from unbiased RNA-sequencing or targeted RNA-sequencing approaches in the interpretation of genes and therapeutics, especially in light of the support it may provide for amplified genes as cancer drivers.
These two reports are also illustrative of the fact that the terminology characterizing cancer gene alterations and their interpretation are in need of clearer, standardized definitions for publication. Adopting a defined terminology around descriptors such as "actionable" and "targetable", among others, will make reports of diagnostic yield from NGS-based cancer diagnostic assays more comparable when evaluating both assays and interpretive tools. So far, we have guidelines regarding evidence tiers by which links between genomic data and their role in cancer can be reported, as provided by regulatory bodies that oversee the offerors of these tests . While these are an important first step, there is no common set of descriptors to characterize the results of cancer NGS test findings relative to therapeutic indications. As such, establishing the clinical utility or benefit from such testing becomes subjective.
In summary, computational interpretation tools such as those described here mark important steps forward in expanding the use of NGS-based assays for cancer medicine, because they address the challenges of data interpretation. Ideally, these tools will be tested and applied by cancer care providers (oncologists in particular) across cancer care organizations, regardless of whether the corresponding NGS assay is performed on site, or as a send-out test. This implementation will help to evaluate the extent to which these tools facilitate NGS-based assay interpretation and, importantly, could enable more wide-scale access to such testing. Ultimately, these and related efforts will not only dissolve barriers to access but also will reinforce the clinical benefit that patients receive from precision cancer medicine, so that reimbursement for these tests from insurance providers becomes routine. As a consequence, NGS testing will become the standard of care, adding precision to each patient's diagnosis and treatment.
EM wrote the original draft, made edits, read and approved the final manuscript.
The author is a Supervisory Board member of Qiagen NV, and is a Scientific Advisory Board member for AACR Project GENIE.
The Cancer Genome Atlas. https://cancergenome.nih.gov/. Accessed 26 Mar 2018.


Of the 27 constellation in astrology, the six constellations have been treated as an inauspicious Nakshatra. Birth of a child in these constellations is considered inauspicious for children and family members. In the language of astrology these constellations are called Gandmudul Nakshatras. One of these unlucky constellations is 'Jyeshtha Nakshatra'. The place of this constellation in the sky board is eighteen.
If a child is born in this constellation in the house, his original peace must be done otherwise it can be painful for a child or a family member. After the original peace the defect of the constellation ends. Such a person is very fortunate enough to be personally.


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Home News Spain Spain opens investigation into Kabul attack
Spain opens investigation into Kabul attack
14 December 2015 @ 10:15
UPDATE: A report has been sent to the High Court Prosecutor in Spain who will order an official police investigation to determine the facts behind Friday's ten-hour attack by Taliban fighters at the Spanish Embassy in Kabul.
Two Spanish police officers were killed during the assault, along with at least two other officers as initial reports of ten deaths are lowered. Isidro Gabino Sanmartín Hernández, 48, was shot dead during the attack while Jorge García Tudela, 45, was found dead in his room, with cuts to his neck.
A great deal of jurisdictional and factual mystery still surrounds the attack, in which all three assailants were killed, seven civilians wounded and 12 rescued.
The actual location of the attack was the Azizi Bank Guest House next to the embassy, which is often used by American nationals visiting Kabul. Two documents released by the Afghan government refer to an attack on a guest-house which coincides with a report from the Spanish interior ministry which identifies the guest-house as the target and not the embassy itself.
Foreign Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz has confirmed that the government view the incident as an "attack against Spain" but did not have the embassy as its primary target.
The shift in emphasis is likely to mean the Spanish government will carry out its own investigation but not demand full jurisdiction, as it might if an attack is carried out "against Spanish authorities or Spanish public civil servants," or "when the crime has been committed against official Spanish installations, including their embassies and consulates."
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Q: Use tasks in always @* blocks I was intended to use a customized task in an always @* block, like:
input [31:0] a;
input b;
output reg [31:0] c;

task mytask;
begin
    if (b) begin
        c = a;
    end
end
endtask

always @* begin
    // ... (b is not included)
    mytask;
    // ... (b is not included)
end

What I think is that when signal b changes from 0 to 1, c will be set to the content of a. Then I found the always block is not sensitive to signal b (using ISim 14.7).
Is this a bug or designed to behave like this?

