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A precious jewel, untarnished by the passing centuries
The story chosen to represent the Peter Davison era of Doctor Who at the BFI's 50th anniversary screenings was Caves of Androzani. It's an odd choice, as it is unlike other stories being produced at the time. It's a excellent story, an excellent script and very well directed. But it's not fun. The few quips and jokes in the script raised only muted laughter from the audience and, apart from the two leads, every character is flawed. There are no heroes in the story and almost every character dies, an ignominious end awaiting each of them. There are no blazes of glory here. The Doctor doesn't influence events particularly, he doesn't right any wrongs. He just wants to cure Peri and get out of there alive. Even then, he only half manages it.
The story was introduced by Mark Gatiss. Half way through. composer Roger Limb talked about his time at the Radiophonic Workshop. By a happy coincidence, the music from Caves of Androzani has just been released on CD.
The discussion panel afterwards was lively. To say the least. After his brief appearance at last month's screening, I hadn't expected to see Matthew Waterhouse this month, but there he was. The BFI even showed Adric's death scene while the panel was on the stage. There was a fair bit of good natured ribbing between Peter and Janet, and some less good natured ribbing of Matthew. But things settled down and Matthew raised some interesting points. A refreshing number of questions from the audience were directed at Graeme Harper, and a fair few people who thanked Peter for being "their Doctor".
Afterwards a small group of podcasters gathered in the by-now-traditional car park stairwell to review the story and the panel. It will be available from The Doctor Who Podcast Facebook page very soon. You can still download our review of "Robots of Death", the 4th Doctor BFI screening.
5 Responses to A precious jewel, untarnished by the passing centuries
simon Watson says:
How have you got to so many of these? I've applied to all of them so far – and not one success.
Just luck! A mixture of other people offering me a spare, and getting lucky.
I hope I get at least one. It seems they only introduced a ballot system late on – I don't think I will renew my BFI membership if this continues. They must have known the popularity they would attract.
The ballot system only started with the 5th Doctor screening. The previous screenings (Doctors 1-4) were all first come, first served. The tickets for those screenings were available to Champion Members first, then 24 hours later ordinary members. All of the tickets had been booked by members before they were released to the public.
I think the ballot is a lot fairer, and they are limiting people to two tickets each which will help.
Anthony J. Langford says:
It's so great to see everyone together on stage. Would have loved to listen to them chat.
I have to disagree though, I think 'Caves' has dated badly, unlike other 'classic' episodes. The score in particular, is rather cheesy and dare I say it, amateurish sounding, compared to say the industrial type 'Cyber' score of Earthshock which still holds up, as does the program itself.


