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The Leicester City Alternative End of Season Awards for 2013-14
The Claridge Shin 'Scenes of the Season' Award
Scenes… Kasper spares Leicester's blushes
After a flurry of late goals this campaign there are plenty of contenders for 'scenes of the season'. Contenders included Dyer's late strikes to take ties against Bolton Wanderers and Fulham to 4–3, Danny Drinkwater's stunning late equaliser against Watford and Andy King's rocket at Bloomfield Road. But this year's recipient is Kasper Schmeichel's 'goal' against Yeovil.
Of course, the records state that Chris Wood was the man that netted City's dramatic last-gasp leveller at home to the Glovers this March but those there, know the truth of how The Foxes keeper headed the ball on to the cross bar and over the line before the Kiwi made it count. As the goals hit the net or fell visibly over the line, whichever you prefer, the King Power Stadium erupted as the unbeaten run was kept alive. It may have 'only' been against Yeovil but the Glovers' spoiling tactics were providing the Foxes with a real test that only a Great Dane had the answer to.
The Dennis Wise 'Twunt of the Year' Award
No photos… Billy Davies unfinished business of making Forest completely crap was finally completed.
After some intense deliberation (inside my own head), there were only a few stand-out candidates for this award. Harry Redknapp and Joey Barton's futile attempts to unsettle City's promotion bid weren't successful enough for either to scoop the award. Yet another trophy to elude Rangers this season. The Football League could too take a roasting for their inability to correct the aforementioned goal farce against Yeovil Town and Pavel Pogrebnyak made a late charge for the dong with his amateur dramatics on Monday night. But the winner simply has to be the head of Britain's biggest bottling job 30 miles north of Filbert Way, Billy Davies.
Injuries, injuries, bad referees. Baggy-eyed Billy Davies is an odious little prick. Let's not beat around the bush, nobody likes him. In the rare event of a disappointing result, Foxes fans have found solace in the circus taking place at Nottingham Forest this year, who failed once more to 'show us how to win the league'. Billy's bottlers lie just 31 points behind their local non-rivals and of course that's the referee's fault for allowing 10-man Leicester to deservedly leave the City Ground with a point. Nae comment.
The Filbert Fox 'Foxiest Fox Of The Year' Award
Thumbs up… Kasper gets fans' tails up
This award is strictly for the ladies and gays or indeed any admirer of the male form. Plenty lay a claim to the award this season, David Nugent remains ever popular as does the unfathomable cuteness of Anthony Knockaert. But neither did enough to take first place. In fact, not even the emerging beauty of pretty-boy Matty James is enough to take the gong from Belvoir Drive's resident stud, Kasper Schmeichel.
Is this a surprise? Probably not, he's always been a strapping man, and with the addition of facial hair well… well… there's not much more to say at all. Just take 30 seconds or minutes to stare and take the full beauty of this Nordic God in.
The Frank Sinclair 'Comedy Goal of the Year' Award
Bullet… Wood's stunner won worldwide acclaim.
The own-goal for City against Derby, Nugent's first against Derby at home, blah blah blah. Now, the other 'contenders' are out of the way we can swiftly award this prestigious title to Chris Wood.
Ironically, the New Zealand international's goal at Burnley would go down as one of the actual best of the season but was it better than his crunching header at Watford from all of 18 yards? I don't think so. Manuel Almunia provided a stunning assist to allow Wood to expertly adjust his position and plunge his head forward in the space of milliseconds. Unfathomable skill, I'm sure you agree.
The Yann Kermorgant 'Stupid Decision of the Year' Award
For fox sake… Kasper makes an uncharacteristic error.
I know we've had very little to moan about this season (long may it continue) but that doesn't mean our blue and white heroes haven't been prone to the odd head-scratching error. Jamie Vardy's reluctance to punish Yeovil whilst one-on-one with the keeper, mistaking himself as offside had fans slamming their heads in to their hands as if Sol Bamba was back and on one of his infamous midfield runs. But the winning moment is Schmeichel's punch at Blackpool.
In truth, Kasper's dropping the ball in to his own net at Donny, as if he'd been juggling butter and Durex play before the match could too have scooped the prize. However, it wasn't quite as bad as Schmeichel's ill-advised decision to lay the smack down on a Blackpool player in the 90th minute, costing City a penalty and ultimately two points. It also tarnished some pretty scenic scenes after King's wonder strike 15 minutes before. Bloody hell, Kasper. You're lucky you're so gorgeous.
The Aman Verma 'Signing of the Season' Award
Algerian ace… Mahrez has been a bright spark since January.
As always with Pearson at the helm, his right-hand man Steve Walsh has produced some stunning signings for the Foxes. Despite their deceptive appearances silver foxes Gary Taylor-Fletcher and Kevin Phillips have possessed the attacking intelligence to win points. Polish brute Marcin Wasilewski has possessed the elbows defensive presence to force Liam Moore out of the starting XI and Dean Hammond too has contributed well when needed but this year's recipient is silky Algerian, Riyad Mahrez.
Leicester have been missing FLAIR and PASHUUNNNN since Danns left to join Bolton on loan (I'm being totally facetious) but Riyad Mahrez fills the gap nicely. Mahrez's pace, attacking vision and his capability to score goals like 'that one' against Blackpool have earned him many admirers in just a few short weeks.
The Alan Birchenall & Tony Currie 'Romantic Moment of the Season' Award
Don't Sell Knockaert… Tony K sends Leicester up.
The romance of Kasper's goal against Yeovil Town pales in to insignificance against two classic Tony K moments. It's hard to pick between his goal at Watford and his goal against Sheffield Wednesday but the latter just pips the other to the post.
It was overwhelmingly satisfying to see Leicester's favourite Frenchman vanquish his demons as Knockaert scored the second goal of Leicester's rout at Vicarage Road. The cute little bastard stormed over to the away end celebrating, surrounded by every single outfield team mate. As they returned to the pitch, Knockaert looked up once more at the travelling City fans and kissed the shirt's famous badge. Knockaert's goal against Sheffield Wednesday was typically even more poetic of football. Having not scored in a fair old while, it seemed only right that the same man who had inadvertently caused so much heartbreak the year before was the one that had given the Foxes their return to the top flight. Majestic stuff.
The Andy King 'We Forgot That You Were Here' Award
Cakewalk… The Foxes win promotion with 6 games to spare.
In truth this award should justly go to the noisy swarms of Watford, Forest and Derby fans after May 12th last year. However, I am going to go ahead and award this to every single club in the league.
Let's be honest, it's been a relatively comfortable season for Leicester ever since Boxing Day and even the most ungracious of fans would struggle to ignore our dominance in the second half of the campaign. So thanks to all the other 23 clubs for propping us up this season. I hope not to see any of you any time soon.
Posted in Just for fun, Leicester City on April 17, 2014 by chrisrwhiting. Leave a comment
We are Premier League!
Bottles are strewn everywhere, party streamers litter the floor and thirty thousand headaches are felt across Leicestershire as Jamie Vardy's party started three days earlier than planned.
Results on Saturday, accompanied by a 2–1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday saw Leicester City end their painful decade of exile from the top-flight. It wasn't how we wanted to go up but how could we complain? Almost a year after what can only be described as the cruelest play-off defeat in football history, the Foxes sewed up promotion with an incredible six games to spare. Fans around the country went berzerk. The players took to the city to get intoxicated and Pearson, well, Pearson probably did the same in some sleepy Shropshire village.
