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Stephen King's adaptations are nearly impossible to perfect, and always will be
Published by Derek Umberstain at Tue, 06 Sep 2022 at 09:35:12 | Category: Movies
John Carpenter, the director of Halloween and Big Trouble in Little China, told SFX Magazine that he had only made one film he didnt like, the 1983s Christine. It was his only Stephen King adaptation. Universal Studios had hired Carpenter to direct a remake of Kings Firestarter, but they resigned him and hired Mark L. Lester, who directed Christine for Columbia Pictures.
In the interview, he says it just wasn't that scary. It was something I needed to do at the time for my career.
Carpenter can still confide in himself: He's in good company. Few directors have successfully translated Stephen King to the screen. As Carpenter put it to SFX, Nope, no one has ever done it very well.
Then again, everyone has their reasons for why one of the world's bestselling authors has inspired so many duds and catastrophes. But even Stanley Kubricks' The Shining, which has its critics, is a herculean task. King's handful of hit adaptations are the exception to the norm: his work has been turned into theatrical feature-length films more than 50 times.
The difficulty in making a film from a King story is the volume of detail and character-building that he so often invests in. Only 15 of his 60-plus novels are less than 300 pages long. Most of them include a large cast of actors who cant be explained without much screen time.
The newest book, Fairy Tale, is a useful window into the exciting but terrible challenges of bringing his work to life in a visual medium. In that single sentence, it is easy to imagine the effort it would take to bring such a broad story to life on screen with any integrity. In order to demonstrate how precarious American society is in place, Kings books have become a fixture in American film and television.
Stephen King isnt bound by established rules or audience expectations. He has molded his imagination into a trustworthy brand. Studios understandably cannot seem to get their fill of trying to capture some of what makes him so popular, though it must be said that the ratio of well-liked to disapproved takes on King on film means they are also gluttons for punishment.
Making a single film out of a book about all of American life (or even two, as in the case of Andy Muschietti's enormously profitable Kings It adaptation) means eliminating characters and plot points. It also means adopting a style that is completely different from Kings', which spends time or energy on events that are not essential to the story's theme and tone.
Kings first movies and the miniseries boom
Brian De Palma was the first filmmaker to direct a film based on Kings' writing. Carrie, a 1976 horror film, piqued his interest, as the text it adapts made an overnight sensation for its author. The film grossed $33 million against its $2 million budget, making it a surprise purchase.
CBS took risks with the narrative, merging characters and transforming the evil vampire from a dandy to a subhuman rodent. It's also opened the door to the notion that King's greatest approach wasn't in film, where flop after flop Firestarter, Sleepwalkers, Silver Bullet, and Graveyard Shift tarnished the stories that inspired them.
When capital-A Artists made the transition to the small screen, their work was often subjected to network manipulation or outright cancellation (Fishing With John, The Dana Carvey Show) when it failed to attract an audience. That meant a much safer class of director would have to tackle Kings work.
Golden Years, a 1991 limited CBS series, in which Keith Szarabajka plays a janitor who is exposed to harmful chemicals, was released for the public interest in the United Kingdom. Among them, Tommy Lee Wallaces The Shining, Tom Hollands The Langoliers, andMick Garris The Stand, King personally directed a terrible 1999 production, Storm of the Century, directed by Craig R. Baxley.
Which part of the problem were you tackling? Choices. None of the early Kings adaptations included any substantial style, aside from the fact that they were shot with small spherical lenses in 1.33:1, a deliberately box-shaped aspect ratio when shooting on television.
Then there were the special effects. Though some of these early adaptations have interesting practical effects (the best are found in Wallaces It, in which Tim Curry as Pennywise the clown takes on gigantic shapes and sizes thanks to the effects team), theyre mostly marred by early CGI that wasnt ready for primetime. Only The Stand and It have made it on Blu-ray.
Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and Hearts in Atlantis all adopted a different strategy, incorporating less hushed scenes than The Stand, which concludes with a computer-generated hand squeezing a nuclear bomb until it detonates, killing a demonic figure who appears a little too much like Jay Leno.
The arrival of prestige TV
The Mist, based on a Kings novel, was becoming a Mark Twain or Will Rogers-style publication in America. The mist was a major shift in how horror films were presented in the United States.
Shows like Oz, The Sopranos, The Wire, and Deadwood were redefining what could be shown on television. Literary writing, patient direction, and cameras shooting in wider aspect ratios all gave television a cinematic feel and feel. Soon, every network had its own prestige show: The West Wing, Hannibal, and Friday Night Lights on CBS; and David Mamets The Unit.
Netflix and Hulu paid huge sums for series like House of Cards and The Handmaids Tale, revealing that big-name talent was being attracted. Everything (colorful language, graphic sexual assault, violence) was no longer outright prohibited, and writers rooms and casts were finally enlisted. Who could have proposed that Stephen Kings might get a second chance on the small screen?
In the 2000s, King produced only a handful of TV series, some directed by Baxley or Mikael Salomon, who remade Salems Lot for TNT in 2004. That series told the Kings story as it was written, with little style to get in the way. It shouldnt have been such a huge task, again in theory, to replace Kings pre-Sopranos TV adaptations in the public consciousness.
King had also written a number of new works for the prestige award. Haven, a 2010 series based on Kings' 2005 mystery novel The Colorado Kid, was funded by the Syfy network, which was then called Sci-Fi, but it was funded by a weaker, less ambitious network television series.
CBS followed with Under the Dome, a groundbreaking series that quickly lost interest in the King novel, and went back to the business of keeping a weekly program going by packing the narrative with dramatic cul-de-sacs and rudimentary plotting. After three seasons, King told the New York Times that he wasnt disappointed to see it go.
Finding a footing
Hulus' fanciful 2016 adaptation of 11/22/63, about a man (James Franco) who goes back in time to protest the Kennedy assassination, was released in 2018, as well as a fine open-world Stephen King tribute that includes as many references to his work as two seasons of television could accommodate.
The Mist was launched for a very expensive season in 2017. In 2017, Ally McBeal's creator David E. Kelley created a Mr. Mercedes adaptation for the now-defunct Audience Network. The Outsider is now available on CBS All Access. Adrien Brody star in a 2021 adaptation of Jerusalems Lotcalled Chapelwaite, which was distributed on Epix. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Pablo Larrain directed Liseys Story for Apple TV Plus.
Each of these new series is exceptional in its own way. Castle Rock's Andre Holland and Melanie Lynskey excel at rendering mute optimism and resigned acceptance seemingly real as impossible things befall them. Like its protagonist, Brendan Gleeson, and his neighbor, Holland Taylor, the cast imbues its tale of outcasts fighting for their lives with a dark sadness.
Even if none of these programs ever ran on regular old network television, they were all off the air, in their own ways. Liseys Story, The Stand, and The Mist were all canceled, despite great response. The only other series that fared well was 11.22.63, but it has remained a popular topic of discussion, whatever the reason may be.
Castle Rock was granted the privilege of re-creating Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story, though it has a different arc than that of the previous series: it's quiet, brooding, and unsettling, dripping with postmodern cool and real, scorching pain, courtesy of co-leads Julianne Moore, Dane DeHaan, Joan Allen, and Michael Pitt. Chapelwaite, like its fellow horror period pieces Salem, Penny Dreadful, and The Terror
The Stand, if anything, was too conventional. It technically modernizes the novel and the subsequent miniseries with a more diverse cast, culturally relevant dialogue, and accidental COVID echoes, but it is still just a rough translation of Kings words, with too little personality added. It's one of those exercises that asks whether the creators had any personal or artistic reason to want to do this in the first place?
Why did so few of these television adaptations succeed with all of this variety and talent? Modern artists have tried every trick they can think of to address the problem of rethinking Stephen King: longer run times, established actors, million-dollar soundtracks, and brutal violence you couldnt get on television a few years ago.
The early-90s TV miniseries boom has boosted interest in the hokier versions of King, but there hasn't been much interest in the soberer, more experimental versions. Every few years, a group of artists and producers examines the last bunch of adaptations and attempts to remedy their problems by doing the opposite. But theyve only discovered how not to do what has been done before.
