Game of Thrones' eighth and final season is just around the corner and fans cannot wait to see their favourite characters fight for their lives and for the throne. From Daenerys Targaryen to Tyrion Lannister, fans are placing their bets on who will finally rule over Westeros.
In this fight between the fans, one name has emerged as the new favourite: Sansa Stark. The eldest Stark daughter, played by Sophie Turner, was subjected to a lot of hate from fans in the earlier season for her selfish, snobbish temperament. But through the seven seasons, she made sure to learn from the treacherous people around her and still did not let the evil consume her good heart. Every time we thought she would give in to selfishness or make bad decisions, she surprised us.
Sansa was dealt a bad hand at every turn. First, she fell for the insufferable King Joffrey and had to live under the constant gaze of his mother, Queen Cersei. Then, she was forced to marry Tyrion which perhaps brought her a few days of relief. Later, she was manipulated by Lord Baelish and then sold to the most villainous villain ever, Ramsay Bolton.
Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones.
But through all of these hopeless situations, year after year, she survived, either by suffering silently, making the right friends, fleeing on the first opportunity and most importantly, by learning from everything that life threw at her.
In the last season, she showed wisdom beyond her years when she joined forces with her sister Arya and brought down the one serpent who sparked the fire which burned her whole house down: Lord Baelish. Right now, Sansa is the Lady of Winterfell and perhaps more suited to ruling than her brother, Jon Snow. But she has a new challenge facing her in the new season. She will have to prepare her people for a battle to ends all battles as the Night King comes knocking on her door. While many would consider her unsuited to face an enemy so powerful and without any skills to save herself, it will be worth finding out how she takes on this challenge.
Before the season kicks off on April 14, here are the five best Sansa Stark scenes to remind you of all that she has been through and how she emerged victorious in spite of it.
I'm going to give you a present. After I raise my armies and kill your traitor brother, I'm going to give you his head as well.
It can. It can always be worse.
Your house will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear.
Sansa orders Lord Baelish's execution.
How do you answer these charges, Lord Baelish?


Humans of New York, created by Brandon Stanton, seems to have inspired quite the portrait photography trend across the Internet. We are fascinated by discovering the inner feelings and lives of people who are complete strangers to us. Maybe that's what makes Yudy Sauw's portraits of insects -- yes, insects -- so fascinating.
The photos, taken by Sauw at his home in Banten, Indonesia, can be challenging to look at for those of us that find bugs terrifying, but there is something enchanting about getting close like this. Just as Stanton's photos and conversations pull us close to people we pass on the street and see more of who they are, Sauw's photos bring us into close quarters with creatures we ignore, swat at or never even see. Looking into their big, weird eyes, we see that they are so much more than stings and bites.
Of course, climate change has the ability to impact the insect population in Indonesia and around the world. Rising temperatures may actually increase the area that insects inhabit. This is good for the bugs, but bad for us, as it could mean more insect-spread illnesses and more pests on farms.
Below we present our mash-up of Sauw's photos and Stanton's quotes in what we're calling "Bugs of Banten."
"Should I do my dinosaur face?"
*This photo is of a spider, which is not an insect. But with a face like that, how could we not include it?


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Q: How to change wishlist icon color, if item is present in database in Reactjs?
How I can change the wishlist icon color if the item is present in the database its color is brown If the item is not present in the database its color is black.
And also I will be able to toggle between colors. This means that ( If an item is present in the database its returned color is already changed when I click on the icon its color should be changed and returned black color and the item is removed from the database). When I click again on the icon it should send a request and add the item to the database and returned color is brown again.

If you haven't understood the problem ask me! and (item returned from the database is correctly fine and its value is stored in [itemPresent] hook)
import React, { useState,useCallback,useEffect } from 'react'
import { useParams } from "react-router-dom";
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { BsDash, BsPlus } from "react-icons/bs";
import axios from '../../axios-orders';
import Spinner from '../../components/UI/Spinner/Spinner'
import {RiHeart3Fill} from 'react-icons/ri';

const Details = (props) => {

    const { id } = useParams();

    const [toggleHeart, setToggleHeart] = useState(false);
    const [itemPresent, setItemPresent] = useState('');

    useEffect(()=>{
        axios.post('/UserPortal/CartItems/get_wishlist.php', {
            customer_id: localStorage.getItem('Id')
        } )
        .then((response) => {
          console.log(response.data);
         response.data.map((item)=>{
            return setItemPresent(item.product_id)
        })

        if(itemPresent === id){
            console.log('[item]',itemPresent)
        }
        })
    },[toggleHeart,id,itemPresent])

    var c = props.orders.find(product => product.id === id);

    const changeColor = useCallback(() =>{
        setToggleHeart(!toggleHeart);
        const data = {
            customer_id: localStorage.getItem('Id'),
            name: c.name,
            price: c.price,
            description: c.description,
            quantity: c.quantity,
            product_id : c.id
        }
        axios.post('/UserPortal/CartItems/wishlist.php', data )
            .then((response) => {
              console.log(response.data);
            })
       },[toggleHeart,c.id,c.name,c.price,c.description,c.quantity])

   if(props.orders.length === 0){
    return <Spinner/>;
   }

 return (

                                {localStorage.getItem('email')
                                ? itemPresent ?

                                 <RiHeart3Fill className={
                                    toggleHeart ? 'heart active' : 'heart'
                                  } onClick={changeColor}/>

                                :   <RiHeart3Fill className="heart" onClick={changeColor}/>
                                :   <RiHeart3Fill className="heart"/>

               }

                  );

CSS FILE
.heart{
    font-size: 35px;
    color:rgb(182, 173, 173);
    margin-top: 7px;
     width: 70px;
     outline: none;
     text-transform: uppercase;
     cursor: pointer;
     font-weight: bold;
     &:hover{
         color: rgb(192, 39, 39);
     }
    &.active {
        color: rgb(192, 39, 39);
    }
 }

A: You can define css classes in useState hook and update it once a item is added or removed.
Below is the code suggestion you can try and see if helps you,
const [cssClass, setCssClass] = useState("heart")

useEffect(() =>
{
  if(toggleHeart)
  {
    setCssClass("heart active")
  }
  else
  {
    setCssClass("heart")
  }

},[toggleHeart])

 return (

 {localStorage.getItem('email')
 ? itemPresent ?

 <RiHeart3Fill
  className={cssClasses}
  onClick={changeColor}
  />

  :   <RiHeart3Fill className="heart" onClick={changeColor}/>
  :   <RiHeart3Fill className="heart"/>

  }

 );

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Following on from media reports of the expansion of the Squire Patton Boggs class action suit yesterday, Getswift Ltd (ASX: GSW) announced to the market this morning that it had been served with another lawsuit by law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth.
This second lawsuit, the 'McTaggart' statement of claim, is funded by Vannin Capital and alleges that Getswift breached its continuous disclosure obligations and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. The McTaggart lawsuit covers broadly the same period of time as the 'Perera' claim (the Squire Patton Boggs suit) although the period covered is two days longer.
Both lawsuits are scheduled for a hearing on the 29th of March. Getswift will ask the Court to consider how to advance the two competing cases. Getswift also stated that it would contest the suits and had hired Quinn Emanuel to defend it.
The lawyers are certainly circling Getswift, which was a given after the Fairfax Media (ASX:FXJ) investigation and the subsequent decline in share price once the company returned from its suspension earlier this year. With all the cash Getswift has, there's plenty for the lawyers to target and I would guess that the legal claims would be claiming losses of several hundred million. Should the claim ultimately be decided or settled, the cost to Getswift will likely be much lower.
Even so, with $96 million in cash at bank – approximately 52 cents a share as of 31 December 2017 – surely a significant amount of that is at risk in the coming class action. Class actions can take years to resolve, but given the seriousness of the claims against Getswift, it's possible that the company may look to settle.
Unless there is major progress made on the revenue front, my guess is that Getswift may see itself with a new executive team in due course. Despite their significant shareholdings and the lack of an independent board, the current team may struggle to continue in their roles if the class action strips away most of Getswift's assets. For now I would continue to avoid Getswift.
Some people may turn to blue chips instead. After all, for many, blue chip stocks mean stability, profitability and regular dividends, often fully franked..


