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John McTiernan's The Hunt For Red October
January 12, 2020 natewatchescoolmovies	Leave a comment
John McTiernan's The Hunt For Red October is considered the big daddy of submarine films and up until today I'd never seen the whole thing front to back. I now get the hype. This would always be on AMC or TBS Superstation when I was a kid, and my dad would always tune in no matter what. What a fantastic, thrilling, well acted film and one that carries a life affirming antiwar message while still containing some hair raising scenes of aquatic combat.
Marko Raimius (Sean Connery) is a legendary Soviet sub commander who has disappeared with the covert nuclear boat the Red October, plotting a course for the US eastern sea board and ditching any orders from Russian command. Is he going to nuke the east coast? CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) believes he means to defect and disarm but that's a tricky thing to prove based on a series of hunches during a time of such uncertainty as this. Jack has an uncanny intuition about this guy, who remains somewhat of a mystery, even to his own crew and country. A harrowing series of chases, near misses, standoffs, moral wrestling, betrayals and political posturing ensue but at its heart this is a film about one dude who has had enough of war and just wants out, a theme I greatly appreciated and enjoyed.
Connery is superb here and this might be my favourite of his performances. He's both enigma and beacon of personal integrity whilst fiercely not letting anyone get in his way, including a pesky, short lived political officer (Peter Firth). He carries the film with a grizzled nobility and despite being an antagonist of sorts, is the most likeable and relatable character. Baldwin fares very well as Ryan too and although Harrison Ford is still my tops, he plays this guy to the hilt with spirit and determination. Other standouts include Scott Glenn as a badass American sub captain, Richard Jones as a wry US negotiator and Courtney B. Vance as a keen radio communicator. The cast is amazing with killer work from Stellan Skarsgård, Joss Ackland, Andrew Divoff, Tomas Arana, Sam Neill, Tim Curry, Jeffrey Jones, Timothy Cathhart, Ned Vaughn, Fred Dalton Thompson, Gates McFadden, Shane Black, Peter Jason and James Earl Jones. This is the very definition of a solid film in all arenas and in that of thematic material and character, it excels wonderfully. My two favourite scenes: Connery and first mate Sam Neill discussing how they'd live their lives in America when all is said and done, where they'd live and what vehicles they will drive. Later on Ryan and Raimius share a moment alone on the sub's deck as River banks pass by, each remembering their grandfathers teaching them to fish in their respective countries. Amidst all the angst, political unease, torpedos and destruction it's nice to find little oasis moments of character, serving to remind us that whatever side we're on and no matter how bad the conflict is, we are all just people. We all need reminding of that once in a while, and both Connery and Baldwin do that exceptionally with their work here. Great film.
-Nate Hill
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*shirt not included by Kent Hill
December 18, 2019 Kent Hill	Leave a comment
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In 1986 Matthias Hues came to Hollywood without a shirt . . . or, little more than the shirt on his back. And it is without a shirt that he has built a career that continues to not only grow, but evolve. Like his predecessors, peers and the now emerging class of action stars, the mantra has really become adapt, or fade away. But really…it has always been that way.
Shirtless in Hollywood charts its course through the movie world that is at once bright and shining, as well as being dark and loathsome. Matthias has seen the incredible heights and the deep, lonely valleys which await everyone looking to get their hands on a slice of the pie of stardom. Through it all he has remained grounded. Warmed by those whom he trusts, sharpened by those with whom he has shared the screen, and tested by fame and fate at each and every turn.
Matthias's book is compelling because it is not merely a tale of the glamorous life of a movie star. Instead it is a very human story for which his memoir's title carries a double meaning. He came with little but the shirt on his back and then set about forging a career out of his physical gifts, to the point where esteemed action director Craig R. Baxley said, "If anyone is going to take their shirt off, it's going to be Matthias."
He has thrived alongside resident action men like Dolph Lundgren, Ralf Moeller, and Alex Nevsky. He has been mistaken for Fabio and a star of a film he wasn't even in (Die Hard). He is a real salt-of-the-earth kinda guy, that hasn't let it all go to his head and hasn't let it all come crashing down as the cinematic landscape changes.
Matthias is still an imposing figure, and it was a thrill to chat once again with a Hollywood idol who I think is going to have a great resurgence – if indeed the project that he discussed with me gets off the ground. Still, as much as he has overcome, Hues is man of quiet satisfaction who has found that real paradise does not exist between 'action' and 'cut'. This huge Liam Neeson fan has gifted us all with his incredible tale and take on a business that can chew you up and spit you out . . . but only if you let it.
Shirt on, or shirt off, I think Matthias Hues is a legend . . . so kick back and join us as we take it all off and dive into the memoir of a grand gentleman of the old school who'll still tell you, "I come in peace."
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The Unsung Hero by Kent Hill
It is always a delight indeed to sit down with the director of one of my favorite movies. Steve Carver (Big Bad Mama, Lone Wolf McQuade), acclaimed filmmaker and photographic artist extraordinaire has given us all, not only great cinema, but now his first book, Western Portraits: The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver Screen (Edition Olms, 2019). Rendered in evocative tones reminiscent of Edward Sheriff Curtis's immortal images, the stylized photographs in Western Portraits capture the allure and mystique of the Old West, complete with authentic costuming, weaponry and settings. Among the subjects who posed for the book are the popular actors Karl Malden, David Carradine, R. G. Armstrong, Stefanie Powers, L. Q. Jones, Denver Pyle and 77 others.
From the epic feature film to the TV series and serial, this coffee table book puts the story of character actors and the significance of their memorable roles into an entertaining perspective. Appealing at once to lovers of classic cinema, Western history aficionados, writers, scholars and collectors of nostalgia and fine art photography, Western Portraits of Great Character Actors: The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver Screen will awaken movie memories in people's hearts while introducing others to the amazing work of these acting artists, serving as a record of the best of the Hollywood Western.
With collaborators C. Courtney Joyner – a writer whose first major output was a string of more than 25 movie screenplays beginning with The Offspring starring Vincent Price, and Prison directed by Renny Harlin. His novels include the new fantasy-adventure Nemo Rising and the Shotgun Western series, which have both been optioned for television – and Roger Corman – Legendary film director-producer – who contributed the foreword for Western Portraits alongside Joyner's crafted series of insightful essays to accompany the photographs.
He learnt the art of story-boarding from the great Alfred Hitchcock, he learnt to make pasta with Sergio Leone, and has directed the man we remember as the American Ninja. Steve is so full of stories I hope his next book is definitely an autobiography, but in the meantime we have this glorious work to sit and marvel at. Some of the greatest character actors of all time (that have also been my guests, in the persons of Tim Thomerson and Fred Williamson) take center stage in a book the is the ultimate amalgamation of fine art and Hollywood yesteryear.
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Brooklyn native Steve Carver studied photography at the University of Buffalo and Washington University in St. Louis. He pursued a formal education in film-making at the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies, also participating in the Directors Guild of America's apprenticeship program. Prolific motion picture producer Roger Corman hired Carver to direct four movies, including Big Bad Mama. Carver also directed American action star Chuck Norris in An Eye for an Eye and Lone Wolf McQuade.
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My Favorite HENCHMAN by Kent Hill
October 27, 2019 Kent Hill	Leave a comment
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The story of Al Leong is not an uncommon Hollywood story in this respect: he is a face you've seen, but probably have no knowledge of his name, his explosive talent, his devotion to his craft and the incredible legacy he has built through the movies we all cherish. So, if you fall into that category, then you probably don't know the man behind the face of our favorite Henchman – you probably don't know Al Leong…? Well ladies and boys…you've come to the movies at the most opportune time in cinema history, because, friendly neighborhood filmmaker and nice guy all-round, Vito Trabucco, has assembled for your inquisitive, movie-loving minds this beautifully human, lovingly detailed, star-studded valentine. That candy-chomping terrorist that decided taking on The Willis was a good idea; that screaming Wing Kong Hatchet Man in the service of the ancient evil of Lo Pan – and the man who very nearly conquered most of the known world of his day…and who loves Twinkies for the excellent sugar rush…!
Man I could write for days of the films, television and memories that have and still are the fabric formed of my love of storytelling…..of which Al Leong is an indelible part. Join us as Vito and I wax political, poetical and even romantically about the cinema that is part of the wonderful life . . . of our favorite Henchman…
GET IT HERE: https://www.amazon.com/Henchman-Al-Leong-Story-Unrated/dp/B07TMRS26B/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=al+leong&qid=1572173068&sr=8-3
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Walking with Titans by Kent Hill
July 5, 2019 Kent Hill	Leave a comment
Alexander Nevsky – мой друг суперзвезда. What can I tell you? He is a dynamic performer with a physically commanding presence. He is a champion bodybuilder. He is a writer, director and producer whose films I find not only entertaining, but also made in a fashion which speaks to my love of the great action movies from the 80's.
[To listen to my previous chats with Alex on his films, click on these posters below]
