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Meet the Cast of 'Mob City' [Exclusive]
Meet the Cast of Mob City [Exclusive]
Neal McDonough, Jeremy Luke and Gregory Itzin discuss their roles in this L.A. noir drama. The TNT series debuts Wednesday, December 4th.
— December 3, 2013
Meet the cast of TNT's Mob City, debuting Wednesday, December 4 at 9 PM ET
While most TV shows are getting ready to shut down for their holiday break, TNT is getting ready to roll out its latest series Mob City. The six-episode program from creator Frank Darabont (The Walking Dead) will air two back-to-back episodes on three consecutive Wednesdays, starting with "A Guy Walks Into a Bar" and "Reason to Kill a Man" on December 4 at 9 PM ET.
The series, set in 1940s Los Angeles, takes viewers inside an embattled L.A.P.D. that is waging war with notorious mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel (Edward Burns) and Mickey Cohen (Jeremy Luke). The show centers on Detective Jon Teague (Jon Bernthal), who is assigned to a new task force as a part of Captain William Parker's (Neal McDonough) mission to to clean up the streets of L.A. and get rid of this mafia scourge for good.
I recently had the chance to sit down with three of the show's stars, Neal McDonough, Jeremy Luke and Gregory Itzin, who plays L.A. mayor Fletcher Bowron. Take a look at what the stars of Mob City had to say about the series in our exclusive interviews.
Jeremy Luke - Mickey Cohen
For something like this, when you approach a character like Mickey Cohen, since he has been played by so many other actors, do you look at other performances to see what to get away from?
Jeremy Luke: You know what, I didn't. I mean, halfway through, I kind of looked through some of the stuff, like Bugsy and Gangster Squad. Harvey Keitel and Sean Penn are two of my favorite actors, and I watched some of their stuff, but I had already made some of the decisions that I had made. It was kind of ironic, to me, the first day I started shooting, James Gandolfini passed away, so for me, I kind of went back and watched all of The Sopranos again. For me, that was kind of inspirational, how he handled his weight, being a bigger guy. I had to gain like 15 to 20 pounds throughout the shoot, so for me to be in that kind of state, using my weight, that's kind of where I got inspired, for Mickey. It was kind of like coincidence, that it all happened like that.
There's such a presence you have to create with a role like this.
Jeremy Luke: Yeah, and he's a little guy, but he's a little guy with a big attitude.
Was there anything that surprised you about Mickey in doing research?
Jeremy Luke: The thing with Mickey is he had a harsh case of obsessive compulsive disorder. He'd wash his hands 50, 60 times a day. This is another good story. He had 300 suits in his closer, and he had some enemies bomb his house. He wasn't so mad about the house being blown up, but these guys ruined his god damn suits! The cool thing, what really intrigued me, is most gangsters enjoy being knuckleheads. Mickey was a knucklehead, there's no doubt about it, but he always tried to better himself. He always tried to educate himself. He looked up to people who were a lot smarter than him, so there's a lot to be said about that kind of gangster. There was respect that I had for him, for doing that.
Jeremy Luke: Yeah, that was a thing I looked at with the script. He is a bad guy, but I think he really likes people. I think he really enjoys people, because someone who runs a nightclub, takes pictures with everyone who comes through the door, shakes everybody's hand, even though he has a harsh case of OCD and he has to wash his hands every five minutes. Somebody like that, in my mind, enjoys to be around people and likes to be the center of attention.
This era not only has a distinct sense of style, but people also talked very differently back then. Was that something you had to approach too?
Jeremy Luke: I didn't, you know. I don't know if some of the other actors did, but I personally didn't. I think we all wanted to bring a humanity to that era, because watching some of those movies, for me personally, it seemed a bit disconnected.
Frank Darabont directed the first two episodes. That had to have been just a thrill as well.
Jeremy Luke: Sure. The first season of The Walking Dead was the first television I had watched in a long time, and that's the truth of the matter. The Shawshank Redemption is probably the greatest movie of all time, so to work with somebody like Frank, I was flattered.
Neal McDonough - L.A.P.D. Police Captain William Parker
When you play a character like this, how much research goes into who he was and what you have to portray in a show like this?
Neal McDonough: Well, it's funny, because Parker is such a historical character, yet there's never been a biography written about him. It's hard to find anything personal. In my acting, I really like to dig in, but it's tough to find any true stories of who Parker really was underneath. I had to go by a lot of what's in the books, and Buck Compton, who I played in Band of Brothers, was great friends with Parker, so I heard stories about Parker, and hear about how he was such a great guy. Once he set his mind to something, he was going to do it, and he loved Los Angeles so much. His job was to really clean up the police force, and he wasn't going to say no to anything. He was going to get it done and stop the corruption. By doing so, being #1 in charge and changing the most corrupt police force there was into the straight and narrow, there was a lot of pressure there. We deal with his alcoholism a little later on. It's a pretty fascinating character to play, to be such a polarizing figure. Some people hated him so much, and some people loved him so much. He didn't care. It was always about the best thing for Los Angeles, not the best thing for himself. Those are the guys you love to root for.
It must be great too, coming into this from a guy like Quarles, who I loved on Justified.
Do you look for that kind of polarity though, in your roles?
Neal McDonough: With Quarles, I went in the opposite direction as much as possible. Instead of playing him the heavy tough guy, I played him really light and funny and crazy. At that moment when you need to turn the blue eyes in, oh shit, step back, this guy is actually a nutbag. That was fun to play. Same thing with playing Parker. He's really nice to the guys and fun, but when push comes to shove, those blue eyes are saying the same thing, just in a different tone. It's nice to be able to go from villain to good guy, from movies to TV, commercials and voice-overs. I'm the luckiest guy in Hollywood.
Can you talk a bit about this six-episode format? You don't see it done a whole lot like this. It's about half of the length of a normal cable show, so did you think there was enough time to tell the story there?
Neal McDonough: I thought it was great. I've always said my favorite medium is the mini-series, because the mini-series, you have all the great dialogue, you shoot it in X amount of time, and the PR is through the roof. (At this point, Robert Knepper comes by for a moment). Knepper is the greatest. As great as I think I was as Quarles, you've gotta see him in the show. He's just unbelievable, but everybody was. Edward Burns as Bugsy, again, he's always known as being the good guy, so they went against type again. TNT really doesn't mind going against type. They want to see who the best actors for these characters are. I believe they got each character perfectly cast. That has a lot to do with Deb Aquilla, the greatest casting director in the history of casting. She got it right. The six episode arc, it's great. To make it this mini event feel, the epic event of the year, let's not B.S. each other, it really is. This is such a great, huge event for TNT and for everyone, that to be a part of it, it's like Band of Brothers was such an epic event, or Tin Man was such an epic event for Syfy. This is such an epic event for TNT, and I love being a part of this mini-series format. I've done the 22-episode shows before, and it's a lot of work, and it's not as creative. This gives Frank the time he needs to really write with his team, build characters, and make it damn interesting for people to watch.
Has Frank or anyone else given you any hints about what might happen in Season 2, if it goes forward?
