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Review: 'The Extinction Of Fireflies' Could Use More Cinematic Spark
'The Extinction of Fireflies'
Playwright James Andrew Walsh directs his own script for the big screen, a comedy about group of friends gathered at a remote seaside home for a long weekend.
In a meta twist, the friends have come together at the invitation of James, a playwright (Drew Droege), in order to help him hash out a play he's writing about Roman Emperor Hadrian and his much younger male lover. (The title of the play? "The Extinction of Fireflies.") Jay (Michael Urie, "Ugly Betty"), a sweet-natured and comedically clueless actor, gives the script his bet try, but the material is beyond him; James' old friend Charlotte (Tracie Bennett), a has-been star who now plays to a social media audience, is more interested in downmarket liquor and niche-market cigarettes than in the material James has written; and Callisto (Kario Marcel), Jay's hunky, rudderless boyfriend has all the wit and charm any of them could want, or can handle.
Much of the dialogue is of a catty, gossipy nature, crocheted rather than constructed; it's by getting caught up in the verbal torrent that we get a sense for the characters, and for the dynamics between them. The cast work with this, rounding out the characters and finding enough in the implied aspects of their relationships — a sort of weary, irritable sibling vibe between James and Charlotte; a generationally challenged attraction between James and Callisto; a tetchy charge between Jay and everybody — to fill in the gaps. There are no major surprises here, and the sparks that fly have no place to go and, like the fireflies of the title, sputter out too quickly, but for all that there's plenty of amusement.
Still, one gets the sense that this should have remained on stage, rather than being brought to the screen. The movie is very much a play on film, consisting of a handful of long scenes that are filmed in a static manner (the location ios none other than Walsh's own home in Rhode Island). The stagey feel is dissipated somewhat when the movie ventures out of the house and into the yard, but never shakes a hermetic feeling; it's not quite the movie you want to watch in the middle of a pandemic, when you'd rather get out some.
Add to that a feeling of attentive, but amateurish, style, and what you take away is a feeling that you'd have preferred to see this live on stage; the film's charms feel like an echo of what might otherwise have been. Something's been lost in putting this story into movie form, and the experience starts to feel as flat as a strip of celluloid.
On the plus side, the film offers a bracing gay sensibility and some chucklesome one-liners that younger people might not fully appreciate, but those of us who, like James, are children of the 1980s can grasp in full ("He refused to do anything anal until I got tested and watched 'Longtime Companion' " is one of the movie's best lines). If viewing this movie prompts a few people to find "Longtime Companion" — or look up films that are more successfully translated plays, like "Torch Song Trilogy" — then it will have served a larger purpose.
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What if we are on a foreign country and have a diet, sure we must give extra attention with every menu we will order. The main problem is, the food is get along with the culture of every country, we dont know what is the ingredient of the food, even we dont know a name of a food is refer to what kind of food. this problem is getting near with its solve, because some researcher at Purdue University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering invented the technology to translating the food to english without any direct connection to the internet. Using our cellphones or other portable device, this invention is really interesting. The user just need to download a region and language specific configuration and database.
The user can type specific menus, and the interface will diplay most possible translation on a list. Mireille Boutin, person behind this invention said if we just type the menu listing and then the system will translate it automatically without any connection to server.
The researchers used a method called n-gram consolidation that improves the translation accuracy and dramatically reduces the size of the database while increasing search speed. As a result, the application can be used in a real-time, network-independent environment and produce highly accurate results.
With this application, we can directly decide what kind of dish is proper for our diet, and we can discuss with the waiter whether we need to remove or add some ingredients to the dish. This application will available soon, visit the official website of Purdue University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.


