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It Runs in the Family Review
I can't say I have spent much time wondering what a movie with Kirk and Michael Douglas in it together would be like, but it is an interesting thought. According to the press surrounding this movie, it took them fifteen years to find the right script in which to collaborate. I wonder if they actually liked the script for It Runs in the Family, or if they just gave up and decided to make this movie before Kirk died. Based on the movie I saw, I would guess the latter.
Retired lawyer Mitchell Gromberg (Kirk Douglas) is the patriarch of the Gromberg family. A year ago, he had a stroke, but aside from some speech problems, he's okay. That can't be said for his brother, Stephen (Mark Hammer), who is institutionalized for dementia. He picks Stephen up to join his wife, Evelyn (Diana Douglas), for Passover dinner with his adult lawyer son, Alex (Michael Douglas), Alex's therapist wife, Rebecca (Bernadette Peters), and his two grandsons, 11-year-old Eli (Rory Culkin) and 21-year-old Asher (Cameron Douglas.) They appear at first to be a happy family, but different factors would suggest otherwise. Alex seems to be too busy between his firm and the local soup kitchen he volunteers for to pay attention to their marriage or his family. Rebecca is concerned that this may be screwing up their kids. Smart but shy Eli never seems to talk to them, and he is at the awkward age where he is just starting to like girls. He is attracted to Abby Staley (Irene Gorovaia), a former runaway who has just returned to school and dresses like a goth chick. Asher is a college student who is chronically irresponsible (he was supposed to pick his grandmother up from the doctor at the beginning of the movie, but got distracted.) He skips his college classes, sells pot, and deejays at local clubs. He too is attracted to a girl from one of his classes. Her name is Peg Maloney (Michelle Monaghan), and she is turned off by his irresponsible nature at first, but begins to become charmed by his personality after awhile. Unfortunately, it is more than possibly screwing up his kids that Alex is messing up. In a moment of weakness, he almost has an affair with Suzie (Sarita Choudhury), a woman who volunteers at the soup kitchen with him. He doesn't go through with it, but the guilt builds in him. As Alex debates on whether or not he should tell Rebecca about Suzie, Rebecca finds Suzie's underwear in Alex's coat pocket. Before she can confront him with them, there is an unexpected death in the Gromberg family. Without this person to act as an equalizer, the rest of the clan find it hard to learn how to communicate with each other.
This wasn't a horrible movie, it was just bland. It had every cliché that you would find in any dysfunctional family drama, without any of the quirkiness that you would find in some. Even when they attempted to be quirky, such as a send-off Mitchell gives his brother near the end of the movie, it fell flat. The acting was surprisingly bad all around. Everyone seemed to be just reading lines, especially the elder Douglas. Diana Douglas (Kirk's ex-wife and Michael's mother) was okay in her brief scenes. Only Culkin stood out in his role. He and his older brother Kieran are both eclipsing their more famous brother Macaulay by leaps and bounds in acting ability.
Some of you may have been excited by the long-awaited collaboration between Kirk and Michael, but I have a feeling you will be let down by It Runs in the Family. Unless you like watching a movie with a tiresome story that you have already seen many times before, I would suggest skipping this one and hope that they get at least one more chance to work together before Kirk dies. Maybe it will be more interesting to watch, though I wouldn't count on Kirk's acting abilities to get any better.
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John Allen Chau died during a perilous visit to the isolated North Sentinel Island earlier this month. He appeared to know how dangerous and illegal his trip was.
John Allen Chau, the American missionary who died while visiting the isolated Sentinelese people earlier this month, appeared to know he might die.
He wrote in a final letter, "Don't retrieve my body," The New York Times reported.
Police are currently struggling to get his body from the islanders, who have responded in a hostile manner.
Officials are trying to figure out "what kind of friendly gesture we can make" to them.
John Allen Chau, the 26-year-old American who was killed by an isolated Indian tribe earlier this month, warned in a final letter before his death, "Don't retrieve my body."
Chau illegally visited North Sentinel Island on November 15 and returned on November 16. On the morning of November 17, the fishermen Chau had paid to take him near the island saw members of the Sentinelese tribe burying Chau's body on the beach.
Chau appeared to know that his trip to the isolated island was perilous and illegal.
He wrote in a final letter, according to The New York Times and The Independent, "Don't retrieve my body." He underlined those words, seemingly for emphasis, the newspapers noted.
It's not clear who the letter was addressed to.
Fishermen saw Sentinelese people burying Chau's body on the beach on the morning of November 17.
He wrote in one of his final diary entries, "God, I don't want to die." He also claimed that God had shielded him from Indian authorities, who would have stopped him from going to the island.
Police are currently struggling to retrieve his body, and when officers attempted to visit the island over the weekend, they saw a group of Sentinelese people lining up along the beach aiming their bows towards them.
Visiting the island is highly dangerous, and even government officials from the neighboring Andaman and Nicobar Islands don't go there.
Foreigners are banned from visiting the island to protect the Sentinelese way of life and avoid exposing them from illnesses like the flu and measles.
The archipelago is between India and Myanmar.
Regional police chief Dependra Pathak told the Associated Press on Monday: "They are a treasure. We cannot go and force our way in. We don't want to harm them."
"We are consulting anthropologists to see what kind of friendly gesture we can make," he added.
Chau appeared keen to bring Christianity to the island. On his first trip to the island on November 15, he said that he "hollered, 'My name is John, I love you and Jesus loves you,'" he wrote in his final diary.


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Q: Calculate: $\lim_{x\to 0} \frac{f(x^2)-f(0)}{\sin^2(x)}$. Let $f(x)$ be a differentiable function. s.t. $f^\prime(0)=1$.
calculate the limit: $$\lim_{x\to 0} \frac{f(x^2)-f(0)}{\sin^2(x)}.$$
SOLUTION ATTEMPT: I thought that because $f$ is differentiable its also continuous, then we can say: $\lim_{x\to 0} f(x^2)=f(0)$ then, $\lim_{x\to 0} f(x^2)-f(0)=0$ and also $\lim_{x\to 0} \sin^2(x)=0$, so using L'Hoptal's rule, we get that:
$\lim_{x\to 0 } \frac{f(x^2)-f(0)}{\sin^2(x)}= \lim_{x\to 0} \frac{f^\prime (x^2) \cdot 2x}{2\sin(x) \cdot \cos(x)}=\lim_{x\to 0} \frac{f^\prime (x^2) \cdot 2x}{2\sin(x) \cdot \cos(x)}$.
I reached right here and I guess I need to do another L'Hopital, is that the right direction?

A: Hint:
$$\lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{f(x^2)-f(0)}{\sin^2(x)} = \lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{\frac{f(x^2)-f(0)}{x^2-0}}{\frac{\sin^2(x)}{x^2-0}}$$
Observe that
$$\lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{f(x^2)-f(0)}{x^2-0} = \lim_{x^2 \to 0}\dfrac{f(x^2)-f(0)}{x^2-0}  = f^{\prime}(0)$$
(notice as $x \to 0$, $x^2 \to 0$ as well) and
$$\lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{\sin^2(x)}{x^2-0} = \lim_{x \to 0}\left(\dfrac{\sin(x)}{x}\right)^2\text{.}$$
The value
$$\lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{\sin(x)}{x}$$
is usually taught in a Calc. I class.
Can you take it from here?

