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R.I.P. Albert Finney
The Smiths in front of Albert Finney Shop by Lawrence Watson, Manchester 1987
Smiths' bassist Andy Rourke will be heading to Minneapolis next Saturday as a special guest to Minneapolis dance club Transmission's 14th Anniversary. …
Actor Albert Finney died on February 7 at the age of 82.
Although he's known mostly as an English actor, producer, and director of films & television... but he's been known to sing, if the roles required him to do so. Finney sang in three films Scrooge (1970), Annie (1982), and Corpse Bride (2005).
More importantly, he had been a great inspiration to Morrissey (singer of The Smiths), and have often appeared in many of the band's images and cover artwork.
Morrissey, reacting to Finney's death, had this to say via morrisseycentral.com:
"ALBERT FINNEY DIES … he dies, a part of me dies
… his refusal to accept a Knighthood - that moronic delusion of inclusion - elevates him further in the Arts and humanities.
Albert was Manchester.
Please watch Charlie Bubbles. …
… there must be something I can dream tonight …"
If you are a Smiths fan, and interested in Morrissey's art directions and ideas, you need to get a copy of Peepholism by Jo Slee, published in 1994. The book covers every official release, from Hand In Glove to Morrissey's Vauxhall and I. I can't recommend the book highly enough for any Smiths/Morrissey fan. At one point, I actually own two copies of the book, but would later gift the hardcover to a friend.
Albert Finney appeared on these Smiths singles:
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (1984)
Original design featured Finney as Arthur Seaton in the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1965), but the rejection letter said, "Mr Albert Finney is not willing to consent to the use of his likeness in the manner you describe".
William, It Was Really Nothing (1984)
Original artwork of Billie Whitelaw from the film Charlie Bubbles (1968), directed by Albert Finney. For copyright reasons, the original cover was abandoned (both Billie Whitelaw and Albert Finney refused).
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (2016 re-release)
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (2016 demo)
For the full death list head over to Musicians who died in 2019.
[09 Feb 2019] Cadet (British rap artist), 28, traffic collision
[08 Feb 2019] Sali Sidibé (Malian composer and singer), 59
[07 Feb 2019] Legarda (Colombian reggaeton musician), 29, shot
[07 Feb 2019] Albert Finney (English actor, inspired The Smiths), 82, chest infection
[06 Feb 2019] Kyle Yorlets (American musician for Carverton), 24, shot
[06 Feb 2019] Gerald English (British tenor), 93
[06 Feb 2019] Carlos Fernando Nogueira (Brazilian singer, architect and graphic designer), 60
[05 Feb 2019] George Klein (American disc jockey for WLFP), 83, complications from dementia
[04 Feb 2019] Giampiero Artegiani (Italian singer-songwriter), 63
[04 Feb 2019] Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (Russian composer), 82
[04 Feb 2019] Zbigniew Penherski (Polish composer), 84
[04 Feb 2019] Kulyush Sakieva (Kazakh singer and actress), 98
[04 Feb 2019] Matti Nykänen (Finnish ski jumper and singer), 55
[04 Feb 2019] Izzy Young (American-Swedish folklorist and author and music personality for musikpersonlighet), 90
[03 Feb 2019] Peter Posa (New Zealand guitarist), 77
[03 Feb 2019] Detsl (Russian hip hop artist), 35, heart attack
[02 Feb 2019] Tim Landers (American rock guitarist and singer for Transit)
[02 Feb 2019] Bill Sims (American blues musician), 69
[01 Feb 2019] Alex Brown (American painter and punk rock musician for Gorilla Biscuits), 52, brain aneurysm
[01 Feb 2019] Ayub Ogada (Kenyan musician), 63
[01 Feb 2019] Spatsz (French musician for KaS Product), 61
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Q: Get params from PUT or DELETE request from ZEND_HTTP_CLIENT request I want to get params from my PUT or DELETE request sent with Zend_Http_client like this :
$httpClient = new Zend_Http_Client();
$httpClient->setUri("http://mysite/mycontroller/");
$httpClient->setMethod(Zend_Http_Client::PUT);
$data = array("id"=>"1","label"=>"LABEL UPDATE");
$httpClient->setParameterPost($data);
$response = $httpClient->request();

For a POST request I can retrieve params without problems, but for PUT or DELETE I have nothing ...
Any idea ?
THX

A: Finally I found this solution :
in Zend/Controller/Plugin/ you can find PutHandler.php . It can be used to get PUT params using $this->getRequest()->param_name.
Include it in your boostrap.php file with this :
protected function _initRestRoute()
{
    $this->bootstrap('frontController');
    $frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
    $frontController->registerPlugin(new Zend_Controller_Plugin_PutHandler());
    $frontController->registerPlugin(new Zend_Controller_Plugin_DeleteHandler());
    $restRoute = new Zend_Rest_Route($frontController);
    $frontController->getRouter()->addRoute('default', $restRoute);
}

I extended the PutHandler.php script for Delete params and it works.

