On the night of July 29, we gathered at the pine tree locale with our friends Rolandos & Koulla to seek out supernova 2013DY in Lacerta. Our attempt was a success and we were treated with beautiful dark skies (best SQM reading was 20.89 at zenith) and a multitude of fireballs that seemed to be early Perseids! I set up the camera quite a few feet away to capture this but I seemed to have annoyed a critter who kept walking around the camera nervously but remained in stealth mode (good thing it didn't touch anything!).
Here's a quick and silent timelapse of our activity!
...belated I know. Here's a shot of the Trio as it appeared above our horizon here in Ay. Varvara. EOS 550D with 55-250mm IS.


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Barton Heights Cemeteries is a set of six contiguous historic African-American cemeteries located in Richmond, Virginia, though were originally part of Henrico County. The cemeteries are the Cedarwood, originally called Phoenix and established in 1815, Union Mechanics, Methodist, Sycamore, Ebenezer, and Sons and Daughters of Ham cemeteries.  The cemeteries were established between 1815 and circa 1879, and include hundreds of burials.

The cemeteries were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

References

External links
 Richmond Cemeteries, Barton Heights Cemeteries

Cemeteries in Richmond, Virginia
African-American cemeteries in Virginia
African-American history in Richmond, Virginia
History of slavery in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Richmond, Virginia

