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Instant analysis from Patriots' 27-17 loss to Colts
Initial observations from Saturday night's matchup at Lucas Oil Stadium.
By Oliver Thomas@OliverBThomas Dec 18, 2021, 11:34pm EST
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The New England Patriots returned to Lucas Oil Stadium for the first time since 2015, and left with a 27-17 loss against the Indianapolis Colts.
It marked the end of a streak that spanned seven straight.
Here's a glance back on Saturday night as New England moves to 9-5 and Indianapolis moves to 8-6 in the AFC playoff picture.
New England's rookie quarterback goes from three throws to 45
After attempting three passes against the Buffalo Bills in the wind gusts of Orchard Park, Mac Jones found himself in a climate-controlled environment. And also a raucous one. New England's rookie quarterback went 26-of-45 through the air for 299 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions against a defense sitting atop the NFL in takeaways.
With a glove on his left hand, Jones avoided the third-and-2 pass rush on the opening drive to hit wide receiver Jakobi Meyers across the middle. A scramble to move the chains transpired on the next snap. But consecutive penalties stalled the offense at midfield before a sack by reigning first-team All-Pro defensive tackle DeForest Buckner.
A fellow Colts first-team All-Pro in Darius Leonard then picked off Jones with under two minutes remaining before intermission. For No. 15 overall, it would be his first interception of the season in the red zone. A diving pick by linebacker Bobby Okereke followed in the third quarter as Jones dropped back from shotgun on third-and-1 and turned to the right flat. But Jones would settle, launching 43-yard shot to wideout N'Keal Harry late in the final frame that set up a touchdown. For a moment, a deficit that had swelled 20 reduced to three.
Henry accounts for eighth, ninth scores of campaign
Through 13 games, only the Philadelphia Eagles had conceded more receptions to opposing tight ends than Indianapolis. Jonnu Smith and Hunter Henry looked to keep the trend going Saturday evening.
New England's duo drew 11 targets against the Colts' defense. Those targets became an interception as well as seven catches for 80 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
A long of 25 took place before intermission by Henry on an inside stem that broke outside against safety Khari Willis. His eighth and ninth scores of the campaign crossed the wire in the fourth quarter, checking in as the most by a New England tight end since Rob Gronkowski's 11 in 2015. Before then, Smith had gains of 13 and 11 yards negated by an ineligible lineman downfield and offensive holding.
Jackson limits 'one of their go-to guys' in Pittman
"He's a big, strong receiver. He's a physical guy. He's one of their go-to guys," Patriots cornerback J.C. Jackson said of Colts wideout Michael Pittman Jr. on Wednesday. "... He's been playing pretty good the past few weeks. I mean, that's their guy."
The Indianapolis leader in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns would also be his guy to monitor. Jackson aligned in man across from Pittman on the game's initial third down, and trailed his go route on an overthrow. It would be the third pass in a row sent the 6-foot-4, 220-pound NFL sophomore's direction. A deflection would also reach the books.
Later helmetless and disqualified from the game along with New England safety Kyle Dugger, Pittman caught one pass for seven yards on five looks.
Collins, McCourty lend a hand on Wentz interception
Colts quarterback Carson Wentz faked the handoff and scanned the middle of the field on first-and-10 early in the fourth quarter. Few openings were found. The right hand of a waiting linebacker was.
Back into the air the football flew off of Jamie Collins. And into the grasp of decade-long Patriots safety Devin McCourty for a midfield interception it landed. A 20-7 game turned into a 20-10 game soon after.
Wentz went 5-of-12 passing for a season-low 57 yards on the night. He converted on a fourth-and-1 sneak with under five minutes to go.
NFL's rushing leader finishes with 29 carries, walk-off touchdown
Colts running back Jonathan Taylor entered Saturday with 1,348 rushing yards, 336 receiving yards and 18 total touchdowns on the season. He entered with Next Gen Stats speeds of 21.83 and 22.05 mph. No player at the position around the league had turned more carries into gains of 20-plus yards or 40-plus yards than the Wisconsin alum.
Indianapolis opened with three consecutive passes before testing the ground with a jet sweep to wide receiver Ashton Dulin that picked up 37. Then it was Taylor's turn on a run behind backup center Danny Pinter that picked up 11. The first of six handoffs in a row for Taylor, he proceeded to take a direct snap and act as a lead blocker for fellow back Nyheim Hines on a touchdown.
Taylor finished with 29 carries for 170 yards against a Patriots defense that shifted between a 3-4 front and a three-safety nickel. He added a resonating blitz pickup against linebacker and captain Dont'a Hightower. And then a 67-yard runaway touchdown with no timeouts left at New England's disposal.
Third block of the season for Patriots' punt protection
In the closing seconds of the first quarter, Colts special teams coordinator Bubba Ventrone's unit hit home with a punt block by Matthew Adams that fellow linebacker E.J. Speed recovered in the end zone.
It would occur through fullback Jakob Johnson's lane. It would be the third rejection of the season for punter Jake Bailey, a league high. And it would be the first for a touchdown against the Patriots in six years.
It resulted in 14-0 score.
Colts shut the windows against Stevenson-led backfield
Patriots starting running back Damien Harris would be downgraded from questionable to out on the eve of the 8:20 p.m. ET kickoff due to a hamstring injury that left him limited for three consecutive practices. In the absence of his 754 yards and nine touchdowns rushing, it'd be rookie Rhamondre Stevenson taking the lead role.
"I've been impressed by Rhamondre's growth," head coach Bill Belichick had said Thursday. "He's very coachable. When you ask him to do something, he really tries hard to do it the way that you want him to do it. He's improved greatly in every area of the game. He's a player that has gained a lot of trust and confidence from his teammates, certainly from the coaching staff, really in every area."
The fourth-round selection by way of Cerritos College and Oklahoma started. But little could get going behind New England's offensive line. Stevenson rushed for seven yards through five carries in the first quarter as Colts defenders swarmed. A patient pickup of 13 surfaced before halftime, and a fumble that his side recovered surfaced after it. Stevenson wound up with 36 yards on 10 tries. Veteran Brandon Bolden and standard elevation Devine Ozigbo also were active for the backfield.
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How to learn music in lockdown: the best gadgets for guitar heroes
Paul BrooksFriday 13 Nov 2020 2:42 pm
The Fender Play app could be your first step on the road to guitar mastery (Credits: Danny Zapalac)
Confession time: I've always wanted to be able to 'do music'.
But early dabblings with a violin and a drum kit, plus an uncanny inability to keep time, suggested it wasn't for me. However, one by-product of Covid-19's lockdown restrictions is that the world has seen a rise in folk wanting to emulate guitar heroes such as Prince and Kurt Cobain.
The New York Times recently reported on the explosion of interest in people learning to play the guitar, while online instrument retail giant Gear4music announced an 80 per cent rise in UK sales between April and June, with purchases of guitars driving that surge.
Online learning platforms have also reported much greater traffic. Heritage guitar brand Fender's online learning app, Fender Play, has seen its user base increase from 150,000 to 930,000 subscribers since April.
This current wave of have-a-go musical heroes means I'm keen to try again…
Fender's experts helped talk through how the guitar works (Fender)
The good folk at Fender supply me with a Fender Player Duo-Sonic (£549, fender.com), from their uber-stylish entry-level range of electric guitars for beginners.
I'm also equipped with a Fender Mustang LT50 amp (£210, fender.com). The kit looks 'dope', as young people say.
One of Fender's experts offers to talk me through how a guitar works to get me started. I immediately ask what the correct name for the plastic plucky thing that twangs the strings is.
It's around this point that he realises just how basic my guitar knowledge is. Some 30 minutes later, however, I have a grasp of what frets, bridges and pick-ups
are. I know what a plectrum is too.
Strum fun
The Fender Play app takes you through a Level learning progression system (Fender)
When it comes to learning how to strum, I stay brand-loyal and opt for the subscription-based Fender Play app (£9.99 per month). Impressed as I am by the Fender kit, the app is the big selling point for a novice like me.
I set aside ten minutes a day for five days a week for three months to see what progress I can make. I'm also fascinated to see whether an app can deliver the nurturing learning environment I'll so obviously need.
Three months on, my initial report is it does
The app is essentially a course that takes Jimi Hendrix wannabes through the basics of what does what on a guitar and what the strings are, to more complex challenges such as playing Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie. This is a level of excellence I dream of.
Broken down into levels of competence, each stage has videos from several instructors. The general format is as follows: a tutor takes you through a specific lesson, such as forming a particular chord, then there's a practice mode where you drill what you've learnt.
When you're reasonably confident you have that down, you move to the next lesson until you complete the level and move onto the next one. Level 1 has a total of 71 lessons and exercises to complete.
The bite-sized teaching videos are well-produced and easy to follow, and the tone is one of warm encouragement. There's a genuine feeling you're slowly amassing nuggets of knowledge that are building into a coherent whole. It's a well-constructed app and it's clearly been thought through from the point of view of the user.
At the time of writing, I'm at the three-month mark, and I'm on Level 2 and I'm still enjoying it. I have basic chords and I'm strumming riffs to songs by The Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd and Nirvana. Sometimes people even recognise these tunes. Playing Ziggy Stardust may yet be a realistic goal.
Drum roll
This won't annoy your neighbours (Aerodrums)
If you instead fancy emulating The Who's Keith Moon or Led Zeppelin's John Bonham – minus the excessive lifestyles and early deaths – then drumming is for you. But it's not the best instrument to learn if you have a small house or neighbours with full hearing. Help is at hand, though, thanks to Aerodrums (£155, aerodrums.com).
The basic kit includes a couple of drumsticks, two foam triangles that attach to your feet and a camera with a detachable light. So far it has the appeal of a Black Lace comeback single but the clever stuff happens when you download the computer app and connect the camera.
Your computer screen shows the view of wherever the camera is pointing but layered on top of this is an image of a virtual drum kit. Once you align yourself on a seat with the onscreen kit in full view, you're good to go. The camera captures the physical movement of the sticks and the triangles, which simulate drum pedals.
They take up much less space than a real kit, too (Aerodrums)
The software translates this into sounds to emulate whatever bit of the virtual kit you're hitting. Users can choose different kit layouts and, most impressively, there's no noticeable lag time between movement and sound. You can also plug in headphones so you're not annoying anyone else while you bash away.
It's loads of fun and it's a practical solution for anyone who wants to learn drums but doesn't have the budget, or space. Or understanding neighbours.
The Lumi Keys will have you playing the eighty-eight before too long (Credits: James North)
Last but by no means least is Lumi Keys (£299, playlumi.com). At first glance, this cute mini keyboard looks like a child's plaything.
Once turned on, the keys light up and it's paired with an allied tablet app. Use the app to choose a song you want to learn and place your tablet behind the keyboard.
The tablet screen shows descending colourcoded keys. The keys on the keyboard light up in colours that correspond to the app screen and guide you through the tune. Think Guitar Hero but on a different instrument. Set-up is simple and the interface between the app, tablet and keyboard is seamless.
Its dinky size means it's portable and a modular design means you can buy two and join them together if you fancy something bigger. It's beguilingly simple to use and it looks utterly charming. Those characteristics, however, should not disguise the fact it's a genuinely effective piece of educational tech.
I was set up and playing Mozart in five minutes. OK, the Mozart was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but everyone has to start somewhere. Even Prince.
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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti il Club Atlético de Madrid nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 1957-1958.

