Stopped by my dad's for a short visit. He lives in a small town south of Eugene, OR. On the way there I took the back road looking for a scene that would say 'country'. When I was almost to his driveway I saw this.
My dad has a wonderful home that he loves. He has remodeled it, using his talents to make cabinets, drywall, tile, and even make his own pine moulding. 'My dad can do anything!' Growing up he was a fire fighter and role modeled his creative talents of being a photographer.
It was fun to spend the day showing him all that I have accomplished as an iPhone Photographer in such a short time.
Today I am driving home but first I will be belatedly celebrating my birthday with my daughter. Life is good!
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Nice job on the barn photo and thanks for the complement and recognition. You continue to amaze.
It is nice when you acknowledge the small influences I may have had on you. While you were growing up, together as dad and daughter, we discovered some of life's little secrets - use creativity to be different, you can do anything, be organized, photography teaches you to see, the outdoors = happiness, you can drive anything (motorcycles, trucks with campers, quality performance vehicles), stay in shape, support and encourage others, being willing to learn from others and grow, be confident, be a friend, share your knowledge and skills with others, be generous, it's fun to live out of your vehicle and do things alone, not to let being a female limit your goals and accomplishments, the value of hard work, life is an adventure so dare to step outside your comfort zone, make your own music and lead your own parade.
When I think of your life, I am reminded that love is the ultimate outlaw because it just won't adhere to any rules. The only thing you can do is to sign on as an accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, you have sworn to aid and abet. How fun is that! You have learned that security is out of the question. The words make and stay are inappropriate. Your love has no strings attached. You love for free. Good for you my daughter.
I pass by this scene a couple times a day, I guess seeing it in an enclosed format does make me appreciate it more, thank you. I know your father and also know how very proud he is of you and all you do. My father passed away earlier this year... I miss him, I wish I could hear his praise like your father has for you. Good wishes for you.


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Pandora's Handbag: Adventures in the Book World
by Elizabeth Young
Published by Serpent's Tail, 366 pp. £14
The first time I talked to Liz Young, we argued about poetry: the last time, we talked, it was about a book review. There are friends of your heart and friends of your brain, and Liz was, in my life, far more the latter - yet that does not mean that she was not important to me or that I don't resent her death as much as that of any of my other dead friends.
Instead of her, we have Pandora's Handbag, the book she spent her last months assembling, not just a stack of old reviews, but that stack interleaved with enough commentary and hindsight to almost be an intellectual autobiography. It is a good book, full of her precise intelligent tone, but it makes me miss her living voice more than ever.
Liz was highly sceptical, as am I, of that pose of decorum which keeps much reviewing superficially as impersonal as an inter-departmental memorandum. I cannot pretend to separate my considered critical opinion of these pieces out from my memory of Liz whispering chunks of them down the phone in a voice that grew frailer with the years, but never less forceful or intense.
At some point in late 1973, a friend took me to the basement flat Liz shared with her then boyfriend because he thought I needed setting straight about poetry. The Liz of that period was passionately committed to the Black Mountain school - to Charles Olsen and Ed Dorn- and I was far too caught up in writing bad verse that drew on late McNiece and early Gunn. Neither of us was right, but we instantly realized that we liked shouting at each other; Liz valued passionate opinion for its own sake. And she was right enough that I soon stopped writing verse for good.
Once we had met, we never seemed to escape bumping into each other. Our Leeds was a place where the poets dined with the feminists and the feminists went drinking with the Trots and the Trots hung out with the drag queens, where your landlady and your secretary were part of the same CR group. Both of us were friends of the slightly regimented anarchist commune where everyone signed up for duty on the rota-making rota before realizing it was a hoax; Liz always denied it was her that did it, but it was the sort of mischief she loved.
The Liz I met then was also, as she remained, spectacularly beautiful, dark haunted eyes surrounded by elaborate calligraphies peering out from a hennaed fringe. In one of the witty elegiac pieces here, she regrets the loss of that beauty, but for once she was wrong. She lost litheness and youth and health. And yet, it was important to Liz that loss of looks be part of the myth she lived through; she needed that sense of having paid something for wisdom and experience. She was fond of quoting Edith Wharton - 'Take what you want and pay for it.'
It ought not to need saying, but does, that Liz, without ever being any sort of joiner, was always a feminist critic and was always a woman of the Left. She was always too concerned with, well, righteousness, to only be the Goth dandy bad girl that was also a significant part of who she was. When Private Eye's anonymous book people attacked her as a mere groupie of the depraved for defending Dennis Cooper and A.M.Homes' The End of Alice, it was their accusation of lack of seriousness that made her write the indignant rebuttal reprinted here along with the Homes' review. Liz retained enough of the strict Free Presbyterianism of her parents that she insisted on finding lyrical moralism in some of the darkest writing of our time.
That essential seriousness was part of what kept her working during the wild years of her late twenties, when she combined avant-garde bookselling at the much-missed Compendium in Camden Town with her time as a punk groupie and heroin user, and during the last decade of her slow death from cirrhosis. She was that rare thing, a critic who knows life outside the rut and gossip of the literary world; she cared so much about books and the life of the mind because she knew and cared about other things as well.
In many of the pieces here, she talks about self-development through books. It was American literature that kept her sane during the bullying Leavisite miserabilism of the pre-Swinging Sixties "the opportunity enjoyed by adults, shielded by a thin veneer of apparent respectability for indulging in unlimited brutality, knowing there would be no comeback'. It was from books, chosen by herself and hidden from authority that would burn them that she learned to take those things she needed to assemble her adolescent and adult identities; the point though was not to stay with books alone.
Myths are for living with and through; it is not enough to read Huysmans 'A rebours'. You must create your own artificial paradise, scented with Sobranie smoke and patchouli oil, cluttered with books, magazines and glittery tchotchkes. If you are not, in the end, a poet, you can at least be a critic, a critic maudite.
Liz was as good at being a potentially doomed razzle-dazzle party girl as she was at being a critic; her profile of Pamela des Barres, friend and sexual associate of Sixties rock stars, is all the better a piece of writing for its empathy. "She was like flowers or a ribbon or sweeties or a cute cuddly toy; she was for giggles and gossip and fun...' Liz had enough dangerous fun in her time that she had no side to her, no sense of being better than other people.
Liz was enough of a proto-punk, a proto-Goth, that even in the early Seventies, she was fascinated by the darker side of dandyism. She wrote well about contemporary horror - one of the ways we met again after a period of estrangement was that our interest in genre fiction overlapped somewhere around the early career of Poppy Z Brite - and was fascinated by the literature of true crime. Part of that honesty in which her seriousness was rooted even at its most game-playing was her preparedness to own up; she wrote as well about 'low' genres as she did about 'respectable' literature.
Part of what she liked about horror and true crime was that, at their best, they are forms which avoid sentimentality - Poppy Z Brite's rentboys and vampires dance around foggy New Orleans a deal less lugubriously than Anne Rice's. Liz was not overfond of writing the killer review, but, if mawkish emotion and crudely moralistic plotting set her teeth on edge, she could be very rude indeed. 'Turtle Moon ...is a novel for those who dot their 'i's with flowers, who communicate by greeting-card...and cherish their inner child'
More usually, though, she avoided as much as she could writing about books she did not respect; though the wealth of material here is less than half of her journalistic output, she was not a reviewer to whom all literary editors automatically turned. Her critical sympathies were broad but unpredictable; though very far from being a professional Scot, she was keen on the younger Scots novelists. Given his subject matter, Irvine Welsh might have been expected, but she was equally fond of Alan Warner -'No male writer has ever mastered the rituals of makeup in the way Warner has'- and Alasdair Gray. She combined fondness for gloomy writers like Will Self with high praise of the technical mastery of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. She was a complete critic because she was a broad-minded one.
Some of the best pieces here, though, are not reviews - they are essays about cats, or fragments of memoir, or authoritative accounts of the state of the short story. Liz simply wrote well - her handful of short stories were excellent and there are years worth of journals sitting in a box somewhere.
As Will Self points out in his excellent memoir/introduction, Liz had strong views about the things that were killing her - the medical profession's neglect of the Hepatitis C epidemic from which her cirrhosis derived and the folly of a War on Drugs that was always mostly a war on drug users. Her articles, from her last years, on these topics show us a different Liz, one less concerned with elegant dandyism and distinctly out of love with Amerika; she did fancy better than anyone, but she could also write plain, clean and angry.
The thing that distressed Liz most about her last illness was the fear that her mind might go and she would not get it back, even if the last minute reprieve of a transplant came in time, as, in the event, it did not. 'Oh,' I was able to say to her on the phone.' Inga Clendinnen has a new book about getting her mind back after the surgery' (I had reviewed it in the NS, interested in it partly because of Liz) and send her my copy to read. What consoles at the end, what remains of us, is sometimes just books, and chatter about books.

