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This day in history — Aug. 27
On this date: Krakatoa erupted, war was outlawed, and Obama was nominated as the Democratic candidate for the first time.
This day in history — Aug. 27 On this date: Krakatoa erupted, war was outlawed, and Obama was nominated as the Democratic candidate for the first time. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2xDhqaW
Associated Press Published 5:00 a.m. CT Aug. 27, 2017
Paul Robeson (left) and William E.B. du Bois meet at the World Peace Conference in Paris in 1949.(Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel files)
Today's highlight in history
On Aug. 27, 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London flat from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills; he was 32.
In 1776, the Battle of Long Island began during the Revolutionary War as British troops attacked American forces who ended up being forced to retreat two days later.
In 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia's Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra.
In 1892, fire seriously damaged New York's original Metropolitan Opera House.
In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
In 1939, the first turbojet-powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, went on its first full-fledged test flight over Germany.
In 1949, a violent white mob prevented an outdoor concert headlined by Paul Robeson from taking place near Peekskill, N.Y.. (The concert was held eight days later.)
In 1957, the USS Swordfish, the second Skate Class nuclear submarine, was launched from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.
In 1989, the first U.S. commercial satellite rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. — a Delta booster carrying a British communications satellite, the Marcopolo 1.
In 2008, Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Barack Obama joins vice presidential nominee Joe Biden after he addresses delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Aug. 27, 2008. (Photo: Rick Wood / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Ten years ago: Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick apologized for "using bad judgment and making bad decisions" and vowed to redeem himself after pleading guilty in Richmond, Virginia, to a federal dogfighting charge (Vick ended up serving 19 months in federal prison).
Five years ago: Republicans opened their national convention in Tampa, Fla., a day late, then immediately recessed as Tropical Storm Isaac surged toward New Orleans and the northern Gulf Coast.
One year ago: Republican Donald Trump warned of a "war on the American farmer," telling a crowd in Iowa that rival Hillary Clinton wanted "to shut down family farms" and implement anti-agriculture policies; Trump's speech at the annual "Roast and Ride" fundraiser for GOP Sen. Joni Ernst came just hours after Clinton received her first national security briefing as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Theodore Dreiser, famous novelist and playwright, is seen in his suite at the Hotel Ansonia in New York on Nov. 12., 1931, after returning from Kentucky where he was making an inspection of the Kentucky mine districts. (Photo: ACME Newspictures)
"In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance."
Theodore Dreiser,
American author (born this date in 1871, he died in 1945 at age 74)
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Richard Goode (piano) @ Great Music in Irish Houses 2019
Tuesday, 11 June 2019, 7.00pm
Royal Irish Academy
"There are few people who can put across the sheer joy of playing the instrument better than American pianist Richard Goode. To watch him play is to look through a window on to a very private world - utterly absorbed in the music, he plays as if nobody else is there, even humming along. His face is never still; he seems literally to be attempting conversation with the piano." (The Guardian)
The iconic pianist Richard Goode returns to the Festival following his sensational Irish début in 2014, lauded as a 2014 Cultural Highlight in The Irish Times. At 74, Goode is the Statesman of American piano playing and over four decades, his reputation as a pianist's pianist has grown into a general consensus that here is one of the modern greats. In his 2019 Festival appearance, audiences can look forward to hearing this great master of piano performance perform works by Haydn, Mozart, Debussy, Chopin and Beethoven, the composer with whom he's inescapably identified. It was Goode's recordings of the Beethoven sonatas in the early 1990s, the first complete survey on disc by a US-born pianist, that created his international reputation, and his recitals still return regularly to the composer's extraordinary output for piano. A rare opportunity for Irish audiences to hear this Grammy award-winning artist, whose interpretations have been described by The New York Times as having "both integrity and immediacy".
Haydn: Sonata in A major, Hob XVI: 26, L41
Haydn: Sonata in D major, Hob XVI: 24, L39
Mozart: Rondo in A minor, K511
Beethoven: Sonata in A major, op 101
Debussy: Images, Book 2
Debussy: La soirée dans Grenade from Estampes
Chopin: Four Mazurkas
Chopin: Fantaisie in F minor, op 49
The Great Music in Irish House Festival takes place from 11 to 16 June in various venues around Dublin and Wicklow.
This year, Ireland's oldest chamber music festival features Richard Goode, the Pavel Haas Quartet, Marc Coppey and Finghin Collins, Ailish Tynan, the Van Kuijk Quartet, Chamber Choir Ireland conducted by Paul Hillier, the Colin Currie Quartet, and a special John O'Conor Celebration featuring the pianist and former and current students.
Venues include the Royal Irish Academy, Kilruddery House, National Botanic Gardens, Belvedere House, St Ann's, Farmleigh House and Dublin Castle.
For full details, download the brochure below or visit https://bit.ly/2VdM3UL
Listen to a festival playlist below also.

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Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro Campaigns With Andrew Gillum Across South Florida
By Sam Turken • Aug 26, 2018
Sam Turken / WLRN
The former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro says Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum can bring Democrats together and improve health care and public education across the state.
Gillum campaigned with Castro across South Florida on Saturday as part of his statewide bus tour before the Democratic primary on Tuesday.
In an interview with WLRN, Castro—who is considering running for president in 2020—praised Gillum's honesty and progressive platform.
Florida Gubernatorial Candidates' Thoughts On Guns And School Safety
By Lindsey Kilbride • Aug 19, 2018
Democrat Jeff Greene's campaign bus pulled up to Jacksonville's Northwestern Middle School a few weeks ahead of the start of school. The Palm Beach billionaire came to the low-income area to give backpacks to kids.
Progressive Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum Seeks Path To Governor's Mansion
By Dara Kam - News Service of Florida • Aug 17, 2018
This is one of a series of profiles on the major candidates for Florida governor that we're running through the Aug. 28 primary election.
2018 Florida Governor's Race: Dems Focus On K-12 Funding, Republicans On Career Training
By Jessica Bakeman • Aug 15, 2018
Emily Michot / Miami Herald
About a quarter of Florida's nearly $90 billion state budget pays for public schools. The Democrats running for governor say that's not enough.
"We can never spend enough," former Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine said during the first gubernatorial primary debate in April. His opponents for the Democratic nomination largely agree.
On the Republican side, the candidates have focused more on career training as their education priority.
Education, Housing, Women's Rights Among Audience Questions To Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates
By Lily Oppenheimer • Jun 12, 2018
Lily Oppenheimer / WLRN News
Florida residents including adjunct professors, Planned Parenthood activists and Puerto Rican community organizers walked up the stage to question Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidates during a debate hosted at the Miramar Cultural Center on Monday.
Florida Democratic Governor Candidates Debate Guns, Minimum Wage, Sea Level Rise
By Teresa Frontado & Alejandra Martinez • Jun 11, 2018
Terence Shepherd / WLRN News
At Democratic Primary Gubernatorial Debate, Attendees 'Break The Ice' With Bingo
By Sam Turken • Jun 11, 2018
"If you could wave a magic wand and have the governor do one thing, what would it be?"
That was among the questions asked of those attending Monday's Democratic primary gubernatorial debate.
The Color of Change political action committee passed out bingo cards as an ice-breaker for representatives of different Democratic organizations at the event. The bingo cards prompted attendees to answer questions about challenges facing Floridians and what they are looking for in a governor.
Palm Beach Businessman Jeff Greene Too Late For First Governor's Race Debate
By Peter Haden • Jun 11, 2018
Peter Haden / WLRN
Florida voters have a chance to evaluate the Democratic candidates for governor tonight during a debate in Miramar.
All but one, that is.
Billionaire real estate investor and candidate Jeff Greene said there's a reason he won't be there.
"I wasn't invited," Greene said, laughing.
Greene entered the race for governor on June 4, too late to be included in tonight's debate. So, he'll watch this one from his home in Palm Beach with his wife and three sons.
White House Correspondent Says Voters 'Want To Hear That A Politician Cares' At Democratic Debate
By Alejandra Martinez • Jun 11, 2018
Courtesy of Nathaniel Cline / Defining Cultures
Yamiche Alcindor, White House correspondent of the PBS Newshour, grew up in South Florida. She remembers living through hurricane Andrew and debating at Fort Lauderdale and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Here's What You Need To Know Before The Florida Democratic Primary Gubernatorial Debate
By Alejandra Martinez • Jun 8, 2018
Local and statewide community groups have teamed up to host South Florida's first Democratic primary gubernatorial debate on Monday.
Andrew Gillum, Richard Corcoran Tangle Over Immigration, 'Sanctuary Cities'
By News Service of Florida • Feb 14, 2018
CateComm, AP via Miami Herald
In a production filled with political theater, a Democratic candidate for governor and a legislative leader who's toying with a run for the same office took the stage Tuesday night in a debate over immigration and "sanctuary cities."
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and House Speaker Richard Corcoran, a Republican who hasn't announced whether he's in the gubernatorial race, came out slugging during the 45-minute debate, aired live on both men's Facebook pages.
Five Florida Gubernatorial Candidates To Address Media
By Associated Press • Nov 2, 2017
Major contenders running for Florida governor are getting a chance to give their campaign pitch to reporters and editors from across the state.
The Associated Press is holding its annual pre-session planning day on Thursday at the Capitol. The session starts in January.
Three Democrats and two Republicans running for governor in 2018 are scheduled to appear.
Gov. Rick Scott is leaving office in early 2019 due to term limits.
Tallahassee Mayor Says He'll Cooperate With Probe Into Email System Purchase
By Lynn Hatter • Mar 13, 2017
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum has only been running for governor for about a week, but he's already facing a controversy about his use of a political email system. Now Gillum says he will comply with an investigation.
In a statement from a spokesman, Gillum says the state attorney is obligated to follow up on complaints, and that he's going to cooperate with an investigation into his use of a political email system.
It's Official: Gillum's Running For Governor
By Jim Ash • Mar 1, 2017
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum is making it official with a social media post -- he's running for governor.


