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Q: Can't present data in table view cell I am trying to retrive each row from database and keep  value in dictionary. After that I have created a array of dictionary. But when i am trying to show each value of dictionary in table cell, i can't . Here is my code
class ViewController: UIViewController,UITableViewDataSource,UITableViewDelegate {
   var borrowerInformation:NSMutableDictionary? = NSMutableDictionary();
   var borrowerName:String = ""
   var givenDate:String = ""
   var borrower:NSMutableArray = []

   override func viewDidLoad() {
      super.viewDidLoad()
      dataQuery()
   }
  func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int{
    return self.borrower.count

  }
   func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell{

      let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("Cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! BorrowerLanderTableViewCell

      cell.borrowerName.text = self.borrower[indexPath.row]  as? String

     return cell
  }

  func dataQuery(){
    let queryBorrower = PFQuery(className:"BorrowerLander")
    queryBorrower.whereKey("borrowerLander", equalTo: 0)
    queryBorrower.whereKey("userId", equalTo: (PFUser.currentUser()?.objectId)!)
    queryBorrower.findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock {
        (objects: [PFObject]?, error: NSError?) -> Void in
        self.borrower = NSMutableArray()
        if error == nil {
            if let borrowerData = objects {
                for object in borrowerData {
                    self.borrowerName = object["name"] as! String
                    self.givenDate = object["givenDate"] as! String
                    self.borrowerInformation = [ "borrowerName": self.borrowerName,"givenDate":"self.givenDate"]
                    self.borrower.addObject(self.borrowerInformation!)
                }
            }

        }
        self.tableview.reloadData()
    }
 }
}

Here, i have just added main part of the code. Please tell me how can i show  value of array of the dictionary in table view cell?

A: I don't know how you did the setup but an issue could be that you have not set your tableviews delegate and datasource to the controller you are working with.
self.tableView.dataSource = self
self.tableView.delegate = self

I'm also wondering if you did implement the numberOfRows and numberOfSections delegate methods.
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    return borrower.count
}

and
func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
    return 1
}

Also when setting the text you need to actually use the name string you added to the dictionary
let borrower = self.borrower[indexPath.row]
if let name = borrower["borrowerName"] as? String{
    cell.borrowerName.text = name
} esle {
    cell.borrowerName.text = "error"
}

Also declare your data array as
var borrower:[[String: AnyObject]] = []

Extra edit:
I do want to say that I really think you should use a custom object here instead of an dictionary
class Borrower {
    var name: String
    var givenDate: String
//etc.
    init(name: String, givenDate: String) {
        self.name = name
        self.givenDate = givenDate
    }
}

enabling the following
var borrower:[Borrower] = []

and in the query:
for object in borrowerData {
    if let name = object["name"] as? String, givenDate = object["givenDate"] as? String {
        self.borrower.append(Borrower(name: name, givenDate: giverDate))
    }
}

A: First, make sure you've set the dataSource and delegate for your table view to your view controller. Then, the function tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: will never get called unless you implement tableView:numberOfRowsInSection. The default implementation of that function returns 0. Try implementing this:
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    return borrower.count
}

Also, if the code inside of queryBorrower.findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock { is actually in the background, you need to dispatch your table view reload to the main thread. Like this:
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), { [weak self] () -> Void in
    self?.tableView.reloadData()
})

A: You need to implement numberOf... dataSource delegate first:
override func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int

override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int


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"I would never say that we will not go back to be four guys on a stage with acoustic guitars. I mean, I don't know we could do that. We often talked about doing an Irish record, a traditional Irish record and that wouldn't really work together with Zoo-TV. That's not out of the question." - Bono, 1997
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Q: Are invisible references still an issue in recent JVMs? I was reading Java Platform Performance (sadly the link seems to have disappeared from the internet since I originally posed this question) and section A.3.3 worried me.
I had been working on the assumption that a variable that dropped out of scope would no longer be considered a GC root, but this paper appears to contradict that.
Do recent JVMs, in particular Sun's 1.6.0_07 version, still have this limitation? If so, then I have a lot of code to analyse...
I ask the question because the paper is from 1999 - sometimes things change, particularly in the world of GC.

As the paper is no longer available, I'd like to paraphrase the concern. The paper implied that variables that were defined inside a method would be considered a GC root until the method exited, and not until the code block ended. Therefore setting the variable to null was necessary to permit the Object referenced to be garbage collected.
This meant that a local variable defined in a conditional block in the main() method (or similar method that contained an infinite loop) would cause a one-off memory leak unless you nulled a variable just before it dropped out of scope.
The code from the chosen answer illustrates the issue well. On the version of the JVM referenced in the document, the foo object can not be garbage collected when it drops out of scope at the end of the try block. Instead, the JVM will hold open the reference until the end of the main() method, even though it is impossible for anything to use that reference.
This appears to be the origin of the idea that nulling a variable reference would help the garbage collector out, even if the variable was just about to drop out of scope.

A: This code should clear it up:
public class TestInvisibleObject{
  public static class PrintWhenFinalized{
    private String s;
    public PrintWhenFinalized(String s){
      System.out.println("Constructing from "+s);
      this.s = s;
    }
    protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
      System.out.println("Finalizing from "+s);
    }
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        PrintWhenFinalized foo = new PrintWhenFinalized("main");
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // whatever
    }
    while (true) {
      // Provoke garbage-collection by allocating lots of memory
      byte[] o = new byte[1024];
    }
  }
}

On my machine (jdk1.6.0_05) it prints:

Constructing from main
Finalizing from main

So it looks like the problems has been fixed.
Note that using System.gc() instead of the loop does not cause the object to be collected for some reason.

A: The problem is still there. I tested it with Java 8 and could prove it.
You should note the following things:

*

*The only way to force a guaranteed garbage collection is to try an allocation which ends in an OutOfMemoryError as the JVM is required to try freeing unused objects before throwing. This however does not hold if the requested amount is too large to ever succeed, i.e. excesses the address space. Trying to raise the allocation until getting an OOME is a good strategy.

*The guaranteed GC described in Point 1 does not guaranty a finalization. The time when finalize() methods are invoked is not specified, they might be never called at all. So adding a finalize() method to a class might prevent its instances from being collected, so finalize is not a good choice to analyse GC behavior.

*Creating another new local variable after a local variable went out of scope will reuse its place in the stack frame. In the following example, object a will be collected as its place in the stack frame is occupied by the local variable b. But b last until the end of the main method as there is no other local variable to occupy its place.
import java.lang.ref.*;

public class Test {
    static final ReferenceQueue<Object> RQ=new ReferenceQueue<>();
    static Reference<Object> A, B;
    public static void main(String[] s) {
        {
            Object a=new Object();
            A=new PhantomReference<>(a, RQ);
        }
        {
            Object b=new Object();
            B=new PhantomReference<>(b, RQ);
        }
        forceGC();
        checkGC();
    }

    private static void forceGC() {
        try {
            for(int i=100000;;i+=i) {
              byte[] b=new byte[i];
            }
        } catch(OutOfMemoryError err){ err.printStackTrace();}
    }

    private static void checkGC() {
        for(;;) {
            Reference<?> r=RQ.poll();
            if(r==null) break;
            if(r==A) System.out.println("Object a collected");
            if(r==B) System.out.println("Object b collected");
        }
    }
}

A: The article states that:

... an efficient implementation of the
  JVM is unlikely to zero the reference
  when it goes out of scope

I think this happens because of situations like this:
public void doSomething() {
    for(int i = 0; i < 10 ; i++) {
       String s = new String("boo");
       System.out.println(s);
    }
}

Here, the same reference is used by the "efficient JVM" in each declaration of String s, but there will be 10 new Strings in the heap if the GC doesn't kick in.
In the article example I think that the reference to foo keeps in the stack because the "efficient JVM" thinks that is very likely that another foo object will be created and, if so, it will use the same reference. Thoughts???
public void run() {
    try {
        Object foo = new Object();
        foo.doSomething();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // whatever
    }
    while (true) { // do stuff } // loop forever
}

I've also performed the next test with profiling:
public class A {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        A a = new A();
        a.test4();
    }

    public void test1() {
        for(int i = 0; i < 10 ; i++) {
           B b = new B();
           System.out.println(b.toString());
        }
        System.out.println("b is collected");
    }

    public void test2() {
        try {
            B b = new B();
            System.out.println(b.toString());
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
        System.out.println("b is invisible");
    }

    public void test3() {
        if (true) {
            B b = new B();
            System.out.println(b.toString());
        }
        System.out.println("b is invisible");
    }

    public void test4() {
        int i = 0;
        while (i < 10) {
            B b = new B();
            System.out.println(b.toString());
            i++;
        }
        System.out.println("b is collected");
    }

    public A() {
    }

    class B {
        public B() {
        }

        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return "I'm B.";
        }
    }
}

and come to the conclusions:
teste1 -> b is collected
teste2 -> b is invisible
teste3 -> b is invisible
teste4 -> b is collected
... so I think that, in loops, the JVM doesn't create invisible variables when the loop ends because it's unlikely they will be declared again outside the loop.
Any Thoughts??