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AtlantaBusiness ListingsBusiness NewsletterNews
Stewart, Persily appointed to GLAAD national board
Local business leaders Pamela Stewart and Seth Persily have both been appointed to the national board of GLAAD. Stewart, a 15-year- veteran with Coca-Cola currently leads the Publix national grocery chain ($30B revenue retailer) in the National Retail Sales organization of the Coca-Cola North America Group. In addition to sitting on the national board of GLAAD, Stewart also serves on the boards of Camp Twin Lakes, Junior Achievement of Georgia and AGLCC.
"I have been on a life-long journey to create moments of inspiration for others to live their truth, to be comfortable in their own skin and to stretch beyond their own potential," says Stewart. "My GLAAD work further advances this personal mission in an even deeper way as we continue to accelerate acceptance domestically and globally. It is a privilege to be a part of that undertaking."
Persily agrees. He tells Georgia Voice that he "couldn't be more thrilled to have been appointed to GLAAD's national board."
"In this role, I will work tirelessly to accelerate LGBT acceptance in the South and across the globe through GLAAD's programmatic work."
Persily, a Harvard Law School graduate has served on the board of directors for Youth Pride and Georgia Equality. He is currently employed by Penn Multimedia.
Related: Georgia Voice sales executive Anne Clarke has also been appointed as the new 2016 GLAAD Atlanta co-chair.
Jeff Graham is having a very good month
It's a good month to be Jeff Graham. The Georgia Equality executive director has landed on Atlanta Magazine's list of the 55 most powerful people in the city. The Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender and Sexual Diversity (SOJOURN) also announced that Graham would be presented with the Michael Jay Kinsler Rainmaker Award at the group's 10th annual Purim Off Ponce fundraiser next March.
"These awards are actually about recognizing more than my contributions, but recognizing the teams of people I've worked with over the years," says Graham. "Change has been slower and harder than I could have ever imagined when I started doing this work 30-some years ago, but there is no denying that change has happened." Graham says he "hopes to leverage this recognition into greater successes for our community in the years to come."
Small minority-owned business makes great strides
Visionary Services, Inc. has been able to make great strides in a short amount of time. Visionary was awarded a $3.1 million contract in June 2015 with the United States Coast Guard in Miami, Fl. Certified in the 8(a) program that provides small businesses access to acquire set aside contracts from the government, executive assistant Natasha Ford says "this is just the beginning for Visionary Services."
Ford represented "Visionary" as an invited guest during The White House LGBT Pride Reception in June and received an AGLCC nomination for Small Business of The Year.
William Duffee-Braun & David Thompson launch 'Goliath Atlanta'
Local gay publishers William Duffee-Braun and David Thompson have launched Atlanta's newest gay publication. The premiere issue of "Goliath Atlanta" is currently on newsstands. Duffee-Braun and Thompson describe the lifestyle magazine as "the ultimate creative cultural guide for the discerning gay man."
"I sat down with him (David) not too long ago, asked him to let me follow my passions by creating a new magazine and to go along with me. He didn't even hesitate and here we are," says Duffee-Braun in a statement.
"Goliath Atlanta" will be published monthly and is available in print and online at www. goliathatlanta.com.
Are you a Georgia business owner or run an LGBT-friendly business? Were you recently promoted or made a big career change? We'd like to brag about you in our new business section Work It! Send all tips to editor@thegavoice.com
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Cohen GoFundMe raises more than $120,000 in one day
By Tal Axelrod - 08/22/18 08:34 PM EDT
An online fundraiser to help President Trump Donald John TrumpSanders apologizes to Biden for supporter's op-ed Jayapal: 'We will end up with another Trump' if the US doesn't elect progressive Democrats: McConnell impeachment trial rules a 'cover up,' 'national disgrace' MORE's former personal attorney Michael Cohen pay his legal fees has raised more than $120,000 in one day.
Nearly two thousand people have donated to the GoFundMe page, which was set up by Cohen's attorney, Lanny Davis, and which has a goal of $500,000.
"On July 2, 2018, Michael Cohen declared his independence from Donald Trump and his commitment to tell the truth. On August 21, Michael Cohen made the decision to take legal responsibility and to continue his commitment to tell the truth," the page's description reads.
"Michael decided to put his family and his country first. Now Michael needs your financial help -- to pay his legal fees. The Michael Cohen Truth Fund is a transparent trust account, with all donations going to help Michael Cohen and his family as he goes forward on his journey to tell the truth about Donald Trump," it continues.
Cohen pleaded guilty on Tuesday to seven charges of bank fraud, tax fraud and one charge of campaign finance law violations. Cohen alleged that Trump directed him to make payments before the 2016 presidential election to two women with whom he had allegedly had affairs.
Trump initially denied knowing anything about the payment, including one to adult film star Stormy Daniels, but later acknowledged that he reimbursed Cohen for the expense, which he insisted had nothing to do with the campaign.
Cohen once said he would "take a bullet" for the president. But on Tuesday he delivered a legal blow to his former longtime client, implicating Trump in a felony and prompting a furious blowback from the president's inner circle.
Trump slammed Cohen on Twitter Wednesday following Cohen's guilty plea.
"If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Michael Cohen!" he tweeted Wednesday morning.
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Why Is GraphQL Incorporated Into 8base So Prominently?
Andrei Anisimov
@AndreiAnisimov_
Let's time travel a bit. Imagine you're a developer back in the mid-2000s. You're working on building a web application, and you are solving for the desktop Internet browser because it's the only platform available. It's easier to keep your server and client codebase integrated and let the framework abstract away the client-server communication.
Fast forward a few years — browsers have now matured to support HTML5 and JavaScript, permitting richer client-side capabilities. At this point in time, the front-end developer emerged. Although developers began to diverge in their roles and responsibilities to keep up with evolving technological advancements, monolithic frameworks such as PHP, Ruby-on-Rails, and ASP.NET continued to dominate the developer ecosphere thanks to their simplicity, cost-effectiveness, and pervasive legacy use.
However, in many ways, these monolithic architectures have become a massive liability now that applications need to support many forms of devices and 3rd-party API connections. Due to these factors, the dependency on monolithic frameworks began to shift in favor of the API-first architecture.
The API-First Approach
To accommodate the emerging trend, a new 'API-first' approach was adopted: instead of monolithic, single-tier applications, back-end developers could now build a robust API that a variety of rich native or 3rd party client applications can connect to. Due to its simplicity and elegance, REST became the de facto standard for API implementations in the majority of today's modern web and mobile applications. Meanwhile, developers began strongly gravitating towards either back-end or front-end with expanding divergence of career paths and technology stacks.
However, REST is not perfect, especially when it comes to complex data-driven applications. It skews the balance of power towards the back-end, leaving front-end developers with a set of rigid, opaque endpoints and at the mercy of their back-end counterparts to implement all data sources required in the client app in a timely manner. Issues like over/under-fetching of data and lack of strong typing make the experience with REST suboptimal for many front-end and mobile development projects.
To address these issues, a new standard called GraphQL was developed by Facebook in 2012 and released to the public in 2015. GraphQL enables a query language for APIs. It has been increasingly adopted by many prominent development teams in companies such as AirBnB, Stripe, GitHub, Pinterest, Shopify, and Intuit.
The GraphQL Takeover
Unlike REST, every GraphQL API provides a schema containing information of input and output types, their fields, and relationships between objects. This allows an API to express rich, connected domain models and define flexible queries and mutations (manipulations on data) that are independent of client-side presentation. GraphQL also requires client-side developers to explicitly define the data to be returned, including querying related objects in the same request, eliminating data over- and under-fetching as well as reducing the number of API calls.
GraphQL Vs. REST
Let's compare GraphQL and REST using a simple example: building an online blog. When rendering an individual blog article screen we need to show the post's content, author's avatar and name, list of comments, and name and avatar of each comment author.
With REST we'd have to program the following API calls:
GET /articles/:id to get post's content
GET /users/:id to get the author's avatar URL and name
GET /articles/:id/comments to get the list of comments — hopefully, backend developers incorporated comment author name and avatar. Otherwise, we'll have to do (4)
GET /users/:id for each comment to get comment author's avatar URL and name
Note that the under-fetching (when a single request doesn't give us all data we need) and over-fetching (e.g. /users/:id call returns more info than we need to display), as well as increased complexity of front-end code, are required to orchestrate a series of dependent API calls.
With GraphQL, all information can be received in a single request given that the API developers expressed relationships between posts, users, and comments in the GraphQL API schema. In addition, only requested fields are included in the response, reducing its size. Below is an example of a GraphQL query that gives us all information in a single request:
Achieving this with REST would require back-end developers to implement a custom API endpoint that returns this information. However, it would have to be done for every similar case and the API requires an update every time a front-end developer needs more fields.
This example illustrates how GraphQL changes the balance of power in favor of front-end developers, giving them the flexibility to query the data they need while allowing back-end developers to implement the API in a way that is representative of the business domain as a whole and not particular client-side views.
Together with a vibrant ecosystem of libraries and tools, this elevates the front-end developer experience to the next level — making GraphQL the preferred way to access and manipulate data across a growing number of development teams. This also streamlines the software development team's process, significantly reducing the number of inefficient hand-offs between developers, likely resulting in lower development team staffing and costs.
Using GraphQL with 8base
One of the cons of the GraphQL API is that unlike REST, it is not that easy to implement. Exposing business data in a way that is convenient to use in a variety of client applications requires extensive back-end development. Implementing CRUD operations, relationships, filters, sorting, and pagination for each data type is tedious. Data permissions and the ability to attach files to data objects are also necessary, but not easy to build.
8base's GraphQL API solves this problem automatically by giving front-end and mobile developers tools to configure a powerful GraphQL backend that makes building applications infinitely faster. For each table defined in your workspace, 8base automatically generates the following GraphQL operations:
Get a single object by id or any unique field
Get a list of objects based on filters, sorting, pagination and full-text search criteria
Create, update, delete an object
Subscribe to real-time data events
All of these operations work really well with object relationships allowing developers to query, create and update child objects along with their parents:
Access to each data table and field can be controlled via role-based security:
8base Extensibility Framework
Having CRUD out-of-the-box is handy, but it's not enough for many applications. Most applications need some sort of custom, server-side logic (I.E. — sending an email, connecting to a 3rd party API, running an algorithm, etc.). To complete this task traditionally, you'd need backend developers to write the code, configure, and scale the underlying compute infrastructure.
8base Logic allows you to define, deploy and execute custom server-side logic in a form of serverless functions. The code can be written in JavaScript or TypeScript — languages front-end developers already use daily. Deployment, provisioning, and execution of functions all happen automatically inside the 8base platform — no need to worry about initial configuration or ongoing scaling of the backend workloads.
What About Files?
Neither GraphQL or REST offer any help when it comes to working with files. Modern apps require developers to store and share files in a permissioned manner as well as linking files to data objects. Amongst other tasks, resizing images, generating thumbnails, and serving them through a Content Distribution Network (CDN) also encounter difficulties.
8base GraphQL API provides native file-management capability that makes it easy to work with files of any type. 8base Data Builder allows users the ability to define a File type field on any table to be able to store and work with files just like regular data. Through a native Filestack integration, 8base offers a variety of tools for working with files and documents: robust client-side file picker, fast content ingestion, image operations, thumbnail generation, in-document search, optical character recognition (OCR), facial recognition and more.
Here's how you'd query a user avatar information using 8base GraphQL API:
Try 8base Yourself
8base gives front-end developers the power to build and run modern web and mobile applications without being dependent on large cross-functional teams of backend developers and DevOps staff. But don't take our word for it, try it yourself by completing the Quickstart Guide to launch a demo React app in under 10 minutes.
This article was written by Andrei Anisimov, VP of Technology at 8base.
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This race is organised by North Ayrshire Athletics Club.
Please arrive early to collect your number and to allow sufficient time to get to the start of the race.
The start and finish of the race takes place from Castlepark Drive only a few minutes walk from the primary school grounds.
Registration takes place within Fairlie Primary School, and will open at 6pm on the day of the race. Changing and toilets are available at registration.
The race starts with a short section of level tarmac, before heading up a scenic narrow winding trail. At the top of the trail there is a tricky burn crossing, before a climb up a steep bank gains you access to the open hillside, covered with rough heather and tussocks. The summit of the hill is set back a further than you'd expect, and once round the trig point, you return the same way. The race is approx. 5.5km with a climb of approx. 380m.
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Listen to the SDCC (SanDiegoComicCon) crowd go WILD at the end, they loved it fer shure…Platinum Dunes EPIC FAIL on that F13 YARM IMO but they sure as hell know how to hype, I am psyched for NoES….
The footage was presented in Comic-Con 2009, this is the audio version. Sorry for the bad quality, but please enjoy.