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Jacobs Leaving Vuitton To Go Public?
By Ella Alexander 30 September 2013
MARC JACOBS is reportedly leaving Louis Vuitton to focus on his eponymous label - a move that could involve an initial public listing. Speculation that the designer - who has helmed Vuitton for 16 years - will not renew his 10-year contract first emerged on Friday.
LVMH has a majority stake in Marc Jacobs International, so a public offering would benefit both the designer and the luxury conglomerate. An IPO is expected to make billions of dollars, but a source told WWD that Jacobs and his business partner, Robert Duffy, "are not yet on board". For the listing to prove its most lucrative, Jacobs needs to appear to be fully dedicated to the brand.
However, it is thought that his exit may not be as imminent as originally thought. LVMH is reportedly holding talks with potential successor and former Balenciaga creative director Nicolas Ghesquière, and Jacobs has been signed up to do more collections for Vuitton, including the autumn/winter 2014 show. His forthcoming spring/summer 2014 show - which will take place in Paris on Wednesday - will apparently include Jacobs's greatest hits for the label.
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Some say I speak in parables. The reality is far more complex. Within these walls you may find musings on philosophy, theology, science fiction, fantasy, and anything else that catches my interest (without parables -- I'm a much more competent straight-talker than storyteller).
Balance in the Force
I just read a thoughtful post on the Pop Culture and Philosophy blog about the concept of balance in the Force in Star Wars. I've been struggling to understand that concept myself as I've been reading through a lot of the Star Wars comics, both Legends canon and new canon, and thinking them through in light of the movies, Clone Wars show, and Rebels show. I don't think the post I linked to has it right, but I'm linking to it as a thoughtful piece trying to come to grips with this issue. A quick Google search revealed quite a number of other views on this, again none of it seeming to me to get things quite right. So I wanted to put some of my own thoughts on this into writing, however, so here are some rough musings attempting to put many months of thought on this into something somewhat digestible.
Here are several things that didn't make a lot of sense to me, when put together:
Doctor Who Rankings: The First Doctor
These are my rankings of Doctor Who stories from the First Doctor period. I have categorized them into five categories, rather than finding a linear ranking order for each story.
10. The Dalek Invasion of Earth: One of the best First Doctor stories. It's the second appearance of the Daleks, and given the original naming conventions (where individual episodes were named, not overall serials, as became standard practice later in the show) you wouldn't have gotten the presence of the Daleks spoiled by the title until the end of the first episode. The TARDIS crew ends up in 22nd Century London, where the city has been devastated, with very few people in sight, all of them acting in a robotic manner. When they discover the first Dalek they come across, it's a bit of a shock, because they'd only met the Daleks on their home planet in their first appearance. Despite a ridiculous sci-fi premise for why the Daleks have invaded Earth, this story works incredibly well, which certainly isn't true of all the Terry Nation Dalek stories in this period. I don't think it's his best. That honor goes to The Daleks' Master Plan. But this is among the truly classic stories of the First Doctor period.
21. The Daleks' Master Plan: This is by far my favorite First Doctor story. A full dozen episodes (a baker's dozen, if you count the prologue episode Mission to the Unknown, which came two stories before but was really part of this story). Unfortunately, only three episodes survive, so you either have to listen to the soundtracks for the rest or watch the fan-created reconstructions based on the large number of set photos that exist and the existing soundtracks. But it's worth it. The stakes are higher than any previous Dalek story, and it has better good science fiction concepts than many of the other non-historical earlier episodes. We get to see a future Earth empire with a military that knows all about the Daleks and is trained to fight them, including two noteworthy characters, a brother and sister played by Nicholas Courtney, who later went on to play Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom, one of my favorite companions over the entire run of the origianl series. Marsh also had earlier played Princess Joanna in The Crusade and much later returned to play Morgana in the Seventh Doctor story Battlefield, which was also the final appearance of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the Doctor Who show. This was the only story featuring Sara Kingdom, unfortunately, but she's present for something like eight or nine episodes of it. Terry Nation wrote episodes 1-5 and 7. Unfortunately, the seventh was a Christmas episode that has nothing to do with the rest of the story, which is its only real low point. By that point in the story, we're reliving The Chase, where the Doctor, The Meddling Monk (from The Time Meddler), and the Daleks are running around through time, and it slows down a bit, but those parts are a little better than the middle episodes of The Chase in my view. But the first half of this story and the last two or three episodes are as enjoyable as the First Doctor gets, even with reconstructions of the episodes.
23. The Ark: This is one of the better "future of humans" stories of the First Doctor. The TARDIS appears on a human ship in the future, and there's another intelligent species serving humans as slaves, in effect, although from all appearances it's consensual, and the humans are unaware of the full intelligence of these beings. Halfway through, the TARDIS crew has resolved their original problem keeping them there, and they reappear in the same spot but much further in the future. Since this is a time when the Doctor had no control at all over where the TARDIS ends up, that seems remarkably odd. Then they discover that a revolution has occurred, and the other species has turned the tables on their human masters. Instead of being victims that we feel sorry for, they are now the villains. This was a nice nod to the common phenomenon in human history of the victims gaining control and becoming just as bad oppressors as those who had oppressed them. We also get to see an invisible (i.e. money-saving) but very powerful alien race that reminded me much of the sort of thing you might see on the original series of Star Trek, which was being made around the same time period as this episode. This episode didn't win me over to new companion Dodo. But it has some funny moments between her and the Doctor, where her slang expressions (that are entirely commonplace now, to a point where it shocked me that anyone wouldn't be used to it) give us a glimpse of the First Doctor's cantankerous nature in his complaints that she's not speaking English (which I should note is her first language and not his). And this is one of the few First Doctor stories that I'd gladly show to someone who wanted to see a good example of what the best of his period was like.
Very Enjoyable Stories
2. The Daleks (AKA The Mutants, not to be confused with a later Third Doctor story): This is the serial that gave the show its initial success. It drags a bit about 3/4 of the way through, but overall this is a great introduction to the Daleks. As with most of Terry Nation's Doctor Who stories, there are deeper themes to the story than just an action/adventure romp. In contrast to some of the emphasis of later Doctor Who stories (including some of Nation's own), here we see the Doctor encouraging pacifists to take up arms to destroy a menace that would otherwise end up destroying them. This is one of the best First Doctor stories.
17. The Time Meddler: In this story we get the introduction of our first Time Lord character (not that we have that name yet) besides the Doctor and Susan, and we even get to see his TARDIS, both inside and out. His chameleon circuit works, so we see a TARDIS properly disguised. The Meddling Monk returns as well in the Daleks' Master Plan, so he's also a recurring villain. A renegade Time Lord seeking to change history for some unclear profit motive (or perhaps for some higher good, but in any case the Doctor disapproves), the Meddling Monk has set himself up at a monastery, where he's pretending a whole group of monks are present by using future technology (including a phonograph with recordings of medieval-style chant) to give the appearance of a larger population of monks (as well as to make his stay more comfortable with appliances such as a toaster). The Doctor and his companions eventually figure out what's going on, and the Doctor manages to show some know-how when it comes to how a TARDIS works by sabotaging the Monk's TARDIS (which unfortunately never manages to help him get his TARDIS working properly again so he can actually control where it goes, not until the Time Lords help him later on during the Third Doctor period). This is the first time we see a historical setting with something non-historical worked in, a formula that the show eventually uses almost exclusively for stories taking place in the Earth's past, but we still have another season or so of purely historical episodes to go before that becomes standard. It's the first time also for the new lineup of the Doctor, Vicki, and Steven. It has some moments of lagging, as historical episodes tend to do, and it's the first historical episode with discussion of the real possibility of history-changing (see The Space Museum for the first instance of this, however, although this doesn't have the complete incoherence of that story). That is a disappointment from the perspective of metaphysics, but the unique elements of this story more than make up for it.