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Deze lijst bevat een overzicht van administratieve eenheden in Vĩnh Long (Vietnam).

De provincie Vinh Long ligt in het zuiden van Vietnam, dat ook bekendstaat onder de naam Mekong-delta. De oppervlakte van de provincie bedraagt 1479,1 km² en Vinh Long telt ruim 1.062.600 inwoners. Vinh Long is onderverdeeld in een stad en zeven huyện.

Stad

Thành phố Vĩnh Long
Phường 1
Phường 2
Phường 3
Phường 4
Phường 5
Phường 8
Phường 9
Xã Tân Hòa
Xã Tân Hội
Xã Tân Ngãi
Xã Trường An

Huyện

Huyện Bình Minh
Thị trấn Cái Vồn
Xã Đông Bình
Xã Đông Thạnh
Xã Đông Thành
Xã Mỹ Hòa
Xã Thuận An

Huyện Bình Tân
Xã Mỹ Thuận
Xã Nguyễn Văn Thảnh
Xã Tân An Thạnh
Xã Tân Bình
Xã Tân Hưng
Xã Tân Lược
Xã Tân Qưới
Xã Tân Thành
Xã Thành Đông
Xã Thành Lợi
Xã Thành Trung

Huyện Long Hồ
Thị trấn Long Hồ
Xã An Bình
Xã Bình Hòa Phước
Xã Đồng Phú
Xã Hòa Ninh
Xã Hòa Phú
Xã Lộc Hòa
Xã Long An
Xã Long Phước
Xã Phú Đức
Xã Phú Qưới
Xã Phước Hậu
Xã Tân Hạnh
Xã Thanh Đức
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Thị trấn Cái Nhum
Xã An Phước
Xã Bình Phước
Xã Chánh An
Xã Chánh Hội
Xã Hòa Tịnh
Xã Long Mỹ
Xã Mỹ An
Xã Mỹ Phước
Xã Nhơn Phú
Xã Tân An Hội
Xã Tân Long
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Thị trấn Tam Bình
Xã Bình NInh
Xã Hậu Lộc
Xã Hòa Hiệp
Xã Hòa Lộc
Xã Hòa Thạnh
Xã Loan Mỹ
Xã Long Phú
Xã Mỹ Lộc
Xã Mỹ Thạnh Trung
Xã Ngãi Tứ
Xã Phú Lộc
Xã Phú Thịnh
Xã Song Phú
Xã Tân Lộc
Xã Tân Phú
Xã Tường Lộc

Huyện Trà Ôn
Thị trấn Trà Ôn
Xã Hòa Bình
Xã Hựu Thành
Xã Lục Sĩ Thành
Xã Nhơn Bình
Xã Phú Thành
Xã Tân Mỹ
Xã Thiện Mỹ
Xã Thới Hòa
Xã Thuận Thới
Xã Tích Thiện
Xã Trà Côn
Xã Vĩnh Xuân
Xã Xuân Hiệp

Huyện Vũng Liêm
Thị trấn Vũng Liêm
Xã Hiếu Nghĩa
Xã Hiếu Nhơn
Xã Hiếu Phụng
Xã Hiếu Thành
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Xã Qưới An
Xã Qưới Thiện
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Xã Trung Chánh
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Xã Trung Hiếu
Xã Trung Ngãi
Xã Trung Nghĩa
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Xã Trung Thành Đông
Xã Trung Thành Tây

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Recovery in youth employment is still lagging: ILO
11 August, 2022, 04:55 pm
Last modified: 11 August, 2022, 05:06 pm
US labor market remains tight; manufacturing slumps further
Bangladesh should redefine its remittance strategy for entering new labour markets
DU's Economics Study Centre organises dialogue on labour market recovery
ILO Japan delegation calls on BGMEA president
Ending the austerity pandemic
New report ahead of 'International Youth Day' shows large regional differences in young people's prospects in the labour market
Photo: Reuters
Recovery in youth employment is still lagging, said a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO), which found that young people were negatively impacted due to the Covid-19 pandemic compared to any other age group.
The report titled "The Global Employment Trends for Youth 2022: Investing in transforming futures for young people" shows that the pandemic has worsened labour market challenges particularly for people aged between 15 and 24 years, who have experienced a much higher percentage loss in employment than adults since early 2020.
"The total global number of unemployed youths is estimated to reach 73 million in 2022, a slight improvement from 2021 (75 million) but still six million above the pre-pandemic level of 2019," the report says.
The share of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) in 2020 – the latest year for which a global estimate is available – rose to 23.3 per cent, an increase of 1.5 percentage points from the previous year and a level not seen in at least 15 years. This group of young people are at particular risk of seeing their labour market opportunities and outcomes deteriorate also over the longer-term as "scarring" effects take hold, reports ILO.
Young women are worse off than young men, exhibiting a much lower employment-to-population ratio (EPR). In 2022, 27.4 per cent of young women globally are projected to be in employment, compared to 40.3 per cent of young men. This means that young men are almost 1.5 times more likely than young women to be employed. The gender gap, which has shown little sign of closing over the past two decades, is largest in lower-middle-income countries, at 17.3 percentage points, and smallest in high-income countries, at 2.3 percentage points.
The recovery in youth unemployment is projected to diverge between low- and middle-income countries on the one hand and high-income countries on the other. High income countries are the only ones expected to achieve youth unemployment rates close to those of 2019 by the end of 2022, while in the other country income groups, the rates are projected to remain more than 1 percentage point above their pre-crisis values, says the report.
In Europe and Central Asia (ECA) the unemployment rate of young people is projected to be 1.5 percentage points higher than the world average in 2022 – 16.4 per cent versus 14.9 per cent, respectively. There has been substantial progress in reducing youth unemployment – for both women and men – but the actual and potential shocks of the war in Ukraine are highly likely to affect the results.
The unemployment rate of young people in the Asia and Pacific region is projected to reach 14.9 per cent in 2022, the same as the global average, although there are important divergences between subregions and countries.
In Latin American countries the youth unemployment rate is still worrying, projected at 20.5 per cent in 2022. Historically, young women's unemployment rates have been higher than young men's, but the crisis exacerbated this trend. The picture is radically different in North America, where the youth unemployment rates is projected to be below world average levels, at 8.3 per cent.
In Africa, a youth unemployment rate of 12.7 per cent masks the fact that many youths have chosen to withdraw from the labour market altogether. Over one in five young people in Africa were not in employment, education, or training (NEET) in 2020, and the trend has been deteriorating.
The Arab States have the highest and the fastest growing unemployment rate of young people worldwide, projected at 24.8 per cent in 2022. The situation is worse for young women in the region, with 42.5 per cent unemployment in 2022, which is almost three times as high as the global average for young women (14.5 per cent).
Opportunities in the green, digital and care economies
Young women and men are well placed to benefit from the expansion of green and blue (ocean resources and their sustainable use) economies. According to the report, an additional 8.4 million jobs for young people could be created by 2030 through the implementation of green and blue policy measures.
Targeted investments in digital technologies could also absorb high numbers of young workers. The report estimates that achieving universal broadband coverage by 2030 could lead to a net increase in employment of 24 million new jobs worldwide, of which 6.4 million would be taken by young people.
"What young people need most is well‑functioning labour markets with decent job opportunities for those already participating in the labour market, along with quality education and training opportunities for those yet to enter it," Said Martha Newton, ILO deputy director-general for Policy.
Investments in care sectors (in health and in education) benefit young people in four key respects: they improve young people's employment prospects; they make it easier for young women and men with family responsibilities to remain in the labour force; they promote the well-being of young people by expanding education and training opportunities and catering for young people's health; and, as a result of all the above, they help lower youth NEET rates, especially among young women. The report estimates that investments in care sectors would create 17.9 million more jobs for young people by 2030, in care sectors (14.4 million jobs) and in other sectors (3.4 million jobs).
The report finds that undertaking the green, digital and care measures together as part of a big investment push would raise global gross domestic product (GDP) by 4.2 per cent and create an additional 139 million jobs for workers of all ages worldwide, of which 32 million would be accounted by young people.
Investment in these sectors must be accompanied by the promotion of decent working conditions for all young workers, the study says. This includes ensuring that they enjoy fundamental rights and protections including freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining, equal pay for work of equal value, and freedom from violence and harassment at work.
"The COVID-19 crisis has revealed a number of shortcomings in the way the needs of young people are addressed, especially the more vulnerable such as first-time jobseekers, school dropouts, fresh graduates with little experience and those who remain inactive not by choice," said Martha Newton, ILO Deputy Director-General for Policy. "What young people need most is well‑functioning labour markets with decent job opportunities for those already participating in the labour market, along with quality education and training opportunities for those yet to enter it."
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Ami Bera & Filemon Vela
Compare the voting records of Ami Bera and Filemon Vela in 2017-18.
Ami Bera
Represented California's 7th Congressional District. This was his 3rd term in the House.
Filemon Vela
Represented Texas's 34th Congressional District. This was his 3rd term in the House.
Ami Bera and Filemon Vela are from the same party and agreed on 90 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
But they didn't always agree. Out of 1134 votes in the 115th Congress, they disagreed on 115 votes, including 6 major votes.
Feb. 6, 2018 — Further Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018
July 26, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the conference report to accompany H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for the fiscal year
July 18, 2018 — Supporting the officers and personnel who carry out the important mission of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
June 26, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; and the bill H.R. 2083, the Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act.
June 21, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act of 2018
June 14, 2018 — THRIVE Act
May 23, 2018 — Polis of Colorado Amendment No. 50
May 23, 2018 — Tenney of New York Amendment No. 19
May 23, 2018 — McKinley of West Virginia Amendment No. 13
May 17, 2018 — Westerman of Arkansas Part C Amendment No. 13
On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments with an Amendment
Jan. 30, 2018 — Child Protection Improvements Act of 2017
Jan. 20, 2018 — Waiving a Requirement of Clause 6(A) of Rule XIII with Respect to Consideration of Certain Resolutions Reported from the Committee on Rules, and Providing for Consideration of Motions to Suspend the Rules
On Ordering a Call of the House
Nov. 8, 2017 — Hydropower Policy Modernization Act of 2017
Sept. 13, 2017 — Norton of District of Columbia Amendment No. 117
Sept. 7, 2017 — Austin Scott of Georgia Part B Amendment No. 92
Sept. 7, 2017 — Hunter of California Part B Amendment No. 77
Sept. 7, 2017 — Roybal-Allard of California Part B Amendment No. 74
July 14, 2017 — Byrne of Alabama Amendment No. 17
July 13, 2017 — Buck of Colorado Amendment No. 3
July 13, 2017 — Jayapal of Washington Part B Amendment No. 5
May 25, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Part B Amendment No. 1
May 19, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Amendment
Jan. 10, 2017 — Velazquez of New York Part B Amendment No. 1