Move over, Ellen… The squad celebrate promotion with a selfie
To many, City's inevitable return to the top flight will not be a big deal. Some will say it had been merely a formality for City to go up, that other clubs have spent longer trying to get back to the promised land. But in truth, Leicester's jubilation was not measured in time last night rather the pain that had foregone this memorable day. Since City's last relegation in 2004, the Foxes sunk lower and lower in the second tier before finally being relegated to League One for the first time in their history. City are known for being 'bridesmaids of football' – we've never won the FA Cup, we've never won the league, we've come as close as you can get but we've never done it. It was a badge of pride for us that City had never left the top two divisions, a club now restricted to just eight sides, so to lose that was a big deal – the club's lowest ever point. Manager chopping Mandaric astutely brought in Nigel Pearson and ironically, Leicester's lowest ebb produced one of the club's best seasons for years. Champions with 96 points.
Despair… Foxes fans see the club at its lowest
The next season too was a dream for the Foxes. Whilst not the best squad on paper, Pearson's ability to instill character in to his sides helped City along the way to securing an unlikely play-off place. Leicester played out an enthralling play-off semi-final against Cardiff that ended 3-3 on aggregate after two legs and after extra time. Penalties awaited and things were all square until Yann Kermorgant, a player who had featured very little in the rest of the season, arrogantly chipped the ball, for it to be easily swatted away. City went on to lose. A stunning comeback for Leicester ended in the cruelest fashion. Signs were good for the Foxes, who were now backed by current owners, the Srivdhannaprabbhas. The owners were willing to ring the changes and spend to get the Foxes back to the top. Leicester City were bombarded with media talk for the next two seasons about how promotion would be merely a cakewalk with the new investment. However both Paulo Sousa and ex-England boss Sven Goran Eriksson failed to deliver, and too left City in a poor financial state.
The Srivdhannaprabbhas looked once more to Nigel Pearson to lead the Foxes out of a tough patch. Pearson up sticks and left the better-placed Hull City for a romantic return to Filbert Way. Pearson lead Leicester to 9th in the remainder of the 2011–12 season. His first full year back in charge saw City reach 6th, having been in poll position for automatic promotion as late as February. Pearson led City to a memorable 3–2 win at local rivals Nottingham Forest on the last day of the season, their first league triumph at the City Ground since 1972. As a result, Leicester nicked the last play-off spot at the expense of both Forest and Bolton Wanderers. In the first leg of the semi-final against Watford, Nugent scored a header to give Leicester the advantage. However, it was the second leg that would be the more memorable. The aggregate score was 2–2 going in to the 90th minute, Anthony Knockaert was judged to have been fouled, giving Leicester a penalty and a chance to get to Wembley. The Frenchman stepped up and saw his penalty saved, allowing Watford to counter and Deeney score the sucker punch that sparked a pitch invasion from the Watford fans. Leicester players and fans collapsed to the ground in pure despair. Many saw that as Leicester's best chance to return to the top flight with money looking tight and Financial Fair Play rearing its ugly head. But few envisaged City using this heartache as the catalyst for a record breaking 2013–14 (I did…sort of).
Allez les bleus… Knockaert was Leicester's hero once more.
This season has been a blast. Leicester have taken the league by the scruff of their neck. From the get go, Leicester have looked to rid the monkeys on their back starting with Middlesbrough away on the opening day, it was a crucial for City to recover from a play-off hangover as quickly as possible and they did with a scintillating second half comeback. The Foxes too went back to Vicarage Road and exorcised their demons with a 3–0 drubbing, complete with a stunning volley from Anthony Knockaert. The character from the squad is, for me, the reason why Leicester find themselves promoted with a month of the league campaign to spare. Late points won against Birmingham, Bolton, Leeds, Forest, Blackpool, Yeovil, Wigan and Watford (ha) have gone a long way to sewing up promotion – proving the mantra "Foxes never Quit!" to be nothing but true.
This season has been a dream come true. Foxes of this generation, myself included have had so little to shout about. It was only fitting that Anthony Knockaert was the man to send the Foxes up after his shortcomings at Watford last season. His character was rewarded as he took to Twitter to boast about "the best day in his life", the day Leicester made it back to the big time. And with a manager as successful as Nigel Pearson, a young, hungry squad likely to improve and owners willing to do all they can, there is no reason why the Foxes can't establish themselves. So maybe we haven't had to wait as long as for this as say Wednesday or Forest but we have been through the mill these last 10 years and yesterday, all of a sudden the pain we felt at Stoke, Cardiff and Watford was worth it for this moment. So let's pack Filbert Way on Tuesday night. Get out the blue and white, turn up the Status Quo and pour a Singha beer because Jamie Vardy's having a party – and you're all invited!
Posted in Football, Leicester City on April 6, 2014 by chrisrwhiting. Leave a comment
How 9 Years of Television Were Destroyed in 43 Minutes
Kids, let me tell you the story of how nine years of pretty solid television was undone in a catastrophic forty five minutes of nonsense…
Did I lose a slap bet to Carter Bays and Craig Thomas? Because it feels like it. How I Met Your Mother, one of my favourite TV shows signed off last Monday night with it's long-awaited series finalé. Fans had waited for years and years to see Ted Mosby finally meet the mother of his children and we did. However, we also got the ending that nobody wanted to see. Ted still somehow ended up with Robin.
I never anticipated that the final episode could go so horribly wrong but it did and for several different reasons; Firstly, the swift and lazy dismantling of Robin and Barney's marriage was thoroughly unsatisfying. The viewers had spent the last three or four seasons accepting that Robin and Barney, and the vast majority felt Barney was the best match for Robin. Even those who did prefer Robin and Ted's relationship seemingly accepted that they were destined for other people. However, Robin and Barney ran in to one small spot of bother and poof, they were divorced. The problem of travelling too much is easily repairable but instead they split. We then must question why on earth we had to sit through twenty two tedious and quite frankly below par episodes based around the weekend of their wedding, only for them to break up ten television minutes afterwards.
Major disappointment… Most HIMYM fans felt let down by the show's ending.
What was even more upsetting was the undoing of Barney's transformation. For years, viewers had watched Barney evolve from an insatiable conniving ladies' man in to a devoted husband who chose love over an endless string of one night stands. Even if they had to split him and Robin up, they didn't have to make him return to his sleazy ways. But in truth, Barney ending up with Robin made sense – two people with emotionally distant or physically distant fathers, hardened and immune to love, coming together and living the happy home life they scarcely got as youngsters. But that was torn apart by Bays and Thomas to make way for Ted, to have two loves of his life and have Barney shafted with a rashly thought through consolation of a love child.
Robin's character too was tarnished by the episode. Robin is was actually my favourite character because she uprooted stereotypical women on sitcoms. She wasn't needy and lovelorn and desperate to settle in to traditional married life. Instead she was strong-willed, empowered, career driven and hardy. Well, that was true until the finalé, where we're supposed to believe that she spent years and years pining after a man who's neediness Robin surely couldn't stand nor logically be harmonious with.
It wasn't only that Barney and Robin ending up together seemed so right, it's also that Ted and Robin being together seemed so wrong. For years, Robin and Ted engaged in a thoroughly exhausting on again off again relationship. We had seen why they were incompatible despite their strong connection and as harsh as it was, it made sense – it was real, it was authentic. We saw them both hold an unrequited love for the other but the romance ran it's course. We were led to believe that Robin had moved on, and even Ted did eventually. The viewers were comfortable knowing that although they were good together, they both had their 'true loves' to come in Barney and the Mother.
Undermined… The Blue French Horn trumped the Yellow Umbrella
And speaking of the mother, how bad was her treatment in the show's ultimate episode? The fans spent nine long years waiting to meet Ted's perfect woman, year after year they theorised and built up their collection of clues to try and untangle the mystery behind this perfect woman that would finally save Ted from the wilderness years of unfulfilling singledom. But no, instead she was treated like a rented womb. It was bad enough that she had only appeared in half of season nine's episodes but having her die, and in the manner she did was nigh on ridiculous. This was the titular character that fans had waited for – and she just croaked in a hospital bed. There was barely even a touching monologue where Ted had to let go, just "Your mother is sick…she died. Now, I can go back to screwing my best friend's ex-wife." The fans had grown to love her, she fit the group well and she was perfect for Ted. Her fate seemed unjust and simply wrong. Having her become a side note to Robin was the ultimate insult to her character. Why was the show given this title anyway?
