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Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was
Hosted by Lou Rawls, this 13-part documentary on radio's role in the evolution of America's black communities is a forceful reminder of the many contributions made by African-Americans to the history of broadcasting. Through interviews with radio veterans and the presentation of rare recordings of historical programming, listeners hear the powerful, captivating stories of individuals who experienced this important and often neglected area of American cultural and media history. Executive producers Wes Horner and Jacquie Gales Webb, along... read more
Edith Ann's Christmas
While it might appear on the surface that this Yule-tide tale strays from the mainstream, it presents positive and especially timely messages of caring and forgiveness. Irreverent and often outrageous, Edith Ann's Christmas (Just Say Noel) offers an alternative perspective to the emotional landscape usually available in popular entertainment to children and adults. The show revolves around a dysfunctional family, with the main character, Edith Ann, portrayed by the multi-talented Lily Tomlin, (also co-executive producer). In the innovative... read more
FRONTLINE: The Choice 96
FRONTLINE opened its fifteenth season on PBS in the fall of 1996 with this biographical comparison of the two major-party presidential candidates. Interweaving their dual public careers and private lives, the two-hour narrative illuminated each candidate's record and character to help voters understand what kind of president each might be in the next four years. Producer/writer Helen Whitney, writer Jane Barnes, and consultants Richard Ben Cramer and David Maraniss revealed how Bill Clinton's and Bob Dole's personal histories... read more
FRONTLINE: The Gate of Heavenly Peace
The early months of 1989 will forever be remembered as the "Beijing Spring," a hope-filled, tension-charged time when students and workers occupied Tiananmen Square. The world watched China struggle with changes demanded in the name of democracy during these pivotal months. But the Chinese government actions on June 4, 1989, transmitted internationally on television, ended, at least for a time, China's embrace of democratic principles. Over the ensuing six years, producers Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon devoted themselves... read more
How Do You Spell God?
Perhaps in no other area are the views of children more telling and profound than the realm of religion. Through thought-provoking interviews with children from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and rich animated adaptations of parables and poems about the meaning of life from ancient scripture and more modern sources (including Maya Angelou, A.A. Milne, and Isaac Bashevis Singer), Home Box Office reveals the common core of all belief. While their parents perpetuate age-old conflicts through religious... read more
Institutional Award: KOMO-TV for Excellence in local television programming as represented by "War on Children," "Earth Agenda: Power of Bears," "The Return of the Eagle," and "Lolita: Spirit in the Water"
One goal of the Peabody Awards is to identify and recognize excellence in local television. Local service remains a fundamental and critical element of our system of broadcasting. Unfortunately, original local programming often seems to be a species as endangered as any explored by KOMO-TV in its outstanding Earth Agenda series. As demonstrated by these Peabody Award-winning programs, management of KOMO-TV is dedicated to local programming and has provided an atmosphere which fosters creativity and originality. The result... read more
Journey of the African-American Athlete
As we celebrate the golden anniversary of Jackie Robinson's arrival to the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the ascendancy of Masters champion Tiger Woods, Home Box Office reminds us of the multitude of struggles and small but significant triumphs made by black athletes through the years in this impressive two-hour television documentary. Executive producer Ross Greenburg, senior producer Rick Bernstein, and a superb production team, including consultant and writer William C. Rhoden and producers Leslie D. Farrell, Paul H. Hutchinson,... read more
Kinetic City Super Crew
This thoroughly entertaining children's radio program presents exciting radio dramas which teach teamwork, problem-solving techniques and basic scientific principles. With nearly 100 episodes produced to date, and a weekly audience estimated at two million listeners, the Super Crew is making an important and much-needed contribution to science education in the United States. Credit is due to an imaginative production team, including executive producer Robert Hirshon, producers Joseph Shepherd and Anna Ewald, and director Susan Keady. They and their... read more
Now the longest-running dramatic series on network television, Law & Order has maintained a tradition of excellence for more than seven seasons. Faithful to its narrative structure—in which the first half-hour depicts the apprehension of law-breakers by police detectives, and the second half shifts focus to the criminal courts for prosecution - - the program is especially adroit at capturing the brutal reality of crime and law enforcement in New York. The creative forces behind the production are... read more
Mobile Masterpiece Theatre's "House of Cards," "To Play the King," and "The Final Cut"
This superb trilogy tracks the career of scheming, conniving Prime Minister Francis Urquhart, masterfully played by Ian Richardson, as he nefariously seeks to secure his place in history. Together, executive producer Michael Wearing (for the BBC), series executive producer Rebecca Eaton (for Mobile Masterpiece Theater), producer Ken Riddington, director Mike Vardy, and screenwriter Andrew Davies tell a tale of skullduggery and dirty tricks, as the ruthless Urquhart plots to become the greatest Prime Minister since Winston Churchill. His... read more
Newsnight-Afghanistan
This series of three exclusive reports by BBC foreign affairs editor John Simpson represents the kind of heroic battlefield reporting which has been recognized by the Peabody Board throughout the years. At great personal risk, amid the chaos which continues to plague Afghanistan, Mr. Simpson and his producer, Tom Giles, presented a compelling and complete view of the ongoing civil way. Especially informative were interviews with the leadership of the Taliban, the Sunni movement which has transformed the... read more
NYPD Blue
The police drama has long been a staple of prime time television entertainment. At its worst, the form gives rise to stinging and often deserved criticism for its presentations of graphic violence, racial and ethnic stereotyping, and rampant sensationalism. But, as is the case with NYPD Blue, at its best the genre can provide gritty and realistic insight into the dilemmas and tragedies which daily confront those who spend their lives in law enforcement. Co-creators Steven Bochco and... read more
Odyssey of Life
Showcasing the work of renowned microphotographer Lennart Nilsson, the three-part Odyssey of Life picks up where his 1983 Peabody Award-winning Miracle of Life left off, and also reveals how Nilsson achieves some of his breathtaking footage. Odyssey of Life opens with The Ultimate Journey, which shows how millions of years of evolutionary history are reflected in life before birth in species as diverse as humans, chickens, and fish. The Unknown World spotlights, often in chilling detail, the menagerie... read more
One to One: Mentoring
This year-long public service project designed to communicate the critical importance of mentoring young people was brilliantly conceived, skillfully executed, and most important, ultimately successful. So much so, that what began as a local campaign eventually reached national scope. With this Peabody recognition, it is hoped its success will be a model for future community projects. The campaign was led by the exceptional efforts of Debra L. Berg, director of community relations. Under her leadership, and with the... read more
In 1993, the mutilated bodies of three eight-year-old boys were discovered in a shallow creek along Interstate 40 in West Memphis, Arkansas. An outraged and horrified community demanded justice. One month later, the police delivered: three local teenagers were arrested and accused of sacrificing the boys as part of a Satanic ritual. Yet, as co-producers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky reveal in this brilliant cinema verite film for Home Box Office, things may not be as simple as... read more
