2018 Screened on national television "FRANCE 2".
This film figures in the list of 250 best animated short films, composed in August 2012 by Lee Price, Director of Development at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (Philadelphia, PA), along with six other panelists : Scott Bussey, Jorge Didaco, Waldemar Hepstein, Bill Kamberger, Robert Reynolds, Sulo Vatanen, and additional assistance from participants on the IMDb Classic Film message board.
It also figures in the The Animation Show of Shows (Box Set 7) published by Ron Diamond (Academy® membership), which contains academy award winners, nominees and award-winning shorts.
A huge distribution of 35-mm copies, in french's cinemas with Les Films du Préau : a French film distribution company for children in cinemas as well as on DVDs.
2005 Article on the film "Under the Stone" published in ASIFA's « Cartoons" magazine #2, magazine edited by the Ottawa Animation Festival's Artistic Director Chris Robinson and John Libbey.


更特别的是煲仔饭的饭被光滑的煲 底烧出的一层金黄的锅巴,与普通 锅巴不同的是不但脆而且滋味深 长,实为一煲之精华. Pot Rice is a traditional cuisine in Guangdong. The Cantonese Pot Rice has more than 20 flavors with overwhelming aroma, e.g. Sausage Pot Rice, Pork Rib Pot Rice, and Chicken Pot Rice. You can have every flavor you expect to find, so just name it. With local materials and cooking method, you can taste the flavor of Cantonese traditional refreshments in the sweet-smelling rice. The perfect combination of aroma of the meat and the delicious rice will definitely arouse your appetite. The special thing about Pot Rice is that during cooking, the smooth bottom of the clay pot creates a layer of golden rice crust which differs itself from other rice crusts for it's not only crispy but also tastes tremendously good, and that's exactly the essence of Pot Rice.


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The SND-Sound Format
Translation provided by Ko.
What format is the data of the sound file XXX.SND in?
I have analyzed the sound file XXX.SND used in Ruputer (^_^)v.
Is it of any help for the programming of utilities to figure out the formats of the tempo data and the first half of the note data?
The followings are the outcomes of my analysis up to the present.
<I could solve the mistery of the data format of the first half of the tempo data (^_^)v> ('98.7.21)
Finally, I solved the last mistery, the data format of the first half of the tempo (^_^)v
It is only speculative, though..... (^_^;
<I found two different types of formats of the data of the musical notes and rests.> ('98.7.20)
When I was testing the beta program of "RupSound" which Mr. Arataku had made, I found that there are more than one "format type of the musical notes and rests"; thereby I had him make necessary corrections for them in a hurry.
With a feat of strength (^_^;, I examined the relation between the data of notes and the tempo and found the followings:
( 1 ) There are two kinds of formats for the first half data of the musical notes and rests.
( 2 ) The two formats can be discerned by checking if the initial byte of the second half of the tempo data is "00" or "02."
( 3 ) The first half of the data format of the musical notes and rests shows the duration of the physical sound.
These are the hypotheses which I have made.
I will explain on the details of these hypotheses below.
<A part of the format of the tempo data was understood.> ('98.7.17)
I have found the way to understand the speed of the tempo, which is as follows:
The last two bytes of the second half of the data show the speed of the tempo.
As they are handling two-byte long data, the upper byte and the lower byte changes their positions on the memory.
For examples, "XX XX 80 02" -> "0280(H)" -> "640"
"XX XX 78 00" -> "0078(H)" -> "120"
Therefore, these two bytes in the second half explain the speed of the tempo.
<Corrections of my mistakes. m(_._)m> ('98.7.17 added)
In the list of the tempo data,
3 0 07 00 10 00 00 00 1F 00 should be 07 00 10 00 00 00 1E 00.
2 1 4 07 00 03 00 07 00 03 00 should be 07 00 03 00 02 00 D6 00. I copied them wrong.
4 8 Data for this were omitted by mistake.
I apologize for any possible troubles caused by these mistakes of mine.
<File size>('98.6.25 added)
When I made a big piece of music, the PC utility "Sound creation" returned an error massage "最後の音符1個が書けませんでした。" [which means "The last one note could not be written."]
When I checked the size of the file which had been written, the size was "2,046 bytes."
As one musical note takes 4 bytes to 7 bytes of data space, "2,048 bytes" might be the maximum limit.
Therefore, please be careful of this when you make big pieces of music.
<Data sequence>
The data sequence of the sound file is as follows:
07 00 xx xx xx xx xx xx ...... FF FF xx 00 xx xx xx xx xx xx ... FF FF
tempo (first half) pitch note note pitch tempo (second half) pitch note pitch note
The initial 4 bytes show the data on the tempo, and then a pitch (1 byte) + a note (1 byte) combination follows, corresponding to one sound (musical symbol) except for the cases of the 1/2 note and parts of the whole note.
The 1/2 note and parts of the whole note are expressed using a couple of numbers of the sets of a pitch (1 byte) + a note (1 byte).
These data continue to the terminator "FF FF" (2 bytes).
After this, the initial 4 bytes show the data on the tempo, and then a pitch (1 byte) + a note (1 byte) combination follows, corresponding to one sound (musical symbol).
The second half of the data are expressed as a pitch (1 byte) + a note (1 byte) combination correspondind to one sound (musical symbol), irrespective of the kinds of notes.
The terminator "FF FF" (2 bytes) shows the last of the data.
For examples, in the case of "tempo 120, c4 (do), 1/4 note, e5 (mi), 1/2 note,"
the data are as follows:
07 00 04 00 1A 38 2A 30 FF FF 00 00 78 00 1A 0A 2A 0E FF FF
<tempo> ('98.7.21 added)
The tempo data consist of the first 4 bytes and the latter 4 bytes. The contents of their data vary depending on the kind of tempo.
The third byte shows the clock number to define the physical speed of the tempo.
The first byte in the second half defines the number of clocks of the 1/4 note. "00" shows 8 clocks and "02" shows 6 clocks.
From 1 and 2, we get the speed of the tempo by using the following equation.
tempo = 3,840 /("clock number in 1" x "number of clocks of the 1/4 note")
The 3rd and 4th bytes in the second half show the number of the tempo.
"1F 00" -> "00 1F" -> 30
"E0 10" -> "10 E0" -> 480
tempo data physical speed expressed
first second 3rd byte 1/4 note calculated 3&4th bytes
30 07 00 10 00 00 00 1F 00 16 8 30 30
32 07 00 0F 00 00 00 20 00 15 8 32 32
34 07 00 0E 00 00 00 22 00 14 8 34 34
36 07 00 12 00 02 00 24 00 18 6 36 36
38 07 00 0D 00 00 00 26 00 13 8 37 38
40 07 00 0C 00 00 00 28 00 12 8 40 40
44 07 00 0B 00 00 00 2C 00 11 8 44 44
46 07 00 0E 00 02 00 2E 00 14 6 46 46
48 07 00 0A 00 00 00 30 00 10 8 48 48
54 07 00 09 00 00 00 36 00 9 8 53 54
58 07 00 0B 00 02 00 3A 00 11 6 58 58
60 07 00 08 00 00 00 3C 00 8 8 60 60
108 07 00 06 00 02 00 6C 00 6 6 107 108
120 07 00 04 00 00 00 78 00 4 8 120 120
160 07 00 03 00 00 00 A0 00 3 8 160 160
214 07 00 03 00 02 00 D6 00 3 6 213 214
240 07 00 02 00 00 00 F0 00 2 8 240 240
480 07 00 01 00 00 00 E0 01 1 8 480 480
<Pitch> from b3 to c8
The pitch is shown by the first byte in the sound data (a combination of a pitch [1 byte] + a note [1 byte]).
There are pitches ranging from the lowest b3 (si) to c8 (do) over 4 octaves.
The musical rests are expressed as 56.
do do# re re# mi fa fa# sol sol# la la# si do
c c# d d# e f f# g g# a a# b
4 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F 20 21 22 23 24 25
5 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F 30 31
6 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D
7 3E 3F 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4A
<Note & rest> ('98.7.20 added )
The data for notes and rests are divided into the first half and the second half.
Each datum in the second half corresponds with each sound (musical symbol), and the sequence of order of the data is the same as sequence of the symbols in the PC utility "Sound creation."
The data in the first half probably show the physical duration of the sound.
I assume that there are two separate tables of the durations of the notes for the two separate series of the tempo speeds, because we can not use a single number and get successful division--the divisible numbers differ among different speeds of the tempos.
As for the discrimination of the two tables, we use the first table if the first byte in the second half of the tempo data is "00," or we use the second table if it is "02."
(1) For the tempos "00 00 XX XX" (30, 32, 34, 38, 40, 44, 48, 54, 60, 70, 80, 96, 120, 160, 240, 480)
1/32 note 1/16 note 1/8 note 1/4 note 1/2 note whole note
first second first second first second first second first second first second
31 00 32 02 34 06 38 0A 30 0E 40 30 11
dotted 33 03 36 07 3C 0B 40 38 0F 40 40 30 12
double-dotted 33 04 37 08 3E 0C 40 3C 10 40 40 40 38 13
triplet 31 01 31 05 33 09 35 0D
1/32 rest 1/16 rest 1/8 rest 1/4 rest 1/2 rest whole rest
01 64 02 66 04 6A 08 6E 00 72 00 00 75
dotted 03 67 06 6B 0C 6F 00 08 73 00 00 00 76
double-dotted 03 68 07 6C 0E 70 00 0C 74 00 00 00 08 77
triplet 01 65 01 69 03 6D 05 71
(2) For the tempos "02 00 XX XX" (36, 46, 50, 58, 64, 72, 92, 108, 128, 214, 320, 640)
31 00 31 02 33 06 36 0A 3C 0E 40 38 11
dotted 32 03 34 07 39 0B 40 32 0F 40 40 34 12
double-dotted 33 04 35 08 3A 0C 40 35 10 40 40 3A 13
01 64 01 66 03 6A 06 6E 0C 72 00 08 75
dotted 02 67 04 6B 09 6F 00 02 73 00 00 04 76
double-dotted 03 68 05 6C 0A 70 00 05 74 00 00 0A 77
Speculating from these, the data in the first half seems to show the rough physical duration of the sound.
The followings are the data in the order of the duration of the sound starting from the shortest duration.
notation tempo (1) tempo (2)
note (1) rest (1) duration (1) note (2) rest (2) duration (2)
triplet 1/32 31 01 1 31 01 1
1/32 31 01 1 31 01 1
triplet 1/8 33 03 3 32 02 2
dotted 1/16 33 03 3 32 02 2
double dotted 1/16 33 03 3 33 03 3
1/8 34 04 4 33 03 3
dotted 1/8 36 06 6 34 04 4
double-dotted 1/8 37 07 7 35 05 5
dotted 1/4 3C 0C 12 39 09 9
double-dotted 1/4 3E 0E 14 3A 0A 10
1/2 30 00 16 3C 0C 12
dotted 1/2 40 38 00 08 22 40 32 00 02 18
double-dotted 1/2 40 3C 00 0C 28 40 35 00 05 21
whole 40 30 00 00 32 40 38 00 08 24
dotted whole 40 40 30 00 00 00 48 40 40 34 00 00 04 36
double-dotted whole 40 40 40 38 00 00 00 08 56 40 40 3A 00 00 0A 42
The data in the lowest 4 bits are meaningful.
"0" is regarded to be 16.
Preceding "X0"s mean 16 to be added. ( X0 X0 X0 08 = 16+16+16+8=56)
If my hypotheses are correct, the shorter notes can not be discriminated against each other; am I right?