Many took to Twitter to air their disbelief and dissatisfaction at the show's poorly thought out climax. However a scattering of 'HIMYM hipsters' profess that those not happy with the ending merely didn't get the meaning of the show. Which is nonsense, given the title and the creators' comments about Ted and Robin in Season One; "this isn't the love story we set out to tell." – which evidently was a lie. Even Cobie Smulders said that the finale was "beautiful" and "true to real life" but I for one am struggling to see what is more true to life about having your wife die and then going after your best friend's ex-wife, who is already your twice failed girlfriend. Surely, it's more true to life that Ted only had a working relationship with the Mother and not Robin. Despite their connection, it sometimes just doesn't work out between people for one reason or another. Surely that's the truth? Instead of that, Ted got two great loves, Barney got none and the Mother got a long, arduous, untimely death.
'You can't ruin 9 years worth of television in 45 minutes.' #HIMYMFinale pic.twitter.com/9WArnFTp96
— Cumberbitch (@mygodBenedict_) April 1, 2014
#HIMYMFinale spent and entire season watching a wedding that would dissolve in the first ten minutes of the show! pic.twitter.com/B598dKme8n
— Anna Chan (@AyChan87) April 1, 2014
All the people complaining about the #HIMYMFinale obviously didn't even understand the point of the show #suitup
— Jourdyn Rachelle (@JourdynBourbyn) April 1, 2014
I don't buy in to the fact that the closing scenes with Ted's kids being filmed in 2006 dictated the show's ending. Carter Bays and Craig Thomas should have known better than to let that alter the show's climax. Whether or not they were reluctant to change their mind, they should have realised that ending just simply didn't work with what How I Met Your Mother had evolved in to over the last nine years. And as a result, fans are disillusioned, reluctant to re-watch the show and a little bit heartbroken that the characters and story they had become so invested in was offered such a cheap and bathetic climax.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2014 by chrisrwhiting. 3 Comments


Survival without purpose is like living poor, especially when the only thing you are abundant with is money.
I came from a poor family.
Maybe I got the highest chance of winning in a game called Who's the Poorest of Them All if there was a game like that.
We, Filipinos, are proud to tell our success stories. I never run out of enthusiasm to tell my story – the "partida" of life – every time there's an opportunity. May I share with you a snippet of my story?
I had experienced selling guava, macopa, banana-cue, camote-cue, yema balls, butong-pakwan, sweet beans, pentel pens, oh yes, even expired shampoos, when I was in elementary just to get by.
I was a cigarette vendor in a cockpit arena every Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday during school vacations from fourth grade to the first year of college.
I knew it doesn't make sense to put all those pitiful situations in my resume.
But ironically, I've observed that people are more interested to hear my struggles behind the successes.
I fought a tough battle in the survival stage of my life.
It certainly felt good when you can experience every week what you used to experience once a year.
Then your boredom gives birth to a new breakthrough in your life.
That breakthrough is the search for meaning or purpose.
I've realized that there's more to life after winning the game of survival.
Because of where I came from, my family and I have volunteered to become part of Caritas Tarlac in Tarlac City.
Caritas Tarlac is the social services arm of the Diocese of Tarlac.
If you know Caritas Manila, you already have an idea what Caritas Tarlac is.
Caritas Tarlac has counseling, healthcare, education, justice and peace, relief and rescue, environmental care, and livelihood and employment ministries.
Caritas Tarlac is not exclusive for Catholics in Tarlac. For as long as Caritas Tarlac has the ways and means to help across all those ministries I've mentioned above, help will come. We will be there.
Caritas Tarlac has a raffle draw this December 2018 to raise some funds for the rehabilitation of a building which will become the Caritas Tarlac Center in San Luis, Tarlac City.
I know that the forecast amount that we're going to raise from the raffle is far from enough to rehabilitate the building.
My default frame of mind when I encounter a situation that needs a solution is to exhaust what I can do on my level first because that's where I have the most control.
The Board of Directors of Equilyst Analytics, Inc. and my wife and I have agreed to donate 3 percent of the net profit of Equilyst Analytics, Inc. from its EquiPicks service from July 12, 2018 to December 14, 2018.
Starting today, whether you will subscribe for 1 month, 6 months, or 1 year, 3 percent of the net income from the EquiPicks service from July 12, 2018 to December 14, 2018 will be donated to Caritas Tarlac.
Instead of Equilyst Analytics, Inc. being highlighted when we hand over the donation to Caritas Tarlac, I will have the individual names of the subscribers within that period to appear as the donors.
I know some of you would want to give more. You can contact me through the Support page of this website and mention that you're contacting us regarding your donation for Caritas Tarlac. Please leave your mobile number. I have already informed my team to forward such email to me so I can personally contact you. Then, I will connect you with Rev. Fr. Randy M. Salunga, Spiritual Director of Caritas Tarlac, Bro. Rex Igoy, Servant Leader of Caritas Tarlac.
Friends, I've already seen, heard, felt, and tasted what God can do to me. It's about time to see what God can do through you and me.


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December 30, 2014 - After Spanish conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado gave up on New Mexico because the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola turned out to be made of mud instead of gold — and before returning to present-day Mexico — he went all the way up to present-day Kansas.
Marching with more than 1,000 people, with several thousand head of livestock, and often sending small groups of soldiers to explore in different directions, the 1540-42 Coronado expedition covered a huge territory — through today's Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
He had initially gone to New Mexico based on the stories of a missionary — Marcos de Niza — who had only seen the "golden cities" from a distance, only to realize that the golden structures de Niza had seen were only adobe buildings glittering in the sunlight.
As the Coronado expedition explored North America, some 274 years before Lewis and Clark made their more celebrated journey, it discovered huge landmarks, including the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. But the golden cities were further north, Coronado was told, in a land called Quivira.
To get to Quivira, another mythical center of wealth now described by an Indian guide known as "the Turk," they would have to march to the northeast through portions of today's Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Other Indian guides had disavowed the Turk's claims of abundant gold. But Coronado, desperate to salvage his expedition from failure and his own reputation from ridicule in Mexico and Spain, followed the Turk's advice.
Besides, the Spanish explorers and their Native American traveling companions already had worn out their welcome from the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, where they had spent the winter of 1540-41, and it was time to move on.
Yet after wandering for weeks on their way to Quivira and enduring the hardships of the uncertain trail, Coronado decided to send the expedition back to the banks of the Rio Grande — in today's Albuquerque area — and to proceed north with only 30 soldiers and a priest.
Mind you, Coronado's epic journey of more than 4,000 miles has been documented with tangible evidence. Archeological surveys have found 16th-century Spanish copper and iron crossbow points, chain mail armor fragments, horseshoes, nails, spurs, and other artifacts along portions of his trail.
But when Coronado finally reached central Kansas in the summer of 1541, he found no gold or wealth in the grass-hut villages of the natives he assumed were "Quivira Indians." They were actually Wichita natives and were mostly hunters and farmers.
A few weeks ago, when the Great Hispanic American History Tour went "Hiking in Search of Coronado's Trail" (see http://www.hiddenhispanicheritage.com/67-hiking-in-search-of-coronados-trail.html) at the Coronado National Memorial in southern Arizona, we saw the valley where his expedition entered the present-day United States. And now, as we entered the land once known as Quivira, in the plains of central Kansas, we saw the place where he finally made a U-turn.
And surprisingly, although Coronado spent only about a month in Kansas, his expedition left huge imprints in the area he explored. When the Great Hispanic American History Tour picked up Coronado's trail again, starting in the Oklahoma Panhandle and going northward to central Kansas, I was pleasantly surprised to find numerous historical markers, monuments and even a small museum — in Lyons, Kansas — commemorating the Coronado expedition.