A: That is the defined behavior in Verilog. If you wan to make the task sensitive to the signals you have to put them in the I/O list:
task mytask(input b);

(And the reason I know is that I also made that error and looked it up)

A: The language is specified to behave like this.  Always @* (or always_comb) blocks are not sensitive to changes in values used in tasks that are not included in the argument list.  Use a function here since your body in not consuming time.

A: Just to add to the answers:
Your original always @* procedure will never execute because it has an empty trigger list. @ * means: Hey tool (simulator which relies on this list), build the sensitivity list for me. always @ * (by the lang spec) is only sensitive to changes on the arguments of a function/task (alongside other triggers)(in your case - no arguments thus empty sensitivity list), not to changes in signals within the function/task contents.
Side note: I think SystemVerilog's always_comb would work here (2012 std 9.2.2.2.2). Dave, thanks for the clarification.


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Honolua Blomfield on her way to the final. Pic: WSL/Rowland
This is serious. Pic: Jimmy Wilson
13-year-old Kelis Kaleopaa (our Page 3 mini profile in the current issue of the mag) taking her semifinal. Pic: Jimmy Wilson
Well there are extra dollars for the best shared wave. Pic: WSL/Rowland
Not exactly cracking conditions Men's shortboard QS – just fine for the Duct Tape though. Pic: WSL/Rowland
Some photos and an update from the Women's Duct Tape
4 August 18
Lifted from the US Open of Surfing site: The 2018 Vans US Open of Surfing presented by Swatch got back underway with an exciting, inaugural Women's Duct Tape Invitational event and heavyweight Round 3 Men's Qualifying Series (QS) matchups before the first two heats of Round 4 were contested. Big names stumbled on the men's front as QS newcomers continue making a name for themselves on one of surfing's biggest stages, but the day began with a more light-hearted approach before tense heats ensued.
Some of the world's best women longboarders displayed their elegance and style as they decided their Finalists with a few surprising upsets. Most notably, 2016 WSL Longboard Champion Tory Gilkerson (USA) was eliminated in a wave-for-wave battle to start Semifinal action. Kaitlin Maguire (USA) got the best of Gilkerson in a great Quarterfinal start, and stole an advancing position from her once more in the heated Semifinal.
It was Hawaiian competitor Kelis Kaleoppa (HAW) who earned both a big Quarterfinal and Semifinal victory, showcasing her grace through long noserides to the inside and finishing off each wave. Now, the Oahu, Hawaii, native looks poised for the first-ever Women's Duct Tape Invitational Final.
"That was so fun and this is an honor to be a part of the first ever event for the women," Kaleoppa said. "I wasn't sure what to expect. This is my first time here and I just surfed for the first time out here this morning so I don't know what good Huntington is, but that was fun. I didn't know this event was as big as I thought it was and it's crazy. It's good though because there's been a lot of heavy contest at home and to have all these girls here is incredible so I can't wait to surf again. If I win that'd be great, but we're all here to have a god time."
Fellow Oahu competitor, and reigning WSL Longboard Champion Honolua Blomfield (HAW) displayed why she holds that title with brilliant form throughout the morning. Blomfield, 19, looked calm and prepared for the day's event, winning both her Quarterfinal and Semifinal heats. But, looks could be deceiving as the young surfer was amid some of her idols and did her best to stay focused on the task at hand.
"It's such a big deal to be a part of this, it's the best loggers in the world and women I've looked up to since I started surfing so I'm really happy to make the Final," Blomfield said. "I've never done one of these kind of contests, and it's the first one to be held here like this, which is really exciting. I was actually really nervous out there, because I've idolized them and to have them in a heat is really intimidating. Plus, just being a Duct Tape event, having Joel Tudor here, and all these women here -- to be invited to the biggest one is just awesome."
Vans US Open Women's Duct Tape Invitational Quarterfinal Results:
QF 1: Kaitlin Maguire (USA) 13.73, Tory Gilkerson (USA) 11.83, Mele Saili (USA) 10.64, Hallie Rohr (USA) 4.83
QF 2: Kelis Kaleoppa (HAW) 10.60, Sierra Lerback (USA) 7.80, Karina Rozunko (USA) 6.96, Ivy Thomas (AUS) 3.77
QF 3: Makala Smith (USA) 8.70, Jennifer Smith (USA) 7.94, Ashley Lloyd (USA) 6.97, Mia Larson (USA) 5.40
QF 4: Honolua Blomfield (HAW) 12.90, Kassia Meador (USA) 11.17, Summer Richley (USA) 6.04, Erin Ashley (USA) 4.46
Vans US Open Women's Duct Tape Invitational Semifinal Results:
SF 1: Kelis Kaleopaa (HAW) 12.00, Kaitlin Maguire (USA) 9.83, Tory Gilkerson (USA) 9.44, Sierra Lerback (USA) 7.67
SF 2: Honolua Blomfield (HAW) 11.60, Jennifer Smith (USA) 6.16, Kassia Meador (USA) 4.53, Makala Smith (USA) 4/23


