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Q: Hi I am trying to add the material ui Iconbutton with input ref to upload the image its not working click to  check the image here of the UI HiI am trying to add the material UI button to upload the image it's not working below is the code snippet and reference to sandbox I am trying to work like in the image but not working
I had gone to the reference of reacting uploading and other methods how could I add the remove button in the below functionality code
code sandbox link:
https://codesandbox.io/s/gallant-hoover-3kjfi?file=/src/App.js
    [import React, { useRef, useState } from "react";
import AvatarEditor from "react-avatar-editor";
import Avatar from "@material-ui/core/Avatar";
import MuiThemeProvider from "@material-ui/core/styles/MuiThemeProvider";
import Slider from "@material-ui/core/Slider";
import {
  Box,
  Typography,
  Button,
  IconButton,
  Grid,
  Divider,
} from "@material-ui/core";
// import ImageUploading from "react-images-uploading";

export default function Images() {
  const \[state, setState\] = useState({
    cropperOpen: false,
    img: null,
    zoom: 2,
    rotate: 0,
    croppedImg: "",
  });

  const editorRef = useRef(null);
  const inputRef = useRef(null);

  function handleZoomSlider(event, value) {
    setState((prev) => ({ ...prev, zoom: value }));
  }

 function handleFileChange (e) {
    const createObjectURL =
      (window.URL || window.webkitURL).createObjectURL ||
      window.createObjectURL;

    const file = e.target.files\[0\];
    // console.log(file);
    const image_url = createObjectURL(file);
    setState({
      tmpPhotoURL: image_url,
      file: file,
    });
  };

//   function handleFileChange(e) {
//     window.URL = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
//     let url = window.URL.createObjectURL(e.target.files\[0\]);

//     inputRef.current.value = "";
//     setState((prev) => ({ ...prev, img: url, cropperOpen: true }));
//   }

  function handleCancel() {
    setState((prev) => ({ ...prev, cropperOpen: false }));
  }

  function handleSave(e) {
    if (editorRef.current) {
      const canvasScaled = editorRef.current.getImageScaledToCanvas();
      const croppedImg = canvasScaled.toDataURL();

      setState((prev) => ({ ...prev, cropperOpen: false, croppedImg }));
    }
  }

  return (
    <MuiThemeProvider>

            <Avatar src={state.croppedImg} size={100} />

                <Button
                  //   label="Upload an Image"
                  //   labelPosition="before"
                  //   containerElement="label"
                  size="medium"
                  variant="contained"

                  color="secondary"

                  ref={inputRef}
                  type="file"
                  accept="image/*"
                  onChange={handleFileChange}
                >

                  Upload an Image
                </Button>][1]

A: You have to use <input type="file"/> for uploading any kind of file. If you want to look like the material button, use custom css.
https://material-ui.com/components/buttons/#upload-button  - here you have an example for Upload button

A:         [import React, { useRef, useState } from "react";
import AvatarEditor from "react-avatar-editor";
import Avatar from "@material-ui/core/Avatar";
import MuiThemeProvider from "@material-ui/core/styles/MuiThemeProvider";
import Slider from "@material-ui/core/Slider";
import {
  Box,
  Typography,
  Button,
  IconButton,
  Grid,
  Divider,
} from "@material-ui/core";
// import ImageUploading from "react-images-uploading";

export default function Images() {
  const \[state, setState\] = useState({
    cropperOpen: false,
    img: null,
    zoom: 2,
    rotate: 0,
    croppedImg: "",
  });

  const editorRef = useRef(null);
  const inputRef = useRef(null);

  function handleZoomSlider(event, value) {
    setState((prev) => ({ ...prev, zoom: value }));
  }

 function handleFileChange (e) {
    const createObjectURL =
      (window.URL || window.webkitURL).createObjectURL ||
      window.createObjectURL;

    const file = e.target.files\[0\];
    // console.log(file);
    const image_url = createObjectURL(file);
    setState({
      tmpPhotoURL: image_url,
      file: file,
    });
  };

//   function handleFileChange(e) {
//     window.URL = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
//     let url = window.URL.createObjectURL(e.target.files\[0\]);

//     inputRef.current.value = "";
//     setState((prev) => ({ ...prev, img: url, cropperOpen: true }));
//   }

  function handleCancel() {
    setState((prev) => ({ ...prev, cropperOpen: false }));
  }

  function handleSave(e) {
    if (editorRef.current) {
      const canvasScaled = editorRef.current.getImageScaledToCanvas();
      const croppedImg = canvasScaled.toDataURL();

      setState((prev) => ({ ...prev, cropperOpen: false, croppedImg }));
    }
  }

  return (
    <MuiThemeProvider>

            <Avatar src={state.croppedImg} size={100} />

                <Button
                  //   label="Upload an Image"
                  //   labelPosition="before"
                  //   containerElement="label"
                  size="medium"
                  variant="contained"

                  color="secondary"

                  ref={inputRef}
                  type="file"
                  accept="image/*"
                  onChange={handleFileChange}
                >

                  Upload an Image
                </Button>][1]

anyone could help the image design in codesandbox


ST. LOUIS (KPLR) – Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright took to Twitter Monday to announce the birth of his daughter.
The baby, Sadee Faith, was born Monday morning. Mom and baby are doing fine, Wainwright said.
This is Wainwright's fourth child.


So far this year, in a single court in St. Louis, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has been ordered to pay nearly $200 million to women who developed ovarian cancer after using its talcum powder products for feminine hygiene, or to the families of women who died.
That was just three cases, and there are about 2,500 more pending. Now, J&J wants to move the cases out of the Missouri state court, in St. Louis.
J&J plans to argue, as it has before that the St. Louis court does not have jurisdiction over the talcum powder lawsuits, and that the jury pool is tainted. It claims that the plaintiff's lawyers spent nearly $10 million on television ads, and that a disproportionate number of those ads were aired in St. Louis.
When a drug has been pulled from the market, it is common for the pharmaceutical company to take the safe route and settle with victims after large losses in court. But, J&J wants to protect the brand. Its talc products are still on store shelves. If J&J settles with victims, it would come across as admission that the products are harmful, and potentially damage the reputation of the brand. And, because the defective products are still being sold, a settlement would not limit potential liability.
If you or someone you love has developed ovarian cancer after regular use of baby powder or Shower to Shower for feminine hygiene, please talk to an experienced defective drug attorney right away to learn more about your rights and potential compensation.


There is nothing better than a turkey sandwich after Thanksgiving. We love the flavor combination of crisp apple and nutty brie that come together in this sandwich. If you're watching the big game at home, you can prepare this quick and easy sandwich and serve them warm during half-time. Complete the meal with a flavorful, make-ahead potato salad. If you are going to the game, wrap the sandwich individually in parchment paper and add them to your picnic basket for tailgate festivities. Be sure and add other easy-to-transport options, such as graham nut clusters, to keep your friends and family satisfied.
Preheat oven to 400°F. Place ciabatta halves on a small baking sheet. Spread bottom half with hot pepper jelly. Place turkey, apple, and brie on top of jelly. Bake in preheated oven until brie melts and top half of roll is light golden brown, about 3 minutes. Remove from oven and place arugula on top of brie. Brush top half of roll with mustard and place on top of arugula to make a sandwich. Serve hot or at room temperature.


