Hal Houston practices in the area of complex commercial litigation, focusing on litigating business torts, banking-related disputes, real property disputes, and railroad-related disputes on behalf of commercial lenders, businesses, and railroads in state and federal courts as well as administrative proceedings.
His experience includes all phases of litigation from pre-suit negotiation, through discovery and motion practice, including drafting dispositive motions and briefing, to handling trials and appeals, and appellate oral arguments. In 2015, Hal served as a law clerk for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Hal gained experience at a full-service business law firm located in Jacksonville prior to joining McGuireWoods. He also served as a legal intern for the Honorable Susan Black of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and for CSX Intermodal Terminals, Inc.
Hal earned his Juris Doctor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law where he was selected as a Florida Gubernatorial Fellow, Florida's most prestigious fellowship for public service and leadership, and worked at the Florida Department of Management Services, Purchasing Division, on a project to standardize the Florida's procurement processes for which he received the Prudential-Davis Productivity Award.
Representation of several large lending and mortgage servicing institutions in consumer financial services litigation, including large complex cases involving mortgaged-backed securities and debt collection disputes.
Representation of large banking institution as escalation counsel handling a variety of issues concerning mortgage servicing litigation and other high exposure issues.
Representation of Class I railroad in a variety of complex litigation matters, including issues related to federal preemption, real estate litigation, administrative law disputes, and contract disputes.
Representation of several sophisticated clients in a variety of real property litigation matters including commercial foreclosures, quiet title actions, land use, imminent domain, and easement disputes.


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Brouthers, Lance Eliot (1986), "Parties, ideology and elections: The politics of federal revenues and expenditures forecasting," International Journal of Public Administration, 8, 289-314.
An examination of federal revenue and expenditure forecasts from 1950-1984. Democratic administrations overestimated the deficits and Republicans underestimated them.
Buchanan, William (1986) ,"Election predictions: An empirical assessment,"Public Opinion Quarterly. 50. 222-227.
Sampling errors represented only about one-half of total	forecasting error.
Fair, Ray, Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things, Stanford University Press; Stanford, CA 2002), International Journal for Forecasting, 19, 760-761.
Frank, Howard A.and Jane McCollough (1992), "Municipal forecasting practice: 'Demand' and 'supply' side perspectives,"International Journal of Public Administration, 15, 1669-1696.
Local government finance officers do not rely heavily on formal forecasting methods.
Greenwald, Anthony G., C. G. Carnot, R. Beach, and B. Young (1987), "Increasing voting behavior by asking people if they expect to vote," Journal of Applied Psychology, 72, 315-318.
If people are asked whether they will vote, they are more likely to vote.
Lau, Richard R. (1994), "An analysis of the accuracy of 'trial heat' polls during the 1992 presidential election," Public Opinion Quarterly, 58, 2-20.
Examined 56 national surveys - sample size of polls had little relationship to accuracy.
Lemert, James B. (1986), "Picking the winners: Politician vs. voter predictions of two controversial ballot measures,"Public Opinion Quarterly 50, 208-221.
Expert surveys of politicians were more accurate than voter polls.
Peverill, Squire (1988)>, "Why the 1936 Literary Digest Poll Failed?,"Public Opinion Quarterly, 52, 125-133.
Although sampling error was part of the failure, the primary culprit was non-response bias.
Shamir, Jacob (1986), "Pre-election polls in Israel: Structural constraints on accuracy,"Public Opinion Quarterly 50, 62-75.
Independent pollsters were much more accurate than pollsters hired by advocates.
Simonton, Dean Keith (1981), "Presidential greatness and performance: can we predict leadership in the White House?" Journal of Personality, 49, 306-323.
Study of the leadership of 38 presidents: IQ, education, age, and political experience had no relationship to success as a president.
Weimann, Gabriel (1990), "The obsession to forecast: Pre-election polls in the Israeli press," Public Opinion Quarterly, 54, 396-408.
Political polls that report their methodology turned out to be much more accurate than those that did not.
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Kate Spade has finally found a buyer, and it's the most obvious one. The company announced Monday that Coach had agreed to buy it for $18.50 per share, below what some analysts had expecting. The companies expect the deal to close in the third quarter. Kate's stock now trades at $18.38, indicating a high degree of investor confidence that the deal will go through.
What's less certain is what the merger will mean for investors, and shoppers, assuming the deal is approved. During a conference call Monday morning, Coach and Kate Spade executives shed some light on what the combined company would look like. Here are some big issues they addressed.
Why did Coach do it? Coach thinks it can drive significant synergies, like cost savings, by merging its business with Kate Spade's. CFO Kevin Wills said he expects Coach to realize $50 million a year in synergies by 2020, as the combined company benefits from increased scale, which could lower the cost of producing goods.
Why Kate Spade? Perhaps Kate Spade seemed an obvious choice, since it and Coach both sell handbags. But luxury shoe company Jimmy Choo was also on the market, and Coach already owns shoe-maker Stuart Weitzman. Management said Kate's popularity with millennials was appealing. "It allows us to go after a new customer segment, and specially with its strength with the millennial," the company said. About 60% of Kate's customers are millennials, by Coach's estimates.
Kate Spade has finally found a buyer, and it's the most obvious one.


What is Chronic Disorganization (CD)?
CD is not a mental or medical condition; it's a quality of life issue.
The chronically disorganized individual has usually a poor sense of time. They are late for appointments, and even their children are late for school. The reason for being late is mostly because of inability to find misplaced items, they are easy to distract, and have no sense of how long certain tasks and projects will take. The chronic disorganized individual has a hard time finishing what they started.
A lot of times the CD or ADD client is not just chronically disorganized. This disorder could also be accompanied by other conditions; for example OCD, depression, etc. This individual is holding on to everything they own. They can't let go and have to get more (Hoarding accompanied by Affluenza).
There are many factors that can cause chronic disorganization: Clutter in general, chronic or not is only a symptom of what is really going on in an individual's life.
An individual is considered CD, if there is a history of disorganization and all efforts of self-help to change failed in such a way that it affects ones daily life.
More and more people in North America have been diagnosed with some form of CD (Chronic Disorganization). There are several factors for certain conditions.
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Confirmit and Clarabridge today announced a new partnership that will enable enterprises to fully leverage unstructured data to drive voice of the customer, customer experience management, and research programs, while producing tangible returns on investment.
Confirmit's text analytics solution, powered by Clarabridge, now enables users to transform text-based customer feedback into valuable business insights to make smart business decisions and to create successful VoC and CEM programs, while producing quantifiable ROI. This feedback seamlessly integrates into Confirmit's multichannel VoC and Market Research platform.
"With the rapid proliferation of unstructured data, companies must have a sustainable mechanism for sentiment and text analytics," said Henning Hansen, president and CEO, Confirmit. "Our partnership with Clarabridge, whose sophisticated text analytics software suite is used as a standard across Fortune 1000 enterprises, provides organizations with an integrated platform for a single view of the customer experience. The collaboration demonstrates our commitment to delivering cutting-edge technology solutions to our customers."
"To attain competitive advantage in today's business environment, businesses must automate and centralize the collection, analysis and organization of all feedback data-structured and unstructured," added Sid Banerjee, CEO of Clarabridge. "The multichannel Confirmit solution enables enterprises to eliminate data silos and view all data in a single platform."
The acquisition brings together two companies to with solid backgrounds in the voice of the customer market.


