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Ireland's third National Workplace Wellbeing Day takes place on March 31st 2017. Large and small companies across the country will take part, with the objective of improving employee health through promoting better nutrition and physical activity.
As part of our campaign to support employers provide for the health & wellness needs of their employees, we have created a series of blogs, videos and other resources which we hope will help empower you to make positive change in your workplace today.
2016 saw a big leap forward with businesses thinking about how they may create a culture of health & wellness for their employees. We expect that in the years ahead, companies will look at programmes and means of delivery which will take the health of their employees to the next level.
This growth can be attributed to many factors, but principally, they have been shown to help control health care costs as well as improving employee productivity and satisfaction. More and more employers are also finding, that wellness programmes boost retention, engagement and that their employees increasingly see these as a key component in an overall benefits package.
In the US, 70 percent of employers now offer some kind of employee wellness program, up from 58 percent in 2008. Here in Ireland, 7 in 10 employees have stated that they are more likely to see their long term future with employers who are interested in their wellbeing. 1 in 2 employees would consider leaving employers who don't support wellbeing.
We are seeing a trend towards companies making increased efforts in creating and maintaining a wellness culture in their organisation, as opposed to simply hosting once off, seemingly unconnected events. Demonstrating a culture of wellness takes concerted time and effort, but results suggest that organizations are beginning to prioritize this initiative, 38% of whom are actively working towards improving the culture of health in their workplace.
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This beautiful bowl is about 15" in diameter and will make a lovely centerpiece on your table. It displays an assortment of colors including purple and gold and will also show well in an upright stand. As you can see in the pictures, different lighting displays the colors in this bowl dramatically. It is sure to be a conversation piece.


Travel Guide to Florida - Central Florida | Besides shops, bars and restaurants, Kissimmee's Old Town features amusement park rides and a Saturday Nite Cruise parade of more than 300 classic cars.
What's your favorite vacation activity? Dining out? Shopping? Golfing? Fishing? Visiting theme parks? Exploring parks and nature reserves? Discovering museums and galleries? You'll find them all in Central Florida, "the vacation capital of the world."
Greater Orlando alone, an area encompassing Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Lake Counties, boasts more than 100 ticketed attractions, 200 lakes and 440 hotels. Kissimmee, Polk County and the city of Ocala offer more fun things to see and do.
Besides theme parks, Greater Orlando has more than 5,000 restaurants, including dinner theaters with themes ranging from buccaneers at Pirate's Dinner Adventure to horses at Arabian Nights, comedy at WonderWorks, mystery at Sleuths Mystery Dinner Shows, jousting tournaments at Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament and gangsters at Capone's Dinner & Show. Additional entertainment is found in lounges, martini bars, dance clubs, sports bars, comedy clubs, wine bars and even an icebar with an ice-carved interior.
Besides shops, bars and restaurants, Kissimmee's Old Town features amusement park rides and a Saturday Nite Cruise parade of more than 300 classic cars.
Kissimmee's Latin Trail of restaurants satisfies appetites for South American, Cuban, Puerto Rican and Spanish cuisines. Nighttime entertainment ranges from Auggie's Jammin' Piano Bar at the Gaylord Palms Resort to Vintage Vino, a downtown wine, beer and cheese bar.
No Central Florida visit is complete without experiencing one or more of Orlando's major theme parks: Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando Resort and SeaWorld Orlando. Orlando's Official Visitor Center on International Drive provides free brochures, maps and travel advice. Free Orlando Magicards offer discounts on accommodation, attractions, dining, nightlife, shopping, golf courses and transportation. Discount tickets for attractions, dinner shows and activities can be ordered online.
Orlando Museum of Art and Orange County Regional History Center highlight Orlando's eight-mile cultural corridor. Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre features Broadway shows. International orchestras perform at the Festival of Orchestras in Longwood. Orlando Repertory Theatre specializes in children's performances. Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and Orlando Ballet also have programs for young audiences. In Lakeland, Polk Theatre, a restored 1928 vaudeville/movie palace, hosts films and performing arts in a Venetian piazza setting.
At Kissimmee's Pioneer Village & Museum, visitors explore late-1800s American homestead life. Exhibits include an authentic homestead and citrus packinghouse, a general store, schoolhouse and blacksmith shop. In Lakeland, Polk Museum of Art features a sculpture garden and a substantial collection of contemporary, African, American, Asian, European and pre-Columbian art. Ocala Civic Theatre, the second-largest theater in Florida, hosts musicals and dramas, while the city's Appleton Museum of Art is one of the premier fine art repositories in the southern states.
Central Florida attractions cover a variety of interests: zip line safaris at Florida Eco Safaris, miniature golf at Hawaiian Rumble Adventure Golf, swimming with dolphins and snorkeling with manatees at Florida Dolphin Tours. At Orlando Science Center, youngsters can observe stars and examine fossilized dinosaur eggs. In Orlando's WonderWorks, hands-on simulators allow children to ride a virtual submarine and experience many other interactive activities.
Families can play cowboy on trail rides near Ocala at Double K Stables and Makin' Tracks Trail Rides. Western fun and adventure also await at the Westgate River Ranch Resort near Lake Wales.
Hot-air ballooning is a popular aerial adventure at Orlando Balloon Rides and Magic Sunrise Ballooning. In Polk County, Fantasy of Flight offers aerial displays, hang-glider simulators, biplane rides and tours of the world's largest private collection of aircraft.
Shop 'til you drop at The Florida Mall, Central Florida's largest shopping mall in Orlando, which houses more than 260 shops and restaurants. The Mall at Millenia is the place for high-end brands such as Cartier, Gucci and Chanel, as well as upmarket goods at Macy's, Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus. The city also has several outlet centers offering discounted designer clothing, shoes and luggage.
Orlando's destination spas include The Ritz-Carlton Spa, Orlando, The Spa at Buena Vista Palace Hotel and The Waldorf Astoria Spa by Guerlain. The Spa at Orlando World Center Marriott Resort has couples packages, while L'Esprit Day Spa at DoubleTree Resort Orlando features chocolate body scrubs.
Orlando's 115,000 guest rooms range from budget lodgings to condos and luxury resorts. Many family resorts offer shuttles to theme parks, including Holiday Inn Resort Lake Buena Vista where youngsters under 12 eat free at Applebee's and stay in family-friendly kid suites.
Nickelodeon Suites Resort has two water parks, live Nickelodeon performances, character breakfasts and a 4-D theater show.
In Kissimmee, Holiday Inn Main Gate East has kids' suites, free scheduled shuttles to shopping and Disney theme parks, as well as a children's theater, pool and playground.
Families can cycle West Orange Trail, Orlando's longest paved trail. Vans Skatepark draws amateur and advanced skateboarders, while tennis buffs can choose from 800 city courts.
Central Florida has golf galore. Orlando alone has nearly 200 golf courses, including world-class venues such as Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club and Grand Cypress Golf Club. Great golf is also available in Kissimmee, Polk County and Ocala.
Sports lovers can see NBA basketball in Orlando from October to April, Detroit Tigers spring training in Lakeland and Houston Astros spring training in February and March at Osceola County Stadium.
Polk County, the Bass Capital of the World, has 554 lakes with numerous fish camps and fishing guides. Besides fishing, Polk County's Lake Kissimmee State Park offers hiking, equestrian trails, canoeing and camping.
In Seminole County, you can paddle down the Wekiva River, one of only two national wild and scenic rivers in Florida.
Several companies offer guided airboat, swamp-buggy and pontoon boat tours to view alligators, birds and wildlife in Central Florida's wetlands and the Kissimmee River and Dead River swamps. Participants may spot ospreys, egrets, roseate spoonbills and endangered whooping cranes. The largest population of nesting bald eagles in the continental USA is in Kissimmee/Osceola County.
Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens, which includes a bird show, insect zoo and aerial adventure course, is a full-day outing. Beautiful gardens, a nature preserve and a 60-bell carillon draw visitors to Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales.
In Winter Haven, the world's largest LEGOLAND has rides, shows and attractions for the entire family.
Visitors can spot birds, butterflies and alligators as they cycle through the treetops at the new Cypress Canopy Cycle attraction in Forever Florida Wildlife Conservation Area.
In Kissimmee, the new Fantasy Surf center at FantasyWorld Resort offers surfing on indoor waves and lessons.
Visit Orlando's new website features a trip ideas generator and a drag-and-drop trip itinerary builder in eight languages. A new mobile site offers similar research and planning tools.
The Amway Center, a new concert and special events venue in downtown Orlando, is home to NBA's Orlando Magic basketball team, the Orlando Predators football team and Orlando Titans lacrosse matches.


