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Beyonce is a well-known cultural icon who is well-known for her acting and music skills , has also been an artist who pushes boundaries. Queen Bey was given the name "Queen Bey" and is one of the most popular and successful artists of all time.
In the early years of her life she showed an interest in dancing and music. She joined a local dance class at St. Mary's Montesorri School in Houston, Texas. She also took part in several competitions. She began singing at the age of seven. She was put in a group called Gyrl's Time. Beyonce auditioned when she was eight years old for an all-girls entertainment company.
Beyonce was shy initially and avoided performing on stage. Her parents were shocked to see their daughter perform on stage. She was fortunate to make an impression. Beyonce became a popular actress and singer. She also was producer. She has released many solo pop albums. Beyonce has sold more than 300 million records and is a Grammy Award nominee. She is also the most-sold female artist of all time.
Beyonce's maternal grandparents were French and African. She has distant Breton heritage on her mother's side. She has a father who is a Xerox sales manager, and an mother who is hairdresser. She is the mother of three children. She was born in Houston, Texas on September 4, 1981.
Beyonce has always remained true to her African American roots throughout her music career. She has incorporated a wide range of influences from blues to new wave to electropop. She has also avoided the commercial concerns of the mainstream. She is one of the most acclaimed artists of the 21st century.
In her early years, Beyonce won several local singing contests. She later joined with two of her classmates, LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson, to form the vocal group of adolescents Destiny's Child. They signed with Columbia in 1997. After they lost the Star Search talent show, they were dropped from their recording contract.
Beyonce's debut solo album, Dangerously In Love, was released in 2003. The album debuted at #1 in the album charts and was sold more than four million copies in the U.S. It featured the smash singles "Crazy in Love" and "Formation". It was also nominated at the Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary R&B album.
Beyonce was also in The Fighting Temptations in 2003 the film was directed by Cuba Gooding Jr. In 2008, she starred in Cadillac Records, playing Etta James. Beyonce also starred in the film's photorealistic remake.
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Beyonce and Michelle Williams remained close friends despite the breakup of Destiny's Child. They have performed at least three times since the breakup. They were also reunited for a Super Bowl XLVII Halftime performance.
Beyonce has had a successful solo career. Her debut album, Dangerously in Love, debuted to rave reviews. She also appeared in the made-for-television film Carmen: A Hip Hopera. She has also starred in the remake of The Pink Panther and Goldmember. She is also a wife and mother of three children.
Beyonce and Destiny's Child won numerous awards, including the Grammy Award as well as two MTV Video Music Awards. They were also awarded a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. They were ranked as the ninth most successful artist of the 2000s. They won the award for the best R&B performance of a duo/group with vocals. They have been nominated for 14 Grammy Awards.
The group was also nominated for Best R&B Album as well as Best R&B Performance By A Duo or Group with Vocals. Destiny's Child has sold 60 million records around the world. They have been awarded platinum certification by the RIAA.
Beyonce Knowles, a singer best known for her powerful voice is one of the most successful artists of all time. She is widely recognized as the top contemporary pop music artist who has won more than 430 awards. She also has one of the highest salaries for an artist.
Beyonce began her career in music at a young age. She was a winner of several local talent contests and appeared in a variety of singing shows. She also took classes in performing arts. She graduated from Elsik High School, Houston, Texas.
After Beyonce became the lead singer of Destiny's Children She had a highly successful career. She was nominated for numerous awards including the Grammy and MTV Video Music Awards. She has appeared in numerous films and on numerous television shows. She was nominated for the Golden Globes.
Perhaps the most well-known star on the world, Beyonce has an estimated net worth of over $160 million. Beyonce's wealth is earned through endorsement deals as well as properties she owns and also other side hustles.
Beyonce has received nine Grammy nominations including an Album of the Year nomination for Renaissance. Her record of nine nominations is tied for the highest number in Grammy history, along with her husband Jay-Z.
Beyonce is also nominated in the category Dance/Electronic for the first time. Song of the Year is her hit song "Break My Soul".
Beyonce's husband Jay-Z also has five Grammy nominations this year. Kendrick Lamar is next with eight. The Weeknd did not submit work that was eligible. Other artists who did submit work that is eligible are Brandi Carlile, Future, Harry Styles, and Omar Apollo.
Beyonce received the Album of the year nomination and was nominated for the R&B category with her song "Be Alive" by King Richard. The song also ranks in the category of the top song written for visual media.
Beyonce will try to break Sir George Solti's record of 31 Grammys next season. She also hopes to break Frank Sinatra's record for total record of the year nominations.
If she's an actor, singer producer, businessperson, or actress, Beyonce is a savvy money-maker. Beyonce is a star in the music industry and her endorsement agreements and concert tours have helped to increase her net worth.
Beyonce has made millions of dollars since 2001, when she released her self-titled debut. Beyonce has sold over 118 million records, earning the title of the most successful female artist ever.
Beyonce has made millions from films such as Austin Powers: Goldmember and A Star Is Born since she began her career as an actress. Chime for Change, a non-profit organization that fights for the rights and dignity of girls around the globe, was co-founded by Beyonce.
She also starred in an ad for Giorgio Armani, which earned her $250k. Beyonce also launched her own fragrance line called Heat which has been selling $400 million worth of perfume around the world.
In 2013, Beyonce signed a major endorsement agreement with H&M. She also launched her own clothing line, Ivy Park. The line did well, earning Beyonce the title of the top-selling collection at Nordstrom.
Besides being a singer and songwriter, Beyonce Knowles also owns several properties across the US. The most notable is the Bel Air, California mansion she and Jay-Z have. The house is a 30,000 square foot home that features eight bedrooms, eleven bathrooms four swimming pools and a recording studio.
Jay-Z and Beyonce also own a mansion located in the Hamptons as well as an apartment in New Orleans. They also have a house in Miami Beach. They also have a Calabasas mansion, which is currently being offered for sale.
The most expensive property owned by Beyonce and Jay-Z is the Beyonce's House. The mansion is located in Bel Air, CA and is made up of six buildings. The structure is made of steel, marbled limestone and glass. It also features recording studios and bulletproof windows. It was bought for $88 million.
Beyonce and Jay-Z both enjoy spending money, despite their lucrative careers. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Beyonce earns $2 million per show, while Jay-Z earns $1.5 million per concert. Both are Hollywood royalty and trendsetters. They are also parents who are healthy. Their average annual earnings are $100 million. They have been together since the early 2000s. Both have experienced plenty of challenges in the past, yet they are both exceptionally talented musicians.
They have also collaborated with Topshop to create an athletic streetwear line. The line will be launched in the autumn of 2015. The company is expected to be part of Arcadia Group.
They also launched three scents. Beyonce is the highest-earning female singer of all time. In the three years that she has been singing she has earned more than $50 million. Despite their accomplishments, they've had problems in the past, including divorce and marriage.
Through her career, Beyonce has made some surprising and sometimes controversial releases. On her first album, Lemonade, she mixed contemporary R&B with electronic music. In 2013 she released her self-titled fifth studio album which was recorded in New York City. She was criticised for her inexperience and lyrical lack of a sense of. But in her new album, RENAISSANCE, she is tackling a new style of music that has a different message. Beyonce's new album is a celebration queer culture and dance music and includes songs that pay homage to Black and queer musical icons.
Beyonce has been in the business of music for more than two decades. Beyonce was inspired by Black artists, including Donna Summers, who popularized dance music in the 1970s. Her new album she wrote songs about her personal freedom and escapism. She also spoke about her desire to release her album without judgment or perfectionism.
Beyonce's Renaissance album is a love letter to Black queer pioneers of dance music, is a loving tribute to them. It's a sexy, fun and uplifting album. It's one of the most explicit albums she's ever released. It contains queer and Black musical icons and blends post-1970s Black music styles. There are also some drag soundbites from Moi Renee.
As the album's first single the album, Beyonce released "Break My Soul"" a club banger. It's also the sole single released by Queen B from the album. It's a dancehall influenced track, featuring Beyonce in her neo-dancehall style. It also features an extremely slinky wood-block groove, and Beyonce is able to slip into the pockets of marching drums in a very cool move. The album is available on Tidal and Spotify. It's also available on a limited-edition vinyl.
Beyonce's Renaissance album also features the song she dedicated to her gay uncle. Uncle Johnny passed away due to complications caused by AIDS. Beyonce said her uncle inspired her to make her own music. She also dedicated the album to her "fallen angels" of the club culture. The album also includes Honey Dijon, a New Orleans DJ, and Kevin JZ Prodigy, electronic DJ. The album pays tribute to Beyonce's love for West African music. The album closes with "Summer Renaissance" which is a joyful, slinky track that pays homage to Black and queer music icons.
While the Renaissance album is an album that celebrates dance music but it also has a personal connection to the life of Beyonce. Her uncle was gay and was her primary caregiver as a young girl. The album is dedicated to him.
