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Q: React-dnd drop failure state I'm using the react-dnd library to manage drag/drop, and running into what feels like a limitation, but wanting to make sure I'm not just overlooking something.
I've got a React component implementing useDrop with a fairly complicated set of rules inside canDrop. When the user releases the mouse and canDrop returns false, I'd love to be able to provide a detailed error message so they know why they weren't allowed to drop the item, but drop isn't called (expected behavior, per the docs), and there doesn't appear to be any way to provide context back to the useDrag handler's end function either.
I could obviously fire the error message from canDrop itself, but that function is called hundreds of times for each drag, so that introduces issues like debouncing etc. that I'd prefer to avoid.
So my question is, have I just run into a limitation of the library, or am I missing an event/hook somewhere?

A: I had the same problem and here is my solution:

*

*canDrop contains the complex logic to determine if the item...can drop.

*Add the item id (itemId) to the collect function passed to useDrop and use that id to determine what error message to show based on the combination of !canDrop && itemId==='some specific id'.

My useDrop hook:
  const [{ isOver, canDrop, itemId }, drop] = useDrop(
    () => ({
      accept: [{valid ids go here}],
      drop: (item, monitor) => {
        // omitted
      },
      canDrop: (item, monitor) => {
        // canDrop logic
      },
      collect: (monitor) => ({
        isOver: !!monitor.isOver(),
        canDrop: !!monitor.canDrop(),
        itemId: monitor.getItem()?.id,
      }),
    }),
    []
  );

Then in your component render:
return (
  <>
    {canDrop && You're good to drop}
    {!canDrop && itemId === 'some condition' && Error message specific to this condition}
    {!canDrop && itemId === 'some other condition' && Error message specific to this condition}
  </>
)

For my scenario the item's id lets me determine the error message I should show but I think you could also return the entire item from the collect function.


Safely drives a school bus on days when school is in session over designated routes in accordance with time schedules, loading and unloading students at designated locations.
Transports students, teachers and others on school field or activity trips.
Inspects assigned bus on a daily basis prior to transporting of passengers to ensure that bus is in good, clean and safe working order.
Cleans and refuels bus as needed.
Ensures that a communication device is in proper working order before each trip.
Reports all mechanical deficiencies, traffic violations, or accidents, promptly.
Arranges for and ensures completion of routine maintenance of bus (e.g., oil change); transporting the bus to and from maintenance and/or repair facilities.
Maintains order and discipline in an effective and courteous manner among students being transported in accordance with district policies and procedures; reports any incidents involving student discipline.
Observes and tracks route timing, such as total time en-route, time between stops, loading and unloading times or any other requested information for the purpose of establishing route efficiency, as requested.
Maintains and submits records and reports as required.
Follows procedures to ensure that no child is left alone on bus without adult supervision at any time, and that all children have departed bus at the end of all bus routes (morning, evening and during field trips or other special trips).
Inventories bus emergency and first aid supplies and equipment; reports needs to the Director.
Prepares aides and children for bus drills and ensures bus evacuation drills are held as required.
In case of accidents/emergencies, evacuates children according to written and practiced procedures, ensures that medical emergency procedures are followed; completes a written report as required.
Attends and participates in trainings, and other continuing education, career and professional development opportunities.
Knowledge of all traffic laws, regulations, road signs and related information.
Manual dexterity sufficient to operate the bus, conduct pre-trip inspections, and clean the bus.
Visual and auditory acuity within professionally determined normal ranges, with correction if needed.
Effective organizational, problem solving, and time management skills.
Ability to learn and comprehend information from procedures manuals and other materials. Ability to comprehend and follow traffic signs required.
Ability to physically move through the bus, center and classrooms.
Ability to maintain composure and perform responsibilities under pressure and in cases of accidents or other emergencies.
Motor Vehicle Operator's (DMV) License.
Current Commercial Driver's License (CDL), class B with Passenger and School Bus endorsement.
Successful prior experience working as a bus driver, preferably in a school district or transporting children.


Trained to provide look after an athlete's musculoskeletal system, an orthopedist can concentrate on activities medicine when they accomplish their residency within the field. These medical doctors also coordinate treatment and care with other healthcare professionals, including athletic trainers and physical therapists in addition to helping athletes with their conditioning and training. Because they have significantly more experience and knowledge of soft muscle biomechanics, orthopedists generally oversee and direct treatment of serious accidents suffered by the athletes under their care.
Exercise is great for your quality of life, and even people who have chronic diseases and disabilities can benefit from it as long as they stick to the advice of the medical expert. A workout physiologist helps at-risk clients maintain and boost their wellness through rehabilitation and particular physical fitness programs. They frequently assist those who have a problem with cardiovascular disease, diabetic issues, and other chronic, possibly life-threatening conditions.
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It might shock you, but fitness trainers aren't required to have a very formal training to provide fitness solutions. In reality, Personal Training could be the only healthcare profession that doesn't require at the least some university or other advanced level training to sit for certification/licensure. Consequently, numerous Personal Trainers lack the basic Workout Science knowledge to develop a powerful exercise program while simultaneously handling health threats. As being a consumer of Personal Training services, you've got cause for concern about overall health, exercise and nourishment information received from your own Trainer she lacks a formal education if he or.
Current research conducted at UCLA determined that only 40% of certified trainers interviewed could answer questions that are basic exercise technology. Many of the trainers who took part in this scholarly research had at least 5 several years of experience. Interestingly, people that have at the very least a B.A./B.S. in Workout Science along with a certification answered >80% of concerns precisely. Those holding National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) & American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) certifications and a college degree had the highest portion of correct responses.
When selecting a fitness expert, insist on getting a expert with at least a qualification in Exercise Science or even a field that is relatedi.e. Kinesiology, Biomechanics, Sport Physiology, Real Treatment). Presently, there are a community that is few that offer specialized training for students interested in fitness as being a profession. This might additionally be appropriate.
In lots of states an individual can legitimately provide fitness services without the proper credentials so long they don't tell you they are credentialed) as they don't mislead customers (i.e.. The consumer must take caution to ensure the trainer they select has demonstrated the basic knowledge necessary to perform his/her job because Personal Training does not currently require Federal or State Registration or Licensure. Fitness certifications are created to evaluate competency.


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1. Add the dried porcini mushrooms to 300ml boiling water and leave to soak.
2. Heat 4 tablespoons of olive oil in a large frying pan set over medium heat. Add the spinach and cook for 2 minutes, stirring, you may have to do this in batches depending on the size of your frying pan. Tip spinach into a sieve set over a bowl, and press out all of the moisture with the back of a wooden spoon. Tip the spinach onto a board and finely chop. Put in a large bowl and set aside.
3. Using a perforated spoon, gently remove the porcini mushrooms from the hot water. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve and reserve the liquid to use as stock later.
4. Put the frying pan back on the heat and add a good splash of olive oil. Fry the porcini and fresh mushrooms over a high heat for 3-4 minutes until they begin to brown.
5. Reduce the heat to medium and pour over the stock from the porcini mushrooms. Add the garlic, thyme and lemon juice. Continue to cook the mushrooms until all the liquid has evaporated and the mushrooms are shiny. Remove from heat, spread on to a plate and allow to cool.
6. Stir the ricotta and mushrooms into the spinach. Add two-thirds of the parmesan, a pinch of nutmeg, and salt and pepper to taste. Cover and put in the fridge.
7. Preheat the oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3.
8. Slice the tops of the tomatoes, about a third of the way down. Reserve the tops to use as lids. Using a teaspoon, carefully scoop the pulp out of the tomatoes, reserving it for the dressing.
9. Fold the egg yolk into the cheese and spinach mixture. Stuff the tomatoes with the mix, piling it up well but without pressing down as this may cause the tomatoes to split.
10. Sprinkle the rest of the parmesan on top and replace the tomato tops, tilting them at a jaunty angle. Carefully place the tomatoes in an ovenproof dish and drizzle with olive oil. Place in the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes, or until the filling is heated through.
11. Meanwhile, make the dressing. Combine the reserved tomato juice and pulp with the mustard, vinegar, oil and basil. Whisk together and pour over the cooked tomatoes before serving.


