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by rmabrahams October 4, 20194:54 am October 4, 2019
FRIENDS 25: The One Where We Interview Janice
As we've posted before, there's currently an exciting Friends pop-up exhibit and store at 76 Wooster Street to celebrate the show's 25th anniversary. While the pop-up is sold out, there is a waiting line and the store is open to the public.
TV and City was lucky to visit pre-opening and to have a chance to interview two iconic supporting characters: Gunther and Janice. Here's our discussion with Maggie Wheeler, who played Janice.
TV and City: How does it feel to be here? Is this your first time seeing the exhibit?
Maggie Wheeler: It's quite amazing here. It just feels great to walk in the door. The first thing that happens is you just burst into this big smile because the memories are all so positive and joyful. All of the details that they put together here, in every set and corner you turn; it's a lot of fun.
TV&C: How many episodes of the show were you on?
MW: I don't know, maybe 19, maybe twenty-something. I don't know. Other people know these things. [Ed. Note: She was in 20.]
TV&C: It's interesting that your character is such a well-known character even though it was episodic.
MW: It was the longest-running guest character as far as I know.
TV&C: How much of the character did you develop on your own?
MW: I developed the voice and the character. I was given the writing and to me, that was just a great start. When I first read the audition scene, it was in the first episode where Chandler and I, I bring him socks and I say, "Here, I brought you these Bullwinkle socks, its mix and match," and I could just feel Janice in the writing. So I went in with the voice when I auditioned for the role and the writers gave me "Oh my God" and that lived on and on and on. And I added the laugh because Matthew Perry's very very funny and very funny to work with and I was pretty certain that he would crack me up while we were filming and I should probably have a safety net, so I developed that laugh so that if and when he cracked me up I would have somewhere to go as Janice instead of as Maggie.
TV&C: Do you find that people expect you to be that character?
MW: A lot of people expect me to be that character. People are shocked when they find out that I don't speak that way or sound like her. I think a lot of people identify so strongly with a television persona and I think that Janice was so specific and so annoying that people expect me to sound like that.
TV&C: Are you a New Yorker?
MW: Born and bred! But I've lived in Los Angeles for about 30 years now.
TV&C: Janice is a very iconic New York kind of character.
MW: That was the idea.
TV&C: Would you say have a memory that stands out about working with the show?
MW: It was an exceptional working experience – the stage, the crew, the writers, the cast. It was just really beyond anything I had ever experienced before that point. There was so much camaraderie, so much respect and there was so much creative room for everybody to participate and bring their best selves to the process and so it was a really, really satisfying way to make comedy.
TV&C: In the beginning, no one imagined what it was going to be – can you speak to the phenomenon?
MW: I think my first episode was either the third or fourth episode of the series so there was no indication at that time that this thing was going to take off. I mean I think everybody knew what they had. I think everybody behind the scenes was clear that they had something really valuable. They had this incredible cast, incredible chemistry, incredible writers, great creators so all the ingredients were there, but that doesn't mean anything. You know you just never know what's going to happen. To be there at the beginning and to watch this thing reach this meteoric rise was just amazing. It was an amazing experience to be part of that.
TV&C: How did you feel when they brought you back each time?
MW: I was in every season except for one, so for me, I always knew that the day would come and I couldn't anticipate it, but I knew the call would come. I knew the writers would be up late one night trying to break an episode and they would say, "Maybe we need Janice" and so I knew it was coming, I just never knew quite when. It was a really wonderful thing to get the phone call and know I was going to be back.
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SpaceX releases two satellites to track earth's water
Posted byMegan Harris	 January 14, 2021
On May 22, SpaceX lifted off two brand new satellites and five Iridium next communication satellites into space. The satellites were lifted in a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vanderberg Air Force Base which is located in California at 3:47 pm EDT. According to Gay Yee Hill who is the TV launch commentator of NASA said that launching the GRACE-FO has maintained the legacy and the pride of the GRACE mission which will be mainly be positioned to find out the water position on the surface of the Earth. Even Sammy Kayali who was the former deputy manager of GRACE-FO also appreciated the launch procedure very much.
For this launch, the company used the same Falcon 9 rocket which it had used to lift off the controversial Zuma mission meant of the US force in January. The Zuma mission was a total failure as the spacecraft crashed before reaching the desired position in orbit. However subsequent investigations proved that the rocket was not the cause of the crash. Still, then the SpaceX did not take any chances and refurbished the rocket accurately before engaging it into the launching activities.
SpaceX did try to recover the valuable payload fairing that was covering the GRACE-FO as well as the Iridium satellites during the launch of the same. There fairing was expected to come back to the Earth and be caught by Mr.Steven, which a space recovery boat and is equipped with a substantial net suspended within huge metals arms. However, the boat was not successful in getting hold of the payload. The company officials said that they were very close to catching the same but could not do so. They will further work on the same to rectify the loopholes.
Confirming of the success of the mission the NASA scientists said that after 12 minutes from the takeoff, the second stage of the rocket released the twin satellites into the near-polar orbit. The second stage the again started working and moved in the higher orbit to release the five Iridium satellites that it was carrying. SpaceX further confirmed that the Iridium satellites are also positioned successfully in the desired orbit after one hour of the take-off. These satellites are supposed to join a constellation of 50 satellites which is being owned by the company and known as Iridium Communications. Thereby the total number of Iridium satellites will now become fifty-five in numbers.
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Internationals living in Amsterdam can delve into the city's rich cultural scene and meet like-minded people by joining Amsterdam Culture Club. Members are invited to a variety of events throughout the year, enjoying additional elements to each outing such as exclusive backstage tours or private introductions with performers.
Internationals living in Amsterdam are being invited to join the city's newly renamed Amsterdam Culture Club. The club - previously known as Amsterdam Salon - allows people living in the city to delve into its rich cultural scene, and meet like-minded people while doing so. Members are invited to a variety of events throughout the year, and get to enjoy an additional element to each outing, including exclusive backstage tours or private introductions with performers. Following each event, members can also get to know each other better over drinks and snacks.
It's now easier than ever for new members to join the Culture Club – all you need to do is register here. Once the club has processed your details, it will send you a confirmation and invitations to upcoming events. The first event of the year will be a performance of Innenschau [Revisited], taking place on 18 January 2018, where members will be treated to a reception with the theatre's director and a talk with the show's director Jakop Ahlbom and drinks after the show.
See more about Amsterdam Culture Club.


