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Whittard Kenya Coffee
The initial smell of this coffee bodes well - the lemony twang you expect from a Kenyan - and I don't mean a marathon runner. But this is a strength TWO - which as we all know, means weak as hell. There is no such thing as a strength one - the scale starts at two - so this is as weak as it gets. And it's true - this one has all the right hints of quality that you'd look for - but just not enough of them. It's like having a quickie behind the bike sheds - alright but just not satisfying, leaving you wanting more. Your mum would like this one for sure - and I don't mean the quickie. Or maybe she would - who knows - I've not seen her in a while. We're on a trial separation. 6/10
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Whittard Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Coffee
The first sip of this bodes well - it's tangy and citrus like, as we top Judges have come to expect for anything from a high altitude in that part of the world. But as you continue to sip, you really want this taste to build and build - but it doesn't. It just stays at the same level and as you get more used to it, you notice it even less, to the point where you feel like you're drinking hot water. I can only put this down to the strength 3 rating - this was never going to floor me like a couple of pool balls in a pair of tights. So, OK if you like week coffee. Otherwise, be a man and go out and get yourself something stronger - some Tanzanian Peaberry maybe. 6/10
Average: 8 (16 votes)
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Whittard Pico Duarte Coffee
This was the first one I'd made in a while and je-sus this came out blacker than the Black Hole Of Calcutta. So what's with the delicate looking butterflies on the front of this I wonder? Now, I'm sure I didn't cock-up the brewing process, and this is officially rated a strength 3, so how it ended up a throat puncher I'll never know. But I think I have to face facts: that I over did it and that the strength here, while welcome, is slightly false and it's a really bitter cup that needs an extra tweak of sugar to get it down. I've enjoyed it though - a perfect afternoon pick-me-up. An easy 7/10 for this one. Shame we can only have one cup from the tiny packet.
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Whittard Colombian Coffee
The notion of this one is a cheeky little monkey messing around with a magic tea pot hanging about on a branch. Despite all that nonsense, this is a nice little brew. It's a strength 3 but has a really good and powerful taste. It's just lacking some depth - it's shallower than Jodie Marsh on Mastermind. As soon as you've swallowed - it's gone. Yes, that's another reference to Jodie Marsh. It's a great afternoon coffee - or one to keep dosing up on all day long. You'll never feel like you've had too many, but you'll enjoy each one. I may even buy a bigger pack.... 8/10
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Whittard Monsoon Malabar Coffee
We've had a Monsoon Malabar before from Waitrose, and we didn't like it, so we're not expecting much here. The package seems to suggest that a toffish bird can take it, where as a chavvy parrot will be left reeling from this bad boy. The initial smell off of the cup is what we expected - filthy, dirty and harsh. So you kind of hold your nose before diving in - but initial gulps would have you believe that this one 'aint bad! Strong - yes - but not quite such a filth-monger as the name would suggest. As you go down the cup though, the after taste on the tongue builds up and the grinds from the bottom well up and start to choke you. It's just about OK, but only for serious coffee fans. The average parrot best stick to his millet. 6/10
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Whittard Santos and Java Coffee
This is a real punchy little Whittard. It's a strength 5, and it tastes it - don't give this one to your mum thinking you can dumb it down and it'll all be ok, because it won't. The smell off the freshly brewed cup is powerful and enticing - there's no way you can forget this one and leave it to go cold by mistake. In fact, I never even put the cup down. 8/10
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Whittard Christmas Coffee
The word "Christmas" on a coffee - or indeed anything - should always make you nervous and this is proof of that. As soon as you open the packet you just want to gag - it's sickly sweet and generally repulsive. Just the waft from the packet is making me sneeze. The brewed cup is even worse - it's only drinkable for a few sips - and even then only because you feel you have to, out of disbelief that anything could be this bad. It's full of cooking chocolate, milk powder, ground nuts or wet cardboard or something equally as nauseating. Imagine if you aged some Baileys in a cardboard barrel for 10 years, and then heated it up. It deserves a 1/10 - but I'm giving it a 2/10. Why? Because they intended it to be this way and I admire their balls.
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Whittard Guatemalan Elephant Coffee
The first thing you notice with this one is the aroma - it's leaping out of the cup to put it's hands around your throat. In the cup it looks velvety and chocolatey - there's no way you can leave this one to get cold. This is a strength 4 buts it's packing a mellow strength 5 - you know it's doing you the right kind of damage but you're blissfully unaware of it as it just slips down. The only minor grumble is the super-fine grind resulting in a final mouthful of mud at the bottom of the cup which leaves you with a slightly tainted parting memory of this one. 8/10
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Whittard Costa Rican Coffee
This is a first - the first ever coffee marked up as a strength TWO. And, yes, it's probably the weakest thing that's been near my mouth since the tooth fairy went down with man flu but still managed to struggle out of bed. They claim "aromatic, lingering sweetness" on the packet - well you'd never know. The lingering sweetness turns out to be a sickly sweetness - as all I can really taste in this one is the milk. If you like super-weedy coffee - which some people do - then this is ideal. I don't think you could ever make this too strong. (3/10)
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Whittard Sumatra Coffee
This is the first coffee of the new year and we've got a real backlog to get through now. This comes as part of a Whittard selection box of nine different coffees. So to pick the first one out it has to be from the top shelf - strength 5. There's only 3 cups in one of the small packs so it's a one-hit review. This is a right little corker for the first day of January - heavyweight and pungent. It does suffer from a slight metallic aftertaste which knocks it down a point - but otherwise a fine healthy punch in the face for the start of the year. 7/10
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Q: drawing canvas FC I have a drawing canvas with no errors but keeps force closing. I am not sure why it is force closing. I know nothing about canvases if some one could hep me that would be great.
Log cat errors
05-03 10:07:12.803: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(14042): FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-9

05-03 10:07:12.803: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(14042): java.lang.NullPointerException

05-03 10:07:12.803: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(14042):     at android.graphics.Canvas.throwIfRecycled(Canvas.java:954)

05-03 10:07:12.803: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(14042):     at android.graphics.Canvas.drawBitmap(Canvas.java:980)

05-03 10:07:12.803: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(14042):     at com.the.line.Panel.onDraw(Panel.java:59)

This is from line 59 of my Panel class
canvas.drawBitmap(kangoo, 10, 10, null);

05-03 10:07:12.803: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(14042):     at com.the.line.CanvasThread.run(CanvasThread.java:28)

This is from line 28 of my CanvasThread class
_panel.onDraw(c);

I found this code from a tutorial here if that helps.

A: Looking at Canvas.java
private static void throwIfRecycled(Bitmap bitmap) {
    if (bitmap.isRecycled()) {
        throw new RuntimeException(
                    "Canvas: trying to use a recycled bitmap " + bitmap);
    }
}

The only way this would throw a NPE is if bitmap was null.
Can you check to make sure kangoo is not null?

A: Seeing more of the code would help, but based off of the tutorial you linked to, it looks like your image resource is not available.  Did you use the R.drawable.kangoo code or did you do something else?
Bitmap kangoo = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),
                            R.drawable.kangoo);

A: I figured it out the problem was in my setContentView it was set to 'setContentView(R.layout.main)' witch I am not using any xml file in this so when I changed the SetContentView to setContentView(new Panel(this,null)); it worked fine.

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is a Japanese shōjo manga artist born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. She made her professional debut in 1978 with Kotchi muite Marie!! in the weekly Shōjo Comic, for which she won a Shogakukan New Artist Award. In 1985, she received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for . She is best known in the United States as the author of Dolls, which was licensed by Viz Media.