I could go on or simply type you out a list of this man's accomplishments, but I'm not going to. Because you see, the work and work ethic of Alex Nevsky speaks for itself. He is an extraordinary gentlemen who by diligence, persistence and focus has not only emerged as a national treasure in his Russian homeland, but also as an international superstar with a rise to prominence that can only by compared to another superstar, and Alex's mentor and friend, the Austrian Oak himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
And now the two, along with the legends of the Bodybuilder's Olympian halls of honor, are featured together in the newest edition of:
3 More Reps: The Golden Age of Bodybuilding
Courtesy of Amazon:
Like pumping iron, it gives you an inside into the world of Joe Weider's top bodybuilders and their training routines for the Mr. Olympia stage and their lives as bodybuilders in the golden age of bodybuilding. Enjoy first-hand interviews with Arnold Schwarzenegger and learn more about your other favorite golden age bodybuilders like Frank Zane, Franco Columbu or Mike Mentzer, Tom Platz to name just a few. Read about the humble beginnings of Joe and Ben Weider the godfathers of the Bodybuilding industry and the Mr. Olympia contests. The author George Snyder's name is practically synonymous with the health and weight training industry. He has been an integral force in the world of bodybuilding. He is the creator of the training camp concept and is also an innovative and highly successful promoter, having conceived and created both the highly publicized and popular Miss Olympia Contest and the Galaxy Competitions the first two milestones for women in the fitness world. In 1990, Snyder impacted the industry with the publication of his Freestyle books.
George Snyder and Mr. Universe Rick Wayne
These books outlined the tenants of a program Snyder has created and perfected for over 40 years. Snyder has published freestyle Methods in some of his earlier books and magazines as well as in his recent magazines over the past 30 years. Snyder has been an active force in the world of strength training and physical culture for most of his life. He opened his first health club in 1965 and was the first progressive gym owner to allow women to train at his club. He organized and held the first bodybuilding training camps in the early 1970s and today contains a series of fitness training camps geared for women and men. Over the years he has authored several books on physical fitness and a veritable library of popular magazines. Today he is involved in several books and magazine publishing ventures, contest promotions, plus new product and program development as it pertains to Freestyle. Snyder has republished 3 More Reps!
This book is a must-own for collectors, enthusiasts and certainly aficionados of this sport which sees the transformation of ordinary men into Earthly Gods. It is an arena that has forged many an international icon, of which, my buddy Alex is certainly now finding himself among such lofty company.
3 More Reps is another pinnacle that Alex as secured in his ascendancy as he continues to walk with the titans, both on and off the big screen. From being a very skinny kid before changing his life completely, becoming Mr. Universe and starting career in Hollywood, it remains important for Alex to promote natural drug free bodybuilding and continue to inspire others. Which he never fails to do.
So c'mon folks, check it out: https://www.amazon.com/Three-More-Reps-Bodybuilding-interviews/dp/109341488X
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John McTiernan's The 13th Warrior
May 16, 2019 natewatchescoolmovies	Leave a comment
There's always those films whose reputation is more widely known than themselves, where the stormy production or behind the scenes drama caused such a ruckus and eclipsed the final product, creating negative buzz whether or not the film is good. John McTiernan's The 13th Warrior is one of those, I haven't read up exactly on what went wrong but I've always felt the film that was born out of whatever trouble there was is an excellent one.
Antonio Banderas stars as an unconventional version of the badass hero we're used to, one who starts off as anything but that and has to earn his way to glory. He plays a Persian poet sometime around 900AD, a man who is sent away for macking on the sultan's wife and captured by a roving band of Vikings. They are amassing an army of elite specialist warriors to bring back home in the north in order to defeat a near indestructible menace that is moving in on their land. Banderas finds himself caught up in the war, alone with the tribe and forced grab a sword, find his courage and take a few swings at this fearsome enemy. The plot is fairly simple stuff but it's atmosphere and character development that win the day here, as well as epic production design. Banderas starts off as basically a pampered court jester who the Norsemen mock and ridicule, until he learns their ways and a bond of brotherhood forms, an arc from both parties that is handled with dignity and heart. The enemy they fight are an unseen horror who burn, kill and eat everything in their path, there's a sense of genuine fear and threat when they show up and the battles are staged with smoke, mist and fire for ultimate atmospheric effect. A highlight is when they raid underground caverns used to hide out in via ships and you really get a sense of setting as well as budget on display. Banderas is supported by various people including Vladimir Kulich as the heroic Buliwyf, Diane Venora, Tony Curran, Richard Bremmer, Sven Wollter and a very brief Omar Sharif.
People can talk shit about this one all they want but I really feel like they're thinking of the troubled production instead of the film itself and need to get their heads out of the sand, and refocus their gaze. This may be a fairly scrappy flick but it's simply not a bad film. Banderas is a solid lead, there's a tactile sense of wonder to the settings, both southern and northern and McTiernan mounts the sieges, battles, massacres and poetic revelry assuredly. Great film.
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John McTiernan's Predator
September 1, 2018 natewatchescoolmovies	Leave a comment
Action doesn't get more rough, badass or straight up entertaining than John McTiernan's Predator. The popcorn summer movie mantle was designed for stuff like this and throughout the 80's and 90's each one made its own influences and shaped the way the blockbuster has evolved. This is arguably Arnold Schwarzenegger's best, just behind or right along side the Terminator films. Packed to the gills with the kind of gruesome, blood soaked action intrigue we don't see much anymore or at least without glossy CGI. Here the violence is tactical, doused in gallons of blood and amped up for maximum impact, like when Arnie's Dutch and his team of rough n' ready mercs stumble upon bodies that have been skinned alive. Called in for a routine black ops mission in the jungles of Central America, they discover there's something far worse out there than rebels, and that something happens to be an eight foot tall trophy hunter from another galaxy, with whiplash dreadlocks and a face that would give Freddy Krueger nightmares. He's essentially an extraterrestrial big game hunter who picks off humanity's toughest customers in the ultimate intergalactic safari, and Arnie happens to be right in his path. His team is made up of the most colourful badasses the 80's has to offer including wiseass Jesse Ventura, jumpy Carl Weathers, spooked out Bill Duke and stoic tracker Sonny Landham, who's my favourite by far ("there's somethin in that jungle, and it ain't no man"). Also on their team is Shane Black, of all people, which I didn't realize until my most recent rewatch but it makes sense since he's the mastermind behind this fall's The Predator, which I'm very excited for. The highest praise doesn't even do this film justice; it's simply one of those ones that isn't even up for debate in terms of quality, it practically spawned its own genre. Arnie & Co. light up the jungle with enough heavy artillery to launch a coup, the Predator uses cunning tactics and brutal tricks of its own to hunt them one by one, and the whole region erupts with the sound, fury, carnage and commotion of their fight for survival. This has gone on to produce a sequel (which is just as brilliant, fight me), a Robert Rodriguez helmed update (also great), a couple crossovers with the Alien franchise (which were just plain awful) and the aforementioned Shane Black rendition. This started it though, from Arnie chomping up cigar after cigar to Ventura levelling the trees with a giant mini gun to Landham feverishly taking on the Predator with just his 13 inch hunting knife, it's an action palooza that's very of it's time and therefore refreshingly un-PC (I trust in black to keep that spirit alive for his version), and has stood the time as a gold standard of action sci-fi genre heaven. Don't forget to get to that chopper.
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This cottage is ideal for multiple families wishing to get away together. There is lots for everyone to do, lots of board games , books, movies, and TV for rainy days. Outdoors the swimming is great, there are no weeds. There is a boat launch not far if you want to bring a boat.
The cottage has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. The main floor has a big living room with lots of windows, an eat in kitchen and dining area. The kitchen has a fridge, stove, microwave and dishwasher. There are 2 bedrooms on the main floor, the master bedroom has a king size bed and an en-suite bathroom with a jacuzzi tub. The second bedroom has a queen size bed, and a set of bunk beds with a double on the bottom and a single on top. The main floor also has a washroom with stand up shower. The lower level has a rec room with a pool table/ping pong/air hockey. The cottage has wifi. There is also a large TV with roku and Netflix and DVD player. There is a WII system and games, a video library and lots of books. There is a full bathroom downstairs, and two more bedrooms. The first room has a King and a double and the second has a King, Queen and a single. Extra fridge downstairs. Bedding is provided and some towels are provided.
There are three decks off the back of the cottage facing the lake. There is a dock by the water and there are many water actvities. 3 kayaks, a canoe, paddle boat, 14 foot aluminum boat with 9.9 horsepower motor and a water trampoline. There is a deck with a a fire pit and a deck for relaxing and admiring the view.
Bancroft is a 15 minute drive away. Bancroft has festivals, shopping, grocery stores, markets, ice cream, restaurants and a hospital.
The rent is $2500.00 per week.
To rent we require a $500.00 security deposit at time of inquiry that will be refunded after you have left and the cottage has been checked for damages.