A: Since $f$ is differentiable at $0$ and $f'(0)=1$, you can write
$$
f(x)=f(0)+x+o(x)
$$
so
$$
\lim_{x\to0}\frac{f(x^2)-f(0)}{\sin^2x}=
\lim_{x\to0}\frac{x^2+o(x^2)}{x^2}\frac{x^2}{\sin^2x}=1
$$

A: HINT: $f(0)$ stands for a constant function in your limit. What's the derivative of a constant function?

A: You are done there, since
$$
\lim_{x\to 0} \frac{f'(x^2)\cdot 2x}{2\sin x\cos x} = \lim_{x\to 0} \frac{2x}{2\sin x} \cdot \lim_{x\to 0}\frac{f'(x^2)}{\cos x} = 1\cdot 1 =1.$$

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A tale of rich and poor
09/07/2021 – by Ndongo Samba Sylla
© Loren Wohl/picture-alliance/AP Photo
Super-rich philanthropists are a tiny minority everywhere: Aliko Dangote, Mo Ibrahim and Bill Gates at an event in New York City in 2019.
Wealthy 'Afrocapitalists' may grab headlines, but for most Africans even a middle-class lifestyle is out of reach.
In recent decades, most new jobs created in Africa have been in the informal sector, where incomes are low and precarious. In 2016, informal jobs accounted for 86 % of total employment and 72 % of non-agricultural employment in Africa, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). The informal sector does offer workers only limited or more often no social protection.
Yet some African lifestyles are far beyond this daily grind. In recent years, Africa has seen a jump in the number of "high net-worth individuals" (HNWIs). These are persons with at least $ 1 million in investable assets, according to the consultancy Gapgemini which publishes the World Wealth Report. Its data show that the number of African HNWIs grew from 95,000 in 2008 to 177,000 in 2019. The "Afrocapitalists" enjoy lifestyles comparable to those of the rich in the Global North.
Just below the HNWIs in the income hierarchy is a relatively thin layer of technical and managerial experts who have benefited from education and profited from a sharp rise in foreign direct investment. FDI into Africa quadrupled between 1990 and 2017, creating a demand for expertise in a range of areas. An influx of funds from international private-capital organisations and official development-aid programmes has added to that demand for local expertise. The resulting jobs and incomes have supported growth of an African managerial elite and swelled the ranks of the upper middle classes.
Yet both categories – the super-rich and the well-to-do – are minorities. The lifestyles of US-dollar billionaires such as Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote and prosperous technical and business managers should not be taken as evidence of a rise of a broad-based middle classes. The relatively few success stories still stand in sharp contrast to the reality lived by the mass of Africans in the informal sector.
Capgemini: World Wealth Report.
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Capgemini: World Wealth Report
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For environmental reasons, western Europe and North America cannot be models of development
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Failed policies
In Africa, structural adjustment did not trigger fast growth, but had a contractive impact
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Unlike young Europeans in past centuries, young Africans today are denied opportunities overseas
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Digital tools can boost productivity in the informal sector, argues GIZ
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Press release: UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WORKERS DELIVER SPECIAL MESSAGE TO PRINCESS ANNE AND VISIT LAMBETH COLLEGE DURING FIVE-DAY STRIKE — June 11, 2014
Press release: UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WORKERS DELIVER SPECIAL MESSAGE TO PRINCESS ANNE AND VISIT LAMBETH COLLEGE DURING FIVE-DAY STRIKE
June 11, 2014 June 12, 2014 /iwgb
On the fourth day of their five-day strike over the loss of more than 80 jobs at the University of London, cleaners and other workers marched this morning to Senate House to deliver a letter to the Chancellor of the University, Princess Anne.
Along with students and other union members, the workers marched from the picket lines at the Garden Halls of residence near King's Cross to Senate House, the administrative centre of the University. One of the striking workers delivered a letter to University management and Princess Anne calling them to intervene to resolve the dispute, slipping the letter under the closed front doors of the building.
A contingent of workers then visited the picket lines at Lambeth College, where they were received by members of Unison and the University College Union (UCU), currently on all-out strike to defend the working conditions and benefits of staff.
The Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) began its strike on Friday 6 June and will continue until Thursday 12 June. It has warned the University that its summer conference season will face prolonged disruption if the institution and its outsourcing companies Cofely and Aramark, do not sit around the negotiating table.
The University is set to refurbish its halls from the end of June. The process will last around two years and current workers are at risk of redundancy.
Many of workers under threat of redundancy have been the most active in the 3 Cosas Campaignfor Sick Pay, Holidays and Pensions. The campaign recently won improved sick pay and holiday pay after a high-profile strike in November 2013.
The IWGB is demanding:
• a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies
• full and meaningful consultation with the IWGB
• the same wage levels, terms and conditions, and length of service for any workers transferred to contracts outside the UoL
The IWGB is building a strike fund to compensate workers taking strike action and is calling on support and solidarity from other trade unions, students' unions and the wider labour movement.
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IWGB Statement on Garden Halls Industrial Action
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Leftism in America
Jamie Glazov: Democrats' Soviet Insane Asylum for Trump…….
Leftism in America Leftist Fascism Leftist Politicians Lefty Morons
This is exactly what the Soviets and other communist regimes did to dissidents who bucked their totalitarianism, send them off to languish in psycho wards.
THE DEMOCRATS' SOVIET INSANE ASYLUM FOR TRUMP
The Left's faithful devotion to socialist-style "psychiatric" disposal of political dissidents.
Jamie Glazov
The former Soviet Union possessed many imaginative mechanisms to deal with the problem of enemies of the people who obstructed the path to socialist utopia — now known as "social justice." One of those mechanisms was the practice of confining individuals who were thinking the wrong thoughts to insane asylums. Indeed, if you caused any trouble for the commissars, a good inoculation of neuroleptics (powerful drugs used to "quiet" the symptoms of schizophrenia), forcibly administered through a tube in the nose, could do wonders in bringing your politically incorrect behavior to a halt.
Dissidents such as Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Pyotr Grigorenko, Vladimir Bukovsky, Alexander Esenin-Volpin and Joseph Brodsky were all among the brave freedom-fighters who bore the brunt of the Soviet practice of institutionalizing dissidents in mental hospitals and force-feeding them mind-shattering drugs. Gorbanevskaya was committed to a psychiatric hospital for attending the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Grigorenko suffered the same fate for criticizing the Khrushchev regime. Bukovsky was confined to a psychiatric hospital for "anti-Soviet agitation." Brodksy was sent to mental hospitals for not writing the right kind of poetry; his treatments involved "tranquilizing" injections, sleep deprivation and forced freezing baths. Esenin-Volpin was institutionalized in the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital for his anti-Soviet thoughts.
Today's progressive Democrats are also faithfully journeying on an uplifting odyssey. Horrified by Trump's opposition to Obama's "fundamental transformations," they have found their own neuroleptics in the form of the 25th Amendment and a bill seeking to impeach the president for being mentally unsound. Indeed, Trump has to be mentally deranged and unfit for office, because what other reason could possibly explain his frightening disagreement with the Left's un-American creed of identity politics — race and gender uber alles? What other factor could possibly be at play in his embrace of individual freedom and responsibility — and in his rejection of group privileges and racial/gender hierarchies that, as David Horowitz has noted, can only be manifested after America's Constitution is null and void?