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Inequality: Nothing to see here is not the true picture
Ross Gittins
Economics Editor
September 1, 2018 — 12.05am
This week the Productivity Commission issued a "stocktake of the evidence" on inequality in Australia. Its findings will surprise you. But it wasn't as even-handed as it should have been.
Its report forcefully dispels the myths of the Left – that inequality is great and rapidly worsening – but is much more sotto voce in telling the Right there's still a problem and that the reason it's not as bad as some think is that governments have taken corrective actions the Right usually disapproves of.
Illustration: Glen Le Lievre
This has allowed the conservative commentators of the national press to greet the report with great glee. One in the eye for their ideological opponents. Inequality? Nothing to see here.
The report looks at three different measures of economic inequality – the distribution of income, consumption and wealth – over a long period: the 27 years from 1988-89 to 2015-16. It focuses on the experience of households rather than individuals, and eliminates the effects of inflation.
The report concludes that inequality has risen only slightly over the period. Measured by the Gini coefficient – where zero means perfect equality and 1 means one household has everything – the distributions of both income and consumption have risen slightly.
The distribution of household wealth (mainly owner-occupied housing and superannuation savings) is most unequal of the three. It, too, has become a bit more unequal over the period.
Our rate of poverty (measured as people with incomes below half the median income) is no higher than it was 27 years ago. Credit:Fiona Morris
But, particularly for income, inequality increased during the resources boom of the mid-noughties, then decreased in the years following the global financial crisis of 2008.
Over the 27 years, the disposable income of all households rose at an average rate of about 2.2 per cent a year in real terms.
The annual incomes of households in every decile (10 per cent group), from the bottom to the top, increased. It won't surprise you that average incomes in the top two deciles rose by more than the economy-wide average. The top decile's average income rose by more than 2.5 per cent a year.
It will surprise you that average incomes in the bottom decile rose at the same rate as the economy- wide average. So it was households between the bottom 10 per cent and the top 30 per cent whose incomes rose by less than the national average.
Households between the bottom 10 per cent and the top 30 per cent incomes rose by less than the national average. Credit:Peter Braig
Many people would be surprised by all this. Why? Because they hear what's happened in America and assume it must be pretty similar here. Wrong.
The report notes that our progressive income tax and highly means-tested welfare payments do a lot to equalise household incomes (as I've written recently in this column).
Our income equality in 2015 was about average for the rich countries. In 2017, our wealth inequality was eighth lowest among 28 rich countries.
Australians' chances of moving between higher and lower income groups – a rough measure of equality of opportunity – "compare favourably with many other developed countries", the report says.
It tells us that, at 9 per cent of Australians – 2.2 million people – our rate of poverty (measured as people with incomes below half the median income) is no higher than it was 27 years ago.
But if all these truths tell you we don't have much to worry about, you've been misled. The report is much less up-front in reminding us of the qualifications to its findings.
It leaves the strong impression that, if inequality hasn't increased much, and isn't as great as in some other countries, there's no great problem. This implies the inequality we started with was fine.
As Professor Peter Whiteford, of the Australian National University, has noted, the report does too little to remind us that all the averaging involved in Gini coefficients and decile groups rolls households who've gained together with households who've lost and tells us little has changed.
For instance, the report downplays the issue of the huge increase in the incomes of the top 1 per cent of households. Their extreme gains are averaged with the more modest gains of the next 9 per cent to give a rise in the incomes of the top decile that's high compared with the rest of us, but not greatly so.
Since the increase in inequality occurred during the resources boom, the report notes quietly that, contrary to what conservative politicians keep telling us, "[economic] growth alone is no guarantee against widening disparity between rich and poor".
I don't accept another implicit value judgement that not much more could be done to reduce income and wealth inequality.
True. Then we're reminded that this increase in inequality went away in the long period of weak growth following the financial crisis.
So what does the Productivity Commission want us to conclude? Let nature take its course? Don't worry about increasing inequality because the next recession will fix it?
The report's fine-print acknowledges the truth that a country's degree of inequality is greatly influenced by its economic institutions (such as its tax system and the rules of its welfare system), by government policy changes, and by the public's attitudes to inequality.
I happen to agree with the commission's value judgement that the growing gap between the top 1 per cent of incomes and middle incomes isn't of as great concern as the gap between the bottom and the middle.
But I don't accept another implicit value judgement that not much more could be done to reduce income and wealth inequality (presumably, for fear the rich would stop wanting to get richer) and that, at the bottom end, the government should limit its intervention to assisting those poor people whose disadvantage has become "entrenched".
In other words, don't acknowledge that poverty is being kept high by successive governments' refusal to lift the freeze on real unemployment benefits.
The report proudly informs us that the bottom decile's income has kept pace with the economy-wide average, but does little to explain how this amazing truth came about.
The chief suspect is the Rudd government's increase in the base-rate of the age pension, a boost so big it seems to have more than offset the adverse effects of the real dole freeze and the bipartisan policy of moving disabled and sole-parent pensioners onto the much lower dole.
Still think there's nothing to see here?
Ross Gittins is the Herald's economics editor.
Twitter: @1RossGittins
Ross Gittins is the Economics Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.

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Stefano Kotsonis
Senior Producer, On Point
Stefano Kotsonis began his career in broadcasting in 1987 as a founding member of the nationally syndicated PBS current affairs program, "The Kwitny Report," which was awarded the George Polk Award for television investigative journalism.
In 1989, Stef moved to Athens, Greece, where he worked as a freelance reporter and producer for major television, radio and print outlets such as CNN, BBC, CBC, The European and USA Today.
After a year covering the Gulf War and the Kurdish refugee crisis for CNN, he was named Amman bureau chief and correspondent. From there, he covered most of the top stories of the 1990s, including the wars of [former] Yugoslavia, the Somali civil war and the humanitarian response, the Middle East peace process. His reporting sent him to the corners of the Caucasus, Middle East, Europe, and East and South Africa.
Click here for a link to Stef's CNN clip reel.
He returned to the United States in 1996, first reporting and producing for Reuters TV, later producing and writing for television documentaries for The History Channel, Discovery Health and PBS, such as "Islam: Empire of Faith," a three-hour documentary about the rise of the early Islamic empires which aired on PBS.
Stef made the switch to public radio in the summer of 2001, and has worked on several WBUR-produced programs, including Here & Now and now On Point.
Stef speaks many languages, most of them really badly: English, Greek, French, Turkish, Arabic. If phrases like "good morning," "thank you" and "who stole my pen?" can be considered fluency, he can pretend to have some command of Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Swahili, Kurdish, Persian and Armenian. As for his family life, there's one great vernacular expression in Greek to describe him: "Χαζο-μπαμπάς." Feel free to look it up.


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There are a total of five paylines. Each payline is calculated after the reels have come to a stop. All wins are paid in accordance with the pay table. wins on different paylines are added together to give the final result.
The wildcard symbol (BIG BUCK BUNNY) substitutes any symbol to create the highest win on a payline. Here, BIG BUCK BUNNY is additionally marked with WILD.
The scatter symbol (LOGO of the game) is exempt from the payline rule. LOGO of the games can win independently of their position on the reels; only the number of LOGO of the game symbols counts for a win.
In addition to the cash winnings from the pay table, up to 50 free games can be won with three LOGO of the games.
Stakes do not have to be paid for the free games. Your effective bet for these free games is your actual bet when you won the free games. On top of this, all free game winnings will be tripled (with the exception of new free games). The resulting winnings will be shown in the pay table.
With the card gamble you bet on the colour of the next card. You can bet on red or black with the corresponding buttons. Winnings are doubled if the colour of the card drawn matches your choice. This is possible until a maximum of €140,00.
With the risk ladder gamble you click on the GAMBLE button (with ladder symbol), and either step up the ladder or land on the '0' step. This is possible until a maximum of €140,00.