27. The War Machines: This is one of my favorite. If it weren't for the musical companions, it would be in the top category. The adventure starts with the Doctor and Dodo arriving in Dodo's own time period (roughly the time the episode aired). She's in the first episode and maybe part of the second. She never even appears to say goodbye to the Doctor. It introduced Ben and Polly, but Polly is brainwashed for most of the episode, so we don't get to see her in her right mind very much. And much of the episode Ben hasn't really connected with the Doctor. So it's not really the usual Doctor and his companion (or companions) sort of piece. That being said, this was a great introduction to what became a much more standard format for the Second Doctor period, where the Doctor (and in the other cases his companions) is in the time period when the show was being made, the mid-late 1960s, fighting off some menace threatening the time period of the viewers of the show. In this case, it's an artificial intelligence that, in a rare case, seems to have nothing to do with aliens, but you do get some rather rudimentary-looking robot threats (in keeping with the era they couldn't have them be too sci-fi looking). The Doctor uses logical paradoxes to undo the machine, as he does in several other stories (The Green Death, Death to the Daleks, and Shada come to mind). I do tend to like Ben and Polly, but we don't see a lot of Polly in this one. There's a nice scene at the end where the Doctor thinks he's all alone for the first time since the show began, but he ends up getting surprised with some unintended stowaways at the end, leading into the next season (and his final two stories).
29. The Tenth Planet: This is the introduction of the Cybermen and the last story for the First Doctor, so there's particular significance to it, but it doesn't work as well as I'd like. The Second Doctor Cybermen stories are much better. They look like they're wearing cloth outfits instead of metal. It's hard to hear what they're saying sometimes. The Doctor is showing his age, and several of his scenes had to be given to Ben or Polly. (Both Hartnell and the character are dying of old age at this point.) At the end, after defeating the Cybermen, he just collapses and dies, only to be regenerated into the Second Doctor. They don't explain the regenaration all that well, and the final episode is missing (although there are copies of the regeneration scene that have been released on DVD and online). Fortunately, this is one of the missing episodes that have now been animated. Still, this is a decent base-under-siege story, a template that becomes much more common with the Second Doctor, and as the introduction to the Cybermen and the final First Doctor story, it's certainly one to see.
Daleks, Contradictions, and Religious Belief
I recently rewatched the 1975 Doctor Who episode "Genesis of the Daleks" by Terry Nation. Some online discussions I looked at about "Genesis of the Daleks" made some interesting, and to my mind obviously false, claims about how it fits (or doesn't) into the overall canonical fictional world of Doctor Who.
One claim in particular claim that caught my interest was the accusation that Terry Nation contradicted some of his earlier Doctor Who episodes about the Daleks in giving the origin of the Daleks in this serial. One discussion pointed out that Nation had made an effort not to contradict his first serial "The Daleks" from 1963, where he establishes the Daleks as creations of a race called the Dals in their war against the Thals. The supposed contradiction comes with "Genesis of the Daleks" when Nation actually shows us this war between the Thals and the race that created the Daleks, and the creator race is not called the Dals but is called The Kaleds.
Here's my problem. This is not a contradiction. A contradiction takes the form 'P and not-P". There is nothing of that form here. What you do have is:
1. The race who created the Daleks at the time of the Daleks' creation called themselves the Kaleds.
2. The Thals also called them the Kaleds at that time.
3. At a much later time, probably many centuries later, after an apocalyptic destruction of all civilization and a loss of a good deal of accurate information about the details of that earlier time, someone speaks of the race that created the Daleks as the Dals.
I'm sorry, but I'm not seeing how any of that makes for an inconsistency. If we were sure the person telling us they were called the Dals was speaking the truth, that would even be difficult to get a contradiction, because it's possible they came to be called the Dals at some time after "Genesis of the Daleks" or that they were called that at some earlier time, and that name came to be the more common one to use again after the apocalypse. But we can't even be sure the Thal telling us this has the right information. Maybe it's just that the wrong name was preserved. There are quite a number of things that could explain how 1-3 might all be true. Terry Nation simply did not contradict his earlier Dalek stories. What he did is use a different name without explaining why different names were used at those two different times, but it's not a contradiction.
I think there's a certain personality type that just likes to find contradictions in everything. A lot of fan criticism of science fiction and fantasy stories exhibits similar problems to the one I've been discussing here. I could point out lots of other examples. That doesn't mean there aren't legitimate criticisms to level against authors. I've criticized J.K. Rowling in print about her concept of changing the past in the third Harry Potter novel, although I did so after pointing out some rather implausible ways of making the story work to avoid the problem I raised. The implausibility there would involve reliable narrators who would know better telling untruths, however, which is more of a stretch than someone centuries after an apocalyptic event getting a name of an extinct civilization wrong or the possibility that the group was actually called by two different names.
How you evaluate such attempts to make canonical worlds coherent in part does depend on how plausible the explanation might be to avoid the contradiction. It's nice for fictional worlds to be coherent. Sometimes that's impossible. Sometimes it involves an implausibility but is possible. And sometimes it's not all that implausible if you just think a little harder to see how things might fit together, when at first they seem not to.
It's hard not to think of critics who like to find contradictions in the Bible when I look at these stories. There are some genuine difficulties in fitting together some parts of the Bible. I've never seen one that guarantees a contradiction, especially when you take into account that inerrantists don't take the current manuscripts to be inerrant but allow for errors in transcription from manuscript to manuscript. But I have seen places where it's not easy to come up with one highly plausible explanation that shows for sure why the apparent contradiction is not a real one. In most of them, there have been several explanations, where not one stands out as the most plausible, and even most of them involve something somewhat unlikely but possible. There's none I know of where I would judge all the explanations as so implausible as to require rational evaluators to think it has to involve two contradictory statements that can't be resolved. But I'm coming from an epistemological standpoint where I think the prior plausibility is relatively high. I consider myself to be in a position where I think I have good reasons for taking the Bible as it presents itself, as God's word, and it follows from that that it's more likely that there is a solution even if I don't know what it is than that there isn't. So I'm going to take the less-plausible-sounding accounts as less certain, but I'm going to be more likely to think that one of them is probably true.
That's one difference with fictional worlds. I don't believe there even are Daleks or Time Lords, never mind that the entire Doctor Who canon is consistent. (I think it certainly isn't coherent when it comes to fundamental questions of time travel, for example.) But someone who thinks God is real and is basically the way God is presented in the Bible is going to place a higher prior probability on there being some resolution to a proposed contradiction than someone who has no prior trust in those documents. And I would argue that someone doing this is right to do so if the prior probability is based on a good epistemic state to begin with. And that makes accepting truth in texts that are hard to fit together much easier to do (and not in a way that undermines rationality, assuming the prior probability itself has a rational grounding.
That assumption of prior probability, of course, is one of the fundamental disputes to begin with, but you can't just assume at the outset that someone who is more willing to trust a set of scriptures is wrong in doing so, and pointing to potential contradictions isn't necessarily going to turn the tide of the conversation unless you first undermine the prior probability. Supposed but not actual contradictions, even if they are difficult to put together, are therefore very weak evidence against the coherence of a worldview when the person who holds that worldview is more sure of it than they are of the irresolvability of the supposed contradiction. That makes for people coming from very different standpoints evaluating the supposed contradictions very differently, and from within their world view each seems to themselves to be right in how they do that. That's something that I think not enough people on either side of such debates can see.
J.K. Rowling's Philosophy of Time
This entry will spoil one of the major plot elements of the new Harry Potter film, The Prisoner of Azkaban (and I assume the book too, though I haven't read it), so don't read any further if you don't want to ruin it. It might also ruin my favorite episode of Andromeda and one of the most interesting elements of Babylon 5, but you can avoid that by skipping the last part (when I address other movies and TV shows) if you just want to read what I have to say about Harry Potter and the philosophy of time involved.
Jeremy Pierce is a philosophy professor, Uber/Lyft driver, and father of five.
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I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That's all to the good.
I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to.
I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.
An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.
Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America.
I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.
It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.


