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Spotlight (film)
This article is about the 2015 film. For the 1927 film, see The Spotlight (film).
Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer.[4][5] The film follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States,[6] and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests. It is based on a series of stories by the Spotlight team that earned The Globe the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[7] The film features an ensemble cast including Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, and Stanley Tucci, with Brian d'Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, and Billy Crudup in supporting roles.[8]
Blye Pagon Faust
Steve Golin
Nicole Rocklin
Michael Sugar
Josh Singer
Masanobu Takayanagi
Tom McArdle
First Look Media
Rocklin/Faust Productions
Spotlight Film
Open Road Films
September 3, 2015 (2015-09-03) (Venice)
November 6, 2015 (2015-11-06) (United States)
129 minutes[1]
$20 million[2]
$98.3 million[3]
Spotlight was shown in the Out of Competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.[9] It was also shown at the Telluride Film Festival and the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[10] The film was released on November 6, 2015, by Open Road Films and grossed $98 million worldwide.[3] It won numerous guilds and critics' association awards, and was named one of the finest films of 2015 by various publications. Spotlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with Best Original Screenplay, from six total nominations.
1 Plot
2 Cast
2.1 Spotlight team
2.2 Additional characters
3 Production
3.1 Writing
3.3 Filming
3.4 Historical accuracy
4.1 Home media
5.1 Box office
5.2 Critical response
5.3 Top ten lists
5.4 Reactions from the Catholic Church
5.5 Criticism
6 Accolades
PlotEdit
In 1976, at a Boston Police station, two policemen discuss the arrest of Catholic priest Fr. John Geoghan for child molestation and a high ranking cleric talks to the mother of the children. The Assistant District Attorney then enters the precinct and tells the policemen not to let the press get wind of what has happened. The arrest is hushed up, and the priest is released.
In 2001, The Boston Globe hires a new editor, Marty Baron. Baron meets Walter "Robby" Robinson, the editor of the newspaper's "Spotlight" team, a small group of journalists writing investigative articles that take months to research and publish. After Baron reads a Globe column about a lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian, who says that Cardinal Bernard Law (the Archbishop of Boston) knew that John Geoghan was sexually abusing children and did nothing to stop him, he urges the Spotlight team to investigate. Journalist Michael Rezendes contacts Garabedian, who initially declines to be interviewed. Though he is told not to, Rezendes reveals that he is on the Spotlight team, persuading Garabedian to talk.
Initially believing that they are following the story of one priest who was moved around several times, the Spotlight team begin to uncover a pattern of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Massachusetts, and an ongoing cover-up by the Boston Archdiocese. Through Phil Saviano, who heads the victims' rights group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), whose members are interviewed by Globe reporter Sacha Pfeiffer, leading the team to widen their search to 13 priests. They learn through Richard Sipe, a former priest who worked at trying to rehabilitate pedophile priests, that according to his experience over decades, 50% of priests are not celibate, though most are in relationships with other adults. He also surprises the journalists that his findings would suggest their estimate of the numbers of pedophile priests is low, and that there should be approximately 90 abusive priests in Boston (6% of priests). Through their research, they develop a list of 87 names, and begin to find their victims to back up their suspicions.
When the September 11 attacks occur, the team is forced to de-prioritize the story. They regain momentum when Rezendes learns from Garabedian that there are publicly available documents that confirm Cardinal Law was made aware of the problem and ignored it. Although Rezendes argues vociferously to run the story immediately before more victims suffer and rival newspapers publish, Robinson remains steadfast to research further so that the systemic problem can be more fully exposed. After the Boston Globe wins a case to have even more legal documents unsealed that provide the evidence of that larger picture, the Spotlight team finally begins to write the story, and plan to publish their findings in early 2002.
As they are about to go to print, Robinson confesses to the team that he was sent a list of 20 pedophile priests by lawyer Eric MacLeish in 1993, which he never followed up on. But Baron still commends him and his team's efforts to expose the crimes now. The story goes to print with a web link to the documents that expose Cardinal Law's inaction and a phone number for victims of pedophile priests. The following morning, the Spotlight team finds itself inundated with phone calls from victims coming forward to tell their stories.
A textual epilogue notes that Cardinal Law resigned in December 2002 and was eventually promoted to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome before presenting a list of places in the United States and around the world where major scandals involving abuse by priests took place.
CastEdit
Spotlight teamEdit
Mark Ruffalo as Michael Rezendes[11][12]
Michael Keaton as Walter "Robby" Robinson[13]
Rachel McAdams as Sacha Pfeiffer[11]
Liev Schreiber as Marty Baron[13]
John Slattery as Ben Bradlee, Jr.[5]
Brian d'Arcy James as Matt Carroll[14]
Additional charactersEdit
Stanley Tucci as Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney representing victims of sexual abuse[13]
Gene Amoroso as Stephen Kurkjian, Boston Globe general investigative reporter[15]
Jamey Sheridan as Jim Sullivan, an attorney representing the Church[5][16]
Billy Crudup as Eric MacLeish, an attorney representing victims of sexual abuse[13][16]
Maureen Keiller as Eileen McNamara, Boston Globe columnist[17]
Richard Jenkins as Richard Sipe, psychotherapist (telephone voice, uncredited)[18]
Paul Guilfoyle as Peter Conley
Len Cariou as Cardinal Bernard Law
Neal Huff as Phil Saviano of SNAP[19]
Michael Cyril Creighton as Joe Crowley
Laurie Heineman as Judge Constance Sweeney
Tim Progosh as Principal Bill Kemeza
Jimmy LeBlanc as Patrick McSorley[20]
ProductionEdit
WritingEdit
The film was written by Tom McCarthy and co-writer Josh Singer. When McCarthy was asked how he and his co-author tackled the research and writing process, he stated:
As I said, I passed [turned down the film] the first time! That's probably some indication of how intimidating it was. But I think, as always, with any big assignment, once you get over that initial shock and awe of how much material there was to cover, you start digging into the material and become really fascinated by and engaged with it, and we did. And yeah, it was a lot of work, but it was exciting work. It was really interesting work, parsing through details of not just the investigation, but its findings, and trying to determine what was most helpful in telling our story. I think having two brains on it was somewhat helpful too, because we could talk through it a lot. So it wasn't just sitting alone in a room and jotting notes. We were dialoguing a lot about it. That particular collaboration did feel investigative and on some level, seemed to parallel some of the collaboration of the reporters in that investigation. So, I think there was something about our collaboration that made that initial process more palatable on some level.[21]
DevelopmentEdit
McCarthy and Singer completed the script in June 2013.[22] It was listed on the 2013 Black List of unproduced screenplays.[23] Singer told Creative Screenwriting that one of his goals for the film was to highlight the power of journalism, which he feels has been waning. He explained, "This story isn't about exposing the Catholic Church. We were not on some mission to rattle people's faith. In fact, Tom came from a Catholic family. The motive was to tell the story accurately while showing the power of the newsroom – something that's largely disappeared today. This story is important. Journalism is important, and there is a deeper message in the story."[24]
FilmingEdit
Principal photography began on September 24, 2014, in Boston, Massachusetts,[25] and continued in October in Hamilton, Ontario. Filming took place at Fenway Park,[26] the then-current Boston Globe offices in Dorchester, Boston,[27] the Boston Public Library,[28] and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.[29] The film's editor Tom McArdle said of the post-production process, "We edited for eight months. We just wanted to keep refining the film. We cut out five scenes plus some segments of other scenes. Often we would just cut out a line or two to make a scene a little tighter."[30] The Boston Police station depicted in the opening scene was filmed in Toronto at the former Toronto Police Service 11 Division station at 209 Mavety Street,[31] and the former Sears building on Islington Avenue in Toronto was converted into a replica of the interior of the old Boston Globe, where the bulk of the filming took place.[32]
Historical accuracyEdit
The visual blog Information is Beautiful deduced that, while taking creative licence into account, the film was 76.2% accurate when compared to real-life events, summarizing that "the only conceits are scenes of power figures warning off the journalists".[33]
The film only depicts the events leading up to the publication of the Spotlight team's first article, whereas the team actually continued publishing follow-up reports for nearly two years afterwards. As a result, certain events are depicted as having happened earlier than they actually did, including the scene where former priest Ronald H. Paquin freely admits to molesting children and having been molested himself.[34]
While Sacha Pfeiffer did indeed write the numerous follow-up reports on Paquin, the interview depicted in the film was a blend of two interviews conducted by her and Steve Kurkjian, both of which took place about a month after the events in the film took place. After the first story was published, Kurkjian rejoined the Spotlight team (he had been a founding member of the team before becoming the Globe's Washington bureau chief) to assist with further reporting on the abuses. Both Pfeiffer and Kurkjian have stated that the confession was a much more gradual process and Paquin didn't just "blurt it out," the way he does in the film.[34][35]
A scene where Matt Carroll discovers one of the priest treatment centers is down the block from where he lives is based on an actual discovery he made during the investigation, with one minor detail changed: Carroll actually lived down the street from John Geoghan, the priest whose case sparked the investigations. This was changed as the filmmakers thought the image of Carroll putting Geoghan's photo on his refrigerator to warn his children would look unrealistic.[36]
In a subplot, Eric MacLeish claims he sent a list of 20 priests to the Globe in 1993 but the story was buried in Metro: Robinson later admits he was the editor for Metro at the time and he likely overlooked the case. While the Globe did publish an article about the list of 20 priests, the Spotlight team did not learn this during their investigation. MacLeish himself revealed the article's existence while being interviewed for the screenplay by McCarthy and Singer. This revelation, along with Robinson's response to the filmmakers' inquiry, was incorporated into the screenplay for dramatic purposes.[37]
ReleaseEdit
The film "premiered to sustained applause" at the Venice Film Festival and the audience "erupted in laughter" when the film reported that following the events in the film Cardinal Bernard Law was reassigned to a senior position of honor in Rome.[9] It had a limited release on November 6, 2015, with its U.S. release scheduled for three weeks later on November 25.[38]
Home mediaEdit
Spotlight was released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on February 23, 2016.[39]
ReceptionEdit
Box officeEdit
Spotlight grossed $45.1 million in the United States and Canada and $53.2 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $98.3 million, against a production budget of $20 million.[3] The Hollywood Reporter calculated the film made a net profit of up to $10 million.[40]
In the opening weekend of its limited release, the film grossed $295,009 from five theaters ($59,002 average), one of the highest per-screen averages of any release of 2015.[41] The film grossed $4.4 million in the first weekend during its wide release, finishing 8th at the box office.[42]
Critical responseEdit
Spotlight received critical acclaim. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an approval rating of 97% based on 357 reviews, with an average rating of 8.83/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Spotlight gracefully handles the lurid details of its fact-based story while resisting the temptation to lionize its heroes, resulting in a drama that honors the audience as well as its real-life subjects."[43] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 93 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating "universal acclaim."[44]
Variety's Justin Chang called the film "a superbly controlled and engrossingly detailed account of the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the widespread pedophilia scandals and subsequent cover-ups within the Catholic Church."[45]
At the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Spotlight finished third in the audience balloting for the People's Choice Award.[46]
Top ten listsEdit
Spotlight was listed on many critics' top ten lists.[47]
1st – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
1st – Christoper Orr, The Atlantic
1st – Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
1st – Lou Lumenick, New York Post
1st – Rex Reed, New York Observer
1st – Ty Burr, Boston Globe
1st – Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
1st – Stephanie Zacharek, Time
1st – Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
1st – Kate Erbland, Indiewire
1st – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
2nd – Peter Debruge, Variety
2nd – Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com
3rd – Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter
3rd – Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
3rd – Inkoo Kang, TheWrap
3rd – James Berardinelli, Reelviews
3rd – Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
3rd – J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
3rd – A.O. Scott and Stephen Holden, The New York Times
4th – Jake Coyle, Associated Press
4th – Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
4th – Josh Kupecki, Austin Chronicle
5th – Anne Thompson, IndieWire
5th – Kristopher Tapley, Variety
5th – Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
6th – David Edelstein, New York Magazine
6th – Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
7th – Justin Chang, Variety
8th – Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
9th – Alonso Duralde, TheWrap
10th – Alison Willmore, BuzzFeed
10th – Tom Brook, BBC
10th – Kyle Smith, New York Post
Top 10 (listed alphabetically, not ranked) – Stephen Whitty, The Star-Ledger
Top 10 (listed alphabetically, not ranked) – Dana Stevens, Slate.com
