professional and personal knowledge and understanding.
sophisticated individual investors and their financial advisors.
Copyright © 2013 by Joshua Rosenbaum and Joshua Pearl.
Gasparro toward the successful production of this workbook.
attitude, and commitment to perfection are a true inspiration.
We look forward to great things from him in the future.
contributions in the completion of this workbook.
well as in formal classroom and training settings.
professor, instructor, or trainer can build an entire course.
(including the creation of pro forma financial statements).
examine when screening for comparable companies?
measure the profitability of a company?
financial information for comparable companies?
diluted shares outstanding when used in trading comps?
34) What is the formula for calculating enterprise value?
proceeds to repay debt (excluding fees and expenses).
37) Which company below has a higher gross profit margin?
41) Calculate the company's return on equity (ROE)?
42) Calculate the company's return on assets (ROA)?
following is NOT used in the numerator?
46) Which of the following ratings is investment grade?
D. BBB47) What is the Moody's equivalent of B+?
characteristics could explain this situation?
one with moderate to low leverage? Why?
first add back the full non-recurring charges to net income.
statistic is calculated in the same manner as shown in 3(a).
LTM net income multiplied by the low P/E multiple range.
LTM net income multiplied by the high P/E multiple range.
suppliers as opposed to homebuilders.
company sells its products and services to the end user.
the calculation for comparable companies analysis.
accordance with the treasury stock method (TSM).
net share settlement (NSS), where appropriate.
interest − cash and cash equivalents.
repurchase shares that are currently trading at $25.00.
shares outstanding of 260 million.
debt + preferred stock + noncontrolling interest – cash.
it remains constant regardless of changes in capital structure.
debt on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
calculation for gross profit margin is shown below.
denominator. The calculation for ROE is shown below.
debt-to-total capitalization is shown below.
net of interest expense and taxes.
credit ratings assigned by Moody's.
46) D. BBB- is investment grade (see table in question #45).
47) A. The equivalent of B+ is B1 (see table in question #45).
million (2011 YTD sales from 10-Q).
serves as the LTM period.
these two formulas is estimated 12/31/2012 sales.
52) A. P/E is equal to equity value/net income.
to equity holders as it is net of interest expense.
that flows only to equity holders, such as net income or EPS.
EBITDA flows to both equity and debt holders.
missed earnings estimates, or business disruptions.
grow both organically and through acquisitions.
f. What is the highest enterprise value-to-EBITDA multiple?
g. What is the lowest enterprise value-to-EBIT multiple?
creating an initial list of comparable acquisitions?
understand the context of an M&A deal?
I. Was the acquirer a strategic buyer or financial sponsor?
II. Was the nature of the deal friendly or hostile?
13) Which of following is NOT contained in a merger proxy?
in connection with a business combination?
affiliate of the target company is part of the buyout group?
options in an M&A transaction?
19) What is "scarcity value" as it relates to M&A?
21) Which of the following are examples of synergies?
decline in its share price?
28) When is a floating exchange offer most commonly used?
34) What are the primary types of synergies?
strategies for locating comparable acquisitions?
38) What is the premium paid for the target?
been able to pay higher purchase prices, and why?
47) How might a hostile transaction affect the multiple paid?
establishing the "unaffected" share price?
and what share price should be used in the analysis?
analysis calculated on the basis of LTM financial statistics?
the high end, low end, or middle end of the range?
multiple ranges than comparable companies?
value plus total debt minus cash and cash equivalents.
million litigation settlement is not included in COGS.
price per share multiplied by fully diluted shares outstanding.
fixed income research reports and merger proxies.
understanding of an M&A transaction.
widely-used multiples in precedent transactions analysis.
equally as important to a seller as the purchase price.
from the fairness opinion, among other items.
process on a Schedule 13E-3.
Purchase to the target's shareholders and files a Schedule TO.
respond to the tender offer.
prefer cash over stock as payment due to its guaranteed value.
that may be critical to an acquirer's strategic plan.
value for the target's shareholders.
key inputs at lower prices due to increased purchasing power.
consideration paid and market conditions.
by dividing 0.5 by 2.
accordance with the movement of the acquirer's share price.
acquirer, the reciprocal is not true.
mid-2000s vs. the ensuing credit crunch).
broken down into revenue and cost synergies.
thresholds, as well as a longer investment time horizon.
boom might have resulted in a higher valuation.
hostile party and another buyer.
(e.g., 1, 7, and 30 days prior).
the public, or rumors prior to transaction announcement.
facilities/people that can be eliminated.
effect of the purchase offer.
12) Which of the following is a current asset?
13) Which of the following is a long-term asset?
assumptions when projecting FCF in a DCF?
17) How long is the typical DCF projection period?
projection period most likely be longer than five years?
expected to have high capital expenditures?
33) What does days sales outstanding measure?
35) What does days inventory held measure?
36) What does inventory turns measure?
39) What does days payable outstanding measure?
41) What method is used to calculate cost of equity?
risk-free rate in the CAPM?
risk premium to use in the calculation of cost of equity?
company beyond its projection period?
free cash flow using mid-year discounting?
the end of the projection period?
riskier and, therefore, should have a higher cost of equity.
when projecting terminal year FCF for a cyclical company?
b) cash flow statement, and c) balance sheet?
value increase or decrease? Why?
market risk premium versus an 8% market risk premium?
64) What are some of the benefits of using DCF analysis?


