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The Top 50 Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) released in the past week - Thursday, March 17th, 2022
Discover the most popular Christian Contemporary Music & CEDM released between March 10th and March 17th, 2022. Most new releases are published on Fridays. Each Thursday we look at the Christian music (we know) that was released in the past week and select the 50 most-streamed CCM & CEDM releases. Our fans / followers are always the first to see this list! So here's this week's chart of the most popular Christian Contemporary Music (CCM + CEDM) in the English language released in the past week: (Click any song title on our webpage to open that song on Spotify) Rank - Title - Artist #1 - 'Broken Halos' by for KING & COUNTRY #2 - 'Unity' by for KING & COUNTRY, Dante Bowe #3 - 'Hold On Pain Ends' by for KING & COUNTRY #4 - 'Shy' by for KING & COUNTRY #5 - 'Seasons' by for KING & COUNTRY #6 - 'Cheering You On' by for KING & COUNTRY #7 - 'Harmony' by for KING & COUNTRY, Sleeping At Last #8
Discover the most popular Christian Contemporary Music & CEDM released between March 3rd and March 10th, 2022. Most new releases are published on Fridays. Each Thursday we look at the Christian music (we know) that was released in the past week and select the 50 most-streamed CCM & CEDM releases. Our fans / followers are always the first to see this list! So here's this week's chart of the most popular Christian Contemporary Music (CCM + CEDM) in the English language released in the past week: (Click any song title on our webpage to open that song on Spotify) Rank - Title - Artist #1 - 'LION (feat. Chris Brown & Brandon Lake)' by Elevation Worship, Chris Brown, Brandon Lake #2 - 'Bye Bye Babylon (feat. Valley Boys)' by Elevation Worship, Valley Boys #3 - 'Dancing (feat. Joe L Barnes & Tiffany Hudson)' by Elevation Worship, Joe L Barnes, Tiffany Hudson #4 - 'Water Is Wild (feat. Chris Brown & Brandon Lake)' by Elevation Worsh
The Top 50 Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) released in the past week - Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
Discover the most popular Christian Contemporary Music & CEDM released between February 24th and March 3rd, 2022. Most new releases are published on Fridays. Each Thursday we look at the Christian music (we know) that was released in the past week and select the 50 most-streamed CCM & CEDM releases. Our fans / followers are always the first to see this list! So here's this week's chart of the most popular Christian Contemporary Music (CCM + CEDM) in the English language released in the past week: (Click any song title on our webpage to open that song on Spotify) Rank - Title - Artist #1 - 'Honey In The Rock - Live' by Brooke Ligertwood, Brandon Lake #2 - 'Fake It' by Tauren Wells, Aaron Cole #3 - 'JOY' by Kings Kaleidoscope #4 - 'Believe' by Blessing Offor #5 - 'Ancient Gates - Live' by Brooke Ligertwood #6 - 'Re-Enchanted World (Sessions)' by John Mark McMillan, Owl City #7 - 'Getting Started - Radio Version' by


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O Condado de Orange é um dos 95 condados do estado americano de Virgínia. A sede do condado é Orange, e sua maior cidade é Orange. O condado possui uma área de 889 km² (dos quais 4 km² estão cobertos por água), uma população de 25 881 habitantes, e uma densidade populacional de 29 hab/km² (segundo o censo nacional de 2000). O condado foi fundado em 1734.

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The view on U.S. 50 in Meyers Wednesday morning.
Traffic holds on Interstate 80 have been lifted.
For eastbound traffic: Chains are required on all vehicles except four-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all four Kingvale to Truckee.
For westbound traffic: Chains are required on all vehicles except four-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all four wheels from from Truckee to 3 miles east of Kingvale.
Chain requirements are back in effect on many area highways.
Traffic is being held in both directions. Eastbound traffic is being held at Kingvale due to a jackknifed big rig. Westbound traffic is being held at Truckee due to spinouts.
Chains are required on all vehicles except four-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all four wheels from Picketts Junction in Alpine County to the El Dorado County line.
Chain requirements on most area highways have been lifted.
There currently are no restrictions on U.S. 50 in the Tahoe Basin.
Chain requirements have been lifted on Interstate 80, although trucks are still being screened.
Chain requirements have been lifted on Nevada Route 207 (Kingsbury Grade) and Route 28.
Chains are required, all vehicles except four-wheel-drive with snow tires, on Nevada Route 431 (Mt Rose Highway) from Slide Meadows to Mount Rose Ski Tahoe.
California Route 89 remains closed from Emerald Bay State Park to D.L. Bliss State Park in El Dorado County due to snow. Chains are required on all vehicles except four-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all four wheels from Picketts Junction in Alpine County to 2.7 miles south of the junction of U.S. 50 in El Dorado County.
A traffic hold on Interstate 80 westbound has been lifted.
A traffic hold on Nevada Route 431 (Mt Rose Highway) has been lifted. Chain requirements remain in place from Nevada Route 28 to Thomas Creek Road.
The traffic hold on U.S. 50 at Echo Summit has been lifted. Chain requirements remain in place.
Traffic is now being held on Nevada Route 431 (Mt Rose Highway) from Slide Meadows to Mount Rose Ski Tahoe.
Traffic is being held from Echo Summit to Meyers due to avalanche control.
Chains are required on all vehicles except four-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all four wheels from Nyak in Placer County to the Nevada state line.
Westbound traffic is being held at Truckee due to spin-outs.
For eastbound traffic: Chains are required on all vehicles except four-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all four wheels from Cisco in Placer County to the Nevada state line.
Chains or snow tires are required from Truckee to 11 miles north of Truckee.
Chains are required on all vehicles except four-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all four wheels from 11 miles north of Truckee to Sierraville.


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Rain Lee Choi-wah (; born 11 November 1983) is a Hong Kong actress and singer.

