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5 Mistakes That Hollywood Blockbusters Should Stop Making, as Proved By Pan
Emmet Asher-Perrin
Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:00pm 39 comments 9 Favorites [+]
There is a moment in Pan where Peter arrives in Neverland, and the audience discovers that it's filled with miners—most of them children. They greet the new recruits from Peter's orphanage with a cry of music, a boisterous rendition of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Then Hugh Jackman's Blackbeard arrives on the scene and joins in on the chorus, jumping up onto the rails of his pirate ship and throwing his arms open wide, like he wants to hug the world.
I really wish I had made all of that up.
Pan was not good. In fact, I can't really call this a "review" because all I came away with was a headache, and a list of things that should never happen in the movie. If you're not inclined to take my word for it, I can assure you that I was not the only one; practically everyone in my theatre shouted "What?!?" incredulously at several points during the film. No one was happy. I think the only reason people stayed through the whole screening was because it was raining pretty hard outside and we all wanted to see if we could outlast the storm.
This film pretty much proves everything that's wrong with the Hollywood machine these days. We'll forgive a misstep or two from films that we're already excited for, but making all of those missteps in a single film that no one was really hankering for is pure negligence. So what should today's blockbusters be avoiding? Here's a handy list:
Spoilers for the whole film below.
"HOW DID WE GET ON THIS SHIP AGAIN?"
1. Never Showing Your Work
You know that annoying thing that math and science teachers make you do, where you have to prove that you understand how you got from Point A to Point B by writing down the steps to get there? Remember how it sucks, but it's also kind of really important?
Yeah, that rule applies to filmmaking most of the time, too.
Pan is one long series of jump cuts. As in, there are countless scenes where characters say "Let's do a thing!"—and then you cut to the next scene, and that thing they were talking about doing has already been done. So Hook says "We're gonna fix this busted-up pirate ship so it can fly!" Then we cut to the next scene, and the ship is repaired and flying. Do this a couple of times in a film, and the audience can forgive it. Do this in practically every scene, and you're proving one of three things:
A) Your film has too much packed into it, forcing you to cut large, bleeding chunks out of your story so it fits into the two hour limit.
B) Your film is relentlessly boring, and erasing huge portions of the action was the only way to make it watchable.
C) You can't figure out how to make everything in your film happen, so jumping away from the story at key moments prevents you from having to think about how your world works.
In the case of Pan, it was a little of all of these; I mean, it would have been pretty cool to find out how Hook and Peter repaired the flying pirate ship, right? But it wasn't a priority because too many other things had to happen in the story. It's not the only transport that suddenly appears as needed—Peter, Tiger Lily, and Hook find a strange boat at some point, but we're never around for its discovery. We just cut to our heroes on the water, and are forced to accept this timely acquisition.
Then there's the purpose of Neverland's mining operation; to obtain "pixum," or fairy dust, which Blackbeard is using to stay young. We find that out that it's an immortality agent because the film arrives at a scene featuring an old man mixing up the pixum and turning back into Blackbeard. We never see him age into the old man at any point beforehand, though. He's suddenly ancient, and then he's Hugh Jackman again.
This is a family film, so death is handled in an off-putting way, too; the pirates are allowed to die horribly—like normal folk—but the Natives of Neverland literally explode into puffs of brightly-colored dust. No rhyme or reason for that one—it just looks whimsical, the way death should be (?!??!)
The aforementioned Nirvana segue is another place where "showing your work" should have been in play. (And it's not the only offense—there's a Ramones song in there, too.) After the musical interlude, Blackbeard gives a throwaway line about how the kids in Neverland come from across time, giving an explanation as to how ye olde pirates might know what Kurt Cobain rocked out to. But this is never brought up again because its only purpose in the script is to justify the use of modern music. Which then only serves to prove how out of place it is. (FYI, the reason that music was actually chosen was because all the fellows in "pirate bootcamp" for the movie weren't feeling the traditional sea shanties, so director Joe Wright brought in some current music for funsies. Because that's how you make important world-building decisions.)
"I've got this great destiny for you, it's just like the one that Jean Grey gave to me back when I had big metal claws."
2. Plots Full o'Clichés
Look, movies (especially big crowd-pleasing ones) have a flow to them. They all play into certain clichés, and that's okay, since we're often just looking for something diverting and fun. But if your entire movie is built on them and has nothing original to recommend it? At that point, it's time to go back to the board and find a story you'd really enjoy telling.
And no, "re-imginaging" the Peter Pan story does not give you points for originality—especially if you do it badly (which I'll get into later).
Pan is a movie that took stock lines from every other movie and slotted them in wherever explanations were needed. When Levi Miller's Peter meets Garrett Hedlund's Hook, he learns that they're both miners that have been forced into Blackbeard's service—but Hook is the veteran. Hook decides to help Peter, sharpening his ax so the kid's instrument doesn't tear up his hands so badly. But then, to prove that he's our rugged antihero, he says, "I'm not your friend, kid." Get it? Because he's going to prove that he's Peter's friend later, and then we'll all give a hearty laugh about how cold he tried to be in the beginning!
In perfect cliché form, once Peter accidentally flies for the first time in front of Blackbeard, the pirate takes him aside to tell him of a prophecy—one that speaks of a Neverland "native" and a fairy prince who had a child. A child that was destined to destroy the pirate king. You may have seen the trailer, where Blackbeard asks Peter "Are you here to kill me?" and the kid's response is "I don't believe in bedtime stories." And sure, he's scared, but I'm still expecting him to throw on a pair of aviator shades and stalk out.
Peter has to wrestle with his destiny, of course, but 90 minutes into the film he's still not feeling it. He tells Tiger Lily that he's scared about trying to fulfill said prophecy and failing to be the "Pan" everyone thinks he is, and she bravely tells him, "What if you fail to try?" because that's a very convincing argument to get someone to accept responsibility for an entire world. Since it's fine if you completely ruin everything as long as you gave it the old college heave-ho! Er….
It gets even worse when you count the sequel set-up that they voiceover-in at the end: Pan and Hook have a happy moment, which Peter busts up by thinking about what could possibly ruin their newfound friendship. Then Hook is like, I know, right? What could possibly come between us at this point?
Groan.
"As the Great Cobain would have said—ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED BY THE STUPID AND CONTAGIOUS?"
3. Genre-Mashing for No Reason
The Nirvana-time music kerfuffle lends Pan a strange (and ultimately brief) Baz Luhrmann-y sheen, which would have been a fine direction if the film had actually stuck to it. But there are about seven different movies stuffed into Pan, all the result of brief flirtations with various archetypes and action sequences. When the film begins, Peter is kidnapped out of an orphanage by Blackbeard's ship… but this is during World War II, during the air raids, and a sea of British fighter planes are called forth to combat the strange ship in the sky.
So we've got half of a war movie, like the start of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but without any of the substance. (When the planes approach the rigging, Peter actually shouts "Oh, come on!"—clearly as incredulous as we are.)