The Renaissance album also has been the subject of a lot of criticism. Many people were skeptical that Beyonce would release music videos for one song. However, she released an official video for "Freedom," the album's title track. It's the album's best track.
While the Renaissance album is an ode to queer and dance music culture It also has a personal connection to Beyonce's personal life. She was inspired by her uncle, but she also envisioned adventures. She wanted to make an album that was free from judgement, and also included a nod Black and queer musical icons.
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The Royal Canadian Navy has chosen a new term for its ranks as the institution seeks to become more inclusive and attract a wider pool of recruits.
The navy announced Thursday (Aug. 27) that it had changed "seaman" to "sailor" throughout its ranks after a survey of more than 18,000 Canadians. Its junior ranks will soon be known as Sailor Third Class (formerly Ordinary Seaman), Sailor Second Class (formerly Able Seaman), Sailor First Class (formerly Leading Seaman), and Master Sailor (formerly Master Seaman).
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"Malcolm & Marie," Reviewed: A Film About Filmmaking That's Desperate to Push Buttons
The actors' skill is in the foreground, and it's impressive—it's the one thing worth watching the movie for.Photograph courtesy Netflix
The new film "Malcolm & Marie" (coming Friday to Netflix), written and directed by Sam Levinson, leans blatantly on a row of hot buttons and shamelessly strives to make them loudly buzz while, at the same time, pontificating about art. It points to the familiar abyss where life and art meet, but it does so from a safe distance. It's a movie about moviemaking, but it's one of a diabolical vanity, in which Levinson, who's white, creates a Black filmmaker-character as his stand-in and his mouthpiece, an artistic hero whose character and practice he then undercuts and whose ideas he subjects to critique, just enough to enact the cinematic equivalent of a media troll's faux-innocent maneuver: he's just raising questions.
Malcolm (John David Washington) is a director in his thirties. He and his girlfriend, Marie (Zendaya), a Black woman who's in her twenties, have just attended the well-received première of his new feature, and have returned to a fancy house that his producers have rented for him. While Marie makes a pot of mac and cheese, Malcolm inveighs against white movie critics, and against one in particular, a woman with the L.A. Times, for seeing his film through a prism of race simply because both he and his movie's protagonist are Black. He expressly denies that his work is "political"—Marie quickly reminds him that he's writing a bio-pic of Angela Davis—and he explains, rather, that his new film is "a commercial film about a drug-addicted girl trying to get her shit together" and implores the critics, "Let us, the artists, have some fucking fun with this shit." Then the Times critic's review drops online, and it enrages Malcolm further—she calls the movie a "genuine masterwork" but praises the film in political terms and, moreover, questions, albeit glancingly, Malcolm's representation of the Black female protagonist. He rants some more about what he considers the reduction of his new film to matters of "identity," and boasts about his devotion to "the mystery of art," by way of a shovelful of references to such classic filmmakers as Billy Wilder, Ida Lupino, and George Cukor, and the moderns Elaine May, Spike Lee, and Barry Jenkins.
These diatribes set the tone for the movie, but the drama is sparked by something that happened earlier that evening, at the screening: in his remarks to the première audience, Malcolm thanked his cast, crew, and other collaborators, but forgot to thank Marie. The omission is all the more grievous, Marie reminds him, because the movie is, as she puts it, about her—she's a recovering drug addict whose experiences, which she'd described to him in detail, are represented in his movie. She'd even consulted with him on the script. Malcolm knew at once that he'd done wrong—he reminds Marie that he spent the evening copiously apologizing to her, and that she accepted his apologies—but, once they get back to the house, her pent-up anger bursts out. The fight, as they both call it, is the emotional backbone of Levinson's drama. In calling Malcolm out for the ingratitude and the lack of empathy that his accidental oversight reflects, Marie brings up an enormous repertory of long-suppressed frustrations that boil down to: Malcolm has made use of her story for a movie that brings him fame and leaves her on the sidelines.
"Malcolm & Marie" is a lockdown movie: it was filmed during the pandemic, under constraints intended to keep the shoot safe for all involved. It's set in a single, isolated location—entirely in and around a house, and with only the two actors. For Levinson, the practical limitations seem to have also confined his cinematic imagination. His film follows the format of a realistic one-act play that unfolds in real time, with embarrassingly literal staging (Levinson has a thing for his characters' need to pee), with the addition of a couple of brief epilogues and one ever-so-mildly frame-breaking scene, which seems to wink at the constraints that he embraces unquestioningly and uncreatively.
In relying on the trope of a filmmaker deriding film critics for their posturing and ignorance, Levinson tries to give his movie immunity to criticism. By depicting a Black filmmaker who's resistant to matters of politics and identity, he similarly gives himself cover to deliver an anti-woke rant of his own. (Malcolm even cites the term mockingly.) Levinson offers only the slightest flashes of self-deprecation or self-critique, and even they come off mostly as a flaunting of his own modesty and self-awareness, largely involving the collaborations inherent in filmmaking. Malcolm, meanwhile, is depicted as a really good director—with an asterisk. Marie, with her sharp insights into Malcolm's behavior, provides the asterisk. She, in turn, is there only as the commentator on his life and art, his in-person critic; Malcolm's last name is heard in the course of the film, but Marie's never is. She has much to say and is a passionate, keenly perceptive character, yet, somehow, Levinson manages to turn the tables on her, too, and has Malcolm insist that only a lack of self-confidence gets in her way.
It's unclear whether "Malcolm & Marie" is a historical drama set in a recent time before the pandemic, a near-future one set after it's done, or a counterfactual history about what life would be like now for its characters had there been no pandemic. What is clear is that "Malcolm & Marie" has no actual present tense; it's a movie that only pretends to consider the uneasy fusion of art and life but does so with a form that's hermetically sealed against the most interesting and curiosity-sparking aspect of that connection: how a pandemic-lockdown movie is actually made. Its aesthetic is similarly impenetrable—the glossy black-and-white images, the smooth camera moves, the suave lighting present a hard shell of a movie surface that deflects attention from the very cinematic artistry that is supposedly its very subject. The aesthetic emulates the Hollywood classics that Malcolm reveres (his particular obsession is the director William Wyler) without suggesting that Levinson has at all reflected on the implications of the form—not least the exclusions, the elisions, the limits that the style and the manner, forged in the nineteen-thirties, might impose on filmmaking today, or how a modern filmmaker might transform them, expand them, or blast them open. (While boasting that his sensibility is informed by "Citizen Kane" and "The Best Years of Our Lives," Malcolm also drops a passing word of praise for "Gone with the Wind" that hints, with no irony, at both his and Levinson's historical obliviousness.)
The movie's production values take the place of actual inspiration, originality, audacity; its simplistic dramatic unity keeps viewers on topic; the dialogue is on the nose throughout, suggesting an array of traits and backstory elements—themes and references that Levinson needs to fill in to make his points. He has the actors stand and deliver, sit and deliver, walk and deliver, lie down and deliver—they dispense his dialogue and go through the paces of the action with fluidity, energy, nuance, and commitment. The actors' skill is in the foreground, and it's impressive—it's the one thing worth watching the movie for (remarkably, this is Zendaya's first major dramatic-movie role). But Levinson spotlights that skill at the expense of emotional risk, including—indeed, especially—any of his own. "Malcolm & Marie" plays like a series of talking points, like a cinematized tweet thread that demands engagement—on its own narrow terms—and does so in the refined name of art. It cocks its head, lifts its chin, and says, "Debate me," and its style says, "please."
Richard Brody began writing for The New Yorker in 1999. He writes about movies in his blog, The Front Row. He is the author of "Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard."
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Marshall Tuck, Tony Thurmond advance, setting up referendum on charter schools
by Jessica Calefati June 6, 2018 Updated June 23, 2020
In Richmond, where state Superintendent Tony Thurmond was a school trustee, schools got mostly orange dashboard ratings.
Tony Thurmond and Marshall Tuck split the vote in Tuesday's race for superintendent of public instruction, setting up a high-profile November contest that could become a costly referendum on charter schools.
The candidates are backed by two of Sacramento's most powerful special interest groups —Thurmond by the California Teachers Association and Tuck by the California Charter Schools Association. They've already dumped a combined $10 million into the race and are expected to spend even more in the months ahead.
With almost half of the vote counted, Tuck leads the field of four candidates with 38 percent. Thurmond captured 33 percent. And surprising some observers, the two lesser known candidates, Lily Ploski and Steven Ireland, each captured more than 10 percent. Unique among the statewide races, a candidate could have secured a win outright by garnering 50 percent plus one vote—but as the returns rolled in, it became clear that no one would clear that bar.
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Thurmond, a Democratic state Assemblyman from Richmond, watched the returns at Los Moles, an El Cerrito restaurant that featured a taco bar and live salsa music. His supporters erupted in cheers when he arrived late after attending his daughter's 6th grade graduation.
Asked about the prospect of a general election all about charter schools, Thurmond said such a race would miss the mark given the range of challenges California's public schools face.
Marshall Tuck locks arms with supporters at his watch party in Los Angeles. Photo provided by the Tuck campaign.