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A wistful odyssey populated by skaters, squatters, street preachers, playwrights, and other locals on the margins, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a poignant and sweeping story of hometowns and how they're made – and kept alive – by the people who love them.
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A "Loudermill" hearing is part of the "due process" requirement that must be provided to a public employee prior to removing or impacting the employment property right (e.g. imposing severe discipline).

The purpose of a "Loudermill hearing" is to provide an employee an opportunity to present their side of the story before the employer makes a decision on discipline.

Prior to the hearing, the employee must be given a Loudermill letter–i.e. specific written notice of the charges and an explanation of the employer's evidence so that the employee can provide a meaningful response and an opportunity to correct factual mistakes in the investigation and to address the type of discipline being considered.

Loudermill v. Board of Education

The term stems from Loudermill v. Cleveland Board of Education, in which the United States Supreme Court held that non-probationary civil servants had a property right to continued employment and such employment could not be denied to employees unless they were given an opportunity to hear and respond to the charges against them prior to being deprived of continued employment.

The underlying principle in Loudermill is that because dismissals often involve factual disputes, a hearing provides the employee an opportunity to explain and refute any conclusions the employer reached which caused the employee's discharge.

Expansion

Since the time that case was decided, certain other courts of law have held that the right to hear and respond to the charges extends not just to denials of continued employment, but to denials of continued employment at the current rate of pay. Thus State agencies offer this pre-deprivation hearing or Loudermill hearing in cases of discharge, demotion and unpaid suspension of non-probationary classified employees.

Although Loudermill was a case involving the termination of a public employee, the ruling has been applied to situations where the proposed discipline deprives the employee of any property interest (e.g. wages) or liberty interest (e.g. damage to reputation).

Requirements of the hearing

In addition to a pretermination (Loudermill) hearing, an employee must be afforded a hearing, after the termination takes effect. However, the scope of the pretermination hearing depends upon the scope of the post-termination hearing available to the employee. If a full post-termination hearing is available, the Loudermill pretermination hearing is minimal.

In such situations the employee would have an opportunity to respond in the pretermination hearing as long as she had available a post-termination hearing. Thus, the pre-termination hearing functions as "an initial check against mistaken decision -- essentially a determination of whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that the charges against the employee are true and support the proposed action." If a pretermination hearing is "oral or written notice of the charges against [the employee], an explanation of the employer's evidence [against the employee], and an opportunity [for the employee] to present their side of the story."

In West v. Grand County, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit quoted Loudermill, stating:

The Standards for a pre-termination hearing are not stringent because of the expectation that a more formal post-termination hearing will remedy any resulting, deficiencies. '[T]he pre-termination hearing though necessary, need not be elaborate. ... [T]he formality and procedural requisites for the hearing can vary, depending upon the importance of the interests involved and the nature of the subsequent proceedings'.

The holding in Loudermill goes on to state, "The pre-termination hearing need not definitively resolve the propriety of the discharge. It should be an initial check against mistaken decisions - essentially, a determination of whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that the charges against the employee are true and support the proposed action." Thus, this type of hearing does not need to be elaborate and does not require a full-blown court-type evidentiary hearing.

The court in West stated: "We have held that pre-termination warnings and an opportunity for a face-to-face meeting with supervisors and a conversation between an employee and their supervisor immediately prior to the employee's termination were sufficient to satisfy constitutional requirements." Thus an employee does not have the right to confront or cross-examine witnesses, nor does he have the right to legal counsel or other representation during the hearing.

See also
Waters v. Churchill, 511 U.S. 661 (1994)
Cox v. Roskelly, 359 F.3d 1105 (9th Cir. 2004)
West v. Grand County, 967 F.2d 362, 368 (10th Cir.1992)

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The Rendez–Vous Saloon is a stylish 35-seat saloon where our clients can admire the panoramic view of the summer garden of the Cornul Vanatorului tourist complex situated in Trivale Forest. We wish to offer "a quiet moment" in a relaxing and benevolent atmosphere. This saloon is fit for private parties (anniversaries, birth days).


