The free digital service offers up Super Bowl highlights, NFL Films documentaries, and original shows and features.
Just in time for the preseason, the National Football League on Wednesday officially launched its newest offering -- a video service called NFL Now.
The digital network, first introduced in January, allows fans to watch personalized, on-demand videos on their desktops, iOS and Android mobile devices, and streaming services such as Roku and Xbox. A person familiar with the service told CNET that Apple TV is expected to become a partner in the coming weeks.
The offering is the NFL's latest effort to provide more league information and videos over the Internet, as it seeks to join in on the growing popularity of on-demand streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu.
"This is really a response to the way our fans are behaving today," Perkins Miller, the NFL's chief digital officer, said in an interview.
NFL Now, which is free, will offer video highlights of games, press conferences, and videos produced by NFL Films, the 32 NFL teams, NFL.com and the NFL Network cable channel. The network will start with more than 350 hours of historical team highlights and about 30 hours of Super Bowl highlights from 1967 to 2009. Also, Miller said two full-time studios were created in Los Angeles to produce daily original shows and features for NFL Now, and a lot more content will be added after the preseason and regular season start. Users can register once -- providing the teams, players and fantasy information they want to follow -- and then access their accounts using their different devices.
A premium version, NFL Now Plus, is available for $1.99 a month in the US (international rates vary by region). It provides near-instant in-game highlights and NFL Films' entire vault of historical footage, shows and documentaries. Parts of the NFL Films library are already available on cable services including HBO and the NFL Network, but NFL Now's premium service brings the whole catalog on demand and in one place.
NFL Now doesn't offer live games, since Miller said the thrust of the service is to complement the live big-screen experience, not replace it. That point displays the balance the league has to consider between offering more digital content to viewers and ensuring that its lucrative live NFL broadcasts stay a strong draw for audiences. Sports -- the NFL and Olympics, in particular -- are among the few kinds of programming that still draw huge audiences to live TV, as viewers instead have been migrating toward recorded and streaming video content.
The service joins a handful of other digital offerings already provided by the NFL, including NFL.com and NFL Mobile, an app with news, game updates, highlights, real-time scores and stories. Subscribers of Verizon Wireless' More Everything Plan are able to view some live games using NFL Mobile.


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Amnesty's Eser: Whatever we faced will remain an absurd memory
Amnesty International's Turkey Director İdil Eser, who was released on Oct. 26 with seven other human rights defenders after spending 135 days in jail, said whatever they faced would remain a Kafkaesque memory, except for experiencing prison as a human rights defender.
On July 5, 2017 Turkish police, acting on an anonymous tip, raided a hotel on Büyükada, one of the Princes' Islands off İstanbul, and detained Eser from AI, İlknur Üstün from the Women's Coalition, lawyer Günal Kurşun from the Human Rights Agenda Association, lawyer Nalan Erkem from the Citizens Assembly, Nejat Taştan from the Equal Rights Watch Association, Özlem Dalkıran from the Citizens' Assembly, lawyer Şeyhmus Özbekli, Veli Acu from the Human Rights Agenda Association and two foreign trainers, Ali Garawi and Peter Steudtner.
"I think we will be acquitted because there is no crime. There is no evidence. Everything listed as evidence is rubbish. This will become an absurd memory," Eser said in an exclusive interview with Cumhuriyet.
Underlining that they know there are risks for human rights defenders but never imagined it could be this Kafkaesque, Eser also expressed a positive dimension of her prison experience: "It was an interesting experience for a human rights defender. Reading about it is one thing; experiencing it is something totally different."
"From now on I will focus more on the rights of imprisoned people."
During a press conference in Hamburg on July 8, 2017 Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused the human rights defenders of plotting a follow-up to a July 15, 2016 coup attempt.
The pro-Erdoğan Star daily claimed on July 11 that the CIA and MI6 were behind the meeting.
Another pro-Erdoğan paper, Yeni Şafak, on July 23 claimed that the rights activists had ties to the German BND intelligence service.
A day after the release of eight human rights activists by an İstanbul court, a court in Izmir ruled for the continuation of the pre-trial detention of Taner Kılıç, chair of the board of Amnesty International's Turkey section, combining his case with the activists' Büyükada case.
Reacting to the decision of the İzmir court, Salil Shetty, Amnesty International's secretary-general, said: "Over the last 24 hours we have seen the twin hands of Turkey's fickle justice system at play. While one grants liberty, the other, confronted with no less baseless charges, takes it away."
Turkey's Justice Ministry announced on July 13 that 50,510 people have been arrested and 169,013 have been the subject of legal proceedings on coup charges since the failed coup.
Turkey has suspended or dismissed more than 150,000 civil servants, including governors, judges, prosecutors, teachers, soldiers and police, since July 15 through government decrees issued as part of the state of emergency. (turkishminute.com)
Amnesty slams Turkey's human rights violations under pretext of pandemic measures: report
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"There was an indication from several accounts that there was smoke, but there was no indication of an explosion," Wilson said, adding that D.C. Fire will not conduct a follow-up investigation.
University spokeswoman Maralee Csellar said there was "no immediate danger" to students and faculty.


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Following the acquisition of VTI Technologies Oy by the Japanese company Murata Manufacturing, VTI has recently changed its company name.
The new company name is Murata Electronics Oy. At the same time, the company has adopted Murata's visual identity with the Murata logo. "Today is a memorable day: VTI Technologies Oy has become Murata Electronics Oy. The change of company name and visual identity clearly and strongly highlights the fact that this company is now an integral part of Murata," says Mr. Tsuneo Murata, President of Murata Manufacturing. "Our aim is to strengthen the Murata brand worldwide, and this change supports our strategy. VTI has been recognized as a pioneer in MEMS technology, and now we want Murata to be the top-of-mind name also for high-quality MEMS sensors, in addition to other Murata products." Mr. Shinji Ushiro, the new CEO and President of Murata Electronics Oy as of 1 June says Murata's objective is to become one of the main global MEMS companies. "By exploring the market needs and by developing competitive MEMS products, we believe that we can reach this objective", he says.


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Ask Me Anything: ECCW alumni Mary Ness shares tales from the ring and more on March 21!
The Fictionals welcome longtime friend Mary Ness to Cafe Deux Soleils on Tuesday, March 21 for another edition of R/Improv and Ask Me Anything!
Mary Ness aka Mary Diaz is an alumni of Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling, beginning her pro-wrestling career in early 2008 and wrestling until late 2009. Her tenure includes a championship match against ECCW Women's Champ, Veronika Vice! After wrapping up her in-ring work, Mary became co-owner of ECCW in 2010 with Scotty Mac and The Natural. She became an impressive promoter of their shows throughout the Lower Mainland, including the famous Ballroom Brawls at the historic Commodore Ballroom with Live Nation.
Mary also works with many charities, including being the Terry Fox Hometown Run Volunteer Coordinator and a Volunteer Cancer Driver. She is also working on a Port Coquitlam project with her husband Bryan in 2017 where they are taking photos of every PoCo intersection for the Archives.
Mary is a busy woman, and we are honoured that she's taking time out of her schedule to join us for an AMA on March 21. So come say hello! Doors at 7:30 pm, show at 8:00 pm, and tickets just $7 or $5 for students! More info on Hot Improv Tuesdays here!