"We have a teacher shortage we should be talking about. We aren't preparing young people for careers in technology, and we should be talking about that," Thurmond said in an interview with CALmatters. "I wish those people who spent millions against me would have spent that money on making public education better."
Tuck spent election night at home in Los Angeles, where he hosted a watch party for family and friends in his backyard. Reached over the phone shortly after 11 pm, he said he was pleased to be in first place and struggling to get his six-year-old to bed.
He, too said he hopes the November election won't be dominated by the discussion about charter schools.
"The charter question doesn't come up with my audiences the way it does in the media," Tuck said. "Voters care that California's schools aren't serving kids well. They're concerned about base funding levels. Not about this."
Given former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's poor showing in the race for governor, and his billionaire donors' strong support for charter schools, a quiet race for superintendent seems unlikely.
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The Madness of March is here. No. 9-seeded Oklahoma (19-13, 7-11 Big 12) heads to Columbia, S.C. for its 32nd appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Selected as an at-large bid, the Sooners will compete in the South Regional. Oklahoma opens play in the Big Dance on Friday against No. 8-seeded Ole Miss (20-12, 10-8 SEC) inside Colonial Life Arena. The Rebels claimed sixth place in the SEC and also received an at-large bid. If the Sooners win their tournament opener, they will play Sunday against the winner of Friday's contest between No. 1 seed Virginia and No. 16 seed Gardner-Webb for a chance to go to the Sweet 16.
Friday's opening round matchup will tip at 11:40 a.m. CT on the Sooner Radio Network (KRXO 107.7 FM "The Franchise" in Oklahoma City; KTBZ 1430 AM in Tulsa) with Toby Rowland and Kevin Henry announcing. The game will be televised nationally on truTV with Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill and Tracy Wolfson calling the action.
THREE POINTERS
• For the sixth time in the last seven years, the Sooners are dancing under head coach Lon Kruger. A postseason staple, Oklahoma is making its 32nd NCAA Tournament appearance overall, including its 27th Big Dance in the past 36 years. Kruger has made the NCAA Tournament six times during his eight years in Norman, including a trip to the 2016 Final Four. The Sooners went dancing only four times in the eight years prior to Kruger's arrival.
• The Big 12 Conference named junior forward Kristian Doolittle the recipient of the inaugural Big 12 Most Improved Player Award, as voted on by the league's head coaches. Doolittle led the Sooners throughout conference play with team-high Big 12 averages of 13.9 points and 7.8 rebounds to go with 2.1 assists. He was the only Big 12 player to average at least 13.0 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists in league competition.
• Doolittle was also named to the All-Big 12 Third Team alongside senior guard Christian James while sophomore forward Brady Manek received All-Big 12 Honorable Mention recognition. Earning his first on-court conference honor, James has led Oklahoma's scoring efforts this season with averages of 14.4 points. Manek, also earning his first all-conference recognition, is averaging 12.0 points and 6.1 rebounds.
Lon Kruger is guiding a team to the NCAA Tournament for the 19th time in his career.
SERIES HISTORY: OLE MISS
• Oklahoma opens the 2019 NCAA Tournament by facing Ole Miss for the fourth time in program history. The Sooners are 1-2 all-time against the Rebels as Oklahoma and Ole Miss faced each other for three straight seasons between 1998 and 2000. Like the Sooners, the Rebels earned their way into the NCAA Tournament with an at-large bid. Ole Miss is making its ninth NCAA Tournament appearance. Predicted to finish last in the SEC, the Rebels tied for sixth with a 10-8 mark in conference play.
• Friday will be just the third time the Sooners have faced an SEC opponent in the NCAA Tournament. The Sooners defeated Texas A&M in the 2016 Sweet 16 and Auburn in the 1988 Second Round. Oklahoma advanced to the Final Four in both of those tournaments. OU also faced Missouri (who was a Big 12 member at the time) in 2002, defeating the Tigers in the Elite Eight, again advancing to the Final Four.
• Oklahoma is 10-9 against current SEC teams during the Lon Kruger era, including 8-5 against schools which were SEC members at the time of competition. The Sooners are 2-0 against SEC schools this season, defeating Florida in the opening round of Battle 4 Atlantis on Nov. 21 and Vanderbilt in Norman on Jan. 26 as part of the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.
OU'S NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY
• For the sixth time under head coach Lon Kruger, the Oklahoma men's basketball team is going dancing. The Sooners enter the 2019 NCAA Tournament as the No. 9 seed in the South Region. The Sooners are 41-31 all-time in the NCAA Tournament (6-5 under Kruger) and have reached the Final Four five times (1939, 1947, 1988, 2002 and 2016). Oklahoma also boasts nine Elite Eight showings and 11 Sweet 16 appearances.
• Oklahoma is hoping to win its way to the South Regional's Sweet 16 in Louisville, Ky., and capture its third Sweet 16 appearance in the last five years. The Sooners have won four of their last five First and Second Round games and are 4-3 during opening weekend games under Kruger.
• Although the Sooners have made the tournament in 31 previous seasons, this will be their first appearance as a No. 9 seed and first ever 8-vs.-9 game. Oklahoma is 2-1 all-time against No. 8 seeds, with all three matchups occurring in the second round of tournaments where the Sooners were a top seed.
• Oklahoma is playing an NCAA Tournament game in Columbia for the first time. Columbia is the 32nd city the Sooners have ever competed in during the NCAA Tournament.
• OU has made the Big Dance six times in the last seven years (since Kruger's second year). Oklahoma is one of only three Big 12 schools with at least six NCAA Tournament appearances during that span, joined only by Iowa State and Kansas.
• OU is one of only 13 major-conference schools (of 75 teams) that have made six of the last seven NCAA Tournaments.
• Oklahoma is making its 32nd NCAA Tournament appearance, including its 27th in the past 36 years. The Sooners' 27 NCAA Tournament appearances since 1984 are the ninth most in the nation during that span, behind only Kansas, Duke, North Carolina, Arizona, Connecticut, Kentucky, Michigan State and Syracuse.
• Kruger will be guiding a team to the NCAA Tournament for the 19th time in his career – the 10th most among active head coaches. He was the first Division I coach to take five different schools to the NCAA Tournament and is the only coach to win an NCAA Tournament game with five programs. In 2015, he became the first and only coach since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985 to take four programs to the Sweet 16 or beyond. He is one of only three head coaches to ever lead four schools to multiple NCAA Tournament wins.
• A staple of the NCAA postseason, Kruger has taken five different schools to the Big Dance. His collegiate teams have made postseason appearances in 22 of the last 29 years. He has guided teams to 18 NCAA Tournaments, five Sweet 16s and two Final Fours.
• A group of Sooners will be making their third NCAA Tournament appearance. Matt Freeman, Christian James, Jamuni McNeace and Rashard Odomes were all members of Oklahoma's 2016 Final Four squad and also qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 2018.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE SOONERS
With 68 teams taking part in the NCAA Tournament, media and fans may be watching the Sooners play for the first time this season. Below is a quick guide on this year's team and 2018-19 campaign.
• Oklahoma received an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament after going 19-13 against one of the toughest schedules in the country. Oklahoma was the only school in the country with a win over a team from every major conference (Power Five + Big East) and the only team that didn't play a "Quadrant 4" game. OU entered Selection Sunday as the No. 37 team in the NCAA's NET Rankings. OU's average opponent NET Ranking of 64 is the second best in the country and the evaluation tool ranks OU's schedule as the 28th toughest in the country.
• The Sooners entered the season returning less than 50 percent of its scoring from the previous year, primarily through the loss of national freshman of the year Trae Young (27.4 points per game). It was assumed by many that the leftovers from last year's team would not be dancing in 2019, as most major bracketologists left OU out of their preseason brackets. The Sooners were picked to finish eighth in the Big 12 preseason poll (voted on by league coaches) and most media outlets listed the Sooners as ninth in the 10-team league.
• Oklahoma began work on its postseason resume in non-conference play, facing teams from every other major conference and only playing three games in Norman during November and December. The Sooners picked up non-conference victories over teams such as Wofford, Florida, Wisconsin, Dayton, Wichita State, USC, Creighton, Northwestern and Vanderbilt.
• The Sooners' dancing chances again looked weak this time last month, when Oklahoma dropped five straight Big 12 contests between Jan. 28 and Feb. 11. OU fought back into the conversation by winning four of its next five games, including victories over then-No. 13 Kansas and bubble teams TCU and Texas.
• Oklahoma's offense ran primarily through senior guard Christian James during non-conference play (averaged 17.6 points and 6.9 rebounds in non-league games). During Big 12 play, the Sooners worked through junior forward Kristian Doolittle, who was awarded the league's innagural Most Improved Player award. Doolittle led the Sooners throughout conference play with team-high Big 12 averages of 13.9 points and 7.8 rebounds to go with 2.1 assists.
• OU will head to Columbia with one of the most experienced rosters in the country. Oklahoma owned the Big 12's oldest roster (average age on opening night was 21.1) and features a veteran senior core of James, Rashard Odomes and Jamuni McNeace. The Sooner roster also includes a pair of graduate transfers making their first ever NCAA Tournament appearance in Miles Reynolds (from Pacific) and Aaron Calixte (from Maine).
• Oklahoma is the only school in the country with a win over a team from every major conference (Power Five + Big East).
• Sometimes the key to victory can be as simple as making shots. Oklahoma is 19-1 when it holds a better shooting percentage than its opponents and 0-11 when the Sooners have a worse shooting percentage (0-1 when the percentages are equal). The lone loss when OU held a better shooting percentage was the Sooners' most recent outing, a one-point loss to West Virginia in the opening round of the Big 12 Championship. Oklahoma is shooting .475 (.373 from 3-point range) in its 19 wins and .401 (.307 from deep) in its 13 losses. The Sooners are 13-3 when they shoot above 45 percent.
