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Washington Wizards Betting and Team Guide
There are many Washington Wizards betting opportunities every year, but you could lose a lot of money if you don't pick your wagers carefully. This team guide provides a lot of information that can help improve your results. We explore the organization's history and some key facts, as well as the latest news around. Naturally, we also follow the latest Wizards betting odds and share our predictions.
Let's start with the 2019-20 Washington Wizards betting odds.
Latest Washington Wizards Odds for 2019-20
Washington Wizards to Win the 2020 NBA Championship+50000
Washington Wizards to Win the 2020 NBA Eastern Conference+15000
Washington Wizards to Win the 2020 NBA Southeast Division+25000
Washington Wizards Predictions for 2019-20
Current Prediction: 26-29 wins
Last Updated: January 16th
John Wall won't be lacing up his kicks anytime soon, and it's clear that Bradley Beal can't win games on his own. Rui Hachimuri is having a nice rookie campaign, but Scott Brooks could do himself a big favor if he can get this organization turned around quickly. Otherwise, he'll be joining David Fizdale as the next head coach to be "canned."
Previous Washington Wizards Predictions
Prediction: 26-30 wins
Prediction: Fewer than 25 wins
Pick: Under 27.5 Wins -125
The situation with the Wizards seems worse than I thought initially. The team lacks both the talent and the depth to compete in the East. On top of that, I won't be surprised to see Bradly Beal gone at some point of the 2019-20 season.
The bookies have set the line for the number of wins around the 27-28 mark. I think the Wizards will stay below that, especially if you add the potential tanking later in the campaign. The price you could get is around -120 in most betting sites and it looks like good value.
Season Preivew
With their standings just outside the playoffs in the Eastern Conference last year, there's no reason to believe anything will change for the Washington Wizards in the 2019-20 season. The core of the team is pretty much the same. While the division is weaker, it's hard to see where a difference of 10 or so wins would come from, especially since John Wall most likely won't play until February.
Washington Wizards News and Updates
Bradley Beal is back after missing 11 days with a sore right shoulder. Washington isn't exactly sure when Rui Hachimura's groin will be fully healed, but the Wizards need to start settling in and narrow down their rotation. Through the team's first 40 games, 13 players are averaging 20+ minutes per game, although Beal is the only guy who accounts for more than 30 minutes per night.
Despite the Wizards not being relevant in the Eastern Conference, it's worth pointing out that Isaiah Thomas has bounced back nicely after a couple of years dealing with loads of frustration. The 30-year-old point guard is shooting a career-high 41% from beyond the arc and is dishing out more than 5 assists per game.
Perhaps the question to ask is why Coach Brooks is only playing Isaiah 24.9 minutes per game.
October 10, by Jerry Summer
Despite a solid 4th quarter and a late surge, the Wizards started their preseason with a defeat against the Knicks. That tells you everything you need to know about this team and it's hard to find anything positive so far. Probably the decent performance of Rui Hachimura, but that's far from enough to be optimistic.
July 29, by Jerry Summer
According to the latest reports, the Washington Wizards have offered Bradley Beal a max deal that would extend his contract by three years. He hasn't signed the contract yet, and there are multiple NBA teams that are watching the situation closely.
The Washington Wizards have announced that Tommy Sheppard is the new General Manager of the team. He's been with the organization for years and knows how everything works from the inside out. According to most reports, Sheppard is a hard-working guy who's not too shy to talk to the media or the players.
June 20, by Jerry Summer
The Washington Wizards used their draft pick to select Rui Hachimura. He's one of the more mysterious players in 2019 and started playing basketball late. However, the Japanese forward has immense potential and many believe his aptitude is through the roof.
As always, we have to wait for a couple of years to see the true potential of Hachimura, but we feel this might be a better pick than most people think. Still, it shouldn't affect the upcoming season too much.
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Washington Wizards Roster in 2019-20
It's always crucial to know the roster of the team you're betting on, so let's take a look at the players that will be part of the Washington Wizards in 2019-20.
Isaiah Thomas – Guard
Chasson Randle – Guard
John Wall – Guard
Isaac Bonga – Guard
Ish Smith – Guard
Phil Goss – Guard
Jalen Ross – Guard
Tarik Phillip – Guard
Garrison Mathews – Guard
Admiral Schofield – Guard
Philip Scrubb – Guard
Justin Robinson – Guard
Bradley Beal – Guard
Jordan McRae – Guard
Issuf Sanon – Guard
C. J. Miles – Forward
Davis Bertans – Forward
Sam Dekker – Forward
Rui Hachimura – Forward
Moritz Wagner – Forward
Heng Yifeng – Forward
Ajdin Penava – Forward
Jemerrio Jones – Forward
Thomas Bryant – Center
Ian Mahinmi – Center
Alan Herndon – Center
And here are the players we expect to see in the starting lineup of the Washington Wizards most often.
Ish Smith Point – Guard
Bradley Beal Shooting – Guard
Troy Brown Jr. Small – Forward
Rui Hachimura Power – Forward
John Wall won't be returning until February, so we won't include him here. Instead, Bradley Beal will be paired with Ish Smith in the backcourt. The point guard is a solid playmaker with a reliable jumper, and we know that Beal is an absolute monster on the offense.
The other three members of the team are all youngsters with loads of potential, but it's hard to expect much from players at such a young age. The main goal is for them to receive enough play time to develop their skills, so we don't really expect much from the Wizards in 2019-20.
The team will most likely struggle in defense and fail to find enough consistency, Beal aside, on the offense.
The bench of the Washington Wizards features a couple of players that could certainly help throughout the season. Davis Bertans was acquired from the Spurs, and he's one of the best sharpshooters in the league.
On top of that, his defense is better than most people give him credit for and he's an excellent cutter.
Another interesting name is Isaiah Thomas who will be eager to prove his worth to the world. If he stays fit, the point guard might provide some instant offense from the bench.
The likes of Thomas Bryant, Moritz Wagner, Ian Mahinmi, and CJ Miles will also play regularly, so the Wizards have enough numbers. The bigger question is if the second unit has enough quality. We're more inclined to say no, at least until John Wall is back.
Washington Wizards Staff in 2019-20
The players are not the only members of the Washington Wizards that play a huge role. Let's take a look at some of the other key positions.
Head Coach: Scott Brooks
Coaching Staff: Tony Brown (Asst. Coach), David Adkins (Asst. Coach), Mike Terpstra (Asst. Coach), Robert Pack (Asst. Coach), Maz Trakh (Asst. Coach), Ryan Richman (Asst. Coach)
Ownership: Ted Leonsis
General Manager: Tommy Sheppard
Current head coach Scott Brooks has been at the position since 2016. He has loads of experience, but the team's performance has been declining since he joined. Brooks must find a way to get results with the current roster, or he could very well be fired this season.
Washington Wizards Schedule in 2019-20
As always, the schedule for each NBA team will have some bumps. We'll be waiting for the league to release all the dates. Then, we'll share our thoughts and see how it might affect their performance.
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It took six steps to get to the Wizards we know today. The franchise started as the Chicago Packers in 1961. But they moved to Baltimore then Washington DC, taking on a new name with every move and a few name changes in between just for the heck of it.
After spending years on various courts, the Wizards, then known as the Bullets, had their best decade in the 1970s. They made four NBA Finals appearances and won the 1978 championship after defeating the Seattle SuperSonics in a 4-3 series.
The modern-day Washington Wizards have made their home at the Capital One Arena since taking on the Wizards name in 1997. In 2017, they earned their first division title since 1979 under head coach Scott Brooks.
Here are some key facts about the Wizards.
Washington Wizards – Key Info
In Washington DC since 1973
Eastern Conference – Southeast
www.nba.com/wizards
$1.35 billion
The easiest way to understand the Wizards history is to look at their timeline of events that started in Chicago, Illinois.
1961-62: Chicago Packers
1962-63: Chicago Zephyrs
1963-73: Baltimore Bullets
1973-74: Capital Bullets
1974-97: Washington Bullets
1997-present: Washington Wizards
The Chicago Packers had their inaugural season in 1961, playing at the International Amphitheater. Despite their rookie star player, Walt Bellamy, who was an All-Star, Rookie of the Year, and led the NBA in field goal percentage, the Packers finished in last with an 18-62 record.
