Los Cursillos facilitan el continuo crecimiento espiritual mediante el compartir, en grupo de amigos, las experiencias cristianas y asi avanzar juntos en el camino del Senor. Ven y vive tu Cursillo!
Join us for a night of fun in watching "I Can Only Imagine!"
The true story of Mercy Me Bart Millard's 2002 Dove Award winning song!
Únase a nosotros para una noche de diversión viendo" ¡Sólo puedo imaginar!"
¡La verdadera historia de la canción ganadora del Premio Dove 2002 de Mercy Me Bart Millard!
Are you looking to put Christ in your marriage?
Do you want Romance, Happiness, Passion and Joy?
What makes you think they don't go hand in hand?
Attend the next Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend and learn how to refocus your marriage on what is most important. Attend a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend and experience an even greater closeness and depth of your love for each other!
We will be collecting them the Weekends of April 27/28 - 2019 and May 4/5 - 2019 outside church after Masses.
Our Lady of Lourdes- Council of Catholic Women would like to invite all parishioners to join us in the 2019 MACCW (Miami Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women) - Doll campaign.
The dolls represent the needy children in our community. Every year, the MACCW- delivers hundreds of outfits to the homeless shelters in our community to distribute among the needy children.
Please join us in making a difference, by bringing a "NEW" outfit - (including shoes or sandals, socks, and underwear) sizes 2T - 4T.
Los recogeremos los fines de semana del 27/28 de abril y 4 y 5 de mayo fuera de la iglesia después de las misas.
El Consejo de Mujeres Católicas de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes desea invitar a todos los feligreses a que se unan a nosotros en el MACCW 2019 (Consejo Arquidiocesano de Mujeres Católicas de Miami) - Campaña de Muñecas.
Las muñecas representan a los niños necesitados en nuestra comunidad. Cada año, el MACCW entrega cientos de atuendos a los refugios para personas sin hogar en nuestra comunidad para distribuir entre los niños necesitados.
Únase a nosotros para hacer una diferencia, al traer una vestimenta "NUEVA" (que incluye zapatos o sandalias, calcetines y ropa interior) tallas 2T - 4T.sizes 2T - 4T.
Needs volunteers, any day of the week.
Necesita voluntarios, cualquier día de la semana.
The Compassionate Franciscan Sisters of the Poor sent us a graceful appreciation letter in response to our parish support for the CFSOP Lenten Mission Food Drive, held on the weekend of March 30-31, 2019.
To have a written policy for dealing with sexual abuse of minors by priests, deacons and other Church personnel.
To appoint a victim assistance coordinator, who is available for the immediate pastoral care of persons who report having been sexually abused as a minor by a priest or deacon.
Cada diócesis / eparquía en los Estados Unidos debe cumplir con unos requisitos específicos. Vamos a compartir un par de ellos cada semana durante el mes de abril, el mes de prevención del abuso infantil. La Arquidiócesis de Miami está en cumplimiento y ha estado en cumplimiento cada uno de los 17 años desde la creación de estas normas.
Tener una política escrita para lidiar con el abuso sexual de menores por parte de sacerdotes, diáconos y otro personal de la Iglesia.
Nombrar un coordinador de asistencia a la víctima, que esté disponible para darle cuidado pastoral inmediato a las personas que reportan haber sido abusadas sexualmente, siendo menores, por un sacerdote o diácono.
We are excited to announce the Inaugural Our Lady of Lourdes Fishing Tournament will take place on Saturday, May 18th, 2019 at Monty's Coconut Grove, 2550 S. Bayshore Drive, Miami, FL 33133.
This event is a great opportunity to help strengthen our PSA community and will be one of the largest fundraisers with all proceeds going directly to our parish school's development. Your contribution, participation, sponsorships and donations are what will make this event so successful. No donation is too small.
We will kick it off with the "Captain's" dinner/meeting on Friday, May 17th, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. at Monty's Coconut Grove. The fishing tournament will take place on Saturday, May 18th, 2019. There will be plenty of categories and opportunities to win prizes. We want to invite both Offshore and Inshore anglers. Offshore category will include Mahi, Kingfish, Cobia, Tuna and Wahoo, and Inshore will include Snook, Grouper and Snapper.
There will also be a Family Dock Party at 2:00 p.m. followed by the Awards Ceremony at Monty's Coconut Grove. Each attendee will receive a tournament hat and enjoy the day's festivities, including food and beverages. Tickets include great food, beverages, and entertainment. Pre-sale tickets available through May 13th.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the OLOL Fishing Tournament Committee members or the PSA Board.
Following some notices from members of the faithful that these "Catholic Priests" may be going around people's home and after inquiry in regard to their person, I wish to notify you that a "Father Thomas Smith", a "Father Simon" and/or a "Father Thomas Matthews" from India, are not authorized by Archbishop Wenski or his delegate to serve in any capacity the Roman Catholic faithful in the Archdiocese of Miami.
Therefore, please alert your parishioners that these priests should not be entering their homes nor be called upon by the faithful to perform any priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Miami. Should they use their services, they do so with full knowledge of their status with the Archdiocese of Miami which is not responsible for their actions or negligence.


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Q: parse specific key in json to dataframe column How do you parse a specific key to multiple rows and column from a response?
I am getting a response:
response = requests.post('https://api.kewords.com/v1/get_keyword_data', data=my_data, headers=my_headers)

which returns:
{
"data": {
    "heart disease": {
        "vol": 18100,
        "cpc": {
            "currency": "$",
            "value": "2.01"
        },
        "keyword": "keyword planner",
        "competition": 0.21,
        "trend": [
            {
                "month": "January",
                "year": 2022,
                "value": 18100
            },
            {
                "month": "February",
                "year": 2022,

However, when I normalize it before I save it to a .csv, it places everything into a single row:

How do you parse a specific field, like data.heart disease.trend in my example, with separate columns for year and month based on value to a pandas dataframe? Every method from normalizing it to dealing with it as a dict has failed.
my code:
my_data = {
    'country': 'us',
    'currency': 'USD',
    'dataSource': 'cli',

    f'kw[{keyword}]': ["keywords tool", "keyword planner"]
}
my_headers = {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': ''
}
response = requests.post('https://api.keywords.com/v1/get_keyword_data', data=my_data, headers=my_headers)

#write to json
with open('output.json', 'wb') as outf:
    outf.write(response.content)

if response.status_code == 200:
    print('success\n\n', response.content.decode('utf-8'))
else:
    print("An error occurred\n\n", response.content.decode('utf-8'))

A: Using json_normalize:
data = json.loads(response.text)

df = pd.json_normalize(
    data=data["data"]["heart disease"],
    meta=["vol", "keyword", "competition", "cpc"],
    record_path="trend"
)
df = pd.concat([df.drop(["cpc"], axis=1), df["cpc"].apply(pd.Series)], axis=1)
print(df)

Output:
      month  year  value    vol          keyword competition currency value
0   January  2022  18100  18100  keyword planner        0.21        $  2.01
1  February  2022  20000  18100  keyword planner        0.21        $  2.01

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Growing up my mom was seriously all about education. I'm pretty sure, okay, well I'm 100% positive that it's because of her background. She grew up in a small town outside of Mazatlan, Mexico and unfortunately didn't have the luxury of attending extra classes and lessons. Needless to say, my mother was determined that her three girls would have access to everything she didn't. That included piano lessons, dance lessons, and yes… even calligraphy lessons! That's right! Every summer, while all the other kids were at camp or whatever it is kids do in the summer… I'd be sitting in "College for Kids" at the local junior college working on my penmanship.
I suppose the hours and hours of getting my handwriting professionally critiqued at the age of 9 instilled a love for penmanship. Which would explain my current obsession with handwritten designs. From invitations, to logos, to displays and magazine covers– I'm loving the fact that people are using their unique handwriting! After all, that's how everything started right?
After seeing these– maybe handwriting will be your new obsession too!
You have to agree- this is an amazing window display! It's eye catching, right?
Okay, if you are in need of invites or anything calligraphic– look at Lindsay's website! She's brilliant.
I often ask myself– why I can't have this penmanship! Seriously. After seeing this image I sent it to my dear Megan a fellow lover of creativity and together we questioned why the good Lord didn't grace us with this skill.
I'm pretty sure Austin Kleon's handwriting is perfection. I'm in love and wishing that my penmanship was this precise. I'm told that my handwriting looks more like Arabic. Minor details.
This is a magazine cover. Yes and Yes! I definitely would pick it up and read it just because of this cover!
Please please! You must watch the video of Dana creating this! It's absolutely incredible and a true art!
Honestly, I love this quote! Such a good reminder to use our hands. There are so many beautiful font choices out there these days- I have a full list of my favorites, but let's try using our hands- shall we? And create something uniquely beautiful.
Your Story Is Unique. Embrace It.
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ASP also runs an excellent Facebook page, looking at the various articles often by trainers. One of their latest referrals looks at one officer's experience of the weapons that "bad guys" carry and the results are surprising.
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My dress is EXTREMELY comfortable and versatile. I made it several years ago (about 7 or 8 years) and it continues to be a timeless favorite.
The dress pattern was self-drafted. I started by cutting the front and the back panels. After I created the main body, I decided that I need to add more interest in the back. I had this really cool sheer knit fabric to the back…to add some dimension and create some shape on a somewhat shapeless silhouette. I cut the center panel out…and layered the knit fabric.
High-low hems are my absolute favorite. I finished the hems and collar with self-binding. I used a ditch-stitch application to give it a very clean effect on the outside. The sleeves were very "angel" or "choir robe"…so I made pleats on the length of the arm. I added extra-long tabs to the sleeves with a button.
The fabric is a light-weight wool fabric. The dress is unlined.
Sassy! I love it! I love easy! My kind of look!!!!
Love this outfit and the photographer did a fantastic job in capturing every angle of your outfit! !!
Thanks… and yes the photographer did a Fantastic job capturing this dress…lol!