Then we meet Garrett Hedlund's Hook, who has a very strange mush of an accent, as though Jimmy Stewart and Karl-Urban-as-Dr-McCoy taught him how to cowboy together, in a moment of unforeseen brotherhood. Peter, Hook, and Smee's escape from the mines smacks of an old-fashioned western, as does their initial encounter with the Natives of Neverland, who hang Hook upside-down by his ankles.
We've got their encounter with the giant Never-birds, which has a hint of Wonderland about it, but Peter's use of the beasts to rescue his friends is straight out of Avatar, and every other movie ever like it.
The heroes eventually find the lost fairy kingdom (hidden away all this time in another dimension to prevent Blackbeard from getting his hands on their pixum), and when Peter decides to accept his destiny, the fairies rally to him… but they don't behave like an army. They behave like a superpower. Peter controls the lot of them through hand gestures and posing, and they charge at things like a single beam of fairy light. Peter seems more like Iron Man that the Boy Who Won't Grow Up.
Some genre-hopping in a movie can be incredibly effective. People love mashups. On the other hand, Cowboys and Aliens failed to be effective for a reason, and having this many genres piled into one movie is plain sloppy. Deciding to create a Pan musical with pop songs would have probably served them better in the end.
"I am an excellent representation of all women for the purposes of this film."
4. Fake-Out Diversity
If you paid attention to the casting announcements for Pan, you heard about the controversy surrounding Rooney Mara's casting as Tiger Lily. Director Joe Wright claimed that he intended to create a diverse Neverland from the beginning, and Lupita Nyong'o and Pooja Hegde were both considered for the role. Javier Bardem was also offered the role of Blackbeard before Hugh Jackman took it on. The denizens of Blackbeard's mines and the Natives of Neverland are an entirely diverse population, and that's only right; if Steven Spielberg had the good sense to cast a non-homogenous group of Lost Boys twenty years ago in Hook, then it would have been a serious mistake not to attempt the same in 2015.
And yet all the lead characters in Pan are white.
It's a glaring misfire, and one that was pointed out from the beginning. If anything, the seas of POC extras in the film only make the problem more pronounced; the Natives of Neverland are a diverse group that are ultimately led by a white woman. Blackbeard is white, Peter is white, Hook is white. If Neverland is meant to be diverse, then all of these characters needed to be as well. (Smee is the only notable exception, but he's the group "traitor"… so we get another layer of wince on our awkward sandwich.) Indeed, given how heavily the world of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan has been revamped, there's no need for anyone to be English or white at all.
The movie manages to do even poorer still where women are concerned. Peter finds out that his mother (Amanda Seyfried) was a Neverland Native, and that his father was a fairy prince who became human for one day to be with the woman he loved. After his father's death (because fairies can only last a day in human form), Peter's mother hid him on Earth, where he was to remain until he was ready to come home and fulfill his destiny. She fought for her people and the fairies against Blackbeard, who was in love with her and ultimately killed her. Peter finds out that his mother was a warrior, and that's meant to be inspiring to him. But she's ultimately another woman in a refrigerator; strong, but still dead because the plot requires that Peter look to her for inspiration, not for him to find a mother.
We find out that Tiger Lily learned to fight from Peter's mom, and she proves her warrior's mettle throughout the film, only to need rescuing by Peter in the final act when she goes up against Blackbeard. So after two hour's worth of talk about important warrior women who get the job done, all the women in the narrative are still sidelined or dead so that we can be reminded of our sacred hero's birthright. Tiger Lily's romance with Hook is sad and undeveloped. He's supposed to seem charming, but he does practically nothing to recommend himself as a companion other than show up at the last minute to help. (Sure, Han Solo did that too, but Leia made him work for it over the next few years.)
And then there are the mermaids, who are identical clones of Cara Delevingne… which comes off less like a creative species choice, and more like a weird naughty dream that the screenwriter had one evening that no one ever needed to know about.
These days, audiences are quick to suss out when you truly care about diverse perspectives, and when you're going through the motions. Pan fails even the most preliminary tests in that regard. Sure, the filmmakers were probably worried about offending moviegoers by sticking with the Native Indians of Neverland (since no version of the Peter Pan story has ever been particularly stellar in depicting Native Americans), but better to do that and fail than never even try in the first place.
"What's a Tinkerbell? Does she play a part in my important man-destiny?"
5. Utter Disregard for the Source Material
This is the one that sticks the hardest for me. Because whatever flaws it may have, I adore Peter Pan. It's a story that is dear to my heart, and there are key tenets that should be observed for any successful adaptation. So what did this movie really get wrong?
It's a mythic origin story.
Peter Pan is not a Hercules. He not a Gilgamesh or a Beowulf or an Achilles. Peter Pan is not a stock hero with a great destiny—he is a god of mischief. He is fickle and cruel. He is boisterous and haughty. He is kind only when the mood hits him. Of all the characters who deserve an epic for an origin story, Peter Pan has never been one of them. Giving him this grand background as a sacred son of Neverland, the child of a native woman and a fairy prince, it speaks of a fundamental misunderstanding of what Peter Pan is and what he is meant to embody. (No, seriously, I wrote an entire article about this a year ago.)
Many reviewers have hopefully labelled this film as the death of the "origin story" plot, and certainly it's one that Hollywood has done to death. But giving Peter Pan an origin story isn't necessarily a mistake—the mistake is in giving him the same origin story as everyone else.
Fine, anything can be re-imagined any way you want, but that doesn't mean it should be. And ultimately you have a responsibility to understand the story you adapt. And Peter Pan is a fascinating children's tale for the precise reason that Peter isn't essentially "good." It's not anyone's job to make him more palatable when he's captivating exactly as he is. Scrubbing him clean and turning him into a wonder boy robs us of a complex figure who gives us a window into the uglier aspects of childhood. Jealousy, greed, limited attention span, inability to empathize, these are all hallmarks of Pan. Let him be the horrible, wonderful boy he perceives himself to be.
But perhaps most important of all, this version of Neverland has destroyed an essential aspect of Barrie's legacy: imagination. Neverland is not a solid place that can be measured with dimensions and periodic tables and mile markers. It is a place of pretend, its boundaries are permeable, its reality always in question. To give this world rules, chemical substances, hierarchies of people, makes it antithetical to everything that Neverland stands for.
Neverland is meant to be whatever you see when you close your eyes.
The general consensus seems to be that people don't like Pan, and that's at least a relief. But Hollywood keeps making movies like it and assuming that we're eager for more. So maybe they should implement a checklist? A set of guidelines? At the very least, they could make an effort to avoid these obvious missteps.
And then I'll never have to sit through another Pan again.
Emmet Asher-Perrin feels particularly bad for Levi Miller, who did a lovely job through the whole thing and deserved a better movie to star in. You can bug her on Twitter and Tumblr, and read more of her work here and elsewhere.
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Железенка — название географических объектов в России.

