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Martin Edwards is Winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger 2020
The author awarded the highest honour in British crime writing, the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger, has been announced.
Martin Edwards joins icons of the genre who have been recognised with the accolade, including Ruth Rendell, Lee Child, Ann Cleeves, Ian Rankin, PD James, Colin Dexter, Reginald Hill, Lindsey Davis, Peter Lovesey, and John Le Carré.
Crime authors praise for Martin:
"Martin Edwards is not only a fine writer but he is also ridiculously knowledgeable about the field of crime and suspense fiction. He wears his learning lightly and is always the most congenial company. He is also a great champion of crime writing and crime writers. He has been an active (and proactive) member of the CWA for many years and has guided countless writers into publication through his scrupulous editorship of short story anthologies. His novels feature an acute sense of place as well as deep psychological insights. As a solicitor, he knows the legal world more intimately than most of his fellow novelists. He is a fitting winner of the Diamond Dagger." – Ian Rankin
"Martin knows more about crime fiction than anyone else working in the field today. He's always been a fan of the genre and his passion shines through in his work: the fiction, the non-fiction and the short stories. In his editing, he's brought new writers and forgotten favourites to discerning readers. I'm delighted his work is being recognised in this way." – Ann Cleeves
"Martin's fiction alone makes him a truly worthy winner of the Diamond Dagger. His editorial excellence, his erudition, his enthusiasm for and contributions to the genre, his support of other writers, and his warm-hearted friendship are the icing on the cake." – Lee Child
"Martin Edwards is a thoroughly deserved winner of this prized award. He has contributed so much to the genre, not only through the impressive canon of his own wonderfully written novels, but through his tireless work for crime writing in the UK." – Peter James
"Martin is not only one of the finest crime writers of his generation. He is the heir to Julian Symons and H.R.F. Keating as the leading authority on our genre, fostering and promoting it with unflagging enthusiasm, to the benefit of us all. I'm delighted that our community can show its gratitude by honouring him in this way." – Peter Lovesey
"Martin Edwards is a wonderful choice to receive the Diamond Dagger. He takes stellar roles in both the legal profession and crime-writing in a way few could manage. He's a very fine writer but has also devoted huge energy to both the CWA and Detection Club – all done quietly and companionably, which is a rare thing. I love a man who takes care of archives. I am delighted for him, but as we always say: it's for lifetime achievement – but please don't stop what you do so well!" – Lindsey Davis
Alongside his career as a prolific novelist, Martin is a renowned editor, reviewer, columnist and versatile writer of non-fiction, and is a leading authority on crime fiction. He has also enjoyed a separate career as a solicitor, and is recognised for his expertise in employment and equal opportunities law.
The Diamond Dagger award recognises authors whose crime writing careers have been marked by sustained excellence, and who have made a significant contribution to the genre.
Andrew Taylor, chair of the Diamond Dagger sub-committee and winner of the award in 2009, said: "I'm delighted that the CWA Committee has decided to honour Martin with this year's Diamond Dagger. Given the range and quality of his work, together with his enormous contribution to the genre as a whole, he is the perfect recipient."
Linda Stratmann, CWA Chair, said: "Martin Edwards has been honoured not only as an award-winning author and editor, but also as a tireless promoter of crime writing. He researches and preserves the history of the genre, and has introduced the modern reader to classics of the past that might otherwise have been forgotten."
Martin's first novel, All the Lonely People, was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger in 1991. Since then his crime writing has won multiple awards in the UK and US. In 2018 he received the CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded by British librarians. He has won the CWA Short Story Dagger, the CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating award, and in 2014 the inaugural CWA Margery Allingham Prize. His novels have been shortlisted for the Theakston's Prize and the Lakeland Book Award, while in 2017 his non-fiction book The Golden Age of Murder was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. In the US he has received the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe award, an Agatha award, and two Macavity awards from Mystery Readers International. In 2017 he received the Poirot award for his outstanding contribution to the genre.
Martin Edwards said: "The Diamond Dagger is special because it's conferred by my fellow authors and because the previous winners are so illustrious. To be part of the warm and welcoming community of crime writers for the past thirty years has been a joy. I fell in love with crime fiction when as a young boy I first discovered Agatha Christie. From then on, my only ambition was to write a detective novel that people might enjoy reading. But I never imagined receiving an accolade like this. I'm truly honoured."
Originally known for his Harry Devlin and the Lake District Mysteries series, Martin is now making waves with his 1930s-set thrillers. His latest novel Gallows Court revived the Golden Age of crime fiction with a unique twist, featuring the character Rachel Savernake, and was last year nominated for the CWA Historical Dagger and shortlisted for the eDunnit award. The sequel, Mortmain Hall, is published in April by Head of Zeus.
In 2015, Martin followed in the footsteps of Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers by being elected President of the Detection Club, the world's oldest social network of crime writers. The Club will celebrate its 90th birthday this year by publishing Howdunit (HarperCollins), edited by Martin; a masterclass of crime writing by leading exponents of the genre. He is consultant to the British Library's bestselling Crime Classics series, and wrote the award-winning companion volume, The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books. He is also archivist of the Detection Club and the CWA and a former Chair of the CWA. Author of over sixty short stories, since 1996 he has been the editor of the CWA's annual anthology.
Martin was born in Knutsford, Cheshire, and now lives in Lymm. After graduating with a first class honours degree in law from Balliol College, Oxford, he became a solicitor, acting for many high profile clients. He was head of employment law at Mace & Jones, and subsequently a partner with Weightmans LLP, with whom he remains a consultant. Author of four editions of Equal Opportunities Handbook, he says, "The appeal of fiction is not so very different from the appeal of employment law. Both concern conflicts in human behaviour – and how best to resolve them."
The CWA Diamond Dagger is selected from nominations provided by CWA members. Nominees have to meet two essential criteria: first, their careers must be marked by sustained excellence, and second, they must have made a significant contribution to crime writing published in the English language.
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In 1939, the POW camp Stalag VII A was established north of Moosburg - with up to 80,000 Allied soldiers at the end of World War II. From 1945 to 1948 it served as an internment camp. The old photograph shows the prisoners' barracks along the camp street, now called Sudetenlandstraße.
Each of the large barracks could house 400 POWs. As numerous German refugees settled in the former Stalag area since 1948, most barracks were rebuilt as private houses or workshops (barrack no. 3 in Sudetenlandstraße at Erzgebirgstraße).
The few original but empty buildings are in a state of dilapidation - like barrack no. 6 in Sudetenlandstraße.
The big sign in front of barrack no. 13 says that the old building will be replaced by six semidetached houses (Sudetenlandstraße at Erzgebirgstraße).
An interior view of barrack no. 13. Soon this monument of Moosburg's recent history will be lost.
The guards of the POW camp had their own barracks along Schlesierstraße. Although they are in bad condition, some of the old houses are still occupied.
Other guards' barracks served as St Pius' kindergarten or as the Lutheran parish centre (picture). The latter was pulled down and replaced by a new church in 1999; the kindergarten was rebuilt in 2004.
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Q: ¿Como se representan Atributos Multivaluadas en Diagrama Entidad Relacion? Estoy haciendo una base de datos para una plataforma web de streaming de clases en linea para mi universidad, pero me surgió una duda ¿Cómo se representan los atributos multivaluados que tienen mas atributos en un Diagrama de Entidad Relacion? por ejemplo Una clase puede tener N numero de Videos guardados, al igual una clase puede tener N numero de Horarios, El alumno puede tener N numero de clases con su calificación y todo, al igual el profesor puede tener N numero de clases y saber que alumnos estan inscritos a cada clase, aqui un ejemplo de como hice una parte del diagrma:
Mi pregunta es esta bien el diagrama en el atributo Horarios, la relacion Cursa y videos?

A: Lo que tu buscas no debería simplemente realizarse, un atributo con multivalores infringe las reglas de normalización, puedes consultar las reglas en el siguiente enlace:
Base de datos - primera Forma Normal
El correcto diseño de una base de datos no debería incluir datos multivalorados ya que este puede generar inconsistencia de datos y evitar la atomicidad de los mismos. A continuación presento un ejemplo abordando tu ejemplo anterior, donde se observa que la tabla "clase" contiene videos de una manera incorrecto y de lado izquierdo la manera correcta en la que este dato debería ser normalizado.