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My Immortal Wiki
Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way
Diabolo Weasley
Chapter Twenty Six
Hargrid
Snaketail
in: Real World, Goffs
Tara Gilesbie
This article is written from a real-world point of view.
A photo misattributed to Tara and Raven.
Infamous for:
Writing My Immortal
Tara Gilesbie is the legendary author of My Immortal, although the first fifteen chapters were edited by Raven.
Little information is known about Tara aside from what she mentioned in her author's notes.
2 Writing Style
3 Troll Controversy
4 Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen
As stated, Tara Gilesbie wrote My Immortal under the profile name XXXbloodyrists666XXX on fanfiction.net. Like any young writer, she shares many of the same traits of the primary "protagonist" of her story, Ebony (also known as Enoby, Egogy, Enobby, Ebomby, Evony, Ibiny, Ebpony, Eboby or Enony), but excluding the vampirism and magical powers. But she still labels and distinguishes herself as a "goff", wrist cutter, Satanist, lover of Hot Topic and various mainstream punk/emo/goth/alternative genre bands, etc.
Tara is supposedly from Dubai, a principality part of the United Arab Emirates (another fact about Tara that raises giant question marks). According to what initially appeared to be Raven and Tara's combined myspace page they were from New Haven, Connecticut, but it was later discovered that this page was started by a pair of sisters who had never even heard of My Immortal. Before writing My Immortal, she also shared that the band Good Charlotte made a great impact on her life. Apparently, their song titled "Hold On" convinced her not to commit suicide after a recent breakup from her boyfriend Crys.
Tara began writing My Immortal circa 2006. She updated the story on a regular basis, but there were often large gaps between updates as she claimed that the flames of the reviewers caused her to "slit muh rists" and she had to go to the hospital for recovery. There were other moments when she went on extended vacations or was just too "bizzy". She made one last update in mid-2007 before going on a trip to England. She never made any further updates to My Immortal, leading her baffled readers to reach the logical conclusion that she had shed her overexaggerated gothic persona. Perhaps the reason she never finished the fanfiction was because she simply forgot. In fact, she could well have been lying about cutting her wrists to make an excuse for forgetting to update the story.
As any reader/reviewer of My Immortal would tell you, Tara Gilesbie possesses a very distinct writing style, much of which probably reflects her personality. For instance, she has a habit of writing as if she were sending text messages (it gets so bad that it gets increasingly harder for the reader to decipher her words as the story continues). At least the first fifteen chapters were readable because they were edited by Raven. She also bombards the chapters with a series of author's notes, all of which tell the "prepz and posr[s]" to stop flaming her work. Or some would be in direct response to particular criticisms she received from reviewers about her spelling, OOC (out of character) depictions of characters, etc. She would also usually threaten to slit her wrists for each bad review or threaten to not update the fanfic unless she got a certain number of good reviews. An example of which includes:
"AN: STOP flaming! if u flam it menz ur a prep or a posr! Da only reson Dumbledeor swor is coz he had a hedache ok an on tup of dat he wuz mad at dem 4 having sexx! PS im nut updating umtil I get five good revoiws!"
She also seems to have it in her head that most, if not all, of the readers are perverts. For instance, when she describes Raven as her "GF", she quickly adds, "Eww, not in that way", she calls the reader "you sicko" when explaining that, as a girl, Ebony didn't get an erection, and when she says that Vampire "jumped on" Ebony, she adds, "Not in that way, you perv!". This is rather hypocritical, since Tara gushes about men being hot all the time.
As mentioned, her writing is very distinctive to her personality. She is under the mindset that the world is separated into three distinct groups: Preps (people like Hilary Duff, people who wear or decorate with the color pink, and everyone Tara dislikes and tells to 'fuk off'), posers (people like Avril Lavigne, the character Albert Dumblydore, or basically people who try to be goth) and finally goths. She also goes into great length of describing her characters' clothes for several paragraphs (in My Immortal's defense, these in-depth descriptions are probably the only thing written somewhat coherently). She also has no problem of constantly reminding her readers of her love for various bands such as My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte and/or Evanescence. But what's most distinctive is Tara's fondness for ignoring canon. To put it simply, she takes some of the more primary characters from the Harry Potter series and turns them into almost always bisexual vampire-goths who constantly wear black, worship Satan, are depressed, suicidal, and are transferred into Slytherin.
Despite her hatred of posers, Tara has some strange ideas as to what is considered Gothic, such as eating Count Chocula cereal, and watching The Nightmare before Christmas and Corpse Bride (movies which, though full of Gothic imagery, are not very depressing and are rather kid-friendly.) In addition, she shops at the mass market store Hot Topic, which many Goths consider to be too mainstream, and with the exception of Marilyn Manson most of the music acts she mentions are usually considered emo, punk, or rock rather than Goth.
One more side note of Tara's writing style is her habit of experimenting with the English language and other languages as well (primarily Japanese). Although she overtly states that she has an interest in Japanese (she has many characters spouting random Japanese phrases in the story such as "kawaii"), Tara, unfortunately, proves that she has grasped very little of either language. She loves to experiment with adverbs in particular. Some of which include "sexily", "suicidally" and "gothically". In Tara's defense, all of these words are in fact actual adverbs of "sex", "suicide" and "goth", but these adverbs are frequently misspelled. Another idiosyncrasy of Tara's writing is her use of the phrase "all [adjective]" to describe an action (the use of "all sensitive" is a common example). She also inexplicably changes the spelling of some peoples' names and changes their personalities frequently. Despite claiming to hate anything lighthearted, she tends to make puns around words related to death, vampires, or Satan, followed by an explanation of the pun (e.g. "Special fangs-- get it? 'Cause I'm gothic".)
However, it can be inferred that either she or Raven has read The Fellowship of the Ring due to the name "Tom Satan Bombodil", which could be a twisted and misspelled version of "Tom Bombadil", from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien.
Troll Controversy
One of the world's most frequently asked questions and greatest mysteries: Is Tara Gilesbie trolling? This would make the greatest sense for the explanation of My Immortal because as many would say, "My Immortal is just too bad to be true!". However, many other things would have to be taken into account if Tara Gilesbie was in fact just a young, teenage fan-girl who was given access to the internet.
First, to support the troll theory, one must look at Tara's origins. She supposedly lives (or lived) in Dubai. As previously stated, Dubai is an emirate of the United Arab Emirates. Tara also loves Hot Topic. So unless she or her friends or family are fabulously wealthy, it would be nearly impossible for her to take weekly trips to the States or any other country that has a Hot Topic so she could purchase her goods. Additionally, the United Arab Emirates is a predominantly Muslim nation,[1][2][3] and is located in the Middle East, where such attitudes towards Satanism, witchcraft, etc. are seen as acts of blasphemy. In addition, discrediting the theory that she actually lives in Dubai even further, she says in an author's note: "...oh yah btw ill be in vacation in transilvania 4 da nex 3 dayz so dnot expect updatz." In another author's note, she describes how "transilvania rox hrad". She says that she got to see the castle where 'Dracula' was filmed. However, 'Dracula', though set in Transylvania and England, was filmed only in England and California, USA. Admittedly, this could be referring to Bran Castle which is believed to have been Bram Stoker's inspiration for Dracula Castle (which Tara confused for being where Dracula was filmed), or Tara could have been lying about the trip to Transylvania. In addition, she once referred to:
"omfg im leeving dubya pretty soon kant wait!!!"
However, all of this can be misleading. When Tara says, "dubya" she could be referring to two things. The word dubya is in fact a slang term for the Southern American pronunciation of the letter "W". It is also used to flame and mock former United States president, George W. Bush, by pronouncing his middle initial as "dubya". Dubya also refers to an American organization called Dubya USA. It is based in California and it sells various motocross and wheeling goods. What makes all of this mysterious is that Tara may have misspelled Dubai as "dubya" or she could be implying that she is in fact an American (and is leaving the president or the organization). Or, obviously, if she is not a troll, she's living somewhere in America but pretends to live in Dubai, or she is so terrible at spelling that she misspells her American hometown as "dubya." It is also possible that she is an American whose family traveled to Dubai on business and she had to come with them, which would explain both her eagerness to leave and her family having the means to travel to Transylvania.
The mention of "Tom Bombodil" as Voldemort's real name also suggests that Tara is a troll, as the name is based on the character Tom Bombadil from The Lord of the Rings. Given that The Lord of the Rings is scarcely Goth material even by Tara's loose definition of Gothic, and Tom Bombadil only appeared in the book version of The Lord of the Rings (and Tara is not a big reader as evidenced by her claiming not to have read the entire Harry Potter series and her poor spelling), it is hard to explain how Tara would've known about him, whereas if Tara was a troll this could've easily been a cheeky reference.
Furthermore, My Immortal itself, for a lack of a better explanation, does too many things wrong to be written completely seriously. It reads like a list of things a troll writer would do: frequently misspell words in an almost organized manner, text chatting, random/unexplained sex scenes, etc.
On the other hand, to negate the troll theory, one must take into the account of the many things that are a part of My Immortal. The trolling author would have to create the personality of Tara Gilesbie, manage her many accounts (she has had other accounts besides the one that is now deleted from fanfiction.net), and her password(s), and not to mention take the time and dedication to write the forty-four chapter long story itself.
Besides Tara Gilesbie, the troll author would also have to remember the persona of Raven, Tara Gilesbie's friend. As in Tara's case, the troll would have to manage Raven's account(s), password(s), and write her stories, unless there was a second troll involved. Raven's stories would have to coincide with Tara's stories, because they had a falling out. Both writers have chapters in their fan fictions in which they both wrote (or killed) off the avatars in their stories based off the other writer's personalities and vice-versa. Also, Raven's account and her first story were created before Tara had even started her account, meaning that the troll author would have had to have come up with the idea of Tara (since she is mentioned in the first chapter of I'm Not Okay) while writing a different story in a different style in order to pull off the trolling.
This would be a lot, even for a troll. And if Tara was a troll, she could easily be a very determined and persistent troll to manage those two accounts. Or it could have been a well organized group of people who decided to put My Immortal together. The possibilities are endless.
For unknown reasons, many people have come forward and claimed themselves to have written and/or co-written My Immortal. Some have taken it further by stating that they are or created the persona of Tara Gilesbie and admitted that they were trolling and writing the stories for laughs. Some have even gone to disturbingly great extremes to claim that they not only were Tara, but were continuing the legacy of My Immortal by writing new stories similar to the fashion of the original story by posting such stories on fanfiction.net (although some have subsequently been deleted). Whether these people are lying or telling the truth is another mystery, because anyone could have easily created an account and claimed My Immortal as their own. The fact that some of these people have decided to come forward after all these years between now and 2007 is suspicious enough, but it is all up for debate and up to the reader/reviewer to determine the authenticity of the story in their own mind. This is what makes My Immortal one of the most mysterious pieces of work the internet has ever seen.
Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen
It has often been speculated that Tara was also the author of the notorious badfic Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen. This Twilight fanfiction, notable as one of the few works that makes the original series look well written, was published by an author going by the name of BeckyMack666. Her full profile shows a very similar array of tastes to Tara, including a love of MCR. Furthermore, a close analysis of the text reveals a great deal of similarities with My Immortal. Both feature female OC gothic vampires with absurdly long names; compare Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way with Atlantiana Rebekah Loren, who both cry tears of blood and wear gothic clothing described in ridiculous amounts of detail. Unusual euphemisms are used to describe the male genitalia, like "man-carrot" and "throbbing lavender man-fruit thing" which appear very similar to the original "boy's thingy" and the complex conflict between goths and preps is explored. Most damningly, a specific line of Forbiden Fruit seems to be directly referencing Tara's original work. In Chapter 7, a highly out-of-character Bella Swan storms in and catches the protagonist, Atlantiana performing fellatio on Edward Callan as she screams, "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING YOU EVIL RODENT PEOPLE?!!!!!", followed by the line "It was Bella Swan!!" It does seem to clearly hearken back the infamous chapter in My Immortal in which the character, Albert Dumblydore catches Ebony and Draco having sex in the Forbidden Forest.
There is therefore a case to be made that both works share the same author, especially since Tara had indeed stated that she had moved onto the Twilight fandom. However it is also highly possible that Forbiden Fruit is the work of a troll heavily inspired by My Immortal, or that it is simply by coincidence that the two works resemble each other so much.
Indeed, both works differ radically in two main aspects in the presentation of the main character, tone and language. Tara's writing essentially depicts Ebony as a self-important character that does whatever she likes, while BeckyMack666 writes Atlantiana as more of a self-justifying character, constantly and consistently trying to make herself the "good guy" (regardless of her actual behaviour). Likewise, Tara depicts sex in an IKEA-like manner, while BeckyMack666 gets a lot more graphic, and lets her character be raped to score pity points, something Tara would never do. Finally, although both stories are extremely random, Forbiden Fruit is more willing to be extravagant, creating such characters as Snoofles the talking panda, when nothing of the sort is seen in My Immortal.
↑ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127360.htm
↑ http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/united-arab-emirates/religious_demography#/?affiliations_religion_id=0&affiliations_year=2010
↑ http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2007/90223.htm
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La cerimonia di premiazione della 43ª edizione dei Premi César ha avuto luogo il 2 marzo 2018 presso il Salle Pleyel di Parigi. È stata presentata da Manu Payet.

