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New Podcast: John Keep - Brezhnev and the Era of Stagnation
The period of Soviet history between Nikita Khrushchev's fall from power in 1964, and the arrival of Mikhail Gorbachev as premier in 1985, has often been seen as a period of economic, social and political stagnation in the USSR. For the vast majority of this twenty year time frame, the USSR was governed by one man, Leonid Brezhnev. As such, the Brezhnev era has earned a reputation for being a flat-line in the development of the socialist experiment. However, this view is far from universal.
To discuss the nature of Brezhnev's rule in Russia, and particularly the extent to which it might be considered as period of stagnation, I am joined by John Keep, the emeritus professor of Russian history at the University Toronto. Since retiring in 1988, he has co-written a retrospective on Stalininsm, and has also produced a fantastic overview of the Soviet Period in his "A History of the Soviet Union 1945-1991: The Last of the Empires" which is recommended core reading for the study of the USSR.
You can find the episode on the main MeetTheHistorians page HERE.
New Podcast: Martin McCauley - The USSR and the Historical Method
Today's episode is the second of a two part programme with Dr Martin McCauley, formerly a senior lecturer in Russian and European history at the University of London. Dr McCauley has a long standing interest in the Soviet Union, having conducted research there in the late 1950s. He is the author of a wide range of books on the Soviet Union, including The Khruschev Era, and the excellent, Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union.
In this programme I discuss the issues of historical approaches and methods with Dr McCauley and try to find out a bit more about how he came to his conclusions on the Soviet Union. This is a fascinating insight into how pastiches of a country are built up over time.
New Podcast: Martin McCauley - The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
Today's episode is the first of a two part programme with Dr Martin McCauley, formerly a senior lecturer in Russian and European history at the University of London. Dr McCauley has a long standing interest in the Soviet Union, having conducted research there in the late 1950s. He is the author of a wide range of books on the Soviet Union, including The Khruschev Era, and the excellent, Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union.
In this podcast, Dr Martin McCauley gives a broad overview of the rise and fall of the USSR. You can find the episode on the main MeetTheHistorians page HERE.
New Podcast: Peter Kenez - Gorbachev and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union came to an abrupt end in December 1991, with the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev from his position as President of the USSR, leaving a multitude of affiliated and independent states in its wake. However, the union had been fragmenting for some time, and there is a good deal of historical debate about how far the end of the Soviet Union was inevitable, and the extent to which Gorbachev might be held accountable for its demise.
In this podcast, Professor Peter Kenez discusses the impact of Gorbachev on the Soviet Union. A worthwhile listen. You can find the episode on the main MeetTheHistorians page HERE.
New Podcast: Bill Taubman on Khruschev, Reform and the USSR
I was extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to speak to Professor Taubman, author of the critically acclaimed and definitive biography of Khrushchev: "Khrushchev, the man and his era." Nikita Khrushchev is probably one of the most controversial figures in the history of the Soviet Union. Both a symbol of peaceful coexistence, but also responsible for some of the most tense moments of the Cold War. His reputation at home was no less volatile. In this episode Professor Taubman explains the impact of Khrushchev's personality on his actions as a Soviet leader, covering a diverse range of topics from economic reform to the Cold War.
You can find the episode on the main MeetTheHistorians page HERE
The Impact of the Great Patriotic War Podcasts - Great HA Resource #tweko
Some excellent Great Patriotic War podcasts from Dr Edwin Baker. To use this you will need to login to the HA student zone with username @andallthatweb and the password from your teacher. You can listen to the podcasts HERE
The Impact and Significance of the Great Patriotic War. In this podcast Dr Jonathan Davis of Anglia Ruskin University discusses the USSR from 1941-1953 and the impact and significance of the Great Patriotic War.
1. Introduction.
2. The condition of the USSR in 1941. Operation Barbarossa.
3. The impact of war on the Soviet people.
4. Domestic consequences of the war: the legitimizing of Stalin's regime.
5. The USSR's emergence as a superpower, the occupation of Eastern Europe and a renewed sense of Russian solidarity.
6. Conclusion.
The End of the Soviet Union Podcasts - Great HA Resource #tweko
Some excellent Gorbachev era podcasts from Dr Edwin Baker. To use this you will need to login to the HA student zone with username @andallthatweb and the password from your teacher. You can listen to the podcasts HERE
End of the USSR
In the late 1980s the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought to reform the Union, introducing the policies of glasnost and perestroika in an attempt to end the period of economic stagnation and democratize the government. However, this led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements. Central authorities initiated a referendum, boycotted by the Baltic republics and
Georgia, which resulted in the majority of participating citizens voting in favour of preserving the Union as a renewed federation. In August 1991, a coup d'état was attempted by hardliners against Gorbachev, with the intention of reversing his policies. The coup failed, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing a high-profile role in facing down the coup, resulting in the banning of the Communist Party. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the remaining 12 constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states. The Russian Federation, the successor state of the Russian SFSR, assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations and is recognised as its continued legal personality.
2. Long term factors.
3. A systemic approach: the system was not open to reform.
4. Circumstantial factors and political transformation. The dissolution of the Soviet Union.
5. The Rise of Yeltsin. Russian politics as opposed to Soviet politics.
Brezhnev Era Podcasts - Great resource from the HA #tweko
Some excellent Brezhnev era podcasts from Dr Edwin Baker. To use this you will need to login to the HA student zone with username @andallthatweb and the password from your teacher. You can listen to the podcasts HERE
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),
presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in length. During Brezhnev's rule, the global influence of the Soviet Union grew dramatically, in part because of the expansion of the Soviet military during
this time, but his tenure as leader has often been criticised for marking the beginning of an era of economic and social stagnation in which serious problems were overlooked, eventually leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Topics are:
1. Introduction: What did the Brezhnev era consist of?
2. The Era of Stagnation or the high point of Soviet power and stability?
3. Soviet Union as a super power: treaties with the West.
4. Stagnation and a growing disbelief in a communist utopia.
5. Developed Socialism: a new stage towards communism. The gerontocracy and censorship.
Breakup Of USSR
Great Patriotic War
Kenez
McCaluey
Taubman
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When we were approved to review Outlast 2 I jumped straight on it because I'm an idiot. I hate games that make me scared, except I love it at the same time. The number of times I've told the TiX team that I can't handle this game is beyond a joke, but you really need to play this.
Despite the gameplay being very familiar, the similarities end there, it doesn't feel like a sequel. This time round you are a cameraman who has joined his wife Lynn, a Lynn on a helicopter ride into the deserts of Arizona, tracking the story of a mysteriously murdered woman.
It's not long before disaster strikes and you find yourself separated from Lynn. It's pitch black and you only have your night vision on your video camera to help you move around. It's all very Blair Witch Project and it isn't long before the game starts putting the pressure on you. Thankfully in Outlast 2 you aren't quite so reliant on camera batteries as you were before, and even when you do need batteries they are fairly easy to come by. Your camera has a new feature that allows you to use the microphone to listen to sound through walls, which sort of helps as you try to navigate your way out of trouble.
If you played Outlast it all feels very familiar. Each new area you reach involves trial and error. You don't have any weapons so all you are able to do is run away or hide. There are always different options but some prove to be more useful than others. At the very beginning, you get chased and the only way past initially was to run away before being able to go back and move on. There are beds to hide under, wardrobes to get into and long grass to hide in.
There were a couple of sections in the game where it almost felt impossible to get past, yet there were also sections that seemed far too easy. The further you progress into the game the more repetitive things become but because of the atmosphere the Red Barrels have created, you won't have time to think about those sorts of things because you find yourself constantly on edge. On more than one occasion I had to just stop playing for a while as it all got a bit much!.It made me feel horrible, I loved it and hated it at the same time.
Outlast 2 tells its story through the discovery of suicide notes you come across. The most interesting part of the game is the hallucinations that send you back to your childhood, it's creepy but interesting. If you went to a religious school you'll find certain elements creepily familiar.
I really enjoyed Outlast 2, it has an incredible atmosphere and the story was just about interesting enough to keep me interested. Yes, some of the character models are a bit pants and the trial and error element can get a bit frustrating, but I loved (and hated) feeling uncomfortable the whole time.
If you are done with Resident Evil 7, Outlast 2 is an excellent game to move onto, just make sure you have something to hide behind.
Thanks to Red Barrels for supporting TiX

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Q: Using Jsoup (or other 3rd party jars) in Android This is the first time I've used a 3rd party jar, but it seems like I'm doing everything right.  I'm using Jsoup to parse HTML.
In my project, under Properties->Java Build Path I have added the external jsoup jar.  Under Order and Export I have tried jsoup both checked and unchecked.  Seems to have made no difference.  When writing my app, eclipse was able to find the right imports, autocomplete methods/constructors.  Eclipse seems to see Jsoup fine.
However, when I run my app, one of my activities calls methods from Jsoup.  Whenever I launch that activity, I get the following error.
Could not find method org.jsoup.parse, referenced from method...
VFY: unable to resolve state method 348: Lorg/jsoup/Jsoup; parse...

