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09/11/2021 will be an interesting night
61_Shasta February 18, 2021, 12:38am #1
Obviously assuming that Utah/BYU will be a night game. I did a little looking ahead and if the little bros should somehow win that game that will snap the streak at 11 years, 290 days, the longest gap for either team since before World War II.
On the other hand, if Utah wins the game on 09/11 the next chance TDS will have to break the streak will be at 14 years, 287 days.
For those of us who were Utah fans in the dark days of the late 70's/early 80's that could only hope to beat BYU only to see that hope dashed, those are some pretty impressive numbers.
The_Jim_Fassel_Era February 18, 2021, 1:01am #2
I'd like to see us renew our rivalry with Utah State; that 2012 loss is a big stain on Kyle's record and needs to be covered up by some wins.
NewbombTurk February 18, 2021, 1:03am #3
I've said this before, but it's worth repeating. We should demand that this game be played at our place since we didn't get our home game this year.
I'm kidding of course. But this is exactly what the zoobs would be doing if the roles were reversed.
EUte February 18, 2021, 1:48am #4
I think it's more likely that there will be nothing interesting or exciting, it will be yet another 2+ touchdown win that will once again leave us asking why we had to play them over a quality non-conf opponent.
AbsoluteUte February 18, 2021, 2:27am #5
I don't mind playing them every 3 or 4 years, but I think we should play every other state school as well; so that they can benefit from the revenue, sportsmanship, fidelity and other opportunities to promote Utah's institutes of higher learning.
That said, I hope we best them once again.
sancho February 18, 2021, 2:40am #6
I think playing BYU is much more meaningful than playing USU. It's a 100 year old rivalry that has produced some of the greatest moments in Utah football history. I love beating them, and I hate losing to them. That's what college football is all about.
On the other hand, a road trip to Logan is 1000 times better than a road trip to Provo if you are planning to attend.
I do not think we owe USU anything, and I don't particularly care if we play them.
I would be alright with a 4 year cycle: BYU home/away, USU home away.
I think we should only play byu at our place.
Yes, that would be big timing them, but I think they, of all schools, deserve it because of their unwarranted arrogance and sense of entitlement over the years. But then, I don't like them, so…
NewbombTurk:
I'm guessing the state legislature may have something to say about that.
You know who overrides the state legislature? Larry ■■■■■■■ K.
Kyle hates BYU, Urban hates BYU, Wayne Howard hates BYU more than both of them combined. But only Larry K has pulled money out of his own pocket to cancel BYU.
bopahull February 18, 2021, 4:06am #10
sancho:
We had been playing USU long before BYU.
sancho February 18, 2021, 4:15am #11
I don't see why that matters. It's clear that BYU is the rival.
salUTE February 18, 2021, 5:28am #12
bopahull:
My parents and in-laws always talked about how the big game, when they were young was the Thanksgiving day matchup with USU. There was a time when BYU was not so competitive and USU was the real rival.
The_Jim_Fassel_Era February 18, 2021, 5:38am #13
No it isn't. USU has been more competitive.
Yeah, and Tulane vs LSU was once a big game too.
USU is nothing to us. The goal is for BYU to become nothing to us as well. The Holy War is still a big deal of a game.
Greginslc February 18, 2021, 12:40pm #15
PPPPFFFTTTTTTTTT
We will win by 22 points…it will pour down rain in the 4th Quarter…and we will have a 10 minute sustained drive ended by the game itself. Their season will end right there, and we will be gearing up to start our run through the PAC 12 gauntlet. #ConferenceOfCannibals
JLLT!!!
Sullyute February 18, 2021, 2:54pm #16
Sancho, I agree that BYU is our current rival, and has been for nearly 50 years. I love the game and think it should be continued yearly if possible. However, there should be a place for USU in our schedule. We have played over a 100 games against them and in-state games are fun and cheap. I hope that we get a play USU in the near future.
concerned February 18, 2021, 3:02pm #17
salUTE:
Not to reveal my age, but my grandparents lived 1/2 block from the U (behind the Sigma Chi house) and my father and I walked to the Tanksgiving game against USU with Merlin Olsen. We won; there was snow everywhere and I spent most of the game throwing snowballls.
sancho February 18, 2021, 3:13pm #18
concerned:
I spent most of the game throwing snowballls.
I loved snowball games. It's a shame we can't do that anymore. I went to one against …I think UTEP…and two guys seated by us in the SEZ were escorted out by the police. Two days later, one of the two guys was my substitute teacher. I got to tell the whole class about his snowball arrest.
UteBrave February 18, 2021, 3:32pm #19
The zoobs would have the legislature, which is 90% zoob, on their side as well.
Diehard_Ute February 18, 2021, 3:32pm #20
Sullyute:
I guess cheap is relative.
They're certainly not as cheap as they once were. While Utah and BYU seem to match payments basically making the game a wash, I don't know that that works with USU.
They're certainly not going to pay the U the same amount to come to Logan as they expect to be paid to come to Salt Lake. And that's the other difficult part. We have 3 non conference games each year. The only way I could see playing USU would be to not play BYU that year.
If USU was willing to only play at Utah I think it would be easy to put them on the schedule, but wanting a home and home makes that very very hard. (Utah has every other in state school scheduled, but other than BYU they're all at RES)


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Q: Byzantine's General So I was reading Lamport's paper on Byzantine Generals in which he proves that for T malicious generals you need 2T+1 generals in a group to read a consensus. However I dont understand how. If there are T malicious nodes making up stuff, you just need T+1 votes to outvote them. Why is that not the case?

A: There is a section on Wikipedia about this:

One solution considers scenarios in which messages may be forged, but which will be Byzantine-fault-tolerant as long as the number of traitorous generals does not equal or exceed one third. The impossibility of dealing with one-third or more traitors ultimately reduces to proving that the 1 Commander + 2 Lieutenants problem cannot be solved, if the Commander is traitorous. The reason is, if we have three commanders, A, B, and C, and A is the traitor: when A tells B to attack and C to retreat, and B and C send messages to each other, forwarding A's message, neither B nor C can figure out who is the traitor, since it isn't necessarily A – the other commander could have forged the message purportedly from A. It can be shown that if n is the number of generals in total, and t is the number of traitors in that n, then there are solutions to the problem only when n is greater than or equal to 3t + 1

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you just need T+1 votes to outvote them. Why is that not the case?

This makes sense if all loyal generals produce the same answer, but that's not the case for BGP systems, where each honest element can give you a different answer.
BGP is for systems where each element sees a different information. Example: redundant radars. It is not for systems where the elements are mirrored (ex. redundant HDs).
Example:

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*Generals: A, B, C;

*Traitor: C;

*A says "attack";

*B says "retreat";

*C says "attack" to A, and "retreat" to "B";

*Result: A thinks it has reached agreement and it will attack alone;