Confronted by Trump's shocking blasphemy against their anointed plan, several Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), have now signed onto a bill that seeks to remove Trump by invoking 25th Amendment powers. The bill cites section 4 of the amendment, created in 1967 after JFK's assassination, that allows for an independent body to remove the president based on the determination that he has been mentally or physically incapacitated to carry out his duties. Raskin's initiative would activate a probe into whether Trump has been too far "incapacitated" to continue as president.
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Chip off the ol' quarterback
By Gayle Fee |
PUBLISHED: August 23, 2007 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: November 17, 2018 at 12:00 am
New England Patriots new daddy Tom Brady followed his preannounced game plan and was in Santa Monica at his ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan's side when she gave birth to his son yesterday.
"Mother and baby are doing well," Moynahan's publicist, Christina Papadopoulos said in a short statement.
No details were available on the baby's name or weight, Papadopoulos said, but sources told us Tom and Bridget are leaning towards "an Irish-sounding name" because they both have green genes.
"The current frontrunner is William," said our snitch. Well! The boss, Bill Belichick will like that!
Brady was spotted inside St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica yesterday afternoon, carrying a huge bouquet of flowers to the new mommy.
The Brady Baby Watch had gone to Defcon 1 yesterday when No. 12 didn't show up for practice, as scheduled, at Gillette Stadium.
Sources told the Track that the QB/QT was absent because he had flown to California to be there for the baby's debut.
Later in the day, a reporter for "Entertainment Tonight" encountered the new dad in the hospital halls on his way to see Moynahan, who checked in under an assumed name.
"Tom wasn't happy," said our Left Coast snitch. "He had security throw the guy out."
Brady had told the team he was taking care of "a personal matter" and that he would rejoin the Pats for Friday night's game against the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte. It is the third and most important of the team's pre-season tilts. But since Brady would normally sit out the last game (the Giants on Aug. 30), he can return to L.A. after the Carolina game for all kinds of serious baby bonding.
Officially, the Patriots were mum on the QB's whereabouts yesterday. Team spokesman Stacey James said he wasn't sure where No. 12 was or why he wasn't at practice.
Unofficially, we hear that No. 12 is likely to address the media about his big news during his press availability on Friday.
"I'm sure he will be his eloquent self," said one insider.
Earlier this week, Brady told reporters that he wanted to be present when his offspring makes his debut.
"I hope so," he said. "I'm sure when it happens it's a matter of scheduling with what's going on with the team."
Although Brady, who is the consummate stand-up guy, was committed to being there for his first child's first cries, the delivery room had to be a tad awkward – considering the circumstances and all.
As you all know, he and Moynahan, an actress who has appeared in "Sex and the City," "I, Robot," "Sum of All Fears" and "Coyote Ugly," broke up last November. Almost immediately thereafter, Brady began dating supermodel Gisele Bundchen. In February, Bridget dropped her pregnancy bombshell while Tom was cavorting about the continent with Gisele.
Two days after the shocking news broke, Brady issued a statement saying he was "excited" about becoming a dad.
"Tom and his family are excited about the pregnancy, and want to thank everyone who has shown support, and particularly for their consideration of Tom's privacy," Brady's agent, Don Yee, said.
According to several media outlets, Brady was blindsided by the baby announcement, and an anonymous pal was quoted saying the timing was calculated "to make him look like a jerk."
But a spokesman for Moynahan, who was then a leading lady in the now-cancelled ABC drama "Six Degrees," said the daddy-to-be was tipped off well in advance that Moynahan was going to release the news.
"Tom was informed before the statement went out and he was aware of the pregnancy," said Bridget's spokesman, Gary Mantoosh.
Pals said that Brady, "an honorable guy," would "do the right thing" by the baby but wouldn't marry Bridget.
Indeed, Tom and his new arm candy, Gisele, have been nearly inseparable since she was first spotted outside the Patriots locker room last January.
The two had begun their flirtation almost a year earlier when Gisele told the Track that Brady was "not too shabby."
Bridget reportedly was less than thrilled to see her ex squiring around Leonardo DiCaprio's former squeeze so soon after their bust-up, especially since the reason for the relationship's demise was Bridget's game plan to marry and start a family. Apparently the 30-year-old pigskin playboy wasn't onboard.
"She took the break-up so hard you wouldn't believe it," said one friend.
Some Brady pals speculated that Bridget saw that time was running down on the love clock and she executed a little quarterback sneak of her own. The pregnancy, they claimed, was a relationship Hail Mary.
"She totally knew the end was coming," said one F.O.T. "They were spending more time apart. She knew. She had to."
Last fall, Bridget told Boston Common maggie that marriage and kids were part of her five-year plan.
"I've been on this career thing for so long, and you look at all your friends who are finally getting married and having kids," she said. "I believe in balance in life, so I think you can do it all."
Both Moynahan and Brady are tight with their respective families. Bridget's parents, Brad and Mary, live out in Longmeadow, and Tom's parents, Tom Sr. and Gaylen, reside on the Left Coast. Tom's sisters have lived with him in Boston off and on for years.
It is well known that Tom and his family are devout Catholics – a fact that has some speculating that he will eventually cave and get back with Bridget.
In fact, it appears as though Tom's following some kind of Brady Bunch tradition here. Big sister Maureen had a baby out of wedlock and after a long on-again, off-again romance just married the father of her 6-year-old daughter last year. Sister Julie also is an unmarried mom.
Word on the gossip wires is that Tom and Bridget have recently re-established communications after a long period of estrangement that followed her pregnancy announcement.
"For a while they were only infrequently texting each other or e- mailing, but now they talk quite often," said Someone Who Knows.
Gisele was said to be worried about the increasingly cozy relationship between the new parents. Bundchen, who makes a whopping $33 million a year off modeling contracts, reportedly is looking to settle down with Tom.
In a cute aside, Tom was not the only Patriot named Brady to become a dad yesterday. Tight end Kyle Brady's wife, Kristi, gave birth to a baby girl they'll call Brooke.
Cigars all around!
Boston's WBZ Newsradio 1030 cuts ties with radio personalities
Gayle Fee
Expect competition for rarely offered Beacon Hill home
Harriet Tubman House redevelopment debate heads to court


In the early morning (3am EST) of April 15th, skywatchers should drag themselves back out of bed to witness the first total lunar eclipse over North America in over 3 years. Yes, Skywatchers in the U.S and Canada are expected to have the best view of this mesmerizing event, which will transform from its usual icy blue into a sun-kissed, fiery red.
Skywatchers could be treated to an exceptionally bright meteor shower on the night on May 23/24 if, as scientists expect, the Earth crosses through the dusty trails of Comet LINEAR. Should such an event happen, it could see hundreds of shooting stars littering our skies for a brief but beautiful display of cosmic interactions. This may well be the event of the year, so stay tuned in the spring for the latest forecasts.
In the wee small hours of August 18th, skywatchers will be treated to a coming together of two of our sky's brightest objects. The two bright planets are often separated by more than 500 million miles, but on August 18th they will appear to be just two thirds of a moon's apparent width apart.
Did we say that a total lunar eclipse was a rare event? This October 8th edition of Moon reddening is expected to be best viewed from the Western coast of the US as well as vast swathes of Pacific countries including New Zealand and Australia. For one glorious hour the moon will be eclipsed, but for those with eagle-eyes and a good telescope or binoculars, the real treat will be spotting the green hue of Uranus somewhere over the darkened moon.
Large parts of North America will be treated to the sight of around 50% of the sun's visible face being covered by the moon. Northwestern areas of North America will see the largest darkening with Vancouver and Seattle witnessing around 60% of the Sun briefly disappear, while Eastern lying states and provinces will see around 30-15% of the sun eclipsed just as it starts to set.