After just a year, the Packers became the Zephyrs and moved to the Chicago Coliseum but didn't fare much better, ending the season with a 25-55 win-loss.
Bullets and More Bullets
Those first two years marked the beginning and the end of the Chicago-based Packers and Zephyrs.
The franchise packed their bags and headed to Baltimore in 1963. Baltimore Bullets was taken from a previous Baltimore team, and the "Bullets" stuck, even after ten years when the team made their next move, this time to Washington DC. The Baltimore Bullets became the Capital Bullets, then the Washington Bullets.
The Bullets were rebranded once again in 1997 as the new owner Abe Pollin felt that the name "bullets" was too closely associated with violence. A contest narrowed down choices to Dragons, Express, Sea Dogs, Stallions, and the winning name "Wizards."
The '70s success
In the Wizards franchise's five decades of play, the '70s stand out as the most successful. Not only did the Washington Bullets win their one and only NBA championship to date, beating the Seattle SuperSonics in a 4-3 series, but all four finals appearances were in the '70s.
The Baltimore Bullets lost to the Bucks (4-0) in 1971. In 1975, the Washington Bullets were defeated in a 4-0 sweep by the Warriors. The 1978 Bullets' championship was followed by a SuperSonics rematch the next season, and the Seattle team evened the score. The Bullets lost to the SuperSonics 4-1 in what would be their last finals series for a long time to come.
After a first-place dry spell that had lasted since 1979, the Wizards finally broke the spell and finished first in the Southeast in 2017 with a 49-33 finish followed by a 4-3 loss to the Celtics in the Conference Semifinals.
Team Stand-Outs
The Wizards franchise has retired five numbers over the years, beginning with Earl Monroe (1967-71). Other honorees include Elvin Hayes (1972-81), Gus Johnson (1963-72), Wes Unseld (1968-81), and Phil Chenier (1971-79).
Since their inaugural season in 1961, the team has also had a long list of award winners, all-stars, record holders, and Hall of Famers on the roster.
The following Hall of Famers spent at least one full season with the Bullets or Wizards: Wes Unseld, Earl Monroe, Elvin Hayes, Dave Bing, Walt Bellamy, Bailey Howell, Moses Malone, Michael Jordan, Gus Johnson, Bernard King, Mitch Richmond, Spencer Haywood, and Rod Thorn.
Washington Wizards Championships and Playoffs
4 Conference Titles: 1979, 1978, 1975, 1971
Renovated: 2007 (new scoreboard)
Former Names: Verizon Center, MCI Center
The Capital One Arena is currently owned by Monumental Sports and Entertainment. The initial construction was funded by private money.
There are a whole host of tenants, aside from the Wizards, who call the arena home. Since 1997, the venue has housed the Washington Capitals NHL team as well as the NCAA's Georgetown Hoyas. WNBA's Washington Mystics signed on the next year, and the AFL team, Washington Valor, became the newest tenant in 2017.
Capital One Arena is located in the Chinatown neighborhood, and it's serviced by the Washington Metro transit operation underground.
Venue Address: Capital One Arena, 601 F Street, Washington, DC 20004
Mailing Address: Washington Wizards, c/o Capital One Arena, 601 F Street, Washington, DC 20004
While there have already been 24 head coaches in the Wizards' franchise history, the story begins with Jim Pollard and centers around Dick Motta.
First Coaches
Jim Pollard was in charge of the inaugural season of the Chicago Packers in 1961-62. He ended his tenure with a disappointing 18-62 record, but not entirely unexpected for a brand-new team. Jack McMahon coached part of the second season. But after only winning 12 out of 38 games, Bobby Leonard stepped up as player-coach.
Leonard stayed on from 1962-64 but ended his reign with a .361 winning percentage and still no playoff appearances.
Winning Coaches
Buddy Jeannette (1964-65) led the then Baltimore Bullets to their first post-season, losing the division finals to the Lakers. But Dick Motta is the organization's only championship-winning coach to date. Motta was the head coach from 1976 to 1980, and the Washington Bullets made two finals appearances (1978-79), winning the first in a 4-3 series to the SuperSonics but losing in the following-year rematch.
Motta compiled a .564 record with 185 wins and 143 losses. His post-season was 27-24 (.529). He wasn't one of the NBA Coach of the Year recipients, though. That honor went to Gene Shue in 1969, and then it was awarded to Shue again during his second tenure with the Bullets in 1982. K.C. Jones (1973-76) recorded the highest regular-season winning percentage with .630.
Last 10 Washington Wizards Head Coaches
24 2016- Scott Brooks 124-122 .504 9-10 .474 –
23 2012-16 Randy Wittman 178-199 .472 12-9 .571 –
22 2009-12 Flip Saunders 51-130 .282 X-X – –
21 2008-09 (I) Ed Tapscott 18-53 .254 X-X – –
20 2003-08 Eddie Jordan 197-224 .468 8-18 .308 –
19 2001-03 Doug Collins 74-90 .451 X-X –
18 2000-01 Leonard Hamilton 19-63 .232 X-X – –
17 2000 (I) Darrell Walker 15-23 .395 X-X – –
16 1999-2000 Gar Heard 14-30 .318 X-X – –
15 1999 (I) Jim Brovelli 5-13 .278 X-X – –
(I) = Interim position
Scott Brooks
Brooks played for 13 seasons from 1988 through 2001 before taking his first coaching job as an assistant with the Los Angeles Stars from 2000-01. Most recently, he was the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder from 2008-15 before accepting the position with the Wizards in 2016.
The first two seasons under Brooks were winning ones, with .598 and .524 records, a loss in the conference semifinals in 2017, and a loss in the first round in 2018. However, the team didn't qualify for the playoffs in 2019.
2018-19 Scott Brooks 4th 32-50 .390 – Bradley Beal (25.6)
2017-18 Scott Brooks 2nd 43-39 .524 Lost First Round Bradley Beal (22.6)
2016-17 Scott Brooks 1st 49-33 .598 Lost Conf. Semifinals John Wall (23.1)
2015-16 Randy Wittman 4th 41-41 .500 – John Wall (19.9)
2014-15 Randy Wittman 2nd 46-36 .561 Lost Conf. Semifinals John Wall (17.6)
Points Elvin Hayes 15,551 1972-1981
Average Pts/Game Walt Bellamy 27.58 1963-1966
Assists John Wall 5,282 2010-2019
Rebounds Wes Unseld 13,769 1968-1981
Elvin Hayes
Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes is the Wizards' franchise all-time career scoring leader with 15,551 points from 1972-1981. The power forward/center was drafted by the San Diego Rockets as the first overall pick in the 1968 NBA draft. Elvin was one of the first black American basketball players in the '60s and played for the University of Houston's Cougars as a two-time Consensus First-Team All-American.
He was named the 1968 Player of the Year by the AP, UPI, and Sporting News. After four seasons with the Rockets, he was acquired by the Wizards (then Baltimore Bullets) and spent nine seasons with the team, including a championship in 1978. Hayes was named to the All-Star team every year from 1969-80. He was All-NBA First Team in 1975, '77, and '79 and the NBA rebounding leader in '70 and '74. He's both a Collegiate and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, and his number 11 was retired by the Wizards.
Walt Bellamy
Walt Bellamy was on the inaugural first team for the Wizards, then known as the Chicago Packers. The center was the first overall pick by the Packers in 1961 out of Indiana University. He was also the starting center for the US team at the 1960 Summer Olympics, earning a gold medal. Bellamy was on the Packers (Zephyrs/Bullets) roster from 1961-1965 and still holds the all-time career leader position in average points per game with 27.58.
He was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 1962 and a four-time NBA All-Star every season from 1962 through 1965. Bellamy also played for the Knicks, Pistons, and Hawks. He retired with the New Orleans Jazz in 1974. Walt is a two-time Hall of Fame inductee, one for his NBA career, and one for the Olympics.
Just one year of playing for the University of Kentucky Wildcats, and John Wall was signed to the Washington Wizards as a first overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft. Wall is currently a member of the Wizards, and from 2011 through 2017, he was the team leader in average points per game.