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Biografia
Cooper è nato a Greenwich, Londra, figlio di Julie, un'insegnante d'asilo, e di Brian, un banditore d'aste, ha una sorella e tre fratelli; i suoi genitori divorziarono quando aveva 5 anni. Ha studiato alla Thomas Tallis School a Kidbrooke e in seguito si è laureato nel 2000 presso la London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Il suo bisnonno materno, E.T. Heron, era un pioniere del cinema nonché critico cinematografico, giornalista e fondatore della rivista The Kinematograph Weekly.

Carriera
Debutta a teatro con la piéce teatrale Mother Clap's Molly House, seguono partecipazioni televisive, fino al debutto cinematografico con un piccolo ruolo in La vera storia di Jack lo squartatore - From Hell. Partecipa alla miniserie TV Band of Brothers e al film di Neil Jordan Breakfast on Pluto.

Nel 2006 è uno dei protagonisti di The History Boys, tratto dall'omonima commedia di Alan Bennett, che Cooper aveva già rappresentato a teatro e in radio, guadagnandosi un Drama Desk Award, nello stesso anno recita nel film Il quiz dell'amore, con James McAvoy e Rebecca Hall. Sempre per il teatro, interpreta Will Parry nell'adattamento della trilogia Queste oscure materie, rappresentato al Royal National Theatre.

Nel 2008 recita al fianco di Brian Cox in Prison Escape; nello stesso anno recita e canta in Mamma Mia!, adattamento cinematografico del fortunato musical di Broadway, nel film ricopre il ruolo di Sky, fidanzato e futuro marito di Sophie, interpretata da Amanda Seyfried. Sempre nel 2008 interpreta Charles Grey ne La duchessa, al fianco di Keira Knightley.

Nel 2009 ha un ruolo di spicco nel film An Education, diretto da Lone Scherfig con Carey Mulligan e Peter Sarsgaard e partecipa al film di John Krasinski, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. L'anno dopo, nel 2010, appare insieme all'attrice Gemma Arterton in Tamara Drewe - Tradimenti all'inglese.

Nel 2011 ha interpretato il ruolo di un giovanissimo Howard Stark, padre di Tony Stark, nell'adattamento cinematografico del supereroe Marvel Comics Capitan America per la regia di Joe Johnston, ruolo che riprenderà nella serie televisiva Agent Carter nel 2015. Lo stesso anno interpreta Milton H. Greene nel film Marilyn e il ruolo di Uday Hussein in The Devil's Double.

Nell'estate 2012 è uno dei protagonisti de La leggenda del cacciatore di vampiri, dove interpreta il vampiro Henry Sturgess, mentre nel 2013 accanto a Colin Farrell e Noomi Rapace interpreta Darcy in Dead Man Down - Il sapore della vendetta. L'anno dopo è nelle sale cinematografiche con 3 pellicole: Un ragionevole dubbio diretto da Peter Howitt, Need for Speed, adattamento cinematografico della popolare serie di videogiochi della Electronic Arts, e Dracula Untold, dove interpreta Maometto II con Luke Evans nei panni di Vlad III di Valacchia.

Nel 2015 appare in Miss You Already e The Lady in the Van. Nel 2016 interpreta re Llane Wrynn, sovrano del regno umano di Roccavento, nel film Warcraft - L'inizio e ottiene il ruolo del protagonista nella serie televisiva Preacher.

Vita privata
Dal 2008 al 2010 circa ha avuto una relazione con l'attrice Amanda Seyfried, nonché collega di lavoro per il musical Mamma Mia! e Mamma Mia! Ci risiamo. Dal 2010 al 2018 l'attore ha convissuto a Londra con l'attrice irlandese Ruth Negga.

Filmografia

Attore

Cinema
La vera storia di Jack lo squartatore - From Hell (From Hell), regia di Allen e Albert Hughes (2001)
Anazapta, regia di Alberto Sciamma (2002)
The Final Curtain, regia di Patrick Harkins (2002)
I'll Be There - Mio padre è una rockstar (I'll Be There), regia di Craig Ferguson (2003)
Boudica, regia di Bill Anderson (2003)
Breakfast on Pluto, regia di Neil Jordan (2005)
Il quiz dell'amore (Starter for 10), regia di Tom Vaughan (2006)
The History Boys, regia di Nicholas Hytner (2006)
Prison Escape (The Escapist), regia di Rupert Wyatt (2008)
Mamma Mia!, regia di Phyllida Lloyd (2008)
Official Selection, regia di Brian Crano - cortometraggio (2008)
La duchessa (The Dutchess), regia di Saul Dibb (2008)
An Education, regia di Lone Scherfig (2009)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, regia di John Krasinski (2009)
Phèdre, regia di Nicholas Hytner (2009)
Tamara Drewe - Tradimenti all'inglese (Tamara Drewe), regia di Stephen Frears (2010)
The Devil's Double, regia di Lee Tamahori (2011)
Captain America - Il primo Vendicatore (Captain America: The First Avenger), regia di Joe Johnston (2011)
Marilyn (My Week with Marilyn), regia di Simon Curtis (2011)
Hello Carter, regia di Anthony Wilcox - cortometraggio (2011)
La leggenda del cacciatore di vampiri (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), regia di Timur Bekmambetov (2012)
Agente Carter, regia di Louis D'Esposito - cortometraggio web (2013)
Dead Man Down - Il sapore della vendetta (Dead Man Down), regia di Niels Arden Oplev (2013)
L'estate all'improvviso (Summer in February), regia di Christopher Menaul (2013)
 Un ragionevole dubbio (Reasonable Doubt), regia di Peter Howitt (2014)
Need for Speed, regia di Scott Waugh (2014)
 Dracula Untold, regia di Gary Shore (2014)
On Angel Wings, regia di Dave Unwin - cortometraggio (2014)
 Miss You Already, regia di Catherine Hardwicke (2015)
 The Lady in the Van, regia di Nicholas Hytner (2015)
 Warcraft - L'inizio (Warcraft), regia di Duncan Jones (2016)
Stratton - Forze speciali (Stratton), regia di Simon West (2017)
The Escape, regia di Dominic Savage (2017)
 Mamma Mia! Ci risiamo (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again), regia di Ol Parker (2018)

