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2019—A Year of Movies in Review
Posted on Dec 31, 2019 10:00:49 AM
Looking back on the year, it's safe to say that 2019 was a rather diverse year for movies. We received more classics from Disney's Toy Story 4 and Frozen II, we saw the end of the legendary Star Wars saga in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and we even had some substantial breakthroughs in the arthouse and foreign movie genres with The Lighthouse and Parasite. From the very beginning right up to the tail end of the year, we experienced some of the decade's best cinematic treasures.
With the awards season upon us, we wanted to pay homage to the titles that reminded us that movies are one of the greatest forms of art. From the reimagined take on a whodunnit movie to the return of Quentin Tarantino, here are just some of the most memorable movies from 2019.
Park Yeon-kyo (Yeo-jeong Jo) in Parasite (2019)
Bong Joon Ho's family thriller made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, where it became the first South Korean movie to win the coveted Palme d'Or. After making its way into theatres worldwide, the movie became a sensation, grossing over $20 million in the U.S. and over $100 million worldwide. Not only did this movie make waves among movie fans everywhere, but it is also a top contender for the 2020 Oscar® for Best Picture.
Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o) in Us (2019)
After Jordan Peele's masterpiece Get Out (2017), audiences waited in agony for him to bring us another movie. Earlier this year, he didn't disappoint when we were given his more ambitious title Us. In a mind-blowing performance, Lupita Nyong'o created not one but two original characters that drove the movie's tension and excitement at every moment. Because of her performance, Nyong'o has rightfully earned several critics prizes for Best Actress.
Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) in Knives Out (2019)
Taking a break from his endeavors with Star Wars, Rian Johnson reignited a long-forgotten movie genre with his stab (pun definitely intended) at the classic Whodunnit. With a star-studded cast featuring Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer, Chris Evans, LaKeith Stanfield, Don Johnson, and the up-and-coming favorite Ana de Armas, Knives Out took us back with a 21st century take on a murder mystery.
Writer/Dir. Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig on KNIVES OUT
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in Avengers: Endgame (2019)
You can't have a great year at the theatre without at least one superhero movie, but with Avengers: Endgame, we got the end-all-be-all of superhero movies. In this highly ambitious finale to one of Marvel's most lucrative franchises, this crossover event brought together more than a decade's worth of movies into one action-packed, tear-jerking, formula-shattering story—what a year for Marvel and movie fans alike.
The Best Superhero Movie Performances Of The Decade
Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) and Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) in The Lighthouse (2019)
For all you arthouse movie lovers and cinephiles, the return of Robert Eggers to the big screen with The Lighthouse was a dream-come-true. After his beloved, 2015 horror The VVitch, Eggers came to us almost four years later with this black-and-white masterpiece that left audiences and critics dumbfounded at its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Carried by alarmingly unhinged performances by Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse is sure to draw some attention come awards season.
Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) and Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
This summer we got to party like it was 1969 in Quentin Tarantino's return to the big screen with Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. In his ninth movie, we got a detailed look into the sun-soaked paradise of Southern California during the tail end of the golden age of cinema. Taking a unique look at the travesties of the Manson family murders, Tarantino was named the National Board of Review's best director while Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood was one of the only titles of 2019 to land a nomination from every guild!
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Lance Corporal Schofield (George MacKay) in 1917 (2019)
Coming in, by a hair, at the end of the year was Sam Mendes' 1917, a World War I epic following the daring mission of two young soldiers across enemy lines. Teaming up with Mendes was famed cinematographer Roger Deakins and highly celebrated Dunkirk (2017) editor Lee Smith, creating a series of shots that was tailored together seamlessly to appear as if the entire movie is one continuous shot. When it was screened for critics earlier in the year, 1917 received some of the loudest acclaim thus far.
Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in Joker (2019)
Todd Phillips' Joker was easily the year's most anticipated, reviewed, and talked about movie of the year. In a wholly new take on the classic comic book villain, we were given a chilling, realistic approach to the Clown Prince of Crime's descent into crippling madness. With a groundbreaking performance, it is no surprise that Joaquin Phoenix has been a top contender to earn the Best Actor nomination, along with the movie being talked up for Best Picture.
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Q: Silverlight 5 Treeview Drag and Drop I'm having issues doing Drag and Drop with a TreeView in SilverLight.  I want to be able to reorder items in a TreeView.  For example, reparent an item.  I am using EntityFramework with a hierarchical relationship (ID, ParentID).  Here is my xaml.
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I created some Event Handlers to see if the drag and drop events were working and they were.  Silverlight also give visual feedback that the drag is happening.
One thing I wonder about is that the Collection that is bound to the TreeView is not an ObservableCollection.  The Children property of the Entity is an EntityCollection.  I'm not sure what I can mess with in the EntityObject.
Anyone have any ideas??
UPDATE:  If I drag a child node to any node in its upper or lower tree, nothing happens.  If I drag a child above or below a root node, a line appears in the tree view.  If I drop it there, I get a null reference exception.  I cannot pin it down.  I know there is a lot going on in this question, but I think we are getting close.  Any help or insight is appreciated.
UPDATE 2: I'll add some screen shots to show what is happening.

Sample treeview

This is what it looks like when I drag an item.  I'm trying to drag Milky Way to be a root node with no parent.  Notice the Line at the top.  I assume this is the drop location.  If I drop it there, I get the exception.  Let's say I drag Solar System to be a direct child of Universe.  Nothing happens.  No line appears either.

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Беатрис Аддад Майя (; родилась 30 мая 1996 года в Сан-Паулу, Бразилия) — бразильская профессиональная теннисистка; финалистка одного турнира Большого шлема в парном разряде (Открытый чемпионат Австралии-2022); победительница шести турниров WTA (из них два в одиночном разряде).

Общая информация
Беатрис начала заниматься теннисом в возрасте пяти лет. Обладает двуручным ударом слева с рабочей руки.

Спортивная карьера
В юниорском рейтинге Аддад Майя достигла максимально 15-го места. Первый титул во взрослой карьере выиграла в 2010 году на парном 10-тысячнике из цикла ITF. Первый подобный турнир в одиночном разряде выиграла в октябре 2011 года. В феврале 2012 года Беатрис сыграла первый матч за сборную Бразилии в розыгрыше Кубка Федерации. В феврале 2013 года состоялся её дебют в основных соревнованиях WTA-тура, когда Аддад получила специальное приглашение на турнир во Флорианополисе. В феврале 2015 года она на ещё одном турнире в Бразилии — в Рио-де-Жанейро впервые прошла в четвертьфинал уровня WTA-тура. В апреле того же года в паре с соотечественницей Паулой Кристиной Гонсалвес она выиграла первый титул в туре на парных соревнованиях в Боготе. В ноябре 2016 года Аддад Майя выиграла подряд два 50-тысячника из цикла ITF, проводившихся в США.

В марте 2017 года на турнире Премьер-серии в Майами Беатрис Аддад Майя сыграла в основной сетке и во втором круге уступила хозяйке турнира Винус Уильямс. В апреле она выиграла второй парный титул WTA за карьеру и вновь на турнире в Боготе в дуэте с Надей Подорошкой. В мае Аддад Майя отправилась на турнир в Праге. Там Беатрис успешно прошла квалификацию, а в основной сетке, смогла добраться до четвертьфинала, в котором проиграла Кристине Плишковой. После этого она смогла выиграть на 100-тысячнике ITF в Кань-сюр-Мере и впервые подняться в топ-100 женского одиночного рейтинга. Аддад Майя успешно смогла преодолеть квалификацию на Открытый чемпионат Франции, но в дебютном матче в основной сетке Большого шлема проиграла Елене Весниной. На Уимблдонском турнире она уже вышла во второй раунд в одиночках и третий раунд в парах. В августе Беатрис Аддад Майя выступала на турнире серии Премьер 5 в Цинциннати, где успешно пройдя квалификацию, смогла выиграть первый матч в основной сетке, но проиграла во втором испанке Мугурусе. В сентябре бразильянка сыграла первый финал WTA в одиночном разряде на турнире в Сеуле. В нём она проиграла Елене Остапенко со счётом 7-6(5), 1-6, 4-6. После этого результата Аддад Майя поднялась на самое высокое в своей карьере — 58-е место мирового рейтинга.

На Открытом чемпионате Австралии в женском одиночном разряде Беатрис достигла наивысшего результата на кортах Мельбурна, сыграв во втором круге и уступив 6-й сеянной Каролине Плишковой. Весной на турнире в Майами она выиграла два матча и прошла в третий раунд. В ноябре сыграла в финале 80-тысячника ITF в Тайлере.

В январе 2019 года Аддад прошла через квалификацию в основную сетку Открытого чемпионата Австралии. В первом раунде она обыграла Бернанду Пера, но во втором раунде проиграла немке Анжелике Кербер. В феврале через квалификацию она прошла на турнир в Акапулько). В основной сетке Беатрис дошла до четвертьфинала, обыграв во втором раунде № 4 в мире Слоан Стивенс. Это была её первая победа над теннисисткой из топ-10. В 1/4 финала она уступила китаянке Ван Яфань. В апреле Аддад Майя пробилась в полуфинал турнира в Боготе, где проиграла американке Аманде Анисимовой. В июне на 100-тысячнике ITF в Илкли она смогла завоевать парный трофей в сотрудничестве с Луизой Стефани. На Уимблдоне Беатрис во второй раз в карьере дошла второго раунда турнира, в котором проиграла теннисистке Дарт. В первом раунде она смогла победить чемпионку Уимблдона 2017 года Гарбинье Мугурусу.

Допинговый скандал
В июле 2019 года Аддад Майя была отстранена от соревнований. Её допинг-проба, взятая во время соревнований в Боготе, дала положительный результат. В моче бразильянки был обнаружены селективные модуляторы андрогенных рецепторов, которые запрещены WADA.

