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Hillary Clinton's Reaction to the IG Report Was Surprisingly Perfect
by Matt Naham | 6:13 pm, June 14th, 2018
Many a time has Hillary Clinton spoken and elicited outrage — "What difference at this point does it make?" Many a time has she tried and failed to appear hip (I will not let Pokémon Go-gate go). And many a time has Clinton been accused of being out of touch — a certain book called "What Happened" and the ensuing tour is one such instance.
Clinton's Twitter reaction to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report on Thursday about the FBI's handling of the investigation into her use of a private email server was not one of those times.
Clinton reacted to a tweet about information that fired FBI Director James Comey had used a private email account to conduct official business. Kyle Cheney of Politico reported, "IG found that on numerous occasions, COMEY used a personal GMail account to conduct official FBI business, according to source briefed on this report."
Does that sound familiar? Anyway, Clinton tweeted this:
But my emails. https://t.co/G7TIWDEG0p
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 14, 2018
"But my emails." It's short, the timing was right and it was funny.
The Comey tidbit was one of many in the massive 500-page report.
It was a thorough examination of "What Happened" leading up to Comey's decision to hold a July 2016 press conference where he would described Clinton as "extremely careless," but "no reasonable prosecutor" would recommend that charges against her. It described what led up to Comey reopening the Clinton Probe on Oct. 28, 2016 in a letter to Congress and then closing it again on Nov. 6, 2016, just two days before the election.
Comey's decision-making here, especially among steadfast Clinton supporters and some media, been cited as the factor that swung the election to Donald Trump.
[Image via Robert Cianflone/Getty Images]
This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.
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MU J-School Pulitzer Prize Winners
We are honored that many J-School alumni have won the Pulitzer Prize. Bestowed for excellence in journalism and the arts since 1917, the Pulitzers were established by provisions in the will of publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Prizes are awarded yearly in at least 20 categories.
The J-School alumni listed below have received the Pulitzer Prize in their own name or as part of a group (denoted by * by their name).
If you are an alumni and we have missed your achievement, please send us a note to: ude.iruossim@msilanruoj.
Mary McNamara, BJ '85, of Los Angeles Times, Criticism
For savvy criticism that uses shrewdness, humor and an insider's view to show how both subtle and seismic shifts in the cultural landscape affect television.
Lynden Steele,* BJ '94, as part of Photography Staff of St. Louis Post Dispatch, Breaking News Photography
For powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson, MO, stunning photojournalism that served the community while informing the country.
Chris Hamby, MA '10, of The Center for Public Integrity, Investigative Reporting
For his reports on how some lawyers and doctors rigged a system to deny benefits to coal miners stricken with black lung disease, resulting in remedial legislative efforts.
Elizabeth McGowan*, BJ '83, of InsideClimate News, National Reporting
For their rigorous reports on flawed regulation of the nation's oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by diluted bitumen (or "dilbit"), a controversial form of oil.
Charles Minshew*, MA '13, of The Denver Post, Breaking News Reporting
For its comprehensive coverage of the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., that killed 12 and injured 58, using journalistic tools, from Twitter and Facebook to video and written reports, both to capture a breaking story and provide context.
Alison Sherwood*, BJ '07, of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Explanatory Reporting
For their lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images.
Barbara Laker*, BJ '79, of Philadelphia Daily News, Investigative Reporting
For their resourceful reporting that exposed a rogue police narcotics squad, resulting in an FBI probe and the review of hundreds of criminal cases tainted by the scandal.
Steve Fainaru, BJ '84, of The Washington Post, International Reporting
For his heavily reported series on private security contractors in Iraq that operate outside most of the laws governing American forces.
James V. Grimaldi*, BJ '84, of The Washington Post, Investigative Reporting
For their indefatigable probe of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff that exposed congressional corruption and produced reform efforts.
Mike McGraw*, BJ '71, MA '72, of Kansas City Star, National Reporting
For their critical examination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Mary Ann Gwinn*, MA '79, of The Seattle Times, National Reporting
For coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath.
Manny Crisostomo, BJ '82, of Detroit Free Press, Feature Photography
For his series of photographs depicting student life at Southwestern High School in Detroit.
Kim Komenich, MA '07, of San Francisco Examiner, Spot News Photography
For his photographic coverage of the fall of Ferdinand Marcos.
Fredric N. Tulsky*, BJ '72, of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Investigative Reporting
For their series "Disorder in the Court," which revealed transgressions of justice in the Philadelphia court system and led to federal and state investigations.
Teresa Carpenter, MA '75, of The Village of Voice, New York, NY, Feature Writing
(The prize was first awarded to Janet Cooke of The Washington Post, but it was returned two days later after The Post learned that the winning story was fabricated.)
Andre Stepankowsky*, MA '78, as part of the staff of Longview (WA) Daily News, Local General or Spot News Reporting
For its coverage of the Mt. St. Helens story, including the photographs by Roger A. Werth.
Ronald Powers, BJ '63, of Chicago Sun-Times, Criticism
For his critical writing about television during 1972.
Paul Greenberg, BJ '58, of Pine Bluff (AR) Commercial, Editorial Writing
For his editorials during 1968.
Albert L. Delugach, BJ '51, and Denny Walsh, BJ '62, of St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Local Investigative Specialized Reporting
For their campaign against fraud and abuse of power within the St. Louis Steamfitters Union, Local 562.
Stanley Penn*, BJ '49, of The Wall Street Journal, National Reporting
For their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in the Bahamas.
Haynes Johnson, BJ '52, of Washington Evening Star, National Reporting
For his distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict centered about Selma, Ala., and particularly his reporting of its aftermath.
Louis M. Kohlmeier, BJ '50, of The Wall Street Journal, National Reporting
For his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family.
Wallace Turner*, BJ '50, of Portland Oregonian, Local Reporting – No Edition Time
For their expose of vice and corruption in Portland involving some municipal officials and officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, Western Conference. They fulfilled their assignments despite great handicaps and the risk of reprisal from lawless elements.
Lee Hills, JOURN '29, of Detroit Free Press, Local Reporting – Edition Time
For his aggressive, resourceful and comprehensive front page reporting of the United Automobile Workers' negotiations with Ford and General Motors for a guaranteed annual wage.
