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Ernest Edward Cooper
Private 22250 Ernest Edward Cooper, 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment
The former St Nicolas' School in Enborne Road, where Ernest was educated from the ages of 9 to 13.
Ernest was born in Hermitage on 5 September 1886, the son of Joseph Cooper and his wife Mary Ann née Burgess. He had two younger siblings, both sisters: Elsie Gertrude (born 1889) and Mabel (1893).
The family moved a lot in the early years of the marriage, the first two children were born in Hermitage and Frilsham and the family was then enumerated in Hoe Benham for the 1891 census. However, by the time Mabel was born in 1893 they appear to have settled in Newbury.
Ernest was educated in the town, first at the West Street infant's school and then, from March 1895 at St Nicolas School in Enborne Road. In March 1900, at the age of 13, he left school to start work as a carter's boy. Carter was a generic term for men who worked the horses and carts that were the backbone of rural transport. Ernest may have worked on a farm or he may have assisted one of the men who operated the local public transport system of the day running regular scheduled routes between local settlements, usually to and from Newbury on market days (Thursday & Saturday).
It is, perhaps, more likely that he was doing farm work, because, in time, he became a groom and 'fogger' (farm labourer who cared for cattle).
Waterloo Place, under water in the 1947 flood - a similar flood occured
in January 1915.
On 14 December 1907 Ernest married Alice Knight and the following year their first child, Albert Edward Ernest, was born. On 13 September 1911 Alice gave birth to their second child, another son, William Joseph. They set up home at 1 North Cottages, Old Newtown Road before moving to 17 Waterloo Place, West Street in 1913.
A third child, Kathleen Edith Alice, arrived on 30 April 1914.
It is not known when Ernest became a soldier; his name does not appear on the Active Service Rolls printed in the local paper up to the beginning of 1916. However, he must have been serving well before the end of 1915 if the newspaper report of his being missing in action is to be believed. This states that he had been in France for 15 months before he disappeared on 16 May 1917. However, even though this account is not that credible (according to official sources he went missing on 16 August 1917) and assuming that the paper got the date wrong (misreading an 8 as a 5 perhaps) then Ernest arrived in France in February/March 1916. As all men received several months training before being sent overseas Ernest is very unlikely to have enlisted after October 1915.
The next confusion relating to Ernest's service is which battalion he was with. His campaign medals (British War Medal and Victory Medal) were awarded through the medal roll of the 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. However, his death is recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as having occurred while he was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment – which is supported by his entry in the ledgers detailing the disposal of deceased soldiers' effects. Assuming his date of death to be correct the 2nd Battalion is far more likely; on 16 August 1917 the 8th Battalion was in a camp at Le Clipon on the coast near Dunkirk (waiting to take part in an amphibious landing up the Belgian coast - that never happened); that same day the 2nd Battalion was in action:
War Diary, 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment – 16 August 1917
On morning on 16th Battalion attacked Enemy's Trenches as in appendix C.
For report on Attack see Appendix D.
Casualties: A/Capt J A Cahill. Killed 16.8.17 A/Capt H E Howse. Killed 16.8.17
Wounded: A/Capt J B M Young, A/Capt E G Hales, 2/Lieut W A Grove, 2/Lieut M W West. 2/Lieut W T Phillips, 2/Lieut E W H Cabestine Wounded rejoined 20.8.17. 2/Lieut S M Loudan Wounded & Missing. 2/Lieut H A V Wait. Wounded.
Missing: 2/Lieut H E Mills, 2/Lieut E L Thompson, 2/Lieut A E Berry, 2/Lieut G R Threlfall.
OR Killed 13. Wounded 231. Missing 120.
On night of 16th Battalion was relieved by Northants Regiment and took up position in reserve in Bellewaarde Ridge.
Appendix D, the report of the attack, is a tale of what might have been – the brave attack by the battalion followed by an enforced withdrawal as the battalions on either side withdrew (one 'in disorder'). The nett result, no ground gained, heavy casualties.
Ernest was one of the 120 Ors (other ranks) reported missing. His family were informed and left in limbo, waiting in the hope that they would get a postcard from him to tell he was a prisoner of war; or communication from the Red Cross that he was receiving treatment for wounds in a German hospital. After a while they appealed for information – surely someone, somewhere, must know what became of him?
Newbury Weekly News, 11 October 1917 – Local War Notes
Pte E E Cooper, of 17, Waterloo-place, West-street, has been missing since May 16th. He was in the Royal Berks, and had been in France 15 months without the longed for 'leave'. There are three quite young children, the wife and the little ones are all anxiously awaiting news of 'daddy.'
Ernest's name on Newbury War Memorial
(lower centre)
As in so many of these cases there was no news; eventually he was deemed to have died during the attack and the War Office notified his wife of this decision.
As his remains were never identified his name is commemorated on panel 105 of the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Locally Ernest is remembered on tablet 10 of the Newbury Town War Memorial as well as the memorial board and roll of honour in St Nicolas' Church, Newbury.
Ernest's uncle, Amos Cooper, and his wife Mary are also on the Newbury Memorial (Tablet 20). Residents of St Bartholomew's New Court Almshouses in Newtown Road, they were among the victims of the bombing of Newbury by a single German bomber on 10 February 1943.
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Article By: Dan Clark
In today's movie world the idea of doing a prequel has become common place. Some of the greatest movies of all time, like Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz, have been given the prequel treatment. When Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was released the idea of doing a prequel was a relatively new idea. The tropes we have come to expect with prequels had yet to be established, which allowed it to exist within itself. Steven Spielberg did not have to worry about continuity building, nor did he have to divert time establishing characters' origins. Making it fit perfectly into the framework of the classic serials it emulates. Though it doesn't suffer from the bogged down narrative of most prequels, it does have a common case of sequelitist. There is a fundamental misunderstanding of what made its predecessor such a success. While Raiders of the Lost Arc reserved its outlandish features for the right moments, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom makes them the focal point. Everything is bigger, bolder,–and less interesting. Temple of Doom does bring a high level of fun and adventure, making it a worthy entry to this franchise. The final product just pales in comparison to the original.
Part of the issue is the happenstance way the plot is laid out. The film begins in Shanghai as Indy is attempting to make a deal for an ancient artifact. Things go south and Indy barely escapes with his life. Right from the start the
action seems somewhat underwhelming. Juxtaposing Indy into an urban setting was a clever effect, but the set piece as whole was not utilized nearly as much as it could have been. Not helping matters were some of the new characters that are introduced. Kate Capshaw plays Willie Scott, a lounge singer caught at the wrong place at the wrong time. She is basically kidnapped by Indy for his own protection, and subsequently forced to tagalong for the rest of the film. The Willie Scott character does everything possible to ruin the movie. Spielberg treats her like his nagging littler sister–constantly throwing creatures at her just to hear her scream. She is one fish out of water they should have thrown back. Her annoyance knows no bounds, and she never develops into anything of merit. There is also Dr. Jones's sidekick Short Round, played by Jonathan Ke Quan. Creating a kid sidekick for Indy feels like a major studio decision to try to appeal to younger audiences, but it is not nearly as bad as it could have been. He has his moments, and provides a decent level of comic relief.
Once they escape from Shanghai the danger doesn't stop. The story continues in an coincidence laden series of curious events. Their plane crashes and they barely escape with their lives…again. They then stumble upon a desolate village in India that views Indy's arrival as their saving grace, and Indy agrees to help the village and rescue their kidnapped children. Overall the plot lacks any form of organic narrative structure. Events occur because the story needs them to in order to keep things moving. Where they start and where they end up have very little connection with one another. Similar to some of the plots of James Bond, Indy is basically thrown into a situation and things go from there.
Luckily, Harrison Ford makes it work. His charisma does its best to cover up the major issues. He continues to bring a lot of tenacity to the role. Simply based on his character and performance the film is worth a watch. The action as well has its moments. Parachuting from an airplane using a life raft was one well executed stunt. In addition the railcar chase sequence defines what it means to be a thrill ride. However, some of the action lacks the physicality of the previous film. There is far less stunt work, and what feels like a heavier reliance on special effects and blue screen technology. This made for set pieces that lacked a necessary sense of believability. Oddly the action as well had a stronger violence level than the previous film. The ripping out of hearts was a graphic image that could haunt many children's nightmares. This, along with Gremlins 2, is noted for establishing a
need for the dreaded PG-13 rating, which many have argued has had a hefty negative impact on cinema.
Ridiculousness wasn't absent from the original, but it was earmarked for the right moments. With Temple of Doom everything is larger than life. One example is the way it treats ethnicities as completely backward cultures. The dinner scene in the Pankot Palace in particular relied on ethnic stereotypes to get cheap laughs. Amrish Puri, who plays the main antagonist Mola Ram, gives a great mystifying performance, but his character is extremely one note. Spielberg was adamant he didn't want Indiana Jones fighting Nazis again, but he could have constructed something better than these bland characters. Construction of the actual sets was handled undeniably better. Each design was meticulously crafted with finite detail. Their grandiose scope made them appear like products of theatrical play. They aided in creating an atmosphere of intrigue and excitement. It was a world that begged to be played in.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is that little brother that will always stand in the shadows of his older sibling. Comparisons to Raiders cause mistakes to be elevated and successes to be downplayed, Even if you were to remove that comparison, Temple of Doom has an assortment of issues. If it would have been the first film released for this franchise the cultural impact of this series would have surely suffered. Still, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom does what a film of this genre should—it provides a remarkable journey full of fun and adventure.
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Relationships are front and center in November, which starts with the Sun in your 7th House of Partners and ends with it in your 8th House of Intimacy. The solar transit in your opposite sign Scorpio lasts until November 21, making this a good period to deepen a current alliance. Meeting someone new may be trickier, especially with communicative Mercury in reverse until November 10. Getting clarity in conversations requires a willingness to look past the obvious facts to recognize the underlying emotions that are running the show.
If you find yourself locking into a stubborn state of mind, consider taking a breath or a walk before reinforcing your position. Nope, you shouldn't be bullied, but sometimes information you'd rather not hear can be exactly what you need to know to heal a relationship. Secrecy is the dark side of the Sun in Scorpio, which can undermine trust if you or your partner is not forthcoming.
Your romantic ruling planet Venus enters earthy Capricorn on November 5, sending mixed messages about love. She's in your 9th House of Travel and Higher Mind to stimulate sweet feelings for big thinkers and people in faraway places. Yet Capricorn is a serious sign that rewards hard work more than just being charming and flashing winning smiles. Sticking to commitments and being clear about your goals are recommended.
Still, Venus' tense connections with rebellious Uranus on November 14 and demanding Pluto on November 15 can take your personal life to some strange and different places.