Возвращение после дисквалификации
Возвращение на корт состоялось через год. В сентябре 2020 года Аддад Майя сыграла на 25-тысячнике ITF в Португалии и смогла выиграть его. Осенью она в целом выиграла четыре титула на небольших турнирах из цикла ITF. В сентябре 2021 года бразильянка выиграл два титула на 60-тысячниках ITF, проводившихся в Швейцарии.

Итоговое место в рейтинге WTA по годам

Выступления на турнирах

Финалы турниров WTA в одиночном разряде (4)

Победы (2)

* количество побед в одиночном разряде + количество побед в парном разряде.

Поражения (2)

Финалы турниров WTA 125 и ITF в одиночном разряде (27)

Победы (18)

** призовой фонд до 2017 года

* количество побед в одиночном разряде + количество побед в парном разряде.

Поражения (9)

Финалы турниров Большого шлема в парном разряде (1)

Поражения (1)

Финалы турниров WTA в парном разряде (6)

Победы (4)

Поражения (2)

Финалы турниров WTA 125 и ITF в парном разряде (16)

Победы (10)

Поражения (6)

Примечания

Ссылки

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Теннисисты, дисквалифицированные за нарушение антидопинговых правил

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The wrecks were caused by Operation Hailstone, a US Navy aerial attack on the Japanese-held islands of the lagoon on 17 and 18 February 1944. American naval forces neutralized the lagoon's offensive capacity but did not try to capture it; instead they leapfrogged the islands and captured the Mariana Islands, which were within bomber range of Japan.

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"Divisible" redirects here. For divisibility of groups, see Divisible group .
This article is about an integer that divides another integer. For the second argument of a division operation, see Division (mathematics) . For divisors in algebraic geometry, see Divisor (algebraic geometry) . For divisibility in ring theory, see Divisibility (ring theory) .
In the remainder of this article, which definition is applied is indicated where this is significant.
Divisors can be negative as well as positive, although sometimes the term is restricted to positive divisors. For example, there are six divisors of 4; they are 1, 2, 4, −1, −2, and −4, but only the positive ones (1, 2, and 4) would usually be mentioned.
1 and −1 divide (are divisors of) every integer. Every integer (and its negation) is a divisor of itself.  Every integer is a divisor of 0.  Integers divisible by 2 are called even , and integers not divisible by 2 are called odd .
1, −1, n and −n are known as the trivial divisors of n. A divisor of n that is not a trivial divisor is known as a non-trivial divisor. A non-zero integer with at least one non-trivial divisor is known as a composite number , while the units −1 and 1 and prime numbers have no non-trivial divisors.
There are divisibility rules that allow one to recognize certain divisors of a number from the number's digits.
The generalization can be said to be the concept of divisibility in any integral domain .
Plot of the number of divisors of integers from 1 to 1000. Prime numbers have exactly 2 divisors, and highly composite numbers are in bold.
. It can also be said that 42 is divisible by 7, 42 is a multiple of 7, 7 divides 42, or 7 is a factor of 42.
The non-trivial divisors of 6 are 2, −2, 3, −3.
The positive divisors of 42 are 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 42.
, i.e. divisibility is a transitive relation .
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but 5 does not divide 6).
. This is called Euclid's lemma .
whose only proper divisor is 1 is called a prime number . Equivalently, a prime number is a positive integer that has exactly two positive factors: 1 and itself.
raised to some power. This is a consequence of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic .
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HBL, Telenor Pakistan partner to launch MyTelenor App
HBL is in partnership with Telenor Pakistan will work towards enabling customers to access the Bank's Internet Payment Gateway (IPG) and Direct Transfer (DT) systems using MyTelenor App.
The signatories of the agreement are Uzair N. Rabbani, Regional Corporate Head, North – HBL, and Faisal Saeed, Director Financial Control – Telenor Pakistan. Salman Naweed Choudhary, Regional Business Head, Innovation & Financial Inclusion – HBL, and Muhammad Qasim Awan, Director Customer Care & Channel Management – Telenor Pakistan were also in attendance at the ceremony.
This partnership will contribute to HBL's vision of becoming a 'Technology Company with a Banking License'. As a result of the partnership between HBL and Telenor Pakistan, the digital transformation will provide a seamless and smooth digital experience for customers across the country.
Cumulatively, more than a million customers of both companies will be able to make Visa/MasterCard/UnionPay credit and debit card payments to their Telenor Pakistan balance directly using MyTelenor App while leveraging the Bank's payment gateway. The avant-garde solution has been developed using the 3D-secure platform for additional security and fraud management tools that safeguard the system against any fraudulent activities.
The partnership between HBL and Telenor Pakistan has been built upon the promise of combining forces to offer the best-in-class services, powered by state-of-the-art technology.
HBL has worked towards changing the financial landscape of Pakistan. Earlier, it launched the country's first and largest fintech summit.
The virtual summit was the first of its kind in Pakistan. According to reports, some of the biggest names from global fintech giants attended the event.
The governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Reza Baqir attended the event in person as the Chief Guest. Meanwhile, Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, who also serves as the UN Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, delivered a special pre-recorded message at the summit.
Moreover, Ann Cairns, Global Vice Chair – Mastercard, also delivered a virtual keynote to the participants of the HBLPFS 2021.
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A man in Co Donegal died after an accident during a tree cutting exercise.
It is the second such death in the province in just over a week.
The man, locally known as John McBride, was killed around 4:30 PM this afternoon near his home in Creeslough.
Mr. McBride, a 54-year-old married father of one, was killed immediately.
What exactly happened during the incident is still being investigated.
Mr. McBride was a very popular man who worked with the environmental department of Donegal County Council.
A neighbor in Creeslough said, "The whole area is in shock." John was such a decent man who was so popular with his colleagues in Donegal County Council.
"He was such a good housefather and this is simply devastating – nobody knows what to say."
His tragic death comes a little more than a week after another man was killed when he was cleaning up trees too.
Kevin McElhinney died when he was hit by a part of a tree in Carndonagh on the peninsula Inishowen on Friday last week.
The father of the five, a farmer, was known in the area.
A Go-Fund-Me page for his children, which was only set up two days ago, has already yielded an amazing € 70,000.
The money will be used to build an extension of the house of the family.
A spokesman for the fundraising campaign said: "We realize that there is nothing that can be said or done to take away the pain of losing a beloved father, partner, brother and friend.
"However, we hope that with the help and generosity of the people, we can at some time ease the financial pressure on the family and build a suitable extension for the needs of the two youngest children.
"Kevin has four beautiful sons and a dear daughter, and all donations go directly to the much-needed extension for Kevin's two youngest children, Lucy and Timothy."


WOODLAND HILLS, CA (December 2, 2013) – High speed car chases and street car racing add a dose of excitement to movies. In real life, driving at unsafe speeds can have deadly consequences.
This lesson was reinforced through the tragic death of Paul Walker, a notable star of "The Fast and the Furious" and several of its sequels. Walker made his name as an actor in a role which required him to do dangerous things behind the wheel. Unfortunately, art did not imitate life for Walker.
Walker died tragically in a single car accident. He was the passenger in a red Porsche Carrera GT driven by close friend and accomplished racing buddy, Roger Rodas, at about 3:30 p.m when the car flew off the road and crashed into a light pole. In addition to playing a role as an avid street racing enthusiast in "The Fast and the Furious" films, Walker was also a professional race car driver, participating with friend Roger Rodas in various Pirelli World Challenge Series races as driving team partners.
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Participants in the Remember Paul Walker National Drive Safer Challenge are asked to send an email or a text message to their friends and family with a pledge to not speed or street race. They are encouraged to reach out to those same friends and family members and get them to join the challenge and take the same pledge.
I ____________ remember Paul Walker. I pledge to drive safer and hope you do too. Stay alive– think before you drive.


As Supergir's Delayed Cap to season three hits, DC leaves for their summer vacation, just in time as Cloak & Dagger might actually work together this episode. Meanwhile, if you thought that you finally would have some free time, Luke Cage drops from Harlem (or Netflix) to take up your entire weekend on Friday!
The shows continue to dwindle as Legion pretends to be the X-Files instead of the X-Men for his finale, and Legend and the Flash's episode titler was bored with the end of those seasons and brings the pun game to Supergirl. Cloak & Dagger explorer alternative religions. In the world of ink and paint, where Big Hero 6 explore an EMP, and Spider-Man returns from his hiatus.
I typically wouldn't include animation, but if I didn't, there would only be two shows to mention. Supergirl decides to vacation on a chunk of her homeworld while the rest of the crew have an After-School special reminding us that guns are bad, and Legion might actually reveal some things as we near the end of the season. Also, Legion got Season 3.
Much less to watch this week, with even more finales. Lucifer is gone, but next Monday we will get an extra two episodes that they filmed for season four. Ariel Dubois turns up to give Supergirl a hard time. The Flash races into DeVoe's Cranium. Supergrandpa hits the bottle, and Legion figures out what he wants to do any gets on with it. Arrow was listed as having more episodes on the source I used, but Wikipedia believes the season is over, and the previous episode did seem pretty final.


Do you feel like that sunflower sometimes? The last petal holding on beyond anything to hope for. Living in this world can be extremely draining on one's hope if it is not planted in the right place and not cultivated correctly. Romans 5:2-5 tells us about how to grow our faith. Let's take a close look at verses 2 and 5.
Now when Isaiah 6:3 says that angels are crying: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty, the next thing they say is this: The whole earth is full of his…and you might have expected him to say holiness. And he doesn't say holiness. He says glory.
Intrinsically holy, intrinsically holy, intrinsically holy and the whole earth is full of his glory from which I stab at a definition by saying the glory of God is the manifest beauty of his holiness. It is the going public of his holiness. It is the way he puts his holiness on display for people to apprehend. So the glory of God is the holiness of God made manifest.
The perfect example of God's holiness was Jesus. Yet all around us, we see the holiness of God. From the mountains to the oceans, from the ants to the elephant, from the mustard seed to the giant redwood all show God's holiness. Jesus was there when everything was created. He created us to and when we come to the saving faith in His grace that is when we find hope in His glory. There is no shame in this hope because it is the love of God which fills us through the Holy Spirit.
So how does our hope grow? It comes through trials. Let's look at the verses 3 and 4, now.
Here we see the progression of how hope grows. We rejoice in our sufferings because they create endurance, in turn, endurance creates character which creates hope. Our hope grows when we are in trials. They make us hold on tighter to our hope in Jesus that He will get us through.
This is so true! I love walking outside and looking at the sky and trees and nature around me. It reminds me of how great God is and how much bigger He is than my problems!
It really helps when we look at things that way.