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I have to access statuscode (Status Reason) and statecode (Status) fields on the entity. I have created a query using the Xrm.WebApi.retrieveMultipleRecords, but cannot get it to return a flag. I want the retrieveMultipleRecords method to only execute on and never be called again but 'return true' below gets executed setting my button to true always.
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A: Function Xrm.WebApi.retrieveMultipleRecords returns a promise, not an actual boolean value. The function is executed asynchronously, so immediately after the call to this function the next line is executed and that line always returns true.
In fact it is not possible to make an asynchronous call synchronous. Instead we can follow another approach by following these steps:

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let isRecalculationButtonVisible = false;

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*As explained, retrieveMultipleRecords returns a promise. The recommended error handling for promises is adding a catch function at the end of the chain.

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How this P.E.I. caterer is preparing its 1st in-person Indian harvest festival feast | CBC News Loaded
How this P.E.I. caterer is preparing its 1st in-person Indian harvest festival feast
A P.E.I. family-run caterer is preparing a grand feast as part of an annual Indian harvest festival called Onam, a 10-day event going from Aug. 30 to Sept. 8 this year. It marks the first month of the calendar year for the Malayali people — an ethnolinguistic group from Kerala, India.
The 10-day Onam festival includes a traditional feast of more than 25 dishes
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Charlottetown-based 4 S Catering is expecting to serve up to 150 people for their Onam Sadhya set for Sept. 6. From left, daughter Sandra Sunil, mother Sheena Mathew, son Samel Sunil, team member Aljo Johnson, and father Sunil Daniel. (Mikee Mutuc/CBC)
A P.E.I. family-run business is going to great lengths to prepare a feast consisting of more than 25 dishes as part of an annual Indian harvest festival called Onam.
The 10-day festival runs from Aug. 30 to Sept. 8 this year, and it marks the first month of the calendar year for the Malayali people — an ethnolinguistic group from Kerala, India.
Each day of the festival has its own significance, with an elaborate assortment of celebrations and events ranging from dance performances to competitive games.
An essential part of the festival is called Onam Sadhya, a traditional multi-course meal served on a bed of banana leaves and meant to be eaten by hand.
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That's what 4 S Catering in Charlottetown has decided to prepare for Islanders. The caterer, which many will know from their booth at the Charlottetown Farmers' Market, will be hosting the event in-person for the first time at the Jack Blanchard Family Centre on Tuesday.
"It's basically a collection of the harvest, and really celebrating family connectedness and community, and sharing and cooking meals together and just eating and having a great time," said Sandra Sunil, the catering company's manager.
Sunil runs the business with her mother Sheena Mathew, father Sunil Daniel, and brother Samel Sunil.
She said they began hosting the feast last year but chose to deliver the food through a takeout option due to COVID-19 restrictions.
All dishes served at Onam Sadhya are vegetarian, consisting of several different curries, vegetables, and fruits. (Mikee Mutuc/CBC)
After receiving "overwhelming support" with more than 50 orders placed, the company decided to continue Onam Sadhya this year with an in-person dinner.
As people enter the community centre, they can expect cultural music playing in the background throughout the event.
The family is expecting to serve about 100 to 150 people. Sunil said the company already has 30 people registered, on top of others they know who are waiting to book until they get a final head count from relatives and friends interested in joining.
"We're super excited to host it and just have everyone together and really enjoy the time," she said.
All the dishes served for the Onam Sadhya will be vegetarian, more than 25 in all.
"Whether you're [a] child or whether you're an adult — you can really have and find something to like in the array of dishes," said Sunil.
The family of four will be relying on each other, and a small number of team members, to cook enough food for the number of guests anticipated, but she said the business has catered for even bigger crowds so it's no surprise to them.
Mathew said it was difficult to find banana leaves to use on the tables for the feast, so they have resorted to cutting large pieces of green paper to recreate the experience for their guests.
A time lapse sneak peak into what Islanders can expect at 4 S Catering's Onam Sadhya on Sept. 6 (submitted by Sandra Sunil) pic.twitter.com/uctyy14KGT
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Sourcing the rest of their grocery list was made easier thanks to the Indian grocers on the Island as well as in cities like Moncton, Halifax, and Toronto. They have also ordered online to get products directly from India, including some that most Islanders would not recognize.
"Drumstick, we don't use often here. It's a green vegetable," said Mathew. "And cucumber, different types of cucumber. And yam, mostly people doesn't use here. Okra. Yeah, that kind of vegetables we use a lot in this.
"I am excited. So it is the way of, you know, showing the culture to all the people. So we are really excited to show that to you.... We want to involve everyone."
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Mikee Mutuc is a reporter and producer with CBC P.E.I. She was previously based in Toronto, and has worked on stories for CBC's The National, CBC's Cross Country Checkup, CBC Toronto and CBC Kids News. She graduated with a bachelor of journalism degree from Humber College in 2019. You can email story ideas to: Mikee.Mutuc@cbc.ca.
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When the Star Wars Anthology films were first announced three years ago, everyone expected to have a series of self-contained, one-off adventures that would hop all around the SW timeline and galaxy both, helping to widen the franchise's tone and style, at the least, or fill in the storytelling canvas by directly showing some long-referenced events, at the most.
This is precisely what Rogue One: A Star Wars Story promised to deliver when it was initially revealed: the Rebel Alliance's mission to procure the first Death Star's blueprints, which is what kicks off 1977's Episode IV: A New Hope, would be realized in all its glory on the big screen. But it turns out that this first side story will actually do something much bigger and far grander than what we could ever have imagined: it's going to tie the entire Star Wars saga – the movies, the television series, the novels – all together in one neat little package.
This is more than just doing a shared cinematic universe, like what Marvel has been pioneering for the past eight years – this is taking nearly every single medium that SW exists in and attempting to seamlessly integrate it (which is why, after all, the new Disney-owned Lucasfilm opted to jettison the original version of the Expanded Universe [that collection of novels, comic books, short stories, and videogames] and created a new iteration that actively linked to the more recent TV shows and the yet-to-arrive films). Call it a shared multimedia universe.
If it works, it could pave the way for all future Hollywood meta-franchises – maybe even Marvel's, which could finally acknowledge its ever-growing television sub-universe.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's first take a step back and see just how Rogue One is attempting to push the narrative envelope.
"Separatist takeover complete! Another Republic planet has fallen. Onderon has seceded to the Confederacy of Independent Systems under the rule of a new king. However, a small band of Rebels have taken refuge deep within the vast and savage wilderness.
From an abandoned outpost, they plot to take back the heavily fortified capital city of Iziz and end the Separatist occupation…"
Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker (voiced by Matt Lanter in the series) has the idea to train these rebels in, essentially, guerrilla warfare, which would then allow the Republic forces to attack an already-distracted Confederate army. The Jedi Council ultimately agrees, albeit reluctantly, as insurgent combat can easily become terrorism, and "terror is a weapon the Jedi never wish to employ." This immediately sets up the ambivalent, conflicted tightrope that Saw Gerrera, who fancies himself the leader of the Onderon resistance, finds himself walking (and sets him up as something of a reflection of Anakin, who is himself a character constantly attempting to reassess the dual pulls of the light and dark sides of the Force).
Ultimately, Master Skywalker's plan proves successful; the rebels are able to free the former, pro-Republic king, rally public support, and strike a decisive blow against the Separatist battle droid army stationed there, forcing the Confederacy to abandon the planet. However, the victory comes at a steep cost: Saw's sister, Steela (Dawn-Lyen Gardner), who quickly emerges as the resistance's leader and may even have a bright future as a general in the restored Onderon military, is accidentally killed by Saw himself (he fires a shoulder-mounted surface-to-air rocket, which destroys a droid gun ship that then crashes into Steela's position on a cliff, making her fall to her death).
The character of Saw is never touched upon again in Clone Wars, although Lucasfilm has been able to partially resurrect the character in the three-and-a-half years since, based mostly off of the narrative designs that the writing staff and Star Wars creator George Lucas had drawn up for future seasons (before Disney abruptly canceled the show). He is first referenced in Star Wars: Rebels, the Disney XD replacement series that takes place just a few years before the original trilogy of films: we learn that Oderon has, unsurprisingly, become a hotbed of resistance against the Galactic Empire, and Saw has become a particularly brutal insurgency leader. He is mentioned once more in the just-released novel Star Wars: Bloodline, which is set six years before Episode VII: The Force Awakens, with (some of) the senators of the New Republic looking back and questioning whether his guerilla cell's actions should really be labeled terrorism.
Marking the first time ever that a Star Wars character will have been introduced first in the Expanded Universe before being seen on the big screen, actor Forest Whitaker will be assuming the flesh-and-blood role of Saw Gerrera in the storyline that takes place before A New Hope. In Rogue One, EW revealed, Gerrera is a man who nominally fights as part of the Rebel Alliance to overthrow the tyranny of Emperor Palpatine's New Order, but he's on the extremist fringe, so brutal in his tactics that "the other good guys aren't sure if he really is one." He's forced to work with Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and her team of spies in order to achieve the common good of finding a weakness in the Death Star, an instrument of war that can end the Rebels, the extremists and the "lightweights" both, once and for all.
Although not much of Rogue One's actual plot has been divulged as of yet, we can be pretty sure that Lucasfilm opted to go for this previously established character instead of creating a new one from scratch for some pretty important thematic reasons. In his original, animated incarnation, Saw is trained in his insurgent ways by none other than Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Learner, Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) (who has also been reinserted into the Star Wars mythos by becoming a recurring character in Rebels). The pair, in turn, are overseen by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor), who has a vested interest in making sure that his two hot-headed compatriots don't tumble too far down the slippery slope of combat into terrorism (or hatred or anger, which, as we all know, is the path to the dark side). Although Gerrera is nowhere near a Jedi, it is nonetheless important to note that Ahsoka ultimately feels forced to abandon the Jedi Order, while Anakin, of course, one-ups her by becoming a Dark Lord of the Sith (and, as Vader, will similarly make an appearance in this first Star Wars Story). Obi-Wan's efforts to monitor and provide a sense of balance for them fails – as it does, obviously, for Saw himself.
It seems as if Jyn Erso, the protagonist of Rogue One (and a character who starts the film off as a criminal thrown in a Rebel cell), might have something of a similar trial to undertake in the upcoming "anthology" adventure, with Rebel leader Mon Mothma (Genevieve O' Reilly) acting as the angel on her one shoulder and Gerrera, the devil on the other (or, if you will, the secular, combat versions of a Jedi and Sith Lord). In this way, this supposedly self-contained one-off story could actually continue and build upon the main films' thematic core – and it might even be that Jyn will have some sort of balancing effect on the battle-hardened Clone Wars veteran, providing him with the closure that he has been lacking since his sister's death some 19 years prior.
And this, ultimately, should be the deciding factor in first designing and then implementing a multimedia-wide shared-universe model, particularly on this grand of a scale: telling actual stories with actual characters that progress and grow over time (and through the mediums), instead of force-feeding a narrative element into the main story in order to help sell more copies of the originating DVD set, book, or comic. Should Lucasfilm continue to adopt this approach – coming up with a specific narrative first, and then checking to see if they already have the necessary parts from other, previous releases – then the ever-more-expanding stories of the various Star Wars films and Expanded Universe will be a marvel to behold.