It was April 29, 1975--perhaps the most humiliating day in American history--when the last handful of U.S. diplomats clambered out onto the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and fled aboard waiting helicopters. Marine guards used rifle butts to beat aside Vietnamese who clutched in panic at the departing aircraft.
The following morning, North Vietnamese tanks rolled onto the grounds of the Presidential Palace, the home of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had resigned only days before. The Vietnam War was over.
Ten years later, although time has already carried Vietnam into the mists of history for millions of younger Americans, the nation as a whole still struggles with the tangled legacy of the longest war the United States ever fought and the first war it ever lost.
Like the turbulent era itself, the aftermath of Vietnam is both an epic of personal sacrifice, courage and pain, and an unrelenting battle over the shape and direction of U.S. policy in the world. If part of the war's legacy lies submerged in millions of anonymous private lives, it is inescapably pervasive among those responsible for shaping U.S. policy and tactics in the post-Vietnam era.
In the White House, at the Pentagon, throughout the State Department and in the halls of Congress, the Vietnam War remains a source of polarization and bitterness--with partisans all across the political spectrum passionately disagreeing on the war's meaning but concerned that it will be pushed out of the nation's collective mind and its lessons lost.
"Forty years ago, we won the war in Europe--we never will forget that. Most of us will forget as fast as we can the outcome of our failure to support an ally in Vietnam," said retired Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the early days of the Vietnam War and later ambassador to Saigon, as well as a combat commander in World War II.
Bob Muller, a former infantry officer paralyzed from the chest down by his Vietnam wounds, also fears that Americans may succumb to selective forgetfulness, but his perspective is vastly different from Taylor's.
"Nobody likes to live with the pain of a really bad incident," said Muller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America. "We as a society are cleaning up our Vietnam experience to make it more palatable."
That, he fears, may blur what he considers the chief mistake of the conflict--getting involved militarily in a country where U.S. interests were not paramount.
"Fifty-eight thousand Americans killed, who knows how many lives affected . . . . Once you pay that kind of price, if you can't muster the moral courage to ask how did it happen, why did it happen, you are in danger of going down the same road again," Muller said.
--More than 58,000 Americans were killed, along with more than 1.5 million Vietnamese, leaving fathers and mothers, wives, husbands, sons, daughters and friends to go on as best they could.
--Of the 3.7 million Americans who served in the war zone during the approximately 15 years of direct U.S. military involvement, more than 300,000 came home wounded--with 11,000 Vietnam veterans still being treated in Veterans Administration facilities on an average day.
--For the families of the 2,477 servicemen still listed as missing in action, there is the special torment of limbo. Occasional reported sightings of Americans in the jungles of Indochina keep alive the hope that some MIAs may have survived and are being held captive, although the Pentagon says no sightings have been confirmed.
--Countless veterans still struggle with the emotional impact of war and their subsequent failure to receive the public recognition accorded fighting men in previous conflicts. As Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger put it, "Veterans felt disgraced, rejected and troubled by unfair treatment they endured at home after fighting in Vietnam."
--The approximately 735,000 people who fled life under the victorious Communists in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and found refuge here are providing this nation of immigrants with yet another infusion of dreams and determination but also are creating unaccustomed tensions wherever they settle. Some have been conspicuously successful--high school valedictorians and prosperous businessmen abound--but many others are still grappling with economic and emotional problems.
If the legacy of Vietnam has predominantly been one of continued anguish and conflict, not peace and reconciliation, there are at last signs of some change in public attitudes.
A memorial in Washington--bearing the names of the 58,022 servicemen who died in Southeast Asia--provoked bitter controversy while under construction, but its dedication 2 1/2 years ago evoked an outpouring of emotion from both veterans and the public.
And along with that change in public attitudes has come help for at least some of the veterans damaged by the war--in continued support for government counseling services, in a $180-million trust fund to help those exposed to the Agent Orange defoliant and in less hostility toward veterans as a whole.
"The public has dramatically changed in its attitude toward the Vietnam veteran," said Vietnam Veterans leader Muller. "There is finally a sense of appreciation."
But there is still not the same respect that was accorded to veterans of previous wars. After World War II, for example, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Allied commander in Europe, was elected President in his first try for public office, and every President since then except Jimmy Carter (who during the war was an Annapolis midshipman) has been a World War II veteran.
The Vietnam conflict, by contrast, has not provided a political springboard. Only about 30 of the 535 members of the Senate and House are Vietnam veterans, and when David Christian, possibly the most decorated soldier of the war, ran for Congress from a suburban Pennsylvania district last year, his Republican advisers told him to soft-pedal his military experience. He was narrowly defeated.
Christian, now 36, is bitter about the advice he received, in part because he believes he could have won if he had been allowed to be himself but, more important, because he does not like what the political strategy says about the nation's opinion of its fighting men. "It wasn't good to be a war hero," he said.
Beyond such personal impact, Vietnam continues a decade later to wield a far-reaching--albeit unresolved--influence on U.S. foreign and national security policy.
All sides agree that there must be "no more Vietnams," but the disagreements about how to avoid another such quagmire remain as sharp as when the fighting raged. And, while the "lessons of Vietnam" are endlessly invoked in debates over defense and foreign policy, there is little consensus on what those lessons are.
At one extreme are those who argue that the nation must never again blunder into war in the Third World. As a corollary, they say the United States must avoid the arrogance of the early 1960s, what they see as the widespread belief that all the world's problems could be solved by sufficient application of American power and will.
"The American people and Congress now appreciate that we are neither omniscient nor omnipotent, and they are not prepared to commit U.S. troops to combat unless there is a clear U.S. national security interest involved," said Rep. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), a former Navy flier who spent six years in a North Vietnamese prison camp.
"If we do become involved in combat, that involvement must be of relatively short duration and must be readily explained to the man in the street in one or two sentences," he said.
At the other extreme are those who argue that the United States went wrong in Vietnam not because it got involved but because it lost. The nation, in this view, must be prepared to intervene in the Third World whenever its national interests are at stake--and to use enough power to win and to win quickly.
To prevent a resurgence of anti-war sentiment in a future war, this camp argues, the civilian population must be put on a wartime footing before sending troops into combat and curbs must be placed on the kind of unrestricted television coverage that fueled anti-war sentiment by bringing Vietnam into the nation's living rooms.
President Reagan and his colleagues clearly prefer this "no substitute for victory" interpretation of the lessons of Vietnam.
"When it is necessary to commit troops to combat, we must do so in sufficient strength and with sufficient resolve to win," Weinberger said. "A major lesson the U.S. learned in Vietnam was that we should never again send our troops into combat unless we are committed totally. So, while we are no more reluctant to use force when force is necessary, I hope we are a bit wiser about the (amount of) force that is necessary."
The emphasis in both camps on making clearly delineated, publicly supported decisions about future use of military force reflects the near-universal consensus that part of the problem with Vietnam was the piecemeal way in which this country got involved.
Indeed, some historians date the beginning of U.S. involvement as far back as 1946, when the United States supported France in its effort to re-establish its Indochinese colony after World War II. Others note that it was in 1960 that the first U.S. military advisers were sent to Vietnam.
It was 1964 when Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing increased U.S. military activity following a reported attack on two U.S. warships in the Gulf of Tonkin. And it was in 1965 that the first U.S. combat troops were sent in.
Since the war's end, it has been widely assumed that the "no more Vietnams" syndrome has exerted such pressure on American policy-makers that it has become more difficult to intervene militarily abroad or even to make a show of U.S. force.
Yet the evidence on that point is mixed. Only a year after the fall of Saigon, U.S. troops fought and some died to free the crew of the freighter Mayaguez from an island off the coast of Cambodia.
Since then, the United States also has used military force in the desert of Iran, in Lebanon and in Grenada. The Vietnam experience probably influenced each of those actions, foreign policy specialists say, but other factors seem to have been at least as important.
The only two cases in which the divergent lessons of Vietnam have been directly applied appear to have been Angola in 1976 and Grenada in 1983.
With Angola's post-colonial war nearing its climax in 1976, then-President Gerald R. Ford attempted to aid the non-Marxist faction fighting for control in the former Portuguese colony in southwestern Africa. Congress, with the trauma of Vietnam still fresh, voted overwhelmingly to ban any sort of U.S. intervention.
It was an obvious application of the doves' favorite lesson of Vietnam: Do not get involved in conflicts in the Third World.
Seven years later, when the Marxist government of Grenada was overthrown by its own left wing, President Reagan seized the opportunity to smash Marxist control of the island. The invasion by Army paratroops and Marines quickly achieved its objective, ousting the rebel regime and setting the country on the road to democratic elections. It was an unmistakable application of the hawks' favorite lesson of Vietnam--if you intervene in the Third World, make sure you win quickly and, if possible, do it with a minimum of news coverage.
Elsewhere, the situation is less clear-cut. U.S. policy toward Central America is commonly said to be shaped by the legacy of Vietnam. Because of congressional pressure, tight restrictions have been imposed on U.S. programs to help the non-Marxist government of El Salvador resist a leftist insurgency and to assist the non-Marxist rebels in Nicaragua in their effort to topple the country's Marxist-led government.
In El Salvador, the Reagan Administration observes a self-imposed limit of 55 on the number of U.S. troops engaged at any one time in training units of the Salvadoran army. In Nicaragua, the Administration chose to provide covert aid--but no U.S. military advisers--to the contra insurgents. But even those efforts have been blocked since Congress cut off funding.
It is not at all certain, however, how many of these restrictions are the direct result of Vietnam and how many are caused by other factors.
"Absent Vietnam, there would almost surely be a larger Army advisory mission in El Salvador," said Harvard historian Ernest May. "Nicaragua is harder to assess because it is difficult to separate the results of Vietnam from the results of Watergate. Probably absent Watergate (and the investigation of intelligence activities which the scandal spawned), you would not have had the same sort of congressional scrutiny of covert activity and you wouldn't have had the same restraints on the executive."
May, considered an expert on the way government leaders' views of the past influence their policy decisions, says even without the restraints of the Vietnam legacy, it is unlikely that the Reagan Administration would have sent U.S. troops into Nicaragua since that would clearly constitute an act of war against a recognized government.
He believes that the Administration would have done just about what it actually did--provide covert assistance to the contras. However, he says, if it had not been for the hangover from the Watergate scandal that drove President Richard M. Nixon from office, the covert program probably would have remained secret and would not have been interrupted by Congress.
Weinberger agrees that even without the memory of Vietnam, the President's Central America policy would not have been very different. But he said the Administration has found it more difficult to pursue its policy because of an erosion of public confidence in the government that may have been caused by the Vietnam experience and its political fallout.
"Many people simply do not believe the government when we tell them what is going on in Nicaragua," the defense secretary said. "Credibility is also associated with fear of escalating U.S. involvement in the region. This has produced reluctance by many in Congress to authorize sufficient military aid for El Salvador, out of fear that this may be the first step into a Vietnam-like involvement."
Comments ex-POW and now-Congressman McCain: "I don't think anyone sees sending U.S. troops to Nicaragua as a viable option. In 1962, I think lots of people would have seen it as viable."
"Even as an anti-war veteran, I perceive enormous differences between Latin America and Vietnam. We do have important interests in the (Latin) area. The big issue is not the goals, as it was in Vietnam--it is how to achieve them. I have great respect for the American people's ability to tell when this country's interests are clearly at stake."
When militant Shia Muslims seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979, it provided another test of the Vietnam syndrome. It is easy to speculate that other Presidents might have used more force and used it sooner than Jimmy Carter did. But the former President said in a recent interview that Vietnam had nothing to do with his strategy for handling the hostage crisis.
"I never did feel the constraint of the so-called Vietnam syndrome because my own orientation was basically compatible with non-intervention, non-use of force whenever there was a reasonable alternative of negotiations or diplomacy," Carter said.
Nevertheless, Carter made the most sweeping commitment of U.S. power since the early days of the Vietnam conflict when he announced that the United States would respond with military force to any attempt by the Soviet Union to interfere with the oil-producing regions of the Persian Gulf. The "Carter Doctrine" did not result in military action only because the Soviets did not choose to test it.
And then there has been Lebanon.
The U.S. military's worst single day since the end of the Vietnam conflict was Oct. 23, 1983, when a suicide car bomber demolished the Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American servicemen.
With a lightly armed force of 1,500 Marines sent into the middle of Lebanon's seemingly interminable civil war without any clearly defined military objective, the conflict was almost a prototype of a Third World quagmire. The depths of historical animosity goading the Lebanese combatants was almost bottomless, and the U.S. force was far too small to have any chance of prevailing.
George W. Ball, who as under secretary of state from 1961 to 1966 was the most outspoken critic of Vietnam policy inside the government, recently wrote: "In engaging our Marines and the guns of our fleet to help (Lebanese President Amin) Gemayel conquer the dissident factions in his country, we were repeating with almost eerie fidelity our failed adventure in Vietnam. Just as earlier Presidents had done in Southeast Asia, President Reagan was once again committing America forces--and American prestige--to try to help a weak, narrowly based government . . . impose control on highly motivated rival factions."
Rep. McCain's generally conservative voting record and three-generation military background--both his father and grandfather were admirals--would seem to set him on the opposite side of any argument from the outspokenly liberal Ball. But he agrees that it was a mistake to commit U.S. forces in Beirut.
"I didn't think that sending 1,500 Marines would make a difference" in the confused Lebanese political situation, he said.
However, even Reagan's critics concede that he learned the lessons of military futility quickly. Less than four months after the bombing, the President redeployed the Marines to ships offshore, the first step toward total withdrawal.
It was a clear application of the post-Vietnam rule to win or get out. Realizing that there was no way to win, Reagan chose to get out.
In the final analysis, the one overriding lesson from Vietnam may be that it is often worse to learn the wrong thing from an experience than to learn nothing at all.
"The ideas that came out of the 1950s were tried out in Vietnam and failed," said Maj. Gen. Perry Smith, a Columbia University Ph.D. who is president of the National War College in Washington. Scarred by the U.S. experience in Korea, he says, U.S. policy-makers insisted on a gradual approach to the war that would not threaten either the Soviets or the Chinese.
But the U.S. decision to escalate its use of power slowly always gave North Vietnam an opportunity to adjust. It was an impromptu strategy and had no chance of success, Smith believes.
"I don't think anybody really thought through what the goals were and what means were available to achieve them," Smith said. "Without clear goals, we should not have gone in there, and once there, we should have gotten out. One of the problems is many policy-makers are not students of history. They tend to look only at the last war or at their own experiences."
If the legacy of Vietnam on foreign policy is difficult to measure with precision, the impact on the nation's military establishment is clear. From 1965 to 1975, Vietnam dominated the military budget, draining away resources that could have been devoted to acquisition of modern weapons systems. Congress and the White House compounded the problem by cutting back Pentagon spending in the aftermath of the war.
Reagan's controversial military budget increases are designed to fill the Vietnam gap in military force modernization.
Robert W. Komer, once one of the most outspoken advocates of U.S. policy in Vietnam when he served as a high-ranking civilian in Saigon, now says, "We had a decade of having our eye on the wrong ball."
"The loss of Vietnamese real estate really didn't make all that much difference as seen in retrospect," Komer said. "But the Vietnam syndrome led to a precipitous decline in military spending. Vietnam cost us all the planes, tanks and ships that the Joint Chiefs complain we don't have. If we had not intervened in Vietnam and had invested the $500 billion and 58,000 lives we would have saved into building up our deterrent capabilities elsewhere, we would probably be better off."
Lawrence J. Korb, assistant secretary of defense for manpower, installations and logistics, is convinced that the impact of Vietnam on the military has been profound.
"The military up to the Vietnam War was a very respected institution in our society," Korb said in an interview. "After Vietnam, the country turned its back on the military and foreign affairs in general for a decade."
As a result of the war, he said, professional military men have concluded that the country must obtain public support in advance before committing U.S. troops. "We paid a high price for losing that support or not having it in the first place," he said.
He said the war "ended conscription" and generated a heightened interest within the military in the ethics of warfare. Both of these results, he said, are good as long as the military is able to obtain enough voluntary recruits and as long as the introspection does not lead to paralysis.
Also, he said, "Vietnam drove the ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) off a lot of the more elite colleges of the country. We don't get as many of those people to be officers as we once did, although that is slowly getting better."
In its efforts to sort out the lessons of the conflict, the military has adopted programs intended to train and deploy troops as members of units instead of as individuals, to avoid the one-year tours that were common in Vietnam. Supporters of these programs say they will improve morale and group cohesion.
Gen. Paul F. Gorman, who recently retired as the commander in chief of U.S. forces in Central America, offered an unusually candid critique of American capabilities to Congress two months ago. The Pentagon, he said, is still not prepared to fight a "low-intensity conflict," which is how Vietnam began.
He said the military continues to neglect the kind of intelligence-gathering, communications, transport, medicine, logistics and foreign assistance required in a low-intensity conflict.
But Army Lt. Col. Jack Jacobs, a faculty member of the National War College, said in an interview that some middle-level officers in Vietnam who have since risen to senior positions may have developed some attitudes toward warfare in Vietnam that would not stand them in good stead in the event of a more conventional war, perhaps in Europe. As majors and lieutenant colonels, they were often farther removed from actual battle than their counterparts in the Korean War and World War II.
"We raised a whole generation of officers, many of whom are in high positions, whose experience in combat was minimal," Jacobs said.
Some of the impact of Vietnam may be fading, some experts say. "I don't think we will be completely over it in this century, but with each passing year, it becomes dimmer," Korb said. "I think the support for the defense buildup shows that people accept the possibility of using military force."


