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Convict Cowboy (1995, USA)
Yeah, it's a bit schmaltzy at times, but this is an under-rated (or at least undeservedly less well known) addition to the prison sporting contest genre. It has its formulaic elements, too, but is a much better bet than the other rodeo movie of which I'm aware (Stir Crazy, 1980) and the series of The Longest Yard movies (which aren't about rodeos but take prison sporting events to some very strange places).
Jon Voight plays Ry Weston, a champion rodeo rider who is doing life for killing a bouncer with the bouncer's gun. The warden of the Montana prison in which he's housed (filmed in Canada's Calgary Correctional Center), believes that his prison ranch has an important rehabilitative impact on the prisoners. Given that everywhere the prisoners go on the ranch (mostly on horseback) they're followed by guards with shotguns at the ready, I'm not sure how prepared they'd be for the outside world, exactly. Unless that's what the streets of Montana are like. Anyway, the warden (played by Ben Gazarra, who took the lead prisoner role in 1962's Convicts 4), is very protective of his ranch and competitive when it comes to inter-prison rodeo contests. It matters.
Ry is the prisoner in charge of the ranch. He's not to be messed with. When relative short-termer Clay Treyton arrives on the scene, wanting to be a cowboy, Ry makes him earn his place. It's your traditional father-son, nothing is worthwhile unless you work for it sort of scenario. There are some minor diversions: a female vet arrives on the scene and the sexual tension between her and Ry (on whom she had a teenage crush years before) is palpable, with the armed guard maintaining a respectful distance so they can have a quick unsupervised snog at one point, before deciding that it's a bad thing, him being a prisoner doing life and all. And Clay is pressured to bring in drugs (under the threat of his mentor being killed if he doesn't) by the prison's stereotypical prison nasty. In the end it comes down to a critical final ride in the biggest rodeo contest with much at stake. Well, much at stake for some people.
Recounting the plot it sounds pretty predictable and tacky, but most of it works. The prison scenes are generally sound (although with the amount of drugs being trafficked it's a wonder anyone can stand up, let alone ride bulls), and Ry's character – hard taskmaster, knowing that he's on a good wicket and adamant that no-one is going to ruin it for him, and ready to pass on his skills to a kid who has a future in front of him – is not only pivotal but in the main, believable. I did say, 'in the main.'
Best of all, the rodeo action is beautifully filmed, and the movie unexpectedly avoids some predictable endings. Not too shabby, all up.
Posted on October 4th, 2009 at 6:10 pm. Updated on January 12th, 2010 at 9:06 pm.

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Paradox Lake to Peaked Hill
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Fun without Jiffy Pop
By Paul Grondahl
The supermarket was out of Jiffy Pop. I should have taken that as a sign of bad karma for the Adirondack camping trip my 10-year-old daughter, Caroline, and I had planned. The outing was intended as a father-daughter bonding experience in the final days of August, an end-of-summer coda before easing into the start of another school year for her.
Fifth grade beckoned, and none too reassuringly for Caroline, with the faint outline of middle school and the uncertainty of adolescence on the distant horizon.
I recalled the magic of Jiffy Pop from camping trips of my youth and wanted my daughter to enjoy that memorable experience for herself: the mesmerizing aluminum bonnet of popping kernels rising and swelling to improbable proportions when rubbed vigorously across the cooking grate of a campfire. It was a late-night snack as improvisational theater. You wanted to say abracadabra or applaud even before you tore open that steaming mushroom cloud and scooped up the first handful of buttery, salty delight.
"I miss mommy," came Caroline's plaintive moan, followed by a quivering bottom lip and tears welling up in her light blue-green eyes. We had finished dinner (macaroni and cheese) and were sitting at a picnic table at Paradox Lake State Campground near the hamlet of Severance. We had exhausted the possibilities of Kids' Scrabble and card games (spit and war) beneath flickering candlelight as dusk slid gently into nightfall. I bought a bundle of firewood from a guy in a battered pickup. Shortly after he left, Caroline's whining commenced afresh.
Map by Nancy Bernstein.
"I wanna go hoooooome!"
We had brought along our black Lab, Daisy, a big, lovable lug, as comic relief. But as Caroline continued to whimper and I tried to console her, the dog was busy snarfling under the picnic table in search of dinner crumbs. Some help this canine vacuum cleaner was turning out to be.
So here we sat, out of daylight, out of diversions and no Jiffy Pop. And I, alas, was beginning to run out of patience.
Earlier in the day, the father-daughter bonding thing was going rather well. We had rented a rowboat and rowed across the lake to a trailhead. It was Daisy's first time in a boat, and the dog had Caroline cracking up the whole way. She held the dog's leash as Daisy lunged at a bird, tried to lean over and eat a clump of shoreline grasses and generally made a nuisance of herself as she rocked the aluminum boat from side to side.
We managed to cross the lake without swamping, then pulled the boat ashore in a little bay and located the trail to Peaked Hill (accessible by water only). Daisy rambled up ahead as we hiked up a short, steep pitch before the trail flattened out. I held Caroline's hand and helped over a few fallen logs as we passed through cool, shadowy stands of balsam, birch and a pungent spruce swamp. As we neared the one-mile mark, we came to a lovely little pond surrounded by hemlocks. Caroline said she was tired. We were only halfway to the summit of Peaked Hill, which promised a fine view of lakes and peaks, but rather than goad her on and spoil her mood, we turned around. On the row back, Daisy laid down in the boat, worn out. We swam a bit at the sandy beach before returning to our campsite.
We had just finished the mac-and-cheese when Caroline started crying for mommy. My only strategy was to go to bed early, as soon as it got dark. That was fine with Caroline. I hadn't considered the Daisy factor, though.
You would be amazed how loud a Lab's bark can be when it explodes a few feet from your ear inside a tent. This went on all through the night, at least every 15 minutes or so, like clockwork, whenever a squirrel rustled through the leaves or a raccoon cracked a branch on the ground or the wind rattled tree limbs. Luckily, this was the end of the season, so the campground was nearly deserted. Daisy barked and barked and barked. I thought dogs could grow hoarse, but apparently not. We slept hardly at all.
At first light, I couldn't take it any longer, crawled out of the tent, started a fire and got some coffee going. I put Daisy on her leash, tethered her to a leg of the picnic table and gave her a dark scowl. Caroline shuffled out of the tent a short time later. I was prepared to pack up, expecting to hear her cries of missing mommy and wanting to go home. Surprisingly, she wanted to stay and thought Daisy's barking all night was very funny.
After breakfast (cereal, bagels and muffins), Caroline asked if we could go fishing. We loaded up our gear in the rowboat, let Daisy jump into her spot in the middle and set out for an island a short distance away. It was a magical place, this island, even if the fish weren't biting on worms, lures or spinners. We had it all to ourselves. Caroline was her old self again on the island, happy and playful and the inventor of a vast and complex make-believe world. She christened it Daisy-Caroline-Paul Island, or DCP for short. I put away the fishing gear. We'd been skunked. That didn't seem to matter as we explored the island, playing little games that Caroline made up. Daisy splashed around and ate a lot of grass. The sun was out. We were both laughing at Daisy, at our nonsense jokes, at the sheer giddiness of going sleepless in Severance. After a couple hours, I reluctantly told Caroline it was time to head back.
As we rowed away from DCP Island, Caroline looked back longingly and made up a little song about the place. We pulled up the boat, returned the oars and life preservers and packed up the tent and our gear at the campsite. As I toweled off Daisy and stuffed the last of our stuff into the car, the dog burrowed into the back seat next to Caroline. My daughter blurted out the unexpected: "Can we come back next year, Daddy? Back to DCP Island?"
I just nodded. Who knows when a love of the outdoors takes root in a child? It hadn't been a textbook camping trip. Despite the lack of Jiffy Pop, the Adirondack adventure apparently struck a chord in Caroline. I chalked it up to the improbably powers of DCP island.
And a lake called Paradox.
Peaked Hill
The 1,900-foot summit of Peaked Hill makes an excellent destination for those who want to combine a paddle with a short hike. The trail is little used, and the mountain offers good views of the Pharaoh Mountain Wilderness and Schroon Lake.
From the boat launch at the Paradox Lake State Campground, paddle north to the lake's narrows and look for the trailhead on the north shore. It's 1 mile to Peaked Hill Pond and 2.2 miles to the summit. The total ascent is about 1,100 feet.
When the trip is over, you can take a refreshing dip at the campground beach.
The campground, which closes for the season Oct. 9, charges $4 for a day pass and $14 for an overnight stay. After the campground closes, paddlers can still carry their boats to the lake.
The Paradox Lake campground is located on NY 74, about 4 miles east of Schroon Lake (Northway Exit 28).