Filmography
 Stolen Love (2001)
 Goodbye Mr Cool (2001)
 2002 (2001)
 If U Care ... (2002)
 My Lucky Star (2003)
 Super Model (2004)
 Love on the Rocks (2004)
 Kung Fu Soccer (2004)
 Astonishing (2004)
 Re-Cycle (2006)
 On the Edge (2006)
 Bet To Basic (2006)
 Single Blog (2007)
 House of Mahjong (2007)
 Forest of Death (2007)
 The Land With No Boundary (2011)
 Princess Show (2013)
 The Match (2016)
 Prehistoric War (2018)
 Prison Flowers (2019)

TV series
 Feel 100% (2002)
 Dream of Colours (2004)
 Wong Fei Hung – Master of Kung Fu (2005)
 Wing Chun (2006)
 Flaming Butterfly (2008)
 The Temptation to Go Home (2011)
 Modern Dynasty (2022)

References

External links

 Hong Kong Cinemagic entry

1983 births
Living people
Hong Kong film actresses
Hong Kong television actresses
21st-century Hong Kong women singers


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CFE Arena In Orlando To Be Named Addition Financial Arena
Posted on 15 April, 2019, 11:10 am EST by Joe Reinartz Contact Me
ORLANDO, Fla. (CelebrityAccess) The Spectra-managed CFE Arena, located on the campus of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL, will undergo a makeover this spring as the venue changes its name to Addition Financial Arena.
This change is part of a rebranding of the Lake Mary, Fla.-based CFE Federal Credit Union, which owns the naming rights to CFE Arena. The credit union will change its name to Addition Financial May 1 in an effort to expand throughout the region.
"We are pleased to continue our partnership with the University of Central Florida and the CFE Arena as we transition our name to Addition Financial. Under our new name, we will remain dedicated to our heritage in education, and will proudly serve the university in the years to come," said Kevin Miller, CFE's President and CEO.
CFE Arena will officially change its name to Addition Financial Arena on May 1 as well. Installation of new signage has already begun.
"Although the building is undergoing a big change with its name, our commitment to bringing world-class event experiences to the greater Orlando community remains as steady as ever," says Spectra's Joe Imbriaco, General Manager of CFE Arena.
The venue will also be launching a brand-new website to coincide with its name change, www.AdditionFiArena.com, which is set to launch on May 1.
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Guy's Potato Chip Company 1966 Chicago White Sox Baseball Club pin button.
Chicago Cubs fan lapel pin. Guy's Potato Chip promotional advertising button from the 1960's.
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Danh Võ (born , August 5, 1975) is a contemporary artist of Vietnamese descent. He lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.

Early life and education
Danh Võ was born in Vũng Tàu, Vietnam. After the Communists' victory and the fall of Saigon, the Võ family and 20,000 other South Vietnamese were brought in 1975 to the island of Phú Quốc. in 1979, when he was 4 years old, his family fled South Vietnam in a homemade boat and was rescued at sea by a freighter belonging to the Danish Maersk shipping company. The family members settled in Denmark. Their assimilation into European culture and the events that led up to their flight from Vietnam are reflected in Võ's art, which juxtaposes the historical and the personal. When Danh Võ and his family were registered by the Danish authorities, the family name Võ was placed last. His middle name, Trung Kỳ, was recorded as his first name.

Võ moved to Berlin in 2005, after finishing school at Städelschule in Frankfurt, where he went after quitting painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He had residencies at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles (2006) and at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris (2009). He lives in both Berlin and Mexico City.

Work

Võ's installations, which are composed of documents, photos and appropriations of works of other artists, often address the issues of identity and belonging.

The conceptual work Vo Rosasco Rasmussen (2002–) involves the artist's marriage to and immediate divorce from a growing list of important people in his life; after each marriage, Võ retains the last name of his former spouse. His official name is now Trung Kỳ Danh Võ Rosasco Rasmussen. Oma Totem (2009), a stacked sculpture of his grandmother's welcome gifts from a relief program on her arrival in Germany in the 1980s, displays her television set, washing machine, and refrigerator (adorned with her own crucifix), among other items.

For 2.02.1861 (2009–), the artist asked his father Phung Võ to transcribe the last communication from the French Catholic Saint Théophane Vénard to his own father before he was decapitated in 1861 in Võ's native Vietnam; although multiple copies of the transcribed letter exist (1200 as of 2017), the total number will remain undefined until Phung Võ's death.

In Autoerotic Asphyxiation (2010), Võ presents documentary pictures of young Asian men taken by Joseph Carrier, an American anthropologist and counterinsurgency specialist who worked in Vietnam for the RAND Corporation from 1962 to 1973. While in Vietnam, Carrier privately documented the casual interactions he observed, intimate without necessarily being homoerotic, between local men; he produced a substantial photographic archive, which he subsequently bequeathed to Danh Võ.

For his project We the People, created between 2010 and 2012, Võ enlisted a Shanghai fabricator to recast a life-size Statue of Liberty from 30 tons of copper sheets the width of just two pennies. Rather than assemble the approximately 300 sections, the artist shipped the giant elements to some 15 sites around the world after they rolled off the production line in China. From mid May to early December 2014 We the People was shown in New York City under the auspices of the Public Art Fund, with its assembly of parts shared between City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge Park in the borough of Brooklyn. While the work was being installed in City Hall Park, a few of its pieces – replicas of the chain links found at the feet of the original Statue of Liberty – were stolen.

For a 2013 show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Võ conceived a homage to the artist Martin Wong. The installation consists of nearly 4,000 frequently small artworks, artifacts and tchotchkes that once belonged to Wong, crowded into a specially designed gallery lined with laminated plywood shelves. The show's title—I am you and you are too—appeared on Wong's business cards and stamps.

Another 2013 show at New York's Marian Goodman Gallery focused on the personal effects of the late U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the architect of the Vietnam War. Looking to open up a dialogue about shared and private histories, Võ displayed or modified 14 items acquired at a Sotheby's auction—including the pen used to sign the Gulf of Tonkin memo and a 1944 photograph by Ansel Adams.

In 2016, rankled by rising rents in Berlin, Võ and a group of friends – including the artists Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nairy Baghramian, and Haegue Yang – went in search of studio and storage space outside the city and found the  Güldenhof, a former pig farm in Stechlin, Brandenburg with a set of stone barns that had remained intact since the eighteenth century. Originally meant to be a collaborative compound, the property eventually fell to Võ, who eventually transformed it into his studio from 2017 to 2020.

Recognition
Võ won the 2012 Hugo Boss Prize, the BlauOrange Kunstpreis of Berlin's Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken in 2007, and was a nominee for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst in 2009.

Exhibitions
Võ had his first solo exhibition in 2005, at the Galerie Klosterfelde in Berlin.

Võ participated in the Venice Biennale in 2013. His work has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; and the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, the Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany, among other institutions.

In 2014 Võ shared an exhibition with Carol Rama at the Nottingham Contemporary. On November 14, 2014, his exhibition "الحجارة وادي" (Wād al-ḥaŷara) opened at Museo Jumex in Mexico City. From February 9 through May 9, 2018, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is presenting Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, the first comprehensive survey of the artist's work in the United States.

M+ [1] in partnership with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum organized an exhibition of Isamu Noguchi and Danh Võ. (M+ Story)  Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint(16 Nov 2018 - 22 Apr 2019) The exhibition take place in the M+ Pavilion, Hongkong.

Art market
Today, Võ is represented by the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York City; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Galerie Buchholz, Cologne; and White Cube (since 2018). Until 2015, he also worked with Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin.