Even after the last round of cancellations, producers still think there are still ways to go in making King's voice heard on television. The Duffer brothers, who co-authored much of Mr. Mercedes and Under the Dome, are developing a series called The Institute. With Steven Spielberg and Stranger Things' creators, there are still artistic routes to be taken in making King's voice on the small screen.
Replacing Kings prose with prestige-TV texture removes the compelling writing style that still draws readers to King and seeks out new voices to flesh out his plot points.
Those who haven't read Kings' work and don't already have positive associations with a given title may largely avoid these ubiquitous adaptations. For all his reputation as a reliable, enjoyable author, he's established an equal reputation as a creator of unmemorable or downright deplorable media. And when so much is done (saving the It films), it's easier than ever to ignore the next one rolling by.
In fact, television has evolved into a medium where other well-known names dominate, such as David Simon, Vince Gilligan, and Shonda Rhimes, who are well-known for generating successful, unconventional, and unusual content. These kinds of auteur showrunners, who have built their own brands and audiences, have less interest in adapting someone elses work, especially when almost no one has a proven track record of creating a truly groundbreaking King TV show or miniseries.
Were we to live in a time when familiarity and novelty are the two most powerful competing media attractions? On TV, the most-watched shows are ten Dick Wolf shows, a Game of Thrones spinoff, every branch of CSI and NCIS you can think of, and as many iterations of popular reality shows as TV can produce. It increasingly looks this isnt the time to adapt King.
Part of the reason for that is that King series are set in a stressful age where audiences are clearly looking for comfort entertainment. The latest King series really hammer home the cruelty of his worlds in ways that the earlier television versions could not match. The opening massacre of Mr. Mercedes, the many innocents slaughtered in The Mist, and a vampiric daughters pleads to her crestfallen father in Chapelwaite all have a powerful dramatic impact that they are almost intolerable.
If you're going to watch Kingworlds for months at a time, it's a lot of work. His stories of people being harmed by sociopaths, parents torturing their children for adulthood, and the sacrifice of kind people to prove that some things are worth saving are all good. King stories often conclude on a note of hope or relief, but they aren't comfort food.
Still, his short stories have remained popular for so long because they take his viewers on breathlessly quiet, well-realized dark journeys. And today's television productions are better suited than ever to his long and varied tales. However, almost everyone who has tried has dropped out. Does a Stephen King TV show exist in a position to find the kind of purchase producers have sought for since the 1979 Salems Lot miniseries? Perhaps the next adaptations will finally unravel the curse of Stephen King in media, which was
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Hamilton Documentary Highlights Wesleyan Alumni
October 27, 2016 , by Jake Lahut, Features Editor
c/o PBS
Once-in-a-generation talents like Lin-Manuel Miranda '02 are rare enough, but watching their works come to fruition behind the scenes is unheard of, or at least it was until Alex Horwitz '02 filmed his PBS documentary, "Hamilton's America." Affectionately known as the #Hamildoc, the film debuted to over 3.8 million viewers last weekend on PBS in primetime and will be screened this Saturday for Family Weekend at the Goldsmith Family Cinema at 8 p.m. Though it includes some spoilers by increasingly broad millennial standards, "Hamilton's America" is an account perhaps unlike any other of a work of art that became an aspirational cultural phenomenon at the same time as the United States' ugliest presidential election, and the film can be appreciated without its viewer having seen the play or listened to the soundtrack.
Though there is not yet art historical scholarship surrounding "Hamilton"—though there may well be a PhD candidate writing on it like they're running out of time—the play is one of the rare productions that falls into the complicated category of the total work of art, or "Gesamtkunstwerk" in German. Synthesizing a unity of the arts—conventionally music, dance, architecture, fashion, and acting, or at least as many as a piece can incorporate—the total work of art is also frequently tied to notions of national history and identity. As shown in Horwitz's "Hamilton's America," "Hamilton" has innovated beyond its medium by incorporating rap and race-blind casting into its synthesis of the arts, all centering around the foundation of the United States and its previously forgotten founding father.
"Hamilton's America" effectively and efficiently captures the team effort behind "Hamilton," which is most often presented as the sole creation of Miranda, as much as he consciously resists that complete ownership in the myriad interviews and acceptance speeches he has made over the past year. Featuring profiles of Director Thomas Kail '99, Music Director Alex Lacamoire, Choreographer Andy Blankenbuelher, and even Hamilton's prolific biographer Ron Chernow, "Hamilton's America" is able to synthesize different artistic disciplines and their masters into his film. Much like Miranda's, Horwitz's seamless transitions between elements as diverse as literature and dance, all while maintaining a coherent narrative, look easy when they most certainly are not.
Perhaps the best part of the documentary for those in the Wesleyan community is the intimate look at Miranda and his musings, which have previously come in the form of a fall 2014 visit to campus and a commencement address in the spring of 2015.
"We're on Broadway, we're at the Richard Rogers theater, but at the same time, it feels exactly the same as when I was in 'Pirates of Penzance' in ninth grade," Miranda says in the documentary's opening sequence. "It's such a kick to get to play dress-up and sing songs for an audience."
Miranda also breezes through dense American history in a more cogent manner than most AP courses, going between giving background information on Alexander Hamilton himself and deconstructing lyrics from the show's most popular songs. Horwitz also does Miranda the honor of letting esteemed figures in the arts brag about him, such as when Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of The Public Theater—where "Hamilton" ran during its buzzworthy previews—compares Miranda to William Shakespeare.
"I have more than once compared Lin to Shakespeare, and I do it without blushing or apologizing," Eustis says. "Lin in 'Hamilton' is doing exactly what Shakespeare did in his history plays. He's taking the voice of the common people, elevating it to poetry—in Shakespeare's case iambic pentameter, in Lin's case rap, rhyme, hip-hop, R&B—and by elevating it to poetry, ennobling the people themselves. He is bringing out what is noble about the common tongue, and that is something that nobody has done as effectively as Lin since Shakespeare. Yeah, I said it."
The most culturally salient portion of the documentary is a full segment dedicated to the problem of slavery that comes with depicting the founding fathers, especially with a mostly non-white cast. Christopher Jackson, a holdover from Miranda's Tony Award winning "In The Heights" who plays George Washington in "Hamilton," takes time during his interview for the documentary to flesh out the problems of playing Washington as a black actor. Implicit in parts of Jackson's comments is a counterargument to critiques of "Hamilton" from the left, most notably a Current Affairs piece by Alex Nichols entitled "You Should Be Terrified That People Who Like 'Hamilton' Run Our Country," which argues that "Hamilton" enables white elites to discount America's history of slavery and racism because of the success and popularity of the play.
"Our understanding of history goes awry when we only seek or care to listen to one part of a story," Jackson says. "From the moment I knew I was going to be playing Washington it was the first thing that came into my mind: the slave question. The reality of the fact that he owned people…I'll never make peace with it. I tried to, until I stood in the slave quarters [at Mount Vernon], and there's no way to reconcile that. If anything, it brings to bear the entire truth of who this man was."
Though the original cast is no longer together, "Hamilton's America" preserves the essential project they took on together, and, more importantly, it shows how they got there. From Miranda's unexpected debut of "My Shot" at the White House to accepting a seemingly infinite number of Tony Awards, the documentary traces not only progress, but the development and subsequent flourishing of one of the best, if not the best, American contribution to the arts. Although Miranda cautions that "Hamilton" is a once-in-a-lifetime play, he is a once-in-a-generation talent, so we can only hope that he will strike gold once again, and that Horwitz will be there to record it all for history.
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I don't really see anything that undermines the criticism in Current Affairs. Slavery may well have been present in the actor's mind in his consideration of Washington, but that doesn't change the fact that the significance and nature of slavery is deeply distorted by LMM's show. I don't the Current Affairs article argues that Hamilton allows people to ignore slavery or racism any more than they already do, but rather that it attempts to obscure the actual historical questions (a good example is the idea that Hamilton was an "immigrant" in any sense recognizable to modern listeners).