Am I not importing it properly?  Why can it not find jsoup?  The above steps seem to be the answer to all the questions on importing a 3rd party jar to Android in eclipse.
My best guess is that eclipse can see the jsoup.jar, but it does not package up the parts I need with the app, so the app is unable to use them.  Not sure if that's it, but if it is, how would I force eclipse to package it so the app can use it from anywhere?

A: Invoke the Eclipse function Organize Imports by pressing Shift+Alt+O and that should take care of everything.

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If you are a Kenyan citizen, your private data is not safe
The Huduma number, a new Kenyan government initiative, is yet another assault on data privacy in Kenya.
by Nanjala Nyabola
A man looks into the camera as an official collects data as part of the 2017 general elections voter registration exercise in Nairobi, Kenya on January 16, 2017 [File:Thomas Mukoya/Reuters]
One of the most surreal moments of the August 2017 Supreme Court hearing on Kenya's presidential election, an event that would culminate in the unprecedented rejection of the results announced by the electoral commission, happened on its first day.
Lawyers for the opposition demanded that the servers containing data for the 19.2 million registered voters in Kenya be opened and checked for electoral fraud. Lawyers for the electoral commission insisted that it could not be done because the servers were in France.
Millions of Kenyan citizens' biometric data was collected over an extended period of time in preparation for the highly contested 2017 vote. However, when the data was most needed, at the point when it was necessary to verify the results announced by the electoral commission, it was unavailable. Apparently, a private foreign entity, a French firm known as OT Safran Morpho, owned the information and the government struggled to get the corporation in question to make the information available on demand.
In February 2019, Kenya is gearing up to launch another massive citizen data collection drive called "the Huduma Number". Over a 30-day period, the government will compel citizens in a number of counties to register their biometric details, other identity numbers and their physical address to receive a new number to be used as "a unique identifier".
Further digging reveals the government has done a deal with MasterCard to link the Huduma number to a prepaid card with chip and pin that will be used by citizens to pay for an array of government services.The government denies that the two initiatives are connected, but given similar initiatives in countries like Nigeria, there is credible fear that the initiatives will eventually be combined. Regardless, the Huduma programme will add yet another number and card to the litany of numbers and cards that Kenyans must wield to prove their Kenyan citizenship to their increasingly predatory state.
The Huduma card will join your ID, passport, driver's licence, birth certificate, National Social Security Fund card, National Hospital Insurance Fund card, Kenya Revenue Authority Tax PIN, etc.
Critically, the invitation to apply comes with a threat: Anyone who does not register will be denied government services.
There are many wrong and, indeed, dangerous elements to this initiative.
For one, forcing citizens to sign up for a financial product under the threat of denying them important government services isn't governance, it is blackmail. Kenya's constitution provides that all legislation must be subjected to public participation.
Therefore, it is prima facie unconstitutional for a government ministry to make a "roadside declaration": to create a new legislative hurdle for gaining an important citizenship document without allowing the public time to reflect and respond.
Yet, this ill-informed initiative was announced at a press conference and information about it was distributed on both traditional and social media: a roadside declaration with 21st-century tools.
Secondly, Kenya still does not have a data protection law. That means that this massive data collection exercise - including facial recognition, fingerprints and other key citizen data - will be in place in the absence of any real legal oversight.
Remember the surrealism of Kenya's electoral servers, still owned by OT Safran Morpho, and apparently inaccessible from Kenya without interlocution by the French? There are currently no legal provisions, certainly none in the public domain, that prevent OT Morpho Safran from monetising data that Kenyans provided to enhance their democratic processes.
In my book, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics, I call this "digital colonialism" - where a private corporation in one country is given political power over citizens of a second country for its own economic benefit.
The fact that Kenya's election database could not be made available on demand for what was arguably the most important legal process in the country's history is cause for major concern. Kenyan electoral data is now a product for digestion and monetisation in a legal domain beyond our control.
How free can a country be when citizen information that is central to government and governance is nothing more than a commercial product owned by a foreign corporation?
Significantly, the Kenyan government has not demonstrated that it can be trusted with Kenyans personal data.
A report from Tactical Tech reveals the extent of abuse that occurred during the 2017 presidential election in the absence of a rigorous data protection law. Voter registers were available for sale and were publicly available through SMS and web, which allowed politicians to send unsolicited text messages and even make calls to voters.
Party lists collected by the various political parties also contained key private data and were not secured in any meaningful way.
Outside the election, Privacy International has also reported on how mobile data from Kenyans is routinely handed over to the police and other security actors to facilitate other forms of human rights abuse, like extrajudicial executions or arbitrary arrest and detention.
Kenyans also routinely complain of their private mobile data being sold to third-party service providers without their consent. They often receive a barrage of unsolicited text messages and have to pay to unsubscribe from such premium services.
Women have also complained of being harassed by security guards to whom they must provide key contact details before accessing any public or private buildings.
As it stands, if you are Kenyan, your data is not secure or safe, especially not from a government that has routinely avoided creating a legal framework to at least give citizens some form of recourse when violations happen. This Huduma number is an ill-timed, ill-advised initiative that should be suspended until further public participation and consultation occur.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.
Nanjala Nyabola
Nanjala Nyabola is a political analyst and the author of the forthcoming book "Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics".
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From a decade the trends of money have swapped. With the evolution of virtual money and plastic money, the usage of real money is lesser. There are numerous apps like Paytm, mpesa and many other developed by banks and financial institutes to help the users to pay their bills, fees, buy a ticket or do online shopping faster through the virtual money.
Virtual money payment is possible only through the integration of payment gateway in the app or web solution. The payment gateway is the simple platform to securely collect the payments from a user on behalf of the online stores. Initially, it was only implemented for e-commerce websites and applications, but now many solutions use this paradigm.
In 2015, Apple too came up with the launch of Apple Pay which shone the limelight on the concept of Digital wallet.
Apple pay is a simple way to pay through the smartphones and smartwatches without swiping your physical cards. With apple pay, it's easy to pay securely in stores, in the apps and web too. Digital wallet, the concept on which the apple pay is based on, means to store all your money in your virtual pocket i.e. mobile phones.
With this update, customers, as well as merchants both, are in profit. With demonization of any currency, the digital wallet never gets affected. The misconception regarding unsafe plastic money has eradicated with the launch of Apple Pay.
How is Apple Pay better for your users?
It gives the users a quicker alternative to fill out credit and debit card forms of payment.
No need to carry cards and wallet all the way. Detail once entered can be stored forever and payment can be done anywhere with it.
With Apple's native Touch ID, it helps to boost the security of the users.
The most important part is there are no extra charges for retailers to use this medium of payment.
It ensures a greater reach to millions of iOS users across the world.
Apple pay works seamlessly with contactless terminal and the traditional payment terminal.
Also, Apple pay is the quicker, easier and safer way for payment.
What are you lingering for?
Out of 2.4 million apps on iTunes, around 150 thousand are using some platform for payment gateway which will soon start using Apple pay. Airbnb, Walmart, Bestbuy, Target and Wayfair are few names which already upgraded their payment gateway with Apple Payment.
If you are having an application for iPhone or iPad or also website that uses a payment gateway, integrate it with the Apple payment right away. LetsNurture is working on the updates of iOS10 in its various app solutions. Let's connect to integrate your payment gateway based apps or web solutions with Apple pay.


You can fill your dumpster as full as you like, so long as you do not load it higher in relation to the sides of the container. Over-filling the dumpster could cause the waste or debris to slide off as the dumpster is loaded onto the truck or as the truck is driving. Overloaded or overweight dumpsters are not really safe, and businesses will not take dangerous loads as a way to safeguard drivers and passengers on the road.
In certain regions, dumpster loads must be tarped for security. In case your load is too high, it will not be able to be tarped so you would have to remove some of the debris before it can be hauled away. This might result in extra costs if it needs you to keep the dumpster for a longer duration of time. Don't forget to maintain your load no higher in relation to the sides of the dumpster, and you'll be good.
Dumpster rental companies that charge flat rates are frequently the top choices for contractors and home owners. When you take advantage of a company that bills a flat rate, you can expect at least two benefits.
Paying a flat rate usually means that you get to avoid any hidden fees and costs. Companies which don't charge flat fees may contain extra costs for basic services like dropping off the dumpster. Keep in your mind, however, which you still might need to pay extra if you'd like to include specific items and materials in the dumpster.
What if I need my dumpster in Calhoun picked up early?
When you make arrangements to rent a dumpster in Calhoun, part of your rental agreement comprises a stated length of time you are permitted to use the container. You generally base this time on the length of time you think your project might take. The bigger the job, the the more time you'll need the dumpster. Most firms in Calhoun give you a speed for a particular amount of days. If you surpass that quantity of days, you will pay an extra fee per day. If the job goes more quickly than expected, you may be finished with the dumpster earlier than you anticipated.
If this really is the case, give the dumpster company a call and they will likely come pick your container up early; this will allow them to rent it to someone else more fast. You normally WOn't get a reduction on your rate should you ask for early pick up. Your rental fee includes 7 days (or whatever your term is), whether you use them all or not.
Most people do not need to rent dumpsters unless they absolutely have to. At times, though, it becomes clear that you just should rent a dumpster in Calhoun for commercial and residential jobs.
Most cities will not haul away building debris for you. It's your duty to be sure you have an appropriate container to collect discarded material from remodeling projects. Even though you just have a little endeavor, municipal waste management is not likely to haul the debris away.
A leading clean out can collect more garbage when compared to a standard receptacle can hold. Renting a little dumpster is a more suitable alternative which will prevent making multiple trips to the local dump.
If you have one of these projects in mind, then you know it is time to look for a reputable service in Calhoun.
If you rent a 30 yard dumpster, you will be receiving a container that will carry 30 cubic yards of waste or debris. Your 30 yard container will measure about 22 feet long by 8 feet wide by 6 feet high. These numbers could vary slightly depending on the firm in Calhoun you choose. A 30 yard dumpster will carry between 9 and 15 pickup truck loads of waste, therefore itis an excellent choice for whole-house residential cleanouts as well as commercial cleanup jobs.
As with any service, it's always a good strategy to reserve your dumpster as far ahead as you possibly can in order to make sure the dumpster will be available when you really need it. If you wait until the very last minute, there is no guarantee the organization will have the capacity to fill your order.
Two or three days notice is normally adequate to ensure your dumpster delivery on time. Remember the busiest days tend to be on Mondays and Fridays (encompassing the weekend), thus if you can plan your job for the middle of the week, you have a better possibility of finding the dumpster you'll need.