Населённые пункты
 Железенка — деревня в Сухиничском районе Калужской области.
 Железенка — деревня в составе города Нижняя Тура Свердловской области.
 Железенка — посёлок в Лесном районе Тверской области.

Река
 Железенка — старое название реки Каменка в Свердловской области, нижнего притока Исети.
 Железенка (река) — река в Ленинградской области. Относится к речному бассейну реки Луга (левый приток реки Ящера - один из притоков реки Луга).

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Executive Summary: I can only assume you haven't bought this already because you didn't know about it. If you have a serious interest in orchestral music and great playing, this is for you. Not for the casual listener.
It would be impossible for me to contain my enthusiasm for this set, so I won't even try. Commenting on every item on these discs would seem unnecessary since many of these broadcasts have already assumed "legendary status" in pirate issues often with worse sonics. I will attempt to highlight some of those performances which require special mention. All of these performances are from live broadcasts.
The first disc features the earliest known examples of a broadcast recording of the New York Philharmonic. The tantalizing excerpts of Mengelberg's reading of the Strauss can only be described as transcendental. The orchestra plays beautifully. Listening to those eleven minutes of the Strauss was akin to the thought of the scenario of the movie "Somewhere in Time." It was like eavesdropping on an era when music making was so very different, a very different time. The style of playing was marked by practices like the use of portamento, rubato and changes in dynamics, which when tastefully applied could heighten the expression. This however should not be confused with sloppy playing, for the orchestra, based upon these excerpts, was a magnificent, expressive instrument back in the 1920s. The playing had a humanity one less frequently encounters. The Beethoven excerpt conducted by van Hoogstraten shows an orchestra that played with precision and virtuosity. Anyone with interest in the music of Bruckner will want to hear the Klemperer performance. Is this a great Bruckner performance? Probably not for everyone, but for me it was very moving.
Disc two is devoted to Toscanini performances. The first offering, the Bach Toccata and Fugue in d minor as orchestrated by Sir Henry Wood, would seem to be a contradiction in terms. Wood's orchestration, glockenspiel and all, conducted by Toscanini the purist is an odd combination at the very least but if this performance doesn't give you goose bumps, you must be dead. As with all Heifetz I have ever heard, his performance of the Brahms Concerto is impeccably controlled and yet more expressive than his usually playing. It will not disappoint.
Music of Glinka in a spirited performance, conducted by Stravinsky opens disc three. With Szell's respectful and attentive accompaniment, Schnabel's Beethoven Third Concerto, dropped notes and all, is touching. He plays the slow movement as beautifully as I have ever heard it.
One of the great surprises in this set can be found on disc four, Stokowski in the Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony. Certainly this is not repertoire generally associated with him yet it is a spirited, convincing and committed performance, truly a delight!
Listening to Walter and Rubinstein's collaboration on the Chopin First Piano Concerto on disc five makes me sad to think that these two artists did not record together. This performance produced one of the most elegant readings of the Chopin I have ever heard. While it might not be all that Kempe brought to the work, Walter's reading of the Strauss Symphonia Domestica is well paced and most satisfying.
The only recommendation the performance of the Wagner, on disc six, needs is the mention of the soloist, Kirsten Flagstad. Poulenc plays his Concert Champêtre, in the piano version, beautifully. Mitropoulos seems to be trying to bring the seriousness and sense of scope he would bring to Mahler to the sudden shifts of mood and humor of Poulenc. They both compromise. The performance of the Shostakovich by Oistrakh and Mitropoulos is, in a word, electrifying!
Nadia Boulanger conducts a moving Fauré Requiem on disc seven. Monteux's reading of the Ravel Tombeau de Couperin is delightful. It was over twenty years ago when I first acquired a tape of Cantelli's New York Philharmonic broadcast of La Mer. It is one of those works that invites a wide range of expression in its interpretation, hence I find it impossible to limit myself to one favorite performance. However, Cantelli's broadcast remains one of my favorite readings along with performances by Koussevitzky, Toscanini, Munch and Reiner with each offering something wonderfully different.
I found hearing Bernstein, on disc eight, in music from the Second Viennese School to be fascinating. He gives a respectful reading of the Webern and a dynamic performance of the Berg. For me the highlight of this disc is Reiner's exacting, knockout account of the Brahms Second Symphony.
Disc nine opens with a well paced Mozart 29th Symphony conducted by Leinsdorf. André Kostelanetz' contribution to building the repertoire is highlighted with his conducting of Walton's Capriccio burlesco, a work he premièred with the Philharmonic in 1968. When it came to stating his favorite interpreter of his music, Copland mentioned the name of Leonard Bernstein. It is easy to understand Copland's preference when listening to Bernstein conduct Marilyn Horne in portions of the Old American Songs.
On disc ten Munch somehow manages to completely transform the tonal quality of the orchestra in a captivating performance of Debussy's Prélude. It is both a tribute to flexibility of the musicians of the New York Philharmonic and to the creative powers of Charles Munch. It would be difficult to imagine a more exciting performance of the Bartók than Kubelík's broadcast of 1981.
Each of the selections on these discs was obviously chosen for specific reasons, conductors in repertoire they did not record, first performances, and conductors and soloists who, for contractual reasons, were prevented from making commercial recordings together. There would also seem to be an intent to address the interests of the more general audience by providing a wide range of repertoire, almost a little something for everybody who would likely have attended a concert of the New York Philharmonic. The fact that this set even exists must be close to a miracle. One can only wonder at how many legal considerations, permissions, etc. that were required to make these performances available.
Sound quality is a major concern, especially in historical issues. The credit for the transfer work goes to the Seth Winner Studios and Jon Samuels. That alone will tell us that these transfers are the best of what could have been obtained from the available sources. How good is that sound? It varies. Those of you familiar with the art of recording back in the 1920s will marvel at the relative excellence of the sound quality of the Mengelberg. There were times when I personally felt there was a bit too much noise reduction used, however since I am used to the sound of older recordings I might be an exception, for the more general listener is likely to wish for more noise reduction! By the time you get to the third disc and the 1940s you are hearing, to my ears, sound comparable to the best of commercial recordings of the period. Broadcast recordings of that time have, to my ears, the added advantage of more natural resonance versus many recordings of those years which featured a drier ambiance. Yes, you will hear plenty of audience noise, especially in the more recent broadcasts. There are instances where the surviving discs did not offer smooth, easily reconstructed side breaks. However if great sound is your thing, this set is not for you. If however you don't mind listening past the noise to experience magnificent, expressive playing and have the money, click on your web browser and surf over to the New York Philharmonic and order this set.
There has been talk that this set is the first of many. One can only imagine what other treasures could be made available. One wonders if much of the Koussevitzky Philharmonic performances survive. A set of the orchestra doing American Music could include the likes of the music of Schuman done by Bernstein, Cantelli and Mitropoulos. Other offerings could include Bruno Walter conducting music of Daniel Gregory Mason. How about Bernstein doing the Copland Variations for Orchestra? It would seem that a multidisc set of Barbirolli years and yet another focusing on the Mitropoulos tenure would provide a wonderful impetus to explore the outstanding contributions of these musicians. If this current set is viewed as the "tip of the iceberg," it clearly one of the most beautifully sculpted chunks of ice imaginable.


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Успеновское сельское поселение — муниципальное образование (сельское поселение) в России:

 Успеновское сельское поселение — входит в Белогорский район Амурской области
 Успеновское сельское поселение — входит в Бурейский район Амурской области
 Успеновское сельское поселение — входит в Завитинский район Амурской области
 Успеновское сельское поселение — входит в Ивановский район Амурской области
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Balcony TV Awards 2008
By sheena
June 24th, 2008 @ 2:04 PM Events,Music
The Sugar Club, 20th June 2008
It was back to the Sugar Club for me on Friday night, this time to attend the Balcony TV Awards 2008. The awards mark the second anniversary of the show where many of Ireland's finest new musicians have cut their teeth and made their first foray into the public eye. Started in 2006 by 3 flatmates (Stephen O'Regan, Pauline Freeman and Tom Millett), Balcony TV started out life recording up and coming Irish acts from a tiny balcony on Dame Street. The recordings quickly became an internet sensation and Balcony TV was recently nominated for a prestigious 'Webby Award'. Balcony TV now boasts a sister site in Hamburg and rumours about expansion into the US and Europe are rife.
With free admission before 10.30 and a poster bearing the promise of FREE BEER, it was no surprise that the venue was packed tighter than a tin of sardines. Throw in entertainment from the likes of Royseven, The Kinetiks, John Spillane and Reader's Wives amongst others, and you have all the right ingredients for a cracking showcase of the cream of new Irish talent. The awards, which came in the form of little golden guitars, were presented throughout the night by the likes of Leanne Harte (last year's winner of the 'Best Female' award) and Una Mullally (journalist and Dublin music scene queen).
A special mention goes to The Kinetiks, who played an impressively tight set, and to German beatbox master, Alberto the Musicbox, who rapidly transfixed the crowd with his phenomenal ability to emulate an unbelievable variety of music genres and instruments. Check out his myspace page here.
Alberto the Musicbox.
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Right, time to get down to business. And the award goes to…..
Best Male Keith O'Brien
Best Female Luan Parle
Best International Act Apes in the Orange Grove (Netherlands)
Best Alternative Show Raven
Balcony TV Hamburg Jan Baruschke & Markus Rollwage
Best Show Zoe Conway & John McIntyre
Best Band The Script
Congrats to all the winners and thanks to the organisers for a great night!