"Eighty years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Spanish explorers visited Kansas," states the roadside marker titled "Coronado and Quivira" on U.S. Highway 56 between Lyons and Chase in Rice County, Kansas.
"When Francisco Vasquez de Coronado rode into a Wichita village in 1541, the Wichita numbered around 200,000," another state-erected historical marker explains. "Coronado was searching for Quivira, but he had begun to doubt the stories of this mythical city of gold. He had been told of a land where the king slept each night beneath a tree of golden bells that made soft music in the wind, and the people ate from plates of silver and gold. The allure of finding Quivira was so strong that when he encountered the Wichita, he assumed he had found it."
Another marker, next to a statue of Coronado in Liberal, Kansas, notes that "the Spaniards found no gold, only the grass lodges of the Quiviran Indians, and the guide who misled Coronado was killed."
Whether the Turk just wanted to get back home to Kansas or he purposefully deceived Coronado to drive the Spanish expedition out of New Mexico is not clear, but the stories he created cost him his life. When he allegedly confessed to having misled the explorers in a conspiracy with the Pueblo Indians to lead the expedition astray, enraged Spanish soldiers executed him by strangulation.
After consulting with his soldiers and his priest, Coronado decided to give up the quest for Quiviran treasures and return to New Mexico to rejoin the main expedition for the winter of 1541-42.
"After more than a month spent in exploring central Kansas, the expedition returned to the Southwest, disappointed in the quest for riches but favorably impressed by the land itself," the Liberal marker explains. "Juan Jaramillo, Coronado's lieutenant, wrote: 'It is not a hilly country, but has table-lands, plains and charming rivers. ... I am of the belief that it will be very productive of all sorts of commodities.'"
Coronado also found fertile ground for European farming. Back in New Mexico, on Oct. 20, 1541, he wrote to the king of Spain: "The province of Quivira is 950 leagues from Mexico. ... The country itself is the best I have ever seen for producing all the products of Spain, for besides the land itself being very fat and black and being well watered by the rivulets and springs and rivers, I found prunes (wild plums) like those of Spain, and nuts, and very good sweet grapes and mulberries. I had been told that the houses were made of stone and were several storied; they are only of straw, and the inhabitants are as savage as any that I have seen. They have no clothes, nor cotton to make them of; they simply tan the hides of the cows (buffalo) which they hunt, and which pasture around their village and in the neighborhood of a large river. They eat their meat raw ... and are enemies to one another and war among one another. All these men look alike. The inhabitants of Quivira are the best of hunters and they plant maize."
After another winter in the Albuquerque area, the 32-year-old Coronado suffered another setback, which would send the expedition back to Mexico. He was thrown from his horse in early April 1542 and suffered head injuries, from which he was said to never be able to recover. So a little more than two years after leaving Mexico with much pageantry, the expedition began its march back to Mexico with an injured leader and even more wounded pride.
Coronado led a caravan that historians have characterized as one of the greatest land expeditions the world has known, but when he returned to Mexico without gold in 1542, his mission initially was considered a failure.
Members of his expeditions wrote accounts that would clarify 16th-century Europe's image of North America. They laid claim to vast new territory for Spain. They discovered huge North American landmarks. But Coronado found no treasures for himself, his men, his sponsors or the Spanish crown. He had no new Catholic converts to claim.
Another half-century would pass before the Spanish would return to the land known as Quivira — with one exception.
Juan de Padilla, one of four Franciscan friars on the Coronado expedition, returned to Kansas to preach to the Wichita only a few months after leaving that area with Coronado. But although de Padilla was revered by the Wichita, he was murdered by other Native Americans. In an attack by hostile Indians, he gave up his life to save his native followers. In Kansas, de Padilla is considered the first Christian martyr in the United States.
"In the year 1542, near this place, this pioneer missionary of the Cross gave his life at the hand of those he had come to serve and save," one historical marker explains, evoking Hispanic pride in the plains of Kansas.
As the Great Hispanic American History Tour trekked across central Kansas in search of Coronado landmarks, I was surprised to find that some of the most impressive monuments are for de Padilla and that this Andalusian-born priest is widely recognized here as the pioneer who brought Christianity to Kansas.
Next week, the Great Hispanic American History Tour keeps trekking eastbound, all the way to St. Louis, where a Spanish fort — now the site of a downtown hotel — prevented Great Britain from gaining control of the Mississippi Valley during the Revolutionary War.
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Season 2 of Hollywood Darlings starts Wednesday, April 18th, on the Pop network It stars 90's sitcom child stars Jodie Sweetin (Full House), Beverley Mitchell (Seventh Heaven) and Christine Lakin (Step by Step). The three women play exaggerated versions of themselves, and season 1 was a lot of fun!
This season though, it will be ramping up the shenanigans even more – because it's gotten a heavy dose of girl power! The stars are now all executive producers and Hanna Lopatin has moved up to supervising producer. The duo of director & executive producer Sammi Cohen and co-executive producer Kourtney Gleason were then brought on board. Together they've come together for a whole new take on Hollywood Darlings!
Gleason is the daughter of actress Lynne Randall and the late Michael Gleason – who was a television screenwriter and producer for over 30 years. However, he's probably best known for being the co-creator and executive producer of the 1980's hit Remington Steele.
I had a chance to talk with Gleason about her road to joining the Hollywood Darlings team and what to expect for the new season. One of my first questions was about how she decided on producing as a career track.
D'Angelo: Your Dad created Remington Steele. He did a lot of other things after that, but he basically created a new subgenre of television. And, your mom, Lynne Randall, was an actress. So, how did you get to producing as your track?
Gleason: It's funny. I always knew that I wanted to do… something, in entertainment, but I wasn't really sure what that something was. …There was a minute when I thought it was acting, and then I went on an audition and I was like, "Well, I don't want to ever do that again." (laughs) That was one audition too many. …Then, I kind of fell into it. I went to college…I was a bartender for a while, and I thought, maybe this is my life and I going to open a restaurant. But then I realized that I always wanted to make television, make movies. It's always been the thing that like when you close your eyes and you dream about what would be the best future, I always think of television. I think it was just in me. How I kind of fell into it was a friend of mine knew the director of Crank, Brian Taylor, and he was looking for an assistant. I met with him, and he ended up giving me a job as a P.A. That was my first production job, and I kind of loved it. …Then I just ended up climbing, P.A.'ing for a very long time, working at a production company, and then working up the ranks until finally, I decided I could produce on my own. I felt like I could do it.
Of course, one look at Gleason's resume shows that she's worked hard to get to where she's at now. The self-proclaimed, "baby producer" has a ton of producing projects under her belt. They include commercials and a slew of music videos – including the MTV Music Awards 2016 winner for Best Rock Video: Twenty One Pilots' song Heathens.
Despite her resume though, one of the first things she let me know is this.
Commercials and music videos are a completely different world from television and movies. You can't just jump over.
Why? Because having connections in the former area does not transfer into the latter.
Gleason: So, now I'm kind of like a baby producer in the long-form, whereas, I've been doing this for ten years now, And I'm still trying to, you know, trying to get my name out there and say like, "Hi, I know what I'm doing. I know I'm a girl, and, I know what I'm doing.
D'Angelo: It's so interesting that you said that, "I know I'm a girl." There's been a big shift and focus this year and focus that women are in Hollywood, and, surprise, they work, and they think.
Gleason: This shift is starting to feel really good. And I forever would…I would never lean on the fact that "I didn't get that job because I'm a girl," or "they don't like me because I'm a girl," or " they talk to me that way. I'd always try to figure out other reasons, but now, hindsight, hindsight's 20/20 and I'm like, "No, no, no, that's why they spoke to me that way. That's why they, when I would make a decision, they would check with someone that lower than me, that's a man, to make sure I knew what I was talking about. You know, there was a lot of that going on – which is no fun.