2015 law suit
In 2014, Dutch collector and entrepreneur Bert Kreuk filed a suit against Võ, claiming that the artist agreed in January 2013 to produce one or more new works for Kreuk's exhibition, Transforming the Known, at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, and that the work would be acquired by the collector after the show. Before the exhibition opened in June 2013, Võ sent an existing work, Fiat Veritas (2013), a cardboard box marked with gold leaf. However, Kreuk said the agreement had been for Võ to create a new work for his collection, expressing a preference for the artist's large-scale Budweiser and American Flag series. In June 2015, a Rotterdam court upheld Kreuk's claim and ordered the artist to create new artwork for the collector within a year. In July 2015, Võ proposed to answer the court ruling by producing a site-specific wall work, as large as Kreuk wished, with the text "Shove it up your ass, you faggot"; subsequently, his legal team reached a settlement and the collector dropped the suit.

Personal life
Vō lives in Berlin and Brandenburg. In 2014, he also renovated a century-old home in Mexico City's Roma Norte neighborhood. He is in a relationship with the photographer Heinz Peter Knes.

References

External links
 Danh Vo at Galerie Buchholz
 Danh Vo: The Refined Complexity of Things, Art Press, May 2013
 Living History, by Michele Robecchi, Art in America, October 2012
 Danh Vo Channels Martin Wong at the Guggenheim, by Brian Boucher, Art in America, March 2013
 Vô Danh at Kunsthaus Bregenz 2012, Ausstellungskatalog 2012 (in German, transl. Sonja Finck)
Danh Vo at Ocula

1975 births
Danish contemporary artists
Danish performance artists
Living people
Städelschule alumni
Vietnamese artists
Vietnamese emigrants to Denmark
Vietnamese expatriates in Germany


There are a few pieces of gear I think every photographer should own, and near the top of that list is a 5-in-1 reflector. Today only, you can get one (or a few extras) for half off.
The reason I think every photographer should own a 5-in-1 reflector is because they're so cheap and versatile, and they're useful whether you're just starting to learn about lighting or you're a seasoned pro. They can be used with natural light to fill in some shadows or warm up the color temperature or in a clamshell configuration with a studio light overhead. My personal favorite use is unzipping and removing the reflector panel, then attaching the translucent core to a light stand to provide a soft, diffuse light, even in harsh midday sun. It allows me to shoot portraits and headshots basically whenever with minimal equipment, and it provides a nice catchlight. Whatever your personal use, though, you should always have at least one of these lying around, and today, you can get this 42-inch 5-in-1 reflector for just $24.95, half its normal price.
From my experience you are better off to get the double sided ones, cheaper and no chance of the oversea manufactured zipper blowing out on you.
Then you lose out on the ability to have a portable scrim wherever you go.
I've had the same two reflectors for 8 years and the zippers are just fine, plus I enjoy having the ability to soften light.
Or get a Neewer on Amazon for $17.
But you can get this for half off!!! Think of the savings.
I grabbed one with some add ons from MagMod. For creating an even lit headshot, you only need one octabox and add 2 or 3 white reflectors in a triangle or square shape to bounce/ add fill on the far side. you now have a great catchlight and lighting that women really dig with very little equipment. Good catch!
Perhaps the real reason you think "every photographer should own a 5-in-1 reflector" is because then they'll click those undisclosed affiliate links to B&H.
That's nice and compact, and for $25 isn't a bad deal. Sometime back I bought 48 x 72 Fotodiox set. It's a larger package than this that I purchased, but they also come in round 36- and 42-inch sets. A whole bunch of different sizes, actually.
I don't even shoot portraits and I have one. It just seemed like a must have item.
ARE U KIDDIN' $49.95 for a 5 in 1 reflector??!!!
Kinda a wish I took advantage of this deal. We use these at work. However, I did purchase the Neewer 43" and will be coming in the mail tomorrow. It will be interesting to compare material and quality!
UPDATE: My Neewer came it over the weekend. It worked great for it's first photo shoot. I compared the Impact side by side. The quality and build are very close. The Neewer had slightly sloppy thread work where you slip the loop through. Material felt the same on both. The big difference is the Impact has a softer silver side than the Neewer. I prefer the softer silver. But they both do the job! Time will tell which will last longer. Cheers and happy shooting!


Smaller okra pods are far more tender. They are so delightful that you can cut off the stem end and drop them whole into soup.
In the picture, the ideal sized pod is on the left in my small hand. The pods to the right are certainly edible but they are not ideal. You will see bigger pods still in the marketplace, but they will be tough. I would not bother with them.
If you have grown okra you know the pods can get giant on the plant. Try to harvest the small pods daily until you build up enough for your recipe.


The GBP/USD is exchanging around $1.4040, broadening the drop of a previous couple of days, an aftereffect of misses on all information fronts and timid editorial from Carney. The US Dollar broadens its additions in the midst of higher yields.
Link immediately followed the up move to the 1.4380 locale – or new post-Brexit tops – this week, as market members keep on unwinding long positions in light of the timid message from Governor Mark Carney at his discourse on Thursday.
Truth be told, a rated climb by the 'Old Lady' at the May meeting couldn't be a 'done arrangement' all things considered, as Carney figured in the current blended information from the UK docket, where swelling, profit, and retail deals all came in beneath desires.
What's more, Carney noticed that Brexit vulnerability hoses prospects of interest in the nation, including that wage development, seems restricted because of the absence of footing inefficiency.
Meanwhile, the spot is down for the fourth successive session, exchanging the zone of multi-day lows around 1.4040 and opening the entryway for a continuation of the pullback, in any event in the close term, as gathered by late movement in GBP prospects markets.


Before becoming a writer, Mike McClelland worked as a gravedigger, wedding singer, antique salesman, and as a marketing strategy director for clients like Toyota, MillerCoors, and Buffalo Wild Wings. Like Sharon Stone and the zipper, he hails from Meadville, Pennsylvania. He has lived on five different continents but now resides in Georgia with his husband, Simon, and a menagerie of rescue dogs. His work has appeared in a variety of anthologies and literary journals and he frequently collaborates with his brother Casey, an abstract artist. He is a former member of WPP's prestigious marketing fellowship program and holds a B.A. from Allegheny College, a M.Sc. from The London School of Economics, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Georgia College. He is currently pursuing his PhD in English/Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. His first book, Gay Zoo Day, will be released by Beautiful Dreamer Press on September 1st.


