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I stayed at the YMCA hostel for my first night, but having failed to reserve my bed for the second night I found myself out of luck going back after my first Gap Fillers project. After 8:00 PM and mildly panicked that I would be sleeping in the park that night, I booked the first hostel room that I found available, to find out afterwards it was about a 20-minute drive away. Hmmm.
Long story short this brought me and hour later via city bus to the coastal suburb of New Brighton and a the Point Break Backpackers hostel. This was a fun experience meeting guys from Sweden, Scotland, Ireland and Italy, and waking up the next morning only steps away from a beach-side strip and pier. Michael, a friend from Chicagoland I met the day before came out and met me there, where we walked down the pier, around town, and shared a jug of beer watching the rugby sevens at a sports bar.
"We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.
Also enjoyed the dioramas depicting early Maori life and culture.
This turned out to be awesome. The City of Christchurch organizes this annual activity where hundreds if not a couple of thousand people come out to the massive Hagley Park with blankets, picnic dinners, beer and wine for a classical music, dancing and singing concert/show with truly world-class talent, capped off by a fireworks show, all for free. The show was outstanding.
Not only was the show great but I sat with a group of about 25 friends representing more than 15 countries. I made a few great connections here and had a blast.


Follow the thread of revival history through the ages, from the 5th century to the 1900s. Producer Rebecca Friedlander takes you on an epic journey through Celtic lands to discover a rich heritage of faith!
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You'll also hear interviews with veterans from the island of Lewis who encountered Christ in the 1949 revival in the Scottish Hebrides, and hear a documented account of the house that shook during a prayer meeting.
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Special sale pricefor a three-pack! Take a journey full of Celtic adventures, stories that inspire, and deep spiritual truths from ancient times! Shot on location in Ireland, Scotland, and England, this film follows the thread of revival history from the 5th century to the 1900s. Learn practices of faith held by the early saints and hear from modern leaders on how to apply these truths today. Featuring Heidi Baker, John and Carol Arnott, Ray Hughes, and more!
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Celtic Pilgrimage book and DVD combo.
A powerful move of God swept the clans like wildfire, setting ablaze entire nations for Christ. During the Dark Ages of 400-665 AD, the Celts spread the gospel using powerful preaching, signs and wonders, and even traveled to America 1000 years before Christopher Columbus!
Each fine art print by Rebecca comes with an autographed, printed sheet sharing the meaning behind the work.
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This print is a great reminder of God's Promises for your new year! SQUARE 8x8" only size.
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Rebecca demonstrates the story of the potter and clay on her wheel. Also includes over eight music videos to bring each step of the transformation process to life. Includes Scripture references of Jeremiah 18 and more.
Companion to the DVD, Spiritual 101 book goes into further scripture and stories surrounding the topic of spiritual warfare. Also provides a "spiritual cleanse" that coaches the reader through areas of prayer and repentance that will bring freedom and healing. Ages 15 and up.
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This museum hosts exhibitions on the history of the Kampong Glam neighborhood and the Malay community in Singapore in six permanent galleries and two temporary galleries. The gardens on the centre's grounds are a lovely place for a stroll or a rest in the shade. Free guided tours of the museum are available. Check the website for timing and more details.


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context "Import Event Data to Message" do
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  message_class = EventStore::Messaging::Controls::Message.message_class

  message = EventStore::Messaging::Message::Import::EventData.(event_data, message_class)

  test "Message type is the event data type" do
    assert(message.class.message_type == event_data.type)
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  context "Message data is the event data" do
    test "Some Attribute" do
      assert(message.some_attribute == event_data.data[:some_attribute])
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    test "Some Time" do
      assert(message.some_time == event_data.data[:some_time])
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    test "Causation Event URI" do
      assert(metadata.causation_event_uri == event_data.metadata[:causation_event_uri])
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    test "Correlation Stream Name" do
      assert(metadata.correlation_stream_name == event_data.metadata[:correlation_stream_name])
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    test "Reply Stream Name" do
      assert(metadata.reply_stream_name == event_data.metadata[:reply_stream_name])
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Walterboro City Council has given its official first reading of the city's budget, now with plans to adopt the budget by June.
City council met during a regularly-scheduled council meeting on Tuesday, May 2nd. During that meeting, council voted on the first reading. According to city Manager Jeff Molinari, council is slated to give a final reading to the budget at its June 6th council meeting. The estimated $7.16 million budget has no increases for Walterboro taxpayers.
Part of the city's budget breakdown is $714,337 that is being requested for the city's parks department. Additionally, there is $1.37 million requested for Walterboro's Fire Department; $156,217 for the city's Tourism Department; and $201,732 that is being requested for the city's Judicial Department.
Based on proposed numbers, the Walterboro Police Department will likely operate on roughly $2.6 million. Also, included in the budget is a requested $117,000 for planning and development; $900,000 for Public Works; and $554,000 for the finance department.
Included in the budget is $204,000 for Walterboro City Council and $341,319 for the city manager's budget. Most of these particular budget costs are going to pay for personnel costs. However, neither the city's Mayor or City Council members requested a pay raise from last year's budget.
The budget also includes plans to renovate the city's downtown area waterfall. Molinari says city leaders are still considering several options in how to add a water purification system to the waterfall.
Before council is set to cast its second vote on the budget, however, city council leaders have also announced a special May 9th executive session to discuss Molinari's contract. There is also a special-called city council meeting slated for May 16th for council to discuss its plans for the Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary Discover Center. Tentative plans have the Discovery Center to be built at 100 S. Jefferies Boulevard, inside the current empty building at the corner of South Jefferies Boulevard and Hampton Street. That property would be used for the center's parking, a future outdoor entertainment venue and as the main entrance and educational building for the sanctuary.
According to interviews with city leaders, the incoming new Discovery Center would likely include both static (fake) and live animal exhibits and information on the area's native plants and animals. There would also likely be a retail space for sanctuary guests, which would include school groups.


