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ESPN's Israel Gutierrez Delivers Emotional Statement On Tyson Fury's Homophobia
ESPN reporter Israel Gutierrez earned his 141st win on Around the Horn on Friday, defeating Jorge Sedano showdown 1-0. With the 30 seconds of Face Time, Gutierrez decided to focus on Saturday's fight between Tyson Fury and Tom Schwarz. More specifically, he decided to touch on Fury's homophobic beliefs and past comments.
"It makes me feel like I don't matter," Gutierrez says about watching Tyson Fury. "It makes me feel like my friends don't matter, it makes me feel like my partner doesn't matter. It takes me right back to my teenage years and my early childhood when I looked around and thought everybody was looking down on me thinking that I'm lesser than just because of this way I was born."
Gutierrez, who publicly came out in 2015, is no stranger to speaking out about homophobic prejudice whenever it rears its ugly head into the world of sports. During the NFL combine last year, he went on another ESPN show, Highly Questionable, to give his thoughts on a team scout asking then-prospect Derrius Guice if he was gay just to see what the running back's reaction would be.
"It's people like this who are pressing the question or pressing the point of 'Gay is soft' or 'Gay is not welcome' and 'Gay is not strong-minded,' and those are keeping people in the closet for longer. It kept me in the closet until I was 31 while I was pursuing my career in sports. It kept people like Ryan O'Callaghan, former NFL lineman, in the closet and thinking about suicide before he thought about coming out."
Though the unfortunate concept of Gutierrez having to speak up for his identity in the first place remains the same, what makes Friday's situation different, and particularly noteworthy, is the fact that Fury's fight is being broadcasted exclusively on the network he works for. ESPN is making money, and heavily promoting, a fighter who has hinted that homosexuality and pedophilia are connected, and that it's prevalence is a sign of the end times.
Gutierrez's speech is a clear indication that statements like the ones Fury has made over the years are more than just words. The impact becomes clear almost immediately as he starts to break when he talks about feeling like his friends and partner don't matter. But the emotions aren't what make this heartbreaking. It's the fact that Gutierrez says he'll still be watching the fight in the hopes that it "strengthens" him since "it's because of guys like [Fury] that I have to fight every single day."
Seeing a guy like that getting propped up on a near-hourly basis by your employer surely can't make things any easier.
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Where have I been? In a different time and climate far, far away from 100+ degrees days. I'm with my family in the big north of Minnesota, along Lake Superior (named by the Ojibwe "the Gitche Gumee," which means big water), and the water is big. In fact, this lake contains 10% of all the fresh water in the world, and according to our guide at the nearby Split Rock Lighthouse, if you were to put all the other great lakes into this one, you would still have room to spare. Another way to envision the size: 350 miles miles across and about 160 miles tall. So what we have is something not quite lake, not quite ocean, but to all of us who watch it, more a changeable and amazing animal of water.
Other moments aren't so predictable. A few days ago, we saw three black heads swimming north. "Snake?" Ken wondered. I envisioned giant black inland sea snakes, but no, this was a far more amusing and whimsical species: otters. We raced up the shore as the otters got closer, watching them swim and play, mostly fixated on going upstream but also leaping a little higher at times out of the water so I could see some of their long shining bodies.
The neighbors are also friendly, so much so that we shared a double-grill feast last night with them, our friends Joe and Susan (in another cabin) and a large herd of roaming kids. We talked the economy, books, what strength of poison is necessary to spray on us to keep our skin from total mosquito immersion (and with 200% of the usual rainfall, the mosquitoes are fierce), God, the discovery of a fundamental particle that determines why objects have gravity, and whether Tom Cruise had it coming. We also ate a lot of hot dogs, silver dollars (grilled foil packets of potatoes, onions and other vegetables), corn, potato chips, burgers, watermelon, s'mores and other outdoor vittles.
Today it's off to hike along waterfalls, tiring our legs to match the good-ache we feel in our arms today from yesterday's canoeing at full-speed to escape an approaching thunderstorm. Mostly, though, it's watching this water watch us, at this moment golden and black in the clear sky's sheen, and later, whatever it will turn into next.


Italian Wine Tasting Event Was a Success!
A hearty Thank You to all who were able to join us for our Italian wine event on March 15th. Below is a summary of the wines that were tasted and instructions on placing orders with Vino at the Landing, if you were unable to do so at the event.
Pictured here is Vino at the Landing owner, Rick McMaster, along with Angela and friends, the winners of the complimentary private tasting for 4 — congratulations, Angela!
A delicious pink sparkler from Northern Italy. Delicate frizzante bubbles with a sigh of pink and a delicate nose of cherry, roses, and the kiss of summer strawberry.
Medium gold yellow color. Ripe, with some red fruit sensation, dry hay and nut hull. Solid and developed with a mineral finish. Pairs well with white meat, poultry.
80% Sangiovese and 20% Merlot & Cabernet Sauvignon. Very attractive blackberry and cherry aromas follow through to a medium body, with soft tannins and a lightly fruity finish.
Pictured above is Vino at the Landing owner Rick McMaster, together with Laurie and Beverly, winners of the gift card good for food and wine at Vino at the Landing wine bar in Renton — congratulations, Laurie and Beverly!
Dark ruby red in color with intense fruit aromas, especially cherries. A dry, full-bodied and youthful wine. Displays good varietal fruit, flower, and menthol.
Ruby red with purple reflections. On the nose, vinous, fresh, harmonious, with fruit scents and underbrush notes. Dry and tasty with a delicate almond nuance. Elegant finish rich in sweet tannins. Perfect with vegetable and meat hors d'oeuvres, delicate pasta, white and red meat, steamed or roasted fish, medium-to-strong seasoned cheese.
Pictured here is Wine Storage Bellevue owner Patrick and his wife Joy, together with Sandra (pictured right), winner of the 6-months free wine storage from Wine Storage Bellevue — congratulations Sandra!
Corvina 75%, Rondinella 20%, Oseleta 5%. Opens with savory aromas of dark spice and black pepper followed by red fruit, cherry, dried apple, plum and raisin. There's a sweet note on the finish followed by firm, polished tannins. Pairs well with stewed meat, roast of red meats, seasoned cheeses; agreeable also as a meditation wine.
If you tasted something you enjoyed and didn't get the chance to place an order with Vino at the Landing at the event, please contact them at (425) 282-0382, or via email at rick@vinoatthelanding.com to place an order.