Does anyone know how to connect a high gain antenna into the video receiver that has an antenna soldered on? I don't really want to desolder it, so I was wondering if I could just cut it, and then cut the end of this: https://goo.gl/V5DEK3, and then just solder those two ends together. Would that work?
I am not a HAM specialist, but given what I know I think the most important part is to keep the signal wire shielded. So if you cut and solder this together, you'll want to pull back and restore or replace some type of shielding. Bottom line you're not going to damage anything ( so long as you don't power on w/o any antenna) but you could degrade the reception if not done well.
I´ve seen that, but i have the 3 plug gimbal/camera board, so, its a completely different connection. That is why maybe watching a picture of the cable i can sort out where to plug them. Thanks for the help thou.
Will it work with the PX4 Board?
Hi NiN3X can you send me a picture of the red and black multiwire that connects the drone to the gimbal? my cables got disconnected in a crash and i dont know how to reconect them!
So I got terrible results from my 600mw vtx with fatshark antenna. About 50 meters before a lot of static would show up. Then, I saw a forum that warned you not to buy 600mw vtx from ebay sellers... Going to see if I can get a refund.
On the other hand, which vtx should i get?
Ok, I recently purchased another (used) UpAir with the intent fixing it up, doing a couple key mods, and reselling.
After repairing controller antennae which were both torn off the box, the Initial test flight went well. It flew real nice after these repairs. However the camera gimbal was pointing straight down at best and the wheel only rotated it "backwards" as far as it would physically travel.
I assumed I could fix configuration in Mission planner so I set out to do the USB mod.
This one apparently has the PX4 board in it (no micro USB port) so I had to order the DF13 connector cables and splice into a female USB cable. Done.
After assembly and re-connection of all the components, I can't get any telemetry activity on the UpAir display, there is zero voltage, no satellite reading showing, no AH activity, etc.
If I connect to Mission Planner with UpAir powered off, I can get the AH to work and I do get compass readings and "something" picks up my location, so I don't know if the GPS is working or if it's just picking up location from my computer IP address.
But as soon as I plug in USB and start up Mission Planner, I get "No Mav Data" on the UpAir.
I can't arm motors at all either, and flight modes just stay in STAB mode. The only thing that sorta works is the camera gimbal, which I can still rotate (the wrong way).
I'm going to disassemble again and check all my connections, but any ideas are greatly appreciated. Although I've connected with MP, I haven't upgraded firmware or even attempted to make/save any changes.
I suggest the AKK products, especially the switchable MW ones.
Doing some more testing, I thought I found the problem. I disconnected my USB, and the UpAir booted OK and I had full telemetry to the screen.
I then checked my USB cable for shorts, but found none.
I then repeated my tests and again get the OSD displaying no data. Sometimes I get no OSD display, sometimes I get ODS fields but with no data, sometimes I get "No Mav Data". But I've tested again with USB disconnected, and this time no impact.
When I compare that to my good unit, I get 3 rising pitch beeps, repeated, and then pause, and a final single beep that is higher in pitch.
So "something" knows it's not right.
Does that raise any more possible root causes? I'm now thinking that the assumed connection to my USB mod is an incorrect assumption.
* Keep the remote controller power off. Toggle the left switches upper.
1. Push the left joystick to down right by your left hand, and pull the right joystick to upper left by your right hand at the same time.
2. Turn on the controller, the RC is constantly beeping.
3. Move the throttles up and down right and left in circle, repeat it several times and ensure that the joysticks can go through the maximum.
4. Move the right switches up and down to the maximum and repeat it several times.
5. Turn the gimbal dial front and back to the maximum and repeat it several times.
6. Press the picture and video shotting button respectively, and then press both of the buttons together,then a long beeping-well done!
2. Relink the UPair controller and the aircraft.
*Keep the Remote controller and Aircraft power off,remove 4 propellers for safety.
1.Toggle the left switch down to "Return to Home" mode.
You will hear a beeping sound when remote controller is trying to link to the aircraft.
you have now finished linking the remote controller and the aircraft.
4.Toggle the left switch up to the "Normal-mode",now you can successfully unlock the motors.
3. Press the black button(on the back of the cotroller) for about 13 seconds, the controller will automatic search the most suitable frequency.
Also, It is my understanding that the new PX4 boards need to be used with QGC and not MP...But I have not confirmed this.
Has anyone on this forum had any success with the new PX4 board + USB DF13 Mod connecting and using MP?
-Regarding the 4-wire DF13 connector, for me it had the right pitch on the wire, but I had to trim some shoulders off the side and ends of the connector in order to get it to fit the port.
-I continue to get good telemetry and GPS data when I connect only via USB with MP.
-I did get one successful drone startup after removing the USB cable mod. But probably a dozen or more attempts after that have all failed.
-If I power the drone up, using just the standard controller box & screen, first time I always get a "No Mav Data" message.
-If I power it off and quickly back on, I get the OSD to engage but all data is static (no volts, no telemetry response, etc).
-I've had problems on another model where I tried to add the minum OSD (which I'm pretty sure is what the UpAir uses) and I know it's very susceptible to voltage stability issues. So I tried replacing the voltage feeds with a separate 5V BEC, just to make sure it wasn't a voltage stability issue. That didn't resolve the issue.
-I cannot arm the motors.
Interesting you mention that it might be a problem with using MP. Although I didn't "save" any data with MP, perhaps just the reading action caused some problems? Perhaps I should try QGC?
This drone was purchased 2nd hand and I have no knowledge of it's previous history. So it's possible I didn't cause any of these issues. Perhaps they've been there all along.
-Oddly enough, the original problem I was trying to solve (camera gimbal pointing down/back instead of forward) has somehow healed itself along the way. I really have no idea what did that. I tried to follow the self calibration routine posted above, but it didn't respond (beep) the way indicated. But sometime after that, the gimbal starting working correctly.
Although I seem to have ruled out a voltage supply issue between the FC and PDB/ESCs I still think there is a data communication issue somehow.
I can try connecting with QGC or the only other hair-brain idea I have is to try to "patch" the data +/- from the USB port to the feed gloing to the PDB. Of course, I need to check to make sure they are running at compatible voltages. But on another connection between the FC and PDB there is a 2-wire WHITE/GREEN wire only. Is that a data connection? I just don't know and since this is all proprietary, I don't think there any offical pinout charts out there, are there?
I guess the QGC test should probably be first as that won't require any more cutting/soldering risks.
ANY other ideas or guildance greatly appreciated!
Last edited by plasoneal; May 24, 2017 at 11:33 AM.
Well, my assumption about the green/yellow wires being related to my MAV data problem has been found to be an incorrect assumption, plus the voltages didn't align with the USB port data voltage, so I never tried that connection patch yet.
On my working UpAir, I was able to disconnect nearly all the wires above and still get full OSD telemetry data. Only when I disconnected them all (which cut the power feed entirely) did the OSD telemetry drop off.
I also tested disconnection of the 2 wire While/Green pair. OSD was still functional. So that appears to not be the MAV channel either.
I think that leaves only one other wiring hardness that flows between the FC and PDB. I'll test that next when I can.
So, next I'm going to test the other multi-wire connection and see if I can isolate the channel for the MAV data.
I did confirm that when 5v power is applied to the USB connection, I'm getting a 3v response on the data wires. So I'm probably looking for a 3v feed from the FC (assuming it works the same).
Since it appears that dropping the MAV data internally is normal response when connecting to USB, I'm suspecting that for some reason my internal channel isn't working correctly when the USB connection is dropped. Assuming I can find that channel, I'm hoping to redirect /patch it's data via the USB connection (driving voltage to is via a separate 5v BEC. That's my current plan at least.