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Interstate 5 chain checks lifted north of Redding; chains required on Hwy. 299 west of Burney
by Juan Williams November 9, 2022
Snowy conditions prompted northbound Interstate 5 north of Redding and Highway 299 to temporarily close Tuesday morning after vehicle spin-outs.
I-5 reopened just before 1 p.m. to all traffic, and trucks were being screened for snow chains to travel north past the Fawndale exit, about 10 miles north of Redding, the California Department of Transportation posted on Twitter. At 5 p.m., Caltrans lifted chain checks for trucks and vehicles on I-5 at Fawndale.
Highway 299 reopened, but vehicles were being checked for chains following a near two-hour delay after two big rigs spun out near Buckhorn Summit Road.
Chains are required on Highway 299 East, 10 miles west to 6 miles west of Burney on Hatchet Mountain.
Caltrans had to use snow plows and brine to improve road conditions.
Over the weekend, the National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for Siskiyou County through Tuesday night, as well as through Wednesday morning for Shasta County communities above 4,000 feet.
Snow and wind could make it dangerous to drive most of I-5 north of Redding, the weather service said.
Redding was forecast to receive 1.5 inches of rain through Tuesday, said meteorologist Idamis Del Valle-Shoemaker. Heaviest rains were expected to continue hitting through Tuesday morning.
The storm was expected to dump a foot of snow in north central and southeast Siskiyou County through Tuesday before it tapers off Wednesday morning.
The snowfall could make roads slippery and hazardous, and travel is discouraged.
"If you must travel, keep tire chains, a flashlight, blankets, food, water, medications, and a fully charged phone with you," the weather service said in its advisory.
On Wednesday, the sun returns. In Redding, there's a slight chance of showers before 7 a.m. followed by patchy fog and then mostly sunny, according to the weather service.
7:31 a.m. update: Delays on Highway 299
Two big rigs driving through snowy conditions spun out, causing closures on Highway 299 near Buckhorn Summit Road on Tuesday morning, California Highway Patrol officials said.
Highway 299 remains closed three miles west and four miles east of Buckhorn Summit, CHP officials said.
Previous coverage: Winter storms rain on Redding, dump snow on I-5 and Siskiyou County
California Department of Transportation workers have brought two snow plows and are using brine to improve road conditions, CHP officials said. The spun-out rigs haven't yet been cleared.
CHP officials said chains on wheels and tires are required to pass through Highway 299.
Interstate 5 conditions
Vehicles traveling northbound on Interstate 5 are being screened due to snow and rain conditions, the California Department of Transportation District 2 posted on Twitter at 1:20 a.m. Tuesday morning.
The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for Siskiyou County through Tuesday night, as well as through Wednesday morning for Shasta County communities above 4,000 feet.
Snow levels were expected to drop as low as 2,500 feet in the foothills through Monday, the Weather Service said, making travel dangerous on parts of I-5 and other roads north of Pollard Flat — 35 miles north of Redding.
Ethan Hanson started working for the Redding Record Searchlight after four years with the Los Angeles Daily News as a freelancer. His coverage includes working the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in South Bend, Indiana, and writing about the St. Louis Rams' move to Los Angeles with the Ventura County Star. He began his career as a play-by-play broadcaster for LA Pierce College from 2011-2017. Follow him on Twitter at @EthanAHanson_RS.
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*This is a true story, but names have been changed and places have been kept very vague. The people in this story live in a part of the world where Christians are persecuted for their faith. Telling their story puts them in danger, but they want people to know what God is doing. God is using these brave believers in mighty ways, but they need our help. They need our prayers, and they need our support.
Romans 12:10-13 – Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other. Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically. Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying. When God's people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality.
We sat around a table in the outdoor screened in dining room. It was early afternoon and the day was just starting to get hot from the blazing West African sun. There was a contented calm in the air as the hum of the ceiling fan mingled with the nearby sounds of children playing. I sipped my ice-water and watched the vibrant flowers that spilled over the top of the wall surrounding our sister's home as they danced in the breeze. It was fascinating to listen as John and Elizabeth chatted enthusiastically in French with the tall, beautiful woman who had come to visit. Mariama Abimbola was a good friend and colleague and they were pleased by this opportunity to catch up. She had been in town for a Missionary Conference and John had asked her to stop by and meet us so she could share her testimony. Their conversation slowly died down and she turned to us.
Moments before she had been animated, bubbly; but now a solemn quiet came over her. She sat for a moment and lowered her head, tears escaping the corners of her eyes. John looked concerned. A minute later she raised her eyes to mine and began to speak. Although I couldn't interpret the words, tears welled in my eyes as our spirits joined in understanding. A moment later she paused and John began to translate. For the next hour we sat captivated as Mariama opened her heart and shared her story. I share it with you now with the prayer that it will resonate deep in your soul, as it did ours and spur us all to action.
"I was born into a prominent Muslim family. My father was well known and respected by all. He had a great deal of influence and raised me as a child of privilege. I didn't have to learn to cook or clean in order to help run the household like other children I knew. We had hired help to take care of all those things. Instead, I was given a first class education which began with extensive study of the Koran followed by formal education. I was proud of my family and wanted to earn an honorable reputation so I studied diligently. When it was time for me to marry, my father had no problem finding a place for me as the wife of Ibrahim Senghor, another well known, respected, and wealthy Muslim man.
How could I say no? Someone had to defend the truth. So I began attending the talks and speaking out to Rachael, the missionary lady. I was so disturbed to hear the stories I had learned about Abraham, Moses, and Isaac being told in such different ways. I would never accept this Bible, or its false God. Allah was my god. I would continue to defend him so that no one would be confused by Rachael's strange teachings.
Then one night, as I was sleeping, I had a dream. I saw Jesus standing with His arms open to me. He looked at me and said, 'Don't be afraid, come to Me.' In the dream I felt such peace, but when I woke up I was disturbed. What did it mean? I decided I must keep the dream to myself and ignore it, but over the next few weeks I had the dream again and again. Jesus was calling me to Himself. 'Don't be afraid, Mariama, Come to Me!' Finally, I went to talk to Rachael about my dreams. She told me how I could turn from my sin and accept the gift of salvation that God offered through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. As I prayed I felt the Holy Spirit fill my whole body and immediately realized that a giant weight I never even knew I felt had been lifted. It was as if I had been yoked to my sin and to all the false teachings of Islam. The instant I prayed to God that yoke had been lifted and I was set free! I felt so light and happy. I would never forget that moment.
I went home and told my mother what had happened to me. She looked very concerned and told me to keep it to myself; to never speak of it again. Before long it was time for me to take my new baby boy, Ahmadou, and return home to my husband. This meant I could no longer attend Rachael's Bible study, but she had given me a Bible and I took it with me and read it every day. Ibrahim wasn't pleased with my new-found faith, but he thought it was just a silly phase and kept quiet about it for a while. A few years later we had another baby, this one a girl. By that time, I had begun to speak often to my husband about the things I was learning in the Bible. He finally lost his patience and became very angry. He beat me and told me he would not be married to a Christian. He divorced me quickly, forcing me to take our two young children and return to my father's home.
'Yes.' They finally answered truthfully.
I went, as fast as I could to Ibrahim's home to get the children back, but he wouldn't allow it. He told me he wouldn't allow his children to be raised by a Christian. I knew I had a right to my children, so I went straight to the courts and pleaded my case before the local judge. He was very upset by what had happened to me and quickly sent for Ibrahim to appear before him. 'Why have you taken this woman's children from her?' He asked.
'Is this true?' The judge asked. My heart sank as I realized I'd already lost the case, but I answered honestly. The judge ruled in favor of my husband and I wasn't allowed to see my children anymore. It was as if I had been robbed of part of myself! I was devastated.
When I returned to my parents, they were furious. I had disgraced the family name and my father insisted I deny my new faith, renounce the name of Jesus, and return to Islam. When I refused he had me beaten. For quite some time my family tried everything they could to get me to turn away from Christianity. They wouldn't feed me, and they would have me beaten. One day I went to the community garden to try and find some food because I was so hungry. I knew I couldn't go on like this, it would kill me. I was so weak and discouraged and ready to give up, so I pulled out my Bible and began reading in Genesis. Out of nowhere, a distinguished elderly man walked up to me. 'What are you reading about?' the man asked. This was very strange for many reasons, but mostly because everyone in the town knew better than to speak to me. I told him that I had been studying the story of Abraham. 'What you are doing is good.' The old man said, 'Keep doing what you're doing. Keep studying the Bible.' I don't know why, but I felt so encouraged at that moment. As I've looked back on that encounter over the years I've often wondered if that man was just another person that God sent to give me hope, or if he was an angel. Why didn't I know who he was? I knew everyone in the town. Why was he even in the garden to begin with, and why would he have told me to keep reading the Bible? Whoever he was, God used him to strengthen my resolve and encourage me to keep going.
Before long my father had me isolated in a room and I was given nothing to eat or drink. I was told that I must stay there until I agreed to forsake Christianity and each time I refused I was badly beaten. Many of my teeth had been knocked out by then, and I was bruised and broken. There is still a hole in the back of my skull from those beatings. I don't know what I would have done if it weren't for my Bible. My parents believed they had isolated me; left me completely alone with no bread or water. What they didn't know was that I would never be alone because Jesus was always with me. I had the Bread of Life and Living Water to sustain me. I had hours every day to read my Bible again and again and God used that time to teach me so much.
Finally my parents told me I had to leave. I was no longer part of the Abimbola family. I was never to speak to them, or associate with them in any way again. I had been disowned.
I didn't know what to do. I'd never needed to provide for myself. I didn't even know where to start. No one in our small town would hire me for fear of my father, so I moved to the big city about 2 hours away in search of work. I was able to find a job with a family as a house girl, but I didn't really know anything about how to clean. I worked hard and learned quickly, but then one day the family told me I would have to find another job. They offered no reason why. Once again I searched and quickly found another job with another family, this time working in the kitchen. I would have to learn how to cook. Again, I knew nothing about how to do the job, but I worked hard and learned quickly. Yet again, out of nowhere, the family dismissed me. I learned that my father had used his notoriety and influence to find me and to threaten the families so that they were afraid to keep me on. This happened over and over until finally it become impossible for me to even find work. No one dared to hire me. I didn't know what I would do. My faith had grown so much, but I didn't know how I would be able to survive this life as long as I remained a Christian.
In spite of the difficulties I faced, God remained faithful. One day, as I was walking the streets of the city looking for work I became so discouraged that I decided I was going to give up. I couldn't continue like this. Just then, I happened to look up and right in front of me was Rachael, the missionary lady who had led me to the Lord. She had gone back to America shortly after my son was born, and had been gone for years. She had just returned to the country to continue her missionary work and God put her right in my path at just the right time!
We sat down together and I told her my story. Rachael took me back to her house and gave me a place to stay for a little while. She also introduced me to the other missionaries on her team. One family, the Nelsons hired me to work in their home and since they weren't a part of the Muslim community my parents had no influence to get me dismissed. I also began to attend church with Rachael and the Nelsons and got to know many other believers who encouraged me, and strengthened me in my faith. As I worked with and got to know these new friends, I felt God calling me to be a missionary too.
I partnered with the missions organization the Nelsons worked with and started my new ministry. I moved to a smaller town about an hour away from the big city. From there, I would travel to all the villages surrounding this town and teach the Bible to groups of women who would show up to my meetings. Before long these groups began to grow. More and more women wanted to learn about the Bible. The men of the villages began to take notice and through the miraculous work of God, they appreciated what I was teaching their wives. They even encouraged the women to attend the Bible studies!
If you'd like to continue reading the rest of Mariama's story, click here.
*How about you? How does reading Mariama's story make you feel? Do you think you'd have the courage to follow God at such great cost?
That's already happened to me when i became a Christian….
What an amazing story! I cannot imagine going through the things she went through. Being beaten and divorced, having your children ripped away from you, starved and beaten some more! She has to be an amazingly strong woman and I am so glad she finally found her way in this cruel world with Jesus still by her side and in her heart.
Meeting her and being able to call her my friend is one of the greatest honors of my life!
She is so brave. This is really the proof of the Gospel, that God would work such transformation and inspire such selfless loyalty.
My heart is beating so fast. What a testimony!!! Something really interesting, I've heard of MANY stories of Jesus appearing to Muslims in DREAMS. Like, a lot. God clearly has a heart for His people and knows that they cannot freely choose Him as we do so He breaks the barriers of culture and speaks to them privately. I can't wait to read the rest!
Wow, really? That's really interesting. I love the way He pursues each of us in just the way that will draw us to Him. I'm just so thankful to serve such a personal God!
I have heard the same thing – a lot of appearing to Muslims in dreams. And not just in the day to day, but also during Ramadan. It's amazing what God can do!
Wow! We were over there during Ramadan. We felt such a weight for all the lost souls! A longing to see them set free! Especially during the night laying in bed and hearing the call to prayer echoing from the mosque! It certainly did call us to prayer – maybe not the prayer they intended, but pray we did!
You're right! It is amazing what God can do!
Oh, may I be faithful to hold the missionaries and Muslims, up in prayer! Christian love and hugs to you all.
This was absolutely gut wrenching and miraculous all at once. I am in awe of such a faith to withstand the atrocities Miriama endured in the name of Jesus.
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing such a profound story.
It rocked me to my core too as she shared it with us. I'm honored to have been given permission to share it with so many. Especially gut-wrenching for me was the part I will share next week. After all that she's been through, what's happening to her right now is by far the most heartbreaking. I'm hoping that telling her story will compel many of us to lift her up in prayer again and again so that she won't become a casualty of this war we wage with the enemy of our souls!
That was breath-taking, and I'm eager to read the rest of her story. Thank you for sharing such an important demonstration of faith and deepening relationship with God.
I am sobbing in tears of joy and love for Miriama and of God's faithfulness for both of you. I'm also so moved that you have captured her story in such a way remembering so many details. It is absolutely beautiful and such a treasure that God is using you in this way. I'm in love with your work sweet sister. God placing you and Miriama in each other's path is such a gift for so many. Thank you for sharing this with the world! Mariana is so courageous and truly blessed by God, he'll continue to use her through all her trials in mighty ways!!!
Thanks Desiree. I had a real asset in helping me remember the details correctly – my sister-in-law "Elizabeth," who is on the mission-field with Mariama. They are dear friends and know each other's stories well. So I was able to ask lots of questions as I wrote and then send drafts to her to edit for accuracy. It was a huge blessing!
Oh awesome! You're so beautiful dear friend!!! I was wondering how your memory could capture so much and you explain selflessly giving credit to your sister in law Elizabeth. I'm so glad God is moving mountains in your lives as you surrender all to him. Thanks for sharing your journey!!!