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Q: using functions and classes in another vb.net project I'm refactoring my VB project into 2 projects, one being a utility library that I want to share with future projects.  My solution's layout is like this:
Solution
|_ util
   |_ util.vb
|_ main project
   |_ (main project files)

util is created as a class library, and the member files added into it.  I've then added util into the main project's references.  However, when I try to call functions in util.vb from my main project files, I get build errors like this:
error BC30451: Name 'LogException' is not declared.
error BC30002: Type 'VarFile' is not defined.

These are defined in util.vb, and it compiled fine when it was part of the main project.  The declarations look like this: (I've trimmed out the details)
Imports System.IO

Public Module utils

    Public Sub LogException(ByRef ex As Exception, Optional ByVal logFile As String = "", Optional ByVal logFolder As String = "")
' ...
    End Sub

    Public Class VarFile
          ' ...
     End Class
End Module

I can add util.vb "as link" into the main project and it will solve all the build errors, but that seems to defeat the purpose of refactoring out the class library - I would like to develop this library separately, and not always have to keep track of which file links I haven't added in my main project.  Is there a better way than this?

A: create a dll project and make it as your library then add reference to it from main project. all these will come under one solution. Also set the build order. Use Imports to use the function similar to Imports System.IO

A: The mechanism you're looking for is References. Right click on the Main project and choose Add Reference, choosing your Util project from the Projects tab.
After that, don't forget to add Imports declarations, since the new Util project will be in a different namespace than your Main.

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February 04, 2019 6:30pm PT by Lesley Goldberg
'Hair' Scrapped as NBC's Next Live Musical
Cast of Broadway's 'Hair'
The network, under entertainment co-chairmen Paul Telegdy and George Cheeks, hopes to find a more family-friendly title for its next live offering.
NBC is pulling its Hair.
The network has opted to scrap its previously announced planned live musical rendition of Hair. The production was due to air on Sunday, May 19. The news comes as NBC was in the midst of making offers to talent. (Hailee Steinfeld was among those being courted, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.)
"Live musicals are a part of this network's DNA and we are committed to continuing that tradition with the right show at the right time. Since these shows are such enormous undertakings, we need titles that have a wide appeal and we're in the process of acquiring the rights to a couple of new shows that we're really excited about," NBC Entertainment co-chairmen Paul Telegdy and George Cheeks said Monday in a joint statement.
Sources note that the conversation about the future of Hair started with its planned premiere date — Sunday, May 19. That's the same night as the season finale of ABC's American Idol and the highly anticipated series finale of the HBO juggernaut Game of Thrones. NBC is said to have pondered rescheduling Hair but instead started a larger conversation about whether it was the right musical for the network. Ultimately, Hair — the 50-year-old Broadway hit of the hippie generation — was scrapped as NBC looks for a title that has greater appeal for family co-viewing. Hair explored topics including the Vietnam War, drugs, race, gender and sexual identity and included brief nudity in most of its previous stagings.
"We haven't crossed that bridge yet, but I can probably guarantee that there's not going to be much nudity," former NBC Entertainment president Bob Greenblatt told The Hollywood Reporter in January of the production he was executive producing alongside Neil Meron. "If you've ever seen the show, there's not that much nudity. It's less than a minute, in the dark, which was controversial 50 years ago — but it's almost unnecessary. You're not going to see nudity … well, maybe a little."
Hair becomes the latest live musical to be scrapped at NBC. The project, which was to have been exec produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan (before the latter's passing), was announced as the network's replacement for Jennifer Lopez starrer Bye, Bye Birdie. The latter remains an option should the timing, casting and costs work out. (Birdie was delayed multiple times because of Lopez's schedule.) NBC's long-gestating live production of A Few Good Men remains on the back burner, though it is not on the schedule for anytime in the near future.
Greenblatt ushered in the live musical era at NBC. Others, including Fox and ABC, attempted to follow to varying degrees of success. ABC planned a live take on A Little Mermaid but ultimately scrapped it. Fox won an Emmy for Grease Live and most recently had to air its dress rehearsal performance of Rent after one of its leads broke his ankle near the end of the three-hour run-through.
NBC's previous live musicals have included The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, The Wiz and Hairspray. Live productions — like the musicals — have become increasingly valuable to networks as a form of event programming that bucks the DVR trend. Many draw impressive live audiences and help networks sell advertising inventory at a premium.
Lesley Goldberg
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All the cliches about kids that grow up too fast are true. Yet I enjoy having big boys lounging around the house with their funny conversations and ever growing arms and legs. Arms and legs that love wearing some Bobo Choses loungewear.
Although winters in Dubai are like summers in Europe, we do enjoy our fair share of winter clothes. Our Dutch genes make our legs want to wear jeans, sweat pants and socks. But comfort is key, especially when it comes to boys clothing and the best thing about Bobo Choses is that it is both that and fun. This brand always surprises us with their playful, graphic and colorful designs.


Perfoming and being part of the local community theater is all in the family for Jennetta Howell, here daughter Kaylie Howell and mother Jacquie Meitler. The trio all have roles in Defiance Community Players latest production of "Oliver" which opens Friday Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. in the Jeannie Miller Theatre at GSHS.
For over 40 years, Defiance Community Players has been bringing families together on and off the stage.
When Jacquie Meitler and her family moved to the Roaring Fork Valley, she believed joining Defiance would be a great way to meet new friends and share her passion for local community theater.
Meitler says she has been in or involved in every Defiance production since her first role in "Music Man" in the mid-1980s.
"I didn't really audition the first time, I was so nervous," she said. After skipping out on the audition she learned the chorus to the play and snuck into rehearsals. Meitler has fond memories of then-director Jeannie Miller telling her next time she wanted to be in a show she had to audition.
More then 30 years later, her granddaughter Kaylie Howell, 9, will take the stage with her for opening night of Lionel Bart's "Oliver" Friday at Glenwood Springs High School, marking the third generation of the family to perform as a member of Defiance.
Jennetta Howell, Jacquie's daughter, a veteran Defiance player, Defiance board president and "Oliver" choreographer, will be watching in the wings.
For Jennetta, Defiance Community Players was the start of a dream that blossomed into a professional acting career.
Howell worked in New York City and Los Angeles as an actor, singer and dancer before coming back to the valley with her husband James and their two children.
Jennetta has vivid memories of attending rehearsals and plays as a young child with her mother.
Depending on the play, a child actor had to be 9 to audition for a Defiance production.
"I worked really hard. I really wanted to participate," she said.
Over the years, Howell has been in or involved with 15-20 Defiance productions.
"I remember our first show together, because when we went into the theater I told her I'm not her mom now," Meitler said.
"I just gave that speech to Kaylie," Howell said, with Kaylie shaking her head and both mother and daughter laughing.
"Oliver" isn't Kaylie's first acting gig; she says she has been in eight productions already and even made her professional debut this past spring at Thunder River Theatre in Carbondale.
"I auditioned for a TRTC's production in Carbondale, and I was the only kid there," Kaylie said. "It was for 'The Emperor's New Clothes.' It was amazing.
Friday's opening night also marks the comeback of Defiance after a two-year hiatus from the valley.
Defiance began in 1972 and has given countless performances over the years and introduced Broadway shows like "Music Man," "Annie," "Meet Me In St. Louis," and "Les Miserables," to the valley over the last four decades.
Friday's opening will start a six-show, two-week run for Defiance, with the show beginning at 7 p.m. in Jeannie Miller Auditorium at GSHS.
The production will continue with 7 p.m. shows Saturday, Friday, Nov. 16, and Saturday, Nov. 17. There will be two Sunday matinee shows Nov. 11 and Nov. 18 at 2 p.m.