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My favourite part about choosing the samples is you can refine your search, for example choose what kind of sample you want such as, in a sachet, bottle or on a piece of card. I found this so useful because I never feel you get much product in a sachet or on a card. It's definitely worth taking into account the sizes of the samples so you're not disappointed when they arrive in the post.
There is such a huge selection of samples to choose from, I'd definitely recommend selecting your preferred area such as make-up or skincare and having a good scroll. I spent so long doing that and was completely spoilt for choice!
I've heard a lot of good things about this product especially as a highlighter and was super excited to try a sample of it! I have definitely been caught up with the huge highlighter hype at the moment! Now although this product does give a gorgeous glow on the skin I wasn't as impressed as I thought I was gonna be so at the moment I'm not sure I would purchase the full size version. Although I feel I may have to give it another go, maybe using it as an eyeshadow or as an all over glow.
I was excited to try this as I've heard thousands of good reviews about Origins products. I've also found myself loving charcoal face masks at the moment. I found that the instructions weren't that easy to understand as they were very minimal. It doesn't tell you how long to leave the mask on for or how often to apply? When first applying to my wet face it felt the same as any other charcoal mask however as it started to dry it felt like it was burning the sort of feeling that thermal face masks have however this one didn't say that so I was a little concerned! I waited 5 minutes and it had mostly dried on my face, with a very stiff and uncomfortable feeling although it felt so soft and really pleasant to wash off. No immediate visible difference apart from super soft skin. The next morning however I did definitely feel like my face looked and felt clearer. So maybe after another go with clear results it might be worth the investment!
I'd never heard of this brand before, I came across it whilst seeing what others had most ordered and thought I would give it ago because I loved the sound of thickening and lengthening the size of my lashes! I have to say first impressions weren't great a I pulled out the mascara wand from the tube and questioned how it ever possibly fitted in there! I was definitely sceptical because of the huge brush however I was ever so pleasantly surprised! It's amazing! I could instantly see a difference they looked so much longer, the best way to describe it was my lashes just about 10x better! I don't feel you could tell they had much product on them, such a natural finish.
I was unsure how this product was going to arrive because of how small the sample size guide was but my oh my its small! I actually found it super difficult to hold to try and apply it (about half the size on a ikea pencil!!) However once I mastered it, I loved it! Such a difference, so full and gorgeous! Although after not using a brow pencil in so long I'm unsure whether its as good as any other brow pencil out there?!
Overall I was super happy with my first 5 samples and look forward to it each month. Let me know if you've ever tried this sample service or are thinking of doing it next month.
Featured above (from left to right): 3 Kylie Cosmetics Lip Kits in the shades; Candy K, Posie K & Koko K. Revlon Ultra HD Lip Colour in the shade Seduction, Sanctuary Spa Overnight Face and Neck Creme, Tea Tree & Witch Hazel Facial Mask, Pink and Purple Tangle Teezer, Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette & Victoria Secret Fragrance Mist - Temptation.
I can't believe here we are at the start of August already, that's crazy! This year really has gone super fast! But on a slightly lighter note here's my monthly favourites! I'll pop all the links at the bottom of this post so if theres anything you fancy you can find out where you can get your hands on it! Enjoy!
This palette has always been a gorgeous stop and stare palette to me however in the recent few months I've really found myself reaching for it everyday and now becoming part of my everyday make-up. I've especially been loving the shades; Limit, Nooner, Buzz & Burnout. I feel this is such an easy wearable eyeshadow palette and there really isn't a colour which I dislike and haven't yet used.
These next two products I picked up with having no intentions of them being my new favourites and really becoming part of my skincare routine!
I picked up the Sanctuary Spa Overnight Face and Neck Creme before I went to Vancouver as a travel size mini. I thought it would be a good idea to have an extra moisturiser for the plane however I also found myself using it before bed each night (revelation that I used it for what it was actually for!) It smells delightful and exactly like turkish delight which I was slightly put off with to being with however I have soon learnt to love it! As for how well it works I love how smooth it is to apply, doesn't leave my face with the sticky feeling that some moistures often do. I will definitely be re-purchasing however this time the full size version!
I have really missed using a charcoal facial mask so I thought it was definitely time I treated my skin to a new one. Whilst having a quick wonder in Boots I noticed this one and on a buy one get one free offer I thought why not give it a try! I absolute love this! It has definitely been a savour and I really have seen a difference. I only use it once a week in the evening when I feel my skin isn't looking too great and could definitely do with a boost. You smooth it and cover your face, leave it for 15 minutes to work its magic and then wash off! Nice and simple. The following morning I always find that my skin is softer and reduces the appearance of any blemishes.
I actually bought this one and 2 others to use in a photoshoot. I first tried these out whilst on FaceTime to my best friend and it was really not the greatest first impression they felt sticky and didn't go matte at all (even after 3 hours of talking) however I really liked the shades so I persisted! I eventually found that you have to apply a really small amount, you definitely don't get as much pigment but they are super moisturising and slightly matte. If you're looking for a bold pigmented matte then this is not the liquid lipstick for you however for a subtle matte with most of the time having a glossy appearance without the stickiness and gorgeous colour then this is the one for you! There are 7 shades in total in the collection. Let me know if you've tried them out and what your result/experience was!
My Oh My, hasn't there been the craziest hype for these lip kits! I promise to follow this short but sweet review up with a complete blog post dedicated to my lip kits in much more exciting detail and my experience very soon! I've been wearing Candy K loads this month! It's been ideal to wear for work especially working 10 hour shifts with only one lunch break to top it up! It definitely lasts the whole day without budging, sometimes with a little top up after some food but I'm so impressed. The colour is so wearable for everyday as well as receiving multiple compliments from customers which is always a bonus!
Side note; comparing these two liquid lipsticks they almost look as if they could be dupes however sadly that isn't the case! Candy K is much more pigmented and slightly darker! The packaging for Revlon is very deceiving for colour!
This is much more of an all time favourite rather than just through July however I realised I'd never really mentioned this little beauty on my blog before! Since owning the tangle teezer I completely understand why its drawn so so many people in! It's amazing! I honestly haven't used another brush since! It's so smooth going through hair and makes it feel super nice and relaxing (is that a weird thing to say?!) It's such a handy and portable size to carry around, really is my life saver!
I picked this up in Vancouver and oh boy I wish I picked up 5 bottles! It smells incredible, (here goes a completely terrible description of what something actually smells like!) its a refreshingly fruity fragrance, probably not at all how they would describe it but theres definitely only one way to find out what its really like and that to go into the wonderful store to smell it! I hugely recommend it! I've used far more that I expected to use by now! That must say something!
I hope you've enjoyed reading about what I've been loving this month! I hugely enjoy seeing what everyone has been using and what I should put on my next wishlist! Have any of you tried any of these products/items? What did you think about them?


I've seen the first two Paranormal Activity movies and found them to be not scary at all and very over-hyped. As somebody who lives in a haunted house, that kind of stuff doesn't scare me. However, I would have probably really loved the movies if the ghosts had been the Boo character from the Super Mario Bros franchise or at least the Pac-Man ghosts. Luckily, one gamer decided to give us an idea of what Paranormal Activity 4 would be like with Boo playing the roll of the ghost!
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Not official, but Tanaka in line to start opener
Girardi wants to see how righty bounces back from Grapefruit League outings
By Bryan Hoch
BRADENTON, Fla. -- All signs point to the Yankees setting up Masahiro Tanaka to make his second consecutive Opening Day start, but manager Joe Girardi said on Thursday that he is not ready to make an official announcement."We've got to see how he bounces back after we build up his
BRADENTON, Fla. -- All signs point to the Yankees setting up Masahiro Tanaka to make his second consecutive Opening Day start, but manager Joe Girardi said on Thursday that he is not ready to make an official announcement.
"We've got to see how he bounces back after we build up his pitch count a little bit," Girardi said. "My thought process now is I don't anticipate it being a problem, but let's just wait and see."
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After not allowing a run over five innings in his first two Grapefruit League starts, Tanaka allowed two runs -- one on a home run by Andrew McCutchen -- over two innings against the Pirates on Thursday during the Yankees' 7-2 win.
Tanaka labored, requiring 50 pitches (30 strikes) to get through the two frames. He said that he was "a bit frustrated" because he was unable to hit spots with his fastball and splitter, something that also affected him in his last outing against the Orioles.
"Just getting my third year of Spring Training in, you know that you'll have bad days like this," Tanaka said through an interpreter. "The good part is to get those bad days out in Spring Training rather than in the season. Through experience, I think that I've progressed enough to think that way."
Yankees catcher Brian McCann said that Tanaka's stuff and velocity seemed to be present on Thursday, even if the command wasn't.
"Fastball command is everything," McCann said. "It sets up all your other pitches. When he's got his fastball command, he gets early outs. Today, it was off a little bit."
Tanaka projects to have two spring efforts remaining before the Yankees open the regular season at Yankee Stadium on April 4 against the Astros. He could be ready to take the ball with one extra day of rest between each spring start, and Tanaka said that should be enough time to iron out the mechanical issues.
"At this point in Spring Training -- for all of us -- you get the next hurdle, then the next hurdle," McCann said. "He cleared one today. Next time, he'll pitch hopefully four or five innings. The most important thing is health, and he looks great."
Upon reporting to Spring Training, Tanaka expressed some hesitation about an Opening Day assignment, saying that he needed to see how his right elbow would feel following offseason surgery to remove a bone spur, but that concern seems to have dissipated. Tanaka has reported no discomfort thus far.
Girardi added that Tanaka's fastball velocity -- a hot topic last spring, when the hurler was coming back a year after sustaining a partial tear of his ulnar collateral ligament -- has not been an issue.
"I think he's just trying to get ready. He's not too worried about results," Girardi said. "He's working on things. When you're established as a starter or a position player, you can do those things. Some of the other guys have to compete."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch, on Facebook and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.