References

External links
 Yumiko Kawahara manga at Media Arts Database
 Profile  at The Ultimate Manga Guide
 Yumiko Kawahara fansite

1960 births
People from Hakodate
Japanese female comics artists
Women manga artists
Female comics writers
Living people
Manga artists from Hokkaido
Japanese women writers

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Human Rights Watch determines Israeli strikes 'unlawful'
Rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel on 13 November 2019. (Anas Baba/AFP)
Human Rights Watch determined the strikes that killed 11 civilians in Gaza violated laws of war
Back in 2019, two Israeli airstrikes fired at Palestinian armed groups missed their targets and killed 11 civilians. On 4 February 2020, Human Rights Watch determined that Israel broke the international laws of war by striking Palestinian civilians. This determination comes after months of meticulous inspection to see if war crimes were indeed committed, commented a Human Rights Watch representative. According to international humanitarian law, military authorities are legally obliged to assess their targets to ensure that only combatants and military objectives are being targeted. Additionally, military authorities must take all feasible precautions to avoid harming civilians.
However, these are not the first alleged war crimes to erupt from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In November 2019, Palestinian armed groups fired hundreds of rockets into Israel and injured 78 civilians. Once again, Human Rights Watch determined that this was a violation of the international laws of war. Gerry Simpson, the associate crisis and conflict director at Human Rights Watch called for the conflict to be met with International Criminal Court scrutiny.
The conflict in Gaza has had very little resolution since it began over 50 years ago. Recently, President Donald Trump released his "Middle East Peace Plan" that intended to diffuse tension between Israel and Palestine. However, President Trump's plan was met with heavy rejection by the international community. An independent UN human rights expert called this peace plan "lopsided" in favor of Israel. Global News reported President Trump's plan, which would allow Israel to annex 30% of the West Bank, has been criticized by many of the Arab nations in the Middle East, including Trump's Middle Eastern ally, Saudi Arabia.
To read more, visit:
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/01/1056412
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/02/04/gaza-apparently-unlawful-israeli-strikes-kill-least-11-civilians
https://globalnews.ca/news/6501291/rejection-mideast-peace-plan/
Author: Vito Quaglia; Editor: Rachel Warner
Category: Israel - Web Review


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Stephen Shellenberger, the Bostonapothecary, is announcing 2018 as the year of the distillery analysis lab and is committed to bringing 10 years of paper research to life.
This has always been a rickety blog, but hopefully I can polish it up and make it increasingly useful to distillers and other beverage professionals that pass through. Somehow the Bostonapothecary has become a leading source of advanced educational material for distillers.
Currently, the big project is bringing Rafael Arroyo's beloved birectifier glass laboratory still to life. I found a very old engineers drawing of it and contracted a glass company to build a prototype. I found a great local glass workshop and we are also reviving glassware used by Seagrams for gin analysis. All of these apparatuses will eventually be available as kits in the Bostonapothecary store as well as backed by supporting material including video.
I just came across your blog while attempting to discover some reference materials to feed my aspirations of being a success at botanical cocktails. I bartend in Philadelphia, but was trained at the bare minimum and have been making my own way ever since. I have the natural tendency to make drinks well– and to experiment when the bar is slow. But what I really want is to fully understand how apothecary and herbal ingredients function with liqueurs. Can you suggest any method/reference book/etc.? I want to learn as much as I can so that I qualify for bars like Apothecary Lounge. Thanks!
And Love your blog, by the way.
I sat across the bar from you at Drink the other night. Will hipped me to your blog. I like what I've read so far!! Which Cape Verdean rums are you into? We have a bunch of them at Clio — a nova, an aged, and a ponche, all from Santo Antao. Come by sometime and have a drink.
Thanks for checking out the blog. Please forgive the horrible default WordPress setup I use.
I like all the cape verdean rums but I've become good friends with the owner of vale d'paul in santo antao so that is more or less all I drink now. I'm trying to go over there soon and check out their setup. For a while I had been trying to get them picked up by mswalker or the importer domain select so they would be easier to get on the shelves in bars.
What nights do you work at clio?
WOW! I feel like I have just uncovered a priceless gem!
I am a mechanical engineer living on a farm in a sub-tropical, cane-growing area of South Africa. About 5 years ago I decided to try making what I at that stage (for lack of knowledge) called a "Single Malt Whisky style spirit" made from sugarcane juice.
I have since built several revisions of my own stills and cane presses to extract juice from our own cane and produce an Agricole-style "Pure Single Rum".
I have performed hundreds of rum related searches over the last few years but have only now found this blog. I have just begun looking through your content but I feel there are going to be many pearls of rum and spirit making wisdom on here. I very much look forward to finding them!
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Easter Sunday was a cold and rainy one to start, thank goodness we got some yard work done on Saturday! We got up, had some brunch, and planned to go play downtown and at Seattle Center. Well, it was reeeeeeeeeally rainy, so we went to Blockbuster, picked up a movie and came home, lit a fire and snuggled up to watch movies. We watched Into the Wild, I cried, as expected, and we've both been kind of mellow all day because of it. I recommend seeing it, but it's not a light movie. By the end of the movie a big wind storm came in and blew out the rain.
Lastly, two dorks trying to self photo at a park. My sweet hubby blocked the sun from my eyes so I could look at the camera….needless to say, not the best picture we've ever taken. PS – have you guys noticed his beautiful teeth??? I'm trying to find some before and after photos to share, it's so amazing!
Scott was the master of the grill tonight. I made some wild rice and a beet and asparagus salad, but the highlight was certainly the fish. Fresh whole rainbow trout were on sale at the store today, so we picked up a couple. Scott stuffed them with lemon slices and cilantro, sprinkled a little salt and threw them on the grill. The outcome was really good, the meal was simple and healthy!
I roasted some fresh beets and asparagus and tossed them with lemon & olive oil and some butter lettuce. Healthy & tasty Easter Sunday meal for our house.
Hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday.
We planned to have grilled Gorgonzola burgers tonight, but it got stormy just about the time Scott was ready to fire up the grill. So what are we to do with a pound of ground beef and no other plans? Scott pulled out The Silver Spoon (I equate this book to be Italy's version of Joy of Cooking, another of my all time favorites) to search for something interesting. He came to the Egg section and came up with tonight's delicious dinner. Recipe follows, enjoy!
Preheat the oven to 350° if you wish to bake the eggs. Grease four ramekins with butter and pour a layer of meat sauce into each. Break the eggs on top, season lightly with salt and cover with another layer of meat sauce. Place the ramekins in a roasting pan, add boiling water to come about halfway up the sides and bake for 8-10 minutes.
Note: I drained off some oil when placing it in the ramekins to prevent it from being too runny. I also had to bake for 12 minutes until the egg whites were set.
Heat the butter and olive oil in a small pan and add the onion, celery, carrot and ground steak. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Mix well and cook over medium heat for a few minutes until the vegetables have softened and the meat starts to brown. Mix the tomato paste with a little water to dilute it and add to the pan. Cover and cook over a very low heat for 1 1/2 hours, adding a little hot water if the sauce seems to be drying out. This ragu may be made with mixed meats and flavored with mushrooms.
We ate with some crusty bread and a simple green salad. Bolognese is quite different than a regular meat sauce, it has very little acidic tomaoto and is quite savory. Mixed with the egg, it was a very savory, filling dish!
Ok, I've been informed by Pam first and now my sister that the cookie recipe I provided might not be all it's cracked up to be.
We try to get up to Canada a few times a year, at least one of those trips being to Whistler (site of the 2010 Winter Olympics). We headed up on Friday afternoon for a quick trip of skiing, apres ski, fine dining, hot tubbing in freezing temperatures, and a lot of driving!
When we checked in to our hotel on Friday evening, the desk clerk was going on and on about (cue your best British accent) the "brilliant powder" and the "epic season." All weekend we tried to use the word brilliant when describing things. I think it's my new favorite word.
The powder atop Blackcomb mountain was, in fact, BRILLIANT! What great snow. We had a wonderful trip and certainly didn't want to come home so soon. We might have to squeeze in one more trip before the snow melts and mountain biking takes over the mountains.
Little kiddos helping each other off the lift. So little!!!
On our way home from Whistler, we decided to make a stop in Vancouver for dinner. Some friends of ours have suggested on more than one occasion that we stop in the South Granville neighborhood at an Indian fusion restaurant called Vij's.
We got to Vancouver a few hours before they opened, so we wandered through Robson street (unfortunately no shopping was done, the US $ is weaker than the Loonie and those credit card companies charge exorbitant fees to process a foreign currency transaction – it no longer makes sense to go on a shopping spree) and then through South Granville.
We showed up at the restaurant at 5:20 to a long line out front. We thought we'd be waiting for an hour for a table, but this restaurant is so efficient that we were seated immediately, served with warm chai and a few samples of potato nibbles. Yum!
We brought home leftovers and an extra order of the samosas to savor for lunch this week. Thanks for the restaurant recommendation, friends…so delicious!


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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror je igrani detektivski film iz leta 1942. Stvaritev filma je navdihnil sir Arthur Conan Doyle z zgodbo Slovo Sherlocka Holmesa, na kateri je film delno osnovan. Ustvarjalci so snov črpali tudi iz resničnega življenja in dela lorda Haw-hawa.

