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Labour pledges to support agriculture in Brexit trade negotiations
By	Alistair Driver on	 May 16, 2017 News, Politics
A Labour Government would ensure British farmers were not disadvantaged in Brexit trade negotiations, according to the Party's election manifesto, which was formally unveiled today.
Following the leak of the draft version last week, the real thing, unveiled by leader Jeremy Corbyn this morning, included a section offering strong support for farming as new post-Brexit trade deals are pieced together.
It stressed that, in contrast to the Conservatives' approach, Labour would adopt 'fresh negotiating priorities that
have a strong emphasis on retaining the benefits of the Single Market and the Customs Union – which
are essential for maintaining industries, jobs and businesses in Britain'.
The manifesto said: "The EU is the UK's single largest trading partner in agricultural produce, with the vast majority of British exports being sold to European markets. A Labour government will end the uncertainty for our farmers and food producers by securing continued EU market access allowing British farmers and food producers to continue to sell their products on the Continent.
"Labour will also protect our farmers and rural economy by ensuring Britain continues to set the highest standards in food quality and welfare. We will not allow Brexit to be used as an excuse to undercut our farmers and flood Britain's food chain with cheap and inferior produce."
The manifesto confirmed that free movement of people would end once we leave the EU but pledged to implement 'fair immigration rules'.
It said: "We will allow EU workers employed across farming, fishing and food manufacturing to remain in the UK,
and reinstate the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme."
The manifesto also pledged to drop the Conservatives' Great Repeal Bill, replacing it with an EU Rights and Protections Bill that it suggested would at least maintain the key environmental protections in place at EU level.
It said: "Throughout the Brexit process, we will make sure that all EU-derived laws that are of benefit, including
workplace laws, consumer rights and environmental protections – are fully protected without Tualifications,
limitations or sunset clauses.
Farming and environment pledges
Elsewhere, the manifesto includes most of the provisions affecting farmers already reported on following last week's leak, including scrapping the badger cull, banning neonicotinoids and bringing back the Agricultural Wages Board.
The document claimed: "Only a Labour government will prioritise a sustainable, long-term future for our farming, fishing and food industries, fund robust flood resilience, invest in rural and coastal communities, and guarantee the protection and advancement of environmental quality standards.
"The Conservatives' threatened 'bonfire of red tape' is a threat to our environmental protections and
to the quality of our lives."
It added: "Labour's vision is for the UK to lead the world with high animal welfare standards in the wild, in farming and for domestic animals."
Key pledges include:
We will expand the role of the Groceries Code Adjudicator to ensure suppliers and consumers
get a fair deal
We will reconfigure funds for farming and fishing to support smaller traders, local economies, community benefits and sustainable practices
We will reinstate the Agricultural Wages Board to underpin employment standards and wages
We will protect our bees by prohibiting neonicotinoids as soon as our EU relationship allows us to do so.
We will work with farmers and foresters to plant a million trees of native species to promote biodiversity and better flood management
Unlike the Conservatives who attempted to privatise our forests, Labour will keep them in public hands.
We will establish a science innovation fund, working with farmers and fisheries, that will include support for our small scale fishing fleet
Labour will increase the maximum sentence for those convicted of committing animal cruelty.
We will promote cruelty-free animal husbandry and consult on ways to ensure better enforcement of agreed standards
We will cease the badger cull, which spreads bovine TB
Only a Labour government will maintain the bans on deer hunting and hare coursing.
Overall, Labour has unveiled pledges costing £48.6bn, including billions for schools and the NHS, which it said would be funded from extra tax revenue – in its election manifesto, including Income tax increases to 45p for people earning over £80,000, and 50p for those on more than £123,000.
Other headline policies includes the nationalisation of England's 10 water companies and scrapping university tuition fees.
Mr Corbyn said the manifesto was a 'programme of hope' and that all the pledges were costed. The Conservatives said the sums 'don't add up'.


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Argentina's Rising Grains Production Strands Vessels in River Traffic
Ships used to carry grains for export are seen next to a dredging boat (L) on the Parana river near Rosario, Argentina, January 31, 2017. Picture taken January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci
By Hugh Bronstein
ROSARIO, Argentina, Feb 16 (Reuters) – When a boat carrying soy oil destined for India ran aground on the Parana River near Buenos Aires in late January, ships loaded with most of Argentina's grains exports were blocked for hours.
It was the latest accident on one of the world's great food highways, which is straining to carry rising volumes of Argentine agricultural products embarking on the first leg of the journey from the fields of the Pampas to the feeding troughs of cattle, pigs and chickens worldwide.
Increasing congestion on the Parana, which carries 80 percent of Argentina's grains exports, could hamper President Mauricio Macri's efforts to expand farm output and pull the country out of recession.
Macri wants Argentina to grow 25 percent more grains to boost rural income and has cut export taxes to attract more investment in the sector. But to haul all that grain to market, Macri needs the log jams on the river to end.
The government is studying how to accommodate the growing flotilla plying the waterway without driving up shipping costs – which could cancel out the benefits of the export tax cut to farmers and agricultural businesses.
"The entire river system is at its current limit," said Koen Robijns, Argentine operations manager for Jan De Nul, the privately-owned, Luxemburg-based company that operates the Parana and is responsible for dredging.
The grounding in January made commerce grind to a halt, Robijns said in an interview aboard one of the company's dredging vessels near Argentina's main grains hub of Rosario, some 300 kilometers northwest of Buenos Aires.
"Every ship behind it, all the way up to Rosario, had to stop or slow down for more than an hour," he said.
Efforts to develop the waterway to carry more of Argentina's burgeoning exports, however, could be delayed by negotiations between the channel's operator and the traders that ship grain along it.
Jan De Nul favors dredging the channel deeper. The firm declined to provide an estimate on how much that would cost, but the shippers say the bill would be billions of dollars. That would likely mean an increase in the toll, currently $3 per net tonne, which the shippers would pass on by paying the farmers less for their grains.
The world's largest bulk grains traders Bunge, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus Company and ADM – who together ship much of the grain exported via the Parana – would prefer the less expensive option of widening the river at trouble spots, said two industry groups representing the shippers and traders using the waterway.
The industry groups declined to give an estimate on how much cheaper it would be to widen rather than deepen the river.
"Rather than dredging deeper, we need wider curves in places where vessels have run aground," said Guillermo Wade, a spokesman for the Rosario-based maritime chamber.
Macri's government says it aims to cut the cost of exporting grains by 30 percent, including lowering tolls on waterways. But the government has not said yet which option it favors, and is unlikely to do so until a report on the project is completed.
Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus declined to comment. ADM, in a statement, said it "supports the expansion of the Parana River and Paraguay-Parana waterway to meet the growth needs of the entire region."
The company did not specify how the river should be expanded.
Argentina is the world's top exporter of soymeal feed for animals, key to global meat production and meeting the protein needs of a global population growing toward 9 billion. The South American country is also the world's third-largest supplier of corn and soybeans and the seventh largest supplier of wheat.
Macri's government expects farm output of 130 million tonnes this season, up from 123 million before he took office. Macri is targeting 150 million tonnes by the end of his first term in late 2019.
Groundings are becoming more common as exporters, under pressure to haul as much grain as possible, often overload vessels. There were 15 groundings on the waterway last year, up from 12 in 2015 and nine the previous year, according to port data.
The January accident took place in the Mitre section of the Parana, just north of the capital city Buenos Aires.
The same vessel, the Theresa Success, ran aground near Rosario several days earlier. That time, it took longer for tug boats to pry the vessel loose, but traffic was able to move around the blockage as the river was wider there.
Baltzer, the vessel's Rosario-based shipping agency, declined to comment on the groundings.
Other incidents have seen ships stuck for days while floating cranes arrive to unload cargo until vessels are light enough to float.
TOLLS AND TOP OFFS
Jan De Nul has had the Parana concession since 1995. The contract ends in 2021, and the company wants to renew it.
The toll it charges for plying the waterway is negotiated by Jan De Nul, the port terminal owners and the government.
The Parana's shipping canal is maintained at 34 feet from the ocean to the port of San Martin, 35 kilometers north of Rosario, said Pieter Jan De Nul, an area manager for the company and son of its owner.
The firm could easily dredge to 36 feet, he said.
The additional two feet of depth would allow larger vessels carrying several thousand tonnes more cargo to load in Rosario before heading out to sea, he said. Larger cargoes would reduce shipping costs.
Currently, traders have to load part of their cargo in Rosario and then stop to add more in deep-water Atlantic ports before heading into international waters. That means additional port and loading costs, as well as longer shipping times.
The privately-owned Rosario Grains Exchange favors deepening, because larger ships could load and therefore fewer vessels would be needed to carry the rising volume of grains.
"Everyone wins with the deepening of the Parana River," analysts for the exchange said in a report.
Deputy Transport Secretary Jorge Metz said the service on the river needs to improve, as delays can cost shippers $40,000 to $50,000 a day, a cost that is eventually passed on to farmers.
Decades of underinvestment in roads and rail have made transportation one of the biggest costs faced by growers, said Martin Fraguio, executive director of the Maizar corn industry chamber.
"Argentina has the possibility of increasing its farm production enormously," he said. "We need the Parana to be as competitive as possible, as soon as possible." (Additional reporting by Caroline Stauffer; editing by Simon Webb and Brian Thevenot)

