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Phoenix and Scottsdale AZ Luxury Condo Sales – November 2012
December 7, 2012 By Heather Tawes Nelson
November 2012's luxury condo market in Scottsdale and Phoenix turned in some good results. Although sales were not huge, there were three new pending sales to add to the two that were already underway from previous months.
I an defining the luxury condo market in Scottsdale and Phoenix as those condos listed for $1 million or over. The chart below shows sales activity in a summary form and then for each of the cities.
PENDING LUXURY CONDO SALES IN SCOTTSDALE AND PHOENIX
By the end of November, five luxury condos were pending sale and all of them were located in Scottsdale. Three of these were new contracts and two were holdovers from previous months.
Two units were pending at Optima Camelview. The first was a holdover. It was a fifth floor condo with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and 1,906 square feet. The list price at the time of contract was $1,035,000. The second unit under contract was a penthouse with three bedrooms, two and one-half bathrooms and 3,354 square feet. The asking price was $1,399,999.
Another new pending sale was at the Scottsdale Waterfront Residences. This was a two bedroom, two and one-half bath unit on the 8th floor with 2,265 square feet. It had been listed for $1,295,000.
Safari Drive in downtown Scottsdale also had a pending sale at the end of November. With 2,610 square feet and three bedrooms and bathrooms, this unit was on the market for $1,050,000.
This final pending sale has been carried over for a few months at this point. It is a penthouse foreclosure the East Camelback Condominiums, adjacent to Scottsdale Fashion Square. The unit encompasses the top floor of the building and comes with 5 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms and 7,254 square feet. The list price was $1,250,000 when it went pending, but the buyer will need to come up with additional funds to close.
NOVEMBER 2012 LUXURY CONDO SALES IN SCOTTSDALE AND PHOENIX
There was only a single sale of a luxury condo in November and it took place in Phoenix.
The sale was for a unit at the Esplanade Place community. It had 3,542 square feet and two bedrooms and bathrooms. It was a 6th floor condo and it sold in under two months. It has been listed for $1,200,000 and sold for $1,175,000 or 98% of the asking price.
So while sales activity was not very high in November, we saw a good number of new luxury condos go under contract. This bodes well for December sales as many of them should close by the end of the year.
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Disclaimer: Information herein deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Data and information was pulled from the Arizona Regional MLS (ARMLS) as of 12/1/2012 and can change at any time. The analysis looks at resale luxury condos in Scottsdale and Phoenix over the past 12 months. Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. There may be new home inventory in these figures if the developer is using the MLS to market its homes. This post represents the opinion of the author. No warranties express or implied.
Copyright © 2012 Heather Tawes Nelson

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By Jayson MacLean Published on May 11, 2017 Last Updated on September 4, 2019 Filed under: All posts, Health, Science
Canadian doctors are burnt out, finds study
It will come as no surprise to many, but doctors are burnt out. A new study says that a significant proportion of doctors are burned out at work —but in a way that doesn't necessarily fit the typical pattern.
Physician burnout is a real problem in Canada. The Canadian Medical Association has stated that among residents, the burnout rate could be as high as 50 per cent. A recent survey by the Saskatchewan Medical Association found that one in every two specialists say they're at risk of burnout as well as two out of every three general practitioners.
The long hours and physical exhaustion of working in a hospital setting are just part of the problem, as today's doctors face issues unlike those of previous generations. Increasingly complex diagnoses, involved treatment procedures, heavier workloads and new legal and financial concerns are all adding to the stresses of the profession. A 2001 study of physicians in Massachusetts, for example, found that overall job satisfaction had significantly declined between 1986 and 1997.
And burnout has serious consequences for both the physician personally and for patients. Physicians with burnout have a higher risk of suicide, for example, and are more likely to deliver poorer patient care, both psychologically and medically, as stressed-out doctors are both more irritable and more apt to make mistakes.
To that end, researchers at the University of Western Ontario in London and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, PEI, surveyed 55 physicians (both specialists and primary care physicians) at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), a well-known questionnaire which gauges burnout via its three main elements: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and a lack of feeling of professional accomplishment or efficacy.
Researchers found that in comparison with data on other occupational groups (the military, clerical staff, technologists, nurses, etc.) who have been rated using the MBI measure, the physicians had higher emotional exhaustion than the average across the range of occupations as well as higher cynicism and depersonalization than found in other occupations. Yet, on the professional efficacy and sense of accomplishment marker, the physicians scored a "moderate" level, in line with the average across other occupations.
The researchers see the discrepancy as significant, as it points to the unique burnout framework faced by many physicians: one in which emotional exhaustion and cynicism are likely to be in play to a greater extent than a lack of feeling of professional accomplishment.
The results showed, for example, that in responding to the statement, "I feel burned out from my work," 83.3 per cent of physicians said they experienced burnout at least once, 64.8 per cent at least a few times a year and 44.4 per cent a few times per month or more. Yet concerning the claim, "In my opinion, I am good at my job," a full 83.0 per cent said that they felt professionally competent at least a few times a week and 52.8 per cent said they felt that way every day.
"This suggests that improving professional medical skills (and thus a sense of efficiency) alone cannot prevent physicians from burnout," say the study's authors. "An implementation of other preventive strategies such as those based on mindfulness or on cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is necessary."
The research is published in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry.


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The Extraordinary And Intelligent Octopus
Credit: Nikos Stavrinidis
…and why they should stay in the Ocean
By any measure, octopuses are truly remarkable: they have eight legs, three hearts and blue-green blood. Masters of camouflage, their skin is embedded with cells that sense light, giving them an array of tricks for thwarting enemies. They can match the colours and textures of their surroundings, enabling them to become near invisible in plain sight. They can escape at speed by shooting forward with jet propulsion. They can squirt ink to hide themselves and dull the senses of an attacker. And if they lose an arm, they can grow it back.
As the well-known ethologist Dr Jane Goodall observes, octopuses are highly intelligent and able to do extraordinary things. Wild octopuses have been known to carry coconut shells with two tentacles and walk across the ocean floor with the other six, whereupon 'they put down half the shell and ooze their body into it because they are very soft-bodied and can get into tiny spaces. Then they reach out and put the other half over them. They've made a house!'
Problem-solvers
Members of the cephalopod family of invertebrates, octopuses are curious, explorative problem-solvers with long memories. One study found that they remembered how to open a screw-top jar for at least five months. They can also show a sense of craftiness — squirting water at researchers they don't like. One celebrated aquarium-kept octopus became renowned when staff noticed that fish from a neighbouring tank had gone missing overnight. CCTV revealed that the octopus was lifting the lid of his tank, slithering over to grab the fish and then crawling back, before returning to the tank and putting the lid back on as if nothing had happened.
As stocks of fish around the world continue to decline, demand for octopus is increasing, yet their numbers are coming under strain. Overfishing, combined with growing demand, is driving prices up, leading to burgeoning interest in the farming of octopus.
Octopus has been fished from the oceans for two millennia, but in recent decades, the numbers caught have almost doubled, from 180,000 tons in 1980 to more than 350,000 tons in 2014. Asia accounts for two-thirds of the global octopus catch, with China alone accounting for more than one-third. Demand is also growing in the United States and Australia. The main importing countries are Japan, Korea and the northern Mediterranean countries of Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy.
In Australia, octopus has gone from accidental catch to a gourmet food so quickly that the fishing industry has been unable to keep up with demand, further throwing a spotlight on octopus as a potential candidate for aquaculture.
The potential of octopus farming is being explored around the world. In Portugal and Greece, Nireus Aquaculture has funded research, and octopus ranching is being tried in Italy and Australia. A farm in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico has been reported as successfully farming the Maya octopus. In China, eight different species of octopus are being experimentally farmed, while the Japanese seafood company Nissui has reported successfully hatching octopi's eggs in captivity.
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Farming the Octopus
One of the problems for the farming industry in the past was how to keep these intelligent, inventive creatures confined in a tank. Octopuses developed a habit of hurling themselves out of them. And neither heavy steel mesh nor electric fences were enough to prevent them climbing out of the tanks. Placing woven cloth around the edge of the tank eventually stopped them; their suckers couldn't gain a grip on the porous material.
In the wild, octopuses will go to great lengths to defend their patch, a behaviour that limits the number that can be reared in a given space. In a farmed environment, with lots of animals in a sterile tank, things can quickly become fraught, leading to aggression and cannibalism. Researchers have overcome this problem by providing each octopus with a plastic tube to hide in, though that limits the number of creatures they can cram into a tank.
Learnings from Intensive Farming
At a model farm in Western Australia, researchers found that aggression was reduced when they kept individuals of the same size in a tank, with no need for plastic hides. This made cleaning the tanks easier and meant they could keep more than triple the number of octopuses in each tank. The lead researcher Dr Sagiv Kolkovski was quoted as saying, 'We added so many to the tanks that we had to install flat PVC sheets so they would have more surface to attach to, as the tank walls were completely occupied.'
However, there were still huge problems to overcome: no one knew how to rear octopus in captivity past the larval stage, or how to provide the right nutrition and environmental conditions to grow larvae.
The breakthrough came in 2019 when the Spanish Nueva Pescanova Group announced that common octopus born in confinement had not only been reared to adulthood, but one of them had gone on to produce eggs. It was sufficient progress for the company to announce that it expected to be selling farmed octopus by 2023.
The company went on to declare that its pioneering work was in 'response to the high international demand' in recent years, which has 'caused a growing scarcity of wild octopus and, therefore, a sustainability problem in the marine environment'.
Mistakes repeated
In the rush to farm these extraordinary creatures, fears grow that the likely impact on the marine environment is being overlooked. Octopus eat small fish and other marine life; their diet in aquaculture will most likely consist of fishmeal made from the fish that are eaten by bigger fish, birds and marine mammals.
So rather than protecting the oceans, the farming of carnivorous species like octopus, as well as salmon and trout, puts yet more pressure on the oceanic environment.
A still from My Octopus Teacher, about Craig Foster and the octopus he befriended. Protesters object to plans to farm 'such an exceptionally intelligent animal' | Credit: Everett
When one starts thinking of the them as individuals with personalities or indeed, after watching Netflix's 'My Octopus Teacher', most people would be upset by the plans to confine and farm these fascinating, inquisitive and sentient creatures.
As intelligent and complex animals with large cognitive capacities, their lives would simply not be worth living.
At a time when we urgently need to protect our biodiversity and the beauty of our natural world, there can be no doubt that major health and welfare risks are created when animals are kept in ways that fail to meet their natural needs or properly mimic their wild environment.
The farming of octopuses seems completely at odds with everything we understand about this species and everything we know that is morally and ethically right.
Note: This is a version of an article that appeared in The Scotsman on Monday 21st November, 2022
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Manchester United may appoint a technical director but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will still have the final say on transfers, according to David Moyes.
After being named the Red Devils' new manager on a permanent basis, Solskjaer saw his side record a 2-1 win over Watford on Saturday to bolster their hopes of a top-four finish in the Premier League.
The Norwegian has tasted defeat just three times since taking over as caretaker boss following Jose Mourinho's departure last December - and he has already held discussions with executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward over the club's transfer plans.
Media reports suggest United will also bring in a technical director as part of a new set-up, though former boss Moyes insists the manager is likely to choose the identity of any new recruits in the next window.
"I do think that a director of football is becoming much more en vogue, and many more clubs are considering it," the Scotsman told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek show.
"But I think with the way things are going, they could be well looking at a sporting director. Ultimately, though, I don't know many sporting directors who make the final decision on players.
"It will still come down to the manager making the decision. He will have a bit more help in choosing and selection, but more importantly the decision - I say 100 per cent - will be the manager's choice.
"You tend to find very few of them (technical directors) are willing to take that final decision. They need the manager to want the player, it has to be the manager who has the final say over whether a player comes in."
Paul Pogba's future at Old Trafford was placed back in the spotlight again despite his impressive form under Solskjaer, with Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane revealing his desire to work with his fellow Frenchman at the LaLiga club.
However, Moyes - who lasted 10 months at United after replacing Alex Ferguson - only expects Pogba, or any other player for that matter, to leave if United opt to sell.
"If Manchester United do not want them, they will make sure they will go. If they want to keep them, they will do that. That's especially true of those players who are still under contract," Moyes said.
"There is always speculation over Manchester United and players, but they are very professional and will make sure that they keep the players they want to keep."