It seems the organisers behind the forthcoming Laneway Festival have outdone themselves in terms of an enormous food and drink program for both Sydney and Melbourne. What is now one of the country's most beloved music and cultural festivals has announced a line up of restaurant partners curated by the obviously very discerning and well-connected David Moyle to include top tier dining destinations in both locations, all coming on board to pop-up on-site under a new festival dining concept.
Both cities will of course have their own exclusives, all of which have confirmed exactly what they'll be serving on the day. And if it all tastes as good as it reads, punters are in for a real treat. All confirmed restaurants will be offering one dish and one drink each (paired for $25 – $18 for just the cocktail).
Both Sydney and Melbourne will have a dedicated food precinct dubbed the Royal Moyle, a dish and drink pairing experience that includes all food matched with bespoke cocktails designed by mixologist Shaun Bryne. It's a tad different to the spaced out food stall offerings found at previous iterations of Laneway Festival, bumping things up to a more refined experience. And by more refined we mean some big dining institutions have been confirmed, including Embla and Smith & Daughters for Melbourne, and 10 William St and Restaurant Hubert for Sydney.
Note that all other cities on the Laneway Festival schedule are likely to have a bigger focus on good ol' fashioned food stalls from local vendors and eateries. And while they won't have the Royal Moyle, if previous years are anything to go by, the food and drink will be just as good.
"Getting someone like David Moyle to program food is like asking Pink Floyd to unite and play Laneway", said Laneway Co-Director Danny Rogers. "We constantly change the way we do things and always look to do things at a level we haven't hit before".


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Biogas production from waste is taking off in South Korea with the help of two Swedish companies at the forefront of the biogas industry.
Biogas production from waste is taking off in South Korea with the help of two Swedish companies at the forefront of the biogas industry. We follow biogas news from Sweden quite closely as that country is speeding ahead in the production and use of biogas for both heating and as a transportation fuel.
A good deal of taxis and also some busses already run on biogas in Sweden and several public transport companies are planning to convert their diesel powered fleets to run on liquid biogas. See a good story on the plans of Swedish public transportation authorities and bus companies right here.
The gas to be produced from food waste in South Korea will not be clean enough to use as a vehicle fuel. Instead it will be sold to an industrial user for internal heating. You can read more about the biogas plans in South Korea here. One of the Swedish companies operating in South Korea is Scandinavian Biogas. A related company, Scandinavian GTS, will be presenting at Driving Sustainability '09. Its CEO, Mr. Hans Kattström, will give a talk on liquid biogas as a vehicle fuel and how it will greatly increase the potential of biogas as fuel for trucks and busses. Some even say that biogas and liquid biogas will become the main fuel in Sweden in ten year's time. This August we´ll see a ten year anniversary of the only Icelandic biogas company Metan that produces vehicle fuel from a waste landfill. There's already a couple of busses, all the garbage trucks in Reykjavík and a little over 100 smaller cars running on this domestic fuel in Iceland today. A fuel that decreases the share of imported fossil fuels, and is both greener and considerable less expensive than oil and gasoline.