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using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

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	{
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South African artist Robin Rhode is known for ingenious, storyboard-like narratives depicting a lone figure (sometimes the artist, sometimes not), interacting with drawings on the wall or the ground behind him.
For his first solo outing in an L.A. gallery, Rhode also ventures into more conventional modes of sculpture and photography. An oversized rubber stamp in the shape of the moon and crumpled images of abandoned post-Katrina houses both feel labored, but most of the works on view at L&M Arts are actually quite magical.
"36 Ways a Dice can Roll/Dice," features 36 images of a man "throwing" an oversized pair of dice drawn on the wall. The panels are arranged in a grid so that the numbers on the dice read in order from top to bottom, in all possible combinations. This arrangement suggests a neat mathematical structure that contrasts with the aura of chance surrounding street corner dice games. But the man is wearing a business suit and holding a briefcase. Given the current economic and political climate, his get-up conjures the machinations of Wall Street: a seemingly ordered system that is actually more like a street hustle.
Other works bring to mind, obliquely, the artist David Hammons, known for selling snowballs on the street and making sculptures out of empty liquor bottles. In the show's lone video, Rhode uses a tennis racket to hit snowballs onto the smooth metal wall of a Richard Serra sculpture, "decorating" it with an all-over polka dot pattern and reminding us, humorously, that it might easily double as a playground backboard.
In the sequence of photos titled "Rocks" a dark-skinned man holds a bottle of whiskey and an empty glass, appearing to "skate" unsteadily around an asphalt lot. In his wake is a perfect figure eight of ice cubes — a fantasy both lovely and desolate.
It may be tempting to lump Rhode in with other artists who document physical performances, but his work is another species entirely. Each image is carefully staged for the camera — in some cases requiring that an entire wall be repainted for each shot. The resulting sequences suggest a combination of live action and animation, a space somewhere in between the reality we inhabit and the one we imagine.
Although video would seem the perfect medium in which to bring this world to life, I prefer Rhode's storyboards. In the stuttering movie they create in the mind's eye, they seem more elusive, and beguiling.
Photo: Robin Rhode, "36 Ways a Dice can Roll / Dice," 2011. Credit: L&M Arts, Los Angeles. Photo credit: Joshua White/JWPictures.


We love dogs. Just crazy about em. Mixed breeds, pure breds, RESCUE DOGS, doesn't matter. USA Today found the 100 most favorite breeds. See the entire list here.
But here's the top 10. See if your dog is on the list.