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What hours does Record time offer support?
Support is available by telephone during the hours of 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Monday to Friday, and by email at any time. Support by other means or at other times (including training) is not included in the Monthly Subscription Fee but may be arranged by further negotiation with the Owner.
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Can I send a docket from an Iphone to an Android Phone?
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How can I change my password and my employees from the backend?
Once you have logged in to the back end with your username and password you can then go to the Employees Tab and select Update from the far right hand side. This then allows you to make changes to Employees Passwords and other associated information.
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REBELLION Timepiece becomes the official timekeeper for the spectacular 2019 Pikes Peak International Climb Hill. This legendary and spectacular rally-raid remains the third oldest official car race in the United States. At the end of June, nearly 130 adventurers of renown and amateurs will test themselves driving cars, motorcycles, quads and trucks.
Among these guests, the Italian Simone Faggioli (second in 2018 in 8: 37.230), Swiss Fabien Bouduban (fourth in 2018 in 9: 28.254), David Donohue (winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona 2009 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in GT2 in 1998), and Peter Cunningham (third overall and winner of this Pikes Peak Open category).
The route is 19.93km long and has 156 turns. The departure takes place at 2,865 meters above sea level and ends about 1,440 meters above sea level, hence its nickname: "The race to the clouds". The difference in altitude, and therefore air pressure, is such that it significantly influences the power of the engines between departure and arrival.
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Directors: Quentin Tarantino
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019)
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starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino
by Walter Chaw It was a late summer night, humid and low, in the "hill" area of downtown Seattle, outside a coffee shop called "Coffee Messiah" festooned wall-to-wall with tacky tchotchkes featuring our Lord and saviour. I spent a couple of college summers there and in the San Juans with my friend, Keith. I'd met him at a Primus concert where an entire gymnasium had been converted into a mosh pit. We locked onto each other and agreed that if one of us went down, the other would pick him up. We've been friends now for almost thirty years. So we were standing outside Coffee Jesus sometime in the early Nineties with two other friends I'd made through Keith: Sam and Dan. Dan, tall, white, and awkward, was playing around with being a DJ; Sam was a squat Jewish kid with a chip on his shoulder and a lot of hours spent in a gym. A guy walked up to us swinging nunchucks, shirtless and raving. Sam smiled, put his hand out and talked to him until he put his sticks away. The guy clapped us on the shoulder as though we were old chums he'd run into on the street, and left. Sam was our peacemaker and our enforcer. I noticed after it all went down that we'd automatically moved a step behind Sam when trouble came. Sam would go on to law enforcement and a sad, sickening stint as a 9-1-1 operator that haunted him for years after. A groomsman at my wedding and one of the best friends I'll ever have in this life, Sam killed himself last week, and I'll never be alright again. I'll never feel as safe. Not in the same way.
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Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004) - Blu-ray Disc
Kill Bill, Vol. 2
****/**** Image A Sound A Extras C+
starring Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah
by Walter Chaw Genre poetry from B-movies' poet laureate, Quentin Tarantino's conclusion to Kill Bill is marked by the filmmaker's carefully-calibrated celluloid insanity, as well as a deceptive maturity that allows a few powerfully-struck grace notes for the cult of femininity and the sanctity of motherhood. Its first portion overwhelming for its craft before lodging in the craw with its ever-present but tantalizingly difficult-to-nail moral code, Tarantino's epic whole clarifies a dedication to a sort of low, Samuel Fuller/Nicholas Ray tabloid cosmology, grounding itself eventually in the bold, lovely, curiously old-fashioned declaration that the last best reward is to be true to the primal clay of an idea of innate gender roles. The Bride (Uma Thurman) is so named not merely for camp grandeur's sake, but also to highlight the power of cultural archetypes and their roots in biology.
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starring Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, David Carradine
by Walter Chaw There is a palpable, undeniable perversity to Quentin Tarantino's fourth feature film, a taste for the extreme so gleeful and smart that its references are homage and its puerility virtue. I seem to find a reason between every Tarantino film to dislike him, to cast aspersions on my memories of his films, but I'm starting to think the source of my dislike is jealousy. Tarantino is the director Spielberg is too timid to be: a gifted visual craftsman unafraid of the contents of his psychic closet, and a film brat whose teachers happen to be blaxploitation, samurai epics, and Shaw Brothers chop-socky instead of John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock. And it isn't that I have aspirations of becoming a filmmaker, it's just that I want to be as good at something as Tarantino is at making movies.
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The Hateful Eight (2015) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD
**/**** Image A Sound A Extras C-
starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern
by Walter Chaw Quentin Tarantino's eighth film, The Hateful Eight, features eight hateful people trapped in a small space during a blizzard. The hullabaloo surrounding its release has to do with the production shooting in an extinct widescreen format (70mm anamorphic) and putting up a lot of money so that it can be screened accordingly in select theatres. A few critics have misidentified its vistas as belonging to Wyoming (it was filmed in Telluride, Colorado), which is understandable given that only about five minutes of the 187-minute running-time is spent outside. There hasn't been a Tarantino feature until this one that I haven't loved; I believe he is our finest working film critic. He understands things about the movies he pulls from--that certain traditions of Japanese and exploitation filmmaking are strongly feminist, that blaxploitation was initially empowerment before it was instantly gentrified, that the best slave narratives involve legacies of violence, which is why Lalee's Kin and Django Unchained have a biological connective bridge. I've learned more about movies from watching Tarantino than I have from watching Godard, who's actually trying to teach me something. I think the Kill Bill saga is a remarkable statement about motherhood. I find his dialogue to be distinctive and sometimes exhilarating. I struggled with disliking The Hateful Eight for each of its 187 minutes. It's the first time I've ever understood the popular criticism of Tarantino as self-indulgent, nihilistic, misogynistic, even racist. I don't agree with every charge, but I do get it now. It's the first time, too, that I was troubled by a plot point in his film: there's someone in the piece who hates Mexicans, see, but when we get a flashback to this person engaging with a Mexican, we see that this is a fallacy. I can't figure out if this was intentional; I fear that it wasn't. I fear, more, that this is evidence that for the first time Tarantino has lost control of his screenplay. I also finally felt the loss of Sally Menke, who was his Marcia Lucas. I hope it's not a harbinger of things to come.
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The Good Dinosaur (2015); The Revenant (2015); The Hateful Eight (2015)
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screenplay by Meg LeFauve
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screenplay by Mark L. Smith & Alejandro G. Iñárritu
directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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by Walter Chaw Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) is the runt in a frontier family of stylized dinosaur herbivores who struggles to live up to the example of towering Poppa (Jeffrey Wright) on the family farmstead. He's clumsy, though, and easily frightened, and when he finds himself incapable of killing a mammalian vermin (Jack Bright), he unwittingly causes the death of his father. Arlo joins forces with the vermin, eventually, dubbing him "Spot" (he's a little orphaned human boy) and relying on him to forage sustenance for him in the wild world outside. Spot, in return, relies upon Arlo for protection in the film's final set-piece as Spot is set upon by a flock of fundamentalist pterodactyls. Pixar's The Good Dinosaur is, in other words, a horror western about a frontier bespotted with monsters and monstrous ideologies, set right there at the liminal space--as all great westerns are--between the old ways and the encroaching new. It's far more disturbing than has generally been acknowledged and, in being disturbing, it offers a tremendous amount of subtext layered onto a deceptively simple story. It posits an Earth where the dinosaur-ending comet misses impact, leading to millions of years of evolved adaptations and ending, as the film begins, with the emergence of homo sapiens on schedule, but skittering around on all fours and howling at their saurian masters. The Good Dinosaur is an existential horrorshow.
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Pulp Fiction (1994) + Jackie Brown (1997) - Blu-ray Discs
****/**** Image A+ Sound A+ Extras A+
starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis
****/**** Image A Sound A+ Extras A
starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro
screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
PULP FICTION: VIEW IN iTUNES - USA|CANADA
JACKIE BROWN: VIEW IN iTUNES - USA|CANADA
by Walter Chaw Seventeen years on, Pulp Fiction still works like a motherfucker. It might, indeed, benefit from the shock of its gleeful use of "nigger," the surprise of its sodomy and ultra-violence, and the sheer pleasure of hearing Sam Jackson say those lines and John Travolta dance again in a movie having faded. What's left is this appreciation of a film that is delighted with cinema and experimental without being a jerk about it (very much like Lars Von Trier's Zentropa, specifically in a black-and-white rear-process cab ride with none of that feeling that Tarantino's trying to make a point as opposed to recognizing something that looks cool and feels right)--a film that is Tarantino in all his gawky, hyperactive, movie-geeking, idioglossic splendour, fully-formed and trying only a bit too hard. Beginning life as a proposed portmanteau to be helmed by a trio of directors (à la Tarantino's later, disastrously-received foray into the anthology format, Four Rooms), the picture retains elements of its three-headed inception by intertwining a trilogy of hard-boiled crime stories in a way superior, it's clear now, to Frank Miller's career-long attempts at the same. Tarantino's purer. The stakes for him are simpler. Pulp Fiction is evidence not of someone with something to prove but of an artist entirely, and genuinely, in love with his medium. He loves film enough to push it to be everything. And Pulp Fiction almost gets there.
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Django Unchained (2012) - Combo Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson
by Walter Chaw If Inglourious Basterds was an ambiguous, brilliant indictment of "Jewish vengeance" wrapped in this impossibly canny exploration of violence through screenwriting, performance, and love of film, think of Quentin Tarantino's follow-up, Django Unchained, as a glorious continuation of what has become a singular artist's evolving theme. It demonstrates an absolute command of the medium, of what film can do when tasked to do more than usual, and it does it by being some of the finest film criticism of the year. If the Coens are our best literary critics, then Tarantino is our best film critic cum sociologist, and his topics, again, are how we understand history through specific prisms and how violence can be both catharsis and atrocity--often in the same breath and almost always in the same ways. Consider that this difficult film's most difficult moment comes, as it does in Inglourious Basterds, at the very end, in an unbearably ugly act of violence perpetrated against not the expected slave-owner antagonist, Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), but his manservant Stephen/Stepin (Samuel L. Jackson). Consider, too, the idea that vengeance--particularly in our post-9/11 environment--is the proverbial tiger we've caught by the tail: our cultural legacy that we try to justify through any means, given that our ends are so very righteous.
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starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Mélanie Laurent
by Walter Chaw There are two stars in Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino and Christoph Waltz), the one to be expected, the other a shoo-in for Oscar consideration in what's easily the most mesmerizing, commanding performance I've seen in any film this year. The opening sequence, in which Waltz's SS Col. Hans Landa interrogates a French dairy farmer as to the whereabouts of a Jewish family that's gone missing, is, how to say this, perfect, but unlike the other perfect sequences of 2009 (the prologue of Up, the main titles of Watchmen), Inglourious Basterds matches this exceptional moment with another as Landa has a little confection with a rare survivor of his attentions, Shosanna (a stunning Mélanie Laurent); then another as German actress Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) does her best to cover for her three suspicious pals in an underground speakeasy; then another with Landa again as he asks von Hammersmark to put her foot in his lap. At first glance two separate films that only fit together roughly, if at all, it becomes clear during Inglourious Basterds' final chapter, as the ghostly image of a beautiful woman cackles in the smoke above a burning auditorium ("This is the face of Jewish vengeance!"), that this is Tarantino no longer making something new and strange out of his obsessive movie-love, but something dangerous and risky about the ethics of vengeance and the shifting ground beneath moral quagmires we thought we'd put to bed. What better conflict than the last popular war to stage a conversation about whether or not the only reason the winners weren't held accountable for their atrocities is that they were the winners.
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The Portsmouth festival doesn't just want to satisfy your thirst for great musical acts, but also your appetite for comedy acts.
The North West dance music behemoth returns to Daresbury this year, with an all-new structure and a raft of electronic music's biggest names.
Since its inception back in 1998, Creamfields has been pioneering cutting-edge levels of production for the past two decades, setting the benchmark for electronic music festivals around the world.
The indie scene's top emerging artist is added to the line-up alongside Fickle Friends, Zak Abel, and many more.
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The American singer/songwriter has been added to a huge list of acts which includes Liam Gallagher, Arctic Monkeys, and Mumford and Sons.
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Feodora Leiningenská (7. prosince 1807 – 23. září 1872) byla jediná dcera Emicha Karla Leiningenského a Viktorie Sasko-Kobursko-Saalfeldské. Feodora a její starší bratr Karel byli polorodými sourozenci královny Viktorie. Feodora byla předkyní Karla XVI. Švédského a Filipa VI. Španělského.