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A message from Archbishop Hartmayer
Peace and all good things!
As Jesus celebrated the Last Supper, He took bread blessed it, broke it, and told his disciples, "Take this, all of you, and eat of it, for this is my body, which will be given up for you…Do this in memory of me" (First Eucharistic Prayer), instituting the sacrament of the Eucharist. These words of Scripture that the priest repeats at every Mass are not only a command for us to celebrate the Eucharist, but also a commission to serve and to take action.
As you know, the entire U.S. Church is in the first year of a three-year Eucharistic Revival to renew our Catholic belief in and devotion to the real Presence of Jesus—body, blood, soul and divinity—in the Eucharist. For this reason, the theme of this year's Archbishop's Annual Appeal is "Do this in memory of me."
Support the Appeal
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Christianity is not only about believing but also doing. When Jesus says, "do this," he commands action. We should not only contemplate Jesus but also imitate him.
Our annual appeal provides an opportunity for us to put our faith into action by putting the gifts with which the Lord has blessed us at the service of others. As the main funding source for all the ministerial, outreach, education, formation and discipleship work of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, your sacrificial giving allows us to continue the work of Christ throughout our archdiocese.
For Catholics, the spiritual fuel to do this work is the same: it is the Eucharist. In the Eucharist, Christ's sacrifice is made present to us. Nourished by the Eucharist, we are sent forth to emulate his sacrificial giving of self. As a spiritual father, I would like to challenge you to let the Spirit lead you into deeper service in your parish and in the world.
Every time you serve, no matter how big or small the task, you kneel with the Lord, washing the feet of others. You are truly strengthened by the Eucharist, obeying his command to "do this in memory of me."
I invite you to prayerfully consider how you can respond to the Lord's call to "do this in memory of me" by supporting the Archbishop's Annual Appeal. A donation to the appeal funds the work that enables service to the Lord beyond what an individual parish can provide, supporting all the faithful in North and Central Georgia.
Thank you for your generosity and faithful commitment to the Church's mission.
Gratefully yours,
†Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv
Archbishop of Atlanta
Your gift impacts more than 1,000,000 Catholics
93 parishes, 10 missions and 4 pastoral centers enriching over 1,190,000 Catholics, 10,660 students are being served in our 15 archdiocesan elementary schools, 3 archdiocesan high schools and 6 independent Catholic schools. There are 24,981 students in parish religious education programs. 9 college campus ministries for outreach and evangelization to more than 7 million people in north and central Georgia.
Evangelization to more than 7 million people in north and central Georgia.
Please donate to the Archbishop's Annual Appeal.


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From the Guardian archiveOpera
From the archive, 17 September 1977: Callas the divine is dead
The opera diva Maria Callas was considered one of the greatest singers of the twentieth century although she had her detractors
Maria Callas (1923 - 1977). Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images
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Maria Callas, the opera singer who put as much passion into her life as into her art, died in her Paris flat yesterday of a heart attack. She was 53. The "divine Callas" was the international symbol of prima donnas, as much for her incomparable voice as for her tantrums and her long love affair with the Greek ship owner Aristotle Onassis.
She had not appeared on stage in the last four years. Friends said her obsession with her weight and vigorous dieting have contributed to her sudden death. She was plagued by weight problems all her life. At 20, she weighed 15 stones. In the fifties she had to crash-diet, losing more than four stones in a few weeks, so that she could take leading romantic roles.
Her close friend, Lord Harewood, managing director of the English National Opera Company, yesterday described stories of her temperamental outbursts as "exaggerated." But, he added, "the legend will live on. She was a truly great artist. I doubt if we will ever see another like her in our time. She was unique. She was much better in person than on records. The records do not do her justice." He said Callas never sang in private - "she was an artist for the large stage."
In Barcelona, soprano Victoria de los Angeles burst into tears at the news of Callas's death. "Something very, very important has gone, for the world of music, for art - in spite of all that has been said about her."
Maria Callas sings Casta Diva, from Vincenzo Bellini's Norma
Maria Callas was the daughter of a Brooklyn Greek-American chemist called Kalogeropoulos and began her singing lessons at the age of eight. She was 15 when her parents divorced. She went to Greece with her mother and continued her studies at the Athens Conservatoire.
From her debut in the Athens Royal Opera it seemed that despite her exceptional voice her weight would preclude her from taking the best operatic roles.
Her eventual success was partly due to the encouragement of her husband, Italian industrialist Gian Battista Meneghini, whom she left in 1959 after 11 years.
Her voice, which ranged over three octaves, fascinated music lovers, and she was also a dramatic actress of exceptional talent, starring in Pasolini's Medea in 1970.
But her fame grew also through a series of dramatic incidents both on stage and in her love affair with Onassis - "the big love in my life." She lost her voice several times and broke down on stage on a number of occasions, once in front of the Italian President.
She did not marry Onassis, she once said, because "love is much better when you are not married." She said she bore no ill will to Jackie Kennedy, and took the marriage "in her stride."
But Mr Harold Rosenthal, editor of Opera, the leading opera magazine, said yesterday that the ending of the romance and Onassis's subsequent marriage to Jackie Kennedy had affected Callas "psychologically."
"It had a big effect on her. It was a case of her musical life being subdued by her personal life. It was a great tragedy because in the decade 1952-1962 she more or less single-handed revitalised Italian opera."
Nevertheless, the red-haired singer kept in the news and retained her popularity during her retirement from the stage for eight years until 1973. Her brief European tour, when she sang for the public for the last time in Paris, was a triumph despite obvious voice problems."
The last image of Maria Callas was given yesterday by her artistic director, Michel Glotz, who saw her soon after she collapsed in her bathroom and died in her bed. "It was the image of La Traviata as she played it in 1956 at La Scala," he said. "Her face has not even one wrinkle. She has the air that she is only resting."
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    from C where Cval = 1234 and event_ID = a.event_ID
)

He says that it should be more efficient.   Why will it be more efficient, and in the future, how would I spot the same / similar problem and what steps and analysis would I do to make a similar optimization?  Would it simply be one of those optimization tricks that every experienced database dev recognizes?
I'm trying to understand the black magic that he's come up with here. Any tips are appreciated.  I am using SQL Server 2008.

A: The goal of database performance tuning is to minimize the response time of your queries and to make the best use of your server's resources by minimizing network traffic, disk I/O, and CPU time. This goal can only be achieved by understanding the logical and physical structure of your data, understanding the applications used on your server, and understanding how the many conflicting uses of your database may impact database performance.
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Also this link may help you
http://beginner-sql-tutorial.com/sql-query-tuning.htm

A: The queries are different, in particular the second one specifies that:
C.event_ID = a.event_ID

Where the first one doesn't.
While there may be certain constraints on your data that means that the returned data sets will be the same it's impossible to predict the effect of this change on the query without knowing more about what exactly this constraint imples / means.
That aside, it's difficult (at best) to predict the effect of any query without an execution plan.  If you want to understand the difference between these two queries you need to get an execution plan of the queries running against representative data. (Google contains a wealth of information and articles on how to obtain and interpret execution plans)
Trivia: when I translated this query into a query running on tables in my database the second query ran slower (not significantly so, but definitely slower).  On your database you may well get completely different results though.