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Kolbe returns in only Springbok change for RWC Final
October 31, 2019 By jenna
Fit-again wing Cheslin Kolbe returns to the Springbok team in the only change to the match 23 for Saturday's Rugby World Cup final against England at Yokohama International Stadium (kick off 11h00 SA time).
He regains the right wing berth from stand-in Sbu Nkosi in the only change to the team that eased their way to a 19-16 victory over Wales in Sunday's semi-final.
Siya Kolisi will lead the team out for the 20th time as he becomes the eighth player in the 23 to have won 50 caps.
Rassie Erasmus, director of rugby, named the now familiar six-two split on the bench to field a settled line-up, 22 of whom will be appearing together for the fourth time in the tournament.
This line-up first played together in the play-off-clinching, 49-3, win over Italy a month ago and was retained for the quarter-final, semi-final and now final. Only Kolbe's ankle injury interrupted the pattern.
"Chessie is fully fit and ready to go," said Erasmus.
"It's tough on Sbu to drop out of the 23 altogether but, like the other seven, non-playing squad members – and the two injured players back home [Trevor Nyakane and Jesse Kriel] – he has made vital contributions to our campaign.
"But we have been developing some momentum through the tournament, which has come from consistency, and although we know there are things we can do better this is a fit, well-practiced set of combinations who know what they have to do on Saturday."
Now rugby's biggest prize was just 80 minutes away.
"Getting to this stage is not enough for this team," said Erasmus.
"We now have what may be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to become World Champions – something that would mean so much to our country and our people.
"We know the excitement that there is back home and that the country may well be coming to a standstill on Saturday lunchtime in South Africa. There's a huge weight of expectation.
"We may not be favourites but these players will leave nothing in the tank. We know how the wins in 1995 and 2007 lifted the country – even if it was momentarily. We want to give South Africa that experience once again."
Kolisi has the opportunity to follow in footsteps of Francois Pienaar and John Smit by becoming the third Springbok captain to lift the Webb Ellis Cup.
It would be achieved on the occasion of his 50th cap: Pienaar did it on his 21st appearance and Smit on his 74th.
"It's a great achievement for Siya," said Erasmus.
"Any Springbok captain carries a heavy load – probably doubly so in Siya's case – and he has really risen to the occasion over the past two years.
"No one is hiding from the significance that would be attached to him lifting the trophy on behalf of this team and South Africa. But first and foremost on Saturday this is a rugby match that we're only focused on winning."
The final kicks off at 11h00 (SA time) and is available on SuperSport channel 201, SABC TV and radio.
Willie le Roux (Toyota Verblitz, Japan), 60 caps – 60 points (12 tries)
Cheslin Kolbe (Toulouse, France), 13 – 35 (7t)
Lukhanyo Am (Cell C Sharks), 14 – 15 (3t)
Damian de Allende (DHL Stormers), 46 – 30 (6t)
Makazole Mapimpi (Cell C Sharks), 13 – 65 (13t)
Handré Pollard (Vodacom Bulls), 47 – 435 (6t, 72c, 83p, 4d)
Faf de Klerk (Sale Sharks, England), 29 – 20 (4t)
Duane Vermeulen (Vodacom Bulls), 53 – 15 (3t)
Pieter-Steph du Toit (DHL Stormers), 54 – 25 (5t)
Siya Kolisi (captain, DHL Stormers), 49 – 30 (6t)
Lood de Jager (Vodacom Bulls) 44 – 25 (5t)
Eben Etzebeth (DHL Stormers), 84 – 15 (3t)
Frans Malherbe (DHL Stormers), 37 – 5 (1t)
Bongi Mbonambi (DHL Stormers), 35 – 35 (7t)
Tendai Mtawarira (Cell C Sharks), 116 – 10 (2t)
Replacements:
Malcolm Marx (Emirates Lions), 32 – 25 (5t)
Steven Kitshoff (DHL Stormers), 46 – 5 (1t)
Vincent Koch (Saracens, England) 20 – 0
RG Snyman (Vodacom Bulls), 22 – 5 (1t)
Franco Mostert (Gloucester, England), 38 – 5 (1t)
Francois Louw (Bath, England), 75 – 50 (10t)
Herschel Jantjies (DHL Stormers), 9 – 20 (4t)
Frans Steyn (Montpellier, France), 66 – 141 (11t, 7c, 21p, 3d)
England and South Africa have played against each other in four RWC matches.
The first was at Stade de France in Paris in 1999. South Africa won 44-21. Jannie de Beer scored 34 points from two conversions, five penalty goals and a Rugby World Cup record five drop goals.
The second was in Perth in 2003, which was won by England 25-6. Jonny Wilkinson was successful with a conversion, four penalty goals and two drop goals for a personal tally of 20 points.
The third and fourth Test matches between the two countries took place at the 2007 RWC tournament in France. The Springboks easily won the pool match 36-0. England won all their other pool matches as well as the quarter-final and semi-final to qualify for the final. The final turned out to be a kicking duel between Jonny Wilkinson (two penalty goals) and Percy Montgomery (four penalty goals) with Frans Steyn adding another penalty to the Springboks final score of 15-6.
England have competed in all RWC tournaments since 1987. To date England's record is as follows: Played 49; Won 36; Lost 13; Points for 1 557; Points against 751; Win % 73.
South Africa's first RWC tournament was in 1995 and the Springbok record to date is as follows: Played 42; Won 35; Lost 7; Points for 1 480; Points against 541; Win % 83.
This will be the 43rd Test match between the two countries and the Springboks' records to date are as follows:
TEAM MATCH RECORDS AGAINST ENGLAND
Most points: 58
Most tries: 8
Most conversions: 7
Most penalty goals: 6
Most drop goals: 5
INDIVIDUAL MATCH RECORDS AGAINST ENGLAND
Most points: 34 – Jannie de Beer.
Most tries: 3 – Danie Gerber.
Most conversions: 7 – Percy Montgomery.
Most penalty goals: 6 – Braam van Straaten.
Most drop goals: 5 – Jannie de Beer.
The total test caps for the Springbok starting line-up is 694; an average of 46.
There are 222 caps in the backline (average 32) with 472 caps amongst the forwards (average 59). On the bench there are a further 308 caps (average 39).
The average age of the starting fifteen is 28.
Handré Pollard needs two tries to equal the career record of eight tries as a flyhalf held by Morné Steyn.
The referee is Jérôme Garcès of France. This will be his 15th Test match as a referee with South Africa involved and his 56th Test match in his career.
The assistant referees are Romain Poite of France and Ben O'Keeffe of New Zealand, while Ben Skeen, also from New Zealand, will be the TMO.
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Risk of major cardiovascular events according to educational level before and after the initial COVID-19 public lockdown: a nationwide study
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3506-6507Julie Andersen1,
Katrine Strandberg-Larsen2,
Thomas Gerds1,3,
Gunnar Gislason1,4,
Christian Torp-Pedersen5,
Paul Blanche3,4,
Charlotte Andersson4,6,
Lars Køber7,
Emil Fosbøl7,
Matthew Phelps1,
Kristian Kragholm8,
Mikkel Porsborg Andersen5,
Lauge Østergaard7,
Jawad Haider Butt7,
Morten Schou4
1 Department of Cardiovascular Research, The Danish Heart Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
2 Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
3 Section of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
4 Department of Cardiology, Herlev and Gentofte University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
5 Department of Cardiology, Nordsjællands Hospital, Hillerød, Denmark
6 Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
7 Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
8 Department of Cardiology, Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
Correspondence to Julie Andersen, Research, Hjerteforeningen, 1120 Kobenhavn, Denmark; juliea{at}hjerteforeningen.dk
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, decreasing rates of hospitalisations for cardiovascular disease raised concerns for undertreatment, particularly for vulnerable groups. We investigated how the initial COVID-19 public lockdown, impacted the risk of being hospitalised with a major cardiovascular event (MCE: myocardial infarction/stroke/heart failure) according to educational level.
Methods We grouped all Danish residents according to educational attainment level (low, medium, high) and age (40–59, 60–69, ≥70 years). In each group, we calculated the age-standardised and sex standardised risk of MCE hospitalisation in the initial COVID-19 lockdown-period (13 March 2020–3 May 2020) and in the corresponding calendar period in 2019. We calculated age-standardised and sex-standardised risks to investigate whether the COVID-19 lockdown had a differential effect on MCE incidence according to educational level.
Results In the period in 2019, 2700 Danish residents were hospitalised with MCE, compared with only 2290 during the lockdown. During lockdown, the risk of hospitalisation for MCE decreased among residents aged ≥70 with low education (risk difference (RD) −46.2 (−73.2; −19.2) per 100,000) or medium education (RD −23.2 (−50.8; 4.3) per 100 000), but not among residents with high education (RD 5.1 (−32.3; 42.5), per 100 000). The risk of hospitalisation for MCE did not decrease significantly for the younger age groups.
Conclusions The COVID-19 lockdown is associated with a reduced incidence for MCE, especially among low educated, elderly residents. This raises concern for undertreatment that without clinical awareness and action may widen the educational gap in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-215133
On the evening of 11 March 2020, the Danish government declared national lockdown, effective from 13 March, as a reaction to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 lockdown resulted in closing of schools, workplaces, daycares, restaurants and mandated physical distancing. Furthermore, the healthcare sector was reorganised to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. The reorganisation included cancellation of non-urgent surgery, hospital visits and postponement of scheduled appointments to the general practitioner. Residents were obligated to understand and adhere to the governmental recommendations and regulations regarding the COVID-19 lockdown and navigate accordingly in the reorganised healthcare system.1 Navigating in a changing healthcare system requires adequate health literacy in order to for example, understand when a medical condition is urgent enough to seek care versus to wait at home.2 Socioeconomic position is highly correlated with health literacy as residents with higher education more often comprehend and adhere to health recommendations.3 Thus, residents with low educational levels may find the healthcare system particularly challenging to navigate in during the COVID-19 lockdown. These residents may refrain from seeking medical treatment out of precaution to avoid COVID-19, thereby ignoring or delaying getting medical treatment, even for serious illnesses. Studies from the USA, Italy and Austria have reported falling hospitalisation rates of stroke,4 myocardial infarction (MI)5 and acute coronary syndrome following the initial lockdowns.6 7 However, it remains unknown whether the COVID-19 lockdown affected residents differently according to socioeconomic position. We investigated the impact of the initial national COVID-19 lockdown on the educational gradient in the incidence of getting hospitalised with a major cardiovascular event (MCE), including stroke, MI and heart failure (HF).