Ad ottenere il maggior numero di candidature (tredici) sono state le pellicole Ci rivediamo lassù e 120 battiti al minuto.

Vincitori e candidati

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 C'est la vie - Prendila come viene (Le Sens de la fête), regia di Éric Toledano e Olivier Nakache
 Patients, regia di Grand Corps Malade
 Petit paysan - Un eroe singolare (Petit paysan), regia di Hubert Charuel

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 Hubert Charuel - Petit paysan - Un eroe singolare (Petit paysan)
 Julia Ducournau - Raw - Una cruda verità (Grave)
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 Karin Viard - Il complicato mondo di Nathalie (Jalouse)

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 Antoine Reinartz - 120 battiti al minuto (120 battements par minute)
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 Gilles Lellouche - C'est la vie - Prendila come viene (Le Sens de la fête)
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 Mélanie Thierry - Ci rivediamo lassù (Au revoir là-haut)

Migliore promessa maschile
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 Iris Bry - Les Gardiennes
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 Garance Marillier - Raw - Una cruda verità (Grave)

Migliore sceneggiatura originale
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 Barbara – Mathieu Amalric e Philippe di Folco
 C'est la vie - Prendila come viene (Le Sens de la fête) – Éric Toledano e Olivier Nakache
 Petit paysan - Un eroe singolare (Petit paysan) – Claude Le Pape e Hubert Charuel
 Raw - Una cruda verità (Grave) – Julia Ducournau

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 Ci rivediamo lassù (Au revoir là-haut) – Albert Dupontel e Pierre Lemaître
 Les Gardiennes – Xavier Beauvois e Frédérique Moreau
 Il mio Godard (Le Redoutable) – Michel Hazanavicius
 Patients – Grand Corps Malade e Fadette Drouard
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 Barbara – Christophe Beaucarne
 Les Gardiennes – Caroline Champetier
 Il mio Godard (Le Redoutable) – Guillaume Schiffman

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 Barbara – François Gedigier
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 Petit paysan - Un eroe singolare (Petit paysan) – Julie Lena, Tristan Corbeille e Grégoire Pointecaille

Migliore scenografia
 Ci rivediamo lassù (Au revoir là-haut) – Pierre Quefféléan
 120 battiti al minuto (120 battements par minute) – Emmanuelle Duplay
 Barbara – Laurent Baude
 Il mio Godard (Le Redoutable) – Christian Marti
 La promessa dell'alba (La promesse de l'aube) – Pierre Renson

Migliori costumi
 Ci rivediamo lassù (Au revoir là-haut) – Mimi Lempicka
 120 battiti al minuto (120 battements par minute) – Isabelle Pannetier
 Barbara – Pascaline Chavanne
 Les Gardiennes – Anaïs Romand
 La promessa dell'alba (La promesse de l'aube) – Catherine Bouchard

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 Petit paysan - Un eroe singolare (Petit paysan) – Myd
 Raw - Una cruda verità (Grave) – Jim Williams
 Visages, villages - Matthieu Chedid

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C'est la vie - Prendila come viene (Le Sens de la fête) – Pascal Armant, Sélim Azzazi e Jean-Paul Hurier
Raw - Una cruda verità (Grave) – Mathieu Descamps, Séverin Favriau e Stéphane Thiébault

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Life Group meets in Alton. Call the church office for location details. 618466.8510.
Life Group for adults of all ages meets at the home of Jim & Cindy Buis. Ask at the info center for details or call the church office 618-466-8510.
Workout with certified fitness instructor. Bring a towel or mat if desired. Cost $5 per class.
Meets on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
Youth 6th - 12th grades meet for worship & fellowship. They share in dinner and games after their meeting.
Work out with certified fitness instructor. Bring a towel or mat is desired. Cost $5 per session.
Team serves single mom's and widows from our church by doing household chores, light projects and yard work.
Theme Night - DRESS UP!! Youth 6th - 12th grades meet for worship & fellowship. They share in dinner and games after their meeting.
Boys 8 to 18 are welcome to participate in this outdoor club designed to teach boys the heritage of the outdoors and God's heart for them. Boys will explore hunting, fishing and other outdoor adventures. Contact the church office for additional information. 618-466-8510.
Bring a sack lunch. Will travel to Butler, IL to pack boxes of books and literature for shipment to missions around the world. Register at the Info Center.
All who will be helping with VBS are asked to attend.


Investigators believe that a club promoter may have masterminded the robbery of Chris Brown's L.A.-area home this week. According to TMZ, Brown had recently been paid $50,000 in cash for a club appearance; meanwhile, the armed intruders who broke into his home not only knew it was Brown's house, they also asked his aunt–who was home at the time of the incident–where Brown's safe was located, with one perpetrator reportedly letting it slip that they wanted that $50,000. Brown allegedly isn't known for keeping large cash sums lying around his house, making the club-promoter theory quite likely.


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Stephen J. Corwin | 100 Physician Leaders to Know 2015
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Steven J. Corwin, MD. President and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Corwin served as executive vice president and COO of NewYork-Presbyterian before stepping into his current role as CEO. He joined the system in 1991, serving in various leadership capacities including senior vice president and CMO. As CEO, he oversees operations at five hospital campuses and has placed a systemwide emphasis on quality, patient safety and advancing clinical practice through technological innovation. Dr. Corwin is a board-certified cardiologist and internist and has been a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons faculty member since 1986.


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Police Arrest Niger Republic Mayor After 200kg Of Cocaine Was Found In His Official Car
The police have arrested a mayor in Northern Niger after 200kg of cocaine valued at $8.7 million, was found in his official car.
Sources told Reuters that the mayor and his driver, who were in the vehicle at the time, were arrested with 199 bricks of cocaine at a checkpoint on the road heading north out of the desert trading hub of Agadez on Sunday January 2.
A statement from Niger's Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCRTIS) confirmed that there had been a record seizure of more than 200 kg of cocaine in Agadez, but did not give details.
This is coming after 17 tonnes of cannabis resin worth around $37 million were seized in the West African country last May.
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Despite the thinking on climate is diversified depending on the disciplinary backgrounds and geographical origins among others, for a country like Ethiopia (where 80 % of livilihood depend on a sector highly vulnerable to climate change and variability), thus, the case in point is real and many smallholder farmers in different corners of the country experience the adverse effects and employed multiple context specific adaptation strategies. In view of this, the empirical evidences from the two districts of Northern Ethiopia supports the existing realities and articulated accordingly.
Apart from this, it is a time to look into the context within which smallholder farmers are struggling to get means to survive while the issues of climate is mounting at different geographies of scale. The world is on move on the issues at different levels differently.
I have had the opportunity to read the article published in 2016 just few days ago and it has vividly documented the way smallholder perceive climate stimuli and design strategies (be it a short term and a long term ) both within agriculture and outside agriculture to respond to the shocks. The blog too confirms such a perspective and it is of interest to share to wider public as in the blog.


Caddy is a relatively new HTTP server created in 2015 and written in Go. The server's philosophy and design emphasize HTTPS-everywhere along with the HTTP/2 protocol.
How can Caddy be used with Python deployments?
Caddy can be used both for testing during local development or as part of a production deployment as an HTTP server and a reverse proxy with the proxy directive.
Caddy is an implementation of the web server concept. Learn how these pieces fit together in the deployment chapter or view the table of contents for all topics.
A look inside Caddy shows and explains some of the Go code written to build the server.
Caddy a modern web server supporting HTTP/2 is a quick synopsis on installing Caddy along with a short example configuration file.
HTTP 2.0 on localhost with Caddy shows how to use a self-signed certificate with Caddy to do local development with an HTTP/2 web server.
Is Caddy free? explains the donation and sponsorships model that Caddy uses to continue development on the server. The gist is that the server is free to clone, download and use. Sponsors and optional donations are currently used to fund ongoing development.
Continue learning about web servers or move to a new topic?
What runs a Python application execute on the server?
1. Introduction 2. Development Environments 3. Data 4. Web Development 5. Deployment » Caddy 6. DevOps Change Log What Full Stack Means About the Author Future Directions Page Statuses ...or view the full table of contents.


