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Coalition of mayors announce guaranteed income pilot programs around the country
The idea is being promoted as an extension of the public safety net.
Anagha Srikanth | Sept. 16, 2020
Mayors for a Guaranteed Income is a coalition of 25 democratic mayors piloting universal income programs in their cities.
The programs offer monthly cash payments to low-income residents to supplement the existing social safety net.
Supporters hope guaranteed income programs will help address existing inequities worsened by the coronavirus pandemic.
A coalition of 25 democratic mayors announced the rollout of pilot guaranteed income programs in their cities on Wednesday amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
"We are seeing an unprecedented crisis in our country and we're coming to a recognition that we don't have a funding problem, we have a priorities problem," said Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, who issued an executive order to provide up to 150 families in his city with $500 per month in guaranteed income for up to 18 months beginning this fall.
Since Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs and the Economic Security Project founded Mayors for a Guaranteed Income in June, 14 new mayors from cities including New Orleans, Seattle, Philadelphia and Richmond have joined, more than doubling the coalition's membership. The concept of a guaranteed income is a monthly cash payment given directly to individuals without any work or other requirements.
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"This is not a foreign concept, this is not a scary concept, it is a concept in line with values like universal dignity," said Tubbs on a conference call. "Guaranteed income has to be a federal solution, but we understand that Washington can't work as fast as us mayors."
Stockton recently extended its guaranteed income pilot program, which began giving $500 each month to 125 residents in February 2019. But the concept of guaranteed income is often politicized in the United States under accusations of "socialism," said Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney.
"I think back to my grandparents getting their social security check and my parents getting their social security check and now I'm looking forward to getting my social security check," said Kenney, who is 62. "I do know that those things have become part of the fabric of America and we can make this part of the fabric of America where it's not looked down upon."
The mayors also believe a guaranteed income can help correct existing racial inequities that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, which has disproportionately hurt Black, Indigeneous and other communities of color.
"Richmond is not unlike any of the other cities on this call. There's a Richmond that's on the rise and a Richmond that's been left behind," said Richmond, Va., Mayor Levar Stoney.
The $1.5 million budget for Saint Paul's People's Prosperity Pilot will come from the city's CARES fund as well as the coalition's national network and philanthropy. While some cities are using a combination of public and private funds for their pilot programs, others are relying on private aid.
"Cash is the urgency of now," said Shawyn Patterson-Howard, Mayor of Mount Vernon, N.Y. "It's the best economic multiplier we can provide. We know that when you put money in the hands of residents they are going to spend it back in their community."
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"Black women are among the most likely groups to experience cash shortfalls that make covering basic needs difficult," said the executive director of the GRO Fund.
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Happy Chaos
Happy Chaos, or simply Chaos for short, is a mysterious gunslinger who makes his playable debut in Guilty Gear -STRIVE- series who discovered the Backyard and influenced the history of the world under various aliases. His name first appeared during the events of Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2.
At some point during the Crusades, he discovered I-No in the Backyard and took half of her power in order to prevent her from becoming an entity transcending time, which could create a paradox threatening the very existence of the universe. The Universal Will, unable to directly attack the Original, then stole that power and fused it with him, transforming him into a devilish anomaly. Burdened with omnipotence and now carrying all of humanity's hope towards living, he lost interest in concepts like good and evil, instead creating conflict to amuse himself and remind humankind of their own humanity.
During the Crusades he would depart the Backyard in spirit form to wreak havoc, manipulating the populace to sow chaos and destruction, resulting in countless deaths including the massacre of Baiken's friends and family. Among those he manipulated during this time was the vampire Nagoriyuki. Many of his actions during the Crusades were wrongly attributed to the mysterious individual known as That Man.
Happy Chaos was released from Ariels's body by I-No, with the pair departing the castle grounds before Ky Kiske arrived with more Illyrian soldiers. Outside, Chaos revealed to I-No his desire to make her a god, explaining that he exists for a reason and that despite most of the universe being undiscovered, the only thing that really interests him is drama. He then used his magic to materialize a red convertible and the pair set out.
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Happy Chaos takes the place of Elphelt as the gunslinger of Guilty Gear -STRIVE-. Like Elphelt from Guilty Gear Xrd, players can see actual crosshairs onscreen when Mr. Happy Chaos is pointing his shotgun. In some ways, he doesn't even "feel like" a fighting game character. He functions differently from other characters in the game and even has to watch his ammo.
His moveset is fairly interesting and he has some pretty entertaining animations like any proper Guilty Gear character. However, his normal attacks have so much "laziness" which doesn't appeal to me as a traditional fighter. Visually as a design, I think Chaos is missing something (yet somehow manages to have too much going on at the same time). Like a few other "new" GG characters in recent years, his default color scheme seems like it should've been Color #6. lol. That said, many of his alt. colors make him look cooler in my book. Red + Black FTW. Something about him definitely seems off, but I'm sure some players enjoy using him in STRIVE. However, I think he's outshined quite a bit by several other of STRIVE's newcomers.
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The FIA is bidding to draw in major manufacturers to its revamped top World Endurance Championship class by slashing costs and implementing tighter regulations for closer racing. The FIA and series promoter Automobile Club de l'Ouest said when the new, hypercar-based category takes the place of today's LMP1 class from 2020, it's estimated to cost teams around 20 million euros a year. Which is just shy of £17.6 million of her majesty's money, and a downright bargain compared to the £200m it costs to race in F1.
The new figure is also five million euros (£4.8m) less than the previous lowest estimate provided by the FIA. This would suggest motorsport's governing body is working hard to make the WEC as appealing as possible so brands like Aston Martin and Koenigsegg - which have both expressed interest in the new category - can help to inject some excitement back into the sharp end of the world's premiere endurance category. Because it needs it.
Technically, there won't be a budget cap, meaning teams can turn up with lorry loads of cash and serve the finest caviar in their catering awnings, should they want. But the FIA believes carefully imposed limits for car design should prevent any spending above the 20 million euro estimate from gaining a team an advantage on track. That's hard to believe, given the ineffectiveness of F1's tight regulation controls, but we're certainly hoping it's true. A close category of hypercar racers sounds very good to us.
Since the new cars would be based on roadgoing hypercars, such as the Valkyrie and, perhaps, the Agera's successor (the idea has been teased), they'll be slower than the thoroughbred LMP1 prototypes. The FIA estimates that the hypercars would ultimately take around five seconds longer to complete a hot lap of Le Mans than 2018's quickest machine, the Toyota TS050 Hybrid. But anyone who's seen that car or its former rivals tackle the esses at Circuit de la Sarthe up close will know shaving five seconds off the 8.5-mile lap shouldn't exactly make the cars unspectacular.
The cars will still make use of hybrid powertrains, as well, so straight-line performance should remain comparable to today's LMP1 cars. The proposed regulations would require hybrid power and all-wheel drive, like the present top rules, and - to make it easier for privateers to compete - manufacturers would be required to offer their electric propulsion systems for purchase or lease. A two million euro lease figure for a two-car team has been proposed.
While we shouldn't get too ahead of ourselves, because the WEC's new regulations are all provisional and subject to change, the wheels are certainly now rolling. A 'final draft' of the category rules will be produced next month before the FIA World Motor Sport Council decides whether to sign it off on 5 December. Let's hope that's followed by a swathe of interest from hypercardom's biggest brands.
They really need to do this.
Imagine an LMP 1 class of Koeniggsegg, Pagani, Aston, Ferrari, Porsche McLaren hypercars.
It would actually be worth going to Le Mans to watch the racing!
Might see Alonso back in a McLaren !
Agreed. More manufacturers really need to start getting back into all forms of motorsport before all but the diehards lose interest completely. BTCC and WRC while having some fantastic drivers have largely lost the appeal of being linked to cars available to buy. I get the cars should be a fairly level playing field to allow driver skill to come through but different manufacturers using the same engine (i.e DTM) is nonsense IMO, the variety is part of the draw to it, even it out with mass penalties if you have to. Hate to dwell on the past but look at those fantastic revival races where you have Minis squaring up to Ford Galaxies, brilliant. Also remember homologation road car rules have bought us some of the best to drive and most innovative roads cars we have ever seen.
Think they should just beef up the GTE cars rather than going to the expense of a complete new set of cars.
I think many people will be disappointed when this doesn't result in a grid full of Valkyries, Sennas and AMG Ones.


