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Conversations With My Sister #1: Behind The Scenes
Plus, Thoughts on Eighth Grade
Aug 6, 2018 Public post 12
Conversations With My Sister #1: Behind The …
ME: Did I tell you about the dream I had last night?
ANNA (Who knows I typically only have really, really boring dreams): No, you didn't.
ME: OK. So you know how I've been looking up and watching a lot of British shows lately? As research for the Fake BBC Show thing?
ANNA (Probably thinking back to the time she asked me if she could count Mr. Bean's Holiday as her favorite action movie): Yeah…
ME: Well, I think it got to me. I had a dream that was kind of a mash-up of a bunch of them. It was kind of like Hitchhiker's Guide meets Red Dwarf, and it wasn't a British show, but there were all these British actors there — like, Robert Webb from Peep Show was in it? And maybe Alice Lowe from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace? There was also this pretty half-alien woman with pink hair — like one of those classic rubber-face-prosthetic aliens from old sci-fi shows, you know?
ANNA (Who doesn't know, and who got the Hitchhiker's reference but probably not the rest of them): OK…
ME: Anyway, in my dream I was watching this show, and it was about all these humans — mostly women, actually — who'd gotten sucked into a time warp, way, way into the future, and they were stowing away on a spaceship. But they started asking questions about the future, about space travel and such, but then it got it weird.
ANNA: Weird how?
ME: This is embarrassing. Like, they started asking question about reproduction, if it was still the same. And it mostly was, but then one of the women asked about periods, and the pink-haired alien lady said "Yes, but now they're scheduled to happen between one and three o'clock PM."
ANNA (Not embarrassed at all): Ha! That sounds great! Just be like, "Hmm, I guess I could pencil that in…"
ME: Yeah, but then one of the other women onboard said, "Wait, one to three PM? What time is it now?"
ANNA: And?
ME: And the pink-haired lady said, "How should I know? We're in SPACE!"
ANNA: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ME: Then there was a huge studio audience laugh, and then I woke up.
ANNA (Still laughing): Wow. Why are your dreams funnier than you are?
I saw Eighth Grade the other night with Anna and my friend Ariana. I thought it was very good: a sweet, heartfelt movie about a teenage girl. I'd heard how true to life it was, how it got the pubescent girl experience just right (which was unusual, because it was written and directed by a man, and it can be tricky to write outside your own experience.) But it didn't really feel like my experience.
About halfway through, I realized why: Kayla, the main character, was quiet. She was shy. I was never those things. When I was thirteen, I was angry, I was loud, I was desperately trying to get people to think I was funny. Taking up space and making noise was how I covered up my own doubts and anxiety. And it still is, though mercifully, to a lesser extent.
It made me think back to My Mad Fat Diary, both the book and the show, and I why I love them so much. In both, the main character Rae Earl is loud, angry, and a complete smart-ass. She is frustrated with being obese and the cruelty from others it brings, and she's dealing with severe anxiety and depression. She wants to be seen as beautiful, demure, and feminine, but that just doesn't ever seem possible. When she meets boys who seem to like her as she is, she can't believe it.
I brought this up with Anna and Ariana after the movie. Anna obviously knew me as a teenager, but so did Ariana, whom I've known her since I dated her brother in preschool. They both liked the movie, and Anna especially related to it.
"You know, I don't want to pit two of the only good recent movies about teenage girls against each other," I said, "But I felt Lady Bird spoke to me more."
"Right," said Ariana, "Because she was a theater kid!"
She may be right. At some point I'm going to have to write a longer piece here about what makes a theater kid a theater kid, and why everybody hates us. In the meantime, I guess I'll just say yes, I know, we are the personification of unrestrained emotion and overcompensation. We're loud, and we're needy. We take up space.
"Kayla was a band kid," Ariana went on. "Do you remember what the band kids were like?"
"They were either really quiet and shy, or they were having a lot of sex with each other," I said.
"Exactly," said Ariana. Not that Kayla has a lot of sex, or any sex at all, but her relationship to sex is one of status, a way to prove herself. Maybe it was that for some of the band kids we knew. I always thought they were simply a lot more liberated than the rest of us. But nothing is ever simple for teenagers, is it?
I still would recommend the movie, because it's good. Also because, — and this is something I think is very important, and something a lot of us forget — not everything is for me. Not every work of art needs to be something that relates to me, personally. Or any one person, or even a group of people. You can often get more out of work that doesn't speak specifically to you. Besides, there needs to be more art out there that's true to the teenage experience for all kinds of teenagers. Shy kids, loud kids, theater kids, band kids, sports kids, choir kids, girls, boys, those who don't fit into any of those categories.
Still, I'm selfish. I want to see some more loud, angry, yet deeply insecure, teenage girl characters out there. Maybe I just need to write them.
Stuff I did recently: I had a great time talking about bad malt liquor drinks, Magnolia Park, and the stuff Marina Shifrin and I didn't want our dads to read in our books on Jordan, Jesse, Go! I also talked about Allison Mack and this very substack on Conversations with Maria Menounos!
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God, not masks: Magufuli's Tanzania is an outlier on virus response
Monday, April 20, 2020 — updated on July 19, 2020
People wait in a line at the Kimara bus station without adhering to the rules of social distancing despite the confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus cases in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on April 16, 2020. Tanzanian President John Magufuli has called on citizens to turn to God and to keep the economy turning, but as coronavirus cases creep up, calls are rising for the country to take stronger action. While countries across Africa have imposed curfews, partial and full lockdowns, Tanzania has resisted such measures. Schools and universities have been shut but markets, bus stops and shops bustle as usual. AFP photo
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has called on citizens to turn to God and to keep the economy turning, but as coronavirus cases creep up, calls are rising for the country to take stronger action.
While countries across Africa have imposed curfews, partial and full lockdowns, Tanzania has resisted such measures. Schools and universities have been shut but markets, bus stops and shops bustle as usual.
Magufuli, who called for three days of prayer from last Friday to fight the virus, is one of a handful of world leaders still brushing off the seriousness of the disease.
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"This is time to build our faith and continue praying to God and not depending on facemasks. Don't stop going to churches and mosques for prayers. I'm sure this is just a change of wind and it will go like others have gone," Magufuli said at a church in Dodoma last month.
He reiterated his message on Good Friday, last week, saying God would protect Tanzanians from the virus.
Tanzania recorded its first case of coronavirus on March 16 -- and in the past week numbers have leapt from 32 to 147, with five deaths.
African countries have lagged behind the global curve, and many took fast and strict measures to curb movement, however cases are rising across the continent.
"I am not happy about the lack of seriousness by the government, lack of transparency on the data of cases and deaths, and state of denial the president has on the pandemic," an opposition MP, Zitto Kabwe, who is also the leader of the ACT Wazalendo party, told AFP.
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Kabwe has proposed a partial lockdown of Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Mwanza and the capital Dodoma, and also a total lockdown of the tourist hotspot and semi-autonomous island, Zanzibar.
However, Magufuli has encouraged Tanzanians to continue working as usual, while encouraging them to avoid "unnecessary gatherings".
"Let us continue working hard to build our nation. Coronavirus is not and should not be a reason for us not working. Farmers should utilise the ongoing rains effectively, industrial owners should continue producing and I don't expect any development project to stop," he said.
"Coronavirus should not be a reason to destroy our economy at all."
The country's economy has already been hard hit as tourists who flock to see its wildlife and beaches, have stopped coming. Tourism is the country's top foreign-exchange earner.
On the streets of the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, citizens say they fear the virus and are doing what they can to avoid it while continuing to make ends meet.
"What I normally do is to ensure my passenger washes their hands before getting on the motorcycle. The challenge is that I have only one helmet for passengers, who share it," said Hemedi Masoud, a motorcycle taxi operator.
He and other so-called "boda-boda" drivers park their bikes in a crowded area thronged by petty traders and pedestrians.
"I really fear coronavirus disease and it is risky here but there is no way I can avoid coming. My family needs something to eat and this is where I earn my daily bread," said Masoud.
The government has banned buses from taking more passengers than the number of seats they contain, but this has only created bigger crowds during rush hour.
Like many poor people across the continent -- even in countries which are trying to impose lockdowns -- staying at home would be a grim option for many Tanzanians.
"I don't pray for lockdown in Tanzania because we may escape coronavirus and die from hunger at home. Life has to go on and God will protect us," said Anna John, a food vendor in the city.
Miriam John, who sells shoes, said some of her customers did not want to wash their hands but she has "no option because I need their money."
But opposition leaders say the country needs to take more action to avoid potential disaster.
"No lockdown because he (Magufuli) wants to save the economy and his flagship infrastructure projects. The lives of our people cannot be repaired but the economy can! Lockdown or get locked out!" the chairman of the opposition party Chadema, Freeman Mbowe, posted on Twitter on Saturday.
Some experts have questioned the approach of lockdowns in Africa, where millions of urban poor live hand to mouth, but instead call for solutions such as mass testing or government support to the vulnerable.
Neighbouring Burundi has also allowed life to proceed as normal. Both countries have presidential elections this year, Burundi in May and Tanzania in October.