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State reports 1555 more COVID-19 cases, three additional deaths – Press Herald
Maine health officials reported 1,555 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, continuing a steady rise of new transmission of the omicron variant that is adding strain to health care systems and creating disruptions for schools and employers across the state.
Three additional deaths were reported as well.
With the new cases, the seven-day average increased to 1,037, compared to 727 cases on average two weeks ago. The number of new cases reported each day doesn't necessarily reflect the whole picture anymore, because many are from tests submitted days earlier and because there is a significant backlog of tests that needs to be processed. Additionally, many individuals might be testing positive with at-home tests, and those results aren't necessarily reported to state officials.
But there is no question transmission is more widespread than ever. Maine CDC director Dr. Nirav Shah said Wednesday that the state's seven-day positivity rate increased to 19.76 percent, the highest of the pandemic. That means roughly one of every five PCR tests being conducted is coming back positive. The state also is processing more tests than at any other point, 825 for every 100,000 residents.
Hospitalizations had not been updated Thursday morning, but Wednesday's total of 413 COVID-19 patients also set a new pandemic high. Of those, 106 were in critical care and 57 were on ventilators. Amid the recent spike in hospitalizations, the number needing critical care has remained flat.
The CDC has said that the percentage of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who are unvaccinated has hovered around 70 percent for several weeks. The percentage of critical care patients who are unvaccinated is higher still. The disparity between fully vaccinated patients and unvaccinated patients is even starker when considering that the number of unvaccinated people in Maine is less than half the number of those who are fully vaccinated.
The increased number of patients in hospitals, coupled with a high number of workers who are out sick themselves with COVID-19, prompted Gov. Janet Mills this week to activate 169 members of the Maine National Guard to assist hospitals. Details about where those members will be directed and when have not yet been released, but the goal is for guard members to assist in non-clinical roles that will help free up beds faster.
Hospitals have increasingly been forced to be more creative with staff.
Northern Light Health, one of the state's largest hospital systems, on Wednesday moved five of its smaller, more rural hospitals to contingency staffing plans. which reduced the quarantine period from 10 to five days. The move was made as Northern Light reported more than 600 employees were out sick.
In another sign that Maine is struggling to keep pace with the rapid spread of omicron, the Department of Education announced Wednesday that schools will no longer be required to do contact tracing for positive cases, provided the schools have a universal mask policy.
Shah explained that the decision was made after many school officials communicated that the process of contact tracing was becoming overly burdensome and not all that effective anymore.
"Trying to catch omicron by contact tracing is like trying to catch a bullet train by bicycle," he said.
Some schools have switched to remote learning this week because too many staff members were out sick.
Driven by the incredibly transmissible omicron variant, cases are soaring across the country to their highest level of the pandemic. According to the U.S. CDC, the seven-day average for cases is about 760,000, which is a staggering 170-percent increase from just two weeks earlier. Hospitalizations also are at their highest level in the U.S. – 124,163 on a seven-day average, compared to 67,883 COVID-19 patients two weeks earlier.
Since the pandemic began, there have been 158,087 confirmed or probable cases and 1,626 deaths in Maine, according to the CDC. Both remain among the lowest per capita of any state.
Although the current surge is unprecedented, there are signs emerging that it could be short-lived. In some major metropolitan areas that saw a surge of omicron cases before Maine, like New York and Boston, cases are falling nearly as rapidly as they increased. That trend has played out in other countries as well.
Shah said Wednesday that Maine has typically lagged behind greater Boston by about a week in "epidemiological time."
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Socialization Saves Places
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Historical Posts, Neighborhoods	on Jun 3rd, 2015
Recently a new movement has started in historic preservation circles called "Beer Saves Places." It certainly sounds like a movement that I can get behind. I like beer, and I like historic places, so what's not to like? The first meeting was in Indiana City Brewery, just south of Washington Street. This building actually used to house another brewery, the bottling house of Home Brewing Company:
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Recently, another new brewery has popped up, this time in an old Catholic church located at College and North Streets. I was fortunate enough to visit recently, and I was really impressed. Of course, they are lucky in that much of the restoration work was already finished by a now defunct architectural firm, but someone still had to make a successful business, and I'm glad that St. Joseph Pub is making it happen:
Image Credit: Karl Mann
But it's not just beer that's saving places. Recently there have been a few other historic building saves. Some have involved coffee, such as Foundry Provisions:
Image Credit: Andrew Morin
And even a formerly forlorn real estate office with no historic value has been turned into one of the hottest restaurants in town, which I've also enjoyed recently:
Image Credit: Sara Morin
This leads me to think that it's not just beer that saves places, it's the human desire for interaction that can bring interest back into places that have otherwise been forgotten. Give people a reason to come and socialize, and watch the magic unfold. And once all of our other jobs are replaced by robots, it'll likely still be a popular venture to create gathering places for people. What else will work?
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I'm thinking it is developers and restaurant owners with foresight who save places, but that's just me.
I didn't mean to downplay the work behind the scenes that go into these saves.
To be fair, older inner city sites are saved lots of ways: by art centers (Harrison Center for the Arts), by schools (Herron High School), by stores (originally Meridian Modern, now another resale store at 22nd & Meridian), by offices (SEND office in Fountain Square is part of the old Wheeler Carburetor complex), by mixed uses (Shoefly and Tea's Me on 22nd have apartments or condos over), etc.
The "work behind the scenes" IS the save. The nice place to hang out is the result.
Love this post. It is so hard for friends from the burbs to understand exactly what is going on in the downtown core, but once they see it, they are always like, "This is the coolest thing ever." Cognitive dissonance somehow still makes the not want to move down here though.
I would also say incentives play a large role. I have always said I am not for pushing my desired way of living on others but all kinds of people love a true urban setting. Especially suburban types who eschew all things urban in conversation. I guess it isn't hard to beat the atmosphere of outdoor seating in a giant parking lot surrounded by traffic and big box stores.