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Someone may pay for that Brad Pitt-starring World War Z adaptation after all
Paramount's last-minute campaign to save its apparently very risky, Brad Pitt-starring, PG-13 adaptation of World War Z appears to be nearing success: Confirming earlier reports, bajillionaire scion David Ellison is said to be swooping in (probably while making plane noises with his mouth—dude loves planes!) and ponying up the cash alongside two other financiers to make the $125 million project happen, thereby saving us from only having maybe 12 other zombie apocalypse movies over the next couple of years. Deadline further elaborates that the studio is in "hot and heavy talks" with Ellison, which we'll take to mean they're staggered with prolonged bouts of French kissing. Go get 'em, Paramount. Don't be afraid to show him the goods.


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Ever since her debut film Arjun Reddy turned out to be an instant hit, Shalini Pandey turned out to be an actress in huge demand. Her subtle performance from the film has been getting wide appreciations and the actress is being knocked by many top filmmakers.
After actress Lavanya Tripathi walked out of the Tamil remake of 100% Love, there have been several names considered to play the lead role in the film which will be helmed by a debutant Chandra Mouli, a protege of Sukumar.
The latest news is that the makers locked Shalini Pandey for the role and she will reprise Tamannaah on screen. The shoot of the film is expected to start next month and GV Prakash Kumar will play the lead role. The movie has been titled 100& Kaadhal and will hit the screens next year.
Shalini even signed a cameo in the biopic of legendary actress Savitri which has been titled Mahanati. Nag Ashwin is the director and Keerthy Suresh is essaying the title role.


I have a 16GB micro SD card, but it is unreadable on my smartphone and computer. When I inserted the micro SD card into the Mac computer with a card reader, I got an error saying "the disk you inserted was not readable by this computer". This micro SD card worked fine before, please help!
A micro SD card is used inside the phones or digital cameras to save data. But sometimes when the micro SD card gets damaged, it will become unreadable. In this situation, you are not allowed to access the card from your computer, smart phone or digital camera. Micro SD card not readable by MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac mini? How to fix unreadable micro SD card? Go ahead to find troubleshooting methods.
macOS provides a function to check and repair file system errors. You can try this option to fix micro SD card not readable by this computer.
Step 2: In the sidebar, select the micro SD card you want to repair.
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If Disk Utility reports that the disk appears to be OK or has been repaired, you're done. Otherwise, you have to retrieve as much of your data as possible.
If First Aid can't repair the unreadable micro SD card, one possible way to fix Micro SD card not readable by this computer is to reformat the card. But if you reformat the micro SD card directly, the original data will be erased and overwritten. To avoid that, you need to recover all important files from the micro SD card first of all.
iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery, as a free SD card data recovery tool, is highly recommended. It is designed for lost file recovery in different situations, recovering data from unreadable, unmountable, formatted, inaccessible micro SD cards. No matter what kind of data is stored on the micro SD card, the data recovery software can perform thorough scan and help extract the lost files from the card.
Beside SD card, it also supports storage devices like USB flash drives, memory cards, external hard drives, etc. It is compatible with macOS Mojave 10.14/High Sierra 10.13/10.12 Sierra and 10.11/10.10/10.9/10.8/10.7.
2. Connect the unreadable micro SD card to Mac with a card reader.
3. Launch iBoysoft Data Recovery, and select the unreadable micro SD card.
4. Click "Next" to search for all lost files on the unreadable micro SD card.
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After recovering data from the unreadable micro SD card successfully, you can reformat the card to make it usable again.
2. Select the unreadable micro SD card from the left sidebar of the window.


The course will meet regularly on Wednesdays as well as on several additional days for set up and take down of the exhibition. Exact dates and times are yet to be decided.
This will be an event by artist Dawn Nilo, with fellow artists and friends. It will be advised by Chus Martìnez. Participating artist will include masters students from Switzerland as well as outside artists.
This seminar proposes to work together in the production of an exhibition. The Kingdom of Fools is a show produced by the participant artists. Every artist produces a work in an area of the show and every region should discover a way to relate to one another. By participating in this project the artists are expected to produce work, to exhibit it but also to collectively discover ways of relating the different work-areas of the show. The project consists, therefore, in inventing an exhibition and rules of performing it.
- practice the art of the fool as a technique for researching and generating capacities for play philosophical, creatively and performatively.
- adapt the art of the fool to individual practices and other artistic mediums.
- explore, present and discuss their individual artistic practices and mediums in relation to play.
- conduct and present individual research into one historical example of the use of play in the art context.
- hear guest speakers on the theme of play in the art context.
- prepare, develop and present an exhibit/performance event – The House of Fools, with artistic direction by Dawn Nilo and advisor/mentor Chus Martìnez.
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Love it or hate it, the ninth season of American Idol premiered with a strong viewership and has, for the moment, dispelled any notions of slumping ratings. Considering the addition of Ellen Degeneres and the news that Simon Cowell will be leaving the show when his contract expires after this season, it makes sense that audiences would at least be curious to see how this season began.
According to preliminary nationals from Nielsen, the two-hour "Idol" kickoff, which featured auditions in Boston, averaged an 11.7 rating/29 share in adults 18-49 and 29.8 million viewers overall, with these numbers expected to rise a bit in the nationals. This means that, impressively, it figures to come in ahead of last year's opening-night ratings (11.7/28 in 18-49, 30.45 million viewers overall).


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This instructable is about how you can hack it, and connect it to an Arduino, starting whatever you like.
The gadget is for use during the night. When it sees somebody moving, it will light up, and keep the LED's on for 20 seconds.
This is really easy hacking, cheapo and fun to play with!
solder a wire to this PIN.
2. the three power LED's are on when the PIR "sees" IR of humans. These LED's consume a lot of power. You can either get the LED's all out (desoldering) or reduce the number to 1.
Be carefull with the white wires: they detach easily, and when the detach from the circuit and you forget where they should be connected, you need to buy a second gadget to reconnect!
You have connected the PLUS and GND wire to the arduino.
The signal wire is going to one of the digital input PIN's, say 8.
After checking that it works you can use the signal any way you like of course.


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IPL 2017: Ishank Jaggi included in auction pool after Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 show
Ishank Jaggi, whose base price is Rs 10 lakh, was not kept in pruned list of 351 players that BCCI announced after consultation with the franchises.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Mar 10, 2017 17:01 IST
Ishank Jaggi (PTI Photo)
Jaggi was not kept in pruned list of 351 players.
But scores of 51*, 90 and 58 in Syed Mushtaq Ali led to his addition in the auction list.
His base price is Rs 10 lakh.
By Press Trust of India: Jharkhand right-hander Ishank Jaggi has been included in the auction pool as one of the late entrants after a string of good performances in the final leg of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy. (IPL 2017: RCB, SRH to kick start season 10 on April 5)
Jaggi was not kept in pruned list of 351 players that BCCI announced after consultation with the franchises.
But scores of 51* off 37 balls vs Central Zone, 90 off 51 balls against South Zone and 58 off 34 balls against West Zone forced the franchises to do a rethink and include him in the pool. His base price is Rs 10 lakh. (Ishant, Morgan in top base price bracket in IPL 2017 auction)
Some of the other late entrants are former India U-19 pacer Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Kshitij Sharma to name a few.