These past few weeks, a lot of work has been done on the designs for the different projects within the chassis team. A lot of changes have been made, one of which is the fact that the pedal box is no longer going to be adjustable. The original idea was for the pedal box to be adjustable by using a spring and a track that the box can move on. The new idea is that the pedal box is just going to remain stationary and we will account for the need to adjust the length between driver and pedal box by adding pads behind the driver.
The chassis now almost fully complete; there may be a few changes down the road, but not many. The chassis is going to be a space frame and the goal for this year is going to be for the frame to weigh less than 70 pounds. This is about 10 pounds lighter than last year.
Some other notable changes that have been made are the fact that we are now planning on making the steering wheel out of carbon fiber which will help reduce some weight. This project will also serve as valuable experience on the process of vacuum infusion as we will also be using this same process for the seat and body of the chassis. While changes haven't been made to many of the other groups projects within the chassis, a lot of progress has been made throughout the design. A potential impact attenuator has been found and all of the materials for the torsional rigidity rig have been located. The torsional rigidity rig will use an i-beam to stabilize the back of the chassis while the front is allowed to twist on a fulcrum. The design will consist of steel square tubing and steel plating in order to attach the hubs to the lever arm and i-beam to test for the rigidity. Fabrication is going to begin this week for the rig and it will be ready for use as soon as it is finished.


This flavor is like if Caribbean Coconut Talenti took its best friends on vacation. Coconut shreds, semi-sweet chocolatey flakes, and salted roasted almonds make quite a party.
COCONUT ALMOND CHOCOLATE GELATO is rated 4.9 out of 5 by 42.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Brrphoto from Best find ever! Recently started shopping at a new grocery store that carries literally every flavor Talenti makes and I stumbled upon this Cocnut Almond Choc Chip. It might be my new favorite! It's light but so flavorful! When I'm feeling recklessly indulgent I scoop a little portion of this, the hazelnut chocolate chip, and the chocolate sorbet; they all complement each other nicely.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Shelly from Perfection I've tried many flavors but this one: Best thing ever. Period.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Queen Bee from Love this one. Ok... So I'm new to this brand and I must say that I fell in love with this flavor. I haven't had ice cream in so long, but the shopkick app had me scan these at target. Just my luck, they were 2 for $7. I purchased them and have been hooked ever since. I was looking to purchase again, but this time in Walmart, but they didn't have this flavor. I will keep checking. True fan indeed!!!
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Shakim from Simply Delicious I was introduced to Gelato when vacationing in Italy, I went to a shop that made Gelato right in front of you. Once I tasted this wonderful dessert I swore off ice cream. When I returned to the US I saw the Talenti product in my neighborhood supermarket. I quickly grabbed 3 containers and one of them was the Coconut & Almond I 'be been hooked ever since. The coconut is creamy with hints of almonds, I felt as though I was in paradise. Simply the best of all the rest. Thank you for a quality product. Worth the price.
Rated 5 out of 5 by gina_martini from Heavenly If there is a heaven I'll be eating this there while Jeff Goldblum (circa 2018) and Johnny Depp (circa 2004) massage my tired feet.


