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package com.google.devtools.build.android.ziputils;

import static java.nio.ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN;
import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;

import com.google.common.primitives.UnsignedInts;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

/**
 * A {@code View} represents a range of a larger sequence of bytes (e.g. part of a file). It consist
 * of an internal byte buffer providing access to the data range, and an offset of the first byte in
 * the buffer within the larger sequence. Subclasses will typically assign a specific
 * interpretations of the data in a view (e.g. records of a specific type).
 *
 *
Instances of subclasses may generally be "allocated", or created "of" or "over" a byte buffer
 * provided at creation time.
 *
 *
An "allocated" view gets a new heap allocated byte buffer. Allocation methods typically
 * defines parameters for variable sized part of the object they create a view of. Once allocated,
 * the variable size parts (e.g. filename) cannot be changed.
 *
 *
A view created "of" an existing byte buffer, expects the buffer to contain an appropriate
 * record at its current position. The buffers limit is set at the end of the object being viewed.
 *
 *
A view created "over" an existing byte buffer, reserves space in the buffer for the object
 * being viewed. The variable sized parts of the object are initialized, but otherwise the existing
 * buffer data are left as-is, and can be manipulated through the view.
 *
 *
An view can also be copied into an existing byte buffer. This is like creating a view "over"
 * the buffer, but initializing the new view as an exact copy of the one being copied.
 *
 * @param  to be type-safe, a subclass {@code S} must extend {@code View<S>}. It must not
 *     extend {@code View<S2>}, where {@code S2} is another subclass, which is not also a superclass
 *     of {@code S}. To maintain this guarantee, this class is declared abstract and package
 *     private. Unchecked warnings are suppressed as per this specification constraint.
 */
abstract class View<SUB extends View<?>> {

  /** Zero length byte array */
  protected static final byte[] EMPTY = {};

  /** {@code ByteBuffer} backing this view. */
  protected final ByteBuffer buffer;

  /**
   * Offset of first byte covered by this view. For input views, this is the file offset where the
   * item occur. For output, it's the offset at which we expect to write the item (may be -1, for
   * unknown).
   */
  protected long fileOffset;

  /**
   * Creates a view backed by the given {@code ByteBuffer}. Sets the buffer's byte order to
   * little endian, and sets the file offset to -1 (unknown).
   *
   * @param buffer backing byte buffer.
   */
  protected View(ByteBuffer buffer) {
    buffer.order(LITTLE_ENDIAN);
    this.buffer = buffer;
    this.fileOffset = -1;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the file offset of the data item covered by this view,
   *
   * @param fileOffset
   * @return this object.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // safe by specification
  public SUB at(long fileOffset) {
    this.fileOffset = fileOffset;
    return (SUB) this;
  }

  /**
   * Gets the fileOffset of this view.
   *
   * @return the location of the viewed object within the underlying file.
   */
  public long fileOffset() {
    return fileOffset;
  }

  /**
   * Returns an array with data copied from the backing byte buffer, at the given offset, relative
   * to the beginning of this view. This method does not perform boundary checks of offset or
   * length. This method may temporarily changes the position of the backing buffer. However, after
   * the call, the position will be unchanged.
   *
   * @param off offset relative to this view.
   * @param len number of bytes to return.
   * @return Newly allocated array with copy of requested data.
   * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException in case of illegal arguments.
   */
  protected byte[] getBytes(int off, int len) {
    if (len == 0) {
      return EMPTY;
    }
    byte[] bytes;
    try {
      bytes = new byte[len];
      int currPos = buffer.position();
      buffer.position(off);
      buffer.get(bytes);
      buffer.position(currPos);
    } catch (Exception ex) {
      throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException();
    }
    return bytes;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a String representation of {@code len} bytes starting at offset {@code off} in this
   * view. This method may temporarily changes the position of the backing buffer. However, after
   * the call, the position will be unchanged.
   *
   * @param off offset relative to backing buffer.
   * @param len number of bytes to return. This method may throw an
   * @return Newly allocated String created by interpreting the specified bytes as UTF-8 data.
   * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException in case of illegal arguments.
   */
  protected String getString(int off, int len) {
    if (len == 0) {
      return "";
    }
    if (buffer.hasArray()) {
      return new String(buffer.array(), buffer.arrayOffset() + off, len, UTF_8);
    } else {
      return new String(getBytes(off, len), UTF_8);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Gets the value of an identified (unsigned) integer field.
   *
   * @param id field identifier
   * @return the value of the field identified by {@code id}.
   */
  public long get(IntFieldId<? extends SUB> id) {
    return UnsignedInts.toLong(buffer.getInt(id.address()));
  }

  /**
   * Gets the value of an identified (unsigned) short field.
   *
   * @param id field identifier
   * @return the value of the field identified by {@code id}.
   */
  public int get(ShortFieldId<? extends SUB> id) {
    return UnsignedShorts.toInt(buffer.getShort(id.address()));
  }

  /**
   * Sets the value of an identified (unsigned) integer field.
   *
   * @param id field identifier
   * @param value value to set for the field identified by {@code id}.
   * @return this object.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // safe by specification
  public SUB set(IntFieldId<? extends SUB> id, long value) {
    buffer.putInt(id.address(), UnsignedInts.checkedCast(value));
    return (SUB) this;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the value of an identified (unsigned) short field.
   *
   * @param id field identifier
   * @param value value to set for the field identified by {@code id}.
   * @return this object.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // safe by specification
  public SUB set(ShortFieldId<? extends SUB> id, int value) {
    buffer.putShort(id.address(), UnsignedShorts.checkedCast(value));
    return (SUB) this;
  }

  /**
   * Copies the values of one or more identified fields from another view to this view.
   *
   * @param from The view from which to copy field values.
   * @param ids field identifiers for fields to copy.
   * @return this object.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // safe by specification
  public SUB copy(View from, FieldId<? extends SUB, ?>... ids) {
    for (FieldId<? extends SUB, ?> id : ids) {
      int address = id.address;
      buffer.put(address, from.buffer.get(address++));
      buffer.put(address, from.buffer.get(address++));
      if (id.type() == Integer.TYPE) {
        buffer.put(address, from.buffer.get(address++));
        buffer.put(address, from.buffer.get(address));
      }
    }
    return (SUB) this;
  }

  /**
   * Base class for data field descriptors. Describes a data field's type and address in a view.
   * This base class allows the
   * {@link #copy(View, com.google.devtools.build.android.ziputils.View.FieldId[])} method
   * to operate of fields of mixed types.
   *
   * @param <T> {@code Integer.TYPE} or {@code Short.TYPE}.
   * @param <V> subclass of {@code View} for which a field id is defined.
   */
  protected abstract static class FieldId<V extends View<?>, T> {
    private final int address;
    private final Class<T> type;

    protected FieldId(int address, Class<T> type) {
      this.address = address;
      this.type = type;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the class of the field type, {@code Class<T>}.
     */
    public Class<T> type() {
      return type;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the field address, within a record of type {@code V}
     */
    public int address() {
      return address;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Describes an integer fields for a view.
   *
   * @param <V> subclass of {@code View} for which a field id is defined.
   */
  protected static class IntFieldId<V extends View<?>> extends FieldId<V, Integer> {
    protected IntFieldId(int address) {
      super(address, Integer.TYPE);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Describes a short field for a view.
   *
   * @param <V> subclass of {@code View} for which a field id is defined.
   */
  protected static class ShortFieldId<V extends View<?>> extends FieldId<V, Short> {
    protected ShortFieldId(int address) {
      super(address, Short.TYPE);
    }
  }
}


KTW reader Les Evens came across a frozen surprise in his backyard on the weekend and wants Kamloops residents to prepare for the rodents this spring.
In August 2016, I wrote a letter to the editor, noting a problem with rats in Kamloops.
At the time, I sent two pictures of rats with my letter. Sadly, I have to report that, almost three years later, the rats have returned.
The big Victor rat traps used in 2016 stopped springing and I had not seen the rodents until this month.
On the weekend, I was cleaning the snow from a chair outside and came across a frozen rat.
There is zero food source in our backyard, so it's back to the big Victor rat traps.
Wish me luck and a warning to others to be aware. Spring is coming soon and the rats are already here.