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Q: Loop through all h2 elements and add unique id I need to add unique ids to all h2 tags with jquery. I dont know how to add unique ids actually all of my h2 tags get the same when i just use the attr function and i have no idea how to change that.
$('h2').attr("id", "rev3");

A: You may use an implicit function inside jQuerys .each() like this
var id = 0;
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    $(this).attr("id", "rev" + id);
    id++;
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.each() loops through all result array elements, while this reffers always to the current element.

A: It is possible with  each. You don't even need a seperate variable to hold the index:
$('h2').each(function(index, element) {
    $(this).attr('id', 'anid' + index);
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Betty Gold was born 1935 in Austin, Texas. She is an established, internationally known professional artist who has shown in over one-hundred-thirty solo and group exhibitions in her career and who currently has work in more than seventy-five permanent collections around the world. In 2014, she was the second woman ever to be awarded XAM's Artist of the Year in Mallorca, Spain, where in 2005 she was honored with a Retrospective hosted by the City of Palma. She currently has a studio in Santa Fe.
My continuing goal is to create art that brings a sense of joy and imaginative flight to those who engage with it, and that will endure long into the future. I also hope to motivate, represent, and inspire more women sculptors to assert themselves into the competitive art market, where they've yet to become dominant members.


Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty, sensuously romantic new film from acclaimed director Claire Denis (White Material).
Isabelle (Binoche) is a divorced Parisian painter searching for another shot at love, but refusing to settle for the parade of all-too-flawed men who drift in and out of her life.
There's a caddish banker (Xavier Beauvois) who, like many of her lovers, happens to be married; a handsome actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who's working through his own hang-ups; and a sensitive fellow artist (Alex Descas) who's skittish about commitment.
What reads like a standard romantic comedy premise is transformed, in the hands of master filmmaker Denis, into something altogether deeper, more poignant, and perceptive about the profound mysteries of love.


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Q: ZEND get email body Below is a function (it's from Magento) and the simple thing is... I want to get the email in a string. But somehow things like: $mailer->getBodyText()->getRawContent() and $mail->getBodyHtml(); don't work...
At the bottom of this piece of code you'll find: $SOMETHING_HERE that is where I would like to get the body of the email.
public function sendNewOrderEmail()
{

    $storeId = $this->getStore()->getId();

    if (!Mage::helper('sales')->canSendNewOrderEmail($storeId)) {
        return $this;
    }
    // Get the destination email addresses to send copies to
    $copyTo = $this->_getEmails(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_COPY_TO);
    $copyMethod = Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_COPY_METHOD, $storeId);

    // Start store emulation process
    $appEmulation = Mage::getSingleton('core/app_emulation');
    $initialEnvironmentInfo = $appEmulation->startEnvironmentEmulation($storeId);

    try {
        // Retrieve specified view block from appropriate design package (depends on emulated store)
        $paymentBlock = Mage::helper('payment')->getInfoBlock($this->getPayment())
            ->setIsSecureMode(true);
        $paymentBlock->getMethod()->setStore($storeId);
        $paymentBlockHtml = $paymentBlock->toHtml();
    } catch (Exception $exception) {
        // Stop store emulation process
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        throw $exception;
    }

    // Stop store emulation process
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    // Retrieve corresponding email template id and customer name
    if ($this->getCustomerIsGuest()) {
        $templateId = Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_GUEST_TEMPLATE, $storeId);
        $customerName = $this->getBillingAddress()->getName();
    } else {
        $templateId = Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_TEMPLATE, $storeId);
        $customerName = $this->getCustomerName();
    }