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Q: Call function on lose focus or timeout Javascript I have multiple inputs where the user can change the value.
I have a code that works well with a timeout but I want to fire it whether the timeout has passed or when the user loses the focus, here is my code :
const WAIT_INTERVAL = 500;

changeValue(personal, e){
            let self = this;

            e.persist();
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                clearTimeout(this.state.typingTimeout);
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            this.setState({
                typingTimeout: setTimeout(function(){
                    self.props.updatePersonal(personal, e.target.value);
                }, WAIT_INTERVAL),
            })
}

I don't want it to be fire twice and I don't know how to apply this case.
How to apply this code when the focus is lost?
Thanks you!

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Under-17 - Wück wants Germany to embrace pressure - News
Wück wants Germany to embrace pressure
Friday 2 May 2014 by Steffen Potter
Germany Under-17s coach Christian Wück talks to UEFA.com about the need for his players to learn to deal with "the pressure that exists from both the media and internally".
Germany coach Christian Wück oversees the elite round match against Serbia ©UEFA.com
With exactly a week to go until the start of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship, UEFA.com sat down with Germany's Christian Wück to discuss his team's preparations, their prospects in Malta and his mission statement as an international youth coach.
UEFA.com: How difficult was qualifying for the finals? You drew 1-1 in the decisive elite round match against Serbia and went through on goal difference.
Christian Wück: It was a close call. Serbia pushed us really close and posed us plenty of problems. We noticed that the players, having not featured in the qualifying round [after being given a bye], weren't familiar with this kind of pressure situation. Suddenly losing wasn't an option, which was very surprising for some players – it really influences your performance.
UEFA.com: How important are competitive games when compared to friendlies and tournaments such as the Algarve Cup?
Wück: It is incredibly important for players to take note, even though they are still young, of how things work in the world of professional sports and what kind of pressure exists from both the media and internally. This experience, which UEFA offers with qualifying and the finals, would have been helpful even if we had failed.
UEFA.com: What pressure are you referring to?
Wück: Above all it is the internal pressure. I am referring to a positive pressure, not a negative one. We all have certain standards: the DFB does, so do the coaches and the players, who all want to achieve a lot. It's a learning process.
UEFA.com: What do you make of your group in Malta?
Wück: We have bascially played all of them before, except for Scotland. There are no big surprises left. We don't know Malta very well, but we cannot meet them in the group stage anyway.
UEFA.com: Switzerland look like especially tough opposition having ousted Spain and holders Russia in the elite round …
Wück: That was no surprise to us. Back in the U16s we drew 1-1 against Switzerland in a tournament in Austria. They have an age group there which is physically and mentally very strong. They are playing dynamic football, are technically gifted, try to dominate possession and are tactically very well drilled. They change between a 4-1-4-1 and 4-4-2. Portugal are similar to Switzerland regarding their system and the way they behave on the pitch. They also have players who are individually very talented.
UEFA.com: Does an U17 coach have the opportunity to coach players in training or do you have to rely almost exclusively on matches?
Wück: Both. At the DFB, we try to give the players the best conditions we can. We always try to make them aware of the fact that while they are already at a very good level, they are competing with the best there is at international level. We make sure we never waste a minute of training and do all our drills at our top level.
UEFA.com: In an interview on the German FA's website, you mentioned the importance of efficiency. How do you coach that?
Wück: By having a high state of mental alertness on the pitch. Every drill, even if it is only a small passing drill, should be done like it's part of a match. I can play a ten-metre pass to my team-mate that takes three seconds to arrive or one second to arrive.
UEFA.com: Do you have certain key players in this group?
Wück: There is Bayer 04 Leverkusen midfielder Benjamin Henrichs, who is captain as he already has those leadership skills and played in qualifying last season with the group born in 1996. Central-defender Benedikt Gimber is already playing at U19 level with Hoffenheim and is very calm, while Philipp Ochs, another Hoffenheim player, scored most of our goals in the elite round.
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That's one issue i have with minimates is due to their hair a lot of the women seem to tower over the men.
That seems to be the intention.
Any word on a release date? Or when we'll see these pop up on Luke's for preorder?
Series 77 is slated for a June release. Series 78 might be September?
We might solicit in summer. After 77 hits.
Thats 50, and that's just Marvel.
My secret is out I can't do maths without coffee!
12 seems pretty low for Infinity War, but I guess with the box set (possibly) having multiple heads for the Quantum Realm suits, it makes sense. The original 6, War Machine, Rocket, I'd assume a new Captain Marvel and Okoye, Thanos, that's already 11. Am I missing someone that didn't get dusted? Or I've heard rumors of another villain, could be that.
Oh wait! I forgot Nebula and Scott. But Ant-Man's look hasn't changed since his movie. From what I can tell. That's off topic though.
LEGO is only using the quantum suits and not even using other characters who survived. Ideally, DST would not take this path, but I would not be surprised if they do.
Quantum suits aside, the only survivors who have new looks that I know of are Hulk, Iron Man, Hawkeye, and War Machine. Thanos is depicted in his armor.
Captain America too. The long hair with no beard and the scaled armor.
Then yeah, that's probably it, although I'm not sure about the 78 timeline. Or Animated 10 for that matter.
12 does seem low for Endgame. There are 12 heroes in the movie before you consider quantum suits and villains: The original 6, War Machine, Rocket, Nebula, Ant-Man, Captain Marvel, and the Hasbro toyline leak character, so some of them would have to be left out.
Some of those have repeated costumes which could be skipped but I'd expect the LCS box set to have Captain Marvel anyway.
I definitely need that new look.
Well hopefully we will start to get some shots soon.
I sure hope there's more than Zach doesn't know about or isn't allowed to reveal that's barely any product for Walgreens for the rest of the year. I can't imagine them wanting to hold peg space for one wave of both lines over the course of 10+ months.


