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Soulja Boy's OnlyFans nudes are leaked ahead of release of his new docuseries 'The Life of Draco'
SOULJA Boy's OnlyFans nudes were reportedly leaked ahead of the release of the rapper's new docuseries "The Life of Draco."
The 31-year-old shared a link to his OnlyFans account through his Twitter page on Thursday morning but the leaked nudes appear to have been shared within minutes.
The rapper appeared to keep it in his stride as she tweeted shortly afterward, "Biggest lesson: Don't ever think it can't happen to you.
"Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence,' he added.
He also retweeted several users who had seen the nudes before joking "Good morning bae, wyd."
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"Good morning to @souljaboy and @souljaboy only," one of the retweets read.
"Came to see why @souljaboy was trending!! And GOT DAMN. I been a Soulja Gurl!!" said added.
Many fans have been making jokes about the explicit content using Soulja Boy's hit Kiss Me Through The Phone.
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"Soulja boy …. call me," one said.
The Crank That star has sold his pictures on OnlyFans for $25 a month since February 2021.
The Chicago-born rapper, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, also encourages fans to tip for extra.
"Tip me to for a private message convo with the boxers off," he wrote in one post
He last posted on Wednesday with no new pictures since his other posts were allegedly leaked.
It is not clear how the other pictures were reportedly leaked to other social media sites and if a subscriber to his account was responsible.
The rapper took advantage of the eyes on his account during the '"leak" to promote some of his songs and a docuseries titled The Life of Draco, which will air January 21, 2022.
The Rick & Morty rapper has said before the release of the show that he plans to set aside all his rap beef to focus on his acting career.
'POSITIVE ENERGY'
During an Instagram Live last year, the music star revealed details of the upcoming show with Revolt TV and said that he is an actor now.
He claimed to have "no smoke, no problems, no nothin'" and was only going into 2022 with "positive energy."
"Being Draco, new TV show January 21, 2022, we going into the year with all positive energy, you know what I'm saying?" Soulja Boy said.
"I ain't got no beef with nobody. I ain't got no smoke, no problems, no nothin'. All I'm doing is TV shows and movies, I'm an actor now."
It comes after Big Draco's feud with Kanye West last summer when he was left off the final release of Donda.
Ye said in November that he ditched the verse because it was "trash."
Soulja Boy also reportedly had beef with Young Dolph who was gunned down outside a cookie store last year.
Two people were arrested this week for his killing.
NEW TV SHOW
The six-part docuseries will reportedly follow Soulja Boy's daily life, signature Hip Hop tracks, musical accomplishments, and showcase his journey during The Millennium Tour 2021.
He first hit stardom in 2007 with Crank That which peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and spent seven weeks there.
The song Crank That (Soulja Boy) was followed up with a popular dance called The Superman.
According to Cheat Sheet, the rapper claims he was the "first rapper" to be on YouTube.
YouTube launched in February of 2005 and the song Crank That (Soulja Boy) was published on YouTube in 2009.
His musical career quickly died off but he maintained a larges fanbase with millions of social media followers.
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Az Album Top 40 slágerlista (korábbi nevén Top 40 album-, DVD- és válogatáslemez-lista) a magyarországi kiskereskedelmi forgalomban értékesített hanghordozók eladásait tükrözi. 1990 októberében a Universitas Diákszövetkezet (Közgáz) munkatársai kezdték összegyűjteni a legkelendőbb albumok listáját (kéthetente 26 budapesti és 24 vidéki bolt adatai alapján), 1994 júniusában a Szonda Ipsos vette át a lekérdezést (40 budapesti és 80 vidéki üzlet). 2002 szeptembere óta a Top 40-es album sikerlistát a Szonda Ipsos és a Magyar Hangfelvétel-kiadók Szövetsége közösen állítja össze a jelentősebb lemezboltok, áruházak heti eladási adatai alapján (összesen kb. 120 kereskedelmi egység). Az így elkészült lista már pontos, darabszám szerinti, elektronikus úton lekérdezett fogyásokon alapul. 2000 májusa óta a válogatás- és mixlemezek külön listán szerepelnek, amely a Top 120-as lista kivonatolásából készül. A 2012-es év 27. hetétől a DVD Top 20 lista megszűnésével a CD-k és a digitális albumletöltések mellett a zenei DVD-k is ezen a listán szerepelnek.

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A legtöbb hétig vezető magyar albumok
22 hét
 Rapülők – Rapülők (1992)
 Bereczki Zoltán - Szinetár Dóra – Musical Duett (2007)

21 hét
 Tankcsapda – Rockmafia Debrecen (2012)

20 hét
 Különböző előadók – Filmslágerek magyarul II. (1992)

16 hét
 Márió – A harmonikás (2001)

15 hét
 Mága Zoltán – A királyok hegedűse (2009)

14 hét
 Szandi – Tinédzser l'amour (1990)
 NOX – Ragyogás (2005)
 Rúzsa Magdolna – A döntőkben elhangzott dalok (2006)

13 hét
 Kowalsky meg a Vega – Még nem éden (2014)
 Ganxsta Zolee és a Kartel – Tribute album (2015)
 Tankcsapda – Dolgozzátok fel! (2016)
 Ákos – Az utolsó békeév (2021)

12 hét
 Különböző előadók – Filmslágerek magyarul I. (1991)
 Rapülők – Rapeta (1993)
 Zámbó Jimmy – Jimmy's Roussos (1994)
 Republic – Tüzet viszek (1995)
 Tankcsapda – JUBILEUM 25 (Főnix Koncert) (2015)

11 hét
 Zámbó Jimmy – Szeress, hogy szerethessenek (1995)
 Majka Papa – Az ózdi hős (2003)
 Irigy Hónaljmirigy – Bazi nagy lagzi (2004)
 Tankcsapda – Liliput Hollywood (2019)
 Attila – Best Of 2010 - 2015 (2020)
 Omega – Testamentum (2020)

A legtöbb hétig vezető külföldi albumok
23 hét
 Filmzene – Mamma Mia! (2008)

15 hét
 Santana – Supernatural (1999)

10 hét
 Ace of Base – Happy Nation (1993)
 Különböző előadók – Bravo Hits (1993)
 Hevia – Tierra de Nadine (1998)

9 hét
 Modern Talking – Back for Good (1998)

8 hét
 Gheorghe Zamfir – Feeling of Romance (2000)

7 hét
 Robert Miles – Dreamland (1996)
 Filmzene – Titanic (1997)
 Michael Bublé – Christmas (2011)

6 hét
 Diego Modena, Jean-Philip Audin – Okarina II. (1994)
 Scatman John – Scatman's World (1995)
 David Guetta – One Love (2009)

5 hét
 Britney Spears – Oops!… I Did It Again (2000)
 Andrea Bocelli – Amore (2006)
 Andrea Bocelli – Vivere - Greatest Hits (2007)
 U2 – No Line on the Horizon (2009)
 Michael Bublé – To Be Loved (2013)
 Coldplay – Ghost Stories (2014)
 Ed Sheeran – ÷ (2017)

Előadók a legtöbb első helyezést elért albummal (magyar)
28 albummal
 Ákos (Karcolatok; Élő dalok; Beavatás; ÚjRaMIX; Ikon; Ismerj fel - Best of Ákos; Hűség; Új törvény; Andante; Még közelebb; 40+; A katona imája; Arénakoncert 2011; 2084; 2084 turné; Karcolatok 20 - Jubileumi koncert; Igazán EP; Még egyszer; Veletek vagyunk / Dupla Aréna 2015; Szintirock - Dupla Aréna 2016; Arany; Hazatalál; 50 - Jubileumi, akusztikus koncert; Idősziget; Idősziget Koncert (Dupla Aréna 2019); Az utolsó békeév; Magunk maradtunk; Több nem is kell (Aréna 2022.01.22.))

17 albummal
 Tankcsapda (Eleven; Connektor 567; Agyarország; Élni vagy égni; Mindenki vár valamit; Minden jót; Rockmafia Debrecen; Igazi hiénák; A legjobb méreg; Urai vagyunk a helyzetnek; JUBILEUM 25 (Főnix Koncert); Három rohadék rockcsempész - A huszonötödik év; Dolgozzátok fel!; Aréna Koncert; 2012-2018; 1989-1999; Liliput Hollywood)

14 albummal
 Ossian (Ítéletnap; Tűzkeresztség; Örök tűz; Egyszer az életben; Az lesz a győztes; A tűz jegyében; Lélekerő; 30 év legszebb balladái; Az igazi szabadság; Nyitott szívvel; A reményhozó; Csak a jót; A teljesség; Most Mi jövünk!)