Passport to Kill
For more than a decade, law enforcement officials have faced the problem of extraditing criminals, including a number of admitted murderers, from the Dominican Republic to stand trial in New York for their alleged crimes. According to reporter and producer Ti-Hua Chang, who conducted an extensive, exhaustive and exclusive investigation into the situation, as many as 200 Dominicans may have fled justice after committing murders in New York. As Mr. Chang reveals in hard-hitting detail, blame can be... read more
People's Century
As the millennium approaches, the Peabody Board anticipates numerous programs examining the major events, achievements, and tragedies of the 20th century. This landmark series by the BBC and WGBH-TV has set the highest standard for others to emulate. Executive producers Peter Pagnamenta for the BBC, and Zvi Dor-Ner for WGBH, have assembled outstanding production teams on both sides of the Atlantic and have come up with a unique approach to the telling of the story of our years.... read more
Personal Award: Bud Greenspan
One of the more memorable quotes from this year's Peabody Awards deliberations was made in reference to Bud Greenspan. In the words of one member of the Peabody Board, "Bud Greenspan is his own genre." An exceptional gift for personal storytelling, a matchless eye for camera angle and location, and above all, a complete and total commitment to truth mark the work of Bud Greenspan. Personal Peabody Awards are meant for individuals whose singular achievements or body of... read more
Personal Award: Peter Gzowski
For 15 years, Peter Gzowski has hosted CBC Radio's program Morningside, heard weekday mornings, coast to coast, from 9 until noon. This engaging, often inspirational feast of conversation, debate, personal essays, music and drama presents its listeners with a valued and treasured daily exploration of the range of human endeavor. The Peabody Board recognized Morningside with an award in 1982. This year, as he moves into retirement, the Peabody Board makes a personal award to Peter Gzowski. As... read more
With Pride and Prejudice, the BBC and A&E Television Networks have joined forces to create a splendid and lavish adaptation of Jane Austen's timeless novel. This fully realized rendering faithfully follows the unpredictable course laid out in the book's opening manifesto: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife." With those words, Austen began the story of the five Bennet daughters and their search... read more
Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse
This gripping and compelling program probed the death of Eric Morse, a five-year-old boy thrown from the 14th-floor window of a Chicago housing project in October 1994 by two other boys, themselves just 10 and 11 years old. Apparently, Eric's capital crime was refusing to steal candy for the older boys. While mainstream media catapulted the story into national prominence, even garnering the attention of the President, it took two young reporters, residents of the same housing development... read more
Survivors of the Holocaust
In making this award, the Peabody Board is recognizing the important work of two separate organizations and individuals. First, we pay tribute to the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and Turner Original Production, for creating a powerful documentary that blends vivid personal testimonies of Holocaust survivors with their family artifacts, period archival footage, original music, and other elements, to demonstrate both the heroism and the richness of Jewish life in Europe before, during, and subsequent to... read more
The American Experience: The Battle Over Citizen Kane
This brilliant and beautiful documentary recounts the clash of two titans of the first half of this century: newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and "enfant terrible" Orson Welles. World-famous at age 24, theatrical and radio prodigy Wells, for his first foray into filmmaking, took aim at Hearst, then one of the most powerful men in America. The result was Citizen Kane, now revered as a cinematic masterpiece. However, at the time of its release, an incensed Hearst launched... read more
This important film about the depiction of homosexuality in movies took almost 15 years to make. The project began when author and film historian Vito Russo began talking with filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman about making a film version of his 1981 book. At the time, Mr. Russo was national publicist for Mr. Epstein's Peabody Award-winning film The Times of Harvey Milk. Though The Celluloid Closet, was intended to be one of Mr. Epstein and Mr. Friedman's... read more
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
The war to end all wars—the war to make the world safe for democracy—"The Great War," as its contemporaries knew it, began when Europe erupted in flames in August 1914. By its end in November 1918, millions were dead, and the world was forever changed. The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century relies on a wealth of original and vintage film, rare photos, letters, and diaries, to create a haunting, stunning, and absorbing series. Historian... read more
For eight seasons, The Simpsons has presented biting satire as social commentary, and it still delivers humor and insight, on many levels, for audiences of all ages. While The Simpsons may be one of television's most unconventional families, it is certainly not dysfunctional. For at the core of all of Bart's antics, Lisa's self-doubt, Homer's indulgences, and Marge's often smothering mothering is a nuclear family trying its best to hold together under the relentless pressures presented by modern... read more
With The X-Files, creator and executive producer Chris Carter, co-executive producers Howard Gordon and R.W. Goodwin, and a multi-talented team of producers, writers, and actors have developed a unique television drama. In combining currents in contemporary science with the best elements of science fiction, The X-Files creates its own universe, where normal and paranormal can co-exist, although not always very peacefully. One great achievement of the series is its ability to convey ideas that are both entertaining and... read more
This American Life captures contemporary culture in fresh and inventive ways that mirror the diversity and eccentricities of its subjects. Each week, the program presents an hour of stories that range from the amusing (such as a profile of a professional Tom Jones impersonator), to the whimsical (the feeling of worshiping someone from afar), to the significant (such as the cruelty which marks too many childhoods). Host and producer Ira Glass, along with producers Peter Clowney, Alix Spiegel,... read more
Vote For Me: Politics In America
From the smallest local precincts to the White House, Vote for Me: Politics in America explores what it really takes to run for public office in the United States and ends up being a warm, understanding, and surprisingly uplifting view of American democracy. Poignant, provocative, and often hilarious, Vote for Me chronicles the political scene around the nation, including veteran insiders of the Chicago machine, consultants creating negative ads in Alabama, and legislators' arm-twisting on the floor of... read more
Who's Guarding the Guardians?
Enterprising reporting by Brian Leary highlights this three-part news investigation, which exposes the lack of accountability in the Massachusetts Probate Court. For more than two months, report and producer Mr. Leafy, assisted by photographer Steve Colvin and editor Ray Smith, tracked and documented the actions of unscrupulous court-appointed lawyers who charge exorbitant hourly fees while supposedly serving as guardians of the estates of mentally ill citizens. Interviews with one probate lawyer—who is somewhat embarrassed but not at all... read more
Wise Up
This fast-paced, 30-minute weekly children's program eschews traditional formats. In so doing, it offers unique insight into the interests and aspirations of its audience members. Each week, this magazine series—aimed for children between the ages of 10 and 15—introduces a new team of young people who act as hosts, reporters, and confidants; there are no adult presenters or reporters. The revolving cast of contributors maintains a central focus, which is a better understanding by children and teenagers of... read more


