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Александар Кировски (Београд, 25. децембар 1990) бивши је фудбалски голман.

Каријера
Кировски је почео каријеру у Земуну, где је у српсколигашкој конкуренцији добрим одбранама скренуо пажњу на себе. Уследио је позив Црвене звезде за коју је потписао у јуну 2011. године. Током две сезоне у црвено-белом дресу био је резерва Бобану Бајковићу и одиграо је само седам утакмица (две у првенству и пет у купу). Био је део тима који је освојио Куп Србије 2012. године. Након Звезде се вратио у Земун где је поново био стандардан. По избору новинара Спортског журнала био је најбољи голман Прве лиге Србије у сезони 2016/17. У јуну 2017. године прелази у екипу Чукаричког. У дресу Чукаричког је током сезоне 2017/18. одиграо 20 утакмица у Суперлиги Србије, да би у јуну 2018. напустио клуб. Након тога је на позив Дарка Панчева отишао у Вардар, где ипак није добио прилику да дебитује током првог дела сезоне 2018/19. У фебруару 2019. године прелази у Будућност из Добановаца. Након полусезоне у екипи из Добановаца, у јулу 2019. прелази у Жарково. Од другог дела сезоне 2019/20. поново наступа за Будућност из Добановаца. Услед учесталих проблема са повредама и операције кичменог стуба, окончао је професионалну каријеру у пролеће 2020.

Трофеји

Црвена звезда
 Куп Србије (1) : 2011/12.

Референце

Спољашње везе

Рођени 1990.
Српски фудбалери
Фудбалски голмани
Фудбалери Земуна
Фудбалери Црвене звезде
Фудбалери Чукаричког
Фудбалери Будућности Добановци
Фудбалери Жаркова
Фудбалери Вардара
Спортисти из Београда
Земунци
Фудбалери Прве лиге Србије
Фудбалери Суперлиге Србије


Even though GLASSTEX wallcoverings are very durable, a forceful or sharp impact might damage the wallcovering or the wall itself. But repair is fast and easy using standard wallcovering tools.
Cut a piece of GLASSTEX wallcovering several inches larger than the damaged area. Carefully line up the pattern or texture with the original wallcovering. Then tape it into position over the damaged area.
Double cut both the new piece of GLASSTEX and the damaged GLASSTEX to ensure a precise seam when the repair is finished.
Remove both the new piece of GLASSTEX and the damaged wallcovering. Note the orientation of the patch so it can be properly installed later.
If the wall is not badly damaged (small holes, dents or scratches), there may be no need to repair the wall. Just apply adhesive to the area where the wallcovering was removed. If damage to drywall or plaster is extensive, you may need to repair the area with filler or drywall compound.
Place the GLASSTEX patch onto the repair area, and carefully line up the pattern or texture. Firmly brush GLASSTEX into the adhesive. There is no need to roll edges or seams.
Paint the patch and adjacent area with a roller using the same paint that was originally used on the wall. The combination of paint and GLASSTEX pattern result in a neat professional patch.


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Q: Trying to understand Syntactically how we are reference a Ruby symbol that's returned by ActiveRecord So I have an example I came across in some reading where we define in a rails model
has_many :some_tablename

Then later they reference it by saying
if some_tablename.empty?
  #do something
end

I am new to Ruby, so the magic isn't quite clear to me why I wouldn't do
if :some_tablename.empty?
  #do something
end

Now, I understand that .empty can be called on a number of types, Symbol not being one of them.   So, I am expecting that the answer is going to be something like....the .inspect or .to_s is being called on the symbol :some_tablename (behind the scenes) and returning a string representation which then we're calling .empty on it.
is that correct, or can someone set me straight of how it is lining up :some_tablename to some_tablename?

A: ActiveRecord makes extensive use of Ruby as a metaprogramming language to perform much of the queries you can make over a model.
When you call if some_table you are calling a some_table method which in fact does't exists, so the method_missing method of ActiveRecord::Base is called (if your model extends it) and it looks in an attributes hash which is built with your has_many, belongs_to directives and then builds a query over that missing method, specifically an inner join in your case as some_table is a has_many.
Check http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Base/method_missing.

A: Giving the symbol ago the has_many method is simply defining a relationship, the methods that are dynamically generated by that relationship use that name, but do not directly build off of the symbol you provide. Symbols are, for reference, more or less the same as strings, except they are immutable and memory efficient (They're singletons, so they are only used once in memory no matter how often they are used)
For more about relationships: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html

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Beech High School
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Lady Buc Soccer duels to a 1-1 tie with Station Camp
JV VB
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Posted by Beech High School on Sep 13 2017 at 08:40AM PDT in 2017-2018
The Lady Bucs traveled up Long Hollow Pike Tuesday evening for a contest with county and former district 9AAA rival, Station Camp HS. The game was played back and forth between the 18's for most of the first half. An evenly played match with few chances for both teams.
The second half opened as Station Camp scored with 37:11 left in the game off a free kick. The scored stayed 1-0 Bison until a Kendra Mueller header went in the back of the net with 12:23 left in the contest. Mueller's game tying goal came off a free kick by Natalie Lankster. Lankster played a perfect ball toward the back post and Mueller finished it off. The Lady Bucs (6-3-1) have extended their unbeaten streak to 5 games and will play a district match with Springfield on Thursday at 6pm.
Coach Cooke said after the game, "the girls played very well. Even after we got down we fought hard to get back in it and score the goal. I am very excited to see how we finish the season if we can continue to play at that level."

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You must be proactive and have a clear focus and drive to source new client relationships as well as having the skills and experience manage a number of supporting accounts you will work in conjunction with a partnered Internal Account Manager in order to achieve your own new business targets. The External Account Manager position will cover the Midlands/Birmingham area so ideally the suitable candidate will Ideally live near this area, also have leasing sales background or sales within an office equipment reseller/manufacturer with several years of experience.
Dealers require a high level of service and support from my client. The External Account Manager is responsible for driving new sales and relationship management.
* Achieve target and this will be predominantly achieved by bringing on new business.
Package: Basic salary up to £45k (depending on experience) + Bonus + Mercedes C Class + Expenses + Smartphone & Laptop.


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Councils & Committee
Parish Clergy & Staff
Saint Pauls in Annville / Mission & History
We, the family of St. Paul the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, the body of Jesus Christ, are piously called to assertively provide opportunities for each person to use their time, talents, and treasure for the greater glory of God, and to live and grow in our faith in the presence of Jesus Christ.
We thereby bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to our community through joyful proclamation of God's Word, prayerful worship, reverent celebration of the sacraments, and catechesis for everyone about the Universal Church and its place in the world and our local community.
Dedication of St. Paul the Apostle Church, July, 1928.
The parish of Saint Paul the Apostle, Annville, covers a large territory of five complete townships. The principal centers of population are Annville, Cleona, and the Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, remembered by thousands of Catholic servicemen and their priest chaplains stationed there during World War II. The Indiantown Gap area has an interesting Catholic history. There are stories of missionary priests at the Gap and an old trail which missionaries might have travelled. Beyond the Gap also along the Stony Creek, the Jesuit Fathers from then Saint Joseph's College in Philadelphia, purchased a farm of 80 acres in 1874, and ministered to Catholics in the area.
Catholicism began to flourish in the Annville area in the 1920s, when Italian immigrants, seeking work in stone quarries and a new life in this country, settled there. Families met in homes to provide religious education for their children, and Saint Gertrude Church in Lebanon provided pastoral care to this fledgling mission named for Saint Paul the Apostle. The members of the mission attended Mass in Lebanon at Saint Gertrude Church. Father Leopold Stump found 30 families and, aided by Mrs. John Kreider, started an instruction class at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Micozzi.
The acquisition of a church building in 1927 elevated the mission to parish status. The church was purchased from the United Brethren and stood at West Main and Concord Streets. Under the direction of Father Stump and Father Leo Kirchner, assistant pastor of then Saint Gertrude, the much needed repairs to the long-neglected church building were completed, and the first Mass in the newly renovated church was held on July 15, 1928. Just five days later, Bishop Philip McDevitt formally established the parish and placed it under the patronage of Saint Paul the Apostle. The church was solemnly blessed by Bishop McDevitt on September 7, 1928. While language barriers created a challenge, as most Italian worshippers spoke little English, strong pastoral leadership overcame the hurdles, and the parish grew steadily.
A rectory was purchased in 1929 and major renovations were made to the church in 1953 by Father Paul Adair. During the pastorate of Father Hubert McGuire, eight acres of land were purchased in east Annville for future needs of the parish. Those eight acres now comprise the church and rectory complex, consecrated on November 1, 1981 by then Bishop Joseph T. Daley.
From 1928 until 1937, the Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart conducted summer vacation school for the children. From 1937 until the early 1970s, The Sisters of Saint Joseph from then Lebanon Catholic High School took charge of the instruction class. Many children from the parish attended the parochial schools in Hershey or Lebanon and attended Lebanon Catholic High School. Children from St. Paul even now continue to attend Lebanon Catholic School now consolidated into one grade school and high school. Currently, the parish has a thriving Religious Education program that has been in existence since the late 1970s.
In the 1970s, the parish reached out to immigrants when Fort Indiantown Gap served as a resettlement camp for Vietnamese refugees. Opening its doors to them, parishioners sponsored families and provided assistance with food, shelter, and medical services. In 1990, the parish welcomed its own mission parish in Haiti called Saint Marc's. Beginning in 2001, several trips to the sister parish have been made by members of the Haiti Ministry as a way to become better informed about the poor there.
The church celebrated its 35thyear in the current parish building in 2016 with many festivities, a picnic, and a special Mass on November 1stcelebrated by Bishop Ronald Gainer. Part of the 35thanniversary celebration was the parish's fundraising for its newest addition, the Garden of Hope, a special memorial garden for the unborn and for all those to be remembered by the faithful of the community. Groundbreaking for the garden took place in late June of 2017. The garden features a statue of Our Lady of Hope, blessed by Bishop Gainer at the anniversary Mass.
Our most recent pastor, Fr. Job Foote, O.S. B. from the Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, left us in June of 2019 after being assigned to our parish ofr almost 7 years.
Our current pastor, Fr. Kevin Coyle comes to us from St. Catherine Laboure where he was the parochial vicar for two years and the chaplain at Bishop McDevitt High School. Also ministering to the people of Saint Paul is Deacon Tony Kearney, a long time parishioner. Deacon Tony was assigned to the parish in 2010, following his ordination to the permanent deaconate.
Saint Paul the Apostle Parish has grown from its original 30 families to now serving approximately 625 households and close to 1500 souls, and continues to flourish in the community of Annville.
Fr. Leo Kirchner, the first pastor.
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Here are eight quick tips on using your voice effectively in a speech, presentation or training session.
Make sure you speak loud enough for the audience to hear you. Nothing is worse than having to strain to hear a speaker present. So, before you begin a presentation, have someone stand at the back of the room and tell you if you can be heard.
Don't shout into the microphone. Conversely, if you are using sound amplification equipment, avoid the temptation to speak loudly. Before you begin, have the sound technician adjust the amplifacation so that you can be heard clearly while using your normal voice.
Avoid speaking in a monotone. The easiest way to put an audience to sleep is by speaking in the same tone of voice for a long period of time. Instead use your natural speech patterns with their variations in pitch.
Change your delivery pace. By speaking at different speech rates for short periods, you can add energy and animation to your speech pattern. Observe the way you speak during a normal conversation with a friend or colleague. You will notice that sometimes you speak quickly and while at other times you slow down.
Slow down for important points. By slowing your speech rate while delievering your key points, you can convey emphasis and importance.
Use the pause. Silence is an excellent exclamation point. By slightly extending a pause, you can add emphasis to a key point in your presentation. The best presenters plan their pauses to achieve maximum impact!
Drink water. Before your presentation, drink a glass of water. This can help prevent potential voice problems during your presentation. Keep a glass of water at the podium and take a sip of water as necessary during the presentation.
Check out the national news. News anchors provide some of the best examples of effective voice usage.