13 albummal
 Zámbó Jimmy (Zámbó Jimmy II.; Számíthatsz rám; Zámbó Jimmy IV.; Jimmy's Roussos; Szeress, hogy szerethessenek; Mit akarsz a boldogságtól; Fogadj örökbe; Dalban mondom el; Karácsony Jimmyvel; Csak a jók mennek el; 1958-2001; Jimmyx; Királyi duettek)

9 albummal
 Hooligans (Szenzáció; Vírus; História; Társasjáték; Igaz történet; 20. Jubileumi Koncertshow; Jubiluem Best Of; Jég hátán; Zártosztály)

8 albummal
 Irigy Hónaljmirigy (A csillagok háborognak; Snassz Vegas; Selejtező; Ráncdalfesztivál; Flúgos Futam; ValóságShokk; Bazi nagy lagzi; K.O. Média)
 Ganxsta Zolee és a Kartel (Helldorádó; Rosszfiúk; Pokoli Lecke; Gyilkosság Rt.; Tribute album; K.O.; Helldorado újratöltve; Oldskool)

7 albummal
 Republic (Indul a mandula; Tüzet viszek; Igen; A reklám után; Rajzoljunk álmokat!; Koncert Budapest Park 2015.09.19.; Kimondom a neved)
 Road (Aranylemez; Emberteremtő; Tegyük fel...; Tizenhét; A tökéletesség hibája; Onnantól - eddig; Senki kedvéért nem fékezünk)

6 albummal
 Hupikék törpikék (Buli van Aprajafalván!; Törparty; Buli a hóban!; Hajrá törpök!; Az apraja nagyja; Hupikék Törpkarácsony)
 Kowalsky meg a Vega (Az évtized lemeze; Még nem éden; Varázsszavak; Kilenc; Árnyék és fény; Esszencia)
 Depresszió (Vízválasztó; A folyamat zajlik…; Válaszok után…; Nehéz szó; 20+1; Vissza a Földre)

5 albummal
 Rúzsa Magdolna (A döntőkben elhangzott dalok; Ördögi angyal; Tizenegy; Aduász; Karma)
 Attila (Ez az út az az út…; Szárnyak nélkül; Best Of 2010-2015; Best Of 2016-2020; Infiltration)

Előadók a legtöbb első helyezést elért albummal (külföldi)
7 albummal
 Madonna (Ray Of Light; Music; Confessions On A Dancefloor; The Confessions Tour; MDNA; MDNA World Tour; Rebel Heart)

5 albummal
 Depeche Mode (Exciter; Playing The Angel; Sounds Of The Universe; Delta Machine; Spirit)

4 albummal
 Linkin Park (Minutes to Midnight; Living Things; The Hunting Party; One More Light)
 Michael Bublé (Christmas; To Be Loved; Nobody But Me; Higher)

3 albummal
 Scooter (Our Happy Hardcore; No Time To Chill; Back To The Heavyweight Jam)
 Michael Jackson (Thriller - 25th Anniversary Edition; Essential Michael Jackson; This Is It)
 Andrea Bocelli (Amore; Vivere - Greatest Hits; My Christmas)
 Iron Maiden (The Final Frontier; The Book of Souls; Senjutsu)
 Ed Sheeran (÷; No.6 Collaborations Project; =)
 Red Hot Chili Peppers (I'm With You, The Getaway; Unlimited Love)

2 albummal
 George Michael (Older; Ladies and Gentleman)
 Metallica (Load; St. Anger)
 Backstreet Boys (Backstreet Boys; Backstreet's Back)
 Modern Talking (Back for Good; Alone)
 Dream Theater (Systematic Chaos; Black Clouds And Silver Linings)
 Leonard Cohen (Greatest Hits; Old Ideas)
 David Guetta (One Love/One More Love; Listen)
 Diana Krall (Quiet Nights; Wallflower)
 Adele (21; 25)
 AC/DC (Black Ice; Power Up)
 BTS (Map Of The Soul : 7; Proof)

 A legtöbb hétig listás albumok
 173 hét: Halász Judit – Csiribiri 171 hét: Tankcsapda – Élni vagy égni 165 hét: Tankcsapda – Agyarország 158 hét: Tankcsapda – Mindenki vár valamit 156 hét: Vangelis – 1492 - The Conquest Of Paradise 150 hét: Gyereklemez – Magyarország kedvenc gyerekdalai 149 hét: Tankcsapda – Az ember tervez 137 hét: Lady Gaga – The Fame / The Fame Monster 136 hét: Rúzsa Magdolna – Tizenegy 121 hét: Adele – 21 119 hét: Tankcsapda – Jönnek a férgek 117 hét: Bereczki Zoltán - Szinetár Dóra – Musical Duett 116 hét: Tankcsapda – Punk & Roll 116 hét: Omega – Testamentum 113 hét: Tankcsapda – Liliput Hollywood 110 hét: Tankcsapda – A legjobb méreg 110 hét: Kowalsky meg a Vega – Kilenc 107 hét: Tankcsapda – Urai vagyunk a helyzetnek 106 hét: Tankcsapda – Dolgozzátok fel!''

Jegyzetek

Külső hivatkozások
 MAHASZ hivatalos honlapja
 MAHASZ slágerlista archívum

Zenei listák
Albumeladási listák

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Searching for Heart: Left Behind and Loving It – Part 2
Jul 15 By Marjorie
See my previous entry, Writing in the Labyrinth, as well as Lynn Viehl's virtual writing workshop, LEFT BEHIND AND LOVING IT.
Character and plot form a seamless union—but of the two, I feel strongly that character is more important. Abandon the development of your hero and heroine, and your plot—no matter how brilliant—will be little more than cardboard and ash. Strike fire with fantastic characters, however, and even the simplest of plots will do. Speaking in general terms, of course.
There are two ways to approach this. First of all, is the character itself—the skeleton, the flesh, the soul of the man or woman (or creature) who will be inhabiting your story. In essence, details and facts.
But how you portray your character is just as important as his or her identity. A cardboard doll might look pretty, but ultimately, it's still a flat piece of glossy paper that can't stand up on its own. What you want—and what the reader needs—is flesh and blood. Like Frankenstein, your job is to take lightning and cold parts, and infuse them with a soul.
I'm a movie buff. You can learn a lot about storytelling from a really good film or television show: character and chemistry, and all those little moments. Timing, the importance of a look.
I recently watched two movies that drove this home—both of them miles apart in content and theme, each telling a story through characters so real, so delightful and otherwise engrossing, that the plot itself could go to hell—you would watch them in anything, just to see more of their lives.
I am, of course, referring to National Velvet and Aliens.
National Velvet, filmed in 1935 and starring a young Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney, is about "a twelve-year girl, Velvet Brown, living in Sewels in Sussex, England, who saves a horse from the knacker's yard and trains it for the Grand National steeplechase, aided by her father's hired hand, a young drifter, Mi Taylor. The fictional horse which Velvet Brown trained and rode in the National is called 'The Pie.' When she discovers that the Latvian jockey hired to ride the Pie doesn't believe he can win, she disguises herself as a male jockey and rides the horse to victory." (quoted from Wikipedia)
I love this movie for many different reasons, but as we're talking characters, let me focus on one in particular: Mi Taylor.
Actually, let me digress for a moment, and discuss complexity.
A character is not complex simply because he's a chain-smoking, cross-dressing, ex-Special Forces ninja from Mars—with a weakness for a blondes and the Garfield cartoon strip. Those are interesting facts, but they're just that—facts.
Complexity is a different animal—and I firmly believe that the blood of complexity is rooted in emotions.
Emotions are complex. Emotions are the root of who we are, and why we do the things we do. Focus on the heart. Who burned your character? Who made them ache, and bleed? Who gave them joy? Who nurtured, who betrayed, who cut and then kissed and made it better? Who tried to break that heart you're creating? Who put that heart back together?
Facts, yes—but emotional facts. A cat, for example, is window dressing. But the love for that cat is what makes someone interesting.
Take the character of Mi Taylor from National Velvet. You don't know everything about him, except that he's had a hard-knocks life. He doesn't know much about his father, he's got no home, the one thing he loved tossed him on his ass and scarred him so deeply he's never recovered. He's this close to becoming a criminal, but he pulls back from the edge. He's straightforward, though. Not a push-over, a little belligerent.
And, as the viewer discovers, all he needs is a little kindness. Just a little, to make him question the darker path he's going down.
Those are the facts—the wet, juicy, emotional facts. But you don't learn all of this through a checklist attached to the character's back. You aren't told these things about Mi – but the movie conveys them, nonetheless. Actions speak louder than words. Responses to certain situations, no matter how small, can reveal mountains. No moment is wasted—not when Mi is eating a cracker at the side of the road, not when he's giving Velvet a particular look when she's swooning over her dreams, not when he touches a sick horse, or stands before the fireplace in a home where he is a stranger, or holds the family's youngest son in his lap and tells him a story. Every moment means something. Every moment builds layers upon a character and enriches him—and that enrichment, that personality you weave upon a page, will tell you things, and point you in directions, that you never imagined you would go.
Plot-wise, that is. For the organic writer, living with your character—and having your character live—is the key to crafting a story. In life, after all, we are products of past experiences, as well as present fears and desires. We might be affected by the external events in our lives, but we are driven forward in our responses to them. The same is true while writing a book.
Aliens is another excellent example of subtle character building. Small touches. Small moments that add up to a lot. You've got Ripley, Newt, Hicks—the core of the movie, and its heart.
Let's stick with Hicks for a moment: squad leader of the Colonial Marines. Again, nothing is wasted—not when you see his response to Ripley using the exosuit in the loading bay (revealing a sense of humor, and the burgeoning respect he has, not just for her, but for women, in general); or the picture in his locker, an oddly elegant black and white photograph of a woman sitting in a chair, seen from behind (far more subtle, more tasteful, than one might expect of him). He falls asleep during the drop to the planet while everyone else is freaking out—and yet that easy-going, laid-back quality disappears in an instant once the fight begins. He is respectful to the little girl, Newt—including her in defense planning—and while he abandons his own men for dead, when the child is taken by one of the aliens, he goes after her—he fights for her—nor does he discourage Ripley from going after the child herself, even if it means certain death for them all.
There's more that I could point out—actions that reveal character—but I think you get the drift. He's a complex man. He's a rich character. You could follow him for years and still find undiscovered countries.
Remember, when you write, that you don't have to hit people over the head. Make your revelations small. Build with delicious fragments. Choose the right moments. Everything counts in a book, and I don't care how many pages you've got to work with.
Waste nothing. Every word, every sentence, is an opportunity to make a moment real for the reader. As a writer, that is a precious opportunity. You are responsible for a stranger's time and focus, and you must make it worth something.
Let me address plot again, and how characters drive the story forward. For the organic writer, my guess is that this is largely instinctual. You follow your characters on the journey, and they reveal the path and destination.
Here's an example. When I first watched National Velvet, I was haunted by Velvet Brown's future. When she grew up, what would she do with her life? I knew it would have something to do with horses, because that's a huge part of her character.
My fantasy—if I were to write the sequel—would have Mi Taylor disappearing for five or six years—in that time making something of himself. Because he's that kind of man, the kind of character who takes advantage of opportunities, and who would never dream of settling down without a stake, something to offer a woman (yes, I would write a romantic sequel…sue me).
So maybe Mi becomes a trainer—gets his own stable—and when it's time he goes back to Sewels, ostensibly to ask for Pie as part of a breeding program—but also to find Velvet again and see what has happened to her. That would be in character, too—his curiosity, his loneliness, his pride and desire to show off what he has accomplished.
Velvet, of course, is doing great. She is still heavily involved with horses. It's a match made in Heaven. And so what if the boys in town are vying for her attention? Or maybe one in particular who has caught her eye? Once Mi comes back into her life, who could ever compare to the one person who believed in her—a mere kid—when no one else would? Who trusted her, kept faith with her, and helped make her dreams come true?
And sure, for Mi there have been women over the years. But all of them would have seemed shallow in comparison, without that gutsy innocent passion that was so all-encompassing that this slip of a girl defied everyone to make her dream come true. And his dream, as well. It was her passion for a crazy dream that healed him, after all. She made him a new man, and set him on an upright path.
See? There's a plot in there. But it's all because of the characters.
I guess that's intuitive. If I'm stating the obvious, forgive me. But what I'm trying to say, in as many ways as I can, is that you can't skimp on the people in your book. Build from the heart up. Build the heart before the skeleton.
Questions are an easy way to do this. I stated some earlier, but I'll repeat them again:
Who burned your character? Who made them ache, and bleed? Who gave them joy? Who nurtured, who betrayed, who cut and then kissed and made it better? Who tried to break that heart you're creating? Who put that heart back together?
These are the broad emotional strokes. If you want to make a list of specifics—favorite foods, movies, books, and so on—do so, by all means. But as with the photograph in Hick's locker, or (leaving National Velvet for a moment) the hat that Indiana Jones wears all the time (given to him, if you recall, but a fellow adventurer), make those details worth something. Make them meaty, adding to the complexity of the character.
But again, don't forget the heart. You've got nothing without some heart.
So, here's another exercise in character—but also plot. Hopefully it will be fun, and again, don't feel obligated to post the results. This is for you alone.
As I did with National Velvet, take some favorite characters you're dying to see more of—and then write their sequels, or a scene from their lives. Let's stick with movies and television for the purposes of this exercise.
Personally, I always wanted a happy ending for Ripley, Hicks, and Newt. I wanted a happy ending for Catherine and Vincent from Beauty and the Beast—and don't get me started about the end of Roman Holiday, starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. I'm still mad that Firefly didn't last past 13 episodes (not including the movie).
You don't have to write an actual story, just a summary of what you think would happen next, based on the characters themselves: how you think they would react to a particular situation; the end of the world, for example, or a chance meeting. Take one moment, and let the characters drive the plot forward.
The point of this is to have fun. But also to loosen yourself up. Grease those character-building muscles. Practice showing and not telling. It's like playing with a coloring book: the lines are there, but you can go outside them, or paint them any way you want. It's just practice. It's just experimentation with different colors, and how those colors change the look of an established picture.
I'm giving away iTunes downloads of National Velvet and Aliens. Leave a comment to be entered. I'll draw the lucky name on Friday.