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Cruises to Puerto Rico From Florida
Johanna Read, Leaf Group Updated November 13, 2017
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Several cruise lines depart from Florida and stop to visit Puerto Rico, generally in the capital, San Juan. Cruises are easy vacations, with no need to unpack every time you arrive at a new destination or repack when you move on. A Puerto Rico cruise is perfect when you're short on energy or if you want to save it to ride the world's longest zipline, in Puerto Rico's Toro Verde Adventure Park.
Hurricane Maria hit several Caribbean islands in autumn 2017, severely affecting Puerto Rico's people, infrastructure and the tourism industry. While some areas of the territory were running almost as normal within a month of the hurricane, others will take years to recover. Visiting Puerto Rico, eating at local restaurants and spending money directly in the U.S. island territory significantly helps the rebuilding process. Be sure to check current updates on specific destinations and facilities when vacation planning.
Celebrity, a premium cruise line, offers several four, five and seven-night cruises with a Puerto Rico port of call. Cruises depart from both Miami and Fort Lauderdale. The Celebrity Equinox, for example, has round-trip cruises from Miami to Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, and St. Kitts, with the itinerary including several relaxing days at sea. The Celebrity Summit uses San Juan as its home port.
Carnival, which bills itself as "The World's Most Popular Cruise Line," has several round-trip cruises from Florida which stop in Puerto Rico. Carnival aims to ensure passengers have fun when both aboard and ashore. Carnival Glory sails from Miami, Carnival Conquest departs from Fort Lauderdale and Carnival Sunshine leaves from Port Canaveral. Cruises are generally seven to eight days.
Royal Caribbean has several Puerto Rico offerings, too. The Allure of the Seas has a seven-night round-trip cruise from Florida which also stops in St. Maarten and Haiti. Royal Caribbean also offers five- to seven-night one-way cruises from Miami and from Fort Lauderdale which end in San Juan. These allow a Puerto Rico hotel stay at the end of the cruise, for example at the Caribe Hilton, which sits between San Juan and Condado. Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the Seas, Jewel of the Seas, Allure of the Seas and Freedom of the Seas all visit Puerto Rico.
Highlights of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico has more than 500 years of history, as San Juan was one of the first European settlements in the New World. Visitors can explore military barracks and fortifications, as well as old churches such as the San Jose Church, Cristo Chapel and San Juan Cathedral. Wander San Juan's cobblestone streets and enjoy its pretty courtyards, galleries and shops. Puerto Rico has a lot to offer in the natural world, too, including the natural swimming pool of Baño Grande, the Palo Colorado Forest and the Piñones Reserve. Spain is a strong influence on the cuisine, so look for tapas and sangria amongst Caribbean specialties like mofongo, made of fried plantains.
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Tourism to Puerto Rico helps the territory rebuild and be better able to withstand any future hurricanes. Immediately following Hurricane Maria, cruise lines assessed San Juan's capacity and started returning after less than a month. Initially, however, ships were making day trips, rather than overnight trips, to the island.
Puerto Rico's airport reopened quickly, as have many hotels, restaurants and other businesses catering to tourists. Puerto Rico welcomes overnight travelers to San Juan as of December 2017, and is providing updates on when other parts of the territory are ready. Day-trippers from cruises have been visiting since October 2017.
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Nagarik report about the preparation for announcement to end energy crisis headlined "Officials themselves doubt if government move will yield positive results" by Laxman Biyogi datelined Kathmandu has quoted five unnamed sources: A source associated with the Ministry of Energy, a senior official of the ministry, two different sources, and a promoter.
Kantipur report headlined "Both Nepali Congress factions working out strategies" by Kulchandra Neupane datelined Kathmandu has quoted three unnamed sources: A source, a central committee member of the Nepali Congress and another member of the central committee.
Kantipur report headlined "Development expenditure only 9 percent" by Krishna Acharya datelined Kathmandu has quoted one unnamed source: A government official.
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Home Marijuana News World Philippines Prez Delivers on Deadly Drug War Pledge
Philippines Prez Delivers on Deadly Drug War Pledge
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took office last month with a pledge to unleash a deadly crackdown on drug users and other miscreants—and he's sure delivered.
In his first State of the Nation address on July 25, he issued more such rhetoric. "Show no mercy to them because they are not showing any mercy to us anyway," Duterte declared to cheers from his supporters in congress. He called on police and security forces to "double your efforts, triple them if need be… We will not stop until the last drug lord, the last financier and the last pusher have surrendered or put behind bars or below the ground if they so wish." Clearly addressing his critics, he added that "human rights cannot be used a shield or an excuse to destroy the country."
These words are no joke. As AFP reports, police in the Philippines have reported killing more than 200 drug suspects—an average of 11 per day—since Duterte took office. Local media put the toll far higher—counting the numerous bullet-ridden bodies that have been found on streets across the nation, probable extra-judicial executions. The Philippines' ABS-CBN TV network counts 544 deaths since election day (some six weeks before the inauguration).
The officially recorded deaths were all supposedly in self-defense, but this claim should be viewed with skepticism in light of Duterte's campaign promise to issue "shoot-to-kill" orders against "criminals," and open boast that his crackdown would cost tens of thousands of lives.
In another tirade just days before the State of the Nation speech, Duterte blasted his critics in human rights groups as "bleeding hearts." In open defiance, he crowed: "I am not afraid of human rights [concerns]. I will not allow my country to go to the dogs." He even added, "I will retire with the reputation of Idi Amin,"—a reference to the late genocidal dictator of Uganda, who is believed to have killed some 100,000.
It has to be said that Duterte is playing his cards deftly. Even with his law-and-order stance, he was support from the left—playing to populsim, and emphasizing his humble origins in a country traditionally dominated by an oligarchic elite. He even appointed a labor minister who is a former left-wing guerilla fighter, and has declared a unilateral ceasefire with the communist rebels of the New People's Army (NPA).
And at a time of tensions between the Philippines and China over contested waters, Duterte has turned to Beijing for drug war assisstance. Calling drugs "a common enemy of mankind," the Chinese embassy in Manila said that the People's Republic "has expressed explicitly to the new administration China's willingness for effective cooperation in this regard, and would like to work out a specific plan of action with the Philippine side." China, of course, has one of the world's worst human rights records—especially where drugs are concerned.
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Venezuela's Guaido Leads Uprising
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has taken to the streets with detained activist Leopoldo Lopez and a small contingent of heavily armed soldiers in a military uprising.
"This is the moment of all Venezuelans, those in uniform and those who aren't," said Lopez in his first public appearance since being detained in 2014 for leading anti-government protests. "Everyone should come to the streets, in peace."
Lopez said he has been freed by the military.
Moments earlier, Guaidó appeared in an early morning video shot next to a Caracas air base surrounded by several heavily armed soldiers backed by a few armored vehicles
Guaido said soldiers who had taken to the streets were protecting Venezuela's constitution. He made the comments a day before a planned anti-government rally.
"The moment is now," he said.
Venezuelan Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said on Twitter that Nicolas Maduro's government is confronting a small "coup attempt" led by military "traitors" backed by right-wing opponents.
Tear gas was fired at a highway overpass near the Caracas air base where Guaidó and several heavily armed soldiers with blue bands wrapped around their forearms had been standing guard.
The tear gas appeared to have been fired from inside the Carlota air base.


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module Fastlane
  module Actions
    module SharedValues
      GIT_REPO_WAS_CLEAN_ON_START = :GIT_REPO_WAS_CLEAN_ON_START
    end

    # Raises an exception and stop the lane execution if the repo is not in a clean state
    class EnsureGitStatusCleanAction < Action
      def self.run(params)
        repo_status = Actions.sh("git status --porcelain")
        repo_clean = repo_status.empty?

        if repo_clean
          UI.success('Git status is clean, all good! 💪')
          Actions.lane_context[SharedValues::GIT_REPO_WAS_CLEAN_ON_START] = true
        else
          error_message = "Git repository is dirty! Please ensure the repo is in a clean state by committing/stashing/discarding all changes first."
          error_message += "\nUncommitted changes:\n#{repo_status}" if params[:show_uncommitted_changes]
          if params[:show_diff]
            repo_diff = Actions.sh("git diff")
            error_message += "\nGit diff: \n#{repo_diff}"
          end
          UI.user_error!(error_message)
        end
      end

      def self.description
        "Raises an exception if there are uncommitted git changes"
      end

      def self.details
        [
          "A sanity check to make sure you are working in a repo that is clean.",
          "Especially useful to put at the beginning of your Fastfile in the `before_all` block, if some of your other actions will touch your filesystem, do things to your git repo, or just as a general reminder to save your work.",
          "Also needed as a prerequisite for some other actions like `reset_git_repo`."
        ].join("\n")
      end

      def self.output
        [
          ['GIT_REPO_WAS_CLEAN_ON_START', 'Stores the fact that the git repo was clean at some point']
        ]
      end

      def self.author
        ["lmirosevic", "antondomashnev"]
      end

      def self.example_code
        [
          'ensure_git_status_clean'
        ]
      end