Yes, sometimes we do. Should we use them? No, we probably shouldn't. Splash screen (or splash page) is a front page of a web-site that don't provide the actual content, but offers visitors some kind of intuition or background information for what the site is about. Designers use splash pages in their portfolios to impress potential clients with eye-candy. Companies tend to make use of them to draw users' attention to their latest products. And users literally can't stand them, because splash pages usually take a long time to load and provide (almost) no navigation options — except of "entering the site".
Depending on designers' creativity, splash pages use more or less attractive visual elements. Splash pages usually have a very simple structure — mostly just an image with few text lines and links.
The design of these pages sometimes isn't related to the overall site design. And although most sites don't use them, splash pages are sometimes necessary and therefore remain popular. In fact, there are some situations in which we might want or might even need to use them. Even although we shouldn't — for our visitors' sake.
Visitors are supposed to select the language they want to use or the country they come from — to direct users to the appropriate version of the site.
Visitors can choose between a low-bandwidth version (HTML — Dial-Up) and high-bandwidth version (Flash — cable, DSL). Sometimes one can also choose the "accessible" version containing only text without images.
The designer informs visitors about site requirements such as used browsers, screen resolution as well as used Flash, Java, Quicktime etc. and suggests to choose the "right" configuration and download plug-ins for "optimal" site presentation.
Visitors can select the preferred view mode - for instance, standard mode and fullscreen mode.
Users don't like splash pages, however if designed creatively, splash pages can also really get on users' nerves. Petr Hrubes has an informative and attractive web-site with an absolutely unusable splash page (sorry, Petr). The design of Petr's splash page offers precise information and is visually appealing, but it has one of the most significant mistakes a splash page can contain — it's obtrusive and just not user-friendly.
Hrubes.com: this is not the way a splash page should be designed; the main page opens in a new tab, in fullscreen mode.
If you are using Firefox or Opera you'll find out that the mouse click on "Enter" opens the main page in a new tab in your browser. To navigate through the site visitors may want to close the "splash page"-window first and then change to the "main page"-tab. It's neither necessary nor helpful.
Splash Page at FunkyPunky: can you recognize the linked area? Hint: take a closer look at the top of the page.
Not every visitor is patient, in most cases the page will be closed right away. Or the visitors land on the Adobe-page where they are asked to download the latest version of Flash plug-in. Or they are directed to some design-award web-site where they can observe dozens of beautifully designed web-sites. You can be sure that they won't get back. Here you go - an optimal way to lose a visitor in few seconds.
Whether minimal, useful, beautifully illustrated, colorful or animated: the design of splash pages is a challenge designers can take to impress their visitors with creative approaches. Whatever decision you make please make sure that you really need a splash page and that it is designed with a purpose in mind.
Apple use a hybrid of a splash page with basic navigation functions. What do you think, is it still a splash page? (Bonus: find the difference between both of them!).
Classic: multimedia-related sites offer audio and video on the splash page; however, sometimes basic navigation is also included. Ice Age also provides "special" entry points for users from United States and outside the U.S.
The selection of a language with a Flash-effect.
So much text, so many references, but none of them can be clicked.
An intro explains what the site is about. This is typical for many splash pages.
Flash-based splash page. There is some kind of navigation, however it doesn't really work.
Two projects share the same domain.
The splash page explains how the page is supposed to be used — here the navigation is possible only with keyboard.
Splash page for a weblog? Yes, it's possible.


Set in the scenic foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in northeastern Los Angeles County, Glendora is a thriving, upscale community imbued with small town values and ambience. With a population of 52,000 residents and encompassing 19.86 square miles, Glendora is known as the "Pride of the Foothills." The City Manager is appointed by a five-member City Council and oversees approximately 206 FTEs and FY 2017/18 total budget of $69.6M. A wide range of services is provided including police, public works, water, storm drainage, planning and development, park and landscape maintenance, code enforcement, building inspection, library facilities, recreation and administration. The ideal candidate is a proven, collaborative leader with strong interpersonal and communication skills. A solid knowledge of municipal finance/budget and labor relations is desired as well as an individual that stays current on legislative policies that impact the City. A Bachelor's degree with major coursework in public or business administration or a related field is required; Master's degree is preferred. Competitive salary DOQE.
Filing deadline is May 29, 2018.


Cynosurus coloratus Lehm. ex Steud. in C.G.D.Nees von Esenbeck, Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill.: 439 (1841).
Cynosurus callitrichus Barbey in C.Barbey-Boissier & W.Barbey, Herbor. Levant: 165 (1882).
Cynosurus coloratus f. nanus Trotter, Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 22: 322 (1915).
Falona callitricha (Barb.-Boiss. & Barbey) V.Jirásek & Chrtek, Novit. Bot. Delect. Seminum Horti Bot. Univ. Carol. Prag. 1964: 26 (1964).


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Michael Field war das gemeinsame Pseudonym der englischen Schriftstellerinnen Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) und Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913), Tante und Nichte, die so mehrere Gedichtbände und 30 Versdramen veröffentlichten.

Leben und Schaffen
Katherine Bradley wurde im Jahr 1846 in Birmingham als Tochter eines Tabakfabrikanten geboren, der 1848 starb. Nach der Heirat der Schwester im Jahr 1860 zog die Familie nach Kenilworth, Warwickshire, wo Katherine ab 1865 aufgrund des schlechten gesundheitlichen Zustandes ihrer Schwester die Erziehung deren Tochter Edith Cooper übernahm.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter im Jahr 1868 besuchte Katherine das Collège de France und das Newnham College an der University of Cambridge. 1878 gingen Katherine und Edith gemeinsam nach Bristol, wo sie am College Kurse in Klassischer Philologie belegten und sich den Suffragetten anschlossen. Ihr späteres Leben verbrachten sie – neben Reisen nach Italien, Frankreich und England – hauptsächlich in London, wo sie regen Kontakt zur literarischen Szene hatten. Es gibt Hinweise darauf, dass Katherine und Edith ein Liebespaar waren.

Ihre ersten Gedichte (The New Minnesinger and Other Poems) veröffentlichte Katherine Bradley 1875 unter dem Pseudonym Arran Leigh – eine Anlehnung an Elizabeth Barrett Brownings episches Gedicht "Aurora Leigh". Das erste gemeinsame Werk Bradleys und Coopers (Bellerophôn) erschien 1881 noch unter den zwei Pseudonymen Arran Leigh und Isla Leigh. Ab 1884 schrieben sie als Michael Field.

Michael Fields frühere Lyrik ist meist geprägt von ihrem Studium der klassischen Antike. Die Verweise auf die griechische Mythologie und Kulturgeschichte – insbesondere auf Dionysos und Sappho (Long Ago) – zeugen aber weniger von der Absicht gelehrsam zu wirken als von einer hedonistischen Infragestellung viktorianischer Prüderie und männlicher Dominanz in kulturellen Diskursen. Mit dieser auflehnenden Haltung gingen Michael Field auch einen wichtigen Schritt in Richtung der Moderne. Sie experimentierten bisweilen mit freien und spontanen Formen, ihr Umgang mit Bildern antizipierte den Imagismus:
     A Girl,
        Her soul a deep-wave pearl
     Dim, lucent of all lovely mysteries;
        A face flowered for heart's ease,
        A brow's grace soft as seas
        Seen through faint forest-trees:
     […]

1907 konvertierten Bradley und Cooper zum Katholizismus, was Spuren in ihrem literarischen Schaffen hinterließ. Michael Field schrieben nun im Spannungsfeld zwischen heidnischem Hedonismus und christlicher Buße.

Edit Cooper erlag 1913 einem Krebsleiden. Katherine Bradley arbeitete daraufhin allein unter dem Pseudonym Michael Field weiter, starb aber 1914, ebenfalls an Krebs.

Postum wurden auch Tagebücher und Korrespondenz der beiden Michael Field herausgegeben.

Werke (Auswahl)

Lyrik
Long Ago (1889)
Sight and Song (1892)
Underneath the Bough (1893)
Wild Honey from Various Thyme (1908)
Poems of Adoration (1912)
Mystic Trees (1913)

Drama
Callirrhoe & Fair Rosamund (1884)
The Father's Tragedy (1885)
William Rufus (1885)
Loyalty or Love? (1885)
Brutus Ultor (1886)
Canute the Great (1887)
The Cup of Water (1887)
The Tragic Mary (1890)
Stephania, a Trialogue (1892)
A Question of Memory (1893)
Attila, My Attila! (1896)
World at Auction (1898)
Noontide Branches (1899)
Anna Ruina (1899)
Race of Leaves (1901)
Julia Domna (1903)
Borgia (1905)
Queen Mariamne (1908)
Tragedy of Pardon (1911)
Tristan de Léonois (1911)
Dian (1911)
The Accuser (1911)
A Messiah (1911)
Ras Byzance (1918 veröffentlicht)
Deirdre (1918 veröffentlicht)
In the Name of Time (1919 veröffentlicht)

Literatur
 Emma Donoghue: We Are Michael Field. Absolute Press, Bath 1998, ISBN 1-89979-166-3.
 Charles S. Ricketts: Michael Field. Tragara Press, Edinburgh 1976, ISBN 0-902-61632-3.
 Margaret D. Stetz, Cheryl A. Wilson (Hrsg.): Michael Field and Their World. Rivendale Press, High Wycombe 2007, ISBN 1-904201-08-3.
 Mary C. Sturgeon: Michael Field. Arno Press, New York 1975, ISBN 0-405-07401-8 (Nachdr. d. Ausg. New York 1922).
 Marion Thain: Michael Field. Poetry, Aestheticism and the Fin de Siecle (Cambridge Studies in the 19th century literature and culture; Bd. 58). CUP, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-87418-2.