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JoBros open up to MTV News about their next release, which they promise will be personal.
The Jonas Brothers aren't holding anything back on their next album, opening up about the good, the bad and everything in between.
And while fans will have to wait a little bit longer to hear the new music, it seems like it will be worth the wait, since the guys are getting really personal this time around.
"We're talking about some really real subjects and things that are meaningful to us both in the present time, in the past, and it's just now out there for people to hear," Nick told MTV News about their in-the-works comeback record. "That's the great thing about being an artist, is you can create and then share later."
The guys gave fans a little taste of their new sound when they performed at New York's Radio City Music Hall on Thursday night, including the song "Wedding Bells" that just might be about Nick's high-profile ex-girlfriend Miley Cyrus. But it seems those musical appetizers are only a small part of the feast they are cooking up, and with the guys completely running the show this time around, they have the freedom to do whatever it is they want to artistically, leaving their musical landscape wide open.
"We've taken on a completely different approach to songwriting. We're doing it all ourselves. I'm producing it, we're writing it and we're performing it," Nick said. "It really is all about what's happening with the three of us in the studio. We're in a season now, as artists, of really taking control of our destiny and deciding what our next moves are. It something we're really, really proud of. But it's also one of those things we tread carefully, but we have great fans to support us."
The next release marks the JoBros' first studio album since 2009's Lines, Vines and Trying Times. And while they've spent some time apart, working on a number of solo projects, now felt like just the right time to put out new music as a group.
"It feels really good," Kevin said. "It's been a long time coming. We've all been doing some individual stuff and on our own journeys, but now we're coming back together, and the [Radio City] show [was] kind of the kickoff to that."


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Love the outdoors? Prefer an urban vibe? Take your pick as you head out to Japan's top two summer music festivals!
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Calling all festival lovers! Want to get in on Japan's ultra-cool summer music festivals? They're already a hit with the expat population. Amazing artist lineups and intense energy are a given, but these music festivals are also exceptionally safe and clean. It's what Japan's known for, after all! Head to Japan's two biggest summer festivals, where the music fires up everyone from teens to seniors—or to one of Japan's awesome J-pop festivals. The choice is yours!
Fuji Rock: Bob Dylan is billed as the grand finale for Japan's ultimate music festival
Japan's ultimate summer music festival is held in July at the sprawling Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture. Bob Dylan will make his first ever appearance at the festival in 2018, with his decision to headline on the third day already generating a buzz. The top acts on the first and second days are N.E.R.D and Kendrick Lamar. Fuji Rock 2018 features just the kind of glittering roster you'd expect on the twenty-second year of this wildly successful event.
Fuji Rock, which was originally held at the foot of Mt. Fuji, was named the third best festival in the world according to a 2016 ranking of 250 festivals by UK-based authority Festival Insight. In 2012, the event boasted a record 140,000 attendees. The inspiring combination of music in a gorgeous natural setting is what makes this festival such a memorable experience.
The venue features multiple stage areas with capacities ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands, plus ample food courts and retailers. Though it's possible to make a day trip from Tokyo, you'll get the best experience if you stay for the nighttime shows. Book a room at a nearby hotel or inn and you can end the day with a leisurely soak in one of Japan's famed hot spring baths.
If you can't manage to get a reservation, you can always camp at the venue. The on-site campgrounds are a great place to meet and hang out with fellow travelers. But be forewarned: July is typhoon season in Japan, and Fuji Rock goes on rain or shine. Enjoy the wild weather, but remember—safety first!
Official Fuji Rock site(English)
Make the most of it!
Naeba Summer Park is an amusement area adjacent to the Naeba Prince Hotel. It's full of attractions that are fun for the whole family! Take a ride through the sky on a gondola, drive a four-wheel buggy, take a canoe ride (reservations required), collect insects (a favorite summer pastime among Japanese children), go mountain biking, and more.
http://www.princehotels.com/en/ski/summer/naeba.html (English)
Kagura Summer Gelände: Experience Japan's longest summer run at nearly 1,100 meters. Special mats recreate the feeling of moguls for a ski and snowboard adventure that's almost like the real thing!
NOTE: Naeba Summer Park is closed during the Fuji Rock festival.
Summer Sonic: Noel Gallagher makes his first appearance at Japan's top urban music festival
Summer Sonic is held in August across two venues in Tokyo and Osaka, cities known for their world-class public transportation systems. Noel Gallagher will make his first solo appearance at the festival this year, with Beck headlining the entire event. While Fuji Rock is known for its powerfully charismatic performers, Summer Sonic is the place to catch all the hottest acts of the moment. Many Summer Sonic fans feel that its star-studded roster is even better than the one at Fuji Rock.
One of the key selling points of Summer Rock is that it's so easy to get to. The Tokyo venue (which is actually in Chiba Prefecture) is walkable from the nearest train station, while the Osaka venue is accessible by shuttle bus—so even short-term Japan visitors will find it easy to get there and back.
Exchange your tickets for a wristband that allows you to come and go as you please for the entire duration of the festival. Enjoy live performances from your favorite artists, head out to do some sightseeing in town, and come back later if you want. This kind of freedom is exactly what urban music festivals are all about. Just make sure to get your tickets early—they sell out fast!
Official SUMMER SONIC site(English)
Calling all J-pop and electronica fans! Rock in Japan and Ultra Japan await!
August has another delight in store for music lovers: Japan's largest J-pop music festival, Rock in Japan. It is held at Hitachi Seaside Park in Ibaraki Prefecture, a hotspot among visitors from Thailand. Performances exclusively feature Japanese artists, and the festival is an excellent place to discover fresh talent.
Another music festival that's steadily growing in popularity is Ultra Japan, part of the Ultra Music Festival series that originally started in the US. Held in September during the closing days of summer, Ultra Japan is the country's top festival for electronic and dance music. The venue in Odaiba, Tokyo is extremely easy to get to, making it a perfect destination for nighttime entertainment during your trip.
Official Rock in Japan site (Japanese only)
Official Ultra Japan site (English)
2018.8 Enjoy all the magic of Yamanashi, with Japanese wine
2018.6 Experience an exceptional summer night dancing alongside the gorgeous Nebuta float
2018.5 This summer, see the night sky lit up by the Three Great Firework Displays of Japan
2015.4 Super exciting "Earth Celebration"!
2018.5 The Izu Peninsula Global Geopark is your destination for land and sea fun!
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Васи́лькове (до 1945 року — Аппак-Джанкой, ) — село Кіровського району Автономної Республіки Крим.