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Painting: Airbrush, Acrylic, Spray Paint, Paint on Wood.
This is a synthesized and more stylized version from the "string re attached" polygons. This artwork belongs to the series nodes, which it characterized by the construction of polygons using deconstructed geometric figures and fine lines intercepted among each other.
Solo exhibition held in November 2017.
"This artwork does not need frame and is ready to hang".
GUEST CURATOR CONCLUSIONS ABOUT NODOS SERIES.
conceptual depths, as well as physical.
Inaprensible, a detailed look, reveals that the figures and the light, exist only instantaneously, only to give that presence to another stage of the same work.
blurring the boundaries between the immediate and the distant.


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Lunar New Year closes most Asian markets
European shares have plunged to 16-month lows, extending an aggressive sell-off, while bond yields and oil also fell as investors shed risky assets on persistent concern over the pace of global growth.
Data over the weekend showing China's foreign reserves fell for a third straight month in January, as US dollars were dumped to defend the yuan and curb capital outflows, did nothing to calm investors. Though the fall was less than some had feared, it was the second biggest on record.
That followed a mixed US jobs report on Friday that had sent stocks on Wall Street lower.
Crude oil futures skidded over 2 per cent to just over $US33 by 1015 GMT (2115 AEDT) on Monday, as a meeting between OPEC producers Saudi Arabia and Venezuela provided little indication that steps would be taken to boost prices. Earlier, oil had gained as much as 1 per cent on hopes that an agreement would be reached to curb supply.
With sentiment firmly in risk-off mode, the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 fell 2.3 per cent to 1,253.33 points, its lowest level since October 2014.
"It's a difficult market environment - I would have hoped for a rebound in the market but after the last week's actions, certainly this is off the table," said Baader Bank's head of equity strategy in Munich, Gerhard Schwarz. "The economic newsflow has to improve. So far it hasn't on a decisive scale."
Europe's losses pushed the MSCI world equity index, which tracks shares in 45 countries, down 0.4 per cent, taking its losses for the month so far to around 3 per cent already. January was the worst month since August for the index, with losses of over 6 per cent.
A launch by North Korea of a long-range rocket carrying what it called a satellite also sparked concern and drew international condemnation.
Earlier, Asian shares had pared losses as a weaker yen helped Japan's Nikkei snap a four-day losing streak, though trade was thin with many regional markets closed for the Lunar New Year holiday.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.1 per cent, with Australian shares slipping a few points to end nearly flat.
But Japan's Nikkei erased early steep losses as the US dollar gained on the yen, and ended up 1.1 per cent.
Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China were all closed for the new year holiday. China, a focus of recent market concern, will be closed for the entire week.
Beijing has been struggling to underpin the yuan, which faces depreciation pressure as China's growth rate slows to its lowest levels in a quarter of a century.
"The Chinese currency is under quite notable market pressure and that requires quite active intervention from the authorities," said Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ currency economist Lee Hardman in London. "That poses downside risk to Asian currencies and the Aussie, which is seen as the China proxy."
The US non-farm payrolls report on Friday showed an increase of just 151,000 jobs last month, short of expectations for a rise of 190,000.
But the unemployment rate fell to 4.9 per cent, the lowest since February 2008, and wages rose, indicating some underlying strength in the labour market despite the weak headline figure .
Weak US economic data recently has led investors to pare back their bets on steady interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve.
Speculators slashed bullish bets on the US dollar for a sixth straight week through February 2, as net longs fell to their lowest level since roughly the third week of October, according to Reuters calculations and data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission released on Friday.
The US dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six major rivals, fell 0.2 per cent on Monday to 96.841, approaching a trough of 96.259 plumbed last Thursday, its lowest since October.
The yen, which is typically bought at times of risk aversion, gained 0.1 per cent against the US dollar to trade at Y116.68.
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Amplats to cut 1,000 jobs at S Africa mine
Britain's FTSE falls to 2-1/2 week low


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Q: Renaming multiple files at once that contains different chars New to scripting and I've been looking into some other topics and tried different scripts but without success.
I want to add "_discard" to multiple files in different subdirectories in "projects" folder
The original file names are exactly the following:
first-file_us-tower_10.jpg
first-file_us-tower_tr_10.jpg
first-file_us-bridge_10.jpg
first-file_us-bridge_gps_10.jpg
first-file_us-bridge_tr_10.jpg
first-file_us-river_bbnf_10.jpg

What I want is the following:
first-file_us-tower_10_discard.jpg
first-file_us-tower_tr_10_discard.jpg
first-file_us-bridge_10_discard.jpg
first-file_us-bridge_gps_10_discard.jpg
first-file_us-bridge_tr_10_discard.jpg
first-file_us-river_bbnf_10_discard.jpg

This is what I'm attempting to use in a ps1 script but can't complete it.
$dir = "C:\pics\projects"
$file = "*_us*.jpg"
$copy = "*_us*_discard.jpg"

get-childitem -Path "$dir" | where-object { $_.Name -like "$file" } | %{rename-item -path $dir$_ -newname $d"_"$_}

Unfortunately without success. if this can be achieved in a Batch script is also welcome but I am not familiar with Batch.
Any help would be appreciated

A: Have you read the docs? There is an example doing almost exactly what you are trying to do. Example 4:
Get-ChildItem *.txt | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -Replace '\.txt$','.log' }
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/rename-item?view=powershell-6
PS C:\> (Get-ChildItem "C:\pics\projects").FullName
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-bridge_10.jpg
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-bridge_gps_10.jpg
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-bridge_tr_10.jpg
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-river_bbnf_10.jpg
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-tower_10.jpg
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-tower_tr_10.jpg

PS C:\> Get-ChildItem "C:\pics\projects" | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Name -Replace "\.jpg$","_discard.jpg"}

PS C:\> (Get-ChildItem "C:\pics\projects").FullName
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-bridge_10_discard.jpg
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-bridge_gps_10_discard.jpg
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-bridge_tr_10_discard.jpg
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-river_bbnf_10_discard.jpg
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-tower_10_discard.jpg
C:\pics\projects\first-file_us-tower_tr_10_discard.jpg

I removed the Where-Object since it matches all the filenames in your example.

A: As also files in subfolders should be renamed and
you surely want to exclude files already having the _discard attached
$dir    = "C:\pics\projects"
$file   = "*_us*.jpg"
$append = "_discard"
Get-ChildItem "$dir\$file" -Recurse -File |
  Where-Object BaseName -notmatch $append |
    Rename-Item -NewName {"{0}{1}{2}" -f $_.BaseName,$append,$_.Extension} -WhatIf

If the output looks OK, remove the trailing -WhatIf


Friday, October 19th, 2018 at 9:36am.
A few sailfish have been chasing flying fish relatively early in the season. Saturday or Sunday's forecast of north winds may contribute to the bite a little, and a good bet at getting them to eat would be kite fishing with a hearty bait like goggle-eyes or blue runners in 200-400' of water. Small dolphin have been pretty consistent offshore, as well as football-sized blackfin tuna. Target both by trolling with small-skirted bonita strips at depths of 120-500'.
Tuesday, September 11th, 2018 at 2:52pm.
Professional sportfishing magazine InTheBite is hosting the first ever social, "Brews With The Crews" for members of the sportfishing community on Thursday, September 14th 5 – 7pm at Schooner's in Jupiter.
All are welcome to drop in during happy hour for some cold drinks and fishing stories with the industry of crews, captains, owners, fisherman, writers, and photographers.
Schooners is a relaxed seafood restaurant located at 1001 N Hwy A1A in Jupiter, Florida.
Friday, August 31st, 2018 at 10:52am.
From Jupiter Inlet to Palm Beach Inlet, fishing in the northern Palm Beaches is world class. Whether you're heading offshore in a 41' Bahama or you're fishing the south jetty at Jupiter Inlet, here's a listing of tackle and bait shops that have at least a 4-star rating by locals.