Barack Obama is touting one of his most famous endorsements in the homestretch of the presidential campaign.
President Barack Obama has touted hip hop endorsements more than any other candidate on the national stage. His campaign doubled down on that strategy Monday, launching a flashy ad touting Jay-Z, the rapper, business mogul and former drug dealer, as the embodiment of the American dream.
"The idea of America is that no matter who you are, what you look like, or where you come from, you can make it if you try," says Obama, adding, "Jay-Z did."
The ad shows Jay-Z, clad in a black suit and tie, talking somberly about how many people's voices have been "silenced" in the political process, either because they were prevented from voting or because they "didn't believe their voice mattered." "Now people are exercising their right," he adds, "and you are starting to see the power of our vote."
President Obama's lines in the ad were from a recording made for "Jay-Z's Made in America Festival in Philadelphia on September 1st," an Obama aide told The Nation. While the video is not running as a television advertisement, it could draw significant attention online, especially from young voters and African Americans. In 2008, the Obama Campaign distributed several Jay-Z videos that went viral, including footage of Jay-Z's poem about the legacy of Rosa Park, MLK and Obama; a clip of then Senator-Obama using Jay's signature hand gesture to dismiss political attacks by figuratively brushing them off his shoulders; and a detailed briefing on voter-ID rules for Michigan voters. The Michigan video, like this new ad, focused on mobilizing supporters, not persuading swing voters. The Obama Campaign has adeptly used YouTube and social networks as a relatively thrify way to do targeted messaging. TV ads are great for broadcasting, but voter turnout is about narrow-casting.


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HTC has announced a new member in its One lineup of devices. It's the HTC One X9. The HTC One X9 will be a blend of price that belongs to the range of mid range devices and some intriguing features of high end devices. The information about the phone was circulating here and there owing to several leaked images, posts etc. This time it's official and the device is making its appearance in China.
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8. It will run Android operating system but the version is not yet clear.
The phone has similar features like the HTC One A9, though more advanced, but one feature that the One X9 lacks is the fingerprint scanner. That said, all other features are improved and users might find the One X9 more pleasing if compared with A9. HTC has announced the X9 for the Chinese market at a price of 2399 yuan ($370). It's not clear when the smartphone will launch in other countries.