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LIAT is No More: Airline Being Liquidated, the Government of Antigua Has Announced
St. Lucia Prime Minister Quarantines Himself After Feeling Sick, Takes Coronavirus Test
Patient Tests Negative For Coronavirus in Jamaica; Third Jamaican Isolated
BREAKING NEWS : LIAT is No More: Airline Being Liquidated, the Government of Antigua Has Announced
BREAKING NEWS : St. Lucia Prime Minister Quarantines Himself After Feeling Sick, Takes Coronavirus Test
BREAKING NEWS : Patient Tests Negative For Coronavirus in Jamaica; Third Jamaican Isolated
With No Active Covid-19 Cases, BVI Relaxes Curfew, Allows Bars and Nightclubs to Reopen, Approves 'Warm Layups' for Cruise Ships
Coronavirus Published On October 11, 2020 06:32 AM
Maxiene K. Cabo | October 11, 2020 06:32:31 AM
Roadtown, Tortola, BVI. By ANGELA BURNS FOR VI CONSORTIUM
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS — British Virgin Islands Minister for Health and Social Development, Carvin Malone, updated the public on Wednesday on the British territory's continued efforts to fight the novel coronavirus, along with its plan to reopen borders as no new COVID-19 cases have been detected. In light of the territory's success on managing the virus, the curfew is being relaxed to allow for more economic activity.
Mr. Malone said as of Wednesday there were no active cases of the virus in the territory and that Cabinet decided to implement a new, more relaxed curfew order. The new order will be for a period of 14 days. It commenced on Thursday and will last until October 22. BVI plans to reopen its borders to visitors December 1. New curfew hours are from 12:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m.
"Let me be candid, the fact that we have no positive cases on record today does not mean the BVI is Covid-free," Mr. Malone said. "Surveillance, screening, and testing services are conducted on a daily basis in an effort to detect and isolate any imported or locally acquired infections."
In his address, Mr. Malone further stated that the Social Distancing Task Force began full operations on October 5 and is comprised of 43 members. He said the task force will be operating within the Environmental Health Division. All members have been trained, equipped, commissioned, deployed, and legally empowered to educate, monitor, and enforce the public health measures alongside the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force. "These actions are taken to minimize the risk of transmission in the BVI," Mr. Malone said.
Under the new curfew order, Cabinet has decided to allow all businesses to reopen, among them bars and nightclubs, provided that those businesses pass an inspection guided by the Social Distancing Monitoring Protocols and are certified by the Environmental Health Division in order to operate. "Bars and nightclubs owners are currently in conversations with the department, and a date and time for inspections would be agreed," stated Mr. Malone.
The Cabinet has also decided to continue the restriction of vessels' movement in territorial waters, inclusive of the requirement that persons must be off the water by 6:00 p.m. Furthermore, the exclusion zone at the border area remains in place. Commercial ferries are permitted to operate up until curfew time.
Freight carriers and charter companies will also be allowed to travel between the BVI and USVI. For them to operate, carriers and companies are subject to established Covid-19 suppression measures and weekly Covid-19 analysis.
Additionally, Cabinet has permitted credential cruise ship companies to make technical calls of warm layups to the territory. Warm Layups, or hot layups as it is widely known, is when a cruise ship is docked at a port with a full crew on board maintaining the vessel, and is prepared for immediate regular service upon request. According to Carnival Corporation, a warm lay up costs $2 million -$3 million per vessel per month.
Cruise ships also must comply with the protocols established by the BVI Port Authority and sanctioned by the Health Emergency Operating Center.
Mr. Malone stated that Cabinet was scheduled to meet on Friday to finalize the protocols for further reopening measures.
Mr. Malone explained that between August 14 and September 8, the territory saw a cluster of 53 cases, which represented 75 percent of all detected cases. However, the last case that was detected during that period has now recovered. As of October 7th, the total number of individuals tested stood at 5,193 with zero active cases. The overall number of positive COVID-19 cases is documented at 71 people with one recorded death.
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The arts in Canada have become overly dependent on government subsidies. Currently the regulatory bodies that oversee support and funding seemingly favour art that promotes the lowest common denominator of decency and reject applications that promote good morals and family values.
The CHP'S Better Solution:
Art in all its forms is a vital means for a country to reveal its identity. However, like everything else, it needs to be administered according to clear and acceptable standards.
In assessing art and cultural venues the CHP would address three primary concerns in evaluating its worth and involvement:
How much—and in what ways—should government be a patron of the arts and to what degree should it be involved as a financial benefactor?
How and when is it appropriate for government to determine content in the arts?
What is the proper role of government regulators in media?
A CHP government would help create infrastructure—theatres and concert-halls, museums and galleries—that make the arts accessible to all the public at reasonable prices.
Direct cash grants to specific performers, companies and creative artists, however, are not appropriate; such artists should earn their support from patrons (individuals, corporate sponsors, and foundations) and from the public.
Government should not use public funds to subsidize only perspectives with which it agrees; however, it is legitimate for government to curtail so-called "artistic" expressions that are degrading or harmful to public morality, such as child pornography. In the entertainment media and digital media especially, much being purveyed is from unprincipled producers, whose only goal is to profit by exploiting sexuality and violence.
Regulatory agencies like the CRTC should only be involved in content monitoring when it concerns programming that is a threat to national security, openly show hatred toward a specific group or religion, or cause harm as in child pornography. The cherished liberty of "freedom of speech" must never become subject to "politically correct dogma." Their primary role should be to administer frequencies on the public air-waves, to maximize public access with minimal conflicts.
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1 RusLeague - link In my opinion RL is better than CC for hosting this tournament because almost all the previous CoNs were hosted on RusLeague. It has CoNs archieve and I think it would be a good thing to continue hosting this tournament there.
2 RTW modernity - link This is a new RTW community forum. Unlike CC, RM forum is generally for RTW1 community members. I think it's a good thing to have a general place for our small community of RTW fans and hosting CoN there would help us to unite a bit more.
3 Clancommunity - this board.
Now we have to choose between those 3 options.
Before we'll finally decide where to host the CoN we should make one thing clear. Votes of people, who are not a part of RTW1 community, shouldn't be counted. There are few such votes.
I don't think I need to explain why.
RL dead resource,at this point in time.
CC is a common home for all multiplayer TW.
I do not see any reason to vote for what would be an outcast.
Why leave the family and become an outcast?
Это почему РЛ мертвый ресурс?
Просто нет активных мероприятий на нем.
Что не мешает провести турнир там!
This is why RL dead online?
Just there are no active events on it.
That does not prevent to hold the tournament there!
Ну так он мёртв не в плане того что его убили и закапали,а в плане того что на нём нету ативного сообщества и на нём не проводят турниров на постоянке,вот в чем проблема,проводить такой турнирина мёртвом ресурсе это значит закопать кон.
Last CoN here was good and Dante administrated well, without huge mistakes similiar to Zyzz or Gwyn times. I understand nostalgia for Rusleague. Is there any posibilty to copy archives from previous CoN's here?
As i rermember first CoN tourneys were moved from diferent site?
I sugest to chillout with admin thing, as long as it isn't eartf, aragon etc it's fine.
if that's the decision of the community.
Последний раз редактировалось CoH-dionyzos; 17.01.2019 в 21:41.
Nope eartf voted for rtwmodernity, which means that's its - 5 vots penalty.