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A interview with the first woman to travel to all 196 sovereign countries on the planet.
Cassie DePecol is the first woman to travel to all 196 sovereign countries on the planet. She's a fan of Anthony Bourdain, an advocate for peace through tourism and hopes to inspire youth to seek adventure through travel. At the time of the interview, Cassie was attempting to break the world record for being the fastest person to travel to all 196 countries in less than three years and three months. She had visited 181 countries and was heading out to finish the last leg of her expedition.
What will it mean to you to be the first woman to visit every sovereign nation in the world?
Amelia Earhart has been a huge role model for me since high school. She's someone I look up to you, and despite her efforts to be the first woman ever to fly around the world and failing, she made the history books.
When I first decided on doing the expedition and being the first woman ever to travel to every sovereign nation, I thought what if I fail?
I don't want to fail, so I made it a goal that if I did fail, I was going to fail hopefully at the end (laughs.) To be the first woman, it's a huge deal to inspiring youth and especially young women. In so many countries around the world, women are limited by societal norms. From birth, women are told they can't do anything because they're a woman. My goal is to break the barriers when it comes to that and I want to let this expedition help young women learn that when they have a goal or dream, it is attainable.
You have to be persistent and dive in head first. Face your fears, know what you want and work hard to obtain it.
You mention in your blog post Embracing the Fear that "fear fuels you." How do you use fear as a positive?
I think about fear every single day. I'll admit I'm a little bit of a hypochondriac when it comes to some things and often have anxiety. With this expedition, it's all about facing my fears like my fear of flying; I'm not a great flyer, and I've had to overcome that as well as the fear of reaching out to people in important roles in their careers and sponsors.
Ranulph Fiennes was the first person I reached out to become a supporter of this expedition. He said no when I first contacted him because he's so busy. But I wanted him to support this journey, and eventually, he said yes, so that's how I used my fear as fuel to keep going after the things I want and the people I wanted to be apart of this.
You're at 181 countries soon to finish the last leg of 196. What's going through your head as you can see the finish line?
I think a lot of people are seeing that I am traveling to a lot of these countries so quick and not getting to see much but there has been only ten countries where I didn't get to see a lot, but that's due to watching my budget and the meetings come first with the students. These last 15 countries it feels nostalgic, and I want to take advantage of each moment and learn as much as I can while reflecting as much as I can. This last leg is going to be challenging and exhausting, so I just have to keep pushing.
With all of the countries you have visited, is there a place that changed your perception or outlook on life?
Yes, the Middle East. I always wanted to go to the Middle East and lived in Turkey for awhile. Some people I told about wanting to go to the Middles shared that if I went, I wasn't going to like it and was going to get killed. I had this thought in the back of my head that I knew that wasn't going to happen because there are so many preconceptions that weren't true based on the media and online. So when I went, I went to the Middle East with an open mind. The people took me in with open arms, showed me around to places like Bahrain, Afghanistan, and Iran. I was always welcome into their homes and that experience alone really changed my perspective.
What has been the most difficult thing for you on this expedition and how do you deal with it towards achieving this goal?
The most difficult thing have been getting the visas. Even though I'm working with a visas company, only having two passports has been challenging in getting what I need. Personally, the exhaustion has been hard.
My first six months, I couldn't keep my eyes open, but now I'm used to sleeping 3–4 hours a night. There are some days though where it feels like I'm floating and I have to remember to chill a little more and sleep when I can.
Have you thought about what will you go after next once this record is yours?
I'm planning on breaking some more records, but I think my next challenge is developing these humanitarian efforts I've wanted to do. It takes a lot of teamwork and effort, and the challenge for me is trying to make sure the documentary, the book and the universal student internship program all get completed while trying to work with others. I'm not a good team player, and I know I need to do that for these things to happen and be successful.
What's been the biggest change personally that you have seen within yourself since you started?
Being more accepting and less judgmental of others. I think our society teaches us how to judge others. For some reason, we learn it's ok to judge other people whether big or small. The biggest takeaway for me is that from the time I was the tv show and starting this expedition, I am an entirely different person. I have become more open. I strive to emphasize to students when I meet them to exercise non-judgment and to understand other's stories. Everyone has their story, and it's important for us to take the time to learn people's stories to understand.
I use to think that if I was ever upset, I could go travel and that would make me happy. But I think now it's content with who you are and what you have to offer the world. If I were doing this trip and traveling with doing nothing to enhance the world and not meeting new people, I wouldn't feel happy. The fact I can devote myself to influencing the world, the youth positively makes me happy.
What is a piece of advice you would give to those who are facing obstacles in life and need encouragement?
Know what you are good and what you aren't good at. doing. You have to admit to your flaws. It's important and takes some time to understand where you want to be in 5, ten years. It's hard to know you're passion and even with the student I work with, they are often trying to figure out what they want to do in life. I think it's critical to find three things that excite you and incorporate these into a career. For me, it was fitness, nature, travel and that's how this expedition came along. Once you figure out what your three things are, you can craft a career and finally have that path you want to be on.
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'Batman: Bad Blood' is the next film set in DC Comics' shared animated universe. This new film features the likes of Nightwing, Robin (Damein Wayne), Batwing, Batwoman and of course, Batman. Check out the trailer below!
Along with a new trailer we also have a synopsis and a release date for the film. The synopsis reads as follows:
"The mysterious disappearance of Batman, coupled with the emergence of powerful and malevolent new villains in Gotham City, force Nightwing (voice of Sean Maher) and Robin (Stuart Allan) to take crime-fighting into their own hands – while simultaneously searching for their missing leader. They're not alone for long. New super heroes Batwoman (Yvonne Strahovski) and Batwing (Gaius Charles) – each armed with her/his own sensibilities, physical abilities and crime-fighting tools – arrive in Gotham to assist in the cause. As this new "family" strives to find its own dynamic, chilling clues lead the group to suspect the Dark Knight may have gone over to the dark side. It's up to the entire Bat team to uncover the truth before Gotham City falls prey to its greatest threat yet."
Batman: Bad Blood will hit digital HD on January 19, 2016, and a Blu-ray Deluxe Edition (which includes an exclusive Nightwing action figure) for $29.96, Blu-ray Combo Pack ($24.98) and DVD ($19.98) on February 2, 2016.
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Conversations I Imagine My 10-Year-Old and 7-Year-Old Have About Me When They See Each Other in the Hallway at School
By Jamie Allen
10-year-old: Hey.
7-year-old: Hey.
10-year-old: How's school going today?
7-year-old: Good, you?
10-year-old: Fine. Anybody picking on you?
7-year-old: Nope.
10-year-old: Dad told me to keep an eye on you.
7-year-old: He's such a worrywart!
10-year-old: But he loves us. We're lucky that way.
7-year-old: I certainly feel lucky.
10-year-old: Okay, well, see you after school.
7-year-old: Bye.
10-year-old: What did Dad put in your lunch today?
7-year-old: Um, a ham sandwich, an organic yogurt thing, an apple, a juice pouch, and a candy bar. You?
10-year-old: Same. What kind of candy bar?
7-year-old: Just one of those small ones. Snickers.
10-year-old: I got a small Milky Way. If he ever gives you something extra….
7-year-old: …I know, I will tell you. And you tell me.
10-year-old: Of course I will. I know that man will mess up one day and give me something more, or give you something more, and when he does we'll nail him with the evidence.
7-year-old: It'll be great. You know how he gets so flustered sometimes, like when the cop pulled him over and he started babbling and turning red? And the cop was like, "Sir, calm down. Sir, I am demanding that you calm down." It'll be like that.
10-year-old: Yep. And it'll teach him a great lesson to always treat us as equals. But we should also remember, we're fighting for a much larger and more important cause—the one to make sure that all parents treat their children of all ages exactly the same. I cannot wait till we get credit for this.
7-year-old: Me either. Okay, gotta run. Bye.
10-year-old: Stay strong!
7-year-old: Hey. Remember this morning on the way to school when Dad made us listen to The Loud Band again?
10-year-old: Nirvana, yeah.
7-year-old: And the part where that angry singer says, "I tried hard to have a father/but instead I had a dad?"
10-year-old: Uh, you mean the part that Dad sings at the top of his lungs while we're driving by a group of my friends? Yeah.
7-year-old: Well, I've been thinking about it, and I think that Dad is not a dad at all.
10-year-old: What do you mean?
7-year-old: I think he's more of a father.
10-year-old: …
7-year-old: …
10-year-old: Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Seriously, don't ever say that to him. That would devastate him. Devastate. He actually told me once that he wants to be a "dather." That's a father and a dad mixed together.
7-year-old: He's an odd one.
10-year-old: Hey, let's call him "Father" tonight at dinner, over and over, just to mess with him.
7-year-old: That's a funny and cruel idea. Let's do it.
10-year-old: Okay, see you after school.
10-year-old: Did Dad leave a note in your lunch?
7-year-old: Yes. It said, "Have a good lunch. Love, Dad."
10-year-old: Mine said, "Hope you're having a good day. Love, Dad."
7-year-old: That sounds about the same to me. The same, but different. A difficult balance. My problem is the man's handwriting. It's—what's the word?
10-year-old: His handwriting sucks. That's the word. And how about the way he folded the peanut butter and jelly in the aluminum foil?
7-year-old: You call that folding? I call it crumpling.
10-year-old: He's exceptionally uncoordinated.
10-year-old: What's wrong?
7-year-old: Well, just so you know, I, uh, actually didn't get peanut butter and jelly on my sandwich today.
10-year-old: …What did you get?
7-year-old: Ham.
10-year-old: You got a ham sandwich? And I got peanut butter and jelly…. Very interesting. Very interesting, indeed. I need to think about that.
7-year-old: Well, I'd better go to the bathroom now.
10-year-old: See you after school.
7-year-old: Hey. Could you help me with something?
10-year-old: Sure.
7-year-old: Every time I wrestle Dad, he seems to get the best of me. How do you always get him to leap away from you in pain?
10-year-old: Oh, easy: Draw him close, like you're going to give him a hug, then yank on his chest hair.
7-year-old: Chest hair? He won't expect this?
10-year-old: He's very gullible. He trusts his children too much.
7-year-old: Boy, you're right about that. I can't wait 'till the teen years. We'll get away with everything when Mom's not around.
10-year-old: Trust me, I'm already plotting….
7-year-old: So, chest hairs.
10-year-old: Hard yank. Hear him yelp.
7-year-old: I think I'll try that tonight.
10-year-old: Can you call me into the room shortly before you do? I'd like to see it.
7-year-old: Sure. See you after school.
10-year-old: Bye.
10-year-old: …Listen, I'm really sorry about last night.
7-year-old: No, no, I'm sorry. It was my fault.
10-year-old: I really shouldn't have spit on you.
7-year-old: And I shouldn't have pulled your hair. Chicken or the egg: It really doesn't matter which came first….
10-year-old: …just that we understand what the chicken and the egg can give us today.
7-year-old: Dad really was onto something when he told us that.
10-year-old: He's a very smart man.
7-year-old: A poet. A poet in the book of life.
10-year-old: And boy, what a handsome man.
7-year-old: And what a success! Now that I think about it, he's not a father at all. He's definitely a "dather." A great, great dather.
10-year-old: I've said it before, I'll say it again: We're lucky.
7-year-old: Let's hug.
10-year-old: Okay, but we can never tell Dad. Then he'd demand that we hug after every coarse word to each other.
7-year-old: Good thinking.
[They hug.]
[This piece originally appeared on McSweeney's Internet Tendency.]
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El pfennig (, abreviado Pf. o ₰ y con el mismo origen etimológico que la palabra «penique») era una pequeña moneda alemana que valía 1/100 de un marco alemán () y otras monedas de marco (marco de la RDA, etc.). El pfennig equivale a 1/100 del marco convertible de Bosnia y Herzegovina.