The NewerTech NuGuard KX case for iPhone 6 features a two layer energy absorbing shell that's still thin and light and yet meets the U.S. military drop test standard. Included is a three layer screen armor that's only 0.28 mm thick. The grip is excellent, and the Apple logo is revealed. I think this is a great case.
First, the technical details. The Nuguard KX case for iPhone 6 weighs 1.43 ounces (40.4 grams). It increases the thickness of the iPhone + case to about a half-inch (12.5 mm). While meeting the military drop test standard, MIL-STD-810G, it's one of the easiest cases to install and remove that I've ever tested. That's because the material used, X-Orbing gel, feels thick, but it's light and pliable.
1. Opinions and needs vary, but I am fussy about having the Apple logo show through via a circular aperture. Some case designs don't allow for that feature, but this one does. Thumbs up.
Back: showing camera aperture, Apple logo aperture and textured surface.
2. This case has a blackened area around the camera port to absorb reflections. Not all cases have this. I appreciate it when I see it.
3. Despite the extra thickness compared to some of the thinner polycarbonate cases, it still fit nicely inside my belt holster.
4. There is a styled, textured surface on the back and around the sides that makes this case especially easy to grip. And yet, that grippy surface didn't impede movement in and out of my belt holster. The same goes for when I experimented with it in my new Briggs & Riley murse (travel bag) which has inner pockets.
5. The case has an inner felt-like material that's soft. The pliable edges make it really easy to remove this case, yet there's little chance of the iPhone coming out. Especially robust is the cushioning around the edges of the display. It invites you to place the iPhone face down with confidence.
Extra large, soft edges allow placing face down with confidence.
6. There is a first-class "Screen Armor" included that you'll probably want to take the time to install. It has three layers, yet is only 0.28 mm thick. The three layers provide for: 1) physical protection, 2) energy absorption and a 3) self-adhesion layer—making it possible to reapply. NewerTech says this screen armor doesn't affect the iPhone display's touch sensitivity or clarity. There's a pretty good installation kit included that has an alcohol pad, cleaning cloth and a dust removal "sticker."
7. The price is exceptional. Some cases, it seems, are so highly thought of by the developer that the price seems almost stratospheric. As if price always equals quality. This case is modestly priced considering the protection it provides.
8. The NewerTech packaging, as always, is first class. There is a 30-day, risk free, money back guarantee and the is a lifetime warranty on the product. If it ever breaks, you get a new one.
Screen Armor instructions and kit shown on left.
While I don't intentionally drop my iPhones on a hard surface to test cases, in my judgment, this material feels like it's going to absorb energy in the fashion described.
The only negative I could find for this case is that it's just a little on the tough side to press the sleep/wake and the volume buttons. It's a real art to make the case solid and tough, and yet make those buttons easy to push through the case material. Few cases strike a good balance, leaning towards being hard to push.
This is not an especially beautiful or elegant looking case. It's serious about its protection and functionality, but if you're looking for extreme fashion, perhaps at the expense of protection, you'll need to look elsewhere.
I do and with enthusiasm. This cases meets all my standards for an iPhone 6 case, and I like it so much, I'm going to make it my number one for routine use. Being easy to get on and off, yet providing great protection encourages that. Bottom line: a great product from a great company at a great price.
[UPDATE: 20 Jan 2015. Other World Computing has responded to one item in my review regarding the stiffness of the button covers.


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Look At Me is a super unique one page porfolio and photography theme. This HTML/standalone theme is one dynamic page that sorts and shuffles your work around in a really cool fluid way using the jQuery Masonry script when you select different categories. The pages also animate in the same fashion, so in essence it can hold more content and could probably be modified to have more pages similar to the contact page. Every image also pops up in a light box and you can add captions to each thumbnail with a link to another site if you wish. There are also alternate styles and two thumbnail layout options. The entire gallery also re-sorts all the thumbnails when you resize the browser window. If you are looking for a really unique portfolio theme and would like to tinker around a bit, then Look At Me might be for you.


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Alleviate stress: Plan ahead with editorial calendars
Your marketing plan includes emails, blogs, tweets, newsletters, church bulletins, website updates — and probably much more. Editorial calendars are great because they help set efficient production schedules and give your team plenty of time to write content. You shouldn't have to stress when someone gets sick and can't meet a deadline.
With so many marketing tools available, it can be difficult to track what content you've posted, the avenues through which you made it available and when it appeared. To work most efficiently and match your content plan to your church's goals, develop an editorial calendar.
While creating an editorial calendar may seem like an extra step in your already-full marketing strategy, it doesn't need to be complicated. You can use spreadsheets or other programs with table tools that enable you to identify content by title, dates, author and so forth. Here's a sample from the Content Marketing Institute.
It may help to have two or more editorial calendars: a master calendar where you can see everything at a glance and separate calendars for specific activities, months, weeks, days — whatever makes sense for your content volume and church schedule. You could also plan content according to spiritual themes that your pastor has planned or by religious or seasonal holidays. Suggestions from Non-Profit Marketing Guide.com include organizing by channel, audience or program.
If your spreadsheet program enables you to track the multiple calendars with tabs, this also can be very helpful.
In addition to copy, you can use editorial calendars to plan for video and audio files, downloads, photos, graphics and other content elements. If you know you need these in advance, it can give you time to find and use these important features.
The Official United Methodist Program Calendar is a helpful tool to guide your planning. It includes program suggestions, liturgical colors, addresses of all agencies, dated program events and special days in the life of the church.
Editorial calendars also can help you recognize opportunities to recycle content. If you've posted content on your blog, for example, about the best Christian books, post the content on your Facebook page six months or a year later, but include fresh picks. Or if you tweeted about a class or group that participated in a fun community project, write about it in your next newsletter.
You can also "tease" your content in different media. For example, if you plan to update your website with pictures from your church picnic, send an email a week or so before, telling your members to look for the update.
Finally, be sure to have a system to manage priorities of content and to build in flexibility. It's inevitable that Internet connections fail and files become corrupted. You shouldn't have to stress when a writer misses a deadline because of personal complications. Work on securing and preparing the most important content first (such as a regular blog post from your pastor) so you have enough time to work out the bugs. Do this by assigning earlier deadlines to the most important content. Editorial calendars can help your church run smoothly, alleviate stress and let you focus on what matters most!


La Mercanti will visit Milan Furniture Fair "Salone Internazionale del Mobile" and "Milan Design Week", the global benchmark home-office design exhibition. The show showcases the latest in furniture and design from Italy and other countries around the world, it is considered a leading venue for the display of new products by designers of furniture, lighting and other furnishings.
Artists and designers make the annual pilgrimage to Milan because of its universal appeal and above all for the quality of its global offer. It is important for different aspects: Economic impact, social influence, and academic value. It is an innovative choice to change the show from an exhibition of products to an exhibition of ideas.
Jean Nouvel will exhibit Project: offices for living, a project exploring potential ways to improve the architecture of offices, a number of different suggestions as to how office architecture will develop in the future.
Alongside the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, now in its 48th edition, together with the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition this year will be Euroluce, the eagerly-awaited International Lighting Exhibition that sets the sectorial benchmark with its wide range and broad spectrum of goods that go to make up a unique lighting sector scenario embracing both technological and formal innovation.
The exhibition focused on twelve key areas where recent material developments have made a significant impact: eco-effectiveness, fiber reinforcement, security, sound absorption, foam alternatives, advances in molding, translucency, functional and decorative surfaces, advances in leathers, heat and the biopolymer revolution.
A highlight of the exhibition was a display of groundbreaking products that demonstrate an exceptional use of advanced materials and a clear commitment to the environment.


There's often much talk about sleeping peacefully under the starry night sky, but have you ever wondered what it's like to snooze under the midnight sun instead? Sleeping in a tent, listening to the birds, while reindeer and fox are passing by. Or nipping from your drink, dreaming, enjoying the scenic view over the fjord. Maybe you're more the adventurous type? Preparing for an expedition, getting energized by diving in the ice cold water of Isfjorden and becoming a member of the 'Arctic Naked Bathing Club'.
During the summer months, you are welcome to use Longyearbyen Camping as your basecamp and enjoy the unique and intensive experience of nature, unequaled by any other accommodation.
And… Yes, it's worlds northernmost camping site.
Hotellneset, the plain on which the campsite is located, is named after the first hotel on Spitsbergen, which stood from 1896 onwards for some years a bit further to the East. The campingsite itself was installed in 1976, when after the opening of the airport in 1975, camping tourism became a fact in Spitsbergen. To ban wild camping in a large area in and around Longyearbyen, the designated campingsite was installed by the Norwegian state, which even set up a nice service building with all necessary facilities in 1985, extended already in 1989. The opening season of the service building is limited to the frost-free period.