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When I saw the trailer for The Interview, a comedy starring James Franco and Seth Rogen on a mission to kill Kim Jung-un, I knew the North Koreans wouldn't be happy about it. Turns out they aren't.
He then continues by saying that the US is "reckless" by having a "gangster filmmaker" target Kim Jung-un, thus resulting in "a gust of hatred and rage" in the North Korean community.
"If the US administration allows and defends the showing of the film, a merciless counter-measure will be taken," said the spokesman.
What counter-measure are they referring to? Will they take more American hostages, and does this mean they want to start a war?
In the film, James Franco and Seth Rogen portray a talk show host and a producer who receive an invite to interview Kim Jung-un. The CIA sees this as a chance to assassinate the ruler and decides to use the two to carry it out.


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Cradle of Thai Culture
Explore Sukhothai - the first Kingdom of Siam
By Alon Lopez
Tourism Authority of Thailand
Loi Krathong and Candle Festival in The Sukhothai Historical Park
Sri Chum Temple in Sukhothai Historical Park
Sukhothai - Ban Na Ton Chan
Sukhothai Historical Park - Wat Mahathat
Wat Chang Lom
Wat Sri Chum-Phra Achana
"During the time of King Ramkhamhaeng this land of Sukhothai is thriving. There are fish in the water and rice in the fields." – inscription in the first ancient tablets to use the Thai alphabet
Founded in the 13th century, the ancient Sukhothai kingdom is considered the cradle of Thai civilisation – the birthplace of Thai art, language and architecture. Meaning Dawn of Happiness, Sukhothai experienced a renaissance under the rule of revered King Ramkhamhaeng. Widely credited for creating the modern Thai alphabet, promoting Theravada Buddhism across the land, and strongly supporting art and culture amongst his people, King Ramkhamhaeng left an undeniable mark on Siam.
Though the golden age of Sukhothai was relatively short before being taken over by Siam's second kingdom, Ayutthaya, its influence was unprecedented. In the mid- 1900s, restoration efforts began to preserve the ancient city centre, now a collection of palace and temple ruins, about 400 kilometres north of Bangkok.
Today, Sukhothai is still a second-tier destination after the likes of Bangkok, Phuket or Chiang Mai but still draws in travellers wishing to immerse themselves in the rich historical heritage of this charismatic ancient capital.
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A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Sukhothai Historical Park's main attraction is the surprisingly condensed, central walled city. Surrounded by a moat and home to numerous temples, shrines and monuments, many of which have been carefully and continually restored, the core of the park is easy to explore on foot or bicycle. The entire park covers about 70 square kilometres with more than 190 ruins dotting the landscape.
While many ruins consist only of stone foundations set in the ground, several temples still retain more of their original structure and iconic Buddha images. The largest temple and spiritual centre of the ancient kingdom is Wat Mahathat. Modelled after a mandala and located in the centre of Sukhothai's old city, the stunning temple typifies Sukhothai era architecture with its central lotus bud chedi (stupa), with Khmer and Lanna influences seen in the design of the temple's smaller stupas. This fascinating melding of cultures is apparent throughout many of Sukhothai's ruins, including Buddha images, carved reliefs and temple prangs (towers).
Just outside the northern wall of the city is Wat Si Chum, where a sizeable mandapa (or temple gathering area) houses a remarkable 15-metre-tall seated Buddha, known as Phra Achana. Within the metrethick mandapa wall is a secret passage that leads behind the head of the Buddha statue and it is believed that this was used by the Sukhothai kings during times of hardship or war to address, and encourage, their people by being the voice of Buddha. On the walls of this passage are carved slate tiles, considered Thailand's oldest mural, featuring images from the life of Buddha.
Other distinctive sites include Wat Chang Lom, with its Singhalese-style stupas and collection of elephant sculptures, and Wat Si Sawaiwith recognised by three towering and unmistakably Khmer-style prangs, make up only a fraction of the ruins within the historical park.
In addition to the ruins and park-like surroundings, visitors can stop in at the Ramkhamhaeng National Museum located near the entrance of the park's Central Zone. It is said that after attending the funeral of a Chinese emperor, King Ramkhamhaeng brought Chinese ceramic artisans back to Sukhothai to teach the art to his people. Incorporating local traditions into the process, Thai porcelain eventually found its own unique style known as sangkhalok dating back 700 years. Authentic sangkhalok pieces can be viewed at the Ramkhamhaeng National Museum along with an array of artefacts found during excavation digs in Sukhothai and Si Satchanalai Historical Parks, including antique Sukhothai-style Buddha carvings, which are still considered the most beautiful Buddha images in Thailand.
ANCIENT TRADITIONS, MODERN FESTIVITIES
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Loi Krathong at Wat Mahathat
Colloquially known as Thailand's lantern festival, Loi Krathong is an annual tradition celebrated throughout Thailand, involving floating small round krathong (rafts or baskets) adorned with flowers, candles, incense and wishes down the country's waterways. Releasing krathong is meant to serve two purposes – to rid oneself of the previous year's bad luck and to honour the water goddess with the offering.
According to Thai folklore, the festival originated in Sukhothai in the 13th century and the Sukhothai Historical Park is still considered one of the most spectacular places in the country to celebrate. On a cool November evening, the illuminated ruins, waterways and grassy lawns sparkle with candlelight making it a picturesque location for this lunar festival. Lasting five days in Sukhothai province, the city celebrates with traditional performances, light and music shows, and the releasing of paper lanterns, attracting visitors from all over the country.
STOP IN SUKHOTHAI
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Bangkok Airways ATR at Sukhothai Airport
Sukhothai Historical Park is well worth a dedicated visit for the sheer beauty and historical value it holds in Thai culture. While more off the beaten path than Ayutthaya, there are several ways to reach Sukhothai and it's a convenient one- to two-day stop when travelling between Bangkok and northern Thailand. Regional flights fly into Sukhothai airport, about 30 kilometres from the new part of town. For those who relish the journey as much as the destination, Sukhothai is a six-hour bus ride from either Bangkok or Chiang Mai and can also be reached by train when getting off in Phitsanulok which is 60 kilometres east of Sukhothai.
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Mother and her three children killed in Bolton house fire - latest updates
Firefighters and emergency services were called to a terrace house on Rosamond Street in Bolton at around 9am this morning - the M.E.N. understands that it's being treated as a fatal incident
Paul Britton
Simon CoyleContent editor
Charlotte Dobson
A woman and three children have died in a house fire in Bolton.
Firefighters and emergency services were called to a terrace house on Rosamond Street at around 9am this morning.
It's a small terraced street off St Helen's Road, the main route through the Daubhill and Deane areas of Bolton leading into Bolton town centre.
On arrival a man had managed to get out of the house but a woman and three children were still inside.
A child was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
Multiple dead in Bolton house fire
A woman and two children were taken to hospital where they died shortly afterwards.
The children include two boys and a girl, all under the age of 13.
The man, who managed to escape, is currently in a stable condition.
The fire is not being treated as suspicious at this stage.
We'll bring you more updates as we get them.
What we know so far 13:24
Breaking: Woman and three children have died 12:48
Pictures show damage to house 12:05
Multiple fatalities in house fire 11:07
Investigation will take days
Father named locally as Zubair Dalal
Another eyewitness, Aymen Mohamed, said he had been visiting his grandmother when the fire broke out.