Misfit Press is an independent publishing house based out of Vancouver, Canada.
We produce books and magazines covering everything from philosophy to photography, in formats ranging from the digital to the hand-bound. We believe in works which promote the unique, the artistic and the adventurous.
The Misfit Anthology 2015 is a collection of the finest creative work encountered by Misfit Press over the past eighteen months. Featuring prose, poetry, photography and artwork, it showcases some of the finest pieces by independent artists from all four corners of the globe. Into the future, The Misfit Anthology will act as an annual highlights package of the work featured on misfit.co, our forthcoming online arts platform.
The Life and Times of a Remarkable Misfit is a collection of wide-ranging essays penned by Misfit Founder and CEO, AJ Leon. These essays were written in the wake of AJ abandoning a career in investment banking in order to live a more meaningful, intentional life. Concise, thought-provoking pieces of writing drawing on some of the finest works of literature and philosophy, these essays will speak to anyone who is suspicious of the status quo; who wants to live life on their own terms, in a way that matters, right now.
Based out of Fargo, ND, and published biannually, Wolftree is the finest independent arts journal in the American Midwest. A magazine for makers, dreamers and adventurers, Wolftree seeks to inspire and empower people's creative pursuits. Volume 4 features a report on the Winnipeg Folk Festival, an interview with a San Francisco aromatherapist, a guide to wooden spoon carving, some excellent summer smoothie recipes, and much else besides.
In late 2016, to coincide with the year's 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, Misfit Press published Destination Shakespeare, the debut poetry collection from one of the world's pre-eminent Shakespeare scholars, Paul Edmondson. Destination Shakespeare features 24 of Paul's brilliant poems, all drawing on Shakespeare's inspiration in unique and colourful ways.
Ten of Destination Shakespeare's poems draw on an epic road trip undertaken by Paul in 2014, during which he saw 42 Shakespeare productions during ten thousand miles of travel around the US of A. (This road trip is the subject of another forthcoming Misfit Press publication, Shakespeare on the Road.) Some of Destination Shakespeare's poems imagine moments in Shakespeare's life and the lives of his characters. Others are inspired by spots on the globe indelibly touched by the spirit of Shakespeare: Venice, Sicily, Elsinore, Rome, and, of course, the Birthplace itself.
Head to the Misfit shop to grab your copy of Destination Shakespeare today!
These are strange times for publishing. From editorial policy to design methods to the very concept of the book – everything associated with the industry has been called into question. Amidst these changes, Misfit Press attempts to walk a middle path; to wed the old ways with the new. In everything we do, we synthesize the merits and hard-won wisdom of traditional publishing with the innovations of the democratised, tech-driven, independent sphere. Misfit Press aims to celebrate and disseminate literature in creative ways, and to treat bookmaking as an art form. We only work on projects with authors whose work we love, bringing our works into the world in a fashion which leaves both writer and reader fully satisfied. And throughout, we are committed to our One-for-One pledge: for every publication we ever sell, a child in India will receive a pair of prescription eyeglasses, via the Misfit Foundation.


I had an awesome time spinning at the Bud Light Tailgate with 40AWG at the Clemson/Florida St. game! Bud Light puts the sickest events on with no expense spared! Next time you're in Clemson for a football game, be sure to check out the Bud Light Tailgate at Lot 15. Also, Bud Light puts this event on for EVERY home football game! Free Beer, Free Food, Loud Beats, massive tents to protect from the weather and more! The tailgate is located very close to the stadium, just below Little John Coliseum, with views of the beautiful dike on Lake Hartwell! I challenge anyone to find a tailgate with a DJ as good as the Bud Light tailgate! Just plain awesome event all around!!
Stay tuned to find out where and when DJ Rehab and DJ Apollo play next! We are both booked non-stop at local and regional bars and clubs and we would love to see you guys out and about! We thrive off the support of our fans and we always give 100 percent to the craft of Djing. Also check out both of our Soundclouds for the best and newest updated music! Looking forward to the next tailgate!


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Microwave Massacre is a 1979 American black comedy horror film directed by Wayne Berwick and starring Jackie Vernon in his final feature film role.

Plot

Donald is an overweight, middle-aged construction worker with a big problem: his shrew of a wife May has started to only cook gourmet foods in a Hyacinth Bucket-style misguided effort to make themselves seem classier than they are. While his friends Roosevelt and Phillip dine on simple bologna-and-cheese sandwiches for lunch, Donald is saddled with crab sandwiches and other cooking atrocities. To his horror, he discovers his wife has bought an unusually large Major Electric microwave oven, which makes the meals worse in half the time.

After coming home drunk one night and getting into an argument with May, Donald loses his temper and bludgeons her to death with a large pepper grinder. He wakes up the next day with a bad hangover, no memory of the night before, and a growling stomach. He discovers May's corpse in the microwave and after the initial wave of horror passes, he starts to take it in stride, telling his co-workers that he and May separated. After work, he then cuts up May's body and stores it in foil wrap in the refrigerator. A running gag involving May's head retaining some sort of sentience is introduced during this scene.

Looking for a midnight snack one night, Donald unintentionally takes a few bites of May's hand, and (again) after the initial wave of horror passes, he realizes it's the best thing he's ever eaten. He even brings some to work with him and shares it with Phillip and Roosevelt, who concur. He soon starts picking up hookers and using them for meat in his recipes.

While cooking one night, Donald has a mild heart attack and goes to his doctor, who tells him of a pacemaker that was put some years earlier in when he had some excess weight, but says he is fine overall. May's equally shrewish sister Evelyn shows up, having not heard from her sister in some time. She finds her severed head in the garage refrigerator, and is gagged with bread and thrown, tied up, in Donald's closet.

Donald's lunches continue to be a hit with his friends, and he decides to cater an outing to a wrestling match with a new recipe he calls "Peking chick." When Roosevelt and Phillip show up to pick up Donald, they discover him dead on the kitchen floor of a heart attack, and some partly cooked body parts in the microwave. They leave in horror and disgust, realizing what Donald had been serving them.

Some time later, the house is up for sale and movers are taking the furniture out. A repairman (director Wayne Berwick, in an uncredited cameo) examines the microwave and discovers a problem with the wires, commenting that it would be bad for someone with a pacemaker. We then zoom into the fridge, which opens to reveal May's head. Her eyes glow orange as the film ends.

Cast

Production
Microwave Massacre was directed by Wayne Berwick, the son of Irv Berwick, director of films such as The Monster of Piedras Blancas. Wayne Berwick described his upbringing as growing up on the Universal Studios film lots, and was turned on to horror films such as The Beast with Five Fingers. Wayne Berwick did not initially follow his father in work, predominantly working as a sound recordist, and toured Europe as a blues musician, which subsequently flourished...as West Side Wayne and The Boulevard Band. While doing sound recording work he met friends who were in discussion with associate producers who were writing a script for a film with a budget of about $75,000 and offered Wayne Berwick to direct it. Two days before shooting Berwick saw the script and found what was once "creepy understated humor, was completely over the top" and that the script had become "90 pages of one-liners" Berwick found that this was the only approach towards the film and later claimed an influence of John Landis films and Roger Corman's film The Little Shop of Horrors.

Microwave Massacre was shot in late 1979, with a budget of between $70,000 to $80,000.