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Research Ready: October 2015
Posted on October 30, 2015 Author paulfisher
By Amie Oliver, Librarian and Curator of Print Materials, and Paul Fisher, Processing Archivist
For the past couple of years, "Research Ready" has featured our newly processed archival collections. Starting this month, we also will include a few highlights of items recently added to our print materials. As always, this is just a sampling of the many, many resources to be found at The Texas Collection!
Dr. McGlasson served as the chief medical officer for the last year of the building of the Panama Canal. This photo, amid a scrapbook largely comprised of European cityscapes and landscapes, highlights the scale of this massive construction project in which he played a small role. Irvy Lee McGlasson papers 3946, Box 4, Folder 1.
Here are October's finding aids:
Jack and Gloria Parker Selden collection, 1755-2007, undated (#3954): These papers include materials about the Parker family throughout Texas history, including the stories of Cynthia Ann and Quanah Parker. Much of the collection is Jack Selden's extensive research on the Parker family to write his book Return: The Parker Story in 2006.
E.S. James papers, 1938-1969 (#3965): Sermons, correspondence, and other collected materials about James, his colleagues, and subscribers to the Baptist Standard. E.S. James was editor of the Baptist Standard for twelve years.
Irvy Lee McGlasson papers, 1904-1931 (#3946): Materials include artifacts, photographs, and other materials about McGlasson, a doctor from Waco that served as the chief medical officer for the workforce building the Panama Canal.
Here are October's featured print materials:
Le Champ-d'Asile, au Texas. Paris: Chez Tiger, 1820.
This volume, listed in Thomas W. Streeter's renowned Bibliography of Texas, 1795-1845, provides a rare account of the failed Champ-d'Asile colony of Napoleonic loyalists who settled on Texas' Trinity River in 1818.
Annual Catalogue Hill's Business College, 1905-1906. Waco: Hill's Business College, 1905. Print.
In 1881, Robert Howard Hill founded Hill's Business College, which operated in Waco for more than 40 years. This volume offers a glimpse into the faculty, curriculum, and student body of the 1905-1906 academic year.
The City of Fort Worth and the State of Texas. St. Louis: Geo. W. Engelhardt & Co., 1890. Print.
Part of the Engelhardt Series of American Cities, this volume examines business opportunities in 1890 Fort Worth and includes information on the railroad, real estate, manufacturing, and finances.
Categories: American South, American West, Archives, Baptist General Convention of Texas, Cynthia Ann Parker, E.S. James, Fort Worth, frontier and pioneer life, Frontier and pioneer life, genealogy, Hill's Business College, Indian captivities, Indians of North America, letters, Medicine, Old West, Quanah Parker, Research Ready, Texas, Texas Baptists, Texas historic buildings, Texas land grants, Texas physicians, Texas State Parks, Theology study and teaching, Trinity River
Charles Guittard
Amy, Paul–Will the Hill's Business College Catalogue be accessible online? I would really like to look at it. Charles
Amanda Norman
We don't have plans to digitize it at this time, Charles. But anybody is welcome to come and use it in the reading room!
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by raj on September 11, 2021
Analytics: München hold on to beat Bull Leipzig
Bayern München won Saturday's game away to Red Bull Leipzig in the Bundesliga. They were ahead 1-0 and only increased their lead towards the end. The game finished 4-1.
Bayern München scored the first goal when Robert Lewandowski scored in the 12th minute, making it 1-0.
Straight after the break, Jamal Musiala scored and increased the team's lead.
In the 54th minute, Leroy Sane netted, with an assist by Jamal Musiala, to increase the lead for Bayern München.
Red Bull Leipzig reduced the score to 1-3 just four minutes later when Konrad Laimer found the net, with an assist by Kevin Kampl. Red Bull Leipzig were unable to score any more goals.
The 1-4 goal came in the 90th minute, when Eric Maxim Choupo Moting scored a goal for Bayern München, with an assist by Joshua Kimmich, what brought the final score to 4-1.
Red Bull Leipzig have had a sluggish start to the season and have only three points from their first four games. Bayern München are on 10 points.
The last match between the teams ended in a 1-0 away win for Bayern München in April 2021.
Red Bull Leipzig are unbeaten at home, after one game. Bayern München are unbeaten away from home.
Red Bull Leipzig have scored 5 goals. They have scored five goals at home. They've conceded 6 goals in total.
Bayern München have scored 13 goals in this campaign. Away from home they have scored 13 goals. They've conceded 4 goals in total.
Red Bull Leipzig have opened the score in 1 of their 3 of the games, and have a winning ratio of 100 percent when scoring the first goal. Bayern München have scored 66 percent of their goals in the last 45 minutes, putting up a +4 (6–2) goal difference.
In the next games in the Bundesliga, Red Bull Leipzig will take on FC Köln (away) on 17 September 2021, Hertha Berlin (home) on 24 September 2021 and Bochum (home) on 01 October 2021. Bayern München play Bochum (home) on 17 September 2021, Greuther Fürth (away) on 23 September 2021 and Eintracht Frankfurt (home) on 01 October 2021.