In 2011, he was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team and was the NBA Rookie Challenge MVP that same year. He's a five consecutive year NBA All-Star and the 2014 NBA Slam Dunk Contest Dunker of the Night.
Wes Unseld
Center Wes Unseld was a career "Bullet" on the roster through the name changes from Baltimore to Capital to Washington from 1968-81. After earning NCAA All-American at the University of Louisville, Unseld was selected by the Baltimore Bullets as the second overall pick in 1968. The following year, he was named the NBA Rookie of the Year, All-NBA First Time, and the NBA Most Valuable Player. He also played in his first of five NBA All-Star games in '69.
Unseld is the Wizards franchise all-time career rebounds leader with 13,769 and was the league's rebounding leader in '75. He was on the Bullets' championship team in 1978 and named NBA Finals MVP. In 1988, Unseld was back in DC, this time as a coach for the Washington Bullets from 1988-1994. Wes has been inducted into both the Naismith Memorial and College Basketball Halls of Fame, and his number 41 has also been retired by the Wizards organization.
The Chicago Packers (Washington Wizards) are the first modern expansion team in NBA history, joining the league in 1961.
In 1969, future Hall of Famer Wes Unseld received both the NBA Rookie of the Year award and the NBA Most Valuable Player designation.
Michael Jordan was the Wizards' minority owner and President of Basketball Operations in 2000 but gave up his ownership in 2001 to return to playing. He led the Wizards to a 26-21 record before the All-Star break. After the break, an injured Jordan was benched, and the Wizards ended with a 37-45 record.
Gene Shue is the only Wizards coach to date to be named as NBA Coach of the Year, and he received the honor twice, once during each of his two separate head coaching stints.
During the team's only season known as the Capital Bullets (1973-74), they finished in first place in the Central Division at 47-35.


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(4) Schedule a script to run regularly (daily or weekly or whatever is good for you) to check the de-provisioning OU for disabled user accounts that have been unused for a certain (inactive) period (e.g. 90 days). In a W2K3 domain with Domain Functional Level 'Windows Server 2003' you can use the 'lastLogonTimestamp' attribute that determines the last time a user logged on (with a certain accuracy, about 10 days). In a W2K domain or W2K3 domain with Domain Functional Level 'Windows Server 2000 native' or lower you can use the 'lastLogon' attribute which is less accurate, but that will do.
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Designing a hospital is an expert job. This also applies to the new Ommelander Hospital Groningen (OZG) in Scheemda, the Netherlands. The OZG is housed in a modern and sustainable building with abundant daylight, built according to the latest insights and regulations for hospitals and care institutions. The design was developed by Alkmaar-based Leeuwenkamp Architects. Bolidt was approached for input, because the architect wanted to make a design feature of the flooring systems. The flooring had to meet the latest standards in terms of hygiene, ease of maintenance and service life.
Earthquake resistant design
The OZG is located within the Groningen earthquake zone. This had to be taken into account in the design. The building's response during earthquakes was calculated in 3D using Modal Response Spectrum Analysis. This evaluates the maximum response of buildings to earthquakes and served as a basis for examining various options. The eventual design choices included light-weight flooring, seismic expansion joints in necessary locations, additional piles, extra reinforcement in walls and foundations as well as additional expansion joints in the facade and high-strength anchorage of ceilings and installations. Bolidt contributed by installing special Bolidtop® wall coatings, which are both strong and flexible. This allows for the absorption of any cracks that may form in the walls without them becoming visible on the surface. The Bolidtop® 525 flooring system that was used is slightly elastic as well.
Healing environment
Creating a healing environment was the central focus of the design. This shows in the colours, the flooring systems and the materials that were used, combining high tech where needed and warmth where possible. The outpatient clinic is spacious and well laid out with its many windows offering expansive views over the surrounding landscape. In short, a pleasant hospital when it comes to the arrangement of functional spaces, including walking routes and the possibility of clustering departments. The two-bed and single rooms provide a high level of privacy and the layout of the outpatient clinic is designed for doctors to go to patients instead of the other way around.
No chance for bacteria
Bolidt's specialists gave their input into the design of the flooring with respect to guaranteeing hygiene, minimising noise exposure and creating an experience that has a positive impact on the state of mind of patients and hospital staff. The smooth and even finish ensures optimum cleaning. Because of its seamless and pore-free surface, bacteria have no chance to attach to the floor. In the OZG, the flooring has been combined with a seamless Bolidtop® wall coating, resulting in attractive, uninterrupted floor-to-wall transitions.
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That it is possible for optimal hygiene and design to go hand in hand in a floor finish is clearly demonstrated in the OZG. The architect wanted enormous circles and colour blocks to be integrated into the flooring and presented this wish to Bolidt. His vision was incorporated into the floor design at Bolidt and carried out to perfection by its own application team. It was not the first time Bolidt designed a floor in consultation with an architect. This happens regularly for, for instance, paediatric departments at hospitals, museums, offices and cruise ships. Where possible, Bolidt replaces traditional materials in order to make a contribution to a better living and natural environment in the areas of safety, durability, energy & data, design and hygiene.
Experts at work
Architect Robin Leeuwenkamp: "The interests of patients were central to our design. The client knows how to provide excellent care, but not how to build a new hospital. For that, the OZG needed our expertise. To get the most from that, the approach to this project was expert driven. We developed a building that meets all the requirements of a modern hospital. For the flooring, we called in the expertise of Bolidt, with whom we have enjoyed a good working relationship for years. Bolidt is very familiar with healthcare environments and has installed flooring in spaces such as the central hall, bathrooms, patient rooms and hallways. With our combined experience in the hospital sector, we know which requirements the various spaces must fulfil and how to convert this into a design as efficiently and smartly as possible within the framework defined by the client. The collaboration between Leeuwenkamp and Bolidt has once again resulted in a beautiful design!"
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Walter Benjamin once remarked that "Allegories are, in the realm of thoughts, what ruins are in the realm of things." The reverse also holds: ruins are, in the realm of things, what allegories are in the realm of thoughts. Either way, the expectation is that a message can be found where there remains only a trace of the original medium, structure, or civilization. Even though both ruins and allegories signify the loss, fallibility, and futility of communication, there is at the same time a suggestion that meaning remains just beyond the other side of representation, and the hope that some connection might be made across the divide between past and present, image and idea, cosmology and history. . . . But then we come to this.
I am staggered by this photograph from Homs. Nor is it the first witness to the terrible destruction of lives and infrastructure in the Syrian civil war. All wars are terrible, but this one seems to have made the cities themselves the primary targets. Many cities have been bombed over the past 100 years, but usually for what they housed. In Homs and Aleppo, the city itself–as an organic, living thing with autonomy and purpose–is being tortured to death.
I've written before about Rubble World, that swath of destruction that war is spreading the globe, and Syria already had become one of the most disturbing examples of this slow-moving catastrophe. Since then the death toll and range of destructiveness has continued to increase in Syria and elsewhere. Of course, buildings can be rebuilt, streets repaved, and no one can say how Syria will be doing in fifty years. But even if the equivalent of a Marshall Plan were in the works–and it is not–something about the present has already been revealed.
What we may have before us in this remarkable photograph is a new order of ruins. These are ruins without nobility, as they have not been made by the passing of time, nor will they be able to withstand it. They are without any secondary value: too dangerous to provide sanctuary from a summer shower, too hideous to be the backdrop for romance or any other idle pleasure. Where the buildings might have provided an empathic connection with those living there before, instead there is only a twisted warren of barren concrete and industrial filth. This wreckage demeans memory itself.
These ruins may be different in another sense as well. Instead of marking the presence of an extinct civilization, they may foretell the demise of our own. A new order of ruins suggests a new order of war and peace, investment and abandonment, indifference and self-interest, prosperity and brutality. If this image is representative, we also can assume that the new order is not one in which mercy is a consideration. Where total war used to be thought of as the ultimate expression of great power conflict, now it appears more like a niche predator, and God help you if you live in that niche.
The new ruin is a photographic artifact, and good thing too, as we would not see it otherwise. Like photography generally, this ruin can suggest how alternate futures already exist in the present, albeit as merely possible paths for social advancement, sustainability, or decline. Consider what else is evident in that regard: for example, I see a world with more weapons than water, more displacement than stability, more terror than peace. For most of us, these possibilities still are on the other side of the divide between present and future. But to follow the allegory, the traces of the future are already here, waiting for us to see them. To see, that is, how modernity is already in ruins.
