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Obertauern, Austria. A purpose built resort with pistes up to 2,315m. Obertauern's main advantage is its location, just 90 km from the city of Mozart, it's easily accessible from both Vienna and Munich.
Obergurgl, Austria. Old school charm up high in the Austrian Alps – Obergurgl is a mere 90 minutes from Innsbruck and 20 minutes from the larger resort of Sölden. The snow record is excellent and there are rarely any lift queues.
Tignes, France. located in the picturesque L'Espace Killy region, Tignes has some of the most incredible terrain in the Alps for snow enthusiasts.
Sestriere, Italy. Sestriere's high, northwest-facing slopes make it more snow-secure than its neighbours. And the terrain is more challenging than any of the other Milky Way resorts.
Saas-Fee, Switzerland. A beautiful resort in a picturesque setting, with a vibrant nightlife and fantastic family facilities. And it's situated beneath a spectacular glacier.
Verbier, Switzerland. Verbier is the main resort in Switzerland's largest ski area, the Four Valleys. With exciting terrain, a scenic location and vibrant night life, many sporty clientele can be found.
Zermatt, Switzerland. Ski whilst in awe of the staggering Matterhorn, which overlooks the village – you really will feel like you're on top of the world.
Åre, Sweden. Based at 400m, Åre is the lowest resort on this list. But it's not to be overlooked. Set in Sweden, it has consistent snowfall throughout the season, plus you can snowmobile on the frozen lake in the evening.
Whistler, Canada. Canada's premier, year round destination (because of the glacier), Whistler features two majestic mountains with a vibrant base village.
Val Thorens, France. The highest resort in the Three Valleys and indeed Europe, Val Thorens (2300m), has a variety of runs suited to all levels of skier. Relax on the sun-strewn balconies one afternoon after trying out the glacier.
Alpbach, Austria. A Hollywood-worthy Alpine setting in Austria – perfect for families looking to relax and ski to their hearts' content.
La Plagne, France. With its many blue runs and comfortable chair lifts La Plagne, is well suited to beginner and intermediate families. Visit Le Grizzli Restaurant for a wonderful alpine experience, you can even have a go at cooking your own steak.
Avoriaz, France. Winner of 'Best Family Resort' at the 2012 World Snow Awards, there's plenty for all the family to do both on and off the piste. Perhaps try out the 'slidewinder' ride in the new Aquariaz water park.
Pila, Italy. Situated in the Valle d'Aosta, Pila is just over two hours from Turin airport. It's ideal for the intermediate family, but also has plenty of blue runs for those just starting out. For children who love finding routes through the trees, this is the place to go.
Alta Badia, Italy. Situated in the heart of the Dolomite mountains with many wide, blue pistes and a breath-taking landscape – take part in the Gourmet Ski Safari and enjoy the local cuisine.
Grindelwald, Switzerland. A pretty village with a long mountaineering history in the shadows of the magnificent Eiger and Jungfrau. The intermediate terrain is perfect for families.
Zermatt, Switzerland. Your kids will feel like they're in a true Winter Wonderland when walking around Zermatt village… and we're sure you'll find it pretty impressive too!
Hemsedal, Norway. Hemsedal is a municipality in Buskerudcountry. New this season, parents with small children can share a single ski pass valid for three to eight days. Plus, try a horse sleigh ride in the dark.
Sälen, Sweden. There are varied runs for all standards across the area. Lindvallen is famous for having the world's first ski-in-ski-out McDonalds.
Vail, America. Vail ski resort is located in Eagle County, Colorado. At 5,289 acres, it's the second largest single mountain ski resort in the U.S. With wide, open terrain, trails of all types and a pedestrian street village, it's a wonderful getaway for all the family.
Cervinia, Italy. If you're an intermediate skier, you can take advantage of skiing in Zermatt as well as Cervinia without having to pay the high prices for accommodation in Switzerland.
Serre Chevalier, France. With awesome freeriding, family-friendly accommodation and empty slopes, Serre Chevalier is great value for money compared to some of its better-known French neighbours.
Morzine, France. A year round resort, Morzine is a beautiful base to explore the Portes du Soleil (France and Switzerland). Although some parts can be expensive, they still have good value chalets and you can save money by buying a lift pass for just Morzine and Les Gets.
Passo Tonale, Italy. A high altitude, family orientated ski resort located in northern Italy. It's excellent for beginner and intermediate skiers ready for a challenge. The 4.5km Alpino red is a particular favourite.
Sierra Nevada, Spain. Skiing in Spain! Really? Yes. Based at 3,478m it contains the highest point of continental Spain. Twenty lifts serve 100km of piste – and there's ample off piste for advanced riders. Plus if you fancy a swim in the afternoon, there's always the Mediterranean.
Pas de la Casa, Andorra. A great resort with a fantastic lift system. Ideal if you're looking for an alpine party atmosphere that's cheap and cheerful.
Zell am See, Austria. Alongside wonderful glacier skiing, this Austrian resort has excellent nightlife for the party animals and is a wonderful family-friendly hub too.
Soldeu, Andorra. Soldeu is a fantastic Andorran resort for groups wanting a classic ski-and-party holiday. It is both cheap and littered with excellent skiing.
Bansko, Bulgaria. Bansko has become an international centre for winter and summer tourism. Bulgaria's share in European winter tourism is steadily rising because of lower costs compared to France or Switzerland for example.
Stowe, America. With a higher initial cost compared to many listed above; you're probably wondering why this resort has been mentioned. However, the value you receive in all-inclusive packages is incredible –plus there are some wonderful kids programmes.
Baqueira-Beret, Spain. One of Spain's top resorts, where there's something for everyone – versatile skiing, picturesque scenery, all at great value – and you can even enjoy tapas on the slopes!
Warth Schröcken, Austria. Located between the Arlberg, the Lech Valley and Allgäu Alps, the cosy villages of Warth and Schröcken are an ideal holiday destination for both freeriders and families.
Nassfeld, Austria. Voted a top 10 ski resort in Austria because of the snow and sunshine, Nassfeld is based in the state of Carinthia. It has 110km of slopes, 30 ski lifts and one of Carinthia's longest runs, Carnia, at 7.6km in length.
Vars, France. One of the most southerly resorts in France, Vars is a very well-kept secret, combining the authenticity and charm of a traditional French village with the convenience and facilities of a modern resort.
La Clusaz, France. Based in the Haute-Savoie region of France, La Clusaz is often dodged by the opinion that it's too low for snow. Far from it. Five mountain slopes offer 130km of pistes with some tree-lined skiing. Beginners will revel in the variety, with over 60% of the slopes dedicated to them.
Livigno, Italy. With a slightly longer commute from the airport, this resort in Italy is often discounted. But don't be so hasty. With an altitude of 2306m the resort is good for many types of skiers. For freeride skiers and snowboarders, it now has one of the best parks in Europe. Plus, it's also a tax-free haven, so it won't cost you a fortune.
Bormio, Italy. A true Italian paradise, this resort is not that well known to the UK market. As you can imagine, the authentic, Italian food is exquisite and it won't cost you an arm and a leg.
Arosa, Switzerland. For a short break, the compact resort in the Graubunden mountains – a couple of hours south of Zurich – is ideal. With a combination of blue, red and black runs it works well for a mixed ability group. And if you don't fancy skiing, there are some great walking routes.
Lenzerheide, Switzerland. This idyllic winter sports region now covers three valley sides and offers unrivalled opportunities for enjoying the pistes.
Voss, Norway. A traditional and charming resort that sits on a lakeside in Norway fjordland. There's varied skiing and boarding on offer, plus you can experience the stunning, natural surroundings and many other off-slope activities.
For more options, take a look at the Ski Club's online resort guides, where you'll find hundreds of reviews detailing various aspects of different resorts – as well as our leading snow reports.
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List of tallest buildings and structures in Great Britain
List of radio stations in the United Kingdom