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San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 37 hits Marin this Friday: psychic sisters, Hedy Lamarr, an autism romance, historical dramas
A scene from Rachael Israel's rom-com, "Keep the Change," screening Saturday in Marin at the 37th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF37). This offbeat film, Israel's first, picked up the top narrative feature award at the Tribecca Film Festival and was the opening film for SFJFF37's San Francisco/Castro Theater segment. Israel relies entirely on non-actors, many on the autism spectrum, to tell a humorous and poignant love story that gets its kick start at a support group meeting for those with disabilities. The industry often tends to oversimplify disability and disease but this film manages to ring true while exploring the misconceptions we carry. SFJFF37's Marin segment runs Friday-Sunday at the Smith Rafael Film Center and features 14 films, the very best selections from SFJFF37 which opened on July 20 with runs in San Francisco, the East Bay, and Palo Alto.
ARThound's top picks for SFJFF37's Marin weekend:
Paradise (Friday, 3:50 PM)
Holocaust drama, innovative perspective-shifting storytelling, richly shot in black and white
Russian veteran Andrei Konchalovsky's black and white WWII drama "Paradise" won the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion and was Russia's entry for the 2017 Academy Award. The film looks back at the 1942-44 period from the perspective of three characters whose paths intertwine amidst the devastation of war— Olga (Julia Vysotskaya), a Russian aristocrat émigrée and member of the French Resistance; Jules (Philippe Duquesne) a French Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case; and Helmut (Christian Clauss), a high-ranking, quite naive German SS officer who once loved Olga and meets her again when she arrives at a concentration camp. The drama unfolds around several interviews in which the three main characters address an unknown authority and recount their stories as the film flashes back to the end of World War II and the days when their destinies crossed. Instead of focusing directly on the horrors of the Holocaust, which are well-known, Konchalovsky addresses the complex psychological trauma the characters underwent. Exceptional performances by Vysotskaya and Clauss round out this masterpiece. (2016, 130 min, Russian, German, French, Yiddish w/ English subtitles)
Planetarium (Friday, 8:35 PM)
American psychics in France on the eve of WWII
In Rebecca Zlotowski's third feature, Planetarium, set in pre WWII France, Oscar-winning Natalie Portman and co-star Lily-Rose Depp portray American sisters who are rumored to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. When they meet a French producer (Emmanuel Salinger) who is fascinated by spiritualism and their gift and he hires them to shoot an ambitious experimental film, the experience spirals into a game of hidden agendas. The story is greatly bolstered by Emmanuel Salinger's solid performance and by Natalie Portman's cool demeanor and old world glamour. (2016, 106 min, English and French w/English subtitles)
1945 (Sunday, 2:15 PM)
Interesting drama set in rural Hungary in immediate postwar period with the feel of a Western
Selected as the festival's centerpiece film, Hungarian director Ferenc Török's chilling sixth feature, "1945," delivers an exceptional slow-building drama that has some similarities to a Hollywood Western, except that the tension leads to more of a mental shoot out than an actual gunfight. The film exemplifies one of the trends in independent filmmaking over the past few years, approaching big subjects through small, personal stories. 1945 is an adaptation of Gábor T Szántó's short story Homecoming which addresses WWII and Hungary's collaboration with the Nazis through the lens of a small village where preparations are being made for a wedding. Amidst these preparations, two Orthodox Jews arrive at the train station carrying mysterious boxes. Their arrival triggers primal fears amongst some villagers who speculate that they may be forced to give back their ill-gotten gains and in others, it brings up deep feelings of remorse about their inhumane treatment of Jews who had lived amongst them as brothers. As personal stories unfold, we see how all the fates of the villagers are inextricably intertwined and how the events they participated in as perpetrator or victim have inescapable moral consequences. (2017, 91 min, Hungarian w/English subtitles)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Sunday: 4:15 PM)
Savvy biopic revealing the brainy side of a Hollywood pinup icon
Co-produced by Susan Sarandon, Alexandra Dean's documentary "Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story" has its West Coast Premiere at the festival and explores Hollywood pinup actress Hedy Lamarr's big beautiful mind. Lamarr achieved international notoriety when she casually swam nude in the 1933 Czech Gustav Mahaty film "Ecstasy," the first time nudity had been depicted in a mainstream film. She leveraged her smoldering beauty and sudden fame into a remarkable Hollywood career but her deeper passion was technology and mechanics. The doc explores her life and fascinating history as a gifted inventor. Never-before-heard audio clips include Lamar telling her story as she chose to frame it, along with first person accounts from stars who knew her, including the late Robert Osborn of TCM fame. Lamar discusses her marriages and her relationship with Howard Hughes. The enduring take away is her little-known contribution to war-time technology. The mathematically-gifted Lamarr first learned about military technology from dinner party conversations between her first husband, Austrian arms-manufacturer Fritz Mandel and Nazi German generals. In the early 1940's, she co-invented an early form of frequency hopping (spread spectrum communication technology) with avant guarde composer George Antheil who happened to be her neighbor. Their idea, patented in 1942, became the basis for a torpedo guidance system that utilized a mechanism similar to piano player rolls to synchronize the changes between 88 rapidly changing radio frequencies, drawing on the premise that a constantly changing frequency is harder to jam. Lamarr gave her patent to the Navy and received no credit for her contributions. (2017, 90 min, English)
Details: SFJFF37 is at the Smith Rafael Film Center Friday, August 4, through Sunday, August 6, 2017. Films start roughly at noon and run until 10 PM, with 4 to 5 films daily. The Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center is located at 1118 4th Street, San Rafael. For detailed descriptions of the 14 films screening and to purchase tickets in advance online, click here. Tickets ($15 general admission, $14 seniors/students) may also be purchased directly at the Festival Box Office at the Smith Rafael Film Center.
August 2, 2017 Posted by genevaanderson | Film | 1945, 37th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Alexandra Dean, Andrei Konchalovsky, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Christian Clauss, Ecstasy, Emmanuel Salinger, Ferenc Török, Fritz Mandel, Gábor T Szántó, George Antheil, Gustav Mahaty, Hedy Lamarr, Homecoming, Howard Hughes, Julia Vysotskaya, Keep the Change, Lily-Rose Depp, Natalie Portman, Paradise, Philippe Duquesne, planetarium, Rachael Israel, Rebecca Zlotowski, Robert Osborn, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, SFJFF37, Smith Rafael Film Center, Susan Sarandon, Tribeca Film Festival | Leave a comment