Harold V. (Hal) Boyle, BJ '32, of Associated Press, Correspondence
For distinguished war correspondence during the year 1944.
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National Deaf History Month: Deaf Awareness in the Legal Community
Written by Sarah Duggan, CP, and Samantha Burns
April is National Deaf History Month, a unique opportunity to highlight the importance of inclusivity and equal accessibility for those who are deaf, hard of hearing, or experiencing hearing loss within our local communities.
In response to a motion at the 2020 National Association of the Deaf (NAD) Counsel of Representatives meeting, The National Association of the Deaf Board consulted with the organization's own Deaf Culture and History Section (DCHS) and various stakeholders in voting to designate April 1-30 as National Deaf History Month. This shift from March 15-April 15 to the entire month of April will support a more streamlined approach to recognizing and celebrating all aspects of the Deaf Community, from dismantling racism to raising awareness.
Samantha Burns is a Deaf Paralegal Manager for Marjiya Law PC in Altadena, California. Handling personal injury cases and civil litigation matters, Samantha communicates fluently in both English and American Sign Language (ASL). Samantha currently serves as President and Board Director for the Los Angeles Paralegal Association (LAPA) and is a member of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Bar Association (DHHBA) and the National Association of the Deaf (NAD). While serving as Vice President of Marketing and Planning for LAPA, she served as Co-Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee and assisted LAPA in winning the 2021 NALA Affiliated Award on behalf of the School Liaison Committee's contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Samantha has been a NALA member since 2019 and seeks to earn her NALA CP designation by the end of 2023.
As a passionate advocate for deaf legal professionals worldwide, Samantha provides a valuable perspective on the importance of deaf awareness within our paralegal community, along with ways we can promote inclusivity and equal accessibility for paralegals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or experiencing hearing loss:
"There are about 800 Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HOH) legal professionals within the United States alone today. One of the most common methods of communication within the Deaf Community is American Sign Language (ASL). One of these methods would include using interpreters in the fast-paced courtroom, as deaf University of Virginia School of Law student Jehanne McCullough did while presenting her oral argument regarding federal excessive force appeal virtually before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia last year. The method McCullough used provided a chance to not waste the Court's time at all with several interpreters translating English to ASL and vice-versa. McCullough's method proved effective because it allowed court proceedings to move along as smoothly as possible while also exhibiting how Deaf professionals can effectively work alongside hearing colleagues.
A lack of a clear and efficient communication channel currently serves as the basis of why there is a distinct separation and lack of collaboration between the Deaf and HOH communities and hearing communities today. Both communities exercise their own way of communicating, and a solid bridge of communication has yet to be erected between both communities. Interpreters are ideal, but only if they are translating accurately to avoid any potential misunderstandings. There are many different types of communication methods among the Deaf and HOH communities, including ASL, oral English, and a mix of both communication styles.
On a personal note, I am an Oral Deaf legal professional. I was born deaf, and I decided to pursue a career as a paralegal because it is a role I find value in and enjoy. My deafness has never prevented me from producing the best quality work at my law firm. In fact, it is because of my deafness that I can maintain focus without difficulty in comparison to many of my hearing colleagues who get distracted by surrounding noises from time to time.
Being more mindful of the Deaf and HOH communities is important when it comes to bridging a more solid connection between the Deaf and HOH communities and hearing communities. One way to promote more effective communication is by providing live transcriptions on your webinars, virtual meetings, and such. Another way is to hire a certified interpreter at live events or even on virtual events to provide a wider range of services for the Deaf and HOH communities. Take the time to read the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and check out various organizations, such as the National Association of the Deaf (NAD), for additional ideas on how to serve your Deaf and HOH colleagues more effectively. "
https://www.nad.org/2022/01/31/national-deaf-history-month-dates/
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1. Open a cowl, then cover wings with special overlays or simply old blankets for protection them from damage to process of dismantle of a cowl.
2. Disconnect all cables and the wires disturbing to removal of a cowl. Also disconnect from fixed in a cowl snuffled tubes of supply of liquid of washing of a windscreen.
3. A marker or a chertilka lead round loopy levels for a guarantee of correctness of fastening of a cowl at assembly.
4. Ask the assistant to take a cowl and by means of a key turn out hinges of persistent racks from the cowl panel.
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6. Installation is made upside-down. At installation to the place of an old cowl track, that loopy levels were established taking into account the labels put in the course of dismantle. If cowl replacement is made, it is necessary to make adjustment of its situation (see below).
1. Adjustment of provision of a cowl in an aperture of an impellent compartment is made by shift in the relevant party of loopy levels after weakening of their fixture.
If at manufacturer the being self-aligned bolts which are not allowing possibilities of carrying out similar adjustment are applied to fastening of levels, it is necessary to replace such fixture with bolts of standard type, without having forgotten to equip them with flat and lock washers.
2. For control of size of shift lead round loopy levels a marker.
3. Weaken fixture and shift loops in the demanded direction (carry out adjustment without hurrying up, in stages, slightly shifting levels of loops for each approach). Again tighten bolts, lower a cowl and check correctness of an arrangement it in an aperture.
4. Correction of provision of assembly of a latch of the lock of a cowl on a basic plate of a radiator (in the vertical and horizontal planes) can be in case of need executed, - the cowl should be closed densely and fall aflush with surfaces of wings. For adjustment of the lock lead round heads of bolts of fastening of assembly of a latch a marker or a chertilka, then weaken bolts and displace a latch in the demanded direction. On termination of adjustment strongly tighten fixing bolts.
5. In summary adjust the provision of rubber pillows of a cowl on the panel of a support of a radiator, achieving, that the cowl in a closed position appeared aflush with surfaces of wings.
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import c301.udey.udey_reflex.ReflexApp;
import c301.udey.udey_reflex.filestorage.CachedFileStorageManager;
import c301.udey.udey_reflex.filestorage.LocalFileStorageManager;

