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Former 'Amazing Race' contestant to run as Democrat for U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn's seat
Joey Garrison
Justin Kanew, a film writer and producer from Williamson County and past contestant on the television show "The Amazing Race," says he's running as a Democrat in 2018 for the seat held by U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee.
It's a long-shot bid in Tennessee's heavily Republican 7th Congressional District.
But Kanew said he feels driven to step up in the ongoing battle over health care to fight the alternative proposal pushed by President Donald Trump to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
"It's a cruel bill and we need as many people as possible in Congress that are are willing to fight against something like this," he said of Republicans' alternative health care plan. "This is exactly the kind of thing that shows there are people putting corporations and the wealthy ahead of the people of Tennessee."
Kanew, who says education, jobs and criminal justice are his other top priorities, is the first Democrat to formally announce a campaign in Tennessee's 7th District. He'll need to win the Democratic primary next August before he can challenge Blackburn in November 2018.
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Kanew, 38, has lived in Tennessee just one year. His family moved from Los Angeles to the College Grove area of Williamson County, an area he calls a "special place with special people."
Kanew, who hosts a politics podcast, currently works independently after writing and producing at the comedy entertainment production company National Lampoon's.
To some, Kanew is better known as a contestant in Seasons 15 and 18 of the TV show "The Amazing Race" — the reality CBS series in which two teams race against each other finding clues as they travel foreign countries.
Blackburn has never faced a serious threat from a Democrat during her eight previous races for the seat, winning all her 7th District races with at minimum two-thirds of the vote. She's expected to win next year as well.
"We're all better off when there's two sides of the coin," Kanew countered. "She's been meeting little resistance for the last 16 years. She's been an entrenched incumbent and there didn't seem to be anyone stepping up. I felt the call.
"In my eyes, this race isn't about left versus right, it's about right versus wrong," he said. "While I will have a 'D' next to my name, I hope in the end that people realize that 'D' stands for decency more than anything else."
Primaries for next year's congressional races are next August ahead of Election Day in November.
Reach Joey Garrison 615-259-8236, jgarrison@tennessean.com and on Twitter @joeygarrison.
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Sarah and Grammy Award winning composer winner Mike Reid are currently writing The Last Day, a new musical theatre piece. They wrote the music and lyrics and co-wrote the book with John Dias for The Ballad of Little Jo. A new production of the show, opened at Two River Theatre in June, 2017 and the cast recording was released by The Musical Company. The Ballad of Little Jo premiered at Steppenwolf as the company's first musical and was subsequently presented at the Bridewell Theatre in London. Sarah and Mike also wrote the book, music and lyrics for Casanova Returns which won the Global Search for new Musicals in Cardiff, Wales and has been optioned by Deepbridge Productions for a multi-city European tour. They wrote the score for A Wind In The Willows Christmas in collaboration with bookwriter Mindi Dickstein. Sarah and Mike also wrote the score for the chamber musical In This House, in collaboration with bookwriter Jonathan Bernstein. In This House premiered at Two River Theater Company in 2012. They have also written Different Fields, which was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Guild and Prairie Songs commissioned by the Amernet Quartet. Sarah was the lyricist librettist for Love Comics which premiered at the George Street Playhouse, produced by Daryl Roth, and Swing Shift at the Manhattan Theatre Club. She is writing lyrics for Blueberry Pie, a musical theatre piece about the National Guard in Iraq with book by Jonathan Bernstein. She is writing book and lyrics for a new musical based on Turgenev's Month In The Country with composer David Evans. She has been the recipient of the Kleban Award for Best Lyricist, The Richard Rodgers Award, a Gilman-Gonzalez Falla Theatre Foundation Award and Chicago's Jeff Award for best original musical. At NYU, Sarah has been the recipient of the David Payne Carter Award and the University Distinguished Teacher Award. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of Mercury Musicals in London.

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Rolling Stones' manager derides The Verve
Labels: bitter sweet symphony, miscellaneous, richard ashcroft news
Andrew Loog Oldham has derided The Verve over their use of a Rolling Stones sample in their 1997 classic "Bitter Sweet Symphony."
The former manager of The Rolling Stones joked to Uncut that he has bought "a pretty presentable watch strap" with the royalties that he has earned from the song.
"They [Mick Jagger and Keith Richards] have the watch and I have a pretty presentable watch strap. That's my little piece," he told Uncut.
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' uses an Andrew Oldham Orchestra recording (a small piece that is looped in the background continuously, not the iconic string riff the article suggests) of "The Last Time" for its orchestral hook, and was the subject of a legal challenge by The Rolling Stones shortly after its release.
Loog Oldham, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards have since received all of the royalty payments from the song, after it was successfully argued that although The Verve had negotiated to use a sample, they had used "too much."
"As for Richard Ashcroft, well, I don't know how an artist can be severely damaged by that experience. Songwriters have learned to call songs their children, and he thinks he wrote something. He didn't. I hope he's got over it. It takes a while," Loog Oldham added.
Source: New Musical Express
For a video explanation of the used sample, follow this link
For a detailed article on the controversy, follow this link


The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. To say that dying without reaching one's aim is to die a dog's death is the frivolous way of sophisticates. When pressed with the choice of life or death, it is not necessary to gain one's aim.
We all want to live. And in large part we make our logic according to what we like. But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice. This is a thin dangerous line. To die without gaming one's aim is a dog's death and fanaticism. But there is no shame in this.
This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai. If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.


MIX 1/2 cup of the mayo, 1 Tbsp. of the lime juice and salad dressing mix. Add crabmeat, 1/2 cup of the bread crumbs and onion.
SHAPE into 8 (1/2-inch-thick) patties; coat with remaining bread crumbs.
COOK patties in large nonstick skillet on medium heat 3 minutes on each side or until browned on both sides and thoroughly heated.
MEANWHILE, mix remaining mayo, lime juice, sour cream and lime peel in small bowl. Serve with crab cakes.