KARLOVY VARY: Young Paris-based sales company Stray Dogs has acquired the Czech/Slovak film Domestique by Adam Sedlák prior to its screening in the official competition of the Karlovy Vary IFF, which runs through 7 July 2018.
The film, which is Sedlák's feature debut, was produced by Shore Points and Sentimentalfilm. It was coproduced by the Czech Television, Elekta Film, Soundsquare and UPP, and was supported by the Czech State Cinematography Fund and the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. The drama tells the story of a cyclist whose obsession with his sports career causes him to ignore his wife and leads to the decline of their marriage.
The film screens on 3, 4 and 7 July at Karlovy Vary. It will have its theatrical release in the Czech Republic on 27 September, released by CinemArt.


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Islam and the West ( 24 Dec 2017, NewAgeIslam.Com)
Refugees Stuck In Europe Camps Feel Home Was Better
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In the city of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, a tree on the main square is alight in blue. Locals are busily shopping for gifts and sipping coffee at cafes.
Just 15 minutes up the road, at the refugee and migrant camp called Moria, it is not Christmas but winter that is approaching. More than 6,000 souls fleeing the world's most violent conflicts - in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of Congo - are crowded in a space meant for 2,330. The scene is grim: piles of trash, barbed wire, children wailing, rows of cheap summer tents with entire families crammed inside and fights regularly breaking out on the camp's periphery. The stench is overwhelming.
I have visited many refugee camps in the Middle East, but never have I seen anything like Moria, a place Pope Francis has likened to a concentration camp. I have also never understood the true meaning of Christmas - a story in which Jesus was born into a family that became refugees - until I visited the people who are now forced to call it home.
Among them are Kareema and her elderly mother, Kamila, who spent the past few years trapped in Deir Al Zour in Syria under the rule of Daesh. (I'm using only the first names of the refugees I spoke with out of concern for their safety and their pending asylum applications.) "There was no electricity; we were using oil lamps. It was as though we returned to the Stone Ages," Kareema told me. Though they suffered terribly - "We left because there were no longer doctors, hospitals or health care," she said - nothing prepared mother and daughter for Moria. "If I would have known, I wouldn't have come," she told me. "I would have died in my own country."
Moria opened as a "hot spot," or refugee processing centre, in 2015, a year in which more than a million refugees streamed into Europe. Lay the blame for the squalid conditions in the camp on the 2016 European Union-Turkey agreement, struck to discourage refugees from taking the sea route to Europe. Those who arrive on the Greek islands now must wait to be processed by the European Union before proceeding to the mainland. The wait can be months, with no guarantee that requests for asylum will be granted. The combination of waiting, uncertainty, overcrowding and unliveable conditions has created what appears to be an intentional epidemic of despair, meant to dissuade refugees from seeing Europe as a haven.
Though the camp is off-limits to journalists, I slipped through the entrance earlier this month. Toilets are so few and so filthy that refugees have cut holes in the high fencing that surrounds the complex so that they can urinate and defecate outside. The perimeter of the camp is fouled with human excrement.
The lack of hygiene and the violence have prompted some refugees to move to the olive groves outside the camp. There I talked with young men from Mosul, Basra and Baghdad in Iraq, from Dara'a and Aleppo in Syria, and from Gaza.
Murtda fled militias in Basra, afraid that he would be either detained or killed. Mostafa from Gaza, looking much younger than his 21 years, listed the wars he has survived. When I asked him about the crossing from Turkey, he boasted: "I wasn't scared. I'm used to war, and I know how to swim."
Anwar from Mosul spoke quietly. Older than his siblings, he travelled alone from Iraq last month and now helps to watch over many younger refugees. His family lived in Iraq for generations. "Then came the month of June 2014, and our lives ended," he said. Daesh took over, and his neighbourhood was destroyed by fighting.
"I don't sleep at night, because with the dreams are nightmares," he said. "What we saw! Small children getting killed. With an adult, you don't know if they were a good person or a terrorist. But what did a child ever do?"
The Christmas story is their story more than anyone else's. It is a story of displacement, in which Mary and Joseph leave their home and give birth to Jesus in a strange city. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is born at the margins of society, poor and wrapped in cloth and laid "in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn." In Matthew, an angel warns Joseph that King Herod wants to kill his son and orders, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt." These three are a holy family of refugees.
If we want to imagine the Nativity, we needn't go farther than the tent of Alaa Adin from Syria, who left his home just days after he married. Now his wife is pregnant, and when I met them they were living in a tent outside of Moria, because there was no room for them inside.
If we want to see today's flight to Egypt, we needn't look far: Nearly every refugee I've ever met has a story about escaping in the middle of the night. If we want to understand a life upended for a census, we need only ask those refugees whose futures are uncertain until their asylum requests are processed, their entire lives now held hostage to bureaucracy.
If we want a miracle, I'd suggest looking at Anwar, who despite crying while recounting the destruction of Mosul, still paused in the middle and offered me a Clementine.
As we live through the largest migration in modern history, Christmas invites us to recognise our story in the millions who have been displaced by tyrants, war and poverty and to see their stories in ours.
There is much at stake for them in our looking. If the people I met don't get out of the camp soon, they risk freezing to death. But looking at Moira can also teach us about what Christmas really is - a story of how our salvation is bound up in the lives of those who suffer most.
Stephanie Saldaña is the author, most recently, of "A Country Between" and the founder of Mosaic Stories, a storytelling project about displaced communities from the Middle East
Source: khaleejtimes.com/editorials-columns/refugees-stuck-in-europe-camps-feel-home-was-better
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/islam-and-the-west/stephanie-saldaña/refugees-stuck-in-europe-camps-feel-home-was-better/d/113682


Watch Dogs has sold more than 4 million units in its first week on the market.
This news was announced today by Ubisoft who stated that the game's rapid sales had made it the fastest selling title in the company's history.
"The results we achieved in the first week of launch are amazing and prove Ubisoft's commitment to developing new blockbuster IP and thoroughly new-gen experiences," said Darren Bowen, Ubisoft's UK Sales Director.
Setting aside the fact that Watch Dogs launched to a massive customer base thanks to its availability on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, the game's early success is unlikely to surprise many people. Heck, just last month, GameStop had already confirmed that the game was breaking pre-order records, all but guaranteeing it some decent numbers once it finally landed on store shelves. All of this said, these are still impressive sales and it will be interesting to see just how many copies gamers eventually buy.