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Build Your Chest From All Angles with Alq Gurley – Greg Zulak 1993 Article
May 18, 2017 Conor Heffernan Resources, Training One comment
It's always interesting to me to ask the various champions I interview how they prefer to train their chest muscles because chest has always been a difficult muscle group for me to develop. I always want to know what the other guys are doing. You never know when you might pick up something new that will help.
Some guys are power freaks, and will mostly handle monstrous poundages for low reps. Bertil Fox comes to mind as one pro who trains his chest this way. Then there are those who prefer light weight, high reps and lots and lots of sets. Serge Nubret is probably the best example of this mode of training. Without a doubt, though the preferred method of training chest is to use a variety of movements to hit the chest from various angles and to vary the reps from low to high. This approach seems to ensure that you hit all parts of the chest and the various muscle fiber types.
For Alq Gurley, Mr. Universe and recent third-place finisher at the Pro Ironman Invitational in February (which qualified him for the Mr. Olympia contest this fall), chest work is a combinations of the last two types of training. Like Serge Nubret he does plenty of sets — about 25 sets per chest workout — but he generally keeps his reps in the 10 to 12 range. He doesn't pyramid down to heavy sets of five or six reps, as he worries about possible career-threatening injuries. And he doesn't go up to 15 and 20 reps a set like Nubret, because he feels 10-12 reps are best for mass.
You'd definitely have to say that his method works well for him. His pecs are thick and full and developed in all sections, form side to side and top to bottom. He has a real champion's chest, something you'd expect form a Mr. Universe winner. But like any bodybuilder worth his salt, he's never satisfied with what he has and is always pushing for bigger and better development. If he were happy with his chest development, he wouldn't be blasting his pecs with 25 sets a workout.
I recently interviewed Alq on the phone and got the goods o his chest-training methods. Like most champions today, Alq trains on a four-way split routine, training two days on / one day off. He likes to split his routine this way;
Day 1: chest and biceps
Day 2: back and triceps
Day 4: shoulders and hamstrings
Day 5: quads and calves
ALQ'S HEAVY CHEST WORKOUT
To give you an idea of what a typical heavy chest workout might be (there is no exact heavy chest workout — the exercises, sets and reps will vary session to session), Alq begins with the flat barbell bench press. He will then move on to Smith machine incline presses, followed by flat dumbbell flyes and pec-deck flyes, finishing with cable crossovers. Each exercise is done for four or five sets of 10 to 12 reps, pyramiding the weight each set.
To give you a clearer idea, Alq starts his bench presses with a light weight and does 12 to 15 reps as warmup set. Usually this is done with 135 ponds. for his second set he goes to two plates (225 pounds) and does another 15 reps. This is still considered part of his warmup. Now he's ready to get down to the serious work of building his pecs.
For the third set he jumps to three plates a side (315 pounds) and aims for 12 reps. After a short break he moves to 365 pounds and gets about 10 reps. "That's about as heavy as I'll go," says Alq. "I don't particularly care about gong heavier than that because I'm concerned about injuries, as I have very tight muscles. I don't want to tear anything and jeopardize my career."
To complete his bench presses. Alq drops back down to 315 for his final s t and aims for another 10 to 12 reps. Keeping the reps in the 10 range with that kind of weight ensures his pecs are burning by the time he finishes his final set.
Since the bench press is his heavy movement of the day, he rests about two minutes between sets in order to allow for full recovery between sets and to permit the use of heavier weights. Alq likes to have his breathing and heart rate returned to normal before he attempts his next set. He trains with a partner, so by the time this partner completes his set and they change the weight, with a little extra time allotted for psyching up and getting mentally ready, it comes out to just about two minutes rest, a nice pace for off-season training.
Alq prefers to do his bench presses in constant-tension style. He presses the weight up to within two inches of lockout and lowers the bar slowly. He never locks out as he feels it in the joints too much, especially as the weights get heavy. "I believe in taking care of my joints," says Alq emphatically.
INCLINE PRESS
His next movement is the Smith machine incline press. Although he is already warmed up from the barbell bench presses, Alq still starts light and pyramids up in weight each set. He feels he is susceptible to injuries and prefers to take the time to do a few extra warmup sets than to risk a career-threatening injury.
His pyramid on the incline presses looks like this: 135 for 15, 225 for 12 to 15, 275 for 10 to 12, and another 275 for 8 to 10. Then he drops back down to 185 pounds for his final set and does 15 reps. As with the bench presses he rests about two minutes between sets and does the incline presses i a four-fifths constant-tension style.
With the upper and middle pecs taken care of, Alq turns his attention to the outer pecs. These are trained with flat dumbbell flyes. Again he starts light and pyramids up in weight each set, but this time he might rest only 90 seconds between sets.
His pyramid with dumbbell flyes is: 50s for 10, 60s for 10, 70s for 10 and 80s for 10. "I try to get a good stretch at the bottom of my flyes," explains Alq, "keeping tension o the pecs during the negative part of the rep. Then I squeeze my pecs hard and touch the bells together at the top. I don't believe in trying to touch the elbows together or turning the wrists in any strange positions for fear of injury. For me, simple is best."
The inner pecs are trained next with peck-deck flyes. Usually from or five sets of 10 to 12 reps are performed with about 90 seconds' rest between sets. Says Alq', "I like to use a weight I can't manipulate, one that lets me stretch and squeeze my pecs with each rep. The weight will vary form machine to machine, as the leverages seem to be different on all of them."
His final exercise, before he hits hi biceps, is cable crossovers, for of five sets of 10 10 12 reps. the way most people do cable crossovers make it primarily an inner pec movement. The way Alq does them, he works both the inner and outer pecs, and he works ore the middle and upper sections of the inner pecs.
To stress more of the outer pec, Alq steps forward several feet in front of the machine so that he has to reach back behind his body to grab the cable handles. to work the upper and middle sections of the inner pecs more, he pulls the handles in front of his chest, not down in front of the crotch. He holds the cable handles in the fully contracted position for a short count, squeezes hard and then slowly returns to the starting position, giving his pecs a good stretch along the way.
That completes his heavy chest workout. As you can see, by doing five chest exercises that work the chest form various angles, he ensures that all sections of this pecs get heavily worked . By the time he finishes this workout – 20 to 25 sets – his pecs are worked into the ground and pumped like Dolly Partons' melons.
ALQ'S LIGHT CHEST WORKOUT
The main difference between Alq's heavy chest workout and his light day is not so much the number of reps performed or the weight used, but is choice of exercises. The light chest workout consists primarily of various dumbbell presses and flyes, ad Alq feels he gets a better chest workout with dumbbells than barbells. He does ore exercises and works his chest from every conceivable angle. He also concentrates more on feeling his chest muscle work, although he still handles very heavy weighs for sets of 10 to 12 reps. He won't though ever sacrifice form and feel for weight.
His first exercise is the flat dumbbell bench press, four to five sets of 10 to 12 reps. He pyramids up to 120 to 130 pound dumbbell for 10 reps and then drops back down to 80s or 90s for 12 to 15 reps.
His second exercise is incline dumbbell presses, four to fives sets of 10 to 12 reps. On this exercise he pyramids up to 110 pound dumbbells for 10 reps, and drops back to 80s on his last set for 12 to 15 reps.
His second exercise is incline dumbbell presses, four to five sets of 10 to 12 reps. on this exercise he pyramids up to 110-pound dumbbells for 10 reps, and drops back to 80s on his last set for 12 to 15 reps.
Incline dumbbell flyes are his third exercise. He performs four to five sets of 10 to 12 reps, sticking to dumbbells in the 60-70 pound range.
To work more lower pecs, Alq then performs decline dumbbell flyes, again four to five sets of 10 to 12 reps, using 60-70 pound dumbbells. 'When I do decline dumbbell flyes," added Alq, "I do two different movements depending on my mood and what I'm trying to accomplish. If I'm trying to shape the lower wall of the pectoral, I'll do a supinating type movement. If I'm just trying to stretch the pecs and build overall mass, I'll do regular decline flyes," added Alq. "I do two different movements depending on my mood and what I'm trying to accomplish. If I'm trying to shape the lower wall of the pectoral, I'll do a supinating type movement. If I'm just trying to stretch the pecs and build overall mass, I'll do regular decline flyes."
"On the light day I don't train any quicker than on my heavy day," Alq summarized. "I'm working more for detail and trying to feel the muscle more. I'm trying to isolate different sections of my pecs. In order to isolate, say the upper or outer or inner pecs properly, I have to feel that part of the muscle as I do the exercise. If I try to go too heavy, I lose the feel and the isolation effect I'm after."
PRE-CONTEST CHEST TRAINING
Although it's hard to believe, Alq's pre contest training for chest increased even more in exercise choice and variety — what Al calls with a chuckle "very eclectic training." He throws everything at his chest but the kitchen sink. 'yeah," he says somewhat mysteriously, "I do a myriad of exercises for my chest before a show, some of which I can't disclose. You might say they're my secret exercises, and they work really well at bringing out all the cuts, striations and detail in my pecs."
When I asked Alq if he couldn't discuss these secret movements, he answered coyly, "Most off my chest exercises are just the regular chest movements we've already discussed, but I do a lot unusual dumbbell flyes and cable work — both kneeling and standing — to hit my chest from every possible angle. It's all angle work. And barbell work goes out the window until the show is over.
"My reps for most exercises will be in the 12 to 15 range, and my partner and I will train at a little quicker pace. as soon as he's done his set, I immediately begin mine. There's no wasting to time or energy."
To intensify his training, Alq normally tries t do a forced rep or two on the last couple of sets of each exercise, and he practices iso-tension or squeezing and posing his muscle between sets. Iso-tension helps to add hardness to the physique and carves in muscle separation. Maybe once every third or fourth workout he may do a superset to shock the muscles in a different way, but most of the time he prefers to concentrate on simple sets. he finds that doing many supersets tears him down too much and makes it difficult for him to recover from this already intense workouts.
Prior to a show Alq's weights will come down, partly because he is training at a faster pace and with a little more intensity, but mostly because he is consuming fewer calories and has less energy to train. Off-season he consumes about 8000 calories a day, with probably 300 grams of protein daily. that works out to about six meals a day, one of them a protein shake.
Three hundred grams of protein is only 1200 calories, so the other 6800 calories comes from lots of carbs and fats. Alq like other bodybuilders with fast metabolisms, such as Roger Steward and Larry Scott, finds he gains best on s diet high in fats.
"I totally believe in high fats for the guy with a fast metabolism, "I said to Alq.
"Gotta do it," he murmured. "Gotta do it man. Otherwise I'd shrivel up and blow away and be a very irritable bastard (chuckle)."
Prior to a show Alq down to only 3000 calories a day, but the actually consumes more protein than during the off-season, about 340 grams of protein daily. He still doesn't cut out all fat. He finds he actually gets harder consuming some fat. If he doesn't eat the fat, he gets too flat and smoother and smaller.
His metabolism is so fast that he doesn't ever need to do aerobics to get cut for his shows. He finds that hard contest dieting alone does it for him. Any aerobics he does are more for insurance and for his mind, to make him think he is doing everything possible to get ready for his contest.
So that's the story of how Mr. Universe Alq Gurley trains his chest. Big pecs alone do not a Mr. Olympia make, but you can bet Alq's big chest will turn heads at the big O this fall. If you you have problems with chest, give his multi-angle approach a try, but cut back on the sets by half unless you are a very advanced bodybuilder.
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Canada Elderberry flowers from early July to mid August in Central Minnesota. This is one native shrub that was present in our yard when we purchased our home. It grows in the lowest lying (moistest) spot in the yard under mature black cherry trees in part sun.
The flat topped inforescence is very showy and fragrant - usually 6 or more inches in diameter made up of many 5 petalled tiny white flowers. Many nectaring insects (bee, fly and beetle species) as well as butterflies are attracted to the flowers.
One butterfly that seems to particularly like this plant is the Summer Azure (Celastrina ladon neglecta). This is often a difficult butterfly to photograph because they're very skittish. They do however spend quite a bit of time nectaring on the elderberry flowers. This photo shows the female depositing eggs on the inflorescence.
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Canada Elderberry's native habitat is in low lying moisture rich soils along lakes and streams in sunny locations. The Red Elderberry is much more adaptable to dry woodland openings than the Canada Elderberry.
I chose to highlight it as the Native Plant of the Week because the ripening berries are very showy right now. They turn a shiny blue-black when mature and are held by bright pink petioles. The berries are highly sought by many bird species and thus the seed gets dispersed.
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Overflow from the White River runs over a road near the village of Royalton. Roads across Vermont were closed after heavy rain and snowmelt caused flooding.
Dave Ostrow left his home in Sudbury, Massachusetts, on Monday hoping to take his daughter on a college tour — but Mother Nature had some other plans.
"We're trying to get to Middlebury College. I'm not sure we can do that today," Ostrow told Rich Williams, who was diverting traffic for Vermont Agency of Transportation, in Royalton.
"You might not be able to do that from here," said Williams.
Ostrow and his family discovered that many of the roads that led into and out of the Upper Valley were closed due to high water. After a little consultation with Williams, the family decided to head all the way up to Burlington and then back down into Addison County.
But Ostrow had a pretty good attitude about the new route.
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Rich Williams, from the Vermont Agency of Transportation, diverts traffic near Royalton on Monday.
The National Weather Service said a flood watch would be in effect for much of Vermont through Tuesday morning after up to 2 inches of rain fell in some parts of the state.
On Monday, the VTrans map showed roads and highways closed throughout the Upper Valley, in Rutland County and in the Londonderry area in northern Windham County.
Vermont Emergency Management opened up its Emergency Operations Center in Waterbury early Monday to monitor the flooding. Mark Bosma, spokesman for Vermont Emergency Management, said some buildings in Londonderry were evacuated and there was a swift water rescue in Rutland City.
Bosma said the warm weather this weekend hastened snowmelt, and when the forecast called for heavy rain, state officials prepared for the flooding.
Bosma said state and local officials will assess the damage after the water recedes Tuesday.
Phil Bassett lives up on higher ground in Bethel, and he drove down into the valley to take a look at the water. Bassett said he hadn't seen the White River this high since Tropical Storm Irene.
Many roads remained closed through Monday, and Vermont Emergency Management cautioned drivers from trying to cross the water.
This winter's freeze/thaw cycles have been hard on Vermont roads. That's because when moisture gets into cracks then freezes, it causes potholes and frost heaves.
For residents of Brandon, the past year has been filled with noise, dust and the steady hum of roadwork. It's part of a nearly $30 million infrastructure upgrade that's remaking the town both above ground and below.