Film je režiral John Rawlins. Glavni vlogi sta odigrala Basil Rathbone kot Sherlock Holmes in Nigel Bruce kot dr. Watson. Gre za 3. film iz Rathbonove in Brucove filmske serije. Dogajanje v filmu je osredotočeno na iskanje nacističnega propagandista, ki prek radijskih valov na otok z zloveščim glasom pošilja sovražna sporočila.

Film se začne z uvodnim tekstom, v katerem sta Holmes in Watson opisana kot »večna,« s čimer so ustvarjalci opravičili dejstvo, da film ni postavljen v tradicionalno Holmesovo viktorijansko dobo (1881–1914). S tem so se ustvarjalci oddaljili od predhodnih dveh filmov iz serije (ki sta nastala pod okriljem 20th Century Fox) in so dogajanje postavili v čas druge svetovne vojne. Preobrazbo v moderni čas so potrdili tudi v prizoru, v katerem se Holmes in Watson odpravita raziskovat. Ko Holmes že poseže po svoji slavni lovski čepici, ga Watson opomne. Holmes si tako nerad natakne sodobni klobuk časa druge svetovne vojne, imenovan fedora.

Vsebina
Britanski varnostni svet za obveščevalne dejavnosti se znajde pred nerešljivim problemom. Že dolgo časa se namreč neuspešno spopadajo z nacističnim propagandistom, ki prek radijskih valov Britancem pošilja zlovešča sporočila. Z njimi skuša razbiti moralo državljanov, sporočila spretno povezuje še z aktualnimi sabotažami. Ko torej izvede neko sabotažo, to nemudoma sporoči prek radia in pozove ljudstvo k predaji. Eden od članov varnostnega sveta, sir Evan Barham (igra ga Reginald Denny), zato v sili razmer za pomoč zaprosi Holmesa. Ostali člani sveta imajo sprva pomisleke, da se Holmes ne spozna na obveščevalne dejavnosti in da lahko prek Holmesa zadeva prodre v javnost.

Ko se Holmes in Watson vrneta na Baker Street 221B, ju tam pričaka eden od Holmesovih operativcev, Gavin, z nemškim bodalom v hrbtu. Tik preden jima v naročju umre, zmomlja besedo »Christopher.« Zatem se odpravita v londonski predel Limehouse, kjer se v zanemarjeni pivnici sestaneta z Gavinovo ženo Kitty (igra jo Evelyn Ankers). Obvestita jo o moževi smrti in jo poprosita za pomoč. Ona naposled privoli in z ganljivim govorom angažira vse kompanjone v pivnici, da se odpravijo raziskovat, kaj Christopher pomeni.

Po vrnitvi domov se Holmes pozabava s preiskovanjem radijskih frekvenc. S pomočjo osciloskopa uspe ugotoviti, da so posnetki zloveščega nacističnega propagandista posneti vnaprej. Odtod sklepa naprej, da ta propagandist svoje posnetke snema v Angliji ter jih nato nekako posreduje v Nemčijo, od koder jih nato predvajajo. To ugotovitev Holmes izda tudi varnostnemu svetu. Kmalu zatem se Holmes in Watson dokopljeta do podatka, kaj beseda Christopher pomeni. Izkaže se, da je umirajoči Gavin želel reči Christopher Docks, ki so skupek starih pristaniških objektov na reki Temzi. Na poti do pristanišča se jima pridruži še sir Anthony Lloyd (igra ga Henry Daniell), eden od članov varnostnega sveta, ki želi imeti več podatkov o njunih dejavnostih. Ko prispejo do dokov, padejo v zasedo skupini nacističnih vohunov. Skupino vodi možakar po imenu Meade (igra ga Thomas Gomez). Razmerje moči se nato obrne, ko naciste obkoli velikanska skupina Kittyjinih pomagačev. Ko se že zdi, da je Holmesu uspelo in da je primer končan, Meade naenkrat odpre skrivna vratca v tleh in skoznja pobegne.

Holmes tako zadolži Kitty, da se pridruži Meadu pod pretvezo, da je tatica na begu. Meade jo sprejme k sebi in Kitty iz prisluškovanja njegovim telefonskim klicem izve, da se bo Meadova naslednja akcija zgodila še tisti večer, in sicer blizu podeželjskega dvorca sir Evana Barhama. Holmes Barhama obišče in skupaj nemočno opazujeta nemško letalo, ki pristaja na bližnjem travniku. Holmes se je sicer že prej pravilno dokopal do sklepa, da so preko takšnih letal nacisti pošiljali zlovešče posnetke do radijskih oddajnikov v Nemčijo. Sir Evan se odloči zadevo presekati in steče bližje ter nekajkrat ustreli proti letalu in zamaskiranemu Meadu ob letalu, vendar zgreši.

Holmes naslednji dan sporoči novice varnostnemu svetu in izrazi dvom glede zadnjega predvajanega posnetka. V njem je zlovešči glas naravnost v eter povedal, da bo Tretji rajh napadel z norveške strani napadel škotsko obalo. Holmes posnetku ne nasede, saj je mnenja, da gre verjetno za diverzijo in da se bo napad bržkone odvil na drugem koncu britanske obale. Kmalu zatem v dvorano prihrumi eden od Holmesovih operativcev, ki pove, da sta se Meade in Kitty odpravila na angleško južno obalo. Ob tej novici se vsi zbrani v dvorani na vrat na nos odpravijo na južno obalo. Tam s pomočjo britanskih jurišnikov zavzamejo porušeno cerkev, v kateri je Meade z nacističnimi pajdaši koval strategijo ob prihajajoči nemški invaziji. Holmes nato vse v cerkvi zaprosi za pozornost in prične s pripovedjo.

Najprej izda, da je resnični glas nacističnega propagandista v resnici glas sir Evana Barhama. Slednji je bil namreč med prvo svetovno vojno ujetnik v nemškem vojnem kampu in je bil na las podoben pripadniku nemške tajne službe Heinrichu von Borku. Nekega dne so Barhama ustrelili, medtem ko je njegovo identiteto po več letih skrbnega raziskovanja njegovega zasebnega življenja prevzel nihče drug kot von Bork. Von Bork je kot študent obiskoval univerzo Oxford in je obvladal angleščino in britanske navade. S pomočjo manjše plastične operacije si je von Bork poustvaril Barhamovo brazgotino iz otroštva, vendar je Holmes hitro prepoznal, da von Borkova brazgotina ni iz otroštva, temveč da je stara kvečjemu kakih 20 let. Odtod je tudi posumil in razkril von Borka in njegov načrt.

Zatem Holmes zbrane obvesti, da je bila nemška invazija zaustavljena in da je Meadov in von Borkov načrt propadel. Meade nato v jezi izpod svojega suknjiča potegne pištolo in do smrti ustreli Kitty. Ob poskusu pobega ga nato ustrelijo jurišniki. Celoten varnostni svet se zgrne okoli Kittyjinega trupla in vsi sklenejo, da njena junaška smrt ne bo zaman.

Igralska zasedba
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce - dr. Watson
Evelyn Ankers - Kitty
Henry Daniell - sir Alfred Lloyd
Thomas Gomez - R.F. Meade
Reginald Denny - sir Evan Barham (alias Heinrich von Bork)
Leyland Hodgson - Roland Shore
Olaf Hytten - admiral sir John Prentiss
Montagu Love - general Jerome Lawford
Hillary Brooke - Jill Grandis
Edgar Barrier - zlovešči glas (brez uradne zaznambe)

Zunanje povezave

Filmi leta 1942
Ameriški detektivski filmi
Ameriški črno-beli filmi
Filmi v režiji Johna Rawlinsa
Filmi o Sherlocku Holmesu
Filmi Universal Studios
Filmi, postavljeni v London
Filmi, posneti po kratki zgodbi