/**
 * A factory for the different statistic managers.
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public class StatisticsManagerFactory {

    private final static String REACTION_STATS_FILE_NAME = "ReactionTimes.sav";
    private final static String BUZZER_STATS_FILE_NAME = "BuzzerStats.sav";

    /**
     * Creates a new instance of the {@link BuzzerCountStatisticsManager}.
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    public static BuzzerCountStatisticsManager getBuzzerCountStatisticsManager() {
        return new BuzzerCountStatisticsManager(
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                        new LocalFileStorageManager(ReflexApp.getAppContext())),
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    /**
     * Creates a new instance of the {@link ReactionTimeStatisticsManager}.
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    public static ReactionTimeStatisticsManager getReactionTimeStatisticsManager() {
        return new ReactionTimeStatisticsManager(
                new CachedFileStorageManager(
                        new LocalFileStorageManager(ReflexApp.getAppContext())),
                REACTION_STATS_FILE_NAME);
    }
}

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Wild at Heart Exhibit Celebrates Ernest Thompson Seton and Connects People with Nature
New Mexico History Museum
Now entering its final two months on exhibit, Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton offers plenty of opportunities to involve you and your family in free activities dedicated to connecting people with the natural world.
Tour the ruins of Seton Castle. Join Audubon experts for an urban bird hike in the "wilds" of downtown Santa Fe. Hear an update on efforts to reintroduce the Mexican wolf to the wild.
The exhibition represents the first museum exhibit to tell the often overlooked story of the conservationist, author, artist, lecturer and co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Ernest Thompson Seton's impact on America's conservation movement was immeasurable but, today is largely forgotten. Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton sets out to change that through the exhibit and special programming (see schedule, below).
Running through May 8, 2011, the exhibit is accompanied by a catalog, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2010), with a foreword written by Sir David Attenborough.
Curated by New Mexico art historian David L. Witt of the Academy for the Love of Learning, home of the Seton Legacy Project in Santa Fe (http://www.aloveoflearning.org/), Wild at Heart includes more than 30 original paintings and drawings by Seton, books, personal memorabilia, and photographs – many of which have been seldom if ever seen. Most of the items on loan to the exhibit come from the Academy for the Love of Learning and from the Philmont Museum and Seton Memorial Library at the Philmont Ranch in Cimarron, N.M.
Born in England in 1860, Seton moved to Canada with his family when he was six, and eventually settled in the United States as an adult. As a young man, he immersed himself in the study of the natural world, becoming one of the first important experts on animal behavior. Schooled in fine art, Seton was a prolific writer and illustrator.
In 1893, Seton was sent to Clayton, N.M., by an Easterner who owned the L Cross F in the northeastern part of the state. Seton's assignment: track and kill marauding wolves. After a brutal encounter with a wild wolf named "Lobo," Seton experienced a profound change of heart. He wrote "The King of Currumpaw, A Wolf Story," published to worldwide acclaim in Scribner's Magazine the following year. Through that story, Seton invented the genre of the realistic animal story, portraying animals as they actually live in the wild and changing forever the way Americans looked at nature.
"Seton is a godfather to today's environmental movement, as important to the early development of wildlife conservation as John Muir is to wilderness preservation," Witt said.
In 1902, Seton founded an outdoor youth-education program known as "Woodcraft" that provided a model for all subsequent summer camps in the Untied States. In 1910, Seton co-founded the Boy Scouts of America.
Seton was the most important and technically accomplished wildlife illustrator since Audubon, and his concepts for bird identification influence the field guides of Roger Tory Peterson and others. In all, Seton wrote some 40 books and more than 1,000 magazine articles and short stories, and drew or painted some 6,000 works of art. His book Wild Animals I Have Known has been continuously in print since it was first published in 1898. (Rudyard Kipling once wrote to Seton that the book inspired him to write the Jungle Books; in his foreword to the Seton catalog, Attenborough recounts receiving a copy of the book at the age of 8: "I still have it. It was the most precious book of my childhood.")
In 1930, Seton moved to a 2,500-acre ranch in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains outside of Santa Fe, founding the Seton Village neighborhood, where he lived until his death in 1946. He designed Seton Castle as his residence on the property, which included a museum, library, art gallery and library/lecture hall for the Seton Village community that developed as friends and colleagues settled on the original property. It was there that Seton established his final educational project, the College of Indian Wisdom (later, the Seton Institute). Classes focused on the arts, crafts and ethics of Native peoples.
The Academy undertook the Seton Legacy Project after acquiring Seton's house and remaining art collections in 2003. Participants in the Seton Legacy Project include Seton family members, historians and others, including Witt, a naturalist, writer, historian and museum curator who has studied the Seton legacy for more than 35 years. He assisted on the BBC/PBS Nature television series feature called Lobo, The Wolf That Changed America, which premiered in both the U.S. and the U.K. in 2008.
The remaining Wild at Heart programs:
Saturday, March 26, 2011, 10 am-3 pm: Birds of a Feather Explore Together. Spend the morning at the History Museum learning about nests, feathers and more. After lunch, enjoy games and bird-watching at the Randall Davey Audubon Center. A free family event; space limited. E-mail Dana Vackar Strang at dstrang@audubon.org or call (505) 983-4609.
Saturday, April 9, 2011, 9 am: Urban Bird Hike in downtown Santa Fe with the Randall Davey Audubon Center. Call (505) 476- 5106 for reservations; free.
Sunday, April 10, 2011, 2 pm: Return of the Lobo: The Mexican Wolf Recovery Program. Maggie Dwire, assistant coordinator of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Mexican Wolf Recovery Program, speaks on efforts to return the wolf to the wild. A free event in the History Museum Auditorium.
Saturday, April 23, 2011, 10 am - 1 pm: Seton Castle tour. Join Seton Collection curator David L. Witt and Academy for the Love of Learning staff on a guided tour of Seton Castle and Seton Village, south of Santa Fe. Free; reservations required. Call (505) 995-1860. Besides touring the ruins of Seton's Castle, visit the brand-new Academy Center and a gallery with its Seton Legacy Collection.
Friday, April 29, 2011, 6 pm: William deBuys on "Growing Up with Uncle Ernest's Wildlife Stories," a lecture in the History Museum Auditorium. Free with museum admission (Sundays free to NM residents).
Sunday, May 1, 2011, 2 pm: Guest curator David L. Witt on "Woodmythe & Fable: A Look Back at an Artist-Naturalist," a lecture in the History Museum Auditorium. Free with museum admission (Sundays free to NM residents).
Media contact: Kate Nelson, Marketing Manager, New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors, (505) 476-1141 or (505) 554-5722 (cell); kate.nelson@state.nm.us
Academy for the Love of Learning: Melissa Stevens-Briceño, Community Development Manager, (505) 995-1860; melissa@aloveoflearning.org
Curator: David L. Witt , Academy for the Love of Learning, (575) 758-0619