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Pairing automated in-app messages with personalized videos has enabled us to strike that delicate balance between being efficient and being human. Nearly 50% of our customers opened our first video message! Put your message together.
Nobody wants to pay money to test something that is not proven. While you may get affiliates to test your offers, if they lose money, they will not work with you again. Today most people use text messaging to communicate with their friends and family.
The key word in the phrase "beta testing" is not "beta," it's "testing." Beta testing is defined as testing of a release candidate by customers on customer systems.
Normally you may have different tools for messaging, attribution, a/b testing, etc that generate critical data points and you have to make sure all this data is either in the same repository and/or connected.
If we stop to think a little bit about our internal communication strategy we can be both more effective in getting the message through, and reduce the amount of time we spend on this (having specialized communication tools for PMs would help even further, but I'm working on that ).
Plain and simple, email marketing is the tactic of sending marketing messages via email. Intercom could be a great starting point especially if you also plan to send in-app messages or use live chat for sales or support. Ultimately, the best way to find the right timing is with testing.
Our user research told us that alumni loved sending messages to their community: They asked for advice on everything from how to find their next job to what neighborhood to live in in their new city. Nobody wanted to receive these messages.
But on one trip back from London, I got a surprising test message. In addition to saving the butts of new airlines, HiFly is also used to test new flight routes. This is an airline MVP — the minimum amount of effort to test the value of a new offering.