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WASHINGTON – While waiting for the debate on electronic cigarettes to heat up on Capitol Hill, several state and local governments are pressing ahead with their own agendas for taxing and regulating the popular battery-powered smoking alternatives.
Right now, there is no uniform national approach to regulating the vapor-based e-cigarettes. They are mostly free from federal rules and typically are subject only to state sales tax.
But lawmakers in more than two dozen cash-strapped states are racing to regulate them as a new source of revenue. For some, this means tacking on an excise tax — which is a fee on a specific product, and often dubbed a "sin tax" when applied to socially shunned products like cigarettes.
Minnesota has led the charge and is currently the only state that's got a specific tax policy for e-cigarettes on the books. The 2012 decision subjects vapor inhalers to a 95 percent tax that is stapled to the wholesale cost of the product.
In total, Minnesota estimates it will bring in $1.16 billion from all of its tobacco taxes in fiscal year 2014-2015.
Other states are taking notice.
In his 2015 budget proposal last month, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pitched a plan to hike taxes on electronic cigarettes to match the rate of regular cigarettes — about $2.70 per pack.
Supporters say increasing taxes will keep them out of the hands of children and teens.
But critics argue treating traditional cigarettes the same as e-cigs will hurt small businesses and strip smokers of the incentive to quit.
"Small businesses like convenience stores and especially brick and mortar vape shops will be hardest hit by this $35 million tax increase," Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist wrote in a March 11-dated letter sent to the New Jersey Legislature and shared with FoxNews.com.
In recent years, as much as 40 percent of all cigarettes smoked in New Jersey were smuggled into the state illegally, resulting in a loss of more than $500 million in uncollected tax revenue each year, he says.
"By making New Jersey uncompetitive in e-cigarette pricing, the state would encourage smuggling, which will cost New Jersey small businesses tens of thousands of dollars in lost revenue," he said.
But to some, like New Jersey Democratic Assemblyman Dan Benson, taxing e-cigarettes is not only a fiscal responsibility but also sends an important message to would-be smokers.
"If e-cigarettes are taxed less than regular cigarettes, we're sending a message out there that they're somehow safer, and I think the jury is out on that," he recently told a New Jersey radio station.
Meanwhile, a similar proposal in Washington state recently died in the Legislature. That plan would have redefined "vapor products" – the kind used in e-cigarettes – as "tobacco substitutes" and "tobacco products." By changing their classification to a tobacco product, lawmakers were initially hoping to slap a 95 percent tax on them, projected to generate an additional $40 million for the state.
However, the Atlanta-based agency says it's too soon to say how much of a health benefit the alternative to traditional cigarettes offers. Both traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes contain nicotine.
Tim McAfee, CDC's director of Smoking and Health, says while it's reasonably certain that if someone who smokes a pack a day switched completely to e-cigarettes it could represent a health benefit, there are still many "caveats and buts" around that.
Many argue that the reason state and local leaders are pushing so hard to tax e-cigarettes is because they've become addicted to the massive amounts of money brought in through the Master Settlement Agreement – a 25-year settlement that forces the nation's top tobacco companies to pay out billions of dollars in profit to help pay for smoking-related health care costs in some states.
The 1998 settlement, for example, makes Philip Morris USA, the nation's largest cigarette maker, pay $3.5 billion annually. The second-largest tobacco company, Reynolds Tobacco Co., has handed out more than $2 billion a year.
In total, the landmark settlement requires tobacco product manufacturers to make $206 billion in payments to 46 states and U.S.-territories.
If e-cigarettes are regulated the same way, that might mean millions more for states still struggling to find financial footing following the recession.
Utah, North Dakota and the District of Columbia have included e-cigarettes as part of their indoor-smoking bans, setting up the argument that the vapor sticks should be regulated like other tobacco products in the state. Wyoming, Tennessee, New York and Colorado are among nine other states that have already dumped e-cigarettes into the tobacco product category.


Sparkling snowmen earrings are such a joy to wear for the Christmas season and well beyond into the depths of winter. These fun snowman earrings, perfectly named SNOWMEN IN EMERALD, were handmade with luminous Swarovski crystal pearls. Glittering emerald green Swarovski crystal "collars," black Swarovski crystal rondelles and bicones, and sterling silver all come together to create the handsome snowmen. You will want to flaunt these dapper earrings at your fancy Christmas parties, at work or during a casual weekend with good friends. Whimsical and smile invoking, the SNOWMEN IN EMERALD earrings were carefully designed and handmade by Catherine of Shadow Dog Designs for the woman who adores elegant holiday jewelry.
 *** For a better understanding of the relative size of the SNOWMEN IN EMERALD earrings, please be sure to check out photo #5 for a size comparison with a dime.
To make the body of the sparkling SNOWMEN IN EMERALD earrings, two different sizes of Swarovski crystal pearls were used: 6 mm for the head and 8 mm for the lower section. Swarovski crystal pearls are a manmade pearl, but, unlike many synthetic pearls that use a hard plastic core, Swarovski crystals have a lead crystal core. Because of the crystal core, the pearls mimic the weight of real pearls and, as real pearls do, warm to the skin when worn. To give the look and feel of famous South Sea pearls, multiple layers of pearlescence (crushed pearls) are added one layer at a time. That is why you get the luminous quality that you can see in the photos. And if they are that gorgeous in the photos, just imagine how much more beautiful they are in real life hanging from your ears!
All well dressed snowmen need a fancy collar, these cuties included. A Swarovski crystal encrusted silver plated brass roundelle was added to each snowman between the head and body of the snowmen. The six faceted emerald green that add sparkly goodness to the collars might be small at 4 mm but they sure twinkle up a storm when the light hits them! It's too bad the photos don't allow the famous Swarovski sparkle to show.
Snowmen need top hat and these have one. To create the top hats, two different types of Swarovski crystals in jet black were used. Faceted Swarovski crystal rondelles make up the brim of the hat. The crowns were created with 4 mm faceted Swarovski crystal bicones. Sparkle aplenty!
The body of the earrings were strung on sterling silver head pins. The top end of the headpin was carefully wire wrapped into a loop. The loop was then then connected to sterling silver French hook earwire, a perfect finish to a fun pair of snowmen earrings.
The SNOWMEN IN EMERALD earrings will be carefully packed in an organza jewelry bag, perfect for gift giving to a loved one . . . or to yourself!