    $mailer = Mage::getModel('core/email_template_mailer');
    if($storeId!=1){
        $emailInfo = Mage::getModel('core/email_info');
        $emailInfo->addTo($this->getCustomerEmail(), $customerName);
        if ($copyTo && $copyMethod == 'bcc') {
            // Add bcc to customer email
            foreach ($copyTo as $email) {
                $emailInfo->addBcc($email);
            }
        }
        $mailer->addEmailInfo($emailInfo);
    }

    // Email copies are sent as separated emails if their copy method is 'copy'
    if ($copyTo && $copyMethod == 'copy') {
        foreach ($copyTo as $email) {
            $emailInfo = Mage::getModel('core/email_info');
            $emailInfo->addTo($email);
            $mailer->addEmailInfo($emailInfo);
        }
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    $mailer->setSender(Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_IDENTITY, $storeId));
    $mailer->setStoreId($storeId);
    $mailer->setTemplateId($templateId);
    $mailer->setTemplateParams(array(
            'order'        => $this,
            'billing'      => $this->getBillingAddress(),
            'payment_html' => $paymentBlockHtml
        )
    );
    $mailer->send();

    //
    // edit, save to file
    //

    $fp = fopen("/var/www/magento/confirmations/".time().".html","w");
    fwrite($fp, $SOMETHING_HERE);
    fclose($fp);

    $this->setEmailSent(true);
    $this->_getResource()->saveAttribute($this, 'email_sent');

    return $this;
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A: $mailer->getBodyText(true);

or
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should work.


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This year offers golden list for boot
Big boots: Gabadinho Mhango (left) is on his way to claiming the golden boot for Orlando Pirates, its first since 2003. The striker has notched 12 goals so far this season, raising hopes that he could break the PSL record of 25. Competition for this year's award is the most interesting South African football has seen in a while. (Anesh Debiky/Gallo Images)
Lesley Manyathela will always be one of South African football's biggest what-ifs. His death, which left a nation devastated, cruelly put an end to a career that had already produced so much and promised infinitely more. Despite being denied his 22nd birthday, "Slow Poison" accrued almost 50 goals for Orlando Pirates — 18 of which won him the golden boot in 2003, the year he died in a car crash.
In his honour, the award was henceforth named the Lesley Manyathela Golden Boot. It's a title that goes beyond remembrance; it symbolises the calibre we expect from those who would lay claim to being the most lethal finisher in the league.
If we're dealing with pure numbers, the PSL has fallen rather short of that standard. Particularly in recent years, competition for the award has been woefully lacking while as few as 10 strikes have been good enough to seal it on some occasions.
This year that, mercifully, looks to change. Having just passed the halfway mark, we have multiple contenders who can realistically compete for the honour and are keeping in touch with a healthy pace.
Surging to the front of the pack is Gabadinho Mhango. The Malawian is now the favourite to rewrite the tragic irony that no Buccaneer has earned the honour since the award was named after their famous No 19.
Sitting on 12, Mhango's game has been galvanised since the appointment of coach Josef Zinnbauer.
In the past five games he's played for the German, he's managed to net an impressive eight times; a run that included an incisive hat-trick against Polokwane City at the beginning of January. At that fire rate, calculable at a goal every 93 minutes, murmurs are beginning to get thrown around that he might even go for the PSL record of 25, achieved by Collins Mbesuma in 2005.
"It's possible to do that, we just have to continue working as a team," he said last week. "I just need extra training for myself. Actually, when I'm home, I do some finishing with my younger brother.
"So, I think it's something that can help me achieve that."
Thanks to the influx of goals, Pirates have emphatically sailed out of the rut they've been stuck in for much of the season. Until Zinnbauer's high press is figured out — which has allowed defensive solidity while not compromising attacking impetus — there's no reason they should dry up either.
Which is not to say Mhango has a clear path to the golden boot. Especially not if Samir Nurkovic knocks them in at anywhere close to the rate he began the season with.
Signed from a Slovakian second division club no one had ever heard of, the Serbian had a fierce landing in South Africa; quickly bullying defenders and establishing himself as the best striker Kaizer Chiefs have had in years. For context, a typical near-post flick off a corner against Black Leopards last weekend was his 10th league strike; the first player in yellow and gold to reach double figures since Bernard Parker in 2014.
An almost complete target man, he has played the figurehead as Chiefs have at times threatened to run away with the PSL. Should they end up doing so on the back of Nurkovic's exploits, he has the chance to scoop a rare league and golden boot double; a feat that, peculiarly, only Manyathela, Mbesuma and Percy Tau have achieved.
Also on 10 goals is AmaZulu's Bonginkosi Ntuli. Despite sitting at the bottom of the log, the Sundowns loanee has been helped along by the fact that no one else at the club knows how to shoot. Quite ridiculously there has been one whole goal the entire campaign that was not scored by him. Should that pattern continue he could well end up with the wonderful distinction of being the first to get relegated with the golden boot in his hands.
There there's a handful of hopefuls who could always sneak in. Golden Arrows' Knox Mutizwa and Peter Shalulile of Highlands Park are both on nine: the latter in particular offers a constant and bothersome threat. Kermit Erasmus is perhaps unfortunate to only have eight because his well-behaved consistency has coincided with a drop in performance from his Cape Town City teammates. On the same number, Bradley Grobler might wish SuperSport United could play Chiefs every week based on the successful plunder he always earns in Soweto. Another three players have seven — including the elastic but underplayed Leonardo Castro with a rate of a notch every 95 minutes.
If we're being conservative, at least four of the players mentioned in this article should finish on double figures. This is a happy ending after years of profligacy.
Whether that has any great effect on South African football — domestically or in the national team — is impossible to know at this point. Nor is that the primary concern right now: we finally have a golden boot race that is genuinely interesting and could contribute milestones to its proud legacy. Plus, it's a heck of a lot of fun to watch.
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All we want for Christmas is the 80s
We love all most everything about the 80s; Knight Rider, The Goonies, Commodore 64's, Marathon chocolate bars (now the Snickers) which were 28% larger back in the 80s may we add. Even the fictitious, United States Army Special Forces unit… the A TEAM! From the epic mullets to the big-haired teens emoting teen angst in pastel clothes. The 80s rocked!
It's a regular occurrence that some sort of 80s influence or discussion is taking place in the office. Take 80s films… whilst they've got this weirdly terrible reputation (shocking I know), we believe they're kick-ass in comparison to most of the junk we endure today. Plus! You don't get the brilliant catchphrase's, such as "Wax on, wax off", "HEY YOU GUYSSS" or Remember "Boys, no points for second place" or "I ain't got time to bleed"…. we'll let you guess the films.
OK, OK… so we aren't all prancing around the office attempting to do the moonwalk or spending hours glued to a Commodore 64 (although we do have a functioning Amegia, Game Gear, and NES in the office). We're not even sure if the old-school classics like Desert Strike, Outrun, or Double Dragon would even have a chance of holding up against games such as Red Dead Redemption nowadays. Although, we have to say that sometimes we miss the happier, simpler times playing Super Mario Bros and just watching two badly drawn wise guys having to run away from dangerous mushrooms. We have however recently been enjoying an increase of 80's nostalgia that we've been seeing coming through in design, tv and music.
Stranger Things, for example, the hit Netflix series absolutely oozes 80s nostalgia. The creators were quoted saying that 80s films heavily influenced the series itself and we think that's quite obvious to see. Take the film The Goonies, you'd be blind to not see the similarities between The Goonies and Stranger Things. Not only does the film actually revolve around a group of young kids going on adventures with one another but Stranger Things' Barb appears to be styled directly after The Goonies' Stef. Right down to the glasses!
We also regularly listen to a band called Gunship. They bring to the table Synthwave; a genre of electronic music influenced heavily by 1980s. The bands' co-founder Alex Westaway, told The Verg that 80s nostalgia was a huge inspiration for the group. This is clear with some of their songs that have a nostalgic look back at cyberpunk with songs like "Cyber City". They've even released a cover of Cyndi Lauper's 1983 song "Time After Time"! Not only this but the bands' videos feel like throwbacks to films such as Blade Runner and Terminator 2, often using films or animation of the era.
We're not saying bring the 80's back but rather paying a homage to the things we know and love. With that in mind, we've designed, curated and created a number of things all in an 80's style.
Our Christmas card, the three wise men, reimagined as our favourite childhood supercars navigating their way towards the star.
To go with this, we created a "making of the Tall Christmas card" video to show you the process agencies went through back in the day using good old desktop publishing techniques. The video features all things 80's including people, cars (can you guess which one?) and awesome wigs.
We've talked about music here in the studio so we thought it only fair that we gifted you our very own "Best of" Synthwave playlist that can be heard if you're close by the studio. Obviously, we had to create our very own 80's album artwork, to make it just right.
As a final nod to the decade we love so much, we collated a number of Christmas adverts that we're sure you'll remember. Back when the adverts were less about the huge production costs and more about the fun Christmas brings with it.
So sit back and enjoy (we certainly did) as we barrage you with 80's awesomeness this Christmas.