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Home / Health News / Retail stores see most workplace COVID-19 outbreaks in Montreal
Retail stores see most workplace COVID-19 outbreaks in Montreal
Stores account for 10 of the 38 active workplace outbreaks on the island.
Linda Gyulai, Montreal Gazette,
The Montreal public health department provided the breakdown of workplace cases in response to a request by the Montreal Gazette. MARIE-FRANCE COALLIER / MONTREAL GAZETTE FILES
Retail stores are seeing the largest number of workplace COVID-19 outbreaks among employees on the island of Montreal, according to new data provided by the Montreal regional public health department.
As of Tuesday, 98 employees in 38 workplaces were confirmed to have COVID-19, all traced back to their place of employment, the figures show.
The single largest category of establishment where workers were exposed to the novel coronavirus as of this week is stores, which account for 10 of the 38 active workplace outbreaks on the island.
The public health department provided the breakdown of workplace cases on Wednesday in response to a request by the Montreal Gazette. The 38 workplaces do not include hospitals, long-term care facilities and schools, which have separate case counts.
The department defines "outbreak" as two cases or more.
A separate category of workplace called "other commercial and personal services" accounts for 17 active outbreaks. The category includes everything from bars to hair salons and gyms.
Four restaurants and one bar on the island have active outbreaks among workers, according to the figures. Two gyms on the island also have outbreaks.
Premier François Legault 's announcement on Monday that restaurant dining rooms, bars, theatres, cinemas, museums and casinos were being ordered to close for 28 days as of Thursday in the greater Montreal region, Quebec City and the Chaudière-Appalaches region because they're now declared red zones under the province's COVID-19 alert system caused fury in those industries . The Association Restauration Québec accused the government of scapegoating restaurants, which will be permitted to offer only takeout and delivery, because the spread of the virus is mostly in homes.
Schools, gyms, hair salons and other businesses are allowed to remain open. Libraries can remain partially open, with only "contactless loans" allowed.
Among the other figures provided by the Montreal public health department on Wednesday, two "metal product" manufacturers on the island have workplace outbreaks.
One active outbreak is recorded in each of the remaining categories: public works and building construction; public administration; food and drink industry; furniture and furnishings industry; communications, energy transmission, public services; printing, publishing and related activities; teaching and related services; finance, insurance and real estate business; and medical and social services.
The company names and locations where workplace outbreaks have occurred are confidential, Jean Nicolas Aubé, a spokesperson for the Montreal public health department, said. He also said he was unable to provide a further breakdown of outbreaks in the category of "other commercial and personal services," such as hair salons.
Since the spring, the province has provided age and gender breakdowns in COVID-19 data, along with the number of confirmed cases and deaths in a handful of settings: long-term care facilities, hospitals and prisons. Daycares and schools were added more recently. All other cases are considered "community transmission."
At a press conference on Tuesday, Montreal Public Health Director Mylène Drouin provided more detail for the island for the first time. She said more than half of the current COVID-19 cases in Montreal can be traced to social gatherings or transmission among families.
Drouin also announced the island had 38 outbreaks in workplaces, 27 in Montreal schools, six in daycares, nine in health-care facilities and long-term care residences and five in the community. The latter includes sports teams and a community centre.
Drouin said most of the outbreaks are small and "well-controlled at this time."
The workplace outbreaks, she said, are in some cases linked to break rooms and employees carpooling to work together. Drouin reminded workers to wear a mask and keep two metres away from each other.
However, the figures Drouin provided on Tuesday aren't posted on the Montreal public health department's website.
And the level of detail concerning COVID-19 cases seems to vary from one regional public health department in the province to another.
For example, on top of providing age and gender breakdowns, the Estrie public health department , covering the Eastern Townships, provides the number of cases by setting where exposure has been traced, including: businesses that deal directly with clients; businesses that don't deal directly with clients; "other settings," which can include sports teams; hospitals and long-term care facilities; schools; daycares; and "accommodations," which currently includes a retirement home and two intermediate resource homes.
The Estrie public health department defines an outbreak as two or more confirmed cases in a setting within 14 days of each other without another explanation found outside the setting.
The website of the Estrie public health department also lists areas that have "aggregates" of COVID-19 cases, which it defines as unusual groupings of cases in a geographic zone during a specific time period.
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«Легенда про Дівочу вежу» () — радянський німий фільм 1924 року, режисера Володимира Баллюзека. Відновлений в 2011 році з переформатуванням з німого у звукове кіно.

Сюжет
Сюжет фільму запозичений з азербайджанської легенди про Дівочу вежу Старе Баку. Хан Самед знаходиться в неспокійному стані через вагітність своєї дружини, яка народила дочку і сама померла при пологах. Хан Самед розлютився на дочку, Гульнару, через те, що народившись, вона погубила найдорожче, що у нього було, дружину і відмовився від неї. Дочка виросла безпритульною, але дуже красивою. Коли Хан Самед знову зустрів Гульнару, його вже чекала красуня, у якій він впізнав свою покійну дружину. Гульнара трагічно гине.

У ролях

 Софія Жозеффі — Джаваїр / Гюльнар
 Ваграм Папазян — Самед-хан
 Ханафі Терегулов — Ширванський хан
 Ісмахл Ідаятзаде — Зохраб
 Ю. Муромський — Керім
 Ібрагім Азері — візир Самед-хана
 Рза Дараблі — радник
 Кязім Зія — мулла
 О. Заріф'ян — епізод
 Агасадих Герайбейлі — лікар
 Б. Ангарська — епізод
 Алекпер Гусейн-заде — епізод
 Мовсун Санані — епізод
 Георгій Парісашвілі — епізод
 Гаджимамед Кафказли — епізод
 Маджид Шамхалов — епізод
 Рустам Казімов — епізод
 Хейрі Амірзаде — епізод

Знімальна група
 Автор сценарію: Н. Бреслав-Лур'є
 Режисер-постановник: Володимир Баллюзек
 Оператор-постановник: Володимир Лемке
 Художник-постановник: Володимир Баллюзек
 Художник-гример: Георгій Парісашвілі
 Помічник режисера: Мамед Алілі

Посилання

Фільми СРСР 1924
Фільми-драми СРСР
Фільми Володимира Баллюзека

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VIDEO: Kendall & Kylie Jenner Lip-Sync Taylor Swift's "Better Than Revenge"
Kendall and Kylie Jenner can not only model, but they're also pretty good at lip-syncing Taylor Swift's "Better Than Revenge" song!
The youngest sisters of the Kardashian girls filmed their own video for Taylor's song with the help of some of their friends.
And their work did not go unnoticed.
And in case you missed their video for Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA," watch it below!


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Q: How to remove specific group from a plot but plot stays the same in R? data('iris')
pca.irix <- PCA(iris[ ,1:4])
gg <- factoextra::fviz_pca_biplot(X = pca.irix,
                             # samples
                             fill.ind = iris$Species, col.ind = 'black',
                             pointshape = 21, pointsize = 1.5,
                             geom.ind = 'point', repel = T,
                             geom.var = FALSE )

I would like to obtain a plot that is exactly like the plot above but without the specie setosa.
I started doing this, but do not know how to continue
setosa_wo <- iris %>%
             filter(Species != 'setosa')

gg + scale_x_continuous(limits = c((-2), 2)) + scale_y_continuous(limits = c((-2), 2))

How to remove a colored group from a plot? But the plot should stay the same.

A: One approach to remove one or any number of groups from the plot would be to filter the data used for the layers, e.g. having a look at gg$layers show that your PCA plot is composed of six layers, however only in the first two of the layers are the groups used as fill color. Therefore I simply filtered the data for these two layers which gives me a plot where setosa is removed.
EDIT Following the suggestion by @DaveArmstrong I added his code to fix the ranges of the axes on the original ranges and addtionally added the original colors
library(FactoMineR)
library(ggplot2)

pca.irix <- PCA(iris[ ,1:4])

gg <- factoextra::fviz_pca_biplot(X = pca.irix,
                                  # samples
                                  fill.ind = iris$Species, col.ind = 'black',
                                  pointshape = 21, pointsize = 1.5,
                                  geom.ind = 'point', repel = T,
                                  geom.var = FALSE )

# First: Get the ranges
yrg <- ggplot2::layer_scales(gg)$y$range$range
xrg <- ggplot2::layer_scales(gg)$x$range$range

# Filter the data
gg$layers[[1]]$data <- dplyr::filter(gg$layers[[1]]$data, Fill. != "setosa")
gg$layers[[2]]$data <- dplyr::filter(gg$layers[[2]]$data, Fill. != "setosa")

gg +
  # Set the limits to the original ones
  ggplot2::coord_cartesian(xlim=xrg, ylim=yrg, expand=FALSE) +
  # Add orignial colors
  ggplot2::scale_fill_manual(values = scales::hue_pal()(3)[2:3])