Top 10 (listed alphabetically) – Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Best of 2015 (listed alphabetically, not ranked) – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Reactions from the Catholic ChurchEdit
In general, the film was positively received by the Catholic community.
Prior to the film's release, Cardinal Sean O'Malley of the Archdiocese of Boston issued a statement in the archdiocese's official newspaper, stating that the "media's investigative reporting on the abuse crisis instigated a call for the Church to take responsibility for its failings and to reform itself—to deal with what was shameful and hidden."[48] O'Malley had not seen the movie at that time but planned to do so according to a church spokesman.[49]
On November 9, 2015, a review published by the Catholic News Service called the film a "generally accurate chronicle" of the Boston scandal, but objected to some of the portrayals and the film's view of the Church.[50] On the Catholic News Service, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles Robert Barron said that it is "not a bad movie", as it shows how the wider community shares the responsibility for sexual abuse committed by priests, but that the film is wrong to insinuate that the Church has not reformed.[51]
Vatican Radio, official radio service of the Holy See, called it "honest" and "compelling" and said it helped the U.S. Catholic Church "to accept fully the sin, to admit it publicly, and to pay all the consequences."[52] Luca Pellegrini on the Vatican Radio website wrote that the Globe reporters "made themselves examples of their most pure vocation, that of finding the facts, verifying sources, and making themselves—for the good of the community and of a city—paladins of the need for justice."[52][53] In February 2016, a Vatican City commission on clerical sex abuse attended a private screening of the film.[54] Following the film's Best Picture win at the Oscars, Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano ran a column assuring that the movie is "not an anti-Catholic film", and Vatican Radio revealed that clerics in Rome have been recommending the film to each other.[55][56][57]
CriticismEdit
A January 8, 2016, article in The New York Times cited author David F. Pierre Jr., who said that Spotlight "is a misrepresentation of how the Church dealt with sexual abuse cases", asserting that the movie's biggest flaw was its failure to portray psychologists who had assured Church officials that abusive priests could be safely returned to ministry after undergoing therapy treatments. Open Road Films rebutted the detractor, saying he was "perpetuating a myth in order to distract from real stories of abuse."[58]
The film was attacked by Jack Dunn (played by Gary Galone), the public relations head and a member of the board at Boston College High School, for portraying him as indifferent to the scandal. Dunn says he was immediately aware of the issues involved and worked to respond after viewing the film.[59] Two of the Globe reporters depicted in the film, Walter Robinson and Sacha Pfeiffer, issued a statement in response to Dunn, firmly standing by their recollections of the day, that Dunn did "his best to frame a story in the most favorable way possible for the institution he is representing. That's what Jack did that day." They said Dunn mounted a "spirited public relations defense of Boston College High School during our first sit-down interview at the school in early 2002," the scene in which Dunn is depicted.[60]
On March 15, 2016, Open Road Films released a statement on how Dunn was portrayed in the film: "As is the case with most movies based on historical events, Spotlight contains fictionalized dialogue that was attributed to Mr. Dunn for dramatic effect. We acknowledge that Mr. Dunn was not part of the Archdiocesan cover-up. It is clear from his efforts on behalf of the victims at BC High that he and the filmmakers share a deep, mutual concern for victims of abuse."[61]
Following this Dunn also released a statement: "I feel vindicated by the public statement and relieved to have the record set straight on an issue that has caused me and my family tremendous pain. While it will never erase the horrific experience of being falsely portrayed in an Academy Award-winning film, this public statement enables me to move forward with my reputation and integrity intact."[61]
AccoladesEdit
Main article: List of accolades received by Spotlight
Spotlight has been critically acclaimed, and has been included in many critics' Top Ten Films of 2015 lists.[62] The film has received over 100 industry and critics awards and nominations. The American Film Institute selected Spotlight as one of the Top Ten Films of the year.[63] The film garnered three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director for McCarthy, and Best Screenplay for McCarthy and Josh Singer.[64] It was nominated for five Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay for Singer, Best Editing for Tom McArdle and Honorary Robert Altman Award for the cast.[65] Rachel McAdams and the ensemble cast received nominations for the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role and the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture respectively, with the cast winning the latter.[66]
The New York Film Critics Circle awarded Michael Keaton the Best Actor award,[67] while it won the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Ensemble cast at the New York Film Critics Online Awards.[68] Spotlight won the Best Film and Best Screenplay from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It received eight nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Score.[69] It won the Best Cast in a Motion Picture at Satellite Awards and was nominated for six other awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay.[70]
At the Academy Awards, the film received six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Ruffalo, Best Supporting Actress for McAdams, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing, winning Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. It is the first Best Picture winner to win fewer than three Academy Awards since The Greatest Show on Earth in 1953. At the time of its win, the film had made $39.2 million at the North American box office, which made it the second lowest domestically grossing film (adjusted for ticket-price inflation) to win Best Picture within the past four decades (after The Hurt Locker with $17 million).[71]
Spotlight was listed on over 120 critics' and publications' top ten lists.[62]
It was also voted the 88th greatest film since 2000 in an international critics' poll conducted by BBC.[72]
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Statewide smoking ban is dead, bill authors say
Corrie MacLaggan
Nov 13, 2009 at 12:01 AM Dec 12, 2018 at 9:04 AM
The authors of a proposed statewide indoor smoking ban declared the measure extinguished Tuesday, and one blamed the tobacco lobby.
"Big Tobacco is a powerful interest group to go up against," said the Senate author, Rodney Ellis, D-Houston. "But we made tremendous progress."
Ellis said that despite help from Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, he couldn't win enough support in the Senate. At a news conference, Ellis and Rep. Myra Crownover, R-Denton, the House author, vowed to bring the proposal back in 2011.
Twenty-seven states have passed comprehensive bans, according to Smoke-Free Texas, a coalition supporting the proposal.
"Texas will one day follow suit, but unfortunately, more people in the state of Texas are going to die because of secondhand smoke because we did not take action," Ellis said.
Secondhand smoke kills 53,000 Americans a year, according to the coalition.
"Secondhand smoke is not an annoyance — it doesn't just make your hair smell bad or burn your eyes," Crownover said. "It literally kills people."
Tobacco companies have hired 40 lobbyists who are earning between $1.2 million and $2.4 million this session, the Dallas Morning News reported.
The Ellis/Crownover proposal, which would have banned smoking at indoor workplaces, including restaurants and bars, was passed by a Senate committee, and a House committee approved a weaker version. But the measure — which was also attempted in 2007 — wasn't taken up on the House or Senate floor this year.
Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville, said it should be up to individual businesses to set smoking policies. And he said most people who are around secondhand smoke are exposed at home.
"I hate cigarettes," said Deuell, who is a physician. "I don't dispute the medical data that secondhand smoke is bad. I just don't think people are getting exposed at the workplace."
And Democratic Sen. Mario Gallegos Jr. said that since his city, Houston, already has a smoke-free ordinance, it's not right for him to tell other Texas cities whether to allow smoking.
Ellis said he chose to end his fight rather than accept amendments that would have gutted the bill.
The ban had support from groups such as the American Cancer Society and the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which are part of Smoke-Free Texas. James Gray, a lobbyist for the cancer society, said the coalition will work to ensure that the smoking ban becomes a campaign issue in 2010 state elections.
"Big tobacco spent millions to kill smoke-free legislation and they got to enough of our legislators to win this round," Armstrong, who was in Italy, said in a statement. "As we've seen in states all over America, it's just a matter of time before our efforts succeed. We are not intimidated by big tobacco and we will not give up."
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Mining, Quarrying and Exploration in Ireland
Mineral ownership in Ireland can be divided into two groups; State-owned and privately-owned. State-owned minerals are referred to as 'Scheduled' and broadly include the metalliferous, industrial and energy minerals. Bulk minerals such as stone, clay, gravel and sand are not vested in the State and are in the main privately-owned.
With the exception of the ordinary bulk minerals, exploration for and development of all other minerals is controlled by the Government. The agency responsible for the administration of regulatory aspects is the Exploration and Mining Division (EMD), a line division of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment.
Simplistically, exploration is undertaken under a licensing system and mining is controlled by State Licence, Lease or Permission. A Local Government-based statutory development control system is in operation which provides for an independent statutory planning appeals process. Planning permission is needed to operate any mineral development.
Practically all mines and the majority of quarries also require environmental impact assessment before planning permission can be obtained. In addition, all proposed 'scheduled minerals' developments require an integrated pollution control (IPC) licence after obtaining planning permission. The IPC licence is issued by the Environmental Protection Agency to control all aspects of air, water, waste and noise pollution. The Local Planning Authorities are responsible for the licensing and control of pollution from all other minerals developments.
Minerals developments are subject to other statutory obligations, for example safety, health and welfare, emission to air and water, waste management.
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Why This Group of Brands Should Pay Attention to McDonald's Roll Out of Pokemon Go Ads
Foot traffic shows opportunities
By Christopher Heine
Pokemon Go's first sponsored locations reportedly went live today in Japan, offering retailers the chance to create "gyms," which let players battle or train characters in the mobile game. According to TechCrunch, McDonald's is the launch brand and will use the ads for its some 3,000 restaurants in Japan.
Well, Hot Topic and Red Robin should keep an eye on how sponsored locations perform for McDonald's, per research by Placed. The location data company has been tracking a double opt-in audience of 1 percent of those who downloaded the Pokemon Go game during its first week, ending July 6, and then measured their real-world store visits.
It found that Pokemon Go users were 75 percent more likely to visit Hot Topic, which sells alternative-culture-related clothing and accessories, besting all other merchants. According to Placed, other retailers that Pokemon Go players frequently visited include Fred Meyer, Victoria's Secret, Express and GameStop.
The most popular restaurant was Red Robin, where Pokemon Go players are 44 percent more likely to eat at, per Placed's metrics, while Buffalo Wild Wings, Cold Stone Creamery, Steak 'n Shake and In-N-Out Burger round out the top 5.
Niantic, the maker of Pokemon Go, would be wise to get sponsored locations to the U.S. in time for back-to-school marketers, suggested Jen Dombkowski marketing director for Peanut Butter & Co.
"[That] shopping season is less than a month away, so it's likely that Pokemon Go will not have waned that much in popularity by then," Dombkowski said. "Given that the game appeals to both adults and children, it's an opportunity to drive foot traffic and add some fun to what can sometimes be a stressful shopping trip."
Meanwhile, here are the full top 10 lists from Placed's foot-traffic-based index scoring system for most popular restaurants and retailers, respectively, when it comes to Pokemon Go users. Additionally, the tech company offered a list of the 10 least popular businesses overall.
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For the first time ever, leaders in Greater New Jersey will be able to tune into a podcast designed specifically for them. With a purpose of empowering ministry, the new venture seeks to answer questions and hear thoughts, experiences and vision from GNJ United Methodists on both the conference and local church levels.
Dubbed "The Uncovered Dish" the podcast got its name after a creative brainstorming session by the GNJ communications team which plays off the beloved United Methodist tradition of a covered dish supper. Each episode uncovers a new dish, both literally and figuratively. Guests to the show are asked to bring their own unique plate such as their favorite food, a homemade dessert from a church member, or some kind of snack. Guests also bring their own distinct topics; sharing their wisdom, advice and life-experience with the show.
Primarily centered on leadership, each Uncovered Dish episode will cover a variety of themes. From church vitality, small groups, making new disciples, and worship, to interviews with various GNJ pastors, and local and statewide community leaders outside the church with valuable experience. Additionally, the podcast serves to cover and promote various events within Greater New Jersey.
Kaitlynn Deal, Communications Administrative Assistant, joins Lee as the podcast's co-host which makes for a vibrant duo whose gifts and personalities balance each other out. Both Lee and Deal enjoy listening to podcasts that make them feel as if they're hanging out with the hosts themselves.
"A good host is someone who makes the audience feel included in the hangout and facilitates the conversation in a way that produces great content," Lee said.
Episode one features worship. Director of Worship, Eric Drew discusses worship and songwriting by challenging leaders to feed into the creative space of music. Pastor Catherine Jordan-Latham of Monmouth Grace UMC is the second guest and talks about multicultural worship. The podcast seeks to give a voice to GNJ pastors in the field to share their real-world experience as they live out specific areas of vitality.