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Saturday, May 17, 1975: The Mummy's Tomb (1942) / Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Synopsis: Retired archeologist Steve Banning (Dick Foran) is regaling his son John (John Hubbard) and John's fiancée Isobel Evans (Elyse Knox) with the story of his strange expedition to Egypt thirty years earlier: how he and the members of his expedition found the tomb of the mummy Kharis and, breaking the seal, unleashed a horrible curse that brought the mummy back to life.
In a series of flashbacks, we are told how various members of the expedition were killed by Kharis, who was being controlled by the high priest Andoheb (George Zucco). In the end the mummy was destroyed and Steve and the surviving members of his party returned home.
John and Isobel find the story so fantastic that it isn't clear if they completely believe it, but Banning claims every word of it is true.
Meanwhile, in Egypt, an elderly Andoheb is handing off his mummy-protecting duties to young Mehemet Bey (Turhan Bey). He tells the young man that the defilers of Kharis' tomb still live; they must be tracked down and killed, and their line must be extinguished. Bey immediately makes plans to sail to Massachusetts, where the Banning family lives.
Once in America, Bey takes a job as caretaker in a cemetery, and from the caretaker's cottage sets his plan in motion. Each night he gives the mummy the potion derived from nine tana leaves, which brings it to life. He orders the creature to kill Steve Banning. It shambles out to the Banning house and does so. The next night Bey orders it to dispense with Babe Hanson, another survivor of the expedition. This too the mummy accomplishes.
But a mummy's work is never done, and we learn that young John Banning is on the schedule for the next night. Surprisingly, the ultra-disciplined Bey hesitates. He finds himself captivated by the beautiful Isobel, and disobeys his orders from Andoheb by sending the mummy not to kill John but to capture Isobel, and bring her to him. What he does not know is that the townspeople are becoming suspicious of him, and that Kharis is close to rebelling against his sacrilege….
Comments: While watching The Mummy's Tomb, I found myself thinking back to the summer of 1999. In those days I lived in the Highland Park neighborhood in St. Paul, just a few blocks from the 2-screen Highland Theater. Walking along Cleveland Avenue one afternoon I saw two magic words spelled out on the theater marquee: THE MUMMY.
"Oh boy!" I blurted out. "The Mummy!"
A woman walking a few paces ahead of me slowed and threw a quizzical glance back in my direction: grown men are not supposed to say such things in public. I lowered my head guiltily, then jaywalked across to the theater and bought a ticket.
The movie I saw that day was, of course, Universal's "reboot" of the Mummy franchise, a "reimagining" that played more as a light-hearted action romp than a horror film: louder, busier, more violent and more expensive than the originals — not that there's anything wrong with that.
This millennial Mummy reboot was certainly entertaining, informed by the same bubblegum sensibility that made Raiders of the Lost Ark go.
Nevertheless, I prefer Universal's original take, as dull as its later entries sometimes were; as well as the Hammer mummy films that came along a couple of decades later. I first saw Hammer's Blood From the Mummy's Tomb at age 15; and seeing it I sensed that a new world was opening up to me.
Not a world of mummies or the supernatural — that was quite old hat for me. Nope, Valerie Leon had arrived in my life, and she was a different sort than the sugary girl-next-door types who had long inhabited Universal horror movies. Leon played a woman who smoldered with unfulfilled sexual longing, and I began to realize how prudish American movies were by comparison. We can see ample evidence of that prudishness in any Universal film of the era, but especially in tonight's movie.
After all, each of the Universal Mummy sequels used sexual hunger as a plot device, but it was always expressed obliquely and never experienced by any of the women in the film. In fact the virginal female leads never display any interest in sex at all, beyond the occasional arch of the eyebrows designed to hurry her love interest along to the altar. The sexual longing in these films is entirely assumed by the hapless High Priests of Karnakh, a secret society so incompetent it can't even keep track of one fucking mummy, and staffed by members so repressed that the appearance of a single attractive woman sends the most devout of them straight over the edge.
George Zucco's Andoheb is the first to go bananas in The Mummy's Hand, as he decides to abandon his vows because he likes the cut of Peggy Moran's jib. Similarly, in The Mummy's Ghost, John Carradine's Yousef Bey decides that he'd prefer to wake up each morning next to Ramsey Ames, rather than a sarcophagus. In The Mummy's Curse, Peter Coe's Ilzor actually manages to keep his pants on, but assistant Martin Kosleck can't. In tonight's feature Turhan Bey is made the keeper of the tana leaf jar, but he fares no better: one look at John Banning's fiance Isobel and he becomes a sex-obsessed wreck, turning Kharis against him when he opts to chuck his part in a 3,500 year-old mission in order to get laid.
This turn of events is foreshadowed early in the movie, when the newly-minted High Priest takes the job of a cemetery caretaker in Mapleton. The retiring caretaker is skeptical: why would a man want to waste his youth among the dead, when there is a whole world of living to be had? But the young man is adamant, insisting that he finds the cemetery peaceful. Like many religious fanatics, Mehemet Bey has drastically narrowed his life experience in order to avoid the temptations of the flesh. But he has outsmarted himself, because avoiding temptation has left him without the strength to resist it when it inevitably appears on his doorstep.
Which leads us to an almost archetypal scene in these movies: the High Priest of Karnakh has betrayed his vows in order to be with a woman, but he forgot to check in with the woman first. He has Kharis retrieve her the same way a black lab retrieves a downed mallard. Isobel wakes up, bound hand and foot, to see a stranger looming over her, delivering the Worst Pick-Up Line Ever:
It is your destiny to achieve the greatest honor that can come to a woman. You will become the bride of a high priest of Karnakh….for you I am going to forsake the teachings that have been handed down to us for generations without end….the secret that has kept Kharis alive all these years can be ours as well….after I have given you the tana fluid you will be immortal, just as Kharis is immortal.
Aw, what a sweet-talker, this guy.
You'll note that the tana fluid device, which was never that convincing to begin with (exactly nine leaves to bring the mummy to life? What if the leaves are broken, or of different sizes?) is given a new angle: now if any human drinks the tana leaf fluid, they become immortal too. I can see the ad campaign now — TANA LEAVES: THEY'RE NOT JUST FOR MUMMIES ANYMORE. No word from the High Priests of Karnakh as to how they came by this information, or how mummy-like a human imbibing tana leaf fluid becomes.
Synopsis: Called home early from a medical conference, small-town physician Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) meets his nurse Sally Withers (Jean Willes) at the Santa Mira train station. Sally tells him that there are an unusual number of patients waiting at his office. All of them urgently insist on seeing Bennell personally, and none of them want to see the doctors who have agreed to take Miles' patients in his absence.
As Miles and Sally drive into town they narrowly avoid hitting a local boy named Jimmy Grimaldi, who charges into the road, fleeing from his own mother. Jimmy is distraught and takes off into the woods. His mother says the boy doesn't want to go to school. Miles notices that the Grimaldi family vegetable stand, usually thriving at this time of the year, is shuttered.
At the office, Miles discovers that all of the patients who had been so insistent on seeing him have cancelled their appointments. But one person does come to visit him: Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter) , a high school sweetheart who, like Miles, has been recently divorced. Becky asks Miles to talk to her cousin Wilma Lentz (Virginia Christine), who seems to be suffering under the strange delusion that her uncle Ira is an imposter.
Later that afternoon, Jimmy Grimaldi's grandmother brings the boy to Miles' office. Jimmy is suffering from a similar delusion; he believes that his own mother is not his mother, and he becomes hysterical whenever anyone suggests she be called. Miles tells the grandmother to keep the boy at her house for a few days, and prescribes sedatives to keep him calm.
Bothered by the similarity between the two stories, Miles decides to go to Wilma's house directly and talk to her. Wilma seems perfectly rational — except for the fact that she is certain Ira isn't her uncle. Miles tries to reason with her, pointing out that if Ira were an imposter, there would be countless differences that friends and family could easily spot. She concedes that the man seems like Ira in every way, and even knows things that only Ira could know. Nevertheless, she says, this person is an imposter who possesses no emotions – -only, she says, the pretense of emotions.
