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.class public Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;
.super Landroid/widget/Button;
.source "CapitalizingButton.java"

# static fields
.field private static final IS_GINGERBREAD:Z

.field private static final R_styleable_Button:[I

.field private static final R_styleable_Button_textAppearance:I

.field private static final R_styleable_TextAppearance:[I

.field private static final R_styleable_TextAppearance_textAllCaps:I

.field private static final SANS_ICE_CREAM:Z

# instance fields
.field private mAllCaps:Z

# direct methods
.method static constructor <clinit>()V
    .locals 4

    .prologue
    const/4 v1, 0x1

    const/4 v2, 0x0

    .line 11
    sget v0, Landroid/os/Build$VERSION;->SDK_INT:I

    const/16 v3, 0xe

    if-ge v0, v3, :cond_0

    move v0, v1

    :goto_0
    sput-boolean v0, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->SANS_ICE_CREAM:Z

    .line 12
    sget v0, Landroid/os/Build$VERSION;->SDK_INT:I

    const/16 v3, 0x9

    if-lt v0, v3, :cond_1

    move v0, v1

    :goto_1
    sput-boolean v0, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->IS_GINGERBREAD:Z

    .line 14
    new-array v0, v1, [I

    const v3, 0x1010034

    aput v3, v0, v2

    sput-object v0, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->R_styleable_Button:[I

    .line 19
    new-array v0, v1, [I

    const v1, 0x101038c

    aput v1, v0, v2

    sput-object v0, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->R_styleable_TextAppearance:[I

    return-void

    :cond_0
    move v0, v2

    .line 11
    goto :goto_0

    :cond_1
    move v0, v2

    .line 12
    goto :goto_1
.end method

.method public constructor <init>(Landroid/content/Context;Landroid/util/AttributeSet;)V
    .locals 6
    .param p1, "context"    # Landroid/content/Context;
    .param p2, "attrs"    # Landroid/util/AttributeSet;

    .prologue
    const/4 v5, 0x0

    const/4 v4, -0x1

    .line 27
    invoke-direct {p0, p1, p2}, Landroid/widget/Button;-><init>(Landroid/content/Context;Landroid/util/AttributeSet;)V

    .line 29
    sget-object v3, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->R_styleable_Button:[I

    invoke-virtual {p1, p2, v3}, Landroid/content/Context;->obtainStyledAttributes(Landroid/util/AttributeSet;[I)Landroid/content/res/TypedArray;

    move-result-object v0

    .line 30
    .local v0, "a":Landroid/content/res/TypedArray;
    invoke-virtual {v0, v5, v4}, Landroid/content/res/TypedArray;->getResourceId(II)I

    move-result v1

    .line 31
    .local v1, "ap":I
    invoke-virtual {v0}, Landroid/content/res/TypedArray;->recycle()V

    .line 32
    if-eq v1, v4, :cond_0

    .line 33
    sget-object v3, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->R_styleable_TextAppearance:[I

    invoke-virtual {p1, v1, v3}, Landroid/content/Context;->obtainStyledAttributes(I[I)Landroid/content/res/TypedArray;

    move-result-object v2

    .line 34
    .local v2, "appearance":Landroid/content/res/TypedArray;
    if-eqz v2, :cond_0

    .line 35
    const/4 v3, 0x1

    invoke-virtual {v2, v5, v3}, Landroid/content/res/TypedArray;->getBoolean(IZ)Z

    move-result v3

    iput-boolean v3, p0, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->mAllCaps:Z

    .line 36
    invoke-virtual {v2}, Landroid/content/res/TypedArray;->recycle()V

    .line 39
    .end local v2    # "appearance":Landroid/content/res/TypedArray;
    :cond_0
    return-void
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public setTextCompat(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)V
    .locals 3
    .param p1, "text"    # Ljava/lang/CharSequence;

    .prologue
    .line 42
    sget-boolean v1, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->SANS_ICE_CREAM:Z

    if-eqz v1, :cond_1

    iget-boolean v1, p0, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->mAllCaps:Z

    if-eqz v1, :cond_1

    if-eqz p1, :cond_1

    .line 43
    sget-boolean v1, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->IS_GINGERBREAD:Z

    if-eqz v1, :cond_0

    .line 45
    :try_start_0
    invoke-interface {p1}, Ljava/lang/CharSequence;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    sget-object v2, Ljava/util/Locale;->ROOT:Ljava/util/Locale;

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Ljava/lang/String;->toUpperCase(Ljava/util/Locale;)Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {p0, v1}, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->setText(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)V
    :try_end_0
    .catch Ljava/lang/NoSuchFieldError; {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catch_0

    .line 56
    :goto_0
    return-void

    .line 46
    :catch_0
    move-exception v0

    .line 48
    .local v0, "e":Ljava/lang/NoSuchFieldError;
    invoke-interface {p1}, Ljava/lang/CharSequence;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/String;->toUpperCase()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {p0, v1}, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->setText(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)V

    goto :goto_0

    .line 51
    .end local v0    # "e":Ljava/lang/NoSuchFieldError;
    :cond_0
    invoke-interface {p1}, Ljava/lang/CharSequence;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/String;->toUpperCase()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {p0, v1}, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->setText(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)V

    goto :goto_0

    .line 54
    :cond_1
    invoke-virtual {p0, p1}, Lcom/actionbarsherlock/internal/widget/CapitalizingButton;->setText(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)V