Televisione
The Gentleman Thief, regia di Justin Hardy - film TV (2001)
I mondi infiniti di H.G. Wells (The Infinite Worlds of H.G.Wells) - miniserie TV, 6 episodi (2001)
Band of Brothers - Fratelli al fronte (Band of Brothers) - miniserie TV, episodio 1x01 (2001)
Sparkling Cyanide, regia di Tristram Powell - film TV (2003)
Down to Earth - serie TV, 8 episodi (2004)
Jericho - serie TV, episodio 1x04 (2005)
Ragione e sentimento (Sense and Sensibility) - miniserie TV, 3 episodi (2008)
God on Trial, regia di Andy DeEmmony - film TV (2008)
Horne & Corden - serie TV, episodio 1x02 (2009)
Freefall, regia di Dominic Savage - film TV (2009)
 Fleming - Essere James Bond (Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond) - miniserie TV, 4 episodi (2014)
 Agent Carter – serie TV, 5 episodi (2015-2016)
 Preacher – serie TV (2016-2019)
 That Dirty Black Bag – serie TV (2022)

Doppiatore
 Le avventure di Sammy (Sammy's avonturen: de geheime doorgang), regia di Ben Stassen (2010)
 What If...? – serie animata (2021)

Teatro

 Mother Clap's Molly House, di Mark Ravenhill, regia di Nicholas Hytner. National Theatre di Londra (2002)
 Caryl Churchil Events, di Caryl Churchill, regia di Dominic Cooke e Ian Rickson. Royal Court Theatre di Londra (2002)
 Sogno di una notte di mezza estate, di William Shakespeare, regia di Richard Jones. Royal Shakespeare Theatre di Stratford-upon-Avon, tour internazionale, Barbican Centre di Londra (2002)
 Queste oscure materie, da Philip Pullman, regia di Nicholas Hytner. National Theatre di Londra (2003)
 The History Boys, di Alan Bennett, regia di Nicholas Hytner. National Theatre di Londra (2004), Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts di Hong Kong (2006)
 The History Boys, di Alan Bennett, regia di Nicholas Hytner. St. James Theatre di Wellington, Sydney Theatre di Sydney, Broadhurst Theatre di Londra (2006)
 Fedra, di Jean Racine, regia di Nicholas Hytner. National Theatre di Londra (2009)
 Il libertino, di Stephen Jeffreys, regia di Terry Johnson. Theatre Royal di Bath, Haymarket Theatre di Londra (2016)

Doppiatori italiani
Nelle versioni in italiano dei suoi film, Dominic Cooper è stato doppiato da:
Francesco Pezzulli in Prison Escape, Ragione e sentimento, Captain America - Il primo Vendicatore, La leggenda del cacciatore di vampiri, Un ragionevole dubbio, Agent Carter, Warcraft - L'inizio, Stratton - Forze speciali, The Princess, That Dirty Black Bag
Stefano Crescentini in The History Boys, Mamma Mia!, La duchessa, Need for Speed, Fleming - Essere James Bond
Marco Vivio in Tamara Drewe - Tradimenti all'inglese, Il quiz dell'amore
Gianfranco Miranda in Dracula Untold, Mamma Mia! Ci risiamo
Alessandro Quarta in Dead Man Down - Il sapore della vendetta
Roberto Gammino in An Education
Ruggero Andreozzi in Preacher
Gianluca Crisafi in The Escape
Giorgio Borghetti in Marilyn
Come doppiatore, Cooper è stato sostituito da:
Francesco Pezzulli in What If...?
Alessio Nissolino in Le avventure di Sammy

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Attori teatrali britannici
Attori televisivi britannici
Membri della Royal Shakespeare Company
Studenti della London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art


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Q: Symfony ElasticaBundle query_builder_method I need upload in elastic Lead inly who have status approved, this is my, mapping:
                 persistence:
                      driver: orm
                      model: Artel\ProfileBundle\Entity\Lead
                      provider:
                        query_builder_method: createIsActiveQueryBuilder
                      listener: ~
                      finder: ~

and my query_builder_method: createIsActiveQueryBuilder:
public function createIsActiveQueryBuilder()
{
    $qb = $this->getEntityManager()->createQueryBuilder('d');

    $qb
        ->select('d')
        ->from('ArtelProfileBundle:Lead', 'd')
        ->where('d.statusLead = :status')
        ->setParameter('status', 'approved')
    ;

    return $qb;
}

But when I run
app/console fos:elastica:populate --no-reset

I read in doc
Your repository must implement this method and return a Doctrine query builder.

in my DB I have two lead with status not_approved and when I change one for approved everything ok I have one lead in elastic. But if in DB I dont have lead with status approved I have error all time ?
but have error:
PHP Fatal error:  Wrong parameters for Exception([string $exception [, long $code [, Exception $previous = NULL]]]) in /home/ivan/host/aog-code/vendor/ruflin/elastica/lib/Elastica/Exception/ResponseException.php on line 34

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And when I create new Lead with default status 'not_approved' this lead uploaded in elastic, why I not understand listener upload this lead, why not work query_builder ?
why not understand, what I am doing wrong?

A: The message states you should return QueryBuilder instance. By calling:
$query = $qb->getQuery();
return $query;

you're returning a Query instance from your QueryBuilder
Your function should read:
public function createIsActiveQueryBuilder() {
  $qb = $this->getEntityManager()->createQueryBuilder('d');
  return $qb
    ->select('d')
    ->from('ArtelProfileBundle:Lead', 'd')
    ->where('d.statusLead = :status')
    ->setParameter('status', 'approved');
}

