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This Week in Movies & TV, August 6, 2013: E.T. Killed Home
Josef Krebs | Aug 6, 2013
Based on director Joseph Kosinski's acclaimed graphic novel, Oblivion is set in the post-apocalyptic future in which an invading alien army is beaten but only through the use of nuclear weapons that leave the planet uninhabitable.
Jack (Tom Cruise) is assigned to go back down to dangerous, desolate Earth to locate and fix militarized droid drones brought down by Scavs - surviving scavengers left from the invading army. But an encounter with the Scavs' leader (Morgan Freeman)and a beautiful survivor of a spaceship crash (Olga Kurylenko) makes him question his duty, loyalty, and his whole world.
Oblivion (Universal) has state-of-the-art picture and audio. The extremely sharp 2.40:1 images are filled with striking scorched, ruined and rough jagged landscapes and slick shiny, smooth, perfect surfaces to rooms. Both come across with a tactile quality due to the excellent contrast, sharpness, and detail. Lovely Kurylenko's hair is the deepest black as are silhouettes against the rising sun, whites are bright, and there's a wide range of blues and greys to the lab-like homes, browns and charcoals to the scorched earth, and greens in the one untouched valley. Skin tones are natural.
All Cruise's pores, face stubble, and individual hair lock are visible as are stiches in his Yankees cap. You can see grains of sand in the endless deserts, texture to rocky surfaces, and the well-defined striations and patterned indentures on an Empire State Building telescopic viewer. Even tiny writing on its identification plate is readable. Figures and faces are solid and rounded and room spaces and the lush foliage are dimensional.
DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 soundtrack is exceedingly clear, open, and completely immersive. The big, dramatic orchestral and electronica score by Anthony Gonzalez, Joseph Trepans, and M.8.3 moves along quietly in the background and then surges up with bassy brass in moments of action, beats bouncing nicely back and forth across the front. Sound effects like Jack's jet copter rumbling past, shooting diagonally towards you and roaring overhead into the rears and surrounds, or blasting beside you and up onto the screen are all accurately panned. The drones also swoop and whoosh around the room, blasting their lasers. And their are plenty of other LFE effects including dread-inducing electronica, explosions and roaring flames all around at the crashed spaceship's wreckage, and a booming nuclear blast as a space station's reactor explodes.
Video: 2.40:1. Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1. Extras: commentary by Cruise and Kolinsky, isolated score track in Dolby TrueHD 5.1, "Promise of a New World" 48-minute making-of featurette consisting of the five segments include "Destiny," "Voyage," "Combat," "Illusion," and "Harmony," 5 minutes of deleted scenes; DVD and UltraViolet digital copy for streaming/downloading. Studio: Universal.
After more than half a century, Jack Kerouac's iconic autobiographical novel about young bohemians in postwar America - the Beat Generation - has finally made it to the screen, and under the direction of Brazilian Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station, Dark Water).
A young writer, Sal Paradise (Sam Riley) takes to the road in search of himself and freedom from the conservative conformity that was washing over America in the postwar years, a quest fueled by jazz and poetic license as much as Benzedrine. He's accompanied on his odyssey by charming, charismatic ex-con Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedland) - suicidal, living life to the full, fearless free spirit - and his friend's girl, Marylou (Kristen Stewart). Along the way we get to meet their co-conspirators to committing unfettered life: writer Old Bull Lee (Viggo Mortensen) based upon poet William S. Burroughs and Carlo Marx (Tom Sturridge) based on Allen Ginsberg, as well as a series of series of oddball characters they encounter on their travels.
Francis Ford Coppola bought rights to the 1957 book in 1980 (and I was one of thousands of young men and women that waited out in the snow all day over a decade later to get the chance of a once-over from the director, drop off an audiotape of the reciting of a Beat poem, and even, if you were lucky, exchanging a few words with Francis Ford all in the hope of being cast) but it was 30 years more before executive producer Coppola chose Salles to direct instead of himself. (Kerouac wrote to Marlon Brando asking the actor to portray Dean Moriarty in a movie of the book whiled Kerouac played Sal Paradise).
On the Road co-stars includes Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Alice Braga, and Elisabeth Moss. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
Video: 2.40:1. Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. Extras: deleted scenes. Studio: MPI.
In this 1982 sequel to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the hit 1979 BBC miniseries based on John le Carré's beautifully written novel, British Secret Service spymaster George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is brought out of forced retirement when an old agent, General Vladimir (Curd Jürgens) tries to contact him and then is shot in the face at close range with a dum-dum bullet. Patient, persistent, terrier-like Smiley follows the trail of clues and contacts leading him through London, Paris, Hamburg, and Bern as he starts to see the shadow of his Soviet espionage opposite and nemesis, Karla (Patrick Stewart), behind a highly complex plot.
Even though this is 30-odd-year-old TV shot on 16mm film stock, the picture is a huge step up from the DVD. Yes, the 1.33:1 images are rather soft, shallow-focused, and somewhat grainy, they are far more detailed. You can read street signs (Westbourne Terrace W2), name labels next to doorbells (V. Miller), and London taxi licenses (XHM 728T) - which is important in a story like this, as much as the ability to decipher type in top-secret documents and phone bills. True, shots are occasionally mushy, but you can still make out fine English drizzle, raindrops on cars, and, in the opening credit sequence, fine grain and peeling paint chips on planks.
Some shots are flat, but there's generally a lot more volume to figures and dimension to spaces. Blacks - of taxicabs, Smiley's overcoat, and figures lurking in the shadows - are pretty deep and dress shirts are bright white. Color differentiation could be better with a broader range of tones and a bit more punch beyond that supplied by bright red telephone boxes, but it works with the emotionally grey, dull, bureaucratic world that Smiley is forced to travels through.
The lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 is clear and full so that not one of the arch, biting, beautifully delivered lines is lost. Guinness's voice, even when lowered to a secret whisper, is resonant, well defined, and sonorous. There isn't any panning of vehicle sound effects or much separation of instrumentation in the orchestral theme music, which tends to be slightly tinny in the violin highs but fairly bassy in the brass and cellos. Nowhere is there noticeable hiss and the many silences as George goes about his busybody business are very still. The slightest tap of a fingernail, tearing open of somebody else's mail or cigarette packages, and the rasping marking of a post with yellow chalk to signal a meet are all crisp and natural.
After the original screenwriter dropped out, le Carré's adapted his own book into the screenplay that was directed by Simon Langton. Smiley's People co-stars Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Anthony Bate, Bernard Hepton, Michael Lonsdale, Alan Rickman, and Beryl Reid. The series was nominated for three Emmys in 1983 - including Best Director, Actor, and Miniseries - and won four BAFTAs in 1982.
The six-part thriller- all 6 hours of it - is contained on a 2-disc set.
Video: 1.33:1. Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. Extras: 62 minutes of extended and deleted scenes, 20-minute interview with John le Carré from 2002, text production notes, text le Carré biography and booklist, text glossary of main characters and terms used, trailer to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Studio: Acorn Media.
The Earrings of Madame de . . .