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Alice Cooper Seeks Fan Submissions For New Video
Bruce Henne | 04-30-2020
(hennemusic) Alice Cooper will be launching a brand-new song, "Don't Give Up" on May 15 and he is seeking fan submissions for the companion video.
"I know these times are hard, but there is hope and together we will win," says the rocker. "I wrote a new song, 'Don't Give Up', and I want ALL OF MY MINIONS to be a part of this special song!
"Share a photo or video of you holding a sign featuring A WORD FROM THE LYRICS to the song and you could be in the final video." Read more details and watch the promo video here.
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The problem with going out for breakfast or brunch is – quite literally, that it's breakfast or brunch. After 7-8 hours of compulsory starvation – (my personal definition of "sleep"), the last thing any of us want to do is spend another hour travelling for our very first meal. And yet, many of us still do, simply because it's a far better option than the prospect of cooking brunch at home, and – (if you're as "creative" as I am), having to call the bomb squad in to clean up the mess.
Despite the kitchen carnage, I still think that brunch is always more satisfying when you've made it with your own blood, sweat and maple syrup, but for those sudden moments of laziness, London is more than well-equipped. In every corner of the map, there is a suitably enticing brunch destination, and down by the southern banks, "Where The Pancakes Are" takes up the mantle. Eager to see the substance behind their aesthetics, Steak and I headed over to pilfer their precious pancakes.
Halal status: None of the meat here is halal, but non-meat / vegetarian / vegan options are available.
As you can imagine, the menu is simple, but broad, with a variety of sweet and savoury pancakes to suit every conceivable palate. Being the sugar-fiends that we were, we ordered a plate of "Forest Berries" – composed of two buttermilk pancakes, berry compote, greek cream, crushed meringue and toasted almond flakes. Though the pancakes were wonderfully soft, they were somewhat stodgy within, and lacked the fluffy, buttery texture that to me, is the defining characteristic of a seriously good pancake. The accompanying components however, intermingled seamlessly, with a mixture of fruity sweetness and tartness, and a pleasant, aromatic nuttiness. As far as pancake formulations go, this was a pretty safe and classical combination.
The same could not be said however, of the "Hummingbird". As well as suffering from the same dense stodginess, the pancakes were accompanied by an assortment of cinnamon-poached pineapple, greek cream , lime syrup, pomegranate seeds, and toasted coconut – (or at least, a rather small pinch of it). For us, the combination of sharp pineapple, sharp lime syrup, and fairly sharp pomegranate seeds was fairly repetitive on the palate, and the lack of a sufficient amount of toasted coconut – (or some other contrasting ingredient), meant that there was no opportunity for our tastebuds to have a break. As a result, we did not think that this particular pancake formulation worked particularly well.
Across the menu, pancakes range between £9 to £12, drinks cost between £2 to £5, and extra items come in at £1.50 to £3 – (including maple syrup, which is not included with any of the pancakes). Whilst these prices are in line with expectations, we do feel that both the volume and calibre of the breakfast dishes fall short of satisfaction. Indeed, by the time I scoffed up my pancakes, I began to wonder whether "Where The Pancakes Are" was in fact, supposed to be written as "Where Are The Pancakes?". As such, if you're not already from the southern banks of London, it may not be worth making the trip – particularly in a city that has no end to its variety of breakfast destinations.
Service on the other hand is warm and attentive, and whether you're waiting in the queue outside or dining comfortably inside, staff members will ensure that you are not forgotten about.
Credit must also be given to the styling within, which is comprised of an airy combination of pinewood, greenery, and tall, elegant light fixtures. If, like many young individuals, you thrive and feed on aesthetics more than you do on pancakes, the attractive decor you'll find here may just be all you need. Where The Pancakes Are can be found a five to ten minute walk away from Borough or London Bridge stations, and limited parking options are available nearby.
In the era of Instagram, it can often be difficult to separate aesthetics from substance, and in the case of Where The Pancakes Are, we'd say that the balance lies heavily towards the former. Perhaps, as a result of being big brunch buffs at home, Steak and I are simply a lot more critical, but by the end of our rather small brunch, our overwhelming feeling was one of disappointment. From our perspective, Where The Pancakes Are isn't the only place where the pancakes are, and – truth be told, you can certainly find far better places elsewhere.