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There's a lot of cozy Fall love goin' on over here on the Coastside. It's dang cold, but I love the beginning of a good winter chill. Want to know what else I love?
That's an "arrgh Matey!", if you can't tell from the picture. And that's a "too cool for school" Daddy in the background, in case you were wondering where Max gets his swagger from.
We've had some lazy, cozy, go out for breakfast and take a long walk with your coffee afterwards kind of weekends. And I adore them. It's this kind of family time that keeps me anchored.
I can't sneak anything past this kid anymore. His beloved "Mousie" got left outside on the deck a few days ago, and got drenched in a rainstorm. I thought that it would be fun to put Mousie in the washing machine. Not so much.
"Mou go ROUND AND ROUND?!" he cried? "Mou, you o-KAY???" It was not my smartest Mommy-move.
But it was really funny.
Funny in that, holy cow I have a two and a half year old and he has his very own thoughts and hopes and questions to bring to the conversation kind of way. And I love every minute of it. Whether it's a lazy Sunday or a busy Wednesday, I love what our family is becoming….
Here's to hoping that you find yourself a good winter rainstorm this weekend, and a cozy fire to snuggle your family next to!


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The Motley Fool Australia » ASX Shares » ASX welcomes $180 million tech player on Tuesday
ASX welcomes $180 million tech player on Tuesday
Tony Yoo | September 14, 2020 1:07pm | More on: AIM
An Australian company already with international operations will list on the ASX on Tuesday, with a market capitalisation of $177.4 million.
Access Innovation Holdings Limited (ASX: AIM) is scheduled to float on 15 September with an issue price of $1.23 per share.
The Motley Fool has confirmed with the initial public offer (IPO) information line that the listing will happen Tuesday as planned.
AIM is best known as AI-Media, a company that develops technology to provide captioning and transcription services.
AI-Media did not return The Motley Fool's requests for comment.
However, its prospectus and publicly available information gives some clues about its situation as it goes public.
What does AI-Media do and who started it?
AI-Media was founded in 2003 by Alex Jones and Tony Abrahams in Sydney. Jones was born deaf and recognised the gap in the market for accessibility technology.
Abrahams is still hands-on, running the joint as chief executive officer. Before the float he owned almost a quarter of AI-Media, but will now cash in more than $340,000 from selling down to 19.2%.
The main game for the company is its cloud-based software that combines artificial intelligence, machine learning and human intervention that provides "captioning, transcription and translations".
More than $50 million has been poured into the technology platform since 2009.
AI-Media runs business lines that respectively deal with content from "live broadcast", "live enterprise" and "recorded" sources.
"Using a combination of machine and human curation provides levels of accuracy that are greater than machines alone," the prospectus reads.
"This level of accuracy is a requirement to service AI-Media's enterprise customers."
AI-Media reported a pro-forma forecast of $37.9 million in revenue for the 2020 financial year, while it predicted $43.8 million for 2021.
It will run a $8.6 million net loss after tax for 2020, and forecasts losing $5.8 million for the 2021 financial year.
Demand for captioning on the rise
The demand for captioning is on the rise with a significant rise in streaming video in recent years, according to AI-Media. Internationally, hard-of-hearing people make up 6% of the population, but this is predicted to double between by 2050.
"The media and entertainment industry also has to contend with regulatory requirements that mandate equality of access to content for hard-of-hearing individuals," states the company.
"Legislation and regulations in many markets require that an increasing percentage of content requires captions, including that delivered through new channels (such as VOD), as well as the more established terrestrial and pay-TV sectors."
The company is also seeing demand from the corporate and education sectors.
Acquisition and private capital raising this year
In May, AI-Media acquired US captioning and interpretation company Alternative Communications Services (ACS).
While the purchase price was not disclosed, AI-Media's financial year 2020 revenue increased by 59% after the transaction.
AI-Media this year also raised about $10 million from external investors, including private investors CVC Emerging Companies Fund in the UK and Anzu Partners in the US.
Foxtel's role in AI-Media's early success
One of AI-Media's first clients was subscription television provider Foxtel.
"In 2003, the costs of captioning were too high for the emerging Pay TV industry. The new Pay TV providers were faced with many more channels and smaller audience shares, but were confronted with the same costs to produce an hour of captioning."
Jones and Abrahams proposed cutting captioning costs by editing existing international transcripts. That solution allowed Foxtel to provide more captions across as many channels as possible.
The co-founders also showcased their technology in 2010 on the ABC television show New Inventors, winning their episode.
AI-Media now has offices in Australia, USA, UK, Canada, Singapore and Norway. It employs about 160 full-time staff plus a pool of 2,000 contractors, casuals and freelancers.
Motley Fool contributor Tony Yoo has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool Australia has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. This article contains general investment advice only (under AFSL 400691). Authorised by Scott Phillips.
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Karmic ties and past experiences that have embedded themselves into our energy body causes us to sometimes react with an inexplicable sense of anger, fear, attachment, or sometimes even pity, to specific people and situations around us. Typically, Karmic Release is done during your second session – the first session is used for clearing, realigning, and introducing your energy body to the Isis blue healing light. This allows your body to start healing itself gradually.
Karmic Release then deals with deeply seeded energy-imprints that impede your physical health and spiritual development on more intricate levels – childhood events, trauma, and unresolved pain – and in many cases, wounds and imprints from various past lives/existences. This includes attachments and vows made in previous existences that no longer serve your higher purpose in this present life. Removing these burdens allow for more fulfilling relationships to occur now. In some cases, this can cause a person to detach themselves from toxic/abusive relationships. Often, Karmic imprints are causes of chronic health issues like migraine, fatigue, and depression – as well as severe health issues like cancer, schizophrenia, and psychosomatic disorders.
Sekhmet, the Lion Goddess of Fire and Transformation Healing, guides this activation.


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end

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This seaside town facing France across the Channel voted strongly to leave the European Union in Britain's 2016 referendum. Almost three years later, residents of Deal, the rest of the U.K. and the EU woke up Wednesday to political crisis and warnings of economic chaos if Britain crashes out of the bloc on March 29 without a withdrawal agreement to smooth the way.
"Potentially it is going to be a nightmare," said Michael Eddy, a district councilor who lives in Deal, a few miles from England's main Channel port of Dover.
He says local authorities have modeled potential disruptions and believe that "a two-minute delay for every truck going through the port of Dover" would lead to a 50-mile (80-kilometer) traffic jam.
"What then happens with local people wanting to go about their business, wanting to get to hospitals, wanting to get their kids to school, all of that kind of stuff?" he said.
Residents, businesses and politicians across Britain and the European Union were bracing for a chaotic, cliff-edge Brexit after British lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit agreement for a second time on Tuesday by a decisive 391-242 vote.
Parliament will vote later Wednesday on whether to rule out leaving the EU on March 29 without a deal.
Britain's Parliament is trying to seize control of Brexit from the government, though it's far from clear if lawmakers can agree on a way forward. There are competing factions supporting May's deal, or a softer deal that would keep close ties with the EU, or a no-deal Brexit or even a new referendum on Britain's EU membership.
Still, a vote Wednesday to avoid a disorderly Brexit won't eliminate the risk of it happening. By law, Britain will leave the EU on March 29, with or without a deal, unless it cancels Brexit or secures a delay from the EU.
Top EU officials, meanwhile, warned that the prospect of no deal could not be eliminated unless the U.K. Parliament approved some type of exit deal.
"The risk of a no-deal has never been higher," chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier said.
"I urge you please not to underestimate the risk or its consequences," he told European lawmakers in Strasbourg, France.
Both Britain and the EU have ramped up planning for a no-deal Brexit, which would rip up decades of rules for travel and trade between Britain and the EU. Economists say it could cause huge upheaval, with customs checks causing gridlock at U.K. ports, new tariffs triggering sudden price hikes and red tape for everyone from truckers to tourists.
On Wednesday, the U.K. government announced its plans for the Irish border in the event of a no-deal Brexit, saying it wouldn't impose new checks, duties or controls on goods coming from EU member Ireland into Northern Ireland. It also said it wouldn't slap tariffs on 87 percent of goods coming into Britain from the EU — though there would be new levies on imports of some items including meat and cars.
The tariffs, intended to be temporary, wouldn't apply to goods crossing from Ireland to Northern Ireland, raising fears the plan would spark a rise in smuggling across that border.
U.K. Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay told the BBC the government was well prepared but "no-deal is going to be very disruptive for the economy."
Carolyn Fairbairn, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, said the no-deal arrangements would be "a sledgehammer for our economy."
A weakened May, her authority shredded by successive Brexit defeats in Parliament, said her Conservative lawmakers could vote Wednesday night according to their conscience, rather than having to follow a party line.
If a no-deal Brexit is ruled out, Parliament will vote Thursday on whether to ask the EU to delay Britain's departure.
"The government needs to seek an extension of (Brexit-triggering) Article 50 so that we can have a bit more time to sort things out because, to be honest, we are in such a mess," opposition Labour Party lawmaker Yvette Cooper said.
The EU — openly exasperated by Britain's continuing Brexit crisis — warned that Britain would need to present a strong reason for any extension.
"I am against every extension — whether an extension of one day, one week, even 24 hours — if it's not based on a clear opinion of the House of Commons for something," said the European Parliament's chief Brexit official, Guy Verhofstadt. "Please make up your minds in London, because this uncertainty cannot continue."
The European Parliament approved measures Wednesday to ameliorate the immediate hardships of a no-deal Brexit. It backed emergency measures designed to provide some continuity for everything from air, port and road traffic to foreign students to the fishing industry.
The U.K. Parliament has now twice rejected the withdrawal agreement that May spent the best part of two years negotiating with the EU, and the bloc insists there will be no more talks. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas issued a warning to British lawmakers.
"Whoever rejects the (Brexit) agreement plays with the welfare of their citizens and the economy in a reckless way," he said.
Yet May — clinging to power by a thread — has not given up on a third attempt to get her deal through Parliament again.
"I am confident that we will do a deal," Treasury chief Philip Hammond said Wednesday.
Many Britons wish they could share Hammond's optimism.
"I think that a bit of unity would be helpful now," said Katharine Beaugie, an artist in Dover. "It would be much better if we could have found some sort of decision."
Jill Lawless reported from London and Raf Casert from Strasbourg, France. Danica Kirka in London, Frank Jordans in Berlin and Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.
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Cuco Shares New Song With Dillon Francis "Fix Me"
Cuco and Dillon Francis team up for the release of their new song, "Fix Me" which drops today along with a lyric video to accompany. The platinum-selling producer and the Chicano heartthrob are excited to premiere their new bilingual track which was featured as a World Record on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show on Apple Music today and finds Cuco yearning for another chance at love behind atmospheric production from Francis.
Cuco is also embarking on a new run of tour dates in February of 2019. Beginning February 12th in Santa Ana, Cuco will play five consecutive shows throughout California. Remaining tickets are available at loverisaday.com.
Francis currently finds himself on a co-headlining US tour, the "Lost My Mind Tour" alongside Alison Wonderland. The 15 city tour kicked off with sold out shows in Madison, WI, Minneapolis, MN, and Chicago, IL over the weekend. The tour will continue across the US through its final show, February 23 in Pittsburgh, PA. For more information and tickets, visit www.lostmymindtour.com.
Hear "Fix Me" above, visit each respective artist's sites for full tour routing and stay tuned for more from Cuco and Francis in 2019.
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Royal Navy Reservists from RNAS Culdrose have started the very last ever "Flying-MOT" scheduled maintenance of a Sea King Mk 5 before the aircraft is retired from service next year.
Royal Navy, February 13, 2015 - Two Royal Navy Air Branch Reservists from Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose have started the very last ever "Flying-MOT" of a Sea King Mk 5 before the aircraft is retired from service next year.
The veteran Air Engineers, Chief Petty Officers Bruce Rowarth and Andy Harding who have served most of their naval careers with the venerable Sea King, carry out what is called "Zonal Surveys" on all the 771 Search and Rescue Naval Air Squadron's aircraft.
Each aircraft is surveyed at 15 month intervals and they spend between 15 and 18 days on each aircraft. The surveys are designed to assess what parts of the aircraft need attention to maintain its airworthiness.
"We come in on weekends to the squadron and once the aircraft are stripped back, we get to work," said Bruce.
"I've been doing this job now for about 14 years and have seen many of the Sea Kings, several times!
The Aircraft Surveys carried out on naval aircraft are normally done by members of a squadron, and it's important that the surveyors get into all the nooks and crannies, looking for cracks, corrosion, chaffed pipelines, rust, dust and ensure all the zones of the aircraft are fit for purpose and function correctly.
During the survey, any defects are documented to form a rectification package for the squadrons Maintenance Unit (MU) to complete.
Bruce and Andy's contribution to the squadron is immeasurable and as Maritime Reserves their knowledge and know-how on the Search and Rescue Sea Kings is second to none at RNAS Culdrose.
"It's important that we are independent from the day-to-day business on 771", said Andy.
"We certainly feel part of the squadron and it's a good use of the Air Branch Reserve engineers, it works fantastically well.
"If a squadron senior rate was to do this job he could be swayed by all the pressures to get aircraft up and onto the flying programme. What we offer is unique and works well for everyone."
771 NAS Senior Maintenance Rating (SMR), Warrant Officer 1 Ian Mitchell certainly thinks so. He's impressed by the way they just get on and complete the surveys.
"They're always on call and always available whenever we need them. It's through their hard work that the aircraft are prepared ready to pass their Zonal packages. I think it's a very special moment for them and us, as we line-up this final "MOT" for one of our Sea Kings."