The question we should be addressing is the relative size of both costs and benefits to residents of the city. Councillors who are sitting on the fence waiting for the information needed to come to them, should recognize that those presently providing the information have agendas of their own (private profit in the case of the mine and re election in the case of the provincial government). Neither of those agendas protects the interests of residents of the city.
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A girl who was suffering from agonizing stomach pains in hospital was discovered to be riddled with tapeworms, after her mother had made her eat them to lose weight before a beauty pageant.
A Florida nurse has recalled the horrifying moment a teenage girl's stomachache was revealed to be a tapeworm infestation. Maricar Cabral-Osori told how she admitted the girl to the ER with severe stomach cramps and initially suspected she was pregnant, until an ultrasound showed no baby.
It was instead something seen elsewhere in her body which raised eyebrows.
Unfortunately for the girl, it wasn't the tests that revealed the cause for her growing discomfort, but a trip to the bathroom. However, the cause of the pain became clear when the nurse later found the teenager screaming over a toilet bowl full of tapeworms.
Ms Cabral-Osori said the girl's mother, 'who turned white', admitted buying tapeworm eggs in Mexico and feeding them to her daughter. The eggs hatched after the girl ingested them.
'The mom was apologizing to the girl.
'She's like, "I'm so sorry. You know, I just did it to make you a little skinnier. You needed some help before we went on to the pageant",' Gawker reported.
Ms Cabrai-Osori said the teenager had passed the tapeworms, some of which were 'very long and trying to get out of the toilet bowl'.
It is not known whether the mother faced criminal charges as a result of her actions or not.
Tapeoworms have been used for nearly 100 years to increase weight-loss, but doctors have warned the practice is extremely dangerous.
Last year Dr Patricia Quinlisk, Medical Director of the Lowa Department of Health, wrote: 'Ingesting tapeworms is extremely risky and can cause a wide range of unstable side effects, including rare deaths.
Tapeworms attach themselves to the intestinal wall of its host and then absorb nutrients and calories. Certain tapeworms can grow up to 30 feet long and can live within a host for up to 20 years.
Most people affected with tapeworms have no symptoms, while others may experience abdominal pain, nausea, bloating, diarrhea, weakness, loss of appetite, weight loss, vitamin deficiencies and malnutrition.


Arbor Day has never been a day that I personally associated with…until now. I've always loved the notion of Earth Day, even though I try to live each and every day in a manner of caring for our planet. Arbor Day seemed too one-dimensional, too all-about-trees. I wouldn't feel all aglow at the thought of Soil Day even though healthy soil is essential. Why the sudden desire to adore a day for trees? My heart just feels in tune with trees recently. I have become more observant of the trees around me and have gained appreciation of each one's individual uniqueness. As a Horticulture Technician, gardener and environmental tree-hugger I have always understood the value and beauty of trees but something in me has shifted to feel the presence of trees like never before.
In Ontario (Canada) we observe Arbor Week from the last Friday in April until the first Sunday in May. J. Sterling Morton founded the idea of having a special day in honour of planting trees over 135 years ago. Isn't it reassuring that we still note this day to plant trees? I feel optimistic when a tree is planted with the intent of it enjoying its growth for many years. On the wings of optimism I planted a tree this morning in my back yard. My little tree has a special place in my heart. When my son was just a wee little guy, he brought me home a sapling from school one day. It was so tiny that it was almost unrecognizable as a Spruce. It was potted in a Dixie cup and sat on our windowsill for a month or so before it graduated to a pot on the patio. Since this tree exited the school in my son's tiny hand it has been contained in a pot until today. I couldn't decide where the perfect spot in our garden would be to plant this tree until today. I went out into the back yard to enjoy the bright clear sky when I noticed a sunbeam in the back corner of our garden. It was like a stage light directed at the perfect location!
One day this small tree will become tall and stately, just like the little boy who presented it to me with great pride and a toothy grin.
Although I love my Picea abies (Norway Spruce), my favorite tree in my garden is the majestic Austrian Pine (Pinus nigra). To me it is reminiscent of the Group of Seven paintings I adore and is a signal to me that I am home as I come around the corner.