Study design and population
We conducted a nationwide cohort study using national administrative Danish registers. All Danish residents are at birth or immigration assigned a personal identification number that allows researchers to link information from multiple registers.8 We linked information on demographic variables on the entire Danish population from the Central Population Registry, information on educational status from the Student Register, and information on hospital admissions due to acute cardiovascular symptoms from the Danish National Patient Registry.
We defined the initial lockdown period (13 March 2020–3 May 2020) and a corresponding calendar in the year before, where no lockdown had occurred (13 March 2019–3 May 2019). All Danish residents aged 40–90 years, alive at the beginning of the periods, without any previous hospitalisation for an MCE, or missing information on educational level were included in the study. This left us with a total of 2 756 687 and 2 782 606 Danish residents in the non-lockdown and lockdown period, respectively (online supplemental figure S1).
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Major cardiovascular event
We defined a MCE as an overnight hospital admission of HF (International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10): I50.0-I50.9, I110, II30, II32), stroke (ICD:10: I60, I61, I63, I64, G458, G459) or MI (ICD-10 I200, I210A, I211A, I214, I210B, I211B, I219) as primary diagnosis. This definition of HF, stroke and MI has been validated to have high positive predictive values in Danish registers.9 10
Educational level
We used individual educational level as an indicator of socioeconomic position. We obtained information on the highest attained educational level from the national student register and classified education according to International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED-11)11 into three educational levels: Low (ISCED-11: 0–2: early childhood education/primary education/lower secondary education), medium (ISCED-11: 3–5: upper secondary education/postsecondary non tertiary education/short-cycle tertiary education) and high (ISCED-11: 6–8: bachelors/masters/doctoral or equivalent).
We summarised characteristics of the study populations on 13 March 2020 and 13 March 2019, respectively, with frequencies for categorical variables, and with medians and IQRs for continuous variables.
To describe the trends in first time admission with MCE, we estimated the expected daily rate during 13 March–3 May by the average daily rate observed in the period from 1 January to 12 March for each educational level separately. We then compared the observed daily rate after March 13th against the estimated rate. We performed this analysis for both 2020 and 2019 to compare with a year without lockdown.
Separately for groups defined by education (low, medium, high) and age (40–59, 60–69,>70 years), we calculated age-specific (rounded to nearest integer) and sex-specific risks of the outcome events (MCE, MI, stroke, HF, death) in the 50-day long periods before and after 13 March in 2020 and in 2019, respectively. We report the group-specific average 50-day risks standardised to the age and sex distribution of the low education groups on 13 March 2020 with 95% CIs. We further report differences between the standardised risks in 2019 and 2020, and changes in the educational gradient (low educated subtracted by high educated) with 95% CIs (online supplemental figure S2). We tested if the declines and changes in the educational gradient were significant by performing all-pairwise comparisons and using a single step max-t test approach to adjust the p values for the multiple comparisons.12 We subdivided the composite measure of MCE into: MI, stroke and HF and also analysed all-cause mortality. The level of statistical significance was set at 5%. All analyses were carried out using R.13
The study populations during the initial COVID-19 lockdown and in the corresponding period the year before had similar distributions of sex, age and comorbidities according to educational level (table 1). The incidence rate of hospitalisation with MCE was lower during the initial COVID-19 lockdown than in the months preceding the lockdown, in particularly for the low and medium educated. A similar pattern did not apply in 2019 (figure 1, online supplemental figure S3).
Baseline characteristics of the population during the initial COVID-19 lockdown (13 March 2020–3 May 2020) and the corresponding calendar period in the year before (13 March 2019–3 May 2019) by educational level
Changes in incidence rates of being hospitalised with major cardiovascular events when comparing 1 January–12 March (calibration data) to after 12 March (new data). The dashed vertical line at day 71 separates the two time periods. The black plus signs are the RAW data of daily incidence rate. The black dots are the moving average of the daily incidence rates. UCL and LCL is the UCL and LCL predicted in the calibration data. Red dots indicate that the moving average of the daily incidence rates are outside the predicted CI. LCL, lower confidence level; UCL, upper confidence level.
We observed, both during the lockdown-period and in the corresponding period the year before, an educational gradient in the 50-day risk of being hospitalised with a MCE. This educational gradient was similar in 2015–2018 (online supplemental figure S4). In all age categories (40–59, 60–69, ≥70), the low educated had highest risk, followed by the medium and then the high educated category, and the steepest decline in absolute risk occurred among residents above 70 years of age (figure 2). Among residents above the age of 70, the 50-day risk decreased by −46.2 (95% CI −73.2 to −19.2) per 100 000 persons for low educated residents, compared with a decrease of −23.2 (95% CI −50.8 to 4.3) and a slight increase of 5.1.6 (95% CI −32.3 to 42.5) per 100 000 for residents with medium and high education, respectively (table 2). The educational gradient in risk of hospitalisation of MCE decreased during the lockdown, compared with 2019 for residents aged 70 years or older (Difference: 51.3 (−106.4; 3.7)), but less for residents aged 40–59 (−10.6 (−45.8; 25.0)) or aged 60–69 (−2.7 (−22.3; 16.9)) (table 2). The risk of all-cause mortality did not change markedly between 2019 and 2020, and the educational gradient in all-cause mortality likewise remained unchanged (online supplemental figure S5).
Absolute risk of being hospitalised with MCE standardised to the distribution of age and sex among the low educated in 2020, during the initial COVID-19 lockdown (13 March–3 May, 2020), compared with the corresponding calendar period in the year before (13 March–3 May, 2019). P values refer to single step max-t-test of changes in the educational gradient between low and high educated being equal. MCE, major cardiovascular event.
Absolute risk and RD of incident major cardiovascular event per 100 000 persons during the initial COVID-19 lockdown (13 March 2020–3 May 2020) and in the corresponding calendar period the year before (13 March 2019–3 May 2019) according to educational level
Among residents 70 years or older, for all included subtypes of MCE, the risk of hospitalisation declined most for residents with low education, whereas for residents with high education no change in risk of hospitalisation with MI, stroke or HF was observed (figure 3). Same pattern was not as clear in age group 40–59 (online supplemental figure S6) and age group 60–69 (online supplemental figure S7).
Risk difference among residents aged 70 or older in 50-day risk of MCE during the initial COVID-19 lockdown period (13 March 2020–3 May 2020), compared with the corresponding calendar period in the year before (13 March2019–3 May 2019). The risks were standardised to the distribution of age and sex among the low educated in 2020. MCE, major cardiovascular event.
In this study, we observed that the initial Danish national COVID-19 lockdown is likely to have expanded the educational gap in cardiovascular disease, as the incidence of hospitalisation with a MCE declined most among residents with low education compared with medium and highly educated residents. Further, our results showed that this wider educational gap affected people aged 70 years and above more than younger individuals, possibly because of their higher baseline risks of hospitalisations. Our finding regarding the educational gradient in the risk of hospitalisation with a MCE has been well-documented in previous studies.14 The increased risk among lower educational groups can in part be explained by a higher burden of well-established risk factors, such as hypercholesterolaemia, hypertension, diabetes other comorbidities and smoking.15
Our finding of a decline in hospital admissions of MCE following the COVID-19 pandemic supports studies from the USA, Italy and Austria, reporting decreasing rates of stroke,4 MI5 and acute coronary syndrome.6 7 Additionally, in the US declines in prescriptions rates of cardiometabolic therapies were observed following the pandemic, possible reflecting reduced contact with the prescribing clinicians.16 During our lockdown period only 417 Danish residents died after being diagnosed with COVID-19, and no excess mortality has been reported.17 Thus, compared with the previous reports of declining rates of cardiovascular disease, competing risk from COVID-19 mortality does not constitute a major concern.
Cardiovascular diseases, including stroke, are among the leading causes of death worldwide,18 as well as in Denmark.19 We can only speculate on the causal mechanisms driving the decline in incidence of hospitalisation with MCE and why residents with low educational levels, in particular among the elderly, experience a steeper decline. The explanation is probably multifactorial and complex and may be explained by changes in patient behaviour, reallocation of hospital resources and changes in disease burden.20 Patients may delay or ignore seeking medical treatment or entirely not react on symptoms of MCE.21 Neglecting to react to symptoms of a MCE, such as symptomatic HF, MI or stroke may lead to delayed diagnosis, and as a result poorer outcomes.22 The healthcare sector was reorganised to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, which included cancellation of non-urgent surgery, hospital visits and postponement of scheduled appointments to the general practitioner. This too may explain the decline as fewer patients, despite in need, may have been referred to hospital treatment. All-cause mortality did not change during the initial lockdown, as well as no change of the educational gradient in mortality, which imply that the decrease in MCE hospitalisations did not cause the low educated to experience a dramatically excess mortality.