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Share this Story: Wildlife advocate Brian Salt has developed an award-winning volunteer program at Salthaven
Wildlife advocate Brian Salt has developed an award-winning volunteer program at Salthaven
Chris Montanini
A local wildlife advocate placing regional and international youth on the front lines of a growing conservation effort based in Mt. Brydges has been recognized by the Canadian Wildlife Federation.
Brian Salt, the founder of Salthaven Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centre, recently received the CWF's 2017 Youth Mentor Award.
The honour acknowledges a group or individual dedicated to introducing youth to the importance of conservation, habitat, or wildlife, but Salt is quick to direct any personal accolades to his staff, a team he's gradually built almost exclusively with volunteers since launching Salthaven about 30 years ago.
"Our trainers and volunteers are exceptional," Salt said. "The award has my name on it, but it really belongs to (them)."
At its core, Salthaven offers temporary shelter and veterinary care to sick, injured, or orphaned animals until they're ready to be reintroduced into their natural environment. Salt, a retired musician who has since been certified in advanced clinical pathology by the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council, decided to incorporate the organization as a not-for-profit in 2004 following three years of increasing caseloads and a growing belief in the value of the work — both for the environment and his volunteers.
"We were always getting more phone calls then we could handle, so I thought either go big or go home with this thing," Salt said. "It just went from big to bigger (and) it's still growing. We're getting a lot of community support."
Over 120 volunteers now work in Salthaven's clinic alone. Salt said about 70 per cent of those are students, some from as far away as Denmark, Germany, and France.
One of those students is Kate Hogan, a Londoner and third-year undergraduate at Western University. Like many of her Salthaven colleagues, Hogan is studying biology while planning for a full-time career working with wild and domestic animals.
"I've always wanted to help animals but never really knew how to do it in the proper way," Hogan said. "I figured (volunteering at Salthaven) was a good way to educate myself and get to experience some very unique things that not everyone gets to experience."
Hogan remembers her first wildlife rescue with Salt fondly. A family of geese chose a less-than-ideal home on top of Western's Ivey School of Business and needed to be relocated.
"It was really cute but obviously they couldn't live up there," she said.
It's successfully reintroducing animals to the wild Hogan looks forward to the most, "especially when it comes to the baby animals that don't come in injured," she said. "You get to watch them grow and then release them and you know that you've saved that life. That's pretty amazing."
But Hogan has also learned to accept the good with the bad. Salthaven's current capacity for patients is about 1,300 and Salt said the organization's success rate is 65 per cent, so not every story has a happy ending.
Preparing volunteers for that reality is part of an orientation process that takes about four hours. Salt said he receives about 80 applications for 20-25 new positions at Salthaven every year.
"Were in the position of being able to choose the best of the best, but we're not always looking for people that have a lot of skills as much as they have the ability to work together as a team," he said.
Besides clinic positions, Salthaven volunteers also staff a raptor team, snake crew, and other groups responsible for everything from building maintenance to office work. Not everyone works directly with wild animals, but Salt said it is important for volunteers to adapt to the culture that keeps Salthaven running smoothly.
"The program works here because they work with their hearts as well as their hands," Salt said. "They pour themselves into it and they come away with a greater sense of who they are and how they relate to nature."
Salthaven looking to expand
A steady flow of new volunteers means Salthaven could potentially treat more wildlife, but physical space is becoming a problem, Salt said. He's currently considering moving the operation to a larger location within Middlesex County, but only if the change doesn't significantly impact his volunteer base.
A bigger space would also help Salt realize a long-term goal for one of Salthaven's other pillars: education and outreach.
"We want a property that's large enough that we can create an eco park where families can come and do things like owl prowls at night and live in nature even just for a couple of nights camping out, as well as being able to see the rehabilitation process first hand," Salt said. "What we want to do is create an awareness among people that we can live harmoniously with wildlife."
CMontanini@postmedia.com
Twitter: @LondonerChris
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Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has today urged the Scottish Government to ease financial pressure on local authorities, after the local government auditor warned councils face a "complex range of challenges" and continued financial pressures.
Graham Sharp, chair of the Accounts Commission, said "the pressure on them [councils] - and the key services we all rely on - shows no signs of easing."
"This is a stark warning about the real challenges all our local services face.
"Councils have been hiking up council tax and that's because they don't have enough to get by. We rely on our councils for schools, quality roads, care homes and waste management. The impact of the SNP's harsh cuts are most clearly seen here.


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Otto Meyer and Julie Hinaman spoke to business owners and community members about what to look out for during the Texas Legislative Session.
Approaching one month into the 86th Texas Legislative session, education leaders and business owners are anticipating changes to be made to statewide education for the sake of quality and the future of the workforce.
In late January, several business owners and leaders in education gathered to speak about the current state of Texas education, needs for state education, and where focus needs to be to fill in the workforce.
Julie Hinaman, chair of the Cy-Fair ISD Community Leadership Committee, and Otto Meyer, general manager of Trilogy Ventures Group LLC, were the chosen panelists for the meeting, which was hosted by the education and workforce committee of the Cy-Fair Chamber.
Both Meyer and Hinaman agreed that funding for Texas education needs to be increased significantly, specifically due to the deficit brought on by a $5.4 billion cut in public education funding in the 2011 session.
Meyer said he was optimistic about the chance for an increase in funding, which he anticipates to be between $4.5 billion and $7 billion based on interactions between the Senate and House.
Hinaman said the funding is needed beyond just classroom needs, but for the local community as well. Career and technology education courses, or CTE, gives students the chance to earn certifications while simultaneously earning a degree, increasing the chance of Texas reaching its 60-by-30 goal. The 60x30TX plan aims to have at least 60 percent of Texans, age 25 to 34, equipped with a degree or certification by 2030.
Meyer said during his time serving as vice chair for the Womens Business Alliance, he noticed comments of trade businesses not being able to find staff as their current staff ages out. As of 2016, 42 percent of Texans age 25 to 34 have a postsecondary credential according to the official 60x30TX website.
Business owners and the panelists said the accountability system for Texas is in need of an overhaul, particularly the weight STAAR testing holds when it comes to rating schools on the A-F system, adopted in 2017, which assigns A-F accountability ratings to school districts. The campuses will also be rated using the A-F system starting in August 2019.
Hinaman argues state tests are given too much importance for kindergarden through 8th grade, and should instead be replaced with nationally recognized tests such as the SAT or the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.
Kevin Kalra, co-chair of the education committee, said it is important for business owners to get involved in legislative issues by being politically active for education.


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Límits
 Província de Botoşani i província de Iaşi a l'est.
 Província de Maramureş i província de Bistriţa-Năsăud a l'oest.
 Ucraïna al nord - província de Txernivtsi.
 Província de Mureş, província de Harghita i província de Neamţ al sud.

Demografia
El 2002, tenia una població de 688,435 i una densitat de població de 80.5 h/km².

 Romanesos - 96.3%
 Gitanos - 1,33%
 Ucraïnesos, polonesos, Eslovacs, altres.

Divisió Administrativa
La Província té 5 municipalitats, 11 ciutats i 96 comunes.

Municipalitats
 Suceava - capital; població: 118,670
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 Câmpulung Moldovenesc
 Vatra Dornei

