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Home » News » Bernstein Liebhard LLP Announces That a Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Filed Against Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
Bernstein Liebhard LLP Announces That a Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Filed Against Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
Bernstein Liebhard LLP today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California on behalf of a class of purchasers of Bridgepoint Education, Inc. ("Bridgepoint" or the "Company") (NYSE: BPI) stock between May 3, 2011 and July 6, 2012 (the "Class Period").
The complaint charges Bridgepoint and certain of its officers and directors with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Bridgepoint is a for-profit provider of postsecondary education services. The Company's academic institutions include Ashford University ("Ashford") located in Clinton, Iowa, and University of the Rockies located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as well as online institutions.
The complaint alleges that during the Class Period, defendants issued materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business and prospects. Specifically, defendants concealed accreditation problems with the Company's Ashford campus. As a result of defendants' false statements, Bridgepoint stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the Class Period, reaching a high of $30.50 per share on July 22, 2011.
The complaint alleges that in May and June 2011, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges ("WASC") and its eligibility review committee notified Ashford of several concerns it had regarding the institution's future accreditation. Thus, by the Spring of 2011, at the latest, the Company had been advised that Ashford's accreditation was at risk. Then, on July 9, 2012, Bridgepoint filed a Form 8-K with the SEC disclosing that on July 5, 2012, Ashford had received an official notice denying its accreditation application by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the WASC. On this news, Bridgepoint stock plunged $7.25 per share to close at $14.25 per share on July 9, 2012, a decline of nearly 34% on volume of 1.2 million shares.
According to the complaint, the true facts, which were known by the defendants but concealed from the investing public during the Class Period, were as follows: (a) the Company had failed to implement plans, procedures and practices to sufficiently assist students in staying with the programs they enrolled in and complete the courses; (b) the Company failed to align resources with educational requirements such that students were not benefitting from the resources available and were therefore not progressing to an acceptable level; (c) Ashford failed to maintain a sufficient core of faculty and programs to develop faculty, leading to poor teaching and poor completion rates by students; (d) Bridgepoint had inadequate review procedures such that shortfalls were not quickly identified and remedied; and (e) Ashford failed to maintain an empowered and independent governing board.
Plaintiffs seek to recover damages on behalf of all Class members who purchased or otherwise acquired Bridgepoint stock during the Class Period. If you purchased or otherwise acquired Bridgepoint stock during the Class Period, and either lost money on the transaction or still hold the shares, you may wish to join in this action to serve as lead plaintiff. In order to do so, you must meet certain requirements set forth in the applicable law and file appropriate papers no later than September 11, 2012.
A "lead plaintiff" is a representative party that acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. In order to be appointed lead plaintiff, the court must determine that the class member's claim is typical of the claims of other class members, and that the class member will adequately represent the class. Under certain circumstances, one or more class members may together serve as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery is not, however, affected by the decision whether or not to serve as a lead plaintiff. You may retain Bernstein Liebhard LLP, or other counsel of your choice, to serve as your counsel in this action.
If you are interested in discussing your rights as a Bridgepoint shareholder and/or have information relating to the matter, please contact Joseph R. Seidman, Jr. at (877) 779-1414 or seidman@bernlieb.com.
Bernstein Liebhard LLP has pursued hundreds of securities, consumer and shareholder rights cases and recovered over $3 billion for its clients. It has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" in each of the last nine years.
You can obtain a copy of the complaint from the clerk of the court for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

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Review: It's Kind of a Funny Story
By goodgamer77 February 20, 2020
American culture isn't usually very nice to people with mental health issues. Depression is becoming a bit more mainstream (thanks a lot hipsters), but in general, the rest of the patients in the psych ward are still ostracized for being weird. Admit it, no one's lining up to eat lunch with the Schizophrenic kid or taking the time to visit the chronically anxious shut in who is afraid of the world outside their room.
It feels that most of the time, our culture encounters these diseases with the sensitivity of a double-condomed douchebag. Mental health patients are written as slapstick comic relief or Frankenstein's monster and rarely fall in a range in between that. Worse than that, it seems that no one can tackle these issues without being super depressing or capturing a wildly inaccurate picture of what mental health patients really go through.
That's why it took an insider.
It's Kind of a Funny Story is an adaptation of a book by the same name based on the author's own experience with hospitalization. The movie follows Craig (played by Keir Gilchrist of United States of Tara fame) thr
American culture isn't usually very nice to people with mental health issues. Depression is becoming a bit more mainstream (thanks a lot hipsters), but in general, the rest of the patients in the psych ward are still ostracized for being weird. Admit it, no one's lining up to eat lunch with the Schizophrenic kid or taking the time to visit the chronically anxious shut in who is afraid of the world outside their room.
It feels that most of the time, our culture encounters these diseases with the sensitivity of a double-condomed douchebag. Mental health patients are written as slapstick comic relief or Frankenstein's monster and rarely fall in a range in between that. Worse than that, it seems that no one can tackle these issues without being super depressing or capturing a wildly inaccurate picture of what mental health patients really go through.
That's why it took an insider.{{page_break}}
It's Kind of a Funny Story is an adaptation of a book by the same name based on the author's own experience with hospitalization. The movie follows Craig (played by Keir Gilchrist of United States of Tara fame) through a brief contemplation of suicide and his decision to check himself into a local mental hospital.
Craig is an overstressed teenager who comes from a surprisingly realistic family. His parents, while perhaps a bit one-dimensional due to a lack of screen time, don't feel too exaggerated. His father (Jim Gaffigan) is a workaholic who has high expectations of his son, but seems to genuinely have his best intentions at heart. His mother (Lauren Graham) has a much more believable reaction to her son's hospitalization.
Though his parents are the cause of a bit of his stress, the viewer never gets the feeling that the movie casts Craig as a helpless victim. His anxiety is as much self-inflicted as it is perpetuated by his parents, and it's refreshing to see the writers forcing the character to take responsibility for his problems instead of taking the all too common "Daddy Issues" route.
The majority of the movie is spent in the hospital, chronicling Craig's stay. The movie introduces the audience to a wide range of patients and doctors, and allows the viewer to interact with them in a way that feels comfortable. The residents of the psych ward scatter into a wide variety of disease categories, and the directors did a remarkable job of putting all of the characters in a context where you could laugh at them and care for them at the same time.
The hospital has the depressing, bleak tones that you'd expect, but not every moment in recovery matches the backdrop. There are scary, tragic, funny, and heartwrenching moments, and the movie isn't afraid to explore each of them with respect and honesty.
Another major theme the movie succeeds at examining is the shame that those inside the psych ward feel around those outside. Craig's main concern upon admittance into the hospital isn't his life-threatening depression; it's ensuring that no one at his school finds out about his whereabouts. His friends (another huge source of stress) struggle to understand what's happening to Craig, and the results are an emotional, candid snapshot of relationships that the directors should be commended for.
The greatest relationship in the movie is also its most enigmatic. Zach Galifinakis plays a repeat patient in the ward that seems all too comfortable with the ecosystem he lives in. For the most of the movie he feels as if he is outside of the system, never granting Craig (or the audience) access to the details of his background or his character.
In this, the directors find their greatest narrative success. He is such an endearing character that you want to know as much about him as possible and help him overcome whatever is plaguing him, but the directors, like the character himself, is content to put his story aside to help move Craig to genuine healing. Galifinakis gives a stunning performance that is at once calm, cool, raw and heartbreaking.
It's Kind of a Funny Story is an entertaining film. It's a movie that's not afraid to leave its ending ambiguous and the characters' myriad issues unresolved. The ending is genuinely satisfying, but it is not a neat package wrapped up in a perfect bow. The movie's characters developed in an organic way, but they are not all fixed. Craig, like all of us, must emerge from the film's events to face a world rife with pressures and anxiety. It is overwhelming at times, but the movie (and Bob Dylan) helps us to reassess our lives by showing us what is vitally important: "That he not busy being born is busy dying."
Review Score: 9.42
Is it actually worth paying money to see? Yes.


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How much money is a healthy ecosystem worth?
Wyatt Orme Aug. 21, 2014
For the 95,000 or so people in and around Bellingham, Washington, the water bill they pay every other month includes a charge called the "watershed acquisition fee." It's currently $24.81 per bill, and the city uses this money to strategically purchase land to protect Lake Whatcom and its watershed—the source of the city's water supply. Since the project's inception in 2002, the city has used taxpayer dollars to purchase roughly 1,700 acres, mostly from private property owners. If need be, city crews and volunteers clean up the parcels, then replant native forests, which in turn reduce pollution.