In Tamerlane & Tamerlane III, the plaintiff was a landlord providing rent subsidized housing under the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Community Development Program (RHCD). Prior to the incident that brought about the eviction complaint, the tenant was served with written notice advising the tenant not to enter the management office because of a prior incident in which she threatened, screamed and cursed at the management staff.
However, the month after she was given that written notice, the tenant returned to the management office following an incident regarding the drop-off of her children at a bus stop. In the management office, the tenant saw another resident who was involved in the incident, and began assaulting the other resident, breaking her eyeglasses and cutting her forehead. The property manager also alleged being assaulted by the tenant.
The landlord served the tenant with a Notice of Termination in compliance with New Jersey's Eviction Law, N.J.S.A. 2A:18-53 through 2A:18-54, on the same day of the last incident, setting forth the facts of the assault on another resident and property manager. Ten days later, the landlord filed the complaint for eviction. The Appellate Division noted that the landlord did not have to wait 10 days after the Notice of Termination was served in order to file the complaint. Under N.J.SA. 2A:18-61.1 et seq., there are 17 different grounds for evicting a tenant for cause. If the basis is for disorderly conduct or other criminal activity, as indicated in N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.2(a), only three days' notice is required.
At trial, the landlord-tenant judge did not find the defendant tenant's testimony as to her version of the events to be credible, stating that the defendant did beat the other resident without justification. However, the judge declined to rule whether there was any intent to assault the property manager, though there was testimony that the defendant swung at the property manager, striking the property manager's hand, causing her to lose a fingernail.
On appeal, the Appellate Division found no reason to disturb the factual findings of the landlord tenant judge. The defendant argued unsuccessfully on appeal that the landlord failed to include Federal Regulation 7 C.F.R. § 3560.159(d) [termination of tenancy based on criminal activity] as a grounds for eviction in the lease, and that the landlord failed to serve the tenant with a prior written Notice of Violation as set forth in the lease and required under Federal Regulation 7 C.F.R. § 3560.159(a) (2004). The Appellate Division disposed of these arguments, noting that Federal regulations allow a landlord to terminate the tenancy of a tenant for criminal activity under 7 C.F.R. § 3560.159(d), that threatens the health, safety, or right to peaceful enjoyment of the premises by other residents including property management staff residing on the premises, pursuant to 24 C.F.R. § 5.859(a)(1). In sum, the Appellate Division found that the lease, New Jersey's summary eviction statute, and federal regulations permit termination of a tenancy for criminal activity in the form of assaulting another resident in the complex or a landlord's employee.
At Griffin Alexander, P.C., our team has extensive experience representing New Jersey landlords, apartment and property owners in complex issues with residents. We understand the difficulties in issues such as those presented in Tamerlane & Tamerlane III v. Andrea Hollis, and can provide valuable legal advice on how to handle such matters.