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The normative framework
People's Advocate
People's Advocate for Child's Rights
PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE FOR CHILD'S RIGHT
The child's page
Child's rights
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Collaboration with civil society
DECISIONAL TRANSPARENCY
Strategically development
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Ombudsman's International Organizations
L'Alliance Française de Moldavie
Ombudsman / ABOUT US / Covid-19 / "Respect for human rights under the conditions of emergency. The beneficiaries inform. The People's Advocates react", this is the title of the new heading set up on the official page of the People's Advocate Office.
"Respect for human rights under the conditions of emergency. The beneficiaries inform. The People's Advocates react", this is the title of the new heading set up on the official page of the People's Advocate Office.
The heading is created as a tool for monitoring the respect of human rights in the Republic of Moldova during the emergency regime, caused by the epidemic of the new type Coronavirus, based on the signals received from the beneficiaries of the institution.
The officials of the Office do not set their purpose, but neither will be able to verify all the situations reported by the alleged violation of human rights. The signals will be made public on the official website of the People's Advocate Office www.ombudsman.md, but also brought as a matter of urgency to the knowledge of the relevant authorities, to verify the information and to intervene in case of necessity according to the attributions.
This will be mentioned in the description of each case separately. The People's Advocates propose establishing contact persons within the Ministry of Health, Labour, Social Protection and Family, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research, the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, the Reintegration Policies Bureau for timely information on issues brought to the attention of citizens.
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Q: Registering UITableViewCell using ReusableKit swift I am trying to build generic getAll method will which just return instances of Reusable cells.
By creating that I don't have to register the cells manually I can just add it to the array and in the registerCellsFromReusable() it will be registered.
enum Reusable {
    static let listOptionTableCell = ReusableCell<ListOptionTableCell>(nibName: "ListOptionTableCell")
    static let seperatorTableCell = ReusableCell<SeperatorTableCell>(nibName: "SeperatorTableCell")

    static func getAll<T>() -> [ReusableCell<T>] where T : UITableViewCell {
        return [listOptionTableCell, seperatorTableCell]
    }
}

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    registerCellsFromReusable()
}

private func registerCellsFromReusable() {
    Reusable.getAll().forEach { tableView.register($0) }
}

Cool stuff but I don't know why I am getting the below issue even though ListOptionTableCell & SeperatorTableCell inherits from UITableViewCell

Note: I am using ReusableKit to do this.

A: I have no in depth knowledge of the ReusableKit framework, but in order to make this work you have to apply some form of type erasure. Swift is unable to create a properly typed collection of different types (due to the generics used here), so we have to find a type to which we can convert them to match your needs. In this case, this would be ReusableCell<UITableViewCell>. We only care that T in ReusableCell inherits from UITableViewCell in the end.
// Create an extension on ReusableCell to type erase it
extension ReusableCell {
    var asTypeErasedReusableCell: ReusableCell<UITableViewCell> {
        ReusableCell<UITableViewCell>(nibName: nibName)
    }
}

enum Reusable {
    static let listOptionTableCell = ReusableCell<ListOptionTableCell>(nibName: "ListOptionTableCell")
    static let seperatorTableCell = ReusableCell<SeperatorTableCell>(nibName: "SeperatorTableCell")

    static func getAll() -> [ReusableCell<UITableViewCell>] {
        [
            listOptionTableCell.asTypeErasedReusableCell,
            seperatorTableCell.asTypeErasedReusableCell
        ]
    }
}

Note that this is a very simple implementation of type erasure. There are way more sophisticated ways of achieving this.


Two faculty members from New Mexico State University have been awarded $350,000 from Las Cruces-based tech company Electronic Caregiver to create a laboratory for aging and functional lifespan research, along with research of visual search scenarios and motor performance environments, using augmented and virtual reality.
The Addison Care VR/AR Laboratory will be located inside Milton Hall. NMSU professors Phillip Post, interim department head of the Department of Kinesiology and Dance, and Michael C. Hout, NMSU associate professor in the Department of Psychology, will co-direct the lab. NMSU students and professors will have access to the lab in order to conduct researching using augmented and virtual reality.
Hout said the lab will allow researchers to identify best practices in the visual search component of search and rescue techniques.
The lab's research team will employ graduate and undergraduate research assistants from several departments across campus, including kinesiology, psychology, computer science, electrical engineering and the Creative Media Institute. Among the goals of the lab are to conduct research on slips and falls, search and rescue behaviors, rehabilitation scenarios and voice interaction in rehabilitation, visual search and aging. The lab's research team will also develop and work with ECG and Addison Care to create an Amazon Web Services virtual reality case study.
One of the long-term goals of the lab is to conduct research on how the study of oculomotor measurements can improve the efficiency of search and rescue teams. Rebecca Penn, an NMSU graduate student studying cognitive psychology under Hout, is a member of the Mesilla Valley Search and Rescue team and will be involved in the lab's research.
"Search and rescue teams are almost exclusively volunteers, and the way that we get trained to search for things doesn't necessarily involve a lot of procedural training on how to visually scan through an environment as we move through it. You have to move your eyeballs around as you are walking throughout the environment to look for things that could be clues, and it's hard to research exactly how we do that," Penn said.
Penn said the lab will allow researchers to start to recreate search and rescue-type scenarios and to be able to study how search and rescue teams move their eyes around in space as they are walking around different environments.
"We get called out to Cloudcroft or to the Gilas, not just to the immediate desert areas around us. Our ultimate hope is to improve training," Penn said.
The lab also fits with ECG's mission targeting older populations, especially those at risk of wandering and becoming lost and those at risk of experiencing slips and falls. Virtual reality and augmented reality will allow researchers to create environments to test perception deficiencies and auditory perception without putting subjects at risk of physical harm.
Anthony Dohrmann, Electronic Caregiver founder and CEO, said the lab allows professionals to be placed into the environments of patients to provide chronic disease management and also lets patients receive care at home and outside of the walls of health providers. The lab will also complement the growing tech industry in New Mexico and West Texas, which Dohrmann has referred to as the Rio Grande Technology Corridor.


Don't be like me (lol) with the big bag in a Christmas party (though that depends on the theme, hehe). Here are stylish clutch and small sling bags in metallic tones, at less than P1k!
Will check the other styles later when I visit SM Makati!
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Thes shoes and bags are so beautiful and So gorgeous!