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CROWN Croatian World Network Newsletter, March 30th, 2007
By Nenad N. Bach | Published 03/30/2007 | Editorials | Unrated
C R O A T I A . O R G
CROWN Croatian World Network
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A lot of exciting and good news happened in the last two weeks. Website created and maintained by Joza Vrljicak, Studia Croatica, moved to a new address www.studiacroatica.org but that is not all. It didn't just move to another address, but it improved it's design. Congratulations Joza. A valuable work that you have done for years is flourishing at this moment for many people and for the next generations to study from. Check a great story on the front page of www.croatianhistory.net about The Lipik Orphanage and Colonel Mark Cook, a UK humanist. We do not have too much opportunity to put those last two words together, but when we do, we are more then pleased to do it. As a matter of fact, a war criminal is living in the UK right now and the government is being "English" to us. In Croatia we say "prave se englezi". At the same time, my best friends come from England and the story about Colonel Mark Cook speaks volumes about human generosity and kindness. Focusing on good people is CROWN's mantra. Al Gore collected over 500.000 signatures. Thank you for your support. If you didn't hear about Prof. Dr. Nikola Buble, now you have an opportunity to see why do people consider him to be one of the most knowledgeable musicologist. Check Canon National Parks Science Scholarship that will award eight scholarships of $80,000. Talking about fellowships and scholarships, you have one day left to apply for a fellowship at the Kennedy Center for Art Management. It is opened every year. Deadline is April 1st (Post stamped). Fellows receive an annual stipend of $20,000 (paid bi-weekly) to help defray housing and transportation costs. Course tuition, materials, and health insurance are provided at no cost to the Fellow. The U.S. Department of State will provide round-trip transportation from country of origin to Washington, D.C., for international Fellows only. This is a great opportunity to learn the business of art. Kennedy Center is the largest Cultural Center in the world. Klapa Sinj and myself performed there on Dec 4th 2005. I am getting this info because of that collaboration. So, take advantage of it. I was rushing this editorial just for this reason. Your response is otherwise excellent and you are talking these opportunities. That feeds my enthusiasm, which is very much needed to do what I do.
Soccer. Croatia beats Macedonia in Zagreb. Last minute goal. Finally we are giving goals in the last minutes rather then receiving them. This is a quantum leap for Croatian psyche. Slaven Bilic, regardless of the future result is a valuable team selector. Educated as a lawyer. You can imagine how good he has to be for someone to glorify a lawyer. Detroit Tamburitza Orchestra proudly presents their 49th Spring Concert Celebration on April 21st. Thanks to Marko Puljic we got this news. Marko is a great help in CROWN posting as you can see his name often under formatted and submitted by. Zoran Orlic Announcing the US Book Launch for The Frames: "Behind The Glass". On April 13th there will be book signing with the co-authors: Zoran Orlic and Janine Schaults in Chicago. Support this talented people by buying their book. Tomorrow at George Washington University be part of the Slavic Cultural Festival March 31, 2007. Thanks to Frank Mustac as well, be part of the event at the University of Connecticut and the lecture about Croatia: The Yugoslav Past and the European Future. This lecture by Ph.D. candidate Katharine Hawkins is a little bit concerning. Their premises are not what I know as facts and it would be nice if some delegation can go there and be sure that they are not distorting the history. It will happen on April 15th. Check the details. Too many examples in our short history, not to pay attention to these kind of "benign" lectures. Josip Novakovich will be participating in a memoir symposium at Trinity College this coming week; he'll talk about the change in perspective one has in relation to one's memories depending on the distance from one's homeland in time and space. Free entrance today and tomorrow. Read about Domagoj Ivanovic, violinist and violin teacher. His special interest is to teach the importance of proper posture and use of body mechanics in order to avoid tension and playing injuries. He developed his own website and got to my attention by prof. Kabalin. Unity through Knowledge Fund has recently launched its first program and announced the Calls for Proposals for financing joint research projects of Croatian expatriate scientists and experts with their Croatian colleagues. Zagreb the Continent's new star. And it truly is.
Croatia Edges Australia in Thriller. Beats Russia 13 to 3. Waterpolo World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.. Not just that, we are in finals by beating Serbia 10 to 7. Name association of Barbara Anderson maybe doesn't bring Croatia as your first guess, but she is of Croatian descent and talking about Immigration policies of this country. Send her a note. Award Winning Film Random Lunacy playing in New York on April 1st 2007. Also In Debt we Trust, the latest film from Danny Schechter, playing in New York April 4-5. My music is in both movies. Doesn't happen often that my music plays in two different movies at the same time in New York's movie theaters. Go me. Films are worth your attention. Vic Zimet and Stephanie Silber have proven their talents over and over again. This time Rolling Stones magazine and the famous Peter Travers recognized them as a specially talented duo, plus Best Documentary awards that they received few weeks ago. They know how to tell the story, without being in the way or preaching it to you. Film naturally unfolds, as life itself. Danny Schechter is a legend in his own category. He interviewed John Lennon and Nelson Mandela, to name the few. This film is about Credit Cards. Eye opener for many. One little detail about Danny is that he stood by Croatia since 1991, when we needed it the most. He is a true friend, knowledgeable scholar and humanist. I am more than honored to be associated with these talented filmmakers.
The medal designer creates this system gradually as a symbolic sublimation of history. Damir Matausic, sculptor and medal designer proves that. I am very impressed with Mr. Matausic's work and his website. He also designed a coin that Ireland and Croatia share. More about this unique coin, soon on CROWN. Memory Institutions in the Digital Age: Current Models of Collaboration in Croatia. Thanks to Marta Mestrovic Deyrup who organized this symposium, Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic presented a Croatian story. Very informative and hopeful. Croatian constituency on this March 15, 2007 event: Maja Basioli, Nenad Bach, Marta Mestrovic Deyrup, Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic, Tatjana Lorkovic. At the symposium there was a very interesting presentation by Jared Ingersoll (Columbia University). We were welcome by Marta Mestrovic Deyrup and Howard McGinn, Dean, University Libraries, Robert Sheeran, President, Seton Hall University, John Menzies, Dean, Whitehead School of Diplomacy (present at Dayton Accord), Natalia Levadnaya, Division Head, Federal Agency for Science and Innovations and Gennady Burbulis, Senator, Russian Parliament. One interesting questions that Ms. Mestrovic Deyrup raised is whether Libraries should publish magazines since they are at the well of knowledge. I didn't hear the response that satisfied me, but the question is very legitimate and though provoking.
And the last but not the least, few words form NFCA president Ed Andrus.
The NFCA will hold its Annual Assembly of Delegates this year in Philadelphia, PA, from June1-3, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in the historic district of the "City of Brotherly Love". While Croatia is dealing with its own challenges as a relatively new democracy, the birthplace of the United States is a perfect place to meet with its images and memorials to our own struggles in dealing with our newly-won freedoms. The NFCA will be looking back on the past with some excellent speakers who were there, dealing with the present in their activities to strengthen the United States relationship with Croatia, and focusing on a future which can be beneficial to all Croatians with peace and prosperity. The NFCA will pay special tribute to Admiral J. Robert Lunney for his long and arduous search for the Croatian family of Peter Tomich so that his Medal of Honor from WWII could be presented to them. Reservations can be made on-line at a special website the Sheraton has established for the NFCA www.StarwoodMeeting.com/Book/NFCA2007 at the NFCA rate of $169 per night but is only guaranteed until May 2. Many will be visiting Philadelphia in the Springtime so get your reservation made now. It promises to be a historic event.
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to see the first CT40 chart for the week January,21 1989.
Kind of odd that the LAST AT40 show Casey did in 1988 had Debbie Gibson at #40 (Foolish Beat). Then his FIRST CT40 show in 1989, Debbie Gibson led off at #40 again (Lost In Your Eyes).
Did not both Foolish Beat and Lost In Your Eyes hit number one?
That's right, and those were Debbie's only two number one singles. It seems fit that "Foolish Beat" was at number 40 on its way down, since it was ending its Top 40 chart run as Casey was ending his run with AT40. Then, "Lost In Your Eyes" was debuting on the charts the same week that Casey's new show was debuting on the air. It would have been even odder if these songs were back to back singles, but (unfortunately), there was a song that charted in between the two, albeit a very weak one ("Staying Together", which peaked at 22 - if you ever heard it, you should know why it didn't get any higher). But at least the two other Debbie Gibson songs mentioned were back to back as far as Top Ten hits go.