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Notebook following Saturday's morning foursomes
Notebook items following Saturday's morning foursome matches:
I witnessed an amazing display of commercial skywriting over Medinah's blue skies early this morning. Four planes coordinated and puffed out this message: Go Euro@paddypower. Check out this reference to Paddy Power, a British betting house, at this Ryder Cup preview story: http://tourontap.com/ryder-cup-2012/handicapping-the-ryder-cup/
Caught some incredible action out at the par-four 12th hole this morning. Watched Ian Poulter redeem himself after a terrible second shot from the middle of the fairway by holing a clutch and winning par putt. Then witnessed Phil Mickelson's remarkable third shot to within gimme par distance thereby setting up a match-clinching 7&6 outcome on this 476-yard uphill hole. The cheers and roars from the gallery for Mickelson and partner Keegan Bradley were deafening.
A boat tucked away in the landscaping near the 13th hole
Chatted briefly with some "friends" of Nicolas Colsaerts, three of whom were sporting Belgium flags and following their long-hitting country man. "People think we're waving the German flag, but it's Belgium," said one individual. On one of their flags was written: "Belgium, Baby." Such little encounters really make the Ryder Cup such a special event.
Many lucky patrons are using the nifty and American Express-sponsored FanVision, a nifty, compact hand-held video player providing live television feeds of the action. It not only delivers the main live feed of the NBC-TV coverage but also separate feeds of three other holes plus stats. Fans are also using the official Ryder Cup radio (with separate XM and BBC feeds) with earphones to keep abreast of the action.
On the way back to the Media Center, I walked by the par-three 13th hole which sits next to Lake Kadijah. Then I spotted a boat (probably placed there for rescue purposes) nestled in the shrubbery. Heard a fan say about it: "It's for the European team because if they don't play better and they're up the Lake without a paddle."
After pulling his drive on 18 into the woods yesterday in his losing morning foursomes and paired with Jim Furyk, Brandt Snedeker said in his press conference: "I just hit an awful shot and put Jim in a terrible position…Under pressure I get quick and stuff happens in my swing that I don't want to happen."
Fast forward to this morning's foursomes and here's Snedeker again on the 18th tee, 1 up with partner Furyk against McDowell and McIlroy. This time Snedeker misses the fairway but not dead left in the woods, finding a forgivable right side fairway bunker and with a good lie. From there, Furyk knocked it onto the green which proved the pivotal shot for the Americans to win their point. Afterwards, Snedeker said about gaining his first victory: "It's a huge monkey off my back. It was obviously a tough way to end yesterday…"
The continuing matter of Rory McIlroy being labeled a "marked man" at this Ryder Cup has been taken to absurd lengths by certain members of the British press. One of them pressed Furyk today if he was the one that started it all. Furyk said in reply: "What I said was that in the FedEx Cup, he (Rory) was a marked man because he was the best player in the world and he was no. 1 in the FedEx points. Then we started talking about the Ryder Cup in that interview and the headlines the next day were that I said he was a marked man…I'm not the one to incite the other team or give them any bulletin board material…"
Furyk should have echoed what Phil Mickelson said on Wednesday to a similar line of questioning by a British tabloid writer, "Nice try."
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ABOUT: Terry Moore
A member of the Golf Writers Association of America, Terry Moore was the founding editor of Michigan Golfer for 18 years and is now a regular columnist and travel writer for it and several other golf websites. Next April, he'll cover his 36th Masters Tournament. A member of the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame and founder of the West Mich. Golf Show, Moore serves as a Governor for the Golf Association of Michigan and Chair of the Communication Committee. He's also a past co-chair and current member of the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame Committee.
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Manual reset of insurance benefits?
Hi. PW offers the option to reset insurance benefits manually, which I assume are based on the insurance plan renewal date. Does this need to be run daily manually? Or the Office Expert that runs daily takes care of this?
Re: Manual reset of insurance benefits?
Resetting benefits involves two sets of actions. First you must reset the benefits to zero, and then you must recalculate the benefits that have been used (and the remaining deductibles) since the insurance policy's annual renewal date.
1.) Click File > Maintenance > Reset Benefits.
2.) Confirm that the office has a valid/recent backup, and then click Yes.
Once the Benefits Reset has been accomplished, it is necessary to recalculate the totals for all of the affected patients. To begin this process, close PracticeWorks on all computers.
1.) Click Start > All Programs > CS PracticeWorks > Utilities > Benefits Recalculation.
If you have insurance policy renewal dates other than the usual 01/01, this process may need to be run multiple times throughout the year to ensure all plans are reset as their renewal dates pass.
IMPORTANT: It is technically not necessary to exit from PracticeWorks before running the utility. However, if PracticeWorks is left open, all Clipboards should be closed to avoid possible Record Lock issues while the data is being updated.
Why doesn't PW do this automatically? Or why isn't there an option that would switch it from manual to auto?
Please clarify the difference between the Reset Benefits step and the Benefits Recalculation step.
In the past, a few versions ago, we had many problems with the patients' ledgers showing wrong totals after doing a benefits recalculation. As a result. my staff avoids doing the benefit recalculation step. I'm wondering what problem that would create not to do the benefit recalculation after a benefit reset.
Another problem (not necessarily related to resetting benefits) is that if a patient changes insurance plans in the middle of the year, the estimator doesn't change accordingly - it just adds up all the insurance payments on the ledger for that patient for that year, regardless of what plan it was under.


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Q: Проблема положения курсора в React приложении Всем привет.
Я новичок в веб деве. Никак не могу найти информацию по моему вопросу.
Смысл моей задачи такой - при нажатии клавиши "ArrowUp" первая часть в input, где отображается день должна выделяться и увеличиваться на единицу 23/10/2021 => 24/10/2021, при этом остальная часть должна оставаться неизменной, а при нажатии "ArrowDown" наоборот. Проблемы две. Первая заключается в том, что при нажатии число выделяется и прибавляется, но при последующем нажатии курсор передвигается в начало и выделение пропадает. Как сохранить состояние выделения и предотвратить перемещение курсора? Вторая проблема при нажатии например клавиши "ArrowUp"(прибавить число),а затем "ArrowDown" уменьшить число => число два раза увеличивается, третье нажатие начинает уменьшать число. То есть выходит, что при нажатии уменьшить число он срабатывает со второго раза.
Надеюсь я справился с объяснением.))
PS: если убрать inputEl.current.selectionStart === 1, то состояние выделения сохраняется, но мне нужно отлавливать положение курсора для изменения остальных частей инпута.
Мой код
import React, { useState, useEffect, useRef } from "react";
import styles from "./DataInput.module.css";

const cur_date = new Date();

const def_day = cur_date.getDate();
const def_month = cur_date.getMonth();
const def_year = cur_date.getFullYear();
const def_hour = cur_date.getHours();
const def_minute = cur_date.getMinutes();
const def_seconds = cur_date.getSeconds();

/* const months = {
  1: "January",
  2: "February",
  3: "March",
  4: "April",
  5: "May",
  6: "June",
  7: "July",
  8: "August",
  9: "September",
  10: "October",
  11: "November",
  12: "December",
}; */

const DataInput = () => {
  const [milisec, setMilisec] = useState(cur_date.valueOf());
  const [date, setDate] = useState({
    day: def_day,
    month: def_month,
    year: def_year,
    hour: def_hour,
    minute: def_minute,
    second: def_seconds,
  });

  const { day, month, year, hour, minute, second } = date;
  const date_format = `${("0" + day).slice(
    -2
  )}/${month}/${year} ${hour}:${minute}:${second}`;

  const inputEl = useRef();
  const [selection, setSelection] = useState();

  useEffect(() => {
    if (!selection) return; // prevent running on start
    const { start, end } = selection;
    inputEl.current.focus();
    inputEl.current.setSelectionRange(start, end);
  }, [selection]);

  const keyHandler = (e) => {
    console.log(e.code);
    if (e.code === "ArrowUp" /* && inputEl.current.selectionStart === 1 */) {
      setSelection({ start: 0, end: 2 });
      setMilisec((prevState) => prevState + 86400000);
      setDate((prevState) => {
        return { ...prevState, day: new Date(milisec).getDate() };
      });
    }
    if (e.code === "ArrowDown" /* && inputEl.current.selectionStart === 1 */) {
      setSelection({ start: 0, end: 2 });
      setMilisec((prevState) => prevState - 86400000);
      setDate((prevState) => {
        return { ...prevState, day: new Date(milisec).getDate() };
      });
    }
  };

  const changeHandler = (e) => {
    return e.target.value;
  };

  return (

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      <input
        ref={inputEl}
        value={date_format}
        onChange={changeHandler}
        onKeyDown={keyHandler}
      />

  );
};

export default DataInput;

A: *

*Для того, что б предотвратить перемещение курсора нужно внутри функции keyHandler вызвать e.preventDefault(). В таком случае курсор не будет никуда двигаться при нажатии стрелок.

*Рассинхронизация нажатий и действий происходит из-за разного способа установки стейта внутри keyHandler.
Допустим, при первом рендере значения переменных такие:
milisec = 1609448400000
date = {
  day: 1,
  month: 0,
  year: 2021,
  hour: 0,
  minute: 0,
  second: 0,
}

При нажатии стрелки вверх происходит вызов:
setMilisec((prevState) => prevState + 86400000);
setDate((prevState) => {
    return { ...prevState, day: new Date(milisec).getDate() };
});

Если подставить значения переменных, то код будет выглядеть так:
setMilisec((prevState) => 1609448400000 + 86400000);
setDate((prevState) => {
    return { ...prevState, day: new Date(1609448400000).getDate() };
});

Таким образом, происходит рассинхранизация двух значений, потому что milisec устанавливается с учетом прошлого своего значения, а date нет.
Чтобы это исправить, можно устанавливать одинаковое значение внутри двух вызовов функции таким образом:
const keyHandler = (e) => {
  if (e.code === "ArrowUp" && inputEl.current.selectionStart < 3) {
    e.preventDefault();
    let nextMilisec = milisec + 86400000;
    setSelection({ start: 0, end: 2 });
    setMilisec(nextMilisec);
    setDate((prevState) => {
      return { ...prevState, day: new Date(nextMilisec).getDate() };
    });
  }
  if (e.code === "ArrowDown" && inputEl.current.selectionStart < 3) {
    e.preventDefault();
    let nextMilisec = milisec - 86400000;
    setSelection({ start: 0, end: 2 });
    setMilisec(nextMilisec);
    setDate((prevState) => {
      return { ...prevState, day: new Date(nextMilisec).getDate() };
    });
  }
};