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Q: how to add Controls to the custom layout in android i have a custom layout called myWebView  that is extended from WebView.

        class myApp{
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        class MyWebView extends WebView {
            Context context;
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I want to add textbox and  many other control to to the myWebView layout how can i do that?

A: Have you tried mWebView.add(new TextView()); ?

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Q: After GKE master upgrade, outgoing traffic on IPSec tunnel comes from pod IP range instead of node IP range A peculiar issue just hit us after upgrading the master on one of our GKE clusters.
We have, in the same network, a bunch of IPSec tunnels set up. Before, the IPs of outgoing requests would be in the 10.164.0.0/16 range - which is the IP range of the nodes.
After the update, all outgoing traffic is suddenly in the 10.56.0.0/14 range, which is the IP range of our pods.
Since several external suppliers have their firewalls set up for specifically 10.164.0.0/16, this is extremely disruptive.
Is there any way to revert this back to using node IPs for outgoing traffic, instead of pod IPs?

A: I resolved this thanks to the remark left in the first comment on my question.
It turned out that between 1.14 and 1.15, either the default behaviour of ip-masq-agent changed, or the whole thing was uninstalled.
After installing and configuring ip-masq-agent according to this site - https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/ip-masquerade-agent - everything went back to normal.
Specifically, I had to take the default config and omit the one IP range that was problematic on the other end of the IPSec tunnel.


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Q: Paypal Adaptive Payments - How to change business name on Return URL and Cancel URL I have implemented Paypal Adaptive payments, having my business Mersica Inc. as the secondary receiver and another business (Fatpaint) as primary receiver, but still, Paypal shows my business name (Mersica Inc) in the Cancel URL and Return URL even though I have set the business name to "Fatpaint" via DisplayOptions. How can I prevent my business name from appearing?

A: Please try this:
frontend code:
<input type="hidden" name="business_name" value="<%= Global.BusinessName %>" />

server side code:
//check the payment_status is Completed
//check that txn_id has not been previously processed
//check that receiver_email is your Primary PayPal email

// pull the values passed on the initial message from PayPal
NameValueCollection args = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(strResponse_copy);
//string payment_stat = args["payment_status"];
if (strResponse == "VERIFIED")) {
        string trans_id = args["txn_id"];
        string invoice_id = args["business_name"];
        string invoice_id = args["invoice"];
        string trans_date = args["payment_date"];
        string item_name = args["item_name"];
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Долна Лобаница е бивше село в Егейска Македония, Гърция, на територията на дем Костур, област Западна Македония.

География
Селото е било разположено на около пет километра югозападно от костурското бивше село Лобаница и на два километра източно от албанското Тръстеник. Долна Лобаница е традиционна махала на костурското село Лобаница заедно с Горна Лобаница. Руините на селото се намират в непосредствена близост до гръцко-албанската граница и на албанска територия.

История
Според статистиката на Васил Кънчов ("Македония. Етнография и статистика") в 1900 година Горна Лабаница има 535, а Долна – 20 жители българи. Село Долна Лобаница е изоставено в размирното време след потушаването на Илинденско-Преображенското въстание в 1903 година.

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Исторически села в дем Костур