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Full Spread reviewed Thor #1 Jun 7, 2020
While I loved Jason Aaron's extended, mostly awesome run on Thor, my biggest overall complaint had to do with all the "WORLD ENDING THREATS" that piled up. Every arc had to keep upping the stakes by proclaiming: "Well, I know I said the last universe crashing event thingy was the biggest thing to ever happen--but that's over now--and now there's an EVEN BIGGER BADDY that won't just destroy our universe, or ten universes, but A BILLION!" The stakes kept getting raised to such ridiculous, absurd points that nothing mattered anymore.
That's also happening here.
But it's even more obnoxious because Donny Cates is shoe-horning his own characters (or versions of characters) from previous books in.
Oh, and brooding Thor is boring and giving him glowy eyes doesn't help matters (and maybe makes them worse). more
By: Donny Cates, Nic Klein
A BRAND-NEW, SUPERSTAR CREATIVE TEAM TAKES THE KING OF ASGARD TO NEW REALMS OF GLORY!
The prince is now a king. All Asgard lies before Thor, the God of Thunder. And after many months of war, the Ten Realms are finally at peace. But the skies above the Realm Eternal are never clear for long. The Black Winter is coming. And the God of the Storm w...
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huz - Oct 13, 2020
Who did he shoe-horn in?
Full Spread reviewed John Constantine: Hellblazer #1 Jun 7, 2020
Wants you to simultaneously see Constantine in a new, hipstery, "cleaned up" world--and still in the disgusting cesspool of the 80s/90s urban environment he began in.
Art fits very well, but it's stiff and the colors don't differentiate the foreground and backgrounds very well.
John Constantine: Hellblazer #1
By: Si Spurrier, Aaron Campbell
John Constantine is back in London, back to his old tricks-and just in time, as things have become very dark indeed in his old stomping grounds. A small-time gang lord has found himself dealing with a big-time outbreak of supernatural weirdness...and without any allies to call on and nothing left to call his own, John doesn't have much choice about...
Full Spread reviewed Alienated #1 Jun 7, 2020
Trying overly hard to be progressive to the point of parody. Paying liberal lip service is fine, but Spurrier doesn't say anything profound and actively undermines any progressive message because the tone is so comically absurd.
Worse of all, the mind-reading element isn't very original nor is it done in a particularly interesting way. It's such a huge development that it distracts from the core concept of the series (ALIENS!). So in that regard, this first issue is badly paced.
Great art though. more
Alienated #1
By: Simon Spurrier, Chris Wildgoose
Acclaimed writer Simon Spurrier (John Constantine Hellblazer, Coda) and artist Chris Wildgoose (Batgirl, Batman: Nightwalker) present a subversive coming-of-age story about having all the power to change the world but the unready hands to truly wield it. Three teenagers, each an outcast in their own way, stumble upon an unearthly entity as it's bor...
Full Spread reviewed X-Men #1 Jun 7, 2020
Hickman's pompous, pretentious, overly-serious attempts to take the inherently goofy X-Men to self-serious levels is fairly grating. But there have been countless writers across the history of comics who've been able to wrench pathos from silliness--so what's the real problem?
And the fact that our heroes--the X-Men--are continually on a god trip and therefore immensely unlikable and dull.
X-Men #1
By: Jonathan Hickman, Leinil Francis Yu
DAWN OF X!
The X-Men find themselves in a whole new world of possibility... and things have never been better! Jonathan Hickman (HOUSE OF X, POWERS OF X, SECRET WARS) and superstar artist Leinil Yu (NEW AVENGERS, CAPTAIN AMERICA) reveal the saga of Cyclops and his hand-picked squad of mutant powerhouses!
Full Spread reviewed Doctor Doom #2 Dec 5, 2019
While the first issue sets up Doom as more of a very stable genius, this issue abandons that for cliche: "villain on the run" beats. This could have been so much more unique.
Also--yes, Christopher Cantwell--we see you are very smarty pants with your Shakespeare references. Very clever and subtle.
Doctor Doom #2
By: Christopher Cantwell, Salvador Larroca
DOCTOR DOOM has been taken prisoner by the world itself... but he may find unexpected aid in his escape. Now vulnerable and without his usual strength, he must keep a low profile on the streets of New York, or else risk being captured again. He'll seek out an old 'frenemy' for help and battle lethal opportunists, all while wrestling these visions h...
Full Spread reviewed Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #1 Aug 14, 2019
It's cute.
It's not nearly as funny as it thinks it is. Well, except for the Clark wink gag. That's hysterical and almost makes the book worth it.
But it's cute. Eh. Glad to have Matt Fraction back, I guess.
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #1
By: Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber
Released: Jul 17, 2019
Jimmy Olsen must die! Wait, we're getting ahead of ourselves. Jimmy Olsen lives! Superman's best friend and Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen tours the bizarre underbelly of the DC Universe in this new miniseries featuring death, destruction, giant turtles and more! It's a centuries-spanning whirlwind of weird that starts in Metropolis and ends...
Full Spread rated Lois Lane #1 Aug 14, 2019
Lois Lane #1
By: Greg Rucka, Mike Perkins
Released: Jul 3, 2019
On the road and out of Metropolis-and carrying a secret that could disrupt Superman's life-Lois Lane embarks on a harrowing journey to uncover a threat to her husband and a plot that reaches the highest levels of international power brokers and world leaders. Critically acclaimed and best-selling author Greg Rucka and master storyteller Mike Perkin...
Full Spread reviewed Space Bandits #1 Aug 14, 2019
Sigh. Oh, joy.
Yet another '80s style Millarworld story with foul language, mild violence, mild sex, criminals, and cliches up the wazoo.
If this is supposed to be a feminist piece about getting screwed over by men, it doesn't have any emotional punch to back it up. But by all means, let's keep highly rating Miller's generic stories that are only readable because of his A-list artists.
A 12 year old could write these, in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Millar has a sweatshop of 12 year olds churning these out. more
Space Bandits #1
By: Mark Millar, Matteo Scalera
MINISERIES PREMIERE! Thena Khole and Cody Blue are among the universe's most wanted felons. Each the leader of their own criminal ops, they run heists across the galaxies-hopping from ship to ship to fleece everyone inside. But when both women are betrayed by their crews, the bandits only have one thing on their minds: REVENGE.
Full Spread reviewed House of X #1 Aug 14, 2019
Hickman's reserved, pompous style doesn't fit X-Men very well. I'm no X-Men fanatic, but encasing them in an exposition and world-building heavy plot comes across as, ironically, life-less. Where's the #drama? The soap opera shenanigans? Instead this feels like a wannabe Dune, with equally distant characters.
By: Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz
FACE THE FUTURE! Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman (SECRET WARS, AVENGERS, FANTASTIC FOUR) takes the reins of the X-Men universe! Since the release of Uncanny X-Men #1, there have been four seminal moments in the history of the X-Men. Giant-Sized X-Men. X-Men. Age of Apocalypse. New X-Men. Four iconic series that introduced a new era for Marvel's m...
Full Spread reviewed Absolute Carnage #1 Aug 14, 2019
Despite my resistance to Donny Cates's obsession with bringing back the '90s...this is a scrappy horror-show with some surprisingly good dialog and a helluva lot of story.
Can't believe I'm saying this, but this is worth the $8.
Absolute Carnage #1
By: Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman
After turning Venom's world upside down a year ago, DONNY CATES and RYAN STEGMAN are about to put the Sinister Symbiote through hell again, only this time CARNAGE has come calling, and everyone who's ever worn a symbiote is dead in his sights! He's skirted the periphery of the Marvel Universe for months, but Cletus Kasady at last stands poised to m...
Full Spread reviewed Batman: Last Knight on Earth #1 Aug 14, 2019
Well, it's a surprise to nobody that the newest Snyder/Capullo Batman story is pretentious and sweeping up praise.
The post-apocalyptic story is a ripoff of Old Man Logan, the creative team's earlier work on Dark Knights Metal, and even Morrison's Final Crisis (the nihilism and all that).
It has an irritating fake-out beginning that doesn't fit Alfred's character in the slightest (but even if it did, it's still a grating fake-out) and Joker is underwhelming. I thought the whole point of this series was to have a unique spin on Batman and the Joker's dynamic, but all Snyder does with it is tell cringe-worthy attempts at mature jokes. This is a big boy comic! Wonder Woman says "shit!" Oh, the horror! more
Batman: Last Knight on Earth #1
By: Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo
Bruce Wayne wakes up in Arkham Asylum. Young. Sane.
And...he was never Batman.
So begins this sprawling tale of the Dark Knight as he embarks on a quest through a devastated DC landscape featuring a massive cast of familiar faces from the DC Universe. As he tries to piece together the mystery of his past, he must unravel the cause of this t...
Full Spread reviewed Sea of Stars #1 Aug 14, 2019
The attempts to convey emotions and exposition at the beginning are eye-roll inducing. However...it picks up once the Inciting Incident kicks in. The art is pretty decent and the colors are fetching. I'd read more to see where this goes.
Sea of Stars #1
By: Jason Aaron, Stephen Green
"LOST IN THE WILDS OF HEAVEN," Part One: Being a space trucker sounds like a cool job, but in reality, it can be boring as hell. So when recently widowed Gil gets a long-haul gig across the universe, he figures it's safe enough to bring his young son Kadyn along for the ride-that is, until their "big rig" gets bitten in half by a gigantic Space Lev...
Full Spread reviewed War of the Realms #1 Aug 14, 2019
Reminds me more of Jason Aaron's Avengers work than Thor. WOTR mainly consists of apocalyptic action interspersed with humor--which is fine--but most of the war has already been told in previous Thor issues and there's no pathos or cleverness to make-up for all the boring carnage.
War of the Realms #1
Asgard. Alfheim. Heven. Jotunheim. Muspelheim. Niffleheim. Nidavellir. Svartalfheim. Vanaheim. All of the Ten Realms have fallen to Malekith and his army except one: Midgard. Home to Thor's beloved humans. Home to heroes and gods alike. Now, at last, it burns. And Thor won't even be there to see it.
All hell breaks loose in New York City as Ma...
Full Spread reviewed Superman: Year One #1 Aug 13, 2019
Nobody acts like a real human being in Frank Miller's cliche, fractured monologue filled world. I have no idea why Miller or DC thought JRJR would be a good fit for this rustic story with his ever declining art. Cringe worthy dialog and monologues. Dreadfully dull pacing and story. Clark is constantly told not to show off, but that's all this issue does.
Also--this isn't a technical Year One story. It starts when Clark is a Krypton Kal baby up to when he's a teenager. If you want to read an actual Year One take on Superman, read Superman: Birthright. That's everything this wishes it was. more
Superman: Year One #1
By: Frank Miller, John Romita Jr
From the burning world of Krypton to the bucolic fields of Kansas, the first chapter of SUPERMAN YEAR ONE tracks Clark Kent's youth in Kansas, as he comes to terms with his strange powers and struggles to find his place in our world. DC BLACK LABEL is proud to present the definitive origin of Superman as rendered by the legendary comics creators Fr...
Full Spread reviewed Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #1 Aug 6, 2019
It's weird, but maybe not enough? The central concept of an evil fitness planet is mediocre at best. However, it's even blander done in the most cliche way possible. Granted, it's likely self-aware...but it's not funny or a subversion. So who cares?
Interesting change up of art. Took me a while to get used to all the small panels, but it works.
Too many characters now. Casey is all but forgotten.
Also, the little editor's notes annoyed me. If you're trying to catch up new readers...you need to do a lot more than that. more
Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #1
By: Gerard Way, James Harvey
All hail the Supreme Shape! Gerard Way and the World's Strangest Superheroes return in an all-new series that takes them beyond the borders of time and space! Featuring artwork by acclaimed cartoonist James Harvey, this issue finds the Doom Patrol facing off against the fanatical fitness fiends of planet Orbius and the Marathon Eternal! Meanwhile, ...
Full Spread reviewed Superman: Leviathan Rising Special #1 Jul 7, 2019
Didn't have to be oversized. Intentionally harkens back to simpler, slightly less epic Silver Age Superman stories, complete with Jimmy Olsen slapstick. Wish they milked Clark's kidnapping more and spent less time on people trying to find him. Did not care for Supergirl segment, so it was annoying they forced us to try and catch up with all her mediocre adventures. We don't even really need her here tbh and her segment doesn't make a strong case for her inclusion. more
Superman: Leviathan Rising Special #1
By: Brian Michael Bendis, Yanick Paquette
An all-star roster of writers and artists highlight the new threat of Leviathan, but also tees up new ongoing series for Jimmy Olsen by writer Matt Fraction and artist Steve Lieber, and Lois Lane by writer Greg Rucka and artist Mike Perkins, coming in June! As Leviathan enacts a plan to take down Superman, it's up to Lois, Jimmy and the heroes of t...
Full Spread reviewed Event Leviathan #1 Jul 7, 2019
I usually love Brian Michael Bendis. He's usually a master of dialogue, pacing, and all around storytelling. Usually I defend him against complaints about his comics being too talky or the characters being interchangeable.
But for Event Leviathan...
I have to agree with his critics. This is like a parody of a BMB comic. The dialog is suffocating. Unnecessarily long and dry, the dialog makes this a chore to get through. I was relieved beyond belief when a corny action scene was roughly inserted in the middle.
There's a handful of characters incessantly blabbing, yet, their dialog isn't different enough to truly showcase their personalities.
There a lack of scope, and Maleev's claustrophobic style doesn't help. The intrigue/mystery aspect is barely effective because everybody just wonders aloud about the blandest, most obvious of clues. This is a sad, sad excuse for an action thriller, noir, event, and comic in general. You finally get a chance to do a DC event and you do THIS, Brian? I'm getting CIVIL WAR II vibes already...
Event Leviathan #1
By: Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev
The groundbreaking and always-inventive team of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Alex Maleev (Jinxworld's SCARLET, Marvel's Daredevil) reunite on a mystery thriller that stretches across the DC Universe and touches every character from Batman to Superman to the Question to Talia al Ghul. With startling ease, a newly dangerous and aggressive L...
Full Spread reviewed Klaus #1 May 14, 2019
Only until the end do we get a real dose of mystical Morrison. But before that it's a perfectly serviceable, blunt fairy-tale.
By: Grant Morrison, Dan Mora
Set in a dark fantastic past of myth and magic, Klaus tells the story of how Santa Claus really came to be. Where did he begin? What was he like when he was young? Why does he do what he does? How does he do what he does? And what happens when he faces his greatest challenge? Drawing on Santa Claus' wilder roots in Viking lore and Siberian shamanis...
Full Spread added Last Stop on the Red Line to their pull list May 14, 2019
Last Stop on the Red Line
Detective Migdalia Torres investigates a vicious strangling on a Boston subway car with no feasible leads. As potential evidence produces dead ends, Migdalia inadvertently takes in a vagrant named Yusef who may have a supernatural connection to the crime at hand.
o Writer Paul Maybury and illustrator Sam Lotfi bring a horrific murder myste...
Full Spread reviewed Little Bird #1 May 14, 2019
Hmmmmmmmm...
It's extremely blunt. I mean, the first scene literally spells out the themes for us. Oh, and the villains are radical, ruling Catholics who openly espouse any science. Uh-huh. The dialogue is straining to be Morrison, yet it lacks the same flourish. Got DUNE vibes.
But Ian Bertram's art is hard to shake. It's very textured, like Frank Quitely or Chris Burnham but has its own flavor. Needless to say, the art makes the book. No matter how silly or obvious the ideas are, they're brought to disturbing life.
Did not expect the ending. Not sure it's the best direction but it, shall we say, subverted my expectations (DUN DUN DUNNNN!).
Even with its problems, I'll check out the next issues.
PS: the afterword says they won't be making it into a TP, so it's best to buy the individual issues. Uh...yeah right. Don't BS us. But hey, if it gets up sales... more
Little Bird #1
By: Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram
MINISERIES PREMIERE!
Director/screenwriter DARCY VAN POELGEEST boasts a long list of awards and accolades for his storytelling prowess and brings the same writing finesse to IAN BERTRAM's breathtakingly detailed artwork in the gorgeous, hyper-detailed miniseries LITTLE BIRD.
With the same limitless scope as a new EAST OF WEST or SAGA and t...
Full Spread reviewed Wilson #1 May 12, 2019
Like much of Clowes's work, Wilson starts out slow but sure enough rolls into a trudging ball of existential dread.
Wilson #1
By: Daniel Clowes
Full Spread reviewed Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron #1 May 12, 2019
What's it about? The specific details are impossible to exactly pin down, but overall, Clowes wants us to see himself as a mediocre white man who's only saved by the compassionate "others" he shunned at first.
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron #1
Full Spread reviewed Year of the Villain: Special #1 May 4, 2019
Scott Snyder is still writing corny dialog, bland characters/plots, and scripts that stifle Jim Cheung.
Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev are so perfect together, I'd be fine if they took over every DC character on the shelves today.
James Tynion IV is pretty much the good version of Scott Snyder (and Francis Manapul doesn't hurt).
Overall, a mixed bag (as these specials always are).
Year of the Villain: Special #1
By: Brian Michael Bendis, Jim Cheung
Evil is winning! Lex Luthor and The Legion of Doom conspire with Cosmic Gods, bending mankind toward a dark destiny. Elsewhere, the scourge of Leviathan spreads unchecked, seizing power in every corner of the world. And all the while the Batman Who Laughs busies himself in the shadows, aligned with no one-yet with sinister plans for all.
The c...
Full Spread reviewed Punisher #8 Apr 30, 2019
I'm catching up on my Matt Rosenberg "Punisher" for an upcoming review on AiPT! and I just had to talk about this one in particular.
When I read this title, I definitely do not expect a twee, cutesy prison escape story like something out of "4 Kids Walk Into A Bank." Might work on a different title, but it doesn't work for Punisher and it's a waste of time that's self-satisfied in how quirky its plan is.
I appreciate Rosenberg's indie, non-traditional sensibilities--I do. That being said, this goofy prison plan is tedious.
By: Matthew Rosenberg, Szymon Kudranski
• Frank Castle is loose in a country ENTIRELY POPULATED BY VILLAINS.
• It's war on the streets of Bagalia!
• Desperate times for Baron Zemo call for desperate measures!
Full Spread reviewed Doomsday Clock #2 Apr 26, 2019
The fact that people are eating this up and not rioting spells the end of artistic legacy and integrity.
Here are your effective options for this already bad idea for a series:
1. A madcap, wild romp that excessively melds the worlds/characters of Watchmen with the mainstream earth whatevernumber. Balls-to-the-walls Final Crisis levels of insanity. That'd be fun; maybe include some meta themes.
2. A serious attempt to continue the airtight storytelling and postmodern themes of the original Watchmen.
This does neither and it's trying to be both (very unsuccessfully).
The drab, ugly art from Gary Frank doesn't help.
Like...at the very least you could continue the subversive color scheme of Watchmen or try to go for something different. But no, Doomsday Clock is as colorfully inventive as a cement block.
This series has no clear drive or hook or resonance. As bad, if not worse, than Before Watchmen. more
Released: Dec 27, 2017
DC and Watchmen characters collide at last! The story that began in DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH #1 comes to a thrilling and unexpected crescendo in the pages of this titanic twelve-issue series by the all-star team that brought you BATMAN: EARTH ONE and SHAZAM!
In this second chapter: The Dark Knight discovers another relic from the Watchmen world. Le...
Full Spread reviewed Isola #2 Apr 26, 2019
NOTE: My first issue of this series. Found it for half-price and thought I'd give it a go.
The dialog and world-building isn't exceptional. However, the art is beautiful (even if the storytelling can be clumsy and confusing) and there's some palpable tension.
Isola #2
By: Brenden Fletcher, Karl Kerschl
With the hunting clans closing in, Captain Rook leads the Queen to a city in ruins on a desperate mission to resupply. Unbeknownst to them, however, a new danger awaits within the broken walls - someone with a connection to Rook's past!
Full Spread reviewed Justice League #1 Apr 26, 2019
Why Scott Snyder is so popular astounds me. In what universe are people entertained by a Justice League comic that's suffocated by dialogue that's either embarrassingly corny or endless exposition?
Snyder distances us from the League by desperately trying to make them gods above us. That self-satisfied, overwritten introduction to the League's Hall is insufferable. Yet, that unnecessary, overwritten voice-over lingers through the whole thing.
Capullo has said many times he struggled at first to work on Batman with Snyder's novelistic scripts. Without push-back from artists, Snyder gives us an incredibly stale, text-heavy comic crippled under its own self-imposed ponderousness. To Snyder, intelligence comes from coming up with technobabble (or using Wikipedia to look up calcite facts) and blandly listing them like history tidbits in a GA Henty novel.
I'm not trying to be anti-intellectual and say comics have to be stupid and all action and no literary ambitions. Quite the contrary. But Snyder isn't saying anything important here. This is a Justice League comic trying to be fun. Unfortunately, nobody realizes Snyder's comics are a chore and the farthest thing from entertaining.
The fight scenes are a slog. Every character has to always be talking about what's happening ("The Neanderthals are semi-aquatic. They seek to merge the toxic subterranean oceans with the seven seas. Transform earth's waters."). Many panels are tiny, not given any room from the restricting script. Jim Cheung is a solid artist, but just skim through the comic and try to pick out a scene that flows well and has dynamism. Hard, isn't it? Why? Lots and lots and lots of text. None of it clever or smart or funny. And most of the text is delivered with the heroes sitting down. It's LITERAL talking heads.
#1 takes no risks and has a lot in common with the saccharine safety of The Force Awakens. Why come up with new, interesting villains? It'd be a lot easier to just recycle Lex Luthor and the Injustice Gang. People like them, right? Will they do anything interesting? Not really--they'll just talk. Talk and talk and talk and talk about what they're gonna do with "dammit" thrown in a dozen times because that sounds mature.
By: Scott Snyder, Jim Cheung
Released: Jun 6, 2018
"THE TOTALITY" part one! A brand-new era begins here! Comics legends Scott Snyder and Jim Cheung launch the Justice League into a cosmos-shaking mystery that will draw out their most terrible foes...in ways our heroes couldn't possibly imagine! In this debut issue, Martian Manhunter struggles to protect the team from an incoming threat that will sh...
Full Spread reviewed Batman #52 Apr 26, 2019
Far too much of Tom King's Batman work lets gimmicks and experimentation get in the way. Too often King tries to tie Batman to over-obvious themes. But somehow, with this arc, he examines the grief associated with a fallible Batman in a harrowing, introspective way.
By: Tom King, Lee Weeks
"Cold Days" continues! The jury in the Mr. Freeze trial is hopelessly deadlocked because one man won't vote guilty-and that man is Bruce Wayne. Freeze's defense is that Batman used excessive force, making his arrest illegal, and Bruce is the one man who actually knows for sure what went down between Batman and his ice-cold nemesis. And if Bruce is ...
Full Spread reviewed The Multiversity: Ultra Comics #1 Feb 13, 2019
$1 BINVENTURES: I own the entire Multiversity in TP, but getting this individually is rewarding in and of itself. Just as I remembered, it's oh-so meta one minute then head-scratching the next. Who could ask for anything more?
The Multiversity: Ultra Comics #1
By: Grant Morrison, David Baron
The penultimate chapter of the greatest adventure in DC's history is here!
The acclaimed FINAL CRISIS team of Grant Morrison and Doug Mahnke reunite for a story so big it could only take place in the real world - that's right, Earth-33 is back!
With the Multiverse under attack, a team of scientists create one final savior to take on th...
Full Spread reviewed FF #12 Feb 13, 2019
$1 BINVENTURES: Despite the large cast, all the players are distinct. Hickman has a real knack for writing smart kid characters and devious maybe-villains.
Bobillo's art is unconventional but fetching. Would love to explore his work.
FF #12
By: Jonathan Hickman, Juan Bobillo
The beginning of a 4-part arc that runs parallel with FOREVER in the Fantastic Four. We've teased it for years, now find out exactly how Doctor Doom and the Future Foundation will save us all.