Aiming to top last year's 5,558 participants and more than $325K contributed to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, the Tubbs Romp to Stomp Out Breast Cancer Snowshoe Series is lining up seven events in North America for 2011. With a series-wide fundraising goal of $350K for 2011, the Tubbs Romp to Stomp hopes to hit the $1.5 Million mark in contributions to fight breast cancer.
In the partnership with national sponsors such as Tubbs Snowshoes, Snowshoes.com and Outside TV, the Romp to Stomp offers a fun, family-friendly way to get active this winter with a 3k or 5k snowshoe walk or a 3k snowshoe run.
Participants can choose from seven spectacular locations at New Jersey's Mountain Creek Resort; Vermont's Stratton Mountain Resort; Utah's Mountain Dell Golf Course; Washington's Stevens Pass Nordic Center, Ontario's Scenic Caves, Oregon's Mt Hood; or Colorado's Frisco Nordic Center.
The cost for early online registration is $25 per person or $40 for onsite registration, (available at most sites). Each event will feature goodie bags for all participants, a sweepstakes and a breast cancer survivor tribute, and a grand prize awarded to the single largest individual fundraiser.
January 22: Mountain Creek Resort, Vernon, N.J.
January 29: Stratton Mountain Resort, Stratton, Vt.
February 12: Stevens Pass Nordic Center, Wash.
February 26: Mt Hood, Ore.
March 5: Frisco Nordic Center, Frisco, Colo.
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Comunicar Journal 30: Audiences and screens in America (Vol. 15 - 2008)
Audiences, Intertextuality and new media literacy
https://doi.org/10.3916/c30-2008-01-012
Kathleen Tyner
This article explores intertextuality as a technique that can be used to bridge old and new media literacies for teachers and students who hope to move beyond the textbook model of instruction into a world of online resources, flexible pedagogies and innovative designs for learning. These include the uses of online archives, media studies techniques, participatory knowledge creation, and multimedia analysis and production.
Audiences, multiliteracies, screen education, collaborative learning
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Allen, G. (2000): Intertextuality. London, Routledge.
Bromberg, S. (2007): Presentation of the Retour de Flamme at the 2007 San Francisco Silent Film Festival. San Francisco, CA (July 15).
Goody, J. (1977): The domestication of the savage mind. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Graff, H.J. (1987): The labyrinth of literacy. London, Falmer Press.
Jenkins, H. y OTROS (2006): Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: media education for the 21st Century. MacArthur Digital Media and Learning White Paper. Chicago, IL, MacArthur Foundation. (http://digitallearning.macfound.org/site/c.enJLKQNlFiG/b.2108773/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id=%7BCD911571-0240-4714-A93B-1D0C07C7B6C1%7D&notoc=1) (19-09-07).
Kristeva, J. (1980): Desire in language: a semiotic approach to literature and art. New Cork, Columbia University Press.
Kristeva, J. (1986): «Word, dialogue and novel», en JARDINE, A.; GORA, T. & ROUDIEZ. L. (Eds.): The Kristeva Reader. New Cork, Columbia University Press; 34-61.
Levin, D. & Arafeh, S. (2002): «The digital disconnect: the widening Gap between Internet savy students and their schools», en American Institutes for Research for the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Washington, DC, Pew Charitable Trust (www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/67/report_display.asp) (14-08-07).
MTV, NICKELODEON, MICROSOFT DIGITAL ADVERTISING SOLUTIONS (Eds.) (2007): Circuits of Cool/Digital Playground. From New Global Study From MTV, Nickelodeon and Microsoft Challenges Assumptions About Relationship Between Kids, Youth & Digital Technology. PRNewsWire (July 24) (http://sev.prnewswire.com/multimedia-online-internet/20070724/NYTU10924072007-1.html) (01-09-07).
NEW MEDIA CONSORTIUM AND EDUCAUSE (Ed.) (2006): The Horizon Report. Austin, TX, NMC (www.nmc.org/pdf/2006_Horizon_Report.pdf) (01-09-07).
Oblinger, D. & Oblinger, J. (Eds.) (2005): Educating the net generation. Boulder, CO: Educause. Retrieved September 20, 2007 from www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen.
Prensky, M. (2001): «Digital natives, digital immigrants. From on the horizon», en NCB University Press, 9, 5 (www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf) (01-09-07).
Roberts, D. y OTROS (2005): Generation M: Media in the lives of 8-18 year-olds (March 9). Menlo Park, Kaiser Family Foundation (www.kff.org/entmedia/entmedia030905pkg.cfm) (01-09-07).
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Home Insights Marmet Health Care Center, Inc. v. Brown: Another Lesson in the FAA's Preemption
Marmet Health Care Center, Inc. v. Brown: Another Lesson in the FAA's Preemption
22 February 2012 Wisconsin Appellate Law Blog
Authors: Eric G. Pearson
Ignoring established precedent from a superior tribunal is one way for a court to earn a sharp rebuke from a higher court. And that is precisely what happened in a consolidated decision today in Marmet Health Care Center, Inc. v. Brown, No. 11-391, and in Clarksburg Nursing Home & Rehabilitation Center LLC v. Marchio, No. 11-394, where the Supreme Court of the United States granted writs of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, vacated that court's judgments, and remanded for further proceedings — a practice known as a "GVR," drawn from the first letter of the three words "grant," "vacate," and "remand."
At issue in those cases was whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempted what the West Virginia court held was the state's public policy of not enforcing arbitration clauses signed before an act of negligence that resulted in personal injury or wrongful death. The Court's five-page answer was a flat "yes," since it had reaffirmed the FAA's superiority as recently as last Term in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 131 S. Ct. 1740 (2011). Not helping matters was the West Virginia court's choice of words to describe the Supreme Court's FAA jurisprudence: "Tendentious" and "created from whole cloth" weren't exactly flattering.
Followers of Wisconsin's appellate courts will no doubt recognize that Wisconsin's court of appeals ran afoul of the same rule last year. The case was Cottonwood Financial, Ltd. v. Estes, and it involved the unconscionability of an arbitration clause that waived a right to classwide proceedings. Luckily for that court, Wisconsin's Supreme Court intervened, GVRing the lower court's decision in light of Concepcion. The hint wasn't lost on anyone: Wisconsin's court of appeals reversed course in January of this year and avoided a similar gaffe. No. 2009 AP 760 (Jan. 31, 2012).
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Address by Minister Hanna at UN Meeting for Advancing the Protection of Children
Statement To The House Of Representatives By the Honourable Fayval Williams, Minister of Education, Youth and Information on January 12, 2021
Parliamentary Statement by the Minister of Health and Wellness Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, MP at Gordon House, Kingston on Tuesday, January 12, 2021
2021 New Year's Message From The Governor-General, His Excellency The Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen ON, GCMG, CD, KSt.J – Theme: "Reaching Beyond – To Hope"
2021 New Year's Message From The Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, MP, Prime Minister
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2020 Christmas Message From Governor-General His Excellency, The Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen ON, GCMG, CD, KSt.J – Theme: "Adversity and Opportunity"
2020 Christmas Message From The Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, MP, Prime Minister
2020 Christmas Message by the Leader of the Opposition, Mark Golding, MP
Statement to to the Houses of Parliament By The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, ON MP, Prime Minister on Tuesday, December 15, 2020
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Address by Minister Hanna at UN Cross Regional Meeting for Advancing the Protection of Children from Violence
At this moment, in every country, children are enduring the horrific impact of violence. Children who live in upscale neighbourhoods in North American or European countries suffer just as much as those children who live in their inner-cities. Equally, they suffer just as much as those children living in towns and villages in the Middle East, Africa, South and Central America and the Caribbean.
Both boys and girls are affected; and there is also no distinction among race, ethnic origin, education and family income. In short: violence affects children everywhere.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the awful and inescapable truth is that the absolute horror and devastating effects on children are on many levels. For some countries while we grapple with the dreadful acts perpetrated at a local level, in many other parts of the world the gruesome acts of violence against our children are horrendous.
Almost on a nightly basis our global news network shows us in graphic detail, the ugly truth that there is always a war or armed conflict taking place somewhere in the world. And as one is over another begins.
But what is often overlooked is the devastating impact these disastrous events have on children.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am sure you have seen as I have the pictures and videos of young boys with weapons and ammunition slung across shoulders so slender and frail they buckle under the pressure. Their eyes sometimes are either so narrow and cold and hard from memories no child should have of appalling deeds they have either witnessed, experienced, or done. Sometimes their eyes are so huge and round with fear. Fear of the unknown – not knowing whether they will ever survive, or ever see their families again. But the lasting image I take away from these news clips is the pain I see etched in their young faces caused by injuries, hunger and incredible suffering.
It's estimated that the world has lost approximately 2 million children in wars and armed conflicts in the last decade, with 250,000 forced to bear arms with thousands more killed or maimed. Another 1 million have been orphaned.
It is fair to say that for those of us for whom this not our reality, this level of violence and its awesome impact seems so far removed. We empathise and collectively we condemn but it's not our war. We can do nothing so we do nothing.
But what's worse is that in OUR reality there is — in every region of the world — tacit and also explicit approval of violence against OUR children. Our societies still condone acts of violence — calling them traditional discipline, domestic violence.
The fact is Ladies and Gentlemen, that the adjective before the verb may change but the horror of violence remains the same…READ MORE
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Home NFL Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers to mull 'tough decision' about future
Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers to mull 'tough decision' about future
GREEN BAY, Wis.– There's one thing that will make Aaron Rodgers' decision about whether to return to the Green Bay Packers next season much easier. "I don't want to be part of a rebuild if I'm going to keep playing," Rodgers said. Absent that, the 38-year-old quarterback believes he has a difficult decision to make about his football future.
He just didn't think he would have to start contemplating it so soon. But when the San Francisco 49ers upset the top-seeded Packers in the NFC divisional playoff round Saturday, it meant the hourglass flipped for Rodgers, who took his share of the blame for the offensive ineptitude in the 13-10 loss at Lambeau Field.
"I'm still super competitive, still know I can play at a high level, so it's going to be a tough decision," Rodgers said during a 17-minute session with reporters after the game. "I have a lot of things to weigh in the coming weeks.
But man, just so much gratitude for this city and this organization and such a long, long career here that I'm proud of and really thankful for all the men and women that work here, the men I've gotten to cross paths with, coaches and players over the years."
The Packers made one thing clear: They're not ready to move on from Rodgers, who is the favorite to win his fourth NFL MVP and his second in a row. "Certainly we want him back here," said Packers coach Matt LaFleur after he failed to reach the Super Bowl with the No. 1-seeded team for the second straight year. "I think we'd be crazy not to want him back here. He's going to be the two-time MVP.
This guy does so much for our football team, not only what you guys see on Sunday's or every game day, but what he does in that locker room, how he leads. I know what he puts into this thing, and certainly I'm extremely disappointed in that we couldn't get over the hump for not only him, but for everybody in that locker room."
