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By micheelob, January 16, 2009 in Hurricanes Talk
djharley
LocationHOPEFULLY ON MY HARLEY!!
I myself don't think anyone here is really a Cam hater as much as there are alot of people with very high expectations for Cam! When that happens you feel very dissapointed in his eratic play! Its hard to start off winning the CUP and MVP trophy in your 1st full season and not have people expecting that every year. So i know alot of people want to give it to the so called "CAM HATERS" but i really don't think there are that many of them,(IMO) Now that Cam & us as fans have dropped back to reality we all have to realize how young he is. I myself will put alot on Cam but when your a PRO that just comes with the territory! I'm sure everyone here wants Cam to do great but sometimes as a fan you get dissapointed/disgruntled or whatever you want to call it.
So i guess from time to time some of us may seems like "Cam Haters" but we aren't, we're "Cam Frustrators"
PDG2858
As said before, he's 24. He definitely has the potential to to be in the top 10 in the NHL, but he needs more time. I'm surprised that no one has taken the Miller story to heart here, considering our rivalry. If it weren't for Miller, I think we would have had a different game in Buffalo the other night. Now Miller is what, four years older than Cam? Look back at Miller's early years and they are right in line with Cam. Now, some may disagree, fine, but Miller is a solid netminder and has the potential to be a great one. Give Cam a chance and I think he'll turn out just fine. Not too many goaltenders can be stellar from the start to the end of their career, and even less start out great.
legend-1
Retired Jersey
LocationAkron, OH
Cam has had far more good games this year then bad...far more.
I agree, he's definitely taking steps in the right direction.
canesfan93420
I think u nailed it right on the head.
RuutuWooWoooo
Miller is currently an 11 to 15 goalie in the league, 13 in SV% and 15 in GAA. It's a good comparison for Cam and where he is likely to be in 4 years. This is where I expect Ward to be during the prime of his career.
The main point of discussion in this thread has been Cam and his potential. I would not dispute that he has potential to be better than average and expect him to be so in the years to come. However, judging based on what he has actually produced to date during regular season play, he is average. That is where his current numbers stand. I wonder how this thread would read if it was about Patrick Eaves' potential and development rather than Cam Ward who is both blessed and cursed for having won the Conn Smythe so young. (The Eaves thread is mostly about how he does not fit the Canes - very different. Point being that both Ward and Eaves have been considered high potential early in their careers with inconsistent successes yet are treated differently by fans.)
By what criteria are we judging performance? The NHL shows a total of 77 goaltender, of which 44 are considered active. They place Miller #4 and Ward #9 when they determine ranking by summary of statistics up through 1/21/2009. They rank Miller #18 and Ward #19 in GA and #16 and #21 respectively in Sv%.
If there are 44 goalies that qualify statistically, Cam's lowest rank is in Sv% and that is just about the middle, (average). However in other areas he ranks, IMO, above average. Taking age and experience into this I would say that Ward is an above average goaltender. Then again, we all know that old saying about opinions, don't we?
CardiacCane
Artus Irbe was the best Latvian Goalie ever! Just think how far Cam would have come if he could have the teachings of the Little Latvian!
Ward needs a good veteran back up to help teach him along with tom barrasso. That really is a great point and something carolina should think about investing in over the off season a veteran back up goalie.
canefan13
I'm forced to say this every time this topic comes up...what goalie are you going to get that is better? Because the ones performing at the very top of their game right now are not leaving where they are...and quess what, they haven't always been the very best either - they've let in soft goals, they have off nights and less than expected seasons. Cam has average, and even sometimes bad, nights. So what, every goalie does. He also has brilliant nights. Most of the time he has very good nights. Could he be better? Sure. Everyone can always be better. Do we expect him to get better as he gets experience, absolutely. Now lay off the kid for a while, and go pick on Rutherford some more.
carteretcaniac
I have to agree, that when you look at Cam's entire body of work, he is average. He can be spectacular, but he can also be a stinker. I watch a lot of hockey on Center Ice, and compared to a number of other goalies I see, Cam is truly an average NHL goalie. I suspect tja on atleast half o fth e temas in the league, possibly more, Cam would not be a starter but a back up.
We have some cam frustrators and we have some cam haters. Most teams in the NHL have a good backup for their starter so their starter can get some rest not the case for cam he has started every game this month wat are we up to 16-17 straight games he has started. Cam also played awesome against toronto and pittsburgh on back to back nights and both were away games. To give up 1 goal against pittsburgh is great but to do it when the night before u were in toronto posting a shoutout now that is something else. I am not sure if u actually watched the carolina vs pittsburgh game the other night but u have to be a very talented goalie to make some of the saves that he did. Why cant some of u just lay off the kid he is 24 and he is playing very good this season there are more games this season that he has done good in than bad. U guys still criticize him even after he had a shutout against toronto and gave up 1 goal against pittsburgh.
thank god someone else actually knows what they are talking about. It seems like we are the only one's who actually like cam ward. Some of these people act like cam is the only goalie who has ever had a bad night or let in some soft goals.
Your not the only ones, I think this topic is so far off the dumb-o-meter that I haven't participated.
caniac247
I'm with ya on that one.
But I do have one thing to say: He's 24 if you are expecting Brodeaur out of him at 24, then I say lower your expectations. If you didn't expect to have growing pains with Cam, then I'm not sure what to say. Every goalie at his age, goes through growing pains, goes through inconsistency. Now if he's 28 and still having these struggles, then fine, flame away all you want. But he's 24, he's going to have his moments, he's still learning and gaining that experience.
The worst thing was him winning the Conn Smythe at such a young age. Now everyone thinks he should be the best goalie out there and seem to forget that he's a 24 year old still finding his way in the game.
caniacgirl
that is exactly what i tried to get across in my comment and have been trying to convince people of since this whole thing started! his game has gotten so much better, especially since barrasso started working with him. i think people need someone to blame when the team does poorly and the goalie is often the easiest one to pick on.
Ive thought Cams had a very successful first half campaign, he stunk for 5 games in a row but that was a big offspring of the entire team sucking for 5 games.
He had a few bad games on his own in the beginning but for the first time for a real strech of games he was amazing and appears to have gotten back on his game. Just because his GAA is high you gotta consider how many of those games Cam stood on his head. Re-read Post Game Analysis if you have to alot of them are filled with stuff like "I know we got 4 goals against but that could have easily been 8 or 9 if it wasn't for Cam"
It's just amazing how fast fans forget and pull up stats despite 3 weeks ago everyone knowing full well Cam was doing fantastic for a rather long strech of a bout 15 games.
hag65
Clarkson Golden Knight of the Carolinas
1st off u need to learn how to spell that will be a start.
when the night before u were in toronto posting a shoutout now that is something else.
Sometimes it's just too easy.
I do remember Cam yelling out a big "hi" to all his peeps so maybe that is what you meant...
super_dave_1
Smiling Bob
LocationFeeling large
I still say that if this team was capable of scoring 3-5 goals on most nights, we wouldn't be having this discussion. There are times that a goalie has to bail out the team and there are times that a team has to bail out the goalie. I don't think the team has been able to bail out Cam much in the last 2 1/2 years.
caniac-97
LocationIn a corn field in Central Nebraska . . .
Exactly, that was the benefit of Lavi's system. we scored goals in bunches which would cover Cam having an off night every now and again. But when the team isn't producing more than one or two goals a night then it becomes an issue when Cam just lets in one. Cam is a good goalie but you can't expect him to shutout teams night after night because we aren't scoring any goals!! It is a team effort and if the team is sucking it up then there is only so much any goalie can do.
harleycane
I hear Gerber is available
Since 05/06, Lavi's system wasn't producing a lot of scoring, thus we are having this discussion about Cam's ability.
AvaCane
Haven't been here since last spring but I see we're in very similar situations. Avs / Canes that is.
Close in the league standings and looking at mediocre goaltending. I wish I had something more to offer. Our Peter Budaj is pretty awful between the pipes.
As per the stats on NHL.com, there are currently only 5 teams in the league with a lower goals per game average than the Canes. The Canes average GPG is 2.5. It is not surprizing that the top teams in the league (top 6) are all averaging over 3 GPG and the elite (top 3) are averaging 3.5. With these stats in mind, do we really want to lay the blame on goaltending or on offense?
Now I will agree with you that Cam has had his bad game here or there, but what goalie hasn't. I seem to recall Patrick Roy being chased a time or two in his career. The early Con Smyth trophy set the bar too high for a young goalie. In baseball, a lot of rookie pitchers look pretty good for a while and then the hitters figure them out. The good ones can fight through that and develop into dependable pitchers. Is it really any different for goalies in hockey? There has to be a better book on "How to Beat Cam" now than there was in 06.
To be an elite team, we have to average scoring 3 GPG and not 2.5 as we are doing now. Do that and this conversation ends about Cam.
not sure where else to put this but...
Brown, Ward, Hemsky named 'Three Stars' of the week
SECOND STAR -- CAM WARD, G, CAROLINA HURRICANES
Ward stopped 67 of 68 shots in posting road victories on consecutive nights, lifting the Hurricanes (23-20-5, 51 points) to the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference entering the All-Star break. He stopped 35 shots in recording his second shutout of the season and eighth of his NHL career in a 2-0 victory at Toronto Jan. 19 and made 32 saves in a 2-1 victory at Pittsburgh Jan. 20. Ward improved his season record to 18-14-3 with a 2.57 goals-against average and .911 save percentage in 36 appearances.
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A historical thread, the older posts maybe out of date and improved methods available, in more recent threads.
This is the reference thread for running KOReader on Kobo models. The support now is quite good and included in official nightly builds.
Source is available at https://github.com/koreader/koreader, you can also report bugs there.
- Put the image included in the zip (called "koreader.png") in the main folder of your kobo and disconnect it from your computer. Open the image on the reader, go back to the home and then, just to be extra-safe, reboot it.
Selecting the KOReader icon in your home, you will be able to launch KOReader. Simple enough, isn't it? Just be sure to process the image properly (follow those steps carefully) if it's the first time you install koreader, if you made a factory reset or if you deleted it in some way, otherwise you could end up launching koreader automatically at every boot, being unable to exit it without a factory reset.
When you install an update, it should be sufficient to extract the koreader folder, without KoboRoot.tgz - that one is needed to add the launcher.
Use koreader_old.zip for 2.5.x or older firmware (not really supported); for 2.6.1 use the nightly builds.
I've added a small pdf guide for installation; the steps outlined work on every model, not only AuraHD. Thanks @xping!
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please refer to the Koreader Wiki page.
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Any ideea why is not working on kobo aura?
Last edited by cgm999; 06-30-2013 at 01:59 PM.
How do I get this to start?
I have installed Kobo Launcher and edit its ini file to start a script file containing the line "/mnt/onboard/.kobo/koreader/koreader-kobo.sh /mnt/onboard"
It does nothing at all when I start this from .
Kobo mini running 2.6.1 here.
What other ways are there to start it? As I understood it "tweaks" does not work with 2.6.1.
Thanks for the work on koreader! But I have problems to start it. I am using glo at 2.5.2 with kobo tweaks.
1. In your attachment the start shell script file is "koreader_kobo.sh" but the above code you mentioned is "koreader-kobo.sh".
2. I added one line in kobotweaks.ini as below. It does nothing when I click koreader button on tweaks Tools menu. Is there something wrong here?
Thanks for noticing the typo. Your line in kobotweaks.ini is identical to mine, so it should work. Are you able to run other commands? If the software is actually started and it crashes somewhere, a file called crash.log should be present hinting at the cause, could you post the contents if it is there?
When you launch Kobolauncher, you will see in the menu Koreader, just touch that.
thanks Giorgio: unfortunately it does not work for me: I launch the command form kobolauncher, but nothing happens. I have a mini. Any ideas?
Yes. I can run other commands (for example: KoboLauncher.sh).
The crash.log file only has one line: "Segmentation fault"
This is what I tried first.
Koreader shows up (of course), but clicking on it does not have any affect.
Are you running under the 2.6.1 firmware? I think that may be what is preventing us from having it work. I would go back to an earlier firmware, and try, but I can wait.
Yes, I'm on 2.6.1 (like I wrote in my first post).
And I can see in the log file of Kobo Launcher that KL did execute the command, but that's all I can see.
I tested koreader (koreader-v2013.03-207-gd7df349.zip) on my glo with 2.5.2 fw. It doesn't start and I get a "Segmentation fault" in crash.log.
I use the "Kobo Tweaks" by ah- to start it.
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I think next week I will try some oriental soups for the kids as this week we had been having cream soup. R personally doesn't really like creamy soups so maybe a clear base one would be a better choice so that the whole family can enjoy.
Do your kids love soup too?
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300 different soups? wow! I've been meaning to learn to cook soup. My daughter's a picky-eater. I'm kinda hoping soup would somehow give her the appetite.
I love creamy soup! But my hubby and kids like clear soup. Oh, well!
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have been cooking soupy meals these days because my youngest and i are sick with the cough and sniffles…sigh.
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Me n DinoEgg love soup, he loves mushroom while I'm ok with almost every soup. Sadly I do not usually make my own soup, just open a can and heat it over the stove.