A Q&A with Subjects Rob & Linda Robertson to follow screening.
When the Supreme Court legalized marriage equality across the nation in 2015, many assumed that the fight for LGBTQ rights was won. But politicians and religious conservatives launched a state-by-state campaign to retract the human rights of America's LGBTQ citizens under the guise of religious freedom. Introducing four American families caught in the crosshairs of scripture, sexuality, and identity, this documentary weaves together clips from the national news and the church pulpit, alongside family photos and intimate testimonies, to show the undeniable connection between the personal and the political.
These individual experiences of rejection and validation, tragedy and triumph include Ryan Robertson, who was encouraged by his Christian family to attend conversion therapy; Sarah McBride, the transgender student body president who went on to work at the White House; Vico Báez Febo, whose Catholic grandmother locked him out of the house when a neighbor outed him; and Elliot Porcher, a young trans man who endured self-harm before his parents' acceptance enabled him to come to terms with his gender.
An emotionally impactful follow-up to Director Daniel Karslake's award-winning For The Bible Tells Me So, this powerful examination of the intersection of religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity offers much-needed healing, clarity, and understanding.


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With an article published by The Hollywood Reporter this morning, we now know the core voice cast of next year's "Rise of the TMNT" series, as well as a few more details about the show.
From left to right, Kat Graham is April O'Neil, Josh Brener is Donatello, Omar Miller is Raphael, Brandon Mychal Smith is Michelangelo and Ben Schwartz is Leonardo. Additional talent in the cast includes Eric Bauza as Splinter, and Omar Miller and Ben Schwartz in unnamed roles.
While April, Donatello, and Michelangelo are described familiarly to how we've seen them before, an interesting detail from the article is the statement that "Raphael, the oldest and physically biggest brother ... is now the Turtles' leader" and "Leonardo [is] the self-professed "coolest" brother."
We can expect to see 26 episodes of "Rise of the TMNT," which is described as a "reimagining that follows the band of brothers as they encounter new allies and villains and discover a mystical world they never knew existed beneath the streets of New York City." Chris Viscardi, senior vp production and development, animation, at Nickelodeon, adds, "We have reimagined the series to be filled with humor, loads of action and a dynamic look, and it's packed with all-new heroes, villains and cityscapes for the Turtles to explore."
One really neat detail provided is that Rob Paulsen, previously Raphael in the original cartoon and Donatello in the 2012 Nickelodeon series, will be directing this new series.
"Rise of the TMNT" is co-executive produced by Andy Suriano (character designer, Samurai Jack) and Ant Ward (supervising producer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
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Classic & Modern Ninja Turtles to Meet in March 27 Event
In an event that has been hinted to us for quite a while now, the time is near for the ultimate TMNT crossover, featuring the 1980s Turtles and voice cast together with the 2012 Turtles and voice cast. The new episode will see the 2D Turtles from the 80s get the modern CGI treatment, while the CGI modern Turtles will also get the 2D animation treatment.
From a press release sent out yesterday:
Worlds collide as the voice cast of the 1980s Turtles, Cam Clarke, Rob Paulsen, Barry Gordon and Townsend Coleman joins forces as Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo, respectively, in "Trans-Dimensional Turtles," a new episode of Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles debuting Sunday, March 27, at 11:00 a.m. (ET/PT). In this new half-hour episode, the Turtles are transported to another dimension where they meet their '80s alternate-reality counterparts. Actor Pat Fraley also reunites with the '80s cast for the first time since the original series premiered to reprise his role as Krang.