Rodgers failed to throw a touchdown pass in a playoff game for the first time since the 2010 NFC Championship Game and lost to the 49ers for the fourth time in the postseason. His Total QBR of 19.3 was the worst of his playoff career.
After an opening-drive touchdown, the Packers managed just three points on their final nine drives. It was the first time they went that many possessions without a touchdown since their season-opening 38-3 loss to the Saints.
"I didn't have a great night tonight," said Rodgers, who was 20-of-29 for 286 yards and was sacked a season-high five times. "They did a good job of kind of getting me off the spot, and a better job of taking away some of the quick game we got going last time we played them.
I missed a couple reads. I probably should have taken a couple hole-shot chances a couple times. Obviously, if I hit Allen [Lazard] on that deep in on the last drive, that probably gets us out to about midfield and then we're a couple first downs away from being in field goal range. "So definitely disappointed by some of the decisions I had tonight. I definitely take my fair share of blame tonight."
He admitted that the way this season ended could factor into his decision. So will the plan that general manager Brian Gutekunst has for this team moving forward. He said his relationship with Gutekunst has improved significantly since they met last offseason to discuss the issues that nearly prevented Rodgers from returning for the 2021 season.
"There's a lot of players whose futures are up in the air, so definitely will be interesting to see which way some of those decisions will go," Rodgers said. "But I'll have the conversations with Brian in the next week or so and get a little bit more clarity and think about my own future and how much longer I want to keep doing this."
After saying last month that he did not plan to drag out his decision, he offered a more specific timeline Saturday: No later than the start of free agency on March 16. Rodgers didn't decide to return to the Packers this season until right before training camp opened in July. Rodgers' three options are to return to the Packers, ask for a trade or retire.
A return would almost certainly require a contract extension because the team would need to reduce his $46.1 million salary-cap charge for 2022. Even that wouldn't guarantee that the Packers could re-sign receiver Davante Adams, who is a free agent.
The Packers are currently $44.8 million over their projected salary cap for the 2022 season, which brings into question whether they will even be able to field as strong of a Super Bowl contender as they've had in LaFleur's first three seasons.
"That's a fair question — definitely one I've thought about," Rodgers said. "But there are a lot of decisions to be made and key players … So many guys' contracts are up or on the brink or salary-cap stuff, so lot of decisions to be made. I don't want to be part of a rebuild if I'm going to keep playing, so a lot of decisions in the next couple months."
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Lionel Rolfe's Books
We still have some of Lionel Rolfe's paper edition books available for autographing. Literary L.A. is available in both the original Chronicle Books edition of 1981 and the expanded 2002 California Classics edition as well. Contact us telling us which book you want and the text you want it to be inscribed with and where you want it delivered. Prices are reasonable
The Menuhins is the story of a miraculous family of great musicians and religious leaders. It is told here for the first time by the nephew of Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist regarded as the greatest musical prodigy since Mozart. Elements of the story have been told before: how two Russian Jews living in San Francisco, Moshe and Marutha Menuhin, raised a brood of child prodigy musicians that astounded the world. It seemed the stuff of legend. Yehudi, with his violin and his younger pianist sisters, Hephzibah and Yaltah, displayed as children a musical gift rarely equaled by the finest musicians. But few outside the family have known the true dimensions of the Menuhin miracle, for the incredible Menuhin children were not the first prodigies in the family's unique history. For centuries, the Menuhin line had been producing geniuses, yet the elder Menuhins withheld the details of Yehudi's exotic lineage. There was The MaHaRal, a great rabbi and the creator of the legendary Golem; Schneur Zalman, the founder of Chabad Hassidism and the composer of powerful religious songs; and all the great Schneersohns, the hereditary first family of the Lubavitch Hassids. Although Rolfe, the son of Yaltah Menuhin, often focuses on his famous uncle, he has ventured beyond the Menuhin public image with an intimacy that only a Menuhin could bring to this family portrait. From the ghettos and pogroms of czarist Russia, to the settlements in Palestine at the turn of the century, to the Jewish communities in New York and San Francisco in the twenties, Rolfe takes the reader on his own personal odyssey into the past. It is often a difficult and painful story, for The Menuhins is Rolfe's search for his own place in the Menuhin tradition. He tells about the joys and frustrations of growing up a Menuhin: his flirtations with the Hassidic Judaism of his ancestors; his rejection by his grandfather, the volatile anti-Zionist; and his own discussions with Yehudi about things such as world peace.
Literary L.A. : Expanded From the Original Classic and Featuring the Coffeehouse Scene Then and Now
California Classics Edition, 2002
Beyond L.A.'s self-promotional glitter is a hotbed of writers, bohemians, mad poets, exiles and refugees from every form of oppression – and this book tells their stories. The new additions include • bohemian and apocalyptic streams in L.A. writing • the thriving coffeehouse scene, including the new L.A. poets • additional chapters by John Ahouse and Julia Stein Among the transients, literary gypsies, bohemians and writers in imposed or self-imposed exile are Oscar Zeta Acosta, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Ken Kesey, Carey McWilliams, Charles Lummis, Jacob Zeitlin, Louis Adamic, Nathanel West, Robinson Jeffers, Malcolm Lowry, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, and many others
The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin & Willa Cather
Here is a personal yet universal book which not only provides illuminating new insight into two important women artists, but also raises many provocative questions about the effects of societal and familial constraint on the lives of brilliant women. In recent years, much light has been shed on the remarkable life and writing of American author Willa Cather (1873-1947), many of whose novels explored the subject of women and creativity. Now, acclaimed author Lionel Rolfe has delved into his family history to reveal the extraordinary story of the friendship between Willa Cather and his mother, piano prodigy Yaltah Menuhin (1920-2001). Against the tumultuous backdrop of America and Europe in the early and mid-20th century, Rolfe presents the engrossing chronicle of his mother's struggle as a budding musician, her tragic relationship with her own parents, and the solace she found when Cather became her mentor—a mutually inspiring friendship which would endure for decades and would see Yaltah inspiring some of the most memorable heroines in Cather's novels, most notably Lucy Gayheart.
Fat Man on the Left: Four Decades in the Underground
In essays about American culture and politics, Lionel Rolfe, a scion of the world-renowned musical Menuhin family mixes it up with royalty, revolutionaries, murderers, celebrities and visionaries, in a journey that juxtaposes his uncle, classical master violinist Yehudi Menuhin, and Frank Zappa. "Why might a reader pick up this anecdotal memoir of an unusual life? Rolfe's uncle is Yehudi Menuhin; both belong to the Schneersohn family from which leaders of the Lubavitcher movement are drawn. Rolfe has written for several dozen major publications (and been blacklisted out of several dozen more, thanks to his politics). He wrote two books on "literary L.A.," where he grew up, and has met, interviewed, and/or interacted with dozens of writers, politicians, actors, rock stars, and other notables over the past several decades. In this volume's 16 essays, he discusses Menuhin, Frank Zappa, the Communist Party, literary L.A., anti-Semitism, health care, animal welfare, the founder of the Emmy awards, the birds he and his ex-wife (a member of Zappa's entourage) have cared for as pets, Israel and Zionism, and California, "home" for much of his life. Not an essential acquisition but appropriate for California libraries and others where nonfiction on life outside the mainstream circulates." Mary Carroll, Booklist
California Roads Scholar
Edendale by Phyl M. Noir
Exit From Eden -Mary Reinholz
Notes from Above Ground
Our Own Kind – Umberto Tosi
Literary LA Cabaret: Honoring the Life and Work of Lionel Rolfe: Sunday, December 8, 2019, 7:30 to 9:00 pm, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA
The Future of Boryanabooks
The Last Bohemian: Lionel Rolfe
Notes From the Underground of Lionel Menhuin Rolfe by Novelist Umberto Tosi
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LONGTIME LA JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR LIONEL MENUHIN ROLFE
Death in the Desert
My Link to the Menuhin Odyssey
Aldous Huxley's Strange Passage to the West
The Grand Old Man of L.A. Letters
The Most Natural of Events
Eulogy for Lionel Rolfe
Obituary for Lionel Rolfe
Lionel Frederick Menuhin Rolfe, October 21, 1942-November 6, 2018
Remembering Lionel Rolfe who carried the Torch for Writers and for a Bulgarian Woman named Boryana
From Bob Vickrey
Photos of Lionel and the Menuhins
Lionel's Books
MY CONFUSING NEWFOUND STATUS OF WEALTH AND AFFLUENCE
A Crusty Problem about Voluntary Homeless
"China Girls"
Finding Bambi
MY FRONT YARD CARUSO VILLAGE GALA PARTY
Pacifist/Socialist Leader David McReynolds dead at 88
The Girl in the Sousaphone Box
Dunga Brook Diary: Catch Me If You Can
Dershowitz dishes on not impeaching Trump
THE SANDLOT GAMES OF AUGUST
Law helps freelancers collect from deadbeats
Better Days: Journalist Lionel Rolfe Learns Old Age Isn't for Sissies
IS AMAZON BOOKSTORE THE NEW RETAIL MODEL?
Dunga Brook Diary: Water Water Everywhere
LA City and County Celebrate First Successes in Reducing Homelessness
ELUDING MY NEMESIS: JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
ROBERT F. KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION: THE MORNING AFTER
Tom Brokaw hit on #MeToo when I was a young reporter
Dunga Brook Diary: BINGO
SIDESTEPPING HISTORY AT THE IVY
THE PERILOUS SAGA OF A BOOK PUBLISHING VETERAN
Dunga Brook Diary: Green Acres
HOBNOBBING AT THE GRILL ON THE ALLEY
Dunga Brook Diary: April Fools
Mrs. Brown and the Walk Uptown
Overcoming Adversity: A Conversation with Painter Ricardo Garcia
STALKED AGAIN BY SINATRA'S LEGACY AT MATTEO'S
#MeToo is going too far for some veteran feminists
Dunga Brook Diary: Mother's Day, 2011
STEPPING BACK IN TIME AT RAE'S DINER
Yippies vs. Zippies: New Rubin book reveals '70s counterculture feud
L.A. Review of Books Features Article on Lionel Rolfe
Strand Owner Fred Bass Honored By Krugman, Talese, Lebowitz at Memorial
Dunga Brook Diary: Not Rocket Science
MY LIFELONG AFFAIR WITH NEWSPAPERS
FORMER VILLAGE LANDMARK DEFINED A LOST ERA
STEPPING UPTOWN AT THE WALDORF ASTORIA
Dunga Brook Diary: You Are Here
Fellowship Monrovia, an evangelical church that makes its pop-up home at Monrovia High, finds followers come in all ethnicities and persuasions
THE DAY I BECAME MY FATHER
Honey on the road to San Francisco with some of the Spanish explorers
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"Cities of the Golden Gate," Raymond Dabb Yelland, 1893. Most illustrations can be enlarged by clicking on them.
Prologue to the story of the Spanish exploration and settlement of California
Seasonal migrations of animals now extinct in California probably created the roads the native people used before the Spanish land exploration of California. "The heyday of giant mammals in North America was the middle and late Pleistocene, an epoch that started 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago, around the time the Earth was thawing out from the Ice Age. The gigantic beasts, which migrated from Asia across a now-vanished land bridge called Beringia, are known as Rancholabrean megafauna, after the famous La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles — the graveyard of thousands of saber-toothed tigers, giant bison and other extinct animals."[1]
The seasonal migrations of the large mammals may have created the substantial roads used by the indigenous people after their arrival.[2]
Paul S. Martin and Richard G. Klein argue that Paleoindian over-hunting led to the extinction of the megafauna.[3] Others argue that climate change was responsible for mammoth and mastodon extinctions. As the last major glaciation ended around 12,000 years ago, climate warmed too quickly for the megafauna to adapt.
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Das geschützte Fairy Toot (auch  Nempnett Thrubwell genannt) ist ein Cotswold Severn Tomb bei Nempnett Thrubwell bzw. Butcombe im nördlichen Somerset in England.