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The inauguration of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States ushered in a public polarization that has never been seen before in our history. The protests, and even cries for impeachment, are just as unprecedented. The "honeymoon" period every previous president enjoyed clearly does not apply to Donald Trump.
Trump has been an incredibly active chief executive thus far. A few of his Executive Orders have been outstanding; the one withdrawing the United States from the Trans Pacific Partnership and the one banning officials from becoming lobbyists for foreign interests in particular. He vowed to launch a full-fledged investigation into voter fraud. And in his only really admirable appointment, he tapped Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to head a commission to investigate the links between vaccines and autism.
As always, Trump has said some awful things, too. He inexplicably sprang to Barack Obama's defense and called Chelsea Manning an "ungrateful traitor" for criticizing the former president. He signed an Executive Order that senselessly eliminated a proposed cut in FHA insurance for lower income home owners. His appointments have too often been typical "conservative" types, presumably to appease a Republican establishment that still remains uneasy about him. It's still unclear just what his replacement for Obamacare will entail, and if it will do anything to stop the dramatically rising cost of health care.
The hatred and vitriol directed at Trump is something no other public figure has ever experienced, outside of perhaps Adolph Hitler. India Knight, a "respectable" mainstream British journalist, tweeted out numerous anti-Trump comments, including "The assassination is taking such a long time." Magnatone CEO Ted Kornblum wrote on Twitter, "Rest easy, people, it'll only take 100 days till Trump gets a bullet in the head." Madonna spoke of burning down the White House. Actress Ashley Judd inferred that Trump fantasizes about his own daughter. And a Saturday Night Live writer joked that ten year old Barron Trump was going to be America's first home-school shooter. Another "comedy" show is in the works, in which the star will be an adult portraying young Barron.
This open discussion of assassinating a sitting president is something that would never have been tolerated in the past. I have noted before that I firmly believe a substantial portion of Americans would support the assassination of Trump. What passes for the "left" today has been exposed in all its glory in the post-election aftermath. The hysterical weeping, screaming, and threats of violence, on the part of the anti-Trump contingent, is embarrassing, and would be ridiculed by a sane society. If this election demonstrated anything, it demonstrated that we are not a sane society.
The anger and the hatred is ostensibly because the object of their scorn is a "hater," a "racist," a "sexist" and "intolerant" of others. Even if the most absurd charges against Trump were true, he could never hope to be as hateful and intolerant as these inflexible "protesters" are. What exactly are they protesting? Not even Hillary Clinton disputes the outcome of the election. They are exhibiting classic poor sportsmanship, and simply will not accept the fact their candidate lost. Just imagine how protesters against Barack Obama's election would have been treated, in the media and by the police, if they'd been so aggressive and threatening in their behavior.
It's difficult for me to imagine that the populist hero so many of us have longed for would turn out to be this egotistical billionaire turned reality television star. Trump certainly doesn't look or sound the part. He still forms his sentences in a frustratingly inarticulate way, and takes to social media as recklessly as a twelve year old. His immature responses to so many of the countless attacks on him, especially from the entertainment world, don't exactly seem statesman-like. It's difficult to imagine a better example of not judging a book by its cover.
But Donald Trump is the first major party presidential candidate in my lifetime to talk about most of the forbidden topics, the ones that control the fortunes of every average citizen. He's talked about auditing the Fed. He actually wants to place the interests of Americans first. He's spoken the truth about the sorry state of our infrastructure. He's condemned the Republican warmongers John McCainiac and Lindsay Graham for "always trying to start World War Three."
Trump may be the first genuine "conspiracy theorist" to live in the White House. Laughably, the establishment has finally found a conspiracy theory of their own to promulgate, to explain his election. After decades of demands for peace and detente with the Soviet Union, even at the height of their domination over great parts of the world, they have charged that Vladimir Putin's Russia somehow tipped the scales by "hacking" the 2016 presidential election. This word "hacking" just keeps being robotically chanted by Trump opponents, without any further thought. Exactly what did "the Russians" do to "hack" the election? This is truly one conspiracy theory that is utterly, completely ridiculous.
The court historians tend to love the most active, hands-on presidents. As I hope to show in Hidden History 2 down the road, the most powerful presidents have actually been the worst ones, because they invariably wielded that power against the great majority of the citizens. If he keeps all his campaign promises, Donald Trump could very well be the first aggressive president whose actions conflict with the desires of the elite leaders behind the scenes.
Even if he turns out to be just another garden-variety neocon, Donald Trump's election has exposed the fraudulent nature of the mainstream media, and the hypocritical inflexibility of those who call themselves "liberals" today. Most Americans know where the "fake news" is coming from. No alternative outlet could hope to compete with the nonsense CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and every other mainstream organ peddles on a regular basis.
I believe that, if Donald Trump had a different personality, he would not be so despised by so many. He simply is what he is; a vain, often juvenile seventy year old man who is thoroughly used to getting his way. He doesn't have a lot of tact, and can't seem to filter his views for public consumption. For many people, that kind of honesty is refreshing in a politician. His most attractive trait remains the incomprehensible amount of hatred he elicits from every pillar of the establishment.
After only a few weeks at the helm, it's been a mixed bag, but I'm still generally impressed with Trump. Even if most of his appointments don't seem to be outsiders, those inside the swamp are howling at him louder than ever. Only time will tell if he goes the way of Richard Nixon or the way of Huey Long.
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serito | February 3, 2017 at 10:59 pm
Excellent sir! Very close to my own hopes, reticence and thoughts about the new president. I had not heard he appointed RFK Jr. I think this is a tip of the cap to we Americans who with certain conviction know the last president to work for our interest was JFK. He (and RFK, pre-emptively) was given the Huey Long treatment.
Beth Erickson | February 4, 2017 at 2:38 am
I won a dream date with Steve Bannon! President Trump introduced us! I'm so happy! Steve is the sexiest thing since Brad Pitt! My date is tomorrow! I'm moistening! ❤😘😍
Don Lindgren | February 7, 2017 at 12:43 am
How come you didn't write about the Bowling Green Massacre? What was Obama hiding? 87 people died and you're not investigating it?!
You are not doing your job, sir. Get it together.
hardboiledop | April 8, 2017 at 6:59 am
What do you suspect?
John Moran | February 14, 2017 at 1:47 am
Donald-I just listened to your talk about cover ups,obvious evils in american history..I learned some from your discussion of slavery. However,many[including me] view the present mass incarceration in usa prisons as a sequel to slavery.. A current movie"13th' points out an obvious cause of it. According to 13 th amendment–no one can be made a slave unless he/she is a prisoner.. one would have to be terribly naive to assume this would not create massive corruption[ie-making many non violent ,victimless acts into criminal offenses]. I'd hope that you would address this[unless you already have elsewhere]
donaldjeffries | February 14, 2017 at 4:27 pm
The number of Americans in prison today is mind-boggling. The two primary reasons for this huge increase in prisoners are the minimum mandatory sentencing/three strikes you're out laws passed in the 1990s, and the proliferation of private prisons. I agree with you- there are far too many prisoners and the similarities to slavery are obvious. Every time a new law is passed, new "criminals" are created. But there are very few Americans who don't support this "tougher" stance, and even fewer civil libertarians left who care about justice and advocate for victim-less "criminals" to be released back into society.
Don Lindgren | March 13, 2017 at 1:06 pm
"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself." — Augustus Hare
james | April 10, 2017 at 11:43 am
therefore evil does not exist?
Good post!