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Juma Al Majid Centre participates in World Arab Library Day
As part of World Arab Library Day activities, Dubai Municipality organised a seminar to highlight the importance of libraries in preserving and strengthening the reach of literature and culture.
The seminar drew a large audience of students and officials from various organisations committed to propagating education, literature and the arts.
Emad Sabah from Juma Al Majid Centre for Culture and Heritage presented the first paper at the seminar. His presentation focused on ways to boost libraries and expand their reach.
Rashid Mohammad Al Kous, Project Manager of the Knowledge Without Borders initiative being implemented in Sharjah spoke on the dimensions of the project and the activities it supports.
Mohammad Saleh Al Shehi, a historian and researcher at Dubai Municipality Architectural Heritage Department, spoke on the importance accorded to books and libraries in Islamic civilisation.
In his paper, Ahmad Hafiz, a director in the School Libraries Section at the Ministry Of Education, highlighted the importance of websites and internet resources and how they enabled the preservation and propagation of knowledge.
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Lisa Ann Pornstar
Lisa Ann is an American pornstar. She is a well-known pornstar in the United States, particularly in English-speaking countries. Born on May 9th, 1972, she is a brunette who has an hourglass body. She is also a fan of sports and enjoys sex with athletes. Before she was a pornstar, however, she had a different career.
Lisa Ann Pornstar, an American pornstar
Lisa Ann is a famous pornstar, who has received many accolades for her career. She has been named one of the world's top porn actresses. After parodying Sarah Palin, a US politician, she became mainstream after the video "Sarah Palin's Political Career". Among her other achievements, she has been inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame, XRCO Hall of Fame, and Urban X Hall of Fame. She hosts a talk show on Sirius satellite radio called "Strippertown".
Lisa Ann is not only a star in porn movies, but she also has many interracial projects. Some of these releases include "When Lisa Met Kortney" (2011) and "Summer Love" (2013). She is also known for her solo sex scenes, which include "The Hundreds Girl" and "Tasty Taylor" (2014). She has released "Lisa Ann Chronicles" (for Brazzers) and "Evil Angels" for Naughty America.
In addition to a successful career in the porn industry, Lisa Ann has also been a role model for younger performers. She worked as a talent agent for LA Direct Models, and she noticed that there wasn't enough representation for older performers. She started her own talent management business in 2006 to remedy the situation. Later, it was renamed Lisa Ann's Talent Management and merged with Adam Glasser's Lighthouse Agency.
In high school, she was a stripper
Lisa Ann Pornstar, a high school-stripper, started acting in pornographic movies at the age of 16. At that time, she was a teenager, but she got involved with erotic dancing to help pay for college. She became a full-time actress in 1994. However, her career ended in 1997 due to the AIDS scare. She worked for several years at strip clubs as a featured dancer. In 2006, she decided to set up her own talent agency, which was later renamed to Lisa Ann's Talent Management. In 2007, it merged with Lighthouse Agency, which is run by Adam Glasser. This move allowed her to represent a wider range of young porn stars.
She started her career as a stripper in high school, and then moved to California. She starred in a parody of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, which helped propel her career. She is considered to be one of the greatest porn actors ever. In addition to acting, she has also produced several popular porn parodies and comedy DVD titles.
She is an avid sports fan.
Lisa Ann, despite leaving the adult film industry over five years ago is still the most sought-after pornstar on Pornhub. But she's no longer just a pornstar; she's now an avid sports enthusiast. Her new memoir, The Life, details her journey from pornstar to sports enthusiast.
One time, she revealed that she loves watching basketball and to see NBA games on TV. When the NBA draft rolls around, she often makes a list of athletes that she would like to sleep with. Although it may seem odd that Lisa Ann is interested in athletes, she explains that her only concern is the best.
Although she started her career in the pornographic world, she now works in sports radio. She's also a dedicated sports fan and enjoys attending 50 or so games each year.
She prefers athletes to have sex with
Lisa Ann, a former porn star, has admitted that she prefers to have sexual relations with athletes. Rumours have it that the former porn star is rumored be dating NBA players. However, she has not stated which ones. Lisa Ann is a big fan of the sport, and enjoys watching NBA games on TV. She has also admitted that she prefers athletes over other people, but that safety is always her number one priority.
Lisa Ann is often available to athletes and can communicate with them up to 100 times per day. Despite the large number of requests, she only meets about a quarter of them. However, she says that she is happy to do so.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season three to start on UK TV in January. It has moved to Channel 4's E4 channel.
gossi | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | 08:38 CET | 8 comments total | tags: e4, skimmons
Craig Oxbrow | December 16, 09:04 CET
*punches air*
*air forms posse*
Finally! No more lurking on the board avoiding all the spoiler tags...
171Oak | December 16, 10:48 CET
Sounds like you will have time to catch up before AoS returns here on Mar 8th. Good deal although online comments seem perturbed about which channel its playing on.
JDL | December 16, 11:49 CET
E4 is mainly reruns of Friends etc so I am concerned why they've shoved it over there. Perhaps they weren't getting the ratings on C4. Anyway it's good news albeit very late.
The Do That Girl | December 17, 02:33 CET
They moved The Returned to More4 which puzzled me as I thought that was a critical hit for them.
Simon | December 17, 03:56 CET
Wasn't Misftis on E4?
I remember a lot of Scrubs and South Park reruns on E4 when I visited London a few years ago.
Numfar PTB | December 17, 05:01 CET
E4 has a younger demographic than C4, with one heck of a lot of US shows. It may well mean the show wasn't doing brilliantly on C4, though the Friday evening slot may not have helped there. To be fair, the main channels show less imported stuff than their minor offshoots. At least they are showing it.
Gill | December 17, 16:49 CET
E4 also shows new episodes of Supernatural and The 100, so I don't think it's such a strange fit.
allthingsaverage | December 19, 20:58 CET
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Default swaps and director oversight: lessons from AIG.
a. The recent emphasis on the monitoring role of boards and director independence can potentially impede effective business oversight by the directors.
b. The broad-brush standard of care applicable to directors, obfuscated by the business judgment rule, indemnity, and professional insurance, further undermines board oversight and directorial accountability.
b. Developing a standard of care that balances the imperatives of accountability for the directors of public corporations with the need for affording them protection.
These measures would streamline the functioning of corporate boards and potentially improve the efficacy of director oversight. The result, hopefully, would be fewer instances of governance failures of the variety seen recently in the credit crisis.
This Article is divided into five Parts. Credit default swaps were at the center of the debacle at AIG, and part I provides an overview of these instruments and their characteristics. part II traces the credit derivatives business of AIG from 2002, when the company made the first reference to default swaps in its statutory report until 2007 when it reported a loss of over $11 billion from the business, sparking the meltdown. Part III examines the governance structure of AIG and its credit derivatives business from the perspective of contemporary corporate theory. Part IV discusses the issues highlighted in the case-study--namely, board composition and functions and directors' duty of care.
Part V concludes with proposals for better articulation of the functions of boards, regulatory guidance on the mix of executive and outside directors and an effective standard of care for the directors of public corporations. These measures would strengthen the law's role in corporate governance that began recently with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, (6) and its requirements of audit committees and independent directors. The conclusion advocates an interdisciplinary approach to reform that promotes convergence between management theory and corporate theory.
In the annual report for 2007, AIG reported "an unrealized market valuation loss of $11.5 billion on [the] super senior credit default swap portfolio" held by its subsidiary, AIG Financial Products. (7) This triggered a meltdown and ended AIG's life as an independent and successful company. (8) This Part provides a brief overview of credit default swaps, which proved to be the undoing of AIG.
Default swaps are issued towards consolidated pools of debt securities, designated as CDOs. (12) The idea of pooling risky and safe debt as CDOs and marketing them among investors came, apparently, from Drexel Burnham Lambert, the now defunct investment banking firm. (13) This was in 1987. It represented the first step towards CDOs, which soon gave rise to CDSs.
The financial instruments, designated as derivatives, have been constantly in the news in the last two decades. They were dogged by controversy derivatives from the beginning. In the early 1990s, efforts were made in the U.S. Congress to understand the risks in these derivatives. (14) Regulatory interest in credit derivatives continued later in the 1990s as well. (15) It was only in the recent years that the idea of consolidated debt, or CDOs, really took off. The growth in their popularity can be attributed to two significant innovations--credit rating and default swaps.
The other innovation--default swaps--would guarantee payment by the seller of the swaps in the unlikely event of default by the borrowers. When a large insurance company provides default swaps, as AIG did, (17) it can be interpreted as near-complete elimination of the risk in CDOs. These are, apparently, the assumptions on which the actors in the financial market based their calculations for their credit derivatives business.
In substance, there is little distinction between default swaps and credit insurance, (18) which is a longstanding feature of the insurance industry landscape. (19) understood in these terms, credit default swaps are quite innocuous. They are merely a variant of credit insurance, which offers protection to lenders against the risk of default by the borrowers. However, a number of other features that have been added to default swaps deprive them of their simple character as instruments that offer protection against credit risk. The process by which default swaps turned into instruments of speculation is outlined below.
A series of market developments have carried default swaps away from their simple conception as instruments that offer protection against credit risk. These include the neglect of insurable interest in the default swaps framework, the rise of synthetic CDos, and the sale of multiple swaps for a single underlying pool of debt. The following is an account of the process by which default swaps were transformed from their position as risk protection devices into instruments of speculation and agents of instability.
Insurance is always about future events and uncertainty. Hence, an element of speculation is inherent in insurance. (20) The law of insurance, as it has developed, steered insurance contracts away from their speculative foundation and shaped them as instruments for protection against risk. A number of rules have been developed to undermine speculation and promote the integrity and legitimacy of insurance contracts. 21 These rules stress the character of insurance as a device for protection against risk and weaken the speculative element.
Principal among the rules is the requirement that persons seeking insurance coverage must have "insurable interest" in the subject of insurance. (22) The concept of insurable interest requires the holder of a policy to have substantial economic interest in the subject of insurance. For example, the interest that the owner of a house property has in the safety and security of the building would be insurable.