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Offers a one year membership for foster youth/caregivers. Benefits include: unlimited admission to permanent exhibits, planetarium and matinee laser shows, 15 free documentary IMAX movie passes, free or discounted admission to special exhibitions. Youth 14-18 can obtain their own free membership and caregivers obtain a free family membership for those under 14. Youth under age 14 must be accompanied by an adult when visiting. Any foster youth/caregiver are eligible. To sign up, email membership@pacsci.org or visit the Science Center.
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Bengal film industry shocked at Rituparna Ghosh's death
Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) Shocked and saddened at the untimely demise of multiple National Film Award winning filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh Thursday here, Bengal entertainment industry condoled the genius storyeteller's death, saying it is difficult to fill the void left by his death.
Actor Riya Sen, granddaughter of eminent Bengali film actress Suchitra Sen, said, "To the best director in the world… May his soul RIP."
Director of "Murder" and "Life… In A Metro", Anurag Basu said it is difficult to fill the void left by his death.
"He took our cinema to international audience," Basu said.
On a similar note, noted Bengali actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty of "Feluda" fame lauded the ace lensman's efforts to bring Bengali culture to the world.
"He took Bengali culture to the world. It is a loss not only to the film fraternity but to us personally as he was associated with us in a personal way," said Chakraborty.
Eminent danseuse Mamata Shankar told a TV channel that "It is unthinkable."
Actor Parambrata Chatterjee said Ghosh was "an inspiration" to young actors.
"He was a man of books. There aren't many who are into books these days. It is a loss for us youngsters," he said.
Composer Debajyoti Mishra said his all-pervading persona extended beyond films.
"He was much beyond a genius," said a teary eyed Mishra.
Ghosh made films like "Chokher Bali", "Unishe April" and "Raincoat", died here Thursday. He was 49.
Ghosh, who was suffering from pancreatitis, passed away at his residence around 7.30 a.m., his colleague Gautam Ghosh told reporters.
Shocked colleagues and friends gathered at the home of the much awarded filmmaker as news of the death spread.
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Sergey Pereslegin graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture; he studied under the guidance of the professors Kudryashov and Michael Eichner.
After graduation, he did a course in the Technische Universität München under the supervision of Peter Ebner.
Graduated from the post-graduate courses in the Research and Development Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences.
Sergey worked in the Austrian/German architectural company "E+E architecture+urban design" and in the Swiss company "Arch4".
Since 2013, Sergey has been the partner of Kleinewelt Architekten. Sergey Pereslegin is the author of many built and in-construction projects, including the Winery House in Gai-Kodzor (Armenia), the Movie Theater in the Gorky Park, reconstruction of the former "communal kitchen" on the Novokuznetskaya Street in Moscow, Mercedes and Audi dealerships on the ZIL peninsula in Moscow, "Park of the Future" at Moscow's VDNKh, and others.
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The austere, full of light and shade, air and greenery, and, of course, impressions, the winery building in the city of Haykadzor in the Krasnodar Territory is one of the main architectural events of last year.
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Lilya Aronova. Where Best Cars Belong
The project of reconstructing the model-making workshop of the ZIL plant into a Mercedes-Benz and Audi dealership is unique even by the standards of the legendary complex. It is planned that the workshop will be restored using the elements of the dismantled building that was erected back in the 1930's. It will become a part of the "ZIL's Gate", viewable from the Third Ring Road. In addition, this building will be the only one that will keep the "automotive" function – at least to some extent.
Elena Petukhova. Kleinewelt Architekten: "In each of our projects we try to fix the world"
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177 consecutive Friday night fish fries and counting: Silver Spring House
Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his record-in-the-making here.
More often than not there is a randomness to where I end up for fish on a Friday night. Sometimes I get an idea for a place halfway through the week, but sometimes it isn't until a half an hour before heading out the door that I know where I'm going. At some point during the lead up to Friday, a friend of mine drove past the Silver Spring House (6655 N. Green Bay Ave., 414-352-3920) and sent me a text with a picture of the building saying it looked like it might be a good place to go. That was enough for me to decide to check it out. Most of the time you just have to embrace the randomness and let it take you where it will.
The first thing I noticed when I entered was the detailed woodwork covering every part of the building: the back bar and bar, the trimming of the walls, the dividers between booths, the tables and chairs themselves. As ornate as the woodwork is, it has a rustic quality to it as well. It's obvious that there is some history behind the building just by looking with an untrained eye. It turns out there has been some form of establishment on the property since 1856. By 1904, the first Silver Spring House was started, and the back dining room where I ate was this original building. The bar and main dining area in front was originally a dance hall that was on another part of the property, and it was rolled on logs to its current location in 1915. In the 1920s, taxi dancing, where dancers were rented out for 10 cents a dance, had a brief whirl there. In the 1930s and 1940s one could purchase a Friday night fish fry there for 15 cents, and from that time until 1976 it was called the Park Tavern. Then the name went back to being the Silver Spring House; in 1985 it became a Milwaukee County landmark.
I ordered the obligatory Brandy Old Fashioned Sweet at the bar while waiting for some friends, and after their arrival we were quickly seated. Prefacing a fish fry with clam chowder is by now a ritual, and I found this week's to have a thickness to it that was almost gravy-like. It was still pretty good and came with a piece of rye bread. There was a lot to choose from on the fish menu: perch; bluegill; poor man's lobster; AYCE cod; and a Catch Of The Day, which may be something different on any given Friday. As seems to be the norm when given the option, I went with the AYCE.
I was impressed with the fish. It wouldn't win any contests, but there was a consistency to all the pieces, and I ordered a second round as soon as I got the chance. The tartar sauce was above average as well. The potato pancakes were reminiscent of some that I had at Schwabenhof about a month ago—they had a soft uniform texture, nothing like the more hash brown-like ones of some recent weeks. I'm impartial to their style, as long as the''re enjoyable overall. The one thing that I thought could have been improved was the coleslaw. It really didn't do it for me. Besides not being too enthralled with the slaw, I should also note that it seemed to take forever for the clam chowder to arrive, and then forever for the fish to arrive. This was not because the staff was not working hard, though. Our waiter seemed to be running nonstop between the tables in the back room; there was just so much to take care of. Nonetheless, it really lessened the experience.
The design and history of the building is enough to draw you in, and the food is good enough to make you want to come back. I saw old and young, friends and families all eating there, and I got the feeling some people eat there quite regularly. If I didn't have such a fish fry wanderlust, I don't think it would be that hard to saunter up to the bar on a regular basis and feel like a part of the history. I would sip brandy and let my mind drift back nearly a century to imagine taxi dances and 15-cent fish, as my impending meal would waft to my senses and a moose head would gaze down to me from the woodwork overhead.
Rating: History in the walls of each room, solid AYCE, variety of fish options. 3.5 out of 5 stars.
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Originally hailing from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin—home of Walleye Weekend, the self-professed "World's Largest Walleye Fish Fry"—Caleb Westphal has not missed a Friday Night fish fry since sometime in 2013. He's a fanatic of music, film, and American history. He's played saxophone in Offend Your Friends and the Rockin' Bones in the Fox Valley, and currently plays with Devils Teeth.
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cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/local -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_COLOR_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH=/opt/local/lib -DCMAKE_INSTALL_NAME_DIR=/opt/local/lib -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH="/opt/local;/usr" -DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH=/opt/local/share/cmake/Modules -DCMAKE_FIND_FRAMEWORK=LAST -Wno-dev -DPORT=GTK -DENABLE_X11_TARGET=ON -DENABLE_QUARTZ_TARGET=OFF -DLLVM_CONFIG_EXE=/opt/local/bin/llvm-config-mp-3.7 -DENABLE_VIDEO=ON -DENABLE_INTROSPECTION=OFF -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE="-DNDEBUG" -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE="-DNDEBUG" -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="x86_64" -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET="10.11" -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT="/"
Unfortunately, I forgot to keep the build log, so I'm re-building now and will attach the build log tomorrow.
In case it's not obvious, libwebkit2gtk-4.0.dylib is missing.
Out of curiosity, why not enabling the Quartz backend?
WebKitWebProcess, WebKitNetworkProcess, and LLIntOffsetsExtractor are also not installed.
The Quartz backend is disabled because you cannot build with both ENABLE_X11_TARGET and ENABLE_QUARTZ_TARGET at the same time.  Our users can enable ENABLE_QUARTZ_TARGET instead of ENABLE_X11_TARGET by choosing an appropriate build variant.
Could it be related to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152183 where the GIRs are being directed to uninstalled dylibs?
This is likely unrelated to bug #152183.
I get this on 2.11.91 with the Quartz backend as well.
Actually, would 'PORT STREQUAL "Mac"' be more appropriate there?
I forgot to followup here when I marked the patch for review and commit.  I tested it, and it worked great.  We're using it in MacPorts currently.