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Instagram is ranked as the 5th most used social media platform with 1 billion active monthly users. Since its launching 8 years ago, it has taken the world of marketing by a storm.
These statistics are not based on the number of registered participants but the number of daily active users. Due to its format, Instagram is one of the most important forms of visual advertising platform for any business.
Instagram presents you with an opportunity to introduce yourself to your audience through relevant videos and pictures, you are able to showcase who you really are to potential customers, shape people's perception and nature your brand. This keeps you on the edge of your competitors.
When you use Instagram as a marketing strategy for your business, share relevant images or videos that satisfy your marketing goals. Well-conducted research on your target market and their needs will help you come up with relevant material which will build your company's credibility.
So as we reach the halfway mark of 2019, I felt I should share with you quick statistics on why many digital marketers are turning to Instagram as the main method of marketing their businesses, services , and brands.
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A billion people are using Instagram (and growing daily)
Instagram has a fair gender distribution
Majority of active Instagram users are below 34 years of age
Instagram has a high number of active users
Instagram and marketing rhyme perfectly
Users like to follow companies on Instagram
Most ads come in the form of videos
Benefits of using videos from a marketer standpoint
A large proportion of the platform users prefer video ads
Instagram videos are a huge asset from a Marketing standpoint
Effectiveness of Video marketing
People tend to spend more time on platforms which have video ads
Video marketing guarantees success
Instagram stories are here to stay, make sure to take advantage
Viewer behavior statistics
Just to give you a clear view of the unlimited advantages Instagram presents you as a digital marketer, let's start with this. Beating its own record of 800 million users in 2017, Instagram has continued amassing active users over the two years period and report released in showed it had one billion users and still growing. This trend of bringing people together does not seem to slow down any time soon!
With such a number of participants, Instagram offers you as a marketer rich ground not only to introduce yourself but build an empire as long as you seize the opportunities presented to you at the right time and keep providing potential customers with relevant information.
A study conducted by Statistia showed that Instagram is composed of a fairly balanced demographic although the beam is slightly tipped to the female side, the gap has been growing narrow in the past few years.
Given this range of gender distribution, most types of businesses can benefit regardless of whether their client base is solely male or female.
In a quote taken directly from Statista
As of April 2019, it was found that 15 percent of global active Instagram users were women between the ages of 18 and 24 years old. More than half of the global Instagram population worldwide is aged 34 years or younger.
Most social media platforms boost big numbers of accounts holders even though most of them are dormant account holders. However, when it comes to Instagram, the number of daily active users increases considerably with well-researched statistics to back their claim.
A recent survey conducted by Pew Research Center showed that 25% of smartphone users have Instagram accounts, 22% log in at least once a day and 38% check Instagram post multiple times a day.
80% of Instagram users follow a brand. That's 8 out of 10 people. 200 million people actively visit business profiles every single day.
This is a great opportunity for marketers to create more leads for potential clients. The option to run paid ads with photos, videos, carousels, and stories or you may like to use influences to promote products.
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Combining this with Instagram marketing flexibility, you will have in your hands a lethal system having every tool you need to introduce your products and convince potential customers to buy your products or services all under the same roof.
A survey showed that on other forms of social networks, it is very difficult to create a substantial number of base followers. However, on Instagram users are relatively open hence tend to follow business accounts on a regular basis. Up to 80% of Instagram users follow at least one company and 60% of users come to learn of a new product on the platform.
Another tidbit statistic is that 75% of users take action. This involves looking for more information about the post that you have presented to them, visiting the website through links provided or asking you general questions. I guarantee you will be hard-pressed to find another platform which gives you such engagement rates and a healthy brand-user environment.
Initially, Instagram was designed as an image sharing platform. However, the trajectory has changed and has seen an increment of up to 25% of ads shared being single videos. It is important to note that images used to be the best type of advertisement content that received large engagement rates. The trend has changed drastically and a lot of users seem to respond better to video ads, edging images out for higher engagement rates.
Check out this example of an explainer video Instagram add made by Top Explainers.
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Of all active users, 96% of them have watched an explainer. This is because they find it relevant as they try to learn more about a product or services provided. To add on that, 79% of the people say a video add has convinced them to buy a product or software.
People don't have the attention span to read about your product or service. 68% of people prefer short videos which are far off than 15% text-based, 4% presentations and 3% ebooks and manuals.
The volume of videos being uploaded to Instagram platform has increased by four times in each day. Data collected shows that up to 80% of time spent on Instagram by its users is mainly used to watch video ads. It's fair to say the number of video demands on Instagram is quite huge.
This gives you as a marketer an easier time deciding where to allocate marketing resources. Producing quality, relevant and entertaining content while keeping the video short, say you like 2 to 3 minutes guarantees high return rates on ROI.
Due to the high engagement rates and complementary features, Instagram video ads are ideal and fit perfectly as an additional tool for your marketing campaign.
A marketing survey released at Animoto showed 53.4% of digital marketers have appreciated the role of Instagram videos and have incorporated them into their marketing strategies.
The number of businesses promoting on Instagram as a mean of marketing has increased. In 2017 the companies using Instagram stood at 67%, in 2018 the percentage was 81% and currently sits at 87%. The number of marketers who think Instagram videos are good assets to their marketing strategies has increased from 82% to 91% in a span of two years.
Despite the increase in competition, 99% of business owners say they will continue to use videos with 88% actually considering increasing on the budget than the one they spent on the previous year.
Unlike other platforms which require intense demonstrations, 94% of Instagram video marketers have said the approach has helped increase user understanding on the services provided or the product sold with fewer efforts. To add on that, 84% of marketers have said Instagram has helped increase the number of traffic to their website. 81% have attributed the new leads they have obtained to videos posted on Instagram. With the videos being self-explanatory, this has reduced the number of support calls by up to 41%.
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A survey conducted showed that 88% of visitors will tend to spend longer on your website if it has entertaining videos. This statistics alone is adequate to show you how engaging video ads are. As a marketer trying to create how-to-do videos as much people will come looking for an explainer ad trying to tell them more about a service or how to use a product.
As seen from the following graph, the longer a video drags on, the lower its retention with videos under a minute showing 80% retention up to the 30-second mark, which is perfect for Instagram.
For any marketing campaign to be considered successful, it all narrows down to ROI(Return On Investment). 88% of all marketers on Instagram are satisfied with the ROI of their social media marketing efforts. According to a report released by Opinmonser, marketers get qualified leads in a year with a success rate of 66%.
Using video ads will help you increase your brand awareness by up to 54% more. 93% of all the marketers interviewed said they landed a new customer thanks to Instagram.
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70% of active users on Instagram users view the video posted in the form of stories on a daily basis. Of this, 50% find the content funny which makes them laugh. Of more importance is that, due to this, one in every four seek the product in order to make a purchase. Given over a billion users this year, Instagram offers you a rich market to sell your brand or services provided.
It is important to you as a marketer to have a bigger picture of the market demography and how they want to be treated. This will help you create a video which will not leave viewers hanging or create long irrelevant ones which make your efforts go to waste. With the ever growing need of the human brain to cover as much information within the shortest time, keep the following tips in mind.
Over 70% of all users do not turn their phone horizontally to watch a video on the smartphone.
Planning your video content such that it fits the screen vertically is more important than ever. If the video is too big for the screen viewers will skip it.
You have only 2.7 seconds to capture the attention of your viewers. With so much staff online to watch, human attention and tolerance have greatly reduced. Make the first few seconds count.
According to a survey conducted, the number of Instagram users who purchased an item as a result of watching a video ad increased from 32% to 48% in 2018. The number is still increasing and a report is yet to be released on how Instagram is performing in 2019.
Since its introduction in 2010, Instagram has taken the world by storm. 60% of video ads are watched with sound on. There is no other social network which hits such success rates. At any given moment, the number of people online, 60% will be using Instagram. This offers you a good and rich ground to promote your products regardless of the time.
It is clear that Instagram is not for personal use anymore. It has transformed into a global platform that allows you to market your brand, showcase products, recruit new talents and inspire your audience. Instagram users are relatively receptive. This makes them not only active but engaging. The ability to get feedback from the audience is important to you as a marketer.
The data presents you with an opportunity to know on areas to improve on. 70% of Instagram users spend time looking for a product on the platform. This offers both you and the potential customers a friendly and authentic mode of conducting business, eliminating middle mediums making the whole process smooth.
If you're looking for an explainer video to use in your Instagram marketing campaign then contact Top Explainers today to see how they can help your business.
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Pow! Bam! Gotham City is under attack from The Riddler, The Penguin, Catwoman and The Joker, and only Batman and Robin can save the day. This feature-length animated feature is true to the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the classic 1966 Batman TV series and is voiced by series originals Burt Ward, Adam West and Julie Newmar. Extras include featurettes.