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The Tester 3 – Episode 1 Recap: Electric Boogaloo
Aaron R. Conklin
– February 8, 2012Posted in: News, PlayStation Network, Sony
For awhile there, it was starting to look as though season two of The Tester, Sony's reality-TV series, was going to be its last. The bombastic and confrontational competition to see which of 12 contestants would earn the right to clutch their Doritos-stained fingers onto the lowest rungs of the game-industry ladder seemed to have run its course. But we (still) live in an era where reality rulez, where TV shows in which cast members smash their heads into brick walls to avoid fistfights, toss drinks in each others' faces and try to out-crazy each other in pursuit of true romance and off-screen quickies with men who'll dump them in the next episode. O, beautiful, for spacious skies.
And so, 12 more wannabe game-industry employees have collected in the Tester bunker, there to toy with each other, a ton of PlayStation swag and our collective sanity.
It's interesting to note that the winners of the first two seasons of The Tester have both ended up in Sony's PR/marketing departments, not game development. It's also interesting that other gaming networks have picked up on the reality concept—most notably, IGN (disclosure: I've contributed to their pages), which began fronting The Next Game Boss on its .Start channel a few weeks before The Tester 3 season launch. If having a bevy of reality shows devoted to your field equals pop-culture capital–now there's some twisted calculus—gaming's on an oil-slicked log roll. Let's break down the new season's debut episode:
Synopsis: We meet our 12 contestants, who have to nail job-interview questions in, um, rather unusual and revolting circumstances to avoid being the first to get the badge yanked and suffer the Tester Walk of Shame. Which is way worse than "The Bachelor's" Walk of Shame, because there's no limo and no Kleenex involved. As usual, the players all have leet-tastic gamer tags that would make an English teacher slap his forehead with a SixAxis (Skyd1ddy, Akileezmight, etc.) and several of them have what reality-TV producers might breezily refer to as "charming quirks." Like Suzkaiden, the spunky Dominican girl who totes a giant stuffed Sackboy everywhere she goes. Just like she does at work, I'm sure.
Dopey reality-show trope: So apparently, the reality show The Tester decided to rip off this time is Fear Factor, given that each contestant gets his or her head jammed in a glass box filled with African hissing cockroaches while the judges ask them about their hobbies and the skills they'd bring to the Sony table. Surprisingly, nobody loses it, screams or even seems particularly thrown off by the creepy-crawlies. (Maybe they practiced in advance at home?) You get the sense that contestants like Kajamonster, who overshares the details of an embarrassing moment in a way that ensures nobody on the show (or in the audience, or anywhere in the world) will ever take her seriously again, or fan-fave Egoraptor, who realizes several minutes too late that a narcissistic self-promoter who can "bring the watchers" is not quite what Team Sony's looking for, would have crashed and burned just as spectacularly sans bugs. And hisses.
Jaw-dropping quote: You can almost hear the audience scream "Oh, SNAP!' when ninjanomyx, the tubby and greasy contestant who's quickly established himself as a sexual harassment suit waiting to happen, has to answer this doozy of a question from model/judge Adrianne Curry: "Do you live with your mom?" Dude, you may still be clutching your badge at the end of this episode, but your man-card has been effectively and irrevocably yanked.
OK, not bad, actually: Through two full seasons of the show, Brent Gocke, Sony's quality assurance release manager, has managed to keep his dignity intact while others are LARPing and stumbling blindfolded around him. He's come off as a thoughtful guy who seems like he'd actually be fun to have as your supervisor. The episode's structure is a job interview, and it plays almost exactly like one—you can see the grimaces, stony silences and half-eye rolls from the judges panel when one of the contestants begins inserting their foot down their esophagus. This season, Gocke and company are making it clear from the get-go what they're expecting from their winner, who'll end up at Santa Monica Studios, making sure Kratos' blades of chaos don't clip through the wall on their way to decapitating some minor Greek deity (Are there any Kratos hasn't already killed?). Even if that person has to dress up like a clown and play stupid human games to get there.
Given the straight-up Business 101 approach, it's a little puzzling that the panel ends up breaking its own rules to give fan-vote candidate Egoraptor—who looks an awful lot like Mike Damone from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, by the way– a reprieve. Seems clear they're not so keen on angering the legions of fans—and by legions, we may mean 100—who thought he'd be a great addition to the show. Instead, he has to sleep on the couch. Probably buried underneath Ratchet and Clank action figures.
Leader in the Clubhouse: RealityPalez, whose encyclopedic knowledge of Sony's development teams makes him the Will "Cyrus" Powers of Season 3. Ten-to-one odds he blows his lead and a physical-based challenge before episode five, leading to some major teary-eyed soul searching. Cocky is as cocky does.
On the Precipice: Egoraptor. His don't-yank-my-badge speech may have swayed the judges once, but past seasons indicate they don't fall for the same bullshit twice. The cast's most shameless member could be gone in the next few episodes. Please?
Next week: Guest judge part deux. In a stroke of either cosmic coincidence or pure marketing synergy, cranky uberdeveloper David Jaffe hits the show on the same day his new Twisted Metal hits stores and PS3s. He forces the contestants to build Twisted Metal model cars, then brings his ruthless verbal beatdown on those who don't measure up–i.e everyone.
If you missed the first episode (or simply didn't care to watch), catch the first two minutes in the following video teaser:
Tags: PSN, Sony, The Tester
Aaron R. Conklin has been writing about games and games culture for more than 15 years. A former contributor to Computer Games Magazine and Massive Magazine, his writing has appeared on IGN.com and in newspapers and alt-weeklies across the country. Conklin's an unapologetic Minnesota sports fan living in Madison, Wisconsin, home of the Midwest's most underrated gaming vibe.
Tim Mack
Posted February 8, 2012 at 1:37 PM
The Tester has always been a guilty pleasure and this season is off to a great start. I'm really curious to see just how much non-competition time will be shown during the season. As was indicated early in the new episode the contestants will be grouped together for 8 weeks, yet the show only ever puts the competitions on display. What are the contestants doing the rest of the time?
"Out of the box" team building is always a bit uncomfortable, but pitting the contestants in a "game-like" environment always makes the show intriguing to watch.
I'm glad that Sony has continued to make The Tester and I'm curious to see if they have new original titles in the works for later this year.
I can honestly say I haven't watched even a single second of the actual show (the two minute intro is all I've seen). Only reality shows I can stomach anymore these days are cooking competitions like Top Chef.
Fun write-up though. Very entertaining read!
Posted February 9, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Thanks, Matt. The Tester certainly has its flaws, but it's also, as Tim correctly notes, a guilty pleasure that grows on you. It also offers some interesting through-the-looking-glass looks into the game industry and how that industry views modern culture and reality TV.
why is naseious in this picture
Posted April 8, 2013 at 12:56 PM
It's a PR shot collecting cast members from (then) current and previous seasons of the show. But yeah, it's not like Nauseous actually won or anything. Maybe he was just available and hungry for free Sony swag.


Added on January 9, 2014 by Dave Pressler.
Welcome to 2014 It feels so futuristic! The year has started off a little rocky for me, ending 2013 with the Very Robot Christmas Show was excellent. Thanks everyone for coming out and seeing the show. Unfortunatley I wasn't able to be there for the closing. During Christmas break me and family were in Telluride Co skiing and enjoying the snow. New years day I was skiing an easy run, I was in control not going to fast when i caught an edge and tumbled over. Normally this is not so bad, a regular occurrence for some of us not elegant skiers. he problem was I was close to the edge of the mountain and when I fell I went over the side. Now it wasn't a rocky cliff wall, or like Homer Simpson jumping Springfield Gorge, but a steep incline going down into the woods. My right leg was probably broken on the first big fall, then as I tumbled out of control down the hill it kept getting re-broken again and agin. All in I think I rolled down about 30 ft and finally stopped when I hit a deep snow bank. Luckily some people had sen me crash and called the ski patrol. The ski patrol was awesome they had to do some fancy maneuvering to get me down. My right leg had a broken Tibia and the Fibula broken in two places. When I was laying on the gurney in the emergency room after they got all of my gear off I saw my right foot was hanging down at the 5 O' clock position, I don't think it is supposed to do that.I got shipped off to a nearby hospital to have surgery, now I have a titanium rod in my lower leg and a month of crunching around in my future.
This year I have some cool art projects planned and will be loading up the store with more prints an original art for purchase. Keep checking back, and Happy New Year!