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As the year winds down and darkness closes in, we cherish the renewal that Christmas and a new year can bring. This evening's concert offers music that is new in many different ways. We are proud to present recent works by local musicians and members of Cascadia Composers, a regionally based group founded in 2008 to foster a community among composers. Other pieces re-imagine medieval carols in new ways or make familiar texts sound completely different from how we've heard them before. Still others help us envision living in new ways, as individuals and as nations. Even in dark times, new life and hope are being born.
In "Nowell, Nowell," English composer Hilary Campbell revives "Sir Christèmas," a lively carol that first appeared early in the reign of Henry VIII. French and English lyrics alternate, reflecting the aristocratic audience who enjoyed the original. Campbell considers herself a "freelance choral specialist," acting as conductor, composer, and lyricist for several groups, but Blossom Street, the ensemble she founded as an undergraduate music student at York University in 2007, has remained a constant. To celebrate the centennial of woman suffrage in England last year, they issued This Day, a CD featuring mainly women composers to bring new attention to their work.
Cascadia Composer John Hidalgo notes that "Lux Aeterna," with words from the requiem mass, may seem an unusual text for Christmas. Nevertheless, "with the state of the world today, the longing for peace and light is certainly on everyone's mind. In fact, eternal light is the ultimate promise of Christmas." The harmonies here softly shift like the emerging colors of a sunrise. Born and raised in New Orleans, Hidalgo holds degrees in music from Tulane University and Cal State University, East Bay. Now based in Springfield, Oregon, he has taught and composed both choral and instrumental music on the West Coast for nearly 20 years.
Listeners have known and loved "In the Bleak Midwinter" for over a century. English poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) published the poem in 1872 and Gustav Holst (1874-1934) set it to music for The English Hymnal in 1906. In the gentle setting by American Abbie Betinis (b. 1980), warmth replaces winter's chill, with even the hypnotic repetition of "snow on snow" seeming to enfold us tenderly. In 1922, Betinis's great-grandfather, Rev. Bates Burt, began composing the words and music of Christmas carols that he sent to his parishioners; in 1942, his son Alfred (her great-uncle) joined in creating the annual Burt Family Carols until his death in 1954. Betinis resumed the family tradition in 2001, and now Minnesota Public Radio premieres a new carol by her every Christmas. She has composed a wide variety of original choral works with texts in many languages, and she actively encourages groups all over the country to use music to build community, with the motto "Start Local, Stay Vocal!"
Most of us are more familiar with the lyrics of Ivo Antognini's "Puer Nobis Natus Est" in English, from the book of Isaiah and Handel's Messiah, as well as words from Psalm 96. In contrast with Handel's exuberant setting, Antognini emphasizes grateful wonder in deceptively simple lines and glowing harmonies. Swiss composer Antognini (b. 1963) has presented his music throughout Europe, Japan, and the United States; in 2016, he premiered A Prayer for Mother Earth, a cantata for orchestra, adult and children's choirs, and soloists, at Carnegie Hall. His inclusion of children's choirs reflects his work as composer in residence for Coro Calicantus, an innovative Swiss singing school for children.
Dawn Sonntag, our next Cascadia composer, has written operas, art songs, choral, chamber, orchestral, dance and film music. She has also performed as a collaborative pianist, vocalist and choral conductor in the US, Canada, Germany and Scandinavia. Her setting of "I Heard the Bells" may surprise those who know only the familiar hymn, for Sonntag returns the words to their original context. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem on Christmas Day 1863 during the Civil War; his son had been seriously wounded just a month before. Although an abolitionist, Longfellow, like most Americans North and South, desired a peaceful solution, which seemed far off, yet the poem moves from despair to renewed faith. Using part of the Peace Pipe section from his earlier poem Song of Hiawatha (1855), Sonntag introduces a solo voice warning of the need for unity, and the chorus answers. Over a piano part that mimics chiming bells, the piece concludes with a hard-won affirmation of the Christmas message of peace.
One of the first prayers Catholics learn is the Hail, Mary—in Latin, Ave Maria. The prayer includes two verses from the Gospel of Luke: Gabriel's greeting to Mary at the Annunciation, and her kinswoman Elizabeth's greeting during Mary's visit. The last part, beginning with "Sancta Maria," actually does not appear in the Bible but was added less than 500 years ago. Catholics also recite the prayer as part of the Rosary and of a devotion called the Angelus to commemorate Jesus' incarnation.
Our first setting, by German composer and choir director Franz Biebl (1906-2001), includes part of the Angelus prayer with the words that precede Gabriel's greeting, sung almost as plainchant. The music then shifts into more modern harmonies, with lines that rise gradually and then soar. Ironically, this setting first became popular in America as an indirect consequence of war. In 1943, Biebl was drafted into the German army but was soon detained as a prisoner in Michigan. After the war, he directed a town choir in Bavaria and composed this work for them. When he later became head of Bavarian radio, he started inviting American choirs to come sing on programs with German groups, and one of those American choirs brought his setting home. His music helped heal a conflict between nations.
Both the words and original tune for "Now May We Singen" come from a 15th-century parchment found in a library at Cambridge University. Like many lyrics from that period, phrases in Latin function as a refrain while the story comes through in English. In this case, English composer Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951) includes verses that depict Christ's sacrifice for humankind and his miraculous birth as equally joyous events. As in her "Regina Caeli," which we sang in October, McDowall plays with shifting rhythm and meter here, keeping a dance-like feel while maintaining a sense of the carol's medieval origins.
Thomas Curran composed both the music and words for "Winter Song" for his senior recital at the University of Portland, from which he graduated this year. In addition to composing, he participated in the University Singers and in musical theater. This year he also premiered his new chamber work, The Cold Expanse, at the Atlantic Music Festival in Maine. "Winter Song" reflects his concern for the environment and our need for hope: "As our planet faces climate disaster, and news of a looming mass extinction is presented to us every day, it is difficult to see hope. The world of Winter seems inescapable…. It is only by the efforts and prayers of the chorus that Spring comes….The world of Spring is our responsibility."
"Jesus Christ the Apple Tree" sounds like an American folksong. In reality, it first appeared as a poem in London's Spiritual Magazine in 1761, submitted by a clergyman named Richard Hutchins; an anonymous version appeared even earlier as a broadsheet. Whatever the poem's origins, it has attracted many composers. It showed up in an American Baptist hymnal in 1784, and American and British composers alike, including John Rutter, have set it ever since. Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987), who composed our version, studied at London's Royal Academy of Music, where Ralph Vaughan Williams encouraged her writing; like him, she became an avid collector of folksongs—a possible source for this setting. Early in World War II, Poston joined the BBC as music director for its European Service and reportedly used the recordings she played on-air to send coded messages to England's continental allies. She later served as president of England's Society of Women Musicians. Singing her best-known work as a round enhances its folksong feeling.
Robert Lockwood, our third Cascadia member, composed our second setting of the Ave Maria. Though scored in 4-part harmony, the prayer now feels inward, almost private. The two Gospel verses each start with the words in unison, while the other voices melt in behind them like a meditation. The last part begins with all the voices in harmony but expresses a personal plea to Mary to intercede for each of us. The Portland-based women's ensemble In Mulieribus commissioned this setting of the text from which the group takes its name. Inspired by the group's tone and blend, Lockwood composed it mostly in one sitting in June 2016. A lifelong choral singer and graduate of Yale University's music program, Lockwood has served as Music Director of Portland's Christmas Revels productions since 1999. In that capacity, he has arranged works from many traditions.
Norwegian composer Kim André Arnesen (b. 1980) and Welsh-Scottish lyricist Euan Tait (b. 1968), who wrote "His Light in Us," have collaborated frequently since 2014; their cantata The Wound in the Water eloquently expresses the need to care for our fragile planet and heal from our human greed. Many of their works have a spiritual dimension. Arnesen has composed both a Requiem and a Magnificat, while Tait describes himself as a teacher, retreat leader, poet, librettist, and liturgist. They have written that our piece is "a thanksgiving, and its key word is 'renewed,' reflecting what goes on in our spirits at Christmas…and how light now shines also in dark times."
We close with the final movement of Dona Nobis Pacem, by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). He composed this cantata in what was certainly a dark time—the mid-1930s. By then, those who hoped that the Great War (1914-1918) had settled international problems forever now saw widespread economic depression and the rise of Nazism in Germany. The world seemed to be drifting toward another massive conflict. Vaughan Williams had lost friends in the war and served in it himself, but he used his music to explore his complicated emotions about the possible war ahead.
The cantata as a whole draws on four main sources: the Catholic mass; three of Walt Whitman's Civil War poems; John Bright's speech in the House of Commons opposing the Crimean War; and the Bible. All but the last movement depict painful scenes of normal life shattered by war, violence, death, and grief. But the final movement turns to the promises of the Old Testament Prophets and the Psalms. In spite of all that has come before, the words of Isaiah offer a different vision of how the world can be. One voice after another proclaims reconciliation, mercy, and peace for all nations. The work concludes with praise of God and a final, more hopeful prayer for peace. And that is our fervent wish to all of you and for the world today—peace on earth and goodwill to all.
Susan Wladaver-Morgan
The Author Choral Arts Ensemble