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Michael Jackson's Broadway musical gets new title
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A new musical based on the life and career of Michael Jackson is getting a title change, Variety has learned. Originally christened "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," the show will now be known as "MJ." It's currently in a multi-week development phase in New York City and is scheduled to hit Broadway in the summer of 2020.
"We can confirm that the Michael Jackson musical has a new title," Rick Miramontez, a spokesman for the show, said. "As the show has evolved through its development process, the production felt that 'MJ' was a better and stronger choice than relying on the title of any one individual song."
That effort, however, has been overshadowed by multiple allegations of child sexual abuse that have been leveled over the years against the late pop icon. That controversy was reignited by a recent HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland," which featured lengthy interviews with two Jackson accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who claim that singer groomed them and abused them when they were young boys. Jackson, who died in 2009 at the age of 50, and the Jackson family have denied all of the abuse allegations. Last winter, in the wake of "Leaving Neverland's" release, the musical's producers canceled a Chicago tryout.
"MJ" features a book by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage ("Ruined") and will rely on the pop star's extensive catalog of hits for its music. Jackson's songs include "Beat It," "Billie Jean," "The Way You Make Me Feel," and "Smooth Criminal." Tony Award winner Christopher Wheeldon ("An American in Paris") will direct and choreograph.
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package com.codebrig.beam.messages;

import io.protostuff.JsonIOUtil;
import io.protostuff.LinkedBuffer;
import io.protostuff.ProtostuffIOUtil;
import io.protostuff.Schema;
import io.protostuff.runtime.RuntimeSchema;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.Arrays;

/**
 * @author Brandon Fergerson <brandon.fergerson@codebrig.com>
 */
public class BeamMessage<MessageT extends BeamMessage>
{

    public static final int HEADER_SIZE = 20; //20 bytes
    public static final int MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE = 52428800; //50 MB

    protected boolean systemMessage;
    protected int type;
    protected byte[] data;
    protected long createdTimestamp;
    protected long sentTimestamp;
    protected long receivedTimestamp;
    protected boolean rawData = false;
    protected long messageId = -1;
    protected boolean successful;
    protected String errorMessage;

    /**
     * Data message constructor
     *
     * @param type the type of message
     */
    public BeamMessage (int type) {
        this (type, false);
    }

    public BeamMessage (BeamMessage message) {
        this (message, message.isSystemMessage ());
    }

    /**
     * Data message constructor
     *
     * @param type the type of message
     * @param data the data to send with the message
     */
    public BeamMessage (int type, byte[] data) {
        if (type < 0) {
            throw new InvalidBeamMessage (String.format (
                    "Invalid message type: %s! Beam messages must have a type >= 0.", type));
        }

        this.type = type;
        this.data = data;
        this.rawData = true;
        this.createdTimestamp = System.currentTimeMillis ();
    }

    BeamMessage (int type, byte[] data, boolean systemMessage) {
        if (type < 0 && !systemMessage) {
            throw new InvalidBeamMessage (String.format (
                    "Invalid message type: %s! Beam messages must have a type >= 0.", type));
        }

        this.type = type;
        this.data = data;
        this.systemMessage = systemMessage;
        this.rawData = true;
        this.createdTimestamp = System.currentTimeMillis ();
    }

    BeamMessage (int type, byte[] data, boolean systemMessage, boolean rawData) {
        if (type < 0 && !systemMessage) {
            throw new InvalidBeamMessage (String.format (
                    "Invalid message type: %s! Beam messages must have a type >= 0.", type));
        }

        this.type = type;
        this.data = data;
        this.systemMessage = systemMessage;
        this.rawData = rawData;
        this.createdTimestamp = System.currentTimeMillis ();
    }

    BeamMessage (int type, boolean systemMessage) {
        if (type < 0 && !systemMessage) {
            throw new InvalidBeamMessage (String.format (
                    "Invalid message type: %s! Beam messages must have a type >= 0.", type));
        }

        this.type = type;
        this.systemMessage = systemMessage;
        this.createdTimestamp = System.currentTimeMillis ();
    }

    BeamMessage (int type, boolean systemMessage, boolean rawData) {
        if (type < 0 && !systemMessage) {
            throw new InvalidBeamMessage (String.format (
                    "Invalid message type: %s! Beam messages must have a type >= 0.", type));
        }

        this.type = type;
        this.systemMessage = systemMessage;
        this.rawData = rawData;
        this.createdTimestamp = System.currentTimeMillis ();
    }

    BeamMessage (BeamMessage message, boolean systemMessage) {
        if (message.getType () < 0 && !systemMessage) {
            throw new InvalidBeamMessage (String.format (
                    "Invalid message type: %s! Beam messages must have a type >= 0.", message.getType ()));
        }

        this.data = message.data;
        this.type = message.getType ();
        this.systemMessage = systemMessage;
        this.createdTimestamp = System.currentTimeMillis ();
        this.rawData = message.isRawData ();
        this.messageId = message.getMessageId ();
        this.successful = message.isSuccessful ();
        this.errorMessage = message.getErrorMessage ();

        if (rawData) {
            this.data = message.getData ();
        } else {
            if (data != null) {
                autoDeserialize (data);
            } else {
                autoDeserialize (message.getData ());
            }
        }
    }

    private void autoDeserialize (byte[] data) {
        if (data != null && data.length > 0) {
            LinkedBuffer buffer = BeamMessage.getMessageBuffer ();
            Schema<MessageT> schema = (Schema<MessageT>) RuntimeSchema.getSchema (getClass ());
            try {
                ProtostuffIOUtil.mergeFrom (data, (MessageT) this, schema);
            } finally {
                buffer.clear ();
            }
        }
    }