Puzzled, Miles keeps a dinner date with Becky. Arriving at the restaurant the two bump into Miles' friend Danny Kaufman, a psychiatrist. Miles mentions that he has two patients he'd like to refer, and Kaufman immediately guesses that they are people who believe close relatives are imposters. Over the last two weeks, Kaufman says, there has been an epidemic of such cases in Santa Mira.
Minutes later Miles' answering service tracks him down with an urgent call from Miles' friend Jack Belicec (King Donovan), asking Miles to come over right away. Miles and Becky arrive to find there is a body lying on the Belicec's pool table; but it doesn't appear to be a dead body. Rather, it seems to be a body that was never alive. The face is blank and featureless, and there are no fingerprints. Miles speculates that if he were to perform an autopsy all the internal organs would be in perfect order, as if they had never been used.
Jack's wife Teddy (Carolyn Jones) asks Miles to estimate the body's height and weight. Miles says that the man on the table is perhaps 5 foot 9, and about 140 pounds. Teddy replies fearfully that Jack too is 5 foot 9 and 140 pounds.
Miles tells the Belicecs to keep an eye on the body, with instructions to call the police if nothing happens by morning; if however the body changes in any way they should call him. Miles takes Becky home, where she is surprised to find that her father has been working unusually late down in the cellar. Meanwhile, at the Belicic house, Jack falls asleep while sitting at the bar — just as the body on the table opens its eyes….
Comments: Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a superbly-crafted thriller, building suspense steadily throughout. Director Don Siegel sells the unlikely premise by introducing us to a perfectly ordinary American town and adding strange events so gradually that at first we hardly notice them.
That town, the fictional Santa Mira, is vividly presented to us as an ideal slice of America, an oasis from the cares of the world. Its inhabitants are uniformly warm and decent people. In this we see the hand of Jack Finney, who wrote the novel on which the movie is based. While the screenplay stripped down and focused Finney's narrative, the heart and humanity is still here.
Humanity, and the imminent threat of its extinction, is of course what makes the movie go; but the whole thing would have collapsed if we were given protagonists we didn't care for. Fortunately Miles Bennell is carefully rendered: as portrayed by Kevin McCarthy he is friendly, good-natured and eminently likable. We get the impression that Miles became a doctor not out of sense of overweening ambition but because helping others is something that comes naturally to him. In an unusual touch for a movie of this era, his sense of humor is on display from the beginning of the film, but it's gentle, never coming at the expense of others. "Maybe I clown around too much," he says to Becky Driscoll at one point, but it's clear that she doesn't think so. There is something touching about watching these two reconnecting in their own small town, unaware that the orderly world they inhabit is about to be turned upside down.
Becky is less clearly drawn (as is often the case with women characters, even today) but her innate gentleness and decency is vividly shown. Dana Wynter does well with the relatively few scenes she is featured in, though her British accent is distracting.
The decision to set the story in Santa Mira was an important one, because in a small town anonymity is impossible to maintain, and trust is the most important currency. Suddenly Miles and Becky can't walk openly in the streets because they are known by everyone and can trust no one. The invaders have turned all the advantages of small-town life against them, and this ratchets up the feeling of isolation and dread that the protagonists feel.
The fact that Miles and Becky are both divorced is an unusual detail for a movie of this era, and it seems to have been added for reasons other than simple verisimilitude. Rather, it greatly heightens the emotional argument that the film is making: that pain and failure are parts of even the best-lived lives. What the invaders seek to impose is a new and perhaps more sensible order, one in which the futile triumphs and follies of human existence are smoothed over.
When Miles protests that the love he feels for Becky would cease to exist, he's confronted with a hard truth. "You've been in love before," the pseudo-Jack says to Miles. "It didn't last. It never does." While this argument doesn't win us over, it gives us an uncomfortable sense of how the invaders see us: as a feckless and volatile species, endlessly engaged in a chase for things that can't be attained.
By all accounts Don Siegel was quite pleased with this film, and rightfully so. It's the director's best work, better even than Dirty Harry (1971), a very different movie with a similar emotional hook. Harry, after all, was surrounded by "pod people" — those so emotionally dead inside that they refused to even acknowledge, let alone do anything about, the disintegrating world around them.
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A hilarious comedy about Danny (Chris Pine), an intelligent, confident, handsome young man who also happens to be blind.
Not that he's letting that hold him back — for the most part, Danny refuses to let his visual impairment get in the way of anything.
However, as the evening goes on, Nadia begins to drink and behave in a wild manner.Soon the experiment proves to be a failure, as the fragile prosthesis in his brain moves, clouding his already weak vision, and Danny goes back to being blind.NEWEST ADDITIONS 24K Magic – Bruno Marss Cake By The Ocean – DNCE Can't Stop The Feeling – Justin Timberlake Closer – The Chainsmokers ft. Kendrick Lamar Ex's & Oh's – Elle King Hotline Bling – Drake Love Me Like You Do – Ellie Goulding Send My Love (To My New Lover) – Adele Shape of You – Ed Sheeran Sorry – Justin Bieber Starboy (clean radio edit) – The Weekend ft. Kelly Cake By The Ocean – DNCE California Gurls – Katy Perry Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepsen (Ceiling) Can't Hold Us – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft.Which is why Danny's girl-crazy, limo-driving brother Larry (Eddie Kaye Thomas, AMERICAN PIE) is horrified to discover that Danny is not only shy and nervous when it comes to the opposite sex, he's also a virgin.Blind Dating (also known as Blind Guy Driving) is a 2006 romantic comedy film directed by James Keach and starring Chris Pine, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Anjali Jay, Jane Seymour, and Jayma Mays.The publication City Weekly proposed that actor Chris Pine receive a special award for "Best Performance in an Otherwise Inexplicable Film." Danny Valdessecchi (Chris Pine) is an intelligent, handsome, charming boy who happens to be blind.Having been blind from birth, he volunteers for a risky experimental visual prosthesis that may restore his sight—having a microchip installed in the visual cortex of his brain that connects to a camera that would give him only, at best, fuzzy black and white images.Bruno Mars Wake Me Up – Avicci Wannabe – Spice Girls We Found Love – Rihanna Wobble Baby ('The Wobble') – V. Blind Date is a 1987 romantic comedy film, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Bruce Willis, in his first leading film role, and Kim Basinger.Blind Date earned mostly negative reviews from critics, but was a financial success and opened at number one at the box office.Walter Davis (Willis) allows his brother, Ted (Phil Hartman), to set him up on a blind date with his wife's cousin, Nadia (Basinger).
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Now that the Los Angeles Lakers' season is over save for Tuesday's finale against the Portland Trail Blazers, we've gotten a handful of pieces trying to figure out what went wrong during LeBron James' first year out west. There have been a number of moments that have been identified as major points of conflict along the long and winding road, and it seems like none have been bigger than the Lakers' pursuit of Anthony Davis before the trade deadline.
Davis wanted out, and all signs pointed to Los Angeles doing everything it could — save for putting James in a trade — to acquire him. This included leaks regarding the team's willingness to part with all of its young players to make a deal happen, which didn't work.
What it did lead to, though, was a reported rift between James and the Lakers' young players, who lost their trust in the former league MVP. This comes via Bill Oram of The Athletic's deep dive into the myriad of issues in Laker Land this season.
The Lakers' reported trade talks loomed over the team roster. Virtually every member of the young core had been linked to a trade for Davis, as had veterans Rondo and Beasley.
A schism developed in the locker room. Sources around the team said it was apparent that the young players no longer trusted James, believing he was operating behind the scenes to get them traded to New Orleans.