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LimFlow SA has announced enrolment of the first patient in the US feasibility study of the LimFlow percutaneous deep vein arterialisation (pDVA) system, a novel, purely percutaneous device for the treatment of end-stage critical limb ischaemia (CLI) when all other revascularisation efforts have been exhausted. The first patient was treated on 5 July at Metro Health–University of Michigan Health, Wyoming, USA, by Jihad A Mustapha.
The feasibility study is a multicentre, prospective, single-arm study to be conducted at three US centres encompassing 10 "no-option" CLI patients. Endpoints include amputation-free survival at one month, patency, limb salvage and wound healing. Subjects will be followed out to two years. This clinical trial is the initial step towards a US approval pathway for the LimFlow system.
"The only other disease with worse life expectancy than CLI is pancreatic cancer. Because of the mortality rate associated with amputations due to ischaemia, a new approach to treat CLI is needed now more than ever. In the LimFlow study, we hope to help patients with no other options that are on their way to amputation," said Mustapha, the study's primary investigator.
The Paris-based medical device company also announced the initiation of a multicentre, prospective, single-arm post-market surveillance study, which will enrol up to 50 Rutherford class 5 and 6 "no-option" patients in several CLI centres of excellence in Europe and Asia. Patients will be followed out to one year, and endpoints include amputation-free survival and wound healing progression. Data collection is aligned with the US feasibility study, allowing for a large comparable data set for the use of the LimFlow system in this "no-option" CLI sub-group.
The LimFlow system is designed to restore perfusion to the ischaemic foot, which may relieve rest pain, promote chronic wound healing, reduce major amputations and restore mobility for patients when used as part of a multidisciplinary team approach. It uses proprietary ultrasound-guided catheters and covered nitinol stents to uniquely bypass diseased arteries and divert blood flow into the tibial vein to vascularise the ischaemic foot.
"With approximately 150,000 ischaemic amputations annually in the USA costing the healthcare system many, many billions of dollars, we look forward to further exploring the promise of LimFlow and its role in treating the epidemic of CLI," said LimFlow chief executive officer Dan Rose.