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Zooming into the Courtroom
Grace Monzel, Associate Member, University of Cincinnati Law Review
"As the year [2020] ended, the United States surpassed 20 million infections from SARS-CoV-2, and more than 346,000 deaths," according to the American Journal of Managed Care.[1] On March 19, 2020, California was the first state to issue a statewide Stay-at-Home Order, which mandated all residents to stay at home unless a person had an essential job or needed to shop for essential products.[2] Other states soon followed suit as COVID-19 infections began to spread, which ultimately prompted and necessitated the adoption of online work and communication.[3] These orders caused all professional industries to make significant changes.
Due to COVID-19, courtrooms have increased the use of video conferencing technology in order to safely and effectively hold trials. According to the Zoom Blog, "legal proceedings around the country have looked very different amid widespread social distancing and stay-at-home mandates during COVID-19."[4] For example, the Illinois Supreme Court conducted oral arguments over Zoom.[5] Since many courtrooms have implemented and used video conferencing technologies during the pandemic, it is crucial to determine whether these technologies should continue to be regularly used once legal proceedings begin to return to normal. The following article will explore the pros and cons of implementing video conferencing technology in the courtroom as well as its impact on the protection of defendants.
Videoconferencing technology has allowed courts to safely and effectively hold trials during the pandemic. Videoconferencing occurs when:
The party appearing in court from a remote location sits in front of a monitor with a camera and a microphone that capture video and audio data… the courtroom where the proceeding is taking place also is equipped with an audio and video setup. Video and audio data are transmitted between the remote party and the courtroom via a network connection, according to the RAND Corporation.[6]
This allows the parties in both locations to communicate in real time rather than requiring a physical appearance in a courtroom.[7]
Videoconferencing technology is currently used in federal, state, and local courts for a variety of purposes.[8] For example, the technology allows witnesses, victims, defendants, and experts to remotely appear in court and present evidence.[9] Today all 13 federal appeals courts use some form of videoconferencing technology.[10] Some courts, such as the 19th Circuit Court in Illinois, provide step-by-step instructions regarding how to set up and use the videoconferencing technology for those participating in a trial.[11] This illustrates that many courts throughout the United States have quickly adopted and implemented videoconferencing technologies in the courtroom successfully.
The use of videoconferencing technologies in the courtroom may be subject to state or local-level protections which can vary by jurisdiction.[12] Further, regarding criminal courts, a defendant's constitutional rights must be protected when using these technologies, which includes rights stated in the Fifth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment.[13] According to Cornell Law School, "in criminal cases, the Fifth Amendment guarantees the right to a grand jury, forbids "double jeopardy," and protects against self-incrimination. It also requires that "due process of law" be part of any proceeding that denies a citizen "life, liberty or property.""[14] Under the Sixth Amendment, criminal defendants are guaranteed the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to a lawyer.[15]
Many courts that use videoconferencing technologies have decided to implement them during pretrial court proceedings for defendants, whereas attorneys, witnesses, victims, and language interpreters generally make an appearance via video during pretrial and trial proceedings.[16] Since there is a constitutional right to confront witnesses, it is predicted that this right will likely limit the use of videoconferencing technologies in criminal cases.[17] This is because "in-person action is particularly important in jury trials, where determining witness credibility is so central," according to Bloomberg Law.[18] However, there are still many civil proceedings such as settlements and status conferences that can be conducted through videoconferencing while adequately protecting defendants' rights.[19]
Lastly, it is important to note that many people working in the legal field want to continue to use videoconferencing technologies after the United States returns to normal working conditions. Even judges and lawyers who were skeptical of implementing the technology now say that it has made depositions, jury selection, and oral arguments more efficient.[20] The chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court said, "We're going to be doing court business remotely forever," according to Bloomberg Law.[21] On the other hand, many in the legal profession are eager to return in person and eliminate the use of videoconferencing technologies. The chief justice of the Southern District of New York stated, "We can't wait to be in a position to get rid of video in criminal cases. It really doesn't work," according to Bloomberg Law.[22] Due to these conflicting views of the use of videoconferencing technology in the courtroom, the following analysis will explore the pros and cons of regularly implementing videoconferencing technology as well as its impact on the protection of defendants.
III. Analysis
A. Advantages of Adopting Video Conferencing in Courtrooms
There are many benefits to adopting video conferencing technologies in courtrooms. The following will explore each benefit and discuss the potential impact on a defendant's rights and protections.
i. Benefits Regarding Health and Safety
Due to the global pandemic, the health and safety of every party involved in a trial is crucial. Adopting video conferencing technology allows trial participants to participate remotely in a safe, zero-contact way. This has helped to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and has potentially saved many lives. Future pandemics could occur, so continuing the regular use of videoconferencing technology after the United States returns to normal can ensure that another huge and unprepared transition to online trials will not occur. Training future judges, attorneys, and others involved in trial proceedings and having them use videoconferencing technology regularly will keep everyone prepared for any future health crises. This will ultimately better protect defendants because when the coronavirus entered the United States, courts were unprepared and as a result every state canceled or significantly limited in-person criminal court proceedings, thus delaying defendants' trials and arguably their right to justice.[23] These delays also caused many defendants with health problems to request plea deals in order to avoid being held in jail for an unknown length of time.[24]
By being prepared and having the option to use videoconferencing technology, trials can be held more efficiently, as video reduces the time it takes to transport everyone into a court room, especially when there is limited availability and social distancing during the pandemic.[25] Further, sick defendants can better avoid contracting dangerous diseases.[26] Lastly, safety can be improved by using videoconferencing technology. "By allowing individuals to appear in court remotely, telepresence eliminates the need to transport defendants and offenders from correctional facilities to courthouses, reducing potential threats to the safety of court personnel, corrections staff, victims, witnesses, and the public," according to the RAND Corporation.[27]
ii. Benefits Regarding Victims, Witnesses, and Experts
Regularly implementing the use of videoconferencing technology creates many benefits in regard to victims, witnesses, and experts. One potential benefit is cost savings. Videoconferencing reduces the amount of money spent on the transportation of defendants, attorneys, witnesses, experts, and more.[28] People who live out of the state or far from the courthouse could have the option to participate in trials via videoconference thus saving time and money. Videoconferencing could also potentially reduce trauma for victims. Victims of crimes such as sexual assault could use videoconferencing to testify against a defendant without having to being in the same room as the offender, thus allowing victims to feel safer and more protected during trial.[29] Lastly regarding witnesses, "some judges feel that Zoom hearings allow them to truly assess witness credibility since they are making prolonged eye-to-eye contact, often on a large screen in their courtrooms. Such a format allows for fewer distractions and more focus on the witness than in a traditional courtroom," according to The National Law Review.[30]