Through the acquisition fee, Bellingham's residents invest directly into their ecosystem. They reduce the amount of nutrients in the lake, like phosphorus, preventing the proliferation of harmful algae. Of all the strategies employed, like storm water vaults and other infrastructure schemes, buying and reforesting land has made the most long-term economic sense, says Clare Fogelsong, the natural resources policy manager at the City of Bellingham. Mainly, once the property is acquired, "you don't have any maintenance and operation costs," he says. "When you buy property, you avoid all future costs." In addition, a natural watershed has more longevity than a built system of pipes.
While novel, Bellingham's model has plenty of precedents. Seattle owns the Cedar River Watershed, which supplies its water; New York City owns large portions of its water source in the Catskills. Both cities meet quality standards without filtering. This is not to suggest that placing value on healthy ecosystems is limited to municipalities, either. The newest version of FEMA's computer software, Version 5.0, factors in environmental benefits to the cost/benefit analysis done for certain projects they consider funding.
Earth Economics recently appraised the Colorado River Basin. They estimate that annually it's worth between $69.2 and $496.4 billion.
All of these models acknowledge that water quality depends on the health of an entire watershed. And the price for this ecosystem service seems to be worth paying because, in lieu of a healthy watershed, the cities would have to find other, perhaps more costly, ways of providing clean water. Assigning monetary value to these services—water being the most obvious example—has recently been gaining traction amid planners, economists and many others. Some are starting to zoom out even further, looking beyond watersheds to entire river systems.
David Batker is the chief economist and co-founder of Tacoma-based think-tank, Earth Economics, which recently completed an appraisal of the Colorado River Basin, the largest of its kind. There is a real dollar value to healthy natural systems, he says. After all, "the pipes are useless with no water."
If you did value nature for the services it provides economies, how much would it cost? "Like a business appraisal or a house appraisal, we're looking at an asset that provides benefits," Batker says. The Basin is defined by nearly 249,000 square miles spanning mountains, plateaus and valleys. About 40 million people depend on the system for drinking water, including people living in Los Angeles and Phoenix. Each year, agriculture diverts about 78 percent of the flow (almost 4 trillion gallons of water). The mining industry uses over a hundred million gallons from the basin every day.
According to Earth Economics, the Colorado River Basin is worth somewhere between $69.2 and $496.4 billion dollars annually. In valuing the basin, Earth Economics hopes, foremost, that those who use the Colorado will recognize its extraordinary economic value and will find ways to invest back into it, like Bellingham, Seattle and New York.
The appraisal divides the Colorado River Basin into sections. Within those sections, Batker and his team poured over academic literature and applied traditional methodologies to measure the "ecosystem services," such as potable water, irrigation water, food, raw materials, recreation, water and air quality, and aesthetic value. The agricultural sector's annual water use throughout the area's seven states amounts to between $1 and $1.6 billion, while municipalities and industry use somewhere between $15 and $43 billion. Recreation in Lake Powell produces $241 million every year, so on and so forth.
They got into more complicated economics to measure the dollar value of water and air quality. Based on a study, the team estimated that each acre of forested land near cities provides over $230 per year in pollution removal, which is important for cities with rising rates of asthma. Healthy forests remove harmful pollutants, resulting in less asthma and, thus, avoided medical expenses. The same idea goes for water quality. In the case of New York City's watershed, healthy forests filter their water, which they would have to treat otherwise. These forests, then, are valued at the amount it would cost the city to build and operate a filtration plant.
Ultimately, the report recommends assigning monetary value to ecosystems with the aim of facilitating investment in "natural capital," like river systems, forests, grasslands, and wetlands. Investment would mean putting money back into managing the ecosystems that provide those valuable services. To "invest," Los Angeles and Phoenix would pay a "natural capital charge" on water bills, much like in Bellingham, which would be reinvested into the Colorado River Basin to protect water supply and quality.
One side note about the report: Batker claims the numbers provided are all something of an underestimate. There were plenty of valuable services the report didn't take into account, like groundwater. He and his team also were not able to come up with numbers for slightly more abstract aspects of the basin, like it's cultural value. Regardless, the hope is that values in this report provide incentive for investing in healthy landscapes because, Batker says, if we lose these services, "we'll have to stir up the money to replace them."
Wyatt Orme is an editorial intern at High Country News. He tweets @wyatt_orme.
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Poetry and feeling in Nuoro
20 December 2010 | Culture in Sardinia
Maria Grazia Deledda is no doubt Sardinia's best known writer, but few know that most of her education was self taught as she finished her studies at primary school as was the custom (for women in particular) in those days. What moved her was a passion for Sardinian tradition and all that concerned the social and political issues of her much loved land. She was born in Nuoro from a wealthy family (her father was a landowner and mayor of the town) but her youth was characterised by a series of unhappy events; the deaths of two sisters, of her father and the imprisonment of a brother. All this sadness created in her an acute perception of pain and love which she managed to transmit superbly in her novels.
An avid reader and a social activist, Maria Grazia Deledda's disposition was quite atypical in the Nuoro of that time, her first trip to Cagliari in 1899 enlightened her, she stayed with Maria Manca who was the editor of a magazine , "la donna sarda" (the Sardinian woman) in Cagliari. The city changed her life dramatically and opened a new world, here in fact she met her husband with whom she moved to Rome which allowed her talent and passion "to blossom". After moving to Rome, the author's visits to Nuoro became increasingly rarer, but one mustn't forget that Maria Grazia Deledda lived in her native house until her marriage ( in 1900) which is therefore full of "pieces" of her life. The house is open to the public and is a building of the 1870s, sold to the town of Nuoro in 1913 and declared a National Monument. Luckily, it has remained practically identical. Inside, the ground floor is the perfect example of the housing of shepherds and farmersof the period, whereas upstairs there is an infinite documentation on the life of the writer. As well as the many manuscripts, there are also photographs and personal possessions that are undoubtedly very evocative.
Another place worth visiting is the "chiesetta della Solitudine" a small church where Maria Grazia Deledda was buried and the "rione di santu Predu" where, as a girl she would go for her walks; all places that give a feel of this extraordinary woman and making her in may ways come to life.
Real lovers or those who have read "Canne al Vento", probably her most famous book, can venture to Galtellì only half an hour from Nuoro and very close to Dorgali. The small village was the setting of the book and here is the "parco letterario Deledda" a literary park full of itineraries and routes that are also very evocative. For those who decide to spend a weekend in this area in order to make the most of its charm, there are some excellent holiday farms in Oliena.
Museo casa Maria Grazia Deledda
Opening times: From 01 October to the 31 st May: everyday, including holidays, except Mondays,
from 10 to 13 and from 15 to 17.00
From 01 June to 30th September: every day, including holidays, from 09 to 20.00
Parco letterario Deledda
http://www.parcograziadeleddagaltelli.it/
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Nanocrystalline metals are often strong but with a low thermal stability. In this study, a bulk nanocrystalline Mg-1.5at%Ti alloy with a high thermal stability is successfully fabricated by mechanical alloying and subsequent high-temperature/high-pressure consolidation. The rapid grain growth of nanocrystalline Mg and Mg-1.5at%Ti alloy starts at ∼100 °C (0.40 Tm) and 450 °C (0.78 Tm), respectively. The high thermal stability of nanocrystalline Mg-1.5at%Ti alloy can be attributed to the segregation of Ti atoms at grain boundaries. The high thermal stability of nanocrystalline Mg-Ti alloy enables us to consolidate the alloy powders at a high temperature of 400 °C (0.73 Tm) under a pressure of 4 GPa, yielding a bulk nanocrystalline Mg-Ti alloy with a high strength of 202 MPa and a large fracture strain of above 0.8.


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Overvalued / Undervalued – Wide Receivers
By: David Bond — August 4, 2012 @ 10:39 pm
Filed under: Average Draft Position
The presence of a good stable of wide receivers for your fantasy squad is often overlooked on draft day. Most get caught up in the quarterback and running back bonanzas that inevitably take place. In PPR leagues especially, WRs value a can vary and while some owners like to jump on big names early, they may leave themselves vulnerable at other positions on their roster. There is definite value in the top tier of wide receivers but there are also some elite names that are being chosen way too early. On the flip side there are some quality names that could be available in the middle rounds – ones that could start and produce for your championship winning squad. Let's take a look…
Overvalued
Greg Jennings – Green Bay Packers
Average Draft Position: 2.11
When choosing a wide receiver in the second round, he had better be an unquestioned #1 on his team. That's where the problem lies with Mr. Jennings. There is a guy named Jordy Nelson on the Packers – a player that not only out gained Jennings by 300 yards in 2011 but also scored six more touchdowns. There is no doubt that Jennings is an elite talent on an absolutely insane offense but Nelson and Jermichael Finley turn him into a risk that I am unwilling to take in round second round. I love Greg Jennings and would love to have him on my team but I am only willing to spend a third round/early fourth round pick on him which means Jennings will not be on any of my fantasy teams this season.