Neal McDonough: Oh yeah. Frank's mind never stops. Even when he sleeps, he's figuring out Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, but the great thing about Frank is he concentrates on what's at hand right now. As much as I'd love to say I know what's going on in the next couple of years, in Frank I trust. For my character, at the end of the first season, it really kicks in for Parker. By the second season, when I'm going nose to nose with Mickey Cohen, it's a brawl, and all bets are off, and all corruption is going to be gone. It's nice to see such a driven character.
Do you think the action will be ramped up a lot more with this ongoing war in Season 2?
With a period setting like this, does wardrobe help you get into character more?
Neal McDonough: Yeah. You look at everyone in their fedoras and their grey suits and ties. Even if you're a guy who didn't have any money at all, you still wore a suit. I kind of pride myself in my life that I wear suits to every place. My mom always said, if you're going to be somebody, look like somebody, and that's what that era was. Everybody looked like somebody. You can't help but feel like there's Benny Goodman in your mind, playing in the background. It was great fun.
Gregory Itzin - L.A. Mayor Fletcher Bowron
Can you talk a bit about what first piqued your interest in the script and this show as a whole?
Gregory Itzin: I kind of came in at the 11th hour. I wasn't cast in the original pilot. A couple of months ago, I was working on Covert Affairs in Toronto, which makes this a blast. It's 15 minutes from my home. Anyway, they offered me the role of Fletcher Bowron. I came in after they shot the pilot, my scenes were put in, so really, in a way, I felt like this is a family, and I'm busting into it. I don't have all the details of the show. By the time I got there, they decided to give it a six-show arc and run it up the flagpole, see who salutes it.
We see a lot of mini-series, but this seems really unique, especially in how they're promoting it, as this three-night, huge special event.
Gregory Itzin: As I understand, it gathers traction as it goes, and by the end it's really jaw-dropping. I had to do some ADR for Episode 6, and it's really exciting.
With coming in so late, was there any time to do any research into this character?
Gregory Itzin: I did a bit. I immediately started looking him up when the deal came through. I looked at the book, L.A. Noir, and there's also a book about Fletcher Bowron and what he did for the city, so I started reading that and got an idea of him. Then, I wasn't sure what Frank wanted. I'm usually hired for my nastyness, so I wondered what he wanted this guy to be. This is a nice guy, and there's layers, because he's a politician. He knows how the game is played, and he plays it well. Pretty much, I was aligned with William Parker, straight up, so that gave me the hint as to what I'd be doing.
Can you talk about Frank's style as a director? He has such a phenomenal canon of work. Is there something that really sets him apart from others you've worked with?
What would you like to say to anyone who is on the fence about checking this out, about why they should tune in?
Gregory Itzin: It's not done very well, very often, and I think it's worth a go. The first episode is just filled with action, so if you like action, that's a good thing. I think it's got a great, dark look, in keeping with the noir aspects of it, and I hope it's exciting.
Mob City debuts Wednesday, December 4 at 9 PM ET with the first two episodes, "A Guy Walks Into a Bar" and "Reason to Kill a Man".


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This club gives students the opportunity to explore the French culture and cuisine through games, crafts, holiday celebrations and more. French Club is a great way to practice French conversation. MND periodically sponsors trips to France over the summer or during spring break for students wishing to have a French immersion experience. Membership is open to students currently enrolled in French classes and those who have taken French in the past.
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They are annoying bloodsuckers who lurk around the campfire, on woody paths and in the backyard.
And since warmer weather signals sprinkler splashes, s'mores, and camp-outs for kids, it also means the return of those summer spoilers – mosquitoes, ticks, and their dreaded insect bites.
While they're usually just irritating, bites from the two insects can potentially transmit disease as well. But choosing the right child repellent or protection can be confusing for some families CS Mott Children's Hospital National Child Health Survey at Michigan Medicine.
"There are different types of repellants, and some are more effective than others. Parents should look for ways to choose the best one for their child based on how much time they spend outside and where, "he says Heather Burrows, MD, Ph.D., a pediatrician with Michigan Medicine CS Mott Children's Hospital.
"Usually mosquito and tick bites are just a nuisance that causes temporary discomfort. However, there is a small and more serious risk that they will spread disease too, "she adds.
"As long as families take the right precautions and keep an eye on children after being outdoors, these insects shouldn't prevent them from enjoying summer fun."
While this is unusual, mosquitoes can transmit viruses such as Zika, West Nile, and Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), which can potentially cause disability or death in humans and animals.
In the summer of 2019, EEE made a comeback in the US, with a significantly higher number of cases reported than the typical average of eight cases per year. The virus can cause a mild, flu-like illness, but a third of those who develop a condition called encephalitis – when the virus inflames the brain – die.
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For several summers, ticks were widespread in certain parts of the country, including Michigan and the Midwest. One of the diseases they can carry is Lyme disease, a potentially serious bacterial infection that can cause fever, chills, headache, and fatigue, as well as joint pain and weakness in the limbs.
Burrows offers parents 6 top tips to help keep little ones safe from these pesky insects.
1. Use DEET, but with caution
Among parents who treat their children with insect repellants, only one in three uses sprays containing N, N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET), which are most effective against mosquitoes, according to the Mott survey.
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The percentage of DEET determines how long it will take, so Burrows also suggests using the lowest possible percentage.
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Another option is a product called Picaridin. But these alternatives don't last as long as DEET and have to be reapplied throughout the day, says Burrows.
The choice of clothing can also provide protection, e.g. B. Make sure children wear pants, long sleeves, light colored clothing, and always wear shoes outside.
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Staying inside before sunrise and after dark will also reduce the risk of insect bites.
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According to Mott's poll, parents are twice as likely to be concerned about disease-transmitting ticks as they are about mosquitos. However, there are two main types of ticks – wood and deer.
Wooden ticks are about the size of a watermelon core. Deer ticks are smaller, somewhere between the size of a poppy seed and an apple seed.
Deer ticks can transmit Lyme disease, but only in less than 2% of tick bites. Wood ticks can transmit another infection, Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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With an average ocean temperature of 73.9°F (23.3°C), Febrero is the month with the coldest seawater.
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Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic,was born in 1954. Best known for his ten science fictionnovels, he also writes short stories, book reviews,design criticism, opinion columns, and introductionsfor books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne.His nonfiction works include... show more
Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic,was born in 1954. Best known for his ten science fictionnovels, he also writes short stories, book reviews,design criticism, opinion columns, and introductionsfor books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne.His nonfiction works include THE HACKER CRACKDOWN:LAW AND DISORDER ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER (1992),TOMORROW NOW: ENVISIONING THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS (2003),and SHAPING THINGS (2005). He is a contributing editor of WIRED magazineand writes a weblog. During 2005,he was the "Visionary in Residence" at Art CenterCollege of Design in Pasadena. In 2008 hewas the Guest Curator for the Share Festivalof Digital Art and Culture in Torino, Italy,and the Visionary in Residence at the SandbergInstituut in Amsterdam. In 2011 he returned to Art Center as "Visionary in Residence" to runa special project on Augmented Reality.He has appeared in ABC's Nightline, BBC's The Late Show,CBC's Morningside, on MTV and TechTV, and in Time,Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times,Fortune, Nature, I.D., Metropolis, Technology Review,Der Spiegel, La Stampa, La Repubblica, and many other venues.