    goto :goto_0
.end method

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How to Make Remote Learning Work for Your Children
If you're preparing for yet another round of homeschooling, we've identified a few ways to make this school year suck just a little bit less.
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When schools and day cares shut down in March, no one thought it would last more than a few months. But in the United States, the Covid-19 pandemic is nowhere near under control. That makes in-person schooling an iffy proposition in many parts of the country.
Are you looking at remote learning for your family? Share your experiences in the comments below. (Register here for an account.)
Even if your school plans to have students on campus for at least part of the school year, it's wise to prepare for repeated shutdowns, closures, or quarantines when children, teachers, and staff test positive for Covid-19. Remote learning is here to stay, so we spoke to several edtech experts about identifying possible obstacles and aiming for reasonable goals.
Your child might not become an Intel Science Fair finalist this year. But they can still be healthy, happy, and able to pick up facts. "Don't try to replicate everything. That's just setting yourself up for disappointment," says Sal Khan, founder of the online education nonprofit Khan Academy. "Focus on the basics first and get your legs under you."
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Assess Your Situation
Whether your school is public or private, you have to look at its plan for the upcoming year. Do they seem prepared? If they plan for in-person schooling, will students and staff be able to quarantine without penalty? If your school will be remote, does the curriculum prioritize interaction over clocking six straight hours online?
"Parents who are finding out that their kids are going to be learning remotely and feel unsure about the effectiveness of the implementation of the curriculum should be aware of other virtual options that are available to them," writes Jorge Valenzuela, an education coach, advocate, and author of the book Rev Up Robotics, a resource for introducing cross-curricular computational thinking in the classroom, in an email to WIRED.
If your school's current plans won't work for your family—for example, if your child has special needs, but will be required to sit at a computer for 5 hours straight—you may need to consider other options. If you do withdraw your child, you may need to file a Declaration of Intent with your state's Board of Education.
Are you a parent with kids in school or doing remote learning? Or a teacher back in the classroom or working on Zoom? We want to hear your stories about educating kids in the time of Covid-19 for an upcoming episode of the Get WIRED podcast. Leave us a voice message with your full name and location at (415) 534-9498.
Online companies like K12 are used all over the country, and you can check their website for remote options near you. Educational organizations like Khan Academy can also be used to homeschool.
When you're looking at your school's plans, don't forget to account for the time you, or other adults, will need to spend supervising. The younger the child, the more help they'll need. K12 suggests budgeting 4 to 6 hours a day to help your kid if they're younger than the fifth grade. Older children will need supervision for around 1 to 3 hours.
Social Skills Matter More Than Social Studies
Every educator I spoke to affirmed that kids don't go to school to learn math and English, although those are important too! In a school environment, kids learn conflict management, discipline, and emotional regulation—all of which are hard to pick up remotely.
"In traditional schooling, the standards never say, 'Make sure the kids make friends,'" says Khan. "Teachers and educators need to be focused on making sure that distance learning does not lose that element. Educators have to pull students out of the screen, do cold calls, do virtual breakouts rooms, ask them to convince each other of solutions, or teach each other."
Whenever you can, facilitate in-person interaction—which can be as simple as reading to a small child, or asking an older one about something they learned at lunch. Pandemic pods, in which a few kids congregate in someone's home or outside in their yard, may be a controversial solution. But they don't have to cost money. "I think there's nothing wrong with trying to find two to three families that have similar-aged kids," Khan says. "You don't have to hire someone."
Another important life skill that kids learn in school is self-management—learning to follow a schedule, chip away at their workload, and meet deadlines.
Valenzuela provides a template for a daily schedule. But that schedule should incorporate plenty of free time and physical activity, especially for younger children. "There's no way kids of any age should be expected to be sedentary at a screen all day," says Devorah Heitner, media expert and author of Screenwise, a practical guide for helping parents manage their child's relationship with technology.
"They need physical breaks and a break from the screen, as well," Heitner says. "Do pushups or eat a snack. Playing videogames is not a great brain break during school."
Smooth the Path
"A lot of the challenge with remote school is that it hasn't been very parent-friendly," Heitner points out. School districts aren't always consistent across platforms. Maybe one teacher uses Seesaw, while another prefers Google Hangouts. That can be difficult to manage, especially if you have multiple children of different ages.
If you're a parent or supervising adult, Heitner suggests budgeting time for dealing with tech difficulties, especially for children that are younger than the third grade. Their inconsistent typing skills get them locked out of their own computers regularly.
Hopefully your school is remaining consistent, with at most three separate platforms. But if you're switching supervising duties with other adults, Heitner suggests writing down every single website, user login, and password on a whiteboard. Post the whiteboard prominently, and take a picture of it to send it to every adult who is supervising your kid.
My colleague Boone Ashworth has written before about setting up a workspace for your child. But Heitner has a few more suggestions. A cheap printer is a good solution for a child who is easily distracted or who has to share a computer or a tablet with a sibling. Just print out pages to have them read, edit, or work on worksheets away from a screen.
Sal Khan also recommends breaking free from digital media whenever possible. He recommends E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge series for every grade, as a good supplement for a parent or learning coach who is worried about skipping any fundamental steps.
Think Big Picture
If you're reading this, I feel confident that your children will be OK. It's likely that you have internet access. And possibly discretionary income, if you're a subscriber! Perhaps the most useful tip for you and your family is to accept that living through a global pandemic means that a lot of things are going to slide.
Sometimes you won't be able to put your kid on the Google Meet because you had to take a phone call. That's OK. "The good news is that kids are wired to learn, and they will learn things this year," Heitner says. "If they don't learn every single piece, most kids are going to be in the same boat."
Much of the concern about remote schooling revolves around how it will exacerbate inequality. It's not within an individual parent's ability to ensure that every child in their district has a working computer and Wi-Fi.
But if donating to a local public school district won't impede your ability to buy groceries, you may want to consider donating a printer, printer paper, or ink cartridges. If you have these devices, you might want to consider offering to print out worksheets (contactlessly) for children in your neighborhood, or organizing a contactless bookmobile for students without access to paper books.
We're not going to replace in-person schooling, complete with sunlit libraries, playgrounds, or lunch breaks with friends. But with open minds and the ability to adjust, parents can try to mitigate the harm of even more remote schooling—by a little bit, at least.
TikTok and the evolution of digital blackface
The American scientists who saved London from Nazi drones
Tips for planing and cooking family meals in lockdown
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This algorithm doesn't replace doctors—it makes them better
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Adrienne So is a senior writer for WIRED and reviews consumer technology. She graduated from the University of Virginia with bachelor's degrees in English and Spanish, and she worked as a freelance writer for Cool Hunting, Paste, Slate, and other publications. She is currently based in Portland, Oregon.
Business, Health, and Education in the Time of Coronavirus - Sebastian Thrun
With the spread of the coronavirus, schools and universities around the country are moving classes online. What should we be doing to make learning as effective as possible for students of all ages? In collaboration with Salesforce, WIRED Editor in Chief Nicholas Thompson and Sebastian Thrun, Founder and Executive Chairman of Udacity and CEO of Kittyhawk, explore how far distance learning can go for professional and personal development during a time of mandatory learning.
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How Rhode Island Measures Up – A Review of the State's Business Climate Rankings
Business Climate, Economic development
A review of five business climate ranking studies indicates that Rhode Island is not perceived as a good place to start or grow a business. Four of the five studies – two from research organizations (The Tax Foundation and the Small Business and Entrepreneurship (SBE) Council) and three by media outlets (Forbes, CNBC and Chief Executive – ranked the Ocean State's business climate in the bottom ten in the country. RIPEC examined the five reports and found that the state consistently performed poorly with regards to its tax and regulatory environment, cost of doing business, transportation infrastructure and economy.
By most estimates, Rhode Island's economic recovery will lag behind its neighbors and the rest of the country, in part because the state has been unable to create an attractive environment for businesses – particularly businesses that offer high-wage, "knowledge economy" jobs. While business location decisions are driven by a number of factors, including the quality of life, cost of living, and quality of the workforce, taxation and regulatory environments are two areas in which states and municipalities are able to affect change within relatively short time frames. However, the state must also take a long-term view with regard to economic development, and make the sort of changes that will improve the negative perceptions that surround Rhode Island's business climate.
Making improvements in the state's business climate ranking is possible. Such approaches include amending the taxation system, improving regulatory conditions, fixing the transportation system, and developing new industries. Moreover, Rhode Island can and should build on the more positive aspects of the study, such as leveraging the capacity of the state's institutes of higher education, in order to improve the state's ranking. The next few years will present economic challenges for all states. How Rhode Island chooses to respond to these challenges will go a long way in determining the future direction of the state's economy.
Rhode Island Facing Over $500 Million Potential Deficit For Next Fiscal Year
Rhode Island Ranks 37th in 2021 Business Tax Climate Index
Q3 2020 CEI Shows Partial Recovery, Constrained Economic Activity
Reopening of RI's Public Schools Is Uneven Across Districts Raising Troubling Equity Issues
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Our backyards are designed to be personal oases. We may be tempted to pour a fortune into making our backyard look like an English garden, civic playground or entertaining area good enough for a resort. However, you don't have to go that far to make your backyard a more attractive, relaxing place. Here are four additions that will improve any backyard.
A pergola is an open frame that typically has a lattice roof. It provides shade without blocking out the sun entirely. It allows air to flow through in a way that sunrooms cannot achieve. You can weave ivy or flowering plants into the lattice so that it eventually grows into a natural sun-shade. When they bloom, you'll be surrounded by the scent and sight of flowers. A side benefit of pergolas is that they're cheaper to build than gazebos, and you can throw a canvas or tarp over it for better protection from the elements when required. And it gives you a degree of privacy without cutting you off from the world. You may also be able to put in a pergola without the same permits and permissions required for a deck or gazebo.
A fire pit lets you safely have a roaring fire or modest blaze going. It is far safer than tiki torches, and it is much cheaper than the outdoor fireplaces that are all the rage. You don't even have to rip out your patio to gain the effect since you can get a fire "bowl" or metal fire pit you could move around until you find just the right place. Depending on the model, you could burn wood, charcoal or propane to create a warm, glowing fire.
Fire pits are more suited to making smores than barbecuing, but you can offset that by buying an electric smoker. Electric smokers are ideal for curing meat and will really bring out the taste of briskets and other large cuts of meat. A nice electric smoker can make a great addition to any backyard. Read electric smoker reviews at electricsmokercenter.com to find a smoker for the food you like to prepare in the timeframe you need.
A storage shed may be the solution to the pile of tools by the back door that is an eyesore but needs to be protected from the elements. It certainly provides an opportunity to clean up the yard by giving tools, pool toys, and equipment a set storage place.
A sunken patio provides a measure of privacy and clear visual segregation of different uses of the backyard. You do need to be careful of drainage and a roof over it doesn't eliminate the need to plan for how you'll handle water accumulation. If you decide to put in a sunken patio, it is an excellent place to put a fire pit.
All of these additions will improve your backyard and make it more functional. Whether it's a fire pit, smoker, or sunken patio, these additions will give your backyard more personality, instantly.
These are great ways to improve your backyard! I definitely would like to add a fire pit to ours this year. :) Thanks for sharing!
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Een streekbus is een bus voor openbaar vervoer tussen steden onderling en tussen steden en dorpen. Lange tijd waren verreweg de meeste streekbussen in Nederland geel van kleur (met grijze schortplaten en witte daken), maar vervoerders zijn weer hun eigen kleurstelling gaan gebruiken. Dit sluit aan bij de historie tot het einde van de jaren zestig. De meeste streekbussen zijn 12 meter lang, maar kortere bussen (10 meter) of verlengde bussen (15 meter), of gelede bussen (18 meter) worden eveneens ingezet. Het aandeel zitplaatsen is bij streekbussen meestal groter dan bij stadsbussen, ten koste van het aantal staanplaatsen.