Život
Feodora se narodila 7. prosince 1807 jako dcera Emicha Karla Leiningenského a Viktorie Sasko-Kobursko-Saalfeldské. Její otec zemřel v roce 1814.

Dne 29. května 1818 se její matka znovu provdala, a to za Eduarda Augusta Hannoverského, čtvrtého syna Jiřího III. Následující rok byla domácnost převezena do Spojeného království Velké Británie a Irska, protože těhotenství vévodkyně Viktorie se blížilo ke konci a nový potenciální dědic trůnu se měl narodit na britské půdě.

Podle všeho měla Feodora blízký vztah se svou sestrou Viktorií, která byla starší sestře oddána. Navzdory tomu si Feodora horlivě přála natrvalo opustit jejich residenci v Kensingtonském paláci.

Manželství
V roce 1828 se Feodora v Kensingtonském paláci provdala za Ernesta I. z Hohenlohe-Langenburg, muže, se kterým se předtím setkala jen dvakrát. Po líbánkách se vrátila do Německého spolku, kde žila až do své smrti v roce 1872. Pár žil ve velkém a nepohodlném Schloss Langenburgu. Feodora udržovala celoživotní korespondenci se svou sestrou, a byla jí přiznána renta ve výši £300, aby mohla kdykoli navštívit Anglii.

Feodořina nejmladší dcera, sasko-meiningenská vévodkyně, zemřela na počátku roku 1872 na spálu. Feodora zemřela ještě toho roku.