Weblinks
 The Michael Field Society (englisch)
 Kurzbiografie und ausgewählte Gedichte (englisch)

Autor
Literatur (Englisch)
Literatur (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Literatur (19. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Sammelpseudonym
Autorenduo

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Italy offers €85 million in support of treasury
[10/5/2019 3:39:05 PM]
AMMONNEWS - The Jordanian and Italian governments on Saturday signed an agreement under which the latter offers €85 million to support the Jordanian treasury.
Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Minister of State for Economic Affairs Mohammad Al-Ississ, inked the agreement with Director General of the Italian Development Cooperation Agency Giorgio Marbodi.
In a press release, the ministry said that the assistance will contribute to the implementation of the National Strategy for Human Resources Development 2016-2025 through promoting the equal enrollment of male and female students in early education, enhancing vocational training and technical education, and restructuring and rehabilitating the Ajloun Technical College at the Balqa Applied University.
Ississ thanked Italy for standing by Jordan through proving aid to the treasury, which contributes to maintaining investment spending necessary for development, supports vital sectors in the Kingdom and alleviates the repercussions of the Syrian refugee crisis on the budget.
Marbodi underscored the strong partnership between the two friendly countries, stressing Italy's commitment to supporting Jordan to maintain its economic resilience in the current exceptional circumstances, and to enable it to overcome the consequences of Syrian refugee crisis.

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Q: VBA Application.Run for Running Macros-with-Parameters Stored Inside an Excel Cell I have stored a few macro names inside Excel cells.
I loop through those cells and call macros written inside them as follows.
[The subroutine below is called from another subroutine by providing the parameters correctly.]
    Sub SelectAppsToRun(ctlGrpName As String,  ws As Worksheet, activeTbx As MSForms.TextBox)

       Dim rng as Range

           For each rng in Sheet1.Range("A1:A5")

               Application.Run rng.value

           Next rng

    End Sub

It works correctly when there are no parameters for the macros. But generates error when it tries to run the following macro stored in a cell.
JumpToNextCtl, ws, ctlGrpName, activeTbx
This macro is supposed to take its parameters - ws, ctlGrpName and activeTbx - from the subroutine 'SelectAppsToRun'
The codes it is supposed to run is:
    Sub JumpToNextCtl(ws As Worksheet, ctlGrpName As String, Optional activeTbx As MSForms.TextBox, Optional activeCbx As MSForms.ComboBox, Optional chkBx As MSForms.CheckBox)

       Dim shp As Shape, i As Integer, ctlname As String
       Dim ctlColl As New Collection

         For Each shp In ws.Shapes.Range(ctlGrpName).GroupItems

           If shp.Type = msoOLEControlObject Then

               If TypeName(shp.OLEFormat.Object.Object) = "TextBox" Or _
                    TypeName(shp.OLEFormat.Object.Object) = "ComboBox" Or _
                        TypeName(shp.OLEFormat.Object.Object) = "CheckBox" Then

                      ctlColl.Add shp.OLEFormat.Object

               End If

           End If

         Next sh

    End Sub

The error message I get is:
Cannot run the macro '"JumpToNextCtl", ws, ctlGrpName, activeTbx'. The macro may not be available in this workbook or all macros may be disabled.
I guess Application.Run takes all the parameters as String. Is there anyway to get this method running?

A: Please, try using the next scenario:

*

*The main Sub which calls "SelectAppsToRun":

Sub MainCall()
  SelectAppsToRun "This is a call. It is ", ActiveSheet, ActiveWorkbook
  SelectAppsToRun "This is a call. It should be ", ActiveSheet, , True
End Sub

*A test "SelectAppsToRun" Sub may look like this:

Sub SelectAppsToRun(ctlGrpName As String, ws As Worksheet, Optional wb As Workbook, Optional boolOK As Boolean)
       Dim arrProc, El

       arrProc = Split("testCall1,testCall2", ",") 'this may be considered the equivalent of cell range values
           For Each El In arrProc
               Application.Run El, ctlGrpName, ws, wb, boolOK
           Next
End Sub

*The following Subs to be called (with object parameters) from "SelectAppsToRun":

Sub testCall1(strTest, sh As Worksheet, Optional wb As Workbook, Optional boolOK As Boolean)
   Debug.Print strTest & " It is the first", "The sheet name is " & sh.name
   If Not wb Is Nothing Then Debug.Print wb.Path
   If boolOK Then Debug.Print "The situation looks good..."
End Sub

Sub testCall2(strTest, sh As Worksheet, Optional wb As Workbook, Optional boolOK As Boolean)
   Debug.Print strTest & " It is the second", "Range ""A1"" value is " & sh.Range("A1").Value2
   If Not wb Is Nothing Then Debug.Print wb.fullName
   If boolOK Then Debug.Print "The situation is good..."
End Sub

*Open Immediate Window (Ctrl + G, being in VBE), click inside "MainCall" Sub and run the code line by line, pressing F8.

This Sub will call SelectAppsToRun, passing three parameters (one string and two objects). Then each of the two test Subs (testCall1 and testCall2) will be called with the three parameters.
Isn't it what you need achieving? If yes, glad I could help. If  not, please describe where this scenario does not match your need.


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Q: How do I kill all active connections on OSX? This problem has bugged me for a very long time. Say, I start servers at ports 55555, 55556, 55557 and 55558. I have debugged the server enough, so I kill the processes with ctrl+z. However, it doesn't kill the connections and I get 'address already in use' error when I try starting them again. I can always close the terminals to actually kill the connections or I could run these commands for each terminal:
lsof -i :<port>
kill -9 <pid>

Both ways are way too time consuming when I have to have about 5 servers open to debug a program I'm working on. Is there a 'find and kill all active ports' command?