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Banished by one tribe. Condemned by another. Will an outcast's supernatural strengths be enough to keep him alive?
549 AD. Raised by monks, Conchobar is committed to a life of obedience and peace. But when his fishing vessel is blown off-course, the young man's relief over surviving the sea's storms is swamped by the terrors of harsh new shores. And after capture by violent natives puts him at death's door, he's stunned when he develops strange telepathic abilities.
Learning his new family's language through the mind of his mentor, Conchobar soon falls for the war chief's ferocious daughter. But when she trains him to follow in her path as a fighter, he's horrified when his uncanny misfortune twists reality, causing more disastrous deaths and making him a pariah.
Can Conchobar defeat the darkness painting his steps with blood?
The Curse of Conchobar is the richly detailed prequel to the mystical Adirondack Spirit Series of historical fiction. If you like inspiring heroes, unsettling powers, and lasting legacies, then you'll love David Fitz-Gerald's captivating tale.
Buy The Curse of Conchobar to break free from the fates today!
The Adirondack Spirit Series is an epic, multi-generational family saga, and it all starts with this ancient ancestor, Conchobar. Are supernatural tendencies hereditary? If you guessed yes, maybe you are descended from old souls too.
David Fitz-Gerald writes fiction that is grounded in history and soars with the spirits. Dave enjoys getting lost in the settings he imagines and spending time with the characters he creates. Writing historical fiction is like making paintings of the past. He loves to weave fact and fiction together, stirring in action, adventure, romance, and a heavy dose of the supernatural with the hope of transporting the reader to another time and place. He is an Adirondack 46-er, which means he has hiked all of the highest peaks in New York State, so it should not be surprising when Dave attempts to glorify hikers as swashbuckling superheroes in his writing.


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Rangers: Gers wanted Robert Snodgrass
According to ExWHUemployee, via Hammers News, Glasgow Rangers were interested in Robert Snodgrass before his expected move to West Bromwich Albion.
Gers wanted Snodgrass
Snodgrass is on the verge of a move to the Baggies, with Sam Allardyce even commenting on what he could bring to his side.
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However, it seems he could have made the switch to the Gers or Celtic, as both were interested in his signature according to the reliable West Ham insider. The Scotland international has seemingly opted to stay in the Premier League instead.
If this is true, Steven Gerrard and Ross Wilson will be disappointed they were unable to convince him to move to Ibrox. The 28-cap man has 98 goals to his name, with him having played 163 times in the Premier League as well.
The £3.6m-valued 33-year-old (Transfermarkt) has plenty of experience to his name and, although he is without a single trophy, he could have had a massive influence with the 54-time Scottish champions as they look for a first piece of major silverware since 2011 this term.
Would you have liked to sign Snodgrass?
Now, though, he is within touching distance of a move to the Midlands, meaning that Wilson and Gerrard will have to go back to the drawing board as they look to strengthen their squad this month.
In other news, Rangers fans hammer this club legend's comments.
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Arts Report: Piping Up in the Park
by Kelly Bennett August 23, 2011 March 15, 2022
Every few nights, Ben Diskant practices walking on 35-inch stilts before getting slathered with blue body paint, donning a sarong and topping the whole look with a white-and-blue wig made of human hair and yak hair.
Diskant's unusual routine this summer is one of the biggest pluses he's found going to grad school. As he finishes his master's degree in theater at the University of San Diego, Diskant is playing colorful Ariel in The Old Globe's "The Tempest."
We caught up with a plainclothes (and plain-haired) Diskant for this week's Behind the Scene TV with our partners at NBC San Diego. You've got to check out the contrast between his personae offstage and onstage, the latter as colorful as this courtesy photo from the Globe shows:
You're reading the Arts Report, our weekly compilation of the region's arts and culture news.
Musical Scares
• The horn section used to worry some audience members at the San Diego Symphony, several have told us, but the last decade has brought the brass players to a new level. Have you shared with us what you've noticed in the symphony in the 10 years since the organization received the largest gift in U.S. orchestra history? Leave us a note here.
• It's been a year of several swift cast changes for the Old Globe: The theater announced this morning that actor Matt McGrath will play Frank-N-Furter in its production opening next month of "The Rocky Horror Show." The previously announced lead, James Barbour, left the production last week due, according to a Globe press release, to "issues with his wife's pregnancy."
But his exit came after it was revealed locally that Barbour pleaded guilty a few years ago to misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child, admitting he seduced a 15-year-old girl when she went backstage at the production of "Jane Eyre" he was acting in in 2001, according to the New York Times. The Union-Tribune's Tom Blair wrote about the actor's "rocky past" in a column earlier this month.
The Globe hasn't said anything beyond the press announcement about Barbour's departure, but in Blair's column, Globe CEO Lou Spisto was quoted as saying: "As we do with all staff and artists, we did our due diligence and we're proud to have this accomplished performer in our midst."
• When influential booking agent Tom Windish offered local indie rockers (and pals of mine) Cuckoo Chaos the opening spot on a North American tour in May and June, they got in the van to drive 48 hours straight to New York City for the first show. Says guitarist Scott Wheeler, "You don't want to disappoint Tom, you know? It's like disappointing God. He'll send you to Hell." (CityBeat)
• With planes rumbling overhead, the quirky city organist Carol Williams does her best to fight back at the helm of the 4,518-pipe organ in the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park. We spent the day with Williams earlier this summer to bring you this peek at a Sunday afternoon in her life. Our story and images from trusty photographer Sam Hodgson also appear in September's issue of San Diego Magazine.
• We didn't see any bears, just a lot of relentless hospitality, mountaintops, berries and ferries on my band's recent tour of the West Coast. If you're interested, here's a collection of photographs from disposable cameras, the latest installment of local bands contributing to the Disposable Project. (Sezio)
Shifting Perspective
• The city of Escondido might suspend or eliminate its requirement that developers pay public art fees on everything they build that's bigger than 2,000 square feet. (North County Times)
• Local nonprofit funder the San Diego Foundation is placing the emphasis on funding individual artists rather than arts institutions in a new program. (U-T)
• North County artist Jean Lowe is known for her twists on commercialism; we saw many of her pieces when we visited her and Kim MacConnel in their Encinitas home last year. Her papier mâché books are in Juxtapoz magazine.
• A panel of art-savvy folks picked some must-see art pieces — 100 of them — around San Diego County and San Diego Magazine plotted them on an interactive map. How many have you seen?
(Want to recommend this arts newsletter to someone? Share this sign-up link.)
Kelly Bennett is the arts editor for VOSD. You can reach her directly at kelly.bennett@voiceofsandiego.org or 619.325.0531. Or you can keep up with her on Twitter @kellyrbennett or on Facebook.
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Apple on Thursday seeded new developer betas for its upcoming platform updates. Members of Apple's developer program can install beta 3 of iOS 12.1.1, macOS 10.14.2 and tvOS 12.1.1, as well as watchOS 5.1.2 beta 2, via their respective OTA updates, or they can be downloaded from the Dev Center.
As is the theme with all of these updates, iOS 12.1.1 is mostly focused on under-the-hood improvements rather than bringing outright new features. That being said, we have noticed in the betas that you can once again take Live Photos while on FaceTime calls, and there are other improvements to FaceTime's UI. It also expands the Haptic Touch feature for the iPhone XR.
With watchOS 5.1.2, Apple is introducing new complications for the two Infograph watch faces on Apple Watch Series 4. These include Mail, Messages, Find My Friends, Phone and Remote. There is also a new toggle in Control Center for turning the Walkie-Talkie feature on and off.
As always, we are installing the new betas on our devices and will report back if we find anything of note. And if you see anything that isn't mentioned here, but should be, let us know about it down in the comments below.