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Q: Why aren't all my letters showing up in my hangman javascript game? This is my first post here so excuse my formatting if it's incorrect. I am building a hangman game and I am getting the letters to replace my underscores UNLESS its a double letter.
example: cheese returns only c h e _  s _
I have attached my code below:

const inputButton = document.querySelector("#wordInput")
const startButton = document.querySelector(".startButton")
const guessHere = document.querySelector(".guess")
const letters = document.querySelector(".letters")
let empty = ""
const letterA = document.querySelector("#A")
const alphabet = document.querySelectorAll(".letter")
let inputVal = ''
console.log(inputVal)
const wrongLetters = document.querySelector(".wrongLetters")
let wrongCounter = [];
let winCount = 0;
console.log(`win count is ${winCount}` )
let loseCount = 0;
console.log(`lose count is ${loseCount}`)

//-------------START BUTTON----------------------------------------------//

startButton.addEventListener("click", ()=>{
    inputVal = inputButton.value
    let chars = inputVal.split("")
    for(let i=0; i<chars.length;i++){
        const hiddenLetter = document.createElement("span")
        hiddenLetter.classList.add("input-letters")
        hiddenLetter.id = i
        hiddenLetter.innerText = "_"
        hiddenLetter.style.marginRight = "15px"
        // const hiddenChar = document.createElement("p")
        // hiddenLetter.appendChild(hiddenChar)
        // console.log(hiddenLetter)
        // hiddenLetter.innerText = "_ "
        letters.appendChild(hiddenLetter)
        // hiddenLetter.style.height = "5px";

        hiddenLetter.style.fontSize = "50px";

    }
    const startingMinutes = 2;
let time = startingMinutes * 60;
const countdownEl = document.querySelector("#countdown")
let refreshIntervalid=setInterval(updateCountdown, 1000);
let once = false;
 function updateCountdown() {
    const minutes = Math.floor(time / 60);
    let seconds = time % 60;
    seconds = seconds < 10? "0" + seconds : seconds;
    countdownEl.innerHTML = `${minutes}: ${seconds}`;
    time--;
    if (time < 0) { //stop the setInterval whe time = 0 for avoid negative time
        alert("Game Over")
        clearInterval(refreshIntervalid);
    }
    once = true;

}
})
const hiddenChar = document.createElement("span")
const revealLetter = (e) =>{
    // inputVal = inputButton.value
    // console.log(inputVal);
    let chars = inputVal.split("")
    // console.log(chars)
    let guessedLetter = e.target.id.toLowerCase()
    console.log(guessedLetter);
    let index = chars.indexOf(guessedLetter)
    if (chars.includes(guessedLetter)){
        // console.log("Letter exists", guessedLetter);
        // console.log(chars.indexOf(guessedLetter));
        let underlines = document.querySelectorAll(".input-letters")
        underlines.forEach(span =>{
            // console.log("span id: ", typeof span.id);
            // console.log("index: ", typeof index);
            if(parseInt(span.id) === index){
                console.log("Match!");
                span.innerText = guessedLetter
                winCount++
                console.log(winCount)
                e.target.remove()
                if(winCount===chars.length){
                    alert("You won the Game!")

                }

            }

        })
    }else{
        wrongCounter.push(guessedLetter)
        wrongLetters.innerText = wrongCounter
        loseCount+=1
        console.log(loseCount)
        e.target.remove()
        if(loseCount>=5){
            alert("Game Over!")
        }

    }
    // for(let i = 0; i < chars.length; i++){
    //         const hiddenChar = document.createElement("span")
    //         console.log(hiddenChar)
    //         hiddenChar.innerText = chars[i] + " "
    //         letters.appendChild(hiddenChar)
    //         hiddenChar.style.fontSize = "50px"
    //         hiddenChar.style.visibility = "hidden"
    //         // "visible"
    //         // "hidden"
    //         if (chars[i]==("")){
    //             hiddenChar.style.visibility = "visible"
    //         }
    // }
}

alphabet.forEach(letter=>{
    letter.addEventListener("click", revealLetter)
})
body{
    background-color: #ffe4c4;
    display:flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.playerOne{
    border-style: double;
    border-width: 1em;
    text-align: center;
     height: 200px;
}
.wrongLettersBox{
    border-style: double;
    border-width: 1em;
    width: 200px;
    height: 300px;

    text-align: center;

}
.container{
    display: flex;
}
#wordInput{
    /* transform: translate(574px, 43px); */
    color: black;
    text-transform: uppercase
}

.startButton{
    /* transform: translate(572px, 43px); */
}
.enterWordHere{
    /* transform: translate(588px, 31px); */
}
.guess{
    text-align: center;
    border-style: double;
    border-width: 1em;
    width: 828px;
    height: 300px;
}
.image{
    border-style: double;
    border-width: 1em;
    height: 300px;
    width: 300px;
}
.alphabet{
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: row;
    justify-content: space-around;
    align-items: center;
}
.letter{
    height: 50px;
    width: 50px;
    border-style: dashed;
    text-align: center;
    background-color: rgb(200, 149, 60);
    color: rgb(242, 242, 242);
}
#countdown{
    font-size: 20px;
    color:red;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
    <title>Document</title>

Snowman

Enter your word here:

    <input type="text" id="wordInput" name="wordInput">
    <button class="startButton">Start</button>

Image goes here!

Guess Here!

        Wrong Letters

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Basically I think what is happening is that the computer is getting the ids and comparing them. But once its a duplicate letter like double "A" its getting the first letter A and skipping the rest.

A: let index = chars.indexOf(guessedLetter)

The indexOf method only gets the first match it finds.
Since you're already looping, you don't need to use indexOf. Instead check if chars[parseInt(span.id)] === guessedLetter
if (chars.includes(guessedLetter)){
    let underlines = document.querySelectorAll(".input-letters")
    underlines.forEach(span => {
        if (chars[parseInt(span.id)] === guessedLetter) {
            console.log("Match!");
            span.innerText = guessedLetter
            winCount++
            console.log(winCount)
            e.target.remove()
            if(winCount===chars.length){
                alert("You won the Game!")
            }
        }