Release
Microwave Massacre was shown on as a Midnight movie on October 31, 1979 in Austin, Texas. In August 2016, Arrow Video released a deluxe HD Blu-Ray (1080p) + SD DVD set featuring a brand new 2K restoration from the original camera negative. Other Bonus Materials include the Original Mono audio in uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray, optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, brand new audio commentary with writer-producer Craig Muckler moderated by Mike Tristano brand new making-of featurette including interviews with Muckler, director Wayne Berwick and actor Loren Schein and a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork. The first pressing came with a fully illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Nightmare USA author Stephen Thrower.

Critical reception

AllMovie wrote, "Despite utterly failing as comedy, horror and pornography, Microwave Massacre is grotesque enough in design and attitude to be fascinating, much like a car accident."

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1979 films
1970s comedy horror films
1979 horror films
American serial killer films
American comedy horror films
Films about cannibalism
1979 comedy films
1970s English-language films
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A long solar filament erupted and rushed away from the Sun (Oct. 15, 2002). The image, taken in extreme UV light, shows the eruption in the middle of the action. Filaments are cooler clouds of gas suspended above the Sun's surface by strong magnetic forces. Some unknown cause triggers these eruptions. The prior image, taken by the same instrument six hours before this one, shows that the filament extended more than half way across the Sun, making this one of the largest filaments that SOHO has seen.


This is a call to organize and unionize Amazon employees to make working conditions better: Putin how can you sleep??
Putin how can you sleep??
Wow, that is honored that you helped to break tanks in Moscow. At that time, I weared diapers. I know guys who work for another tech company with better conditions though they also have problems (but lesser). From USSR history I personally took the lesson of Solzhenitsyn. Most people remember him as a guy highlighted the true about oppression. However for me his most important phrase is: "We will be remembered as a generation of cowards" though this phrase is not well cited for obvious reasons. He blamed himself as well for lack of opposition. There always was and always will oppression in any form. It is human nature - to dominate in pride, control others. Whether by sword or by money. USSR, Amazon, Roman Empire - there is no question of whether oppression exists. The more important question is whether we oppose. If we don't, we support oppressors ("generation of cowards"). Thus I personally fight not with oppressor only (though with him also). Mainly I fight with the coward who is myself.
"We will be remembered as a generation of cowards" can be said about a lot of generations...it's more of an average state of humankind. Definitely the required state of a worker in a typical corporation here (a lot of conformity and speech policing). You're doing very important thing openly fighting Amazon. While you can't knock them down completely/they're too powerful, these companies' behaviors get curbed by lawsuits and protests: next time they will fear to do the same thing to others. It'll take many more actions and protests to really change what's happening with these companies and overall... In 1991, there was little question about what's to be done. I heard the tanks at night. Next day/morning found they cut off all information except Swan Lake ballet and junta press-conference repeated on all TV channels - I went to the train station in the Moscow suburb and I was the only person who wanted to take that usually popular train to Moscow - there was only one train instead of many and it was empty, everyone feared to go there. In Moscow, however, I saw that groups of people were moving towards parliament and had already put up huge barricades... Regarding USSR (before Gorbachev): don't think it was really possible to conduct opposition back then - the only way was to try to escape it (they put dissenters into mental hospitals, on strong damaging drugs, doing permanent damage).
I've listened to your video about stress and fear - very good explanation - and I see how you can find the strength to do solo protest: it takes a lot of guts to do so.


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Posted on May 21, 2019 at 4:08 pm by Melanie Kershner
The history of our Arts & Crafts Decorative Style Grille
This is our Historical Arts & Crafts Decorative Style Grille.
We have been manufacturing these vents in the USA since 2005. We first crossed paths with them during a historical preservation project just north of Baltimore Maryland. The home was originally built in the early 1870s for the owner of The Baltimore Sun Newspaper, and for a while it was the largest home in the USA. Beaux-Arts was called to reproduce several sizes of these grilles, that were damaged or missing from the house. We immediately noticed that the detail and quality of the castings exceeded all other historic grilles we had seen. The back of the grilles were stamped with the duct size and "Tuttle and Bailey". The company was founded by William B. Tuttle in 1846. Originally named Tuttle & Brother, they manufactured at 79 Madison Ave, New York. They later moved to Brooklyn, New York, from 1865-1922. The company made its mark by becoming the dominant manufacturer of cast bronze, brass and iron grilles and registers. They were very much about creating attractive grilles to camouflage radiators and to offer attractive options that would not disfigure rooms.
At the time, these vents were convection air grilles, since force air heating had not yet been invented. In the post Civil war period new homes were heated with a boiler in the basement. Usually the front foyer had a large floor grille so the heat from the boiler could rise up to warm the rest of the house. Additionally the hot air from the basement traveled though the space between the outside walls and the plastered interior wall, to heat individual rooms. In modern homes this space is now filled with insulation. Back in the late 1800s, only the finest homes had this type of convection heat system and Tuttle and Bailey made the finest grilles. Their grilles were cast in the Lost Wax method of casting, with expensive metals like bronze and brass. The lost wax method was expensive and labor intensive, but it produced smooth clean surfaces, free of grain, air bubbles, seam lines and flash. The less expensive sand casting was relegated to cheaper grille designs made for middle class markets. The late 1800 was called "The Gilded Age" and rich industrialist wanted the finest details in their mansions, including the grilles. Tuttle and Bailey catered to that upscale market. The late 1800s was also the time of the "Arts & Crafts" movement, as everything detail was decorated and elegant. Hence we named our line of historic vents, "Arts & Craft Style Grilles"
Here is an antique cast iron floor heating register in what we today call our "Arts and Crafts Style".
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The Grilles that Tuttle and Bailey made soon caught the attention of the worlds richest man, Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie was the first man to amassed wealth of one half of one billion dollars. He made his fortune by developing ways to produce great quantities of steel, for railroads, bridges, ships and skyscrapers. Later in life, he decided to give his money back to the people, in the form of libraries. Carnegie offered to build a new library for every municipality that would pay for half the costs. Andrew Carnegie built 2,509 "Carnegie Libraries" from 1883 to 1929, most in the USA. All those Libraries were built in the popular Beaux-Arts Style of Architecture and all of them used the Tuttle and Bailey, Arts & Craft style grilles. As a result these grilles have great historical significance.
I could not find a photograph of library interior with this particular style, but love this picture of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library interior and the oval decorative grilles.
I love the irony of this as today, Tuttle & Bailey is the dominant manufacturer of industrial air system components. Their industrial louvered grilles are in most all homes.
So Beaux-Arts was tasked with faithfully reproducing grilles that were cast in perhaps the greatest foundry of the gilded age. To do so we needed to modernize and streamline the prohibitively expensive lost wax casting method. We decided on using an industrial quality urethane resin to reproduce the hand carved details of the original grilles. Instead of making one completely encapsulated mold for each and every casting, we developed a one sided reusable version made from the finest modern materials. Even though our first casting were somewhat crude compared to what we make today, they were never the less impressive. Over time we have refined our process and introduced many in-house innovations, such as using metallic powder finishes, 3D engineering, and heat curing. Originally Tuttle and Bailey made about ten different sizes, today Beaux-Arts Classic products makes seventy different sizes. We also make filter grilles, foundation vents, speaker grilles, radiator grilles and suspended ceiling grilles We are proud of this product and it's place in American history. Because of our efforts our Arts & crafts style grilles meet the U. S. Government's General Services Administration Code #1501003S Standards for Historic Preservation Guidelines.
Here is our urethane cast 10″ x 14″ Arts and Crafts grille in our Rubbed Bronze Finish $114.
It is affordable while offering all the advantages of being cast in urethane resin. A perfect material for heating and air conditioning vent covers.
" Design is not just what it looks like and feels like, Design is how it works." Steve Jobs
As designers, we were motivated to preserve this handsome design because it is timeless and very functional. We have had the Arts and Crafts tested for air flow and it performs in line with louvered grilles of the same size but without the noise problem.
When we started making the Arts and Crafts style grille we made them by hand. In order to accommodate the demands for all the different sizes for modern HVAC we had to use modern moulding.
Old Arts and Crafts 24″ x 24″ with modern moulding
Grand Del Mar, San Diego 5-Star Hotel used the Arts and Crafts for public spaces, exterior cabana ceiling and guest rooms.
Arts and Crafts 36″ x 36″
Arts and Crafts with modern moulding for a 12″ x 30″
In some sizes we also had the whole in the border which was a carry over from the controls in the antique grilles.
"Time is one of the few things a man cannot influence. We all have a desire to create something that will show we were here. That we did something of value. Of course, timeless design is wasted if it cannot survive." Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porche
Thanks to technology and a continued demand for this handsome decorative grille style we acquired the skills to scan the antique grilles and use 3D software to create the masters for the 70 sizes we offer today.
Here is our Arts and Crafts Decorative Grille in a 24″ x 24″ today.
We have maintained the integrity of the original carvings. Actually we have surpassed it in that castings made with sand were very grainy.
Not only have we maintained the integrity of the original carvings, we use an exterior grade resin appropriate for exterior applications such as foundation crawl space grilles. They will not rust, rot or corrode. They are maintenance free. You should not need to repaint, remove rust, corrosion or mold for the life of the grilles.
Foundation Vent Cover in Arts and Crafts Style
Tuttle & Baileys original intention was to create decorative grilles which would camouflage radiators and not "disfigure the room". Beaux-Arts Classic Products grilles are heat cured and perfect for transforming an unattractive radiator. Add a handsome radiator cover with our any of our decorative grilles. We have sizes for all radiators and designs ready for inspiration for your perfect radiator makeover.
Our decorative grilles are intended for forced air heating and air conditioning systems as either return air grilles or supply vents. Use them to replace noisy HVAC louvered vents since they won't make noise. Resin does not vibrate. Other uses are as speaker grilles in home theaters and historic theaters, or in-wall and in-ceiling speaker covers.
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Cilantro Lime Chicken with Fresh Avocado Salsa - Frugal Mom Eh!
This Cilantro Lime Chicken with Fresh Avocado Salsa is delicious served with rice for a fresh tasting family dinner. It's also a heart healthy recipe!
We eat a lot of chicken in our house, everyone loves it, it's comparatively inexpensive and it just works with so many different flavours.
We recently moved to the outskirts of the main city but we now have a grocery store I can walk to in under 5 minutes. While it's not my favourite chain, it works in a pinch when we run out of things through the week but I've also found that it's really great for picking up our chicken. They have some of the best prices around for chicken and the chicken they carry is Canadian raised, bearing the Raised by a Chicken Farmer logo on the packaging.
I feel safe knowing that the plump, flavourful chicken I am serving my family has been raised with care.
Let's not forget that February is health month and I have decided to share this delicious, heart healthy recipe wit you. Chicken is a great protein to serve with heart health in mind as it is leaner than red meat.
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Combine cilantro, lime juice, evoo, and chicken in a large bowl and marinate for 20 minutes in the fridge.
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I am so hungry and this looks so delicous !!