Gleason's most recent long-form project couldn't have been more perfect to prepare her for season 2 of Hollywood Darlings. She was the line producer & post-production supervisor for the documentary film Becoming Bond. In fact, it's how the Pop Network found her.
The film (which you can see on Hulu) has a top critics and audience score of 86 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. If you haven't seen it, the first line in their description of Becoming Bond explains why Gleason is a perfect fit for season 2 of Hollywood Darlings.
A unique documentary/narrative hybrid chronicling the stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), despite having never acted a day in his life.
"A unique documentary/narrative hybrid" could very well describe Hollywood Darlings. It's not a reality show, as the actresses are playing larger than life versions of themselves. Yet, the show is about them. In a similar vein, Becoming Bond falls under both the comedy and documentary genres.
In case you didn't notice, what's not in Gleason's story is help from her father. I did ask her about that. Her response was insightful about her path to producing. In the process, it also tells us a little bit about her to her father.
What's New for Season 2 of Hollywood Darlings? A Whole Lot!
If you thought last season was funny, Gleason promises that season 2 of Hollywood Darlings is even more so. Here's some of what she told me about what to expect for season 2 of Hollywood Darlings.
Gleason: This year, it (season 2) we've made it, it reads as a scripted comedy. It's beautifully shot. We've got an amazing team, so visually it's a lot more stylized. We have, like, great storylines, fantastic. Like, we have an episode where we throw the girls back to when they first became friends, which was, you know, 1999, New Year's Eve, Y2K. So we have like a Y2K flashback episode.
It's really fun. We got to have a lot of fun. We did an episode that kind of parodies Big Little Lies, so we shot it in the vein of Big Little Lies. Each episode has kind of has the girls getting into a bit of, you know, a comedy of errors, a little, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" kind of style, and then they kind of come out on top. One episode, Jodie starts a rumor that Christine Lakin dies in a boating accident, in order to get her more followers on Twitter. (We both laugh.) There's a lot of fun stuff. And we talk about, you know, things that are real, but we really take it to the next level in the comedy aspect. It's really funny, it's really fun, I love it!
D'Angelo: It sounds like it's more scripted. So they're not just doing improv scenes? Or is it still working with that improv style?
Gleason: We all outlined what each episode was going to be. We knew what we were doing every day. But, Sammi and I were able to give them (the stars) the ability to improvise within the scenes. I believe last year was fully improvised, where they were on 18 hours days. We were on 12 hour days and the girls knew exactly what they were doing. We had beats and everything, and everything was really detailed. There's no reality feel to it. This will feel like a nice 30 minute scripted comedy.
D'Angelo: Nice! It sounds like you all were able to be on the same page.
Gleason: It was so cool! It was like nothing I've ever experienced. Thinking about it, like, we wrapped in December, and this is the first time I've really been talking about it and it just brings a huge smile to my face. It really was something special. We hustled man! We got in there and we really worked fast and smart, and I do think it was because we had a lot of women, like, keeping everyone in shape, you know? There was no drama, no, like, cattiness, no clicks, no emotional chaos. Everyone was just there for each other in a way that, to this day, I'm still blown away.
After my interview with Gleason, I can tell that season 2 of Hollywood Darlings is going to be a blast! (Check out the promo!) It premieres Wednesday, April 18th at 8 pm ET on the Pop network. So, don't forget to mark your calendars, and prepare yourself for a lot of laughter!


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Equinox p2 UI Use Cases
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This page captures thoughts about the kinds of users using the Eclipse SDK p2 UI and the things these users are trying to do.
2 Eclipse Personas
2.1 Steve
2.2 Laurel
2.3 Dave
2.4 Ellen
2.5 Please add your input about these or other personas
3 Scenarios
4 Get updates
5 Find new stuff
6 Diagnosing problems
One goal in building the Eclipse 3.4 p2 UI was to simplify the number of steps and concepts for a less technical user of Eclipse. We often called this user "the RCP app" user and were somewhat influenced by "Samantha," a design persona developed by Mary Beth Raven to use in the UI design for some Lotus products (see Lotus personas). We also often discussed "current UM users" - the more technical Eclipse SDK users who want to closely manage their configuration and want to know the detailed ramifications of a provisioning operation.
As we made design and implementation tradeoffs to meet the 3.4 schedule, it became rather cumbersome to discuss some of these tradeoffs given we had not developed a vocabulary for talking about these personas. (For an example of the swirl, see Bug 224472).
To that end, we'll develop some simple personas to use in discussing the various scenarios and problems/improvements. Rather than interviewing a sample user base, I'm using bug reports, mailing list traffic, walkthroughs, and other feedback to define these users initially, and I welcome any and all help to iterate on these. Note that I'm not focusing on the personal (age, hobbies) and background (education) info of the users initially. If there is interest in further developing these personas, by all means please contribute.
The personas are defined in terms of the Eclipse SDK and products built on top of the SDK. We realize that some RCP app users don't fit these definitions at all, and alternate UI's will be built where appropriate in certain product. The UI class libraries are being designed to support reuse of the building blocks and different levels of integration/composition. But that is a topic for another page...
Any similarity between the persona names and real Eclipse SDK users is completely coincidental
Eclipse Personas
Steve is a power user of the Eclipse C++ and device tooling, using a Linux-based dev environment. He has intimate knowledge of underlying OS and device technology, and Eclipse is only one of many tools he is using in his job. He is familiar with Linux-based package management and provisioning tools. He is also involved in the development of an Eclipse client integration plug-in for his toolset, though this is a very small part of his job. He does write the occasional bug report against Eclipse and keeps tabs on the availability of function that he cares about. He updates to new milestone builds when important new function appears, and he might even take an integration build or maintenance branch build in order to test or verify a bug report he cares about. He does not routinely browse for new plug-ins, although he might add a plug-in that he read about if he felt it would help his day-to-day tasks. He doesn't really care how his Eclipse system is composed as long as the platform is performing well and he can provide the information needed in a bug report to help figure out a problem.
Things Steve needs to do regularly:
Update and manage his Linux environment
Check for updates in Eclipse when he hears of a bug fix or build he is interested in.
He is watching for different kinds of updates (milestone build, I-build, patch, etc.)
He needs to be able to quickly determine which update is important, needs to sift through what's available to find the specific one he wants.
Submit information in bug reports about exactly what version of Eclipse he is running
Things Steve does occasionally:
Install a plug-in he read about on the web
Contribute improvements or fixes to an Eclipse plug-in developed at his company
Laurel is a developer of modeling products for Eclipse, using Eclipse Modeling Tools as a base for her work. She is an active participant in the Eclipse community, keeping up-to-date on release planning and being a vocal submitter and commenter in bugzilla. She prides herself on being among the first to try out a new release of a plug-in and blog about it. She frequently installs plug-ins to check them out, and has submitted several bugs against Update Manager (and p2) to help simplify tasks. She has a good working knowledge of the various Eclipse components and projects. While she is not too concerned with the underlying mechanics of the install (directory locations, etc.), she does want to know what components are being installed and why. For example, if she wanted to install a plug-in that required an upgrade to GEF, she would want to know this, because she's informed about the different versions and their impact on her environment.