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Behind-the-Scenes Business: Inside the Life of a Celebrity Assistant
Veteran celeb personal assistant Erica First tells E! News that there are no "average" days on the job in her line of work
By Natalie Finn Jun 28, 2016 2:00 PMTags
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We know the glam squads—the teams of stylists, hairdressers, manicurists and makeup artists who make the celebrities look perfect in public. We're certainly familiar with the agents, management teams, publicists and lawyers, those entrusted to maintain a celebrity's good name—and keep them working. And of course there are the trainers, the chefs, the drivers, the nannies and the countless others who lend a hand.
But what about the people who connect all the working parts, who keep a celebrity's day running like the well-oiled machine that it needs to be so that they can focus on family, the set, the recording studio, the PR tour?
We're talking, of course, about the personal assistants.
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A celebrity assistant has to be more than energetic and thick-skinned, though both qualities presumably help when it comes to fulfilling a whim at a moment's notice.
They have to be resourceful, creative, clever and organized—and, perhaps most importantly of all, discreet. Which is why you don't hear much from them.
While hairstylists, makeup artists, etc. have more freedom to share their celeb-centric day-to-days on Instagram and get to tick off their famous clients in order to attract more business, assistants are appreciated for their quiet, almost entirely behind-the-scenes services.
We've talked to enough assistants, former assistants or friends of assistants over the years to know that plenty of celebrities are incredibly demanding and it can be exhausting attending to them—and that's a reason why so many of these employee-employer relationships are short-lived. Moreover, the two sides often enter into strict confidentiality agreements that continue even after they no longer work together, hence so few non-anonymous accounts of what goes on behind closed doors.
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Or, you can end up with a great boss and thrive under the pressure of working for an A-list star.
Patience, resourcefulness and the ability to pay attention to detail are three must-have skills to do this job well, says Erica First, who has been in this business for over a decade and has now worked for Debra Messing for more than three years. She met Messing on the set of Will & Grace while she was working for Alec Baldwin. He guest-starred on the sitcom and she became friendly with Messing's assistant at the time.
First lesson of the trade from the 34-year-old New Yorker: There's no such thing as an "average" day.
"I embrace that challenge," Erica tells E! News. "Each day begins with the emails that have come in and, as I start answering them, naturally there are interruptions or other tasks that come up, so multitasking is really important. I might be answering an email about one thing and then my phone will ring about another task that's just as important, so it's about being able to switch gears and stay focused."
As her boss' sole assistant, Erica handles all of Messing's day-to-day affairs and is the liaison between the actress and her team.
"Sometimes it amazes me how many different people I speak with on a daily basis, but it keeps me on my toes, which is always a good thing," she says.
Erica graduated from Syracuse's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a degree in Television, Radio & Film and, while she didn't even really know while in school that this career track existed, she's found that the multifaceted position suits her. Plus, she's a writer on weekends, a creative outlet she appreciates since her day job is so focused on logistics.
"I also try to be active—I love riding Citi Bikes!" she mentions NYC's bike-share program, which is also a favorite of celebs such as Leonardo DiCaprio.
And when the going gets rough...
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Well, it doesn't get that rough, because Erica is an experienced assistant who knows how to roll with the punches by now—and when she needs help, as a board member of New York Celebrity Assistants, she has a network of fellow assistants to reach out to.
Now in its 20th year, NYCA is a networking organization (there's a Los Angeles branch too) that requires at least 18 months of full-time experience as a personal assistant to a "celebrity" (that can include actors, singers, artists, authors, athletes, politicians and other public figures) before you can apply. But once you're in, you have camaraderie (albeit still confidential, per the requirements of the job), and also, perhaps even more importantly...
Contacts!
"If I don't have a contact in my personal little black book, I email my fellow members," Erica tells me.
Asked if there was ever a time when she thought, perhaps, she just wouldn't be able to get a task done, she says, "Never. OK, maybe. But I take my job very seriously and I don't like to disappoint. I always say that the word 'no' is not in my vocabulary. A good example is when my employer wanted to hire a magician for a birthday party. I needed to find someone top-notch and needed some help so I turned to the NYCA."
She sent some emails and "within 10 minutes I had more magicians' names than I knew what to do with!"
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"What seemed like a daunting task at first turned out to be simple and painless," she continued. "That's the great thing about this group. It's like the best version of Yelp."
But there had to have been some time when a request proved impossible, either in this job or one of her previous jobs, for whatever reason?
"Never," Erica insists. "I get it done. And if I can't, I know someone that can. Since I've been doing this for so many years, I have a contact for everything."
One of her former employers needed to get a gift that was in New York to Toronto by the next morning—and they were in Los Angeles, "a logistical nightmare," she recalls. "Since FedEx couldn't guarantee an overnight delivery and Superman was busy on another job, I had to be resourceful. So here's how it went: I quickly located the item and thought hard about who could help. I always manage to find someone and, I realized, I knew a guy. And luckily, he knew a guy who knew a guy. The gift was delivered on time."
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"It's about being resourceful," Erica also told me recently. "If she asks me for something, I never want to tell her no."
And while the predictably unpredictable hours had us speaking or emailing at all different times of day, she definitely considers herself one of the lucky ones.
"I think that if you work for a good person and if you are challenged and they give you a lot of responsibilities, I think it's a very stimulating job," she says.
That attitude and her dedication has bred loyalty both ways, resulting in a fruitful working relationship.
"I like being a gatekeeper," Erica says. "When you're a celebrity, people want access. It's my job to protect my employer and filter what comes in. Since I work for the best of the best, we are exposed to the best things the world has to offer, including beauty tips from renowned hair and makeup artists, styling ideas from the best Hollywood designers and stylists...
"And one really cool perk was when my boss surprised me with tickets to Hamilton."
Well, that just about says it all these days.
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THE FINE ART DINER: Tom Cruise Possessed! Another Trailer For The Mummy!
Tom Cruise Possessed! Another Trailer For The Mummy!
Just as I am posting on King Arthur, I am also getting a post up on The Mummy because a ton of information has been released in these two new trailers.
Another trailer has been released for The Mummy, and this is just as good as the first two!
Two bits of information to add to this: Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) and Dr. Henry Jeckyll (Russell Crowe) will come to literal blows in the film; it's uncertain if that's because Nick makes a bad decision, or if Jeckyll's,... "other side" gets control of him, but they don't particularly get along. Also, Ahmanet, the Egyptian princess, murders her father, and that's why she is buried alive. I thought the man she murdered, when Jenny (Annabelle Wallis, who is also appearing in King Arthur) says Ahmanet was destined to be Egypt's next queen, that the man she murdered was her husband, the pharaoh, not the pharaoh her father. That's imperative! Things are being released too quickly for me to be able to get them posted, I am so sorry! But here is one awesome featurette for Transformers: The Last Knight that should really make you want to see it in IMAX!