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Q: grep find when string has changed / create time bars I am trying to extract data from a file with a timestamp as below:
20110103T000204000
20110103T000229000
20110103T000253000
20110103T000258000
20110103T000330000
20110103T000523000
20110103T000536000

the four characters after the T represent HHMM Hours and minutes. How can I extract line when either:

*

*Those 4 characters have changed.
OR

*More difficult (I guess) by change in "BAR" - either every 5 minutes, 10mins or 1hour etc.

So for 1 I could get:
20110103T000204000
20110103T000330000
20110103T000523000

and for 2:
20110103T000004000
20110103T000530000
20110103T001023000
20110103T001504000
20110103T002030000
20110103T002523000

A: grep isn't going to be enough for you.  Here's the start of a Perl program that should help.
use warnings;
use strict;

my $current_datetime = '';
while (my $line = <>) {
    chomp $line;
    my $datetime = substr( $line, 0, 13 );
    if ( $datetime ne $current_datetime ) {
        print $line, "\n";
        $current_datetime = $datetime;
    }
}

Save that as whatever.pl, and execute it as
perl whatever.pl yourinputfile

And you should get the output
20110103T000204000
20110103T000330000
20110103T000523000

Does that give you a good place to start?


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The Fleet Half Marathon is organised by the Fleet & Crookham Athletic Club in Hampshire.
The Hastings Half Marathon takes place in the early spring and is ideal preparation for a runner looking to get some practice before the London Marathon.
The Eastbourne Half Marathon follows a route which is mainly flat with a hilly section early in proceedings.