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Facts About Three Amigos! Most Of Us Didn't Know
By Brian Boone/Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 6:49 pm EST
In the midst of an '80s Western revival — which included big hits like Silverado and Pale Rider — came Three Amigos!, a loving parody of the genre and a send-up of Hollywood. Three Amigos! was a landmark in comedy collaboration, starring Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short under the direction of John Landis (Animal House) with a script co-written by Martin and Saturday Night Live mastermind Lorne Michaels.
While drawing elements from films like The Magnificent Seven, the plot was novel in that a group of movie stars are mistaken for actual heroes and get into some potentially deadly circumstances, an idea later borrowed by Galaxy Quest and Tropic Thunder. In this case, it's bolero jacket- and sombrero-clad silent-screen gunfighters Dusty Bottoms (Chase), Lucky Day (Martin), and Ned Nederlander (Short) who wind up in the Mexican village of Santa Poco after responding to a plea to help stop the villainous El Guapo and his criminal gang, initially thinking it's a movie offer.
Three Amigos! is a cult classic, what with its comic nonsense, musical horses, singing bushes, and widely imitated Amigos "salute." But even if you've seen the film multiple times, there are quite a few facts that even die-hard fans don't know. From the movie's origins to behind-the-scenes shenanigans, here's a look into the wild world of Three Amigos!
Three friends wrote Three Amigos!
It's a definitive movie of the mid-'80s, but Three Amigos! began life way back in the '70s, before co-writer Steve Martin was a movie star or had even done much screenwriting at all. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Martin was inspired after hearing the theme song of the 1944 Disney animated feature The Three Caballeros. "It was the late '70s when I came up with the idea of the three actors going to perform a show, and it becoming real," Martin told Empire. So, he enlisted two writers to convert that idea into a workable, marketable screenplay, but "that didn't work out." Martin says that it "was just very different. Very based on puns."
Some years later, Martin was visiting his friend, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels, at the latter's home on St. Barts. He showed Michaels the script, who thought Martin had a good concept but that he should abandon the screenplay and write a new one from scratch. Martin agreed, then recruited singer-songwriter Randy Newman. These three amigos then worked together on that script at Martin's house together, off and on for seven months.
The Three Amigos were almost played by different people
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Not only did it take the writers a while to get a workable Three Amigos! script, but the long lead time gave way to some monumental changes to the projected cast. From the get-go, the film was meant to be a vehicle for three big comedy stars who'd honed their chops on Saturday Night Live. "It was going to be me, Chevy [Chase], and [John] Belushi," star and co-writer Steve Martin told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015, adding, "And then Belushi said no." Of course, the actor's death in 1982 would've ultimately precluded his involvement.
In an early '80s interview with Playboy (via Vulture), Martin mentioned that at another point, the movie, then titled The Three Caballeros, was set to star himself, Belushi, and Belushi's frequent screen partner and SNL cohort Dan Aykroyd. At one point, Steven Spielberg was considering directing Three Amigos! as his follow-up to the action comedy 1941, and he wanted Martin to co-star with Bill Murray and Robin Williams. However, he made E.T. the Extra Terrestrial instead, John Landis got the directing job, and the final trio turned out to be Martin, Chase, and Martin Short, with his first-ever leading role in a movie. "He called himself the cheap amigo," Martin said.
Three Amigos! was supposed to help Lorne Michaels segue into filmmaking
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Three Amigos! stars three performers known for their association with Saturday Night Live — cast members Chevy Chase and Martin Short and frequent host Steve Martin. Additionally, the film was co-written by Lorne Michaels, creator of SNL and hands-on producer of the series since 1975, except for a five-year period in the early 1980s when he needed a break from the grind of making a weekly live television series and wanted to try other things.
Michaels was in a prime spot to make a big splash in Hollywood the way SNL stars like Chase, Bill Murray, and Eddie Murphy would. After all, he'd created a Friday night primetime sketch series called The New Show that wound up the third-least-popular show of the 1983-84 season, so movies seemed a better route. "I wasn't really focused on much other than Three Amigos! I'd spent the better part of 1984 writing it," Michaels said in the SNL oral history Live from New York. By spring 1985, the film was shooting under the direction of John Landis, and that's when NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff called Michaels and asked him to come back to SNL, which was in danger of cancellation. Michaels returned to his creation, abandoning a promising feature film writing career that began and ended with Three Amigos!
A comedy legend shot a scene that wound up cut and lost
Three Amigos! is obviously loaded with comedic talent. Not only do Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short headline the movie, but 1980s Saturday Night Live stars Phil Hartman and Jon Lovitz appear in smaller roles. The film was originally slated to include even more familiar, funny faces. Sam Kinison was one of the era's most popular and influential comedians, known for his darkly funny, screaming rants about the frailties of modern society. In 1986, he made his first major forays into movies, appearing as Professor Terguson in Back to School and filming a brief but wild scene for Three Amigos!
"Sam Kinison did a cameo as a savage mountain man, wearing chicken bones, with a bloody ax in each hand. Steve and Marty were caught in his trap and kept shouting at Chevy to shoot him," director John Landis told Empire. "It was very funny and insane." But sadly, the footage didn't make it into the final cut. Kinison and Chase didn't get along, and according to the late comedian's brother, Bill, Kinison believed Chase forced Landis to delete the scene. Landis, however, had a more reasonable explanation. "The film was too long, and I was looking for stuff I could lift without damaging the plot," he told Maxim in 2011. "I wish we could find that footage because it was outstanding."
Three Amigos! was shot on old Western sets
While set primarily in the small Mexican village of Santa Poco, Three Amigos! didn't film there — mainly because Santa Poco isn't a real place. The production never ventured into Mexico at all, in fact. While rumors persist that it was filmed in the same Mexican town as the classic Western The Magnificent Seven, Three Amigos! filmed extensively in the Southern California locale of Simi Valley. (The town the Amigos wander into — Old Tucson — was, however, where the John Wayne classic Rio Bravo was shot.) Beyond that, Three Amigos! was mostly shot on location in California's Mojave Desert.
However, the silent movie sequence in the film was shot in authentic, Old Hollywood environs. The production used the oldest still-standing exterior set on the Universal Studios lot, which had been built for an early 20th-century Western starring the once popular but now largely forgotten Tom Mix. As director John Landis recalled, during filming, trams full of visitors on the Universal Studios tour would come through "every ten minutes, and the boys would shoot their six-guns and dance for them."
The director didn't get final cut
It's got a running time of 104 minutes, but Three Amigos! could've been much longer had director John Landis filmed everything in the script and kept everything he filmed. According to star Steve Martin, one scene was too costly to shoot. "We get buried up to our necks by some weird tribe," he told Empire. "I clear my throat and announce, 'If you don't set us free, I'm going to make the sun go dark.'" Then the sun does darken, which would've been a pretty expensive shot.
There was also a detailed opening number set in 1910s Hollywood. "We did a very elaborate tracking shot following the Amigos as they walked to the studio head's office. Past open-air stages where things were being filmed — a jungle epic, a pie-fight, a contemporary melodrama, then finally The Duelling Cavalier, with Fran Drescher in a Marie Antoinette costume swooning over her lover," Landis recalled. Sadly, all of that was deleted was from the final cut.
That sequence was a casualty of Landis losing control in its post-production phase. "I was on trial and could only work at night," Landis said, referring to the involuntary manslaughter charges he faced after three actors died during a helicopter mishap on the set of 1983's The Twilight Zone: The Movie on his watch. "When I turned the movie over to the studio, Orion, they took over and removed a lot of stuff that I actually thought was great."
Chevy Chase didn't much care for Three Amigos!
Chevy Chase has two parallel reputations. The first is that he consistently makes excellent comedy films, like Vacation, Caddyshack, and Fletch. On the other hand, he's reportedly tough to work with and can be quite mean. That Chase was apparently in full force on the set of Three Amigos! According to Nick de Semlyen's '80s comedy history Wild and Crazy Guys, Chase didn't realize his microphone was live while waiting for a shot to be set up on the edge of a precarious cliff, and he made a dark joke about how three actors had died when Three Amigos! director John Landis had helmed part of The Twilight Zone: The Movie. A fistfight nearly broke out when Landis heard Chase's remarks, which came on the heels of other snide comments about how Landis' choices had soiled their previous collaboration, Spies Like Us.
In December 1986, Chase appeared on The Tonight Show to promote Three Amigos!, and he stuck around the stage when critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert came on to talk movies. When asked by host Johnny Carson about his least favorite Christmas season release, Ebert glibly replied, "Three Amigos!" Chase eased the tension, quipping, "Looking forward to your next picture." After the taping, Chase reportedly approached Ebert in his dressing room and said of Three Amigos!, "I don't think it's so hot either."
References to other Steve Martin movies abound
By the time Three Amigos! hit movie theaters in late 1986, star and co-writer Steve Martin had established himself as one of the most prominent comedy figures of the era, jumping from an extremely popular career as a stand-up comedian to acting in films like The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Man with Two Brains, and All of Me. Martin's movies were such a part of the common cultural knowledge that Three Amigos! filmmakers could get away with throwing in a couple of nods to those emerging '80s classics.
For example, a running gag in the detective movie send-up Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid finds Martin's character, Rigby Reardon, repeatedly shot in the left arm. That's where Martin's character in Three Amigos!, Lucky Day, is also shot and injured. And when the Amigos chant in order to awaken the Invisible Swordsman, Lucky utters, "Farley-farley-farley-farley-farley-hfuhruhurr!" In The Man with Two Brains, Martin played the ridiculously named Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr.
How Three Amigos! made a bush sing
Randy Newman is one of America's most familiar musical voices, a man known for his distinctive singing style, routinely Oscar-nominated compositions for Pixar, and bitingly humorous novelty songs like "Short People" and "I Love L.A." Randy Newman is not much of a screenwriter, with just one film credit to his name — Three Amigos! The film has so many songs in it that it's basically a musical, and writing all those ("The Ballad of the Three Amigos," "My Little Buttercup") marks Newman's primary contribution to the script (primarily the work of Steve Martin and Lorne Michaels).
He also provided some voice acting, with substantial pitch-shifting and modulation, to one of the movie's most memorable characters — the Singing Bush. Aptly named, it sings so loudly and obnoxiously that it doesn't even notice when the Three Amigos ask for it to confirm that it is, in fact, the Singing Bush of which they've heard tell. "That was in the screenplay," director John Landis told Movies.com, adding, "There were huge discussions about whether or not it should be animated or if we should see its lips moving. I said, 'Bushes don't have lips! I'm just going to make it look as ridiculous as possible.'"
The Three Amigos of pranks
Lorne Michaels co-wrote Three Amigos! during a break from Saturday Night Live, and by the time the film was released in late 1986, he was back in charge of the NBC late-night sketch comedy institution. He could also unabashedly use the show as a promotional tool for Three Amigos! On December 6, 1986, six days before the film opened in movie theaters, all three amigos — Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short — co-hosted SNL together. (The musical guest was none other than Three Amigos! co-writer Randy Newman.) And a highlight of the episode was a bit where Martin and Short came out on stage in suits, but Chase was dressed in his Three Amigos! costume — giant hat and all.
It's played off as a prank at Chase's expense. But according to Empire, there's a minor show business legend that Chase and Martin actually pulled this stunt for real at the film's premiere. "It almost happened," Short said. "The plan was that we were going to show up in our costumes, then at four o'clock it was decided we weren't. And their joke was, 'What if no one tells Marty?'" Martin said it would've been very funny, but that they ultimately opted against it, but then he and his castmates "tried to create a myth that it had happened."
Is there a possibility for more Three Amigos?
Three Amigos! seems like a natural candidate for a sequel, as Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms, and Ned Nederlander could've embarked on all kinds of Western-style adventures. But according to director John Landis in Empire, sequel thoughts ended "as soon as it didn't do well." Three Amigos! took in $39.2 million in theaters, a surprisingly low figure for a film with big stars like Chevy Chase and Steve Martin. But since the film became an enduring favorite thanks to home video and cable TV airings, and since all three main cast members are still kicking, why not another? "I don't think it's for us," Martin told the El Paso Times in 2019. "Maybe for someone younger."
That someone younger could be Chris Hemsworth. At the 2019 ACE Comic-Con Midwest, he floated the idea of a reboot with fellow Avengers: Endgame stars Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. "That was so sad about kind of finishing Endgame, was just, were we ever going to get to hang out again?" Hemsworth said (via LadBible). "And I immediately started thinking, 'What else could we do?'" His first thought? "We could remake the Three Amigos! or something."
And if those actual superheroes don't bring it back to screens, somebody else might take it to the stage. On a 2017 episode of The Tonight Show, Three Amigos! co-writer Randy Newman said that he "heard a rumor that they want to make a musical of it very possibly."