Birth date: April 14, 1954
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[I received a copy of this novel through NetGalley.]A book that, to me, was more interesting for the world it developed than for its actual plot—I'd definitely like to see this "Futurist 1920s Italia/Europe/USA" revisited and developed more, especially for what the author does with famous figures an...
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"An IoT is not a consumer society. It's a materialized network society. It's like Google or Facebook writ large on the landscape. Google and Facebook don't have 'users' or 'customers'. Instead, they have participants under machine surveillance, whose activities are algorithmically combined with Big ...


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Interview: Leigh Whannell Talks Insidious: Chapter 3 (Exclusive)
Karen Benardello
Fear of the unknown can often be a powerful and compelling motivating factor that can often inhibit people's personal and professional maturity and growth. Whether they're contending with personal loss for the first time, or are taking the initial step to achieve their ultimate career goal, people can be intimidated by not knowing what's happening to them to fully embrace the lessons they can learn from the experience. But writer-actor Leigh Whannell, who penned and starred in the popular first two 'Insidious' movies, proved people can move past that concern in his feature film directorial debut with the series' new prequel, 'Insidious: Chapter 3.'
The horror film, which opens in theaters today nationwide, was funded in part by series producer Jason Blum and his production company, Blumhouse Productions. Along with James Wan, who co-created the 'Insidious' franchise with Whannell and directed the first two movies, and also served as a producer on 'Insidious: Chapter 3,' they are among those who encouraged Whannell to take the next step in filmmaking by helming the origins story. As a result, the filmmaker naturally and enthrallingly created a relatable and realistic story about two families that are both struggling to overcome their grief during times of physical and emotional crisis.
'Insidious: Chapter 3,' which is set several years before the haunting of the Lambert family that began in 'Insidious' and continued into its sequel, chronicles how Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) first began battling the spirits that plagued her in The Further. While still emotionally recovering from the unexpected suicide of her beloved husband, Jack (Adrian Sparks), Elise has decided to stop using her natural physic gift, as she fears it will maliciously claim her own life. But her outlook on communicating with spirits suddenly changes when she's approached by young aspiring actress, Quinn Brenner (Stefanie Scott), who longs to communicate with her recently deceased mother, Lillith (Ele Keats), before she begins college the following year.
While Elise immediately feels protective of the sensitive teenager, the physic initially refuses to help her, as she's still not ready to accept her gift as being her life's true purpose. But after a shocking accident then leaves Quinn hospitalized and forced to miss school so that she can recover at home, where she has begun making contact with a spirit pretending to be her mother, Elise feels the need to step in to protect the teen.
As Quinn's father, Sean (Dermot Mulroney), is still struggling to care for his daughter and her younger brother, Alex (Tate Berney), after his wife's devastating death, he starts to take more responsibility for them when Quinn is attacked by a malevolent supernatural entity, The Man Who Can't Breathe (Michael Reid MacKay). After pleading with Elise to help separate Quinn from the malicious entity, who has attached himself to the teen in order to take her soul, she agrees to contact the dead. With the help of her two new colleagues, Specs (Whannell) and Tucker (Angus Sampson), two parapsychologists who Alex finds on the internet, the physic venture into The Further. In her effort to save Quinn, Elise finds herself fighting The Man Who Can't Breathe, the most ruthless energy she has ever encountered, while she also battles her own personal demons.
Whannell generously took the time recently to talk about returning to the 'Insidious' franchise, to once again write and star in, as well as direct, the series' latest entry, during an exclusive phone interview. Among other things, the writer-helmer-actor discussed how he decided to make his feature film directorial debut with the horror prequel, after receiving support from the movie's producers, and writing the previous two installments of the 'Insidious' franchise made him more confident and comfortable in his filmmaking approach; how he decided to make the movie a prequel, as he wanted to focus on Elise's origins and decision to start using her psychic gift again, particularly to help another family that's contending with possession; and how he appreciates how supportive Blumhouse Productions and Wan have been with his creative decisions, as they truly allowed him to explore his ideas on his own.
ShockYa (SY): Like the first two 'Insidious' films, you wrote the script for 'Insidious: Chapter 3,' which serves as a prequel, and showcases how Elise began working with Specs and Tucker. As the franchise's scribe, why did you decide to make this film an origins story?
Leigh Whannell (LW): Well, I really enjoyed writing the first two films, and there's something very familial about the 'Insidious' movies. Everyone on the crew knows each other so well, and Blumhouse is great, so it's been great working on the films. So it wasn't a hard decision to come back and work on another one of these movies.
As a life-long fan of entertainment, particularly films, television and music, and an endless passion for writing, Karen Benardello decided to combine the two for a career. She graduated from New York's LIU Post with a B.F.A in Journalism, Print and Electronic. While still attending college, Karen began writing for Shockya during the summer of 2007, when she began writing horror movie reviews. Since she began writing for Shockya, Karen has been promoted to the position of Senior Movies & Television Editor. Some of her duties in the position include interviewing filmmakers and musicians, producing posts on celebrity news and contributing reviews on albums and concerts. Some of her highlights include attending such festivals and conventions as the Tribeca Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, SXSW, Toronto After Dark, the Boston Film Festival and New York Comic-Con.
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Ealing London Borough Council
'Big Belly' solar bin with very big appetite comes to Ealing
The 'Big Belly' bin is able to store up to eight times as much rubbish as a normal bin due to its solar-powered compactor
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The power of the sun will be harnessed to tackle high street rubbish with the trial of a 'Big Belly' solar litter bin this spring.
Ealing Council is using a new rubbish bin which takes up the same amount of space as a regular bin, but is able to store up to eight times as much rubbish with the help of its solar powered compactor.
The built-in smart technology will send the street cleaning team a message when it reaches 85% capacity to alert them to empty it.
The 100% solar-powered bins have been used by other boroughs to save money while reducing the number of bin collections necessary.
The bins also help stop birds, foxes and vermin scattering rubbish.
There are two volume sensors in the bin and when the rubbish reaches a certain level, the sensors trigger the compactor.
It can hold a minimum of 606 litres, increasing to 800 litres of waste, which is up to eight times greater than the average street bin.
Keith Townsend, executive director of environment and customer services, said: "It will be very interesting to see the results of this trial. Anything that helps us keep the streets cleaner has got to be a good thing.
"This could help our street teams so they are only collecting from bins that are full and can focus more on clearing fly-tipping and other litter instead."
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Jan Miense Molenaer (1610 – buried 19 September 1668),[1] was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter whose style was a precursor to Jan Steen's work during Dutch Golden Age painting.[2] He shared a studio with his wife, Judith Leyster, also a genre painter, as well as a portraitist and painter of still-life. Both Molenaer and Leyster may have been pupils of Frans Hals.