What makes the art of cartooning unique among the visual arts is that it blends pictures and words to achieve its narrative purposes. Probably the best way to understand the way in which words and pictures blend in cartooning is to look at a few single panel gag cartoons. Take a look at these.
In a good gag cartoon, the picture doesn't make sense without the words. The picture is a puzzle; the words explain in some fashion the puzzle. By the same token, the words don't make sense without the picture—or, more precisely, the words don't make the same sense as they have in the cartoon without the picture. To read the captions in the cartoons above, click on the image; and then click on it again when it crops up again. And do the same on all the rest of our visual aids.
In our first example on the left, the words give some sort of meaning to what the dogs are doing in Rob Harrell's cartoon. Ditto the caption of Jerry Van Amerongen's Ballard Street panel. Both the captions make perfect sense without the picture; but not the same sense.
At the left, the comedy in our first example by Gary McCoy arises from the dog's having misunderstood what the conductor is doing with the stick. But neither words nor the picture make the same hilarious sense without the other. In Mike Baldwin's Cornered cartoon, the words give humorous meaning to the picture; and vice versa.
And again in another Baldwin cartoon.
Without the pictures, the words "wishy" and "washy" don't quite make sense. In the next Baldwin, the verbal and the visual blend for comedic meaning, but there's something else going on here, too. I can imagine a movie short that makes the same joke, but it would seem awfully contrived. Here, Baldwin doesn't have to work so hard: the pictorial fake explains in some sense the trick played on the innocent consumer. And it's done with such economy that it makes the joke.
Some comedy, like the last cartoon's, is possible only in the medium.
Dan Piraro's Bizarro cartoon on the left is a sterling example of comedy possible only in the comics. Ditto Bill Whitehead's Free Range joke.
Sometimes, admittedly, the principle can be carried a little too far.
The miscreant in the New Yorker cartoon at the left is making off with an 'H," perhaps having stolen it from the London bobbie's speech. Yes, it can happen only in a cartoon, but the giant 'H' is not something you find around the landscape every day. Verisimilitude teeters and threatens to tip over.
London policemen are called bobbies as homage to Sir Robert Peel, who launched the London police force; in Ireland, cops are called "peelers" for somewhat the same reason. Aren't you glad you dropped in today? Such a font of knowledge hereabouts.
To the right of the 'H' gag is another Bizarro panel. Piraro's gag here is not an example of our text for today: I'm including it because it's pretty funny, and as an in-group joke, it derives added entertainment if you know that the speaker is Piraro's self-caricature.
This next specimen could happen only in comics.
Next time out, we'll look at some comic strips the humor of which can happen only in the cartoon strip medium.
This entry was posted on Monday, February 21st, 2011 at 8:13 pm	and is filed under Blog.