DS0, or Digital Signal Zero, is a standard digital transmission rate for digital telecommunications.
Stands for Digital Signal Zero, a standard digital transmission rate for digital telecommunications. DS0 defines a transmission rate of 64 Kbps and can carry either a single voice channel or data.
Telecommunication carriers transmit digital signals in multiples of DS0 called DS1, DS2, and so on. These multiples differ depending on whether you are dealing with the T-carrier system of North America or the E-carrier system of Europe and other continents.
The following table lists the common DS-series transmission rates and their T-series or E-series equivalents (when defined). For example, you can see that a T1 data transmission is equivalent to 24 DS0 transmissions multiplexed together and can transmit data at a rate of 1.544 Mbps.


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First released by Tamiya on August 22, 1985, the Toyota 4x4 Pick-up Bruiser was designed in true Californian mud dog truck racing style and this made it an extremely successful addition to the Tamiya tuck models collection, not only in the USA but world-wide. The model was re-released in 2012 (#58519).
The Monster Truck was loosely based on the 4x4 Hilux and sported all terrain tires to ensure solid handling and a slipper spur prevented gearbox damage.
The tough look of the realistic body and chassis to the real thing and the large chrome covered plastic wheels, made this one of the most coveted 3-speed trucks of its kind. However, the size and the weight (4.5Kg with battery) of the Toyota 4x4 Bruiser, in the days of nothing greater than a 1200Mah Ni Cad Battery meant run times of only a few minutes. These days with 6800Mha batteries run times can be as long as 30 minutes.
Prime and NIB examples of the Bruiser are highly sought after by Vintage Tamiya model collectors. Occasionally, repairable models will come up for auction at reasonable prices.
Buying a used Tamiya Toyota 4x4 Pick-up Bruiser Electric Monster Truck, or any used RC Model, has a number of advantages. It is generally cheaper than new, ready built and may come with a variety of expensive hop-ups already installed. Cheap, pre-loved bargains are always becoming available. However, depending on the age of your purchase, it may need a little tender loving care before you can take it out on the back yard.
If the body shell of your Tamiya Toyota 4x4 Pick-up Bruiser is broken, ripped or damaged in any way, this can be easily repaired with rubber solution glue. Also, for added protection and if available for your Toyota 4x4 Pick-up Bruiser model, fit an under guard to stop dirt and gravel entering the chassis.
If you intend to race your Toyota 4x4 Pick-up Bruiser Monster Truck model at a competitive level, I would also recommend you obtain and fit titanium pivot shafts, turnbuckles, tie rods and steering rods.
The Toyota 4x4 Pick-up Bruiser steering servo is also prone to damage. In high speed crash situations, the fragile gear teeth of the servo can be broken off, rendering your expensive servo useless, so be sure to obtain a good quality "Servo Saver". Check out my Servo Information article.
If body roll on your Tamiya Toyota 4x4 Pick-up Bruiser is a problem, handling can be improved with the use of stabilizers, anti roll or sway bars, stiffer tuning springs and, or, thicker silicone oil in the dampers.
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New Audio: JOVM Mainstays White Reaper Return with an Arena Rock-Friendly Power Pop Anthem
With the release of their self-titled EP, their critically applauded full-length debut White Reaper Does It Again and a series of tours with nationally renowned acts like Deerhoof, Young Widows, Priests and others, the Louisville, KY-based quartet White Reaper quickly became JOVM mainstays and received attention nationally and elsewhere. After touring to support their White Reaper Does It Again, the band retreated to write and record the material that would comprise their long-awaited sophomore effort The World's Best American Band, which is slated for an April 7, 2017 release through Polyvinyl Records.
Last month, I wrote about The World's Best American Band's first single "Judy French," a single, which revealed that the band had gone through a decided change in sonic direction from scuzzy, power chord-based garage towards New Wave and prog rock and a bit of a studio sheen that reminded me a bit of The Cars "You Might Think" and Moving Pictures-era Rush while retaining a sneering punk attitude and rousingly anthemic hooks. Interestingly, the album's second and latest single, album title track "The World's Best American Band" continues on a somewhat similar cleaner, leaner vein as its preceding single while seemingly drawing to the anthemic power pop of Cheap Trick and others; and in fact, the single finds the band with the same sort of enormous sound you'd expect from the sorts of bands that have played arenas and stadiums.
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Pinkin Receives Award for Service to Local Government
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Received the 2014 Outstanding Women in Government Award in Atlantic City
(ATLANTIC CITY) – Assemblywoman Nancy J. Pinkin (D-Middlesex) received the 2014 Outstanding Women in Government Award at the New Jersey State League of Municipalities 99th Annual Conference in Atlantic City on Thursday.
Along with Assemblywoman Holly T. Schepisi (R-Bergen), Pinkin was recognized for her service to the East Brunswick Town Council, where she served as a member from 2005 to her election to the General Assembly in November 2013. It was presented by the League's Women in Municipal Government Committee.
"I am deeply honored for this recognition and I thank the League for the award. Being a local public servant was a humbling, yet rewarding experience. Words cannot adequately convey my appreciation to the members of the committee for this honor. It is my hope that award will inspire more women to enter public service and run for office," said Pinkin.
Assemblywoman Pinkin represents the 18th Legislative District which includes East Brunswick, Edison, Helmetta, Highland Park, Metuchen, South Plainfield and South River. She was first elected to the Assembly in 2013 after serving on the East Brunswick Town Council since 2005.
To view a photo from the event, please click here.