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Top 10 Phuket Attractions in 2015
When it comes to attractions, Phuket has more than just beaches to offer. The island showcases a rich cultural heritage through its old and classic temples, historic museums, art galleries, and many other sites of interest. You will get everything in Phuket to amuse and attract you starting from the most historical buildings to the lively flora and fauna of the place. Wat Chalon, Thaihua Museum and Phrompthep Cape are a few of the most popular attractions.
James Bond Island is a must visit as well. It is one of the unique attractions on Kao Ping Kan Island's bay. The limestone cliffs which jut out from the bay appear unearthly. Khao Rang Hill View Point is a hill which offers a panoramic view of Phuket Town. Apart from being a famous attraction, the hill is also a popular picnic spot. The other place to visit in the city is the Big Buddha which houses the giant statue of Buddha and is as serene and beautiful as it appears. The statue has been carved out of full white marble and perches on the Nakkerd Hill.
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Phi Phi Islands are situated in between Western Strait of Malacca and the Island of Phuket. The island has over
Thaihua Museum
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The Big Buddha is the most revered and the most important landmarks in Phuket. The divine marble sculpture sits atop
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To deliver an Agile or DevOps environment, the way in which resources, including storage, are consumed and deployed changes to a more cloud-focused approach.
The term DevOps, a contraction of development and operations, represents a new way of working to deliver enterprise applications using Agile development methodologies. DevOps transfers responsibility for some of the operational functions of IT to development teams, allowing them to create, develop, amend and deploy applications in a rapid fashion, typically without need for any interaction with the operations teams.
On-demand availability of resources: infrastructure resources available on demand for consumption when required in the development process. This may mean, for example, the ability to create a new development environment, complete with seed data, based on both container and virtual machine (VM) components.
Automation and workflow: development environments built on demand, and for that building process to be as automated as possible. In most cases, an application development framework will be built from a master template used to deploy the application and contain the needed components for it (e.g., database server, web server, and so on).
Scale and transience: DevOps developments will often use multiple environments to test many application changes at the same time. Each developer may want their own environment, but only need it for a short length of time. This means DevOps environments should provide the capability to spin up an application and destroy it with regular efficiency.
Support for VMs and containers: Almost all DevOps processes rely on the development of applications within either VMs or as container instances. Storage platforms that offer native VM and container support provide an easier management and integration experience.
The use of DevOps as a methodology has introduced a range of new tools and frameworks for implementing a continuous development process. These include release management systems like Jenkins and Computer Science Corp.'s Agility; orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Mesosphere; and, of course, virtualization frameworks such as Docker, OpenStack and Vagrant. We are starting to see these platforms integrate storage in order to provide the degree of automation and security required for continuous development. Docker, for example, has extended their platform with a volume API plug-in that provides orchestration for persistent external storage. Kubernetes implements support for persistent volumes that can be provisioned from a range of sources, including traditional block and file interfaces (iSCSI, FC, NFS) or cloud and open source storage.
We should also recognize that the public cloud represents a big part in DevOps, with platforms like AWS offering the capability to create and destroy development environments very easily. Storage is typically managed by the cloud platform and not exposed to the developer. As we will discuss later, one problem with using public cloud for continuous development is in the ability to seed environments with test data.
Challenges for implementing storage within a DevOps environment parallel the issues seen with creating a private cloud. Storage resources must be provisioned on a much more dynamic basis, offering the ability to create and destroy resources on demand. For example, storage simply needs to be consumable for the orchestration and management frameworks that create a DevOps environment, such as Kubernetes or Mesosphere. This means having automation APIs capable of creating LUNs and volumes, and mapping them to the application as required.
Within application deployment frameworks such as OpenStack, the consumption of storage at a low level is achieved using plug-ins that allow vendors to expose their products to automation. The Cinder project of OpenStack covers the ability to dynamically create block-based storage and map it to an instance. There are similar projects for file (Manila) and object (Swift) storage as well. Most storage appliance and software-defined storage (SDS) vendors provide support for Cinder by offering a middleware plug-in to manage the process of orchestration. The middleware driver translates Cinder commands (like Create Volume or Delete Volume) into those for the storage platform, keeping track of these resources and their associated instances.
The continuous nature of DevOps integration means the automation of storage provisioning is essential. DevOps replaces the human element of storage workflow with automated processes.
Clearly the rate of change in a development environment is considerably higher than in production. The turnover of resources will be high and any storage platform should be capable of managing a high rate of configuration change. This can create a problem for legacy storage systems, where configurations were expected to be relatively static. Storage vendors increasingly recognize the need to drive their products "programmatically" using code rather than command line interfaces and GUIs, and so API support has become an expected feature. These APIs should be capable of processing multiple requests in parallel (even if the resource changes are internally serialized).
In general, developers aren't concerned with how their resources are delivered. The developer is concerned that their environment is available for use and working within agreed service levels. This means focusing on delivering multi-tenancy capabilities when providing storage within a DevOps environment. Multi-tenancy defines the ability to provide multiuser access to shared resources without any one user or "tenant" impacting another. Critical for DevOps environments, the multi-tenancy aspect ensures no one application environment can consume too many storage resources, either from a capacity or performance perspective. In fact, admins should limit the amount of resources consumed per environment, especially where the underlying hardware is shared with production.
Secondary storage lets you use once-static backup data as the source for seeding DevOps environments. And, by reusing existing hardware, enterprises can significantly save money while simultaneously solving the challenge of seeding development systems.
Data optimization represents one area that significantly impacts delivering an efficient development environment. The need for data optimization is clear; you build most development environments from master images or, perhaps, copies of production data. That means features like data deduplication can significantly save on storage capacity.
Developers don't care how their data gets to the test application -- they just want it available when they need it. For DevOps, it's about having storage and data on demand all the time.
Deduplication used in tandem with features like snapshots let you create many test environments quickly and efficiently. Particularly beneficial snapshots allow the cloning of VM instances with the minimum amount of overhead. Cloning can be much more practical than creating individual VM instances from scratch (and then configuring them), especially where lots of custom configurations have been applied.
Accurate application testing requires using real-world data that reflects as closely as possible the production environment. In most development scenarios, it is typical to take a regular copy or snapshot of production data and use this as the seed for testing. Data does, of course, have to be suitably anonymized to ensure customer information is adequately protected.
In a private cloud environment, creating an image copy of production can be relatively easy and achieved through the use of snapshots, clones or replication. These techniques assume the development platform is compatible with production, allowing you to move a copy of a snapshot to another platform. Alternatively, both production and development could run on the same hardware, with quality of service ensuring the right level of performance for production data.
Software-defined storage offers a great opportunity to deliver resources for DevOps environments. Products are typically cheap (or open source), run on commodity hardware, and scale out on demand and in a granular fashion.
Sourcing data into the public cloud poses more of a problem, both in the cost of storing the data and in the time taken to replicate that data into the cloud environment. Products such as Avere Systems' vFXT can run on public cloud platforms and extend access from on-premises data into the cloud while improving accessibility to development data. The advantage of these products is that they only access active data, optimizing storage and networking costs.
In a high-turnover environment where resources are created and destroyed on a regular basis, there is always the risk of storage going unused or being overconsumed. Enterprises often create development environments and then abandon or, most typically, forget about them, especially when it is easy to spin up environments on demand. At the other end, it's easy to get storage sprawl, where many development environments are created rather than reused. Monitoring and maintenance cap capacity and performance growth and identify environments no longer in use. Monitoring is also important for implementing chargeback and needs to be granular enough to work at the level at which environments are being created (e.g., daily).
Hyper-convergence: Storage is delivered from the same physical hardware used to run applications (either in a hypervisor or as containers). The hyper-convergence management software hides the view of storage and removes the management work associated with provisioning storage to new VM instances and containers. A hyper-converged product makes the DevOps process easier because the focus is on creating logical objects like VM instances, rather than physical resource management.
VM-aware secondary storage: The term secondary storage applies to all data stored by an enterprise for nonproduction use, including backups and archive. Storage hardware vendors have taken the opportunity to use VM backup interfaces to build systems that implement data protection to disk-based products that can be used for purposes other than backup and restore. The flexible nature of a VM image allows you to clone VMs and entire applications from backup images and run them directly from the secondary storage platform, saving on building out a separate DevOps environment.
Software-defined storage: SDS evolved from the first platforms to separate traditional dual-controller storage software from the hardware. Today, there are lots of scale-out SDS offerings for block, file and object. Many of these are also open source, and can be deployed relatively cheaply using commodity hardware. In development environments not focused on high levels of performance, a "self-build" storage product can offer significant savings over purchasing hardware from a vendor.
In summary, the requirement for storage on a DevOps environment follows the path being forged by private cloud. Storage is becoming less visible, with automation doing the work done previously by storage administrators, removing the human factor from resource consumption.
Traditional storage is probably the least appealing option for DevOps environments, with modern scale-out products offering more attractive alternatives. You can also choose to build rather than buy, which offers significant cost savings over vendor hardware. Open source products, meanwhile, can reduce the overall cost and -- with the pace of feature development -- be a good match to the DevOps mantra of continuous development.
What has to happen for storage to catch up to the DevOps process?