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Andrew Tate detained by Romanian authorities on suspicion of running a sex trafficking ring — a day after Greta Thunberg's brutal Twitter diss
Azmi Haroun
Screenshot/YouTube - TateSpeech
Romanian police have detained the famously divisive anti-women influencer Andrew Tate.
Tate, his brother Tristan and two others were detained on human trafficking charges.
He has been under criminal investigation for sex trafficking in Romania since April.
Andrew Tate, the ex-kickboxer turned YouTuber popular for his anti-women views, has been detained by Romanian authorities as part of a human trafficking investigation, a day after he was publicly humiliated on Twitter by climate activist Greta Thunberg.
According to Reuters, a Romanian anti-organized crime unit detained Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanians on Thursday. Prosecutors in Romania alleged that the men — under criminal investigation since April 2022 — exploited women at their mansion in Bucharest, and said they would be detained for 24 hours.
"The four suspects appear to have created an organized crime group with the purpose of recruiting, housing and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content meant to be seen on specialized websites for a cost," prosecutors said, according to Reuters. "They would have gained important sums of money."
In the raid, prosecutors alleged that they located six women who were trafficked by Tate's crew since early 2021. In a press release, authorities alleged that at least one woman was raped and that the operation has been based between Romania, the United Kingdom, and the US.
Insider reached out to Romanian authorities for additional details on the raid.
"Victims were recruited by British citizens by misrepresenting their intention to enter into a marriage/cohabitation relationship and the existence of genuine feelings of love (the loverboy method)," authorities said in a press release. "They were later transported and housed in buildings in Ilfov county where, by exercising acts of physical violence and mental coercion."
Andrew Tate's paid video subscription program "Hustler University," where he has said that women are at fault for being raped and are the possession of men, has amassed him tens of millions of dollars and a legion of followers, according to Buzzfeed News.
The detention comes just over 24 hours after Andrew Tate picked a Twitter fight with climate activist Greta Thunberg, bragging about his 33 cars with "enormous emissions." In response, Thunberg told him to email her more info about his cars at "smalldickenergy@getalife.com."
—Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 28, 2022
Her response garnered over 3 million likes. Tate had been banned on all social media platforms for his extreme views until Twitter CEO Elon Musk reinstated his account in November.
The Tate brothers' lawyer did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.
Andrew Tate Greta Thunberg Romania


The unique and vibrant culture of Manitoba's francophone communities is alive and well. Whether in the city or off the beaten track, there are so many ways to experience this rich culture for yourself!
Follow the cultural evolution of Manitoba's francophone communities from the past to the present. Discover the places where Francophones first set foot more than two centuries ago. Retrace the steps of the Voyageurs heading West in search of furs. Hike the trails they forged and experience first-hand the Joie de vivre of French-speaking Manitoba!
Learn more about Manitoba's fascinating francophone heritage when you visit local museums, monuments and historical sites, many of which offer guided tours. For culture buffs, there are art galleries and French language theatre!
Come and see what makes our culture so unique!
In the beginning, this picturesque grotto was located in the yard of the convent of the Sisters of the Cross. It is now part of the enclosure belonging to the first parish cemetery.
Made of Tyndall stone, this church features paintings by local artist Étienne Bissonnette.
Interpretation Centre on wind energy as well as the salamander, the little migratory creature that is found everywhere in the region during the summer.


than the one where everybody agrees.
MORNING FIREBIRD. © 2013 ELLEN WARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DO NOT REPRODUCE REBLOG OR PIN. STILLMAN AND BIRN EPSILON JOURNAL with CARAN D'ACHE SUPRACOLOR PENCILS & Blue India Ink.
Niki de Saint Phalle's sculpture FIREBIRD sits in front of the BECHTLER MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. It is an excellent landmark. If you need to meet someone Uptown, convening under the FIREBIRD is a good way to get started on your journey. It is impossible to miss this visual event in the urban landscape. Light is bounced off the many mirrors embedded in the mosaic like laser beams.
The FIREBIRD engages in a kind of street conversation that may move beyond the question of whether one likes or dislikes the piece. Through drawing and observing people I began to see it differently.
In the morning, a photographer uses the sculpture in a series of staged shots using two models. The shadow of morning is still present. I sit on the ground to get a different perspective and draw from a dog's eye view. Drawing can sometimes change your opinion about things. It is slow and silent and relies on parts of the brain that transcend logic.
LARGE FIREBIRD. © 2013 ELLEN WARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DO NOT REPRODUCE REBLOG OR PIN. STILLMAN & BIRN EPSILON JOURNAL, CARAN D'ACHE SUPRACOLOR PENCILS, & BLUE INDIA INK.
Later in the day, I take a seat in the lobby and begin to capture the FIREBIRD as the sun hits the surface. People come and go as I draw. Children touch the mirrors and examine themselves. Mothers deliver the speedy and time-honored "snappy-slap-smack" when fingers try to pry off part of the mosaic as a prize.
Everyone likes to stand in the arch of the FIREBIRD's legs: tourists, natives, children, teenagers, and adults. Men often do not just stand balanced in the curve, but touch both sides of its legs as if bracing for the shot. I watched with interest: this is a 'guy' thing.
BECHTLER GALLERY. ©2013 ELLEN WARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DO NOT REPRODUCE REBLOG OR PIN. STILLMAN & BIRN EPSILON JOURNAL, CARAN D'ACHE SUPRACOLOR PENCILS, & GOUACHE.
Two young people walk the gallery with a helpful man who explains the finer points of the exhibit. It is a sparking conversation seen from a distance: mutual interaction and long moments spent looking at each piece.
FEMME SAUTERELLE. © 2013 ELLEN WARD.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DO NOT REPRODUCE REBLOG OR PIN. STILLMAN AND BIRN EPSILON JOURNAL, CARAN D'ACHE SUPRACOLOR PENCILS, BLUE & BLACK INDIA INK.
The FEMME SAUTERELLE statue sits on an open-air balcony overlooking TRYON STREET. As I draw her, it begins to appear as if she is trying to get back into the gallery, hands posed and ready to spring forward. By the time the sketch is complete I feel I know her through some magic of identification.
URBAN SKETCHING CHANGES YOUR POINT OF VIEW.
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Rediff.com » Sports » Asian Champions Trophy: India fightback to beat Pakistan
Asian Champions Trophy: India fightback to beat Pakistan
October 21, 2018 07:49 IST
IMAGE: India's captain Manpreet Singh celebrates after scoring against Pakistan in the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy 2018, at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, in Muscat, on Saturday. Photograph: Hockey India/Twitter
Down by an early goal, India staged a magnificent fightback to beat two-time champions Pakistan 3-1 in their second outing of the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy 2018, at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, in Muscat, on Saturday night.
In their first meeting since the Indians won the bronze medal match 2-1 at the Asian Games in September, Manpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh and Dilpreet Singh scored for India after Irfan Jr. had put Pakistan ahead.
Pakistan got off to a rousing start, with Irfan scoring in the first minute. However, once the Indians settled down it was the Pakistan defence that was under pressure. Repeated attacks saw India restore parity in the 24th minute through captain Manpreet Singh, who worked his way into the circle and slammed home.
Mandeep Singh then gave India the lead in the 33rd minute. He surprised a host of defenders by dispatching the ball between his feet into the Pakistan goal, following a scrimmage inside the circle.
In the third quarter, with good promptings from the midfield the Indians were all over the Pakistan citadel and it was only a matter of time that another goal would come India's way.
Dilpreet Singh made it 3-1 in the 42nd minute, scoring his fourth goal of the tournament. That goal took the stuffing out of the Pakistanis.
Manpreet was adjudged the man of the match.
India, who beat Oman 11-0 on Friday, next plays Japan on October 21, while Pakistan, 3-1 winners over South Korea, play Oman on October 22.
The last time the sub-continent arch-rivals met in the tournament was in 2016, and it was India winning 3-2 to bag the title for the second time.
India and Pakistan have won the trophy twice: Pakistan in 2012 and 2013; India in 2011 and 2016.
Dilpreet 'tricks' India to big win against Oman
Dope Violation: NADA bans hockey goalie Chitke for 2 years, 4-year suspension for six others
Djokovic outlasts Federer to win epic fifth Wimbledon title
Djokovic wants to be THE greatest: Becker


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New CCTV Confirms Witness Account, Car Makes U-Turn, Drags Delhi Woman
Delhi woman dragged Kanjhawala The woman was dragged away
The body is clearly visible under the car.
A new high-quality security camera footage confirmed eyewitness accounts that the 20-year-old woman, who was killed after her scooty collided with a car in the early hours of Sunday, was dragged under the accused's car for over an hour.
New CCTV footage shows the Maruti Baleno car making a U-turn on a road on Delhi's Kanjawala Road in Ladpur village, where eyewitness Deepak Dahiya runs a sweet shop.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called the incident "shameful" and said he hoped the culprits would face the harshest punishment.
"What happened to our sister in Kanjhawala is very shameful. I hope the culprits are punished severely," he tweeted in Hindi, along with a newspaper clipping that said the police had registered the case under the lenient section of the law.
What happened to our sister in Kanjhawala is very shameful. Hope the culprits will be punished. pic.twitter.com/Mmuuf8HnWl
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) January 2, 2023
Mr Dahiya said the vehicle took a U-turn after hitting the scooty. Footage recorded at 3.34am shows the car returning towards Tosi village, where the body was found. The body is clearly visible under the car.
Eyewitnesses said the accused dragged the girl's body for 18 to 20 kilometers, which stuck to their car, for about one-and-a-half hours.
"It's 3:20 am…I was standing outside the shop when I heard a loud noise from a car about 100 meters away. At first I thought it was a tire burst. As the car moved, I saw a body. Dragging happening. I immediately informed the police," Mr Dahiya told news agency ANI.
Mr. Dahiya said the accused kept driving repeatedly on the same road for about four to five kilometers taking U-turns.
"I tried to stop them many times, but they did not stop the vehicle. They took the girl's body for about 20 kilometers for about an hour and a half," he said.
He chased the car on his motorcycle and contacted the police. After about an hour and a half, the accused fled when the body fell from the car near Jyoti village on Kanjhawala road, he said.
"It can't just be an accident," Mr Dahiya insisted.
The woman died after her scooty collided with a car and her body got stuck under the car and was dragged for a long distance, police said. The accused, who have been arrested, claimed that the windows of the car were up and there was loud music inside the car, so they did not notice it and fled the spot when they realized what had happened.
The suspect vehicle was traced and the five occupants were apprehended from their homes.