Overall, videoconferencing provides increased health and safety precautions to those involved in lawsuits, as well as the general public. Further, victims can feel more protected when going to court virtually, and money can be saved by allowing witnesses and experts to appear remotely via video. Therefore, regularly implementing videoconferencing in the courtroom provides greater protection to all parties participating in trial proceedings and the regualr use of it should be encouraged when the pandemic is over.
B. Disadvantages of Adopting Video Conferencing in Courtrooms
There are also some cons to adopting video conferencing technologies in courtrooms. The following will explore each con and discuss the potential impact on a defendant's rights and protections.
One concern is that judges are not always able to have full control in a virtual courtroom.[31] Unforeseen technological issues can occur and this can cause problems during trials. Judges also may not be able to tell if witnesses or others participating in the trial are being coached by third parties or are using notes, which can hurt the integrity of a testimony.[32] It is also harder for the factfinder to judge a witness's mannerisms since they may not be able to see subtle acts such as shaky hands on video.[33] Another concern is that third parties could potentially take illegal recordings of a trial on their cellphones outside of the view of the videoconference screen without anyone being able to notice.[34] This leads into the concern that confidential information could be more easily disclosed via videoconferencing and hackers could figure out how to obtain this information.[35] Lastly, there is a concern that the use of videoconferencing could harm the attorney-client relationship as it can be more difficult to have private conversations via video.[36]
Overall, these are all important concerns to consider when deciding whether videoconferencing technologies should continue to be implemented in courtrooms. These technologies should add value to protecting defendants and these concerns must be addressed as the virtual courtroom continues to become widely used. Although there are cons to implementing videoconferencing technologies in courtrooms, these cons can be addressed. As videoconferencing technology evolves, judges will likely be able to have greater control over virtual courtroom proceedings and solutions for more secure viewings by the public can be created, such as using more secure software to prevent hacking.
Further, the pros of implementing videoconferencing technologies arguably outweigh the cons. Adopting videoconferencing in courtrooms creates a stronger protection for defendants as well as those involved in the trial process. As explained previously, trial proceedings can be delayed for many reasons so having the additional option to conduct trials virtually better protects defendants' right to a speedy trial and arguably their right to justice. Lastly, witnesses and experts who live far away and are unable to attend a trial due to transportation or other costs could more easily attend via video, which results in a stronger protection of defendants.
In conclusion, videoconferencing technology should be regularly implemented after the pandemic when the United States has returned to normal. However, it is crucial to balance the pros and cons of implementing video technology in order to fully protect defendants. Videoconferencing should be used when it is too expensive to transport beneficial experts and witnesses. Victims should have the option to appear remotely via video in order to feel safer during trial. Further, if there are health risks and safety concerns, videoconferencing provides a safe alternative and will help prevent courts from having to stall and delay trials in the future. On balance, it is important to find videoconferencing options that can better protect confidential information and prevent illegal recordings of trials. Criminal trials should be conducted in person as much as possible, but many civil trials can be made more efficient with the use of video. Courtrooms have done a great job rapidly adjusting to the impacts of the coronavirus in order to protect defendants, and the implementation of these new videoconferencing technologies can continue lead to even greater protections for defendants in the future. The United States is ready to zoom into the courtroom.
[1] A Timeline of COVID-19 Developments in 2020, The American Journal of Managed Care (last updated Jan. 1, 2021), https://www.ajmc.com/view/a-timeline-of-covid19-developments-in-2020
[3] Jiachuan Wu, Savannah Smith, Mansee Khurana, Corky Siemaszko and Brianna DeJesus-Banos, Stay-at-home orders across the country, NBC News (Mar. 25, 2020), https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/here-are-stay-home-orders-across-country-n1168736
[4] Matt Torman, Zoom Court Is Now In Session: How the Legal World Has Pivoted to Virtual During COVID-19, Zoom Blog (July 23, 2020), https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-virtual-law-firm-virtual-courtroom-during-covid-19/
[6] Camille Gourdet, Amanda R. Witwer, Lynn Langton, Duren Banks, Michael G. Planty, Dulani Woods, and Brian A. Jackson, Court Appearances in Criminal Proceedings Through Telepresence, RAND Corporation, at 3 (last visited Apr. 13, 2021), https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3200/RR3222/RAND_RR3222.pdf
[10] Allie Reed and Madison Alder, Zoom Courts Will Stick Around as Virus Forces Seismic Change, Bloomberg Law (July 30, 2020), https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/zoom-courts-will-stick-around-as-virus-forces-seismic-change
[11]Zoom Instruction and Protocol Sheet, 19th Circuit Court (last visited Apr. 13, 2020), https://19thcircuitcourt.state.il.us/DocumentCenter/View/2812/Zoom-Instruction-and-Protocol-Sheet?bidId=
[12] Camille Gourdet, Amanda R. Witwer, Lynn Langton, Duren Banks, Michael G. Planty, Dulani Woods, and Brian A. Jackson, Court Appearances in Criminal Proceedings Through Telepresence, RAND Corporation, at 3 (last visited Apr. 13, 2021), https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3200/RR3222/RAND_RR3222.pdf
[14] Fifth Amendment, Cornell Law School (last visited Apr. 13, 2021), https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fifth_amendment
[15] Sixth Amendment, Cornell Law School (last visited Apr. 13, 2021), https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/sixth_amendment
[23] Melissa Chan, 'I Want This Over.' For Victims and the Accused, Justice Is Delayed as COVID-19 Snarls Courts, Time (Feb. 22, 2021), https://time.com/5939482/covid-19-criminal-cases-backlog/
[29] Id. at 5.
[30] Shalini Nangia, Julia A. Perkins, and Erika L. Salerno, The Pros and Cons of Zoom Court Hearings, The National Law Review (May 20, 2020), https://www.natlawreview.com/article/pros-and-cons-zoom-court-hearings
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Let us take care of your Friday night plans for the whole month of October – come and celebrate harvest with us by trying something deliciously different every week. Each Friday night, you will be thoroughly treated to a range of scrumptious local food, delightful drinks and unbeatable entertainment for the evening. The chance to experiment with your taste buds!
Hosted by a different guest speaker each week, we are offering you the chance to see and taste the decadent alcoholic delights of what your local County; Hampshire, has to offer.
From Sparkling Wine grown and pressed on our very own estates, to the glorious gin giant that is Bombay Sapphire!
Join us from 7pm – 9pm every Friday in October 2016 (the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th).
Tickets can be purchased individually – for any of the four Friday October evenings of your choice, £50 each, or all four Fridays for £160.
Your chance to sample 7 wines from local Hampshire Vineyards.
Hosted by the passionate Vineyards of Hampshire team, we will begin with offering you the truly unique chance to get an interactive look into their wineries and speak to the people directly involved with all aspects of the Vineyards, including the winemakers themselves. The evening will be hosted by French winemaker Didier Pearson. The wines will be delicately and accurately complimented by a range of fresh, local Hampshire Cheeses.
Hosted by Alistair Gibson from Hermitage Wine Cellars.
Join us in trying a selection of pure quality gins, vodkas and liquors, all local to the Hampshire area. Food for the evening will be delicious local fish platters, to compliment the delicate flavours of the gins.
Hosted by BBC2 Joe Wadsack.
Something entirely different for wine expert Joe to come and talk about. The extraordinarily entertaining personality and passion Joe has for wine also lies in his love for beer. Complimented by a mouth-watering range of succulent local Hampshire charcuterie.
Hosted by Ian Kellett and the Hambledon Team.
To round off the end of the fantastic course, enjoy an evening of luxurious canapes and freshly-made, refreshing Hampshire Cocktails.
Tickets for the 4 weeks are on sale now for £160 per person, or £50 for each evening if purchased for individual/ one off evenings.
Each truly unique and exclusive event consists of; numerous varied tastings of a range of spirits and alcoholic beverages each week, fantastic local food and nibbles each evening, as well as the evening hosted by a guest speaker each night.
Guaranteed education, entertainment and excellent fun.