From French filmmaker Max Ophuls, The Earrings of Madame de . . . (1953) is a tale told with masterful direction and gorgeous cinematography by Christian Matras (who also collaborated with Ophuls on La Ronde, Le Plaisir, and Lola Montès) of a woman in late 19th century Paris known as Madame de or Comtesse Louise de . . . (Danielle Darrieux) who, through one action, sets off a chain of events that can only end only in disaster - she sells a pair of earrings.
The jewelry was originally bought for her as a wedding gift by her husband, Général André de . . . (Charles Boyer) and now she's selling them in order to pay a debt she owes. Although the General and the Comtesse seem the perfect couple - he handsome, elegant, and regal, she dazzlingly beautiful, aristocratic, and full of joie de vivre - in private they have little in common and less to talk about.
In Constantinople, she meets Baron Donati (Vittorio De Sica), a charismatic charmer whom she has an immediate attraction to which he reciprocates. When they meet again in Paris through the collision of their carriages, it seems like fate that they should get together. The two begin to meet at lavish balls where they spend time together dancing and talking.
As the earrings continue changing hands over the course of the film, the feelings between the General, the Comatose, and the Baron develop and change as they all deceive one another while still trying to be respectful to the feelings of the other parties involved.
This opulent, elegant adaptation of Louise de Vilmorin's fin de siècle novel, Madame de, comes in a new restored high-definition digital film transfer with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.
Video: 1.33:1. Audio: French, LPCM Mono with English subtitles. Extras: commentary featuring film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar, introduction by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, interviews with Ophuls's collaborators Alan Jessua, Marc Frédérix, and Annette Wademant, visual essay by film scholar Tag Gallagher, archival interview with novelist Louise de Vilmorin on Ophuls' adaptation of her story, booklet featuring an essay by critic Molly Haskell, an excerpt from costume designer Georges Annenkov's 1962 book Max Ophuls, and the 1951 source novel by Vilmorin, Madame de. Studio: The Criterion Collection.
In this Southern Gothic tale by writer-director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter) inspired by Mark Twain's novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) the leader of a small gang of teenage kids persuades his friend Neckbone (Jacob Lofland) to join him in escaping their maddening families to go on an adventure to go out to a nearby island on the Mississippi where there is said to be a boat stuck up in a tree in the recent flood that caused the island to be placed off limits.
Having found the boat the two boys discover a man named Mud (Matthew McConaughey) has been living in it while hiding out on the island from bounty hunters. Mud claims that he killed a man in Texas and is going to run off with his beloved Juniper (Reese Witherspoon) who's waiting for him in town. Despite not completely believing the colorful character's story, the kids agree to help him get the boat down from the tree so that he can escape on the river.
The cast includes Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon, Sam Shepard, and Joe Don Baker.
Video: 2.35:1. Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. Extras: director's commentary, "A Personal Tale," "The Arkansas Ensemble," "Southern Authenticity," and "The Snake Pit" featurettes; DVD and UltraViolet digital copy for streaming/downloading. Studio: Lionsgate.
The Borgias: Season 3
Not to be confused with the French-German-Czech-made-in-English Borgia TV series starring John Doman, The Borgias is another saga of the most infamous crime family in history, circa 1492, the Renaissance, Vatican, Rome, Italy. Created by filmmaker Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, The Butcher Boy, Interview with the Vampire) it tells of the Borgia family, an Italian dynasty of Spanish origin, led by Rodrigo Borgia (Jeremy Irons) - Pope Alexander VI - who, with the aid of his equally ruthless sons Cesare (François Arnaud), Juan (David Oakes), and Gioffre (Aidan Alexander) and daughter Lucrezia (Holliday Grainger), conspires to dominate the Roman Catholic Church in order to command its massive wealth and power.
Having employed bribery, merciless intimidation, and murder against his rivals in the College of Cardinals to get elected to the papacy in Season 1, by Season 3 Alexander is desperately clinging to power. He takes on Cardinal della Rovere (Colm Feore) and his other enemies and exacts revenge against them through his son Cesare, while striking alliances with other European powers to strengthen his position and secure the family legacy. But Cesare has plans of his own, conniving to ruthlessly establish his own base of power, which leads to a struggle between father and son with Lucrezia caught in the middle.
Other characters who impact of this decadent family includes courtesan and mother of the Pope's children Vanozza Cattaneo (Joanne Whalley), mistress to the Pope Giulia Farnese (Lotte Verbeek), and Cesare's hit man, Michelotto Corella (Sean Harris).
Jordan wrote 6 out of of 10 episodes of Season 3, the last season.
Video: 1.78:1. Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1. Extras: gag reel, Ray Donovan: Episodes 1 & 2. Studio: Paramount.
Midsomer Murders: Set 22
Midsomer Murders premiered in the U.K. in March 1997. Since then, more than 90 feature-length episodes of the smash-hit series have aired with new episodes still in production. The four new stand-alone mysteries in Set 22 are actually the second part of Series 14 (2011-12), which was never broadcast in the U.S.
Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham, the stories are set in cozy, fictional Midsomer County, a collection of the prettiest, almost picture-perfect hamlets in England, yet probably the most dangerous villages and small towns in the world, where 4 or 5 people get brutally murdered each and every week.
Thankfully, solving the murders and protecting the rest of us from ruthless and crazed killers by locking them up is new Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon) - younger cousin of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) whom he succeeded at Causton CID (Criminal Investigation Department) - as capable a copper as you could hope to be questioned by. He's aided in his endeavors by the intense conviction of his well-organized and competent assistant, Detective Sergeant Ben Jones (Jason Hughes). Together DCI Barnaby and DS Jones study suspects and crime scenes slowly disentangling plots and revealing the secrets of the county's eccentric and often homicidal village people.
The mysteries in this 2-disc set include:
"The Sleeper under the Hill" in which the detectives look into a Druids group in Midsomer Mow.
"The Night of the Stag" where, after the disappearance of a government inspector, local bootleggers become prime suspects.
"A Sacred Trust" in which Midsomer's cloistered nunnery comes under attack in the form of vandalism and something a whole lot worse.
"A Rare Bird" when Barnaby and Jones are concerned whether competition between ornithology enthusiasts led to murder.
Guest stars include Warren Clarke, Joanna David, Genevieve O'Reilly, and James Dreyfus. Fans of Midsomer Murders include Johnny Depp and the Queen of England.
Video: 1.78:1. Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. Extras: "Midsomer Murders in Conversation" 34-minute featurette. Studio: Acorn.
This Week in Music, September 3, 2013: Nine Inch Nails, with fewer teeth
This Week in Music, August 27, 2013: Bob Dylan's "Self Portrait," naked
This Week in Music, August 20, 2013: Enjoying John Mayer's lighter things
This Week in Music, August 6, 2013: The last days of the Civil Wars
This Week in Music, July 30, 2013: Presenting the Harry Nilsson Instant Record Collection!
This Week in Music, July 23, 2013: Rediscover America with Van Dyke Parks
This Week in Music, July 16, 2013: What were once (Dixie) Chicks are now (Court Yard) Hounds
This Week in Music, July 9, 2013: Guided forevermore by the voice and pen of Robert Pollard
This Week in Music, June 25, 2013: Willie Nile invites us to take an "American Ride"
This Week in Music, June 18, 2013: Celebrating album cover art
This Week in Music, June 11, 2013: How Black is thy Sabbath?
This Week in Music, June 4, 2013: Summoning "Ghost Brothers" with Mellencamp, King, and Burnett
This Week in Music, May 28, 2013: Rollin' with proud Fogerty
This Week in Music, May 21, 2013: Techno trousers shed by Daft Punk
This Week in Music, May 14, 2013: Vampire Weekend's sonic getaway
This Week in Music, May 7, 2013: Natalie Maines — ready to make rock?