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 Gura Humorului
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A Meditaiton on Reading
One of the most timeless and beautiful meditations on reading comes from the 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860).
For me, reading has always been about our tagline: Mastering the best of what other people have already figured out.
In The Prince, Machiavelli offered the following advice:
"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it."
Seneca, writing on the same subject, said, "Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides." In fact, most books are just new ways of seeing old ideas. So it makes sense to start with the people that came before us.
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.
No matter what problem we face, odds are someone has faced it before and thoughtfully written about it.
Reading to Acquire Wisdom
What does it mean to read? Is reading the path to acquiring wisdom? If not, why?
These are the questions that Schopenhauer attempts to address.
Mortimer Adler believed that reading is a conversation between you and the author. On this, Schopenhauer comments:
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with his pen the lines that have been pencilled by the teacher. Accordingly, in reading, the work of thinking is, for the greater part, done for us. This is why we are consciously relieved when we turn to reading after being occupied with our own thoughts. But, in reading, our head is, however, really only the arena of some one else's thoughts. And so it happens that the person who reads a great deal — that is to say, almost the whole day, and recreates himself by spending the intervals in thoughtless diversion, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who is always riding at last forgets how to walk.
Such, however, is the case with many men of learning: they have read themselves stupid. For to read in every spare moment, and to read constantly, is more paralyzing to the mind than constant manual work, which, at any rate, allows one to follow one's own thoughts.
Just as a spring, through the continual pressure of a foreign body, at last loses its elasticity, so does the mind if it has another person's thoughts continually forced upon it. And just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read if one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost. Indeed, it is the same with mental as with bodily food: scarcely the fifth part of what a man takes is assimilated; the remainder passes off in evaporation, respiration, and the like.
From all this it may be concluded that thoughts put down on paper are nothing more than footprints in the sand: one sees the road the man has taken, but in order to know what he saw on the way, one requires his eyes.
Reflection is the grunt work of thinking. It's how we acquire wisdom. If we read and don't reflect, we only have the illusion of knowledge. Making the knowledge or own means digesting, synthesizing, and organizing the information.
This is how we acquire knowledge. The knowledge that allows us to pull forth relevance when reading and bring it to consciousness. Without this foundational knowledge, we are unable to separate the signal from the noise.
No literary quality can be attained by reading writers who possess it: be it, for example, persuasiveness, imagination, the gift of drawing comparisons, boldness or bitterness, brevity or grace, facility of expression or wit, unexpected contrasts, a laconic manner, naïveté, and the like. But if we are already gifted with these qualities — that is to say, if we possess them potentia — we can call them forth and bring them to consciousness; we can discern to what uses they are to be put; we can be strengthened in our inclination, nay, may have courage, to use them; we can judge by examples the effect of their application and so learn the correct use of them; and it is only after we have accomplished all this that we actu possess these qualities.
Reading consumes time. And if we equate time with money, it should not be wasted on bad books. In an argument that pulls to mind two filters for what to read, Schopenhauer writes:
It is the same in literature as in life. Wherever one goes one immediately comes upon the incorrigible mob of humanity. It exists everywhere in legions; crowding, soiling everything, like flies in summer. Hence the numberless bad books, those rank weeds of literature which extract nourishment from the corn and choke it.
They monopolise the time, money, and attention which really belong to good books and their noble aims; they are written merely with a view to making money or procuring places. They are not only useless, but they do positive harm. Nine-tenths of the whole of our present literature aims solely at taking a few shillings out of the public's pocket, and to accomplish this, author, publisher, and reviewer have joined forces.
There is a more cunning and worse trick, albeit a profitable one. Littérateurs, hack-writers, and productive authors have succeeded, contrary to good taste and the true culture of the age, in bringing the world elegante into leading-strings, so that they have been taught to read a tempo and all the same thing — namely, the newest books order that they may have material for conversation in their social circles. … But what can be more miserable than the fate of a reading public of this kind, that feels always impelled to read the latest writings of extremely commonplace authors who write for money only, and therefore exist in numbers? And for the sake of this they merely know by name the works of the rare and superior writers, of all ages and countries.
Knowing what to read is important, but so is its inversion— knowing what not to read.
This consists in not taking a book into one's hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as political or religious pamphlets, novels, poetry, and the like, which make a noise and reach perhaps several editions in their first and last years of existence. Remember rather that the man who writes for fools always finds a large public: and only read for a limited and definite time exclusively the works of great minds, those who surpass other men of all times and countries, and whom the voice of fame points to as such. These alone really educate and instruct.
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.
In Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami makes the argument that "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." On this, Schopenhauer said:
Oh, how like one commonplace mind is to another! How they are all fashioned in one form! How they all think alike under similar circumstances, and never differ! This is why their views are so personal and petty.
On the two types of literature, Schopenhauer comments:
There are at all times two literatures which, although scarcely known to each other, progress side by side — the one real, the other merely apparent. The former grows into literature that lasts. Pursued by people who live for science or poetry, it goes its way earnestly and quietly, but extremely slowly; and it produces in Europe scarcely a dozen works in a century, which, however, are permanent. The other literature is pursued by people who live on science or poetry; it goes at a gallop amid a great noise and shouting of those taking part, and brings yearly many thousand works into the market. But after a few years one asks, Where are they? where is their fame, which was so great formerly? This class of literature may be distinguished as fleeting, the other as permanent.
Commenting on why we learn little from what we read, he writes:
It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents. To desire that a man should retain everything he has ever read, is the same as wishing him to retain in his stomach all that he has ever eaten. He has been bodily nourished on what he has eaten, and mentally on what he has read, and through them become what he is. As the body assimilates what is homogeneous to it, so will a man retain what interests him; in other words, what coincides with his system of thought or suits his ends. Every one has aims, but very few have anything approaching a system of thought. This is why such people do not take an objective interest in anything, and why they learn nothing from what they read: they remember nothing about it.
But reading good works is not enough. We must re-read important works immediately because it aids our understanding, a concept that Mortimer Adler echoes.
Any kind of important book should immediately be read twice, partly because one grasps the matter in its entirety the second time, and only really understands the beginning when the end is known; and partly because in reading it the second time one's temper and mood are different, so that one gets another impression; it may be that one sees the matter in another light.
And the final part of the essay I want to draw your attention to speaks to how advancement happens in a flurry of false starts, and answers the age-old question of why so many luminaries — whether scientific or even artistic — fail to be recognized in their present age as they will later come to be seen by the world.
… imagine the progress of knowledge among mankind in the form of a planet's course. The false paths the human race soon follows after any important progress has been made represent the epicycles in the Ptolemaic system; after passing through any one of them the planet is just where it was before it entered it. The great minds, however, which really bring the race further on its course, do not accompany it on the epicycles which it makes every time. This explains why posthumous fame is got at the expense of contemporary fame, and vice versâ.
If you think Schopenhauer is for you, pick up a copy of The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings.
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Trump and Putin Joke About 'Getting Rid of Journalists' on Anniversary of Capital Gazette Shooting
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At the G20 Summit in Osaka, United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a nice hearty chuckle about ridding their countries of journalists. This happened to came on the one-year anniversary of the Capital Gazette shooting in Maryland, in which five journalists died.
While the two leaders sat next to one another and gazed out among the press scrum—some time after Trump smiled and wagged his big doughy finger at Putin and told him, "Don't meddle in our election"—they found some common ground in their detest for reporters who don't come outfitted with marionette strings.
"Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn't it? You don't have this problem in Russia but we do," Trump said, per The Guardian.
"We also have. It's the same," Putin reportedly responded.
Twenty-six journalists have been killed in Russia since Putin began his first stint as president since 2000, while 58 in total have been murdered since 1992. In America, reporters are regularly harassed and assaulted at Trump rallies, and also now have to fear for their lives while working in their offices. All the while, Trump has repeatedly referred to reporters as "the enemy of the people."
But yes, by all means: ham it up, assholes.
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2880 Nihondaira este un asteroid din centura principală, descoperit pe 8 februarie 1983 de Tsutomu Seki.

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And He Took That Personally: Steph Curry Responds To Haters By Dropping 62 PTS On The Blazers
Add Curry to the list of NBA players you do not talk trash about expecting to knock them off their game. You're only giving them more motivation.
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Steph Curry had the perfect response to those questioning his basketball skills.
Believe it or not, there were actually people on Twitter wondering if Chef Curry still got it after some early-season struggles during the first week of the regular season. So-called experts began to drop the hot takes about Curry, and the Warriors, who are no longer the dominant force they were once were due to significant injuries that have sidelined Klay Thompson for another season and Curry at one point and the departure of Kevin Durant in free agency.
Curry heard all the noise and decided instead of hopping Twitter, he's gonna respond on the court, and boy did he silence them.
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During Sunday night's 137-122 win over the Portland Trail Blazers, the best shooter in NBA history (debate your uncle) exploded for a new career-best 62 pts. Curry is no stranger when it comes to ridiculous performances on the court, but this latest effort is probably high on his list. Not only was he shooting the lights out in the Chase Center, but he was very efficient in his torching of the Blazers.
When the dust settled, he finished his baking of the Blazers by shooting 18-for-31 from the field, 8-for-16 from behind the three-point line, and 18-of-19 from the free-throw line. He complimented his performance with five rebounds and four assists in 36 minutes.
In typical Steph Curry fashion, he comically responded to the knee-jerk reactions to his previous performances with a hilarious call-back to a new Michael Jordan meme from The Last Dance documentary when asked about his performance and the haters chirping.
"Cue the Jordan meme, right? "I take all that personally."
He also added:
"I don't get frazzled too easily and am very confident in who I am as a person. As a basketball player, there's not going to be anything you can say about me or to me that's going to affect that. At the end of the day, that's how I got here, and I got a lot of people in my circle that understand what makes me tick, and how much I enjoy this game, and all the different challenges you get to experience having been around 12 years-plus. … I love everything about what this game offers and the competitiveness and the fire. I never run from it."
What also makes Curry's dazzling performance special is that it came against Damian Lillard and the Trail Blazers. On January 20, 2020, Lillard went ham on the Warriors for a career-high 61 pts during an MLK day matchup, so it would seem Curry was just returning the favor. Lillard, who doesn't bite his tongue and talks trash with the best of them, acknowledge the performance on Twitter, saying:
"You can't dish it out and not be able take it #Respect."
Add Curry to the list of NBA players you do not talk trash about expecting to knock them off their game. You're only giving them more motivation.
You can peep more reactions to Curry's performance in the gallery below.
NBA Twitter Reacts To Steph Curry's 62 Point Performance Against The Portland Trail Blazers
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Taste: Mild and muted, sweet and fruity. Strawberries, molasses, clove and brown sugar. Silky mouth feel but wildly sweet. More than a couple ounces of this and I'm not sure how I'd be feeling with just how sweet this dram is. Must be a result of the wheated mashbill at low proof.
Finish: Short to medium. Sweet and creamy. Fruity and sweet. Did I mention how sweet it is?
Overall: In one vein, I love W12. It's super mellow, silky, sweet and just an easy dram to enjoy. On the other hand, it's super mellow, sweet and not that interesting. I could easily grow tired of it quickly because it's so so sweet. I also hate that BTAC frenzy has made this bottle almost impossible to find because it just isn't worth it.