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Love, Laughter and A Little Bit of Crazy: Who I am and how I came to be!
Who I am and how I came to be!
I am a 32 year old mom of 2 and a wife of 1!
I am an outgoing, opinionated woman with lots on her mind...hence the attempt at being hip and writing this blog!
There is so much going through my mind....so many things I want to talk about...so many things I want to say and share but let's start at the basics!
In 1982, I was born! I blessed this earth with my presence and it has never been the same! Ha! I was born and raised in San Diego County. My parents divorced when I was only a few months old so I never knew a complete family! I had an amazing childhood thanks to the hard work of my mother and 2 AMAZING grandparents! I have 2 sisters...thanks to my Dad and my step-mom...a blessing that none of us really appreciated until we got old and wise! I had issues in regards to my Dad and that relationship (more to come in a future post) so I acted out....a lot! Middle school and high school were not the best of years! I acted out, I got in trouble, I skipped school and I failed myself by not giving my full effort to my studies! I could have easily been valedictorian but, instead, I was lucky I graduated! Oh yeah...I'll fill you in on a big secret the NO ONE knew....I was 5.5 months pregnant when I graduated...GASP!!!!! Yep, I am THAT girl!
So...3.5 months later, my then boyfriend and I welcomed our son into this world...you thought I changed the world....no one was ready for him! We named him Josh and he is amazing! Seriously (will go into him more at a later time)!!! Oh, so that boyfriend, I kinda liked him so we decided to get married...one of the best decisions I have ever made! I tell him everyday....yep we are STILL married after 13+ years...that I keep around for his paycheck but I truly love the man to the moon and back! We have been through so much in the 16+ years we've been together that if the past didn't break us apart...NOTHING will!
Anyhow, we thought life was finally starting to calm down, the hubs (his name is Nick) was going back to work after a devastating work injury and we started to prepare for life with a teenager and plan for our future! Well....life had other plans! We had tried to get pregnant for years...I'm talking 10 years mind you...and it didn't work! We finally decided to give up the hope for another and schedule Nick for his little boys to be snipped! Ha...nature gave us a big SURPRISE...I found out I was 9 weeks pregnant 3 days after scheduling his procedure! This was a complete shock but we were so excited!!! Anyhow, our daughter...Abigail...was born 7 months later! Josh and Abby are 12 years apart but couldn't be closer! They are so attached and love each other so very much...nothing will ever break their bond!
So...there's my story in a nutshell! Trust me...there is SOOOOOO much more and I will be letting you in slowly but surely! I am the caretaker, the support system, the shoulder to cry on for my friends and I have realized lately that I actually have a wall up! I don't "spill my guts" to many! I don't rely on anyone to give me support in my time of need because I am too busy worry about my friends and family! I hope that this blog will help me release the millions of things that run through my brain on a daily basis and maybe help others realize that they are in the same boat! Oh...and let's not forget...I am also writing this blog to give you my opinions on things! I have NEVER had a problem doing so and this blog will be no exception!!!
Love it! Can't wait to see what you have in store! Love ya!
Thanks hun!!! You know you are the driving force behind this....it's your fault! ;) I'm excited about doing this!


The academy is based at Royal Russell School on Sundays between 10:00 and 11:30. We will assess children for entry from year 2, but most are not ready to join until they are between 7 and 7½. The season starts runs from early September until April. There are spaces available in all age groups for both beginners and experienced players.
We have sticks available to borrow for new members in a range of sizes.
We run teams at U08 Mixed, U10 Boys, U10 Girls, U12 Boys, U12 Girls, U14 Boys and U14 Girls. Please click on the team to link to their schedule.
This is our sixth season, as our existing membership grows older we will cater for children up to 16 years old.
For further information email Tony or call him on 020 8680 3681 or download the handbook and membership form.


Dance is found in both the Old and New Testaments as a form of worship. The most popular example is David dancing before the Ark in 2Samuel 6:14 "And David danced before the Lord with all his might;" Dance is the physical manifestation of both the Rema (spoken) and Logos (written) word of God. When we dance before the Lord, we are allowing the Lord to use all of us to worship him. The different types of dance include praise dance, worship dance, warfare dance, and prophetic dance. If you are a dance minister, the garment that you wear to minister should reflect the type of dance, as well as the message that is being conveyed.
Dance garments are essential to those who are called to the ministry of dance. Just like a soldier would not go to war without a uniform, a dance minister should be ready to minister, in season and out of season, and in the appropriate apparel. Dance garments not only allow you to minister comfortably and modestly, but set you apart as a member of the worship team and as a leader in worship.
Green is life and prosperity.
Take time to study about colors, and their biblical meaning. Then, choose a garment that best reflects the message you are ministering.


He is an experienced trial and appellate counsel, in disputes concerning these areas, and has also appeared in domestic and international commercial arbitrations. He has acted as a mediator in numerous commercial disputes.
He has honours degree in law from the University of Queensland and has practised at the commercial bar in Brisbane since 1985. He is also admitted as a barrister of the High Court of New Zealand.


A teacher sickout shut down Kentucky's largest school district on Tuesday as educators associated with the #RedforEd movement abandoned their job duties to protest at the state capitol in Frankfort against legislation they oppose.
A Kentucky group that is part of the #RedforEd movement launched a teacher sickout in that state last week and may call for a statewide teachers strike if the Kentucky General Assembly passes legislation this session it does not like.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Wednesday was awarded over $580,000 in damages in his lawsuit against his neighbor, Rene Boucher, who attacked him while doing yard work at his Kentucky residence in 2017.
The Diocese of Covington has failed to apologize to the students for fueling media smears against them.


At work, I needed to include a set of simple information in a web page. All I needed to do was include about four calculated values in a table. I didn't want to do a full-blown django installation for such a simple task. I decided that since PHP was originally designed to be able to insert things into straight html, that it might be a good choice for the task. I spent twenty minutes with it, and I was fed up.
I needed to use python. I first thought back to my PERL days when I would have it spit out all the html for a page through print statements. It was ugly then, and is still ugly. I realized that the django template language would be ideal, but I still didn't want to have a full-blown django installation.
It was much easier to implement than I first suspected. I created a script that calculated the variables, imported django's template system, and rendered the template with the calculated variables.
The only requirement is that DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is set. My settings module for this simple script has only one value: TEMPLATE_DIRS.
Eureka! I have created a simple cgi script that utilizes the django template engine.