A: Would you really have that much code to analyse? Basically I can only see this being a significant problem for very long-running methods - which are typically just the ones at the top of each thread's stack.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's unfixed at the moment, but I don't think it's likely to be as significant as you seem to fear.

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Yeah I am aware of that but want to stick with the future not go back to the past. I think the custom updated is reading the old yaml file so if I edit that it will probably pick it up. Then at least it will update the HD files and I can just manually update the version in the GUI editor. Seems ludeeus is saying he's not going to update for the new Lovelace. Doubt that's a long term sustainable position for him to take and not sure why. Anyway I'm certain I can work around it for now.
I'm not saying you should go one way or the other, but I can't really troubleshoot or offer support for something that is unsupported. Essentially, issues with 0.84 and custom-updater should be directed to that projects github/post.
Hi mate, I deleted everything and started over and after that it works fine! Just a double check.
Essentially, issues with 0.84 and custom-updater should be directed to that projects github/post.
Totally understand your position. The dev of the custom_updater has stated flat out he won't support storage.
So I just added this card to the old yaml file and it shows now under custom cards but of course I need to update the GUI version of lovelace in storage but at lease it alerts when you have updated the card and I can just use the button to update and then manually edit the card in the GUI. All good.
Just one other tip for people using chrome… I have lost count of the number of times people tell me to 'just clear cache and delete all data'. This is a major PITA as you lose cookies for everything and you spend the next day having to log into everything again. However I discovered there is an equally effective way to reset just the Home Assistant page in chrome. If press F12 and load the dev console in chrome, you can then right click on the refresh button in the main browser window and you get some other options like 'Empty Cache and Hard Reload' That fixes it without deleting all sites.
You could also just not clear your cookies as it's unnecessary. Ctrl + shift + R usually does the trick (reloads your current page, ignoring cached content) it is also often referred to as a hard reload/refresh or full reload/refresh. When people say clear your cache, they usually mean just your cache.
Yeah I've had various results with that and Lovelace custom cards.
Card will appear when in edit mode to allow for configuration.
Can place card wherever you'd like in a view, no longer required to be last card. No more layout issues with shifting cards and empty columns.
Panel view still requires a vertical stack or "container card". This is to make it part of the panel, otherwise the "card" isn't "displayed" and won't load. If you're using another type of container card in panel view you can just insert this card into it and not worry about the vertical stack.
Just as a heads up, apparently the "card" displays when using yaml mode for lovelace. Working on a fix as I post this.
Outside of edit mode and after a refresh? And the error?
Yes, Yes, Error below - just displays the custom card title in a new card.
Think I see the issue, seems to be with panel view. Working on a fix.
This is such a great idea and thanks for sharing.
I don't have panel view on. Also the card isn't working at all other than showing the card. It's in a vertical stack right now… might try putting it on it's own?
Very odd, working great here. Looks like I got some work to do. Which will prove difficult if I can't reproduce the issues.
Let me know if I can do anything to help trouble shoot. Just d/l 0.10.0 and it's the same problem so I have removed the card for now. PITA I can't just comment it out like in the yaml version. In a lot of ways, .storage/lovelace isn't an upgrade. Hope those 2 branches for lovelace converge!


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MAGKOUNIS, SPYRIDON
AEK Athens 9 Guard
Height: 2.00 Born: 10 December, 1985 Nationality: Greece
Totals 8 0 58:45 10 2/8 2/8 0/0 3 4 7 2 2 3 0 1 8 2 -1
Averages 8 0 7:20 1.3 25% 25% 0% 0.4 0.5 0.9 0.3 0.3 0.4 0 0.1 1 0.3 -0.1
2 at Climamio Bologna 13:45 7 2/2 1/3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 7
7 at GHP Bamberg 1:00
9 vs Climamio Bologna 13:15 0/3 0/1 1 1 2 4 -9
10 at Zalgiris 2:45 0/1 1 1 -1
11 vs Tau Ceramica Vitoria-Gasteiz 0:15
12 vs Union Olimpija 3:15 1 1 1
13 at Benetton Basket 13:15 0/1 0/2 1 1 1 1 1 1 -2
14 vs GHP Bamberg 11:15 3 0/2 1/1 2 2 1 1 3
8 Totals 58:45 10 2/8 2/8 0/0 3 4 7 2 2 3 0 1 8 2 -1
Average 7:20 1.3 25% 25% 0% 0.4 0.5 0.9 0.3 0.3 0.4 0 0.1 1 0.3 -0.1
Index rating 7 Fortitudo Bologna vs. AEK Athens 11/9/2005
Points 8 ASVEL Villeurbanne vs. AEK Athens 1/20/2005
Offensive rebounds 1 AEK Athens vs. Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana 1/26/2006
Defensive rebounds 2 AEK Athens vs. Brose Bamberg 2/9/2006
Total rebounds 2 AEK Athens vs. Brose Bamberg 2/9/2006
Assists 2 Maccabi Tel Aviv vs. AEK Athens 1/27/2005
Steals 1 AEK Athens vs. Brose Bamberg 2/9/2006
Blocks 1 AEK Athens vs. Scavolini Pesaro 2/2/2005
Minutes 18 Maccabi Tel Aviv vs. AEK Athens 1/27/2005
Grew up with Themistoklis Aigalew (Greece) youth teams and AEK Athens juniors.
Made his debut with AEK Athens during the 2002-03 season.
Has been member of the Greek Cadets National Team.
Played at the 2001 European Cadets Championship.
Has been member of the Greek Junior National Team.
Has been member of the Greek Under-20 National Team.
Played at the 2005 European Under-20 Championship.
2003-04 AEK Athens 4 2 0.5 1/2 50 0/2 0 0/0 0 0 0 1 1
2004-05 AEK Athens 6 17 2.8 4/5 80 3/4 75 0/0 0 5 2 3 1
Totals 18 29 1.6 7/15 46.7 5/14 35.7 0/0 0 12 4 6 2
Averages 18 29 1.6 7/15 46.7 5/14 35.7 0/0 0 0.7 0.2 0.3 0.1
2006-07 AEK Athens 7 15 2.1 4/8 50 0/2 0 7/8 87.5 8 0 2 0
Totals 10 96 9.6 34/50 68 3/11 27.3 19/26 73.1 44 11 9 1
Averages 10 96 9.6 34/50 68 3/11 27.3 19/26 73.1 4.4 1.1 0.9 0.1
2002-03 U18 AEK ATHENS 3 81 27 30/42 71.4 3/9 33.3 12/18 66.7 36 11 7 1
Totals 3 81 27 30/42 71.4 3/9 33.3 12/18 66.7 36 11 7 1
Averages 3 81 27 30/42 71.4 3/9 33.3 12/18 66.7 12 3.7 2.3 0.3


Inspiration / People / Announcing: The Designer of Field Guide No. 7!
Announcing: The Designer of Field Guide No. 7!
We love the fun of springing a surprise, so we keep the identity of each Field Guide's designer under wraps for as long as we can stand it, right up until the publication date if possible.
In the case of Field Guide No. 7, which will be released tomorrow, there was a leak.
The leakers have been identified.
By coincidence but probably not-coincidence, when we asked Julia Farwell-Clay to be the designer for Field Guide No. 7, she had already signed up to be our Dr. Fix-It at the MDK Knitting Getaway earlier this month.
So, it seems like somebody spilled the beans in Sewanee, Tennessee. And then spilled them again, the following weekend, at the TNNA trade show, where we were feeling braggadocious.
Basically: don't tell us a secret. Especially not a really juicy, happy secret about someone we adore.
There's a boundless curiosity in the way Julia Farwell–Clay explores knitting. You see it in the patterns she writes—her ideas come from unexpected places. She is a master of blending traditional and modern elements. She is not afraid of math, or swatching a stitch pattern for days until it gets to the sweet spot for knitting. To follow her on Instagram is to see a designer experimenting with an idea in real time, trying it in one application and then another. Playing, and also working.
A former college teacher, Julia brings to her knitting students 30 years of knitting experience and an unabashed enthusiasm for the craft. Her distinctive patterns usually include graphic interest and a modern twist on traditional color techniques.
Julia has created more than 70 patterns, and has been published as both a writer and a designer in Knitty, Interweave Knits, PomPom Quarterly, and Twist Collective, among others. Her archive keeps growing, and each new design has a fascinating twist courtesy of Julia's adventurous, searching brain.
Yeah, we're proud that Julia said yes to our pitch. We can't wait to show you what she cooked up for Field Guide No. 7. There is fun summer knitting ahead, for all of us.
photos in the gallery up top are from Julia Farwell-Clay's Instagram. Highly recommended.
A tantalizing glimpse into a designer's mind.
I have been fascinated with the shells for the Eddy Wrap but am not a shawl person. But an Eddy Cowl! Huzzah! I am in.
Hi there, Julia! Horizons expanding all the time.
Telephone, Telegraph, Tell MDK! I love you guys so much. I'm having great fun knitting my FREAK Flags. As a fun (short) break from my Shakerag Top.
My favorite designer ever. Can't wait to see it!
Yay!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to order this field guide!!
I wish Julia had been one of my college teachers! I adore this human.
Great photos too. Glad it is official now.
Got to meet Julia at a local (tiny) event a couple years ago. She came to our small town along with Brooke Sinnes of Sincere Sheep – two of the biggest-hearted and most interesting folks you'll ever meet!