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Anthony-Claret Ifeanyi Onwutalobi August 4, 2011
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — How to make money from movies online is a question vexing studio executives the world over. But a Nigerian tech entrepreneur claims to have the answer — for his country's burgeoning film industry at least.
Jason Njoku is the managing director of Nollywood Love, an online entertainment company based in Lagos that aims to bring the very best of Nigeria's "Nollywood" cinema to a pan-African and global audience.
Since last December, it has been buying up the rights to Nollywood movies and uploading them for viewing on a dedicated YouTube channel.
"I was swept up with this wave of amazing content, which when I looked at ways to actually consume it, there wasn't any — the legal distribution infrastructure just wasn't there, so I thought let me just try it and add some value," says Njoku.
His company now employs more than 40 people and its movies attract over 2.5 million views around the world each week. It makes money by showing advertising before its films and aims to rake in more than $1 million in profits in its first full operational year.
"Our model is really simple," says Njoku. "Typically if you're in the West — U.S., UK, continental Europe — before you watch a movie you might watch a 15-20 second pre-roll for one of the big companies there.
"We try to keep it as non-intrusive as possible, so we explain to people that you just have to watch a few ads to watch the whole movie."
From selling ad space alone, Nollywood Love became profitable after just two months of operation, says Njoku.
He says its most popular movie is currently "BlackBerry Babes," a four-part comedy series about three materialistic women obsessed with their BlackBerry phones. The first part alone has been watched 650,000 times, says Njoku.
He puts the site's early success down to a mixture of the convenience of low-cost web platforms and the prolific nature of Nigeria's film industry — Nollywood currently churns out over 2,000 movies every year, second only in number to India's Bollywood.
Yet compared to the professional and highly structured nature of the world's most successful film sectors, Nollywood's corporate and distribution processes are near non-existent, says Njoku.
Films are usually low-budget, star locally famous actors and are filmed, edited and released on DVD or VCD within a month — going on sale at local marketplaces across Nigeria.
But that's no barrier for Njoku, who is already focused on further improvement and growth — particularly within Africa.
As much as 90% of Nollywood Love's site traffic currently comes from outside of the continent — in regions like the EU, North America, the Caribbean and the Middle East — where broadband services are more readily available and where large Nigerian Diasporas are located.
But as access to the internet inevitably becomes more commonplace, Njoku hopes that more and more Africa-based viewers will begin to form Nollywood Love's primary audience.
"For me, it's almost like being in Silicon Valley in 1994," he says. "You can see the landscape changing, you can see the world waking up, or Africa waking up, to the real power of the internet."
Njoku is at the vanguard of Africa's internet revolution, which promises to change forever the social and political landscape of the continent.
"Africa is the final frontier for global businesses and young entrepreneurs," says Njoku. "Nigeria is like China in the 1990s or like India in the early 2000s."
He adds: "The wave of innovation coming across Africa is unstoppable. I think the rest of the world has stopped growing. People get exciting about 1-2% growth. In Africa, the market is just there — if you're looking for a return on investment, probably one of the best places to find it is actually in Africa."
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Sears Hometown Store will close in Marshfield
Megan Stringer
MARSHFIELD - Another local business will close its doors at the end of July.
The last day for Sears Hometown Store, 1810 N. Central Ave. in Marshfield, will be July 27, said owner Todd Giraud.
Giraud said he can't comment on the reason for the store closing, but said he found out during a discussion with corporate officers.
The store has three full-time employees and two part-time employees. It will be emptied out within the week after it closes.
A Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores representative was not immediately available to provide further information.
Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores is separate from the Sears Holdings company that filed for bankruptcy in October, according to a USA TODAY report. The companies separated in 2012.
In April, the Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores board faced a potential liquidation of more than 80 percent of its stores. Eddie Lampert, who owns a majority of the stores, took steps to block it.
Giraud also owns the Sears Hometown stores in Sparta and Tomah.Those stores will remain open. He took over ownership of the Marshfield store in 2014 but said it was in the community long before that.
"It's just sad that there's not enough support in the community so it's time to exit," Giraud said.
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Took a knee? Four House reps refuse moment of silence
DRUMMOND, TARR, SPOHNHOLZ, GUTTENBERG SAT IT OUT
Rep. David Eastman asked for a moment of silence for all the babies who had lost their lives to abortion since the passage of Roe vs. Wade 45 years ago.
He made the request during the "special orders" part of the House floor session on Monday, labeling his remarks "On the Topic of Sanctity." He spoke about the 60 million abortions under Roe vs. Wade, and the sanctity of human life.
Almost all House members stood in recognition — even left-leaning Rep. Scott Kawasaki. Most bowed their heads.
However, Rep. Geran Tarr, Harriet Drummond, and Ivy Spohnholz — the urban women of the far Left — sat unmoved. Rep. David Guttenberg of Fairbanks also sat. Although Rep. Louise Stutes appeared to be encouraging Tarr to be polite, she waved her off.
The moment of silence lasted a full five seconds.
Later, many Republican members of the House and Senate gathered in front of the Capitol for a rally for life, an annual event marking National Sanctity of Human Life Day. Non-aligned Jason Grenn and Daniel Ortiz were not in attendance, while Democrats Rep. Matt Claman and Kawasaki slipped out the side door of the Capitol, so as not to be associated with the group. They headed down the hill for lunch. Neither the governor nor lieutenant governor attended, and did not send anyone in their place.
While Toni Mallott, married to Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, spoke at the women's rally on Saturday, she did not attend the life rally on Monday, nor did First Lady Donna Walker.
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Alaskans First / January 23, 2018
Going to be an interesting election year. Moving companies in Juneau might be pretty busy.
TUNDRABEN / January 23, 2018
Eh, no $ in it for them…..
Tuebinger / January 23, 2018
Geran Tarr has been a disaster from the time she started work in the Alaska legislature as an aide. I hoped she'd be kicked to the curb by now. She's such a slug.
Jerry fogg / January 23, 2018
Killing children seems what they enjoy
Steven / January 24, 2018
There is a reason that so many feminist take on the title Jezebel for themselves. Can't do that without sacrificing children.
Sydney Jacobs / January 23, 2018
Before God and people, we are known.
Stephen Wright / January 23, 2018
Sheldon and Wright supprt HB250 and will abolish a abortion in Alaska. Thanks David for standing strong…we will be in Juneau for 3 dsys this week.
Morrigan / January 24, 2018
Thanks, Suzanne, for the names.
On election day, let's be sure to remember our very own Band of Baby-Butcher Backers, Representatives Geran Tarr, Harriet Drummond, Ivy Spohnholz, David Guttenberg, Matt Claman and Scott Kawasaki.
Let's give a a shout out to the rest of The Team, Planned Parenthood lobbyists Alyson Currey, Mark Hickey, and Caren Robinson. Okay you can't vote for lobbyists, but you can buy them just like politicians, except cheaper.
They've worked so hard to bring a whole new meaning to "take a knee", no?
Rich Thorne / January 24, 2018
It's time. In support of a "Right To Life" Amendment to the US Constitution:
Whereas, the Supreme Court of the United States has overreached in composing rights and laws out of thin air, not being found in the Constitution, and not even following their own precedent; and,
Whereas, the souls of more than fifty-nine million murdered babies from the United States cry out for justice; and,
Whereas, we need to act to protect the right to life of all humans, certain exceptions to be included; and,
Whereas, the only way for the people to correct the bad decisions of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (2016) is through Amendment to the United States Constitution:
Therefore be it resolved, that we support the following proposed Right To Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
The right to life, from conception to natural death, shall not be abridged,
except for:
Self-defense, when the minimum force necessary to protect one's self is used – terminating a pregnancy for any reason other than saving the physical life of the mother shall not be construed to be self-defense;
during a lawfully declared war against another nation or political entity;
and for capital punishment administered by the States or Federal government after due process for heinous felonies determined by the States or Federal government to require the execution of the convicted felon to protect the public.
Steve / February 5, 2018
The feds do plenty of things with no authority from the constitution… Like drug prohibition, the FISA courts spying programs etc… You cant complain about one and not go after the others.
james mason / February 1, 2018
After they get abortion banned it will be on to banning birth control. And then divorce. After than they'll start burning the protestant heretics at the stake. We have 2000 years of history to judge the Catholic Church. The leopard does not change its spots.
Rich Thorne / February 2, 2018
Smoking your history books James? Christians are not leopards, and your other fears are unfounded. I support your freedom to be opposed to Christianity, though I have a very strong objection to murdering babies. Big difference between preventing conception and destroying the product – the baby. Divorce is a concession to human sinfulness – sometimes it's even the right thing to do ( I can refer you to appropriate Bible verses if you care), though there is far too much divorce and not enough commitment. As for burning heretics… didn't work before and I think we've learned it won't work again: "a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." (source unknown, sorry).