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Texas Schoolbooks Referring To Slaves As Immigrants Changed In 2015
Outrage from a students Mother at the wording in a textbook initiated the change. McGraw-Hill said that the book will be changed. "We conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will […]
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Will Ben Carson Be A Bust Or A Change Maker At HUD?
Ben Carson was confirmed by the U.S. Senate Thursday to become the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. I suppose there is one saving grace: At least Carson didn't meet with Russian spies prior to his confirmation. With absolutely no government experience or any knowledge whatsoever about managing a massive federal agency, the U.S. […]
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Ben Carson Confirmed As HUD Secretary
The Senate voted 58-41 to confirm Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon and presidential candidate, as the leader of HUD.
Ben Carson Is Just One Step Away From Leading HUD
Carson, like Betsy DeVos, was nominated to head an agency where he holds no actual past job experience.
Did Trump's Museum Visit Help Him With African-Americans? Not So Fast
President Donald Trump toured the National Museum of African American History and Culture Tuesday and offered an olive branch to black America. But will African-Americans accept it? Trump, who only received about 8 percent of the Black vote during the presidential election, pledged Tuesday to confront racism and create a bridge of unity for what […]
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Black HUD Official Who Blasted Trump Loses Job
The Trump administration fired Shermichael Singleton, who was one of a few black conservatives and a top aide to Ben Carson, from his post as a senior advisor this week after Trump's advisors found public writings of Singleton criticizing POTUS.
Ben Carson Shouldn't Be Running HUD, But Will That Matter?
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To complete a course consisting of lectures and/or small group work, attendance of a minimum of 75% of the classes and active participation is required.
The student will learn to define the context of arts management and to describe its relationship to other disciplines. After the course the student has gained knowledge to describe the historical development of arts management, the key theoretical approaches in the field, and the current environment of arts organizations and institutions.
The course is available to the Open University students.
The student will learn to identify and discuss current topics in local, national, European and global cultural policy framework. After the course the student is able to recognize and understand the connections between the different authorities, policy making structures, structures of resource allocation and funding bodies in arts as well as the role of EU, Unesco and other stakeholder organizations in cultural policy practices. The student learns also to know the emergence of national cultural policy and its institutional development.
The student will get an opportunity to visit various cultural organisations and gain practical knowledge on managing cultural organizations, productions and institutions. Through different phenomena presented by the visiting lecturers the student is able to define the current topics in the arts management field both in Finland and abroad. After the course the student is able to describe and compare different types of cultural organizations and to take part in the present discussions in the field of arts management.
The student will learn to examine and assess, with reference to future assignments, the knowledge acquired in the different modules of the programme. The student will also be able to reflect on his or her own development in the course of studies.
The student will learn practical knowledge of producing cultural projects. After the course the student is able to describe different methods and tools for managing artistic and creative productions as well as to assess the role of a producer in the productions and the qualities of a good producer.
The student will learn to define strategy, strategic thinking and strategic management in the context of arts. After the course the student is able to describe various theoretical views on strategic management and to apply different tools of strategic management for cultural organisations.
The student will learn describe different theoretical approaches to leadership and discuss the latest trends of leadership in cultural organizations. After the course the student is able to describe the different between management and leadership as well as to apply the conceptual and practical tools of leadership in different situations and organizations.
The student will learn to describe the different areas of human resource management and to identify the role of HRM in the management of cultural organisations. After the course the student will also be able to define the factors relevant for successful HRM practices and to apply different conceptual and practical tools of HRM in organizations.
The student will learn to identify the legal framework of arts and to know the main aspects of the copyright law, the intellectual property rights (IPR), contract-making process, and employment issues affecting the management of organizations. After the course the student will be able to discuss the role of copyright, IPR, contract, and employment issues in managing artistic productions and to update his or her knowledge on the subject.
The student will learn to define the main concepts, theories and trends in arts marketing. After the course the student is able to describe the role of marketing as a part of organisational management at national and international levels as well as to apply the conceptual and practical tools of marketing in different arts related projects and organisations.
The student will learn to identify the main issues related to reaching new audiences through methods such as educational work, audience surveys and statistical information. After the course the student will be able to define the concepts of ADE and design an ADE programme. The student will also be able to apply the practical tools of audience surveys and data research.
The student will learn to describe the ways in which arts organisations could deal with different media. After the course the student is able to identify the main theoretical approaches to media relations and to discuss the different methods of communicating with the media. The student will also be able to apply the conceptual and practical tools necessary to promote art and culture in the media.
The student will learn to describe the main theories and practices of negotiation and presentation skills needed in a managerial environment. After the course the student is able to identify the principles of communication and the skills to adapt one's own way of interaction.
The student will learn to identify the main aspects of financial planning and monitoring as well as to know the central financial terminology. After the course the student will be able to define and discuss accounting and bookkeeping as a tool for managing and controlling the arts organizations.
Target of the course is to help students understand financial management of cultural organizations. Using practical examples from opera houses, cultural centers, museums and other art institutions, the course will cover all core areas of management accounting. Most of the actors in cultural sector are non-profit organizations, and students will also learn how to use management accounting to assess the performance of such institutions.
The student will learn to define the concepts and practices of fundraising and sponsorship in the national and international outlook. After the course the student will be able to apply the different tools of fundraising and sponsorship in the context of art.
The student will learn the basic theories, methods and practices of an academic research. After the course the student is able to define and assess the applicability of various research approaches and the paradigms they are based on as well as the different methods of collecting and analysing research material.
The student will learn the key aspects of academic writing in order to produce academic text. After the course the student is able to identify the correct academic style and vocabulary as well as to apply this in essay and thesis writing.
The student will learn to plan a research project, identify interesting research subjects, and manage a research process for a Master's thesis. After the course the student is able to identify and discuss the tools and content of academic presentations as well as to assess the feasibility and progress of academic research projects.
Students will show the mastery of their major subject and the achievement of the learning outcomes of the major subject in their demonstration of proficiency. The demonstration of proficiency shall include studies from two study modules.
The demonstration of proficiency is assessed on a scale of pass/fail. Credits for the demonstration of proficiency are given by the head of the department.
The student will learn to plan and execute an academic research project and report it in the form of a Master's thesis. After completing a Master's thesis the student is able to define the content and structure of an academic study and to demonstrate some skills independent judgement on the selected topic. The student is also able to recognize and solve research problems in the field of Arts Management as well as to present the phases and results of the research in a written form.
The maturity test is a written test that demonstrates the student's command of his/her mother tongue and understanding of the subject matter of his/her thesis and seminar work. If the student has gained his/her basic academic education in Finnish or Swedish, the student will write the Maturity Test in that language. If the student has gained his/her basic education in some other language, the student will write the Maturity Test in the language of his/her research.
Optional studies can be selected from the list below and/or from other universities in Finland or abroad. Also courses provided by other main subjects of the Sibelius Academy can be included in the optional study courses of Arts Management Master's Degree Programme.
The student will learn to identify the basic technological applications and the planning and implementation of different technical solutions in the field of arts management. The student will able to apply some technological tools to promote cultural productions and discuss the implications of these to the overall management processes of art and culture.
The student will learn to define the content and structure of a business plan and apply this information to creation of such a plan. After the course the student is able to present skills and competencies vital to an arts entrepreneur and to examine the feasibility and relevance of business ideas in the field.
The student will learn to identify the various approaches, central trends, and manifestations of cultural industry.
This course improves the student's understanding of the relationship between the artistic content and the leadership of that content. Arts managers must have a profound understanding of the arts that they are managing. Therefore, this course involves studying artistic processes within different art forms with the focus on how these processes are organized and led.
The objectives of this course is to become better at understanding the artistic processes in arts and what that means from a leadership and management point of view. Students will understand how the leadership of the arts is different from other types of organizations. Furthermore, the students develop a framework for organizing arts ensembles.
The student will deepen the knowledge in different aspects of arts management by identifying current theoretical and practical discussion in the field and applying the information in critical essays.
The student will learn to apply his or her organizing and management skills into practice by participating in a project with societal impact in real-life projects in different arts organizations or in business-incubator project.
The student will learn to apply his or her organizing and management skills into practice by participating in real-life projects in different arts organisations.
The student will learn to apply his or her knowledge in arts management by working in various demanding positions in the cultural field.
The student will deepen one's knowledge on the different arts management related aspects.
The student will learn the framework of music business – who are the players, how they operate and what is their earning logic. The course contains both theoretical and practical aspects on the various sides of music business. After the course, the student will understand the principles of music business and apply the acquired knowledge when working on the field.
The student will learn to identify and assess various dimensions and current phenomena of arts management.
The students must apply for the right to participate in the conferences, seminars or other events organized outside the Arts Management Master's Degree Programme. The application must describe the content of event and include a copy of the programme. The credits attained from the event will be decided by the head of Arts Management Programme on the basis of the content and extent of the event and on the amount of individual work performed by the student.
The student will learn to broaden his or her knowledge in the field of arts management in a foreign university. The Sibelius Academy has an agreement of student exchange programmes with a number of universities abroad. Erasmus exchange programme is the most typical way of arranging exchanges. Usually the exchange study period is planned to last for 3 to 6 months.
Evaluation As organized by the hosting universities; these issues are always to be agreed well in advance before the exchange takes place.
The student will learn to identify the key actors, practices and structures of festival management. After the course the student is able to recognize the funding structures and key stakeholders of festivals, assess the economic impact of festivals, implement various sustainability and safety practices, and recognize the main issues in festival logistics and volunteer management.
The student will learn to identify the different aspects of the impact of arts on social, cultural, educational and economic life of societies. After the course the student is able to recognize the working styles of socially responsible arts managers and apply this knowledge to a variety of art projects that aim to engage in societal activity.
Luentoja ja/tai pienryhmä-työskentelyä sisältävien opintojaksojen hyväksyttävä suorittaminen edellyttää vähintään 75 %:n läsnäoloa luennoilla ja aktiivista osallistumista.
Kurssi toimii johdantona taidehallinnon alaan. Opintojakson tavoitteena on antaa opiskelijoille perustietämys kulttuuriteollisuuteen ja luoviin toimialoihin liittyvistä teorioista, käsitteistä ja rakenteista. Kurssi sisältää kirjallisuutta ja luennoilla erikseen jaettavaa aineistoa, jotka toimivat pohjana keskusteluille ja esseen kirjoittamiselle.
Opintojakso soveltuu avoimen yliopisto-opetuksen tarjontaan.
Opintojakson suoritettuaan opiskelija tunnistaa luovien alojen erityspiirteet ja sen eri muodot sekä osaa analysoida alan yrittäjänä toimimisen edellytyksiä. Lisäksi opiskelija tunnistaa luovien alojen keskeiset käsitteet ja tilastoinnin sekä merkityksen kansallisesti ja kansainvälisesti.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on syventää opiskelijoiden tietämystä luovista aloista sekä antaa välineitä toimialan rajapintojen analysointiin ja strategiseen suunnitteluun.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on antaa opiskelijalle tietoa projektin suunnittelusta, toteutuksesta ja arvioinnista sekä perehdyttää opiskelija tuottamisen ja tuottajana toimimisen osa-alueisiin. Kurssi antaa valmiuksia toimia projektien asiantuntija- ja johtotehtävissä.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on perehdyttää opiskelijat kulttuuriteollisuuden ja -tuotannon eri lähestymistapoihin ja keskeisiin suuntauksiin.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on perehdyttää opiskelijat kulttuuri-liiketoiminnan ajankohtaisiin teemoihin ja alalla toimiviin organisaatioihin.
Opintojaksolla tutustutaan kirjallisuuden ja käytännön esimerkkien avulla strategisen suunnittelun ja johtamisen keskeisiin osa-alueisiin. Tavoitteena on perehdyttää opiskelijat strategisen suunnittelun ja johtamisen keskeisiin käsitteisiin ja malleihin, joiden avulla voidaan analysoida ja kehittää strategista työskentelyä ja ohjausta.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on perehdyttää opiskelijat erilaisiin liiketoiminnan suunnittelutilanteisiin niin, että opiskelijalle muodostuu kokonaiskuva liiketoiminnan suunnitteluun ja kehittämiseen liittyvistä tekijöistä ja hän kykenee analysoimaan liiketoiminnan tilaa ja sen kehittämistarpeita.
Opintojaksoon kuuluu harjoitustyö, jossa opiskelijat laativat tai analysoivat erilaisia liiketoiminta-suunnitelmia.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on perehdyttää opiskelijat henkilöstöjohtamisen kokonaisuuteen ja ajankohtaisiin haasteisiin tarkastelemalla henkilöstöjohtamista strategisen johtamisen ja henkilöstöhallinnon sekä ihmisten ja osaamisen johtamisen näkökulmista. Opintojaksolla tutustutaan kirjallisuuden, käytännön esimerkkien ja artikkeleiden referoinnin avulla johtajuuden ja johtamistyön keskeisiin kysymyksiin.
Kurssille osallistuminen edellyttää perustietoja markkinoinnista. Alkutentti annetun kirjallisuuden pohjalta.
Kurssi syventää taloushallinnon osaamista ja perehdyttää voittoa tavoittelevien ja voittoa tavoittelemattomien organisaatioiden taloushallinnon ja rahoituksen erityispiirteisiin. Tavoitteena on, että opiskelija tunnistaa toiminnan kustannuksiin vaikuttavat keskeiset tekijät, rahoitustarpeet ja lähteet.
Kurssille osallistuminen edellyttää perustietoja taloushallinnosta. Alkutentti annetun kirjallisuuden pohjalta.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on perehdyttää opiskelijat sponsorointiin liittyviin käsitteisiin ja toimintamalleihin sekä antaa valmiuksia käytännön yritys-yhteistyön käynnistämiseen. Opintojaksoon kuuluu harjoitustyö, jonka kautta opiskelijat tutustuvat käytännössä sponsoroinnin eri osa-alueisiin.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on antaa opiskelijoille perustietämys kulttuurituotteisiin ja -palveluihin liittyvästä lainsäädännöstä, työ- ja sopimusoikeudesta sekä kulttuuri-sektorin tekijänoikeuksista. Lisäksi opintojaksolla käsitellään oman tuotteen suojaamiseen liittyviä kysymyksiä.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on ohjata opiskelijaa itsenäisen tutkimustyön tekemisessä. Tutkielmaseminaari tukee tutkielmaprosessin etenemistä tutkimussuunnitelman laadinnasta tutkielman kirjoittamiseen.
Tutkielmaseminaarin kuluessa opiskelijat saavat välineitä oman tutkimuksen tekemiseen ja arviointiin sekä tieteellisen tiedon hankkimiseen ja soveltamiseen tieteellisiin ja ammatillisiin ongelmiin. Seminaareja järjestetään säännöllisesti ja niissä käsitellään ohjaajan johdolla tutkielman tekemiseen liittyviä keskeisiä teemoja. Henkilökohtainen ohjaus ajoittuu opintojen loppuvaiheeseen.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on perehdyttää opiskelijat kvalitatiivisten ja kvantitatiivisten menetelmien hyödyntämiseen tutkielman tekemisessä. Harjoituksissa perehdytään erilaisiin tutkimuksen tekemisen traditioihin ja menetelmiin.
Kurssille osallistuminen edellyttää perustietoja tutkimusmetodeista. Alkutentti annetun kirjallisuuden pohjalta.
Taidehallinnon alan kokonaisuuden hallintaa osoittava opinnäyte muodostuu itsenäisestä tutkimustyöstä, jonka tuloksena syntyy opinnäytetyö. Se voi olla kirjallinen tutkielma tai kirjallisen tutkimusosion ja produktion / projektin yhdessä muodostama kokonaisuus. Opinnäytetyön luovuttamisen jälkeen suoritetaan kypsyysnäyte.
Kypsyysnäyte on kirjallinen koe, jonka tulee osoittaa äidinkielen hallintaa ja perehtyneisyyttä opinnäytetyön aihepiiriin.
Opinnäytetyön ohjaaja tai osaston-johtajan määräämä tarkastaja sekä äidinkielen tarkastaja joko hyväksyvät tai hylkäävät kypsyysnäytteen.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on perehdyttää opiskelijat kulttuuriyrittäjyyden ja -liiketoiminnan eri lähestymistapoihin ja keskeisiin suuntauksiin.
Kurssi antaa kokonaiskuvan taloushallinnosta eri osa-alueista ja perehdyttää taloushallinnon peruskäsitteisiin sekä taloussuunnittelun merkitykseen toiminnan suunnittelussa ja seurannassa.
Tavoitteena on antaa opiskelijalle mahdollisuus soveltaa opittuja taitoja joko kulttuuriyritysten tai taideorganisaatioiden käytännön projekteissa.
Opintojakson tavoitteena on perehdyttää opiskelijat kulttuuritoimialaan liittyviin keskeisiin englanninkielisiin käsitteisiin ja antaa valmiuksia toimia neuvottelutilanteissa sekä tuottaa asiatekstiä.
Opiskelija saa kokonaiskuvan kasvuyrityksen perustamisesta Suomessa ja oppii laatimaan selkeän liiketoimintasuunnitelman. Opintojaksolla laaditaan liiketoimintasuunnitelma ja tilaisuuksien aihepiiristä työpapereita. Opiskelijat voivat halutessaan osallistua Venture Cup -liiketoimintasuunnitelmakilpailuun (ks. www.venturecup.fi).


