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Dig, grow, eat, inspire.
A Learning Garden helps to promote the principles of sustainable environmental practice and responsible stewardship of nature while teaching and inspiring students and teachers on how to create their own gardens on school grounds.
For students that wouldn't normally have access to garden space (e.g. living in a condo), Learning Gardens gives them an opportunity to dig in the earth, work with their hands, see things grow and gain a better understanding and appreciation about where their food comes from.
Learning Gardens can also become a networking hub as it inspires connections between schools, teachers and community partners.
The Learning Garden at UBC Okanagan is located adjacent to the natural pond behind the Engineering, Management and Education building. It is made up of six raised planter boxes and a small greenhouse.
History of the Learning Garden
The Learning Garden at UBC Okanagan campus officially opened on May 31, 2007 under the leadership of Veronica Gaylie, who was an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Education, Okanagan Campus at the time.
The project had many different sponsors that helped make the garden a reality: TD Canada Trust Friends of the Environment, Weyerhaeuser Forest Products, Woodstock Lumber Supply, Pier Mac Sand and Gravel, Wood Words Wood Cuts, Art Knapp Garden Centre, West Wind Nursery and Diesel and Dirt.
The learning garden as a Community Field Experience
Teacher candidates have an opportunity to work with the Learning Garden during their Community Field Experience (CFE) in May.
Robert Campbell (left) and Sebastien Parkhill-Goyette (right) in front of the Learning Garden main entrance.
In 2019, teacher candidate, Sebastien Parkhill-Goyette, undertook a large project with the garden as the planters were in serious need of some TLC and after all the clean-up, he found time to research and experiment with companion planting.
"Companion gardening is planting crops or flowers near each other that complement each other," said Parkhill-Goyette.
In some cases that's offering protection against insects or other predators, in others it's providing different nutrition to the soil. One example of his companion planting is the Three Sisters: corn, pole greens and squash. The corn offers the beans support, the beans pull nitrogen from the air and bring it into the soil and the squash's large leaves shades the soil – keeping it cool and moist.
In addition to his work at UBCO's Learning Garden, he worked with Oyama Traditional School Pippa Dean-Veerman's third grade class to establish their own Learning Garden on school grounds.
"We wanted the students to be involved in each stage of the process so they would have more of a sense of ownership of the garden," said Parkhill-Goyette.
Some of the activities included the students cutting out graph paper to plot where they thought the raised beds should be, writing thank-you cards to donors and volunteers and even helping to measure and drill the garden beds together.
"It was an ambitious project," said Parkhill-Goyette, as CFE's are only four weeks long. "My biggest takeaway from the experience was the extent of student involvement and watching how capable they were from the measuring to drilling. It was pretty impressive to see them do all these. They even made a video of the process using iPads."
For more information about the Learning Garden, contact Dr. Robert Campbell.


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Q: Is there a more efficient way to remove a list of docs from firestore? I have this function which will run on a cron job to remove a comment from firestore 30 days after the user deletes it.
run.db.collection('sites').get()
        .then(snapshot => {
            snapshot.forEach(site => {
                if(site.exists){
                    let query = run.db.collection('sites').doc(site.id).collection('comments');
                    query.where('removed', '<', run.func.getTimeMinus({days: 30})).get()
                        .then(coll => {
                            coll.forEach(doc => {
                                if(doc.exists){
                                    run.db.collection('sites').doc(site.id).collection('comments').doc(doc.id).delete();
                                }
                            });
                        });
                }
            });
        });

This function seems it would be resource heavy, since I have to first get an unknown list of sites, then run another query for every sites comments, where the day the user pressed the delete button is less than today minus 30 days.
I want to try and keep my reads and writes as low as possible for obvious reasons.
Is there a more efficient way of doing this?

A: The total efficiency of queries aginst Firestore is effectively measured by the number of documents read.  For the most part, N queries that each return M documents is going to perform the same as 1 query that returns N*M documents.  To put it another way, if you need N documents total, it doesn't much matter how many queries you have to make to get all N.
If you just want to reduce the number of queries, then put all the comments in a single collection, and query that collection with the range filter for "removed" in order to get all the documents at once.  But as I said, that's not necessarily any more efficient, since you should be getting the same number of documents total in either case.
The downside with fewer queries that return more documents is that you need more memory to store all those results at once.
Bottom line is this: it's not likely to be worthwhile to worry about it.  Do whatever is most convenient for you, that also minimizes the number of documents read.  Be aware of memory usage.

A: What @doug-stevenson stated is accurate.
In addition to his answer, I have refactored your code to make use of DocumentSnapshot#ref, call run.func.getTimeMinus({days: 30}) only once, appropriately chain the promises and also count the number of deleted comments for logging.
let threshold = run.func.getTimeMinus({days: 30});

run.db.collection('sites').get()
  .then(qsSites => {
      let processSitePromises = [];
      qsSites.forEach(site => {
          // delete comments older than 'threshold' for current site
          let taskPromise = site.ref.collection('comments').where('removed', '<', threshold).get()
            .then(qsOldComments => {
              let deleteOpPromises = [];
              qsOldComments.forEach(commentDoc => {
                deleteOpPromises.push(commentDoc.ref.delete())
              });
              return Promise.all(deleteOpPromises)
                .then(resultsArray => resultsArray.length); // count resolved promises for summing below
            });
          processSitePromises.push(taskPromise);
      });

      return Promise.all(processSitePromises)
        .then(commentsDeletedCountArray => commentsDeletedCountArray.reduce((acc, v) => acc+v, 0)); // sum array of numbers

  }).then((commentsDeletedCount) => {
    console.log('Purged ' + commentsDeletedCount + ' comments.');
  }).catch((err) => {
    // catch-all that may be caused by one of the following problems:
    //  - failed to read "/sites" collection
    //  - failed to query "/sites/$siteId/comments"
    //  - failed to delete "/sites/$siteId/comments/$commentId"
    //  - syntax error
    console.error(err);
  });

Notes:

*

*I've prefixed instances of QuerySnapshot with qs.

*I could have used querySnapshot.docs.map((doc) => ...) to build the promises arrays, but this calls querySnapshot.forEach(...) internally in the getter for docs to build the array, so doing it manually skips extra iterations.

*Error handling is very basic. You could make it so that if a delete fails, it is silently ignored rather than stopping the entire process.