Hostility to the UK's climate change levy is growing among power buyers, who fear that US back-tracking on its green commitments made in 1997 has burdened British industry with an unfair tax that will increase gas and electricity costs by up to 20 per cent.
On 1 April, the UK became the first western industrial nation to introduce the levy, in line with its protocol commitments agreed in Kyoto, Japan four years ago.
"The general assumption has been that a levy will be adopted by other countries, but it is far from clear that this is going to happen," said Jeremy Nicholson, economic adviser to the Energy Intensive Users Group.
Opposition to the levy among small and medium-sized firms is particularly acute because they cannot negotiate levy discounts, unlike large heavy-industry manufacturers that have secured discounts of up to 80 per cent by agreeing to reduce their carbon emissions.
Sam Eadie, managing director of international energy price consultancy Energy Advice, said: "The discontent with the levy is going to rumble on. UK domestic users have complete exemption, unlike in other countries. If the levy were fair, everyone would have to pay."


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For over twenty years owners Glinn and Kelley White have committed to deliver superior built custom homes with enduring character and value to the families in the Texas Hill Country. Glinn and Kelley personally oversee every aspect of the home building process, from assisting with lot selection and home design to the construction of the home and interior decorating.
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I just saw this great idea for teaching sight words on Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business Kindergarten blog.
Kids roll their car over the sight word that they are learning. What a fun way for them to show that they've learned the word. You can find many other great ideas to teach sight words on my teaching sight words page.
On another note, I've reached the 100 likes on facebook milestone. Thanks everyone who has liked my page.


Coming from a rich artistic tradition and enormous cultural heritage, Britain is thought to be the cradle of metal and has produced countless other music genres. Arguably, it has produced a large number of doom-metal artists over the years. By the end of the 1990s, three English bands had become the most influential in doom metal: MyDying Bride, Anathema, and Paradise Lost (AKA the Peaceville Three). Their counterparts in the American continent were Type O Negative, Solitude Aeturnus, and Sleep, among others.
During this decade, doom metal had made important developments in the Nordic countries, with Swedish bands like Candlemass, Cult of Luna, Memento Mori, and Katatonia, together with Theatre of Tragedy, Funeral, and Tristania in Norway.
A number of these artists focused on experimenting with doom or some of its elements at that stage. Although not a novelty, the incorporation of female singers and instrumentalists in metal bands was then a trend; it attracted a different kind of public, as the metal fandom was becoming broader by each decade.
Mixing the sadness of doom with death metal guttural vocals had become a fashion in doom music industry; this formula gave place to the formation of a sub-genre called death/doom metal. Power/doom metal was another strong trend that had been forming since the 1980s. The different styles that came out of doom metal music genre eventually changed their names completely.
As a matter of fact, doom has grown so much over the last few years that even the most dedicated experts find it challenging to classify all of its subcategories; many would compare this task to fighting Hydra, as it becomes increasingly more complicated. A number of attempts to create a diagram or "family tree" of all the sub-genres have been pushed forward; however, those behind the project tend to be biased by personal taste and everyone comes up with different results.


Leaders of the Syrian opposition have held negotiations with the Russian Federation through Turkey on ceasefire in the city of Aleppo without participation of the US.
Azhdar Kurtov, historian, political scientist, chief editor of the RISS journal 'National Strategy Issues', told Pravda.Ru what they want to agree upon with Russia upon bypassing the US.
Most probably, they want to reach agreements on cease of active combat acts in the regions controlled by their combat units. Aleppo is a layer cake. There are a lot of various political forces including armed units which represent different wings of opposing sides. The city is also stuffed with various military advisers of different countries including Turkey and the US.
It is clear that defeat of the opposition or even exit of fighters from Aleppo will definitely generate their political defeat as well. It will trigger withdrawal of population from these Islamist movements, cease of certain support, comedown and as a result decrease of funding. In case this tendency is continued, it will mean political death of this opposition. And now they are desperately trying to prevent this, using all the possible means as well as rhetoric.


If 2016 has made one thing very clear it's that not everyone agrees with one another about what is logically sound. Indeed there's been a considerable trend towards questioning the very value of expertise and facts. So perhaps it's fitting that my camera of the year wasn't chosen with the logical, dispassionate approach that is often necessary for my job.
I just chose the one I enjoyed the most.
If technical capability alone were my primary consideration, the Nikon D500 makes a strong case. Its autofocus is jaw-dropping, even compared with top-end sports cameras and its ergonomics are amongst the best I've encountered. The Sony a6300 is technically impressive, too, and I loved the video footage I got out of it (though it helped that I shot a series of short clips, so never encountered the temperature limitations that have got parts of the Internet so hot and bothered).
But my product of the year is, without question, the Fujifilm X-T2. Not because it's unquestionably better (it isn't), but because it's the camera the most made me want to get out and shoot, this year.
Maybe it's a question of delayed gratification. I loved a lot about the X-Pro2 when I reviewed it at the beginning of the year, not least the image quality. I also really enjoyed shooting on a system with a good range of prime lenses for the APS-C format, rather than one that, through omission, tries to push me into buying a different format.
But that experience didn't prepare me for just how good the X-T2 was going to be. Looking back, the X-Pro2 gave hints at the video and autofocus improvements Fujifilm had made, but the full impact didn't really hit me until I got to spend some time shooting with the X-T2, which gives a little more control and flexibility to both.
With the X-T2 it feels like all the pieces have come together: a camera that captures beautiful color with ergonomics I enjoy that can shoot pretty much anything I point it at, without me ever feeling I'm working around its shortcomings. And, as a bonus, that will produce excellent footage when I come up with an idea for a short film, rather than a series of stills. Having something like that sitting in your desk is tremendous encouragement to go out and shoot.
Parts of the video were shot in F-Log and graded with the help of the color correction profile (LUT) that the company provides, which gives a hint about how much thought has gone into the T2's video capabilities. The battery grip improves the battery/heat management for video shooting, though in near 0°C (32°F) conditions, overheating was the least of our problems. I'll admit that I like the camera less if I have to operate it with gloves on.
And, before you think I've just been bewitched by the X-T2's retro looks and handling, I should make clear that, while I think it's an attractive camera, my reason for enjoying the X-T2 isn't that I believe camera ergonomics reached their zenith in 1987. For instance I don't, personally, find the dedicated shutter speed dial especially useful: locking it to 'A' for most stills shooting and having to set to 1/60th then spin the rear dial one notch to shoot video at 1/50th of a second.
However, between the AF point joystick, large, well-placed exposure comp dial, lenses with aperture rings and enough custom buttons to give me access to the settings I change most often, I find the X-T2 as quick and easy to use as the most polished contemporary DSLR. Not inherently better, but similarly good, for the way I shoot. And yes, this is all about me.
It's such a truism that I'm sure I've said it before: having a camera you know will give you the results you want can be an inspiration. The X-T2 is not cheap, by any means. Even as an occasional video shooter, I'd also need to shell-out for the battery grip, so the costs would add up pretty quickly. But, if I had to put my hand in my pocket and buy one camera tomorrow, this would be it.
And, as we enter the last week of our loan period, the X-T2 is the camera I'm least looking forward to shipping back. I'll miss it, and I'll miss the encouragement that it's given me. Merry bloody Christmas.