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Saitō Takao (jap. ; * 13. September 1870 (jap. Kalender: Meiji 3/8/18) im Izushi-gun, Provinz Tajima (heute: Toyooka, Präfektur Hyōgo); † 7. Oktober 1949), war ein japanischer konservativer Politiker der frühen Shōwa-Zeit. Wegen seiner Kritik an der Politik der Gruppen um Konoe Fumimaro und des Militärs in China wurde er 1940 aus dem japanischen Parlament ausgeschlossen.

Jugend und Ausbildung
Saitō Takao wurde als zweiter Sohn in eine Bauernfamilie im Landkreis Izushi (Provinz Tajima, heute: Teil Toyookas) geboren. Zunächst begann er eine Lehre bei einem Apotheker. Er fand einen beim Innenministerium (Naimu-shō) beschäftigten Unterstützer, der ihm ermöglichte ab 1891 an der Tōkyō Semmon Gakkō (Vorläufer der Waseda-Universität) zu studieren. Er war einer der 33 Kandidaten (von 1.500 angetretenen) die 1895 die Zulassungsprüfung zur Rechtsanwaltschaft bestanden. Trotz dieses Erfolgs empfand er bald die Notwendigkeit sich noch weiter zu bilden, weshalb er 1901 einen Aufnahmeantrag für die Universität Yale stellte. Als er sich dort aufhielt, wurde bei ihm Tuberkulose diagnostiziert, die auch durch drei Operationen nicht geheilt werden konnte. Er musste daraufhin 1904 die USA verlassen.

Verheiratet war er mit Kitamura Otoko. in den 1930er Jahren lebte er im Shinagawa-ku von Tokio.

Politische Laufbahn

Im Alter von 43 Jahren wurde er für seine Heimat 1912 als Mitglied der Kokumintō ("Volkspartei") erstmals ins japanische Unterhaus gewählt. Mit Ausnahme der Wahlperiode 1919–23 wurde bis zu seinem Lebensende regelmäßig – insgesamt 13 Mal – wiedergewählt. Politisch war er, im Stil der während seiner Jugend vorherrschenden Ideologie des laissez-faire, sozialdarwinistisch ausgerichtet.

Bei der Internationalen Parlamentarischen Konferenz 1913 war er Delegierter.

Seit 1924 waren seine Unterstützer in Izushi jedoch auch in den örtlichen Jugendgruppen stark vertreten. zu dieser Zeit war er in der Kenseitō ("Konstitutionelle Partei"). Er setzte sich für das lange umkämpfte allgemeine Wahlrecht ein, das, für Männer (beschlossen 1925) die Zahl der Wähler 1928 von 3,3 auf 12,5 Millionen erhöhte. Ab 1927 war er Mitglied der Rikken Minseitō. Zeitlebens blieb er ein Bewunderer des Meiji-Tennō, damit war er nach 1930 ein Konservativer, der die Interessen des Kleinbürgertums und der ländlichen Bevölkerung repräsentierte. Er war einer der wenigen Abgeordneten seiner Zeit, die keinen Stimmenkauf betrieben und sich nicht von den Wohlhabenden seines Bezirks finanziell fördern ließen.

Im Kabinett Hamaguchi Osachi (1929–31) und erneut in der 2. Amtszeit von Wakatsuki Reijirō, war er parlamentarischer Vize-Minister für Inneres. Nominell stand er im oberen fünften Hofrang.
Im Parlament eher zurückhaltend, hielt er einige wenige bedeutende Reden, die auch wegen ihrer rhetorischen Brillanz Beachtung fanden. Nach dem Putschversuch (Ni-Niroku Jiken) vom Februar 1936 hielt er die weitbeachtete Shukugun ni kansuru enzetsu ("Über eine Kontrolle des Militärs"). Aufgrund dieser Rede wird er oft, wenig zutreffend, als anti-militaristisch (hangun) bezeichnet. Saitō war durchaus für ein starkes Militär, vorausgesetzt dies stünde unter ziviler Kontrolle.

1938 attackierte er den Entwurf des Kokka Sōdōin Hōan, das es der Regierung erlaubte, ohne das Parlament zu regieren.

1940
Im Jahr 1940 kosteten die Kämpfe in China vier Millionen Dollar täglich, 1,5 Millionen Japaner waren auf das Festland gesandt worden, die Truppen hatten hohe Verluste, davon etwa bis dato 100.000 Gefallene.

Am späten Nachmittag des 2. Februar 1940 hielt Saitō eine Rede, in der er von der Regierung Aufklärung – über die hinlänglich bekannten Propagandaphrasen hinaus – forderte, wie diese den "China-Zwischenfall" zu lösen gedenke. Dabei griff er den zurückgetretenen Konoe Fumimaro und dessen als unumstürzlich betrachteten "Proklamationen" (1938; Konoe seimei) an. Er kritisierte Konoe, den er als von den Nazis inspiriert – und persönlich feig – betrachtete, sowie die hinter ihm stehenden "reformerischen" (kaikaku) Intellektuellen mit ihren pan-asiatischen Ideen hinsichtlich der "Neuen Asiatischen Ordnung" (Tō-A Shinchitsucho). Zwar gab es Zwischenrufe während der Rede wurde er vom Präsidium jedoch nicht verwarnt. Es antworteten der Premier und zwei weitere Minister – zusammen nicht länger als 10 Minuten – im Wesentlichen die kritisierten Phrasen wiederholend. Weder der Armee- noch der Marineminister schienen Einwände zu haben. Es kamen jedoch nach einiger Zeit schärfste Proteste von den Technokraten im Verbindungsstab Regierung-Armee (Rikugunshō no Seifu Iinshitsu). Als Saitō gegen 20 Uhr wieder in den Plenarsaal zurückkehrte, stimmte er zu, dass das Prasidium beliebige Teile seiner Rede aus dem offiziellen Bericht streichen könne; es waren dies dann die letzten beiden Drittel. Gleichzeitig wurde Zensur der Berichterstattung angeordnet. Da jedoch zwischen Rede und Anordnung mehrere Stunden vergangen waren, wurde über die Rede vollständig im Fukuoka nichinichi und in mehreren ausländischen Zeitungen berichtet. Es folgte nun eine Hetzkampagne der "fortschrittlichen" (d. h. faschistischen) Kräfte gegen ihn, die ihn persönlich schwer belastete. Am 7. März 1940 wurde er für seine Kritik an Japans heiligem Krieg mit 296 gegen 7 Stimmen, bei 144 Enthaltungen seines Sitzes für verlustig erklärt.

Ab 1942
Durch die Vorgänge hatte jedoch seine Popularität im Volk zugenommen. Bei der Wahl 1942 wurde er mit der größten Mehrheit, die er je erzielte, wieder in das Unterhaus gewählt.

Als einer der wenigen "sauberen" Politiker konnte er 1945 politisch aktiv bleiben, war aber, wohl auch wegen seiner angegriffenen Gesundheit und seines Alters, keine bestimmende Figur. Im Unterhaus stellte er am 11. November 1946 in einer Rede die Frage nach der Kriegsverantwortung von Konoe Fumimaro. Er hatte sich der "progressiven Partei" (Shimpo-tō) angeschlossen, die sich bald in Minshu-tō umbenannte. Für beide war er "oberster Berater".