Created on 2020-10-16 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

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Running basketball drills is an excellent way to improve your in-game skill set. It's only with repeated practice that you can get better at many aspects of the mighty game of hoops. When failing to practice, it's important to get better during a single game because it just doesn't last long enough. You also don't get enough time on-ball to develop new skills either. This is why drills are so important to ballers who are intent on becoming more effective on the court.
With form shooting, you only get better when you practice. Michael Jordan was legendary for practicing his shots. He still missed thousands of shots at the hoop over his long career, but he's still remembered as one of the best players in history along with Larry Bird. Michael Jordan recommend for more hoop practice before going to court,Michael Jordan basketball practice tips available at https://www.probasketballtroops.com/.
Develop muscle memory by practicing over and over until the ball feels like an extension of your hand. Practice shooting with two hands and one handed too. Try different stances as if going for a 3-pointer or taking a shot somewhere on the court with players swarming about to knock the ball out of your hand. It you can, emulate the stress of opposing players by having your team try to knock the ball from you as you take the shot. This makes the practice time more real and transferrable onto the court during a game.
Catching a rebound ball to take possession and move forward toward the opposing team's hoop is a key skill. This require practice with two or more players participating to have balls thrown forward and catch them as a rebound ball. Learning and teaching your body to twist and turn and used to moving quickly to take advantage of fumbles and forced mistakes by opposing players (or your own team too).
Learning to dribble the ball across the court is a vital skill. It's also something that is worth practicing with either hand to avoid one hand being more dominant than the other.
Focus on movement while dribbling as well as dribbling on the spot. Vary up your movement to capture what it's truly like while moving deftly past opposing players.
Learn to dribble up and down the court. Avoid having favorite lanes to push down.
Don't hog the ball. An effective player is able to read the court and know when they're hitting a roadblock. They can see who on their team is open to a pass and when they're in a better situation to advance closer to the hoop than they are.
Practice with two or more players to move and pass. Practice stationary passes as well. Get used to releasing the ball and passing accurately either directly to another stationary player or to where they're going to be. Only with dedication can you become a reliable passer of the ball and know when and where it is the best time to do so.
Practice makes perfect when it comes to playing ball. There is no substitute.


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Improvement and transformation at St Therese's designed to drive our focus on wellbeing and learning for all students is being inspired by the principles of Reggio Emilia. We invite you to join us on our Reggio Emilia journey.
Our moral imperative is simple; we want to raise the bar on student wellbeing and learning for ALL students so that they can achieve and be the best version of themselves.
Like all schools, we offer the Australian curriculum that engages in English, Maths, Science and Technology. As a Catholic school, we offer a holistic development of the whole child – intellectually, spiritually, socially, emotionally and physically. Students are encouraged to value diversity, develop a sense of social justice and become valued, contributing members of society.
At St Therese's, we combine our proud history and strong foundations with a contemporary thirst for lifelong learning and continual improvement. We have an emphasis on literacy and numeracy and a focus on the arts; particularly visual art and dance. To engage our students fully in the curriculum we provide a Chinese emersion programme where our students engage in learning Chinese from Prep to Year 6. And in Year 6 they have an opportunity to travel to our sister school in Taiwan to go to school there for a week and live with a school family.
As a parent considering whether to enrol your child at St Therese's, you may have many questions around Catholic school enrolment, like "Does my child have to be Catholic?" "Is it expensive?" "What if I can't afford it?" "Is there a catchment area?" Please visit Cairns Catholic Education's website and read the Mythbusting FAQs for the answer to these and other questions.
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The data collected by the chemical/physical monitoring programs is stored in both national and state databases, click below for a description and link to each database. Mapping tools are also available to allow users to view data spatially. Users can also learn more about reports produced using data from chemical/physical monitoring efforts.
The National Water Quality Portal is a cooperative service sponsored by the National Water Quality Monitoring Council, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Geological Survey (USGS). It serves data collected by over 400 state, federal, tribal and local agencies. Data is acquired from EPA's STORET data warehouse, USGS' NWIS database and the USDA ARS STEWARDS database system. Data from BFBM's chemical/physical monitoring programs is housed on either the NWIS or STORET databases (descriptions of both can be found below). Therefore, the National Water Quality Portal should be used to retrieve a complete data set.
National Water Information System, is a national database maintained by the United States Geological Survey which houses chemical/physical data for streams, lakes and groundwater in addition to surface water flow, water levels in streams and lakes, and ground water levels in wells. Data from the cooperative BFBM-USGS Ambient Surface Water Monitoring Network, can be retrieved here in addition to the National Water Quality Portal.
Formerly known as STORET, the Water Quality Exchange, is EPA's repository for water quality, biological, and physical data. Also included in this data warehouse are water quality habitat, metrics and indices. Data from BFBM's chemical/physical monitoring programs excluding New Jersey's Ambient Surface Water Monitoring Network can be downloaded through here in addition to the National Water Quality Portal.
DEP-DataMiner produces customized documents based on a set of criteria that users enter. Visitors can use DataMiner to search the NJDEP's Water Quality Data Exchange system for data and view results based on monitoring locations, parameters, and/or a beginning and end date. This information can be found by selecting the "Ambient Water Quality" option under Report Category.
DEP´s interactive web mapping application, NJ-Geoweb users can view water quality data related to sampling locations on the map. Users can search data by county/municipality and watershed to see chemical (along with biological and habitat) results in tables that can be copied and pasted into desktop software programs. Chemical/physical monitoring information can be found under the Ambient Water Monitoring profile.
This interactive map displays monitoring locations (both active and nonactive) sampled by BFBM's chemical/physical program, the Bureau of Marine Water Monitoring, and other partners for the Barnegat Bay monitoring program. Clicking on a monitoring location allows users to see the site name, location, and photos of the site. The map can also be used to access chemical/physical data collected during intensive sampling from 2011-2012.
Data from the year 2010 to present is made available to the public at the Division of Water Monitoring & Standards Continuous Data Monitoring website. This data, along with more information on the Division-wide effort for continuous monitoring, can be found by clicking the button below. Data prior to 2010 is available through the National Water Quality Portal as summary statistics (minimum value, maximum value, etc.). Please contact the Bureau for full data sets for this older data.
NJDEP recently commissioned a USGS study on state wide long-term trends in nutrient loading and other water quality characteristics. This studied utilized water quality data from the cooperative Ambient Surface Water Quality Monitoring Network over a four-decade period (1971-2011). USGS analyzed more than 82,000 data points collected over this time period from a variety of urban, suburban, agricultural and protected areas. The USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5176, Trends in the Quality of Water in New Jersey Streams, Water Years 1971-2011, is available for download here.
NJDEP's Division of Science and Research is responsible for periodic assessments of environmental conditions using measures or indicators of environmental health. To view the Surface Water Quality section of the Environmental Trends Report, click here.
In accordance with the Clean Water Act, data from monitoring programs is used to assess attainment of the water body's intended uses in the New Jersey Integrated Water Quality Assessment Report (305(b) and 303(d)). The 305(b) report gives the status of overall water quality and support of designated uses (i.e. recreation and water supply) in the state. The 303(d) list identifies waters that do not meet surface water quality standards. A new report is released after each assessment cycle (every 2 years). The most recent report along with a more detailed explanation can be found here. Additionally, reports from previous recent assessments cycles are available for viewing and download under the "previous assessments" tab. Also included here are historic assessment reports dating back to 1975.
The Bureau of Environmental Analysis, Restoration and Standards is responsible for New Jersey's Surface Water Quality Standards. These standards establish designated uses, classify streams based on uses, designate antidegradation categories, and develop water quality criteria to protect those uses.