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Terrängen runt Mahébourg är platt åt sydost, men åt nordväst är den kuperad. Havet är nära Mahébourg österut. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km nordväst om Mahébourg.  Närmaste större samhälle är Bel Air Rivière Sèche,  km norr om Mahébourg.

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First Look Friday alum, Kenneth Whalum, has returned with another project, Broken Land, which you can hear for yourself below.
The super-talented, dynamic saxophone player Kenneth Whalum was one of our first First Look Friday subjts when I started working at Okayplayer. Fast forward some almost two years later, and the alt/R&B artist has went from touring sideman to leading man with his latest project, Broken Land.
The project comes after making another star turn as the featured horn player on Jay-Z's "Bam" from the critically acclaimed, 4:44, album. Whalum's Broken Land is a welcomed departure from the classic jazz space, as Kenneth dives in head first into the experimental world of alt-R&B.
With upcoming tour dates on the way + more new music in the coming months, check out Broken Land below, plus keep an eye out from more from Kenneth Whalum as it breaks.


Please first read through the entire installation guide for your new laminate floors. Follow these instructions exactly in order to maintain the full warranty and guarantee claims. Check the laminate panels carefully for damage before you begin. Once panels have been handled, they will no longer be covered under damage claims.
Leave cartons of laminate flooring in the same climatic conditions as the room they are going to be installed in for at least 48 hours.
An important precondition for the installation and conservation of value of the laminate floors is a room temperature of approximately 20 degrees Celsius and a relative humidity of 50 to 70 per cent.
The subfloor must be absolutely even, dry, clean and able to carry a load.
Cement screed: With underfloor heating 1.8 per cent CM; without underfloor heating 2 per cent CM.
Anhydride screed: With underfloor heating 0.3 per cent CM; without underfloor heating 0.5 per cent CM.
Before installing laminate over mineral substrate, you must first lay down an appropriate trough-like vapour barrier film ("floating") to protect against moisture. The sheeting should overlap by at least 20cm and seams should be secured with masking tape.
A carpeted floor is not an appropriate subfloor; all carpet must be removed thoroughly before installation. Laminate floor should be laid trough-like; the laminate may not be affixed to the subfloor.
For floors without footfall sound insulation we advise that you do install a sound insulation such as a 2mm thick PE film underlay or another suitable underlay that is a maximum of 3mm thick.
Lay rows in the same direction as the laminate panels.
Opened cartons should be installed immediately.
Installation with Clickguard or a comparable joint sealant. This way the floor is protected from the top down for the long-term against moisture damage. Yet the sealed panels can still be taken up and laid again later.
Installation with adhesive likewise provides long-term protection against moisture damage; however the work is costlier and disassembly for a second installation of the floor is no longer possible.


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Scrooge (1935) Seymour Hicks plays the title role in the first sound version of the Dickens classic about the miser who's visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. This British import is notable for being the only adaptation of this story with an invisible Marley's Ghost and its Expressionistic cinematography. This is the uncut 78 minute version.
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Serious and catastrophic injuries and deaths occur all too often on Pennsylvania roads and highways. From head-on to rear-end collisions, and from angle crashes or side-swipes to pedestrian accidents, collisions take many forms. Automobiles, trucks, SUV's, motorcycles, tractor-trailers, and vehicle/pedestrian collisions are daily occurrences, with sometimes tragic and life altering consequences.
According to PennDOT's 2011 Pennsylvania Crash Facts and Statistics, in 2011, there were 125,395 reportable traffic crashes in Pennsylvania. As a result of these accidents, 1,286 individuals were killed, and 87,839 individuals injured. Put another way, on average in Pennsylvania each day there was a death every 7 hours, and approximately 10 injuries every hour.
Under Pennsylvania law, in order to recover damages for a motor vehicle accident, an injured person must prove that the driver of the other vehicle was negligent (careless) in the maintenance or operation of his or her vehicle, or has disregarded safe driving practices. For example, an innocent victim of a drunk driver would be entitled to compensation for certain specified damages as permitted by law. The insurance carrier for the drunk driver cannot avoid its duty to provide coverage on the grounds that it's insured committed a criminal offense by driving under the influence of alcohol.
If you are a passenger in a motor vehicle and suffer injuries, we can advise you of your rights as to the driver or owner of the vehicle in which you were traveling, or as to any other driver involved in the accident. As an injured passenger, unless you interfered with the operation of the vehicle which you occupied, or knowingly accepted a ride with an impaired driver, you would bear no responsibility for the harm you suffered, and may be entitled to compensation from the responsible insurance carrier. We understand that you may have concerns about pursuing your rights against the carrier which insures someone you know, and are willing to advise you of your options in this context.
If you suffer injuries in an accident involving a tractor trailer, we have the capability to investigate the fault of the truck driver, discover his or her driving history, and probe into matters such as the number of continuous driver hours on the road. We can also identify and determine the potential liability of the involved motor carrier including any non-compliance with applicable safety regulations.
In certain situations, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or local municipalities may also bear responsibility for the failure to correct known and dangerous road conditions, or the failure to properly maintain roadways under their control.
A manufacturer and seller of a motor vehicle or motor vehicle parts such as brakes or air bags may be liable for causing harm from producing or selling a defectively designed or manufactured product or product component. Negligent inspection of motor vehicles causing an accident is another potential source of liability.
If you contact us about your motor vehicle accident, we will discuss your automobile insurance policy with you to determine your rights under Pennsylvania's motor vehicle insurance law including the effect of your choice of full or limited tort, and your election to obtain uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage from your own automobile insurance company.
Injuries and damages from motor vehicle collisions are often significant. Your vehicle repair and medical bills may represent the smallest part of your claim.
We have over 35 years of experience in handling personal injury claims and lawsuits. We are prepared to thoroughly investigate the nature and extent of your physical injuries arising from your motor vehicle accident, consult with your treating physicians, nurses, therapists, or other rehabilitation personnel, and retain independent and qualified experts to analyze and report on the issues in your case including the fault of the responsible parties, and the damages arising from your accident. We will also work with you and those close to you to obtain a full understanding of the economic losses and financial hardships, which you have already incurred, and will face in the future.
If you or someone close to you has been the victim of a motor vehicle accident, it is important that you contact an attorney as soon as possible. Pennsylvania law has definite time limits on filing motor vehicle accident claims in Court. Filing your lawsuit too late will result in automatic dismissal of your claims.