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Umba, a digital bank for emerging markets, raises $2M Seed funding to expand across Africa
Umba, a digital bank for emerging markets and aiming first at Africa, has secured a $2 million seed funding round from new investors including Lachy Groom, ex-Head of Issuing at Stripe; Ludlow Ventures; Frontline Ventures and Act Venture.
Currently operating in Kenya and Nigeria, Umba offers a digital financial service alternative to legacy African banks. Its mobile app gives customers a free checking account, free instant peer-to-peer money transfers, lending, deposits, BillPay and cashback. This is in contrast to the generally high-cost barriers found among traditional banking institutions in African countries.
Right now it's available in Kenya and Nigeria, which have a combined population of over a quarter of a billion people.
Umba competes with Kudao, Carbon, Eversend and 'Chip or cash' methods.
Umba's CEO, Tiernan Kennedy said: "From the outset we built our platform to serve multiple markets, currencies and payment infrastructures. This flexibility is an extremely important consideration as it's much harder to upgrade your systems at a later date. For example, bank and debit card penetration is high in Nigeria, so Umba is deeply integrated into those payment methods, while across Kenya and East Africa mobile money is dominant so our platform is tightly integrated with those services, too."
Ludlow Ventures Partner, Brett DeMarrais said: "Umba is the first investment we've made in the African market and it's one we were excited to participate in. The team at Umba have an excellent service that drives down the cost of banking for their customers and democratizes access. The move away from physical branch infrastructure was already underway and it has accelerated this year. It's clear the African market is maturing and that we're entering a very interesting phase."
The news comes shortly after Stripe's $200M acquisition of Nigerian payment service startup Paystack as well as the acquisition of DPO Group for $288m and Sendwave for $500m, showing a booming ecosystem breaking records in venture rounds and acquisitions.
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Are Your Radio Commercials Working? Here's Seven Ways to Tell.
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Dana Meyer
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Dana Meyer, founder and Artistic Director of Music City Strings, is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and has been passionate about teaching for more than 40 years. In her early years she developed and implemented the Boone County Schools Strings Program in West Virginia, was a faculty member of the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina, instructor and chamber music coach at the New World School of the Arts (Miami), and became a performing faculty member of the Tucson Chamber Music in the Mountains in Tucson, Arizona. While much of her early teaching career was focused on the high school and collegiate level, Mrs. Meyer performed extensively with chamber music groups and major orchestras in the United States. She has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Denver Symphony, the Richmond Symphony, and with the major orchestras in Florida. During her decade long tenure with the American Sinfonietta, she toured Europe annually and was part of the performing faculty at the Bellingham Music Festival in Bellingham, Washington. While in Florida, Mrs. Meyer taught at the Dillard High School of Performing Arts and was instrumental in securing college scholarships for her students Kevin Sylvester and Wilner Baptiste, who have since formed the famed hip hop duo Black Violin. In 1999, Mrs. Meyer discovered a passion for the teaching of young students and established her first private Suzuki studio in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She immersed herself in the Suzuki pedagogy and became a protégé of Ronda Cole. As her studio thrived she became President of the Suzuki Association of South Florida. In 2005, Dana Meyer established a violin studio in Franklin, Tennessee. Her dream was to create a program that would provide children the means to become confident, sensitive and beautiful artists. Music City Strings was the result of this dream. An international-competition winning group, Music City Strings is one of the top youth string-performance ensembles in the country, has toured Europe, China, Canada and the US, and has attracted the attention of the music industry in Nashville. The group has performed over 30 concerts with Grammy-Award winning artists Vince Gill, Amy Grant, and Michael W. Smith in such venues as the Ryman Auditorium, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Bridgestone Arena, Music City Center and the Allen Arena at Lipscomb University. Music City Strings was the headliner group for the Barrage Next Generation Tours in Wisconsin, Florida, and Arkansas, and has performed on the TOKENS Show at the Ryman, at the University of Louisville Suzuki String Institute, the Hope Foundation with Steven Curtis Chapman, DayStar Ministries, and Music City Roots. While Mrs. Meyer's time is now mainly devoted to Music City Strings and her private students in Music City Strings Academy, other former faculty positions and posts include the Wintergreen Performance Academy, the Middle Tennessee State University Governor's School of Music, the South Carolina Suzuki Institute at Furman University, The Fine Arts Student Academy in Nashville, and President of the Middle Tennessee Suzuki Association. Mrs. Meyer is currently a faculty member with the Greater Washington DC Suzuki Institute, the Suzuki Institute at PhoenixPhest! in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the University of Louisville Suzuki String Institute and is the Auditions Coordinator for the Strings Division of NAMTA. She was awarded Teacher of the Year by the Nashville Area Music Teachers Association in 2016.
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Music City Strings Academy provides a high-quality Suzuki music education program in Middle Tennessee. We offer instruction in violin, viola, and cello for Preschool through High School students. The program curriculum includes private lessons, group classes, recitals, music theory education, participation in performance competitions, and additional performing. Most importantly, our program provides children the means to become confident, sensitive and beautiful artists.
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Preview: Royal Jelly Jive Funks Up the Blues
San Francisco soul ensemble brings 'John Lee Hooker juju' to Moe's Alley
Royal Jelly Jive brings new album 'Limited Preserve No. 3' to Moe's Alley on Saturday, May 11.
By Andrew Gilbert
Before Lauren Bjelde became the charismatic frontwoman for the horn-powered six-piece soul combo Royal Jelly Jive, she had been holding down a monthly gig for a year at San Francisco's Boom Boom Room with a psychedelic blues/funk project. An elemental Delta boogie seeped into the music, manifesting the spectral presence of blues legend John Lee Hooker, who once owned and operated the club.
Royal Jelly Jive's story starts right after this, in late 2013, when Bjelde, keyboardist Jesse Adams and a few other members launched the band under its new name, delivering an uproarious blend of slinky R&B brass, surging organ and keen melodic hooks, still leaving room for the blues that served as their foundation. The group started hitting the Boom Boom Room hard, and quickly emerged as one of San Francisco's most entertaining bands.
"When Jesse Adams came into the picture, he took us to a new level of funk with the B-3, bringing that John Lee Hooker juju," says Bjelde. "We had the vibes spilling over from the Fillmore, and it all went into our sound." Additionally, the band features Robby Elfman on reeds, trumpeter Danny Cao, acoustic bassist Tyden Binsted, and drummer Felix Macnee.
These days, Bjelde concentrates more on singing than on guitar, a move she attributes to her increasing comfort on stage. It's added a new layer of liberation to the music. "I've gotten more into physically embodying the music," she says. "I tend to dance and not play instruments on stage, and I miss that. Moe's Alley is a place I can pull out the guitar. I think I took my favorite guitar solo ever shredding at Moe's."
The group is releasing its third CD, Limited Preserve No. 3, accompanied by "a whole bunch of jelly being jarred. This is a harvest and assemblage of our studio experience," Bjelde says, referring to the album, not the preserves.
"We been spending so much time as a band on stage night after night, so much music pours out. There's no rhyme or reason or official recipe as to who writes the songs. It's about what feels good. Jesse and I are together all the time, and a lot of that songwriting comes together working feverishly on the boogie."
Bjelde grew up in the Central Valley in small town outside of Modesto, the youngest of four siblings. She loved music as a child but isn't the kind of performer who spent her life dreaming of the spotlight. Before Royal Jelly Jive came together, she was studying Islamic art and architecture in Turkey, and trained as an underwater archeologist (scuba diving is something of a family tradition). She was also a member of the CIA, "which stands for Conceptual/Information Arts," she says, referring to author, artist and professor Stephen Wilson's innovative San Francisco State program exploring the cultural implications of new technologies.
Bjelde was immersed in the program when it fell apart after Wilson's death in 2011, but she spent fruitful months "taking apart pianos and putting them together in poetic ways," she recalls. "We'd use electronics and metal fabrications and create these interactive poems that would react to the person who was looking at it."
With her SF State adventure coming to an end, the Boom Boom Room started exerting a powerful pull. Music had long been a more private pursuit. "I should have known," she says. "Every memory I have I was singing, whether I was lulling myself to sleep or on the bus, music was part of it."
All of her various interests come into play with Royal Jelly Jive, a band that embodies San Francisco at its best. Deeply informed and playfully reverent toward the departed masters whose shoulders they stand on, the band brings its far-flung curiosity to the stage.
"The more and more we travel, we realize how much we're a San Francisco band," Bjelde says. "You hear the history of the city in the lyrics."
Royal Jelly Jive performs at 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, at Moe's Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $12 adv/$15 door. 479-1854.
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29 June 2005 – With the closing of Aisha camp this week, the United Nations refugee agency now operates just one camp housing 10,000 Somalis in eastern Ethiopia, an area which at one time hosted the world's largest concentration of refugees, with nearly 630,000 Somalis who had fled war and political turmoil at home.
At the closing ceremony for Aisha, the seventh camp to be shut down, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Fernando Protti Alvarado said on Monday, "This milestone brings us one step closer to phasing out our operation in eastern Ethiopia, an area which 15 years ago was the largest refugee-hosting area in the world."
Since 1997 UNHCR has helped some 240,000 of the 628,000 Somali refugees in eastern Ethiopia to go home to north-western Somalia, the self-declared Republic of Somaliland, while hundreds of thousands of others returned on their own.
The Somalilanders of Aisha camp fled civil war in the 1980s and the overthrow of the Siad Barre national regime in 1991. The last convoy to Somaliland, the 213th since repatriation started in 1997, left Aisha camp on May 28.
Mr. Protti thanked the Ethiopian Government and the host community for their hospitality. He handed over to Aisha district authorities the facilities at the camp, including offices, a health centre, a school, a women's community centre, a grinding mill, a warehouse, a food distribution centre, a borehole, a motorized water pumping system and a replacement generator.
He said his team would repair the school, health centre and water facility over the next two weeks but regretted that UNHCR could not accede to the district authorities' request that it help to run the machinery until the local government learned to manage it since UNHCR is a humanitarian agency dealing with refugees and not a development organization.
UNHCR's Kebribeyah camp is the only one remaining in eastern Ethiopia now. It houses more than 10,000 refugees from parts of Somalia to which it is not yet safe to return.


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Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Juneteenth is actually June 19, the day on which word finally made it to Galveston, Texas, that the Civil War was over and that Abraham Lincoln had freed the slaves. As the story goes, these 250,000 slaves were the last … Continue reading Happy belated Juneteenth, everybody!