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Disney+ Review: Best Streaming Service to Keep Entire Families Happy?
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With content ranging from Disney vault classics from the 1930s to the latest Marvel superhero series, Disney+ rivals Netflix with its online content library. The Disney+ streaming platform gives users on-demand access to shows and movies from some of the biggest franchises including Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and, of course, Disney.
Just want the bottom line? If you just want to know if Disney+ is worth getting, for most people, the answer is a resounding yes. There are three primary ways to get it:
Hulu + Live TV: Get 85+ live TV channels along with Disney+ and ESPN+ for $69.99/mo.
Hulu Bundle: Get Hulu on-demand, ESPN+, and Disney+ for just $13.99/mo. Check it out with a 30-day free trial.
Disney+: Get the standlone plan for just $7.99/mo.
Get Disney+ for $7.99 Now!
Dancing With the Stars is now exclusively on Disney+!
You can choose from a monthly or annual plan to get access to a library of your favorite Disney content through the Disney+ website. Or, you can opt for a free trial through a bundle with another provider like Amazon or Hulu.
Disney+ brings together several fan-favorite franchises.
Unsure? This guide will help you figure out if Disney+ is the right streaming platform for you.
1 What Is Disney+?
2 Disney+ Pricing and Bundles
3 Content
4 Features & User Experience
5 Supported Devices
6 Disney+ Outside the US
7 Disney+ vs Other Streaming Services
8 Summary: Is Disney+ Worth It?
What Is Disney+?
✔ Huge content variety ❌ Relatively small library
✔ Cheapest Disney classics library ❌ Missing some Disney titles
✔ Hundreds of 4K titles ❌ Mildly annoying interface
Disney+ (Disney Plus) is one of the most popular streaming services today, and it's not hard to see why.
For Disney fans and those of Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, National Geographic, and other properties, Disney+ is probably the best way to gain access to movie and series favorites.
Disney+ original movies and series.
Here's the Disney+ review at a glance:
On-demand streaming service
Monthly plans available at $7.99/mo
Annual plans available at $79.99/yr
No contract or cable required
Ad-free content
Includes content from major franchises including: Disney, Marvel, National Geographic, Pixar, Star Wars, and more.
Access to popular TV shows, movies, and original content
Rediscover Disney classics from the Disney vault
Special kid-friendly content library full of shows and movies
Available on most devices including smart TVs, computers, phones, tablets, and gaming consoles
Bundles with sister-services Hulu and ESPN+ are available.
Read on to learn how you can get the most from your Disney+ plan.
Disney+ Pricing and Bundles
Users have two options when it comes to Disney+ plans: monthly and annual. In the US, the monthly subscription costs $7.99 per month, while the annual subscription costs $79.99 per year (which is more than 16% in savings). Information on international pricing is down the page under "Disney+ Outside the US."
Either subscription gets you an ad-free content library on up to four TVs or devices at once. You can also download content on up to 10 different devices.
Annual subscriptions save you money and lock in your deal if the monthly price goes up, but then you're committed for a full year; you're trading away the flexibility advantage of streaming. That doesn't make it a bad deal as long as you understand what you're giving up.
Disney offers several bundle combinations of Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. Note that Hulu + Live TV now includes Disney+ and ESPN+ standard in its $69.99/mo subscription price.
Disney Plus + Hulu (with ads) + ESPN+ at $13.99 per month (reg. $24.99/mo)
Disney Plus + Hulu (ad-free) + ESPN+ at $19.99 per month (reg. $30.99/mo)
Amazon Music Unlimited + Disney Plus at $7.99 per month.* (reg $15.98)
*New Amazon Music subscribers get 6-months of Disney+ free and existing Amazon Music subscribers get 3-months free. Once the free period is over, the subscription rate applies.
Disney+ offers a massive library of on-demand content. You'll get access to 1,300+ titles, but you should be aware that you won't get access to any of Disney's live cable channels.
In addition to Walt Disney Studios titles, you'll get content from Twentieth Century Fox, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm (Star Wars), NatGeo, ABC Studios, FOX Life, Searchlight Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, and ESPN Films.
Animated, live-action, kids, adults, reality, documentaries, drama, comedy, action, sports– there is literally something for everyone.
Disney and Pixar
If you're a Disney fan who's ever fantasized about all your favorite classics coming out of vault all at once and being able to binge them all from Aladdin to Zootopia, then Disney+ is your dream come true.
From the big-name fairy tales like Snow White and Cinderella to less remembered titles like That Darn Cat! and Labyrinth, 99% of anything you'd ever want to see that ever came out of Disney Studios is here.
Plus everything from the animation studio that made computer-animated movies a thing, Pixar. Toy Story (all four movies) and Soul and everything in between, plus all the shorts like Bao and Boundin'.
A few of the Disney Vault and Pixar animated classics:
Easily find classic Disney animated and live-action films on Disney+.
As well as some of the more recent Disney hits:
Pinocchio (2022 Live Action)
The MCU is a big place, and getting bigger all the time. With Phase 4 in full-swing and the multiverse mania just getting started, some of these series are the interstitial glue that holds the blockbuster films together.
In addition to all the MCU movies, all the way back to Iron Man, you can find tons of brand-new, only-on-Disney+ content. Limited-run series, open-ended series, movies, theatrical releases, and specials, and always more to come.
Cloak & Dagger
While not technically part of the MCU per se, Disney now also has rights to 20th Century's X-Men movies, including the gut-wrenching Logan. Sorry, Spidey-fans, Sony still owns Spider-Man (though Sony and Disney are collaborating some with their properties).
A galaxy far, far away has never been closer. From A New Hope onward, all the old and new movies are here, plus all the animated and live-action series filling in the gaps.
Disney+'s first break-out hit that cemented its place with the major streaming services was The Mandalorian, an amazing ode to Star Wars' space-Western roots.
Some other not-to-be missed Star Wars titles include:
Star Wars: Andor
And, bonus! a brand-new behind-the-scenes look at the people who brought the Rebellion and the Empire to life in Light & Magic.
Get your learn on with the folks who have been showing us stuff we've never seen for over a hundred years. Far-flung places, ancient people, culture, and history, you can find out all the things you never knew you never knew.
Featured titles include:
Super/Natural
Epic Adventures with Bertie Gregory
First Alaskans
America's National Parks
Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin
The World According to Jeff Goldblum
Secrets of the Whales
Disney owns the rights to more media than you probably realize. So in addition to all of that above, you can also find 20th Century (formerly Fox) movies and shows like all 32 seasons of The Simpsons, ESPN productions such as Man in the Arena: Tom Brady and Al Davis vs. the NFL, and ABC's more family-friendly shows like black-ish.
Features & User Experience
Disney+ is easy to use even on a smartphone.
Just as we've come to expect with the Disney brand, the Disney+ user experience is enjoyable. The user dashboard is easy to navigate with several features that help you find exactly what you are looking for.
If you're ever at a loss of what to watch, the Disney+ dashboard makes it easy to find something interesting. Browse by genre, what's popular, trending content, or a curated list based on what you've already watched.
Here are some of the features we have found the most helpful.
Disney+ gives you many different ways to search through content to find interesting things to watch. Search directly with the search bar or use one of their curated lists based on your past use, interest, popularity, and other trends.
Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and NatGeo all have their own hubs, with large thumbnails on the top row of the home screen. A few of the categories from the home screen:
Reimagined Classics
Rediscover These Classics
Explore National Geographic
Whenever you find a show or movie you want to watch but aren't really in the mood for right now, simply add it to your watchlist. All you have to do is simply click on the '+' and it's added!
This list often pops up as one of the first lists in the Disney+ dashboard, making it easy for you to find the content when you actually want to watch it.
Kids Profiles
The option to create a kids profile in your Disney+ account is designed to give parents peace of mind.
What your kids see on their Disney+ home screen
The process is simple. All you have to do is add a new profile and turn the toggle on for a kids profile. A kids profile limits content, giving the user access to only G, TV-Y, TV-Y7/Y7-FV, and TV-G rated content.
On a Kids account, the hubs are replaced with Mickey Mouse & Friends, Princesses, Disney Junior, Super Heroes, Action Adventure, and Animals & Nature. Some categories are the same (Music and Dance, Animated Series, Disney Channel Series), but others are different (Amazing Animals, Nat Geo Kids, Mickey and Friends).
The Princesses collection on Disney+ Kids
One minor issue we had was the "Continue Watching" row. The only option was to continue the episode you left off — there was no option to browse other episodes of the same series. This can be frustrating for kids who like to rewatch their favorite episodes from their favorite series.
GroupWatch
Ever wanted to watch a movie with friends or family members who don't live close by? Disney+ offers GroupWatch, which lets you watch with others through the app as an online group. You'll be able to sync your streams so you can watch your favorite show or movie together and share reactions as you watch.
This feature lets up to seven people join in, including the host, and up to four profiles on a single account (excluding kids' profiles). Just remember that everyone in GroupWatch needs to have their own Disney+ subscription.
To use Disney+ you'll need a compatible streaming device and access to a quality internet connection. It supports pretty much every TV and mobile device in common usage today.
Here are all the different devices you can use to watch Disney+:
Smart TVs:
LG WebOS TVs
Samsung Tizen TVs
Supported Android TVs
Hisense VIDAA 2.5 or 4.0+
AirPlay2 compatible TVs
Supported Panasonic My Home Screen OS TVs
Vizio Smart TVs
Apple TV 4th Gen+ and 4K
Roku (most models)
Xfinity Flex and X1
Cox Contour
iOS devices: iPhones, iPod Touch, and iPads
Android mobile devices (Lollipop+)
Chromecast and Nest Hub
Web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari)
Windows 10 and 11-based tablets and computers
Xbox One and Series X|S
Sony PlayStation 4 and 5
You can also use an HDMI cable to connect a phone, tablet, or computer to your TV. The Disney+ help section has detailed information on exactly which models are supported
Disney+ Outside the US
Disney+ is available in many markets with plans to expand in the coming months. Note the price for a Disney+ subscription price (and product offering) varies by country.
Canada: $11.99 (CAD) per month or $119.99 (CAD) annually
Australia: $11.99 (AUD) per month or $119.99 (AUD) annually
New Zealand: $12.99 (NZD) per month or $129.99 (NZD) annually
Netherlands: € 8,99 per month or € 89,90 annually
United Kingdom: £7.99 per month or £79.90 annually.
Disney+'s content also varies outside the US. Because Hulu is only offered in the United States, many if not most non-US Disney+ versions include Star, a sixth hub that includes ABC, FX, and Hulu originals.
In India, specifically, Disney+ includes Hotstar, which licenses the HBO, HBO Max, and Showtime content for that region.
Disney+ vs Other Streaming Services
Disney+ is one of the best on-demand streaming services out there, but how does it compare to others like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, or Hulu?
Animated Disney favorites on Disney+
Each of these on-demand streaming platforms has a strong library of movies and TV shows. Deciding which one is best for you will mostly depend on what you want to watch, the number of simultaneous screens you need, your budget, and if you have a compatible device.
Disney+ Netflix HBO Max Amazon Hulu Hulu (no Ads)
Price (monthly) $7.99 $9.99 $9.99 $8.99 $6.99 $12.99
Ads No No Yes No Yes No
Offline Downloads Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
4K Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
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Netflix: The original streaming-on-demand subscription service. Still has some of the biggest original titles: Stranger Things, The Crown, Dark, Squid Game, Dead to Me, Midnight Mass, and The Umbrella Academy.
HBO Max: HBO and Warner Bros and more. Home to most signature HBO series (The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood) as well as more recent HBO Max originals: The Cleaning Lady, The Staircase, Succession, This is Going to Hurt, Barry, and Home Economics.
Amazon Prime Video: Tons of add-ons with Prime Video Channels, plus its own collection of must-see acclaimed originals: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Outer Range, Night Sky, The Wheel of Time, The Boys, and Reacher.
Hulu: Disney+'s own sister-network, with the more adult-y content from ABC, FX, and more, plus, of course, Hulu Originals: The Handmaid's Tale, Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers, The Patient, Reservation Dogs, and Only Murders in the Building.
Summary: Is Disney+ Worth It?
If you are a die-hard superhero fan or are one with the Force, then you'll want to seriously consider Disney+ so you can watch all your Marvel and Star Wars favorites.
You'll also get access to thousands of other Disney, Pixar, and NatGeo titles on demand (and a library that is constantly expanding). At only $7.99 a month (or $6.67 if you pay yearly), Disney+ is reasonable priced and definitely makes sense, especially for families.
Disney has no shortage of family favorites
Still not convinced if Disney+ is for you? Here are some other streaming services to check out:
NBC Peacock
Paramount+.
How much does Disney+ cost?
Disney+ offers two different subscription plans: monthly and yearly. A monthly plan costs $7.99 a month. A yearly plan costs $79.99 per year. Choosing a yearly plan gives you nearly 20% cost savings and is a more economical option. Either subscription can be canceled at any time.
Can I watch the Disney Channel with Disney+?
Disney+ is exclusively an on-demand content library with over 500 movies and 7,500 TV episodes. It does not provide access to the Disney Channel or any of Disney's other cable channels. To access these channels without cable you'll need a streaming service like Hulu + Live TV.
Can I watch Disney+ in 4k?
With Disney+ you can watch hundreds of titles in 4K. To access the 4K content you'll want to go into the movies section. Here you'll want to look for movies in the Ultra HD or HDR category. Just keep in mind, in order to take advantage of the 4K HDR, you'll need to have a compatible device with 4K resolution.
Disney+ also provides great sound for much of its library with 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Atmos. Of course, you will need a system that supports this.
Can I watch new releases on Disney+?
As an alternative to movie theater releases, select Disney movies are available on Disney+ through the Premier Access feature. For an additional $29.99 per movie, you can watch the latest releases before they are available to all DIsney+ subscribers. Movies that have been released using Premier Access include Black Widow and Jungle Cruise.
Is Hamilton still available on Disney+?
Hamilton was one of the most anticipated releases to Disney+. While it's true not all content stays on the platform forever, the award-winning drama Hamilton is still available on Disney+. All Disney+ subscribers can enjoy the Broadway smash hit from the comfort of their own home, as often as they want.
What parental controls does Disney+ offer?
When creating an account you can opt to make it a kids profile to feature child-friendly content. Disney+ also offers a kid-proof exit that will require a question to be answered when changing the profile.
More, you can add a profile pin to your account and prevent others from creating new profiles.
Which is better, Disney+ or Hulu?
First off, despite being both owned by Disney, there is little to no overlap between the two services, so, yes, you'll have to choose. But much like Disney+ vs. Netflix, which streaming service you should ultimately go with depends on which has the more appealing titles to you.
It's worth remembering that streaming services have no minimum commitment beyond the current month, so if one service has a couple series you really like, you can subscribe to that service for a month or two, catch up, and then cancel until a new season comes out.
Is it better to get Disney+ or Netflix?
That depends on what you want to watch and how much you are willing to pay. Netflix definitely has a much bigger library of content. But quantity isn't everything, and Netflix has a lot of titles that are objectively utter crap. Netflix is also a lot more expensive, with a starting price of $9.99, and if you want 4K and 4 simultaneous screens, you'll have to fork over $19.99 for Premium.
Disney+, on the other hand, includes 4K and 4 simultaneous devices in its more modest $7.99/mo price tag. If you're looking for bang for your buck, Disney+ is definitely worth a look.
Note that since both are streaming services, you can switch off month-to-month, every six months, or whenever a new season of your favorite show comes out.
What happened to Premier Access?
During the pandemic, Disney+ experimented with offering Premier Access for select titles still in theaters. Premier Access allowed subscribers willing to pay an extra $30 fee to stream the movie while it was still in theaters, months before it would be widely released on Disney+.
Five movies have had Premier Access releases: Mulan (Live Action 2020), Raya and the Last Dragon, Cruella, Black Widow, and Jungle Cruise. There have been no Premier Access offerings since Jungle Cruise in July of 2021, and Disney+ has not announced any forthcoming.
It seems most subscribers weren't particularly interested in paying $30 to watch a movie three or four months early. Go figure.
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vid-, video-, vis-, -vision, -visional, -visionally, visuo-, vu-
(Latin: videre, "to see"; plus words with other related meanings: to notice, noticing, noticed; observe, observing, observed; look, looking, looked; perceive, perceiving, perceived, perception; see, seeing, saw, seen, sight; view, viewing, viewed; manifest, manifesting, manifested; reveal, revealing, revealed, revelelation)
Although many of the words in this unit seem to be from other Latin origins, all of them are etymologically derived from the main Latin videre, "to see" element.
eccentric vision (s) (noun), eccentric visions (pl)
The fixation of the eyes with a part of the retina other than the fovea.
The fovea is located in the eye, a tiny pit located in the macula of the retina (a small spot in the eye where vision is sharpest) which provides the clearest vision of all.
Only in the fovea are the layers of the retina spread aside to let light fall directly on the cones, the cells that give the sharpest image.
enviable (adjective), more enviable, most enviable
1. Relating to the pleasure of being very desirable: Shirley has an enviable reputation for honesty.
2. Conveying feelings of being wanted: This company is in the enviable position of having no real competitors.
When someone is in an enviable situation, others wish that they were also in that status.
enviableness (s) (noun) (no plural)
Highly desirable: As head of the company, Eugenia has an enviableness that some other people wish they could have, too.
enviably (adverb), more enviably, most enviably
Arousing or likely to arouse a feeling of wanting to have what another person has: Mack's company had enviably high profits last year.
envious (adjective), more envious, most envious
Feeling, or showing, a desire to have what others have: It is obvious that Jim's fellow workers were envious of his success as a technical innovator.
Envious programmers desired to know how Roy was able to set up such an efficient web site.
enviously (adverb), more enviously, most enviously
A reference to feeling or showing jealousy for what someone else has: Neighbors were enviously looking at Jaden's new car and wishing they could have one, too.
enviousness (s) (noun) (not countable)
A feeling of great admiration and desire to have something possessed by another person or other people: There is a great deal of enviousness being felt by adult musicians for the extraordinary talent of the thirteen-year old piano player.
envisage (verb), envisages; envisaged; envisaging
1. To conceive of and to contemplate a future possibility: There are those who envisage a time when jobs will be available for everyone who wants one.
2. To mentally conceive an image or a picture of something; especially, as a future possibility: Many people are envisaging a world where all nations can get along with each other.
Janette and Erin envisaged an opportunity to finally be able to buy their own home.
envision (verb), envisions; envisioned; envisioning
1. To think of something that people can believe might exist or happen in the future: The glassmakers are envisioning many uses for their creations.
After overcoming most of her health problems, Shirley envisioned a better life for herself and for her family.
2. Etymology: "something seen in the imagination or in the supernatural", from Anglo-French visioun; Old French vision; which came from Latin visionem, visio, "act of seeing, sight, thing seen"; from the past participle stem of videre, "to see". © ALL rights are reserved.
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envy (s) (noun), envys (pl)
1. The resentful or unhappy feeling of wanting another person's success, good fortune, qualities, or possessions.
2. Spite and resentment at seeing the success of someone else (personified as one of the deadly sins).
3. A resentful desire of something possessed by another person or what other people have, but not necessarily limited to material possessions: The envies of other students were obvious because Bert always knew the answers to the questions that the teacher presented to the class.
Sarina's beautiful hair was an object of envy by anyone who saw her.
4. Etymology: from Old French envie, from Latin invidia, "envy, jealousy"; from invidus, "envious"; from invidere, "envy"; earlier, "look at (with malice), cast an evil eye upon"; from in-, "upon" + videre, "to see".
envy (verb), envies; envied; envying
1. To feel hatred or displeasure regarding a person because of his or her possessions, wealth, achievements, talents, skills, etc.: Jason felt it was a compliment when others envied him because of his successful publications.
2. To feel a desire to have what another person or people have: James was strongly envying Lina for her programming skills for computers.
epileptic panoramic vision
A symptom of an epileptic attack, caused by a neuronal discharge from the temporal lobe, during which events from the patient's past life are seen vividly in a panoramic fashion.
This is usually an accelerated ecmnesic (loss of memory for recent events) visual hallucination.
Esse quam videri.
To be rather than to seem.
Also translated, "To be rather than to seem to be." State motto of North Carolina, USA; and a motto of the National College of Chiropractic, Lombard, Illinois, USA.
Esto quod esse videris.
Be what you seem to be.
evidence (s) (noun), evidences (pl)
1. Something that gives a sign or proof of the existence or the truth of something, or that helps any one to come to a particular conclusion: The doctor told Mayr that there is no evidence that this illness is related to diet.
2. The objects, or information, used to prove or to suggest the guilt of someone accused of a crime: So far, the police have no evidence that Hank's brother committed the robbery.
3. The oral, or written statements, of witnesses and other people involved in a trial or official inquiry.
4. A thing, or things, helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment.
5. Etymology: "appearance from which inferences may be drawn", from Old French evidence, from Late Latin evidentia, "proof"; originally "distinction, clearness" from Latin evidentem, from ex-, "fully, out of" + videntem, videre, "to see".
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "appear, visible, visual, manifest, show, see, reveal, look": blep-; delo-; demonstra-; opt-; -orama; pare-; phanero-; phant-; pheno-; scopo-; spec-; vela-, veal-.