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In Memory of Deputy Curtis Alan Felt
By: - Aug 07, 2017
No one knows better the danger that a tense circumstance can present than police in the United States. Constantly under pressure to control people who are guaranteed rights that provide them a wide latitude of no control, the scenarios that citizens can present range from the mundane to sheer terror, even for a trained professional. With that thought, we continue to reflect on moments in the history of law enforcement we wish we could get back, the sacrifices of those that have paid the ultimate price on our behalf.
Alexandria is a small town in the south-central portion of the State of Minnesota. It boasts 17 lakes within its city limits, which would make it a fisherman's paradise, in both summer and winter. Not too far from Alexandria, the controversy-laden Kensington Runestone was discovered, and it remains in a museum for all to see in the town, perpetuating the debate whether Viking descendants truly explored the region in the 14th Century. Carlos Creek Winery hosts the annual Grape Stomp, which is a great time to see an old way of producing wine. And every October, Apple Fest takes over the town. It's the kind of town that epitomizes Midwest-charm. It is also growing rapidly. It was founded in the 1880's, and by 1980 had a population of 7,608. Today it boasts a population nearing 14,000, making it one of the fastest growing cities in the Northern Great Plains region. Life in this town is rather slow-paced, despite all the growth and excitement, and it's that ever idyllic sense of pacing that attracts people to the area. Unfortunately, this wonderful community had its sense of self rocked in the latter portion of the 20th Century, and that's what we'll discuss today.
Deputy Curtis Alan Felt
On June 29th, 1978, Deputy Curtis Felt of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office was working road patrol, when he was called to the Douglas County Courthouse in Alexandria to transport James Kroupa to the Fergus Falls City Jail, about 50 minutes north on I-94, in Otter Tail County. The reason for the transport was that DCSO's jail was under construction, and so OTCSO was housing criminals from Douglas County for the time being. Kroupa had been arrested for DUI the year before, and had met every other obligation of the charge, but failed to pay the required fines assessed by the court, and then refused to. The judge ordered he be held in jail for 30 days for failure to pay fines. During this era in Alexandria, there was not court security the same way we know of it now. People routinely came in and out of court, without being required to remove metal objects from their pockets, and to walk through metal detectors, and be subject to pat-down searches. Much of those improvements were made in light of Deputy Felt.
Kroupa became a prisoner in the courthouse, but no one searched him. He had tucked four loaded handguns into various parts of his clothing. As Deputy Felt entered the room Kroupa had been staged in, he pulled out one of the guns and began firing. He struck Deputy Felt multiple times, and fled the courthouse. Meanwhile, Deputy Felt managed to walk to an office and tell county officials he needed help. Kroupa entered a vehicle outside the courthouse, and Alexandria Police Officer Steven Caye, alerted to the incident, spotted Kroupa and chased after him. Kroupa fired another handgun at Caye's vehicle several times. Officer Lamont Moundson also from Alexandria Police, entered the chase as well, which concluded on a dead-end road. Kroupa staged himself behind a tree, as the officers entered the immediate area, he began firing his various handguns towards them. There was a bystander family on their front porch as Kroupa began firing, and Officer Moundson was fearful they may be struck by gunfire by Kroupa. Officer Moundson engaged Kroupa, wounding him, which led to him being taken into custody through medical transport.
Deputy Felt was receiving aid by ambulance around the time of the shootout, and he was taken to the county hospital, where long lines of police and fire personnel stood, waiting to donate blood for Deputy Felt. Three and half hours after he was shot, Deputy Felt lay on an operating table, when doctors realized there was nothing they could do. He was 23 years old.
Three days after the incident, Kroupa passed away from the injuries he sustained in the shootout. Deputy Felt had been married to his wife for only six months when this happened, and he had two twin brothers who were age seven. Their last view of him was when he was working the shift that led to this incident. Felt's brothers were out at one of the lakes with another deputy and good friend of Felt, Bill Ingebrigtsen. He was taking them onto the lake to learn how to waterski. As Deputy Felt pulled into the boat launch area to perhaps watch for a little while, he answered the radio call that brought him to the courthouse, so he even did exit the vehicle to hug his brothers, instead only having time to wave goodbye, likely not thinking this would be the last time he would see them.
Too many times there are people that bring up the idea that police are "paranoid" of all the people around them. But one look at this incident, and you would be hard pressed to find a sane person in this profession who wasn't overly cautious. Think about what led to this deputy's loss of life. A person who decided on their own to drive drunk, and for a year refused to pay their fines, and couldn't stand being held accountable by a judge, decided to take it out on the next peace officer he came in contact with. And to add insult to injury, the original officer who arrested Kroupa was an officer from Alexandria Police, not the Sheriff's Office. Surely, if we believe police are jaded about civilians, then we only have ourselves to blame. It seems all too often in these stories that a lack of personal responsibility is what leads us to ruin.
Of course, this story doesn't end with Deputy Felt solely. His brothers went on to become deputies. One serves in Ottertail County, where Fergus Falls is, and another in Carver County, just west of the Minneapolis Metropolitan area. While we lost Deputy Felt all too soon, it is clear that a tradition of service began in his honor, and continues to this day.
In memory of Deputy Curtis Alan Felt.
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package dashboard.pdp;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import dashboard.control.Constants;
import dashboard.domain.Attribute;
import dashboard.domain.CoinUser;
import dashboard.domain.IdentityProvider;
import dashboard.domain.Policy;
import dashboard.util.SpringSecurity;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.core.ParameterizedTypeReference;
import org.springframework.http.*;
import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
import org.springframework.web.client.HttpStatusCodeException;
import org.springframework.web.client.RestClientException;
import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.function.Supplier;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.StreamSupport;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument;
import static com.google.common.base.Strings.isNullOrEmpty;
import static org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION;
import static org.springframework.http.HttpMethod.GET;
import static org.springframework.http.HttpMethod.PATCH;
import static org.springframework.http.MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON;

public class PdpServiceImpl implements PdpService, Constants {

    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PdpServiceImpl.class);

    protected static final String X_IDP_ENTITY_ID = "X-IDP-ENTITY-ID";
    protected static final String X_UNSPECIFIED_NAME_ID = "X-UNSPECIFIED-NAME-ID";
    protected static final String X_DISPLAY_NAME = "X-DISPLAY-NAME";

    private final RestTemplate pdpRestTemplate;
    private final String server;
    private final ObjectMapper objectMapper;

    public PdpServiceImpl(String server, String username, String password) {
        checkArgument(server.startsWith("http"));
        checkArgument(!isNullOrEmpty(username));
        checkArgument(!isNullOrEmpty(password));

        this.pdpRestTemplate = new RestTemplate(clientHttpRequestFactory(10 * 1000));

        this.pdpRestTemplate.setInterceptors(ImmutableList.of((request, body, execution) -> {
            CoinUser user = SpringSecurity.getCurrentUser();

            IdentityProvider idp = user.getSwitchedToIdp().orElse(user.getIdp());

            HttpHeaders headers = request.getHeaders();
            headers.setContentType(APPLICATION_JSON);
            headers.setAccept(ImmutableList.of(APPLICATION_JSON));
            headers.set(AUTHORIZATION, authorizationHeaderValue(username, password));
            headers.set(X_IDP_ENTITY_ID, idp.getId());
            headers.set(X_UNSPECIFIED_NAME_ID, user.getUid());
            headers.set(X_DISPLAY_NAME, user.getDisplayName());

            return execution.execute(request, body);
        }));

        this.server = server;
        this.objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isAvailable() {
        try {
            Set<HttpMethod> options = pdpRestTemplate.optionsForAllow(buildUri("/protected/policies"));

            // the default spring-boot options call will return all methods.
            // check if it does not contain PATCH to make sure we get an answer from our own endpoint
            return options.contains(GET) && !options.contains(PATCH);
        } catch (RestClientException e) {
            LOG.warn("PDP protected api was not available", e);
            return false;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public List<Policy> policies() {
        RequestEntity<?> request = buildGetRequest("/protected/policies");

        return executeWithExceptionLogging(() -> {
            return pdpRestTemplate.exchange(request, new ParameterizedTypeReference<List<Policy>>() {
            }).getBody();
        });
    }

    public Policy policy(Long id) {
        RequestEntity<?> request = buildGetRequest("/protected/policies/" + id);

        return executeWithExceptionLogging(() -> {
            return pdpRestTemplate.exchange(request, new ParameterizedTypeReference<Policy>() {
            }).getBody();
        });
    }

    @Override
    public Policy create(Policy policy) {
        RequestEntity<?> request = buildPostRequest("/protected/policies", policy);
        try {
            try {
                String json = new ObjectMapper().writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(policy);
                LOG.info("creation of policy {}", json);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                LOG.error("oeps", e);
            }
            ResponseEntity<Policy> response = pdpRestTemplate.exchange(request, new ParameterizedTypeReference<>() {
            });
            return response.getBody();
        } catch (HttpStatusCodeException sce) {
            if (sce.getStatusCode().equals(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST)) {
                Optional<PolicyNameNotUniqueException> exception = extractException(sce.getResponseBodyAsByteArray());
                if (exception.isPresent()) {
                    throw exception.get();
                }
            }