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public class TestTransferListener extends AbstractTransferListener {

    private final List<String> transfers = new ArrayList<>();

    public List<String> getTransfers() {
        return transfers;
    }

    public void addTransfer(String name) {
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    }
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Q: Skrollr FIXED-based menu navigation with animateTo? I built a very simple website with skrollr using fixed-position based, full-screen panels that I scroll by transform:translating and I want to add a nav bar. Am I right that I cannot use skrollr-menu for this type of setup?
Is it possible to use animateTo on a click event to navigate a certain panel?
For example, to get to page 2, can I just make a button that animates to 100p?

Thanks.

A: Yes you can. With the latest skrollr-menu you can use percentages as well
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Two years of mine related electrical experience or an approved vocational school certification and one year of mine-related electrical experience.
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Q: Example of a pointwise bounded sequence of measurable functions I am supposed to find an example of a pointwise bounded sequence of measurable functions $\left \{ f_{n} \right \}$ on $[0, 1]$ such that each $f_{n}(x)$ is a bounded function but $f^{*}(x)=\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty} \sup f_{n}(x)$ is not a bounded function.
Can anyone help?

A: Hint: Take $f(x):=\frac{1}{x}$ and consider the truncations $f_n=f\chi_{[1/n,1]}$.


Our Oats & Goats bar is one of our best selling soaps, having the benefits of the coloidal oatmeal and fresh goats milk. This bar is a great bar for soothing and moisturizing the skin. Oatmeal and goat milk are also beneficial for skin irritations such as eczema & psoriasis, & also helps remove dead skin cells.
To top this soap off we've added the perfect amount of pure lavender essential oil for a calming, therapeutic aroma.


I remember when the news first broke about the Le Labo Paris exclusive, Vanille 44, people were equally excited and disappointed. Some wondered what could be so special in a vanilla fragrance to justify the hype and the price (obviously they have yet to be introduced to Shalimar parfum), while others went into a vanilla coma based on the fantasy and the imaginary pleasure.
Then the first samples arrived and it became clear that once again, Le Labo aren't into accuracy in naming. While there's vanilla somewhere in the composition, this isn't about smelling like cupcakes (good), but those who hoped for a modern Shalimar offspring were disappointed. Still, the fragrance has created enough obsession, addiction and devotion. And of course irritation about the company's marketing methods.
I was ready to buy a bottle last summer when I was in Paris. But once I actually tried it on, I just couldn't see why I should. Granted, it was pleasant and wearable, but it didn't rock my world enough to justify the cost (it was during a week the US dollar was at its humblest point and the exchange rate was impossible. The price was somewhere north of $300).
I resisted when during the month of September you could get bottles at the Colette mini-store in NYC (it was a limited time thing), but I did go for a decant (The Perfumed Court has them), seeing as I liked it enough to want to have some on hand. I can't help it: Vanille 44 makes me happy in its weird little way.
It's not the vanilla, I can tell you that. What I'm getting is the rare creature of soft and warm incense, peppery on top, woody and fuzzy later on. It lacks any sharp edges or mysterious sexiness. Instead, there's a mellow, squishy musk and a mostly dry, smooth ambery base that works for me like a cashmere wrap.
It's called Vanille, but it's a grownup, unisex scent, more complex than meets the eye and nose at first. Had it been reasonably priced, I'd happily buy a bottle and indulge often. But at twice the price of a Lutens bell jar, I expect at least that level of greatness, which is just not there.
Le Labo Vanille 44 can only be purchased from Colette, Paris (their willingness to ship overseas is questionable). Samples and Decants can be purchased from The Perfumed Court. That's how I got mine.
Photo: Early morning in the Bois du Boulogne by Tara Bradford, Paris Parfait.
I kind of felt the same way. I liked it about $125 much.
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How Social Media Gave Rise To The World Of Spoiler Culture
By Victoria Cotman
Enter 2019, a golden age of fandoms, where even non-nerds have dedicated a good decade or more to universes like Game of Thrones, Marvel, and Star Wars.
The mass adoption of these universes is a cultural phenomenon, the likes of which we haven't seen since the Harry Potter novels were first published. In this year alone we will reach the culmination of anywhere between a five, to 42-year journey as GoT, the Infinity Saga, and the Skywalker Saga come to an end.
However, the very existence of this stan phenomenon has brought about another: spoilers.
Half the fun of being in a fandom is theorising about who will end up on the Iron Throne, or die in Avengers: Endgame, or rise as the next Jedi. The other half is finding out if your predictions were right. So, needless to say, the fear of having that fun spoiled has people hiding in caves with their eyes closed and their fingers in their ears.
What Makes A Spoiler?
It may seem like an obvious one but clarifying what actually makes a spoiler is a big one. Note, images of GoT characters popping up online before the final season is okay. Leaked footage of Avengers: Endgame online however, is not.
Spoilers are the snippets of info online that reveal the shocking or amazing twists, reveals, losses, or wins in a show, movie or book to a person who has yet to read or watch said show, movie or book; thus ruining the surprise.
For example, Vader is Luke's father, the planet of the apes is actually Earth, Bruce Willis was dead all along, Tom Cruise was just dreaming and Vanilla Sky is a terrible film.
By definition, to spoil something means to diminish or destroy its value or quality (got that straight out of the dictionary) and that's exactly how it feels when, say, you're holding your brand new copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and someone says, "Sirius Black dies".
Why Is Spoiler Culture A Big Deal?
Well, once upon a time, when Nokia 3210s roamed the Earth, the only way a person could spoil something was to your face. Then you'd cut them out of your friendship group and never speak to them again. Now, you can't scroll through social media without seeing a spoiler, usually posted by a complete stranger who will never feel your wrath.
Social media gave rise to something the internet has donned as "stan' or really, stan Twitter. Basically, niche (or mass) fandoms. Stan Twitter got its name after Eminem's Stan, a track about a super obsessive fan.
For an audience member like the super fan, the risk is that a story will be wrecked for you. For producers, however, the risk is that a story will be wrecked for you to such an extent you won't bother buying a ticket. Spoilers can actually convert to financial losses.
It's become so much of a problem production companies have taken to begging audience members to keep their mouths shut. If you see the stage show Harry Potter and the Cursed Child you will be handed a pin on your way out saying, "#KeepTheSecrets". Blockbuster movies don't just have trailers anymore, they have videos of the cast asking you not to discuss the film. And then there are the hashtags; #ThanosDemandsYourSilence #Don'tSpoilTheEndgame #WadeWilsonDemandsYourSisterSorryStupidAutoCorrectSilence.
How Is Spoiler Culture Unravelling Today?
Right now, no one is winning. Spoiler fear has become so real people are avoiding social media for days in an effort to remain ignorant. Unfortunately, trolls can smell fear, and they appear to be going out of their way to ruin other people's fun, because some people just want to watch the world burn.
For Avengers: Endgame alone: a man in Hong Kong left a viewing of the movie yelling spoilers at people waiting for the next session, another man walked into a screening and stood at the back of the cinema shouting spoilers at the audience, yet another man spent a year befriending an internet troll who had spoiled Avengers: Infinity War for him, then took photos of crucial moments of Endgame and sent them to the troll as payback, with the message, "we were never friends". Oh, and here's a gold star for creativity: spoilers were posted as items for sale on Facebook Market Place, and if you look up "Avengers Posters" on RedBubble you will find a fake poster with spoilers printed across it. It's exhausting just to think about, and the tip of the iceberg.
However, that's not where it ends, because there isn't just spoiler fear, there's spoiler rage. That Hong Kong man was beaten up by the crowd, the next guy was banned from the movie theatre for life, and a third dude has been charged with assault after bashing his co-worker for spoiling the film.
So now we're not just ruining fun, but finances and faces as well.
And here's everything to know about cancel culture.
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Mornings in the College Chapel
Francis Greenwood Peabody
It is a religion book. No one can look for the first time into the faces of a congregation like this without thinking, first of all, of the great multitude of other lives whose love and sacrifice are represented here. Almost every single life which enters our chapel is the focus of interest for a whole domestic circle, whose prayers and anxieties, whose hopes and ambitions, are turning toward this place from every region of this land. Out from behind our congregation stands in the background a cloud of witnesses in whose presence we meet. There are the fathers, earning and saving, that the sons may have a better chance than they; there are the mothers with their prayers and sacrifices; there are the rich parents, trembling lest wealth may be a snare to their sons; and the humble homes with their daily deeds of self-denial for the sake of the boys who come to us here. When we meet in this chapel we are never alone. We are the centre of a great company of observant hearts. And then, behind us all, there is the still larger fellowship of the past, the historic traditions of the university, the men who have adorned it, the inheritances into which we freely enter, the witnesses of a long and honorable associated life.