Kansas City International Airport briefly lost power Sunday as severe thunderstorms pounded several counties in Missouri, an airport spokesman confirmed. The outage lasted roughly 20 minutes before workers were able to restore power.
"Due to severe weather power is out at [Kansas City International Airport]. Expect delays and cancellations. [Kansas City Power & Light] en route. No time estimate yet," airport marketing manager Joe McBride wrote on Twitter at approximately 1:40 p.m. CDT. McBride said service was restored about 20 minutes later. Flightaware said four flights were canceled and 43 delayed.
Customers were encouraged to check for flight information online or to call the airlines to determine which trips were delayed, the Kansas City Star reported. Flightaware indicated Southwest Airlines flights were the most severely affected.
Approximately 60 power outages were reported, many of which occurred in areas north and east of Kansas City, KCTV reported. The power outages affected approximately 1,800 customers, Kansas City Power & Light told the Associated Press. Kansas City International Airport also suffered unspecified wind damage.
The National Weather Service enacted a severe thunderstorm warning throughout the Kansas City metro area through Sunday afternoon. The warning affected Jackson, Clay, Ray and Lafayette counties. A flash flood warning was also put in place for parts of Clay County, Ray County and Clinton County, as strong wind gusts and baseball-size hail battered the affected area. Some areas reported overflowing rivers and downed power lines, KMBC, Kansas City, reported. Flooding has already occurred in some areas, including Clay County, where the Fishing River rose above its banks.
The flash flood warnings were expected to remain in effect until 5:30 p.m. CDT, the Kansas City Star reported. Meteorologists expected anywhere from 1 1/2-3 inches of rain Sunday afternoon, with the storms projected to give way to upper-90s temperatures by Monday.