I like winter. I really do. The cold can be bracing, but it is also refreshing. There is something life affirming about seeing one's breath as it floats in the air. And the snow often has a mystical quality about it, even as it always gives way to a more down-to-earth reality. It falls quietly, even in blizzard conditions. It blankets everything in its path with a degree of equanimity that is both amazing and, in a certain way, comforting. It appears pure—hence the phrase "pure as the driven snow"—and thus reminds us of such a possibility, but before long it bears the footprints, tire tracks, and other markings of life and activity that remind us no less how nature is subject to human presence and how provisional any appeal to purity always is. But even at that our sense of winter often leaves us with romanticized images of a wonderland with children bundled in snowsuits sledding down hills. Such a view is just a little bit too much like a scene from Norman Rockwell, of course, and even at its pragmatic best it ignores the harsher realities of snow and ice and sub-zero temperatures and all of the miseries that this can too often entail. The photograph above is a case in point as it pictures a landscape in which winter has brought all commerce—indeed, all human activity— to a halt.
The road above leads into the city of Atlanta, the ninth largest metropolitan area in the nation. Georgia is not accustomed to snow and ice storms and this winter the meteorological patterns have been especially cruel with two major storm fronts separated by only a few weeks. Several weeks ago in the midst of the first storm the road above was literally covered with abandoned cars as drivers surrendered to the snowy and icy conditions and found their way home or to shelter on foot. That scene had a comic quality to it as major thoroughfares were reduced to ad hoc parking lots. This time around, however, what we see is eerily apocalyptic, somewhat akin to a ghost town. The markings and vestiges of civilization are prominent, but all humanity is absent, the barest of life erased from a scene reduced to the conditions that nature has ruthlessly and arbitrarily imposed upon it. The city rises tall in the hazy background, its promise as a haven of progress and culture and community altogether inviting, but the black ice that covers the roads leading into it—barely seeable and all the more treacherous for that very fact—make it appear impossible to approach and enter. The line between comedy and tragedy, it seems, is ice thin.


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A key feature distinguishing DuiCam from the normal video recorder is that DuiCam temporarily saves 3 clips of X minutes, where X is configurable by the user, e.g., 10 minutes, reducing the chance of the app filling the phone's storage. The user can save any clip permanently. The app also makes it easy to save screenshots, zoom, and email/upload clips or screenshots.
The app is free and available in the iPhone and Android app stores by searching for "DuiCam". Direct links: iPhone Android. Future versions (still free) with more features are planned.
Looking for mounts? Here is a low-priced flexible beanbag dashboard mount that we've used and seems to work reasonably well. We've also used this windshield mount and it performed acceptably. We have no connections with these mount makers.
DuiCam -- www.duicam.org -- Developed by the Embedded Systems Lab at the University of California, Riverside: eslucr@gmail.com.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1136146. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


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Martham Parish Council joins the GREAT BRITAIN SPRING CLEAN with its annual Litter Pick organised for Saturday 20 April at 10-12pm – meeting outside the Coop next to the Green opposite the KA public house anyone welcome to come along and help out .
Keep Britain Tidy (KBT) has launched the Great British Spring Clean for 2019.
Over 370,000 #LitterHeroes joined forces last year – despite the 'Beast from the East' – to collect litter at 13,500 events across the UK, taking a national stand against single-use plastic.


BUS 385 Sports Marketing course is an interesting sports related course with sports planning basics. We have many sample homework solved and published for our visiting students.
Archive by Category "BUS 385 Sports Marketing"
Think of a new purpose for a common product. Assume the product is in the decline stage of its product life cycle.
Assume you are the marketer for a resort in the Rockies. Your high season is in the winter when all of your rooms are booked with skiers and snowboarders.
Explain how a sports event has a direct economic impact on the city that hosts the event.
When – if ever – is it right for a company to use a controversial athlete to endorse products? What are the merits and risks?


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A weblog devoted to the underlying craft of research
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Literacy, part 1
July 8, 2015 UncategorizedThomas Basbøll
We live in an age of specialization. The advantage of this is that we are able to devote resources to finding precise solutions to narrow problems. There is something very intellectually gratifying about "honing" the finer edge of our competences. The disadvantage, of course, is that we sometimes lose sight of the broader issues, which, if we neglect them, can overwhelm our more delicate efforts.
I talked a little about this this in my last post about the under-exploited resource of student effort–which is to say, deliberate practice–in writing instruction. All the resources we devote to teaching students how to write in the classroom will come to nothing if they don't train their abilities on their own. We might say that there is nothing there to sharpen if they aren't also getting stronger.
Hemingway famously pointed out that the "dignity of the movement of an iceberg lies in eight ninths of it being under water." That is, the quality of your prose depends much less on what you put on the page than what you leave off it. And in order to leave it off, of course, you have to write it out at some point. The quality of every particular piece of writing you produce comes out of all the writing you've done before. Just as the speed and ease with which you run today's 5 kilometers, come from all the other running you've done before.
I've been thinking about this recently in relation to the concept of "information literacy", which has been gaining in currency since the mid-1970s. On the face of it, information literacy constitutes a narrow problem within the broader problem of literacy. Here's what Wikipedia says about the latter:
Literacy is traditionally understood as the ability to read and write. The term's meaning has been expanded to include the ability to use language, numbers, images and other means to understand and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture.
You'll notice that this does indeed leave room for something like "the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand," which is how the United States National Forum on Information Literacy defines information literacy. Part of understanding the "dominant symbol systems of a culture", especially a culture that calls itself a "knowledge society", must include knowing when you need more information and knowing how to get it.
So my worry here, as with my worry about the ratio of teaching to training in writing instruction, is simply that we're spending too much time and effort on improving the information literacy of students and not enough time developing their basic ability to read and write. It's true that they will not be able to read and write the texts they need to if they don't know how to manage the information they have access to. But no matter how conscious they are of the information problem, they will get nowhere if they can't read and write in the traditional senses of those words.
What happens, I think, is that once a new and exciting frontier opens up — and the Internet is certainly an information frontier — we are eager to explore it. We then assume that someone will continue to do the maintenance on the "old school" skills that still constitute the bulk of the competence in question. But what if that doesn't happen? What if students begin to worry about their information literacy to the detriment of their general literacy? Teaching someone who doesn't know what a paragraph is to distinguish between Google and EBSCO seems rather pointless.
The solution, I think, is to integrate "information literacy" in the overall composition curriculum. In my next post I want to begin thinking about the proper balance of content.
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The Iceberg, Method January 25, 2023
Five Easy Paragraphs January 18, 2023
How They Must Write: Saving the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Contingencies January 7, 2023
Grading the Moment December 17, 2022
Examining the Moment December 14, 2022
Reviewing the Moment (with a Peer) December 9, 2022
Composing the Moment, part 2 November 22, 2022
Will AI Disrupt the Essay? November 11, 2022
A Neat Hand November 7, 2022
Correct Spelling November 3, 2022
The Right Word October 28, 2022
The Ideal Sentence October 24, 2022
The Ideal Paragraph October 17, 2022
The Ideal Paper October 11, 2022
The Tomahawk is Mightier than the Sword October 6, 2022
Propose, Converse, Compose September 27, 2022
Truth and Writing September 19, 2022
The Process and the Moment September 5, 2022
How to Write a Paper September 1, 2022
Robots, Rights, and Writers August 30, 2022
The Virginia Incident August 22, 2022
I Am the Text. The Text is Me. (Or, There Is Nothing Outside the River.) August 16, 2022
Subject-of-a-Text August 9, 2022
Do Transformers Desire Electric Rights? August 8, 2022
Handwriting August 2, 2022
The Automatic C July 30, 2022
Are Language Models Deprived of Electric Sleep? July 19, 2022
Automatic Sensemaking July 15, 2022
An Infamous Device July 7, 2022
The Anxiety of Artifice June 29, 2022
Sentience on Stilts June 22, 2022
The Artifice of Babel June 15, 2022
A Hundred Thousand Billion Bots June 10, 2022
Robot Writes June 8, 2022
Papers and Studies May 30, 2022
Theory Papers and Other Variations May 23, 2022
Posture May 16, 2022
1000 Weeks May 9, 2022
Gaps, Goals, and Questions May 6, 2022
The Finishing Touches April 20, 2022
How to Appreciate Your Finitude April 7, 2022
A Little Daily Exercise March 30, 2022
Editors, Reviewers, Graders, Readers March 25, 2022
Examples March 14, 2022
Towards an Outline March 7, 2022
Scholarly Composition March 4, 2022
Iceberg February 9, 2022
How to Begin January 31, 2022
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Who's the best golfer in the NBA bubble? It's probably not a player
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida – The Miami Heat's practice had ended, and forward Andre Iguodala left the gym talking on his phone.