Wes Welker – New England Patriots
Welker, like Jennings is certainly an elite talent in the league but at present he is the fifth WR off the board on average. A look at his numbers late in the season throws up a huge red flag for me. During his torrid first eight games last season Welker averaged over eight catches per game, 120 yards and 0.75 touchdowns. The rest of the way he averaged just 6.8 catches, 71 yards and 0.36 touchdowns while garnering nearly the same amount of targets. He failed to record 60 yards receiving in seven of his last eleven games proving the feast or famine rule with Welker. Brandon Lloyd has been added to take some of Welker's targets and the tight ends still loom and may affect his production. Don't get me wrong – I love Welker but not at this price as ahead of Brandon Marshall, A.J. Green, Roddy White and Julio Jones.
Kenny Britt – Tennessee Titans
I am not touching Britt this season. More arrests will lead to more suspensions for sure. There is also his knee issues that haven't seemed to right themselves quite yet – 2 surgeries on the same knee has me wondering if he will be close to 100% this year. Britt in the 7th round, as a WR2 could offer tremendous value but I can't help but think that the downside far outweighs the upside. My guess is that Britt will spend more time on the sidelines than the field this season – not exactly a recipe for fantasy success!
Undervalued
Brandon Lloyd – New England Patriots
Remember when Lloyd was the #1 fantasy receiver with Kyle Orton throwing him the ball? That was only a couple of seasons ago after which he endured some terrible quarterback play (A.J. Feeley and Kellen Clemens included). He is now in the fruitful gardens of Foxboro and has already developed a rapport with Tom Brady – the same Tom Brady that had 5200 yards passing last year. He has a chance to do what Randy Moss and Chad Ochocinco failed to do – become that legitimate deep threat that the Pats have been missing since the hay-day of Mr. Moss. With Wes Welker, Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez creating distractions, Lloyd promises to see more open field than he ever has in his pro career. Something else to remember – Josh McDaniel is the offensive coordinator in New England and will be employing a similar system that made Lloyd a stud only a couple of seasons ago. Lloyd finished 25th in fantasy rankings last year and is being taken on average as the 21st WR in mock drafts. My mouth is watering at the prospect of 1100 yards and double-digit scores in the fifth round.
Eric Decker – Denver Broncos
Decker has the potential to become this year's Victor Cruz. He has been working with Peyton Manning this off-season and we already know that his route running and ability to hold onto the ball are right up the alley for Mr. Manning. Decker has shown good fantasy chops in the past – only last year he was the #7 fantasy wideout after five weeks, then Tebow took over and the Broncos threw the ball five times per game. Manning himself has already praised the athleticism and hands of Decker and we all know that when you have Peyton's attention, good things happen. Expect Decker to become Manning's more talented Austin Collie or Brandon Stokley with more upside. 80-90 catches, 1000 yards and 8-10 touchdowns are likely but the ceiling could be higher.
Robert Meachem – San Diego Chargers
Meachem comes into the season as the No.1 receiver for Philip Rivers and is being drafted on average in the seventh round – incredible! He has the size, the durability and most of all the chance to break out in a huge way this year. Meachem has Malcolm Floyd and Vincent Brown, not to mention Antonio Gates to compete for catches with – my guess is that Meachem outperforms them all. Look for 120+ targets this year instead of his customary 50. Also expect 1100-1300 yards along with 8-10 touchdowns for San Diego. The #1 receiver in San Diego typically means big numbers which means that Meachem should be in for a big season – not bad in the seventh round.


Traits are extensions to the language to enable programs, at compile time, to get at information internal to the compiler. This is also known as compile time reflection. It is done as a special, easily extended syntax (similar to Pragmas) so that new capabilities can be added as required.
If the arguments are all either types that are arithmetic types, or expressions that are typed as arithmetic types, then true is returned. Otherwise, false is returned. If there are no arguments, false is returned.
Works like isArithmetic, except it's for floating point types (including imaginary and complex types).
Works like isArithmetic, except it's for integral types (including character types).
Works like isArithmetic, except it's for scalar types.
Works like isArithmetic, except it's for unsigned types.
Works like isArithmetic, except it's for static array types.
Works like isArithmetic, except it's for associative array types.
If the arguments are all either types that are abstract classes, or expressions that are typed as abstract classes, then true is returned. Otherwise, false is returned. If there are no arguments, false is returned.
Works like isAbstractClass, except it's for final classes.
Takes one argument, which must be a type. It returns true if the type is a POD type, otherwise false.
Takes one argument. It returns true if the argument is a nested type which internally stores a context pointer, otherwise it returns false. Nested types can be classes, structs, and functions.
Takes one argument. It returns true if the argument is a symbol marked with the @future keyword, otherwise false. Currently, only functions and variable declarations have support for the @future keyword.
The same as isVirtualMethod, except that final functions that don't override anything return true.
Takes one argument. If that argument is a virtual function, true is returned, otherwise false. Final functions that don't override anything return false.
Takes one argument. If that argument is an abstract function, true is returned, otherwise false.
Takes one argument. If that argument is a final function, true is returned, otherwise false.
Takes one argument. If that argument is a function marked with override, true is returned, otherwise false.
Takes one argument. If that argument is a static function, meaning it has no context pointer, true is returned, otherwise false.
Takes one argument. If that argument is a declaration, true is returned if it is ref, out, or lazy, otherwise false.
Takes one argument. If that argument is a template then true is returned, otherwise false.
The first argument is a type that has members, or is an expression of a type that has members. The second argument is a string. If the string is a valid property of the type, true is returned, otherwise false.
Takes one argument, a symbol. Returns the identifier for that symbol as a string literal.
Takes one argument, a symbol of aggregate type. If the given aggregate type has alias this, returns a list of alias this names, by a tuple of strings. Otherwise returns an empty tuple.
Takes one argument, a symbol. Returns a tuple of all attached user defined attributes. If no UDA's exist it will return an empty tuple.
Takes one argument which must either be a function symbol, or a type that is a function, delegate or a function pointer. It returns a string identifying the kind of variadic arguments that are supported.
Takes one argument which must either be a function symbol, function literal, or a function pointer. It returns a string tuple of all the attributes of that function excluding any user defined attributes (UDAs can be retrieved with the getAttributes trait). If no attributes exist it will return an empty tuple.
Note: The order of the attributes in the returned tuple is implementation-defined and should not be relied upon.
Note: ref is a function attribute even though it applies to the return type.
Takes two arguments, the second must be a string. The result is an expression formed from the first argument, followed by a '.', followed by the second argument as an identifier.
The first argument is an aggregate (e.g. struct/class/module). The second argument is a string that matches the name of one of the functions in that aggregate. The result is a tuple of all the overloads of that function.
Takes two arguments. The first must either be a function symbol, or a type that is a function, delegate or a function pointer. The second is an integer identifying which parameter, where the first parameter is 0. It returns a tuple of strings representing the storage classes of that parameter.
The argument is a type. The result is an array of size_t describing the memory used by an instance of the given type.
The first element of the array is the size of the type (for classes it is the classInstanceSize).
The following elements describe the locations of GC managed pointers within the memory occupied by an instance of the type. For type T, there are T.sizeof / size_t.sizeof possible pointers represented by the bits of the array values.
This array can be used by a precise GC to avoid false pointers.
The argument is a symbol. The result is a string giving its protection level: "public", "private", "protected", "export", or "package".
The same as getVirtualMethods, except that final functions that do not override anything are included.
The first argument is a class type or an expression of class type. The second argument is a string that matches the name of one of the functions of that class. The result is a tuple of the virtual overloads of that function. It does not include final functions that do not override anything.
Takes one argument, a symbol of an aggregate (e.g. struct/class/module). The result is a tuple of all the unit test functions of that aggregate. The functions returned are like normal nested static functions, CTFE will work and UDA's will be accessible.
The -unittest flag needs to be passed to the compiler. If the flag is not passed __traits(getUnitTests) will always return an empty tuple.
Takes a single argument which must evaluate to a symbol. The result is the symbol that is the parent of it.
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ATTACK ON POLICE STATION: IGP Deploys Crack Detectives To Bayelsa State · ……Pays Tribute To The Fallen Heroes
July 1, 2019 Emporium Reporters
Following the attack on Agudama Ekpetiama Police Station, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, by unknown gunmen, in the early hours of today,the Inspector General of Police,Mohammed Adamu,has ordered a massive manhunt for the perpetrators of the dastardly act.