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estuary is Acadia's creative arts magazine. This student-run publication accepts submissions of creative writing, visual art, and original music (mp3 format) from Acadia students across campus. Specific fall and winter deadlines are announced each year.


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Het Schots voetbalelftal is een team van voetballers dat Schotland vertegenwoordigt in internationale wedstrijden. De bijnaam van de supporters is de "Tartan Army". Dit is afgeleid van de kilts die traditioneel een bepaald patroon van Schotse ruiten (een tartan) hebben, en 'Army' betekent 'leger'. De supporters noemen zich ook wel "Ally's Army" naar Ally MacLeod, de trainer van Schotland tijdens het wereldkampioenschap voetbal 1978.

Geschiedenis

Beginjaren
In 1872 vond de eerste voetbalinterland ooit plaats, Schotland en Engeland speelden tegen elkaar doelpuntloos gelijk. Schotland verloor twee van de eerste 43 interlands, de twee nederlagen waren allebei tegen Engeland. In 1903 verloor het zijn eerste interland tegen een ander team, er werd een 2-0 nederlaag geleden tegen Ierland. Tussen 1874 en 1904 was Schotland volgens de Elo-wereldranglijst voetbal het sterkste voetballand van de wereld. In het seizoen 1883/1884 vond de eerste interland-competitie plaats, het British Home Championship met als tegenstanders Engeland, Wales en in eerste instantie Ierland, later Noord-Ierland. Schotland won tot 1904 24 keer de titel, waarvan 17 keer een gedeelde plaats. De competitie duurde voort tot het seizoen 1983/1984, Schotland won de titel 41 keer, waarvan 17 keer een gedeelde plaats. De eerste interland buiten het Verenigde Koninkrijk was in 1929 tegen Noorwegen, er werd met 7-3 gewonnen. De FA-bond leefde in onmin met de FIFA over het toelaten van profspelers in internationale toernooien en daarom kon Schotland zich niet inschrijven voor de eerste drie WK's in de jaren dertig.

Eerste twee WK's zonder succes (1950–1958)

WK 1950
Vanaf 1949 schreven de Britse landen zich in bij de FIFA en deden mee aan de kwalificatie voor het WK van 1950. De FIFA besloot een groep op te zetten met alle Britse ploegen bij elkaar, waarvan de eerste twee landen zich zouden plaatsen. De Schotse voetbalbond besloot alleen naar Brazilië te gaan als Schotland eerste werd. Schotland werd tweede na een 0-1 nederlaag tegen Engeland en de Schotse Bond bleef bij hun standpunt. In plaats van deel te nemen aan het WK maakte Schotland een tour door Noord-Amerika.

WK 1954
Voor het WK van 1954 waren de regels hetzelfde, een tweede plaats in een Britse groep zou genoeg zijn voor plaatsing. Een overwinning op Noord-Ierland, een gelijkspel tegen Wales en een nederlaag tegen Engeland was genoeg voor de tweede plaats en nu ging de ploeg wel naar het WK. Erg serieus nam Schotland het WK nog steeds niet, slechts 13 spelers gingen mee naar Zwitserland, terwijl 22 spelers waren toegestaan. De eerste wedstrijd tegen Oostenrijk werd met 1-0 verloren en enkele uren voor de beslissende wedstrijd tegen Uruguay nam manager Andy Beattie ontslag. Schotland leed tegen de regerende wereldkampioen zijn grootste nederlaag in zijn historie: 7-0.

WK 1958
Schotland begon de kwalificatie voor het WK van 1958 sterk met een 4-2 overwinning op Spanje (drie treffers van Jackie Mudie) en een 1-2 overwinning in Zwitserland. Aangezien Spanje en Zwitserland gelijk speelden in Madrid had Schotland een ruime voorsprong in de beslissende wedstrijden. Na een 4-1 nederlaag tegen Spanje stelde Schotland kwalificatie zeker dankzij een 3-2 zege op Zwitserland. De coach van Manchester United Matt Busby zou Schotland begeleiden tijdens het WK in Zweden, maar Busby was nog verzwakt van zijn verwondingen tijdens de vliegramp van München waar bijna de voltallige selectie van Manchester United overleed. Schotland begon het WK met een 1-1 gelijkspel tegen Joegoslavië, maar door nederlagen tegen Paraguay en Frankrijk was de ploeg in de eerste ronde uitgeschakeld.

Gemiste kansen op kwalificaties (1958–1972)

WK 1962
Schotland schreef zich niet in voor de EK's van 1960 en 1964. Voor het WK van 1962 was het land in een felle strijd verwikkeld met Tsjecho-Slowakije, beide landen wonnen ruim van Ierland. Schotland verloor met 4-0 in Bratislava en in Glasgow leek de strijd beslist, toen de Tsjechen een 2-1 voorsprong namen. Twee treffers van de bij Manchester United spelende Denis Law zorgde voor een 3-2 zege en een beslissingswedstrijd in Brussel moest de beslissing brengen. Nu waren de rollen omgedraaid, de Schotten stonden vlak voor tijd met 1-2 voor door twee treffers van Ian St John. Namens de Tsjechen zorgde Adolf Scherer voor de gelijkmaker, waarna de Tsjechen in de verlengingen toesloegen: 4-2. Tsjecho-Slowakije zou op dat WK de finale halen.

WK 1966
Voor het WK in 1966 was er opnieuw een pittige tegenstander in de voorronde: Italië. Voor de beslissende wedstrijden tegen de tweevoudige wereldkampioenen werden er punten verspild tegen Polen (1-1 in Warschau, 1-2 in Glasgow). De Italianen wonnen hun thuiswedstrijd tegen Polen met 6-1 en hadden een voordeel van twee punten op de Schotten. In de thuiswedstrijd bleef de hoop levend dankzij een late treffer van John Greig, maar in Napels was Schotland kansloos: 3-0.

EK 1968
In 1967 maakte Celtic Glasgow veel furore door als eerste niet-Latijnse club de Europa Cup I te winnen. Bovendien was Denis Law uitgegroeid tot een van de dragende spelers van Manchester United, dat een jaar later de belangrijkste Europa Cup zou winnen. De UEFA haalde een oud idee van de FIFA uit de kast door alle Britse ploegen een voorronde te laten vormen. Schotland verspilde een punt tegen Wales, maar nam de leiding in de groep door de kersverse wereldkampioen Engeland met 2-3 te verslaan in het Wembley Stadium. Vier van de vijf treffers vielen in de laatste vijftien minuten. De voetballers van Schotland noemden zich na deze overwinning voor de grap "onofficieel wereldkampioen", omdat ze de eersten waren die van de kersverse wereldkampioen hadden gewonnen. Die verzonnen status raakten de Schotten weer kwijt toen ze hun volgende wedstrijd verloren van de Sovjet-Unie, vanaf dat moment de nieuwe "onofficiële wereldkampioen". Omdat Schotland met 1-0 verloor van Noord-Ierland en Engeland alle wedstrijden van Wales en Noord-Ierland won moest Schotland in Glasgow opnieuw van Engeland winnen om de kwartfinales te halen. Voor meer dan 134.000 toeschouwers (een record in het Europese voetbal) eindigde de wedstrijd in een 1-1 gelijkspel en Schotland was uitgeschakeld met één punt verschil.

WK 1970

Loting voor het WK van 1970 leverde opnieuw een pittige tegenstander op: West-Duitsland, ex-wereldkampioen en verliezend finalist in 1966. Celtic was nog een steeds een topteam in Europa, het haalde in 1970 opnieuw de finale van de Europa Cup I (2-1 verlies tegen Feyenoord). In Glasgow zorgde Bobby Murdoch voor een late gelijkmaker tegen de Duitsers, de voorlaatste wedstrijd in de groep, uit tegen de Duitsers in Hamburg was beslissend. Vlak voor tijd scoorde Reinhard Libuda de winnende treffer: 3-2 en de Duitsers konden de tickets naar Mexico bestellen.

EK 1972
Het kwalificatie-toernooi voor het EK van 1972 was geen succes, Schotland won al hun thuiswedstrijden met één goal verschil, maar presteerde ondermaats in de uitwedstrijden. Alle drie wedstrijden gingen verloren, pijnlijk waren een 3-0 nederlaag tegen België en een 1-0 nederlaag tegen het in die jaren kleine voetballand Denemarken.