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I started planting the spring garden. I've planted romaine lettuce, butter crunch lettuce, pak choi cabbage and stonehead cabbage. I also planted some onion sets. I have several seed trays filled with more veggies that will be planted as soon as they are big enough to be transplanted.
One of my gardening goals this year is to keep track of what I spend on seeds and plants and compare that to what the garden produces. I've been writing on Penny Pantry, my pantry building blog, about ways to save money on the grocery bill while building a huge pantry. I'm planning on covering a lot about saving money on your grocery bill with gardening. Gardening is a powerful tool that a homemaker can use to drastically save money on the grocery bill. Not only does gardening save money, but home grown food is much healthier. Home grown food also tastes much better.
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Q: Did Palpatine know about the Lost Tribe of Sith and Abeloth? It strikes me as weird that somebody so immersed with the Dark side, and so well learned wouldn't know about the Lost Tribe and Abeloth. He might have read about the other times Abeloth had emerged and the ships in the Sith armada that vanished, and he might have sensed the many dark side presences in the Outer Rim and whenever Abeloth was near the Maw.
Is their any shred of evidence to suggest he might have had a clue?
He knew about the Vong. Did he know about these other forces?

A: No the Lost Tribe crashed while transporting crystals in a dangerous area of space.  Their master would be killed in battle in the months following the crash and the supply convoy was assumed lost.  Until ship finds them post NJO no one knows that the tribe is out there.
Abeloth was trapped by the celestials in a prison created in the MAW.  Until centerpoint station was destroy in Legacy of the Force  she remained in prison there.  That set a chain of events in motion that freed her.  Only the Klikliks had any record of Abeloth from the last time she was fought.
So no neither were known to Palpatine.

A: Based on my pretty extensive Googling, it appears that there is no evidence that Palpatine knew of either. (But there's no confirmation that he did NOT know).


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Here is a guide to the islands, with the best routes for sea travel. Prices are based on Hebrides and Clyde ferry island hopping tickets and are seasonal.
It's not quite a part of the Hebrides, but the Isle of Arran is a worthy destination. Its spectacular mountains and beautiful beaches are home to wildlife like red squirrels, eagles, basking sharks, otters and seals. Machrie Moor's standing stones offer a glimpse into its prehistoric past, and the Arran Distillery is a must-see for whiskey connoisseurs. Jump from Ardrossan on the mainland to Arran, then north to Claonaig on the Kintyre Peninsula (£ 7 per person).
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When individuals create their estate plans, they often take advantage of multiple planning tools. While this action can be useful in order to create a comprehensive plan, it can cause problems for executors during probate if different tools have conflicting information. When this happens, the process can become more difficult or even lead to disputes.
Two tools that many Texas residents use during planning are wills and revocable trusts. Wills, as most people know, are commonly used tools that express individuals' wishes for various topics, including guardianship and distribution of assets. A revocable trust, or a living trust, goes into effect as soon as it is created, and assets can be placed into the trust and removed from the ownership of the estate. Because the trust goes into effect before a will, which only plays a part after a person's death, the trust typically takes precedence in the event that a conflict between the documents arises.
For example, if a person puts an asset into a trust and stipulates that the asset should go to a specific person but later uses a will to indicate that the same asset should go to a different person, the instructions in the trust would be followed rather than the instructions in the will. However, this may not be the case if the asset was never funded to the trust. In other words, a person may have instructed in trust documents that an asset go to a specific person, but if the title, deed or other necessary document was not transferred to the trust, the will would dictate who receives the asset.
Having conflicting information in an estate plan is never ideal, and unfortunately, the conflict may not come to light until after the person has passed and the probate process has begun. As a result, the executor will have the obligation of sorting through the issues. On the bright side, Texas executors do not have to try to figure out these issues on their own as experienced attorneys are available to help.
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"We Are Congolese"
Promoting and Protecting Women's Rights and Land Requires Creative Solutions in Conflict Areas
There are a lot of minerals being extracted from the DRC, but the benefit of those minerals is not going to the people and they don't have a say on how those resources are being managed.
Rosalie Nezien, American Jewish World Service
Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) traditionally don't own land. Women are workers of the land, but the idea of a woman owning a piece of land while her husband, son, or brother are alive is still foreign in many Congolese communities. American Jewish World Service (AJWS), whose mission is to end poverty and promote human rights, has been working with Congolese women to understand and demand their rights and mediate land disputes, using a little creativity and community theater to avoid conflict.
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A Family Debate Over Farm Ownership
In 2011, three Congolese women inherited a portion of their family farm located in the village of Buhutu in Masisi Territory in North Kivu Province. Two daughters and one granddaughter—Faida, Jeanne, and Sikujua—were given the land through a written will when their father passed away. Their two male brothers and two male cousins—Timothee, Muhirwa, Kasere and Krarfulu—refused to let the women inherite the land on the basis of customary law. They found the will unacceptable and insulting. They tried to threaten and coerce the women to hand over the land and tried to sell it, all to no avail. Timothee filed a complaint in Goma, the capital of North Kivu, asking a court to nullify the will and strip the women of the land.
Faida, Jeanne, and Sikujua were intimidated at the prospect of traveling to Goma to face their brothers and cousins in court. They heard about a Goma-based organization called Dynamique des Femmes Juristes (DFJ). DFJ, an AJWS grantee, provided the women with lawyers, who offered free legal counsel and accompaniment. The lawyers even visited Faida's village, surveyed the farm land and collected more information through interviews with family members and with community chiefs, who had tried to mediate this issue in the beginning. In addition, between August 2013 and February 2014, DFJ paid for all court fees and the women's transport to Goma to attend each court hearing, which amounted to $220.
After a very long legal process plagued by ongoing threats and intimidation by unsupportive relatives, Faida, Jeanne, and Sikujua received a favorable judgment on March 23, 2014, recognizing their right to the land per the written will. The court declared the brother's legal action inadmissible and denied them any right to dispossess the women. This outcome would not have been possible if the women had not found DFJ. The cost and length of legal proceedings alone is often too overwhelming for poor rural women. DFJ's legal and financial support enabled these women to keep what was rightfully theirs.
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Q: OpenCV::dnn::readNet throwing exception I am following this tutorial to load the yolov5*.onnx models with the OpenCV DNN module and use it to make inference. I get the following error when trying to load the model:

[ERROR:0@10.376] global E:\Libraries\C++\opencv_gpu\opencv_source\modules\dnn\src\onnx\onnx_importer.cpp (1021) cv::dnn::dnn4_v20220524::ONNXImporter::handleNode DNN/ONNX: ERROR during processing node with 1 inputs and 1 outputs: [Identity]:(onnx_node!Identity_0) from domain='ai.onnx' OpenCV(4.6.0-dev)
E:\Libraries\C++\opencv_gpu\opencv_source\modules\dnn\src\onnx\onnx_importer.cpp:1040: error: (-2:Unspecified error) in function 'cv::dnn::dnn4_v20220524::ONNXImporter::handleNode' > Node [Identity@ai.onnx]:(onnx_node!Identity_0) parse error: OpenCV(4.6.0-dev) E:\Libraries\C++\opencv_gpu\opencv_source\modules\dnn\src\layer.cpp:246: error: (-215:Assertion failed) inputs.size() in function 'cv::dnn::dnn4_v20220524::Layer::getMemoryShapes' >

The minimal code to reproduce the error is as follows:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

// openCV related includes
#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>

using namespace std;
using namespace cv;
using namespace cv::dnn;
using namespace cuda;

int main()
{
    printCudaDeviceInfo(0);

    // Load model.
    Net net;
    try
    {
        //net = readNet("yolov5s.onnx");
        net = readNetFromONNX("yolov5s.onnx");
    }
    catch (cv::Exception& e)
    {
        cerr << endl << endl << e.msg << endl << endl; // output exception message
        return -1;
    }

    return 0
}

I built OpenCV from source with CUDA / CuDNN other relevant modules using cmake on windows. (OpenCV version 4.6.0).
Why I am getting this exception? How can I correctly load the onnx model of yolo?

A: Disclaimer: I have no experience using any of the listed technologies except for C++.
The last line of the error message you are seeing

E:\Libraries\C++\opencv_gpu\opencv_source\modules\dnn\src\layer.cpp:246: error: (-215:Assertion failed) inputs.size() in function 'cv::dnn::dnn4_v20220524::Layer::getMemoryShapes' >

failed an assertion that inputs.size() is non-zero. I think it may be due to you not setting inputs for your Net object. In the tutorial which you linked to, in section 4.3.4, they implement a helper function "pre_process", which takes an input image, converts it to a blob, and sets that as the input of the net. See section 4.3.6 for how/where they call pre_process in their main function. Are you following that part of the tutorial outside of the minimal reproducible example you provided?
I don't know anything about ONNX, so if your input is being set inside your ONNX file, please add the body of the file to your minimal reproducible example.

A: I used your good minimal example and reproduced the error with opencv 4.6.0 (build from source):
[ERROR:0] global ../modules/dnn/src/onnx/onnx_importer.cpp (1876) handleNode DNN/ONNX: ERROR during processing node with 1 inputs and 1 outputs: [Identity]:(onnx::Reshape_475)

I seems to be a version problem of either:

*

*opencv reading the onnx file
(I was able to read an other onnx e.g. the restnet onnx file here without any trouble)

*the pip package of onnx v.1.12  is producing an file version (called for onnx 'opset version') which could not yet be handled by opencv

I haven't found the right combination ( and I tried some), but some people in the comment section of your mentioned article suggested to use opencv version 4.5.4.60
An alternative A) is to use an other format like TensorFlow GraphDef *.pb files
The funtion  cv::dnn::readNet suggests a lot more options:
*.caffemodel (Caffe, http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/)
*.pb (TensorFlow, https://www.tensorflow.org/)
*.t7 | *.net (Torch, http://torch.ch/)
*.weights (Darknet, https://pjreddie.com/darknet/)
*.bin (DLDT, https://software.intel.com/openvino-toolkit)
*.onnx (ONNX, https://onnx.ai/)

The export.py script of the project yolov5 offers some options:
Format                      | export.py --include         | Model
---                         | ---                           | ---
PyTorch                     | -                             | yolov5s.pt
TorchScript                 | torchscript                 | yolov5s.torchscript
ONNX                        | onnx                        | yolov5s.onnx
OpenVINO                    | openvino                    | yolov5s_openvino_model/
TensorRT                    | engine                      | yolov5s.engine
CoreML                      | coreml                      | yolov5s.mlmodel
TensorFlow SavedModel       | saved_model                 | yolov5s_saved_model/
TensorFlow GraphDef         | pb                          | yolov5s.pb
TensorFlow Lite             | tflite                      | yolov5s.tflite
TensorFlow Edge TPU         | edgetpu                     | yolov5s_edgetpu.tflite
TensorFlow.js               | tfjs                        | yolov5s_web_model/
An alternative B) could be to use the pip package onnx to convert the file version. See the docu here.