Leeds City Council looks like it's about to commit itself to publishing a massive amount of new data on its open data platform, Leeds Data Mill.
The pledge is one of a series of recommendations in a report that's going to council bosses for approval at a meeting tomorrow (17th December).
Given the scope of the council's activities (finance, housing, land, infrastructure, property, health, social care, business, arts and culture, community and youth provision … the list is endless) the recommendation to commit all council services to "make all non person-sensitive data open and published" is a mammoth, but welcome, undertaking, particularly if it involves historic data.
Ironically, it will be like going back to the 'sixties, when loads of council data was routinely and meticulously published down to the last ha'penny in bound volumes every year. Except this time there'll be even more of it and you won't have to go the library to make something of it.
The Data Mill currently publishes 92 sets of information from the council and 23 from other organisations in the region.
The report containing the pledge is the first to talk in detail about the council's aspiration to become not just a "Smart City", but "The Data City".
The basic idea outlined in the report is that information and data from all over the city is collected and shared, and then citizens, the voluntary, public and private sectors cooperate to develop and use digital technologies to achieve "better lives and outcomes" for the city's people.
That's the theory. A nice one.
To get there, the council is going to set up a formal Smart City Team – it's had a skeleton, informal one for nearly a year. It's also allocating £150,000 that's going to be used either to back prototype "civic enterprise" projects or as match funding for bids for Smart City cash from external funding bodies.
Projects will concentrate on what the report identifies as Leeds' key areas of expertise like "Health and Wellbeing, Data and Co-Production", and will only be taken beyond the prototype stage if there's "'business' sponsorship and clear business cases".
It's not clear yet, however, who's on the Team, who's going to be deciding which projects get backed and how open the decision-making processes will be.
But at this stage there's not much flesh on these bony aspirations. "The capacity to take the Smart City agenda forward and deliver the above is limited," the report admits.
So, what has any of this got to do with local residents?
It's difficult to say. The report says the Smart City Team has already had useful "engagement with various stakeholders across the City including citizens, different communities and localities", but gives no evidence to back the claim up.
There's talk too of developing "innovation … through co-production with the community" and of ensuring that everything that gets developed "considers the needs of Leeds' communities and localities".
Meanwhile, unmentioned by the report, the big boys – and the not so big boys – have been hovering. And why not, if there are, as is claimed, billions to be made from Smart City services?
No mention, for example, of networking giant Cisco, who, we were told in June, is driving Leeds' Smart City agenda, "helping the city to harness the potential of the Internet of Everything".
No satisfactory explanation either of the council's role in the private not-for-profit company based in Munro House, the Leeds Open Data Institute (ODI), whose aim is to create "economic, environmental, and social value" from the open data held in the Leeds Data Mill.
Nothing wrong with a private company backed by multinationals like KPMG and ARUP, and local companies like CITU, Bloom and Actuated Futures hiring a space where open data work can be carried out, and charging people for training or office space.
But if the public sector is involved (as it is through the Leeds, Bradford and Calderdale councils, the "super-council" of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and transport authority Metro), we could probably do with a clearer idea of how the public (as opposed to the commercial) interest of the company's activities is monitored and guaranteed.
Apropos of which, there's no mention in the report, strangely, of the plan by our local quango, the Local Enterprise Partnership, to create a Leeds City Region open data platform "as a key information resource for business" (rpt business, note the emphasis) – a plan that merited specific mention in our regional leaders' recent response to Whitehall on northern devolution.
All in all, it's a modest start to the council's Smart City efforts, with no talk of "the internet of things", and no hint yet that we are looking jealously at Glasgow or Rio, with their $multi-million Smart City operation centres or "control rooms" (hem, hem).
Is the Smart City going to be something that is imposed on us from on high?
Or is a formal role going to be created for citizens to decide what a "smart" Leeds might look and feel like, and how we might use open data to get there … if indeed somewhere "smart" is where we want to go?
In the meantime, here's an alternative take on the Smart City from Dutch architect and urban theorist Rem Koolhaas.
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Soveria Mannelli () is a town and comune in the province of Catanzaro, in the Calabria region of southern Italy.

The town is bordered by Bianchi, Carlopoli, Colosimi, Decollatura, Gimigliano, Pedivigliano.

History
On 30 August 1860, a Sicilian army under General Ghio was disbanded in Soveria Mannelli. This, in the course of the Expedition of the Thousand,  allowed Giuseppe Garibaldi to capture Naples eight days later.

People
 Rosario Rubbettino (1941–2000), publisher, was born in the town.

Sources
 Mario Felice Marasco, Soveria Mannelli e il suo territorio, Notizie e dati tratti dagli appunti di Ivone Sirianni, San Vito al Tagliamento: Tipografia Sanvitese Ellerani, 1969
 Mario Gallo, Soveria Mannelli, Saggi e documentazione storica, Cosenza: Due Emme, 1991

Cities and towns in Calabria


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Q: Why is input size attribute allowed in HTML/XHTML Strict? This passes validation:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<title>Test</title>

<form action="get">

<input type="text" size="10" />

</form>

as does the equivalent under HTML 4.01 Strict or XHTML 1.1.
The size attribute seems purely presentational to me.  So why have the W3C left it in the strict flavours of (X)HTML?

A: There is no longer (officially) a "strict" version of HTML. There are however two different parsers: the HTML parser (loose) and the XML parser (strict). To make browsers use the XML parser use the following PHP code:
<?php
if (stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],'application/xhtml+xml'))
{
 $mime = 'application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8';
}
else {$mime = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8';}//Unless IE6 or lower
//IE6 or lower should only use 'text/html'.
header('Content-Type: '.$mime);
?>

I believe that either this part was overseen back in the early late 1990s or early 2000s or if it wasn't likely the size attribute was perceived as being the size of the text and not the number of pixels that the input element should have been rendered as. It is also possible that if it wasn't overlooked it may have been for the purposes of backwards compatibility (some browsers may not have worked without the size attribute).
If you're looking to maximize your ability to code client side code I highly recommend moving to XHTML5. That is in more detail HTML5 rendered using the XML parser. The website in my profile is a live environment that demonstrate much if not all that you'd want to know to skip the greener mistakes if you're still deep in the learning process.

Yes, the size attribute changes the width of the input element and is presentational in nature. The problem in trying to validate it as necessary or that we should keep it is that if you set the size to 3 and type the letter l (as in letter) you'll clearly see more of that letter than the size is set to. Only monospace fonts have a shared set width between all characters (l and w in example) and that can be achieved with CSS. In fact there are lots of line-height issues with fonts though less relevant here. Likely in my opinion, the reason that the size attribute exists in even HTML 5.2 specification is that it likely has been over-looked. I'm not sure if W3C standards authors are paid through the W3C or not (most open source software developers are not paid in example) or perhaps since it's a likely well supported (and likely fairly well used attribute) people decided to keep it. At the end of the day I'd advise against it's use as it objectively serves no purpose competently.


Batteries the size of a grain of sand could soon be powering our medical implants and autonomous micro-robots, thanks to a development by scientists at Harvard and the University of Illinois. The batteries were created using a custom-made 3D printer with special inks.
The inks have just the right electrochemical properties that let them immediately harden as soon as they leave the printer. The 3D printed Li-Ion microbatteries are comparable to conventional batteries in their life expectancy, energy density, and charge and discharge rates. The team's amazing invention is detailed in their paper, published in Advanced Materials.
See more in Energy & Power or under Science. June, 2013.