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Posted on	September 2, 2014 3:41 pm by Maulin Shah
Facebook made headlines in 2012, not only for its widely anticipated IPO, but also for its large scale patent acquisitions from IBM and Microsoft. Prior to its IPO, Facebook purchased 750 patents from IBM, and another 650 patents (originally owned by AOL) from Microsoft.
Envision IP analyzed Facebook's current US patent portfolio to identify recent patent acquisitions the company has made. Taking a look at patent acquisitions recorded at the USPTO in 2013 and 2014, Facebook acquired 54 patents from Fujifilm Corporation, 22 patents from AT&T, and 10 patents from Vega Vista, Inc.
The Fujifilm patents relate to image and video data compression, server technology for image playback and transfer, and image editing and presentation systems. A few interesting patents relate to printing images via a peer-to-peer network (US 7,617,279), and a point-of-sale terminal for printing images (US 7,484,661).
The AT&T patents relate to technologies for logging, aggregating and analyzing communications related data (for example, US 7,454,470), determining relationships within a social network (for example, US 8,429,119) and personalized content delivery (for example, US 8,341,018).
The Vega Vista patents relate to display and interface technologies for hand-held devices that incorporate inertial sensors (for example, US 7,647,175), head and motion tracking technologies (for example, US 6,288,704), and virtual displays (for example, US 6,084,556).
In addition to the above, Facebook made the following acquisitions during 2013-2014 as well:
-6 patents related to mobile check-in from inventor Neeraj Jhanji (Envision IP analyzed these patents in April 2012)
-3 patents related to location and navigation technologies from Smartebook.com Co. Ltd.
-3 patents related to speech translation from Mobile Technologies LLC
-1 patent related to facial recognition from Fawkes Acquisition Corporation / Face.com, Inc.
-1 patent related to search engines from Truveo, Inc.
The broad spectrum of technologies obtained by Facebook via these acquisitions may shed light on the company's future offerings, which could possibly range from digital printing services to interactive wearable devices.
On another note, Envision IP identified 1,647 US patents currently assigned to Facebook. Initially, this figure indicates that the vast majority of patents owned by Facebook have been the result of acquisitions, instead of resulting from Facebook's own research and development efforts.
However, Facebook currently owns 1,182 published, pending US patent applications that it originally filed. Facebook has seen tremendous growth in its own patent application filings, from a mere 69 filings in 2009, to 649 filings in 2012. The rate of filings has been impressive, with a 158% increase in year-over-year filings from 2010 to 2011, and a 106% increase from 2011 to 2012.
Thus, while its current portfolio of issued patents has resulted primarily from third-party acquisitions, we expect the portfolio to contain an increasing number of original Facebook patents in the coming years as the company's patent applications begin to issue.
*Patent applications typically publish 18 months after their priority date, thus we have not analyzed the 2013-2014 patent application data.
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Q: How to add space for item inside the ComboBox in UWP? I have a ComboBox binded to some enum type. I'm wondering how to add space for the enum items. I tried to use converter, but failed.
The enum type is like this
public enum MaxEEAge
{
    TwoWeeks = 0,
    OneMonth = 1,
    ThreeMonths = 2,
    SixMonths = 3,
    All = 4,
}

I want the ComboBox show something like "Two Weeks" instead of TwoWeeks

A: You have a couple of options,
Add a [Description] attribute then fetch it when needed:
[Description("Two weeks")]
TwoWeeks = 0

or
Implement some method like ObjectNames.NicifyVariableName in Unity.