AMMAN: Parallel evacuations from two besieged pockets—one government-held, one rebel-held—were scheduled to begin in Idlib and Damascus on Monday, bringing the Syrian government one step closer to completely dislodging opposition forces near the capital.
Under a deal with the Syrian government, approximately 350 Hay'at Tahrir a-Sham (HTS) fighters and civilians were slated to leave Yarmouk camp in south Damascus on Monday in exchange for the parallel evacuation of more than 1,000 residents from the rebel-encircled, Shiite-majority towns of al-Fuaa and Kufraya in northwestern Syria.
Some 20 buses entered al-Fuaa and Kufraya on Monday to bring evacuees from the northern Idlib countryside to government-held parts of Aleppo province, local pro-government media outlets reported.
The two towns are home to both pro-government fighters and civilians. Hani Rasheed, a member of a pro-government militia in al-Fuaa, told Syria Direct via Facebook on Monday that "women, children and the elderly" were to make up most of the evacuees.
Meanwhile, buses waited just outside Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp in south Damascus, to evacuate HTS fighters and civilians from the encircled pocket, Syrian state media agency SANA reported on Monday.
Although the majority of Yarmouk is held by the Islamic State (IS), HTS—a hardline coalition led by Al-Qaeda's former Syrian affiliate Jabhat Fatah a-Sham—controls a small, isolated pocket in the camp pinned between between government- and IS-held territory.
A convoy of buses in the rebel-encircled towns of Kufraya and al-Fuaa on Monday. Photo courtesy of Kufraya and al-Fuaa War Media.
Yarmouk camp and other nearby IS-held districts are currently the target of an ongoing air and ground offensive as the Syrian government aims to regain full control of the capital and its surroundings. Neighboring Free Syrian Army (FSA)-held districts of south Damascus, meanwhile, have reached a separate surrender and evacuation agreement with the government.
Monday's scheduled evacuations from Yarmouk and the Idlib towns were to be the first under a deal for "the liberation of the besieged town of Kufraya and al-Fuaa," in stages until the beginning of Ramadan on May 14, SANA reported on Sunday.
The state media agency claimed in the same report that a total of 5,000 residents would leave the Idlib towns, which have been blockaded and periodically shelled by rebel forces since 2015.
An additional clause of the agreement stipulates the release of dozens of HTS-held detainees from Ishtabraq, a formerly Alawite-majority town in Idlib's western countryside, Syrian state media and the HTS-run Ebaa News Agency reported.
The Victory Army, an operations room including former HTS iteration Jabhat a-Nusra, captured roughly 100 prisoners, including women and children, from the town in 2015 during a successful military offensive against government forces in Syria's northwest.
HTS fighters have been slated to leave their positions in the Yarmouk camp of south Damascus for more than a year. The evacuation was originally stipulated in a clause of the Four Towns Agreement, a deal struck in March 2017 for the evacuation of fighters and residents from al-Fuaa and Kufraya as well as two besieged, rebel-held towns in the Damascus countryside.
Over the past year, the Syrian government and HTS coordinated evacuations of injured fighters from HTS-held Yarmouk in exchange for Kufraya and al-Fuaa residents in need of medical treatment in anticipation of a full evacuation. But until Monday, no concrete steps followed for the full evacuation of HTS-held Yarmouk and the thousands of people remaining in the besieged, Shiite-majority towns in Idlib.
A statement published by Ebaa News Agency via Telegram on Monday claimed that the evacuation of HTS fighters resulted from the Syrian government's "scorched earth campaign" on the Yarmouk camp, citing the head of the rebel coalition's security office, Khaled al-Homsi.
Emad a-Din Mujahid, head of the HTS media relations office, did not respond to a request for comment on Monday.
Prior to the scheduled evacuation, pro-government forces launched more than 40 airstrikes, 20 surface-to-surface missiles as well as dozens of artillery shells into south Damascus on Sunday alone, the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria (AGPS), a London-based monitoring group with correspondents in the pocket, reported on Monday.
A bulldozer clears a path for buses to enter HTS-controlled Yarmouk on Monday. Photo courtesy of SANA.
But despite Syrian state media and HTS statements confirming the agreement, one Yarmouk resident and a fighter in al-Fuaa told Syria Direct on Monday that a series of delays and false starts over the past year make them skeptical the evacuations will go as planned.
"I can't tell you right now whether we're leaving or not," said Omar al-Qaysar, a civil society activist in the HTS-held pocket of the Yarmouk camp. As of Monday afternoon, the Yarmouk resident said he was waiting for the convoy of buses to enter the camp.
"We have no confidence," said pro-government fighter Rasheed in al-Fuaa, who noted that an attack on a previous convoy of evacuees from the two towns one year ago remains fresh in his memory and that of his fellow residents.
In April 2017, an unclaimed suicide car bombing just outside of government-held Aleppo city claimed the lives of more than 100 evacuees from al-Fuaa and Kufraya, Syria Direct reported at the time.
"People are afraid that what happened last time will happen again," said Rasheed.
While buses gathered just outside HTS-held territory in south Damascus on Monday, rebel factions to the east made their own preparations to surrender and evacuate their territory in the Syrian capital's southern reaches.
The factions in control of the pocket's eastern half announced on Sunday they had "reached an agreement with the Syrian government" through Russian mediators for the surrender and evacuation of the FSA-controlled towns in south Damascus in a statement by rebel negotiations committee published via social media.
Despite being announced the same day, the FSA agreement "is not connected to the HTS agreement whatsoever," said Warad al-Kaswani, a spokesman for the rebel faction Ababil al-Houran.
As in other similar surrender agreements, rebel fighters, their families and any civilians wishing to do so will travel by bus out of south Damascus as Syrian government forces reassert control. Russian military police are to oversee the transition, as has been the case in other areas.
"The evacuation to the north will begin tomorrow, God willing," rebel spokesman Kaswani said, adding that the exact destination of the convoy had yet to be confirmed.
Spokesman al-Kaswani and one rebel brigade commander told Syria Direct that the opposition factions in south Damascus began handing over their frontline positions with IS to Syrian government forces on Monday as part of the agreement.
The handover of rebel frontlines positions on Monday means that Syrian government forces now completely encircle Yarmouk camp and the handful of districts that remain under the control of IS.
The IS-, HTS- and rebel-held territories of south Damascus are the last remaining enclaves outside of Syrian government control after a series of evacuation agreements saw opposition forces depart East Ghouta, the city of Dumayr and East Qalamoun over the past two months.