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Despicable Use of In-Game Advertising
Gamespot's Dubious Honors Awards for despicable use of in-game advertising:
2004 (Need for Speed Underground)
2005 (SWAT 4, where the dynamic in-game ads made one of the first appearances)
2006 (Fight Night Round 3, a boxing game with the Burger King's King in it)
2007 (Need for Speed ProStreet):
"Need for Speed ProStreet isn't exactly an example of in-game advertising restraint. Playing the game offline isn't all that offensive, but as soon as you jump on to Xbox Live, the deluge begins. The game has dynamic ads that start downloading the very first time you get online. What's worse and even more ridiculous is that the game's Xbox Live achievement points have ads attached to them. That's right, even the achievements in this game are brought to you by a commercial sponsor." Video review of the game below.
Also note the readers' choice selections as well as nominees.
Original Post: http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2008/02/despicable-use-of-in-game-advertising.html
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Justin Vernon, Big Red Machine, Pitchfork Festival, Brexit Lord Frost, Mass Appeal Jessica Rivera Jenya Meggs, Beatport
By Music Industry Cityon June 30, 2021
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Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner's Big Red Machine Announce New Album
Big Red Machine will drop their newest studio set on August 27th. The album features Taylor Swift, Fleet Foxes, Sharon Van Etten, and more. As a preview the band is offering the new song "Latter Days" with Anaïs Mitchell. This will be Big Red Machine's second album following their eponymous debut in 2018.
PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL TO MAKE LONDON DEBUT
Pitchfork Music Festival will take place in London for the first time from November 10-14. The multi-venue event will be held at the Roundhouse, Southbank Centre, Oslo, Village Underground and Moth Club. Mykki Blanco, Bobby Gillespie & Jenny Beth, Iceage and Cassandra Jenkins are among the acts due to perform.
Brexit minister Lord Frost: Visa-free touring for artists 'deprives us of control over immigration'
Lord Frost negotiated the UK's EU trade deal at the end of 2020 which did not provide any provision for visa-free touring. He told MPS: "Sadly, the EU wouldn't accept that. That's just the reality of the way these negotiations went" But he admitted there were concerns about a visa waiver proposal by the EU for 'ad hoc' performances.
We'll talk more about this in the Music News Power Hour live on Clubhouse and on MusicIndustryCity.com at 12 p.m. Eastern.
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NAS'S MASS APPEAL HIRES JESSICA RIVERA AS GENERAL MANAGER, MUSIC AND JENYA MEGGS AS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF CONTENT
Mass Appeal has announced two new positions at the company. Jessica Rivera and Jenya Meggs will serve as the General Manager, Music and Senior Vice President of Content respectively. In this role, Rivera will oversee creative and day-to-day operations of Mass Appeal's music division; label, publishing and contributing across the company's other two divisions in content and creative services. Working with the company's Chief Creative Officer Sacha Jenkins, Meggs will spearhead programming strategies and partnerships for Mass Appeal.
And in music tech news…
Beatport Launches Mainstage, a New Genre Inspired by the Festival Experience
Beatport has launched a new dedicated genre page that unites Big Room, Electro House, and Future House into one all-encompassing category: Mainstage. Beatport Hype will also be added to the new category. The new category will allow for the creation of a Beatport hype section. Beatport says, We feel that this move will benefit our customers, artists, and labels by making this music easier to locate.
And that concludes today's update. For article links, see the show notes, or go to MusicIndustryCity.com and listen to the Music News Power Hour live in Clubhouse or on the website at 12 p.m. Eastern.
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HomeMagazine2022December 2022, Vol. 249, No. 12FERC Rejects Environmental Concerns About Gas Pipeline Projects
December 2022, Vol. 249, No. 12
FERC Rejects Environmental Concerns About Gas Pipeline Projects
By Stephen Barlas, Contributing Editor, Washington, D.C.
(P&GJ) — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) continues to dispatch environmental objections to pipeline projects. Even Chairman Richard Glick, who had originally made reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions his guiding light, is turning a deaf ear.
Facing the end of his term and undoubtedly worried about casting votes viewed as anti-pipeline, which might produce opposition to his Senate renomination, Glick and another Democratic commissioner, Allison Clements, voted with the three other commissioners to approve a 24-mile (39-km) Texas Gas pipeline by a vote of 5-0 on Oct. 20, despite a number of environmental objections from the Sierra Club and a group called Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana (CAC).
In a second recent instance, FERC staff dispatched environmental concerns about the already-in-operation Spire STL pipeline in a final environmental impact statement (EIS) on Oct. 7, which rejects demands by the Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund to calculate upstream GHG emissions, address methane leaks from pipelines and in some way limit the pipeline's operations because of air and noise pollution impacts on environmental justice (i.e., minority) communities.
Spire is operating on a temporary certificate and FERC conducted an EIS after a federal appeals court in Washington remanded the project back to FERC in June 2021 because of a failure to properly consider an affiliate relationship between Spire STL and Spire Energy. FERC has not issued a decision on the affiliate issue yet.
The two Sierra Club attorneys who filed briefs in each of those two cases did not reply to requests for comments.
In both the Spire and Texas Gas dockets, the staff and commissioners frustrated environmentalists.
"The law clearly requires FERC to consider all reasonably foreseeable effects of gas projects, including their upstream and downstream effects. FERC is wise to apply the law, rather than dodge it," said Gillian Giannetti, the top FERC-watcher at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
But while FERC refused to consider upstream GHG emissions in both cases, it has not categorically ruled that out, noted Giannetti.
"The gas industry has acted like Chicken Little, crying that FERC should never consider a project's upstream and downstream emissions," Giannetti added. "The fact that the industry is scared about FERC doing its job should be a red flag for anyone who cares about reducing greenhouse gas emissions."
In the Henderson County Expansion Project, Texas Gas proposed to provide up to 220,000 MMBtu/d of new firm transportation service to CenterPoint's new natural gas–fired electric generation turbines at the A.B. Brown Plant in Posey County, Indiana.
These will replace CenterPoint's coal-fired generating facilities. The switch will result in a big drop in GHG emissions. FERC stated, "Assuming the natural gas–fired generation operates at a 100% load factor, replacing the two coal-fired units would result in a net reduction of 2,075,603 tons carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2 e) of GHG emissions per year."
This should have been a big win for environmentalists. Nonetheless, the CAC and Sierra Club filed separate protests raising arguments regarding project need and environmental concerns, among them the supposed availability of non-gas alternatives, the failure to consider upstream GHG emissions, the potential damage to minority communities, the noise from construction and other issues.
The CAC demanded FERC hold public hearings, but the commission refused saying everyone who wanted to comment had ample opportunity to do so through scoping meetings and the public docket.
The CAC argued FERC had to supplement its draft EIS based on the Inflation Reduction Act, which will offer $400 billion in tax credits and directs spending to fund clean energy and transmission resilience investments.
The point was that those funds would make renewable resources more affordable for CenterPoint in conjunction with replacing the coal-fired combustion. Besides urging FERC to consider alternative portfolios for CenterPoint that are less reliant on new gas supply and allegedly could be developed at lower cost while reliably serving load, the group also wanted FERC to "seriously assess the potential for reducing environmental impacts via the electric compression alternative."
Texas Gas pointed out that it is the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC), not FERC, who is responsible for selecting the resources necessary to integrate CenterPoint's renewable resources. FERC agreed saying, "The IURC specifically found that "The flexible and controllable nature of the gas CTs [combustion turbines] will support the intermittent nature of the renewable generation in [CenterPoint's] Preferred Portfolio to ensure system reliability."
The Sierra Club seconded the CAC's arguments that FERC should have considered upstream GHG emissions in its EIS and that an associated failure was its refusal to characterize the project's GHG emissions as "significant" or "insignificant."
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), some argue, requires that when GHG emissions are above a certain, as yet undetermined, level. FERC's reason for not doing that was because the commission "is conducting a generic proceeding to determine whether and how the commission will conduct significance determinations going forward."
That was a reference to a separate FERC draft policy statement issued earlier in 2022 that attempts to come to grips with factoring in GHG emissions into pipeline approval decisions.
In their "concurring" decision, Glick and Clements admitted, "The Henderson City Expansion Project would result in a substantial net decrease in GHG emissions when reasonably foreseeable downstream emissions reductions are considered." But they quibbled, perhaps to resist completely parting political company with the Sierra Club, that the commission should have made a decision one way or another on "significance." They added, "Accordingly, the Commission should apply our precedent, as well as our common sense, to find that the GHG emissions here are not significant."
Environmentalists raised some of those same GHG issues in the case of the Spire STL pipeline and FERC staff again swept them aside when it published the EIS. FERC granted Spire STL a temporary certificate in December 2021 and undertook an EIS (a smaller environmental assessment was completed originally when the initial certificate was awarded in 2018) that the Appeals Court had not faulted in its 2021 remand.
Here again, the staff refused to consider upstream GHG emissions despite demands from environmentalists and the EPA. Putting an exclamation point on its refusal to do so, the staff wrote, "The specific source of the natural gas to be transported by the project is currently unknown and would likely change throughout the project's operation. To date, the Commission has not found upstream emissions to be an effect of any proposed project…"