      def self.available_options
        [
          FastlaneCore::ConfigItem.new(key: :show_uncommitted_changes,
                                       env_name: "FL_ENSURE_GIT_STATUS_CLEAN_SHOW_UNCOMMITTED_CHANGES",
                                       description: "The flag whether to show uncommitted changes if the repo is dirty",
                                       optional: true,
                                       default_value: false,
                                       is_string: false),
          FastlaneCore::ConfigItem.new(key: :show_diff,
                                       env_name: "FL_ENSURE_GIT_STATUS_CLEAN_SHOW_DIFF",
                                       description: "The flag whether to show the git diff if the repo is dirty",
                                       optional: true,
                                       default_value: false,
                                       is_string: false)
        ]
      end

      def self.category
        :source_control
      end

      def self.is_supported?(platform)
        true
      end
    end
  end
end

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AT the latest meeting of St Clement s Women s Club, members took over, giving the committee a night off. Brenda Girdlestone, acting chairman, welcomed everyone. Maureen O Brien was treasurer, May Burton organised the raffle and Margaret Duncombe was minut
AT the latest meeting of St Clement's Women's Club, members took over, giving the committee a night off. Brenda Girdlestone, acting chairman, welcomed everyone. Maureen O'Brien was treasurer, May Burton organised the raffle and Margaret Duncombe was minutes secretary. Janet Flowers organised the guest speaker, John Hughes, an artist from West Winch. Mr Hughes was an art teacher in London before moving to Norfolk on early retirement. His first local exhibition was at the Hoste Arms. More recently he was the artist in residence at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where large paintings of Seahenge and Hunstanton Cliffs are featured. He was honoured when the Royal Watercolour Society accepted two of his paintings for the 21st Century Watercolour Open Competition. Mr Hughes brought several examples of his work along, explaining what he tries to achieve, looking at light, colour and texture. He was thanked by Brenda Girdlestone. After refreshments, Maureen O'Brien organised a quiz entitled Thingbats devised by Margaret Halstead. Winners were Carol Pollendine and Carol Blackett.


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Q: dataDetectorTypes slow to respond (iOS) I've set my webview's dataDetectorType to UIDataDetectorTypeAll:
_webView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeAll;

This works great on initialization, however, when I type in a link, it doesn't recognize right away, only if I move the cursor to a different spot will it detect the link, usually 3 seconds later.
How do I detect a link/email/phone number immediately after typing it into a webview, instead of having to move the cursor?


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Q: How to effectively use debugger to study how clang builds AST I am trying to study how clang builds AST for various functions and methods definitions using calls to clang::Sema methods and other related functions. For this I am using lldb debugger, But I am having difficulties in how to effectively set breakpoints. For instance, if I am debugging hello.cpp file with content,
void fn() {
  printf("Hello World!");
}

int main() {
  int a,b;
  fn();
}

and I am debugging it like this,
lldb clang
*set breakpoints here*
process launch -- *clang arguments obtained using clang++ hello.cpp -v*

How should I set breakpoints to obtain all function/method calls used to construct AST for fn definition. And is it possible to save all these functions in order to some other file? as it will be easier to study that way.


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Bill is currently Senior Foreign Counsel with Christian Teo & Partners (in association with Stephenson Harwood LLP) as well as a qualified legal practitioner in England and Wales, Hong Kong, New South Wales and New York. He has lived and worked in Indonesia for more than 20 years.
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Looking back on Rockies' All-Star starters
Colorado Rockies news and links for Sunday, June 27, 2021
By Skyler Timmins@SideLine_Crowd Jun 27, 2021, 6:00am MDT
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The time has finally come. After an impressive 10-year streak, it appears that the Rockies will not have a player receive the starting nod for the 2021 MLB All-Star game. The first phase of voting for the Midsummer Classic concluded on June 24, with only the top three vote recipients (top nine for outfielders) at each position moving on to the final phase to decide the starters. Since no Rockies player appears to be in the mix for that honor of moving on, it seems right to look back on the previous decade of Rockies All-Star game starters.
2010: Ubaldo Jiménez
It's not often that a pitcher for the Rockies makes the All-Star Game, let alone get penciled in as the starter, but such a thing happened in 2010 for Ubaldo Jiménez. The Rockies' right-hander was virtually unhittable in the first half of the 2010 season. Leading up to mid-July, Jiménez was 16-2 with a 2.20 ERA, 113 strikeouts, an opponent batting line of .198/.280/.302, and let's not forget the no-hitter he tossed against the Atlanta Braves in April. In his lone appearance as an All-Star, Jiménez did not disappoint in his match-up with David Price. In two innings of work, Jiménez faced eight batters and allowed two hits while striking out one and walking one.
2011: Troy Tulowitzki
The voting for the National League starting shortstop was a heated battle between the Mets' José Reyes and the Rockies' Troy Tulowitzki. Reyes eventually won the starting nod, but due to an injury he was unable to participate in the game, and so the lot fell to Tulo. In the first half of the 2011 season, Tulo batted .268/.337/.488 with 17 homers, and not to mention his stellar defense at the position. In his first All-Star game start, Tulo batted eighth and went 1-for-2 on the day. Not too shabby for a "by default" start.
2012: Carlos González
Carlos González wasn't voted by the fans to start the 2012 All-Star game in Kansas City but garnered a starting spot thanks to Tony LaRussa choosing him to serve as the designated hitter for the National League. Heading into the All-Star break, González was batting a strong .330/.389/578 with 17 home runs while driving in 53 runs. Batting lead-off in his first All-Star game, González would go 0-for-2 with a strikeout in the National League's 8-0 victory.
2013: Troy Tulowitzki, Carlos González, Michael Cuddyer
After several years of just one starter, the Rockies sent a trifecta of players to New York to start the All-Star Game. González, in his second All-Star Game, won the start in left field after batting .302/.370/.610 with 25 long balls. Tulowitzki, in his third All-Star appearance, was the starting shortstop after batting .332/.400/.608 with 16 homers in just 64 games. Finally, Michael Cuddyer, in just his second All-Star Game was chosen as the designated hitter for the National League in a resurgent 2013 where he batted .330/.391/.568 with 16 homers. Unfortunately for Rockies fans, the trio went 0-for-5 with a Cuddyer walk in the game, but it was still a glorious sight to see multiple Rockies in the starting lineup.
Tulowitzki not only tallied his fourth All-Star nod, but also his third start, and the first time he did it in consecutive years. Tulo obtained the start thanks to his otherworldly .345/.435/.613 batting line in the first-half where he also smacked 21 homers. In the game itself, Tulo went 1-for-3 with a strikeout, managing a double in the fifth inning off of Max Scherzer in what would be his final All-Star Game start with the Rockies.
2015: DJ LeMahieu
A common theme among some of these starters is that they were selected by the manager to be in the lineup. Despite not finishing in the top five for fan voting, DJ LeMahieu was selected for the All-Star team after the vote by players and coaches. He was then inserted into the starting lineup as an injury replacement for Dee Strange-Gordon who had won the starting vote. At the time, LeMahieu was batting .311/.365/.397 and playing stellar defense, but went hitless in the game in two at-bats.
Once again, injuries opened the door for a Rockies player to come in as a replacement starter. Due to elected starters Dexter Fowler and Yoenis Céspedes being injured, González was slated to start in left field where he went 1-for-2 in the game. He earned his initial reserve spot thanks to a quality first half in which he hit for a .318 batting average along with 19 homers and 19 doubles.
2017: Nolan Arenado, Charlie Blackmon
It's hard to believe that Nolan Arenado didn't get his first All-Star Game start at third base until 2017. Arenado impressed voters by batting .301/.351/.554 with 17 homers, but mostly due to his wizardry on defense as he made highlight after highlight at the hot corner. The votes paid off as he went 2-for-2 in the Midsummer Classic with a pair of singles. Charlie Blackmon also got his first start in the game as the elected center fielder thanks to a torrid batting line of .316/.370/.580 out of the leadoff spot in which he also launched 20 homers and slugged 17 doubles and 10 triples. Unfortunately, Blackmon went 0-for-3 in the game with a strikeout.
2018: Nolan Arenado
In his second consecutive game as an elected starter, Arenado took a step back in the game and went 0-for-2 with a walk and a strikeout. His season up to that point was a doozy, however, as he blasted 23 homers and 23 doubles while driving in 68 to the tune of a .312/.395/.586 batting line. His pal Trevor Story ended up with a homer late in the game to redeem the Rockies players, but the National League still lost 8-6.
Closing out the list is Arenado once again. Even though the Rockies sent a whopping four players to Cleveland for the festivities, only Arenado was elected to start. He repeated his success from 2018 by batting .312/.377/.562 and launching 20 homers and continuing to play fantastical defense. In his final All-Star appearance as a Rockie, he once again went hitless in the game.
Since the 2020 All-Star game was canceled, the Rockies tradition of having a starter in the game is in jeopardy in 2021. While we won't know who the reserve players will be until July 4, we can only hope guys like Raimel Tapia or Ryan McMahon have a stroke of luck and end up as a replacement or designated hitter. Regardless, what a joy it has been for Rockies fans to enjoy such a streak of players being recognized in such a significant way.
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Joe Nguyen runs down a quick list of the notable Rockies having success in 2021 that could be the representative for the team at Coors Field this season. Personally speaking, Ryan McMahon seems like the most likely to get that designated thanks to his strong performance this season, especially in the absence of Nolan Arenado.
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With June coming to an end, trade rumors are only going to continue to swirl around the Colorado Rockies. Notably, the Brewers may be in need of a first baseman, and C.J. Cron seems like an ideal candidate that the team could use in the competitive National League Central division.
Triple-A: Albuquerque Isotopes 5, Tacoma Rainiers 4
José Briceño was the hero of the night in Albuquerque, delivering a game tying homerun in the eighth followed by a walk-off sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth. Ian Clarkin started for the Isotopes, tossing four scoreless innings and scattering five hits. Tate Scioneaux came in relief and struggled to throw strikes, issuing four walks and allowing four runs. Connor Joe, Alan Trejo, Rio Ruiz, and Taylor Motter all had multi-hit nights to drive the offense.
Double-A: Richmond Flying Squirrels 4, Hartford Yard Goats 3
The offense came alive late for both teams as Hartford dropped another one to Richmond. With a one-run lead in the top of the ninth, Yoan Aybar came in to nail down the save for Hartford but gave up a walk to start the inning followed by a two-run blast by Frankie Tostado that was the difference-maker in the ball game. On the night, the Yard Goats tallied three runs on nine hits, including three doubles and Max George's third home run of the year.
High-A: Spokane Indians 9, Hillsboro Hops 3
Spokane hammered out 17 hits on the night en route to their 9-3 victory over Hillsboro. Among the highlights for Spokane, Isaac Collins contributed a four-hit night, scoring three runs and driving in two. Chris McMahon got the starting nod, allowing one run on three hits through five strong innings.
Low-A: Fresno Grizzlies 7, Visalia Rawhide 5
A solid bullpen effort secured Fresno's 29th victory of the season as they defeated Visalia 7-5. Mike Ruff struggled for Fresno through 3 1⁄3 innings allowing four runs on six hits while striking out five. The bullpen managed to work around a lot of traffic, allowing only one run. Ezequiel Tovar led the way offensively with two hits, including his seventh homerun of the season.
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I was wondering how to print Original, Duplicate and Triplicate (with markings) of my invoice. I tried searching thru YouTube and I don't have the options that I saw there. From the YouTube video, I saw that there was an option for Original, Original and Duplicate, etc. but in my version, I can't find it. My version is Quickbooks Online version is the highest kind for your reference.
Also, I wanted to put a Received By text field for the customer's signature. How do I do that? I tried using Footer but it messes up with the spacing of my Total Balance Field.
Hi Marvin, I am not familiar with a way to produce an original, duplicate and triplicate copies of invoices with the actual markings. Therefore, I recommend you contact the Intuit support team for assistance with that issue. I can help you get the signature line that you want on your invoices.
There are a couple of ways to get this one. First, you could add a custom field to your invoices. To do this, head over to the Company Settings, click on the Sales tab and within the Sales form content section there is an option to turn on custom fields and add them.
The other way to accomplish adding a signature line is by using the box located in the lower right hand corner invoice that says Message on invoice. Instead of including a message like "Thank you for your business", you could instead type in "Sign here to accept the terms of this invoice" or whatever the message is that you want to convey.