Vijf WK's op een rij (1972–1990)

WK 1974
Net als in 1962 was Tsjecho-Slowakije de voornaamste concurrent voor het WK in 1974. Schotland won tweemaal van Denemarken, terwijl de Tsjechen in Kopenhagen niet verder kwamen dan 1-1. Bij winst in de thuiswedstrijd zou Schotland zich plaatsen en de bij Leeds United FC spelende Joe Jordan zorgde voor de winnende treffer. Plaatsing voor het WK gaf extra cachet, omdat Engeland zich niet wist te plaatsen. Schotland begon het toernooi in West-Duitsland met een 2-0 zege op Zaïre. De wedstrijd tegen regerend wereldkampioen Brazilië eindigde in een doelpuntloos gelijkspel, mede doordat de Schotse aanvoerder Billy Bremner van dichtbij miste. Omdat Joegoslavië met 9-0 van Zaïre won moest Schotland winnen om de tweede ronde te halen. Schotland kwam niet verder dan een 1-1 gelijkspel en omdat Brazilië met 3-0 van Zaïre won was Schotland uitgeschakeld door een slechter doelsaldo. Achteraf was Schotland het enige land van de zestien deelnemende teams dat geen wedstrijd verloor. Denis Law nam afscheid van het Schotse team

WK 1978

Opnieuw was Tsjecho-Slowakije tegenstander om het WK te halen, dit keer in 1978. Schotland verloor de eerste wedstrijd met 2-0 van de kersverse Europese kampioen, maar Tsjecho-Slowakije verslikte zich opnieuw tegen een mindere tegenstander; Wales versloeg de concurrent met 3-0. Na een 3-1 zege op de Tsjechen was de uitwedstrijd tegen Wales beslissend, de wedstrijd werd gespeeld in Liverpool vanwege massale belangstelling. Schotland won met 0-2 en was opnieuw het enige Britse team dat zich plaatste. De ploeg had een sterke generatie met spits Kenny Dalglish en middenvelder Graeme Souness van Liverpool FC als belangrijkste exponenten. Het zelfvertrouwen bij de Schotten was groot met niet hoog aangeschreven tegenstanders als Peru en Iran op het WK in Argentinië. Tegen Peru ging het mis: Deon Masson miste bij een 1-1 stand een strafschop, waarna Teófilo Cubillas de wedstrijd besliste met sterke twee individuele acties: 1-3. Tot overmaat van ramp werd Willy Johnstone geschorst vanwege gebruik van een verboden middel tegen hooikoorts. De wedstrijd tegen Iran eindigde in een 1-1 gelijkspel en Schotland moest met drie treffers verschil van WK-finalist Nederland winnen om de tweede ronde te halen. Dit resultaat lag binnen handbereik, nadat Archie Gemell met een slalom de Schotten op een 3-1 voorsprong bracht. Nederland wankelde, maar een afstandsschot van Johnny Rep zorgde ervoor, dat Schotland opnieuw op doelsaldo de tweede ronde niet haalde.

WK 1982

Schotland plaatste zich zonder veel problemen voor het WK in 1982 in Spanje. Samen met Noord-Ierland eindigde het boven Portugal en Zweden, pas op de laatste speeldag werd er een nederlaag geleden. In Malaga werd met 5-2 gewonnen van Nieuw-Zeeland, tegen Brazilië nam Schotland een 0-1 voorsprong, maar het team rond sterren als Zico, Sócrates en Falcao overspeelde daarna de Schotten: 4-1. Schotland moest nu winnen van de Sovjet-Unie, maar in een wisselende wedstrijd werd met 2-2 gelijk gespeeld. Schotland kwam in de eerste helft met 1-0 voor, maar in de tweede helft trok de Sovjet-Unie de achterstand recht met een 2-1 voorsprong. Vlak voor tijd scoorde Souness de gelijkmaker, maar Schotland was voor de derde achtereenvolgende keer uitgeschakeld op doelsaldo.

WK 1986
De start om het WK weer te halen was goed met een 3-1 zege op Spanje, maar nederlagen in de return en thuis tegen Wales zorgde voor spanning. Op de laatste speeldag stonden Schotland, Spanje en Wales gelijk in punten, Spanje zou winnen van IJsland, Schotland speelde de uitwedstrijd tegen Wales. Hughes zette Wales op voorsprong, maar in de 80e minuut scoorde Davie Cooper uit een strafschop de gelijkmaker. De spanning van de wedstrijd werd bondscoach Jock Stein te veel en hij stierf in de dug-out. Aberdeen FC-coach Alex Ferguson nam zijn positie over en hij leidde Schotland naar zijn vierde achtereenvolgende WK door in de play-offs Australië te verslaan. Schotland was op het WK in Mexico ingedeeld in een zware poule, samen met WK-finalist West-Duitsland, Zuid-Amerikaans kampioen Uruguay en het opkomende Denemarken. Na nederlagen tegen Denemarken (1-0) en West-Duitsland (2-1) moest Schotland winnen om als derde in de groep de achtste finales te halen. Al binnen een minuut werd de Uruguayaan José Batista uit het veld gestuurd na een brute ingreep op Gordon Strachan. Uruguay bleef hard spelen en Schotland kwam niet verder dan een doelpuntloos gelijkspel. Na het WK namen Graeme Sounness en Kenndy Dalglish afscheid van het team, Ferguson zou vertrekken naar Manchester United.

WK 1990

Voor het WK in 1990 streed Schotland met Joegoslavië en Frankrijk om twee plaatsen. De start was goed met negen punten uit vijf wedstrijden en de voorsprong op Frankrijk was liefst vijf punten. Schotland verspeelde in de uitwedstrijd tegen Joegoslavië een 0-1 voorsprong en verloor met 3-1. Na een 3-0 nederlaag tegen Frankrijk had Schotland nog één punt nodig om zich te plaatsen, dat lukte in de thuiswedstrijd tegen Noorwegen. Het WK in Italië kende een valse start door een 1-0 nederlaag tegen debutant Costa Rica. Met vechtlust werd Zweden bedwongen en met een gelijkspel tegen het al geplaatste Brazilië zou de tweede ronde eindelijk gehaald kunnen worden. Dat leek te lukken in een wedstrijd zonder veel kansen, maar na mistasten van doelman Jim Leighton scoorde Brazilië vlak voor tijd het winnende doelpunt. Voor de vijfde achtereenvolgende keer was Schotland in de eerste ronde uitgeschakeld.

EK's 1976–1988
Merkwaardigerwijs was Schotland in dezelfde periode niet succesvol in de EK-kwalificaties. Voor het EK in 1976 begon Schotland met een thuisnederlaag tegen Spanje en kon de achterstand niet meer goed maken. Voor het EK in 1980 eindigde Schotland op de vierde plaats achter België, Oostenrijk en Portugal, er werden liefst vier nederlagen geleden. Nog slechter waren de kwalificatie-wedstrijden voor het EK in 1984, Schotland verloor alle uitwedstrijden en eindigde zelfs op de laatste plaats achter België, Zwitserland en Oost-Duitsland. Kwalificatie voor het EK in 1988 was al snel onmogelijk na een thuisnederlaag tegen Ierland (0-1) en een duidelijke 4-1 nederlaag tegen België. Schotland hielp Ierland wel aan kwalificatie door eerst België met 2-0 te verslaan en in de slotfase van de uitwedstrijd in Bulgarije met 0-1 te winnen. De cyclus eindigde in mineur na een 0-0 tegen Luxemburg en men eindigde weer op de vierde plaats.

Twee EK's en één WK (1990–2000)

EK 1992

Voor het plaatsen voor het EK van 1992 waren er drie concurrenten: Roemenië, Bulgarije en Zwitserland. De eerste thuiswedstrijden tegen Roemenië en Zwitserland werden met 2-1 gewonnen, tegen Bulgarije werd twee keer gelijk gespeeld. Eerste aanval op de koppositie werd afgewend door in Zwitserland een 2-0 achterstand goed te maken: 2-2, Ally McCoist scoorde vlak voor tijd de gelijkmaker. Na een nederlaag tegen Roemenië was Schotland afhankelijk van de uitslag van de laatste wedstrijd in de groep Bulgarije–Roemenië. Roemenië moest met twee goals verschil winnen, kwam in de eerste helft op een 1-0 voorsprong en miste nog een strafschop. In de tweede helft maakte Bulgarije gelijk en plaatste Schotland zich voor het eerst voor een EK. De loting voor het EK in Zweden beloofde weinig goeds met Europees kampioen Nederland, Wereldkampioen Duitsland en het GOS de voormalige Sovjet-Unie als tegenstanders. Schotland deed het naar behoren, van Nederland werd pas in de slotfase verloren door een treffer van Dennis Bergkamp, van Duitsland werd alleen verloren, omdat de Duitsers beter omgingen met de kansen en het schakelde het GOS uit door een 3-0 zege.

WK 1994
Voor de eerste keer sinds 1970 plaatste Schotland zich niet voor een WK. Het land eindigde op de vierde plaats in zijn groep en won geen enkele wedstrijd van de drie concurrenten: Italië, Portugal en Zwitserland. Vooral de uitwedstrijd tegen Portugal was pijnlijk: 5-0.

EK 1996
Schotland plaatste zich vrij makkelijk voor het EK in Engeland. Schotland verloor alleen van Griekenland en speelde twee keer gelijk tegen Rusland en eindigde achter Rusland met ruime voorsprong op Griekenland en Finland. Schotland begon met een 0-0 gelijkspel tegen Nederland. In de "derby" tegen Engeland miste Gary McAllister een strafschop bij een 1-0 achterstand, waarna Paul Gascoigne de wedstrijd via een individuele actie besliste. Schotland speelde de laatste wedstrijd tegen Zwitserland, maar als Nederland en Engeland gelijk speelde was de strijd beslist en bij een verliezer in die wedstrijd moest Schotland vier doelpunten goed maken. Engeland vernederde de Nederlanders en stonden met 4-0 voor en omdat Schotland door een doelpunt van Ally McCoist met 1-0 voor stond was Schotland op dat moment zeker van de volgende ronde. Echter Patrick Kluivert scoorde tegen voor Nederland en omdat de Zwitserse doelman Marco Pascolo niet meer te passeren was was Schotland voor de vierde keer op doelsaldo uitgeschakeld in de groepsfase.