Day 10: I am thankful for products that entertain my child. Valentina had learned how to use an iPod touch by the time she was one. Probably not something I should be proud to admit but it's true. However, she's now at the age where she's understanding games and knows how to play them properly.
Now that Elisabetta needs more of our attention, it's nice to have Valentina be occupied by something as simple as a game or a video. What I didn't expect is for her to learn so quickly how to access her favorite videos on YouTube and then continue to search for the ones that she likes. So far she just pushes random things but last night, I discovered that she found the videos I have posted and she watches those.
She loves to look at videos of herself and laughs at random things. It's really cute and I wish she would let me catch it on video… so far no luck.
Day 10: Thankful for apps & YouTube!


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North African Soccer Pitches Return as Venues for Anti-government Protests
09/02/2014 07:59 am ET Updated Nov 02, 2014
A series of incidents ranging from the killing of a player to the raising of the flag of the Islamic State, the militant jihadist group that controls a swath of Syria and Iraq, to the arrest of militant Egyptian fans signals the return of North African soccer pitches as venues for anti-government protests.
The incidents reflect mounting anger and frustration among North African youth who have few if any social and economic prospects. They occurred three years after militant soccer fans played key roles in forcing Egyptian and Tunisian presidents Hosni Mubarak and Zine El Abdeine Ben Ali to resign after 30 years in office. The also call into question and Algerian effort to contain soccer protests by allowing supporters to chant anti-government slogans in stadia as long as they refrained from taking their protests into the streets.
The killing in late August of Albert Dominique Ebossé Bodjongo Dika, a 25-year old Cameroonian, who played for Algerian club JS Kabylie (JSK), however sent shock waves through African soccer. Mr. Ebosse was hit by a rock believed to have been thrown by a JSK supporter upset that his team had lost a match.
Hamza Bencherif, a midfielder and friend of Mr. Ebosse, told the BBC's World Football that Algerian players ran risks whenever they entered the pitch. "Every time we lose a game, (there are) some rocks... Death is not far when a risk like that is taken... It's hard to see what (the soccer authorities) can do because they allow so much freedom in the way the stadiums are controlled. If they continue that way there is absolutely nothing they can do," Mr. Bencherif said referring to the government's hands-off approach to violence and protest in Algerian stadia.
Dozens of people, including a player, were injured last year when supporters of Jeunesse Sportive de la Saoura (JSS) stormed the pitch during a premier league match against Algiers-based Union Sportive de la Médina d'El Harrach (USM). The incident followed a massive brawl between players and between fans after a Libya-Algeria Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. Seven fans were killed in the last five years in soccer-related violence and more than 2,700 wounded, according to Algerian statistics.
"Violence in Algeria has become ordinary and banal. Hogra, the word Algerian use for the government's perceived contempt for ordinary citizens, has planted a sickness in Algerian society. People feel that the only way to get anything done is to have connections or threaten the peace. It is a system where hogra and social injustice rule. Social violence has become the preferred mode of communication between the citizen and the republic -- today in our country everything is obtained through a riot," psychologist Mahmoud Boudarene told the Associated Press.
The concept of hogra is not exclusive to Algeria. Hamza Belrhouate, the brother of Mouad Belrhouate, a Moroccan rapper better known as El Haqed or The Enraged, described in an interview with blogger Zineb Belmkaddem, the re-arrest in May of the musician at a soccer match in Casablanca as "the pinnacle of hogra. They make me hate my life."
It was the third time El Haqed was arrested since he rose to prominence during anti-government protests in 2011 with a song entitled Stop the Silence that denounced the government's monopolization of key industries and crackdown on dissent and a second song comparing police to dogs. El Haqed was sentenced in July to four months in prison on charges of was sentenced to four months in prison for buying black market tickets to the match, public drunkenness and assaulting a police officer.
Mr. Ebosse's death that sparked a brief suspension of Algerian soccer with it's almost a century-old history as a platform of protest and resistance and the closure of the JSK stadium pending an investigation into the incident is likely to force authorities to crack down on soccer violence. A 2007 diplomatic cable sent by the US embassy in Algiers and disclosed by Wikileaks linked a soccer protest in the desert city of Boussaada to demonstrations in the western port city of Oran sparked by the publication of a highly contentious list of government housing recipients. The cable warned that "this kind of disturbance has become commonplace, and appears likely to remain so unless the government offers diversions other than soccer and improves the quality of life of its citizens."
Tunisian authorities have delayed last month's start of the professional soccer league for unidentified security reasons even though it has largely been played behind closed doors without spectators since the overthrow of Mr. Ben Ali in a bid to prevent the pitch from re-emerging as a protest venue. A picture of a flag of the Islamic State, the militant jihadist group that controls a swath of Syria and Iraq, being raised at a Tunisian soccer match circulated on the Internet shortly after the postponement of the league. It was not immediately clear at what match and when the incident occurred.
A Cairo prosecutor last weekend ordered the remanding in prison for 15 days of 36 members of the Ultras White Knights (UWK), the militant, street battle-hardened support group of storied Cairo club Al Zamalek SC on charges of breaking Egypt's draconic anti-protest law, belonging to a group opposed to the law and the constitution, creating chaos, damaging public and private property, interrupting traffic and illegal possession of firearms. Police denied UWK assertions that the parents of some of their members had been detained to force their children to surrender themselves.
The fans were detained after clashing with police during a protest against the arrest of UWK members on charges of having attempted to assassinate club president Mortada Mansour in an incident on August 17 in which two people accompanying him as he left Zamalek's premises were injured by gunshots. Mr. Mortada had earlier banned UWK members from the club premises. UWK has denied the allegation.
Tension between Mr. Mortada and the fans erupted because of the club president's support for a more than two-year old ban on spectators attending soccer matches. The ban was imposed in February 2012 after 74 supporters of Zamalek arch rival Al Ahli SC were killed in a soccer brawl in Port Said that many believe that the military and security forces had a hand. The sentencing last year in which 21 supporters of Port Said's Al Masri SC were sentenced to death for their part in the incident sparked a popular revolt in cities along the Suez Canal and mass protests in Cairo.
The upcoming retrial of the case is likely to become another flashpoint. A further flashpoint could emerge on September 10 during the African Cup of Nations qualifier between Egypt and Tunisia after the Egyptian interior ministry decided that the spectator ban would be lifted for that one game.
UWK, which played a key role in the toppling of Mr. Mubarak and subsequent protests against the military, has demanded Mr. Mortada's resignation. A recent UWK song accused Mr. Mortada of being a stooge of the regime of general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. In a blowback to the walk-up to Mr. Mubarak's downfall and the subsequent anti-military protests, UWK said last week on its Facebook page: "The truth is, we took the streets because we cannot be quiet in the face of injustice."
James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies as Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, co-director of the Institute of Fan Culture of the University of Würzburg and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer, and a forthcoming book with the same title.
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An act to add Section 1371.9 to the Health and Safety Code, and to add Section 10112.8 to the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.
AB 533, as amended, Bonta. Health care coverage: out-of-network coverage.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. A willful violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires a health care service plan to reimburse providers for emergency services and care provided to its enrollees, until the care results in stabilization of the enrollee. Existing law prohibits a plan from requiring a provider to obtain authorization prior to the provision of emergency services and care necessary to stabilize the enrollee's emergency medical care, as specified.
Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law requires a health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2014, that provides or covers benefits with respect to services in an emergency department of a hospital to cover emergency services without the need for prior authorization, regardless of whether the provider is a participating provider, and subject to the same cost sharing required if the services were provided by a participating provider, as specified.
This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2016, to provide that if an enrollee or insured obtains care from a contracting health facility, as defined, at which, or as a result of which, the enrollee or insured receives covered services provided by a noncontracting individual health professional, as defined, the enrollee or insured is required to pay the noncontracting individual health professional only the same cost sharing required if the services were provided by a contracting individual health professional. The bill would prohibit an enrollee or insured from owing the noncontracting individual health professional at the contracting health facility more than the in-network cost sharing amount if the noncontracting individual health professional receives reimbursement for services provided to the enrollee or insured at a contracting health facility from the plan or health insurer. The bill would require a noncontracting individual health professional who collects more than the in-network cost sharing amount from the enrollee or insured to refund any overpayment to the enrollee or insured, as specified, and would provide that interest on any amount overpaid by, and not refunded to, the enrollee or insured shall accrue at 15% per annum, as specified. Because a willful violation of the bill's provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
30request for the interest amount.
8by the enrollee pursuant to paragraph (2).
12out-of-pocket expenses established under Section 1367.006.
22other than premium or share of premium.
34define as abegin insert healthend insert facility for purposes of this section.
14the terms and conditions of the plan contract.
3health facility more than the in-network cost sharing.
18submit a request for the interest amount.
37by the insured pursuant to paragraph (2).
6out-of-pocket expenses established under Section 10112.28.
16other than premium or share of premium.
28define as abegin insert healthend insert facility for purposes of this section.
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My latest efforts. Note the fancy 4-string tie.
Since I seem to be spending January talking about what's going to come and updating where this blog has been, it seems sensible to talk about one of my ongoing projects: curing and drying our own in-house lonzino.
To bring everyone up to speed on what this is, a description is necessary, since it's not a very well-known commodity. If you need to know more by way of background, click HERE to read the first part of our ongoing series about this delicacy.
Clear now? One thing that got me interested in making this less-know Italian delicacy is the fact that I really like well-made bresaola (something I've yet to try my hand at – unexplainably). Our household also likes peameal bacon, a Canadian specialty, which can most easily described as pickled pork loin that's been rolled in cornmeal. Sounds not as appetizing as it is, doesn't it? Think of it this way: corned beef is pretty much the same thing – and who doesn't like corned beef? Sliced thinly and fried up, then served on a fresh hard roll, there's nothing quite like a peameal bacon sandwich. (If you ever visit Toronto's St. Lawrence Market, Paddington's Pump and the Carousel Bakery make worthy versions).
As far as lonzino goes, though, it is a lovely thing when it's made well. My first attempt, as noted in the above linked post was slightly less than successful because it dried too quickly. Once we figured out that higher humidity than our basement generally produces was necessary, our subsequent batches have been things of loveliness and have become a favorite gift to pass on to friends. Now that we have a professional meat slicer (our Avantco 9" deli slicer), things are even easier – and more professional in appearance.
Being an inveterate recipe tinkerer, each time making it (8 now) has seen one thing change in the cure. We started with mattikaarts.com's recipe, then took a bit of a left turn based on what flavors and aromas we like in our cured meats. The current herbs and spices I've used are simply lashings of fennel seed, black pepper, juniper berries and fresh bay leaf. What I changed up this time out was to toast it all to change and intensify everything – especially the aroma, it seems. I've resisted sampling the results since the two pieces of lonzino were only hung to dry a week ago, but it does smell incredible. Once I've settled on our recipe, I will share it here. I'd be interested to see what other people think.
My one other nod to experimentation in this batch was to cure it for slightly less time. We don't appreciate salty salume around here, and my previous two batches of lonzino were a tad on the salty side, not badly mind you, but less would have been even nicer. One of the main reasons commercial products tend to be so salty is that the manufacturers are trying to disguise the flavor of inferior ingredients. Since we're going the extra mild to source humanely-raised and butchered pork, why hide its exquisite flavor?
To make sure everything is safe for consumption considering it was a bit less cured, I used the requisite amount of curing salt based on poundage. Again, this is something I don't normally use because I'm lonzino is a whole muscle meat. Another reason to use curing salt where I don't in bacon or guanciale, for instance, is that lonzino is not cooked before eating, much like prosciutto. The last thing I want to do is kill my guests with tainted meat. Botulism is not fun.
Update: I wrote this piece last Thursday and since then the lonzino is drying quite nicely. Currently it's lost 20% of its weight. The goal is 30% and we might reach that by Sunday. I can't wait to taste this batch!
Addendum: You'll notice some white on the casing of the righthand piece of lonzino. This is white mold and something that's encouraging to have on this or homemade sausage you may be drying. This kind of mold discourages the formation of bad mold (green and especially black mold) and also slows down the drying of your meat. This is a good thing (as noted above). I've also heard tell that white mold also improves the flavor. Not having enough experience of that, I won't comment – but it would be nice to know!
I just received an email from someone asking about how to do the fancy string tying I used on the lonzino. I'll need to do a video on it because my drawing skills are at the stick figure level. To do a video, though, I need a bit more practice to smooth out the technique. Believe me, it's not hard to do, but there are rather long strings to deal with when you begin and they can tangle a bit.
Once I work it all so it looks as if I know what I'm doing (I do now, but to watch me, you wouldn't know it!), I promise I will post a video. In the meantime if you're making lonzino, just use the two-string version and there are plenty of how-tos on the Internet to advise you.