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BOOK REVIEW: Savage Appetites, by Rachel Monroe
5 September 2019 6 September 2019 - Meg	Leave a comment
Title: Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe
Published by Scribner
Genres: Cultural Studies
A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four archetypes—Detective, Victim, Attorney, Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession.
In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe interrogates the appeal of true crime through four narratives of fixation. In the 1940s, a bored heiress began creating dollhouse crime scenes depicting murders, suicides, and accidental deaths. Known as the "Mother of Forensic Science," she revolutionized the field of what was then called legal medicine. In the aftermath of the Manson Family murders, a young woman moved into Sharon Tate's guesthouse and, over the next two decades, entwined herself with the Tate family. In the mid-nineties, a landscape architect in Brooklyn fell in love with a convicted murderer, the supposed ringleader of the West Memphis Three, through an intense series of letters. After they married, she devoted her life to getting him freed from death row. And in 2015, a teenager deeply involved in the online fandom for the Columbine killers planned a mass shooting of her own.
Each woman, Monroe argues, represents and identifies with a particular archetype that provides an entryway into true crime. Through these four cases, she traces the history of American crime through the growth of forensic science, the evolving role of victims, the Satanic Panic, the rise of online detectives, and the long shadow of the Columbine shooting. In a combination of personal narrative, reportage, and a sociological examination of violence and media in the twentieth and twenty-first century, Savage Appetites scrupulously explores empathy, justice, and the persistent appeal of violence.
Rachel Monroe's Savage Appetites explores the cultural phenomenon of true crime and how women tend to be drawn to the "genre" even though women are more likely to be victims in true crime "stories." This was an examination of our society's fascination with true crime and how that fascination has grown over the years through four case studies. In Savage Appetites, Monroe takes those fascinations of women with true crime and separates them into four general archetypes – detective, victim, attorney, killer.
Through each of these archetypes, Monroe combines thorough research with her own anecdotes to explore what exactly it is that makes true crime so fascinating not only for women but for all of us. While her writing flowed easily and I enjoyed learning what she tied in with her archetypes, I felt that it all fell flat because some of the attitudes were a little negatively skewed toward the women featured in the archetypes. It's uncomfortable to read unnecessary criticism against women in a book about women, but because I'm not well-read in true crime, maybe that's something delved into a little more? I'm not sure. For me, when someone is offering cultural insight and criticism, I do want there to be more about what we as a society could do to be better or how it ultimately affects our society to be so interested in an ultimately violent "genre." What happens when true crime begins being viewed as fiction rather than something that happened to real people? Do we become more desensitized to the violence because we're beginning to assume it's fiction and therefore can't happen to us?
Even though true crime has certainly morphed into a genre, I was hoping for more in Savage Appetites about the implications of calling true crime a genre and ultimately why we're becoming more and more fascinated with true crime. One more chapter tying the four archetypes together and exploring a result or conclusion would have made me like this a little bit more!
Thank you to Scribner for sending me a complimentary copy to review. All opinions are my own.
Posted in Book Reviews	- Tagged arc, book reviews, books, non fiction, rachel monroe, review copy, savage appetites, scribner, true crime
BOOK REVIEW: Code Girls, by Liza Mundy
12 October 2018 12 October 2018 - Meg	Leave a comment
Title: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
Published by Hachette Books
Published: October 2nd 2018
Genres: History, Non-Fiction
Format: Trade Paper
Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.
When I think of code breaking in World War II, I think of Alan Turning, British spies, and the Enigma machine. The history I was familiar with growing up didn't mention much about American code breaking, let alone no mention of women's involvement in code breaking during World War II.
Liza Mundy explores women who joined both the Army (WAC) and Navy (WAVES) to aid the war effort in code breaking. She focuses mostly on two women named Dot and Crow, but also includes other notable women who contributed. Mundy draws on her own research and interviews she conducted with these women, and I felt like I could read countless pages about the lives of these women and the risks they took.
It is both inspiring and frustrating to realize how much work these women did to aid the war effort and how little credit they have received in our history books. Now knowing that the work these women did to break codes entirely shifted the American's trajectory during World War II, I want everyone who is interested in women's history and war history to read this. It further goes to show that the paths taken in wartime are never black and white, never just a boy's club, and never as straight as some would like to assume. War is complicated, and these women sometimes had to break codes containing information that lead to the direct harm of people they knew without being able to put a stop to the attacks. Mundy showcases the strength and resilience of these women in then-unheard of situations.
This comes highly recommended from me, so if you are interested in women's history and World War II history, add this to your TBRs immediately.
Thank you to Hachette for sending me a complimentary copy for review. All opinions are my own.
Posted in Book Reviews	- Tagged code girls, history, liza mundy, non fiction, review copy, war history, women's history
BOOK REVIEW: A Moonless, Starless Sky, by Alexis Okeowo
18 September 2017 18 September 2017 - Meg	Leave a comment
Title: A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo
Published: October 3rd 2017
In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans, many of them women, who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.
In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary--lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.
Alexis Okeowo's A Moonless, Starless Sky writes about the lives of four individuals in Nigeria, Somalia, Mauritania and Uganda who are resisting against the extremisms they each face. Okeowo, a first generation Nigerian-American, manages to deftly weave hope and inspiration in her solemn, yet conversational, exploration of the bravery and courage these four individuals face in abject terror.
The four narratives are about an LRA child soldier and the girl forced to marry him, a man and his fight against slavery in modern Mauritania, a group fighting Boko Haram, and a Somalian young woman's struggle for the right to continue playing basketball. While each of the stories were eye-opening to read, the story about the Somalian young woman finding friendship, companionship, and fulfillment in playing basketball tugged at my heart-strings the most. To us here in the US, something so commonplace as playing basketball doesn't register as a forbidden activity for anyone, but for her, it was a forbidden activity, because she is Muslim, because she is female. Her struggle to pursue her dreams resonated with me so much.
Okeowo writes the lives of each of these individuals with clarity, empathy, and respect; she writes their stories with unflinching insight to their struggles and triumphs. This book will certainly raise awareness to events happening beyond our media's reach and inspire people to take action. It's an absolute must read.
Many thanks to Hachette for sending me a copy of this book to review! All opinions are my own.
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Little List of Reviews #5
23 April 2017 23 April 2017 - Meg	Leave a comment
Here's another little list of reviews! There isn't a theme to this list this time, but they're all books that I've been reading on and off for a long time that I've finally finished!
Title: Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle
Published by Tachyon Publications
Genres: Fantasy
Beloved author Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) returns with this long-anticipated new novel, a beautifully bittersweet tale of passion, enchantment, and the nature of fate.
It was a typically unpleasant Puget Sound winter before the arrival of Lioness Lazos. An enigmatic young waitress with strange abilities, when the lovely Lioness comes to Gardner Island even the weather takes notice.
As an impossibly beautiful spring leads into a perfect summer, Lioness is drawn to a complicated family. She is taken in by two disenchanted lovers—dynamic Joanna Delvecchio and scholarly Abe Aronson — visited by Joanna's previously unlucky-in-love daughter, Lily. With Lioness in their lives, they are suddenly compelled to explore their deepest dreams and desires.
Lioness grows more captivating as the days grow longer. Her new family thrives, even as they may be growing apart. But lingering in Lioness's past is a dark secret — and even summer days must pass.
Peter S. Beagle can spin a fantastic, beautiful phrase, and I'm looking forward to reading more of his work (can you believe I've never read The Last Unicorn??). However, Summerlong didn't do it for me. I feel like I might have approached this book differently had I know about the mythological twist that reveals itself in the last third of the book, because without having known it, I felt that the fantastic elements of it led to a disconnect between the story that I had become familiar with and the story it ended up being. I don't recall reading anywhere about the ties to Greek mythology, so it was definitely a wait, what?? sort of moment. I think my lack of enjoyment of the story is completely on me, because I was expecting something more fantasy driven than the contemporary character driven story it is. I felt like I didn't relate to any of the characters, and it took a long time for me to get through a relatively short novel. If you enjoy stories about coming to life, as it were, after the summer of your life has passed, I think you'll find this novel right up your alley!