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Rethreading Until the Ribbon Breaks
By Benjamin Lindsay
Photographed by Santiago Felipe
ABOVE: UNTIL THE RIBBON BREAKS IN NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 2014. PHOTO BY SANTIAGO FELIPE.
When Until the Ribbon Breaks first came onto our radar in fall 2013, frontman and producer Pete Lawrie Winfield admitted he imagined this unique musical project as a one-off deal. Fast-forward 18 months, and it's expanded to a permanent trio with Elliot Wall on percussion and James Gordon doing production and keys. On January 20, the now Los Angeles-based band dropped their debut album, A Lesson Unlearnt, with featured by bands like Run the Jewels, and have kicked off a North American tour with fellow trailblazing Brits, London Grammar.
Last we talked, Lawrie Winfield was prepping for his first-ever live show as an opener for Lorde. Now with the two-person expansion and regularity of live outings, the project—known for its soulful poetics, entrancing, breathy vocals, and heady, electronic R&B production—has become even more formidable. The three of them recently took a break from recording in L.A. to chat about the new LP, evolution as a band, and finding intimacy in the modern age.
BENJAMIN LINDSAY: My first question is for you, Pete, because in your first conversation with Interview, you admitted that Until the Ribbon Breaks was a project that you imagined as an shorterm project. Obviously that has not proven to be the case. Why has it stuck around?
PETE LAWRIE WINFIELD: I think the further it went on, the more it developed into a three-piece band and certainly a live band, and the more that that has been the case, the more we want to do it again—play more shows, make more records, do everything more. Basically, initially I didn't know what it was or what I was doing. Over time it's making more and more sense what it is and what it can and could be as a project.
LINDSAY: How is it that the three of you came together, then?
JAMES GORDON: It was originally a concept that Pete developed. He is the creative brain and lyrics man. He's designed his own stories and world in which the music exists, but to cut a very long story short—Elliot has known Pete for a very long time, and he's played drums for Pete on various projects in the past, and they're good friends from home. I got to know Pete during the first batch of music that was made on this project. So when Pete first ventured down this road, he had a few different engineers, producers, and people that were helping him; I was one of those people. I think, to begin with, there was very little thought and attention paid to the idea of it being a live band at all, really. It was just focused in the studio. Later, it was this realization of, "Okay, this is going to be a real band now." I was drafted in and really keen to help Pete—that was dissecting and remaking the record, in a way, because we literally pulled it apart, worked out who was gonna play what, what instruments and tech we used to do it, along with the visuals, etcetera. We spent about two months in the studio in London working out how that was gonna happen.
LINDSAY: What is it about the project that spoke you, Elliot, and made you want to delve further into it on a more permanent and personal level?
ELLIOT WALL: Pete called me. [laughs] No, I'd been in various projects with Pete and I was at a stage where I was like, "Okay, music isn't really gonna make me money," so I went on to start a building business with my father, and then Pete showed me the tracks that he just finished, and was like, "Do you wanna go for it again?" So I just dropped everything and moved over to the States.
LINDSAY: You first jumped on the scene with the video for "Pressure," and that got as much attention for the music as well as for pulling these samples from David Lynch's Lost Highway and for this cinematic aesthetic to the entire project. Do the three of you share that similar affinity for film?
GORDON: Yeah, I mean, we all have our interests, as well. The great thing about this project is that because of Pete's relationship with film and kind of wanting this project to have such a visual element, it's been a very interesting process. We learn from each other, so I think it's become so. It's become more of a unit. When we look at how this project can evolve in the future, things to do with film and sound, and the way that the art is presented in unique and original ways and all the possibilities within that, I think that just becomes stronger as we start to influence each other more in positive ways.
LINDSAY: A Lesson Unlearnt isn't a record about love by any means, but with the song "Romeo," I really love its exploration of power dynamics that happens in relationships—you're being the seeker of love, or you're being the object of affection. What's the role that love plays on the album overall?
LAWRIE WINFIELD: I try as much as I can to avoid writing [love songs]. In my mind, there's nothing that hasn't already been said. I try to think of songs almost as little short films and narratives of their own, so I find that particular narrative of the end of a relationship or the beginning of a relationship is just a narrative that has been played out and played out and played out. There's too much in the world already of a very specific theme. But you can't escape [love as an] integral part of human nature and of life and of something that we all either feel, want to feel, or no longer want to feel. A song like "Romeo," if there was a line that sums up that whole song, it would be, "You've been looking for meaning, did you like what you found?" because it's actually about the chase for the feeling, the concept of love, I suppose, the constant need and almost addiction to it. It's asking once you achieve that or attain that, what's next?
LINDSAY: I find it curious that you mention it's more about the chase of this love and wanting that connection, but then you look at a song like "Revolution Indifference," which you've spoken on before as kind of the apathy that we're headed towards and the technologically obsessed culture with the smartphones and the lack of human connection. Was that an intentional correlation of you exploring these two different facets of the modern human experience?
LAWRIE WINFIELD: Yes, in the sense that it's just part of what I think about, but no, in the sense that there's a correlation specifically between them. I'd never looked at the connection between those songs, but I suppose they correlate thematically because it's about the search for something and did we ever find what we're looking for? What are we looking for? I never want to directly say what I'm saying. One of my favorite lyricists is Paul Simon—within [a song], if you deconstruct it, you can attain a thing or what his personal agenda is, but you never quite know. There's an amazing quote from Paul Simon that I read recently, something about the fact that if you take any sense of humor out of writing lyrics, then it's over for you. If you become too pompous and aloof, then you've lost the listener. And that's what was always amazing Paul Simon: there's funny bits in there, too. That's why "Revolution Indifference" references things like Kurt Russell, Escape From New York, and things like that. It was never meant to be so politically me ramming anything down anyone's throat; it's meant to be slightly tongue-in-cheek, too. It's a tough balance, and an interesting one, but that's the part of all this that I love the most: writing.
LINDSAY: Where does the title A Lesson Unlearnt come from?
LAWRIE WINFIELD: Basically, my first introduction to music was my parents, who are classical musicians, and my first influence was classical music. Their version of "pop" music was things like Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and folksy kinda stuff—some soul, too. Then through my friends and influences I got into hip-hop, which was the first thing I fell in love with. Later on, I did more of a solo singer-songwriter kind of thing, and then I started making hip-hop beats… I was in a spot, basically, where I had all of these influences and all this music that I loved and no idea how to put them together because there was no way I was going to try and rap. Nobody in the world needs to hear me rap. [laughs] I also loved film. So A Lesson Unlearnt comes from the idea of having to unlearn everything you thought about how to make music and how to think about creation and just start again.
LINDSAY: And make something that works for you.
LAWRIE WINFIELD: Yeah, exactly. And just stop being so precious, really, worrying what genre it is and who's gonna like it and where's it's gonna fit in. Just throw all your influences into a pot and see what happens.
LINDSAY: And now you're taking it on the road with London Grammar. Looking to the last 18 months of performing live, how has your live presence evolved?
LAWRIE WINFIELD: It's constantly evolving. We spent a lot of time even figuring out who was gonna play what instrument. The London Grammar tour will be the first time we're using hardly any kind of track. It's as live as we can possibly make it. I play horns and guitar; James does a lot of the programming, synth work, and bass; and Elliot plays real drums. It's kind of evolved into an actual band, which is what it feels like now.
LINDSAY: Will you be utilizing video art like in the past?
LAWRIE WINFIELD: It's interesting because the video aesthetic live is as evolving as the music in that the first version of us as a live band had visuals throughout, and I think, once again, we were trying to make it almost as something to hide behind; if people look at the visuals, they won't look at us. So we're using less and less visuals, but hopefully just in the right spots—more as accents now and as ways to make it more dynamic rather than just something that is constant.
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Are you bothered that your home walls are looking drab, boring and lifeless? Are you looking for some creative ways to decorate walls? If yes, you are not perhaps one of the few people, who are feeling so. There are millions of home owners who could be feeling the same way.
Hence, the onus lies on us. We need to find out ways and means by which the situation can be reversed. Many of us would not like to get started because of the cost factor. The cost factor dampens our hopes, but it should not be so.
You should look around, do some research and then move forward. It is quite likely that you will come across quite a few diy wall art ideas. They are not exactly expensive. Simply by spending a few bucks and using some ideas and tips, you can convert your home wall into a colorful and artistic piece of expressions.
There are dozens of such tips available. We will look at a few of them and we hope they will give our readers the right perspective on the subject matter. It also will be good food for thought for those whose homes are ageing. At the same time, the walls also could be becoming dirty and drab.
The main objective of any homemade wall decoration ideas should revolve around being as original and artistic as you possibly can. If you are not one of the best artists in the neighborhood, it does not matter. All you have to do is to gather the right knowledge and information and then get started.
There are huge resources available on the internet. If you spend some time going through the same, you will be able to come across a number of DIY wall art ideas which are easy to implement and not very taxing on the pocket also.
You should try and make your walls as stylish and colorful as possible. For example, choosing colored pencil wall art solutions is extremely simple and easy but it certainly would leave a wonderful impression behind.
You can also take a look at some types of Ceramic Wall Sculptures if you want.
If you want to know creative ways to decorate walls, you also should take into account certain aspects. The shape and size of the home and the physical structures which make up the home need to be considered. For example, you could create a stunning impact by carefully painting the dividers of your home.
If done properly and with the right choice of colors, you can be sure that it will leave a brilliant and lively impact behind.
You could make use of various wall art gallery options and choose the artwork which meets your specific needs, objectives, tastes and perhaps even the theme which they might have in mind. Yes, it is a fact that it may take a few days, weeks or even months for the eyes to get used to the various hues and colors. This is because the eyes would have been used to a dull and drab wall and a sudden splash of colors would take some time for the eyes and mind to be on the same wavelength.
You must also not forget the importance of various fixtures and fittings which adorn the living room. When choosing online painting gallery for the purpose of refurbishing your home walls, you must ensure that the same in agreement with the wall clocks, murals, letters, shelves, wall hangings, decorative stickers and many other such items.
These fixtures and fittings should be complementary to the entire efforts of wall makeover rather than being competitive to it.
You may have to use your imagination and come out with special outlines. Fixtures and fittings need to be taken into account. You could use the various choices available across many home style stores. They certainly will be able to provide you with some of the most fascinating and stunning creative ways to decorate walls of your home.
For the best of homemade wall decoration ideas you could also turn to enriching stickers. These stickers are made of tough vinyl. They can easily be connected and joined to surfaces that are extra smooth. The stickers are also considered one of the best choices. Its easy to remove them as and when you want. They will not leave behind any dirty looking stain or impression behind. Further, you can also be sure that these stickers will not damage your dividers in any manner whatsoever.
At the end of the day, you need to spend some time going through the due diligence process. It will not be long before you are able to come across creative ways to decorate walls. However, you will not find it very difficult and it certainly is a good learning process.
Pastel coloring techniques can be tough to grasp for beginners and newbies.