Turkey Coup: A Bond Plot Or A "Bay of Pigs" Back Stab?
Turkish President Recep Erdoğan has demanded that the United States turn over exiled cleric Fethullah Gülen for masterminding a weekend coup d'état to overthrow a turbulent regime. Around the world leaders of nations gaze in toward Turkey, with eyes a glow over the latest Istanbul intrigue. Like a chapter from an Ian Fleming novel, the curious role of Erdoğan in world detente grows more mysterious by the day.
On Friday night my son Rhett came outside where we were cooking out with friends to announce, "The Turkish military has just staged a coup to overthrow Erdogan!" Our party continued, by my analysis colleague Holger Eekhof commented at his late departure, "Now they can sleep, and we must do our job again." The "job" he referred to is analysis of exactly what went on behind the scenes in Ankara, and in other world capitals. Was this a real "coup", or a staged buyout of the western hegemony game? As is usually the case, Erdoğan story line leaves us with more questions and intrigue. Fethullah Gülen brought to the forefront though, this narrows the possibilities of who really was behind this alleged takeover. Washington says the Obama administration had nothing to do with it, Gülen fawns with sheepish disbelief he's been implicated, and Erdoğan is almost gloating in new-found strength.
Readers unfamiliar with Fethullah Gülen (at left) will want to understand this Turkish preacher, former imam, and political figures status. Gülen is the founder of the so-called Gülen movement. A former ally of Erdoğan, he is the most influential Turkish figure outside of the country's president, a man on a self-imposed exile in the United States, residing in Pennsylvania. In brief, it was Gülen's biographer Hakan Yavuz who described the mysterious Turkish cleric best. Yavuz characterized Gülen as "a Muslim thinker whose ideas resonate with Calvinism, because of his advocacy of neoliberal capitalism. These qualities also earned Fethullah Gülen some interesting friends in the CIA, and among subversive US policy makers. His "movement" has been compared to Opus Dei, and his efforts inside the United States and other countries speak to this. Gülen now manages a global empire of secondary schools, universities, business conglomerates, financial and media corporations, as well as a massive membership of Hizmet in Turkey and worldwide.
So, when other colleagues leaped up in cheering for the seemly opportunity of Erdoğan being deposed, I recalled some words from Russia's Vladimir Putin not long ago. At the the Valdai International Discussion Club at Sochi, in 2014, Putin announced a new course for Russia, a course departed from what he termed the "backroom horse-trading" of trivial deals in favor of real and transparent progress for all nations. It is my belief, that what we see happening in capitals around the world, is a frenzied political deal maker circus. It is a circus in which a Turkish knife throwing act bids for a bigger piece of the gate. Speaking literally instead of metaphorically, Erdoğan has made so many deals in these last years, just keeping up must require a team of assistants. Washington runs the money printing press, Europe has its vital "gifts" for the Erdoğan's new Ottoman Empire bid, and Moscow simply must be balanced or else. Democracy, democracy, democracy flows out of Erdoğan this morning, but is it all a show? Did the Obama administration condone a real coup? Or did Erdoğan create a hoax as a brand new bargaining chip?
It's no secret that those Gülen schools all over the world were intended to indoctrinate a new breed of Turkish middle class. And in Central Asia the rumors they served as cover for CIA operatives in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, who spied for the US government while working as English teachers bear scrutiny. But did the US, displeased with Turkey's most recent lack of cohesion, really give the "go ahead" to put Gülen in as a puppet? Erdoğan is on the hot sear. With the Turkey, Saudi, Qatar, US, EU backed Syria insurgency going badly now, and the refugee card almost played out, the Turkish president sits isolated, and with Russians ready to nuke Ankara. I guess a good question here is, "What would you do to get out of the frying pan?" My senses tell me Erdoğan knew of the talk of installing Gülen for some years, and that he planned on throwing Gülen Movement people inside Turkey into the fire all along. The logical answer is, the Obama people were at work insider Turkey already, and that Erdoğan gave his opposition this opportunity for purpose. The "coup" never stood a chance at all, or else Erdoğan could never have crushed it so easily.
The "staged coup" is a brilliant plan, but I do not believe it was Erdoğan's alone. Turkey's president now has Washington over a barrel, and NATO too. Deny sending Gülen back, and Turkey departs as America'st most important strategic ally versus Russia. If Obama gives over Gülen, and betrays all those machinations to prop him up, then America loses internal allegiances. Remembering Erdoğan's apology the other day, for the downing of the Russian SU 24 over Syria, it's not hard to figure Turkey's game now. NATO moves battalions to the Baltics and eastern Europe, and Turkey becomes the geo-political battleground. Cold War redux, just like a James Bond 007 back plot. ISIL is losing. Russia and Assad's forces, along with assistance from Iran, have sealed the fate of the Washington Arab Spring gambit. This Tyler Durden piece illustrates how Washington is reeling over its stumbling and fumbling in Syria. "Something is Going On" – And It's Worse Than You Thought" is what presidential hopeful Donald Trump thinks of Obamas and Hillary Clinton's messes. Trump frames the Obama administration for aiding and abedding radical Islam, and Durden proves he is right. Clinton and her handlers are the cause of all the messes in the Middle East. Erdoğan was an integral part of the Syria regime change, and now he's playing his cards.
Look at what has happened in the last week, and Recep Erdoğan's valiant defense of Turkish democracy will come into view better.
On Saturday of last weekend the NATO Summit in Warsaw saw an unprecedented deployment of elements aligned directly against Russia, including a key ABM system. The Washington Post editorial board called the new Cold War redux "a ray of light" in the dark aftermath of Brexit. The Russian's condemned the implications, and Vladimir Putin promised to counter. Newsweek also claimed last week, that Vladimir Putin had once again attacked Ukraine. Next Russia sent 5 long range Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bombers to destroy more key targets inside Syria on July 12th. These mission was an interesting one, but I shall not elaborate here. On Thursday U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow about Syria cooperation, but no news emerged. Then the ghastly terrorist attack in Nice occurred. ISIL has claimed responsibility for the horrendous suicide attack , which rocked France once again. On Friday Congress released declassified documents from 9/11 implicated the royals in Saudi Arabia, and suggesting the Bush administration may have protected some of the real perpetrators of the terror attack. Mainstream media scarcely even carried the story. Then the Turkey events unfolded.
The cloaks and daggers are flying. The Saudis were warning America not to release those documents two months ago, and the Saudi Embassy in the United States said that it "welcomes the release" of the suppressed pages now that only circumstantial evidence against the royal family is contained in them. Does this seem strange to anyone else out there? The New York Times sets the Obama administration up this morning, to do what is necessary to wriggle out of Mr. Erdoğan's allegations. All the forces of media, that the Obama White House controls, are scurrying to find a foothold, with rhetoric the "team" can use tomorrow. All indications are, the US is ready to throw Turkey under the bus. Everyone wants to know what is going on in Turkey, just how evil Erdoğan really is, and what part the US has played. The bottom line is, it does not matter.
The US wanted Turkey to have a new regime since a long time. Erdoğan and his contemporaries in the world have been wheeling and dealing for trillions for years. Putin's counter-play has continually frustrated those who would seal the fate of bordering nations. NATO is about to take a hit, unless somebody ups the ante for Mr. Erdoğan. He has Washington and the EU held hostage again. And it does not matter if Vladimir Putin's team schemed it up or not. Turkey into Russia's sphere, and the west's overall plans are pretty much cooked. I think the coup was a Bay of Pigs operation, it has CIA written all over it.