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Former US Marine kills 12 in California bar
Investigators are still trying to find a motive for the attack.
Ian David Long has been named as the suspect (California Department of Motor Vehicles/AP)
By Krysta Fauria, Associated Press
November 8 2018 9:57 PM
A former US Marine killed 12 people inside a crowded California bar before taking his own life.
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/former-us-marine-kills-12-in-california-bar-37508489.html
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/article37508477.ece/9759d/AUTOCROP/h342/ipanews_9cd8b1ad-d367-4e5a-bdbd-754a6f08e45c_1
Ian David Long, a 28-year-old with mental health issues who served as a machine gunner in Afghanistan, carried out the shooting in Thousand Oaks about 40 miles north west of Los Angeles.
Investigators are still trying to find a motive for the attack at a venue hosting a country music evening for students.
The hooded killer used a smoke bomb and a handgun, sending hundreds of people fleeing in terror.
Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said his department had several previous contacts with Long, including a call to his home in April, when deputies found him angry and acting irrationally.
The sheriff said a mental health crisis team was called at the time and concluded Long did not need to be taken into custody.
Patrons at the bar screamed in fear, shouted "Get down!" and used bar stools to smash second-floor windows and jump to safety as gunfire erupted at the Borderline Bar & Grill, a Thousand Oaks venue popular with students from nearby California Lutheran University.
Today we mourn the loss of Sergeant Ron Helus who gave his life serving the community. Please keep his family and the families of the victims in your thoughts and prayers. pic.twitter.com/EwDsnPRDCs
— Ventura Co. Sheriff (@VENTURASHERIFF) November 8, 2018
The dead included 11 people inside the bar and a sheriff's sergeant who was the first officer inside the door, the sheriff said.
"It's a horrific scene in there," Mr Dean said in a press conference at a car park.
I have been fully briefed on the terrible shooting in California. Law Enforcement and First Responders, together with the FBI, are on scene. 13 people, at this time, have been reported dead. Likewise, the shooter is dead, along with the first police officer to enter the bar....
....Great bravery shown by police. California Highway Patrol was on scene within 3 minutes, with first officer to enter shot numerous times. That Sheriff's Sergeant died in the hospital. God bless all of the victims and families of the victims. Thank you to Law Enforcement.
"There's blood everywhere."
The killer deployed a smoke device and used a .45-calibre handgun.
A victim is treated near the scene (AP)
It was the deadliest mass shooting in the US since 17 students and teachers were killed at a Parkland, Florida, high school nine months ago.
It also came less than two weeks after a gunman massacred 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
That, in turn, closely followed the series of pipe bombs mailed to critics of President Donald Trump.
Democratic governor-elect Gavin Newsom, in his first public appearance since winning office on Tuesday, lamented the violence that has come again to California.
"It's a gun culture," he said. "You can't go to a bar or nightclub? You can't go to church or synagogue? It's insane is the only way to describe it. The normalisation, that's the only way I can describe it. It's become normalised."
Mr Trump praised police for their "great bravery" in the California attack and said, "God bless all of the victims and families of the victims".
People comfort each other as they stand near the scene of the shooting (Mark J. Terrill/AP)
The gunman was tall and wearing all black with a hood and his face partly covered, witnesses told TV stations.
He first fired on a person working the door, then appeared to shoot at random at people inside, they said.
"I dropped to the floor," Sarah Rose DeSon told ABC's Good Morning America.
"A friend yelled, 'Everybody down!' We were hiding behind tables trying to keep ourselves covered."
He (Sergeant Ron Helus) went in there to save people and paid the ultimate price Sheriff Geoff Dean
Sheriff's Sergeant Ron Helus and a passing highway patrolman arrived at the Borderline around 11.20pm in response to several 911 calls, heard gunfire and went inside, the sheriff said.
Sgt Helus was immediately hit with multiple gunshots, Mr Dean said.
The highway patrolman pulled Sgt Helus out, then waited as a Swat team and scores more officers arrived.
Sgt Helus died early on Thursday at a hospital.
By the time they entered the bar again, the gunfire had stopped, according to the sheriff.
In light of the tragic events that occurred last night in Thousand Oaks, classes have been canceled today. University offices remain open. Visit our emergency page for more resources and updates at https://t.co/lXis049Ii9
— Cal Lutheran (@CalLutheran) November 8, 2018
They found 12 people dead inside, including the gunman who apparently took his own life, the sheriff said.
"There's no doubt that they saved lives by going in there and engaging with the suspect," said Mr Dean, who was set to retire on Friday.
He praised the murdered officer, a close friend, as a hero, saying: "He went in there to save people and paid the ultimate price."
Shootings of any kind are extremely rare in Thousand Oaks, a city of about 130,000 people about 40 miles west of Los Angeles, just across the county line.
The Borderline, which includes a large dance hall along with several smaller areas for eating and drinking, was holding its regular College Country Nights when the attack took place.
Police at the scene (KABC/AP)
The bar is also close to several other universities, including California State University Channel Islands in Camarillo, Pepperdine University in Malibu and Moorpark College in Moorpark.
Nick Steinwender, Cal Lutheran student union president, told KTLA-TV he immediately started receiving messages about the shooting, and he and his roommate went to the scene to offer rides back to campus or moral support.
"It's going to be a very sombre day," Mr Steinwender said.
"I know we don't have all the details in yet, but you know, it just feels like it's an attack on our community.
"You know, I think it's going to be something that we're going to have to come together and move past."
An FBI agent (Mark J. Terrill/AP)
Cole Knapp, a freshman at Moorpark College, said he was inside the bar when the shooting began, but he thought at first that it was "just someone with an M-80, just kind of playing a prank".
Then he said he saw the gunman, wearing a small black head covering and black hoodie and holding a handgun.
"I tried to get as many people to cover as I could," Mr Knapp said. "There was an exit right next to me, so I went through that.
"That exit leads to a patio where people smoke. People out there didn't really know what was going on.
People walk away from the scene (Mark J. Terrill/AP)
"There's a fence right there so I said, 'Everyone get over the fence as quickly as you can', and I followed them over."
He said a highway patrol officer who happened to be pulling someone over was nearby.
"I screamed to him, 'There's a shooter in there!' He was kind of in disbelief, then saw that I was serious," Mr Knapp said.
He said he had friends who had not been accounted for.
Tayler Whitler, 19, said she was on the dance floor with her friends nearby when she saw the gunman shooting and heard screams of "Get down!"
Sheriff's deputies speak to potential witnesses (Mark J. Terrill/AP)
"It was really, really, really shocking," Ms Whitler told KABC-TV as she stood with her father in the car park.
"It looked like he knew what he was doing."
The dead sheriff's officer was a 29-year veteran of the force with a wife and son and planned to retire in the coming year, said the sheriff, who choked back tears as he talked about the sergeant who was also his long-time friend.
"Ron was a hardworking, dedicated sheriff's sergeant who was totally committed," Dean said, "and tonight, as I told his wife, he died a hero because he went in to save lives."
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Waitrose to close seven stores affecting 677 jobs
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Save the Last Dance è un film del 2001 diretto da Thomas Carter.

Film incentrato sulla danza con protagonisti Julia Stiles e Sean Patrick Thomas.

Trama
Sara, una ragazza bianca, si trasferisce dal padre Roy a Chicago dopo la morte della madre causata da un incidente in auto. Sara vuole diventare una ballerina presso la Julliard School, ma dopo il dramma abbandona il suo sogno e si iscrive nella scuola del suo nuovo quartiere frequentata principalmente da ragazzi di colore. Lì conosce Chenille, una ragazza madre, e suo fratello Derek, ballerino di hip hop che vuole iscriversi all'università e diventare medico.

Tra Sara e Derek nasce l'amore e lui le insegna dei passi di hip hop. La loro relazione però non è ben vista dalle altre ragazze per via delle grandi aspirazioni di lui e quindi i due decidono di lasciarsi. Intanto Sara deve risostenere l'audizione alla Julliard School in cui aveva deciso di tornare convinta da Derek.

Il giorno del provino Chenille dice a Derek di essere stata lei a convincere Sara che la loro relazione non poteva andare avanti. Derek capisce tutto e allora va al teatro per assistere all'esibizione. Sara all'inizio è turbata perché è da sola, ma vede arrivare il suo ragazzo e questo le dà la carica necessaria per eseguire la sua coreografia ed essere ammessa alla scuola.

Produzione
Il film è stato interamente girato a Chicago. La pellicola è costata 13 milioni di dollari e ne ha incassati 91.057.006.

Riconoscimenti
 2001 - MTV Movie & TV Awards
 Migliore performance rivelazione maschile (Sean Patrick Thomas)
 Miglior bacio (Julia Stiles e Sean Patrick Thomas)

Sequel

Il film ha avuto un sequel direct-to-video.