I received a review copy from Netgalley and Tachyon Pub; all opinions are my own.
Title: Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda, Rus Wooton
Series: Monstress #1
Published: July 19th 2016
Genres: Graphic Novel
The illustrations in this are amazing and worth it just to peruse it for that, but I found the story incredibly complex and a little unforgiving to casual reading. Not every graphic novel needs to have the ability to just pick up and go, but this is something that will require rereading (either after a first read or while reading it [the latter of which is irritating to me because I really don't like having to backtrack through a short-form story to find clarity]), so maybe it's ultimately not the thing for me? The story did become clearer about halfway through once the pieces came together, and I think I'll read the next ones, but it's not on the priority list for me at the moment.
Title: Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A Strauss, J. Richard Gott III
Published by Princeton University Press
Genres: Science
Some of this stuff went way over my head, but it was interesting! And definitely better read in sections as each chapter is essentially a lecture! I liked the structure of it, though. Each chapter built on the one before it, and while it was challenging at times to understand the concepts, I feel like each of the three author's thoroughly explained the concepts and their relativity (heh) to other concepts in the knowledge we have of our vast universe.
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French Open 2021: Djokovic to face Tsitsipas in final
Sanjib Sah
This article was last updated by on June 12, 2021
Novak Djokovic ended Rafael Nadal's reign at the French Open by winning twice in the semi-final to be counted among the biggest games in Roland Garros.
Serbian top seed Djokovic won 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 against Nadal, a champion four years ago.
Nadal, looking for a 14-year record-breaking title. Instead, he has lost Roland Garros for just the third time in 108 games.
Djokovic, 34, now has to recover and play Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final on Sunday.
The 22-year-old Greek has reached upto his first Grand Slam final. By beating Germany's sixth seed Alexander Zverev in a five-set epic.
The fifth seed Tsitsipas must have watched, like the rest of the tennis world. The two greats worked fighting a vicious battle for the right to face him on the show.
"It was one of those special games that you can always remember about it. It was one of the top three games in my life," Djokovic said.
The high-profile game was full of drama and skepticism, twisting and turning. Moreover, it was being played in front of 5,000 fans.
The fans were allowed to stay over the French time limit at 11 pm due to its coronavirus restrictions.
That decision came after a remarkable third set of 98 minutes. That saw Djokovic hold his courage to win a break on which the whole game seemed to depend.
Spaniard Nadal, 35, took a break and served the first game of the fourth set and led 2-0.
But he could not cope with Djokovic's high level. And as he quickly won the next six games. Then, finally, to wrap up the victory after more than 4 hours on the court.
Djokovic looked broken as he raised his arms in celebration. Then he got tired and just smiled as he prepared for the court hearing given by the winner.
"To win against Rafa in this stadium, you have to play your best tennis. And tonight, I have played my best tennis games," said Djokovic.
He can now win his 19th Grand Slam title to remove one behind Nadal and Federer's record.
"It's hard to find words to wrap up how I feel. You tell yourself there is no pressure. Pressure is a right to test my game. And my character in games like this."
Djokovic's victory increased his head-to-head win against Nadal. Nadal earned his 30th victory in their 58th men's conference.
Djokovic keeps calm as he recovers from a slow start.
Beating Nadal in the mud of Roland Garros is widely regarded as one of the most challenging tasks in the sport. But if anyone had achieved that this year it would have sounded like Djokovic was the man to do it.
The world's first number has been clean and accurate in every tournament. It was going well and playing aggressively on its way to the last four.
Nadal struck Djokovic when they met Chatrier in last year's final. And, after seeing two break points in the nine-minute opening game.
Djokovic keeps calm as he recovers from a slow start (Source: Times of India)
He was again able to find that the scoreboard was moving fast for him.
Unable to find his rhythm or be touched by the quick drop-shots, Djokovic fell behind 5-0 in a rare start that few had expected.
Djokovic saved the bagel by grabbing it, sitting down to get one break back but couldn't catch another.
The third seed Nadal served for the second time in question. He was taking his seventh point for an exciting first break that lasted about an hour.
Exchange violence continued in a second set of equally disturbing.
Djokovic could not cover the first half 2-0. But also made it to the sixth game with a mammoth hold where he saved three points from the back.
The pressure was felt when Djokovic tried to pull out a set. Producing a double error to give another point back to Nadal.
Serb was freed from the ball when Nadal hit a long comeback. And saved one on the way to regaining individual unity.
Holding the third set turns the game into 'one of the best.'
Then came the third set described by former professionals. Professional journalists and participating fans as some of the greatest ever seen.
In the electric bout at Chatrier, Djokovic broke down 3-2. And began to be under pressure from Nadal.
The Serb saved the second point of the break following a 23-man conference. And then beat the crowd for their support.
Nadal and Djokovic both played outstanding in French Open (Source: The Indian Express)
However, he could not deny Nadal for the third time. Djokovic looked stunned as the left-hander hit the winner in the line-up at half-time.
That left the score at 6-3 6-3 3-3, with both men scoring 84 points each. After more than two and a half hours in court.
The use of force in Djokovic's administration was also costly for Nadal, however.
The 13-time champion surprisingly lost his next service. And although he made himself a resting place in the next game. He was unable to turn the fourth break in a row.
The situation was tense on the court and the trains, with fans constantly jumping on foot. Due to stopping ovations and singing the names of both players.
After Djokovic failed to pull off the set 5-4 and broke down. Nadal saved another two-point break in the next game by leading 6-5.
At various points, both of these players put pressure on the explosive ceremonies.
"I'm at a loss for words," said Annabel Croft, the first British number one. "I've never seen anything like it."
The already dynamic situation rose to another level in transition. Fans chanted loudly at the sound of Davis Cup-style. As they tasted every minute as it approached 11 pm.
Djokovic maintained the point set by pulling out the nerve to force a tie-break.
But Nadal started the player with a double error. And then inexplicably hit a long volley 4-4.
That moved the action to Djokovic, who lowered his ace. And chased the shot with two workings for the set.
"I had had a great chance at a 6-5 point. Where he will work for the second time. That's all. Anything can happen at that moment," said Nadal. He had won all 13 of their French Open semi-finals.
Nadal and Djokovic both wanted fans to stay (Source: Sunday World)
"Then I made two mistakes and missed a simple volley during the break.
"These kinds of mistakes can happen. But if you want to win. You can't make these mistakes."
'We both wanted fans to stay.'
After the first semi-final match between Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev, it lasted for more than three and a half hours. There was always the risk that the second match would exceed the 11 pm deadline.
Djokovic and Nadal started playing until 7.10 pm local time. And, after two opening sets, each took an hour. After that, they expected the game to be stopped. So the crowd could be brought home.
When Djokovic got his impressive third set in 93 minutes. It seemed logical to clear the pitch. Then came another twist.
Boos first greeted the stadium announcement. Until fans realized we were telling them. They were allowed to stay. And the jeers turned to cheers.
"If we look at what we were living for in the game before the announcement. I think we both wanted the crowd to stay," Djokovic said.
"We were both very supportive. This is the kind of game we continue to play tennis for."
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There's three days left in the NBA regular season and before we get wrapped up in playoff coverage later this week, there's some hardware to be handed out. TheSportsNotebook's NBA commentary today will focus on an MVP, an All-Star team, some honorable mentions and a Coach of the Year. Then we'll wrap it up with a few things to keep an eye on the last few days of the season in the joust for seeding position. We'll also look back on TheSportsNotebook's preseason picks regarding each team's Over/Under number on the win props and see how far off base I was.
I won't waste time building up drama in sorting out who should be the MVP. LeBron James posted the following numbers…
*27 ppg
*8 rbg
*7 apg
*Shot 57 percent from the floor
*Shot 41 percent from three-point range
LeBron did all this while leading a team that underwent a personality transformation. When Miami failed to get any kind of production from their assortment of centers, head coach Erik Spoelstra made the decision to open it up and essentially play centerless—Chris Bosh nominally holds the position, but he's still a power forward and can step outside.
Spoelstra's decision paid big dividends and LeBron was the reason why. The point totals themselves aren't staggering—at least not in the context of this discussion, where at least four other players are comparable, if not better. The rebounding is good. What's most impressive are the assist numbers. LeBron is more than just the brightest star in the league. He's the star that can involve everyone else in the offense.