Molenaer was born and died in Haarlem. He achieved a style close to Hals' early on in his career, but later developed a style like that of Dutch genre painter, Adriaen van Ostade.[3] His genre works often depicted players of music, such as his The Music Makers (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest), The Duet (Seattle Art Museum), or Family Making Music (Frans Hals Museum). He also depicted Taverns and the activities of card games or games of the times such as La main chaude, or in Dutch, Handjeklap [nl], which literally means clapping hands. Molenaer also cleverly depicted biblical stories in his own time and surroundings, such as representing a scene from Peter's Gospel set in a Dutch Tavern in The Denying of Peter (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest).
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The St. John family attends the Mississippi Press Convention in 1967 at the Buena Vista hotel on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The empty glass next to Robert St. John, at right, likely contained a Shirley Temple.
ROBERT ST. JOHN: Shrimp, smoke and Shirley
By Robert St. John Syndicated columnist
In the 1960s and early 1970s of my youth there wasn't a lot of dining out in my family. Most special occasions were hosted by my grandmother in her dining room. On the rare instance our family dined out my favorite restaurant was a place called Captain John's.
Captain John's was located on Howling Wolf's Highway 49 in my hometown of Hattiesburg, Miss. It was owned and operated by a local businessman who later became a city councilman. It was a typical coastal seafood joint with nautical-themed paper placemats, blue napkins, a plastic basket of Captain's Wafers with foil-wrapped butter pats on the table, and trout amandine, stuffed flounder, several varieties of Gulf shrimp, and oysters on the menu. There were two things I looked forward to ordering at Captain John's as soon as I heard that we would be going there— fried shrimp and a Shirley Temple.
Fried shrimp were the pinnacle of dining out when I was a kid. Whether it was at Captain John's, Baricev's on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, or another restaurant out of town while on vacation. No matter where I was, I always ordered fried shrimp.
As a restaurateur I know the psychology behind the best menu offerings— the perfect menu item is one that tastes great, is easy to prepare in a commercial kitchen, is costed out well, and is an item that one doesn't typically cook at home. If an item can meet those four criteria, it is a keeper, and likely an all-star in a menu lineup. Back then I didn't know anything about menu dynamics, I just knew that we never ate fried shrimp at home. I loved fried shrimp, and so that is what I ordered.
The Shirley Temple thing was different. That was probably my attempt to be a grown-up. The adults were having cocktails before dinner and so I had something similar. For those who didn't grow up drinking Shirley Temples, it is a non-alcoholic cocktail consisting of Sprite or ginger ale with a shot of grenadine (pomegranate juice sweetened with sugar and flavored with a touch of lemon juice and orange flower water), garnished with a cherry.
I grew up as a child of the cocktail generation. In my book "Deep South Parties," I described it this way:
My earliest memory is of a cocktail party my parents were hosting in the living room of our small home on 22nd Avenue in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
The year was 1965, and I was four years old. After a steady Saturday evening diet of Flipper, I Dream of Jeanie, and Get Smart, I was under the covers at 8:30 p.m. I can remember lying in my bed, fully awake, hearing the strange, magical, yet foreign sounds coming from the living room— the clinking of ice in glasses, laughter, excited conversation, background music, and dancing— the quiet roar of a smoky room in full bloom. It was romantic, it was mysterious, and it sounded like fun.
It was a cocktail party smack dab in the middle of the "Cocktail Era." In the living room, Dean Martin and Nat King Cole were crooning on the Hi-Fi system— a piece of wooden furniture as large as a sideboard. In the dining room a small mahogany dining table was lined with cocktail weenies, meatballs, cheese spreads, and sour cream-laced cold dips. Scattered around both rooms room were bowlfuls of salted peanuts, plates filled with my grandmother's bacon-wrapped crackers, and ashtrays of all shapes, sizes, and colors. The kitchen doubled as a bar and a well-stocked cabinet full of scotch, bourbon, vodka, gin, soda, and tonic was open all night. Throughout the house were cigarettes.
Parties were full of cigarettes. The world was full of cigarettes. They smoked on television, they smoked while cooking, they smoked while eating, they smoked while drinking, they smoked while driving, they smoked while drinking and driving, they smoked during sex, they smoked after sex, they smoked while sleeping, and they smoked while smoking. The Camel ads of the day claimed, "More doctors smoke Camel than any other cigarette." Old Gold promised "Not a cough in a carload." Today smoking is taboo, and during a party, mostly reserved for the backyard, carport, sidewalk, or balcony. But in those days smoking was sexy.
It is telling that my earliest memory is of a party, not of a toy, or a relative, or a favorite blanket, but a party. I gave up drinking in 1983, and smoking in 1995. I got married which almost forced me to give up sex, and now my only vice is food.
I still order fried shrimp in a restaurant every once in a while, but I haven't had a Shirley Temple in over 50 years.
Whether it's a good idea to have children drinking mocktails at an early age is a topic for another column on another day. These days my family dines out a lot, but I don't remember ever ordering Shirley Temples for my kids.
In our breakfast/meat-and-three concept The Midtowner, there are over 500 photographs hanging on the walls. Most are of old Hattiesburg people and places. There are a few of my family and friends scattered throughout the walls. Among the personal photos is one of my family at the Mississippi Press Convention at the Buena Vista hotel on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
I love this photo because there are only a couple of the four of us all together. I like to think that this one is representative of our family dynamic and personalities in those days. The photo would have been taken the summer before my father died. My brother, mother, father, and I are sitting at a banquet table toward the end of a meal. My mother and father are smiling and seem very happy. There is no time stamp, but it is obviously late and probably way past bedtimes for my brother and me. My brother— always the responsible, well-behaved one— looks as if he is worn out, exhausted, and barely awake and about to fall out of his chair from exhaustion (probably because he was in charge of chasing me around the hotel dining room).
I am in the foreground, wide-eyed and wide awake. Sitting in front of my barely touched food plate is an empty glass. It probably represents the final few drops of my fourth or fifth refill of a sugar-laden Shirley Temple mocktail. In that moment all was right with the world.
2 lbs Shrimp, large, peeled and de-veined
2 cups Corn flour
1 Tbl Salt
2 Tbl Creole Seasoning
Heat oil to 340 degrees in a large cast iron skillet. Beat together the buttermilk and egg. Combine corn flour, salt and Creole seasoning. Dip shrimp into buttermilk mixture and dredge corn flour mix. Drop, one at a time, into the hot oil and fry until golden, about six to seven minutes. Remove and drain.
NOTE: When frying, it is crucial to maintain the oil temperature. Overloading the oil will cause a severe drop in temperature causing whatever you are frying, and the product will absorb more oil, resulting in a greasy, soggy final product. Keep a thermometer in the oil at all times so that you can monitor the temperature. Also, only bread as much as you can fry at one time. Pre-breading can cause clumps, which will fall off during the frying process. A good method for frying in batches is to preheat your oven to "warm" (200 degrees). Place paper towels or a cooling rack on a baking sheet and place in the oven. Place the already fried objects in the oven, leaving the oven door cracked slightly to prevent steaming.