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The Senate passed HB 918 raising the standard deduction and lowering the personal and corporate income taxes. The Bill did not contain the jet fuel exemption for airlines as previously proposed. With the House's action, the bill goes to the Governor's desk for signing.
–Starting January 1, 2018, this tax year, the standard deduction will double for individuals to $4,600 (single), and $6,000 for married filing jointly.
–In Tax Year 2019, the top individual income tax rate and the corporate tax rate drop from 6% to 5.75%.
–In Tax Year 2020, the Legislature must vote to affirm the lowering of the top personal income and corporate tax rates to 5.50%.
These changes expire when the Federal Tax cuts expire on December 31, 2025.
As with all tax legislation, there are details. For more specific information, look up HB 918 at the address below.
–SB 82– Grants Georgia National Guard members and all Reservists stationed in Georgia, in-state status for HOPE scholarship qualification.
–SB 293– Requires employers of retirees of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia to pay both employer and employee portions of TRS contributions.
–SB 309– Special elections would be preceded by a special primary in case of death, withdrawal, or failure of officer-elect to qualify for office. Closes all polls at 7:00 P.M. regardless of population. Would end open special elections for vacated seats.
–SB 334– Georgia Board of Nursing becomes an independent state agency under the administrative authority of the Department of Community Health. Presently, the Georgia Board of Nursing is under the Secretary of State's jurisdiction.
–SB 339– Prohibits Board of Regents institutions from restricting freedom of speech protected under the First Amendment. Requires that they make reasonable efforts to protect campus speakers, to allow any faculty member or student to invite a speaker onto campus and to take additional measures outlined in this bill to protect freedom of expression.
–SB 376– Prohibits credit reporting agencies from charging consumers fees to place or remove a security freeze on their account.
–SB 432– Requires the state auditor to conduct an economic analysis of most business tax credits and sales and use tax exemptions by December 1st of every year until 2024. Each analysis must include annual estimated direct and indirect effects of the credits and exemptions over next ten years.
–SB 458– Exempts family farm owners with LLC's who have (1) previously renewed a conservation use property covenant without break, (2) maintained the farm under the covenant for 3 years and (3) a 65+ year old shareholder, member or partner who had a vested interest in the farm since before the covenant, from paying a covenant breach penalty.
–SB 236– Requires county Department of Family and Child Services (DFCS) to be notified when parents or guardians are convicted of a DUI.
–SB 318– Allows physicians, consulting with a paramedic or EMT who directly observed an individual, to evaluate the individual's need for involuntary mental illness and alcohol/drug abuse treatment.
–SB 349– Allows a Veterans Health ID to serve as satisfactory evidence for a notary confirming an individual's identity before notarizing his or her documents.
–SB 359– Consumer Coverage and Protection for Out-of-Network Medical Care Act– The "Surprise Billing Act" ensures a patient knows if any of the attending physicians are out of network and limits the difference that can be charged.
–SB 403– Requires that all voting systems after January 1, 2024 be optical scanning systems with verifiable ballots.
–SB 425– Establishes 2 categories of licensing, professional land surveyor and surveyor intern. Alters the coursework hours to apply to be a surveyor intern and to obtain a professional land surveyor license.
–SB 457– Requires public and private schools to conduct safety drills on already required school safety plans.
Full transcripts of bills may be found at https://www.legis.ga.gov/en-US/default.aspx . Simply type the bill number into the box at the top left-hand corner of the screen and specify if it is in the House or the Senate. The FY 2018 budget (H.B. 44) may be found at https://www.senate.ga.gov/sbeo/en-US/AppropriationsDocuments.aspx. As always, I welcome any questions you may have.