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Which are the best towns for first-time buyers?
Thinking of investing in your first house? These are the best towns to browse
By Ellen Finch 2018-03-30T05:14:56.880Z
When it comes to buying your first house, the horror stories of sky-high London prices and nightmare neighbourhoods can be off-putting.
Finding the right area at the right cost can be a major concern when you're preparing to fly the nest, but Furniture Choice has made it easy with their ranking of the top 20 locations in the UK for first-time buyers.
Lancashire ranks highly, with three of its towns – Pendle, Burnley and Hyndburn – topping the list, while County Durham, Stoke-on-Trent and Hull also feature.
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Furniture Choice quizzed first-time buyers on the most important factors they considered when choosing where to buy and used the answers to create a ranking system based on four metrics:
Average house price for first-time buyers
The percentage difference in cost for first properties and subsequent properties
Based on the average cost for first time buyers, the most affordable locations were selected, before being scored across the categories.
Pendle, which took first place on the list, has an average first house price of only £84,769, and prices increase by 27% for subsequent houses.
Just 4.6% of residents are unemployed in the Lancashire town, and the average gross salary is £25,944.
Looking at average house price alone, Burnley has the lowest, with first properties costing around £71,698.
Rossendale, meanwhile, sees first-time residents paying £109,471 for their home.
Commenting on the research, Tom Obbard at Furniture Choice said: "Affordability is a big factor when it comes to buying your first home, but it isn't the only thing to consider.
"Our research shows that prospective homeowners also look at factors such as the job market, and whether they will stay in one area in the future.
"There's enough for first time buyers to look at without needing to research these considerations, so we hope our ranking system will help new buyers sift out the top areas they should be looking in."
For more information on the top 20 towns for first time buyers, visit Furniture Choice.
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This Sky sale is THE place to bag a bargain broadband + TV package. Not to mention that their broadband-only deal is officially the UK's lowest-priced Superfast Broadband right now...
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Is it spring yet? Okay not quite, but it is at Dunelm!


Utilizing DocVariables I do it making use of the complying with. This works so I understand I possess the best suggestion and also that the rest of my code works fine.
The factor is given that this document is actually to "merged" with one row of information so it is a rubbish of opportunity inquiring the consumer to perform the entire records resource trait for one row.
I possess an operating remedy making use of DocVariables which I am actually certain lots of people will certainly state is the correct technique to perform it, nevertheless this customer ases if the tip of "seeing" the mailmerge variable (such as) in the resource document. They know they can easily utilize Alt-F9 to present codes to see the DocVariables, but they emphasize wanting to utilize MergeFields.
Having said that, I may not workout session just how to carry out the same point with merge industries. I wish to carry out something like the beneath (yet there is actually no "market value" home to establish).
I possess a word document I am actually utilizing as a mail merge attached to an Excel spreadsheet. In words document are a collection of tables, each tissue filled by several industries from the Excel spread sheet. There are actually 3 grounds that are actually meant to turn red when the combine ground='Reddish', green when it is actually 'Environment-friendly', and the like. The concern is, conditional format won't function in Word, so I need to find out some way to format these cells without it.
I had a Word Document that I wished to have DocVariable areas that I could customize coming from Accessibility through VBA. I very desired to "see" the mail merge areas. If I developed the document along with DocVariable industries to start along with (e.g.,, Insert >> Quick Parts >> Industry and also the insert a DocVariable field), they were either unnoticeable or even presented the whole long field code. Thus suppose I have actually industries called FNAME and DONATION in a character giving thanks to an individual for their gift as the document.
I have a document with MailMerge industries, having said that I do certainly not desire to utilize the whole datasource- > mailmerge idea. As an alternative I am actually showing a UserForm on Autonew() and also asking the user to type the records right into the areas.
Develop the document with mail combine areas. You may must make a fake Excel report or database to connect to if you want to add the industries. After doing this, you'll "view" the mail merge industries in the document (e.g., "FNAME").
Note that you can actually only put one mail combine industry as well as then copy/paste it, changing the name for various areas. There have to be something hidden in the mail combine field that acquires replicated when you do this that doesn't exist if you merely place a DocVariable field, yet I have not been able to determine what it is actually. So this is actually undoubtedly a workaround, yet it worked with me. It gives you the most effective of each worlds, "seeing" the mail combine area but coming to use it like a DocVariable industry coming from VBA.
Any concepts on exactly how I can programmatically change the market value of a mail combine area without using a datasource.
I was anticipating some kind of service that would certainly use the word-merge's If-Then-Else regulation, yet I don't presume that's feasible. Any aid is considerably enjoyed.