    })
}


New World Order is a term referred to key changes in the power-political order on international level.
After Christopher Columbus[wp] had reached in 1492 for the Spanish crown America, the competition between the maritime powers Portugal and Spain intensified. Pope Alexander VI., for both Catholic monarchies the highest authority, acted as referee and so the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas[wp] was accomplishment. He should avoid an armed confrontation between the two then most important Catholic powers, as he divided the world into a Portuguese and Spanish half.
Portugal wanted to retain control of the sea route to India along the African coast, specifically it was to secure the lucrative spice trade in the Pacific region and Africa indemnify the route of Spanish influences. Spain, by contrast, the control and the rights of the only recently discovered by Christopher Columbus in western countries wanted to secure (the held for India America).
The other major naval powers of the time - England, France, Holland - did not recognize the Treaty of Tordesillas, since he ignored their own imperial ambitions. Nevertheless, this agreement characterizes the world order of the then colonial era began and the associated division of the world into spheres of influence of European great powers.
The Congress of Vienna[wp] held from 18 September 1814 to 9 June 1815 established in Europe many borders newly and defined new states. The occasion was the French Revolution[wp] and the Napoleonic Wars[wp], which had previously changed the political map of Europe significantly.
Under the leadership of the Austrian foreign minister Prince Metternich[wp] advised politically empowered representatives from around 200 European states, dominions, corporations and cities, including all major powers of Europe with the exception of the Ottoman Empire. The leading role played by the five major powers Russia, United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, and the restored French monarchy and the Church State. Germany's problems were given the breadth of the other European matters discussed separately.
The Congress of Vienna drew up his results in commissions, which was a fluent technical innovation. There was, among other things, a Committee for the Germans, one for the European affairs, one for territories issues, one for the river and one for the slave trade. A formal "Assembly" never came together. The conference proceedings (Acte final) only bears the signatures of the eight major powers Austria, Spain, France, Great Britain, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden (in that order). The German federal acts, the General Provisions are recorded (Articles 1 to 11) in the conference proceedings, was signed separately by the representatives of the German states. The main antagonist of Metternich was Tsar Alexander I[wp]. In addition, the British envoy played Castlereagh[wp] and the representatives of the defeated France, Talleyrand[wp], the most important roles.
The Congress worked on five overarching principles, but these are partially the subsequent construction of the historian. The concept of legitimacy in this context means the liquidation of the Napoleonic system of states and the restoration of the ancient dynasties (Bourbons, Guelph, etc.). In this context, including the principle of the restoration of the pre-revolutionary political and social conditions. Although the restoration should not go so far that all the changes that have occurred since 1789 should be reversed, but very probably should any future revolutionary aspirations of a bolt to be advanced. These included not only the freedom, but also the national movements of the time. To secure and enforce this objective, the delegations expressed their support on the one hand a strong monarchical authority inside and the other on the interstate solidarity of the country to the outside.
Although the conflicts of interest during the course of the Congress have significantly worsened, as they were nevertheless united in the creation of a European balance system to prevent future wars, although the practical implementation given the different political interests very difficult.
Concert of Europe[wp]: the balance of the five great powers France[wp], Austria[wp], Great Britain[wp], Russia[wp] and Prussia[wp]. At the expense of France and the re-partition of Poland, the great powers of Prussia, Austria and Russia were strengthened.
The Treaty of Versailles[wp] ended the World War I[wp] formally. He was at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 at the Palace of Versailles from the powers of the Triple Entente[wp] and its allies largely fixed until May 1919.
Germany, who defeated main rival, whose growing power had destroyed the European balance after the conviction, especially the European victors and its power potential should be reduced as well as its territorial expansion.
The Austria-Hungary collapsed and the transformation of its territories into numerous autonomous national states. Thus was the question of ethnic minorities in these new nation-states on the program - which concerned the north, the Poles, in the northwest of the Czechs and Slovaks, to the west, the Germans, in the south, the Croats, Serbs and Slovaks in the east Hungary, Bulgarians and Romanians . Was also unclear how the dispute between Italy and Austria to South Tyrol should be moved and adopted that the development of the conflict between Serbia and the combining Slavs and Italy.
Russia, which in 1917 became communist, had been transformed from an ally in a potential threat to the West. It was quite frankly, that development would take the non-Russian minorities living in Russia, since Russia was during the conference in the Civil War, later in the war with Poland. The European Western powers supported the counter-revolutionary forces that fought against the Red Army, and multiply the option of a direct military lntervention was considered.
After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire was to clarify was how to deal with the non-Turkish possessions in the Middle East. Here French and British interests were equally addressed, especially in the Arab countries. Likewise awaited the serious conflicts between Bulgarians and Turks, and especially between Greeks and Turks, who until 1922 led to an armed conflict and the defeat of Greece in 1920, a solution.
The German colonies had already fallen early in the war to the British. It was unclear how further should be to deal with these regions, especially since the war in Africa had been conducted on the Allied troops, mainly from the Union of South Africa. In this way, the question of the international legal status of the British dominions was linked to the Paris negotiations.
With the German occupation of the leased area Jiaozhou Bay, Japan had gained a foothold on the Chinese mainland, the thought of it seems to extend. This included the East Asian region and the potential conflict between Japan and the U.S. on the topics discussed in Paris.
The solution to these enormous challenges were offset by very different goals: The U.S. wanted a new, supranational world order, France wanted revenge and security, the United Kingdom a new balance of forces that secured him the existence and expansion of the British Empire, Italy was going to be a great power. The Treaty of Paris failed all along the line, and not only in relation to Germany, but also in regard to Turkey and the Middle East. The current crises in the Middle East can be traced back in its essential features to the Versailles decisions.
The territory of modern Turkey should be largely dismembered. Greece was the city of Smyrna (turkish İzmir) and parts of western Anatolia awarded the Adana region should go to the Italians and the French possessions in addition to Syria should also include Cilicia. In the eastern parts of present-day Turkey with the cities of Kars, Ardahan, Erzurum and an Armenian state should arise. South and east of the Euphrates, the Kurdish autonomous region was awarded. Mustafa Kemal Pasha[wp] organized from 19 May 1919 the political and military resistance against these plans. Were particularly violent in 1920, the battles with Greece[wp]. The war ended on 9 September 1922 with the reconquest of Smyrna. After the cessation of hostilities, there was ethnic cleansing in Greece and Turkey, as well "Turks" of Greek territory and "Greeks" were expelled from Turkish territory. After the victory of Turkey's 24 July 1923 with the Treaty of Lausanne[wp], the provisions of the Treaty of Sèvres[wp] revised. The Treaty limits the valid to date of the new state were recognized under international law. At the same time, the mutual expulsion of minorities was legalized. After all foreign military units left Anatolia, Mustafa Kemal Pasha proclaimed the Republic on 29 October 1923.
The major powers had disregarded generously the self-determination claims established by themself. Then Arab leaders organized with reference to the Paris agreements elections to the First General Syrian Congress and established two Arab kingdoms, which were of course not recognized by France and Britain. This was split rather in April 1920 in San Remo the Middle East to work as intended, with France Syria and Lebanon, Great Britain Iraq, Palestine and Jordan took over and Arab uprisings groups were reflected by force of arms. However, neither of the two colonial powers was glad of the recent acquisitions, but this region was so thoroughly destabilized by the agreements of Paris and San Remo, that the problems caused by them could not be resolved until today.
The Yalta Conference[wp] (sometimes called the Crimean Conference) was a diplomatic meeting of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.), Winston Churchill (United Kingdom) and Joseph Stalin (USSR) in located on the Crimean resort of Yalta on 4 to 11 February 1945. It was the second of three Allied summit of the "Big Three" during the World War II[wp] (1939-1945). Themes of the conference were the division of Germany, the balance of power in Europe after the end of the war and the war against the Japanese Empire.
The beginning of the Cold War[wp] prevented a planned peace conference and the reorganization of the world remained incomplete. As a result, the two superpowers USA and the Soviet Union took political, economic, technical and military efforts to shape the world order according to their ideas.
The term New World Order is attributed wrongly to conspiracy theories. It is only natural that after the end of the Cold War, the United States would try as the only remaining superpower in the world to make their mark and to strive for a world order in their favor. In addition to the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of China, there are processes of increasing global interdependence in all areas (economy, politics, culture, environment, communications, etc.), described with the term globalization[wp]. These operations are controversial proponents of globalization, anti-globalization, European and Euro-critics and supporters very differently. While opponents of globalization and European critics will also defames ever as a conspiracy theorist.
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Uber's very bad year only seems to be getting worse.
Uber on Tuesday admitted to underpaying its New York City drivers tens of millions of dollars for the past 2 1/2 years.
The ride-hailing company said each affected driver would get a refund of about $900, which includes interest. Uber did not give an exact figure on how many drivers it has in the city, but said it was in the tens of thousands.
The company said it had mistakenly continued to calculate its commission based on the gross fare, before any taxes and fees were deducted. The company will now calculate its commission based on the net fare, which is in line with its updated national driver policy enacted in November 2014.
The union that represents Uber drivers welcomed the announcement, but said the company owes its drivers more than its claiming.
"Uber is using the difference in the commission it wrongly took from drivers, rather than reimburse the drivers the full tax and surcharge amounts they are owned back — a difference of nearly 10 percent," Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.
"This payout is an attempt by Uber to pull a fast one to avoid court oversight and shortchange drivers in the process," said Desai, whose organization has filed several lawsuits against the San Francisco-based company.
It's been a tumultuous year for Uber, which has been hit with lawsuits, allegations of sexual harassment, a federal investigation into claims that it has used a fake version of its app to thwart authorities and accusations of trade theft.
In February, a video emerged of CEO Travis Kalanick arguing with an Uber driver. It includes yelling and profanity and ends with a combative Kalanick dismissing the agitated driver's claims that sharp reductions in fares forced him into bankruptcy.
Kalanick later conceded he needed leadership help.
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Loss-of-value insurance coverage protects the future earnings of promising college athletes, who are projected to feature highly in the NFL, NBA, MLB or NHL drafts. The coverage is typically purchased as an add-on to a permanent total disability insurance policy, and is meant to protect against the potential adverse impact a serious injury or illness might have on an athlete's future earnings.
How does loss-of-value insurance coverage work?
The first thing underwriters must do is determine an athlete's eligibility for loss-of-value coverage based on where they're expected to be in the draft. Only athletes expected to feature early in the draft are likely to get coverage, and underwriters typically offer coverage limits between $1 million and $10 million based on the projected draft position.
According to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the next thing underwriters will do is set a loss-of-value threshold, which is usually around 50-60% of the athletes projected rookie contract. For example, if a player's projected rookie contract is four years and $10 million in total, they might multiply $10 million by 60% to work out a total loss-of-value threshold of $6 million. Some insurers break that down to an average amount per year, which, in this case, would be $1.5 million annual loss-of-value threshold.
If an athlete experiences a significant injury or illness and then receives a contract that's lower in value than initially projected, they might be eligible for a loss-of-value benefit. Using the example of the $10 million contract with the $6 million loss-of-value threshold above, if the athlete is only actually offered a $5 million contract as a result of injury, they might be eligible for a loss-of-value benefit of $1 million.
Why might a claim not be paid?
Loss-of-value insurance coverage will only be paid if an athlete loses contract value as a direct result of an injury or illness – and proving that direct link can be difficult. For example, an athlete might drop down in the draft after poor performances during the season or at pre-draft events. Furthermore, a rival athlete might suddenly find form and jump up in value. There are many factors in contention and many arguments insurers can make to avoid paying a claim.
Which carriers write loss-of-value insurance?
In 2015, Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Marqise Lee sued Lloyd's of London after the market refused to pay a loss-of-value insurance claim worth millions. In 2013, Lee paid a premium of $94,600 to Lloyd's to cover him should he fall in the draft to a contract worth less than $9.6 million. Less than two weeks later, he injured his left knee and never fully regained his position as the nation's top receiver.
In the 2014 NFL draft, Lee was the overall 39th pick by the Jaguars, who offered him a four-year deal worth $5.17 million, about $4.5 million short of the policy's guarantee. Lloyd's denied Lee's claim arguing that he concealed, misrepresented or omitted pertinent medical information that would have caused the policy to never take effect. Lloyd's refunded his premium, plus interest, and asked the court to rule the policy never applied.
In July 2018, Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Chance Warmack became the first NFL player in history to collect on a loss-of-value insurance policy. According to an ESPN report, 26-year-old Warmack took out an insurance policy with Lloyd's of London that would allow him to cash in if his second contract with the NFL was less than $20 million.
The offensive lineman was the number 10 pick by the Tennessee Titans in the 2013 draft. He stayed with the Titans for four years before they declined his fifth-year offer of $11.09 million in March 2016. That decision followed a hand injury, which cost Warmack 14 games in the 2015 season.
Warmack then signed a one-year deal worth $1.5 million with the Philadelphia Eagles in March 2017. The value of the deal, significantly less than $20 million, meant he could file a claim with Lloyd's of London on his loss-of-value insurance policy. He received the maximum payout of about $3 million.