Lower levels of health literacy may explain why patients with low educational levels, especially among the elderly, experience a larger drop in hospitalisation with MCE, as it is more challenging for these residents to navigate during circumstances with changing health information and a reorganised healthcare system.1 This raises concern that the steeper decline in hospitalisation with MCE among low educated residents will widen the educational gap in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in near future, as a consequence of undertreatment during the initial lockdown.
Another explanation might be that the decrease in hospitalisation with MCE may be due to an actual decrease in disease burden. The global influenza activity was lower than expected at that time of year,23 and this may have caused a decrease in MCE.24 Further, the initial COVID-19 lockdown forced many workplaces to close temporarily or to reorganise their employees to work from home. This may have reduced work related stress that might decrease the risk of cardiovascular diseases.25 On the other hand, the COVID-19 lockdown also resulted in job layoffs and thereby increased financial strain that increases cardiovascular events.26 Therefore, it is unsettled whether the lockdown led to increase or decrease stress levels in the population, and further the stress impact is likely to vary according to educational level.27 However, this would affect the working populations and not the elderly retired residents, and thus, do not support our observation of the decline in educational gradient being among the residents 70 years and above.
Methodological considerations
A major strength of this study is the large national sample size that covers all Danish residents and the ability to link high quality individual level information on educational level28 and hospital visits.29 Data up to 3 May are the major strength, as the non-COVID related activity in the healthcare system was resumed 18 April, and thereby expected to gradually increase from thereon, and hopefully the most severely ill patients were given first priority, and thereby treated first. Thereby the period in our study covers the strictest lockdown, in which the patients' right to assessment and treatment within 30 days was periodically suspended. Further, the population coverage and completeness of the Danish register data reduces the risk of selection bias due to non-participation from low educational groups.30 Another major strength is the use of the identical period in 2019 as comparison to the lockdown period with further possibilities to check if the social gradient was parallel in the preceding years from 2015. Thereby, we could determine changes in risk in educational groups that must have been caused by the COVID-19 lockdown, and not by low educational level in general being a risk factor of MCE. Although, socioeconomic differences in risk of MCE may change over time, we found these differences to be relatively constant in the years leading up to the COVID-19 lockdown (online supplemental figure S4). We, therefore, expected that these differences would be parallel between 2019 and 2020 if no lockdown had occurred. Further, due to the low number of residents infected with COVID-19 in Denmark during the first wave of the pandemic, it was possible for us to calculate a relatively unbiased estimate of a public lockdown as a mitigation act.
Our results might not be generalisable to different healthcare systems, as Denmark is one of the most economically equal countries in the world31 and provides free and equal access to healthcare. Shortly following the lockdown, the Danish government negotiated elaborate economic-relief packages with labour unions and employer organisations to reduce financial anxiety and social inequality. Therefore, our estimate of the effect of the initial COVID-19 lockdown on the educational gradient in incidence of MCE are probably conservative and expected to be larger in countries with greater economic disparities.
A limitation of this study is that we are not able to determine what is causing the decrease in hospitalisation with a MCE. Future studies are needed to investigate how the healthcare seeking behaviour, and particularly, among residents with low education and elderly, was affected by the COVID-19 lockdown. Further, we only had real time data on all-cause mortality, as the Danish Cause of Death register are updated on a yearly basis, and we were, therefore, not able to investigate if the cardiovascular mortality increased. Future studies are needed to determine whether the decline in hospitalisation with MCE will result in higher cardiovascular mortality rates in near future.
The risk of hospitalisation with a MCE declined during the initial national COVID-19 lockdown of Denmark, particularly for low educated residents. The educational gradient in hospitalisation declined most in the elder residents, aged 70 years and above. These results raise concern for possible undertreatment and thereby poor prognosis of MCE for this vulnerable group. Increased awareness from physicians and healthcare planners is warranted to ensure that future lockdowns does not cause the educational gap in cardiovascular mortality to increase.
What is already known on this subject
The COVID-19 pandemic led many countries to execute national lockdowns to avoid spreading of disease. During COVID-19 lockdowns, many countries have reported declining rates of hospitalisations for stroke, myocardial infarction and heart failure, which has raised concerns for undertreatment. However, it is unknown whether national lockdowns have impacted residents differently according to educational level.
In this nationwide cohort study, we found that the initial Danish public lockdown caused a greater decline in the risk of being hospitalised with stroke, myocardial infarction and heart failure among low educated elderly residents, compared with high educated elderly residents.
Policy-makers and clinicians should consider and address that public lockdowns may cause undertreatment of cardiovascular diseases among low educated residents.
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After successfully releasing Bad Boys and The Rock, (not a biopic about Dwayne Johnson) filmmaker, Michael Bay, (Transformers series, Pearl Harbor) was recruited by Touchstone Pictures, (a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company) to direct a Sci-Fi Disaster film called "Armageddon," in response to the massive box office success of Independence Day, in an attempt to replicate the same success Roland Emmerich made for combing Sci-Fi and Disaster elements into one complete package. Bay accepted the offer after reading J.J. Abrams screenplay for the film and Jerry Bruckheimer also produced the movie.
Released in the summer of 1998, Armageddon became the highest grossing film of the year. However, it received negative reviews from critics including Roger Ebert, he added this to his "Most Hated Films List." To put salt in the wound, Bruce Willis won a Razzie Award for Worst Actor.
This movie ain't the only film about an asteroid, Dreamworks produced their own Sci-Fi Disaster movie called "Deep Impact" which was also released two months before Armageddon. 1998 was the year Disney and Dreamworks going head to head with their own films such as A Bugs Life and Antz. Kinda like McDonalds and Burger King or Coca-Cola and PepsiCo competing for business revenue.
In response to another Sci-Fi Disaster related film called "Geostorm," coming out this October, with Roland Emmerich's sidekick, Dean Devlin, directing this upcoming movie with Jerry Bruckheimer co-producing. Lets see what the contents for this film contains any good or bad elements. Shall we?
The following article doesn't contain any potential SPOILERS. You're allowed to read it, just in case if you never had a chance to view it.
Positive: Most of The Main Cast including Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan, & Owen Wilson, did a good job on their respective performances as The Crew.
Supporting Cast including Billy Bob Thornton, Peter Stormare, Keith David, & William Fichtner, also did a good job on their performances.
Opening Scene begins with Charlton Heston narrating about Earth's history involving meteors.
The Visual Effects looked eye poppingly gorgeous. Set Pieces were created for The Team to explore the environment of The Asteroid.
Intense Sequences got me off the edge of my seat. My favorite part is when The Crew are struggling to land the ship.
One of the members of The Team mentions Pulp Fiction. Bruce Willis also starred in this film. I call this meta-reference. Don't forget Steve Buscemi's cameo in Pulp Fiction.
Tell me if this is a good thing or a bad thing? Michael Bay makes a cameo appearance as a NASA employee. I'll let you decide if it's a positive or a negative.
An Easter Egg featuring several Godzilla toys. Roland Emmerich's god awful remake of the same name, came out the same year as Armageddon.
During a scene when the gang gets recruited. The song "Come Together," is played in the background. This song is also featured in a trailer for Ben Affleck's upcoming Justice League movie. Must've been a coincidence involving Ben Affleck teaming up with a rag tag group of characters trying to save the world.
NASA's location is in Texas. I'll give this Bonus Points because I'm from Texas.
If you've seen the entire film, The Ending is gonna make you cry. If you're a guy, you'll shed manly tears. I'm one of those people who shed manly tears.
A few Aerosmith songs appear in this movie.
Fun Fact: Liv Tyler, who plays Ben Affleck's love interest, is the real life daughter of Aerosmith frontman, Steve Tyler.
Negative: Chemistry between Ben Affleck & Liv Tyler's characters were kinda distracting and I didn't know anything about their relationship and the reason why Bruce Willis' character, Harry Stamper dislikes him.
Dutch Angles often appear in certain scenes.
NASA employees didn't properly train The Team on specific technology such as a minigun. Which resulted in a complete disaster. They made NASA employees act like a bunch of incompetent morons.
The Film is unintentionally dated, for example, The Twin Towers are in the film. This was before 9/11 happened. Look, this picture came out in 1998 prior to that fateful event.
In my opinion, I thought the film was alright. I don't see why Armageddon is painfully bad. I enjoyed it, despite a few blemishes. If it weren't for the romance or idiocy involving NASA employees, it could've been on the same Grade A level like Independence Day. If you're haven't seen this movie before, go give this one a try.