In this installment of the Pyramid Rating System's All-Time league, we're going to look at how the 2017 season affected the composition and rosters of teams.
How much difference does a year make? Well, that depends. For less established teams like the Rays, one year can make a significant difference in their standing.
I've included how I had each player rated during the 2017 season on a scale of 20-80 meant to mimic the scouting scale major league scouts use.
Here are the roster changes as affected by the 2017 season.
It's rare for an established team like the Red Sox to have a player make the 40-man roster after just four years, but Betts takes over the spot previously held by Hall of Famer Harry Hooper.
With 161 games played in center field, Betts should meet the defensive requirements to maintain his status to play there and is now within striking distance of challenging Fred Lynn for the starting center field job. Another season like Betts has had over the previous two and the Red Sox will have a new all-time starting center fielder at the end of the 2017 season.
What can I say about Scherzer? Last year, he cracked the starting rotation following a Cy Young season, but in this league having just one Cy Young doesn't get you much and Scherzer would have been viewed as a somewhat overmatched No. 3 starter on a rotation seriously lacking in depth. Adding a second Cy Young and even just three years with the team is enough to move Scherzer from below-average No. 3 starter to solid No. 2.
No team has added more depth in one area since I started doing this series than the Nationals have added to their starting pitching.
The No. 1 starter in the rotation, Walter Johnson, may be the favorite to win the AL Cy Young award in this all-time league, but back in 2015, there was little else positive to say about this starting rotation.
No longer is that the case, with González having a season that hearkened back to his 21-win campaign in 2012. González may still not be the most desirable option to have in this league as a No. 3 starter, but his addition means the Nationals will be that much less dependent on their Senators lineage for starting rotation depth.
Once again, the Nats' pitching staff, previously a major weakness on this team, adds depth with Strasburg finally having the type of season in 2017 that many expected of him when he was the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2009. He still needs another year or two to crack the rotation, but if he were able to produce in 2018 as he did in 2017, I would expect to see Strasburg as a back-end rotation starter.
New Role: Nationals' starting second baseman.
It's surprising that Rendon has yet to be named an All-Star team. Even though he has shifted full-time to third, he has still plenty of appearances at second base to qualify for the position. Rendon takes the position previously held by Buddy Myer, who may be a former batting champion but does not provide much power.
Rendon has established himself as one of the premier third basemen in baseball, finishing in the top 10 in OPS in 2017 and posting his first 100 RBI season. Rendon will still be seen as a below-average second baseman. but does present an upgrade over Myer that will continue to grow over time.
Arguably the best starting rotation in the American League gets even better with the addition of two-time Cy Young award winner in Kluber.
Kluber joins a staff that already featured four Hall of Famers but will now have three. With Kluber joining the rotation combined with some revaluation of the ranking system, Gaylord Perry is off the Indians and onto the San Francisco Giants where he will be the No. 2 starter. Taking over Kluber's spot on the Indians' 40-man roster will be Bartolo Colón, who was previously on Oakland's 40-man roster. Taking over his spot on the A's will be Trevor Cahill.
A reliever is the one position where one great season can be enough to crack a 25-man team, and that's just what Knebel did last year, finishing the year with a 1.78 ERA, leading the NL in games pitched and finishing in the top 10 in saves. That allows Knebel to take over a setup role previously held by Dave Jolly. Jolly will be sent down to the 40-man roster, which in turn forces Mike Fetters off the team.
Cain may no longer be a Royal, but he finished his Royals tenure strongly in 2017, batting .300 and finishing in the top 10 in the AL in WAR. Along with his performance in previous years, that is enough to put him over Hal McRae on the 40-man squad and give Kansas City a solid fourth outfielder capable of playing all three positions.
He was my pick in the Hardball Times Franchise Player draft and this is a big argument why. As you can imagine, with the Cubs you need to be a borderline Hall of Famer just to garner consideration. Ten-year team vets like Randy Hundley don't come close to making the team.
That said, Kris Bryant is on that track. I look at Bryant as the total package of what you look for in a franchise player. We'll see if he can make this team as a starter, but he's already in consideration to take over the bench role held by Stan Hack, and Bryant's ability to play left field makes him a much more attractive bench option. For now, Bryant takes over a 40-man spot previously held by Heinie Zimmerman, a 10-year Cubs veteran and triple-crown winner.
Before the 2017 season, I had Votto sitting against lefties with the hard-hitting Tony Pérez seeing action against righties. This made for one of the best platoons at a position across either league, with a Hall of Fame-caliber hitter batting from each side of the plate.
But last year, Votto led the National League in OPS for the second time, and as great as Pérez was, even with a lefty-righty match-up in his favor, I can't justify benching Votto. I still won't be shy about benching Votto for some rest against righties and Pérez will make for a fearsome pinch-hitter as well as seeing more action at third base. But Votto is now on par with Hank Greenberg for first basemen in this all-time league, and he can still get to Jeff Bagwell level or even better.
2017 may have been Ray's only meaningful season with the Diamondbacks to date, but for a team with zero depth, his addition allows the Diamondbacks a little bit of breathing room. In spite of their age, the Diamondbacks can field one of the best starting rotations in baseball, headlined by what will be graded as a four-time Cy Young award winner in Randy Johnson. He would be my pick to win the Cy Young in the National League if the season were to be played out in full.
This situation is like Robbie Ray's. A player with effectively one year helps a rotation with little to no depth. It doesn't improve the team much, but it does give the D-backs a bit of a cushion they otherwise wouldn't have.
Combined, Ray, Bradley,and Corbin will take up spots previously held by Brian Anderson, Doug Davis and Wade Miley. The Diamondbacks won't improve much yet, but if the three can follow up with the same performances in 2018, the Snakes will some back-end depth to add to the big trio of Johnson, Curt Schilling and Brandon Webb.
It's going to be odd to think of Craig Biggio as a full-time starting catcher for the all-time Astros, but with no real reliable catching options and a now MVP winner in Altuve on the team, there's no justification to have either on the bench.
Biggio might not be much defensively, but he will be nearly as good as any catcher offensively, while Altuve will now be a dark horse all-star candidate whose outlook will only improve as he gets into Hall of Fame discussion territory.
I would like to say that the potential held by Dickie Thon is now beginning to be fully realized by Correa, but with all due respect to Thon, I don't think he was ever going to be as good as Correa is already.
Thon wouldn't break out until he was 24, while Correa enters this season still just 23 years old. What was once a weak point of this Astros team is now on track to becoming a strength for a team that already has plenty. Combined with their deep bullpen and a solid starting rotation, the Astros may be the most complete team in the National League West.
Seager may have played just two years, but aside from Maury Wills no other LA Dodgers shortstop has been more dominant than Corey Seager. If Seager can add a third Silver Slugger award, he will begin to challenge Maury Wills for the starting role and give the LA lineup some much-needed offensive firepower.
After falling out of the Indians' starting rotation due to the emergence of Corey Kluber, Perry is essentially traded to the team he is better known for and where his talents can be more appreciated.
Although Perry does rate slightly worse with the Giants than he does with the Indians, he still ranks as one of the better starters in either league.
His arrival will bump Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain down in the rotation from No. 2 and No. 3 starters respectively to the No. 3 and No. 4 spots, while Madison Bumgarner will keep his No. 5 spot. Jason Schmidt who is now the team's spot starter. John Montefusco, who held that role, is now on the 40-man roster, taking over the spot previously held Bob Knepper, who is no longer on any all-time team.
Once again, the most improved all-time team appears to be the Washington Nationals. When I started this series, the Nationals' starting rotation consisted of Walter Johnson and not much else.
But now the Nationals are following up Johnson with arguably the best pitcher in baseball today in Scherzer and some other decent pitching that can still improve significantly in the next few years.
They're still not at the level of the Red Sox or the Yankees, but they're not that far off. Johnson will rate as the best pitcher in the league, with all 21 of his Hall of Fame seasons coming in Washington. Few were as dominant as Johnson was at his peak and none lasted anywhere near 21 years with a single franchise.
In the National League, the big winners were the Astros and the San Francisco Giants. The addition of Gaylord Perry to the Giants goes a long way in closing the starting pitching gap between them and the Dodgers, while current 25-man roster members Buster Posey, Brandon Crawford and Madison Bumgarner continue to add to their résumés.
For the Astros, the backbone of their World Series-winning squad gives what was once a dark horse team a significant push toward being a serious World Series threat in this all-time league. The third base situation still leaves much to be desired, but there's no other position where Houston doesn't rate at least average, including starting pitching and bullpen.
The Dodgers also show some slight improvement with Kenley Jansen and Clayton Kershaw improving their standing with increased tenures in addition to picking up Corey Seager. Kershaw, in particular, is now close to being on par with Pedro Martínez and Greg Maddux and putting himself into Cy Young conversation.
I think Betts is a very good player, but Fred Lynn and his 308/383/520 920 OPS 141 OPS+ 124 home runs, 521 RBI, 6x All Star, 4x GG is more than 1 season from getting displaced by Mookie Betts', 292/352/488 840 OPS 121 OPS+ 79 home runs, 311 RBIs, 2x All Star, 2x GG as the Red Sox all time center fielder.
This system tries to dial in on how dominant players were at their best.
The best year DiMaggio ever put up in terms of WAR was 5.1 in 1942 as according to baseball-reference WAR which is what this system uses.
As great as DiMaggio, he was never the caliber player that Betts has been over the last several years and probably will continue to be.
Always loved reading the Pyramid Rating System articles. Happy to see another one to start the year.
Thanks. Been a busy offseason for me both with making changes to the Pyramid Rating System and personally, but things are finally squared away at least relatively and I promise it will not be several months until my next article is out.
sure would be nice to see a Blue Jays rating sometime this year.
Glad to see another one of these, Paul! I was worried it wasn't going to be continued. Ever since you started I've been eagerly awaiting the Detroit Tigers. In facts, that's about all I have to look forward to as a Tigers fan nowadays! It seems like they'll have a very strong team. Thank you for doing these!
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How can I change the filename for a text file connection?
It is a common scenario to have a scheduled package that imports a new file each day. Conversely you may wish to produce a uniquely named file each day. You can change the filename (DataSource) property of a connection at run-time from within an ActiveX Script Task.
In the following example we derive the filename based on the current date. The file path is retrieved from a global variable and this combination of path and name is used to update the connection "Text File (Source)".
If you are using SQL Server 2000 then a similar approach can be taken using Dynamic Properties Task.