Late last year, pupils from St Paul's Catholic School in Milton Keynes gathered only 3 miles away from Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing famously cracked the Enigma code during the Second World War, to take part in their own code-breaking challenge.
Small teams of Year 9 pupils battled it out in a series of tasks requiring them to decrypt secret messages as quickly as possible.
The event was organised by me and my fellow Open University maths PhD student and STEM Ambassador, David Martí Pete. We were aiming to give pupils a broader sense of what maths is really about: solving problems.
Although our research is not in the area of cryptography, we both feel that logic and problem solving are by far the most important skills used in our day to day life as maths researchers, and are also skills that are highly sought after by employers.
During the two hour session pupils encountered a series of increasingly difficult codes, from simple substitution cyphers, where each letter of the alphabet is simply replaced with another, through binary number coding, to the final 'mystery cypher' challenge that required pupils to analyse the frequency of letters occurring in the coded passage.
It was great to see pupils thinking outside the box, and they came up with some really innovative ways of tackling the challenges. What we liked best though was how well the pupils really came together as teams, nominating team leaders, dividing up the work where appropriate, and supporting and encouraging one another.
The competition was close, with all teams finishing within a few points of each other, and we actually had a tie for first place.
All pupils worked hard though, and definitely earned the certificates they were presented with at the end of the session.
Being so close to Bletchley Park really helped to put the session into context, and we spent a bit of time discussing with pupils the events that took place there during the Second World War.
The timing of the workshop was perfect too, as it was shortly after the release of The Imitation Game, a film looking into the life and work of Alan Turing, and just before the opening of registration for the 2015 Alan Turing Cryptography Competition.
This competition, which begins today (26th January), is open to teams of school pupils up to Year 11, and involves solving a series of cryptographical problems much in the style of our workshop.
To find out more about the competition, or to register a team, visit the 2015 Alan Turing Cryptography Competition.
Our 'cryptic challenge' workshop was based loosely on one developed by the University of Leeds as part of a HEFCE funded More Maths Grads project.
This entry was posted in School-University Engagement and tagged competition, Engaging opportunities, engaging with school students, HEFCE, postgraduate research, SUPI on Monday, 26 January 2015 by Mairi Walker.