            LOG.error("Response error: {} {}:\n {}", sce.getStatusCode(), sce.getStatusText(), sce.getResponseBodyAsString());
            throw new RuntimeException(sce);
        }
    }

    private Optional<PolicyNameNotUniqueException> extractException(byte[] byteArray) {
        try {
            JsonNode readTree = objectMapper.readTree(byteArray);

            return Optional.ofNullable(readTree.findValue("details")).map(details -> {
                Iterable<Map.Entry<String, JsonNode>> fields = () -> details.fields();
                return StreamSupport.stream(fields.spliterator(), false)
                        .map(entry -> entry.getValue().asText())
                        .filter(StringUtils::hasText)
                        .collect(Collectors.joining(", "));
            }).map(PolicyNameNotUniqueException::new);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            return Optional.empty();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Policy update(Policy policy) {
        RequestEntity<?> request = buildPutRequest("/protected/policies", policy);
        return executeWithExceptionLogging(() -> {
            ResponseEntity<Policy> response = pdpRestTemplate.exchange(request, new ParameterizedTypeReference<>() {
            });
            return response.getBody();
        });
    }

    @Override
    public ResponseEntity<String> delete(Long id) {
        RequestEntity<?> request = buildDeleteRequest("/protected/policies/" + id);
        return executeWithExceptionLogging(() -> pdpRestTemplate.exchange(request, String.class));
    }

    @Override
    public List<Policy> revisions(Long id) {
        RequestEntity<?> request = buildGetRequest("/protected/revisions/" + id);

        return executeWithExceptionLogging(() -> {
            ResponseEntity<List<Policy>> response = pdpRestTemplate.exchange(request, new ParameterizedTypeReference<>() {
            });
            return response.getBody();
        });
    }

    @Override
    public List<Attribute> allowedAttributes() {
        RequestEntity<?> request = buildGetRequest("/protected/attributes/");

        return executeWithExceptionLogging(() -> {
            ResponseEntity<List<AllowedAttribute>> response = pdpRestTemplate.exchange(request, new ParameterizedTypeReference<List<AllowedAttribute>>() {
            });
            return response.getBody().stream().map(aa -> new Attribute(aa.attributeId, aa.value)).collect(Collectors.toList());
        });
    }

    private <T> T executeWithExceptionLogging(Supplier<T> makeRequest) {
        try {
            return makeRequest.get();
        } catch (HttpStatusCodeException sce) {
            LOG.error("Response error: {} {}:\n {}", sce.getStatusCode(), sce.getStatusText(), sce.getResponseBodyAsString());
            throw new RuntimeException(sce);
        }
    }

    private RequestEntity<?> buildDeleteRequest(String path) {
        return RequestEntity.delete(buildUri(path)).build();
    }

    private RequestEntity<?> buildPostRequest(String path, Object body) {
        return RequestEntity.post(buildUri(path)).body(body);
    }

    private RequestEntity<?> buildPutRequest(String path, Object body) {
        return RequestEntity.put(buildUri(path)).body(body);
    }

    private RequestEntity<?> buildGetRequest(String path) {
        return RequestEntity.get(buildUri(path)).build();
    }

    private URI buildUri(String path) {
        checkArgument(path.startsWith("/"));
        return URI.create(String.format("%s/pdp/api%s", server, path));
    }

    private static final class AllowedAttribute {
        @JsonProperty("AttributeId")
        private String attributeId;
        @JsonProperty("Value")
        private String value;
    }

}

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Newly passed bill leaves LGBTQ couples with fewer options for adoption
House Bill 836 was introduced in February 2019 during the General Assembly and passed in both the House and Senate during the first few days of this year's legislative session.
Wednesday, January 15th 2020, 6:27 PM EST by Joi Dukes
Thursday, January 16th 2020, 8:46 AM EST
LGTBQ couples hoping to adopt in Tennessee will soon have fewer ways to do it. That's because a new state bill would allow private agencies to reject their applications based on religious beliefs.
"The idea is that a private agency that is faith-based, so if they have religious convictions about marriage being based on their interpretation of scripture between one man and one woman and they only want to place in traditional homes, (then) the state should not have the ability to come in and force them to violate those religious convictions," Adoption Attorney Mike Jennings explained.
It's a topic that's causing nationwide controversy as states including Tennessee pick sides. The recent decision has left many members of the LGBTQ community like Myke Kelly feeling attacked.
"Clearly the state is going after LGBTQ folks, but it impacts more than just us," Kelly told Channel 3.
According to Jennings, there are more than an estimated 1500 children in the state looking to be adopted.
"Putting any limitations on the options for adopting and getting kids into loving homes I think it a terrible idea. It keeps more kids in the foster system," Kelly said.
But Jennings told Channel 3 he believes forcing religious groups to accept LGBTQ couples looking to adopt would make matters worse, resulting in agencies choosing to shut down instead.
"Would we rather have more agencies finding foster families (and) finding adoptive families or less agencies?" he asked.
The bill may stop same-sex couples from adopting through private agencies but it doesn't mean they can't adopt at all.
"The bill doesn't say same-sex couples can't adopt. They can adopt and the largest source of adoptions in the State of Tennessee is through the Tennessee Department of Children Services," Jennings said.
Kelly believes it's just one of many bills under consideration that discriminate against LGBTQ members and limit their options.
"There's the business license to discriminate, adoption discrimination bill, the anti-transgender student bathroom bill, the God-given marriage bill and then, recently, the ban on transgender students participating in school athletics," they listed.
Jennings says it's an issue that's part of a larger trend nationwide. States like Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and now Tennessee have passed legislation giving private agencies the power to decide, while states like California, Wisconsin and New York passed legislation that wouldn't allow religious groups to discriminate.


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People say, you can not change the environment, but can change their own; you can not change the facts, but can change attitudes; you can not change the past, but can be changed now; you can not control other people, but can be masters of our own; you can not do everything well, but can be conscientious in everything; you can not about the weather, but you can change the mood; you can not choose looks, but it can show a smile.
Indeed, one key to the success lies in his (her) mind. The difference between successful people and the losers are: winners will be setbacks and difficulties due to personal ability, experience, imperfect, to emphasize the inherent, they are willing to continuously improve and develop the right direction; and the losers will blame on the opportunity, and the environment injustice, emphasizing external and uncontrollable factors that created the position of their life, they always complain, wait and give up!
In many cases, is a humble person who is looked down upon his own. Person's appearance, his family, and so a priori condition that can not be changed, but at least inner state, the spirit of the will is entirely their own control. Mentality, the final decision of life high. There is no absolute bad thing, only the mentality of the absolute poor people. If even the state of mind will not adjust, how they deal with things more complicated than the mentality of it!
No matter what the situation, a person's attitude is very important. Passion put to work, and numbness sluggish to work completely different. Emerson said: "A move toward their goals is always people who gave him the whole world to give way." On the contrary, failure is not because we do not have the strength, but because we are susceptible to all around us, used to go along with the lack of assertive, attitude unstable, easily frustrated reason.
As long as we believe that the strength of mind, change their attitude and courage to face a number of disappointments in life, do not despair, brave go on.