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London Risks Losing Its Mantle As A World Leading Financial Centre
December 9, 2011• United Kingdom• by QFinance
UK's Alarming Apathy Towards Its Banking Sector's Criminality
According to the Hansard transcript this is what followed:
Martin Wheatley: I think we have to be very careful about what we consider to be criminal actions. The challenge that we all have is we want good people in those roles, and so we want good people to take on the roles of directors, to take on the role of chief executives.
Jesse Norman: You are not suggesting that Messrs Goodwin, Stevenson, Crosby, and so on, were successful exemplars of good management in banking?
Martin Wheatley: I think we have to have the appropriate level of penalties for the appropriate level of offences. I think that is something we just have to think very carefully about.
Jesse Norman: But would you, in principle, support the idea of making certain actions into criminal offences in this area?
Martin Wheatley: When you say "in this area", the principle of making certain actions criminal offences, yes. I think we need to be very specific.
Jesse Norman: In the area of management of financial institutions?
Martin Wheatley: Reckless or willfully misleading, possibly. Genuine business mistakes – people make genuine business mistakes.
Jesse Norman: No, certainly not for that. For reckless mismanagement, that kind of category.
Martin Wheatley: Again, and maybe I could ask Margaret to comment as she has more experience of this, I think we just have to be quite cautious about where we push the criminal sanctions into.
Margaret Cole: Clearly where there is fraud, that is a clear issue. We also have a criminal offence of misstatements to the market, and that is already there. I think I would be extremely wary of introducing a criminal offence in connection with management or mismanagement of a financial institution. [She then talked about lifetime bans for 'incompetence' etc]
Jesse Norman: Your view is a significant toughening up but not extra criminalization?
Margaret Cole: That is my view, yes.
Hector Sants: [Said he endorsed tightening up of legislation around lifetime bans]
Lord Turner: I did want to add one point. The criminalization route...does not address the core of the problem...People make business misjudgments in balancing risk and return, but that in banks, we want them to make a different balance of risk and return from other sectors of the economy...the difficulty we have in banking is that, when you take some of those risk/return trade-offs...there [might be] a disaster for the economy as well...
We are more likely to make progress by thinking about whether we should simply face people who are the directors of banks...with a sense of automatic non-criminal sanction ..."You cannot have future employment in the financial services industry unless you positively prove to the regulator that you were the person who was putting up the red flags and trying to warn against the concerns."
So it seems the FSA's thinking runs as follows.
"Since 'white collar' crime is so hard and so expensive to prosecute (and risks showing up our earlier failures), there is little point in us even trying. We would obtain better results by simply vetting candidates for senior banking and City of London roles more thoroughly, and then offering the sanction of banning them from ever working in finance again if they "mismanage" their institutions."
I'm afraid, however, that this is the wrong approach. Unless the crimes and misdemeanors that caused the UK's banking and financial crisis are rooted out and prosecuted, London risks losing its mantle as a world leading financial centre even more rapidly than now. This would represent a massive risk to the UK economy, as more financial business would seek to ebb away to properly regulated jurisdictions including Singapore.
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In conclusion, I would like to quote Hector Sants's answer to a question from George Mudie MP, concerning whether the FSA has any idea of what's really going on inside Britain's leading banks, let alone inside the "shadow banking system." Sants replied:
"The short answer to your question is yes [we do now have full transparency from British banks, unlike in 2007-08], but nevertheless I should draw to the committee's attention a couple of points. First of all, of course, it is possible for fraud –rogue trading – to occur within an institution, which will mean that its position turns out to be different to that which the institution has reported to us. But I believe we have full transparency of those positions. We also have the capability, which we did not have pre-2007, to make our own judgments on the quality of those positions, in the sense that we have hired 200 or so risk specialists. The FSA, as you know, had no risk specialist capability pre 2007; it was not set up to do that. And we now employ multiples of individuals on supervising individual banks compared with that period. So we do have full visibility."
Related: New UK Bank Rules: US Looks Even More Pathetic
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Related: Bank Bonuses: UK Leads Regulatory Charge, Bankers Meow in AgreementThat's quite a brave claim for Hector Sants to make. And possibly one that will come back to haunt him.
By Ian Fraser
Ian Fraser, a journalist since 1988, is working on programmes about the banking and financial crisis for the BBC. He writes about business and finance for the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent on Sunday, the Daily Mail, and the Mail on Sunday. Since 2009, Fraser has been a visiting lecturer in financial journalism at the University of Stirling.
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Professor at Columbia University. Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 & the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. Author of "Freefall: America, Free Markets", "The Sinking of the World Economy", "Globalisation and its Discontents" & "Making Globalisation Work".
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US Report: Russia Mixed on Combating Human Trafficking
The US State Department has released its Trafficking in Persons Report 2007 which details the global slave trade in mostly women and children for labor and sex. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slave trade (but not legalized slavery) and this ghastly system continues. The report seeks to "to raise global awareness, to highlight efforts of the international community, and to encourage foreign governments to take effective actions to counter all forms of trafficking in persons." Getting governments to take serious interest in stopping the trafficking of human beings is a tall order. Few nations where the practice persists are interested in devoting the resources necessary to protect the globes most vulnerable victims.
The Report defines human trafficking as:
Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age; or
The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
The scope of global human trafficking can only be estimated. According to US government research, about 800,000 people are trafficked across borders (internal trafficking is not calculated) and about 80 percent of trafficked persons are women and girls and around 50 percent are minors.
The Report categorizes countries into tiers according to their compliance with the minimum standards for combating human trafficking. Teir 1 are those who fully comply, Teir 2 are those countries making significant efforts to comply, and Tier 3 are those who don't really try to comply at all. In addition there is a "Tier 2 Watch List" which includes countries that verge on slipping down to Tier 3.
The Report places Russia on the Tier 2 Watch List. The reasoning is as follows:
The Government of Russia does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. Russia is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for a fourth consecutive year for its continued failure to show evidence of increasing its overall efforts to combat trafficking, particularly in providing trafficking victims with protection. Specific trafficking victim assistance legislation, pending before the Duma, was neither passed nor enacted in 2006. Russia continued modest progress in its law enforcement efforts, particularly in its trafficking investigation efforts. In early 2007, the Ministry of Interior created the federal-level Counter Human Trafficking Unit to further strengthen anti-trafficking law enforcement coordination. In July 2006, the Duma passed asset forfeiture legislation that permits prosecutors to seek the forfeiture of the assets of convicted persons, including traffickers. In January, the Public Chamber of the national government provided grants to three anti-trafficking NGOs. Two local governments signed agreements with NGOs that establish a mechanism for victim referral. Although these are positive developments, Russia has yet to provide comprehensive human trafficking victim protections, covering the entire process from victim identification through reintegration and support. Overall, victim protection and assistance remains the weakest component of Russia's anti-trafficking efforts.
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How do we speak about the issues we deal with?
Often the debate is led by those pushing for change. In the development of drug policy, it's often those pushing for legalisation who set the tone and the 'narrative'. They talk of compassion and so on, but what are the real issues?
In this excellent Opinion article, Shane Varcoe of the Dalgarno Institute, argues for 'changing the narrative'.
He concludes, "Let us be very clear, we are not conducting a 'war against drugs'. We are however fighting for the brains, potentials, and in many instances, the very future of an entire emerging generation. That for any caring civic minded human being is a fight worth having, and one worth joining!"
Opinion piece on current drug policy narratives and how they are used to interpret drug policy frameworks.
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D light Design, an Indian social enterprise that brings innovative solar lanterns to many people across India and other developing countries, has won the top Gold Award at the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2010. The prize, worth 40,000 pounds, was announced on Thursday night by noted environmentalist and broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough.
D light Design was chosen for designing, manufacturing and marketing high quality, durable and affordable solar lanterns.
The judges were particularly impressed with their highly effective marketing strategy which has put solar lighting within reach of over a million people in 32 countries with significant potential for further expansion.
Five other international winners were also chosen for their pioneering work in benefiting communities across the globe and saving thousands of tonnes of CO2 through the innovative use of sustainable energy technologies.


Edmund was born in of St George,Bristol,Gloucestershire,England. Edmund's father was Francis Stradling. His paternal grandparents were Henry (Harry) Stradling and Jane Jubb. He had four brothers and two sisters, named John, Henry (Harry), Percival, Thomas, Grace and Joan. Edmund is no longer alive.
They had a daughter named Dorothy.
Dorothy was born in of St George,Bristol,Gloucestershire,England.