The teachers union initially announced that it expected its 2,800 members to vote on the new employment contract by the end of last week. The school district said its board would vote later this month; however, a discussion of the contract was removed from Thursday's school board agenda.
Borsos said Friday that the earliest teachers would now vote would be when they return from Thanksgiving break on Nov. 27.
The teachers contract was finalized Nov. 6 after being brokered by Mayor Darrell Steinberg, Superintendent Jorge Aguilar and the Sacramento City Teachers Association. The agreement gives teachers as much as an 11 percent raise over three years, including a pay scale boost that helps mid-career employees.
Barrios said Friday that the latest estimate for the deal's cost has changed from $22 million to $25 million.
The union had initially asked for class-size reductions and hiring of additional nurses, psychologists and other support professionals, but agreed in final negotiations that those moves could be contingent on finding millions of dollars in health care savings without benefit reductions.
Everyone agrees Sacramento teachers should get a pay raise. So who, exactly, would a strike serve?
Why pay good and bad teachers the same?


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The Young Don't Cry
An orphaned teen tries to help a wrongly convicted man who's escaped from prison.
Alfred L. Werker
Leslie Henderson
Rudy Krist
Max Cole
Paul Carr
The Cunning And The Haunted
New York opening: 26 Jul 1957
Philip A. Waxman Pictures, Inc.
Columbia Pictures Corp.
Savannah--The Brockton Orphange for Boys, Georgia, United States
Based on the novel The Cunning and the Haunted by Richard Jessup (New York, 1954).
9 reels
As the inmates of the Brockton Orphanage for Boys prepare for their August vacation, Leslie Henderson, a sensitive adolescent who has spent the year building a boat to sail to a desolated island nearby, invites little Allan to join him when the younger boy's vacation plans fall through. When Tom Bradley, one of the older boys, taunts Allan about his childish behavior, Les comes to his defense and a fight ensues. As a result, Mr. Gwinn, the supervisor of the orphanage, subtracts a week from Les's vacation and forbids Allan to accompany him. When Allan sobs in disappointment, Les tries to comfort the boy by promising him that tomorrow will be a better day. Afterward, Johnny Clancy, a scheming elder classman, chides Les for risking his own happiness to defend Allan. Clancy, who idolizes Max Cole, a former classmate who has become a successful businessman, points to Max's success and advises Les that he needs to "step over people" to achieve his own goals. One day, while roaming the swamps surrounding the orphanage, Les stops for a drink of water by the prison work gang overseen by Whittaker, a prison supervisor. There, Les tells Rudy Krist, a convict who earlier saved the boy's life by killing a deadly rattlesnake, about his boat. After Les leaves, Doosy, a weary, older convict, guesses that Rudy plans to steal the boat and sail to freedom. To achieve his escape, Rudy must be made a trustee, and soon, Plug, the brutal prison warden, promotes him to that position, threatening Rudy with death if he tries to escape. One day, Max arrives at the orphanage driving a shiny new Cadillac and accompanied by his attractive wife Maureen. When Clancy, who has been offered a job in Max's company, introduces him to Les, Max warns the idealistic Les to be wary because everyone is "out to get him." The next day, Max comes to see Les's boat, and when Max belittles both the boy and his craft, Maureen becomes upset at her husband's callousness. Later, when Les returns to the work gang to deliver some vegetables to Whittaker, Rudy pumps him for more information about his boat. Meanwhile, at the orphanage, Bradley begs Max for money to set up a small store in which to sell the driftwood figures he has made, and when Max humiliates Bradley, Maureen upbraids her husband. Afterward, Max, who has discovered that Clancy had been lying to him about his grades in order to wheedle a job in his company, rescinds his offer. Back at the prison camp, Rudy obtains Plug's permission to capture some rattlesnakes, but once he catches a reptile, Rudy turns it loose. When Whittaker raises his rifle to shoot it, Rudy smashes him in the head with a bucket and flees. To help his friend escape, Doosy acts as a decoy to fool the guards by running in the opposite direction. As the guards and their man-hunting dogs pursue the escaped convicts, Plug drives to the orphanage to warn Gwinn to keep the boys inside. Bradley, believing that he can prove his mettle to Max by capturing the convicts, takes off into the woods. Fearing for Bradley's safety, Max sets out with Les and Gwinn to find the boy. In the swamp, meanwhile, the police see Bradley's fleeting figure and set the dogs on him. After a dog kills Bradley, the police track Doosy to a shack owned by Philomena, a kindly recluse who has taken an interest in the orphans, and there they kill him. Hearing of Doosy's death, Les runs to Philomena's and tearfully watches as she buries his body. The next morning, as Les readies his boat for his voyage, Rudy jumps out of the woods, takes him prisoner and announces his plans to escape in the boat that night. Overwhelmed by the injustice and cruelty he has experienced, Les begins to rant about Max and "the other tough guys." After dark falls, Les and Rudy pull the boat over the marsh as Plug and his men lay in wait, determined to kill Rudy. As Rudy voices his obsession with "beating Plug," Plug spots the boat and fires, hitting Rudy, who falls overboard to his death. Upon reaching shore, Les decides to honor Rudy's last wish by concealing the fact that he was on the boat. Back at the orphanage, Plug accuses Les of being Rudy's accomplice. After Plug viciously slaps the boy, Max comes to Les's defense. Later, the sadistic warden is fired due to Max's influence. Les then tells Max that Rudy is dead. When Max offers Les a job, the boy refuses, claiming that he can make his own way following his moral compass.
Thomas Carlin
Johnny Clancy
Leigh Whipper
Doosy
Victor Thorley
Whittaker
Maureen Cole
James Reese
Mr. Gwinn
Ruth Attaway
Leland Mayforth
Dick Wigginton
Stanley Martin
Stanley Brown
Josephine Smith
Mrs. Gwinn
Joseph Killorin
Phillips Hamilton
Whigs
Victor Johnson
Hardhead
George Antheil
Don Cash
Emile Ehrlich
Hal Gausman
Ernest Gold
Music Conductor
Ernest Haller
Richard Jessup
Frank Parmenter
Jack Solomon
Philip A. Waxman
Maurice Wright
Editing Supervisor
Sam Wurtzel
"He's too tough for tears...because he had to grow up too fast! Here's the story of a teenager who tried to make it the hard way...with all the odds against him!" and "BORN AT 17... (He'll be lucky to make twenty!)" were some of the taglines used to promote Columbia Pictures' The Young Don't Cry (1957), directed by Alfred L. Werker. The screenplay was by Richard Jessup, based on his book The Cunning and the Haunted, and the film starred Sal Mineo, James Whitmore and J. Carrol Naish.
Sal Mineo was seventeen and already a teen idol when The Young Don't Cry went into production, thanks to a strong performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). In fact, Mineo's popularity with teenage girls proved to be a headache when the cast and crew went on location to Savannah, Georgia. Girls swamped the Hotel DeSoto, where the cast was staying, forcing the police to keep a few officers at the hotel to throw them out for disturbing the guests. The location itself was, in James Whitmore's words, "a rough shoot. Very physical, but Sal never complained once. What a mess with the bugs, the snakes, the swamp and the girls hiding behind trees to catch a glimpse of him." Apart from the swamps, filming took place at the Bethesda Home for Boys, which filled in for the orphanage where Mineo's character, Leslie Henderson plots his escape and gets mixed up with a chain-gang criminal, played by Whitmore, who forces the boy to help him flee.
The location shooting also proved to be difficult for director Alfred L. Werker, who was ill during production and the hot, humid Savannah weather kept him in his air-conditioned trailer except when he was shooting. Werker, who was a good studio director although he never made the pantheon of great Hollywood auteurs, had made a name for himself with films like The House of Rothschild (1934) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939). Sal Mineo said of Werker, "His quiet urging and sound advice were something I'll never forget." The Young Don't Cry would be Werker's final film.
The Young Don't Cry was Sal Mineo's second film with James Whitmore, his Crime in the Streets (1956) costar, who described Mineo as being self-assured and having great instincts about acting, although he lacked formal training. "He was a kid with a youthful energy about him, a little innocence and a little wickedness. He had already developed a keen sense of the power over people that celebrity handed him. He could be suave and gentlemanly with the girls and he could smoke and curse and be a little tough guy around the fellas. I could sense a reckless streak in him. I believe he had gotten by on his wits from an early age."
The film premiered in late July 1957 at the Palace Theater in New York, where Mineo appeared at a matinee showing of the film and 1400 screaming girls nearly caused a riot. The critics didn't have the same reaction, but The New York Times reviewer called it "a good little picture [...] which director Alfred L. Werker and his camera man, Ernest Haller, have imbued with semi-documentary flavor [...] It's not always easy, in fact, to distinguish the professionals from the real Georgians--a score or so were used. It is a high compliment indeed for an interesting picture, whose components never quite attain its rightful sum."
Producer: Philip A. Waxman
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Screenplay: Richard Jessup
Cinematography: Ernest Haller
Music: George Antheil
Film Editing: Maurice Wright
Cast: Sal Mineo (Leslie 'Les' Henderson), James Whitmore (Rudy Krist), J. Carrol Naish (Plug), Gene Lyons (Max Cole), Paul Carr (Tom Bradley), Thomas A. Carlin (Johnny Clancy), Leigh Whipper (Doosy), Stefan Gierasch (Billy), Victor Throley (Whittaker), Roxanne (Mrs. Maureen Cole).
BW-90m.
by Lorraine LoBianco
Erickson, Hal. "The Young Don't Cry." Rovi
Ferguson, Michael. Idol Worship: A Shameless Celebration of Male Beauty in the Movies
Michaud, Greg. Sal Mineo: A Biography
"Screen: An Orphan's Life; 'The Young Don't Cry' Opens at the Palace", The New York Times 27 Jul 57
Smith, Fran. "Movies of the Month: A Big Year for Mineo." Boys Life , Sept 1957
"He's too tough for tears...because he had to grow up too fast! Here's the story of a teenager who tried to make it the hard way...with all the odds against him!" and "BORN AT 17... (He'll be lucky to make twenty!)" were some of the taglines used to promote Columbia Pictures' The Young Don't Cry (1957), directed by Alfred L. Werker. The screenplay was by Richard Jessup, based on his book The Cunning and the Haunted, and the film starred Sal Mineo, James Whitmore and J. Carrol Naish. Sal Mineo was seventeen and already a teen idol when The Young Don't Cry went into production, thanks to a strong performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). In fact, Mineo's popularity with teenage girls proved to be a headache when the cast and crew went on location to Savannah, Georgia. Girls swamped the Hotel DeSoto, where the cast was staying, forcing the police to keep a few officers at the hotel to throw them out for disturbing the guests. The location itself was, in James Whitmore's words, "a rough shoot. Very physical, but Sal never complained once. What a mess with the bugs, the snakes, the swamp and the girls hiding behind trees to catch a glimpse of him." Apart from the swamps, filming took place at the Bethesda Home for Boys, which filled in for the orphanage where Mineo's character, Leslie Henderson plots his escape and gets mixed up with a chain-gang criminal, played by Whitmore, who forces the boy to help him flee. The location shooting also proved to be difficult for director Alfred L. Werker, who was ill during production and the hot, humid Savannah weather kept him in his air-conditioned trailer except when he was shooting. Werker, who was a good studio director although he never made the pantheon of great Hollywood auteurs, had made a name for himself with films like The House of Rothschild (1934) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939). Sal Mineo said of Werker, "His quiet urging and sound advice were something I'll never forget." The Young Don't Cry would be Werker's final film. The Young Don't Cry was Sal Mineo's second film with James Whitmore, his Crime in the Streets (1956) costar, who described Mineo as being self-assured and having great instincts about acting, although he lacked formal training. "He was a kid with a youthful energy about him, a little innocence and a little wickedness. He had already developed a keen sense of the power over people that celebrity handed him. He could be suave and gentlemanly with the girls and he could smoke and curse and be a little tough guy around the fellas. I could sense a reckless streak in him. I believe he had gotten by on his wits from an early age." The film premiered in late July 1957 at the Palace Theater in New York, where Mineo appeared at a matinee showing of the film and 1400 screaming girls nearly caused a riot. The critics didn't have the same reaction, but The New York Times reviewer called it "a good little picture [...] which director Alfred L. Werker and his camera man, Ernest Haller, have imbued with semi-documentary flavor [...] It's not always easy, in fact, to distinguish the professionals from the real Georgians--a score or so were used. It is a high compliment indeed for an interesting picture, whose components never quite attain its rightful sum." Producer: Philip A. Waxman Director: Alfred L. Werker Screenplay: Richard Jessup Cinematography: Ernest Haller Music: George Antheil Film Editing: Maurice Wright Cast: Sal Mineo (Leslie 'Les' Henderson), James Whitmore (Rudy Krist), J. Carrol Naish (Plug), Gene Lyons (Max Cole), Paul Carr (Tom Bradley), Thomas A. Carlin (Johnny Clancy), Leigh Whipper (Doosy), Stefan Gierasch (Billy), Victor Throley (Whittaker), Roxanne (Mrs. Maureen Cole). BW-90m. by Lorraine LoBianco SOURCES: Erickson, Hal. "The Young Don't Cry." Rovi Ferguson, Michael. Idol Worship: A Shameless Celebration of Male Beauty in the Movies Michaud, Greg. Sal Mineo: A Biography "Screen: An Orphan's Life; 'The Young Don't Cry' Opens at the Palace", The New York Times 27 Jul 57 Smith, Fran. "Movies of the Month: A Big Year for Mineo." Boys Life , Sept 1957
The working title of this film was The Cunning and the Haunted. According to the Variety review, location filming was done in and around the Brockton Orphanage for Boys near Savannah, GA.