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Filmmaker Ram Madhvani during the success party of film Kapoor & Sons in Mumbai on April 3, 2016.
– NEW DELHI
After garnering critical acclaim for his film "Neerja", Ram Madhvani is working on a web series titled "Bodhidharma: Master of Shaolin". The director feels going digital is the future, and says that audience is no longer stifled by the practice of setting time aside to watch particular content.
Madhvani along with lyricist, screenwriter and ad guru Prasoon Joshi, is working on the action series, based on the story of a warrior prince of the sixth century who became the founder of the Shaolin Temple in China and the founder of martial arts.
The show – which is one of the Indian original shows for Amazon Prime Video – is expected to be a visual spectacle with martial arts, music backed by great storytelling.
Madhvani says he wanted to make a film on the same story initially.
"Prasoon Joshi and I have been working on a feature film called 'Bodhi Dharma Master of Shaolin'. And as Prasoon kept writing, we realized that it was becoming longer than what a feature film length normally is," Madhvani told IANS over an email from Mumbai.
Talking about his decision to go digital, he said: "Digital is the future and content viewing on the digital platform is where the world and India is going and we are very excited to be at the forefront of this."
Madhvani said: "The audience is no longer hand cuffed by appointment viewing and have the freedom to see what they want, when they want, at a very reasonable cost".
He explained that this "not only expands the audience base but is very liberating for both the audience and the creators".
Many people see Hollywood as a threat to Bollywood. But for Madhvani it doesn't hold true.
"India is a pluralistic society and our past has told us that we somehow can invite, assimilate and yet be our own. We as Indians see no contradictions in that idea of being rooted in our culture, yet embracing the best of any other. That's true whether it's for food or films. We know that we need to speak to our audience in our ways within our culture," he said.
For now, Madhvani is busy with the ten-episode web series.
– IANS
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Cod prices are on the up at Lerwick fishmarket thanks to a decline in the level of imports in the River Humber area, according to agents LHD.
The whitefish are now fetching £20 to £30 a box more than it had been in the last fortnight as a spell of good weather in the last few days has led to steady landings in the town.
Whitefish prices: catfish £0.90-£1.50; cod £1.20-£1.73; dogfisg £1.30-£1.62; eels £0.60-£0.88; haddock £0.40-£2.12; hake £1.20-£1.60; halibut £5-£9.11; lemon sole £0.50-£4.60; ling £0.65-£1; lythe £2.05-£2.62; megrims £0.40-£3.47; monkfish £1.56-£4.04; plaice £0.50-£1.86; saithe £0.42-£0.84; skate £0.80-£2; squid £2-£5.20; turbot £3.60-£11.43; tusk £0.25-£0.60; whiting £0.30-£1.87; witches £0.77-£1.28.