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Benjamin Franklin Elementary School serves 646 students in grades Kindergarten-6.
The percentage of students achieving proficiency in Math is 57% (which is higher than the California state average of 38%) for the 2016-17 school year. The percentage of students achieving proficiency in Reading/Language Arts is 73% (which is higher than the California state average of 48%) for the 2016-17 school year.
The student:teacher ratio of 26:1 is higher than the California state level of 23:1.
Minority enrollment is 42% of the student body (majority Hispanic), which is lower than the California state average of 76%.
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School's student population of 646 students has stayed relatively flat over five school years.
Grades Offered Grades Kindergarten-6
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School's student:teacher ratio of 26:1 has increased from 24:1 over five school years.
The diversity score of Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is 0.58, which is less than the diversity score at state average of 0.64. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five school years.
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School District Name Glendale Unified School District
Source: 2016-2017 (latest school year available) NCES, CA Dept. of Education
The nearest high school to Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is Burbank Usd Community Day (1.2 miles away)
The nearest middle school is Burbank Usd Community Day (1.2 miles away)
The nearest elementary school is Thomas Jefferson Elementary School (0.8 miles away)
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Despite its relative diminutiveness, watchOS 8 still includes a handful of updates to Apple's first-party apps. Changes are mostly minor, but there are some definite improvements to take note of.
Let's start with an easy win: the Timers app in watchOS 8 supports multiple simultaneous timers. When you start a timer from within the app, you can now hit the back button to return to the main view. Your timer will be shown counting down at the top, and you can proceed to start more timers or pause any running ones.
You can set timers using Siri as well, and in this case you can even give them names. For instance, saying "hey Siri, start a pasta timer for 12 minutes" will create a new timer in the Timers app and label it "Pasta." Timers created manually from the app's interface do not support labels.
When timers complete, you'll get a full-screen interface which includes the timer's label if it has one. You can then choose to end or repeat the timer.
The Home app for watchOS has been supercharged with Apple's favorite buzz words: machine learning. Surprising no one, I haven't found this to be particularly effective. As usual though, since it's machine learning, your mileage may vary.
In my apartment, I have twelve smart lightbulbs connected to HomeKit. Of these, I interact with seven of them multiple times each day via scenes. These seven bulbs are always on and always connected. The other five I use sparingly. They are generally turned off at the switch, and thus disconnected.
The new watchOS Home app reserves the top third of the screen for three circular "status symbol" slots. These slots are supposed to intelligently display device statuses, and grant access to devices.
Since five of my light bulbs are almost always disconnected, the top third of my Home app's interface in watchOS 8 is usually worthless to me. It constantly utilizes the first of the three status symbol slots to inform me that five devices are offline. The other two slots are left entirely empty, wasting valuable screen real-estate. Below the status symbol slots, the Home app now "intelligently" displays a scrolling list of devices and scenes which it thinks I might want to use at any given time.
The more I'm exposed to machine learning, especially on watchOS, the more I wish in nearly every circumstance that Apple would just give me some manual controls. Or at least allow manual overrides for power users who want them. I think the new Home app's redesign is great. I love the idea of having quicker access to device statuses, device controls, and scenes. But as long as machine learning is involved, I'll never be able to reliably know what options exist there.
Apple just can't know what I want before I want it as well as I can, and I wish they'd stop trying and let me take control. Instead of device status symbols, if I could set three light bulbs (or better yet, three scenes) to always show up at the top of the Home app, then I'd be using the app all the time. I'd even use it more if I could just set a standard sort order for the scrollable list of devices and scenes below the line of symbols. But alas, as it is, I almost never open the Home app on my Apple Watch.
If your HomeKit setup includes video cameras, then the watchOS 8 Home app might have some legitimately useful new functionality for you. The new update includes the ability to view live security camera footage, and even use your Apple Watch's microphone and speakers to access two-way audio capabilities on supporting camera models. I don't have cameras to test this with, but it sounds like a great new feature addition for the Watch.
Featured photos album and photo sharing in watchOS 8.
The watchOS 8 Photos app has been updated to include new featured photos and Memories. Featured photos show up automatically in the app, and there seems to be a rotating selection of ten of them which change over time.
Memories are also now supported on watchOS. You won't see as many Memories as you see in Photos for iOS, but they'll show up randomly. You can tap into each Memory to see a nice new mosaic-style grid view of that Memory's photos.
Memories come and go without any control, and often there are none present at all. If you don't see any right away on your own Apple Watch, try checking back the next day and hopefully one will have appeared.
Photos in watchOS 8 also supports sharing photos for the first time. When you tap into a photo, you'll see a share button in the bottom-right corner which you can tap to share the image via Messages or Mail, or to create a new Photos watch face with it.
The Wallet app in watchOS 8 has been updated alongside the iOS 15 Wallet app to support new card and key types. You'll be able to store a digital key to your home, your official state driver's license, and your car key in Wallet.
Of course, all of these features require more infrastructure around you to work. The lock on your home needs to support digital keys, as does your car. Your state needs to join Apple's new program, which hasn't fully launched yet.
It's great to see the watchOS version of Wallet keeping up with its iOS counterpart, but it will probably be a few years at least before most of us can make use of most of these features.
watchOS 8's three Find My variants.
Apple rebranded its watchOS Find My Friends app to "Find People" in watchOS 6. This year, it has added two more split-offs from the iOS Find My app to the Apple Watch.
Find Items is an app for tracking your AirTags or any alternative third-party devices enrolled in the Find My program. Find Devices tracks all of the Apple devices that you have connected to your iCloud account.
I get that Apple is trying to keep the complexity of its watchOS apps to a minimum, but having three apps for the same set of features feels even more confusing to me. Especially since these features are all found in the single Find My app on iOS and iPadOS. When you're using the List view for navigating your Apple Watch apps this seems fine, since all three of the Find My app variants appear in a row. On the honeycomb view though, I don't know how anyone is expected to figure out that there are three separate apps for these somewhat related tasks.
Assuming you can find the right app, all three of these are well-designed watchOS apps that I have no complaints about. Each offers a scrolling list of the people/items/devices that you can track, and allows you to tap into an individual entry to access a detailed view.
In the Find Devices app, the details view includes a map of where your device is (or was the last time it checked in), information on the device's last known battery level, and buttons for interacting with it. You can play a sound from the device, put it into Lost mode, or kick off directions to the device via Maps.
Find Devices also supports notifications in watchOS 8, and will ping you if you leave a device behind in an unusual location. While I haven't left my devices anywhere unexpectedly yet, I like the peace of mind that comes from these notifications. If I ever leave my iPad at a coffee shop, I expect a notification to come through when I'm just a few blocks away. It seems to work with enough accuracy that you'll have time to head back and grab your forgotten device.
The watchOS Weather app itself hasn't seen any significant changes, but in watchOS 8 you can receive detailed weather event notifications. These include severe weather alerts, and notifications of upcoming rain or snow. You can set these up in the Weather app on your iPhone in iOS 15.
Creating and viewing contacts in watchOS 8.
watchOS 8 includes a first-party Contacts app for the first time. The app is as straightforward as it gets, but handles everything I'd want from it. You can create, edit, view, and delete contacts all from your Apple Watch. Viewing them gives you quick access to making a phone call, sending a text or email, or connecting via the watchOS Walkie-Talkie feature (in case anyone remembers what that is).
For contacts that you are following on Find My, you'll see a map of their location in the Contacts app, and can launch the Find People app from there.
Creating a new contact is somewhat clunky, but also as good as you could expect from the wrist. In most cases you'll probably want to pull your phone out to do this amount of text input, but when you're in a pinch the Apple Watch can now get the job done. The 'New Contact' button can be found at the very top of the Contacts app. You have to swipe up from the default position to see it, because it lives above the top contact entry.
Speaking of text input, it has been improved significantly in watchOS 8 because you can now mix-and-match content. In previous versions, tapping any emoji from the emoji list would send it immediately as its own message. Now you can swap back and forth between Scribble, dictation, and emoji inputs to compose a full message. You can also spin the Digital Crown to move the cursor input around (to get to the autocorrect suggestions you now need to tap a word in your message before spinning the Digital Crown). This change applies to the system text input interface, so it works in Messages, Mail, Contacts, and more first-party apps. Third-party apps can access this feature as well, but they may need to be updated by their developers first.
The Messages app itself now provides access to Apple's #Images iMessage app. You can access this from the App Store icon in the Messages app in watchOS 8, and it fully supports searching for and sending animated GIFs just like its iOS counterpart.
Control Center's new status icons.
Control Center is mostly the same in watchOS 8, but now you'll find a new set of status icons at the very top of it. These are the same tiny icons that have always flashed in the top center of the watch face. These icons are much easier to see when they're all together, and you can tap on them to open up a detailed view that explains what each icon means and why it's present.
I always found those tiny icons difficult to notice and sometimes hard to understand, so I love this change. It's nice to tap in and see exactly which app is using the microphone on my watch, what the connection status to my iPhone is, and what Focus mode I'm currently in.
The Do Not Disturb button in Control Center now opens Focus settings, and the icon and color changes based on which Focus mode is active.
On that note, Focus modes are new feature in iOS 15. They're essentially custom Do Not Disturb setups, and you can create them on your iPhone. Once you have some Focus modes created, you can turn them on or off from your Apple Watch in watchOS 8.
Focus modes can be accessed from the Do Not Disturb icon in Control Center on the Watch. Just tap the icon and then choose from your list of Focus modes. You can select an amount of time that you want to mode to last for, or just choose "On" to keep it on until you turn it off.
The easy access to Focus modes is great, and I'm glad that Apple chose to put it in Control Center rather than making a new watchOS app specifically for this. The one item that might confuse watchOS users is that the watchOS Sleep mode has been moved to a Focus mode, so you now enable it via the Do Not Disturb icon rather than from its own icon in Control Center. Once you figure this out, it isn't much more difficult to enable or disable Sleep mode than it was previously.
The green check on the ear icon quickly informs you that your volume levels aren't too high.
The final new feature of Control Center is hearing protection. This is a new icon in the shape of an ear, and you can tap it to set the current volume of sound playing through your headphones. Below the current volume, you'll see a slider that shows the impact this volume setting will have on your hearing over time.
I really like this feature as a way to double check that I'm not listening to music so loud that it might damage my hearing. The only unfortunate part is that the feature only works from your Apple Watch when you are playing audio from the Watch itself. If you're playing audio from your iPhone then the hearing protection interface in watchOS' Control Center will just show that nothing is playing.
The iOS Health app still shows a high-level overview of how recent headphone volume levels are affecting your hearing, but I wish that the live view on my Apple Watch would work even when audio is flowing from my phone.
On the right is the Timers app's adjusted interface for when the screen dims. Now rich data can be displayed instead of just a blank screen that shows the time.
In watchOS 8, developers finally have access to the appearance of the Apple Watch when its always-on display is dimmed. In previous versions, the display would cloud over with a dull gray color, and only the system time would be shown. Now, third-party apps will be displayed with their interfaces dimmed out. Developers will be able to control what shows up on the dimmed version, and what data should be updated over time or just removed altogether.
One common example that can be seen in Apple's first-party apps is that minutes will continue to be displayed and updated, but seconds will be replaced with unmoving dashes. You can see this in the examples below, where the Timers app and the Workouts app replace seconds with dashes.
It will be interesting to see how developers take advantage of this, but it's an objectively great improvement for any users of the Apple Watch Series 5 and beyond.
watchOS 8 is the sleepiest update we've seen for the Apple Watch thus far. The always-on face changes are excellent, but otherwise there's not much to get excited about here. While there's nothing explicitly wrong with a slow year of iteration, I can't help but feel a bit disappointed.
The Apple Watch still seems to me like a platform with unrealized potential. Apple is killing it in the health and fitness department, but I think they're dropping the ball in the "computer on your wrist" area. This year, they could only be bothered to make two new watch faces.
The good news is, I do like the Portraits face, and I think it will be a popular pick for new users. I'm worried that the vast majority of users won't find the editing interface for this watch face, and thus might be more frustrated with it than necessary. Even then though, people should be able to find enough photos that look fine for the face to work for them. Ultimately I like more complications to be present, and I prefer analog faces, so Portraits isn't for me. I wish Apple would have given me some other intriguing new options (World Time has way too much going on for my tastes), but I still like my classic Infograph face, so I'll stick with it for another year.
watchOS 8 has plenty of small iterative improvements, making it the best watchOS update to date. While I'm pleased that I can say that, I still wish I could shower it with praises for some bigger, more interesting new features. While it may be a mostly mature operating system, I still think it's far from done. Time will tell, but hopefully Apple agrees.