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Newcastle submit contract offer to Ousmane Dembele
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A major update has emerged on Newcastle United's pursuit of Barcelona attacker Ousmane Dembele…
Express journalist Ryan Taylor has revealed that the Magpies have submitted a contract to the forward ahead of the summer transfer window. The former Rennes winger's deal with the Spanish giants expires in the summer and he is set to become a free agent, with PIF now looking to pounce on him.
He told GIVEMESPORT: "From what I understand, they've already made an offer to his agent for a pre-contract agreement, quite a big one as well. So, there is interest in Dembele."
Should Newcastle sign Dembele?
Eddie Howe will surely be left buzzing by this update, as the prospect of the French international arriving at St James' Park is an exciting one.
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Dembele has a wealth of experience in top-level football for club and country and still has plenty of time on his side to develop further, which is why he could be an excellent prospective addition to Newcastle's squad. The winger played 50 games for Borussia Dortmund in Germany and has racked up 129 appearances for Barcelona, whilst also being capped 27 times by France along the way.
In that time, he has won a World Cup, two La Liga titles and two Spanish Cups – all by the age of 24. This highlights the quality and experience he could bring to the club despite his age, which is why he could be an exciting signing for fans to anticipate at the end of the season as he knows what it takes to win major silverware.
Who scored more goals for Newcastle? An easy one to start...
Shola Ameobi
Dembele has racked up 31 goals and 23 assists for Barcelona, following on from 32 direct goal contributions in 50 matches in Germany. This shows that he has the ability to score and set up goals at the top level and suggests that he could make an impact in the final third for the Magpies next term, as he has proven it in both the Bundesliga and La Liga.
Therefore, Howe will be buzzing with the prospect of having him in his squad for the 2022/23 campaign. The ex-Bournemouth boss will also be delighted with PIF's attempts to sign Dembele, as Taylor's comments suggest that they are making a huge effort to bring in the Frenchman and are sparing no expense. He will now be hoping that they are able to pull a deal over the line in the coming months to lure the 24-year-old to Tyneside in July.
AND in other news, Huge blow: Newcastle facing major setback before Aston Villa, Howe will be worried…