Cold clear conditions, sunny days, should be good ice conditions.
It was a fabulous day, on a weekend, and not something to waste lounging around indoors. I went and bought new shoes, and had plans on going hiking around Hengill. Steinar called while I was shopping and asked if I wanted to go iceclimbing instead.
Sure, let's try that again. Outdoor activities are always more fun with more than one.
A bit of rummaging and shuffling to get the gear organised but we were off! I was now kitted out with actual ice boots too, and they even fit! This was going to be much better than hiking up in normal shoes, and carrying my ski boots to climb in.
Steinar proved to me just how much fitness I'd lost over the winter (and summer before) by bounding up the hillside to the ice. I'll use the excuse that I was carrying the ropes. My ropes! First time they've seen the light of day in Iceland!
Lots more ice than my time here in November, and blue skies, and hardly a breath of wind either. Pretty sporty really. Except that hike up the hillside.
We climbed one good pitch up, with some super easy sections, and a section vertical enough to force me to think about the technique a bit more, get used to climbing with crampons, and then we arrived in a beautiful ice shrouded amphitheatre. Which was running with water, and very very vertical. Beautiful, but not exactly enticing for climbing :) And besides, I had a dinner date later in the evening, so we headed off sideways and back down. I got to practise proper usage of crampons for traversing on ice, and then just down the hill and home again. Fabulous day. Getting out and physical. Delish.


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How wealthy is Bruno Mars in 2019? The multiple Grammy awards winner, one of the most bankable and biggest pop stars in the world is a multi-instrumentalist, a songwriter, record producer and one good dancer. Just the other day he swept off the Grammy Awards with domination taking home around 6 Grammy Awards.
As of today, the pop star has released three studio albums which have been certified multi-platinum, and in total, he has sold over 130 million records making him among the best-selling music artist of all time. Today we shall reveal Bruno Mars net worth in 2019 and also tell you a few things you probably don't know about Bruno Mars.
1.1 Bruno Mars Personal Life: Affair, Girlfriend, Married, Wife, Children & Family
1.4 Bruno Mars Salary, Net Worth & Earnings
1.5 7 Facts You Need To Know About Bruno Mars
Real Name/Full Name Peter Gene Hernandez
Age 33 years, Born on 8 October 1985
Height 1.65 m
Girlfriend Jessica Caban
Wife N/A
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Net Worth $125 Million
Source of Wealth American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer
Peter Gene Hernandez is the son of Bernadette San Pedro Bayot and Peter Hernandez. He was born in the state of Hawaii in 1985. His parents were both working in the music industry as the mother was a dancer and a singer while the father a singer. They were the early influence to Bruno Mars music interests. While he was growing up, he impersonated Elvis Presley, and he used to be known as little Elvis.
Bruno Mars Personal Life: Affair, Girlfriend, Married, Wife, Children & Family
In Bruno Mars family there are other five children all into the music business. Currently, Bruno Mars is dating model Jessica Caban with whom he is residing at Hollywood Hills.
Bruno Mars started his music career by signing with Motown Records though after a year he was dropped by the label. After the setback, he met Lawrence whom he started writing songs with and after several rejections by different labels they received a call to sell out one of their songs "Lost" which they sold for $20,000. When the sale was successful Mars decided they should write songs for other artists and some of the artists whom Mars has written songs for are Flo Rida, Adam Levine, and Sean Kingston among others.
In 2010 Mars released his debut EP titled It's Better If You Don't Understand which was followed by his debut studio album Doo-Wops & Hooligans. The album debuted to position one on Billboard Hot 100 and peaked position three on Billboard 200. As of today, the album has been certified quintuple platinum having sold over 5 million copies. The album was supported by smash hits such as "Just the way you are," "Grenade," "Marry You," "The Lazy Song" among others.
Hi, second studio album titled Unorthodox Jukebox released in 2012 made it to number two on the US Billboard 200 and sold around 6 million copies. The album was supported by singles such as, "Locked Out of Heaven," "Young Girls," "When I Was Your Man," "Moonshine" among others. His third studio album titled 24K Magic which he released in 2016 made it to the R&B and hip-hop charts peaking up the top position, and on Billboard 200 it debuted to number two. As of today, the album has sold around 2 million copies.
On awards & achievements received by Bruno Mars, he has won 88 awards in total and received 231 nominations in his career. Some of the awards he has received 8, "Locked Out of Heaven," 13 ASCAP Pop Music Awards, 2 BET Awards, 3 Brit Awards, 4 GAFFA Awards, 11 Grammy Awards, five iHeartRadio Music Awards, 3 NAACP Image Awards, among other awards.
Bruno Mars Salary, Net Worth & Earnings
As of 2019, Bruno Mars's net worth is about $125 million. The source of Bruno Mars's net worth fortune is the sale of his music. As of today, Bruno Mars has sold over 130 million records globally. Two of his albums have been certified quintuple platinum having sold more than 5 million units while his latest studio album has sold around 2 million units. Another source of Bruno Mars's net worth figures us earnings from tours where most of his tours have grossed into millions of dollars. Moonshine Jungle Tour grossed around $156 million while 24K Magic World Tour has already grossed $200 million. Writing songs for other artists such as Adele, Rihanna, and other artists also bring in some cash boosting Bruno Mars net worth.
7 Facts You Need To Know About Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars is a well-known artist mostly for his electrifying performances and his dance moves. Today regardless of the much you know about him, we are going to reveal a few things you probably don't know about Bruno Mars.
1. He is the second artist in history after Michael Jackson to have three songs from all his albums top U.S top singles.
2. As of today, 24K Magic Tour has already grossed over $200 million.
3. Do you know much about his stage name? Well, it came from a wrestler known as Bruno Sammartino.
4. Bruno Mars sisters have a musical group known as The Lylas which tells you music runs in the family.
5. When he was young, he used to impersonate legendary singer Elvis.
6. In 2010 Mars was on the wrong side of the law where he was caught in possession of cocaine. Though he was forgiven for the felony of drug possession he had to pay $200 fine and do 200 hours of community work.
7. Other than singing Mars can play the keyboard, guitar, drums, and bass so well.
Bruno Mars's net worth in 2019 will doubtlessly be on the rise considering the success of 24K Magic World Tour which has already grossed $200 million. As fans, we can't wait for his next album hopefully sometime this year.


The AirAsia Group chief executive officer is mulling to leave Twitter too.
Fernandes said he had 670,000 followers on the platform prior to the departure. He also said the social media giant company could have done better in stopping the spread of the 17-minute terrorist attack video.
"Facebook could have done more to stop some of this.
"17 mins of a live stream of killing and hate! It needs to clean up and not just think of financials," Fernandes wrote in a series of Tweets.
The budget airline CEO said he had been a victim of fake bitcoin and other similar scams, presumably propagated on Facebook, and the last straw was the terrorist attack video that proliferated on Facebook. As of the latest reports, 50 lives have lost due to the event while many are still receiving treatment in hospitals.
On Twitter, Fernandes has 1.3 million followers and posted over 20 thousand tweets. Bloomberg reported that Fernandes mainly tweets about AirAsia's development as well as his co-owned English soccer club Queens Park Rangers.
FeedMe Malaysia previously covered the Christchurch shooting which was livestreamed on Facebook. The video was shot with a GoPro attached to a terrorist head, identified as Brenton Tarrant.
The graphic video was only taken down after being on the platform for 17 minutes − uninterrupted.
Facebook tweeted that it had removed 1.5 million reuploads of the video in the first 24 hours. Other social media sites, such as YouTube and Twitter, are also struggling to cleanse the video out of their platforms, CNBC reported.
What are your thoughts on this? Lately, Facebook and Google have been held accountable to various parliament or congress houses all over the world for their inability to stop malicious information and data breach.
Do you think social media sites are the ones to blame or the users/hackers? Let us know in the comment below.