Орган місцевого самоврядування — Синицинська сільська рада. Населення — 415 мешканців.

Географія
Василькове — село в східній частині району, степового Криму, на правому березі річки Чорох-Су, висота над рівнем моря — 14 м. Найближчі села — Краснівка за 3,8 км на північ, Синицине за 4,5 км на північний захід, Новопокровка за 5 км на південний захід і Владиславівка за 5,5 км на південний схід, там же найближча залізнична станція — Владиславівка (на лінії Джанкой — Феодосія). Райцентр Кіровське — приблизно за 10 км.

Історія
Село було засноване в роки I Світової війни греками, що переселилися до Криму після турецької різанини 1914–1915 років, також є відомості, що Аппак-Джанкой заселявся біженцями з Османської імперії в кінці XIX, початку XX століття.
Вперше в доступних джерелах селище зустрічається в Статистичному довіднику Таврійської губернії. Ч. II-я. Статистичний нарис, випуск сьомий Феодосійський повіт, 1915, де під Владиславській волості Феодосійського повіту село значиться Джанкой (Аппак-Джанкой).

За Радянської влади, за постановою Кримревкома від 8 січня 1921 року була скасована волосна система і село включили до складу Старо-Кримського району. Декрет ВЦВК від 4 вересня 1924 «Про скасування деяких районів Автономної Кримської С. С. Р.» Старо-Кримський район був скасований і Джамчі увійшов в Феодосійський район. Згідно зі Списком населених пунктів Кримської АРСР за Всесоюзним переписом від 17 грудня 1926, село Аппак-Джанкой, з населенням 325 чоловік, було центром Аппак-Джанкойської сільради Феодосійського району. 15 вересня 1931 Феодосійський район скасували і вже радгосп «Джамчі» знову у складі Старо-Кримського, а з 1935 — Кіровського району.

У 1944 році, після звільнення Криму від нацистів, згідно з Постановою ДКО № 5984сс від 2 червня 1944, 27 червня кримські греки були депортовані в Пермську область і Середню Азію.
Указом Президії Верховної Ради РРФСР від 21 серпня 1945 Аппак-Джанкой був перейменований в Василькове і Аппак-Джанкойська сільрада — у Васильківську. Указом Президії Верховної Ради УРСР «Про укрупнення сільських районів Кримської області», від 30 грудня 1962 Кіровський район був скасований і село приєднали до Нижньогірского. 1 січня 1965, указом Президії ВР УРСР «Про внесення змін до адміністративного районування УРСР — по Кримській області», знову включили до складу Кіровського. У період з 1954 по 1968 роки до Василькова приєднали село Світле