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by Maud | March 14th, 2006
Harry Farrell argues that China Miéville's New Crobuzon novels seek to remake apolitical genre fantasy by "playing out the battle between the fantastic and the political within imagined settings" and "giv[ing] us a world where fantasy and politics can't be disentangled from each other."
As The Da Vinci Code copyright suit wears on, Kate Mosse observes that storytellers have been borrowing ideas from each other for centuries. "Your hero is defeated by poison obtained from the semen of one of his previously defeated enemies…. Sophocles inherited the idea from Homer."
You might think it'd have the opposite result, but Margo Hammond believes "all this fretting over lies in nonfiction [is] giving fiction a bad name."
The Two River Theater Company's run of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot begins Thursday in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Harold Pinter: "I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?" (Via Bookninja.)
My drama critic friend took me to see Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloan — about which more later — on Sunday afternoon, and, while we were waiting for the show to start, he mentioned Thomas Edison's film footage of Samuel Clemens. I didn't know such a thing existed, but here it is.
A woman did what Jesus told her and pulled some ancient, moldy books from a trash pile, only to find a first edition of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and a note from the author to an unidentified "madam." (Via Bookslut.)
Keira Knightley will star in the screen version of McEwan's Atonement.
Kerouac fans, undeterred by past defeats, continue to crusade for the Beat writer's image on a postage stamp.
Moby-Dick becomes the world's longest Mad-Lib. (Via Mefi.)


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Q: How do I remove white space at the top of my inserted matlab code? I've Solved This Question: use \vspace{-1cm}
I'm using this package:
\usepackage[autolinebreaks]{mcode}

I want to put a subtitle for my Matlab code and then have it follow on immediately after with no white space, unlike what I currently have. Thanks

Update to answer one of the comments:
MATLAB Code:
%coding fomula: h/3(f0+4f1+2f2+4f3+.....+2f(n-2)+4f(n-1)+fn) i.e. Simpson's
%Rule to calculate integral of ln(x)/x between [1,8]
clear
clc
%setting limits
p=1,q=8;
%variable changed for clarity in function later
x=p;
%number of points
n=3000;

LATEX Code:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[autolinebreaks]{mcode}

\begin{document}

\underline{{\large\textit{Simpson:}}}
\lstinputlisting{q2_part1_edit.m}

\end{document}

I solved the problem: I did \vspace{-1 cm}

A: Although your \vspace{-1cm} works it is not a very nice solution to first add a space and then remove it afterwards. The mcode package introduces a 1.5\baslineskip space above every listings. So what you should do is change this length to whatever you like. In my example it is 0.5\baselineskip.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[autolinebreaks]{mcode}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.m}
%coding fomula: h/3(f0+4f1+2f2+4f3+.....+2f(n-2)+4f(n-1)+fn) i.e. Simpson's
%Rule to calculate integral of ln(x)/x between [1,8]
clear
clc
%setting limits
p=1,q=8;
%variable changed for clarity in function later
x=p;
%number of points
n=3000;
\end{filecontents*}

\lstset{aboveskip={0.5\baselineskip}} % <-- CHANGE SPACE HERE

\begin{document}

\underline{{\large\textit{Simpson:}}}
\lstinputlisting{\jobname.m}

\end{document}

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Continuous Tone Coded
Squelch System (CTCSS)
Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System (CTCSS) is a feature in most conventional analog radios, using sub-audible tones to allow multiple groups of users to communicate on the same frequency (channel) without receiving radio traffic from each other; and to improve radio operation in high RF noise, interference and congested areas. The feature transmits a tone between 67 Hz to 254 Hz (below human hearing range) along with the voice traffic. The receiving radio may be programmed to only respond to signals transmitting the desired tone frequency.
Digital Coded Squelch (DCS) is a digital form of CTCSS. A third type of squelch system, called Selective Calling (SelCall) is used in some business radios, but is not used in Ham radios. Note that none of these squelch systems are used in digital radios.
CTCSS is also known by a number of other terms which are registered trademarks of individual manufacturers. Among them are Private Line (PL), owned by Motorola; Channel Guard (CG), owned by GE/Ericsson/Harris; and Quiet Tone (QT), owned by Kenwood.
Some Family Radio Service (FRS) radio manufacturers use other terms for CTCSS, including Privacy Code and Sub-Channel.
Below are tables of the tone frequencies used for CTCSS and the codes used for DCS.
CTCSS


Thanks to the generous support of the Robert and Eleanor Franke Charitable Foundation, the People's Food Co-op and the local nonprofit Grow La Crosse have partnered to launch a Seeds for Success Camp this summer. During this camp, youth from the Boys and Girls Club spent a week at the PFC—La Crosse and Deep Roots Community Farm gardening, eating healthy food, and cooking up a storm.
The goal of Seeds for Success is to get kids excited about preparing simple, healthy meals focused on local, fresh produce. We began and ended each day at the co-op, cooking breakfast and preparing lunch, and then spent time in the middle of the day at the farm, harvesting produce to cook with, working in the gardens, caring for the farm animals, and relaxing at the creek when the work of the day was done.
A highlight of the week was preparing dinner to share with all the kids' families back at the Boys and Girls Club. We made shepherd's pie, fresh cucumber salad, and blackberry cobbler. Throughout the week, the children were such hard workers in the kitchen, so enthusiastic for whatever we brought to them, so brave to try new things in the garden and kitchen, and overall such a great group of kids. This camp has truly been a pleasure and one we hope to replicate in future years!