EIS stated, "We determined that impacts from the continued
operation of the Spire STL would be less than significant, with the exception of climate change impacts resulting from GHG emissions that are not characterized as significant or insignificant."
Again, as in Henderson, Sierra and other environmental groups urged the commission to estimate total GHG emissions, including those upstream, and to total them as "significant." But FERC staff said, "… it has not identified a methodology to attribute discrete, quantifiable, physical effects on the environment resulting from the project's incremental contribution to GHGs."
Nor has it found "an established threshold for determining the project's significance when compared to established GHG reduction targets at the state or federal level." The staff did look at the pipelines' contribution to GHG emissions in Missouri and Illinois, projecting them to be 6.1% and 0.000006%.
FERC's major concern voiced in the EIS is that continued operation of Texas Gas's Laclede/Lange and Chain of Rocks Delivery Stations would have disproportionately high and adverse impacts on environmental justice communities because of visual, air, and noise impacts.
But the EIS concluded those impacts are less than significant. Spire filed a visual screening plan for both locations that FERC deemed adequate to solve the potential problems.
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Circolombia, Underbelly Festival Southbank, review
Genuinely breathless and unique stunts are on offer in Circolombia's latest self-titled and relentlessly energetic Underbelly offering. The show shares one too many of the innovations, and misfired creative decisions, as the company's 2015 smash Acelere though – so it's difficult to not question its originality.
Circolombia are back in town with the support of the Colombian Ministry of Culture and Embassy, to conclude their self-titled global tour with a 7-week Underbelly stint. Replacing Circus Abyssinia's terrific Ethiopian Dreams as the Southbank festival's second headliner of the summer, the show's billed as a 'thrilling new circus show with guts, gusto and grace' – and undeniably offers all three by the bucketload.
Genuinely breathless stunts pepper the show's 60-minute running time (a number of which I'm confident are more-or-less unique to the company). You will gasp and gape – particularly during the moments involving performers' teeth and foreheads – and want to jump up and join in at others, particularly because of the palpable swag to all 14 performers. You want to be them; there's an undeniable coolness to the way they approach their craft, way they carry themselves and even the way they bow and showing off in the bar moments after.
It's the word 'new' in the show's billing, though, which I take slight issue with. Memory obviously clouds over three years, but the last Circolombia show I caught (Acelere, Roundhouse, 2015) was a little too similar for comfort. Oddly perhaps, if my memory serves me right, it was also culpable of the same, ever-so-slightly misfired creative decisions which let down this year's production too.
The cloud swing performance, for example, is again weakened by an unnecessary monologue that the audience neither quite hears, nor cares about. The bits you do here are – albeit fittingly for a 'cloud' swing – fluffy at best (and pretentious at worst). And with the obvious exception of the live songs, it's the only act featuring words – but for a reason which is never explained nor clear. The tricks are good enough without it (and I suspect she could do even more without the additional responsibility of speaking + retaining a microphone pack), so it'd be so simple to just cut.
The show also takes a while to warm up, an issue when your show is already fixed at a slight festival-appropriate time length. Perhaps I'd criticise the performers for playing it slightly too 'cool-for-school' during the opening sequence; the audience doesn't quite feel involved, and part of the fun, in the way we'd like to simply due to a lack of interaction (and a smile goes a long way).
As with Acelere, the show doesn't make any excuses for being rough-around-the-edges – its aesthetic is proudly stripped-back (slash non-existent) and that definitely works for some shows, but I'm not entirely sold on it working for this. The 'Colombia' they portray is dynamic, colourful, welcoming, celebratory. And whilst the stunts bring that energy to life, I don't see any harm in (even a basic set) suggesting the same. Lighting design is pretty basic, and the stage is black and bare when you enter and exit. I entirely understand the need for an uncluttered stage when tumbling/swinging, but I just wanted bright colours – some hanging neon lights, or subtle set design hints back to the colours of the flag. The Colombian 'spirit' was established, but not enough; it disappeared as soon as each act was over, and that seemed a shame.
The eternal issue with regularly analysing contemporary circus, though, is it's all-too-easy to forget the average ticketholder will more or likely not have seen anything quite like it before. And in that respect, the stunts alone make this a cut above many – we're treated to incomprehensible neck hangs (wait until you see how an already advanced move is thrillingly, preposterously, made more complicated…) and a stunning straps act (worthy of ticket price alone). So whilst not the strongest Underbelly circus headliner I've been lucky enough to see, Circolombia's energy and heart-raising setpieces are far from things to be sniffed at. It may not be truly 'new' from the company, but if you've not seen them before, you're not going to mind that.
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Posh midfdielder Martin Samuelsen shoots at goal. Behind him is the BBC studio that housed live TV host Gary Lineker and his pundits. Photo: David Lowndes.
Peterborough United manager Graham Westley has predicted great things for his young squad after their cruel FA Cup exit to West Brom at the ABAX Stadium tonight (February 10).
Posh were beaten 4-3 on penalties after getting to within 20 minutes of a fifth round place for the first time in 30 years.
Rival managers Graham Westley of Posh (left) and Tony Pulis before the fourth round FA Cup replay. Photo: Joe Dent/theposh.com.
It finished 1-1 after 90 minutes and extra time. Jon Taylor fired Posh in front 10 minutes into the second-half, but Darren Fletcher equalised for the Premier League side with a terrific strike.
Man-of-the-match Martin Samuelsen and Lee Angol saw their spot-kicks saved by Baggies' keeper Ben Foster.
Westley said: "We showed what quality players we have at this club. It's a very young squad, but if they keep progressing as they are they won't be in League One for long.
"On the evidence of tonight, many of them could well pull on a Premier League shirt and grace a Premier League ground.
Posh players Michael Bostwick (left), Shaquile Coulthirst (centre) and Gaby Zakuani (right) are closely marked at a home corner against West Brom. Photo: David Lowndes.
"The desire we showed affected how West Brom played. We defended our goal with great commitment and we showed good thrust going forward.
"Over the 210 minutes of the entire tie we were probably the better team. We saw in the first game that we troubled them when we went wide and that happened again tonight.
"It was a cruel way to go out and no-one should be too down on Lee and Martin who showed great courage to go up and take a penalty. Darren Fletcher showed with his penalty miss that experienced players can crack under pressure.
"Samuelsen is a fantastic talent destined for a great career. He showed how good he is tonight. He can hang on to the ball too long, but that will come with experience.
"Missing our chances and delaying some of our shooting opportunities cost us tonightv as did the five-minute lull during which they scored their goal. It was a terrific goal though.
"We just have to find a way to make those extra inches count in our favour. In the end greater experience in a penalty shoot out is the reason why we are out of the FA Cup.
"We're disappointed to be out. We wanted to be in the fifth round of the FA Cup, but my lads shouldn't be disappointed with tonight. We will dwell on the good things and there were many positive pieces of play.
"We played with a great energy and a good tempo throughout.
"Our crowd were fantastic as well. I an sure they would have left the ground happy with what they saw from their team.
Relieved West Brom manager Tony Pulis heaped praise on Posh after the match.
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Adding the requirement that outsiders may take over authorship and copyright of a module isn't a good thing in my opinion.
I'm at a loss to see where anyone suggested that this could/would or should happen?
mifune wrote: I feel that thought could be given to a natural and agile way (built into the structure of CPAN) of branching or evolving a given module, a way that automatically took care of authorship, copyright and and other important formalities.
If authorship and copyright are to be stayed at the original author, what are the "formalities" regarding authorship and copyright then?
A somewhat formalised mechanism for forking the development would ensure not only that the collaborating users could find each other and achieve their needs
There's no reason why this mechanism should start with changing CPAN. I'd say, hammer out the details of your mechanism. Start acting on it. Find the quircks. Work them out. Then, after you have a working mechanism, first contact the modules mailing list with your suggestion, then try to get PAUSE changed to handle your (by now proven) mechanism, and then you can see whether you can build this into CPAN.
it would also ensure continuity of both authorship and licencing of the original elements of the module.
No change to CPAN is required to do. Copyright and licensing laws already force this to be the default.
Not only does this help ensure that you don't half a dozen unilateral forks by disparate individuals;
Actually, it won't help your ensure that you don't get half a dozen forks. At best, it will prevent some forks, but there will still be people ignoring whatever framework you create, and creating their own forks. This is an open source world we live it.
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When was the last time we scored direct from free kick?
2 more good chances blown at Wigan. We never seem to even work the goalie.
Agree Knocker but, to be fair, I think the ref was using his pecker as a yardstick on Saturday. 10 yards my ####!
Ngbakoto with our goal of the season v Birmingham Feb 2017.
Not had someone to regularly score them since Buzsaky or Adel have we? Freemans come close a couple of times at home but not gone in.
Wells has had a couple of decent efforts. Think it says a lot about the shooting ability in the squad that we generally tend to use free-kicks to aim for someones bonce.
i'm sure chery got a couple for us.
Free kicks aren't much better than corners really. Remember that wonder free kick by Roberto Carlos? Must have watched him balloon about 250 free-kicks miles over the bar after that one lucky hit.