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(A note: I didn't set out to write this post for Girl Clown Dancing. Instead, it's the essay I submitted to the Modern Love column in The New York Times—the gold standard for essayists. Hundreds of very personal stories, or more likely thousands, are submitted every year from around the world to its editors, with less than 100 ever seeing the light
of day. So, I knew the chance of seeing this published was slim to none. I was right.
But going through the process was absolutely worth it.
One more thing: I thought the O. Henry ending, as well as mentioning my time as a professional circus clown
and memories of living in New York City, were unusual enough to nudge the editors toward publication. But in
retrospect, my story probably wasn't "modern enough" to meet the column's current criteria. To this end, my essay
isn't about falling in love while navigating a nasty divorce; meeting one's soulmate in the middle of a pandemic,
or the challenging work of bonding with a stepchild.
Still, I really like how this came out. Also, I worked hard on it. Enjoy!)
It was what used to be called a one-night stand.
Perhaps because I'd never done such a thing before or since, and probably because the attraction was also more overwhelming than anything I'd ever experienced, forgetting him, even after decades, proved to be impossible.
Just a few weeks before Christmas, I found him.
John had been dead for close to a year.
I'm online a lot, so whenever he snuck into my head, about every four or five months, I'd do a quick search to see if I could find out whatever happened to him. As it turned out, I had been spelling his first name right but his last name wrong all of this time, sometimes with an extra letter, or sometimes with the correct letters but one misplaced vowel.
Now, finally nailing the configuration, I sat in my office, starred at the computer screen, and read John's obituary.
He had died in a long-term nursing home, his spouse of 35 years beside him.
That final place was in Mexico, Missouri, the town where John was born and raised, and had returned to 15 years before. Scanning the memorial guestbook, I let out a loud exhale after clicking on what appeared to be his wedding day photo.
It had been snapped in my California hometown of Long Beach, the city where we had met.
The picture was posted by John's widow Christine. We both had hazel eyes and dark brown hair, and wore it the same way, curly and above our collar line.
I had dropped out of college and already knew a little about John the night we came together, at a cramped and dingy bar frequented by reporters and editors. Not coincidentally, it was across the street from the newspaper where
he worked.
John was the political cartoonist for the Long Beach Press-Telegram, and his drawings were smart, sassy and on-target with issues of the day. In person, he was curious; had a big laugh, and knew how to listen.
Then there were his looks.
If not for the Southern drawl, John might have been mistaken for someone who grew up in Malibu—in his 30s and not an ounce of fat, but tall and lean and tan, with sun bleached hair and a casual cut neither too long nor too short. When I see photos of Jeff Bridges at his most hunky, I see John as well.
I was short and curvy, with unruly hair and decidedly Eastern European looks. I couldn't imagine why anyone who
looked like him might want to be with someone who looked like me, even for one night. But I guess, at least right
then, he did.
We left at the same time, both knowing what was going to happen next.
Besides the charged anticipation, there was an assured innocence, too.
After all, this was long before anyone had heard of AIDS or any of the other scary complications that sometimes happen now after sleeping with strangers. It was also the peak of the contemporary women's movement, and a time when reliable birth control was easily available. Putting both components together, it was more than okay to be sexually active. It was, in fact, something to be celebrated.
It was very dark and probably close to 11 o'clock when I got in my car and John got in his.
I followed him to the white Spanish style house he rented with a roommate I never did meet, on a street named after a tree common to California. I also remember the bed. It was on the floor, big enough for two, and the sheets smelled as if they had just come out of the dryer.
Details aren't needed here, except to say that both of us got what we wanted, and many times over, with only an hour
of sleep.
And while I don't remember much small talk, I did tell John that I had been a professional circus clown for a time, coming off the road the year before. Also, I mentioned that I was Jewish.
Hours later, with the sun beginning to rise, he propped one elbow on the bed, hand on his cheek, looking hard at me. ''Damn!" he said, in that sweet twang. "You're the first Jew I ever slept with!"
Shortly after that, the phone rang. It was one of John's colleagues, inviting him to see some sort of NASA landing in
the desert several hours away. John told me he really wanted to go, and so, he did. I must have left at the same time.
We stayed in touch for a few months. But the white-hot intensity had dissipated by then, and we lost contact.
I eventually received a journalism degree from San Jose State, doing some birthday clowning gigs to help pay my tuition. I had also sold a piece on flea market tips to Seventeen, and right after graduation, because I wanted to write for magazines and because that's where all of the big ones were, moved to New York City.
First I lived in the East Village with one roommate and hundreds of cockroaches, and then snagged a walk-through apartment three flights up in Brooklyn, all for myself, on Henry Street. The kitchen featured stained burgundy carpet and the bathroom was in the hallway, but the place also boasted a spectacular view of the Statue of Liberty.
Not long after, I had a job as an editorial assistant for a small publishing house and then was a staff writer for the CBS company magazine.
Four years after leaving California, I came back because I missed driving, my friends and the beach. I found a pink duplex in the flats of Beverly Hills and wrote press releases about celebrities, then reported for a weekly film industry publication. Eventually, I thrived in a long career as a network television producer.
However, I had stayed in contact with a few people at the Press-Telegram, where John still worked.
Committed to no commitment when we met, I learned then that nearing his mid- 40s, he had married Christine.
The obit provided other facts I'd never known.
After graduating from Mexico High School, John was an Army officer in Vietnam with the infamous Big Red One unit,
a fact that made him immensely proud. Indeed, he had landed in Southeast Asia in time to take part in the 1968
Tet Offensive, the notorious and bloody campaign that marked a major escalation for the United States in the war.
At around this time, he had also left a brief marriage and a four-year-old son behind.
After leaving the military, John attended the University of Missouri, majoring in history, which became a lifetime passion. Described as a cartoonist, artist and author, the last sentence of the memorial defined the person I remember. "Everyone that knew John thought he was a nice guy, a great story teller, and a hard loving man."
In the funeral home guestbook, a retired colleague from the newspaper, and a Vietnam vet as well, offered more.
"John was my friend," he wrote. "I have a lot of acquaintances, but very few friends." The writer went on to describe the lengthy walks the two took every morning for more than a decade, long after I knew him, where they "solved all the world's problems, swapped lies and dirty jokes, and bonded the way brothers are supposed to. We laughed a lot and cursed a lot and tried our best to leave a legacy of peace and love."
The researcher and writer that I am wanted further details. Luckily, the reporter was easy to find and open to answering a few questions.
To let him know I was who I said I was, I included my Facebook handle, which has photos of my days as a clown.
"I expect you were among his fonder memories," he wrote back. "For a one-nighter, you picked a good one."
The reporter went on to tell me about the historical novel John had co-authored, set right before the Civil War
and published in 2007. It remains in print and while there are only five reviews, each one is stellar in its praise.
The friend also mentioned that near the end, knowing he was dying of cancer but upbeat, John was working on a
second book.
He had also reconnected with his long-estranged son, with whom he'd lost touch with after Vietnam. "In my last conversation with him," added the reporter, "he was fairly giddy over the fact had he had a couple of grandchildren."
One more thing came out.
"Some considerable irony here," the friend wrote. "Christine was a professional birthday clown when she and John met."
So, now, living in a big blue and white house in Oregon, with a front porch wide enough for two Adirondck rockers,
one for my husband and another for me, I wonder.
What if the chemistry that John and I acted on that one night so long ago hadn't vanished? What if I had stuck around my hometown, and ended up in Mexico, Missouri?
I'll never know.
But then again, for some reason, I don't think I should.
Lovely, lovely, lovely, Hilary. So nicely done
Hilary Grant
Thanks, dear friend. I spent a lot of time on it. xo
My opinion: The NYT missed out on publishing an excellent piece. I'm honored to be your husband. I love you with all my heart!
Thank you! Very proud of the writing but again, I think the subject wasn't "modern" enough. Which is too bad. xo
That came out great ! Those were crazy times when we were young in the 70`s
The combination of being young AND it being the 1970s made for some crazy times. I was a very young 22-year-old when this happened. And in some ways, less fearful and more brave. xo
Jan Lethers
What a beautiful memory ! I am grateful to have come of age before AIDs and now the pandemic, as there were so few things to worry about when having sex. I started taking the pill in the early to mid 1970s so didn't even have to worry about pregnancy. I know I was braver then, less fear and more willing to be in the moment. It is so bittersweet to find out now all the loves one has had have passed. The memories are powerful. Thank you for this!
The times were VERY different, as were we. For sure, I was braver all around. I still carried my "V card" when I entered UCLA in the fall of 1972 and ***mortified*** that I hadn't found anyone to sleep with me yet, LOL. I got that "taken care of" not long after, but that didn't end well. John... I was able to figure out this would have been 1977 and I was 22 and had been with a few guys by then. Two years later I was living in NYC. Crazy times, both good and bad. And yes, the only thing we had to worry about was "VD" and one penicillin shot did the trick!
Hilary... I enjoyed this well-written and thought-provoking essay... one that took me back in time and causing me to remember feelings of my own... thought long forgotten.
We all have so many stories inside us. We think we've forgotten them, but then something triggers them. :)
Glenn Young
I remember how much he meant to you.
LOL -- I'm thinking that you're thinking of someone else who worked at the same paper. I sure liked those newspaper guys! THAT person is a *very* long story and he's still with us. Definitely not a one-nighter. :)