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Efficacy, safety and tolerability of linezolid for the treatment of XDR-TB: a study in China
Catherine Berry, Tom A. Yates, James A. Seddon, Patrick P. J. Phillips, Philipp du Cros on behalf of the North London TB Journal Club
European Respiratory Journal 2016 47: 1591-1592; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01646-2015
Catherine Berry
1Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, UK
For correspondence: catherine.berry@london.msf.org
Tom A. Yates
2Research Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, London, UK
James A. Seddon
3Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, UK
Patrick P. J. Phillips
4MRC Clinical Trials Unit, University College London, London, UK
Philipp du Cros
Response to the interesting RCT on linezolid for XDR-TB and request for information which may impact new guidelines http://ow.ly/Z1dX5
Heterogeneity amongst cohorts of patients treated for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) make assessing the efficacy of new drugs and regimens unreliable without randomisation [1]. We warmly welcome the randomised controlled trial (RCT) "Efficacy, safety and tolerability of linezolid for the treatment of XDR-TB: a study in China" presented by Tang et al. [2]. Linezolid is now included on the WHO list of essential medicines [3] and falling prices will improve access. That Tang et al. [2] report a 35.3% absolute reduction in the risk of a poor outcome by adding linezolid to an optimised background regimen argues in favour of wider use. Linezolid remains a WHO "Group 5" drug, classifying it as an "anti-TB drug with limited data on efficacy and/or long term safety in the treatment of [drug-resistant]-TB" [4]. The limited data on the efficacy of drugs in this class has recently been reviewed [5]. These WHO classifications may shortly be revised and the exciting results from this study have the potential to alter guidance regarding the treatment of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB. We note the proposal to re-classify linezolid into Group 3 in an editorial in the October edition of the European Respiratory Journal [6]. It is with this in mind that we seek some clarifications.
The journal rightly requires that reports of randomised controlled trials conform to the CONSORT guidelines [7]. We were therefore concerned to note that limited details were presented regarding the randomisation process and steps taken to ensure adequate allocation concealment. Details on the target sample-size calculation were also absent. The authors do not state whether the trial was registered in a clinical trial registry as per journal guidelines.
A recent systematic review and meta-analysis by Zhang et al. [8] highlighted linezolid's significant side-effect profile. The data presented by Tang et al. [2] on rates of nausea and on the timing of myelosuppression and neuropathy will be of great interest to clinicians and patients. The manuscript states that "Most adverse events resolved after reducing the dosage of linezolid or temporarily discontinuing linezolid, and only two patients were permanently discontinued from using the drug because of severe anaemia." Details of symptom severity and the number of patients left with cytopaenias or significant residual neuropathy would be hugely valuable.
Figure 2 suggests that around a quarter of patients in the control group achieved sputum culture-conversion in the first 3 months of the study, despite all having been sputum smear-positive for the preceding 12 months. This suggests that new agents other than linezolid were introduced in both arms at enrolment. It would be helpful to know whether other drugs that patients had not used previously were started when the patients were enrolled in the trial. In particular, many patients were reported to have been treated with clofazimine, an agent shown by the authors to be useful in the treatment of MDR-TB [9]. It would also be relevant to know whether the background regimen was determined prior to randomization, and whether there was any imbalance in newly-introduced drugs between the trial arms, both at enrolment and subsequently.
Finally, early relapse following treatment is common [10]. Data on relapse-free survival from the other completed randomised controlled trial involving linezolid has been valuable in understanding the role of this drug [11]. Relapse-free survival is a more robust end-point and follow up for at least 1 year should be routine in randomised evaluations of TB treatment regimens. We hope this will be considered in future trial designs.
If the authors could provide these additional details, it would greatly inform our understanding of the efficacy and place of linezolid in XDR regimens. This information would also be valuable to those who will shortly be drafting new international recommendations for DR-TB as well as for clinicians and programmes providing XDR-TB care. We congratulate the authors on an important study and look forward to their response.
The views expressed in the submitted article are our own and not an official position of any of our institutions.
Conflict of interest: Disclosures can be found alongside the online version of this article at erj.ersjournals.com
Received October 6, 2015.
Accepted December 20, 2015.
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Yesterday, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) issued a statement to clarify that it has no plans to research genetically modified (GM) wheat.
NRC now states, "GM wheat is not an objective of the NRC wheat program. We will be developing a number of tools that will be used to reduce the breeding cycle, increase yield and adapt to climate stresses. GM varieties are not contemplated at this time." The statement was issued in response to media stories of April 3 that reported on a leaked memo from the government research agency.
"NRC has finally recognized what everyone but Monsanto understands: that GM wheat is unacceptable to farmers and consumers," said Lucy Sharratt of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network.
Genetically modified crops are created through recombinant DNA technology (also called genetic engineering or transgenics), introducing genes from other species.
In 2004, Monsanto withdrew requests for government approval of its herbicide tolerant GM wheat in Canada and the US because of widespread farmer and consumer protest in both countries, and around the world. However, Monsanto re-launched research into GM wheat in 2009 and the biotechnology industry is now engaged in a new public relations campaign in favour of GM wheat.
Monsanto's new plans for GM wheat are, however, meeting the same strong objections that defeated the company's product in 2004. The Premier of Australia's largest wheat growing state recently panned GM wheat, and Japanese flour companies continue to say that they will refuse to process GM wheat. In early 2010, 233 groups from 26 countries restated their opposition to GM wheat.
"Wheat improvements can and must happen without the use of transgenics. GM wheat would spell disaster for Canada's wheat growers, just as GM alfalfa now threatens farmers across the country," said Terry Boehm, President of the National Farmers Union in Canada.
"The costs to farmers from the GM flax contamination fiasco would pale in comparison to what would happen if GM wheat was introduced," said Arnold Taylor, a grain farmer with the Saskatchewan Organic Directorate. GM flax was developed with public funds through the University of Saskatchewan and registered in Canada over the objections of flax farmers who succeeded in removing the GM flax from the market in 2001. In late 2009, Canadian flax exports to 36 countries were found contaminated with the GM flax, resulting in shut markets and economic loses to farmers.
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Governors Join Forces To Spur Increase Work-based Visas
Measuring Results of Early Childhood Spending
In this Sept. 4, 2014 file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio visits a pre-K program in Brooklyn on the first day of the mayor's ambitious expansion of early childhood education. AP Photo
By Timothy B. Clark,
Editor at Large
By Timothy B. Clark
Finding more resources to help struggling populations "needs to be reframed as an economic imperative, even a national security issue."
Four-year olds. Three-year olds. Children even younger, including those still in the womb. Across the country, policymakers are betting that investments in preschool and other programs for young children from low-income families will pay off with their future academic success and well-being.
But do the programs work?
Some say there's no question, that science has proved the answer is yes. Others are more cautious, observing that early educational advances can dissipate if children are not provided continuing support all the way through their teenage years and even into early adulthood.
The search is on for more evidence that the very substantial investments governments are making in early childhood support are in fact translating into sustainable gains—and to better define exactly what kinds of support are needed at various stages in a child's life. Philanthropies, academic researchers and local governments themselves are all in the hunt.
Certainly, governments are spending money on these efforts. The best, or at least the largest, example is found in New York City, where Mayor Bill de Blasio has beat the drums for investing hundreds of millions of dollars in free pre-K programs for 4-year-olds, and more recently offers more limited programs in public schools for three-year-olds (which his administration wants to eventually expand to all children that age).
These pre-kindergarten educational readiness programs doubtless make a difference in many kids' lives. But children from low-income families often also need other kinds of help—including training their parents to nurture their learning, intervening to assess their health issues, and more. These kinds of services are part of an interesting initiative in King County, Washington, whose county seat is Seattle and is home to 2.2 million residents, two-thirds of whom live in the city's suburbs. Officials there persuaded the public to approve a tax hike that generates $65 million a year to help low-income children from the time they are still in the womb right through early adulthood.
A young boy enjoys expanded access and hours funded by Best Starts for Kids at Seattle Children's PlayGarden. (Courtesy of King County, Washington)
King County has also insisted, through use of performance-based contracting, that community groups providing children's services make careful evaluation of their results.
For more than 50 years, It has been an article of faith among many education experts that early childhood programs make a difference in a child's prospects for success in life.
After all, the federal Head Start program was part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, unveiled in 1964 to help meet the emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs of preschool-aged children from low-income families. It has served well over 30 million children since its inception.
As researchers have looked for results from the many billions of dollars spent on Head Start, they have found positive results, but also evidence of "fading" of gains as children get older. More evaluation is under way as a result of new performance standards approved in 2016 by the Administration for Children and Families. They seek to "encourage the use of data to track progress and reach goals in all program areas."
Because Head Start and Early Head Start do not reach millions of families living in or at the edges of poverty, local governments like New York City's and King County's have stepped in.
King County offers an interesting case study of a large local government's decision-making and program design processes in the pursuit of better outcomes for its less fortunate citizens.
Carrie S. Cihak, chief of policy for the county, said that since county executive Dow Constantine was elected in 2009, he has emphasized helping people in need.
"Many see Seattle as a place of economic prosperity," she said in a recent interview, "and it is true that when you look at longevity, and our very highly educated population, we seem to be doing very well.
"But by race and by place, you see very stark disparities—for example, a ten-year difference in life expectancy by ZIP code. Some communities are really struggling. The recession had the greatest impact on those least able to recover."
The poverty rate in the county, according to the latest estimates, stands at just over 9 percent.