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Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for Mrs. Virginia Hand, 97, of Stonewall, who died Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, at Anderson Regional Medical Center.
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Virgil D Reed, age 76, of Toomsuba, Miss., passed away Jan. 11, 2020. He was surrounded by his loving family. Virgil was born on March 5, 1943, to Henry and Nell Reed. He married Helen Reed at the age of 21. They were married for 54 years and enjoyed working in the garden and spoiling their …
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Graveside services for Mr. Arnold Hardy will be held on Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, at 2 p.m., at Old Barker Cemetery in Marion. To view the full obituary go to www.jamesfwebb.com.
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Funeral Mass for Dot Yochim will be Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, 11:30 a.m., at James F. Webb Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be Monday 11 a.m. until service time. To view full obituary go to www.jamesfwebb.com.
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Funeral Mass for Mr. Frank Long Jr. will be held Friday, at 12:30 p.m., at St. Patrick Catholic Church. Visitation will be 11 a.m.-noon, Friday, at James F. Webb Funeral Home. View full obituary at www.jamesfwebb.com.
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Court bars private schools from increasing fees by more than 5pc
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Karachi (Staff Report): The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday ordered private schools not to increase tuition fees by more than five percent.
A larger bench of the high court, headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi and comprising Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Ashraf Jahan, heard petitions filed by over 600 parents challenging the illegal rise in fees in violation of the Sindh Private Educational Institutions (Regulation and Control) Ordinance 2001.
The petitioners said that their children were studying at the private schools located in different areas of Karachi, adding that the schools had raised the fees by 12 to 60 percent imposing a burden on the parents.
The additional advocate general of Sindh submitted that private schools are not allowed to increase fees by more than five percent.
The private schools' counsel, however, urged the court to adjourn the case as they had challenged the relevant rules in the Supreme Court. He also asked the court to strike down the rules which restrain the private schools from raising fees up to five percent.
The SHC had reserved its judgment on petitions against increases in tuition fees in June this year after hearing the arguments of both sides.
The high court, in its verdict, remarked that private schools have no authority to raise the tuition fee by more than 5 percent.
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Phoenix Suns: Game Coverage
Phoenix Suns at Minnesota Timberwolves Preview: Q&A with Timberpups' Zachary Bennett
The Suns and Timberwolves are two of the better offensive teams in the league and both are fun to watch, and ESPN has realized that and opted to show tonight's game on national television. Let's preview the match-up.
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I could have done a standard preview for this game and given you my thoughts and opinions about the Wolves. Instead, I decided to take advantage of my Timberwolves Twitter connections and started talking about the match-up with Zachary Bennett, who covers the T-Wolves for Timberpups.com and also writes for Hickory-High.com.
That discussion turned into a full-blown question and answer session as you can see below. My questions and comments are in bold, while the rest of it is all Zachary. Educate yourself on the state of the Wolves and get ready for a fun game tonight.
1) First and foremost, Kevin Love is the hottest name on the trade market and every fan base - including and perhaps especially Suns fans - wants him. People assume he is just going to not re-sign with Minnesota and that they are going to trade him sooner rather than later. You're a bit closer to the situation than most Suns fans are. What is your read on it?
Well, that didn't take long -- the first question is somewhat of a forbidden topic in Minnesota. Love very well could leave at the end of next season. The front office budgeted to pay two players a max contract at the end of next season, the second being Rubio. It was believed that Love, a power forward, would be incapable of carrying a team to a championship on his own -- even Batman needed help from Robin. Budgeting for a second "superstar" put Love out of another year and $20 million dollars, and if the Wolves qualify for the postseason -- it could be argued that he's the league MVP, but it's a tough sell. He's really playing as well as anybody. The Wolves need to make a deep run, either this season or the next, to show Love can win here.
It's not that he's mad about the money as much as he is about how David Kahn and the others went about doing things -- he's mad about the process of the entire transaction. Love has certainly boosted his stock, and teams are going to want to pay him, making it seem as if he'll leave. Why would he stay in Minnesota?
Flip Saunders, hired as the new President of Basketball Operations during the offseason, is a trustworthy name from back in his days as the Wolves' head coach during the Kevin Garnett era. Saunders knows what losing a supreme all-NBA talent can do to a franchise; maybe he clean up the mess Kahn left behind him by budgeting in Love's favor when it's time to pay the piper. Or maybe he'll sell the most valuable asset for value paid by the highest bidder. It's likely he'll leave, though it wouldn't surprise me if he stays.
Sorry, I had to ask. I figured I'd go the rip-the-band-aid-off method and get it out of the way quickly. With Kahn out of the way, I do think Minnesota has a better chance to keep him. But it is likely going to take a healthy and successful season.
2) The Timberwolves are hanging around .500 at the moment and are currently on the outside looking it in the playoff picture. It looks like the Suns (perhaps the best bet of the group), Mavericks, Timberwolves, Nuggets, Pelicans and Grizzlies are the teams competing for the 7th and 8th seeds in the West (the equivalent of the 3rd and 4th seeds in the East). Call your shot right now and tell me which two will make the postseason (Suns fans are obviously rooting for the Wolves to make it with a draft pick on the line).
Now that you bring up Suns fans, I'd like to admit I sort of am one. I was born - and went to high school - in Phoenix and my first jersey as a child was the Suns '90s home whites (Kevin Johnson). I would love nothing more than to see both make the playoffs, but as far as the pick is concerned -- Phoenix took Michael Beasley and Wes Johnson off the Wolves' hands. We're pretty square, and this is a season Minnesota must make the playoffs (See: Love's Future Q #1).
I don't think it's the Nuggets or Pelicans, and don't see the Grizzlies making noise again, so we're left with the Mavericks, Suns and the Wolves. There's no way both of the teams that I grew up supporting make the post-season, so I'll just leave my answer at that.
For everyone's sake, I'm going to just say I hope both of your teams DO make it. As far as Dallas goes, I just can't buy into the Mavericks with Monta Ellis having it all, but they're going to be hanging around all season with Dirk and Marion doing their thing. Memphis has been pretty unimpressive, but I just can't help but think if they can get Marc Gasol healthy they'll have a shot to stay relevant; I think Courtney Lee was a good pick-up. The Pelicans have Anthony Davis who is already one of my favorite players in the League, so I won't count them out either. Can't we just steal playoff spots from the East? It doesn't need them anyway.
3) The Timberwolves are a tough team to figure out. They are in the top third of the NBA in free throw shooting, rebounds, assists, steals, points, ball security, forcing turnovers and not fouling. However, they are in the bottom third in 2-point, 3-point and overall field goal percentage as well as blocks. All that results in a .500 record. Make some sense of these numbers for me; what kind of team is Minnesota?
One of my favorite shows is HBO's "The Newsroom," and it's a scene from the pilot episode of the series that describes the Wolves best. "They're not a playoff team in the Western Conference, but they can be."