Here is the JD Bug Original Street Scooter Red Pearl. This scooter is still one of the lightest scooters you can get and folds down with one quick movement!
The JD Bug Original Street Scooter comes with a single lever folding mechanism making it quick and easy to fold up when needed. In addition to the simple folding mechanism, another great feature of this JD Bug is the carry strap so you can put it over your shoulder when you need to carry it.
The handle bar height is adjustable making it perfect for young children and it can also be used by adults as it takes up to a max rider weight of 100 kgs.


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Texas voters approve state income tax ban, most other constitutional amendments
By Alex Samuels, The Texas Tribune Nov. 5, 2019
"Texas voters approve state income tax ban, most other constitutional amendments" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
Amendments to the state constitution that would make it harder to enact a state income tax, would stabilize funding for state parks and would allow retired law enforcement animals to be adopted by their handlers received widespread support from voters Tuesday.
Supporters of one of the most contentious issues on the ballot — Proposition 4 — proclaimed victory within hours of the polls closing, with about three-fourths of voters supporting the proposal in early voting returns. The proposition authored by state Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, and state Sen. Pat Fallon, R-Prosper, eliminates the possibility of Texas imposing an income tax unless the state changes its Constitution again.
The proposal drew ire from left-leaning groups, including the Center for Public Policy Priorities, which spent thousands to defeat it. On Election Day, the group ran digital ads in "targeted areas of the state" and sent out two mail pieces to tens of thousands of Texas households, according to a spokesman for the group.
Gov. Greg Abbott declared an early victory on the proposition in a statement Tuesday evening.
"Today's passage of prop 4 is a victory for taxpayers across the Lone Star State," he said. "I am grateful to Representative Jeff Leach for his bold leadership on this issue, and for the overwhelming majority of Texans who voted to ensure that our great state will always be free of a state income tax. This ban on such a disastrous tax will keep our economy prosperous, protect taxpayers, and ensure that Texas remains the best state to live, work, and raise a family."
The only item on the ballot that did not pass was Proposition 1, which would permit elected municipal court judges to serve multiple municipalities at the same time. As of Wednesday morning, it had received just over one-third of the vote.
The other propositions were poised to pass easily. Proposition 5, which would stabilize funding for state parks, received overwhelming support. The proposition allows money accumulated from the existing sales tax on sporting goods to be used for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Historical Commission. Current law allows the Legislature to allocate that money however it sees fit.
Proposition 10, which had the highest level of support, amends the state constitution to allow retired service animals, such as dogs or horses, to be adopted by their handlers or other qualified caretakers. These animals are currently classified as surplus property or salvage and can be "auctioned, donated or destroyed."
Proposition 6, which allows for an increase of bonds allocated to the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas received nearly two-thirds support, according to preliminary results from the Texas Secretary of State.
Voters were also overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 8, which would set aside $800 million from the state's rainy day fund for flood mitigation efforts. The Legislature approved the amendment after Hurricane Harvey's devastation along the Texas coast. The proposition netted about three-fourths of the vote as of Wednesday morning.
Another Harvey-related item, Proposition 3, also passed easily. The ballot initiative allows the Legislature to provide temporary tax breaks for people with property damaged in governor-declared disaster areas. The Legislature approved the resolution unanimously earlier this year.
Turnout in constitutional amendment elections is historically low. In 2013, only 1.1 million people voted. In 2011, only 690,052 Texans showed up — of the 12.8 million who were registered to vote at the time — to vote on 10 amendments.
A majority of Texas voters must approve any changes to the Texas Constitution. Getting a proposed amendment on the ballot requires support from more than two-thirds of both chambers of the Legislature.
In addition to the constitutional amendments, Harris County voters had several other contentious elections on the ballot, including its mayoral race, City Council elections and a state House special election.
Disclosure: The Center for Public Policy Priorities has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune's journalism. Find a complete list of them here.
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This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/05/texas-constitutional-amendments-uniform-election-results-2019/.
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Kespry's thermal inspection solution is based on radiometric temperature analysis, providing actionable data to people inspecting roofs.
Radiometric analysis means that a specific temperature is displayed for a specific point on a roof. In contrast, non-radiometric thermal drone data simply shows general temperature differences and changes in an area, making it hard to determine whether there is a specific point of damage or concern.
According to the UAV firm, thermal building inspection is critical for organisations looking to reduce investment risk in the $750 (£570) billion combined commercial real estate, insurance, and management industry.
"Accuracy really matters when billions of dollars of property and facilities are at risk," said George Mathew, CEO of Kespry. "Manual inspections and first-generation drone flights are slow and inaccurate ways of attempting to understand the state of a roof and the risk that issues may have on organisations' productivity. These earlier approaches leave surveyors, risk assessors, and roof inspectors guessing at the specific location of leaks, blocked drains, or damage to building infrastructure, all of which can have serious impacts on assets inside. The new Kespry solution for commercial roof inspection solves these problems.
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Remember when Jim Leyritz broke the Giancarlo Stanton trade? I think about that once a week.
In 2017, some unlikely sources had the hottest trade scoops.
By Tyler Norton Apr 28, 2020, 10:00am EDT
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Photos by Rich Schultz, Michael Reaves/Getty Images and Pinstripe Alley Illustrations
Okay, I'll admit it: Writing a baseball blog during a pandemic, when there are no baseball activities to cover, is strange.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, mind you, because strange can be fun. I wrote about some odd games before, from the Aaron Hicks diving-catch game, to its Black Lodge doppelgänger. I imagined the Yankees as characters from The Simpsons, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Monday Night Raw. And who can forget about the time Gio Urshela transformed into Mike Schmidt?
One moment I keep coming back to, however, is when the Yankees acquired Giancarlo Stanton. I've said elsewhere on this site that the trade stands out as my favorite moment writing for PSA. It came out of absolute nowhere on a Friday night, and believe me when I say we had to scramble to get coverage. How did this happen? Is it a done deal? Oh, crap, Starlin Castro is going to Miami? Where are my glasses? That's right, I don't wear glasses.
Go to find out, the trade didn't come out of nowhere. In fact, an hour before Ken Rosenthal reported that the Yankees were in the mix, Jim Leyritz proclaimed it a done deal.
Giancarlo Stanton to the yankees. It's done.
— Jim Leyritz (@therealjleyritz) December 9, 2017
Yes, that Jim Leyritz. The one who played in parts of nine seasons for the Yankees, hit that home run in the 1996 World Series (yes, that one), and had a few run-ins with the law upon retiring. He got back on the straight-and-narrow, though, and in addition to foundation work, he apparently decided to dabble in the life of a baseball insider.
You may be wondering how a career 8.4 WAR catcher walked away with the scoop of the year. The Yankees apparently brought him back into the organization in 2012 on a personal service contract, where he served as a greeter in the suite level of Yankee Stadium. I'm going to guess that position doesn't get you on the e-mail tree for transactions, though, not unless Steve from legal accidentally replied-all to the company-wide Listserv. I think we would have heard something about that by now.
Did Leyritz get a tip from a friend in the front office? That's plausible. Anybody who handles privileged information could get tempted to leak it, whether in an I-know-something-you-don't-know brag, or a you-gotta-keep-this-quiet-or-else-I'm-screwed-but-it's-too-good-not-to-share situation. It's not out of the realm of possibility that work talk with a pal prompted him to open up Twitter and break the timeline.
Or maybe it was a lucky guess. Jon Heyman suggested the Yankees as a landing spot two hours before Leyritz dropped the bomb. Tweet it out and see what happens, right? If you're wrong, people forget. If you're right, a bored sportswriter will blog about it two-and-a-half years later.
Leyritz has missed on other Yankees reports since. He said that a Gerrit Cole trade with the Pirates was done at the Winter Meetings, and that Manny Machado was "all but the signature" away from landing with the Bombers as a free agent. That leaves one of three possibilities:
His source dried up after the Stanton trade.
He never had one to begin with.
The Yankees had blockbuster deals fall apart at the one-yard line in back-to-back years.
You can decide which one to believe for yourself.
As strange as it seems now, a former catcher breaking a blockbuster trade—arguably the main event of that offseason—kind of made sense in 2017. You may recall that news of the Jose Quintana trade first surfaced on Reddit, thanks to distinguished citizens "KatyPerrysBootyHole" and "wetbutt23". Yeah.
Fake scoops and questionable sources have existed throughout the history of sports reporting, made only more prolific by Twitter. More often than not, they're annoying, easy to spot, and get dumped into the waste basket. But for a short time in 2017, the strange reigned supreme, and even the most sophomoric Redditor or former big leaguer could have their Woodward and Bernstein moment.
I think about those days a lot, and I miss them. Long live the strange days of baseball internet.
Editor's note: Jim Leyritz could not be reached for comment.


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Q: Expo-notifications background notification reception handling I am using expo-notifications package in react native (expo) to handle incoming notifications. I am getting notification correctly when the app is in background and foreground - for sending notifications I am using 'expo-server-sdk' package in the backend. I can handle foreground notification reception using addNotificationReceivedListener() function from expo-notification package.For handling background notification reception in the expo documentation (link: - https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/notifications/#handling-incoming-notifications-when-the-app-is-1) they are saying we can use expo-task-manager library to handle it. The code that i have written by referring expo documentation is given below.
...
import * as Notifications from 'expo-notifications';
import * as TaskManager from 'expo-task-manager';
...

//This code is written in root file and outside any react component

const BACKGROUND_NOTIFICATION_TASK = 'BACKGROUND-NOTIFICATION-TASK';

TaskManager.defineTask(
  BACKGROUND_NOTIFICATION_TASK,
  ({ data, error, executionInfo }) =>{
    if(error){
      console.log('error occurred');
    }
    if(data){
      console.log('data-----',data);
    }
})

//This code is written in App.js root component
useEffect(() => {
        Notifications.registerTaskAsync(BACKGROUND_NOTIFICATION_TASK);

        return()=>{
               Notifications.unregisterTaskAsync(BACKGROUND_NOTIFICATION_TASK);
        }
},[])

Also in the expo documentation. they say that this background task will not work with expo go app. so O executed expo run:android and build the app into my physical android device. Even After doing all this, When a notification arrives this task is not running and I am not getting any output in the console log from the code console.log('data-----',data); neither getting output for the code console.log('error occurred'); which means 'BACKGROUND-NOTIFICATION-TASK' is not getting executed when notification comes when app is in background. Can anyone please tell me what the problem is?