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Flashback Interview: 'NOS4A2' Executive Producer/Writer Jami O'Brien
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Conskipper may be brand new, but our journalists have been covering the world of pop culture conventions for years. The following interview was originally conducted by Nick Banks as a freelancer on June 20th, 2019.
Adapting a successful novel into a television series is no easy task, and translating the nuances of the written word into a visual world can be daunting and a little scary. It gets even scarier when the source material is Joe Hill's acclaimed novel NOS4A2. Luckily, AMC tapped a writer and producer for the project with some experience in the world of horror (Fear the Walking Dead) as well as story -driven, scripted television series.
We were excited to speak to executive producer Jami O'Brien about the origins of the project and her work on the new series, as well as her time spent on one of AMC's flagship series, Fear the Walking Dead.
How did you become involved in adapting NOS4A2 for television?
Jami O'Brien: I had worked for AMC for a long time — I wrote for all five seasons of Hell on Wheels. When Hell was ending, Emma Miller — one of the AMC executives covering the show — asked me if I'd read NOS4A2. I had not. But I had read Locke & Key and was a big fan of Joe Hill's writing. Emma told me to check out NOS4A2 and let her know what I thought because AMC had the rights to the book. I picked it up that Friday, read it over the weekend, and just fell in love with the characters. I pitched a "take" on what the series could be to AMC and, thankfully, they liked it.
What were the challenges in adapting Joe Hill's novel for television as well as writing many of the episodes of the series?
O'Brien: The novel is beautifully huge and sprawling. It takes place over many, many years and it jumps around in time. Some of the characters don't meet each other until fairly deep into the book. In order for a television series to work, the characters have to actually be in dramatic scenes together. So in our series, we've moved some of the characters closer together, geographically, and we introduce them to each other earlier in the story than they meet in the book.
One of the biggest changes we made early on was to meet Vic McQueen as an 18 year old rather than as the 8 year old we first meet in the book. We did that because I knew we were going to cast an adult actor to play Vic, AND I didn't want to lose any of the juicy details from that first part of the story. I wanted to see Vic discover her bridge, grapple with her powers, grapple with her home life, and take on Charlie Manx. And I felt that part of the story was so integral to who Vic is as a character, I didn't want to see it in flashback with a child actor. I wanted to see it with "our" Vic — the actor who would take us through the series…
You helped assemble a very strong cast for NOS4A2 with a mix of veteran actors and aspiring new talent. How has this dynamic worked on set?
O'Brien: Every time I watch a scene from the show I am humbled by our outstanding cast. Each and every one of them is a total pro, a phenomenal talent, and a super generous person. It was a pleasure to see the cast work together and open each other up.
Zachary Quinto is well known to fans of science fiction and horror, but fans haven't seen him in a role like this before. What does he bring to the role of Charlie Manx?
O'Brien: In addition to his talent, thoughtfulness, and humor, Zach brings tremendous focus and specificity to Charlie Manx. He created a completely different physicality and voice for each of Manx's different ages, allowing him to disappear entirely into the character.
Aside from the supernatural elements, the series/story is grounded in a very real, complex family relationship between Vic and her parents Chris and Linda. Why is this element so important to the story (and also so engaging)?
O'Brien: All my favorite television is about the characters. I don't tune in to The Walking Dead for the zombies, but for Rick and Michonne. I didn't tune in to Breaking Bad for the meth, but for Walt and Skyler and Jesse. Horror and suspense only work for me if I care about the characters. One of the things that drew me to the novel was the complex, nuanced, honest way Joe Hill drew the McQueen family and their struggles. Plus Joe has said that horror is about extreme empathy, and Stephen King has said the best horror is wedded firmly to real life. Who am I to argue with them?
You also recently worked on Fear the Walking Dead season three. What was it like stepping into the series and taking it in a new direction?
O'Brien: Memories of the cast and crew? I loved working on Fear. Season three was really a border story, a family story, and in some ways a story about both how to build a nation and about our own nation's origins. To be able to dramatize big, human drives — for safety, for place, for WATER — in the context of a zombie apocalypse was pretty exciting. The entire cast was fantastic, but I'm a big Deadwood fan so it was especially cool for me to write scenes for Kim Dickens and Dayton Callie.
How would compare your experiences on Fear the Walking Dead to NOS4A2?
O'Brien: They're similar in that both shows strive to balance real world human drama with scary fantasy elements. I grew up in Massachusetts, so one of the things I particularly love about NOS4A2 is that it's set in my neck of the woods. I also love that it's about a regular, working class girl who takes on a supernatural villain who's over a hundred years old.
Previous to these two series, you hadn't worked on any horror series. Is it different than a more realistic production?
O'Brien: All the shows I've worked on have been primarily character dramas set in a specific genre. In the Hell on Wheels writer's room, we would always start with the question, "What is Cullen's story?" Cool, iconic, western sequences would spring from the character discussions because that's the world the characters inhabit. With horror, it's similar. You start with character, and then the zombies or the supernatural organically earn their way into the stories because that's the world the characters live in.
You have worked with both zombies and vampires. Which personally frightens you more?
O'Brien: Charlie Manx isn't a vampire in the traditional sense… but his worldview, and the ravenous, dangerous way in which he feeds it, are pretty terrifying to me.
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In stunning decision, Britain votes to leave the E.U.
After months of campaigning, the "Leave" camp has won and Britain will be leaving the E.U. The Post's Adam Taylor talks about what that means for the country and Europe. (Adam Taylor,Jason Aldag/The Washington Post)
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LONDON — British voters have defied the will of their leaders, foreign allies and much of the political establishment by opting to rupture this country's primary connection to Europe in a stunning result that will radiate economic and political uncertainty across the globe.
The voters' decision to jettison Britain's membership in the European Union was expected to jolt markets worldwide on Friday and unsettle Western capitals. By the time the BBC had called the result at dawn in London Friday, the pound had already plummeted to its lowest level against the dollar in decades.
The vote is perhaps the most dramatic to date in a wave of populist and nationalist uprisings occurring on both sides of the Atlantic that are overturning traditional notions of what is politically possible.
For months, the political and economic elite had looked on with growing apprehension as Britain flirted with a choice — popularly known as Brexit — that experts had warned could lead to global recession and a rip in the Western alliance. The vote could also lead to Scottish secession, a broader E.U. unraveling and the fall of Prime Minister David Cameron's government.
But most analysts had predicted this pragmatically minded country would ultimately back away from the move, and opt to keep Britain in an organization regarded as a pillar of the global economic and political order.
Instead, a majority of British voters heeded the call of pro-Brexit campaigners to liberate the nation from what many here regard as an oppressive Brussels bureaucracy that enables mass migration into the country.
"Let June the 23rd go down in our history as our independence day!" cried a jubilant Nigel Farage, a firebrand anti-E.U. leader, in a 4 a.m. celebration. All around him, "leave" campaigners clinked pints of beer and cheered their improbable victory.
When polls closed six hours earlier, Farage had all but conceded defeat, saying he believed "remain" had won. But as results poured in through Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday, the "remain" camp was increasingly despairing.
About a third of results had yet to be counted as of 4 a.m. local time. But the BBC reported that "leave" had taken an insurmountable lead.
The results came after 15 hours of voting, from the remote Scottish isles to the tip of Gibraltar. The outcome revealed vast divides — with massive victory margins for "remain" in thriving metropolitan centers such as London and equally resounding victories for "leave" in small towns, rural areas and struggling, post-industrial cities.
[Three reasons that Americans should care about the British vote]
As local authorities announced results, markets swung wildly between optimism that the country would stay in, the preferred choice of investors, and pessimism that Britain had just voted to get out.
Britain cuts ties with the European Union
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that he will resign.
In late June, many celebrated the referendum results, and British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that he will resign after Britons went to the polls.
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After initially rising to a 2016 high, the pound plunged in international trading as jittery investors prepared for a scenario that had not been priced into market calculations.
As the hours ticked by, there was a dawning realization that Britain could become the first country to leave the 28-member E.U. In television interviews, "remain" supporters looked stricken and predicted catastrophe.