In "Trans-Dimensional Turtles," all eight Turtles must battle to eliminate both the '80s Krang and Kraang Sub-Prime. After meeting their '80s counterparts in a 2D-animation world, the entire clan moves back into a CG-animation dimension, giving their new retro friends a taste of their realm. Additionally, in another dimensional twist, the episode will offer a glimpse of the Turtles in a comic book world resembling Kevin Eastman's Mirage Studios comic book series.
Left to Right: Barry Gordon, Pat Fraley, Cam Clarke, and Townsend Coleman
Labels: barry gordon, cam clarke, cgi series, kevin eastman, nickelodeon, pat fraley, rob paulsen, television, townsend coleman
Rob Paulsen to Host Live TMNT-Themed Podcast
Rob Paulsen's podcast, Talkin Toons, will be recording a laundry list of TMNT special guests. The show will be December 9 at 8pm at the Hollywood Improv.
Headlining the show is TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman. Also joining the show are Townsend Coleman, Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Pat Fraley, Renae Jacobs, Judith Hoag, Ciro Nieli, Brandon Auman, and more!
In addition to recording a live podcast, the event will also be raising money and toys for Toys for Tots. Tickets are a steal at $15/each, and if you bring in two toys to donate to Toys for Tots you'll be able to get autographs from everyone in attendance.
Get tickets now before they sell out! And watch Rob's Facebook page for daily updates to the lineup.
Labels: barry gordon, brandon auman, cam clarke, ciro nieli, events, kevin eastman, pat fraley, renae jacobs, rob paulsen, townsend coleman
Kevin Eastman Voicing Ice Cream Kitty in TMNT Cartoon
USA Today reports that none other than TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman will be heard as the voice of Ice Cream Kitty, who debuts in this Sunday's new episode, "Of Rats and Men." Ice Cream Kitty was first revealed at Comic-Con last July.
Ice Cream Kitty
Also noted in the USA Today article is that Friday, March 14, will see the long-awaited episode that unites the current TMNT voice cast with the voice cast of the original cartoon. Townsend Coleman (Michaelangelo), Cam Clarke (Leonardo), Barry Gordon (Donatello), and Rob Paulsen (Raphael) will be reprising their roles in cameos in this special 1-hour episode. Of course, Rob Paulsen will be pulling double-duty as Donatello in the current cast. He is joined by Greg Cipes (Michelangelo), Sean Astin (Raphael), and Jason Biggs (Leonardo). This special episode will air at the special time of 7pm Eastern.
Labels: barry gordon, cam clarke, cgi series, greg cipes, jason biggs, kevin eastman, rob paulsen, sean astin, television, townsend coleman
Classic Turtles to Join Nick Turtles in Season 2
In an exclusive interview with USA Today, Nickelodeon Executive Producer Ciro Nieli has dropped some hints about what TMNT fans can expect with the remaining part of this season, as well as next season.
The big news coming from this interview is that next season there will be a one-hour special unites the Turtles voice actors from the original cartoon with their modern counterparts.
It'll be a story point, too, that brings classic and current Turtles together.
"We all have a nostalgia for these characters in all their incarnations, and any time we can serve it up, we take the chance," Nieli says. "The trick is finding a way to do it where it doesn't feel wedged in, where you don't even see it coming.
Townsend Coleman (Michaelangelo) hinted at the reunion earlier this week on Facebook when he changed his cover photo to a picture of the outside of Nickelodeon Studios in Burbank, CA.
The original TMNT voice actors are Coleman, Cam Clarke (Leonardo), Barry Gordon (Donatello), and Rob Paulsen (Raphael). Paulsen, of course, would be pulling double duty as he the current Donatello. The rest of the current cast is Greg Cipes (Michelangelo), Jason Biggs (Leonardo), and Sean Astin (Raphael).
According to the interview, one other blast from the past fans can expect is the return of Mutagen Man from the original cartoon and toy line.
New episodes of Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles begin again this Friday, April 5, with Baxter's Gambit.
Labels: barry gordon, cam clarke, cgi series, ciro nieli, greg cipes, jason biggs, nickelodeon, rob paulsen, sean astin, television, townsend coleman
Rob Paulsen's Talkin' Toons with the 2012 TMNT Voice Cast
Happy New Year, everyone! After a bit of an unintentional holiday break, let's catch up on the news!
If you haven't yet, check out the recording of the December 14th live edition of Rob Paulsen's Talkin' Toons podcast.