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How WoUlD the AnomalY Take Over the earth, and estaBlish himself as the universal sOvereigN!
Re: How WoUlD the AnomalY Take Over the earth, and estaBlish himself as the universal sOvereigN!
THE COMPASSIONATE DICTATORSHIP OF THE ONE WHO IS NOBODY!
He will come not in the name of nations, political parties, religions or in the name of some god...but in his name
He is neither the messiah or a prophet as such things are deceptions....he is simply the Luminary of the truth...!
He will take the harts and minds of humanity as he is speaks like no other has...in universal terms to the very soul of the specie...Intuitively the billions of them will know who he is, and as they understand he will engulf them in his consciousness and dream ....at this moment with the backing and power of most of the human race he will strip every government, monarchy and authority of its power..and conclude them...
Than he will take the united nations and use it as an instrument to introduce at last to mankind the one world government and the power of universal consciousness....the end of national borders and boundaries he will bring forth...at last the specie is one...!
He is and will be a magnificent teacher of truth, love and a new global spirituality that once and for all will overthrow the gods that have enslave the specie in ignorance and death for millenniums ...
Quoting: LuciferQuetzalcoatl(SUN)
Hey Lucy. Your threads sure keep on coming.
Why not for once speak in greater detail? Not about the forbidden subjects, but about something more concrete and precise for the reader to grasp?
For example you could start with the deers and the golden beings - and where those beings originate, and why and how they communicate with him.
monarchies, which century do you live in?
David's Heir
These people won't understand. Only then the wise will. Armies are almost ready. Generals have taken their positions. Let the cleansing come first. Humanity cannot construct over a rotten basis or it will fall again as it did with the last 4 humanities.
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"THE LIPS OF WISDOM ARE CLOSED, EXCEPT TO THE
EARS OF UNDERSTANDING" Kybalion
Adytum
Man, you don't get it.
He's not here to take over.
He's here to destroy the whole shebang, starting with the elite that are plotting their own takeover.
As my little Sicilian grandmother used to say, "The wheels of the gods grind slowly..."
Vamps333
Quoting: David's Heir
TheFierceOne
The anomaly will become the president of America
ascarletwoman
Lofty Elim
If the Devil had a son who was blind, lame, and hungry, would God send him a healer?? _________
(PS. I don't believe in the Devil)
Upon what road did Christ die?? _______
Upon what road was he born again?? _______
What would be different??___________
What would be the same??___________
If God didn't say "Thou shalt not kill", does it sound like something he might?? _______
IF God had a sense of humor and told you a joke, would you laugh at him??
If God told you something serious, would you be??
If God gave you ample warning...... are You Prepared??_________
Isaiah42:19(OT 800 bc)
'Who'... is Blind, but... My Servant?
Or Deaf... as 'My Messenger' that I sent?
'Who'..... is as Blind as 'He' that is Perfect?
And Blind... as the Lord's Servant?
John16:7
"Nevertheless... I tell you the 'Truth'.
It is to 'your' advantage that 'I' go away: for if 'I' do not go away....
the 'Helper' will not come to 'you'... but if 'I' depart, 'I' will send 'Him' to 'you'.
And when 'He' comes...
'He' will convict the World of SIN... and of Righteousness... and of Judgment.
Of SIN... because they do not believe in 'ME'.
Of Righteous... because 'I' go to 'my Father' and you see me no more.
Of Judgement... because the 'Ruler' of this World... is Judged.
I still have many things to say to 'you'... but 'you' cannot bear them now.
However... when 'He'.... the 'Spirit of Truth' has come.
'He' will guide 'you' into all 'Truth'.
For 'He' will not speak on 'his' own authority...
but whatever 'He' hears...'He' will speak.
'He' will glorify 'Me', for 'He' will take what is mine.... and 'Declare' it to 'you'.
All things that the 'Father' has are mine.
Therefore, I said that... 'He' (The Father) will take of mine and 'Declare' it to 'you'.
A little while, and 'you' will not see 'me'... and again a little while...
and 'you' will see 'me'.
Because... I go to the 'Father'.
2Peter3:42
And 'Where' is the promise of 'His' coming?
For since 'The Fathers' fell asleep...all things continue as they were.
'From the Beginning'... of the 'Creation'.
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Psalm33:3 Sing unto 'Him' a 'New Song'. Play 'SKILLFULLY' with a 'LOUD NOISE'.
But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief.
The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
Since everything will be dissolved in this way, what kind of people ought you to be?
You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat.…2 Peter 3:11
so many ripple lately
Quoting: the path
The black hole sun is keeping its word. Only a balance can safe us. His death will open the black hole.
yep a ding ding ..
balance like 6 9
blue is violet, 4 7 is still 7 4 too
Gold(69) Silver(47) bridge
Green Need lots of rain (not hot/cold)
That would make a lot of things easier-a
where is the motivation …
Destroyer / Healer
It's not impossible ----) it's a Certainty
A.N.G.e.L
You want change ….fine ….he will deliver change unlike anything your world has ever dream....
AS his vision has no limits and his desire for absolute power knows no boundaries ..
THe UnToUcHaBLe 717 (101)
so he has to die to save you...Jesus anyone...you mf really do think you are worthy of the death of a divine being ...you misinformed monkeys...lol
TT YHVH TT
I'll become the worlds largest music artist and then begin my kingdom from there.
There's nothing anyone can do from stopping this process.
That's how I'll do it.
Milo Jeeder
This all sounds like a master plan. The problem is when you put so much faith in someone you don't even really know. Everybody has demons.
Quoting: THe UnToUcHaBLe 717 (101) 77558438
Misinformed is a striking Right word. The colapse of a star is causing a black hole, which is deadly. Your life is hanging on by a thread.
Quoting: Milo Jeeder 77581804
vape some white sage and get those demons out of you :)
SocialEnigma
I don't know. But the more I searched what Jesus taught and what God said about certain things just seem to be the truth.
How is that, if it's of ignorance?
The world is polarized to the point of breaking. It's hard not to want the world to change for the better. But how can you change the unwilling?
Or how can you change anyone if you couldn't even change yourself?
People say they want the truth but can't be bothered to search for it. Is it fair to give them the answer? Even if you did would they believe it?
It would require submission, willing or not.
It's divinity through love after all.
This is all about You.
Oh look, more stupid death threats by reptile fuckfaces...
Liars. Jesus death was a portal opening.
You are all dead already.
Only by accepting Jesus as your savior can you access the portal.
You will stay dead and manically obsessive spamming like bot brains for eternity, lol.
Go fuck yourselves, ugly, inbred, creepy reptile loosers!
Shat up
Dude, He will rule in Heaven as a subsidiary high priest and king next to Jesus.
He will rule with an iron rod over the nations.
He will be given the morning star.
He will sit on God's throne.
God will confess His name among His angels.
He will be given the New Jerusalem.
He will be given Jesus' new name.
Sananda.
Is (J)Esu's new name.
Anomalous Coward
[link to i.ibb.co (secure)]
I hear he did it outside of time. Easier to change the ending of a book if you exist outside of its pages.
Ye' olde plumed servant.