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No. 16 Marian hands cold-shooting No. 14 Mercy its first loss, holding off second-half rally to even up CHSL Central race
By: MATTHEW B. MOWERY, January 28, 2020, 9:27 pm
BLOOMFIELD HILLS — The only way that Farmington Hills Mercy could've had a worse first half was if frogs had begun raining down on the court, or somehow a plague of locusts was unleashed in their locker room.
No. 14-ranked Mercy hit the first shot of Tuesday's first-place showdown against its rival, No. 16 Birmingham Marian, but went 0-for-26 the rest of the first half, and eventually fell behind by 21 midway through the third.
The Marlins, for all their offensive struggles, held Marian without a field goal for the final 11:30 of the game, outscoring the Mustangs 22-6 to end the game, cutting it to a two-possession game before Marian could close it out, winning 36-29.
"That first half was — like I told the kids afterwards, shooting can sometimes be contagious; contagious in a good way, or contagious in a bad way. It wasn't just like one person missing (shots), it was everybody, right? We scored the first basket of the game, and then don't score again in the half — and (were) not even good at the line. Had we been good at the line in that first half … we could've been down maybe seven or eight, and considering how badly we played …" Mercy coach Gary Morris said.
"You figure, with the law of averages, after a while, if you throw enough of them up, more than one's going to go in. Early on, I thought we forced some, but then I thought we went through a stretch where we were getting pretty good looks, but just could not hit a shot."
The first loss of the season for Mercy (11-1, 6-1 CHSL Central), it evened up the league race, giving the Mustangs (10-2, 6-1) revenge for the first meeting, when Mercy won 46-34 at home.
"Obviously they're down. This is a big rivalry, and it's disappointing to not play better. I think that's a part of it. You'd like to play better. Kudos to (the Mustangs), but we're a better team than we showed in that first half, so I think that's disappointing," Morris said. "We get right back at it (Wednesday), because we've gotta go to Divine Child on Friday. We knew this would be a tough week, because two teams we beat the first time around, we'd have to go to their place, and they'd be seeking revenge."
Playing without sniper Shannon Kennedy, the Mustangs relied on their bigs inside, and they responded: Sarah Sylvester led all scorers with 16 points, adding 12 rebounds, while Lauren Licari had nine points and 15 boards.
Kennedy hurt her ankle in last Friday's loss to Detroit Edison, and is expected to miss several weeks. She was on crutches and in a boot on the bench for Tuesday's contest.
"She says two to four weeks, but I think it'll be a little longer than that. It's a pretty good sprain," Marian coach Mary Cicerone said. "They (the bigs) did a good job, but we still gave up some offensive boards, missed some pretty easy putbacks. There's room for improvement — that's the good point — we can still get better.
"I thought the other kids stepped up — all five of them."
The Mustangs led 10-2 after a quarter, and 19-5 at the half. That lead grew to 21 points at 30-9 when Sylvester hit a layup with 3:30 left in the third, and the rout appeared to be on. But Sylvester would pick up her third foul 90 seconds later, then come back int the final minute of the third, only to pick up her fourth.
Alexis Butler hit a 3-pointer to start a run of three straight triples for the Marlins — Julia Bishop hit another, then Alexis Roberts beat the buzzer with the third — to end the third quarter on a 10-0 run, cutting the deficit to 30-19.
"I was mad at them, because we do this. We're up by 20 against Divine Child, we fall apart in the fourth quarter. It's like we stop playing. We're over at Gabriel Richard, and we're up by 19, and we fall apart in the fourth quarter. We're up by 20 (tonight) and we fall apart in the fourth quarter. Now, they hit some big shots, but we didn't close out. Game over? No, game's not over. Mercy's not going to give up," Cicerone said. "That's why I was disappointed for them. We played a great game, and then it looked yucky at the end. And I don't like that. I wanted for them to finish out a good game against a good team, and we didn't. … I'm just disappointed that we didn't finish the game out. We could've taken over the division — all we had to do was beat them by 13, and we were up by 20."
Ellie Tisko's layup with 2:31 left in the fourth brought the deficit under 10, at 33-24, then got it down to eight, 35-27, on two Bishop free throws with 46.6 left. Bishop got a layup off a steal with 26.4 left to make it 35-29, but Mercy wouldn't score again, as Marian got one of two free throws from Grace Rotter with 10.4 seconds left, and ran the remaining time off the clock.
"We just said (at the half), 'Guys, we cannot shoot like we just shot. We're going to shoot better. Keep defending, and we'll just try to chop away at their lead. We really didn't chop away at the lead for most of the third, until late," Morris said. "We got down by 20 and I thought our kids competed hard. That's a big hill to climb against a quality team. … But then we had that stretch in the fourth, when we were in striking distance, and we missed three straight one-and-ones. You make even three of those, that helps a little bit."
The Marlins were 10 for 23 from the free-throw line in the game.
Bishop led Mercy with 11 points and 11 rebounds, while Roberts had eight points.
Despite all the fouls Marian racked up in the second half, the free-throw disparity wasn't as keen as it was in the first meeting, one of the major differences that changed the outcome.
The Mustangs were 10 for 17 from the line.
"We just played poorly over there. Mercy played very well. They got after it, they got rebounds, they got to the basket. We did a better job of keeping them out of the paint — we didn't do that very well the first game — and we didn't shoot the ball very well the first game," Cicerone said. "We gave up 35 free throws last time, something like that, and it was mainly because we didn't keep them off the boards, and we fouled."
Marian resumes Central Division play Friday, hosting Macomb Lutheran North.
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Applause! Applause! Review of The Jackie Mason Musical: Both Sides Of A Famous Love Affair at Manes Studio Theatre by Dr. Thomas Robert Stevens
This review of The Jackie Mason Musical: Both Sides Of A Famous Love Affair at Manes Studio Theatre was written by Dr. Thomas Robert Stevens and published in Volume X, Issue 8 (2018) of the online edition of Applause! Applause!
The Jackie Mason Musical: Both Sides Of A Famous Love Affair
Starring Sheba Mason
Composer/Playwright/Director: Ginger Reiter
Orchestrator/Arranger: Ike Reeves
Manes Studio Theatre
141 South Wellwood Avenue
Lindenhurst, New York 11757
Reviewed 6/24/18
The Jackie Mason Musical has played in Off-Broadway Theaters and Comedy Clubs in Manhattan and in Florida over the past few years, and now, it has finally come to Long Island. It does not star Jackie Mason but does star Sheba Mason, his daughter. The musical was written by Ginger Reiter, Sheba's mother, who slept with Jackie over many winter seasons whenever he was playing clubs in South Florida. Jackie Mason was a bit of a rascal back then, lining up women to sleep with, and giving them very little in return. Ginger Reiter held out hope that she was special. Perhaps she was one of his favorite "girlfriends" but he made it clear he had no interest in marriage or having children. Ginger used a diaphragm "most of the time," which eventually led to her having Sheba, who plays her mother in this production. Jackie met his daughter a few times but he had to be sued in order to get him to pay child support. They have been estranged ever since.
This is a very interesting musical I am certain you will enjoy. I highly recommend you see it especially if you have not seen any prior incarnations, which were produced under the name, The Jackie Mason Musical: 702 Punchlines & Pregnant. It tells the true story of Jackie and Ginger's "love affair" from Ginger's perspective but it also incorporates Jackie's viewpoint and is fair and balanced, in my opinion. The songs are catchy and fun to listen to. You probably will want to buy the CD. I am still trying to get a copy of the CD myself and Ginger caught me singing one of the numbers ("The Early Bird Special") even after the curtain call. A few new songs have been added in this version of the show and they have been incorporated seamlessly. Tickets cost $27.00 each and can be purchased by visiting www.StudioTheatreLI.com or by calling 631-226-8400. Get your tickets while they last. The show I attended was very close to being sold out. Ginger and Sheba hang out in the lounge after the show to meet the audience, answer questions, and sign autographs.