Nederland
De zelfstandige streekvervoerders die vanaf omstreeks 1920 het land met buslijnen overdekten, kochten autobussen in van eigen keus, waardoor een grote variatie aan merken en carrosseriebouwers ontstond. Na 1945 behoorden veel Nederlandse streekbusmaatschappijen tot het NS-concern, dat centraal vele honderden aantallen standaardbussen inkocht van merken als Crossley, Scania-Vabis, DAF en Leyland met carrosserieën van grote fabrieken als Werkspoor (leverancier van de Bolramer-streekbus) en Verheul.

In Nederland is tussen 1967 en 1988 een eerste serie zogenaamde 'standaard streekbussen' gebouwd, waarvan de bekendste de Leyland-Verheul LVB668 en de DAF MB200 zijn, de laatste met een opbouw van Hainje of Den Oudsten. Naast DAFs werden ook Leyland- en Volvo-bussen van dit model gefabriceerd. Deze serie is opgevolgd door de DAF MB230 LC615 Den Oudsten B88.

Thans worden door de maatschappijen diverse typen bussen gebruikt die niet meer op eigen initiatief in samenwerking met de industrie worden ontwikkeld. Het zijn de bouwers zelf die een bepaalde bus op de markt brengen die door afnemers kunnen worden gekocht. Het gaat hierbij om types als de Den Oudsten Alliance, de Mercedes-Benz Citaro, de Mercedes-Benz Integro, de Berkhof Ambassador en diverse modellen van MAN.

Lage vloer
Vrijwel alle nieuwe streekbussen hebben geheel of gedeeltelijk een lage vloer. Hierbij wordt onderscheid gemaakt tussen low-floor en low-entry. Een low-floorbus heeft een lage vloer over de gehele lengte van de bus, een low-entrybus heeft een lage vloer bij de deuren en daartussen, met in het achterste gedeelte een verhoogde vloer. Verschillende busbouwers plaatsen alle zitplaatsen in een low-floor- of low-entrybus echter wel weer op een verhoging, waardoor het instapgemak ervoor zorgt dat het lastiger wordt te gaan zitten. Het is door de wielbakken (de spatborden van de wielen) overigens haast onmogelijk om alle zitplaatsen op de lage vloer te plaatsen. Voor rolstoelers is een rolstoelplank aanwezig (manueel of elektrisch te bedienen).

Sinds 2017 zijn vrijwel alle nieuwe streekbussen voorzien van wifi via 4G en USB 3.0 A-aansluitingen om hierbij een gsm of een smartphone bij elke zitplaats op te laden.