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Enjoy staying at our Beach Shack, with beautiful ocean views from the front deck, lounge room and master bedroom.
3 Bedroom house with fully self contained kitchen and 2 lounge rooms.
The secluded coves of Sea Elephant Bay are just across the road, for snorkelling, fishing, or beach walking. Safe swimming, surfing, bodysurfing are a short 300m away at Fraser Beach, and there is great fishing at the Naracoopa jetty (800 meters away).
Have a drink or a meal 3 doors down at Baudins Restaurant and Bar, or sample some of King Island's famous produce at one of the many local restaurants and cafe's on the island.
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From On-Set Screaming Matches to the Role That Almost Went to Britney Spears: 15 Shocking Secrets About The Notebook
Ryan Gosling tried to get Rachel McAdams fired. Britney Spears almost played Allie. You won't believe some of these facts about the iconic movie, which just turned 15
By Tierney Bricker Jun 25, 2019 10:00 AMTags
Ryan GoslingRachel McAdamsFeaturesNostalgia
Watch: "The Notebook": E! News Rewind
It wasn't over, it still isn't over.
15 years later, we're all still swooning over The Notebook.
Released on June 25, 2004, the romantic drama became an instant classic, turning Ryan Gosling into, well, Ryan Gosling, and making Rachel McAdams a star.
Based on the 1996 novel of the same name, The Notebook was the first of Nicholas Sparks' books to be adapted into his first major motion picture, kicking off an era of love stories designed to make us cry. But none could ever quite match the magic that was the decades-spanning love story of Noah Calhoun (Gosling) and Allie Hamilton (McAdams).
But did you know that the movie (and celebrity couple history) almost looked completely different, with Britney Spears reading opposite Gosling for the role of Allie before McAdams auditioned, almost depriving the world of that blissful moment in time in the late-aughts when Gosling and McAdams were the IT celebrity couple? (Ah, McGosling will always have a special place in our hearts.)
14 Secrets About The Notebook
While their palpable on-screen chemistry is largely credited for the movie's success—becoming a surprise sleeper hit in the summer of 2014, grossing over $115 million worldwide—things weren't quite so romantic behind-the-scenes, as Gosling, then 23, and McAdams, 25 at the time of filming, actually couldn't stand each other, with one actually trying to get the other star replaced at one point.
And yet...like Noah and Allie...."they didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other."
In honor of The Notebook's 15th anniversary, let's look back on all the behind-the-scenes secrets you might not know about the iconic movie...
1. Based on a True Story
It might be hard to believe, but the book was actually based on a true story—Spark's then-wife Cathy's grandparents, in fact, who were together for over 60 years.
"But though their story was wonderful, what I most remember from that day is the way they were treating each other. The way his eyes shined when he looked at her, the way he held her hand, the way he got her tea and took care of her," the best-selling author wrote on his website. "I remember watching them together and thinking to myself that after 60 years of marriage, these two people were treating each other exactly the same as my wife and I were treating each other after 12 hours. What a wonderful gift they'd given us, I thought, to show us on our first day of marriage that true love can last forever."
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2. The Original Noah
Can you imagine Tom Cruise as Noah? Well, it almost happened.
After the rights to the novel were snagged by New Line back in 1996, Steven Spielberg expressed interest in directing the movie. And his pick for his leading man was Cruise. Alas, scheduling conflicts got in the way, as they always do, and the project was left for years before director Nick Cassavetes came on. While he immediately knew he wanted Gosling as his star, the studio needed some convincing.
"When I told [New Line Cinema] I wanted to hire Ryan for the lead, they kind of looked at me like I was out of my mind," Cassavetes revealed to VH1.
Gosling was a little surprised, too, especially after his first meeting with the director. "Nick Cassavetes called me to meet him at his house. When I got there, he was standing in his back yard," Gosling told British magazine Company, "and he looked at me and said, 'I want you to play this role because you're not like the other young actors out there in Hollywood. You're not handsome, you're not cool, you're just a regular guy who looks a bit nuts."
McAdams, who had not yet starred in Mean Girls and Wedding Crashers, was a relative unknown who had to audition hard to get the role of Allie. "We found Rachel through an audition process and she was wonderful," Cassavetes explained. "A lot of studios wouldn't have had the courage to put two relatively unknown people in a movie like this. But they did and, gosh, weren't they terrific?"
3. Britney Was Almost Allie
Before McAdams landed the role of Allie, one of Gosling's former co-stars was actually considered for the part: Britney Spears, his Mickey Mouse Club pal and one of the biggest stars in the world.
"I hadn't seen her really since she was about 12—we were both 12—so she's grown up, but she was really good, actually," Gosling recalled of their chemistry test. "She did a really nice job. We were 12, I don't remember much from when I was 12, but yeah, no, she did an excellent job, actually. That was cool."
McAdams didn't even find out about the "Toxic" singer being up for the role until after filming ended. "I'm sure it would have been a totally different movie," she said. "I was very fortunate. I was sort of at the end of the line, and I know they'd sort of done a cross-country trip—Nick and Ryan together—looking for the girl, and I sort of squeaked in there."
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4. The One That Got Away for Jessica Biel
Another big name who also auditioned for Allie (and has a connection to Justin Timberlake) was Jessica Biel, who revealed to Elle that she considers the movie her one professional opportunity that got away.
"That's one that I wanted so badly. I was in the middle of shooting Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and I auditioned with Ryan Gosling in my trailer—covered in blood," she recalled. "Nick Cassavetes put me through the wringer in an interesting, excitingly creative way. But there's a million that get away. We're gluttons for punishment. It's just rejection."
Other actresses who reportedly auditioned include Reese Witherspoon and Ashley Judd.
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5. The Stars Didn't Get Along
While they went on to date and become one of Hollywood's most beloved couples, Gosling and Adams didn't initially get along, according to Cassavetes. And it was so bad that at one point Gosling tried to get McAdams replaced.
"Maybe I'm not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set. Really not," he told VH1. "And Ryan came to me, and there's 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, 'Nick come here.' And he's doing a scene with Rachel and he says, 'Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?' I said, 'What?' He says, 'I can't. I can't do it with her. I'm just not getting anything from this.'"
So how was it fixed? He let his stars hash their s--t out. "We went into a room with a producer; they started screaming and yelling at each other. I walked out. At that point I was smoking cigarettes. I smoked a cigarette and everybody came out like, 'All right let's do this.' And it got better after that, you know?" Cassavetes explained. "They had it out…I think Ryan respected her for standing up for her character and Rachel was happy to get that out in the open. The rest of the film wasn't smooth sailing, but it was smoother sailing."
Even McAdams was surprised that they eventually ended up dating later on...
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6. Real-Life Love Story
"We weren't throwing Ming vases at each other, so it wasn't loathing," McAdams said in 2013 of the pair's on-set relationship, "but our relationship was not what you saw on the screen. I would say that we were both, well, professional."
Of course, fans started shipping Gosling and McAdams just as much as they did Noah and Allie. Who could forget their infamous on-stage make out while accepting the award for Best Kiss at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards?
"I don't know what happened," Gosling later admitted of how they went from cordial co-workers to boyfriend and girlfriend. "Two years later I saw her in New York and we started getting the idea that maybe we were wrong about each other."
Gosling and McAdams would go on to date for three years, before breaking up for good in 2009. And while neither star ever officially discussed their split, Gosling did open up about their epic romance. "God bless The Notebook," he told GQ. "It introduced me to one of the great loves of my life. But people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that."
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7. Gosling is Just as Dreamy as Noah IRL
You know that moment when Noah asks Allie, "What do you want? What do you want?" Gosling improvised the line, Cassavetes revealed, adding he immediately knew it was going to end up in the movie.
"It became one of the most iconic things from the film [that] wasn't in the script. He just knew it," Cassavetes said. "I'm a literary guy, I was a lit major in college and I like words, but I also like improvisation, [so] that's fine. But he was so on it. We just let him go."
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8. Gosling Was a Little Method
Throughout the film, Gosling actually covered his baby blues and wore brown contact lenses because James Garner, the celebrated actor who played the older Noah, had brown eyes. While the younger Noah was very interested in continuity, Garner, who passed away just one month after the film's release in July 2004, really didn't care. According to Cassavetes, Gosling approached the older actor about accents as well...leading to a hilariously awkward conversation.
"[Ryan] says, 'I was thinking about accents. There's all kinds of South Carolina accents—one's more rural' and this and that. [Garner] goes, 'I don't do accents, kid. They're stupid,'" Cassavetes said, "And [Ryan] goes, 'OK. What about eye color? I have blue eyes. You have brown eyes.' He says, 'Everyone knows Jim Garner's got brown eyes. Do what you want, kid.' [Ryan] says, 'OK, I guess I'll wear contacts. What about hair?' And he says, 'Do whatever you want, kid. Nice to meet you. See you later.' Ryan looked at me and said, 'Shut up, don't even say a word.' So that's just an example of two extremely different types of acting styles. Both are wildly successful."
Another example of Gosling's method acting going a little too far was his suggestion that they burn down Noah's house as a metaphor for his feelings. "He'd come to me and say, 'Why can't I burn the house down?'" Cassavetes revealed, "I'd say, 'Because I don't even know what that means.' And he'd say, 'Cleansing my fire!'" Gosling's idea didn't make the final cut, and the gorgeous house is still standing in Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina.
9. All in the Family
Cassavetes didn't have to cast a wide net when it came to finding the right star to play the older version of Allie: Legendary actress Gena Rowlands happens to be his mother. His father is the late director John Cassavetes, who actually sort of appears in the film when photos of Allie and Noah through the years.
The pictures are actually the personal photos of Rowlands of her and her husband, with Garner's face photo shopped in over John's face. "I have never heard a director say, 'Action, Mom' before," producer Mark Johnson said. "She treated him like her director, but as professional as he was, we were very much aware she was his mother."
Rowlands admitted to Variety in 2016 that she was surprised by the film's enduring success. "I didn't think it would have that kind of impact," she said. "I think it was such a big hit because it was about the realization that love can last your whole life. You don't see it depicted that way a lot. In most films you don't get to see a story like that go from the beginning to the end with the possibility that love can be perhaps eternal."
10. Hands-On Experience
Gosling, who was just 23 when the movie was made, actually moved to Charleston two months before filming, during which he rowed the Ashley River and made furniture and even apprenticed with a cabinet-maker in town. "We made all the Adirondack chairs in front of the house," Gosling told People. "We sat in them a lot."
Oh, and that dining room table in the house Noah builds Allie? It was made by Gosling. "We shot a scene where Rachel and I consummate our relationship on a table I made," he revealed. "But I couldn't keep it. We used a special wood, and the deal was [the cabinetmaker] got the table. But he doesn't know what happened on it."
McAdams also spent time months living in Charleston prior to filming, taking dialect lessons to nail her Southern accent and immersing herself in the culture. "[Cassavetes] had me take ballet and etiquette classes," she admitted. "And I went to a few weddings and talked to some debutantes."
The director also wanted her to up her workout regime, with McAdams saying, "I'd never trained like that. I was even taking protein powder. It got to the point where I turned to my trainer, pointed to my bicep, and said, 'This doesn't look 1940s anymore, it's gone even beyond pin-up girl.' So we had to tone it down."
11. There Almost Weren't Birds
Arguably one of the most memorable scenes in the movie almost didn't make it into the film, as Cassevetes revealed the studio didn't think they'd be able to film Noah and Allie's boat ride with all of the birds surrounding. "They were like, 'You can't do the birds. There's just too much—you've got to take the birds out,'" he explained. "They said, 'It just doesn't work. We talked to every animal wrangler—you can't do it. The birds aren't trained. You've got to take it out.'"
But Cassavetes fought for the scene to stay, so much so that he actually raised birds on the set to use when it came time to film the scene. "We went down and bought a trailer like the back of one of those semis, talked to some of the animal people down there and bought a bunch of hatchlings and just raised them as chicks and marched them out to the lake every day and fed them out there," he revealed. "By the time the movie was shooting, they were kind of grown, but they had been fed out there every day. So, when the studio came down to see the scene—because they didn't believe we could do it—the guy marched them out there like the Pied Piper and they went out on the lake. We were happy to do that on a technical level because the birds are so beautiful."
Talk about dedication to your art.
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12. Opposite of Romantic
While Noah and Allie's passionate kiss in the rain is considered one of the best onscreen kisses in movie history, it wasn't exactly a fun experience for the stars. "We just wanted to get out of the rain. It was very cold. That dress was made for the film, but a lot of the stuff I wore was rented and was actually from the 1940s," McAdams revealed to Life & Style. "So much of it was falling apart."
In fact, Allie ended up barefoot in the scene because the shoes McAdams was wearing actually disintegrated. Yes, really.
13. The Sex Scene Was Toned Down
While the intimate moment between Noah and Allie shown in the movie was pretty steamy, it actually had to be toned down ahead of The Notebook's release to score a PG-13 rating. "I don't want children seeing things they shouldn't be seeing," Cassavetes told Christian Answers. "I wanted the excitement of the sexuality between them, but certainly, we don't do no dirty stuff."
He went on to call himself "a prude," adding, "I'm modest. I don't believe in exposing people's private parts. It's not even so much a moral thing for me, as I get embarrassed. That's the way I am. But the complication is that sexuality is not the totality between man and woman, but it's certainly a big part of it. And you have to show it. There's a carnality that's involved."
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14. One Star Didn't Think It Would Do Well
Maybe he was a little bitter because his character Lon Hammond Jr. didn't end up getting the girl, but James Marsden once admitted to Out magazine that he didn't think the movie was going to be a hit.
"I never set out to make a bad movie. Some movies just turn out bad, and I want to scream, 'Why did you pick that take?!' There are some movies that I've been in that I was sure people would laugh at, that have become huge," he said. "I thought The Notebook was going to be a schmaltzy Movie of the Week–type thing, and here we are!"