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Home/Features/Editorial/AMA, SCRAP CMB, RAILWAY MARKETS
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AMA, SCRAP CMB, RAILWAY MARKETS
IN OUR LAST edition, we did a story highlighting the quiet national applause the Mayor for Accra, Dr. Alfred Oko Vanderpuye, was receiving among Government officials and ordinary people in the metropolis. Those who endorsed the crusade included pedestrians, drivers and traders as well as politicians. We indicated, too, that by dint of that feat, he could well be on his way to becoming Ghana's longest serving Mayor.
Wojaku joins the ordinary people of this metropolis; nay, Ghana at large, in applauding his efforts at sanitizing business and culture on the Central Business District of Accra, particularly his alertness in listening to advice and adding a friendly and humanitarian touch to his crusade to make Accra decent.
There is, however, a little more he can do in bringing that crusade to a logical and more plausible conclusion. That is he must do something – and urgently too – about the specter of untidy marketing activities along the Cocoa Marketing Board (CMB) and Railway stretch.
Those involved is such economic activities along the periphery, particularly include, tomato traders, who daily litter the ill-constructed drains and pavements along the stretch with rotten tomatoes that tell a story, too, about post harvest losses and illiterate business. But hat mad trade is not our beef currently.
Our real worry is that the affected areas are not in the books of the AMA as statutory, stipulated markets. Our understanding of democracy as the freedom to behave anyhow and threaten politicians, rather than seeing democracy as law and order, has led us as a people to take things for granted in following our selfish socio-economic agenda.
Unfortunately, our politicians, because they also tend to look inwards in several respects, also most of the time, tend to be afraid about the repercussions of applying sanctions in such situations. When that happens, the State becomes the ultimate loser.
In the case of the two markets, what we now have on our hands is that they are breeding fraud, poor sanitation and quiet drug addiction and prostitution. That is aside of the danger they are putting to their lives from vehicles along the stretch.
We appeal to the Mayor and the AMA to scrap these two markets immediately. The argument that the State must always bear the brunt in making alternative arrangement for affected traders in such case is balderdash and crap. However, because the AMA itself looked the other way as these illegalities thrived, it would be magnanimous if they attempted a long term solution in addressing the problem.
Whatever the case, we believe it is time to scrap the two markets as a matter of policy and discipline.
wojaku
Born on 25th February 1964 in Accra, Ghana, and holds a Diploma in Journalism
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Jordanian king vows to avenge pilot's killing by ISIS: 6 things about King Abdullah
His Majesty King Abdullah II, The Supreme Commander of Jordanian Armed Forces. -- PHOTO: THE ROYAL HASHEMITE COURT/ FACEBOOK
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The story that King Abdullah of Jordan was to personally lead air strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was "awesome" - and untrue.
But the monarch has made good on his promise to wreak harsh vengence on the extremist group after it burned Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh alive.
Jordanian fighter jets pounded Islamic State hideouts in Syria on Thursday and then roared over the hometown of the pilot, while below them King Abdullah consoled the victim's family.
Here's more about the Middle Eastern head of state:
1. Educated in Britain and the United States
King Abdullah, 53, is the eldest son of King Hussein Bin Talal (1935-1999) and Princess Muna Al Hussein. The princess, King Hussein's second wife, is an Englishwoman.
King Abdullah went to prestigious boarding schools in England and the United States. Later, he attended courses at Oxford's Pembroke College and Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
2. Military background
While he did not personally lead the air raids, the photo of him in military gear is real. It was posted on the royal family's Facebook page on Feb 4.
Before becoming King in 1999, the then-prince was commander of Jordan's Special Forces, and a major general. He is also a qualified attack helicopter pilot.
A graduate of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, he served in the British Army in the 13/18th Royal Hussars Regiment. He joined the Jordan armed forces in 1985.
3. Queen Rania
The King married his wife, Queen Rania Al-Yassin, in 1993. They met six months before at a dinner party, and it was love at first sight.
Queen Rania, 44, is known for her social work, but also as an international fashion icon. She has also written children's books.
She has been singled out both for being powerful as well as beautiful. Forbes named her as one of the most powerful women in the world in 2009, and People magazine listed her as one of the most beautiful.
They have four children, Crown Prince Hussein, 20, Princess Iman, 18, Princess Salma, 14 and Prince Hashem, 10. Prince Hashem shares the same birthday as his father - Jan 30.
4. Adventurous royal
The King likes to drive fast, and enjoys boating, scuba diving and free-fall parachuting. He also collects antique weapons and military artefacts. He was a Jordan National Rally champion.
5. Reformist intentions
King Abdullah did not expect to succeed his father King Hussein. His uncle, Hassan, was designated heir until 1999, shortly before King Hussein died.
He has attempted to modernise and reform his country since he became king, but has met resistance. In a 2013 interview with the Atlantic, he admitted that he had entertained thoughts of quitting the throne.
Jordan has been a staunch US ally, and joined the US military campaign to expel ISIS from Iraq and Syria early on.
6. Trekkie and film buff
In 1996, when he was the crown prince, King Abdullah played an uncredited role as a sciences ensign in the sci-fi series Star Trek.
And when Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen was filming in Jordan, he allowed the air force to help producers ferry equipment to the set.
Sources: Reuters, BBC, Straits Times, The Atlantic, New York Times, King Abdullah's website
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Alejandro Scopelli Casanova, född den 12 maj 1908 och död den 23 oktober 1987, var en argentinsk fotbollsspelare och tränare. Han spelade även en landskamp för Italien.

Klubbkarriär
Scopelli började sin karriär i Estudiantes de La Plata i hemstaden La Plata. Där utgjorde han en av de fem klassiska spelarna som kom att kallas "Los Profesores", de andra var Miguel Angel Lauri, Alberto Zozaya, Manuel Ferreira och Enrique Guaita.

1933 flyttade Scopelli till Europa och till Rom där han spelade två säsonger i AS Roma. Han flyttade till AC Milan och Inter innan han flyttade tillbaka till Argentina och Racing Club de Avellaneda. Han flyttade sedan till Paris där han spelade i FC Red Star och RCF Paris. När andra världskriget drog igång flyttade han till det neutrala Portugal för spel i CF Os Belenenses och sedan i SL Benfica. 1941 flyttade han tillbaka till Sydamerika och till CF Universidad de Chile där han två år senare avslutade sin spelarkarriär för att bli tränare.