Thus we have an elite star at the pinnacle of his career, for whom a complete strategic shift in the team's approach was made, and then responded by leading that team to 64 wins (with two games left) and a run at league history in winning 27 in a row. I know saying that LeBron is a runaway MVP choice does not qualify as a bold prediction, but it's always worth doing due diligence to make sure the mainstream opinion is the correct one. In this case, it's right on. Give LeBron his fourth MVP award.
THE REST OF THE ALL-STARS
We'll fill out TheSportsNotebook's All-Star team with Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony joining LeBron on the frontcourt, with James Harden and Stephen Curry making up the backcourt. Here's the relevant numbers…
*Shoots 51 percent from the floor
*Shoots 41 percent from three-point range
*Shoots 38 percentage from three-point range
I'm going to take up Curry's cause first, because I suspect choosing him would be the most controversial. First off, a true All-Star team needs a true point guard—we can't just pick five small forwards and call it an All-Star team. Curry's assist numbers put him in that discussion and the shooting percentages put him over the top. Not only does he have the best three-point shooting percentage of any of the five All-Stars—or any other player we'll discuss in this article, he does it while shooting eight treys per game. To maintain an elite percentage (and 45% is elite from behind the arc) while operating at high volume is extremely difficult to do, and Curry has done it.
The percentage/volume thing is why I'm tolerant of Anthony's sub-40 percentage shooting the trey. The shot is a core part of the New York offense and Anthony attempts six per game. His percentage is good enough to justify that volume, although it's low enough to remove him as a credible challenger for the MVP award and also to put him behind Durant if we got into ranking these players 1 thru 5.
Durant managed to slide below the radar this year, at least after the Heat took off on their win streak and San Antonio moved to the top of the Western Conference. But not only are the Oklahoma City star's numbers impeccable, his team is up to 59 wins, back atop the West and will almost certainly clear the 60-win barrier. Durant had an MVP-caliber season, if not for the year James put together. Frankly, I think Durant should have won the award last year.
It was remarked in some circles that the results of the 2012 NBA Finals made all of us who promoted Durant look silly. Not so. The MVP award—or the All-Star team or any other award we pick here—is strictly about the regular season. It's not about trying to handicap who will win the playoffs. And the results of the Finals no more make me back off picking Durant in '12, then a Heat failure would lead to a mea culpa for picking LeBron. If you want the playoffs to count in picking the MVP, that's fine, but then let's wait until the dust is settled to do the choosing. That's not the way it's done, so we ought not to turn the MVP vote into a handicapping exercise.
KEY PLAYERS OFF THE BENCH
You can argue that this All-Star team is somewhat incomplete because it lacks a true post player. I personally think LeBron can handle that role, and the success of his team showed that you can win with forwards into today's NBA. But that doesn't mean a natural back-to-the-basket player and rebounder is passé. We still need someone, and we also need a third guard. With that in mind, let's salute Golden State's David Lee and Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook.
*11 rbg
*Shoots 32 percent from behind the arc
Lee gets the nod over Dwight Howard. The Laker center had the numbers (17 points/12 rbg), but that is a slightly lower scorer average than Lee, and I don't know if you heard, but Howard had some chemistry issues with his new teammates in Los Angeles. Shame on ESPN for letting the story of Laker dysfunction get under the radar this year. (I trust sarcasm comes through online).
Another Laker, even more notable, is passed over the backup guard spot. I'm not holding Kobe Bryant's season-ending injury against him because he played more than enough to qualify for this regular season conversation. What I am holding against Bryant is his constant jacking up of three-pointers (five per game) even though he hits just 32 percent. Simple math tells you that 33 percent is the minimum you need to shoot from behind the arc for it to be an efficient option. And please don't tell me that the rules somehow don't apply to Kobe because of his clutch skills. I might buy that in the last couple minutes of a game, but we're talking about a player that takes a lot of long-range bombs he has no business unleashing.
Thus, the door is open for Westbrook, who is a better distributor and almost as good a scorer. You will note he's got the same 32 percent three-point shot that I just panned Kobe for. And that's why he lost out to Curry for the first spot. But he doesn't shoot it quite as often as Kobe. Furthermore, Bryant has to lose points for the same reason Howard did—somebody has to be responsible for the soap opera that was the Lakers. How does the team's biggest star escape accountability?
TRIBUTE TO A PAIR OF VETERANS
Chris Paul and Dwayne Wade would make a heckuva backcourt, and each had All-Star caliber season when they were on the court. But they each missed some time with injuries—not a lot, as each has played in 68 games coming into Monday. But the debate over these spots is tight and the slightest margin makes the difference. That's why Paul and Wade missed out, but they each had the numbers…
*10 apg
*Shot 34 percent from behind the arc
DWAYNE WADE
*Shot 52 percent from behind the floor
Even though Wade only shot 25 percent from trey range, he only tried an average of one per game. Kobe, take note.
I've got five candidates that worthy of being mentioned. Here's their credentials…
George Karl (Denver)
*Takes a team without a true star and leads them to a 55-25 record in the superior conference
*As of today, would beat out a more star-laden team in the Los Angeles Clippers for seed position
Frank Vogel (Indiana)
*Played the season essentially without his biggest star in Danny Granger. Still has 49 wins as of today and a #3 seed clinched.
*Pacers played defense as well, if not better, than any team in the league.
Erik Spoelstra (Miami)
*As noted above, recast his team's strategy in favor of an unorthodox approach and blew away the East.
*Wrapped up the NBA's best record in spite of having a team notorious for its lack of focus in drudge moments.
Mark Jackson (Golden State)
*Turned around a losing culture and produced a playoff spot in the superior conference.
*A mix of aging stars and no-name role players and still has second-best record in the West
*His pithy in-game interviews are a long-awaited rebuke to the networks for inflicting this useless idiocy on their audience.
I'm tempted give Popovich the honor just in light of that last sarcastic point (if you haven't seen his in-game interviews, he gives one-word mocking answers). But I believe the nod goes to Karl. What gives him the edge is that he has to ply his craft in the tough Western Conference—he'd probably win 60 in the East.
THE NEXT FEW DAYS
The Eastern Conference is basically set. We know Miami-Milwaukee and New York-Boston are going to be playoff matchups, and we know Indiana and Brooklyn are going to have homecourt advantage. Atlanta and Chicago will be their opponents. Right now the Hawks are #5 (sending them to Brooklyn) and the Bulls are #6. A game separates the two teams, but that there's not much difference in quality of first-round matchup. To the extent there is a difference, you'd probably rather be in the 6-hole, since you're opposite Miami in the draw.
There's more on the line out west. Oklahoma City has to close out the top seed, though both they and the Spurs are locked into the 1-2 spots. Denver, Memphis and the LA Clippers are packed within a game of each other. The Clips and Grizzlies are each 54-26 and if neither catches Denver, homecourt advantage in their 4-5 matchup is still at stake.
Houston and Golden State are knotted at the 6-7 spots, and that has some significance, since it would preferable to play Denver (or whomever is the 3-seed) as opposed to being seventh and having to play San Antonio or Oklahoma City. And the Lakers hold a one-game lead over Utah for the final playoff spot, but the Jazz hold the tiebreaker. ESPN has its fingers crossed that their season-ending Rockets-Lakers telecast on Wednesday will have meaning for both teams.
REVISITING THE WIN PROPS
Just prior to the regular season, I did separate previews for the Eastern and Western Conference and offered predictions on each team's win props, with the exception of the Celtics. They're my favorite team and I always weasel out of a pick on my own team. Of the remaining 29 teams, 22 have clinched their fate, either Over or Under, and I stand 14-8 on those teams. Here's how they break down, with the preseason win number and my pick in parentheses.
CORRECT PICKS (14)
Philadelphia (47, Under)
Atlanta (43, Over)
Cleveland (31.5, Under)
Washington (28.5, Over)
Charlotte (18.5, Over)
LA Lakers (58, Under)
Memphis (49, Over)
LA Clippers (49.5, Over)
Denver (51.5, Over)
Golden State (36.5, Over)
Minnesota (38.5, Under)
Houston (28, Over)
New Orleans (26, Over)
Sacramento (31, Under)
MISFIRES (8)
Miami (61.5, Under)
New York (45.5, Under)
Brooklyn (46, Under)
Detroit (32, Over)
Chicago (47, Over)
Orlando (24.5, Over)
San Antonio (55.5, Under)
Phoenix (33, Over)
Here are the seven teams still on the board and what has to happen with regard to my pick. Each team has two games remaining…
CLINCHED PUSH
Utah (44, Under)
Portland (33, Over)
–The Jazz are on 42 wins, so I just need them to lose once more. The Blazers are sitting right on 33 wins, so they need to squeeze out one more win.
NEED ONE GAME
Milwaukee (37.5, Over)
Oklahoma City (60.5, Under)
–I need the Bucks to win once and the Thunder to lose once, but that's going to be tough. Milwaukee's got nothing to play for, while OkC has homecourt advantage on the line and two easy games ahead. I'm bracing for losses on both of these picks.
NEED TO SWEEP
Indiana (50.5, Over)
Toronto (33.5, Over)
Dallas (41.5, Over)
–Here again, we have teams with nothing to play for. Indiana certainly will want to rest players. As for the Raptors and the Mavericks we might look at it another way—what have they done to suggest you should ever count on them winning two straight.
Thus, I suspect my record will be pretty average when all is said and done, probably with about 16 or so teams right out of 29. I'll always take going over .500, but it shows how the Vegas number pulls everyone to the midpoint, one way or another.