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Opinion John Drennan
John Drennan: Globetrotting Enda offers us hope of a future
His sunny-side-up optimism appeals to Americans who see him as a pastor in the Old West
March 25 2012 5:00 AM
It was once said of Bill Clinton by one of the sisterhood that if he was to be reincarnated as a member of the canine species the wandering president would be "one of those hounds that is hard to keep on the porch''.
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/john-drennan/john-drennan-globetrotting-enda-offers-us-hope-of-a-future-26835866.html
The same could certainly be said of Enda Kenny, though for very different reasons to those which influenced that somewhat jaundiced view of Mr Clinton.
However, since becoming Taoiseach, Mr Kenny's wanderlust has accelerated to the extent where the Taoiseach was criticised, last week, for the sin of using the government jet 50 per cent more than Mr Cowen.
Such angst, however, in the wake of Mr Kenny's latest American triumph, resembles a classic case of the patented Irish politics of being penny wise and pound foolish.
One of the many serious consequences of the great Irish Disruption was the implosion in our international reputation.
Our swiftly acquired position as the fallen woman of the fiscal world did not merely have implications for our national morale either.
Instead Ireland's status as the Greece of northern Europe posed a serious threat to the ongoing willingness of multinationals to invest in a state that had acquired a reputation of being the Wild West of capitalism.
This devaluation of our reputation was not at all improved during the BIFFO era, by the further belief, that the sheriffs in this cowboy state were seen as being incapable and, worse still, in the aftermath of Jay Leno's comparison of Brian Cowen to a drunken barman, of consisting of a set of fools who spent most of their time in the saloon.
In these cynical times it is easy to suggest that the Gulliver's Travels-style peregrinations of Enda are without real value.
But in today's competitive world one of the most critical factors a small, open trading economy such as Ireland possesses is its reputation and Mr Kenny has restored that in spades.
Britain once had its 'Virgin Queen' and, whilst it is a leap of the imagination to portray Enda as the Irish Elizabeth I, in a sense when Mr Kenny goes to America, he is re-invented as the Virgin Taoiseach.
At home Enda may be viewed with the lazy, knowing eyes that a long term spouse reserves for a partner who is kept more for reasons of convenience, and the absence of any better alternative, than out of any real desire.
In contrast, when Mr Kenny goes to Washington he is reinvented as a fresh, vibrant newborn role model who, even for the toughest of American politicians, is seen as resembling some cross between Clint Eastwood and Mahatma Gandhi.
It undoubtedly helps that Kenny's political psyche is uniquely suited to the American mindset.
That 'sunny side up/morning time in Mayo/I can climb mountains'-style optimism that is greeted with such a jaundiced eye by a nation that has, when it comes to idealism, been bled white by the reductive politics of pragmatism, blends in perfectly with the soul of a state that still sees itself as being a new country.
When we look at Enda Kenny in America we focus on Denis O'Brien, and wonder what he might be doing there.
America prefers though to focus on the redemptive narrative of a broken country, rebuilding itself with the same grit and sacrifice that characterised the early settlers of their imperfect land.
Under Mr Kenny, to American eyes, Ireland is becoming a different sort of Wild West to the one that evolved during the fetid final years of the Ahern era.
It would be excessive to suggest that Mr Kenny is seen to be some sort of gunslinger but they do see Kenny as the equivalent of those reforming pastors who clean up the saloons and the rest of the excesses of BIFFO's brutish Tiger, by virtue of energy and determination.
There is also, in American eyes, an element of Charlie Chaplin's indomitable little tramp battling insuperable odds with great dignity surrounding the mannered nature of the Taoiseach's discourse.
We in Ireland will always play the 'Doubting Thomas' with Enda because we know him too well but the genuine affection surrounding America's relationship with Mr Kenny was most eloquently captured last week by the tough-minded Irish Times columnist Lara Marlowe.
One could not discover a more unlikely cheerleader for Fine Gael, let alone Enda, but in Washington as the Vice President Joe Biden spoke about his optimistic 'buddy' and Obama expressed his confidence in the Government's ability to "get Ireland moving again" and praised Ireland's capacity to punch "above its weight internationally" the tart Ms Marlowe spoke of a new concept called Enda-mania.
Astonishingly, in America, Kenny even crosses the political divide as Republicans praise him for his "tough decisions" whilst others note "there's something serious about him".
Fortunately for our collective sanity, and that of Vincent Browne, there is no danger within the colder environs of Europe, of Enda-mania replacing the current popularity of the Jedward twins as a source of hysterical excitement amongst the populace.
Rather like this state, Ireland's chillier European cousins respect Enda as a diligent, though limited, leader.
But, after some initial hiccups with Mr Sarkozy, he is at least creeping ever so carefully towards a position of mild respectability.
It is ironic to think that during the children's crusade of the innocents which tried to supplant Enda with Richard the lesser Bruton, it was seen as an insult when it was said of Enda that he would make a grand little Minister for Foreign Affairs.
But those who denigrated the ministry merely displayed their ignorance of statecraft.
In fairness when we were all millionaires under Bertie, Foreign Affairs might have been the best location for the duds.
But when it got to the stage where the defining image of the state consisted of that iconic photograph of a beggar holding a cup, as the boys from the IMF strode into town, we were in trouble for such images were not exactly compatible with the aspiration of a smart economy's export-led recovery.
From the start, however, with his visit to the White House, Mr Kenny in his curious little way, went to war with the concept of Ireland as a land of ruined monuments that was flirting with the phantoms of economic Armageddon and elegiac nihilism.
Intriguingly, when it comes to what economists would coldly term the added-value end of the diplomatic market, no one can deny that like Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at you, in dealing with the Americans and the Chinese, our broth of a Mayo boy appears to have the gift.
Of course, the Americans, and Chinese are quite aware Enda isn't the smartest jock in the diplomatic schoolyard.
They, like us, are aware Enda is not the man to send for if you are engaged in complex mathematical manoeuvres such as multiplication or long division.
Neither is he the sort of fella you might hire to treat a room of academics to a dissertation on existential nihilism and the collected works of Foucault.
But they do find something attractive about the affable, unthreatening persona of a bantamweight who is always prepared to punch above his weight no matter what the odds.
We don't know what the Chinese term for this quality is, but, Americans call it 'pluck'.
When it comes to a state that, after the Tiger years of caviar, must dine on the sawdust of humility and German sauerkraut for some decades, Mr Kenny is emblematic of a country that is securing the respect of the world because of its willingness to reject the Greek option and simply get on with it.
It is perhaps gilding the lily to suggest he has become a pilgrim Taoiseach for a penitent people, for Paddy never does genuine sorrow for too long. We do appear, though, to have begun to engage in the process of accepting a new reality.
Enda, the honest but game primary-school-teacher plodder, provides us with poor romance when compared to the fabulous Great Gatsby- style dreams Mr Ahern and his contemporaries embraced.
That, however, has only provided us with mausoleums.
Enda in contrast, by spreading a new realistic message to the world of a humbled state that is up for and willing to engage in honest graft, is beginning to offer us the possibility of a future.
Sunday Independent
Coalition politics of 'careful now' may be a winning hand
John Drennan The most intriguing feature of the coverage of the government's Spring Statement was the criticism of the cautious conservatism of the Coalition stance.
Coalition concern on gay vote is escalating
John Drennan Those of us who have written about our Taoiseach for longer than we might like, never thought we would be writing about Enda's gay nightmare.
Real war is between Ross, Renua and those old-style independents
John Drennan We are sorry, but, it is all sorted out really. Of course there will have to be a show, a narrative, some pantomime villains and possibly even heroes too.
'Youngsters tried to set my tent on fire' - homeless man on the reality of living on the streets
A RAMSHACKLE...
Ewan MacKenna: 'You could set your watch by the annual whine - the GAA have no right to begrudge AFL dreams'
Irish airline boss Willie Walsh: The man who 'never actually planned' his 40-year aviation career
John Downing: 'Some of my family were in the RIC - they were just as much a part of our history as the rebels'
Plant-powered: The truth about veganism
From the Just a Minute Quiz to being 'noisy' - Gogan's best moments
Radio man Larry Gogan guided Ireland into the 'swingin' sixties' and across six decades of profound change


A Sonoma Valley winery called Paradise Ridge Winery has agreed to pay $3 million dollars in order to settle a lawsuit over a teen DUI car accident back in 2006. The Press Democrat reports that Mr. Joshua Apodaca sustained serious brain injuries in the car accident. Mr Joshua was a passenger of a car driven by Mr. Sean Bradley who was served beer at a wedding held at the Sonoma Valley winery. As a result, Mr. Apodaca is permanently disabled.
The teens attended a wedding at Paradise Ridge Winery where a bartender served the teen driver six to eight beers even though Mr. Bradley did not show the bartender any identification. Mr. Bradley claimed that he left his identification in the car. After Mr. Bradley and Mr. Apodaca left the reception, they stopped at a local 7-Eleven where Mr. Bradley bought two more alcoholic beverages. The car crash happened shortly after.
The terms of the settlement were that the winery will pay $3 million, 7-Eleven will pay $500,000 and Bradley will pay about $105,000. The money will be used to pay for the cost of life-time care for Apodaca, buy him a house equipped for the disabled and pay more than $1.1 million in attorney fees.
The settlement amounts will be paid out by the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group for the Sonoma Valley winery, the car insurance company for the Bradleys, and 7-Eleven's corporate indemnity policy will cover the 7-Eleven owners.
Typically, California does not have per se dram shop laws. Bars, wineries and other licensed alcohol purveyors are not held responsible for the actions of their patrons, but this lawsuit dealt with a teen DUI which is an exception to this rule. For more information about teen DUIs, or DUIs in general, please visit our Related Resources links.


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Stellar winds and supernova (SN) explosions of massive stars (`stellar feedback') create bubbles in the interstellar medium (ISM) and insert newly produced heavy elements and kinetic energy into their surroundings, possibly driving turbulence. Most of this energy is thermalized and immediately removed from the ISM by radiative cooling. The rest is available for driving ISM dynamics. In this work we estimate the amount of feedback energy retained as kinetic energy when the bubble walls have decelerated to the sound speed of the ambient medium. We show that the feedback of the most massive star outweighs the feedback from less massive stars. For a giant molecular cloud (GMC) mass of 105 M⊙ (as e.g. found in the Orion GMCs) and a star formation efficiency of 8 per cent the initial mass function predicts a most massive star of approximately 60 M⊙. For this stellar evolution model we test the dependence of the retained kinetic energy of the cold GMC gas on the inclusion of stellar winds. In our model winds insert 2.34 times the energy of an SN and create stellar wind bubbles serving as pressure reservoirs. We find that during the pressure-driven phases of the bubble evolution radiative losses peak near the contact discontinuity (CD), and thus the retained energy depends critically on the scales of the mixing processes across the CD. Taking into account the winds of massive stars increases the amount of kinetic energy deposited in the cold ISM from 0.1 per cent to a few per cent of the feedback energy.