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The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) congratulates Brad Geatches on his new appointment as Chief Executive Officer of MATES in Construction WA.
The suicide prevention charity has been supporting AMWU members for many years by empowering WA workers to look after each other and their mental health.
AMWU State Secretary Steve McCartney said the union is pleased with the appointment of new CEO Brad Geatches and is excited for the fresh opportunities his leadership will bring.
"The work MATES in Construction does is invaluable in protecting, supporting and educating WA workers and their families, and I commend Mr Geatches predecessor Godfrey Baron for his tireless efforts in playing an instrumental role in the success of the organisation," he said.
The AMWU has been fighting for changes within workplaces to ensure industry takes on more responsibility of the mental wellbeing of workers.
A 2014-2015 parliamentary inquiry and a report published in the Medical Journal of Australia earlier this year confirmed that workers in WA's mining and construction industry face high levels of psychological distress.
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"The issue of mental health in the WA mining and constructing industry desperately needs to be addressed. We can no longer ignore or hide the issue and every opportunity to empower, educate and legislate for change needs to be taken.
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Gold Coast Dining & Entertainment
Gold Coast Activities & Things To Do
Gold Coast Health & Services
Gold Coast Shopping & Beauty
Gold Coast Transport & Car Hire
Gold Coast Water Activities
Tamborine Mountain Day Trip
Northern NSW Day Trips
Morgan Walsh
She's the brains behind two of your favourite local venues, Bonita Bonita and Poké Poké, and now the busiest gal on the Gold Coast is at it again.
Get excited gang, Morgan Walsh is opening a Chinese diner called FuFu and it's going to blow your minds. It'll taking up the (rather large) Mermaid Beach space where Burger Fuel, Bernie's and Ashby Bines Clean Eating Kitchen once lived.
We sat down for a chat about Chinese bento boxes and in-your-face pink velvet.
How long have you been a Gold Coast local?
It has been nearly 12 years now, time goes so quickly these days. I moved over here from Auckland because I'm not really a big city girl. I like the sun, the beach, warm weather and I think once you get a taste of this lifestyle, it's hard to go back to the hustle and bustle when you can do the same things in a beautiful place.
What do you love most about living here?
Definitely the lifestyle, it's just so relaxing. I think being in this industry, there are lots of great opportunities to open venues that have a point of difference and suit the Gold Coast market. Gold Coasters have a certain style; you don't really find places like Poké Poké in Melbourne and Sydney. People like that restaurant vibe here so it works perfectly with the style of businesses and direction I want to go in.
Tell us about your latest venue, FuFu…
Yes FuFu. Originally the idea was to go Chinese but you always start somewhere and things change. It's now more of a Chinese diner in style. The fit out is going to be a little bit crazy, definitely in your face and will definitely stand out from the crowd. There's lots of great modern Asian inspired restaurants already, so rather than compete with that market, I want this to be in the same vein as Poké Poké with that casual feel to it where you can walk off the beach and come grab a quick bite. Nothing fancy just really laid back and fast food made friendly. So the food will be things like bao burgers and cheeseburger spring rolls and a little play on bento boxes. So Chinese style bento boxes which will be a meal for one that has say sweet and sour pork, wonton, fried rice and all as a package, so you don't have to share and at a really good price. Dining has gotten so expensive so having places that people can come to more often is where I want my businesses to head. We're going to have Chinese inspired cocktails and some ridiculous milkshakes, all in the same diner vein.
Your venue interiors are always beautifully quirky, any insight on what FuFu will look like?
Think pink velvet because I like the ridiculous. We've got a really beautiful service window so we'll be bringing that out into the middle of the seating area and it's all very casual. So you'll go up to order and it will be similar to what you'd see at a market stall. There'll also be a really beautiful spot to take a photo.
Why Chinese?
All my food tends to lead back to Asian influences. I've always wanted to do an old school type of Chinese restaurant. Growing up in New Zealand we always used to go to a little local takeaway and it had all your dirty classics. I didn't really feel like anyone was doing that style of venue so it's very much going to play on my childhood. It will be old-school Chinese dishes made funky and fresh.
What inspires you to come up with such unique ideas?
I have a crazy brain. I want to do things other people aren't doing so I see ideas from lots of different places and try to mould them to fit food that I can cook and food that I think will suit Gold Coast people and what they'll like. You always start somewhere and it ends up taking a different direction. I thought a Chinese diner was definitely something no one else was doing so let's do it.
How did your foray into the restaurant biz come about?
I've grown up in the industry, my parents have always had little cafes and restaurants back home in Auckland. It was never something I grew up wanting to be as a kid but I got stuck doing it and realised I'm okay at it so I've run with it. It's really rewarding building something and watching it grow from scratch and I'm really proud of all the styles of venues I've opened but being in the restaurant game made me realise other passions and things I want to get into too. This will definitely be the last restaurant, there's no more.
What are your thoughts on the Coast's rapidly growing foodie scene?
Four years ago when Bonita opened there really wasn't too much around which is why I got the idea. I wanted the style of venue people my age could go to that was affordable, casual and fun. Since Bonita days, the growth has been a bit crazy. It's great because it always forces you to stay on your game and you can't ever become complacent. It forces you to always be better and be pushing to try new things. Competition is good for everyone I think.
Best piece of life advice you've ever received?
I think these days what probably resonates more is having balance. It's good to be driven and want to achieve more but to have down time and really appreciate that is important too. Life isn't a competition but as you get older you realise you don't have anything to prove. For me, this year is definitely about down time, spending more time at home, cooking at home, going to the beach more and having more of a life. Just finding some balance.
Being a Gold Coast local, we have to ask your favourites…
Café: I love All Time Coffee, Background – I've started going there heaps and they're really lovely people and Alfred's has been one of my favourites since day one.
Restaurant: Other than Bonita, I love the crew down at 8th Ave Terrace, they do everything so well
Beach: I live in Mermaid Beach so that's definitely my favourite
How does your weekend usually look: Really busy. My weekends are usually Monday and Tuesday, which is nice because there are usually less people around and it's a little bit more chill. I prefer to be at work on the busier days, I like it when it's chaotic
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CURVE, Pa. - The Altoona Curve and Harrisburg Senators were tied heading into the eighth inning for the second straight night, but the Senators got to the Curve bullpen to edge out a 2-1 win on Tuesday night at Peoples Natural Gas Field.
After two quick, scoreless innings, the Senators jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the third off Curve starter Dario Agrazal. Ian Sagdal and Tyler Goeddel reached on back-to-back singles and after moving up on a sac bunt, Sagdal scored on Luis Garcia's sac fly to center field.
Harrisburg carried that one-run lead into the fifth when Rhett Wiseman led off with a double down the left field line. Sagdal followed with a fly ball to deep center that Jared Oliva tried to run down, but the ball hit off Oliva's glove, resulting in a double for Sagdal. Wiseman held up at second base to see if the ball would be caught and only got to third base on the play, setting up second and third with no outs for the Senators. After Goeddel struck out looking and Erick Fedde tapped a weak groundout, Agrazal struck out Garcia looking to end the threat.
The Curve came back to tie the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth when Senators starter Erick Fedde (Win, 2-0) ran into trouble. Logan Hill ripped a single to center to start the inning, Hunter Owen added an infield single, and Mitchell Tolman reached on a catcher's interference to load the bases with no outs. Two batters later, Agrazal worked a one-out walk to drive in the tying run. The threat ended when Oliva grounded into a 6-4-3 inning-ending double play.
With the game tied in the sixth, Agrazal got some help from his defense to keep it that way. Adrian Sanchez, who led off the inning with a single, stole second base a few pitches later. With one out, Sanchez tried to steal third but Curve catcher Arden Pabst delivered a perfect throw from his knees to cut down Sanchez for the second out. After a Drew Ward single to extend the inning, Hill made a leaping grab over the left field wall and robbed Spencer Kieboom of a go-ahead two-run homer to end the frame.
Agrazal gave up just one run on six hits with four strikeouts and no walks in six innings. His counterpart, Fedde, allowed only one run on six hits in seven frames with three punchouts and one walk.
Jake Brentz tossed a scoreless seventh for the Curve, but things unraveled shortly after. Angel German (Loss, 0-1) came on for the eighth and on his first pitch of the night, Garcia smoked a double to right, stole third, and scored on Sanchez' sac fly to left, giving the Senators a 2-1 advantage.
James Bourque (Save, 2) kept the Curve bats quiet, retiring all six batters he faced in relief of Fedde to finish the game.
The Curve and Senators wrap up their three-game series on Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m. LHP Cam Vieaux (0-0, 0.00) will make his third start of the season for the Curve opposed by Senators' RHP Sterling Sharp (1-1, 6.30).
Wednesday is the first Education Day of the 2019 season presented by Subway. It's also a guaranteed WINsday, presented by the Altoona Mirror. If the Curve win, fans in attendance receive a free ticket of equal or lesser value to any Wednesday home game in 2019. Fans can also cash in on Wing Wednesday with 50-cent boneless wings at the park.