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A recap of the #ChicagoSeminars 2014 & some of what you missed!
For 5 years now Rick has hosted the Chicago Seminars. I have been there for all of them. I went the first time as a newbie and my head just could not contain all the amazing info I was hearing. I took notes but it was all so overwhelming.
The day before the event it was fun to both catch up with some readers and meet some new ones. Sharing tips and tricks we have all learned along the way makes travel, especially Delta travel, just that much better.
Friday, the first official day of the event, I hosted the Delta seminar. I will not share my slideshow as without narration is does not make much sense. I did talk about how to get what we want when flying Delta and many other bits that I only share each year in Chicago like how to avoid and work around the dreaded FR. I also touched on the 3 for 2 flying with Skymiles that now appears DEAD (thanks Delta).
Saturday, after sleeping in a little bit, I listened to my friend MJ on travel talk about cruise ships. I have not been on a ship for years and really want to try it again (just never again on NCL). Neat stuff from MJ as always and some good input from the group as well!
Then back to the hotel bar for a beer before dinner out at Harry Caray's Italian Steakhouse.
If you have not been here before, and you like a great steak, you need to go. And yes, as was pointed out to me in the photo above, I do look like a giant bumble bee hugging a cow.
As for the steaks, they were SO nummy. Due to the light I don't think you can fully appreciate just how good it was. It was just about perfect!
Sunday afternoon I was host for the Delta breakout session and we had a good "round table" discussion about Delta. MJ was there to help share some insights on Expert Flyer and those changes as well as a few Diamonds who I know well who shared their best tips. Just great stuff and worth catching a late flight to not miss out on!
Sorry I missed the fun, but I had a great time un Sweden. It was Russian sub sighting season in the Stockholm archipelago.
Hey Rene – It was good to meet you there, even though I managed to miss your talks. Next year, for sure though! 🙂 So much great info, and so many great people, that I too encourage anyone to go!
are the dates for next year announced yet?