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Abstention and apathy are big democratic problems in Europe; creating a democratic deficit, preventing people from being heard in their political systems or from actively using their civic right. The PES has in 2014 launched a study group on abstention in order to combat this issue and find ways to encourage more people who are eligible, to vote, and potentially to extend those who are eligible. Abstention from voting is a problem in domestic elections, but is even worse at the European elections, where the EU average voter turn-out is 42.6%. This figure would be even lower were it not for the fact that in Belgium and Luxembourg voting is compulsory and turnout in those countries is almost 90%.
Raymond Johansen from the Norwegian Labour Party, chair of the PES study Group on Abstention says "There are many reasons why people do not vote, some of them due to exasperation with politicians or not feeling represented. We have to change how politics is made, political parties have to open up, and politicians must regain their trust among the citizens. But when 37 percent list practical and technical reasons of why they abstained from the election, so we also have to make it easier for the voters to actually use their voting rights."
The latter is what this PES working group is determined to address. "Some of our European Electoral systems where designed in the 17th century. It is high time to give a serious thought to changing and modifying the electoral systems and adapting it to our modern life. No one should be prevented from voting because they are too busy or too far from a polling station.", Johansen continues.
Extending voting could include early voting – which has been successful in Nordic countries, e-voting – at the ballot station and online and making it easier for people to get to the polling station to vote. The Study Group on abstention met on 24th April 2015 to exchange experiences of election innovations and discuss innovative methods to improve the situation. The study group heard from Estonia – which has one of the most advanced e-voting systems in the world – where voting is possible online, including on a mobile phone. It also heard from countries including the Netherlands and Finland who had attempted to introduce e-voting but where technical barriers forced them to go back to paper and pen. The European Parliament performed a 2014 Post-Election Survey on abstention. The results were presented at the PES working group and provided an informative insight into the reasons for voting, and for not voting.
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This weekend the Ruya Shop is screening Fernand Léger's avant-garde film Ballet Mécanique (1924).
Ballet Mechanique reflects the modernist fascination with industrialisation, and concerns about the mechanisation of everyday life. The film is directed by French Surrealist artist Fernand Léger, who collaborated with the American photographer and filmmaker Dudley Murphey. Mundane household objects, mechanised kitchen appliances and human limbs appear throughout the film, and a woman carries a heavy sack on her shoulder, condemned like Sisyphus to climb and re-climb a steep flight of stairs on a Paris street. The montage draws on movement, repetition, juxtaposition, layering and kaleidoscope effect to create a rhythmic dance or performance.


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Manuel Cowboy Donley serenades overflow crowd at El Gallo
Musicians Manuel Cowboy Donley and his daughter Sylvia Donley play their last gig at El Gallo in South Austin. NANCY FLORES/AMERICAN-STATESMAN
News of South Austin landmark El Gallo's impending closure brought an overflow crowd on Tuesday evening that was so large the kitchen ran out of food shortly after 7:30 p.m. The full house enjoyed the last serenade by Tejano music legend Manuel "Cowboy" Donley and his daughter Sylvia, who have been fixtures at the South Austin eatery on Tuesday evenings for years.
The dining institution will close its doors on Sunday after 60 years. "I can't believe it," Donley, 89, said. "I guess everything has to come to an end." Restaurant management has said the increase in property taxes has contributed to their decision to shut down.
Customers came from all around the Austin area to say goodbye to the beloved restaurant and to have one last plate of enchiladas and Kennedy nachos. Bruce Hutchison, 63, drove from Bastrop after he heard the closure news. "I've been coming here since I was 4 years old," he said. He even called his ex-wife, Suzanne to share the news. And the two decided they had to have one final El Gallo meal together. "We always came here to avoid the crowds, but not today."
For Sylvia Donley, El Gallo has always felt like home. "I've loved playing here. When I heard the news my stomach started hurting. We're losing a big piece of Hispanic history."
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Aaron Rodgers and Bryson DeChambeau win "The Match"
Packers quarterback closes out Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady, wins $200,000 for the North Valley Community Foundation
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Aaron Rodgers, Bryson DeChambeau, The Reserve at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Mont.
Aaron Rodgers was clutch both off the tee box and on the green, as the Packers' MVP quarterback and eight-time PGA Tour winner Bryson DeChambeau used a strong back nine to turn back Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady, 3 and 2, in the fourth installment of "The Match" on Tuesday.
The Reserve at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Mont., played host to this year's match-play event, which helped raise 6.3 million meals for Feeding America and $2.6 million for My Brother's Keeper, an initiative launched by former President Barack Obama to help address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color and ensure that all young people can reach their full potential.
The match utilized a modified alternate shot, where all four players teed off and each team chose one of its drives. Whoever didn't hit the drive, then hit the next shot.
Rodgers, who said he flew out to play the course two weeks ago, looked right at home amidst the vast Montana wilderness, with a bear, moose and coyote wandering near the course at times.
After being tied with Mickelson and Brady through the first nine holes, the back nine belonged to Rodgers and DeChambeau. The duo birdied, and won, three straight holes to pull ahead.
Rodgers enjoyed a run where his team used seven of his eight opening shots from Holes 4-11. That enabled DeChambeau's short game to shine and Rodgers to drain several putts down the stretch, including the final one on Hole 16 to seal the win.
Clutch gene. 🏆@AaronRodgers12 walks in one final putt to win The Match alongside @B_DeChambeau. pic.twitter.com/WNEJ1zEMRX
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Before making the 15-foot birdie putt, Rodgers playfully asked DeChambeau if, "This is a good one to make?" To which DeChambeau replied, "It's a good one to make, bro."
"I haven't been playing a lot of golf. I'm just a pretty good putter," Rodgers said afterward. "I said, 'Give me (where) I'm on the green. Don't give me inside 60 yards. First hole today, he got me (inside 60). I chunked it up there and he made it. From that point forward, I felt good about our chances."
DeChambeau crushed his opening drive on that 475-yard, par-4 No. 1 and chipped for birdie to give him and Rodgers the early advantage after Mickelson missed his birdie putt.
Rodgers was the only golfer to find the green with his opening tee shot on No. 2, a 172-yard par 3. Rodgers would later say that shot gave him a boost of confidence and helped him settle in.
DeChambeau found the green with his three wood on the 392-yard, par-4 No. 3, but Brady and Mickelson would tie things up after Brady also put his drive on the green, and he and Mickelson birded the hole.
The two sides would trade the lead a couple times before moving to par-5 No. 6, a 559-yard hole for Rodgers and Brady. Rodgers outdrove Brady to earn $200,000 for the North Valley Community Foundation, the same cause he championed during his stint as the guest host of "Jeopardy!" earlier this year.
With Brady and Mickelson playing out of the bunker off the green, Rodgers put his eagle putt within a foot of the hole to win the hole and retie the match after six holes.
Rodgers began to hit his stride there, finding the green on the next 184-yard par 3 and then crushing a long drive down the course's famed par-5 No. 8, which was a downhill 677 yards for the two quarterbacks. Rodgers used the slope to his advantage, driving his ball 438 yards after hitting the backside of the hill and running down the fairway.
At that point, Rodgers jokingly asked Mickelson and Brady if they wanted to concede the hole after Brady's drive found the rough and Mickelson's first two shots went into the bunker.
Baller moves. 😂@AaronRodgers12 walked it in then denied @PhilMickelson a fist bump. pic.twitter.com/TBviSevcxX
With Brady and Mickelson suffering their first bogey of the day, Rodgers and DeChambeau won the eighth hole after Rodgers went up from the bunker and DeChambeau drained the par putt.
Rodgers and DeChambeau would use Rodgers' shot off the tee box on five of the last six holes on the front nine, including the 282-yard, par 4 No. 9, before heading to the 10th hole tied.
Rodgers opened on 427-yard, par-4 No. 10 with a drive just off the fairway. DeChambeau then chipped it within two feet of the hole to setup the birdie putt to pull back ahead.
Rodgers and DeChambeau followed the same formula on the next par 4, before DeChambeau finally dropped a ball on the green of the 190-yard, par-3 No. 12, which Rodgers putted in for birdie to take a commanding three-hole lead that the duo wouldn't look back from.
"It was so much fun," said DeChambeau, the sixth-ranked golfer in the world. "It was a bit difficult, but I was happy I was able to get my partner up on the greens and he was making everything, everything."
While Rodgers didn't go into what lies ahead for the 2021 NFL season, he was jovial during interviews with studio hosts Brian Anderson, Charles Barkley and Larry Fitzgerald. He traded playful barbs with Brady and Mickelson throughout, channeling his inner-"Caddyshack" when instructing a reeling Mickelson to "be the ball" late in the round.
Rodgers isn't done on the links yet. He's scheduled to play in the American Century Championship this weekend at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Lake Tahoe, Nev. He'll tee off at 11:02 a.m. local time on Friday with former Packers teammate A.J. Hawk and Larry Fitzgerald.
Former Packers defensive back Charles Woodson, receiver Sterling Sharpe, and quarterbacks Doug Pederson and Jim McMahon are also scheduled to participate in the event.