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Infinite Thirst: Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive"
May 13, 2014 • By Wai Chee Dimock
"I DO WISH I'd met Adam before I wrote Hamlet," Kit says. "He would have made a marvelous model." It's one of his many missed opportunities, although, as far as that goes, relatively minor. The glaring one, big enough to go down in history, is his unclaimed authorship of all those plays, including Hamlet. Attributed to Shakespeare, they are in fact the work of Kit, otherwise known as Christopher Marlowe in Jim Jarmusch's latest film, Only Lovers Left Alive.
Jarmusch, a self-declared "anti-Stratfordian," is having some fun here with what he calls "one of the greatest conspiracies ever perpetrated on humans." And he's not alone: "I'm with Mark Twain and Henry and William James and Sigmund Freud and Orson Welles, Emerson — a lot of people don't buy the Shakespeare thing," he explains, because there's "not a single manuscript in his hand that has anything to do with literature." All that can be traced directly back to Shakespeare is "four pages of text." Anything longer than that has got to be by someone else, most probably "a combination of Marlowe and others — especially William de Vere." So much for the sacred fount from which all lovers of literature drink. No wonder this Marlowe (John Hurt) is still sweating away, writing on any available piece of paper, even though he's been dead for 400 years. It doesn't do any good, but he can't help it. It's a compulsion, a physical necessity. He's still trying to catch up with Shakespeare, still thirsting for the blood of his rival.
It goes without saying that he's a vampire. What else could he be? What else would describe that peculiar condition of being biologically limited and emotionally interminable, all too perishable in one sense, and not perishable enough in another? Unlike most other vampire movies, with their focus on sex and violence, Only Lovers Left Alive is about elemental processes: deep time, the longue durée (the film opens with stars and galaxies billions of light years away), and the dubious privilege of mapping biology onto the coordinates of physics. Jarmusch has always been interested in Einstein, relativity, and quantum mechanics — the weird duality of being both particle and wave, or, in the case of Schrödinger's cat, being both dead and alive. It is fitting that all of these should come together to make this vampire flick something like an Einsteinian reanimation: an all-out stretching of the lifespan through the gravitational pull of massive obsessions. What cosmic joke — what infinite jest, if you like — is foisted upon us, when eerily long-lived dreams are lodged in short-lived bodies?
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace's novel, is very much in the spotlight in this film. When vampires travel, or at least when Eve (Tilda Swinton) does, flying from Tangier to Detroit to reunite with her lover, Adam (Tom Hiddleston), it's books rather than clothes that go into her sleek suitcase. The titles on the spines of some of these books are clearly legible; Infinite Jest most of all. Wallace takes his title from Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1, an ubi sunt outburst prompted by the sight of a human skull: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy [...] Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. — Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?"
Yorick's "infinite jest" turns out not to be infinite at all. It ends at exactly the point when the body does. This is lamentable enough, although for Jarmusch — and, for that matter, Wallace — probably not so gripping as to warrant extended treatment. What interests these two instead is the obverse of that phenomenon: not the brevity of biological life, but the incalculable length of the over-the-top cravings routinely vested in them. Wallace's novel, after all, is about addiction: it features the Ennet House for Drug and Alcohol Recovery, not to mention the eponymous "Infinite Jest," James Incandenza's last film, so addictive that viewers literally die sucked into it and consumed by it.
It's probably no accident then that, inside Eve's suitcase, Infinite Jest keeps company with Don Quixote, another novel about compulsions, larger-than-life and more vital than anything real. And no accident, either, that when Adam and Eve flee from the vampiric crime committed by Eve's sister Ava (Mia Wasikowska), they travel under the names Daisy Buchanan and Stephen Daedalus, bringing in two other novels dedicated to outsized longings. Nothing that the real Daisy does can match the "colossal vitality" of what Gatsby has concocted, Fitzgerald says, for it "had gone beyond her, beyond everything." Nothing can deal a deathblow to "what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."
Adam the vampire calls living humans "zombies" because they seem dead to him. He himself, on the other hand, is undead in the same way that Gatsby is, kept going by subjunctives and conditionals rather than by the simple present tense. So of course he lives in Detroit, a "ghost-town" not in the sense that it is a mere relic of what it once was, but in the sense that it is still the living headquarters of what could have been, and what still refuses to breathe its last. In the stunning visuals supplied by Jarmusch's cinematographer, Yorick Le Saux, shooting in digital but with the feel of analog, the nocturnal drive of Adam and Eve in their vintage white Jaguar shows us long vistas of abandoned auto plants with socket-like windows. The camera sweeps over the inside of the Michigan Building, its magnificent Renaissance Revival roof now hovering over a parking lot, itself built on the site of Henry Ford's first garage. And it takes in the beat-up childhood home of one of their heroes, the Detroit–born-and-raised guitarist, vocalist, and keyboardist of the White Stripes.
"Oh, I love Jack White!" Eve gushes. It's a moment when she actually sounds like one of the zombies. Vampires don't use the word "love" so casually: not Kit, not Adam, and, except for this little fan-girl routine, not Eve. Being undead takes stamina, a heavy-duty devotion outlasting many human life spans. After all, how many times has she read those books that she packs into her suitcase? Since she speed-reads (the movie is careful to include that detail), she must have gone through the entire lot hundreds if not thousands of times in the eons she's been alive. And she's still not done with them. They go wherever she goes.
Eve's momentary lapse raises a question about the title of the film itself. In what sense are Adam and Eve "lovers"? As a romantic duo, they are cool, languid, stylized; their lovemaking is entirely off screen. They've been together for a long time; there's something almost sibling-like about their ease with each other. Unlike the many writers and musicians mentioned in passing, and unlike Kit, these two have no last names, nothing to deflect or dilute their descent from the Bible. Maybe they're meant to be more generic than individualized, primordially male and female, having been there from the very first, and through that ancient genesis, giving primordial definition to the word "love."
That word defines the two, in fact, not in their arching romance but in their throbbing addiction. It's entirely at odds with their cool, world-weary exterior, and maybe that's the point. These two might sip their O negative elegantly, in crystal stemware like a fine liqueur, but there's nothing elegant about the sudden thirst that overcomes them when they are presented with the sight of blood, as Adam is when he goes to the hospital to get his contraband supply, and Eve is when a neighboring passenger on the plane cuts his finger. This thirst is raw, visceral, irresistible.
To be a "lover" is to know this thirst, to be possessed by it, and to last for an eternity because it does. The title of the film might in fact refer not to Adam and Eve alone, but to a legion of persons just like them, in the grips of an ancient urging and kept forever alive by it. Is this a metaphor for something else — a love of literature, perhaps, or a love of music? It could be. The latter is especially plausible, given the film's own addiction to its nonstop musical numbers; given the dominant visual conceit of the spinning vinyl record doubling as the rotation of the heavens; and, most of all, given the primordial, show-stopping sounds of the Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan, a fusion of electronica and Arabic that brings the film to its vampiric end.
That very literal ending, though, suggests that thirst as an elemental force probably doesn't need to be a metaphor of anything else. It is what it is. As a physiological baseline — the lowest possible threshold of what it means to be alive, no matter how dead one is supposed to be — it connects the human species to all other thirst-driven species. And, in its longitudinal form — as an ever-active compulsion running through the entire length of history and approaching the condition of infinitude itself — it forces us to think twice about just how adequate a measure of time the biological lifespan is. At a moment when the long-term consequences of our present-day actions are forcing us to do just that, Only Lovers Left Alive gives us an unexpected push in the right direction.
Wai Chee Dimock is the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University.
Wai Chee Dimock
Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She has published widely on American literature of every period, and is best known for Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (2007). Editor of PMLA, her essays have also appeared in Critical Inquiry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Her team-edited American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (2017) was published by Columbia University Press in January.
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Which Goalies Will the Bruins Bring With Them to Toronto?
July 15, 2020 July 15, 2020 Lydia Murray	0 Comments 2019-20 AHL Season, 2019-20 Boston Bruins Season, 2019-20 NHL Season, 2019-20 Providence Bruins Season, 2020 NHL Playoffs, AHL, Boston Bruins, BRUINS, Dan Vladar, Goalies, Hockey, Jaroslav Halak, Max LAgace, NHL, Providence Bruins, Tuukka Rask
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Phase 3 of the NHL's Return to Play protocol began on Monday, with all 24 returning teams opening up their training camps. The Bruins have 33 players on their training camp roster, including 19 forwards, ten defensemen, and four goaltenders. See the above image for the full roster. They will have to cut the roster by two before heading to Toronto, as teams are allowed a max of 31 players, including goalies, for Phase 4.
One big question going into Phase 4 for me is what the Bruins will do for goalies. On one hand, it doesn't seem smart to bring four goalies when you can only bring a total of 31 players. But, on the other hand, they need to make sure they have all of their bases covered in case Rask and/or Halak gets sick or injured. If need be, you can move a forward to defense (or vice versa). It probably won't bring great results, but it can be done. However, you can't just throw someone in as a goalie. You might as well forfeit the game before you do that. So, as much as it may pain them to do so, they should probably bring all four goalies with them to Toronto.
But, is it worth it to bring both Vladar and Lagace? Are they both in a position to fill in NHL minutes if it is unfortunately necessary? Or will they just crash and burn? Let's take a look.
Vladar Shined This Season
After a rocky start to his career, Vladar broke out for Providence this season. To say he had a phenomenal season would be an understatement. He held a record of 14-7-1-3 (wins-losses-OT loss-shootout). Over the course of that, he maintained an unbelievable 1.79 goals-against average (GAA) and 0.936 save percentage (SV%). Both of these were good for the best in the AHL this season.
Unfortunately, Vladar was just edged out for the Aldege "Baz" Bastien Memorial Award, which is presented annually to the AHL's Goaltender of the Year, by the Iowa Wild's Kaapo Kahkonen. But, this should not take away from how good he was this year. Plus, he didn't go home completely award-less this season, as he was the recipient of the P-Bruins "Fan Favorite" team award this season, so I guess that's something.
For those who don't know, Vladar a big goalie with great reflexes. He also used to have a very erratic style, which was a good and a bad thing. It was good because it kept players guessing, but bad because he often wound up out of position. But, he became more positional this season, which likely led to his improved stats. He still had his moments where you'd swear it's dumb luck that he's making the saves even though it isn't, but there were a lot fewer. Regardless, if this season was any indication, the future is very bright for Vladar. He'll surely spend at least one more season in Providence since Rask and Halak are under contract for next season. But, he could be ready for the NHL soon, and possibly even now as a fill-in.
Lagace Had A Great Season Too
Lagace also had a great season down in Providence. He split time pretty evenly with Vladar for most of the season. But, in the end, Lagace played in more games. He had a 22-7-3-5 record, through which he held an excellent 2.37 GAA and 0.919 SV%.
The biggest thing Lagace has going for him in his bid to stick with the Bruins is experience. Not only has he played a lot more in the AHL, but he has also spent time in the NHL. He's played in 17 career NHL games (16 in 2017-18, one in 2018-19), all of which were with the Vegas Golden Knights. His stats from this time were not good at all (overall 3.92 GAA and 0.868 SV%). But, he was completely unprepared for the NHL at that time. He only played because of a truly incredible run of goalie injuries to Vegas (at one point they were on their sixth string goalie) in their inaugural season. Since then, he's improved greatly down in the AHL, so it's safe to assume if called up again, he'd be better.
Lagace is similar to Vladar in that he's a big goalie with great reflexes. But, he's much more of a technical goalie, which is good and bad. It's good because it means he rarely finds himself out of position. But, it's also bad in that sometimes he plays things too safe, such as not coming out and challenging a shooter, which ends up costing him. But, overall, he's a solid depth goalie. He'll probably never be a starter in the NHL, but he appears to be capable of filling in if necessary, and he could find himself as a backup someday.
So, Should the Bruins Bring Both Goalies?
It would certainly be nice if the Bruins could bring more players with them to Toronto. But, in the end, it's probably better that they bring both Vladar and Lagace. They need to have a decent safety net if the unthinkable happens and Rask and/or Halak gets sick or injured, and bringing just one extra along won't create that. Vladar has never seen NHL minutes and throwing him right into the playoffs probably isn't a great idea. But, he played so well down in the AHL this season that if he had to step up for a couple of games and play, he might be able to do it. The Bruins defense is excellent and would rally to protect him at all costs, so he probably wouldn't see a ton of shots.
On the other hand, Lagace has seen some NHL minutes. They didn't go well. But, he's a much better goalie now than he was then. Again, throwing him into the playoffs probably isn't a great idea. But, he should be capable of holding his own if he has to step in. Like they would with Vladar, the team would rally around him and do whatever they can to minimize the number of shots he faced. So, he'd probably be able to hold his own for a couple of games.
In short, I think we'll see all four goalies go to Toronto. From a risk standpoint, it's the safest option. The Bruins will still be able to bring a lot of extra forwards and defensemen to fill in should players get sick or injured. They need to make sure they have enough goalies in case Rask or Halak get sick or hurt. Will either of Vladar or Lagace do great? Probably not. But, I think they are capable of stepping up and doing a good enough job to help the Bruins win.
-Lydia Murray (@lydia_murray12)
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Prosch is a German and North American last name which is either derived from the first name of Greek origin Ambrose or from a diminutive of any of several Slavic personal names with the first component Prosi- (from Proto-Slavic *prositi "to ask"), e.g. Prosimir or Prosislaw.
Notable people with the surname include:
 Ferdinand Victor Alphons Prosch  (1820–1885), Danish doctor, veterinarian and biologist
 Harry Prosch (1917–2005), American philosopher
 Jay Prosch (born 1992), American football player
 Kevin Prosch, American Christian musician
 Thomas Wickham Prosch (1850–1915), American journalist, newspaper proprietor and historian

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Ages bring transformation, I realized, don't know when it happened but yeah, my parents now act much like my children. One who supported me till yesterday, seek my support and care now. With their aging, they've adapted myriad features; those were in me when I was a kid. My father, one whom I used to be scared of; that time, going in front of him even, was nothing less than a dare. Is he the same, when he calls me first, before taking any decision in a voice tone called seeking suggestion? It's like, why? You've always been my guide, how can I guide you now? Somehow they keep trying to create a space, maybe for an older version of themselves. Both parents and child pass through this role reversal phase.
I used to hate medicines what my mother does now. I loved to be ignorant about the hazards of my habits, no matter how bad those were for my health, now you've become careless. The abstemiousness that once you taught me to keep; I feel the need to convince you now.
You told me to be fearless and bold and now you usually bristle yourself down at every small worry. Is your pale face or wrinkle crafted bones are the reason? I learned from you, not to be stubborn, now you've mastered it. You've always kept your caring hand on my head, whether I'm wrong or right. Don't know why, maybe just to show, it's still can be corrected.
Dear parents, the changes inside you, those coming, every coming day, snatches my desire to grow up. I'm your child, still want you to control me, how could you be so dependent on me, someone who had been living under your shelter so far. These are the thoughts that my heart pushes my mind. Every day you asked me to get mature, grow up strong, told me that I've to learn to handle, mold into conditions, the wants of this delightful nature. You had been preparing me for this since my birth.
You know what? Yes, I'm now capable for all, still can't see you growing old and weak. The comeuppance for my mischief that I used to get from both you, I really miss it now. Now you don't scold me, you just keep yourself quiet, I miss that too. This nasty time has changed everything except your intense care for me. The harsh toughness in your daily routine that you had been tackling smoothly, I'm still immature to be capable for that.
Decisively I would say, can't explain it more. I just hate it! More specifically when I can't feel the changes those abruptly imposed on me, without any permission sought from me. Dear time! Don't let me learn this truth, I pray.