A few weeks ago I purchased a Lenovo T480 Laptop it included a Thunderbolt 3 (compatible) port.
USB-C connector (Thunderbolt™ 3 compatible) The USB-C connector on your computer supports both the USB Type-C standard and the Thunderbolt 3 technology. With an appropriate USB-C cable connected, you can use the connector to transfer data, charge your device, or connect your computer to external displays.
The USB-C connector also works as the power connector. Use the shipped USB-C power adapter and power cord to connect the computer to ac power through the USB-C connector.
I checked the specs & more information on Intel Thunderbolt 3, pretty exciting stuff.
So far I have not purchased any additional cables or a hub as finding hardware that runs @ 20Gbps or 40Gbps is difficult or not-available, even a external SSD drive only will read @ around 520Mbps.
•The Mini DisplayPort connection type has been ditched in favor of a USB-C connection type.
•All Thunderbolt 3 cables will work as USB-C cables.
•All USB-C cables will work as Thunderbolt 3 cables as long as they are good quality cables.
•Thunderbolt 3 has a top data transfer speed of 40Gbps as long as the cable is 0.5m (1.6 ft.) or shorter.
•For 1m (3.2 ft.) or longer cables, Thunderbolt 3 supports passive (cheaper) ones that have a top speed of 20Gbps, and active cables (more expensive) that retain the 40Gbps speed.
•Thunderbolt 3 is backward-compatible with earlier versions of Thunderbolt, but due to the new port type, adapters are required to use legacy Thunderbolt devices.
•Any USB-C device (like a Google Pixel) plugged into a Thunderbolt 3 port will function normally.
•Since Thunderbolt 3 devices use discrete Thunderbolt chips to function, they will not function if plugged into a USB-C port.
Since I am lacking on something to test on my Lenovo T480 Laptop (PCI Express Gen3 x4) w/ a Thunderbolt 3 (compatible) port.
Not wanting to spend money on something I wouldn't use much I decided on a Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD & 10Gbps USB 3.1 (Gen 2) to M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure w/ a JMicron USB 3.1 Gen 2 to PCIe Gen3x2 Bridge Controller (JMS583).
The enclosure comes w/ a Type C to Type C cable for the Thunderbolt 3 connection.
*Comments: Although the actual speed I am getting is definitely faster than a SATA 3 Samsung SSD 860 plugged into the Same Thunderbolt 3 port (401 MB/s) I was not overly excited w/ these testing results. The speed is NTL respectable.


Seven-year-old Maxim is my neighbour. He had to take refuge in a basement together with his family in the village of Vergulyovka, near Debaltsevo, where they were living last summer when the Ukrainian Army came and took the town. I have known Maxim's mother since I was a child—her name is Olga too. We grew up in the same neighbourhood.
She told me that the windows and the roof of their house in Vergulyovka had been damaged. They are currently living at their grandmother's place in their home town near Perevalsk. Olga is pregnant now, she is expecting in April. I visited them at her mother's place and brought two bags of humanitarian aid as well, including baby food and nappies—all of which had been bought with the money sent by people from different countries. She was not expecting it and was quite surprised.
The other day, I met a family from Chernukhino, LPR, who were living at their friends' place in Perevalsk. They had been forced to stay in a basement during more than three weeks of the artillery shelling by the UAF. Eventually, their house was destroyed. The mother—Lilia Lavrova—said that they would like to rebuild their house.
Children in Donbass are special—after they have experienced heavy artillery bombardment, and spent weeks in the basements. They are children of war, who have been deprived of their childhood since almost a year. This is in fact the deliberate policy of the Ukrainian government towards the residents of this region.


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This stands for 'Boys Enjoy Reading Together' and we are very fortunate to have some members of our local community who come into school every week to read with some of our pupils. They act as excellent role models for the boys and generate lots of enthusiasm for reading through rewards and stickers as well.
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Bookshelf | Prime Ministers in Greece: The Paradox of Power
How can Prime Ministers establish control and coordination across their government? "Prime Ministers in Greece: The Paradox of Power" (2015), by Professors Kevin Featherstone and Dimitris Papadimitriou*, is concerned with this large question in one small, but highly problematic case: The Greek Constitution provides the Prime Minister with extensive and often unchecked powers. Yet, the operational structures, processes, and resources around the Prime Minister undermine their power to manage the government.
Building on an unprecedented range of interviews and archival material from 1974 to 2009, the book argues that the Greek Prime Minister has been 'an emperor without clothes'. The costs of this paradox have included the inability to achieve key policy objectives under successive governments and a fragmented system of governance that provided the backdrop to Greece's economic meltdown in 2010. The book concludes with the Greek system meeting its 'nemesis': the arrival of the close supervision of its government by the 'Troika'—the representatives of Greece's official creditors. The debt crisis challenged taboos and forced a self-reflection. It remains unclear, however, whether either the external strategy or the domestic response is likely to be sufficient to make the Greek system of governance 'fit for purpose'.
Αs it is stated in the book, as well as in a book review by ELIAMEP's Research Associate, Alexandros Nafpliotis, this is 'the first in-depth study' of prime ministers and their governments in Greece during the period after the fall of the Greek Colonels' regime in 1974, and as such, it comes to fill an important lacuna in the literature. The book is full of striking revelations – for example, the fact that the centre of the Greek government contains virtually no permanent civil servant in its ranks, with all members of staff being political appointees – but also presents a sober explanation of the limitations that PMs face, such as the pathologies of a mass of laws. The authors are particularly careful not to fall into the trap of 'national character' stereotypes, recognizing, however, the role played by the setting and cultural habits (it is stated that these factors 'nudge' or limit, rather than determine, actors in a specific direction).
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(Interview with a former Minister, commenting on another Prime Minister)
*Kevin Featherstone is Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Director of the Hellenic Observatory at LSE and Dimitris Papadimitriou is Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.
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Furama Resort Danang Vietnam Wins ''Luxury Romantic Beach Resort" By World Luxury Hotel Awards 2019
Furama Resort Danang has just been granted "Luxury Romantic Beach Resort" at the prestigious World Luxury Hotel Awards 2019. The winners of the annual World Luxury Hotel Awards were announced on 12 October 2019 at a glitzy affair at Arctic TreeHouse Hotel and SantaPark in Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland.
Since 2006, the World Luxury Hotel Awards has served as the global recognition of hotels' sustained commitment to service excellence and outstanding achievement in the international luxury hospitality industry, receiving over 300,000 votes from international travellers and leading tourism experts in their annual poll.
Furama Resort Danang is part of the Ariyana Tourism Complex which comprises of Furama Resort, 131 luxury Furama Villas, the upcoming 1,400 room-key Ariyana Beach Resort & Suites project, and the high-profile Ariyana Convention Centre, where a week-long series of APEC 2017 events was held. The 198-room Furama Resort with views of the pristine white sand beach shares architectural similarities with Furama Villas and connects to the villas to form a "romantic tropical haven" within the city centre.
Mr. Matthias Wiesmann, General Manager of Furama Resort Danang opined: "We feel honoured to be once again granted this esteemed award. The 4th award from World Luxury Hotel Awards for the 3rd consecutive year in a row is a tremendous honour for Furama Resort Danang in particular and for the whole Ariyana Tourism Complex in general, affirming our strong commitment on assuming responsibility for 5-star quality service and contributing significantly to the Danang's hospitality reputation."
This year, Furama Resort Danang has also achieved "Most popular M.I.C.E Resort in 2018" Award by Vietnam Tourism Association, "Rakuten Travel Bronze Award 2018" by the Japanese largest online travel agency – Rakuten Travel and "Golden Dragon Award 2018" by Vietnam Economic Times and Ministry of Planning and Investment.