WK 1998
De merkwaardigste "wedstrijd" in de kwalificatie voor het WK in 1998 werd gespeeld op 9 oktober 1996 tegen Estland in Tallinn, de Schotten trainden een dag voor de wedstrijd en klaagden over de kwaliteit van de lichtmasten. Schotland eiste, dat de wedstrijd in de middag werd gespeeld. De FIFA stemden in met het Schotse verzoek, maar de Esten waren boos, omdat ze tv-ontvangsten zouden missen. Toen de wedstrijd moest beginnen, kwamen de Esten niet opdagen en de FIFA besliste een 0-3 overwinning voor de Schotten. De Estse voetbalbond ging in beroep en de wedstrijd moest een half jaar later worden overgespeeld. In Monaco bleef het doelpuntloos. De Schotten verloren alleen van Zweden en eindigde achter Oostenrijk op de tweede plaats. Omdat Schotten van alle nummers twee in de Europese Zone het beste scoorde, plaatste de ploeg zich rechtstreeks voor het WK. In de eerste wedstrijd tegen regerend wereldkampioen Brazilië bleef Schotland lang op de been, maar de wedstrijd werd beslist door een eigen doelpunt van Tom Boyd. Na een 1-1 gelijkspel tegen Noorwegen moest er gewonnen worden van Marokko en hopen dat Noorwegen niet zou winnen van het al geplaatste Brazilië. Tegen het technisch sterke Marokko leed Schotland een kansloze nederlaag: 3-0. Pleister op de wonde was, dat Schotland bij winst het ook niet gehaald had, want Noorwegen won van Brazilië.

EK 2000
Schotland kwam tekort om eerste te worden in zijn kwalificatie-groep voor het EK van 2000, twee keer werd verloren van Tsjechië. Ondanks puntverlies tegen weinig aansprekende tegenstanders als Litouwen, Estland en Faeröer werd de tweede plaats bereikt door twee zeges op Bosnië en Herzegovina. De eindronde moest bereikt worden door uitgerekend Engeland te verslaan, "the battle of Britain". In Glasgow leek de strijd beslist door een 0-2 nederlaag door twee treffers van Paul Scholes. De return werd nog spannend door een treffer van Don Hutchison, maar verder kwamen de Schotten niet.

Steeds verder wegzakkend (2000–2020)

WK 2002
Voor het WK van 2002 streed Schotland met België en Kroatië om één plaats in de eindronde en een play-off-wedstrijd. Tegen Kroatië werd tweemaal gelijkgespeeld en in de thuiswedstrijd tegen België werd een 2-0 voorsprong weggegeven ondanks dat België na 24 minuten met tien man speelde. In Brussel werd met 2-0 verloren en omdat Kroatië van België won eindigde Schotland op de derde plaats. Bondscoach Craig Brown nam ontslag.

EK 2004

Opvolger werd de Duitser Berti Vogts, de cyclus voor kwalificatie van het EK van 2004 begon teleurstellend met een 2-2 gelijkspel tegen de Faeröer. De resultaten waren wisselend met twee overwinningen op de belangrijkste concurrent voor de tweede plaats IJsland en een nederlaag tegen Litouwen. Op de laatste speeldag had Schotland twee punten achterstand op IJsland, Schotland won met 1-0 van Litouwen door een doelpunt van Darren Fletcher, terwijl IJsland met 3-0 van de nummer een van de groep Duitsland verloor. Schotland werd tweede en moest play-off-wedstrijden spelen tegen Nederland. De eerste wedstrijd werd met 1-0 gewonnen door een doelpunt van James McFadden, maar in de return in Amsterdam was Schotland kansloos: 6-0.

WK 2006
Voor het kwalificeren van het WK in 2006 moest al snel een inhaalrace plaatsvinden, na vier wedstrijden haalde de ploeg maar twee punten. In de volgende wedstrijden werd gelijk gespeeld tegen koploper Italië en gewonnen in de uitwedstrijd tegen de belangrijkste concurrent voor de tweede plaats Noorwegen. Na een thuisnederlaag tegen Wit-Rusland waren de kansen op succes verkeken.

EK 2008
Schotland was voor kwalificatie voor het EK van 2008 ingedeeld met de twee finalisten van het laatste WK: Italië en Frankrijk. Schotland begon de kwalificatie sterk met als beste resultaat een 1-0 overwinning op Frankrijk door een doelpunt van Gary Caldwell. Schotland bleef in de race ondanks nederlagen tegen Oekraïne en Italië (beiden 2-0). De koppositie werd ingenomen een nieuwe overwinning op Frankrijk (0-1, doelpunt McFadden) en een 3-1 zege op de Oekraïne. Met nog twee wedstrijden te spelen had Schotland één punt voorsprong op Italië en twee op Frankrijk. Tegen Georgië werd echter met 2-0 verloren en nu moest van Italië worden gewonnen om de eindronde te halen. Na twee minuten kwam Schotland op achterstand door een doelpunt van Luca Toni, er was hoop na de gelijkmaker van aanvoerder Barry Ferguson, maar in de blessure-tijd vonniste Christian Panucci het definitieve lot van de Schotten: 1-2. Schotland eindigde op de derde plaats met vijf punten achterstand op Italië en twee op Frankrijk.

WK 2010
Directe kwalificatie voor het WK van 2010 was snel onhaalbaar voor de Schotten, Nederland won alle wedstrijden en er werd drie keer verloren: van Macedonië (1-0), Nederland (4-1) en Noorwegen (4-0). Er moest in de laatste wedstrijd gewonnen worden van Nederland om zich te plaatsen voor de play-offs. In de 82e minuut werd uiteindelijk met 0-1 verloren door een doelpunt van Eljero Elia en de kansen waren verkeken.

EK 2012
Schotland streed met Tsjechië om de tweede plaats in de groep achter het ongenaakbare Spanje. Cruciaal was de thuiswedstrijd tegen Tsjechië, waar in de extra tijd de winst werd weggeven door een betwistbare strafschop. Op de laatste speeldag had Schotland nog één punt voorsprong op de Tsjechen, maar na een nederlaag tegen Spanje (3-1) en een zege van Tsjechië op Litouwen zakte Schotland weg naar de derde plaats.

WK 2014
Het kwalificatie-toernooi voor het WK van 2014 werd al snel een kansloze zaak, na zes wedstrijden had Schotland maar twee punten en de achterstand op België en Kroatië was onoverbrugbaar. Craig Levein was na vier wedstrijden al ontslagen en opgevolgd door oud-speler Gordon Strachan. Schotland won twee keer van Kroatië en eindigde op de vierde plaats.

EK 2016
Kwalificatie voor het EK van 2016 begon hoopvol met gelijke spelen in de uitwedstrijden tegen Polen en Ierland, de thuiswedstrijd tegen Ierland werd met 1-0 gewonnen. Nederlagen tegen Georgië (1-0) en Duitsland (1-2) zorgden voor een ommekeer en nadat in blessure-tijd een 2-1 voorsprong in de thuiswedstrijd tegen Polen werd weggegeven eindigden de Schotten op de vierde plaats met drie punten achterstand op nummer drie Ierland.

WK 2018

Duidelijke nederlagen tegen Slowakije (3-0) en Engeland (3-0) zorgde voor een moeizaam begin voor kwalificatie voor het WK van 2018. De inhaalrace begon met een 1-0 zege op Slovenië. Heel Schotland stond op zijn kop toen Schotland een 2-1 voorsprong nam tegen aartsrivaal Engeland dankzij twee vrije trappen van Leigh Griffiths, maar in blessure-tijd maakte Engeland gelijk door een doelpunt van Harry Kane. Overwinningen op Malta en Litouwen brachten Schotland terug in de race voor de tweede plaats achter Engeland, de achterstand op Slowakije was nog maar één punt met nog twee wedstrijden te spelen. Het onderlinge duel leverde een 1-0-overwinning op door een eigen doelpunt vlak voor tijd. Drie dagen later moest gewonnen worden van Slovenië om de play-off-wedstrijden zeker te stellen, maar in de tweede helft werd een 0-1 voorsprong weggegeven door twee Sloveense doelpunten. In de 87e minuut scoorde Robert Snodgrass de gelijkmaker, maar verder kwam de ploeg niet en eindigde achter Slowakije door een minder doelsaldo. Na de wedstrijd nam Gordon Strachan ontslag.

Terugkeer op een groot toernooi (2020–heden)

EK 2020
Schotland werd in de kwalificatie voor het EK 2020 ingedeeld in een groep met de wereldranglijstaanvoerder België en verder Rusland, Cyprus, Kazachstan en San Marino. Op voorhand leek een derde plaats, die recht gaf op play-offs, achter de hoger ingeschatte Belgen en Russen haalbaar. Schotland verloor echter direct de eerste wedstrijd met grote cijfers (3-0) van Kazachstan, directe concurrent voor plaats drie. Daarna volgden kleine overwinningen op San Marino (0-2) en Cyprus (2-1), maar ook weer nederlagen tegen België (3-0 in Brussel en 0-4 thuis) en Rusland (1-2 thuis en 4-0 in Moskou), waardoor België en Rusland vrij snel zeker waren van het EK. Er bleven nu enkel wedstrijden over waarin de Schotten moesten winnen om zicht te blijven houden op plek drie. Eerst werd er vrij eenvoudig gewonnen van San Marino (6-0), waarna Cyprus met 1-2 verslagen werd. Op de laatste speeldag konden nog drie landen derde worden: Schotland en Kazachstan vochten een onderling duel uit, maar ook Cyprus kon nog derde worden bij een gelijkspel bij Schotland-Kazachstan, mocht er gewonnen worden bij België. Cyprus verloor met 6-1 en de Schotten versloegen Kazachstan ondanks een 0-1 achterstand bij rust met 3-1 en werden zo derde in de poule. In de play-offs voor plaatsing voor het EK versloeg Schotland Israël na strafschoppen. In de finale play-off tegen Servië op 12 november 2020 in Belgrado kwamen de Schotten op voorsprong via Ryan Christie, maar maakte Servië via Luka Jović in de laatste minuut gelijk. In de verlenging werd niet gescoord en kwam het op strafschoppen aan. Keeper David Marshall groeide hierin uit tot nationale held van Schotland. De op dat moment 35-jarige keeper van Derby County keerde namelijk de laatste en beslissende strafschop van Aleksandar Mitrović. Hierdoor plaatste Schotland zich ten koste van Servië voor het eerst in 23 jaar weer voor een groot eindtoernooi.