Jeremy Corbin's supporters have claimed the left-winger has the momentum in the race to become Labour's next leader after he ended two days of campaigning in Scotland with a packed rally in Glasgow.
More than 700 people turned out at the city's Old Fruitmarket venue to hear the surprise frontrunner in the leadership contest.
They cheered him to the rafters after a build-up which included a rendition of The Red Flag and other socialist anthems.
Introducing him, ex-MP Katy Clark hit back at opponents who have claimed the Islington North MP would consign Labour to years of opposition.
"He's the most electable candidate we have," she said.
Earlier in, a sign of the pace gathering behind his campaign, Mr Corbyn was backed by MSP Cara Hilton, who had previously voiced support for Andy Burnham.
She said she backed him after Labour abstained in a Commons vote on welfare reform last month.
She said: "I was outraged by that. We need to take a firm view and stand up for the people Labour was formed to represent.
She added: "It is too early to say whether he will win but he has the momentum on his side.
"I think we are seeing something quite exciting in politics."
Bob Thomson, a former chairman of the Scottish Labour Party who became a prominent Yes campaigner in last year's referendum, also said he was backing Mr Corbyn.
In a letter to The Herald, he said the Islington MP represented "real Labour".
His backing added weight to claims from inside the Corbyn camp that the Islington North MP is winning widespread support from Yes voters within Labour.
Mr Corbyn received a rapturous reception in Glasgow, where demand to hear him speak had forced organisers to switch the event to a bigger venue.
The rally followed a lunchtime event in Edinburgh where hundreds packed into the EICC, filling an overspill room as well as the main hall.
At both he repeated his call to end austerity, renationalise the railways, end privatisation and scrap Britain's nuclear deterrent.
He used the Glasgow rally to launch a 10 point plan, Standing to Deliver, which also promised tougher action to tackle climate change.
He said: "These things are not easy, these things are possible and they can be achieved but they are not going to be achieved by politicians in isolation handing down policies from secluded drawing rooms in secluded and comfortable parts of this country.
"They are going to be achieved by ordinary people coming together, in the spirit of those who founded our movement... all of us in other words."
Mr Corbyn used the rally in Edinburgh to hit back "smears" by his opponents, saying people were "totally and absolutely and completely turned off" by personal attacks.
He added: "I'm not really very bothered about what anybody says about anybody in our campaign, including me".
He also called for a cross-party effort to challenge the Government's welfare cuts.