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Pat Austin
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(1964-11-12) November 12, 1964 (age 57)
NHRA Alcohol Funny Car
1985 – ?
self-owned
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1st in 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991
ranked 13th on NHRA's Top 50 drivers
Pat Austin (born November 12, 1964) is a retired American drag racer. He competed in the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). He won four NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car championships between 1987 and 1991.[1] He was the first driver to win eliminator titles at the same event when he won the Top Fuel and Alcohol Funny Car classes at Topeka.[1][2] His 62 wins between his start in 1985 and 1996, which were the most for any driver between the late 1970s and 1996.[2]
In 2002, the NHRA labeled him "the most successful drag racer born after the 1940s and the best driver of his generation".[1][2] He had the first 250 mph (400 km/h) Alcohol Funny Car run and the first pass in the 5.5-second range.[1]
1 Racing career
Racing career[edit]
A native of Tacoma, Washington, Austin attended Franklin Pierce High School, where he won two state championships in the shot put.[1] Austin was named an All-Star on his high school football team during his senior year.[3]
He began drag racing in the Northwestern United States, where he won approximately 90 percent of the races that he entered.[1] He started racing on the national tour in 1985.[2] Austin won his first national event title in 1986, when he won the Cajun Nationals.[2] He won the next event, the Springnationals.[2] He had numerous second-place finishes and lost the 1986 season championship at the final round at the Fallnationals to Brad Anderson.[2]
1987 Alcohol Funny Car
Austin won his first national championship the following year. He won four of the five championships between 1987 and 1991, losing the 1989 championship.[2] Austin made eight finals in 1987 and won six events.[2] He followed that season with his second championship in 1988.[2] That season was highlighted by six wins, including his first U.S. Nationals win.[2] He had his most wins in 1989 with nine wins (including the U.S. Nationals).[2] Brad Anderson won the season championship after Anderson did better in divisional races.[2] Austin won the 1990 championship with 12 finals and nine event wins.[2] Austin clinched the 1991 championship in July (with four months left) after posting the first perfect 5 national and 5 divisional wins season.[2] Following the death of Gary Ormsby from cancer; Austin bought his Castrol GTX Top Fuel operation before the U.S. Nationals.[2] He campaigned both cars at the event after testing his new Top Fuel dragster at one local event.[2] After winning the Alcohol Funny Car finals at one of the next events, his blower malfunctioned during his burnout at the finals. Austin had to watch Kenny Bernstein as he smoked his tires to win the Top Fuel finals in a single.[2] Austin continued to run both cars at events, vowing to win in both cars.[2] His double eliminator win came two events later at Topeka.[2] He won the Alcohol Funny Car finals over Chuck Cheeseman with a 5.97 second pass and the Top Fuel finals over Joe Amato with a 4.97 second pass.[2] Austin avenged his final round Top Fuel loss to Bernstein at the Winston Finals at Pomona and started the 1992 season by winning the second race of the year at the Motorcraft Ford Nationals in Phoenix Arizona over Doug Herbert.[2] Between 1987 and 1991, he entered 57 national event finals and won 43 of them.[2]
Austin achieved the second double eliminator win at the second event in 1992 at Phoenix.[2] He won the Top Fuel finals and beat his uncle, rival Bucky Austin, in the Alcohol Funny Car finals.[2] Austin won Top Fuel at the 1993 U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis Raceway Park over Doug Herbert in a tire-smoking peddlefest final round.[2] His fifth and final Top Fuel win was at Englishtown over Don "The Snake" Prudhomme in 1994[2] winning with a 4.88 to Prudhomme's 4.89. His last final round came in 1995 at Sonoma California losing to Mike Dunn. Austin became the first driver to achieve 250 miles per hour in the quarter mile in an Alcohol Funny Car in 1995.[2]
1995 Top Fuel dragster
In 1999, Austin noticed that IHRA drivers such as Von Smith having success in Hoosier Racing Tires.[3] Austin had been experiencing severe tire shake and tire spinning problems.[3] So he purchased a set of Hoosiers at the U.S. Nationals and used them in second round qualifying at the next event at Dallas, which was the first time that Hoosiers were used in an NHRA event.[3] After having a relatively slow pass, he made gear ratio adjustments at later events. He started using the tires for all passes after having a 5.64 second pass. He had the first pass in the 5.5 second range (5.56 seconds at 257 mph) and won the race, marking the first time that a Hoosier tire won an NHRA Alcohol Funny Car event.[3]
In 2000, he recorded his 70th career victory, which put him fourth on the NHRA all-time win list.[4] He had his 75th national victory at Pomona's 2002 NHRA Winternationals.[3] At that time he had 81 points wins for a total of 156 victories.[3]
Austin now runs the Pat Austin's Pro Max Performance Centers, which is a national automotive parts dealer and it services cars in the Puget Sound.
Pat and his wife, Keila, have a son named Drew and a daughter named Allison.[3]
His father (Walt Austin), mother, brother Mike, and sister have helped on his team.[4] Walt Austin competed in drag racing from the 1950s to 1970s.[5] He inherited his father's muffler and radiator shop in 1968. Walt's brother Bucky started on his pit crew until opening a rival muffler shop in 1970.[5] Bucky Austin had over 200 drag racing wins at Northwestern regional NHRA, AHRA and open matches.[5] Pat described their relationship, "We've had our tense moments, just the same way as the businesses have been treated. It's competition. It's no different than having a one-on-one basketball game, except we're all grown up. It's never been bad blood."[5]
Awards[edit]
In 2001, the NHRA ranked him 13th in their Top 50 drivers of all-time.[2]
^ a b c d e f "Pat Austin". Tacoma Athletic Commission. Retrieved 2008-11-27.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac "No. 13: Pat Austin". NHRA. 2002. Archived from the original on July 6, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-27.
^ a b c d e f g h "Pat Austin a Winner on and off the track". Hoosier Racing Tire. February 15, 2002. Retrieved 2008-11-27.
^ a b Burgess, Phil (May 28, 2008). "Austin scores milestone 70th victory". National Hot Rod Association. Archived from the original on January 8, 2006. Retrieved 2008-11-27.
^ a b c d Miles, Todd (July 27, 2000). "An Austin family feud... it's not". The News Tribune. Archived from the original on November 18, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-27.
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Chicago Cubs Legend Ernie Banks, 1st Black Player In Team History, Dies : The Two-Way The shortstop known as "Mr. Cub," who began his career in the Negro leagues, hit 512 home runs in his 19 seasons with the team and remained a cherished figure to the team and its fans. He was 83.
Chicago Cubs Legend Ernie Banks, 1st Black Player In Team History, Dies
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The Chicago Cubs' Ernie Banks poses in 1970. The Cubs announced Friday night that Banks had died. The team did not provide any further details. Banks was 83. AP hide caption
The Chicago Cubs' Ernie Banks poses in 1970. The Cubs announced Friday night that Banks had died. The team did not provide any further details. Banks was 83.
Baseball's Chicago Cubs report that Hall of Fame shortstop Ernie Banks has died. "Mr. Cub," who began his career in the Negro leagues, was the first black player for the team — eighth in the majors overall — and played in 14 All-Star games in his 19 seasons, all with the Cubs.
We are saddened to announce that Hall of Famer Ernie Banks has passed away. http://t.co/U3E6N7aCLi #LetsPlayTwo pic.twitter.com/5MQzjpYF3G
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) January 24, 2015
"Forty-four years after his retirement, Banks holds franchise records for hits, intentional walks and sacrifice flies and in RBIs since 1900," MLB.com reports. "He likely holds club records for smiles and handshakes as well. ... His 2,528 games are the most by anyone who never participated in postseason play. Chicago never held him responsible for that and believed he deserved better."
Banks, who was 83, was named National League MVP in 1958 and 1959, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
His back-to-back MVP awards were among the few given to players on losing teams, notes The Associated Press:
"Banks' best season came in 1958, when he hit .313 with 47 homers and 129 RBIs. Though the Cubs went 72-82 and finished sixth in the National League, Banks edged Willie Mays and Hank Aaron for his first MVP award. He was the first player from a losing team to win the NL MVP.
"Banks won the MVP again in 1959, becoming the first NL player to win it in consecutive years, even though the Cubs had another dismal year. Banks batted .304 with 45 homers and a league-leading 143 RBIs."
For Cubs Fans, A Little Hope And A Lot Of Patience
The Chicago Tribune describes the outlook of Banks, who also was known as "Mr. Sunshine":
"Ernie Banks didn't invent day baseball or help build Wrigley Field. He just made the idea of playing a baseball game under the sun at the corner of Clark and Addison streets sound like a day in paradise, win or lose. ... He was a player who promoted the game like he was part of the marketing department. Not because he had to, but because he truly loved the Cubs and the game itself."