The IGP condemned the attack which resulted in the death of the Divisional Police Officer, SP Ola Rosanla with three other Police officers and left two others injured. He pledged that no stone will be left unturned towards apprehending the perpetrators and bringing them to book.
Meanwhile, the IGP has ordered the immediate deployment of crack detectives from the IGP-Intelligence Response Unit (IRT), the Forensic and Homicide sections of the FCID and Special Operatives of the Marine Police Department to Yenagoa to complement the efforts of the Bayelsa Police Command in carrying out discrete investigation into the unfortunate incident.
IGP M.A Adamu , while paying tribute to the fallen heroes, condoled with the families of the four Cops who paid the supreme price in the service of their fatherland, described the incident as a classic example of the risk and sacrifices the Police are exposed to in their daily task of protecting our homeland.
Adamu enjoined the Agudama Ekpetiama Community and the entire people of Bayelsa State to remain calm and to avail the Police with credible information that will help the Law Enforcement agencies towards apprehending the criminals.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas' season-opening game "Storey" leads with its quarterback situation separated by a Ty.
Ty Storey — the Razorbacks' fourth-year junior quarterback from Charleston, beaten out the final two weeks of preseason by third-year sophomore Cole Kelley in a competition declared deadlocked since last spring — bounded off the bench in the second quarter to lead the Razorbacks inaugurating the coach Chad Morris era with a 55-20 victory over the Eastern Illinois Panthers on Saturday afternoon at Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
The Panthers are coached by former Razorbacks 1979-82 letterman and Rogers native Kim Dameron.
Storey inherited a 10-0 lead when inserted as scripted, Morris said, on the fourth series which occurred at 11:18 in the second quarter.
He had the Hogs up 38-6 at intermission starting with a 42-yard pass to Smackover's Jordan Jones during his first touchdown drive.
"Ty saw an opportunity and hit the big pass to Jordan Jones, and that was the spark that we needed," Morris said.
The first spark though, came defensively with Arkansas recovering five of six EIU fumbles, one for a touchdown.
"They set the tone early," Morris said. "Five fumble recoveries. Four in the first half."
Did he feel the Hogs forced the EIU fumbles?
"Absolutely," Morris said. "We had relentless pursuit to the ball."
In that 28-point second quarter, Storey completed 10 of 13, the first three of them for touchdowns to his wide receivers.
For the game Storey completed 12 of 17 for 261 yards and the three touchdowns without a turnover. He also netted a 2-yard third-quarter touchdown run among his three carries for 15 yards before exiting in the fourth quarter and Kelley finishing with a touchdown drive.
"Cole was our starter and finisher, and he went 6 for 8 (in the first quarter) but the name of the game is putting the ball in the end zone," Morris said. "I was glad to see Cole come back in and score, but Ty for sure provided a spark."
La'Michael Pettway of Nashville caught two TDs, one for 14 and one for 48. Jones, whose 42-yard reception ignited Storey's first touchdown drive, capped by running back Devwah Whaley's 1-yard run, caught a 57-yard TD from Storey with 45 seconds left in the half.
For the first half and game, Jones amassed five catches for 132 yards while Pettway caught five for 93.
"It was great to see," Morris said when asked about Jones. "That third-down catch was big spark for us, Great to see great things happen to him and La'Michael Pettway as well."
The Razorbacks led 10-0 in the first quarter under Kelley. Connor Limpert's 35-yard field goal, first of his three, after EIU just missed picking off a Kelley pass and a fumble recovery in the EIU end zone, for a touchdown by defensive tackle Briston Guidry off fellow backup tackle Armon Watts hit of quarterback Harry Woodberry, accounted for the 10 points.
Kelley engineered an eight-play, 72-yard drive and finished with his 42-yard touchdown pass to tight end Austin Cantrell at 3:48. He finished 9 of 12 for 91 yards.
The Razorbacks' rushing game, 37 carries for 80 yards, didn't mount much and were outgained by EIU's 127 yards.
"We hang our hat on our running game," Morris said. "We've got to be able to run the football better."
Next Saturday the Razorbacks step up in class and on the road visiting in Fort Collins, Colo., the 0-2 Colorado State Rams of the Mountain West Conference.


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Ringo Says Beatles Were Not A 'Boy Band' Like Today's Male Pop Groups
Apr 19, 2003, 07:16 AM #21
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Yeah, it is more like comparing a stinky 1974 AMC Gremlin to a Lexus!
Well put, Rick and welcome!
Those boy bands are all fluff and image IMHO and comparing them to the Beatles is stupid and counterproductive. It IS like comparing a jalopy to a Lexus or Thunderbird in a brown paper bag to Dom Perignon.
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If they don't play instruments they aren't a band, they're a "boy group", band just sounds better I guess. NSync a "boy band"? NO, they're a boy group!
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Ringo was totally right! See my long topic
http://www.beatlelinks.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=49802 with a lot of strong great information including my blog debunking this ignorant,stupid ludicrous myth that The Beatles were ever a stupid,uncool,untalented boy band.As a member on here Reverend Rock who hasn't been on this site for many years now,who is a reverend,rock musician and a big Beatles fan,said on a classic rock site around 2004 when someone ignorantly called The Beatles a boy band,he rightfully said anyone who knows The Beatles history knows that it's ludicrous to even *suggest* such a thing.
Here is a very good educational you tube video by MeanMr Mayo who is a member of The Beatles fan site,Abbryd debunking this stupid,ridiculous,ludicrous myth that The Beatles were ever a boy band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmVlDCm5NOU
Two members on the SH music forums did a very good job of debunking an ignorant guy who said he prefers The Stones because they have never been called a boy band so he thinks their better.member Skywheel so accurately said to him,The Beatles have never been referred to as a boy band by anyone who grasps the common definition of a ''boy band'' and he said in parenthesis ( a group you have eliminated yourself from) therefore your point is invalid, Rejected Next. Member AFOS, said to him,Yeah typical put down and a 100% wrong Beatles were an organic rock band The Monkees are the proto boy band.
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/thread...587250/page-12
here is my great blog with a lot of strong great information debunking this ignorant,ludicrous boy band nonsense,
The Beatles Were NEVER A Boy Band,They Were Always A Great Rock n Roll,Pop Rock And Rock Band From The Start!
https://thebeatleswereneveraboybandt...wordpress.com/
Here is also a very good blog post by Barefoot Justine debunking this ignorant boy band nonsense
https://barefootjustine.com/2013/10/...-shit-already/
This is a very good January 2002 Toronto star article,The Monkees:The Original Boy Band? comparing them to NYSNC,New Kids On The Block and The Back Street Boys with quotes from Micky Dolenz and it says Micky Dolenz singer for The Monkees doesn't exactly bristle at the idea of the popular 60's pop group being promoted as the first boy band,but it's clear he isn't interested in plumping his reputation with that analogy either.Micky said it's a misnomer to call,NYNSC,The Back Street Boys and New Kids On The Block, a band at all because there's no instruments involved,it's a vocal group and those groups are in the tradition of the black Motown acts like The Four Tops,vocal groups that sang and had dance steps,and then he said that's what the origins of that are.The writer of the article Vit Wagner says,but the comparison is not without it's merits as well,The Monkees as Dolenz willingly concedes came together in a similar fashion as contemporary acts such as O-Town:through audition,originally The Monkees weren't even a real band at all.
Thankfully there is no ludicrous mention of The Beatles in this article.
https://www.thestar.com/entertainmen..._boy_band.html
In this 1997 article George Harrison said no one was going to be remember The Spice Girls,in 20 years and for some strange reason he put true pop rock bands U2,and Oasis in there too calling oasis not really interesting.He said The Beatles have fans age 7 to 77 and that this proves they have meaning and still lasts.Ironically Bono and Liam Gallagher are big Beatles fans,and Liam like Brian May,Ozzy Osbourne etc call them the greatest band ever.
http://www.mtv.com/news/1059/news-fl...re-no-beatles/
Here is another article from The Independent also from 1997 with even more detailed quotes from George.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ge...s-1247583.html
And what a total insult to not only the cool,brilliant rock band The Beatles always were,but to brilliant cool John Lennon's memory,a boy band is the epitome of what he would have totally hated,and I'm sure that if he was still living,he would post on message boards where so many people are ignorantly constantly calling The Beatles nothing but an overrated,boy band,the first boy band,etc,and he would say,i was *not* the founder and leader of some stupid,uncool,untalented boy band,get this through your *fucking* heads!