He was making a tee time for himself, teammate Kelly Olynyk and Heat shooting coach Rob Fodor.
"KO, we're set up. Twenty minutes," Iguodala said to Olynyk, a newcomer to golf, letting him know when a shuttle would take them from the hotel to the course for a round.
Iguodala is a regular golfer, but golf inside the bubble takes on a new meaning. It is a release in an environment where there are not many ways to escape.
"I only golf in between series. During a series, no," Iguodala told USA TODAY Sports. "I hurt my ankle in the Milwaukee series. I didn't see outside for like five days. I seriously had bad thoughts in my brain."
Iguodala eased his worry by watching last week's Safeway Open, a PGA Tour event where he once played in a pro-am, and because he plays fantasy golf, too, he was preparing for this week's U.S. Open.
"I knew a few guys on tour so I'm watching," Iguodala said.
Several players, coaches and staffers have found solace on the course inside the bubble. Milwaukee's Kyle Korver, Toronto's Kyle Lowry and Matt Thomas, Los Angeles Lakers' J.R. Smith and Alex Caruso, Dallas' J.J. Barea, Paul Millsap and Brooklyn's Garrett Temple are among many players who like to play golf.
Lakers assistant coach Mike Penberthy, Orlando Magic general manager John Hammond and National Basketball Players Association senior counsel Ron Klempner have also made use of tee times.
As two referees with clubs walked by, Iguodala raved about the Magnolia course at the resort, where PGA Tour events have been held.
"I shot an 80," Iguodala said of the course, which plays to a par of 72. "It plays at 7,000 yards. That's a good distance, and you've got trouble left and right. Had seven pars through 10 holes."
Clippers coach Doc Rivers, who played several central Florida courses when he coached the Orlando Magic, brought his clubs. But like Boston's Brad Stevens, they didn't find enough time.
"I haven't done it as much as I actually thought I would during the playoffs because of the every-other-day thing. I'll go out and play a couple holes," Rivers said before the Clippers were eliminated.
One day, Rivers asked a course employee which player was playing the most golf. Rivers thought for sure it was Smith, an avid golfer who will tune into a golf tournament on his iPad in the locker room after a day game.
"Without a thought, he said, 'Oh, Millsap by a long shot. … It's not even close,' " Rivers said. "So during the game or before the game we were laughing because I asked him (Millsap) did he play yesterday, and he goes, 'Oh, yeah, I got out there.' I said, 'When do you have time?' I don't know how he's doing it, but he's doing it."
Olynyk and Boston's Jayson Tatum are newcomers to the game but have picked it up quickly. Olynyk launches bombs off the tee, and Tatum said he is the best golfer on his team.
"I'm just getting into it, but it's been a lot of fun," Olynyk said. "It's something to get outside of the hotel and take your mind off it."
Penberthy has a 3 handicap, and one day last week, he had a 6:45 a.m. tee time before the Lakers practiced.
"Every other day. Try to play as much as we can," he said. "The reality is, (Lakers coach) Frank Vogel has encouraged it. He said, 'I don't want you to go insane' because – and I don't care if it's riding a bike for two hours or playing golf – you've got to get outside."
Because the NBA is helping schedule tee times, the course is not packed. Penberthy said a group can play 18 holes in about 2½ hours, and if he's by himself, he can finish in one hour, 45 minutes. Penberthy has carded a few rounds in the high 60s.
One day, Penberthy teamed up with Lowry against Smith and Lakers assistant Jason Kidd. Penberthy complimented Lowry's ability to read greens.
"There's some semblance of normalcy out there," Penberthy said. "Conversations are about other things."
LeBron James, who is not a golfer, took a cart one day just to watch and socialize with teammates and coaches.
Who is the best golfer there? Rivers heard it was J.J. Barea. Iguodala said of Thomas: "He's got game. He might be a 2 handicap."
But the honor might go to Fodor, who once played on a low-level pro mini tour where his prize for a third-place tie at the Budget Open in 2009 was $184.17 and a gift certificate.
"He's probably the best golfer here," Olynyk said. "He's the best person I've played with for sure."
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over 1 year ago by Lisa Bartlett
The importance of women in the Tech& Digital industry
Talent invests heavily in providing innovative solutions to the German technology industry to capitalise on a growing digital and tech market. As part of this effort, I had the pleasure of being promoted to the role as regional sales manager in order to dedicate myself to lead Talent and its expansion plans from Berlin.
The reason I joined Talent two years ago was because I immediately connected with the passion and quality of the management team. Their ongoing support has been invaluable and I am proud to have built such a strong team in Berlin. I look forward to recruiting more talented consultants to join our team, continuing to work closely with our clients and candidates, and providing the best possible experience as Talent grows into one of the country's leading recruitment firms.
Through my commitment to Talent, I'm driven to motivate other women and to represent our vision in order to increase the number of women in leadership positions in our organisation.
Our Berlin team consist of 80% women which is high above the average of 43% when comparing us to other companies in the tech and digital sector.
According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2021, the circumstances of the pandemic have deepened the gender gap. Beside the fact that women were the essential workers at the frontline of managing the crises, the sectors most affected by successive lockdowns and the digitalisation of the workplace where the ones where women are more frequently employed. Adding to this the household responsibilities which are more likely taken over by women, this crisis strongly impacted the gender parity across the world.
The current tech-market during Corona
The Global Gender Gap Report 2021, provides a specific overview about the current job market during corona.
In Cloud Computing, women make up 14% of the workforce. In Engineering, 20% and in Data and AI, 32%.
These job fields are increasingly hiring new talent, including women, yet the gender gap is still far from being closed. In the last year, the share of women improved by 0.2% in Cloud Computing but declined by 0.1% in Data and AI. And according to CIO, while more and more young women are more likely to choose computer science studies, they are also twice as likely to quit their jobs compared to men.
Therefore, it is highly important to address the underrepresentation of women in tech now and to take the chance of restructuring organisations when our work life gets back to normality.
How to restructure your business for a gender-balanced environment
Every business has the option to create a strong, resilient, and gender-equal culture through:
implementing inclusive workplaces.
embedding equitable care systems in your company.
promoting women's rise to leading job positions.
closing the gender pay gap.
helping more women to build in-demand skills
The sooner you react to this problem, the sooner you'll receive the rewards of increasing the diversity of genders. Talking about internal changes, let's take a look on how to present this support of women to the outside.
How to attract more women in tech
Glassdoor provides more detailed facts and explains what you should consider in your strategy.
1. Be transparent about your goals and the current state of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within your organisation.
2. Network with a diverse range of candidates: start getting in touch with organisations or people supporting women in the STEM industry and become part of their networks.
3. Promote female voices and share stories from your internal business online.
4. Appreciate the contributions and reward the accomplishments of female employees
5. Empower women in the workplace for a long-term engagement in their jobs. This can be done through implementing flexible work policies, women's employee resource groups, and mentoring programs.
By considering the above, you'll attract top talent, challenge unconscious bias and the underrepresentation of women, and help to improve your brand – in turn resulting in greater profitability and better results.
We are still looking for a number of recruitment and delivery consultants to join our Berlin office. If you are eager to innovate, push boundaries, and provide the most rewarding to our clients and candidates across Germany, get in touch!