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Good night, and hello to everyone. I am new here, and I am going to start a new project and I would like to know your ideas and advice. I have a vw polo 1993 1.4D (86c I think). I will start a project to put a 1.9 TDI PD 150cv engine in it (ARL code engine) in it. And I expect to get + 350hp on that engine after some upgrades. I know it's going to be a lot of work and I have to do a lot for it to work. But it's going to be a project that I'm not in a hurry to finish ... But I'm some doubts as to which braking to use ??? what brake servo to use ??? What suspension? which Driveshaft use in relation to the hub kunckle ??? Can someone give me some tips? Thanks in advance.
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The healthy side of the "chocolate fence" is -- raw cacao! For those chocolate lovers, you can now have your chocolate cake and eat it too.
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Q: Regular expression in Ruby Could anybody help me make a proper regular expression from a bunch of text in Ruby. I tried a lot but I don't know how to handle variable length titles.
The string will be of format <sometext>title:"<actual_title>"<sometext>. I want to extract actual_title from this string.
I tried /title:"."/ but it doesnt find any matches as it expects a closing quotation after one variable from opening quotation. I couldn't figure how to make it check for variable length of string. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

A: /title:"([^"]*)"/

The parentheses create a capturing group.  Inside is first a character class.  The ^ means it's negated, so it matches any character that's not a ".  The * means 0 or more.  You can change it to one or more by using + instead of *.

A: . matches any single character. Putting + after a character will match one or more of those characters. So .+ will match one or more characters of any sort. Also, you should put a question mark after it so that it matches the first closing-quotation mark it comes across. So:
/title:"(.+?)"/

The parentheses are necessary if you want to extract the title text that it matched out of there.

A: I like /title:"(.+?)"/ because of it's use of lazy matching to stop the .+ consuming all text until the last " on the line is found.
It won't work if the string wraps lines or includes escaped quotes.
In programming languages where you want to be able to include the string deliminator inside a string you usually provide an 'escape' character or sequence.
If your escape character was \ then you could write something like this...
/title:"((?:\\"|[^"])+)"/

This is a railroad diagram. Railroad diagrams show you what order things are parsed... imagine you are a train starting at the left. You consume title:" then \" if you can.. if you can't then you consume not a ". The > means this path is preferred... so you try to loop... if you can't you have to consume a '"' to finish.
I made this with https://regexper.com/#%2Ftitle%3A%22((%3F%3A%5C%5C%22%7C%5B%5E%22%5D)%2B)%22%2F
but there is now a plugin for Atom text editor too that does this.

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'Now they want the vaccine': Houston ER docs speak from front line of latest COVID surge
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Julie Garcia, Staff writer
July 26, 2021 Updated: July 28, 2021 6:34 a.m.
Signs for Harris County Health Dept., mass vaccination site at NRG on Monday, July 26, 2021.
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The fourth COVID-19 wave is like a sequel to a movie that no one ever wanted to watch in the first place, said Dr. Gina Blocker, attending emergency physician at Baylor St. Luke's Hospital.
"This feels like a part two with additional scenes," said Blocker, who feels this recent surge could have been avoided had more Houstonians been vaccinated.
In Harris County, the number of active coronavirus cases has nearly tripled — from 3,076 to 8,431 — since the beginning of July, as the hypercontagious delta variant spreads rapidly among young, and primarily unvaccinated, Texans.
Blocker sees an average of 20-25 patients a day, at least half of whom test positive for COVID. Every COVID patient she has seen in the last three weeks has been unvaccinated. And doctors throughout the Houston area, where only slightly more than half the eligible population is fully vaccinated, are seeing a similar pattern.
On HoustonChronicle.com: Hidalgo raises Harris County COVID threat level as delta variant rages, hospitalizations double
Dr. Hilary Fairbrother, associate professor of emergency medicine at UTHealth and Memorial Hermann, said nearly 100 percent of people testing positive for COVID at Memorial Hermann are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated with only one Pfizer or Moderna shot. A single shot of Pfizer or Moderna is only about 30 percent effective in protecting from COVID symptoms, Fairbrother said.
While the delta variant is much more contagious than the original coronavirus strain, Fairbrother said it has many of the same symptoms: fever, cough, shortness of breath, vomiting and diarrhea.
"The virus, while we are calling it something different, is remarkably the same," Fairbrother said. "We have changed the population of people who are at risk of getting really sick. We can expect people who are not vaccinated to be more likely to get the delta variant because it's twice as infectious as the original."
While vaccine hesitancy remains a big hurdle in Houston, Blocker says many of her patients are desperate for a shot after learning their diagnosis.
"Most people are shocked when I tell them they have COVID," Blocker said. "I've had a handful of people beg me for the vaccine — now they want the vaccine. The time of diagnosis is not when we administer the vaccine."
Last week, the number of lab-confirmed COVID hospitalizations statewide broke 4,000 for the first time since March, a figure that coincided with a White House announcement that 40 percent of all new cases were recorded in Texas, Missouri and Florida.
More than 1,000 people are testing positive per day for COVID-19 in the greater Houston region, which is more than seven times last month's daily average, according to the Texas Medical Center.
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Dr. Richina Bicette, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, has been treating COVID patients since March 2020.
Bicette said the latest wave will be different because doctors know what they are fighting. And there are vaccines that prevent the worst COVID outcomes, she said.
"At this point, there is little excuse for people to get severely ill from COVID-19; we have something to combat this," Bicette said. "I don't understand why people would choose otherwise. This is a public health crisis at this point."
After Memorial Day weekend, when many Houstonians dipped their toes back into "normal" social situations, Dr. David Lakey, a member of the state's vaccine panel, said the return to pre-pandemic life was on the horizon. Then vaccinations stalled in June. And by July, the uptick in case counts was undeniable.
Vivian Ho, a health economist at Rice University's Baker Institute of Public Policy, said she felt comfortable walking into a crowded Buc-ee's gas station without a mask in early June.
"We did a road trip and stopped at Buc-ee's, and it was a mad house," Ho said. "I was unmasked like everyone else, and I felt fine. That would be incredibly foolish to do now with the delta variant."
Ho will return to in-person teaching at Rice at the end of August. While she's nervous to return, she believes Rice students have proved to be risk-averse and will be mostly vaccinated. Either way, she will wear her mask.
On HoustonChronicle.com: Thanks, COVID. Young adults living with their parents has reached a historic high.
She worries for public school teachers and children too young to be vaccinated who are returning to class next month, as well. In May, Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order to stop individual school districts from mandating face coverings, which will remain in effect for the 2021-22 year.
"I worry that we don't have the data available for parents to make the right decisions to keep their children safe, and a lot of them will end up keeping their kids home," Ho said. "I think that behavior is more likely to happen among lower-income families who were the ones most left behind last year."
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We sure live in interesting and exciting times, especially from an investment perspective. I can't think of anyone who predicted a 7-8 percent market rally on November 9th, the day after Mr. Trump became President Elect Trump. Regardless of how you feel about President Trump, this is a time to be selfish, at least when it comes to your investment portfolio. Excess exuberance can be as dangerous as outsized pessimism – remind yourself that markets may react emotionally in the short-term but are driven by fundamentals and rational expectations over the long-term.
We all know that news headlines are about grabbing attention and increasing viewership, not about full disclosure or facts. None-the-less, news headlines do have an impact on us and the market, as they can create confusion and emotional reactions – think about the recent announcement of the seven nation (Muslim) travel ban… markets reacted negatively, even though there is little evidence of this impacting our economy or corporate earnings. Investors should focus their attention the economic proposals that President Trump has put forth, as well as the probability of them being enacted. The questions to ask are will President Trump be able to pass meaningful tax reform, renegotiate trade deals (including NAFTA), reduce burdensome regulations and how will this impact our economy. Moreover, it is important to recognize that for virtually all of these issues there are pros and cons. A reduction in corporate taxes may improve business conditions and drive additional investment, but it also reduces federal tax revenues thereby potentially creating great deficits and debt. Eliminating some regulations may prove beneficial to domestic businesses but may have a negative impact on exports of goods to countries that have more stringent requirements.
News headlines and emotions are sure to drive short-term market sentiment, which can be gut wrenching and appear to last much longer than it actually does. Conversely, over the intermediate and long-term, markets move based on corporate earnings and their outlook, the interest rate environment and the overall health of the economy. Politics will continue to provide us with some tantalizing and outrageous headlines, but economic realities will prove to be the long-term drivers of the market.
To that end, ask yourself what your investment time frame is, and how you expect whatever headline is being pushed by publishers right now to impact that timeline and your long-term portfolio. If you are not having these conversations with your advisor I encourage you to contact me for a complimentary investment consultation.
Chris Hanly is an investment consultant with Gary Goldberg Financial Services in Suffern and can be reached at (845) 368-2907 or chris.hanly@garygoldberg.com.