Collegamenti esterni

Film ambientati a Chicago
Hip hop nel cinema
Film sulla danza

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After forty years of reading and seeing Shakespeare, I had finally decided that "The Tempest" was my favorite of his plays. This decision was cemented in May when I was privileged to see a truly wonderful Tempest –a student production at Williams College (yes, it was THAT good.) So I was excited to see what the Bakerloo Theatre Project, another group of young and innovative theatre artists, would do with it.
As usual, they have done a great deal. Bakerloo produces Shakespeare and other classics exclusively (their other production this summer will be Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard) and they routinely reimagine and reexamine the text to present unique productions. These productions are not traditional, but they are not "high concept" for the sake of being different. They are, with a nod to modern attention spans, generally considerably shorter than the originals, but they are never cut in a way that disrespects story or language.
Of course almost all companies make cuts in Shakespeare's plays these days, and scholarship indicates that the published texts we inherited are much longer than anything that was ever performed. It was assumed that actors (and eventually directors) would choose the bits they wanted to present, which is exactly what Bakerloo and the Williams production did. Both presented versions of The Tempest that ran a hair over two hours, which is very speedy for Elizabethan drama.
But while the Williams production was bright and expansive, Bakerloo director William Addis has created a very angry production – loud, dark, and remarkably devoid of humor. In his program prologue, Addis notes that both The Tempest and The Cherry Orchard are plays that "cast an eye back to the past while focusing on characters who are moving decidedly to a new future."
In the program, Addis also cites the following quote from David Bevington's The Wide and Universal Theatr": The island of The Tempest is [Prospero's] stage. In its theatrical space he arranges his dramatis personae in accordance with his master plan , creates a storm to separate his characters into groups. Every action takes place under Prospero's watchful eye and as a result of his direction."
We know nothing definite of Shakespeare's life, but, whether or not it is true, The Tempest is widely and popularly viewed as the last play he wrote (or at least the last he wrote alone), and much scholarly opinion has issued forth on the concept that Prospero is Shakespeare, that the playwright saw in his ability to create and manipulate words, actions, and characters on stage as analogous to Prospero's magical ability to do the same in his own little island reality.
Addis has staged his production in the round, making the playing area literally an island in a sea of spectators. Here the focus is always on Prospero (Gwen Hervochon) who almost constantly hovers around the edges, as do many dumb and nameless spirits. As is always true in the theatre, nothing on Prospero's island happens unobserved. Hervochon's Prospero is in equal parts determined to use his powers and agents to move his life, and therefore the lives of all around him, on to their next phase, and angered at having to do so. Others, notably Miranda (Ugo Chukwu), Ariel (Joseph McGranaghan), and Caliban (Eric Chase and Lily Junker), are more than ready to move on. The group Prospero brings to his island via the titular tempest – the politicians Ferdinand (Rosa Fernandez), Alsonso (Marsha Harman), Sebastian (Mack Exilus), Antonio (Sarah Murphy), and Gonzalo (Christopher Maxwell), along with the drunken clowns Stepahno (Joe Mihalchick) and Trinculo (Christopher Thomas Gilkey) - are mere pawns in his game.
You will have noticed that many women are playing male roles and vice versa. My companion remarked to me that she wasn't sure whether the gender bending worked or was merely a distracting gimmick. Casting across gender always raises issues that the director and actors must together decide how to address. Are the actors to attempt to appear to be members of the opposite sex through dress, padding, adoption of various gender stereotypes, etc.? here, are we supposed to see Prospero as a man or as a woman? Hervochon looks and sounds and moves like a woman and her dress is androgynous. She states she is Miranda's father, not her mother. And Chukwu is plainly male – no attempt is made to give him feminine curves. Early on he wears something that could pass as a skirt, but later Ferdinand (played by a woman) helps him change into trousers and a sport coat. Is Miranda then being revealed as a man? If so, why doesn't Ferdinand simultaneously reveal herself as female? Or are we receiving some sort of commentary on how love trumps gender in human coupling?
The Miranda/Ferdinand cross-casting distracted me the most because they are the romantic duo and I wanted to know what kind of a couple I was rooting for. But Fernandez and Chukwu played their scenes with so little passion that they could have both been eunuchs. Addis ignored the delightful flirtation and burgeoning passion between these two, and consequently many opportunities for a hearty chuckle at the expense of young love/lust are lost. (Oooo, there's a title for a play: Lust's Labors Lost!) I really had no problem with Prospero being played by a woman or Ariel, whose gender is barely determined anyway, by a man. And I enjoyed Junker and Chase as a kind of conjoined twins Caliban – half man, half woman; half human, half monster; each and both; single and dual. They tumble artfully about, first one in the ascendancy, then the other.
Hervochon's Prospero is indeed a very angry person. Well, who likes change? We mere mortals know it has to come, and we know there is nothing we can do about it, but we don't LIKE it. I remember when my father was dying, and The Tempest is all about dealing with the inescapable and ungraspable truth of our mortality, a psychologist asking me how I would like to change me current situation, as if it were possible to make a plan based on my answer. I said: "I want my father to be well again and never die and for life to just always go on the way it used to. And that's impossible." But that is the anger and despair Prospero feels, but unlike me he is actually the catalyst for the inevitable change he dreads. He knows the change must come and he makes it so.
I was very puzzled by how unfunny the scenes between Stephano, Trunculo and Caliban were. I didn't realize it was possible for them to be performed so solemnly, I mean this is funny stuff – a bunch of dim-witted clowns stumbly drunkenly through the island paradise imagining themselves kings and conquerors. Even when they dressed up in funny clothes I didn't laugh.
So, this is a somber Tempest about the inevitability of change and the constant natural cycle of the new and young (Miranda and Ferdinand) supplanting the old and dying. Addis and his design team have created a dark and moody setting – in fact I found Tony Tambasco's lighting a tad too dark in many spots, failing to illuminate actors at key moments (or were the actors failing to hit their marks?)
Bakerloo does not go in for big sets, and here we have nothing but one riser/runway on the bare floor of Academy Hall and eight beautifully printed panels designed by Aaron Smith. They represent ocean waves in a lovely deep teak green. (If you peek at their reverse side you will see the autumnal red and russet pattern of falling leaves for The Cherry Orchard.) In keeping with the somber theme, Justin Honard's costumes are in a drab palette of neutral.
There is a lot of music in this production, and Adam Mathias is credited with creating "original music." I assume, since no other composers are listed in the program, that everything heard during the course of The Tempest is Mathias' work. It is haunting and dissonant but beautiful and effective. Many of the cast, notably Harman (who is looking especially lovely this year), sing very well indeed, which is good because some of the music is a cappella, and there are many tricky harmonics involved.
Before the show began I was chatting with a member of the company, who remarked that they had been rehearsing The Cherry Orchard" that afternoon and that it was "very funny." I didn't think much of that statement because Chekhov himself called his plays comedies and I personally always find them hilarious. But as I drove home it dawned on me that I had made what was possibly an erroneous assumption about the Bakerloo season.
While The Tempest defies categorization as a comedy or tragedy – it is both and neither – I had assumed that it was the lighthearted selection for 2008, while The Cherry Orchard" would be more serious and sober. In other words I had pegged The Tempest as the comedy and The Cherry Orchard" as the tragedy, or at least the drama, for the season. Could I be have gotten things completely bass ackward?? Stay tuned. I see The Cherry Orchard" on July 26...
The Bakerloo Theatre Project's production of The Tempest will be performed July 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, and August 1 at 8 p.m., with matinees on July 13, 20 and 26 at 2 p.m., at Academy Hall at the corner of 15th Street and College Avenue on the RPI campus in Troy, NY. The show runs two-hours and ten minutes with one intermission and is suitable for ages 12 and up, although you should make sure your teens are familiar with the plot before you bring them along. Tickets are $16 each, or $25 for a season pass. Visit www.bakerloo.org for information about discount tickets and group rates.


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"Orlandos" in Civil War Michigan, part 2
Home > "Orlandos" in Civil War Michigan, part 2
By Matthew Hackett, Historic Interpreter
You can read these posts in any order you like; if you haven't read "Orlandos" in Civil War Michigan, part 1, you can find it here <insert link>
The Orlando from Civil War-era Michigan highlighted in this post is largely remembered todayfor hisresponseto an enemy communication and the battle that followed. Michigan has a Medal of Honor winning Orlando, too. A third is known for his contributions to Michigan's engineering worksafter the end of the war. All those featured in our 3-part series of "Orlandos" in Civil War Michigan survived their service.
Orlando Moore
Only 16,367 men were members of the U.S. Army on the eve of the Civil War. Today, we refer to these men as "Army Regulars" to distinguish them from the hundreds of thousands of "Volunteers" that joined up for the conflict to come. 1st Lieutenant Orlando Hurley Moore was one of this group of Army Regulars. He stayed loyal to the Union, as did about 80% of the other officers serving at the time. In late December 1861, Moore first took an assignment with the 13th Michigan Infantry as Lieutenant Colonel but was offered leadership as Colonel of the 25th Michigan when it formed in Kalamazoo inAugust of 1862. ByDecember of 1862, the 25th had spent a month protecting and preparing earthwork defenses for a bridge over the Green River in Munfordville, Kentucky.
In April 1863, Moore and his men were tasked with provost and guard duty—essentially military occupation—in Louisville, Kentucky. Moore was not well-liked by some influential Louisville citizens and higher-ups in the U.S. Army decided to divide the 25th Michigan. Some men stayed in Louisville until August, but five companies commanded byCol. Orlando Moore were dispatched to protect roads and deal with Confederate "raiders." These five companies went via Lebanon incentral Kentucky to protectanother bridge over the Green River near Campbellsville. Moore looked at the terrain, assessed the situation and applied lessons learned at Munfordville. Activity further south would hasten their preparations.
Moore vs. Morgan
Meanwhile on June 11, Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan left Sparta, Tennessee with about 2,500 mounted men. Morgan was known for raids using cavalry to attack quickly, inflict damage, and move on to fight another day. He and his men were now headed north into enemy territory to do just that.
Today, it is a short carride to travel 116miles from Sparta, Tennessee to the Green River at Tebb's Bend, Kentucky. For Morgan's cavalry, it took about three weeks (and more than200 miles) to make this journey via Campbellsville. Union scouts brought word to Colonel Moore that Morgan's cavalry, much larger than Moore's own five companies, would soon arrive at their Tebb's Bend outpost. Taking advantage of natural bluffs and a bit of time, Moore ordered all 240 or so men of the 25th Michigan to dig in, make advance rifle pits, and to construct trenches and abatis (a defense of sharpened logs facing the enemy).
"I Cannot Entertain the Proposition to Surrender"
Arriving at Tebb's Bend at sunrise on July 4, 1863, Morgan sent dismounted troops to flank the small garrison waiting behind their earthworks. The Southern troops made no real progress against this well-prepared defense, however. Under a flag of truce, the Confederate General next sent forth officers with a demand for surrender. Colonel Moore went forward in person to speak to the Confederate officers and replied:
Present my compliments to General Morgan, and say to him, that this being the 4th of July, I cannot entertain the proposition to surrender.
Colonel Allison of Morgan's staff tried to reason with Colonel Moore, but the stubborn Michigander would not reconsider. The parley ceased and Morgan's troops renewed their attack. Behind fortifications, new Enfield rifles gave the sharpshooting 25th Michigan an advantage, especially when used to target artillery men and officers. Three and a half hours after the initial early morning attack, the Confederates again sent forth a flag of truce—this time to collect their 36 dead and 45 wounded. Thirty of them had been captured. Union losses totaled 6 dead and 14 injured. One of the Union wounded was discovered to be Lizzie Compton, a female soldier who had been removed from other regiments following the same revelation.
Morgan's next target was Lebanon, Kentucky. He won that battle, but at the cost of the life of his brother, Thomas.Morgan would eventually be captured and escape.
For his service, Orlando H. Moore was awarded with brevet promotions and remembered for his refusal to surrender on a day as important to his countrymen as July the 4th, 1863. Battles concluding in Vicksburg and Gettysburg greatly overshadowed Tebb's Bend, but on this holiday, an Orlando was there.
"Lizzie Compton" from World Heritage Encyclopedia
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The AXIS Mentoring Link Program is built on the concept of helping newcomers gain insight into the Canadian labour market and learninig about practical ways to take more responsibility for the effective management of their career goals. The program also enriches the professional life of each mentor with developing his or her communication and leadership skills while gaining personal satisfaction through doing something worthwhile. If maximized effectively, both parties will benefit from the experience.
"an experienced and trusted adviser" or "an experienced person in a company or educational institution who trains and counsels new employees or students"
What is an AXIS Mentor?
An AXIS Mentor is a Canadian professional/trades person who has successfully established his/her career in their field of expertise and is dedicated to sharing his/her knowledge with others.
Mentors must be willing to offer both guidance and expertise on the Canadian labour market and on the specific occupation within their industry, which will ultimately lead to the successful integration of newcomers into the local labour market.
"The mentoring relationship is exactly that - a relationship. It requires commitment, reciprocity, open communication and trust."
Mentors gain both personal and professional satisfaction in helping another individual trained in their field of expertise prepare for the Canadian workforce.
Mentors employ a vast range of communication skills during the mentoring partnership.
Mentors gain an increased awareness and a more thorough understanding of the challenges faced by newcomers.
Mentors gain an appreciation for the similarities between Canadian and other cultures, as well as the professional experiences of individuals in their shared profession who have been trained in an international context.
To find out more about the program, or how to become a mentor, contact us at axis@nfld.net.