Leaderwave Electronics was established by Mr. Vincent Liu in 1975. Under Mr. Liu's leadership, our company cooperated as a team and expanded more than 3000% in the past 25 years.
Our HeadQuarter is now based in Hong Kong which is mainly responsible for marketing, administration and strategic planning. Our working team is highly experienced and innovative. With our creative and experienced research and development (R&D) team, competent marketing team, technologically advanced production plants, and state of art sound workmanship; our company offers a wide range of audio products including CD Hi-Fi Stereo System, full featured CD Radio Recorder, DVD/VCD/MP3 Players and a range of speaker systems at their highest quality, yet the most competitive price possible on the market.
We have more than 3,600 workers in our factory which employed by our Auto Insertion and SMT division, tooling division (CNC), plastic injection division, speaker box division, transformer division, cassette deck division and multi-assembly lines which are located closely within the same industrial district.
Our R&D teams are located in both Taiwan and Mainland China which gather and introduce information on newest trends, styles, and technologies available on the market to our products.
The coverage of our customers extends globalwide. We have more than 200 customers from over 50 countries. Europe is currently our principal market which occupies over 60% of export sales, whereas U.S. and other countries take up the other 40%.
We believe that with our strong set up in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China, our surperior products will ensure the highest quality and satifaction for your customers.
- Leaderwave Electronics (Qing Xi) Factories/China.- R&D, Assembly, and Production..


Energy Companies: Which? Recommended Providers - Which?
Energy companies strive to earn Which? Recommended Provided status. Find out what it takes to become an energy WRP, plus which energy firm won our award in 2019.
Which? Recommended Provider for energy status is only awarded to those companies which we're confident meet the highest standards, are loved by their customers and don't overcharge them.
It's not easy to achieve. If no companies live up to our high standards, we're not afraid to leave the industry empty-handed. In 2017 there were no energy WRPs.
Read on to find out which company is a Which? Recommended Provider for energy in 2019, how we assess companies for the award, and which companies narrowly missed out this year.
Octopus Energy is the only Which? Recommended Provider for the second year running. It was the only company to pass all of our tough assessments (more about these below).
Find out more in our dedicated Octopus Energy review.
Robin Hood Energy and So Energy had the next-highest customer scores after Octopus. But So Energy didn't score above average in our procedures and practices assessment. Robin Hood Energy scored below average in the performance assessment and didn't pass our pricing check either.
Utility Warehouse and Boost Energy were also close contenders. Both scored well in our customer survey, but neither passed our pricing assessment, which checks whether energy firms are offering good-value deals, and their default tariffs aren't among the priciest.
Utility Warehouse won the Which? Utilities Award for 2018 though, taking into account its broadband and mobile phone services.
Meanwhile Bristol Energy and Bulb Energy missed out because they didn't reach our average score for their procedures and practices. Ovo Energy missed out here too, though it also didn't pass our pricing analysis.
Our energy satisfaction survey is the first piece in the puzzle for aspiring Which? Recommended Providers. Companies must achieve among the highest scores, based on feedback from their customers. See the full results of our energy satisfaction survey 2019.
In addition to the satisfaction survey results, we also carried out a detailed analysis of energy companies' procedures, practices and prices. We award Which? Recommended Provider (WRP) status to those companies which pass all of our criteria so we're confident that they're the best of the best and won't let you down.
Be in the top group of companies rated the highest by their customers.
Have no fines or sanctions brought against them by, or make redress payments in arrangement with, regulatory bodies, such as Ofgem and the Advertising Standards Authority, in the past year.
Follow procedures and practices that we think are in the best interest of the consumer. We scored energy companies against a set of 17 criteria that cover the main elements of the consumer journey including: complaints processes, billing, customer service and account management.
Be better than average on performance for call and online waiting times, and complaints. This is based on our 2018 snapshot investigation into energy company waiting times and the number of complaints companies receive and how fast they resolve them.
Pass our final price analysis. Energy firms must have a variable or fixed tariff in the cheapest part of the market for low, medium and high users for the average user across Great Britain. They also must not have a variable tariff in the most expensive band.
Flow Energy and Ovo Energy are the only other two energy firms to have been Which? Recommended Providers. Both received the award in 2016, but Ovo Energy lost it again when it raised its prices. Ovo Energy was also our very first WRP in 2015. There were no WRPs for energy in 2017.
Find the best energy company for you at the best price: compare gas and electricity prices with Which? Switch.


bebop spoken here: CD Review: Engelbert Wrobel's Swing Society - 20 Years.
In this case, it doesn't matter as the music speaks for itself. Lovely mainstream/swing that brings to mind Goodman's Sextet, the Gramercy Five (sans harpsichord); John Kirby; Dave Shepherd; Harry Parry. Wrobel, as fluent a clarinet player as any of the current crop, although George McDonald and Matthias Seuffert run him close; also plays soprano and tenor. Maybe I'm wrong but I guess that clarinet is his main instrument. Likewise, Dan Barrett who, as well as playing mighty fine trombone, also sneaks in on trumpet. His composition Long Live the King is a tribute to Benny Goodman although it could easily have been applied to Jack Teagarden after his trombone solo.
Serenade in Blue, with the string quartet added, is a knicker dropper of a song for ladies of 'a certain age'! The problem for 'gentlemen of a certain age' is in following it through! Best just to enjoy the piano solo and dream... A solid rhythm section and an occasional, pleasing, intrusion by the string quartet make this the kind of band you wish you could hear more often at your local jazz club. Oscar Pettiford's Tricotism features Heller. A helluva bass player!