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The La Mission Haut-Brion domaine can trace its origins back to the 16th century. The de Lestonnac family owned the domaine until the death of Olive de Lestonnac in 1664. The property was then bequeathed to the missionary community of the Lazarist monks, an order founded by St Vincent de Paul. It was seized during the French Revolution and sold at auction in 1792, passing through a number of hands until it was bought in 1919 by Frédéric Otto Woltner. This renowned wine merchant introduced ground-breaking processes for the era, such as glass-lined steel fermentation vats. When his descendants sold the property in 1983, it was immediately bought by the Dillon family, who had owned Château Haut-Brion since 1935. The two crus are produced by terroirs with different characteristics and have retained their distinctive personalities. The power of La Mission is often contrasted with the subtlety of Haut-Brion. For more information , visit the official website: www.mission-haut-brion.com
Mission Haut-Brion's wines offer intensity, body and richness. They have exceptional ageing potential, becoming truly magnificent in the 1988 and 1989 vintages in particular. The chapel built in the 18th century by Lazarist monks gives its name to the property's second wine, made from young vines whose grapes are not used in the grand vin until they have produced at least six harvests.
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The best vintages for Château La Mission Haut-Brion : 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000, 1998, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1979, 1978, 1975, 1974, 1971, 1966, 1964, 1961, 1959,
Country/Region: Bordeaux
Appellation: Pessac-Léognan
Domain: Château La Mission Haut Brion
Ranking: Cru Classé de Graves
Owner: Domaines Clarence Dillon
Surface Area: 20 ha
Production: 80000 bottles
Grape variety: 48% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 7% Cabernet franc
Viticulture: General
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Cleaver - Red Cross Lifeguard Course - 176065
Red Cross Lifeguard Course
4200 W. 79th Street, Prairie Village, KS 66208
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Friday, March 10, 2023 - 5:00pm to Friday, March 10, 2023 - 6:00pm
Paul Henson Family YMCA (Prairie Village)
Gain the skills to save a life in American Red Cross Lifeguard Training. In this course for ages 15 and older, learn how to keep people safe in and around the pool. The comprehensive course offers up-to-date information on how to guard by anticipating and preventing problems before they occur and how to take action to help those in danger when necessary. The course includes accident prevention, guarding techniques, pool management and even more safety skills.
Friday: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday: Noon to 10 p.m.
Sunday: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 5:00pm to Sunday, March 26, 2023 - 6:00pm
Friday, January 27, 2023 - 5:00pm to Sunday, January 29, 2023 - 6:00pm
Paul Henson - AOA NTR - "Condo-Monium" - 175833
New Theatre & Restaurant: "Condo-Monium"
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Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 11:50am to Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 3:50pm
Condo-Monium is gut-busting funny! Bad luck, coincidence, misunderstandings and mistaken identity drive increasingly crazy situations that only the audience understands. A ruthless real estate company wants to evict all the tenants of an aging apartment building to turn it into pricey condos. The only thing stopping them? The tenants, including a cross dressing neighbor, a bankrupt banker, a mobster who might have killed his wife, a widow seeking love in all the wrong places and a huge mischief of mice!
RSVP at the Welcome Center by January 9. Meet at New Theatre & Restaurant at 11:40 a.m.
Paul Henson - AOA Field Trip: Quality Hill Playhouse
AOA Field Trip: Quality Hill Playhouse
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Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 1:00pm to Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 3:30pm
"Fly Me to the Moon," a tribute to Tony Bennett, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra! RSVP by January 5 at the Welcome Center. Meet at 11:15 a.m. in the Paul Henson Family YMCA lobby to carpool. Lunch will be before the show at The Quaff Bar & Grill. *Please bring additional funds for lunch*
Paul Henson - American Red Cross Lifeguard Instructor- 175518
Red Cross Lifeguard Instructor Course
4200 W. 79th St., Prairie Village, KS 66208
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022 - 8:00am to Friday, December 23, 2022 - 3:00pm
The primary purpose of the American Red Cross Basic Lifeguarding Instructor Course is to train instructors to teach the basic-level American Red Cross Lifeguarding courses.
Wednesday: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Thursday: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Paul Henson - Red Cross Swim Instructor Course- 175485
Red Cross Swim Instructor Course
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Come be a part of our team and teach swim lessons! Last day to register is Tuesday, December 20.
Paul Henson - AOA NTR - "Come Blow Your Horn"- 175017
New Theatre & Restaurant: "Come Blow Your Horn"
New Theatre & Restaurant, 9229 Foster Street, Overland Park, KS 66212
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Friday, December 30, 2022 - 11:50am to Friday, December 30, 2022 - 3:50pm
RSVP at the Welcome Center by November 30, 2022. Meet at New Theatre at 11:40 a.m. on December 30.
"Come Blow Your Horn" is about family and all the crazy, hilarious and wonderful things that happen when parents and their adult children get together. It's 1961, the era of The Twist and swinging bachelor pads. Alan Baker, a 30-ish single guy with time, money and women to spare, welcomes his innocent and naïve baby brother Buddy into his den of iniquity while their horrified parents can only watch and overeat. With four Tonys, four Academy Award nominations and a Pulitzer Prize, Neil Simon is the most prolific, celebrated and awarded playwright in the history of Broadway. This semi-autobiographical comedy was his first hit and launched his unprecedented career.
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Four Iranian Border Guards Kidnapped Near Pakistan Border Warmly Welcomed Back
South AsiaWorld
Iranian border guards who were kidnapped by Pakistan based terror group and later rescued by Pakistan army from militants returned on Friday to Tehran to a hero's welcome, state television reported.
Live footage showed the soldiers dressed in suits stepping off an Antonov 74 transport aircraft and welcomed by their commander, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour who heads the Revolutionary Guards ground forces.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Thursday that the security forces conducted an intelligence operation (IBO) at Amori in the Chaghai district of Balochistan, about three to four kilometres from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Taliban Attacks On Afghan Border Guard Leaves At-Least 20 Dead
"Terrorists of the proscribed organisation were reported to have entered Pakistan from Afghanistan side along with abducted Iranian soldiers," the ISPR statement said. "After an exchange of fire four Iranian soldiers recovered from a transitioning hideout," it added.
"I am happy that these soldiers are returning to their families at the beginning of the new (Iranian) year, but I am also saddened that the remaining soldiers are still in captivity," Pakpour told state television.
The families of the remaining soldiers should rest assured, Pakpour added, that "we will do what is necessary to free them as well". At least 12 Iranian security personnel, including members of the Revolutionary Guards, were kidnapped on the border with Pakistan last year in October.
Five of them were safely recovered a month after the abduction.
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St. Andrews By-The-Sea
Enjoy a four-day getaway that has it all. Savor a traditional downeast lobsterbake. Visit the charming old-world settlement of St. Andrews by-the-Sea and be captivated by its unmatched scenery and rich colonial history. Reflect on the serenity of Campobello Island and visit the summer home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his family. Unwind at the five-star, world-class Algonquin Resort Hotel. There's a bit of something for everyone on this two country motorcoach tour.
St. Andrews By-The-Sea & Campobello Island
August 5; September 16, 2019
3 Nights Accommodations featuring 2 Nights at the fabulous Algonquin Resort
6 Meals: 3 Breakfasts, 1 Lunch with Eleanor & 2 Dinners featuring aTraditional Downeast Lobsterbake
Guided Tour of St. Andrews by-the-Sea
Campobello Island & Franklin D. Roosevelt's Summer Cottage
$1219 pp
Child*
Special Cancellation Policy: Deposit of $200pp is non-refundable between 60 and 21 days prior to departure.
PASSPORT REQUIRED
Our journey today takes us to the "vacationland" of Maine. This evening our accommodations are at Bangor's family-run White House Inn. This evening enjoy a traditional Maine lobsterbake.
This morning, our travels take us to the Canadian province of New Brunswick with a visit to a living memorial and symbol of true international friendship - Roosevelt Campobello International Park. Throughout the years the island has played host to many well-to-do families including Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his family, for whom the park is named. You'll have the opportunity to see several of the "cottages" providing a glimpse into why this was such a beloved summer retreat. Enjoy lunch with Eleanor as an expert guide tells of Eleanor Roosevelt's life on Campobello Island. Later, arrive in the idyllic town of St. Andrews by-the-Sea, a National Historic District and one of the most enchanting settlements in the Maritimes. The elegant Algonquin Resort St. Andrews by-the-Sea, Autograph Collection® is our home for the next two nights - experience true luxury at this legendary, five-star retreat.
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Today a local guide leads our tour of the town featuring the Old Gaol, the courthouse and the blockhouse with amazing views of the harbor before returning to St. Andrews. The rest of your day is free to explore this beautiful seaside resort town on your own. Explore the downtown area's unique shops and restaurants, visit Kingsbrae Gardens and its 27 acres of manicured grounds, or enjoy some of our resort's fine amenities. There are endless opportunities for fun and excitement in this delightful town. Tonight, savor an included dinner at a local restaurant.
After breakfast, we'll depart for home with a wealth of fond memories of this unforgettable getaway.
B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner
Best Western White House Inn (Bangor)
Begin your getaway with a one-night stay at the conveniently located Best Western White House Inn. After a day of traveling, retire to a guest room with ample amenities such as cable/satellite TV, free WiFi, mini-fridge, coffee/tea maker, iron/ironing board and hairdryer. Or, unwind by taking advantage of the fitness center, dine at the neighboring 24-hour restaurant, relax in the whirlpool hot tub, sip a libation at the cocktail lounge or take a dip in the outdoor heated pool (seasonal). This family-run inn will provide a welcome introduction to our 4-day getaway.
Algonquin Resort
For over 100 years, the legendary Algonquin Resort St. Andrews by-the-Sea has welcomed visitors to New Brunswick with refined elegance and an unparalleled level of service. Lovingly restored and immaculately appointed, this historic seaside hotel deftly blends the glamour of days gone by with a modern sensibility that is uniquely its own. The moment you step through the doors, you'll be captivated by the spirit of this 5-star hotel; it's a spirit that extends to the stylishly designed and well-appointed rooms, complete with flat screen TV, free WiFi, pillowtop mattress, alarm clock, iron/ironing board & hair dryer. You'll experience the true magic of this hotel from the moment you arrive.
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Undocumented immigrants can now apply for drivers licenses in New York
Posted: Dec 16, 2019 11:23 AM EST
New York State driver\'s license
Originally Published: 16 DEC 19 11:20 ET
By Anna Sturla and Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN
(CNN) -- Undocumented immigrants in New York will be able to apply for drivers licenses this week after the state's so-called "Green Light Law" went into effect Monday.
The law, which was signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in June, expands the forms of identification that can be used by applicants to obtain a driver's license in the state, including foreign passports and a foreign driver's license.
Unless required for federal ID purposes, the law also stipulates that "the commissioner, and any agent or employee of the commissioner, shall not disclose or make accessible in any manner records of information that he or she maintains, to any agency that primarily enforces immigration law or to any employee or agent of such agency, unless the commissioner is presented with a lawful court order or judicial warrant."
At the time of it's adoption, the law was heralded by supporters as a way to allow undocumented immigrants a way to live and work in the state without having to fear deportation.
"As New Yorkers, we have an obligation to defend other New Yorkers," Gustavo Rivera, D-Bronx, said from the state Senatefloor in June. "And every one of these individuals, whether they're documented or not, are New Yorkers."
The law comes into force after a last-minute legal challenge brought by the Rensselaer County Clerk was thrown out by a federal court judge Friday.
"The Green Light law is legal and enforceable, and two separate federal courts have now already dismissed the meritless claims of two county clerks," New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement Friday, referencing challenges to the law.
"Beginning Monday, the law will help make our roads safer, our economy stronger, and will allow immigrants to come out of the shadows to sign up as legal drivers in our state," she said.
"I am disappointed, and hopefully, this is only a setback," Rensseleaer County Clerk Frank Merola said in a statement posted to the county's Facebook page Friday.
The law applies to noncommercial drivers' licenses and learners' permits.