Here's where I sneak in a bit of self promotion. I wrote a quite lengthy 'bit' on Adelman being a proverbial old dog that needs to use some new tricks. Hovering around .500 isn't where anyone wants to be at the end of the season. The Wolves bench - in the most kindest way - has been mediocre, rim protection is bad and Rubio's scoring are all considered the reasons the Wolves don't win more games. Ronny Turiaf is back, Chase Budinger's return is imminent -- maybe these make them the 6-7-8 seed team, theoretically, that they are.
4) Ricky Rubio has been pretty atrocious as a scorer, averaging just 9 points on 35.1 percent from the field, yet he is shooting 85.3 percent from the line. What the heck is going on with him? Is this just an extended slump or are you worried about him moving forward?
Hand placement when he shoots, no real 'knack' or 'go-to' place he looks for buckets, problems finishing around the rim -- he's frustrating to critique as a scorer. Rubio's passing accounts for 19.6 of Minnesota's 107.4 points per game, add the nine aforementioned points, mix in the defensive impact (three steals) he accounts for per game -- and you have a heckuva basketball ball player. Here are his shooting percentages sorted by area.
43.6% in the restricted area. Yikes.
23.1% in the paint but outside of the restricted area.
28.3% in midrange areas.
38.8% on 3's "above the break"
I'd like to see him score more. It could be his shooting or finishing around the rim, either place there's room for him to improve. The easiest way Rubio could boost his per game average, which commonly gets blown out of proportion, would be for him to begin finishing around the rim, right? I think his larger critics would be silenced if he is averaging 15 points at this time next season.
There's no doubting the impact he has on the team, but I just can't help but feel having a point guard who isn't a threat to even convert layups at a high rate just limits you so much. I had questions about Rubio's upside before he was drafted because of his lack of scoring; hopefully he can keep getting better because he's certainly fun to watch when things are going well.
5) The Wolves made some moves to upgrade the wings, something they desperately needed after last year. How are the Kevin Martin and Corey Brewer signings working out? What about the Derrick Williams for Luc Richard Mbah a Moute trade?
Martin is the shooting guard this team has been waiting on for the longest time. It's possible he's the best 2-guard in team history and he hasn't even played a full season. Martin is scoring almost 20 points per game and - on average - five of them come from the free-throw line. Aside from Love, he's been the most important player for the Wolves this season. Yes, even more so than Rubio.
Brewer's presence was huge early in the season when the Wolves scored a considerable amount of points on his leak-outs in transition; he led the league in transition points for a bit. When Love's outlet passing, which the Suns will see tonight if there are any lapses defensively, coincides with this advanced method of 'cherry picking.' The duo makes opposing coaches furious -- teams game plan to stop this.
(The Suns have their own version of this with Eric Bledsoe and Goran Dragic; too bad Bledsoe is going to miss the game)
Offensively, he's frustrating at times. That's being nice. There are times he dribbles out of control, in the halfcourt and in transition, trying to do too much. Other than the outlet passes, he's not much of a scoring threat.
Brewer's role is somewhat to replace Andre Kirilenko defensively. Kirilenko signed with the Brooklyn Nets during the offseason, but hasn't played much because of injury, making Brewer's presence an overall net-positive. When Budinger returns, Adelman will be able to interchange these two -- making each player more valuable in their own way by consolidating the expectations for each.
So basically he's the same old Corey Brewer the Wolves drafted a handful of years ago? Perhaps absence made the heart grow fonder? I know he was far from beloved in his first Minnesota stint.
6) Eric Bledsoe has been fantastic and has gotten most of the publicity, but he is going to be missing his third straight game with a sprained knee. However, as good as Bledsoe has been it is Goran Dragic who is leading the team in scoring and assists and driving the team's success. What are your thoughts on Dragic's match-up with Rubio, who is one of the better defensive point guards in the league?
I watched Dragic (and his brother for that matter) play during EuroBasket over the summer and I love his game. These two are going to be fun. As I mentioned Rubio is a thief and his quickness and length make him one of the better defensive point guards -- a rare commodity in the NBA.
However, Dragic is the type of player that is up to the task no matter how tough the challenge. He's going to keep Rubio's hands full, and I think having the ball a majority of the game will help Dragic as the game goes on. He's the type of scorer that surveys his defender throughout the game, determines a weakness and how to best exploit it, and shoots, drives, and distributes as necessary -- he's a smart player.
I liked Goran last year but this year he has completely won me over. He's just been so darn good. People need to start taking notice.
7) Give me your key to the game and your prediction.
How can the Suns keep pace with the Wolves? I didn't even mention how well Nikola Pekovic is scoring. Combine the expected production of Pek, Love, and Martin and - generously - predict a solid outing from rotational players J.J. Barea and Dante Cunningham and I think there's too much firepower for the Suns to handle without Bledsoe.
The Morris twins must play above average, Gerald Green needs to step up without Bledsoe and Channing Frye needs to match Love's effort behind the 3-point line in order to keep this close. If time is winding down and the game is within single-digits, Dragic and the Suns have every chance of winning this game. Can they contain the Wolves for the first three quarters? We'll see, but I think the Wolves are going to win this game. Although I shouldn't feel this confident about it at all.
Pace is certainly something that is key for the Suns. They're scoring 20 points per game in transition and Goran Dragic is a one-man fast break. What hurts the Suns is that they are playing the second game of a back-to-back tonight. Stamina could be an issue in what should be a fast-paced, exciting game. However, with the Suns losing to a very short-handed Bulls team I think they come out ready to go. We're going to have to agree to disagree on the outcome of this one.
Thanks to Zachary for taking the time to answer my questions so thoroughly. Check out my answers to his questions over at Timberpups.
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The Hovrätt was the highest judicial body in Sweden until Gustav III of Sweden founded the Supreme Court of Sweden in 1789. The first hovrätt, Svea hovrätt, was founded in 1614. In Finland , then a part of Sweden, the Åbo hovrätt (Finnish Turun hovioikeus) was founded in 1623 by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden due to the distance to Svea hovrätt in Stockholm .
The hovrätter nowadays function as courts of appeal, the second highest judicial body in Sweden and Finland.
During the imperial era, Courts of Appeal (hovrätter in Swedish) were introduced in the kingdom in order to relieve the original Svea Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt) in Stockholm, established in 1614. Göta Court of Appeal was the second such court in Sweden proper, established in Jönköping in 1634. It was proceeded by Åbo Court of Appeal (1623) in Finland and Dorpat Court of Appeal (1630) in Livonia (in present day Estonia), during this era part of the dominions of Sweden. Today, there are six court regions in Sweden: the Scania and Blekinge Court of Appeal, Malmö , the Court of Appeal for Western Sweden in Gothenburg , the Göta Court of Appeal in Jönköping , The Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm , the Court of Appeal for Southern Norrland in Sundsvall , and the Court of Appeal for Northern Norrland in Umeå .