• The Sooners are 12-4 when limiting opponents to under 70 points and 4-1 when opponents score less than 60.
• Oklahoma is 18-5 when it scores at least 30 points in the first half.
• The Sooners are 13-1 when outrebounding their opponents. In its 19 wins, Oklahoma is winning the rebounding margin by an average of 3.5 boards.
• OU opponents are shooting 40.2 percent from the field – the second lowest opponent field goal percentage in the conference and 25th nationally. The Sooners rank 23rd in KenPom.com's adjusted defensive efficiency.
• Oklahoma is 20th in the nation and first in the conference in defensive rebounding with 28.4 defensive boards per game.
• OU has three players ranked in the top 11 in rebounding in the Big 12: Kristian Doolittle (sixth, 7.0), Christian James (eighth, 6.3) and Brady Manek (11th, 6.1). TCU is the only other school with multiple players (two) ranked in the top 11.
• Of the nine players in the Big 12 averaging at least 11 points and six rebounds, three play for the Sooners. Oklahoma is the only team in the conference with multiple players averaging 11 and six as its roster features Christian James (14.4 points, 6.3 rebounds), Brady Manek (12.0, 6.1) and Kristian Doolittle (11.2, 7.0).
• Oklahoma is the only Big 12 team with multiple players possessing at least five double-doubles. Christian James leads the Sooners with six games of at least 10 points and 10 rebounds while Brady Manek has produced five. Neither Manek or James owned a double-double in their career prior to this season. Additionally, Kristian Doolittle has secured four double-doubles.
DOOLITTLE DOOING IT ALL
• Junior forward Kristian Doolittle continues to show progress in his game as the season goes along - so much so that the Big 12 coaches voted him the league's Most Improved Player. After averaging 7.2 points and 5.8 boards in the first 12 games of the season, Doolittle led the Sooners throughout conference play with team-high Big 12 averages of 13.9 points and 7.8 rebounds to go with 2.1 assists. During Big 12 play, Doolittle ranked in OU's top three in points, rebounds, assists, blocks, steals, field goal perecentage and free throw percentage.
• An All-Big 12 Third Team selection, Doolittle was the only Big 12 player to average at least 13.0 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists in league competition this season.
• The forward won the league's inaugural improvement-based honor after averaging only 2.9 points and 4.3 rebounds in 2017-18 and 7.2 points and 5.8 boards during this season's non-conference stretch.
• Doolittle enters the Big Dance on a scoring hot streak, producing at least 14 points in the last seven straight games, highlighted by a 24-point, 11-rebound performance against Kansas. The junior is averaging 17.4 points, 8.7 rebounds and shooting 50.6 percent during that seven-game stretch.
UP NEXT: GARDNER-WEBB OR VIRGINIA
•If the Sooners win their tournament opener, they will play Sunday against the winner of Friday's contest between No. 1 seed Virginia and No. 16 seed Gardner-Webb for a chance to go to the Sweet 16. The tip time and TV designation will be determined Friday evening.
• GARDNER-WEBB: Oklahoma is 3-0 all-time against Gardner-Webb...This season's Big South champion, the Bulldogs are making their first NCAA Tournament appearance at the Division I level...The Sooners are 5-0 all-time against No. 16 seeds in the NCAA Tournament. All five previous matchups occurred in the opening round when the Sooners held a No. 1 seed.
• VIRGINIA: Boasting the top seed in the South Region, Virginia enters the NCAA Tournament with a 29-3 record. The Cavaliers own a 2-1 advantage in the all-time series with the Sooners, including a Sweet 16 victory over OU in 1989 NCAA Tournament – the only previous postseason meeting between the two programs...Oklahoma is an even 16-16 all time against current ACC schools, but is 2-5 when facing an ACC team in the Big Dance...OU is 2-2 when facing a No. 1 seed since the tournament field expanded to at least 64 teams in 1985. The Sooners most recently faced a top seed during March Madness when Oklahoma defeated Oregon in the 2016 Elite Eight.
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New landmine detection method to reduce false alarm rates
by The Army Research Laboratory
Credit: The Army Research Laboratory
Landmines pose a serious threat in conflict areas, yet modern detection systems struggle to discriminate between explosives and clutter. A project funded by the Army developed a new method for landmine identification that will greatly reduce false alarm rates.
Fewer false alarms will significantly reduce the cost of humanitarian landmine clearance operations and provide greater road mobility by avoiding unnecessary route detours. With this new technology, landmines can be detected without digging.
Vadum, Inc., North Carolina State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Army Research Office, an element of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory, collaborated to develop what's known as the Vibration-ENhanced Underground Sensing system, or VENUS.
"New concepts are rare in the area of landmine detection," said Dr. James Harvey, program manager, ARO. "This advance has the potential to be a game changer."
The Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate of the U.S. Army CCDC C5ISR Center supported the research as a part of an Army Small Business Technology Transfer award managed by ARO.
Most conventional landmine detectors are based on detecting the electromagnetic signature of the mine itself, which can easily be confused with other buried metal objects or wet or magnetic soil patches.
A new method for landmine identification, funded by a U.S. Army small business tech transfer program, could greatly reduce false alarm rates. Researchers demonstrate a VS-50 antipersonnel landmine being tested by the system. Credit: US Army
With this new technology, published in the proceedings of the 2020 SPIE Defense & Commercial Sensing Conference, the small metal parts inside the landmine are stimulated to vibrate using a pulsed magnetic field.
Most other buried objects don't respond to the magnetic pulse and those that do have very different vibrational characteristics. The vibrations are detected by a unique high dynamic range vibrometer that can distinguish closely-spaced low-frequency vibrations.
"This new capability resulted from combining exciting results from several previous ambitious research projects and is an outstanding example of the transition from university basic research to new military and commercial technology capabilities," said Professor Michael Steer, a NC State research partner. "The mathematical algorithms behind the detection depend on understanding the details of the interaction of magnetic fields, radar pulses, and vibrating components within the landmine as well as with the properties of various soil and clutter objects. Advancing university physical models and analysis continue to support the improvement of the detection algorithms."
The Army awarded the research team an additional two-year Phase II STTR contract to mature its unique technology.
X-ray imaging of the VS-50 antipersonnel landmine shows the unique metal features inside Vibration-ENhanced Underground Sensing system, VENUS, that discriminates between explosives and clutter. Credit: US Army
As part of that award, the research team will work to miniature and ruggedize the detection device for reliable outdoor testing at an Army range. The researchers also will collect data from real landmines in a variety of soil conditions and demonstrate the performance of the technology in demanding and stressing field conditions.
"Because conventional metal detectors and ground penetrating radar rely on similar same fields, it should eventually be possible to upgrade conventional systems with VENUS technology to maximize detection capability," said Dr. Josh Wetherington, principal Vadum researcher.
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Mike also provides event planning and logistical support to the firm. Mike plays a leadership role in coordinating the Congressional Pumpkin Carving Contest, a signature of the Imagine an Answer to Kids' Brain Cancer Foundation's biennial Pumpkin Bash fundraising event. Mike manages the team which delivers truck loads of pumpkins to the US Capitol Complex -- one of the most secure facilities in the world -- and then manages the retrieval of the delicate carved Jack O' Lanterns for the Pumpkin Bash from the 50 plus participating Congressional offices.
Mike first sharpened his talent in policy tracking and analysis as an intern to Virginia State Senator George L. Barker (D-39) while he was a student at the University of Richmond during the 2014 Legislative Session. Mike focused on research and background to support Senator Barker's priority legislation to ensure mental health treatment and legal protections for physically disabled persons.
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After Acquisition: "Chemistry" Benefits Small Food Companies
The right relationship between newly acquired food companies and their new owners can make it possible for even smaller regional brands to make major leaps.
For many smaller food brands, being acquired by a larger food group is a rite of passage, necessary for growth or even survival. Going through the acquisition process can be somewhat traumatic for smaller companies, which, while evaluating the many considerations of price, timing and structuring of the transaction, may not find the best possible fit.
"A good fit between smaller brands and larger players requires a certain chemistry that will ensure the smaller company can maintain its passion, authenticity and entrepreneurial spirit after the acquisition—factors that are often vital to a prosperous merger," says Rob Holland, CEO of Flagship Food Group, based in Los Angeles.
Holland acknowledges that product category is often a main consideration in the relationship, although a strong food safety history also is important. For instance, when Snyder's-Lance acquired Snack Factory, it provided entry into the deli-bakery section of grocery stores, an attractive and growing retail area for snacks.
"There are also many cultural facets to the 'right' chemistry," Holland says. "Those may include keeping the right people in place, maintaining brand identity in the core market and having the necessary resources to achieve synergy between the parent and small or niche company."
An example of these cultural facets can be found in the performance of 505 Southwestern Chile Sauces, a small, regional brand that Holland's company purchased a few years ago. The brand was integrated with Treasure Valley Food Group, one of Flagship's primary units.