JULIE A. BUSSING, Plaintiff, v. COR CLEARING, LLC, COR SECURITIES HOLDINGS, Inc.; CARLOS P. SALAS, CHRISTOPHER L. FRANKEL, JEFFREY N. SIME, STEVEN A. SUGARMAN, Defendants.
The defendants have moved for a protective order, arguing their "customer information, trade secrets, current financial information, and confidential settlement communications are information that is confidential and proprietary," and use and disclosure of such records must be for attorney's eyes only ("AEO"). (Filing No. 141). The plaintiff opposes the motion, stating the defendants "have identified only broad, generic categories of information they believe might be subject to AEO protection: "customer information, trade secrets, current financial information, and confidential settlement communications," they fail to acknowledge that "much information about Defendant COR Clearing already is public," and their motion "does not even approach 'a particular and specific demonstration of fact, as distinguished from conclusory statements.'" (Filing No. 145, at CM/ECF p. 6).
As explained by Plaintiff's counsel, "the dispute before the Court is narrow: whether the protective order entered should have an 'attorney's eyes only' or 'AEO' provision as requested by Defendants." (Filing No. 145, at CM/ECF p. 3).
Plaintiff Julie Bussing is the president of Prime Clearing, a financial services business. (Filing No. 143-6). In that capacity, she primarily focuses "on platform design and integration work for next generation clearing." (Filing No. 143-6, at CM/ECF p. 1). Neither Bussing nor Prime Clearing directly compete with any of the Defendants. (Filing No. 144-9). Defendants' argue, however, that "Ms. Bussing is currently a consultant in the industry, and has no reason to be privy to trade secret or other proprietary information that would be valuable to [Defendants'] competitors or customers as leverage." (Filing No. 144-4, at CM/ECF p. 3). As such, they claim Ms. Bussing could use Defendants' discovery responses to compete, or assist her clients in competing, against the Defendants' business. (Filing No. 144-4, at CM/ECF p. 3).
The defendants claim that documents identifying their customers, clients, and correspondents' names, financial figures that came into existence after Plaintiff's departure, Defendants' Change of Control Plan, Internal Financial Reports that show Defendants' current financial condition, and confidential settlement agreements from employment claims should be subject to an "attorney eyes only" protective order. (Filing No. 144-5, at CM/ECF p. 3, 6, 8, 10); (Filing No. 147, at CM/ECF p. 6-7). Defendants claim the plaintiff cannot be trusted to comply with a protective order, citing allegations in their counterclaim alleging that in her submissions to the court, the plaintiff modified the recipient information and disclosed privileged and confidential e-mail correspondence addressed to COR Clearing's legal counsel without Defendants' consent. (Filing No. 112, at CM/ECF p. 33-34,¶¶ 81-84). Bussing was a pro se party when these alleged acts occurred.
The discovery process presents "an opportunity for litigants to obtain - incidentally or purposefully - information that not only is irrelevant but if publicly released could be damaging. . . ." Seattle Times Co. v. Rhinehart, 467 U.S. 20, 35, (1984). Pursuant to Rule 26(c)(7) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, upon a finding of good cause, the court may enter "any order which justice requires to protect a party or person from annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden," including that "confidential research, development or commercial information not be revealed or be revealed only in a designated way." Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c)(7).
The court may enter a protective order which permits certain discovery to be seen by only counsel. An "attorneys eyes only" protective order prevents a party from viewing the opposing party's sensitive business information while allowing the parties' lawyers to litigate on the basis of that information. Paycom Payroll, LLC v. Richison, 758 F.3d 1198, 1202-03 (10th Cir. 2014) (quoting In re City of New York, 607 F.3d 923, 935 (2d Cir. 2010)). But limiting disclosure of discovery to the attorneys is appropriate only in very limited situations. It is a drastic remedy because "it limits the ability of the receiving party to view the relevant evidence, fully discuss it with counsel, and make intelligent litigation decisions." Ragland v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of N. Dakota, 2013 WL 3776495, at *1 (D.N.D. June 25, 2013). And it "limits the ability of a party to provide needed assistance to counsel," (Ragland, 2013 WL 3776495 , at which may result the in the denial of fundamental due process rights. Martinez v. City of Ogden, 2009 WL 424785, at *3 (D. Utah Feb. 18, 2009). An "attorneys eyes only" protective order "should not be authorized simply because one of the parties would prefer that certain information not be disclosed to an opposing party." Ragland, 2013 WL 3776495 , at *2.
The party seeking attorney eyes only protection has the burden of providing: 1) the information sought is a trade secret or other confidential research, development, or commercial information, and 2) its disclosure might be harmful. If these threshold requirements are met, the burden shifts to the party seeking discovery to establish that the disclosure of information requested is relevant and necessary to the action. The court must then balance the need of the party seeking discovery against the opposing party's claim of potential injury resulting from the disclosure. MGP Ingredients, Inc. v. Mars, Inc., 245 F.R.D. 497, 500 (D. Kan. 2007). Where discovery of confidential commercial information is involved, the court must "balance the risk of disclosure to competitors against the risk that a protective order will impair prosecution or defense of the claims." Nutratech, Inc. v. Syntech (SSPF) Int'l, Inc., 242 F.R.D. 552, 555 (C.D. Cal. 2007). See also Martinez v. City of Ogden, 2009 WL 424785, at *2 (D. Utah Feb. 18, 2009) ("Attorney's-eyes-only protection is usually employed to protect against business harm that would result from disclosure of sensitive documents to a competitor.").
In weighing these competing interests, the court must consider "whether the individual to be prohibited from accessing the information would be virtually unable to compartmentalize the information and not use the information to seek to gain an unfair competitive advantage." Layne Christensen Co. v. Purolite Co., 271 F.R.D. 240, 249-50 (D. Kan. 2010). The court must also consider whether prohibiting a party's access to the information would hamper that party's ability to assess the merits of the litigation, taking into consideration whether her expertise is specialized and not widely available through the retention of other experts, and whether this specialized expertise is essential to the proper handling of her lawsuit. Layne Christensen Co., 271 F.R.D. at 249-50 .
To establish good cause, that party opposing disclosure must submit "a particular and specific demonstration of fact, as distinguished from stereotyped and conclusory statements." Layne Christensen Co. v. Purolite Co., 271 F.R.D. 240, 244 (D. Kan. 2010). See also Burlington N. R. Co. v. Omaha Pub. Power Dist., 703 F. Supp. 826, 831 (D. Neb. 1988), aff'd, 888 F.2d 1228 (8th Cir. 1989) (citing Restatement (First) of Torts § 757 (1939), and listing the relevant factors a moving party must show for trade secret protection). But they need not demonstrate, on a document-by-document basis, each item worthy of protection. Provided the moving party makes a threshold showing of good cause, the court may enter an "umbrella" protective order protecting a category of documents from disclosure to anyone other than counsel. Cipollone v. Liggett Grp., Inc., 785 F.2d 1108, 1122 (3d Cir. 1986).
The court must initially decide whether the defendants have met their burden of showing that the information they seek to designate as Attorney Eyes Only" is confidential commercial information, the disclosure of which will harm the defendants. The defendants' proposed protective order recites "client lists, customer information, non-public business or financial strategies, business plans, strategic plans, sales and marketing plans, markets surveys, earnings or other financial projections, and information related to confidential settlements with persons not involved in this litigation" as warranting Attorneys Eyes Only protection. But subject to the exceptions further discussed below, the evidence discusses these categories of discovery, if at all, in very broad terms with not precise explanation of what the defendants seek to protect. For example, "customer information," and business, strategic, and sales and marketing plans are broadly identified as needing Attorney Eyes Only protection. But the defendants have submitted no evidence specifically describing any of the documents within these categories, whether and why all documents within these broad descriptions must be protected by an Attorneys Eyes Only designation, the measures the defendants have taken to maintain the confidential status of these documents, whether the documents are currently available from another source, the extent of defendants' company-specific effort in creating any formulas, surveys, or business strategies underlying the documents, or how their release to the plaintiff will harm the defendants. The defendants' conclusory statements and arguments in their briefs cannot replace the requisite factual showing for granting an Attorney Eyes Only protective order.
The court finds, however, that two categories of documents listed by the defendants should be protected by an Attorney Eyes Only designation: Client lists and confidential settlement agreements with third parties. From the record, the court can reasonably infer that the plaintiff either competes with the defendants herself, or she consults with Defendants' competitors. Once she knows the names on the defendants' client list, she will have difficulty compartmentalizing that information as she performs her own work. Louisiana Pac. Corp. v. Money Mkt. 1 Institutional Inv. Dealer, 285 F.R.D. 481, 491 (N.D. Cal. 2012). And she could, inadvertently use information from the defendants' client lists to create an unfair competitive environment against the defendants. Moreover, the client lists themselves do not appear to be critical to pursuing the plaintiff's claims. On balance, the court concludes the client lists should be designated as Attorney Eyes Only documents. See, e.g., Nutratech, Inc. v. Syntech (SSPF) Int'l, Inc., 242 F.R.D. 552, 555 (C.D. Cal. 2007) (holding the fear of competitive harm from disclosing supplier and customer lists to the competitor's president and owner, rather than counsel, was legitimate—"such lists are customarily produced subject to an 'attorney's eyes only' order").
The defendants further claim that documents reflecting settlements with third parties, and containing confidentiality clauses, must be afforded Attorney Eyes Only protection. By their very nature, these documents were not intended to be seen by anyone other than the defendants and the settling third parties—who are not parties to this litigation. However, the confidentiality clauses of settlement agreements must occasionally give way when those agreements are relevant in other litigation. Under such circumstances, the court will grant Attorney Eyes Only protection to these settlement agreements, but with a caveat: If after seeing the documents, Plaintiff's counsel believes one or more of them must be discussed with the plaintiff to fully and fairly prepare for trial, Plaintiff's counsel may move to do so—on a document-by-document basis. If that occurs, the defendants will have the burden of showing the documents cannot be adequately protected from disclosure if designated as "Confidential" rather than "Attorney Eyes Only."
The Plaintiff asks for a court order stating the defendants will be sanctioned if they later present a "a properly structured motion" to request Attorney Eyes Only protection. The court will not enter an in futuro order. But upon review of the email correspondence between the parties, it appears Plaintiff repeatedly requested a detailed explanation of the documents and case law so the parties could craft an appropriate protective order without court intervention, but that information was not forthcoming. And as to nearly all the documents they seek to protect with an Attorney Eyes Only designation, the defendants failed to file evidence before this court describing with any particularity the documents they want to withhold from Bussing's personal review. Any motion seeking to do so now will likely not be a motion to reconsider, but rather a motion to "do over." Such motions slow the discovery process substantially and waste the parties' and the court's resources. But how the court will respond if such a motion is later filed will be decided on evidence submitted at that time, and not in this order.
1) The defendants' motion for protective order, (Filing No. 141), is granted in part and denied in part as set forth in this order.
2) A protective order reflecting the contents of this decision will be separately filed.