Things Laurel does regularly:
Install new plug-ins found on the web
She wishes she could do this in one step rather than Add Site, Browse, Install
Check for updates to what she has
She wants to know what underlying components might be upgraded in the process of upgrading her software
Uninstall plug-ins after trying them out
She rarely restarts Eclipse after an install or uninstall because she does it so often
Dave is an IT specialist in charge of internal deployment of a commercial product based on the Eclipse SDK. He wants to try out any and all updates or add-ons to the Eclipse environment before deciding whether to deploy them. He is conservative in deploying new functionality. He currently supports three different configurations of the product, based on his end users' day to day work. In one configuration, users are not allowed to update at all. This is accomplished by limiting the update repositories but he would prefer that in this configuration, the update UI did not appear at all. He maintains an internal update repository for deploying approved Eclipse updates, patches, or add-ons for the other two configurations. It is vital that Dave can configure the product so that users cannot update or add plug-ins from any other sources. He configures Eclipse to use automatic updating. Most of Dave's users aren't familiar with the Eclipse community. There are some Eclipse-savvy users that install and maintain their own Eclipse SDK, but Dave does not support these installs. However, he looks to this subset of users to help him beta-test new function and configurations.
Things Dave does regularly:
Debugs problems in user installs, relying on configuration information from the platform
Needs to quickly identify which configuration a user is using, which updates they applied
Things Dave does occasionally:
Evaluates new plug-ins for inclusion in the standard installation
Add update sites found on the web
Tries out the plug-in and determines whether it should be added to the base install
Needs to be able to easily install/uninstall a particular set of plug-ins into his environment to run his performance test suites and analyze resource consumption
Wants to be sure that "trial installs" don't leave baggage in his test platform. He will be concerned if things he has uninstalled still appear in the plugins folder and will lose trust of the p2 technology if he feels he must install from scratch in order to guarantee a clean testbed
Downloads software into staging sites for internal test installs (rather than installing from external sites)
Ellen is one of Dave's users. She uses a product based on the Eclipse SDK and doesn't have any idea what Eclipse is. She updates her software when instructed to and otherwise doesn't care about the composition of her product.
Things Ellen does occasionally:
When Ellen receives an update notification, she clicks the popup and updates the software, but only if she has seen an announcement from Dave that an update is available and should be installed.
If Ellen has a problem with her software, she contacts support. She needs to be able to communicate what versions of things are installed in a way that will make sense to Dave.
Please add your input about these or other personas
Please include your name and project so we can contact you for further information. We're looking for input about missing users and tasks, or information to flesh out the existing personas. Consider this a brainstorming area, we'll clean it up later.
Mike Haller, Platform/RCP Application - our users are like Ellen, they are in a highly controlled environment and don't update until told. In half of the environments, they even have no permission to install updates on their local disk. Initial installation of a new feature using an update site or updates of existing features still require too many steps/clicks and looks complicated, which annoys Ellen. My Ellen is not required to know about local/archived/remote update sites, features and versions. The product used by my Ellen is built and released by Laurel :)
In addition to Ellen, I'd like to add Arthur. Arthur is our customer who has bought/acquired(!) our commercial RCP app. He had to use NSIS to install it (something had to ensure he had a JRE and Bonjour) but after that he will never come back to our website to check for the latest version. Instead, when updates are available, a small, unobtrusive dialogue box will appear. If he chooses to 'Install updates', then without any further interaction his app will be incrementally updated (just the plugins which have changed, keeping the xfer size down) and restarted automatically. The behaviour will be almost identical to the brilliant Sparkle framework available on the mac - no fuss, no confusion, just end user bliss...
[Susan comment: I'm not sure how different Arthur's tasks are from Ellen as far as updating goes. He did the initial install and has more knowledge of the platform, but otherwise I think their needs are the same???...seamless and unobtrusive automatic updating.]
Miles Parker, PDE/Plugin Developer. (This is a recent and very typical user fro me.) Herbert is a developer and technologist (university researcher for example) who has experience in a broad variety of tools and platforms. He has used Eclipse a bit in the past, and may use JDT on a regular basis, but he has had a bad experience w/ p2. He does understand software imperfections and is not afraid to look under the hood. But he also has a level of expectation about how software should work. When something goes wrong, he wants to know why and what can be done about it; to be presented with all of the information he needs to know to diagnose an issue in a simple and orderly way. The challenge with Herbert is that he has limited time and a long memory. If he gets over aggravation threshold I'll lose him as potential user. And of course for every user that requests help there are probably 5 who I'll never hear from. (One possible functional improvement that occurred to me is to have ability to send feedback to plugin developers on p2 issues so that we can get notified when failures occur.) Selected quotes from "Herbert":
"I'm setting this up on a [windows] box (which is just about the worst development platform on earth btw...thank God for a jvm and eclipse :) ) ... i do have an os x box, ubuntu linux, and solaris..running as well... Thank you for the detail on Eclipse as i've yet to make a major switch to Ganymede; I have an extensive Europa setup that i didn't want to goon. Moreover, i'm used to....dumping features and plugins: I'll have to wise up on the new Ganymede install MO... "
Much later: "here's some quick notes on the install:..Use the Ganymede Discovery Site to install GMF, not the update site recommended by the GMF page --- dependency errors abound otherwise and you'll have no chance..Install [Dependency] using the archive option....their update site is vaporware at the moment.. [Dependency 2] -- initially reports "no update site found" then i refresh and it shows up...then eclipse crashed with some bs error...After a restart i get a single clean [My Plugin] folder that then installs flawlessly.The eclipse plugin manager is incredibly unstable and buggy; i've decided that i hate it at the moment :)"
I include the quotes *not* to pile on but to give some insight into user's debugging and evaluation process.
[Susan comment:] Miles, I wonder if Herbert, Steve, and Karen could be merged into one persona. What they have in common is that they are very knowledgeable and proficient in their tools and OS, consider Eclipse update just a minor tool in their workflow (and probably wish it worked like their favorite platform package mgmt software). The only real difference as written is that some want to understand the underlying dir structure/exactly what is being installed, and some do not, they just want it to work and be stable. Thoughts?....
[Miles response:] I'm not sure. It is true that somedays I feel like Steve, sometimes Herbert and sometimes Karen. :) The primary difference is that Steve and Karen have strong knowledge and buy-in for Eclipse. Herbert is a sophisticated user, but he is not proficient at Eclipse to the extent that things that we take for granted may not be clear. For example, decoding plugin/feature versioning or even knowing the difference between the two. He may not know what the dependency chain is and might want to see that in a transparent way. He wants a clean way to zero everything back and detect wether things are hopelessly messed up. He might want partial solutions to get things up and running. "OK, I see that GMF is missing a dependency, but let me install the rest so I can take a look at this tool". He is closer to Karen than Steve and perhaps they can be combined, but there is something essential about Herbert in that he is a relative newcomer. This is key when you consider that herbert is a potential platform conquest. Karen and Steve and myself aren't going anywhere, we have too much invested. But Herbert could be one of those people that say "I tried Eclipse, but..".
[Susan response:] I got rid of Karen and merged some of the salient points about directory structure, clean removal of plugins, etc. to Dave. This was based on Markus' comments below. Now I'm left to figure out how Herbert fits in. Do you mean that Herbert hasn't bought into Eclipse as an IDE but enough compelling plug-ins would cause him to do so? Something like "I wanted to install Mylyn because I heard it makes Eclipse a more usable IDE but I couldn't get past the stupid update UI to add Mylyn and try it out?"
[Miles response:] Sorry guys, I wasn't getting change updates so lost track. Susan, I think you've captured most of what I was thinking for Herbert with Steve except for the grumpiness. :) Again key issue was neophyte Eclipse user but experience diagnosing other systems. I think the new use cases cover this quite nicely.
[Markus comment] I'd like to expand Dave's role slightly, in trying out plugins
>Evaluates new plug-ins for inclusion in the standard installation
>Adds update sites found on the web
Installs plugins into his work installation (IMHO the best way to try them - use them during your own work) - preferably into an appropriate extension location
Needs to remove them from his installation again (preferably deleting them)
Has used link files so far for the detailed control they give
>Downloads software into staging sites for internal test installs (rather than installing from external sites)
[Susan response:] Markus, I added some detail to further explain the steps in evaluating new plug-ins. I stayed away from implementation terminology (extension location and links) and tried to focus on requirements, which would be the ability to quickly/easily install and uninstall, possibly in groups. Does that reflect your intent?