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A populist anti-corruption party hoping to win state elections in Indian capital Delhi has had the spotlight turned to its own finances.
The Aam Aadmi Party, which translates as the Common Man's Party, was accused by a breakaway faction of receiving illicit funds.
The breakaway Aam Aadmi Volunteer Action March claimed on Monday that the party had received more than $300,000 in funding from four dubious companies which was, according to self-declared details on the party's website, split into four equal payments.
India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party, who are the main contenders in the Delhi state assembly vote on Saturday, have seized upon it with both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley accusing the anti-corruption party of receiving "black money."
Jaitley said the party was caught "red handed" but Aam Aadmi chief Arvind Kejriwal challenged the minister to arrest him, if the charges are proven.
"Everything, Delhi Police, Intelligence Bureau, Income Tax or CBI is in your hands. I challenge the Finance Minister to arrest me if he dares. I have not been dishonest," said Kejriwal, prompting the finance minister Jaitley to question whether the bold statement was a "bluff and bluster exercise."
The Aam Aadmi Party lists all it's donors on a website, even for token amounts of a single Indian rupee. In contrast, an analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms, which tracks political funding, shows that more than 80 percent of the annual income of the Bharatiya Janata Party comes from unknown sources.
"As the Finance Minister, if Mr. Jaitley believes any such hanky-panky is going on, then he should take action instead of posting messages," said Jagdeep Chhokar, a founder member of the Association for Democratic Reforms.
The Aam Aadmi Party were the surprise victors of December 2013 Delhi elections and were able to form a state government on their anti-corruption program but Kejriwal quit as chief minister after less than 50 days, frustrated by barriers to a proposed anti-corruption bill.