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Q: How to download contacts from iPhone to Mac? I was able to do a backup of the phone using iTunes, but how do I see and access the contacts?
Do I need to import them into Address Book?
Is there a better way to download contacts from iPhone to Mac?

A: The best solution *IS* iCloud sync.
Simple and without any fuss
But a simple syncing over USB or Wifi to iTunes should ask you if you want to merge your contacts when contacts syncing is enabled (iTunes>iPhone>Info>Sync Contacts)

A: The best way is to use the Apple supplied sync options - either over USB/WiFi local sync to the Contacts app (Address Book on Lion and earlier) using iTunes or using iCloud.
From there, you can backup / export them as vCard or inject them into Exchange, LDAP or other services. This way the contacts are in a standard / text format as opposed to the internal storage form for iOS or OS X contacts app.
To get started in syncing Contacts between iTunes and an iOS device, get your USB cable and open iTunes. From there - type sync contacts into the help menu search field and iTunes help will walk you through the setup. With a few clicks, you should be at a window like this and can turn on the sync for that device.


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Deer Creek is a tributary of Big Creek in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the watercourses managed by the Long Point Region Conservation Authority (LPRCA).  The LPRCA operates the  Deer Creek Conservation Authority.

Deer Creek was dammed in 1969, creating an  reservoir.  The reservoir is in a forested area, and the Conservation Authority opened campsites, available for campers.  Canoes can be rented.  Fishing is allowed.

References

Long Point Region Conservation Authority
Rivers of Ontario
Watercourses
Landforms of Norfolk County, Ontario

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Extreme value distributions are used to model the occurrence of extrema (i.e. extreme deviations from the median of a probability distribution). The parameters for GEV Distribution 1 are taken from a model fitted to annual maximum sea level data in Port Pirie, Australia from 1923–1987. GEV Distribution 2 has the same parameters as GEV Distribution 1, only the scale parameter has been increased to create more variability. The return level curves shown in the bottom-left give the expected maximum sea level that will occur once every years. For example, the Port Pirie return curve (blue) indicates that one may expect the sea level to reach 4.3 meters once every ten years, or 4.6 meters once every 100 years.
The purpose of this Demonstration is to show how to interpret PDFs and return level curves for a GEV distribution with a real-world example. Move the sliders to adjust the various parameters and notice how each parameter affects both the PDF and the respective return level curve.
for the return period . The Port Pirie data and parameters can be found in . Anyone interested in learning more about extreme value theory should also refer to . Coles provides a clear and coherent overview of modeling extreme values and supplements with a variety of examples. The goal of this Demonstration was to put one of those examples into a more tangible form.
Scott Constable "Predicting Maximum Sea Levels"