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Good morning, Whitewater.
The work week begins for Whitewater with sunny skies and a high of seventy-nine. Sunrise is 6:34 and sunset 7:06, for 12h 31m 57s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with just 1.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater's Planning Commission meets at 6:30 PM today, and members of Landmarks Commission may be attending a Friends of the Mounds meeting at the Irvin Young Library, also scheduled for 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1814, American resilience inspires Francis Scott Key:
During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the British Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross. Skinner and Key were there to negotiate the release of prisoners, one of whom was Dr. William Beanes, a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland who had been arrested after jailing marauding British troops who were looting local farms. Skinner, Key, and Beanes were not allowed to return to their own sloop because they had become familiar with the strength and position of the British units and with the British intent to attack Baltimore. Thus, Key was unable to do anything but watch the bombarding of the American forces at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore on the night of September 13–14, 1814.[4]
At dawn, Key was able to see an American flag still waving and reported this to the prisoners below deck. Back in Baltimore and inspired, Key wrote a poem about his experience, "Defence of Fort M'Henry", which was soon published in William Pechin's[5] the American and Commercial Daily Advertiser on September 21, 1814. He took it to Thomas Carr, a music publisher, who adapted it to the rhythms of composer John Stafford Smith's "To Anacreon in Heaven",[4] a popular tune Key had already used as a setting for his 1805 song "When the Warrior Returns," celebrating U.S. heroes of the First Barbary War.[6] (Key used the "star spangled" flag imagery in the earlier song.)[7] It has become better known as "The Star-Spangled Banner". Though somewhat difficult to sing, it became increasingly popular, competing with "Hail, Colombia" (1796) as the de facto national anthem by the Mexican-American War and American Civil War. More than a century after its first publication, the song was adopted as the American national anthem, first by an Executive Order from President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 (which had little effect beyond requiring military bands to play what became known as the "Service Version") and then by a Congressional resolution in 1931, signed by President Herbert Hoover.[8]
On this day in 1888, a fire consumes a significant part of Washburn:
1888 – The Great Washburn Fire
On this date a fire broke out in back of Peter Nelson's Hardware Store in Washburn, Wisconsin. The fire spread quickly, consuming an entire block of homes and businessses, including Meehan's Clothing Store, two local newspapers, and Beausoliel's Meat Market. [Source: "B" book : beer bottles, brawls, boards, brothels, bibles, battles & brownstones by Tony Woiak, p.2-3]
Puzzability begins a new weekly series entitled, Mouth Pieces:
This Week's Game — September 14-18
We're listening for art sounds this week. For each day, we started with the name of a famous painting. Then, for the day's clue, we broke it down into a series of words that, when said in order, sounds like the original title. You'll probably need to say the words out loud to get the answers.
Him, purr, Hessians, Hun, rice
"Impression, Sunrise" (by Claude Monet)
Submit the painting's title (as "Impression, Sunrise" in the example) for your answer.
Hum, airy, kink, ha, thick
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News Taping Recap
Taping recap: Patty Griffin and Steve Earle & The Dukes
Singer/songwriters Patty Griffin and Steve Earle have been frequent visitors to the ACL stage in the past couple of decades. Griffin first appeared in 2000 as part of a songwriters' special, getting her own show the next year, while Earle debuted way back in 1987. It's always a pleasure to welcome back old friends, and doubly so under such special circumstances: Griffin to showcase songs from her highly-acclaimed, self-released and self-titled new album, and Earle, joined by some special guests, spotlighting Guy, his tribute to his songwriting mentor Guy Clark. Both turned in shows for the ages, which we live streamed around the world.
Patty Griffin comes off of a four-year hiatus while the singer dealt with breast cancer, and her performance pulled generously from it. After a boisterous welcome from the crowd, she opened with the album's "Mama's Worried," essentially a duet between David Pulkingham's flamenco guitar and her own resonant singing. Next up was "The Wheel," a bluesy declaration built on its writer's jagged rhythm guitar and multi-instrumentalist Conrad Choucroun's bass guitar/kick-drum rhythm. She followed with "Boys From Tralee," a Celtic folk-tinged tune about Irish immigrants (of which Griffin's grandparents were two), tying it into the current situation at the U.S. border. From the Emerald Isle to the American swamp: Griffin moved back to her 2004 LP Impossible Dream for the shuffling, tremolo-heavy "Standing," allowing her to draw from her love of gospel. But she quickly shifted from the sacred to the secular, with the sly "Hourglass," inspired by the great Screamin' Jay Hawkins and featuring a Pulkingham solo that earned cheers.
Guitars went to their stands as Pulkingham moved to the piano and his boss to the mic for the gorgeous "Luminous Places," a well-titled standout from Patty Griffin. Then it was on to the "Truth #2," a fan favorite, as evidenced by the cheers at the opening chords, and "Where I Come From," a narrative Patty Griffin highlight. "River," the self-titled album's single, once again showcased her rich vocals, accompanied by Pulkingham's acoustic guitar and the ridiculously multi-tasking Choucroun on piano, and greatly appreciated by the audience. Wielding a mandolin, Griffin finished her set with the rocking, inspirational "Shine a Different Way," to the crowd's delight.
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Joined by his long-running five-piece band The Dukes, Earle hit the stage kicking off his Guy Clark tribute with the classic "Dublin Blues," receiving exuberant cheers at the opening line "Wish I was in Austin." Earle immediately went into "Texas 1947," featuring the expert pedal steel work of Ricky Ray Jackson. After sharing a short story about how he met Guy Clark while hitchhiking around Texas, the band performed the ode to the Hill Country honky-tonkin' queen "Rita Ballou," featuring Eleanor Whitmore on violin. Following a tale about Clark's loyalty to Texas BBQ over Tennessee style BBQ, Joe Ely joined Earle on stage to perform "Desperadoes Waiting For a Train" – two Texas music legends trading verses on one of the state's most influential songs. The Dukes quit the stage temporarily, so Earle could essay "The Last Gunfighter Ballad," a Clark song made famous by Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. The band returned for "The Randall Knife," one of Clark's most autobiographical and arresting tunes, followed by the beloved "L.A. Freeway," one of his most famous. With Earle donning his mandolin, he and The Dukes got acoustic for "New Cut Road," an explicitly bluegrass-flavored tune that threw another spotlight on Whitmore, as well as her flatpicking husband Chris Masterson. After introducing the band, Earle went into "Heartbroke," going through the first verse before being joined onstage by another Clark mentee – songwriting great Rodney Crowell, who originally recorded the song in 1980, before it became a hit for Ricky Skaggs in 1982.
"I guess I should play a couple of songs of mine so y'all won't think Guy didn't teach me anything," Earle quipped before launching into "Guitar Town," the song that put him on the map as a writer and performer. After that hit, there was only one other song The Dukes could hit, and sure enough: the opening synth riff of "Copperhead Road" – the powerhouse rocker that served notice that Earle was simply country – got the crowd going wild. "That's what Guy taught me," he asserted. After that explosion, Earle brought Crowell and Ely back, joined by Lubbock legends Terry and Jo Harvey Allen, for "Old Friends," Clark's beautiful evocation of friendship, with each singer taking one of the spoken verses. Earle led the audience in a round of the chorus, before an instrumental coda and the singers laying down one last "old friends" to close. A better elegy for Clark would be hard to imagine. It was a beautiful moment, and we can't wait for you to see it when it airs this fall on your local PBS station.
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What Should You Think About When Buying A Presale Home?
Thinking about buying a presale property?
There are alot of benefits to buying presale homes, but also potential risks that can be involved. A presale purchase is different from the conventional purchase of a home so knowing your rights and responsibilities is very important.
With a presale you have advantages like being able to customize your property. This includes the fixtures, appliances, flooring, paint colour and sometimes even the layout. All new homes come with a 2-5-10 year warranty program, through the Homeowner Protection Office, BC Housing. Plus all the new appliances will also be under warranty, which can lower maintenance and other costs. Initially there is just the cost of a small deposit to commit to, which can give you much needed time to save for the down payment while the home is in construction.
Purchase of new homes costing less than $750,000 are exempt from Property Tax for Canadian citizens and permanent residents who'll be living in their place as their primary residence. You'll still need to pay GST but the provincial tax will be removed.
There are still things to look out for though. Buying an unbuilt home can bring potential problems, looking at renderings and just a floor plan can be scary. You never know 100 percent what to expect. Showrooms can give you an idea of what the finished product might look like. It's up to you and your agent to assess the potential risks and understand your rights and responsibilities as a buyer.
Disclosure: The developer will disclose anticipated dates for start and completion of a project. The sales agreement will usually allow for three 30 day extensions which if used would be sent to the buyers in a letter well in advance.
Amendments: The developer must keep you up to date with changes to material facts and estimated dates.
Rescission: From the day you receive the disclosure statement from the developer, you have 7 days to change your mind and take your offer to buy the home back. This will give you the time to look over the documentation. Consulting with a lawyer is always a good idea. If you decide to rescind your contract you will receive your initial deposit back.
Down payment: Most the time buyers are required to put 10% down as a deposit to secure the unit, which becomes a part of their down payment. This is not always the case though, it can always be higher or lower.
How can I protect myself from some of the possible risks?
Buy from a reputable builder: Take a look at other developments the builder has built in the past. You want to be confident in the quality of the home and that it will be done in a timely manner. Ask other owners and your realtor about the reputation of the builder.
Get pre-approved by a mortgage broker: A presale is just a contractual agreement to purchase when the product is ready. Find out what you are pre approved for. If you pay the down payment at the times listed in the contract then at the time of completion is when you will need to take on the financial obligations of a mortgage.
Work with a knowledgeable REALTOR®: There is no cost difference with buying a presale with a REALTOR®. There are no fees saved, so working with a qualified agent could get you the unit you really want or a private showing before others see it. This is especially important when you're in a competitive market. Some places sell out of certain units before they even become open to the public.
Talk to your lawyer: Consult with a lawyer who is familiar with REDMA on the presale agreement. Review the size of the unit, finishing details, appliances, parking, storage lockers, date of delivery, any penalties or additional costs for changes in the property and delay or delivery clauses. Make sure you know what's included, which items are an optional choice or maybe shown just for display purposes.
When buying a presale condo in Vancouver buy from a reputable builder and always consult with your agent, mortgage broker and lawyer.