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Delta Hotels, part of Marriott International, officially launched Delta Hotels by Marriott Frankfurt Offenbach marking the European debut of the hotel brand. The opening is a significant landmark in the global rollout of the highly regarded Delta Hotels portfolio – one of the company's fastest growing brands.
Situated on the left bank of the Main River between Frankfurt city centre and Offenbach, the hotel is within easy reach of the city's abundant historic and cultural attractions, and a short stroll from the European Central Bank. The hotel's 223 spacious guestrooms and suites offer a modern take on comfort: elegantly appointed and decorated in calming hues, with floor to ceiling windows that flood the rooms with an abundance of natural light, while affording sweeping views of the city. And, with the needs of the modern traveller in mind, keyless room entry is offered through the Marriot Mobile App.
With the brand's focus on perfecting and elevating the small details that make a huge difference during travel, guests can also expect to enjoy complimentary bottled water, fast and free Wi-Fi, and a 24/7 fitness centre with state-of-the-art cardio equipment with touch screen technology.
The exceptional waterfront location, combined with excellent transport links, will be appealing to the business and meetings market. The hotel offers 590 square metres of ultra-modern event space, including nine multi-function rooms, along with a 24-hour business centre and on-site parking facilities.
Delta Hotels' portfolio now encompasses more than 50 properties, with a healthy pipeline of over 30 signed projects in North America, Europe, and Asia. In addition to Frankfurt, the company recently added its first Chinese property in Shanghai and also plans to debut in Turkey this year.
This announcement also reinforces Marriott International's continued confidence in markets such as Germany, where the company already offers more than 70 hotels across 16 brands.
Rates for Delta Hotels Frankfurt Offenbach start from €110 per night.
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Homefortune tellingFortune Cookie Day- September 13
Fortune Cookie Day- September 13
What more fun than eat a cookie that tells you the future or tells you something of wisdom? Because if you already eat a cookie and add calories, why not enjoy what the cookie tells?
Contrary to what is commonly thought, fortune cookies are not from China but from San Francisco. They were invented by the Japanese chef Makoto Hagiwara who worked at the Japanese Tea Garden. He handed them to the people walking around in the garden, but to his sorrow he never patented it.
A fortune cookie is a crispy cookie that is usually made of flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a "lucky note" hiding inside. A lucky note is a piece of paper with a wise sentence, a proverb, or a vague prophecy.
Many Chinese restaurants around the world tend to serve fortune cookies, which is why many people mistakenly think that fortune cookies are Chinese.
So in honor of the lucky cookie day, eat a cookie and discover what the future holds for you.
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Amazon, Microsoft, and Google plot to pull product manufacturing out of China, deepening the cold war engulfing tech
Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard are all drawing up plans to move huge chunks of production out of China, Nikkei Asian Review reports.
For Google, Amazon, and Microsoft the main areas of concern are games consoles, e-readers, and smart speakers. For Dell and HP, notebooks are where they're looking to shift production.
It follows the Nikkei Asian Review also reporting that Apple wants to reduce its exposure to China because of ongoing uncertainty around the trade war.
US tech giants Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard are all gearing up to start shifting production away from China amid the trade war, Nikkei Asian Review reports.
Citing multiple sources, Nikkei reports that all five companies have been scouting various other Asian countries as potential new homes for electronics production.
This is the latest chapter in the tech cold war which has snowballed substantially amid President Donald Trump's trade war with China.
Nikkei reported last month that Apple was seriously considering moving 15% to 30% of its iPhone production out of China, in an early sign that US companies want to reduce their exposure to the country as uncertainty continues.
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft
Games consoles and smart speakers are the primary concern for Silicon Valley giants Google, Amazon, and Microsoft — along with Sony and Nintendo.
Amazon is looking at moving production of its e-readers and Echo smart speakers to Vietnam, Nikkei said. Microsoft is weighing up Thailand and Indonesia, presumably for production of the Xbox, as well as its less well-known Cortana speaker.
Read more: Here are the US states that could be hit hardest by the "tech cold war"
Nikkei gave no details about where Google might consider moving production of its Google Home smart speakers.
Trump's tariffs pose a major existential threat to video game consoles. Last week, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo wrote a joint letter to the US government asking to be exempted from the tariffs because of the "disproportionate harm" they would cause to US consumers and business.
Dell and HP
For Dell and HP, notebook computers are the main area where the companies are looking to move production. The two companies shipped a combined 70 million notebook devices last year, according to Nikkei, most of which were made in China.
Dell is already trialling notebook production in Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines, according to two people familiar with the plan.
Two sources said HP is looking to shift 20% to 30% of production out of the country, and is eyeing up Thailand and Taiwan as potential alternatives. One source said the changes could begin as early as late July, but were still liable to change.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, and HP were not immediately available for comment when contacted by Business Insider.
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On behalf of The Law Office of Steven C. Girsky posted in Military Divorce on Friday, December 26, 2014.
Abandonment is the deliberate act of forsaking a partner without notification or the intention of returning. According to U. S. military law which is valid for Tennessee residents, too, if a service member abandons a partner, that partner has certain rights and is entitled to spousal support because the abandoned partner will still be considered a military spouse.
According to military law, a service member is entitled to a housing allowance if he or she is not furnished with living quarters. If a military person has children, the amount is increased in order to support all family members. As abandonment is not a military divorce, the spouse will have the right to a portion of this military living allowance.
A military person's spouse is entitled to a military ID card, which is the key to receive benefits, such as access to military installations, on-base shopping benefits and other financial support from military services. The card cannot be taken away from a military spouse because the card is not the military member's property. Rather, it is the federal government's property and if a service member tries to remove the card, the spouse should notify military command immediately.
The spouse of a military member, according to military law, is entitled to medical benefits until a military divorce is final. Under certain circumstances, the spouse can still keep military benefits. This circumstance usually happens for couples who have been married for a very long time.
A military spouse is also entitled to child care services, military counseling and legal assistance. This can help a spouse work through the military divorce proceedings. If there has been no proper military divorce, the abandoned spouse will be entitled to help from the military unit in order to locate the spouse.