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Q: fabric does not work with my python/django code Here is my content of fabfile.py
from fabric.api import run, local, abort, env, put, task
from fabric.contrib.files import exists
from fabric.context_managers import cd, lcd, settings, hide
from fabric.operations import require

PROD_SERVER='user@user.webfactional.com'

# Host and login username:
def prod():
    env.hosts=[PROD_SERVER]
    env.remote_app_dir='~/webapps/django/myapp/'
    env.remote_apache_dir='~/webapps/django/apache2/'

def commit():
    message=raw_input("Enter a git commit message: ")
    local("git add -A && git commit -m '%s'" %message)
    local("git push webfactioncarmarket")
    print "changes pushed to remote repository...."

def test():
    local("python2.7 manage.py test")

def install_dependencies():
    with cd(env.remote_app_dir):
        run("pip2.7 install -r requirements.txt")

def testing_fabric():
    prod()
    print env.hosts
    print env.remote_app_dir
    print env.remote_apache_dir

def collectstatic():
    prod()
    print env.hosts
    require('hosts',provided_by=[prod])
    run ("cd $(remote_app_dir);python2.7 manage.py collectstatic --noinput

Running :
fab testing_fabric #works fine
['user@user.webfactional.com']
~/webapps/django/myapp/
~/webapps/django/myapp/

Done.

Running:
fab collectstatic
['user@user.webfactional.com']
No hosts found. Please specify (single) host string for connection:

why do I get this prompt: No hosts found. I print env.hosts and it prints the host?
how do I fix this?
EDIT: I tried the chaining:
I get this error:
run: cd $(remote_app_dir);python2.7 manage.py collectstatic --noinput
out: /bin/bash: remote_app_dir: command not found

why can I not pass the value of remote_app_dir does not get passed?

A: There are two ways to do this:

*

*Set env.hosts at the module level, so it gets set when the fabfile is imported

*Chain modules to set the env variable.

In your case, the second one can be accomplished by removing the line prod() from collectstatic and instead invoking fabric like this:
fab prod collecstatic
This sort of decoupling can be immensely powerful. See here: http://fabric.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage/execution.html#globally-via-env
To run from a specific directory, try using with cd:
def collectstatic():
    with cd(env.remote_app_dir):
        run("python2.7 manage.py collectstatic --noinput")

See here: https://fabric.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/core/context_managers.html

A: I write answer, becaue I don't have enough points to make a comment:

run ("cd $(remote_app_dir);python2.7 manage.py collectstatic --noinput

You should not use remote_app_dir variable (wrapping in it $() ) as you would do using bash/shell. First of all, this variable is not available in shell.
env.remote_app_dir='~/webapps/django/myapp/'
cause that python object env gets new attribute remote_app_dir
please change your code and use your variable in pythonic way:

run ("cd %spython2.7 manage.py collectstatic --noinput" % env.remote_app_dir)