Historia
El término «penique» en sus diversas formas (penning, panni(n)g, pfenni(n)c, pfending, etc.) sustituyó al «denario» () como moneda de plata de baja denominación ya desde el .

Entre 1924 y 1948 (cuando la moneda alemana era el Reichsmark o marco imperial), la denominación del pfennig era Reichspfennig (Rpf., penique imperial). El pfennig de marco alemán desapareció con la introducción del euro en 2002.

El símbolo ₰ es una variante de una letra d minúscula, inicial de , en la caligrafía alemana Kurrent, modificada de forma que el extremo terminal desciende en lugar de ascender. Se puede comparar al uso de la d minúscula como símbolo del penique inglés antes de la decimalización de la libra esterlina en 1972.

Símbolo

El símbolo monetario para el pfennig cayó en desuso después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Véase también
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 Monedas de Alemania

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Mongabay: Dutch to limit forest biomass subsidies, possibly signaling EU sea change
he Netherlands is known for its photogenic windmills. But when it comes to renewable energy, wind accounts for only 23% of the country's mix compared to 61% of renewable energy from burning biomass in coal-fired power plants.* The vast majority of Dutch energy still comes from burning oil, natural gas and coal. Photo credit: Ignacio Ferre on Visualhunt.com / CC BY-NC-ND.
This story of mine from The Netherlands appears to illustrate a small crack in the near-universal political support for biomass usage in the European Union. Is it a harbinger of more change in biomass policy as the EU moves in June 2021 to consider revisions to its Renewable Energy Directive II?
For a small country, just 17.3 million people, The Netherlands holds an outsized influence in the EU, and the new make up of its parliament (national elections were held March 17, 2021) could determine the fate of biomass subsidies in a country that is one of the largest importers of wood pellets from the US Southeast.
Small victories like this are celebrated by environmentalists, but the biomass industry continues to grow rapidly in scale and revenue. For all the science that illustrates the importance of keeping forests intact, and how burning wood pellets is more polluting than burning coal, the industry presses a different point of view and interpretation of the science that continues to hold sway with policy makers. Consider this response in my story from the president of the World Bioenergy Association:
"My take on the Dutch decision is that it is as wrong and poorly informed as the Brexit decision in the U.K.," said Christian Rakos, responding from Austria. "It is based on campaigns that have not told the truth. The fact is, the Netherlands is currently among the worst-performing countries in Europe when it comes to renewable energy use and this [biomass] decision will further deteriorate its performance in terms of climate protection."
He added: "Our position is to do everything possible to ensure [forest] sustainability, but to keep in mind that climate change is the greatest threat to ecosystems at present, and that it will be impossible to mitigate it without extensive use of bioenergy."
Rakos is correct about The Netherlands and renewable energy usage. It still gets as much as 90 percent of its energy from fossil fuels. But most of its "renewable" energy comes from burning wood. As leading biomass expert Mary Booth told me: "We're not going to burn our way out of the climate crisis."
This entry was posted in Environment and tagged biodiversity, Biofuels, Biofuelwatch, biomass, biomass industry, carbon neutrality, Christian Rakos, climate action, Climate change, climate mitigation, Dogwood Alliance, Dutch, Franz Timmermans, Mary Booth, Paris Agreement, The Netherlands, wood pellets, woody biomass, World Bioenergy Association on March 10, 2021 by Justin Catanoso.
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HARRISBURG – The state Senate approved two bills today that would provide some much-needed clarity and common sense to the process of deciding which businesses can safely operate during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Senator Lisa Baker (R-20). Governor Wolf ordered the closure of all businesses not deemed "life-sustaining" on March 16 in response to…
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Memorandum on the Delegation of Authorities under the NDAA for FY 2020 and the Eastern Mediterranean Security and Energy Partnership Act of 2019
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President Donald J. Trump Announces Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups
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"Every American is free to decide whether to risk gathering in order to worship their God. Every house of worship should be given the opportunity to establish safe social distancing practices that minimize the risk of attending.
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This decision to let out prisoners – especially while Pennsylvania citizens are adhering to a stay-at-home order – is irresponsible.
Pennsylvania Begins Implementing New Federal Unemployment Benefits, Eligible Claimants Get Extra $600 Starting Next Week
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Gov. Wolf Announces $450 Million Loan Program for Financially Strained Hospitals
Pennsylvania health care facilities licensed as hospitals by the Pennsylvania Department of Health under the Health Care Facilities Act of 1979 that are eligible to receive federal grant funding through the CARES Act are eligible for HELP. The maximum loan size is $10 million per hospital at an interest rate of 0.5 percent.
Economic Recovery Must Start Now, Ryan Warns
Authorities, property, and environmental experts are working on a feasibility study for a proposed green model city, speeding up the country's efforts to protect the environment while locating people in safe places. The benefits are clearly distinct for both sides so far.
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Q: Self-Closing tags - An anti pattern? Often when I read tutorials or books, I see stuff like this:
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Instead of "self closing tags", e.g. <i .... /> they close the those empty tags with an explicit </i>. Why? Is this somehow considered bad or not very readable?