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St. Paul's Church, Hyson Green is a former Church of England parish church in Hyson Green, Nottingham.

History

The church was built to designs by the architect Henry Isaac Stevens and opened in 1844 by Rt. Revd. John Kaye the Bishop of Lincoln. The chancel was added in 1889-1891 by the architect Gilbert Smith Doughty.

In 1994 the congregation merged with St. Stephen's Church, Hyson Green, and it closed. The building was then converted into residential accommodation by a housing association.

Organ

A two manual pipe organ was built by Charles Lloyd and opened with a recital by Henry Smart on 19 December 1865.

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This was what the marathon 2005/06 season boiled down to. The Mariners had had a successful campaign after disposing of Derby and Tottenham in the Carling Cup and residing in League Two's top three for all-but the final two weeks of the season.
IF EVER there was a performance that summed up the positives of Russell Slade's second season in charge of the Mariners then it was this one – a 3-0 win at Cheltenham on a cold Friday night in October.
THERE was a time when winning away wasn't a regular occurrence for the Mariners. They went ten months without an away win between November 2003 and September 2004, getting relegated in the process.
So a debut Friday night trip to Cheltenham wasn't one that Grimsby fans were relishing.


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Strategic partnership between Inova, George Mason to advance research
Published Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, 7:46 am
Governor Terry McAuliffe announced a strategic partnership between Inova, the largest health system in Northern Virginia, and George Mason University, the largest public research university in Virginia, to conduct translational research and share resources for the benefit of patients, the community and the region.
This collaboration will advance Inova's personalized health vision, and is expected to lead to new patient cures and treatments for a variety of diseases, and to new diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers and devices.
"By combining resources, Inova and Mason will place Virginia at the forefront of the fight against cancer, heart disease and other life-threatening illnesses," said Governor Terry McAuliffe. "Biomedical research is also a pillar of the 'new Virginia economy.' The work these two great institutions perform will spur opportunities for entrepreneurship, create new companies and generate jobs that will grow our economy and help us prosper."
Mason and Inova are committed to making sure their people will have an opportunity to work side by side in shared facilities on both campuses. This includes establishing a Scientific Connector Facility and the Inova-Mason Proteomics Center. Both will be housed on the campus of the Inova Center for Personalized Health. Inova will have a physical presence on Mason's Science and Technology Campus so its physicians and researchers can utilize Mason's research capabilities and labs.
"This partnership establishes Northern Virginia as an epicenter for personalized medicine, attracting the best researchers and experts from around the country," said J. Knox Singleton, Chief Executive Officer, Inova."Together, Inova and George Mason University are investing in research and development to help keep healthy people healthy and provide precise, effective and personalized treatment to patients we are privileged to serve."
Mason and Inova will establish a Personalized Medicine Public Policy and Ethics Institute, along with an endowed chair to support this initiative. The partnership will also include a fellowship program to recruit internationally recognized researchers and clinical investigators to both institutions.
"As Virginia's largest public research university, we are committed to delivering research of consequence that improves lives, drives economic growth and helps solve the most complex problems of our time," said Mason President Ángel Cabrera. "The partnership with Inova does just that and its impact will be felt for decades."
"These discoveries and innovations will spur opportunities for entrepreneurship to bring new products and services to market. They will create new companies and new jobs that will help both the Commonwealth's and Northern Virginia's commitment to a robust economy focused on biomedical research, personalized medicine and other aspects of the future of health services," said Governor McAuliffe.
About Inova
Inova is a not-for-profit healthcare system based in Northern Virginia that serves more than 2 million people each year from throughout the Washington, D.C., metro area and beyond. Inova is a comprehensive network of hospitals, outpatient services and facilities, primary and specialty care practices, and health and wellness initiatives.
Inova encompasses the full array of health services, including the area's only Level 1 Trauma Center and Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). We are home to many nationally and internationally recognized programs, including Inova Heart and Vascular Institute (IHVI), Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI), and the Inova Dwight and Martha Schar Cancer Institute.
Inova is a global leader in developing and applying personalized health. Connecting researchers, clinicians and empowered consumers, we integrate genomic research for patient care, prevention and wellness. Our personalized health approach enables individuals to live longer, healthier lives.
More information and statistics about Inova is at www.inova.org.


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Griffin O'Hanlon joined Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers as an attorney in the fall of 2015. He attended Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake for his freshman and sophomore years, before his parents relocated to Illinois. He returned to Virginia to attend Virginia Tech, where he majored in history. Griff obtained his J.D. from the Saint Louis University School of Law with a concentration in civil litigation.
After law school, Griff returned to Hampton Roads and now lives in Virginia Beach. He practiced criminal law at the Norfolk Public Defender's Office and a local private firm before joining Cooper Hurley and has extensive in-court litigation experience. Griff recently married Kelsey O'Hanlon (formerly Turner), a graduate of Tallwood High School in Virginia Beach who works as a speech therapist for the Virginia Beach Public Schools. When he's not working on his files, Griff can be found on the beach, golf course or cheering on Virginia Tech's football team.
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I have about 20 hours left of Intermittent fmla. HR asked me to get a fit for duty filled out. No big deal. My question is HR wont let me work till its filled out returned and they review it first. They first told me they need it because I was out of time. I reviewed my time and mistakes were made and I was given time back. BASICALLY just waneed to know if hr can not let me work?
Yes, it is legal for HR to refuse to let you work until you have an official release.
I was never not cleared for work. Have Intermittent fmla only take time when knee is hurting.
Yes, it is legal for HR to refuse to allow you to work without a fit for duty release.