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January is nobody's favourite month. I don't know about where you are, but here in Scotland it's cold, it's dark, and our wallets are now as empty as our Christmas stockings. So, if you're as skint as I am, feast your eyes on the riches of this Top 10 (plus bonus #11) list I made, just for you. They're all brilliant, and they're all free. The library. New books, old books, classic books, cult books, books by authors you follow on Twitter….
At BookTalk, I discussed death, autobiography, licking batteries, and what makes a fairytale.
Do something nice for yourself today: take some time to look at these photos from Russia in the early 1900s and listen to Leonard Cohen's new album, 'Old Ideas'. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon.


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Association of Zoos and Aquariums Endorses Razan Al Mubarak for IUCN President
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) has endorsed Razan Al Mubarak for President of the IUCN. This is the first time in the organization's history it has endorsed a candidate for the IUCN Presidency.
In the endorsement, the AZA stated:
"We need a leader who offers skilled management and a courageous, strategic vision. Someone who will not just sail the IUCN ship, but set it to a better course. We believe Razan Al Mubarak's 20-plus years of experience in government, sustainability, citizen engagement and philanthropy make her that candidate.
If elected, she will be only the second woman to lead the IUCN in its 72-year history. And importantly, the fact that she is the mother to a young daughter will make her a more influential leader, more relatable, and more able to inspire conservation's next-generation. These characteristics are particularly critical for the person who will lead IUCN at this crucial moment."
Founded in 1924, AZA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of zoos and aquariums in the areas of conservation, animal welfare, education, science, and recreation. AZA is the accrediting body for the top zoos and aquariums in the United States and 12 other countries.
Read more about AZA's endorsement of Razan al Mubarak at AZA Connect.
Razan Al Mubarak calls biodiversity loss an existential challenge at Reverse the Red event
Biodiversity loss needs to be elevated as an existential challenge on the global agenda, equal in urgency to climate change, according Razan Al Mubarak, who told a Reverse the Red live webinar on December 9th that IUCN is best positioned to lead the effort.
Reverse the Red is a global movement that ignites strategic cooperation and action to ensure the survival of wild species and ecosystems, providing tools and partnerships to unite stakeholders and catalyze conservation impact.
Co-hosted by the IUCN Species Survival Commission, the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and the Smithsonian Earth Optimism Summit, the panel also featured Yolanda Kakabadse, the first woman to serve as IUCN President; Asha de Vos, Executive Director and Founder of Oceanswell; Kris Tompkins, President of Tompkins Conservation; and Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary at CBD.
"We need IUCN now more than ever," said Ms. Al Mubarak. "When the fabric of our existence is being threatened we need an IUCN that is fit for purpose. The world is changing, things are moving very, very fast and we can't be the only ones that are walking in a race
Ms. Al Mubarak summarized her vision for the organization in three points:
Focusing on the core of IUCN, which is nature conservation, in order to improve its knowledge products and to make these available to local communities.
Redesigning internal policies to streamline the work of IUCN to better serve its members, respond to externalities, and expand communication.
Fostering collaboration with other global institutions and with its own members in order to empower local conservationists, indigenous communities, and our youth.
Ms. Al Mubarak closed her remarks by paraphrasing the Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, saying "even though we may carry pessimism of the intellect, we need optimism of the heart. We must not be discouraged in the face of challenging circumstances, when our work is needed most."


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Q: Changing parent's class static method from a subclass I need to change a Parent's static method from a subclass.
From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes/static I read:

Static method calls are made directly on the class and are not
  callable on instances of the class.

In the example below, I have a Parent class with a foo() method which calls the bar() method (both static). I would need to change bar from Child subclass so that calling Child.foo() will call the modified bar method and not the original one.
Is there a possibility (maybe something in the Child's constructor)?
class Parent {

  static foo() {
    Parent.bar();
  }

  static bar() {
    console.log("HERE I AM");
  }

}

class Child extends Parent {

  static bar() {
    super.bar(); // maybe not what I want?
    console.log(", FELLAS!");
  }
}

Parent.foo(); // HERE I AM
Child.foo(); // HERE I AM, FELLAS! (need this!)

A: Your problem is that foo directly calls Parent.bar(), not this.bar(). By explicitly referring to Parent, it doesn't consider the overwritten method in Child at all. It doesn't matter how Child.bar is written and whether it calls super.bar or not.
class Parent {
  static foo() {
    this.bar();
//  ^^^^
  }
  static bar() {
    return "HERE I AM";
  }
}

class Child extends Parent {
  static bar() {
    return super.bar() + ", FELLAS!";
  }
}

console.log(Parent.foo()); // HERE I AM
console.log(Child.foo()); // HERE I AM, FELLAS!

The this keyword in the static bar() method now refers to the Child class in the Child.foo() call, and calls its overridden bar method.
The only alternative (if you cannot modify Parent) would be to overwrite the foo method as well, duplicating the Parent code but calling Child.bar() explicitly there.

A: If you want to modify the Parent from the child just do it.  Parent is an object with properties, static is syntactic sugar.  Replacing a method is a simple as setting a property.  Probably not something you want to do in production code.

class Parent {
  static foo() {
    Parent.bar();
  }

  static bar() {
    console.log("HERE I AM");
  }
}

class Child extends Parent {
  static unhack() {
      if (Parent.hack) {
          Parent.bar = Parent.hack
          delete Parent.hack
      }
  }

  static hack() {
    if (!Parent.hack) {
       Parent.hack = Parent.bar
       Parent.bar = Child.bar
    }
  }

  static foo() {
      Child.hack()
      Parent.foo()
      Child.unhack()
  }

  static bar() {
    if (super.hack) {
      super.hack(); // Call the "shadowed" Parent.bar()
    }
    console.log(", FELLAS!"); // Call the additional code
  }
}

Parent.foo(); // HERE I AM
Child.foo(); // HERE I AM, FELLAS! (need this!)
Parent.bar(); // HERE I AM
Child.bar(); // Probably don't want to do this


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Interview with Filmmaker Damien Starr (I'LL BE FINE)
I'LL BE FINE was the winner of BEST FILM at the December 2018 COMEDY Festival in Los Angeles.
Damien Starr: This was a student project and the restriction was to have it within 3 minutes. I wanted to challenge myself in a couple of ways, firstly to write a story featuring a woman as my main cast. This was a first for that, and secondly, making a film that required no on set audio, because of budget and limitations. Thus, I'll Be Fine was born. The film, as you know, explores the communication of a deaf person through text. It opened my mind to everyday life of a deaf person and how they perceive themselves and the world around them.
Struggle and acceptance.
Having a three person (including the actress) crew!
The first screening of this film didn't go so well as she doesn't mention at the end that she's deaf. Rather, it's left to the audience to make that connection. However, only 30% got it. 70% of people did not understand the film. As such, I changed the wording in the text bubble to reflect that. So while it's now "on the nose" as someone described, it's understood and enjoyed by many more people. As such, when I saw that many more loved this film in this round of feedback, I was moved and it gave me validation that this was a good film.
Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Video:
I usually make films with bigger budgets and lots of VFX, but for this, I wanted it to be simple and focus on character and story, and all of the emotion that comes with that. Along with the restrictions of no on-set audio, I wanted to have a story of communication conveyed by text graphics. A story about a deaf person fit exactly what I was looking for. I researched strongly about deaf people and their day-to-day struggles with life and was inspired to make this movie.
It's a tie between Titanic and Beauty and The Beast (1991).
I like FilmFreeway, no complaints there.
Mr. Brightside.
I'm fundraising for a sci-fi thriller feature film about a physicist that is kidnapped in a desolate house and has to uncover the mystery of how she got there. I placed in a screenwriting competition, and received high scores from coverage services so I'm really excited for this!
Categorized as directing a film, feedback film festival, film director, short film, short film festival, toronto film festival, Uncategorized, wildsound film festival Tagged comedy film, Damien Starr, I'LL BE FINE short film, interview, los angeles film festival, short film, short film festival
Interview with Filmmaker Premila Puri (ITSY)
Interview with Filmmaker Deborah Craig (A GREAT RIDE)


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Q: How to use sns message filter to send to particular email? Is it possible to send different message to different email endpoints having different subscription ARN.If possible suggest some way using message filtering.
All emails subscribed to same Topic .But requirement is to send rewards points balance based on email which is being fetched from a query either rest or dynamodb query.