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Scott Quigg and Jamie McDonnell retain titles in Liverpool
Last updated on 22 November 201422 November 2014 .From the section Boxing
Bury's Scott Quigg now has a fight record of 30 wins (22 KOs), 0 defeats and 2 draws
Britain's Scott Quigg defended his WBA world super-bantamweight title with a unanimous points win over Japan's Hidenori Otake.
Despite sustaining a large cut to the right eyebrow, Otake was able to take the bout to the judges, who scored it 119-109 119-109 118-110 to Quigg.
Quigg, 26, now has 30 career wins and has successfully defended his world title for a fifth time.
"He took all my shots. Fair play to him, he was a tough man," said Quigg.
Manager Eddie Hearn confirmed the victory over Otake was Quigg's last action of the year, with IBF super-bantamweight champion Carl Frampton a potential next opponent.
"Scott has earned a holiday over Christmas, but we're looking at 28 March in Manchester," said Quigg. "It takes two to tango, we want those big fights and we're pushing for them all the time."
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McDonnell's win sets up a March unification fight against Japan's WBO champion Tomoki Kameda in Las Vegas.
"That's where my future is, in a big unification fight next year. I am going to bring another world title back to Britain." said McDonnell.
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Orchid Gardens: Make Your Garden A Wildlife Sanctuary!
Make Your Garden A Wildlife Sanctuary!
Winter is the season when birds need our feeders more than ever. Still, now that the weather's getting a little warmer, they certainly won't mind a little something extra! A lot of the pre-mixed bird foods you'll see on sale use cheaper ingredients, for example beans, dried rice and lentils. All you need is a few simple components to create bird food much better than any you can buy at any garden centre. Mix some melted lard (with no margarine) with a mixture of different seeds – sunflower seeds, nyjer seeds, millet and peanuts are all popular choices. Then, pour this mixture carefully into a container that will be able to weather the elements, like half a coconut shell. Just leave it to set, and you'll be all done. You can keep squirrels away from it by hanging the feeder from the end of a branch with some string.
Installing a pond in your garden is a fantastic way to add a whole new dimension to your garden, and provide a habitat to a lot of wildlife. It will be a source of drinking water for small mammals and birds, and provide a home to frogs, toads, newts, and a range of insects. You can even get a few koi or other fish if you feel up to caring for them. No matter how large or small your garden is, there's usually at least some space for a bit of standing water. Even on a small, urban patio, simply filling a large container with water, and adding some plants, stones and other pond supplies can be enough to bring so much more wildlife into your garden.
These fascinating beetles are endangered in the UK, but one simple feature can make their fight for survival so much easier. All you have to do is get your hands on a standard plastic bucket, then cut holes of at least two inches around the base and sides. Next, dig a hole in a quiet corner of the garden, deep enough so that the rim is only just below the ground. Then, start filling the bucket with soil and bark chippings, and simply wait for the beetles to move in naturally. Stag beetle larvae can live for up to five years, so it's important you place it somewhere where it can't easily be disturbed by cats or foxes. You may not love creepy crawlies, but you'll be doing your bit to sustain the country's delicate ecosystem.
There you have just a few great ways to make your garden a haven for wildlife.
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A senior traffic officer from the MET has issued his force a target to fine ten cyclists per month, according to The Times.
Chief Superintendent Glyn Jones has since clarified that the order has been slightly misinterpreted and that the ten ticket target covers a range of offences, including some unable to be commited by cyclists.
Officers within the force, many of whom cycle, have said the request amounts to discrimination and have asked how issuing the £50 tickets will save lives.
As part of 'Operation Safeway', a large amount of the MET police's traffic resources are currently focused on tackling bad behaviour from motorists and cyclists at key junctions in London. However, there are already suggestions that officers are plucking a higher ratio of cyclists from traffic.
A 'die-in' is planned for tomorrow evening at Transport for London's Southwark offices in protest of the lower spending per head on dedicated infrastructure that cycling receives, despite increasing numbers using the roads.
To read the full story, see The Times.