As we left McCaw Hall after the opening night of Pacific Northwest Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty, my dance buddy - who has seen a lifetime of professional productions all over the world - turned to me and said 'I think that's the most beautiful ballet I've ever seen in my entire life!' And you know what? I have to agree.
There are certainly ballets as beautifully danced, movingly acted, and charmingly designed - many of them seen right here in Seattle at PNB. But, without a doubt, this version of Tchaikovsky's full-length fairy-tale ballet is unforgettably gorgeous and brilliantly performed by the entire company. The sold out audience cheered all night long as one astonishing solo or ensemble was followed by something just as wonderful. It's a long show - a prelude followed by three acts - and notoriously difficult for the soloists. Yet you never grow weary or see a moment of strain that would take you out of the fairy-tale world so beautifully conjured by Ronald Hynd's choreography and the lavish sets and costumes designed by Peter Docherty. And since this is the last time PNB will present this particular production of The Sleeping Beauty, it will be your last chance ever to see it.
Developed in 1993 for the English National Ballet by choreographer Ronald Hynd, this version of the classic ballet is based closely on the 1890 choreography by the Russian master Maurice Petipa, who collaborated with Tchaikovsky to realize his choreographic vision of fairies, royalty, and beauty that can only exist in storybook narratives. Hynd's version clarifies the narrative but preserves everything that is airy and sublime about the dances. He leaves out excess characters like an evil mouse army and extra storybook heroes from the Land of Make Believe, but retains and develops the choreography, as though Petipa had a few second thoughts on how to make the waltzes dreamier and the tableaux more memorable.
The story comes in four stages of Princess Aurora's life: her baptism as a baby, the curse by the evil fairy at her 16th birthday party, her awakening by the charming Prince after a hundred years of sleep, and Aurora's wedding - the splendid final act that is often presented alone by companies that cannot stage the entire romantic fairy tale. Fairies have a great deal to do with it - all seven of them arrive airborne, held aloft by their cavaliers - except for Carabosse, the elderly fairy who is left off the guest list. Jonathan Poretta is playing this role as his farewell to the company after a distinguished career - and he brings all the energy and drama we expect from him, and will greatly miss.
The star of the show, of course, is Aurora - whose role is so exhausting, technically difficult, and important to the career of any ballerina, that Artistic Director Peter Boal has cast five different dancers to perform the role. At a special discussion before opening night, three of the ballerina Auroras talked about the challenges of solos such as the 'Rose Adagio' with its famous balances, and the wedding duet 'fish dives' in which the princess plunges head-down into the arms of her prince. Lesley Rausch, the opening-night Aurora, mentioned that the role is so tiring that by Act III the dancer is performing on technique alone - relying on years of training to get through to the end. You would never suspect this from the apparent effortlessness of her execution and youthful charm on opening night. Her prince, Price Suddarth, not only supported her with the ardor of a man in love, but performed his own showpiece solos as though propelled skyward by passion.
Starring equally with the principal dancers are the corps de ballet - the nymphs, court ladies and gentlemen, country folk, shepherds and shepherdesses who give the soloists respite by performing the most fascinating and beautiful group dances while the soloists catch their breath offstage. In Act I the pastoral folk - including a group of students from the ballet school - carry arches of flowers in a waltz of such loveliness that it actually brought tears to my eyes. In Act II, after the prince has been shown a vision of the sleeping Aurora by the Lilac Fairy, and after the Dream Aurora and the prince dance with each other in a spectacular courtship, they leave the stage while sixteen escorting nymphs cross hands and perform a precision line dance, breaking into groups of eight, then four, then two, creating the impression that they're dancing in a mirror or proliferating by some act of magic. As awestruck as I was by the solos and duets of the principal dancers, I was even more delighted by the sharp togetherness of the corps, and the sense of complex and beautiful harmony they produced.
So if this ballet is to go away - with its beautiful costumes that cleverly move from the Renaissance to the 18th century, and its lavish sets with old-gold curtains and a sculptured forest that grows up and recedes - then what could possibly replace it with the same degree of beauty and perfection? While it is true that the production is dated - it has a very traditional feel to it - what else should a fairy tale feel like if not traditional? I'm all for replacing dated productions, chief among them the Sendak/Stowell Nutcracker that had become (for want of a better term) politically incorrect in terms of both race and gender. I didn't see anything so problematic in this production of The Sleeping Beauty - far from it. I saw the most pristine dancing and sparkling choreography embedded in a nostalgic fairy-tale setting.
It will take something very special indeed to replace this beautiful production - and I fear that a new Sleeping Beauty by a clever choreographer may have musical disconnects the way the old Nutcracker had - where Tchaikovsky's very particular music, bespoke by Petipa for a very specific purpose - might be knocked off its base, the way the old Sendak/Stowell Nutcracker ignored specific musical meanings. I also have difficulty imagining choreography with the distilled perfection of the Hynd/Petipa version. It's true that Hynd improved on the old master, but in subtle ways, such as making a trio of two women and a man into a trio of two men and a woman - a difference that elevated the dance to something at once classic and new. The modern overhaul of great classics is a favorite project in the opera world, but one littered with missteps - such as the weird array of Toscas we've seen at the Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, and the Salzburg Festival in recent years. One worries and hopes that such missteps won't happen with a new Sleeping Beauty. It was exhilarating to see this beautiful production, and very sad to think that I won't get to see it again. I say farewell to it with fingers crossed that a new production will be as successful as the Balanchine Nutcracker has been.
Pacific Northwest Ballet presents The Sleeping Beauty at McCaw Hall through February 10. For more information and tickets, call (206) 441-2424 or visit www.pnb.org.