    public BeamMessage copy () {
        return new BeamMessage (this);
    }

    public void copy (MessageT message) {
        this.data = message.data;
        this.type = message.type;
        this.systemMessage = message.systemMessage;
        this.createdTimestamp = message.createdTimestamp;
        this.rawData = message.rawData;
        this.messageId = message.messageId;
        this.successful = message.successful;
        this.errorMessage = message.errorMessage;

        if (rawData) {
            this.data = message.getData ();
        } else {
            if (data != null) {
                autoDeserialize (data);
            } else {
                autoDeserialize (message.getData ());
            }
        }
    }

    public MessageT response () {
        return (MessageT) this;
    }

    public MessageT successResponse () {
        MessageT msg = response ();
        return (MessageT) msg.setSuccessful (true);
    }

    public MessageT errorResponse () {
        MessageT msg = response ();
        return (MessageT) msg.setSuccessful (false);
    }

    public MessageT setSuccessful (boolean successful) {
        this.successful = successful;
        return (MessageT) this;
    }

    public boolean isSuccessful () {
        return successful;
    }

    public MessageT setErrorMessage (String errorMessage) {
        this.errorMessage = errorMessage;
        return (MessageT) this;
    }

    public String getErrorMessage () {
        return errorMessage;
    }

    public boolean hasErrorMessage () {
        return errorMessage != null && !errorMessage.isEmpty ();
    }

    /**
     * @return time message was created
     */
    public long getCreatedTimestamp () {
        return createdTimestamp;
    }

    public boolean isRawData () {
        return rawData;
    }

    public void setReceivedTimestamp (long receivedTimestamp) {
        this.receivedTimestamp = receivedTimestamp;
    }

    /**
     * @return time message was received
     */
    public long getReceivedTimestamp () {
        return receivedTimestamp;
    }

    public void setSentTimestamp (long sentTimestamp) {
        this.sentTimestamp = sentTimestamp;
    }

    /**
     * @return time message was sent
     */
    public long getSentTimestamp () {
        return sentTimestamp;
    }

    public void setMessageId (long messageId) {
        this.messageId = messageId;
    }

    /**
     * @return message id
     */
    public long getMessageId () {
        return messageId;
    }

    /**
     * @return message type
     */
    public int getType () {
        return type;
    }

    public boolean isSystemMessage () {
        return systemMessage;
    }

    public byte[] getData () {
        byte[] rtnData = null;
        if (rawData) {
            return data;
        } else {
            //auto-serialize
            LinkedBuffer buffer = getMessageBuffer ();
            Schema<MessageT> schema = (Schema<MessageT>) RuntimeSchema.getSchema (getClass ());
            MessageT message = (MessageT) this;
            try {
                rtnData = ProtostuffIOUtil.toByteArray (message, schema, buffer);
            } finally {
                buffer.clear ();
            }
        }

        return rtnData;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode () {
        int hash = 3;
        hash = 59 * hash + (this.systemMessage ? 1 : 0);
        hash = 59 * hash + this.type;
        hash = 59 * hash + Arrays.hashCode (this.data);
        hash = 59 * hash + (this.rawData ? 1 : 0);
        hash = 59 * hash + (int) (this.messageId ^ (this.messageId >>> 32));
        return hash;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals (Object obj) {
        if (obj == null) {
            return false;
        }
        if (getClass () != obj.getClass ()) {
            return false;
        }
        final BeamMessage<?> other = (BeamMessage<?>) obj;
        if (this.systemMessage != other.systemMessage) {
            return false;
        }
        if (this.type != other.type) {
            return false;
        }
        if (!Arrays.equals (this.data, other.data)) {
            return false;
        }
        if (this.rawData != other.rawData) {
            return false;
        }
        return this.messageId == other.messageId;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString () {
        if (rawData) {
            return Arrays.toString (data);
        } else {
            //auto-serialize
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter ();
            Schema<MessageT> schema = (Schema<MessageT>) RuntimeSchema.getSchema (getClass ());
            MessageT message = (MessageT) this;
            try {
                JsonIOUtil.writeTo (writer, message, schema, false);
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace ();
            }
            return writer.toString ();
        }
    }

    private static final ThreadLocal<LinkedBuffer> localBuffer = new ThreadLocal<LinkedBuffer> ()
    {
        @Override
        public LinkedBuffer initialValue () {
            return LinkedBuffer.allocate (MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE);
        }
    };

    public static LinkedBuffer getMessageBuffer () {
        return localBuffer.get ();
    }

}

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What's On - 18 March 2018
Exhibition: Nerves and Steel
Saturday 22 July 2017 - Sunday 29 July 2018
The war in the Pacific was essentially a naval struggle. Allied war aims hinged on the destruction of Japan's powerful navy and the severing of sea communications between Japan and its far-flung Asian and Pacific conquests. Nerves and Steel explores the role played by the RAN in ultimate Allied victory and features items from the Shrine's own collection as well as loans from the Australian War Memorial, the RAN Heritage Collection, veterans and their families. Read More
The war in the Pacific was essentially a naval struggle. Allied war aims hinged on the destruction of Japan's powerful navy and the severing of sea communications between Japan and its far-flung Asian and Pacific conquests. Nerves and Steel explores the role played by the RAN in ultimate Allied victory and features items from the Shrine's own collection as well as loans from the Australian War Memorial, the RAN Heritage Collection, veterans and their families.
Exhibition: The Light Horse
Friday 20 October 2017 - Sunday 21 October 2018
While Australian infantry served in the grim trenches of the Western Front, their comrades in the Australian Light Horse were fighting dynamic campaign of maneuver against the Ottoman Turks in the desert wastes of Sinai, Palestine and Syria. This exhibition tells the story of the Sinai-Palestine campaign and explores how it has captured the imagination of Australians ever since. Read More
While Australian infantry served in the grim trenches of the Western Front, their comrades in the Australian Light Horse were fighting dynamic campaign of manoeuvre against the Ottoman Turks in the desert wastes of Sinai, Palestine and Syria. This exhibition tells the story of the Sinai-Palestine campaign and explores how it has captured the imagination of Australians ever since.
Ceremony: ILIM College of Australia 2018
Sunday 18 March 2018, 10:00am
Wreath Laying in the Sanctuary
Shrine Representative:
Shrine Life Governor Lieutenant Colonel David Ford CVO AM GM
A service will be conducted at the Shrine of Remembrance on the anniversary of ILIM College's Walk of Harmony in 2016. This project sought to bring together students from the Turkish Islamic, Catholic and State schools from the Broadmeadows area to walk in the steps of the young men of the past. As part of the ANZAC Day commemorations, students visited the shores of Gallipoli to pay their respects to the soldiers who fought there.
Ceremony: Shrine Monthly Remembrance Service - March 2018
Sunday 18 March 2018, 01:30pm
Shrine Representatives:
Shrine Trustee Michelle Campbell
Shrine Governor Colonel John Coulson OAM RFD ED
The Shrine Monthly Remembrance Service honours Victorian servicemen and women from all branches of the Armed Forces. In particular, we remember Victorians who served during the First and Second World Wars, who once would have attended their annual Pilgrimage in this month, but due to the passage of time are no longer able to.
In World War I, 89,000 Victorians served overseas. 19,000 made the supreme sacrifice.
In World War II, 297,000 Victorians served overseas. 10,900 made the supreme sacrifice.
We will remember them.
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Graphic Design students win the Oscars of design awards
BY Emma Cawley | 03-Jul-2019
TAFE NSW Design Centre Enmore Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design students are celebrating their win at the prestigious Design and Art Direction (D&AD) Awards.
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Luke Wilkinson, Ruby Padilla and Caitlyn Smith
With over 6,000 student entries for the D&AD Awards from around the world, Caitlyn Smith, Ruby Padilla and Luke Wilkinson received the New Blood Pencil award for their campaign "Do The Nasty".
Referred to as the Oscars of the design world, a thrilled Caitlyn said, "I cried when I opened the email that said we'd won, I couldn't believe it." Ruby agreed, "It took me a while to process that we'd actually won, but once I did I was ecstatic." Luke adding, "Everyone, even people we didn't know at TAFE NSW Design Centre Enmore, was stopping us to say congratulations. It felt like we were famous, which was crazy."
Responding to the brief for a campaign that combats the stigma around menstruation in society, "Do The Nasty" aims to normalise the topic.
During the creative process, experts from the graphic design industry attended TAFE NSW Design Centre Enmore to mentor the students. Providing them with guidance and feedback that they would receive working in the industry.
Luke explained, "It was very beneficial having these experts work with us for seven weeks. They would push us to think outside the box and give us honest feedback on the work we were doing, which was great as we learnt so much from it."
Caitlyn will now fly to London to attend the D&AD International awards ceremony on 11 July, where the team will find out which Pencil they will be awarded.
To find out more about studying Graphic Design at TAFE NSW Design Centre Enmore visit www.tafensw.edu.au or call 131 601.
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Let's talk about Melanie Jame Wolf, an artist with over ten years' experience in theatre and performance who has debuted at The Substation with her first solo exhibition called CHORUS, emerging a new stream of creative energy into video installation.
Philip Samartzis speaks about Bogong Centre for Sound Culture's up coming masterclass
The Bogong Centre for Sound Culture offers its next instalment of their masterclass series The Art of Field Recording during the winter snow season in the Bogong High Plains. This five-day intensive masterclass is overseen by internationally acclaimed sound artists and recordists Douglas Quin [US] and Philip Samartzis [AU] The masterclass runs from July 1 to 5, 2019 at Howmans Gap, Victoria. #bogongsound @bogongsound #philipsamartzis #douglasquin #howmansgap