A: Use collection instead of enum like this
    public class MaxXXAgeMembers
        {
            public MaxXXAge MaxXXAge { get; private set; }
            public string Description { get; private set; }

            public static readonly IReadOnlyList<MaxXXAgeMembers> Options = new ReadOnlyCollection<MaxXXAgeMembers>(new[]
            {
                new MaxXXAgeMembers { MaxXXAge =  MaxXXAge.OneDay, Description = Strings.SettingSync_OneDay},
.......
            });

            public static MaxXXAgeMembers FromMaxXXAge(MaxXXAge maxXXAge)
            {
                return Options.First(option => option.MaxXXAge == maxXXAge);
            }
        }

Write your own converter by using the FromMaxXXAge, it would be easy to achieve this.
Bind to this
public IReadOnlyList<MaxXXAgeMembers> MaxXXAgeMemberGroup { get { return MaxXXAgeMembers.Options; } }

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Under 21: Finland & Lithuania
Wales Under 21
Danny Alfei has withdrawn from the squad. Called up as replacement is Gethin Jones (Everton).
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Sunday 31st August 2014
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Andorra v Wales
Vokes still out.
Dummett's call-up is a fillip.
Huws looking forward.
Taylor puzzled.
Bale will play.
Ched return?
Dummett called up.
Roberts signs.
Thursday 28th August 2014
Bid for Joe Allen.
Coleman set to name squad.
Israel match postponed.
Andorra v Wales qualifier may have to move.
Collison starts talks.
Dilemma for Williams.
Evans may return.
Thomas celebrates.
Chase on for King.
Lynch eager.
Monday 25th August 2014
Wales Under 21 squad
Forthcoming UEFA qualifiers against Finland and Lithuania. Squad named.
Under 19 - Montenegro v Wales
Wales will travel to Montenegro for two friendly matches in early September. Squad named.
Thursday 21st August 2014
Dummett hopes.
Ribeiro signs.
Davies on Spurs debut.
Wales eye holy grail.
Andorra v Wales, Squad announement
Chris Coleman set to announce Wales squad.
Tuesday 19th August 2014
Collison training.
Gunter wants fast start.
Coleman to hangout.
Jailed Evans 'to return to United'.
Petition to stop Ched.
Not ruling out a move for Gabbidon.
Ramsey ready to take on new role.
Bale shows off new muscular physique.
Vokes uses anti-gravity treadmill.
Friday 8th August 2014
Easter has been a stand-out performer.
Hughes full time role.
Blake must prove his fitness.
Hughes: I'll always have a place in my heart for Watford.
Huws ready to get stuck in.
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Q: JPA Left Join and Count I want to retrieve all Foo objects and for every Foo object the number of associated Bar objects (zero or more) from the database. I want to do this in one single query and I don't want to fetch lists of Bar objects just to get their sizes.
The following works, but obviously only returns Foo objects that have matching Bar objects:
@NamedQuery(name = "Foo.findAndCountBars", query = "
    SELECT new com.test.MyResultContainer(f, COUNT(b.id))
    FROM Foo f, Bar b
    WHERE f.uniqueKey = b.uniqueKey
    GROUP BY f.id
")

Notice that Foo and Bar are not connected via primary keys. The following is what I want to achieve (without an explicit relationship such as @OneToMany in Foo):
@NamedQuery(name = "Foo.findAndCountBars", query = "
    SELECT new com.test.MyResultContainer(f, COUNT(b.id))
    FROM Foo f LEFT JOIN Bar b
    ON f.uniqueKey = b.uniqueKey
    GROUP BY f.id
")

I tried different syntax variations, but basically Eclipse tells me that b.id is unknown because Bar is not in the FROM clause. How can I do this?