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Here is a 2011 amazon.com customer discussion where quite a few posters especially DK Pete do a very good job debunking this totally ignorant nonsense calling The Beatles a boy band,after a moron started this (unfortunately common) discussion,The Beatles Were The First Boy Band!
https://www.amazon.com/forum/music/r...TxHMCJDLBBOKZR
Even in this 2011 discussion asking this totally stupid,ignorant,ludicrous question if The Beatles were a boy band,people who said they aren't even Beatles fans know it's absolute nonsense to call them a boy band,and as one of the fans said,The Beatles are the most talented,forward thinking bands and to call them a boy band is a complete insult to The Beatles.Another said they do have a problem with them being called this,because they are nothing like boy bands musically and it's derogatory.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...1480330&page=3
I always liked She Loves You even better than I Want To Hold Your Hand although that is great too.
And I always loved this very early John song written and recorded in 1962 Ask Me Why.
I have always loved this great beautiful song written by John,with such typical beautiful melodies and harmonies John and Paul usually wrote,and John's usual beautiful singing voice.And this was amazingly recorded in 1962 on only two track tape! with such limited,primitive recording technology but it of course still sounds great.Except I hate mono it's limited sounding and only makes their already limited recording technology sound even more limited.I tried to find the stereo version of this song on youtube but I couldn't find it.
Here university of Pennsylvania musicologist Alan W.Pollack who did an 11 year extensive analysis of every one of the 200 Beatles songs,analyzes Ask Me Why and explains that it's structurally complex.
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/.../AWP/amw.shtml
Here is university of Penn graduate,musicologist Alan Pollack's whole extensive 11 year analysis of all 200 Beatles songs
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/...notes_on.shtml
University Of Berklee Multi-talented Musician,Guitar Teacher,First Female Guitar Teacher,And Now Music Professor Has Loved The Beatles Since She Saw Them On The ED Sullivan Show When She Was 4 Years Old.
https://www.berklee.edu/news/4635/meet-the-beatle
https://www.berklee.edu/people/lauren-passarelli
Bass Player & Berklee Music Professor Suzane M.Clark Teaches Courses On The Beatles,Solo Beatles & Music Of John Lennon
https://www.berklee.edu/people/suzanne-m-clark[/
Award winning classical composer and music professor Dr.Glen Gass's Beatles course he's been teaching since 1982 and he's been teaching a course in rock music in general since then.
http://courses.music.indiana.edu/rock/beatles.html
http://info.music.indiana.edu/facult...ss-glenn.shtml
32 YEAR OLD BEATLES SCHOLAR ARRON KREROWICZ PLAYS MANY INSTRUMENTS & WRITES HIS OWN MUSIC TOO
http://www.aaronkrerowicz.com/faq.html
University Of Southern California Music Professor And Musician,Bill Biersach Has Always Been A Huge Beatles Fan & And Has Been Teaching A Beatles Course For 40 Years.
https://music.usc.edu/bill-biersach-...atles-and-usc/
http://dailytrojan.com/2012/04/16/po...controversial/[/
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Both VH1 and MTV have been using Richie Unterberger's excellent All Music Guide's long Beatles biography as their Beatles biography they both used to not have a very good biography of The Beatles.Here are great Beatles biographies that totally debunk this totally stupid,inaccurate,ludicrous,ridiculous myth that they were ever a ''boy band''!
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-b...4032/biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles
The Beatles own documentary The Beatles Anthology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJcz...czmuZ-OeU#t=13
The great 1982 Beatles documentary,The Complete Beatles narrated by award winning British actor Malcolm McDowell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG8G...BDD651&index=2
And any great reputable accurate Beatles biography would debunk this ludicrous,stupid myth.And I have *never* read or heard *any* legitimate serious rock critics or rock music journalists describe them this way and for extremely great reasons!
The Beatles were *NEVER* a ''boy band''! As a poster Reverend Rock,who is a rock musician,reverend and a big Beatles fan said on a classic rock site years ago,that anyone who knows The Beatles history knows it's ludicrous to even *suggest* such a thing! And what a huge insult to their enormous talent as true singers,song writers and musicians! The Beatles were a *zillion* times more talented and cool than any stupid,uncool,untalented real boy band!
The Monkees are the first true boy band because they didn't even start off as a genuine band, they were all musical but they were originally hired as actors to play members of a TV pop rock band for their TV show, they didn't start off playing together like Paul at age 15,George age 14 and John age 16 playing guitars and singing,then playing a few years later for 8 hours a night in sleazy strip clubs( and The Beatles had sex with many young women groupies,many who were teen girls and strippers) like The Beatles did in Hamburg Germany(or anywhere) for 2 years in a row,taking speed pills to stay awake to do it,and working their a*ses off playing as a real rock n roll band,and then playing successfully in the Cavern club as a real rock n roll band for years by the time they made it big.
And The Beatles wrote and played a lot of great rock n roll and pop rock songs in their early days. John and Paul wrote the rock n roll song I Wanna Be Your Man write in front of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger in 1963 and they were both really impressed that they could just write a song just like that,and it inspired them to start writing their own songs and both bands became good friends from then on. And this song was one of The Rolling Stones first hits.
There is just no comparison to The Monkees etc. A guy so accurately said on a message board many years ago when some idiots called them a ''boy band'' that The Beatles were *never* a boy band,not even during their 1963-1965 period. And another guy said a few years after this on another forum,when some idiot said this,that he too once thought the early Beatles were a boy band like NYSNC,or The Back Street Boys,until he got out of 7th grade.
Every time some ignorant person unjustly calls them a boy band,I'm sure John Lennon's ashes must be turning with outrage.I'm sure he would go on to these sites and say I was *not* the founder and the leader of some f**ing,stupid,uncool,untalented, boy band get that through your stupid f**king heads!
And younger people don't know what type of music was out in 1963,even though I wasn't born yet,I know that The Beatles early songs like She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand were hard rock compared to the music out then.There was just Bobby Darin,The Four Seasons,Bobby Vinton and The Beach Boys surfing hits.
I really didn't want to link to this article because unfortunately it says it appeared in Penthouse, the sexist,woman-hating,degrading and violent pornographic magazine in 1984,but I can't find the full interview anywhere else.
This is a great interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono at The St.Regis Hotel in September 1971. And Yoko was asked if she knew about what really went on during The Beatles tours,and she says she had thought that he's an artist I'm sure he has had a few affairs, and she said she was really shocked and she said Oh God! when John told her the whole story about what he called all of the raving that went on their tours,Yoko said she had never heard the word groupie before.And Yoko was no innocent either,John was her third husband,she had a daughter with her second husband,and she had quite a few affairs and even abortions in the 1960's.
John is also asked if playing 8 hours a night from 1960-1962 as The Beatles did in Hamburg Germany improved their playing and he said oh amazingly because before that they had only played bits and pieces but in hamburg they played for hours and hours and that's how they developed their rock n roll sound and playing.He also mentions how they took (meaning speed pills) to stay awake playing so long.
http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1...5.beatles.html
As The All Music Guide says in their excellent Beatles biography "That it's difficult to summarize their career without restating cliches that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans, to start with the obvious,they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century."
"Moreover they were among the few artists of *any* discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did *and* the most popular at what they did." They also say as singers John Lennon and Paul McCartney were among the best and most expressive in rock.
Also on an excellent site,The Evolution of Rock Bass Playing McCartney Style by bass player Dennis Alstrand,Stanley Clarke,Sting,Will Lee,Billy Sheehan,George Martin and John Lennon are quoted saying what a great,melodic and influential bass player Paul has always been.
http://www.alstrand.com/evolution/evolution.html
And Wilco's John Stirratt was asked in Bass Player which bass players have had the most impact on his playing and the first thing he said was, Paul McCartney is one of the greatest bass players of all time,if you listen to what he was tracking live in the studio it's unbelievable." "With his tone and musicality he was a huge influence,he covered all of his harmonic responsibilities really well but his baselines were absolutely melodic and inventive."
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/ar...ys-roots-wilco
In this 2010 interview the blogger says that John Stirratt has an affinity for good melodies so it's not surprising that Paul McCartney is one of his musical icons and then he quotes him saying that he's always absolutely in awe of his playing,including Paul's Beatles years.
http://audreeanne.blogspot.com/2010/...ratt-talk.html
And in an online 1977 Eric Clapton interview,Eric Clapton In His Own Words he says that there was always this game between John and George,and he said partly because John was a pretty good guitar player himself http://www.superseventies.com/ssericclapton.html .He played live with John as a member of John's 1969 Plastic Ono Band.
And there is a great online article by musician and song writer Peter Cross,The Beatles Are The Most Creative Band Of All Time and he says that many musicians besides him recognize Paul as one of the best bass guitar players ever.He too says that John and Paul are the greatest song composers and that to say that John and Paul are among 2 of the greatest singers in rock and roll is to state the obvious,and that John,Paul and George were all excellent guitarists and that George is underrated by people not educated about music but that Eric Clapton knew better,he also says that both John and Paul played great leads as well as innovative rhythm tracks.