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WHAT'S HAPPENING: Facing its third straight road game, the University of Arizona women's basketball team (16-4 overall; 8-1 Pac-10) will be looking for its first win in Tempe since 2000, when the Wildcats take on Arizona State on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 6:30 p.m. in Wells Fargo Arena. The contest will be broadcast live in the Phoenix area on KAZ-TV.
SCOUTING ARIZONA: The Wildcats are 16-4 overall and 8-1 in Pac-10 play after earning a sweep at Oregon (70-66) and Oregon State (65-54) last weekend. Stanford's loss at USC over the weekend enabled the Cats to move into a tie with the Cardinal for first place in the Pac-10 standings.
Arizona's 8-1 conference record is the program's best mark ever through the first nine games of Pac-10 play. The Cats' 16-4 overall mark is the best record Arizona has had through the first 20 games of a season since the 1999-2000 team went 17-3 over the same stretch.
The Wildcats have won 23 games in a row at home, the longest home winning streak in the program's history and the third-longest active home winning streak in the nation. Texas has the longest streak, at 29 games before a Feb. 1 meeting with Texas Tech, followed by Utah with a 24-game streak. The Utes don't play at home again until a Feb. 12 matchup with Colorado State.
On a four-game win streak, the Cats just missed being ranked in this week's Associated Press Top 25 by one vote, earning 52 votes, a significant improvement from last week's 16 votes. The Wildcats didn't fare quite as well in the USA Today Coaches Poll, logging 30 votes, just eight more than last week's 22.
Junior guard Dee-Dee Wheeler remains the Wildcats' top scorer, averaging 17.4 points per game. She is the team's assists leader as well, registering 4.9 per contest.
Sophomore center Shawntinice Polk is second in scoring, at 16.1 points per game, and is the top rebounder, grabbing 9.6 rpg. Senior guard Aimee Grzyb is third in scoring, averaging 10.5 ppg, followed by sophomore guard Natalie Jones with 7.9 ppg. Junior center Danielle Adefeso is the team's second-leading rebounder, averaging 5.2 per game.
ARIZONA POSSIBLE STARTERS:
#00 - Shawntinice Polk (C, 6-5, So., Hanford, Calif.)
#50 - Shannon Hobson (F/C, 6-2, Fr., Perris, Calif.)
#11 - Dee-Dee Wheeler (G, 5-6, Jr., Chicago, Ill.)
#13 - Aimee Grzyb (G, 5-7, Sr., San Jose, Calif.)
#23 - Natalie Jones (G, 5-10, So., Anchorage, Alaska)
OFF THE BENCH:
#5 - CoCoa Sanford (F, 6-0, So., Inglewood, Calif.)
#15 - Anna Chappell (F, 6-1, So., Qualicum Beach, B.C.)
#30 -	Jessica Duger (G/F, 5-10, Sr., Lake Havasu City, Ariz.)
#21 - Katrina Lindner (G, 5-6, So., Glengowrie, Australia)
#10 - Linda Pace (G, 5-9, Fr., San Diego, Calif.)
#25 - Rachael Schein (G/F, 5-11, Fr., Las Vegas, Nev.)
#44 - Danielle Adefeso (C, 6-2, Jr., Los Angeles, Calif.)
HOME WIN STREAK STANDS AT 23: With their win over UCLA on Jan. 17, the Wildcats extended their school-record home winning streak to 23 games. The previous record was 15 games from Jan. 4, 1999, to Jan. 6, 2000.
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: The Wildcats have won 32 of their last 39 home games and are 108-22 on their home court over the last seven seasons combined. Under head coach Joan Bonvicini, the Wildcats have posted a 139-50 mark in McKale Center. Arizona has an all-time record of 205-158 on its home court since the 1976-77 season.
ARIZONA IN THE PAC-10 STATS: Through games of Jan. 25, Arizona leads the Pac-10 in field goal percentage (.462), is second in scoring (72.7 ppg), second in scoring margin (+9.7 ppg), second in field goal percentage defense (.391), second in rebounding defense (33.0 rpg), third in rebounding margin (+5.5 rpg) and third in blocked shots (3.70 bpg).
Individually, Polkey is the Pac-10 leader in blocked shots (2.45 bpg), is second in rebounding (9.6 rpg), second in field goal percentage (.571) and sixth in scoring (16.1 ppg). Dee-Dee Wheeler is third in scoring (17.4 ppg), third in assists (4.90 apg), fourth in steals (2.55 spg), sixth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.29) and eighth in field goal percentage (.476).
Aimee Grzyb is sixth in three-pointers made per game (1.75 pg) and 15th in scoring (10.7 ppg), while Natalie Jones is fourth in free throw percentage (.814).
SCOUTING ARIZONA STATE: Winners of four of their last five games, the Sun Devils are 12-6 overall and 6-3 in Pac-10 play, holding down fourth place in the league standings. ASU also earned a sweep in Oregon last weekend, defeating Oregon State (63-56) on Jan. 22 and slipping past Oregon (69-67) on Jan. 24.
Two Sun Devils are averaging in double digits in scoring, led by junior guard Betsy Boardman with 12.0 points per game. Sophomore forward Kristen Kovesdy is second, at 10.4 ppg, and is the team's second-leading rebounder, at 5.2 rpg. Fellow sophomore Amy Denson leads ASU in rebounding, grabbing 5.3 per game.
In her eighth season at Arizona State, head coach Charli Turner Thorne (Stanford, 1988) holds a 118-106 record with the Sun Devils. She is 158-146 in 10 years as a collegiate head coach.
THE SERIES vs. ARIZONA STATE: The Sun Devils hold a 36-29 lead in the series with Arizona, including five wins in the last eight meetings between the two squads. The Wildcats have won two in a row over ASU, most recently defeating the Sun Devils, 81-60, on Jan. 2 in Tucson.
Arizona is 12-19 all-time when playing in Tempe, including a 73-58 loss there last season. The Cats have lost three in a row at Wells Fargo Arena, with their last win there coming on Feb. 26, 2000, by a score of 72-61.
LAST MEETING WITH ARIZONA STATE: Shawntinice Polk and Dee-Dee Wheeler combined for 46 points as the Wildcats trounced rival Arizona State, 81-60, at home on Jan. 2. The victory was the 10th in a row for Arizona, tying a school record for the longest winning streak in the history of the program.
The first half of the game was one of short spurts for both teams. ASU held a 7-6 edge three minutes into the contest, when Arizona scored eight unanswered points to go ahead, 14-7, at 13:22. The Cats still held onto a seven-point (16-9) edge a minute later, but the Sun Devils put on their own 10-2 run, taking advantage of three Arizona turnovers and several missed shots to regain a one-point (19-18) lead at 9:46.
Arizona responded with another 8-0 run, which was answered by a 9-2 ASU burst. During the final four minutes of the first half, there were four lead changes and four ties, and the score was knotted at 37-37 at the break.
The Cats opened the second half with a 20-7 run that gave them a 13-point (57-44) lead with 11:40 to play. Holding just an 11-point edge four minutes later, Arizona went on a 10-1 run to stretch their advantage to 20 points (72-52) with 3:20 to go. The Sun Devils came no closer than 16 points for the remainder of the contest.
Scoring 14 crucial points during the first half, Wheeler finished with a game-high-tying 23 points on spectacular 9-for-14 shooting, adding four assists and four steals. Polk tied Wheeler for the game high, also with 23 points, and pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds for her third straight double-double and her fifth on the season.
Danielle Adefeso tied her career high with 14 points, and Aimee Grzyb added nine points while reaching the 1,000-point career scoring mark early in the first half. Natalie Jones contributed seven rebounds and four assists as the Cats won their 21st in a row in McKale Center.
ARIZONA HEAD COACH Joan Bonvicini: The winningest coach in Arizona women's basketball history, Joan Bonvicini has taken the Wildcat program from obscurity into the national limelight. In her 13 seasons at the helm of the Arizona program, Bonvicini has guided the Wildcats to seven post-season appearances, including five NCAA tournament berths and two in the WNIT.
Entering her 13th season with the Wildcats, Bonvicini holds a 230-143 (.617) mark at Arizona and is 555-214 (.722) in 23 years as a head coach. She has a career record of 23-15 in NCAA tournament play and has lost in the first round only once in 13 appearances.
Prior to taking over at the UA, Bonvicini led Long Beach State to 10 consecutive NCAA appearances, including two trips to the Final Four. She registered a 325-71 mark in 12 seasons with the 49ers.
DID YOU KNOW: Since Joan Bonvicini took over the Arizona program in 1991, the Wildcats have gone 125-100 against Pac-10 teams, although they have an 101-52 mark against conference teams over the last eight seasons combined.
LOOKING AHEAD: Arizona returns home next weekend to entertain the Bay Area schools. The Wildcats will take on Stanford on Thursday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m., then they will face California on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 4 p.m. in McKale Center.
The following week will see the Cats hit the road again, this time heading for Los Angeles. Arizona will play at UCLA on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. PST, then the Wildcats will play at USC on Sunday, Feb. 15, at 12 p.m. PST. That contest will be broadcast live nationally on Fox Sports Net.
RECAPPING ARIZONA'S LAST ACTION -- at Oregon State (Jan. 24): Holding the Beavers to just one field goal in the first 15 minutes of the second half, the Wildcats logged a 65-54 win at Oregon State on Jan. 24.
Arizona got off to what seemed a good start, scoring four quick points early in the game. Then OSU went on an 11-4 run to take a three-point (11-8) edge at 14:14 in the first.	The Wildcats held a tenuous one-point (17-16) edge at 11:10 when the Beavers used a 15-7 run to jump out to a seven-point (31-24) advantage with just over two minutes left in the period. OSU held the 35-31 lead at the break.
The Cats opened the second half with a 14-5 run that gave them a five-point (45-40) lead with 14:18 to go. Five minutes later, Arizona stretched that advantage to 11 points (52-41), and the Beavers never came closer than eight points for the remainder of the game. The Wildcats scored their final field goal with 4:55 to play, but they hit 7-for-8 from the free throw line down the stretch to pull out their first win in Corvallis since 2000.
Shawntinice Polk led all scorers with 20 points and grabbed a game-high 13 rebounds as the Cats out-rebounded the Beavers, 50-27, for the contest. Aimee Grzyb added 13 points, all in the first half, while Dee-Dee Wheeler had 12 points, all in the second half.
Shannon Hobson contributed 10 points and a season-best eight rebounds, and Natalie Jones pulled down eight rebounds to go with seven points.
At Oregon (Jan. 22): Natalie Jones drained four crucial free throws in the final 16 seconds to ice the win for the Wildcats at Oregon, 70-66, on Jan. 22.
Arizona opened the game with a 15-8 run over the first seven-plus minutes, but the Ducks used their own 15-9 spurt to get to within one (24-23) at 7:09. Three minutes later, the Cats pushed back out to a 31-25 advantage and led, 38-30, at halftime.
The Wildcats quickly made the spread 10 points after the break, but Shawntinice Polk picked up her fourth foul of the game just 63 seconds into the second half. At 18:15, Arizona held a 13-point (44-31) lead, its largest of the game, and then the Cats went into a tailspin.
Oregon reeled off an 18-2 run to gain a three-point (49-46) edge with 12:07 to play. Over the next three minutes, the two teams traded buckets, then the Ducks gained the upper hand and went up by six points (64-58) with 5:04 left.
That would prove to be Oregon's final field goal of the game, as Arizona used its press to turn up the heat on the Ducks. At the other end, the Cats scored seven unanswered points to slip ahead by one (66-65) with 43 seconds remaining.
Jones went to the line four times in the waning seconds and cooly drained all four charity shots, as the Cats hung on for their fourth straight win over the Ducks.
Dee-Dee Wheeler shot a blazing 9-for-13 from the floor, finishing with a game-high 22 points that included 13 in the first half alone. CoCoa Sanford came off the bench for nine points, while Jones, Aimee Grzyb and Danielle Adefeso each pitched in eight points. Polk led the Cats with eight rebounds but was held to just seven points, her fourth single-digit scoring performance of the season.
CLUTCH WHEN IT COUNTS: Although the Wildcats are struggling from the free throw line overall, making a miserable 67.4 percent of their charity shots for the season, they have been hitting them when it counts the most. In the final five minutes of action during this season's games, the Cats are shooting 74.4 percent from the free throw line, including a solid 77.1 percent in Pac-10 action.
GOTTA TAKE CARE OF THE BALL: Since entering Pac-10 play, the Wildcats' turnover average has gone through the roof. After averaging just 15.9 miscues per game in non-conference action, Arizona's average has gone up to 19.8 per contest in Pac-10 games. The Cats committed a season-high 36 turnovers in their win over USC at home on Jan. 15, the highest turnover total for an Arizona squad since the Wildcats had 36 at Arizona State on Jan. 17, 1998.
A TALE OF TWO HALVES: The Cats are averaging eight more points in the second halves of this season's games than in the first halves. The Wildcats have been posting a first-half average of just 32.3 points per game. In the second half, the Cats have been averaging 40.4 ppg. While Arizona is out-scoring opponents by an average of just 2.0 ppg in the first half, the Wildcats have a scoring advantage of +7.6 ppg in the second half of play.
BEEN CAUGHT STEALIN': After registering a paltry 4.2 steals per game during non-conference play, the Wildcats lifted their average to a solid 10.7 thefts per contest in Pac-10 action. Dee-Dee Wheeler is leading the conference with 3.33 steals per game in Pac-10 play.
STEPPING UP: Earning her first two starting nods as a collegian last weekend, freshman forward Shannon Hobson seems finally to be coming into her own. Over the last four games, Hobson has averaged 6.0 points and 2.5 rebounds per game, up from averages of just 2.9 ppg and 1.4 rpg over the first 16 games of the season. She tallied a season-high eight rebounds at Oregon State on Jan. 24 and has scored a season-best 11 points twice this year.
TAKING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL: Dee-Dee Wheeler's numbers through the first 10 games of this season were certainly nothing to scoff at. She posted averages of 15.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 1.9 steals per game, while shooting 43.7 percent (59-135) from the floor.
Yet, over Arizona's last 10 games, Wheeler has raised her performance another notch. In the last 10 contests, she has averaged 19.7 points, 4.1 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 3.2 steals per game. The most notable difference has been in her shooting -- she has hit a blazing 51.0 percent (80-157) of her shots over the last 10 games, shooting 53 percent or better from the floor in six of those contests. Wheeler has scored 19 points or more in eight of the last 10 games.
LONG-RANGE DEFENSE?: The Wildcats are allowing opponents to drain a rather high average of 6.2 three-point field goals per game. The positive is that, although opponents are nailing that many treys, the Cats are still among the top teams in the Pac-10 in three-point field goal percentage defense. Opponents are shooting just 31.3 percent from beyond the arc and are averaging a whopping 19.7 attempts per game.
JONES-ING FOR THE PAC-10: Sophomore guard Natalie Jones' numbers have gone up significantly since the Cats started Pac-10 play. Against conference opponents, she is averaging 9.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.3 steals per game. She is also shooting 47.5 percent (29-61) from the floor and 81.6 percent (31-38) from the line in Pac-10 action.
By contrast, Jones' averages against non-conference opponents were 6.3 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.1 steals per game, and she made just 27.2 percent (22-81) of her field goal attempts.
STUFF THIS: With 129 career blocked shots, sophomore Shawntinice Polk is already in second place on the UA career list in that category. She should become Arizona's all-time blocked shots leader before this season is over, as she needs just 18 swats to match the current career leader, Elizabeth Pickney (1999-2002), with 147. Polkey will join the Pac-10 career top 10 in blocked shots even before taking over as Arizona's career leader -- she needs just seven more blocks to tie for 10th on the conference career list (136).
AS DEE-DEE GOES...: So goes her team, or at least that's the way it has seemed since her arrival at Arizona. During Dee-Dee Wheeler's career, the Wildcats have gone 14-3 when she has reached the 20-point mark in scoring. At the same time, the Wildcats are 31-8 when she scores 15 points or more.
In the Cats' 16 wins this season, Dee-Dee Wheeler has averaged 17.6 points and 4.1 rebounds per game and has hit 52.1 percent (112-215) from the field. However, in the Wildcats' four losses, Wheeler averaged 16.5 ppg and shot a miserable 35.1 percent (27-77) from the floor.
LOOKING AT THE TRENDS: This season, Arizona is... 16-0 when shooting better than its opponent from the field, but 0-4 when shooting worse... 12-0 when tied or leading at the half... 15-0 when giving up 69 points or less, but 1-4 when allowing 70 points or more... 12-0 when scoring 70 points or more... 14-1 when shooting 40% or better from the field... 11-1 when committing fewer turnovers than its opponent.
WE LIKE TO SCORE: During Joan Bonvicini's tenure at Arizona, Wildcat teams have won 73 games by margins of 20 points or more. Ten of those blowouts happened last season alone, and the Cats have logged five more 20-plus wins already this year.
80 IS THE MAGIC NUMBER: It seems that the 80-point mark almost always means adding another to the 'win' column for the Wildcats. In the 32-year history of UA women's basketball, the Cats have posted a 153-21 record when scoring 80 points or more in a game. Under Joan Bonvicini, the Wildcats have gone 113-14 when topping the 80-point plateau.
GOING POLLING: Five of Arizona's 2003-04 opponents were either ranked or received votes for ranking in this week's polls.
According to the Associated Press poll, Stanford is No. 8 and LSU is No. 15. USC was among teams that received votes for ranking.
In the USA Today/ESPN/WBCA Coaches Poll, Stanford is No. 8, and LSU is No. 15. USC, Arizona State and UC Santa Barbara all received votes for ranking.
CAT SCRATCHES: The Arizona women's basketball program has a 390-435 (.473) all-time record, however it is 180-78 (.698) from the 1996 season to present... Joan Bonvicini has a 216-113 career record against Pac-10 teams.
ON LOCATION: This season, the Wildcats have an 10-0 record at home, are 5-3 on the road and 1-1 in neutral contests. Last year, Arizona was 13-1 at home, 7-6 on the road and 2-2 in neutral games.
Wildcat Women Play at New Mexico in Only Action of Week
No. 19 Arizona Plays at Ohio State in Only Action of the Week
Women's Basketball Heads to Rice for Only Action of the Week