Cihak said the number of people living on incomes below 200 percent of the poverty threshold has been growing in suburban areas of the county. Federal programs are not adequately addressing the needs of these communities, she added.
King County's New Approach
In 2014, Constantine undertook a thorough reevaluation of the county's approach to serving its low-income populations. Officials came to realize that the county's approach to contracting for social services ran counter to its strategic goals "of enhancing equity, health and wellbeing outcomes among residents and [of using] data and evidence to drive positive outcomes for county residents," as one recent study put it. At the time, the study by Results for America found that "there were many gaps in understanding which services worked best for which resident population."
And there wasn't enough money in the system to pursue the goal of social equity on which Constantine had run. So in 2015, voters in the county were asked to approve a property tax levy to fund the brand new Best Starts for Kids initiative. It won backing from the influential Seattle Foundation, which had never before taken a position on a ballot initiative, from other community organizations and from The Seattle Times editorial board. The measure, designed to raise $65 million a year, passed in November 2015 with 56 percent of the vote.
The initiative was intended to provide complementary support to child-care, pre-K, and school environments, not to establish new pre-schools. The City of Seattle and others in the region have been expanding pre-K facilities, but are not yet providing universal pre-school, Cihak said.
King County Executive Dow Constantine plays with children at a math party at El Centro de la Raza. Events like these are for families and caregivers participating in Best Starts for Kids home-based services. (Courtesy of King County)
It has taken time to figure out how best to spend the money, and to enlist and train dozens of community organizations to manage the spending and measure its results. In 2017, the program started paying for "home-based services," such as working with parents of toddlers on helping their children learn through play at home. They also funded $1.3 million in early intervention services for children with developmental delays and spent $6 million on public health services for pregnant women and young children.
One decision the county made was to deploy the new resources to support programs extending throughout the childhood, and into early adulthood, for target populations. So the Best Starts for Kids program devotes only half of its funding to early childhood programs.
Another 35 percent is spent on programs to help people from age 5 through age 24. Ten percent of the funds are devoted to "communities of opportunity," Cihak said, in the hope that focusing spending on particular locations will help their residents. And finally, 5 percent of the money is set aside for evaluating results.
A wide range of needs are targeted—from preventing homelessness to coaching parents. Here is a sampling of more programs from the initiative's first full year, taken from its 2017 annual report:
$1.7 million for three new school-based health centers;
$1.8 million to 18 community partners working to create environments that foster play and access to healthy food;
$934,000 to implement strategies in schools to help children with trauma;
$2.1 million on efforts to eliminate the "school to prison pipeline" ;
$4.1 million to help prevent youth and family homelessness;
$2.7 million for the county's "Communities of Opportunity" program, which helps local organizations do projects in their neighborhoods.
These numbers don't include all of 2017 spending. Outlays have climbed toward the full $65 million-a-year mark as more programs have come on line in the past year.
Two King County departments are sharing the work of design and management of the initiative—the Department of Public Health and the Department of Community and Human Services. An important task is developing performance-based contracting vehicles that can work with the small community organizations they are recruiting to deliver many of the services needed in the low-income neighborhoods they serve.
Cihak volunteered that it was both essential and difficult to build "a capable government infrastructure" to support the new outcomes-based contracting approach. "Part of the equation for success," she said, "is having the right people, the right capacity, to manage contracts, to provide technical support, to help build indicators that speak to the outcomes we seek." The two departments have been adding contracting experts to their staffs.
Cihak added that the county is using "results based accountability" methodology in the Best Starts for Kids program. That's a process that "begins by identifying the shared results that are desired and then works backward, step by step, to the actions needed to achieve a desired result," said Results for America's study.
New York Mayor de Blasio has paved the way for ambitious programs to help pre-schoolers. His success in promoting them was "the most salient achievement of his mayoralty" as he ran for reelection last year, as The New York Times put it.
"For so long there's been this inequity of, if you could afford to send your children to pre-K they got a leg up," Queens borough president, Melinda Katz told The Times. "By the time they got into kindergarten, they were reading and writing, they could do basic math. That was such a crux of the inequity of the system."The creation of universal prekindergarten, she said, "defines him, and it's going to have historical significance for our future generations."
Other politicians have rallied to the cause. In Maryland, for example, Nancy Navarro, incoming chair of the Montgomery County Council, is focusing on those left behind in the large and generally prosperous county. She told the annual gathering of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) last month that giving in-need children better opportunities in life is "surely a moral and civil rights imperative of our times."
But she also said that finding more resources to help struggling populations "needs to be reframed as an economic imperative, even a national security issue." Tying the interventions directly to her county's economy, she said, "If not, the kids go to gangs, and we see declines in property values."
Similarly, in Utah, Democrat Ben McAdams, who was just elected to Congress, has argued that economic benefits have flowed from an early childhood program he championed while serving as mayor of Salt Lake County.
"By investing in early childhood development, county taxpayers got a substantial return on investment by avoiding future costs from student delinquency, pediatric health, drugs, gangs and incarceration," said his campaign website. "High-quality preschool closes the achievement gap between economically disadvantaged students and their financially stable peers. This leads to higher high school and college graduation rates."
Navarro and de Blasio operate in strongly liberal political environments. The strong showing of Democrats in last month's elections could result in more state experimentation with early childhood programs. As a report from the Brookings Institution observed,
"In the seven states that flipped to Democratic governors, we may see renewed efforts to pursue progressive education agendas, such as increasing public funds for public K-12 education. For example, during his campaign, Tony Evers, a Democrat who defeated incumbent Scott Walker for the governorship in Wisconsin, proposed increasing state spending on K-12 education by 10 percent. Gretchen Whitmer, the newly elected Democratic governor of Michigan, touted universal state-funded preschool during her campaign."
Quantifying Results
At the same time, the drive to quantify results continues. "Let's do evaluation," Navarro told the NAPA conference. "Let's make sure it's sustainable, and scalable, on the basis of evidence we gather."
Such efforts are in progress in Tallahassee, Florida, where university researchers are studying a preschool program, and in Chicago and Tempe, Arizona, where experiments with so-called "pay for success" programs, also known as social impact bonds, are underway.
In a few cases, deep-pocketed private investors are financing such efforts. That was the case a while back when the huge Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs pocketed a small bit of extra profit because some kids in Utah lived up to relatively lofty expectations.
As worthy as such experiments might be, they are small change in a fast-moving political environment that is seeing many millions of dollars directed toward improving prospects for children from poor families.
Timothy B. Clark is Editor at Large at Government Executive's Route Fifty.
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For as long as I have been Piccolo Studio, and even before, I have been making memory quilts. Some are publicly shared, some are privately given and all are gifted by me to families who have lost children. Over the course of the past 4 years I have been lucky enough to work closely with grieving families to give them something tangible to hold onto and wrap themselves in. I am a strong believe in the power of fabric and the memories it holds. We underestimate these memories until they, along with photos, are all we have. And it is an absolute privilege for me to turn pieces of clothing, blankets and wraps into a quilt that I hope provides comfort when needed most.
Beau's memory quilt is the first I have blogged because most were done before these writing days. I plan however on posting some of my earlier ones to here too over the coming weeks as a way to keep them all together. For many of my families sharing their story is powerful especially in terms of the support they receive as a result. It is super hard to send these precious pieces to a complete stranger and trust the process and I get that completely. And I also get that grief looks different for every single I family I work with. That is why making these quilts does not come with anything other than love. It is never for self promotion. I share as much or as little as families are comfortable with and, if that means not one single picture gets shared, then I am completely fine with that. My sole aim is to wrap as many grieving families up as I can in the course of my lifetime. It is a super special part of what I do as a quilter, and like I said an absolute privilege. Maybe it is because I am Hannah's mother I feel the connection more strongly? I like to think she has made me a better mother and person over the course of her amazing life.
One thing that strikes me most is that when sending clothes to me it is rarely the fancy ones that get sent. Usually it is the grubby t shirt, stained onesies, old pilled pjs that make the pile. Why? Well because that is where most of our daily memories and smiles are made. Some times I get a small bag, other times multiple boxes. I work with all of them to create the best quilt I can. It isn't about being a technically good quilter although you have to have a great knowledge of how different fabrics work together especially when stretch is involved.
And the stories. They always break my heart. No mother should be sending me clothes to make these quilts from. I have so much respect for their grace, courage and strength even in the face of tremendous grief. Watching a memory quilt be made can be harrowing as you are bombarded with memories from all those tiny squares. Good memories, sad memories and all the mundane ones in between that suddenly become the most important of all.
Beautiful Beau was 22 months old when he passed suddenly without warning. He was so loved. A gorgeous little brother to Noah who was only 3 at the time. His lovely mum still lives with questions that could possibly never ever have answers. Beau's clothes were simple as boys clothes usually are. Filled with images that showed just how loved he was. I aimed to keep the images as whole as possible in so the quilt can never be planned until I have the pieces in front of me. In Beau's case it turned out to be a simple quilt that tells the story of a much loved little brother.
One little feature I kept was the pocket from Beau's tracksuit pants. I decided to keep it functional so a small photo or other memory could be placed in there if wanted. I think it adds a sweet feature to the quilt.
As you can see from the quilting it was important to me to protect the stability of the fabric first and foremost so the quilt could be used and loved for ever without fear of it damaging or stretching. simple lines just over an inch apart will keep everything all nicely together and safe.