When is MSIE not MSIE?
I have referenced my Norwegian weblog a couple of times already.
I am using this site as a testing ground. One of the things I wanted to test was: How many browsers that claim to be Microsoft Internet Explorer is actually MSIE?
I used "Conditional Comments":http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp to include a specific CSS file if the browser is IE. Partly to create fallback styles because MSIE cannot deal with display: table. And, as I said, partly to find MSIEs real market share on my site.
Since I am also including a common CSS file for all browsers that is also picked up by MSIE, finding the ratio of browsers that claim to be IE, and browsers that are IE is easy.
I created an excerpt of my access log, containing accesses from 2003-02-23 00:00 to 2003-02-25 16:09. The log is in all 8719 lines.
All CSS-capable browsers would have requested the file named /styles/screen.css, but only true MSIE browsers would have requested _/styles/msie-screen.css_.
All in all, 675 lines of the log contained requests for _/styles/screen.css_.
Of these 675 lines where a request for a stylesheet was made, 302 also contained MSIE as part of the User-Agent string. Which _apparently_ gives MSIE a 44,7% market share.
I mentioned the conditional comments. They are only parsed and read by a true Microsoft Internet Explorer. So, if I grep the log for GET /styles/msie-screen.css, I have the true number of MSIE requests among CSS-capable browsers.
By doing this check, the number was reduced to 245, leaving Internet Explorer at a market share of 36,3%. 18,8% of all browsers that claim to be MSIE, aren't.
I also got some very weak indication on MSIE versions used: MSIE 6.0 in a firm lead at 92,9%, MSIE 5.5. at 4,9% and MSIE 5.0 accounted for the rest.
*Disclaimer:* This test is made from a sample from a period of only 64 hours and 9 minutes on a relatively low-traffic site. The market share should not be confused with MSIE's general market share, and the test is here only to give an indication on how common it is for other browsers to misrepresent themselves as Internet Explorer.
Opera on MS Smartphone? Never!
I think most sites use only some form of parsing of the User-Agent string. I can't yet seem to actually have found a site that uses CC's in any way.
The only thing I can tell for sure is that to some extent, MSIE will always be over-represented in stats. If the true number is 18% or if it is 1,8% I cannot tell. I will return with results when I have data spanning a longer period, and post the results again to see if my preliminary findings are right.
I'm also kind of hoping someone else can do the same for a week or two to either confirm or dismiss my findings.
Market share of Internet Explorer inflated?
Thanks for this article. Although it's older than two years I read it only today. Until now (as you certainly know; due to my other comment a few days ago 😉 ), I wasn't aware of the problems that are created by changing the stylesheets on the basis of the user-agent string.