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Saudi deputy crown prince meets with Trump
President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 14, 2017. (AP)
Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud met with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday in Washington DC to discuss the strengthening of bilateral relations between the two countries and regional issues of mutual interest.
Trump welcomed the Deputy Crown Prince to the Oval Office, as both countries expect to improve ties.
Trump's 50-plus days in office have shown dramatic uptick in US action against Al-Qaeda's Yemen offshoot -- AQAP.
Trump has expressed hope that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf allies can be helpful across a range of issues, from creating safe zones in Syria to solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Also read: The 7 things Trump's administration needs to know about Saudi Arabia
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP)
Riyadh is also seen by the White House as pivotal in any effort to constrain Iran's influence across the Middle East.
The White House announced on Monday that Trump will receive the Deputy Crown Prince on Tuesday.
Mohammed bin Salman will be the first Saudi official to visit the White House since Trump has enetered presidency.
These will be the first talks between Saudi Arabia and the United States under the new White House administration.
Also read: Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince heads to Washington for Trump meeting
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Peaceful Reader: Saving the world thorugh Judy Moody's eyes.
This is one fast-paced book, which makes it very appealing to kids! Judy and her brother, Stink are trying to win a band-aid decorating contest, which Stink ends up winning. At school, Mr. Todd, is teaching Judy's class about saving the earth. When her teacher says "it only takes on person to make a difference", Judy is off and running with this great idea. Here is my favorite quote " One person! If all it took was one person, then she, Judy Moody, could save the world!" Such enthusiasm!!
They learn about all sorts of recycling ideas like composting and Julia Butterfly Hill-my favorite tree-hugger!!! Judy has very similar energy to Junie B. but without all the negative (stupid, etc.) language. Appropriatly, J and I found this wonderful gem at our local second-hand book store. Find a copy and read it with a little person!
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Q: Laravel 4.1 Querying multiple databases. I need OneToMany Polymorphic relation - does it exist? I wonder if you can help me, I was very excited around the release of Laravel 4.1 as I was sure that the new polymorphic relationships would solve a little development problem I had on the Horizon. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts I'm unable to bend any of the existing relationships to my will.
Essentially what I want is a one to many polymorphic relationship, so that I can "join" a query to any number of models, which can have different databases connections - I would like this to happen within Eloquent.
Unfortunately this relationship, to my surprise, doesn't seem to exist. All the polymorphic relationships I have seen require at least an entry on the polymorphic table for every entry on the connecting table - huge unnecessary data duplication for my purposes - and largely defeating the point of what I'm trying to do.
Below is what I have come up with as a work around but I dont want to start churning out custom code I have to maintain if I don't have to and I'm sure this must be possible. Does anyone know how to do this without resorting to the code below, also interested in tips to improve code for possible pull request if non-existent:
public function morphOneToMany($foreignKey, $localKey, $name = null, $type = null, $id = null)
    {

        if (is_null($name))
        {
            list(, $caller) = debug_backtrace(false);

            $name = snake_case($caller['function']);
        }

        list($type, $id) = $this->getMorphs($name, $type, $id);

        $class = $this->$type;
        return $this->hasMany($class, $foreignKey, $localKey);
    }

More details on laravel forums: http://forums.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=16677


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Computed Tomography Utilization In Minor Head Injury. Dr. Anitha Durai, Dr. Rama Prakasha Saya. Oral Presentation, ISEMT 2014.
Profile of Road Traffic Accidents and Predictors of Mortality: A Descriptive Study at the Emergency Department. Dr. Joseph Alexis, Dr. Rama Prakasha Saya, Dr. Jagdish S. Oral Presentation, ISEMT 2014.
Characteristics of Emergency Department Visits due to Violence: A Study of Assault Cases. Dr. Hadar Basha, Dr. Rama Prakasha Saya, Dr. Jagdish S. Poster Presentation, ISEMT 2014.
Characteristics of poisoning and predictors of hospital stay: an experience at a tertiary centre. Dr. Singaravelu K P, dr. Rama prakasha Saya, Dr. Jagdish S. Poster Presentation, ISEMT 2014.
A Surveillance System for Injuries in JIPMER, Pondicherry – A Hospital Based Descriptive Study. Swaroop Kumar Sahu, Nanda Kishore Maroju, Gautam Roy, S Jagdish, Rama Prakasha Saya. Poster Presentation, ISEMT 2014.


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John Watts Young (căpitan USN, Ret., ) a fost un astronaut, ofițer de marină și aviator naval, pilot de încercare și inginer aeronautic american, care a devenit cea de-a noua persoană ce a pășit pe Lună în calitate de comandant al misiunii Apollo 16 din 1972.

Young s-a bucurat de cea mai îndelungată carieră de astronaut, devenind prima persoana care a zburat de șase ori în spațiu pe parcursul a 42 de ani de serviciu în cadrul NASA și este singura persoană care a pilotat și a fost comandant al patru clase diferite de nave spațiale: Gemini, modulul de comandă și serviciu Apollo, modulul lunar Apollo și naveta spațială.

În 1965, Young a zburat în prima misiune Gemini cu echipaj uman, iar în 1969 a fost prima persoană care a orbitat singur în jurul Lunii în misiunea Apollo 10. El este unul dintre cele doar trei persoane care au călătorit spre Lună de două ori și a condus autovehicului lunar pe suprafața Lunii. El a comandat, de asemenea, două zboruri ale navetelor spațiale, inclusiv prima lansare din 1981, și a îndeplinit funcția de Chief of the Astronaut Office în perioada 1974–1987. Young s-a retras de la NASA în 2004.

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Official NASA biography
Astronautix biography of John W. Young
Spacefacts biography of John W. Young
Iven C. Kincheloe Awards
Young at Spaceacts
John W. Young  at the National Aviation Hall of Fame
Young at Encyclopedia of Science
About John W. Young
"The Big Picture: Ways to Mitigate or Prevent Very Bad Planet Earth Events", an essay by Young
"Conversation With John Young", Houston Chronicle (17 decembrie 2004)

Young at International Space Hall of Fame

Nașteri în 1930
Astronauți americani
Aviatori americani
Ingineri americani

Oameni care au pășit pe Lună
Decese în 2018
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NPOAN faces transition in '07
By BOBBY HORN JR.
CROSBY—The New Property Owners Association of Newport (NPOAN) continues a period of transition as they adapt to a new management company and slight change in the makeup of the board of directors.
Last week, over 150 homeowners attended the annual meeting of the NPOAN. The purpose of the meeting was three-fold: to give homeowners a overview of the past 12 months and what to expect in the future, present the 2007 budget and elect directors.
Board President Dan Kasprzak began the meeting by relating the circumstances that led to the change in management companies from C.I.A. Services to Houston Community Management Services (HCMS).
During the second quarter of 2006, Kasprzak said, the NPOAN was notified by Harris County that they were not receiving payment for constable patrol services from the association. They later learned from Crosby State Bank that C.I.A. Services, which collected monthly dues from property owners, were not sending the checks to them.
The Board ordered an audit of C.I.A., which revealed that while there was no fraud evident C.I.A. had been paying bills late. During the audit, he added, $54,000 in checks were found sitting on a vice president's desk waiting to be deposited.
After learning how much it would cost them to rectify the account, C.I.A. Services resigned on Oct. 31, 2006.
Over the next two months, Kasprzak said, the NPOAN Board of Directors interviewed five or six management companies. In the end, the board chose to go with Houston Community Management Services, Inc., which was the first group they interviewed.
While the transition between the two management companies has not been seamless, Kasprzak said he was confident that in the end HCMS would provide a better service to the homeowners.
"The state of the financial situation is good," NPOAN Treasurer Walt Thomas said. At the close of 2006, the NPOAN's finances were $57,000 better than they were the year before or 21 percent. In the 2007 budget, he said, an increase in income from various sources including investments will allow the association to double the amount of money it spent on repair and maintenance in 2006. Among the projects are tennis court repairs and maintenance, which were not in the 2006 budget, and twice as much funds allocated to lake and river repairs and improvement.
Directors election
With a 10-member board of directors serving, elections for three spots are held every year on a rotating basis. The 10th spot goes to a director who is appointed by developer Rampart Capital Corporation. When Rampart purchased the package of lots and amenities for $850,000 following the bankruptcy of former Newport development DDI, Rampart CE) Jim Carpenter required one seat on the board until such time as 90 percent of Newport is developed or Rampart owns five or less lots or 15 acres.
In the election eeven candidates faced off for three seats. Reelected to the board were Sam Gonzalez with 572 votes and Walt Thomas with 546. Dennis Pilkington replaces Shannon Ezell on the board with 528 votes.
Also collecting votes were Bruce Linday with 151, Arthur Tertyshny with 133, Ezell received 70 and Don Marshall got 53 votes.
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Q: Error: Cannot match any routes. URL Segment: 'administration/portfolio%20' I would like to display the Portfolio page but the page is empty... I don't understand why?
Here is a schema below:

The error message is as follows
core.mjs:6484 ERROR Error: Uncaught (in promise): `
Error: Cannot match any routes. URL Segment: 'administration/portfolio%20'

The code for now:
dashboard-routing.module.ts
const DASHBOARD_ROUTES: Routes = [
  {
    path: "",
    component: DashboardComponent,
    children: [
      {
        path: "administration",
        loadChildren: () =>
          import("./views/administration/administration.module").then(
            (m) => m.AdministrationModule
          ),
      },
    ],
  },
];

administration-routing.module.ts
export const ADMINISTRATION_ROUTES: Routes = [

  {
    path: '',
    component: DashboardComponent,

  },

  {
    path: 'portfolio',
    component: PortfolioComponent,
  },

];

If you have any solution, I thank you very much for your help
I have an illustration here.