Der einst massive, nord-süd-orientierte, trapezoide Langhügel ist nahezu völlig zerstört. Ursprünglich war er über 2,5 m hoch, etwa 60 m lang und 25 m breit. Was blieb, ist ein weitgehend abgeflachter Hügel, in dessen Mitte sich die Überreste eines Schafstalls oder dergleichen befinden, der vermutlich aus den Steinen der Megalithanlage erbaut wurde.

Am nördlichen Ende ist ein kleiner Teil der ursprünglichen Anlage erhalten. Die etwa 2 m hohen Überreste sind als Außenseite einer Trockenmauer erkennbar. Möglicherweise sind auch die Überreste des Kammerzugangs erhalten, aber es ist ebenso möglich, dass diese Strukturen moderner Natur sind.

Bei den zerstörerischen Ausgrabungen der Jahre 1787 und 1835 durch die Pfarrer Thomas Bere und John Skinner (1772–1839) wurden Belege für eine Galerie mit mehreren Kammern entdeckt und Skelettreste gefunden.

Literatur
 Timothy  Darvill: Long barrows of the Cotswolds and surrounding areas. Stroud, Tempus, 2004.
 Richard Dunn: Nempnett Thrubwell: Barrows, Names and Manors. Nempnett Books, 2004, ISBN 0-9548614-0-X, S. 33–62.