This afternoon I walked from the intersection of Franklin Canyon Road and McEwen Road (just south of Highway 4, also known as John Muir Parkway -- white line on map), up McEwen Road (the set of double yellow lines furthest west on map), as far as the driveway of a ranch house -- one of the few homes on this winding, two-lane road in the hills.
As I was getting out of my car, I talked to two men who were loading up items that had been left by the side of the road, including at least three dead Christmas trees, an old couch and some chairs -- all items I recognized seeing on Franklin Canyon or McEwen Road last week. (The chairs were even featured in this blog.) Hats off to these two for cleaning up after folks who were too lazy to drive to the dump.
It was fairly quiet, with just a few cars and pickup trucks passing by, making it easier to hear cows mooing, frogs croaking, a hummingbird singing, and a few killdeer crying and flying away in a panic, as they often do. The hills were covered with lovely green grass -- a short-lived occurrence in California. By April the hills will again be golden brown, the color of a sleeping lion.
I will continue to walk at least one more segment of McEwen Road, until the point where it narrows and there is no setback, or safe way for a pedestrian to negotiate this part safely.
After all, it's not advisable to be in the way of a car whipping around a blind corner of a rural road, at any time of day, especially one hour before sunset. And, as a very serious reminder of this risk, there sits a "ghost bike" memorial on McEwen Road that I passed, about 1/2 mile up the hill from Highway 4. Apparently a bicyclist was killed on this spot by a hit and run driver a few years back.
85 little brown jobs (LBJs) - including 4 bluebirds; 42 cows; 4 killdeer; 1 hummingbird; 1 hawk and 1 hawk or turkey vulture; two old snake skins and bones. Heard sounds of frogs, but no sightings; the ones I heard near fence stopped making noise when I got about six feet away.
It was a beautiful, sunny winter day for walking Carquinez Scenic Drive, a winding, paved road with great views of the Carquinez Strait and the railroad tracks below (shown as double yellow lines closest to water on Bay Trail map).
This road is closed to cars in a long section (where we walked today). In this closed stretch are a few spots where parts of the road have washed away, so it's easy to see why car traffic has been banned. Several days of dry weather previous to today's walk meant dry ground on the very few unpaved spots.
Oak trees hang in the air above the road on the south side, providing areas of shade and dappled light. And there are plenty of other interesting sights and sounds -- e.g., paintings on the road and a few small caves (access is blocked off, but they're visible from the road), and one or two unfortunate wrecked cars that had gone off the road in years past -- stopped from tumbling all the way down the steep embankment and onto the train tracks by trees and bushes. We also heard the sounds of frogs, and passing trains far below.
While we didn't see the frogs, they appeared to be coming from spots in and amongst the oak trees. I had no clue there might be tree frogs in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most frogs disappeared many years ago in the very developed area where I live. As I've said before, there hasn't been a day I've walked the Bay Trail where I didn't see or learn something new. This, after living in the Bay Area for many years.
This also appeared to be one of the better, longer dog-friendly walks with Bay views. We saw many owners taking their dogs for a walk (or vice versa) today.
9 little brown jobs (LBJs); 2 mockingbirds; 2 blue jays; 1 turkey vulture; 1 large, dark mystery bird (osprey or California Condor?) - dark with white markings flying over water/cliffs.
Note: For more information on this walk, see also "Walk About Martinez" write-up by The Patch columnist, Scott Williams (Jan. 1, 2011).
I was able to leave work just in time to catch the last hour of sunlight, to finish (Part 3 of 3) Franklin Canyon Road. The only problem with walking in a canyon late in the day is that while it was beautiful and peaceful, it gets darker sooner. The sun had set behind one of the hills.
That said, I started to emerge from the deepest recesses of the oak tree filled Franklin Canyon Road as I walked West toward where McEwen Road intersects with Franklin Canyon Road.
Along the way, I spotted some abandoned chairs (maybe they went with the abandoned couch I saw yesterday?). I have included both chairs and couches in my "wildlife tally" on this site, and you may notice that some man-made item sightings outnumber certain bird and animal views.
When I walk, I notice things like road furniture -- and also memorials for those who are no longer with us. Some of these memorials are very tiny, and some are quite large. These personal and often moving tributes are a reminder to the living to make good use of the time they have on this planet.
In the meantime, I'm here walking with the cows -- a few of which were mooing at me from over a fence and across the stream as I walked by on the road. Cows are not used to seeing pedestrians I've found, and they may find walkers disturbing. Either that, or they're hoping that a human means they might be fed. Someone will have to explain all this to me some day. In the meantime, I just wave at them nicely. And, I'm stopping to look at all the acorns still on the ground. Do cows eat acorns? I'll have to research this when I have time.
Franklin Canyon Road is a quiet, semi-rural, gently winding road that is just south of, and roughly parallel to, Highway 4 (John Muir Parkway). In at least one spot, to the south of this road, you may also see a train rumble by.
Today was an overcast Sunday, early afternoon, and cool enough for a jacket and hat. I walked West on Franklin Canyon Road as far as 2500 Franklin Canyon Road -- a place I nicknamed the "candy cane" house. In addition to a row of candy canes in front of the house, there was a small plaque explaining the origins of the candy cane.
will probably not be any well-meaning dogs charging out onto the public road, intent on protecting what they might feel is their property.
January winter weather generally means gray days and limited spots of color. My eye was drawn to bright green grass and moss; evergreen trees; and bright red berries. Even brightly colored bits of broken glass on the road stand out more than they would otherwise. I also enjoyed seeing small daffodils starting to poke up through the dirt. This is one reason why I continue to live in California; these small glimpses of Spring appear so much earlier than in most other parts of the country.
It took me a while to find the start of Carquinez Scenic Drive (shown as double yellow line on left side of map) -- a winding road with views of the Carquinez Strait, Benicia, the Benicia-Martinez bridge, and downtown Martinez. The road runs West from the West end of downtown Martinez, and is well named.
The road passes by two cemeteries (that are fenced off from passerbys). And, if you'll look closely at the picture at right, you'll notice that the fencing did not stop a few deer from wandering through and paying their respects.
1 mockingbird; 1 little brown job (LBJ); 1 domestic cat; 2 deer in cemetery.
I'd been hearing about a family of beavers that made a dam near downtown Martinez (near Escobar and Marina Vista). So, when I started walking in Martinez this month, I have been looking forward to visiting the beaver dam site. While I was not able to spot any beavers this afternoon, I saw not one, but two, beaver dams.
I also saw some painted tiles of the beavers done by local children in 2009, and some beaver sculpture/shapes that had been fastened to a wall near the water and the first (larger) dam.
Perhaps I'll try stopping by next time I am in the area -- probably closer to dusk.
No beavers spotted. Probably laying low or napping during the day.
Today I walked East on Marina Vista, from Downtown Historic Martinez toward the Benicia-Martinez bridge, along railroad tracks and past oil refining facilities.
I turned right at the light/intersection, onto Mococo, then caught the Bay Trail up to the bridge. I walked up to the point on the bridge where I'd left off previously (light pole #08051), and enjoyed the view. I walked back the same way along Marina Vista and stopped to visit the Martinez Historic Museum (free admission), before heading to the beaver dams.
1 mockingbird; 8 little brown jobs (LBJs); 15 crows; 1 pigeon; 3 hubcaps. (also there was 1 dead, headless deer by the railroad tracks).
A walk up Alhambra Avenue, was a walk through a suburban neighborhood, past Alhambra High School, and businesses along the way. There were a few signs of Christmas past and little leftover bits of fall color. Otherwise, the branches were bare, and sky was gray and cold today. I'm sure it would be a completely different place in the summer. It almost makes me want to walk the Bay Trail again just to see all these towns in other seasons.
I walked up Alhambra Ave. (toward downtown Martinez) as far as Masonic, where I left off a few days ago. I turned around and then walked back on Berrellessa Street until it rejoined Alhambra Ave. again. stopped at Safeway from some water and cheese on the way back, and then bought some almonds at Walgreens.
It was a gray and wintery day, but I was excited to visit John Muir's old house. After all, here's a man who took his own 1,000 mile walk (from Indiana down to the Gulf Coast), and was famous for tramping about up in the mountains.
However, in Martinez, Muir and his family raised fruit trees. Remnants of the old orchards are still there. Red berries and new green shoots of grass provided some bits of color to an otherwise gray day.
It is also possible to see the inside of the Muir house on this site. I was especially interested in seeing John Muir's study/office upstairs, an area he called his "Scribble Den."
After visiting this site, I walked down a block or two on Alhambra to the Highway 4 onramp (pedestrians take care), then turned around to walk the remainder of Alhambra Ave. Along the way, I passed the Muir Lodge. I didn't have a chance to stop in to ask them how long they'd been there. But, they are located right on the Bay Trail.
Before walking, I stopped at the Hot Dog Depot on Ferry Street in Martinez, where I bought some water, a cup of Butter Pecan ice cream. I also bought a bag of acorn flour (handmade by the woman at Hot Dog Depot), a rare find, and not something I would ever find at a hot dog place.
I walked West on Marina Vista hoping to find the continuation of the Bay Trail. followed Buckley St., but failed to find Carquinez Scenic Drive, in part due to darkness. I ended up walking South on Berrellesa St. as far as Masonic, back up on Alhambra Ave., and through Main Street, in downtown Martinez. Most of the shops were closed, but it was still fun to see this fairly quiet, historic town.
None. It was dark, and an urban setting.
Note: The map image above right was taken from Google Maps.


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Game with the best music
Thread starter qaqa1
You're all wrong: all suggestions here beaten thoroughly by both Thunder Force 3 & 4, Ys Book 1 & 2, Ys 3: Wanderers Of Ys, Castlevania Dracula X: Chi No Rondo (PCE), and both the Cold Storage and licensed soundtracks for the FIRST Wipeout. Oh, and Cyberwar. Try and dig THAT one up.
Oh, and BOTH Sonic CD soundtracks are good, don't trust anyone who says otherwise.
TSED
Crystalis has this one song for the ocean that I still get stuck in my head to this day.
Devil May Cry (3 in particular).
Icewind Dale's track was so emotive.
Jet Moto 2.
Jets 'N Guns. Despite being a little indie game no one's ever heard of, best soundtrack evar. (I only know about it because I'm a huge fan of the band that did the soundtrack.)
Swenglish
Akirasfriend said:
All of the Zelda games, but notably Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Wind Waker (haven't played Twillight Princess, but I'm sure the score's just as worthy). Certainly Shadow of the Colossus, for the epic moments (and for causing me to try and get the final stab in as it comes to a crescendo)quote]
Forgot about those, the Zelda series has one of my favourite soundtracks. Some have critisized the Twilight Princess for not having the soundtrack to be composed by a real orchestra, but to be honest, Nintendo made the right choice to decide that the soundtrack sounds and feels they way it does. 100% Sublime.
Anton P. Nym
Oh, and to again hit the retrogame scene... Outrun. I spent way too many quarters in my misspent youth just keeping that music and game running.
-- Steve
REDPill357
Portal has the best end-of-video-game song ever.
I've always been a sucker for the BF1942 theme.
But overall, I'd say NOLF 1&2 and Psychonauts.
qinlain
Xenogears and Xenosaga series has great music
REDPill357 said:
You know, I want to disagree, but mostly it comes down to personal taste. I will grant that the lyrics in it are definitely the funniest / cleverest, though.
llaunay
If you put WoW's music against LotR's or Eq2s... its really very average... WoW didn't have a fantastic soundtrack.
Grim Fandango has an amazing overall soundtrack, beautiful and characteristic
Soul Calibur & Tenchu had great tracks
Metal Gear Solid had a great overall sound track, and great theme
Terramax
Chis said:
You're all wrong: all suggestions here beaten thoroughly by both Thunder Force 3 & 4
I was close to giving a mention to Thunder Force 4. 'Fighting Back' (track from the first level) is the first track on my itunes 'fav game soundtracks' folder.
The Wind Waker had some good tunes, but I couldn't recommend any of the other Zeldas. Ocarina's Hyrule theme was terrific, but I can't remember much of the rest of it. I'll have to dig the OST out and have a long called for listen.
romitelli
GTA, the recent ones
Hmmm.. I guess Full Throttle, considering it's an old game.
InsanityManifest
The Chrono series had a lot of good music. It used the music to fit both the mood of each scene and the characters themselves.
I mean, when you hear Frog's Theme you just want to put on a suit of armor and go save a princess.
Super mario galaxy has one of the best sound tracks I've heard in a while.
Kingdom hearts usually has good music too.
p1ne
Terramax said:
Myst III: Exile - ALL TIME FAV
WELL PLAYED sir! What a fantastic soundtrack, and one that very well might not have gotten mentioned. I probably wouldn't have thought of that one, but you're right, it owns.
I may not be a proficient enough gamer to claim the most educated opinion on this one, but out of the games that I have played my favorite soundtracks (IN ORDER!) are:
1. Donkey Kong Country 2 (so classic)
2. Unreal Tournament - I still listen to all the tracks on a regular basis with ModPlug player
3. Donkey Kong Country
4. Pretty much anything by Cyan Studios
5. Beyond Good and Evil
6. C&C: Red Alert
L4Y Duke
The Suikoden series. Nuff said.
Kikosemmek
I have the entire soundtracks for Katamari Damacy and the Orange Box. Homeworld 1's menu music was awesome.
Age of Empires 1-3 had an overall great title piece. They're all basically the same, but got a bit expanded upon in each game.
end_boss
I don't have a wide range of titles to choose from. For now, the ones that jump into mind for now are Okami and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, for in-game ambient music.
Best song: "Still Alive" from Portal, by far.
What game has the best soundtrack you say. Brawl of course since its a collection of the greatest game music. Nuff said.
Tenchan
Silent Hill, of course. Akira Yamaoka is an amazing audio artist.
The music to Shadow of the Colossus amazed me in that during play, I never actively listened to it, in fact, didn't even grow fully aware of its presence, and yet it supported the dramatic build up in a way I would have, in hindsight, never felt without it.
The Final Fantasy series is a classic for gaming soundtracks, if only because the sheer quantity of tracks makes for a higher chance of real gems to pop up. FF8 had some very good ones, despite being the worst game of the series to me, and FFXI has a brilliant set of tracks.
AlexanderAstartes
The Halo Series. And Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders (Heroes aswell) had some really obscure rock, but it did well getting you into the frantic mood of battle.
Morrowind, naturally. Oblivion's is good, but it doesn't have the class Morrowind did.
Also music for the movies in Warcraft III were pretty good, especially for Arthas' Betrayal.