A very great pity that David Coleman shan't be here for THIS.
Lest it shall otherwise have passed you by, the C of E 1st XI and the new Vatican cricket side are to play a match at Lord's.
Worryingly, I hear there's a 'Mgr Doosra' from India involved - the RC XI is of course an international side - and, whilst I'd not wish to suggest the Argy in the white cassock is doing anything unsporting, I am alarmed by reports that Mitchell Johnson has been created cardinal-deacon of S Maria in Cosmedin, in pectore.


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Trump Falsely Claims COVID Death Toll Is Not So Bad If You Leave Out Blue States
Critics described the remark as a grotesque escalation in rhetoric, devaluing the lives of those living in blue states.
President Trump speaks at a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on September 16, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
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In yet another attempt to evade responsibility for the nation's disastrous coronavirus response as the U.S. death toll approaches 200,000, President Donald Trump late Wednesday said the fact that millions of Americans haven't died of Covid-19 is a sign of success and declared, "If you take the blue states out, we're at a level that I don't think anybody in the world would be at."
Both morally obscene and factually inaccurate, the president's comment drew immediate backlash from lawmakers and other observers, one of whom said Trump's remark will "be remembered as one of the most callous sentiments ever uttered by an American president…. if it's remembered at all."
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) had a similar reaction, tweeting, "This is quite simply one of the most appalling and inhuman statements ever uttered by an American president."
Trump has repeatedly sought to blame Democratic governors for his administration's failures to combat the coronavirus pandemic, which has now infected more than 6.6 million people in the U.S. and killed at least 196,600. But the president's statement during a press briefing Wednesday marked what critics described as a grotesque escalation in rhetoric, explicitly devaluing the lives of people living in blue states ravaged by the virus.
"Trump thinks of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans like a poll number or a stock market price," said Orin Kerr, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "He cares only about how it makes him look, especially to his supporters."
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The deaths in the blue states don't count is one probably the sickest and most honest belief I've heard Trump express.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 16, 2020
Pointing to a graphic purporting to show that the U.S. coronavirus death toll would likely be in the 1.5 to 2.2 million range had the nation done nothing in response to the pandemic, Trump told reporters, "We're below that substantially, and we'll see what comes out."
"If the not-so-good job was done, you'd be between 1.5 million — I remember these numbers so well — and 2.2 million. That's quite a difference," the president said.
"So we're down in this territory," Trump continued, pointing to the 100,000 to 240,000 projected death toll displayed on the chart. "And that's despite the fact that the blue states had tremendous death rates. If you take the blue states out, we're at a level that I don't think anybody in the world would be at. We're really at a very low level. But some of the states, they were blue states and blue-state-managed."
Praising his own virus response as deaths near 200,000, Trump says, "if you take the blue states out, we're at a level I don't think anybody in the world would be at." pic.twitter.com/ezAU5IJIcQ
— The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) September 16, 2020
As the Washington Post's Philip Bump detailed late Wednesday, Trump's claim that the U.S. coronavirus death toll would be among the lowest in the world if blue-state deaths were subtracted from the total is completely false.
"It is true that the early surge in deaths was heavily weighted toward states that had voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016," Bump wrote. "New York and New Jersey in particular recorded hundreds of deaths a day in April, quickly contributing to the country's total number of fatalities."
"Over time, though, the percentage of total deaths that have occurred in blue states has dropped," Bump continued. "The most recent data, through Tuesday, indicates that about 53 percent of deaths have occurred in blue states — meaning that 47 percent have occurred in red ones. In other words, more than 90,000 deaths have occurred in red states. If that were the country's total, we would have seen the second-most number of deaths globally, trailing only Brazil."
This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.
Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @johnsonjakep.
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The magazine's editors said they were "compelled" by Trump's rejection of science, which "has badly damaged the U.S."
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In March, discussing COVID-19 dangers with journalist Bob Woodward, Trump said he had "wanted to always play it down."
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Advocates say deregulating buprenorphine is a long overdue step toward ending the overdose crisis.
Pentagon's Report on China Doesn't Say a Word About Threat of Climate Crisis
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North Atlantic right whales are facing "an extinction-level emergency," said one campaigner.
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Greta Thunberg's Arrest Demonstrates Why Energy Charter Treaty Must Be Abolished
The treaty allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments for taking action to combat climate change.
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JPMorgan Chase Pledged Carbon Reduction. Weeks Later It Financed Coal Mining.
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British war veteran Leslie Binns, who was blinded in one eye by an explosion in Afghanistan, reveals how putting others before himself meant he saved a life, but failed in his first attempt to climb Everest. And how the company that shares the name of the Himalayan peak has given him a second chance to fulfil his dream.
Last year you attempted to climb Everest for the first time. What inspired you to want to conquer this incredible mountain?
Ask a six-year-old boy what he wants to be when he grows up and most will say a racing driver or an astronaut. If you had asked me at the same age I'd have said that I wanted to climb mountains, and the higher the better.
That longing was satisfied to an extent during my 13 years in the Army, where I spent time as a military ski instructor and an Arctic warfare instructor. But Everest was always a challenge looming at the back of my mind I was determined one day to conquer.
In late 2015 I watched Everest, a disaster movie that should surely have put me off. But the idea of triumphing over one adversity after another to reach that summit inspired me to such an extent I set about getting myself on the next available expedition. I flew out in April last year.
You were just 500m from the summit when disaster struck. What went wrong?
I'd stopped for a toilet break, which meant me and my Sherpa were about 20 minutes behind the rest of our group. The summit was in sight – we were no more than 10 hours off reaching it.
Suddenly, we became aware of a commotion ahead of us on a ridge known as The Balcony. There was a group of climbers and one was in trouble – she was sliding downwards and gaining terrifying momentum as she headed towards me.
I managed to rugby-tackle her to stop her going any further. She was in a bad way, barely conscious and she'd run out of oxygen. I gave her some of mine and tried to bring her round, but she was in real trouble. She needed helping down to safety or she'd never make it off that mountain.
You were so close to conquering Everest. Did you consider asking someone else to help her to safety?
It didn't cross my mind. We're talking about a human life here. Everest wasn't going anywhere, but I could see this lady's life – her name was Sunita Hazra – was ebbing away. I couldn't have forgiven myself if I'd put my own ambition before helping a fellow human being. I might have succeeded in conquering Everest, but I'd always have felt that I had failed as a man.
Taking that toilet break meant I was there to grab her as she slid off that ridge in the first place – it was as though I was meant to be there for Sunita. Saving her life was a far greater achievement than reaching that summit.
Did you think that was the end of your Everest journey?
Absolutely. The whole expedition had cost me £30,000, which I'm still paying off. I knew that I wouldn't be able to pull together that kind of money again to make a second attempt. But I knew I'd done the right thing – you cannot put a price on another person's life.
But actually, your dream isn't over. How is it that you are about to set out on a second Everest expedition?
Incredibly, the home improvement company Everest stepped in after hearing about what happened on the mountain and is sponsoring me to make a second attempt.
The first attempt was purely for my own satisfaction – this time around, I'm raising money for ABF The Soldiers' Charity, which offers lifetime support for soldiers, veterans and their families.
What does Everest sponsoring your next attempt mean to you?
I'm so grateful to Everest for giving me this amazing opportunity. I'll be forever in its debt.
But of course, even if I'm within touching distance of planting the Everest flag on the summit and someone else is in trouble, I'll abandon my climb in a heartbeat and do everything I can to help. And I know everyone backing me would understand.
It's far better to come home having done the honourable thing than reach the summit, not caring who I stepped over on the way.