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Make BCCI a public body, bring it under RTI: Law Commission tells government
Updated: April 18, 2018 6:39:01 PM
Headed by Justice BS Chauhan, the Commission has recommended that BCCI should be classified as "state" under Article 12 of the Constitution so that it is answerable to authorities like the Supreme Court.
The Commission has asked the government to classify BCCI as a national sports federation and bring it under the ambit of the Right to Information Act (RTI).
The Law Commission has suggested to the government that it turn the Board of Control of Cricket in India into a government-controlled body. The Commission has asked the government to classify BCCI as a national sports federation and bring it under the ambit of the Right to Information Act (RTI). Headed by Justice BS Chauhan, the Commission has recommended that BCCI should be classified as "state" under Article 12 of the Constitution so that it is answerable to authorities like the Supreme Court.
"It is recommended that RTI Act be made applicable to BCCI along with all of its constituent member cricketing associations, provided they fulfill the criteria applicable to BCCI," the Law Commission suggested to the government.
In its recommendation, the Law Commission noted that BCCI falls under the definition of a public authority. The Commission further said that non-consideration of the role played by the BCCI as monopolistic in the regulation of the game of cricket has resulted in the board "flying under the radar of public scrutiny, encouraged an environment of opacity and non-accountability", PTI reported.
In July 2016, the Supreme Court had asked the commission to recommend whether the body can be brought under the ambit of RTI or not. "An analysis of the functioning of BCCI also shows that the government does exercise control over its activities and functioning," the Commission noted. "… BCCI, falling in line with the foreign policy of India, did not recognise a player from South Africa due to their practice of apartheid; and that the cricket matches between India and Pakistan in view of tense international relations were made subject to government approval. The foregoing positions BCCI as a 'limb of the state'," the law panel report said further.
The law panel report further pointed out that the cricket regulatory body has received "substantial financing" from governments in the form of tax exemptions and land grants.
The panel said that BCCI has enjoyed tax exemptions of "thousands of crores". The Commission report said that between 1997-2007, the total tax exemption to BCCI amounted to Rs twenty one billion six hundred eighty-three million two hundred thirty-seven thousand four hundred eighty-nine. "It may also be noted here that from 2007-2008 onwards, the registration of BCCI under section 12A of the Income Tax Act, 1961, as a charitable trust, was withdrawn," it noted.
The body further noted that exercises 'state-like' powers affecting the fundamental rights of the stakeholders, guaranteed under the Constitution.
"It is hereby recommended that the BCCI be viewed as an agency or instrumentality of the state, under Article 12 of the Constitution, thereby making it amenable to the writ jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under Article 32," the report said.
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This course will introduce various technical data and signal processing methods that can be used to study and model social interactions between people, as well as the most common methods, algorithms and tools to process signals coming from different input modalities.
Alessandro Vinciarelli is Full Professor at the University of Glasgow (School of Computing Science and Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology), where he works since 2010. Previously, he has been with several companies in Italy and the USA (Finmeccanica,Accenture and IBM) and with the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland. His main research interest is Social Signal Processing, the domain aimed at modelling, analysis and synthesis of nonverbal behaviour in social interactions. He has published more than 140 works and he is or has been PI and co-PI of more than 15 national and international projects, including the European Network of Excellence on Social Signal Processing (http://sspnet.eu ). He has chaired more than 25 international events - including the IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - and he is a co-founder of Klewel (http://www.klewel.com ), a knowledge management company recognized with several national and international awards.
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Here's Marvel Studios' Entire Phase Three Film Line-Up Through 2019
Today Marvel Studios had their own event to announce their future plans for the big screen, and there were some big announcements. We'll be taking a closer look at some of the news in the coming hours, but first up, we wanted to run down the list of projects that Marvel Studios will be sending to theaters through 2019. They include some sequels we expected like Captain America 3 and Doctor Strange, but there were also some long-developing films that were finally given official release dates. Even Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was given a new release date meaning it will arrive earlier in the summer of 2017. Here we go!
Here's the line-up for Phase Three of Marvel Studios' cinematic universe (full logos via Ryan Penagos):
Official: May 6, 2016 is @CaptainAmerica: #CivilWar. Boom. #MarvelEvent pic.twitter.com/DxwwZTpO7d
— Ryan Penagos (@AgentM) October 28, 2014
Official: @Marvel's #DoctorStrange hits theaters November 4, 2016. Directed by @scottderrickson. pic.twitter.com/ORI48lB4pe
#MarvelEvent News: a new date for the @Guardians sequel, May 5, 2017! #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy http://t.co/glMO3rrdE5 pic.twitter.com/1wEObQARxv
— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) October 28, 2014
#Marvel's #Thor: Ragnarok, July 28, 2017 #MarvelEvent pic.twitter.com/T3B3gii8j5
#Marvel's #BlackPanther! November 3, 2017 pic.twitter.com/oSSPujysrN
AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE #CAPTAINMARVEL July 6, 2018 #MarvelEvent pic.twitter.com/j1EdVm99J2
On November 2, 2018, we welcome #Inhumans! #MarvelEvent pic.twitter.com/xar0caQFzV
Official, the @Avengers go to war! #InfinityWar pt1--May 4, 2018; pt2-May 3, 2019. #MarvelEvent pic.twitter.com/ABRJPaEZWc
And here's how all that looks on the overall Marvel Studios' timeline across the next five years - wow:
HERE IT IS. #MARVELPHASE3 pic.twitter.com/777Pmrc4e2
— Da7e Gonzales (@Da7e) October 28, 2014
Marvel reveals Phase 3 plan: 'Civil War,' 'Captain Marvel' and 'Infinity War' - both parts http://t.co/yNK0G0DtIo pic.twitter.com/5i5rN7mDqO
— Zap2it (@Zap2it) October 28, 2014
So there you have it. There are huge things coming up for Marvel, and we'll be posting a little more detailed information about Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok and Captain America: Civil War later in the day, not to mention that mind-blowing two-part The Avengers: Infinity War. And for anyone saying the DC Entertainment was starting to gain ground on Marvel because of their future slate, Marvel just fired right back. But at the end of the day, no matter whether you prefer DC or Marvel, there's no doubt that comic book fans are getting the films they always dreamed of seeing on the big screen. Comic book movies aren't going anywhere, and they're only getting bigger. Stay tuned for more on Phase Three coming soon!
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I wonder where Winter Soldier will fit in to all of this. Sebastian Stan still has 7 movies left on his contract!
CoosCoos on Oct 28, 2014
He will burn his 7 credits on that lame Agent Of Shield.
Ntabuye Paul on Oct 28, 2014
Hey! That series ain't bad.
lezboyd on Oct 28, 2014
You're a fucking moron.
davidshaw on Oct 28, 2014
I would imagine Avengers: Infinity War doesn't end Marvel's superhero movie venture just the Thanos arc. And if the rumors are true about part 1 being the new Avengers team starring in that movie, I would guess part 2 is the old Avengers getting back together to save the world after the other team gets their ass kicked in part 1. This is probably where Cap *spoiler* kicks the bucket and Winter Soldier picks up from there with whatever next movie needs a new Captain America. No doubt we'll see him in Civil War too.
cooper on Oct 28, 2014
He may be there in every movie providing sniper cover for Cap haha
JBrotsis on Oct 28, 2014
So is it Civil War or Serpent Society?
HarryFiddleSticks on Oct 28, 2014
Its a troll title.
Xerxexx on Oct 28, 2014
I'd still watch a Serpent Society movie. I'm a sad, sad, comic book movie junkie...
stavi82 on Oct 28, 2014
Try your hardest to find Fantastic Four (1994), Captain America (1990), Nick Fury: Agent of Shield (1998), and Generation-X (1996), succeed and you SHALL be THE SADDEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE JUNKIE EVER!!!! Good Luck! (I had the bootlegs of each on VHS, once upon a time)
matthew south on Oct 28, 2014
I was still a kid back then, so they kicked ass!
*hyperventilates*
SkylerB619 on Oct 28, 2014
I am a full on DC fan but if audiences were to suffer superhero fatigue... DC will bear the full brunt of it.
Zack Snyder on Oct 28, 2014
totally...but Sony's Spidey will tank before them all.
I feel bad for Spidey. Sony totally murdered him.
TheOct8pus on Oct 28, 2014
Maybe...just maybe...he'll be resurrected in an appearance in Civil War.
I fear the onslaught of tv series after series will create superhero fatigue.
Steven on Oct 28, 2014
Wrong year in the text for Guardians of the Galaxy 2. It needs to be 2017 instead of 2015
Well, it NEEDS to be 2015, but unfortunately, we have to wait until 2017...
Whoops! Thanks! Fixed it.
Ethan Anderton on Oct 28, 2014
So I'm curious which of these movies is most likely to tank?
Cortells6930 on Oct 28, 2014
I'm not a betting man, but I think Captain Marvel because http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/28/7083641/captain-marvel-movie-announced-marvels-first-female-superhero
rickvanr on Oct 28, 2014
None, if things go as they are going right now. I mean, did you SEE the Ultron trailer.?!
did you see guardians?! that's the movie comparable to tanking. and it surpassed tanking.
Captain Marvel.
Guest on Oct 28, 2014
Calling it right now... Agents of SHIELD will tie into the Inhumans movie.
if it even lasts that long on air lol
mooreworthy on Oct 28, 2014
For what exact reason Marvel/Disney would cancel Agents of Shield and why would they even need to bother. It's the only show now Marvel has which currently ties into their cinematic film universe and with lots of spots for story expansion as seen with the Hydra take over it is not going to be running out of steam. Leave the show to the fans who like myself enjoy visiting the Marvel universe with a new story every week. I guess when the episodes connecting to Age of Ultron air you will be scrambling to get caught up. I will say the first half of the first season was a bit weak but it has picked up it's feet and it has gotten way better.
Jordan Odinson on Oct 28, 2014
I too watch the show and enjoy it. I do. Even if every episode isn't very strong, it's still fun to watch and even more the better when they actually have hard tie ins to the movies (Nick Fury & Maria Hill appearance, Hydra takeover, Sitwell saying he's gotta go catch a boat...) but looking at the ratings and viewer numbers beginning of season 1 and how season 2 is going along, it fluctuates up and down very often instead of staying a constant line. With Inhumans not being released till 2018, that's 4 years away...so Agents of SHIELD will, by then, either need to become a very, very, Breaking Bad/Walking Dead type show or it will eventually end, unfortunately. And I don't see it becoming that desirable. Plus...how far can they really take that story of rebuilding SHIELD? As of now, SHIELD is dead and it may not return. You got Cap vs Stark, Guardians in the cosmos, Panther in Africa, and everyone else worlds, inter dimensions, and countries away...SHIELD may never be needed again, so why continue a story that will stop having an immediate connection to the MCU. For all we know, Fiege may introduce SWORD before Infinity Wars happens, and thus, all the attention will become focused on that, giving an even more reason to discontinue the SHIELD storyline. All I'm saying is....I too enjoy watching Agents of SHIELD; I tune in every week but I'm highly doubtful the show will last another 4 years.
JBrotsis on Nov 5, 2014
Excited.
Miguel Garay Boszeta on Oct 28, 2014
so happy to finally see Black Panther with a date, been waiting for that movie for a while!!
looks good but disappointed there are no more Iron Man movies
David on Oct 28, 2014
I believe that's because Tony Stark is going to abandon the suit after Civil War.
Probably true but still disappointing, IRON MAN ROCKS!!!
Well now, that a lot to look forward to.
Brian Sleider on Oct 28, 2014
IMO infinitely more exciting than the DC lineup.
Moon Knight on Oct 28, 2014
CAPTAIN MARVEL is really happening! So happy they are going to give us this character. I really hope they will go with a female Captain.
DAVIDPD on Oct 28, 2014
Sounds like they are using Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel, which destroys my own theory that Skye from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is Ms. Marvel...
Waiting for Fox to follow suit with their own superhero movie line up...
Why, because they are choosing to use the Carol Danvers version of Captain Marvel? If it tanks it will be because people are tired of the genre, NOT because of a female lead.
I don't know about that... let's not start making excuses for it already. I'll bet on comic book movies still being popular in five years over a female lead CBM doing just as well as a male lead one every day of the week. (Although, I also believe quality will overcome anything.)
si1ver on Oct 28, 2014
I agree. I was just trying to point out that having a female lead be the reason a movie tanked was preposterous.
I'm in complete agreement with you. It's not that I don't want to see female characters. I just don't like it when they shoehorn them into a male character mold. Men and women have different strengths and abilities. It's genetics, not sexism. If they make her character believable and have a quality script, director and leads I'm sure this movie will be incredible. I just see it as the most likely to be the odd movie out if they don't.
It's not 'shoe-horning' when the character already exists as a female. Carol Danvers (the original Ms. Marvel) assumed the mantle of Captain Marvel after Kamala Khan takes the Ms. Marvel moniker
Salt. Tomb Raider. The WNBA. the results aren't always ideal. That's all I was trying to say.
Stop. I can only get so erect.
We only have Avengers and Fantastic 4 to look forward to next year.
Ant on Oct 28, 2014
And Antman
TheLawliet08 on Oct 29, 2014
Jesus. I hope I don't die before I see these.
Jonathan on Oct 28, 2014
gooood dammit i hope i dont die from cancer or any other man made illness cause i gotta be around for this shit here ouhhhhhhhhhhhhwwwww
Liam Knurtsis on Oct 28, 2014
Pissed about there being no Black Widow film.
Brooke on Oct 29, 2014
Why the change in Subtitle in 'Captain America: Serpent Society to 'Captain America: Civil War' ?
Wonderland on Oct 29, 2014