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Sancak may refer to:

 Sanjak, an administrative unit of the Ottoman Empire
 Sandžak, a historical region in Serbia and Montenegro

People
 Sancak Kaplan (born 1982), Turkish footballer
 Yasin Sancak (born 1978), Turkish volleyball player

Turkish-language surnames
Turkish masculine given names

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Tag: Jacques Lacan
A little love for Michel Gondry
In Film, Music, Personal
While looking for some music in my library to listen to, I was reminded about the similarities between Chemical Brothers' songs "Let Forever Be" and "Setting Sun" with The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" (seriously, check them out!) and I was reminded of the video for "Let Forever Be."
A really fun, wild, unsettling video, and when it first came out is when I first became aware of the director Michel Gondry. Then found out he made the video for Daft Punk's "Around the World."
And then, when I saw the video for Radiohead's "Knives Out," I just knew that also had to be his, and it was:
No matter how many times I watch that video, it still makes me cry.
(And later discovered he made some of my favorite White Stripes videos.)
Michel Gondry is among my favorite directors, using surrealism and what I call "creative reality," to make images that are at once fanciful but oddly disturbing. The roughness to them, the apparent slap-dash and playful imperfections mixed with repetitiveness visual loops and improper geometry and proportions, invoke a dreamlike quality that, like surrealism is meant to do, bypasses the consciousness and ego and communicates right with the subconscious, id (and perhaps our sense/memory of Lacan's "the Real").
I knew he had directed the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" when I went to see it, so I was excited to experience it (despite Jim Carrey). And, of course, that film was perfect for Gondry, and it is still one of my favorite films (despite not having watched it again in far too long).
He was supposed to direct a film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Ubik, my favorite of PKD's work. If anything would be perfect for Gondry, it should be a film about the dreamlike deterioration of reality with uncertainty and discomfort with what is real, what is illusion. Sadly, something happened and it's no longer to be.
Just wanted to share these thoughts. Maybe next I'll discuss one of my other favorite directors, Spike Jonze! (Interesting… so many of my favorite directors, who work with striking and emotionally affecting imagery, like these two, and David Fincher, come from the world of music video directing.)
"Only Words"…
In Class Work, Criticism and Reviews, Philosophy
"'Only Words': 'Half-Life' in Philip K. Dick's Ubik and the Dynamics of Online Role-Playing Environments."
Paper Presented at the 28th ICFA
"Instant Ubik has all the fresh flavor of just-brewed drip coffee. Your husband will say, Christ, Sally, I used to think your coffee was only so-so. But now, wow! Safe when taken as directed."i
That is one of seventeen different epigraphs that begin each chapter of Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik. Each of the first sixteen is a satirical comment on the nature of advertising in the consumerist economy, where the mysterious product called "Ubik" stands in for everything from coffee to women's undergarments, household cleaner to salad dressing. Each one safe when used as directed, of course.
Eric S. Rabkin, in his article "Irrational Expectations; or, How Economics and the Post-Industrial World Failed Philip K. Dick," makes a point to establish Philip K. Dick as one of the most important and influential authors, in general if not in speculative fiction in particular, working in a post-World War II attempt to examine the metaphysical connections between subjective realities and the so-called "objective reality" which may or may not even exist in Dick's work.ii Ubik, published in 1969, is one such work which takes a close examination at the nature of subjective realities. It is a novel that describes a world, and a condition of being, that is prescient when you compare it to the alternate realities of massive multi-player online games, or "MMOGs" — a condition that involves a merging and confusion of identities — identities that are defined by, and devalued due to, the commodification of reality.
The Ubiquitous and Panasonic Kipple…
MMOGs: The Avatar of Consumerism
Review: Freedom(tm)
Fanon and its Review from a Postmodern Perspective
"Sucker Punch"; the perfect postmodern flick


Incredible views! Prime Cedar City location awaits your dream home!One of the best lots in Ashdown Forest. Adjacent lot also available for sale. Seller financing available with approximately 50% down and 8% interest to qualified buyer. Utilities stubbed to lot. Many trees!
Breathtaking views all around. Just minutes away from downtown Cedar City and SUU (Southern Utah University).
Beautiful one of kind, custom home lots in the city limits yet feels like the country with gradual hills, trees, views and all amenities. Must see! This is perfect for your custom home bring your own builder or use ours!
Great building lot in Sunset Canyon Estates. Very popular neighborhood with great homes. This lot is perfect for a walk out basement home. Lot faces east and is surrounded by beautiful Mountain landscape.


The Government sought views on a proposed extension of the Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Levy. This extension would mean the levy would be charged on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) imported as a component in formulated polyol, used in the manufacture of polyurethane foam.
Submissions closed on Friday 20 January 2017.


Prevent Blindness Northern California will be marching at the Cesar E. Chavez Parade and Festival on April 20th 2013.
We will be joined by children and their families who have been reached through our See Well to Learn Program. If you would like to show your support we welcome you to march with the EYE BUS to show solidarity in honoring the legacy of Cesar Chavez.


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Throwback Thursday: Tyler Toffoli the road to Lord Stanley
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By: Sarah Zintel – Ottawa 67's
Photo: Noel Vasquez/Getty Images
Ottawa 67's alumni Tyler Toffoli's career reached new heights this spring when, at the age of 22, he became a Stanley Cup Champion!
But how did he get there?
Rewind back to 2008, when the Scarborough, Ontario native was drafted seventh overall by the Ottawa 67's in the OHL Priority Selection.
"We are very pleased to have selected Tyler Toffoli," said 67's General Manager Brian Kilrea. "He was one of the most explosive goal scorers our scouts have seen. Tyler has proven talent, playing on the same line as John McFarland this year's 1st overall pick. We are looking forward to having him with the club, he has tremendous potential."
Toffoli lived up to Kilrea's expectations, during his four season with the 67's scoring 380 points in his 293 games played. The right winger was the 2010-11 OHL Scoring Champion with 108 points in 68 games.
His skills in the offensive zone put him on many NHL scouts' radar. Toffoli was drafted by the LA Kings in the second round of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. He continued with the 67's for two more seasons before joining the Manchester Monarchs line up in 2012.
Toffoli continued to impress in the AHL. He was named the winner of the Dudley (Red) Garrett Memorial award as the AHL's outstanding rooking for the 2012-2013 season. Toffoli recorded 48 points in 55 games that season for the Monarchs.
The rookie made his NHL debut on March 16, 2013 in the Kings 5-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks. Two days later Toffoli scored his first NHL goal on a power play in the Kings 4-0 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes earning him the third star of the game.
Toffoli was fourth highest goal scorer during the Kings 2014 playoff run. He had a 6 plus/minus record and was a vital part of the Kings Stanley Cup victory.
The future is bright for the young centre, he still has room for improvement and is hopefully headed towards a long and successful career in the NHL.
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Everyone understands the necessity and importance of parents supporting their children. But when it comes to paying support to an ex-spouse, many people bitterly object, especially if they've already had to divide their property. Why does the law provide for spousal support? In what situations will it be ordered? How is the amount of support calculated? How long should a person be expected to support an ex-partner? Is there any obligation for the dependent ex-spouse to support him/herself?