Landslagskarriär
Scopelli blev 1930 uttagen till Argentinas VM-trupp till det första världsmästerskapet i fotboll i grannlandet Uruguay. Han fick endast spela i en av matcherna, semifinalen mot USA där han gjorde det andra målet i matchen som Argentina vann med hela 6-1. Argentina förlorade sedan finalen mot Uruguay och Scopelli blev därmed silvermedaljör.

Scopelli spelade totalt åtta matcher för det argentinska landslaget mellan 1929 och 1937. Han spelade även en landskamp för Italien under sin vistelse i landet 1935.

Tränarkarriär
Mot slutet av sin spelarkarriär började Scopelli även att träna lagen han spelade i, portugisiska CF Os Belenenses och chilenska CF Universidad de Chile. Han ägnade sedan resten av sin karriär åt att träna olika klubbar. Han tränade bland annat FC Porto och Sporting i Portugal, Deportivo de La Coruña, RCD Espanyol, Celta de Vigo, Granada CF och Valencia CF i Spanien och Club América i Mexiko. Han var även tränare för Chiles landslag.

Källor
 WorldFootball.net Statistik över Alejandro Scopellis karriär
 FIFA.com Statistik över Alejandro Scopellis landskamper i VM

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Planning for diverse rural communities
Tim Lucey, Chief Executive of Cork County Council, discusses how the National Planning Framework can provide for a sustainable balance of growth in a county where rural and urban settlements are integrated through policy.
Outlining that rural is about more than open countryside, Lucey points out that Cork county is made up of 317 settlements, within which just 29 are main towns. According to the CSO definition of rural: (population residing in all areas outside clusters of 1,500 or more inhabitants), 48 per cent of the county is defined as such.
Offering a brief overview of the county's high-performing economy, Lucey explains that recent statistics put Cork as having the highest level of productivity in the State at €105,000 per person, per annum. This is favourably comparable and above the likes of London (€104,000) and Dublin (€101,000). As well as this, population growth rates are similar to Greater Dublin Area, there are no unemployment black spots in the county administrative area and the cost of living is 14 per cent lower than in Dublin.
Under the NPF, the definition of a rural population is actually lower (10,000) than set out by the CSO and defines 67 per cent of Cork County as rural. Lucey explains that this will have implications on how the Council delivers infrastructure and accesses investment, the €3 billion Regeneration and Development outlined in the NPF offers a "great opportunity".
Lucey highlights that, to date, the success of the county has been down to 'a whole of county' vision in forming an implementing the various economic strategies, recognising the integration that exists between rural and urban economies.
One example of this, is in the policy approach to one-off housing. Taking on the guidance from central government, Cork County Council built upon this with detailed analytics and research of rural area types.
Their analysis allowed them to identify six distinct rural housing policy types and provided a foundation for housing policy. This means there are strict guidelines for areas such as the Metropolitan Cork Greenbelt area, but the guidelines are more relaxed in 'structurally weak rural areas', where population growth is required.
Population growth in Cork between 2006-2016 hasn't followed the same trend as the likes of Dublin, where most people have been drawn to the city. Failure to secure the level of big investment needed may be the reason why Cork City has actually recorded the least population growth (5.4 per cent), when compared to the other four Cork planning regions. In comparison, the Greater Cork Ring Strategic Planning area has seen a 19 per cent increase and the West Cork Strategic Planning area is up 6.3 per cent.
The challenge for sustainable rural housing, Lucey states, is in infrastructure development. Currently the County's core strategy is to add 50,331 houses to the current allocation. However, it's estimated that investment capacity only exists to deliver 44 per cent of this figure. Similarly, there is challenges in Water and Waste Treatment Capacity (WWTP). Of the 317 settlements in the county, 18 per cent have WWTP capacity and only 31 per cent have drinking water capacity.
"This requires a new model of funding for water infrastructure in this country. Unless we can deliver those 50,331 households in our existing 317 settlements then there is going to be considerable pressure on one-off rural housing, In addition, unless there is an approach to addressing this and accelerated investment into Cork City then the Cork economy will not be enabled to deliver on its incredible capacity for economic growth."
Lucey explains the need for a balanced analysis of both rural and urban areas, implying that each has the potential to complement the other.
Discussing a new policy environment since the NPF announcement he states that rural planning should not be solely viewed as having an important supporting role for cities and metropolitan areas. Instead, rural issues should be treated as strategically and nationally important.
National Planning Framework: the big picture
Vacant Homes: a national initiative
The National Planning Framework in brief
Higher speed rail: A platform for change
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John Donnelly's Gold
He Says What I Have Been Thinking
February 29, 2004 July 2, 2016 Brian J. Noggle
Daniel Henninger says what I think about the forces who would stand athwart innovation and technology and shout, "Stop!"
Fear, regulation, and litigation will strip America's wealth and innovation to benefit of a bunch of trial lawyers and politicians. As well as our rivals on the Pacific Rim.
More Amendment Ideas
For more comments on amendments we could use to the constitution instead of a gay marriage ban, consult TheAgitator.com.
Update: Lest I forget, Owen wants to enable Congress to override the full faith thingamabob.
Buy Paperbacks, Kim
February 29, 2004 August 10, 2018 Brian J. Noggle
Kim du Toit has become enraged about a book he has read. Well, no, operates pretty much from a baseline state of mere rage; however, he read a book that caused him to bellow.
As you all know, I heartily recommend that you read books with which you disagree, or which might anger you, in paperback. This will not nick your drywall or shatter your tchotchkes.
They also make great targets for skeet shooting if you're so inclined. Complete with flapping action. I think du Toit's so inclined.
Sometimes the Punchlines Write Themselves
Headline in the Springfield News-Leader:
County's gonorrhea cases increase
Rise linked to loss of a state-funded job to track sexually transmitted diseases.
Automatically-generated punchlines:
With more time on his hands, he could concentrate more on his true passion, spreading the clap.
With enough state-funded jobs, eventually all disease would be eradicated.
A Stay at the Compulsory Resort
Just in time to take advantage of the new jail-term-for-illegal-parking described below, St. Charles, Missouri, has decided it's going to send a bill to lodgers in its Compulsory Resort, previously known as the city jail:
The County Council voted Tuesday night to require such inmates to set up installment repayment plans within six months after they get out of jail. Failure to do so could spur the county to seize and sell the ex-offenders' property to get some money back.
So after someone gets out of jail, after having his or her income interrupted, possibly losing a job if he or she had one, and making the next job more difficult to get, the lovely city will send a bill which might lead them to suing and seizing property–whatever's left after the fines for the offense, that is. You city legislators have an interesting theory of reintegration and recidivism-prevention you have there, sirs.
Perhaps we should quote the article more fully:
The council also passed a pay increase for council members elected later this year and a bill requiring council approval for naming or renaming most county buildings.
Policy made by a cash-hungry government makes awfully poor government of the government, by the government, and for the government. Fellows, you think police speeding ticket quotas suck? Wait until you're slapped with a six month sentence at a double-occupancy government facility because the County Commission on Revenue's assistant commissioner needs an office redecoration.
Because the Legislators Need Busy Work
True to form, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch starts this article on policy off with an anecdote:
Jennifer Bresee was infuriated by the note she found tucked beneath the windshield wiper as she finished shopping at Wal-Mart.
If you're truly handicapped, you can get a license plate indicating such at the Missouri Department of Revenue license office. If you are merely enjoying the convenience of parking here at the inconvenience of a handicapped person, shame on you.
Bresee did indeed have handicapped plates. But the note's author apparently noticed only how healthy Bresee looked as she got out of her car and walked into the store. Had the accuser waited a bit longer, the person would have seen Bresee limping all the way back to her car.
"I have multiple sclerosis, which is most times very invisible," said Bresee, 26, explaining that even a short trip to the store can exhaust her and cause severe leg pain. "Many times, walking back out of the Wal-Mart you can tell, rather than walking into the Wal-Mart."
So obviously, to make Jennifer feel better, the state must do something? I guess that's the point the writer of this bit has in mind. However, the something that state legislators have in mind is the obvious: dial up the punishment for people who abuse handicapped parking privileges:
It also would make abuse of the privileges a Class A misdemeanor, punishable up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. The legislation would impose the same penalty on doctors who write notes for people who don't need the special plates.
The measure (SB 1144) was approved 30-0 by the state Senate this week and now awaits a House vote.
A year in jail for illegally parking. Thank goodness our legislators are finally making laws that make sense rather than making feel-good laws with which no person with a heart can disagree.
Remember Your Position, Serf
Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lotsalager reminds citizens of their place regarding casino regulation:
It's more important for the state to be able to regulate casinos than to let the public see the records, Lautenschlager's opinion says.
The right of the state to earn revenue trumps the right of the public to keep tabs on what the state and the casinos are doing.
Because states' rights, you know. Don't think to hard on that, citizen; it's a class C felony to reflect on the role of government.
News, On Wisconsin
Today's Civic Lessons
Sorry, kids, I don't have much to post today, so I will have to send you elsewhere for your civics lessons today. I recommend:
Ravenwood on better ideas for a constitutional amendment.
Dean Esmay on the reason for the Electoral College.
I Think It Has Something To Do With a Movie
Here's the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's film critic Joe "Bonwich was the food critic at the RFT, Dammit" Williams reviewing The Last Passion of Christ or whatever the damn thing is called.
It is anti-Semitic because Joe knows anti-Semitism when he sees it:
In Gibson's version of events, the only earthly reason our hero is subjected to this interminable flogging is because he was betrayed by Jews. Those who feared that "The Passion of the Christ" would have an anti-Semitic subtext will have their worst fears confirmed. The unmistakable villain of the movie is Caiaphas (Mattia Sbragia), the leering, lip-smacking high priest who orders Jesus arrested and pays hecklers to demand that he be crucified. By comparison, the Roman overlord Pontius Pilate (the excellent Hristo Shopov) is a fair-minded if fretful bureaucrat who only consents to have Jesus executed to avoid civil unrest.