[Markus response] Susan, thanks. You have put my concerns very nicely.
Based on the users above, the following scenarios need to be fleshed out:
Dave uses automatic update checking on a daily schedule for all three configurations that he supports. This keeps him aware of what new versions are available in each supported environment
Dave needs to be able to ascertain quickly the nature of the update
maintenance upgrades
new releases/new function
Dave needs to know if accepting an upgrade will upgrade or otherwise alter any other component in the system
Dave will need to run test suites against any newly upgraded configuration
Because this process can be quite time-consuming, Dave tends to evaluate these upgrades in batches every few weeks, unless it is a critical fix that must be evaluated immediately
Ellen sees a popup notifying her of new updates
Ellen clicks on the popup to see the list of updates
Ellen pushes "Finish" and gets on with her work
If there are any problems, Ellen will contact support
Steve gets a bugzilla email that a bug he reported against Eclipse has been fixed (finally!)
He is looking for a particular milestone build that has the fix
Steve uses "One-click" check for updates to the current system
There may be multiple available updates, Steve needs to be able to see them all and choose a specific one
If there are any dependency errors or other problems in the update, Steve will most likely want to bail
out of the update. He has limited time to diagnose problems
Laurel checks for updates routinely as well as having automatic update checking on a weekly schedule
She often has already heard about the update and knows it's coming
If she hasn't heard of an update, she wants to quickly ascertain whether it's a "bleeding edge" or "maintenance" update
If there are dependency errors or other problems, Laurel needs enough information to diagnose the problem. She wants to know if an update to X requires an update to underlying component Y and would like to know why
Find new stuff
Laurel is reading a blog that mentions a new plug-in that is cool. She wants to try it.
Needs easy way to get the site content into Eclipse
Will keep working while it installs and will not restart the system
Will take a quick look at the plug-in, evaluate and write about it
Wants an easy way to uninstall it
Quick evaluation without ever restarting Eclipse
Blog away...
One of Dave's users asks if a new plug-in could be added into the standard toolset, sends him a link to the site
Will restart the system after install
Dave wants to know the impact on the running system - disk space, memory usage, etc.
Runs test suites to confirm that the system runs as expected in the presence of the new plug-in
Needs to repeat these steps for his other configurations
Determination as to which configuration(s) this tool should be added, if any
If the plug-in is to be considered, he will deploy it to his beta configuration users
Diagnosing problems
Ellen is getting an error notification while starting up her application
Ellen calls support to explain a problem that occurred after upgrading her product
Support needs information about what she installed
She may not remember what she installed, she was just following instructions
Laurel is getting a workbench error notification after installing and applying a plug-in
She wants to capture the information quickly and submit a bug report. She is going to uninstall the plug-in so she needs confidence that the info she is capturing is complete because she won't be trying it again
She wants to uninstall the plug-in and keep working
If the error disappears after uninstall, Laurel is happy
Dave is getting an error notification after installing a plug-in
He wants to uninstall the plug-in and move on (not going to use it). He probably won't open a bug about it, but instead will notify the person who suggested evaluating the plug-in that it's not ready for prime time.
Once the error is gone, Dave wants to make sure the plug-in does not remain in the system, needs to verify
his configuration
Dave will start from scratch if he is not comfortable that the uninstall worked
Steve is getting an Eclipse start-up error
He thinks it is related to a recent build update but is not sure
He will open a bug and provide the log info
He will reinstall his SDK from scratch
The conclusions have been moved to Equinox p2 UI 3.5 workflows
Equinox p2
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Samsung's Galaxy S9 Echoes Latest iPhone, With Multimodal Biometric Exception
Posted on February 26, 2018	by Alex Perala
"A new user authentication system called Intelligent Scan combines improved facial recognition with the iris scanning technology pioneered by last year's Galaxy and Note devices to allow for an even more secure…"
Samsung's latest Galaxy smartphone has been announced, and it's pretty much what was expected: A better version of last year's Galaxy S8, with an improved camera system and more sophisticated biometric security.
As Samsung hinted ahead of the device's launch, the focus would very much be on the Galaxy S9's imaging capabilities. Like the iPhone X and the iPhone 8 Plus, the S9 and S9+ sport a dual camera system that allows for genuine depth perception. Also like the latest iPhones, the S9 devices' imaging capabilities are improved with AI, allowing for users' facial expressions to be mapped onto animated emojis. (Samsung calls these "AR Emojis", as opposed to Apple's "Animojis".)
That brings us to the device's improved biometric technology, which relies in part on these imaging capabilities. A new user authentication system called Intelligent Scan combines improved facial recognition with the iris scanning technology pioneered by last year's Galaxy and Note devices to allow for an even more secure, passive authentication system. That, of course, also represents an echo of the iPhone X, which made waves with its highly secure infrared facial recognition system allowing users to unlock their device just by looking at it; but while Face ID is the iPhone X's only biometric authentication system, Samsung's is multimodal, with fingerprint recognition to boot.
Unfortunately, the latter has arrived not within the display, as is the case with a pioneering new smartphone from Vivo; but is instead under the camera system on the rear of the smartphone, a location that caused a lot of frustration for some users of the Galaxy S8. Some S9 users will appreciate that they can now assign a specific fingerprint to unlock their device's Secure Folder, but many will be frustrated that Samsung has retained this same design feature.
Nevertheless, it's clear that in terms of the Galaxy S9's security, Samsung's emphasis is on Intelligent Scan, with fingerprint recognition playing an auxiliary role. For some security-conscious consumers who aren't sure whether to buy the iPhone X or the Galaxy S9, given their many similarities, that could make the difference. So could the price: Samsung's S9 starts at $719.99, considerably lower than the iPhone X's thousand-dollar price tag.
The S9 and S9+ will hit the market on March 16th.
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Keeping a proper diet and getting the right nutrition are essential for learning. In our research, we found there are certain foods that support the mind and others that have negative effects. In addition, in this post you'll we share diet tips and child nutrition info that can help them be more effective learners and balanced individuals.
Foods that contain man-made, processed additives and hyper-toxins including as MSG, high-fructose corn syrup and refined sugar can easily throw off your child's body and brain chemistry leading to an inability to concentrate, focus and learn. Try to keep your child's diet as free from these substances as possible. They may be approved by the FDA but that doesn't mean they're good for you or your children. We used stevia, a natural plant sweetener in our children's treats. Stevia acts to balance the child's blood sugar and has no ill effects.
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CBD Oil Lawsuit by Arrested Grandmother
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amberpi
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Mackenzie Click-Mickelson said:
Aside from your states comment CBD is something that you should be well aware of if you choose to take it that it is still not legal in every state. We're not talking about some law from 1846 that no one even knows about. We're talking about something that is quite well known these days just like legal marijuana. I've heard from many responsible users who understand the rules because they understand what they are using. Perhaps this is a person who doesn't fully understand what she is taking when she should.
It's not about knowing every law...
I think the confusion is that it's federally legal but some states have more restrictive local laws (that are dumb as hell, but the law). Lots of people would hear that it's given a federal pass and think it's settled.
The thing I keep thinking about is what a stupid, ignorant waste of tax payers money this incident caused. Were they out of real crime in FL that day? If so, maybe send some officers to help with TN's meth/opioid problem.
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kdonnel said:
People that are guilty have charge dropped all the time.
Just because the DA decided it was not worth pursing the case does not mean the arrest was unjust.
The Sheriff is doing what I said, he is selectively deciding not to enforce a law in the future. That also happens all the time.
By the way, the arresting officer can decide to drop charges before it ever goes to the DA.
smiths02
luvsJack said:
The charges were dropped. Soooo. . . if she broke the law, why were they dropped? And the Sheriff has said they will change how these things are handled. Seems to be a lot of confusion.