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Philadelphia Daily News
Philadelphia Inquirer - March 17, 1980
Is LaGrow the hammer the Phillies must have to nail down pennant?
By Jayson Stark, Inquirer Staff Writer
CLEARWATER, Fla. – They couldn't trade for Sparky Lyle. They couldn't gather up enough dollar bills for Don Stanhouse. They did pick up a guy whose name sounded something like Sutter, except he turned out to be Burke, not Bruce.
Dallas Green kept saying how the Phillies needed a "hammer" for their bullpen. But as January rolled around, it looked as if the only place they were going to find one was a in hardware store.
So just for the heck of it, Paul Owens put in a call to the Home for Wayward Relief Pitchers. Seemed to be kind of a futile gesture, because normally, there are no wayward relief pitchers, except for an assorted Mac Scarce or Diego Segui, attempting to embark on their 35th comeback.
But imagine Owens' surprise when he found there was a guy out there who had averaged 15 saves and six victories a year for the last three seasons.
Well, the Pope gobbled him right up, signed him to a one-year deal for a measly hundred grand or so. But it makes you wonder. What was Lerrin LaGrow doing so available anyhow?
"I think a lot of clubs got scared by the fact he had that operation (to remove a bone spur from his heel) in the off-season," Owens said. "But it wasn't even an arm operation. There was never anything wrong with his arm."
Quite an array
LaGrow, 31, is a 6-foot, 5-inch, right-handed bullet-thrower, complete with sinking fastball and a plummeting split-fingered pitch. He began 1979 as the No. 1 relief pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, having saved 25 games in 1977 and 16 games in 1978.
But be was also a year away from free agency. And the White Sox are not only notoriously anti-disco, they aren't real high on potential free agents, either. So they sold LaGrow to the Dodgers last May.
That bone spur on his heel limited him to only 31 appearances. But after he came off the disabled list in September, he was 3-0, 0.75, with two saves, and bad nine strikeouts in 12 innings.
You'd think that would have convinced somebody – especially the Dodgers, who needed relief pitchers last year like Buffalo needed snow plows.
But you have to understand the Dodgers. They put together rosters the way MGM casts movies. Lerrin LaGrow's name didn't have the old Hollywood pizazz. Don Stanhouse's did. So Stanhouse transferred his money-market certificates to First National of L. A. And LaGrow headed for the Free Agent Freeway.
Blasts Dodgers
"I've never really blasted the Dodgers before, but I'm going to say it now," said LaGrow. "I'm glad I didn't sign there. I was the top guy they had there, except when I was hurt. In fact, I still remember (manager Tom) Lasorda asking me, 'You're gonna sign here, aren't you?' He really wanted me.
"But (general manager Al) Campanis turned the negotiations into a belittling experience. My agent and I went in, and Campanis said, 'Lerrin's not that caliber of pitcher. We can't pay him that kind of money.'
"It wasn't like I was looking for four or five years, either. I just don't understand it. The Dodgers' track record is, they'll spend any amount of money if they need a particular commodity.... They just went for Stanhouse. He was a big name, he had a good year, he was in the World Series."
That left LaGrow to dicker elsewhere. Four clubs offered him more than the Phillies did. But Philadelphia looked like the place least likely to turn into Son of Anti-Disco Night or to go show-biz on him.
"Today's the first time I'd really seen him," said Green yesterday after LaGrow had worked two perfect in the Phillies' 44 victory over Toronto. "He looks like he can help."
NOTES: Although the Phillies were not able to make the Billy Smith deal before Saturday's interleague trade deadline, it may still take place. The Orioles have waivers on Smith, so he can be traded any time. But rookie infielder Luis Aguayo, 21, has looked more than capable so far, so Smith might be looking less desirable.... Larry Christenson worked three strong innings (two singles, two strikeouts) and looked, Green said, "like he could win a few games for me."... After Christenson left, Carlos Arroyo, Dan Larson, Jose Martinez and LaGrow no-hit Toronto the rest of the way.... Greg Luzinski knocked in all the runs with a pair of two-run homers off Jim Clancy. Luzinski double-pumped a slow curve past a light tower in left-center in the first, then smoked an inside fastball by the foul pole in left in the third.
Owners created baseball mess
By Frank Dolson, Inquirer Sports Editor
CLEARWATER. Fla. - Ten-thirty on a Sunday morning, and the people were gathering outside Jack Russell Stadium waiting for the gates to open. Three hours before the first pitch in a Phillies-Toronto Blue Jays exhibition game, and already the line for tickets had formed.
That's the crazy thing about this spring training. The game appears to be so healthy. Attendance is so high. Salaries are so high. And yet, with each passing day, the possibility of a player strike seems to grow.
Under the circumstances, it's hardly surprising that the public doesn't understand that possibility... and doesn't really want to understand.
"I don't think you're going to see too many fans on the players' side," Phillies' player rep Larry Bowa said. "The fans see that bottom line, what you're making. They don't want to hear about that other crap, maybe because they worked so hard for their own money."
The fan attitude was driven home to Bowa recently by hiS father, once an aspiring baseball player himself who never made it to the big leagues.
'My dad worked hard'
"Talk about a guy that worked," Bowa said. "My dad worked hard. I mean, he got up at six in the morning, got home five at night. Worked in a printing plant. Well, my dad called me up and he said, 'What are you guys doing?' I tried to say, 'Dad, will you listen to me?' 'Aw, bull,' he said. 'You play baseball, you slide into second, you get your uniform dirty, that's what the game's all about.'
"He's uptight because he lives and dies for baseball. If there's a strike, he's going to go crazy. 'Geez,' he said, 'you guys want the moon?' And that's my father. That's a guy whose son plays baseball. Even he won't listen. If my dad feels like that, I can't imagine how an everyday worker feels."
He feels betrayed. He feels angry. He can't understand how men making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year can seriously talk about striking."
'Saber-rattling'
Fact is, even some of the management people can't understand. Two days ago, National League president Chub Feeney stood in the press box at Al Lang Field in St. Petersburg and acted as if a player strike weren't that strong a possibility. He suggested that the players were "saber-rattling," that prospects weren't nearly as grim as some of them would lead you to believe.
"If they really believe that," Phillies catcher Bob Boone said yesterday, "then there is going to be a strike."
Boone is the National League player rep. He doesn't want to strike. There isn't a big league player who wants to strike. But he believes strongly in the Players Association's position, and he is prepared to strike – no matter what somif the owners may think.
"That's what concerns me most," Boone said. "There's a feeling the players are kidding. I've seen it at the negotiating table.
"This is no publicity stunt. It's the way the players feel, and once the other side understands that, hopefully there'll be some good faith bargaining. Right now there is none because they don't think we're going to strike. They think, 'Well, we'll play....' But we're not going to. That's the way it is. What scares me is their attitude. They're not listening. They're not hearing us. That's what has me concerned."
Fans don 't want to hear it
Let Bob Boone stand up and deliver that speech to a group of fans, and he'd probably get booed off the rostrum. The people don't want to hear it. They don't want to hear that Garry Maddox, who is making a bundle of money for playing center field in Philadelphia, hasn't signed a new contract because he wants to make an even bigger bundle. They don't want to hear that athletes who are already getting huge sums of money may be carrying picket signs outside big league ballparks next month.
And they certainly don't want to pick up a newspaper and have somebody tell them that the players – not the owners – are in the right.
But I still believe, as strongly as I ever did, that the players are in the right, that it's ridiculous for the owners to demand compensation for free agents – in effect, eliminating free agency – and utterly absurd for them to try to set up maximum salaries for big league players in their first six years.
And above all, I believe the responsibility for the current mess belongs to the owners. If salaries have skyrocketed beyond reason – and they have – the owners did it. And they are continuing to do it. Even as they argue for maximum salary levels, they persist in handing out whopping contracts that ignore their own guidelines.
"They just continue to give out money," Mets player rep John Stearns said. "How do you moan (about inability to pay) for four years and continue to give the money out?... I think the owners have done a good job of misinforming the public. Doesn't it have to be a bluff when the Cardinals just gave Keith Hernandez and Garry Templeton $8 million?"
Even some baseball people who might be expected to take management's side are beginning to question it.
"Some of these players have got a lot of money," Tigers manager Sparky Anderson said, "But why did they get it? Owners went out and outbid each other to get them. So how can you blame the players? I know I'll be in trouble for this, but in total fairness, how can you blame them?
"Look what's happening now. After this pay scale thing had been presented (by the owners), clubs went $200,000-$300,000 over that scale. What are we doing? Are we talking put of one side of our mouths or two sides? I don't believe the players would've ever gotten in this syndrome had it not been for some of the owners."
`"The owners created a monster by having a draft of mediocre ball players (free agents) and going crazy," Phillies outfielder Greg Luzinski said.
"Crazy" is the word. The real problem is that the owners have been unable to control themselves, so now they are trying to set up artificial controls on the players.
"I don't think you can ever explain it to the average guy," Bob Boone said. "He's not going to understand."
The average guy wants to read about baseball, not labor negotiations. The average guy must wonder sometimes if the men who run baseball, and the men who play it, care as much about the future of the game as the fans do.
"I've been playing the game since I was 4 years old," Boone said. "There's definitely a feeling. You wouldn't want to hurt the game after all it's given us. It's given me everything I have, and I am concerned about its future. My kids want to play. I want to watch it. I might want to work in it. So, as a player, you are concerned...."
But as a player you see those whopping salaries still being handed out, you see the New York Mets, the worst team in the National League East, a team that drew only 788,905 fans last season, get sold for $21 million, and you know that, the money is there, and you fight to protect all the things you achieved over the last decade.
And you know. that the public doesn't want to hear it, that the popularity of the game may be seriously affected.
"A guy reads where players are getting $600,000-$700,000 and then he reads that they want to strike," Sparky Anderson said, "and I think pretty soon he says, 'The hell with it.' He doesn't really understand the thing. I don't really understand...."
The fans don't understand. Sparky doesn't understand. Larry Bowa's father doesn't understand....
And it's beginning to look as if some of the owners don't understand.
They, at least, had better see the light soon. Their game has never been more popular. The lines at the ticket windows have never been longer. But baseball is in an awful mess.