By Kurt Edelbrock in Web Design. Updated on February 21, 2019 .
Google Analytics is much more robust than most people give it credit for. Contrary to popular belief, it can do most of the things more advanced analytics suites can do, except Google does it for free.
Many web designers and developers complain about the limitations of Google Analytics. At first glance, it doesn't seem as powerful as some of the other web analytics suites out there because it doesn't let you track outbound links or see data in real time. So, developers flock to premium products like Clicky and Mint, but those services can be expensive, especially if your web project isn't generating any income yet. Also, while they fix some of the limitations inherent in Google Analytics, they lack some of the Google-only tie-in features, such as Adwords and Adsense tracking.
But, that only scratches the surface: it also allows you to create specific campaigns, goals, funnels, and reports that builds actionable data-sets and provides key insight into otherwise nebulous data. Most people have analytics set up, but a lot of them fail to dig into the data and miss golden opportunities to optimize their site. Every time you change the copy, structure, or design of your website, your web analytics suite will tell you what you should change (and whether you should make any changes in the first place). By using the advanced features in Google Analytics, not only will you obliterate most of the reasons for paying for another analytics service, but you will understand your audience and your website in ways that your competitors on the web often won't.
Even if your bounce rate is low, it is still key to understand where your visitors are going when they exit your page. By understanding the outbound link behavior of your users, you can optimize your website for conversion and your brand messaging for strategically maximum effect. This is true for two reasons.
First, many web business models rely on driving traffic to a page that is located on a different domain. A good example of this is affiliate programs where you have to drive traffic to a landing page to make money. If you track the behavior of that outbound link, you'll know which domains convert the best. Paired with an 80-20 work ethic, you can then focus all of your marketing efforts on those media channels, and reserve your new found free time to test out new ideas, perform freelance work, or take a nap.
Second, by tracking outbound links, you'll know which spots on your page convert the best, and then you can plan according as to which links you want to put in that prime position. For instance, you might want to remove a low value link and replace it with a link to your best content, or to an outside blogger who has helped you significantly. If you find that none of your inbound or outbound links are converting well, you can easily pair up Google Analytics with Google Website Optimizer to do some split testing.
Outbound link tracking is even easier to implement if you're using a popular CMS or web framework. If you're using WordPress, you can track links automatically with the Slimstat Analytics plugin. On Rails, you can bake this into your models with the Google Analytics Gem.
One of the main reasons why people use something other than Google Analytics is because they want built-in real time statistics. And they're right when they complain about how Google Analytics can't do that. But you can use a simple trick to get almost up-to-the-minute statistics without shelling out cash for a premium service. Google updates your statistics on an hourly basis. To get that data, all you need to do is click on the date selector calendar in your Analytics report, and select the current date as the end date. Of course, this data isn't completely up-to-date, but up to the hour is likely close enough to take fast and intelligent action when your content goes viral.
Normally, when you click on the date drop-down, you'll notice that the blue bar indicating the selected date only goes up to yesterday. To get it to show real-time data, select the first date in your preferred range, and then click the latest date that isn't grayed out. And voila! You have almost real time tracking.
Social media is a powerful way to drive traffic to your site. Most bloggers encourage their readers to share their content via Facebook and Twitter – and when their users actually do so, it can be enough to bring in tens of thousands of new readers, subscribers, and consumers. We all want to go viral on social media. Therefore, it makes sense to track which users click on the buttons so we can focus our attention on the users that will reliably make our content go viral.
When a user clicks on the Facebook button, Google Analytics will track it as a pageview, allowing it to show up in your reports in much the same way that a blog post or landing page would. Here, _trackPageview has one parameter that specifies how the click will appear in your reports. I recommend customizing each of the buttons on your site by including something like the blog post ID, the permalink, or a URL-escaped title (like advanced-google-analytics), followed by /facebook on the end. Then, you can see how each individual button is performing, and also easily aggregate the data together by searcing for all instances of /facebook in your Google Analytics reports.
Just like in the Facebook example above, you can edit the sole _trackPageview parameter to customize how retweets appear in Analytics. I generally set my tracking identifiers to end in /twitter, but you can make it whatever you want.
Of course, social media is not the only use for campaign tracking URLs. I also use it in my RSS feeds in order to get a more accurate snapshot of content usage within feed readers. It allows you to calculate the true value of a new subscriber, and focus your energy on the subscriber segments that will provide the most value to your site.
Out of the box, Google Analytics only tracks pages, and it tracks each page in exactly the same way. For most, this is fine because you can usually tell which page is which by looking at the URL. However, Google Analytics is much more powerful than that – the system is flexible enough to let you build a model of your site's content organization scheme right within Google Analytics. Then, you aren't limited to tracking mere pages anymore. In fact, you can adapt it to track categories, tags, sections, or whatever other taxonomy you can think to throw at it. This is especially helpful with web applications and e-commerce sites where you might want to track specific actions or types of products.
You can read about the scopes in Google's custom variables documentation. It can be a bit confusing at first, but the best way to think about it is by the thing you're trying to segment. For instance, if you want to compare pages that are in one category versus another category, you would use the page scope. If you want to compare whether a user is logged in, you would use the session scope. The visitor scope is best used when you want to compare different types of users.
The 1 in the code above refers to the index. Analytics only gives you five slots for custom variables, so you can pick a number from 1 to 5 to assign it to a slot. You can only use a slot once, so you're limited to having only five custom variables at a time.
The Category text is the name of the variable. You can set it to whatever you want. If you wanted to track tags on your WordPress blog, for instance, you might set it to Tag.
Photoshop Tutorials is the value of the custom variable. In the tag example mentioned above, you would set this to the name of the tag. If you're using WordPress or another CMS, you'll want to use the appropriate function to set this dynamically.
Finally, the last parameter sets the scope. 1 is the visitor scope, 2 is the session scope, and 3 is the page scope.
Whenever I launch a new site, I generally spend an hour or two fidgeting with the design and the code to make sure that everything is perfect. From there, I'll usually do some initial link building and go to Analytics to see if I got any traffic. And every time, I would see a huge spike on the first day. For months, I thought I was an online marketing god. That is, until I dug into the data and saw that all of the traffic came from the same browser. And from the same city. And from the same IP address. Whoops.
Now, I use the IP exclusion feature in Google Analytics to make sure that my testing doesn't skew the data (and get my hopes up for nothing). In order to do it, click on the "Edit" button for your site on the main profile page.
On the "Profile Settings" page, scroll down the page until you see the box named "Filters Applied to Profile" (below goals). Click on the "Add Filter" link, and you'll be taken to the "Create New Filter" page.
Once you're there, you can stick in your IP address (or range of IP addresses) so that it is excluded from Google Analytics. As soon as you're done, click "Save Changes" and you're all set.
How Will You Supercharge Your Analytics?
Google Analytics has plenty of advanced features that makes it possible to never need a premium analytics service ever again. With these features and the Analytics API, you can build a very powerful web statistics system that will allow you to make very successful conversion and traffic optimizations. Do you use Google Analytics on your site? How are you going to incorporate these features? And, what features would you like to see in Google Analytics that don't currently exist?
Editor's note: This post is written by Kurt Edelbrock for Hongkiat.com. Kurt is a law student, freelance writer, web developer, and online marketing expert.


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Sets of BNF Food Cards for pupils aged 5 to 16 years.
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Rebecca Greenberg, Canada
Bioethicist
Dr. Rebecca Greenberg is a Bioethicist at The Hospital for Sick Children. Previously, she worked as a Bioethicist at the Centre for Clinical Ethics. Prior to starting her career in bioethics, she worked as a registered nurse in General Medicine. She is an assistant professor in the Department Paediatrics, a Project Investigator at SickKids' Research Institute, and a bioethicist member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics, at the University of Toronto. Rebecca has a Bachelor of Arts (psychology) from the University of Manitoba, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and PhD (bioethics) from the University of Toronto. She has completed an ethics internship at Baycrest Centre and a post-doctorate fellowship in Clinical and Organizational Ethics at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. She is the co-chair of both the Canadian Society of Transplantation's Ethics Committee and Trillium Gift of Life Network Network's Bioethics Advisory Group and a member of the International Pediatric Transplant Association's Ethics Committee. Becky has contributed to the academic discourse of paediatric bioethics as she has authored many journal articles, book chapters and recently co-edited the book Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation. Her main research interests include moral distress, transplant ethics, ethics education and priority setting.
Lectures by Rebecca Greenberg
17:00 - 18:00	 Poster Session — Poster Session 3 Deceased directed donation: Examining the ethics in a multi-cultural setting Exhibit-Poster Area
Tue-07
11:15 - 12:15	 Interactive Workshop — Ethical Issues in Paediatric Transplantation: When a patient is no longer a transplant candidate Legal implications Bayshore E


Last night, Slate published an article by Guy Branum about how it is "stupid" for the Clintons to continue to overly-protect their daughter, Chelsea. Branum tells readers that he's a journalist. But in my opinion, the article makes it clear that he isn't a serious one. I base that on his silly argument that because the word 'pimp' is used in popular culture, it is therefore mainstream in ways that go beyond sexual, and so it is appropriate to use in serious political analysis on national television. His point that the chinese wall around Chelsea Clinton is a valid one. But the rest of his article is frankly, garbage.
I would argue that Mr. Branum is a comedy and entertainment writer first (some of his writing I like, actually), plus as a quasi-journalist on the side. He has had several tiny claims to fame, beginning in 1997. Back then, he was a writer for his university paper, and he made a bad joke about wanting to see Chelsea butchered in-time for the big football game between his UC Berkeley and Stanford (where Chelsea spent her undergrad years). The Clinton's called the Secret Service to search his apartment and talk to him. Unfair? Probably. The quote that got him in trouble was, "show your school spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass." But that probably helped his reputation as a comedian, and led to post-graduate jobs today, such as a senior writer and producer for the G4 network, and a co-writer for Chelsea Handler's late-night comedy/talk show on E! (which her boyfriend just happens to control - fancy that).
But let's look at the valid topic he raises and the topic he fails to raise.
I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you're cute.
When Bill was first elected, Chelsea was 12; treating her with special deference made sense. Now she's 28. She's old enough to vote, get drunk, and run for Congress.
Her mother is running for President and will not end the war. That much is clear. Senator Clinton also fully supports women in the military, including in combat. The media, and many Americans, have Asked The Question of Jenna Bush, and she has answered it.
Assuming you are eligible to serve in our military, have you considered volunteering for military service?
If so, what resulted from your deliberations?
Ask Chelsea the question. If Jenna Bush can answer it, then so can Chelsea.