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George Park Fisher
For other people named George Fisher, see George Fisher.
George Park Fisher (August 10, 1827 – December 20, 1909) was an American theologian and historian who was noted as a teacher and a prolific writer.
He was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University in 1847, and then studied theology at Yale Divinity School and the Andover Theological Seminary. He graduated from the latter institution in 1851. In 1853 he visited Germany, where he continued his theological studies.[1]
Upon returning from Europe in 1854, he was appointed professor of divinity at Yale, and he was ordained as pastor of the College church.[1] In 1861, he resigned these positions to become a professor of ecclesiastical history. In 1901, he became emeritus professor. Fisher was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1879.[2] He was president of the American Historical Association in 1898.[3]
Essays on the Supernatural Origin of Christianity, with special reference to the Theories of Renan, Strauss, and the Tübingen School (1865; enlarged ed. 1871)
Life of Benjamin Silliman, M.D., LL.D., Late Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology in Yale College (2 vols., 1866)
History of the Reformation, based on an 1871 course of lectures at the Lowell Institute, Boston, on the Protestant Reformation (1873)
The Beginnings of Christianity (1877)
Faith and Rationalism (1879)
The Christian Religion (1882)
The Grounds of Historic and Christian Belief (1883)
Manual of Christian Evidences (1890)
Brief History of the Nation (1890)
Colonial History of the United States (1892)
Manual of Natural Theology (1893)
History of the Christian Church (1893)
History of Christian Doctrine (1896)
Outline of Universal History (1904)
He was a frequent contributor to the New Englander, of which quarterly he was an editor beginning in 1866.[1]
^ a b c Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Fisher, George Park" . The American Cyclopædia.
^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
^ Chisholm 1911, p. 427.
Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1919). "Fisher, George Park". Encyclopedia Americana. 11. p. 280.
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fisher, George Park" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 427.
Works by George Park Fisher at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about George Park Fisher at Internet Archive
1898 Presidential Address to the American Historical Association
Presidents of the American Historical Association
Andrew Dickson White (1884-85)
George Bancroft (1886)
Justin Winsor (1887)
William Frederick Poole (1888)
Charles Kendall Adams (1889)
John Jay (1890)
William Wirt Henry (1891)
James Burrill Angell (1892-93)
Henry Adams (1893-94)
George Frisbie Hoar (1895)
Richard Salter Storrs (1896)
James Schouler (1897)
George Park Fisher (1898)
Edward Eggleston (1900)
Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1901)
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1902)
Henry Charles Lea (1903)
Goldwin Smith (1904)
John Bach McMaster (1905)
Simeon Eben Baldwin (1906)
J. Franklin Jameson (1907)
George Burton Adams (1908)
Albert Bushnell Hart (1909)
Frederick Jackson Turner (1910)
William Milligan Sloane (1911)
Theodore Roosevelt (1912)
William Archibald Dunning (1913)
Andrew C. McLaughlin (1914)
H. Morse Stephens (1915)
George Lincoln Burr (1916)
Worthington C. Ford (1917)
William Roscoe Thayer (1918-19)
Edward Channing (1920)
Charles Homer Haskins (1922)
Edward Potts Cheyney (1923)
Woodrow Wilson (1924)
Charles McLean Andrews (1924-25)
Dana Carleton Munro (1926)
Henry Osborn Taylor (1927)
James Henry Breasted (1928)
James Harvey Robinson (1929)
Evarts Boutell Greene (1930)
Carl L. Becker (1931)
Herbert Eugene Bolton (1932)
Charles A. Beard (1933)
William Dodd (1934)
Michael Rostovtzeff (1935)
Guy Stanton Ford (1937)
Laurence M. Larson (1938)
William Scott Ferguson (1939)
Max Farrand (1940)
James Westfall Thompson (1941)
Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. (1942)
Nellie Neilson (1943)
William Linn Westermann (1944)
Carlton J. H. Hayes (1945)
Sidney Bradshaw Fay (1946)
Thomas J. Wertenbaker (1947)
Kenneth Scott Latourette (1948)
Conyers Read (1949)
Samuel Eliot Morison (1950)
Robert Livingston Schuyler (1951)
James G. Randall (1952)
Louis R. Gottschalk (1953)
Merle Curti (1954)
Lynn Thorndike (1955)
Dexter Perkins (1956)
William L. Langer (1957)
Walter Prescott Webb (1958)
Allan Nevins (1959)
Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (1960)
Samuel Flagg Bemis (1961)
Carl Bridenbaugh (1962)
Crane Brinton (1963)
Julian P. Boyd (1964)
Frederic C. Lane (1965)
Roy Franklin Nichols (1966)
Hajo Holborn (1967)
John K. Fairbank (1968)
C. Vann Woodward (1969)
Robert Roswell Palmer (1970)
David M. Potter (1971)
Joseph Strayer (1971)
Thomas C. Cochran (1972)
Lynn Townsend White Jr. (1973)
Lewis Hanke (1974)
Gordon Wright (1975)
Richard B. Morris (1976)
Charles Gibson (1977)
William J. Bouwsma (1978)
John Hope Franklin (1979)
David H. Pinkney (1980)
Bernard Bailyn (1981)
Gordon A. Craig (1982)
Philip D. Curtin (1983)
Arthur S. Link (1984)
William H. McNeill (1985)
Carl Neumann Degler (1986)
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By Allison Hantschel	Athenae, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Everything Tricks, Supreme Court
Job's The Same Today
Fuck Gorsuch and just less than half of SCOTUS and McConnell and Ryan and everybody writing about "civility" and the millions of people who voted for Trump because he made them feel good about themselves and fuck the people screaming at the press at Trump rallies and goddamn, blast, confound and fuck every single person in this administration today.
Kick and I spent last night writing postcards to lawmakers over family detention and making plans with friends for another march this weekend, after marching last weekend, because there are fascists in power and we have weekends off work.
I told Kick, who is prone to internalizing everything and processing it as nightmares and also is four years old, that we were writing to the government because the government was not treating children fairly. Why? Because of the color of their skin, I said, citing our picture books about Rosa Parks and Maya Angelou.
("When government does something we don't like we ask them to change it," I told her.
"Can I have a cookie when we get there?"
#WokeToddler is more like #HungryToddler and I can't tell you how many protests I've bribed her through with food or the promise of a playground later.)
It didn't feel like much, writing postcards. We made cards for the children in detention and she colored them. Especially today, it didn't feel like much.
But we're not on the barricades here, not all of us. Some of us are running office supplies and ice cream for the people who are. And some of us aren't on the barricades today, but will be tomorrow. And tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Nobody's coming, so save yourselves, and the person to your left, and the person to your right.
Do not be daunted, says my childhood Bible from its box in my attic, by the enormity of the world's misery. Do justly, now.
Job's the same as it ever was. Save as many as you can. Feel free to post ideas about how/where to do that, in the comments.
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Why I Admire Al Sharpton
The man is a massive inspiration
"Governor Phil Murphy and Reverend Al Sharpton deliver remarks at the National Action Network/NJRC Re-entry facility in Newark on June 23rd , 2020 (Edwin J. Torres/GovernorÕs Office)." by GovPhilMurphy is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
I have been aware of Al Sharpton for at least 25 years. I don't ever think about his politics or even his controversies throughout his long career. But I absolutely admire him because of his dramatic physical transformation and his ongoing dedication to maintain that.
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Paul D'Amato
HereStillNow
Italian Journeys
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Misc Portraits
here / still / now
Photographs by Paul D'Amato
Texts by Dawoud Bey, Camara Dia Holloway, Amy M. Mooney
Designed by Kehrer Design (Nanni Göbel) Hardcover
78 color illustrations
Euro 38,00 / US$ 45.00 / GBP 34.00
Press Release »
http://pauldamato.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/booktease.mp4
Photographs by Paul D'Amato.
Includes essays by Gregory J. Harris (Assistant Curator, DePaul Art Museum) and Pastor Cleophus J. Lee (Original Providence Baptist Church, Chicago).
Hardcover, 10 x 8 in., 102-pages, 47 plates, 3 gatefolds.
Purchase: Amazon |	Photo-Eye
Through emotionally charged portraits and richly layered interior views, Paul D'Amato's photographs made on Chicago's West Side provide a nuanced perspective on life in some of the most challenging and troubled neighborhoods in the U.S. Equally committed to his craft and to immersing himself in the community, D'Amato's collaborative approach to portraiture aspires to narrow the divide between his and his sitters' subjective experiences in order to create photographs that are at once genuine and aesthetically engaging. We Shall: Photographs by Paul D'Amato brings together ten years of work and offers insight into the making of the photographs. By pairing variants of a portrait from a single sitting, D'Amato seeks to complicate the images' meaning by defying the authority of a single photograph as a comprehensive statement. Neither feel-good narratives nor stories of despair, D'Amato's photographs convey the complexities of representation and the ambiguities of life in a socially and economically marginalized community.
Published by the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago.
Barrio: Photographs from Chicago's Pilsen and Little Village
Foreword by Stuart Dybek.
Hardcover: 128 page
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006
In 1988 photographer Paul D'Amato was driving around Chicago with his camera when he decided to follow Halsted Street into Pilsen, the city's largest Mexican neighborhood. Intrigued by the barrio and neighboring Little Village, he began to take photographs and would continue to do so off and on for the next fourteen years. D'Amato started with the public life of the neighborhood: women and children in the streets, open fire hydrants, and graffiti. But later—after he got to know the area's Mexican residents better—he was allowed to take more intimate photos of people at work, families at weddings and parties, and even gang members.
Barrio collects ninety of these striking color images along with D'Amato's fascinating account of his time photographing Mexican Chicago and his acceptance—often grudging, after threatened violence—into the heart of the city's Mexican community. Some of the photos here are beautifully composed and startling—visual narratives that are surreal and dreamlike, haunting and mythic. Others, like those D'Amato took while shadowing graffiti artists in the subway, are far more immediate and improvisational. With a foreword by author Stuart Dybek that places D'Amato's work in the context of the Pilsen and Little Village that Dybek has elsewhere captured so memorably, this book offers a penetrating, evocative, and overall streetwise portrait of two iconic and enduring Hispanic neighborhoods.
A Portfolio of Photographs by Paul D'Amato
Eighteen archival pigment prints
Purchase: Stephen Daiter Gallery
Published in December 2008, by Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago. Eighteen archival pigment prints, each signed by the artist on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm, produced by BlackPoint Editions, Chicago. Portfolio box produced by Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio, Austin, Texas. All photographs copyrighted by Paul D'Amato. In an edition of twenty-five numbered sets plus five artist proofs. $13,000