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The Mechanical Stress Improvement Process (MSIP) has been applied to protect weldments of boiling Water Reactor piping systems since 1986. More than 60 weldments in 20 plants including 186 nozzle and safe-end weldments are protected to date. MSIP is a proven technology recognized by the NRC in NUREG 0313 as a stress improvement method. The frequency of UT examination for stress improved weldments can be significantly reduced compared to the inspections required for as-welded joints. The use of MSIP to arrest small depth cracks detected in their early stages should provide an attractive alternative to pipe replacement or costly repairs.


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East Morton es un territorio no organizado ubicado en el condado de Morton en el estado estadounidense de Dakota del Norte. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 2806 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 1,04 personas por km².

Geografía
East Morton se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, East Morton tiene una superficie total de 2700.63 km², de la cual 2661.66 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (1.44%) 38.96 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 2806 personas residiendo en East Morton. La densidad de población era de 1,04 hab./km². De los 2806 habitantes, East Morton estaba compuesto por el 98.47% blancos, el 0.07% eran afroamericanos, el 0.5% eran amerindios, el 0.07% eran asiáticos, el 0.18% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 0.04% eran de otras razas y el 0.68% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 0.29% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Enlaces externos

Territorios no organizados de Dakota del Norte
Localidades del condado de Morton (Dakota del Norte)

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COVID-19 Update for Prospective Students and Families:
We know that visiting campus isn't as accessible as it was before. That is why we have decided to offer a variety of virtual recruitment opportunities. A virtual tour of our beautiful campus can be viewed on our website. Prospective students also have the opportunity to connect with a Student Knight Ambassador virtually. Individual campus tours or group virtual tours are offered by appointment.
Holy Cross of San Antonio is a private, Catholic school located in San Antonio, TX. It has 277 students in grades 6-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 14 to 1. Tuition is $9,295 for the highest grade offered. After graduation, 90% of students from this school go on to attend a 4-year college.
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I attended Holy Cross for seven years and every day was a different story. All students were subject to bullying by any member of the football team, the football players have a special place in the administrators heart since they are the only reason someone would actually come to this school. The teachers that actually cared about academics were constantly interrupted and tormented by the ape like behavior of these men. If you are actually interested in academics i would advise you to choose any other private school in the San Antonio are because this schools only focus is football.
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Holy Cross is a very small school which is something I love. The teacher to student ratio is very small, so we get to know our teachers very well. In this school everyone knows everyone so if you're new to the school everyone is very welcoming just like I was welcomed as my junior year was my first year. The only thing I would change about this school is the amount of resources. I love the connection as it is just like a big family. The Holy Cross alumni is very involved and this school carries a lot of traditions. Most of the staff were Holy Cross students and it just makes the school so much more tied together.
Choosing to attend Holy Cross has probably been one of the best decisions I've ever made. The teachers have been very helpful throughout the years and I am very thankful for each and every one of them. I simply feel that every time I leave my house every morning, I arrive at my second home once I get to school. Holy Cross exceeds in education and in my opinion has no rival in the values it offers of family and tradition. I have learned some of life's greatest lessons here and truly believe it made me the man I am today. When I am asked what school I attend, I proudly say I will soon be a graduate of Holy Cross. It is a school of family and pride, and that is something any current student and alumni will also tell you.


The death of a two-year-old girl found on tidal flats near Maketū is now being treated as a homicide, police have confirmed.
The decision followed the results of an autopsy, Detective Senior Sergeant Greg Turner said today.
Police are appealing for information on the death and want to speak to anyone who may have stayed at the Bledisloe Holiday Park, Little Waihi, between Monday March 18 and Friday March 22.
Police were first called to the village of Little Waihi, near Maketū, at 10.40am on Thursday to reports of disorder.
The girl was later found on the tidal flats. The police confirmed on Friday they were treating her death as "suspicious".


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La battaglia di ʿAqrabāʾ () ovvero della Yamāma () fu combattuta nel dicembre del 632 nella pianura di ʿAqrabāʾ, nella regione della Yamāma, tra le forze del califfo Abū Bakr e di Musaylima ibn Habib, detto dai musulmani al-Kadhdhāb (Il Mentitore), in quanto considerato "falso profeta", che si opponeva all'Islam forgiato da Maometto.

Premesse
Dopo la morte di Maometto, molte tribù arabe si ribellarono contro la Umma islamica di Medina. Il califfo Abū Bakr organizzò 11 compagini di guerrieri per stroncare tali rivolte. Abū Bakr nominò ʿIkrima ibn Abī Jahl comandante di uno di tali corpi. Gli ordini impartiti a ʿIkrima erano di avanzare e di entrare in contatto con le forze di Musaylima ibn Habib nella Yamama ma di non impegnare battaglia con lui. Abu Bakr conosceva il valore e la potenza di cui disponeva il suo avversario e non voleva rischiare un combattimento contro di lui con forze insufficienti. Dal momento che Khalid ibn al-Walid era senza ombra di dubbio il suo più abile generale, il califfo aveva in mente di impiegarlo contro Musaylima dopo essere riuscito a sbarazzarsi degli altri nemici dell'Islam. L'intento di Abū Bakr nell'affidare a ʿIkrima quella missione era di forzare Musaylima a rimanere nella Yamama. Con ʿIkrima in vista, Musaylima si sarebbe atteso un attacco musulmano e in tal modo non sarebbe stato in condizione di lasciare la sua base. Con Musaylima così bloccato, Khālid sarebbe stato libero di affrontare le tribù degli "apostati" (murtadd) dell'Arabia centro-occidentale senza che vi fossero interferenze provenienti dalla Yamāma. ʿIkrima avanzò col suo esercito e fissò un accampamento da qualche parte nella regione della Yamama.

Il luogo dell'accampamento non è noto. Da questa base di partenza ʿIkrima tenne le forze dei Banu Hanifa sotto osservazione mentre attendeva istruzioni dal califfo, e la presenza di ʿIkrima ebbe l'effetto desiderato di far rimanere Musaylima nella Yamama. Quando ʿIkrima ricevette le notizie della sconfitta di Tulayha ad opera di Khālid, cominciò a diventare impaziente di attaccare battaglia. ʿIkrima era una persona che non conosceva la paura e un generale capace, ma gli mancava la freddezza di giudizio e la pazienza di Khalid - qualità che contraddistinguono il capace comandante da quello avventato, anche se dotato.
Il successivo evento di cui venne a conoscenza ʿIkrima fu che Shurahbil ibn Hasana stava marciando per unire le sue forze alle sue. Anche Shurahbil aveva ricevuto il comando di un corpo militare da parte del califfo, con gli ordini di mettersi al seguito di ʿIkrima, e di attendere ulteriori istruzioni. In pochi giorni Shurahbil si sarebbe congiunto con Ikrima. Quindi giunsero notizie di come Khalid aveva messo in rotta le forze di Salma, la regina a guida di uomini. ʿIkrimah non poteva aspettare oltre e mise il suo corpo militare in movimento. Questo avveniva alla fine di ottobre 632 (fine di Rajab dell'11 Egira). Fu però sconfitto da Musaylima. Scrisse allora ad Abu Bakr e gli fece un resoconto completo di quanto avvenuto. Abu Bakr era al contempo comprensivo e adirato dall'impulsività di ʿIkrima e dalla sua disubbidienza agli ordini che gli aveva impartito. Abu Bakr gli ordinò di marciare su Mahra per aiutare ʿArfaja b. Harthama al-Bārikī e poi dirigersi in Yemen per aiutare Muhājir ibn Abī Umayya. Shurahbīl rimase nella regione della Yamama. Per assicurarsi che anche lui non facesse l'errore di ʿIkrima, Abū Bakr gli scrisse: "Rimani dove ti trovi e attendi ulteriori istruzioni".

Il califfo mandò a chiamare allora a Khalid e gli affidò la missione di distruggere le forze di Musaylima nella Yamama. In aggiunta al suo esercito già nutrito, Khalid avrebbe avuto sotto il suo comando le forze di Shurahbil. Khalid cavalcò fino a Butah, dove i suoi contingenti originari lo attendevano. Nel frattempo il califfo inviò una missiva a Shurahbil affinché operasse sotto il comando di Khalid ibn al-Walid. Pochi giorni prima dell'arrivo di Khalid, Shurahbil aveva avuto la medesima tentazione di ʿIkrima; alla ricerca della gloria, egli avanzò e si urtò con le forze di Musaylima, ma anch'egli fu sconfitto. Khalid ricevette informazioni sul fatto che Musaylima era accampato sulla pianura di ʿAqrabāʾ con un esercito di 40.000 guerrieri. Le due vittoriose azioni condotte da loro contro ʿIkrima e Shurahbil avevano accresciuto la fiducia in loro stessi e avevano creato un'aureola d'invincibilità attorno a Musaylima.