"When we acquired the brand, it was mostly sold in Colorado and New Mexico," explains Ray Gadd, head of marketing for the retail division. "But some of these sauces appeal mainly to taste palates in certain regions of the country," Gadd explains. "While we intended to grow the brand through distribution and added product, we recognized that it was important to keep the focus on all-natural, authentic ingredients. We are now profiling the taste preferences of the total U.S., which will help us in developing new business strategies and new products that will facilitate expanded distribution of the brand to new geographic areas."
Gadd says the company's formulators are creating a new formula for 505 Southwestern, Fiesta Sauce, aimed at the growing nationwide market for southwestern-Hispanic foods. Among other ingredients, this recipe includes the chilies, roasted peppers, black beans and corn.
A Chemistry Lesson
The acquisition of Treasure Valley, which became Flagship's retail division, itself was a good lesson in acquisition chemistry.
"It was a little over 5 years ago that we decided to put our company on the market, and we had in-process interviews with several prominent companies," explains Gary Lim, head of Flagship's retail division (formerly CEO of Treasure Valley). "Several of them focused on numbers and the reasons why things went well or didn't go well with our plans. We were a bit frustrated by that. Some of the other equity groups that we interviewed did not have any food investments. But even among some that had food investments, the way they functioned as a food group was not very hands-on."
Lim says the solution for a successful acquisition was for Treasure Valley to find the right relationship with a partner that would provide the needed resources and corporate leadership, and would share a similar vision, particularly on food safety.
"A great deal of the success of a company is based on chemistry," says Lim. "When you get it right, a lot of good things happen. We felt the same way when we were being acquired. In order for us to continue on the same path, we needed to have the right mix with our partners, just as we had in growing our company from the beginning."
Lim and the other Treasure Valley owners found that vital chemistry with CREO Capital Partners in Los Angeles, who were developing the Flagship Food Group.
"They were much more interested in what made our company successful since the beginning," Lim explains. "They shared with us what they had done with the food companies they had taken on, and we learned right away that they were engaged and involved. They were also willing to give us the latitude to make our own decisions and continue in the same direction that had made us successful from the beginning."
Complementary Resources and Food Safety
In many instances, a newly acquired small brand is dependent on the parent organization for its vital resources, such as packaging, logistics and broker networks.
Treasure Valley depends on Flagship's centralized packaging division, which handles new package designs or takes current package designs and makes sure they translate well to a packaging substrate material—boxes or bags.
"They help the company identify what is the best packaging substrate for the category, whether for a retail grocery specialty store or big box chain," Lim explains. "They work with the customer to build a package design profile and then source the packaging production close to the customer's manufacturing location, providing the benefits of highly effective package design, quick turnaround and very competitive pricing."
Another area where chemistry can make or break a merger would be the expectations of the smaller company to maintain its standards for food safety and quality after acquisition. Treasure Valley found that Flagship Foods' SQF Level III U.S. Department of Agriculture-certified chicken processing facility in Georgia met its high standards for safety and excellence. While this is predominantly a foodservice business that supplies some of the nation's top restaurant chains, it will also produce chicken under Treasure Valley's Su Ming and TJ Farms brands, which have substantial brand equity.
"We are now taking advantage of the components of the whole Flagship family, and that makes perfect sense," says Lim. "We spent over $7 million last year on logistics. But by turning that over to our corporate logistics specialists, they will do that portion with the same type of passion that we do on the food side. So it makes sense for them to handle it. In the process, they will be able to save us substantial money."
"I think it is of great value when a diversified food company can provide an acquisition the infrastructure, the connections and all of the components that are needed," says Rob Holland. "They often don't have the scale to have in-house logistics and in-house packaging, or a broker network or national sales team. But if the new parent organization is willing to provide those, it is possible for even smaller regional brands to make major leaps."
Ed Sullivan is a Hermosa Beach, CA-based technology writer.
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just watched the dramatization of the assassination of JFK, in the film Parkland.
a time when I was growing up, 12 years old and living in my own playful world.
got home from the Christmas toy fair at my former junior school where I had been helping on a stall and had taken fancy to a Colt Navy pattern revolver and holster, so bought it.
got home to find my mother weeping and crying uncontrollably and when I asked my dad what was wrong he told me that the president of the USA had been assassinated, and that mum was very upset.
in a world of my own and not really knowing what "assassinated" meant, I thought I'd cheer my mum up by showing her what I'd bought, which only worsened the problem..............I was told to go to bed.
the Colt Navy toy was never seen again, but the thought of that night and the sadness it brought to so many will always be in the thoughts of those who lived through it.
A very good programme tonight, very poignant and thought provoking and one which I can understand is not to all tastes, but one which I am glad I watched.
Re: where were you when........
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jaymac
Location: Somerset
Falaise camp Aden
I was in short pants. I vaguely remember the news coverage of the assassination and the funeral, and I do mean vaguely.
I was sat in a tin bath in front of the coal fire, with my brother and sister.....No memory of it, but that is what I am told...
No memory of the event until later in life, but I do remember Churchill's state funeral on the gun carriage.
Karachi on board HMS Eskimo
The American Destroyer with us
sailed immediately with all gun
crews closed up and cleared away
for action.
Location: Windsor
I was working at a petrol station that evening, in the days before 'self service'. Car drivers would ask for four gallons, at 4 shillings and ninepence a gallon, give us a pound and say keep the change. Tips were more than my wages, until petrol went up to 5 shillings a gallon and thus the tips stopped.
I remember drivers talking about the news, which gradually developed over the evening. I remember that evening very well. I was seventeen at the time.
HMS Skirmisher (1905), HMS Amazon (1906), HMS K9 (1915), Type 212A (2002), HMS Polyphemus (1881), Descartes (1897), Iggle Piggle boat (CBBC), HMS Royal Marine (1943), HMS Marshall Soult, HMS Agincourt (1912)
Location: Scottish Highlands
I was in the officer`s club of an American air force base in the UK. The reaction to the death of the President was very mixed. Most thought WW111 was imminent. Strange people.
..well can you land on this?
Location: Nether Effingham (Perfideous Albion)
Can remember the death of King George VI, mum and dad were very upset
The early bird catches the worm.
But it is the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Not even a twinkle in my Dad's eye!
it's very interesting to hear your replies and how many of you were involved in military pursuits.
please keep the comments coming as it has held an interest with me all of these years.
irishcarguy
Happiness is running from a grizzly and escaping
Location: Calgary N. W. Alberta, Canada
Sat on the edge of my bed @ our ( RAF ) base in Nicosia Cyprus feeling disbelief that something like that had happened, we thought war might start. Mick B.
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Liverbudgie
Model Boat Mayhem is the Best!
Sat in the dinning room watching Harry Worth. The beeb really got their pantie's in a twist that night. To be followed by Oswald being bumped off the following day, or was it later, can't remember now.
John Peel (later to present a show on radio one for thirtyfive years, but then a journalist for radio in the USA) was in the room when Oswald was 'assassinated'.
My parents were just about teenagers when JFK was assassinated.
Location: Ringwood Hants
I was 15 at the time and at Grammar School. We had a concert at the school that evening and in the interval somebody had obviously got their transistor radio out and listened in to the news. The word came out 'Kennedy is dead'. Now we had a mate in another class called Alistair Kennedy and he played in the band. You can imagine the confusion.
About 3 weeks later still in Aden on my way to the Hospital at Steamer Point to pick up one of the lads who had been in the Arab prison to take back to Colchester Passed the High Commissioner's car on his way to the airport.On our return passed the ambulances with casualties from the assassination attempt at the airport.Kennedy had already been forgotten
I don't think that Kennedy has ever been forgotten Jaymac, even 54 years after the event.
I had been married about 2 1/2 years at the time and was having breakfast with my wife and baby son when we heard the news on the radio. We watched the TV news that evening on our new, black and white, television.
malcolmfrary
Location: Blackpool, Lancs, UK
Heard about it on the top deck of a Number 14 bus, on my way to collect a Panther 100S plus sidecar from a dodgy car dealer next door to the Farmers Arms in Thornton.
"With the right tool, you can break anything" - Garfield
Location: canada Stoney Creek Ont
I was in class (High school ) when it come over the pa of the assassination of JFK a sad day for all.
cornishlad
Location: truro corwall
never forget. was collecting for boys club week, in a block of flats in Clifton Bristol, on the top floor when someone shouted "kennedys been shot", I was 13 at the time, and my first thought was some other boys club collector had been shot. always wondered as most do, what difference he would have made if it hadn't happened. should be interesting when they de-clas the investigation papers soon
Ron Rees
Location: Romford essex
I was working one of the massive 1/4 Ton Carbon Arc Limelights in the Lighting box just under the roof of the London Palladium Theatre when it happened. The Show was London Laughs and starred Harry Secombe and others. We had no TV at home at the time but read the newspapers that were left on the seats when everyone had gone. It wasn't long after that when Frankie Vaughan stopped the show to tell us that a Coal tip had slid down and killed loads of school children in Abefan, Wales. Some bad times, never forgotten.