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St. Homobonus – The Catholic Patron Saint of Businessmen
Who is St. Homobonus?
Symbolism of St. Homobonus
St. Homobonus is a special kind of saint. He's a saint that didn't work to divorce himself from material things and riches but who used his successful business to help the people of his town. A pious Christian, Homobonus went to church frequently and was a beloved missionary. He became renowned as someone who easily balanced his business life and acumen with his godliness and devotion.
St. Homobonus' name may seem weird to English speakers today, but it quite simply translates as good man into Latin (homo – human, bonus/bono – good). He was born Omobono Tucenghi sometime in the 12th century in Cremona, Italy.
He had an easy early life as he came from a well-to-do family. His father was a successful tailor and a merchant. Continuing and expanding his father's enterprise later in life, the good saint also turned it into a vehicle to help the people of Cremona.
St. Homobonus' Inspiring Life
Having been raised in a wealthy home, St. Homobonus didn't let this upbringing separate him from his fellow Cremonians. On the contrary, he formed the belief that God must have given him this life as a means of helping others.
The good saint focused on his duties in the church and became a beloved missionary. He was beloved for his witness of service to others, and he gave a major part of the regular profits of his business to the poor and the church.
He was praised by many of his contemporaries, which isn't common for a lot of saints. In Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints it's said that he viewed his business as "an employment by God" and that he had "perfect motives of virtue and religion".
St. Homobonus' Business Ventures
St. Homobonus didn't just use his father's business to give money to the poor – he also developed and expanded the said business. We can't know for certain the exact parameters of the development of his business, but all available Catholic sources maintain that he grew his father's trading company to work with and in other cities and brought more riches to Cremona than before. He also became an important and revered elder in the city, often solving disputes between people in and out of the church.
St. Homobonus' Death and Canonization
The good saint is said to have died while attending mass on November 13, 1197. His exact age at that time isn't certain as we don't know his birth date.
However, we do know that he died of old age while looking at the crucifix. His fellow worshippers and countrymen, having seen the manner of his death as well as his pious life, pushed for his canonization. Despite being a layman, he was canonized a little over a year later – on January 12, 1199.
The symbolism of St. Homobonus is one that many claim to aspire to, but few actually achieve. The Italian saint led his life exactly as you'd expect a good businessman to – by creating a successful business venture and using it to serve the people around him. He represents piety, service, peace, and the art of giving.
The only layman to be canonized during the Middle Ages, he is now the patron saint of not just businesspeople but tailors, clothworkers, and shoemakers. The good saint is still around, celebrated by Catholics worldwide on November 13. Unlike most other Catholic saints, St. Homobonus is a relevant figure in today's corporate culture because of his association with business and wealth.
St. Homobonus' lived a life that is inspiring in its simplicity. Born and canonized post-mortem in 12th century Cremona, Italy, St. Homobonus was a successful businessman who did everything he could for his community.
A devout Christian, he died at church with his eyes firmly fixed on the crucifix, inspiring his fellow Cremonians to push for his canonization. He is still revered to this day as a shining example of what a good businessman and Christian should strive to be.
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Q: Convert Uint8Array into hex string equivalent in node.js I am using node.js v4.5. Suppose I have this Uint8Array variable.
var uint8 = new Uint8Array(4);
uint8[0] = 0x1f;
uint8[1] = 0x2f;
uint8[2] = 0x3f;
uint8[3] = 0x4f;

This array can be of any length but let's assume the length is 4.
I would like to have a function that that converts uint8 into the hex string equivalent.
var hex_string = convertUint8_to_hexStr(uint8);
//hex_string becomes "1f2f3f4f"

A: You can use Buffer.from() and subsequently use toString('hex'):
let hex = Buffer.from(uint8).toString('hex');

A: Buffer.from has multiple overrides.
If it is called with your uint8 directly, it unnecessarily copies its content because it selects Buffer.from( <Buffer|Uint8Array> ) version.
You should call Buffer.from( arrayBuffer[, byteOffset[, length]] ) version which does not copy and just creates a view of the buffer.
let hex = Buffer.from(uint8.buffer,uint8.byteOffset,uint8.byteLength).toString('hex');

A: Another solution:
Base function to convert int8 to hex:
// padd with leading 0 if <16
function i2hex(i) {
  return ('0' + i.toString(16)).slice(-2);
}

reduce:
uint8.reduce(function(memo, i) {return memo + i2hex(i)}, '');

Or map and join:
Array.from(uint8).map(i2hex).join('');

A: Buffer is nodeJS specific.
This is a version that works everywhere:
const uint8 = new Uint8Array(4);
uint8[0] = 0x1f;
uint8[1] = 0x2f;
uint8[2] = 0x3f;
uint8[3] = 0x4f;

function convertUint8_to_hexStr(uint8) {
  Array.from(uint8)
    .map((i) => i.toString(16).padStart(2, '0'))
    .join('');
}

convertUint8_to_hexStr(uint8);

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The WordPress Photo Challenge Theme for this week is "Close," and these two images illustrate two totally-different interpretations of the word, 'close.' Tomorrow with camera in hand, I will enjoy searching for photo opportunities that illustrate this theme!
Now the picture on the birthday is beautiful and romantic… But the leaping monkey is amazing…. 🙂 Love them both.
Nice shot of the monkeys. 🙂 I'll be passing through there next spring.
Great images – they're so different, it's hard to pick a favorite!