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Object methods

      Just as with C++, there are many different ways to define object
      methods and extend them: the following list and sections draw on
      C++ vocabulary. (Readers are expected to know basic C++ concepts.
      Those who have not had to write C++ code recently can refer to e.g.
      http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ to refresh
      their memories.)

            non-virtual public methods,

            virtual public methods and

            virtual private methods

Non-virtual public methods

        These are the simplest, providing a simple method which
        acts on the object. Provide a function
        prototype in the header and an implementation of that prototype
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  g_return_if_fail (MAMAN_IS_BAR (self));

  /* do stuff here. */
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Virtual public methods

        This is the preferred way to create GObjects with overridable methods:

            Define the common method and its virtual function in the
            class structure in the public header

            Define the common method in the header file and implement it in the
            source file

            Implement a base version of the virtual function in the source
            file and initialize the virtual function pointer to this
            implementation in the object's class_init
            function; or leave it as NULL for a 'pure
            virtual' method which must be overridden by derived classes

            Re-implement the virtual function in each derived class which needs
            to override it

        Note that virtual functions can only be defined if the class is
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#define MAMAN_TYPE_BAR maman_bar_get_type ()
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  g_return_if_fail (klass->do_action != NULL);

  klass->do_action (self, /* parameters */);
}

        The code above simply redirects the do_action call
        to the relevant virtual function.

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        implementation for this class method in the object's
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  klass->do_action_two = maman_bar_real_do_action_two;
}

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  MamanBarClass *klass;

  g_return_if_fail (MAMAN_IS_BAR (self));

  klass = MAMAN_BAR_GET_CLASS (self);

  /* if the method is purely virtual, then it is a good idea to
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   * depending on the intent of the class, either ignore it silently
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  g_return_if_fail (klass->do_action != NULL);
  klass->do_action_one (self, /* parameters */);
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• Melissa Martin of Baiting Hollow, author of the novel "Harvest Road," will hold two book-signing events in April. The first is from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Martha Clara Vineyards in Riverhead. The second is at Bedell Cellars in Cutchogue, from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 25. Ms. Martin's debut novel is a romance set in Long Island Wine Country.
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La Bönnsch est une bière de fermentation haute brassée dans la brasserie Bönnsch à Bonn en Allemagne. C'est une variante non filtrée de la Kölsch, mais elle ne peut pas être vendue comme telle car la Kölsch est l'objet d'une Appellation d'origine contrôlée européenne.

Elle n'est disponible que dans la brasserie Bönnsch en pression.

La Bönnsch se boit dans un verre de 0,2 L. Ce verre est courbe et présente des renfoncements épousant la forme des doigts.

Le nom de Bönnsch (de Bonn) est une imitation humoristique de Kölsch (de Köln, Cologne).