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Q: Android app and iPhone app connection with PHP website I am developing a PHP website and we want to launch mobile apps too. We are still learning. My friend, who has developed apps for Android and the iPhone, is experienced in app development but all his projects were like offline apps. He knows how to develop apps that can communicate with a server and fetch data from a server but I still want to help him. Can anyone tell me what we will need to make such an app? I know that we will need an XML script on the server to communicate with the Android app. But what we will need in the XML file to communicate with the app to fetch data from the database? I need a basic idea. Waiting for response. I use Stackoverflow to get some ideas. I always ask for ideas and basic code - not harder stuff - and I have always received great responses from you all. Thank you for helping me in advance. ;)

A: here is a php script I made some time ago to retrieve data from my server to an app. You put it on the server side and have your ios or android app call it from the application to get the json.
Hope you find it useful!
<?php

$con = mysql_connect(yourdatabaseaddressprobablylocalhost,yourusername,yourpassword);
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db(yourdatabasename, $con);

$result = mysql_query(yourmysqlquery);
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
    $output[]=$row;
}
print(json_encode((array('arrayname'=> $output))));

mysql_close($con);
?>

A: and Either cases, use HTTP POST and Get request to communicate with PHP server & Database


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Spring Practice: Day Four report
By Keith ArnoldMar 27, 2012, 11:42 AM EDT
As they have for the previous three practice sessions, UND.com has been on the field with the Fighting Irish, the only cameras allowed inside the LaBar Practice Fields. Thankfully, they've been churning out some great footage and this episode is no different, with the focus on running backs/slot receivers coach Tony Alford.
As we work our way through another seven minutes of footage, I'll do my best to give you some insight into what you're seeing, and hopefully spur some discussion with my observations.
(Note to readers: When I use the term "rising" when calling a player "rising junior" it's simply to denote he'll be a junior next football season, but is currently a sophomore. It's not an assessment on his football abilities, but a commonly used term.)
0:08 — That's a different outfit for Jack Nolan, showing his flexibility with Irish apparel for the fourth straight episode. I hereby call on Jack to wear different ND gear for all 15 episodes.
0:39 — Our first look at running back George Atkinson (#4) catching the football. He doesn't look entirely comfortable making the play, but if he can run vertically out of the slot, this offense could look dynamic.
1:05 — Keeping Tony Alford on the Irish staff should be a priority moving forward. You've got to think it's only a matter of time before Alford gets his shot as a head coach, but he's as valuable of an assistant as the Irish have had in the last 15 years.
1:28 — Is that some creativity out of the Irish offense? I can count on one hand the "trick" plays the Irish ran last season, and hopefully Chuck Martin will add some this year, as they help keep a defense thinking.
1:44 — That's a re-run from Episode One with Theo Riddick's (#6) big run. We will not count that as additional proof that moving Riddick back to RB was a good move.
1:52 — Irish fans should have a smile on their face watching Cam Robertson (#31) make that catch and run. After a nightmarish knee injury that could've been career threatening, seeing Roberson in full gear going through drills is a wonderful thing.
Nice quote by Alford on Chuck Martin's work with the offense: "I think Chuck has done a great job with the offense, just as far as the energy level that he brings every day. He's been phenomenal and the players pick up on that. You take the lead of your leader. On the offensive side we've been doing that, and there's been very positive energy thus far."
2:40 — That's Stephon Tuitt (#7) running by Alford. Man, that kid is huge.
3:04 — It's our weekly Amir Carlisle on crutches shot. This time, he's watching intently as the running backs do footwork drills. Glad to see No. 3 is taking mental reps as he goes through his first spring practice with a boot on his foot.
3:45 — "Put that ball on the ground and you won't play," Alford says. Think this staff is making a point on turnovers? (If so, good.)
4:15 — Some nice coaching by Alford on the art of pass protection.
5:20 — That's a better job by Atkinson catching the ball.
5:47 — In case you were wondering, that's wide receiver Robby Toma (#9) running the counter and taking a handoff from the backfield. That's more evidence that this position grouping isn't coach speak and that there's going to be some diversity in this offense. "Is it you, or is it me coaching?" Alford jokingly asks him.
6:16 — George Atkinson is going to be very interesting to watch this year. He's probably the Irish's most physically imposing running back at six-foot-one, 210-pounds, and you see both Alford and Kelly coach him up to run aggressively.
6:50 — That's more Atkinson. It's pretty clear nobody is going to catch him if he gets out in space.
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Most of this video was committed to Alford's work, and you can see how hard he's coaching up returning starters like Cierre Wood and youngsters like Atkinson. There's plenty of talent at the slot/RB position, so it should be interesting to see what kind of production they get from guys like Wood, Riddick, Carlisle, Atkinson, and Toma.