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Pupils from two Mossend schools are celebrating after scooping a prestigious award from North Lanarkshire Council.
In 2013 the schools teamed up to work on the 'Divided City' project, which aimed to raise awareness of the harmful impact of sectarianism on our society. The schools then built on this by working in partnership with leading charity Nil by Mouth and since 2013 have participated in a range of workshops, events and activities focusing on how young people can build bridges higher than walls.


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Ghanapage.com has sighted a video of a man living in the streets of America under very sad and unbearable conditions.
The unidentified man believed to be a Nigerian is diabetic and has been in the United States of America for 35 years.
According to the man, he lives in an abandoned car by the road and lives on the money people give him on the streets.
He also stated that he sought help from a local church nearby but he was denied and left to his fate.
According to him, he has a son and also sought help from his son's mother but it didn't work for him.
This man has been in the United States of America for 35 years and has not been able to acquire his documents.
His only dream now is to return to Nigeria to be with his family but doesn't have the means to do so.
He further pleaded with the general public to help him go back to Nigeria and also cater for his medical bills.


Producer, Christophe Hallereau wasn't interested in being in the wine business until he inherited his family vineyards. Still maintaining his day job, he has become a weekend warrior winemaker maintaining the property and the cellar library. With 8 Ha in the village of Vallet, he now runs the local association of growers. All wines are fermented in concrete with native yeasts and minimal additions of SO2. Subsoils in the region are igneous with granite, gneiss and mica. Vallet is a pending cru appellation and is known for its clay based soils. The wines are racy and mineral driven. A recent staff seminar, we tasted wines going back to the mid-80s. The wines maintained freshness and mineral character proving these wines have the ability to age.


The funnel software serves to simplify the marking function, as it allows the business to make and also send information concerning the products that are the business deals in.Through the sales facilitated by the funnel software, it is possible to have the sales of the company increase, thus yielding more profits to the business.Below are the benefits that can be attributed to the funnel software.
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UFC to Montreal in April 09?
I don't know what the new year holds for me. The UFC is supposed to be back in Montreal in April. But I would love to squeeze a fight in before that, perhaps in early February.
That would be a year after the showdown between GSP and Matt Serra. April would be an interesting date for the match-up. Many fans have cynically stated that it would be another year before the UFC came back to Canada, requiring all the Canuck fans to re-up their UFC fan club memberships in order to get first dibs on tickets for the show. Looks like they may have been on to something.
Any UFC event in Canada is more than likely going to see Georges St Pierre as the headliner on the card. Such a card would come quickly on the heels of a GSP vs BJ showdown in late January, giving St Pierre only two to two and a half months to prepare for the showdown. Also of interest would be his opponent. Thiago Alves is regarded as the number one contender and next in line for a title shot. Also looming is a possible fight for GSP at 185 with Middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva. Does the UFC jump straight to the mega fight and put on Anderson Silva vs GSP in Canada and watch the money roll in? Fighting BJ Penn with a quick turnaround to face Anderson would be a tall order for anyone, and most likely one that would get vetoed by a fighters management.
The other possible scenario is a GSP vs Alves showdown with Anderson Silva also featured on the same card, with the build being toward a late summer showdown between the two beltholders. Putting Anderson as the co-main with GSP vs Alves might assuage Silva's unhappiness with his financial situation with the UFC. Anderson is paid on a PPV structure, but his poor drawing ability gives him a salary that isn't commensurate with the status conferred upon him by Dana White as the best pound for pound fighter in the world. Silva recently nixed a showdown in London with Thales Leites, I would assume for financial reasons. A Euro PPV that usually draws a bit over 200k buyers would pay him even less than the usual 300k buys he does when headlining a PPV. Putting Anderson as the number 2 on a GSP in Canada card would ensure him a payday to keep him happy and set up another payday in the showdown with GSP. If the two are in separate bouts for the Montreal show it could still be economically feasible, since neither of the guys they would face would be receiving PPV cuts. In this respect it would be similar to UFC 87 where both GSP and Brock Lesnar were on the card but not facing opponents that were PPV draws worthy of a PPV cut.
All of this would presume GSP making it through a gauntlet of BJ Penn and Thiago Alves, which is far from a sure thing. How ever the fights are laid out, GSP looks to have a full dance card for the 2009 calendar year. If he is able to come out the other side of the year undefeated he'll be able to lay claim as not only the best pound for pound fighter in the sport but also quite possibly the best mixed martial artist of all time.


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Q: Yeoman/Gulp throwing 'spawn gulp ENOENT' error on a Mac Please note: I do see this question as well as this one but those were both instances where the developer was on Windows, and the solution was Windows-specific. I am on a Mac! Please don't closevote as a duplicate!!!

Mac 10.12.6 here. I'm new to AngularJS (v1.x) and am trying to follow this tutorial on using Yeoman to create an internationalized AngularJS app.
I install the Yeoman AngularJS generator and create a directory for my simple/test app:
npm install -g generator-angular
mkdir angular-translate-yeoman && cd $_

Then I go to create my internationalization AngularJS app:
yo angular translate

It asks me a bunch of questions, I select gulp instead of grunt, and then starts generating the scaffolding. About a minute later I get the following error:
events.js:160
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn gulp ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:1020:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:193:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:367:16)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:80:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)

Anybody have any idea what the problem is and what the fix is?