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Celebrity Birthday Party Soirees Galore in Las Vegas This Weekend
Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash was in Las Vegas Friday headlining the 20th anniversary birthday party at The Mirage, dubbing the event" Slash and Friends." The axeman's so-called friends included fellow GNR bandmate Matt Sorum and previously-mentioned fellow drummer Tommy Lee; Hole's unladylike leading lady, Courtney Love; Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry; Maroon 5 hottie Adam Levine; Pussycat Dolls' stunner Nicole Scherzinger; musician/screenwriter Rob Zombie; Led Zeppelin drummer Jason Bonham; and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick. What's more, Keifer Sutherland served as master of (the star-studded) ceremonies.
Whew, try saying all that in one breath- and we're just getting started…
If club hopping and spotting celebrities are your cup of tea, don't forget to check out Her Greatness, the inimitable Paris Hilton as she graces Body English, the nightclub at the Hard Rock Casino & Hotel. This is THE favorite Las Vegas nightclub for Hilton, but don't expect to spot her until around 11 p.m. – a gaggle of cackling groupies are a sure-fire sign of her presence.
Hilton watchers will remember the mini firestorm that erupted about a month ago when a local gossip columnist suggested the scandal-prone heiress was "wasted" at Wasted Space via Twitter.
Sober, tipsy, wasted or otherwise, Hilton will ensure Saturday night is a smash as she hosts "Smashtime" at Body English, along with E! Personality and BE Saturday night resident Clinton Sparks.
But if being in a state of mindless DJ bliss is your ticket, might want to head down tonight to the Rain nightclub at the Palms Casino around 10 p.m. as Paul Oakenfold presents Perfecto.
However, then again, if you're a firm believer that a wholesome family celebrity life can indeed happen in Las Vegas, then put on your swimming trunks and head over to the Wet Republic ultra pool at the MGM this afternoon as the terrible actress, poor singer, and the sister of Jessica, an escalating train wreck and wife to an annoying band member, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz turns 25 today, blowing the candles out on her paparazzi pie.
Yep, the C-list celebritybirthday party guests will most likely celebrate by spending time with husband Pete and cute son Bronx Mowgli today and her family; though we'd really rather she would hang out with an acting coach.
That said, it's pretty safe to say the senior Simpson sister's ex, Nick Lachey, won't be anywhere near Wet Republic or the sisters' SPF this weekend – though he will be in town this weekend.
Lachey, however, has been spotted in and around the Venetian/Palazzo (including at First Food and Bar on Thursday) and will likely stay on property, for the most part. What's more: Lachey's current flame Vanessa Minnillo is rumored to be with him.
There are a lot of other notable Las Vegas birthday candles to blow out this weekend.
The Mirage is turning 20; PT's, a local dive chain, is celebrating an amazing fog-filled 27 years; Tao is toasting its fourth birthday; and Lavo is about to mark a year of success and excess on the Strip.
All these birthdays mean three things: Lots of cake and lots of candles — and lots of celebrities, too.
Paris Hilton was also at the Vision Expo yesterday, promoting her new line of sunglasses at the Gripping Eyewear booth (#18103), but the blonde ambition's endorse-a-palooza didn't stop there: Hilton took her fashionable show down the street to the Hard Rock Hotel, where she strutted her stuff in a poolside fashion show. You might think of Hilton as a real life Barbie– you can dress her up, but be very careful when and where you take her out.
Today, the Vision Expo will be graced by rapper Pitbull who will take to the Revolution Eyewear booth at noon. Also at the Expo on Saturday will be PGA Tour golfer Kenny Perry, swing coach Matt Killen, and vision trainer Larry Lampert, who will be appearing n behalf of Transitions Optical (booth #10053). While the trio of golf pros will be chatting up Transitions lenses, they've also promised to share a few tips to help fans improve their golf game, too.
Meanwhile, Mario Barth's "Biggest Tattoo Show on Earth" also got under way on Friday, across the street from MGM at Mandalay Bay, with some 1,000 of the hottest tat artists. The three-day ink fest also features a sizeable collection of celebs, including Tommy Lee, Jack Osbourne, Mark McGrath, Evan Seinfeld, and Duff McKagen.
Barth's action will move to the Hard Rock on Saturday, where tattoo legend will co-host Inked magazine's first annual Inked True Colors Awards, which will feature a special performance by The Bronx. After that he and his entourage will likely move the party to New York-New York after the awards, however, as Beastie Boys DJ extraordinaire Mix Master Mike takes to the turntables at a tattoo show afterparty at Rok.
While the Tao restaurant-nightclub has released the mile long list of confirmed guests for this evening's four-year birthday party, everyone knows the place will be crawling with more celebrities and VIPs that what is listed.
The big names on the list now include actress Amanda Bynes; actor Mekhi Phifer; Dr. Allison Cameron from "House," aka Jennifer Morrison; and "Blade" vampire Stephen Dorff. But it doesn't end there, oh no… Aaron Paul, Adam Gregory, Amanda Righetti, Beth Ostrosky, Brandi Cibrian, Carson Kressley, Clifton Collins, Danielle Panabaker, Eva Amurri, Jason Kennedy, Jennifer Gimenez, Krysten Ritter, Patrick Sebes, Selita Ebanks, Spencer Grammer, Terrence Howard, and last but not least, Zachary Abel.
Naturally, the pre-released list of celebs attending the Tao party will likely serve as a mere starting point in terms of the who's-who's of the party. And, considering the plethora of stars in town this weekend, it's not hard to imagine how much the guest list stands to grow by the end of the night.
Meanwhile, at the MGM Grand tonight, AC/DC will entertain at the Grand Garden Arena.
Another, though entirely different, Australian-born act will step into the spotlight tonight, too, however the second Down Under-born and bred show will go down at The Palms: Kylie Monogue will mark her return to North American soil and the North American stage tonight with a performance at the Pearl.
A very different show will take place at Texas Station tonight, as all-American country superstar Randy Travis takes to the stage.
Also, tonight, L.A. party boy Brent Bolthouse will bring the West coast party to Privé, where he will serve as guest DJ for the night.
And as if the weekend's worth of birthday bashes and anniversary soirées isn't enough, there will be yet another blow-out on Sunday at The Bank. Suffice to say those attending the tattoo show's grand finale party on Sunday – yes, God doesn't rest in Las Vegas – won't be making it into the office first thing Monday morning: Dave Navarro is hosting the event, while DJ Skribble and DJ Slynkee will also contribute to the soundtrack.
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October 3, 2009 · 10:06 AM
Get Drunk as a Skunk in Las Vegas
A few nice things about October in Las Vegas: The fricken hot heat of summer which sears your eyelids to your eyeballs abates for six months; kids go back to school, giving their parents at least a semblance of renewed sanity; and an Oktoberfest is promoted in nearly every nook and cranny in Las Vegas, hopefully, to give the venue a revenue bump.
One of the premiere events is the Jacktoberfest Beer Festival that runs today from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Sunset Station in Henderson.
It features 30 different beers from all over the world. And if that is not enough to satiate your needs, then maybe the live music from The King Mixers, Hair Nation and Sin City Sinners will- these are not your ordinary garage bands.
Included in the $20 entry fee for this event is a plethora of events that only drunkards could truly appreciate: $500 for Sexiest Oktoberfest costume (or what many of you normally wear anyway), Hooters Bikini Beer-Chugging Contest, BBQ Grill Toss, Weiner Dog Races, and so much more.
For the really commercial strength chuggers there's an after party inside Club Madrid later in the day. No word yet on whether escorts will be allowed to accompany the inebriated.
Please call 702-547-7777 or log on to www.sunsetstation.com for more details.
Please, arrange for a cab to get back, enjoying the day even more.
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Chicago Loses U.S. 2016 Olympics Bid? It can't be! Recount!
Celebrities and politicians chimed in at the last moment and tried to convince more Olympic voters that Chicago is the only way to go for the 2016 Olympics. Celebrities? Barack Obama, the guy that's the President of the United States whose trying to iron out healthcare?
Las Vegas Backstage Access wonders why so many writhed their hands and were in such a shock and awe tizzy when Rio de Janerio, right, received the city nod. I mean, after all, didn't we collectively spend over $200 million to attract the judges?
Some argue that the upfront earnest marketing money spent could have been better applied to help feed the homeless or other socially viable programs. After all, didn't the unchecked national chicanery wipe out the life savings of thousands?
Get a grip, people. The U.S. didn't just lose, it came in last place. How could that be? Maybe a contributor is that the U.S. has and is still suffering from the most devasting financial crisis and loss of consumer confidence on record. It's not like the hotbed of high morale. For a long time, charlatans, thieves by another name, ran the henhouse. And it's not over yet. With each passing day new schemes are being discovered that rob people of their hard earned savings.
Ironically, on the same day of the Olympic city announcement, the national unemployment rates were also announced- which rose once again rose to 9.8 percent.
The Olympics is all about having world competitive sporting games and crowning the winners at that moment in time. Nothing more and nothing less.
Perhaps now some of this same fervor, if anybody cares, could be claimed and channeled into higher ROI projects, with a quicker return to a U.S. society that is crumbling with each passing day and on the potential verge of withering away due to misaligned priorities and just plain neglect.
The U.S. didn't really lose the Olympics bid– unexpectedly, we've just had a godsend infusion of good old fashioned common sense. Thomas Paine is probably joyously rolling over in his grave.
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Las Vegas Billionaires Cry in their Dom Pérignon
The annual Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans for 2009 was released this week. With deep sadness and regret Las Vegas Backstage Access reports that most Las Vegas gaming luminaries have taken multibillion-dollar net worth shellackings.
Most blamed their financial woes largely on the stock market's collapse in 2008 and early 2009.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. founder, chairman and chief executive officer Sheldon Adelson, 76, was the highest-ranking Nevada resident on the list, coming in at No. 26 with a net worth of $9 billion.
But even that is chump change in comparison to Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates who tops the Forbes list with a net worth of $50 billion, followed by financier Warren Buffett, who comes in at No. 2 with $40 billion.
By comparison, Adelson began 2008 as the third-richest person, but Forbes refigured its list later in the year and Adelson fell to 15th with a net worth of $15 billion. In March, when Forbes released its top billionaire list, Adelson was listed with a net worth of $3.4 billion.
Las Vegas Sands avoided filing bankruptcy nearly a year ago when Adelson invested $1 billion of his own money into the company to make a debt payment.
Kirk Kerkorian, the 92-year-old Los Angeles billionaire who owns about 43 percent of MGM Mirage, took the largest tumble of all gaming executives on the list, falling from 27th in 2008 with $11.2 billion, to 97th in 2009 with a net worth of $3 billion.
MGM Mirage's declining stock since the end of 2007 reduced the value of Kerkorian's holdings in the company from $11 billion down to $1.5 billion. Other Kerkorian investments in the oil and automotive industries also suffered throughout the year.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. Chairman Steve Wynn fell from 118th with $3.4 billion to 141st with $2.3 billion. "Tough year for the king of Las Vegas," Forbes reported.
The biggest Las Vegas challenge, according to the magazine, was opening the $2.3 billion Encore last December in the middle of the recession.
Meanwhile, Wynn cashed out more than $100 million in shares of Wynn Resorts that will be used as part of his upcoming divorce settlement with his wife, Elaine.
Other Las Vegas gaming industry executives making the list included former Stratosphere owner Carl Icahn, who recently became majority shareholder of Tropicana Entertainment. Icahn was 22nd with $10.5 billion in net worth.
New York billionaire Donald Trump, who owns the Trump International Las Vegas and 30 percent of the company that controls three Atlantic City casinos, was 158th on the list with $2 billion in net worth.
Other Las Vegans include Treasure Island owner Phil Ruffin, No. 193 with $1.85 billion, and Silverton owner Ed Roski Jr., No. 236 with $1.5 billion, rounded out the list of gaming executives.
Hilton Hotels scion Barron Hilton, who earned $800 million when the company was sold to Blackstone in 2007 and $300 million from the sale of Harrah's Entertainment in 2008, is tied with Wynn for 141st on the list with $2.3 billion.
Curiously, Las Vegas partier and socialite extraordinaire Paris Hilton, and even her pet monkey were left off the list.
The only other Nevadan listed on the Forbes 400 is Henderson resident Nancy Walton Laurie, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. She was listed in 118th place with $2.6 billion.
Three members of Mars family, whose family's company owns the Las Vegas-based Ethel M Chocolate family, tied for 19th place on the list, each with $11 million in net worth.
Now, a brief moment of silence for all the Las Vegas billionaires who have lived gold-gilded lives and lost but a smidgeon of their fortunes– and for the majority masses who can't even count to a billion, or even write it.
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Michel Gonneville (born 31 July 1950) is a Canadian composer.