It was incredible. As I sat in my stand high on a ridge about a half-hour before dark, I glassed deer after deer pouring out into the southeast corner of an alfalfa field below.
Despite the date being Oct. 15, bucks were chasing does and carrying on like it was early November. Amazingly, three of these bucks were shooters.
The two biggest of the group -- one in the 160s and another pushing B&C -- got down and dirty in the mud. Their fight rivaled any I'd ever seen during the peak of the rut.
I had to act. The next day, after showering and engaging in the same tedious scent-eliminating rituals I would employ for any real afternoon hunt, I grabbed a stand and slipped back to the field.
Rarely will I hunt field edges this early in the season, but the previous day's observations made it clear that the remote corner was the place to be. Sitting on the ridge the day before, I'd passed up only one small buck. But I knew the field corner would put me in that great position of having to choose which of the three shooters to arrow. It was definitely the place to be!
After carefully getting the stand in place, I slipped back out using the same route I'd taken coming in. Things couldn't have been better. The observations made during the previous day's hunt had removed any need to scout, and I was able to minimize disturbances by going directly to the location.
What's more, I'd employed my odor-reducing strategies, and virtually no trimming had to be done around my stand site. After factoring in the abundance of buck sign littering the area, I knew I had a winner.
All that was left now was to do everything right and make the shot when the time came. To be safe, I decided to give the area three days' rest just in case the deer happened to pick up a hint of human scent in the field or around my tree. I reasoned that as long as I gave any lingering scent a chance to disperse naturally before my return, the deer wouldn't associate it with hunting. I was determined not to mess this up.
Six days after first seeing the action in the field, I headed back in. As you can imagine, I was pumped. That feeling intensified further after seeing even more fresh buck sign than I had when I hung my stand. Climbing up my tree, I couldn't help but believe that this was going to be an awesome sit. I was far from disappointed.
The deer started piling out at least 2 1/2 hours before dark. It wasn't long before I had 21 deer in the field in front of me, including the three shooters I'd seen previously. In addition, a newcomer showed up, a buck that would score somewhere in the 150s! I decided not to get greedy and take the first shot that one of the four bucks might offer.
Although I came to full draw twice, the commotion of chasing does, sparring, two all-out brawls and a sea of bodies blocking vitals resulted in letting down both times.
Nearly an hour after pitch dark, the deer finally dispersed enough for me to sneak out safely. Despite not getting a shot, I knew that my entire "safety first" approach had been the correct route. It took all of my willpower to give that stand another break, but I knew it would be well worth not messing up this "once in a lifetime" situation. I rationalized that I could trim my normal stand rotation from four days to three, since none of the deer had shown any sign of knowing I was there. Besides, I was going nuts to get back there.
To make a long and painful story shorter, my second sit, 10 full days after my original observations, was bitterly disappointing. I saw nothing more than a couple of does and young bucks. Obviously, it was merely an off night. I had seen several shooter bucks, and there was simply too much sign in the area to make me think otherwise. On the bright side, because I knew I hadn't tipped off any deer, I rationalized that I only had to give the area two days' rest before returning.
My fourth sit was also bitterly disappointing. The same proved true for my fifth and sixth, and every other trip to that stand. And even though I knew that the lack of fresh buck sign meant it was time to move on, that one magical afternoon kept bringing me back well after all hope was gone.
As I look back on that lost season that I experienced so many years ago, the obvious question that comes to mind is: What did I do wrong? For years after that, I stood firmly by the belief that a cruel twist of fate prevented me from tagging one of those great bucks. Knowing what I know today, however, I now believe that the blame lies elsewhere.
For as long as I can remember, the "experts" have drilled one thing into my thick head: Don't over-hunt your stands! Aside from staying upwind of deer, I can't think of another golden rule that has been more loudly proclaimed.
However, as the years passed and as more and more experiences similar to this one took place, I've become thoroughly convinced that there are many situations where giving stands a break is a horrible mistake. For what it's worth, I don't hunt the wind like most "experts" do either, but that's another story.
Before you stop reading in disgust, please indulge me by hearing my case. The first factor to consider is that both the deer and the habitat they live in go through some dynamic changes over the course of the fall. Prime food sources are appearing and disappearing, leaf drop occurs, weather changes, bachelor groups disband, and does begin to come into estrus. Those are just some of the highlights. So it stands to reason that deer patterns, particularly those of mature bucks, can change significantly over a bow season.
Due to one or more of these changes that are constantly taking place, I believe that mature bucks often experience numerous shifts in patterns over the course of a season. For argument's sake, let's say that we spot a bruiser buck feeding in a soybean field in late August and we see him on a regular basis through mid-September.
"For as long as I can remember, the "experts" have drilled one thing into my thick head: Don't over-hunt your stands! Aside from staying upwind of deer, I can't think of another golden rule that has been more loudly proclaimed."
However, as the plants begin to turn brown and die, he shifts most of his feeding to a nearby alfalfa field. Not long after this, a couple of old apple trees start dropping their fruit. And even before all the apples are cleaned up, the oak ridge begins raining acorns.
Let's say that in mid-October a couple of mature does enter estrus early and a brief flurry of rutting activity takes place. After that, our bruiser returns to the oak ridge, but by now he is also entering the peak scrape phase and all the extracurricular activities that this entails. I could carry this fictitious example out further, but I suspect you get the point.
In this oversimplified yet not so uncommon scenario, our buck's patterns are changing almost every week. Tom Indrebo, a good friend and the owner of Bluff Country Outfitters in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, agrees. "I see it every year," Tom told me. "During one stretch, the deer are just pounding the apples, and then it's like a mass switch to some other crop. Without warning, they're back on the apples. During early and late season, it's very common for them to act like a school of fish -- here today, there tomorrow and back here again a couple of weeks later."
As the more formidable years of my bowhunting career began passing by, I began believing that, outside of the peak breeding phase, hunting pressure was the primary factor in altering a buck's patterns. Though I still believe that significant hunting pressure can and will limit daylight activities and patterns, I now feel strongly that many times travel patterns change because of changing food sources and rutting opportunities.
If this is true, one must then ask if it is the exception or the rule. I believe it depends largely on the habitat. If the habitat consists of several small blocks of cover and endless miles of open crop ground, chances are good that our bruiser buck will stick fairly close to his core bedding area outside the rut. After all, he doesn't have many other bedding options.
Of course, the quality, supply and diversity of food source options also must be factored in. For the past few years I've been lucky enough to hunt on lands controlled by Northern Wilderness Outfitters in north-central Alberta. I love hunting there because I can show up, spend a day scouting and promptly look like a genius of a whitetail hunter. Why? As much as I'd like to claim it's all due to skill, it's really due to the habitat -- endless miles of woods and few fields.
After several good frosts kill much of the natural greenery, the deer can either eat woody browse or hammer those few fields. Sure, their bedding options are endless, but they have relatively few feeding options. Because of that, their patterns tend to remain relatively stable.
What about habitat that consists of a closer split between food and protective cover? In my opinion, these types of settings are the ones where buck patterns tend to be the most fluid. Furthermore, they make up most of the whitetail's range. But there are exceptions even in this situation. Take for example the diverse habitats of Buffalo County, Wisconsin; west-central Illinois; eastern Iowa; northern Missouri; and countless other locations.
The food-to-cover ratio in many of these areas is closely balanced. However, throw some harsh winter weather and a standing corn or bean field into the mix, and Mr. Big can become as predictable as the morning sunrise. In this case, the snow cover and weather limit prime feeding options. And whenever food or cover is severely limited, patterns can remain relatively constant. The same can even be applied to a lone water source during very dry periods.
For those of us who hunt these diverse habitats, I believe we are best served to follow the old adage of striking when the iron is hot. With so many factors pulling bucks in different directions and changing their patterns, it now makes sense to me to hunt where the bucks currently are as much as one is able to do safely.
"Safely" is the key word in that sentence. Another key involves the quality of other options available. Today, the amount of time I spend hunting a particular stand depends largely on how good my other options are and how risky the stand site is to hunt. When I have two stands that are hot with buck action, I'll try to split my time evenly between the two if possible. I will continue doing this until a stand goes cold or action begins heating up somewhere else. If the first two remain hot and a third stand looks promising, I'll divide my time between all three. In that same situation, if one stand has a significantly lower impact access route, I'll hunt that stand twice for every time I hunt the others.
In case I haven't already made this point extremely clear, when a stand is hot it should be hunted as swiftly and as often as is reasonable to do so. If you wait or space your hunts too far apart, the number of high quality encounters the stand can produce is often lowered dramatically.
When it comes to being cautious, I always try to go the extra mile to be sure that my activities don't tip off the bucks being hunted. If you recall, I took the same odor-fighting precautions when going in to hang my stand as I always do for any hunt. Furthermore, because of my observations, I was able to go directly to the tree, hang my stand and head straight out without doing any unnecessary scouting. As tempting as it was to nose around and see all the buck sign in the area, I knew where the stand should be. I also knew that any further investigation might pollute the area.
In addition, I hung the stand during the late morning hours, giving time for calm to return to the area before the deer would return for their afternoon feeding. And even though I didn't have to do any trimming in that situation, if I had I would have used a pruner instead of a saw. Deer may not be afraid of sawdust odors, but they are curious, and I don't want those odors to draw them in to an area I've disturbed. And last but not least, knowing what I know now, I would have worn Elimitrax over my boots in that situation (had the product been available back then), to further ensure that no human odor was left lingering on the ground.
Over the years, I've determined that hunting a "great" stand that has horrible access is a futile act. A hunter simply must be able to get to and from his stand without spooking deer. This often means being willing to stay in a stand until the deer move off well after dark, no matter how late that may be. This is especially true when hunting field edges.
If the deer do detect my presence, I'll give the area a day or two off and then I'll be right back in the saddle. There are two exceptions to this. First, if I'm busted in the stand by a mature buck or doe, I'll move that stand the next time in. I'll usually put it just far enough away so that the deer aren't staring up at my new tree.
The other exception occurs during the rut. Specifically, it involves hunting a funnel that is being used predominately by roaming bucks. Because this situation is usually vastly superior to my other options, I'll sit the very same stand every day until the rut is over or until I tag out, regardless of what I may spook.
I've found that many of these funnels are "buck only" funnels that separate doe groups or are used by bucks when they're transitioning between two areas of protective cover. However, when you're hunting funnels that are also used heavily by does, educating the does can be every bit as dangerous as educating Mr. Big.
In fairness, I must point out that hammering hot stands also requires taking odor control to the highest level. You simply can't depend on trying to hunt a certain stand when the wind is always favorable. And if you try to hunt it when the wind is not right without going to the extreme with odor control, you'll simply burn it out very quickly in the game!