One of the concepts which we explained to our readers a few days back is the Marketing channel and how you can build value networks in the marketing channel. In this post, we talk about the service channels and what role they play in marketing.
However, in Services too such channels exist though the channel will be different for each one of them. For example, in a restaurant, the service channel starts from the raw vegetables and meat being procured from a fixed vegetable vendor. These vegetables are then prepared for cooking by the helpers.
The chef then works on the cooking and cooks delicious dishes. In the meantime, the restaurant manager is working on the floor to ensure that the ambience and display is correct. The prepared food comes out with the waiter and is served. Once the food is eaten by the customer, the place is cleaned by the cleaners and the bill is presented. Overall, this closes the restaurants service channel.
Procurement of meats and vegetables >> Helper prepares them >> cook cooks them >> manager maintains the floor >> Customer is served >> place is cleaned.
The above is the service channel in case of restaurants. Note that if any valued member in the channel fails in his quality, the quality of service also fails (example – the vegetables are not fresh, or the manager has not used new fragrance on the restaurant floor). Hence you need to ensure that maximum value is delivered to the end customer. This involves cleaning the table after the customer has left.
Thus, the channel keeps changing for different types of services. For hospitals, medicine suppliers are the start of the channel. For real estate companies, brokers are at the start of the channel. So on and so forth.
Overall, service channels present their own line of challenges, which have to be fought by the business owners. Any channel, be it a product channel of service channel, is established to provide maximum value to the end customer. And if one link within the channel is a weak link, then the channel can fail in delivering value.
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___ 25 November 2014 31 Racing Game Greats
Racing to 31 – 31 racing game greats: #3 Sonic All-Star Racing: Transformed (2012)
It's that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last 31 years. Enjoy!
I can hear the cries now. "What! No Mario Kart?! Why?".
Look, I love Mario Kart as much as the next guy. Its combination of fast racing, its whimsical take on racing, and its beautifully crafted Nintendo fan-service, have made it into the enduring household name that it is. I've played 'em all, and have enjoyed almost every minute of it. Blue Shells and aggressive rubber-banding aside, it's the perfect go-to game to boot up on a hot summer day, sitting under the AC, enjoying an ice cold beveragini, glad you're not outside sweating balls. And many a great time was had doing just that with Mario and friends.
At least it was the perfect go-to game until 2012, when Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed took its place. British workhorse, Sumo Digital, seems to be the kind of studio that you can throw anything at and they'll make a meal of it, and no moreso than in the racing genre where they have proven their chops time and time again, with solid game after solid game. From their work on the Playstation Portable port of Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast, to Codemasters' first go at the Formula 1 license with F1 2009, the good people at Sumo have always impressed with plenty of first-rate titles to their name. Arguably though, their best work has been on Sega's answer to Mario Kart, with the first game laying a solid foundation for the brilliance of Transformed.
Solid or not, the real golden ticket inside Transformed's gem of a package it its fan-service, its nostalgia, and its balls to the wall approach to paying respect to Sega. Strangely, while i was never much of a Sega lad growing up, I found its treatment of the company's long and storied history more reverent than Nintendo's efforts ever have been, digging deep into the well of nostalgia and perfectly capturing the look and feel of Sega games past. Sure, Sonic is a great mascot, but I was more excited to see the the bucket-hat wearing bloke from Crazy Taxi, and the Dwarf chap from Golden Axe making an appearance. It may be fan-service, but as far as video games paying due respect to the brands that old farts like me remember reading about in Mean Machines Magazine goes, Sumo Digital absolutely hit the nail squarely on the noggin.
I reviewed the game last year, after playing through both the Wii U and the Playstation Vita versions in their entirety, concluding that while they were rock-solid kart racers, they were best looked at as magnificent trips down memory lane. And that's not a criticism because, well, if it ain't broke don't fix it. And I don't know if you heard, but kart racers as a genre are still mighty fun, and Transformed right now stands as the best in its class.
Should I have included Mario Kart instead? Let me know in the comments!
#31: Stunt Car Racer #30: Badlands #29: RVF Honda #28: Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge #27: Nitro #26: Super Grand Prix #25 Super Cars II #24 Super RC Pro-Am #23 Sega Rally #22 Wipeout 2097 #21 Micro Machines V3 #20 Gran Turismo #19 Need For Speed: High Stakes #18 Colin McRae Rally 2.0 #17 Wave Race: Blue Storm #16 Grand Prix Challenge #15 Project Gotham Racing 2 #14 F-Zero GX #13 Mashed #12 Burnout 3: Takedown #11 Ridge Racer #10 Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast #9 Forza Motorsport 2 #8 Motorstorm: Pacific Rift #7 Midnight Club: Los Angeles #6 Dirt 2 #5 Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit #4 Shift 2: Unleashed #3 Sonic All-Star Racing: Transformed #2 Forza Horizon
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JSpace on 25 November 2014 at 10:43 am
Mario Kart has always had a lot of competition. Crash Team Racing comes to mind and I'm partial to Power Drift as well (an oldie for sure). Man, Sonic and racing go together well don't they? I've enjoyed Sonic R, Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, and Sonic All-Star Racing.
Sir Gaulian on 25 November 2014 at 10:47 am
As far as competition goes, not a popular opinion, but I thought F1 Race Stars was pretty fantastic: https://amostagreeablepastime.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/30-years-of-video-games-f1race-stars-2012/
Racing to 31 – 31 racing game greats: #4 Shift 2: Unleashed (2011)
Racing to 31 – 31 racing game greats: #2 Forza Horizon (2012)


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Home News Regions Northern Virginia New medical office in Dulles retains CBRE for leasing.
New medical office in Dulles retains CBRE for leasing.
Published June 12, 2014 by Paula C. Squires
CBRE has been retained to represent StoneSprings Hospital Center's medical office building, a 60,000-square-foot building under construction in Dulles. When completed in July 2015, the property owned by Hospital Corp. of America Inc. (HCA) will be attached to the new StoneSprings Hospital Center. It's expected to open in December 2015.
"With its adjacency to the new hospital, this asset provides a unique opportunity for health care providers to serve an expanding patient base in Loudoun County," Dan McGivney, a CBRE vice president said in a statement. "The new hospital and medical office building are a testament to the strength of patient demand in Loudoun County, and promise to be a catalyst to unlock additional development."
HCA Virginia Health System's newest hospital will join Reston Hospital Center, Dominion Hospital and two outpatient surgery centers in serving one of the nation's fastest growing areas.
StoneSprings Hospital is projected to employ a workforce of more than 500 and pay $2.1 million in local property taxes.
"StoneSprings Hospital Center will not only improve access to care for an underserved portion of the county, it will also become an important part of Loudoun County's economy and community," said John Deardorff, president/CEO of Reston Hospital, which also is a member of the HCA Virginia Health System.
The 240,000-square-foot, 124-bed hospital will provide comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, surgical, and diagnostic services.
CBRE's Ben Powell will collaborate with McGivney in representing HCA.
Indoor shooting range opening in Prince William County
Rezoning approved for redevelopment of Fairfax Circle Plaza


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Q: Rounding/String Formatting Decimals in c# value.ToString("##0.00000%;(##0.00000%);0.00000%");

I'm having trouble deciphering how this is being formatted. Would it ever display a value above that would be .00001 lower than the correct rounding, or if the number would just to be truncated at 5 decimal places?
Thanks guys.

A: it rounds in the conventional way (e.g. 1-4 rounds down and 5-9 rounds up).


So I am finally in the market for a new workshop. Currently I have a wooden shed that is very damp and cold and quite frankly uninspiring, I am thinking that a pre-fabricated workshop/garage is the way to go. There are so many companies to choose from but I am thinking that it should be one that delivers and erects so that if there are any problems I can get the company to come back and fix.
I intend to have a heavy duty rubber floor and hopefully a log burner in the corner for those cold winter days. The worst part will be removing all the stuff that's in there at the moment until the new one is in place (hope the weather is good when we start).