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The project is organized by Drs. Nancy L. Zingrone and Carlos S. Alvarado, and it is supported by the Parapsychology Foundation.
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It was such an honor to be a part of this wedding! This may be the longest blog post I've ever done but you are going to want to check out all these photos! What an amazing day. We started at the Cedarhurst Mansion in Cottage Grove, MN early in the morning with a garden ceremony and lunch. What a beautiful place to have a wedding! The second ceremony was at the newly updated Raddison Blu in Minneapolis. I just love Neha's hair and makeup! She was a gorgeous bride and so fun to photograph!! Neha's three different looks were done by Brett Dorrian Artistry Studios. Aren't the flowers lovely too!? Kari at KMB Floral did a wonderful job with the arrangements! Avant Decor added a pop of color with the drapery. OK and those dresses...The last dress was made specifically for Neha by her aunt. Wow. Such talent! Wishing this couple a long and happy life together!


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Live updates: Voting issues reported at polling places on Election Day
Updated on: November 8, 2016 / 8:00 PM / CBS/AP
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NEW YORK -- Across the country, Election Day is in full swing, and while it seems to be going smoothly overall, it hasn't been without problems.
As millions of voters head to the polls to cast their ballots for president, their representatives in Congress and other elected officials, long lines, issues with machines, and delayed openings of polling places have been reported in a number of locations.
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The latest updates of reported problems at polling places can be found below:
6:59 p.m. CST -- Texas voter arrested
Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office in Texas confirmed on Twitter that a person was arrested after attempting to vote twice. The person allegedly claimed he worked for Trump and was testing the system.
Arrest: We can confirm 1 arrested for attempting to vote a second time. Claimed he worked for Trump and was testing the system.
— FBCSO Texas (@FBCSO) November 9, 2016
5:43 p.m. MST -- Democrats want 2 more Maricopa County vote hours
The Arizona Democratic Party is asking a judge to keep the polls in Maricopa County open for an extra two hours.
The filing just hours before Tuesday's planned 7 p.m. poll closing is opposed by the county recorder.
Democratic Party spokeswoman Barb Lubin says complications with voting early in the morning prompted the lawsuit. She says e-poll books containing voter registration information were problematic and there were long lines and a record number of voters in the county.
Recorder's spokeswoman Elizabeth Bartholomew says county lawyers were in court arguing against the request at about 5:30 p.m. She says state law requires a 7 p.m. closing and anyone already in line will be allowed to vote without court intervention.
4:33 p.m. PST -- Pro-Trump message broadcast by deputy in car
A Multnomah County Sheriff's Office corrections deputy is facing an internal investigation after allegedly broadcasting pro-Donald Trump sentiments from a department vehicle while driving past voters.
The Oregonian/OregonLive quotes a witness as saying 25 to 30 people were standing in line in downtown Portland to leave off their ballots on Tuesday when a sheriff's office car went by and the words "Vote Trump" came out of the car megaphone.
A spokesman for the sheriff's office, Lt. Chad Gaidos, said a corrections deputy is facing an internal investigation because of the alleged incident. He did not identify the corrections deputy.
5:47 p.m. CST -- Long lines at some Mississippi precincts
Mississippi voters have been standing in long lines in parts of the state to cast ballots for president.
People waited more than half an hour in several places, including Oxford and Madison.
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann says any problems with voting were "minimal, isolated and quickly rectified."
Polls remain open until 7 p.m.
Hosemann says people still in line at closing time are allowed to wait and vote.
In addition to the presidential race, all four U.S. House races and some races for Mississippi Supreme Court and state Court of Appeals are on the ballot.
Mississippi is awarding six electoral votes for president.
5:36 p.m. CST -- No charges to be filed in 2 double-voting cases
A prosecutor in Des Moines says no charges will be filed against two residents who were suspected of trying to vote twice.
Polk County Attorney John Sarcone said Tuesday that authorities have determined that there's "no basis to go forward" due to lack of criminal intent. He says age and confusion were factors in the cases.
Elections officials had referred three cases of attempted double-voting to police for investigation last month, during early voting.
Sarcone's office has filed a felony election misconduct charge against 55-year-old Terri Rote, who told Iowa Public Radio that she voted twice for Donald Trump because she believed the election is rigged. Rote is scheduled to be arraigned next month.
Secretary of State Paul Pate's spokesman says the state isn't aware of any other double-voting allegations.
4:14 p.m. MST -- Judge to consider Idaho polling place lawsuit
In its federal lawsuit against Ada County and Idaho state election officials, the Idaho Democratic Party contends that the Ada County Clerk's office didn't give enough notice to voters that five polling places had changed.
The locations were changed roughly two and a half months after Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Gealy England notified Ada County officials that several poll locations didn't meet required standards under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, according to the lawsuit.
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The Idaho Democratic Party contends that while some of the locations were changed to accommodate the federal law, others were changed simply for "space issues." The Democrats said those issues should have been anticipated sooner or addressed in a way that didn't require a new location.
Ada County officials, however, have said they gave routine notification about the changed polling places -- including ads in the local newspaper -- as required by Idaho law. Notices of the change were also mailed to people in those precincts, according to Ada County officials.
A federal judge was expected to hold a hearing on the matter late Tuesday afternoon.
4:11 p.m. MST -- Voting machines in southern Utah county back up and running, officials say
Election officials say voting machines in a southern Utah county are back up and running after the memory cards were mistakenly wiped during programming.
Washington County Clerk Auditor Kim Hafen says some machines were down for hours, but they were all fixed by noon.
Hafen says a worker meant to copy and paste information as the cards were programmed in batches ahead of Election Day, but deleted the data instead.
He says about 75 percent of the machines there wouldn't turn on when polls opened Tuesday morning.
Election workers used paper ballots as the cards were re-programmed. Machines started going back online about an hour and a half after polls opened and all of the county's approximately 400 machines were fixed by about noon.
5:05 p.m. CST -- Fire alarm sounds at S.D. polling place, leading to delay
There will be a 15-minute delay in reporting results from South Dakota after one polling place had to close for that amount of time Tuesday when a fire alarm sounded.
The alarm sounded at South Middle School in Rapid City.
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs says that poll workers moved voters outside for exactly 15 minutes, so that location will remain open an extra 15 minutes.
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All vote results for the state will be held until all the polls close -- tonight, that'll be at 8:15 p.m., Central time. The affected location is in the Mountain time zone.
Julie Pearson is the Pennington County auditor. She says workers protected the vote and grabbed the ballots in the box and the master registration list as they ushered voters outside.
Pearson said workers were told that a student pulled the fire alarm. The Rapid City Fire Department tweeted that the alarm was reset as quickly as possible to allow voting to resume.
5:03 p.m. CST -- Last minute moves leave Voters confused at several Houston polling sites, advocates say
Voting rights advocates say five Houston polling sites were affected by last-minute moves Tuesday that left many voters confused.
Spokesman Zenen Perez of the Texas Civil Rights Project says most of the changes were in predominantly black areas of the nation's fourth-largest city. Perez says voters in some cases were informed by hand-written signs posted on walls and trees.
Harris County elections spokesman Hector DeLeon said he had no information on the matter.
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Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of the Texas chapter of Common Cause, says some people had to go to three different locations before they could vote.
Other complaints among about 1,400 calls received from Texas on an Election Day hotline set up by nonprofits included scattered reports of voting technology malfunctions and lines longer than an hour in parts of Houston and Dallas.
Gutierrez says many people complained of poll workers being misinformed about changes the state made after a federal court ruled Texas' voter ID law unconstitutional.
6:01 p.m. EST -- Detroit voting machines stopped working, clerk says
City Clerk Janice Winfrey says some voting machines in Detroit stopped working Tuesday morning and had to be replaced.
The delay caused long lines and waits of an hour or more to vote.
Winfrey says her office received about 50 calls for broken voting machines, but some were repeat calls for the same machines she describes as a decade old.
Northwest of Detroit, a malfunctioning computer and tabulator at a voting precinct in Waterford Township forced elections workers to put about 50 ballots into a bin.
Township Clerk Sue Camilleri says the computer and tabulator were fixed. She says the ballots that were set aside "will not be put through the tabulator until the end of the night."
5:58 p.m. EST -- Kentucky election fraud hotline receives dozens of calls
The Kentucky attorney general's office says its election fraud hotline has received 155 calls from 46 counties at last count.
The total was as of 3:30 p.m. EST Tuesday, some 3 ½ hours before polls were to close in the western half of the state. Voters are choosing a U.S. senator, congressmen, president and state legislative races.
The attorney general's office said issues reported to the hotline include poll disruption, general election fraud, electioneering, residency, procedural and legal questions, voter assistance, voting machine, voter identification and election officials.
5:57 p.m. EST -- Voter ID complaint in N.J.
A civil liberties group says it has received a complaint that signs asking people to have identifications ready to vote were posted in at least one polling place in New Jersey.
The American Civil Liberties Union's New Jersey chapter told NJ.com that it received a complaint about the Voter ID sign at a polling place in Metuchen.