I don't know, but I think it would have been a tad inauthentic to make the villain a Swedish media magnate. I thought "authenticity" meant something to people who critique the cinema.
But who am I to argue with the multi-lingual intellectual Williams? After all, he's apparently fluent in a dead language:
In a scene that has been the subject of much prerelease debate, Gibson plays it coy, eliminating the subtitle when the Jewish onlookers shout, "Let his blood be upon us and our children," but retaining the offending line in Aramaic.
Since he heard the line spoken and knew what it meant, one can only assume that Williams knows Aramaic, ainna? The other safe assumption might be that Williams has read other criticisms of the movie and is basing his column on what other people said about it, essentially making bullet points into paragraphs as best he can.
But I digress. Let's play some more "Where's the Anti-Semitism?" with Joe:
Except for Jesus' disciples and the two Marys (Maia Morgenstern and Monica Bellucci as the mother and Magdalene, respectively), the Jewish characters are sinister and slovenly. Even some Jewish children are demonized, as they morph into monsters and drive the apostle Judas to suicide.
Jewish children, demonized as they morph into monsters. Heck's pecs, I haven't read the New Testament yet, but if they have cool special effects written right into the stage directions like that, perhaps I should. Still, I have a little trouble as a, you know, thoughtful person in thinking that these children which morph into demons to torment Judas morph into demons because they're Jewish. I think they might have morphed into demons because Judas was tormented, and Jewish children fit into the scene. Munchkins would undoubtedly have been better to prevent anti-Semitism charges. But the Holy Land ain't Oz.
For some inexplicable reason, Gibson's scholarship becomes a question, not the movie:
Like his father, who claimed last week that the Holocaust is mostly fiction, Mel Gibson is neither a theologian nor a scholar. Historians – the kind who look at evidence – surmise that Jesus of Nazareth was executed because he fought back when his Middle Eastern homeland was occupied by the world's most powerful army. That doesn't fit the obviously heartfelt agenda of the director, who adheres to an embattled offshoot of Catholicism and often portrays a martyr in his movies.
Like me, who last week drank Milwaukee dry of Guinness Draught (well, okay, just one pub), Joe Williams is neither a concert violinist nor professional elephant trainer. But what does that have to do with the price of tee shirts in China? Not an annpacking thing, but it does ad homenim Mel Gibson, particularly the sweet bit about what Mel Gibson's father said last week wherein Williams hopes some transference occurs in the reader's mind between the father and the son.
Gibson's neither Scotch nor Danish, either, but he was in Braveheart and Hamlet, and he had a heartfelt agenda in them, too. To make a film.
Suddenly, if the johnking history, that is to say the interpretation of history currently favored by professional academics, is the final arbiter on critical relevance then Shakespeare's about to be unemployed. Methinks John Williams better hie himself hence to the University to retain his job, but he's probably already the journalistic equivalent of tenured.
I don't imagine I'll see the film in the theater; maybe on DVD. However, I couldn't let this review pass unsnarked. Thank you for understanding.
Movies, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Another author finds himself mentioned on MfBJN. This time, it's Michael Craig, author of The 50 Best (and Worst) Business Deals, which I reviewed in December. Michael writes:
I noticed that you read, reviewed, and enjoyed my book, The 50 Best (and Worst) Business Deals of All Time. Let's not get into WHY I'm doing a Google search of my name. Just call it a sickness that goes with being an author.
Thank you for the kind words. When I complete the next book – it's about the highest-stakes poker game ever played – I'll shoot you a copy. And if that doesn't work, I'll just mail it to you.
I told him not to worry about Googling himself and thanked him for his kind words, which I suspect he would have for anyone who compared him to Sun Tzu.
Funny, Ann Packer hasn't written. Come to think of it, I think I shall add annpacker to my pantheon of profanity.
I Tried, Spoons
Spoons links to a Flash-requiring quiz by Match.com that's supposed to tell you the type of person to whom you're physically attracted. The quiz brags that it's based on a fifteen-year study, undoubtedly funded by members of Congress.
I tried to take the quiz, but I got to the section where the quiz wanted you to select, from among the women you found attractive, the women who you thought would find you unattractive. I couldn't think of a single woman who would find me unattractive, and it booted me back to the beginning.
No matter; we know the sort of woman I find dead-sexy.
Thanks, But I Have a Psychological Disorder Hobby Already
Here's a new bit on Snopes:
Claim: Fecal matter sprayed by flushing toilets can collect on toothbrushes.
Geez, Mikkelson, thanks for the graphic details and the extreme tips, such as:
People tend to leave frequently-used articles where they are normally put to use, which means most of us unthinkingly deposit our toothbrushes on the sink or counter in the bathroom. A better strategy would be to place them in the medicine cabinet between brushings. It pays to keep in mind that while you may remember to close the lid before flushing, not everyone else in the household will always be as diligent.
Actually, there are numerous other tips, but I'm not going to implement them. I spend so much time being a paranoid neurotic that I don't have any time to add another set of obsessive-compulsive tasks. Sorry.
Check Your Premises
In his Star-Tribune column, Lileks invokes some statistics, or rather alludes to an article which referred to a study that includes statistics about tall people earning more money:
Tall People are more likely to be paid more money. Each additional inch adds $789 annually to your paycheck. The natural conclusion: If you want a new car, figure out the payments, then head off to Tijuana for an illegal shin augmentation.
Pardon me while I add a hearty "You don't say" to the conversation. Once you get beyond 6′ 4″, brother, you're looking at actors, basketball players, and Michael Crichton. Undoubtedly, these fellows alone skew the averages quite upward. I am only 6′ 0″ and I can think of plenty of runts who make more than I do. Of course, I am in the IT industry, and everyone in IT makes more than the cheap QA help.
What was my point? Oh, yeah, read this guy Lileks. He's an obscure Minnesotan columnist, but just because someone is from the upper Midwest and not Wisconsin is no reason to let him toil in his obscurity.
Enough Already
I'd call it a pet peeve, but both pet and peeve sound kinda cute, and what I'm about to explain represents more of a junkyard abhorrence; it's got a spike collar and a low growl in the throat whenever the subject walks by.
I hate "so-called."
Any time a writer, particularly a professional paid writer or journalist throws this amalgamation into a serious news article or essay, I question the credibility or maturity of the writer. No, I want to punch the johnker right in his or her stunted vocabulary.
So-called is alleged with a sneer, with a sense of condescension that intimates that we, meaning the liberally-educated author and his or her intelligent readership, understand the facade of the following noun for what it is, a cheap manipulation of truth built by the Orwellian right-wing/administration/conservative/techno/military/industrial/business/ (breath) /capitalist/Christian/Zionist/Machiavellian/fascist complex/conspiracy.
Get a thesaurus, pinheads, and leave the so-calling to the adolescents.
(This rant spurred by Roger L. Simon, who made the mistake of linking to Noam Chompsky's op-ed piece in the New York Times.)
More Proof I Am A Bad Seed
As my former officemate and my wife can attest, I like my gum (loud).
Brother Lileks intones:
Gum has CARBS, you know. And carbs are from SATAN.
So now you know, but I have already corrupted you, too. Only eighteen more people, and I fulfill my contract. Twenty-eight more people and I earn my first incentive bonus.
My Favorite Suburbs
February 23, 2004 April 21, 2012 Brian J. Noggle
So as I passed into Milwaukee, I spent some time musing upon my favorite suburbs there. I passed through Wauwautosa, an inner ring suburb and my favorite suburb of Milwaukee. Its homes are older, brick construction and are well-maintained. The flukish shape of Milwaukee, stretched oddly from the downtown to the Northwest in a sort of trapezoid, means that Wauwautosa is closer to downtown than the part of Milwaukee in which I spent more than a scattered third of my life. Its proximity to the city and its inclusion within the web of mass transit in Milwaukee County means that Wauwautosa is more reminiscent of a neighborhood than an individual municipality, but Tosans have a municipal government of their own, I think. Maybe they just think they do.
I compare it to the suburbs in the St. Louis area that I like. If you're judging from criteria that include security/personal safety, brick construction/history/cohesiveness, and proximity to art, in St. Louis you can pick two of three sometimes, and maybe one in others. For example, Casinoport has, well, relative safety. Closer suburbs in St. Louis County like Webster Groves or Kirkwood have almost all three, but hey, I live to romanticize Milwaukee, so they're no Wauwautosa, ainna?
By the way, if you're insisting I round out the list, I prefer West Milwaukee and West Allis. Sorry, Owen, but those outer communities like Menomonie Falls, Brookfield, Franklin, and anywhere the Milwaukee County Transit System cannot take me in forty minutes of bus riding with one transfer don't make the list.
February 23, 2004 July 24, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
As you might have noticed, gentle readers, I have not posted in a while. I spent a luxurious weekend in my favorite travel destination, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I celebrated my birthday by helping yet another friend move. It's not that I have a lot of friends in Wisconsin, it's that they move around frequently.
It wasn't all hard work; I got to spend a couple nights at the beautiful Hyatt Regency, enjoying the skyline from the 17th floor because I specifically requested a low floor. I felt somewhat cosmopolitan in my hotel room, with my laptop, writing blog entries and whatnot. The Hyatt offers wireless Internet access in all of its rooms now, a plastic placard let me know. Swell. So how come you're getting this dump now, instead of as it happened on Friday and Saturday?
Because my laptop is an IBM ThinkPad. You know how new ThinkPads have numbers after them? My laptop does not; it's an original ThinkPad. Its carbon-dating establishes its origin circa 1993. It runs Windows 3.11, but it has almost 20 Mb free on the hard drive of the original 40.
I fail as a TruGeek(tm) because I don't need the latest in equipment. After I reset the date and time (or not) to workaround a dead CMOS, I can type text into my laptop's Wordpad using a microscopic keyboard. That's why I bring the laptop around, in case I get inspired to start on yet another unfinished but promising novel concept. It's a typewriter in which I can cut and paste, and from which I can import the result into a real word processor on my main PC through the world's last 3.5″ floppy disk. Plus, it can play one or two really slick games I downloaded from BBSes while I was in college.