The 24-year-old said residents in the street came out on to the street and saw the man, named locally as Zubair Dalal, jump from the window. He said:
Early this morning about 9am there was smoke emerging from the house and noises of shouting.
Residents of the street gathered and it was seen that a man escaped by jumping out of the window. I didn't see the man but it was said he jumped from the back window which faced the backstreet so it was hard to see.
I knew of the family, but not as friendly.
I saw the grandmother of the kids crying once it was known they were dead.
Firefighters had to use specialist equipment to break door down
GMFRS assistant county fire officer Tony Hunter told reporters the man was believed to be the children's father and he had escaped by jumping from a first floor window.
He had tried to get back into the home to rescue his children and their mother but was unable to do so until four firefighters used a specialist tool to break the door down, Mr Hunter added.
Assistant County Fire Officer Tony Hunter (Image: Joel Goodman )
'It's terrible, absolutely terrible'
An eyewitness said she saw two people being given CPR as emergency services tackled the fire.
The woman said she was alerted to a "commotion" at around 9am on Saturday and saw a man banging on a door of one of the terraced houses.
It's terrible, absolutely terrible. I saw them bringing people out. They were doing chest compressions.
I saw them bring two out and then they put a green sheet up. I don't know if they were bringing fatalities out.
It was 9am this morning when I heard all this commotion. Somebody - I don't know whether he lived there - there was just a load of hammering, banging on a door.
I went to the window and saw smoke billowing. When I saw him after he had his hands bandaged up and his head. He either lived there and managed to get out or he was trying to get in.
Woman who died believed to be children's mother
Tony Hunter, assistant county officer at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, says the woman who died is believed to have been the children's mother.
The man who escaped the blaze was the father.
More pictures from scene
Here are some more pictures from the scene of the fatal house fire in Bolton where investigation work continues to establish the cause of the blaze.
Scene of fatal house fire on Rosamond Street in Daubhill (Image: Joel Goodman)
Property thought to be a family home
Police are still working to inform the next of kin of those who died in the fire.
However officers believe the property appears to be a family home.
A firefighter at the scene of the blaze (Image: Joel Goodman)
'The woman and children were inside but they couldn't get out'
One witness, who has asked not to be named, said:
My husband came running downstairs this morning saying there was a fire and we needed to do something to help.
We rang the fire brigade but they were already on their way.
We heard the man shouting for help. He was shouting from the window.
Then I think he jumped out of the window. I don't think they could get inside to the others. The woman and children were inside but they couldn't get out.
It's very sad and shocking.
To recap, here is what we know so far about this morning's tragic house fire:
A woman and three children have died in a house fire in Bolton
Emergency services were called to a terrace house on Rosamond Street at around 9am
The children include two boys and a girl who all under the age of 13
A man managed to escape the blaze by jumping out a window - he is in a stable condition
Officers remain at the scene and roads in the surrounding area have been closed
An investigation has been launched to establish the cause
Police are currently not treating it as suspicious
Man jumped from window
We have been told by neighbours at the scene that a man escaped the property by jumping out of the window.
"He was shouting for help", said one witness.
Mayor sends his personal sympathies
In a tweet, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service confirmed the brigade was working alongside police.
They said: "Our deepest condolences go to the family and the community.
"We will be in the local area in the coming days reassuring residents."
The mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham also sent his personal sympathies.
He said in a tweet: "Dreadful news coming out of Bolton today. My thoughts are with the family, their friends and the whole community."
More forensics officers arrive
More forensics officers have arrived at the scene.
Police however have said they are not currently treating the fire as suspicious.
Firefighters to remain in area
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service say they will remain in the area over the coming days to reassure residents.
One man escaped the blaze
Police say that one man managed to get out of the house, but a woman and three children were still inside.
He is currently in a stable condition.
Incident not being treating as suspicious
Detective Chief Inspector Chris Bridge, from GMP's Bolton borough, said:
These are utterly heart-breaking circumstances and our thoughts go out to anyone affected by this tragic incident.
This appears to be a family home and we have been working to inform loved ones of this awful loss.
I know the community will feel the impact of this and I assure you we are working with our colleagues at GMFRS to get to the bottom of what happened, although we are currently not treating it as suspicious.
This means there will be officers and fire investigators in the area for some time and I would like to thank residents for their patience so far.
GMP along with GMFRS will be working together to provide assurance to the community over the coming days.
This happened on a Saturday morning when many people would be up and about and I would appeal to anyone with any information about this incident to please call us.
Information can be passed on to police by calling 101 and quoting incident number 715 of 8 July 2017.
Breaking: Woman and three children have died
A woman and three children have died following a house fire in Bolton, GMP have confirmed.
A man, who managed to escape, is currently in a stable condition.
Officers remain at the scene and roads in the surrounding area have been closed.
A joint investigation with Manchester Fire and Rescue has been launched to establish the cause of the fire.
Police outside the house (Image: Joel Goodman)
Pictures from the scene
GMP update shortly
We are expecting an update on the incident from GMP shortly.
We will be streaming the statement from the scene live on our Facebook pager HERE and in the blog.
More pictures from the scene
Here are more pictures from the scene of the blaze.
Firefighters at the scene of the fire (Image: Joel Goodman)
Police and fire crews at the house in Bolton (Image: Joel Goodman)
Pictures show damage to house
These pictures from the scene show the damage caused to the house.
The scene of the house fire on Rosamond Street (Image: Joel Goodman)
The scene of the house fire on Rosamond Street (Image: Manchester Evening News)
Forensics officers at the scene
Forensics officers and GMP detectives are now at the scene carrying out their investigations.
We are expecting an update from police soon.
Neighbours being allowed back into their homes
Residents who live in neighbouring properties on Rosamond Street are being allowed back into their homes.
The street remains sealed off.
We are still awaiting more details from emergency services about the incident this morning but here is what we know so far:
There have been multiple fatalities at a house fire in Bolton this morning
Police have confirmed a 'serious house fire' but no further details have been released as yet
The public are being urged to stay away from the area
The road has been sealed off while emergency services work at the scene
Family taken to hospital
It is not clear yet of the ages of those who have been killed, but a family is understand to have been taken to hospital following the blaze.
Video from scene
Reporter Charlotte Dobson has arrived in the scene.
There is a large emergency service presence and a number of roads in the area are closed off.
Multiple fatalities in house fire
The M.E.N. understands that there have sadly been multiple fatalities in the house fire.
We will have more soon.
Mapped: Where the street is
Rosamond Street, a terraced street in the Daubhill area of the town, has been completely sealed off.
Police have confirmed a 'serious house fire' but no further details have been released as yet.
The public are being urged to stay away from the area.