This production had a few negatives associated with it. The first was that during Act I, there was a problem with the spotlight. The actors were standing off mark and their faces were not fully illuminated. This was not corrected until Act II. Second, there were some inappropriate anachronistic references in the musical that were thrown in for some cheap laughs. They included a reference to cell phones, The Vagina Monologues, and to Nancy Pelosi. I personally feel the play would have been better off without them. Finally, I want to make it clear that if this is the first time you are seeing the musical, you will probably enjoy David R. Gordon's impersonation of Jackie Mason. Your mind will adjust for his insufficiencies in timing and cadence and you will hear Jackie Mason in your head. However, if you have heard many Jackie Mason impersonators over the decades, you will be forced to conclude that Mr. Gordon falls in the bottom 10% of them. Listening to him was pure torture but then, that is only my opinion. You may disagree. Perhaps I am being hard on him because I saw Ian Wehrle play the part in previous productions. Mr. Wehrle falls in the top ten percent of Jackie Mason impersonators and looks the part as well. I strongly urge Sheba Mason to use her influence to bring Ian back as soon as possible. The show needs him and if he does come back before the run ends on July 8, 2018, I will return a second time just to see him perform the part. I should add that all the remaining actors in this musical exhibited extraordinary talent and superior singing ability.
As of last night, Studio Theatre Long Island changed its name to Manes Studio Theatre due to a generous contribution it received from Dr. Harvey Manes, M.D., an orthopedic surgery specialist whose practice is Wellwood Orthopedics located at 256 North Wellwood Avenue in Lindenhurst. Dr. Manes specializes in sports medicine, pain management, arthritis, and arthroscopic surgery. He is a well-known patron of the arts on Long Island.
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Applause! Applause! Review of The Exonerated at The Secret Theatre by Dr. Thomas Robert Stevens
This review of The Exonerated at The Secret Theatre was written by Dr. Thomas Robert Stevens and published in Volume X, Issue 8 (2018) of the online edition of Applause! Applause!
The Exonerated
Written by Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen
Executive Producer: Richard Mazda
Director: DeMone Seraphin
Assistant Director: Krysta Hibbard
Fight Director/Dramaturg: Meron Langsner
Associate Fight Director/Dramaturg: Cristina Ramos
Stage Manager/Sound Design: Jessica Fornear
Production Manager: Justin Hsu
Lighting Design: Joe Cabrera
Scenic Design: Melissa Anderson
Projections Design: Alexis Achilles
Movement Coordinator: Tamrin Goldberg
The Secret Theatre
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Long Island City, New York 11101
The Exonerated opened Off-Broadway on October 10, 2002 at 45 Bleecker Theatre and ran there through March 7, 2004. It was written by Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen based on interviews they conducted with 40 former death row inmates who had been freed by the state after having served as much as 22 years in prison. The original production, which ran for 608 performances, won the 2003 Lucille Lortel Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, the 2003 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, and the 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. It has also won the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Champion of Justice Award and Court TV's Scales of Justice Award. The work combines first-person narrative and dramatic recreations to tell the stories of six wrongfully convicted inmates and the impact that had on their lives and the people who loved them. Those featured include Delbert Tibbs (James S. Washington), Kerry Max Cook (Tommy Norton), Gary Gauger (Mark A. Keeton), David Keaton (Greg K. Warren), Robert Earl Hayes (Alphonso Walker, Jr.), and Sunny Jacobs (Laura Lockwood). Also in the cast are Chelsea Davis, Ruby Littman, Tyler Waage, and Sean Jarrell.
This is an emotionally riveting play with an extraordinarily talented cast. In turn, we hear the stories of six wrongfully convicted individuals. One gave a coerced confession while another provided a "vision statement" that was used as a confession. There is a woman who was in a car with a man who shot two police officers and a young man, who worked as a bartender in a gay bar, who was railroaded with little evidence and charged with murdering a young woman he once slept with. There is no doubt that a lack of knowledge regarding one's rights combined with aggressive police tactics have led to false confessions. It is also true that circumstantial evidence has led to the wrongful conviction of many innocent people. The tragedy of a wrongly convicted individual is something every person of good faith wishes could be avoided. However, as long as juries continue to convict people based on eyewitness testimony and circumstantial evidence, mistakes will happen. There is a delicate balance between trying to avoid incarcerating innocent people and allowing guilty individuals to walk free. It is also true, as related in this play, that the cost of being wrongfully convicted is extremely high, not only for the inmate but also for those who love the man or woman incarcerated. This play shows how a wrongful conviction can not only destroy the life of the person convicted but also of that person's family and friends.
The play is very dramatic and moving. We are warned that if something like a wrongful conviction can happen to some of the characters in this play, it can happen to you as well. The reality of being in prison is also explicitly shown. For example, three men "pulled a train" on a young man in prison and the rape scene was vividly depicted. That straight man, who was widely thought to be gay, once aspired to be "all that plus a bag of potato chips." He is now horribly humbled and will never be able to reclaim his innocence. The Exonerated has a substantive book that follows the characters from the time of their arrest, through their conviction and time in prison, to their exoneration and adjustment to life after their release. I discovered only two errors in the book. One was when a Judge was ruling on an Objection and on an Application made by defense counsel. Objections are "sustained" or "overruled." Applications are "granted" or "denied." This play has universal appeal, no matter what one's political ideology may be. For that reason, I thought it unnecessary to have a character, who played an attorney say, "I was conservative and also very stupid." Perhaps it would've been better for her to say, "I was naive and also very stupid" because any intelligent conservative would be aware of the injustices that currently exist in our criminal justice system. The problem that remains is how we can reform it to make it more just for all who are caught up in it and the answer can't just be to let criminals walk free or to not arrest them in the first place. That only results in worse consequences down the line.
James S. Washington was brilliant as the poet Delbert Tibbs. He really held this production together and his poetry moved me. An example was the line, "It's not easy to be a poet here, yet I sing." The ever optimistic Sunny Jacobs, refusing to be a victim, stated, "If you rub two sticks together and keep crying on them, you are never going to make a spark." The Exonerated runs through June 9, 2018. Tickets cost $18.00 ($15.00 for students) in advance and can be purchased at www.SecretTheatre.com or by calling 718-392-0722. Tickets are $20.00 each if purchased at the door. I highly recommend you see this play!
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Q: How do I compile a Window API program using cl? I am trying to compile a simple C Windows API program using the Windows SDK Command Prompt.
Here an excerpt from the program:
#include <Windows.h>
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{