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Kat vs. Culture: Chapter 6
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
– John 11:25-26
Part XIV: Springcore
Illuminated by the cautious April sun, Amsterdam emerges as a city overcome with whimsy, a delicate pastiche of association. The cyclists, with their newly straightened backs, are no longer objects of rain-soaked pity. In a sunnier landscape, they become an aspirational symbol of laidback pragmatism, a restrained yet seductive take on the freedom of motorcycle gangs complete with their own looks and customs. The parks, which for the past 3 months have been little more than unsightly heaps of shrubbery, have a restored sense of vitality. Their raison d'étre once again sweetly apparent in each blooming tree reflected in every dog walker's eyes. Even the bricks, adorned with fresh graffiti paint, seem to breath in the air every once in a while.
It is all in this Medieval village of a modern city. Small boats, tied at the side, gently wobbling along with the rhythm of the canals, overlooked by firmly parked Renaults. The former beckoning to reverse time and surrender to the everyday drama of routine as it is witnessed in Bruegel's oil paintings, promising all the joys of simplicity which can be discovered from a birds-eye view. The latter: a cynical reminder of the state of affairs, a fantasy so crudely dispelled within its own frame.
This is the Billy Joel rendition of 'What a Wonderful World', Armstrong's husk replaced with a crystal clear tenor. It underscores everything from the middle-aged woman in chunky heel boots gardening tiny plots of greenery in front of her as-seen-on-tv house to the senior citizens cruising down pedestrian paths on mobility scooters with the dignified air of kings. A wonderful and almost fabricated world stretches out as far as the eye can see. It is not the kind of joy you get drunk on, any attempt at exaltation disturbs the peace. But it is there for the taking: behind a pair of sunglasses, on a bench overlooking the water, naming each duck as they waddle into the horizon.
Part XV: Let's Just Quickly Talk Agenda
I thought that the most surprising thing about this particular morning was that I had actually woken up to go to my lecture. That was not the case.
During the lecturer's discussion of the camera lenses' ability to objectively capture reality and, subsequently, ways in which reality can be framed, a picture of Donald Trump came up on the screen. The lecturer gestured to the image of Trump and said:
"So, you shoot someone from below, sadly this is a camera shooting but uh, you shoot someone from below, this magnifies this guy's sense of power, of who he is."
Now… speaking as someone who was in the US during the 2016 election, I should really be desensitized to fantasies of Trump's assassination. However, I must admit, I was slightly taken aback.
If this had been a joke whispered among students, I wouldn't have batted an eye. But this was a joke made by the man speaking from the podium, a joke so seamlessly delivered that I am inclined to think it was prepared, a joke that needlessly diverted attention from the subject matter to emphasize the personal beliefs of the professor.
So what's my point?
I am not advocating for the inclusion of a positive spin on the Trump Presidency. The problem I have is with the nonchalant delivery of such statements, as if there is no possibility of any disagreement. I'm sure that there is an academic avenue to discuss whether Trump should be impeached, or put to death execution style. However, stating it as a given during a lecture that is not inherently political is arrogant, dismissive and inappropriate.
And most damning of all, it's counter-productive. In America, comments like these give way to the right's narrative of liberal brainwashing at universities. They contribute to creating unnecessary media hype in lieu of actual criticism, focusing attention on 'culture wars' rather than policy. Rampant assumptions of unanimous agreement bolstered the silent majorities that got Trump elected and swayed the Brexit referendum. Beyond just the American and British loonies, comments like these are also dangerously dismissive of the rising right-wing populist movements throughout Europe, which should not be taken lightly. Overall, I think that comments like these undercut the ends they supposedly serve. A civically-minded individual is not just one who can repeat the sentiment that 'Trump is Bad™', but one that knows the reasons behind that assertion. We're already reading Foucault, we'll get the power stuff eventually, there really is no need to ram it down harder.
Part XVI: Simulacrum, Interrupted
If you walk through Dam Square, rain or shine, you will see an individual in an off-brand Mickey Mouse suit making the rounds. Lovingly nicknamed Ratty Mike, I have come to appreciate this singular presence from afar.
At first I thought it was just nostalgia. After all, Ratty Mike has all the energy of a man trying to sell you his mixtape on Ocean Drive, a vibe that I have sorely missed since leaving Miami. However, I have come to realize that it is something beyond that, something far deeper that has drawn me to this character.
Let me set the scene: R. Mike does not stand on a pedestal like the skull-masked silhouettes who have found dignity in their resemblance to statues. Mike isn't just something to look at, there is a yearning for connection extended through each dirty white-gloved gesture. Sometimes, Mike is dancing around like the most carefree kid at a Bar-mitzvah. At other times, Mike is sullenly sitting on a crate, one gloved hand holding up the massive head and the other lethargically warding off pigeons. One day, Mike was nowhere to be seen, and I truly felt the full extent of the unexpected absence.
There is not a single inkling of immersion, the repeated encounters only serve as imperatives to construct the backstory, to see beyond the mask. In this sense, the purchase of the off-brand Mickey Mouse suit embeds itself into the narrative as a radically life-changing decision. There was a time before Ratty Mike's emergence onto the scene, a gap just begging to be filled. This moment could have its own montage: starting from the idea's conception to the exchange of the 50 or so euros at the cashier desk, all culminating towards those triumphant first steps in fresh black mouse slippers.
If only the narrative stopped there, but it goes on. And suddenly, you are not so detached anymore. Suddenly, you know far more than you ever wanted to. You can hear the intrusive sound of the morning alarm, you can imagine the drudgery of once again encasing your body in that stuffy synthetic, and you can feel the exhaustion and relief when it's finally time to unzip the uniform. As the mouse suit slides off of your body, you can already taste the cardboard -flavored dread of doing it all over tomorrow. And yet, through all of this, the human face underneath the mask remains obscured. Somehow, imagining the person inside proves to be too painful of a thought experiment.
~intermission~
There is an existential truth to Mike, a facade that is almost completely erased by virtue of its plush exaggeration. The pitch black eye holes scream: "This is what you wanted, right? Cheap entertainment. This is what you come here for", while the stitched-on cartoon smile reassures each passerby that this demand is happily fulfilled. If Disneyland had not been, as Baudrillard so eloquently put it, "a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate in reverse the fiction of the real", then we would not have Mike; an assertion of the real made possible by the mythology of the fiction. Ratty Mike's shortcomings made apparent through instant recognition of the referent. The entrails of the fantasy splattered all over the cobblestones of Dam Square. As such, 'the costume', too ill-fitting to be a viable disguise or illusion, becomes just as vulnerable as nudity.
And there it is, the discomforting gospel of Ratty Mike on Dam Square:
There is no Magic Kingdom, there is no Minnie Mouse, there is no happily-ever-after. There are only tourists and their children, there are only pigeons and the occasional pictures, there are only beads of sweat and a constant search for distraction. Day-in, Day-out.
This Month On-Screen
Festivals and Exhibitions
Exhibition Eye "A tale of hidden histories"
A group of artists from different countries all over the world has come together to create an interesting exhibition in which photographs, videos, projections and sounds are used as a way to uncover and learn new things about our past. With different stories that take place all over the world they try to investigate the construction of stories and how they change when told in a different context by a different person. Like this, they want to uncover the subjectivity of history and the weaknesses of the human mind as the responsible one of sharing this history.
The world focus on different conflict areas all over the world: the places where truth and imagination become intertwined. How are wars represented in the media? Can the stories of a war be retold and shown to the world? And what is the artists role in this? These questions form the base for many, often unknown stories about for example the Second World War or the Cold War, but also more recent conflicts, such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The exhibition lasts until the 16th of May and is also linked to the movies shown in the accompanying film programme ShellShock, about which I have already talked in the previous newsletter. More information about all the specific artists participating can be found on the website of the Eye.
What to Watch?
Blockbuster of the Month: Avengers: Endgame
The Marvel movie of the year, it might even be the biggest Marvel movie ever. This movie is meant to be the endpoint of the years of work Marvel put into building the universe. Every Marvel movie that has been made in the past 10 years has been a piece of the whole overlapping story. The movie is the second part of the Avengers: Infinity War. Dozens of heroes from all the different stories combine forces to try to defeat Thanos. For every Marvel fan this will be the one movie they have to watch this year.