Golf: the sport of reason?
The rulebooks of various sports are as dense, convoluted and impenetrable as your ordinary astrophysics textbook. It's not without reason: Sports have to make up regulations that account for every possible scenario, which is why golf has a rule about what happens if your ball lands in an orange peel (play it as it lies) and basketball has one about what happens if every player fouls out (we'll get to that).
The rulebook doesn't exist to let you know that crossing the goal line scores a touchdowns, it's there to define a catch rule that's taken more plot twists than a Shakespearean drama. We'll focus on the bizarre rulings, looking at 13 of the weirdest rules in sports.
Contrary to popular belief, an NFL team can score one point in a game. It's a longshot, yes, but so was a 28-3 comeback and an Eagles Super Bowl win and those happened in back-to-back Super Bowls.
If there's a safety scored on any extra-point attempt, that would result in one point for the tackling team. How would that work? There are a couple scenarios but the most likely one is this: A team has its extra point partially blocked. The ball squirts to the 10-yard line, where it's picked up by a member of the defensive team, who can now return it 90 yards for two points. In trying to make a move, he retreats back into his own end zone and is tackled. Safety. One point. It'd be fun, sure, but it's the same point the team would have gotten for just making the extra point.
There is a way the other team can score a point and give the NFL the first ever "01" on the scoreboard. But the scenario in which the defensive team gets a one-point safety is far more unlikely. Basically, it's just the opposite of above. The kick is blocked and, for whatever reason (rain, snow, stupidity) the ball keeps getting knocked back toward the opposite end zone. An offensive player grabs it and, in hopes of preventing the defense from scoring two points or whatever, gets tackled for a safety (either by accident or intentionally) to give the defending team one point. Ideally, they'd have no points when it happened and score no points the rest of the game and we'd have a 27-1 finish, like an Olympic hockey game between Canada and Laos.
The United States Polo Association Rule Book (which is somehow 200 pages longer than the NFL rulebook) dictates that polo players must hold their mallet in their right hands. This is due to the fact that when a right-handed player approaches the ball as a left-handed player approaches the opposite way, it creates a jousting-like situation that wasn't safe for anyone - not that running around with heavy wooden sticks is safe for anyone either.
Oh, and because the rule wasn't reinstated until 1974, any player who was active before then is grandfathered in, meaning some 70-year-old, left-handed grandfathers could be out on the field wreckin' it up.
The drop kick is a quirk of the rule book. Instead of kicking an extra point normally, a player takes the snap and, anywhere behind the line of scrimmage, drops the ball on the turf and kicks it off the short hop through the uprights (he hopes).
Doug Flutie did it at the end of the 2005 season just as a lark. Before that, it hadn't been converted since 1941. Why does it exist? The ball used to be rounder and, thus, more conducive to being dropped on the ground and kicked. Placekicking also wasn't a specialty like it's been in the modern NFL.
To perform a successful drop kick with an oblong ball requires a precise drop and quick kick, as Flutie showed. The only reason Flutie took the kick is because it was Week 17 and the Patriots were way ahead of the Dolphins. It'll never be used as an actual strategy (especially with the extra points moved back).
That's the thing about most of these weird NFL rules: They're from a bygone era of football and only seem to stay in the rule book presumably because nobody wants to take the time to remove them. It's only when the rules play a big part in deciding a major game (e.g. the tuck rule) that the NFL ends up doing something about them.
Contrary to decades worth of sitcom plot points and low-budget sports movies, a baseball player is not allowed a catch a ball in his hat. If he does, even on the simplest fly ball to center, the batter is awarded three bases.
A controversial end to a semifinal at the 2012 London Olympics was protested by the South Korean team on behalf of Shin A-lam, who was jobbed on a timekeeping error. The first, unofficial protest took 30 minutes to complete and officials, seemingly making it up as they went along, ruled against the Korean.
Now a formal protest was lodged and Shin still didn't leave the piste - rules said that if she left it'd be an acceptance of defeat. In tears, she sat there for over an hour before being led off.
Later, her appeal would be denied.
She went on to lose the bronze-medal match and was later offered a "special medal" from the International Fencing Federation that she turned down.
If a punt returner calls for a fair catch, the receiving team then has the option of attempting an undefended field-goal from the spot where the ball was caught. It's an odd inclusion in the rule book (I have a theory about these that I'll posit later) and would only be realistically used at the end of a half.
Let's say a team punts to run out the clock.
Even with no time remaining, the return team is allowed to call fair catch and attempt a field goal from that spot. There are no defenders (they stand 10 yards away) and no tees, which makes it like a hybrid kick-off/field goal.
This doesn't happen. It's rare for punts to end halves and be caught close enough to make a fair catch kick a reasonable choice. That's why it's been 40 years since a successful conversion and it's so rare that even the attempts get headlines. The 49ers attempted a 71-yard kick during the Jim Harbaugh era (on the other sideline, it was clear Jeff Fisher was completely unfamiliar with the intricacies of the rule), but it failed.
High-sticking is a minor penalty that sends players to the penalty box for two minutes. But for high-sticking that results in injury, refs can assess a double-minor, which means four minutes in the box. What constitutes an "injury?" Though the rulebook doesn't specifically say "blood," it's pretty much "blood."
When the final 20-minute countdown begins before the tip of a college basketball game (this usually happens when players are in the middle of their first warm-up), players are no longer allowed to dunk. This got Kansas State into trouble once when a walk-on dunked in the layup line just two seconds after the clock started running.
Man, good thing that walk-on wasn't getting a piggyback from a teammate while smoking a cigarette or else K-State would have lost the game before it started.
If a team pulls a goalie in overtime, it forfeits the right to the one point that comes with an overtime loss. This was a necessary rule when there were no shootouts and teams could have theoretically pulled the goalie for an extra attacker with no consequences (it was either a win or loss so pulling a goalie would be a calculated risk).
Now, with the shootout looming, there's almost no reason to do it except, perhaps, as a late-season Hail Mary to avoid said shootout. That's because wins in regulation and overtime are used as the second playoff tiebreaker.
When can a line drive up the middle be a foul ball? When it hits the pitching rubber. If a ball isn't touched by a fielder and caroms from the rubber to foul territory along the first and third-base base paths, it's foul. This makes sense logically - a ball hit in fair territory down the first-base line can be fair one moment and foul the next, but it's odd to think of that ever happening to a hot shot up the middle.
It was the biggest chess story since Deep Blue. Back in 2012, the European Chess Union decreed that women wearing shirts or blouses may only have "the second from the top button" open during competition.
It was, in essence, an anti-cleavage rule.
This was treated with mockery in the worldwide press because dress codes are one thing (men have them in chess too - no holes, beach wear or body odor) but this sounds like nuns pulling out a ruler to measure the length of girls' skirts. In the 2017 edition of the rules, there is no mention of the "second from the top button" provision, which suggests the ECU quietly, and smartly, got rid of it.
A more recent example came in the 2012 U.S. Open when Andy Murray's hat fell off at the moment he was hitting a drop shot on Tomas Berdych. The Czech player insisted he'd been interrupted by the hat falling even though, as replay clearly showed, he wasn't getting to the ball no matter what.
13. Golf rule 11-3 - "That's one!"
But we've heard about those rules a ton.
So instead of listing every insane golf rule, here's an old one that continues to be shockingly fair. Anyone who's played golf has teed up their ball only to see it fall off the tee, whether because of an unintentional knock, balance, wind or a waggle.
Every time this happens, the same clown in your foursome yells "that's one" and everybody laughs and lets you tee back up without penalty because, come on, we're playing for beers on a muni track, not at Augusta.