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The winding path of MS progression
How the biological processes cause progression in different types of MS.
Last updated: 29th June 2018
MS progression refers to the development of the disease after onset (when symptoms first appear). Although the names are similar, MS progression is not limited to progressive forms of MS (i.e. primary or secondary progressive MS). All forms of MS progress, or change, over time.
When someone with MS has a relapse, this is sometimes referred to as progressing or 'evolving', which describes the frequency and severity of relapses. However, true MS disease progression is the gradual accumulation of disability in between, or in the absence of, relapses.
Progression is the result of three inter-related biological processes.
Neurodegeneration, where neurons, the cells in the brain that send, receive and process information, lose structure and function, and ultimately die.
Inflammation, where the immune system mistakenly registers something in the body – usually harmless – as foreign, and triggers targeted inflammatory cell infiltration to the area and swelling. This response is what classifies MS as an autoimmune disease, where the immune system misfires and attacks healthy tissue.
As MS progresses, the ability of the central nervous system (CNS – the brain and spinal cord) to repair the damage caused by neurodegeneration and inflammation, or to continue to function normally despite that damage,are overwhelmed.
The order in which these processes happen remains unclear and they may be different for different people. Acting together, these three processes lead to the increased disability that characterises MS disease progression.
Measuring disease progression
Currently, when we measure disease progression, we use stand-in measures known as surrogates. Essentially, these are measures of health outcomes – the results of disease progression – rather than measures of the underlying biological process of disease progression itself. These surrogate measures include disability level or relapse rate.
One limitation of using surrogate measures is that they are subjective and therefore introduce uncertainty. In contrast, a direct measure of disease progression would be a single, objective biological measure (a biomarker) that directly reflects the process of progression.
Studies searching for a better biomarkers, including MRI measurements and some blood tests, are underway and this is a major focus of the work of the International Progressive MS Alliance. However, we have yet to discover an effective direct measure of MS disease progression. This gap in our understanding is a stumbling block for research.
Risk factors for disease progression
Risk factors are genes, behaviours or environmental factors that may influence disease progression. Risk factors typically have a detrimental effect, meaning that they increase the chance of greater levels of disability. However, some can have a protective effect, meaning that they decrease the chances of greater levels of disability. Although a great deal is known about the risk factors influencing disease onset (reviewed in this recent article from MS Research Australia), far less is understood about the risk factors influencing disease progression. Nevertheless, we are slowly beginning to build a clearer picture of the reasons why the disease may progress faster in some people than in others.
Smoking causes inflammation in the body and can alter immune cell function. There is good evidence to suggest that smoking influences MS disease progression, increasing the risk of greater disability. Studies have indicated that smokers have 1.5 times the risk of disease progression (meaning greater disability) compared to non-smokers.
Vitamin D can come from your diet or from exposure of the skin to sunlight. Lower vitamin D levels in the blood increases the risk of greater disability, suggesting that vitamin D might be protective against disease progression. It remains unclear exactly how vitamin D causes this response in the body and we need future research to confirm that increasing vitamin D levels through sun exposure, diet or supplements can delay progression.
Other risk factors
No other risk factors have been conclusively shown to influence disease progression. Although diet, for example, is of great interest to the MS community, there is little evidence as yet of its effect on disease progression and scientists simply do not know what role diet and other risk factors play in MS. Fortunately, there are many ongoing research projects working on these questions.
Treatments for MS progression
Treatments for disease progression aim to slow the rate of disability progression (the speed that disability level increases). There are two major types of treatments: disease modifying therapies and modifiable risk factor interventions.
Disease modifying therapies (DMTs)
There is good evidence to suggest that disease modifying therapies (DMTs) for relapsing remitting MS, which are treatments that modify the immune system, do slow disease progression. They can result in lower accumulated disability and reduced risk of relapse over the short-term (5 years or less). In some cases, DMTs have been shown to reduce disability progression by more than 40%. Scientists are currently working to unravel the long-term (greater than 10 years) effects of these treatments, and to determine which DMTs are the most effective.
While these results are exciting, it is important to note that the majority of DMTs have only been demonstrated to be effective treatments for relapsing-remitting MS. However, more recently, progressive forms of MS have been shown to be responsive, to a certain extent, to some DMTs – most notably, Ocrevus (ocrelizumab) for primary progressive MS and high dose Biotin for secondary progressive MS (although this finding still needs to be confirmed). Nevertheless, establishing that we may be able to alter the rate of disability accumulation in progressive forms of MS is of great interest and could significantly improve our ability to deal with progressive MS.
Modifiable risk factor interventions
Although we can't change our genes, some risk factors for disease progression are modifiable. Modifiable risk factors are behaviours that can be changed or environmental factors that can be avoided. These include smoking, exercise and diet. Modifiable risk factor interventions are treatments that alter the modifiable risk factor in order to improve health outcomes, such as quitting smoking, or taking vitamin D supplements.
Although two modifiable risk factors – smoking and vitamin D levels – have been shown to influence disease progression, there is little evidence as yet that the related interventions of quitting smoking and increasing vitamin D intake slow disease progression. This apparent contradiction is likely due to the very small amount of scientific evidence that is currently available. More studies with larger numbers of people need to be conducted in this area before we can really understand the potential effects of modifiable risk factor interventions on MS disease progression.
A great deal is still unknown about MS disease progression. For now, living as healthy a lifestyle as possible remains the best overall approach for people living with MS, along with appropriate prescription medications, such as DMTs. A healthy lifestyle includes physical activity and exercise, maintaining a healthy weight and cholesterol level, no smoking, adequate sun exposure and vitamin D levels, and a well-balanced diet.
Scientists continue to address these questions in their work, and future research projects will deepen our understanding of the causes and consequences of disease progression in MS.
With thanks to MS Research Australia – the lead provider of research summaries on our website.
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George Marlow (24 September 1876 – 21 May 1939) (born Joseph Marks) was an Australian theatrical entrepreneur born in London of Jewish extraction, noted for bringing melodrama and pantomime to Sydney audiences in the early 1900s. His name has been frequently mis-spelled as "George Marlowe".