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Scene and Heard: Ann Colgin
Photo Credit: Photo by Stefanie Keenan for Getty Images/ Artwork by Roni Horn
Editors' Notes
LACMA Collectors Committee Chair Ann Colgin beside Roni Horn's Untitled ("The sensation of satisfaction at having outstared a baby.") 2013 sculpture.
Solid cast glass with as-cast surfaces, oculus shape
36 × 36 in. (91.44 × 91.44 cm)
Gift of the 2014 Collectors Committee, with additional funds provided by Steve Tisch
© Mitra Tabrizian, courtesy Leila Heller Gallery, New York. Photo © 2014 Museum Associates/ LACMA
Mitra Tabrizian, Tehran, 2006
Light Jet Type C print
42 1/8 × 121 1/4 × 2 in. (107.01 × 308 × 5.08 cm)
Gift of the Buddy Taub Foundation, Jill and Dennis A. Roach, Directors, through the 2014 Collectors Committee.
© Nancy Grossman, courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY. Photo © 2014 Museum Associates/ LACMA
Nancy Grossman, No Name
Mixed media assemblage
a-b) 15 × 7 × 10 in. (38.1 × 17.78 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2014 Collectors Committee.
© Image: Feng Mengbo, photo © 2014 Museum Associates/LACMA
Feng Mengbo, Long March: Restart, 2008
Video installation, with custom computer software, wireless game controller
Dimension and duration variable
Purchased with funds provided by Jane and Marc Nathanson, Ann Colgin and Joe Wender, Mary and David Solomon, Carolyn and John Diemer, and Bryan Lourd through the 2014 Collectors Committee.
Photo © 2014 Museum Associates/ LACMA
Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Odalisque, c. 1825-35
5 5/8 x 9 9/16 in. (14.3 x 24.3 cm)
Gift of the 2014 Collectors Committee.
Pair of Lions, 9th century
Wood with pigment
Height: approx. 29 1/2 in. (75 cm) Promised gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2014 Collectors Committee.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Scottish Musical Review, c.1896
97 x 39 in . (246 x 99 cm)
Gift of the 2014 Collectors Committee, with additional funds provided by Kitzia and Richard Goodman, J. Ben Bourgeois and Andrew Rhoda, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell and Will Ferrell, and Olivier and Zoe de Givenchy
Antonio de Torres (Mexico, 1667–1731), Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe), c. 1725
81 ½ x 55 ⅛ in.
Gift of Kelvin Davis through the 2014 Collectors Committee.
"It's like harvest," said Ann Colgin, describing the events surrounding the sixth annual Collectors Committee Gala that took place on Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, and benefited the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Colgin, who served as the fundraiser's chair, can otherwise be found at Colgin Cellars in St. Helena's Pritchard Hill where she and her husband are vintners, so if anyone should be making wine analogies, it's Colgin. "Every year you don't know what Mother Nature will throw at you," she added, describing both the picking of grapes each autumn in the Napa Valley and the diverse array of art selected for acquisition by LACMA curators. "I always start the weekend with preconceived ideas about what I like," said Colgin who studied fine art at New York University. "But," she added, "My mind is always changed by the curators who explain what drew them to the work and its provenance." This year, the museum raised $4.1 million towards the acquisition of ten artworks over the weekend that marked LACMA's 29th annual Collectors Committee fundraiser. A print by Pablo Picasso and a poster by Charles Rennie Mackintosh joined the museum's permanent collection as a result of the events masterminded by Colgin, and she said she can't wait to see them installed. "I've been at the museum and watched people discover work that we bought over Collectors weekend. That's what this really is all about."
By Elizabeth Varnell
Pictured: LACMA Collectors Committee Chair Ann Colgin.
Photo by Stefanie Keenan for Getty Images


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Lake Mead outside of Las Vegas.
A bipartisan agreement on drought contingency plan (DCP) legislation has been reached and lawmakers plan to introduce it "very soon," according to U.S. Sen. Martha McSally.
State officials from the Colorado River watershed are in Washington D.C. this week. Along with Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman, they appeared on Wednesday before the Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power, which McSally chairs.
The drought contingency plan needs congressional approval before it can become law of the river. The plan includes incentives for users to keep water in Lakes Mead and Powell in times of "shortage." In the lower basin, keeping Lake Mead above certain levels reduces the risk of it falling so low that no water can escape from it.
Water managers in the West are eager to get DCP enshrined in federal law.
The U.S. and basin states updated a treaty with Mexico in 2017. A deal among southwestern states, though, was finished only recently.
He said acting immediately makes a difference of 5-6 feet in Lake Mead's level. This is likely a reference to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California's (MWD) move earlier this year to withdraw water from Lake Mead in the absence of the DCP.
MWD serves the Los Angeles area, and is on board with the current deal. Federal officials have said MWD can adjust its water orders for later in the year and thereby keep its stored water in the lake.
A House subcommittee hears testimony on the DCP on Thursday.


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Who is Sherri Lynn
Welcome to my happy place
Welcome to my website. There's a lot of stuff here about me. Probably much more than you actually want to know. But I'm sure glad you're here. Let's have a little fun.
I produce and co-host "The Brant Hansen Show" and the "Brant and Sherri Oddcast." It's been described as 'refreshingly odd' and 'oddly refreshing.' That's pretty accurate.
I wrote this book;
I want to Punch you in The Face
But I Love Jesus
I wrote a book about PMS making me want to punch people. Believe it or not it's a Christian book. People told me it was way too edgy to write. I did it anyway (with the help of Brant Hansen Publishing) and it has helped thousands and thousands of women. I'm so grateful.
Oh, And I did this play;
Together We Laugh
My grandma was a huge fan of the Carol Burnett Show. I wanted to produce something like it in her honor. That's what this DVD was…but it was much more. I decided to take on the topic of race in the church and to do it with humor. It was such a fun night. Laughter and Music permeated a sanctuary filled with people from all races. It truly was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
I Am Sherri Lynn
© 2021 I Am Sherri Lynn. All Rights Reserved


Title THE SIEGE OF THE SOUTH POLE. THE STORY OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.
Publishing Information London: Alston Rivers, 1905.
Description 1st edition; xvi, 455pp, With over 70 illustrations from photographs, charts and drawings, large coloured map by J.G. Bartholomew MISSING. Olive green cloth boards with gilt titles and decorations. "A classic - the finest overview of Antarctic exploration ever written nad an essential reference work, its value not having lessened over time, Mill, who had been librarian of the Royal Geographical Soceity, melded thirty years of research, reflection, and contact with the most prominent polar people of his day together with his eloquent writing abilities in the production of this central work in the Antarctic bibliography." Rosove 226. A wide ranging history includes notes on American sealers, steam whalers, the discovery of Victoria Land, the 'Challenger',last voyage of 'Erebus' & 'Terror',James Cook, Thaddeus von Bellingshausen, Dumont D'urville, Charles Wilkes, James Clark Ross, & the Enderby brothers. Ex Libris, spine loosening, library number on spine, covers worn. Library bookplate on fep, covers splitting at hing of eps, embossed library stamp on title page, remnants of library pocket and stain of library pocket, rear ep, damp damaged with wrinkling to bottom of pages but still a good reading copy.


Leo and I had a great trip to China to catch up with our audit team there last week. We witnessed Jell doing an BRC Food audit then had a lengthy meeting, which was our best and most productive meeting ever. Thanks to Leo we can now speak the local language. We also met some new members of their team, Bella Lin and Jing Jingwang.
We even managed to see some of the World Cup!


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On March 5, Premier Li Keqiang made a Government Work Report at the opening ceremony of the Second Session of the 13th National People's Congress. NPC deputies from all over the world were encouraged by the Government Work Report and the confidence of China's development, determination to defend globalization and multilateral cooperation. What is particularly encouraging to them is the Prime Minister's statement on safeguarding the interests of overseas Chinese.
Shi Ganping from the U.S.
Shi Ganping, an overseas deputy from the United States, said that the report has the view of the overall situation including the foresight of problems and targets concerning people's livelihood, which is very encouraging. " China will deepen reforms and promote innovation, to improve the quality of economic growth, and China's development will inject confidence to the global economy."
He said that he was impressed by "inspiring the vitality of market players and focusing on optimizing the business environment", allowing enterprises to "use more time to embracing the market and fewer efforts for approval".
Ma Yue from the U.S.
Ma Yue, an overseas deputy from the United States, said, "In the past year, China has achieved very gratifying achievements in all aspects of economic and social development. This has inspired overseas Chinese. At the same time, we also look forward to the new year. New achievements Development shall be achieved this year, and we will play the unique role of overseas Chinese."
He said, "Although Chinese overseas work abroad, they always concern the development of the motherland. Every bit of change in China is closely related to us."
Liu Jidong, an overseas deputy from Spain, said, "China will raise its fiscal deficit target, but the Chinese government has not only reduced education expenditures, and it guaranteed enough expenditures on people's livelihood. Therefore, people's livelihood and education are the most common and the most important issues for the Chinese government."
Liu Jidong said that it was his honor and a responsibility to bring the spirit of the Two Sessions to Spain.
Guo Wenchang, an overseas deputy from Kenya, noted that the report mentioned reducing the tax burden on manufacturing and small and medium-sized enterprises, deepening the reform of the toll road system, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese.
Guo said, "I want to bring the spirit of the Government Work Report back to Kenya, encourage the overseas Chinese to work for the innovation of "Belt and Road", to build a well-off society in an all-around way, and to realize the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. "
He concluded that overseas Chinese always concern China.
Cai Guowei, an overseas deputy from Madagascar, concerned about issues on education, health care, pension, housing, food safety, and ecological protection. "There are very few detailed government work reports in the world that have such a strong execution."
He also paid special attention to issues of implementing the overseas Chinese affairs policy, ensuring the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, improving and strengthening services, and exerting their unique advantages and important functions".
He said with confidence: "I believe that people will surely realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."