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#GECropStudy
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Psilocybin, the active ingredient in "magic" mushrooms, eased the symptoms of 12 patients with treatment-resistant depression, according to researchers at Imperial College London and their colleagues. "This gives us an initial impression of the effectiveness of the treatment," study coauthor Robin Carhart-Harris of Imperial College told Nature News.
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Q: Simple Random Walk being conditioned not to hit certain value Consider $(S_n)_n$ a simple random walk, $S_n = \sum_k^n X_k$ where $(X_k)_k$ are i.i.d. random variables with $P(X_k = 1) = P(X_k=-1) = \frac 1 2.$ We further set $X_0=1$ and stop the random walk once it reaches $0$, i.e. $S_n=0$ for some $n\in\mathbb N$. Also, define an excursion from $l$ to $l+1$ of such a random walk as a part of the process where $S_m = l$ and $S_n = l+1$ for some $m<n$ and $l\in\mathbb Z$.
I'm trying to prove the following statement:

Let $l,K\in\mathbb N, l < K$. The expected number of excursions from $l$ to $l+1$ of such a simple random walk conditioned not to hit K, is approximately $$ \left[ 1-\frac{l+1}K \right]^2. $$

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Slash to Release New Album in 2021 With Myles Kennedy + the Conspirators
Lauryn Schaffner Published: October 20, 2020
Slash has had a very successful run with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, and although he's back in Guns N' Roses, he's not letting it affect his solo project from moving forward. The guitarist is set to release a new album with Kennedy and the Conspirators in 2021.
The news came from bassist Todd Kerns' recent Instagram post, which confirmed a plethora of new music coming in 2021, including a solo album from Kennedy. "I know 2020 has been beyond challenging but 2021 is going to awesome eventually," he wrote. "At least there will be a ton of new music. Once we get the live show thing sorted we'll be cool."
"SMKC4," as Kerns refers to the upcoming Slash album, will serve as the follow-up to 2018's Living the Dream, which spawned singles like "Driving Rain" and "Mind Your Manners."
When Slash went out on tour in support of Living the Dream, he was often asked how he managed to juggle a solo career along with being back in one of the biggest rock bands in the world. "It's a little crazy, but it's way better for me to be fucking busy running around and doing that than for me just to be sitting around," he explained to Rolling Stone.
However, 2020 has obviously been quite a drastic change for the guitarist, who was used to either writing and recording or touring with one of his groups. Considering the news of a new album with Kennedy and the Conspirators, as well as recording new material with GN'R, he's definitely made good use of his downtime.
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Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced nations on the planet. Digital entertainment and communication technologies are often widely adopted and sometimes even superseded in Japan before they are even available in Europe or the US. Cultural and linguistic differences have provided significant barriers to studying the impact of these new technologies in Japan and the use of that impact to improve take-up in the West, or to avoid negative consequences of adoption in Japan when they arrive elsewhere. In Japan itself study of the ethics of information technology systems (including the social implications of their introduction and the legal basis of their regulation) has often taken a back seat to quick adoption and sales at home and abroad. There are many parallels between the UK and Japan in social and geographic terms: they are relatively densely populated island nations in the top five economies by raw GDP. There are also significant differences, however, such as the racial and ethnic homogeneity of the residents in Japan compared to the heterogeneity so visible in the UK. By analysing the impact of new technologies in Japan and the UK, particularly in terms of regulatory regimes combined with physical and informational infrastructure, general lessons may be learned about the potential impact of such technologies elsewhere and of further developments in the future. Regular visits by academics with appropriate backgrounds in both directions are the only feasible way of allowing such studies. The project funds Dr Adams to make continued trips to Japan to work with academics from a small but growing number of Universities (Meiji and Ehime Universities currently and it is hoped Senshu, Tokyo and Waseda Universities as well as the Institute of Information Security), and to develop contacts in Japan's high technology industries (such as Toshiba, Sony and Docomo). It will build on previous trips, including a nine month visit to Meiji University in 2007, in developing a greater understanding of the Japanese approach to the social, legal and ethical impacts of computer and communications technologies in various areas in order to cross-fertilise understanding of these impacts in both Japan and the UK and how to maximise beneficial consequences while minimizing negative effects. Subjects of study during the visits to Japan will include:- continuing examination of the Japanese approaches to privacy and data protection, including the implementation of the Japanese data protection legislation and how online behaviour is shaped by fears about or disregard for the privacy implications of revelatory activity, and the impact of data protection rules on various sectors of society (commercial organisations, non-profit groups, public sector and governmental entities);- examination of the use of electronic communications by elected officials for electoral and consultative activities in both the UK and Japan;- differences in the approaches to improving the online experience for children, by legislation, regulation, education and government provision;- examining the slowly growing use of CCTV by private and public actors in Japan, compared with the well-known mass use of CCTV in the UK.


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namespace TypeVisualiserUnitTests.Converters
{
    using System;
    using System.Globalization;
    using System.Windows;
    using FluentAssertions;
    using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
    using TypeVisualiser.UI.Converters;

    [TestClass]
    public class NullToVisibilityConverterTest
    {
        public TestContext TestContext { get; set; }

        private NullToVisibilityConverter CreateTarget()
        {
            return new NullToVisibilityConverter();
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ConvertBackShouldThrowNotSupported()
        {
            var target = CreateTarget();
            target.Invoking(x => x.ConvertBack(null, null, null, null)).ShouldThrow<NotSupportedException>();
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ConvertShouldReturnCollapsedGivenNull()
        {
            var target = CreateTarget();
            var result = target.Convert(null, null, null, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

            result.Should().Be(Visibility.Collapsed);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ConvertShouldReturnVisibleGivenSomeObject()
        {
            var target = CreateTarget();
            var result = target.Convert(new object(), typeof(object), null, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

            result.Should().Be(Visibility.Visible);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ConvertShouldReturnVisibleGivenSomeObject2()
        {
            var target = CreateTarget();
            var result = target.Convert("foo", typeof(string), null, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