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GTAA to trim landing fees at Pearson airport
Toronto's Pearson airport, long criticized for being one of the world's most expensive to use, is reducing its landing fees and terminal charges in a bid to attract more passenger and airline traffic.
By Romina MaurinoTHE CANADIAN PRESS
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Toronto's Pearson airport, long criticized for being one of the world's most expensive to use, is reducing its landing fees and terminal charges in a bid to attract more passenger and airline traffic.
The Greater Toronto Airports Authority, which operates the airport, said Tuesday that landing fees charges to airlines will decrease by 3.1 per cent and terminal charges will drop by 4.7 as of Jan. 1.
"This is fantastic news for our airline partners," stated GTAA chief executive Lloyd McCoomb.
"By pricing Toronto Pearson more competitively we are able to decrease the cost of doing business, which is good for airlines, good for passengers and good for the region."
The move was cheered by travel groups and airlines, who have long pushed for a reduction in fees and charges by both airports and the federal government, saying they affect the competitiveness of Canada's air carriers.
"Air Canada is pleased by today's announcement that the GTAA is cutting fees at Toronto airport and we commend the authority for finding savings and alternative revenue sources," stated Montie Brewer, CEO of Pearson's largest tenant.
"(We) now ask the Federal Government to follow the GTAA's example by reducing the rents it charges airports each year ... Ultimately, this is a regressive tax that stifles economic growth."
Landing fees are charged to the airlines to operate at Toronto Pearson, the busiest airport in Canada, with 31 million passenger in 2006.
They are also passed on to travellers – raising their ire when they discover the ticket price skyrockets once taxes and airport fees are included. Some Canadians instead choose to drive to U.S. airports, such as Buffalo, to save on their flights.
Terminal charges, for their part, are set to cover the operating costs for the common areas in the passenger terminals.
Same Barone, CEO of the Air Transport Association of Canada, also highlighted the ongoing issues of airport rents, fuel surcharges and security costs – all constant sticking points between travel groups and the government.
"This year, Pearson will pay more than $150 million to Ottawa (in rent)," he said.
"Our passengers really are paying that additional tax back to Ottawa, which does nothing for stimulating traffic growth."
But, he added, ATAC is "always pleased to have the cost that gets passed through to our passengers reduced," saying the airport authority "does deserve quite a bit of credit for that achievement."
"We also encourage them to do more for travellers because we're in a very competitive environment."
The GTAA did say it would continue to work to make the airport competitive "through cost containment, revenue generation and by working with air carrier partners."