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When I compile it using
cl test.c

in the Windows SDK Command Promt, it gives me a lot of linker errors like these:
test.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_CreateWindowExA referenced in function WinMain
test.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_RegisterClassA referenced in function WinMain

A: There are at least two problems.

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*The linker is telling you that there is an "unresolved external symbol". That means it can't find a definition for the function(s) that you tried to call. In this case, there are two such undefined functions: CreateWindowExA and RegisterClassA.
Obviously the definition for those functions is not to be found in your code, but rather in the Windows API libraries, so you'll need to inform the linker of where it can find those definitions.
The SDK comes with stubs (*.lib) files, which contain information used by the linker so that it can find the proper function definitions in the Windows DLLs at runtime. You need to instruct the linker where it can find those *.lib files.
There are a couple of different strategies for doing so:

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*The simple (albeit non-portable) way is to insert a #pragma statement into your source file that instructs the compiler to leave a comment recognized by the linker. For example,
#pragma comment(lib, "user32")

automatically links to user32.lib, which is the stub file for user32.dll.

*Alternatively, you can pass the parameters on the command line to cl.exe. This gets awfully complicated in a hurry, though, if you're not using MSBuild or some kind of make file. In this case, you would need to modify your command line to (at minimum):
cl test.c user32.lib

Both of these options naturally assumes that your Windows SDK directory was added to the path. I'm pretty sure the installer does that for you automatically, but I'm not positive. If it doesn't, or you've removed these files from your path, you'll need to use fully-qualified paths to the *.lib files on the command line.
Reading the documentation for the possible compiler options is a good place to start. Or better yet, if you're unfamiliar with Windows programming, using an environment like Visual Studio that puts all of this stuff together for you automatically. Once you understand what's going on, look to see what the command line that Visual Studio runs is, and dissect it bit-by-bit.

*Next problem is that you're compiling without Unicode defined, and because ANSI is the default, all of the macros inside the Windows header files are resolving to call the A suffixed versions of all the SDK functions. This is probably not what you want. Windows has been fully Unicode now for over a decade, and all new applications should be built as Unicode. The Unicode versions have a W suffix appended to their name.
Again, you can instruct the compiler to build with Unicode explicitly by either adding lines to your source file, or adding parameters to your command line.
In this case, the simplest way is probably just to add
 #define UNICODE

to the top of your source file before #include <windows.h>. Just as we saw above, from the Visual Studio environment, UNICODE is automatically defined for you unless you explicitly change your project settings to target something else.

A: Those functions live in user32.lib.  You need to supply that to the cl tool.
cl test.c ""C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib\user32.lib"
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.307
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

test.c
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 9.00.30729.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

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test.obj
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib\user32.lib"

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Damian Lillard says him waving goodbye to the Thunder after his buzzer-beater was in response to OKC's celebrations after Game 3 win.


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by Roger Friedman - January 19, 2016 10:45 pm
Pop, pop muzik: The Eagles now have three albums in the iTunes top five, as fans celebrate the memory of Glenn Frey. David Bowie has two. That doesn't leave much room for living acts, like Adele, Chris Stapleton, Panic at the Disco, etc. Death sells. Imagine that the Grammys will have lots of tributes this year…
The Grammys: are going live. They were always live on the East Coast, but now they will be shown coast-t0-coast at the same time. This makes so much more sense. Why delay the inevitable? Taylor Swift wins everything! But the show will be very entertaining. The show airs MONDAY February 15th at 8pm on CBS.
Madonna was three hours late getting onstage in Louisville, Kentucky. Then she was two and a half hours late in Nashville, which peeved Reba McEntire, who was in the audience! Maybe Madge should start the make up earlier in the day, or just sleep with it on. Seriously, who waits three hours?
So many In Memoriams for the Grammys this year. I hope Clarence Reid is highlighted. The R&B star was also known as "Blowfly," an alter ego that let Reid express his, uh, earthier side. Blowfly was dirt-ay.
Among the many hits Reid wrote in the mainstream were Betty Wright's "Clean Up Woman" and Gwen McCrae's "Rockin' Chair." But his Blowfly character, a cult figure, was cutting edge as a rapper as far as back as 1971. You can look him up on YouTube.
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Director/choreographer Michael Bennett had long wanted to do a show that put the spotlight on that class of performers known as "gypsies," not the stars, but the unknown dancers, the faceless artists that persevere in the chorus, suffering through the endless auditions and almost constant rejection that comes with a life in the Theatre. So in 1974, he rented a studio and invited 24 dancers to talk about their personal and professional lives. These sessions were recorded, written down, and eventually pieced into a libretto by playwright/novelist James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, one of Bennett's dancers. Academy-award winner Marvin Hamlisch was brought in to compose the music, and Edward Kleban wrote the lyrics. Bennett even brought in playwright Neil Simon who–although uncredited–added several of the great one-liners in the play. A Chorus Line would revolutionize the way audiences view musical theatre. It broke away from the rigid story line of traditional musicals, instead weaving together the stories of the ensemble cast into a seamless whole. It broke new ground technically as well, becoming the first show on Broadway to use computers in the control booth. A Chorus Line opened at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre on April 15, 1975. After an initial run of 101 performances, it moved to the Shubert Theatre where it would remain for almost fifteen years, breaking box office records and winning almost every possible award including 9 Tony Awards, 5 Drama Desk Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, the London Evening Standard Award, a special citation Obie Award, and even a Gold Record Award from Columbia Records. The show finally closed on April 28, 1990, after 6,137 performances. It has been produced in over twenty countries and continues to be popular around the world. The 1985 film version features Michael Douglas.
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José María Morelos - gmina w środkowo-zachodniej części meksykańskiego stanu Quintana Roo, położona w połowie półwyspu Jukatan, w połowie odległości od wybrzeża Morza Karaibskiego i Zatoki Meksykańskiej. Jest jedną z 10 gmin w tym stanie. Siedzibą władz gminy jest miasto José María Morelos. Nazwa gminy została nadana na cześć księdza, XIX wiecznego przywódcy niepodległościowego Meksyku José María Morelos y Pavón.

Ludność gminy Benito Juárez w 2005 roku liczyła 32 746 mieszkańców, co czyni ją jedną z najmniej liczebnych gmin w stanie Quintana Roo.