Schotland speelde vooraf het EK nog gelijk tegen Nederland (2–2). De eerste wedstrijd in de groepsfase werd verloren van Tsjechië. In de tweede wedstrijd werd de derby tegen Engeland met 0–0 gelijkgespeeld. In de laatste wedstrijd moest er gewonnen worden om naar de achtste finales te kunnen. Het verloor echter van Kroatië met 3–1, waardoor Schotland wederom in de eerste ronde van een EK werd uitgeschakeld.

Deelnames aan internationale toernooien

Wereldkampioenschap

Europees kampioenschap

UEFA Nations League

Interlands

Bondscoaches
Bijgewerkt tot en met de WK-kwalificatiewedstrijd tegen  (2–2) op 8 oktober 2017.

Huidige selectie
De volgende spelers behoren tot de selectie voor de WK 2022-kwalificatiewedstrijden tegen  op 1 juni 2022.

Interlands en doelpunten bijgewerkt tot en met de wedstrijd tegen  op 29 maart 2022.

FIFA-wereldranglijst

Bekende spelers

Selecties

Wereldkampioenschap

Europees kampioenschap


The question of how we measure advertising success is not new.Whether it is about an immediate response, building long-term brand measures, or somewhere in-between, is an age-old debate.
Right now the trend is toward short-term behavioral response as the key measure of success for advertising. This is not just because of digital innovation. Sales promotion and direct marketing have successfully pushed the performance marketing approach since the 1970s.
Programmatic media buying has underpinned and reinforced this approach. With more and more media bought and targeted using automated systems, the question of what represents success has become more urgent.
The central argument for programmatic and the data-driven media buying revolution that powers it is the ability to hit the right person, at the right time, with the right message.
At Millward Brown, we believe successful advertisers need to use brand relationship data to inform the inputs to the campaign as well as using it to assess the long-term contributions to brand measures. In particular, brand data needs to play a key role in both targeting and creative development.
To examine how brand can play a role in programmatic media buying we need to address each of the elements – time, person and message – in turn.
What is the right time to advertise?
Today's programmatic systems use behavioral "big data" that can be tracked in real time as proxies for interest and intent. They are often selected because they are what we can measure, rather than what we should measure.
For example, searching or shopping may represent a "declaration of intent", while site visitation history may identify an interest.
This emphasis on the behavioral indicators of context can go badly wrong. If I search for a VolksWagen Golf, is it because I am in the market for a new car, or because I just happen to like old Golfs?
If I am shopping at a retail location or online will I be more open to messages regarding the brands that are available? It may be true sometimes, but often such ads will be seen at worst as intrusive, or at best clutter/wallpaper.
This narrow approach to identifying the right time or context ignores the learnings of generations of media planners, who have long used factors such as social setting, mood, emotion and intrinsic media perceptions/usage to refine placement.
We cannot know what moods and emotions are being experienced by audiences consuming media, but we can make assumptions about increasing the probability of tapping into relevant ones by selecting key programs or dayparts.
Brands that have associations with happiness and conviviality would typically be placed alongside TV programs with similar associations, or where people are likely to be watching in groups: for example sporting events or The X Factor. Social consumption of such programs may enhance the mood and receptivity to advertising.
The fact that some media are more influential than others, and that this influence may vary at different points in the consumer decision journey can be important. The presence of a brand in a specific media channel may have a great influence on its inclusion in the consideration set.
The programmatic search for the moment of truth is based on the idea that the closer to the decision a message arrives, the better it is at influencing decisions.
That people "make their mind up at the fixture, or even when they are searching".
The truth, of course, is that ads closer to the point of purchase do not drive the decision to change behavior alone, but "harvest" attitudinal response created much earlier.
The misattribution of brand power in favor of location and activity represents a bigger issue than even "last click wins".
Programmatic systems promise the earth about reaching the right person. They tell advertisers about the hundreds of data points they collate to ensure that messages are highly targeted. To be really effective, however, we need to understand the relationship that the target has with the brand being advertised and not rely on behavioral proxies of interest and intent.
We know that a strong brand relationship will influence the attitudinal response to advertising. It may also shorten decision-making time for purchases. The frequency with which we advertise to such consumers will be lower, and the messages we convey would be different.
For example, a consumer who is a fan of Apple will only need a small number of messages to ensure they stick with it when their mobile contract comes up for renewal. However, someone who is not an Apple fan would need considerably more effort to ensure that the latest iPhone earns a place in their consideration set.
We have already noted how aligning content to the mood and emotion of consumers will impact the effectiveness of advertising. Similarly, adapting the message to suit the brand relationship of the target will also have an impact.
However, for all the talk of programmatic media buying having the ability to adjust the message according to the target, little brand data is currently feeding this process.
Understanding the brand relationship is fundamental to both targeting and message development. Without this, it would be very difficult to target the right people and tailor the right message. Purely focusing on the right time and, worse still, proxies for right time, will not create effective marketing.
Our challenge is to make available brand relationship data that can facilitate the right approach in a programmatic context.
As researchers, we are concerned about the importance of understanding brand outcomes of advertising. For marketing directors, however, the lure of short-term sales and behavior changes are more tangible and translate straight to the bottom line.
We need to focus more strongly on how we can provide inputs into the advertising planning process and demonstrate the value of brand relationship in targeting the right person with the right message.
Brand relationship data should be used to inform targeting and creative development as well as measuring effectiveness.
Use of this data should focus on the three questions of right place, right time and right message.
The experience and data owned by brands, media owners and researchers have a great deal of value which could be used to improve the performance of programmatic systems in the future.