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Granted, Hillary Clinton's appearance at Iowa Senator Tom Harkin's steak fry on Sunday was of minimal long-term consequence. It was at best a symbolic re-entry to presidential politics, a homage to the rituals of campaigning in Iowa.
Specifically, I counted four pillars of a possible Clinton campaign. First, there was Clinton economic nostalgia—"when it comes to moving America forward, we know what it takes," Hillary said. Then there were the explicit appeals to female voters, as in "women hold a majority of minimum-wage jobs in this country." There was an assault on the infernal backwardness of Republicans, whom Clinton referred to as "the guardians of gridlock." And there was an allusion to the ambitions she nobly repressed by becoming secretary of State. "Senator Obama became President Obama and to my great surprise he asked me to join his team," Clinton recalled.
Having said that, I can't help thinking that playing to her obvious strengths, rather than defusing some of her equally obvious weaknesses, isn't the optimal strategy for Clinton.
Let me be clear: Hillary Clinton is almost certain to win the Democratic nomination should she decide to contest it. The real question is whether she wins the easy way or the hard way. Does her candidacy alienate activists and dampen Democratic enthusiasm, culminating in a humiliating stumble at some point in the primary process? Or does it rally the party around her and generate momentum heading into the general election?
The concern-troll in me has a hard time seeing how she accomplishes the latter on her current trajectory. It doesn't take a Clinton-level of political savvy to grasp that the Democratic Party is in an anti-establishment mood. Andrew Cuomo's remarkably thin margin of victory in the New York gubernatorial primary, and last year's election of mayor Bill de Blasio, are only the highest-profile examples. Outside New York, populist candidates have been quietly notching victories against well-funded moderates for months with backing from grassroots groups like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
But Clinton's campaign posture seems designed to provoke rather than defuse this populist energy. The Times' steak-fry table-setter noted that "she has talked to friends and donors in business about how to tackle income inequality without alienating businesses or castigating the wealthy." Is there a more reliable way to rile up liberals than to conspicuously tiptoe around the powers that be? On foreign policy, it's one thing to back air strikes in Iraq and Syria, something the American public overwhelmingly supports, and which Clinton's allies suggest she would have been quick to resort to. But it's another thing to broadly criticize the incumbent Democratic president as insufficiently interventionist, which suggests a level of hostility to the party's base.
Yet to imply that Hillary's potential problems are a function of any particular issue is to miss the point. The problem is the general caution that defines her political style. Of Bill Clinton it was often said that if you put him in a crowded room, he would gravitate toward his harshest critic, determined to win them over. Hillary strikes you as the opposite—the sort who huddles with friends and allies while eying the detractor warily from a distance. The Harkin steak fry speech, and the political strategy it foreshadowed, was basically the rhetorical equivalent of this tic. Hillary's impulse was to hold close the ideas that have served her well, year in and year out, while steering clear of any possible dissent from establishment opinion. Sensibility-wise, it's about as far as you can get from where Democrats are these days.
The good news is that Hillary has any number of options for overcoming her chronic risk aversion. My personal preference is that she get behind a financial transactions tax, to rein in profits on Wall Street and tamp down income inequality. But it almost doesn't matter what the specific policy is so long as it's sufficiently unorthodox. Michael Tomasky has argued that she could get similar political mileage out of an ambitious family-leave proposal. Not exactly the first thing that came to mind for me—but, hey, whatever works.
In fairness, this year's Harkin steak fry wasn't the time or place to announce such a policy, even if she were tempted to go there. What the steak fry speech did make pretty clear that Hillary isn't exactly in the business of innovating these days. As one solution to the precariousness of middle class life she touted making "college and technical training affordable"—that golden Clinton oldie. She made multiple allusions to her husband's '90s-era incantation that people who "work hard and play by the rules" should have something to show for it. It was rhetorical comfort food—the turns of phrase you go back to when the world is scary and hard to make sense of. Which is all fine and good for the rest of us. But as a window onto the thinking of a future nominee, it was hard not to be disappointed.