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We do not guarantee hours. All we can guarantee is that we work hard to get tutors as many students as they want. That said, Math/Science courses are requested the most. While we do get requests for Humanities courses, they are much fewer.
I am a teaching assistant for a course this semester, can I tutor it?
That's a hard NO! During the semester you are employed (in any capacity) to assist with a course, you cannot tutor that course at that school. You are welcome to tutor that course in a following semester, as long as you are not employed to assist with that course.
How do I get paid? How do I pay for BuffTutor's services?
We use Stripe to charge students and pay tutors. To protect tutors, we require all students to add a credit/debit card to their account. After each session, the tutor uses our platform to charge the student's card. We then deduct our service fee and immediately forward the funds to the tutor.
No. Seriously, no. When we found a student for you, we will forward details of the tutor request to you to review. Included will be your net earnings. That's your take home amount, our fees have already been deducted.
So, what is our fee? The simple answer is it varies. Typically, 20-35% (well under industry standard of 40-60%). We try to keep it low to accomodate what the student can afford and what the tutor deserves to make. The longer the tutor has been with us, the lower the percent is and the more the tutor earns.
I'm not currently a student, can I join?
The real question is, do you love teaching? If yes, then welcome aboard! As long as you meet our eligibility criteria then you're welcome to apply.
I didn't earn a B but I really understand the material, can I tutor the course?
Go ahead and apply and point this out on your application. If you can ace our proficiency exams, then we'll consider overlooking the grade you earned when you took the course.