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Episode 58: Dead Man's Holiday
With the death of Bill Malloy now an official fact, on this day in the town of Collinsport measures are being taken to observe his passing. The family-owned business for which Malloy devoted the greater share of his livelihood, first on the fishing boats and then as plant manager, has shuttered its operations for the remainder of the day. It was Roger Collins who made the suggestion to Elizabeth, but of course Roger would do anything to get out of work, if only for an afternoon.
It's a dead man's holiday, but the day really belongs to the sheriff of Collinsport. Dana Elcar appears on every set in use during today's episode, and each appearance made by Sheriff Patterson will have a decisive effect on the actions of whomever he interacts with.
The opening narration by Victoria Winters tells of how "the long shadows of fear do reach out, touching others, darkening their hearts with growing tension." Sam Evans for one, and Roger Collins for another, each have reason to be tense and fearful, especially with the sheriff making his rounds with hard questions that demand frank answers.
Still, there are others whose hopes and dreams cannot be shattered by the grim fact of Malloy's demise. Joe Haskell has stopped in at the Blue Whale and is flagged down by Sam who gets Joe to join him at his table for a beer. Then when the sheriff happens in and joins them, he convinces Joe to take advantage of this nice afternoon off and go with Carolyn out for a drive in the country. Joe's dream is of course to marry Carolyn, and a few hours just getting away from it all might find them talking of plans for the future.
Then there's young David Collins, who in a morbid twist finds renewed hope through Mr. Malloy's death. With the aid of a book devoted to local tide charts and currents, David will do his best to see if he can determine where exactly Mr. Malloy fell in the water. David believes that Mr. Malloy was murdered by his father, because his crystal ball told him so, and because having his father sent to prison would mean becoming free of the pervasive threat of being sent away himself. As David admits in this episode, he likes it there at Collinwood, with all his ghost friends, one of whom may even be Mr. Malloy.
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Episode 57: The Ripple Effect
As the news of Bill Malloy's death ripples across Collinsport, it seems a cruel hand of fate that Burke Devlin is the last to find out, the one who had been counting on him the most and therefore whose lingering hope had held out the longest.
Different people have been affected by Malloy's death in different ways, and this week of episodes presents a series of character defining moments for those most centrally involved. For Elizabeth Stoddard, after the initial shock of caretaker Matthew Morgan's questionable deed in trying to cover up that Malloy's body had washed ashore near Collinwood by pushing the body back out to sea, there is in keeping with a matriarch of her stature the necessity of maintaining the dignity of not only herself, but also of Collinwood by seeing to it that all members of the household are allowed to function normally while still maintaining a certain tone of mourning, especially with Carolyn having felt the loss more profoundly than most in having lost a key paternal figure which she has previously cited as the closest thing she has ever known to a real father.
Burke Devlin's reaction is the most curious, in the way that he seems to view Malloy's death as a fundamental flaw in human nature, as if fate had intervened specifically to prevent him from clearing his name. Unlike those who mourn the passing of Bill Malloy for the life he lived, Burke takes this grim occasion to eulogize on the death of honesty, in mourning for himself.
It's a soap opera after all, a show about people and the troubled unsatisfied lives they lead, and no one is perfect, not even the man who seemingly has everything in the palm of his hand.
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Episode 56: More Problems Dead Than Alive
One thing is now clear about the disappearance and death of Bill Malloy: Sam Evans couldn't have been responsible. This doesn't necessarily mean that other folks around Collinsport wouldn't look upon him with suspicion, like the sheriff, were it determined that Malloy had indeed met his end as a result of foul play. In a poetic twist, he could even be framed, tried, and convicted just as Burke Devlin had been for manslaughter ten years before. Even worse, what happened to Bill could just as easily happen to him.
Sam Evans thus has reason to be running scared. If Malloy had made it to the meeting that night, Sam would be faced with charges for withholding evidence relating to the Devlin trial along with the possibility of prison time. Now with Malloy dead and the question of murder and motive not outside the realm of possibility, the penalty looming ahead could mean a life sentence.
Based on Sam's words and actions in the previous episode and this one however, it seems the grim balance of fate is weighing most heavily on his mind today. In a drunk and desperate moment, he's already admitted to Bill what he knows about Roger Collins, and now Malloy has turned up dead.
Whatever the outcome, for Sam Evans especially Bill Malloy represents more problems dead than alive.
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Episode 55: Two Shades of Guilty
Roger Collins is living on lies. To everyone he knows, he must remain a stranger. Yet with every passing day his veneer is being chipped away little by little, largely through the perceptive and watchful gaze of his sister Elizabeth, who but for the good of David would have little if any use for the thoughtless extravagance of her brother's ways. If you think about it, since his return to the ancestral mansion around a month ago, Roger has brought nothing but trouble not only for the family name, but also to those even loosely associated with Collinwood and all it represents.
If only Roger had stayed away in Augusta, Burke Devlin would never have returned to Collinsport to set in motion a plot to ruin the Collins family, given how despite that he blames Collins money and prestige for railroading him into prison, his principal nemesis had been mainly Roger, with his testimony on the witness stand having sealed Devlin's fate.
So Roger schemed his way back into Collinwood, using as his bargaining chip the welfare of David's future: "Roger made an unexpected visit to his sister at Collins House, pleaded the cause of his son….the 'poor nine-year old child, with no mother to care for him'. He appealed to Elizabeth's family pride, skillfully reminded her that David was the heir to the Collins name, faithfully promised a renewal of responsibility and sobriety" (Shadows on the Wall, pp. 25-26).
Yet since Roger's return there has been nothing but trouble. Burke Devlin is back in town, leaving Elizabeth Stoddard apprehensive over the future of the Collins family business holdings and even of Collinwood itself. Her plant manager Bill Malloy is dead, after having vowed to stop Burke from carrying out his vendetta against the Collins family. Even Carolyn is affected, what with the worldly sophistication of Burke's attention setting up a speed bump in her relationship with Joe Haskell, which at any time could sprout up into a full roadblock. All because Roger couldn't accept the permanence, not to mention the more modest living arrangement, of his paid exile away from Collinwood and Collinsport in general.
People elsewhere in Collinsport are affected, even those with no apparent relationship with the Collins family, like Sam Evans. Although Sam's involvement in the events of ten years earlier that sent Burke Devlin to prison on a manslaughter charge and conviction hasn't yet been made explicitly clear, he shares the guilt that Roger holds but suffers greatly as a result whether or not the threat of exposure is looming close by. Sam represents a different shade of guilty largely because his character is more complex; for one thing, unlike Roger, he has a conscience, while Roger on the other hand, after nearly five dozen episodes of daily half-hour soap opera, has yet to display in his character so much as a single redeeming human quality.
So what do you do with this walking collection of red check marks down a list of boxes outlining the more questionable traits of human nature? If you're the creator of the character, like Art Wallace who authored the above-mentioned series bible that serves as the show's guiding outline of probable events, or the executive producer Dan Curtis, who is struggling to pull the sagging ratings back up to a level that would safeguard the show from an almost certain cancellation later that year, you simply provide your viewing audience with a much needed wave of satisfaction by having the character killed off.
That's what the original plan called for; with Roger burdened by his desperate need to suppress the truth of his guilt in sending Burke Devlin away to prison, he will begin to suspect that Collinwood's recently installed governess is conspiring against him when she is invited over to dinner at the Evans cottage, suspicious of what she may have been told about the events of ten years ago especially with the way Sam's penchant for excessive drinking tends to loosen his tongue. Roger will then lure Vicki out to Widow's Hill and standing by the edge he will in a fevered moment of rage grab hold of her, reminding her of the legend of Collinwood, how two young women of Collins House had hurled themselves over the edge and that at some future time there would be a third, and Vicki unnerved by the crazed look in Roger's eyes begins to struggle against his grip; but David having followed them out to the cliff rushes forward and cries out, and Roger in that split second of surprise loses his footing and goes over the edge himself… and who among the viewing audience that afternoon in the summer or fall of sixty-six would have missed him?
Somewhere, in an alternate universe perhaps accessible through some warp of parallel time as yet undiscovered in one of Collinwood's closed off wings, there was an end to Roger Collins after however many weeks of the series; in the series bible it happens the day Vicki takes David over to the Evans cottage so he can meet Sam the artist, so roughly early on in the phoenix story. In that parallel present time, Louis Edmonds decides once again to give up on acting, just as he had earlier that year when a steady stream of acting roles in the theater had at last dried up; his swan song as an actor would have been a bit part in a movie that filmed just before he started working on Dark Shadows called Come Spy with Me, a typical spy drama of the time released the following January that met with critical hostility and tepid box office attendance. Instead, he would have simply retired to his Long Island residence known as the Rookery, resigned to the humble but satisfying life of being a regular in the local shops and singing in the choir every Sunday, and some other actor would have landed the part of Langley Wallingford on All My Children in 1979.
To think what might have been were the makers of Dark Shadows not the type of people who could appreciate the talent of actors who would distinguish themselves in their roles so much so that they would actually be willing to dispense with a key moment in a given story outline. But that turning point is still weeks ahead; for now, Roger the rogue is doing what he can between brandies to keep the truth of his deeds both past and present from spilling into view and exposing him for all to see.
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Episode 54: They Float Bodies, Don't They?
"Good eve – uh, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen… No, that isn't it either. Good afternoon ladies and shut-ins."