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HALESTORM To Release New Single 'Back From The Dead' Next Week
HALESTORM will release a new single, "Back From The Dead", on August 18. A teaser for the track is available below.
HALESTORM singer Lzzy Hale commented: "Up from the dirt I rise.
"It'd be so much easier to just sink into the hole that I have dug for myself, the grave that this world, broken trust, guilt, toxic relationships, pressure, anxiety and depression have helped me create. But that's not who I am. Is it harder to pick myself up and out of the blackness that sometimes plagues my mind? Yes. But no one ever said being your best self is easy. Self love is a full time job. And as always, music comes to the rescue.
"My words and messages in my songs that I've been so lucky to have unleashed for others empowerment… is also my empowerment. It is my life light, providing my nutrients from a muse on high, a fickle but gracious muse that enables me to balance my emotions, and manifest my destiny. It reminds me how to love, and who looks back at me in this house of mirrors. A reflection sometimes bent, but never broken. Through music we heal, and rock forward, knowing that we are not alone on this journey. With horns raised, we march through the quicksand, and together we make it to the other side, hell cannot hold us down.
"I hear you, I see you, and I love you."
HALESTORM has spent the last few months recording its new album for a tentative late 2021 release.
During an appearance on the June 11 edition of SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation Virtual Invasion", Lzzy spoke about the progress of the recording sessions for HALESTORM's follow-up to 2018's "Vicious" album. She said: "It's going great. We're actually kind of in the eleventh hour. Everything is starting to really congeal and just reveal itself. So we're at the tail end of it. We already have a first single picked; that just happened. So you're definitely going to be hearing music sooner than later."
Hale went on to reflect on the songwriting process for the new HALESTORM LP, some of which took part after touring was shut down due to coronavirus precautions. She said: "I think a lot of us [artists] were questioning, over the past year and change, about why am I still doing this? Who am I without touring? Who am I without all of the normal things that make my life normal? And we took, or at least I — I can't speak for the guys — but I took writing when there was no real schedules, 'cause we didn't know what was gonna open up, I took to writing to kind of have that be my escape, have that be my stage. So what you're going to hear on this record is a lot of that, a lot of me placing myself in this spot, in this communion of people that I feel most comfortable, and just surrounded by everyone that loves the same music that I do."
Lzzy also talked about once again working with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who first helmed HALESTORM's 2017 effort "ReAniMate 3.0: The CoVeRs eP" and was previously described by Hale as the group's "fifth member."
"He's so passionate and he's just a fan of music," she said. "And I know that sounds surprising — oh, yeah, a music producer that isn't a fan of music. There are a lot of those; there are a lot of those types of producers that are not fans of your music, let alone really listening to your genre. So it's just great to be working with a producer that just loves the same kind of music and knows what we can do.
"We've written so much material for this record, and a lot of it we end up throwing out and then rewriting and whatever," she explained. "What people don't understand is you have to be willing to work so hard just to throw it all away and do it again and make sure it's right, 'cause it has to be right. 'Cause you don't wanna look back and be, like, 'Oh, I should have said something about that.'"
HALESTORM's latest release was last year's "Halestorm Reimagined", a collection of the band's reworked original songs as well as a cover of "I Will Always Love You", the love ballad made famous by Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton.
Lzzy and her brother Arejay formed the band in 1998 while in middle school. Guitarist Joe Hottinger joined the group in 2003, followed by bassist Josh Smith in 2004.
In December 2018, HALESTORM was nominated for a "Best Rock Performance" Grammy Award for its song "Uncomfortable". Six years earlier, the band won its first Grammy in the category of "Best Hard Rock/ Metal Performance" for "Love Bites (So Do I)". According to the Grammy web site, Lzzy became the first woman to earn a Grammy in the category.
Up from the dirt I rise.
It'd be so much easier to just sink into the hole that I have dug for myself, the grave that this world, broken trust, guilt, toxic relationships, pressure, anxiety and depression have helped me create. But that's not who I am. Is it harder to pick myself up and out of the blackness that sometimes plagues my mind? Yes. But no one ever said being your best self is easy. Self love is a full time job. And as always, music comes to the rescue. My words and messages in my songs that I've been so lucky to have unleashed for others empowerment… is also my empowerment. It is my life light, providing my nutrients from a muse on high, a fickle but gracious muse that enables me to balance my emotions, and manifest my destiny. It reminds me how to love, and who looks back at me in this house of mirrors. A reflection sometimes bent, but never broken. Through music we heal, and rock forward, knowing that we are not alone on this journey. With horns raised, we march through the quicksand, and together we make it to the other side, hell cannot hold us down.
I hear you, I see you, and I love you,
Lzzy
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Consumers drive the economy all around the world. In the U. S. consumer spending accounts for the majority of the GDP number and a similar situation is seen in other countries. In developing economies, a primary goal is often to grow a middle class which will drive consumption and growth.
China is an example of a country with a growing middle class. In fact, the country's middle class will eventually dwarf the size of the U. S. middle class.
This potential market explains why U. S. companies are expanding in China. But, it is always possible to be too early in a trend.
Computer historians will remember, as an example, Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet software that once dominated its market, or Peach Text, a word processing package that was also popular at one time. They know that both products, although well liked, gave way to Microsoft, a company which stumbled in its early days.
Computer software demonstrates that there are advantages to being in a market early, and there are risks. This demonstrates that a company with great long term potential could, at times, struggle in the short run. That appears to be the case with Yum China Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: YUMC).
YUMC is a fast food giant in China. Its operating brands include well known names like KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. YUMC also operates the Little Sheep concept specializing in Hot Pot cooking and East Dawning, a Chinese food quick service restaurant brand. All together, YUMC operates more than 7,500 restaurants in China.
The stock was spun off from its parent, Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) in 2016. The stock has been struggling in recent months.
The weekly chart shown above indicates a clear top pattern. The name of the pattern could be debated. It could be called a complex head and shoulders by some analysts. The peak forming the head is clear and the secondary reactions at the shoulders are less clear.
Rather than focusing on the name of the pattern, it can be useful to consider what the pattern depicts. The peak was part of an up trend. That ended an up trend that had been in place since the stock began trading.
The fact that an up trend began soon after the stock was spun off could mean that many investors enjoyed gains if they bought in the first year of trading. Now, their gains could be slipping away and that could lead to an accelerating sell off in the stock.
The pattern clearly favors additional down side, at least in the short term. In the long run, YUMC may have a positive experience delivering fast food favorites to an increasingly large audience.
The prospects of further short term gains in YUMC seem to be remote. But, significant weakness is also unlikely. Traders should consider using an options strategy known as a bear put spread to benefit from the expected trading range in the stock.
The bearish outlook for YUMC, at least for the purposes of this trade, is a short term opinion. To benefit from this outlook, traders can buy put options.
Specifically, the August 17 $35 put can be bought for about $2.00 and the August 17 $32.50 put can be sold for about $0.80. This trade will cost about $1.20 to enter, or $120 since each contract covers 100 shares, ignoring the cost of commissions which should be small when using a deep discount broker.
In this trade, the maximum loss would be equal to the amount spent to open the trade, or $120. This loss would be experienced if YUMC is above $35 when the options expire. In that case, both options would expire worthless.
For this trade in YUMC, the maximum gain is $1.30 ($35 – $32.50 = $2.50; $2.50 – $1.20 = $1.30). This represents $130 per contract since each contract covers 100 shares.
That is a potential gain of more than 108% of the amount risked in the trade. This trade delivers the maximum gain if YUMC closes below $32.50 on August 17 when the options expire.
Put spreads can be used to generate high returns on small amounts of capital several times a year, offering larger percentage gains for small investors willing to accept the risks of this strategy. Those risks, in dollar terms, are relatively small, about $120 for this trade in YUMC.