Yes, it's a Hamilton pun.
Last Friday, I was lucky enough to visit Great Yarmouth Charter Academy, perhaps the most controversial and most-talked about school in the country this year. What I observed was so astonishing that I've finally given in and made a blog to share my thoughts.
A series of hysterical BBC articles can tell the story far better than I. Like so many of our comprehensives, the old Great Yarmouth High School completely failed the community it served. It's a school I've been watching with extreme interest. The typical rebuttal to the successes of schools such as Michaela, Reach Academy Feltham and Kensington Aldridge Academy is that they were able to set up from scratch (staff and students), and benefit from the recruitment advantages that London provides. Charter does not have such luxuries. The staff is already in place and experienced teachers are not throwing themselves at the chance to work in a remote, deprived coastal town over three hours by train from London.
I've seen plenty of tweets, blogs and articles from people I admire and respect lavishly praising Charter following their own visits but couldn't help but feel as though it's all a little too good to be true. These people are exaggerating; it's not possible to turn around a failing school so quickly.
Unsurprisingly, such thoughts were quickly put to rest. The school is magnificent, and the pupils are happy and safe. By reclaiming the school for its staff, headmaster Barry Smith has provided a model which can be followed in any context. The story so far is an overwhelming success, and I can't wait to watch it continue to flourish in subsequent years.
Expectations of uniform, behaviour and effort are sky-high at Charter. Teachers exemplify the warm-strict approach to students. This is not in any way a case of lowering expectations, avoiding any implication that 'warm' and 'strict' are mutually exclusive. In the lessons I observed, students were unapologetically reprimanded for sloppy presentation or unclear handwriting. The 'warm' aspect comes with the explanation – "Sir can't give you any marks if he can't read your handwriting", "If we are drawing in in our books then we aren't giving our full attention to Miss, and we will miss out on her knowledge which is absolute gold dust". Such expectations are fair, clear, and well-communicated, and are entirely focussed on improving the learning environment at the school. It is no surprise that students feel safe and confident as a result.
Twice Smith pointed at the floors, beaming with pride. "Look how clean they are". Sure enough, they were utterly spotless. This is a school students are proud of, and rightly so.
Unsurprisingly, given Barry Smith's status as a founder teacher at Michaela Community School, the two schools have striking similarities. Both use the SLANT acronym. Both have impeccable behaviour, with silent classrooms the overwhelming norm. Both place a huge emphasis on knowing every student by name, and both model polite adult conversation and expect the same from their students. Both even finish lunchtime with a dramatic rendition of a poem – coincidentally Ozymandias during both of my visits. One might argue they are the two most exciting schools in the country.
However, Smith made it clear that Charter is not just Michaela-on-sea. The incredible success that Michaela is seeing is deeply founded on the dedication of its young, hyper-motivated staff. It is not possible to implant that same staff culture. Why doesn't Charter implement the 'family lunch' system, one of Michaela's most noteworthy features?
"1,265." replied Smith repeatedly, referring to the number of hours teachers are expected to work a year. Many staff at Charter often arrive after 8am, and do not spend breaktimes monitoring toilets. As Smith was proud to state, this is an "ordinary school doing extraordinary things".
Transforming the behaviour and culture of a school is an incredible, laudable achievement. Students feel safe at and proud of their school. Teachers can focus on their students and their practice. Ofsted has already praised the turnaround. But Smith is not complacent. He is constantly roaming the corridors and classes, addressing uniform, providing instant and welcome feedback to teachers, examining students' work.
Curriculum is a work in progress. Attracting top staff is more difficult than at Michaela. Attendance is still an issue and is being addressed as a top priority. The room for growth is tremendous and is only possible due to the issues of culture and behaviour being addressed first.
As Kris Boulton argues, "if they can turn this school around and turn it into the next great success story, then it can be done anywhere".
There is absolutely no excuse for complacency or low expectations. Charter is an ordinary, extraordinary school, and is a model which can be replicated anywhere with strong leadership and a dedicated staff which is willing to learn. To put it simply, my visit to Great Yarmouth Charter Academy was worth every second of the tedious seven-hour round trip from Folkestone.


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Graft Trial Jolts Brazil's Ruling Party
Gerald Jeffris
Updated Sept. 24, 2012 9:19 pm ET
BRASILIA—Brazil's Supreme Court is handing down a stream of guilty verdicts, with more expected in coming days, in a major corruption trial that is damaging President Dilma Rousseff's ruling Workers' Party and weighing on its prospects in local elections next month.
The rulings, including a guilty verdict for corruption and embezzlement against the former speaker of the lower house, are unusual in a country where powerful politicians are rarely held accountable, raising hope that the courts may start to take a harder line...


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The Magic showed some heart but still lost in Portland on Friday night. Aaron Gordon made his return after missing the previous two games with a concussion and then he strained his calf in the second quarter. He left the game, did not return and could miss some time, based on the morning-after chatter. It's deflating for a team that's already without Evan Fournier, Jonathan Isaac and Terrence Ross.
So while the Grizzlies are really bad, as well as the Hawks, there isn't a team I would pick the Orlando Magic to beat right now. They are basically relying on Jonathan Simmons and Nikola Vucevic to carry the scoring load. Mario Hezonja is starting again, eliciting some bad memories.
A month ago, things were just starting to get away from the Magic after its exciting start. This just feels like a team that is not going to have much fight left to try and win games down the stretch. Things could get ugly, as usual.
Detroit seems to be free from its struggles that plagued it for the last two weeks. The Pistons got off the schnide with a win in Atlanta. Then they went to Indiana last night and got a legit road win against a divisional foe.
Avery Bradley missed the game but Luke Kennard got the start in his place. Stanley Johnson came off the bench for the second game in a row and played well, scoring 13 points. It prompted the Detroit Free Press to suggest on Saturday morning that he may be better suited for that role going forward.
Johnson's athleticism can't be questioned. And he has some shooting ability and overall offensive talent. But he doesn't get consistent looks as a starter, something he can do coming off the bench.
Meanwhile, Bradley is questionable on Sunday with an abductor strain. He might miss another game but it shouldn't keep it out much longer than this one, if even.
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