A: I'm leaving this question up rather than deleting it. The problem was that I didn't have gulp installed, and the tutorial I was using never bothered to mentioned installing gulp as a pre-requisite. Not knowing anything about Yeoman, I guess I figured it would install any JS dependencies for me.
So this is the error you'll receive when you're on a Mac and using Yeoman + Gulp together, but Gulp isn't installed on your machine. To install Gulp:
npm install gulp-cli -g
npm install gulp -D
touch gulpfile.js
gulp --help


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Hawaii volcano shoots lava fountains 60m high
Four fissures have now opened up on the mammoth mountain, which burst into life on Sunday for the first time in almost 40 years.
November 30, 2022 8:40 AM 2 minute read
A satellite image shows lava flowing from Hawaii's Mauna Loa Volcano in Hawaii, US, Nov 28. Photo: Reuters
Fountains of lava up to 200 feet (60m) high have been fired into the air from Hawaii's Mauna Loa, geologists say, generating rivers of molten rock from the world's largest active volcano.
Vast clouds of steam and smoke were billowing into the sky from the volcano, which makes up half of Hawaii's Big Island.
"Estimates of the tallest fountain heights are between 100–200 feet" but most are much smaller, the US Geological Survey said in an update Monday.
"There is a visible gas plume from the erupting fissure fountains and lava flows, with the plume primarily being blown to the Northwest."
Geologists say there is currently no risk to people and property below the eruption.
"The longest and largest lava flow is issuing from fissure three," the USGS said Tuesday.
"This lava flow crossed the Mauna Loa Weather Observatory Road... and the flow front was located approximately six miles (10km) from Saddle Road (the main road at the foot of the northern flank)."
The lava fountain from the newest fissure was up to 33 feet high, the agency said.
Everything is currently contained in the Northeast Rift Zone, the USGS said, but warned Mauna Loa is a dynamic volcano.
"Additional fissures could open along the Northeast Rift Zone below the current location, and lava flows can continue to travel downslope."
Pressure has been building at Mauna Loa for years, the USGS said, and the eruption – which lit up the night sky – could be seen 72km away, in the west coast town of Kona.
While lava is not presently a risk to populations, scientists have said winds could carry volcanic gas and fine ash downslope, as well as Pele's Hair – fine strands of volcanic glass formed when lava skeins cool quickly in the air.
Named after Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes, the strands can be very sharp and pose potential danger to skin and eyes.
'Long Mountain'
Authorities in Hawaii have not issued any evacuation orders, although the summit area and several roads in the region were closed, and two shelters have been opened as a precaution.
The largest volcano on Earth by volume, Mauna Loa, whose name means "Long Mountain," is larger than the rest of the Hawaiian islands combined.
The volcano's submarine flanks stretch for miles to an ocean floor that is in turn depressed by Mauna Loa's great mass – making its summit some 11 miles above its base, according to the USGS.
One of six active volcanoes on the Hawaiian islands, Mauna Loa has erupted 33 times since 1843.
Its most recent eruption, in 1984, lasted 22 days and produced lava flows reached to within about four miles of Hilo.
Kilauea, a volcano on the southeastern flank of Mauna Loa, erupted almost continuously between 1983 and 2019, and a minor eruption there has been ongoing for months.
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Scottish Liberal Democrat spokeswoman Alison McInnes MSP has today said significant changes are required if the Community Justice Bill is to ensure judges view community rehabilitation plans as a viable alternative to jail.
The draft bill, which was debated this afternoon, has already been criticised by former Lord Advocate Dame Eilish Angiolini, who warned that unless it is made stronger, imprisonment could remain a tempting default position for judges.
The committee report also criticised the Scottish Government's treatment of community justice funding, which has resulted in charities having to reconstitute under different names in order to secure funding.
Criminal justice voluntary sector organisations and others have also raised concerns that the bill lacks ambition and requires significant alteration if it is to make a meaningful contribution to achieving a progressive justice system.
"Although Scottish Liberal Democrats support the general principles of the bill, significant changes are needed if we are to support it further.
"Liberal Democrats want safer communities and people brought to justice when they offend but we believe everyone deserves to have a chance to get back on track.
"More Scots are behind bars per head of population than in almost any other nation in Western Europe. Punishment and retribution have dominated penal policy for far too long and do nothing to reduce reoffending levels, the economic and social costs of which are immense.


Every important occasion makes us think of the perfect gifts for the people we love. A nice greeting card is the traditional attribute of any holiday from birthday to Christmas, and people usually focus less on them. It's considered that a card should be sweet, funny, and of course beautiful, and these are all the basic requirements. However, there's another approach that focuses more on a person rather than on the occasion itself. You can make a unique, customized greeting card for your mom, dad, friend or soulmate just by choosing a nice card design, personalize it, and print it. The very fact that you tried to make something special will be priceless for a person who gets it. Less time, fewer expenses, more pleasure!
It may seem that guys value the gifts and sweet gestures less than women. Well, they want us to think so. They do love to feel loved, they do like the expressions of the feelings, but they just don't show this too often, actually. If you want to get your beloved husband or boyfriend something extraordinary, you should definitely think of making an awesome greeting card he'll never receive from anyone else. This may be a quite complicated task, especially if you're not a painter or a graphic designer. Fortunately, there is an easy way – all you need to do is to find the greeting card design you think he'll like the most and customize it – no efforts yet a lot of pleasure!
Although the selection of the cards in the local stores is quite wide, it's still limited. Furthermore, despite the fact that some of them are funny, creative, and customized to some extent, such birthday cards are the mass product. You'll get some oohs and wows by giving her a really nice postcard from the store, but you'll hardly be recognized as the best boyfriend or husband ever. This is the matter of priorities and your goals. If you want to impress, surprise, blow her away, you should make one by yourself. We completely understand that you probably don't have the time or necessary skill to draw a postcard, and that's why we recommend you to check out the free printable B-day cards that may be personalized in any way you want. Believe us that her reaction will exceed all your expectations!
There is an even easier way to get a greeting card of your dreams. There are a lot of cute images that are also printable, so all you need to do is to choose and add a few warm words. This simple method is especially good for those who are looking for something creative for someone who likes adorable souvenirs. Remember that this little souvenir will be a kind of reminder that symbolizes what you feel about this person, so don't hesitate to be sentimental!
The concept of personalized, printable B-day cards itself is not so effective for children. They will be glad to get a card from a store as well as the card you made by yourself, so what's the point? Everything's simple – you'll hardly find a card that reflects his or her interests in a local store, but you'll easily find it online. For instance, if a boy is a big soccer fan, he'll absolutely love a card with a cool, encouraging phrases and the picture of something thematic, balls, field, etc. The number of ideas and options is infinite.
The best thing about such cards is that the choice of the cool options is enormous: from the cute pictures with animals and flowers to the short comics with a hilarious plot. Most of them are free, and that's another fact that is more than encouraging. You can easily find a funny card with a joke about wine for a friend you like to spend cozy evenings with or a touching and memorable pic for your significant other.
As we have already mentioned, there are a lot of hilarious B-day cards. Some of them are very specific (so if your friend isn't a big fan of dark humor you'd better not choose this option), some of them less "explosive", so you can choose them even for your mom without any consequences except for a smile on her face. Every of these awesome greeting cards is sure to be a hit at the party!
The Internet gave us a lot of stunning things, and one of them is the opportunity to make your own birthday card without taking a brush in your hands. Not all of us were born with the talent of the great artist, so that may be a great alternative. Moreover, even a card made on the basis of a certain template will be still original! You're making certain efforts, you're thinking of a person, and that all makes it so special.
Showing respect for someone's faith is the best way to demonstrate how much this person means to you. Sometimes a birthday card with the nice religious symbols or plots is a much better option than a picture with an adorable bear, beautiful fields or smiling sun. It's better just because it symbolizes what the receiver considers the most important aspect, concept, the main idea of our lives. Don't doubt that a person that gets a card like that will understand how deep your love and respect is.
Probably, the biggest advantage of such self-made B-day cards is that they don't look like the self-made ones. Particularly, they are foldable, and this feature allows making the real masterpieces with thematic, attention-grabbing front side, and the printed or hand-written heartfelt message inside.
This option is perfect for those who don't want just to find and print a card. You can easily make it more personal and touching by choosing a nice birthday card design and coloring it by yourself. The nice bonus is also that you'll have a great time painting it – it's a great alternative to the anti-stress coloring books, actually.