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[EVENT] Future of Democracy: Strengthening Liberal Values, Institutions, Procedures at Global, European, Regional, National Levels
by 4liberty.euon March 8, 2022
Hungarian Europe Society
The Hungarian Europe Society cordially invites you to its online conference The Future of Democracy: Strengthening Liberal Values, Institutions and Procedures at Global, European, Regional and National Levels to be held on Thursday, March, 17, 2022.
The Hungarian Europe Society has previously organised webinars and conferences about major social and political problems which have recently emerged in our new, uncertain times. Most significantly, liberal democracy has been under attack worldwide in national and regional public arenas as well as through the increasing international geopolitical race between the democratic Western world and strengthening (semi)-authoritarian regimes.
The beginning of the twenties of the 21st century has brought up new risks and threats to the surface: environmental emergency, an unknown pandemic, migration, growing economic inequalities, the contradictions of a post-truth era, ideological/cultural as well as social/geographic polarisation and fragmentation, extreme right-wing identity politics, and soon.
The conference has two particular focuses which comprehensively incorporate the above mentioned themes. First, the Conference on the Future of Europe that was launched in May 2021 works with an open agenda and its settings let participants discuss all kinds of policy issues as well as legal and institutional renovations.
Second, the Summit for Democracy, invented by the Biden administration, goes beyond transatlantic relations regarding its more ambitious, global scope in order to bring together democratic states for action worldwide. Both big exercises give civil groups, think tanks and citizens the chance to interfere and influence conceptual considerations and practical outputs before the end of the deliberations.
10:00 – 10:15 Participants Connect to Online Platform
10:15 – 10:30 Welcome Address
István Hegedűs, Chairman, Hungarian Europe Society, Budapest
Detmar Doering, Head of Prague Office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Prague
10.30 – 12.30 Morning Session: The European Union: Fast Forward or a New Sclerosis?
Moderator: István Hegedűs, Chairman, Hungarian Europe Society, Budapest
10.30 – 11.00 Do We Have an East-West Divide inside the European Union? From the Perspectives of the Ongoing Debates about the Future of Europe and the Forthcoming French Presidential Elections
Jacques Rupnik, Research Professor at CERI-Sciences Po in Paris and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges
11.00 – 11.30 New German Perceptions on the Future of the European Union
Linn Selle, Chairperson of the European Movement Germany, Berlin
11.30 – 12.00 Alternative Ideas on the Reform of the European Union from Central Europe
Wojciech Przybylski, Editor-in-chief, Visegrad Insight, Warsaw
12.00 – 12.30 The Conference on the Future of the European Union: A Fresh Exercise for Democratic Participation and Citizens' Inclusion?
Richard Youngs, Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, based at Carnegie Europe, Brussels
12.30 – 14.00 Break
14.00 – 16.00 Early Afternnon Session: A New Era for the Global Cooperation of Democracies?
14.00 – 14.30 The Summit for Democracy: Objectives, Progress, and Problems
Jonathan Katz, Senior Fellow and Director of Democracy Initiatives, The German Marshall Fund of the United States; former Deputy Assistant Administrator, Europe and Eurasia Bureau, US Agency for International Development, Washington DC
14.30 – 15.00 Security and Geopolitical Considerations for our Decade
Jamie Shea, Senior Adviser on Security and Defence Policy, European Policy Centre; former Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO, Brussels
15.00 – 15.30 How and Why Russia Challenges and Undermines Liberal World Order and What can the West Do against the Threat?
Maria Domańska, Senior Fellow, Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw
15.30 – 16.00 Dealing with Assaults on Democracy within the Dynamics of Relations between the EU, USA, Russia and China
Imants Lieģis, Senior Fellow, Latvian Institute for International Affairs, Former Ambassador, Former Minister of Defense, Riga
16.00 – 18.00 Late Afternoon Session: Will Populists Take Over Worldwide?
Moderator: Erik Uszkiewicz, Vice-chairperson, Hungarian Europe Society, Budapest
16.00 – 16.30 Mapping Populism and Nationalism in Leader Rhetoric across North America and Europe
Erin Jenne, Professor at the International Relations Department at the Central European University, Budapest-Vienna
16.30 – 17.00 Liberal and Populist Media Discourses and the Transformation of Media Systems
Ruth Wodak, Emeritus Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University/University Vienna
17.00 – 17.30 Right- and Left-Wing Illiberalism
Helena Rosenblatt, Distinguished Professor of History, Political Science and French, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
17.30 – 18.00 The Significance of the Hungarian Parliamentary Elections on 3 April 2022
Erik Uszkiewicz, Vice-chairperson, Hungarian Europe Society, Budapest
The Hungarian Europe Society is a non-governmental and non-partisan organisation based in Budapest (Hungary). It intends to be involved in the ongoing international dialogue on the future of liberal democracies and wishes to promote Hungary's ever-deeper integration into Europe.
The article was originally published at: https://www.freiheit.org/central-europe-and-baltic-states/event-future-democracy-strengthening-liberal-values-institutions
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History Week at the Henry Kendall Cottage and Historical Museum
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To celebrate History Week 2017, the Brisbane Water Historical Society held a fabulously entertaining open day at Henry Kendall Cottage and Historical Museum on the Central Coast. As a part of the open day, visitors could view the exhibition "Stepping Out on the Coast" which highlighted some of the "memorable venues, performances, and fashions" which were at the height of Central Coast popular culture in the past. Visitors could view popular culture material objects up close such as clothing, television sets, pianos, gramophones and recorders.
As part of the day, the team at Henry Kendall also hosted guest speaker Emeritus Professor Richard Waterhouse (University of Sydney). Richard's talk was titled "Culture and Customs: Cosmopolitan Sydney, Provincial Gosford, 1788-1988" and provided an overview of the types of popular culture which arose in both Sydney and Gosford during this 200-year period.
Richard began his talk by defining the term popular culture. In the pre-industrial era, popular culture was understood to be culture made by the people themselves, whereas in the industrial era it referred to culture that was widely read, seen and heard. He then challenged assumptions about popular culture in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Australia by arguing that during this period, various forms of popular culture had already been established. These included horse racing, cock fighting and "prize fighting," also known as bare knuckle fighting. Waterhouse argued that during this period these forms of popular culture were quite inclusive, however, they were also accompanied by the excessive consumption of alcohol and violence.
In the early eighteenth and early nineteenth century, modernity came to Australia along with the gold rush. Australian cities grew in size, the country's population boomed, and new infrastructure such as the railway changed the everyday lives of Australians. During this period, the most celebrated forms of popular culture were sport, especially horse racing and rugby. In 1913, the Gosford Race Club was established, and the growth of the railway system allowed people from both Sydney and Newcastle access to the club.
In the twentieth century, popular culture became "even more popular." The emergence of cinemas saw the decline of the theatre, however, opera became and remained quite popular. Pubs were perceived as un-reputable places and instead, "clubs" became respectful places where both men and women could go to socialise and drink. The arrival of the electric train the 1960s, transformed the landscape and culture of Gosford, as it was now easier for people to travel to other cities.
Richard concluded his talk by arguing that today no one "unified" popular culture exists. Rather, a whole range of sub-popular cultures have emerged, some of which we are not even aware of.
This fabulous History Week open day not only celebrated the history of popular culture in Australia but also highlighted the importance of recognising and connecting the history of regional areas to larger national histories.
Thank you to Alexandria Hawkins, History Council of NSW Intern, who wrote this wrap-up and provided the images.
Thank you also to Emeritus Professor Richard Waterhouse, Kreenah Yelds and the entire team at the Henry Kendall Cottage and Historical Museum for their hard work in bringing about this event.
This event was proudly presented as part of History Week 2017, supported by Create NSW.
Feature image courtesy Henry Kendall Cottage and Historical Museum.