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The number of national taxpayers will likely increase with the rollout of a digital tax system through the Ministry of Finance and Treasury's Inland Revenue Division.
The modernised tax system is expected to bring in 123,000 wage and salary employees, 200 corporate taxpayers, and more than 3,000 businesses.
"Digitisation of the system will make it easy for people to come forward and register for tax," Inland Revenue Division Commissioner Joseph Dokekana said. "At the same time, it will make their lives easier for business people to pay their taxes without standing up in a long queue like they are experiencing at the moment."
The new system will involve a transition from manual to digital processing. Payments, receipt generation and services for goods and sales taxes and other tax types will be available through the online system by the end of the year. Online services for income tax will be available next year.
"When this new system comes in, our group will go out to businesses, communities and go to working people so that they understand how to use those online services," Mr Dokekana said.
The IRD education team will hold seminars for businesses and public awareness events to introduce the digital system and explain tax obligations. Taxpayers not connected to formal financial services will be encouraged to open bank accounts that can be used for e-payments.
According to Mr Dokekana, the government is considering ways to cover some of the costs taxpayers might incur through the new system.
Mobile access options and notification systems are also being evaluated as additions to online services, he said.
IRD currently collects 60 percent of the government's revenue. Mr Dokekana hopes the new system will streamline the collection process and prompt voluntary compliance.
And he said the public needs to understand that tax dollars support hospitals, schools and other services in the country.
"It is really fundamental for government to collect revenue to run those services," he said. "Without that, government collapse."
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March 1st, 2021 at 12:26pm
World, meets Jasmine Star. She's 17, and great on guitar. Yes I am aware that rhymed. But that's it. No more rhyming.
So, Ms. Star: she has a ton of excellent content for her TikTok and YouTube channels and Jasmine Jams series for California's 95.5 KLOS. This includes both ridiculously impressive covers (including tracks by Metallica, Van Halen, Ozzy, Megadeth, and Ratt), and inarguably catchy originals…
…but my personal favorite stuff I've heard by her so far falls somewhere in-between: she writes what she calls "duets" with pre-existing songs… which really means she adds some killer guitar solos to tracks that don't have any.
Specifically, she has added solos to the recent the Foo Fighters' "Shame Shame," from their new album Medicine at Midnight, and Greta Van Fleet's "Heat Above," from their forthcoming release The Battle at Garden's Gate. Both solos are so good it kinda bums me out that there's no studio version of these.
You can check 'em each out below, along with Star's original song, "Tide."
Foo Fighters' Medicine at Midnight is out now; Greta Van Fleet's Garden comes out April 16.
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Julia Peyton-Jones to join Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac; Berlin's Silberkuppe closes; François Pinault plans new Paris art museum
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Dame Julia Peyton-Jones – the long-time director of London's Serpentine Galleries – will join Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac as their Senior Global Director. Peyton-Jones will take up her new role from 1 September 2017, and will be based in London. 'Julia Peyton-Jones is one of the most respected and admired figures in the art world with an unparalleled level of experience,' the gallery said in a statement. 'It will be an honour and a joy to work together and develop exciting new projects.' Peyton-Jones was director of the Serpentine from 1991 to 2016, and was responsible for initiating its pavilion programme, commissioning artists and architects to design a structure next to the galleries each summer.
Berlin's Silberkuppe Gallery is closing. The gallery opened in 2008, and had been recently participating in several international art fairs, including the Liste fair in Basel just a fortnight ago. Silberkuppe originally opened in Kreuzberg, and then later moved to Schöneberg – its final show was Win McCarthy's 'Mister' which closed on 24 June.
Buffalo's Albright-Knox Gallery has released plans for its USD$155 million expansion. The building work will more than double the gallery space to 4,645 square metres. The project is led by Shohei Shigematsu of the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and will see the Albright-Knox's current parking lot transformed into an underground gallery. It's the first expansion for the museum in over 50 years. Construction will begin in April 2019, with an opening expected in October 2021.
The Centro Botín opened in Santander last Friday, two decades after the Guggenheim landed in neighbouring Bilbao. The private museum's arrival – funded by the philanthropic Botín Foundation – contributes to the unceasing expansion of contemporary art institutions across the Spanish Atlantic coast. The art centre, designed by Renzo Piano, was originally intended to open three years ago, but was beset by delays. The opening of the Centro Botín has prompted comparisons to the 'Bilbao effect' – you can read more about the debate in our latest Postcard from Northern Spain.
Julia Joern is leaving David Zwirner Gallery. Joern has been a partner at Zwirner since 2014, and worked at the gallery for over a decade. She has resigned for health reasons. 'Julia has been a relentless innovator and pioneer, and in the process has created the very blueprint for all the marketing efforts that are now necessary to effectively run and grow a large-scale, international art gallery', David Zwirner wrote in an email to staff.
French billionaire and luxury brands owner François Pinault has revealed his plans for a new Paris art museum, which will transform a historic stockmarket building, the 19th century Bourse de commerce. Architect Tadao Ando will oversee the building project, with an opening expected in early 2019. The museum will house Pinault's personal collection of modern and contemporary art, which includes pieces by Mark Rothko and Damien Hirst. The Guardian has the story.
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....Toyota have announced they will be stopping production in Australia some time in 2017 / 2018.
Australia hasn't figured out that they need to weaken their currency so that they can export unemployment. At the very least they should print money for defense spending to keep heavy industries alive.


As surgeons, we think we will reach a certain situation where surgery will never be stressful again, we will never encounter a problem, or everything will go and we won't see a complication.
The same thing applies to running a business (in my experience at least). If you ever reach the point where you can relax and you have enough patients or patients aren't complaining about the wait and your staff are great and your equipment is all good and you have plenty of capacity to provide the work or there isn't a competitor opening up 100 yards away whose aim is to put you out of business, then let me know; I'd be delighted to hear from you.
Just when you think you might have things steady, you get 'hamstrung on some idol Tuesday afternoon'.
Just for the record, just for today, here is some free advice.
You're not going to get there.
'If you're all about the destination then take a fu*king flight'.