Potomci
Feodora měla s Ernestem tři syny a tři dcery:

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Narození 7. prosince
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Gibson Firebird X released
By MusicRadar Team 2011-09-29T09:58:00.271Z
Gibson's hi-tech robo guitar finally arrives
This is the "Bluevolution" finish. Yes, really.
Nearly a year after it was announced, Gibson's Firebird X will finally ship to retail this Friday September 30.
The self-styled super-guitar features an in-body effects processing system and "fourth-generation" robot tuners. Intriguingly, the Pure-Analog processing engine is also open to third-party developers.
Check out our full review of the Firebird X.
The roll-out is limited to 1800 models at $5570 rrp (or around £3300, we reckon). Check out an overview video and the official press release below...
Firebird X introduction video
Nashville, Tennessee: On Friday September 30th 2011 Gibson Guitar Corp will take guitar engineering to new heights with the introduction of the Gibson Firebird X (www.gibson.com/firebirdx). An evolution of the 1960s classic Gibson Firebird model, the Firebird X is loaded with ground-breaking technologies like fourth-generation Robot tuners for automatic tuning, onboard effects based on computer plug-in technology, and wireless Bluetooth pedals for unsurpassed usability on stage and in the studio.
In addition, the Gibson Firebird X is designed for compatibility with hardware and applications developed by third party companies-an industry first. Gibson's "Pure-Analog™" Engine makes this possible in conjunction with an authorized App store, where vendors can sell Gibson-compliant applications.
Limited to 1,800 models in two unique finishes - Redolution and Bluevolution - the Gibson Firebird X will retail for $5,570 msrp.
"Innovation has always been the driving force at Gibson, and the Firebird X is nothing short of groundbreaking," says Henry Juszkiewicz, Gibson Guitar Chairman and CEO.
"The Gibson Firebird X is truly the most technologically-advanced guitar ever conceived, with multiple built-in effects that take sonic capabilities to an entirely new level-while retaining the classic appeal of a finely-crafted, supremely playable instrument."
As an added bonus, all registered owners of the Firebird X gain instant entry into the Firebird X Visionaries Club, an on-line community where members have exclusive access to software, patches, manuals and other supporting downloads.
In addition, members can create and maintain personal profile pages; post and share Firebird X preset files, audio and video content; and communicate/interact with fellow Firebird X owners, artists and Gibson staff.
The Gibson Firebird X has a lightweight body (six pounds total) made from hand-sorted swamp ash; a thin, fast, asymmetrical rock maple neck with a smooth, non-stick satin finish; and a maple finger board. Gibson has also developed the unique ProX case to protect the instrument, with the ability to survive a fall from a sixty-foot building.
Built-in effects capability, accessible with a minimum of motion and disruption, enable users to simply morph settings and switch into different effect. Presets recreate the world's best tones and generate a plethora of new ones.
With a fourth generation of supporting hardware and software the Gibson Firebird X is self-tuning, allowing the guitar to change tunings quickly and accurately.
Designed to look like standard pickup selectors, the two "tog-pots" have control built into the rotatable toggle shaft to let users morph smoothly from unprocessed to processed sounds. A third "tog-pot" blends acoustic sounds from the piezo pickup, along with the electric pickups or only acoustic sounds. Optimized to sound like Gibson's acclaimed J-45 acoustic guitar, the basic acoustic guitar sound is virtually indistinguishable from an acoustic guitar's electric output.
Three mini-humbuckers with side-by-side coils and a hexaphonic piezo bridge pickup with an improved low noise, high dynamic-range preamplifier make the Firebird X a fully active guitar. The bridge piezo pickup includes hex outputs (each string can provide a separate output for computer or live performance setups), which allow everything from totally new sounds from "clean" distortion and synth-like timbres to sophisticated surround possibilities.
Thanks to advances in low-power circuitry, greater Robo-Tuner efficiency, and power saving technologies adapted from laptop computers, the Firebird X internal battery lasts for over two hours of continuous use and, if needed, can be swapped out in seconds with a readily available camcorder battery.
Gibson partnered with CSR, a global leader in wireless technology, to develop an expression pedal and footswitch unit (included with purchase) for the Firebird X. "CSR combined our unsurpassed Bluetooth connectivity technology and expertise with our passion for creativity to make Gibson's vision a reality," says Anthony Murray, CSR Senior Vice President of Audio and Consumer Business. "The result is an amazing system that enables players to experience precise, intuitive control of the instrument with absolutely no wires to get in the way." Optimized for musical applications, the pedals and footswitch snap together for a secure mechanical and electrical connection to create a compact pedal board setup.
Although the heart of the distortion options within Firebird X use McDSP's critically-acclaimed Chrome Tone plug-in, Gibson engineers included multiple modulation, delay, and reverberation effects including new effects like "dynamic" delay and old favorites like spring reverb, analog chorus/delay, and a 10-second looper.
The Firebird X features Gibson's turbo-charged "Pure-Analog™" engine, which provides an arsenal of professional world class sounds and effects as well as professional analog sound. It is user-replaceable, and allows 3rd party developers to make new exciting use of the engine by allowing their software, sold in the Gibson app store, to run on the guitar's engine.
For more information on the Gibson Firebird X and to find the nearest dealer, please visit http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Firebird/Gibson-USA/Firebird-X.aspx.


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Q: Can't Boot to Live CD - Samsung NP355E5C-A01US I am trying to upgrade my laptop, a Samsung NP355E5C-A01US, from Ubuntu 12.10 to 14.04.
The previous installation (Ubuntu 12.10) has become a bit unstable making this very difficult.
I have a Live CD with the new OS loaded onto it and when I run the disk with it tells me to reboot from the CD.

When I reboot I don't see any options to boot to the Live CD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

A: Well, you see the normal grub boot loader, not the one from the CD. You most probably have to change the bootorder in your BIOS to change the boot priority.
Maybe this helps, depending on your model:
Change boot order (Samsung)

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Between 13 October 2009 and 21 February 2010, we held the world's first museum exhibition of Steampunk art. This extraordinarily successful exhibition showcased the work of 18 Steampunk artists from across the globe, and drew over 70,000 visitors to the Museum. Find out more about the exhibition by following links below – watch a documentary about the exhibition, take a virtual tour, see photographs of the costumed visitors on the Museum's Steampunk Catwalk and watch some Steampunk machines in action.
To coincide with the exhibition, Secondary School Art and D&T departments were invited to submit students' work to The Great Steampunk Art and Design Competition! A slideshow of the resulting artworks can be found here .
Details of a packed programme that has been running through the duration of the exhibition, featuring art and design, technology, films, fashion, makers, competitions, and steam!
A special issue of the Museum's publication Broad Sheet , which includes a specially commissioned Steampunk comic strip  created by Sydney Padua .
artists along with their exhibits, now being followed by the next generation. The exhibition has even inspired its own fashion genre and you can see photos of live mannequins on the plinth.
Several films, including interviews with Art Donovan, the curator, and Jim Bennett, Museum Director as well as tours of the exhibition space.