Kyler Murray is the latest in a long line of two-sport athletes. See where ranks among the great two-sport stars of all time.
I'm guessing the guy who assembled that list has never heard of Jackie Jensen, much less the 1940s and '50s. But I agree Jackie Jensen belongs in the conversation.
Give me a break! Best of all time? How could they omit Jackie Jensen who was an All American in BOTH football and baseball? He finished 4th in Heisman trophy balloting and was the first Golden Bear to rush for over 1000 yards. He led Cal to the first College World Series championship in 1947. Then he chose a professional career in baseball and was AL MVP in 1958. The "Golden Boy" was the first man to play in the Rose Bowl, World Series, and baseball's All Star game.
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"90% of rural women and 55% of all women are illiterate" in Morocco.
— Snapchat on Thursday, June 30th, 2016 in a snapchat
Snapchat highlights decades old data as part of Michelle Obama visit to Morocco
By Joseph Cariz on Thursday, July 14th, 2016 at 10:27 a.m.
The journey of this claim is particularly interesting, and shows the perils of how incorrect or outdated statistics can be repeated over and over.
Factual claims are apparently now like Pokémon. They can be anywhere.
We stumbled across an interesting factoid recently while flipping through a Snapchat story documenting First Lady Michelle Obama's visit to West Africa and Morocco from June 27 to July 1. Obama just joined Snapchat, if you're interested.
Snapchats disappear, but we were able to grab a screengrab with a sobering claim about illiteracy rates among women in Morocco. The snap had the headline "Moroccan illiteracy" and said that "90% of rural women and 55% of all women are illiterate."
Is that true? Or should this claim disappear right along with your Snapchat?
We wanted to find out.
Tracking the claim to its source
The snap cites as its source a blog post by Vital Voices, a non-profit that advances women's causes around the globe.
That actually is a reposting of an article from the IntLawGrrls website, a blog dedicated to discussion of international law and policy. The original IntLawGrrls post is from September 2011 and was written by Christie Edwards, the current director of international humanitarian law at the American Red Cross.
Edwards claimed in her piece that "recent surveys in Morocco estimated the country's illiteracy rate to be approximately 55 percent of all women. Fully 90 percent of rural women in Morocco are illiterate."
Edwards' blog cites a UNICEF table of statistics.
But that table doesn't correspond to her figures.
The UNICEF table only lists an overall literacy rate of 74 percent for women 15-24 in Morocco (or an illiteracy rate of 26 percent). It makes no mention of illiteracy rates for a wider age range of women or for rural women specifically.
So we asked Edwards where she got her data from.
A spokeswoman told us the statistic actually comes from a 2004 USAID report on education in the Muslim world.
That report includes, without citation, the following passage: "Literacy levels remain very low: 63 percent for men and 38 percent for women. Illiteracy is a particular problem for women in rural areas, where nine out of 10 women are illiterate."
The claim that nine out of 10 rural Moroccan women are illiterate goes back even further, to a 1996 USAID resource request report that claims, "Women remain especially disadvantaged by low literacy (13% of rural women are literate)."
So to recap, a 2016 Snapchat relies on a crosspost of a 2011 blog that erroneously cites UNICEF data when in fact it's coming from a 2004 USAID report that is using a 1996 USAID resource request as is its foundation.
If that sounds fishy, it is.
Illiteracy in Morocco
To find out the current illiteracy rate among Moroccan women, we examined public records maintained by UNESCO's Institute for Statistics. The website's profile on Morocco lists a literacy rate of around 62.05 percent for women aged 15 years and older in 2015, which translates to an illiteracy rate of 37.95 percent. (Correction: An earlier version of this fact-check listed a different percentage.)
The database doesn't give specific information about illiteracy for rural versus urban women.
Leonardo Menchini, the head of the social inclusion section at UNICEF Morocco, shared the most recent data on illiteracy rates for urban and rural populations with PolitiFact. UNICEF's data come from the 2014 Moroccan census.
The takeaway: illiteracy remains an issue for females in Morocco, but not near the levels seen in the Snapchat.
Our ruling
A Snapchat story featuring First Lady Michelle Obama claimed that, in Morocco, "90% of rural women and 55% of all women are illiterate."
That data is, in some cases, at least 20 years old -- way older than Snapchat.
The claim cites old data from a report in 2004, that tracks back to a 1996 USAID request report. The most recent information from UNESCO and UNICEF indicate that Morocco's illiteracy among women is still relatively high (60 percent in rural areas and 42 percent overall), but much lower than what the snap says.
We rate this claim False.
https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/452873e9-e53d-4ae9-9483-c9f7c3576d83
Published: Thursday, July 14th, 2016 at 10:27 a.m.
Researched by: Joseph Cariz
Edited by: Aaron Sharockman
Subjects: Education, Women
Email with Jenelle Eli, International Communications at the American Red Cross, July 7, 2016
Email interview with Leonardo Menchini, head of the social inclusion section at UNICEF Morocco, July 8, 2016
Haut Commisariat au Plan, "Data from the 2014 general census of population and housing," accessed July 8, 2016
Snapchat, "Moroccan illiteracy," June 30, 2016
USAID, "Results review and resource request," March 1996
USAID, "Strengthening education in the muslim world," April 2004
UNESCO Institute for Statistics, "Morocco," accessed July 8, 2016
UNICEF, "At a glance: Morocco," accessed July 7, 2016
Vitalvoices.org, "Morocco's future depends on women," September 17, 2011
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How Paralegal Services Aid Divorce Formalities?
You may find today that paralegal services are being provided within companies that function to handle legal issues professionally. The sectors where these services are required mostly can be related to marriage, real estate, family business or divorces. Since the rate of divorces has begun to rise especially with the increase in assets of each and every family, it becomes necessary to ensure that the case may be handled by expert professionals.
Paralegal services aren't completely meant for aiding divorce related cases, especially since their functions are limited to certain extents but they can surely ensure that the attorneys find enough time to efficiently use their skills and obtain information.
People part of the paralegal services help in drafting forms that may be required in court during hearings. It certainly is a long procedure where most people feel exhausted to make arrangements for such processes. This can cause great loss to the individuals involved in the pursuit hence paralegals are hired such that they can take care of the minor tasks while the majority are given attention towards.
Paralegals are of different types and thus are limited to simply helping individuals in submitting their forms. You cannot contact a paralegal expecting him/her to feed you any advice about your predicaments since they work accordingly to the wishes of their attorneys.
Paralegals will understand their clients and work alongside them to maintain the corresponding link such that the case is managed in such a manner that is suited the clients and can assist in gaining pursuit faster. The approach is doubtful for few, however, hiring paralegals helps not just clients but attorneys mostly making their tasks simpler and giving them more time to focus on the major glitches in the case.
Although we're talking about divorce cases, paralegal services often aid both parties especially if there are children involved in the situation. Since the scenario can prove to be an unpleasant environment for the children, paralegals make it a point to assign them to a different location away from the hearing lest the children be of appropriate age to be present in court.
Divorce cases are stressful for most parties and can prove to be dramatic which is why most individuals don't even consider the option of going to court. However, if the individual wishes to live legally with authenticated belongings and rituals, it is necessary to hire paralegal services to initially assist during the case.
It takes time to decide over the divorce and divide shares that can benefit both sides of the party. Just to make the transition easier, faster and without a hassle, paralegals ensure that both clients are in agreement of certain profits and losses in order to quickly wrap the case.
People, therefore, choose to settle their woes with paralegal services in India especially since they're considerate of many options and boundaries. This proves to be a less stressful means of addressing the court where paralegal services act as a catalyst and ensure that suitable work is accomplished during the trials.


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Pretty Little Liars season 7 premiere date announced
Find out when the show returns in the US and the UK.
Pip Ellwood-Hughes
Credit: Freeform
Pretty Little Liars will return to Freeform in the US on 21st June 2016 to kick off season 7.
The seventh (and potentially final) season will consist of 20 episodes and begin with Tick-Tock, Bitches. In the season 6 finale PLL fans saw Hanna (Ashley Benson) in danger after being kidnapped when her plan to draw Uber A out went horribly wrong.
It was also revealed that Jessica DiLaurentis (Andrea Parker) had a twin called Mary who was Charlotte's (Vanessa Ray) birth mother. She had been working with Elliott (Huw Collins) to get her hands on the family money.
Troian Bellisario, who plays Spencer on the show, will direct an episode of the new season although it's not yet known which episode that will be.
In the UK Pretty Little Liars is expected to return to Netflix on 22nd June, available one day after its broadcast in the US.
In this article:Andrea Parker, Ashley Benson, PLL, Pretty Little Liars, Troian Bellisario, Vanessa Ray


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Brain teasers are basically witty word play, and they may initially appear difficult. However, as you start solving them, it would become relatively easy and clear. You will find some of the best brain teasers and puzzles with answers. If your kid that they are too simple for them, browse through our sub sections, where you can more find more challenging puzzles and logical questions.
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If 5 men takes around 3 hours to dig 3 holes, how long will it take for 2 men to dig half a hole?
Answer: There is nothing called a half whole and it cannot be dug!
Two girls played and completed 5 games of chess. Each of them won same number of games and there wasn't any tie in any game. How did it happen?
Answer: The two girls weren't playing against each other and they played with different competitors.
A farmer had 20 cows. Due to contagious disease, suddenly all but 11 cows died suddenly. How many cows does he now have?
Answer: 11 cows – ALL but 11 cows died – 11 cows survived.
How many seconds do you have in a year?
If 5 peacocks lay 10 eggs in 2 days, then how many peacocks will lay 100 eggs in 24 days?
Answer: No peacock lays eggs, only peahen lays.
How many oranges can you put into an empty container?
Answer: White House is in United States.
When you add two letters, the five letter word becomes shorter. What it is?
You are running in a 5000 mtr marathon race and you overcame the person in the second place. At what place you are?
What is the reason that it is considered illegal to bury a man living in North America in South America?
Answer: It is illegal to bury a man alive, when he is living.