"God help our country," tweeted Paddy Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader and an outspoken E.U. advocate.
The outcome will rattle officials in Washington. President Obama had made a high-profile plea for Britain to stay. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, who was in Scotland on Friday to open a golf course, backed Brexit.
[If Britain leaves, who could be next?]
Although Britain may not actually leave the E.U. for years, Thursday's vote fires the starting gun on what is widely expected to be a messy proceeding as Britain and E.U. officials begin untangling the vast web of connections between this island nation and the other 27 members of the bloc.
Thursday's outcome will be a crippling blow to Cameron, who had campaigned vigorously for Britain to stay in the E.U. and had cast the referendum as a choice between an insular, intolerant "little England" and an outward-looking, pluralistic Great Britain.
Having failed to convince a majority of voters, he is expected to come under intense pressure to resign.
Cameron initially promised the referendum in 2013 in a bid to unite the country, and especially his Conservative Party, behind a common stance on an issue that has divided public opinion here for decades.
At the time, he may have expected a relatively easy victory. But the campaign soon went off script, as Justice Secretary Michael Gove and then-London Mayor Boris Johnson — friends and sparring partners of Cameron's since his days at Oxford — both declared in February their intention to campaign for "out."
The populist-minded Johnson will now be seen as the most likely successor to Cameron if the prime minister is pushed from his perch at 10 Downing Street.
"I think the Boris Johnson momentum will be unstoppable," said Steven Fielding, a professor of political history at the University of Nottingham. "Cameron will try to find a dignified exit. But it's not clear how long the backbenchers will give him to do that."
The "leave" campaign found a compelling rallying cry with its call for voters to "Take Back Control," a slogan that resonated among an electorate ill at ease with record levels of immigration — much of it from Europe under the E.U.'s free-movement policy.
Polls suggested that "leave" alienated some voters with its reliance on what critics saw as increasingly nativist rhetoric. That was particularly true after the killing last week of pro-E.U. lawmaker Jo Cox, a murder that appeared to awaken a passion in "remain" supporters that had been previously lacking.
A "leave" lead last week in the polls diminished, and the race turned into a dead heat. Surveys released Thursday as Britons votesdhad shown "remain" with a clear edge, results that cheered investors and boosted markets across Europe and Asia.
But as with last year's British general election, the polls were badly wrong, apparently unable to capture the mood of an increasingly defiant electorate
The prevailing tone of the campaign on either side was fear and loathing, with neither venturing for long into hope or aspiration.
That spirit mirrored the angry mood of voters across the Atlantic, in the United States, and surprised even close observers of a nation that sees itself as deeply pragmatic and rational.
"Notions of Britain as a deferential, consensual society at ease with itself have been thrown out the window," Fielding said. "This campaign has revealed a very profound mistrust among a substantial segment of society toward conventional political authority. The E.U. became a lightning rod for mistrust of politics more broadly."
The vote split the country along essential lines: Old versus young. Provincial versus metropolitan. Scotland versus England. Native-born Britons versus immigrants.
[European press pens love notes to Britain]
As the first votes were cast nationwide — with the often-variable British weather running the gamut from a torrential downpour in London to sunny, clear skies in Scotland — anxiety was the prevailing mood.
Hilary Clarke, a 45-year-old stay-at-home mom, was the first to vote at a southwest London polling station. She said she would use her stubby pencil to check "remain" on her ballot.
"If I had been confident, I wouldn't be standing in the rain at 7 in the morning," she said as she sheltered beneath a colorful umbrella. "The reason I'm first in the queue is I'm going straight to the airport to go to Barcelona, and I may not return if vote goes the wrong way."
Clarke said she could not understand the logic of those pushing for "leave."
"I can see that sometimes it seems we are hemorrhaging money to the E.U.," she said. "But at the same time, we seem to get so much more back than we give. Even if you're disagreeing with what's said at the table, it's better to have a place at it."
But for "leave" voters, Britain's four decades of membership in the European Union and its precursors have only dragged the country down.
Andreas Hajialexandrou, a 48-year-old businessman of Greek Cypriot heritage, said the country could simply not withstand the impact of record numbers of immigrants from elsewhere in Europe.
"There are pressures on local services. I speak to our local [doctors] and they are just swamped," he said. "The question is, how long can you support that level of immigration?"
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Public school districts and public charter schools are funded using a combination of local, state, and federal funding.
Generally, the responsibility to provide the bulk of school funding falls to the state and to local communities; federal funding across the United States makes up less than 10% of total school funding. The dollars contributed by the federal government are given through federal agencies such as the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the Department of Agriculture to fund their federal programs.
Local funding comes more directly from the surrounding community, and is a bulk sum given to the district that is taken mainly from property taxes.
The money available for state funding comes from general state revenues (income taxes, sales tax, etc.), gaming, lottery, and other miscellaneous taxes. The funds are distributed based on a funding formula which takes a few district factors into account. The formula is of particular interest because it aims to bring "equity and adequacy" into school funding by helping bridge the funding gap between districts with and without a lot of local funding.
This interactive map is sorted by expenditure amounts. The darker the color, the more money is being spent per pupil.
As a whole, it is a student based formula, meaning that schools are funded per student. A baseline cost of educating a student with no special needs or services is established, then multipliers are used to give districts more money to reflect the additional cost of educating certain categories of students. In Missouri these categories are students who receive Free or Reduced Lunch (FRL), Individualized Education Plans (IEP), or are categorized as English Language Proficient (ELP).
Unlike local funding, state funding is difficult to understand because of all the variables taken into account. The baseline is called the State Adequacy Target (SAT) and the multipliers are applied to the Weighted Average Daily Attendance (WADA). Additional factors such as Dollar Value Modifier (DVM) and Local Effort are also taken into account to determine total state funding for a district.
The State Adequacy Target is the baseline amount given to each district per student, and is a measure of the average spending per student in schools that meet state standards (known as the Performance Districts). It is supposed to be recalculated every other year, but due to deficits in the state budget, the SAT has been fixed at $6131 as of 2012 (the calculated SAT for the 2014 school year was $6716).
The adjusted number of students the school serves based on multipliers and attendance is the Weighted Average Daily Attendance. First, the Average Daily Attendance (ADA) is calculated with data from the school year and from summer school (if applicable). If a student attends all the hours of school possible, he or she will be funded as one student. The ratio of hours attended to hours possible is calculated for every student and then added to yield the ADA (a measure of how many students attended school by the number of hours spent in school). The ADA is used to determine whether schools will receive additional funding for FRL, IEP, or ELP students. If the adjusted number of students on FRL, IEP, or ELP programs in the district (calculated by multiplying the average percentage of students on a particular program in the Performance Districts by the district's ADA) is higher than the actual number in the district, every student above the adjusted number will be weighted as additional students for funding per student purposes. The total number of weighted students a district serves is the WADA.
The DVM factor adjusts funding based on the value of a dollar in a specific area. It will increase funding in areas where the cost of living is especially high, but will not take money away from districts with lower costs of living. It is calculated by comparing the regional wage ratio for the district (the average salary in the area) with the state median wage per job. This variable operates under the assumption that an area with higher incomes will have proportionally higher costs of living.
Local Effort is a measure of how much money a district receives from local taxes and from other sources. The local tax revenue is calculated by multiplying the assessed property values by the property tax levy (3.43%, as suggested by the state). Collector and assessor fees are subtracted from the number to give the total local effort. This number is deducted from the product of the other three variables. Therefore, districts with more affluent populations (and thus higher property taxes) receive less state funding. Other things can also contribute to the total for local effort. Proposition C, for example, is a statewide sales tax that is collected and redistributed to districts based on WADA. 50% of the Prop C money that goes to a district is counted as local effort.
This interactive map is sorted by the amount of state dollars a school district receives. The darker the color, the more state dollars make up a district's budget.
"State-Level Funding for Missouri Public Schools." Missouri Parent, Missouri Association of School Administrators.