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GRAPES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY and Other Cool Climate Regions of the United States and Canada
THE STORY OF BROTHERHOOD, AMERICA'S OLDEST WINERY
Author: by J. Stephen Casscles
Foreword: By Kevin Zraly
Preface: By Eric Miller
Release Date: June 2015
Softcover: 272 pages + color insert
Published By: Flint Mine Press
New York's Hudson Valley has long been known as the birthplace of American viticulture, with roots dating to the 1600s. For centuries, the region's terroir has tested both viticulturalist and wine maker alike, spawning advances in cold-weather breeding, grape growing, and winemaking techniques.
J. Stephen Casscles enthusiastically shares his first-hand knowledge both in the vineyard and in the cellar to appeal to vineyardists and wine drinkers everywhere who enjoy the cold-weather grape varietals that are gaining popularity today.
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GRAPES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY is a practical guide for those who have an affinity for hybrid grapes and wines. Casscles enthusiastically shares his first-hand knowledge both in the vineyard and in the cellar to provide insight into the age-old vinifera vs. hybrid debate. His grape descriptions cover the common labrusca and French-American hybrids popular in northern America, as well as some forgotten varieties, and even vinifera, that can be successfully grown east of the Mississippi and north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
The book presents key information on winter hardiness, vigor, fruit productivity, and wine quality, and is a valuable companion for budding vineyardists, seasoned growers, and wine makers who share cool climates and short growing seasons. It will also appeal to wine drinkers everywhere who enjoy cold-weather grape varietals, properly fermented and in their glass.
Stephen Casscles comes from a fruit-growing family rooted in the Hudson Valley since the 1870s. Casscles's own fruit-growing experience began in the 1970s, when he also produced his first wines. In 1990, he established a four-acre vineyard, Cedar Cliff, in Athens, NY, where he has concentrated on identifying, growing, evaluating, and propagating heirloom grape varieties that were first developed in New York in the mid-nineteenth century. Casscles has been the winemaker at Hudson-Chatham Winery since 2008.
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Stephen Casscles has blended his own biography with those of early French grape breeders and their Vitis children. Grapes of the Hudson Valley clearly comes from someone with first-hand experience in the field, in the glass, and in the library with his subjects. — Lucie Morton, Viticulturist, VA
An excellent history of viticulture in the northeast United States, as well as an outstanding guide to most hybrid grape varieties that have succeeded in this sometimes inhospitable environment, Grapes of the Hudson Valley provides excellent reading not just for grape growers, but for eastern American wine lovers in general. — John E. Hudelson, Associate Professor, Global Wine Studies, Central Washington University, WA
A "must-read" for anyone interested in growing grapes in the Hudson Valley or just learning about planting grapes in a difficult environment. — César Baeza, Consulting Enologist, Part-owner Brotherhood Winery, NY
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Disability and Work in Canada 2020 Virtual Conference:
The Strategy in Action—Pathways and Impacts
DISABILITY AND WORK IN CANADA 2021
Achieving equality of opportunity and choice in careers, jobs and work
Virtual Conference – December 1 & 2 and 6 & 7, 2021
The Disability and Work in Canada 2021 (DWC 2021) Conference was held virtually this year over four days in early December (December 1 & 2 and December 6 & 7) from 12:15 to 3:30 EDT. The theme for this year's conference was the "Achieving equality of opportunity and choice in careers, jobs and work," with subthemes for each day as follows:
Wednesday December 1, 2021, at 12:15 to 3:30 EDT – Fully including persons with disabilities in the COVID19 recovery
Thursday December 2, 2021, at 12:15 to 3:30 EDT – Making inclusive workplaces a reality
Monday December 6, 2021, at 12:15 to 3:30 EDT – Ensuring secure and comprehensive supports for persons with disabilities
Tuesday December 7, 2021, at 12:15 to 3:30 EDT – Moving forward together towards full inclusion in employment
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DWC2021 Conference Recaps
Day 1 Summary
This year's DWC2021 Virtual Conference was the fifth and new milestone DWC conference with incredible energy and record attendance (with 540+ registrants!) from all across Canada! This was an important conference which built momentum to move forward together into 2022 to continue to implement the Pan-Canadian Strategy for Disability and Work.
We heard the need for meaningful partnerships with Indigenous communities, the need for full inclusion, equity, positive transformations, the need for comprehensive supports that are customized and contextualized, disability-confident employers and workplaces and sustainable employment opportunities. With labour shortages, it is important to take different approaches to engaging people and tap into talent.
We heard some stark critical data and observations about the current challenges facing persons with disabilities, however we also heard about many promising and inspiring initiatives and effective practices in Canada.
This conference had a strong focus and anchor in intersectionality and DWC aims to continue this conversation.
Networking opportunities allowed persons with disabilities to have a voice and share their perspectives.
As we move forward together in 2022, we need to connect the DWC vision and pillars with the critiques and also with promising and concrete tools and practices in seeking dignity, a livable income and employment for persons with disabilities.
Day 1 was an amazing start to the conference. Here are some highlights from yesterday's sessions:
Minister Qualtrough announced the funding for the community-based Disability Inclusion Action Plan awarded to Inclusion Canada and Muscular Dystrophy Canada to consult and engage the disability communities across Canada, and ensure the engagement includes those voices not normally heard. Minister Qualtrough followed her keynote with a lively questions and answer session.
People with disabilities had their voices heard but remain frustrated. The voice of people with disabilities must be heard. "This is my challenge to all of us, to write a new story, where persons with disabilities are valued and included, where our contributions are wanted by the wider society. This must begin by involving more of us in the conceptualizing, development and implementation of new policies and programs, because what we are really talking about are conscious public policy decisions and not just accidents of history." - John Rae
CRPD encourages others to be included with the shadow report. All voices need to be heard
COVID has highlighted some of the difficulties that people with disabilities were facing beforehand.
That in Canada, the disability lens, or framework, is currently being applied to funding that is mainstreamed
The first session of networking went well – and we encourage you to continue participating in today's session
Questions of feeding into standards development through co-design and engagement allowed participants to talk about barriers to employment and the need for involvement with the process.
The DWC governance feedback included ensuring 50% people with lived experience on the Steering Committee, as well as how the initiative can influence positive change within all the areas of the conference.
Statistically, COVID hit people with disabilities hard during the pandemic but it's difficult to know what's going to happen during recovery.
International businesses are becoming more inclusive of employment; that commitments of businesses internationally around Disability and Inclusion has strengthened.
Sharing of lived experiences was a highlight. Story-telling of personal experiences of disclosure, transportation, and unfair living experiences were shared and valued
Day 2 was another successful day of the DWC2021 Virtual Conference, focusing on the theme Making inclusive workplaces a reality! Here are some highlights:
From the Day 2 Keynote, entitled How can we make deep change in the workplace for the full inclusion of persons with disabilities?
We heard that "We need to build bridges, break down silos. Workers with disabilities must lead and guide this work." - Lily Chang, Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Labour Congress
"The voices of persons with disabilities are vital. Among the most vulnerable are those with an intellectual disability. It is critical that labour and community work beyond our silos together to achieve a better world." - Carlos Sosa, a worker with a disability with the United Food and Commercial Workers
Steve Mantis provided a framework with five key messages: 1. Employment of persons with disabilities is doable and can be profitable for business; 2. Accommodations are linked to issues of power, control and communication; 3. Advocacy and coalition building work; Rights for all workers equals rights for workers with disabilities; 4. Measurement and accountability are key to positive transformations; Count what you value or you will value what you count; 5. Our public systems are failing us.
In the session Supporting Inclusive Employment for People with Intellectual Disabilities and Autistic Persons in the Federal Public Service of Canada, we heard that we are really at the cusp of an important juncture in this post-pandemic world. Some of the changes will favour persons with disabilities and autism. We can make our workplaces more inclusive and accessible.
In Tools and Strategies to Support Employers' Efforts to Include Persons Living with Disabilities in the Workforce, we heard that there is a distinction between integrating people and inclusion. Inclusion goes beyond integration. It's about minimizing obstacles at many levels.
There was incredible engagement in the session on Disability, Women, Youth and Employment (with 140+ participants) and the networking session that followed. It was discussed that there needs to be an intersectional framework for disability and employment for women instead of just talking about a disability framework, and women have different issues when we're talking disability and employment.
In several sessions, we heard that disability confident employers have to have support from the top, business leaders have to be leading the charge, that business leaders/CEOs need to be signing the documents that are saying that they will be disability-confident or disability-inclusive, and that there has to be a plan and good management strategy in place - you have to assess your environment and the situation, set your goals, make the plan, evaluate and change.
A key theme from the Funding Employment Services to Create Sustainable Employment Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities session was that where you do need to provide supports to people, it helps that they can be customizable as people have different needs, and use three Cs approach: be Customizable, Contextualize and Comprehensive. We also learned that in terms of financial incentives, sometimes just a temporary incentive can work, and can help getting people through the door with employers who are mistrustful, and once in the door, they may not need an incentive again.
The third day of the conference yesterday focused on the theme Ensuring secure and comprehensive supports for persons with disabilities. Here are a few highlights:
The keynote speaker, Yazmine Laroche, Deputy Minister, Public Service Accessibility, highlighted the use of specific targets for the employment of persons with disabilities in the federal public service. The targets serve as a guide to their ambition and a way to track progress.
Key messages from the parallel sessions:
In the session "Change!"- A call for non-punitive, ethical, evidence-based and person centred supports for workers with Substance-Use Disorder, we heard that one size does not fit all. - "In individual situations, the focus should be on the supports and accommodations that the person with disabilities need to be fully included in the workplace. One size does not fit all"
We heard that income supports must lift people out of poverty and avoid creating barriers to employment in the session Income Supports for people and workers with disabilities
Injured workers with mental health issues report a lack of coordination or continuity of care, as if the system is telling people to "hurry up and heal." Suggestions for improvement include educating nurse consultants and case managers around commmunication, sensitivity issues and compassion, as most people want to be at work. - Session on the Experiences, Impacts and Service Needs for injured workers in the WSIB process in Northwestern Ontario
In the session Exploring Differences between Advocates and Transitional Navigators, we heard that the intersection of disability with other life circumstances, such as being an Indigenous person, or part of a racialized group, or being a recent immigrant can add to the difficulties people face in daily life and in finding and sustaining employment. We also heard that skilled navigators can help people build self-reliance and develop skills to be able to self-advocate and be self-reliant, which has more sustainability for the ability to deal with the system.
Evaluation needs to be participatory and community-based, not dictated by a funder, as we heard in Making Canada's complex web of disability supports easier to navigate – We want to hear from you / Faciliter la navigation du labyrinthe des soutiens aux personnes handicapées du Canada – Nous voulons votre avis
The session on Career Access Professional Services – Campus and community partnerships, an inclusive foundation during the student journey and beyond convocation highlighted the importance of providing supports to students with disabilities during their transition into the world of work such as volunteer experience, part-time work experience, mentorship, help with disclosure, onboarding, coaching afterwards, as well as helping employers becoming disability-confident
The networking sessions are continuing to provide opportunities for people to be seen and heard and share their perspectives
The session End the Wait: Addressing the Shortfall in Disability Supports and Services in Canada addressed that in addition to inadequate income support, access to supports for daily living or for school or for employment is often very inadequate for people with disabilities, given the fragmented nature of support programs. Navigating the various programs that offer some support can also be a huge challenge.
Finally, a key point throughout the conference has been around action - addressing the barriers to programs & services. The importance of having people with lived experience that represent community-based organizations in decision-making roles as system managers is key to removing barriers.
Day 4 of the DWC2021 Virtual Conference yesterday was engaging and energizing, focusing on the theme Moving forward together towards full inclusion in employment! Find the highlights below:
Keynote speaker Neil Belanger, Executive Director, B.C. Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (BCANDS), spoke about Indigenous disability and employment -- barriers and opportunities, and brought an Indigenous lens to this initiative. We heard that BCANDS takes a holistic approach to provide the supports necessary for persons with disabilities to be successful in their position and path forward. Inclusivity is giving people the opportunity to stay connected to their communities and culture, regardless of what their culture might be. There needs to be a call to action for Indigenous people and be able to move forward and making sure employment is a high priority and that Indigenous people are involved in all planning aspects for Indigenous people living with disabilities.
In the session Shifting from sheltered work towards inclusive employment in Canada, we heard that there is a real need for government effort and that funding parameters have to change so that persons with disabilities can have real work with real pay. People with developmental disabilities and intellectual disabilities shared their struggles with employment and sheltered work. - "That was my first job. I was so naïve and I didn't know what I was getting into. I felt so used."; "Sheltered work sometimes is hidden for training, but then people are in training for up to 30 years."
We learned about a promising initiative from the team at Eviance around bringing in new leaders around disability knowledge, rights and research. This was an example of a program which is value-based, where they are intentionally trying to promote looking at disability issues from a broad-base, from younger activist persons with disabilities, in the session Realizing Leadership of Youth with Disabilities in Community-Based Employment & The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on School and Work Outcomes For Young Adults with Disabilities
The session Cross-Disability Accessibility and Diverse Intersectionality at Work was a powerful session with 118 participants. This panel had their own lived experience and were actively involved in overcoming and promoting an inclusive workplace. Their key message was that it takes strong organizational commitment to overcome layers of prejudice and discrimination. If you make the commitment, you can turn things around and create an inclusive workplace with positive programs and policies.
There was discussion on the empowering environment versus the focus on any individual and what does this mean across sectors, different places of work, and workplace parties, in the Employabilité, intégration et maintien en emploi: contribution des environnements capacitants, led by ergonomists. - "Don't trap workers with disabilities in one narrow job for their whole working life – provide different opportunities that help the person develop their work career." - We also heard that workplaces trying to be inclusive are facing ergonomics challenges with adjusting to limitations that people might found themselves in. - "Ergonomists can play an important role in adjusting the workplace environment to be fully inclusive."
The afternoon sessions had 200+ attendees, which included the plenary on Employee Engagement and Workplace Culture: exemplary movements going forward for engagement of employees with disabilities, and a delegate engagement opportunity on Reflections from the Conference: Moving Forward Together. The Plenary took on a fireside chat format, as we heard from cutting-edge organizations such as Microsoft and a small employer in Winnipeg on becoming disability-inclusive and how they are engaging employees and changing workplace culture, in hopes of providing motivation to other workplaces on what they're doing. The Reflections session gave delegates an opportunity to have their voices heard and profiled promising practices and initiatives.
The inaugural Chair of the DWC Advisory Committee, Michael Prince, Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy, University of Victoria, and member of the Canadian Disability Advisory Group (CDAG), closed the conference with a summary and synthesis of the conference to create a sense of hope and common purpose for 2022.