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Exclusive: Bruce Campbell Talks Ash vs Evil Dead Seasons 1 & 2!
By Max Evry
Ash vs Evil Dead scored big when its 10-episode first season debuted on Starz last Halloween. With those episodes now available to own on Blu-ray/DVD, we took some time out to have a groovy 1-on-1 discussion with Ash Williams himself, Bruce Campbell, about his triumphant return to the character, whether the show has finally gotten fans off his back, as well as what's in store for Season 2, which is set to debut on October 2!
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ComingSoon.net: I remember talking to you back in 2013 when you were wearing your producer's hat for the remake, basically acting as the brand ambassador. Now, you are full on Ash again. Does it feel good? Have you been enjoying this whole revitalization of the character?
Bruce Campbell: I think you could say that I am officially now back to being the face of this, but yeah, rather than, as you say, an ambassador. Now my mug is back. You know what? It feels really cool. It feels amazing that we've had a crowd full of support that has created this opportunity. It was all the animals who never shut up about it. The only challenge is actually doing it. That's the only downside, is trying to pull it off. I pulled the hamstring again this year and the old man's only got so much gas left in the tank, but we'll give it everything we've got. It's a crazy season. Season 2 is off the hook.
CS: Are you done filming Season 2? Is the filming complete or are you in the middle of it?
Campbell: No, we're done. We're done shooting.
CS: So now you've done two full seasons as Ash, whereas before, you had basically 30 days for each movie to sort of live in the character. You've now two full seasons of a show.
Campbell: Go back. Are you saying 30 days, that each of those movies was a 30-day shoot?
CS: Or whatever it was, you know? I'm sure it wasn't that exact number.
Campbell: Try 100 days each. That's it. I just need to correct you because it's a huge difference.
CS: Oh wow.
Campbell: Those movies took a long time to make.
CS: I had no idea. But yeah, comparatively to doing two full seasons in the character, do you feel like it's almost like a Broadway show, like now you really know the character at the end of two seasons?
Campbell: Yeah, very much so. You can browbeat the writers and make them kind of come around to the Ash way of speaking. And you know, that's fine. It's as it should be and it's really fun playing the character for that long of a period of time because the good news is, unlike a Broadway show, where you're putting on the same show every night, for us, we have all new episodes, so that keeps us interested, too.
CS: You guys have definitely pushed the gore element, but was there ever anything in either the writing stage or the editing stage that you decided to leave out, not because it was necessarily too violent, but because it wasn't in the spirit of the "Evil Dead"?
Campbell: We did that for every reason. One, we don't have the rights to it. Two, we don't think it works for that story. Three, it's too expensive. Four, it's too outrageous. Five, it's the wrong tone. You know what I mean? So the scripts have to go through a vetting process, and then we shoot them, and even when you shoot them, you're still vetting. You're still changing. It's not fixed. I look at this process as being completely fluid from the time Joe Blow enters the first keystroke to the time the mixer puts the fade out on the soundtrack. That's how we worked.
CS: That seems like the natural process of any show, though I don't look at this as any other show. I feel like this is, as you said, the result of a lot of haranguing and borderline abuse that you've gotten at Q&A's over the years.
Campbell: Yeah, yeah.
CS: Has that shifted now? Are fans sated or are they still bugging you?
Campbell: No, they're good. This has helped tremendously. They're 90 percent off my back now because that actually bugs them. "Hey, it's Ash. Do you want to watch?" It gets better. You know, I have to put the shoe on the foot now. Like, you can't complain anymore. You've got Starz Mobile. You get it on whatever, it could be on Netflix before you know it, Amazon, Hulu. It'll be all over. So yeah, it's great that they love it, and they have a pipeline now. I've maintained that a television show will give the fans way more hours than any movie. In 12 years, we only did four-and-a-half hours worth of programming. In two seasons, we've got, whatever, 10 new hours. So I think that's the output that fans want. They want more. They don't want less. They want more. And TV's going to do it. And the great thing about Starz is, it allows us to have unrestricted content. And the fans, I don't think they realize how lucky they are, because if this was anywhere else, including any other highfalutin cable, this thing would be cut to shreds.
CS: Absolutely.
Campbell: This is untouched by censors of any kind.
CS: Pure, uncut Colombian Ash.
Campbell: We are, absolutely, yeah. And it's pharmaceutical grade.
CS: Has the success of the show almost shown a reversal, where instead of hearing from fans, "Oh, we want another movie, we want another movie," are you starting to hear from executives? Are studios poking and seeing, "Hey, is there a way we can expand this brand to do more movies, etc?"
Campbell: Well, because there's been a franchise juggernaut, these things sort of fell off the charts one at a time. There's never really ever been a clamoring for stuff, except for more movies. But now, I think Starz is getting involved in that. We're finally selling it around the world because that's where "Evil Dead" started. It didn't start in the United States. It started in England. So I want to see how the rest of the world responds, because that's where this all started.
CS: I know you've promised a ton of gore in the new season, but what is Ash's arc this season? Or does he have one?
Campbell: He goes home and he has to deal with the mess he made three years ago. He has to make good with the town that he basically left in shambles and fight the evil dead.
CS: Really?
Campbell: And save the town. That's a hell of an assignment. He has to deal with his father and his old pal Chet and his ex-girlfriend and sh*t like that, old nemeses, boyhood nemeses, you know, all the sh*t you run into when you go back home, plus deadites.
CS: So when it rains, it pours.
Campbell: So it's cool. I know everybody talks about gore, but for all the talk about the gore, this season actually has a, I would say, substantially more character development. You're going to spend a lot more time with your pal Ash and find out what makes him tick, and his friends are on a crazy journey this year, too. Kelly's being schooled by Ruby. It'll be interesting.
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'Lots Of Progress Made In Reducing Tensions': Trump Says He Will Meet Modi And Imran Khan
Trump will be addressing a record crowd of more than 50,000 Indian-Americans at the "Howdy Modi!" event in Houston. where he will share the stage with Modi.
President Donald Trump, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a bilateral meeting at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Aug. 26, 2019.
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump on Monday said he will be meeting the prime ministers of India and Pakistan soon, even as he maintained that tension between the two Asian countries had reduced.
While Trump will address Indian-Americans, along with PM Modi, at the "Howdy Modi!" event in Houston on September 22, the American president did not say when or where will he be meeting PM Khan.
"I'll see Prime Minister Modi and I will ― we'll ― be meeting with (prime ministers of) India and Pakistan," Trump told reporters in response to a question at the White House on Monday.
According to Trump's schedule, he could meet the Pakistani Prime Minister on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly Session in New York later this month.
After addressing a record crowd of more than 50,000 Indian-Americans at the "Howdy Modi!" event, Trump will travel to Ohio and then is expected to fly to New York to attend the Annual General Assembly Sessions of the United Nations.
Without mentioning Kashmir, Trump said a "lot of progress has been made in reducing tension" between India and Pakistan.
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The 10th edition of Abu Dhabi Art opened today (14th November)at Manarat Al Saadiyat offering art lovers an array of selected pieces from artists and curators exhibited by forty-three galleries hailing from nineteen different countries worldwide.
The 10th edition of Abu Dhabi Art opened today (14th November) at Manarat Al Saadiyat offering art lovers an array of selected pieces from artists and curators exhibited by forty-three galleries hailing from nineteen different countries worldwide.
This year, Abu Dhabi Art event presented by The Department of Culture & Tourism (DCT), will take place from 14th – 17th November. The art fair will showcase some of the world's leading modern art galleries alongside a full programme of performances, talks and events at Manarat Al Saadiyat, part of the Saadiyat Cultural District located on Saadiyat Island.
Abu Dhabi Art is a multidisciplinary art fair presenting iconic pieces by internationally renowned artists and unique artworks curated by emerging talent from established and newer galleries. The event will once again offer the local community the opportunity celebrate the cultural diversity of the UAE and to enjoy a diverse range of contemporary art from leading artists, galleries, curators as well as collectors from across the globe. Alongside the exhibits this popular annual event will offer a programme of engaging events curated to appeal to new audiences across all generations.
This year there are three different gallery categories, Modern and Contemporary will exhibit exceptional artworks, Special Projects encouraging participating galleries to focus on a curated presentation of either a solo or two artists and the third, Focus: Icons, is more niche and will showcase artworks by galleries who have been invited by the Focus curator Dr Omar Kholeif.
The Talks Programme will offer a series of cultural talks on the circulation of art and the global and local perspectives on the economy of the new art market. Ongoing projects Gateway, Beyond and Durub Al-Tawaya will both be exhibited from this weekend until January. Gateway is the visual art exhibition with a unique curatorial perspective from a guest curator each year, with 2018 being presented by Hammad Nasar. Distinguished Emirati artist Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim will be presenting a section entitled Beyond: Emerging Artists. Visitors and collectors will also be given the opportunity to engage with contemporary performance art through the sixth edition of Durub Al-Tawaya, Abu Dhabi Art's performing arts programme which is once again curated by Tarek Abou El-Fetouh.
If you enjoy art and cultural events then I would suggest you schedule a visit this weekend to enjoy this year's Abu Dhabi Art at Manarat Al Saadiyat.
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In Silver, Redditors Find a Fit for Raging Against Establishment
February 3, 2021 3:57 PM February 3, 2021 9:58 AM by Neal Bhai
It seems a match made in heaven: Reddit's rambunctious army of retail investors eager to take on the financial elites, and the world of silver "bugs," hard-core metal bulls, many of whom have long argued the price was being suppressed by powerful forces.
The silver market has been roiled in recent days after a — now-removed — post appeared on Reddit's WallStreetBets forum that encouraged traders to pile into BlackRock Inc.'s iShares Silver Trust. Many long-standing silver advocates reacted with glee as the price surged to an eight-year high on Monday, spurred on by huge purchases through the exchange-traded fund.
While Reddit posters now seem conflicted about the trade, the hashtag #silversqueeze gained rapid momentum on social media Monday. The calls for a "short squeeze" appear far fetched, given the market's size and lack of any clear short position to target. But the sharp run up in prices and massive surge in demand for coins over the weekend points to mounting interest in the precious metal among retail investors.
"What Reddit have done is opened Pandora's box," said Ned Naylor-Leyland, head of gold and silver at Jupiter Asset Management and a long-time bull. "What we're seeing here is a vital commodity and monetary asset being freed to find its true price."
For the silver market, the idea that the establishment is trying to suppress the price is nothing new. In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. Treasury regularly sold silver in an attempt to keep the market in line with its so-called "monetary value." And some silver bulls still view rising prices as a vote of no confidence in the government.
"It's very emotive: people have strong opinions about where these prices should be and where these prices are going," said Philip Newman, managing director at Metals Focus, a precious metals-focused consultancy. "You can take it back over decades or much longer."
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Others point to 1979-1980, when the billionaire Hunt brothers attempted to corner the New York silver futures market and helped drive prices to a record high of $50 an ounce, only to be foiled when the exchange intervened to limit their positions.
Today, investors who believe they could pull off a much larger repeat of the short squeeze in GameStop Corp. are focused on Wall Street banks. In particular, forum posts appeared to focus on the claim that banks have large bets against silver that have kept prices suppressed.
"Silver is probably the most (naked) shorted commodity on earth. The bullion banks are doing their best to short this thing into oblivion," said one popular post on the forum last week, before exhorting followers to "crash JP Morgan, buy Silver!"
That's a familiar cry to followers of the silver market, who have for years alleged that JPMorgan Chase & Co. — the leading bank in precious metals — has a large bet against the silver price. It's something the bank has long denied, and a years-long Commodity Futures Trading Commission investigation into alleged manipulation of the silver price was closed without charges in 2013.
While the bank did admit wrongdoing last year when it agreed to pay more than $920 million to resolve regulators' claims that it had manipulated precious metals markets, those charges related to spoofing — tricking rival traders by entering false orders — rather than any attempt to drive the market consistently in a particular direction.
It's possible that the theory may be based on a misinterpretation of data showing banks hold large short positions on the Comex futures market in New York.
"There's also always been this theory that bullion banks have a massive net-short position in silver in the New York futures market," said Ross Norman, CEO at Metal Daily, a precious metals news site, and a veteran of the precious-metals market. "That's true, but it is because they also hold a corresponding long position in the London market. But one side of this trade is visible and the other is not. And that's how this theory has grown and gathered momentum over the years."
Impressive Move
Even without a major short position to target, investors have still succeeded in driving an impressive move in prices. The record $944 million inflow into the iShares Silver Trust, known as SLV, led to a 34 million ounce increase in its holdings on Friday. That's equivalent to more than two weeks of global mined production of the metal.
On Monday, silver markets were showing signs of tightness, with nearby futures on Comex trading above later-dated contracts — a condition known as backwardation, which signals a tight market. However, silver showed signs of losing momentum later in the day, with spot silver retracing gains to $28.4355 an ounce by about 4 p.m. London time, compared with a peak earlier of $30.1003.
While silver bulls rejoiced at the surge, some on Reddit were urging their fellow investors to back away from silver. One popular post warned that investors shouldn't lose their focus on GameStop, warning that buying silver would "be a tragic, irreversible decision that not only will most likely not make you any money because the squeeze is fake, it will put you on the sidelines from this righteous and glorious war we are in."
Newman of Metals Focus had a similar warning for newly minted silver investors, though for different reasons.
"Their starting premise is the market is being manipulated and therefore we're not seeing the true silver price. We just don't subscribe to that view. They are trying to fight against something that may not exist," he said. "Unfortunately yes it makes a great headline but you could see people losing a lot of money, which is quite sad."
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The Credit Union Classic presented by Wegmans was an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the Symetra Tour, the LPGA's developmental tour. The event was  played from 1996 to 2014 in the Syracuse, New York area.