Most voters in New Jersey are not required to show identification to vote.
Middlesex County elections officials say the issue was resolved as soon as they were told about the sign.
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer said Tuesday that she was also asked for her ID by a worker who was looking up her information. Zimmer refused to show her ID.
5:55 p.m. EST -- "Isolated issues" at Virginia polls, election commissioner says
The head of Virginia's Department of Elections says complaints about problems at the polls have so far not been any greater than in previous years.
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Department of Elections Commissioner Edgardo Cortes said at a news conference Tuesday evening that among the "isolated issues" were long lines in Richmond, Chesapeake, Prince William, Spotsylvania and Staunton. He says elections officials are monitoring the lines and reminds voters that anyone in line by the time polls close at 7 p.m. will be able to vote.
Cortes says several precincts in northern Virginia's Fairfax County didn't properly load their electronic poll book data, so some people who likely were registered weren't showing up. He says those people were given provisional ballots and the elections office will work quickly to process them.
He says the department also got complaints from some voters who had registered at Department of Motor Vehicle offices but weren't on the rolls. Cortes says that happens every election and an audit process is in place to confirm who registered and process their provisional ballots.
5:53 p.m. EST -- Disorderly conduct reported at Delaware voting location
Delaware state troopers were called to a voting location in Elsmere in response to a complaint of disorderly conduct involving a couple of supporters of Donald Trump, but no arrests were made.
State police spokesman Cpl. Jeffrey Hale says troopers spoke to the men, advised them that they shouldn't talk to voters as they were coming in to Baltz Elementary School to vote, and that they needed to stay at least 50 feet away from the polling location, as required by state law.
State elections commissioner Elaine Manlove said a woman called her about the "scary white men." Manlove says she didn't know about the nature of the complaint, but that the men did not appear to be doing anything wrong. Manlove said her office did not notify police.
4:44 p.m. CST -- Fire alarm goes off at Wisconsin polling place
The City of Madison, Wisconsin clerk, said on Twitter that due to a fire alarm that closed a polling place for a short time, the polling place at East High will be open until 9 p.m. per a court order.
Due to a fire alarm that closed the polling place for a short time, the polling place at East High will be open until 9 pm per a court order
— Madison WI Clerk (@MadisonWIClerk) November 8, 2016
3:42 p.m. MST -- Colorado voter registration system back up
The Colorado Secretary of State said in a tweet that the voter registration system went down for 29 minutes, but is back up now. He said they are investigating.
Our voter registration system went down 29 minutes, from 2:47 p.m. to 3:16 p.m. It is back up now. We are investigating. #copolitics
— Wayne Williams (@ColoSecofState) November 8, 2016
5:35 p.m. EST -- Advocacy groups suing to extend voting hours in Durham County
Advocacy groups say they're suing to extend voting hours in Durham County by 90 minutes because of computer problems that resulted in a paper check-in process.
The Southern Coalition for Social Justice said in a news release that it filed a lawsuit on behalf of Democracy North Carolina requesting an emergency action from Wake County Superior Court. The groups want the court to order the State Board of Elections to keep Durham County polls open.
Wake County Superior Court Judge Don Stephens is expected to preside over the emergency hearing.
Meanwhile, the Durham County Board of Elections has asked state board to extend voting hours at one precinct, the Bethesda Ruritan Club. It also is gathering information for the state board about whether hours at other locations should be extended. The county board will then determine whether to request extended hours at any other polling location.
The computer problem resulted in at least one precinct running out of authorization-to-vote forms for about 90 minutes.
3:29 p.m. MST -- Colorado voter registration system goes down
The Colorado Secretary of State's voter registration system in some parts of the state went down during midday voting Tuesday, forcing in-person voters to cast provisional ballots. Lynn Bartels, a spokeswoman for the Secretary of State's Office, tweeted that some county clerks were unable to process mail ballots that need to have the signature verified.
It's unclear when the system will become accessible. The cause of the failure also was unclear.
4:48 p.m. EST -- Long lines, broken machines in Massachusetts
Civil rights groups reported long lines, broken voting machines and other common Election Day issues at polling locations across Massachusetts Tuesday afternoon, but said election officials appear to be promptly responding to them as they come up.
Meryl Kessler, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, said there were reports of "excessively long lines" at polling locations in Boston and that broken voting machines were reported in Boston, Springfield, Lawrence, New Bedford and Chelsea.
Rahsaan Hall, of the American Civil Liberties Union, said there have also been isolated complaints of translation services not being provided and poor access to polling locations for disabled residents.
3:23 p.m. CST -- Computer malfunctions at Texas polling place
In Texas, a computer used by election clerks malfunctioned at a polling place inside a high school in suburban Houston, forcing officials to briefly divert voters to another polling place more than two miles away. Fort Bend County Elections Administrator John Oldham said the malfunctioning console was later replaced with a backup and voting resumed.
Andrea Patience, a 50-year-old pharmacy technician, was among those standing in line when the computer malfunctioned. She said she waited an hour for it to be fixed. Patience said as many as 100 people were standing in line at the time, and about half of them left.
"There were a lot of upset people," Patience said. "I don't know if they will come back later or decide not to vote."
2:20 p.m. MST -- Utah voting machine problems
Election officials in Utah said voting machine problems in the southern part of the state forced poll workers early in the day to use paper ballots.
1:15 p.m. EST -- Two poll watchers fired from South Florida precinct
Two South Florida poll watchers were fired Tuesday from a Pompano Beach voting precinct, CBS Miami reported.
According to Tonya Edwards from the Broward Department of Elections, the two poll watchers were asked to leave the Herb Skolnick Center in Pompano Beach, for "not adhering to policy/training." They were let go by an election official who was on site and replaced by two new workers.
Edwards told CBS Miami the workers were asked to leave for interfering with the voting process.
Voting was not interrupted during the incident.
No other incidents have been reported at any South Florida voting precincts.
12:20 p.m. CST -- Dead judge leads to voting delays in Dallas County
Some voters in Dallas County, Texas, faced long delays early Tuesday after a judge failed to show up on time. As it turned out, that judge had died in his home during the night, CBS Dallas-Fort Worth reported.
This strange turn of events took place at the Betty Warmack Library in Grand Prairie. Without the judge, election officials could not open the polling location, leaving voters to stand outside in rainy conditions.
An alternative judge was called to the library. Once he reported to the scene, voting was able to begin. That was not until some two hours after the scheduled 7 a.m. start time.
The Elections Department and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins requested an extension of the voting hours at the Betty Warmack Library as a result of the delay, "to ensure that all voters have the same opportunity to cast their ballot," explained Jenkins.
Hours have been extended until 9 p.m. for the Warmack Library voting location. Ballots cast after 7 p.m. are provisional pending further review of statute and judicial authority, according to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.
12:15 p.m. EST -- Some Trump voters in Pennsylvania reporting ballots switched to Clinton
Election judges in Clinton Township, Butler County in Pennsylvania confirmed there were issues with two of their eight automated voting machines. Most of the issues came when people tried to vote straight party ticket.
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However, in some instances people said they attempted to vote for Republican Donald Trump only to see their vote switched before their eyes to Democrat Hillary Clinton, CBS Pittsburgh reported.
"I went back, pressed Trump again. Three times I did this, so then I called one of the women that were working the polls over. And she said you must be doing it wrong. She did it three times and it defaulted to Hillary every time," voter Bobbie Lee Hawranko told the station.
"If somebody has an issue, they should certainly let the judge of elections at the precinct know and also call their county bureau of elections as folks have done here this morning," said State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a Republican. "Those machines should be taken out of the mix and they shouldn't be using those machines."
Officials tell CBS News they have recalibrated the machines and are confident that the problem has been resolved. A Butler County commissioner said to her knowledge no one has confirmed a vote for a candidate that they did not intend to vote for.
12:15 p.m. EST -- Pennsylvania judge fails to show up to polling center
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Allegheny County has been dealing with some Election Day delays, CBS Pittsburgh reported.
A judge of elections did not show up when the polls opened Tuesday morning in Springdale Borough.
When Margaret Vernon showed up, more than three hours after the polls opened, sheriff's deputies escorted her into the facility. She will be charged by summons with failure to perform duties.
Vernon told deputies she was ill.
11:45 a.m. EST -- North Carolina precinct runs out of "Intent to Vote" forms
In Durham, precinct 31 ran out of "Intent to Vote" forms, the Durham Board of Elections confirmed, CBS affiliate WNCN reported. Normally the forms would be printed out. Since computers were down, they had been handing out physical forms. They then ran out of the physical forms.
By 1 p.m. EST, the "Intent to Vote" forms were restocked, the Durham Board of Elections confirmed.
11:36 a.m. EST -- Voting glitch reported in Durham, North Carolina
A glitch caused minor issues at several Durham precincts during the first hour of voting Tuesday morning, the North Carolina State Board of Election officials said.
The glitch only impacted the electronic poll book used in the check-in process for voters and didn't have anything to do with ballots or the process of voting, CBS affiliate WNCN reported.
Twenty-three other counties use a similar electronic poll book and all have back-up printed poll books they can resort to.
First published on November 8, 2016 / 3:42 PM