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Join us to explore the many development opportunities on the horizon in Western Mass! The 2020 Virtual Western MA Developers Conference will connect business leaders, developers, real estate professionals, site selectors, economic development professionals, and public officials from Western MA and across the Northeast.
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ESE President and CEO, Eugene J. Cassidy, Elected Chairman of the International Association of Fairs and Expositions
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Ruopeng An
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Applications of artificial intelligence and big data analytics in public health
Environmental and policy influences on dietary behavior, physical activity, and obesity
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Ruopeng An conducts research to assess environmental influences and population-level interventions on weight-related behaviors and outcomes throughout the life course. In particular, his work assesses socioeconomic determinants and policies that affect individuals' dietary behavior, physical activity, sedentary lifestyle, and adiposity in children, adults of all ages, and people with disabilities. His research aims to develop a well-rounded knowledge base and policy recommendations that can inform decision-making and the allocation of resources to combat obesity.
An's research has been funded by federal agencies and private foundations. He serves as a research grant reviewer for NIH, HHS, NSF, and French National Research Agency. An has wide teaching and methodological interests, including applied artificial intelligence (machine and deep learning), quantitative policy analysis (causal inference, cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis, and microsimulation), applied econometrics and regression analysis, systematic review and meta-analysis, and data storytelling.
An's numerous publications (over 180) include articles in journals such as American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Obesity Reviews, Social Science & Medicine, and Pediatric Obesity. His research has been widely featured in media, such as TIME, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Reuters, USA Today, Bloomberg, Forbes, Harvard Health, Atlantic, Guardian, CBS, FOX, ABC, NPR, NBC, and CNN. In 2015, he received the Judy K. Black Early Career Research Award from American Academy of Health Behavior. In 2018, he was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology.
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If you've been following my recent introduction to n-categories, you'll note that I haven't actually given the definition of n-categories! I've only defined categories, and hinted at the definition of 2-categories by giving an example, namely Cat. This is the 2-category whose objects are categories, whose morphisms are functors, and whose 2-morphisms are natural transformations.
The definition of n-categories - or maybe I should say the problem of defining n-categories - is actually surprisingly subtle. Since I want to proceed at a gentle pace here, I think I should first get everyone used to the 2-category Cat, then define 2-categories in general, then play around with those a bit, and then move on to n-categories for higher n.
If f: x → y, then F(f): F(x) → F(y).
If fg = h, then F(f)F(g) = F(h).
If 1x is the identity morphism of x, then F(1x) is the identity morphism of F(x).
called the "fundamental groupoid" functor, which plays a very basic role in algebraic topology.
Well, not quite; it's a homotopy class of paths. But still, something very interesting is going on here: we are turning something "concrete", namely the space X, into a corresponding "abstract" thing, namely the groupoid Π1(X), by thinking of "concrete" paths as "abstract" morphisms. Here I am thinking of geometrical concepts as "concrete", and algebraic ones as "abstract".
and there is no problem with associativity, since we can easily reparametrize the paths to make (fg)h = f(gh). (If you haven't thought about this, please do!) If we do not work with homotopy classes, it's a pain to define composition in such a way that (fg)h = f(gh). Unless you are sneaky, you only get that (fg)h is homotopic to f(gh); there are ways to get composition to come out associative, but they are all somewhat immoral. As we shall see, if we want to preserve the "concreteness" of X as much as possible, and work with morphisms that are actual paths in X rather than homotopy equivalence classes, the best thing is to work with n-categories. More on that later.
Let's see; I claimed there is a functor Π1: Top → Gpd, but so far I have only defined Π1 on the objects of Top; we also need to define it for morphisms. That's easy. A morphism F: X → Y in Top is a continuous map from the space X to the space Y; this is just what we need to take points in X to points in Y, and homotopy classes of paths in X to homotopy classes of paths in Y. So it gives us a morphism in Gpd from the fundamental groupoid Π1(X) to the fundamental groupoid Π1(Y). There are various things to check here, but it's not hard. We call this morphism Π1(F): Π1(X) → Π1(Y). With a little extra work, we can check that Π1: Top → Gpd, defined this way, is really a functor.
And so on... we do this forever and get a big "simplicial complex," which we can think of as the topological space KG. The reader might want to compare "week70", where do the same thing for a monoid instead of a groupoid. Really, one can do it for any category.
1) J. P. May, Simplicial Objects in Algebraic Topology, Van Nostrand, Princeton, 1968.
Now, in what sense is the functor K: Gpd → Top the "reverse" of the functor Π1: Top → Gpd? Is it just the "inverse" in the traditional sense? No! It's something more subtle. As we shall see, the fact that Cat is a 2-category means that a functor can have a more subtle and interesting sorts of "reverse" than one might expect if one were used to the simple "inverse" of a function. This is something I alluded to in "week74": inverses become subtler as we march up the n-categorical hierarchy.
for all x in H and y in H'. This is not the same as the "inverse" of F; indeed, it exists even if F is not invertible. This sort of "reverse" operator is deeply related to the "reverse" functors I am hinting at above, and for this reason those "reverse" functors are also called "adjoints". This is part of a profound and somewhat mysterious relationship between quantum theory and category theory... which I eventually need to describe.


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Ochyrocera juquila est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Ochyroceratidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique d'Oaxaca au Mexique.

Description
Le mâle holotype mesure  et la femelle paratype .

Étymologie
Son nom d'espèce lui a été donné en référence au lieu de sa découverte, Santa Catarina Juquila.

Publication originale
 Valdez-Mondragón, 2009 : Two new species of the spider genus Ochyrocera (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Mexico. Journal of Arachnology, , ,  (texte intégral).

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Notes et références

Ochyroceratidae
Espèce d'araignées (nom scientifique)
Faune endémique d'Oaxaca

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"Silence is the universal refuge,…our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail."
There is a good chance (75/25) that if an ambulance crew arrives to pick you up; they will make fun of you once you've been deposited safely at the ER.
It is not because we are cold hearted or cruel, it's because we need an outlet to diffuse the stress and emotion that could easily kill us if we took every thing so seriously.
There are those calls, however, that still our voices, that leave us speechless.
We arrived in front of a sprawling house with an immaculate lawn. A State Police car was already parked at the curb.
Ed, the senior medic, stopped to ask her if she was okay. Her teeth were chattering in between the OH MY GOD's. Obviously, she was not okay.
The trooper met us at the door and led us upstairs to a bedroom.
As I always do, I pay close attention to the details of the house. This one was perfect, everything sparkling, clean, in its proper place. It was like walking into a show home.
He was lying on the floor in the bedroom: The gun not far from his right hand. His face looked like it was made of wax and someone had grabbed the left side of his head and stretched it out as far as it could go. He looked like a disfigured comic book character. A villain in search of Batman and Robin. There was brain and bone spattered on the ceiling. I was fearful it would fall on me so for the most part, I stood in the doorway.
There was a bullet hole in the window.
There were pictures of him and the hysterical woman all over the room. On their wedding day, on a boat, on a beach, under a Christmas tree. He was 29. He was Esquirish good looking.
He left a note that wasn't very telling. He apologized to his family. To his wife. Sorry. I just couldn't take it anymore. No matter what I do, I'll never be good enough. I hope you forgive me for the embarrassment this will cause you.
We waited until the woman's mother arrived to drive her away from this perfect house, with the nice cars, and the once handsome husband, and the crystal blue swimming pool in the perfectly green back yard.
Ed had kept trying to calm her down but she just kept pacing, kept whispering "Oh My God"…but at one point she crossed the lawn to where I was standing and grabbed my arm with her cold, tiny, hand.
Her eyes were wild, like a trapped animal, and when she had touched my arm, it was as if she had instantly transferred her pain into my heart and for a moment, I felt the shock of it all. The violence, the loss, the end of life as she knew it. I opened my mouth to say something but there was not a word to be found.
We drove back to the station in total silence. No jokes, no music, no questions.
So, if you ever have the unfortunate occasion to find yourself in the care of EMS, remember this: if you catch an eye roll or smirk out of the corner of your eye, be thankful: It's the silence that you should worry about.
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