A: Basically, the only mistake you made was to call

Notifications.registerTaskAsync(BACKGROUND_NOTIFICATION_TASK)

inside useEffect which I am guessing is inside a react component, this code must be written outside the react component as you did with TaskManager.defineTask...
Take a look at this simple App.js example for further clarity
import { StyleSheet, View } from "react-native";
import * as Notifications from "expo-notifications";
import * as TaskManager from "expo-task-manager";

const BACKGROUND_NOTIFICATION_TASK = "BACKGROUND-NOTIFICATION-TASK";

TaskManager.defineTask(
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  ({ data, error, executionInfo }) => {
    if (error) {
      console.log("error occurred");
    }
    if (data) {
      console.log("data-----", data);
    }
  }
);

Notifications.registerTaskAsync(BACKGROUND_NOTIFICATION_TASK);

export default function App() {
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}

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});

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What to do in Oklahoma on Feb. 16, 2020: Check out the Monster Jam Triple Threat Series at Chesapeake Energy Arena
by Brandy McDonnell
Published: Sun, February 16, 2020 9:34 AM Updated: Sun, February 16, 2020 9:47 AM
Grave Digger is among the trucks competing in the Monster Jam Triple Threat Series stop at Oklahoma City's Chesapeake Energy Arena. [Photo provided]
Today's featured event:
Catch the Monster Jam Triple Threat Series at 1 p.m. today at Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W Reno Ave.
Monster Jam is one of the only sports where male and female world-class drivers - some generational rivals - are equals competing for the same championship on the same track. Following the racing, new in 2020 across all Monster Jam events, fans in every city will have the chance to vote for the truck winner in the freestyle competition by real-time, in-arena fan voting on their smartphones.
My excellent colleague Adam Kemp wrote a heartwarming story about a Yukon boy who got a special surprise outing to Monster Jam during the tour's OKC stop this weekend. To read the story, click here.
The Pit Party is scheduled from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The Pit Party gives fans the opportunity to get up close and personal to the Monster Jam trucks and drivers. Pit Party passes are $15 each.
Seats start at $15 for Monster Jam and are available at www.ticketmaster.com.
For more information, go to www.chesapeakearena.com.
For more Oklahoma events, go to oklahoman.com/calendar.
-BAM
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CommentsWhat to do in Oklahoma on Feb. 16, 2020: Check out the Monster Jam Triple Threat Series at Chesapeake Energy Arena


A view frequently expressed by medical authors and apparently held by the whole profession, is that if two foods may be digested separately, they may be digested together. They extend this principle to cover the whole menu: if each article of food in a bill-of-fare is separately digestible, then they are digestible if eaten. in a twenty-one course dinner, with the diner partaking of everything from soup to nuts.
In a limited way, this view is true, else would conventional eaters die from lack of food. Instead of dying, they thrive after a fashion, many of them even growing fat on the conventional diet with its haphazard mixtures. That digestion is not very efficient, is shown, however, by gas, sour eructations, discomforts, foul stools and the presence of large quantities of undigested food in the stools. At least half of the food eaten by most people is passed out undigested.
It is commonly held that foods may be taken into the digestive tract in the most indiscriminate and haphazard manner, in any possible combination, and in whatever amount the eater may desire will be well and efficiently digested. This view is not based upon physiology, but upon the determination of the profession that the customary practices of the people shall not be distrubed. Every student of physiology is well aware that the digestive enzymes have certain well-defined limitations and that different digestive juices are secreted for use in digesting different kinds of food substances. These limitations should be respected in our eating habits.
The inhibiting effect upon protein digestion of acids, sweets and fats makes it important to avoid combining these three types of foods. Good digestion depends upon a number of factors, but simplicity of meals with combin ations of foods that do not overstep the known enzymic limitations is one of the most important of these factors.
Experiments have shown that as small a portion of vinegar as one in 5,000 sppreciab1y diminishes the digestion of starch by its inhibiting or destructive effect upon the salivary amylase. One part in 1,000 renders starch digestion very slow and twice this quantity arrests it altogether. From these facts it becomes evident that vinegar, pickles (saturated with vinegar), salads on which vinegar has been sprinkled and salad dressings containing vinegir, are unwholesome substances to take into the human digestive tract, especially when taken with starchy foods such as cereals, bread, legumes, potatoes and the like.
Vinegar is not an evil merely because its highly toxic acetic acid content destroys ptylain (salivary amylase), but it also contains alcohol, which precipitates the pepsin of the gastric juice and retards or prevents gastric digestion of proteins. What wonder then that pickles and vinegar have been found useful in reducing weight. They cripple the first two stages of digestion. My readers should know that apple cider vinegar, which is so much lauded today as a "wonder drug" in folk medicine con tains both acetic acid and alcohol and is unfit for use, not alone because it impairs digestion, but also because it contains these two virulent poisons.
All acids destroy salivary amylase, the starch-splitting enzyme in the saliva, and thus arrest starch digestion in the mouth and stomach. Even those acids that are valuable as food, such as the acids of pineapples, grapefruit, oranges, tangerines, lemons, limes, tomatoes, apples, grapes, peaches, cherries, etc., destroy the amylase of the saliva and arrest the digestion of starch. For this reason, such foods should not be eaten at the same meal with starches-potatoes, bread, cereals, le gumes (beans and peas), Jerusalem artichokes, carrots, cauliflower, parsnips and similar foods.
Acids inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, hence they suspend or retard protein digestion in the stomach. These fruits should not be eaten with protein foods-such as eggs, flesh, cheese, nuts, etc. They make a better combination with nuts and cheese than with flesh and eggs for the reason that the cream in cheese and the oil in nuts also inhibit gastric secretion, and the taking of acid foods with these foods does not inhibit the secretion of gastric juice more than does the fat. Nuts and cheese still combine better with green vegetables.
I have mentioned above that by precipitating the pepsin of the gastric juice, the enzyme that initiates protein digestion, alcohol impairs protein digestion. There are many other substances that destroy pepsin. Extensive tests have shown that the residues left in bread by baking powders retard the digestion of protein. Although most of these tests were made with cream of tartar powders, no powder seems to be exempt from this effect. Baking soda also destroys pepsin and retards gastric digestion. Many drugs both acids and alkalies, have been used with which to reduce weight because they retard digestion.
Anything that either inhibits the secretion of the digestive juices or that alters their chemistry, or that destroys their enzymes, will retard or suspend the process of digestion. It is important, therefore, that we take nothing with our foods that either alters the acid-alkaline reactions of the digestive fluids, inhibits their secretion or destroys their enzymes. It is also important that we refrain from taking foods at the same meal that either directly or indirectly interfere with the digestion of each other.
Tea and coffee, not alone because of the toxic substances which they contain, but also because of the sugar that is commonly taken with them, inhibit the digestion of foods in-the stomach. They are common causes of indigestion. Condiments of all kinds also, because of the irritation of the stomach which they occasion, inhibit stomach digestion. As they are indigestible and occasion irritation throughout the whole length of the digestive tract, it is likely that they also inhibit intestinal digestion. Salt inhibits stomach digestion, also. There are a number of products widely so1d in health food stores, that consist of powdered vegetables, some of them containing highly salty sea weeds, others with salt added. They are used with which to make broths and they are sprinkled on salads and other foods as seasonings and supplements. They inhibit stomach digestion, sometimes for hours.
There is no reason to doubt that all the members of the onion family-onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives, etc. -as well as radishes and all other foods containing appreciable amounts of mustard oil, because they occassion irritation of the stomach and intestines as they occasion irritation of the mouth and throat, inhibit digestion. Horseradish and mustard are especially strong in occasioning irritation, but ordinary white and red radishes occasion considerable irritation. There seems to be no good reason why we should eat such items.
It seems that it is the part of wisdom to refrain from eating practices that retard, inhibit and impair digestion, rather than to eat in the indiscriminate and haphazard manner that is common and then resort to drugs to pal liate the resulting discomfort. To avoid discomfort by avoiding its cause is certainly preferable to deliberately inviting trouble and then seeking to palliate it with drugs that are worse in their damaging effects than the foods, food additives and combinations that are responsible for the initial trouble.
The eating of complex mixtures of foods is not seen in nature. Animals not only stay strictly with the foods to which they are constitutionally adapted (those to which their digestive secretions and processes are specially adapted) but they refrain from mixing these indiscrimin ately.
Man mixes foods from all sources. He will combine in one meal the diet of the tiger (carnivore), that of the pig (omnivore), that of the sheep (herbivore), that of the bird (graminivore) and that of the primate (frugivore), and expect such a combination of foods to be as speedily and as efficiently digested in his stomach as the tiger's diet is digested in the tiger's stomach and the sheep's diet is digested in the stomach of the sheep. On the face of it, it would seem that however great is the adaptive capacity of the human digestive tube, it would not be capable of adjusting its digestive secretions to so many different types of diet at one and the same time.
Why should we expect the human digestive tract to be able to efficiently digest such meals? It is often asserted that "normal (human) digestive tracts have been coping with such combinations for centuries without a whim per," but such a statement is based, not on fact, but on ignorance of the history of mankind's eating practices as well as upon an ignoring of the facts of contemporary human suffering. Present-day eating practices are not centuries old. The meals of man, until very recent times, have been very simple and have consisted of but two or three articles of food. With several notable exceptions, even the meals of the wealthy classes have been very simple when compared to the eating practices of today.
That the human digestive tract copes with such combin ations today without a whimper is simply not true. Indeed, the whimpering assumes the proportion of a loud national groan. Viewing the eating practices of the lower animals, we observe the utmost simplicity. "Every animal keeps to one dish-herbs are the food of this species-fish of that- and flesh of a third," wrote an early Hygienist, who advised: "Be content with one dish at a meal, in the choice of that consult your palate."
Certainly the human digestive tract, like that of the lower animals, can make a far more complete and efficient adjustment of its secretions to the character of the food eaten if but one food is eaten at the meal. It may turn out in the long run that all of our efforts to work out compatible food mixtures is an effort to stray away from the simple path of nature without suffering.