John Lennon co-wrote,sang and played guitar on one of David Bowie's first hits Fame in 1975 and David invited John to play guitar on his version of John's beautiful Beatles song Across The Universe.Brain May,Ozzy Osbourne,and Liam Gallagher and many more call The Beatles The Greatest Band Ever.'
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Beatle...Time&id=222245
Also on Music Radar Tom Petty,Joe Perry and Richie Sambora in What The Beatles Mean To Me all say how cool and great they thought The Beatles were when they first saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 when they were just teen boys,Richie was only 5.Tom Petty said he thought they were really really great.And Alan White from the group Yes is also interviewed.
http://www.musicradar.com/news/guita...n-to-me-219800
Robin Zander of Cheap Trick said he's probably one of the biggest Beatles fans on the planet.Brad Whitford of Aerosmith said that a lot of that Beatles influence comes from Steven Tyler's collaborartion with Mark Hudson both whom are absolute Beatles freaks and he said I guess the goal is to try and emulate probably some of the best music of the last 50 years which has to be The Beatles.
In 2010 I read an online article that had an interview with Ernie Isley of The Isley Brothers about a recent tribute to Jimi Hendrix, in which he says that Jimi played for The Isley Brothers & lived with them & that they & he were fans of The Fab Four from the moment they all watched them on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964. I always thought that Jimi was only a later period Beatles fan,I knew he played Sgt.Pepper live the weekend it came out,& he played Day Tripper live also,& several people on different message boards said that when he was asked where the direction of music was going,he said ask The Beatles.
Ozzy Osbourne has been a big Beatles fan since he was an early teenager,and he picked She Loves You as one of his favorite songs for Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest songs and Sgt.Pepper is one o his favorite albums. He says that not loving The Beatles is like not loving oxygen and he called The Beatles the greatest band to ever walk the earth.
Here Ozzy Osbourne says that he doesn't anyone will ever be as great as The Beatles and he said they were all great,even George Harrison and Ringo Starr were great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD0_MtCDcQQ
Here is a video of Ozzy Osbourne meets Paul McCartney for the first time and they hug each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkudA0P27Q0
Here Ozzy Osbourne says how hearing She Loves You in 1963 at age 15 on his transistor radio inspired him to go into music.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/en...-30320049.html
Here both Ozzy Osbourne and Tom Petty praise The Beatles,the early Beatles in this clip but The Beatles in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCnjnE0c0RE
From Me To You,and especially She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand were praised by some music critics even from the beginning,like William Mann of The London Times in December 1963 pointed out their interesting unusual chords and arrangements and London Times music critic Richard Buckle also in late 1963 called John and Paul the greatest composers since Beethoven after they wrote the music for a play Mods and Rockers.
Bob Dylan,Roger McGuinn of The Byrds as early as 1963 and 1964 pointed out that even in early Beatles songs like She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand had unusual and interesting chords and they arranged them.Roger McGuinn also said that The Beatles unusually used folk rock chords in their rock n roll music they wrote and he said that they invented folk rock music without even knowing it.
Here in this article about The Beatles chords,Bob Dylan is quoted saying what he thought in 1964 about The early Beatles music,he said that they were doing things nobody was doing and that their chords were outrageous,just outrageous and their harmonies made it all valid.
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/...d_chords.shtml
Here in Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Song Writers Bob Dylan is number 1,Paul McCartney is number 2, and John Lennon is number 3, Bob Dylan is quoted about a car trip when he heard a lot of Beatles songs on the radio, he said they were doing things and that he knew they were pointing the direction where music had to go.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...rs#john-lennon
Roger McGuinn has said that he started to play a 12 string guitar after he saw and heard George Harrison playing in in the A Hard Day's Night movie.
And John and Paul wrote one of The Rolling Stones first hits the rock n roll song, I Wanna Be Your Man in late 1963 right in front of them. And Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were impressed and said wow,how can you write a song just like that and it inspired them to start writing their own songs.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney were such amazingly talented singer song writers that they were already writing hit songs for other artists as early as 1963 when their own song writing success was getting off the ground,besides The Rolling Stones,they also wrote hit songs in 1963 for Billy J.Kramer and The Dakatos,Celia Black,and Peter and Gordon etc.
Paul wrote his first song at age 14 and was playing guitar,John wrote heavy deep poetry but didn't start writing songs until he met Paul and was impressed that he wrote his own songs,and he too started to write his own songs at age 16,and they wrote together and never stopped from then on. Paul wrote the very pretty song I'll Follow The Sun at only 16.Even when The Beatles first came to America in February 1964 many people said how rare it was for *adult* rock n roll bands and solo artists to write their own songs,and Paul and John were already doing this as teenagers in the mid 1950's.
And even though I wasn't born yet in 1963 I know what type of music was popular on the radio,non rock n roll songs like Bobby Vinton,The Four Seasons,Bobby Darin and The Beach Boys surfing hits,The early Beatles songs like She Loves You, I Want To Hold Your Hand and I Saw Her Standing there etc were hard rock for 1963 and ahead of their time.
In this All Music Guide review of The Beatles late 1963 album,With The Beatles Stephen Thomas Erlewine says at the end of the very good review that still the heart of With The Beatles lies not in the covers but the originals where it was clear that even at this early stage The Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing turning into expert craftsman and musical innovators.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/with-t...s-mw0000192941
In an excellent Beatles book Ticket To Ride by Denny Somach where so many other well known popular respected rock musicians and artists are interviewed about The Beatles praising them including Jimmy Page,Brian Wilson who says he's always loved The Beatles. And Brian Wilson called John & Paul the greatest song writers of the 20th century on a 1995 Nightline Beatles tribute show,(which had on music artists from every type of music,a young black jazz musician,a middle aged black opera singer,Steve Winwood,Meatloaf,and classical violinist Isak Perleman,who said he plays his children Bach,Beethoven Mozart and The Beatles)and he played With A Little Help From My Friends on the piano and he said he just loves this song.
He also said that Sgt.Pepper is the greatest album he ever heard and The All Music Guide says in their Beach Boys biography,that Brian had a nervous breakdown after he heard it. Brian also said that when he first heard The Beatles brilliant 1965 folk rock album Rubber Soul he was blown away by it.He said all of the songs flowed together and it was pop music but folk rock at the same time and he couldn't believe they did this so great,this inspired him to make Pet Sounds.
John Lodge and Justin of The Moody Blues are interviewed in this book and Bill Wyman and Ron Wood says how The Rolling Stones became good friends with The Beatles in 1963 after John and Paul wrote 1 of their first hits,the Rock n Roll song,I Wanna Be You're Man.
Ron Wood was asked what his favorite Beatles songs and he said there are so many apart from the obvious like Strawberry Fields I Want To Hold Your Hand is one he said he used to like a lot ,and he said he really loved We Can Work It Out.He also says that The Beatles used to have a radio show every Friday where they played live and spoke and he would never miss an episode. He said in fact whoever has the rights to those shows should dig them up,because they are incredible.
Justin Hayward says that the album he always really loved ,and he said it was when they started experimenting with chord structures ,was A Hard Day's Night.He says they began to move away from the standard 3 chord thing and just went into more interesting structures .He said A Hard Day's Night was the album for him and their song If I Fell was the song.He said it started in a different key to how it ended up,and it's a beautifully worked out song and that there are some songs on that album that were very emotional and evocative. He said that for everybody just starting to write songs as he was,it was a real turn on and eye opener.
I have read all of the almost all 5 star many amazon.com reviews of the new remastered amazon.com best seller,The Beatles Live At The Hollywood Bowl and many people are saying what I and other fans have said elsewhere,that given how limited and primitive sound systems of the time were,and they had no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing,they played and sounded amazingly good! I heard the small samples on amazon.com,and what struck me is how typically great and prominent Paul's bass playing is,someone said he's playing it like a lead instrument.Also an amazon.com reviewer said how underrated John's rhythm guitar playing is and how George Harrison's guitar playing is very good and how great Ringo's drumming is.
Here on Paul McCartney.com quite a few members are saying that it's amazing and incredible that The Beatles played so great and sang so great with such primitive sound systems at the time and no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing.One member said they were without a doubt the greatest live rock band ever!
http://maccaboard.paulmccartney.com/...r=asc&start=45
Many are saying the same things on this music forum including how great and hard rocking of a live band The Beatles really were.