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Oath Keepers leader and 10 others indicted on Seditious Conspiracy over US Capitol breach
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The generation that glorified questioning authority, marching, protesting, rioting and angry-mob violence is now on the opposite side – an embattled "establishment" which dislikes having its authority questioned.
On Jan. 13 the Justice Department charged 11 people who were at the Jan. 6, 2021 protest at the U.S. Capitol with "seditious conspiracy," the most serious charges stemming from the incident brought so far.
The only person killed outright at the event was an unarmed female protester, shot by a police officer.
Among those charged is Elmer Stewart Rhodes of Granbury, Texas, founder of the Oath Keepers, a group of former military and law-enforcement personnel who once had to swear oaths to the U.S. Constitution and have promised to keep upholding them.
Prosecutors allege Rhodes and others conspired to storm the Capitol and interrupt the tallying of electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election, tainted by strong indications of corruption in Democrat-stronghold cities, election laws widely and hastily changed under the cover of COVID prevention, and a monolithic big-media narrative that could not be questioned.
The protest also followed four years of Democrat questioning, groundless accusations, investigations and impeachment attempts after the surprise election of Donald Trump in 2016.
A total of 19 people were charged in the three separate indictments. Eleven face seditious conspiracy charges; the rest face counts of corruptly obstructing an official proceeding and other related charges. Rhodes and another man, Edward Vallejo of Phoenix, Ariz., were charged for the first time, but the others have been named in previous indictments.
"The seditious conspiracy indictment alleges that, following the Nov. 3, 2020, presidential election, Rhodes conspired with his co-defendants and others to oppose by force the execution of the laws governing the transfer of presidential power by Jan. 20, 2021," said the Justice Department.
Jon Moseley, One of Rhodes' attorneys, told CBS News "I don't think they'll be able to prove" the case against Rhodes based off the documents.
Prosecutors charge that Rhodes and his co-conspirators allegedly planned to stop the transfer of power by Jan. 20, 2020, when Joe Biden would be sworn into office.
"They coordinated travel across the country to enter Washington, D.C., equipped themselves with a variety of weapons, donned combat and tactical gear, and were prepared to answer Rhodes's call to take up arms at Rhodes's direction," according to the indictment. "Some co-conspirators also amassed firearms on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., distributed them among 'quick reaction force' teams, and planned to use the firearms in support of their plot to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power."
The only fatal shot fired on Jan. 6 came from a Capitol Police officer and killed an unarmed Trump supporter.
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First Trailer For Guillermo Del Toro's FX Show 'The Strain'
Back in 2012 before Guillermo Del Toro was busy with kaiju in 'Pacific Rim', ghosts in 'Crimson Peak', or (possibly) superheroes in 'Justice League Dark', he had been working on a television adaptation of his novel series 'The Strain'. Initially, the show was given a pilot order, but then it was granted a 13-episode season in late 2013. After all that, later this summer we'll finally get to see the award-winning filmmaker's take on vampires, but not before FX promotes the hell out it.
Previously, the network has released a series of teaser images and trailers, as well as some stills from the show. But now we have the first actual trailer that gives us hints about the plot of the upcoming horror series. You can check it out below followed by the official synopsis of the story:
'The Strain' is a high concept thriller from Academy Award® nominated Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, author Chuck Hogan, and writer/producer Carlton Cuse, which is based on the best-selling vampire novel trilogy of the same title written by del Toro and Hogan. It tells the story of "Dr. Ephraim Goodweather," the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself.
What do you think about the first real trailer for 'The Strain'? Are you looking forward to what could potentially be the next big horror series on TV? Do you anticipate the show being as popular, if not more so, than 'The Walking Dead'? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
'The Strain' starring Corey Stoll, Mia Maestro, Sean Astin, Kevin Durand, Natalie Brown, Jonathan Hyde, Richard Sammel, Robert Maillet, Jack Kesy, Ben Hyland, and Miguel Gomez premieres on FX on July 13, 2014.
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Significance—we all need to know our lives count for something. For many of us, our sense of worth is wrapped up in what we do—and we don't even realize it.
I've been an avid follower of Christ for over 33 years. I know my relationship with God is not performance-based; that I cannot earn His love or my way into heaven. It is a free gift given through His Son Jesus. These truths have become a part of my being.
However, the Lord showed me that I still had a remnant of this wrong performance-equals-significance mindset. Since I'm a type A personality, such entrenched ideas are difficult to remove. Let me explain.
I am not worthy; I am not worthless!
Part of what helped me to absorb this wonderful truth was understanding the significant role I had of working together with God to produce eternally lasting fruit (Jn 15:5,16). When I know God has used me, I feel significant and valued. What could contribute more to a sense of worth than impacting someone's soul forever?! Slowly but surely I became more secure in my identity in Christ. What an amazing difference a simple suffix can make (worthy vs worthless)!
However, quite imperceptibly, I was basing my significance on how I was used by God and not my usefulness to Him.
Being used is an event, being usable is a state of being.
It's a very subtle but important difference.
God does want to use us, but He loves and values us whether we are usable or not. He is more interested in who we are than in what we do for Him. You and I must understand that our impact for His kingdom flows out of who we are in Christ.
Again, what a difference a little suffix can make (used vs usable)!
Now God can use anybody for His purposes. But in order to reap the rewards (both future and present ones), we must be a willing (i.e. submitted) vessel in His hands.
In my great desire to make a significant impact for God's Kingdom (out of my love and gratitude), I was fretting about how to accomplish that and if I actually was. But I don't have to figure out the how or get stressed out when I don't see the results of my labor—questioning every time whether I did what I was supposed to do. I can just relax and simply do as He directs. If I'm abiding in Christ, He will produce the lasting fruit from the works He has prepared for me to do (Eph 2:10). My role is to allow God to change my personhood to be more like Christ so that He can do the work through me.
For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose (Phil 2:12-13).
This new insight is freeing for me! Instead of wasting effort worrying about if, when, and how I am accomplishing God's call on my life, I can strive to just be the person God wants me to be—like His precious Son, available and usable at a moment's notice.
Lord, I surrender all of who I am and do. Help me to abide in Christ so that He is the One doing the work, and therefore getting the glory. Teach me how to serve You out of my love for You more than out of wanting to feel significant.
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"Milk and Pickles"
Anna Nicole makes a bold comeback in the world of nude modeling -- only this time, she's working the other side of the lens, for Larry Flynt instead of Hef, and she gets to have everything her milky way.
(Aired May 18, 2003)
Anna Nicole Smith has often stated that she never wants to pose nude for a men's magazine again. Setting aside any nonsense about her being "too fat" to do it anymore, it's just that she wants to put that part of her career behind her and move on. And she's burned her bridges with Playboy after Hefner's empire mistreated her in the years following her Playmate of the Year title. But now she's made some new friends at Hustler, a magazine better suited to her present-day persona, and they've offered her a chance to return to nudie photos shoots -- on the other side of the lens.
"If I could meet anybody I wanted, I would pick Marilyn Monroe, Homer Simpson and Larry Flynt," Anna Nicole says. "But seeing as Marilyn Monroe is dead, and I don't think Homer is real, I thought it would be cool to have lunch with Larry Flynt."
By the way, she listed The Simpsons as her favorite TV show way back on her 1992 Playmate Data Sheet, so she's a really die-hard fan. I don't know why that show hasn't had her on as a celebrity guest voice already -- she'd be perfect. Then she could say she's met two out of three of her idols.
We've seen Anna Nicole's fondness for the Hustler Store and its garments over the course of the series, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before she hooked up the man himself. She meets Larry for lunch at his Hustler Casino in Gardena, California. Larry greets her with a "Hi, gorgeous," and she seems genuinely thrilled and star-struck to be in his presence.
Right off the bat, she asks him how his paralysis has affected his usage of his "organ." Larry happily explains that he performs just fine with the assistance of an implant for erections. This news delights Anna Nicole. "So what's the kinkiest thing you've ever, ever done?" Larry just stares into the middle distance, hopelessly stumped. I guess it's like asking the Pope what's the most religious thing he's ever done.
Larry does revels that the most women he has ever been with at one time is twenty. Anna Nicole shares an anecdote about her experience with group sex, explaining than an old boyfriend like for her to bring girls home and he would watch and pleasure himself while she got it on with the girls. "Uh-oh, did I just say that on camera?" Anna Nicole says, catching herself being more candid than even she like to be. "Uh, I re-take that back."
So Larry has this "crazy idea" to revive a past Hustler feature where celebrities get to direct a photo shoot for the magazine. Anna Nicole says she'd love to do it. "Direct a photo shoot? If that means bossin' people around, I'm in."
Larry takes Anna Nicole upstairs to his office, where they flip through photos of potential models for her layout. On the whole she is unimpressed with how extremely young and skinny the models look. "Where are the women around here?" she ponders. None of them are Anna Nicole Smiths, that's for damn sure. And that's why I've never been much of a fan of Larry's mag.
On the day of the photo shoot, Anna Nicole is all pumped up with excitement. After discussing her strict "grooming parameters" for the models during the limo ride with Howard and Kim, she meets Clive McLean, the Hustler photographer who will be doing the shoot with her. The layout is going to have a country and Western theme, with two girls having fun in a mocked-up barn set. Anna Nicole informs Clive of the special props she will be requiring: "A bunch of milk, a bunch of pickles."
Clive figures she's making a catering request until she explains that these items are for the girls. "Oh, I see what you're doing," the Scotsman says, suddenly enlightened. "You're putting your own little favorites into the shoot."
Anna Nicole scopes out the barn set with Clive and Howard, thinking about poses for the girls. She is interested in having the models roll around in the hay, but Clive warns her that hay is difficult on their bare skin. Of course, he doesn't need to tell her that. "I've shot in hay," she says with authority. "It's really hard but it's beautiful pictures."
Then she inspects the various props on hand, including a horse bridle, whips, and the inevitable strap-ons. The models, Hannah and Mercedes, emerge in their robes and put on the skimpy Western outfits that they won't be wearing for very long. First they're going to shoot the cover, and as Anna Nicole learns, "You can't show nipple on the cover of Hustler." With all their bits of clothing strategically taped down, the blonde and brunette pose with Anna Nicole running the camera.
"Sexy..." she instructs from behind the tripod. "I want to see sex in those eyes. You want to f*** the camera. C'mon, f*** me, f*** me."
"I never say that to them," Clive laughs. After Anna Nicole has shot a roll of film, Clive gets to take his turn shooting the cover. He shouts out more articulate direction to the girls, getting them to turn around and put their hands on different areas of each other's bodies. The expanded range of poses gets Anna Nicole royally steamed.
"That's not fair," she complains. "You get a better shot than I did."
"Well, I'm sorry, but I'm good at this stuff," Clive snaps and keeps on shooting without missing a beat.
Anna Nicole storms away and pouts on a sofa in the back of the studio. "They were touchin' each other's asses! Nobody told me the girls could touch each other's asses. I felt like I got gypped." She cries to Howard about feeling shortchanged by Clive, and he calls an art director on the set to help them out. Anna Nicole then acts embarrassed, like she doesn't want Howard to make a big fuss about it. This is the kind of problem Anna Nicole always has with being in charge: she has no trouble bossing Howard and Kimmie around, but it's tough for her to assert herself around people she doesn't know well.
Clive takes time out to listen to Anna Nicole's issues and tries to be understanding. He says she should have let him shoot first, so she could learn the rules of what they can and can't do. He offers to take his ego out of the equation and serve as the technical medium to capture Anna Nicole's ideas. This seems to satisfy her, and she's ready to get back to work.
But Howard persists with Clive, telling him Anna Nicole wants to be the one taking some of the pictures as well. "She can do that, too," Clive says, beginning to lose his patience. "I just want you to bear in mind that I have to get a layout out of this, too."
"Howard, just let him do his work," she yells, overhearing Howard's demands while her makeup guy Troy cleans up her tear-streaked mascara.
Anna Nicole seems to forget about her little tantrum and gets into the professional pornographer spirit. The models' clothes come off, and the remainder of the photo shoot footage is a miasma of pixelation shielding the basic-cable audience from nudity. I'm in full agreement here, because I wouldn't want to look at these girls' pathetically undernourished bodies, anyway. Skeletons with big fake boobs.
Anna Nicole gives them impassioned direction, mainly telling them to fuck the camera and imagine they're fucking or how much they want to fuck, etc. It's funny that she never calls the girls by their names or forms any bond with them, since she should be able to empathize entirely with the situation they are working in. She just says things like, "The one with the black hair, push your butt out more." Maybe she feels the need to keep her distance from them and treat them like props, to keep from reliving her past.
Hannah gets the bridle put over her shoulders and a bit stuck in her mouth, while Mercedes holds the reins from behind. "Look scared," Anna Nicole advises Hannah. "Scream with your eyes." Next Mercedes tries out a strap-on. Then there is some action with a double-dong, although the censorship makes it impossible to tell what exactly. Clive and the staff are very conscientious about keeping track of which end of the dildo went where.
But heck, all of that stuff is de rigueur for Hustler. Anna Nicole finally gets the opportunity to put her imprimatur on the photo shoot with the pickle shot. Hannah and Mercedes take opposite ends of a big dill pickle in their mouths, and Anna Nicole unnecessarily tells them to pretend it's something besides a pickle. Clive calls out, "Let's see a streamer," which must be industry jargon for letting saliva (or other fluids) run in strings between one's mouth and a nearby foreign object. The girls can do it on command. A male staffer standing behind Anna Nicole ravenously consumes a pickle while gawking at the scene with rapt attention.
Anna Nicole has a harder time selling the models on her other food fantasy. "We're coming up on the milk shot, which is my favorite shot," she says, beaming. "I thought of it on the way up here." She talks to Hannah about pouring milk all over her her hair and her naked body, and how it's going to be all sexy and "like Bo Derek." Clive explains that Hannah is concerned about the milk being too cold.
"Screw the temperature!" Anna Nicole thunders. "Think of the shot you're gonna have." First they were wimpy about lying in the hay, and now this. She must be very disappointed in these models' poor work ethic. She knows a model has to sacrifice comfort for the sake of getting the best possible photograph.
Apparently Mercedes was the least enthusiastic about the milk. "The other girl doesn't want to do it," Anna Nicole tells us, rolling her eyes, "which, she's dumb, because the other girl's gonna be much more sexier, because wet hair, and, you know, it's gonna be va-va-va-voom!"
At any rate, Anna Nicole must have successfully negotiated with the models, because the milk ends up going everywhere except in Mercedes's hair. Standing on a carton out of frame, Anna Nicole pours a jug all over Mercedes's open mouth and down her body, then lets Hannah have it on her breasts and then in her hair. For a moment, Hannah's face and entire upper body are blanketed in white.
"Whooo!" Anna Nicole cheers triumphantly. "That is hot! That is hot!" So she had trouble at first flexing her editorial muscles, but all's well that ends well.
Anna Nicole visits the Flynt Publications offices and reviews the photos with Larry. While they inspect the slides with loupes on a light table, a female staffer offers her appraisal: "I think this is like the nastiest girl/girl that we've had in a long time."
"The nastiest," Larry agrees. "God, Anna, you're worse than Hefner."
Larry seems genuinely impressed. "I had told the photographers, I said, 'This is not your photo shoot, this is Anna's. So don't interfere,' you know. 'You can feel free to make suggestions.' The result was, it came out clearly as a photo shoot that she directed."
Larry and Anna Nicole evaluate three different cover shot mock-ups, and he asks her which one she likes best. Ironically, she points to one of the "stupid" shots where the girls are both facing forward, rather than the ones where they're touching each other's butts. Larry agrees that it's the one for the cover.
"I think I may have shot that one," Anna Nicole says.
While saying their goodbyes, Larry asks her if she's a good cook. "Am I a good cook? You better damn well believe it."
"How 'bout having me over for dinner sometime?" Larry asks hopefully.
In the closer from her bedroom, Anna Nicole tells us, "There's something about Larry that I really like. I just can't put my finger on it." And the camera pulls back to reveal a wall portrait of her beloved J. Howard Marshall II. I never thought I'd live to see the day when she would make a joke about having the hots for old guys in wheelchairs. It just goes to show, there's no way to predict what Anna Nicole Smith's going to do next.
Who knows, maybe she'll even change her mind about her retirement from nude modeling. God knows she can still kick any Hustler chick's skinny little ass in front of a camera. Maybe she should do lunch with the editors of Plumpers & Big Women...
Anna Nicole Says...
Grossed out by a Hustler photo: "What is that, an alien p***y?"
To Larry Flynt: "Can you use your organ? I mean, can you use your, your you-know-what? Your penis?"
"So you can feel it, and you can use it? All right! All right! Go, Larry! Go, Larry!"
"I had a boyfriend once who used to make me go out to clubs and get gals... and bring 'em back home and he would go upstairs while I was doing the gals and he would whack off while I would do the gals. That was his thing."
"Bottom line, I liked the idea of directing my own photo shoot, and it was going to be sexy and classy."
"Can I do muff diving and all that stuff?"
"Who's gonna get to see and shoot some naked women today?"
"If I see a nasty f***'in hairy p***y, I am going to have to tell them to go f***in' clean themselves, first of all, and shave that s**t off and come back and let's start over."
To the posing Hustler models: "F*** the camera, f*** the camera. You want sex. You want to f***. C'mon you're f***ing the boyfriend right now. F*** this camera right here."
"I've never seen a double dong done before, and I'm gonna get it seen today, baby. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm so excited."
"That's how you do a pickle shot."
"Me and Clive made a great team. He definitely knows all about the lights and the cameras, and I definitely know about sex and what's sexy."
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Hannelore, upon seeing the Angel of Death, realizes she wants to live.
Of course, Heino must be with Hannelore or else this opera wouldn't be a comedy in the classic sense.
It generally means, "I did something wrong and there's nothing you can do to make it better." I thought it was funny that a chorus of doctors would sing "So sue me".