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On This Day in Rock & Roll History: December 29
Before we can finally kiss this dismal year goodbye, I wanted to squeeze in another installment of my recurring rock/pop music history feature. Without further ado, here are some of the events that happened in the music world on December 29.
1965: American rock band The Sir Douglas Quintet were busted for marijuana possession in Corpus Christi, Texas. They got probation when they appeared in court with short hair, wearing suits. "I'm glad you cut your hair," the judge told them. "I saw your pictures in the paper when you were arrested and I don't go for that stuff." The episode came in the wake of the band's best-known song She's About a Mover, written by their founder Doug Sahm.
1966: The Beatles were at EMI Studios at Abbey Road, working on three songs during three sessions: When I'm Sixty-Four, Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane. None of the four mono mixes of When I'm Sixty-Four they made that day was used. The work on Strawberry Fields Forever included a tape copy of a December 22 mono mix, as well as creating the final stereo mix. I'll skip the details, which laid out in The Beatles Bible. Paul McCartney also recorded the first takes of Penny Lane, working into the early morning hours of the following day. Here's the magnificent Strawberry Fields Forever.
1967: Dave Mason left Traffic barely three weeks after the English rock band had released their debut album Mr. Fantasy. Only eight months earlier, Mason had been one of Traffic's co-founders, together with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood. Apparently, Mason didn't have much interest in collaborating on songs. "We all [Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood] tended to write together, but Mason would come in with a complete song that he was going to sing and tell us all what he expected us to play," Winwood later recalled. "No discussion, like we were his backing group." Mason would rejoin Traffic in 1968 while they were recording their eponymous sophomore album only to leave again after its release. Here's House for Everyone, one of three tunes on Mr. Fantasy written by Mason.
1968: Led Zeppelin performed at Civic Auditorium in Portland, Ore. on their first 1968/1969 North American tour, opening for Vanilla Fudge. According to setlist.fm, their set included The Train Kept a-Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, As Long As I Have You, Dazed and Confused, White Summer/Black Mountain Side and How Many More Times. Here's a clip of Dazed and Confused from 1968, or as somebody in the comments pointed out 1969. In any case, it's probably reasonably close to how Zep sounded that night in Portland.
1973: Time in a Bottle, one of my favorite songs by Jim Croce, hit no. 1 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100. Sadly, Croce was no longer around to witness the success. On September 20, 1973, he died at the age of 30 when his chartered plane crashed into a tree during takeoff from Natchitoches Regional Airport in Natchitoches, La. All other five members on board of the plane were also killed: Pilot Robert N. Elliott, Maury Muehleisen, comedian George Stevens, manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortese and road manager Dennis Ras. Time in a Bottle became Croce's second and last no. 1 hit in the U.S. after Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, another great tune he had first released as a single in March of the same year.
Sources: Wikipedia; Songfacts Music History Calendar; The Beatles Bible; Setlist.fm; This Day in Music; YouTube
Author christiansmusicmusingsPosted on December 29, 2020 December 29, 2020 Categories On This Day in Rock & Roll HistoryTags As Long As I Have You, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Chris Wood, Dave Mason, Dazed and Confused, Doug Sahm, Garage Rock, House for Everyone, How Many More Times, Jim Capaldi, Jim Croce, Led Zeppelin, Mr. Fantasy, Paul McCartney, Penny Lane, Pop, Psychedelic Rock, Rock, She's About a Mover, Singer-Songwriter, Steve Winwood, Strawberry Fields Forever, The Beatles, The Sir Douglas Quintet, The Train Kept a-Rollin', Time In A Bottle, Traffic, Vanilla Fudge, When I'm Sixty-Four, White Summer/Black Mountain Side6 Comments on On This Day in Rock & Roll History: December 29
Before this year and decade are finally over, I thought why not throw in another installment of this recurring feature. For first-time visitors, the idea of these posts is simple: Look what happened on a specific date in rock throughout the decades. Admittedly, it's a rather arbitrary way to cover music history. Moreover, these posts reflect events I find interesting and are not supposed to be comprehensive summaries. Usually, the selections are heavily focused on the '60s and '70s, which generally are my favorite music decades. This time, I'm also throwing in two birthdays. With that being said, let's get to it!
1928: Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates), the American artist who became known as Bo Diddley, was born in the tiny city of McComb, Miss. When he was six years old, the McDaniel family who had adopted him from his mother, moved to Chicago, where the boy studied the trombone and the violin before taking up the guitar. Initially, he played on street corners with friends. By 1951, he had secured a regular gig at Chicago South Side's 708 Club. In April 1955, then already known as Bo Diddley, he released his namesake tune featuring his signature Bo Diddley beat. Diddley, who passed away on June 2, 2008, influenced many artists, such as early rock & rollers Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley, as well as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Here's Bo Diddley, his only tune to top the Billboard Hot R&B chart.
1947: Jeffrey (Jeff) Lynne was born in the Birmingham suburb of Erdington, England. Jeff got his first (acoustic) guitar as a child from his father Philip Lynne. In 1963, he formed his first band, The Rockin' Hellcats – that's when bands still had fun names! Three years later, Jeff joined Birmingham rock group The Idle Race as lead guitarist, keyboarder and vocalist, and played on their first two albums. While the band developed a cult following, it did not achieve commercial success. In 1970, Lynne's friend Roy Wood invited him to join The Move, the band that eventually morphed into Electric Light Orchestra. After a successful run that lasted 11 albums and 15 years, ELO disbanded in 1986. In 2000, Lynne revived ELO, but until 2013, they mostly released re-issues and played occasional mini-reunions. Since 2014, the band essentially has been a Jeff Lynne project billed as Jeff Lynne's ELO and released two albums. Lynne also was a co-founder of Traveling Wilburys. In addition to producing for "his" bands, Lynne produced for many other artists, such as Dave Edmunds, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Joe Walsh. Here's Livin' Thing from ELO's sixth studio album A New World Record, released in July 1976. Like most ELO tunes, the song was written by Lynne who turned 72 years today. Happy birthday!
1967: For the 15th time, The Beatles stood at no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, this time with Hello, Goodbye. Written by Paul McCartney, the tune was released as a non-album single in November 1967, backed by I'm The Walrus. According to Songfacts, John Lennon wasn't fond of the tune, calling it "three minutes of contradictions and meaningless juxtapositions." Apparently, he was also mad that his song I'm The Walrus was relegated to the B-side. While Hello, Goodbye has nice harmony singing and a cool bassline, I have to say I'm with Lennon here. The lyrics are silly and the much stronger I'm The Walrus would have deserved to be an A-side release.
1973: Jim Croce topped the Billboard Hot 100 with Time In A Bottle, his second and last no. 1 hit. Sadly, he didn't get a chance to witness this milestone. On September 20, 1973, Croce was killed in a plane crash during a tour while taking off from Natchitoches, La. He was en route to Sherman, Texas for his next scheduled gig at Austin College. All of the other five people who were on board of the chartered Beechcraft E18S died as well. Time In A Bottle was the third single off Croce's third studio album You Don't Mess Around With Jim, which had come out in April 1972. The poetic love song is a timeless gem!
1974: Bob Dylan recorded the take of Tangled Up In Blue that ended up on his 1975 album Blood On The Tracks while visiting his brother David for the holidays in Minnesota. Written in the summer of 1974, the tune deals with personal matters Dylan was going through at the time, including his failing marriage to his first wife Sara Dylan (born Shirley Marlin Noznisky). Dylan had first recorded the song with producer Phil Ramone in New York but not released it. During the session that generated the album version, Dylan asked Kevin Odegard, a local singer and guitarist who had been brought in to support the recording, what he thought about the song. Odegard suggested changing the key from G and A. Dylan gave it a try and apparently was satisfied with the outcome. Odegard never received any credit on the record but graciously said the experience was instrumental in launching his own successful music career.
Sources: Wikipedia; This Day In Music; Songfacts; This Day In Rock; YouTube
Author christiansmusicmusingsPosted on December 30, 2019 November 26, 2020 Categories On This Day in Rock & Roll HistoryTags A New World Record, Blood On The Tracks, Blues, Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, Dave Edmunds, Electric Light Orchestra, Ellas McDaniel, Ellas Otha Bates, Elvis Presley, George Harrison, Hello Goodbye, I'm The Walrus, Jeff Lynne's ELO, Jim Croce, Joe Walsh, John Lennon, Kevin Odegard, Livin' Thing, Paul McCartney, Phil Ramone, Pop, R&B, Rock, Roy Wood, Shirley Marlin Noznisky, Tangled Up In Blue, The Beatles, The Idle Race, The Move, The Rockin' Hellcats, The Rolling Stones, Time In A Bottle, Tom Petty, Traveling Wilburys, You Don't Mess Around With Jim3 Comments on On This Day in Rock & Roll History: December 30
I Got A Name: Jim Croce
Prolific singer-songwriter's life was cut short after his career had just taken off
…If I had a box just for wishes/And dreams that had never come true/The box would be empty/Except for the memory/Of how they were answerd by you…
The above is an excerpt from the lyrics of one of the most beautiful love songs I know, written by a great singer-songwriter whose life was tragically cut short. Time In A Bottle became one of Jim Croce's biggest hits topping the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in January 1974, not even four months after he had died at age 30 in a plane crash.
James Joseph Croce was born on January 10, 1943 in South Philadelphia. His parents James Albert Croce and Flora Mary (Babusci) Croce were both Italian Americans. While Croce git into playing accordion at the age of 5, he did not start taking music seriously until he was a student at Villanova University in the early 1960s. At that time, he began forming bands and playing local gigs at fraternity parties, coffee houses and universities around Philadelphia, performing a broad variety of cover music.
Jim & Ingrid Croce with their son Adrian James
In 1966, Croce self-published his debut album Facets with a $500 cash gift he had received from his parents for his wedding to Ingrid Croce (née Jacobson), an author and singer-songwriter. The two had met in November 1963 and performed as a duo since 1964. Croce's parents had hoped their son's record would fail and he would come to realize he should use his eduction to pursue a "respectable" profession. Instead, Croce not only managed to sell all 500 copies of the record that had been pressed but also made a profit of close to $2,500. Here's Texas Rodeo, the album's only tune solely credited to Croce. Despite that promising start, true success for Croce was still years away.
In 1968, record producer Tommy West persuaded Croce and his wife to relocate to New York. By that time, they had started writing their own songs. This led to the release of Croce's second record in September 1969, the duos album Jim & Ingrid Croce. Here's the lovely Spin, Spin, Spin, which like most songs on the record was co-written by the couple.
The music business in New York City and playing small clubs and college gigs to promote the couple's album proved to be tough. Disullisioned they returned to Pennsylvania to live on an old farm in the countryside. Since music wasn't bringing in enough money, Croce took on a variety of odd jobs like driving a truck, contruction work and teaching guitar lessons. Meanwhile, he continued writing songs.
Following the birth of their son Adrian James, Ingrid became a stay-at-home-mother while Jim played concerts to promote his music. The breakthrough came in 1972 after Croce had signed a contract with ABC Records and released his third studio album You Don't Mess Around With Jim in April that year. The record's title track came out as a single in July and climbed to no. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. By comparison, the album's second single Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels) "only" made it to no. 17 on the U.S. chart. And then ther is the above mentioned Time In A Bottle, which didn't appear as a single until after Croce's death and became his second of two no. 1 hits in the U.S.
In July 1973, Croce's fourth studio album Life And Times came out. The last record released during his life time included his first Billboard Hot 100 no. 1 hit Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. The great piano-driven boogie woogie tune was inspired by a guy with that name Croce had met during his short time in the National Guard. One evening the guy said he was fed up and went AWOL. When he inexplicably decided to come back at the end of the month to get his paycheck, he was caught and taken away in handcuffs.
On September 20, 1973, during the supporting tour for Life And Times, Croce was planning to fly from Natchitoches, La. after a show there to his next gig in Sherman, Texas. During takeoff, the pilot of a chartered propeller plane clipped a tree at the end of the runway, causing a crash. Croce, pilot Robert N. Elliott; guitarist Maury Muehleisen; comedian George Stevens, manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortese, and road manager Dennis Rast were all killed. The next day, the lead single and title track from Croce's fifth and final studio album I Got A Name was released. Co-written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, the song was one of record's the few tunes that were not written by Croce.
After Jim's death, Ingrid Croce among other activities released two solo albums. She also did various things to keep Jim's legacy alive. In 1985, she started a restaurant in downtown San Diego in the same spot where in 1973 Jim had joked about opening Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar and inviting their friends and fellow artists like James Taylor, Jimmy Buffet, Arlo Guthrie and Bonnie Raitt perform there. After various expansions and opening a second restaurant in the '80s, Ingrid closed all restaurant operations in 2016. In 1996, she wrote Thyme in a Bottle, an autobiographical cookbook with memories and recipes from Croce's Restaurant. And in 2004, she published Time in a Bottle, a photographic memoir of Jim's songs with lyrics and her favorite photos. Jim's and Ingrid's son Adrian James "A.J." Croce also became a singer-songwriter and has released 10 albums since 1993.
A bio on Jim Croce's website quotes Ingrid: "Jim poured everything he heard and saw into his music. He was like a sponge, soaking up experiences and – sometimes it might take him a while, 'Roller Derby Queen' took him two or three years to write. But sooner or later, everything would make it into a song, and people recognized that."
I'd like to close this post with a nice clip of a 1973 live performance of Operator, showing Croce with Muehleisen. Croce had met the classically trained pianist-guitarist and singer-songwriter from Trenton, N.J. in 1970. Muehleisen became a collaborator in the studio who influenced Croce's song-writing. For 18 months, they were also frequently together on the road. He was only 24 years at the time of the crash.
Sources: Wikipedia; Jim Croce website; Ingrid Croce website; YouTube
Author christiansmusicmusingsPosted on October 19, 2019 Categories OtherTags Arlo Guthrie, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Bonnie Raitt, Charles Fox, Dennis Rast, Facets, Folk, George Stevens, I Got A Name, Ingrid Croce, James Taylor, Jim & Ingrid Croce, Jim Croce, Jimmy Buffet, Kenneth D. Cortese, Life And Times, Maury Muehleisen, Norman Gimbel, Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels), Robert N. Elliott, Singer-Songwriter, Soft Rock, Spin Spin Spin, Texas Rodeo, Time In A Bottle, Tommy West, You Don't Mess Around With Jim15 Comments on I Got A Name: Jim Croce