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HomeShopBooks & CollectionsInside the World of Sports Series (13 Titles)
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Home / Books & Collections / Grades 6-9 Books / Inside the World of Sports Series (13 Titles)
Inside the World of Sports gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the development and progression of 13 major sports. Take a look back in history at the origins and evolution of these sports, read about the modern day stars, the up-and-coming athletes, and predictions for future changes to each sport. Engulf yourself into the discussion of how fans truly gauge greatness as authors compare some of the sport's top athletes from its inception to today. Unique to this Mason Crest series is a new editorial addition for today's tech savvy teen. Not only can you read about the greatest moments of all time at the beginning of each volume, but every book includes QR codes which, once scanned with a smart phone, allow readers to view videos of these iconic moments. From yesterday… to today… to tomorrow… jump Inside the World of Sports!
Categories: Books & Collections, Sports, Grades 6-9 Books, Grades 9-12 Books, Informational Texts
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From the time cars were invented just before the turn of the 20th century, men have loved driving fast in them. It was almost a compulsion of pioneers like Emile Levassor and Karl Benz to make their machines go fast. Racing fever began in Europe, with races happening from point to point, city to city, on existing roads. Open-wheel road racing there evolved into the super high tech, big budget sport of Formula One racing. American open-wheel racing matured on oval tracks, most famously the one at the Brickyard in Indianapolis, home to the world's most famous auto race, the Indianapolis 500, the crown jewel of the IndyCar circuit. Racing also took on a distinctly American form, with stock car racing evolving into one of the most popular spectator sports in the country, with NASCAR as its multi-billion dollar brand. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about auto racing's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for racing.
Baseball is known as America's national pastime, but its popularity did not happen overnight. The modern game evolved in the late 1800s in the Midwest, and by the turn of the century, Americans were telling stories about heroic exploits on the baseball diamond. Players from Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth to Andrew McCutchen and Albert Pujols have thrilled fans with dramatic late-inning plays and thrilling World Series winning hits. The constant simplicity of baseball over more than a century is a large part of its appeal. More than 70 million people go to the ballpark every season to watch the game unfold during a leisurely summer afternoon or under the stars on a crisp September evening. Although the game has taken root in places like Japan and Latin America, baseball is still a uniquely American experience. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about baseball's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the game.
No major sport is as uniquely American as basketball. The sport has come a long way since students at a Massachusetts YMCA started throwing balls into peach baskets nailed to the wall. Today, some of the world's most spectacular athletes soar through the air in feats of athleticism on the basketball court. With the advent of the shot clock and the three pointer, the game became more exciting over the years. The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is one of the most popular sporting events in the United States, and the NCAA superstars go on to thrill NBA audiences as professionals. Kids play basketball across the country, from urban playgrounds in New York and L.A. to the gyms of Chicago and dusty farmland courts in Indiana. All that is needed is a ball, a hoop, and a dream. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about basketball's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the game.
Jump off a cliff. Slide down a mountain. Soar 20 feet above a snowy halfpipe. These are just a few of the things extreme sport athletes willingly do every day, things the average person would never consider attempting. With the overwhelming success of sports network ESPN's X Games, the subculture of extreme sports became mainstream, even becoming part of the Olympic Games. American snowboarder Shaun White became not just one of the most popular extreme athletes, but one of the most popular athletes of any kind in the world when he won the gold medal in the halfpipe event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. From Snowboard Big Air to BMX Vert, and Moto X to Ski Slopestyle, extreme sports have changed the language and culture of mainstream athletics. The slacker image is gone…these athletes are the real thing. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about extreme sports' greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the games.
The 1958 NFL Championship game is known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played", and the nationally televised overtime thriller had the country buzzing about NFL football for the first time, launching the sport into the stratosphere. College football had been the version of choice when it came to football but after 1958, however, stars like Jim Brown and Joe Namath took advantage of the sport's newfound exposure to make watching NFL football appointment television every Sunday. Iconic franchises rose to prominence, like the Packers in the 1960s, the Steelers in the 1970s, the 49ers in the 1980s and the Cowboys in the 1990s. Today, NFL football is the most popular sport in America, and its signature championship, the Super Bowl, is the most watched event in the country, and one of the most watched in the world. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about football's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the game.
The game of golf originated, grew and thrived in 18th and 19th century Scotland. Wooden clubs were used to hit wooden balls across the natural dunes and valleys of the Scottish coastline. The game spread across to the United States in the late 1800s. Some of the game's greatest players come from America, from Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods to Patty Berg, Kathy Whitworth, and Nancy Lopez. The rest of the world caught up quickly, however, producing legends like South African Gary Player and Australian Greg Norman on the men's side, and female stars like Sweden's Annika Sörenstam and Australia's Karrie Webb. Today, a new generation of players from Jordan Spieth to Inbee Park is leading the way into the future. Golf faces its challenges in modern day America, as it booms in places like Asia. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about golf's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the game.
Once a discipline for training soldiers for combat, gymnastics has evolved into a sport that emphasizes not only strength but also artistry and grace as well. Modern gymnasts compete with the lofty goal of someday making it to the Summer Olympic Games, where gymnastics are one of the most popular events. Athletes from countries like Russia, Romania and Japan dominated the sport through most of the 20th century, with stars like Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci, Vitaly Scherbo and Kōhei Uchimura. American stars have emerged more recently, following the triumph of Mary Lou Retton at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Since, athletes like Paul Hamm, Shannon Miller, Carly Patterson and Gabby Douglas have followed in her footsteps. Fans continue to be drawn to the incredible strength, agility and grace of these athletes. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about gymnastics' greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the sport.
Ice hockey is Canada's game. The modern version was crafted in Montréal, and it spread across the country on frozen ponds and lakes. Most of the game's greatest players are Canadians, but even in the early days of the sports, the American influence was felt. Hobey Baker was the first great American player. He was captain of the Princeton hockey team and led his amateur team to a national championship. Baker never played the pro game, however, choosing to serve his country in World War I instead. NHL players compete for the Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. Today, 23 of the NHL's 30 teams are U.S. based, and American stars like Zach Parise and international stars like Henrik Lundqvist share the spotlight with stars from Canada like Sidney Crosby. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about ice hockey's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the game.
An ancient sport of an ancient people, lacrosse has been played in North America for centuries. Part of the ritual of their lives and cultures, lacrosse was a sport practiced more so than played by the native people of eastern Canada and the North Eastern United States. European settlers were fascinated by the game, and over the centuries, it evolved to the sport with modern rules and modern equipment that is played in high schools and colleges across North America today. Lacrosse is played predominantly in the colleges of the northeast, but this is changing as its popularity grows and the game spreads. The University of Denver Pioneers was the first team outside of the Eastern Time zone to win the men's Division I championship in 2015. Lacrosse is also a popular women's sport, with more than 100 sanctioned Division I programs. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about lacrosse's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the game.
Around the world, soccer is known as "the beautiful game." It is the biggest and most popular sport on the planet, and its signature event, the World Cup, is the most watched televised event, even more than the Olympics or the Super Bowl. The sport can be found almost everywhere in the world. From children on the playgrounds of modern cities to those in the remote fields of developing countries, the love of the simple act of kicking the ball back and forth has spanned generations. As a professional sport, soccer has exploded in Europe and South America, where the top athletes are among the highest paid in the world. In the U.S., soccer is much less popular, but Major League Soccer has become America's first successful professional league, where homegrown stars have the chance to shine. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about soccer's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the game.
A game with ancient origins, the modern sport of tennis flourished in late 19th century England. The success of the first tournament at Wimbledon's All England Croquet Club quickly led to the beginning of the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club. Tennis is now one of the world's most popular sports. Tennis is played on six continents, and today, more than 40 countries are represented among the top 100 players on the men's and women's tours. The game's greatest players include Australia's Evonne Goolagong and Rod Laver, Argentina's Guillermo Vilas and Gabriella Sabatini, Switzerland's Roger Federer and Martina Hingis, and Americans Serena Williams and Pete Sampras. With the success of Chinese Grand Slam winner Li Na, some of the next generation's great players may be honing their skills on the courts of that country. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about tennis' greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the game.
World's Fastest Human. That is the title bestowed on the man with the best time in the 100 meter dash. This event is the centerpiece of track and field, the collective name for events that are based on running, jumping and throwing. Who is the fastest? Who can jump the highest? Who can throw the farthest? These are the questions men have been challenging each other to answer for centuries. The World's Fastest Human was Jamaica's Usain Bolt in 2015, but for nearly 100 years, women have taken up the challenge as well. Female stars like Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Yelena Isinbayeva have inspired little girls to dream of running faster and jumping higher over the decades. Those girls have grown into the stars of today, like Alyson Felix, Genzebe Dibaba and Barbora Špotáková. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about track and field's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the sport.
The sport of wrestling is quite possibly the oldest athletic pursuit of humankind. It has been depicted or described in one form or another for thousands of years and was especially celebrated by the ancient Greeks at the original Olympiads. In modern times, wrestling has been a part of every Olympic Games since they were revived in 1896. The sport developed two distinct styles: Greco-Roman and Freestyle, both of which are featured prominently on the international stage. In the United States, the sport took on a slightly different style, and high school and college athletes pursue that Folkstyle variation across the country. These athletes are not only boys anymore. Girl's wrestling has grown in popularity in recent years, with more than 11,000 female athletes competing at the high school level. Women now also compete at the World championships and the Olympics. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about wrestling's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the sport.
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Grade Range: 7th-12th
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Q: DynamoDB C# cannot convert string to integer error I created a DynamoDb using NET and able to getitem, which is not an empty list. I get a status 400 error on the putitem using Postman. This is the error:
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This is the body I use for the post:
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This is my createtable code:
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public async Task AddNewEntry(string id, string replyDateTime, string body, string title, string creator)
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            await PutItemAsync(queryRequest);
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I believe I made the primary key a string. Why is an integer even mentioned in the error message?