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BUGS BUNNY: 80TH ANNIVERSARY BLU-RAY™ REVEALED FROM WBHE!
FEATURING 60 CLASSIC THEATRICAL SHORTS ON DIGITAL AND BLU-RAY™
WILL BE AVAILABLE IN A COLLECTOR'S GIFT SET THAT INCLUDES A FULL-SIZE GLITTER FUNKO FIGURE ON NOVEMBER 3, 2020 FROM WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Three-Disc Collection Features 60 Shorts Along with Bonus Content
Including 10 Episodes of Looney Tunes Cartoons, A Documentary and Collectible Memorabilia
BURBANK, CA (July 24, 2020) -- Eh, what's up Doc? It's Bugs Bunny's 80th anniversary! Warner Bros. Home Entertainment invites you to celebrate that wascally wabbit's milestone anniversary with the release of Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection, a gorgeous collector's set featuring 60 theatrical shorts on Blu-ray™, plus a full-size Bugs Bunny glitter Funko figure. Available in stores on November 3, 2020, Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection will also include a Digital Copy of the 60 original theatrical shorts, a new documentary, 10 episodes of the Looney Tunes Cartoons - the new HBO Max series produced by Warner Bros. Animation - and an introductory letter from animation historian Jerry Beck. Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection is priced to own at $74.99 ($89.99 Canada).
Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection will be available to own on Digital for $39.99 SRP in the US and $49.99 SRP in Canada on November 3, 2020.
Bugs Bunny, one of animation's most recognizable characters, first hopped onto the screen in 1940 and he's been a pop-culture icon ever since. More than eight generations have enjoyed the timeless antics of the carrot-munching wise guy who always outsmarts his rivals. Cartoons, movies, TV, comics, music, sports and more – this wascally wabbit has done it all. Clever pranks and one-liners are here, along with interviews with today's most renowned animators, historians and superstars. Enjoy the full range of his silly and smart-alecky personality with 60 theatrical shorts restored and remastered to the original 4X3 aspect ratio on Blu-ray™ for the first time. It's just what the doctor – er, doc – ordered.
Some of the best and most beloved theatrical shorts from Bugs Bunny's illustrious career are featured on Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection. This compilation contains a variety of memorable works, by some of the most renowned animators in cartoon history including Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Friz Freleng, Tex Avery and others. Included are Academy Award®-nominated/winning shorts such as A Wild Hare and Knighty Knight Bugs. Other popular favorites include Baseball Bugs, Hair Raising Hare, Bugs Bunny Rides Again, 8 Ball Bunny, The Rabbit of Seville, What's Opera Doc? and much more. Fans will be captivated watching the evolution of the look and sound of Bugs Bunny's character through this set of classic shorts that spans several decades, starting with early works from the 1940s, to cartoons which debuted in the 1990s.
"Bugs Bunny is one of the most beloved, iconic cartoon characters in pop culture history. He has delighted generations of fans for 80 years. We have put together a beautiful collection with a wide-ranging assortment of cartoons that celebrate Bugs Bunny's incredible body of work," said Mary Ellen Thomas, Vice President Family & Animation Marketing. She added, "Fans of all ages will want to own this eye-catching collection, which commemorates Bugs Bunny's landmark anniversary with some of his most popular cartoons presented in high definition and also contains some fun extras, like a full-size glitter Funko figure, exclusively available in this giftset. This is a release no collector will want to miss."
Bonus Content:
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About Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) is one of the leading producers of animation in the entertainment industry, producing and developing projects for multiple platforms, both domestically and internationally. WBA's current series include Animaniacs for Hulu, Green Eggs and Ham for Netflix, Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, Jellystone, Little Ellen and Looney Tunes Cartoons for HBO Max, Harley Quinn and Young Justice: Outsiders for DC UNIVERSE, DC Super Hero Girls, Teen Titans Go!, ThunderCats Roar and Unikitty! for Cartoon Network, Bunnicula, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, New Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who?, The Tom and Jerry Show, Wacky Races and Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs! for Boomerang. WBA's full-length theatrical film, Teen Titans GO! to the Movies, was released in summer 2018. As home to the iconic animated characters from the DC, Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Looney Tunes libraries, WBA also produces highly successful animated films — including the DC Universe Movies — for DVD, Blu-ray® and digital media. One of the most-honored animation studios in history, WBA has won six Academy Awards®, 35 Emmy® Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, a BAFTA Children's Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parents' Choice Award, the HUMANITAS Prize, two Prism Awards and 20 Annie Awards (honoring excellence in animation).
About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) brings together Warner Bros. Entertainment's home video, digital distribution and interactive entertainment businesses in order to maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. An industry leader since its inception, WBHE oversees the global distribution of content through packaged goods (Blu-ray Disc™ and DVD) and digital media in the form of electronic sell-through and video-on-demand via cable, satellite, online and mobile channels, and is a significant developer and publisher for console and online video game titles worldwide. WBHE distributes its product through third party retail partners and licensees.
"THE MUPPET SHOW" STREAMS FEBRUARY 19 ONLY ON DISNEY+
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Our Products >> Books >> Truth about Adventist "Truth"
Truth about Adventist "Truth" lists what we consider to be the 10 main problems with Seventh-day Adventist theology and practice and ends with a gospel presentation.
"The time for a reassessment among evangelicals is long overdue, because for too many inattentive Christians, Adventism represents a profound danger hidden in plain sight. The evidence presented herein compels evangelicals to make an informed choice. Pastors, missionaries, relief agencies, and others need to face the potential problems of collaborating, on an organizational level, with a movement that affirms and promotes such error. Many of us who have served as missionaries in the Third World recognize the two faces of Adventism: indulging in cozy ecumenism in English-speaking cultures while engaging in bare-knuckle proselytizing nearly everywhere else. The Seventh-day Adventist Church cannot have it both ways.
Paul Carden, Executive Director The Centers for Apologetics Research San Juan Capistrano, California.
Paul Carden worked with Walter Martin for a number of years.


Bearded Design - Landing Pages - A freelance web design and development studio based in Seattle, WA.
A landing page designed to promote the 2011 Buick Lacrosse, this page was designed as part of a larger campaign.
Hyundai needed a landing page to promote the new 2010 Tucson on all their dealer websites.


Hush: In Search of Dominic Ward - is a co-op, room-scale, virtual reality, escape room experience. Take on the roles of Sam and his/her/their closest friend as they try to unravel the mystery of what has become of Dominic Ward (Sam's Uncle). The players are trapped in adjacent rooms filled with puzzles that will require cooperation and communication. Using the mic on your VR headset, communicate with each other in game to solve the puzzles. But beware. A creature is prowling through the rafters of these cells and it can hear you!
©2019 Valve Corporation. Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. All rights reserved.


The so-called dirty wood is ground up and transported to Port Mellon's Howe Sound Pulp and Paper where the waste is used to produce energy to run the mill, according to Chris Wyckham, the district's director of engineering.
"Clean wood and yard waste is ground up and used as a carbon-rich material in an organic waste processing facility in the Lower Mainland," Wyckham explained in an email.
While the clean wood chips could technically be put back into the forest, such as in newly logged areas, it wouldn't be cost or energy efficient to do so, he said.
"The cost of grinding up the material, trucking it out to the forest and then spreading it would cause the clean wood tipping fee to increase dramatically and deter people from separating it out from their garbage," he said.
The district encourages logging companies to leave their wood waste in the forest when they are logging, he added.
Treated wood waste is disposed of directly into the landfill.
"[Because] when it is burned, some of the arsenic is released into the air with the fly ash, which poses a hazard to human health," said Wyckham.
But the district is working on an energy-recovery alternative.
"The District of Squamish is currently working with consultants on an analysis of the energy recovery options for wood and/or other organic waste, which is expected to be presented to council in February 2017," said Wyckham.
What about the contaminated water– leachate – that the treated wood creates in the landfill?
Wyckham said until five years ago the leachate went directly into the environment.
In about 2011, closed portions of the landfill were tarped and a liner was installed under new garbage.
"This liner pipes the leachate directly to the district's Wastewater Treatment Plant," Wyckham said. Some of the contaminant will make its way into our rivers and oceans, he acknowledged, but the waste that is ultimately discharged from the plant is tested regularly.
"Ideally we would be able to keep all contaminants out of the environment at any level, but there will always be an impact to the environment from the garbage that we all throw away," he said.
"Either way, the leachate will find its way to surface or ground water, so collection and processing, even if imperfect, is far better than what was at the landfill five years ago.