A: It is not possible to customize Amazon SNS messages per-user. All recipients will receive the same message.
Yes, you can use Amazon SNS filtering to control which recipients get each message, but that isn't really a good idea for sending single messages.
I would recommend that you investigate Amazon Pinpoint:

Amazon Pinpoint is an AWS service that you can use to engage with your customers across multiple messaging channels. You can use Amazon Pinpoint to send push notifications, emails, SMS text messages, and voice messages.

It might be a better way to engage with your customers.


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Published on May 16th, 2014 | by Maria
Early Artwork From Rise Of The Magi Released
The world as we know it is at risk because the world we don't see—the one that makes ours possible—is on the brink of destruction. From Top Cow Productions and featuring writing and interior art by Image Comics founder and partner Marc Silvestri (THE DARKNESS, WITCHBLADE, CYBER FORCE) alongside art by Sumeyye Kesgin, comes a new ongoing fantasy adventure series.
"The unfamiliar, the uncomfortable, and the things that scare us are what make us grow as people," said Silvestri. "It's safe then to say that in Rise of the Magi, Asa [series protagonist] and a cast of characters both strange and familiar, will be doing a lot of growing."
The Magi are awake and they are legion, and only seven magicians, sorcerers, thieves, and killers can stop them. But as Asa will soon find out that there truly is no honor among thieves.
The adventure begins in RISE OF THE MAGI #1 this June.
I, personally, cannot wait for this after the little Free Comic Book Day taster. Let us know if you are also looking forward to this release in the comments below or on our Facebook page.
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Q: spring-RabbitMQ manually listen to queue I'm new in rabbitmq.I'm using spring-amqp to implement the feature.
As we know spring provide @RabbitListener to register a listener to queue when the app initialization.
I want to design a function when I click some button, a new consumer will be created and listen to a specified queue.
Java base provide channel.basicConsume() method to consume a queue.
Is spring provide such function ?
I want to implement like :
producer keep sending messages to a fanout exchange.
when a consume wants to join, call function1 -> create queue and binding to exchange -> consume messages.
when a consume wants leave, call function2 -> disconnect

A: There are a few options.

*

*Use one of the RabbitTemplate.receive() or convertAndReceive() methods to get messages one-at-a-time, you can set a receiveTimeout in case there are no messages.

*RabbitTemplate.execute() with a callback that gets a channel that you can call basicConsume() on. This is a lower-level option and won't do any conversion for you.

*Create a SimpleMessageListenerContainer (or DirectMessageListenerContainer) dynamically and start/stop it as needed.

*...
In all cases, you can use a RabbitAdmin to create/bind the queue, for all except option 1, it would probably an auto-delete queue that will be removed when the consumer is cancelled. With option 1, you would have to use a non-auto-delete queue and remove it with the RabbitAdmin.
I would suggest that #3 is the most efficient using pure Spring AMQP.
You could also use Spring Integration with an inbound channel adapter and a publish-subscribe channel; that way you only need one queue (per application instance) and then subscribe a new MessageHandler to the channel for each user.


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Back to Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity
Learner Reviews & Feedback for Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity by Stanford University
In this course we will seek to "understand Einstein," especially focusing on the special theory of relativity that Albert Einstein, as a twenty-six year old patent clerk, introduced in his "miracle year" of 1905. Our goal will be to go behind the myth-making and beyond the popularized presentations of relativity in order to gain a deeper understanding of both Einstein the person and the concepts, predictions, and strange paradoxes of his theory. Some of the questions we will address include: How did Einstein come up with his ideas? What was the nature of his genius? What is the meaning of relativity? What's "special" about the special theory of relativity? Why did the theory initially seem to be dead on arrival? What does it mean to say that time is the "fourth dimension"? Can time actually run more slowly for one person than another, and the size of things change depending on their velocity? Is time travel possible, and if so, how? Why can't things travel faster than the speed of light? Is it possible to travel to the center of the galaxy and return in one lifetime? Is there any evidence that definitively confirms the theory, or is it mainly speculation? Why didn't Einstein win the Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity? About the instructor: Dr. Larry Lagerstrom is the Director of Academic Programs at Stanford University's Center for Professional Development, which offers graduate certificates in subjects such as artificial intelligence, cyber security, data mining, nanotechnology, innovation, and management science. He holds degrees in physics, mathematics, and the history of science, has published a book and a TED Ed video on "Young Einstein: From the Doxerl Affair to the Miracle Year," and has had over 30,000 students worldwide enroll in his online course on the special theory of relativity (this course!)....
Thanks for helping me understand the Special Theory of Relativity, covered a lot of ground but repeated it so it really could sink in. Like your style and want to thank you for your assistance. Thanks
This course is very comprehensive and well prepared material for understanding the Special Theory of Relativity. Larry (the instructor) is very expert and has broad knowledge in explaining the course.
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Absolutely loved this course! I highly recommend it for everyone who is interested in physics
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Amazing course, but the videos can be shorter as same concepts are explained more than once.
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Great course, I now know the Special Theory of Relativity well enough to teach it to others!
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I did not know physics could be so easy.
A really great course but the lecturer is better.
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Great to begin to learn special theory of relativity. Love the way of everything flows.
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second time in my life I had a course at this level of clarity.
Extremely gifted teacher
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This course provides a fundamental understanding of the Special Theory of Relativity.
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Sometimes a little too thorough on the explanations, but overall an excellent course.
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Un cours clair, précis qui permet de comprendre intimement les bases de la théorie.
An experience of discovery into the perspective of 1905, and the path of reasoning.


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Penny brings extensive retail management experience to Margo Inc. She began with retailer Woodwards in Vancouver, in both their stores and fashion buying offices. Following a move to Atlanta, Georgia with her husband Peter, Penny managed retail locations in the book and magazine distribution business. She also established a consulting business with magazine retailers in Canada managing rebates offered by publishers and national distributors such as Time Warner Retail. Since moving back to Canada in 2006, Penny continues her magazine consulting work with TNG Canada on a part time basis. Penny supports Margo Inc. in the areas of expense management, bookkeeping, client and vendor relations and hopefully keeping Margo and Jill organized so they can focus on offering creative and innovative solutions to the design challenges faced by our clients.


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CSIS oversight not enough
Let's assume for a minute that Bill C-51, the bill that will allow CSIS to look up my hoo-haw, is actually needed...
Apr. 11, 2015 8:00 p.m.
Let's assume for a minute that Bill C-51, the bill that will allow Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to look up my hoo-haw, is actually needed, even though there is no clear evidence to support that assumption.
Everyone on the planet earth, including my cat and Stephen Harper, knows that you can't have an oversight committee appointed by the prime minister (PM).
A proper oversight committee is a parliamentary body of elected members of all parties. The governing party does have a majority on the committee but it is not solely made up of the prime minister's buddies. However, the PM says SIRC (Security Intelligence Review Committee) looks after CSIS just fine.
But wait. CSIS has lied to SIRC before. And SIRC is composed of the prime minister's buddies, even though appointments are ostensibly made by cabinet.
How successful have past SIRC chairs been? Former Harper cabinet minister Chuck Strahl was appointed chair but then resigned in 2014 when it was revealed that he was a paid lobbyist for Enbridge while CSIS was keeping tabs on Enbridge opponents.
Another chair, Arthur Anderson, also a Harper appointee who was on SIRC before Strahl, was privy to Canada's intelligence data and is now hanging out in Panama avoiding extradition to Canada on corruption charges.
How can we think Harper should continue to appoint SIRC members?
Fact is while even Harper knows a parliamentary oversight committee is needed, it's not going to happen.
He is going to adamantly oppose any form of additional oversight, and claim that anyone advocating that (like myself) is a soft-on-terror, foreign funded radical, Canadian values hating, jihadist.
He wants to scare people and make that an election issue to shore up his base.
Does anyone remember why CSIS was created? Because of the activities of the RCMP's intelligence branch.
And do you know who the RCMP was watching?
Tommy Douglas – his file is secret to this day.
And Ed Broadbent – now there's an enemy of the state for sure.
The watch list include unions and my mother, a senior civil servant with the agriculture department in Ottawa.
I can only suppose she was under surveillance because she was a strong advocate of women's rights.
You want to go back there? I don't think we should.
But, if you do, okay, then we need to go back with serious elected civilian oversight. And not just accept what Harper says is good for us.
We have an election this year. My main issue is democracy. I'm voting ABC.
David Menzies,
Terrace, B.C.
Oil shipments doubted
'Grandiose' regional district plans need a rethink