LET'S STOP EXCLUSIVELY WATCHING MOVIES DIRECTED BY MEN! PLEASE!
I am going on a bit of a cleanse. It all started a couple of weeks ago; I was reading King Lear, the Kavanaugh hearings were in full force, and I was feeling fed up. My brother had illegally downloaded Manhattan (so as to not fund Woody Allen) for us to watch together. For me, Manhattan has always been the most difficult Allen movie to separate from Allen himself. In the film, Allen plays a 42-year-old man who dates a 17-year-old girl. Allen—who has an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to his sexual assault allegations—is chock full of toxic masculinity. His depiction of the relationship in the film is evident of this. Allen portrays the relationship between himself and the 17-year-old girl to be more harmful to him than to her—as if the problem is that she is too immature for him, that she is dragging him down, rather than the opposite.
Usually, I am able to separate the art from its artist, even with Manhattan. But, this time around, I couldn't. I couldn't focus on the merits of the film which, don't get me wrong, certainly exist. I couldn't stop thinking about how disgustingly autobiographical the film was. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I had spent that day refreshing the Kavanaugh confirmation tracker on my phone, maybe it was because of King Lear, maybe it was because of the old man who followed me through the grocery store a few days before, maybe it was a combination of it all; whatever the reason, it is safe to say that I did not finish watching Manhattan that day. And so began my cleanse. I decided that day that I had, for far too long, been starving myself of feminine perspective in film.
The film industry is nauseatingly masculine. In fact, of the top grossing films of 2017, only 8% were directed by women (womeninhollywood.com). The industry is set up in such a way that predisposes us to be exposed to very little feminine perspective, so, it is our job to make the conscious effort to fight against this structure. I have decided that, with 17 years of watching almost exclusively films directed by men under my belt, it is about time that I take as much advantage of that 8% of movies as I possibly can. So, until further notice, I will be making up for lost time. I will only be watching films directed by women. If, by chance, you would like to join me in my cleanse (which I highly suggest), I have compiled a list of films to start us off.
Clueless dir. Amy Heckerling (1995): This one is a Miriam Lubin classic. Not only is it written and directed by a woman, but it is also loosely based off of Jane Austen's "Emma"…I mean…c'mon… The film follows Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone), a wealthy Beverly Hills teenager as she navigates girlhood. Cher is pretty, feminine, AND three dimensional––she is a refreshing change of pace from the manic pixie dreamgirls Allen is so fond of writing. The movie is hilarious, aesthetically pleasing and intelligently written. It is an absolute must see for everyone.
Obvious Child dir. Gillian Robespierre (2014): This movie stars Jenny Slate and Gaby Hoffman—and that's not even the best part. In Obvious Child, Donna Stern (Jenny Slate) becomes accidentally pregnant. With the support of her best friend Nellie (Gaby Hoffman), Donna gets an abortion. Donna gets an abortion and continues living normally—a concept seldom shown in Hollywood. It is likely the only movie I have heard of that doesn't demonize abortion. Important pro-choice messages aside, the film also explores the beauty and importance of friendships between women—a theme men in the industry never portray quite right.
Pariah dir. Dee Rees (2011): Pariah follows 17-year-old African-American teenager, Alike (Adepero Oduye), as she embraces her identity as a lesbian woman. Alike eagerly tries to find her first girlfriend while hiding her identity from her parents so as not to cause any trouble in the face of their rapidly crumbling marriage. The film is written and directed by a queer, black woman. The experiences shown in the film are not coming from an outside perspective (see: bi-sexual girl protagonist of Hank Green's new novel). With only 12% of directors being minorities, 8% of directors identifying as women, and a tiny percentage of directors being women of color who also are part of the LGBTQ+ community, it is very easy to miss out on a brilliant perspective such as that of Dee Rees. Don't let yourself miss out; watch Pariah.
Lady Bird dir. Greta Gerwig (2017): Lady Bird was probably my favorite movie of 2017. It is the coming of age story of high school senior Christine, a.k.a "Lady Bird" (Saoirse Ronan). The central love story of this film is between Lady Bird and her mother (Laurie Metcalf), a relationship that is both turbulent and tender. Lady Bird is rebellious, opinionated and intelligent. She longs to get out of her home town, Sacramento, and go to college on the east coast, determined to do so in spite of all odds working against her. The secondary love story of this film is between Lady Bird and her best friend, Julie (Beanie Feldstein, another magnificent look into the importance of friendships between women. The tertiary love story of the film is that between Lady Bird and Sacramento. The film is about growing up. It's about the people, the relationships, and the places that shape us. Lady Bird is one of the best portrayals of childhood—of girlhood in particular—I have ever seen in film. I would recommend it to anyone.


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Q: Android If Condition error I created simple android form in which I get username and password and in that
If I Enter username and password is deepak then also it goes to else condition.
But my if condition is always false in any situation and I don't know why.
package com.example.dac.simple_intent_form;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnClickListener {

Button button;
EditText email, password;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
    email = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.eemail);
    password = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.epassword);

    button.setOnClickListener(this);
}

@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
    String ema = email.getText().toString();
    String pass = password.getText().toString();

    if (ema == "deepak" && pass == "deepak")
    {
        Bundle b = new Bundle();
        b.putString("email", ema);
        b.putString("password", pass);
        Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),Activity2.class);
        i.putExtras(b);
        startActivity(i);
    }
    else
    {
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Plase Enter Right Username and Password",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}
}

A: Use this
ema.equals("deepak") && pass.equals("deepak") in your if statement

A: Try use this
String ema = email.getText().toString();
    String pass = password.getText().toString();

    if (ema.toLowerCase().equals("deepak") && pass.toLowerCase().equals("deepak"))
    {

    }

A: Check the condition like this and it will work fine
if (ema.equals("deepak") && pass.equals("deepak")){}

A: if("deepak".equals(ema) && "deepak".equals(pass)) will do the job .This will also make sure objects ema and pass are not null and can avoid null check

A: use .equals()
if (ema.equals("deepak") && pass.equals("deepak"))
{
    Bundle b = new Bundle();
    b.putString("email", ema);
    b.putString("password", pass);
    Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),Activity2.class);
    i.putExtras(b);
    startActivity(i);
}


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Panel Discussion – An International Perspective
Please join us at the Sustainable Gas Research & Innovation Conference (SGRI 2016) for a panel discussion:
"An international perspective: Innovation in natural gas"
Here five global experts talk about the future of energy research:
What role will gas play in the future energy mix?
How can we best combine gas with renewable energies? Does natural gas have a long-term role as a flexible back up to intermittent energy sources?
What are the opportunities and challenges for the natural gas industry in your region?
What technologies are currently driving the natural gas industry? What innovative technologies are required and can we expect to see developed in the next two, five or even 10 years?
Date: Tuesday 27th September
Location: L'Orangerie meeting room in Grand Mercure Ibirapuera (R. Sena Madureira, 1355 – Ibirapuera, São Paulo).
Read their biographies:
Professor Jim Watson, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre
Dr David Daniels, Chief Energy Modeler, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Professor Zheng Li, Professor & Dean, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University
Professor David Allen, Gertz Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering, & Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, University of Texas at Austin
Professor Julio Romano Meneghini, Director of the Research Centre for Gas Innovation (RCGI), University of Sao Paulo


A stunning painting by a nationally acclaimed Leicester-born artist will take pride of place in one of the University of Leicester's most prominent buildings.
Landscape painter Adrian Hemming will install his piece Garden in the main foyer of the Charles Wilson building on 11 October.
Garden is a powerful landscape painting of a friend's garden, presented in greens, yellows and reds on two canvasses measuring a total of 16ft in width.
The University purchased the piece after it particularly impressed Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Robert Burgess, and Assistant Registrar, Jo Wood, who lead on the purchase of artwork at the University, during a visit to Adrian's studio in London.
Adrian has also donated a second piece, Xhosa, to the University, which will be installed at a later date.
Professor Burgess said: "Adrian Hemming's vibrant work makes a powerful statement that will bring life to the newly refurbished foyer of the Charles Wilson Building. We were impressed by Adrian's work when we visited his studio and pleased to be able to provide suitably large wall spaces to display his paintings to full advantage. Adrian makes excellent use of colour and I hope that Garden will be enjoyed by many staff, students and visitors to the University given its prominent location.
Adrian was born in Leicester in 1945, and grew up in Paget Road in the Fosse Road North area.
He attended Fosse Road Secondary Modern School, before commencing an apprenticeship as an engineer with the British United Shoe Machinery in Ross Walk, Belgrave.
During this time, he was encouraged to study art by his uncle Harold Wilcock, one of the directors of Leicester auctioneers Warner, Sheppard and Wade, as well as local businessman Ray Martins.
After travelling Europe, he studied art at Lincoln College of Art, gained his BA in Art at Brighton Polytechnic in 1973 and received an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 1982.
He co-founded Tichbourne Studios in Brighton and later founded Angel Studios in London. He went on to establish Southgate Studios in London's east end where he has been painting full time since 1990.
Adrian has been short-listed twice for the Artist in Residence at the National Gallery, London. He has exhibited and lectured extensively throughout Europe and worldwide including the United States, Mexico, South Africa and Australia.
His work can be found in a number of private and public collections as well as being on public view in Terminal One at Heathrow Airport, as a result of a major commission by BAA.
Adrian said: "It is a big thing for me to be able to give something back to the city via the University.
"Creating such a major work entailed literally hundreds of drawings and watercolours done in situ, returning to the actual garden time and time again throughout the seasons.