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Will Smith Tells About His Experience Shooting For 'Aladdin' In Jordon
Will Smith Told Jaden Smith To Get Out
Will Smith & Jaden Smith Have Starred Together
Jaden Smith Had Trouble With This Movie Scene
Cara Delevingne And Jaden Smith Star In Emotion
Jaden Smith's Parents React To His Relationship With Tyler
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Dash And Lily: Reviews, Storyline, Next Season's Update And More.
The new rom-com 'Dash and Lily' is everything you need for 2020's Christmas. The series has made a special place in everybody's heart soon after its release. Fans are loving the new yet old school romance concept with the amazing characters. Sticking to the genre the Christmas movie has a lot coming with it. From Christmas songs, to Christmas tree, and romcom. Fans are in love with the movie and the characters. Check out everything you need to know about it.
About Dash And Lily
The story is about two young teenage love birds who start their relationship around the Christmas time. The show has an amazing old school love concept. The set of 8 episodes are made on a little book which both Dash and Lily use as a source to communicate and share their love. The book is like a mystery box for the two as they get something really unexpected everytime it is opened. It gives the perfect romcom Christmas feels.
The first season was recently relased and it got immense love a fame. In fact it's highly expected to be on top 10 list in UK and US soon. The reviews of the show are as amazing as the characters of the show. The story of their love story will make you remind yours. After the end of the season one, fans can't wait for the next season to be relased until Christmas. And it is expected to be released soon a well.
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The season 1 starts with Dash going around in the library, searching for a book, but gets other mysterious book. Which had things written on it. The first page of the book says that the person reading has to play a game along. And by playing the games through the book both Dash and Lily got connected really well. Through the episode the two got closer and the closer with the help of just a book. It encourages the old school love that makes love even more special.
Lily is a 17 year old girl and Dash is around the same age. The character of Lily is played by Midori Imamate, a 26 year old American actress. Fans have showed her immense love and support after the relase. They have loved her in and out of the movie. She has acted in many movies such as Good Boys, Ocean's 8, South Mountain and many more.
Talking about Dash, the teen lover, who is searching for his perfect partner. It is played by Austin Abrams. He is a 24 year old American actor, who was also a part of the famous show Euphoria. A part from that he has done amazing work in movies like Chemical Hearts, Scary Stories To Tell In Dark, Paper Towns and many more. His performance in Dash and Lily is loved by people from all around the world.
Talking about the amazing Christmas show, it is the best romcom we would recommend you this Christmas with your lover once's. The show enables us to see a variety of emotions from excitement, love, care, sadness and what not. There's a time when Dash meets her old friend Priya with his family. And he fails to give Lily enough time or think about her. And that's the first moment where problems happen between the two. What do you think about it?
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Shozo Shimamoto MAJOR WORKS
19 September 2021-10:00/9 January 2022-18:00
Igor Grubić. Another Green World
The art of remembering – Events
19th september 2021 – 1st may 2022
OPENING 18th september 6.00 p.m.
Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea – CIAC
Via del Campanile 13, Foligno
Curated by Italo Tomassoni
A wide-ranging retrospective dedicated to Japanese artist Shozo Shimamoto (1928 – 2013), curated by Italo Tomassoni, opens on 19 September at CIAC – Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea in Foligno, and runs until 1 May 2022.
The "SHOZO SHIMAMOTO/MAJOR WORKS" exhibition takes place in collaboration with the Fondazione Morra di Napoli, supported by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno, with the technical, logistic, and organizational assistance of the Associazione Shozo Shimamoto.
The exhibition offers a detailed and comprehensive review of the Japanese artist's career, from his first innovative experiments in the 1950s up to the more momentous and spectacular of the last years. In the 1950s, Shimamoto worked largely in the East and especially in Japan, but by the new millennium, he was working mainly in the West, performing many of his actions. The dialectic between these two phases in his output occurs within a unique and extraordinary artistic process. In the 1950s, he began exploring a new concept (and practice) in painting, working with gesture and paint marks, which later evolved into the 'happening'. In particular, "[t]he power of the mark, that Shimamoto endows with the most authentic meaning of his message, conditions the fluctuation of the paths of written signs that never appear "closed", developing freely in space, on the other hand, in search of unexplored passages driven by their inner dynamism" (Italo Tomassoni, from the presentation in the catalogue). Nevertheless, the large-scale events of recent years go beyond marks on canvas, favouring a sizeable theatrical edifice with their own dramatic and expressive autonomy, and taking place in public as a unique aesthetic event. For Shimamoto, the work "offers itself to the experience of the artist and the public as though spread out over time, on the infinite horizontality of liquid and multiple spatial displacements" (Tomassoni, ibid).
After a period of inactivity due to Covid-19, the Foligno Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea opens with an exhibition reflecting its global outlook through this retrospective of Shozo Shimamoto's historically most significant works. The collection starts with Shimamoto's earliest pieces from his time with the Gutai Group, moving on to Japanese calligraphy, and culminating with the explosions of colour that characterize his Italian works. The Major Works chosen for this exhibition underline how Shimamoto's most extraordinary creativity coincides with his use of large surfaces, a constitutive element in his work, denoting both total fullness and, at the same time, a boundary to be continually overcome using colour and matter.
Shimamoto's large canvases on show at the CIAC take the viewer on a journey that starts with gesture and mark, moving on through colour and contending with matter until it penetrates the deepest and "other" meanings of form. Suspended between heaven and earth, Shimamoto's artistic gesture creates through these works an empathy beyond time and space.
Installation View, Shozo Shimamoto Major Works, CIAC, Foligno, 2021 © photo Elisa Partenzi Courtesy Fondazione Morra
19 September 2021-10:00
9 January-18:00
Associazione Shōzō Shimamoto
https://www.shozoshimamoto.org/esibizioni/2021-shozo-shimamoto-grandi-opere-ciac-foligno-italia/
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Important Current Affairs 3rd May 2020 with PDF
Apurva Mishra | Updated: May 3, 2020 18:24 IST
Current Affairs is the most scoring section in any competitive exams and it is an important part of your syllabus apart from English, Quantitative Aptitude, or Logical Reasoning! It plays a vital role in your final selection as being thorough with this section will give you an added advantage over fellow aspirants. This can only be possible if you stay updated with the latest happenings around the nation and the world for that matter, on a daily basis.
It's difficult to prepare for the Current Affairs section overnight. You have to keep on reading newspapers, articles, and magazines regularly. As there is no defined syllabus for General Awareness, we bring you the Important General Awareness in PDF form on a daily basis, so that it is easier for you to read the news on the go.
Let's go through the highlights of 3rd May 2020.
India ranked 53rd in budget transparency
Manulife picked 49% stake in Mahindra AMC
Tripura government launched a desk
Writer and columnist RV Smith passed away
Indian origin girl named 1st Mars helicopter
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World Press Freedom Day: 3 May
World Press Freedom Day popularly known as World Press Day is observed annually on May 3.
The day is celebrated to raise awareness regarding the importance of freedom of the press.
The day is a reflection among media professionals about issues of press freedom and professional ethics.
The theme of World Press Freedom Day 2020 is "Journalism without Fear or Favour".
Yes Bank appointed Neeraj Dhawan as CRO
Yes Bank has appointed Neeraj Dhawan as its chief risk officer with immediate effect.
He has been appointed for a period of 3 years.
He assumed charge from 2 May 2020 in place of Ashish Agarwal, the current chief risk officer, who will be transitioning to a new role.
Prior to this, Dhawan was holding the position of chief risk officer for retail and business banking at Yes Bank.
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India has been placed at 53rd position among 117 nations in terms of budget transparency and accountability, according to the Open Budget Survey.
The survey, conducted by International Budget Partnership (IBP), has provided India's Union Budget process a transparency score of 49 out of 100, which is higher than the global average of 45.
New Zealand topped the chart with a score 87.
To know more about Union Budget 2020 highlights – click here
USAID announced support to India
The US will provide an additional $3 million to India, through its aid agency USAID (United States Agency for International Development), for mitigating the spread of Covid-19.
USAID is providing these funds to the Partnerships for Affordable Healthcare Access and Longevity (PAHAL) project.
USAID has provided $5.9 million to assist India in responding to the pandemic.
Manulife has acquired 49 per cent stake in Mahindra Finance's wholly-owned subsidiary Mahindra Asset Management Company.
Under the agreement, Manulife has invested $35 million or Rs 265 crore to pick up 49 per cent stake in Mahindra AMC.
Manulife Investment Management (Singapore) Pte. Ltd, has bought 49% stake in the joint venture where Mahindra Finance will now own the balance 51 per cent.
List of upcoming tropical cyclones names
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has released a new list of 169 cyclone names.
This list was adopted by the World Meteorological Department (WMO) panel in April 2019 and will be used to name tropical cyclones forming over the north Indian ocean after Amphan.
The North Indian Ocean includes the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.
International Astronomy Day: 2 May
International Astronomy Day is celebrated twice a year — one in autumn and another in spring.
The Astronomy Day 2020 was celebrated on May 2, 2020.
The world will celebrate the next Astronomy Day on September 26, 2020.
The idea behind observing the day is to create awareness and educate people about the beautiful universe.
To see the list of important days and events – click here
Commonwealth Youth Games postponed
The 2021 Commonwealth Youth Games was postponed to 2023 because of clash of dates with Tokyo Olympics, which has been pushed back by a year due to COVID-19.
The Tokyo Olympics were originally scheduled to be held from July 23 to August 8, 2020 but the event was postponed to 2021.
The seventh Commonwealth Youth Games were scheduled to take place from August 1-7, 2021 in Trinidad and Tobago.
Ramesh Babu: NTPC director operations
NTPC has appointed Ramesh Babu V as Director (Operations).
He graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from NIT Srinagar and completed his Masters in Thermal Engineering from IIT Delhi.
Before appointment as Director ( Operations), he was the Executive Director to the CMD.
He joined NTPC as Executive Trainee in 1987 and has more than 32 years' experience.
Kashmir saffron got GI tag
One of the most popular spices know for its aroma, the Kashmiri Saffron has received geographical indication (GI) tag.
As per the documents, the Geographical Indication Registry has approved the GI tagging on the saffron with GI no 635.
Kashmiri saffron is known to be superior in quality having more medicinal value as compared to any other saffron producers across the world.
Mercom India Research released a data report
Mercom India Research has released a data report, India Solar Market Leaderboard 2020.
It reveals the solar industry market leaders that emerged during the calendar year (CY) 2019.
It features the industry's leaders as well as their market share and shipment rankings.
India installed 7.3 GW of solar capacity in 2019 and secured its spot as the world's 3rd-largest solar market in the world.
Chhattisgarh topped a list
Chhattisgarh has topped the list of states in providing employment to over 18 lakh unskilled labourers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
Around 77.85 lakh people are engaged in different work under the scheme across the country.
The national participation of the workers working in the state is 24 per cent, which is the highest in the country.
Task Force on NIP presented its final report
The Task Force on National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) has submitted its Final Report on NIP for FY 2019-25 to Nirmala Sitharaman.
The Summary Report of the Task Force on National Infrastructure Pipeline for 2019-2025 has already been released by her on December 31st, 2019.
The Final Report is projecting total infrastructure investment of Rs 111 lakh crore during the period FY 2020-25.
CWMA brought under the Jal Shakti Ministry
The Centre has brought the Cauvery Water Management Authority under the Jal Shakti Ministry.
In 2018, the Centre constituted the CWMA to address the dispute over sharing of river water among Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry.
Water management authorities of other rivers too have been brought under the Jal Shakti Ministry.
The Tripura government has launched an 'Agro-Entrepreneur Facilitation Desk'.
It will help the entrepreneurs of the state to get subsidies and incentives from Central government funding agencies.
The desk would be set up at the Directorate of Horticulture and Soil Conservation and would incur an annual expenditure of Rs 24 lakh.
New book on Maharashtra's glorious past
A new book will dwell on Maharashtra's history and evolution from a rich past to the modern times and list its enormous contribution to the tapestry of the country's culture and thought.
The book "Shivaji in South Block: The Unwritten History of a Proud People", has been written by journalist Girish Kuber.
The book is scheduled for release in October 2020.
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Eminent author and columnist Ronald Vivian Smith, who is best known for his writings on Delhi passed away in April 2020.
He was an author to several books on Delhi, of which The Delhi That No One Knows was a bestseller.
Smith also wrote poetry and romantic novels like Jasmine Nights & The Taj.
He also worked with the Press Trust of India and The Statesman for a significant amount of time.
ICC Test rankings: India slipped to third
India lost the top spot in the ICC Test rankings to Australia, dropping to third after its stupendous 2016-17 record was eliminated from the annual update as per rules.
India yielded the top spot in Test rankings for the first time since October 2016 but continues to lead the ICC World Test Championship.
Australia now has 116 points and is followed by New Zealand (115) and India (114).
NASA's first Mars helicopter has a name now and the credit goes to 17-year-old Indian-origin girl Vaneeza Rupani.
A high school junior from Northport, Alabama, earned the honour of naming the helicopter after she submitted her essay into NASA's "Name the Rover" contest.
Destined to become the first aircraft to attempt powered flight on another planet, it is officially named Ingenuity.
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If you are using the latest Cacti, make sure you have the latest plugin for monitor from the repo too. If you do, I'll take a look at the line in question but generally $config is globally defined so shouldn't be having issues.
yeah I got the latest from github. I had to get a new functions.php for thold to install.
there are more than 0 down.. LOL sad to say that but I know there's one downed device I downed on purpose for testing.
it appears all is working.. thank you so much for your efforts!
I have hp printer that is being a PITA and not giving me toner status.. that's new.. LOL same model printers work for other devices, so its probably that printer's internal issue.. dang printers.
question about this plug in.. by default puts all the boxes in one row.. but the screen shot shown is much nicer.. how does one change this layout?
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Farah Confirmed For Grand Prix
Written by runABC Scotland on Tue 19 Aug 2014
After successfully securing a double gold at the European Championships, Mo Farah has already set his sights on Sunday's (24 August) televised Sainsbury's Birmingham Grand Prix. Farah's victory in Zurich will no doubt be a great source of relief during a tumultuous season that saw him withdraw from the Commonwealth Games.
The 31-year-old will compete in the 2 mile event in what will be his first competitive race in the UK this year. Farah will face a strong field that includes; silver medalist Andy Vernon, Emmanuel Bett, Bashir Abdi, Hassan Mead and Zane Robertson.
Speaking after clinching the 5,000m title, Farah, now the most successful individual athlete in the history of the European Championships, said: "I was gutted to have to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games but am really pleased that I'll be back on the track racing for British fans at the Sainsbury's Birmingham Grand Prix."
"I've retained my European 10,000m title and hope to be carrying the 5,000m gold medal with me as well when I come to Birmingham next week. I can't wait to race again in Birmingham, I have competed there many times in the past and the fans always give all the athletes huge support."
The Sainsbury's Birmingham Grand Prix and IPC Grand Prix Final is the combined finale of the Sainsbury's Series of major British athletics events. Tickets are available via British Athletics. BBC2 will be televising the event from 2:30-7pm on Sunday.
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'We Need to Act Now': Glaciers Melting at Unprecedented Pace, Study Reveals
Apr 29, 2021 2:06AM EDT Climate
Icebergs near Ilulissat, Greenland on Oct. 7, 2020. Ulrik Pedersen / NurPhoto via Getty Images
By Brett Wilkins
Researchers warned of the need for urgent climate action as a study published Wednesday revealed that the world's mountain glaciers are melting at an unprecedented pace, with glacial thinning rates outside Antarctica and Greenland doubling this century.
For the first time ever, researchers analyzed three-dimensional satellite measurements of the world's approximately 220,000 glaciers, except for those on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The results, published in Nature, show that the planet's glaciers lost 267 billion tonnes of ice each year from 2000 to 2019, the equivalent of 21% of sea level rise. The study's authors said that is enough water to flood all of Switzerland under six feet of water every year.
The paper notes that "thinning rates of glaciers outside ice sheet peripheries doubled over the past two decades."
The study's authors found that, on average, glaciers lost 4% of their volume during the two decades studied. They determined that the fastest-melting glaciers are in Alaska and the Alps. Alaska alone accounted for one-quarter of the world's glacial melt, with the Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound retreating by around 115 feet annually.
"A doubling of the thinning rates in 20 years for glaciers outside Greenland and Antarctica tells us we need to change the way we live," Romain Hugonnet of the University of Toulouse in France, the study's lead author, told The Guardian.
"It can be difficult to get the public to understand why glaciers are important because they seem so remote," he added, "but they affect many things in the global water cycle including regional hydrology, and by changing too rapidly, can lead to the alteration or collapse of downstream ecosystems."
Today, the Guardian is launching a new series on global glacier loss. First up: A new study finds glacial melt is driving a fifth of global sea level rise — and the speed of melting has doubled in just 20 yearshttps://t.co/BkO0BCyLb6 pic.twitter.com/R2ncR7iQyN
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Hugonnet said he was particularly concerned about glacier loss in high Asian mountain ranges, which are the sources of rivers upon which more than 1.5 billion people rely for water.
"India and China are depleting underground sources and relying on river water, which substantially originates from glaciers during times of drought," he told The Guardian.
"This will be fine for a few decades because glaciers will keep melting and provide more river runoff, which acts as a buffer to protect populations from water stress," said Hugonnet. "But after these decades, the situation could go downhill. If we do not plan ahead, there could be a crisis for water and food, affecting the most vulnerable."
Mark Serreze, director of the Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center, told The Associated Press that sea level rise — which is exacerbated by glacier melt — "is going to be a bigger and bigger problem as we move through the 21st century." Serreze did not contribute to the new paper.
The new study's authors implore policymakers to devise adaptive measures for the estimated billion people threatened with water and food insecurity before 2050.
"We need to act now," stressed Hugonnet.
Samuel Nussbaumer of the World Glacier Monitoring Service, which did not take part in the study, said that "the new paper will have a big impact."
"This is the most global, complete study. The gain in new information is huge," Nussbaumer told The Guardian. "The rapid change we see now is really interesting from a scientific point of view. Never before in history has change happened this fast."
The new study follows research published last week showing shifts in Earth's rotational axis — which have accelerated over the past three decades — are caused by melting glaciers.
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Jim Stroud, who works for English Cafe, has sent us an e-mail about an English language teaching video that he has recently made. The video is about the death of the pop artist Michael Jackson. You can watch it on the screen below. I like the way that Jim puts text on the screen as he is speaking to explain words and phrases that you might not understand.