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More Ways to Play Canadian 200 (Part 2)
On May 25, 2018 posted by Adalene Lucas in Card Games, Two Hundred No Comments
In Part 1, we detailed a multitude of Rule Variations for Two Hundred (200). In Part 2, we'll deal solely with how to play 200 with varying amounts of players, or as a cutthroat card game, with no partnerships.
Rule Variations vs. Traditional Two Hundred Rules
Serious players—especially tournament players—rarely invoke anything outside of the traditional 200 Rules. But for informal players, mixing things up can make the game more entertaining, and often more reliant upon luck than skill.
200 Cutthroat Style
Eliminating partners from the game is simple enough, but it can greatly extend the length of each game, as well as increasing the difficulty of winning (hence the name).
In cutthroat games, all rules remain the same, except it's every man (or woman) for themselves. Each player is responsible for accumulating their own score. Bidders will receive points for successful contracts, and lose points for failed contracts. Defenders will earn score for all points they capture.
If played as 200 with Kitty, the minimum 50-point bid may be upheld. However, when playing without a kitty, the minimum bid should be lowered to somewhere between 25 and 40 points, making it more feasible to win a contract.
200 for 2 Players
2 player 200 is a very interesting way to play. The same 36-card deck is used, and four hands are dealt. The two players at the table will be on opposite teams, each having a "silent partner" across from them.
The silent partner hands are dealt in three stacks of three. The top card on each stack is turned face up. (See image right.)
Only the live players will participate in bidding. When it is a silent partner's turn to play, the live partner will play one of the face-up cards from the three stacks. Silent hands must follow suit, when able, using only the visible cards. Otherwise, game play and scoring continues as normal.
Although there are no formal rules for 5 player 200, it is possible to incorporate a fifth hand by playing cutthroat rules, with the winning bidder having a random partner for each hand. This variant would not use a kitty, since the contractor already has a significant advantage.
The game requires a 40-card deck of 5-Ace, and each player receives 8 cards. After bidding, the contractor will declare one card that he does not have. The player holding the chosen card will become the contractor's partner, but they cannot announce it. No one will know who the partner is until this player plays the card that was called.
Score is kept individually, by cutthroat rules. The contractor and his partner will each score the same points, positive or negative. All other players score the points they capture.
To play 6-handed, players can either be split into two teams of three, or three teams of two. For three teams, partners should sit across from one another. For two teams, partners should alternate seating.
Without a kitty, the game is played with 36 cards; 6 dealt to each player. With a kitty, either 40 cards can be used, or a full deck of 52, dealing 8 to each player. Note that the "misdeal" rule cannot be applied, since there's a much higher chance of any player being dealt a junk hand (no Aces or Faces).
Bidding, playing and scoring follow the same rules as a traditional 4 player game. However, if playing with three teams, should one team's score be in the hole (box) by 200 or more, and no other team has a negative score, this team is eliminated. The remaining two teams will continue to compete 4-handed for the win.
Want to learn more about the multifariously entertaining game of 200? Check out some of our other pages below:
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Q: Can a Linear Combination be Linearly dependent? Definition of a linear combination:
A vector v is a linear combination of vectors
 {v1, v2, ... , vk}
if there are scalars c1, c2, ... , ck such that
v = c1v1 + c2v2 + ... + ckvk
Definition of linearly dependent:
A set of vectors  {v1, v2, ... , vk}  is linearly dependent if there are scalars c1, c2, ... ,ck with at least one not being zero such that
c1v1 + c2v2 + ... + ckvk = 0
In effect my question could also be viewed as: can the v from the definition of linear combinations be equal to the 0 vector?

A: The answer to the literal question in the title

Can a Linear Combination be Linearly dependent?

Is "no", because a "linear combination (of a list of vectors)" is a vector while the "linear independence (of a list of vectors)" is a property (so either true of false).
You can say that a list of vectors is linearly independent just when the only linear combination that's the $0$ vector is the obvious one with all $0$ coefficients.


Samuel E. "Just Sam" Shaver, 83, of Echols, Kentucky went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday, February 3, 2019 at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. He was born December 13, 1935 in Echols, Kentucky to the late Mabel I. Shaver Bailey. Mr. Shaver retired from Cargill and was a devoted member of Echols Daystar Church of God. He served in the United States Army.
He leaves behind to cherish his memory his wife of 57 years, Betty Shaver of Echols; his children, Deana (Alex) Orsag of Highland, Indiana and Brian (Debbie) Shaver of Highland, Indiana and one sister, Ginni Latham of Bartlett, Illinois. Sam was blessed with five grandchildren, Danny (Terra), Matt (Hannah), Eason, Clay and Jalyne.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, February 7, 2019 at Echols Daystar Church of God, 5508 State Route 1245, Beaver Dam, Kentucky, with Brian Shaver and Pastor Todd Claypoole officiating. Burial will follow in Echols Cemetery in Echols, Kentucky. Friends may visit with Sam's family from 4:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Wednesday at William L. Danks Funeral Home and from 10:00 A.M. until the time of the service Thursday at Echols Daystar Church of God.
Online condolences may be left for the family of Samuel E. Shaver by visiting his memorial tribute atwww.danksfuneralhome.com.


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Maarten Vandevoordt, né le  à Saint-Trond en Belgique, est un footballeur belge qui évolue au poste de gardien de but au KRC Genk.

Biographie

KRC Genk
Né à à Saint-Trond en Belgique, Maarten Vandevoordt est formé au KRC Genk. Il fait sa première apparition en professionnel avec ce clb, à seulement 17 ans, le , face au KSK Renaix, à l'occasion d'une rencontre de coupe de Belgique. Titulaire dans le but du KRC Genk, il réalise un "clean sheet" et son équipe s'impose ce jour-là (0-3). Il joue son premier match de Jupiler Pro League le  face au Cercle Bruges KSV. Son équipe s'impose ce jour-là sur le score de deux buts à un.

Vandevoordt participe à la Ligue des champions avec le KRC Genk. Il joue son premier match dans cette compétition, le , face au SSC Naples. Il devient par la même occasion le plus jeune gardien à participer à cette compétition, à seulement 17 ans, 9 mois et 10 jours. Le KRC Genk perd largement cette rencontre sur le score de quatre buts à zéro.

Le , il prolonge son contrat au club jusqu'en 2023.

Carrière en équipe nationale
Avec l'équipe de Belgique des moins de 17 ans, Vandevoordt est sélectionné pour participer au championnat d'Europe des moins de 17 ans en 2018. Lors de cette compétition, il ne joue qu'une seule rencontre, le dernier match de poule face au Danemark. La Belgique s'incline en demi-finale face à l'Italie.

Vandevoordt est ensuite de nouveau sélectionné pour participer au championnat d'Europe des moins de 17 ans en 2019. Portier titulaire de la sélection durant ce tournoi, son équipe se hisse jusqu'en quarts de finale, battu par les Pays-Bas.

Maarten Vandervoordt joue son premier match avec l'équipe de Belgique espoirs le  contre le Kazakhstan. Il est titularisé ce jour-là et délivre une passe décisive pour Loïs Openda. Son équipe s'impose par trois buts à un.

Palmarès

En club

Avec le KRC Genk
 Vainqueur de la Coupe de Belgique en 2021.
 Vice-champion du Championnat de Belgique en 2021.
 Finaliste de la Supercoupe de Belgique en 2021.

Statistiques

Championnat.

Coupes Nationales.

Coupes Internationales.

Equipes Nationales.