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Chapter 487 - 487: Secret Master
"How is that possible? You have a special physique, which makes it impossible for you not to recognize the Red Spica Crystal. Also, how can another person get it right 36 times? Have you checked him?" Mu Fan's uncle asked him.
"It's a combination of luck and negligence, I guess. I was negligent and made a mistake while he was lucky and won. That's all there is to him. And yes, I checked thoroughly. He is a normal person," Mu Fan replied.
"Also, this has been a good thing for our business. It proved our trustworthiness, and it motivated others to try harder to win. Instead of buying five or ten tokens, people are now buying fifty or hundred trying to be like him. I believe it has only been beneficial for us that someone like him ended up in our shop. As long as he leaves this continent safely, he would become a legend that will inspire even more people to gamble here as people would be sure that we don't harm anyone who wins even if they win tons," Mu Fan explained.
"True. It's a good stunt for publicity. I will listen to your advice," Mu Fan's uncle said as he dropped the matter.
Six days passed. It was just one more day before the ship would leave for the Light Heaven Continent.
Long Chen had only once left the hotel in these six days. He left the sect to go and meet Mu Fan. He went there to talk to him and get more information about the journey and things related to it that Mu Fan was more knowledgeable about.
Long Chen had also learned the skill he was trying to learn, and he had gained the ability to read people's thoughts as long as he focused on the person he wanted to read. If the criteria were fulfilled, he would be able to read their thoughts.
Long Chen tried to test this skill.
He stood up and glanced back. Mingyu was still cultivating, but Zhiqing was in a shower.
Long Chen walked towards the shower. He took his clothes off and entered it.
Zhiqing's back was facing him. He stepped forth and hugged her from behind.
"Good morning, love," Long Chen greeted her.
"Good Morning," Zhiqing greeted back as she turned back and kissed Long Chen.
"Think of a number between one to ten," Long Chen asked her.
'Why?' Zhiqing thought, but she didn't ask Long Chen.
"Alright," She said as she thought of a number.
Long Chen smiled as he could see that it was already working.
"What was the number that you thought?" he asked her.
"Seven," Zhiqing replied.
"Perfect," Long Chen smiled as he kissed her again.
'What is happening? Is everything alright?' Zhiqing wondered.
Long Chen released her lips.
"Nothing is happening. Everything's fine," he told her.
"What?" Zhiqing asked with a stunned look on her face. "Did you answer my thoughts?"
"Yeah. I learned a skill that lets me read the thoughts of others around him," Long Chen replied to her.
'Oh my god. That would be so embarrassing at night,' Zhiqing looked blankly at Long Chen.
"Don't worry. I won't use that on you girls," Long Chen answered her. He realized that it would be embarrassing to know that someone could read their thoughts.
"It's a voluntary skill. I won't hear thoughts unless I wish for it, and I won't use it on my women. I was just testing," Long Chen answered her.
It was the seventh day, and the day of the departure.
Long Chen and his team left the hotel early in the morning and walked towards the Port.
They walked through the city and soon reached the long wall that prevented people from going to the bridge that was attached to the small island where the ships were parked.
There were three gates in the walls where guards were standing. They checked the tickets and only then allowed for people to pass through.
The line was long, but it was moving fast as the tickets were special. It didn't take much time to check them.
Long Chen and his friends soon passed through the entrance.
Mu Fan was sitting in his room, looking at the clock before him.
"They should've reached the ship by now. I wish I could go to a new place as well. It would be fun to go on a journey with friends," he muttered as he shook his head.
"Are you talking about someone you met?" a voice came from behind.
Mu Fan turned back only to find a young boy standing there.
The boy was wearing the twentieth token of appreciation of the Divine Heaven Sect.
"Master!" Mu Fan dropped down on his knees as he greeted the boy.
"How was your time without me? Did you slack off?" the boy asked with a subtle smile on his face.
"The progress has been good master. The skill that you gave me is improving daily," Mu Fan replied.
"Good. Don't disappoint me. Also, we would soon be leaving this place. There is nothing here for me," The boy said as he raised his head.
He disappeared into thin air.
Long Chen and the others walked through the bridge and towards the island
They were able to see a giant ship standing at the distance. The shop was so big that it could comfortably house tens of thousands of people.
Long Chen and the others reached the island.
There were guards standing before the ship with a book on their hands.
"Another checking. Aren't they being too strict?" Ji Shan asked Long Chen as he saw the checking happening at a distance.
"This is to ensure the safety of people. With this much checking, no one would dare to pretend to be someone else or steal other's tickets," Long Chen answered.
Soon, they reached the ship. It was Long Chen's turn to enter.
The guards asked him to show his ticket. Long Chen showed his ticket to the guard.
"Number 27261," the guard told another guard.
The second guard opened a book and turned pages until he found a specific page.
"Found it," he said as he stood near the first guard and showed him the page.
"Take off your mask," the guard said.
Long Chen activated the mask of mischief and took off the fake mask.
The guards matched the facial features to the description that was written on the page.
They asked his name and other details, and only after making sure that everything matched, they allowed him to enter.
Ji Shan, Mingyu and Zhiqing went through the same process before they were allowed inside.
They were led to the cabin that they were assigned. Each of them had a separate cabin.
"They gave us four cabins. Aren't two of them going to go to waste?" Ji Shan let out as he glanced at Long Chen.
"You can enjoy the extra rooms. The journey will be long. Live in a different room every night," Long Chen joked as he unlocked his room.
He entered his room. Ji Shan and the others also entered his room even though they had different rooms.
The attendant informed them that if they needed anything, they could ask the attendant that would be assigned for this block of the ship before he left.
Long Chen locked the door.
The cabin was a decent size. There was a king-size bed and two chairs there. The carpet was made from beast skin, and the walls were painted by professional painters.
"The room is decent, but now that we are here, let's focus on the plan. You said that we have two targets: the Light Heaven Continent and the Ghost Temple."
"The main problem is that we don't know the location of the Ghost Temple." Ji Shan let out.