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Spider-Man No More: Disney-Sony fallout forces Spider-Man from MCU
Posted by1sceneatatime August 21, 2019 Posted inOpinionsTags:Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sony Pictures, Spider-Man, Superheroes, Tom Holland, Venom
Just when we had gotten used to having Spider-Man home with his fellow heroes and saving the world in the MCU… he's gone as quick as a Thanos snap.
Reported by Deadline, the Disney-Sony standoff ends as Marvel president Kevin Feige will no longer any further Spider-Man films due to the studios' inability to reach new terms. Just like that, Spider-Man and his Rogues Gallery finds himself back with Sony Pictures.
This news comes on the heels of the last two Kevin Feige-produced films have reached box office success: Disney's Avengers: Endgame became the highest-grossing film of all time, and Spider-Man: Far From Home became the all-time highest-grossing film for Sony Pictures.
From what I've read, Tom Holland and director Jon Watts were scheduled to return in the next Spider-Man film, which shouldn't change. Unless a miracle occurs, Kevin Feige will not be the lead producer of that film and it will be separate from the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So the direction or story of that third film could change dramatically.
When this sharing deal happened, I had a feeling money would play a factor when they returned to the negotiating table. Disney asked for a 50/50 co-financing agreement, which Sony turned down. I know there might be other factors that come into play and Disney didn't want to keep the current deal in place, where Marvel receives in the range of 5% of first dollar gross.
My Two Cents:
I feel that Sony didn't want to share their biggest franchise. We all know that movie studios want to make money. Feige and Marvel Studios have proven to be a money-making factory over the past decade, a resume of historic consistency that has not been seen in Hollywood. Disney makes a quality product that will pay off in the long term. Meanwhile, Sony has floundered, buoyed mostly by the Spider-Man movie franchise, earning short-term dollars from other films that don't last long in theaters or go over well with fans (here's looking at you, Men in Black: International).
A 50/50 split isn't unreasonable to me. There were also talks about including more involvement of Spider-Man's universe. However, I understand why Sony wouldn't quickly take the deal. Considering Disney's acquisition of Fox, the X-Men Universe, the Fantastic Four and Marvel still owning the merchandising on Spider-Man, does the Mouse House really need half of that unique wall-crawling world (even though it makes fans' salivate at the thought)?
In the end, the people that this decision mainly effects are the fans. The launch of this newest iteration of Spider-Man was done brilliantly with Marvel's support and help and helped fans fall in love with this character again. Tom Holland's character was introduced in the Russo Brothers-directed 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. Sony's first rebooted Spidey film in the MCU, Spider-Man: Homecoming, rode the Marvel momentum wave to gross $880 million worldwide. Spider-Man has been an integral character in the last two Avengers films, leading to the Spidey solo sequel, Far From Home, which became Sony's top grossing movie. Ever.
Fans love Tom Holland and his energy, finding his niche in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and fitting in comfortably with the superhero community. The creative template for Spider-Man has been set and Holland remains in place so they have pieces to work with. Sony also has the upcoming Venom sequel, Morbius with Jared Leto, and other spin-offs of Spider characters coming like Black Cat and Silver Sable. And we can't forget the Best Animated Movie Oscar from last year's Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Sony has plenty of material to use. But we'll see if they can pull off a major win without the help of Michael Jordan; I mean, Kevin Feige and Disney.
Thanks for reading, everyone!
What are your thoughts about the Disney/Marvel – Sony Studios deal ending?
How do you think Spider-Man will do if he's out of the MCU?
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You can register to a course or package through the website www.gelatouniversity.com. First of all please register online, then choose the course you are interested in, the dates, the language, then go on with your registration to the course. Otherwise you can send an e-mail to info@gelatouniversity.com indicating the course you are interested in. Carpigiani staff will help you with the registration.
2. Via wire transfer. You must submit the payment WITHIN 20 DAYS BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE COURSE.
The course must be paid for AT LEAST 20 DAYS BEFORE lessons start.
Usually the day before classes start. If total number of participants reaches the limit set for a given course, registrations will be closed earlier. In such cases Carpigiani Gelato University will consider the possibility of adding a new course on its calendar in order to satisfy the demand.
What time do classes start? When do they end?
Campus courses in Bologna usually start at 9.30 am and finish at 5.30 pm. For other locations, dates and times for each course vary according to the location and can be found here: https://www.gelatouniversity.com/en/contact-us/carpigiani-worldwide. Check these details carefully when you sign up for a course.
Can course dates vary or be cancelled?
In case of postponement of a course, the Carpigiani Gelato University commits to inform the participants within 10 days from the scheduled first day of the course, by mail or phone. The advanced payment can be used as a credit for other dates fixed by Carpigiani Gelato University or can be requested for a full refund. For approved refunds, Carpigiani Gelato University will refund within 30 working days after the request by the student. Transportation costs will be refunded as well (the receipts for these expenses should be sent to Carpigiani by fax or mail).
What if I have to cancel or postpone my participation?
If the student decides to cancel his/her enrollment to the course, the notification must be made within 7 days before the beginning of the course. The communication must be in writing, by email or using the fax number: 0039 051-6505305. The refund or credit of 80% of total gross value will be made by Carpigiani Gelato University. A student who leaves the training program once it has already started can recover the sessions, according to the schedule and the availability of Carpigiani University, but will not be refunded. Your participation can be substituted by family or friends, by written notice, by email or fax before the course starts with all the personal details about the new partecipant.
The course lasts more than one day. Can you help me find a hotel?
Carpigiani Gelato University has negotiated special rates at a few hotels in the area. Hotel costs are NOT paid to CGU and their cost includes breakfast and the shuttle bus to reach our school in the morning and to comeback to the hotels in the afternoon.
* The prices can be modified by the hotels during fair and other events in Bologna.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT: To reach our school, you can catch the bus 87 (check the timetable at the link: https://www.tper.it/sites/tper.it/files/ORARI/BO-EST-2018/tper_Bo087.pdf ) from the Central Train Station of Bologna. The stop of the bus is in front of Carpigiani Headquarters. When you buy the bus ticket, we kindly remind you to specifiy that you want a ticket for the ZONE 2 (2,10€). THE TICKET MUST BE BOUGHT BEFORE TO GET ON THE BUS.
I don't have a car. How do I get from the hotel to the campus?
Carpigiani Gelato University will provide a free shuttle that transports students to and from the campus, from the hotels Amadeus, Airport and eventually Verdemilia.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT: To reach Carpigiani Gelato University, you can catch the bus 87 from the Central Train Station of Bologna (to check the timetable https://www.tper.it/sites/tper.it/files/ORARI/BO-EST-2018/tper_Bo087.pdf). The stop of this bus, named ANZOLA-MAGLI, is in front of Carpigiani headquarters. When you buy the bus ticket, we kindly remind you to specifiy that you want a ticket for the ZONE 2 (2,10€). THE TICKET MUST BE BOUGHT BEFORE TO GET ON THE BUS.
What about meals during the course?
The hotel cost includes breakfast. For lunch, students eat for free at the Carpigiani cafeteria. Students will have to make their own arrangements for dinner, either at the hotel or local restaurants.
Carpigiani Gelato University provides everything necessary for the course: notebook, syllabus, pen for the theoretical part; uniform, apron and cap for the lab work. Students should dress comfortably and wear practical shoes (non-slip).
Will I get some kind of diploma at the end of the course?
At the end of the course CGU provides a certificate of participation. After the Complete Curriculum Become a Gelatiere, students will receive a certificate of attendace.


We live in a society now where everything is tailored to the customer, their needs and individuality. Here at Universal Interiors, we are no different when it comes to you and your home.
Our designs are bespoke therefore each room can have furniture suited to its shape and size. Thanks to our experienced designers and our company of nearly two decades, various solutions are always available to maximise your living space, whilst having a practical, affordable and stylish piece of furniture.
Common issues such as sloping ceilings and awkward corners are utilised in our designs to create something really special in your home.
The choices do not end there however, we supply a vast range of materials, colours and finishes which ensures each piece is truly unique.
Here is an example of our Kielder design in classic Montana Oak. This particular case shows how our designs can fit beautifully into corners which may have originally been wasted space.


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El Dorado Park Nature Trail
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The El Dorado Park Nature Trail is a lovely adventure in Long Beach that winds through a beautifully scenic park. While out on the trail, you will follow along a meandering path that passes through the southern portion of the park, skirting around the edge of several ponds and lightly wooded recreation spaces. This is an excellent route that is suitable for all ages and skill levels, including the elderly, people with wheelchairs, and younger children.
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Route Description for El Dorado Park Nature Trail
For anyone that doesn't have the time to get out of the city but still wants to get out for some fresh air, the El Dorado Park Nature Trail is a great route that features a peaceful park atmosphere. You can also check out the nature center in the park, which features plenty of opportunities to learn about local plant and animal life!
Setting out from the parking lot, you will make your way west through the tree cover and across North lake, where you will also pass by the visitor center. From here, you will loop through the forest and follow the trail as it turns south.
After skirting around the edge of South Lake, the trail will turn back to the north and continue through the forest, offering plenty of chances to encounter wildlife, before arriving back at the trailhead where you began.
Getting to the El Dorado Park Nature Trail Trailhead
The trailhead for this adventure can be found at the parking lot on El Dorado Park Street.
El Dorado Park Nature Trail Elevation Graph
El Dorado Park Nature Trail Reviews
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Q: Testing an Angular dialog window which is injected outside of debug element I am using an Angular material dialog window.
In my test I am triggering the modal window. But it's placing the modal window outside of the debug element. In the browser it looks like this:

The div with the id="root1" is the debug element. The div with the class cdk-overlay-container is the modal I would like to assert.
How do I do that if it's outside of the debug element?
For example I would like to get the modal as a debug element. And then test if a correct title is shown by:
let modal = ??;
expect(modal.query(By.css('h1')).nativeElement.innerText).toBe('My Title')`;

A: Try using document object itself.
let modal = document.querySelector('.cdk-overlay-container');
let title = modal.querySelector('h1');
expect(title.innerText).toContain('My Title');

A: Found this article explaining you could add a provider with a factory to get the overlayContainer:
import { OverlayContainer } from '@angular/cdk/overlay';

//...

  let overlayContainerElement: HTMLElement;

  await TestBed.configureTestingModule({
    // ...
    providers: [
      {
        provide: OverlayContainer,
        useFactory: () => {
          overlayContainerElement = document.createElement('div');
          return { getContainerElement: () => overlayContainerElement };
        }
      }
   ]
// ...

Now when I use overlayContainerElement I get a div with the inner contents of the original div with the class 'cdk-overlay-container'.
Not sure how to use the getContainerElement yet..

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.class public Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/HtcCdmaSimPhoneBookInterfaceManager;
.super Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccPhoneBookInterfaceManager;
.source "HtcCdmaSimPhoneBookInterfaceManager.java"

# static fields
.field static final LOG_TAG:Ljava/lang/String; = "CDMASimPhoneBook"

# instance fields
.field mHandler:Landroid/os/Handler;

# direct methods
.method public constructor <init>(Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/CDMAPhone;)V
    .locals 1
    .parameter "phone"

    .prologue
    .line 76
    invoke-direct {p0, p1}, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccPhoneBookInterfaceManager;-><init>(Lcom/android/internal/telephony/PhoneBase;)V

    .line 56
    new-instance v0, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/HtcCdmaSimPhoneBookInterfaceManager$1;

    invoke-direct {v0, p0}, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/HtcCdmaSimPhoneBookInterfaceManager$1;-><init>(Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/HtcCdmaSimPhoneBookInterfaceManager;)V

    iput-object v0, p0, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/HtcCdmaSimPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->mHandler:Landroid/os/Handler;

    .line 77
    iget-object v0, p1, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/CDMAPhone;->mSIMRecords:Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/HtcCdmaSIMRecords;

    invoke-virtual {v0}, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/HtcCdmaSIMRecords;->getAdnCache()Lcom/android/internal/telephony/AdnRecordCache;

    move-result-object v0

    iput-object v0, p0, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->adnCache:Lcom/android/internal/telephony/AdnRecordCache;

    .line 79
    return-void
.end method

.method static synthetic access$000(Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/HtcCdmaSimPhoneBookInterfaceManager;)Landroid/os/Handler;
    .locals 1
    .parameter "x0"