More than two decades after his death, Jim Henson remains a pop-culture figure so singular and fascinating that his life commands upwards of 600 pages of biography. When it comes to illuminating that mystique, Brian Jay Jones' Jim Henson: The Biography is never more telling than in passages describing the tensions the Muppet man could cause with the simple flick of his attention. His magnetism was so strong that the act of prioritizing one project over another caused jealousies to ripple across the transatlantic arms of The Jim Henson Company (then known as Henson Associates). If he spent too much time in England working on The Muppet Show, The Dark Crystal, or Labyrinth, anxiety seized the Henson staff in New York. But if he lavished too much praise and attention on the people working in his New York workshop and business offices, it raised the hackles of the employees in the London Creature Shop—that "creature" distinction being a great source of consternation to the New York contingent, who were perceived as only building Muppets. As Jones tells it, working for Henson could be a constant struggle for the praise, approval, and, in a way, love of the man who made it all possible.
A variation of that tension bubbles underneath the surface of The Christmas Toy, the fifth of six (or sixth of seven, if one counts Fraggle Rock's third-season premiere, "The Bells Of Fraggle Rock") Christmas specials produced by Henson during his lifetime. Henson's congenial chaos always played well between commercials for the season's hot toys and green-and-white M&Ms: Before there was a Muppet Show, even, there was The Great Santa Claus Switch. But The Christmas Toy is different from Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas or Muppet Family Christmas or Christmas Eve On Sesame Street. There's a distressed edge to the special, and life-or-death stakes that go beyond winning a talent show or getting Miss Piggy to Ma Bear's farmhouse. The Christmas Toy is downright dark in spots, which is perhaps attributable to the sense that, like the special's school-aged protagonists, Henson's toys had come to life while his back was turned.
The Christmas Toy is a proto-Toy Story whose characters bear a tactile look that Pixar's playthings have only acquired in the past few years. Though there's an ensemble cast lending the show the proper amount of Henson disorder, the script by Fraggle Rock scribe and Labyrinth co-writer Laura Phillips largely concerns Rugby Tiger, star of the playroom. Muppet performer Dave Goelz imbues Rugby with a spectacular sense of swagger, retaining his cool when the announcement that it's Christmas Eve throws his cohorts into a panic. As he hazily recalls, he's in no danger of being replaced by some flashy new trinket, because Christmas is his day. Last year, on his first and only Christmas, Rugby was the main attraction, the favored gift young Jamie said she would love forever and ever. In hopes of repeating the greatest day of his life, Rugby makes the trek down the hallway to take his rightful place below the Christmas tree, a journey fraught with danger. As the characters helpfully explain in the special's early scenes, to be caught "out of place" by Jamie or a member of her family is to suffer the toy equivalent of death: forever frozen, cursed to be the lifeless object their owners assume they are.
That threat distinguishes The Christmas Toy from the other Henson Christmas specials. Sure, Doc has to save Miss Piggy from freezing to death in Muppet Family Christmas, but even that show's menacing blizzard pales in comparison to the sight of Ditz the clown crumpling into a heap in The Christmas Toy's horror-movie corridor. Nodding toward one of its primary inspirations, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Christmas Toy doesn't euphemize the potential doom awaiting these characters. After Rugby's latent compassion revives his "cat toy" buddy Mew, Mew describes the experience of being frozen in terms usually reserved for coma patients who turned away from big, bright lights. The danger helps give The Christmas Toy its identity, but it also makes the special feel slightly off.
That could be because it's the Henson Christmas celebration that involved the least hands-on participation from the man himself. Phillips handled the script, fellow Fraggle Rock regular Eric Till directed, and Henson's only contributions to the main action come courtesy of a squawky jack-in-the-box. (He also recorded bookending segments—scrubbed following Disney's purchase of the Muppet Show characters—as Kermit The Frog, serving the emcee role he'd held for one-off Muppet projects since the unsold 1962 pilot The Tales Of The Tinkerdee.) It was a matter of timing as much as anything else: The Christmas Toy was produced at the end of 1986, a year that saw the premiere of (and disappointing reception to) Labyrinth, as well as the development of two ambitious TV works, The Tale Of The Bunny Picnic and The Storyteller. The only acknowledgement of The Christmas Toy in the pages of Karen Falk's Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal is an approximation of its shooting date; within Jones' biography, it's swallowed up by Labyrinth's hectic promotional schedule and the campaign to sell The Storyteller to NBC.
Within that timeframe is another important date: In May of 1986, Fraggle Rock closed up shop. Because the show's development and production coincided with its creator's busiest filmmaking period, Henson had been a fleeting presence in its life, performing only supporting roles and handing the operational reins of the program to head writer Jerry Juhl and producers Diana Birkenfield and Larry Mirkin. Though Fraggle Rock would air new episodes on HBO through 1987, The Christmas Toy served as something of a reunion for its various Fraggles, Doozers, and Gorgs, bringing together a chunk of that show's cast—Dave Goelz, Richard Hunt, Kathryn Mullen, Jerry Nelson, and Steve Whitmire—along with Birkenfield, Phillips, and Till.
In portraying a secret, magical world overlooked by humans, The Christmas Toy is perfectly in line with the spirit of Fraggle Rock. But it goes deeper than that: The Christmas Toy is ultimately a story of tolerance and acceptance, the sort of "world saving" content Fraggle Rock specialized in for 96 episodes. The special's emotional turning point involves Rugby recognizing how much the now-frozen Mew meant to him—even for a cat toy. (The great irony being that Rugby, for all intents and purposes, is a cat.) Life in the playroom involves constantly welcoming and adjusting to new presences, be they Rugby (last Christmas), Apple the baby doll (the Christmas before that), or Meteora, the Buzz Lightyear-like figure who threatens to topple Rugby from his place of favor. The flipside of that is the sense of belonging shared by these characters, poignantly expressed in the stickiest of Jeff Moss' original Christmas Toy melodies, "Together At Christmas." The song secured a place in the Muppet canon a year later, providing the coda to Muppet Family Christmas' all-cast sing-along. That cast, it bears noting, included Goelz, Mullen, Nelson, and Whitmire (along with Karen "Red Fraggle" Prell) reprising their Fraggle Rock roles.
Many of those performers would be called back to the playroom in the early '90s, picking their Christmas Toys back up for the short-lived spinoff The Secret Life Of Toys. Some aesthetic adjustments were made—the decidedly creepy Apple was replaced by Raisin, a ragdoll living comfortably outside the uncanny valley—and the tone was softened to make room for kid-friendly morality tales. The most noticeable difference, however, was unavoidable: The Secret Life Of Toys debuted three years after Henson's death, part of a wave of posthumously realized concepts like Dinosaurs and Fox's animated Dog City.
It's a bittersweet conclusion, appropriate for a special that ducks its darker nature to find its happily ever after: Rugby's love brings Mew back from the brink, an act that spreads to the other frozen toys stacked in a corner of the playroom. However much The Secret Life Of Toys may have watered down The Christmas Toy, it nevertheless extended its most important theme: No one—no puppet builder feeling neglected by their boss, no teddy bear who's been hugged to tatters—is truly forgotten as long as there are still people around who love them. It's a fitting theme for the holiday season, a time to let the people you care about know you care, before it's too late. In this life, no one can be resurrected with a tender melody and a heartfelt sentiment. But perennial favorites like The Christmas Toy perform a variation on that trick, allowing departed contributors like Henson, Nelson, Hunt, and Birkenfield to impact entire audiences born after their deaths.
Most importantly, The Christmas Toy showed its many participants that they'd picked up a thing or two from the man whose name is above the title. It's a departure from the holiday programming in which Henson was more directly involved, but it proves that people within the Jim Henson Company orbit could embody the warmth and humor of the man who drew them there in the first place. Unfortunately, they'd soon find themselves doing so on a permanent basis. But nearly 30 years after its debut, their efforts help The Christmas Toy retain its own sort of pull.


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Hughes, who has one prior DIY launch in 2014 under his belt, originally planned to launch a newer, crowd-funded $20,000 rocket with "RESEARCH FLAT EARTH" emblazoned on the side from the Mojave Desert ghost town of Amboy, California, in November. But as the countdown to the launch drew down, the Bureau of Land Management informed him he couldn't fly over public lands, forcing the launch's cancellation. Hughes promised another launch was coming on Saturday, February 3rd, but the big day came and went without anything leaving the launch pad.