In den Kabinetten des konservativen Yoshida Shigeru und des Sozialisten Katayama Tetsu war er Staatsminister, zunächst noch als Minister ohne Geschäftsbereich, dann ab 28. Oktober 1946 als Vorsitzender der Verwaltungsuntersuchungsabteilung. Daher erscheint Saitōs Unterschrift mit auf der Verfassungsurkunde von 1947. Als das Kabinett Ashida Hitoshi gebildet wurde, dem er nicht mehr angehörte, trat er aus der Minshu-tō aus und ging zur Demokratisch-Liberalen Partei.

Er verstarb, von der Öffentlichkeit wenig beachtet, 80-jährig im Jahre 1949.

Werke, Literatur und Quellen
 Earl Kinmonth: The Mouse that Roared: Saito Takao, Conservative Critic of Japan's "Holy War" in China. Journal of Japanese Studies Vol. 25,2 (1999)
 Saitō Takao: Kaiko nanajū nen. Tokyo 1948, Neudruck: 1987 (Autobiographie)
 Daizō Kusayanagi: Saitō Takao. Tokyo 1981 (Biographie)
Auf japanisch erschienen außerdem Teile seiner Tagebücher (Saitō Takao nikki), die nicht in den Bombenangriffen 1945 verbrannten, gesammelte Reden und Essays (1961), sowie ein Gedenkband (Izushi, 1955). Weiterhin verfasste er einige staatswissenschaftliche Werke.

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Renewed: Special Rapporteur's Mandate Extended by a 22 to 5 Vote
In today's session at the Human Rights Council (HRC), UN member states voted to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed. With 22 yes votes, 5 no votes, and 20 abstentions, member states again showed their support for the mandate and concern at human rights violations in Iran.
Today's vote showed strong cross-regional support with 22 Yes votes from countries including Peru, Botswana, Chile, Senegal, Maldives, the Czech Republic, Benin, Romania, Mexico, Hungary, Costa Rica, Poland and Guatemala. Mauritania changed from a No vote last year to Yes. Ecuador changed from a No vote last year to an abstention. While Ecuador and Uruguay abstained, citing hesitations about country-specific resolutions, they still made strong statements expressing concern for human rights violation in Iran and calling on the government to impose a moratorium on the death penalty. Over 47 UN member states co-sponsored the resolution.
Families of Victims in Downed Passenger Plane Refuse Iranian Compensation:
International Bar Association Calls for Immediate Release of Nasrin Sotoudeh
23 Rights Organizations Urge UN to Take "Urgent Action" on
UN Raises Alarm at Arrests and Reported Killings, Internet Shutdown
UN Expert Concerned by Crackdown on Protests and Strikes in
UN Expert Says Human Rights Should Be at the Heart


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Q: Retrofit 2 search anotation I would like to call GitHub API to return the list of repositories based on an arbitrary search parameter like this: https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=custom_search_param
So the custom_search_param is declared at runtime.
I made this interface:
public interface GitHubClient {

    String BASE_URL = "https://api.github.com/";

    @GET("search/repositories")
    Call<GitHubRepo> getReposForSearchParam (@Query("q") String custom_search_param);
}

I call it in MainActivity onCreate like this:
Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder().baseUrl(GitHubClient.BASE_URL).addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create()).build();
    GitHubClient gitHubClient = retrofit.create(GitHubClient.class);

    Call<GitHubRepo> call = gitHubClient.getReposForSearchParam("tetris");
    call.enqueue(new Callback<GitHubRepo>() {
        @Override
        public void onResponse(Call<GitHubRepo> call, Response<GitHubRepo> response) {
            Log.d("resp",response.toString());
            Log.d("respBody",response.body().toString());
        }

        @Override
        public void onFailure(Call<GitHubRepo> call, Throwable t) {
            Log.e("wentWrong", t.getMessage());
        }
    });

And I am always getting onFailure response with this message:

E/wentWrong: javax.net.ssl.SSLProtocolException: SSL handshake
  aborted: ssl=0xb8679dd0: Failure in SSL library, usually a protocol
  error
                                                                           error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert
  protocol version (external/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:741 0x9db10901:0x000
00000)

Does anyone know what is going wrong here and if GitHubClient interface anottations should be declared in different way?

A: since the GitHub api has disabled TLSv1.1 you need a device or client that supports TLSv1.1 at least. So with an android device below android 4.4 it won't work. See here.


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Jack Creley (March 6, 1926 – March 10, 2004) was an American-born Canadian actor. Although most prominently a stage actor, he also had film and television roles.

Background
Creley was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 6, 1926. During the Great Depression, his family moved to California, where he acted in amateur theatre as a teenager, until he was old enough to enlist in the United States Army late in World War II. He was shot in the shoulder during the Battle of Okinawa, and spent the rest of his life telling the story that he knew he was destined to become an actor when he realized he was responding to the injury like a character in a John Wayne film.

After the end of the war, he went to New York City to study acting under Erwin Piscator at the Dramatic Workshop, where he was a classmate of Harry Belafonte, Tony Curtis and Rod Steiger. He moved to Montreal in 1951 to take a job with the Mountain Theatre Company, and remained there until 1954, when he moved to Toronto. Soon after moving to Toronto, he met David Smith, who would be his partner for the remainder of his life.

Acting career
In Toronto, he acted on stage, including frequent performances at the Stratford Festival, and often appeared in CBC Television anthology series, including Scope, Playbill, CBC Summer Theatre, Encounter, Folio, Startime, Horizon, Playdate and several Wayne and Shuster sketches, as well as performing in cabaret shows.

In 1956, Creley starred in the Canadian production of Salad Days, and in 1958 he starred in the Canadian production of Visit to a Small Planet.  In 1960, he played two roles at the Stratford Festival, as Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet and as King Philip in King John.

Creley had his first major film role in 1961, in the Western film The Canadians. After completing a run as Holofernes in a Stratford Festival production of Love's Labour's Lost that summer, he returned to New York to appear in a Broadway production of A Man for All Seasons as Cardinal Wolsey. After completing his run in New York, he appeared in a Stratford Festival production of The Gondoliers, and then went to London to appear alongside Corinne Conley, Dave Broadfoot, Eric House and Eric Christmas in the musical revue Clap Hands at the Hammersmith Theatre. Following the end of that show's run, most of the cast returned to Canada, although Creley remained in London to take a role as Mr. Staines in the film Dr. Strangelove.

After returning to Canada, he appeared in productions of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story and Anton Chekhov's Summer in the Country. During this time, he also became a popular voice-over artist for television commercials, recording at least 18 commercial spots in 1965 and 1966. He directed a musical revue, The Decline and Fall of the Entire World As Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter, in 1965 and 1966, and when he stepped in for several shows in the absence of lead performer Louis Negin, it was his first time singing on stage since the end of Clap Hands in 1963.

In 1966, he appeared as Wilfrid Laurier in the CBC Television miniseries Reluctant Nation, and in 1969 he appeared in the television series Strange Paradise as Laslo Thaxton.

In 1970, he starred in the musical Oh, Coward! at Theatre in the Dell, alongside Patricia Collins and Gordon Thomson. Charles Pope from the Toronto Star called his performance "magnificent".

In 1972 he had his second and final Broadway role, appearing in a production of There's One in Every Marriage as Roubillon, and in 1974 he had his last role at Stratford in a production of The Imaginary Invalid. In this era, he began to appear more often in film and television roles, most notably in the film Videodrome and the television sitcom Snow Job. His final role was a guest appearance on E.N.G. in 1990.

Personal life
Creley and Smith shared ownership of an antique store, The Green Dolphin, beginning in 1955, and later of a clothing store, Mr. Smith. They also had a widespread reputation among actors as being excellent hosts of parties; performers such as Vivien Leigh, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Bea Arthur and Billy Dee Williams were frequent houseguests of the couple.

Late in life, Creley suffered two strokes, and began to develop aphasia. He died on March 10, 2004, in Toronto.

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