There are today six courts of appeal within the judicial system of Sweden:
Svea Court of Appeal (Svea hovrätt), Stockholm
Göta Court of Appeal (Göta hovrätt), Jönköping
The Court of Appeal for Western Sweden (Hovrätten för Västra Sverige), Gothenburg
The Court of Appeal over Scania and Blekinge (Hovrätten över Skåne och Blekinge), Malmö
The Court of Appeal for Lower Norrland (Hovrätten för Nedre Norrland), Sundsvall
The Court of Appeal for Upper Norrland (Hovrätten för Övre Norrland), Umeå
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Dallas is one of the best places to start a business. Photo courtesy of Fort Work
The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Texas. Six Lone Star cities, including Dallas, land on CNBC's first-ever report on America's Best Places to Start a Business.
To determine the rankings, CNBC pulled data on cities with populations over 500,000 in categories such as business costs, quality of life, and small-company success. Dallas ranks No. 8.
One of the biggest draws for the area, says CNBC, is Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. "DFW handles 64 million passengers a year, earning it the designation as one of the busiest airports in the world," writes CNBC. "But even with its size (five airline terminals and 2,000 flights daily), DFW is well run, easy to navigate, and allows travelers to get in and out quickly."
A growing population, good salaries, and reasonable home prices contributed to Dallas' ranking. While there's no individual or corporate income tax, Dallas does levy a margins tax on gross receipts for businesses — but that hasn't stopped startups from popping up. CNBC says DFW startups attracted more than $100 million in the first quarter of 2016, four times the last quarter of 2015.
At the top of the list is Austin, which has the highest rate of new entrepreneurs in the nation. Other Texas towns in the top 20 include Houston (No. 6), San Antonio (No. 10), McAllen (No. 12), and El Paso (No. 16).
Provo, Utah, ranks second, and Washington ranks third.
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The Samsung Galaxy A30s comes with a powerful Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 7904 inside along with 3 GB of RAM. On the front sits a 6.4 inches display at a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels. The camera department has 13 MP camera, on the rear, and 13 MP on the front. The Samsung Galaxy A30s also comes with 32 GB internal storage and a capable 4000 mAh battery sits inside powering the whole setup.
Samsung officially launched its new smartphone Samsung Galaxy A30s in July 2019. The Samsung Galaxy A30s will retail in a variety of colours including Black, White, and Blue to give you options to choose according to your style. In terms of durability, well, the handset is made of the Plastic material. So, you be the judge of that
Most important aspect of the smartphone is its display. Take a hard look at the Samsung Galaxy A30s display specifications. It is a 6.4 inches display offering a 1080 x 2340 pixels resolution. It uses the Super AMOLED display technology. The pixel density of the screen comes out to be 403 ppi
These days when we look for a smartphone to buy, the first thing that we asked is about the details of the camera. So here you go! The Samsung Galaxy A30s comes with a dual rear camera setup, which includes a primary 13 MP resolution shooter with f/1.7 aperture and a secondary shooter with 5 MP resolution. Know that there will be LED flash for low light photography support. The selfie camera is of 13 MP resolution with an aperture of f/2. The front camera can record videos at 1920 x 1080 pixels @ 30 fps.
Coming to the internals on the Samsung Galaxy A30s, it comes powered by a Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 7904 processor, which is accompanied by a ARM Mali-G71 MP2 GPU. Talking about the RAM and storage, it comes with a 3 GB and 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB, 64 GB of internal storage. There is an external storage option available and it supports external storage type of microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC. As far as the biometric security is concerned, it come with a fingerprint sensor. We are mostly concerned about the battery life on our phones, the Samsung Galaxy A30s offers a 4000 mAh capacity non-removable battery with a fast charging support. The connectivity features includes two SIM slots with VoLTE, 4G, 3G, and 2G support. Further, it offers Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, and USB Type-C v2.0 port. It supports a 3.5 mm audio jack. And it supports latest Wi-Fi standards.
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A shy young boy sent to spend the summer with his eccentric uncles soon becomes enthralled with unraveling the mystery that has followed the uncles for years. Hearing tales of their exotic adventures involving kidnapped princesses, Arabian sheiks and lost treasure, not only brings him closer to his uncles but also teaches him what it means to believe in something… whether it's true or not.
Alan and Craig discuss Texas, the truth versus the legend, a brief review of Mission Impossible: Fallout and the movie "Secondhand Lions' on this week's Matinee Heroes!
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward regulations to prevent drug manufacturers excessively raising the cost of drugs to the NHS when they are the sole or dominant supplier.
The Department is already referring cases to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). To strengthen our work in this area we are considering putting measures in place to routinely and systematically monitor significant price increases of generic medicines and take action where appropriate, including the possible referral of suspected excessive pricing to the CMA, while taking into account the potential impact of any such action on the availability of medicines.
The CMA is currently conducting a number of investigations into anti-competitive practices in the pharmaceutical industry. It imposed fines totalling £45 million in one case (currently subject to appeal at the Competition Appeal Tribunal), and expects to reach a final decision by late summer in another. It opened two more cases in March and April 2016 in which it expects to decide in late summer whether there are grounds to take each investigation further.
The CMA is also considering evidence of other potential cases of anti-competitive practices in the sector, and may well open further investigations in the coming months.
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Canadian National Post: Lone Gunmen Tom Braidwood Interview
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Lone Gunmen Tom Braidwood Interview
Howard Howell
VANCOUVER – It"s payday for three Vancouver actors, the stars of an X-Files spin-off series called The Lone Gunmen. Shooting begins this week at North Vancouver"s Lions Gate Studio, which was home to The X-Files for five years before production moved to Los Angeles.
The new show will feature Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund and Bruce Harwood, the paranoid, computer-hacking triad of nerds on The X-Files. Fox has ordered 13 episodes, the first of which, the pilot episode, has already been shot.
"We"ve taken a huge step up in having a series built around us," says Braidwood, sitting outside the set. "We always joked about it, the three of us that played the parts, but I don"t think any of us in our wildest imaginations thought they"d do a series about it."
At the studio, Braidwood gets a lot of congratulations and handshakes from the cast and crew of other shows using the lot. For Vancouver, a city perceived predominantly as a service town to the Hollywood film industry, The Lone Gunmen series is the move everyone"s been waiting for. All the show"s stars are Canadian.
Braidwood, a small, unassuming man with bushy eyebrows and big glasses, began his career in experimental theatre in Vancouver in the 1970s. When he moved into the film industry in the "80s, he focused on directing and producing, never giving much thought to acting.
But in his role as hacker Melvin Frohike, the 52-year-old father of two now has his face on coffee mugs, T-shirts, trading cards and hundreds of Internet sites. He even has his own "estrogen brigade," a female Internet fan base that calls him "adorable" and "a real softy."
The story of how Braidwood, an assistant director on The X-Files, came to play the part of Frohike is now a Vancouver legend. The director, when casting the role, said he was looking for someone slimy, like Braidwood.
Braidwood explains that he rarely shaved and often wore the same clothes to work. Frohike"s own trademark wardrobe — black fedora, combat boots and fingerless gloves — wasn"t far off the mark from Braidwood"s unique, real-life style.