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Secretary General appoints Special Representative on Antisemitic and Anti-Muslim Hatred and Hate Crimes
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Secretary General Strasbourg 7 October 2020
Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has appointed the Council of Europe's Director of Communications Daniel Höltgen, to the new position of Special Representative on Antisemitic and Anti-Muslim Hatred and Hate Crimes.
Commenting on the appointment, the Secretary General said: "On Friday it will be one year since the deadly antisemitic attack at a Synagogue in Halle, Germany, on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. In February this year, a far-right extremist killed 10 people, several of them with a Muslim background, in Hanau. These are no longer isolated events. We are witnessing an alarming increase in antisemitic and anti-Muslim attacks in many parts of Europe today, often incited and aggravated by hate speech online.
"Like Judaism, Islam is part of today's Europe. Jews and Muslims should not live in fear of hatred against individuals and their communities. The fight against antisemitic and anti-Muslim hatred and hate crimes is a pan-European task. My Special Representative will work to join forces at the European level and ensure the collective expertise of the Council of Europe is put to full use in our common effort to prevent antisemitic and anti-Muslim acts."
Freedom from discrimination, including on grounds of religion or belief, has been at the core of the Council of Europe's mission since its establishment in 1949. The Organisation also maintains a long-standing focus on Holocaust remembrance.
The Secretary General's Special Representative will liaise with counterparts in the Council of Europe member states, exchange information and best practice with different partners and enhance co-operation towards effective counter strategies at the European level.
The Special Representative will start his new function on 1 November. Daniel Höltgen, who is British and German, will maintain his position as Director of Communications which he has held since 2010. Höltgen previously worked in senior positions in the German government and in EU institutions.
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Valentines Day 2018 Wishes SMS Shayari Images GIF Wallpapers Pics For GF BF: There is only one happiness in this Life i.e. "To Love & Be Loved " !! Hello! Everyone, welcome to our website GazabNews.com. First of all, Happy Valentine's Day 2018 to all the lovely couples and, also for those who love someone but could not tell their feeling till now. Valentine Week 2018 is going to start very soon and as we all know that Valentine's Day comes on 14th February every year, Oh Yes! How can you forget this date? Valentine Day – A Day of Love! If you want to make this day special with your special person and if you are in search of Valentines Day 2018 Wishes SMS Shayari Images GIF Wallpapers Pics For GF BF, then you've reached the right place!
We are here to help you to celebrate Valentine's Day in a better and best possible way. So here in this article, we are providing you the amazing collections of valentine day 2018 wishes, valentine day Shayari for GF BF, valentine day GIF images & pictures, best valentine day images wallpapers.
Valentine's Day is celebrated in the memory of St.Valentine who was a Roman priest. He helped their peoples and sacrificed his life for love. Therefore, he is known as the savior of true love. So, Pope Gelasius declared 14th February as St. Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day. From that time, this day became famous and celebrated in many regions around the world. Each year on this day, people exchange gifts, flowers, cards, chocolates with their special person. It is an annual festival celebrated for friendship, admiration and romantic love. Though Valentine's Day is a western culture festival, Now this day is celebrated very passionately and beautifully in India by youngsters, bachelors, married couples and old couples, too.
Just a few days ago we said goodbye to 2017 and welcomed 2018 with our open hands. New year comes with new resolutions, goals, and hopes but instead of these, all people are eagerly waiting for the month of February and why they do so! you know it very well. February, the second month of the new year, the month of romance & love, the month of lovers who fell in love, the month of confessing one's immense feeling, the month of expressing their love.
A few days later, we will be celebrating the love days i.e. Valentine's Week, with positive spirits and full of energies. Valentine week fall in the second week of February started from 7th of February to 14th of February and after that, we celebrate anti-valentine week which is also very important and enjoyable time for teenagers. Let's know the more about valentine week and anti-valentine week 2018.
Valentine Day is the most popular festival or eve celebrated mostly among teenagers, college going students and newly married couples. Everyone wants to make their partner happy and they do many things to put a smile on their face like they sing a romantic song, take their partner to candlelight dinner, plan a vacation for spending quality time and many things.
Valentine Day is an eve of love and celebrated by lovers, Girlfriends, boyfriends, married couples, friends and every people who fell in love with someone or want to fall in love with someone special. On this special day, share the romantic wishes with your loved ones and make their Valentine Day memorable. So, here are some beautiful Valentine Day 2018 Advance wishes, you can send these wishes with whom you want to celebrate this day.
My Love, That my heart is at your feet I leave it there for you to do whatever that you wish you could take my heart and Love Me, or just leave me in this bliss.
Without you, I would not strive, Love you!
And my life thanks for being such a wonderful partner!
I will never get tired of loving you, you are one of the blessings that I value the most.
We are the lovers & will be always.
Happy Valentine's Day 2018 !!!
SMS are the cutest and most appreciating way to show your love, care and affection to your loved ones and Whatsapp is one of the popular social media messengers and used by 95% people's around the world. Putting DP's, status and sending messages on whats app, Instagram, Facebook; are the trendy things, you can do for your partner. Here in this blog, our GazabNews team is providing the best & selected Valentine's Day 2018 SMS for Whatsapp Facebook, which you can send to your GF, BF, wife, husband, friends. So go ahead and send these SMS or messages to your special ones.
Happy Valentine Day 2018 !!!
How can I ever Arrange My Words to Say?
If you ask me whether I love you, the answer is I do.
Soul mates are not those who are perfect.
It is the time that we become one for ever and never be apart.
Shayari is an Urdu word and it simply means Urdu Poetry. It is the contemporary way of poetry used in ancient India and also, it is the best style to express the emotions and Love on Valentine's Day i.e. 14th February 2018. Here are the best Shayari's for your loved ones and for whom you want to spend your whole life with them. We have collected some special Valentine's Day 2018 Shayari which will definitely make your partner happier on the Lover's Day.
Yaado ki barsaat liye, duaaon ki saugaat liye, dil ki gehrayi se, chand ki roshani se, pholon ke kagaz par apke liye sirf yh teen lafz … I Love You !!! Will you be my valentine ?
Aapke Aane Se Zindagi Kitni Kh00bsurat Hai, Dil Me Basi Hai Jo Wo Apki Hi Surat Hai, Door Jaana Nahi Humse Kabhi Bhulkar Bhi, Hame Har Kadam Per Aapki Zarurat Hai.
Happy Valentine's Day My Love !!!
Valentine's Day pe kuch to keh do !!
Itne saalon ke intejar ke baad, Aaj mei khushi se samundar bhar du, Tumhare is ha sunne ke baad, kahi is samundar me hi dub na jau … Happy Valentine's Day 2018 !!!
Meri Aankho Me Sirf Tum Nazar Aoge.
Valentine's Day is a good day for me to stop and realize how wonderful you make me feel.
"You walked in, and the sun broke through the clouds.
Sweeter than just about everything, You are my Valentine.
love for you, you for me, me is you, I love you.
"I don't just love you. I love that I get to have you as My Valentine.
So readers! Hope you like this collection from our team for Valentine's Day 2018 Wishes, SMS, Shayari, Wallpapers, GIF Images which you can send to your girlfriends, boyfriends, wife, husband, friends, best friends and that special one whom you love from the bottom of your heart. Stay tuned with us for lots more exciting articles on Valentine's Day 2018.