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"The Game Plan" World Premiere
Caption: Selena Gomez at the world premiere of "The Game Plan". El Capitan Theater, Hollywood, CA. 09-23-07
Location: Hollywood, CA, United States
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Image replacement is a topic which keeps reappearing on websites and in books. There are whole sections devoted to the pros and cons of each method in books such as Web Standards Solutions and The Zen of CSS Design.
Personally, my preferred image replacement method is Phark as it requires no additional <span>s. But Phark is known to cause scrollbar issues in certain browsers and breaks in IE5 and of course 'breaks' in the rare CSS on, images off scenario.
had some curious black hole style effects. So I started to make some simple tests and when they worked I followed them up with an examples page.
All modern browsers seem to render my examples perfectly as expected, from headers to paragraphs to navigation lists. All the Phark Method issues are resolved (with the exception of the CSS on, images off scenario) and as I prefer to use <em> measurements rather than the px used in Phark Revisted, all seems fine and dandy. Opera chooses not to work, but is easily fixed with a simple be nice to Opera rule , which (unfortunately) triggers a bug in Mac IE and so must be hidden from that browser.
and the only issue seems to be MacIE which correctly does not show the 'real' text, but unfortunately renders the replaced text at only one character high. I'm still working on a fix, any suggestions? Thanks to Robert Jan Verkade for the MacIE/Opera fix.
Update: All example files now updated to include the Verkade Mac IE/Opera fix.
Wow, works nicely. Funny how it always is a mistake at first.
I'm so using this for my redesign. Thanks, M'larkey. Scrollbars, goodbye.
What an interesting discovery, I found it interesting enuff to fire up ie5 for the first time in a year to see what fun and games it was up too now.
It's the opera only rule being seen by other browsers (or not overridden) comment out overflow : hidden, and iemac likes it.
also ( maybe I just forgot how to do it properly but, in iemac with images turned off, it still displays images defined in the css....what a multifaceted browser that old bugger is.
Unfortunately, I'm not at a machine where I can play with this in any way, and my brain's not entirely firing (lack of chocolate), but isn't there a hack that lets you can feed ie5 mac specific stuff? Might be able to use that to feed it stuff which includes increased line-height or something?
Perhaps someone would test this MacIE fix, kindly supplied by email by Robert Jan Verkade?
that new fix works a treat..
The CSS 2.1 spec says this about negative letter-spacing, "Values may be negative, but there may be implementation-specific limits." Sounds like it cannot be fully trusted.
I also think it's interesting how many designers brush off the "CSS on, images off" scenario as "rare". Professionals may be on broadband, but many home users aren't. I cannot even get broadband where I live (not even ISDN, unless I cough up �3K), so I'm stuck with 56K.
Turning off images is not all that far-fetched when you're on dial-up. Especially if you're an Opera user, where it's just one mouse click or key press away.
maybe 'cos of the inline display of the anchor -- you meant using: a href="anchor" class="mir" right?
Dave, I use anchors in floated LIs, and these specific As have letter-spacing: -9999em; applied to them. Nothing inline, I'd say.
However, IE5/Mac choked on the Phark method exactly like Safari did with MIR. I dunno. Guess I'll have to see if someone tests it.
@ Tommy: Ahhhh, that old images off malarkey ;) My thoughts are that I agree with you in principle, but the likelyhood of a man-on-the-street dial-up user knowing how to turn on off images in their browser, unfortunatly probably IE, is unlikely.
@ Mike: Are you clicking on the 'speech bubble' links (which contain # ) or do you really mean that clicking a replaced 'header' shoots you to the top of the page, 'cos that would be veeeerrrrry weird!
@ Everyone: I've updated the examples files to reflect the new MacIE/Opera fix.
Okay, I can confirm the shooting to the top. Drag over the replaced element and see (Firefox 1.0.1/Win).
Rob, Andrea, you too are living in the Jurassic period. Get with the times. 1.0.2 is available, hot off the presses.
@ Rob and Andrea: That is an odd behaviour, but my question is... Why would you even think to drag a header?
My new friend Robert Jan Verkade suggests replacing the Mac IE/Opera fix with this to cure the Firefox jumping.
Malarkey: dragging the header is a by-product of trying to select text, which is something I always do for some reason... your fix seems to have worked.
My only question is: What if the image doesn't load? (I'm sure everyone has been to a site where an image doesn't load) The paragraph/header element/whatever is being replaced/etc... would be entirely useless, which I'm sure everyone can agree is a bad thing. I think this is a good attempt at another image replacement, but Dave Shea's Enhancement to Image Replacement seems to work better in this respect.
Am I wrong? If so, please tell me, I want to know! Is Shea's better, worse, than this one? What is the best, semantic, and reasonable way to replace images?
Great stuff Andy! Title attributes seem to work fine (tested on the h1 and li) -- alt attribute didn't show up in the li's, however, but I think this may be the case with many of the ImgR methods.
I'm getting a slight problem in IE6 (XP SP2).
The first character from the replaced text seems to be still appearing.
@ Paul: Funny, the first character doesn't show on my version of WinIE6 on SP2. Is your screen-grab from my example page or a copy that you have made?
@ Tim: If 'tooltips' are important, you could also use the title attribute. Dave Shea once said about this, So by adding a title back to your header, you can restore these little hover effects to your site.
It's from your example page.
All the header examples show 'T' and the four links at the bottom show 'L'.
That was a fast fix! Nice.
All these *IR techniques seem to have some caveat or other, though...What's wrong with an image with a TITLE attribute wrapped inside a header tag? I understand it's a bit of a semantic no-no (but just barely). Is there some other issue I'm not aware of?
'stext-indent' for Opera? I suppose it's a typo?
If you're not working on a site where you have no control of the mark-up, then I reckon it's better to go with a more mark-up, graphics-turned-off accessible approach.
Really, for an extra span the benefits far outweigh the semantic beauty that is your source code. Being on a dial-up connection myself (*gasp*) it's not really turning images off, but trying to use a site while you're waiting for them to load. The alt tags on table-based sites are much more helpful in that respect.
Even on a fast connection this can be pretty helpful if you know where you want to go and don't want to wait for the pretiness to kick in.
Great lil' trick Andy, thanks.
Here's probably a very stupid question and the answer might already be somthing like Sliding Doors, but with your new MIR used for navigation, how would you define a different image for a rollover or hover state?
Hm, why doesnt my Opera 7.54 show any bugs? Are the simple tests already Opera fixed?
and if it works in Opera 7.54 - wouldn't someone using Opera very likely use a relatively up-to-date version?
Great stuff Malarkey. Maybe I'll hate on Opera a little bit less today thanks to you!
And I thought I had a pretty good solution.... Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
What do you think, Malarkey?
OK, I really like this and am going to try and use it for my work website that I have been designing. I've taken it pretty far and just this morning I have been able to get the navigation banged out pretty well with your MIR.
The only issues I am seeing is image flashing in IE and since I am trying to use it for a double decker navigation, firefox isn't showing the lower level.
Feel free to see it in action, looks pretty sweet I think, and small file sizes too!
http://www.steveguberman.com has a link to what I've done so far. Any suggestions on perfection are greatly apreciated!
Interesting, Malarkey, but there are a few things I disagree with.
1. The "CSS on, images off" issue is the primary reason why we use image replacement techniques, as far as I know. A normal image tag with alternate text will be almost the same as using your technique (except when CSS are off and images are on, the image will still be visible).
2. A SPAN tag is a meaningless element. Its presence makes absolutely no difference in any area of accessibility. Screen-readers ignore this tag, just as they ignore DIV. What makes it such a bad thing to add an extra SPAN tag? You can't tell me you're concerned with bandwidth limitations.
to each of the a#mir-a css properties fixed the problems. for some reason however after applying this fix the hover properties I added ceased functioning in firefox. They work in msie and opera though.
kevin see my comment above for the fix for the ie bug. I had the same problem with it when doing a vertical list today and that fixed it.
Lovely. It works. Thank you.
In Internet Explorer (version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) all inline within last example elements show one letter "L" in top left corner of image (screenshot).
P.S. Mike's solution does not fix this behaviour when used with floated inline elements.
Here's another problem I've found (on the MAC in all browsers) when using MIR for a navigation solution, only the top half of the button is active as a link. I specified my height to be 26px and the lower half is not active.
I think there is some goodness to the use of MIR for headline tags, I put it to a pretty extensive test as a navigation system and it seems to have major faults, or I do at least.
I once I get into the office in the morning and fix a few things i'll send a link to a working example.
Anyway, I just had to say, I *adore* the images on the test page! Is there a link to more of these? The first one should be the header for this site!
Like a charm, it works. Yay!
Well I never said it was a finished solution. ;) I'll be running a few more tests over the coming days and I'll write another column then with some detailed results. In the meantime here is what Dave has had to say on the subject today.