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Howard University Partners with Lionsgate to Create Internship Program that Diversifies the Entertainment Industry
23rd April 2019 by BOTWC Staff
In an effort to address Hollywood's diversity issue, Howard University has partnered with Lionsgate to create an internship program that provides students with hands-on experience working in the entertainment business.
According to Deadline, the partnership will afford six to 12 Howard University students the opportunity to learn the filmmaking and television business through a paid internship. Lionsgate is the first entertainment company to join forces with Howard for this program, which was first launched by UCLA's Anderson School of Management.
"Howard University has produced several graduates from film, law, business and theater who have paved their own paths into Hollywood through persistence," Howard's President Wayne A.I. Frederick told Deadline. "However, there is more work to do before the entertainment industry reflects the diverse audiences it serves."
Jay Tucker, who is the executive director at the Center for MEMES (Media, Entertainment & Sports) at UCLA told Deadline that Sen. Kamala Harris, who is a Howard alum, is the one who actually mentioned the internship program idea to Lionsgate.
"She was one of the catalysts to help raise awareness around this opportunity," Tucker said. "It really helped to get the ball rolling."
Lionsgate and UCLA hope that its recent partnership with Howard will be the start of more partnerships with other HBCUs and women's colleges in an effort to increase the entertainment industry's pipeline of diverse talent.
"Greater diversity and inclusion makes our industry stronger and our films and television series better," Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns said. "Not only are we creating opportunities for students in the program, but they in turn are creating opportunities for us to make our workplace more diverse and our storytelling richer and more varied."
Students who participate in the program will be placed in companies where they work 20 to 25 hours per week and will be paid roughly $13 to $15 an hour.
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Buried: President Trump's Idea-Rich Speech at U.N.
President Trump's speech before the U.N. yesterday was buried in the rush of other news.
Too bad about that because he spoke some truths you don't often hear in D.C.
The New York Post editorial board noted:
That was some speech President Trump gave Tuesday at the UN General Assembly — making a case against globalism, blasting China and Iran and exposing border-activist policies as "cruel and evil."
"The future does not belong to globalism," he insisted, but to "sovereign and independent nations" that "respect their neighbors" and honor differences.
It's not often you hear such utterances from a top Republican or Democrat, especially at such a gathering of world leaders. Yet it goes without saying that the more a nation defers to global power, the more it loses control over its destiny. (See: Brexit.)
Trump also called out "radical" migrant activists, who "promote human smuggling" by encouraging illegal immigration. His message to them: "Your policies are not just" but "cruel and evil." Migrants are "exploited" and abused by "vicious coyotes," yet activists put their own "false sense of virtue" before the "well-being" of those on whose behalf they agitate.
Trump's blunt message wasn't just refreshing but sorely needed at this gathering of deceitful leaders and moral pretenders.
Vivian Salama of the Wall Street Journal also analyzed the speech:
In an address Tuesday at the United Nations, Mr. Trump articulated the America First outlook that he has used to define his presidency, urging other countries to place priority on their own citizens to ensure global peace and prosperity.
"The future does not belong to globalists," he said. "The future belongs to patriots."
Mr. Trump endorsed free and fair trade even as he defended his hawkish use of tariffs as a way to get countries around the world— including some close allies—to comply with his demands.
He assured the U.N. General Assembly meeting that the use of force was his last resort and pointed to efforts to engage with countries such as North Korea and Iran that have long been at odds with the U.S.
"Many of America's greatest friends today were once its greatest foes," he said. "The United States does not seek conflict with any other nation. We desire peace, cooperation, and mutual gain with all. But I will never fail to defend America's interests."
It was a serious speech with a heavy idea content.
As Washington becomes utterly dominated by impeachment talk, I urge you to read or listen to this important speech (Politico has it).


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Sarasota Fruitville Road roundabout construction to begin Sunday
The roundabout on Fruitville Road and US 41 will replace the signalized intersection and will affect traffic through 2020.
SARASOTA — The construction of a new roundabout at Fruitville Road and U.S. 41 in Sarasota will disrupt a critical section of one of the city's main arteries for the next year.
Construction is expected to begin Sunday and will involve several phases that will shift traffic back and forth while crews work through the fall of 2020, according to Florida Department of Transportation plans.
Two lanes of traffic will remain open in each direction for some of the project, but aspects of the construction will lead to different traffic patterns and intermittent nighttime lane closures.
The first portion of work on the $7.5 million project will begin at the Boulevard of the Arts intersection and will focus on replacing aging utility infrastructure and storm water drainage crossings, said Yvonne McClellan, a spokeswoman for the roundabout project. It will include removing the northbound directional island, paving, and shifting traffic lanes to the west side of U.S. 41 to prepare for the project's subsequent phases.
RELATED: New development set for east Fruitville Road in Sarasota
Beginning in mid-January, crews expect to shift traffic to a newly constructed detour on the west side of U.S. 41 while they begin construction on the east side of the road. Fruitville Road will be closed to westbound traffic between Cocoanut Avenue and U.S. 41 until August 2020.
Fruitville Road then will be reopened to westbound traffic and the intersection will function as a three-legged roundabout. The remainder of the west side of the roundabout, along with the entrance to the massive Quay Sarasota mixed-use development project, will be built.
The project is expected to be finished by November 2020 and is part of a long-term plan for U.S. 41 that city officials say will improve accessibility for pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers.
Although roundabouts typically delay drivers less than traditional signalized intersections, motorists in the area have often opposed them, saying they're confusing and don't improve traffic jams.
Daniel Ohrenstein, the assistant city engineer, acknowledged the concerns but said that they will provide a safer, more convenient and attractive crossing for pedestrians and bicyclists. The lower speeds will also improve safety while maintaining traffic flow.
"We very much need to improve safety along U.S. 41 and roundabouts are the only solution where everyone wins," Ohrenstein said.
RELATED: Project aims at safety for walks and cyclists
Construction on the Fruitville and U.S. 41 roundabouts eventually will be joined by another on Gulf Stream Avenue that leads over the Ringling Causeway to the barrier islands. That project will begin in fall 2020.
Construction on the roundabouts at 10th and 14th streets, which began in 2017, is expected to be finished by this time next year. The 10th Street roundabout will serve as a gateway to The Bay when the 53-acre waterfront redevelopment is finished.
RELATED: Sarasota-Manatee among 10 most dangerous places for pedestrians
In the next decade, roundabouts are expected to be constructed from South Orange Avenue to University Parkway, permanently changing the face of U.S. 41. The roundabouts will include raised islands for pedestrians, street lights and signaled pedestrian crossings.
For Roger Barry, it's a promising future for Sarasota. Barry is a retired University of Cincinnati professor who helped organize U.S. 41 Momentum, the small group of advocates who pushed for the construction of roundabouts.
"Anybody who is interested in crossing U.S. 41 knows what a scary proposition that is," Barry said.
For details and information about expected lane closures or changes to the traffic pattern, visit us41fruitvilleroundabout.com.


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Ravens, DC Don Martindale Part Ways
Giants Hire Joe Schoen As GM
No Contract Talks Between Redskins, Preston Smith
February 10th, 2019 at 9:25am CST by Rory Parks
Preston Smith has quietly put together a solid four-year run with the Redskins since Washington selected him in the second round of the 2015 draft. Although his sack production has fluctuated a bit, he has posted 24.5 sacks in his career to go along with 59 quarterback hits, and the general consensus is that he still has room to grow.
He graded out as the eighth-best 3-4 outside linebacker in the league in 2018 (and No. 19 edge defender) per Pro Football Focus, and he may very well be the best rush linebacker on the market when free agency opens in March. Although the Texans' Jadeveon Clowney and the Chiefs' Dee Ford may be more desirable targets, they appear destined to remain with their current clubs, either through a long-term contract or the franchise tag.
Smith does not appear to be a candidate for a tag, and John Keim of ESPN.com reports that Smith and the Redskins have still not had any meaningful contract talks. That was the case in August, and it seems that nothing has changed since then. Washington did draft Ryan Anderson in the second round of the 2017 draft, and the 2019 draft is stocked with quality pass rushers, so it could be that the Redskins are prepared to increase Anderson's role while adding a rookie quarterback hunter or two in April.
After all, Smith is in line for a nice payday. Pro Football Focus recently projected that Ford, if he does not play the 2019 season under the tag, would land a five-year, $95MM deal with $55MM in guarantees, and while Smith may not get too close to that, a contract worth a total of $60MM or so with a sizable guarantee would not be surprising. And since the Redskins' salary cap will be negatively impacted by the Alex Smith situation, it makes sense that the team would want to explore cheaper alternatives.
One way or another, Preston Smith's age, production, upside, and durability — he has not missed a game in his four years as a pro, and he has started every game for Washington since 2016 — will serve him well.
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