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A THIEF has been jailed for stealing a van with £1,000 worth of tools inside.
Ryan Boreham, 27, of Elizabeth Way, Halstead, admitted stealing the van when he appeared at Colchester Magistrates' Court.
He was arrested by Essex Police officers on Thursday 19 November after being tracked down to Braintree.
Police responded to reports of a Ford Transit van being stolen from White Horse Avenue in Halstead between November 12 and November 13.
Inside the van was also and estimated £1,000 worth of tools.
Following the arrest, officers charged Mr Boreham on with the theft of the van before detaining him.
Mr Boreham was held in custody until the next day on Friday 20 November where he was brought before a magistrate in Colchester.
There Mr Boreham pled guilty to the theft of the van and was sentenced.
A spokesman for Essex Police said: "Ryan Boreham, 27, of Elizabeth Way, Halstead appeared at Colchester magistrates court on 20/11/2020 where he pled guilty to theft of a motor vehicle.
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A Texas wind farm. Wind energy is now the second-largest power source in the Lone Star State (after natural gas), and increasingly important for many state economies. While President Trump asked for sharp reductions in renewable energy programs for the 2018 appropriations bill, a bi-partisan deal crafted in Congress increased funding for renewable energy. (Photo: Davis, Flickr CC BY-ND 2.0)
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Billions of dollars in additional funds for scientific research, including renewable energy research, earth systems observations and sea level monitoring were tucked inside the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending measure passed March 23, won by a center-right Republican and center-left Democratic coalition that also defeated efforts to gut funding for the EPA. And most of some 80 anti-environmental riders were dropped before the final vote. But as Washington Reporter Marianne Lavelle of InsideClimate News tells host Steve Curwood, the Trump Administration is still pushing for environmental rollbacks and environmental advocates are staying vigilant.
CURWOOD From PRI, and the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, this is Living on Earth. I'm Steve Curwood. Folks at agencies from the EPA to NOAA to the eight regional climate information centers of the US Geological Survey, are now breathing sighs of relief as they will keep their federal funding or even see increases, thanks to a bipartisan federal spending measure enacted March 23rd. A coalition of center-right Republicans and center-left Democrats voted to boost a cap on defense and domestic spending, making room for more funding for everything from fighter planes to renewable energy research. The vote also stripped most of the anti-environmental measures known as riders. Here to tell us more is Marianne Lavelle, Washington reporter for InsideClimate News. Marianne, welcome back to Living on Earth!
LAVELLE: Glad to be here, Steve.
CURWOOD: So, there's a lot of good news here in this budget for people concerned about science, the environment, stuff like climate change. Let's talk about some of these. What about the Geological Survey's climate centers? How did they do?
LAVELLE: Right, well the Trump administration had wanted to get rid of about half of them, and I think they're all staying. That's really important because the USGS has done some of the really important study on sea level rise and its impact on the coasts, so that was important in a lot of states.
CURWOOD: Now, before all of this, the EPA was going to walk the plank almost to oblivion. What happened finally?
LAVELLE: Right, right. They were looking at a 30 percent cut in their budget, and that would take them back to, oh, about the Reagan administration level of cutting. They already have lost 700 people through buyouts, and they were looking at losing 2,000 more. Well, Congress said no to that and kept them at their current budget. So, they have fewer employees than they did at the beginning of the Trump administration, but it could have been a lot worse.
The Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. The spending bill retains EPA's budget at the same level as 2017, despite President Trump's request to cut the agency's funding by 30%. (Photo: Coolcaesar, Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0)
CURWOOD: And talk to me about the Department of Energy and how they fared in this – in this financial arrangement?
LAVELLE: Yes, things like the Office of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. That office was going to see a 70 percent cut under the Trump plan, and actually it gets an increase – not just a small increase, a pretty large one – nearly a 13 percent increase. And this really is testimony to how important clean energy has become in red states. Texas now is the number one wind energy state, Iowa, very big wind energy state, Kansas, even Oklahoma, is looking forward to expanding wind energy and bringing the tech industry there because the tech industry wants to have renewable energy.
So, all of these states, whether you're a red state or a blue state, new technologies and wind and solar energy has become an important business. In particular, look at the program called ARPA-E, Advanced Research Programs Agency-Energy. The Defense Department has a similar program but it's to really seed early stage development in clean energy, and there are programs all over the country on this, and the Trump administration wanted to eliminate that program. They said the private sector should be doing this sort of research. Well, of course, the private sector does not invest in early-state research, and Congress felt this was a really important thing to continue to invest in. They increased that budget 15 percent. And the thing to remember is that DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, that's where the Internet really was born. So, the government has a pretty good track record of results for this early stage research.
CURWOOD: Now, what about NOAA? There's a fair amount of climate research that's been done in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I guess they got a fair amount of an increase, huh?
Some Republican lawmakers tried to include riders blocking enforcement of the Endangered Species Act. One rider sought to block federal protection of the Greater Sage-Grouse, a species that's threatened by oil and gas development in its sagebrush habitat. (Photo: Jeannie Stafford/USFWS, Flickr CC BY 2.0)
LAVELLE: Right. Again NOAA was looking at a one billion dollar cut and NOAA's budget also increased. NOAA, it's hard to overstate how important they are to these coastal communities in the research they do. For example, the sea grants that were going to be eliminated by the White House. Well, they're very important for the future of fisheries on the Atlantic Coast, the Gulf Coast. They have even been doing research into how to predict heat waves and such in the ocean just as they predict weather, so that fisheries can prepare for the changes that they're seeing on a much more frequent basis now that we are facing climate change and what Congress did was NOAA shows how important this is to their constituents, whether Republican or Democrat.
CURWOOD: Now, there's a flip side to the spending bill. It took out all kinds of what are known as "riders" that a number of folks considered to be anti-environmental. Talk to me about some of those that didn't make it in.
LAVELLE: Right, in the drafts of the budget there were about 80 anti-environmental riders as well as some riders that would have very radically changed campaign finance law, which also was very troubling to environmental advocates. Most of those riders were eliminated by the GOP leaders. They really needed to do that in order to get the Democratic votes that they needed to pass this budget.
CURWOOD: Talk to me about some of those riders that got knocked out.
LAVELLE: There were many endangered species riders. One of them would have prevented regulation around the Sage-grouse, which is a big showy bird in the west, but the important thing about that bird is it's kind of a marker for the whole sagebrush ecosystem and about a hundred other species, and the Obama administration had done kind of this middle of the road thing with the Sage-Grouse. They came up with this – they called the Cooperative Conservation Plan. They felt that with the states involved, that they could work out a deal to protect the sagebrush and allow oil and gas development to continue. Well, the oil and gas industry very much did not want any of that regulation, and that is what the rider in Congress would have done. That rider was eliminated. But, it's important to know that the Trump administration is going forward with trying to undo the deal that Obama cut on the Sage-Grouse. That's happening with a lot of these riders.
Proponents of biomass energy say that forest regrowth will theoretically suck carbon dioxide back out of the atmosphere after trees are burned for energy, making biomass energy carbon-neutral. But forest experts point out that it will take decades or even a century to reach carbon neutrality. (Photo: Oregon Department of Forestry, Flickr CC BY 2.0)
CURWOOD: Talk to me about the methane rule rider, which I guess was ultimately rejected by Congress. This was a pretty big deal, right?
LAVELLE: It's a really big deal. Next to the Clean Power Plan, it's one of the biggest steps that the Obama administration took on climate change was several rules really to do with methane. And the Obama administration looked at this as an easy thing to do on climate because all you're really doing is preventing leaks in the pipes and in the infrastructure, just some new monitoring requirements, some better wrenches and pipes. Well, so one of the first things that the Trump administration set out to do was to get rid of methane regulations. They have tried to do that in many different ways. They've been knocked back by the courts. They were unable to get the votes in the Senate last May to do it. And this budget bill showed they were not able to get it through as a add-on to the budget as well. Now, Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke is continuing his effort to go through the whole rulemaking process to get rid of those methane regulations. So, that is still – that's the thing about this victory on the riders for the environmentalists. Although they have won this battle, the war is not over because in almost every case the Trump administration is going forward on a whole variety of fronts to undo these regulations.
CURWOOD: Now, let's talk about one of the few anti-environmental provisions that did make it in this spending bill. I understand one of them encourages burning biomass, typically small, scraggly trees for electric generation. Now, what's wrong with that from an environmental perspective?
LAVELLE: Right. Well there are two concerns that environmentalists have. One, is the pollution – particularly particulate pollution from that burning of biomass if it is not properly controlled. The other is that the advantages that this bill gives to biomass could make wind energy and solar energy disadvantaged in the market because it will be cheaper in some places to just burn biomass, and it won't be as beneficial for the environment, it won't be as beneficial for climate because burning wood and biomass puts carbon into the atmosphere. So, that is kind of the two-fold environmental concern about that.
Methane flaring wastes precious natural gas resources, and leaked methane is a major contributor to climate change, the Obama Administration said when it created a rule governing methane leaks and flaring on public lands. A rider that did not survive final negotiations for the FY 2018 federal appropriations bill would have rolled back the rule. (Photo: WildEarth Guardians, Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
CURWOOD: But the argument was made, "Look, all right so you burn the tree and the carbon goes into the atmosphere but then more trees grow, so it comes back."
LAVELLE: So it's a renewable resource. Unfortunately, the way that it is practiced is that we burn it much more quickly than we grow the trees to replace that biomass.
CURWOOD: So, what's the mood in the environmental lobby now and in Washington after this budget has passed?
LAVELLE: Eternal vigilance seems to be the mood in the environmental community. I would say there was a brief sigh of relief followed by more determination to keep up with what the Trump administration is doing, especially when it comes to climate change.
CURWOOD: Marianne Lavelle writes politics for InsideClimate News in the Washington area. Marianne, thanks so much for taking the time with us today.
LAVELLE: Thanks so much for having me, Steve.
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Il reame perduto è il primo libro della saga Cronache del regno della fantasia, scritta dagli autori di Geronimo Stilton. Geronimo Stilton viene rappresentato come autore del romanzo ma la storia non parla né di lui, né di Tea, Benjamin, Trappola Stilton o qualsiasi altro personaggio di Topazia, l'isola immaginaria nella quale vivono i personaggi inventati dagli autori. La vicenda ruota invece intorno alle avventure di ragazzi e ragazze del Regno della Fantasia, vissuti molto prima che Geronimo Stilton vi entri per la prima volta. Il seguito del romanzo è il libro "La porta incantata" e l'avventura continua con "La Foresta Parlante", il terzo libro della serie (composta da sei libri).