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Americans over the age of 60 are the fastest growing segment of computer and Internet users. And according to the FBI, they're also targets of white collar Internet fraud more often than the general population. Seniors are most often victimized by four kinds of Internet crime: illegal access to computer networks, fraud, vandalism and identity theft. The FBI says seniors are preferred targets of online crime because they are most likely to have financial assets, including a home and a nest egg, as well as excellent credit. People raised in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s are also more likely to be polite and trusting, which makes them easier to exploit online. And relatively speaking, older Americans tend to be less Internet savvy.
Once they retire, many seniors may devote more time to leisure activities and travel to places where they use public Wifi hotspots to stay in touch. But they may not realize that accessing sensitive information at unsecured hotspots is like shouting it out to anyone who's nearby. And it's one of the quickest ways to get your identity stolen.
Identity theft among the elderly accounts for as much as 10% of all ID theft cases, according to the Federal Trade Commission. But it's been called "the silent crime" for several reasons. Older Americans are less likely to report ID theft because they don't check their credit reports often for signs of fraud; they don't know where to report online fraud; or simply because they're ashamed about being a victim.
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General CommentI think this one is pretty straightforward. It's a commentary on televangelists manipulating poorer, less educated people with God as the selling point. People hoping to go to heaven and find God send their money to these televangelists, sending themselves even closer toward being paupers while these manipulators get rich. Very critical and very sad in its way. I think it's inspired by the televangelist scandals that occurred around the time of this album's release.
General CommentI just saw MK on the 2008 leg of KTGC in Oregon USA. (Saw him in 2005 as well) My 70 something year old folks came up for the two shows in Oregon, and never having heard him or of him before, they were blown away by what a great performer he is live.
Putting together a mixed MP3 CD for their 900 mile road trip home, I went back and re-listened to some of the studio stuff to winnow out what made it and not unto the CD. I forgot just how good so many of the songs off of On Every Street was, including this one with the haunting melody.
Many of the early DS studio didn't make it on CD, for lets face it, he is so much better live, especially on the early stuff, but the last two albums, On Every Street and Brothers in Arms has more of the sound MK solo evolved into.
This song, rarely played on live boots I've add access to, stayed just because of various under tones of the story, like what followed in Boom Like That, Done with Bonaparte, Imelda, Sailing to Philadelphia to name but a few.
It's always great to go back and hear things that have been overlooked and think, why didn't this one get the same attention as some of the ones listed above?
Great song, catches the essence of the God "con" that ruins God by confusing religion with true spirituality. Think Jim and Tammy Fay Baker, or my favorite, Jimmy Swaggart who stood there on US TV with tears streaming down his face, saying God told him that God didn't think Jimmy's flock followed him anymore, and that he'd given Jimmy only the weekend to show he was still a man of God, and to prove it, God wanted a "circular driveway" for the mansion (okay, church) and if he didn't have enough money it by the end of Sunday, Jimmy would have to leave his flock.
Nope, I'm not making this up!!
Hope MK saw it too. For it's what I think of every time I hear the song.
My InterpretationThis song gels beautifully with the rest of the album. Same kind of soft, gentle rock with MK's voice pleasantly blending into it.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 392 › SINGER v. MYERS
SINGER v. MYERS, 392 U.S. 647 (1968)
SINGER v. MYERS, CORRECTIONAL SUPERINTENDENT.
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR
THE THIRD CIRCUIT. No. 1485, Misc.
Decided June 17, 1968.
Certiorari granted; 384 F.2d 279, reversed.
Peter Hearn for petitioner.
The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is reversed. Jackson v. Denno, 378 U.S. 368, and Roberts v. LaVallee, 389 U.S. 40.
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LOPINSON v. PENNSYLVANIA, 392 U.S. 647 (1968)
LOPINSON v. PENNSYLVANIA.
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA.
No. 1133.
Decided June 17, 1968.*
[Footnote *] Together with No. 1095, Misc., Coyle v. Pennsylvania; and No. 1700, Misc., Pruett v. Ohio, both on petitions for writs of certiorari. No. 1095, Misc., is to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and No. 1700, Misc., to the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Certiorari granted; No. 1133, 427 Pa. 284, 234 A. 2d 552; No. 1095, Misc., 427 Pa. 72, 233 A. 2d 542; and No. 1700, Misc., vacated and remanded.
Lester J. Schaffer for petitioner in No. 1133, and Howard M. Nazor and Gordon L. Nazor for petitioner in No. 1700, Misc.
Michael J. Rotko and Arlen Specter for respondent in No. 1133; Mr. Rotko, William H. Wolf, Jr., and Mr.
Specter for respondent in No. 1095, Misc.; and Joseph E. Mahoney for respondent in No. 1700, Misc.
The motions for leave to proceed in forma pauperis in No. 1095, Misc., and No. 1700, Misc., are granted and the petitions for writs of certiorari in all three cases are granted. Without reaching the petitioners' other claims, the judgments are vacated and the cases remanded for reconsideration in the light of Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510.
MR. JUSTICE HARLAN dissents for the reasons stated in MR. JUSTICE BLACK's dissenting opinion in Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 532.
MR. JUSTICE WHITE dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 540.
MR. JUSTICE BLACK, dissenting.
In all three of these cases the Court remands to the state courts on one single constitutional claim of petitioners without reaching other constitutional claims raised by them. The result is that after the state courts rule on the single remand issue this Court will undoubtedly be called on to pass on the other issues which the Court refuses to decide. At the very least this means postponement of a final decision in these cases a year or two years or three years, unless, that is, this Court should, on the second review, choose once more to decide the cases piecemeal. Piecemeal dispositions of criminal cases inevitably cause delays and hamper enforcement of the criminal laws and there is a lot of truth in the old adage that delay is a defendant's best lawyer. See Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, where a murder sentence was reversed nine years after the murder. It [392 U.S. 647, 649]
In all three of these cases the Court remands to the state courts on one single constitutional claim of petitioners without reaching other constitutional claims raised by them. The result is that after the state courts rule on the single remand issue this Court will undoubtedly be called on to pass on the other issues which the Court refuses to decide. At the very least this means postponement of a final decision in these cases a year or two years or three years, unless, that is, this Court should, on the second review, choose once more to decide the cases piecemeal. Piecemeal dispositions of criminal cases inevitably cause delays and hamper enforcement of the criminal laws and there is a lot of truth in the old adage that delay is a defendant's best lawyer. See Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, where a murder sentence was reversed nine years after the murder. It
is true that under Fay v. Noia, 372 U.S. 391, a certain amount of delay is inevitable in criminal cases, but that is not true in these cases where the issues are squarely presented to us here and now.


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Five senior players left out of Jones England squad from autumn training
Eddie Jones has omitted five senior players including the Vunipola brothers and occasional captain George Ford from his first England squad of the autumn.
Billy and Mako Vunipola have both been left out and also missing from the 45-man training group that will gather in south-west London for a three-day camp on Sunday are their fellow Saracens Jamie George and Elliot Daly.
Completing the list of purged veteran internationals who have been mainstays of the Jones era is Ford, the Leicester fly-half who has been one of the Australian's most trusted lieutenants.
Like Billy Vunipola, Ford was given the summer off rather than play in the July Tests against the United States and Canada.
Mako Vunipola, Daly and George were involved in the recent British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa yet cannot win places in the squad that will begin preparations for matches against Tonga, Australia and South Africa.
While some, or even all, of the omissions may be intended as warning shots across the bows of under-performing players, it could yet represent the biggest changing of the guard of Jones' reign.
Other seasoned campaigners Ben Youngs, Owen Farrell, Courtney Lawes, Joe Marler, Jonny May and Anthony Watson have survived the cull.
Nine of the 16 new caps awarded against the USA and Canada are present in Jamie Blamire, Trevor Davison, Alex Dombrandt, Joe Heyes, Lewis Ludlow, Adam Radwan, Harry Randall, Marcus Smith and Freddie Steward.
And there are eight uncapped players in Mark Atkinson, Jack Kenningham, Louis Lynagh, Gabriel Oghre, Raffi Quirke, Sam Riley, Bevan Rodd and Ollie Sleightholme.
"This is an exciting squad made up of experienced players and young guys who did well in the summer and have earned their place again," Jones said.
"We have left out some experienced players but we're really clear that the door isn't closed to them and we're looking forward to seeing them work hard to get back into contention.
"We have five campaigns now until the 2023 World Cup so each one counts, and this is a chance for this 45 to impress the new coaching staff."
A Caribbean Island's Audacious Tourism Experiment
Every day at noon, a melodic chime reverberates across the Caribbean island of Montserrat. For nearly two months, Krystal Bajkor, a visitor from North Carolina, assumed it was a clock marking time."I thought it was just an adorable feature of the small island," said Ms. Bajkor, a former financial analyst who is currently writing a children's book.Then in June, her husband, a management consultant, learned that the pleasant-sounding "clock" was, […]