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Ambient music composer Tristan Eckerson releases latest song, 'Quiet Now'
Tristan Eckerson is a Pianist, Composer, and Producer from Cincinnati, Ohio. In the past four years Tristan has released five full length albums and more than an album's worth of singles, both independently and with 1631 Recordings (Nils Frahm, Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka), A Remarkable Idea (Bloc Party, Benoît Pioulard, Maxïmo Park, Robot Koch), Mellotron Records, 7K! Records, and Sonder House. He has toured through North America and Europe and has composed music for award winning commercials, short films, and web series. His music has received multiple sync placements in television and has been streamed over twenty five million times worldwide.
"Quiet now" is probably the most minimal, haunting, and ethereal composition for solo piano that Tristan Eckerson has ever created. Using the sound of sustain and reverb as an instrument unto itself, the gentle and eerie track is both mysterious and soothing, peaceful and stark. The cover photo was taken in Akiyoshidai, Japan by Japanese artist and photographer Chizuru Masumura.
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Tag Archives: Alex North
Dave Strohmaier, who has spent decades restoring all of the great Cinerama films of the 1950s and '60s, asked me to participate in his documentary about their music. "The Best in the Biz: The Cinerama Travelogue Composers" examines the scoring process and the grand symphonic music written by such greats as Max Steiner (This Is Cinerama), Morton Gould (Cinerama Holiday), the team of David Raksin-Emil Newman-Sol Kaplan-Jerome Moross (Seven Wonders of the World), Dimitri Tiomkin (Search for Paradise) and Alex North (South Seas Adventure). It's a whole hour, a rarity in DVD extras today, and I am proud to share screen time with my friends, composers William Stromberg and John Morgan, and filmmaker Harrison Engle, talking about these landmark scores.
This entry was posted in Composers, Film Music and tagged Alex North, Cinerama, Cinerama Holiday, Dave Strohmaier, David Raksin, Dimitri Tiomkin, Emil Newman, Jerome Moross, Max Steiner, Search for Paradise, Seven Wonders of the World, Sol Kaplan, South Seas Adventure, This Is Cinerama on November 18, 2014 by Jon Burlingame.
A Centennial Salute to Alex North
I was pleased to be asked to host a tribute to this great composer at the Motion Picture Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. We played clips from four North classics including Spartacus and then screened the entire film of The Misfits (1961). Joining me on stage to talk about this groundbreaking composer and his work in Hollywood were fellow composer Laurence Rosenthal, biographer Sanya Henderson, and the composer's son Steven North. Here's the Academy press release and here is a recap of the evening.
This entry was posted in and tagged Alex North, Alex North Centennial, Laurence Rosenthal, Motion Picture Academy, Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Sanya Henderson, Steven North, The Misfits on September 25, 2010 by Jon Burlingame.


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Let's get real: There is no Iran-India-Afghan strategic axis in the making to counter China-Pakistan
With the dust settling on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Tehran, it's time to stop fantasising.
MK Bhadrakumar
Hassan Rouhani in talks with Narendra Modi | HO/Iranian Presidency/AFP
The Indian pundits and media have gone overboard in interpreting the significance of the India-Iran collaboration to develop the Chabahar Port situated on the south-eastern coastline of that country.
They fantasise that the two countries are collaborating against Pakistan and China and that Iran is helping India expand its strategic influence in Afghanistan.
Of course, this daydreaming is happening against the backdrop of the spy thriller over Kulbhushan Jadhav languishing in some Pakistani cell, which still rankles.
With the dust settling on Prime Minister Narednra Modi's recent visit to Tehran, a reality check is bound to happen – sooner the better.
Addressing Pakistani think tankers and strategic community in Islamabad on Friday, Iran's ambassador Mehdi Honerdoost set the ball rolling by disclosing that:
Chabahar was first offered to Pakistan and China (before India came into the picture) but they were disinterested – and the offer is still open.
"Chabahar is not a rival to Gwadar" – on the contrary, Iran sees advantages of a link-up between the two ports that are separated by only 70-kms.
"The [Chabahar] deal is not finished. We [Iran] are waiting for new members. Pakistan, our brotherly neighbours and China, a great partner of the Iranians and a good friend of Pakistan, are both welcome".
"We are ready for any rapprochement between regional countries which directly impact the interests of the people of our countries. Trade and business is business, and politics is politics. We should separate them."
It is a pity that we needed to be reminded of the virtues of pragmatism in international diplomacy.
Productive visit
Without doubt, of all the visits abroad undertaken by Prime Minister Modi, the recent one to Tehran was undoubtedly the most productive.
The calibration of the visit by the Ministry of External Affairs was just perfect – no grandstanding, very purposive and ultimately productive and satisfying.
The fact that the prime minister took with him Nitin Gadkari, one of the clutch of dynamic cabinet colleagues in his lacklustre government, underlined forcefully that this time around Modi literally meant "business".
That was the right approach. The fragility of the Indian-Iranian relationship was always that civilisational affinities and strategic congruence on regional security issues aside, it was an airy partnership bereft of content other than the oil trade.
No strategic partnership can survive on love and fresh air. Thus, compared to the halcyon days in the 1990s when there was the shared antipathy toward Pakistan, the atrophy of the relationship was almost inevitable with the American intervention in Afghanistan in 2001 and the commencement of the (tragicomic) US-Indian dalliance in the Hindu Kush.
Therefore, Modi's recent visit kickstarts an imaginative new phase aimed at raising the relationship with Iran to a far higher level than the timid United Progressive Alliance team ever showed the gumption to explore (lest the Americans read the riot act.)
Evidently, Modi's accent is on economic partnership – as it ought to be. Iran is endowed with vast resources and is potentially a very rich country amassing much surplus of capital.
And, of course, we are now dealing with an altogether new Iran, which is free from United Nations sanctions and is raring to integrate with the world market.
Early birds catch the worm, as they say, and Modi's visit was overdue.
Crude propaganda
The highlight of Modi's visit was indeed the signing of the documents relating to development of Chabahar Port with an Indian investment of $500 million.
Chabahar could offer India a gateway to access the Afghan border up north (once a railway line is completed in the hinterland.) Meanwhile, Chabahar can also be used to evacuate Iran's natural gas to India either through an undersea pipeline or as liquefied gas.
Many Indian analysts point out that our track record is dismal in executing projects overseas. There is reason to believe that Iranians too harbour misgivings on this score.
Clearly, our pundits and media have not even figured out the actual scale of the Indian involvement in Chabahar. The point is, India is only developing a couple of container terminals, which is a slice of the big port and, secondly, Chabahar's optimal use becomes possible only in the fullness of time.
Make no mistake, Iran is a tough negotiator. We can safely anticipate that Iran will engage other countries too for the development of Chabahar port.
Clearly, our spin doctors and the hapless media were myopic to taunt Pakistan with the spectre of an "Indian presence" in Chabahar.
A wild thesis has appeared that Chabahar is India's "answer" to Gwadar (which China is developing) – and, that an Iran-India-Afghan strategic axis is in the making.
The Iranians probably feel embarrassed that Indians could make such crude propaganda stuff out of their prime minister's visit to a friendly country, simply to balance the score card with Pakistan on the Jadhav (who apparently operated out of Chabahar) affair.
The plain-speaking by the Iranian envoy in Islamabad ought to give food for thought.
In the most recent years, Tehran and Islamabad made sustained efforts to improve their troubled relationship. Tehran appreciated that Pakistan kept distance from the Saudi-led proxy wars in Yemen and Syria.
Pakistan's cooperation becomes vital for ending the cross-border terrorism by Wahhabi terror groups destabilising Iran's eastern Sistan-Baluchistan province.
Today, Iran's policies toward Afghanistan are not Taliban-centric – they focus on state-to-state relations and prioritise the stabilisation of that country. Tehran does not vie with Islamabad for "influence" in Kabul.
Most important, Iran also is keen to tap into China's Silk Road projects in Pakistan. One major project could be the extension of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor leading to China's Xinjiang province.
What many in India do not understand is that Iran, unlike us, takes its tryst with destiny very seriously and does not indulge in vacuous grandstanding when it comes to its vital interests and long term strategies.
It is easy to understand what Iran's motivations are in developing Chabahar Port:
Sistan-Baluchistan province is a backward region, which also happens to be Sunni-dominated, where Wahhabi terror groups supported by Saudi Arabia have been operating from across the Pakistani border. Certainly, economic development of the region is an imperative need.
Iran needs foreign investments in a big way – and from all available sources.
Infrastructure development is a top priority for Tehran and Iran is conscious of its geography offering the potential to become a regional economic hub.
Iran is intensely conscious of India's rapidly growing market and Chabahar enjoys proximity to Kandla and Mumbai ports. An undersea gas pipeline from Chabahar to India is feasible – so is an alternative mode of transporting liquefied natural gas in container ships.
Iran sees long-term advantages in getting India involved in a big way in its economy as an investor, builder and end-user alike, and it hopes that the modest beginning in Chabahar could be the harbinger of far bigger Indian projects in fields such as steel, petrochemicals, and so on.
In the final analysis, we will do well to factor in that China will likely be a major beneficiary of Chabahar. In a revealing commentary on Friday, the Chinese communist party tabloid Global Times hinted that this is not a zero sum game.
Chabahar offers an economical trade route for the Chinese products to reach the Indian market – in which case, paradoxically, it could be viewed as a pearl in the necklace of China's One Belt, One Road.
Pakistan's economy is expected to stabilise. Is growth next?