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Q: Equality in Triangle inequality in a normed vectorial space (not inner product space) In a real inner product space $(E,<\cdot|\cdot>)$, if we note $||\cdot ||$ the associated norm, we have equality in the triangle equality, i.e. $||x+y||=||x||+||y||$, if and only if there exists $\lambda, \mu \in \mathbb{R}^+, \lambda x = \mu y$.

But is it still true in a normed vectorial space, where we can not associate a dot product ?

In fact in the proof for real inner product spaces, we use Cauchy-Schwarz, but since there is no dot product here, I can't see how I could prove it, if true.
Thanks in advance

A: Let $\|x\|_1 := |x_1| + |x_2|$ be the $\ell_1$ norm on $\mathbb{R}^2$. Then the triangle inequality attains equality for $x=(1,0)$ and $y=(0,1)$ despite $x$ and $y$ not being parallel.


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Unfortunately, there was a limited amount of pets dressed as Pokemon on the internet so it took a bit of digging. I was kinda surprised because who wouldn't want some real life Pokemon (who are also their beloved pets) for the day!? Below are pets dressed up as Pokemon and I made sure to give credit to their wonderful owners. Hope you enjoy them in their costumes as I much as we do! We even encourage you all to dress up your pets, or your friends' pets as Pokemon this Halloween!
Last year Tumblr user Piochips' bearded dragon, Salsa, cosplayed the fire breathing dragon Charizard.
Deviant Art user leafeon-ex made an outstanding costume for their Umbreon.
Imgur user simonthepug cosplayed as Red and dressed up their pug, Simon, as Bulbasaur.
Pikachu seems to be the forever favorite Halloween costume for dogs. Always remember to give credit to the creator/owner if you decided to share any pix! Also have a Happy Halloween everyone and don't forget about getting your very own Pumpkaboo before tonight is over!
how cute. and in a lolz sidenote, i now have two codes for the ORAS demo and i can't use either one cause 3DS can't handle a darn proxy server. XP and no, you can't have them.


Where are the dynamic project managers?
Project management has been one of the most productive and successful areas of system dynamics. And yet, when I recently looked at project management tools and advice, I couldn't find a hint of SD dynamic insights into product management. Lists of reasons for project failure almost entirely neglect endogenous explanations.
Nothing about rework, late change orders, design/implementation balance, schedule pressure effects on quality and productivity, overtime burnout and turnover, Brooks' Law, multiphase resource allocation, firefighting or tipping points.
I think there's an insight and a puzzle here. The insight is that mismanaged dynamics and misperceptions of feedback aren't the only way to screw up. There are exogenous and single-cause failure modes, like hiring people with the wrong skill set for a job, building something no one wants, or just failing to keep in touch with your team.
However, I'm pretty sure the dominant cause of execution failure is dynamic. Large projects are like sleeping monsters. They are full of positive feedback loops that, when triggered cause increasing delays and overruns, perhaps explaining the heavy-tailed distribution of massive project failures. So, the puzzle is, how could there be so little mention, and so few tools, for management of the internal causes of project success?
Not coincidentally, this problem is one of the major reasons we built Ventity. We're currently working on project models that are entirely data driven, so you can switch from building a house to building a power plant just by changing some tables of input. We think this will be the missing link between data-oriented tools that manage projects statically in exquisite detail and dynamic models that realistically describe projects, but have traditionally been hard to build, calibrate and reuse.
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Q: Javascript id selector only working for first element in iteration I am using the aura:iteration tag to dynamically generate a list of contacts. In that list of contacts is the contact Id that I need to pass to the controller. I am storing that contact Id in an  element tag using data-id. I have passed the id to the controller and used console.log to show what is being passed. The issue is that it is only storing the id from the first li item.
Component:

<aura:iteration items="{!v.contacts}" var="contact" indexVar="studentNo">

<ui:outputRichText value="{!contact.Photo__c}" class="studentPhoto"/>

<ui:outputText value="{!contact.Name}" class="studentName" aura:id="studentName"></ui:outputText>

<ui:button label="Check-in" class="studentSelect" press="{!c.studentSelect}"></ui:button>

</aura:iteration>

Client-Side Controller:
studentSelect : function(component,event,helper) {
    var element = document.getElementById('studentIdElement');
    var studentId = element.dataset.id;
    console.log("Student ID: "+studentId);
}

The id's are dynamically generated and I have confirmed that they are all different but it still is only passing the id of the first li item.

A: The document.getElementById() method can only return one element. Ids are supposed to be unique.
You should use a class instead.
In your HTML, declare your links like this:

Then, in your Javascript, you'll be able to get a list of elements using:
var elements = document.getElementsByClassName('studentElement');

Finally, don't forget that your new variable is an array. You can loop through each element to get the dataset id:
Array.prototype.forEach.call(elements, function(studentElement) {
      var studentId = studentElement.dataset.id;
      console.log("Student ID: "+studentId);
});


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The Nantgarw dance tradition (Welsh: Traddodiad dawns Nantgarw) is a Welsh dancing tradition that originates from the Nantagarw area in south Wales.

Tradition
Nantgarw tradition is a style of Welsh folk dancing from the South and Valleys regions of Wales, specifically associated with the small village of Nantgarw. The style encompasses both handkerchief and stick dances. The dances call for eight dancers in four pairs. The style was first put into dance notation by Dr. Ceinwen Thomas (1911–2008), who wrote down what her mother, Catherine Margretta Thomas, could remember of the dances that had been danced locally when she was young.

Etymology
The Nantgarw dances take their name from the village of Nantgarw in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf where they are said to have first been performed.

Origins
Catherine Margretta Thomas was born in 1880 in the village of Nantgarw. Her parents were Daniel and Hannah Davies. As a child she enjoyed watching the local dances as they were performed in an open space below Twyn Chapel in Caerphilly and at Nantgarw and Y Groes Wen. Due to the hostility of the local churches to folk dancing, Catherine Margretta Thomas' own mother was not keen on her daughter going to see these dances, but Catherine was able to convince her father to take her along to witness the displays. The rise of Nonconformism in Wales meant that by the time Catherine Margretta Thomas was in her teens folk dancing had practically been eradicated in Nantgarw.