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Top Spots To Honeymoon Near South Florida
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Living in a year-round tropical paradise makes it difficult to choose a destination honeymoon. All of the locales offer the same comforts that South Floridians enjoy on a daily basis, however, there are options for every couple whether they are looking for the most romantic week of their lives or a quiet place to spend time with their new spouse. All they have to do is pick their beach and they will be whisked off to parts unknown of Florida or take a brief jaunt to the Bahamas for an unforgettable honeymoon that promises to deliver romance, adventure and more. Simply view the list below to find out the best honeymoon destinations and hotels that are just a short car, boat or plane ride away.
Little Torch Key, FL 33042
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The Keys are already decadent but the little-known Little Torch Key boasts a secret that is only known to the elite and the soon-to-be-married. The small hideaway is only 29 miles away from Key West but has the seclusion that newlyweds crave. At the all-inclusive Little Palm Island Resort & Spa, couples who plan ahead can book the entire private island of Little Torch Key for 3 nights for the wedding of lifetime including 30 1-bedroom suites in thatched room bungalows. The honeymoon is included in the cost of all wedding packages and features amenities like breakfast in bed and champagne the first day.
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Sandals Royal Bahamian
Cable Beach, Nassau, Bahamas
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Experience Nassau and get the 5-Star treatment that you and your new spouse crave. Nassau, itself, is the marriage of a quaint metropolis and island escape and honeymooners can indulge in a myriad of specifically designed honeymoon packages depending on the hotel they choose. At the adults only, all-inclusive Sandals Royal Bahamian, the free package offers bed in breakfast for one night, champagne for two, and turn down service. Package extras include amenities like scuba diving, massages, and 24-hour butler service.
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Checca Lodge & Spa
Islamorada, FL 33036
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Venture to the softer side of the Keys in Islamorada, located just two hours north of Key West and nearly two hours south of Miami. A single main street separates the sunrise from the sunset, freeing you and your sweetie up for miles of beaches, plenty of fishing, and a bit of mingling with the locals while sipping on an authentic rum runner. Checca Lodge & Spa is by far the most posh accommodations on Islamorada and the spa offers a couples massage package that is a must for all honeymooners. After you've melted all of your wedding day stress away in the spa, eat at one of the three onsite restaurants featuring the freshest seafood, authentic tuscan italian and sushi and sake. It's the perfect destination for those that want to get away but prefer the seclusion of a less populous Key over the nightlife of Key West.
Related: Top Honeymoon Suites In South Florida
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Tortuga Inn Beach Resort
Bradenton Beach, FL 34217
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Nestled between Bradenton and Tampa, Anna Maria Island sits on the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico and beacons honeymooners to escape to a beach paradise that is perfect in the summer or fall. The weather is a nice mixture of South Florida heat in the summer and North Florida cool in the winter. Once there, activities include horseback riding on white sand beaches and kayaking, but its main attraction is relaxation. Most of its hotels, like the Tortuga Inn Beach, offer suites, villas or apartments that will get honeymooning couples used to married life in a hurry. Simply put, it's the quiet seclusion that every honeymooning couple craves, which is why Anna Maria Island is named #4 in TripAdviser's 2014 Traveler's Choice Top Islands In America list.
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Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress
One Grand Cypress Blvd.
www.grandcypress.hyatt.com
There is no place on earth that can bring out the kid in an adult like Orlando. From Walt Disney World to Universal Studios, your marriage will start out with a bang. Stay at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress and have a totally free honeymoon if you have your wedding there, as well. Then enjoy the nightlife at Downtown Disney and CityWalk and feel like teenagers again even if you didn't meet each other until later in life. It's never too late to relive your childhood and why not do it with your best friend in the world.
Related: How to Plan A Honeymoon
Niema Hulin was born in Newark, NJ but raised in Lexington, South Carolina for the bulk of her formative years. In 2002, she moved to Miami after graduating from the University of Florida. Since then, Niema has worked in film, television and commercials as a Production Assistant and Production Coordinator. Some of her films have included Bad Boys II and I Am Number IV. Her work can be found at Examiner.com.
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We're heading into the scariest time of the year, fall, when a cold breeze picks up in the air, all the vegetation around you withers and the days get shorter while the nights get longer. this season creates the perfect environment to curl up at home in front of your TV and watch some movies that are sure to give you the shivers.
Horror movies are entering an era of renaissance and there couldn't be a better time to start watching and re-watching some of the best movies in the genre. As the world around us seems to manifest more things to fear, horror movies are becoming a more essential form of media for digesting the horrors around us and experiencing some form of catharsis.
Luckily, there's no shortage of awesome horror movies to satisfy any moviegoer's appetite. there are movies for the hypochondriacs in us, the conspiracy theorists, doomsday thinkers, and superstitious ghost hunters. Let these movies give you a nightmarish alternate reality where you can vicariously experience your worst fears and then return to the comfort of your own home. so get ready to settle in and get scared.
TI West's A24 feature was billed as a tribute to '70s exploitation films, but it turned out to be so much more. In X, we follow a group of young actors who are making a bachelor party movie in the barn behind an elderly couple's remote home in Texas. Between scenes of choreographed sex and brutal violence, x conducts introspective explorations into the fleeting nature of youth, the horror of old age, and unfulfilled desires.
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The fifth installment of the iconic '90s horror film that revolutionized the genre didn't hold back. while it may be a sequel (or a sequel?), it turns horror movie tropes upside down in delightful ways, just like the original. the new cast, the exciting return of several cast members, and a plot that completely takes your breath away cement this screaming addition as an instant classic.
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james wan might be recognized for his essential additions to the horror genre with movies like saw, insidious, and the conjuring, but this standalone feature really unleashed wan's storytelling chops. This wild story of a young woman haunted by dreams of a mysterious man committing horrific murders takes you through stunning revelations, complete with nightmare-inducing visuals.
As if marriage didn't induce enough fear in some people, prepared or not, up the ante with the in-laws whose tradition is to hunt down the new bride, with all manner of weapons, from dusk till dawn. After surviving the wedding, the bride, Grace, has struggled if she wants to enjoy her new life. and, you know, stay alive.
Ever thought the predator needed an origin story? well, now you have one. Prey is set 300 years ago on the Great Plains of Northern North America, where a young woman from the Comanche tribe must confront the alien predator to protect the ones she loves. It's a showdown of epic and terrifying proportions.
the hunt was one of the last movies to be released in theaters, traditionally speaking, before the pandemic hit in 2020, which means if you don't remember it, it's because there was a lot of real-life horror coming soon in the path. . political satire blends the essence of the hunger games with liberal elitism and far-right extremism for a somewhat messy and downright unsettling depiction of our current times. it's also genuinely terrifying, with a side full of blood and violence.
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It would be hard to think of a movie with such a playful color palette, but as menacing a tone as Midsommar. From the twisted minds at A24, the film takes place in Sweden at a small town midsommar festival. and when a couple (who shouldn't be together) arrives with their friends (who honestly aren't much better), shit goes down the drain. Let's just say there's gore, a bear suit, and a really ravishing spread that would be appetizing if everyone didn't keep dying.
his brilliantly designed and remarkably original house subverts expected horror movie tropes and presents a film unlike any that has come before. The film follows a South Sudanese couple who manage to escape the throes of war in their home country of South Sudan, only to arrive in England to discover that they are dealing with a new threat…of the supernatural variation.
South Korean action-horror film Train to Busan puts the typical zombie apocalypse genre into a new container as it follows a father and daughter's journey across the country by train as they learn that the country is being invaded by a plague.
Jordan Peele's sophomore director introduces Lupita Nyong'o as the mother of a family who finds herself under attack by a mysterious group of strangers who are her exact doppelgangers.
patrick wilson, rose byrne and barbara hershey star in the first installment of the insidious series, in which a family faces the reality that their son has fallen into a mysterious coma in which he is possessed by spirits of another world.
The first partnership of lighthouse director robert eggers and beloved production company a24, the witch is set in 17th century new england and follows a puritanical family who are quick to blame their daughter for the disappearance of their family. son. Suspecting her to be a witch, they struggle between her familial bond and dark forces that might prove more powerful.
Sometimes the scariest movies don't need to venture into the supernatural or the grandiose to strike fear. put a deepwood guy on a bridge and give him a banjo and that's all you need to send a shiver down a lot of people. Starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox, this 1972 film about a foursome who decide to venture down a rural Georgia river likes to be labeled "an adventure drama," but the phrase "squeals like a pig !" starts to differ.
After her estranged mother dies, Annie (toni collette) begins to notice unusual activity in her home. After another shocking tragedy, Annie begins to lose control. Is there a supernatural force trying to manipulate her family, or is it all in her head?
A family (led by John Krasinski and Emily Blunt) silently navigates a post-apocalyptic world, stalked at every turn by monsters hunting their prey with a supercharged sense of hearing. Although the surviving family has so far managed to avoid the alien hunters, fractures within their own relationships may lead to their downfall. will spend this entire movie on the edge of his seat.
in jennifer kent's australian gothic thriller, a young widow is burdened with her troubled six-year-old son. But it only gets worse for the beleaguered mother when the titular character in her son's picture book, the tall, top-hatted specter called the Babadook, begins to creep past the pages of her book and wreaks havoc on mother and son. son.
Six adventurous women venture into the murky depths of an unmapped cave in North Carolina, hoping for a fun ride through the dark. But their mountain vacation is cut short when they discover they're not the only ones in the cave, which is also full of carnivorous humanoid monsters that hunt the women.
annie thinks she's found someone trustworthy in her new boyfriend, but after they have sex, he reveals that he's being stalked by an unnamed evil, which will now haunt her until she can pass it on to the next person she loves. let him sleep with. The moody, retro-inspired horror film is a modern classic with a haunting, unimaginable monster for our heroine to outwit.
A young black photographer (Daniel Kaluuya) joins his girlfriend (Allison Williams) to visit the home of her suspiciously overzealous Obama-supporting parents and discovers they can't be trusted on the job. oscar-winning modern teacher of jordan peele. In Esquire, Stephen Thrasher called the film "the best movie ever made about American slavery."
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In the very literally titled French art horror classic, a famous and deranged surgeon kidnaps beautiful women and attempts to transplant their faces onto his daughter, who, yes, is missing a face.
Wes Craven was one of the few horror masters to plumb the depths of America's vietnam war-era cultural divides in this gritty, artsy thriller about two teenagers who encounter ruthless escaped prisoners, and how things are violently changed.
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In the most haunting allegory of motherhood gone wrong, Rosemary, played by Mia Farrow, grows increasingly panicked by her painful pregnancy and the mysterious neighbors in a building with a history of Satanism. the great ruth gordon won an oscar for her role as rosemary's fiendishly quirky neighbor, who isn't as sweet as she seems.
Samantha, a broke college student struggling to pay her rent, gets a job babysitting an odd couple called the Ulmans. things get even stranger when samantha finds out that her charge is not a boy, but mr. Ulman's sick mother. Foolishly ignoring her intuition, Samantha's concert turns into a night from hell when she realizes the Ulmans have some particularly devious plans for her.
Nearly four decades after its release, The Exorcist remains the scariest film ever made and introduces one of the most terrifying cinematic villains in Regan Macneil, an innocent 12-year-old girl possessed by demonic force. William Friedkin's Oscar-nominated film was pretty much the first prestige horror film with incredible performances, heavy thematic material, and game-changing jump scares.
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Giving us a taste of just how cool (and weird) Jake Gyllenhall could be, Donnie Darko follows Donnie as his clichéd teenage social outcast issues somehow stack interdimensional stakes. It's a perfect combination of a scary movie: a troubled teenager, a memorable monster, all set during the Halloween season.