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School Budgets Pass In Local Districts
In last week's budget vote, the proposed budgets passed in the Glen Cove, North Shore and Locust Valley School Districts. Glen Cove voters approved the $88 million budget for the 2018-19 school year, while North Shore residents adopted a $104,868,519 budget and Locust Valley passed a budget of $85,612,108. Trustees were also elected in all three districts in contested elections.
In Glen Cove, the budget passed by a vote of 863 to 271. Trustee Gail Nedbor-Gross retained her seat on the board of education, garnering 545 votes, and Rosemarie Sekelsky was elected with 765 votes, along with Mary Murphy, who won 645 votes. Current trustees Amy Franklin and Maria Venuto were defeated, as was Daniel Rios.
"I am humbled by, and grateful for, the community's support of me in electing me as a Glen Cove Board of Education trustee," said Sekelsky. "I will work hard for the community, schools, and our main priority, our children."
"I am grateful for the support from the community and remain steadfast in my commitment to work hard to better the schools for the benefit of the children of Glen Cove," said Murphy.
"I'm humbled by the response from the community and look forward to continuing to serve the people of Glen Cove," said Nedbor-Gross. "There is still so much to do in our district starting with resolving outstanding contracts, improving safety measures and ways to better meet the educational needs of all students. I look forward to working collaboratively with our board, administrators, faculty, parents and students as we continue to make positive progress in this district."
In addition to approving the budget, North Shore residents also passed a proposition authorizing spending $3,443,912 from the capital reserve to pay for improvements such as school air conditioning and the replacement of the ceiling in the high school cafeteria. Additionally, they voted for a proposition for a busing change for high school students, providing busing for those who live within a one mile radius versus a 1.5 mile radius. The budget passed with 1,430 yes votes and 511 no votes. Timothy Madden (1,132) and Lisa Vizza (1,002) were elected to the board of education, defeating Andrea Macari and Anthony Stanco.
"I am very grateful to the residents of the North Shore community who supported me throughout the election season and have placed their faith in me to represent them as a North Shore Schools Board of Education Trustee," said Vizza. "I intend to serve the district with the same commitment to the pursuit of academic excellence and purposeful and equitable opportunities for success for all North Shore students that I have shown as an engaged volunteer, advocate and professional social worker for the past 15 years."
"I'm very grateful for the community's support," said Madden. "I look forward to representing the entire community and working together with the board, superintendent, administration, faculty, students, parents, and residents to address the financial, educational and social challenges that this district is facing. Thank you to the retiring trustees who sought not to seek reelection, Herman Berliner and Toni Labbate, for their years of dedication and service to students and to the wider community."
The Locust Valley Central School District community approved the 2018-2019 budget in a vote of 1,008 to 544, and also passed three additional propositions: Expenditure from Capital Reserves, Creation of Capital Reserve Fund and the Locust Valley Library Budget. Two people, Brian Nolan and Jennifer Maselli were elected to the board of education for three-year terms. Margaret Marchand was elected to the board of education for a one-year term to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of a board of education trustee earlier this school year.
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2020 BMW M5 Edition 35 Years: Only 35 for the US
Shane McGlaun - May 17, 2019, 7:29 am CDT
BMW has announced a new version of the BMW M5 for 2020 that is meant to celebrate 35 years since the debut of the first M5 model. The car is called the 2020 BMW M5 Edition 35 Years. This is a limited edition car that will be offered globally with only 350 units being made. Of that 350 units, only 35 of them will come to the US.
The US spec cars will be made in September and October of 2019 and will have exclusive BMW Individual exterior and interior features. The Edition 35 Year Package will include BMW Individual equipment combined with the performance capabilities of the M5 Competition. The exterior of the model comes in BMW Individual Frozen Dark Grey II metallic paint.
The paint has a special pigment to create the appearance of a silk matte surface finish. It rolls on 20 inch M light alloy Y-spoke wheels that are finished in Graphite Gray and are exclusive to the model. Buyers also get M compound brake system calipers in high-gloss black along with badge deletion from the trunk.
Inside the car is fitted with M Sport sets finished in BMW Individual Merino black full leather with contrasting beige stitching. The center console, door trim, and instrument panel are finished in shimmering, gold anodized aluminum structures as standard. All M5 Edition 35 Year Package cars include the M5 Executive Package and M Driver's Package.
The heart of the 2020 BMW M5 Edition 35 Years car is the M TwinPower Turbocharged 4.4L V8 generating 617 hp and 553 lb-ft of torque. The car promises 0-60 mph in 3.1 seconds with 124 mph coming in 10.8 seconds. The transmission is an 8-speed Steptronic, and the car has M xDrive. The MSRP for the limited edition model is $128,995 including destination and gas guzzler tax.
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We will be at the market from 4-7 on Wednesday under the pavilion on the corner of Bank and Market streets in beautiful New Albany, Indiana. There will be several other vendors set up as well…Rookies Cookies, Patticakes & Pies Catering, local Starlight honey, homemade soaps, Chef Walker's Famous Barbecue and other produce vendors. Stop by for a visit!
Green beans are back and we still have new potatoes, okra, zucchini – both green and golden, eggplant, summer squash, as well as "candy" onions, cucumbers, green, red and colored peppers, jalapenos, mixed hot peppers, cherry tomatoes, and a mixed variety of fall/winter squashes.
We still have plenty of tomatoes right now, several to choose from; Cherokee Purple, German Pink, Mr. Stripie,Park's Whoppers, Carolina Gold… just to name a few. We will have canning tomatoes available on a pre-order basis only… be sure to place your order if you are wanting to make homemade salsa, pasta sauce or your favorite recipes.
We have begun to pick apples… Gala are the first ones available, I just started picking Johnagold apples today and Mutzu's will be ready in about a week or so. We will have Gala and Johnagold apples available on Wednesday. Looks like a good harvest is ahead again this fall.
The season is beginning to wind down and kids are back in school therefore, I will discontinue deliveries in New Salisbury for now. I have enjoyed servicing you ladies over the summer and if someone needs a special deliver please feel free to contact me and I will make arrangements to meet up with you. Thanks again for a great summer!