Il secondo attacco dei musulmani

Agli ordini di Khalid, l'esercito islamico si spinse ancora una volta all'attacco. I musulmani lanciarono violenti attacchi lungo tutto il fronte. La carneficina maggiore avvenne in un burrone in cui il sangue umano scorse a rivoli nel wadi.

L'esito della battaglia rimase comunque in bilico. Khalid allora capì che, per la fede fanatica nel loro leader, i Banu Hanifa non avrebbero ceduto. Era evidente che solo la morte di Musaylima avrebbe potuto determinare la sconfitta dei non musulmani, dal momento che essa avrebbe ingenerato una forte demoralizzazione dei suoi seguaci e ciò avrebbe condotto inevitabilmente alla loro disfatta. Tuttavia Musaylima non combatteva in prima linea come faceva invece Khalid. Avrebbe dovuto essere allontanato dalla cintura di protezione organizzata dai suoi fedeli. Al primo violento urto del combattimento, i guerrieri impegnati fecero seguire un momento di pausa utile per riprendere fiato. Vi fu un momento di calma.

Allora Khalid allungò il passo verso il centro dello schieramento nemico e lanciò una sfida per un combattimento a singolar tenzone. Numerosi campioni si fecero avanti dai ranghi dei pagani per accettare la sfida di Khalid ibn al-Walid e avanzarono verso di lui a uno a uno; Khalid superò ogni avversario. Lentamente e fermamente Khalid s'indirizzò verso Musaylima, uccidendo un suo campione dopo l'altro, finché non rimase nessuno che fosse coraggioso abbastanza per contrapporsi a lui. Fu a quel punto sufficientemente prossimo a Musaylima per parlargli senza urlare, e gli propose dei colloqui. Musaylima fu d'accordo; avanzò cautamente e si fermò proprio al di là della distanza utile per duellare con Khalid. Questi era determinato a uccidere Musaylima. I colloqui erano solo un espediente per accostarglisi. A quell'istante Khalid gli balzò contro. Khalid ibn al-Walid era veloce ma Musaylima lo era ancor di più. A quel punto del combattimento, qualcosa d'inesprimibile mutò nello spirito dei due eserciti, deprimendo uno ed esaltando l'altro. La fuga del loro 'profeta' e comandante davanti a Khalid fu una visione sciagurata per gli occhi degli 'apostati', mentre i musulmani gioivano. Per sfruttare l'opportunità psicologicamente favorevole che al momento gli si presentava, Khalid ibn al-Walid ordinò un'immediata nuova offensiva. Gli 'apostati' cominciarono ad arretrare, alla stessa stregua dei musulmani che avanzavano. Dopo qualche tempo il fronte 'infedele' si sbriciolò. Il nucleo più compatto dell'esercito di Musaylima si frantumò e fuggì, sparpagliandosi in ogni direzione.

Ultima fase del combattimento
Solo un quarto circa dell'esercito di Musaylima rimase a combattere, e questa parte si affrettò a raggiungere un giardino recintato - noto come Ḥadīqat al-Rahmān ("Giardino di al-Rahmān") - mentre Muhakim (comandante dell'ala destra) copriva la sua ritirata dispiegando una piccola retroguardia. Tale retroguardia fu presto fatta a pezzi dai musulmani e Muhakim cadde trafitto da un dardo lanciato dal figlio del Califfo, Abd al-Rahman. Immediatamente i musulmani sopraggiunsero all'interno del giardino recintato, dove circa 7.000 'apostoli' (Musaylima fra loro), avevano trovato rifugio, sbarrando l'entrata. I musulmani erano ansiosi di penetrarvi e di completare l'opera. Allora un guerriero musulmano, al-Barāʾ ibn Malik, chiese ai suoi seguaci di lasciargli scalare il muro, così da poter aprire il portone dopo aver ucciso le guardie. Il guerriero balzò nel giardino e spalancò il portone. I musulmani penetrarono nel giardino e la parte finale e più cruenta della battaglia della Yamāma ebbe inizio.

Il Giardino della Morte
Gli 'apostati' arretrarono non appena i musulmani entrarono le giardino. Il combattimento divenne sempre più feroce. Ma Musaylima combatteva e non aveva alcuna intenzione di arrendersi. Quando il cerchio si strinse sempre più attorno a lui, snudò la spada e si unì al combattimento. L'ultima fase della battaglia raggiunse la sua acme. L'esercito islamico premeva per ogni dove il suo avversario ed era solo l'impegno di Musaylima ad evitare un collasso generale. Allora Musaylima si recò sotto lo sguardo simile a quello del falco di Wahshī ibn Harb (quello stesso che aveva ucciso Hamza, lo zio di Maometto, nella battaglia di Uhud prima di convertirsi all'Islam). Egli impugnava lo stesso giavellotto etiopico col quale aveva trafitto Hamza e colpì Musaylima al ventre; nel momento immediatamente successivo Abu Dujana gli tagliò la testa.

La notizia della morte di Musaylima portò al rapido collasso degli 'apostati'. Il giardino in cui si sviluppò l'ultimo accanito combattimento dell'intera battaglia fu chiamato il "Giardino della Morte" (Ḥadīqat al-Mawt ). Tutti i 7.000 'aposto' vi furono trucidati.

Conseguenze
A seguito della battaglia della Yamāma, ogni resistenza in Arabia terminò. Dopo la battaglia di ʿAqrabāʾ, il Califfo Abū Bakr inviò Khalid ibn al-Walid a invadere l'Impero persiano sasanide.

Note

Bibliografia
A.I. Akram, The Sword of Allah: Khalid bin al-Waleed, His Life and Campaigns, Nat. Publishing. House, Rawalpindi (1970) ISBN 0-7101-0104-X.

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Microsoft to kick off Windows 10 ad campaign next week
Windows 10: Fact vs. fiction
10 things you should know about upgrading to Windows 10 (video)
The 'when' of Windows 10: Microsoft's update and upgrade schedule explained
Microsoft confirms 'waves' roll-out of Windows 10
Windows 10 Enterprise will be available to volume licensing customers on Aug. 1
By Gregg Keizer
Senior Reporter, Computerworld |
Microsoft today confirmed that it would roll out the free upgrades to Windows 10 later this month in several "waves," with beta testers getting first dibs on the OS.
Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education, editions available only to volume licensing customers, will be ready to download on Aug. 1, three days after Microsoft releases Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro.
"Starting on July 29, we will start rolling out Windows 10 to our Windows Insiders," wrote Terry Myerson, the top operating system and devices executive at Microsoft, on a company blog today. "From there, we will start notifying reserved systems in waves, slowly scaling up after July 29."
[ Got a spare hour? Take this online course and learn how to install and configure Windows 10 with the options you need. ]
Windows Insider is the firm's name for the preview program that debuted on Oct. 1, 2014. Insider will continue after the launch of Windows 10 for those who want to live on the bleeding edge of change.
While at least some Insider participants -- perhaps all -- will get the final build on Wednesday, July 29, others eligible for the free upgrade will have to wait as Microsoft slowly expands distribution. Myerson did not elaborate on the timetable, so it could be days, weeks or even months before the push ends.
Such release "throttling" is not uncommon: Both Google and Mozilla do the same with new versions of their Chrome and Firefox browsers. Although Myerson touted the practice as good for customers -- "Each day of the roll-out, we will listen, learn and update the experience for all Windows 10 users," he said -- the tactic also reduces the chance that Microsoft's distribution servers will be overloaded and become unresponsive.
Microsoft is also using a new approach to deliver Windows 10 to those running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Windows 8.1 Update (the mandatory update issued in April 2014): People who have "reserved" an upgrade through the on-screen nag-and-notification campaign will be told that their devices are ready to update only after Microsoft has silently pushed the bits to their machines.
[ Related: Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration guide ]
"If you reserved your copy of Windows 10, we will notify you once our compatibility work confirms you will have a great experience, and Windows 10 has been downloaded on your system," said Myerson.
Neither Windows 10 Enterprise nor Windows 10 Education will be treated in that fashion for the simple reason that they are not part of the free upgrade offer. Corporations and organizations that want to migrate machines to the new OS will instead use the upgrade rights inherent in their Software Assurance plans to move to 10.
"Volume licensing customers will be able to download Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education on Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) starting on August 1," Myerson said.
Analyst expect few companies to immediately jump to Windows 10 -- many of them only recently wrapped up their migrations to Windows 7 and some still have Windows XP to purge -- but IT administrators may want to begin testing the OS against their line-of-business applications, or even launch small pilot programs stocked with adventurous employees.
OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) -- the Lenovos, Dells and HPs of the world -- will get Windows 10 "soon," Myerson added, so that they can begin pre-loading the OS on new systems. Some, such as Dell, have pledged to start selling Windows 10 PCs on July 29.
Microsoft also will distribute Windows 10 to retailers before July 29, so that they can prepare for upgrading customers' recently purchased Windows 8.1 PCs.
Senior Reporter Gregg Keizer covers Windows, Office, Apple/enterprise, web browsers and web apps for Computerworld.