The podcast was recorded live at the Jon Levitz Comedy Club in Los Angeles. Participants included Sean Astin, Greg Cipes, Jason Biggs, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Mae Whitman.
Labels: greg cipes, jason biggs, kevin michael richardson, mae whitman, rob paulsen, sean astin
Nickelodeon TMNT Cast to Appear Live Dec. 14
Rob Paulsen will be hosting another special LIVE edition of his Talkin' Toons podcast on December 14 at the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club in Los Angeles.
Appearing for this special event will be members of the voice cast for Nickelodeon's current Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles CGI series, Sean Astin (Raphael), Greg Cipes (Michelangelo), Jason Biggs (Leonardo) who will be appearing via Skype, and Kevin Michael Richardson (Shredder).
Tickets for the event are $20, and can be purchase online right now!
Labels: cgi series, events, greg cipes, jason biggs, rob paulsen, sean astin, television
Rob Paulsen's Talkin' Toons With Ciro Nieli
In honor of the premiere of the new TMNT cartoon series, this week's episode of Talkin' Toons has Rob Paulsen (Donatello) chatting with Executive Producer Ciro Nieli.
Get it now over at RobPaulsenLive.com!
Labels: cgi series, ciro nieli, rob paulsen, television
Original TMNT Cartoon Cast Reunion Podcast Now Online
The audio recording of last week's original TMNT cartoon voice cast reunion extravaganza is now available to download as an episode of Rob Paulsen's Talkin' Toons Podcast.
Labels: barry gordon, cam clarke, fred wolf, peter renaday, renae jacobs, rob paulsen, television, townsend coleman
TMNT Original Cartoon Cast Reunites August 24
A live recording of Rob Paulsen's Talkin' Toons podcast on August 24 will see the reunion of almost all of the lead voice actors from the original TMNT cartoon series. Currently scheduled to appear are Rob Paulsen (Raphael - duh), Barry Gordon (Donatello), Townsend Coleman (Michaelangelo), Cam Clarke (Leonardo), Peter Renaday (Splinter), and Renae Jacobs (April O'Neil).
The show will be at the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club in Los Angeles at 8pm, August 24. Buy tickets now!
Exclusive! Interview with the 2012 TMNT Voice Cast
One of my highlights not just of this year's Comic-Con, but of all the 14 years I've attended Comic-Con, occurred this July 13, the day Nickelodeon was most heavily promoting the new TMNT CGI cartoon series. After spending a day full of talking to the press, including the TMNT panel in the morning and a lunchtime autograph signing, that Friday afternoon the brotherhood of Sean Astin, Greg Cipes, Jason Biggs, and Rob Paulsen were on the other side of a table talking to little ol' me.
It had been meant to be a shared roundtable experience, with other interviewers, but the way circumstances worked out I found myself going solo with them. I wasn't quite prepared for that! But luckily they bounced thoughts off of each other quite naturally, which brought out some fun conversation and interesting information.
I had to miss the IDW panel in order to make this appointment, but it was obviously well worth that sacrifice. I took the audio I recorded and produced it into the video below. Enjoy!
A huge hand of thanks to everyone at Nickelodeon, especially the entire voice cast!
Labels: cgi series, ciro nieli, greg cipes, jason biggs, kevin michael richardson, nickelodeon, rob paulsen, sdcc, sean astin, television
TMNT Panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2012
At this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Nickelodeon hosted a panel that gave fans a sneak preview of the new series, as well as a chance to see and hear the new voice actors. After all the panelists were brought out, Executive Producer Ciro Nieli showed us "The Pitch" he had presented to Nickelodeon, which ended up getting him the job. We were also shown an early test clip of animation.
After Ciro's time was up, the new voice cast for the show answered questions from moderator Rich Magallanes, Senior Vice President of Nickelodeon Animation. As we've known, the cast includes Jason Biggs (Leonardo), Sean Astin (Raphael), Greg Cipes (Michelangelo), Rob Paulsen (Donatello), Hoon Lee (Master Splinter), Mae Whitman (April O'Neil), and Kevin Michael Richardson (Shredder).
Below is a collection of all the video clips I personally recorded during this panel. I've also inserted some of the animation clips we were shown during the panel. Convention rules didn't allow the recording of these clips during the panel, but Nickelodeon released them online later that day.