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Since you are in the U.S. with the principal purpose of pursuing a full course of study or academic program, your employment options are very limited. Before engaging in any type of employment–paid or non-paid; on-campus or off-campus–you must first be clearly informed on what are the options and eligibility requirements.
Be reminded that engaging in unauthorized/illegal employment is a deportable offense under U.S. immigration law.
Refrain from any on-campus employment if/while you are out-of-status.
ALWAYS check with the ISSS BEFORE you engage in anything resembling employment, internships, co-op experience, whether paid or unpaid. Avoid putting your immigration status at risk!
If you register for a course that consists of an internship, any kind of employment on or off campus, co-op experience, paid or unpaid, or that it has the word "internship" in the name of the course. you MUST visit the ISSS Office IMMEDIATELY to obtain approval. Failure to do so may lead to very serious violations of immigration policies.
If you are planning to engage in ANY volunteer activity, you MUST check with an ISSS Advisor BEFORE getting started.
Remember, when in doubt….check with ISSS!
The following is a basic overview of employment options for F-1.
You must have a valid passport at all times.
You must hold a valid FIU I-20 properly processed either through ISSS or by travel and reentry.
You must also be in good academic standing and making normal progress towards completion of current degree.
For any Practical Training employment, you must have been in valid status and enrolled full-time for at least two consecutive semesters prior to application.
For employment due to Severe Economic Hardship, you must have been in status at FIU for at least one full academic year prior to eligibility and application.
More information is provided in the F-1 Employment Online Workshop, which all F-1 students are REQUIRED to view in its entirety if they wish to apply for an employment benefit.


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#include <aws/accessanalyzer/model/ValidatePolicyRequest.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/json/JsonSerializer.h>
#include <aws/core/http/URI.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSStringStream.h>

#include <utility>

using namespace Aws::AccessAnalyzer::Model;
using namespace Aws::Utils::Json;
using namespace Aws::Utils;
using namespace Aws::Http;

ValidatePolicyRequest::ValidatePolicyRequest() :
    m_locale(Locale::NOT_SET),
    m_localeHasBeenSet(false),
    m_maxResults(0),
    m_maxResultsHasBeenSet(false),
    m_nextTokenHasBeenSet(false),
    m_policyDocumentHasBeenSet(false),
    m_policyType(PolicyType::NOT_SET),
    m_policyTypeHasBeenSet(false)
{
}

Aws::String ValidatePolicyRequest::SerializePayload() const
{
  JsonValue payload;

  if(m_localeHasBeenSet)
  {
   payload.WithString("locale", LocaleMapper::GetNameForLocale(m_locale));
  }

  if(m_policyDocumentHasBeenSet)
  {
   payload.WithString("policyDocument", m_policyDocument);

  }

  if(m_policyTypeHasBeenSet)
  {
   payload.WithString("policyType", PolicyTypeMapper::GetNameForPolicyType(m_policyType));
  }

  return payload.View().WriteReadable();
}

void ValidatePolicyRequest::AddQueryStringParameters(URI& uri) const
{
    Aws::StringStream ss;
    if(m_maxResultsHasBeenSet)
    {
      ss << m_maxResults;
      uri.AddQueryStringParameter("maxResults", ss.str());
      ss.str("");
    }

    if(m_nextTokenHasBeenSet)
    {
      ss << m_nextToken;
      uri.AddQueryStringParameter("nextToken", ss.str());
      ss.str("");
    }

}


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"...Georgia's always on my my my my my my my my my mind"
By Stephen Green 11:39 AM on October 23, 2008
Despite the fresh snow on the ground here, it's feeling like August again:
Georgia says Russia has deployed 2,000 additional troops in the pro-Russian breakaway region of South Ossetia, a move Russia denies.
If the Georgian claim is true, the build-up would violate a cease-fire deal that ended a five-day military conflict in August.
The Georgian Interior Ministry voiced fear over the alleged buildup and said Thursday Russia appears to be "preparing provocations" in South Ossetia. A spokesman, Shota Utiashvili, says there are now seven-thousand Russian troops in South Ossetia alone.
Georgia. In NATO. Now.
With big hints that Ukraine is to follow.