Man-Thing versus Swamp thing — Et al. / Et al. etc.
The intensely competitive nature of the comic book industry has tended to result in a certain degree of creative overlap over the years; hence it's not uncommon for superheroes created by different publishers to share highly similar abilities and origin stories. But perhaps not two comic book characters share the degree of similarity enjoyed by Swamp Thing (DC comics) and Man-Thing (Marvel). In terms of appearance, abilities, and backstory, the two are virtually identical. Originally human, both characters started out as scientists, working in secret to develop formulas for enhancing human biology. Both victims of espionage and betrayal, each is forced to flee into the swamps with their research, only to be killed and subsequently transmuted into monstrous swamp-beings, bizarre human-plant hybrids endowed with strange powers and endless regenerative abilities. Despite being composed of swamp-muck and somewhat hideous in appearance, both characters are portrayed as healers and protectors: Swamp Thing, a plant elemental with the memories of human Alec Holland, is the emissary and defender of The Green, the combined awareness/energy of all plant-based life in the universe, while Man-Thing—barely sentient, more an inchoate, empathic mass than a thinking being—serves as the guardian of The Nexus of All Realities, the convergence point of multiple dimensions (which for some reason happens to be the Florida Everglades).
We'll 'fess up: the title of the current exhibition(s) is something of a red herring; merely a bit of cognitive clickbait borrowed from the vernacular of comic book covers. The show isn't about an epic showdown between rival heroes, or swamps, or even the biological. And despite the "versus," it certainly isn't about oppositionality or difference. Instead, it's about their breakdown; the collapse and intermingling of seemingly disparate systems, materials, and ideas into a space of unruly hybridity. The artists in the show all reflect an emergent awareness of the limitations of a worldview based on separation and division; a recognition that, below the outer appearance of things, beyond the seeming separateness of the objects and entities we encounter, under the surface of our illusions of self, lies nothing but a vast and continual process of exchange, emergence, decay, and transformation. This show is interested in proposing something stranger than its title may initially suggest — the possibility that we, and everything around us, are both made of and blending into everything else, even while seemingly apart.


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LeBron James on Jayson Tatum: 'I just love everything about the kid'
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Greg Brueck-Cassoli
May 28, 2018 12:53 am ET
LeBron James took a moment to talk with Jayson Tatum before leaving the court after the Cleveland Cavliers defeated the Boston Celtics in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday.
The fifteen year veteran and all-time great is a fan of the precocious rookie.
"I just love everything about the kid," James said of Tatum after the game. "The way he plays the game, his demeanor, where he comes from. I know his parents. I just know he's just built for stardom. He's built for success. And that's both on and off the floor."
Boston's young wing was grateful for James' appreciation.
"Yeah. That was a special moment for me," Tatum said of the pair's postgame chat. "I grew up watching LeBron and asking him to follow me back on Twitter, going to his camps. So just to my first year, to be able to compete against a player like him and be a few shots away from beating him and his team to go to the championship is something I will always remember."
One play in particular is likely to stand out, a thunderous dunk right on top of James. Tatum described the posterization and his exuberant celebration that followed as a bit of payback for the two stepback jumpers James drilled over him in the closing minutes of Game 5.
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"Oh, yeah. I mean, I had to get him back for the two shots he hit on me in Cleveland," he told reporters. "I meant no disrespect by it. Just in the moment, made a play. Just showing emotion."
It will be far from the last highlight of Tatum's career. He'll be hoping others come with a bit more playoff success. If he continues to grow at the rate he did this year, they most certainly will.
But for now Tatum will have to settle for a bit of praise and admiration from the world's best player. It's not a bad consolation prize.
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Derrick White explains how opposing defenses are preparing the Boston Celtics for the postseason


The Offices node provides an easy way to switch between schedules for different locations. It will list the offices from References in this folder. Check the box on the appropriate office to quickly select or deselect the resources for that office. Use the Resources node to set this up, then columns tied to a particular office will display or hide based on this configuration.


When Old Oak Common traction maintenance depot held its open day, the amazing assortment of locomotives from all eras grabbed everyone's attention. Indeed, the day was a celebration of Legends of the Great Western. However, this was also a unique opportunity for the public to see the maintenance depot - 111 years old, but soon to close.
The Great Western Railway opened its depot on 17 March 1906. Since then, it has been maintaining the railway's trains - even as the operating companies have changed their names and ownership, to British Rail, Great Western Trains, First Great Western, and finally coming full circle to Great Western Railway again.
The GWR had outgrown its maintenance depot in Westbourne Park when, in 1901, it acquired this land in East Acton. In particular, locomotives had got larger, the railway was operating more routes, and Paddington Station had expanded over recent decades, with more growth to come. Most of the original buildings would be demolished in the 1960s, when the depot was transformed to service diesel engines rather than steam. Further buildings have been added since, and a larger transformation is to come.
Since 1976, Old Oak Common has maintained the fleet of High Speed Trains (HSTs) which carry passengers from Paddington to West and South-West England and South Wales. This is no small undertaking: every train is checked, refuelled, and toilet waste emptied each night, with more comprehensive maintenance also carried out here as required. That means that the depot is a 24-hour operation (making the open day quite a logistical feat).
In addition to some familiar railway sights (albeit multiplied in quantity), such as rails leading to buffers, there is plenty of specialist equipment visible. This electric engine moves stock around: the coupling on the front can be changed as required. As well as being much more precise than a locomotive, it can be operated remotely as well as driven from the cab.
Some sheds have pits, much like those in motor garages - but considerably longer!
This stock also requires more in the way of lifting equipment than the average motor vehicle.
Even familiar items such as screen wash are on an absurdly different scale.
A gantry allowed visitors an unusual view of an engine - from above.
This engine shed has only four tracks with access to fuel lines, so there's lots of movement as engines are refuelled and then moved out again so that others can take their place.
Train wheels need their own special care, and a shed is devoted to this. We were able to have a relaxed look around, but usually this is a noisy and dangerous area with protective clothing and equipment required.
However, there are two major changes coming soon. First, the HSTs are being replaced by Hitachi Intercity Express Trains, which will be maintained by Hitachi at the nearby North Pole depot. Secondly, Crossrail is coming to Paddington and will have its own maintenance facility here. The combined effect of these is that the current depot at Old Oak Common will be closed over the next eighteen months, with ambitious plans for transforming the area being formulated by the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation. Thus the open day was not only a rare look, but a last one, at the work done here to keep our trains running.


Sachin Tendulkar is known as 'God of Cricket' in World. He is the lone double century maker in the ODIs which he scored against South Africa last year at Gwalior. Off-late Sachin Tendulkar is in great form and batting at his best. He is India's biggest match-winner. He holds the record of most centuries and most runs in ODIs. He has 47 centuries under his belt and more than 17000 runs in his account which is world record in itself. Infact man itself is one kind of record. He is world's most capped player and playing international cricket for more than 2 decades. All of India's hope in this World Cup depends on his performance. This is considered to be his last world Cup and he is desperate to win this World Cup. He is also highest run-getter in World Cup with more than 1600 runs in previous five editions with staggering average of 58. In this World Cup he will also equals the record of Javed Miandad of playing in six World Cups. Being his last World Cup he is hoping to leave international cricket on high with World Cup victory.
Team India is considered most favorite to win this edition of the Cricket World Cup. It is irony that nation which is crazy after cricket and consider cricket as religion has achieved only single World Champion title so far and that too 28 years ago. After that India played in semi-finals in 1987 and 1996 but failed to reach the finals on both occasions. There best chance came in 2003 World Cup where they reached finals but lost to Australia and thirst for another World Cup victory increased among cricket lovers of this country. In 2007 World India failed poorly as they thrown out of the tournament after first round where they lost to minnows Bangladesh. This time experts and cricket pundits are rating Indian team highly. India have the team which can win the World Cup but they often becomes complacent after achieving small feats. They have best batting line-up compare to all the other teams playing in the World Cup. Known conditions, pitches and home-crowd also goes in their favour. So from all the aspects they look favorites. Indan team also have certain injury problems as Sehwag is not fully fit. Pace bowler Praveen Kumar is already out of the tournament due to injury and some other players also carrying small niggles. So India is also vulnerable though they are best team on the paper. Captain MS Dhoni have to play his natural game just like Kapil Dev played in 1983 World Cup. India have best chance of winning the World Cup this time as they are playing at home but they will be under-pressure due to high expectations by their fans and it is not easy to perform well under such pressure and in front of large crowds.
Personally I believe India will not going to win this World Cup. I will be surprise if they reach the semi-finals.