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Hybrids vehicles at Auto Expo 2016 could be solution to industry's search for green mobility: SIAM
The hybrid vehicles launched at the Auto Expo 2016 could be an answer to the industry's search for green mobility.
Honda Accord will mark its re-entry with a Hybrid variant
GREATER NOIDA: The hybrid vehicles launched at the Auto Expo 2016 could be an answer to the industry's search for green mobility. The newly launched vehicles enable a driver to instantaneously switch a car into electric mode and are part of the reason SIAM director general Vishnu Mathur feels the expo has been able to meet expectations to promote green mobility.
He said there are several new technologies which have been incorporated into vehicles by manufacturers. "Several electronic and hybrid vehicles have been launched in the motor show. The latest technology enables these vehicles to switch from diesel/petrol to electric power as per the need. Hence, the vehicles are more eco-friendly," he said.
Several manufacturers came up with hybrid and electric vehicles in the Auto Show. Hero MotoCorp's Duet-E and Mahindra GenZe's GenZe 2.0, were among the range of electric scooters on display, Toyota launched some hybrid and fuel cell run vehicles like Mirai, the hydrogen fuelled car. Electronic buses from JBM Group was another attraction. Mathur said, the vehicles have been designed with sophisticated technology as per the needs of the day.
The huge footfall shows the immense potential of the industry in the country.
Mathur said that the huge response from the visitors is heartening. "The Auto Expo is now biennial, with the huge response, we may think of making the event annual in the future," he said.
Exhibitors are also receiving good response from visitors. "This is very promising as India is a significant market for the automobile industry. We wish to exceed the customer's expectations and accelerate our growth this year to strengthen our brand in the country," said Katsushi Inoue, president and CEO, Honda Cars India Ltd. On Friday, the first day of public exhibition, the Auto Expo had registered a total of 79,000 visitors. The numbers increased to 1.12 lakh on Saturday. The officials are expecting an increase of 20% visitors in this edition of the Motor Show.
The five day show is jointly organised by Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
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MENDOZA, Argentina -- THE awesome crags of the Andes glitter like icebergs in the early morning sunlight as the plane lets down here in western Argentina, across the grassy Pampas from Buenos Aires.
The vineyards near Mendoza in western Argentina yield grapes that make the country one of the world's largest producers.
Runoff from the melting Andes snows, diverted into canals built by the Tehuelche Indians as early as the 16th century and improved by the Incas and the Spanish, makes Mendoza bloom. Although located at the edge of the Cuyo desert, this is a city of plane trees and sycamores, shady parks and broad plazas, fountains and rose gardens.
That same water nourishes the vineyards surrounding the city. Mendoza wines have helped to make Argentina the world's fifth-largest producer, a reliable source of inexpensive red for the country's thirsty population, much of which traces its origins to Italy. But until recently they have never counted for much in world markets.
Dr. Nicolás Catena is changing things; not single-handedly, exactly, any more than Michael Jordan single- handedly won pro basketball championships for the Chicago Bulls. But he has shown customers in North America, as well as friendly rivals here, what Mendoza can do at every price level. At 61, slight, soft-spoken and studious-looking in rimless glasses, he is the acknowledged star, the pacemaker, the public face of the Argentine wine industry.
It is an industry in rapid ascendancy. More first-class wines appear with each vintage, and critics and consumers around the world have taken notice. On the shelves of shops in the United States, labels like Balbi, Flichman, Norton, Santa Ana and Terrazas have won space, along with Catena, of course.
Despite the country's debilitating economic troubles recently, foreign millions continue to pour in to finance new vineyards and wineries.
Beginning with Dr. Catena's grandfather in 1902, the Catena family established a local reputation for red wines. These wines, made largely from the criolla grape, were too sweet and too often oxidized.
"We never imagined," Dr. Catena said, that "anyone here could compete with the Europeans — perhaps 10 percent as good, no more."
Dr. Catena's great awakening came when he went to the United States. Already armed with a Ph.D., he studied economics and mathematics at Columbia University during the turbulent late 1960's and then, in 1982, found himself at Berkeley as a visiting professor. Inevitably, he visited the Napa Valley. Almost as inevitably, he fell under the spell of Robert Mondavi, whose winery was at that time helping to establish lofty new standards for American wines.
"I discovered what investment, research and enthusiasm could achieve," Dr. Catena told me and my wife, Betsey, over a candle-lit dinner under the maple trees at 1884, the restaurant that he has set up in his century-old Bodega Escorihuela. "I saw that the Americans had done in 10 years what the Europeans took over 300 years to do.
"I decided that I had to do something similar. I thought we needed to make cabernet and chardonnay, even though we didn't use those grapes much in Argentina at the time. They were the best, obviously, and I wanted them."
After a time, Dr. Catena got to know the peripatetic Mr. Mondavi, and they discovered that their families had come from the same part of Italy — the Marche, on the Adriatic coast.
TOP Catena cabernets and chardonnays have been exported to the United States for a decade now, and they have received enthusiastic notices from the world's wine critics — easily the equal of the reviews accorded to the much better-known vintages of Argentina's neighbor to the west, Chile.
Unlike some Chilean producers, Dr. Catena has been careful not to price himself out of the North American market. The number of wine drinkers in New York or Los Angeles willing to pay $50 a bottle and more for his top-of-the-line Zapata reds may be limited, but for those who are not, there are Catena wines at more modest prices, sold under Catena Alta, Catena and Alamos Ridge labels.
"In the end," said my English friend Bill Baker, one of his country's most respected wine merchants, "Argentine wines will be better and better priced than their Chilean competitors."
I tasted Catena Alta cabernets, merlots and malbecs from 1997 and 1999 with Dr. Catena, and they were only slightly less aristocratic than their Zapata counterparts, which had not yet been released. They had just as much fruit, just as much robustness of flavor, perhaps a little less opulence and complexity. The Alamos Ridge wines, tasted in the United States, made a less vivid impression, of course, but they struck me as good values at around $10 a bottle.
The Argentine wines that interest me most are the ones made almost nowhere else, including the chunky, chewy, spicy malbec among the reds and the tangy torrontés among the whites.
Malbec, which is also called Auxerrois by the French, was once an important grape in Bordeaux, used extensively in the days before the great phylloxera epidemic of the 19th century in wines like Chateau Latour. Now it is used only in Cahors in southwestern France, where it traditionally produced heavy, intensely tannic wines, almost black in color, which were often not ready to drink until they had spent two decades in the bottle. Modern Cahors is a bit gentler.
Argentine malbec is different. The deep violet glints in the glass are similar, as are the jammy flavors of ripe berries. But where the tannins in Cahors can be quite harsh, those in the best Argentine malbecs are sweet and silky, and the wines give no impression of heaviness at all despite their power. They make perfect companions to Argentina's great beef or to our own.
In 1960, Argentina had 120,000 acres of malbec, but then came the stampede to "international" grape varieties like cabernet. Now there are only 25,000 acres left, but the best of those vines, including several owned by Catena and by the Austrian-controlled Bodegas Norton, are 70 to 100 years old. At the moment, Pedro Marchevsky, the Catena vineyard manager, is conducting experiments with 135 malbec clones in the company's Tikal vineyard.
The torrontés vineyards are some of the world's highest, many more than a mile up, near the village of Cafayate in the northwestern corner of the country, not far from the Bolivian border. No movie theater or bright lights there, "just work," laughed Susana Balbo, a highly regarded Argentine winemaker who toiled for a time in Cafayate. Two of the best examples are made by Etchart and Michel Torino, both reminiscent of albariño and viognier in their jasmine-scented bouquets and fresh tropical-fruit flavors (mango? pineapple?).
Another, only slightly less appealing torrontés, easier to find in the United States and irresistibly priced at about $7, is made by Santa Julia.
AT the moment, the light of Dr. Catena's life is a striking new winery near here, built of cream-colored local stone and pale, indigenous hardwoods in the shape of a Mayan pyramid. It opened earlier this year. His daughter Laura Catena, the company's export director, a Harvard- and Stanford-educated physician who somehow combines the practice of medicine in San Francisco with her work in the wine trade in Argentina, commented recently that the $12 million building "shows our pride in our own culture."
So does 1884, the Catena restaurant. The family recruited Argentina's premier chef, Francis Mallmann, to create a menu that celebrates the Incan influence in the region, with dishes incorporating corn and pumpkin, as well as the beef of the Pampas — not to mention, of course, the wines of Mendoza.
Much of the cooking is done in the courtyard in traditional igloo-shaped mud ovens, or hornos. We sampled bitter, palate-cleansing chicory, seared at 600 degrees, with almonds and sun-dried tomatoes; empanadas made the old-fashioned way with hand-chopped instead of ground beef; a tart of onions and leeks, and magnificently juicy goat, scented with lemon and oregano, roasted in an iron box — all the while talking politics, monetary policy, Machiavelli and wine prices with Nicolás Catena.
On the latter subject, he said, "I have known from the start that if I charged $40 a bottle, the wine had to be comparable with a French wine selling for $60 or $80, because people are not used to costly wines from here." And he acknowledged that like Mr. Mondavi and his Italian friend Piero Antinori, he makes far more money on his cheaper wines than on his prestige products.
But he pours his passion into the top of the line. He has raised the quality bar in Argentina by limiting production through the pioneering use of controlled irrigation and by rigorous thinning of his grapes. He has planted vineyards at altitudes as high as 4,900 feet, which provide the cooler temperatures and lower humidity that help to produce premium grapes. He has imported French barrels and computerized European winemaking gear, installing them in immaculate wineries that contrast starkly with the unhygienic facilities and poor barrels that plagued wine production in Argentina for decades.
Others have joined him here in the pursuit of modern excellence. Hiram Walker, Moët & Chandon, Pernod Ricard, Kendall-Jackson, Allied Domecq, Sogrape of Portugal and several Chilean companies have made huge investments. Exports have grown to about $140 million from $40 million in the last five years.
Norton, which was founded in 1895 by a British engineer who had worked on the railway across the Andes, now belongs to the family that controls Swarovski crystal. Carlos Tizio Mayer, the technical manager, described its strategy: to keep prices down — no more than $15 for the top blend, marketed as Norton Privada — "so we can earn a little money and a lot of customer loyalty."
"It's easy to produce very expensive wine here, but it's not so easy to produce good value," he told us as we toured the winery, which is surrounded by spectacular rose gardens. "We want to make our name and attract our customers now, because in the next few years only three or four Argentine names will loom large in the international market, and we intend to be one of them."
I was taken with Norton's 2000 sauvignon blanc, a crisp yet fruity wine with just the right sharpness, but there, too, it was the malbec that turned my head. The 1999 exhibited had a nose like a magnet that drew you right into the glass, and a typical big-shouldered, almost rowdy style on the palate.
Never contaminated by phylloxera, the Argentine malbec, as Mr. Tizio said, "is a natural treasure in its genetic purity." It can make great wine.