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/thread...67252/page-141
I found only part of this review from The London Times,you have to have a subscription to read the whole article though,and it says in the first part of it,that it's remarkable they played as well as they did given that they couldn't hear a thing.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/po...bowl-f9pxrkmzg
This guy says at the end of his 5 star great review which he titled,Miraculous! of the UK edition of The Beatles Live At The Hollywood Bowl, that The Beatles showed who the real best Rock and Roll band in the world was.
https://www.amazon.com/review/R2P4H8...iscussionsNRPB
Giles Martin,George Martin's son who recently remastered The Beatles 1964 and 1965 Live At The Hollywood Bowl concerts rightfully says on All Songs Considered when people ask him if The Beatles were a good live band,he says they were a great live band and he mentions the very limited,primitive sound systems they had back then,and says how great The Beatles played live in the studio on their first 3 or 4 albums,and that they all played their instruments very good.
He obviously means they played these first several albums live because they didn't even have any overdubbing until 1965 so they had to play and record those albums live.And their first albums before the great A Hard Day's Night album were recorded on only 2 track tape,they had 4 track by A Hard Day's Night and only 8 track for The White album,Let It Be and Abbey Road.
http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs...tter-than-ever
In this interview with news reporter Larry Kane who interviewed The Beatles from 1964-1966 on their concert tours,and he's in Ron Howard's Beatles documentary Eight Days A week,says that he was at 46 Beatles concerts and there wasn't a bad one. He also says he thinks the film is a reminder of how good The Beatles were as musicians,and he said modern musicians will look at the puny sound equipment they had and will be amazed and that some of their concerts had their music going out on the stadium public address system.
The Beatles even in their early days were writing and playing on records as well in concerts,both love ballads,and great rocking rock n roll and pop rock songs that they both wrote and cover songs including their great rocking performances in Sweden where the audience was quiet during their performances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=R...&v=EWFOO9CWfUQ
They were the greatest *rock* band ever! (NEVER A G*d dam*ed stupid,uncool,untalented boy band as so many ignorant morons misperceive them as!) And I have always loved this great blues rocker by Paul,She's A Woman.
Except live there isn't the piano,blending with the great rocking guitars,Paul's great prominent booming bass,and his great rock vocal! And once again it's amazing how good they sound on such limited,primitive sound systems of the time and with no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing,yet they still played and sang great and in sync with each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsNgLiPyuCY
Here is their great April 1965 New Music Express Winner's Poll concert from April 11,1965.They won three years in a row.And notice that there are men and women of ages in the audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COSSsu1GSCk
Here they performed Paul's great rocking I Saw Her Standing There in Sweden in October 1963 which The Beatles recorded in February 1963 on their first album Please Please Me which was recorded in just one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkySom9bTfM
The Beatles performing their rocking cover of Long Tall Sally with Paul's great rocking vocal June 1964.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiXtk296YmE
Here in 1964 June in Melbourne Australia they are playing John's great rock song that they had recorded in February 1964 on their first great early album A Hard Day's Night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Dpt7TI9q0
And here they performed Paul's very good hard rocking,especially for early 1965,I'm Down at The Ed Sulivian Theater August 14,1965 one night before their live Shea Stadium performance.
Here is their even harder rocking performance at Shea Stadium on August 15,1965 than they did on their record version of Paul's I'm Down. And they did what a great rock n roll band would do,they ended this rock n roll concert with this rocking song.
Here they performed a rocking cover of Dizzy Miss Lizzy with John's great rock vocal,at the same She Stadium concert.
Here is another great rocking Beatles performance of the cover Twist and Shout in June 1964 in Melbourne Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdIzcm95NCM
And what a huge disgusting insult to all of them as very talented musicians,and to John and Paul as extremely talented song composers and great singers,and to John Lennon's memory and was never the founder and leader of some stupid,uncool,untalented boy band! And I'm certain that if John were still living he would come on youtube and other message boards and say I was *never* the founder and leader of any f**king stupid,uncool,untalented boy band get that through your stupid f**king heads!
If Beethoven,Mozart and Bach had screaming teenage girls in their audiences and they formed a band together they would have been a boy band too right?
It's really amazing how good The Beatles sounded live with such limited primitive crappy sound systems of the time,but they were so great that they would have even sounded good playing out of of cave.
There is an online interview with Roger Daltry,Roger's Journey With The Who in The Sun http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...h-The-Who.html and he was asked if The Who had screaming girls at a certain point,and he said after Can't Explain they did. He said it was the screaming teenage era and every band had them on their way up. He said it was fun at first but the trouble for a performer when you are that young and inexperienced is that you start to judge your performances on the amount they scream,he said it's nonsense which is why Lennon gave up. He also said that The Who's manager turned their image overnight from scruffy rockers to Mods.
When The Beatles played live in 1963,64,65 & 66 they only had 100 watt amplifiers,no feedback monitors so they couldn't hear themselves sing and play,plus the screaming crowds and that's why they gave up touring.
George Harrison says in The Beatles Anthology video series,that for their August 1965 Shea Stadium concerts, special 100 watt amplifiers were made and that they went up from only 30 watts before. Given how limited and primitive the sound systems were then,it's amazing they sounded as good as they did live.But it was impossible for *anyone* to sound great on those kind of limited,primitive sound systems of the time.
Former Kiss guitarist Bob Kulick who produced the heavy metal Beatles tribute album, Butchering The Beatles, said he saw The Beatles in concert in 1966 and he said he could hear parts of Baby's In Black & Paperback Writer and they sounded amazing.
A guy Steve from Canada said on Artist Facts,that he saw The Beatles live in 1966 and The Stones in 1996(and the sound systems by then were a zillion times better!) and he said don't get me wrong,The Stones were great but they were no match for The Beatles and he called The Beatles The Greatest Band Of All Time.
The Beatles started out playing 8 hours a night in the sleazy strip clubs of Hamburg Germany,taking speed pills to stay awake,wearing tight black leather jackets and pants,smoking and cursing on stage,and had sex with so many young women groupies including the strippers in those clubs,they were successful there. They also played successfully live in The Cavern Club for several years in the early 1960's.
John and George especially hated Beatle Mania,and George says in The Anthology series, that it took a toll on their nervous systems, they had no life either trapped in hotel rooms most of the time. They wanted to be popular & successful as every band does, but they didn't want or ask for the hysteria. John says in his 1975 Tomorrow Show interview that the screaming wasn't doing the music any good,and that things would break down and nobody would know.
The Beatles sound great on their live roof top January 1969 concert in The Let It Be Film, and the sound systems had improved by then,(although still very limited compared to today's) and there were no more screaming crowds.
Paul was playing guitar and writing songs at 14 and he started soon after his beloved nurse and midwife mother Mary died of breast cancer, and he wrote the beautiful song Let It Be after he had a real seeming dream where he saw her alive again and she told him to just accept things as they are. He says in his authorized biography, that when he woke up he thought how great it was to see her alive again.
And there is this very good article by Collin Fleming from The Atlantic, 50 Years Later: The Greatest Beatles Performance Of All Time
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...l-time/280801/
And there used to be the full video of The Beatles February 1964 Washington Colosseum and there were over 1,000 likes and many people were saying what Frank and Jack say to this now only audio version of this concert,( many people on youtube are saying why are many of The Beatles videos gone off of youtube now and some are saying it's because of the UMG_MK company that it's amazing that with such crappy sound systems of those days and no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing and many said they still sound so good and great and some say this Washington concert proves what a great live band they were and before they got so tired of all of the Beatlemania garbage they had to put up with all of the screaming drowning out their great music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge66-bK0E70
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Tecno Camon 16 Premier review
Emmanuel ChenzeSeptember 25, 202010921
We have had lots of run-ins with Tecno devices here at Android Kenya over the years. Lots of them. Many have been impressive because Tecno and its mother company, the Transsion Group, have mastered the art of balancing user needs and features, offering the best of both worlds at prices that resonate with the masses.
The Tecno Camon 16 Premier is a continuation of that approach.
What sets it apart, however, is that it's essentially the best device (yes, even when you factor in the Chinese brand's dalliance with tablets) that Tecno has released this year, at least in my opinion.
READ: Tecno Camon 16 Premier specifications
To try to understand where Tecno is coming from with the Camon 16 Premier requires us to start where it all matters when you first interact with the device: the design.
With the same mould of refined plastic feel – not looks – as the Infinix Zero 8, the Tecno Camon 16 Premier, at least the Glacial Silver model that I have with me for review, glitters in the sun. The glittering helps hide the fingerprint magnet that the back really is and, thankfully, it's never in sight as a result. That also means that you can keep the clear case that Tecno includes in the box in the drawer as the Camon 16 Premier is such a joy to hold and use "naked".
The camera hump, also, is apparently no hump at all. At least not like others that we have seen. It is designed and placed in such a way that it doesn't cause any imbalance when the device is placed on a flat surface, like a table, something that we are also seeing with a number of other devices like the budget realme C15.