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import com.jcraft.jsch.Channel;
import com.jcraft.jsch.JSch;
import com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException;
import com.jcraft.jsch.Session;
import controleur.DAOequipement;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import modele.Client;
import modele.Port;
import notifier.Notifier;

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    private DAOequipement dao;
    private Port port;
    private Label label;
    public Check(DAOequipement dao,Label label,Port port){
        this.dao=dao;
        this.port = port;
        this.label = label;
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    public void execute() throws JSchException, IOException, Exception{
        System.out.println("check ssh");
        JSch jsch = new JSch();
        String[] frac = dao.LireFichier("infos_comptes.ssh",label);
        String user = frac[2];            //CHANGE ME
        String host = frac[0]; //CHANGE ME
        String passwd = frac[3];      //CHANGE ME

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        session.setPassword(passwd);

        session.setConfig("StrictHostKeyChecking", "no");

        session.connect();

        Channel channel = session.openChannel("shell");
        OutputStream ops = channel.getOutputStream();
        PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(ops, true);

        channel.connect();
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        //commands
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        //ps.println("username lino privilege 15 secret lino");
        /*ps.println("ls");*/
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WASHINGTON — The fence along the U.S.-Mexico border is mostly finished. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling said Tuesday that 601 miles of the project had been completed as of a week ago. But Easterling added that 69 miles of the fence still must be built to meet the goal set during the Bush administration.
Good. Now let's hope that Obama ensures its completion considering that he voted in favor of the proposal.
The one thing Bush did correctly but he should have made it the entire length of the border.
from those who know, it does not take the army corps of engineers this long to build a fence.
the pressure not to do so was enormous. and now we are seeing the results the howl from los pinos will grow to an unbearable pitch and soon. you saw those bails of dope being ditched in the pacific baja ocean yesterday on the news??? this is only the beginning.
Please so they built a fence, what about the 20 damn million thats here now !
Obamas and his crew (Pelosi,Reid and the other fools) are gonna just let those 20 million become citizens anyway...You watch and see !
The moon is full tomorrow night, let them howl away.
All of which will occur----------------as the recession deepens.
Before anyone gets too euphoric over the fence being almost built, consider this. Jorge never wanted the fence. Jorge managed to build a fence that is as ineffective as he could make it and still claim that he built the fence. There are only a little over 200 miles of ANTI-PERSONNEL fence. The rest is just vehicle barriers, etc. Vehicle barriers don't stop people. They don't even stop vehicles. Another betrayal.
We did get a huge increase in BP though. I guess that is job stimulation.
Wish I could rep. you on that. The fence is so inefective that the only ones happy about it are the illegals. One pair of bolt cutters will gain entry for anybody. E- Verify may very well be the last line of defence we have. Hope not, but, I don't have much faith left.


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A first: Passenger Assistance app helps disabled passengers travel
A new app available today will make it easier and quicker for disabled people to request assistance for their train journeys, helping people to travel with confidence.
Friday, May 28, 2021 8:15 AM - London, UK
The 'Passenger Assistance' app, developed with train operators, will offer passengers the choice to request assistance, update their profile and review their journeys from anywhere using their smartphone, a first for public transport anywhere in Great Britain. This can speed up assistance bookings and give customers greater confidence on their journeys as they can instantly amend accessibility requirements on their profile via the app.
The rail industry has already improved assistance for passengers by replacing back-end systems to improve calls, introducing user profiles to speed up bookings, and providing frontline staff with real-time information about assistance bookings through one central database.
The new 'Passenger Assistance' app is the latest step to give people more confidence as they return to the railway following Covid-19 travel restrictions. Passengers can set up and update their profile, with no need to call to make changes and no need to repeat their requirements each time they request assistance. This saves time and ensures information is up to date, helping staff to tailor their assistance to meet individual needs.
Previously, calls to book assistance could take up to 40 minutes on the phone. Staff at stations then received a printed list of booked assistance each morning, which meant when plans changed, the list wouldn't be updated automatically and staff could end up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The new system upgrades along with the app mean the booking process will be smoother for disabled people. Requests to book assistance are sent directly to the train operator who will confirm the booking by email with a unique booking reference. The train operator will arrange assistance by a trained member of staff who will be working from up to date information, adjusting their approach for a range of disabilities.
'Passenger Assistance' was built by Transreport, a UK-based tech company which focuses on accessibility and inclusion, in collaboration with rail companies and with input from an Accessibility Panel including disabled passengers and accessibility experts. The app supports screen readers and text to speech tools and is also compatible with mobile assistive support tools such as font re-sizing, contrast adjustment and screen magnification.
'Passenger Assistance' by Transreport is available to download on the App Store and Google Play from today. It is offered as an additional way to request assistance alongside the existing phone, email and basic web forms, and will evolve with new features over time.
Jacqueline Starr, Chief Executive Officer of the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), said: "We want to make the railway more accessible to more people and this new app is a first step towards transforming the way disabled passengers request assistance, with greater control at their fingertips. To help all our passengers travel with confidence as restrictions ease, we're also providing effective ventilation on trains, continued cleaning and better information about busy services to help with social distancing."
Jay Shen, Founder and Managing Director of Transreport, said: "We're inspired by The Social Model that says people are disabled by the world around them, not by their impairment or difference. We want to use tech to remove the barriers that make life harder for people with impairments. 'Passenger Assistance' makes it much easier for disabled passengers to arrange assisted travel, giving them more control and independence."
Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris said:"Returning to public transport post-lockdown, we're presented with a unique opportunity to re-shape the transport network to ensure it works for everyone. DfT has supported and provided funding to develop this app since its earliest inception and it builds on brilliant accessibility improvements already made by the rail industry, simplifying disabled passengers' experience of the network and ensuring staff have the right tools to assist them."
Gemma Hope, Director of Policy at Leonard Cheshire said: "Giving people more control over their rail assistance is such an important part of inclusive travel, so we welcome this app. We look forward to hearing how disabled people find using the app day to day across the network."
Louise Rubin, Head of Policy and Campaigns at disability charity Scope says: "The current booking process is something disabled people have told us stands in the way of them using the rail network, so it's great to see rail operators improving the assistance booking system. This app should play an important role in simplifying the process making the assistance people need to travel much easier to book. We hope this app is the first step on a journey that will see disabled people turn up and travel whenever they want."
About National Rail
At NationalRail.co.uk, we are the definitive source of customer information for all passenger rail services on the National Rail network in England, Wales and Scotland. National Rail Enquiries is part of the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which provides business services to Train Operating Companies, Open Access operators, Freight Operating Companies and Network Rail.
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Frustrated Malaysian police release North Korean suspect
Journalists wait outside North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, March 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Kim Chol
Siti Aisyah
Khalid Abu Bakar
Ri Jong-Chol is among eight North Koreans suspected of involvement in the dramatic killing of Kim, the half-brother of the reclusive nation's leader, who was poisoned with a banned nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Malaysia's attorney general has announced there was insufficient evidence to charge 47-year-old Ri and that he would be deported Friday.
Ri's release came two days after two women -- one Vietnamese and one Indonesian -- were charged with murdering Kim.
Seven other North Koreans are wanted in connection with the killing, including a diplomat and an airline employee who are believed to be in Malaysia.
Four others are thought to have fled to Pyongyang on the day of the murder.
North Korea, which has not acknowledged the dead man's identity, has vehemently protested the investigation, saying Malaysia is in cahoots with its enemies.


Daisy likes to think she's Mark's co-pilot. She's the cutest backseat passenger, ever.
Mark ended-up taking care of all the driving today. The icy roads forced him to crawl across the Interstate at 25 MPH or slower. Some parts of I80 were covered with brown slippery slush. Mark was an amazing and patient driver. I offered to help him out but he thought that was a bad idea. He said something like: "I love you but I don't want to see you get hurt." He also drove with hazard lights on and aimed for the thin dry strips of road in the left-hand lanes.
Eventually, the roads got better and Mark was able to bump up his speed to 40 MPH.
Mark delivered us to Salt Lake City, safe and sound. We did dinner at the Red Iguana on North Temple Ave. I ordered a tasty mojito made with Barcadi Rum.
Hopefully we'll have clear skies and dry roads for the third day of our Road Trip.