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Vatileaks is not over. It may never be True, the Church is 200 years out of date. But not the way you may think.
Why the year of Faith?
By Andrea Gagliarducci On 15 ottobre 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Benedict XVI
There is a need for faith. Benedict XVI says so, repeats it, and underlines it in the Holy Mass which inaugurates the Year of Faith. This year will be dedicated to return man to God. A year which – significantly – marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. The Pope admonishes: «If today the Church proposes a new Year of Faith and the New Evangelization, it is not because we must celebrate an anniversary. It is because there is a need for it, a need even greater than 50 years ago. A spiritual desertification has spread out during these years.»
Rome, October 11th. The Pope speaks in front of a half-filled Saint Peter Square. Flanking the altar, the Fathers of the Synod for the New Evangelization and some of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council still alive. Not all of them could be in Rome. Some of them are very old, and in poor health. All of them have a clear memory of a Council intended to renovate the Church, to find a new way to speak to the signs of the time. Break and continuity. Continuity of the tradition of the faith, break in the way the faith is presented.
It may seem odd, but the «continuity issue» was taken for granted by the Council's Fathers. True, there were already signs of a sort of faith drift, of that new paganism that has always been one of Benedict XVI's greatest worries. But it is also true that the Council came about when faith experiences were flourishing in many places: the first workers' priests in France and Belgium, the theological debate on the Sacred Scripture and its interpretation in Germany, the new need for a praxis of interreligious dialogue, the will to lay an ecumenical path with sister churches… This intellectual ferment came directly from faith, and from the need to measure ourselves up to faith. Faith supported by reason is at the apex of Benedict XVI's thinking. Joseph Ratzinger immersed himself in this notion during his years as a theologian, and as an expert consultant at the Second Vatican Council. Council Fathers were, above all, men of faith.
They were men of such honest faith and reason that they did not foresee that the spirit of the Council would be later assessed on the basis of its documents, rather than its intentions. They did not foresee either that, as time went by, the enthusiasm generated by the discussion of the documents and by the Fathers' reasoning on faith, would decline. To the point of falling to the level of indifference toward faith.
Many thus understand the Council as having a «social» impact on the world, but nothing else, because none of the documents of the Council explicitly focused on the question of faith. There are documents on liturgy, mission, religious freedom, and social communication. There is not a document on faith. The Pope admits: «The Second Vatican Council did not want to address faith in a specific, single document. Yet, its thrust was the will and the awareness of the need to dive once more into the Christian mystery, in order to present it again to the contemporary man.»
This awareness has been somewhat quelled by the post-Council discourse. On Wednesday, October 10th, during the general audience, the Pope was already inviting us all to read the Council's documents themselves, and not to allow ourselves to be misled by the different papers and books that have concealed, rather than broadcast, what the Council wanted to say.
That there is a need for faith is also clear to sister churches. Rowan Williams– Anglican Church primate until December – realizes it, and so he spoke to the synod about the revolution of contemplation. So does Bartholomew I, patriarch of Costantinople, who hoped for full and visible unity among Christians. Yet, there seems to be a bit of sadness in Benedict XVI's mood.
October, 11th 1962: Azione Cattolica of Italy organized a torchlight procession in the evening – from Castel Sant'Angelo to Saint Peter Square – to celebrate the just-inaugurated Council. Pope John XXIII bends out of the window and addresses participants, with off the cuff remarks. That famous speech is called «Moonlight speech».
«Words full of poetry, of grace, words from the heart», Benedict XVI –bending out of that very same window– tells the participants of a commemorative torchlight march on the 50th anniversary of the first one.
Benedict XVI reflections are bittersweet. Having been among the experts of the Second Vatican Council, he recalls the atmosphere and the feelings at the Council in the introduction to the book Zur Lehre des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils (About the Teachings of the Second Vatican Council), published by Herder and edited by Archbishop Gehrard Ludwig Mueller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The book consists of Joseph Ratzinger's Council writings. The Pope writes in the introduction that the inauguration of the Council «was a moment of great suspense. Major things needed to happen. Previous Councils were almost always convoked to respond to specific questions requiring specific answers. This time, there was not a particular problem to solve. That is precisely why there was a general sense of suspense in the air: Christianity – which had built and shaped the Western world – seemed to be losing its forcefulness ever more. It seemed to have grown tired, and it looked as if other spiritual powers would decide the future.»
Before the People of God gathered at Saint Peter's Square for the torchlight march, Benedict XVI's words echo the somberness of the 2005 Via Crucis Meditations, when he spoke about the «filth» inside the Church. «Fifty years ago – the Pope says – the big Ecumenical Council was inaugurated, and we were convinced that a new Spring for the Church would come about, a new Pentecost, a new strong presence of the liberating Grace of the Gospel. To this day we feel happy, we carry joy in our hearts, but it is, I would say, perhaps a more measured joy, a humble joy.»
It is because – the Pope adds – «during these last 50 years we have learned and experienced that original sin exists and manifest itself in personal sins that can even become frameworks of sin. We saw that in the Lord's field there is always the darnel. We have seen how in Peter's fishnet there are also bad fishes. We have seen that human frailty is present in the Church as well, that the Church's boat is sailing against the wind, with storms threatening it. And sometimes we have thought: 'Where is the Lord? He forgot about us!»
The Pope points out that this is «just part» of what has happened during these years, and he reassures us that «the Lord does not forget about us. Even today, humbly, the Lord is present and warms our hearts, He reveals life, He creates charismata of goodness and charity that shed light on the world and are proof to us of God's goodness. If Christ is alive, He is here with us today, and we can be happy also today, because his goodness cannot be extinguished, it is strong even today.»
There is a need for Faith in order not to lose the spirit of the Council.
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Title: Improving his finishing could be key to Fred VanVleet's growth, next contract
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Synopsis: In my latest for The Athletic Toronto, I wrote about the need for Fred VanVleet to improve his finishing, for the Raptors and for his next contract.
A number of things changed for Kyle Lowry throughout his career to shape him from a journeyman reserve in the making to a potential Hall of Famer. For those who are fond of tracing Fred VanVleet's career arc alongside Lowry's, one giant progression Lowry made stands out as missing from VanVleet's development so far: the ability to finish at the rim.