Did anyone read the article "Ranking in Google Now That Panda Has Gone Global" by Chris Crum of webpronews? Loved it! Our webmasters and publishers have gone to school on this qucikly for our clients.
Following the initial launch of the Panda update by Google, webpronews looked at some things that are known and some things that are possible, with regards to what publishers and webmasters should take into account. They said, "Given Google's specific reference to their quality guidelines in the latest announcement, this seems like the best place to start".
They also get into "basic principles," which deal with avoiding obvious black hat techniques. I'd suggest reading this whole page of webmaster guidelines, which deal not only with quality, but also design/content, and technical guidelines.
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A Question of Gender - Siki Giunta
Anonymous Writer
As CEOs go, Siki Giunta is one of a kind. An Italian woman who can speak four languages and has a background in the arts and humanities, she has presided over the transformation of US software company Managed Objects from a start-up with eight employees to a global business with 150 employees and revenues of US$30m.
Ms Giunta comes from what she describes as a typical Italian family, in which the boys were expected to go out to work and the girls to stay at home and have children. "I think a lot of my assertiveness has arisen from the fact that, from the beginning, I had to tell everyone in my family 'I've got a brain too,'" she says.
After acquiring a degree in French language and civilisation from the Sorbonne in Paris, she joined Coutts & Co as a Portfolio Manager. Ms Giunta quickly realised that "building wealth for other people was not my vocation" and joined IBM, in the mid- 1980s, on an entry-level programme. At a time when businesses were beginning to grasp the potential that computers offered,
Ms Giunta's job was to deploy enterprise solutions for large customers. "IBM wanted me to be a sales rep, but I just wanted to be a project manager – someone who sees how people use IT and how it drives their business. And, for eight years, that's what I did. I ran large projects," she says.
She admits that her main skills were not in IT. "The skills that made me succeed were my assertiveness, my curiosity and my ability to communicate with people," she explains. Her greatest strength, however, is "the fact that I can easily map out tasks and resources to get to the end goal. I make a plan and then work the plan."
From IBM, she moved to Legent – later acquired by Computer Associates – where she worked first in marketing and then in research and development. In 1999, she was hired as President and CEO of Managed Objects, which was at the time a small business providing software to help organisations manage their IT infrastructure.
In the male-dominated environment of IT, Ms Giunta believes that being a woman has had both drawbacks and advantages. "At the beginning, you might have to work a little bit harder, to make people get away from the fact that you're different," she says. On the other hand, she adds, an individual woman in a crowd of men will stand out. "When I am at a big conference and give a presentation, there is more chance that people will remember me."
Her career has also benefited, she believes, from her linguistic ability. At IBM, the fact that she could communicate with members of project teams across Europe in their own language was enormously helpful. She also takes more care than some of her male counterparts, she believes, in maintaining a personal relationship with her staff. At work parties, she makes an effort to remember the names of employees' spouses and children.
IT can be a tough sector for women to work in, acknowledges Ms Giunta, because managers are usually required to be mobile. Women in their thirties often face the assumption that they will have children and be unavailable for particular opportunities. "The only way you can take that away is to demonstrate your availability and to be assertive about your skills," she says.
But perhaps the greatest challenge, she says, is to be assertive without being overbearing. "It is the toughest balancing act that anyone has to do," she concludes.
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Wormwood Gentleman Corpse Volume 1 Birds, Bees, Blood & Beer by Ben Templesmith
IDW, 2007. 9781600100475.
Link to this review in the form of a comic strip by geneambaum tagged graphic novel • horror • paranormal
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Macmillan, 2008. 9781405054645.
Link to this review by sarahhunt tagged coming of age • humor
Liam is tall for his age (12) and just a wee bit beardy, so people keep assuming he's older than he is. This can be awful (teachers keep telling him he should know better, being a big lad) or cosmic (almost getting to test drive a Porche). With his regular-sized friend Florida (11), he may even end up lost (awful!) in space (cosmic!).
Why I picked it up: There are too few good science fiction books for young readers. Plus this one promised to be funny.
Why I finished it: Liam approaches the challenges of life and space the way he approaches a quest in World of Warcraft: reading a manual, gaining skills, and figuring out his opponent's weak spot. When he applies this to people, he's compassionate and uses what he knows about what that person really wants. Pretending to be Florida's dad makes him think about what choices are enough to convince the people he meets, and he ends up figuring out a lot about why dads are important. (I got pretty weepy at some of those bits.)
I'd give it to: Diana (13), who has also had to deal with people assuming she should be mature when she's mostly just tall. She won't appreciate the parts about the sacrifices dads make until later, though. I'd also give it to Rick, because he totally will.
Also enjoy Alan Silberberg's comic treatment of Cosmic.
Every Zombie Eats Somebody Sometime A Book of Zombie Love Songs by Michael P. Spradlin, Jeff Weigel
Harper, 2010. 9780062011824.
Link to this review by billba tagged humor • paranormal
Over two dozen classic love songs with Zombie-appropriate titles and lyrics, including "50 Ways to Eat Your Lover", "When a Man Bites a Woman", "That'll Be The Day (When You Make Me Die)", and "Eat Caroline".
Why I picked it up: Gene handed it to me with that "trust me, I'm a librarian, I know what you need" look.
Why I finished it: Jana kept laughing as I sang snippets to her. I even got a snigger out of my wife for "You've Lost That Livin' Feeling".
I'd give it to: Jim and Corey, who first introduced me to Jonathan's Coulton's Re: Your Brains. This is also the perfect book to take to a karaoke bar and mess with people's minds, presumably before eating them.
Horrible Little People by Eric M. Esquivel, Dave Baker
Modern Mythology Press, 2009. .
Link to this review by geneambaum tagged graphic novel • humor • superhero
After having sex with a drunk woman (in a turtle costume) at a party, Rex (in a dinosaur costume) and his friend Josh (in a penguin costume) go out for burgers. The penguin analyzes the subtext of old Johnny Quest cartoons as he tries to comfort his Jurassic friend. They go see the Jamming League of America, a superhero band from a parallel world.
Why I picked it up: Bizarre looking indy graphic novel I'd never heard of with a reasonable cover price.
Why I finished it: When Rex and the turtle woman are undressing and taking off their costumes:
Rex: You're really beautiful.
Woman: And you're a charming, gently kissing boy in a big, scary dinosaur costume. "Says the fast girl in the turtle get-up." I don't think either of us is fooling anybody, huh?
But Rex is serious. And he's wearing Spider-man underwear.
I'd give it to: Jennifer, whose appreciation of the weird and witty would extend to these potty-mouthed softies, despite the foul act one of them commits with a pickle. And Bill, who would initially dismiss it because everyone (except the League members) is wearing an animal costume, but would be won over by the dialogue.
PS: The book isn't currently available through book distributors or in the Modern Mythology Press store. I found my copy at Zanadu Comics, and they said they bought it from the publisher. I hope yours can get you a copy. Or you may need to track down Eric and Dave at a comic convention.
Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, 2010. 9781442402324.
Link to this review by flemtastic tagged horror • paranormal
Civilization is no more, though pockets of humanity survive in the sea of shambling zombies. Benny lives in a small village of about a thousand people. When he turns fifteen, he will be considered an adult and must find a job. He apprentices with his older brother, Tom, a humane zombie bounty hunter. He secretly considers Tom a coward, unlike Pink Eye Charlie and Motor City Hammer, two grizzled bounty hunters that look and talk like killers.
But outside the fences he learns he hasn't been seeing his brother clearly. Tom has wicked skills with a sword, and a well-earned reputation as a tracker and sniper. Together they need to leave the village, bring in several evil bounty hunters for trial, and save a kidnapped friend from a horrifying fate at GameLand.
Why I picked it up: Gigantic zombie eye, complete with grave pallor, on the cover.
Why I finished it: The specific, clear, and unusual details of zombie behavior made this book fun. Benny and Tom take five minutes to move twenty feet because zombies are attracted to fast movements and noise -- this really made it easy to imagine their tension and racing thoughts. A scene where they walk through a forest filled with zombies tied to trees was brilliantly creepy, as was Benny running down a line of abandoned cars, fleeing a staggering horde.
I'd give it to: Dustin, who would be fascinated by the intricate traps Pink Eye Charlie leaves behind for Tom and Benny. Jenn, who would enjoy its heart and dignity, particularly in its sub-plots about family. And all the 8th grade boys at my school who would love the descriptions of bounty hunters bringing back limbless but still moving zombie torsos.
Rotten Book 1 Reactivated by Mark Rahner, Robert Horton, Dan Dougherty
Moonstone, 2010. 9781933076799.
Link to this review by geneambaum tagged horror • paranormal • western
Two government agents try to eradicate zombies in the old west. Looking for silver, miners hit something bad. Then the living dead show up. Some religious people in a nearby town consider it a miracle. Others, like the Union soldiers guarding a little-used mountain pass, have a hard time understanding what's happening.
Why I picked it up: Mark Rahner works at the Seattle Times with my friend Jonathan. After repeated attempts to get us together for dinner, Mark and I settled for a blind man-date. He gave me his comics, I tried to convince him of the power of The Blood of Heroes.
He's also let me post PDFs of the Issue 1, Issue 2, and Issue 3 (bigger file) so you can give Rotten a try, too.