Surprise of the Month: Love, Death & Robots
Netflix did it again, they came with a new fresh concept to change the game. It is an animated series about the three themes in the title: Love, Death & Robots. Every single episode is actually an animated short story, so no episode is connected to the other ones. Every episode is animated by a different animator, which gives every episode a complete different vibe. When watching the series you get a fresh vibe every episode. This series really shows what animation has to offer and I would recommend this to everyone.
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Hockney x Van Gogh in the Van Gogh Museum
This exhibition is not directly media related, but is however really worth a visit. The Van Gogh museum might not sound like the most exciting way to spend a free afternoon, but by combining Van Goghs works with those of Hockney, the old paintings can be seen in a new light and interpreted in a different manner than before. Both artists find their inspiration in nature and experimented with bright colours and perspectives. It is very interesting to consider that Hockneys works are generally larger than those of Van Gogh. But by staging the exhibition in an interesting way, the museum has succeeded in giving both the artist an equal importance.
To visit the Van Gogh museum, you have to reserve a time slot online. I would recommend going outside of the weekends to avoid tourists.
Netflix Newest: Our Planet
David Attenborough is back and as good as always. We know what to expect from a David Attenborough project and it never disappoints. Combine this with the budget that Netflix can provide and you get a masterpiece like Our Planet. Our Planet is nature documentary series that focuses on diversity of the inhabitants around the earth. We go from the Arctic wilderness to the jungles of Africa. It is visually stunning and at times close to pure beauty. I would recommend this series to everyone who just wants to sit down and enjoy.
Golden Oldie: The Lion King (1994)
I want to discuss the classic The Lion King to honour the new live action adaptation of The Lion King that is coming up. The Lion King might be the best children's movie of all time, it is also widely considered to be a classic. It is a story about a young lion named Simba growing up to be the leader of his people. He loses everything after he traumatically loses his father and blames himself for it. It is a beautiful story about growing up, responsibilities and revenge that has a lesson for everyone. This is a film everyone should show to their kids and that everyone should watch once in a while.
Foam "I can make you feel good" exhibition
Starting the 19th of April, the Foam will host the first solo exhibition of American upcoming talent Tyler Mitchell. He became famous with two photographs he made of Beyonce, which reached the covers of several magazines. Since that moment, he has changed and started working on creating his own style. Mitchell describes his pictures as representing black utopia, as they depict young coloured people against backgrounds that feature very bright, candy-like colours. In the pictures, the people appear happy and relaxed. According to the artist, this is in stark contrast with the reality of coloured people. On top of the photographs, the exhibition also premieres two video installations. In this videos, Mitchells experiments with feelings of childhood and happiness of people of colour.
The exhibition lasts until the 5th of June.
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Nice haul of swamp donkeys. Man that boy is almost as big as you!
Great pics bub. Ethan has gotten a lot taller since i last saw him.
He's a big kid. About 5'7, 170. Been working out 3 days a week too. He's sleeping in this morning haha. Kinda nasty day up here. Warm, rainy.
Hell yeah! Bet he had a blast.
Nice job. Sounds like y'all had a blast.


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College Basketball Power Rankings
Last Updated: January 19th, 2009 by Travis Edwards (Bankroll Sports Contributor)
1. Wake Forest Demon Deacons (16-0)
Wake Forest is doing everything right on both ends of the court. The Demon Deacons rank in the top 5 in scoring, rebounding, and shooting percentage becoming one of the first teams to be ranked in the top 5 in those 3 major categories in some time. Wake Forest 85 points per game have proven to be too strong for the rest of the ACC at this point in the season. Sophomore Guard Jeff Teague leads the team in scoring with 21.4 points per game and is averaging 30 points in his last 4 outings making the Demon Deacons that much tougher to beat.
2. Duke Blue Devils (16-1)
Duke has dominated more quality opponents than any other team this season. The Blue Devils blew at the time top ten teams Purdue and Xavier by an average of 17 points. In recent weeks the convincing wins have been from weaker ACC schools, but that all changed with a big win over Georgetown last Saturday 76-67. The Blue Devils defense may be superb to any other team in our power rankings and that makes it very difficult to not give Coach K and company national attention. With the emergence of Gerald Henderson, Duke could be forming into another championship caliber team.
3. Connecticut Huskies (16-1)
Connecticut may not be getting as much national attention as some of the other schools, but beyond the tough loss to Georgetown the Huskies have not done much wrong. All five starters are averaging double figures lead by the huge center Hasheem Thabeet who is averaging a double-double with 14 points and 11 boards per contest. Connecticut will host no. 20 Villanova on Wednesday night with the opportunity to grab their 5th victory over the top 25 this season. The Huskies have beaten more quality opponents than anybody on the board and if the NCAA Tournament was to start today they would be a lock for a number 1 seed.
4. Pittsburgh Panthers (16-1)
Pittsburgh was dominate and impressive before meeting a surging Louisville team. The Panthers sophomore DeJuan Blair is one of the best young talents in the country. Blair's success in the paint and against the boards runs parallel with Pittsburgh's success. The Panthers will get a test tonight against #8 Syracuse tonight in yet another huge Big East match-up. The Panthers absolutely can not afford to drop their 2nd conference game in a row and get behind two games in the conference.
5. Oklahoma Sooners (17-1)
No doubt the Sooners are the class of the Big 12 this season. Oklahoma sophomore forward Blake Griffin leads the nation with 13.4 rebounds per game while adding 22 points per contest to support the cause. Oklahoma has got a deep bench with some stellar talent to keep the momentum rolling this season. With one of the easiest remaining schedules of the top teams, Oklahoma has a great chance to capture a Big 12 Title and become a number 1 seed come time for March Madness
6. North Carolina Tarheels (16-2)
The Tarheels may have looked like one of the best teams in the nation earlier this season, but that has been overshadowed by two losses to Boston College and top ranked Wake Forest. With a slow performance in the first half against Miami, I am still not sold the Tarheels are playing up to their capability. North Carolina will play host to the previously unbeaten #9 Clemson Tigers on Wednesday. The Tarheels will have to avoid in sluggish performance when they take on a Talented Clemson team to prevent from losing their 3rd ACC game this season.
7. Michigan State Spartans (15-2)
The Spartans dropped two games to ACC opponents Maryland and North Carolina earlier this year. However, the Spartans have rattled off 11 straight victories since their last loss to the Tarheels. The wins have not been blowout performances, but the streak involves wins over Texas, Minnesota, and Illinois proving the Spartans are among the best around. The Spartans have a fairly light stretch coming up in the next few weeks and the streak will likely continue. Considering the teams ranked ahead of them with tough match-ups, Michigan State will likely climb the ladder over the next few weeks barring any upsets.
8. Louisville Cardinals (13-3)
I know the Cardinals have lost 3 games this season and this ranking seems way too high. Louisville lost to some weaker teams in UNLV, Western Kentucky, and Minnesota. However, pay attention to how they have been playing more recently. The Cardinals have knocked off 3 straight top 20 teams including previous no. 1 Pittsburgh last Saturday and are among only two schools that are undefeated in the Big East. This is the same team that was pre-season ranked no. 3 in the nation, perhaps it just took some time for them to get it together. The Cardinals have taken on some of the most talented scoring teams in American yet still have held opponents to 60 points per game on the season placing them as one of the best scoring defenses across the country. The Cardinals recent surge has grabbed some attention and they have the chance to make a run at the Big East Title.
9. Marquette Golden Eagles (16-2)
The Golden Eagles are a top the standings in the Big East powerhouse with a conference record of 5-0. Marquette may not be as good as UConn or Pittsburgh, but I believe they have the talent to beat any team on any given night. Wesley Matthews, Lazar Hayward, and Jerel McNeal are among the biggest triple threats in the Big East. The schedule does not get really tough until the last 3 weeks of the season. However, they can really rack up some style points with wins over no. 19 Notre Dame and no. 13 Georgetown in the next two weeks.Wake Forest last Saturday 78-68. Clemson will get the chance to redeem their selves with a big match-up with North Carolina on Wednesday night. Trevor Booker is the foundation for the team holding down 15 points and 9 rebounds each outing. Clemson has a chance to prove their national status if they can pull out the victory over North Carolina this Wednesday.