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Remembering La Penca, 35 years later
Costa Rica announces drop in murders, increase in gun seizures
More than 500 arrests made in raid against arms trafficking in eight Latin American countries
Costa Rica sentences four members of Mexican jewelry thief gang 'Los Mazos' to prison
World's top drug trafficker, 'El Chapo' Guzmán arrested in Mexico
Joshua Partlow and Nick Miroff | The Washington Post February 22, 2014 April 10, 2014
Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán Loera, aka "El Chapo Guzmán," is escorted by marines as he is presented to the press on Feb. 22, 2014 in Mexico City. The Sinaloa cartel leader – the most wanted man by U.S. and Mexican anti-drug agencies – was arrested early this morning by Mexican Marines at a resort in Mazatlán, northern Mexico. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)
MEXICO CITY – Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the man who supplied more illegal drugs to the United States than anyone else on Earth, was captured by the Mexican military without a shot Saturday morning in the Pacific coast town resort of Mazatlán, according to U.S. and Mexican authorities.
The arrest of the world's most wanted drug lord was electrifying news in Mexico and a major political victory for its president, Enrique Peña Nieto. On Saturday afternoon, Peña Nieto confirmed the capture in a tweet and thanked his security forces. "Congratulations to all," he wrote.
Reconozco la labor de las instituciones de seguridad del Estado mexicano, para lograr la aprehensión de Joaquín Guzmán Loera en Mazatlán.
— Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) February 22, 2014
Guzmán runs an organized crime empire that spans several continents and earns billions of dollars. Guzmán built a shipping and transport empire that plied air, sea and roads to sate the world's demand for cocaine, heroin and marijuana. From Los Angeles warehouses to Chicago barrios, his employees criss-crossed America to supply their customers.
His Sinaloa cartel is the grandfather of Mexican drug-running organizations, the wealthiest and most powerful corporation in the business, whose riches have corrupted generations of Mexican politicians and corroded the nation's democracy.
"He's a legend," said security analyst Jorge Chabat in Mexico City. "He is the jewel of the crown."
Mexican television broadcast photographs of a shirtless, mustachioed Guzmán looking down at the ground. News reports said he had been captured by members of the Mexican military on Friday night in a building known as "Miramar" in the resort town of Mazatlán.
Guzmán separated himself from other drug lords due to his longevity and ability to evade the law for years. Captured in Guatemala in 1993, he was sent to Mexico's high-security Puente Grande prison only to escape in 2001 on the eve of his extradition to the United States. Legend has it that he sneaked out in a laundry cart.
Guzmán has been on the run ever since, periodically surfacing in Mexican beach resorts, Central American villages, even South America, only to vanish before authorities arrived. With each passing year he became wealthier and more powerful – Mexico's mythical outlaw – with a reputation comparable only to fallen Colombia drug lord Pablo Escobar. He had a beauty queen wife and a reputation for generosity among his followers that elevated him to folk-hero status. Under Mexico's previous president, Felipe Calderón, the appetite to capture Guzmán was so ravenous that Mexico ran at least three full-time kill-capture units dedicated solely to pursuing him.
Dicen que fue @SEMAR_mx la que capturó a Guzmán Loera. Felicidades al Presidente Peña, al Srio. @AlmSoberon y a los marinos por este golpe.
— Felipe Calderón (@FelipeCalderon) February 22, 2014
Yet Guzmán was not flashy or flamboyant, quietly building his billion-dollar narcotics empire through well-placed bribes and overwhelming firepower. He directed an army of hit men who murdered thousands. His strong-armed push to take control of the border city of Ciudad Juárez produced the drug war's biggest bloodbath.
Unlike Mexico's widely-despised, upstart crime syndicates like Los Zetas or The Knights Templar, his Sinaloa cartel largely eschewed extortion and kidnapping. Instead, it focused on the lucrative business of delivering vast quantities of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine into the United States.
Guzmán was born into the trade. The son of a dirt-poor peasant farmer, he grew up in the "Golden Triangle" region of Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains that is the heart of North American marijuana and opium poppy production. He didn't make it past third grade but was mentored by the local drug lords of the era and set himself apart as a smart operator and fearless gunman.
The same remote mountain communities and tight-lipped locals have helped him elude capture for so long, despite costly, all-out efforts by U.S. and Mexican authorities to catch him. He was said to move between a network of ranches and hideouts high in the mountains, where local farmers referred to the 5-foot-6 Guzmán in hushed voices as "El Señor," meaning "The Boss," or "The Lord," and not by his popular nickname "Chapo," meaning "Shorty."
No one could have expected him to be taken so easily.
A couple poses for a photo in front of the Miramar condominium in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, on Feb. 22, 2014 where Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was arrested early this morning by Mexican Marines. Fernando Brito/AFP
In 2009, Mexico's defense secretary, Guillermo Galván, told Dennis Blair, then the Obama administration's director of national intelligence, that "Chapo commands the support of a large network of informers and has security circles of up to 300 men that make launching capture operations difficult," according to a secret diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
That Guzmán was captured without a shot and apparently without much security detail remains one of the biggest questions about his arrest. Authorities had been ratcheting up pressure on the Sinaloa cartel in recent weeks by busting several mid-level members. The Mexican Navy and other authorities have conducted operations in Sinaloa state, a sliver of Pacific coast territory long known as a drug-cartel bastion. The son of Guzmán's partner, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, was arrested in November in Arizona when he tried to meet government officials to talk about his wife's immigration status. Last month, Mexican Marines had raided the house of Grisela Pérez López, an ex-wife of the mob boss. That operation netted Jesús Peña González, a deputy known as "El 20" and others, the newspaper Reforma reported.
The Sinaloa cartel, which has dominated drug routes into the U.S. through cities such as Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, has other prominent leaders, and security analysts expected their lucrative business empire would rumble on. Leadership of his Sinaloa cartel has long been shared with Zambada, who has proven himself capable of running the organization in the past.
This file photo dated July 10, 1993 shows drug trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán at the Almoloya de Juárez, Mexico, maximum-security prison. AFP/Gerardo Magallón/Files
"During El Chapo's imprisonment [between 1993 and 2001], El Mayo helped keep the Sinaloa cartel together," said George Grayson, a drug war expert at the College of William and Mary who has written several books about Mexican cartels. "He will step into Chapo's boots."
Zambada's son, Vicente, is facing a federal grand jury indictment in Chicago, where prosecutors have named Guzmán "public enemy number one" — a title last held by Al Capone. It's not clear if information gleaned from the younger Zambada, who claims that he was working as a Drug Enforcement Administration informant at the time of his 2009 arrest in Mexico City, was used to track down Guzmán.
Guzmán's arrest has the potential to bolster Peña Nieto's image as a tough-on-crime leader. Since taking over more than a year ago, his administration sought to distance itself from the belligerent rhetoric of Calderón. Peña Nieto said reducing violence, rather than capturing drug lords, should be the priority. Some political observers speculated this meant some type of accommodation with certain drug gangs would follow.
And yet, Peña Nieto has captured some of the biggest players in the game, including the Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, known as Z-40, who ran the exceptionally violent Zetas cartel. Calderón congratulated Peña Nieto and leaders of the armed forces for the arrest in a tweet Saturday.
"This is one of the most important achievements of the Peña Nieto administration in terms of the fight against organized crime," Chabat said.
Washington Post staff writer Ernesto Londoño in Washington contributed to this report.
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Assumed Business Name Certificates May Expire on December 1, 2022
Andrew W. Howle
If an Assumed Business Name Certificate (a "Certificate") was filed in North Carolina on or before December 1, 2017, that Certificate will expire on December 1, 2022. If a business is using an assumed name based on a Certificate that was filed on or before December 1, 2017 and desires to continue using that assumed name after December 1, 2022, the business is required to file a new Certificate on or after December 1, 2022.
The new Assumed Business Name Act (the "New Act") became effective in North Carolina on December 1, 2017 and replaced the previous act that regulated doing business under an assumed name (the "Old Act"). Under the Old Act, when a business wanted to do business in North Carolina under an assumed name, it had to file a Certificate with the office of the registrar of deeds in every North Carolina county in which it would do business under that assumed name. If someone then wanted to determine who the business was that was using the assumed name, that person would have had to search the records for the applicable office of the registrar of deeds. The New Act simplified those filing and research requirements.
The New Act requires the North Carolina Secretary of State create a searchable database for all Certificates filed under the New Act. The Certificate is still filed with the office of the registrar of deeds in the county where the business will operate. However, if the business operates in more than one North Carolina county, it simply needs to indicate on one Certificate all counties in which it operates and then file the Certificate in one county. If the business is going to operate in all North Carolina counties, it can simply check a box on the form of the Certificate available through the Secretary of State, and then file that Certificate with the office of the registrar of deeds in one North Carolina county.
The office of the registrar of deeds is then required to include any Certificate filed under the New Act as part of the Secretary of State's searchable database.
In an effort to apparently lessen the burden on the offices of the registrar of deeds, the New Act does not permit Certificates filed under the Old Act, which includes all Certificates filed prior to December 1, 2017, to be included as part of the Secretary of State's database. Instead, any Certificate filed prior to December 1, 2017 will expire on December 1, 2022. If a business who filed a Certificate prior to December 1, 2017 desires to continue operating in North Carolina under the applicable assumed name after December 1, 2022, that business must file a new Certificate on or after December 1, 2022. N.C. Gen. Stat. ' 6-71.5(a). Once that new Certificate is filed, no new filings will be required with regard to the applicable assumed name, unless the Certificate needs to be amended or terminated.
Once the transition to the New Act has occurred and new Certificates are filed with the Secretary of State, as explored in paragraph above, someone who wants to determine who the business is that is using a particular assumed name should be able to limit his or her search to the Secretary of State's single database.
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Q: Launch Application When SIM is ready in Broadcast Receiver I want to launch an application on SIM READY STATE
My Broadcast Reciever class executes BOOT_COMPLETED  but it fails to broadcast SIM_STATE_CHANGED
 @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context,Intent intent) {