    .prologue
    .line 52
    iget-object v0, p0, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->mBaseHandler:Landroid/os/Handler;

    return-object v0
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public dispose()V
    .locals 0

    .prologue
    .line 83
    invoke-super {p0}, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->dispose()V

    .line 84
    return-void
.end method

.method protected finalize()V
    .locals 2

    .prologue
    .line 88
    const-string v0, "CDMA"

    const-string v1, "HtcCdma SimPhoneBookInterfaceManager finalized"

    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Landroid/util/Log;->d(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)I

    .line 89
    return-void
.end method

.method public getAdnRecordsSize(I)[I
    .locals 5
    .parameter "efid"

    .prologue
    .line 93
    new-instance v2, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string v3, "getAdnRecordsSize: efid="

    invoke-virtual {v2, v3}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v2

    invoke-virtual {v2, p1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(I)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v2

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v2

    invoke-virtual {p0, v2}, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/HtcCdmaSimPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->logd(Ljava/lang/String;)V

    .line 94
    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->mLock:Ljava/lang/Object;

    monitor-enter v3

    .line 95
    :try_start_0
    invoke-virtual {p0}, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/HtcCdmaSimPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->checkThread()V

    .line 96
    const/4 v2, 0x3

    new-array v2, v2, [I

    iput-object v2, p0, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->recordSize:[I

    .line 99
    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->mBaseHandler:Landroid/os/Handler;

    const/4 v4, 0x1

    invoke-virtual {v2, v4}, Landroid/os/Handler;->obtainMessage(I)Landroid/os/Message;

    move-result-object v1

    .line 101
    .local v1, response:Landroid/os/Message;
    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->phone:Lcom/android/internal/telephony/PhoneBase;

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/PhoneBase;->getIccFileHandler()Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccFileHandler;

    move-result-object v2

    invoke-virtual {v2, p1, v1}, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccFileHandler;->getEFLinearRecordSize(ILandroid/os/Message;)V
    :try_end_0
    .catchall {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catchall_0

    .line 103
    :try_start_1
    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->mLock:Ljava/lang/Object;

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Ljava/lang/Object;->wait()V
    :try_end_1
    .catchall {:try_start_1 .. :try_end_1} :catchall_0
    .catch Ljava/lang/InterruptedException; {:try_start_1 .. :try_end_1} :catch_0

    .line 107
    :goto_0
    :try_start_2
    monitor-exit v3
    :try_end_2
    .catchall {:try_start_2 .. :try_end_2} :catchall_0

    .line 109
    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/IccPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->recordSize:[I

    return-object v2

    .line 104
    :catch_0
    move-exception v0

    .line 105
    .local v0, e:Ljava/lang/InterruptedException;
    :try_start_3
    const-string v2, "interrupted while trying to load from the SIM"

    invoke-virtual {p0, v2}, Lcom/android/internal/telephony/cdma/HtcCdmaSimPhoneBookInterfaceManager;->logd(Ljava/lang/String;)V

    goto :goto_0

    .line 107
    .end local v0           #e:Ljava/lang/InterruptedException;
    .end local v1           #response:Landroid/os/Message;
    :catchall_0
    move-exception v2

    monitor-exit v3
    :try_end_3
    .catchall {:try_start_3 .. :try_end_3} :catchall_0

    throw v2
.end method

.method protected logd(Ljava/lang/String;)V
    .locals 3
    .parameter "msg"

    .prologue
    .line 114
    const-string v0, "CDMASimPhoneBook"

    new-instance v1, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string v2, "[SimPbInterfaceManager] "

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1, p1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Landroid/util/Log;->d(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)I

    .line 115
    return-void
.end method

.method protected loge(Ljava/lang/String;)V
    .locals 3
    .parameter "msg"

    .prologue
    .line 119
    const-string v0, "CDMASimPhoneBook"

    new-instance v1, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string v2, "[SimPbInterfaceManager] "

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1, p1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Landroid/util/Log;->e(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)I

    .line 120
    return-void
.end method

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To be honest, we were a bit worried. After living in New York for close to a decade, we've experienced our fair share of long, cold winters. But the northern Baltics. In December and January!? We thought for sure this would be the coldest Christmas of our lives. We came prepared. Unnecessarily! This was the first black Christmas many locals could even remember. So, we were thankful. However, it rained – a lot. But more of a semi-constant drizzle rather than a torrential down pour. All in all, a good time for us to visit Estonia for the first time.
A great location for travelers.
Many, if not most, people speak English or another foreign language and it proves quite simple to navigate the area. Every corner turned reveals a new discovery. We can wander the streets for hours, popping into small boutiques with local handmade faire, and then enjoying a small cup of rich coffee complimented with a kaneelisai – the best little cinnamon roll one could imagine! The town square hosts an idyllic Christmas market with a variety of pop-up shops. Be sure to try the glogia – Jen's favorite spiced wine! The food in Old Town is excellent, and there's a wide variety of restaurants from which to choose. Again, be sure to explore as there are many tucked away little gems.
Our first day wandering the cobblestone streets of Tallinn, we came around a corner and spot this bicycle. We immediately thought it'd be the perfect bike for Jen! This scene – while quite simple – made us feel at home in a foreign culture and context. While Tallinn is a beautiful city, the warmth and friendliness of the people was wonderful. I suspect we were just a few, if not the only, Americans in the city for Christmas.
The greatest reward of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
The Christmas market on the square in the heart of Old Town is perfection. While I'm sure the locals find it slightly irritating, the scene is beautiful. With lots of pop up shops providing local handmade faire, warm glog, snacks and treats of all kinds, a train, and of course a few reindeer can, one can spend much time and money if not cautious.
The Baltic Sea is mesmerizing. We wandered the shoreline along Tallinn and other rural areas of Estonia (more on those adventures later). It's beautiful – serene – almost hypnotizing.
Chapter 1: Learning to live the life of journey rather than a life of destination.
New York. Atlanta. Reading. Easton. Krakow. Appalachia. Lambertville. Hew Hope. The Delaware Water Gap. Baltimore. Richmond. Alabama. Sanibel. Just to name a few. And more yet to be determined … Green Bay. San Francisco. The Catskills. Atlanta. As I write this, I'm cruising at 30,000 feet. Over the last five months, I've been in New York a grand total of three weeks. We're stepping into a season defined less as travel, rather as nomadic. Travel indicates a point of origin, a geographically fixed concept of home, a place to return. Yet for us, home is a fluid concept. For me, home is a person. Home is Jen.


The Brewers' Association of Scotland (TBAS) has launched a free hotline for brewers offering advice on licensing and HMRC from TLT LLP and Johnston Carmichael.
Scotland's brewing industry is flourishing; there are more than 125 operating breweries throughout the country stretching from Shetland to Stranraer, and the public appetite for Scottish beer shows no sign of slowing down.
The new hotline service, launched at Stewart Brewing in Edinburgh, is available exclusively to members of TBAS and will provide help and support for Scottish brewers on a wide range of licensing and HMRC issues including licence applications and training, Small Brewers' Relief scheme, VAT, import and export producers and excise licensing, as well as broader legal and accountancy services.
The Brewers' Association of Scotland (TBAS) was set up by brewers for brewers to help to capitalise on this phenomenal growth. TBAS works to create opportunities which help to grow the sector, its reputation and individual businesses. The licensing hotline will be operated by the TLT LLP, a top-tier law firm for licensing in Scotland, and Johnston Carmichael, Scotland's food and drink accountancy experts.
By calling the Johnston Carmichael's 'hopline', brewers can speak to JC specialists who can assist with Small Brewers Relief, Excise Licensing, VAT, Import and Export procedures as well as broader specialist accountancy services like growth funding and tax relief incentives.
Brewers who are interested in accessing the hotline should email brewing@jcca.co.uk or call directly on 0808 1410013. The JC helpline will operate between 9am-5pm Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays) and TBAS members are entitled to 30 minutes free advice.
Fierce Beer is not for the faint hearted: the Aberdeen craft brewery was set up in 2016 by oil & gas industry veterans Dave Grant and David McHardy who packed in the corporate world to follow their dream of opening a brewery that made weird and crazy beers. We sat down with co- founder Dave Grant to learn more about his brewing journey.


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Q: Control the volume on TextToSpeech function call Hi guys
I've been looking around but cannot seem to find a suitable answer to integrate into my function. I am basically using the following code currently:
    private void sayHello(String timeString) {

    textToSpeech.speak(timeString,
    TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH,
    null);
}

This code works fine but it's too loud and it can only be controlled by the volume of the device itself. I want to be able to adjust/hardcode/be able to use spinner to control the volume of the TTS but cannot seem to do so accordingly.
Is this functionality available for this library? Is it achievable?

I've also tried to implement the following into my code:
KEY_PARAM_VOLUME

However, I cannot see any examples of this being used and it's showing up with the error to create a function. Any advice?

A: public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    int androidAPILevel = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
    TextToSpeech tts;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        tts = new TextToSpeech(this, new TextToSpeech.OnInitListener() {
            @Override
            public void onInit(int i) {
                start();
            }
        });
    }

    private void start() {
        if (androidAPILevel < 21) {
            HashMap<String,String> params = new HashMap<>();
            params.put(TextToSpeech.Engine.KEY_PARAM_VOLUME, "0.5"); // change the 0.5 to any value from 0-1 (1 is default)
            tts.speak("This is a volume test.", TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, params);
        } else { // android API level is 21 or higher...
            Bundle params = new Bundle();
            params.putFloat(TextToSpeech.Engine.KEY_PARAM_VOLUME, 0.5f); // change the 0.5f to any value from 0f-1f (1f is default)
            tts.speak("This is a volume test.", TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, params, null);
        }
    }
}