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Since its creation in 2017, Opéra Underground has taken audiences on a journey through a varied selection of international music.
Le Petit Bulletin, Sept. 24, 2018
"Olivier Conan, who arrived last season as head of the Péristyle programme and the Amphitheatre at the opera house (renamed Opéra Underground), has turned everything upside down and put his own stamp on it: here is a man from New York who has shaken things up and who has an impact on the entire city. Good choice. "
Exitmag
"Opéra Underground is the name of the brand-new concert programme from the Opéra de Lyon, put together by its latest recruit Olivier Conan, a musician and artistic director keen on mixing and matching different genres and resolutely plugged into the global sound system in 'digger' (as in 'gold digger') mode."
Those who know Lyon immediately think of the opera house's impressive glass roof. But do they realise that is only the tip of the iceberg? Literally underground there is a second stage, the Amphitheatre, which is about to become better known with an alternative programme aptly named Opéra Underground.
Les Inrocks, June 5, 2018
Le Progrès, Feb. 27, 2019
"The Opéra Underground project, created by Olivier Conan, director of the opera house's Amphitheatre, continues to attract a large audience to its concerts that are often sold out. A mix of world music and all kinds of other unlikely combinations from further and further afield."
Tribune de Lyon, 35 Lyon residents who made their mark in 2018, Dec. 31, 2018
Olivier Conan, the wind of change at the Opéra de Lyon
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Q: Do I need app.config? I have made a app which uses visual studio's app.config to store settings about the checkboxes states etc which works fine. I copied the exe for the app from the default directory and ran it, I forgot about the app.config file but it still worked as normal, is app.config compiled into the exe somehow, or do I still need to include it in the same folder as the exe? Thanks.

A: App.config files (which on build/deployment would be copied as something like MyApplication.exe.config are only required, if you have coded your application in such a way that it is explicitly dependent on it. If you have not done this, or have put error handling/default values or actions in place where it can't read the config file, one would assume your application could run without it.

A: If the app.config file is missing from the execution folder, all attempts to read the application settings will return null values; depending on what mechanism you use to reload the settings, that will either result in null reference exceptions, or else just use default values for everything.
Also, note that app.config is the design-time name for the file. At run-time, your app will actually look for ExecutableFile.exe.config. You may have copied it over without realizing it.

A: App.config will be renamed during the build to match the application name, so for "myApp", you will get "myApp.exe" and "myApp.exe.config".
Are you sure you are definitely accessing the config file, or running the right exe?  Silly questions, but worth checking. If you're just storing the settings, you might be able to run the app and not see a problem unless you actually try to save. Not saying that is what is happening, just possible.
As I recall from my .net days, saving to the default config file was much harder than reading - are you sure you are saving to that?

A: Visual Studio will generate a .exe.config file which contains the settings from the app.config when building. That's the file which is used to store settings when running the application. You should copy that file, the app.config isn't needed.

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Quickfox Publishing author Nompumelelo (Mpume) Mqwebu pulls it off at the 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards by winning the prestigious "Best in the World" award in the Self-Published category. These international awards, considered to be the Oscars of the culinary scene, featured over 1372 finalists competing in 130 categories from 134 countries and regions in the final leg of the competition. The competition, in general, attracts entries from traditional publishers, self-published authors, food personalities, chefs, restaurants, food magazines, and much more. Categories are also very diverse.
Winners from each country qualified for entry into the final event in their respective categories. Mpume qualified by winning Best in South Africa in both the Self-Published and First Cookbook categories. This year the awards ceremony was hosted in Yantai, China in late May 2018, for which Mpume flew over to attend.
Four other South African titles were also honoured at the 2018 awards. NB Publisher's books published under the Human & Rousseau imprint won in their respective categories, with one NB title coming in third place.
Callie Martiz and Mary-Louis Guy's The South African Milk Tart Collection came third in the Pastry and Desserts category.
Alix Verrips' Brunch across 11 countries won Best Breakfast Book.
Susie Chatz-Anderson's A Bite of Latin America won the Best Latin America outside of Latin America category.
Jan-Braai's Shishanyama won the Barbeque category.
We are very proud to have been part of this project and we are deeply grateful that Mpume put her trust in us for the editorial management, editing, proofreading, design, DTP and printing of the book. Visit Through the Eyes of An African Chef on Publisher.co.za to purchase your copy today.
Quickfox Publishing is a small, dynamic team of multi-skilled publishing professionals. Our Cape Town-based office oversees every project that comes through our doors, offering hands-on personal service to each and every client and strong attention to detail on all projects.


Between the spirited blend of English, Spanish and French conversation and the sounds of the gulf water lapping at the bay, Soda Marbella captures that vibe where saltwater breeze, tourists and locals intersect.
The decor is a modest combination of teal-painted walls and metal siding, concrete floors and plastic chairs and the bathroom is a tad dungeon-esque — but nevermind all of that when the Ceviche hits the table.
Served with a hefty side of patacones, the soda's most popular dish brings a bright and fresh flash of citrus and sea-fare to your taste buds and leaves without any fishy after-taste.
The ceviche is just one among a slew of options on the menu, which specializes in seafood. Choices are inexpensive and the portions are aplenty, including anything from fish sandwiches to barbeque chicken wings or burgers to fajitas. Gargantuan helpings of golden-hued Arroz con Pollo and savory chicken fajita platters will fill you up without emptying your wallet.
The fried fish platter, in comparison, was rather underwhelming, tasting almost like fish sticks you might find frozen at your nearest grocery store.
But the fresh fruit juices such as pineapple or papaya made up for it. Those will quench your thirst for that tropical sweet tooth. They're the type of liquid that make all of those bottled fruit juices at your local grocery store jealous.
Perched against the town's main beachfront road, Soda Marbella's prime spot allows you to gaze out at the where your meal came from.
The wait staff was friendly and quick, and brought out meals about 15 minutes after ordering.


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Chael Sonnen's MMA Career in Jeopardy After CSAC Upholds Indefinite Suspension
December 12, 2022 March 6, 2017 by David Wray
Following a two-hour hearing in Los Angeles, California State Athletic Commission officials voted 4-1 to uphold their indefinite suspension of Chael Sonnen, citing that the false statements he made about the authorization of his testosterone therapy as well as his money laundering conviction in Oregon did in fact constitute "discredit to MMA." He will not be re-licensed at this point, which will effectively keep his MMA career on ice until his license expires on June 29th. After that, he'll be free to apply elsewhere, but since he'll be on an MMA commission watch list, he may encounter further difficulties trying to return to competition.
ESPN's Josh Gross and MMA Junkie's Steven Marrocco were on the scene at the Ronald Reagan State Office Building, and provided updates through the proceedings. Here's a quick rundown:
– Sonnen did his best to shift blame about his testosterone therapy statements, saying Matt Lindland informed him that he was cleared for TRT in Nevada and California. Sonnen admitted that he never had a conversation with the NSAC's Keith Kizer about it, and never intended to make it sound like he did.
– Kizer testified that he had a conversation with Matt Lindland in 2008 about a therapeutic use exemption, but Sonnen's name wasn't brought up specifically. Kizer pointed out a false statement in a previous declaration from Sonnen, in which he said that the NSAC told him not to declare testosterone injections in his pre-fight medical questionnaire.
– Sonnen became emotional while giving testimony about his fighting career. His eyes welled up as he discussed the opportunities he'd be missing out on if he wasn't re-licensed, including a "once in a lifetime" coaching gig on The Ultimate Fighter, which could lead to a title shot if he beat his rival coach (Michael Bisping). "If I don't get my license today I'm effectively retired," Sonnen said. "That came from the boss, Dana White…I worked for this chance my whole life. I don't want to retire today."
– Sonnen said he's still monitored for testosterone therapy twice a month, and needs it for his "survival." He claimed to have "the testosterone of a 93-year-old man."
– Members of the commission were not so easily charmed this time. Dean of the commission John Frierson: "It's very hard for me to believe in your second chance." Deputy DA Karen Chappelle: "[Sonnen] always has someone else to blame…I don't know how you can ever trust him." Commissioner Christopher Giza: Sonnen has given contradictory statements that call into question his truthfulness and rehabilitation.
– CSAC official George Dodd said that no athlete under his watch had ever been suspended for white-collar crime.
– Sonnen's legal team attempted to enter a statement from Lindland, who's currently in Poland, but it wasn't allowed.
– In the beginning of his closing statement, Sonnen's lawyer Steve Thompson described Sonnen as a "fundamentally good person."
– There was a "public comments" portion of the hearing in which Sonnen's own mother — who was involved in that mortgage fraud, don't forget — spoke on his behalf, saying that Chael needs testosterone just to get out of bed in the morning. This girl also spoke on behalf of Sonnen, for some reason, as well as Sonnen's lawyer Raffi Nahabedian.
– The commission voted 4-1 to uphold Sonnen's indefinite suspension. The lone dissenting vote was Anthony Thompson, who wasn't on the CSAC commission during Sonnen's first hearing in December.
As a post-script, we'll leave you with this tweet from Michael Bisping: "Gutted for chael sonnen, people make mistakes. He paid his dues and should be allowed to continue with his career. Real shame for the guy."
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The Grounds in Alexandria. That my first thought when I pulled up the cute cafe nestled in the Watson shops. Obviously on a smaller scale and without the animals but given the interior, outdoor seating, plants; it definitely gave off those vibes. This food adventure was off to a good start!
This was an interestingly amazing combination of ingredients. It was both salty and sweet; crunchy and soft. Upon first look it doesn't look super filling but boy you will be surprised!!
I am a pancakes enthusiast. These pancakes although not super big were incredibly flavoursome. The fruits added sweetness and provided different textures. Unfortunately this was a special of the week - I'm glad that I was able to try it when I did.
This cafe is passionate about their local products, delicious food and coffee - be sure to swing by this weekend!