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Part 13: Brother, can you spare some time?
We live in a time-stressed culture. "Faster and better" are spoken so frequently as a pair that we've come to view them as synonyms. Faster might be nice for internet connections, but it causes problems when applied to human beings. Fast food is not better food. Quick naps are not better sleep. Ten minute medical appointments are not better health care. Sound bites are not better conversation.
This cultural value of speed over quality has devastated our ability to communicate about complex subjects. Whether you're talking about a newspaper article, a Facebook post, a tweet, a radio interview, or a spot on TV, there's rarely enough time to delve below the thinnest layer of a complex issue. Caving to time pressure, ideas which cannot be adequately addressed quickly are simply dropped from the conversation.
As communication fails, there is a strong tendency to replace careful consideration of complex issues with simpler, fast messages indicative of polarization and dogma. Messages which, in a complex world, are almost never an accurate reflection of reality. Is murder wrong? Yes, most people would agree with that statement. But where do we draw the lines between murder, self-defense, assisted suicide, acts of war, failure to prevent suicide, negligence, and accidents? If you've ever served jury duty, you know that details matter.
Unfortunately, in America and abroad, the sentiment of "we're right & they're wrong" tends to be quite popular.
Such polarization quite effectively shuts down both communication AND scientific advancement. Science, you see, thrives on differing perspectives. Take that away, and all you have left is dogma. Once you join a group with a strong set of "required beliefs," your own freedom to think is quickly eroded. You better not listen to the other side, because they're obviously wrong. And heaven forbid you talk about the weak points of your chosen side! Polarization generally devolves into agreeable nodding or hurled insults.
At that point, everyone loses. Because here is the truth about polarization: if an issue is polarized, both "sides" have something vital to offer to the conversation.
Stop. Think about that for a minute. Humans aren't polarized on the subject of eating broken glass. Humans aren't polarized on the benefits of breathing water. When there is truly no doubt, there is no polarization. Polarization only occurs when we face a complex issue, form vitally important questions and discover that there are no perfect answers. Uncertainty frightens us, especially when the stakes are high. So we make ourselves feel more confident in our choices by ignoring doubt and complexity, convincing ourselves that there is a "best & simple" answer; all of which also makes communication faster...but not better.
To make things even more interesting, there are forces that deliberately encourage polarization in order to distract from unfavorable aspects of complexity. It's an effective strategy used for thousands of years by those who wish to manipulate large groups of people. Divide & conquer, baby! Polarized people can't join together to advocate for their common interests, because they don't believe they have any. Add in a dash of fear and you're in the driver's seat. Kind of convenient if you're a large corporation trying to avoid awkward questions about your product, government regulations and/or a lack of them.
So, Sister! Can you spare some time? Regardless of the cause, polarization interferes with communication and helps no one. Perhaps it's time to take back our communication and break down polarization? Here are a few suggestions that have helped us.
First, acknowledge that no one perspective owns the whole truth. Like all true scientists, we hold dear our curiosity. Explore other perspectives as much as you explore your current perspective.
Second, prepare for push back and don't take it personally. Polarization is often driven by fear, so have some compassion for those being tossed about by the waves of fear-mongering. Don't demand a conversation from someone who isn't ready or interested.
Third, seek out someone you love and respect and ask them to talk to you about their perspective. Then listen. Just listen. Avoid any urge to rebut, focusing honestly on understanding. If you can ask truly exploratory questions, do so. If not, skip questions and look for points of agreement instead. End the conversation with a "thank you." These conversations take courage.
Fourth, try to find someone non-polarized on the issue and share these new viewpoints with them, in person if possible. When an issue becomes polarized, it can feel very lonely to be the one who refuses to "pick a side." Seek others in the middle.
Finally, when it is safe to do so, speak out for complexity when you encounter polarized attitudes. You won't always be able to do so, and that's okay. But when you can say something, say it.
There is no formula or magic wording that will make a polarized person suddenly open up to a new perspective or even a conversation. If you feel like you're banging your head against a wall...you probably are. The trick lies in being ready when an opportune moment arrives...and in remembering suggestion #1. It's not just the other people who can learn something new.
This isn't easy. The allure of polarization is most intense when the pressure to conform is blended with fear and the deeply desirable reward of inclusivity or societal acceptance. Doing what everyone else is doing is just plain easier. Until it isn't.
These strategies can work when discussing abortion, marriage rights, politics, parenting...and vaccines.
On Saturday, May 10th at 5:30pm we will be hosting a screening of "The Greater Good," a documentary that raises important questions about the impact of current vaccine policies. Fundamentally, "The Greater Good" asks whether we can do better. However, as a documentary film, "The Greater Good" has a perspective, it has bias, and it does not cover all aspects of the issue. 84 minutes is clearly insufficient to such a herculean task. It does, however, create many opportunities for our brains to generate the greatest of treasures: questions.
Our goal is to create a safe and respectful experience. We hope that a wide variety of people will come, with a wide variety of perspectives. It's not just a movie screening. It is also a first step toward regaining our ability to discuss vaccine medicine, informed consent, and diversity in health care on Vashon Island.
Stepping out of polarization takes time, effort, and a bit of courage. Please join us.


As a secular author with a secular book this may seem a strange entry into the book reviews on a Christian site but there's a reason. As much as I enjoy many of the current Christian authors, next to The Bible, Jodi Picoult is consistently at the top of my reading list. As one of those rare breeds in the Christian trade – a publisher's representative – I spend many hours driving almost the whole length and breadth of this beautiful land and one of the ways in which I fill those hours is to listen to audio CDs from our public library. About three years ago I picked up and listened to Second Glance by Jodi Picoult and, for the very first time, at the end of the nineteen hour long CDs, I went back to disc one and started all over again. I don't think I had been gripped by such an amazing weaving of storyline and factual information.
From that experience I went on to read (yes, books this time) other Picoult titles and found that she is what can only be described as a craftswoman. In all her novels she confronts her reader with illness, historical fact and little known peoples weaving them into intriguing drama that has become the trademark of this regular top selling author. She places a lot of open questions in her books which we as the church need to answer. However she also sometimes questions us – which is no bad thing!
About two-and-a-half years ago I was able to hear Jodi Picoult speak one evening in Chesterfield. The following day I emailed her to thank her for the evening and the way in which she explains "unseen illnesses" in her books. I explained that my stepson, Chris, has Asperger's Syndrome – not diagnosed until he was 21 – and that we had recently been alongside him through the court system after he committed a crime. Within an hour she had replied that her 2010 project was to be about a teenage boy with Asperger's who has to face the legal system. Could we help? As a result both Chris and I have completed exhaustive questionnaires and given her much information about Asperger's and the effect on our lives.
Now to the book. House Rules is about Jacob Hunt, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject – in his case, forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do… and he's usually right. But then one day his special needs tutor is found dead, and the police come to question him. All of the hallmark behaviours of Asperger's – not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, inappropriate affect – can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement officers – and suddenly, Jacob finds himself accused of murder. House Rules looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way – but lousy for those who don't.
As with most of her previous novels Picoult leaves no stone unturned in making her narrative so compelling that, in following the page turning storyline, the reader comes away not only having read a top rate piece of crime fiction but having learned a great deal about a disability that people do a lot of talking about but only a very small percentage actually understand.
I am particularly conscious of the way in which the church can deal with or fail to deal with those who are autistic or have other "unseen illnesses". Raising a child (and later a teenager) who finds it hard to interact with peers, be part of a team, look one in the eye, be in rooms where a lot of simultaneous action is taking place or generally be social can be hard enough for the parents who are living with him or her day by day. For those who came into contact with them less regularly there is often an inability to understand. I thank God that Chris was always handled with love at church – not so the case at school – but there were still many moments of frustration and misunderstanding on both sides.
House Rules has more than enough factual guidance and information to help anyone understand the needs of the Aspergic child and adult and I would fully recommend many of Jodi Picoult's books to those who minister to children and adults alike. She not only covers illness and disease but many social issues which we as the church also need to face. In a number of the books she also opens up discussion areas.
Handle With Care – Osteogenesis Imperfecta (Brittle Bone) and Medical ethics.
Change Of Heart – Capital Punishment, Organ Transplant and the "black and white" of religious viewpoint.
Nineteen Minutes – Bullying leading to Violent Reaction (a college shooting). I have a friend who is a social worker who borrowed by copy of Nineteen Minutes to read. When he returned it he explained that not only had he been in tears at times but he had ended up reading it as he would a Christian work – rereading certain sections and going to God for enlightenment on them.
The Tenth Circle – Racism and the modern day Eskimo way of life.
Vanishing Acts – In-family kidnapping and the strength of family love.
My Sister's Keeper – now also a major movie – Leukemia and the morals of "genetic planning".
Second Glance – VT Eugenics (rife in the USA early in the 20th century), Xeroderma Pigmentosum (when skin is ultrasensitive to daylight) and Paranormal.
Perfect Match – Sexual Abuse.
Salem Falls – Should the citizens of a town have the right to decide who lives there? – a modern day witch hunt.
Plain Truth – Crime within the Amish community.
The immense popularity of Jodi Picoult's novels come from the staggering amount of personal research done by her for each one and then turning them into excellent and often controversial works of art.
Footnote: I'm delighted that on the day before the Christian Resources Together Conference at High Leigh, Jodi Picoult is speaking at the Lincoln Book Event and St Mary's Church in Ely. This means that we'll be able to meet up again, which we are both looking forward to.
Mike Norbury is Retail Trade Manager for Kevin Mayhew Ltd, the company he has represented for almost 14 years. Brought up in Knutsford, Cheshire, he lives with his wife Jackie in Wrexham, North Wales, and looks after Christian trade customers throughout the north Midlands, North Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and the whole of Ireland as well as certain key accounts in the south of England. Mike's career since he was twenty-one has been solely in retail and sales representation. He and Jackie are members of The Community Church in Wrexham which is also the home of New Day International ministries, the base of Winepress Publishing, distributors of a wealth of ministry material and soaking music. Mike is a Street Pastor in Wrexham. Five years ago he visited the tsunami hit east coast of India as part of a team from the church where they conducted a Pastors' Conference, arranged support for a scheme to rehouse those who had lost everything and visited nine churches in and around the city of Visakhaptnam in Andhra Pradesh.
Having read all John Grisham's titles, Steve Martini's and Wilbur Smith's, I am very conscious of the good many 'Christian' and non-Christian well researched novels can do to inform, equip – "instruction in righteousness" as Paul put it in 2 Timothy 3:16 – and, in reading this review, I was totally sold on reading this novel and indeed this author whom I have not touched before. I look forward to it immensely.
I'd just like to endorse Mike's review and recommnedation. Jodi Picoult is an amazing author and her books are the perfect material for a 'starting ethics' group or really lively book group!
She writes with insight, compassion and understanding, and this newest one is a true gem and will be a listed reading resource for Asperger's & Autism Groups I am sure, as there are only a rare few that deal so well with the subject, and the fact it is fiction makes it so much more accessible for many as well.
Another good one exploring Asperger's is Mark Haddon's Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, reviewed here.
On Autism, I'd highly recommend Elizabeth Moon's Speed of Dark — reviewed by yours truly here. Absolutely superb.
Both use fiction as a vehicle to explore the ramifications and raise awareness of these (to borrow Mike's phrase) "unseen illnesses", and both touch upon all sorts of spiritual questions and challenge the reader's perceptions and attitudes.
Going back to the classics, Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" contains endless thoughts on morals and ethics from a Christian angle, as well as being a good yarn.I often find "secular" fiction with excellent messages, but many Christians would feel it wrong to come across them in a Christian Fiction section in a Christian bookshop, which is sad.
Thanks Mike for a wonderful review, I went hot foot to the library and picked up "Handle with care". As a Paediatric nurse in my life before bookshop manager it brought back memories of the 1st OI baby I nursed more than 30 years ago, child abuse was initially suspected fortunately the family were dealt with more sympathetically than the ones in Jodi's story. I think I'm in for a few late nights, couldn't put the book down last night, beautifully written with much to challenge and inspire.