A: I found my error. The model file was defining id as an integer. Grrr
I changed it to string and it posts.
public class Item
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        public string Id { get; set; }

        [Amazon.DynamoDBv2.DataModel.DynamoDBRangeKey]
        public string ReplyDateTime { get; set; }
        public string Body { get; set; }

        public string Title { get; set; }

        public string Creator { get; set; }
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Dec 3, 2010 4:00am PT
Dennis Dugan: A quiet hitmaker
Billion-dollar director calls himself 'comic enabler'
By Steve Heisler
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In 1971, actor Dennis Dugan invited filmmaker Roger Corman to his off-Broadway performance of "The House Of Blue Leaves." Surprisingly, Corman came, and the ensuing talks inspired Dugan to shift from acting to directing.
Cut to 40 years later, when Dugan and Corman are dining as peers the night Dugan learns that his films, including the recent "Grown Ups," have surpassed the billion-dollar earning mark.
Yet few moviegoers talk about seeing a "Dennis Dugan film" the way they'd name-check, say, Judd Apatow. Nevertheless Dugan has established quite a quiet career as a trusted collaborator with Happy Madison Prods., and a man capable of unleashing the funny potential of today's biggest box office draws.
"Dennis understands Adam Sandler and he understands comedy," says Columbia Pictures senior VP Sam Dickerman, who has worked with Dugan on several movies. "Dennis has the great ability to work with the other people, too. He has a remarkable talent to tee up the situation and allow the performers to perform and, in doing so, get the results he needs to make the movie work."
Take "Grown Ups," the ensemble film that grossed $162 million domestically with an additional $108 million overseas. Dugan found himself wrangling a cast consisting of Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider. Rather than over-direct the comics, Dugan set out five folding chairs in front of a cabin, sat the actors down and had them riff for two 45-minute takes, steering the conversation only when necessary.
"I try to make the atmosphere chaotic and professional at the same time," Dugan says. "Funny has one goal: to make you laugh. Part of the thrill and adrenaline comics have is the free fall — am I gonna land on my feet or am I gonna die? If I can make them feel like it's OK to jump, I get the best out of them."
It helps that Dugan has that actor's background. He followed up theater work in New York and Los Angeles with performances in "The Rockford Files," "Richie Brockelman, Private Eye" and as the memorable Capt. Freedom on Steven Bochco's seminal "Hill Street Blues." (Bochco and Mark Tinker would later work with Dugan as a director.)
"Dennis always impressed me as being a genuinely multitalented guy," says Bochco. "He was a wonderful actor. He was a gifted artist and still is — he did all kinds of interesting, mixed-media things. Just hugely imaginative."
When Dugan auditioned for the 1988 series "Moonlighting," creator Glenn Gordon Caron called Dugan to say, "That was by far the best audition," Dugan recalls. He eventually lost out to Bruce Willis, but was later brought on to play Cybill Shepherd's new love interest.
Fans revolted, and Dugan was written out — but he was offered the chance to direct a few episodes.
"?'Moonlighting' got me in the place I had to be for comedy — where there are no rules, just chaos," Dugan says.
The next step was a challenge.
"At the time there wasn't a lot of crossover," he recalls. "You were either a TV director or a film director."
To get his first feature directing job on "Problem Child," Dugan demonstrated his creative vision for the film by hopping onto the coffee table of a Universal executive (page A18). This marked the second time Dugan worked with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine — the first being his role as an actor in 1989's "Parenthood."
"Brain Donors" followed, and Dugan fought to cast the then little-known Sandler. Though he lost, Sandler remembered the persistence, and when Dugan came in to pitch himself on "Happy Gilmore," Sandler immediately deemed him the man for the job.
The friendship and professional relationship blossomed; Dugan has five Sandler films under his belt (plus one with Sandler as a producer), and two more coming out in 2011.
"I think I make his life easier: He's the hardest working man in show business, and he needs comrades to take the pressure off him," Dugan says, adding that Sandler makes his life easier, too. "I'm not out reading scripts all the time, out on the market. But there's no slacking off. I feel if I'm not out there kicking ass every day, they'll find someone else who is."
Gary Martin, head of production at Sony, has worked with Dugan on nine films, plus next year's "Jack & Jill" and "Just Go With It." He's attracted to Dugan because his work is embraced by people — and for his professionalism.
"If there are any issues, he's always willing to work with the studio," Martin says.
When asked about Dugan's artistic style, Martin hedges and reiterates Dugan's work as an actor prior to directing. Perhaps its tough to nail down Dugan's style because his focus begins and ends with the talent.
He's a chameleon, adjusting his expectations to fit the needs of the cast and the script. And he's become so adept at this process, his output is starting to look as prolific as Corman's.
"It's like I was a really good ballplayer up through high school, then when I got to the pros, I realized I was a good utility ballplayer," Dugan says. "While I'm funny, when I saw really, really funny guys, I realized my greatest contribution to film comedy is to be a comic enabler. I can stoke the first of those guys. And they can trust me."
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A part of me would just like to keep this post at that. It would be perplexing. People would be left just shaking their heads.
Alas, I can not do this. I just can't leave the post at this. Even though the first pic makes me think of Reading Rainbow for some reason, I need to put a little more on there. So here goes.
The doors of the FunCenter opened up at some point during the not-so-distant past, and welcomed to its warm confines The Children Havig! They came here not just to hang with Mix Master Ben in the front office. Oh no. They came here on a mission, and this was to get some superawesomelysweetholidaysnapsfortherents. And trust me, get some superawesomelysweetholidaysnapsfortherents was exactly what they did!
They, along with their trusty pup, tore it up, Kräzy style here at the studio, and we're still trying to recover from their total and complete awesomeness! MuchLove to one and all in this wonderful group, and remember…Reading Rainbow! Enjoy!
Meg, These are so cuute… I bet your parents are going to totally love them!
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Change Your Brain With Cognitive Therapy: Why you should do the corny, touchy-feely things recommended by your therapist.