Unverricht Lundborg : What is it ?
The illness of Unverricht Lundborg is a rare genetic illness.
Dr Unverricht noticed it in Estonia at the end of the nineteenth century.
Then Dr Lundborg studied it in Sweden.
Not before 1989, the researchers gave it its name : Unverricht Lundborg.
As soon as 1998, the researchers succeeded in demonstrating a deficiency in Cystatine B, a protein of cellular protection which particularly interferes with the life of nervous cells. Researches about the link between this protein and the symptoms are in progress.
In France, one hundred affected people have been registered and there are numerous patients all around the world.
Numerous cases obviously remain unknown and some patients cannot get to the most specialised centers where the diagnosis of MUL* could be confirmed.
What are the symtoms of MUL ?
It's a progressive illness that starts with unrestrained jerks (= Myoclony that disturbs movements) particularly in the morning on waking-up, altogether with eventual apileptic crisis.
This illness occurs during childhood (from 6 to 12 years of age).
Symptoms are used to get worse through adolescence and during early adult life till they stabilize.
Affected patients sometimes lack in hability as far as keen movements are concerned.
But most often thez have servious difficulties in walking as well as feeding and expressing themselves or carrying out everyday life tasks.
MUL doesn't mean a dicrease in intellectual skills, neither is a fatal disease.
This illness is often very serious.
It is almost always a handicap, but some patients may sometimes be less seriously affected.
Most of them will neverthless need an important help and a possibility heavy treatment.
What are the treatments in progress ?
The present treatment associates several medecines in order to fight against the symptoms of the illness.
Results are imperfect. Psychological help and physiotherapy are essential.
Recent improvements have lately opened new opportunities for treating MUL.
Electric intracerebral stimulations is one way to be gone through.
Some treatments which are meant for correcting up-at cellular level.
The genetic abnormality are being developped.
They'll enable to make up for the lacking protein (Cystatine B) which is essential for a normal cerebral working order.
What are the objectives of the Association AMARMYUL ?
AMARMYUL is an association of volunteers created by patients with the advice of Doctor Genton, a neurologist at Henri-Gastaut Hospital, in Marseille.
Help a large public as well as health professionals know this genetic illness.
Register the known cases and improve exchanges and meetings between isolated patients.
Take care of patients and improve their situation on the medical and administrative levels.
Create a better link between the various initiatives for better knowledge and mutual solidarity.
What are its actions ?
Pay attention to the latest discoveries. Pass them on and make them accessible to a large audience.
Help, listen and give advice to families.
Take part in meetings which deal with "rare illness".
Create an internet web-site particular to AMARMYUL.
Spread a detailed medical booklet.
As soon as require, you'll be delivered a fiscal receipt in order to help you take off this amount from your taxable income.
The illness of Unverricht Lundborg is no longer as secret as it used to be.
Genetic research should soon lead to an improvement as far as the patients'condition is concerned.
The role of such an association as AMARMYUL is to encourage clinical staffs, researchers and public authorities to boost the improvements which are already in progress and to get more involved in this rare pathology.


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Pat Cox: President of the EU Parliament
At the dawn of a new era for Poland, Pat Cox, President of the European Parliament talked to Andrzej Geber about the role of Strasburg in an enlarged EU.
A. G. The European parliament will welcome 106 newly elected deputies from the 10 accession states after the EU elections in June 2004. In your opinion, will an enlarged parliament be a stronger or weaker institution?
Pat Cox: The enlargement is a unique process, unparalleled in terms of scale and diversity, and the first common opportunity to elect Members of the European Parliament for a five-year mandate to deal with this new Europe.
In the end, the forthcoming European election will result in 732 people whose collective ability to influence the EU law-making will be the equivalent, in many areas of policy-making, to the sum of all 25 member states. That is a powerful influence.
I think a lot depends on a quick and successful adoption of the Constitutional treaty. The work that has been done by the Convention with regard to the European Parliament - an extension of qualified majority voting with co-decision, a reformulation of the budget procedure to do away with the highly artificial distinction between compulsory and non compulsory expenditure, the general role of the Parliament with regard to European Commission and other institutions - is a good result. My take on what has been offered by the Convention, is to see a real attempt to put more parliamentary democracy into the European process at several different levels.
As an English speaking President and Deputy of the European Parliament you are in the privileged position of communicating in both your mother tongue and in other languages. Do you think that a good knowledge of other languages play an important role in being an effective European Deputy?
Pat Cox: Clearly it can be helpful but the only requirement to become a Member of the European Parliament is democracy itself - obtaining a majority in the ballot box. Knowledge of a foreign language is not and should never become a requirement of being an MEP. This is why, we in the European Parliament, have worked very hard to ensure that the interpreting and translating services for all of the new languages of the European Union will be in place in the European Parliament in time for enlargement. As a Parliament we strongly believe in the principle of linguistic and cultural diversity - we have also led sustained efforts to preserve minority languages.
However, I believe that learning a new language can open up many new possibilities. A foreign language gives us access to another culture - which leads to greater understanding of our various European cultures and traditions. Knowledge of other languages also helps greatly in communicating with your European parliamentary colleagues particularly in the corridors - where, as we all know, a lot of our parliamentary business is done!
What message would you like to address to Polish youth in both their expectations and commitment to becoming young citizens of Europe?
Pat Cox: I have been very privileged, during my many visits to Poland, to meet with many young people and students. I have been delighted to see that there are so many brilliant young Poles, with extensive international training and experience, who are highly committed to their country and to Europe. I am optimistic about their future and passionate about the integration of their country into the European Union.
I wish to encourage the young Europeans of Poland to identify and take the opportunities to participate in decision-making at local, regional and national level, to find effective ways for their views to be heard and to make the results of this participation visible to the general public and to young people themselves.
I also want to encourage the young people of Poland to take an active part in the first European elections of the enlarged European Union, for this will be your important contribution to our new Europe - to your Europe.