Welsh National Folk Dance Society
Dancing had died hard if inconsistently by 1911 when Catherine Margretta Thomas' daughter, Ceinwen Thomas (later Dr. Ceinwen Thomas), was born. But the influence of Nonconformism waned and by the time Ceinwen Thomas was attending school she was discussing the tradition of dancing in Nantgarw with her mother. After Ceinwen Thomas had left college she met Walter Dowding of the Welsh National Folk Dance Society. She told him about her mother's recollections of folk dancing in Nantgarw. He put her in touch with Doris Freeman. Together Catherine Margretta Thomas, Ceinwen Thomas and Doris Freeman worked to notate the dance steps from the traditional dances that Catherine Margretta Thomas could remember. These notes were then passed on to the Welsh National Folk Dance Society by Ceinwen Thomas.

Criticism
There has been skepticism expressed over the claims by Dr. Ceinwen Thomas that the dances which her mother recalled were authentic and original Welsh dances reflecting a long and integral Welsh culture of folk dancing. The BBC Welsh Affairs Editor Vaughan Roderick wrote in a blog in 2009 that he doubted the history of these dances. He questioned why only Margretta Thomas had any recollection of these dances being performed. He wrote that his great-grandfather had been a minister in Nantgarw in the 1880s but had not seen these dances.

References

Welsh culture
Welsh traditions


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Illinois matches deadliest day with 125 new COVID-19 deaths
Gov. JB Pritzker takes questions from the news media at his daily coronavirus briefing in Chicago Saturday. (Credit: BlueRoomStream).
Senate President wants $40 billion virus, pension bailout from feds
By BEN ORNER
borner@capitolnewsillinois.com
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois matched its deadliest day of the COVID-19 pandemic on Saturday as the state Department of Public Health reported 125 deaths in the previous 24 hours, matching Thursday's record.
IDPH also reported 1,585 new cases of the disease, bringing Illinois' total to 29,160 cases with 1,259 deaths. The novel coronavirus has been reported in 93 counties after Hamilton County in southern Illinois reported its first case on Saturday.
More than 137,000 tests have been completed, including more than 7,000 in each of the past two days. Gov. JB Pritzker has set a goal of 10,000 completed tests per day to get the most accurate picture of COVID-19 in the state.
"With more access to testing, we will learn of many more positive cases," IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said at Saturday's daily coronavirus briefing in Chicago, the state's 41st consecutive such news conference.
"Although our numbers continue to climb, it is with some guarded optimism that we say that the growth is slowing," Ezike said, adding that Illinoisans "must continue to be strong and hold the line" when it comes to social distancing.
Pritzker said he has yet to decide whether to lift or extend the state's stay-at-home order when it expires at the end April.
On the question of possibly lifting the order on areas of Illinois that have seen much fewer cases than some hotspots, Pritzker said he understands the difference in caseloads between urban areas and rural areas.
"I'm looking at the data to try to make determinations," he said, including "what hospitals are more available or less available."
The governor stressed, however, that "the rate of ascent of cases in rural areas seems to have caught up with, and even surpassed in some areas, the rate of ascent cases in urban areas."
The White House's coronavirus task force on Thursday released guidance for states to "reopen" in the form of a three-phase plan.
"There are aspects of that plan that I think are pretty good," Pritzker said.
The governor said he believes Illinois is in Phase One, in which vulnerable people are advised to stay home; others should practice social distancing; businesses should telework; and schools should remain closed.
Pritzker said Phase Two of the White House plan, which includes reopening schools, large venues and some businesses, as well as resuming non-essential travel, can be discussed after the state hits its peak in cases and sees declining case numbers and hospitalizations for 14 days.
"I want to get there as fast as anybody does," Pritzker said, adding that it is a balance between "saving lives and saving livelihoods."
The governor added that he does not feel any pressure from President Donald Trump to reopen the state.
Pritzker also said that as of Saturday, Illinois has received less than 3 percent of the personal protective equipment it has asked for from the federal government, and the state continues to buy from private sellers instead.
Senate President's bailout request
Senate President Don Harmon sent a letter this week to Illinois' Congressional delegation asking that they push for more than $40 billion in COVID-19 relief aid, including $10 billion to bail out the state's indebted pension funds.
The Oak Park Democrat cited a study from the University of Illinois that estimated the state could lose $14.1 billion in revenue between 2020 and 2021 because of the pandemic.
"Given the dire circumstances and consequences," Harmon wrote, he asked Senators and members of Congress to consider, among other things, $15 billion in block grant funding; $9.6 billion in direct aid to municipalities; $6 billion for the state's unemployment trust fund; and $1 billion to help minority communities.
Harmon also asked for $10 billion in relief for the state's pension systems. Although "Illinois law has put the state on a path to fund the pension liability in a manner that is actuarially sound," Harmon wrote, 2020 "will not be a normal year."
Harmon specifically asked that the feds "Provide direct cash assistance to the pension systems" or "Offer a low interest federal loan to aid Illinois in our efforts to restore and maintain retirement security for public sector workers …"
Illinois' unfunded pension liability is roughly $138 billion, and its annual contribution for fiscal year 2021 was expected to be about $8.6 billion from the general revenue fund, or nearly $10 billion all state funds.
Pritzker said on Saturday that he was not aware of the content of the letter before it was sent out and that he does not object to Harmon sending it.
"It's different than what I have been talking to the federal representatives about," the governor said, adding that state governments across the country will feel the effects of COVID-19.
"Every state has this problem," he said.
Money for low-income students
State education officials announced Saturday that an emergency fund to help low-income college students disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic has raised $550,000.
The money raised by private funders will be allocated to public universities and community colleges based on the number and percentage of low-income students that they serve. Illinois universities serve more than 50,000 low-income students, while community colleges serve more than 81,000 according to the release.
"While colleges and universities are doing all they can to help students during this pandemic, vulnerable students still face the unstable housing, food insecurity, or lack computer equipment and internet access," Ginger Ostro, executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, said in the release. "This fund will help meet those needs."
The fund will be administered by the Southern Illinois University Foundation. All part-time and full-time students in good standing will be eligible for money, which will be given as grants that do not need to be paid back.
Students should contact their school directly for more information and how to apply.
Ben Orner
Schools to remain closed for academic year as Pritzker says virus not yet at peak COVID-19 Sunday Update: 31 more fatalities reported; Pritzker salutes National Guard