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Home > Workman Realigns Terms for All Indie Bookstore Accounts, Both New and Existing
Industry News [1]
Publisher News [2]
Workman Realigns Terms for All Indie Bookstore Accounts, Both New and Existing [3]
By Liz Button [4]
Workman Publishing [5] is introducing sweeping changes to address the needs of both new and existing independent bookstore accounts, as a response to Baker & Taylor's departure from the retail wholesale business.
These new terms aim to make it easier for accounts to order both frontlist and backlist titles and are effective immediately, according to Workman; new accounts can complete this online form to sign up. [6]
"Baker & Taylor's transition away from serving retail accounts creates an opportunity to examine our relationship with independent bookstores and redefine it in ways that are good for the health of all of us," said James Wehrle, Workman's executive director of sales. "Our response addresses the needs of smaller accounts that were previously sourcing exclusively through wholesalers, and existing indie partners as well."
According to Workman, the terms are applicable for titles published by all Workman imprints, including Workman Publishing, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Algonquin Young Readers, Artisan, Storey Publishing, and Timber Press, as well as distributed partners The Experiment, duopress, and Erewhon Books. Benefits of the new terms include:
Lower minimums for free freight
Changing how backlist is defined to make it easier for indie accounts to reach minimums on backlist stock-up offers
Extra discount earned on face-out quantities on all frontlist titles
Easy credit application process for new accounts (now available online) and a New Store Special with no-minimum
"From the moment of Workman's founding over 50 years ago, independent bookstores have been critically important to our success as an independent publisher. Indies are open to all the different kinds of books we publish, including the quirkier ones, and have provided a generous home in their sections for our backlist," said Dan Reynolds, Workman's chief executive officer. "Given that 80% of our sales by volume is generated by our rich and vibrant backlist, that's no small thing. We also feel a special kinship with indies because of relationships forged through our own invaluable independent sales reps. As soon as we learned of the Baker & Taylor news, we knew it was time to step up and do what we could to strengthen our partnership with this core segment of our business."
Existing accounts are encouraged to contact their sales representatives for further information. Offer details are also available through ABA's Book Buyer's Handbook [7]. New accounts that complete the online form [6] will receive a response within 24 hours and an expedited credit approval process.
Source URL: https://www.bookweb.org/news/workman-realigns-terms-all-indie-bookstore-accounts-both-new-and-existing-572708
[1] https://www.bookweb.org/btw-topics/industry-news
[2] https://www.bookweb.org/btw-topics/news-vendors
[3] https://www.bookweb.org/news/workman-realigns-terms-all-indie-bookstore-accounts-both-new-and-existing-572708
[5] https://www.workman.com/
[6] https://www.workman.com/retailer-information/ordering#newaccount
[7] https://handbook.bookweb.org/content/new-publisher-and-distributor-offers-response-bt-announcement


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Pelagic marine predators face unprecedented challenges and uncertain futures. Overexploitation and climate variability impact the abundance and distribution of top predators in ocean ecosystems1,2,3,4. Improved understanding of ecological patterns, evolutionary constraints and ecosystem function is critical for preventing extinctions, loss of biodiversity and disruption of ecosystem services. Recent advances in electronic tagging techniques have provided the capacity to observe the movements and long-distance migrations of animals in relation to ocean processes across a range of ecological scales5,6. Tagging of Pacific Predators, a field programme of the Census of Marine Life, deployed 4,306 tags on 23 species in the North Pacific Ocean, resulting in a tracking data set of unprecedented scale and species diversity that covers 265,386 tracking days from 2000 to 2009. Here we report migration pathways, link ocean features to multispecies hotspots and illustrate niche partitioning within and among congener guilds. Our results indicate that the California Current large marine ecosystem and the North Pacific transition zone attract and retain a diverse assemblage of marine vertebrates. Within the California Current large marine ecosystem, several predator guilds seasonally undertake north–south migrations that may be driven by oceanic processes, species-specific thermal tolerances and shifts in prey distributions. We identify critical habitats across multinational boundaries and show that top predators exploit their environment in predictable ways, providing the foundation for spatial management of large marine ecosystems.
This manuscript is the culmination of a Census of Marine Life cross-project synthesis between TOPP and Future of Marine Animal Populations (FMAP). Funding for this work was provided by the Sloan Foundation's Census of Marine Life programme. TOPP research was funded by the Sloan, Packard and Moore foundations. FMAP was funded by the Sloan Foundation. Electronic tagging and tracking in TOPP was also supported by the Office of Naval Research, the NOAA, the E&P Sound and Marine Life JIP under contract from the OGP, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation. We thank the TOPP scientific teams and all those who supported animal tagging efforts, R. Kochevar and D. Kohrs for their dedication and their effort on behalf of the Census of Marine Life. We are grateful to the numerous captains and crews who provided ship time and logistical support, and to the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Hawaii for further logistical support. We thank the Mexican authorities and collaborating TOPP partners (O. Sosa-Nishizki) for permitting and assisting in research in their waters. All animal research was conducted in accordance with IACUC protocols from Stanford University and the University of California.
This synthesis study was initiated by B.A.B. and I.D.J. The TOPP project was designed and coordinated by B.A.B., D.P.C. and S.J.B. B.A.B., S.J.J., H.D. and K.M.S. designed experiments and deployed electronic tags on fish and sharks. D.P.C., S.A.S., R.W.H., M.J.W. and B.R.M. designed experiments and deployed electronic tags on marine mammals and birds. G.L.S., B.A.B. and S.R.B. designed experiments and deployed electronic tags on sea turtles. Tracking data were compiled by S.J.J., S.A.S., G.A.B., A.-L.H., B.A.B., G.L.S. and M.C. Data management was coordinated by A.S. and J.E.G. Oceanographic data were compiled by S.J.B., E.L.H. and D.G.F. Analyses were conducted by A.J.W., S.J.J., I.D.J., G.A.B, E.L.H., D.G.F., A.-L.H., J.E.G. and A.S. Figures were created by B.A.B., M.C., A.-L.H., I.D.J., S.J.J., A.J.W., J.E.G., A.S., E.L.H. and D.G.F. The manuscript was drafted by B.A.B. and edited by I.D.J., D.P.C., S.J.J., S.A.S., S.J.B., E.L.H., A.-L.H., A.J.W., H.D., G.L.S. and B.R.M.
Correspondence to B. A. Block.
The file contains Supplementary Figures 1-13 with legends, Supplementary text, Supplementary Tables 1-11 and additional references.
Electronic tracking data on 23 marine species have been collected as part of the ten-year Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) field project, part of the Census of Marine Life collaboration. The information reveals the predator hotspots, foraging patterns and migration corridors of the large marine predators. Top predators are found to exploit their environment in predictable ways, providing the foundation for spatial management of large marine ecosystems. A major finding is the discovery that retentive oceanographic conditions on the west coast of North America have created an ocean wilderness where large predators are relatively undisturbed.