An attorney facing charges of felony grand theft in Santa Ana is accused of stealing nearly $1 million by using his credentials to legitimize fraud schemes, the Orange County Register reported.
Veteran Santa Ana criminal defense attorneys have seen an increase in these types of cases since the beginning of the economic downturn. Federal and state white-collar criminal defense requires a law firm with the knowledge, experience and resources to mount an aggressive defense. Particularly when a professional license, such as a law license, medical license or financial professionals' license is involved, the consequences of a criminal conviction can lead to professional and financial ruin.
In this case, the 68-year-old Irvine defendant faces 16 felony counts of using untrue statements in the sale or purchase of securities and 11 felony counts of grand theft. He also faces a sentencing enhancement for aggravated white-collar crime of more than $500,000, theft exceeding $150,000 and property loss of more than $200,000.
A 66-year-old co-defendant from Laguna Woods will face the same charges in Orange County Superior Court. A third defendant, who lived in Lake Forest, has died.
The men allegedly accepted fees ranging from $25,000 to $177,000 as part of investment schemes. If convicted, each faces nearly 30 years in state prison. They are being held on $2 million bail.
According to the Orange County District Attorney's Office, the men approached victims who needed financing for various projects and charged them large fees under the pretence of securing funding. The first victim was allegedly promised $6 million in financing to build a luxury resort in Baja in exchange for a $25,000 fee. After 19 months without financing, he made a theft complaint with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Office. Ten other alleged victims have since been identified. Some took out home equity lines of credit and additional mortgages on their homes in order to pay fees to the defendants, according to authorities.