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Nye Bevan and the NHS
68 years ago it was the government fighting for the NHS; in 1948 the then Minister of Health, Aneurin Bevan, was instrumental in establishing a free health service for all. Today, the government seems intent on destroying this system the British electorate hold so dear from the top down, bottom up and sideways. Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health, is determined to push through plans for a 7 day a week NHS at the same time as effectively cutting pay for junior Doctors, extending their working hours and all without any extra funding coming from central government. The Conservatives have been accused of trying to 'privatize' the NHS (not unlike the Tories) and has continually come into conflict with the British Medical Association, who represent doctors in the UK. Talks have been ongoing over the past three years. Stalling and break downs in discussions has recently seen a series of 24 hour walk-outs by junior doctors who work for NHS England. This is a sorry state of affairs when you consider the history of the NHS (and the Welfare State as a whole) which was hard won, philanthropic in nature and a body that intended to look after people 'from the cradle to the grave'. Now, it is argued by the junior doctors subject to changes to their contracts, that the government are pushing through changes that will endanger the lives of patients.
In 1942 a momentous document was published, called the Beveridge Report, which outlined the help that people could expect by recommending the extension of the Welfare State to tackle the 'Giant Evils' in society: squalor, ignorance, want, disease and idleness. This came during the midst of World War Two; people were suffering and the promise of a Welfare State was popular with the electorate. It was on this basis that Labour won a landslide victory in July 1945 after adopting many suggestions made in the Beveridge Report into their election manifesto, including the creation of the National Health Service; a system where everyone could receive healthcare that was free at the point of service. Funding for this would come from expanding the National Insurance. It was a momentous time and something the British felt they deserved after fighting two wars. There was only one sticking point; getting the doctors on board!
Before the NHS healthcare in Britain was a patchwork of different provisions; Voluntary hospitals, Poor Law Hospitals and, if you worked and paid National Insurance, you could receive some free care, but this did not extend to your dependents. Needless to say, it was a system that saw the very poor suffer as they could not afford treatment, care or medicines. Whereas, the very wealthy could afford the best doctors that were based in places like Harley Street, London.
Aneurin Bevan knew he had to get the majority of doctors on board to get the NHS up and running. The Labour government has passed the National Health Service Act in 1946 without consultation with doctors, promising to create a free health service for all. Doctors were initially reluctant because of worries about a loss of income, as they would be moving over to a salary and becoming government employees. Bevan had to overcome this to ensure the NHS could start on the agreed date of 5th July 1948. Bevan was a force to be reckoned with; a once trade unionist and forceful politician, Bevan was even willing to alienate members of his own party to ensure a majority of doctors were onboard with the NHS. Bevan negotiated with the BMA to ensure decent salaries for doctors and made allowances for doctors to continue to treat private patients, earning a lucrative private income, in NHS hospitals. This was a compromise worth taking for a system that promised so much to so many.
If only we had politicians like this today.
Posted by TammiMagee at 14:04
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It's a great shame that our NHS doctors/nurses/health care assistants have to work all the hours God sends for less and less pay whist administrative staff get paid very handsomely and also get a car wort between 55 and 85 grand every three years and also have all of their fuel use paid back to them....no wonder we can't look after patients properly there's too many people working for the NHS that actually abuse the system, just speak to my cousin who was once married to a lady who was a head of department in charge of ordering supplies for St Matthews hospital in Burntwood, as Head of department she was entitled to car worth up to 55 grand and that's exactly what she spent...she also claimed for fuel whilst working from home, she also had a good friend who managed a petrol station who saved cash receipts for thirty pound a time for her to help her claim this, she was also paid a salary of 44 grand a year, that's just one person, how many more are abusing their position and the NHS!!! I personally would be eaten up with guilt...!
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The Lost World [Full Audiobook] by Arthur Conan Doyle Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not seen elsewhere on Earth, except in the fossil record, inhabit the place. The lakes heave with the shapes of huge grey bulks moving under the surface. The woods are places where chittering cries move about above your head, as powerful apes move swiftly in the canopy of leaves. Then, a tree splinters nearby, and a dinosaur steps out from his hiding place... and he's eyeing YOU. Jurassic Park? Not quite. The Lost World was an inspiration for Jurassic Park; in fact, a character in J.P. has the same name as one of the chief characters in The Lost World. It also inspired King Kong. But this is the original! Four adventurers go off to find the place shown in a dead man's sketch book - they find a war between apes and Indians, prowling dinosaurs, a sparkly treasure hidden in the blue clay - they find the Lost World. And because of the treachery of a native guide, their means of escape is destroyed! English Audio Books - best audio books, free audio books, audio books free, librivox, best audiobooks, best free audio books online, library programs, summer reading #audiobook #audiobooks #englishaudiobooks #summerreading
It's my review of The Asylum's King Kong ripoff, King of the Lost World! This movie is from back when The Asylum made their money selling DVDs in addition to making Syfy Original Movies, so there are some very Not Safe for Network Television moments in the full movie. I said it in the review, but I'll repeat it here, this movie would have been MUCH better if our protagonists were fighting a dinosaur instead of err...a giant ape. Also, shout out to my girl Sarah Lieving who will also be popping up in another movie we'll be covering this year. Maybe one day The Asylum will let her and Thunder Levin make American Warships 2.
THE LOST WORLD by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - FULL AudioBook | Greatest Audio Books The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Venezuela) where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. Interestingly, for a seminal work of dinosaur-related fiction, the reptiles only occupy a small portion of the narrative. Much more time is devoted to a war between early human hominids and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures. (Summary from Wikipedia.org) - SUBSCRIBE to Greatest Audio Books: http://www.youtube.com/GreatestAudioBooks - Become a FRIEND: Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/GreatestAudioBooks Google+: - READ along by clicking (CC) for Closed Caption Transcript! - LISTEN to the entire audiobook for free! Chapter listing and length: 01 -- There Are Heroisms All Round Us -- 00:14:07 Read by: Menno 02 -- Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger -- 00:15:42 Read by: Cori Samuel 03 -- He is a Perfectly Impossible Person -- 00:15:51 Read by: Menno 04 -- It's Just the Very Biggest Thing In The World -- 00:37:50 [mp3@64kbps - 18.1MB] [mp3@128kbps - 36.3MB] [ogg vorbis - 17.8MB] Read by: Menno 05 -- Question! -- 00:28:27 Read by: Scott Mather 06 -- The Flail of the Lord -- 00:20:37 Read by: Scott Mather 07 -- Tomorrow We Disappear Into The Unknown -- 00:25:10 Read by: Robin Cotter 08 -- The Outlying Pickets of the New World -- 00:32:47 Read by: Robin Cotter 09 -- Who Could Have Forseen It? -- 00:49:37 Read by: Scott Mather 10 -- The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened -- 00:26:48 Read by: Claire Goget 11 -- For Once I Was the Hero -- 00:34:51 Read by: Robin Cotter 12 -- It Was Dreadful in the Forest -- 00:33:59 Read by: Scott Mather 13 -- A Sight I Shall Never Forget -- 00:31:56 Read by: Lizzie Driver 14 -- Those Were the Real Conquests -- 00:35:41 Read by: Reynard T. Fox 15 -- Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders -- 00:35:55 Read by: Scott Mather 16 -- A Procession! A Procession! -- 00:40:43 Read by: Scott Mather This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org. This video: Copyright 2013. Greatest Audio Books. All Rights Reserved.
The Lost World is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. Edward Malone, a young reporter for the Daily Gazette, asks his editor for a dangerous assignment to impress the woman he loves, Gladys, who wishes for a great man capable of brave deeds and actions. His task is to approach the notorious Professor Challenger, who dislikes the popular press intensely and physically assaults intrusive journalists. The subject is to be his recent South American expedition which, surrounded by controversy, guarantees a hostile reaction. As a direct approach would be instantly rebuffed, Malone instead masquerades as an earnest student. On meeting the professor he is startled by his overwhelming intellect - his intimidating physique too - but believes his ruse is succeeding. Seeing through the masquerade, then confirming Malone's scientific knowledge is non-existent, Challenger erupts in anger and forcibly throws him out. Malone earns his respect by refusing to press charges with a policeman who saw his violent ejection into the street. Challenger ushers him back inside and, extracting promises of confidentiality, eventually reveals he has discovered living dinosaurs in South America, following up an expedition by a now-deceased previous American explorer named Maple White. At a tumultuous public meeting in which Challenger experiences further ridicule. Malone volunteers for an expedition to verify the discoveries. (Summary from Wikipedia) FULL AudioBook recordings for your enjoyment. Novel recording by Librivox. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. Grand #audiobooks #freelisteningaudiobooks #arthurconandoyle #audiobook #lostworld Copyright © 2019 by Grand Audiobooks. All rights reserved.
Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. The Lost World is a 1925 silent adventure film and an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. The movie was produced by First . The Lost World is a 1925 silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. The movie was produced by First National Pictures, . The Lost World is a 1925 silent fantasy adventure film and an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. The movie was produced by .
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Nach 4 Monatiger Produktionszeit kann ich euch nun das Mammutprojekt "THE LOST WORLD" präsentieren. Es ist eine Fortsetzung des Original Films aus dem Jahre 1925. Technische Daten: Für die Sauriermodelle wurden fast 4 kg Knete und 10 m Draht verbraucht. Für die Modellszenen sind unzählige Pappmasche Kulissen, etliche Büsche, Bäume, Autos und Steine auf über 2 qm Styrodurplatte verbaut worden. Digital animierte Kulissen sind im Februar 2010 bei Mr.Thomson entstanden. Die Realszenen wurden vor einer 5 x 5 m Greenscreen im Februar 2010 aufgenommen. Über 1000 Stunden habe ich in die digitale Nachbearbeitung gesteckt. In mühevoller Kleinstarbeit habe ich das vorhandene Material am Computer aufgemotzt. Im fertigen Film ist nicht zu unterscheiden ob es sich um einen Computertrick oder einen Modelltrick handelt. Die Saurier Animation, sowie sehr viele andere Special Effects wurden per Stopmotion animiert. Jetzt noch einen großen Dank an die tollen Darsteller, ohne euch währe dieser Film nicht möglich gewesen. Aber nun viel Spaß bei der Fortsetzung von "THE LOST WORLD". LG Olli/M-V-F
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam. ---------------- Cast: Bessie Love - Paula White Lewis Stone - Sir John Roxton Wallace Beery - Prof. Challenger Lloyd Hughes - Ed Malone ----------- TOP 10! MOVIEHOLIC™ recommends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72DCF2FiwNY&list=PL_8EDYaWz7p5xzqyohm39zmmbVPsb8AiL (click and watch full length movies)
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Lost World may refer to:
Conan Doyle novel and adaptations
The Lost World (Conan Doyle novel), a 1912 book
The Lost World (1925 film), a silent film set in South America
The Lost World (1960 film), set in Venezuela
The Lost World (1992 film), set in Africa
The Lost World (1998 film), set in Mongolia
The Lost World (2001 film), a BBC film
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, a television series
"The Lost World", a radio drama in the Radio Tales series
Crichton novel and adaptations
The Lost World (Crichton novel), a 1995 book
The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a 1997 film
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (film score)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (arcade game)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (console game)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (handheld game)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Sega game)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (pinball)
Chaos Island: The Lost World Jurassic Park, a PC game
Other media and entertainment
Lost World (manga), by Osamu Tezuka
Lost Worlds (book), a short story collection by Clark Ashton Smith
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The lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time, place, or both. It began as a subgenre of the late-Victorian adventure romance and remains popular into the 21st century.
The genre arose during an era when the fascinating remnants of lost civilizations around the world were being discovered, such as the tombs of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the semi-mythical stronghold of Troy, the jungle-shrouded pyramids of the Maya, or the cities and palaces of the empire of Assyria. Thus, real stories of archaeological finds by imperial adventurers succeeded in capturing the public's imagination. Between 1871 and the First World War, the number of published lost-world narratives, set in every continent, dramatically increased.
The genre has similar themes to "mythical kingdoms", such as El Dorado.
King Solomon's Mines (1885) by H. Rider Haggard is sometimes considered the first lost-world narrative. Haggard's novel shaped the form and influenced later lost-world narratives, including Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King (1888), Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912), Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot (1918), A. Merritt's The Moon Pool (1918), and H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness (1931).
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Lost World is a pinball machine released by Bally in 1977. The game features a fantasy theme. It should not to be confused with the pinball machine Escape from the Lost World from 1987.
Lost World is the first pinball machine that uses electronic sounds which replaces chimes. It is also the first machine that uses a photographic backglass. The game spawned a sequel - Paragon released in 1979.
The machine features a simple gameplay with the goal of hitting the A-B-C-D-E-F targets repeatedly. The playfield contains very few other feature including three pop bumpers, two kickouts, a captive ball and a spinner.
The backglass depicts a dragon, a warrior and a woman. Designer Paul Faris and his wife were the models for the latter. His daughter was later also the model for the Christine Daaé character on the backglass of the pinball machine Phantom of the Opera.
Digital versions
Lost World is a playable table in Williams Pinball Classics (2001) by Encore, Inc. for PC.
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The Lost World is a 1992 film, based on the book of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The movie is set in Africa rather than the book's setting of South America, and the character of Lord John Roxton has been replaced with a female character played by Tamara Gorski.
Set in 1912, the film opens on Edward Malone, a junior reporter looking for an adventurous assignment. Malone is sent to interview Professor Challenger, an explorer and researcher who believes he is on the trail of the "lost world," a mysterious place in Central Africa. Challenger has a picture of a cliff and a strange beast resembling a pterodactyl that is his only proof of the place.
The British scientific community finds his claims laughable, and Challenger struggles to gather an exploration team. He eventually takes Malone and Jenny Nielson, a wildlife photographer and the daughter of a rich American contributor to the sciences, who funds the entire expedition. A newsboy named Jim stows away on the trip, and the antagonistic Professor Summerlee joins them when he discovers Challenger has given him a blank "map".
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The Lost World is a techno thriller novel written by Michael Crichton and published in 1995 by Knopf. A paperback edition (ISBN 0-345-40288-X) followed in 1996. It is a sequel to his earlier novel Jurassic Park. In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled Michael Crichton's Jurassic World, unrelated to the film of the same name.
Like Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name, Crichton's novel concerns an expedition to an isolated Central American location where dinosaurs roam—though in this case, the dinosaurs were recreated by genetic engineering, rather than surviving from antiquity.
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A GRIEVING widow was left distraught after callous thieves stole cherished mementoes from her husband's grave.
A GRIEVING widow was left distraught after callous thieves stole cherished mementoes from her husband's grave.
Christine Pownall, of Canterbury Road, Widnes, finds solace in visiting the grave of her husband, Peter, but has been devastated by thefts which she sees as acts of 'desecration'.
She said a catalogue of ornamental items have been stolen in recent months, most recently four black ornamental poles which went missing two weeks ago. Other items have included dolphin shaped chimes, lanterns, flower and plant pots, as well as model airplanes as a tribute to her husband who was a keen aircraft spotter.
She said in some cases items have been removed and have been found later on graves in other parts of the cemetery. Now she and a neighbour are maintaining a vigil, keeping each other posted as to whether things are still being stolen from each other's family graves.
Christine, 57, now plans to secretly mark the ornaments in the hope of being able to prove that they are hers the next time they are stolen.
She said: 'I go to my husband's grave for peace of mind. 'When I get depressed that's where I go. My husband died two years ago and we would have been married for 37 years.
'Whether this is kids or adults, I don't know, but I just don't want anyone going near the grave.
'I should be able to place whatever I like on the grave. I put little airplanes on it because my husband was a plane spotter and they are of sentimental value. But half of them go missing.
'I have heard from other people who have had things stolen from their graves. I'd just love to get my hands on whoever's doing this.
'People who rob from the dead are sick in the head.
'I just want them to leave his grave alone.' A Halton Borough Council spokeswoman said: 'Mrs Pownall spoke to one of our bereavement services officers on Friday afternoon regarding lanterns that have gone missing from her husband's grave.
'This is not something that happens on a regular basis but sadly from time to time items do go missing.