Have A Son Who Has Problems With Bed Wetting What Do I Do?
Top Communities Stories Baby #3...? Lazy 20 Year Old 10 Year Old Daughter Is Mean At School But Sweet With Me My 18 Year Old Daughter Wants To Take A Plane To See Her Boyfriend?!
All Communities > Stay at Home Moms > have a son who has problems with bed wetting what do i do?
My eight year old has issues with bedwetting we do the night wakings, limit his fluid intake, and now my doctor gave his a pill that im not comfortable giving him because its just an antidepressant and it makes him hard to wake and he falls alseep in class. if u have any other suggestions i would greatly apprieciate it and so would he!
thank you i will give it a try but hwere would i get one of those alarms?
This problem is not an uncommon one. I had it when I was a kid and I was 11 before it resolved itself. When I was in school in Family Life they said something like 1 in 4 kids experiences it. I was given a pill (not sure of the name since I was just a kid) but it made me sleepwalk and my parents stopped it. I think they attributed it to the fact that I was just a heavy sleeper in the end. At one point they took me off milk to see if that was the problem (not sure of the logic behind that, but whatever) and that didn't work. It wasn't anything I could control and it was very embarrassing for me. As I got older my parents made me run into the store by myself to get my own pull-ups, I guess they thought shaming me would make me stop, but it's not like I was doing it on purpose. Right about the time I hit puberty is when it stopped, but it made a huge dent in my self esteem. Whatever you do, just don't make a big deal of it around him because if it's the same thing, it's not something he can control.
Now I worry that my son will have the same problem. He is 3 1/2 and wetting himself at night even though he's been potty trained for almost a year. We cut off his fluid intake at 7 and make him go potty before bed, but still, 4 out of 5 nights he will wet.
If you discover anything that works, I wanna know about it! Good luck!
My son had a bedwetting problem as well. When he was 7 or so we had tried limiting fluids and also done the night wakings, and it just wasn't working. Seems to actually be doing the oppostie. When we wouldn't limit intake, he wouldn't wet. So it seemed as though when we limited fluids, he was not filling his bladder fast enough to feel the fullness to wake him. Along with letting him drink, we also initiated a bed alarm. It takes committment from the parent, but if you are doing the night wakings, then you are already committed. The alarm just clips inside the underwear, and it goes off with the slightest little amount of liquid. This way, you are only waking him when his body is saying, "I need to go to the bathroom". Otherwise if you are waking him earlier, it is not teaching his brain that his bladder is full, and that is the reason he is awake. It on average takes about 12 weeks to break the bed wetting issue. For our son, it only took about a month. It helps to tell you when is the right time to wake them and the full sensation of the bladder associated with the waking trains them to wake on their own when their bladder is full. The alarm we got was about $70, but I figure that paid for itself easily,by the time I spent washing beds, water, electricity, and detergent.
It is not right for every child, we have tried it with my 6yo daughter and she is scared to death of it. But it is an inexpensive alternative to the medications. Give it a try! Oh and we kept a chart of every night (it should come with the alarm and inst. also) and our son was rewarded when he stayed dry for a week at a time.
How do I get my 11 yr. old to stop bedwetting?
How do you stop bed wetting when you have tried everything?


Metroid series director and producer Yoshio Sakamoto has no plans to go back to traditional triple-A development, preferring the weird and wonderful like new project Tomodachi Life.
CVG asked Sakamoto when he expects to get back to making traditional games.
"I do not intend to do so," he said.
Sakamoto noted that when working on any existing franchises, he'll do his best to satisfy long-term fans, but he has other ambitions.
"I would like to create entertainment that's completely different and that brings new emotions. I would like to challenge myself in those unique directions," he said.
Sakamoto went on to say that at its core, all games development is about what emotions the creator inspires in players.
"I think in the end what is most important is hospitality towards consumers. When we develop games we always think, 'what do we have to do to make players happy or satisfied?'" he concluded.
Tomodachi Life is due for release on 3DS in June.


Losing critical company data to a computer failure can spell the end of your company if it has not been properly backed-up. If you can't recover your company files, the chances are that your company won't recover either, therefore regular and reliable backups are essential in the day to day running of a business.
Back-ups can take the form of being remote or on site, and can be performed manually or automatically. Wherever you chose to store your data, automatic back-ups can be the most reliable in that they take away all responsibility from employees. Any system that relies on people can be unreliable – sooner or later people are going to forget.
Remote back-up solutions have a number of advantages. Firstly, they eliminate the need for tape systems, which can be difficult and time consuming to recover data from and also rely on people remembering to change the tape and store it offsite. Remote back-up systems, such as those supplied by ITSP, do this for you automatically and can be used within your company's Business Continuity Plan.
These systems can also be personalised so that they perform a back-up at regular intervals that are suitable for the individual company, whether this is daily or hourly. This automatic procedure means that you will have access to the latest version of files your business needs, which further reduces the recovery time from a disaster.
Offsite storage can be beneficial in that, should your place of work become inaccessible, your business can continue to function using data recovered offsite. Most back-up solutions allow the user to access their stored files from anywhere providing they have an internet connection.


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Pioneer Security Life Review
By Eric Stauffer on November 28, 2017 0
Pioneer Security Life Insurance Company is based out of Texas and offers basic life insurance options. They are a part of the Amicable Life (ALICO) group of companies.
About Pioneer Life
Pioneer Security Life Products
Pioneer Life was founded in 1955 in Waco, Texas and operates as part of the American-Amicable Group, which traces its roots back to 1910 and whose landmark ALICO building is a famed part of the Waco skyline. In 2010, Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services acquired the American-Amicable Group, but the company continues operations from the Waco headquarters.
Pioneer writes all of the common forms of life insurance, including whole life insurance, universal life insurance, and term life insurance. Their policies are basic and most are simplified issue, with no medical exam required.
All policies are sold through local agents, and the company website offers little in the way of product information for insurance customers.
Pioneer's life insurance products are described briefly on the website. The website offers no indication as to where they sell their policies, but as part of a large insurance group, they are likely able to provide coverage across the nation either directly or through a partner company.
Pioneer's whole life insurance offering is labeled as a Final Expense policy but is a standard whole life program. Issue age is from birth to 85 years, and the company does not require any medical exams for a policy issue. The policy includes accelerate benefits at no extra cost and has a cash accumulation account as well.
According to the website, there are multiple death benefit plans that are offered depending on the applicant's health history. There are likely limits on the amount of coverage for those with a history of health problems or at an advanced age, but this is not outlined on the website.
Pioneer's term policies are simplified issue with coverage amounts from $25,000 up to $250,000. There are a few options listed including a return of premium option and the choice to convert to whole life as well.
Pioneer also offers Association Term Life for members of certain groups including government employees, first responders, hospital employees, and employees of state-funded educational institutes. This program is a 10-year renewable term policy with an issue age of 18 through 85. Again, this is a simplified issue plan with no medical exam.
Pioneer offers both a simplified issue universal life policy and a fully underwritten option as well. The plan with no medical exam has coverage from $25,000 to $250,000 with a 15-year no-lapse guarantee if premiums are paid.
The fully underwritten plan offers higher death benefits – with no stated maximum – and a no lapse guarantee if premiums are paid.
Both plans offer the flexible premiums and cash accumulation accounts common to universal life insurance.
Modified Life
Pioneer lists a Modified Life policy on their website that appears, based on the limited description, to be a combination of term and permanent features.
Pioneer Security Life's website does not provide an online quoting option and seems to offer quotes through an agent only. The website offers a form that can be submitted to contact their marketing department for more information on their products. Strangely, there is no easy to use "contact an agent" or "find an agent" form that is common to this type of insurance company.
Simplified issue policies with low death benefits are often designed to present an affordable option, however, fully underwritten coverage can often provide a better value overall. Without rates, we are unable to compare this company to others but expect that it is competitive with other similar companies and less so with the large, national insurance companies.
Pioneer accepts claims via a toll-free number that is available only during business hours, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. central time. There is also a fax number, mailing address, and email address for customer contact.
The website does offer claims forms that can be downloaded and printed and makes contact information easy to locate. There is little in the way of explanation of the claims process, but given they only sell life insurance that is not uncommon.
Pioneer Security Life has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau (BBB), and there are only three complaints on file in the past three years, two of which were closed in the past 12 months. One of the complaints listed appears to have been directed to the wrong insurance company, as Pioneer's response states the complainant had no policy on file with them.
There are six reviews on Google, some of which may also be directed to the wrong company as they reference products Pioneer Security does not sell, such as dental insurance. The other complaints reference pushy salespeople targeting seniors, which is a common complaint about this type of agent-driven company.
Overall, the complaint volume, as well as the content, are neither high nor of major concern.
With limited information regarding this company's products and rates, it is difficult to recommend them. They do, however, have a solid backing and do not appear to have any major strikes against them in the reviews and complaints department. For those seeking simplified issue life insurance, particularly in the Waco area, they may be a viable option.
Pioneer Security Life