The title sponsors were three central New York-based credit unions: Empower Federal Credit Union, SEFCU, and The Summit Federal Credit Union. The presenting sponsor was Wegmans, a supermarket chain headquartered in Rochester, New York.

The last benefiting charity from the Credit Union Classic was The First Tee of Syracuse, Inc.

Tournament names through the years:
1996–1997: Loretto Futures Golf Classic
1998–2000: Fleet Loretto Futures Golf Classic
2001–2005: M&T Bank Loretto Futures Golf Classic
2006–2011: Alliance Bank Golf Classic
2012–2014: Credit Union Classic presented by Wegmans

Winners

*Tournament shortened to 36 holes because of rain.

Tournament records

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External links
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Jockey Kerrin McEvoy has given his stamp of approval for Youngstar to take her place in the Queensland Oaks in a fortnight following her impressive win in the Group 2 $175,000 Magic Millions The Roses (2000m) at Doomben.
Trainer Chris Waller, above, trained the quinella in The Roses at Doomben with Youngstar and Another Dollar. Photo by Daniel Costello.
McEvoy brought the Chris Waller trained Youngstar ($4 favourite) from the middle of the pack to claim her stablemate Another Dollar ($5) over the concluding stages with Highway ($51) holding on for third after attacking the leaders on the home turn.
Youngstar has risen up through the ranks very quickly with a maiden win at Hawkesbury two starts back followed by a win at Newcastle over 1885m in a BenchMark 68 Handicap and now she is favourite for the Group 1 $500,000 Treasury Brisbane Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Doomben on May 26.
McEvoy said that Youngstar appreciated the step up in distance today and will handle the next step up to the 2200m in the Queensland Oaks.
"She is a filly that I have liked and the stable has liked for a while and she came here today with a nice chance with a couple of wins already this prep and the 2000m really suited her," McEvoy said.
The win of Youngster brought up a double for the Waller – McEvoy combination after they combined earlier in the day to win the Group 2 $175,000 Moet & Chandon Champagne Classic (1200m) with Zousain.
Youngstar is now the $5.50 favourite for the 2018 Queensland Oaks at Ladbrokes.com.au just ahead of her stablemate Another Dollar at $6.


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						if ($tagObj['id'] == $tagId) {
							array_push($blogList, $blog);
							continue;
						}
					}
				}
			}
			$this->gbWriteCache($cacheKey, $blogList);
		}

		return $blogList;
	}

	//按月份查找博客
	public function getBlogByYearMonthId($yearMonthId) {
		$cacheKey = "getBlogByYearMonthId_" . $yearMonthId . ".gb";
		$blogList = $this->gbReadCache($cacheKey);

		if ($blogList === false) {
			$blogList = array();
			foreach ($this->blogs as $idx => $blog) {
				$_yearMonthId = date("Ym", strtotime($blog['date']));
				if ($yearMonthId == $_yearMonthId) {
					array_push($blogList, $blog);
				}
			}
			$this->gbWriteCache($cacheKey, $blogList);
		}
		return $blogList;
	}

	//按标题关键字查找博客
	public function getBlogByTitle($title) {
		$cacheKey = "getBlogByTitle_" . (md5($title)) . ".gb";
		$blogList = $this->gbReadCache($cacheKey);

		if ($blogList === false) {
			$blogList = array();
			foreach ($this->blogs as $idx => $blog) {
				$blogTitle = $blog['title'];

				if (strpos($blogTitle, $title) >= 0) {
					array_push($blogList, $blog);
				}
			}
			$this->gbWriteCache($cacheKey, $blogList);
		}
		return $blogList;
	}

	//根据Id获取博客
	public function getBlogById($blogId) {
		$cacheKey = "getBlogById_" . $blogId . ".gb";
		$blogObj = $this->gbReadCache($cacheKey);

		if ($blogObj === false) {
			foreach ($this->blogs as $idx => $blog) {
				if ($blog['blogId'] == $blogId) {
					$blogObj = $blog;
					$this->gbWriteCache($cacheKey, $blogObj);
					break;
				}
			}
		}
		return $blogObj;
	}

	//根据Id获取分类
	public function getCategoryById($categoryId) {
		$cacheKey = "getCategoryById_" . $categoryId . ".gb";
		$categoryObj = $this->gbReadCache($cacheKey);

		if ($categoryObj === false) {
			foreach ($this->categorys as $idx => $category) {
				if ($category['id'] == $categoryId) {
					$categoryObj = $category;
					$this->gbWriteCache($cacheKey, $categoryObj);
					break;
				}
			}
		}
		return $categoryObj;
	}

	//根据Id获取标签
	public function getTagById($tagId) {
		$cacheKey = "getTagById_" . $tagId . ".gb";
		$tagObj = $this->gbReadCache($cacheKey);

		if ($tagObj === false) {
			foreach ($this->tags as $idx => $tag) {
				if ($tag['id'] == $tagId) {
					$tagObj = $tag;
					$this->gbWriteCache($cacheKey, $tagObj);
					break;
				}
			}
		}
		return $tagObj;
	}

		//根据Id获取标签
	public function getYearMonthById($yearMonthId) {
		$cacheKey = "getYearMonthById_" . $yearMonthId . ".gb";
		$yearMonthObj = $this->gbReadCache($cacheKey);

		if ($yearMonthObj === false) {
			foreach ($this->yearMonths as $idx => $yearMonth) {
				if ($yearMonth['id'] == $yearMonthId) {
					$yearMonthObj = $yearMonth;
					$this->gbWriteCache($cacheKey, $yearMonthObj);
					break;
				}
			}
		}
		return $yearMonthObj;
	}

	//获取总页数
	public function getTotalPages($pageSize) {
		$total = count($this->blogs);
		return ceil($total / $pageSize);
	}

	//获取某个分类的总页数
	public function getCategoryTotalPages($categoryId, $pageSize) {
		$blogList = $this->getBlogByCategory($categoryId);
		$total = count($blogList);
		return ceil($total / $pageSize);
	}

	//获取某个标签的总页数
	public function getTagTotalPages($tagId, $pageSize) {
		$blogList = $this->getBlogByTag($tagId);
		$total = count($blogList);
		return ceil($total / $pageSize);
	}