Career
He completed his Bachelor of Music at the Conservatoire Vincent-d'Indy in Sherbrooke in 1972, where he won the premier prix in analysis and composition. He completed a Doctor of Music at the University of Montreal in 1997. From 1975 to 1978 he won grants to study in Europe, where he took Stockhausen's composition courses and participated in the electronic music studio of Hans Ulrich Humpert.

Returning to Canada in 1978, he became a teacher at the Rimouski Conservatoire, and then the University of Ottawa. His work "Chute-parachute" "was a recommended work at the International Rostrum of Composers and has become one of [his] most frequently played compositions." In 1994, he won the Serge Garant prize, which is awarded by the mile Nelligan Foundation.

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Gingras, Claude. "Gonneville et Longtin; deux créations à la SMCQ," Montreal La Presse, 17 Feb 1979
Petrowski, Nathalie. "Deux jeunes compositeurs à la SMCQ," Montreal Le Devoir, 19 Feb 1979
"Michel Gonneville et les architectures musicales," Canadian Composer, 142, Jun 1979
Laurier, Andrée. "Blueprints for new music," Canadian Composer, 219, Apr 1987
Olivier, Dominique. Whale music launches busy season for Michel Gonneville, Words & Music, Nov/Dec 1998

Canadian composers
Canadian male composers
1950 births
Living people

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where people can buy health insurance coverage. People who don't get health insurance at work, or can't afford it, may be able to get it through an exchange. The exchange do not replace buying health insurance privately. They are simply a new place to shop and buy.
Carriers compete in an open market.
The state solicits bids from health insurance companies and determines which plans it will offer.
The state directly negotiates the price and benefits offered.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) runs the exchange in states that choose not to create one.
Exchange plans will be offered in a tiered format. The tiers are named after metals: bronze, silver, gold and platinum. Each tier will have several plans to choose from and will include essential health benefits.
Bronze plans will have the lowest monthly premium, but cost shares will be more when health care services are provided. Platinum plans will have the highest monthly premium, but cost shares will be less.
*Helathcare.gov: Essential health beneifits (accessed October 2012).
*The helath care reform law does not require carriers to offer plans with at least a 60% actuarial value, nor does it require employers to provide health coverage. However, it imposes penalties on 50+ employers that do not provide minimum coverage.
Consumer assistance - Staff will manage the exchange website and call centers. "Navigators" will help consumers use the exchanges.
Plan management - Consumers will be able to choose QHPs sold on exchanges and see important data for each QHPs.
Eligibility - Applicant information is collected and verified to determine eligibility for enrollment, tax credits or subsidies.
Enrollment - Staff help consumers enroll and send information to health plans as well as transmit information related to premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions as required by HHS.
Financial managememt - Exchanges will perform several financial functions including handling user fees, risk adjustment, reinsurance and risk corridor programs (this program runs from 2014-2016 and gives HHS governance over refunds and charges for QHPs that go over or under projected costs).
If all goes as planned, exchanges will open for enrollment on October 1, 2013. Coverage effective dates will begin January 1, 2014. And in 2017, states have the option to offer plans on the exchanges to large group employers with 100 or more employees.


Why do you concern yourself so with the future? So you can worry about what bad could happen, or hold good thoughts and see it all well? Be your own fortune-teller. Predict the good. Predict the fabulous. Then prepare yourself to be amazed. Live in wonder. Live in awe. Live in joy. Live in love.
Divine Love is my power and my strength.
There has always been only one Truth, one Power. It is a matter of surrender. The surrender of one's own will to the will of God, surrendering the power of your mind to the power of your heart. When heart and mind are one, you will see Me and know Me beloved, the Divine Presence within, your Calling, your Truth, your Name, your Glory. See your glory now. Praise it. Praise the lovely Presence, the Loving Presence you are. Take care. Treat yourself with love and respect. Love yourself first, then you can share this Love you know with all.
This is not a selfish thing. The love you are to feel is the divine grace, the love of God pouring forth. When you become selfless and think of God, the Eternal Good of Life in you and in all, then you will feel and know the glory of this manifestation in your thoughts, actions, word and deed. Allow this Love to fill you, to be you, to breath through you, knowing all is well. Now and forever claim this Love. Be this Love. Share and pour forth this Love. Be the clothes this Love wears. Be the arms and legs of this Love.
As you realize, you will live anew. You will naturally show up differently in the world. Your Love will magnetize more Love to you. You will become such a wonderfully magnetic presence of good in this world that all will desire your presence, for you are the Presence of God. Know this and you will be this. This truth is yours. Claim it now.
I am the most loving and ever expansive Love of God. The Presence and Power of God fills me and fulfills me. So be it. Amen.
Nothing can limit you now.
I used to desire to have control over my life, my heart, my mind and my experience, but I now see that that path did not lead me to peace. Serenity evaded me.
What do you acknowledge in life? What do you see and hear? What do you nod your head in agreement to? All is well. What you desire is all things higher. Raise your spirit, delight in all the good, for all goodness is yours as you believe. "We are hoping for the best," versus "We are fearing the worst." Both are mindsets with the same power, hope and fear. Both bring guaranteed results. Where do you put your power? Where do you put your trust? Trust in the best possible outcome for every situation.
I don't fear a thing. I fear nothing. I have no fear, for God lives here!


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Home Celebrities Johnny Depp reaches 28 million followers on Instagram
Johnny Depp reaches 28 million followers on Instagram
Actor Johnny Depp won more than $10 million in damages on in June, achieving a near-total victory in a defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard to cap a six-week trial featuring graphic testimony about the stars' soured relationship.
Before the trial the Hollywood star had reportedly lost most of his work and Hollywood celebrities were distancing themselves from him.
Shortly after the trial began, the actor's Instagram followers started increasing and had doubled within a few days.
Depp started a series of concerts in Europe after the court victory over Amber Heard and connected to celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Jason Momoa and many others on Instagram.
The actor on Tuesday hit another milestone when he reached 28 million followers on Instagram.
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ORP Kraków (823) is a Lublin-class minelayer-landing ship of Polish Navy, named after the city of Kraków.

Construction and career
The ship was built at the Northern Shipyard in Gdańsk. The main designer was MSc. Stanisław Keński. The keel was laid on 18 August 1988 and the ship was launched on 7 March 1989; the godmother is Mrs. Krystyna Rafa. The flag was raised on 27 June 1990.

ORP Kraków is the second ship in history to bear this name. The first was the river monitor, built in the Kraków shipyard of Fabryka Zieleniewski. She served in the years 1926-39.

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Lublin-class minelayer-landing ships
1989 ships
Ships built in Gdańsk


Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include A poolside bar and A bar/lounge. Business amenities at this 3.5-star property consist of a business centre, a limo/town car service and meeting rooms.