The device is big, has some heft to it that you can't ignore and is very domineering.
Another thing that's visible on the bottom of the device is Tecno's decision to go with a USB Type-C port. We always knew that this day would come and it's finally here. Finally!
The dual selfie cameras on the front don't do much to alter the looks of the front of the device as its still the same classic Tecno look we've known – bezels are slimmer and that's pretty much it.
It does get very bright and I had no qualms using it outside. It's big, it's bright, it's vibrant. Oh, and it's a 90Hz panel as well, now that high-refresh-rate display panels are all the rage right now. Regarding that, other than the buttery smooth performance one enjoys, it's not as explicit. A lot of that has something to do with the software needing to catch up with the hardware but hey, who's complaining?
The Tecno Camon 16 Premier features 6 cameras and they all punch above their weight.
The main sensor at the back, the 64-megapixel lens, is one of the best that one can get on a mid-range device and it shows in the results.
Images are crisp, sharp and detailed, just the way you'd want them.
Now, Tecno has included a gazillion features to go with their cameras, opening up the device to myriad use cases. The ones that stood out for me are the automatic enhancements, thanks to the Camon 16 Premier's Artificial Intelligence smarts (thanks to TAIVOS – Tecno AI Vision Optimization Solution). It detects various scenes and items and cranks up or down the necessary settings to get the killer shot that one desires (or, perhaps, more accurately, didn't know they desired).
The selfie camera, for instance, will even automatically switch to a "group mode" to accommodate more people in a single shot without the need for one to spend time manually making the adjustment, taking advantage of the selfie camera's 105-degree ultra-wide-angle sensor.
Talking about the ultra wides on the Camon 16 Premier, using the back cameras, one doesn't get photos that are as detailed in ultra-wide-angle mode since you can't get them in all their 64MP glory as that option disappears as soon as you switch to ultra-wide. So you end up with something like this (see below) which is good but which you can't zoom into if you need to without losing many details:
Now look at this image in all its 9216 x 6912 glory:
At night, is when the fun begins. Like we saw with the Infinix Zero 8, a device that the Camon 16 Premier shares a lot in common with, there is a vast improvement in the night camera performance compared to anything we have seen from Tecno before. Sure, there will be visible noise in the finished product when you zoom in but scenes are well focused, a little on the lower side of sharpness but instantly clear and well illuminated. Whatever Tecno is on to, they are on to a good thing.
I did not find the AI beautification particularly impressive, even though Tecno has made some strides over the years to get the African black skin tones right. Good thing, though, is that when you turn it off, the available lenses do a great job of keeping the real you real.
The much-touted 10x hybrid zoom works but it's mainly just "nice to have" when you zoom all as lots of details get lost in the process. In my case, I couldn't use it to snoop on car number plates on the road.
The camera's stabilization when taking videos is one to build upon. It's good. The Tecno Camon 16 Premier might be just what gets your vlogging journey going. I mean, it's not too late in the year to actualize your 2020 resolutions, right?
Given that the Camon 16 Premier is a rather large device, reaching the volume up/down buttons when holding it by one hand can be a, well, tall order. Which is why the ability to set the fingerprint sensor as a camera shutter is welcome.
Do we need to discuss the Helio G90T's performance? It's a beast of a mid-range chipset and, so far, we have seen that very well in all the devices that we have reviewed where it features.
In the case of the Camon 16 Premier, the device is as fast as it can get, everything is highly responsive and, generally, there is nothing to complain about. I had a bout of prolonged gaming – about an hour – and nothing slowed down or ground to a halt. I expect the same to be the case for just about everything. For equally demanding apps like Zoom, when handling video calls, users should expect the same level of high performance they get when doing other tasks.
For the games, there's even a Game Mode, as has been the case on other Tecno smartphones we've looked at before. In this case, it only serves to make better what is already a very good experience. Unrelated to the phone's performance but related to your own, it will alert you, by default, if you clock over 2 hours of gameplay. It even aggregates gameplay data which you can go over to see if you're entering unhealthy territory where you can be said to be addicted. We're veering off into the software…
It's still the HiOS 7 that we have previously interacted with and not much has changed. It's highly customized, features lots of annoying add-on features – apps and services that not only may not make much sense but also won't let you have any peace, bombarding you with constant notifications and making the notification shade a mess. Still, they were much more bearable than my experience with the Zero 8 which is the worst experience I have had so far.
One thing I liked, though, is that the so-called smart panel is now no longer triggered by a simple swipe gesture on either side of the display (left or right) but a more intentional forceful one. It helps it stay out of the way for people like yours truly who find it annoying but also within the reach of anyone who finds it useful, which should be the case for many given how gargantuan the Tecno Camon 16 Premier is.
Turn off a lot of the unnecessary add-on features and services and you'll have a relatively good experience on the Camon 16 Premier even though the annoying notifications cluttering the notification shade won't let you off the hook. Slap a custom launcher and you'll have drowned half the noise and just need to figure out a way to make peace with your newfound reality: not everything will go away.
Battery life on the Tecno Camon 16 Premier is fantastic. That is to be expected, though. As we have known over the years, the optimizations that Tecno makes are usually geared to provide users with the best performance all around. While many of us take that to mean lower latency thus less lag and more responsiveness, behind the scenes, it also means better management of resources which, in turn, has a huge bearing on a device's battery life. That is the case with the Camon 16 Premier.
Even if it weren't the case, you'd still be juicing up the device in a matter of minutes thanks to the included 33W fast-charger. It takes just an hour to fully charge up the device.
A stereo speaker would've been nice but the included bottom-firing speaker is loud enough so I'll take that.
Good display
The cameras are amazing
Long battery life and equally superb fast-charging
The software remains a constant pain-point. It's refined to the point where it is very usable day-to-day and you wouldn't complain but Tecno goes overboard with the notifications and promotions. Ads everywhere.
Tecno has done it again. In a big way.
There is little wonder, then, why this device has been scooping awards all over the place.
The hype is really justified on this one.
That is high praise for a device that belongs in a mere mid-range, well, range, but, given what we know now about it, what will Tecno do to make its next Phantom smartphone, if at all we'll have one this year (there have been years where it's been skipped in favour of standout budget devices like the Camon 16 series), stand out? The Tecno Camon 16 Premier ticks all the boxes. Sure, there are several areas that can be improved upon but what would be the incentive to get anything else from Tecno that costs Kshs 5,000 – 10,000 more when you can have this?
Now, if that is what I have to say about the competition that faces the Camon 16 Premier internally then what about externally?
The Infinix Zero 8, the Tecno Camon 16 Premier's direct competitor, shares just about the same feature-set as the Camon 16 Premier so it's all down to preferences and the little things. Pretty much nitpicking. Then there's the competition out there. Whatever choice you end up making, it won't be a bad one if you end up with the Camon 16 Premier. If anything, my fear is that it can be cannibalized by the standard variant which should keep many of the things that we like about the Premier while lowering the price.
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Novak Djokovic Knew He Was COVID Positive During Photo Shoot
Novak Djokovic is navigating waters that have gone from warm to boiling, because the tennis star admitted he knew he had COVID when he posed for a photo shoot and chatted with a reporter from a French magazine.
Beyond that … Djokovic attended multiple public events and posed for photos on December 16 and 17 — in particular the 17th, when he handed out awards at a children's event — but he says that shouldn't be held against him, because he got a negative rapid test on the 16th.
However, he also took a PCR test that same day that turned out to be positive. The Serbian government's records show that result came back at 8:19 PM on the same day — but Novak insists he didn't get the info until the evening of the 17th.
So, the question is … what did he know and when???
Whatever the case, he still did the photo shoot with L'Equipe magazine in Belgrade on the 18th when he knew he was positive.
He says, aside from the actual shoot, he was socially distanced from the reporter and photographer and masked. Djokovic now says he made a mistake and should have canceled.
Well…@lequipe, which named him the Champion of Champions for 2021, now reveals that ND took part in a photo shoot with the trophy in Belgrade on December 18th – two days after he took a test that turned out to be positive.https://t.co/W0HHxHV9En pic.twitter.com/jwMBBguFBP
— Oleg S. (@AnnaK_4ever) January 8, 2022
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He also acknowledges his visa application was incorrect … he says his agent checked the wrong box, declaring Novak had not traveled internationally, which he very clearly did.
Djokovic, the number 1 seed in the Australian Open, was allowed into the country after the tournament granted him a medical exemption … because he had just gotten over COVID and had antibodies, that apparently qualified.
What we don't know yet … will officials from the Australian Open or the Australian government boot Djokovic for knowingly exposing people to the virus.
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