created the modern zombie genre and its penchant for sociopolitical echoes. But even more than that legacy, George A. Rosemary's low-budget black-and-white original proved that you don't need money to create a horror classic; you just need brainiacs.
john carpenter's boogeyman slasher nightmare spawned a legion of lesser sequels that couldn't diminish the ominous power of its original, about a psychopath who returns to his hometown years later to don a misshapen william shatner mask and stalk jamie lee curtis.
Arguably the most terrifying movie of all time, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller generates terror due to its meticulous execution. And, courtesy of Jack Nicholson's role as a murderous family man, it also features the most memorable horror movie performance in decades.
The story of a child molester who returns from the dead to hunt down the children of his dream killers, Wes Craven's shocking seminal acknowledges that you are never more vulnerable than when you sleep, a fact that naturally generates countless scares for one of the biggest horror franchises in movie history
Its sequel may boast more grandiose man vs. beast action, but Ridley Scott's beautiful 1979 outer space saga about a group of astronauts battling a malevolent alien remains the scariest installment in the franchise.
Ignore all the remakes, remakes of remakes, and remakes of prequels, and stick with tobe hooper's original 1974 grindhouser, about a slightly deranged, hippie-hating family with a house noted for its giant meat hooks. , furniture made of human bones and clothing made of human skin. giant who loves to kill turns his chainsaw.
a cautionary tale about the dangers of stealing from your boss and also about staying in roadside motels run by mom's kids. Alfred Hitchcock originated the star's surprise first-act murder with the story of a woman (Janet Leigh) on the run who is too accepting of the generosity of a dark-haired stranger (Anthony Perkins).
The only thing scarier than facing a hideous intergalactic monster is facing one that has the ability to shapeshift into human form: a who-is-the-creature scenario that director john carpenter employs for the intense suspense (with some big nasty special effects).
Japanese director Takeshi Miike is infamous for pushing the boundaries of good taste, though rarely has he displayed such extreme tension as in this 1999 film about a man who discovers dating can be a deadly adventure.
A young outcast meets and falls in love with an immortal young bloodsucker in this superb 1980s Swedish romance novel by Tomas Alfredson, culminating in an unforgettable pool scene.
Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho's 2006 film is Spielberg's fantasy story about a South Korean family besieged by an extraordinary enemy: a giant sea monster created from toxic waste.
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Michael Rooker is a serial killer whose crimes don't deserve much attention from the powers that be in John McNaughton's cold, clinical and harrowing character study (based in part on true events).
Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's novel is an unbearably disturbing portrait of youthful alienation and rage, with one of the genre's most unforgettable fire and brimstone endings.
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A couple (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) grieving the death of their daughter become convinced that she is trying to reach them from beyond the grave in Nicolas Roeg's deeply unnerving thriller. You will never look at girls in red coats the same way again.
the movie that, for a brief period of time, made everyone afraid of their television. Naomi Watts stars as a journalist investigating why people keep dying watching a certain videotape. and just like all the best scary movies, she has a creepy kid.
When the blair with project originally came out in 1999, people didn't know if it was fact or fiction. billed as "found video footage", it tells the story of three students who travel to a small town to investigate a murder and are eventually terrorized in the woods.
Sam Raimi's 2009 horror film is the perfect example of unspeakable horror and crude humor. Alison Lohman plays a bank loan officer who turns down an elderly woman's request for an extension on her mortgage payment. The woman magically retaliates, casting a curse on her new enemy and promising an untimely death.
A nine-year-old Russian girl adopted by a kind American couple (played by Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard), Esther begins behaving in dangerous ways: bullying her new brother and the boys at school, murdering a nun, and trying to seduce his new adoptive father. It doesn't take long for one to realize that perhaps this girl is not all that she seems. This year she released a new prequel, Orphan: First Kill, which would be an exciting double feature.
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if you call me by your name director luca guadagino, how do you follow one of the most memorable love stories of the 2010s? making one of his best horror movies. His remake of Dario Argento's 1977 classic casts Dakota Johnson in the title role as an American dancer who auditions at a world-famous dance academy in Berlin (where, spoiler, dance instructors aren't just instructors!) dance!).
before james gunn made it big with marvel and guardians of the galaxy, he was making really weird genre movies, like slither starring michael rooker and elizabeth banks. yes, there is a comedic slant to the film, taking place in a small town that an alien organism begins to terrorize, but its body horror elements will leave a slug-sized stamp on your brain.
In Robert Eggers' directorial debut, a Puritan family from Colonial New England moves to a farm outside their Plymouth Colony, where they encounter all manner of supernatural wackiness in the surrounding forest. come for the vintage colonial throwback, stay for the scary goats.
If you're not familiar with the story, which is based on a novel by Stephen King, it follows a group of kids battling an ancient supernatural clown named Pennywise. Of course, the 1990 Tim Curry-directed miniseries will always be a classic, but Pennywise was just begging for the big-budget CGI effects of the 21st century. the giant clown in that spotlight scene? tentacles swinging out of pennywise's mouth? good luck sleeping.
Even though this world of horror is nearly 100 (!) years old, this story of Earl Orlok's hosting of Thomas Hutter still delivers. Yeah, old horror movies like this one tend to look a little cheesy in modern times, but the creepy mug of noseferatu, somber photography, and a timely message about xenophobia hold up today.
I imagine it's hard to make a cannibal movie, let alone one that isn't a gross mess or a cheesy cancellation. raw, which follows a vegetarian beginning her first semester of vet school, where she, boy, does she like meat. It sounds simple, but raw's built-in suspense (how far is she willing to go?) and the art house vibe make it worth watching.
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To see 90 Breathless Minutes of Stephen Lang in top form, check out Don't Breath: Fede Alvarez's breathless horror thriller. The film follows three thieves who attempt to steal $300,000 in cash from a house in an abandoned Detroit neighborhood, which turns out to be owned by blind Gulf War veteran Norman Nordtrom (Lang).
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The First Lady's debut as social host was overshadowed by gaffes and political bluster.
By Erica Pishdadian
While the rest of us were watching the Oscars, Melania Trump was hosting the black-tie Governors Ball, the White House's first social event of the year. And despite the fact that she made a concerted effort to keep politics out of the spotlight, the president had other plans.
Melania chose "Spring Renewal" as the theme for the evening, and in a statement before the ball, she said, "Tonight, we come together as one nation, leaving political labels and partisan interests behind."
That message was undercut when the President Trump tweeted shortly after the statement's release that there was "much to be discussed, including healthcare" at the soirée. And that's exactly what POTUS did: During his speech, he said that his administration had achieved "almost everything we've started out to accomplish—the borders are stricter, tighter" and went on to say "[Obamacare] doesn't work."
He also bragged about the crowd size at the ball, claiming the 46 assembled governors amounted to a record, and joked with the holders of each state's highest office about "what easy jobs [they] have."
But perhaps the most notable moment came when Trump greeted his guests, welcoming the governors and their "wives" and "daughters." The president was immediately flogged on Twitter for seeming to forget that women are governors too:
Trump says, "Thank you to the governors...and their wives and daughters..." are there no female governors???
— Dr. Tina Manus, PhD #NBCT (@TinaMarieCTHSS) February 27, 2017
@realDonaldTrump @POTUS Not all the governors are men Mr President. Why only mention wives and daughters. What about husbands and sons?
— Henrie Kendall (@HenrieKendall) February 27, 2017
The Governors Ball traditionally marks the first lady's debut as the social host of the White House. Melania, who has spent little time in Washington, has appeared to shun most of the typical duties of the first lady, the Washington Post reported. But White House press secretary Sean Spicer said earlier this week that the first lady "has put a lot of time into this event."
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This post will be relatively short about explaining the poltergeist phenomenon.
These events do occur but very few people know what is causing them. No, mostly not ghosts but somebody with uncontrolled behavior. The non-physical world is on a different reality level, right here. Not upwards or down or in the distance elsewhere. All worlds are connected as we are.
I could roam around this term but it has many subcategories like telekinesis or pyrokinesis. Nice terms to keep it cool. Psychokinesis is a nice collective term about what the non-physical mind through our physical body and brain device can cause to the external surroundings. It is real as the Sun on the sky. People will deny it because it doesn't fit into "normal" mundane life.
I've read a story a year ago somewhere about a girl. She had so sudden pyrokinesis occurrences that she caused fires at random places. I guess these events may make people think about what is actually REAL.
Some people have abilities, some haven't seemingly. This means that we all have some abilities to a certain degree but some people can control them, some can close them out from childhood and some can't control them at will. Most people don't have them because they block them out. Many of us just never used them and/or blocked them out from childhood. Not the abilities themselves but our potential.
Our mind is capable of very interesting things if we learn to use it the proper way. It takes effort.
I guess if people hear this term, they will freak out of imagining bad ghosts roaming around wardrobes or tables and pushing them. The truth is and what I found out is that these psychokinetic movements are caused by the actual person, who is there. It is mostly true for children, who have strong emotional disturbances for various reasons. A great fear for example or emotional bursts.
Also what I found is that puberty is related to this. The transformation of the young child to a young adult so to speak. Fighting with the world.
Emotions with added commands towards the non-physical world can do much interesting and horrible stuff. Emotions can cause movements on physical objects which would not move in normal cicrumstances. Not some kind of spirits are doing that but you.
Emotions are subjective messages in a telepathic way. If you pack intention behind your messages, it can deliver interesting results into your life.
People who practice telekinesis and anything around do try to achieve these movements by years of practice but a very few found out that emotional charges are causing more end results.
Control your emotions, that's the trick.
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What version of Ruby on Rails does Dreamhost run?
Is there a list of what gems are available?
Is Dreamhost configured to allow custom versions of Rails from inside the rails app (vendor/rails)?
Never mind about Rails and Gems versions – I discovered rails.dreamhosters.com (should be a link to that on the main rails marketing page!).
can I run a custom version of rails from inside a rails app (vendor/rails) – and still use FastCGI?
Dreamhost seems to be running ruby 1.8.2. (!) Is there a way I could use my own ruby (1.8.4) – and still use FastCGI?
… and with more digging, it looks like all my questions are answered.
There's a link to the wiki there, but it's a simple Wiki search, and it returns results that aren't especially clear.
Between the Dreamhost site, the Wiki and these forums, there is a wealth of info available, its just hard to find sometimes.
Yup, that's the only problem – it's hard to find sometimes. I'm making this suggestion (that Dreamhost put some more specifics in their marketing material, or link to the specifics directly) because although I'm about 95% sure I'm going with Dreamhost, the one problem I had was figuring out if I could go with them. I needed specifics to make the decision, and it would've been a better experience for me as a potential customer if I hadn't had to dig to do basic research.
So, Dreamhost, consider putting a few more specifics in your marketing pages! Exact versions of perl, php, ruby, rails, mysql, etc. and any other info that lets one know what your setup is. You're running Debian Sarge – I figured that out with a google search – but are you running kernel 2.4 or 2.6? Either is fine but 2.6 is an improvement worthy of notice. Anyway, you get my point.
Exact versions of perl, php, ruby, rails, mysql, etc. and any other info that lets one know what your setup is.
The only problem I can see with that is that the information would have to be frequently updated if it is to remain accurate.
but are you running kernel 2.4 or 2.6? Either is fine but 2.6 is an improvement worthy of notice.
Yeah, that's true. I think they should do it, though. (Other hosting services, while not offering deals as good as this one seems to be, do seem to keep their info up-to-date.
Thanks for the kernel info. I'm going to try and use your promo code when I sign up (not sure if they'll take it, because I'm pretty sure I'm going for the half-off CodeMonster deal).
(not sure if they'll take it, because I'm pretty sure I'm going for the half-off CodeMonster deal).
Just one thing, I think using a promo code restricts you to paying by credit card.