Fortress Fest is scheduled to take place April 29th and 30th in Fort Worth's Cultural District. The two-day event will showcase Margin Walker's booking abilities, and will make them a larger player in the North Texas music scene.
The 2017 lineup features national headliners and local names. Run the Jewels and Purity Ring are the festival heavyweights, accompanied by Flying Lotus, Slowdive, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Alvvays, and many more. Sudie, Bobby Sessions, and Sam Lao are just a few examples of the local talent that Margin Walker is bringing in.
Separated in two main phases, the first day is the party day, starting with Ronnie Heart and Cure for Paranoia, and ending with Run the Jewels. The second day, Sunday, is a little mellower. Sudie and Dengue Fever open the day up, and Purity Ring brings an end to both the second day and the festival.
Logistically speaking, the festival stages are located at two cultural centers in Fort Worth, almost right across the street from each other. The Will Rogers stage is located (as the name would imply) outside the Will Rogers Memorial Center, and the Modern stage is a low-profile stage on the reflecting pond outside the museum, which will feature a light show intended to interact with the water and the museum.
Single-day passes are $65, and GA weekend passes are $105. The VIP options are (obviously) more expensive—a single day VIP pass is $145 and weekend VIP passes are $275. Full access to the Modern Museum of Art's galleries comes included with GA and VIP passes, but VIP guests also get to attend exclusive events, watch from premium viewing areas, park for free, and receive other discounts and benefits.
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One of the many responsibilities of the Belgian Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue is to provide support and an institutional framework for the country's extremely well-developed industrial relations scene, including collective agreements. These agreements - between employers and trade unions in a certain company or sector - are formally registered, and are in some cases made binding by a Royal Decree. The Ministry's Collective Industrial Relations Administration acts as a secretariat which takes care of the wide range of tasks required to arrange the meetings and register the agreements reached.
At the Ministry's IT department we only had two people to work on the changeover to an internet-based system, and only one to manage our intranet. It would not have been possible if we hadn't chosen SAS in the beginning, and if we had not been able to keep the SAS system as we made the changeover.
The FPS Employment had already dealt with one enormous challenge: setting up an IT-based system to support the administration of collective agreements. While this SAS-based system initially earned its spurs, long search times and a rather outdated operational framework meant it was time to evolve. The challenge was to transfer this system to an easily-navigable, Intranet-based system.
Sticking with SAS meant that the job was made much easier. SAS Intrnet allowed the FPS Empoyment to make the changeover fast, and with a minimum of resources.
An important feature of the Belgian industrial relations landscape is the collective agreement. This is the result of negotiations between the social partners - employers and trade unions - in a particular sector of Industry or region, and sets a jointly agreed set of rights and obligations for both sides on key issues such as wages, productivity, working conditions, etc. The collective agreement was born from the gradual awareness of the importance of good industrial relations towards the end of the nineteenth century. Already in the "sixties" of this nineteenth century, the first trade unions of workers of large factories start to emerge. In 1919 serious social unrest brake out in the metal manufacturing and in de mining sector, which gave birth to the first three joint committees. The current legal framework for agreements is set out in a 1968 law that gave a legal status to the agreements. For the joint committees the legal framework exists since 1947.
The agreements are negotiated in the joint committees, one for each sector. Within the Belgian Federal Ministry of Employment and Labour, the Collective Industrial Relations Administration is responsible for labour relations and agreements, and provides a secretariat for the joint committees, in order to arrange meetings, draft the agreements, and provide the follow-up. The work of this administration involves announcing the meeting and inviting participants, drawing up minutes, finalising the text of agreements, and dealing with their official registration and publication.
This is no small task. Today there are some 170 joint committees in Belgium, with over 1.500 meetings, and around 1.000 collective agreements negotiated every year. 50.000 letters are posted annually, and 900 Royal Decrees are promulgated and sent for official publication.
Back in 1997, a first project was launched to set up a single, secure, IT-based system for managing this work. The nature of the content meant that this was a complex project: it needed to provide 50 users with simultaneous access, so as provide the Secretariat with all the IT assistance it needed for the smooth running of its own responsibilities, but also needed to link into other databases containing social security information and company records. A user would have to be able to request from the system information according to a number of criteria: information based on a particular person, the way information was classified, any information relating to a joint committee, the state of play of a particular dossier, or a search along thematic lines.
SAS was chosen as the language for the mainframe system, based on a VM platform. While the system was extremely successful in meeting all the initial requirements (within the operating and budgetary constraints in place), there were also a number of drawbacks. Nicole Decheneux, one of the experts of the Ministry's IT department, explains: "The system was stable, and allowed us to input information in a modular way, and to produce documents automatically. The main trouble with the mainframe system was the slow response time, and users were not that enthusiastic about the system." In a PC-centred world like today's, the fact that it was impossible to print out a request locally was becoming more and more unacceptable.
The changeover to a SAS IntrNet system kicked off in July 1999, with the selection of items for a list creation, and the development of graphics. After a course for users in September, the production proper started already in November. The web-based search windows look familiar, with scroll bar lists and click buttons alongside boxes to fill in with search criteria. It can easily provide a list of members, the agenda of meetings for a particular day, travelling expense claim forms for attendees, and scorecard indicators on the secretariat's workflow and workload. One important breakthrough is the way the system can produce documents necessary in the follow-up procedure of the agreements, such as the one required for publication in the "Moniteur belge - Belgisch Staatsblad", both in terms of language and layout, and produce this in a Word document.
The changeover could be carried out in a contained way: the various modules could all be grafted on independently in record time. With limited resources, the time required was a key concern for Nicole Decheneux: "We only have two people to work on the changeover, and only one to manage our intranet. It would not have been possible if we hadn't chosen SAS in the beginning, and if we had not been able to keep a SAS system as we made the changeover to an internet-based system."
The system now has more than 200 "internal" people consulting it on a regular basis. People are generally acquainted with browser windows, and training in the new system is either minimal or not required. A weekly refreshed extract is published on the Internet and consulted by more than 10.000 visitors a month. Visitors to the FPS Employment website can consult the texts of all agreements since January 2001.
Users now have a Web-based easy system to quickly take care of the wide range of tasks to manage collective agreements.
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Oracle-Sun: The winner is Google?
I think GWT, Android and its Dalvik VM and Google App Engine for Java are all very interesting. But as a developer I've been a bit put off by this nagging worry that they're not "real" Java, and that going off in that direction would progressively take me outside the (so far) relatively-benign stewardship of Sun and the JCP.
The worry is that things like this would take me away from the community standards with a choice of competing and compatible implementations, and into a world of arbitrary single-vendor products with quirks and foibles, lock-in, arbitrary changes and suprise announcements that can suddenly turn your world upside-down.
With the Oracle acquisition of Sun, that perception could change very rapidly.
Hopefully Oracle will play nice and keep the good bits of Sun's approach to Java whilst sorting out the problems. Hopefully they'll manage to retain at least the key people, put in sufficient resources to finish and "polish" the things that Sun never managed to, and make better decisions on strategy and marketing. Make the JCP better, or at least not make it worse. And find a way to make good money from Java without having to do anything untoward. If we're really lucky they'll do all of that without making a mess of the technology itself.
But back in the real world, does anyone really think that's how it's going to go? I've only a little experience of Oracle products and their way of doing things, but what I've seen from them in the past doesn't fill me with any great confidence for the future of Java.
So in my head I'm expecting this to degenerate into a rather old-school fight between Oracle, IBM and to some extent Google, with them all pushing increasingly proprietary and "integrated" stacks that live in their own idiosyncratic universes and gradually diverge from each other. With lots of theatre about joint specifications and standards, but increasingly nasty disagreements and battles over licencing. There will always be some independent open-source alternatives and smaller players for particular parts of the stack, but in this scenario I can't see these managing to keep up with the big guys (nor having any real impact outside of their own small niches).
On paper, out of Oracle, IBM and Google, the advantage might now appear to lie with Oracle. But in practice they are all big enough to mess things up very badly. There's certainly plenty of scope for them to do so.
On that basis, the Google stuff suddenly looks no more proprietary or risky than anyone else's solutions, and could easily be the least-bad (and least-evil?) of an imperfect bunch. Arguably they already have a head-start down the road that the others are now about to follow. They're also way more "zeitgeist" and future-oriented than IBM or Oracle.
Theoretically Microsoft and .NET might gain from all this. If people stop seeing the Java world as a neutral, no-lock-in platform based on community-agreed specifications, then .NET starts to look like just as valid an option as Oracle's Java stack or IBM's Java stack or Google's Java offerings. But I'd expect that anyone with reason to choose Java rather than .NET would still do so even if Java were to fragment into separate vendor universes.
In the end this all depends on what Oracle actually do with Java, and with products such as Glassfish. At the moment we're all just speculating based on our own experiences of Oracle and their products; their history with previous acquisitions; and an awful lot of guesswork. So for now I guess I have to give them the benefit of the doubt and wait until we see their strategy and plans and their actual behaviour.
But if I ever get any spare time, I'm now far more likely than before to spend it looking into Google's java-related platforms and tools, and I can't imagine I'm the only one…
So if I was Google I'd be feeling pretty happy about it on the whole.
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What a discovery, that in most cases there are investors behind even Open Source products…
And I would say, Microsoft is clearly not an option as you have either more proprietarity there, maybe Python or something like that can gain.
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Posted on October 14, 2008 by Blank Rome Government Relations
Capital Injections
Treasury Department officials confirmed overnight their plan to allocate the first $250 billion of the $700 billion financial rescue package not for the purchase of troubled assets, as originally contemplated, but to inject capital into nine of the nation's largest banks in exchange for preferred shares. Calling it the TARP Capital Purchase Program, President Bush is expected to certify today that the next $100 million of the plan is required for release per the provisions of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
Here is how the funds will be distributed:
Citigroup $25 billion
JP Morgan Chase $25 billion
Bank of America $25 billion (including $5 billion for its Merrill Lynch acquisition)
Wells Fargo $25 billion (including $5 billion for its Wachovia acquisition)
Goldman Sachs $10 billion
Morgan Stanley $10 billion
Bank of New York $2-3 billion
Mellon Bank $2-3 billion
State Street Bank $2-3 billion
TOTAL $126 - 129 billion.
This leaves $221-224 billion unallocated from the funds available after the president's certification to release the next $100 million. While several reports indicate that smaller banks will soon be among those receiving funds from the program, there is no confirmation yet of how and when that would happen. The Treasury-issued summary of the senior preferred stocks and warrants program says the department will "determine eligibility and allocation for QFIs (qualified financial institutions) after consultation with the appropriate federal banking agency." We anticipate the Office of Thrift Supervision and perhaps State Bank Supervisors may have roles in qualifying and running the program for smaller institutions, and we will continue to monitor for further developments related to "Main Street" banks.
The TARP Capital Purchase Program completes a pivot by the Bush Administration over the past four days in which they adopted an approach they had previously rejected. Perhaps predictably, congressional Democrats reacted with some concern last night because no information was available on whether Treasury had exacted the price for equity investment that some Democrats have wanted. Among the concessions they had suggested Treasury should obtain for such investments were limits on executive pay, a cessation of dividend payments, and a commitment that recipient banks would not use "exotic" investment instruments. The program details released thus far do include executive compensation restrictions, dividend restrictions, and numerous other terms and restrictions.
Also announced late Monday were two important actions by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The FDIC's Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program will insure loans between banks for a three-year period and will lift limitations on the amount of insurance in non-interest bearing accounts many companies use to manage their short-term operations. Not to be left out, the Federal Reserve announced it will begin its Commercial Paper Funding Facility Program (CPFF) on October 27, 2008. The CPFF will "provide a liquidity backstop to U.S. issuers of commercial paper" by purchasing eligible, three-month, unsecured and asset-backed commercial paper "from eligible issuers" using financing from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
More details of the CPFF and the TARP Capital Purchase Program can be downloaded here.
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Add the onions and fry till they become light brown and crisp.
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