The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office is investigating an armed robbery at occurred at the Robeks store in Cascades on Thursday night.
In the case, a white male wearing a black ski mask, a black sweater and camouflage pants entered the store on Southbank Street, displayed a firearm and demanded money. He fled the store with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Anyone with information in the case should contact Det. S. Schochet at 703-777-0475.


How to check the signature of the core dump.
The following command displays the vital information about the crash. You can verify the time of crash, Junos code that was running, and the reason for the core-dump.
/volume/buildtools/bin/jdebug core-ADPC1.gz.core.3 [ (gdb) source /volume/build/junos/11.2/release/11.2R1.10/src/pfe/tools/gdb/pfe_ukern.gdb < Make sure you have the respective source file for the required Junos version. (gdb) show_crash_info adpc Printing adpc_err_buf System Exception: Vector/Code 0x00100, Signal 11 Event occurred at: Oct 25 02:22:25.798840 < The time when the core-dump occurred Juniper Embedded Microkernel Version 11.2R1.10 < Junos code that was running Built by builder on 2011-07-29 07:47:05 UTC Copyright (C) 1998-2011, Juniper Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Reason string: "Critical Exception" Context: Thread (TTP Receive) DDR SDRAM Error: Multi-bit ECC error < This is an ECC error;so it is a hardware issue.
(gdb) source /volume/build/junos/11.2/release/11.2R1.10/src/pfe/tools/gdb/pfe_ukern.gdb < Make sure you have the respective source file for the required Junos version.
Copyright (C) 1998-2011, Juniper Networks, Inc.
DDR SDRAM Error: Multi-bit ECC error < This is an ECC error;so it is a hardware issue.


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Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
A. hole B. home C. come D. hold
A. hole
B. home
C. come
D. hold
A. watched B. cleaned C. stopped D. picked
A. watched
B. cleaned
C. stopped
D. picked
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
A. admit B. suggest C. remind D. manage
A. admit
B. suggest
C. remind
D. manage
A. approval B. applicant C. energy D. influence
A. approval
B. applicant
C. energy
D. influence
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
More and more investors are pouring ________ money into food and beverage start-ups.
A. the
B. a
C. an
D. x
Do you think there _____ less conflict in the world if all people spoke the same language?
A. were
B. will be
C. would be
D. are
Linda rarely goes to school by bike, but today she ______ a bike.
A. rides
B. is riding
C. is going to be ride
D. will ride
John has worked very late at night these days, ______ he is physically exhausted.
A. yet
B. hence
C. because
D. so
I agree ______ one point with Chris: it will be hard for us to walk 80km.
A. in
B. of
C. on
D. for
____________________, the ancient place is still popular with modern tourists.
A. Building thousands of years ago
B. It was built thousands of years ago
C. To have built thousands of years ago
D. Built thousands of years ago
Once ___________ in the UK, the book will definitely win a number of awards in regional book fairs.
A. is published
B. having published
C. published
D. publishing
Your hair needs _______. You'd better have it done tomorrow.
A. cut
B. to cut
C. being cut
D. cutting
He was pleased that things were going on _______.
A. satisfied
B. satisfactorily
C. satisfying
D. satisfaction
Although our opinions on many things ______, we still maintain a good relationship with each other.
A. differ
B. receive
C. maintain
D. separate
Daniel ______ a better understanding of Algebra than we do.
A. makes
C. takes
D. gives
The pointless war between the two countries left thousands of people dead and seriously _______.
A. injured
B. wounded
C. spoilt
D. damaged
Eager to be able to discuss my work _____ in French, I hired a tutor to help polish my language skills.
A. expressively
B. articulately
C. ambiguously
D. understandably
The sight of his pale face brought ________ to me how ill he really was.
A. place
B. house
C. life
D. home
Mark the Letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
In a study, more Asian students than American students hold a belief that a husband is obliged to tell his wife his whereabouts if he comes home late.
A. urged
B. free
C. required
D. suggested
Though I persuaded my boss to solve a very serious problem in the new management system, he just made light of it.
A. completely ignored
B. treated as important
C. disagreed with
D. discovered by chance
Mark the Letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Students from that university have conducted a survey to find out the most effective study habit.
A. organized
C. encouraged
D. proposed
Some operations may have to be halted unless more blood donors come forward to help.
A. offer
B. claim
C. attempt
D. refuse
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
Bill is talking to his colleague.
Bill: "_________, Jack?" – Jack: "Fine! I have just got a promotion."
A. What happened
B. What are you doing
C. How are you doing
D. How come
Two students are talking in a new class.
Student 1: "Excuse me, is anybody sitting here?" – Student 2: "____________"
A. No, thanks.
B. Yes, I am so glad.
C. Sorry, the seat is taken.
D. Yes, yes. You can sit here.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. Tan grew up in Northern California, (25) _______ when her father and older brother both died from brain tumors in 1966, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Europe, where she attended high school in Montreux, Switzerland. She returned to the United States for college. After college, Tan worked as a language development consultant and as a corporate freelance writer. In 1985, she wrote the story "Rules of the Game" for a writing workshop, which laid the early (26) _______ for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. Published in 1989, the book explored the (27) _______ between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters, and became the longest-running New York Times bestseller for that year. The Joy Luck Club received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award. It has been translated into 25 languages, including Chinese, and was made into a major motion picture for (28) _______ Tan co-wrote the screenplay. Tan's other works have also been (29) ______ into several different forms of media.
C. so
D. but
A. preparation
B. base
C. source
D. foundation
A. relate
B. relative
C. relationship
D. relatively
C. what
D. which
A. adjoined
B. adapted
C. adjusted
D. adopted
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Newspapers and television news programs always seem to report about the bad things happening in society. However, there is a place where readers can find some good news. That place is the website called HappyNews. The man behind HappyNews is Byron Reese. Reese set up HappyNews because he thought other news sources were giving people an unbalanced view of the world. Reese said about HappyNews, "The news media gives you a distorted view of the world by exaggerating bad news, misery, and despair. We're trying to balance out the scale."
Not everyone agrees with Reese's view, though. Many people think that news sources have a responsibility to provide news that is helpful to people. People need to know about issues or problems in today's society. Then they are better able to make informed decisions about things that affect their daily lives. Reese said that HappyNews is not trying to stop people from learning about issues or problems. HappyNews is just trying to provide a balanced picture of today's world.
By the end of its first month online, HappyNews had more than 70,000 unique readers. About 60 percent of those readers were women. Something else unique makes HappyNews different from any of the other news or information websites that are on the Internet. Unlike many other websites, HappyNews gets fan mail from its readers on a daily basis.
Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A. "Byron Reese Tells People How to Be Happy"
B. "Good News for a Change"
C. "Newspapers vs. Online News"
D. "Why Women Like HappyNews"
How is HappyNews different than other news sources?
A. All of the stories are written by Reese.
B. HappyNews does not exaggerate its stories.
C. Its stories are not about bad things.
D. The website only has stories about women.
The word "they" in paragraph 2 refers to _______.
A. sources
B. problems
C. people
D. issues
Why might some people NOT like HappyNews?
A. It doesn't tell them about important issues or problems.
B. Reese's stories are about misery and despair.
C. Some sources give a balanced view.
D. The stories are from around the world.
What does "exaggerating" mean in this reading?
A. improving
B. explaining
C. editing
D. worsening
No sooner had the first intrepid male aviators safely returned to Earth than it seemed that women, too, had been smitten by an urge to fly. From mere spectators, they became willing passengers and finally pilots in their own right, plotting their skills and daring line against the hazards of the air and the skepticism of their male counterparts. In doing so they enlarged the traditional bounds of a women's world, won for their sex a new sense of competence and achievement, and contributed handsomely to the progress of aviation.
But recognition of their abilities did not come easily. "Men do not believe us capable." The famed aviator Amelia Earhart once remarked to a friend. "Because we are women, seldom are we trusted to do an efficient job." Indeed old attitudes died hard: when Charles Lindbergh visited the Soviet Union in 1938 with his wife, Anne-herself a pilot and gifted proponent of aviation - he was astonished to discover both men and women flying in the Soviet Air Force.
Such conventional wisdom made it difficult for women to raise money for the up - to - date equipment they needed to compete on an equal basis with men. Yet they did compete, and often they triumphed finally despite the odds.
Ruth Law, whose 590 - mile flight from Chicago to Hornell, New York, set a new nonstop distance record in 1916, exemplified the resourcefulness and grit demanded of any woman who wanted to fly. And when she addressed the Aero Club of America after completing her historic journey, her plainspoken words testified to a universal human motivation that was unaffected by gender: "My flight was done with no expectation of reward," she declared, "just purely for the love of accomplishment."
A. A Long Flight
B. Women in Aviation History
C. Dangers Faced by Pilots
D. Women Spectators
According to the passage, women pilots were successful in all of the following EXCEPT___.
A. challenging the conventional role of women
B. contributing to the science of aviation
C. winning universal recognition from men
D. building the confidence of women
What can be inferred from the passage about the United States Air Force in 1938?
A. It had no women pilots.
B. It gave pilots handsome salaries.
C. It had old planes that were in need of repair.
D. It could not be trusted to do an efficient job.
In their efforts to compete with men, early women pilots had difficulty in ______.
A. addressing clubs
B. flying nonstop
C. setting records
D. raising money
According to the passage, who said that flying was done with no expectation of reward?
A. Amelia Earhart
B. Charles Lindbergh
C. Anne Lindbergh
D. Ruth Law
The word 'skepticism' is closest in meaning to _______.
A. hatred
B. doubt
C. support
D. surprise
The word 'addressed' can be best replaced by ________.
A. mailed
B. came back to
C. spoke to
D. consulted
The word 'counterparts' refers to ________.
A. passengers
B. pilots
C. skills
D. hazards
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Some people say often that using cars is not so convenient as using motorbikes.
A. say often
B. using car
D. as using motorbike
They are having their house being painted by a construction company.
A. having
B. their
C. being painted
D. construction
Transgender people are denied the ability to join the armed forces due to discriminating policies implemented by the government.
A. Transgender
B. are denied
C. armed forces
D. discriminating
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
"I agree that I am narrow-minded," said the manager.
A. The manager denied being narrow-minded.
B. The manager admitted being narrow-minded.
C. The manager refused to be narrow-minded.
D. The manager promised to be narrow-minded.
A supermarket is more convenient than a shopping centre.
A. A shopping centre is not as convenient as a supermarket.
B. A shopping centre is more convenient than a supermarket.
C. A supermarket is not as convenient as a shopping centre.
D. A supermarket is as inconvenient as a shopping centre.
It was a mistake for Tony to buy that house.
A. Tony couldn't have bought that house.
B. Tony can't have bought that house.
C. Tony needn't have bought that house.
D. Tony shouldn't have bought that house.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Julian dropped out of college after his first year. Now he regrets it.
A. Julian regrets not having dropped out of college after his first year.
B. Julian wishes he didn't drop out of college after his first year.
C. If only Julian hadn't dropped out of college after his first year.
D. Only if Julian had dropped out of college after his first year would he not regret it.
Seth informed us of his retirement from the company. He did it when arriving at the meeting.
A. Only after his retiring from the company did Seth tell us about his arrival at the meeting.
B. Not until Seth said to us that he would leave the company did he turn up at the meeting.
C. Hardly had Seth notified us of his retiring from the company when he arrived at the meeting.
D. No sooner had Seth arrived at the meeting than we were told about his leaving the company.