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BVU's ability to preserve, as well as enhance, its traditions by articulating a riveting vision for the future is shared by faculty, staff, students, and leadership, which is why I am so proud to work here. With the support of my colleagues and the Board of Trustees, I feel that we can horizontally create and implement a comprehensive plan for BVU's future that engages the broader campus community and energizes external audiences. Together we can set outcome benchmarks to navigate our future and gauge our success.
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The shutter will not release unless the bellows is fully in (or out).
This may mean that the internal light baffle is raised (the camera control is in the 'unlock' position). This is a camera interlock feature that is not normally by-passed.
The shutter will not release.
There are several possible causes. On some cameras the multi-exposure interlock trips before the shutter. So if you start to press the release and change your mind the camera body can be fooled into thinking that you have released the shutter. This behaviour varies between bodies. Use the Multi exposure setting to use the release, then reset to Single exposure mode.
There are a few instances of older bodies not operating the cocking lever or the release lever correctly on some lenses.
The 80mm f3.7 has a quirk where the shutter release arm on the lens moves even if the lens is not cocked.
The camera advances all the film.
This is usually caused by the shutter release being slightly depressed, often by a long cable release. It is caused by the multi-exposure interlock being over-ridden. This was a feature to allow film to be wound off quickly if less than 12 frames were used.
Rarely an improperly latched back can also cause this, as the frame counter does not register the film passing through the camera.
The frame spacing is uneven.
Uneven spacing, but not overlap, between frames is not uncommon on mechanical cameras. Check that the camera is correctly set to 120 or 220 where applicable, and that the film is tightly wound on the take-up spool when exposed.
This may also indicate an improperly latched back.
Your eyesight must be matched by the dioptric correction in the finder that you are using. If you cannot see the boundary of the focus spot sharply, you cannot reliably focus the image. The clear spot/cross hair screen for the C330 cameras is not intended for general photography.
If it happens with just one lens, it could be that the lens needs adjustment.
If it happens with all lenses, you need to check the finder focus against the body focus.
See Section 8.1. There are several versions of the backs and the dark slides are not completely compatible.