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Are big-screen TVs killing the film industry?
by Wesley Fenlon
Theaters have turned to digital 3-D to give movie fans a reason to come back to the theater.
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In 2000, big-screen TVs were a luxury. Rear-projection DLP TVs produced an HD picture, but they cost a fortune and were extremely heavy and difficult to transport. Plasma televisions, on the other hand, suffered from screen burn-in that could permanently discolor areas of the electronic display. And LCDs didn't offer the picture quality of plasma sets. But what a difference 10-plus years makes. Today LCDs are the dominant player in the HDTV arena and clunky rear-projection sets have all but vanished.
But with gigantic televisions now affordable enough for most average consumers, movie theaters are now in a bit of a bind. How do theaters continue to attract customers, especially when the average movie-going experience inevitably involves paying a small fortune for tickets, and dealing with crowds and disturbances during the film? With theater-to-DVD turnarounds taking only a few months, and services like Netflix providing inexpensive ways to watch movies at home, the movie and theater industry has had to adapt to the rapid evolution of television technology that has put the movie-going model in danger.
Theaters have turned to digital 3-D -- something most TVs still don't have -- to draw in crowds and give movie fans a reason to come back to the theater. And so far, the strategy has worked -- sort of. While pricier 3-D ticket sales helped drive high revenues for films like "Avatar" and "Toy Story 3" in 2010, those higher prices might end up backfiring on the movie industry in the future [source: The Wrap]. Keep reading to find out why.
Why the Movie Industry is in Trouble
The movie industry is still making money. Lots of money, in fact. LCD TVs really took off in 2006, and every year since LCD technology has been improving and coming down in price, leading to heavier adoption of HDTVs than ever before [source: MSNBC]. During that same time, though, the United States box office upped its gross from $9.2 billion to $10.5 billion [source: Box Office Mojo]. But those numbers don't necessarily mean all is well in movie land. Overall revenue dipped slightly in 2010, despite the fact that movie ticket prices rose from an average of $6.55 to $7.89 between 2006 and 2010. While 2009 was a banner year for movies, in general the 2000s have shown a trend toward fewer tickets sold [source: Box Office Mojo].
By selling pricier tickets, the theaters have managed to keep their profits high. Higher-priced digital 3-D tickets has helped with that, adding several dollars to the average ticket price and driving sales of movies like "Avatar" [source: Box Office Mojo]. As a short-term solution, movie theaters can compete with the living room big screen by offering 3-D movies, and the extra profit helps them make up for slightly lowered attendance. But 3-D sales trended downward overall in 2010, and certain poorly-reviewed films like "The Last Airbender" don't help build buzz for the technology [source: The Wrap]. High-profile releases like "Avatar" will likely still draw viewers to 3-D movies, and theaters will likely continue to add 3-D screens to support them. But the remains will audiences stay interested or will they start watching at home?
Why Home Theater Has an Advantage
Home theater have two big advantages over movie theaters: convenience and affordability.
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Every year, while movie theater ticket prices go up, HDTV prices come down. That gives the home theater two big advantages: convenience and affordability. At home you can watch what you want, when you want, and movies are making the journey from the silver screen to DVD or Blu-ray faster than ever. Those lower prices also apply to the digital 3-D phenomenon. That's right -- you can get 3-D TV in your home, too. That gives home theater another advantage, no matter how public opinion on 3-D changes.
If digital 3-D truly becomes a must-have part of the movie experience, 3-D TVs will grow more affordable year after year as the consumer technology improves. If it proves to be nothing but a gimmick, non-3-D plasma and LCD sets will still be around at even lower prices than the more complicated 3-D televisions. The pace of technological progression will always favor home cinema; in 2006, LCD TVs were just taking off as viable HD solutions. In 2011, many TVs now use OLED backlighting for superior image quality in dramatically thinner packages and screen sizes continue to grow while the bulkiness of TVs decreases. For example, Samsung offers a 2011 model 65-inch 1080p TV that's less than 1-inch thick [source: Samsung].
Even if theater profits are still high, lower attendance numbers could eventually become a concern. Theater attendance was down 5.2 percent in 2010; the question is, can theaters remain profitable if that trend continues [source: Box Office Mojo]? Between big-screen TVs and home theater projectors, the movie theater industry has to find new ways to draw people to the theater if it wants to keep pace with the appeal of relaxing on the couch with an endless stream of Netflix content.
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What are the Best Historically Black Online Schools with Medical Programs?
Most medical programs require on-campus instruction, but there are some historically black medical schools that offer online degrees. Online degrees are usually tailored to working professionals who have already completed some amount of credits, and are going back to school to finish their degree. Therefore, many of these degree programs have highly flexible schedules to allow students to take classes when convenient. Hampton University, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and Albany State University all have prestigious medical degrees that can be completed online. There are also many other HBCU online degrees to choose from. For reference, check out the list of Top 20 Best Historically Black Colleges with Online Programs.
Hampton University is located in Hampton, Virginia and was founded in 1868 during Reconstruction after the Civil War to provide freedmen with higher education options. The university has wide selection of online programs with great support for distance learners. Among their online degrees are a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a Ph.D. in Nursing. They offer both 1-year and 2-year accelerated RN to Bachelor Nursing degrees. Their Ph.D. in Nursing is focused on pediatric and family-related research, and core requirements are the same for all students regardless of specialization. First semester students take courses in Statistics for Health Professionals and Family Nursing.
Hampton University ranked #7 in our ranking of the top HBCU with online programs.
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is located in Tallahassee, Florida and was founded in 1887. FAMU has a globally renowned pedigree, as it is the number one public HCBU among national universities according to US News & World Report. Their online Master of Public Health degree is the first MPH degree offered online by an HCBU, and it is the only MPH taught within a College of Pharmacy, which gives its students a unique perspective that is not taught anywhere else. FAMU also offers a Master of Science in nursing which places an emphasis on local clinical work that prepares students for many dynamic scenarios that nurses will encounter during their career.
FAMU ranked #20 in our ranking of the top HBCU with online programs.
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT) was founded in 1891 in Greensboro, North Carolina. With an enrollment of close to 12,000 students, it is the largest historically black university in the United States, and was ranked second by US News & World Report among public historically black institutions. NCAT offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing which is tailored to registered nurses who are looking to advance their careers through additional education. NCAT has invested heavily in their online educational infrastructure, as it ranks number one in the list of Top 20 Best Historically Black Colleges with Online Programs.
Albany State University was established in 1903 and is located in Albany, Georgia. They have an extensive online catalog which offers online medical programs at all different academic levels. They offer Associate Degrees in Dental Hygiene and Diagnostic Medical Sonography; Registered Nurse to Bachelors of Science; and Masters of Science for Family Nurse Practitioner.
Albany State University ranked #6 in our ranking of the top HBCU with online programs.
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For the District of Hancock, whole number 137. Necessary to a choice 69. and that the Hon. George Ulmer has 136 & is chosen.
The business for which the convention was formed, being finished the two Houses reported.
Ordered that the Secretary of State pro tem. be directed to notify the Hon Barrett [?] Potter, Hon Jonathan Page, Hon. Daniel Rose & the Hon. George Ulmer that they have been constitutionally elected in convention of the two houses Senators of the State of Maine, & to request their immediate attendance to aid the Senate in their discharge of the public duty.
Hon Mr Moody was charged with a message to the Hon. House to acquaint them that that the Senate pro tem having a convention of the two branches of the Legislature, this day at 4 oclock P.M. for the purpose of choosing seven counselors to advise the Governor in the executive part of government the ensuing law.
Mr. Atherton came up with a message from the Hon House to acquaint the Senate that they concur in the time assigned for forming a convention for the purpose of electing seven counselors to advise the Governor in the executive part of Government the ensuing year.