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Q: retrieve reverse multiple records of rails association I have two models product and category.
I am able to make successful queries like Category.products etc.
Product.rb
belongs_to :category

Category.rb
has_many :products

Now I want to retrieve only those categories that has at least one existing product.
I tried like this :
 @categories = Category.where(Category.products.present?)

# returned error undefined method `products'  also changing to product didn't work.

A: All you need is inner join. It will skip those categories, that has no products. And to add a condition on joined table you can use rails 4 where's syntax:
@categories = Category.joins(:products).where(products: { with_operator: true }).uniq

It will produce next sql query:
SELECT DISTINCT "categories".*
FROM "categories" INNER JOIN "products" ON "products"."category_id" = "categories"."id"
WHERE "products"."with_operator" = 't'

A: Getting your comment that you need Categories with products and that the product property with_operator to be true, you can do that query in "rails style" using joins and merge:
@categories = Category.joins(:products).merge(Product.where(with_operator: true)).uniq

Which will generate the following SQL:
SELECT DISTINCT "categories".* FROM "categories" INNER JOIN "products" ON "products"."category_id" = "categories"."id" WHERE "products"."with_operator" = 't'

You could also use the rails 4 syntax, as pointed by @yukke:
Category.joins(:products).where(products: { with_operator: true }).uniq

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BAA (under the distinct impression she's making a hilarious observation): That chicken just crossed the road. Haha.
Hodgie: But WHY did he do it?!?!
2. Contextual note - Hawaii has a rather large problem with crystal meth, a scary, crazy drug that makes your teeth fall out and your house blow up, I think. Krystal is a restaurant that is open late and serves delicious, tiny hamburgers. There are no Krystal locations in Hawaii.
Knowing this, please enjoy the following exchange between Hodgie and my dear friend Trina, a native Hawaiian.
Hodgie: Dude, you got some Krystals?
BAA (understanding the cultural mash-up that has just occurred): Bahahahahahaha! Not drugs! Bahahaha! Hamburgers! Bahahahahaha! Tasty little hamburgers!


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Hong Kong's growing craft beer trade is catering to an increasingly thirsty audience.
Talk to the players in Hong Kong's craft beer scene and you'll start to hear a familiar story: they were working in nine-to-five jobs in such industries as IT or teaching, but their passion for craft beer led them to embark on a colourful career change. And the result is a craft-brewing scene that is burgeoning, largely due to the entrepreneurial spirit of the people who champion the appreciation of carefully created beverages.
The rapid development of the Hong Kong craft beer scene is underscored by Canadian Jonathan So, who set up the Beertopia craft beer festival, which will be held for the fourth time on 9-10 October.
His instincts proved sound, with last year's event drawing 11,000 people. The expanded event this year includes Hong Kong Beer Week, which is being stage in the lead-up to the two-day festival that will feature more than 500 different beers and ciders. Beer Week will see discounts and special events at venues around the city.
Mr So remembers a time when there was just one craft beer brewery in Hong Kong, only two years ago. There are now a dozen, while the city has its own Craft Beer Association and microbrews being imported from around the globe to a thirsty customer base.
"It isn't unusual to find craft beer available in nice restaurants around the city. Two or three years ago that was not the case." Mr So believes the increasing popularity was due to people starting to think of beer more like wine, with a range of quality and variety.
Among the local brewers showcasing their wares next month is Black Kite Brewery, one of the newer players on the scene that has been operating for just a few months.
Taking its name from a bird of prey often seen in the skies over the city, Black Kite is a venture by brothers Dan and Dave Gallie, who were born and raised in Hong Kong before heading overseas for university.
Dan said he always had the idea of opening a brewery, but as he started a career in IT and his brother in accounting, the dream took a temporary backseat. "The market was picking up in Hong Kong and craft beer was taking off," Dan said. Based in Aberdeen, an industrial area on the southern edge of Hong Kong Island, they stock six ales, including a light golden ale, an IPA, and a wheat beer. Dan says the interest in craft beer in Asia's World City reflected global trends, but the industry has also taken full advantage of a government decision in 2008 to scrap taxes on wine and beer. Black Kite is preparing some special ales for Beer Week, including a brew with a special Asian twist.
Another local craft beer brand is Gweilo Beers, named after the Cantonese slang for foreigners. The company was set up by Emily Jebbitt and Joseph Gould in 2013.
Ms Jebbit, a school teacher, arrived in Hong Kong with her husband in 2012. Fans of homebrew beer, the couple was disappointed at the lack of a local tipple. Upon meeting Mr Gould, a product designer also from the UK, a year later, the pair decided to embark on a project to bring fresh, locally brewed beer to Hong Kong.
The business partners decided to use existing family recipes and tweak them to better suit local palates. "The research process involved benchmarking over 150 craft beers for inspiration, then stripping the brewing process back to basics by doing hop and malt sensory sessions," says Ms Jebbitt.
More than 45 bars, restaurants and shops currently stock Gweilo Beers, which are brewed under licence by the Hong Kong Beer Co in Chai Wan.
But that can only mean that the local craft beer market has yet to be fully tapped. "The greater the variety of craft beer out there, the more people will be encouraged to believe that if they think they don't like beer, they just haven't found the right one yet," she says.