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Central bank warnings on the global economy are getting louder | Business
December 6, 2018 Howard DaviesLeave a Comment on Central bank warnings on the global economy are getting louder | Business
When I took over responsibility for banking supervision in the United Kingdom, in 1995, a wise old bird in the Bank of England (BoE) warned me that I would find it a thankless task. No newspaper ever prints a headline reading "All London Banks Safe and Sound this Week." But if a problem occurs, it is almost invariably seen as a case of supervisory failure. Dozy watchdogs asleep at the wheel are a trope that trips quickly into journalists' coverage.
Regulators are caught in a crossfire of conflicting expectations. Banks want to be left alone, unless they need help. Consumers and their political representatives want regulators to be aware of every transaction, ready to intervene in real time if any glitch occurs. In the years running up to the 2008 financial crisis, the pendulum swung toward the non-interventionist end of the spectrum. Today, "intrusive" has a positive connotation in the regulatory lexicon. But the need to strike a sensible balance remains.
The other point my wise old bird made was that the only way to generate a positive story about regulation was to warn of trouble ahead. "Regulators warned today that…" is a good lede for the Financial Times or Wall Street Journal. Editors get a frisson of excitement from worrying their readers.
Financial regulators and the international financial institutions have been following that sage advice a lot recently. As William Coen, the secretary-general of the Basel committee, put it at a recent conference, citing former US Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke: "For those working to keep our financial system resilient, the enemy is forgetting." Coen went on to argue that, "the likelihood of a future financial crisis occurring only increases with time." I suppose one can see what he means, though I wonder about the logic of that formulation.
The European Central Bank has weighed in with more specific concerns: "Vulnerabilities in financial markets continue to build up amid pockets of high valuations and compressed global risk premia." The ECB is particularly concerned about the feedback loop to the eurozone from trouble in other markets. That concern centres on asset managers: Euro area investment funds are vulnerable to "potential shocks in global financial markets".
The BoE has similar concerns about the price of risk. On its "Bank Underground" blog, which is fast becoming the most interesting of the BoE's publications, you can find analysis of the evolution of risk premia. Using the prices of credit default swaps, it shows that investors are accepting less compensation for bearing given amounts of credit risk: compensation per unit of default risk has fallen by 20% since early 2016. Similarly, the volatility premium, defined as the price of options that insure against falls in the equity index, has fallen considerably. In retrospect, mispricing of risk was a flashing red warning sign that regulators and investors ignored in the run up to the 2008 crisis.
1. Extreme weather events
2. Natural disasters
3. Failure to halt climate change
4. Water crises
5. Cyber attacks
6. Biodiversity loss
7. Mass involuntary migration
8. Manmade environmental disasters
The International Monetary Fund has gotten in on the act, too. Even though its October World Economic Outlook presents a positive picture of global growth, the IMF, no doubt still conscious of the Panglossian view it offered in 2006, now warns that the world economy is "vulnerable to a sudden tightening of financial conditions" and that "equity valuations appear stretched in some markets." In this context, "some" is IMF code for the United States. The US market's share of global equity valuations is the highest it has ever been – a remarkable statistic given the declining US share of global economic activity.
How should we view all these warnings? Are the regulators genuinely anxious, or just covering their backs? The received wisdom among regulators is that they are better off being able to say, "We told you so" if something goes wrong, and that there is little downside in occasionally issuing dark warnings. Journalists rarely look back to check whether the dire outcomes the authorities pointed to actually came to pass. And even if they do check, regulators can always claim that the worst was avoided precisely because they had warned of the risk.
But the warning quotient has been rising in recent weeks. Should we be genuinely anxious, and begin battening down the hatches to prepare for a coming storm?
It is hard to be sure, of course, but reasons to stay awake at night are multiplying. While each emerging-market trouble spot – Venezuela, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina – has idiosyncratic features, a pattern is starting to emerge. A rising dollar, and an investment flight to the US, is accentuating these countries' self-generated problems. And while the Fed's interest-rate hikes could hardly have been more carefully signaled in advance, there are still concerns that the desired financial tightening in credit markets has scarcely occurred yet, and that, if and when it does, some borrowers could find themselves uncomfortably exposed.
Then there is the risk of a trade war. The World Trade Organisation has – at last – warned that an intensified tariff war could result in a sharp decline in trade. That would be a serious blow to the Chinese economy, which is already slowing markedly for other reasons.
So the global economic risks now seem to be weighted on the downside, after a benign period. The one piece of good news is that if a recession (or perhaps more likely a period of below-trend growth) is in the offing, banks are significantly more strongly capitalised than they were the last time. We can, however, be less certain about the shadow banking sector, almost by definition. We may be about to discover whether the new credit creators, some of whom do not have to live under a rigorous regime of capital regulation, have priced risk correctly.
• Sir Howard Davies, the first chairman of the UK's Financial Services Authority, is chairman of RBS. He was director of the LSE and served as deputy governor of the Bank of England and CBI director general.
© Project Syndicate
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Jason Ward is the only person people should trust as far as Spoilers go, and if he's disputing this, I think it's safe to say that it's not accurate.
Where is he disputing this? Also, he mentioned yesterday he doesn't really know. He works with Bespin who signed off on the JediPaxis thing. There doesn't appear to be a dispute.
Here the the VII plot leak for context:
That's the wrong outline. That was from May 2015. By August, most of the film was leaked out. So this is a little bit of an apple/oranges comparison.
I'll add one thing.... There's some things I like about this leak and some things I really don't like, but I think it's unfair to disuses them without any context or script to know how it works.
#41 DailyPlunge, Aug 31, 2019
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, but I think it's unfair to disuses them without any context or script to know how it works.
Even if the leaks are 100% true, I'm still holding back discussing specific scenes because I agree that context is everything.
For example, the one TFA spoiler I read was Luke not being in the movie until 30 seconds left in the film. I was furious when I read that, yet I loved it when I saw the TFA ending in the theater.
I look more at big picture spoilers and where the movie is going and how they are linking it to TFA and TLJ. I will continue to say my biggest worry is it feels like ROTJ 2.0 if Rey confronts The Emperor in the Throne Room and Kylo dies. That doesn't mean I won't enjoy the movie cause TFA is ANH 2.0, but I enjoyed it. It will just be a bummer that the ST was essentially a reboot of the OT story with a few pieces of the puzzle mixed around.