This module provides a comprehensive overview of the main features of logistic system operations. During the module, students will develop an appreciation for the different ways in which goods and services are managed and handled across the different transport modes from consignor to consignee and the range of different issues that have to be considered when planning such logistics operations. The module combines theoretical analysis with case study examination and practical field trips to ensure that students experience the logistics systems first-hand. The module takes advantage of the University of Southampton's substantial experience and expertise in logistics research, and will make use of case studies based on recent and ongoing research projects for local authorities, industry, the EU and EPSRC.
This course aims to provide students with a sound understanding of how the logistics industry operates across all transport modes (land, sea, air), with a focus on the operational characteristics of the systems involved and the technologies deployed to meet customer needs. This module is designed for students on the MSc in Transportation Planning and Engineering. However, it will also be open to all students at Masters level and above within the University, including those studying for an iPHD or EngD in the Doctoral Training Centres.
The role and design of warehouses and distribution centres (chilled, ambient and frozen) in the supply chain.
How freight and logistics systems can be better catered for in urban planning (delivery and service planning).
The law related to the carriage of goods.
The law relating to vehicle use and licencing regulations, and drivers' hours.
The routing and scheduling challenge faced by logistics providers and the software designed to aid the optimisation process.
The impacts e-commerce has on logistics functions.
The different operating models for 'last-mile' logistics and the characteristics of those systems.
Waste logistics and the reverse logistics system.
Service logistics in urban areas and its impacts on vehicle movements.
Port logistics systems and community networks.
Contrast and compare the various logistics systems used for managing forward and reverse goods movements in urban areas.
Identify and describe the various systems and technologies used to manage logistics fleets across the different modes.
Understand how to undertake a business delivery and service plan to quantify forward, reverse and service logistics impacts.
Plan and undertake a business delivery and service plan.
Interpret drivers' hours and vehicle use regulations.
Make use of logistics literature to evaluate the merits of adopting various logistics technologies.
This module introduces students to the challenges of supplying goods and services to urban centres, removing waste and recyclate, and the ways in which the associated vehicle fleets, along with their supporting infrastructure are operated and managed. The course centres around a series of lectures which are complemented by site visits to specific logistics facilities so that the logistics operating systems and concepts can be appreciated in reality. Contact time in the module will include the following sessions, including a mix of different delivery modes as decided by individual lecturers in consultation with the module lead: 1) Introduction to forward and reverse logistics in retail supply chains, 2) The role and design of warehouses and distribution centres (chilled, ambient and frozen) in the supply chain. 3) FIELD TRIP – Warehouse facility – Meachers. 4) Vehicles used in logistics, licencing regulations and drivers' hours. 5) Routing and scheduling concepts and practices in logistics operations. 6) The challenges of meeting customer demands - Last-mile urban logistics. 7) FIELD TRIP – Regional distribution centre – TNT/UPS. 8) The logistics of waste, recyclate and service management. 9) Logistics systems used in port operations. 10) FIELD TRIP – ABP & DPWorld Southampton. 11) Logistics systems used in rail freight operations. 12) Logistics systems used in air freight operations. 13) Understanding and mitigating freight impacts – Delivery and Service planning.
Three field trips to local logistics facilities.
A mixture of classroom-based teaching and learning methods will be used, including lectures, group work and class discussions. These will be supplemented by videos, self-study, and field trips to local logistics facilities.
Dong-Wook Song and Photis M Panayides (2015). Maritime Logistics. A guide to contemporary shipping and port management.
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SparkNotes: Giants in the Earth: Book II, Chapter I—"On the Border of Utter Darkness"
The full fury of winter hits the Great Plains. Beret regains consciousness from childbirth, but she can hardly believe that she is still alive. Life gradually returns to her as she realizes that she must take care of her family, especially the baby. Per treats Beret kindly, and she feels joy in taking care of the baby, Peder Victorious. The newborn provides a source of amusement for the whole settlement during their first winter on the desolate prairie.
The settlers bear their first winter with social gatherings. With the help of Sorine and Kjersti, Beret holds a party for her neighbors on the thirteenth day after Christmas. Everyone rejoices over the baby, wondering what his future will be. Tonseten feels that giving the child a second name is too extravagant, but Kjersti silences him. Tonseten proposes that the baby will become President, but Hans Olsa suggests that he could become governor instead. Per and Beret listen to the others talk, and they feel happy.
Meanwhile, Henry Solum organizes an informal school for the children. The school moves from house to house every week, giving the adults an opportunity to learn English. At first, Henry does not know what to do as a teacher, so he just tells stories. When Henry no longer knows what to teach, his brother Sam teaches the children songs.
As the winter advances, the settlers begin to run out of supplies. Hans burns hay for fuel, but the men realize that they must make a trip to town to get wood and other supplies. Beret feels afraid every time Per leaves her, but she does not stop him. The men wait for clear weather before they leave, but their caravan gets caught in a blizzard anyway. From their days as fishermen in Norway, Per and Hans have experience fighting storms, but the blizzard is unlike any sea storm they have ever experienced.
The men connect their sleighs with a rope so they will not lose each other in the blizzard. In the rear of the caravan, Per becomes cut off from the others when his rope tears. Per finds himself caught in a fierce storm, lost and freezing as night approaches. He feels drowsy and imagines dying, and he thinks tenderly about Beret. These thoughts of Beret make him determined to stay alive. Per thinks about the Rocky Mountains and how he should have continued west until he reached the Pacific Ocean, where there is no winter. Finally, Per finds safety when he reaches a house.
As Per stumbles into the door with no idea where he is, he discovers that his friends are all inside. The cabin belongs to a Norwegian couple, the Baarstads. The kind couple provides food and shelter for everyone, and Per's spirits return. In the next few days, Per's friends stay in the Norwegian community near the Baarstads' home. The people of the settlement originally came from the Tronder area in Norway. Per makes many friends among the Tronders as they tell stories and fish. During a dance, Per humorously notes that Sam Solum seems interested in the Baarstads' daughter.


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Genetics > Genetics
Promise of Cloning Still Unclear, 20 Years after Dolly (CNN)
— Human benefits without human cloning
by MedPage Today Staff February 27, 2017
Originally developed to improve the quality of agricultural animals, the value -- or perhaps more importantly, the desirability -- of human cloning remains unclear, as reported by CNN.
Since the birth of Dolly the sheep in July 1996 (but not announced publicly until February 1997), scientists have used the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce more than 20 different species. But no humans, as scientists, in general, continue to see no need.
That's not to say the technology has not benefited humans, as the lessons learned from cloning Dolly and other species has informed stem cell research, providing new insights into human disease.


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