	//获取某个月的总页数
	public function getYearMonthTotalPages($yearMonthId, $pageSize) {
		$blogList = $this->getBlogByYearMonthId($yearMonthId);
		$total = count($blogList);
		return ceil($total / $pageSize);
	}

	//按分类获取分页列表
	public function getBlogsPageByCategory($categoryId, $pageNo, $pageSize) {
		$blogList = $this->getBlogByCategory($categoryId);
		$total = count($blogList);
		$pages = ceil($total / $pageSize);
		$offset = ($pageNo - 1) * $pageSize;
		$blogList = array_slice($blogList, $offset, $pageSize);

		return array(
			"total" => $total,
			"pages" => $pages,
			"blogList" => $blogList
		);
	}

	//按标签获取分页列表
	public function getBlogsPageByTag($tagId, $pageNo, $pageSize) {
		$blogList = $this->getBlogByTag($tagId);
		$total = count($blogList);
		$pages = ceil($total / $pageSize);
		$offset = ($pageNo - 1) * $pageSize;
		$blogList = array_slice($blogList, $offset, $pageSize);

		return array(
			"total" => $total,
			"pages" => $pages,
			"blogList" => $blogList
		);
	}

	//按月份获取分页列表
	public function getBlogsPageByYearMonth($yearMonthId, $pageNo, $pageSize) {
		$blogList = $this->getBlogByYearMonthId($yearMonthId);
		$total = count($blogList);
		$pages = ceil($total / $pageSize);
		$offset = ($pageNo - 1) * $pageSize;
		$blogList = array_slice($blogList, $offset, $pageSize);

		return array(
			"total" => $total,
			"pages" => $pages,
			"blogList" => $blogList
		);
	}

	//博客分页列表
	public function getBlogsByPage($pageNo, $pageSize) {
		$total = count($this->blogs);
		$pages = ceil($total / $pageSize);
		$offset = ($pageNo - 1) * $pageSize;
		$blogList = array_slice($this->blogs, $offset, $pageSize);

		return array(
			"total" => $total,
			"pages" => $pages,
			"blogList" => $blogList
		);
	}

	//最新的博客
	public function getBlogsRecent($pageSize) {
		return array_slice($this->blogs, 0, $pageSize);
	}

	//获取所有分类
	public function getAllCategorys() {
		return $this->categorys;
	}

	//获取所有标签
	public function getAllTags() {
		return $this->tags;
	}

	//获取所有月份
	public function getAllYearMonths() {
		return $this->yearMonths;
	}

	//获取所有博客
	public function getAllBlogs() {
		return $this->blogs;
	}

	//解析markdown文件内容为html文本
	private function parseMarkdown($text) {
		return Parsedown::instance()->parse($text);
	}

	//加载所有的博客
	public function initAllBlogData() {
		$this->blogs = array();
		$this->tags = array();
		$this->categorys = array();
		$this->yearMonths = array();

		//先读缓存
		if (!$this->globalDataCacheRead()) {
			//列出所有文件,可能包含非markdown文件
			$mdfiles = get_dir_file_info($this->postPath, FALSE);

			$this->readAllPostInfo($mdfiles);
		}
	}

	//读取博客的基本信息
	private function readPostBaseInfo($serverPath) {
		$keywrodsArr = array();
		$tagsArr = array();
		$cateArr = array();

		$matches = null;
		$noteBlockArr = array();
		$noteTmpArr = array();
		$pattern1 = '/<\!\-\-(.*?)\-\->/is';
		$pattern2 = '/^\s*(author|head|date|title|summary|images|tags|category|status)\s*:(.*?)$/im';

		$subject = file_get_contents($serverPath);

		$blogProp = array(
			"author" => "",
			"head" => "",
			"date" => "",
			"title" => "",
			"summary" => "",
			"keywords" => "",
			"images" => array(),
			"tags" => array(),
			"category" => array(),
			"status" => "publish",
			"content" => (string)$this->parseMarkdown($subject)
		);

		preg_match($pattern1, $subject, $matches);

		if (isset($matches[1])) {
			$procontent = trim($matches[1]);
			$proarr = explode("\n", $procontent);

			foreach($proarr as $proline) {
				$proline = trim($proline);
				if ($proline) {
					preg_match($pattern2, $proline, $matches);
					if(isset($matches[2])) {
						$propName = trim($matches[1]);
						$propVal = trim($matches[2]);
						//echo $proName . " --> " . $proVal . "\n";
						switch($propName) {
							case "author":
								$blogProp['author'] = $propVal;
								break;
							case "head":
								$blogProp['head'] = $propVal;
								break;
							case "date":
								$blogProp['date'] = $propVal;
								break;
							case "title":
								$blogProp['title'] = $propVal;
								break;
							case "summary":
								$blogProp['summary'] = $this->parseMarkdown($propVal);
								break;
							case "images":
								$blogProp['images'] = $this->cleanKeywords2Arr($propVal);
								break;
							case "tags":
								$blogProp['tags'] = $this->converStrArr($propVal, "tags");
								$tagsArr = $this->cleanKeywords2Arr($propVal);
								break;
							case "category":
								$blogProp['category'] = $this->converStrArr($propVal, "category");
								$cateArr = $this->cleanKeywords2Arr($propVal);
								break;
							case "status":
								$blogProp['status'] = $propVal == "draft" ? $propVal : "publish";
								break;
						}
					}
				}
			}
		}

		$keywrodsArr = array_merge($tagsArr, $cateArr);

		//关键字去重
		$keywrodsArr = array_unique($keywrodsArr);
		$blogProp['keywords'] = implode(",", $keywrodsArr);

		$blogProp = $this->autoCheckBlogProps($blogProp);
		return $blogProp;
	}

	//自动获取未填写的属性
	private function autoCheckBlogProps($blogProp) {
		$content = $blogProp['content'];

		if (empty($blogProp['title'])) {
			$pattern = '/<h1>(.*?)<\/h1>/i';
			preg_match($pattern, $content, $matches);

			if (isset($matches[1])) {
				$blogProp['title'] = trim($matches[1]);
			} else {
				$pattern = '/<h2>(.*?)<\/h2>/si';
				preg_match($pattern, $content, $matches);
				if (isset($matches[1])) {
					$blogProp['title'] = trim($matches[1]);
				}
			}
		}

		if (empty($blogProp['summary'])) {
			$pattern = "/<p>(.{50,600})<\/p>/i";
			preg_match($pattern, $content, $matches);
			if (isset($matches[1])) {
				$blogProp['summary'] = trim($matches[1]);
			}

			if (empty($blogProp['summary'])) {
				$blogProp['summary'] = $blogProp['title'];
			}
		}

		if (empty($blogProp['images'])) {
			$pattern = '/<img.*?src="(.*?)".*?>/i';
			preg_match_all($pattern, $content, $matches);
			if (isset($matches[1])) {
				$blogProp['images'] = $matches[1];
			}
		}

		if (empty($blogProp['author'])) {
			$blogProp['author'] = "admin";
		}

		return $blogProp;
	}

	//获取标签,分类数组
	private function cleanKeywords2Arr($keywordsStr) {
		$tagsArr = array();

		mb_regex_encoding("UTF-8");
		mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
		$tagArrTmpl = mb_split("[\s,;|,;、]+", $keywordsStr);
		foreach ($tagArrTmpl as $tag) {
			$tag = trim($tag);
			if ($tag != "" && !in_array($tag, $tagsArr)) {
				array_push($tagsArr, $tag);
			}
		}

		return $tagsArr;
	}

	//读取所有博客的信息
	private function readAllPostInfo($mdfiles) {
		foreach ($mdfiles as $idx => $fileProp) {

			$fileName = $fileProp['name'];

			//非markdown文件,不处理,直接过滤
			if (!$this->checkFileExt($fileName)) continue;

			$mtime = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $fileProp['date']);
			$ctime = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $fileProp['cdate']);
			$serverPath = str_replace("\\", "/", $fileProp['server_path']);
			$relativePath = str_replace($this->postPath, "", $serverPath);

			$sitePath = $this->changeFileExt($relativePath);
			$siteURL = "/blog/" . $this->changeFileExt($relativePath);

            $siteURL = $this->urlencodeFileName($siteURL);
			$blogId = md5($siteURL);

			$blog = array(
				"blogId" => $blogId,
				"fileName" => $fileName,
				"serverPath" => $serverPath,
				"sitePath" => $sitePath,
				"mtime" => $mtime,
				"ctime" => $ctime,
				"siteURL" => $siteURL
			);

			//读取自定义博客属性信息
			$blogProp = $this->readPostBaseInfo($serverPath);

			//没有title的博客不处理
			if (empty($blogProp['title'])) continue;

			//草稿状态的不处理
			if ($blogProp['status'] == "draft") continue;