Why I finished it: High body count, lots of cursing, and gore that moves the story forward. The book also uses the living dead to comment on military stop-loss, the pro-life movement, corporate involvement in politics, and rigged elections. (Issue 7, not included in this book, is worth picking up for the way it skewers Todd and Sarah Palin.)
I'd give it to: Allen, who discovered the Walking Dead at Comic Con a few years ago, and who would appreciate that the representative of Hep Industries travels with a supply of red Bourdeaux. My friend Dave Hammergren (where are you Dave??), who watched horror movies with me in high school, would love the creepy, slow-moving zombie onslaught caused by winter weather in the last story arc of the book.
The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington, Christopher Lane
Link to this review by emilyjones tagged audiobook • historical fiction • paranormal
Manfried and Hegel Grossbart, murderous grave-robbing brothers, travel across 14th century Europe in search of plunder while battling the plague, demons, road bandits and more. Their journey wreaks havoc on everyone they meet. One farmer is in hot pursuit, fueled by vengeance for his family's murder and aided by a witch also wronged by the brothers. And still the Grossbarts rob, torture, and slaughter as they see fit, even finding time along the way to discuss religion, their devotion to the Virgin Mary, and the merits of eating horses.
Christopher Lane masterfully expresses the monstrous nature of the brothers but also made me laugh even when it felt like I shouldn't.
Why I picked it up: A friend suggested I give it a go because of the excessive amounts of profanity, disgusting descriptions, body fluids, grotesque creatures, and root vegetables.
Why I finished it: I was riveted by the gratuitous body count and flowing effluvia. Torture, murder, sex, vomit -- I gritted my teeth through the stomach-curdling scenes and tried not to gag while listening in traffic. But the dark humor kept me laughing (and grimacing) until the final track. The look on my face while I was driving must have been priceless. (There really are a ton of turnips, too.)
I'd give it to: My friend, Nate, who never shies away from controversial theological debates, and my husband, Carl, who insists that corpses don't smell nearly as bad as people think.
Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black, Justine Larbalestier
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010. 9781416989530.
Link to this review by sharonlevin tagged fantasy • paranormal
The result of a long-running debate between the editors' blogs, both recruited authors to write stories to prove that either unicorns (Black) or zombies (Larbalestier) are better. Contributing authors include Scott Westerfeld (Larbalestier's husband), Garth Nix, Carrie Ryan, Margo Lanagan, Meg Cabot and Kathleen Duey so the writing is suspenseful, humorous and well executed.
Why I picked it up: No words on the cover, just a cutout of a zombie, arms extended reaching toward a reading unicorn. The border illustrations show or imply bloody fight scenes between the two creatures.
Why I finished it: Each story is prefaced by an argument between the editors about why the story proves her case. (Warning: for Margo Lanagan's "A Thousand Flowers," read the editors' discussion after the story because it contains a spoiler.)
And if I hadn't finished it, I would have missed this line by Libba Bray: "What's the difference between an undead and my last boyfriend? One is a soul-sucking beast from hell and the other is an undead."
I'd give it to: The boy I saw waiting at guitar lessons who was embarrassed to let me see he was reading [The Zombie Handbook](http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?
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Munster Senior Football Championship
Cork boss Ronan McCarthy would not take any moral victory over Kerry
The Rebels haven't beaten their greatest rivals in the Championship for seven years
Pat Nolan
Cork manager Ronan McCarthy (Image: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo)
Cork boss Ronan McCarthy is not entertaining talk of moral victories ahead of Saturday's Munster final with Kerry.
Cork haven't beaten their greatest rivals in the Championship for seven years and the gap between them has yawned in recent years to the extent that Kerry's 17-point victory in last year's final was their biggest in the fixture since 1938.
Amid that backdrop, it was put to McCarthy that a respectable performance in defeat this time round may be somewhat bearable. His response was emphatic.
He said: "Let me put it this way – if we come off the field on Saturday night beaten by a point, will I feel any better than I did last year? No.
"There are no moral victories here, you either win it or you don't win it and that's it."
Cork's Brian Hurley scores a goal against Limerick in the semi-final (Image: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo)
McCarthy is more than satisfied that preparations are going well ahead of the game after Cork rounded out the League reasonably well despite suffering relegation, performed well in a number of challenge games, which included a win over Dublin, and then trounced Limerick in the Munster semi-final.
But then, he says, he was happy with the build-up to last year's game too and that ended in humiliation.
"We were expecting to give them a close game," he recalled.
"Last year's game was a funny one. It was helter-skelter for 15 minutes, things kicking off everywhere. Then the game settled down and, to be fair to Kerry, they squeezed us and we couldn't get our hands on the ball.
"You had a period of 15 minutes coming up to half-time where they owned the ball. They have quality up front, we have huge quality but if there's only set of forwards getting their hands on the ball, there's only outcome.
"Having thundered into the game at the start and done well, we found ourselves seven points down at half-time and then they got a goal early in the second half and the energy fell out of us a bit.
"I can't say it's not going to happen again but all the signs are that we're going in the right direction. We're certainly looking forward to the challenge.
"The gap isn't as big as it looked that night but, look, that's easy for me to say here, we've to go and see can we influence that on Saturday."
Despite Kerry losing the League final to Mayo and labouring to victory over Clare, McCarthy insists that they remain as formidable as ever.
Kerry manager Peter Keane speaks to his team (Image: ©INPHO/James Crombie)
He added: "To be winning by 12 points early in the second half, to me, similar to our game, they had that game put to bed very early.
"Maybe people harped on the fact that Clare narrowed the gap but never to a point where Kerry were in danger so, look, they've real quality and that's be acknowledged.
"I have felt for a long time that we have fantastic quality in our team, great players up front, a fantastic midfield but talk is cheap, we've got to go do it.
"We know what Kerry are going to bring and, look, there's going to be periods of the game where they're going to have periods of dominance and I expect that we'll have periods that we'll be on top.
"Hopefully we can make the most of our periods where we have the ball and show a little more resilience, dig in and be defensively more solid where Kerry are on top in periods of the game but, look, we'll see."
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The Rivers State Police Command has said no fewer than 10 suspected members of the disbanded Indigenous People of Biafra and seven fake members of the civilian Joint Taskforce in various parts of the state have been arrested.
This was made known to the public by the State Commissioner of Police, Okon Effiong, during a meeting with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday.
Effiong stated that the arrests were made when officers raided their hideouts after the command acted on credible intelligence.
He said the suspected IPOB members were arrested in Oyigbo on the outskirts of Port Harcourt, while the arms-bearing fake civilian JTF members were nabbed in Omoku and Ahoada, both in Rivers State.
The CP said, "On December 23, 2022, we received information that some IPOB members have started relocating to Rivers State.
"We had to work on that intelligence and we discovered where they stay in an estate in Oyigbo. The building they stay in the estate was raided and ten of them were arrested.
"Interestingly, four of them arrested were identified as the key players in the burning down of the Oyigbo Police Station during the #EndSARS riot.
"And one of them has been on the wanted list of the police since February this year."
Continuing he said, "We are still working on them and as we receive information we shall act on it immediately."
CP Effiong disclosed the fake civilian JTF had gone to the Northeast for training in arms handling and had come to Rivers to recruit members when they were arrested.
He said, "We just have to be very careful and sensitive. Information was received that a group of persons were training in arms handling.
"And we discovered that the people had gone for the so-called training from the Northeast and had come down to Port Harcourt to recruit people. And they said they were civilian JTF.
"When their camp was searched eventually about four locally made AK 47 rifles were recovered with some ammunition.
"The intriguing thing is that we recovered many camouflage uniforms. If anybody saw them they will think they are policemen.
"In the course of our investigation, we discovered that they had already opened up cells in Ahoada and Omoku.
"We have gone to Omoku, we have raided those cells and we have arrested seven of them."
While assuring that the command would ensure that the state remains unsafe for criminal elements, Effiong solicited the support of members of the public to assist the police with relevant information that would aid the arrest of suspects.
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No, but what an interesting guess. What made you think that?
Leave No Trace is really good, I can definitely recommend it.
Also, Take Shelter is really good as well, Michael Shannon's performance is on point.
I don't know whether it counts as a hint, exactly, but this is one of my top three favorite movies of the last decade (alongside Dogtooth and A Separation).
I'm pretty sure I haven't seen this. Also, I just watched the trailer for Dogtooth... very strange... and now I'm intrigued.
Maybe a pic of Elizabeth Moss would help?
I would object that this film is in fact "mainstream-ish", in that it's a film anyone who watches mildly arthouse international films will probably at least have heard of. Maybe these screens will put an end to it?
Say, that looks like Elizabeth Moss in the first pic!
Does sir wish to hazard a guess as to the movie picture in question?
I cheated, so no - I'll let someone else have it.
This film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival a few years ago. It was shortlisted for an Oscar for Best Foreign Movie. The director's previous film is being remade with Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (and to be directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash), under the title Downhill.