Written by Pedro. Vanessa was the director. Rhea was the director's assistant. AJ, Kevin, and Pedro are the actors in his movie.
Actor1:" Now corner kicks are different from those 2.
Actor1:"A corner kick is called when someone from any team kicks the ball into their corner.


The single volume Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450 is a unique work that intends to bring together the latest research from across the range of disciplines which contribute to our knowledge of medieval dress and textiles.
There has been a long-standing interest in the subject, which has recently manifested itself in a flowering of research and publications, including activities by the editors of the Encyclopaedia: the foundation of DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics and Fashion) as an umbrella organization for the presentation of papers at the major medieval congresses in Kalamazoo and Leeds (Netherton and Owen-Crocker); the establishment of the annual journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles (Netherton and Owen-Crocker); the Manchester Medieval Textiles Project (Coatsworth and Owen-Crocker); and the AHRC Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project (Owen-Crocker and Sylvester).
There is a clear need for an interdisciplinary reference work which will introduce readers to various sources of evidence, and give clear information about the most recent discoveries and interpretations and bibliographical guidance to readers.


Trade, Buy, or Sell your pre-owned and like new Tomb Kings miniatures here on the Blue Table Painting Web Store. We have a large selection of Tomb Kings Accessories and models to choose from when your looking to build a custom army.
Tomb Princes: Royal children of the throne that never inherited. They are slightly weaker then their father but can do well in battle.
Tomb Herald- Acts as a bodyguard to the royal family and carries a battle standard into war.
Priests- Spellcasters, and Necromancers whose sole purpose is to reanimate the dead for battle.
Skeleton Army- Undead skeletons who wield common weapons and armor. They are the bulk of the army and can come in many different forms.
Their are a host of other undead beasts, machines, and special characters to choose from when building your lethal Tomb Kings Army.


No Man's Sky is a survival game full of action and adventure. It is a indie game developed by Hello Games.
The game released on August 9, 2016 worldwide.It is available for PS4 and Microsoft Windows.
No man's sky features the gameplay of an unlimited open world universe.This game has 18 quintillon planets to itself.Don't know what quintillon is? 1 quintillon = 1000000000 billion. So yes,the game has literally 1.8×1019 planets in it.Mind blown,right? But the best part is that all this planet have their very own environment.So you won't be bored thinking all the planets look the same.
The players can create their own avatars and roam around the universe of No man's sky. By exploring, players gain information about the planets that they can submit to the Atlas, a universal database that can be shared with other players of the game. Players get compensated in in-game currency every time new information is uploaded to The Atlas. Players also gain materials and blueprints to upgrade their character's equipment and purchase a variety of starships, allowing them to travel deeper into the center of the galaxy, survive on planets with hostile environments, interact in friendly or hostile manners to computer-controlled space-faring factions, or trade with other ships. Some activities, such as killing too many lifeforms or draining too many resources from planets, will draw the attention of patrolling robotic Sentinels that will attempt to kill the player-character.
Minimum specs required to run No Man's Sky on your PC.
Recomended specs to run No Man's Sky on your PC.
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Ever since she made her debut in the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated, Kate Upton has become synonymous with curves. But while she's been lauded for her body, it hasn't always been that way.
The model adds that this was particularly startling because as a child, curves were always the ideal. Now that she's gotten through the rough patch, she's grateful she didn't change her body to meet the industry's crazy demands.
Amen! We're so glad that Kate got this conversation started and that she didn't give in and change her body. Besides, she looks pretty perfect just as she is to us!


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Sun International sells Carousel Casino license
JOHANNESBURG - Leisure company Sun International on Monday said it had sold its Carousel Casino license, subject to its receiving regulatory approval.
The Carousel, which opened in 1991 in what is now South Africa's North West province, was one of the country's oldest and most popular casinos and entertainment centres before it closed in Marcy after the government imposed a nationwide lockdown in response to Covid-19.
Sun International later said the centre would stay permanently closed.
In a statement on Monday, Sun International said it had submitted a regulatory application to the North West Gambling Board and this would now follow due process. In the interim, the company had appointed a management firm to run the casino from December 15.
"By allowing the casino to be run by a management company we will be protecting the livelihoods of many previous staff who can now be re-employed," chief executive officer Anthony Leeming said.


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A read-along eBook (enhanced with audio), has a powerful message; it is a heartfelt example of a father honoring the memory of his daughter. Beautiful and creative Noam wrote this story as play to perform for her family on her 5th birthday. Her tale of a flower fairy that possesses very special powers able to help the meanest of people and change them into good and happy human beings is the perfect way to illustrate to children the power of a positive attitude. Written in Noam's words, it speaks to a young audience and is easy to understand and relate to the story. The children can follow along while voice professionals act out the the story with Noam's words. Part of the proceeds from the book will go to The Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of The Flower Fairy Super Hero by Noam and Bryan Atinsky for the purpose of an honest review.
It is my pleasure to read and review The Flower Fairy Super Hero by Noam and Bryan Atinsky. It is an enchanting and original children's story filled with eye-catching illustrations.
The story of the loss of this creative young life fills me with sadness, but knowing that her story lives on and may be enjoyed by many boys and girls is very uplifting. That a portion of the proceeds from the sales of The Flower Fairy Super Hero will go to help a children's hospital is a wonderful remembrance for young Noam.
The Flower Fairy Super Hero by Noam and Bryan Atinsky teaches a lesson that goodness and love can reach out and change the day of an unhappy "ogre", and make a positive change to the world.
I wasn't having any success with the book's audio, and I attribute that to reader error, but I was able to sit with my granddaughter and enjoy having her read to me several times over a period of days and she seemed to enjoy it more with each read.
I recommend The Flower Fairy Super Hero by Noam and Bryan Atinsky for the young ones in your life and I give it four steaming hot cups of Room With Books coffee.
I am currently owner and Chef at a restaurant in Milwaukee. Before the death of my family, I was, for many years, a journalist and Executive Editor at a news organization based in Jerusalem. Being able to do a good percentage of my work from home, I was able to be an at home father, facilitating my wife to be able to work full time at a biological science lab. Because of this, I was deeply involved in bringing up Noam and my son, Ya'ari, from an early age.Noam wrote the play, which became the Flower Fairy Superhero book, for her birthday, only 3 months before she was killed while visiting family and friends in Israel. Soon after the accident, a Hebrew version of her play was published in a national newspaper in Israel. This got me thinking that publishing her play as an illustrated children's book would be the best way to honor her memory and creativity as a living memorial. I had thought of going to Francisco X. Mora, an artist and family friend who knew Noam, and has illustrated many children's books over the years. Quite unexpectedly, he came to me, after reading a copy of Noam's play, and requested that he be able to work with me to make Noam's play into an illustrated children's book. I jumped at his offer.


Rajaraja built the grandest of temples in this capital; Rajarajesvaram (Big temple) may be aptly described as a temple created in a short time for all time. It is rich in the field of architecture, sculpture (in stone and metal) and painting and also in the arena of music and dance. The museum was established in the year 1984 as part of the celebration of his 1000th birth centenary.