			$btime = strtotime($ctime);
			if (empty($blogProp['date'])) {
				$blogProp['date'] = date("Y-m-d", $btime);
			}

			//按显示日期归档
			$atime = strtotime($blogProp['date']);
			$month = date("Y-m", $atime);
			$yearMonthId = date("Ym", $atime);
			$monthObj = array(
				"id" => $yearMonthId,
				"name" => $month,
				"url" => "/archive/" . $yearMonthId . ".html"
			);

			if (!$this->checkObjInArr($monthObj, "yearMonths")) {
				array_push($this->yearMonths, $monthObj);
			}
			$blog = array_merge($blog, $blogProp);
			array_push($this->blogs, $blog);
		}

		$this->sortBlogs($this->blogs, 'date');

		//缓存全局数据
		$this->globalDataCacheWrite();
	}

	//写缓存
	private function gbWriteCache($key, $objdata) {
		if (ENVIRONMENT != "development") {
			$this->CI->cache->file->save($key, serialize($objdata), GB_DATA_CACHE_TIME);
		}
	}

	//读缓存
	private function gbReadCache($key) {
		$stream = $this->CI->cache->file->get($key);
		if ($stream) {
			return unserialize($stream);
		}
		return false;
	}

	//缓存全局数据
	private function globalDataCacheWrite() {
		if (ENVIRONMENT != "development") {
			$this->gbWriteCache(GB_BLOG_CACHE, $this->blogs);
			$this->gbWriteCache(GB_TAG_CACHE, $this->tags);
			$this->gbWriteCache(GB_CATEGORY_CACHE, $this->categorys);
			$this->gbWriteCache(GB_ARCHIVE_CACHE, $this->yearMonths);
		}
	}

	//从文件缓存中读取数据
	private function globalDataCacheRead() {
		$blogs = $this->gbReadCache(GB_BLOG_CACHE);
		$tags = $this->gbReadCache(GB_TAG_CACHE);
		$categorys = $this->gbReadCache(GB_CATEGORY_CACHE);
		$yearMonths = $this->gbReadCache(GB_ARCHIVE_CACHE);

		if ($blogs === false || $tags === false || $categorys === false || $yearMonths === false) {
			return false;
		} else {
			$this->blogs = $blogs;
			$this->tags = $tags;
			$this->categorys = $categorys;
			$this->yearMonths = $yearMonths;
		}
		return true;
	}

	//对所有博客排序
	private function sortBlogs($blogArray, $sortKey) {
		if (count($blogArray) <= 0) return $blogArray;

		$ctimeArr = null;
		$dateArr = null;

		foreach ($blogArray as $key => $row) {
			$dateArr[$key] = $row[$sortKey];
			$ctimeArr[$key] = $row['mtime'];
		}

		array_multisort($dateArr, SORT_DESC, $ctimeArr, SORT_DESC, $blogArray);

		$this->blogs = $blogArray;
	}

	//检查文件名是否是markdown文件
	private function checkFileExt($fileName) {
		$pics = explode('.' , $fileName);
		$fileExt = strtolower(end($pics));

		if (($fileExt != "md" && $fileExt != "markdown") || $fileExt == $fileName) {
			return false;
		}
		return true;
	}

	//修改后缀名
	public function changeFileExt($fileName, $ext="html") {
		$pics = explode('.' , $fileName);
        $len = count($pics);
		if ($len > 1) {
			$pics[$len - 1] = $ext;
		}

		return implode(".", $pics);
	}

    //对URL中的中文编码
    private function urlencodeFileName($fileName) {
		$pics = explode('/' , $fileName);
		$len = count($pics);
		if ($len > 0) {
			$pics[$len - 1] = urlencode($pics[$len - 1]);
		}
		return implode("/", $pics);
    }

	//将tags, category字符串转成数组
	private function converStrArr($tags, $type) {
		$tagsObjArr = array();

		$tagArrTmp1 = $this->cleanKeywords2Arr($tags);

		foreach ($tagArrTmp1 as $tag) {
			$tag = trim($tag);
			$id = abs(crc32(md5($tag)));

			$tagObj = array(
				"id" => $id,
				"name" => $tag,
				"url" => "/$type/" . $id . ".html"
			);

			array_push($tagsObjArr, $tagObj);

			if (!$this->checkObjInArr($tagObj, $type)) {
				if ($type == "tags") {
					array_push($this->tags, $tagObj);
				} else {
					array_push($this->categorys, $tagObj);
				}
			}
		}
		return $tagsObjArr;
	}

	private function checkObjInArr($tagObj, $type) {
		$objArr = null;
		if ($type == "category") {
			$objArr = $this->categorys;
		} else if ($type == "tags") {
			$objArr = $this->tags;
		} else if ($type == "yearMonths") {
			$objArr = $this->yearMonths;
		}

		if (empty($objArr)) return false;

		foreach ($objArr as $idx => $obj) {
			if ($obj['id'] == $tagObj['id']) {
				return true;
			}
		}
		return false;
	}
}


text:
Former Owen Electric Cooperative Scholarship recipient awarded a major international scholarship
Brandt Coleman has been selected for a graduate study scholarship in the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) program, out of hundreds of international applicants according to a news release. The award will support Brandt's enrollment in the Master of Science degree in Global Change Ecology at the Universität Bayreuth in Bavaria. No more than twenty students a year are admitted into the program which is included in the Elite Network of Bavaria. In addition to the master's study, the award provides a monthly stipend, travel subsidies to and from Germany, funds to cover study-related travel to special science schools and supplemental programs along with health, accident, and personal liability insurance coverage. Most recently Brandt was selected for the winter science school at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland where he studied Boreal Winter Ecology and Molecular Evolution. He is currently completing research for his Master of Science thesis.
Coleman is a Summa cum Laude and University Honors Scholar graduate of the University of Louisville with degrees in environmental analysis, marine biology (New College of Florida in Sarasota and the Universität of Rostock in Germany), and environmental anthropology.
Brandt is a U.S. State Department Fellow to Germany alumnus of the Congress-Bundestag for Young Professionals Program and returns to Germany for his graduate studies.
2023 Best in Kentucky nominations


text:
Biografia
Artista dai lineamenti forti ed espressivi, soprattutto negli anni settanta e ottanta divenne noto al grande pubblico grazie alla partecipazione a numerosi sceneggiati televisivi di successo, come La vita di Leonardo Da Vinci (1972), A come Andromeda, miniserie di fantascienza (1972), Lungo il fiume e sull'acqua, sceneggiato di genere giallo-poliziesco (1973), Verdi (1982), I promessi sposi (1989). Sempre in televisione, negli anni settanta fu conduttore della rubrica A come agricoltura  e fu noto anche per aver interpretato a lungo un cliente burbero e incontentabile in uno spot pubblicitario per gli elettrodomestici Ignis.

Ha partecipato a numerosi film, tra i quali spiccano I compagni, Queimada, Uomini contro, la commedia Italian Secret Service di Luigi Comencini, oltre a diversi polizieschi italiani, tra cui Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer? del 1971.

Come doppiatore, è ricordato in particolare per aver dato la voce al tenente Colombo nella omonima serie televisiva. Uno dei suoi ultimi lavori fu il doppiaggio del presidente iracheno Saddam Hussein per un'intervista realizzata da Bruno Vespa soltanto pochi giorni prima dello scoppio della prima Guerra del Golfo, mandata in onda da Rai Uno.

Morì improvvisamente il 15 maggio 1991, a 63 anni, per un infarto, nella sua abitazione a Roma dove viveva solo. Della sua morte si accorse solo il giorno dopo uno dei suoi tre figli. È sepolto nel cimitero di Affile (Roma).