"From yesterday afternoon's half-hour, we found out something rather shocking about the Collins family's gem of a caretaker. Personally, from what I've been able to observe thus far, being the caretaker of Collinwood is more akin to being a zookeeper. Half the people living there think of the big house as a sort of cage anyway, and with certain members of the household there is the greatest difficulty in keeping their behavior and drives in check. As with wild animals, tensions exist which are liable to flare up at any moment."
"However, today's television playlet concerns itself with the motivations of the caretaker himself, who, when a friend of the family has drowned and washes ashore on the great estate, sees nothing wrong in giving him a push back into the water so that said friend may wash ashore somewhere else, or perhaps not at all."
"Given Matthew the caretaker's casual admission of such an act, even when questioned by the police, today's play is called "They Float Bodies, Don't They?". Because that's what a caretaker at Collinwood does; trim the hedges, carry the firewood, and float bodies that have washed ashore back out to sea where they can hopefully never be found. Now, if only someone could do that with my dreaded sponsors, I would never again have to suffer through another commercial break. In the meantime, I shall consult with the production crew and see if Matthew the caretaker is available for immediate employment. Until then, another sponsor with yet another commercial message is just about to wash ashore."
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Author PrisoneroftheNightPosted on June 19, 2019 December 26, 2019 Tags Alfred Hitchcock, Art Wallace, Bewitched (TV series), Bill Malloy, Broadway play Wait Until Dark, Burke Devlin, control room microphone, Dan Curtis, Dusty Springfield, George Mitchell, Lela Swift, Location footage, Matthew Morgan, Michael Currie, Mitch Ryan, Roger's office, set design, Shadows on the Wall, sheriff of Collinsport, Smith Brothers portrait, That Girl (TV series), Thayer David, The Dan and Lela Show, The Tammy Grimes Show (TV series), The Trials of O'Brien (TV series), vintage ads, vintage audio27 Comments on Episode 54: They Float Bodies, Don't They?
Episode 53: Our Caretaker's a Real Gem
"Oh, good eve – or rather, good afternoon."
"My sense of time has been somewhat confused of late, what with an apparent influence from my nighttime program having taken hold here in this particular half-hour of daytime television. Naturally I find this little known fact most flattering."
"I was about to select a wine for today's story."
"As you can see, I'm selecting from three varieties, as I'm quite unaccustomed to partaking in the late afternoon. After all, my brand of subject matter is so much better suited to the later part of the evening."
"Today's teleplay presents a rather compelling story built on the themes of trust and loyalty put to the test in the face of suspicion. The more entertaining scenes are centered around a mischievous young boy, and an even more mischievous grown-up caretaker."
"To help this fledgling daytime program along in its evolution of adopting the style of story content seen much later on most of those other stations, I've even brought along one of my sponsors. After the opening theme, you will as always be subjected to that inevitable minute with the sponsor, but fortunately the one I've brought you this afternoon goes considerably well with whatever it is you happen to be drinking. Which reminds me, I have now selected a wine…"
"…and I shall just leave you to your allotted minute with the sponsor, so that you may select whichever type of drink you find is best suited for this next half-hour."
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Author PrisoneroftheNightPosted on May 18, 2019 May 27, 2019 Tags Alexandra Moltke, Alfred Hitchcock, Bill Malloy, Christopher Connelly, Collinwood kitchen, control room microphone, Dan Curtis, David Henesy, David's crystal ball, Dorothy Malone, food & drink in Collinsport, Gail Russell, George Mitchell, James Storm, John Karlen, Josette Collins, Lela Swift, Malcolm Marmorstein, Mark Allen, Matthew Morgan, Peyton Place, Thayer David, the Collinsport Fly, The Dan and Lela Show, The Invasion of Carol Enders (TV movie), The Unseen (motion picture), Victoria Winters, vintage ads, vintage audio, Widow's Hill7 Comments on Episode 53: Our Caretaker's a Real Gem
Episode 52: Something Uninvited
Today Dark Shadows crosses over to the supernatural. In so doing, a new chapter in the story of Victoria Winters is presented; more about this below, in the main body of the post.
Dark Shadows fans have wondered why the original story of Victoria Winters, as outlined in the series bible Shadows on the Wall by story creator and developer Art Wallace, was dropped. It wasn't; rather, it was revised.
Episode 60, also written by Wallace, strongly hints for the family background of Victoria Winters a maternal rather than paternal link to Collinwood, which is implied further in episode 127.
For now, today's episode provides the first ever Dark Shadows mashup:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents + The Uninvited = Dark Shadows episode 52
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Episode 49: The Case of the Vanishing Man: Part 2, Questions and Concerns
Today the talk of Collinsport is Bill Malloy.
Not that he was particularly popular; matter of fact, most folks just seemed to take him for granted, that is, when he was around.
It's a seeming disappearance that has everyone talking about a man many around town wouldn't have otherwise given a second thought to.
Even more than this, there exists in the minds of some the possibility of foul play, causing even friends of long-standing to begin turning against one another.
That's what happens when you bring Alfred Hitchcock to a town like Collinsport; the smaller the populace, the larger the mystery, the more persistent the questions, the greater the concerns.
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Episode 48: The Case of the Vanishing Man: Part 1, Questions and Theories
It was in episode 45 that Bill Malloy stormed into Roger's office at the cannery to present an ultimatum: either go to the police and confess his guilt for wrongfully sending Burke Devlin to prison on a manslaughter conviction ten years ago, or let Sam Evans reveal that he's the only thing standing between Roger Collins and a prison sentence.
This option was reiterated in episode 46 when Bill showed up at Collinwood at ten that night, during which time Roger practically admitted to Malloy that Burke was not guilty but that because it was a long time ago and Burke was now a rich man, Bill should just let the matter slide for the sake of the Collins family.
So when in episode 47 Malloy fails to show up at the meeting he arranged between himself, Roger, Burke, and Sam in Roger's office for eleven on the dot, Roger begins to relax; just after midnight, he's positively buoyant as he returns home and strolls into the drawing room for a late brandy before turning in. You have to wonder why in those moments he would seem so carefree. Despite that Bill didn't show up for the meeting, surely the ultimatum regarding Roger and going to the police would still stand the following day.
So here it is episode 48 and the next day; Bill Malloy has evidently disappeared, and people are starting to ask questions. Now it looks like Roger will have to face a threat even more terrifying than the police – his sister Elizabeth.
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Author PrisoneroftheNightPosted on February 17, 2019 March 3, 2019 Tags Alfred Hitchcock, Bill Malloy, Burke Devlin, Collinwood drawing room, Collinwood foyer, control room microphone, Dan Curtis, David's crystal ball, Frank Schofield, Lela Swift, Location footage, LOOK photo, Righteous Brothers, Roger's office, Sam Evans, set only in Collinwood, sexual harassment, The Dan and Lela Show, Victorian green lamp, vintage audio9 Comments on Episode 48: The Case of the Vanishing Man: Part 1, Questions and Theories
Episode 47: Meeting of the Board
The genius of the pen.
Not many Dark Shadows fans would subscribe to such a notion, but it becomes easier to accept when seen in the context of the show's present transformation; a tale of mystery and suspense fashioned after the sort of nighttime drama anthology shows presented by Alfred Hitchcock.
The story of Bill Malloy, along with its aftermath and consequences, could have been neatly sewn up in just one hour of nighttime television, as Art Wallace did initially with the Jason McGuire/blackmail story prototype The House in 1957, or even a single half-hour as Wallace also did with the initial version of the above story three years earlier. Instead, the Jason McGuire story played out on Dark Shadows for more than eighty episodes, with the blackmail story itself running for a full seventy-nine.
Likewise, the Bill Malloy story promises to generate plenty of episode mileage. In the format of daytime serial drama, the story can unfold a little at a time with the opportunity of providing numerous additional details while various characters are scrutinized for their suspicions and motives. In the process, everyday props like fountain pens and clocks take on a greater significance by serving to shed an occasional spotlight on the inconsistencies of a character's alibi, should the need arise to account for one's whereabouts at a given time, thereby building on the overall mystery by adding to the speculation.
Today's episode is a case in point; the meeting arranged by Bill Malloy between himself, Burke Devlin, Roger Collins, and Sam Evans, instead of resolving the conflict between Devlin and the Collins family, has resulted in the apparent disappearance of Malloy, and a missing fountain pen may hold the key…
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Author PrisoneroftheNightPosted on February 10, 2019 March 10, 2019 Tags Alfred Hitchcock, Art Wallace, Bill Malloy, Burke Devlin, Collinwood drawing room, Collinwood foyer, control room microphone, Dan Curtis, food & drink in Collinsport, Frank Schofield, Robert Costello (producer), Roger's office, Sam Evans, set design, silver filigree fountain pen, Smith Brothers portrait, The Dan and Lela Show, vintage ads, vintage audio19 Comments on Episode 47: Meeting of the Board
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John Henry Newman (1801-1890) has always inspired devotion. Newman has made disciples as leader of the Catholic revival in the Church of England, an inspiration to fellow converts to Roman Catholicism, a nationally admired preacher and prose-writer, and an internationally recognized saint of the Catholic Church. Nevertheless, he has also provoked criticism. The church authorities, both Anglican and Catholic, were often troubled by his words and deeds, and scholars have disputed his arguments and his honesty.
Written by a range of international experts, The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman shows how Newman remains important to the fields of education, history, literature, philosophy, and theology. Divided into four parts, part one grounds Newman's works in the places, cultures, and networks of relationships in which he lived. Part two looks at the thinkers who shaped his own thought, while the third part engages critically and appreciatively with themes in his writings. Part four examines how those themes have shaped conversations in the churches and the academy. This Handbook will serve as an important resource to critical and appreciative exploration of the person, writings, controversies, and legacy of Newman.
Frederick Aquino is Professor of Theology and Philosophy at the Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University, working as a philosophical and systematic theologian. He specializes in religious epistemology, the epistemology of theology, John Henry Newman, and Maximus the Confessor. His publications include Receptions of Newman (with Benjamin J. King; 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology (with William J. Abraham; 2017).
Benjamin J. King is the Associate Professor of Church History at the School of Theology, University of the South, Tennessee. He specializes in nineteenth-century history and theology. He is the author of Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers: Shaping Doctrine in Nineteenth-Century England (2009).