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Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar speaks at a reception for a US Congressional Delegation headed by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi at the State Apartments, Dublin Castle, in Dublin on April 17, 2019. (Photo by Iain WHITE / POOL / AFP)IAIN WHITE/AFP/Getty Images
Irish citizens in Northern Ireland will not be discriminated against says Leo Varadkar
Irish citizens in Northern Ireland will continue to be European in all circumstances, Leo Varadkar has said.
In a move to reassure northern nationalists, the Taoiseach said people in Northern Ireland will continue to benefit from 'important rights' and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of nationality.
Thousands of nationalists living north of the border have called on Mr Varadkar to ensure their rights are protected as the political fallout over Brexit continues.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar greets US Congressman Richard Neal at the Government Buildings in Dublin on April 16, 2019. Pic: PAUL FAITH / AFP)PAUL FAITH/AFP/Getty Images
In January more than 1,500 Irish citizens attended an event in Belfast which highlighted the potential impact of Brexit on their rights and livelihoods.
In his annual address to Seanad Eireann — the upper house in Dublin — Mr Varadkar said: 'The Withdrawal Agreement contains a commitment from the UK that Brexit will not result in any diminution of the rights, safeguards and equality of opportunity as set out in the Good Friday Agreement.
'I have discussed with Prime Minister (Theresa) May the responsibilities of the UK Government under the Good Friday Agreement, with or without a deal.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Farmleigh House ahead of border talks last week. Pic: Leo Varadkar / Twitter
'No matter what happens, there are a number of areas on which we can provide reassurance for Irish citizens living in Northern Ireland.
'Irish citizens in Northern Ireland will continue to be European citizens in all circumstances.
'They will continue to enjoy the right to travel and work and study freely throughout the EU, benefiting from the important rights not to be discriminated against on the grounds of nationality while doing so.'
A motorist crosses the Irish border in Middletown, Northern Ireland. Pic: AP Photo/Peter Morrison
He said the continuation of the Common Travel Area will allow Irish and British citizens to move freely.
'They will continue to enjoy a range of rights and privileges in each other's countries, including the right to live and work as well as to access healthcare, housing, education, pensions, social benefits and the rights to vote in each other's local and parliamentary elections,' he added.
'Even in the event of a no-deal outcome, we will ensure that people in Northern Ireland will still have access to European Health Insurance Cards.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar pictured with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker. Pic: Getty Images
'Similarly, we will work to ensure third-level students in Northern Ireland will continue to be able to access the Erasmus+ higher education programme.
He thanked both houses of the Oireachtas legislature for showing 'unity' in dealing with Brexit, particularly the Brexit Omnibus Bill which was passed last month.
'This landmark piece of legislation, crossing the remit of nine Government departments, focuses on protecting Irish citizens, assisting businesses and jobs, and securing ongoing access to essential services and products,' he added.
'Our work complements the steps under way at EU level to implement measures to mitigate the impact of a no-deal Brexit.'
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How Do I Structure My Multiple Business Ventures?
As the U.S. and the world move toward a "gig economy" of self-employment, it's becoming more common for entrepreneurs to have income streams from several sources. You may be a caterer who also does wedding photography, or a computer programmer who also invests in real estate.
What's the best way to set up these various projects? Arriving at the right answer for you and your businesses will involve three main considerations: legal, administrative and marketing.
If your ventures are related, setting them up under one brand will give you more bang for your marketing buck. In the above example of the caterer/wedding photographer, having both businesses share a business name, website, and so on would offer more opportunities for cross-selling your services while reducing expenses.
On the other hand, the computer whiz/real estate pro is targeting two different audiences. In this case, separate brands would be easier to define and market.
Bear in mind that every company you set up will generate its own set of paperwork, from payroll to tax returns. Only you can decide whether the benefits outweigh the hassles.
There are three ways to legally structure multiple businesses. Here's a brief overview of the pros and cons for each of them.
In this scenario, each business is a completely separate legal entity. This option will produce the most amount of paperwork and administrative labor.
On the other hand, for risky ventures such as real estate investing, it is a good way to limit your legal liability. If Company X gets sued, Company Y's assets (as well as your personal assets) are not affected.
You create one main company, then register a separate fictitious — DBA (doing business as) — name for each of your ventures. This gives you the administrative ease and legal protection of having just one company, along with the marketing advantages of having the right brand name for each venture.
This is the most complex of the three options. You set up a holding company which will own the individual corporations or LLCs of each of your businesses. It's often used by those who want to sell one of their subsidiaries and leave the others intact. Another reason to go this route is to start a new business and have it funded by the holding company.
The legal and tax ramifications are extensive for this option, so we suggest you consult a tax advisor or attorney before moving forward.
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The Baltimore Orioles rebuild has officially begun with the departure of All-Star Manny Machado.
Trading Manny Machado was one of first of many trades the Baltimore Orioles need to make in order for the rebuilding process to begin sooner rather than later. The good news about the 2018 Baltimore Orioles is that they already have players that are cornerstones of the team to help.
It shouldn't be another 14 years before the Orioles have a winning record, but who knows what will happen with the players that they acquire. Would you still support the team again if they didn't have another winning record for the next five seasons?
The Orioles front office, scouting department and minor league structure from 1998-2012 was terrible at the time. I've got more confidence now that the Orioles have hit on some of the more recent prospects and are making an impact down on the farm.
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To bridge the gap and bring in some winning teams to Baltimore, the Orioles have Austin Hays, Cedric Mullins, Kevin Gausman, Chance Sisco, and newly acquired outfielder Yusniel Diaz. Hopefully, those players will make the rebuilding process a quick one and bring a winner out of the Orioles within three seasons.
The Houston Astros had the blueprint for going through a rebuild. They told the fans what they were going to do, and in 2017 they won the World Series and are probably even better in 2018. The New York Yankees also went through a small rebuild and it didn't take them long to build a championship caliber team.
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Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law
September 18, 2009 Mike Nobody america, conspiracy, corporations, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Lawrence Lessig, Stephen Colbert
By JESS BRAVIN
WASHINGTON — In her maiden Supreme Court appearance last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a provocative comment that probed the foundations of corporate law.
During arguments in a campaign-finance case, the court's majority conservatives seemed persuaded that corporations have broad First Amendment rights and that recent precedents upholding limits on corporate political spending should be overruled.
But Justice Sotomayor suggested the majority might have it all wrong — and that instead the court should reconsider the 19th century rulings that first afforded corporations the same rights flesh-and-blood people have.
Judges "created corporations as persons, gave birth to corporations as persons," she said. "There could be an argument made that that was the court's error to start with…[imbuing] a creature of state law with human characteristics."
After a confirmation process that revealed little of her legal philosophy, the remark offered an early hint of the direction Justice Sotomayor might want to take the court.
"Progressives who think that corporations already have an unduly large influence on policy in the United States have to feel reassured that this was one of [her] first questions," said Douglas Kendall, president of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center.
"I don't want to draw too much from one comment," says Todd Gaziano, director of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the conservative Heritage Foundation. But it "doesn't give me a lot of confidence that she respects the corporate form and the type of rights that it should be afforded."
For centuries, corporations have been considered beings apart from their human owners, yet sharing with them some attributes, such as the right to make contracts and own property. Originally, corporations were a relatively rare form of organization. The government granted charters to corporations, delineating their specific functions. Their powers were presumed limited to those their charter spelled out.
"A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible," Chief Justice John Marshall wrote in an 1819 case. "It possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it."
But as the Industrial Revolution took hold, corporations proliferated and views of their functions began to evolve.
In an 1886 tax dispute between the Southern Pacific Railroad and the state of California, the court reporter quoted Chief Justice Morrison Waite telling attorneys to skip arguments over whether the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause applied to corporations, because "we are all of opinion that it does."
That seemingly off-hand comment reflected an "impulse to shield business activity from certain government regulation," says David Millon, a law professor at Washington and Lee University.
"A positive way to put it is that the economy is booming, American production is leading the world and the courts want to promote that," Mr. Millon says. Less charitably, "it's all about protecting corporate wealth" from taxes, regulations or other legislative initiatives.
Subsequent opinions expanded corporate rights. In 1928, the court struck down a Pennsylvania tax on transportation corporations because individual taxicab drivers were exempt. Corporations get "the same protection of equal laws that natural persons" have, Justice Pierce Butler wrote.
From the mid-20th century, though, the court has vacillated on how far corporate rights extend. In a 1973 case before a more liberal court, Justice William O. Douglas rejected the Butler opinion as "a relic" that overstepped "the narrow confines of judicial review" by second-guessing the legislature's decision to tax corporations differently than individuals.
Today, it's "just complete confusion" over which rights corporations can claim, says Prof. William Simon of Columbia Law School.
Even conservatives sometimes have been skeptical of corporate rights. Then-Associate Justice William Rehnquist dissented in 1979 from a decision voiding Massachusetts's restriction of corporate political spending on referendums. Since corporations receive special legal and tax benefits, "it might reasonably be concluded that those properties, so beneficial in the economic sphere, pose special dangers in the political sphere," he wrote.
On today's court, the direction Justice Sotomayor suggested is unlikely to prevail. During arguments, the court's conservative justices seem to view corporate political spending as beneficial to the democratic process. "Corporations have lots of knowledge about environment, transportation issues, and you are silencing them during the election," Justice Anthony Kennedy said during arguments last week.
But Justice Sotomayor may have found a like mind in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "A corporation, after all, is not endowed by its creator with inalienable rights," Justice Ginsburg said, evoking the Declaration of Independence.
How far Justice Sotomayor pursues the theme could become clearer when the campaign-finance decision is delivered, probably by year's end.