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#include <medPluginWidget.h>

#include <medPluginManager.h>

#include <medAbstractDataFactory.h>
#include <dtkCore/dtkAbstractProcessFactory.h>
#include <dtkCore/dtkAbstractViewFactory.h>
#include <dtkCore/dtkPlugin.h>
#include <dtkGui/dtkAboutPlugin.h>

#include <QtGui>

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//medPluginWidgetPrivate
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

class medPluginWidgetPrivate
{
public:
    QTreeWidget* pluginsTree;
    QTreeWidget* typesTree;
    QTreeWidget* errorTree;

    void resetPluginsTree();
    void resetTypesTree();
    void resetFailedPluginsTree();
};

void medPluginWidgetPrivate::resetPluginsTree()
{
    //First clear the content
    pluginsTree->clear();

    //get the list of plugins
    medPluginManager* mpm = medPluginManager::instance();

    foreach(dtkPlugin* plugin,mpm->plugins())
    {
        QTreeWidgetItem * item = new QTreeWidgetItem(pluginsTree);
        item->setText(0,plugin->name());
        item->setText(1,plugin->version());

        int authorsSize = plugin->authors().size();
        QString author;
        if ( authorsSize )
            author = plugin->authors()[0];
        if ( authorsSize > 1)
            author += " et al.";
        item->setText(2,author);

        pluginsTree->addTopLevelItem(item);

    }
    pluginsTree->resizeColumnToContents(0);
    pluginsTree->setColumnWidth(1,90);
    pluginsTree->sortByColumn(0,Qt::AscendingOrder);
}

void medPluginWidgetPrivate::resetTypesTree()
{
    //First clear the content
    typesTree->clear();

    //get the list of plugins

    medAbstractDataFactory * dataFactory = medAbstractDataFactory::instance();
    QTreeWidgetItem * dataItem = new QTreeWidgetItem(typesTree);
    dataItem->setText(0,QObject::tr("Data"));
    foreach(QString data,dataFactory->creators())
    {
        QTreeWidgetItem * item = new QTreeWidgetItem(dataItem);
        item->setText(1,data);

    }
    typesTree->addTopLevelItem(dataItem);

    QTreeWidgetItem * readerItem = new QTreeWidgetItem(typesTree);
    readerItem->setText(0,QObject::tr("Readers"));
    foreach(QString data,dataFactory->readers())
    {
        QTreeWidgetItem * item = new QTreeWidgetItem(readerItem);
        item->setText(1,data);

    }
    typesTree->addTopLevelItem(readerItem);

    QTreeWidgetItem * writerItem = new QTreeWidgetItem(typesTree);
    writerItem->setText(0,QObject::tr("Writers"));
    foreach(QString data,dataFactory->writers())
    {
        QTreeWidgetItem * item = new QTreeWidgetItem(writerItem);
        item->setText(1,data);

    }
    typesTree->addTopLevelItem(writerItem);

    dtkAbstractViewFactory * viewFactory =
            dtkAbstractViewFactory::instance();

    QTreeWidgetItem * viewItem = new QTreeWidgetItem(typesTree);
    viewItem->setText(0,QObject::tr("Views"));
    foreach(QString view,viewFactory->creators())
    {
        QTreeWidgetItem * item = new QTreeWidgetItem(viewItem);
        item->setText(1,view);

    }
    typesTree->addTopLevelItem(viewItem);

    dtkAbstractProcessFactory * processFactory =
            dtkAbstractProcessFactory::instance();

    QTreeWidgetItem * processItem = new QTreeWidgetItem(typesTree);
    processItem->setText(0,QObject::tr("Processes"));
    foreach(QString process,processFactory->creators())
    {
        QTreeWidgetItem * item = new QTreeWidgetItem(processItem);
        item->setText(1,process);

    }
    typesTree->addTopLevelItem(processItem);
    typesTree->setColumnWidth(1,150);
    typesTree->sortByColumn(1,Qt::AscendingOrder);
    typesTree->sortByColumn(0,Qt::AscendingOrder);

}

void medPluginWidgetPrivate::resetFailedPluginsTree()
{
    //First clear the content
    errorTree->clear();

    //get the list of plugins
    medPluginManager* mpm = medPluginManager::instance();

    foreach(QString error, mpm->loadErrors())
    {
        QTreeWidgetItem * item = new QTreeWidgetItem(errorTree);
        item->setText(0,error);
        errorTree->addTopLevelItem(item);
    }
    errorTree->resizeColumnToContents(0);
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//medPluginWidget methods
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
medPluginWidget::medPluginWidget(QWidget *parent) :
    QTabWidget(parent), d(new medPluginWidgetPrivate)
{
    //Initialise the tree Widget
    d->pluginsTree = new QTreeWidget(this);
    d->pluginsTree->setFrameStyle(QFrame::NoFrame);
    //d->pluginsTree->setMinimumWidth(700);

    d->pluginsTree->setAttribute(Qt::WA_MacShowFocusRect, false);
    d->pluginsTree->setUniformRowHeights(true);
    d->pluginsTree->setAlternatingRowColors(true);
    d->pluginsTree->setAnimated(true);
    d->pluginsTree->setSortingEnabled(true);
    d->pluginsTree->setSelectionBehavior(QAbstractItemView::SelectRows);
    d->pluginsTree->setSelectionMode(QAbstractItemView::SingleSelection);
    d->pluginsTree->header()->setStretchLastSection(true);
    d->pluginsTree->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Expanding,QSizePolicy::Expanding);
    d->pluginsTree->setColumnCount(3);
    QStringList treeColumns;
    treeColumns << tr("Name") << tr("Version") << tr("Authors");
    d->pluginsTree->setHeaderLabels(treeColumns);
    d->pluginsTree->setColumnWidth(1, 50);

    connect(d->pluginsTree,SIGNAL(itemActivated(QTreeWidgetItem*,int)),
            this, SLOT(onPluginTreeItemActivated(QTreeWidgetItem*,int)));

    //Initialise the error Tree
    d->errorTree = new QTreeWidget(this);
    d->errorTree->setFrameStyle(QFrame::NoFrame);
    //d->errorTree->setMinimumWidth(700);
    d->errorTree->setAttribute(Qt::WA_MacShowFocusRect, false);
    d->errorTree->setAlternatingRowColors(true);
    d->errorTree->setSortingEnabled(true);
    d->errorTree->setSelectionBehavior(QAbstractItemView::SelectRows);
    d->errorTree->setSelectionMode(QAbstractItemView::SingleSelection);
    d->errorTree->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Expanding,QSizePolicy::Expanding);
    d->errorTree->setColumnCount(1);
    QStringList errorColumns;
    errorColumns << tr("Error Messages");
    d->errorTree->setHeaderLabels(errorColumns);

    connect(d->errorTree,SIGNAL(itemActivated(QTreeWidgetItem*,int)),
            this,SLOT(onErrorTreeItemActivated(QTreeWidgetItem*,int)));

    //Initialise list of types
    d->typesTree = new QTreeWidget(this);

    d->typesTree->setFrameStyle(QFrame::NoFrame);
    //d->typesTree->setMinimumWidth(700);

    d->typesTree->setAttribute(Qt::WA_MacShowFocusRect, false);
    d->typesTree->setUniformRowHeights(true);
    d->typesTree->setAlternatingRowColors(true);
    d->typesTree->setAnimated(true);
    d->typesTree->setSortingEnabled(true);
    d->typesTree->setSelectionBehavior(QAbstractItemView::SelectRows);
    d->typesTree->setSelectionMode(QAbstractItemView::SingleSelection);
    //d->typesTree->header()->setStretchLastSection(true);
    d->typesTree->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Expanding,QSizePolicy::Expanding);
    d->typesTree->setColumnCount(2);
    QStringList typesTreeColumns;
    typesTreeColumns << tr("Category") << tr("Name");// << tr("Plugin");
    d->typesTree->setHeaderLabels(typesTreeColumns);

    //connect(d->typesTree,SIGNAL(itemActivated(QTreeWidgetItem*,int)),
    //        this, SLOT(onTypesTreeItemActivated(QTreeWidgetItem*,int)));

    this->addTab(d->pluginsTree,tr("Loaded Plugins"));
    this->addTab(d->typesTree,tr("Loaded types"));
    this->addTab(d->errorTree,tr("Failed Plugins"));
    reset();
}

medPluginWidget::~medPluginWidget()
{
    delete d;
    d = NULL;
}

void medPluginWidget::reset()
{
    d->resetPluginsTree();
    d->resetFailedPluginsTree();
    d->resetTypesTree();
}

void medPluginWidget::onPluginTreeItemActivated(QTreeWidgetItem *item, int column)
{
    Q_UNUSED (column);
    QDialog * dial = new QDialog(this);
    dtkPlugin * plugin = medPluginManager::instance()->plugin(item->text(0));
    QString windowTitle = tr("medInria: about ");
    windowTitle += plugin->name();
    dial->setWindowTitle(windowTitle);
    dtkAboutPlugin * apWidget = new dtkAboutPlugin(plugin,dial);

    QVBoxLayout * layout = new QVBoxLayout(dial);

    QPushButton * okBut = new QPushButton(dial);
    okBut->setText("Ok");
    okBut->setFocusPolicy(Qt::NoFocus);
    QObject::connect(okBut, SIGNAL(clicked()), dial, SLOT(close()));

    QHBoxLayout * butLayout = new QHBoxLayout;
    butLayout->addStretch();
    butLayout->addWidget(okBut);
    butLayout->addStretch();

    layout->addWidget(apWidget);
    layout->addLayout(butLayout);

    dial->setLayout(layout);
    dial->exec();
}

void medPluginWidget::onErrorTreeItemActivated(QTreeWidgetItem* item,int column)
{
    Q_UNUSED (column);
    QDialog * dial = new QDialog(this);