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Home / Main News / Free Basics is no longer available to people in India: Facebook
Free Basics is no longer available to people in India: Facebook
Posted on February 12, 2016 by admin in Main News, Shop
After a persistent debate on Free Basics,Silicon Valley investor and member of the Board of Directors at Facebook, Marc Andreessen criticised India's opposition to Facebook's offering. He went to the extent of comparing the opposition to anti-colonialism which wasn't taken too well by Indian netizens.
The series of tweets and the resulting outrage prompted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to put up a post on his Facebook page dissociating from Andreessen's views. He termed the comments as 'deeply upsetting and doesn't represent the way Facebook or I think at all.'Recently, TRAI had banned the concept of Free Basics, or differentiation by telecom operators on the basis of content. Non-compliance with the announcement could result in a heavy penalty.Given the vast user base in India, the stand taken by TRAI is a significant setback for Facebook, which had changed the internet.org campaign to Free Basics to position it as a noble idea of connecting a billion users around the world who have no access to Internet.
Stiff opposition from activist groups in India and across the globe as well as opposition by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the world wide web resulted in a public debate on the subject. The result was an immediate ban on Free Basics.
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A systematic review by researchers from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW Sydney found that only a small range of markers are used to identify cerebrovascular disease (CVD) burden. The study published in Neurology noted that validated composite indices using multi-modal neuroimaging measures, are needed to better reflect the true burden of the disease.
Lead author and CHeBA PhD student, Dr Matt Paradise, said that despite the significance of CVD, there are no widely accepted criteria for quantifying the total burden of the disease, either using neuroimaging or neuropathologic measures.
The review, which examined twenty-five existing studies of neuroimaging and neuropathologic indices, found that the majority of imaging studies used a limited number of traditional individual markers of CVD, mainly from structural MRI scans. The studies also failed to utilise data from a range of other, more sensitive imaging types, such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
CVD is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality; with vascular dementia now the second most common type of dementia. CVD encompasses both large vessel disease, such as stroke and vascular dementia, and small vessel disease which is increasingly understood to play a role in the progression of dementia. Importantly, vascular pathology might be a modifiable risk factor for dementia, with influences such as midlife hypertension, diabetes, obesity and smoking, contributing to rates of the disease.
CVD is difficult to quantify in the brain due to the multitude of different lesion types which may be present, many of which are common in the normal aged population and may represent overlapping pathologies. There are also challenges in reliably quantifying many of the lesions seen on structural MRI.
However, Dr Paradise said that the findings from the review were encouraging for improving estimates of cerebrovascular disease burden in future, although more research was needed.