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'The Muppets' Disney+ Series Not Happening As Planned
It's not time to play the music. It's not time to light the lights. It's not time to meet the Muppets on a Disney+ Muppet Show tonight.
Although the series was never officially announced, The Hollywood Reporter says that for months, a trio of producers, including Josh Gad, have been working on a new Muppets series that would have premiered on Disney+. Now, according to THR, the show has been scrapped before it ever made it to air. According to their sources, Gad's Muppets show fell apart because of a big change at the top of the Jim Henson Studio:
Sources say the creative differences arose after producers Muppets Studios recently changed executives. [Eddy] Kitsis, [Adam] Horowitz and Gad had been prepping what they playfully referred to as Muppets 1984, an eight-episode limited series that took place after the events of Muppets Take Manhattan. Kitsis and Horowitz had been working directly with Muppets Studios vp Debbie McClellan on the project. However [her replacement, David Lightbody] wanted to do his own take on The Muppets, while Kitsis, Horowitz and Gad felt strongly about their vision for the show.
A Muppet Show set in the glory days of the characters is an intriguing idea — not that we'll ever see it now. This setback comes only a few years after the last attempted Muppets revival, titled The Muppets, lasted just one rocky season on ABC. As a great frog once said, it's not easy being green.
There will be Muppets content on Disney+ even without this show; at D23 this summer, the company announced a series of unscripted shorts with the characters called Muppets Now. Disney+ launches on November 12.
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Zipabout has launched a personalised First & Last Mile feature on its platform, integrating e-scooters into the UK's public transport network for the first time.
What is First & Last Mile?
First & Last Mile is the first and last leg of a journey with the middle bit usually involving a bus or a train.
Even cities with the most advanced transport systems struggle with this problem. Many people don't live within walking distance of a station or bus stop which means they still rely on their cars for at least part, if not all, of their journey. One socially distanced solution is to encourage people to consider micro-mobility options such as e-scooters and bikes, but this needs to be a seamless part of their journey. This is why Zipabout is so excited about this new feature which launches with European e-scooter company, Voi Technology.
People arriving by train or bus in cities where Voi Technology is being trialled will see e-scooters listed in Zipabout's personalised messaging outlining the options available for their onward journey. Scooters will be presented alongside other choices such as the bus, a taxi or even a walking route together with the travel time for each. If they opt for a scooter, they'll be able to sign up and book well ahead of arriving at their final stop. On arrival, they'll be guided to the nearest Voi e-scooter location and provided with a suggested route.
Passengers can access the service by planning their journey using Zipabout's real-time personalised information service, which is currently available on Messenger and will soon be on WhatsApp and SMS too.
First & Last Mile will soon be made available to Zipabout's clients so they can provide personalised first and last-mile support to their passengers and customers.
So why the fuss?
There are lots of benefits to making micro-mobility work.
Not only does this solve an issue that local government, policy makers and transport leaders have been grappling with for years, it also encourages people to try new and sustainable ways to begin and end their journey. It could completely revolutionise commuting in more urban areas and ease congestion as well as parking problems.
For passengers, it gives them the confidence to use public transport knowing they will get an unbiased choice without any disruption to their journey.
Transport operators are also excited about Zipabout because it means a better customer experience that can be rolled out quickly and cost-effectively. They can give their passengers a range of onward transport options in a single hit without the need to deal with different micro-mobility providers.
The micro-mobility providers themselves are thrilled as more people are exposed to e-scooters and realise that they offer a real alternative.
"We are thrilled to announce this integration with Zipabout offering our e-scooters as an option to complement first and last mile train journeys. E-scooters are a convenient, accessible and socially distanced mode of transport, particularly important while the current COVID restrictions are in place. By integrating our carbon-neutral service with public transport we can replace more short car journeys, reducing congestion and improving air quality creating better cities for living."
Richard Corbett, Regional General Manager UK, Voi Technology
It's sustainable. It provides towns and cities everywhere with a greener option which is something we're all working towards.
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The threat actor behind the Triton malware (aka Trisis, Xenotime, and HatMan) is now targeting organizations worldwide and safety systems.
The attackers are expanding their targets and new variants are able to attacks also other than Schneider Electric's Triconex systems.
The malware was first spotted in December 2017 by researchers at FireEye that discovered that it was specifically designed to target industrial control systems (ICS) system.
Security experts at CyberX who analyzed samples of the malware provided further details on the attack, revealing that Triton was likely developed by Iran and used to target an organization in Saudi Arabia.
The Triton malware is designed to target Schneider Electric's Triconex Safety Instrumented System (SIS) controllers that are used in industrial environments to monitor the state of a process and restore it to a safe state or safely shut it down if parameters indicate a potentially hazardous situation.
TRITON is designed to communicate using the proprietary TriStation protocol which is not publicly documented, this implies that the attackers reverse engineered the protocol to carry out the attack.
According to experts at Dragos, threat actors have been around since at least 2014, they were discovered in 2017 after they caused a shutdown at a critical infrastructure organization somewhere in Saudi Arabia.
Dragos researchers warn of new cyber attacks powered by the same group against organizations globally.
Experts at Dragos have published a collection of reports related to threat groups targeting critical infrastructure, the first one was on the activities of the Russia-linked Allanite group.