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The Star – Faithful Biblical Adaptation… Where's the Faith-based Audience?
November 22, 2017 November 22, 2017 / thimblerigsark / 8 Comments
The year is 2014.
Hollywood wide-releases two films based on biblical accounts: Noah, and Exodus: Gods and Kings.
The Big Christian Audience responds by complaining:
"Why does Hollywood hate us so much? Why can't they make something that is safe for my whole family? Why can't they respect the Bible as much as I respect the Bible?"
(See here, here, here, and here.)
Devon Franklin and the folks at Sony Animation wide release the animated nativity movie The Star on nearly 3,000 screens. When asked about the film, Franklin says:
"We really looked at the scriptures that everyone is familiar with, looked at all the gospels in order to pull the right information about the birth so that when we did the film, those moments would feel authentic…we really tried to honor scripture and that was the number one priority."
And does the Big Christian Audience respond by running out on opening weekend to support this – a big Hollywood movie put out by a major studio working together with a bunch of Christians – a project that the filmmakers have gone out of their way to "honor scripture" in the making?
The Star only made $10,000,000, giving it the dubious distinction as the worst opening on a Sony Animation film ever, and with a budget of around $20,000,000, I doubt that there were many uncorked bottles of champagne in the Sony offices.
People who study this sort of thing think that The Star will ultimately make money, as it could conceivably play up until Christmas (why didn't they didn't take advantage of the Christmas season and release it later, I'll never know), and it will also make a lot of money in DVD sales, streaming, and other post-theater revenue areas. But, this less-than-stellar (see what I did there?) opening will probably not encourage the big studios to try this again any time soon.
The argument could be made that the Big Christian Audience is just fatigued. After all, The Star was released at the end of a trio of faith-based films (Same Kind of Different as Me, Let There Be Light), and that's a lot of movies to support. Who's got the time or money to see so many Christian movies? But this argument does not shine very bright. After all, neither of the other two films performed very well, especially when compared to 2015's mega smash, War Room. It's not like the Big Christian Audience emptied out its collective pockets to support Pureflix and Kevin Sorbo, so they got nothing left for the poor animated donkey.
They're just not showing up.
Even when Hollywood tries to cater specifically to the wants of the Big Christian Audience by making a family movie in which the filmmakers go out of their way to be "largely faithful to the biblical narrative", the Big Christian Audience just stays at home, apparently stewing over the secret agenda of Starbucks cups. Again. Didn't we already have that hissy-fit?
That's good and well. After all, the Big Christian Audience is under no obligation to support Christian-made films, any more than they're under any obligation to support CCM artists, Christian radio, Christian politicians, or anything else labeled "Christian", and if that were the end of it, there would be no reason to write this article.
But here's the thing. In a few years, some big Hollywood studio will put out their own retelling of a biblical story. They'll hire a non-Christian to direct it, and the story will be given a non-traditional treatment that won't jive with the sensibilities of the Big Christian Audience.
And the BCA will immediately jump on their smart phones and share negative articles about the director's controversial take on the subject. They'll take to the social media airwaves to complain about it. They'll threaten boycotts and cry "persecution" and play the victim, because this is what the BCA does.
They'll lament, "Why does Hollywood hate us so much? Why can't they make something that is safe for my whole family? Why can't they respect the Bible as much as I respect the Bible?"
And a simple, animated donkey will trot into the picture and bray…