Write to Jess Bravin at jess.bravin@wsj.com
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Run A Free BitTorrent Tracker On Google!
September 10, 2009 Mike Nobody america, BitTorrent, entertainment, internet, Lawrence Lessig, movies, music, piratebay, web
by Ernesto on September 10, 2009
With both the Pirate Bay and OpenBitTorrent trackers down at the moment, many people are unable to download torrents unless they enable DHT. Luckily there are a few backup trackers that people can use, and thanks to Google's free App Engine, everyone can setup a tracker of their own in a few minutes.
In their defense, operators of BitTorrent sites often argue that they do nothing more than Google does. They offer a search platform for people to find content on the web, specifically torrent files. To a certain extent they are right, Google can be used to find torrent files in several ways.
For example, the mother of all search engines has a special search command that allows you to find torrent files scattered across the Internet.
Google's custom search also allows everyone to create their own torrent search engine, and Google's App Engine enables users to start a free torrent search engine for free by using Google's servers.
It is quite clear that there are several ways to find torrents through Google. However, just finding torrents is not enough. In order to download content through BitTorrent successfully, one also needs a working tracker in order to locate those all-important peers. Luckily Google can help here too.
By using Google's App Engine, everyone can run a tracker without having to invest a single dime in hardware or bandwidth. The only problem is making the tracker compatible with the App Engine, but thanks to the newly released Atrack software it is a piece of cake to set one up.
The Atrack Bittorrent tracker is designed to run on Google App Engine and its main goals are a minimal memory use, speed, low bandwidth usage and efficient CPU use. On top of this the tracker wont store any data at all, making it as secure as possible for its users.
"Atrack also aims to respect your privacy: other than what is needed for the most basic tracking, Atrack gathers no information whatsoever. Beyond that no aggregate statistics are kept of anything, and nothing is stored permanently anywhere, not even hashes and ip/ports," the Atrack team writes.
So now everyone can set up a standalone BitTorrent tracker at no cost aside from the the time it takes to set things up. The Atrack software is released into the public domain, and a test tracker is up and running on Google's App Engine.
Yes, National Review, We Did Execute Japanese for Waterboarding
April 26, 2009 Mike Nobody america, conservative, conspiracy, constitution, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Lawrence Lessig, National Review, Neuremburg, obama, politics, Republicans, torture, war, war criminals, Waterboarding
By Paul Begala | Huffington Post
In a CNN debate with Ari Fleischer, I said the United States executed Japanese war criminals for waterboarding. My point was that it is disingenuous for Bush Republicans to argue that waterboarding is not torture and thus illegal. It's kind of awkward to argue that waterboarding is not a crime when you hanged someone for doing it to our troops. My precise words were: "Our country executed Japanese soldiers who waterboarded American POWs. We executed them for the same crime we are now committing ourselves."
Mr. Fleischer, ordinarily the most voluble of men, was tongue-tied. The silence, rare in cable debates, spoke volumes for the vacuity of his position.
Now Mark Hemingway of the National Review Online has asserted that I was wrong. I bookmark NRO and read it frequently. It's smart and breezy — but on this one it got its facts wrong.
Mr. Hemingway assumed I was citing the case of Yukio Asano, who was convicted of waterboarding and other offenses and sentenced to 15 years hard labor — not death by hanging. Mr. Hemingway made the assumption that I was referring to the Asano case because in 2006 Sen. Edward Kennedy had referred to it. (Sen. Kennedy accurately described the sentence as hard labor and not execution, by the way.)
But I was not referring to Asano, nor was my source Sen. Kennedy. Instead I was referencing the statement of a different member of the Senate: John McCain. On November 29, 2007, Sen. McCain, while campaigning in St. Petersburg, Florida, said, "Following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding."
Sen. McCain was right and the National Review Online is wrong. Politifact, the St. Petersburg Times' truth-testing project (which this week was awarded a Pulitzer Prize), scrutinized Sen. McCain's statement and found it to be true. Here's the money quote from Politifact:
"McCain is referencing the Tokyo Trials, officially known as the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. After World War II, an international coalition convened to prosecute Japanese soldiers charged with torture. At the top of the list of techniques was water-based interrogation, known variously then as 'water cure,' 'water torture' and 'waterboarding,' according to the charging documents. It simulates drowning." Politifact went on to report, "A number of the Japanese soldiers convicted by American judges were hanged, while others received lengthy prison sentences or time in labor camps."
The folks at Politifact interviewed R. John Pritchard, the author of The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Complete Transcripts of the Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. They also interviewed Yuma Totani, history professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and consulted the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, which published a law review article entitled, "Drop by Drop: Forgetting the History of Water Torture in U.S. Courts." Bottom line: Sen. McCain was right in 2007 and National Review Online is wrong today. America did execute Japanese war criminals for waterboarding.
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Terry Crews Thanks Mark Hamill For Saving Brooklyn Nine-Nine
by Derek De Koff
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Actor Terry Crews, who portrays Sgt. Terry Jeffords on Brooklyn Nine Nine, personally thanked Mark Hamill on Twitter for helping the comedy find its new home on NBC. Crews also thanked Sean Astin and Lin-Manuel Miranda for their support. Alluding to a classic Luke Skywalker move, Crews tweeted: "@HamillHimself I want to personally THANK YOU Mark for using the power of the force to save Brooklyn Nine Nine! *Wipes dirt off shoulder*."
Since Thursday, it's been quite the wild ride for fans of Brooklyn Nine Nine. After news broke that the cop comedy wouldn't be returning to FOX after the season 5 finale, the show was looking dead in the water. Shortly after the shocking announcement, a campaign was launched in the hopes of Hulu rescuing and subsequently resurrecting the show (since they happen to own domestic streaming rights.) Alas, fans were once again sucker-punched when it was announced Hulu passed on the offer. Once again, the show looked dead in the water.
Related: Why Did Fox Cancel Brooklyn Nine-Nine?
That all changed on Friday when co-creator and showrunner Dan Goor tweeted that the show had been picked up by NBC for a sixth season. The news was almost immediately confirmed by Brooklyn Nine-Nine's other co-creator Michael Schur. Soon enough, cast members Andy Samberg, Melissa Fumar, Chelsea Peretti, and Stephanie Beatriz were joining in on the celebration. On the heels of the announcement, NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said: "Ever since we sold this show to Fox I've regretted letting it get away, and it's high time it came back to its rightful home."
Oh NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! 😩😭😫😢 I'm SO not ready to say #ByeBye99. Be forewarned @FOXTV-when networks dump shows I love, I'm known for holding grudges a long, L-O-N-G time. I'm still mad @CBS didn't renew #SquarePegs! 😡#EverythingILikeGetsCancelled https://t.co/NEry6Hrpng
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) May 10, 2018
@HamillHimself I want to personally THANK YOU Mark for using the power of the force to save Brooklyn Nine Nine! *Wipes dirt off shoulder*
— terrycrews (@terrycrews) May 12, 2018
When news first broke of the now reversed cancellation, fans were quick to vent their frustration on Twitter, including Star Wars' actor Mark Hamill, who wrote "Oh NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! I'm SO not ready to say #ByeBye99. Be forewarned @FOXTV-when networks dump shows I love, I'm known for holding grudges a long, L-O-N-G time. I'm still mad @CBS didn't renew #SquarePegs! #EverythingILikeGetsCancelled." He also shared a fan-favorite moment from Brooklyn 99 involving a police lineup and The Backstreet Boys. This outpouring of love eventually received gratitude from Terry Crews, as seen above.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine explores the lives of some decidedly out-there police officers working out of Brooklyn's 99th precinct. Created by the aforementioned Goor and Schur, the series has won accolades over the years for its generally progressive outlook, totally kooked-out characters, and left-field humor. That said, the cult favorite was hardly the only show cancelled by FOX this week. Two other well-liked comedies, The Last Man on Earth and The Mick, also got the boot. After three seasons, FOX also axed the comic book-inspired Lucifer. Meanwhile, the network is surprisingly resurrecting Tim Allen's sitcom Last Man Standing; a bold move which was likely inspired by the success of Roseanne's recent return to ABC.
More: Brooklyn Nine-Nine Picked Up for Season 6 By NBC
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Dylan K. Shepherd, Marques Houston, Lynn Whitfield, Russell Ferguson, Tristen Carter, Mekia Cox
Christopher B. Stokes
Christopher B. Stokes, Marques Houston
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Brian & Barrett Pictures
"Battlefield America" Review
On the offbeat chance that you're actually contemplating seeing Battlefield America, a cross between You Got Served, Crossover and Bad News Bears, let me stop you right now.
Don't.
Don't waste your time and hard-earned money on a film that will, in all likelihood, find itself on home video well before the end of 2012. Even if you're tempted by the film's faux warm n' fuzzy storyline about hip-hop kids and underground dancing, don't allow yourself to be so tempted that you become one of the few who will even discover that this film is actually in theaters.
While I'd dare say that Battlefield America isn't the worst film opening up in theaters this weekend, that title falls to Piranha 3DD, it's a dreadful waste of time disguised as a morality play. The storyline involves Sean Lewis (actor/singer Marques Houston), a sleazeball L.A. marketing exec whose punishment for a DUI is having to perform community service as a kids' dance coach.
Can you imagine? I didn't think so.
Aided by a dance pro he brings on (So You Think You Can Dance's Russell Ferguson), Houston somehow overcomes his own lack of talent and his own lack of (insert every positive human trait) and manages to lead his young charges into an underground dance competition that somehow got authorized by the courts as a placement for said community service.
Along the way, Houston's Lewis takes a paternal shine to one particular kid (Tristen Carter) and an even bigger shine to one particularly hot community center director (Mekia Cox) while, of course, learning lots of valuable life lessons about priorities, humility and making a difference as he watches his previously fast-paced career downward spiral into the toilet.
The dance sequences, rather than resembling even as inspiring as Step Up, are darkly lit, frenetic and just plain uninspired. The camera work actually resembles that of the largely unseen Wayne Brady underground basketball film Crossover. At 106 minutes, the film is woefully long and jam-packed with what feels like every known cliche' to man. The inevitable dramatic crisis, essentially involving Sean's having to choose between his young charges and his fast-paced life, feels forced and unconvincing.
Several of the kids in the cast are, despite their cliche'd dialogue, rather adorable and they alone manage to make the film interesting in moments. Unfortunately, they're stuck with indecipherable dance moves and rapid-cut editing disguised as smooth dancing.
This is one battle where everyone involved loses.
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Urban Sea (18 February 1989 – 2 March 2009) was an American bred Thoroughbred racemare best known for winning France's most prestigious race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, in 1993 and for her importance as a world-class broodmare. She is one of ten mares to produce two Derby winners, namely Galileo and Sea the Stars. She is the only mare in the 21st century to produce two Derby winners. None has produced three winners of this race.