If you've ever been in the market for a mental health provider, you've probably come across references to "cognitive behavioral therapy" or "cognitive therapy," as these are common approaches for treating a variety of mental health conditions, including depression and anxiety. Broadly, cognitive therapies teach clients how to work with, manage, or change their thoughts in order to reduce symptoms such as depressed mood, worry, insomnia, etc. The idea here is that when you can manage or change your thoughts to be less distressing, you'll feel better emotionally and engage in healthy behaviors.
This makes sense to most people, but a lot of clients complain to me that some of the methods recommended to them to shift their thoughts seem corny, superficial, or too touchy-feely. I'll hear, "My last therapist told me to repeat these worthless affirmations…" Or, "I laughed when my therapist told me to write in red lipstick on my bathroom mirror what a lovable person I am…" Often, these "think positive" types of exercises are seen as a waste of time. Why would therapists recommend this stuff? What is going in the brain during cognitive therapy and, more specifically, why should we engage in the corny thought-shifting techniques promoted by some therapists and New Age thinkers?
The answer, put simply, is that when we engage in cognitive therapy, including all types of cognitive restructuring and thought-shifting techniques, we change critical neural networks that shape how we think, feel, and see the world, as well as what we believe to be possible.
1. The focus of your attention is the network you are in. If you are thinking about cleaning your toilet, you are in that network so long as you keep focusing on that topic. If you're reflecting on what a good or terrible person you are, you are in the "good person" or "bad person" network so long as your mind is focused on that topic. Your attention tells you the neural network you are in. While it is common to find ourselves magically in the depths of some old network that may not be helpful, we can learn to practice mindful awareness in order to begin noticing where the mind wanders and lands. And, when needed, we can begin to shift attention to more helpful networks.
2. Neurons that fire together wire together. This is called Hebb's Rule (1949), which basically says that repeated experience can strengthen or weaken neuronal bonds. The more neurons fire together, the faster and stronger they wire together, producing larger and stronger networks over time. What this means is that when you spend a lot of time in a particular network (meaning, you're focusing your attention on one thing a lot), you grow it, and it becomes bigger and stronger.
There's a New Age movement going on which tells us that what we think about can grow, and thoughts can become real. Some people even believe that with thoughts they can "manifest" certain outcomes in their lives. While this type of thinking invites eye rolls from some scientifically minded folks, these ideas are backed by neuroscience. It is in fact true that what you think of grows — quite literally — in the brain. And the more you focus on something, the more connections to that thing you make, which means that over time you begin to see the world more and more through that particular network/lens and the things that are connected to it. What you focus on, you get a lot more of. So engage with your thoughts wisely, and pay attention to which networks you spend a lot of time in!
3. Use it or lose it. Just as attending to a particular thought strengthens the neural network associated with that thought, neglecting neural networks results in a weakening of those networks over time. A great example of this is a neural map of a town. If you've ever lived in one place and then moved, you've noticed over time that you gradually get better at finding your way around the new town. It doesn't happen immediately, but it does happen over a period of months, and the reason for this is that you build a neural network of that new town, which becomes stronger with time. As this neural network strengthens, however, you may notice that your memory of how to get around your old town becomes increasingly fuzzy. When you return to your old town years later, you realize you no longer can find your way around like you used to. This is because that network has atrophied over time as a result of neglect.
With neural networks, you either use them, or you lose them! This is really good news, because it means that if we can promote disintegration of old, negative, unhelpful networks, we can reduce the intensity and frequency with which we produce (and experience!) the distressing thoughts associated with those networks. Instead, we can build new, positive, helpful networks to spend time in, and reality shifts.
When a client is engaged in cognitive therapy, or cognitive behavioral therapy, the main goals are to: 1) help the client become aware of the network they are in by becoming aware of their thoughts (which can be difficult!), 2) recognize how being in that network/having that thought is helpful to them or not so helpful, 3) become aware of the consequences of spending time in that network/engaging with that thought, and 4) shift out of that network/thought into more helpful networks/thoughts when needed.
When we are mindful about where our attention goes, we are able to craft our neural networks to be more helpful, adaptive, and healthy. And when we shift away from the old, unhelpful networks that contain negative self-talk or beliefs, they actually begin to wither away as we cease to activate them. Thus, while gratitude exercises, thinking positive, or "manifestation" through thought manipulation may seem touchy-feely, they are very much in line with what we know leads to brain change, as they promote neural network alteration though thought shifting (or, in cognitive therapy language, "cognitive reappraisal"). So the next time your therapist tells you to repeat some affirmations or fill out a daily gratitude journal, remember that they are helping you change your brain for the better!
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Company Name: Wacoal Holdings Corp.
Wacoal founded in Kyoto in 1946, is an underwear maker that mainly manufactures underwear for women. Wacoal is Japan's largest women's lingerie company and ranked among the top 10 Japanese clothing companies. The company has 57 subsidiaries and 8 affiliated companies both in Japan and overseas, and is expanding business in Japan and abroad.
Wacoal's mainstay business is the manufacture, wholesale and direct sales to consumers (for some products) of intimate apparel (mainly women's foundation garments, lingerie, nightwear and children's underwear), outerwear, sportswear, and other textile products and accessories. In addition Wacoal runs other business related to Food, culture, services, and interior furnishing of shops.
Wacoal sells its apparel products on a wholesale basis to department stores, general merchandisers, and other general retailers through directly managed retail stores, catalogue sales, and the Internet.