VanVleet and Lowry indeed share many similarities. Sometimes tying two players together narratively can look like a shortcut or feel shoehorned for convenience. In this case, we're talking about two undersized point guards who approach the game with the same type of intelligence and intensity, both of whom are leaders, and both of whom defend far beyond their size would suggest, taking every marginal edge they can find to create advantages where some don't see those opportunities. Even the differences in their development have brought them to similar endpoints. Lowry developed his 3-ball much later than VanVleet, but both use it as a major weapon and a means of playing off the ball part time. VanVleet found his way to a meaningful role quicker but also entered the league when he was older. To what degree VanVleet poached his undersized post defence from Lowry is unclear, but he's gotten there, to the extent of the two point guards potentially cannibalizing each other's All-Defense chances.
The similarities in their paths can cut one of two ways when it comes to VanVleet's finishing, depending on your perspective.
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Iron Fist Season 2 Finally Gives the People What They Want
By Krutika MallikarjunaSep 6, 2018 5:33 PM EDT
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Season 1 of Iron Fist had its problems and was so riddled with controversy that it's hard to even remember how the show held up next to its elite MCU brethren on Netflix. Centering on Danny Rand (Finn Jones), a wealthy New York City kid who was the sole survivor of a plane crash in Tibet and then trained by an order of monks to wield the mystical powers of the Iron Fist with which he returns to save New York, the show pulled from '70s comics canon too literally to make a big splash.
In what could be considered both a bold opening and finishing move for the Marvel property, Marvel execs and Iron Fist Season 1 showrunner Scott Buck chose to stick with the comics and keep the ethnicity of Rand — a superhero who traffics in Pan-Asian myths, legends, and spiritual powers — a white man. When pressed about the issue months before the premiere of the show, Marvel Television boss Jeph Loeb and Buck both reiterated that Danny needed to feel like an outsider in K'un-Lun (the city in which he trained) for the story to work. But that's antiquated thinking. In 2017, there was no reason for Marvel to use an appropriative and racist origin story for a beloved character. As many have pointed out before me, making Danny Rand an Asian-American or even hapa — half-Asian — character would have given this backstory already steeped in orientalism (from spiritual powers to sexless men) a fresh and relevant connection for the diversity hungry viewers of 2017.
Photo: Linda Kallerus/Netflix
And while Season 1 of Iron Fist would have still been a fairly mediocre entry into Marvel's Netflix universe due to the lack of compelling villains and Danny Rand's habit of perpetually repeating his mistakes, at least casting someone of a plausible Asian background would have left the door open for Season 2 to grow beyond what are normal story problems in an uneven season of TV. In the first six episodes that were screened for critics, the big stink of Season 1 lingers fully. But in an unprecedented move for Netflix's Marvel properties, the final four episodes of the season were given to critics yesterday, after the review embargo had been lifted. And it's in those final four episodes that Iron Fist finally attempts to fix its biggest problem — which I'll get to at the bottom of this review.
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Danny's worst and best trait — his optimism which comes with the headstrong belief that there's little to no grey areas in life — comes through full throttle in Season 2. Picking up after the events of The Defenders, Danny spends most of Season 2 trying to figure out who he is, without the Hand to fight and K'un-lun to save and preserve. Both have been wiped off the face of the Earth, so our erstwhile Defender is spending his nights picking up where Matt Murdoch (Charlie Cox) left off. To complicate this simple mission, Joy Meechum (Jessica Stroup), Danny's childhood friend, as well as Davos (Sacha Dhawan), Danny's adopted brother from K'un-Lun, roll through the wreckage of Danny's life with one mission: to make him feel as much pain as he dealt them. And while Danny can handle pain, what he can't handle is stagnation. Danny is first and foremost a man of action, and with more complex family dramas stepping in as the Big Bad, the correct plan always remains just out of his grasp despite Colleen (Jessica Henwick), Ward (Tom Pelphrey), and Misty (Simone Missick) spending most of their time leading him in the right direction.
In fact, the best moments of Iron Fist Season 2 happen when Danny's not on screen at all. There are beautiful little flashes of character development for everyone around him. Misty and Colleen team up to deliver the Daughters of the Dragons spin-off we'll never get, and with it comes some of the best banter of the MCU. Ward Meechum, on a path to recovery from both alcoholism and villainy, takes on a responsibility he's ill-suited for, but it also puts him on a dogged path to reconciliation with his sister Joy. Even Davos has an amazing flashback sequence to K'un-lun in which we see his relationship with his mother spin out and the scenes edify (but not justify) his hatred towards Danny. Basically the only person left out of this forward momentum and energy the returning cast has is Danny.
Which brings us full circle to the problem: Danny Rand is just not compelling enough to carry his own show. There's not a lot I can say about how those last four episodes attempt to course correct for a boring white man as its lead without spoiling the season, but rest assured that we finally what a non-whitewashed version of the character could have looked like. It is the pure, wholesome, reclaimed version of Iron Fist fans have been clamoring for since before Season 1 and the Big Moment is truly worth a rewind or two. But be warned, there's no indication by the end of Season 2 that this is actually the new status quo. There's a very specific sequence in the finale that indicates why and how Danny Rand is still the center of the series, so it's really a waiting game 'til Season 3 to see if Marvel's big attempt to correct the whitewashing of its series will connect.
So the tl;dr is: This season of Iron Fist is really for the Marvel completionists. If you're one of those folks who needs to make sure you catch every tie-in, every easter egg, every loose plot hole that might turn into a series arc in Defenders Season 2, then I wish you luck in slogging through. However, if you just want to revel in the surprising fact that Marvel is actually thinking about the whitewashing critiques leveled at it (with a to-be-determined amount of success), skip straight to Episode 8 of Season 2 and play from there.
Season 2 of Marvel's Iron Fist premieres Friday, Sept. 7 on Netflix.
Premiered: Mar 17, 2017
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There is an urgent need for developers to come up with budget housing projects in the larger cities. As modern India moves towards development and rising aspirations, affordable housing and the security that comes with it, is increasing. This appears to be a very high opportunity for developers who can count on a boost in the real estate industry. More absorption of the housing projects in the urban cities is also a strong indicator of the socio-economic growth in the country, thereby projecting a positive image. While the demand is strong and only increasing, there are a lot of policy-level changes that need to be introduced.
Not only will the affordable housing for the middle class prove to be a sustainable business model for the future, it will also allow more cities to come up to ranks. More affordable housing projects will assure developers that they do not struggle with inflation or even setbacks in the economy. Another trend that one needs to channelize is that more real estate investors are now eyeing budget and affordable housing projects. Where luxury homes and premium homes find it hard to make it through a rough economy, affordable housing is still on the move. The healthy demand in addition with more money coming in steady from investors means a healthy micro-economy. It is now time for builders and the government to give this proposition a try, ensuring that the overall development of the country happens throughout.