Preacher season 1 has gone for a brief hiatus and will not air its next episode on 29 May after airing the pilot episode last week. The dark comic drama by AMC is scheduled to return with episode 2 titled, See, on 5 June.
Click here to watch the Pilot episode of Preacher live online on the official website of AMC.
Following the life of a West Texas-based preacher, Jesse Custer played by Dominic Cooper, the AMC horror drama includes numerous elements between heaven and hell. With its eccentric combination of characters including a drunk preacher, his bada*s girlfriend and a lost vampire, the show has garnered some quality attention for its pilot episode that premiered last week.
The show began with the life of the preacher – with a dark past – being showcased. The comic drama later introduced fans to his ex-girlfriend Tulip starring Ruth Negga. Crazy and bloody are possibly the best terms to describe Tulip, who takes down villains with a touch of her signature humour.
Another interesting supernatural character introduced in the pilot episode was the Irish vagabond Cassidy played by Joe Gilgun, who happens to be a vampire as well. Judging by the way the premiere progressed there seem to be high chances that the three may form a partnership going ahead.
The premiere episode also established another major driving fact, that Jesse is now the host of Genesis, the otherworldly creature. With his newfound powers, Jesse will now embark on a mission in the upcoming episode to "preach", help people, and be one of the good guys. However, the unconventional preacher of Annville proceeds unaware of a certain mysterious duo, who are in search of him.
Episode 2 of Preachers Preacher will air on AMC on 5 June at 9pm EST.


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That's why at Buckingham Chiropractic our aim is to remove any unnecessary stress or tension and make you feel comfortable during your visit with our chiropractor.
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"When I Grow Up - The Pirate"
Author of The Scarecrow and the Tin-Man of Oz, illustrator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Denslow/s Mother Goose, etc.
Originally published in The Century Magazine, 1909.
As done in days of old.
Originally published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, July 6, 1919.
What bird, plus a letter of the alphabet, will give a game played by us all in the summertime?
And what body of water will give a gentleman's game?
And what structure on which we cross rivers will give a favorite lady's game?
Then see if you can fill in these blanks with the proper boats.
Arrives the busy little -----.