Too many small firm and solo lawyers believe they are not natural marketers. The reality is that there is no one personality type that makes a successful rainmaker.
But marketing does require far more planning than the typical "random acts of golf and lunch" that ultimately have unimpressive payoffs. A marketing plan requires identifying the people most likely to hire you for the work you want to do, communicating with them to let them know who you are, and then developing close relationships with these people to help them achieve their goals.
For solo lawyers the idea of marketing is often daunting because there are so many potential clients, so little time to reach them and so many options for pursuing them. To address this problem, marketing must be approached practically by creating a profile of your ideal client and developing a strategy for this target, not everyone. You must define the location, demographics, occupation, financials and other characteristics of clients who will give you the work you want.
Effective rainmakers find out not only what clients or potential clients need, but also what they want. That requires finding out how clients best receive information and then providing it to them in a way they find useful. Successful rainmakers communicate in a way that builds loyalty and collaboration over time by putting the emphasis on the client and not on the lawyer.
Rainmakers take a customer-service approach to dealing with prospects, just like a successful shop or restaurant takes with its customers. They make clients feel like part of the team, seek out their opinions and ask them what they want to accomplish.
Rainmakers never put prospective clients on the defensive. They follow a win-win communications strategy that does not use the style of questioning required when taking a deposition or structuring a contract.
Having been trained to ask questions, I have often been told by my wife to stop interrogating her; all I wanted to find out was information, but to her, I am interrogating and putting her on the defensive. Lawyers must change that approach when interacting with prospective clients. It's a conversation between two friends, nothing more.
The better prospects feel when talking to a lawyer, the more positive they are and the more they will seek out the lawyer's services.
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What do you think would give you the most help in dealing with employees or customers?
What do you want your organization to look like in one year, two years or five years?
Will you be offering new products or services in the next year?
There is only one way to get this kind of information: personal, face-to-face meetings. Social networking on the Internet is effective, but personal contact is the differentiating factor that gets a lawyer noticed.
An excellent example of how to do this is attending a trade show.
There is no better way to establish effective marketing relationships with prospective clients than by establishing a presence at industry trade shows and association meetings. By properly researching and targeting attendance, a lawyer can meet more prospects in one day than might otherwise be possible in months. And physically being present at these meetings of potential clients demonstrates knowledge of their business, understanding of their concerns and seriousness about offering solutions.
Rainmakers use this kind of contact to begin an ongoing process of contact with clients or prospects to develop and expand a working relationship outside of the lawyer's own services. The lawyer doesn't have to maintain an exhibit booth, but merely a presence at the event, mingling with people on the exhibit floor and at the show's events. Aside from meeting and greeting people, you will also learn about the industry.
Don't confuse this kind of marketing with the ethically questionable "cold call." ABA Rule 7.3 prohibits "in-person, live telephone or real-time electronic contact [to] solicit professional employment from a prospective client" when the solicitation involves "coercion, duress or harassment," or when "a significant motive ... is the lawyer's pecuniary gain."
In targeted marketing through visits to trade association meetings and conversation with prospective clients, you are creating a bond and demonstrating that you provide value. That means an investment in time and expense - but it also means your marketing is more likely to bear fruit.
The goal is not a series of "sales calls" on the prospect, but the development of a broader relationship in which you demonstrate the ways you can meet the prospect's needs. How you present yourself in terms of showing attention to and empathy with the prospect can be crucial to the information you elicit, the impression you leave - and the business you generate.


Jacobs senior Zach Albrecht runs with his cross country teammates Thursday in Algonquin.
Jacobs senior Zach Albrecht talks with coach Kevin Christian during boys cross country practice on Thursday in Algonquin.
Jacobs' Zach Albrecht already had established himself as one of the area's best distance runners before running the most significant race of his career on April 21.
It was that day that Albrecht blazed around the track at Huntley's Red Raider Stadium, covering 1,600 meters in 4:13.25 to erase the McHenry County Track and Field Meet record set by former McHenry runner Jesse Reiser.
"Anytime you run with names like Reiser or (former Jacobs runner Evan) Jager, that's a different story," Jacobs cross country coach Kevin Christian said.
Albrecht was poised for a big final month, but he became ill a few days before the Class 3A Huntley Sectional. He qualified with the Golden Eagles' 4x800 relay team, but could not make it in the 1,600.
Albrecht heads into his senior cross country season with lofty goals and feels like he can compete with the state's top runners. He is eager to build on a junior year that twice had unsatisfying finishes. He will be the decisive favorite at the McHenry County Meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at Hickory Nut Grove in Cary.
Christian expects big things from his senior, who could join Jager, the 2006 Class AA state champion, as the school's next All-State runner (top-25 finish).
Albrecht, who lists Bradley, Iowa and Notre Dame as his top schools, is on board with that.
Albrecht played soccer and ran cross country while growing up. Christian remembers how fortunate he felt when Albrecht chose cross country. It helped that he is from a running family and his brothers Corey and Austin Albrecht also had run for Jacobs.
Albrecht appreciated the camaraderie the cross country team showed. His freshman season he got to run with Austin, who was a senior.