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HISAT2 for paired end reads

Description

This tool aligns Illumina paired end reads to publicly available genomes.

 You need to supply the reads in FASTQ files. The files can be compressed with gzip.
        Note that if you have more than two FASTQ files per sample (for example, Illumina NextSeq produces 8
        FASTQ files per sample), you need to provide also two list files containing the file names in order to assign
        the
        FASTQ files to each direction. Please produce the list files using the tool "Utilities / Make a list of file names".

List files are optional if you have just two FASTQ files. Chipster will try to assign the files to directions
        based on file names.
        This assumes the files are named so that the beginning of the name is identical and the directions are specified
        with _1 and _2,
        e.g. Abc123_1, Abc123_2. If your files are named differently, you need to provide list files to make sure
        the files are assigned
        correctly.

Parameters

Genome (list of supported genomes) [latest human]

RNA-strandness (unstranded, FR, RF) [unstranded]

How many hits to report per read (1-1000000) [5]

Base quality encoding used (phred+33, phred+64) [phred+33]

Minimum intron length [20]

Maximum intron length [500000]

Allow soft clipping (yes, no) [yes]

Are long anchors required (yes, no) [no]

Details

        HISAT2 (hierarchical indexing for spliced alignment of transcripts) is a highly efficient system for aligning
        reads from RNA sequencing experiments.
        HISAT2 uses an indexing scheme based on the Burrows-Wheeler transform and the Ferragina-Manzini (FM) index,
        employing two types of indexes for alignment:
        a whole-genome FM index to anchor each alignment and numerous local FM indexes for very rapid extensions of
        these alignments.
        HISAT's hierarchical index for the human genome contains 48,000 local FM indexes, each representing a genomic
        region of ~64,000 bp.