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In the 1990s renowned political scientist and author Ben Barber wrote in Jihad vs McWorld that global capitalism was at war with democracy. He was right, of course, and the intensity of that war has only increased since then. Global corporations are battling democracy's environmental regulations, taxation, labor laws, legislation aimed at fairness or income equality. They are battling democracy's concern for the long-term survival of community or any values more human than economic.
Emblematic of the global assault is the massive campaign by Canadian oil and gas corporations to construct a transcontinental pipeline across the American heartland regardless of local environmental consequences. Emblematic, again, are the mining corporations suing Ecuador in the WTO to open up that country's rivers, forests and indigenous landscape to destruction. Emblematic is the 2005 exemption of "fracking" from the U.S. Clean Water Act resulting in millions of gallons of poisoned waste water, allowing global corporations like Halliburton, (headquartered in Dubai), to override the interests of local American governments, farmers, ranchers and cities. Emblematic is Wal-Mart's aggressive activity in Mexico, consciously subverting the rule of law. Democracy is not strong in Mexico; Wal-Mart has not made it stronger.
A symbol of the global war is in that one five-story building in the Cayman Islands which is the address of more than 18,000 corporations. The Caymens do not levy income taxes. So all the corporations that call that home are opting out of their responsibilities in the U.S.. Apple, Google, and Bank of America are exemplars. They say that they are simply following the tax code and being headquartered in the Caymens is not illegal. That's right. But they are also turning their backs on an American society that gave them educated workers, roads and bridges, science, health care, and above all, courts and the rule of law. What these corporations do not say is that they spent millions lobbying the U.S. Congress to make tax havens legal. They have made it legal but they have not made it right.
It is clear that these offshore havens create a crisis for democracy by squeezing the money out of government. What may be less clear is that these legislated special privileges also create a crisis for capitalism. In the very short term capitalism may not look like it is in trouble: Major corporations are reporting record profits. Bonuses on Wall Street in 2010 exceeded $90 billion. The Dow Jones in 2012 has been mostly above 13,000. Wall Street appears to be healthy. A Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives thinks it will get even healthier if we just eliminate all government regulations.
Never was an elite in greater delusion. Predatory capitalism is killing the middle class goose that lays the golden egg. That's the first danger. Secondly, it is unselfconsciously driving toward unlimited exponential growth that is producing climate change which eventually will lead to social and economic chaos. In the longer term therefore capitalism is killing the eco-system that makes golden geese possible. Finally, in both short and long terms capitalism's oligarchs and supporters in Congress are fixated on a flimsy free market doctrine. In sum, the crisis of capitalism is created by the fact that today's oligarchs still understand the world in terms appropriate for the agrarian 18thcentury, are opposed to regulation as if they were combatting a revolution of the proletariat, and their theoretical doctrine is to return to the simplicity of corporate life in times when monopolies were granted by kings.
The result is that today's 1% are squeezing the blood out of the middle class, creating conditions of predictable eco collapse, and have no doctrine more sophisticated than Ayn Rand. But these, even combined, are not even the greatest danger that capitalism faces. The even greater danger to capitalism is plutocracy's blindness toward the advantages that come from democracy. These are advantages in innovation, mobility, creativity, and productivity that all arise with popular government. Oligarchs have missed this point entirely. This month The New York Timescarries a quote from a former Bain Capital associate of Mitt Romney's who says, quite literally, "At base, having a small elite with vast wealth is good for the poor and middle class." He could be an English aristocrat on the eve of the American Revolution.
What the Bain Capital investor and the rest of the elite do not seem to understand is how much he and they depend upon democracy. A prosperous economy requires reliability in contract, truth in science and medicine, widespread, popular education, and nonviolent processes of change. Without these, markets shrink, innovation is endangered, mistrust and corruption replace nonviolent process, and plutocrats themselves become insecure. For examples, look anywhere in the non-democratic world. Look at what is happening in China this month. Bo Xi Lai's fall, and the power struggle in China that it represents, is no different than the fall of the Caesars, the Borgias, the Stewarts or the Bourbons. Insider power struggles, wrapped in secrecy and murder, rumors of pay offs and spying by one aristocrat upon another, are the hallmark of medieval Europe and still today of Russia, Central Asia, and Latin America, to say nothing of China.
Undermining democracy as the plutocrats seem wont to do undermines all values of equality and mutuality and, without these as a restraint, power concentrates, feudalism creeps back, plutocracy takes over and capitalism is itself endangered. Without democracy, the narrative to expect is like that of the Caesars killing the Republic in Rome, or the Medici's suffocating the Republic in Florence, or communists stamping out the people's revolution in 20th century Russia. They all tried democracy a little bit. But they then slid into plutocracy and cut themselves off at the knees.
We therefore live in a time of two crises, one of democracy, another of capitalism. They are intertwined. The solution to the democracy crisis is probably the only long lasting solution for the capitalists. Apparently, most corporate leadership does not understand this. Unfortunately, without that understanding today's oligarchs are apt to bring both down.