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1906 Gentlemen's Royal Premier No 3 Helical Truss Frame
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Since the 1880s, Premier had been in the forefront of tube design, with the world's first successful crossframe, 'trough-shaped or semi-circular steel' on their Model F (see the 1892 Premier Model F on this website), and the invention of helical tubing in 1892. Helical tubing – similar to the design of a gun barrel – provided lightweight frames of extra strength. With both helical tubing and the company's patent truss tube construction, this model certainly does embody the ultimate in strengthened frame design.
If you look closely, you'll see the diagonal lines under this bicycle's paint revealing its helical heritage.
In 2017 I rented this Premier plus two other bicycles to a film production company for the WONDER WOMAN movie. They wanted period bicycles for their World War 1 sequences. In the film, Wonder Woman, the daughter of Zeus, is recruited for the war effort. You can see the Royal Premier behind her in the photo below.
Sturmey Archer 'Mark X' 3-Speed
28″ Frame
Frame No 230071
PREMIER HELICAL TUBING
'The early 1890s were a time of enormous technical advancement in cycle design and manufacturing technology, a time when the basic form of the modem bicycle was perfected and set on course for the next century. One of the more surprising inventions at this time was a 19th century equivalent of Reynolds 531 frame tubing, Helical tubing, which was developed and patented not by a tube manufacturer but by a cycle manufacturer.
The inventors & patentees were The Premier Cycle Co Ltd, formerly Hillman Herbert and Cooper of Coventry, who claimed at the time to be the largest cycle manufacturers in the world. Founded in 1874, this company had been important innovators in the industry, introducing such advances as the DHF (double hollow fork) in 1878 (later licensed to Singer), the Kangaroo front driving safety in 1884, and the first true cross frame safety in 1886. The driving force was William Hillman, a talented and practical engineer who had been in cycle manufacture from the birth of the industry in this country.
Many inventive and unusual frame designs were made by Premier in the closing years of the solid tyre era. With the coming of the pneumatic tyre, the need arose for a light and responsive frame of thin walled steel tube, but there were limits to how thin and therefore how light ordinary tubing could be made, before its efficiency was impaired.
Helical tubing was developed and tested during 1891–2 and introduced in the autumn of 1892. These strange looking spirally wound tubes were the result of experiments to convert very high carbon bright rolled Swedish steel into tubes without reducing the carbon content. The chosen steel was non-ductile, in other words it was not capable of being drawn into steel tubes in the usual way without loss of strength. The solution found was to helically roll a thin sheet of steel varying from 0.008in to 0.017in thickness round a mandrel. A clamp was placed on one end to prevent its unwinding and the mandrel was withdrawn. A stout collar was then driven on the free end, and the whole tube brazed together. The brazing operation was carefully designed so that a complete film of brass was spread between the two layers of thin sheet making up the tube. Premier claimed that the brazing process was so perfect that every tube could be rung like a bell. In this way the tubes were tested and either rejected or passed fit for use.' *
Manufacturers of inflator pumps often added a cycle company name to the pump, to be sold by the cycle company with their bicycles. I've not seen one with the Premier Cycle Co name. However, the Shapex pump below has a model name 'Premier' so it seemed appropriate to attach it to this bicycle.
The frame number is situated under the bottom bracket. Premier is one of only half a dozen manufacturers with a published list to guide us when calculating the bicycle's age.
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