Filmografia

Cinema
I compagni, regia di Mario Monicelli (1962)
La marcia su Roma, regia di Dino Risi (1962)
I disperati della gloria (Les Parias de la gloire), regia di Henri Decoin (1964)
La vita agra, regia di Carlo Lizzani (1964)
Thrilling, regia di Carlo Lizzani (1965)
Sette uomini d'oro, regia di Marco Vicario (1965)
Made in Italy, regia di Nanni Loy (1965)
Il grande colpo dei 7 uomini d'oro, regia di Marco Vicario (1966)
Assalto al centro nucleare, regia di Mario Caiano (1967)
Tiffany memorandum, regia di Sergio Grieco (1967)
Gangsters '70, regia di Mino Guerrini (1967)
Il padre di famiglia, regia di Nanni Loy (1967)
La pecora nera, regia di Luciano Salce (1968)
Mangiala, regia di Francesco Casaretti (1968)
Commandos, regia di Armando Crispino (1968)
Italian Secret Service, regia di Luigi Comencini (1968)
Un minuto per pregare, un istante per morire, regia di Franco Giraldi (1968)
Summit, regia di Giorgio Bontempi (1968)
Il padre di famiglia, regia di Nanni Loy (1969)
Queimada, regia di Gillo Pontecorvo (1969)
Uomini contro, regia di Francesco Rosi (1970)
Bolidi sull'asfalto - A tutta birra!, regia di Bruno Corbucci (1970)
È tornato Sabata... hai chiuso un'altra volta!, regia di Gianfranco Parolini (1971)
Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer?, regia di Giuliano Carnimeo (1972)
La rosa rossa, regia di Franco Giraldi (1973)
Sette ore di violenza per una soluzione imprevista, regia di Michele Massimo Tarantini (1973)
Partirono preti, tornarono... curati, regia di Bianco Manini (1973)
La polizia indaga: siamo tutti sospettati (Les Suspects), regia di Michel Wyn (1974)
E cominciò il viaggio nella vertigine, regia di Toni Di Gregorio (1974)
Zorro, regia di Duccio Tessari (1975)
Mark il poliziotto, regia di Stelvio Massi (1975)
Flic Story, regia di Jacques Deray (1975)
Mark colpisce ancora, regia di Stelvio Massi (1976)
La gang dell'Anno Santo (L'Année sainte), regia di Jean Girault (1976)
Nina, regia di Vincente Minnelli (1976)
Dove volano i corvi d'argento, regia di Piero Livi (1976)
Il conto è chiuso, regia di Stelvio Massi (1976)
Roma a mano armata, regia di Umberto Lenzi (1976)
Ritornano quelli della calibro 38, regia di Giuseppe Vari (1977)
La gang del parigino - Pierrot le Fou (Le Gang), regia di Jacques Deray (1977)
Non sparate sui bambini, regia di Gianni Crea (1978)
Suggestionata, regia di Alfredo Rizzo (1978)
Saremo felici, regia di Gianfrancesco Lazotti (1989)

Televisione
Un uomo sull'acqua, regia di Mario Ferrero, trasmessa il 7 gennaio 1955
Anima allegra, commedia dei Fratelli Quintero, regia di Claudio Fino, trasmessa il 13 febbraio 1955
La strada più lunga, regia di Nelo Risi – film TV (1965)
Geminus, regia di Luciano Emmer – miniserie TV (1969)
Nero Wolfe, regia di Giuliana Berlinguer – serie TV (1971)
La rete, regia di Gianni Serra – film TV (1971)
La vita di Leonardo da Vinci, regia di Renato Castellani – serie TV (1971)
A come Andromeda, regia di Vittorio Cottafavi – miniserie TV (1972)
I Nicotera, regia di Salvatore Nocita – miniserie TV (1972)
Lungo il fiume e sull'acqua, regia di Alberto Negrin – miniserie TV (1973)
All'ultimo minuto, regia di Ruggero Deodato – serie TV (1973)
Sotto il placido Don, regia di Vittorio Cottafavi (1974)
Tracce sulla neve, regia di Alessandro Cane (1975)
Diagnosi, regia di Mario Caiano (1975)
Gli irreperibili, di Heinrich Böll, regia di Salvatore Nocita (1976)
Extra, regia di Daniele D'Anza – miniserie TV (1976)
Chiunque tu sia, regia di Mario Foglietti – miniserie TV (1977)
L'ultimo aereo per Venezia, regia di Daniele D'Anza (1977)
L'inseguitore, regia di Mario Foglietti (1977)
Sam et Sally, regia di Jean Girault (1978)
L'affare Stavisky, regia di Luigi Perelli (1979)
L'enigma delle due sorelle, regia di Mario Foglietti – miniserie TV (1979)
Illa: Punto d'osservazione, regia di Daniele D'Anza – miniserie TV (1981)
Verdi, regia di Renato Castellani – serie TV (1982)
Il diavolo al Pontelungo, regia di Pino Passalacqua (1982)
L'enigma Borden, regia di Gian Pietro Calasso (1982)
Incontrarsi e dirsi addio, regia di Mario Foglietti (1983)
Piccolo mondo antico, regia di Salvatore Nocita – miniserie TV (1983)
Aeroporto internazionale - serie TV (1985)
Strada senza uscita, regia di Anton Giulio Majano – miniserie TV (1986)
La piovra 3, regia di Luigi Perelli – serie TV (1987)
I promessi sposi, regia di Salvatore Nocita – miniserie TV (1989)
La stella del parco, regia di Aldo Lado (1991)

Doppiaggio

Cinema
Peter Falk in Invito a cena con delitto, A proposito di omicidi..., Il cielo sopra Berlino
Mario Adorf in La polizia chiede aiuto, Giochi perversi di una signora bene
Phil Brown in Guerre stellari
Benson Fong in Un maggiolino tutto matto
Roberto Camardiel in La resa dei conti
Bourvil in L'albero di Natale
Charles McGraw in Impiccalo più in alto
Vic Tayback in Alice non abita più qui
Martin Balsam in Il giustiziere della notte 3
Brian Keith in Il vento e il leone
Keenan Wynn in L'oro di Mackenna

Televisione
 Peter Falk in Colombo
 Edward Asner in Mary Tyler Moore e Lou Grant

Teatro
Processo a Gesù, di Diego Fabbri, regia di Orazio Costa, al Piccolo Teatro di Milano il 2 marzo 1955

Note

Bibliografia
Il Radiocorriere.
Le teche Rai
Gli attori, Gremese editore, Roma 2003.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Attori teatrali italiani
Attori cinematografici italiani
Attori televisivi italiani


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Gov. Beshear to discuss Kynect exchange; Passport, Humana, Anthem, WellCare and Coventry selected in Medicaid expansion
Gov. Steve Beshear has called a press conference at 1 p.m. in Frankfort to discuss the state's health benefit exchange, or Kynect, under the federal Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
The presser will be live-streamed on Youtube.
Our sources are telling us the governor will release some price structure details on the insurance policies through the new exchange. Enrollment begins October 1.
Our insiders also tell us Beshear may – or may not – reveal the Medicaid Managed Care Organizations chosen both to replace the departed St. Louis-based Centene Corp., as well as to participate in expanded Medicaid coverage in Kentucky under Obamacare.
In case he doesn't, the winners are:
Passport Health Plan, Humana and Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield, along with WellCare Health Plans and Coventry Health Care.
Passport and Humana are based in Louisville, of course. Anthem is based in Cincinnati.
Coventry, based in Bethesda, Md., and WellCare, based in Tampa, Fla., entered Kentucky back in 2012 when the state switched (painfully) to MCOs from a fees-for-services system.
St. Louis-based Centene Corp. exited Kentucky this year in early July after a federal court ruled the state couldn't stop them from ending their two-year contract early.
Centene executives left Kentucky after losing $200 million. About 125,000 people who were Kentucky Spirit Health Plan – as Centene was branded here – members here have been reassigned either Coventry or WellCare.
The stated issued an RFP in July for the expansion of Medicaid in Kentucky under ObamaCare and the 300,000 new enrollees it is projected to add when it goes into effect January 1. But our sources say implicit in the request is that the "winners" will get the members left behind by Kentucky Spirit.
As for the exchange, it will create an online marketplace for individuals and small businesses and businesses.
Anthem, Humana and the new Kentucky Health Cooperative will all offer plans for individuals, according to state news releases. Anthem, Kentucky Health Cooperative, Bluegrass Family Health and United Healthcare will offer plans for small businesses, according to those releases.
The back story on Kentucky's Medicaid Managed Care Meltdown:
In April, 2011, state officials asked health insurers to submit managed-care proposals for the $6 billion worth of care 800,000 poor and elderly Kentuckians receive annually under the federal/state Medicaid program. At the time, Gov. Steve Beshear touted the switch to managed care from fee-for-services as saving the state $375 million over the life of the initial three-year contracts. Insiders said officials in other states such as Georgia took as long as 18 months to make the change while Kentucky tried to do it in less than six months.
The three companies receiving MCO contracts were Centene, WellCare and Coventry Cares, all publicly traded companies. (Passport Health Plan, a Louisville-based non-profit controlled by providers, is the managed care insurer for Jefferson County and 17 surrounding counties.)
Each bid for the Kentucky MCO business was based on per-member, per-month health care costs projections. Low-bidder Centene bid $330 per member, per month, according to documents submitted to Insider Louisville. WellCare bid was based on $400 per member per month, and Coventry bid $436 per member per month.
The algorithm state officials used to choose the winners favored the low-cost plans, obviously, because therein lies the savings.
The state methodology initially assigned members to a plan, with the two lowest cost plans getting more members than the highest.
Had Centene's managed care system actually gotten each member to spend less than $330 per month, they would have made money instead of losing millions. But crucial to getting costs that low would mean cutting reimbursements to health care providers such as doctors and pharmacies, which meant losing some.
By Staff|2019-12-30T10:59:02-05:00September 10th, 2013|