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Biden's student debt scam: Restructuring debt, not forgiveness
Chase Lawrence
An email from the Department of Education obtained by National Public Radio (NPR) indicates that the Biden administration may extend the freeze on student loans, started under the Trump administration, for a fourth time. The email directed loan servicing companies not to reach out to borrowers about the May 1 deadline, despite these companies being required to give a month's notice before repayment begins.
The email follows on the heels of an appearance by White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain on the podcast Pod Save America where he hinted that it was possible the repayment pause could be extended beyond the May 1 deadline.
There is no doubt that the motivation behind the delay in restarting the debt payments is a cynical political calculation. The Democratic Party is planning to use the delay to posture as proponents of some form of debt forgiveness in the midterm elections.
While campaigning for president Biden declared repeatedly that "we should forgive a minimum of $10,000/person of federal student loans, as proposed by Senator Warren and colleagues."
However, those who hold student loan debt must be warned, the current proposal under consideration for "forgiveness" is actually a restructuring of student debt, a far cry from Biden's original pledge.
The magnitude of the proposed "relief" pales in comparison to the mountain of student debt.
Even if his campaign promise was applied to all the 43.4 million federal student loan borrowers, it would entail $434 billion in forgiven loans, only a little more than a quarter of the $1.61 trillion in federal student loans. Outstanding private student loans, which stand at $136.31 billion according to Nerdwallet, would not be canceled under this arrangement. Moreover, "Total Parent Plus debt," where parents take on debt on behalf of their student children, constituting $103.6 billion in debt and 3.6 million borrowers, would be untouched.
Even more importantly, there is no plan to reduce, let alone eliminate the astronomical education costs that currently prevail. This means that the one-time forgiveness would not do anything for future borrowers. Students would still go into massive amounts of debt because of the astronomical cost of college. Loan companies and the federal government would continue to profit off of student loans, and higher education would continue on its trajectory towards being a privilege afforded to the wealthy instead of a public good for all.
Despite this reality, the mainstream media has sought to portray Biden's actions on student debt as somewhat progressive. Forbes recently reported, for example, that Biden has forgiven $15 billion in debt. Not only does this figure represent a drop in the bucket of the total debt, but it also covers up more devious actions. The figure cited by Forbes includes people involved in public service loan forgiveness, which has existed for decades. Nerdwallet accurately described it as "a federal program designed to encourage students to enter relatively low-paying careers," forgiveness of now-defunct ITT Tech student loans (ITT is a private university that abruptly closed in 2016), and Borrower Defense to Repayment, which covers loans to defunct institutions.
That is, a small section of student loan borrowers have become disabled and are unable to make repayments, been able to prove they were defrauded by either a scam or hold a degree from a non-existent institution, or work a low-paying job and have therefore been granted "forgiveness."
Additionally, the Department of Education identified 100,000 borrowers with $6.2 billion in cancellable debt as part of an October 2021 change to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness rules, which has also been touted in the media as a great victory for students. This figure constitutes a fraction of the total student loan borrowers and total debt (0.2 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively). Moreover, this change mainly involves adjustments in how payments are counted towards forgiveness, such as counting prior student loan payments towards forgiveness, payments made before loans are consolidated, getting credit towards forgiveness if the wrong repayment plan was used, and similar matters.
Even the debt forgiveness plans that are presented as more radical, upon closer look, are incredibly limited and unserious. For example, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed student loan cancellation be limited to student loan borrowers who earn up to $125,000, with the possibility of Congress or the president setting an even lower threshold, much like the stimulus check for the COVID-19 pandemic which had a $75,000 income threshold.
Democratic Senator Patty Murray, chairwoman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, who advocated extending the payment freeze to at least 2023 explained that her reason for continuing the freeze is to fix the "broken" repayment system. The Washington Post wrote at the time that "Murray said she is pleased to see the administration considering another extension because there is plenty of work to do before payments resume."
"Chief on the list is to finalize a new income-driven repayment plan." The "fix" consists of consolidating four "income driven plans" into one, a far cry from canceling student debt, let alone making higher education affordable.
Student loans are also on the government's balance sheet, meaning that any forgiveness would be paid for by a cut to social spending.
Just as the Democrats have removed all remaining pandemic protections amid mass death and infections so that big banks and corporations could continue to profit, they are moving to shift ever more money towards the military as part of the drive by US imperialism to war with Russia and China. The US military budget passed in the Senate stands at a whopping $782 billion. While both parties claim there is no money for student loan forgiveness or for making higher education free, trillions are expended on war and propping up Wall Street.
Biden himself holds a great deal of responsibility for the student debt crisis from his time as a US senator from Delaware. His home state is infamous as the location of choice for giant corporation headquarters seeking to evade taxes, regulations and scrutiny of all kinds, something which the president often brags about. In 2005, along with 17 other Democratic senators, he voted to pass the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, which tightened the bankruptcy code so that private student loans were stripped of bankruptcy protections.
Biden received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from credit card companies preceding the vote. The tightening of bankruptcy protections led to the tripling of debt over the course of a decade, locking student debtors in endless ruinous payments.
For the Biden administration, "student debt forgiveness" is a convenient slogan used to try to deceive a section of young voters.
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Taiwan's F-16 goes missing, country's air force launches search operation
Beijing [Taiwan], January 11 (ANI): An F-16 aircraft vanished off the radar during a routine training mission in Taiwan on Tuesday, reported Sputnik.
A search-and-rescue operation has been launched by the Taiwanese air force to find the jet.
The jet took off from the Chiayi Air Base at 2:55 pm [06:55GMT] and disappeared from radars at 3:23 p.m, reported Focus Taiwan citing the country's military.
A response centre has also been set up to monitor the search and rescue operation.
Taiwan received F-16s from the US, which is the island nation's main arms supplier. Last year, Taiwan had commissioned the US government's defence contractor Lockheed Martin last year to upgrade its ageing fleet of F-16s to more advanced F-16Vs, reported Sputnik. (ANI)