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Sharon Osbourne Says Ozzy Cheated with Five Women
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Sharon Osbourne has decided to reveal some details of her husband's infidelities. The famous singer and television personality has just claimed that her musician husband has actually cheated on her with five different women. Sharon made these revelations during an interview with The Sunday Times magazine.
So, during her interview, Sharon claimed that her husband Ozzy Osbourne has cheated on her with five women in five different countries. Sharon also claimed that Ozzy only sought therapy for sex addiction after being unfaithful to her for several years. Sharon revealed that she has always been by Ozzy's side, but it is quite difficult to overcome this.
"The s**t that's been going on with my husband recently, it's been going on for about five years but people are talking about it now. We've survived everything, drink, drugs and now it's women," the singer said. "Somehow drugs and drink is more acceptable I think. When it's somebody that has a sex addiction, it's embarrassing. He's come out and admitted it finally. It's very, very hard. It's been going on for at least six years."
Sharon first revealed the cheating scandal back in May, when she claimed that she and Ozzy had separated because he had been unfaithful with Michelle Pugh. Since the May separation, Ozzy and Sharon seemed to have been able to put the story behind them and move on. Ozzy said at one point that the marriage was back on track. However, it seems that Sharon still has some doubts.
Still, the singer revealed that Ozzy is really trying to overcome his sex addiction and she been undergoing intensive therapy. "He really wants to work on it," Sharon said. Ozzy really seems willing to put the scandal behind him. Actually, he recently apologized to all the women who were part of his life and also confessed that he was undergoing therapy.
Well, if Ozzy will be able to overcome his issues and if his marriage to Sharon will survive this, as well, is something yet to be found out. During her interview, Sharon also said that she has been taking anti-depressants for about 20 years, but they stopped working last year.
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While Oracle attempts to discount the threat of its main competitor, SAP has taken the lead in a critical area of growth.
The founder of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) had some pretty bold words at his keynote speech at Oracle World last fall. He may be right about IBM, but Mr. Ellison may have to eat his words in regards to SAP (NYSE:SAP). Here is how the two stocks have performed over the past year.
Not only has SAP outperformed Oracle recently, but since Bill McDermott took the CEO reigns in February 2010, SAP stock has increased 77%, outpacing Oracle which is up about 60% over the same period.
When Larry Ellison made his comment, he was referring to the cloud business. He had mentioned that while Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, and Microsoft are seen as competition in the field, "SAP is nowhere in cloud."
There's an old saying that goes something like, "men lie, women lie, but numbers don't." Let's see if the numbers back up Ellison's statements.
SAP and Oracle have fiscal calendars which end at different times of the year, but taking the latest 12 months of results for each company shows that SAP is growing at a much faster rate than Oracle. As a German company, SAP also reports its results in euros. Converting those figures to U.S. dollars results in annual cloud revenue of over $2.5 billion.
Not only is SAP beating Oracle in the cloud, it is doing so by taking a page out of Oracle's own playbook -- making savvy acquisitions. Over the past five years, the software giant has spent $16 billion acquiring SuccessFactors, Ariba, and most recently, Concur Technologies, a travel and expense software provider. All three company's solutions already do or will run on HANA, SAP's application server that includes an in-memory database management solution.
SAP announced the HANA platform in 2011, promising real-time analytics and dramatically reduced database speeds.
As of the most recent quarter, HANA has been adopted by over 2,700 customers, more than double last year's total. One high profile customer is the NFL, which utilizes HANA to leverage player performance data for the leagues fantasy football product. Analytics tools are also being utilized by the NBA and NHL.
Another success story includes Procter & Gamble, which migrated its database from Oracle to SAP. Implementation of SAP's cloud-based data warehouse application resulted in a 55% reduction in the size of its database and 400% increase in data loading speeds.
With strong momentum in its cloud products and a long-term plan to increase cloud revenue to €7.5 billion to €8.0 billion by 2020, SAP is not stepping off the gas pedal. Oracle should probably pay attention.


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Tom Schaar wins a gold medal in the Skateboard Big Air final at X Games Austin 2014.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Day 2 at X Games Austin featured the crowning of a 14-year-old Big Air phenom and the return of a BMX king. A rookie claimed gold in Moto X Best Whip and a new champion stepped up to the plate in Women's Enduro X, all on the first day of competition at Austin's Circuit of the Americas.
Tom Schaar, 14, won the America's Navy Skateboard Big Air final on Friday, becoming the youngest athlete to win Big Air gold at X Games.
Schaar landed a 720 over the gap and a 900 on the quarterpipe in his third of five runs, enough to leave seven-time Big Air gold medalist Bob Burnquist in silver medal position and Brazilian skater Edgard Pereira with the bronze.
"I'm just happy that everything worked out," said Schaar, who previously got Big Air silver at X Games Los Angeles 2013 and bronze at X Games Munich 2013. "Everyone else was killing it. That was a good contest."
Schaar's medal was placed around his neck by Cameron Copeland, a teenage recipient of the Make-a-Wish Foundation, whose wish was to accompany Schaar during his X Games appearance.
Schaar made his X Games debut in 2012 when he was just 12, and he's been hailed as the future of Big Air and Vert skateboarding.
"Tom Schaar rules!" Burnquist shouted during Schaar's podium interview, giving props to the younger skater he has mentored on the MegaRamp. Burnquist's best run featured a switch frontside lien 540 over the gap to indy 360 on the quarterpipe.
Pereira brought a never-been-done heelflip indy 540, enough to land on the podium.
"First try? I am very, very happy. This trick is super hard," he said.
Garrett Reynolds reclaimed his reign as king of BMX Street in Friday's first event.
"Garrett's one of my favorite riders," said Dakota Roche, accepting defeat even before the scores from Reynolds' third and final run were announced. Roche ended with the silver medal, his best X Games finish after winning bronze in 2012 and '11. Dennis Enarson won bronze, his sixth X Games medal.
Reynolds had previously won every BMX Street event at X Games from its introduction in 2008, until Chad Kerley unseated him at X Games Los Angeles in 2013. He was back in top form in Austin, where he advanced to the finals as the top qualifier and seemed at home on a course that was bigger and less linear than last year's setup in L.A.
Kerley, meanwhile, failed to advance to the finals, leaving Reynolds as the odds-on favorite.
"I was really surprised [Kerley] didn't make it," Reynolds said, after the rematch with Kerley was cut short. "He's probably one of the most consistent riders and he's one of my favorite guys to ride with."
Roche gave Reynolds a run for it with a first-run score of 89.33 that held up until the final seconds of the competition and one of the biggest lines of the day with a 180 drop to flat to perfect rollback.
Reynolds overcame difficulties in his first two runs with a nearly flawless final run featuring trick combos like a rail ride to opposite tailwhip out, and 180 barspin to crooked grind to 180 out and a big 360 to fakie at the buzzer.
"It's so hot, and street riding is so much about using your muscles to pull and pop tricks," Reynolds said, explaining that the biggest challenge of the day was staying cool and hydrated. "By the time you do like five tricks in this heat your muscles start to lose it."
Aaron "Jaws" Homoki skates into the crowd.
Three-time gold medalist Ryan Sheckler topped Friday's elimination round in Monster Energy Skateboard Street, winning Heat 1 with a score of 90.33 that kept him ahead of Heat 2 winner Nyjah Huston, a five-time gold medalist and a perennial favorite.
Some new faces will be in the mix for the 12-man Skateboard Street finals, which will conclude X Games Austin on Sunday. That includes X Games rookie Trevor Colden and Curren Caples, who is making his Skateboard Street debut after winning Skateboard Park gold at X Games Munich 2013.
They'll be joining three-time medalist Luan Oliveira, Thrasher Magazine's 2013 Skater of the Year Ishod Wair, Australian skater Shane O'neill, X Games Foz do Iguaçu bronze medalist Torey Pudwill, four-time gold medalist Paul Rodriguez, as well as Grant Taylor, Chaz Ortiz and Ryan Decenzo.
X Games rookie Riley Hawk -- son of ESPN skateboarding commentator and X Games legend Tony Hawk -- just missed the cut for finals.
Enduro X favorite and defending champion Taddy Blazusiak collected his fourth X Games gold medal on Friday after a hard-won battle to keep the lead. Mike Brown held the inside line out of the first turn, but Blazusiak overtook him before the end of the first of 10 laps.
After Brown bounced out of the race, Colten Haaker chased Blazusiak's rear wheel for the second half of the race, until running into a tangle in the rock pile and ending up in fourth. Cody Webb took silver, followed by Alfredo Gomez in bronze.
"I had to give it everything I had," Blazusiak said. "It was such a close race and a gold medal again. That's the fourth one I'm going to hang on the wall, so what can I say ... I'm super happy."
Blazusiak won his sport's X Games debut in 2011 and has since won five medals in seven X Games appearances.
In Women's Enduro X, Kacy Martinez won her first X Games gold, finishing nearly 10 seconds ahead of silver medalist Sandra Gómez Cantero. Rachel Gutish -- who said she skipped her high school graduation and her chance to break her high school's pole-vaulting record at the Indiana State Track & Field Championships to be at X Games -- won bronze.
"I got a good start, got out in front and just led it from there and tried to stay smooth," Martinez said. "I'm just so pumped right now. I worked so hard for this."
Martinez, 23, is just the third woman to top the podium since her sport's debut at X Games Los Angeles 2011, where she won bronze. Maria Forsberg and Laia Sanz have previously dominated the women's field. Forsberg announced her retirement from competition last October and is expecting her first child this fall; Sanz opted to compete in the Enduro World Championships in Finland this week.
On Friday afternoon, Enduro X athletes battled a challenging course -- and the Texas sun -- for a chance at X Games glory in the first day of competition at Circuit of the Americas.
X Games rookie Tom Parsons won the fan-voted Moto X Best Whip contest on Friday with 33 percent of the vote, ahead of Jeremy Stenberg and Josh Hansen.
"Four days ago I wasn't even in this event because I broke my leg: I'm riding with a rod and a cast on right now," Parsons said after the contest. "They cleared me to ride an hour ago and now here I am."
Parsons, better known as a Supercross racer, said he'd been trying to get into the X Games for several years. Winning the Biggest Whip event at the 2013 Monster Cup didn't hurt.
"I'm pretty sure that got me the invite," he said.
Stenberg, who has previously won Moto X Best Whip four times, got silver with 23 percent of the vote. Hansen won bronze with 18 percent of the vote, ahead of Lance Coury, Vicki Golden and Beau Bamburg.
Defending gold medalist Ronnie Renner leapt to his sixth Moto X Step Up win on Friday in his 20th X Games appearance, clearing the 34-foot mark with ease. His closest competitor, silver medalist Bryce Hudson, failed in each of his two attempts at 34 feet, leaving his mark at 33 feet, 5 inches. Bronze medalist Libor Podmol, the Czech rider who won Step Up gold at X Games Munich 2013, cleared the bar at 33 feet before being eliminated at 33 feet, 6 inches.
Renner, 36, has a unique style of carving across the takeoff ramp to maximize power before whipping his bike over the high-jump bar. He holds the Step Up record at 47 feet, set at X Games Los Angeles 2012. He went 38 feet, 6 inches for the gold in Los Angeles in 2013 but didn't have opportunity to match either mark in Austin.
Every rider cleared at the opening height of 24 feet and again as the bar was raised to the 26, 28 and 30-foot marks. Matt Buyten was eliminated at 32 feet, and Josh Hansen went out at 33 feet.