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Palestinian Human Rights Activists Receives Death Threats (tags)
A Palestinian human rights activist said Thursday that he was "terrified" by the hostile reception and physical threats he received while lecturing at the University of Chicago.
African Development Projects Call for Solidarity, Not Charity (tags)
The All African People's Development and Empowerment Project is an African-led, communitiy based iniative, building electrical, water purification and other types of infrastructure throughout the African world. The project envisions improved conditions, sustainability and true economic independence for African people.
Young woman provides new leadership to African liberation struggle (tags)
Ivory Muhammad, President of Uhuru black rights organization will speak at African People's Solidarity Day events in Oakland; says police brutality, discriminatory prison rates, the Jena 6 show that African people in the U.S. are still not free
South African leader tours U.S.; says conditions worse than apartheid (tags)
Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) tour exposes ongoing South African oppression and poverty under Mbeki and Mandela; conditions for most South Africans today - "Worse than Apartheid!"
Solidarity Campaign Hosts Revolutionary Speakers from Africa (tags)
The African People's Solidarity Committee has launched a campaign to gain support and resources from the white community for the international African liberation movement. The campaign will culminate in mid-October with a series of events across the U.S. featuring speakers from Africa, multi-media presentations and cultural performances. (see www.apscuhuru.org)
Reparations Tribunal Subpoenas George Bush and Other Officials (tags)
George W. Bush Called to Answer for U.S. Government International Law Crimes Against African People
African People Take U.S. to Court (tags)
Report from Press Conference at U.N. Headquarters announcing 12th Session of International Tribunal on Reparations for African People in the U.S. Set for Nov. 15-16 in Philadelphia


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Peter Phillips is the spicy half of the Peter Phillips - Robert Blake duo on Rhapsody Tuesdays 5pm – 9pm
Q. What is your Birth Sign?
A. Taurus
Q. What is your Favourite Colour?
A. Blue
Q. What is your Favourite Food?
A. Lobster
Q. How did you decide to become a DJ?
A. I was born into it. My brother had a disco before me and that's how I got into it.
Q. What do you like best about this Industry?
A. That's a tough one. Basically, I like to see people happy, so I guess that's what I like best about it.
Q. Do you have a favourite Genre or Genres of music?
A. I like all music but I would have to say Jamaican music.
Q. What motivates you to do what you do?
A. I guess you can say it's all from above. Quite a lot of my family has been in the music industry as well, so it was something I was born into.
Q. How do you prepare for a show, play out or just a normal day in the studio?
A. A play out is a little different from a show. When you play out, you are not 100% sure of the crowd, so when you go on a play out, you basically assess the crowd and then select your music based on that. On a show now, you have a format so you have your reggae section and your r and b section. Before the show now, you know what you're playing and try not to repeat yourself. You're not necessarily playing to keep people dancing, so you can play a wider selection.
Q. Outside of being a DJ, what else do you find interesting?
A. I love movies and dogs,. I am a member of the Kennel Club and I show dogs. Also I exercise a lot and I like watching sports.