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Q: Storing TfidfVectorizer for future use I need to store a TfidfVectorizer for future use. Following this post, I did below -
tfidf_vect = TfidfVectorizer(analyzer='word', token_pattern=r'\w{1,}', max_features=5000)
pickle.dump(tfidf_vect, open("vectorizer.pickle", "wb"))

Then on a separate flask service, I do below
@app.route('/cuisine/api/json',methods=['POST'])
def getCuisine():
    content=jsonify(request.json)
    test = pd.io.json.json_normalize(request.json)
    tfidf_vect = pickle.load(open("vectorizer.pickle", "rb"))
    test['ingredients'] = [str(map(makeString, x)) for x in test['ingredients']]
    test_transform = tfidf_vect.transform(test['ingredients'].values)
    le = preprocessing.LabelEncoder()
    X_test = test_transform
    y_test = le.fit_transform(test['cuisine'].values)

But I am getting below error
sklearn.exceptions.NotFittedError: TfidfVectorizer - Vocabulary wasn't fitted.

Not sure what m I missing. Can anyone please suggest?

A: You forgot to fit your model first:
tfidf_vect = TfidfVectorizer(analyzer='word', token_pattern=r'\w{1,}', max_features=5000)
tfidf_vect.fit() <-- pass your training data!
pickle.dump(tfidf_vect, open("vectorizer.pickle", "wb"))


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Q: How do quarks interact with the Higgs field? I know that electrons' only interaction with the higgs field is due to ambidextrousness and the weak hypercharge which is provided by the higgs boson, but how do quarks (specifically up and down) interact if they are confined by gluons and therefore have a fixed chirality? How do they have mass to?

A: This blog post is a good one to get a feeling of the Higgs mechanism.
One should definitely separate the Higgs field from the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson is an elementary particle , attendant to the existence of the Higgs field as its excitation, and acquires its mass as all the other particles in the standard model table.
The Higgs field that gives the elementary particle masses in contrast to all the other fields posited by field theory, which are zero everywhere unless a "particle" exists as an excitation of the  field, is nonzero everywhere.
Please read the link  to understand that the masses are not acquired by interaction of the type "Higgs+electron" or "Higgs + quark" Feynman vertices, but by the change in the basic vacuum expectation value through which the other fields, photon, electron etc , exist and move.
So chirality has nothing to do with the acquisition of mass from the quarks and the other fermions through the Higgs mechanism. (In any case chirality is definite only for zero mass fermions , whether quarks or leptons.)

A: I'm pretty sure the simple answer is that they (quarks) do get their intrinsic mass via interactions with the Higgs field (via exchange of "Weak Hypercharge").
However, given that quarks cannot exist on their own, composite particles made of quarks (protons, neutrons, etc.) will end up getting far more of their intrinsic mass from the binding energy of the gluon field (i.e. particles made of quarks end up getting most of their mass via totally separate mechanism than the Higgs; via the exchange of gluons and virtual particles).
Try reading up on QED (Quantum chromodynamics) and/ or check out this related video from Veritasium if your interested in learning more on this subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztc6QPNUqls
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Likeness: what you want your life, or your organization, to become when you are at the end of the path. A likeness is what the managers and employees hope they will have built as they reach each critical milestone in the journey.
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Featuring: La Nef with Michael Slattery, tenor, and Camerata Nova
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La Nef is a group of five top-calibre early-music instrumentalists from Montréal, playing lute, cittern, baroque flute, recorder and cello. Joining them is tenor Michael Slattery who has sung early and contemporary opera with major companies and orchestras around the world. To our delight, La Nef have specially arranged several of their tunes for Camerata Nova to join in.
Individual Ticket Prices: Adults $28 | Seniors $23 | Students $12
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
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