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Movies exhibiting F Word
The Happytime Murders (2018)
A murder mystery set in a world where humans and puppets co-exist, but puppets are viewed as second-class citizens. When the puppet cast of an '90s ch
ildren's TV show begins to get murdered one by one, a former cop, who has since become a private eye, takes on the case. Written by Anonymous
Tags : violence
Hannah Gadsby Nanette (2018)
New Hannah Gadsby stand up comedy.
The Marine 5 Battleground (2017)
While working as an EMT back stateside Jake Carter after responding to a distress call, finds himself caught up protecting a person of interest from a
biker gang ruthlessly hunting them down.
Tags : sequel | f word | fifth part
King Arthur Excalibur Rising (2017)
A re-imagining of the Arthurian legend centered around Arthur's illegitimate son Owain who must learn to take up his father's mantle as king.
Tags : f word | blood
The Founder 2017 (2017)
The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into one of the biggest restaurant businesses in t
he world with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
Tags : f word
After he reconnects with an awkward pal from high school through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espiona
ge.
Tags : profanity | f word | high school
Korengal (2015)
Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war.
Danny Collins (2015)
An aging rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.
Tags : boyfriend girlfriend relationship | f word | doctor
About Alex (2014)
When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their l
ife decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.
Tags : f word | kiss | taxi | cigarette smoking
The English Teacher (2013)
Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) is a forty-year-old unmarried high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pennsylvania. She shares a s
mall apartment with two Siamese cats and her rich collection of great literature. She maintains no close personal relationships aside from those she has with her favorite authors and stories. Her life is far less complicated than the dramas she devours on the page, and she likes it that way. But Linda's simple life turns an unexpected page when former star pupil Jason Sherwood (Michael Angarano) returns to Kingston after trying to make it as a playwright in New York. Now in his 20s, Jason is on the verge of abandoning art, pressured by his overbearing father, Dr. Tom Sherwood (Greg Kinnear), to face reality and go to law school. Linda can't stand the thought of Jason giving up on his dreams so she decides to mount his play - a dark, angst-ridden, ambitious work - as a Kingston High School production, with flamboyant drama teacher Carl Kapinas (Nathan Lane) directing. As Linda, now well out of her normal comfort zone, takes further risks in life and love, the stage is set for highly comic downfall. With the play, her reputation, and her teaching career on the line, Linda finds an unlikely ally in herself. Amidst the ruins of her formerly perfect life, can she find a way to her own unique storybook ending?
Tags : teacher | high school | f word
Loosies (2012)
A young pickpocket in the New York subways, living a fast, free, lifestyle is confronted by a woman with whom he had a one night affair.
Tags : f word | new york city | thief
Harts War (2002)
A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder.
Tags : f word | pilot
Hollow Man (2000)
Scientists discover how to make people invisible, but their test subject becomes an insane killer who stalks them
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the early 1900s, this is a tale of love, betrayal, and brotherhood. After being discharged, Colonel Ludlow d
ecides to raise his three sons in the wilds of Montana, where they can grow up away from the government and society he has learned to despise. The three brothers mature and seem to have an unbreakable bond, until Susanna enters their lives. When Samuel, the youngest of the three, returns from college he brings with him his beautiful fianc�e, Susanna. The eldest son, Alfred, soon finds himself in love with his brother's fianc�e, and things get worse when he discovers a growing passion between Susanna and Tristan. Colonel Ludlow's favorite son, Tristan is willful and as wild as the mountains. As the brothers set out to fight a war in Europe, suspicion and jealousy threatens to tear apart their once indestructible bond.
Tags : f word | no opening credits | violence
White Men Cant Jump (1992)
Billy and Sydney think they're the best basketball hustlers in town, so when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. To add to the
ir problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair of gangster types. Written by Rob Hartill
Tags : basketball | caucasian
Fame (1980)
At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This
movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy…


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Mixvibes was founded in 1999 by Eric Guez in Paris, France
First releases
In 2003, the first version of the famous Digital Vinyl System software (Mixvibes DVS) was released. The revolutionary systems enable to mix and scratch digital files with timecoded vinyl and CD with any ASIO soundcard. Collecting the first comments and advice from the best DJs in the world and scratch champions, the DVS Pro was released in 2005 with top notch and real innovative features.
Along the years, Mixvibes has pursued its innocation focused strategy, investing in audio research and development on products like the VFX Control, a video solution to mix video like music. It then launched Cross DJ, a cutting-edge cross platform, cross technology DJ software. The first aim of Cross DJ was not to add complex features but to reintegrate DJs' music as the centerpiece of his performance. Rewritten from scratch, the latest version of Cross DJ brings Mixvibes' know-how and experience to MacOSX and Windows users. DJs can now control video at their fingertips, sample their music and use VST instruments.
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Since 2012, Mixvibes has released critically acclaimed apps such as Cross DJ and Remixlive, allowing DJs and producers to create everywhere. In early 2017, the product range has been completed with Remixvideo, an intuitive VJ software that can also be used as a plugin with one's favorite DAW. Since 1999, Mixvibes' products have been used by over 10 millions DJs and musicians worldwide thanks to you. We are very happy to receive advice, feedback and ideas from you on your ideal future digital DJing!