          if (intent.getAction().equals(Intent.ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED)){
              TelephonyManager telephoneMgr = (TelephonyManager) context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
                int simState = telephoneMgr.getSimState();

                switch (simState) {
                    case TelephonyManager.SIM_STATE_ABSENT:
                        Log.i("SimStateListener", "Sim State absent");
                        break;
                    case TelephonyManager.SIM_STATE_NETWORK_LOCKED:
                        Log.i("SimStateListener", "Sim State network locked");
                        break;
                    case TelephonyManager.SIM_STATE_PIN_REQUIRED:
                        Log.i("SimStateListener", "Sim State pin required");
                        break;
                    case TelephonyManager.SIM_STATE_PUK_REQUIRED:
                        Log.i("SimStateListener", "Sim State puk required");
                        break;
                    case TelephonyManager.SIM_STATE_UNKNOWN:
                        Log.i("SimStateListener", "Sim State unknown");
                        break;
                    case TelephonyManager.SIM_STATE_READY:
                        Log.i("SimStateListener", "Sim State ready");
                        Intent i = new Intent(context, MainClass.class);
                        i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                        context.startActivity(i);

            }

but if i run it like

    @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context,Intent intent) {

              if (intent.getAction().equals(Intent.ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED)){
                            Intent i = new Intent(context, MainClass.class);
                            i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                            context.startActivity(i);

                }

It launches my application , How can I launch my application when sim state is ready ?

A: In your Manifest, add the READ_PHONE_STATE permission
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />

and also add this in the <receiver> :
<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.SIM_STATE_CHANGED" />
</intent-filter>


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Q: How to filters two arrays with multiple keys and value?

var filteredKeyItems = ['primary','gender','regular','normal']
var filteredValuesItems = ['genreal','M',true]

// Output should be:

filteredKeyItems = ['primary','gender']
filteredValuesItems = ['genreal','M']

Here there is a snippet of the two arrays with the keys and values.
How can I filter multiple keys as denoted into the code regular and normal with values true in values arrays.
Final output should be as per the denoted into the snippet.
Thanks.

A: we can do this also by follow

    var filteredKeyItems = ['primary','gender','regular','normal']
    var filteredValuesItems = ['genreal','M',true]

    let filterTwo=[]
    let filterOne=filteredKeyItems.filter((element,index)=>{

      //we can assign condition here
    if(element=="primary" || element=="gender" ){
       filterTwo.push(filteredValuesItems[index])
      return  element}}  )

    console.log(filterOne)
    console.log(filterTwo)

A: The beauty functional way is:

var filteredKeyItems = ['primary','gender','regular','normal']
var filteredValuesItems = ['genreal','M',true]

function filterKeyItem(keyItem) {
    return keyItem !== 'regular' && keyItem !== 'normal';
}

filteredValuesItems = filteredValuesItems.filter((valueItem, index) => filterKeyItem(filteredKeyItems[index]));
filteredKeyItems = filteredKeyItems.filter(filterKeyItem);

console.log('filteredKeyItems', filteredKeyItems);
console.log('filteredValuesItems', filteredValuesItems);

To improve performance a bit, you can use a simple for loop with filling result arrays.


Chris Brown has called for ex-girlfriend Rihanna to keep schtum about the details of the assault she suffered at his hands nine months ago in a shocking new statement released via MTV.
His appeal comes after Rihanna gave an interview to ABC's Diane Sawyer, during which she confirmed police reports describing how Brown put her in a headlock and punched her several times in the face.
She also nodded upon hearing allegations that the 20-year-old bit her on the ear and fingers following an argument over a text message he received from another woman.
Does Brown have a right to ask Rihanna to keep quiet? Post your comments below.