SCPA & SBSA Discussion Board • View topic - Pine & Ojai Mid-Day ? ?
Pine & Ojai Mid-Day ? ?
Do you have any weather condition tips and/or safety tips for launching Pine Mountain in Ojai during mid-afternoon (10:30AM-noon) in the summer? I'm itching to do XC flights from Pine in the summers, and this one looks like a great opportunity because my dad (who just retired from his career), wants to drive retrieve for me! However, I've only ever been to Pine for evening glass offs, which only had me going to land at the sand pile after a short while. I'd like to do midday in order to go places either on the Ojai range toward Fillmore or SB, or over the back of Pine to the Lockwood Valley. I picked Marty's brain a little last week, and he warned me of the "50/50" among other things in the desert valleys.
In my experience during glass offs with Chris Grantham, I've been told to get away from launch and proceed to the spine out front and to the right of launch, trying to intercept it above the broken Bonsai-looking pine tree. Cycles for launch were usually light and straight in. During midday, I imagine the cycles are a lot stronger (especially over the summer), and I've heard from Bruce Kirk that he experienced getting lifted straight up after launching midday one time. Is there anything else to watch out for on launch?
For wind forecasts, I've been looking at the Santa Barbara Airport winds aloft forecast by NOAA and the Topa Flyers lapse rate charts for balloon forecasts.
I've also been looking at a generic Weather Underground website for real-time conditions in Ojai town (Ojai City Public Works Yard at Elev. 713 ft.).
Re: Pine & Ojai Mid-Day ? ?
I'll try to post something more useful in the next week or 2, but just a few brief notes.
Pine is an omni directional flying site that sits at the juncture of multiple competing airmass. It is high, above the marine layer, and a stepping stone to the high meadows which can be good flat land thermal zones.
Mid-summer, the inland thermal draw is usually dominant resulting in too much midday wind from the south for PGs. The wind is feeding the inland thermal draw. You want to pick days that have a little north in the winds aloft forecast that can resist the inland draw. Most of the long distance flights from Pine are late Summer as the inland draw starts to relax from mid-August through September. Late spring and early summer (May through mid-June-ish) also sometimes yield less wind from the south.
Flight routes vary depending on the day. You can run the range low SB style 6 miles to Decision Point and back, or continue on across the "Chute" to Thorne Point (11 miles, not as easy to cross back), but most long distance flights are on days with big altitude where you want to think like a buzzard and zig along the meandering convergence seams. Lockwood Valley (high valley meadow) is the main draw and will pull from all directions down low.
Crossing I-5 is the biggest obstacle, and more problematic with increasing wind from the south. Going east across the Antelope Valley will vary depending on the day. Some days you will be on the south side, others the north, often down the middle, but most days you will need to angle northeast prior to reaching the more stable filling flow coming up the Santa Clara River (about midway between I-5 and Hwy 14). Late in the season you can sometimes go south of Edwards AFB, but most days you will be pushed north of the base.
Pine is often not flyable for PGs mid-day mid-summer due to the south wind but works better for HGs because they are faster.
Ojai is more reliable and soarable most days, but is usually below the big altitude threshold (it is in the more laminar filling flow that feeds the higher terrain to the north). The distance potential is limited unless you are willing to continue OTB behind the Topa Bluffs into the non-retrievable wilderness (toward Devils Heart). You can usually reach Fillmore, and on occasion connect to the desert along the Santa Clara River route, but the summer river air is relatively cold and heavy so it is rare to go much past Fillmore.
Ojai is a little inland, but not as much as Marshall. It is influenced by the marine air coming up the Ventura River. Marshall tends to work good late in the day, but Ojai will often work better earlier before the marine air fills in. Most pilots will plug upwind down-hill toward Nordhoff, which is usually toward more stable river air, but I recommend reaching eastbound uphill toward the Bluffs, away from the filling flow. The Topa Bluffs are a detour when racing on a short clock from Santa Barbara, but launching from Chiefs in the summer the course is limited so you have plenty of time to poke around and test for max altitude at the Topa Bluffs.
Going OTB from the Bluffs likely works on good days, but I've only done it a few times because it is into wilderness and I don't have the ability to hike out.
You can also reach back toward Thorne Point, Pine, or the Watershed Divide Convergence, but you will need a good day to make those connections.
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Deported Marine Veteran Granted U.S. Citizenship
Posted 1:41 PM, April 22, 2016, by Tribune Media Wire
SAN DIEGO - Five years after being forced to leave the United States, a man who served in the Iraq War as a U.S. Marine was granted citizenship Thursday.
Former U.S. Marine and Iraq War veteran Daniel Torres returned to the United States Wednesday afternoon - five years after he was forced to leave when it was discovered he was undocumented.
Torres' family originally came to the U.S. on a visa to visit, but once it expired his family stayed illegally. In 2007, Torres was living in Utah and used fake documents to enlist in the Marine Corps.
When Torres enlisted, he took an oath to support and uphold the constitution and defend the only country he called home.
"When I enlisted as an American citizen I knew the risks. You know it was something that could come up, it was something that could come back and hurt me. I was just hoping that I wasn't going to pay for that mistake for the rest of my life," said Torres.
After an honorable discharge from the Marines, Torres told KSWB he tried to get legal status, but failed and it became apparent he would have to leave the country.
Torres resided in Tijuana, Mexico where he lived and began attending law school.
Torres was granted permission to cross the San Diego-Tijuana border Wednesday afternoon in order to attend a hearing in federal court. A judge decided Thursday that Torres would be granted U.S. citizenship.
Torres was sworn in hours later at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in downtown San Diego.
"I've been waiting for this moment for five years," said Torres. "Officially, on paper now...And now I'm able to finally go home, and live the life that I feel like I need to live."
It's a day the 30-year-old thought would never come, but now he is proud to say he is officially an American.
"We don't choose where we are born. I didn't even choose to come to this country, but we can choose who we are loyal to and I'm loyal to the United States," said Torres.
And he's not the only one. According to the ACLU, there are thousands of deported veterans struggling to come home.
"They are for all intents and purposes already U.S. citizens except for the fact that that they don't have that piece of paper," said director of the ACLU of California's Immigrant Rights Attorney Jennie Pasquarella. "Through the attention that Daniel's case has gotten, our government will step forward and provide a solution… not just to ensure that veterans deported don't continue to be deported, but that those that have already been deported can have a pathway home."
Torres hopes to help others like him, in similar situations find their way home.
"I just am really, really happy, to be able to finally go home and be here where I feel I belong," said Torres.
Torres says he is anxious to see his family in Utah. He also plans on returning to Tijuana to finish the last year of law school.
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The Pacific Ocean is transitioning into the El Niño Phase. Ocean temperatures in the past month have warmed rapidly in the eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean and are now above the 0.5 C threshold that commonly designates El Niño conditions. This warming completes the transition from a weak La Niña as late as March 2009 through several months of neutral conditions in April, May, and June, to impending El Niño for the remainder of 2009. El Niño refers to a periodic (every 2-7 years) warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean along the equator from the coast of South America to the central Pacific.
Sea surface temperature departures from normal (degrees C) over The Pacific Ocean as of July 1.
Weakened trade winds over the central Pacific and abundant warm water beneath the surface indicate that surface temperatures will continue to warm in the next few months. Modeling centers around the world that predict El Niño/La Niña are in good agreement that waters will continue to warm and result in a weak to moderate El Niño over the next 3-6 months. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center issued an "El Niño watch" earlier in June, meaning that the development of El Niño is likely in the next 1-3 months. If El Niño fails to develop as forecasted, then neutral conditions will be the other possibility. There is virtually no chance for a return to La Niña in 2009.
What does El Niño mean for the rest of the summer? When an El Niño develops this early in the summer (they usually form in the fall and reach peak strength in the winter months), it has the potential to lead to drier than normal weather patterns across the Southeast in the second half of summer and in early fall. This tendency towards drier weather is strongest over Alabama, north Georgia, and the Carolinas where rainfall averages 10% to 20% less than normal in July and August during El Niño.
Over much of inland Alabama and Georgia, this is the time when evapotranspiration normally exceeds rainfall, meaning soil moisture, surface water, and groundwater levels usually decline until the following winter. Summer does bring frequent afternoon thundershowers, but the scattered nature of these convective rains render them insufficient for large scale recharge for the most part. With even drier conditions expected in the next 1-3 months due to the developing El Niño, there is the potential for drought conditions to re-emerge.
Over Florida, the summer rainy season should continue as usual. In general, the second half of the season is a little drier than the first half in south Florida, but more rainfall hits north Florida and the Panhandle. Any drying impacts from El Niño at this time should not greatly offset the summer accumulation of rain. Also, expect Gulf coastal areas to receive more frequent thunderstorms, as Gulf water temperatures are now warm enough to support nocturnal convection.
The recent heavy rains across North Florida, South Alabama, and South Georgia have saturated soils and filled area lakes, ponds, and rivers. This should provide sufficient moisture for planting field crops and greening of pastures for the next month or more. Standing water or saturated soils could hinder field preparations.The tropical season greatly affects rainfall amounts and coverage during late summer and fall in the Southeast. One or more tropical systems, whether a hurricanes, weak storms, or depressions, can bring beneficial rainfall that is a normal component of the climate. Tropical storm Faye brought torrential rainfall to the state of Florida last year and beneficial rains to Georgia and Alabama. El Niño lessens tropical activity in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico, so the threat of hurricanes or damaging tropical storms should be lower through the remainder of the season.
Looking ahead to the fall/winter. Once we shift seasons into the colder months, the more widely recognized impacts of El Niño in the Southeast begin to set in. Starting in November, El Niño affects the jet stream pattern in a manner that leads to frequent winter storms and frontal systems, cooler temperatures, cloudier skies, and much above average rainfall. In December through March El Niño typically leads to rainfall 40% to 50% greater than normal over the peninsula of Florida and up to 30% greater than normal over coastal Alabama, South Georgia, and coastal North and South Carolina. These winter impacts of El Niño are generally stronger than any other time of year and more consistent among past El Niño events; therefore the winter forecast can be viewed as more reliable.