A new complex arises at Changi Airport Singapore, called project Jewel. A key highlight of the construction works for Jewel is the distinctive dome-shaped facade made of glass and steel. For fire safety purposes Certified Brakel Partner iDAS Technology advised a SHEV system consisting of 105 aesthetical (smoke) ventilation windows.
Jewel is a new retail and lifestyle complex that will be the central hub connecting airport terminals 1,2 and 3. It has a gross floor area of about 134,000 m² that will be used for retail, airport operations, attractions and a hotel. It also features a waterfall as high as five storeys.
It is a glass-and-steel complex designed by a consortium of consultants that consists of Safdie Architects, which designed the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort, Benoy, as well as local architect RSP.
Of course Jewel must have a fire safe and pleasant environment. It is essential that people present can make a fast and safe exit from the building in case of fire. An effective Smoke and Heat Exhaust system is therefore vitally important.
The design asked for a slender ventilation window and concealed controls. iDas installed 105 Brakel® Lumera ventilation windows especially designed for structural glass roofs; 34 ventilation windows are triangular shaped, 71 ventlights have a rectangular shape.
The reliability of a SHEV system totally dependents on professional inspection and maintenance. Therefore iDas will also take care of the maintenance of de Lumera smoke ventilation windows.


One pot meals are my favorite. They really make it easy to get dinner done without a lot of dishes to clean up in the aftermath. On a lot of weeknights, I end up being the one to get the dishes in the dishwasher so I appreciate any little bit of help I can get. My favorite dish right now is paleo one pot chicken and kale.
This recipe is so simple but, because the ingredients are fresh, it tastes amazing. My whole family loved this dish and I loved how was to make.
2) Heat coconut oil or ghee in an oven safe pan over medium heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper and place in pan. Cook for 5 minutes on each side.
3) Add artichoke hearts, onion, carrots and sweet potato. Cook for 2-3 minutes. Add broth, lemon juice and lemon slices to pan. Place in oven and cook for 10 minutes. Add kale and cook for an additional 10 minutes.
I know kale is one of those love it or hate it foods but, trust me, it is delicious here. If you are an absolute kale hater, feel free to swap it out for spinach. Spinach does wilt faster though so you won't need to cook it as long.
Heat coconut oil or ghee in an oven safe pan over medium heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper and place in pan. Cook for 5 minutes on each side.
Add artichoke hearts, onion, carrots and sweet potato. Cook for 2-3 minutes. Add broth, lemon juice and lemon slices to pan. Place in oven and cook for 10 minutes. Add kale and cook for an additional 10 minutes.
You had me a at kale but then artichokes too?! YES!
Artichokes are one of my favorites too!
Looks tasty & easy to make. Found you on Crafty & Delicious!
This looks SO healthy and delicious. Definitely putting it on my menu plan. Looks like the perfect dinner to recover from a weekend of indulgent foods!
We love kale too! I love that it comes in such huge quantities from the store because it challenges me to find new ways to use it.
YUM!!! Way to rock it this week!! I loved it so much that I featured it at today's party! Thank you for linking up at the Creative K Kids' Tasty Tuesdays! I have pinned your post to our Tasty Tuesdays Pinterest Board!! I hope to see you again this week! xo!
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Perfect for women is this Bella silver cubic zirconia celtic knot pendant, it is also made from rhodium plated 925 silver and cubic zirconia. It measures chain length: 40.64cm. All the pendants come complete in a bella presentation box. The Bella Cubic Zirconia Celtic Knot Pendant - Silver has been beautifully encrusted with cubic zirconia crystals giving it a stunning finish. It can be worn day to day or accompany your formal attire on those special occasions, either way it is a must for your collection.


David Stenberg is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a Mental Health Service Provider designation and a National Certified Counselor. He completed his undergraduate work at Rhodes College and received his Master of Science degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Memphis. He also holds a Master of Divinity degree from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in the Boston area.
David served for several years as an assistant pastor in an urban setting where he had the opportunity to provide care for people with diverse backgrounds. Prior to joining the CPC staff, he was a therapist at The Oaks at La Paloma, a dual-diagnosis residential treatment program for adults struggling with mental illness and addiction.
At CPC, David works with adults, providing treatment for depression, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, life transitions, the effects of abuse and trauma, substance and process addictions, and spiritual formation. Depending on the needs of the client, David utilizes various treatment approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and faith-based counseling.


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CRE X Missouri
The local developers? They're back in St. Louis
May 30, 2019 | Dan Rafter
The AC Hotel will be the first new hospitality development in St. Louis' Central West End neighborhood in nearly 20 years.
Construction activity is on the rise throughout the St. Louis region. And that has kept St. Louis-based architecture firm HDA Architects busy.
Of course, HDA is far from the only St. Louis-area architecture, development or commercial real estate firm that's enjoying the benefits of the region's heightened construction business. The St. Louis boom is keeping plenty of CRE companies busy today.
"I've been here 19 years, and the last two or three years have been the busiest I've seen it overall in St. Louis," said Patrick Holleran, vice president with HDA Architects. "We're seeing more hotels popping up, more flags coming into St. Louis. Apartment development has not slowed down at all. We are even seeing office development here. That had been non-existent for well over a decade."
What's behind this activity? Holleran points to the overall national economy. As he says, the shock of the Great Recession has worn off. This has inspired more people to get into commercial real estate. And these new entrants in the business are ready to take on big CRE projects.
"I see a lot of people of my age, in their 40s, who are getting into real estate development," Holleran said. "They want to make a name for themselves."
Many of these newer CRE professionals have opened boutique development companies that specialize in historic rehabs. Others are taking on multifamily projects.
This is a change, one that Holleran said is a positive one. In the not-so-distant past, many of the family-owned real estate companies left the business, Holleran said. Big, national REITs and international companies replaced them.
Today, though, Holleran is seeing a return of smaller, local developers.
"There is a different mindset with these companies," he said. "We are starting to see more home-grown St. Louis developers who were born and raised here. They really know the city and what it is lacking. We hadn't seen that in quite some time."
HDA is a good example of a company that is reaping the benefits of the increasing commercial activity in the St. Louis region. The architecture firm has worked recently on several major projects in the area.
There's the corporate headquarters for ADB in Pacific, Missouri, about 34 miles from St. Louis. This two-story, 36,852-square-foot office building was completed in January of 2019. The project features exposed ceilings, concrete floors and wood accent walls. Highlights of the project include a two-story lobby entrance and a lounge space.
HDA also worked on the Frontenac Office Building in Frontenac, Missouri. This project, which was completed in August of 2019, is a 36,000-square-foot, three-story office building. The cost of the project was $5 million for the office building and $2 million for an underground parking garage.
Another important project on which HDA is now working is the AC Hotel, which will open in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis. The seven-story, 195-room hotel will be located within walking distance of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University Hospital, Children's Hospital, Forest Park and more than 100 restaurants, bars, retail shops and entertainment venues.
What's especially significant here is that the AC Hotel St. Louis will be the first hospitality project completed in the Central West End neighborhood in nearly 20 years.
Construction is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2019. The developers of this project are Sam Koplar, Concord Hospitality Enterprises and Homebase Partner. JNS and HDA are the architects, while MC Hotel Construction is the builder. The project is expected to cost $45 million.
Holleran said that he expects construction activity to continue to increase in the St. Louis region. He pointed to the office sector, which for so long had been dormant. Today, though, the Midtown and Cortex Innovation Community areas of St. Louis are seeing a steady stream of new office construction.
Many of the companies moving into these spaces are start-ups or tech firms, something that is helping to attract younger workers to the area, Holleran said.
Finding the right office space has always been important for companies. But today, those companies that want to attract and retain the best workers need to offer space that has the right amenities. That includes everything from walking trails to rooftop lounges and terrace views of the city.
"It makes all the sense in the world. We design apartment communities that offer luxury and areas for people to relax. We've done that all these years. That is starting to translate into the work environment now," Holleran said. "Class-A office buildings need areas in which people can be working but not in their individual workspace or suite. They need that lounge space that has flat-screen TVs, couches, WiFi and maybe a terrace view."
It's all about making employees more productive. As Holleran said, when these employees have amenities that make the workday more pleasant, they tend to produce more.
"To get the most out of your employees, you have to make them as comfortable as possible," Holleran said. "They can't just be looking at the same desk and same computer eight hours a day. As our work staff gets younger, their wants and needs are much different than mine. They want to be comfortable and acknowledged. That has changed drastically in the last 10 years. What drives people today is different."
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