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David Bowie Bowie Odyssey: 70
Author: Simon Goddard Category: 1970, Biography, The London Years Publisher: Omnibus Press Published: 20 Dec, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781913172039 Pages: 192 Language: English Dimension: 23,5 x 15,9 x 1,5 cm
He starts the decade a teenage pop idol. But the one-hit wonder who sang 'Space Oddity' is still very far from becoming the star who will one day define the 1970s. Not when he still has a band to find, a manager to sack, a mentally ill brother to save, a wife to marry and a rival called Marc Bolan to beat. Not when David Bowie still has no idea who or what David Bowie is.
Starting at the beginning of Bowie's incredible ten-year odyssey changing the course of pop music, Simon Goddard's bold and expressionistic biography weaves time, space, rock'n'roll and social history to relive Bowie's 1970 – moment by vivid moment.


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Join us for a quarterly business meeting and special guest speaker on Monday, April 29th. Middletown's new City Planner, Mark DeVoe, will give a brief explanation of the Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD), and then conduct a listening session to hear Westfield's concerns, issues and preferences as the City updates the POCD.
Refreshments will be provided, and you are encouraged to invite your friends and neighbors to join us. This is a rare opportunity to give feedback directly to the City as it plans for what the next 10 years will look.
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Hertz's Board of Directors Welcomes Two New Members
May 17, 2013 • by Staff
Hertz Global Holdings Inc. announced that Carolyn Everson and Debra J. Kelly-Ennis have been elected as directors by Hertz's board of directors and the Hertz Corp.
Carolyn Everson currently serves as vice president of global marketing solutions for Facebook Inc., where she manages the global marketing solutions team focused on expanding advertising revenue and managing strategic accounts. Prior to Facebook Inc., Everson served as the corporate vice president of global ad sales and strategy at Microsoft Corp. from 2010 to 2011.
From 2008 to 2012, Debra J. Kelly-Ennis served as president and chief executive officer of Diageo Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Diageo PLC, a global spirits, wine and beer company. Prior to her positions at Diageo, Kelly-Ennis worked in various management roles at General Motors Corp., including president and chief operating officer of Saab Cars USA, general manager of Oldsmobile and a Chevrolet brand manager.
Mark P. Frissora, the chairman and chief executive officer at Hertz, said: "We are exceptionally fortunate to attract to our board two top echelon executives with significant experience relevant to our businesses. … Carolyn's experience will be invaluable as Hertz expands its online and social media capabilities to attract new customers and provide best-in-class online services. Debra Kelly-Ennis has extensive experience leading large business organizations and marketing global brands, which will be invaluable as Hertz continues to differentiate from the competition and to deepen customer loyalty across multiple brands."
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Doomsday Animals is a set of four two-color relief prints presented in a unique handmade accordion portfolio, which when fully extended reaches over 60" in length. Camille has written stories for each print, which have been printed onto protective vellum slip-sheets. The portfolio has been constructed by hand with heavy duty archival board and garnished with letterpress printing, foil stamping, a ribbon, and an array of unique papers.


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MUSIC REVIEW | Erik Koskinen at the Icehouse
By Ann Treacy (TC Daily Planet) | June 6, 2014
My 9-year old was just complaining because Real Phonic Radio is taking a break for the summer. Real Phonic is the monthly music show at the James J Hill Library. Aine and I are big fans. It was cold comfort to her that I was going to the Icehouse Wednesday night to see the Real Phonic house band Erik Koskinen. But at least I got my fix.
Erik Koskinen began his monthly stints at the Icehouse in March. This week the lineup was Koskinen, Paul Bergen, Frankie Lee and JT Bates. The lineup fluctuates but this seems like the hometown team.
They played a nice blend of old songs, songs from the latest album and covers. They played an especially good version of, I Like to be Used. The music is Americana country, folksy with an old school rock feel. By old school I mean 50s, but not retro or rockabilly, just rocking. Think Waylon Jennings in The Crickets. They are musicians that play often and often play together. Many songs offer opportunity for each to improvise and impress each other and the audience.
They have a solid following, who has followed them through a series of regular gigs, most recently at the Turf Club and the Aster Café. Now in my opinion, it's tough to beat the Turf Club, especially for a country-twanged sound, but playing the Icehouse may bring a new audience to the band. It seems that every restaurant employee working within 2 miles of the place finishes their night at the Icehouse bar. The night has a good buzz; they start at 10:00 and usually end around midnight, which isn't bad for a school night.
Ann Treacy


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When you're on the run: what's the worst you've ever seen on a CCTV camera?
On Sunday night, police caught the woman they'd been following, and in the process she went on to cause a police chase across Melbourne's CBD.
Police say she fled in a black Toyota Prius that they later found abandoned on the side of a busy road.
The woman's name has not been released.
It's understood she had a large amount of cash in the car.
She was taken into custody at about 9.45pm.
"It's very unusual for a woman to be in a car, it's not a common sight for a police car to be out on a street, it is quite unusual," Acting Commissioner Robyn Hartley said.
Police had spotted the Prius, which had a white roof and a silver roof spoiler, in the area of the intersection of Macquarie Street and Swanston Street.
They were following a man who had driven past the intersection.
A number of other cars were also involved in the chase, and officers were seen using lights and sirens.
The chase ended in a police stop at the intersection where the woman was arrested.
Officers have not said whether they found the stolen car, or whether they will be pursuing it. ABC/AAP
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