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I am currently attempting to trace a series of single colored blobs on a Bitmap canvas.
e.g.  An example of the bitmap I am attempting to trace would look like the following:
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After successfully tracing the outlines of the 3 blobs on the image, I would have a class that held the color of a blob tied to a point list representing the outline of the blob (not all the pixels inside of the blobs).
The problem I am running into is logic in instances where a neighboring pixel has no surrounding pixels other than the previous pixel.
e.g   The top example would trace fine, but the second would fail because the pixel has no where to go since the previous pixels have already been used.
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I am tracing left-to-right, top-to-bottom, favoring diagonal angles over right angles.  I must be able to redraw an exact copy of the region based off the data I extract, so the pixels in the list must be in the right order for the copy to work.
Thus far, my attempt has been riddled with failure, and a couple days of pulling my hair out trying to rewrite the algorithms a little different each time to solve the issue.  Thus far I have been unsuccessful.  Has anyone else had a similar issue like mine who has a good algorithm to find the edges?

A: One simple trick to avoiding these cul-de-sacs is to double the size of the image you want to trace using a nearest neighbor scaling algorithm before tracing it. Like that you will never get single strips.
The alternative is to use a marching squares algorithm - but it seems to still have one or two cases where it fails: http://www.sakri.net/blog/2009/05/28/detecting-edge-pixels-with-marching-squares-algorithm/

A: Have you looked at blob detection algorithms? For example, http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/cvBlobsLib if you can integrate OpenCV into your application. Coupled with thresholding to create binary images for each color (or color range) in your image, you could easily find the blobs that are the same color. Repeat for each color in the image, and you have a list of blobs sorted by color.
If you cannot use OpenCV directly, perhaps the paper referenced by that library ("A linear-time component labeling algorithm using contour tracing technique", F.Chang et al.) would provide a good method for finding blobs.

A: Rather than using recursion, use a stack.
Pseudo-code:
Add initial pixel to polygon
Add initial pixel to stack
while(stack is not empty) {
    pop pixel off the stack
    foreach (neighbor n of popped pixel) {
        if (n is close enough in color to initial pixel) {
            Add n to polygon
            Add n to stack
        }
    }
}

This will use a lot less memory than the same solution using recursion.

A: Just send your 'Image' to BuildPixelArray function and then call the FindRegions.
After that the 'colors' variable will be holding your colors list and pixel coordinates in every list member.
I've copied the source from one of my projects, there may be some undefined variables or syntax erors.
    public class ImageProcessing{
    private int[,] pixelArray;
    private int imageWidth;
    private int imageHeight;
    List<MyColor> colors;

    public void BuildPixelArray(ref Image myImage)
    {
        imageHeight = myImage.Height;
        imageWidth = myImage.Width;
        pixelArray = new int[imageWidth, imageHeight];
        Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(0, 0, myImage.Width, myImage.Height);
        Bitmap temp = new Bitmap(myImage);
        BitmapData bmpData = temp.LockBits(rect, ImageLockMode.ReadWrite, PixelFormat.Format24bppRgb);
        int remain = bmpData.Stride - bmpData.Width * 3;
        unsafe
        {
            byte* ptr = (byte*)bmpData.Scan0;
            for (int j = 15; j < bmpData.Height; j++)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < bmpData.Width; i++)
                {
                    pixelArray[i, j] = ptr[0] + ptr[1] * 256 + ptr[2] * 256 * 256;
                    ptr += 3;
                }
                ptr += remain;
            }
        }
        temp.UnlockBits(bmpData);
    }

    public void FindRegions()
    {
        colors = new List<MyColor>();

        for (int i = 0; i < imageWidth; i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < imageHeight; j++)
            {
                int tmpColorValue = pixelArray[i, j];
                MyColor tmp = new MyColor(tmpColorValue);
                if (colors.Contains(tmp))
                {
                    MyColor tmpColor = (from p in colors
                                        where p.colorValue == tmpColorValue
                                        select p).First();

                    tmpColor.pointList.Add(new MyPoint(i, j));
                }
                else
                {
                    tmp.pointList.Add(new MyPoint(i, j));
                    colors.Add(tmp);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

public class MyColor : IEquatable<MyColor>
{
    public int colorValue { get; set; }
    public List<MyPoint> pointList = new List<MyPoint>();
    public MyColor(int _colorValue)
    {
        colorValue = _colorValue;
    }
    public bool Equals(MyColor other)
    {
        if (this.colorValue == other.colorValue)
        {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}
public class MyPoint
{
    public int xCoord { get; set; }
    public int yCoord { get; set; }

    public MyPoint(int _xCoord, int _yCoord)
    {
        xCoord = _xCoord;
        yCoord = _yCoord;
    }
}

A: If you're getting a stack overflow I would guess that you're not excluding already-checked pixels.  The first check on visiting a square should be whether you've been here before.
Also, I was working on a related problem not too long ago and I came up with a different approach that uses a lot less memory:
A queue:
AddPointToQueue(x, y);
repeat
   x, y = HeadItem;
   AddMaybe(x - 1, y); x + 1, y; x, y - 1; x, y + 1;
until QueueIsEmpty;

AddMaybe(x, y):
if Visited[x, y] return;
Visited[x, y] = true;
AddPointToQueue(x, y);

The point of this approach is that you end up with your queue basically holding a line wrapped around the mapped area.  This limits memory usage better than a stack can.
If relevant it also can be trivially modified to yield the travel distance to any square.

A: Try using AForge.net. I would go for Filter by colors, Threshold and then you could do some Morphology to decrement the black/White zones to lose contact between the objects. Then you could go for the Blobs.

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