    QString windowTitle = tr("medInria: error message");
    dial->setWindowTitle(windowTitle);

    QVBoxLayout * layout = new QVBoxLayout(dial);

    QTextEdit * message = new QTextEdit(dial);
    message->setReadOnly(true);
    message->setText(item->text(0));

    QPushButton * okBut = new QPushButton(dial);
    okBut->setText("Ok");
    okBut->setFocusPolicy(Qt::NoFocus);
    QObject::connect(okBut, SIGNAL(clicked()), dial, SLOT(close()));

    QHBoxLayout * butLayout = new QHBoxLayout;
    butLayout->addStretch();
    butLayout->addWidget(okBut);
    butLayout->addStretch();

    layout->addWidget(message);
    layout->addLayout(butLayout);

    dial->setLayout(layout);
    dial->exec();
}


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Sports | Highlights
FC Barcelona to face Bayern Munich in UEFA Champions League semi-finals
The stage is set and the semi-finals for the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League promises to be one for the ages. Friday's draw in Nyon paired off Barça with Bayern Munich and Juventus with Real Madrid in the final four of Europe's top club competition. The first leg will be played at Camp Nou on 6 May and the second leg will be at Allianz Arena on 12 May. Both games are set for 8.45pm. Luis Enrique's squad will be going up against their ex-coach Pep Guardiola — who led the Catalans from 2008 to 2012 — in a high-profile knockout series that pits two teams with wide-open attacking styles and that should produce a pair of very entertaining football matches, regardless of who comes out on top.
Barcelona (FCB).- The stage is set and the semi-finals for the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League promises to be one for the ages. The luck of the draw — which took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on Friday at 12.00pm (CET) paired FC Barcelona with Bayern Munich in the first semi-final.
Luis Enrique's squad will be going up against their ex-coach Pep Guardiola — who led the Catalans from 2008 to 2012 — in a high-profile knockout series that pits two teams with wide-open attacking styles and that should produce a pair of very entertaining football matches, regardless of who comes out on top.
Barça and Bayern previously faced off in the semi-finals of the 2012/13 Champions League, just before Guardiola took over the reins in Munich.
The other semi-final pits Italian side Juventus versus Barça's domestic rivals Real Madrid.
Semi-final dates
The first leg will be played at Camp Nou on 6 May and the second leg will be at Allianz Arena on 12 May. Both games are set for 8.45pm.
Barça's schedule set for home stretch
With the addition of two matches versus Bayern Munich to the calendar, Luis Enrique's squad have before them a demanding month of May. Before facing Beyern in the Champions League semi-finals, Barça will be at Córdoba on Saturday 2 May at 4.00pm. Between the Bayern matches, Real Sociedad will visit Camp Nou. Then, after the semi-finals, Barça face another demanding test as they will visit Atlético de Madrid. The dates and times of the matches with Real Sociedad and Atlético de Madrid have yet to be announced.
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Barça and Bayern Munich will face each other once again in the Champions League's semi-finals, as in 2013 (by FC Barcelona)


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module Copyable
  class OptionChecker

    VALID_OPTIONS = [:override, :global_override, :skip_validations, :skip_associations]
    VALID_PRIVATE_OPTIONS = [:__called_recursively]  # for copyable's internal use only

    def self.check!(options)
      unrecognized_options = options.keys - VALID_OPTIONS - VALID_PRIVATE_OPTIONS
      if unrecognized_options.any?
        message = "Unrecognized options passed to create_copy!:\n"
        unrecognized_options.each do |opt|
          message << "  #{opt.inspect}\n"
        end
        message << "The options passed to create_copy! can only be one of the following:\n"
        VALID_OPTIONS.each do |opt|
          message << "  #{opt.inspect}\n"
        end
        raise CopyableError.new(message)
      end
      # :skip_associations needs to be an array if it's present
      if (options[:skip_associations].present? && !options[:skip_associations].is_a?(Array))
        raise CopyableError.new("When :skip_associations is used, it must be an array")
      end
    end

  end
end


"We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it." — Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books.
Pop, hope and trot your way down soon for this never seen before showcase of old and new books under the great wings of the Penguin Publishing House. Singapore-based indie bookstore BOOKSACTUALLY's exhibition is part art and part historical excavation. An Ode To Penguin features 1065 individual unique Penguin book covers as well as related memorabilia. In an increasingly book-starved world where electronic paper is fast taking over, it is certainly comforting to know that the good people at BOOKSACTUALLY love to share the beauty of text and image with the public.
Housed in the historic Arts House, which once served as Singapore's Old Parliament House, An Ode To Penguin negotiates the relationship that books have with their covers. In delicate chalk drawings done by Karen Wai, the history and people who founded and shaped the publishing house are explained in bite-sized pieces.
The exhibition is a labour of love that has spanned nearly ten years. Each of the 1065 books were painstakingly mounted on one of five boards, creating an entire wall of books. Each row or section of books is marked by Roman numerals, so visitors can check against an info-board, the background of each series.
No feather is left unruffled — An Ode to Penguin also unearths lesser known imprints like Peacock Books, which was dedicated to young-adult titles and allows the public to get up close and personal. It's a journey into a secret past, where visitors can revel in nostalgia.
The crown jewels of this Penguin's crown are the first five titles published by Penguin while it was an imprint under The Bodley Head. A fine starting point in depicting the evolution of not only Penguin book covers, but also the content that was being published. The iconic minimalist book covers were chosen instead of the gaudy and elaborate designs that other paperback publishers offered back in the 1930s.
The exhibition is very much about embracing the old and new. Alongside battered but well-loved first editions, newer artist collaborations (like Paul Smith's re-design of Lady Chatterly's Lover) are featured under the careful curatorial eye of Kenny Leck and Karen Wai. While these priceless tomes are not for sale, BOOKSACTUALLY's own creations, such as the Author Pencils, are available for the bibliophile in you to take home.
Pre-war Penguin Specials, Pelican books, King Penguins, Puffin Picture Books as well as Penguin Scores are on display. Most of these vintage titles were not available in Singapore until the 1960s.
Local artist such as moof (Mike Foo) and Joseph Chiang (Monster Gallery) have also collaborated with the exhibition, producing exquisite one-of-a-kind pieces of art that adorn the gallery. An Ode To Penguin wants you to know that reading is not just a past-time or hobby, it is a lifestyle.
In conjunction with Penguin's lifelong emphasis on design, An Ode to Penguin also showcases entries from "I ✐ Penguin", a competition that was held earlier in the year where participants had to re-interpret the cover of any existing Penguin book.
From it's convenient location, open layout, to friendly guides and the eye-opening selection of books, An Ode To Penguin embodies the very principle that founder of Penguin Books Allen Lane upheld: making books accessible to the public.


Per ESPN's Chris Mortensen, the deal contains $60 million guaranteed and a whopping $40 million in the first season. Brees is now the NFL's highest paid player, surpassing Calvin Johnson, Peyton Manning, and everyone else. It's also a table setter for Aaron Rodgers, who is currently grossly underpaid through 2014.


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Roxana Gutman este o actriță română de film.

Biografie

Filmografie
 Căsătorie cu repetiție (1985) (menționată Roxana Ionescu)
 Coroana de foc (1990) - soția căpitanului Paloș (menționată Roxana Ionescu)
 Cea mai puternică (film TV, 1991)
 Nunta mută (2008)

Note

Legături externe
Roxana Gutman la Cinemagia

Nașteri în ?
Actrițe române

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'Willow' Release Schedule: When Does the Finale Land on Disney Plus?
Ellie Bamber's character has a grand destiny in Willow, which reached its penultimate episode on Wednesday.
Willow is bringing old-school fantasy action to Disney Plus until Wednesday, when the finale hits the streaming service. The series follows on from the events of the 1988 movie, with lead actor Warwick Davis (best known for his many Star Wars roles) returning as the titular character.
"Whether you're a fan of the '80s movie or not, the new Willow is a slick and entertaining blend of swordplay and wordplay that conjures up some of the old magic," CNET's Rich Knightwell writes in his review.
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The show kicked off on Wednesday, Nov. 30 — seven episodes are available now — and we'll get one last episode on Jan. 11.
Willow episode release dates and times
Here's the full release schedule for Willow on Disney Plus, and we'll adjust if the company announces any changes or breaks. New episodes generally drop at 12 a.m. PT (3 a.m. ET/8 a.m. GMT/7 p.m. AEST).
Episode 1: Available now
Episode 8: Wednesday, Jan. 11
Lucasfilm released trailers during Star Wars Celebration Anaheim in May and D23 in September.
Do I need to watch the movie to understand the show?
The series picks up a few decades after the events of the 1988 movie and references them regularly, but most of the characters are new — similar to the approach Star Wars took with The Force Awakens. It does a solid job of weaving in exposition, so you won't feel lost if you don't have the bandwidth for the movie.
You could always check out the movie if you're hankering to see more of this world between episodes. It's available on Disney Plus.
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