Background
Bred by Paul de Moussac's Marystead Farm in Kentucky, Urban Sea was a chestnut filly by Miswaki, a  stakes-winning son of the leading sire in North America, Mr. Prospector. Her dam was Allegretta, a Group 3-placed mare by the German sire Lombard. Allegretta also produced Classic winner King's Best by Kingmambo and established a thriving female family. In addition to Urban Sea, other notable broodmares by Allegretta include Group 3 winner Allez Les Trois by Riverman (dam of Classic winner of Anabaa Blue), Anzille by Plugged Nickle (dam German Group 1 winner Anzillero), Turbaine by Trempolino (dam of stakes winners Tertullian and Terek, and third dam of Arc winner Torquator Tasso), and Altruiste (dam of stakes winners Terrubi and Alpine Snow).

French trainer Jean Lesbordes conditioned a small stable of Thoroughbreds in France for Hong Kong businessman David Tsui. In 1990 he purchased Urban Sea at the Deauville yearling sale on behalf of Tsui for the price of FF280,000 (approximately US$50,000).

Racing career
Winner of a maiden race at age two in 1991, the following year the three-year-old Urban Sea won two listed races in her seven starts, capturing the French Prix de la Seine at Longchamp Racecourse in May 1992 and the Challenge d'Or Piaget at Deauville-La Touques Racecourse. In June, Urban Sea ran in two Group One races, finishing sixth in the Prix de Diane and third in the Prix Vermeille. She was shipped to Düsseldorf, Germany where she finished third in the Arag Preis (German 1000 Guineas). Sent to North America in the fall to compete in races for fillies and mares, at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Urban Sea ran second to fellow French horse Hatoof in the 1992 E. P. Taylor Stakes. At Santa Anita Park in California, she finished last in the Yellow Ribbon Invitational Stakes.

Urban Sea began her 1993 campaign in March with a win in the Prix Exbury. She traveled to Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong in April, where she finished sixth in the Hong Kong Cup. Back in France, she was fifth in the Prix Jean de Chaudenay. After taking second place in the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot, she won a French listed race in July, and in August the Prix Gontaut-Biron. In October, Urban Sea made it three in a row when she scored an upset win in France's most prestigious race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. In the process of defeating fourteen Group 1 winners, including males, she was ridden in the Arc by Eric Saint-Martin, son of French jockey Yves Saint-Martin.

Following her Arc victory, Urban Sea was invited to compete in the Japan Cup at the end of November at Tokyo Racecourse, where she ran eighth.

Sent back to the track at age five, Urban Sea began her 1994 racing season in May with a win in the Prix d'Harcourt. She finished third in the Prix Ganay. In what proved to be her last race, she ran fourth in the Coronation Cup at Epsom Downs in England. A fetlock injury ended her racing career.

Breeding record
Owner David Tsui sent Urban Sea to Ireland as a broodmare for his Sunderland Holdings, where she became one of the world's most successful broodmares. Her 1997 filly, Melikah, was auctioned in 1998 for €1,500,000, the highest-ever price paid for a yearling at the Deauville sales; she won the Pretty Polly Stakes. Her 1998 colt, Galileo, won the Derby and Irish Derby, plus the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. As a result, Urban Sea was named the 2001 Broodmare of the Year in both England and Ireland. Her 2002 filly, My Typhoon, set a record price for a filly foal of US$2,955,000 when sold at the Tattersalls Sale, and became a Grade I winner in the United States. When Urban Sea's 2006 foal Sea the Stars won The Derby in 2009, she became one of the few mares to have foaled two Derby winners – the last mare to have done so was Windmill Girl, the dam of Blakeney (1969) and Morston (1973). Sea The Stars also won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, and Urban Sea became only the second Arc de Triomphe-winning mare to foal a winner of that race (Detroit, the dam of Carnegie, is the other).

In 2009, Urban Sea delivered a bay colt by Invincible Spirit, later named Born to Sea. She died on 2 March 2009 as a complication of foaling.

Urban Sea's importance as a broodmare has been magnified by the success of her offspring at stud. In particular, Galileo was the leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 2008 and from 2010 through 2018 inclusive. Multiple classic winners, including the undefeated Frankel, descend from Urban Sea through Galileo. Sea the Stars has also become an important sire, whose major winners include Stradivarius and Harzand. Her four daughters have all become stakes-producing broodmares as well.

The 2018 Derby winner Masar is inbred to Urban Sea, descending from Galileo on his sire's side and from Melikah on his dam's side.

Foals
c = colt, f = filly

Pedigree

References

 Urban Sea at the Irish National Stud website (includes photo of Urban Sea and her 2005 foal, Sea's Legacy)
 Irish National Stud Stallion Brochure 2009 (includes photo of Urban Sea and her 2008 cover by Invincible Spirit)

External links
 Urban Sea's pedigree and partial racing stats

1989 racehorse births
2009 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in France
Arc winners
Thoroughbred family 9-h
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I can't say why, but I've developed an appetite for these books recently. I've been hanging out in the MG section of bookstores and the New York Public Library. I realize that sounds a little creepy, but my love for these books makes me too unself-conscious (is that a word?) to care. There is just so much going on in the MG section. Not physical activity, mind you. It's actually quieter than the rest of the book store, which is full of grown ups yakking on cell phones. In the MG section there is silence, because the level of concentration and focus that young people direct towards their books is intense. When they read, it's like these kids go into a trance. They are beglamoured, and lost deep in other worlds.
What is going on in the MG section is the books themselves. Their covers are full of bold colors and crazy, beguiling illustrations. There are no embossed brand-name author covers or subdued designs that an adult would be unembarrassed to hold on the subway. Instead there are these little windows into other worlds: kids running down pathways to the sea, mythical beasts, ghosts, explosions, dinosaurs, magic, darkness, outer space, princes and princesses. These covers aren't afraid to make you feel things just by looking at them, and they actually give you a hint at what the story inside is about. Unlike the covers of grown up books, MG covers don't have anything to hide. They are for little people who don't have the time to decode subtle social cues. What you see is what you get.
And the stories themselves are totally uninhibited flights of the imagination. Kai Meyer's Dark Reflections series is about two young girls who help defend a magical Venice from the undead army of a resurrected Pharaoh. Lloyd Alexander's Timecat is about a cat who leads a young boy on a multi-millennial time travel tour of how cats spread across the world from ancient Egypt. A Wrinkle in Time starts on a dark and stormy night when three witches (fates? norns?) arrive at the household of a set of siblings and whisk them away on a four book tour of other planets, other times, and other earths. Are you intrigued yet? And all of these books actually deliver on their promises, or else they'd never make it with their demanding audience. You can't promise monsters and magic to an 11 year old and then give him metaphors. Like their covers, these books are honest. Good is good, evil is evil, magic is magic, wonders are promised and wonders are seen.
Why do I love MG fiction so much? Perhaps because I relish the art of the chapter cliffhanger, and MG books don't disappoint in this department. I also love the power of great illustrations to fire the imagination. But most of all, I love them because it was MG books that forever hooked me on fiction. There is a long-out-of-print chapter book called Nicobobinus that my father read aloud to me when I was a boy. I reread it every year and it still thrills me. It's about Nicobobinus ("nik-oh-bo-bean-us"), a boy who lives in Venice whose leg gets turned to gold in a marvelous, magical accident. He has to go to the land of dragons to find a cure and is assisted in his quest by his brave and brash best friend Rosie. They meet some wonderful folks along the way, including a mad abbot, a sailor who sails on waves of dirt and rocks, and a shadowy figure named Basilcat, who commands a black ship with a mind of its own. Every few pages there is an illustration by Michael Foreman, whose lush watercolors still go straight to my heart. If you ever see a copy, snap it up. It's a lost classic.
I also love the masterpieces of middle grade horror by John Bellairs, starting with The House with the Clock in its Walls, illustrated by no less than Edward Gorey. Bellairs' books collided with my coalescing personality just in time to turn me into an Anglophilic, ghost story loving, tea drinking, mystery loving, bookish little guy. Or perhaps they just affirmed what I was already becoming. In 1990s suburban California, I was a weird little dude much in need of some affirmation.
I cannot stress enough the power these books had over my imagination. I remember straining my eyes to finish the last pages of Bellairs' The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull in the fading twilight of a drive with my parents, somewhere between Santa Fe and the mountains of western Colorado. I don't think I've felt the same primal hunger to get to the resolution of a story with quite so much force since then, nor have I felt so totally transported by mere words.
Follow up: What were your favorite books when you were 8-12?