#42 Jedi77-83, Aug 31, 2019
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For people who haven't seen the finished product, but just have the nuts and bolts it's a little easy to compare it to what we've already seen. It seems like JJ would avoid steering this film towards another rehash, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
It would completely go against the comments he made on the Vanity Fair piece: "The Rise of Skywalker might be that point. "Working on nine, I found myself approaching it slightly differently," he says. "Which is to say that, on seven, I felt beholden to Star Wars in a way that was interesting—I was doing what to the best of my ability I felt Star Wars should be." But this time something changed. Abrams found himself making different choices—for the camera angles, the lighting, the story. "It felt slightly more renegade; it felt slightly more like, you know, F*** it, I'm going to do the thing that feels right because it does, not because it adheres to something."
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/05/star-wars-cover-story
#44 Andrew Waples, Aug 31, 2019
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I agree with your post, just wanted to point this out: JJ Abrams is not a good film maker... Super 8 was forgettable to say the least... What film has JJ Abrams directed that you can say was a good film? Mission Impossible 3? HAHA
The only reason Kathleen Kennedy was so adamant about getting JJ Abrams on Star Wars was simply because he brought Star Trek out of obscurity.
So much so, that when JJ said NO, she got his mentor Spielberg to talk him into it( which ironically, Spielberg wouldn't dream of doing himself out of respect for Lucas).
Spielberg helped an old friend, Kennedy, get a person she believed could do a good job on Star Wars simply because he did a good job with Star Trek. KK and Spielberg are pals, so he helped her out.
So, we're getting fairly decent Star Wars films... nothing even close to Kershner level Star Wars. I would expect better Star Wars films from filmmakers like Nolan, who wouldn't waste their time on Star Wars.
We had a chance at greatness with the GoT guys but it seems like they're jumping ship for Netflix. sorry for getting off topic and going on a tangent...
#45 Rogues1138, Aug 31, 2019
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JJ Abrams is not a good film maker.
This type of hyperbole is just silly. JJ Abrams has been very successful. You not liking his work is fine, but he's well established as one of the most creative forces in Hollywood. WarnerMedia wouldn't give $500M to a poor filmmaker.
We had a chance at greatness with the GoT guys but it seems like they're jumping ship for Netflix
They're still doing their Star Wars project so they're not jumping ship.
It would completely go against the comments he made on the Vanity Fair piece:
I agree which is why it's difficult to jump to conclusions. We're limited by our own imaginations.
I loved Lost, hahaha but what has JJ done, really, in terms of film making beside all the TV stuff?
This type of hyperbole is just silly. JJ Abrams has been very successful. .
I would respectfully agree and disagree. I don't think JJ is a hack as many fans rate him. I think he's a safe choice and he makes solid films that are entertaining in this era of Blockbusters.
My critique of him is that he doesn't have that 'classic' film on his resume yet. Every great filmmaker has atleast one great movie that stands out on their resume. Johnathem Demme comes to mind with 'Silence of The a Lambs.' I don't see anything like that on JJ's resume yet as only time will tell....
deadmanwalkin009 Rebel Official
nothing even close to Kershner level Star Wars. I
Um, didn't Kershner co-write Episode 7?
#49 deadmanwalkin009, Aug 31, 2019
deadmanwalkin009 said: ↑
You mean Kasdan?
My bad, I read the name wrong.
KyloRen1981 Rebelscum
JJ Abrams is not a good film maker...
2 cents: TFA is the reason I'm even a Star Wars fan and MI3 is my favorite film in that franchise.
I think what JJ is not so great at is answering questions. That's his only flaw in my opinion (and it is a BIG flaw if you're gonna handle a franchise like Star Wars). So, assuming someone forces him to give some closure in Episode IX, I expect a very well made film.
#52 KyloRen1981, Aug 31, 2019
KyloRen1981 said: ↑
I think I was a bit harsh saying JJ is not good film maker, since I too enjoyed TFA. MI3 was ok, can't seem to remember wanting to watch it again, but I will to see if I change my mind. Films are subjective, so I think I was being a bit too cocky. I like allot of JJ Abrams projects that being said, for me he hasn't made that film where I can generally recommend as a great film. I can't say, JJ Abrams is a great film maker go watch MI3 or TFA!
Although, I'm looking forward to see what he'll be doing for WarnerMedia. Will he be the Kevin Feige? I know everybody is being compared to Feige nowadays...
Thank you for your kind and well-said response.
I never saw Super 8 and the Star Trek films didn't do anything for me. I chalked it up to the fact that I've very rarely enjoyed any Star Trek properties (TNG being the only exception) but it is true that JJ wasn't able to overcome my indifference in those cases.
#54 KyloRen1981, Sep 1, 2019
The Force Awakens... The most successful film of those made the year it was released...
You don't need to be Roman Polanski to make a good Star Wars film.
MI3 was ok, can't seem to remember wanting to watch it again, but I will to see if I change my mind.
Watch MI2 and I'm sure it will make you re-watch the MI3..lol To be fair, JJ rejuvenize the Mission Impossible series. The 3 movies after that has be phenomenal. The last 30 minutes of MI Fallout, was one of the most intense movie scenes that I've seen in a long time. I legitimately didn't know how it was going to end.
#58 deadmanwalkin009, Sep 1, 2019
Adam812 Rebel General
The most interesting thing in this plot summary is C-3PO being programmed to read a Sith language. The rest is way too much repetition.
#59 Adam812, Sep 1, 2019
Colonel Settars Rebelscum
+126 / 2 / -0
I want to see some sort of a reverse situation in the Last Jedi when Kylo Ren was ordered to kill Rey, now the Emperor order her to kill Kylo Ren. While I think the thing that tempt Kylo to the darkside is power, I think Rey's is fear of losing love ones.
#60 Colonel Settars, Sep 1, 2019


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Take a look at the example below working:

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In just the last few weeks, card skimmers — devices that illegally scan customers' credit cards –have been found at two different Walmart stores. The skimmers in these cases were so convincing that they may have been in place for weeks for being discovered.
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Similarly convincing skimmers were used last year at Safeway stores in Colorado and California. Those skimmers were made to be undetectable to customers swiping their cards as they pay for their groceries.
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Earlier this year, reports indicated that retailers were in possession of chip card readers, but hadn't installed them yet, even though most retailers now face increased liability for credit and debit card fraud if they fail to update their systems.
Meanwhile, skimming attacks were on the rise, especially at ATMs, many of which still use old magnetic swipe technology.
The Walmart incidents highlight the need for banks, credit unions, and other credit card issuers to hurry up and distribute chip-enabled cards. Criminals will inevitably figure out ways to beat these cards, but we now at least have the opportunity to put an end to old-fashioned card skimming.


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And because I can't post without a pic, here is my youngest a couple of weeks ago. I'm so pleased I got this smiley shot when I did, as one of his front teeth has now grown down and he looks like a toothless old man at the moment!