An aircraft carrying the mortal remains of an Indian girl, who was pursuing her MBBS degree from a private medical college in Bangladesh, took off from Dhaka on Sunday.
Following her death, the family and former JK chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah sought External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's help to bring back Quratul's body.
Meanwhile, Swaraj also tweeted, "The family should not worry. With the efforts of Indian High Commission in Dhaka, the mortal remains of Ms.Quaratulain MBBS student from Anantnag are on board and the flight has taken off. My Officers are waiting at the Kolkata Airport to receive her mortal remains.


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> Senseih > Control > Natural resources
Blueprint for water 'control'? Pol says EPA made secret maps for new regulatory push. A top House Republican is charging that the Environmental Protection Agency secretly drafted highly detailed maps of U.S. waterways to set the stage for a controversial plan to expand regulatory power over streams and wetlands, a claim the EPA strongly denies.
Rep. Lawsit Seeks to Halt Nestlé from Stealing 1,838,451,342 Gallons of Water in CA. When hundreds of thousands of Californians expressed disdain over Nestlé Corporation's water extraction from the San Bernardino National Forest during California's worst drought in history, CEO of Nestle Waters North America Tim Brown seemed unphased.
The US Forest Service was allowing Nestlé to extract water and sell it back to Californians even though the company's permit to do so had been expired in 1988. Though Nestlé 's permit was waiting in a pile of other permit applications, activists sued the National Forest Service when news of Nestlé's extreme level of greed first came to light. They were also incensed because Nestlé has a long history of tapping public water supplies and then selling the water back to the public at an exorbitant cost. Man Sentenced to 30 Days for Catching Rain Water on Own Property Enters Jail. Gary Harrington reports to Jackson County (Ore.) Jail to begin serving a 30-day term for collecting rainwater on his property. (Photo: Gary Harrington) (CNSNews.com) – Gary Harrington, the Oregon man convicted of collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his rural property surrendered Wednesday morning to begin serving his 30-day, jail sentence in Medford, Ore.
"I'm sacrificing my liberty so we can stand up as a country and stand for our liberty," Harrington told a small crowd of people gathered outside of the Jackson County (Ore.) Jail. Several people held signs that showed support for Harrington as he was taken inside the jail. Harrington was found guilty two weeks ago of breaking a 1925 law for having, what state water managers called "three illegal reservoirs" on his property. Crowd of supporters outside Jackson County Jail, Wednesday August 8, 2012. "We as Americans, we need to stand on our constitutional rights, on our rights as citizens and hang tough.
The Groundwater Footprint: The Privatization of the World's Water Resources. A study published by McGill University in Montreal and Utrecht University in the Netherlands, analyzed data from global ground water use against computer generated models of underwater aquifers and concluded that the "groundwater footprint" of reliable resources above ground is 3.5 times larger than the known aquifers.
UNESCO's Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Program (HIP) estimates that there is 366 million, trillion gallon of water on Earth. The IPCC document HS 15332 Climate Change Impacts: Securitization of Water, Food, Soil, Health, Energy and Migration explains how the UN plans to secure resources to use at their disposal. Through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under-developed countries are forced to sell their resources to the global Elite as "full cost recovery" to the global central bankers. Once those resources are under the complete control of the creditors, they become assets to be reallocated back to the enslaved nations for a price.
Fears of EPA 'land grab' create groundswell against water rule. Lawmakers are up in arms over an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal that they fear could give federal officials expansive new powers over private property and farmland.
The EPA is seeking to redefine what bodies of water fall under the agency's jurisdiction for controlling pollution. The scope of the final Clean Water Act (CWA) rule is of critical importance, as any area covered would require a federal permit for certain activities. The rule is facing a groundswell of opposition from lawmakers, who fear the EPA is engaged in a "land grab" that could stop farmers and others from building fences, digging ditches or draining ponds. More than 260 lawmakers, spanning both chambers and parties, have come out against the EPA's action.
A group of 231 members of the House recently sent a letter to the EPA and the Army Corps asking them to withdraw the regulation. Those assurances haven't won over lawmakers, who say the rule is exceptionally broad. » 25 Shocking Facts About The Earth's Dwindling Water Resources Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
Wall Street Mega-Banks Are Buying Up The World's Water. A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide.
The new "water barons" — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace. Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Bank, Barclays Bank, the Blackstone Group, Allianz, and HSBC Bank, among others, are consolidating their control over water. Wealthy tycoons such as T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W. Bush and his family, Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, Philippines' Manuel V.
Billionaire T. It's a strange New World Order in which multibillionaires and elitist banks can own aquifers and lakes, but ordinary citizens cannot even collect rainwater and snow runoff in their own backyards and private lands. The New "Water Barons": Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World's Water. This article was first published on December 21, 2012 by Market Oracle and Global Research A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - Iceweasel.


Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson star in the latest comedy to hit the screens this summer. When salesmen Billy (Vaughn) and Nick (Wilson) are laid off, Billy tries to get the duo back on track and up to date with the modern world by applying for an internship meant for college students at Google. Billy is determined that he and Nick will succeed for once with their creative and relaxed style, but will the challenges provided by Google prove too much for the pair?
I think it's important as a reviewer to be entirely honest for the benefit of the public. So here's me being entirely honest: The Internship was disastrous from beginning to end. For one thing, the whole film is just one big advert for Google and all that the technology giant has to offer. In fact, the advertising is so shameless that you come to expect the characters in each scene to spout off as much information as possible about the advantages of Gmail compared to the inferior Outlook.com (which is unfortunately true. Bring back Hotmail.) The film even shows Billy and Nick trying to convince a small business to make a deal with Google, as though the only hope that companies have for the future is to throw their lot in with Google.
The biggest issue, however, is a simple one. The Internship is not remotely funny, not even enough for me to crack a smile at any point during the film. One of my pet hates is watching un-funny comedy and not even Orange Wednesdays reducing mine and my friend's ticket price to £2.50 could stop me regretting having wasted my money.
The Internship is also clearly created by and directed at the male population. I did not appreciate having to watch semi-naked women gyrating around poles in a club whilst all the characters proceeded to ogle at them, get drunk, have a fight and then get thrown out. And that's not even mentioning the peer-pressure culture rearing its ugly head again for Yo-Yo, a home-schooled student who cannot stand up to his mother. Since when did films essentially advocate this?
The Internship simply has nothing going for it. The plot is predictable, the characters are annoying and it's never even heard of humour. This film comes with a warning: do not watch under any circumstances.


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I met little Alex last week and had such a great time with him and his parents at their home in Los Angeles. This little guy had SUCH great expressions I couldn't stop photographing him, I'm sure his parents thought I'd never leave... Here are just a few of my favorite images from their session, enjoy!