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Tacoma wins again
"Tacoma was the right blend of the right size and had the factors we looked for in the criteria," Matthew Breen, editor of the The Advocate and the man behind this year's list, told weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden.
The occasion of these remarks was the naming of Tacoma, WA, yet again, as the top pick of The Advocate's "Gayest Cities in America." As NPR's story continues, deciding factors include "criteria like the number of LGBT elected officials and whether a city has legal protections for people who are transgender and bisexual resource centers. Then the magazine adds in some tongue-in-cheek factors: concerts by Glee cast members, roller derby and gay rugby teams, and "fabulous" shopping — measured by the number of Whole Foods, West Elm and Pottery Barn stores.
"We start with a baseline of cities that have 150,000 people or more and we take all of our criteria," Breen says. Continue reading "Tacoma wins again"


They took at top-down approach – reason logical approach where you first creating a "mathematical model" of how we might process speech, text or images, and then by implementing that model in the form of a computer program AND that their work further understanding about our own human intelligence.
A machine learns when it changes its behavior based on experience using data which is contrary to the assumptions of 60 years ago, we don't need to precisely describe a feature of intelligence for a machine to simulate it.
For example email spam, every time you drag it into "spam" folder in your Gmail account for example, you are teaching the machine to "classify" spam or everytime you teach for a bunny rabbit and go to images click "bunny rabbit" you are teaching the machine what a bunny rabbit looks like. Data beats theory!
For the field of AI, it has been a humbling and important lesson, that simple statistical tricks, combined with vast amounts of data, have delivered the kind of behaviour that had eluded its best theoreticians for decades.
Thanks to machine learning and the availability of vast data sets, AI has finally been able to produce usable vision, speech, translation and question-answering systems. Integrated into larger systems, those can power products and services ranging from Siri and Amazon to the Google car.
A key thing about data is that its found "in the wild" – generated as a byproduct of various activities – some as mundane as sharing a tweet or adding a smiley under a blog post.
Humans (Engineers and entrepreneurs) have also invented a variety of ways to elicit and collect additional data, such as asking users to accept a cookie, tag friends in images or rate a product. Data became "the new oil".
Every time you access the internet to read the news, do a search, buy something, play a game, or check your email, bank balance or social media feed, you interact with this infrastructure.
It creates a "Data-driven" network effort a data-driven AI both feeds on this infrastructure and powers it.
Risk: Contrary to popular belief these are not existential risks to our species, but rather a possible erosion of our privacy and autonomy as data (public and private) is being leveraged.


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This secretive firm has powerful new hacking tools
Mollitiam Industries claims to have created hackings tools that can take control of smartphones and laptops
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A secretive cyberintelligence firm claims to have created powerful hacking tools that can remotely monitor and take control of Android, MacOS and Windows devices. Designed for those looking to "investigate targets in tactical operations," Mollitiam Industries is promoting tools that are capable of the "anonymous interception, and the remote and invisible control of targets connected to the internet," according to documents seen by WIRED
Source… https://www.wired.co.uk/article/phone-hacking-mollitiam-industries
Marketing materials left exposed online by a third-party claim Mollitiam's interception products, dubbed 'Invisible Man' and 'Night Crawler,' are capable of remotely accessing a target's files, location, and covertly turning on a device's camera and microphone. Its spyware is also said to be equipped with a keylogger, which means every keystroke made on an infected device – including passwords, search queries and messages sent via encrypted messaging apps – can be tracked and monitored.
To evade detection, the malware makes use of the company's so-called "invisible low stealth technology" and its Android product is advertised as having "low data and battery consumption" to prevent people from suspecting their phone or tablet has been infected. Mollitiam is also currently marketing a tool that it claims enables "mass surveillance of digital profiles and identities" across social media and the dark web.
Cyberintelligence firms responsible for manufacturing invasive spyware technology, such as Israel's NSO Group, Italy's Hacking Team, and Germany's FinFisher, have faced sustained criticism from human rights groups in recent years due to accusations of providing sophisticated spy tools to repressive regimes where they have been used to target members of civil society. The exposed documents are one of the first times Mollitiam's surveillance capabilities have been revealed publicly. "Time and again we have seen the type of spyware sold by Mollitiam used to target journalists, activists, and others," says Edin Omanovic, the advocacy director of Privacy International.
While Mollitiam Industries is less well-known than other cyberintelligence firms, its technology is regularly touted at ISS World conferences, a series of annual surveillance events dubbed a 'wiretappers' ball' by privacy advocates. Recently it has promoted its ability to record WhatsApp calls and shared details of social engineering and phishing tactics used "to gain the target's trust" during a webinar. Later this year it is scheduled to present a demo on the "latest technology used to take invisible control of target systems". The lead sponsor of the conference is NSO Group, which is currently embroiled in a legal battle with WhatsApp over its hacking technology.
Little is publicly known about how Molltiam's technology is used in the real-world. In January 2020, Colombian news magazine, Semana, published contracts that appear to show a division of the Colombian military had purchased Mollitiam's 'Invisible Man' product the previous year for almost three billion pesos, almost £600,000. According to Reporters Without Borders, the technology was used to target several journalists at the magazine, including its editor, Alejandro Santos.
"We know that the Colombian government has been spying on journalists for many years and so anything that suggests they are getting better tools to be able to do that is deeply concerning," says Natalie Southwick, the South and Central Americas program coordinator of the Committee to Protect Journalists. "Spyware is a massive threat to press freedom and the right of everyone to access information."
Mollitiam Industries was established in 2018 and is based in Madrid, according to its LinkedIn page. Although not all of its clients are known, Spain's intelligence agency and cyberspace command unit work with the company and officials in Brazil and Peru have also purchased its products, according to trade magazine, Intelligence Online.Most Popular
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The company did not acknowledge or respond to multiple requests for comment about how its technologies work, who they are sold to, or how they have been used by those that have purchased them.
But Mollitiam Industries is also working on a project worth almost €650,000 which is part-funded by European Union's Regional Development Fund. The project aims to build an intelligence platform that "extracts, analyses and correlates large amounts of data" from social media and the dark web. It will provide "a new way to automatically generate intelligence from the extracted data" by collecting and analysing data from several social media platforms simultaneously. Facebook, Twitter, Telegram and Tor are all included as potential sources of data collection. The two year project, which is one of several EU-backed initiatives the company has benefited from, is due to end in September 2021, according to official documents.
Privacy campaigners have criticised the EU's decision to provide funds to the company, saying the "intrusiveness and covert nature" of the company's interception products risk enabling human rights abuses. "The fact that they received EU public money to develop their business is shocking," says Omanovic. "Mollitiam market capabilities that pose such a unique threat to our privacy and security that it's highly debatable if such powers could ever be compatible with international human rights law."
A spokesperson for the European Commission declined to comment on record about Mollitiam's funding or the tools it was building. It is not the first time the EU has been accused of funding the spread of surveillance technology. According to a report published last year by Privacy International, Niger has received €11.5 million from the EU for the provision of drones, surveillance software, and IMSI catchers.
The EU's role in increasing surveillance capabilities domestically and abroad comes despite calls by David Kaye, the former UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, for an immediate moratorium on the sale, transfer and use of surveillance tools. In a 2019 report, Kaye noted that surveillance technologies including sophisticated hacking and interception tools are "causing immediate and regular harm to individuals and organisations that are essential to democratic life."
The EU recently introduced new export regulations that seek "to prevent human rights violations and security threats" that are connected to the misuse of any surveillance technology. Access Now and other human rights organisations say the new regulation includes "positive elements" but remains a "missed opportunity for a more ambitious regulation that includes stronger protections needed to safeguard human rights and security."
On its homepage, Mollitiam Industries acknowledges that it has to obtain government authorisation to export some of its products and says it is prohibited from selling its technology to countries that face EU sanctions. But Omanovic says existing regulations do not do enough to protect human rights.
"It is no surprise that their spyware has already reportedly been abused," he says. "The Spanish authorities must now ensure that they block risky exports of surveillance tech and ensure that the public have access to information detailing which ones have been approved and to where."
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