Today I'm joining in on another sew along hosted by Kerry Goulder of Kid Giddy and her twin sister Sue of Moss and Lotus. The Mug Club Sew Along is a year long event hosted on Instagram in which participants sew up any one of the 12+ mug paper pieced patterns in the Mug Club and share on social media. Check the hashtags #TheMugClub or #TheMugClubSAL to see the most eclectic and amazing collection of fabric mugs you've ever seen.
There's something particularly inviting about these mug patterns, since anything can go on a mug. A person's collection of coffee mugs can tell you so much about them–places they've gone, their sense of humor, their family (do they have a "I love Grandma" mug? Most likely, they have doting grandchildren!) Maybe it's just me who reads into coffee mugs, but either way, I feel like these patterns allow SO much room for creativity, expression, and sometimes just straight quirkiness (always a good thing!).
As soon as Kerry asked me to play along, I knew exactly what fabric I was going to use. A few years ago, while stopping in at Clementine Fabrics in Rockland, Maine, after a family day at the beach, I spotted this amazing Alexander Henry fabric with a geometric sketched ocean, sailing ships, anchors, a buxom mermaid figurehead, and (the part that caught my attention) a large face that looks exactly like my brother. The fabric is called Lost at Sea and although my brother is not a salty sailor, it was one of those fabrics that I knew I had to buy even though I had no idea what to make with it, since the face looked so uncannily like Steven. As a little backstory, my brother is an extremely talented artist who spent much of his high school years painting portraits, nearly always using his own reflection as his reference. He already has countless creations sporting his likeness, so what's one more to the pile, right?
I used the 10″ Paper Love Mug since it was *just* large enough to fit the full face, and simple enough not to seem busy with the wavy background. Whether my brother will love the mug rug I make with this mug block or just get a good hearty laugh over it, I don't care. It's just one of those gifts that must be given.
I visited my local quilt shop Fiddlehead Artisan Supply and got some perfect Robert Kaufman Essex Linen in Navy as the background, and used stashed Kona Navy Blue as the handle. I stitched the block with Aurifil 50wt 2600-Dove, but plan to use a dark navy for quilting. I'm still trying to decide whether to quilt the face, or whether I should leave it as is. I might *try* to stitch some hand quilting with 50wt dark navy thread so that I'm sure to get it exactly on the drawn lines.
I also might add some embroidered detail to that anchor tattoo. We'll see how brave I get. That's the one thing with using my brother's Doppelganger fabric–I daren't mess up the face! Either way, I think he'll get a kick out of the gift, and I have finally found a way to gift a piece of this stashed fabric to him!
The Paper Love Mug (top center) is part of the Mug Club Part 1, designed by Kerry at Kid Giddy.
The Mug Club Part 2 has another fun selection of 6 mugs, designed by Sue of Moss and Lotus. Aren't they all so fun! Do you see your favorite mug? If you don't follow Kerry and Sue yet, I recommend it–they are always having some creative sisterly fun together!
Go ahead and have some fun perusing some of the other mugs at #TheMugClub or #TheMugClubSAL since there is SUCH a fun variety.
What would you put on your mug?


An LG-made device said to be called the Q9 leaked online earlier this week, having been depicted in a real-life image obtained by Indian tech blog Hometop. The device features an 18:9 screen and relatively minimal bezels, with its operating system being based on some variant of Google's Android Oreo, as suggested by the photograph seen above, with one previous rumor pointing to Android 8.1 Oreo. While LG is already in the process of bringing the bezel-free aesthetic to its mid-range offerings, the Q9 won't be borrowing the display notch from the G7 ThinQ.
Rumors from earlier this summer suggested the LG Q9 will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 660, a 14nm mid-range chip praised for its energy efficiency. The South Korean electronics manufacturer is said to be preparing two models of the device so as to provide consumers with a choice between 32GB and 64GB of storage space. Both variants are understood to be featuring 4GB of RAM, though it's still unclear whether a microSD card slot will be part of the package. Seeing how India appears to be one of the LG Q9's target markets, dual-SIM capabilities are a given.
By most accounts, the Q9 will be a significantly more powerful version of the Q8, a device announced last month which effectively bridges the gap between LG's entry-level and mid-range smartphones. As its screen is said to be around six inches in size, LG is also said to have resolved to equip the Q9 with a higher-capacity battery, though its exact specifications remain unclear. The Q8 was fueled by a 3,550mAh cell, so its sibling may end up shipping with a 4,000mAh one, a popular capacity mark for handsets advertised as offering long battery life. LG is expected to officially announce the Q9 by the end of the year, though the Android handset may not be available on a global scale.


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A recent return visit to a park of his childhood prompted reader Derek Goodwin to share his memories.
Derek, who lives in Rushey Mead, was born in the Belgrave area of the city.
He said: "I want to tell you about a giant tree that every old Belgrave child has known personally for at least 150 years.
"This giant is still alive, but only just. Measured at a point of more than two metres above the ground, the tree is more than four metres round.
"This makes the giant tree more than 230 years old.
"It has the botanical name Aesculus hippocastanum, but to the kids of Bath Street is was 'the Conker Tree'.
"The tree sits on the slight incline from the lower children's park, Belgrave Meadow, up into Belgrave Gardens Park.
"Everyone I know calls it Talbot Park.
"Climbing this tree was a rite of passage for most of Belgrave's children.
"I would estimate the main climb was 120-150 feet.
"I climbed it to the top my first time with my mates, Mickey Coughlin and Dave 'Moggy' Morrison, part of the Bath Street Gang as we called ourselves, there were so many of us!
"The view was incredible from the top, you could see all across the city, all the now-gone factories with their smoking chimneys, and out towards Bradgate.
"I had not been to Talbot Park for a few years, so I decided to take my dog for a walk there.
"As I walked from Belgrave Hall, I noticed that the great giant was wounded, almost slain.
"I took a deep sigh and made towards the scene.
"I rounded the bend and there it stood, butchered and bloodied. I understood the tree was dying, I could see its hollowed out heart, it was being eaten alive from the inside.
"This still did not stop the feeling of great sorrow for the loss of this Belgrave giant, one which carried the children of the area on its shoulders for generations.
"I remember days when this giant had perhaps 20 children on it, chattering like a flock of birds.
"There will be hundreds of children who have memories of swinging from its branches and collecting its seed for a playground game.


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State lawmakers hear how GRCC plays important role in developing talent, strengthening its communities
March 9, 2018 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids Community College plays a vital role in developing talent, by working with community partners to provide students of all ages with strong pathways to careers or continued education, GRCC President Bill Pink testified before state lawmakers on Friday.
The State House of Representatives' Appropriations Subcommittee on Community Colleges conducted a public hearing at GRCC's Wisner-Bottrall Applied Technology Center, asking about financial pressures facing community colleges and what role the colleges can play in Michigan's efforts to close the state's talent gap. The subcommittee is chaired by state Rep. Chris Afendoulis, a GRCC graduate.
"It's tremendously import that we remain relevant and responsive to our students and our community," Pink said. "We're listening to families and local employers, and that's reflected in our innovative and growing programs, from early/middle college efforts in our high schools to apprenticeships that provide both an education and on-the-job training."
GRCC has a strong economic impact on Kent and Ottawa counties, with nearly a half-billion dollars in total income added, he said.
Working with local partners in the business community, the college has increased apprenticeship programs that lead to good jobs, expanding from two fields in 2010 to five in 2018, and from 287 students to 830. That includes a first-in-the-nation accredited medical assistant apprenticeship program, a partnership with the U.S. Labor Department, West Michigan Works!, Mercy Health, Cherry Health, Spectrum Health, Montcalm Community College and Muskegon Community College.
Pink said GRCC also has increased opportunities for high school students, expanding dual and concurrent enrollment and offering early/middle college programs in four districts and the county-wide Kent Intermediate School District.
Responding to questions from lawmakers, Pink said that while he is concerned about any potential finance challenges, the college is working to keep tuition increases to a minimum while hoping for reliable year-to-year funding from the Legislature to support programs and improve infrastructure.
Pink said GRCC and other community colleges are ready to play a large role in Gov. Rick Snyder's Marshall Plan for Talent, and is looking forward to hearing details about potential training programs and expanded partnerships.
Representatives also toured the college's brewery, where GRCC students work toward a Craft Brewing, Packaging and Service Operations Certificate. Equipment for the program, the first of its kind in the nation, was purchased with a combination of a state Community College Skilled Trades Equipment Program grant and a donation from local philanthropist Peter Secchia.
"Grand Rapids Community College is an excellent example of higher education collaborating with partners in the K-12 districts and the business community to give students of all ages opportunities to be successful," Afendoulis said. "One of the reasons we conduct hearings like this away from Lansing is to see firsthand the tremendous work being done at GRCC and across the state."
Afendoulis was joined by Minority Vice Chairman Henry Yanez, and Reps. John Bizon, Tommy Brann and Yousef Rabhi.


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