        HISAT2 searches by default for up to 5 distinct, primary alignments for each read, but you can change this
        number.
        Primary alignments mean alignments whose alignment score is equal or higher than any other alignments. It is
        possible that multiple distinct alignments have the same score.
        The alignment score for a paired-end alignment equals the sum of the alignment scores of the individual mates.
        Note that HISAT2 does not "find" alignments in any specific order, so for reads that have more than 5 distinct,
        valid alignments,
        HISAT2 does not guarantee that the 5 alignments reported are the best possible in terms of alignment score.
        By default soft clipping is allowed, meaning that the ends of the read don't need to align if this increases the
        alignment score.

        If you are planning to do transcriptome assembly afterwards, you should set the long anchor parameter to yes.
        With this option, HISAT2 requires longer anchor lengths for de novo discovery of splice sites. This leads to
        fewer alignments with short anchors, which helps transcript assemblers improve significantly in computation and
        memory usage.

After running HISAT2, Chipster indexes the BAM file using the SAMtools package. This way the results are ready to be
        visualized in the genome browser.

Output

        This tool returns the following files:

hisat.bam: BAM file containing the alignments

hisat.bam.bai: Index for the BAM file

hisat.log: Summary of the alignment results

Reference

This tool is based on the HISAT2 package. Please
        cite the following article:
        Kim D, Langmead B and Salzberg SL.  HISAT: a fast spliced aligner
            with low memory requirements Nature Methods 2015.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The Bay of Fundy is facing increasing industrial pressures, from coastal mega-quarry proposals to large-scale tidal turbine projects to the construction of an export terminal for oil from the Tarsands. This increased push for industrial activity is taking place before a proper conservation plan is in place for the Bay of Fundy. This is unacceptable.


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If taxes, in the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, are the price we pay for civilized society, what are we to make of the ever louder, ever more powerful anti-tax brigades who see opposition to taxation—any taxation—as patriotic obligation? As progressives, we disagree with them. We believe that society has a price, and it's one we're willing to pay. But no matter how tempting it may be, we can't stubbornly hold fast to our position without acknowledging that there is something to the anti-taxers' critique. The tax system is arcane and needlessly complex, a Byzantine maze that even the Treasury secretary had trouble navigating. As a result, government has become akin to a distant relative—one whom you hardly know, who shows up routinely with his hand outstretched, asking for a donation.
But while the anti-taxers have diagnosed the correct problem, they've prescribed the wrong solution. Rather than simply demanding tax cuts—or hikes, for that matter—we can work to open the tax system up, to show taxpayers how it works and where their money goes. In the process, we might be able to change the discussion around taxing and spending, making it less ideological and more relevant to the challenges of our day. Presumably, Americans will never like paying their taxes. But with the right policy proposals—and with their implementation—they might not despise doing so.
The authors of this piece have discussed one such proposal in the past ("Can't Wait 'Til Tax Day!," Democracy, and "A Taxpayer Receipt," Third Way Idea Brief). We believe that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should release personalized receipts to every individual taxpayer. With this article, we intend to fill in the details, to show how and why our proposal should become reality. The receipt would be straightforward enough: Individuals would receive them each year they file. This receipt would display services rendered and break out costs depending on the amount you paid. For simplicity's sake, the receipt would be no more than a page long. Additional details would be available on an IRS website, the address of which would be located at the bottom of the receipt.
The reasoning behind such a receipt is equally straightforward. The businesses with which Americans interact everyday provide receipts for a wide array of transactions; some even offer to eliminate the charges if their employees forget to give you one. No matter if you're buying coffee to get through the morning, or a new minivan to take the kids to soccer practice, the logic is the same. The receipt proves what you purchased and how much you paid for it. It tells you bluntly: You paid X, and you got Y. Clear as a bell.
To create the receipt, we had to rely on only basic math. Displayed is each item's percentage of the federal budget multiplied by the amount a person pays in taxes. For example, in fiscal year 2010, the Department of Veterans Affairs had a budget of $124.6 billion out of a total federal budget of $3.721 trillion, or 3.3478 percent. A median household pays $6,883 in income and FICA taxes. Calculating 3.3478 percent of $6,883 yields $230.43—the amount a median household paid in taxes that went to fund the VA.
The receipt would use cash accounting rules to keep it simple. As such, it would reflect only the spending in the government's budget for a given year. It would not list the amount of the deficit and debt, but it would list annual interest payments on the debt. Similarly, it would not show the fiscal obligations for future Social Security payments, but rather the current payments for Social Security. Trust funds for programs like Social Security and interstate highways would be treated as having a single, aggregate source of revenue despite their dedicated taxes. That is consistent with cash accounting rules and the imperative to keep the receipt both simple and informative. The receipt would also show programs that are putting money back in taxpayers' pockets, such as the 2008 bank bailout, which has been returning money to the government as banks pay back the taxpayer funds used to rescue them.
The key to a successful receipt is making it customer-friendly. This means highlighting well-known programs and agencies such as Social Security and the VA. It also means avoiding jargon; phrases like "domestic discretionary spending" are part of the lingua franca of budget wonks, but don't mean a thing to most people. As we discovered while designing the model receipt in this article, conflicts between depth and length are inevitable. Anything more than one page will be overwhelming, but anything too compact will fail to be sufficiently illuminating. Our goal is not simply to replicate the entire federal budget for every taxpayer, but to distill it into useful information. The amount paid for specific agencies is more interesting than broad categories (e.g., the FBI vs. law enforcement). But listing only specific items will produce an excessively large "other" category. No one will trust a receipt that appears to be obscuring government spending.
Such conflicts could be resolved relatively easily by making more information—the unabridged version of your receipt—available on the Internet. Taxpayers should be able to access their receipt online, and then burrow deeper into the areas of the budget that interest them for one reason or another with the click of a mouse. Any taxpayer who files a tax return electronically could receive an email version of the receipt with links to more details. Of course, a printed version would still be necessary for the millions of Americans who file by mail. As with the rest of this proposal, all the requisite data are available, just waiting to be presented to the taxpayers.
In her recent report, Olson noted that a receipt would be "relatively easy to generate." But politicians, as we know, excel at mucking things up. Any of the decisions related to the construction of the receipt—whether it is about the accounting method or how to characterize spending on controversial issues such as war and welfare—would be fraught with rampant opportunity for political manipulation. A receipt designed to advance the progressive agenda could, for instance, use categorization techniques to overemphasize the defense budget while minimizing contributions to Social Security; conversely, a receipt created by conservatives could do the same by labeling welfare payments in some way to demonstrate maximum offense.
Indeed, there is social science literature on the effects that different descriptions of policies have on public support. Although this "framing" problem could never be entirely eliminated, it could be minimized by lawmakers from both parties agreeing in the legislation on a set of categories for the receipt. Anything less than an upfront political agreement—something that the IRS by itself could not accomplish—would subject the receipt to partisan feuds after changes in power. Although an occasional revisiting of the receipt categories would keep it up to date, the receipt will fail if it is reduced to a political football. It must be widely seen and accepted as a good-government product, above the petty partisan squabbles of the day. We believe that the categories in the sample receipt displayed in these pages—which include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, military personnel and procurement, and foreign aid, among others—are accurate, nonreductive, and nonideological representations of budget reality.
Our emphasis on a balanced set of categories should not be misinterpreted to mean that we don't expect citizens to bring ideology to their receipts. Of course they will. Liberals, conservatives, and centrists will certainly have this or that to complain about. We'll never be spending enough for some; we'll never spend too little for others. The receipt, however, will bring such arguments closer to reality. By issuing receipts, the government would be demonstrating its trust in taxpayers to sift through the propaganda, look at the facts, and develop informed opinions. Evidence, as opposed to unsubstantiated assertion, would rule the day. The cost? For each taxpayer, about the price of a first-class stamp. Or less: Taxpayers who file electronically—about two-thirds of all returns—would receive a receipt by email. The information, after all, already exists. Additional administrative costs are likely to be minimal.
With a well-designed receipt, myths and misconceptions about taxing and spending that refuse to die would be met with a mortal blow—and, we hope, replaced with more sober arguments that better acknowledge how complicated our politics can be. For instance, the idea that most of your tax money goes overseas, in the form of foreign aid and goodies to other countries, is a favorite trope of the anti-taxers. Why should we spend our hard-earned money to fix other people's problems? asks this line of thinking. The thing is, it isn't true; as the model receipt shows, the amount the federal government spends on foreign aid, narrowly defined, is remarkably small, about $43 a year for a typical taxpayer. We spend a good deal more every year on, say, law enforcement and homeland security.
Such myths gain purchase because the federal budget, such as it is, lacks immediate political salience. Consider the recent fight over health care. The Obama Administration tried to paint its reform effort as a way to bring down skyrocketing costs. Lawmakers and officials deployed a flurry of charts and graphs to make the point that costs had gotten out of control. Yet the idea never took hold in the public's mind. This dynamic repeated itself only recently, when the recommendations of the President's budget commission went down not in flames, but with a collective yawn. Simple facts about government spending were viewed as too distant and too abstract to make much of a difference in one's policy preferences. A receipt would be a way of increasing public knowledge for everyone. By filing her federal tax return, the median taxpayer pays $1,355.13 for health-care programs that are both federal and state-based. Should we spend more? Or should we spend less?
Related questions would likely be asked about the amounts spent on Social Security and the debt. Given the heated political rhetoric surrounding the issue, the average contribution to the net interest payments on the federal debt—about $433.11—seems somewhat small; the amount the average taxpayer contributes to Social Security—$1,375.40—is higher. Do these numbers need to be adjusted? And, if so, how? Again, there would be many answers to such questions. But the ranks of those providing answers should not be limited to the expert, the wonk, and the political junkie. With the receipt in hand, all taxpayers would be capable of giving their own answers.
At first, the receipt would reflect a messy, chaotic government, with redundancies and inefficiencies clear to any taxpayer. Eventually, however, the receipt might act as a natural feedback mechanism, changing the reality it is charged to reflect. There's wisdom in the old saying: Sunlight really is the best disinfectant. Some of the worst excesses of government spending would be curtailed, one imagines, in response to citizen anger about what was visible on the receipt. Likewise, government programs currently underfunded but widely liked might receive additional boosts of funding. NASA, for instance, regularly receives the type of broad public support rare for federal agencies in Gallup polling, but is not as well funded as one might expect. And the erosion of myths about what government does would also have serious implications, adding substance to debates where now little can be found.
Over the long run, a receipt would have the effect of more closely aligning citizen preferences and policy outcomes, a fundamental goal of any democracy. On occasion, progressives and conservatives alike might not find these outcomes to their liking. Yet no matter your ideology, it would be hard not to cheer the increases in public knowledge and accountability that a receipt would leave in its wake.
The political philosopher John Rawls once wrote: "The public political culture is bound to contain different fundamental ideas that can be developed in different ways. An orderly contest between them over time is a reliable way to find which one, if any, is most reasonable." It almost goes without saying that we're a long way from living up to that standard. Politics today are chaotic and deeply unreasonable; some of the loudest participants are the worst offenders. A receipt won't reveal any final answers to great debates—it will be less a blueprint and more a point of departure. However, were it to be enacted, we hope that the ideal of reasoned debate it seeks to elevate could inspire the rest of our politics.
David Kendall is senior fellow for health and fiscal policy at Third Way.