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Talking Dead é um aftershow ao vivo de televisão da emissora AMC em que o apresentador Chris Hardwick comenta episódios das séries de televisão The Walking Dead e Fear The Walking Dead, juntamente com convidados como fãs das séries, membros do elenco e equipe de produção da série.

Transmissão e formato
O aftershow traz o apresentador Chris Hardwick discutindo o episódio mais recente com convidados que são fãs da série. Elenco e equipe de The Walking Dead e Fear The Walking Dead também aparecem no talk show. Segmentos em Talking Dead incluem um "In Memoriam", destacando as mortes do episódio, uma enquete online, episódios triviais, cenas nos bastidores e perguntas dos fãs via telefone, do público no Facebook, Twitter, ou no  site oficial de Talking Dead. Após o episódio no ar terminar, um segmento de bônus de 15 a 20 minutos continua online para os episódios de 30 minutos; Haveria um bônus de 5 a 10 minutos de segmento online para os episódios de 60 minutos; Hardwick refere-se a este segmento bônus com "Talking Talking Dead".

A série estreou em 16 de outubro de 2011, após o encore de apresentação da segunda temporada de The Walking Dead. Quando a série voltou em 10 de fevereiro de 2013 a partir da terceira temporada  no meio da season finale, a série mudou-se para 22:00 horas, diretamente seguintes The Walking Dead, e se expandiu para uma hora. Hardwick, afirmou que o fato de o mostrar passam mais de uma hora em oposição a meia hora permitido mais "espaço para respirar" e mais tempo para discutir os temas com os convidados/fãs.

Os produtores que eram convidados regulares de Talking Dead incluem: criador de The Walking Dead Robert Kirkman, encarregado ao trabalho diário das temporadas de 2 a 3, o showrunner Glen Mazzara, diretor e produtor executivo Greg Nicotero, a produtora executiva Gale Anne Hurd, e das temporadas 4-6 showrunner Scott M. Gimple. Os convidados listado depois de "com", foram convidados surpresa para o episódio. Robert Kirkman e Greg Nicotero tem mais aparições de qualquer membro da tripulação em 10 episódios, respectivamente. Greene é o membro de mais destaque do elenco com 7 episódios. Yvette Nicole Brown é a convidada externa com mais aparições em 9 episódios..

Em três episódios no final da segunda temporada de Talking Dead, músicos em destaque na trilha sonora The Walking Dead foi executada ao final do show. Na primeira metade da terceira temporada de Talking Dead, o "Kill of the Week" o recurso foi incluído; além disso, o show teve a perguntas da plateia. Na 3ª temporada de Talking Dead, "fã da semana" foi introduzido para os fãs que usaram o aplicativo móvel "Dead Yourself". O show também apresentou "Survival Tips", que deu dicas sobre como sobreviver se um hipotético apocalipse zumbi realmente acontecesse. Temporada 5 começou mostrando fã de arte.

A série tornou-se conhecida por muitas vezes ter membros do elenco aparecemdo após o episódio em que seus personagens foram mortos (por exemplo, Laurie Holden para "Welcome to the Tombs"). Reconhecendo que isso pode estragar os espectadores, o show agora tenta o seu melhor para evitar isso, embora a tendência ainda aparece de vez. Nomeadamente, Emily Kinney não foi anunciada como a atriz convidada para o episódio seguinte, "Coda" até o programa da antena, devido ao seu caráter repentino da morte no final do acompanhamento episódio.

Talking Dead também começou a ser exibida após os episódios da segunda temporada de Fear the Walking Dead, que estreou em 10 de abril de 2016.

Resumo da série

(Nota: AMC conta oficialmente a primeira temporada de Talking Dead como segunda temporada e cada temporada subsequente um número maior do que está listado aqui. Isto é para que os números da temporada de episódios de Talking Dead correspondam aos números da temporada de episódios de The Walking Dead que eles discutem.)

Episódios

Temporada 1 (2011-12)
Estes episódios discutem a segunda temporada de The Walking Dead.

Temporada 2 (2012-13)
Estes episódios discutem a terceira temporada de The Walking Dead. Nesta temporada, contou com um especial "season 3 preview", episódio que foi ao ar em julho de 2012.

Temporada 3 (2013-14)
Estes episódios discutem a quarta temporada de The Walking Dead.

Temporada 4 (2014–15)
Esses episódios discutem a quinta temporada de The Walking Dead. Esta temporada apresentou pesquisas ao vivo, bem como um teste interativo ao vivo, onde os fãs competem online em seus telefones celulares, tablets ou computador.

Temporada 5 (2015–16)
Esses episódios discutem a sexta temporada de The Walking Dead e a segunda temporada de Fear the Walking Dead. Esta temporada também foi hospedado e Ultimate Fan Contest onde os fãs podem enviar clipes sobre por que eles são o fã final. Greg Raiewski foi escolhido como o vencedor para ser um convidado no décimo quarto episódio. Episódios 24 e 25 foram pré-gravados devido ao casamento de Hardwick e lua de mel.

Temporada 6 (2016)
Estes episódios discutem a sétima temporada de The Walking Dead. Durante a temporada cinco final, Hardwick anunciou que a estreia da temporada de 90 minutos teria lugar no Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Chandler Riggs foi originalmente programado para aparecer na estreia da temporada, mas foi remarcada para o sétimo episódio. Além disso, Jonah Ray substituiu Sarah Hyland no último minuto depois que ela foi incapaz de aparecer no sexto episódio. No entanto, Hyland ainda está programado para aparecer em um episódio futuro. Outro final Fan Contest será realizada durante o final da meados de temporada, onde os finalistas selecionados farão o seu caso para Robert Kirkman e Norman Reedus, e explicar por que eles são os últimos fãs se The Walking Dead.

Especiais

Elogios
Para o 67th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, a série foi nomeado para Outstanding Interactive Program. Ele foi indicado novamente no ano seguinte.

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Talking Bad
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