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The Birthday Party: Harold Pinter's Bed and Breakfast
By Levi Asher
Awards, British, Drama, Existential, Litkicks, Postmodernism, Transgressive
Harold Pinter, the British playwright who just won the Nobel Prize for Literature, was savaged as an idiot and a fashionable phony when the play that made him famous, The Birthday Party, opened in London in 1958.
It was one of those famously bad opening nights, though it didn't cause a riot like Stravinsky's Rites of Spring. The play is an existentialist tableau, a British nod to the then-fashionable European absurdism of Alfred Jarry, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre. We open in a dowdy seaside bed-and-breakfast, where a slightly giddy but charming old lady named Meg is prattling to her bored husband, who works as a deck-chair attendant on the nearby beaches.
The home is designed to take in visitors, but there is only one guest, a bitter, cranky young failed concert pianist named Stanley, in a role that would undoubtedly be played by Steve Buscemi if it were cast today. He's rude and opinionated, but Meg adores him and Meg's husband puts up with him. The sitcom scenario is interrupted when two new boarders arrive. It's one of the play's comic touches that the boarding home is so run down all present are stunned when guests actually arrive and choose to stay there.
In fact, the guests turn out to have motives. They're a couple of lugs, classic gangster-movie bad guys, who have arrived to punish Stanley for some past crime or indiscretion (the plot exactly mirrors that of Hemingway's short story The Killers, in which a downbeat ex-boxing champ sits in a hotel room waiting for two tough guys to find and kill him). We never find out what Stanley's crime was, other than being a cranky concert pianist — all we know is that these guys are here to do Stanley harm, and he knows it and can't escape.
But first Stanley must endure a birthday party, which Meg insists on throwing for him. Meg likes the two visitors just fine, and seems to miss all the clues that something is suddenly wrong in her pathetic home. Meg is a key character in the tableau, a classic dingbat (Jean Stapleton gets the part) whose constant flirtatious mothering creates another form of imprisonment for Stanley.
We're never completely sure if we're supposed to like her or hate her, and we never find out if the two lugs are supposed to represent fascist government, or conformity, or the id, or anything else. We're also not sure if we're supposed to identify with or despise the besieged main character. It's a paint-by-numbers existential statement, and you can fill in the metaphors yourself.
Pinter writes with a bold postmodern touch, and his literary tricks are intentionally exposed for the audience to glare at. At Stanley's birthday party, it's no surprise when a game of blind-man's bluff is followed by a blackout, putting the whole theater in ominous darkness. The drama is suspenseful from the start, and I imagine it would be quite entertaining in a theater.
I don't know why the play got such famously bad reviews when it opened, but Pinter's reputation gradually improved, and he had a great influence on future playwrights such as Tom Stoppard and David Mamet. His chilly sense of menace may have also informed the work of Don DeLillo, with which there is a clear resemblance.
Pinter's classic plays don't get revived very often, and he's more of a playwright's playwright than some of his successors. He's been a productive writer in many formats, though, and has also spoken out strongly about political issues such as the War in Iraq. He produced this near-haiku in 2003:
There's no escape.
The big pricks are out.
They'll fuck everything in sight.
Watch your back.
Pinter's emphasis on menace and human culpability make his work resonate strongly today. Here's a quote from a British theater critic, Harold Hobson, who was one of the only critics to champion the playwright after The Birthday Party's debut:
"Mr Pinter has got hold of a primary fact of existence. We live on the verge of disaster. One sunny afternoon, whilst Peter May is making a century at Lord's against Middlesex, and the shadows are creeping along the grass, and the old men are dozing in the Long Room, a hydrogen bomb may explode. That is one sort of threat. But Mr Pinter's is of a subtler sort. It breathes in the air. It cannot be seen, but it enters the room every time the door is opened. There is something in your past — it does not matter what — which will catch up with you."
judih. says:
BravoGreat review. Lead me to
Great review. Lead me to the next Pinter revival.
Billectric says:
Nice reviewThe part of the
Nice review
The part of the play when the lights go out – what a great touch.
BlueInRed says:
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Harold Pinter is one of those rare writers to whom I've always wanted to say, "thank you."
Thank you for the depression that would inevitably follow reading your work.
Thank you for the vague sense of apprehension I feel when I hear your name.
Thank you for writing so exquisite that the pain and sheer admiration last a lifetime.
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Matthew Rozsa
June 10, 2019 1:30PM (UTC)
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Stephen Quayle supervises 2 postgraduate research students. If these students have produced research profiles, these are listed below:
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Dr Stephen Quayle
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Originally from the Isle of Man, Steve came to Lancaster to study the MEng in Mechatronics. After graduation he moved to Cambridge for the Advanced Course in Design Manufacture and Management, before returning to Lancaster to start his research career. Early research was in the field of Construction Robotics and automation of large equipment. More recently, focus has been in renewable energy, particularly tidal energy devices where he completed his PhD in 2012. Work foccusses on the use of multi-element profiles to improve the hydrodynamic efficiency of machines.
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Q: Continuous broadcasting with SignalR I am currently broadcasting live scores for sports evens to the browser. This is currently achieved by running a continuous console application (Azure WebJob) to pick up data and broadcast it out.
The current solution is quite simple. 2 threads. 1 retrieves from a database and adds to a shared collection (shared between the threads) and the other thread picks up from the shared collection and broadcasts to subscribers, at a much more frequent rate than the data is retrieved, hence the 2 threads.
Is this the best way to do (continuous broadcast job) this or are there other techniques that can be implemented to achieve such a solution?

A: Only thing I can think of is to switch the broadcast thread from continuous loop to an event-based action based on a trigger fired from a new score becoming available. There is no need to broadcast a duplicate score, so you fire an event when the user logs in to get the current score, then fire an update event when a new/different score is available.


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GOT THEM..OR HAVE YOU?
We love to bid and make nice slams. We love to make a difficult contract. We love to catch the opponents with a penalty double. All three statements seem true though the last has a proviso…that we beat the contract. Why did the defence fail to beat this doubled contract?
West Deals
Both Vul
♠ 9 6
♥ 6 5 4 3 2
♠ J 7 4 3
♦ Q 7 6
♠ K 8
♥ K J 10 9
♦ K J 8
♣ K J 10 3
♠ A Q 10 5 2
♥ A
♦ 10 9 2
♣ A 8 5 4
Pass Pass 1 NT 2 ♠
Pass Pass Dbl All pass
"Who's afraid of the strong no-trump?"Not many, these days.
The strong no-trump carries a bit more weight (literally!) than its weak relation. So, when South made a reasonable overcall of the 15-17 1NT, showing spades and a minor suit, and East re-opened with a take-out double, West decided to "go for the money". With many pairs playing 2NT as a Lebensohl bid (i.e. asking partner to bid 3 ), West had nothing particularly attractive to bid. The defence had 22-24 hcp. In good Kiwi terminology, "she'll be right."
"She" was not. West led the 7 to South's ace. South led A and a second club with the intention of ruffing some losers in that suit in dummy. East won the second round to lead the 8. South did not know the lie of the trump suit and ensured one ruff by playing the ace.
After one club ruff, South ruffed a heart, played a diamond to the ace and ruffed another heart. That was 7 tricks in and with Q10 still in hand was able to score one more trump trick to make their doubled contract. What went wrong from the defence's point of view? How could the contract have been beaten?
The answer lies with West's hand, with West's shape. Passing 2 x was a risk. Their side had the majority of the high- card points. Only an unusual shape in either declarer's or dummy's hand would allow the contract to make.
Trump is best
West should have led a trump. It was not as though West needed to use their trumps for ruffing. Although on some days, an attacking side-suit lead, like a heart here, might shorten declarer's trumps to an uncomfortable level, the danger of ruffing value in dummy is a real one for the side with the majority of the high-card points. South need only have five spades, leaving room for two in dummy.
An initial trump lead, followed by a second one from East (declarer has no other option but to concede a club) gives the defence, 3 club, 2 diamond and a trump trick…down 1.
There are specific situations where leading a trump is a good idea. One is when the defending side has the majority of the high-card points with dummy potentially providing a source of tricks with ruffs. That was the case here. Would you have led a trump?
Date:Apr 24, 2018