10. Clemson Tigers (16-1)
Clemson may be the surprise team in the ACC this season and they got off to a perfect 16-0 start. The Tigers fell victim to top ranked
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Commercial Dispute Resolution in China - An Annual Review and Preview 2019
Beijing Arbitration / Beijing International Arbitration Center
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Hong Kong
Twenty-eighteen marked the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy. Profound changes have been seen internally and externally, prior to 2018, during 2018, and continuing beyond 2018, which echo China's great quest for reform and engaging with the world, and shape the future of the dispute resolution industry in China.
"Economic stability", "economic restructuring and upgrading", and "Sino-US trade friction" are clues to internal and external changes in 2018. Reviewing changing conditions in dispute resolution across a wide range of industries, the authors of Commercial Dispute Resolution in China: An Annual Review and Preview (2019) [hereinafter referred to as the "An Annual Review and Preview (2019)"] preview challenges that are yet to come. In Annual Review on Real Estate Dispute Resolution in China (2019), for example, the authors present a case study on the Linkage of the First and Second Level Projects and preview potential disputes of Securitization of real estate. In Annual Review on Investment Dispute Resolution in China (2019), the authors describe the arrangement of fixed income and equity repurchase under the backdrop of a slowing economy. In Annual Review on Energy Dispute Resolution in China (2019), the author focuses on policies and cases relating to Chinese transnational M&As, illustrating opportunities and challenges for future "Going Global" transactions in the energy sector. In Annual Review on International Trade Dispute Resolution in China (2019), the authors analyze the challenges posed by the China-US Trade War, and call for better compliance, industrial upgrading, and better understanding of the legal environment and trade protection measures in different jurisdictions in the process of "Going Global."
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Little Rock-Pine Bluff, AR - Accident News and Resources including car, bicycle, motorcycle and truck accidents and much more.
Little Rock, Arkansas, nicknamed "The Rock" and "Rock Town," is the capital and the most populous city in Arkansas. It is also the county seat of Pulaski County. Little Rock is a major cultural, economic, government and transportation center within Arkansas and throughout the South. Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is the largest city and county seat of Jefferson County, Arkansas. Pine Bluff is the ninth largest city in the state of Arkansas. The city is situated in the southeast section of the state in the Arkansas Delta. Its topography is flat with wide expanses of farmland. Pine Bluff is home to a number of creeks, streams, and Bayou Bartholomew, the longest bayou in the world, and larger bodies of water such as Lake Pine Bluff, Lake Langhofer, and the Arkansas River.
The climate of Little Rock and Pine Bluff affects driving and traveling
Little Rock and Pine Bluff have a humid subtropical climate, with hot, usually humid summers, and short, cool winters. They experience a prolonged spring wet season, with frequent heavy rainfall from March to May, and a secondary wet season peaking in November and December. Thunderstorms can occur any month of the year, but are especially frequent and severe in spring when torrential rainfall, damaging thunderstorm winds, hail, and tornadoes are all threats; a secondary severe weather season peaks in November.
Little Rock and Pine Bluff industries and major employers draw people into the city
The major industries in the region are agriculture, aviation, and healthcare. Major employers with headquarters in the region include Dillard's Department Stores, Windstream Communications, Acxiom, Simmons Bank, Bank of the Ozarks, Rose Law Firm, Central Flying Service and large brokerage Stephens Inc.
Pulaski County's major roadways:
Interstate 30 runs from I-20 west of Fort Worth, Texas, northeast via Dallas, Texas, and Texarkana, Texas, to I-40 in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Interstate 430 is a 12.93 miles long Interstate highway in Pulaski County, Arkansas that bypasses the cities of Little Rock and North Little Rock. Interstate 530 is a spur route of the Interstate highway system, traveling 46.65 miles from Little Rock at the junction of Interstate 30 and Interstate 440 in the northwest, to Pine Bluff in the southeast. Interstate 630 is an east–west connector within Little Rock. It starts at Interstate 30/US Route 65/US Route 67/US Route 167 and travels west through downtown Little Rock to Interstate 430. Interstate 40 is an east–west Interstate Highway that has a 284.69-mile section in the U.S. state of Arkansas connecting sections in Oklahoma to Tennessee. Interstate 440 in the central part of the U.S. state of Arkansas, is a partial loop of 9.96 miles connecting I-40 with I-30 and Interstate 530 near Little Rock. Arkansas Good Roads is an organization that works to promote the development and maintenance of a safe and efficient transportation system.
Air and ground transportation in Little Rock and Pine Bluff helps people travel smoothly and safely
The Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport is the largest airport in Arkansas, served by seven major airlines and utilized by almost three million air travelers each year. North Little Rock Municipal Airport is a public use airport in Pulaski County. Grider Field is a city-owned, public-use airport located four nautical miles southeast of the central business district of Pine Bluff. The Central Arkansas Transit Authority (CATA) provides public transportation services to the Little Rock metro area seven days a week with fixed route and paratransit operations, and a downtown historic streetcar system.
Find out about recent accidents in Little Rock and Pine Bluff, including:
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When someone has been injured or killed in an accident, grief support services and counselors help those involved begin dealing with stress and loss. It can be comforting to talk with others going through a similar situation, and the road to recovering from the loss may go more smoothly. Go here to learn about regional grief support services.
Little Rock and Pine Bluff legal information for accident victims
After someone has been injured or killed in a motor-vehicle crash in Little Rock or Pine Bluff, many decisions need to be made immediately and questions need to be answered. For example, how much of the medical costs will be covered by the insurance policy? How does PIP insurance help with medical bills immediately? What if the at-fault driver has no insurance?
Where to find legal assistance after a Little Rock-Pine Bluff injury accident
After a serious crash, it is crucial to get help from a Little Rock injury attorney who understands the local regulations and legal standards, who knows how insurance policies work when an injured person is out-of-network, and who can handle all aspects of an insurance claim so the injured person can focus on recovery. If someone is killed in a collision, a Little Rock wrongful death attorney will launch a claim that will begin the process of financial recovery for the family members left behind. Learn more here about what a Little Rock personal injury attorney can do to help.
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Ashley Meeks, 48, killed and William Jones, 28, injured in crash on U.S. 165 in Scott, Arkansas
Roadway:
U.S. 165
Scott, AR
Type: Car Accident
Special Circumstances - Commercial Vehicle
Terry Bradley, 58, killed in pedestrian collision on 28th Avenue in Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Type: Pedestrian Accident
Nicholas Brown, 35, and Antonie Lester, 32, killed in crash on Arch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas
Arch Street
Michael Leonard, 29, killed in crash on Mill Creek Road in Pope County, Arkansas
Mill Creek Road
Zackary Adam Handley, 19, Chloe Dyanne Bowers, 18, and one child killed in head-on collision with semi truck on Highway 8 in Arkadelphia, Arkansas
Two people killed in commercial truck crash on Interstate 40 near Knoxville, Arkansas
Knoxville, AR
Type: Train Accident
Christy Scott, 42, and Hailey Scott, 10, killed in crash on U.S. 65 in Clinton, Arkansas
Clinton, AR
Ervin Brendel, 51, killed in hit-and-run pedestrian collision at Arkansas 70 and Harris Road in North Little Rock, Arkansas
Arkansas 70 and Harris Road
Kentray Dukes, 31, and Roger Chapman, 59, killed in wrong-way collision on Interstate 430 in Little Rock, Arkansas
Wrong-way Crash
Roseanna Markham, 69, and Deborah Jean Black, 68, killed in collision on Arkansas 8 near Board Camp, Arkansas
Board Camp, AR
Catherine Flowers, 53, and Richard Howk, 44, killed in crash on Arkansas 9 near Solgohachia, Arkansas
Solgohachia, AR
James Carroll, 42, Jennifer Carroll, 37, and Donald Nelms, 60, killed in collision on U.S. 64 in Flat Rock, Arkansas
Head-on
Murillo Trinidad, 64, Angelina Chaidez Villereal, 55, and Ana Chaidez, 49, killed in collision with semi truck on Interstate 30 near Okolona, Arkansas
Okolona, AR
Type: Truck Accident
Adriana Greenwood, 23, and Treylin Cranford, 19, killed, and officer Seth Wakefield injured in collision on Interstate 30 in Bryant, Arkansas
Township of Bryant, AR
Danielle L. Howard, 37, killed in collision on U.S. Highway 270 in Jefferson County, Arkansas