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The North Dakota Public Service Commission (PSC) is holding a public hearing regarding a proposal to construct the 150 MW Brady II Wind Energy Center in Hettinger and Stark counties.
Brady Wind II LLC, a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, has submitted an application for a permit for the project and associated facilities.
All 72 turbines would be located in Hettinger County, and the facilities proposed, to be located in Stark County, are limited to underground electrical collection systems and cabling. Additional facilities include access roads, electrical collection systems and cabling, and meteorological evaluation towers.
The PSC says the total cost of the wind farm is estimated at $243 million. The project would be located adjacent to the southern boundary of the proposed Brady Wind Energy Center, which is currently under consideration by the PSC. The transmission line proposed to serve this center would also serve this second project.
The project area would encompass approximately 20,317 acres, and the permanent structures would occupy approximately 74 acres during operation, the commission says.
The public hearing will be held June 7 at 9 a.m. at Memorial Hall in New England, N.D. The PSC says anyone with concerns, questions or support/opposition for the project is encouraged to attend.
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Sport and physical activity help children to grow as individuals. They can also provide opportunities for enjoyment and achievement. Through sport and physical activity children can develop valuable qualities such as leadership, confidence and self-esteem. In order to gain the full benefits of involvement in an activity, it's essential that the organisation is operating in a safe and child-friendly manner.
It's also important that clubs, as well as their coaches and volunteers, have a good understanding of good practice when coaching children, young people or vulnerable adults. This will ensure that they can enjoy sport and physical activity within a safe and secure environment, where they and you feel protected and empowered to make the most suitable choices. Providing a positive sporting experience means that they will be more likely to achieve their true potential.
It's the responsibility of everyone involved to ensure that activities are safe and fun!
1. Do you have Clubmark?
Has your club achieved a quality standard such as Clubmark? If not contact your National Governing Body.
2. Are your coaches qualified?
All coaches should hold a current recognised National Governing Body qualification in the appropriate sport.
3. Do they have appropriate training?
It's recommended that coaches have attended safeguarding and child protection training. If coaches are working in schools it's recommended that they have attended Adults Other Than Teachers (AOTTs) training.
4. Are coaches and club personnel suitable to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults?
5. Are the coaches insured?
6. What is the player/coach ratio?
Contact the sport's National Governing Body for sport-specific guidance.
7. Does your Club have medical registers for participants?
Clubs/organisations/coaches need to be aware of any medication that participants are taking.
Your club/organisation should have or be working towards National Governing Body Accreditation, or equivalent, that outlines minimum operating standards of the sport. National Governing Body Accreditation ensures that the club is committed to providing a safe, effective and child-friendly environment.
Your Club/organisation should have a child protection policy, which outlines procedures for dealing with possible abuse. Parents/carers should be aware of the policy and be able to view the policy on request.
Your club/organisation should have public liability insurance.
Your club/organisation should have a written code of conduct for parents/carers, coaches, club staff/volunteers and participants.
The premises/venue should satisfy fire regulations.
Mechanisms should be in place to ensure the safety of the venue and equipment.
Your club/organisation should issue a consent form for all new members requesting details of emergency contacts and medical history.
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Star Wars Bits: Netflix TV Shows, Force Awakens Bit Parts, Rogue One Script and More
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2015 by Ethan Anderton
I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers mind you, I'm talking about the big Star Wars Bits now. Here's the updates we have from a galaxy far, far away this time:
Are three live-action Star Wars shows planned for Netflix?
Bob Iger has already seen The Force Awakens…mostly.
Simon Pegg talks his experience on The Force Awakens set.
Game of Thrones actors in The Force Awakens confirmed?
New LEGO Star Wars photography book coming in November.
Gary Whitta talks Star Wars: Rogue One writing process.
J.J. Abrams on pressure of directing The Force Awakens.
Header image: A photograph from the forthcoming photography book 'LEGO Star Wars: Small Scenes from a Big Galaxy,' which you can learn more about below!
A big rumor has popped up continuing the ongoing rumblings of live-action Star Wars TV shows being developed. However, Cinelinx is a little more specific with details this time saying that there are currently three shows in the works, and Disney is hoping to have them at Netflix, continuing the relationship they've built after putting the Marvel Studios TV shows, beginning with Daredevil, on the streaming service. Take this with a grain of salt for now, but if true, it'll be huge for Netflix.
Disney CEO Bob Iger recently revealed that he's already seen The Force Awakens. CNBC was speaking with Iger the potential future sale of ESPN and conversation turned to Star Wars, and that's when Iger said:
"I've seen the film without most of its special effects and without most of its music. I can't wait for the world to see it."
Of course he's not going to say anything more than that, and as the CEO of Disney, he's not going to say anything that isn't positive. But now you know that someone has seen a working cut of The Force Awakens besides J.J. Abrams and some of his crew.
Simon Pegg was finally confirmed to have a role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens when he popped up in the behind the scenes sizzle reel that debuted at Comic-Con, but we still don't know who he's playing. It appears to be some kind of alien where his face will likely be hidden. Now the Shaun of the Dead and Mission: Impossible franchise star has opened up a bit more about his experience to PopSugar:
"I was down there days when I wasn't working just to hang out and see everybody. Meeting the likes of Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill, and Harrison Ford — they were my heroes growing up. They still are. It was extraordinary, and I'm sure they find it hilariously funny. I was holding Carrie Fisher, like, 'I love you!' And I could see it, looking into her eyes, I could see the same eyes that I'd seen as a kid. It was literally a dream come true. They're all awesome. They're great people."
In addition, Pegg also revealed to AOL that the sizzle reel we all saw come out of Comic-Con was actually shot for the cast and crew to watch, and wasn't cut specifically for the San Diego crowd.
Game of Thrones actor Miltos Yerolemou (right) has been said to have some kind of role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens for a while now, but we still haven't heard who he might play. Now a new rumor has surfaced that may tell us who he's playing. According to StarWarsPost and MakingStarWars.net, the actor will be a patron at a bar inside a large establishment owned by Maz Kanata, the motion-capture alien character played by Lupita Nyong'o. This comes from a whole list of spoilers of what happens at this key location, and if you want to read them you'll have to check out the full article for the details.
In addition, Game of Thrones actress Jessica Henwick (left) has been rumored to have a role in The Force Awakens, but she's still playing coy about the whole thing. In a recent interview, when asked what she has coming up (via MakingStarWars.net), she nervously and knowingly laughs, saying, "I've got some stuff coming out later this year. Which I will be talking about shortly." The interviewer follows up, "In a galaxy far, far away, perhaps?," to which she slyly says, "No idea what you're talking about, mate." MakingStarWars.net also may have figured out who she's playing if you're curious.
If you love Star Wars and LEGO, then you may be interested in a new photography book coming out in November called LEGO Star Wars: Small Scenes from a Big Galaxy. The book will feature photographs of "painstaking recreations of classic Star Wars movie moments as well as irreverent takes on classic characters in the traditional LEGO Star Wars style."
The book is made up of photographs from Finnish photographer Vesa Lehtimaki, who used his son's favorite toys to create the images, along with a showcase of plenty of other LEGO Star Wars photography. You can see a sneak preview of what you might see in the book at StarWars.com right here. Otherwise, the book hits shelves on November 10th.
Gary Whitta, writer of Star Wars: Rogue One, talked a bit about the writing process for the first Star Wars Anthology film and explained how they had a larger Star Wars universe bible to draw from as well as being able to create stuff from scratch:
"A little bit of both. [Lucasfilm] really want[s] to give their writers and their creative people a lot of freedom, to tell the best story possible. But they're also aware of the fact that they're building this very large interconnected universe, now with all the comic books, TV shows, videogames, and films everything is now canon. So everything they do now going forward is canonically connected and has to be consistent as part of the same universe. No one is making the movies or the comics or the TV shows in a vacuum; everything is part of this one big consistent universe. Lucasfilm has a tremendous amount of institutional knowledge, you know. I know Star Wars fairly well myself, just as a fan, but they have experts there, people there who know the Star Wars universe inside and out. They're also are very aware of what else is going on in the other movies, and what their overall plan is."
Find out more from the interview at Blastr.
Finally, director J.J. Abrams appeared at the premiere of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, since he and his Bad Robot production banner produced the Tom Cruise action flick, and he was asked about feeling the pressure of directing Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Here's his response to Extra:
That's all for Star Wars Bits this time. Stay tuned for more soon!
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Sacramento START is building the capacity of individuals to succeed by providing opportunities to learn and lead within our communities. Sacramento START fosters enthusiasm for learning through fun and structured activities in a safe and caring after school environment for almost 1000 students at 5 After School and 5 Morning Elementary School sites.
Sacramento START opened its doors in 1996 at 13 schools. Today, Sacramento START is dedicated to providing its students with the knowledge, skills, and character traits needed to succeed in school and in the competitive world beyond.
The Recreation Aide will provide activities and assistance for groups of elementary school students in homework, reading, math, enrichment, physical activity, nutrition education, recreation and special events/family activities by selecting a variety of age-appropriate activities at a school site.
Assist with developing discipline techniques and classroom management.
School age fitness-oriented programs, sports, and nutrition curriculum and activities, preferred.
Demonstrated knowledge of, and the ability to assist instruction.
Pass a local assessment of knowledge and skills (NCLB) in assisting in instruction (details below).
College level coursework in child development, education, recreation or physical fitness is desirable.
The most qualified applicants will be contacted for an interview.
If hired, the applicant will then go through the process of certification, finger print/background clearance, T.B. test, and job training. All hired applicants must go through the entire process before they can work onsite with the students.
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Q: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=129742, result=-1, data=Intent { (has extras) }} to activity I have a fragment which contains data to be sent to another activity. Sending and retrieving one extras from the intent is working but not for other byte array. Please look into it.
Fragment class
        String userId = profile.getId();
        Bitmap bitmap = getFacebookProfilePicture(userId);
        ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, stream);
        byte[] byteArray = stream.toByteArray();
        Intent myIntent = new Intent(getActivity(), Main2Activity.class);
        myIntent.putExtra("name",name);
        myIntent.putExtra("image",byteArray);
        getActivity().startActivity(myIntent);