Références

Liens externes

Footballeur belge
Joueur du KRC Genk
Naissance en février 2002
Naissance à Saint-Trond


VRMG boss Edem unleashes 'Kporda Remix' the next set of the future Ghanaian rap game featuring veteran Kwaw Kese and new school soldiers; Amerado, Kev, Obibini, Fareed, Joel, LayLow, Ko-Jo Cue, Kula, Akan, Strongman and MagNom, co-produced by Magnom and Paq.
Edem has been making great use of his feat in the industry to help unveil creative rap gems to be known by blending the few making the name.
'Kporda remix' is the next episode to follow 'Egboame Remix'. The song sees each talent lay a verse like crazy communicating their diverse bars and energy behind the microphone. After Edem follows Magnom, Kwaw Kese, Amerado, Laylow, Joel, Fareed, Kev, Kula, Ko-Jo Cue, Obibini, Akan & Strongman.
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US Concrete Inc (NASDAQ:USCR) EVP Niel L. Poulsen sold 5,782 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $42.87, for a total transaction of $247,874.34. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 9,575 shares in the company, valued at $410,480.25. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this link.
Shares of USCR stock traded up $1.02 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $43.75. 310,518 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 329,024. The firm has a market cap of $711.98 million, a P/E ratio of 22.67, a PEG ratio of 1.53 and a beta of 1.25. US Concrete Inc has a 1 year low of $27.68 and a 1 year high of $65.85. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.03, a current ratio of 1.28 and a quick ratio of 1.08.
US Concrete (NASDAQ:USCR) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 26th. The construction company reported $0.43 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.46 by ($0.03). The company had revenue of $370.10 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $378.31 million. US Concrete had a return on equity of 9.79% and a net margin of 1.99%. The company's revenue was up 8.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.50 earnings per share. Analysts expect that US Concrete Inc will post 2.79 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
A number of research firms have issued reports on USCR. ValuEngine upgraded shares of US Concrete from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Tuesday, March 5th. BidaskClub upgraded shares of US Concrete from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a report on Saturday, February 23rd. Citigroup reduced their target price on shares of US Concrete from $63.00 to $53.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a report on Friday, January 4th. SunTrust Banks reduced their target price on shares of US Concrete to $47.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, November 21st. Finally, DA Davidson reduced their target price on shares of US Concrete from $82.00 to $70.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, January 2nd. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the company. The company currently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average target price of $64.51.
Several hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Brinker Capital Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of US Concrete by 3.1% during the 4th quarter. Brinker Capital Inc. now owns 11,435 shares of the construction company's stock worth $403,000 after acquiring an additional 347 shares during the period. Texas Permanent School Fund increased its position in US Concrete by 4.0% during the 4th quarter. Texas Permanent School Fund now owns 10,456 shares of the construction company's stock worth $369,000 after purchasing an additional 403 shares in the last quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank increased its position in US Concrete by 82.6% during the 4th quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank now owns 1,132 shares of the construction company's stock worth $40,000 after purchasing an additional 512 shares in the last quarter. Coe Capital Management LLC increased its position in US Concrete by 4.5% during the 3rd quarter. Coe Capital Management LLC now owns 12,965 shares of the construction company's stock worth $594,000 after purchasing an additional 555 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. acquired a new stake in US Concrete during the 4th quarter worth approximately $26,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.51% of the company's stock.
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Roller skating parties never go out of style! Here are some fresh ideas to plan your child's roller skating-themed birthday party.
First, when planning the party, keep in mind the age of your child and his or her friends. Pre-teens and young teens are most likely to enjoy a roller skating party, whereas older teens might think that sort of party is too "babyish," and very young children need more supervision than can be given at a busy rink, not to mention that they might not even know how to skate! Make sure that your child is excited about the idea of a roller skating party, and ask for his or her input on games, refreshments, and other party details.
Most roller skating rinks offer party packages. The price of the package is, on average, about $35 per child and includes, at the least, admission and skate rental for each child and use of the party room. Some rinks have packages that include cake and drinks, party supplies like cups and plates, and even party favors.
An all-inclusive birthday party package can certainly take away much of the stress of party planning, but if your child wants to invite lots of friends, the cost per child can quickly add up. If you prefer to plan a custom party, there are many options for locations besides the roller rink. Many parks have open concrete areas; however, look into policies for public use before planning the party. If you belong to a gym or community center, perhaps you could rent an indoor basketball or tennis court for an afternoon. And if you or another family member has a large room with a cement floor (like a basement), this can be easily converted into your very own roller rink for the day.
Prime your guests for a roller skating party with a themed invitation. You can easily make one-of-a-kind invitations by cutting a roller skate out of construction paper, adding construction paper wheels, and "lacing up" the invitation with yarn. Or find or draw a picture of a skate, make colored copies, and glue the picture to the front of the invitation. Inside the invitation, note the date, start time, and end time of the party (afternoon parties work well for younger children, but older kids might prefer a Friday or Saturday evening party). Indicate whether the party will be outside or inside so that the children can dress accordingly, depending upon the season and weather. You also might want to ask that parents stay to help supervise, especially for children in the 6 to 9 age group.
If the party will be outside or in a roller rink, then you can keep the decorations simple. Some colorful balloons and streamers are probably sufficient, or maybe several strings of colored lights for a nighttime party. However, if the party is inside at a private home, then you can have more decorating fun. For example, you can make your own shimmering disco ball out of small mirrored tiles or old CDs and a ball of floral foam. In addition, kids love blacklights---pick up a few cheap blacklights and some glow-in-the-dark posters to keep them amused for hours.
Most roller rinks have refreshment stands, which serve pizza, hot dogs, candy, and soda. Simple party foods like these are good choices for a skating party. Have plenty of drinks on hand for thirsty skaters!
-Younger children might like traditional roller skating rink games like The Hokey Pokey and The Limbo Stick.
-For older children, set up a skating obstacle course.
-Everyone enjoys a good race! Have team relay races, individual speed races, and backward skating races.
-Consider hiring a professional skater to teach skating tricks like backward skating, figure 8s, and jumps (just make sure that all kids have the appropriate safety gear).
In addition, if your child and his or her friends enjoy arts and crafts, set up a table where they can make their own roller skate pompoms. To make this simple craft, cut balls of colorful yarn into 3- to 4-inch pieces. Grab a thick handful of yarn, and tie a long piece (14 or 16 inches) of matching yarn around the center. Tie the other end of the long piece of yarn around a second handful of yarn. Trim the yarn and fluff to form pompoms. Make a second set, and then tie around your roller skates---instant style for your skates!
Don't forget the party favors! For a roller skating party, you might want to stuff each favor bag with a glow-in-the-dark bracelet, a roller skating accessory like fancy laces, or a roller skate-shaped keychain. Fill up the bags with candy and inexpensive roller skate-themed pencils, erasers, and stickers.
Once the party is planned and the guests have arrived, wouldn't you like to be able to relax and enjoy the party? You won't be able to relax if you're worried about safety! Check ahead of time that the skating location is smooth, even, and free of rocks and debris. Have plenty of adults on hand to supervise, and you might even want to request that all children wear knee pads, elbow pads, and helmets. Finally, even with precautions, accidents can happen. Have each child's parent or guardian sign a waiver that relieves you of liability, and if the child's parent is not staying for the party, have him or her sign a form that allows you to authorize emergency medical care for the child. These simple precautions will help you to enjoy all of your hard work. Now, happy skating!
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Boutique fund managers outperform: report
Scott Hodder
Over the last 20 years boutique fund managers have outperformed their institutional counterparts, new research by US-based Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) has found.
A new study conducted by AMG found that over the research period, the average boutique outperformed the average non-boutique in nine out of 11 product categories by an average of 51 basis points.
AMG analysed 1,200 investment management firms over a 20-year period ending 31 December 2014.
This would have resulted in clients gaining 11 per cent greater wealth over the last twenty years than if they had they invested with a non-boutique.
The research also found boutiques delivered "significant value as compared to primary indices".
"The average boutique strategy outpaced its primary index in 9 of 11 equity product categories, by an average annual 141 basis points after fees," a statement from AMG said.
Commenting on the findings, AMG chairman and chief executive Sean Healey said this shows boutiques has created "significant value" for clients over the long term.
"The primacy of a boutique investment manager lies in its focused, entrepreneurial culture and ownership structure, with principals maintaining significant, direct equity in their business," Mr Healey said.
"Our research clearly demonstrates the significant value that boutiques have generated for investors over an extended time horizon."
Mr Healey highlighted that there are several characteristics that position boutiques to deliver consistent and superior long-term investment performance.
These include having principals with significant, direct equity ownership that ensures the "alignment of interests with clients" and the presence of a "multi-generational team" that is engaged across the business.
Other characteristics of boutiques include having an "investment-centric organisational alignment", and that principals have "long-term orientation in mind and are committed to building an enduring franchise".