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NBC, Walgreens Go Big for Red Nose Day's American Debut
Effort With Comic Relief Supports Children's Charities
By Ashley Rodriguez. Published on May 07, 2015.
Walgreens ad for Red Nose Day
From celebrity-led dance-a-thons to digital takeovers to around-the-clock TV ads, NBC and Walgreens are using the full weight of their brands to rally the nation around Red Nose Day. The effort supports charities that help lift children and young people out of poverty through fun and humorous fundraising efforts.
NBC, Walgreens and M&M's are working with the U.K.'s Comic Relief to bring Red Nose Day, which launched in 1988, to America for the first time. The event, set to take place in the U.S. on May 21, will culminate in a three-hour live TV benefit on NBC.
Walgreens is the exclusive retailer for Red Nose Day, which means supporters can only buy the campaign's signature red noses at Walgreens-owned stores, including Duane Reade. The noses are $1 each and all proceeds go to Red Nose Day charities.
In the two weeks since Walgreens began selling the red noses, it reached more than half of its goal to sell "millions" of red noses, according to Linn Jordan, marketing director of cause marketing at Walgreens. "We have a very generous American public, and they have truly stepped up," she said.
The retailer is also working closely with NBC to promote the event through on-air integrations, including pushes on "The Voice," the "Today" show and "Late Night with Seth Meyers." The efforts promote the TV special and encourage viewers to join the cause by buying a red nose at Walgreens.
NBC is working with Funny or Die on the TV event, which will feature dozens of stars including Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Pharrell Williams, Will Ferrell and Sam Smith.
"The full force of NBC Universal is behind this project," said Dan Lovinger, exec VP for entertainment group advertising sales at NBC. "It's starting to remind me of the momentum that was built around the 'SNL' 40th."
The stars of NBC's 'Today' show
NBC's Matt Lauer is doing a Tour de Red Nose bike challenge from Boston to New York to raise money for the cause and Nick Cannon is hosting a 24-hour dance-a-thon, among other fundraiser efforts from the network's stars.
Other efforts to spread the word, led by Walgreens, include a massive media push with TV ads airing on cable and major broadcast networks from early morning through prime time and late-night, a robust social-media effort encouraging people to buy and share selfies of red noses, partnerships with celebrities including Brooke Burke, Shaquille O'Neal and Eva Mendes, and full-page digital takeovers on Yahoo and People, among other efforts. There's even a pie-throwing challenge.
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The creative, out of GSD&M, is designed to spread the word that Red Nose Day is coming to America and that Walgreens is the only place where you can get the nose.
"It's the power of the nose," said Jay Russell, chief creative officer at GSD&M. "You're not going to not hear about the red nose." The agency also sought to keep the mood light and fun to match the tone of the event and Walgreens' tagline: "The corner of happy and healthy."
Comic Relief approached Walgreens, while it was in talks with NBC, to help bring Red Nose Day to America. "It was one meeting. ... It was such a natural fit for us, we made the decision that day," said Ms. Jordan. "It allows us to play into the happy side of happy and healthy, and have fun with the cause."
For NBC, the cause offered a chance to show that the network stood for something, said Paul Telegdy, president of alternative, late-night programming at NBC Entertainment. "It's just good for the business of good," he said. NBC also hopes the cause-related effort will resonate with millennials, who appreciate brands that care about the same issues they do, he said.
Walgreens' media agency OMD led the partnership with NBC and Weber Shandwick handled Walgreens' public relations push for Red Nose Day.
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Simon Wiesenthal Center
Bishop listed in worst anti-Semitic acts of 2018
A speech by an Anglican Bishop from Massachusetts has been named in the worst global anti-Semitic acts of 2018.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center listed Bishop Gayle Harris at number eight claiming she fabricated Israeli atrocities.
It said: "During a speech in Massachusetts last July, Bishop Gayle Harris reported that she witnessed an Israeli soldier arrest a three-year-old Arab child on the Jerusalem Temple Mount and gun down a 15-year-old Palestinian teen in the back.
"After the Simon Wiesenthal Center exposed the claims as fabrications, Harris, the #2 Episcopal clergy in the state, backtracked, saying that she had only heard the stories from a third party (a Palestinian). 'The fault is solely mine,' Harris said. 'I was ill-advised to repeat the stories without verification'."
The human rights organisation claimed the fabrications "generated widespread outrage in the Jewish community".
The massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue which killed 11 worshippers was number one on the list while the actions of Jeremy Corbyn in response to anti-Semitism in the Labour Party came in at number four.


The 90 square meter apartment for 6 people is equipped with a living room (upholstered furniture, flat-screen TV, radio, dining table, stove), three separate bedrooms (1 x double bed, 2 x 2 single beds), a kitchen (electric stove with oven, Refrigerator with freezer, dishwasher, div. Kitchen appliances), shower / WC and central heating.
The two apartments of different sizes are located completely separate on the ground floor of a holiday house on the farmyard of the local farmer. An area of approx. 1000 sqm has been defined for holiday guests. The apartments were modernized in 2016 and furnished to a high standard. Outside there is a furnished terrace, sunbathing area, barbecue, bicycle storage and parking. There is also free Wi-Fi. For infants, a cot and high chair can be provided.
The total price includes bed linen, towels, water and energy consumption as well as final cleaning. Pets: Pets are allowed on request (5 EUR / pers.). The pets must be registered with the booking. If an entry note is not possible, a late registration must be made.
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Roggentin is a part of the resort Mirow (12 km) on the edge of the Müritz National Park. The environment is very rural. Wide fields, meadows, forests and horse-pairs dominate the landscape. In about 5 km there are several bathing lakes. Peaceful nature lovers will find perfect conditions here. Mirow is a small town in the middle of the Mecklenburg Lake District between Neustrelitz (about 25 km away) and the health resort Waren / Müritz (about 45 km away). The biggest attraction of the city is the castle island with the castle Mirow reopened only in June 2014 after many years of restoration. The castle is the backdrop for events. There are also guided tours or markets. The city is situated on the Müritz-Havel-Wasserstraße and the lake Mirower in the village is connected to the Müritz via several waters, which is why Mirow is a favorite place for water sportsmen and hikers. Also worth seeing are the Johanniterkirche and the idyllic Liebesinsel. In town there are several restaurants, shopping and cafes, boat and bicycle rental.


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Mario Draghi defies Germany with launch of 'fully effective backstop' for euro
Mario Draghi has defied German opposition and launched an "unlimited" bond buying programme by the European Central Bank (ECB) that he said would provide a "fully effective backstop" to the stricken eurozone economies.
By Louise Armitstead 06 September 2012 • 3:41pm
Mario Draghi confirmed that the new programme would be unlimited in the amount of bonds it could buy and would have conditions attached.
The president of the ECB said the decision to unleash the new action, which will be called Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT), had not been unanimous.
He refused to confirm that the "one dissenter" on the ECB's Governing Council was Jens Weidmann, head of the Bundesbank, but repeatedly told reporters that both he and the bank were "independent". "I am who I am," he said.
Shortly after the ECB announcement, Philipp Roesler, Germany's economic minister, said: "It is all the more important to attach conditions to the current temporary bond purchases and to lay out as quickly as possible the exact nature of these conditions for individual countries."
Mr Draghi confirmed that the new programme would be unlimited in the amount of bonds it could buy; the ECB would renounce its seniority and be on a par with other creditors; and the bond buying would be sterilized.
He said OMTs were necessary to combat the debt crisis which he said looked set to continue to drag on the eurozone economy.
"OMTs will enable us to address severe distortions in government bond markets which originate from, in particular, unfounded fears on the part of investors of the reversibility of the euro," he said. "We will have a fully effective backstop to avoid destructive scenarios with potentially severe challenges for price stability in the euro area."
He insisted that the ECB was not acting outside its mandate, as Germany has argued, because the ECB would be buying bonds in the market, not funding national treasuries directly.
"We are sure we are acting within our mandate," he said. "Action in the primary market would be a violation, not secondary market."
Mr Draghi also devoted much of the press conference to emphasizing the "conditionality" that would be attached to OMTs. The ECB would only buy sovereign bonds of countries that had secured a bail-out agreement with Brussels - that would crucially come with conditions of economic reforms.
Mr Draghi said that ECB intervention without action from national governmentss "would not be effective... we need both legs" for OMTs to work, he said.
As a result he admitted OMTs relied on the first move by individual members to seek help - in particular Spain, which has resisted help because of the tough conditions. "Now it's in the hands of Spain, in the hands of the governments of the euro area."
Stockmarkets and the euro climbed as traders welcomed the plan.
Ranvir Singh, CEO of the market analysts RANsquawk, said: "To fly in the face of Germany's wishes will not have been easy. For the Bundesbank, keeping inflation in check is an article of faith. Its president has made no secret of the fact that he regards the ECB plan to buy the debt of the Eurozone's weaker members as the road to perdition. But Mr Draghi had left himself little option. Having earlier promised to do "whatever it takes" to save the Euro, the markets had expected nothing less than a definitive rescue plan."
Glenn Uniacke, senior dealer at Moneycorp, said: "There was little surprise in today's speech by Mario Draghi, this was underwhelming and money supply neutral. In revealing the bond-buying programme, Draghi has introduced a safe guard to cut the borrowing costs of debt-burdened eurozone members, but this is only a short-term patch to the enduring crisis."
The euro dipped but stock markets hit a five-month high, boosted by the ECB's new body-buying programme and strong US private-sector jobs growth.
The FTSE 100 rose 2pc, Germany's DAX 2.7pc, France's CAC 2.7pc, Italy's MIB 3.8pc and Spain;s Ibex 4.4pc in late afternoon trading. In the US, the Dow Jones was up 1.7pc.
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