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It was 125 years ago when a locally owned electric company first fired up its generator, burning mesquite logs to bring power to homes and businesses in Tucson.
Fast forward to 2017, and Tucson Electric Power, the direct descendant of the wood-burning electric company, is harnessing solar energy from more than 90 million miles away with massive solar arrays throughout the territory.
Even with the vast advances in technology, the business was pretty simple for the first 120 years or so, said TEP President and CEO David Hutchens.
Even so, TEP's first 125 years brought many changes and challenges.
The company was bought and sold a number of times. Most recently it was acquired in 2014 by a Fortis, a Canadian company which, as its business model, left the utility to continue to be locally managed.
There also was a self-inflicted brush with bankruptcy in the early 1990s.
And now, the company – like all electric utilities in the United States – is in the midst of the most dramatic change in the industry that is being crammed into a short period of time, about the last five years, Hutchens said.
Customers and regulators are demanding utilities develop cleaner and more sustainable sources of power. There are emotional and political arguments over climate change. And customers who want to can generate their own solar power and put its excess on TEP's grid.
Historical records at TEP show that gas-powered electricity first lit up Tucson's dusty streets in 1882, but the company that started it all went under in 1885 when its prices couldn't support the business.
Out of the darkness, a group of local investors formed The Electric Light and Power Company in 1892 and the lights have been on ever since.
The company built the first power house on Church Avenue just north of Pennington Street and installed a brand new General Electric lighting plant. A typical residential customer had three lights and paid about $3 a month for service.
Only four years after entering the electric utility business, the company bought the struggling Tucson Gas Company for $14,000, a relationship that lasted until 1979.
The company managed through financial ups and downs, the Great Depression and rapid growth after World War II. As the pages of the calendar flipped toward the 1970s, things got interesting for a company that otherwise had one job – to keep the lights on.
In 1969, Tucson Gas & Electric became the only company headquartered in Tucson that was traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In the early and mid-1970s, TGE was wheeling and dealing with a number of initiatives. Natural gas shortages and embargoes made coal the primary fuel for power plants in Arizona and New Mexico. The company also entered into an agreement in 1972 to own part of the multibillion-dollar Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station near Buckeye, Arizona.
Amid escalating costs of the nuclear plant and a slowdown in growth and revenues, TGE later decided nuclear was a bad idea for its business and sold its share of Palo Verde to Southern California Edison.
With more financial challenges on the horizon, in 1974 the company called on 39-year-old whiz Theodore "Ted" Welp to manage its finances as a VP in 1974. He was promoted to president in 1976, and in 1978 he was named Utility Executive of the Year by Financial World magazine.
Welp's strong hand guided the company through a series of financial deals in the late 1970s. Welp sold the gas division in 1979. "Ted didn't like the gas business," Banzhaf said. Two years earlier, the company had gotten regulatory approval to build a state-of-the-art, coal-fired power plant in Springerville, Arizona, that would play a huge part in the company's near bankruptcy in the early 1990s.
A series of complicated transactions and spinoffs related to the Springerville plant and the company's generating resources put TEP in dire financial straits by the late 1980s. The lights stayed on but the company's finances were a mess. TEP's creditors filed involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions against the company in June 1991.
Charles Bayless had been hired as CFO in late 1989 and was named CEO within a year to lead TEP through its financial workout. Bayless was fresh from leading Public Service Company of New Hampshire out of bankruptcy and his experience was needed at TEP.
The first order of business, Bayless said, was to regain the support and confidence of employees, the community, regulators and business leaders to keep the company from formally going into bankruptcy. But 25 years later, Bayless said he always had confidence the bankruptcy would not actually occur.
A positive outcome of the near-bankruptcy, Bayless said, was that it set the company on a course to address a wide range of issues – financial, cultural and in the community – to restore its financial health and regain its leadership role as a strong and stable Tucson business, where it stands today.
Hutchens, the TEP president since 2014, arrived at the company in 1995 unaware of the financial troubles it had been through. Hutchens had graduated from the University of Arizona in 1988 but left town when he joined in the Navy.
Likewise, TEP's current chairman of the board, Bob Elliott, had been in Tucson since he arrived to play basketball at the University of Arizona in 1973, and he said he was oblivious to the company's financial troubles because when he flipped the light switch, the lights came on as expected.
But it's a whole new game for both Hutchens and Elliott as they steer TEP through some of the most dramatic changes in the history of the electric utility industry.
Planning for growth and increased usage in its service territory once was a matter of forecasting how many people might be moving to the Tucson area, Hutchens said. With advances in technology – including the affordability of solar power – it's not so easy anymore.
"We love to plan. We love to know where our resources are going, and to be able to tell how to get electrons from here to there," Hutchens said.
But much of the predictability went out the proverbial window as new technologies for air conditioners, appliances and other electric products reduced the amount of power being consumed by each product. Customers had more items powered by electricity, but they weren't using as much power, Hutchens said.
Advances in solar technology have created complex issues such as how to charge customers who install solar power at their homes and expect to be able to sell their excess power back to the company using TEP's wires and facilities. Arizona utilities and the Arizona Corporation Commission are trying to sort that one out.
There's also the complicated task of keeping up with the demand to develop clean, renewable energy, a task that is finally starting to make financial sense for the company which produced 11 percent of its total retail electric sales last year from solar energy resources that it owns and energy that it purchased.
TEP owns 56 megawatts of solar capacity with its largest arrays in Fort Huachuca, Springerville and at the University of Arizona Tech Park in southeast Tucson.
Hutchens said a utility has to do more than keep the lights on. The company continues on the philanthropic course set during the financial recovery with millions of dollars and thousands of volunteer hours streaming into the community.