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Vi fu un tempo assai lontano in cui il Regno della Fantasia era abitato da molti popoli che vivevano in pace e armonia. Per tenere viva l'amicizia tra tutte le genti, le fate collocarono in ogni reame un Portale, un passaggio per trasportare gli abitanti nelle immense terre del Regno. Ma le streghe cercarono di approfittarne, tramando nell'oscurità. Nessuno si accorse di ciò che stava accadendo, finché non fu troppo tardi. Fu così che iniziò la storia del Reame Perduto. Gli Elfi dei Boschi, mentre soccombevano sotto il giogo della Nera Regina, riuscirono a far fuggire Audace, il prescelto. Audace era solo un bambino quando giunse nel regno degli Elfi Stellati. Fu nel suo quindicesimo compleanno, nell'anno della Stella Fulgente, che scoprì il mistero che circondava il Portale e il Reame da cui proveniva. E decise di andare incontro al proprio destino.

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 Ombroso: è un ragazzo di 15 anni, coraggiosoe determinato. Ha gli occhi seri e verde scuro, come i capelli. Proviene dal Reame Perduto, perciò è un elfo Boschivo ed è il "prescelto" che potrà salvare il suo popolo e tutto il Regno della Fantasia dal giogo della Nera Regina, Stria, la Regina delle Streghe. Un tempo si chiamava Audace, ma una volta arrivato nel reame delle Stelle, i suoi genitori e gli abitanti cominciarono a chiamarlo Ombroso, perché era difficile farlo sorridere ed era solitario e timido, a differenza degli Elfi Stellati che avevano un carattere allegro e giocoso. Sembra inoltre che sia innamorato di Spica. La sua arma è una spada, Veleno, intrisa del veleno di uno scorpione. È un'arma molto particolare che lo aiuterà a fare luce sul suo passato.
 Regulus: fratello di Spica, è un ragazzo Stellato di 16 anni, coraggioso, gentile, un po' imbranato e goloso. Ha gli occhi celesti e i capelli color del grano ed è di corporatura muscolosa. Ha voluto accompagnare Ombroso nella sua missione nel regno dei Boschi per salvare i Boschivi, pur conoscendo i pericoli che c'erano laggiù, nel "Reame Perduto". Conoscerà Robinia, elfa Boschiva, con la quale inizialmente sarà continuamente a litigare, ma poi scoprirà di provare un sentimento più forte nei confronti della ragazza.
 Spica: sorella di Regulus, è un'elfa Stellata di 13 anni. È timida e sensibile, ma anche determinata e leale. Ha grandi occhi celesti e lunghe trecce bionde, che poi taglierà in cortissimi capelli color del miele per liberarsi della melma appiccicosa dei Crepuscolari, pipistrelli al servizio della Nera Regina. Insieme al mago Stellarius andrà in aiuto del fratello e di Ombroso al termine della missione che il mago le aveva chiesto di svolgere insieme a lui. La sua arma è un arco fatato in grado di adattare le frecce che scocca all'avversario che Spica si trova davanti. Alla fine si rivela molto più importante di quello che si potesse pensare. All'inizio della storia inizia a piacerle Ombroso, nonostante si comporti sempre da buona amica con lui.
 Robinia: è la quarta protagonista del racconto, quattordicenne, giovane e testarda elfa Boschiva, che a volte tende ad essere impulsiva e a non ascoltare gli altri, nonostante in fondo sia gentile e coraggiosa. Aiuta Ombroso e Regulus a compiere la loro missione per salvare i Boschivi. I due accettano, perché è l'unica a conoscere il Regno Perduto, essendo anche l'unica erede al trono. Ha un piccolo draghetto piumato, Zolfanello, che è il suo migliore amico. Si scopre innamorata di Regulus.
 Stellarius: è un grande mago, molto potente, consigliere del re degli Elfi Stellati. Indossa un'ampia tunica, lunga fino a terra, con un cappuccio. Ha un volto rugoso e occhi profondi e il suo carattere non è affatto gentile: ha modi bruschi e parla sempre con tono burbero e scocciato a tutti. Nonostante questo è un grande mago, molto saggio, e aiuterà Spica ad attraversare lo Specchio delle Orde e le insegnerà a usare meglio l'arco per combattere. Portò dei doni a Eridanus (padre di Spica e Regulus) da parte di Floridiana, la Regina delle Fate, la notte in cui trovò un il piccolo Ombroso davanti alla porta della sua casa, la Specola, scaraventato fuori dal portale.
 Cacciatore: uomo misterioso incontrato nei boschi del Reame Perduto, sembra inizialmente un alleato delle streghe. In seguito prende un ruolo molto importante nella storia, soprattutto per quanto riguarda il suo passato misterioso.