History
Marlow was born Joseph Lewis Marks (or Marx) to Morris Marks (1834 – 21 January 1920) and his wife Celia Marks, née Jones, (1835 – 29 December 1898). Among his siblings were A. Adolph Marks (c. 1871 – 22 May 1956), who would establish A. A. Marks Ltd., wholesale tobacconists, and Alfred Isaac Marks (c. 1873 – 21 August 1947), later business manager for George Marlow Dramatic Company and treasurer of several of Marlow's theatres, and married actress Miss Elwyn Harvey on 24 December 1913.

He came to Australia as a child, and started acting and playing piano for stage plays. He was playing with the William Anderson organisation in Sydney and Brisbane in 1899 as was Ethel Buckley (born c. 1885), whom he married around 1901.
Ethel had made a mark as "Puck" in a George Rignold production of Midsummer Night's Dream at the age of twelve, a role she reprised several times, then melodramas such as The Luck of Roaring Camp in 1907. She worked six months in London
 After her marriage (c. 1910) to Marlow, she starred in his shows. Her most famous role was as "Cigarette" in an adaptation of the Ouida novel Under Two Flags in 1915.

He became involved in the managerial side of the theatre, first with William Anderson, then from around 1904 with the Fuller family chain. By 1907 he had his own company, first leasing a theatre in Newcastle. By Christmas 1910 he was lessee of, then a year later purchased the Princess's Theatre, Melbourne. In 1911 he built The Adelphi, in Castlereagh Street, Haymarket, Sydney, the largest theatre in Australia.
The Bad Girl of the Family was his first production in the new theatre, followed by the George Fowler musical The Fatal Wedding and the melodrama The Rosary. He took The Bad Girl of the Family to London around the same time. They were still in UK in 1912

After purchasing the Princess's Theatre, he hired as manager of The Adelphi George Willoughby (full name George Willoughby Dowse), who made a great success of it. Willoughby, with Arthur Bernard Davies and George T. Eaton bought him out in 1913, reportedly for £50,000, but had problems with Marlow's continuing involvement.
In 1915 Marlow in partnership with Ben Fuller bought out Willoughby. and 1916 renamed it the Grand Opera House. Some years later it became the Tivoli.

Marlow also directed some feature films, Driving a Girl to Destruction (1911) and Angel of his Dreams (1912).

His leading actors
Around 1910, the 15-year old Louise Lovely (then as Louise Carbasse) was one of his "stars".
Other noted actors in his troupes included Arthur Shirley, Nellie Bramley and Vera Spaull.

Although he claimed not to be interested in producing "classics", he managed the Grand Shakespearean Company from 1916–1920 at the Princess, with such hits as The Merchant of Venice starring Allan Wilkie.

In 1916, Carrie Moore made an appearance as "principal boy" in his pantomime Dick Whittington at the Adelphi. Presumably her famous legs were a major attraction of the show.

Later years
In partnership with Nacio Herb Brown, he produced The Sneak in 1922.

By 1925 The Grand Opera House had become rather unfashionable. In 1929 he partnered with Ernest C. Rolls to produce revue Clowns in Clover and Whoopee at The Empire. Both failed and Marlow-Rolls Theatres collapsed owing £50,000.

He produced a Christmas pantomime Beauty and the Beast around 1930 at the Grand Opera House with songs by the great cricketer Don Bradman and Jack Lumsdaine, Billy Moll, Harry Richman and Murray Mencher.

He was a longtime racing enthusiast, owning horses including Trinobantes, Somnolent, Halifax and Georgio, and was for a time on the Tattersall's Club committee.

George and Ethel were still together in 1937, even appearing in a pantomime.
He died in a Sydney nursing home, survived by his wife (died 8 September 1958) and a daughter Marie. His estate was valued at £30,110. They had a home "Franconia", 123 Macleay Street, Potts Point, Sydney.