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After the Second World War the era of the steamship was well and truly over. S/S Mariefred continued to traffic Mälaren's waters but its economic situation remained insecure. There were fewer and fewer steamships with passenger traffic on Mälaren and during the summer of 1963 there was suddenly no other steamship still operating. S/S Mariefred was the last one standing – the final representative of the once so vast fleet of goods and passenger steamships on Mälaren.
During the early 1960s, the few remaining steamships, including s/s Mariefred on Mälaren and some steamships in the Stockholm archipelago, began to gain increasing attention. In 1966, the archipelago boat association, a newly founded non-profit association with ambitions to support and maintain the remaining steamships, took a majority shareholding in GMÅA. The association lacked the necessary capital to run a steamship service, but showed commitment, will and ambition that more than compensated. Despite these setbacks, the steamship continued to serve the Stockholm–Mariefred route under its new owners.
The steamship was damaged in a fire in the spring of 1980, but just two months later it was back in full service! Two years later, the steamship's steam boiler needed to be changed. The original boiler from 1903 was replaced by a newly manufactured one and this brought with it new costs – costs that could however be covered mostly by the help of voluntary collections and non-profit making efforts.
The steamship was once again damaged in a fire caused by a gas explosion on board on the night of 8 May 1994, during which the dining room on the upper deck and parts of the main deck were damaged. Once again it was clear just how important voluntary efforts were for getting it back in working order again, which took eight weeks and approximately one and half million Swedish kronor in costs. S/S Mariefred was renovated at a shipyard at Beckholmen in Stockholm, where the association established a business for steamship renovations.


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Q: CSS box element positioning Here I have create one div box using css stlye.
Fiddle: Correct view
But if the description is small then content misaligned as below:
Misaligned box
i tried changing the position and css values, but no luck.
Can some one tell me how can I keep footer part on it's position even if the content is small.

A: You need to clear the floats:
.footer-working-area {
    clear:both; /* this sets the element flow back to normal */
    background: transparent url(...) left 5px repeat-x;
                                        /* /\ have some padding for the img */
}

Now the footer always stays below the picture, no matter how few text content you have.
Here you have the accordingly modified example fiddle.

A: You can give your text a min-height...
.text { min-height: 110px; }

... or a height if you don't expect longer texts
.text { height: 110px; }

... or clear the floats as Christoph mentioned in an other answer.

A: Add clearfix to the .text class
.text::after {
    content: "";
    display: block;
    clear: both;
}

EXAMPLE

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