Nickelodeon also released online their own recording of the panel, although it's in the wrong aspect ratio and doesn't feature the same awesome handheld qualities as the above video. ;)
Labels: cgi series, ciro nieli, greg cipes, hoon lee, jason biggs, kevin michael richardson, mae whitman, nickelodeon, rob paulsen, sdcc, sean astin, television
TMNT Panel Planned for Comic-Con
It's been assumed that Nickelodeon would have a strong TMNT presence at San Diego Comic-Con to advertise the upcoming new TV series, and now we've seen a first glimpse at exactly what it is they have planned.
As reported by Variety, a panel for the show will be held on Friday of the convention. Panelists will include the four Turtles voice actors from the show - Jason Biggs (Leonardo), Sean Astin (Raphael), Rob Paulsen (Donatello), and Greg Cipes (Michelangelo) - as well as executive producer Ciro Nieli.
Additionally, the Nickelodeon booth in the exhibitor hall will have visits from TMNT costumed characters, and possibly autograph signings.
Be sure to stay tuned to Ninja Pizza for more Comic-Con details as the show draws near! And, if you can't make it to the Con, Ninja Pizza will have full coverage of everything TMNT throughout Comic-Con weekend, July 11-15.
Labels: greg cipes, jason biggs, nickelodeon, rob paulsen, sdcc, sean astin, television
Video Flashback: Operation Blue Line
After a rainy-day visit to Circuit City's store closing clearance sale, I now have the much-anticipated ability to capture video from my VHS collection onto my computer. With this useful new ability I am launching the Ninja Pizza YouTube Channel. The inaugural video for this new channel is called "Operation Blue Line" (and had I scanned the video cover earlier in the night than I did, it wouldn't have rabbit teeth marks in it).
"Operation Blue Line" is a promotional video that was produced to advertise a new light rail system that runs between Long Beach and Los Angeles. As incredibly cheesy as this 10-minute video is, it surprisingly holds some weight as all four Turtle voice actors from the original cartoon--Townsend Coleman, Barry Gordon, Rob Paulsen, and Cam Clarke--are featured in their respective roles.
So enjoy, and watch this space, 'cause there's lots more to come!
UPDATE! Edward Langer, who worked in the SCRTD marketing department and helped in the production of this video, has written in with some additional information.
I was the original project manager on this video. The SCRTD marketing dept. under Tony Fortuno and Alice Wiggins wanted to create a video to be distributed free through a local supermarket chain to all residents along the route. Additional copies were sent to large businesses, too. I assembled my team and we each contacted different companies to see if they would provide funding and some kind of theme or character for the video. One team member, Sherry, hit pay dirt at one of the local TV stations and got permission to use the Turtles. Since Sherry had made the contact, she took over the project. I was reassigned to the ride share program where I made use of the video to promote public transit. That is the USC Marching Band at the end of the video. The USC band has been most generous in allowing the SCRTD to use them in their promotion of public transit. Also, if you watch carefully, you will see Sherry in the film as a couple having a picnic.
We had borrowed the turtle costumes, but they had to have them back for a promotion. Sherry had picked them up and had to get them dry cleaned over a weekend. Not something easy to accomplish. I forget how she did it, but they were clean on Monday. All [of the] main actors were professionals: April, Gridlock, and the Turtles. Everyone else is an unpaid volunteer from the SCRTD. The little girl near the end of the film was some kind of spokesperson for the SCRTD, but I forget why. I think she was a model or actress who gave us support. I believe I had worked with her in a promotion in Long Beach, but that was a long time ago. As I was not the project manager of this program my name is way back in the credits. Basically, all employees of the marketing department are in the credits.
The story is kind of dumb, but it worked. Many of my ride share companies played it in their cafeterias to alert their employees. Ridership did take off.
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Labels: barry gordon, cam clarke, flashback, rob paulsen, townsend coleman, YouTube
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