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Q: Double Marker Folium I want to have a custom markers on the map and unique popups for every markered dot.
The code below gives me what I want except for the fact that there are two markers for each dot - my custom and default one. How to leave only mine? Why there are two markers?
        fg_other_atms = folium.FeatureGroup(name="Other ATMs", show=False)

        geometry = gpd.points_from_xy(atm_other.longitude, atm_other.latitude)
        geo_df = gpd.GeoDataFrame(atm_other[['latitude', 'longitude', 'city_id',
                                             'region_id', 'trans_cnt','trans_amt']],
                                              geometry=geometry)
        geo_df = geo_df.set_crs(epsg=4326, inplace=True)
        gjson = folium.GeoJson(geo_df)

        for feature in gjson.data['features']:
            folium.Marker(location=list(reversed(feature['geometry']['coordinates'])),
                          icon=folium.features.CustomIcon('Icons/red.png', icon_size=(26, 35))
                           ).add_to(fg_other_atms)
            if feature['geometry']['type'] == 'Point':
                    b = folium.GeoJson(feature['geometry'])
                    popup = 'Кол-во операции    ' + str(feature['properties']['trans_cnt'])+ ' '  + '
Сумма снятий    ' + str(feature['properties']['trans_amt'])
                    b.add_child(folium.Popup(popup))
                    fg_other_atms.add_child(b)

        m.add_child(fg_other_atms)

A: It can be done this way:
        fg_other_atms = folium.FeatureGroup(name="Other ATMs", show=False)

        geometry = gpd.points_from_xy(atm_other.longitude, atm_other.latitude)
        geo_df = gpd.GeoDataFrame(atm_other[['latitude', 'longitude', 'city_id',
                                             'region_id', 'trans_cnt','trans_amt']],
                                              geometry=geometry)
        geo_df = geo_df.set_crs(epsg=4326, inplace=True)
        for row in geo_df.iterrows():
            row_values = row[1]
            location = [row_values['geometry'].y, row_values['geometry'].x]
            popup = 'Кол-во операции    ' + str(row_values['trans_cnt'])+ ' '  + '
Сумма снятий    ' + str(row_values['trans_amt'])
            marker = folium.Marker(location=location,
                                   icon=folium.features.CustomIcon('Icons/red.png', icon_size=(26, 35)),
                                   popup = popup)
            marker.add_to(fg_other_atms)


The film itself, if you have somehow never seen it, details the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia as they battle the evil empire of Darth Vader and his stormtroopers. At the time, there was no Emperor. The only other bad guy was Grand Moff Tarkin, played wonderfully by Peter Cushing. The three heros are joined by Solo's co-pilot, Chewbacca the wookiee, two droids named C-3PO and R2-D2 and the old and worn down jedi knight, Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi. They battle through the desert planet of Tatooine, through space itself, and eventually to and around the huge and destructive Death Star.
Released in 1977, the year after Jaws made the summer blockbuster what it is today, it was a landmark film that pushed film and sound technology as far as could be, introduced the massive marketing tie ins that we see today and has ended up spawing five other films, as well as countless books, comic books and TV shows. From Princess Leia's hair buns to Darth Vader's breathing, the look, sound and feel of the film is both unforgettable and instantly recognizable to most anyone today.
In re-watching it for who knows the current number of times now, I have enjoyed it as much today as I did when I first did when I was four years old. Even with the changes made by the director, George Lucas, once in 1997 and again with the release of the DVD's, the film still holds up and is arguably the finest of the bunch. The only other one that might be able to claim that status is it's sequel, The Empire Strikes Back.
Further, it is rather striking to see a film that had no qualms in painting in black and white colors - evil and good. The age old stories that Lucas chose to base his idea off of I think helped America get out of what President Carter called a malaise. It did not preach or apologize. Rather, it said the good guys win and the bad guys lose. And while we saw that message, we were taken on a glorious ride and were awed by the presentation. I'm sure Lucas did not intend for any politcal message. It was the later the he saw as his goal. But to combine both, I think gives this film extra credit.
The performances of the film are far better than I remember them. Of course Alec Guiness, as Kenobi shines. He always does. And the movie was the catalyst for Harrison Ford's career. But Mark Hamill as Luke, and Carrie Fisher as Leia are often underrated as actors. Yes, there are a few moments from Hamill that make one cringe (think when he is helping his uncle pick out the droids they will buy from the Jawas), but throughout, they both work off each other and the rest of the cast to create a totally believable world.
Then of course, there are the actor's faces you don't see. David Prowse as the menacing Darth Vader was perfect casting. And when combined with the voice of James Earl Jones becomes quite possibly the best movie villain of all time. Can you ever forget his first screen appearence coming through the door of the rebel ship? Anthony Daniels is perfect as C-3PO, always fussing about and nervous, chastising the lovable tyke, R2-D2. And R2 himself is one of the greatest creations of movie magic ever. His whistles and beeps are spot on every time, a testament to the sound effects crew, and Kenny Baker inhabits his metal skin with delight it seems. But the best of them all is Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca. His mannerisms are perfect, and once included with the sound, his snarls are menacing when they need to be and lovable when he is worried or joyful. And of course, the make-up was outstanding. He was a truly believable character, and a fan favorite - for this one at least. Until Gollum was created in LOTR, R2-D2, C-3PO and Chewie were the most incredible non-humans to ever grace the screen.
But of course, what would this film be without the special effects? Done with mat paintings, miniature models and blue screen, Lucas revolutionized special effects, to the point of starting many new studios and companies that live on to this day, most notably Pixar, THX and Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). Who will ever forget the feeling they had when they first saw the Millennium Falcon take off, or the first approach to the Death Star? Who can ever forget the thrilling Tie-Fighter/X-Wing dogfight at the end? These things were impossible to do just years before, and now, are unfortunately obsolete with CGI.
And this is my major gripe about the newer films. One of the things that I find most impressive about Star Wars now, is the way it was able to be made for what is considered a small amount of money for a film this size. It is not the highest grossing independent film in history for no reason. Something I had never considered before rewatching them recently was how little sets and locals were used. Just the desert of Luke's home, space and the Death Star really, with much of it aboard the Death Star. In contrast with the later films, which are constantly wisking the audience off to some other fanatastic local, it is telling. Lucas talks about how he wished he could have created those worlds as well, but money and technology were not available for him to do so. And thank goodness it was not. Much like the limitations that Spielberg had with Bruce the shark in Jaws, Lucas moves past his own limitations of budget and technical ability and ends up with a happy accident - a brilliantly conceived film that makes the audience dare not question the places, people and subject matter of the film. It sounds funny to say, but the smallness of Star Wars is what makes it so huge. Certainly not the smallness of the subject matter, but the smallness of the production itself.
The biggest issue is that of the Han Solo/Greedo meeting inside the Cantina. In the original, Han Solo shoots Greedo in cold blood as it should be. Yes, this is a cold, hard fact of the character. But children do not notice this. Yet he has now changed it twice. In 1997, when he first revisited the film, he made Greedo shoot first and miss. Now, he has them both shooting at the same time, and it is quite jarring to watch Ford's head dodge the blast.
As well, the scene with Jabba, though great to watch (especially since it was intended since the beginning) does create some unwanted consequences. First and foremost, it takes away the wonderful moment of Boba Fett's introduction in Empire (as well as Jabba's in Jedi.) He is not one of the most beloved characters of the franchise for no reason. Second, there was an urgency that Han Solo suggested in the original, which I always took to be because he wanted to skip town before Jabba caught up with him, especially as the bounty on his head is played up in the second film. Now that he has met with him, and gets a pass so to speak, it is a bit disjointed to have him still suggesting that they don't have much time, especially since he does not know that Stormtroopers are coming after them.
But I take these issues with a grain of salt. The overall picture is still a great ride, and as I said, some of the changes do add for the better. There are legions of Star Wars fans out there that are simply scary. In the run up to the release of the DVDs, I spent some time reading a few of the forums dedicated to the series, and I was simply mystified that people spend as much time as they do arguing over certian aspects of the films. I'll get into it a bit more when I finish up this initial series of reviews, but it was truly a culture shock to me. I consider myself a Star Wars fanatic (rather than a "fanboy" - a term I despise). But I cannot hold a candle to some people out there.
In the end, I am most pleased with the result of this first film's release on DVD. The picture itself holds up brilliantly. It is not dated in the slightest. And the memories it brings back by watching for the (what seems) millionth time are priceless, as they say in the MasterCard commercials. I won't be getting rid of my VCR tape of the original theatrical release, but I am glad to have a beautifully remastered DVD of one of my favorite movies (#4 in my list of favorites, if you remember correctly.) I will return with a review of The Empire Strikes Back soon. That is all.
"Second, there was an urgency that Han Solo suggested in the original, which I always took to be because he wanted to skip town before Jabba caught up with him, especially as the bounty on his head is played up in the second film. Now that he has met with him, and gets a pass so to speak, it is a bit disjointed to have him still suggesting that they don't have much time, especially since he does not know that Stormtroopers are coming after them."
Hey some one read my mind! :D I had the exact same problem. That and the fact that CG Jabba looks nothing like the puppet Jabba to me, but I guess thats my personal opinion.
I stumbled across your blog while I was doing some online research. I think everyone has seen at least some of the Star Wars movies; they appeal to all ages and to so many different cultures as well. Your discussion was very thoughtful and comprehensive. Nicely done!
It's very kind of you to say so. Thank you. Every comment counts and I truly appreciate you taking a moment and commenting yourself.