            result.Should().Be(Visibility.Visible);
        }
    }
}


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Sunrise and sunset times in Prenton
Check out today's and tomorrow's sunrise and sunset times in Prenton, England, United Kingdom, as well as the whole calendar for January 2023.
2 hours, 35 minutes left for today's sunset in Prenton
Tomorrow will be 3 minutes longer than today in Prenton
Prenton,
January 2023 - Prenton, England - Sunrise and sunset calendar
Sunrise and sunset times, civil twilight start and end times as well as solar noon, and day length for every day of January in Prenton.
In Prenton, England, the first day of January is 7 hours, 40 minutes long. The last day of the month is 8 hours, 57 minutes, so the length of the days gets 1 hour, 17 minutes longer in January 2023.
Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in Prenton, England - 2023
The following graph shows sunrise and sunset times in Prenton for every day of the year. There are two jumps in the graph that represent the hour change for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Prenton, England.
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Home › Stories › Far Pavilions › To Cappadocia with the Locals
Country: Turkey ›
Europe, Asia
August 20, 2018 - Far Pavilions
Words by Inka Piegsa-Quischotte
Traversing the spectacular landscape of Cappadocia. Photo by maroznc
It wasn't until I boarded the bus that would take me all the way from Bodrum on the Aegean Sea to Aksaray in the heart of Cappadocia, that I learned of the extraordinary company I would enjoy on the journey.
I had seen the tour advertised in the window of a travel agency in Didim, a village near Bodrum. With my rudimentary Turkish I deciphered the destinations, the duration and the excellent price, and booked it. However, I failed to notice the trip had been specially designed for Turkish old-age pensioners.
Fashionably late, my fellow travellers arrived, one by one, loaded down with food baskets and luggage. Full of energy, and happily chatting away in anticipation of the journey — not one of the passengers came close to resembling an old-age pensioner. That impression strengthened as soon as the bus trip got underway. Music filtered through the bus, and the pensioners started dancing and clapping enthusiastically in the aisle — to such an extent, the bus began to rock from side to side, and the driver was forced to tell them to sit down.
Being the only foreigner, I was treated like a favourite pet by my travelling companions who tried their best to communicate in a comical mixture of Turkish and English, and fed me treats from their food baskets — so many I could hardly move.
The surreal landscape of Cappadocia. Photo by Ozbalci
For 12 hours, the bus carved its way through the ever-changing Turkish landscape before arriving in Aksaray, in the heart of Anatolia. An important stop along the ancient Silk Road, Aksaray provided an amazing first view of the many cave dwellings, which, along with the famous fairy chimney rock formations, form Cappadocia's unique, moon-like landscape.
After a well-deserved breakfast break, a local tour guide took over to lead us along the first excursion of the trip: a five-kilometre hike along the Ihlara Valley. The valley lies at the bottom of a deep canyon, carved out by the narrow, but very fast Melendiz River. I carefully inched my way down 360 steps of volcanic rock to reach the valley floor and started hiking along to Belisirma, the village where the bus collected us.
Walking the Ihlara Valley is a unique experience because along with serene, bucolic scenery of water, trees and birds, carved into the rock faces are more than 60 Byzantine churches dating from the 11th to the 13th century. Negotiating the slippery ground, and sometimes clinging to branches so as not to fall into the water, I stooped to enter the tiny churches to be rewarded by the sight of magnificent ancient wall paintings and colourful frescoes, so well-preserved they appeared as though they were painted yesterday.
The dim light in the churches has helped preserve the water-based paint of the murals. Photo by FSYLN
The beauty of Cappadocia is that architectural treasures can be found below ground and above, as we discovered at our next stop. Derinkuyu Yeralti Sehri is the largest of several subterranean cities in Cappadocia and is almost ten levels deep. Dating back to Persian and Byzantine times the large city provided shelter and refuge from invading Romans and Muslims for more than 35,000 people. Gigantic round stone doors closed off each floor to prevent enemies from entering.
Everything from airshafts to wine presses and bakeries were carved into the soft volcanic rock to enable people to survive underground for a long time. Be warned: it is a somewhat claustrophobic experience and not for the faint-hearted.
Back above ground and breathing fresh air, we found ourselves at the foot of a cityscape of rock formations — Cappadocia's famous fairy chimneys. They are equally as impressive at ground level as they are when viewed from the basket of one of the hundreds of hot air balloons floating in the skies above Cappadocia
One of the many levels in Derinkuyu. Photo by traveler1116
Not a fan of ascending into the air in anything that doesn't have at least one engine, I sat resting my feet, enjoying a glass of traditional Turkish tea, while some thrill-seeking pensioners took to the skies
That night we stayed in Nevsehir, a charming town with surprisingly few tourists. The following morning we visited an artisan pottery studio where reproductions of historical designs are crafted — the originals are displayed in museums. Located underground in a cave, we would have missed the entrance to the studio had it not been for a clay figurine of a potter acting as a sentinel outside, signalling visitors to enter.
My fellow travellers bought so many souvenirs; again, the bus driver was forced to intervene, pointing out the limited storage space on the bus.
No trip to Cappadocia is complete without a visit to Pigeon Valley, our next stop. Located between Göreme and Uchisar, Pigeon Valley is named so, because of the thousands of pigeon houses carved into the rock faces. Traditionally, the pigeon houses were used to collect the birds' droppings later used for fertiliser.
A myriad pigeon houses carved into the rock faces of Pigeon Valley. Photo by Zzvet
Countless cave homes sit on top of the four-kilometre-long valley, and the exposed rocks are reminiscent of snowcaps — even in summer. Turkey's famous wish trees dot the lip of the canyon; each tree covered with tiny scraps of paper and fabric, fluttering in the breeze like eyes — offerings for the visitor's wishes to come true.
What surprised me most about Cappadocia is its strong spiritual history. Along with cave homes and fairy chimneys, Cappadocia is also the root of the mysticism of the Alevite and the Sufi sects. Both are part of Islam, but each has its own philosophy and traditions.
We visited Hacibektas, a city not far from Nevsehir, where the mystic Haji Bektash Veli found refuge from the Mogul invasion in the 13th century, and founded the Alevite order. A mausoleum and many statues commemorate the mystic, and each year on August 16, Alevites from all over Turkey make a pilgrimage to Hacibektas.
Mevlana Museum and Rumi's tomb. Photo by nejdetduzen
Probably more widely known than the Alevites are the Sufis. Mevlana Rumi founded the Sufi order in the city of Konya in the 13th century. Mevlana's disciples still adhere to the rules of his teachings and perform the traditional dance of the whirling dervishes, called Sema. Sema represents a spiritual journey achieving truth and reunion with God, leaving the dancer a better person. A Sema performance is a not-to-be-missed experience when visiting Turkey.
With a skyline of minarets and mosque domes, plentiful parks and green spaces, Konya feels serene. My first glimpse of the city was the green and gold of the vast mausoleum to Mevlana erected over his remains.
A Sema performance. Photo by Ihsan Gercelman
Inside the mausoleum, whirling dervishes treated us to a performance. As we sat in a semi-circle in one of the teaching rooms, the lights dimmed and three black-clad musicians walked in, playing traditional instruments. The dervishes soon joined the musicians, each wearing a traditional long white cloak and a conical hat, which represents a tombstone. First slowly, then with increasing speed, the dancers start to whirl, with one arm pointing heavenwards, the other to the earth, their cloaks flying.
No one can remain untouched by the spectacle performed by the dedicated men (and of late, also women) who train for years to learn the Sema.
The landscape, the spiritual history of Cappadocia and the splendid company of my fellow travellers, left me with a greater understanding of the fascination Turkey holds for all who are lucky enough to visit.
Tags: Europe, Asia
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Nearly half a century ago, I ate the most simple of chocolate puddings. The pudding itself was delicious but what really captured my imagination was what it was served in – a tiny white pot with its own lid, decorated with gold trim. It was 19th century porcelain and part of a set of eight little pots with a matching porcelain tray. Nicole, my French friend who had cooked the pudding, told me they were called "petit pots de crème au chocolat" and were made specifically for 'crème au chocolat'.
The set had once belonged to Nicole's grandparents who, in the 1890s, had bought Villa Victoria on the Normandy coast to escape the stifling hot Paris summers. It was a house filled with the memories of many meals. Copper saucepans in the kitchen in which casseroles had simmered, dark green platters on which cheese and fruit had been served, old wine glasses and carafes that had poured many vintages. The pages of an ancient sketch book were filled with portraits of friends and family, cartoons of women on the beach in the 1930s wearing swimming costumes down to their knees, and a memorable sketch of family celebrations around the dining table in May 1945 when the end of the war was declared – only a mile away from the Normandy landings, the house and its inhabitants had witnessed the full horrors of the war.
But of all the things that remained in my memory from my summer holidays on the Normandy coast with Nicole and her family, it was those tiny 'petits pots de crème au chocolat'. I vowed that one day I would own my own set, not realising that it was remarkably rare to find an entire set. Whenever I was in an antique shop in England or France I would look – but in vain. In over thirty years I only once came across three little pots dating from the 18th century, but that was all. As for the pudding, I made it many times but served it up in little plain ramekins – not quite the same effect.
Then, ten years ago, soon after I had moved to France, I found myself in need of a cupboard to put in the spare bedroom for visiting family and friends. I went to a small 'brocante' near Cordes sur Ciel and there, sitting on a table in the front of a shop was an entire set. I couldn't believe it! It had eight little pots, all with their lids – and the tray. So instead of a useful cupboard, I came home with my own set of beautifully decorated porcelain 'petit pots de crème au chocolat'.
Petits Pots de Crème au Chocolat – fills 8 'petit pots', preparation time 20 mins.
Because it's strawberry season, I also added a teaspoon of chopped macerated strawberries to the bottom of each pot (chopped small, covered with a slosh of Armagnac and a sprinkling of caster sugar). You can also add some of your favourite liqueur to the cream when it's hot (Cointreau is great for an orange flavour).
Break the chocolate into squares and place in a china bowl over a pan of simmering water. Stir when the chocolate starts melting and when it's all melted, remove the bowl from the heat.
Now heat the cream to simmering point in a non-stick saucepan and then add it to the melted chocolate, stirring with a metal whisk. Don't panic if the chocolate appears all bitty, just keep stirring until you have a thick dark chocolate cream. At this point you can add your liqueur. I usually transfer the mixture to a jug as it's far easier for pouring into the tiny pots.
A couple of hours in the fridge will be enough to make the cream solid, but take it out around 15 minutes before serving so it's not too cold. One pot if you just want to have that chocolate taste at the end of the meal, two pots if you're feeling greedy!
Footnote: In writing this post, I've discovered that my pots came from Le Grand Depot, opened by Emile Bourgeois in Paris in 1862. It was the largest shop of its time and specialised in porcelain, china, and glass.