I don't need a tablet PC or a new AMD 2000+ laptop with 20″ screen. I paid an extra $40 in 1997 for a used notebook with a color monitor, for crying out loud. I don't have a Personal Data Assistant, and I don't even use the free magazine giveaway electronic addressbook to organize the dozen phone numbers of my friends or the two dozen names on my Christmas card list. iPods? I can whistle off-key for free, you damn kids!
So, did you miss me? Is that why you're reloading?
Attention, Bachelors!
I saw a teaser for this woman on Effed Company, wherein it said:
Last great book I read: "I read all of the Ayn Rand books in a month."
Dudes, I married a hot chick because she had a cat named John Galt.
And she's not even read, to the best of my knowledge, the The Early Ayn Rand.
Wait a minute. This woman is indicating that she read, in 31 days max:
The (aforementioned) Early Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Philosophy: Who Needs It?
For the New Intellectual
Never mind, Objectivist bachelor straight friends and readers. She's either prone to exaggeration, an outright liar, or a layabout who does nothing but read all day. You don't need that.
Written By A Non Technical Person
From the Financial Times story describing the coming yawn search engine conflict:
Yahoo on Wednesday raised the stakes in the internet search wars as it abandoned Google in favour of using an in-house search engine on its own web sites.
With Microsoft waiting in the wings to launch a rival technology of its own, the move sets up a three-way struggle that will challenge Google's recent dominance of internet searching.
The coming battle reflects the emergence of search as the internet's "killer application" since the rise of Google. With more people using a search engine as the starting point whenever they go online, whether to find information or products to buy, control of search has become central to the ambitions of all three companies.
Spare me. When was the last time you used the search feature in Windows? Come on, you know how to do it. Select Start > Search…. or press the Windows key and F. What, don't use it much, if at all? Searching the Internet is a supplemental technology at best. I don't know of many people who have Google as their starting point, nor any search engine. Personally, I don't use a toolbar for searches and I ignore whenever Internet Explorer wants to search for me.
As people become more mature and Internet-aware, search engines will fall by the wayside. When I'm on the Internet, I tend to know where I want to go, and if I use a search engine, I use it to find content, not its paid advertisers.
Sorry, Uncas Ray, John, and Vinod.
(Link seen on Outside the Beltway.)
Where Have The Arcades Gone?
Even if you're not a small time collector like me, you might be interested in reading this lengthy state of the industry piece about what the history and future held and hold for the arcade machine operators.
I've dreamed of opening an old-style arcade. Of course, I'll have to become rich first to have money to lose on it as a hobby.
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Guy Ritchie's 1998 crime caper Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels introduced the world to Jason Statham, igniting a professional partnership that would extend to 2000's Snatch and 2005's Revolver — not to mention a personal friendship that would endure for more than two decades. Both men have enjoyed illustrious careers, with Statham ascending to action movie royalty and Ritchie tackling massive projects like Sherlock Holmes and Aladdin, but an onscreen reunion was just a matter of time, and it finally arrives this week in revenge thriller Wrath of Man.
Unfortunately, many of the elements that define the duo's previous onscreen pairings — the snappy dialogue, the dynamic camera work, the humor — are absent from this grim affair, which opens with a mostly static shot from the interior of an armored cash truck as a group of armed assailants help themselves to the millions stashed inside. Something clearly goes wrong, although we don't see it, but the aftermath leaves both guards and a civilian dead, and the transport company scrambling to rebuild its reputation.
Enter Patrick Hill (Statham), a new recruit christened with the nickname H — "like the bomb, or like Jesus H," explains his supervisor, known to the rest of the team as Bullet (Holt McCallany). When another heist is attempted during one of H's first jobs, he breaks protocol by leaving the truck and single-handedly dispatching the entire crew, securing the cash and leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. The owner of the transport company is thrilled at the publicity, but the story of a former security guard who barely passed the handgun exam taking out six heavily armed attackers doesn't sit well with the FBI agents following up on the incident. Something doesn't pass the smell test here, but their boss (Andy Garcia) advises them to leave it alone and "let the painter paint."
Wrath of Man takes the better part of an hour getting around to a revelation the film's trailer gives away in under two minutes: H's son was murdered during the original truck heist, and he's infiltrated the transport company under an assumed identity, waiting for another robbery attempt so he can identify the killers and exact revenge. The non-linear storytelling — jumping forward by three months, backward by five months, forward by three weeks, and so forth — is distracting and confusing, and when we're officially introduced to the culprits (well past the halfway mark), it's difficult to make sense of just when the hell anything is happening.
As for those men, they barely register as characters, save for stern leader Jackson (a vastly underutilized Jeffrey Donovan) and budding psychopath Jan (Scott Eastwood), the latter of whom should be the most contemptible person onscreen. But that honor actually belongs to another transport driver, Boy Sweat Dave (Josh Hartnett), a walking cliché who cracks jokes about "menopausal MILFs" and being sick "from all holes" in an especially grating performance. Even our protagonist himself emerges as more loathsome than likable, and Statham's work here is almost completely devoid of his usual charisma.
Wrath of Man's bloody, carnage-laden finale is well-constructed — one of the only segments of the film deserving of that accolade — but the climax alone doesn't offset two hours of stilted dialogue, grim subject matter and unpleasant personalities. "Boredom is more dangerous than bullets," says one of Jackson's crew, and by the time H wrapped up his business I was inclined to believe that notion.
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June 14, 2013—On June 13, aquanaut, oceanographer and marine biologist Sylvia Earle received the Hubbard Medal, the National Geographic Society's… more
Marine Biologists
June 14, 2013—On June 13, aquanaut, oceanographer and marine biologist Sylvia Earle received the Hubbard Medal, the National Geographic Society's highest honor, for distinction in exploration, discovery and research. In light of recent public discussions about women in the sciences, National Geographic asked Sylvia to discuss her experiences as a woman in a field previously considered a man's world.
I have parents who made me believe that it was okay to do things no matter what.
I have an older brother and a younger brother. And I was one of the boys, if you will [Laughs]. Tomboy, if you will.
Although my mother did say when I was a teenager that I could look forward to a career perhaps as a teacher, as a nurse, something really exciting-I could be an airline stewardess. Not a pilot, not a doctor, you know, not a superintendent of schools. It was just the way things were.
Why shouldn't I be able to use the capabilities that I have to do what my brother could do or Cousteau did? Along the way I found that many people did think it was, not just unusual, but preposterous. [Laughs]
When I was selected to be an aquanaut for a mission in 1970 it was still considered to be unusual enough for women to want to be underwater explorers. The application for being a part of that didn't even bother to say that you had to be a man, unlike the astronaut program that was going on at that time. It was clear: this was for men only.
But the head of the program for the tech-type project that had men and women living underwater for two weeks at a time was philosophical about it. More than that, he was practical. He said, "Well, half the fish are female. I guess we can put up with a few women." The Navy personnel involved were not quite so enthusiastic about it.
There's no question about it that there is still a gender bias with compensation for equal performance, so selection to be in charge of various projects. It's just part of our culture.
But I have say that it is exciting to see women CEOs. I've personally have served on the boards of major corporations. But always in the minority, always in the minority. And there is this attitude sometimes that you're there because you are a woman. You are the token woman.
Today, young women wanting to be oceanographers find that the doors are open. You can go aboard ships. You can be Chief Scientist on expeditions at sea.
Kids—they're all explorers! Little girls, little boys, it doesn't matter. They're just curious.
We shape categories: The boys can do this. Girls shouldn't be doing this.
Or, sometimes you have the joy of just saying, "I don't care what people think. I'm going to go this way because I really want to know what's out there."
Those are the explorers who emerge irrespective of what society thinks.
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UN calls for urgent actions to end pushbacks of migrants at BiH-Croatia border
NEWS Author:N1 Sarajevo06.04.2021 09:48
Source: SAKIS MITROLIDIS / AFP
The United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina called for "urgent action to end violent pushbacks and collective expulsions of migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees, including minors, along the Croatian border with BiH."
The statement, published on Monday, said that UN and NGO teams encountered a group of 50 migrant men walking close to the Croatian border towards the northwestern town of Bihac.
"The men were visibly exhausted, in need of clothes and shoes, and had wounds on their bodies," the statement said, adding that UN emergency teams provided food, clothing, shoes and hygiene items to them and that NGO medical teams provided urgent medical assistance to 25 of them.
"The men described that while crossing the border, they had been deprived of their belongings, including their mobile phones and money, and been beaten with wooden sticks while forcibly returned to the territory of BiH," it said.
The UN noted that Bosnia has seen "a significant increase in mixed migration movements" in recent years, with more than 70,000 people entering the country since 2017, and more than 4,000 currently accommodated in official reception facilities while some 1,700 migrants are staying outside of these facilities.
Pushbacks of migrants as they try to leave the country on their way to the EU, including entire families with children, have been regularly reported, the UN said, explaining that this represents violations of the prohibition of collective expulsion.
It noted that the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants expressed deep concern with 'the repeated and ongoing disproportionate use of force against migrants in pushback operations' in 2020.
"Pushbacks and collective expulsions are prohibited under international and EU law, and the UN condemns in the strongest terms the use of violence against migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees at any border. We urge the concerned States to investigate the incident that took place on the 2nd of April and for all perpetrators to be appropriately sanctioned," it said.
"This alarming and recurrent situation highlights the need to improve migration and asylum policy and governance and implement humane and integrated rights-based practices, not least during the COVID-19 pandemic. The UN is supporting BiH and partners towards this goal," the statement concluded.
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