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Q: How to call an external javascript library function within a Typescript class using Angular 2/4? I have a Typescript class class.component.ts in which I want to call methods which are defined within my Javascript class. This Javascript class is headed within: /assets/js/*initlibrary.js*. This javascript library is automatically called when the project is initialized.
My question is: how can I reach out to this javascript library and call the function in it? Is it required to import it in a way like import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';? If so, how should I do this?
Thank you in advance!

A: If you want to use an external library inside your angular project, there are many requirements.
1. Declare your javascript library inside your angular-cli.json :
"scripts": [
    "../assets/js/yourlibrary.js"
]

With this instruction, you can use your library function inside your typescript code, but it will not be able to compile (transpile).
2. Create a definition of your library
A typescript definition has an extension file ends with .d.ts. You can create it inside your project and reference it from your tsconfig.json.
Here is an example of the EXIF library definition that I've created :
/// EXIF.d.ts

declare module EXIF {
    interface EXIFStatic {
       getData(img, callback): boolean;
       getTag(img, tag): any;
       getAllTags(img): any;
       pretty(img): any;
       readFromBinaryFile(file): any;
    }
}

declare var EXIF: EXIF.EXIFStatic;

declare module "EXIF" {
     export = EXIF;
}

In my code, I use like this :
EXIF.getData(img,callback);
You can find more example here : https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types
3. Reference the definition of your library
Here is an example of my tsconfig.json file :
"typeRoots": [
  "./typings" // I have create a typings folder inside my src project folder
],
"types": [
   "EXIF" // Reference of your EXIF.d.ts inside your typings folder
]

The definition allows you to get autocomplete function name when you code (if you use Visual studio code), and allows angular to build your project.


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Former UBS Financial Advisor Charged with Defrauding over $5 Million Dollars from His UBS Clients
Miami, Florida – Today, German Nino, a former UBS Financial Advisor, made his initial appearance in federal court in Miami to face charges of defrauding over $5 million from a family who maintained several accounts at UBS.
According to a federal information, from about 2012, and continuing to 2020, Nino, a resident of Broward County, was a financial advisor working at a branch office of UBS Financial Services Inc. in Miami. Nino oversaw and managed UBS investment accounts for various customers, including three victims who were related and who had various investment accounts at UBS. Nino was the financial advisor assigned to oversee and manage the victims' money in the accounts.
It is alleged that from about May 2014 to February 2020, Nino made a total of 62 unauthorized transfers from three UBS accounts belonging to the victims, which totaled $5,833,218.59. To accomplish the wire fraud scheme, Nino made materially false and fraudulent statements to his victims and concealed and omitted material facts including misrepresenting the true performance, balance, and rate of return of the accounts he managed; forging the signature of his clients on documents purporting to authorize transfers out of the accounts; preparing a fraudulent land purchase contract and forging a victim's signature on the land purchase contract to make it appear that the victim was purchasing land in Colombia by using money from the victim's account; removing one of the victim's email from the victim's UBS email account profile so that the victim would not receive email notifications from UBS about unauthorized transfers; and preparing fraudulent UBS account statements and client review statements, which falsely inflated the balance and value of the victims' accounts, says the information.
Nino made his initial appearance in federal magistrate court in Miami before United States Magistrate Lisette M. Reid.
Juan Antonio Gonzalez, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Miami, made the announcement.
FBI Miami investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Deric Zacca is prosecuting it. Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Stone is handling asset forfeiture.
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Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at www.flsd.uscourts.gov or at http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov, under case number 22-cr-20020.
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set -e
set -x

source tensorflow/tools/ci_build/release/common.sh

set_bazel_outdir

# Install python dependencies
install_ubuntu_16_pip_deps pip2.7

install_bazelisk

python2.7 tensorflow/tools/ci_build/update_version.py --nightly

# Run configure.
export TF_NEED_GCP=1
export TF_NEED_HDFS=1
export TF_NEED_S3=1
export TF_NEED_CUDA=0
export CC_OPT_FLAGS='-mavx'
export PYTHON_BIN_PATH=$(which python2.7)
yes "" | "$PYTHON_BIN_PATH" configure.py

# Build the pip package
bazel build --config=opt --config=v2 \
  --crosstool_top=//third_party/toolchains/preconfig/ubuntu16.04/gcc7_manylinux2010-nvcc-cuda10.1:toolchain \
  tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package

./bazel-bin/tensorflow/tools/pip_package/build_pip_package pip_pkg --cpu --nightly_flag

# Upload the built packages to pypi.
for WHL_PATH in $(ls pip_pkg/tf_nightly_cpu-*dev*.whl); do

  WHL_DIR=$(dirname "${WHL_PATH}")
  WHL_BASE_NAME=$(basename "${WHL_PATH}")
  AUDITED_WHL_NAME="${WHL_DIR}"/$(echo "${WHL_BASE_NAME//linux/manylinux2010}")
  auditwheel repair --plat manylinux2010_x86_64 -w "${WHL_DIR}" "${WHL_PATH}"

  # test the whl pip package
  chmod +x tensorflow/tools/ci_build/builds/nightly_release_smoke_test.sh
  ./tensorflow/tools/ci_build/builds/nightly_release_smoke_test.sh ${AUDITED_WHL_NAME}
  RETVAL=$?

  # Update results counter
  if [ ${RETVAL} -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Basic PIP test PASSED, Uploading package: ${AUDITED_WHL_NAME}"
    twine upload -r pypi-warehouse "${AUDITED_WHL_NAME}" || echo
  else
    echo "Basic PIP test FAILED, will not upload ${AUDITED_WHL_NAME} package"
    return 1
  fi
done


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Neck Popping Causes Stroke
A 28-year-old from Oklahoma had a stroke caused by popping his neck, according to KOCO.
Doctors said the act of popping his neck caused Josh Hader to tear his vertebral artery.
"The moment I heard the pop, everything on my left side started to go numb," Hader said. "I got up and tried to get an ice pack from the fridge, and I remember I couldn't walk straight."
As bad as this all sounds, Hader's doctor said it could have been even worse.
"He could have formed more clot on that tear and had a life-ending stroke," Dr. Vance McCollom said. "He could have died."
Hader survived his stroke, but it did cause a lot of damage -- he had vision problems for a few days and still struggles to walk. Hader also had painful hiccups for a week-and-a-half.
But Hader said the hardest part of the whole ordeal has been not being able to help his wife take care of their youngest son.
"I can't pick him up out of the crib, give him milk in the middle of the night," he said. "I can't do any of that."
According to McCollom, there is a right and wrong way to pop your neck.
"If you want to pop your neck, just kind of pop it side to side," McCollom said. "Don't twist it. Whenever you twist it, there's a risk of tearing that vessel."
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