Geronimo Stilton
Romanzi fantasy


Marvelous Wonderettes Groups- A Winter Heat Wave of Savings | All Tickets Inc.
Those who see The Marvelous Wonderettes at Theatre Row's Kirk Theatre are in for a hot time. The fact is Marvelous Wonderettes groups enjoy a major "Heat Wave" that warms the deepest winter chill and calms the most powerful north wind. This show has a host of up tempo numbers all of which climbed the charts in the 1950s and 1960s. The first act of the musical comedy is set in 1958 at the senior prom of Springfield High where the girl-group, The Marvelous Wonderettes, has been asked to entertain.
Suzy, Missy, Cindy Lou, and Betty Jean are adorned in crinoline and ready to sing their hearts out. Act two sees the four ladies return to Springfield High to entertain the class in 1968, during their 10-year reunion. In each act, we learn about their lives, dreams, hopes, and relationships as they weave a melodic and harmonious chain of songs that sometimes unites and at other times divides them.
"Heat Wave," which was released as a 45-rpm single on July 9, 1963, on the Gordy label, a subsidiary of Motown, hit number one on the Billboard Hot R&B chart. It stayed there for a month. It also hit number four on the Billboard Hot 100. The group that made the song a hit was Martha and the Vandellas.
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I had not been exposed to Internet for very long before I evolved the idea that the Internet could be a repository for the memories of transient things, like Broadway shows, which leave only an original cast recording (if they are musicals), a program, a playbill and some photos when they are gone.
I have had many pleasant E-mail "conversations" with people of approximately my age, from the UK and the US, about old TV shows, and it made me hunt up some lyrics I had written down when I was younger and even more compulsive than I currently am.
So, I display for anyone who is interested the following lyrics to old TV theme songs, and if you have compiled any lyrics to old shows and would like to have me link them, please contact me with the URLs.
This webpage is devoted to old TV shows and contains some fuzzy videos and theme songs.
and http://www.televisiontunes.com/browse.php where you can pay via paypal to download theme tunes to your cell phone.
PLEASE NOTE: In some cases, these are not shows I was a great fan of; it is the theme songs which I liked.
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh lists this as a "newspaper drama" which is more than I remember.
Of the Charleston and Jazz.
To a Speak Easy, Speak Easy.
Click here to hear the theme song.
And now and then in jail.
And iron in his fists.
They tell of Yancy D.
Rollin' over mountains where there ain't no pass.
Wonderin' if he's ever gonna shoot you down.
Lookin' for a town, ain't it a pity.
Wagon ho!  Gotta keep them on the run.
Wagon ho!  Gotta follow the sun.
Click here to hear this theme.
Stuart Bailey Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Click here for the Gilligan theme.
Jonas Grumby (The Skipper) Alan Hale, Jr.
For a three hour tour--a three hour tour.
The Minnow would be lost--the Minnow would be lost.
Click here for the Mr. Ed theme.
Click here to play the LAWMAN theme.
Is the man called Paladin.
Click here for the Superman opening.
Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman! Who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights the never ending battle for truth, justice and the American way!
Click here for the LONE RANGER opening.
A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty hi-yo, Silver! The Lone Ranger! With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early West. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear... The Lone Ranger rides again!
Even back in 1960, when I was only 13, the appeal of this theme song was that it was so awful.
Click here for the SURFSIDE SIX theme.
Surfside Six!  Where is it?
Surfside Six!  Who lives there?
Surfside Six!  And where is it?
They can lead you to another's arms.
While you are kissing someone you adore.
Surfside Six!  It's an address?
Surfside Six!  For a houseboat?
Click here for Real Audio version.
Dobie:  Wants a gal who's dreamy.
Dobie:  Wants a gal who's creamy.
Dobie:  Wants a gal to call his own.
Is she any kind of dream boat at all?
'Cause Dobie has to have a girl to call his own.
Where love and adventure await.
Click here for ADDAMS FAMILY theme.
SUPER CHICKEN (Music by Stan Worth; lyrics by Sheldon Allman) Only 17 episodes were ever made 1967-68.
Click here for the SUPER CHICKEN theme.
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE (Music by Stan Worth; lyrics by Sheldon Allman) Only 17 episodes were ever made 1967-68.
Friend to you and me!
Click here for the ROBIN HOOD theme.
Click here to play theme.
Ain't no one who's quicker on the draw.
To the rolln' hills of Arkansas.
Click here to play the CHEYENNE theme.
Where will you be campin' tonight?
Like the restless clouds up above.
And you'll no longer roam?
Click here to play the BRONCO theme.
I'll show you a gal who's kissed him twice.
Forever will live on the trail.
Click here to play the PATTY DUKE theme.
A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights.
Diff'rent as night and day.
Click here to hear the theme.
Scunner Campbell: Is there nothing that she cannae do?
FIREBALL X-L 5 Click here for the FIREBALL theme.
Click here for this song performed by Johnny Rivers Written by P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri. Lyrics are copyright MCA Music. There's a man who leads a life of danger; To everyone he meets he stays a stranger. With every move he makes, Another chance he takes. Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow. Secret Agent Man, Secret Agent Man, They've given you a number And taken away your name. Beware of pretty faces that you find. A pretty face can hide an evil mind. Ooh, be careful what you say: You'll give yourself away. Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow. Swinging on the Riviera one day, Then laying in the Bombay alley next day. Oh, don't you let the wrong word slip. While kissin' persuasive lips. The odds are you won't live to see tomorrow.