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Q: Pass three parameters to Prism DelegateCommand to use the same command on different button commands [MVVM mode] I have the following DelegateCommand, created with the Prism library.
public class AddressModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    public ICommand MyButtonClickCommand
    {
        get { return new DelegateCommand<object>(FuncToCall); }
    }

    public void FuncToCall(object context)
    {
        //this is called when the button is clicked
        Method1("string1", integer_number1);
    }
}

I have already bonded MyButtonClickCommand to a button in XAML file.
<Button Content="Click me"
        Command="{Binding MyButtonClickCommand}"/>

But I would like to use the same MyButtonClickCommand for 2 more buttons instead of creating two additional DelegateCommands MyButtonClickCommand1 & MyButtonClickCommand2.
So what I want is to add string1 and integer_number1 as parameters and call the same ICommand on different buttons like below
<Button Content="Click me"
        Command="{Binding MyButtonClickCommand("string1", integer_number1)}"/>

<Button Content="Click me 2"
        Command="{Binding MyButtonClickCommand("string2", integer_number2)}"/>

<Button Content="Click me 3"
        Command="{Binding MyButtonClickCommand("string3", integer_number3)}"/>

A: You can pass an instance of any class that could be declared in XAML
public class MyCommandParameter
{
    public int MyInt { get; set; }
    public string MyString { get; set; }
}

to the CommandParameter property of a Button:
<Button Content="Click me" Command="{Binding ...}">
    <Button.CommandParameter>
        <local:MyCommandParameter MyInt="2" MyString="Hello"/>
    </Button.CommandParameter>
</Button>

The MyCommandParameter instance is passed to the Execute handler method's argument:
public void FuncToCall(object parameter)
{
    var param = (MyCommandParameter)parameter;

    // do something with param.MyInt and param.MyString
}

A: Use the CommandParameter property:
<Button Content="Click me 2"
        Command="{Binding MyButtonClickCommand}"
        CommandParameter="2" />

You could then cast the context parameter to whatever the value of the command parameter is:
public void FuncToCall(object context)
{
    string parameter = context as string;
    if (int.TryParse(parameter, out int number))
    {
        //---
    }
}

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Pre-Pharmacy courses completed at institutions other than KU that satisfy the KU School of Pharmacy prerequisite requirements commonly differ in credit hours. Transfer students are encouraged to contact the KU School of Pharmacy with questions about course equivalency. Additional information about our curriculum can be accessed at our website, Pharmacy.KU.edu/curriculum.
https://kucore.ku.edu/courses
Link to Supplemental Instructions:
https://admissions.ku.edu/apply
In addition to PharmCAS, the KU School of Pharmacy requires a supplemental application: the KU (undergraduate) transfer admission application. Please visit https://admissions.ku.edu/apply to complete this supplemental application in addition to PharmCAS.
The KU School of Pharmacy does not require the PCAT.
For those who opt to take the PCAT, we would like to receive the score report.
While the PCAT may help a student gain admission to the KU School of Pharmacy, a PCAT score will not exclude an applicant from the KU School of Pharmacy.
Recommended, but not required
Clergy: ACCEPTED
Friend: CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTED
Politician: CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTED
Pre-Health Advisor: ACCEPTED
Teaching Assistant: ACCEPTED
Each applicant must submit three letters of recommendation via PharmCAS. We recommend that your references be current and include a professor and present or former employer with whom you have interacted within the past 24 months. It is highly recommended that you have one recommendation from a pharmacist. If you do not know a pharmacist, you are encouraged to obtain an introduction to a pharmacist and discuss with him or her your aspirations for a career in pharmacy.
Foreign Transcript Evaluations: Students with coursework completed at foreign institutions seeking admission to the KU School of Pharmacy are required to submit official and original transcripts to the University of Kansas Office of International Admissions. Transfer students are encouraged to initiate this process early in the fall semester as evaluations can take several weeks to complete.
International applicants are also required to submit the KU International Admission application as their supplemental application. Please see https://world.ku.edu for more information.
Applicants who are admitted for whom English is a second language must take an English skills competency examintion through the University of Kansas Applied English Center. For more information, please see https://world.ku.edu and/or contact World@KU.edu.
Qualified applicants are invited for an interview. All admitted applicants participate in the interview process. Interviews are scheduled beginning in August, and held on a rolling basis throughout the academic year. Committee members look for students with good communication skills, emotional maturity, leadership, professionalism, understanding of the pharmacy profession, and an interest in service to community. Job shadowing or work experience in a pharmacy or a healthcare setting is encouraged.
A $100 non-refundable deposit is required once an applicant is accepted.
Again, the supplemental (KU admission) application must be complete in order to to enter the KU School of Pharmacy and/or enroll in University of Kansas classes.
The KU School of Pharmacy holds P1 Orientation on the last Thursday & Friday of the week before fall semester classes start (Thursday-Wichita, Friday-Lawrence/all).
Questions? Please contact us at RxAdmissions@KU.edu