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Jersey girls capture big win; roundup of other Thursday action
by Brent Feeney and Dan Brannan
published January 16 2015 10:15 AM
THURSDAY'S SCORES
O'Fallon 77, Eureka (Mo.) 37
Edwardsville 49, Alton 37
Highland 54, Civic Memorial 36
Jersey 49, Waterloo 37
Mt. Olive 64, Alton Marquette 48
Belleville West 62, Collinsville 34
Triad 42, Mascoutah 27
Belleville East 58, Granite City 39
Carlinville 54, East Alton-Wood River 31
Centralia 64, Cahokia 62
East St. Louis 47, O'Fallon 36
Gillespie 41, Metro-East Lutheran 33
Morehead State 91, SIU-Edwardsville 63
Eastern Illinois 72, Eastern Kentucky 65
Michigan State 63, Illinois 54
South Carolina 60, Missouri 49
SIU-Edwardsville 62, Morehead State 61
Western Illinois 93, Denver 66
Detroit 3, St. Louis 2 (OT)
JERSEY 49, WATERLOO 37: Lauren Davis and Bethany Muenstermann each scored 14 points as Jersey recorded its first Mississippi Valley Conference win of the season, downing Waterloo 49-37 at home Thursday night.
Lia Roundcourt added 11 points as the Panthers 6-13 overall, 1-4 in the MVC.
Kathryn Finnerty led the Bulldogs with 19 points, with Mia Reed adding 10.
Jersey travels to Alton Marquette for a 10:30 am Saturday tilt.
HIGHLAND 54, CIVIC MEMORIAL 36: Highland shook off a one-point halftime lead and took a step closer to clinching the Mississippi Valley Conference championship with a 54-36 win over Civic Memorial at Bethalto Thursday night.
Maddy Wellen led the Bulldogs with a 16-point effort, with Amanda Ponce adding 10 as Highland managed to run away in the second half.
Kalyn Traxell led the Eagles with 17 points, with Katelyn Turbyfill adding nine.
Highland went to 18-1 on the year and 7-0 in the MVC, taking a two-game lead with three to go. CM fell to 9-4 overall, 4-2 in the league.
CARLINVILLE 54, EAST ALTON-WOOD RIVER 31: Kari Westbrook had a game-high 18 points, but it wasn't enough as East Alton-Wood River dropped a 54-31 decision to Carlinville in a South Central Conference game at home Thursday.
Carlinville opened up a 30-11 halftime lead on the Oilers and were never threatened.
Talesha Scott led the Cavaliers with 17 points, with Kathleen Kelly adding nine. Carly Campbell had nine for the Oilers and Mardelia Bolden had four.
MT. OLIVE 64, ALTON MARQUETTE 48: Mt. Olive opened up a 35-24 halftime lead on Alton Marquette and went on to defeat the Explorers 64-48 in a Prairie State Conference game at Mr. Olive Thursday night.
Zoe Murphy led the Wildcats with 16 points, with Madison Bollman adding 14 and Jill Niehaus 13.
GILLESPIE 41, METRO-EAST LUTHERAN 33: Morgan Schneider had 10 points for Metro-East Lutheran, but the Knights dropped a 41-33 decision to Gillespie in a non-conference matchup at home Thursday night.
Audrey Paitz added eight ponts and Karly Schley seven for MEL, which fell to 8-9 on the season. The Miners went to 4-12 with the win.
SIUE (7-9, 3-2 OVC)
Morehead State (7-12, 2-2 OVC)
SIUE
Pts: Jalen Henry - 12
Reb: TEAM - 7
Ast: 3 Players (#02, #23, #32 - 2)
Pts: MASHOUR, Karam - 22
Reb: MASHOUR, Karam - 11
Ast: STOREY, Kareem - 7
28.3% (15-53)
MOREHEAD STATE 91, SIUE 63
MOREHEAD, Ky. – Morehead State connected on its first 12 attempts from the field Thursday then cruised to a 91-63 win over visiting SIUE at Johnson Arena.
"It all went wrong from the start," SIUE Head Coach Lennox Forrester said. "Our guys didn't come out and compete today. Whatever the problem is we have to fix before Saturday."
SIUE dropped to 7-9 overall and 3-2 in the Ohio Valley Conference. Morehead State improved to 7-12 overall and 2-2 in the OVC.
Despite a season-best 29 free throws by the Cougars, including 12 in the first half, the Eagles led by as many as 20 in the first half and held a 47-28 advantage at halftime.
The Cougars never got closer than 17 points during the second half. Morehead State pushed its lead to 30 with just 39 seconds left on a three-pointer by Jared Ravenscraft. Jalen Henry hit a pull-up jumper from the right of the lane with just 19 seconds left for the final margin.
"We got beat in transition," Forrester said. "We've been doing a good job over the last seven games as far as defending. Tonight we were never ready to compete. The end result shows where our mindset and energy level were."
MSU scored 46 points and the paint and added 14 fast-break points. The Eagles turned 15 Cougar turnovers into 15 points as well.
"I felt like they punched us in the mouth and we just backed down," Forrester added. "When you have experienced guys who have played, who have been on the road in this league before, and understand how good it is and then to not come out ready and not counter-punch them that's not good on our part."
Henry led the Cougars in scoring with a career-high 12 points. Henry was 3 of 4 from the field and 6 for 8 at the free throw line. Kris Davis was the only other SIUE player in double figures. He scored 11 points. Rozell Nunn and Keaton Jackson each scored nine points. Nunn scored all nine at the free throw line, where he was 9 for 10.
Morehead State got 22 points and 11 rebounds from Karam Mashour. Angelo Warner added 18 points and Miguel Dicent scored 13 points.
SIUE continues its road trip with a Saturday night game at Eastern Kentucky. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. CT.
"I hate to forget nights like this. I don't want our guys to forget," Forrester said. "When you forget then the same result is liable to happen again."
SIUE 62, MOREHEAD STATE 61
Pts: Shronda Butts - 22
Reb: 2 Players (#24, #31 - 8)
Ast: 2 Players (#01, #31 - 4)
Pts: McKEE, Eriel - 17
Reb: McKEE, Eriel - 13
Ast: JONES, Almesha - 11
MOREHEAD, Ky. – SIUE erased a 14-point, second-half deficit Thursday to defeat Morehead State 62-61 at Johnson Arena.
SIUE's Donshel Beck hit the back end of a two-shot foul with 29 seconds left in the game to provide the winning margin.
The Cougars improved to 4-1 in the Ohio Valley Conference with their fourth straight victory. SIUE evened its overall record at 9-9. Morehead State fell to 6-11 overall and 2-2 in the OVC.
"It's a road win, and road wins are so important," said SIUE Head Coach Paula Buscher. "I'm just proud that we continued to battle. I'm really happy that our players stuck with it, and we came away with the 'W'."
Shronda Butts scored 15 of her game-high 22 points in the second half to lead SIUE's come-from-behind win. Butts hit a career-best four three-pointers.
Morehead State got off to a great start against the Cougars, scoring the first nine points of the game. Butts' first three-pointer of the game put SIUE on the scoreboard with 17:07 to play in the first half.
Eriel McKee, who led the Eagles with 17 points and 13 rebounds, gave Morehead State a 37-28 lead at halftime on a layup with 20 seconds to play.
The second half start for the Cougars wasn't much better than the first half. Casey Ryans hit a three-pointer for the Eagles on the opening possession of the second half. Maiki Viela gave Morehead State a 42-28 lead with 17:39 to play on two of her 11 points for the game.
"I have to give a lot of credit to Morehead State. I thought they played their tails off. I really felt like they outplayed us, but we kept our nose in there," said Buscher.
The pace of the game was different than SIUE's last outing in which the Cougars scored a Division I-era best 91 points at home against Tennessee State.
"I thought it took us out of our rhythm," Buscher said.
SIUE recovered midway through the second half when Butts made a run of seven straight points to pull the Cougars within five at 52-47 with 9:12 to play.
The Cougar defense took over late as Morehead State would not score a point in the final 4:37 of the game. Down 61-54, SIUE scored the final eight points of the game on a three-pointer by Butts, a free throw by Gwen Adams, a free throw by Tierny Austin, a jumper from Austin, and finally the free throw by Beck. Morehead State missed a free throw and its final five shots from the field.
"The game is played for 40 minutes for a reason," said Buscher. "The thing about this team is that we are resilient, and we continue to play hard until the buzzer."
SIUE now moves on to play Eastern Kentucky Saturday. The opening tip in Richmond, Kentucky, is set for 3 p.m. CT.
DETROIT 3, ST. LOUIS 2 (OT): A Pavel Datsyuk goal with three seconds left in overtime gave the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues at Scottrade Center Thursday night.
The Wings had taken a 2-0 lead in the second on goals a minute apart by Joakim Andersson and Tomas Tatar, but David Backes halved the lead on a power-play goal early in the third and Alexander Steen forced OT when he scored with 47 seconds left in regulation. The goal extended his point-scoring streak to eight games in a row.
Brian Elliott had 21 saves for the Blues, who saw a five-game winning streak snapped. Petr Mrazek had 25 saves for the Wings.
The Blues host the Toronto Maple Leafs at 6 p.m. Saturday in a game that will be televised nationally in Canada on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada.
Area coaches are invited to submit their game results and highlights for inclusion in the daily game roundup for Riverbender.com. E-mail your results and highlights to Dan Brannan at danbrannan@riverbender.com
Feeney, 56, is a native of Granite City and graduated from Granite City South in 1978. He was a part-time writer for the old Granite City Journal from 1979-84 before attending Eastern Illinois University in Charleston,
from which he earned his BA in journalism in 1988. He has worked for newspapers in Sikeston, Mo., Rocky Mount, N.C., Seneca, S.C. and in Charleston-Mattoon. He also worked for the old St. Clair County Suburban
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The DUP MP neglected to register two family holidays funded by the Sri Lankan government.
The DUP's Ian Paisley begged his constituents to retain confidence in him during an emotional Commons apology for a major breach of parliamentary rules.
The North Antrim MP has faced calls to quit and the prospect of a by-election after a parliamentary watchdog recommended he be suspended from the Commons for 30 days for failing to register two family holidays funded by the Sri Lankan government.
In March 2014, Mr Paisley lobbied against a proposed United Nations resolution to investigate human rights abuse allegations aimed at Sri Lanka, with the committee noting that the financial benefits were not declared in his letter to then British PM David Cameron.
Mr Paisley said he was disappointed that he could not persuade the committee about the strength of his arguments and mitigation, including on paid advocacy, adding that he accepted the report although said he did "regret" the sanctions.
He went on: "I take my duties as a Member of Parliament seriously.
"I believe I conduct myself with colleagues with integrity, with openness, and that is why I have such remorse about the matter as I believe it goes against the grain of who I am – especially how it is portrayed.
"It is to my constituents, who have sent me here since 2010, that I make the profoundest of all apologies.
Concluding, Mr Paisley said: "I believe in a politics and I believe in politicians that can admit human frailty, that can apologise, can mean it and can move on – because that's what real life is all about.
"It's often said it's how we respond to these challenges in our lives that defines who and what we are, and defines our character and demonstrates to us where the true source of our personal strength rests.
Mr Paisley's potential suspension would start in September if MPs approve it.
The suspension would also mean British Prime Minister Theresa May will be short of one of the 10 DUP MPs propping up her minority government during a period that could see a number of crucial Brexit votes.