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Beast Busters Featuring KOF
Posted by Federico Tiraboschi on September 11, 2017
Beast Busters Featuring KOF - Android, iOS (2014)
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Beast Busters
Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999
Beast Busters – Second Nightmare
During the New Tens mobile gaming, especially in Japan, garnered a lot of attention, so SNK Playmore decided to resurrect (pardon the pun) the series by developing a shooting game for Android and iOS smartphones, in the occasion of the brand's 25th anniversary. The gameplay has, of course, been adapted for mobile, where you move the "camera" by swiping the left side of the screen and shoot by tapping the right side. Every zombie/Beast needs to be shot in their glowing core for massive damage, while hitting them in the head stuns them. You also now have to reload manually, just like in Second Nightmare. This time however there are also a RPG-like experience points system and an in-game shop where you can buy more powerful weapons and items like medikits and grenades. The gore has been drastically reduced, though, probably as a means to avoid age restrictions for the app.
Knowing that many players may not even have heard about the older games, SNKP decided to combine this title with the massively more popular King Of Fighters franchise, which itself was on its 20th birthday. While the idea of KOF characters punching zombies and mutants to oblivion is surely awesome, they don't actually appear in the game (save for playable guest star Kyo Kusanagi), leaving the spot as player characters to the Strings siblings, Jin and Lisa, "cool" manga-style over-designed teens. The support characters are more in line with the American comic book aesthetic instead, while also falling in cliches such as "old mad scientist", "big angry black guy" and "busty spy in tight catsuit". Actually, the KOF people only exist in the game as "Fighter Cores", that is, emblems that grant a variety of stat modifiers and bonuses to the players after being equipped or activated.
Like almost every nominally free smartphone game, there are actually a lot of in-game purchases: while the lesser Cores can be found fairly easily, the strongest ones take a lot of time and effort to be obtained, not to mention big amounts of in-game currency (Coins and Medals), which in turn can be bought with real-life money. Others can be obtained only by fusing two or more Cores or by winning them randomly in daily raffles. And of course you're going to need them, since the game starts fairly easy, but then the difficulty escalates quickly, much like the original coin-op.
In fact the whole game seems to be something of a 3D adaptation of the original, with a similar progression: you start underground in a subway, then move to the dilapidated city streets and finally to the labs where the evil organization is creating the undead for their sinister purposes. The bosses are usually just slightly larger zombies, not strange hybrids or creatures; however, in a typical example of the series' comic book absurdity, new updates included undead versions of historical figures such as zombie Napoleon or zombie Cleopatra.
The game seemed to be tailored to the tastes of the mobile gaming crowd: the gameplay is still the same mindless one from 1989, but perfect for something that has to be played on the fly in short bursts. Players could be hooked by the achievement system, online leaderboards, Twitter integration (that Japanese players seem to love), and the hunt for the most powerful Cores. It also has something for the old time fans: the hard rock soundtrack, overdone designs for player characters and emphasis on explosions and "cool" effects all go towards the same "American" comic book aesthetic of the precursor, and it's up to the player whether to take it seriously or not. Despite all this, SNKP still couldn't garner much interest about the franchise, probably because of the over-saturated mobile gaming market and the bad rep freemium mobile games started to gain in the meantime. In the end SNKP shut the game down on August 31, 2015, removing it from every online store. So, this makes two games in the series that are no longer available.
However, it still received a spin-off in the form of a pachislot machine in 2015, back when SNK Playmore still produced this kind of stuff.
Beast Busters featuring KOF Defunct app's official site.
Beast Busters SNK's site for the whole series.
The life of the series now is most likely over, even now that SNK has recovered from its Playmore days. But, even if zombies are now a staple of popular culture, Beast Busters never has been (and it would be probably seen as a House of the Dead ripoff despite coming first), so it's doubtful that gamers would even be interested in a new installment.
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Nipsey Hussle Compares "Black Panther" & LA Gang Culture
byKing Vashti
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Around the 19:40-minute mark, the conversation turns to Black Panther, during which the L.A. rapper explains how he was blown away after watching the film, comparing the movie's storyline to gang culture in Los Angeles.
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Postwar France
Reconstructing Gender
Roberts, Mary Louise
Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927
by Mary Louise Roberts
Cloth: 978-0-226-72121-7 | Paper: 978-0-226-72122-4 | eISBN: 978-0-226-72127-9
Library of Congress Classification HQ1075.5.F8R63 1994
In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in public debate concerning female identity and woman's proper role. Mary Louise Roberts examines how in these debates French society came to grips with the catastrophic horrors of the Great War.
In sources as diverse as parliamentary records, newspaper articles, novels, medical texts, writings on sexology, and vocational literature, Roberts discovers a central question: how to come to terms with rapid economic, social, and cultural change and articulate a new order of social relationships. She examines the role of French trauma concerning the War in legislative efforts to ban propaganda for abortion and contraception, and explains anxieties about the decline of maternity by a crisis in gender relations that linked soldiery, virility, and paternity.
Through these debates, Roberts locates the seeds of actual change. She shows how the willingness to entertain, or simply the need to condemn, nontraditional gender roles created an indecisiveness over female identity that ultimately subverted even the most conservative efforts to return to traditional gender roles and irrevocably altered the social organization of gender in postwar France.
Mary Louise Roberts is associate professor of history at Stanford University.
Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Introduction - This Civilization No Longer Has Sexes
Part One - La Femme Moderne
1. This Being Without Breasts, Without Hips
2. She Stood at the Center of a Shattered World
3. Women Are Cutting Their Hair as a Sign of Sterility
Part Two - La Mère
4. A Matter of Life or Death
5. Madame Doesn't Want a Child
Part Three - La Femme Seule
6. There Is Something Else in Life besides Love
7. We Must Facilitate the Transition to the New World
Conclusion - Are We Witnessing the Birth of a New Civilization?
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