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Watch First Trailer for Motley Crue Biopic 'The Dirt'
Variety | 2/19/2019 | Jem Aswad
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Netflix has dropped the first trailer for its Motley Crue biopic "The Dirt" — based on Neil Strauss' best-selling history of the legendarily bad-behaved '80s metal icons — and it looks like the film pulls no punches in terms of the band's famously sordid history.
In this two-minute trailer, we get glimpses of singer Vince Neil's 1984 car wreck that killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle (as well as the death from cancer of Neil's 4-year-old daughter several years later), bassist/songwriter Nikki Sixx's heroin addiction, guitarist Mick Mars' age and degenerative bone disease, and Tommy Lee's marriage to TV star Heather Locklear and all-around unhinged behavior.
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Industry insiders will probably be tickled to see "SNL" star Pete Davidson as the band's A&R man, Tom Zutaut.
While much of this territory has been covered in the VH1 "Behind the Music" on the group, judging by the trailer the biopic treatment has vividly...
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A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a Government intervention.


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byJoel Mathis
Are public schools at risk of a death spiral?
Illustrated | iStock
Last month, my local school district decided — suddenly, on short notice, and over the objections of many parents — to lengthen Thanksgiving break from a few days to a full week. Families were given just a handful of days to make childcare arrangements for the unexpected extra vacation.
School officials acknowledged the pain, but inisisted extra time off was needed for educators suffering from high rates of burnout: A number of teachers had quit after the school year had begun, leaving administrators scrambling to cover their classes. "The attempt is to try to prevent more teachers from leaving the profession and trying to prevent that breaking point," said the district's superintendent.
But teachers aren't the only ones dealing with burnout, and this kind of thing is happening all over. If it keeps up, it might end up wrecking America's public school system.
The New York Times reports that schools across the country are reducing in-person classroom time. Detroit's schools are closed on Fridays, with only remote instruction offered. The same thing is happening in the suburbs of Salt Lake City. And schools in Seattle and Florida also extended their Thanksgiving breaks. As in my district, many of these reductions in classroom time are a reaction to pandemic-fueled teacher attrition. "What you hear from teachers is that it's been too much," said Randi Weingerten, who heads the American Federation of Teachers. "And they're trying the best that they can."
Even schools that stay open are running into trouble. Last month, parents in a Minnesota school district protested after discovering their kids were being forced to eat lunch outside in cold temperatures as a COVID mitigation method. On Wednesday, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg tweeted that children in her daughter's school were largely being forced to do the same — and that the vaxxed kids allowed to eat inside weren't allowed to talk to each other.
CHILD ABUSE: Kindergartners are forced to eat lunch outside in 40 degree weather at Capitol Hill Elementary School in Portland, Oregon.They sit on buckets to social distance from their classmates. pic.twitter.com/KqFcliTFYf
— Katie Daviscourt🇺🇸 (@KatieDaviscourt) December 8, 2021
The potential for backlash here is obvious. Glenn Youngkin's recent win in Virginia's gubernatorial race, a largely unanticipated victory for Republicans, was partly driven by parental anger over COVID-driven school closures. The real risk isn't that Democrats will lose elections, however, but that families will look for alternatives to public schools, sending some districts into a death spiral. There are signs that has already started: Private schools — which tended to remain open during the first year of the pandemic — have seen their enrollments rise.
Families with fewer resources may soon get to join the rush: Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they're prepared to rule that states which already make some funds available for kids who go to nonsectarian private schools must do the same for families who choose religious schools. That prospect makes progressives angry, but it suggests many parents will soon have expanded educational options.
Options can be good, but public schools have deservedly been called "America's greatest success story." Right now they're struggling. The danger is that those struggles will send families fleeing and that success will be no more.


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Q: Hashkey in certificates for downloadable fonts? Currently, I am using Downloadable Fonts in my project. Reference link: Downloadable Font.
It generates certification file with two hash (dev and Prod) as below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <array name="com_google_android_gms_fonts_certs">
        <item>@array/com_google_android_gms_fonts_certs_dev</item>
        <item>@array/com_google_android_gms_fonts_certs_prod</item>
    </array>
    <string-array name="com_google_android_gms_fonts_certs_dev">
        <item>
           [HASH]
        </item>
    </string-array>
    <string-array name="com_google_android_gms_fonts_certs_prod">
        <item>
            [HASH]
        </item>
    </string-array>
</resources>

My concerns are:
1) How are both hash keys generated? are they using keystore to generate hash key?
2) Can we change the hash key for Prod? Will it work after publishing an application to play store (after creating signed apk)?


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