Why is everyone here always so against any kind of lawsuit? And there is reason to name Disney, they started the whole thing.
But the bar for false arrest is "probable cause" not that she was guilty or charged with a crime.
Disney and LEO had probable cause to believe that she had CBD oil which is a felony in FL. They would want to test it because if it had THC, that would be a bigger issue.
Going forward, the Sheriff is changing things probably because going forward (as of July 1st), just CBD without THC won't be a felony in FL, so the testing will be the crucial part to determine if a law has been broken.
I know you know that charges get dropped all the time and that does not equal the person's innocence. The person can be innocent but it is not the absolute in why charges are dropped all the time.
I get that. I also get that many times charges are dropped because an arrest should not be made. Since they haven't told us why they dropped them, we can only guess.
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amberpi said:
No I get that and it's a good point. It's still your responsibility in taking a substance such as CBD or you take the risk in something happening. Is the woman taking this without fully understanding the rules around it? I should hope not, that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. 5, 10,15+ years from now this may be NBD but right now as it's still early in the legality days it's very important that someone taking a substance such that we're talking about understand the responsibility in doing so. That includes "does this state allow me to have it on my person".
And furthermore understanding Disney's rules behind it. Their verbage doesn't include CBD their verbage does include marijuana. Even if the state allows for marijuana for instance, Disney could still say "nope" so long as the law allowed that. The ramifications of it if it was only Disney who was saying no would however not be a chance of arrest (so long as the person was cooperating). I know CA allows for marijuana though you're supposed to use it at your private residences IIRC but Disneyland does not allow marijuana in their parks.
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What exactly were they protecting their guests from with this woman? yes, involve the police when its necessary. It wasn't necessary.
Again, in FL CBD oil is supposed to be illegal whether THC is present or not. And yet, a field test was done and changes are hoped to be made with these field tests. Why? If it doesn't matter if THC is present, why test it? Why call in other LEO departments if the law is crystal clear? Its not always a matter of there is a law or there isn't.
So you are saying it is illegal to possess? If yes then full stop.
We will just have to agree to disagree with your last sentence.
I have no issue with people working to change existing laws but I do have issues with people who just don't like the laws or think it's ok to not abide by them because they don't agree with them.
Well scratch that- you can not abide by them if you don't agree with them but then don't sue when you face the consequences of those actions.
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In the original story, which can be found if you go to the linked one in the OP (there's a link for it) it said "According to state law, any CBD is illegal in the state of Florida unless you have a prescription. Prosecutors later dropped the charges against Burkhalter, but the Orange County Sheriff's Office said its deputy was following the law."
My local news ran the story and said "The sheriff's office said in an emailed statement that the arrest was lawful. Disney said in an emailed statement the incident was a law enforcement matter. Prosecutors dropped a drug charge against Burkhalter, saying it wasn't suitable for prosecution."
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She admits she had CBD oil. From sources I can gather: Possession of CBD oil, even with no THC, is a felony in Florida. The law will change on July 1 when a bill that Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign will go into effect.
Maybe there is discretion that could have been used from the great-grandmother, Disney, and the Sheriff's office that would have been a better for all parties involved. However, by what I have gathered, she was arrested without incident and spent a total of 12 hours in custody without being treated poorly. I don't think that is a traumatic consequence for committing a felony.
She would have to prove that there was no probable cause to arrest her or hope for settlement. She has admitted in interviews that she had CBD oil at Disneyworld (which is in Florida) before July 1st.
Pea-n-Me
Some more details.
The lawsuit has not actually been filed yet.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-grandma-arrested-cbd-plans-lawsuit-20190514-mmtgumqurvcxxknbqih522z6hy-story.html
"Today in Orlando, we were able to go into the store and buy CBD," Crump said. "It's all over Orlando. It's all over Florida."
He said the majority of CBD enforcement has been lenient because of the in-between legal state and cases like Burkhalter's are rare.
She was trespassed from Disney and arrested for possession of hashish — a felony charge mostly used for vape pens with concentrated THC oil.
Crump and Burkhalter said at the press conference that the field test used can't distinguish between CBD and THC oil, and the only way to indicate the difference is a lab test.
Burkhalter said she was in jail for about 12 hours after her arrest. However, even after her release, she couldn't go back to Disney property to pick up her stuff. She said she waited in a McDonald's at 2:30 a.m. while her husband collected their belongings.
Disney can avoid the lawsuit if it's willing to sit down with Burkhalter and her family to make things right.
"Where's your decency? Where's your common sense?" Crump said. "Is this how you are going to treat people when they come to the happiest place on Earth?"
Pea-n-Me said:
It would work better if they actually knew where they were. Maybe this is explains her lack of knowledge on the CBD oil and FL law.
Disneyland is "The Happiest Place on Earth". Disney World (well MK at least) is "The Most Magical Place on Earth"
ChrisFL
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If CBD is illegal in Florida why do I keep seeing signs about it being for sale in various places here in FL?
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kdonnel
DVC-BCV
ChrisFL said:
Because there is a lot of money to be made during the period of time where it is legal Federally and illegal at the state level. The entrepreneurs opening stores are willing to take the risk to make the money.
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Last year I was on a trip when I got some news that upset me. I felt sick to my stomach, like I was going to throw up all the time, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, couldn't enjoy myself, etc. Basically, the trip was ruined for me. And this was something that, in the scheme of things, was relatively minor.
I can only imagine how this lady felt having all that happen to her - when it really didn't have to be that way.
Sometimes people take legal action because that is the only way to effect a change. People and organizations generally aren't going to willingly step up and say they were wrong, or they caused harm, or whatever - that only comes about when their hands are forced with something like a lawsuit, unfortunately. This incident was barely a blip in the news until the threat of a lawsuit was announced.
I believe it was her first trip to Disney, and look what happened. It sounds like they'd like an apology and a re-do and they're giving them the opportunity to do that first. I thnk that's fair given the circumstances.
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And law enforcement is looking the other way.
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Hikergirl said:
Well, I'm not saying it, others here did.
I don't mean people should be breaking the law if they don't like them, I don't think that was the case here. It just seems that it was very confusing as to what the law is. A lot of laws are like that.
Some famous lawyer isn't going to settle for a free trip for the family...he wants to get paid too.
The attorney said it not the woman.
lol my comment went over your head
smiths02 said:
Well naturally, as he should.
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ronandannette said:
They've named Disney in the lawsuit. Why on God's good earth do you think they owe her a payday?
Exactly. Disney security is not the police, Disney security alerted the police and allowed them to handle it. In addition, Disney can allow in whatever they choose, or not allow in whatever they choose, regardless of the legality of the item in question. It's private property.
Because Disney is the one that took her oil and called the Sheriff's office. I mean, I don't know if they owe her anything but that's why they are named in the lawsuit.
They are named in the lawsuit because they have deep pockets. Disney is private property and they are allowed to set the rules as they choose. They call in law enforcement because it then removes Disney from the process at that point (it becomes law enforcement's job to decide what to do with the situation and in this situation they decided to make an arrest and detain the woman for processing). We are not privy to every company policy but I'd be willing to bet it's standard for them to involve the police when the item in question is illegal.
Now I'm even more confused over what she had and what the legality is (although bottom line it does seem that CBD oil is illegal for right now, period, regardless of presence of THC or availability in stores). I do also wonder what happened during the period between when security found the item, and when law enforcement got involved. We don't know if options such as discarding the item, or returning it to a car/ hotel room were options she was presented with or if she became confrontational.
"Disney can avoid the lawsuit if it's willing to sit down with Burkhalter and her family to make things right" says it all. Disney didn't do anything wrong- they are within their rights to not allow you into the park with any item, for any reason. It says so right in their policy, available online. Disney didn't arrest her or detain her.
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