I have seen many posts about getting water and supplies, but none about how to handle the emotional side of experiencing a Hurricane. So, Here you go.
The constant focus on Hurricane news is probably the way most adults handle the stress of the storm, why? We watch because having information, while overwhelming, allows us some sense of control. If we know when and how something is going to happen, we can psychologically prepare for it. This is a key to handling the storm. BUT too much information can be unhealthy. For children, this storm can be even more disturbing. Here are some tips, Kids first.
1. When a child has a question about the storm, answer it honestly and at their level. When my daughter needed to know about flooding and why it is so bad. I used an example of a spilled drink in the carpet, and how it will slosh when you walk on the spot because the carpet can't absorb all the water.
Answering questions the child has will help reduce potential trauma reactions because they can then predict the effect. Ask your child if they have any questions.
2. Give the child a task to help in completing. Making granola or snack bags, making pallets where everyone can cuddle up and watch a movie. Turn off the news and create a safe event for the whole family.
3. Have some art or writing activities. Have the child write what is happening and how they are responding to it. Have them keep a journal during the storm. LISTEN to your child and give them time to talk out their concerns. Just Listen!
4. Explain what might happen such as power loss and flooding. The more the child can be aware, the less sudden the events will be. Maybe turn off lights and eltronics and use your flashlights and talk about what your family will handle a loss of power. Practicing in a safe time will reduce the stress if it does happen.
5. Have them keep in contact with friends and extended family, they will worry less if they know others are safe.
6. Kids thrive on routine. keep bedtimes the same, and eat at normal times, do some homework or reading when you normally do. Chores need to be kept up as regularly done. Do not make the child's world an emergency.
1. Cultivate hope. What are the plans for the coming week? Plan for a regular week, even if it looks like it might not be. Do the laundry as you normally would. Hope is vital for you and your family.
2. Limit news, and alerts on the phone. Turn off the emergency and spend some quality time with family. Set a schedule to check in on the storm, but avoid constant alertness. Limit social media.
3. Eat regular meals. Hurricane snacks are ok, but meals are a great emotional comfort.
4. Keep a journal yourself. Write down the questions you have and work to find some answers. Write about what is happening and what that means for you.
5. Talk to the friends and family that are not in your home, it helps to know others are safe.
7. Have a plan and work your plan.
8. The sun will be out again, and the rain will end. Life goes on after the storm.
10. Turn on music and dance, play your instruments, sing, paint, draw, read, whatever helps you normally cope with daily struggles.
Overall, use the relationships you have to build the strength to cope with the storm, use the skills you normally use to cope with stress. Build in HOPE! Get sleep and good food. Hug lots and draw support and give support.


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Want to keep this harvest clean? Cut out bees wings, fines and dust with this air system add-on.
Bruning Aspirator Fans are designed to capture unwanted residue that builds up in and around your grain system. The unit can easily be added to your dryer, grain leg, load-out or hopper.
Installation and service are user-friendly. Transitions, adapters, flex tube and fittings are available to meet your specific layout. The housing design is simple, allowing easy access and clean-out.
The BRUNeumatic Aspirator Cyclone helps to separate the waste product from the airstream. The optional discharge gate dials in exactly how much air, if any, escapes from the cyclone. This can vary due to the size and weight of the waste product.
An inline slide valve is available to vary the amount of suction that the aspirator draws in. Most all installations do not require the slide valve, but they are available for specific uses.


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Griefers in Fallout 76 Will Be Punished in a Unique Way
By Adam Sherrill August 12, 2018
Fallout 76 is completely unlike any other game in the series, putting a huge emphasis on multiplayer gameplay. There are still a lot of unanswered questions regarding some aspects of how online play will be integrated, and Todd Howard took an opportunity at QuakeCon 2018 to highlight some of the features.
One thing that usually plagues online games is griefing. Sometimes there's just one player that is there to do nothing other than to ruin your experience for their pleasure or benefit. There are many ways that developers have dealt with griefers in the past, which usually results in a temporary or permanent ban from the server. However, Bethesda is taking a more unique approach to griefers in Fallout 76.
In the game, PVP initiations are referred to as "slaps." Todd Howard compared the term to slapping somebody in a bar to see if they want to fight back. The same is true in the game. If somebody in Fallout 76 slaps you, there will be an option to engage in battle. If you choose "yes," a PVP battle will begin. If you choose "no," gameplay will continue as normal.
However, it is still possible for a player to kill you if you've selected "no." In this instance, the player who ignored your request and took you down will become a "wanted murderer." The player will receive no rewards for killing the player and will be punished by having a bounty put on their head.
The murderer will then appear on the map as a red star. Any other players that are hunting the bounty will be invisible on the map for the murderer. This makes it to where griefers will receive no rewards and are at a high risk to lose their items to other players.
Howard also revealed some other features of the PVP mode. Higher level players will, of course, give you better prizes for defeating them. You will also be able to seek revenge if you are killed in player combat, giving you a chance to score double the loot if successful on a second try.
Thankfully, there isn't a whole lot to lose upon death. Instead of losing all of your loot, you'll only drop the building materials you've gathered for your base. Thankfully, there are plenty of places you can store these items near your base, so make sure you're not holding on to too many things!
But if PVP really just isn't your thing, Bethesda is also including an option to turn off "slaps" entirely. This will allow you to enjoy the online fun of Fallout 76 without having to worry about other players interfering with your session.
Fallout 76 is coming November 14th to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. An open beta of the game will be held sometime before then, which will release first on Xbox One.
What do you guys think of the new PVP features in Fallout 76? Do you think Bethesda is dealing with griefers properly? Are you excited to engage in combat with other players? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
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Writing is half of my life. Video games make up the other half. I decided to put these two hobbies together and join Gamnesia back in 2015. I spend most of my time working at a retail store and paying off my student debt. When I'm not getting stressed about the thousands of dollars I owe my loan providers, I play tons of video games (which just puts me into more debt). I'm also currently writing a novel in what little spare time I have. It's a story I've been wanting to write for a while, but I don't want to talk about it until I have most of it completed. Any Gamnesia-related inquiries may be sent to [email protected] Feel free to follow my personal Twitter if you want (@Pindlo). I mostly just retweet things.
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Description: Need a smaller way to add some 'twinkle' to your LilyPad project? Then you need some LilyPad Micros! A LilyPad Micro is like a smaller version of the LilyPad LED board. By eliminating the resistor and changing the orientation of the surface mount LED we've shrunk the board down which looks great in elegant designs or on sheer fabrics where you don't need the extra weight or exposed board space. It's really the closest you can come to sewing a point of light directly to your project.
Note: Because the board don't include a current-limiting resistor, it is possible to over-power them and possibly burn them up. The high resistance of conductive thread can help protect the Micros from high current, so long stitches can be used with most power sources to keep the power levels 'Micro-friendly'. If you aren't sure where to start with resistance and current, using these in conjunction with a LilyPad Simple or Main Board is a great place to start, because they both have built-in current limiting and can't burn up your Micros.
Note: These are sold in strips of five boards which can be snapped apart with pliers. Some, however, may come as loose pieces that are already snapped apart.


The Caister Lifeboat Experience in the Old Shed is now open to the public... during winter we have been refreshing our displays and creating new activities. Visitors can dress up in waterproof lifeboat kit and get on board a real lifeboat - The Shirley Jean Adye - which served at Caister from 1969 to 1991. There's also games and activities to play, you can hear some of the Caister Lifeboat stories in new audio systems which have been fittedaround the shed to add to our display boards. There's also a range of short films, including the Children's ITV show Rosie and Jim - where Caister Lifeboat rescued them on The Old Rag Doll!
Sundays and Wednesdays from Good Friday until the last Sunday in October . Also open every Bank Holiday during the season, and every Thursday during the school summer holidays.


Our Rainbow Centre offers a full range of PADI courses and daily dive trips. The South Island is considered one of Vietnams best dive sites. One of the few places around the coastline where you can see bamboo sharks and as always a wide array of macro life. Off the far South West coast of Vietnam. A Vietnamese Island in the Gulf of Thailand, off the Cambodian border. This small, underdeveloped Island hosts a buffet of beachside resorts. Easily accessible from HCM by flight.


There are so many Memphis sounds. The ones I draw on are primarily from the mid 20th century. The Mirrors album is more influenced by the Sun Records, Johnny Cash acoustic guitar based stuff, and my Heart Shaped Shadow is more influenced by the Stax stuff. I got my toe in the water working with horns, I've never done that before.
The two acts are perfectly sympatico. McMurtry is a seasoned, crafted storyteller and Moreland aims straight for the gut.
Once I got them to the way I could sing them, then I really had fun with them, and then the songs felt like they started to belong to me too, just adding attitude to these bitchin' stories.
Every song on the album is a lofty tribute to the way the blues sprang from the souls of the suffering longing for hope.
The album carries its sounds like interlocking sonic waves of daydreamy intricacy, at times hearkening back to 70's style vocals and rich with overlapping tones.
If you think about it, creating songs is uniquely human. Humans have a really innate need to be "creating" or "making" at all times.
Rateliff is one of those musicians whose music is on the brink of a national burst out, and if he's already a household name in your home, it speaks to your impeccable taste, not to mention your trendsetting qualities. The combination of soul and edgy rhythms is intoxicating.
With their new release Loud In Here, The Nouveaux Honkies carry on the honky tonk tradition with a combination of irreverent songs and songs that expand musically on the honky tonk foundation.
Some songs are musically complex, and others are emotionally profound, with all the range in between.