MAIN2ACTIVITY
    Intent intent = getIntent();
    String name = intent.getExtras().getString("name");
    byte[] byteArray = intent.getExtras().getByteArray("image");
    Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(byteArray, 0, byteArray.length);

The third line main2activity throws error : Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=129742, result=-1, data=Intent { (has extras) }} to activity
This is seems to be the main error
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean android.graphics.Bitmap.compress(android.graphics.Bitmap$CompressFormat, int, java.io.OutputStream)' on a null object reference

A: You can also try like this..
 Bundle bundle = getIntent().getExtras();
if(bundle!=null){
 String name =bundle.getString("name");
    byte[] byteArray =getIntent().getByteArrayExtra("image");
    Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(byteArray, 0, byteArray.length);
}

Tested It will surely help you...

A: From the error that you posted in the comments
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean android.graphics.Bitmap.compress(android.graphics.Bitmap$CompressFormat, int, java.io.OutputStream)' on a null object reference

it looks like error is at bitmap.compress line which means that the bitmap that you are getting this way is null.
Bitmap bitmap = getFacebookProfilePicture(userId);

That is why it gives an error when calling bitmap.compress. Try checking this function, you can also put debugger to confirm.

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Rosario Dawson and Danny Boyle are Dating
Slumdog Millionaire director, 55, and actress, 33, seen together in Brighton
It's T'Town's latest May-December romance. Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is dating stunner Rosario Dawson.
In pictures published by the Daily Mail, the filmmaker is seen walking hand in hand with Rosario in the seaside town of Brighton in England. The couple are also seen sharing a smooch.
He may not be much to look at, particularly as a match for Rosario, but Danny's doing alright professionally. There's that Oscar of course and his latest job was creative director of the spectacular and quirky London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.
Danny, 55, and Rosario, 33, met when he cast her in his latest film Trance, a thriller. And the Sin City actress already looks like she's enjoying the perks of dating a top Hollywood director as she was given a prime spot to view the Olympics opening ceremony on 27 July.
Rosario took to her Twitter page on the night to post an image from the stadium in London's Stratford, writing, "What an amazing honor to witness the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics!!"
She previously dated Sex and the City hunk Jason Lewis for two years before splitting in 2006. Danny split from his girlfriend Gail Stevens in 2002, after 20 years together. The couple have three kids together.
London Olympics Kick Off with Spectacular Star-studded Show
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Son of Hollywood legends Joel McCrea and Frances Dee to speak at Easton Library
Updated 9:27 pm EST, Thursday, December 5, 2019
In a Dec. 7, 1937 file photo, actor Frances Dee and husband Joel McCrea attend an event in Los Angeles. Peter McCrea, son of the couple, will be speaking at the Easton Public Library on Jan. 7.
Photo: William Grimes / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images
Peter McCrea, son of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, will be speaking at the Community Room of the Easton Public Library on Tuesday, Jan. 7.
Balancing two highly successful movie careers with their love of ranching, Joel McCrea and Dee were an anomaly among Hollywood stars, happily married for 57 years.
Dee's career started in the early 1930s. She appeared in more than 50 features, co-starring with Katherine Hepburn in "Little Women" (1932); Bette Davis in "Of Human Bondage" (1934) and Gary Cooper in "Souls at Sea" (1937), to name a few.
Joel McCrea worked with almost every great leading lady, including Barbara Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers, Veronica Lake, Jean Arthur and a 7-year-old Shirley Temple. He was a favorite of director Preston Sturges, and worked with a wide range of great directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, William Wyler and Sam Peckinpah.
Joel McCrea and Dee each have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and were both honored for lifetime achievement by the American Cinema Awards foundation. Joel McCrea won a Golden Globe, and was awarded a Career Achievement Award from the L.A. Film Critics Association. He was also elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame of great Western actors.
Peter McCrea will join film historian Jon Sonneborn in a discussion of Frances Dee and Joel McCrea's careers, followed by a screening of one of the films they starred in together, the Western "Four Faces West."
Easton Public Library, 691 Morehouse Road. Tuesday, Jan. 7, 7 p.m. Free admission. 203-261-0134, lzaffino@eastonlibrary.org
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If you've ever attended, worked at, sent your kids to, or wondered about a parochial school, Saint FEEEPS will definitely ring a bell with you. In this comic monologue, a calm, composed assistant principal leads the quarterly parent-teacher meeting in one building while all heck breaks out in the preschool building next door. As helicopters, SWAT officers, and fire trucks converge on the preschool, Assistant Principal Mary Margaret Nordstrum blithely proceeds through a catalog of school events, policies, and procedures that would send any public school denizens running for the hills. Nothing is too horrendous or scandalous or unexpected that it will daunt the fearless faculty of Saint Francis Ecumenical Evangelical Economical Parochial School. Needless to say, the faint-hearted need not apply.
Iris Chacon's family came to Florida in the 1700s. In Iris's wholesome stories, her characters find romance, mystery, and joy on the peninsula and its islands. Iris is the mother of two and, in addition to her novels, has written for radio, stage, and screen. She has also been a musician, teacher, and librarian.


In addition to presenting international guests, the HeadRead literary festival has always considered it vital to showcase gems of Estonian literature and give the audience an insight into the currents of the local literary scene.
For the first time, the programme features a morning coffee with Estonian authors who will present their poetry in Estonian as well as in translation; the programme also includes several recent award winners.
A rare chance to hear Estonian poetry read by the poets themselves in several languages is offered on the morning of 24 May at the Estonian Institute, where Veronika Kivisilla, Indrek Koff and Adam Cullen will present a selection of their works to a small audience. The intimate nature of the event comes from the size of the institute's offices which will be hosting the literary festival for the first time.
At the main festival venue, the Estonian Writers' Union, the traditional conversations between Estonian authors will continue. Life and work will be discussed by the winner of this year's Friedebert Tuglas Short Story Award Tiit Aleksejev and the winner of the Estonian Cultural Endowment Prose Award Martin Algus, as well as Mait Vaik and Paavo Matsin, Mudlum and Maarja Kangro, and Leelo Tungal and Tiia Toomet. There will also be an abundance of excellent Estonian literature at the Estonian Children's Literature Centre, where the winner of this year's Children's Literature Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment Andrus Kivirähk will talk, as well as children's authors Kertu Sillaste, Kristi Kangilaski, Els Heinsalu, Jaanus Vaiksoo and Wimberg.
One of the staples of the programme has always been an extensive poetry programme. On the opening day of the festival, 22 May, audiences can listen to the poetry of several generations at Kloostri Ait, where Eva and Indrek Koff with Sander Udikas and surprise guests will perform. The baton is then passed on to the bright young things and a total of ten up-and-coming young performers will present their work. On Friday, the fresh laureate of the Estonian Cultural Endowment Poetry Award Eda Ahi as well as Doris Kareva, Paul-Eerik Rummo, Kalju Kruusa, Igor Kotjuh and Aare Pilv will read poetry and poetry translations in Kloostri Ait. On the last day of the festival, 26 May, the traditional Poetry Mass is held at the St Nicholas' Church where the lineup includes both Estonian as well as international performers.
The evenings of the festival have always been filled with a different take on the written word. On Wednesday, the young students of the Old Town Educational College (Vanalinna Hariduskolleegium, VHK) will present their stage programme and the evening will continue at the KuKu Club with a poetry disco curated by Berk Vaher. Another fresh Tuglas award winner, Jan Kaus, will present a musical and lyrical programme with double bass player Mingo Rajandi at the Estonian Writers' Union on Friday evening, and on Saturday, the actors Maria Peterson, Marika Vaarik and Kristo Viiding will perform the programme "Timeless Texts in Temporal Theatre".
The full programme for the festival will soon be available on the festival website.
The HeadRead literary festival is held in Tallinn on 22-26 May.


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GW wins rubber match against Hawks
By Joel Goldberg Apr 4, 2011 12:00 AM
By the top of the second inning Sunday at Barcroft Park, baseball had staked an early 1-0 lead, and was on its way to a 6-3 win over Saint Joseph's.
Senior Tom Gately, GW's starting pitcher, however, yanked the cap off his head after seizing the ball back from the catcher. He couldn't seem to get a grip on his pitches.
"That was definitely frustrating," Gately said. After walking two and hitting one batter by a pitch in the first inning, Gately continued to miss the strike zone. In order to remedy his early struggles, Gately decided to make an adjustment.
"Instead of being super precise, I just had to throw to zones; just pretty much attacking the whole strike zone," he said.
Gately went on to pitch six innings of one-run ball. He also managed to strike out seven Hawks, despite surrendering four walks and two hit batters. Sunday marked Gately's first career start in Atlantic 10 conference play, and head coach Steve Mrowka blamed nerves for Gately's control problems.
"He came out that first inning overthrowing a little bit," Mrowka said. "The key is: You get two outs, you keep your composure, then you get the third out – they don't score."
"You can bend, you don't break. You leave guys out there, you can win a ball game. That's the science of it all," he added.
Gately had toed the rubber earlier in the week, when GW succumbed to a perfect game at the hands of top ranked Virginia. On Sunday, Gately knew the importance of finding his zone early.
"If we go a few innings without getting a hit, you can sometimes already see it set in," Gately said, citing GW's offensive woes. "For me as a pitcher, I definitely have to come up and throw zeros early in the game," he added.
During the first two games of the weekend series against Saint Joseph's, the scoreboard flashed few zeros. GW claimed a 6-5 victory Friday on the shoulders of senior Brendon Kelliher's five RBIs. Tumultuous weather highlighted Saturday's game, a 9-5 GW loss in which the bullpen took the reins after a stoppage of play, and promptly surrendered a grand slam. The home run squandered an 11-strikeout performance by starting pitcher Bobby Lucas.
"Yesterday, it was a shame. Bobby Lucas has never pitched that well. He was dominating. I mean, 11 strikeouts in five innings. They couldn't touch him," Mrowka said. "On a normal day, I mean that's a fly ball to left field, probably. But with a 100 mile-an-hour wind and hail, it goes into the trees, and it's a grand slam."
"This is a war of attrition," yelled a member of the GW bench Sunday, before the bottom half of the fourth inning, the score locked at 1-0. GW issued a salvo soon thereafter. With two men on, after an RBI groundout, freshman Owen Beightol scalded a liner beyond the reach of Saint Joseph's left-fielder for a two-run double, and a 4-0 GW lead.
In the top of the fourth inning, Mrowka had substituted in Beightol at first base. Although he currently leads the team with nine doubles and 17 RBIs, prior to his breakthrough at-bat, Beightol had been mired in a prolonged hitting slump.
"The last couple of days we gave him the opportunity to have a different vantage point by sitting on the bench," Mrowka said, "Hopefully we can get him back in there swinging the stick."
Sophomore Tyler McCarthy entered to pitch the final out of the game. He allowed one hit before inducing a fly ball. As soon as left fielder Stephen Oswald squeezed the ball in his glove, GW had clinched its first series victory of the season.
"The guys wanted this," Mrowka said, "That's how we look at it each weekend. Go in there and try to win two out of three."
Next, the Colonials travel to George Mason Tuesday, April 5, for a 3 p.m. game before returning to Arlington to host the Patriots Wednesday, April 6, at 3 p.m.


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