Braidwood, Haglund and Harwood all expected their parts, conceived as an homage to Internet-based X-Files fans, to be a one-time deal. But the popularity of the Lone Gunmen characters was an unexpected surprise. The Scully-lusting, conspiracy-craving Frohike became a particular fan favourite, an eccentric figure whose one-line witticisms, such as "My kung fu is the best" ("80s slang for hacking), were an unexpected hit with the audience.
With the new show, which Fox will begin airing in March, Braidwood is certain to gather more fans. But being a star is not a role he feels comfortable with. He says he still doesn"t understand the appeal of his character and the success of his role.
"I wonder myself who will watch the show," he says.
Braidwood, who will continue to perform in The X-Files, says there will be some crossover between the original series and its spin-off.
"Some of the same characters will show up," he says. "But it will be more government conspiracy and less supernatural, science fiction. You will get to see more of what the Gunmen do in their lives."
Executive producer Chris Carter and much of the old X-Files crew will be involved in the new show. They"ve added a woman, a hacker, who Braidwood says "is more attractive than we are," and another guy, not a hacker, "who will be the hunk."
"I guess we weren"t handsome enough," says Braidwood, who is constantly joking about how funny looking and weird the Gunmen are.
But perhaps the biggest kick for Braidwood is how American the show and the Gunmen themselves are. "It"s perfectly clear that we"re Americans in the show," he says. "We live outside of Maryland and we talk about Uncle Sam. They"re not playing the show like it"s Canadian. And it"s quite a hoot that three Canadian guys are doing this American thing."
On his way to the dentist to get a mould for a scene he won"t explain except to say that it will be "really funny," Braidwood admits such a large role for Canadians also comes with a lot of pressure. "We have to do a good job. I certainly don"t think we can be lazy about it."
After all, even if he won"t admit it, the reluctant star is having much more fun as Frohike than he did as a slimy assistant director. The Hollywood service industry may be a good way to make a living, but it"s also an easy way to get stuck doing the same thing for years.
But Braidwood isn"t worried about getting stuck now. Even if he ends up playing Frohike for decades (and he"s already been at it for seven years), there will likely be nothing but surprises — at least if his career path so far is any indication.
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Synthesis and evaluation of basic oxygen furnace slag based geopolymers for removal of metals and sulphates from acidic industrial effluent-column study
N. T. Sithole, F. Ntuli, F. Okonta
Basic Oxygen furnace slag (BOFS) based geopolymers with open porosity ranging from 21%–57 % and density between 1255 kg/m3-2432 kg/m3 were synthesized. The synthesized geopolymers potential; to be used as attenuators for metal removal and neutralization of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD); were assessed and evaluated through column test studies conducted over a period of 133 days. The results show that BOFS based geopolymer composites can be used as attenuators as over 99 % metals were removed during the first 50 days. The results also revealed that higher porosity promoted greater neutralizing ability by dissolution of soluble salts from the BOFS based geopolymer; which improves the removal efficiencies of sulphates, metals and neutralization of AMD. Characterization of the composites after contact with AMD revealed that gypsum was the main mineral phase in the geopolymers indicating that precipitation was the major mechanism that enhanced metal and sulphates removal. BOFS based geopolymers can be used to replace armoring neutralizing agents such as limestone. The research contributes to sustainable development by addressing the environmental pollution posed by AMD and utilization of BOFS as a medium for remediation of AMD. The utilization of BOFS for remediation of AMD mitigates and responds to the environmental problems and demands associated with such waste
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AU - Okonta, F.
N2 - Basic Oxygen furnace slag (BOFS) based geopolymers with open porosity ranging from 21%–57 % and density between 1255 kg/m3-2432 kg/m3 were synthesized. The synthesized geopolymers potential; to be used as attenuators for metal removal and neutralization of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD); were assessed and evaluated through column test studies conducted over a period of 133 days. The results show that BOFS based geopolymer composites can be used as attenuators as over 99 % metals were removed during the first 50 days. The results also revealed that higher porosity promoted greater neutralizing ability by dissolution of soluble salts from the BOFS based geopolymer; which improves the removal efficiencies of sulphates, metals and neutralization of AMD. Characterization of the composites after contact with AMD revealed that gypsum was the main mineral phase in the geopolymers indicating that precipitation was the major mechanism that enhanced metal and sulphates removal. BOFS based geopolymers can be used to replace armoring neutralizing agents such as limestone. The research contributes to sustainable development by addressing the environmental pollution posed by AMD and utilization of BOFS as a medium for remediation of AMD. The utilization of BOFS for remediation of AMD mitigates and responds to the environmental problems and demands associated with such waste
AB - Basic Oxygen furnace slag (BOFS) based geopolymers with open porosity ranging from 21%–57 % and density between 1255 kg/m3-2432 kg/m3 were synthesized. The synthesized geopolymers potential; to be used as attenuators for metal removal and neutralization of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD); were assessed and evaluated through column test studies conducted over a period of 133 days. The results show that BOFS based geopolymer composites can be used as attenuators as over 99 % metals were removed during the first 50 days. The results also revealed that higher porosity promoted greater neutralizing ability by dissolution of soluble salts from the BOFS based geopolymer; which improves the removal efficiencies of sulphates, metals and neutralization of AMD. Characterization of the composites after contact with AMD revealed that gypsum was the main mineral phase in the geopolymers indicating that precipitation was the major mechanism that enhanced metal and sulphates removal. BOFS based geopolymers can be used to replace armoring neutralizing agents such as limestone. The research contributes to sustainable development by addressing the environmental pollution posed by AMD and utilization of BOFS as a medium for remediation of AMD. The utilization of BOFS for remediation of AMD mitigates and responds to the environmental problems and demands associated with such waste
U2 - 10.1016/j.jwpe.2020.101518
DO - 10.1016/j.jwpe.2020.101518
JO - Journal of Water Process Engineering
JF - Journal of Water Process Engineering
Sithole NT, Ntuli F, Okonta F. Synthesis and evaluation of basic oxygen furnace slag based geopolymers for removal of metals and sulphates from acidic industrial effluent-column study. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 2020 Oct;37:101518. doi: 10.1016/j.jwpe.2020.101518


Australian actor Dustin Clare, best known for his roles in McLeod's Daughters and Starz's Spartacus, will distribute a new documentary under his Fighting Chance Films banner.
Life Off Grid documents the lives of people who have made a decision to live off the grid, without mobile phones or electric and natural gas infrastructure.
Fighting Chance previously produced and distributed Sunday, the 2014 feature Clare wrote and starred in with Camille Keenan.
Life Off Grid was directed by Jonathan Taggart and produced by Phillip Vannini. The duo spent two years travelling across Canada, visiting 200 off-gridders in their homes.
"I was very inspired by the off-gridders in this frank and honest documentary focusing on living with only what we need", Clare said.
"Their determination and genuine desire to live as close to nature as possible was reason enough to get behind the release".
Life Off Grid will have a limited theatrical release commencing February 4 in Australia and New Zealand.
The digital release on iTunes Fetch TV, Google Play and Xbox (through Madman) will take place on the same date.
The film will also be available to book a Cinema on Demand via Tugg.