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Removing anxiety from the design process can decrease the potential for anxiety in the world. A reactive process leads to me-too products, solutions for non-problems, feature-creep, and tone-deaf communication. If we do our job right, our work together also gives our clients the tools they need in order to protect that intent from future anxieties, and to adapt the system to those changing scenarios. We can't predict the future, but we can use information to give our part of it a nudge in the right direction.
Recently, I gave a research workshop on a rainy Sunday in Prague. Following a tram ride across a bridge over the Vltava under grey skies, I walked up a cobblestoned alley to the shiny new Merck IT Innovation Center, with a view of at least 2 castles from its rooftop garden. Prague is like that.
During the discussion, one of the participants asked, "But how do you design for situations other than the one you are in? How do you design for wartime during peace?" Someone else handily pointed out that there is never really peace, so that shouldn't be a problem. Czechs go deep fast.
That is a big question — the question rattling around at the bottom of all objections to evidence-based design. Why bother thinking about what exists when you want to create something new?
Design is exciting because it is the practice of shaping the future. Research requires the discipline of taking an honest look at the past and present. The present is a mess. It always is. But the present is the soil in which we grow our potential futures. Those who strive for innovation without inquiry will have trouble getting their ideas to thrive in the real world. This world includes every pesky human occupying the corporate kitchens and Slack teams inside, and every lagging technology still in use out there. Habits die hard.
I think about this every single day as I reach for the out-the-door trinity: keys, wallet, phone. For most of the 20th century, it would have been keys, wallet, watch. Now my iPhone, having devoured dozens of other devices, is hungrily eying my wallet. The keys, an incremental update from ancient Mesopotamia, are losing ground, but still hanging on. I ride a bicycle dressed per Alexa's weather advice, and most days I do wear an analog watch. The future spreads like cold butter.
My workshop — like all of my research preaching — is a bit of a bait and switch. I don't want designers to do research for its own sake. In fact, I want the opposite of that. I want to help them get better design out in the world faster. I want meaningful products and services with a longer shelf life. Real change requires asking the right questions before rushing to come up with an answer. Innovation takes hold when a new idea fits into existing habits like a key into a lock.
As Jared Spool says so economically "Design is the rendering of intent." Poor design often results from the distortion of good intentions. Few organizations set out to create, on purpose, products that harm or fail, information that confuses or distresses, or teams consumed by status concerns. These things happen because something happens along the way, often something as habitual as it is unintentional.
Nothing distorts intent like anxiety. Anxiety pulls focus from the goal and lets energy flow towards distractions and perceived threats. Anxiety flourishes in the absence of information.
Most of my time, I'm working directly with clients. My role as a designer is not only to inform and articulate their intent, but also to help our clients stay the course and defend the process in order to meet the goals. This is the advantage of coming in from the outside. We can ask the questions that get to the heart of the concerns and redirect requests with evidence. And this doesn't mean just laying out the data. It means explaining how our work will meet the specific needs and goals of the people we're talking to.
The most well-known area of design research is ethnographic user research — understanding the behaviors and mindset of the intended users of a product, service, or system. While that is necessary, the most critical research we do often centers on the organization itself. Only by understanding the behaviors and mindset of the people with whom we're collaborating can we define a process that leads to a successful outcome. This can take a anywhere from a couple of days of conversations to three months of intensive interviews. Whatever the investment, it always pays dividends.
We don't use what we've learned to dismiss the inevitable anxieties that crop up, but we can counter them effectively by knowing where they originate, and minimize their pull. The capacity to innovate is fragile in the face of entrenched habits and unspoken fears. So, we get them all out on the table and consider them in our solutions.
Toxic politics? Legacy technology expertise? Resource constraints? Seemingly infinite stakeholders? Inexperienced team? Demanding executives? No amount of customer-centered design thinking can defeat these. Because we work in the real world, every project has something, and we embrace it. This mundane chafing of humans working together will persist long after we've donned our spandex jumpsuits and gone into space.
Leadership throughout a design project is a matter of maintaining clarity, rewarding trust, and encouraging the most effective participation from every stakeholder at every point. It is up to us to create the conditions that allow our clients to make the decisions that lead to the future they envision. While we've seen patterns over the years, every client has their own habits and concerns.
Removing anxiety from the design process can decrease the potential for anxiety in the world. A reactive process leads to me-too products, solutions for non-problems, feature-creep, and tone-deaf communication. Internal issues that pervert the intent of good design threaten to become the vexing material of daily experience for millions.
If we do our job right, our work together also gives our clients the tools they need in order to protect that intent from future anxieties, and to adapt the system to those changing scenarios. We can't predict the future, but we can use information to give our part of it a nudge in the right direction.


All of this talk about the new CBS Nancy Drew pilot, has made me nostalgic for the old TV Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Sure it ticked me off when Nancy wound up taking a back seat to Parker Stevenson and Shawn Cassidy's Hardy Boys, but I loved the show anyway.
Here's a little bit to refresh your memory.
The new CBS show, called Drew, features Nancy all grown up and played by Sarah Shahi. Shahi is not the titian-haired girl from the books, but a grown-up detective in the LAPD. It's an interesting take on an old favorite no matter how far from River Heights it takes us. It's too soon to tell if the new show will work or not, but we still have memories of 70s Nancy.


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Fathom Events celebrates 'Woodstock' 50th Anniversary with cinematic event on August 15
Before it happened, the rock-music festival on a dairy farm was billed as "An Aquarian Experience: 3 Days of Peace and Music" and no one realized the weekend would become one of the seminal moments not just in music history, but in American history.
Fifty years later, the groundbreaking film that captured the original Woodstock music festival has become one of the most acclaimed documentaries ever produced – and Fathom Events is partnering with Warner Bros. to bring it back to movie theaters for one night only. "Woodstock: The Director's Cut" will play at 7:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, August 15, in movie theaters nationwide.
Tickets are available now at www.FathomEvents.com.
"Both as a documentary and as a pop-culture phenomenon, 'Woodstock' is a milestone, a pivotal moment in history captured forever, proving the enduring power of cinema," said Ray Nutt, CEO of Fathom Events. "Fifty years later, there has never been anything quite like it, either as a music festival or as a film, and Fathom Events is proud to be part of the anniversary of Woodstock."
Directed by Michael Wadleigh and utilizing extraordinary perspectives, including split-screen and multi-screen sequences, "Woodstock" received an Academy Award® for Best Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker, a longtime collaborator of Martin Scorsese, who is also credited (along with Stan Warnow, Yeu-Bun Yee, Jere Higgins and Wadleigh) as one of its editors. The movie features 30 musical performances, among them a five-song set by Jimi Hendrix (including "Purple Haze"); The Who; Janis Joplin; Crosby, Stills & Nash; Jefferson Airplane; and Joan Baez.
But apart from the raw, intimate ways it captures the performances, "Woodstock" also offers extraordinary insight into the people who attended the festival, the chaotic mood of the era, and the incendiary sparks let off by the event. Entertainment Weekly called "Woodstock" "the single greatest film ever made about the 1960s."
The 3-hour, 44-minute director's cut features performances – like Joplin's and Jefferson Airplane's – not seen in the original theatrical version, which was a box-office smash when first released in March 1970. This one-night-only Fathom Events presentation is the first wide, national theatrical re-release of the film since its original run.
About Fathom Events
Fathom Events is the leading event cinema distributor with theater locations in all top 100 DMAs® (Designated Market Areas) and ranks as one of the largest overall theater content distributors. Owned by AMC Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: AMC); Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK); and Regal Cinemas, a subsidiary of the Cineworld Group (LSE: CINE.L), Fathom Events offers a variety of unique entertainment events in movie theaters such as live performances of the Metropolitan Opera, top Broadway stage productions, major sporting events, epic concerts, the yearlong TCM Big Screen Classics series, inspirational events and popular anime franchises. FathomEvents takes audiences behind the scenes for unique extras including audience Q&As, backstage footage and interviews with cast and crew, creating the ultimate VIP experience. Fathom Events' live Digital Broadcast Network ("DBN") is the largest cinema broadcast network in North America, bringing live and pre-recorded events to 1,010 locations and 1,628 screens in 182 DMAs. The company also provides corporations a compelling national footprint for hosting employee meetings, customer rewards events and new product launches. For more information, visit www.FathomEvents.com.
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Driver pleads guilty in fatal Englewood hit-and-run crash
John Lucero who was pushing a bike across South Broadway was fatally struck in Englewood in June.
Author: Janet Oravetz (9News)
Published: 12:39 PM MST December 16, 2022
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — A Thornton man agreed to plead guilty to two counts related to a hit-and-run crash in June that resulted in the death of a man who was pushing a bike across an Englewood street.
Officers were called to a rollover accident in the 4400 block of South Broadway around 8:37 a.m. on June 4, 2022.
They later determined that the driver of a car was heading south down South Broadway at high speed and collided with John Lucero who was pushing a bike across the street before hitting a brick building at 4455 South Broadway.
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The car then rolled over and came to rest on its roof in the southbound lanes of traffic.
The driver, identified as 20-year-old Edwin Solano, was seen running from the car, according to witnesses. Two teens were extricated from his car and taken to the hospital with serious injuries, Englewood Police said. Solano turned himself into authorities a day after the crash.
Solano agreed to plead guilty to the following two counts:
Leaving the scene of an accident involving death
Careless driving resulting in death
As a result of the plea, two other counts were dismissed. He's set to be sentenced on Jan. 12 at 2:30 p.m. It's an open sentence, however, if the judge sentences Solano to the Department of Corrections for the first count, the sentence would be capped at nine years.
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He's been involved in publishing books for almost 30 years.
USA Today called him "The closest thing to a rock star in graphic design today".
Since 1986, Chip has designed about 75 dust jackets a year for the publishing house Knopf, a division of Random House, where he is currently the associate art director. He's designed cover concepts for books by writers as diverse as Bret Easton Ellis, Haruki Murakami, Dean Koontz, Frank Miller, James Frey, Alex Ross, Charles Schulz, Donna Tartt, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, David Sedaris and Michael Crichton. Several authors have contract clauses insisting that Kidd do the cover design for their books. His cover for Crichton's 1990 science fiction novel, Jurassic Park, was even carried over into the marketing for the Spielberg blockbuster of the same name.
Kidd often downplays the importance of his cover designs.
Well Chip, we beg to differ.
We think you're a rock star.
Wonder where he went to school, etc.
Love him! I have his book about graphic design that's ostensibly for children, but I learned a lot from it!