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1939 deaths
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Holker Hall and Gardens
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Holker Hall, never sold throughout its 400 year history, is the family home of Lord and Lady Cavendish. It is a delightful family home with fine displays of antique furniture and art, and both the Hall and the gardens are open to the public.
Holker Hall is the finest house in South Lakeland. The architectural interest of the house is almost all Victorian, a replacement after a fire in 1871. It is the work of Paley and Austin, and is their oustanding domestic work, using red sandstone in the Elizabethan style.
You can tour the house without the restriction of ropes and barriers, and see the distinguished library, elegant drawing room, and ornate dining room. Climb the striking staircase and you can view portraits of Charles II, and Catherine of Braganza. You can visit the bedroom where Queen Mary stayed in 1937.
The gardens are winners of Christies/HHA Garden of the Year in 1991, and voted 'amongst the best in the world' by the Good Gardens Guide, 1996. The pleasure grounds cover 25 acres of formal and woodland gardens, with majestic water features including the limestone cascade.
There is a lime tree here, some 72 feet high and with a diameter of 92 inches, with a huge squat trunk, celebrated by The Tree Council in June 2002 as one of fifty 'Great British Trees'.
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There is a Gift Shop, Food Hall, Courtyard Café and Ilex Brasserie, a small children's playground and picnic tables. A calendar of events runs through the year, full details of these can be found on the Holker Hall website.
Holker Hall is one of the gardens in Cumbria with free entry for RHS Members at specific times of the year.
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What Tiger Woods said after opening 70 at Honda Classic
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By Kevin Casey February 22, 2018 3:05 pm
By Kevin Casey | February 22, 2018 3:05 pm
Tiger Woods opened the Honda Classic on Thursday with an even-par 70. Here's the best of what he had to say after his first round:
On Thursday's conditions at PGA National:
"It was difficult out there. … Definitely it was different, like playing a British Open. You get a shot on the green and see a big puff of sand. But it was tough. It was tough all the way around. I just had to grind it out all day."
On how much of what he's doing right is technique and execution:
"I think it's a blend of all of those. I'm trying to get better, more efficient at what I'm doing and also I'm actually doing under the gun, under the pressure of having to hit golf shots, and this golf course is not forgiving whatsoever. I was very happy with the way I hit it today."
On where he feels his game is at right now:
"Yeah, I feel like I'm really not that far away. I'm starting to really get a feel for scoring again and scoring in tournaments, and today was a day I'm very proud of because I missed the ball in the correct spots."
On if he felt this was his best ball-striking day in his comeback:
"Yeah, easily. Just only my seventh round, so it easily was my best ball-striking day. I was very pleased."
On his overall comfort with his ball-striking:
"I felt very comfortable today. I felt like I hit the ball really well, and it was tough out there. I had to hit a lot of knock-down shots. I had to work the golf ball both ways, and occasionally downwind, straight up in the air. I was able to do all that today, so that was very pleasing."
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Mar Rojo es un proyecto artístico musical chileno que cultiva un sonido cercano al Indie Rock con clara influencia latinoamericana, nacido en el seno de la comuna de Buin 36 kilómetros al sur de Santiago de Chile. El dúo está compuesto por André Valenzuela y Pietro Mutis, sobrino del destacado músico chileno Mario Mutis de Los Jaivas

Historia

Comienzos
Comenzando la segunda década de este siglo, en el año 2010 se materializa en forma sonora una búsqueda que comenzaba con una idea de entrelazar la escucha interna, la actualidad y la contingencia social. Un año más tarde sale a la luz pública Pulsación, un álbum en formato de EP que propone la exploración de frecuencias bajas y líneas melosas en donde los estados del corazón toman gran importancia lírica.
En esta primera etapa Mar Rojo realizó shows en importantes escenarios de la escena chilena compartiendo con bandas de renombre nacional en la época como De Saloon, Juana Fe, sumando rotación de radios de Chile, apariciones en televisión, y una serie de críticas positivas al álbum por páginas especializadas.

Insomnio
En el 2013 se termina de edificar lo que se convirtió en el primer álbum larga duración titulado Insomnio, un disco en donde compartieron con Francisco González de la banda Lucybell, plasmando la colaboración en "Adicción", uno de los tracks destacados del trabajo discográfico.
En Insomnio se puede observar una inclinación por sonidos más brillantes a los del comienzo, y desde su lanzamiento acaparó buenas críticas, plasmándolo en la postulación al desaparecido Premio Altazor 2013, y la realización del Tour Insomnio, la primera gira internacional que los llevó a presentarse en prestigiosos escenarios de ciudades como México DF, Guadalajara, Quito, Chillán, Valparaíso y Santiago compartiendo escena con artistas de la talla de Fito Páez, Sol y Lluvia y Los Tres.

Definitivo
Uno de los pilares en las influencias sobre el proyecto es sin duda la forma canción y como esta se popularizó durante las últimas dos décadas del siglo pasado, y con la idea de dejar un manifiesto sonoro de aquello el 2015 se edifica "Definitivo", un trabajo artístico a cuarteto tradicional (voz, guitarra, bajo y batería) que se convirtió en el segundo álbum larga duración de Mar Rojo.
Para este álbum la colaboración fue con el destacado productor chileno Mariano Pavez quien realizó un trabajo previo a la grabación, y posteriormente le dio la forma final al máster.
De la mano de Galáctica Interestelar, que fue galardonada como mejor canción Rock Alternativo en publicaciones independientes, se inició el Tour Definitivo, una gira que mostró por Latinoamérica el sonido en vivo del álbum.

AmericaLatina y actualidad
Actualmente el dúo se encuentra en medio de la publicación paulatina del material que se convertirá en el tercer álbum larga duración, pero que a diferencia de los álbumes anteriores, este se va haciendo en directa relación con la contingencia de un modo evidencial.

Discografía

EP
 Pulsación, 2011.

LP
 Insomnio, 2013.
 Definitivo, 2016.
 AmericaLatina, 2020.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 https://web.archive.org/web/20160324114940/http://www.marrojo.cl/
 https://web.archive.org/web/20141013070300/http://www.igedrecords.com/mar-rojo
 http://www.facebook.com/marrojochile
 http://www.youtube.com/marrojomusica

Grupos de rock de Chile


Many argue that Manali-Leh Highway takes the cake when it comes to 'grandness' of scale and scenery, despite the route being tough on the body and mind. I agree to the latter. I found Srinagar-Leh Highway, also known as National Highway 1, to be an equal and not a contender in terms of the wow factor the landscape dials up once you hit the road. It's also easy on your body as the roads are far, far better. There are three high-altitude passes as compared to the five that are on the Manali-Leh Highway. More so, the passes on the Srinagar-Leh Highway aren't as high as the ones on the Manali-Leh Highway. They're still formidable, yes. Here's a chart for comparison.
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Good weather has kept us company throughout and today is no different. The last leg of our journey begins with the sun shining bright. We bid farewell to Leh. A return soon is on the cards. Magnetic Hill is our first pit stop. The only thing I find magnetic about the place is how incredibly drawn people are to it. And the only thing I find gravity defying about it is how people would jump hoops repeatedly to get a decent picture. We did it too; just not here. Moving on, Sangam welcomes us with as beautiful a landscape as it can get. It's the confluence of two giant rivers: Zanskar and Indus.
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I wonder if Kargil War Memorial would have had the same impact if we had visited it in the first leg of the journey. It has been a little over two weeks for everybody since they saw their family. Network connectivity has been poor and unavailable for few days at a stretch. The altitude has gotten the better of each one of us at least once at some point or the other. We have fought no wars, not even battles. Maybe this is why it makes us all swell up a little as we pay our visits and respect to the fallen ones. Acknowledging, maybe, in a better way than before on what amount of superhuman strength, both physical and emotional it must have taken for our soldiers to end a war they didn't start. Thankful and honestly, a little touched, we hit the road again.
Dras has been as beautiful as Zoji La is going to be daunting. The roads, at several stretches are in bad shape, made worse by rains and landslides. A JCB machine is trying to clear up debris midway and there's traffic piling up. Not for too long though. Descending from the nightmare of a highway (just around Zoji La) into the land of golden meadows, Sonamarg has been breathtaking. It's my second visit to Sonamarg in less than a month. We stop for lunch and the Mirchi Korma (of Wazwan) has everybody chewing their hands off. There's still good amount of daylight left so we decide to reach Srinagar by the end of it and cosy up in a houseboat, buying souvenirs from the Shikara walas whilst savouring hot cups of Qehwa. It feels like savouring memories instead, sip by sip. Memories from more than the two weeks that have gone by!
Kargil War Memorial. Mount Tololing in the background.
Kargil War Memorial. Tiger Hill in the background.


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