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Industrywide, growing projects tend to slow severely over time. We have found instead that our approach increases delivery pace over time as we further master the application problem domain, and span greater ranges of desired functionality with increasingly generic behind-the-scenes solutions.
First time quality means that as each feature reaches completion, it already has a reasonably well thought out internal and external design, suitable to deploy and suitable to expand on in the future. To achieve this while using very current technologies, we iterate rapidly.
Our focus on crafted, quality code often means an application ends up even more flexible than its initial vision required. Yet at the same time, we ruthlessly apply the idea of "you aren't going to need it", to maximize the scope delivered. Flexible, production grade systems; not needless gold-plated systems.
Our agile development process borrows from many sources (including Scrum, Extreme Programming, and others), and adds our own distinct elements.
Meeting the customer's needs by delivering working software regularly is our highest priority. We implement features and systems incrementally.
Our development is test intensive; some code is written test-first.
We embrace change. Change is not the enemy, rather our ability to deal with new requirements effectively is a competitive advantage for our customers. We win customers away from change-averse organizations.
We check in working code frequently, and usually integrate our work on a daily basis.
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We have often been told that our mastery of tools is very impressive. This isn't an accident; it is core to how we deliver the benefits above. We relentlessly iterate and increase our mastery of our key development tools and stacks. Sometimes this happens behind the scenes, but in other cases it is very public, for example our Angular Boot Camp is both a product of, and a driver of, our mastery of Angular.
The conventional wisdom of "buy, don't build" is generally right. We counsel potential customers with that advice. However, our customers have often tried that approach and failed. To meet the most unusual needs, and to differentiate a product/project in the marketplace, reinventing one critical aspect of the needed software is sometimes the right move.
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Casting choices for Bible-movies: Black equals antagonist?
Easter is my favorite holiday for many reasons, but one of the most conspicuous are the Bible and Jesus specials that take over cable television before Easter Sunday. They're almost always the worst – the cheesy reenactments and questionable theology are cringe-worthy – still, I cannot get enough of them.
So, naturally I was glued to the TV this past weekend. Not that that there were as many television specials as usual. I didn't see "The Passion of the Christ" aired at all (I still watched it though! That's my movie, ya'll!), and the History Channel completely copped out by just re-airing the entirety of Mark Burnett and Roma Downey's Bible miniseries from a few years back.
I hadn't watched the Burnett-Downey project the first go-round, but because it was pretty much the only thing on last weekend, I stomached a few hours of it while waiting for CNN's "Finding Jesus" to come back on. I say "stomached" because it appears that I do actually have limits when it comes to these things. In addition to being a little bit . . . um, racist-y?, the series is just a mess. I was DONE when Abraham raised his knife over (a very British) Isaac in order to sacrifice him, and the latter responded by turning his head a few times and whimpering, "Father, please." Because that's how you fight for your life.
But back to the racism.
Perhaps you remember when the series got a lot of flak for the casting a President Obama lookalike as Satan; it was all over the Internet, and then the character was scrubbed from a subsequent version of the series. What I didn't hear at the time was any outrage at how the evil characters in the series tend to be non-white while the protagonists are all very white.
Granted, I could only watch two episodes last weekend, so maybe the pattern doesn't hold – but it's definitely a pattern up through Moses; my fiancé and I were even making a game of it, guessing with remarkable accuracy when a non-white actor would appear: Lot's wife; the Asian angel who is a martial arts expert and kills a lot of people in Sodom; Hagar, who's depicted as a temptress of sorts; and Samson, who is portrayed as a violent brute. Delilah is white, but that just plays on a whole other racialized stereotype of black men, so I don't think it's a plus for the series.
I've read that year's sequel does better, and I sincerely hope so because this trend is not singular to "The Bible." CNN's "Finding Jesus," which I largely enjoyed, fell into the same trap. Almost everyone was white except for a blackish Roman soldier who participates in the crucifixion. Maybe this is historical – I'm not an expert in diversity in the Roman Empire – but it was odd, especially given that there's a noticeable dearth of black theologians providing commentary. I can think of only one, but let me know if you remember others.
There's been whisper of Twitter outrage regarding "Finding Jesus," but I've never heard anything about non-Obama related race in "The Bible," which is 100 percent shocking to me. I mean, the race thing just smacks you in the face, and it's so utterly ridiculous as to be farcical. I expected to find all kinds of two-year-old essays on the matter, but I didn't.
So I guess what I want to say is, directors and producers, do better. You're ruining Easter.


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St. Thomas vs Butler
Here's how to watch the 2022 St. Thomas University (MN) vs. Butler University broadcast on FloFootball. The 2022 St. Thomas University (MN) vs. Butler University broadcast starts on Nov 19, 2022. Stream or cast from your desktop, mobile or TV. Now available on Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast and Apple TV. Don't forget to download the FloSports app on iOS or Android! If you can't watch live, catch up with the replays! Video footage from the event will be archived and stored in a video library for FloFootball subscribers to watch for the duration of their subscription.
A Look At The FCS Playoffs Landscape Ahead Of Week 11
Just two weeks remain in the FCS regular season, but the playoff picture remains far from clear. A variety of conference championship races will come down to the final score of games on the final day, and assorted t-large bubbles are guaranteed to burst.
Payton Award Hopeful Bret Bushka & Butler Are Football's Best Surprise
A 99-yard touchdown run marked a pivotal turn in the Butler Bulldogs' 2022 football season — and it was one they gave up.
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Black Sabbath 'Technical Ecstasy (Super Deluxe)' 5xLP Box Set
Technical Ecstasy by Black Sabbath, limited edition, remastered, new mix, 90 mins of unreleased outtakes, alt mixes, live tracks from Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill plus extensive book, tour program and poster. LP set on 180g vinyl.
In the summer of 1976, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward headed to Miami to record Technical Ecstasy at the famed Criteria Studios. The band was coming off a world tour for their previous album, Sabotage, that had found their live performances evolving to include keyboards and synthesizers. These newly incorporated instruments and sounds were then introduced into the recording process on Technical Ecstasy. The new songs encompassed a wide range of styles from the hard charging "Back Street Kids" and single ballad "It's Alright," to the funky "All Moving Parts (Stand Still)" and progressive rock "Gypsy." The Deluxe Edition presents a newly remastered version of the eight-track album, along with an entirely new mix of the album created by Steven Wilson using the original analogue tapes.
With eight previously unreleased outtakes and alternative mixes. Among those are different mixes of "You Won't Change Me" and "Rock 'n' Roll Doctor," as well as both outtake and instrumental versions for "She's Gone." The collection concludes with 10 previously unreleased live tracks recorded during the 1976-77 World Tour. The songs touch on different eras of the band's history with early tracks like "Black Sabbath", "War Pigs" (from Paranoid), "Symptom Of The Universe", "Snowblind" and "Children Of The Grave" alongside new songs "Gypsy" and "Dirty Women."
The collection comes with an extensive hardback book featuring artwork, liner notes, rare memorabilia and photos from the era, plus a replica of the 1976-77 world tour concert book and a large colour poster of the iconic Hipgnosis (Storm Thorgerson/Aubrey Powell/Peter Christopherson) futuristic robots image which is perfect for framing.
Black Sabbath embraced change in 1976 when the heavy metal innovators started managing themselves and began exploring different sounds on the band's seventh studio album, Technical Ecstasy.
BMG honours this daring album with a collection that includes a newly remastered version of the original, a brand-new mix by Steven Wilson, plus more than 90 minutes of previously unreleased outtakes, alternative mixes and live tracks. TECHNICAL ECSTASY: SUPER DELUXE EDITION will be available as a 5LP box set on 180g black vinyl.
Vinyl box set includes:
Original album newly remastered
New Mix LP
Outtakes and Alternative Mixes LP
2LP live concert from the World Tour 1976 - 77
40-page book with photos, artwork and liner notes
Technical Ecstasy colour poster
Label: BMG
Angel Olsen 'Song of the Lark... and Other Far Memories' 4xLP
Darkthrone 'Shadows of Iconoclasm' Box Set
Derek and the Dominoes 'Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs' 4xLP Box Set
John Grant 'Boy From Michigan' (*SIGNED*)