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Indiana Jones Movies Ranked Worst to Best
Michael Gallucci
Michael Gallucci Published: May 22, 2019
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were the most powerful men in Hollywood in early 1980 when they decided to work together on a new movie based on the movie serials of the '30s and '40s.
The idea – conceived by Lucas and directed by Spielberg – centered on an archaeologist who took on Nazis in the mid '30s across the globe as he pursued the mythical Ark of the Covenant. When Raiders of the Lost Ark premiered in 1981, the movie was a monster hit, turning Indiana Jones (and, by extension, the actor who played him, Harrison Ford) into a new movie hero, and making Spielberg (right before E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) and Lucas (in between the second and third Star Wars films) even more powerful.
It's probably no surprise that the first movie in the franchise tops our list of Indiana Jones Movies Ranked Worst to Best. But its (so far) three follow-up films include almost as many thrilling moments and classic scenes as Raiders of the Lost Ark. (There was also a television show, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and four made-for-TV movies based on the program that ran in the '90s and introduced the pre-Raiders adventurer to famous historical figures. We didn't include these in our list.)
The follow-up feature films – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom arrived in 1984, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989 and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came way later in 2008 – found Indiana in various time periods and places, ranging from India a year before Raiders starts to the Amazon jungle in the late '50s. All of them offer iconic scenes that have become part of film history, as you'll see in our below list of Indiana Jones Movies Ranked Worst to Best.
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I'm a big fan of turmeric and it's anti-inflammatory properties, but not a big fan of the taste. I tried the golden milk recipes for a few weeks and just never enjoyed them. Then I switched to turmeric supplements, so I could get them down easier. A bit of a cheat, but at least I was getting my daily turmeric.
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Early spring brings bears to N.H. backyards
GRAFTON (AP) — New Hampshire expects a banner year for bear complaints.
Hungry bruins awakened by an early spring are moving into backyards to forage because summer vegetation and berries have not yet come on.
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department expects to get more than twice as many complaints of bear activity this year than last because of the atypical spring weather and temporary food shortage.
Already, a woman in Grafton reported being attacked by a bear as she opened her door to let her dog out. She went to the hospital with cuts on her arms. Her dog was not hurt.
In June, wildlife officers tranquilized a wayward bear that was found wandering the streets of Manchester and moved it to the White Mountain National Forest.
Bears also have crossed paths with people in Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine. A bear in Massachusetts became a celebrity after it swam to Cape Cod, was tranquilized and taken to the woods, then showed up again in a Boston suburb.
The number of bear complaints has almost doubled in Maine compared to complaints during the same period last year, state officials say. And bear complaints in Vermont also are more abundant this year than usual.
Vermont bear biologist Forrest Hammond said the bears are looking for food at a time of year when succulent early season food has disappeared and the berries the animals feed on haven't ripened yet.
"The majority of them are bird feeder incidents," Hammond said. "Taking down the bird feeders is still the biggest thing we can do (to avoid problems)."
The increase in Vermont coincides with a growing bear population, which has doubled in the last 20 years, he said.
New Hampshire Fish and Game bear biologist Andrew Timmins said bears generally do not pose a danger to humans.
"All they're trying to do is fill their stomachs," he said. "They're not coming into yards to be aggressive or chase people around. Bears that are allowed to enter a yard and receive a food reward will try that time and time again."
Last year, New Hampshire Fish and Game received fewer than 500 calls reporting bear sightings. Timmins predicts that number will hit more than 1,000 this year.
Timmins expects the number of bear complaints to drop once crops of berries start coming in, later in the summer and during the fall. Until then, a lack of good quality vegetation means hungry bears are seeking other food sources.
"They're just a month ahead of schedule right now," Timmins said.
When nature's food supply is low, backyard items such as birdfeeders and unsealed garbage cans offer bears the best nourishment.
Bedford resident Caroline Verow said a small bear has gone into her yard a few times, starting one night last winter.
"He was on his back and shaking our huge bird feeder, like a baby, just shaking it into his mouth," she said. "He was having a ball out there. He stayed for about a half hour, until the feeder was empty."
Verow said she then took down the feeder. Fish and Game officials hope to see more New Hampshire residents do the same to avoid similar bear encounters.
When a bear needs to be removed from a residential neighborhood, it is brought to the woods in northern New Hampshire. But Timmins said this step isn't ideal because bears can travel back to their homes in about a week.
Although Fish and Game workers can trap or relocate bears, they prefer that homeowners learn to avoid luring the animals. They advise removing birdfeeders, keeping trash containers securely closed and installing electric fences around chicken coops.
"Our first line of defense is really education," Timmins said. "Our desire's not to be relocating bears. Our desire is to get people to be changing their lifestyle."


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After a year rife with health care data breaches, the industry is being lobbed with another major security risk: organized cyberattacks.
These hacks are slightly more sophisticated than those that came before, primarily exploiting software weaknesses or phishing for sensitive data. According to a study from the Ponemon Institute, many healthcare organizations have experienced one hack per month in the last year.
For this reason, IT experts are considering the ways health care needs to rethink its approach to cybersecurity. Security Intelligence has suggested that providers look to free up resources to invest in cybersecurity, particularly in finding the right personnel. Some providers choose to outsource operations like revenue cycle management to focus on other efforts.
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Zettaset to Enable Data-in-Motion Encryption for Hadoop
Zettaset, a Mountain View, California-based provider of Big Data management and security solutions, today announced the addition of data-in-motion encryption as a soon-to-be released feature in its flagship management and security add-on application for Hadoop.
Dubbed "Zettaset Orchestrator", the company's Hadoop management platform works with any open source Apache Hadoop-based distribution, including Cloudera, IBM BigInsights, and Hortonworks.
Data-in-motion encryption provides organizations with an additional layer of protection for their Hadoop clusters and sensitive data, eliminating access by unauthorized users, Zettaset said.
Using a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) tunnel, the solution encrypts all network connections to the Orchestrator web-based console, along with links between all cluster nodes, to reduce the risk of unauthorized access.
Connections from the Orchestrator Business Intelligence (BI) Connector, an API that connects Hadoop clusters with analytics applications, are also secured.
"Risks associated with Hadoop projects include security and privacy challenges," wrote Gartner Research Director Analyst, Bhavish Sood et. al. "Hadoop certainly wasn't built with enterprise IT environments in mind because there is a shortage of robust security controls in Hadoop."
Node performance with encryption is key as enterprises scale up their Hadoop clusters and move from pilot to production, the company said. For that reason,Zettaset'sdata-in-motion encryptionwas designed to have "virtually no negative impact" on node and cluster performance.
Orchestrator data-in-motion encryption for Hadoop is next phase of the company's Big Data encryption technology initiative, which began with the release of data-at-rest encryption in November 2013.
"Unlike other Hadoop encryption approaches which are bolt-on point products, Zettaset has integrated encryption into a complete security solution for Hadoop that provides an enterprise-wide framework for identity and access management, as well as security policy enforcement," said Jim Vogt, CEO of Zettaset.
Scheduled to be available in Q2 2014, data-in-motion encryption for Hadoop will be bundled with every Orchestrator application license, Zettaset said.
Originally named GOTO Metrics, the company was re-named Zettaset in 2011 at the same time it announced a $3 million round of funding.The company also raised a $10 million round of funding in January 2013.
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