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Q: What's the point of instances polymorphic only on type constructors? {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances, FlexibleContexts #-}

In Haskell I can do something like
class C a where
  c :: a -> a

instance C (f Integer) where
  c = id

As seen, the instance of C is polymorphic, but only on the type constructor and not on the type parameter. What is the point of this feature? I have never seen this used, but since it is allowed I assume there is some case where it is useful. Is it?

A: You've seen it used. Here's some examples:
return :: Monad m => a -> m a
and :: Foldable f => f Bool -> Bool
traverse :: (Applicative f, Traversable t) => (a -> f b) -> t a -> f (t b)

Each of these is polymorphic in a type with arrow kind -- respectively, m, f, and both f and t. If you must see it in an instance head, it's not hard to lift any of these to an analogous instance. For example:
class Bullish a where bull :: a -> Bool
instance Bullish Bool where bull = id
instance Bullish Int where bull = (0/=)
instance Foldable f => Bullish (f Bool) where bull = and

As a terminology note: "type constructor" is not actually synonymous with "type with arrow kind", for essentially the same reasons that "data constructor" is not synonymous with "value with arrow type".
                   arrow kind    not arrow kind
constructor        Maybe         Bool
not constructor    State Int     Maybe Char


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Jason Strong was released from Illinois' Menard Correctional Center on May 28, 2015, after 15 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. His release came after the Illinois Attorney General's Office and Lake County State's Attorney Michael Nerheim agreed they had no objection to the granting of Strong's federal habeas petition.
On December 9, 1999, the body of an unidentified young woman was found beaten to death in a forest preserve in Waukegan, Illinois. Ten days after the body was discovered, the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force questioned Jeremy Tweedy, Jason Johnson, and Jason Strong. The men confessed to beating the victim in Strong's room and van. All three later recanted their confessions, and no physical evidence collected from the room or van ever connected them to the crime or the victim.
Strong's conviction rested principally on the connection the State was able to draw between Strong's false confession and incorrect assumptions made by the State's forensic pathologist, Dr. Mark Witeck, who performed the autopsy on the victim. The State argued that the victim died from blunt force head injuries less than twelve hours before the body was found. Dr. Witeck also testified that the victim showed signs of having been burned by a hot liquid and whipped near the time of death. Strong, in his statement to police, claimed he inflicted some of these injuries with hot wax the night before the body was found. The State elicited additional testimony that Strong inflicted patterned, loop-shaped marks throughout the victim's body with a fishing downrigger. Strong was convicted of murder in 2000 and sentenced to 46 years in prison.
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In December 2014, Strong's attorneys made a detailed presentation of the new evidence of Jason Strong's innocence to attorneys from the Illinois Attorney General's Office, attorneys from the Lake County State's Attorney's Office, and to members of the Lake County Conviction Review Panel. Clinic faculty member Maria Hawilo, who led the re-investigation of the forensic evidence, Judy Royal of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, clinic alumni David Luger, and Brian Nisbet, who began working on the case in 2008 when they were students at Northwestern Law, made presentations at this unprecedented meeting.
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General | by Jorin Zschiesche | 19. August 2014
recordJet signs Fair Digital Deal Declaration
We are proud to declare that, like many members of the VUT (German Association of Independent Music Companies), recordJet has signed the Fair Digital Deal Declaration. By signing the Fair Digital Deal Declaration, independent music companies like labels, editorials and distributors commit to offering their musicians fair deals and fair payment for their musical art.
As of right now, already 86 members of the VUT have signed the declaration and thus taken a stand for fair and transparent collaboration with musicians.
From the WIN website:
In today's music industry, new digital services launch regularly, and existing services continue to launch new features. In recent years a pattern has emerged whereby large rights owners can secure huge lump sum payments, typically for equity, access, administration, 'breakage' and other non-attributable charges. The artist community has understandably expressed growing concern about the apparent disparity between the value of the overall deal to the rights holder versus the per-stream rate which is often the only revenue shared with the artist. As it is the artist whose work creates all such revenues, the WIN community has determined to adopt a clear stance for the artist community.
The WIN Declaration makes it clear that signatory companies will share the benefits of dealing with digital services fairly and clearly with artists. This is to amplify our commitment to fairness and transparency, and to ensuring a sustainable economic relationship between the independent recorded music industry and the artists it partners with to bring their music to market. Over 800 independent labels from around the world have already signed up to the declaration, pledging a commitment to pay their artists fairly and transparently.
Please find further information and all contents of the FAIR DIGITAL DEAL DECLARATION on the Worldwide Independent Network website.
What is VUT doing for you as a musician? (Take Me To The Moolah – Part 7)recordJet in an interview with Jörg Heidemann from the Association of Independent Music Entrepreneurs


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Instability since the revolution that deposed Gaddafi delivers a heavy blow to Ghadamis's tourist-reliant economy.
Once called the Pearl of the Sahara, Libya's centuries-old heritage site, Ghadamis, has been devoid of tourists since the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi began last year.
Residents say the instability created after the downfall of the Gaddafi regime has dealt a heavy blow to the city's tourist-reliant economy.
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"What's that smell?" said my 13 year-old son walking into the bathroom, confirming my suspicion about why all three of my teenage children have been treating me different for the past few weeks.
I had thought it might be the gray in my beard, but I've had gray creep for a couple years now. And the balding? Couldn't be. I haven't had hair longer than a quarter inch since 2008, and besides, bald is beautiful.
"What's that smell?" he said. Yes, we were in the bathroom, but no, it wasn't that. My left foot was hiked up on the countertop while I brushed the clear liquid onto my big toe. I don't know what's more embarrassing, a son catching his Dad polishing his toenails or that I'm flexible at 40, but what came next changed everything.
A few weeks earlier I knew I had passed through some sort of life-altering doorway when my doctor prescribed the toe fungus medication, the kind he said "can only be purchased from a local pharmacist, not a chain drug store," which is the polite way of saying, "I'm sending you to the place where only people in their eighties go because whatever is growing on your toe should not exist in your generation." It might still be cool to order una pizza or hire a plumber from a business that starts with a guy's first name—and no disrespect to Paul—but I'm pretty sure pharmacies don't make the cut.
Without hesitation, without offering even a smidgen of time for me to explain, my son had, in three short words, revoked my World's Coolest Dad card, stripped me of part of my identity. With childlike honesty, he called it the way he saw it. Just like that. And all because of a guy's first name in front of the wrong word at the wrong time. But I'm pretty sure he wasn't calling me old.