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Guam Soccer League (GSL) is the men's top level professional football league of the Guam Football Association in the United States territory of Guam. Since 2004, the GSL has had two levels,  Division 1 and Division 2.  Since 2007, the league has adopted a longer season that starts in the fall and ends in the spring. Previously the GSL was divided into Spring and Fall seasons. When the champions of both seasons were different, a one-off match was played to decide the year's overall champion.

2018-19 league table

The final standings of the 2018-19 season.

Teams for 2017–18 season

Premier Division
 Anderson Bombers
 Bank of Guam B
 Bank of Guam Strykers FC
 Bobcat Rovers
 Crushers FC
 EuroCar FC
 FC Beercelona
 Familia FC
 Isla De Ladrones
 Islanders FC
 LOH Heat
 Pago Bay Disasters
 Quality Distributors
 Rovers FC
 Shipyard HAYA
 Sidekicks FC
 U.O.G. Tritons

Masters Division
 Big Blue
 Gino's FC
 Hyundai Family FC
 IT&E Boonie Dawgs
 NAPA Rovers II
 United Masters

Previous winners
Winners were:

 1990: University of Guam
 1991: University of Guam
 1992: University of Guam
 1993: University of Guam
 1994: Tumon Taivon (Tamuning)
 1995: G-Force (Continental Micronesia)
 1996: G-Force
 1997: Tumon Soccer Club
 1998 Overall: Anderson Soccer Club
 1998 Spring: Anderson Soccer Club
 1998 Fall: Island Cargo
 1999 Overall: Coors Light Silver Bullets
 1999 Spring: Carpet One
 1999 Fall: Coors Light Silver Bullets
 2000 Overall: Coors Light Silver Bullets
 2000 Spring: Coors Light Silver Bullets
 2000 Fall: Navy
 2001 Overall: Staywell Zoom
 2001 Spring: Coors Light Silver Bullets
 2001 Fall : Staywell Zoom
 2002 Overall: Guam Shipyard
 2002 Spring : Guam Shipyard
 2002 Fall: Guam Shipyard
 2003 Overall: Guam Shipyard
 2003 Spring : Guam Shipyard
 2003 Fall: Guam Shipyard
 2004 Overall: Guam U18
 2004 Spring : Guam U18
 2004 Fall: Guam U18
 2005 Overall: Guam Shipyard
 2005 Spring: Guam Shipyard
 2005 Fall: Guam Shipyard
 2006 Overall: Guam Shipyard
 2006 Spring: Guam Shipyard
 2006 Fall: Guam Shipyard
 2007 Spring: Quality Distributors
 2007/08: Quality Distributors
 2008/09: Quality Distributors
 2009/10: Quality Distributors
 2010/11: Cars Plus FC
 2011/12: Quality Distributors
 2012/13: Quality Distributors
 2013/14: Rovers FC
 2014/15: Rovers FC
 2015/16: Rovers FC
 2016/17: Rovers FC
 2017/18: Rovers FC
 2018/19: Rovers FC
 2019/20: Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Guam
 2020/21: No season

Total championships
The number of league championships that clubs in Guam have attained.

Golden boot winners

References

External links
League at FIFA

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Sports leagues established in 1990
1990 establishments in Guam
Professional sports leagues in the United States


For two years, Tinder has been able to stay afloat without relying on any kind of revenue stream. Now, the free match-making mobile app is exploring a new money-making model in an effort to cash in on the international $2 billion-a-year online dating industry. What moves will Tinder make to enter this growing market, and can the app make money as fast as it makes matches?
Tinder's model works. The dating app, which pairs potential hook-ups based on a mere glance and swipe of a user's photograph, is easy to navigate and eliminates the standard, time-consuming features of traditional dating sites that can be overwhelming for users. This user-friendly approach produces 1.2 billion profile views a day and creates 15 million matches. As a result, Tinder will soon begin offering a "freemium" service to appeal to the app's growing user base.
Tinder Plus, Tinder's newly minted subscription-based service, will add opt-in features for a fee while maintaining the app's free service for those uninterested in a premium account. One such add-on, Passport, will expose users to more matches by eliminating geographical restrictions, providing access to profiles not limited to the user's location (the existing model limits users to profiles within a 120-mile area). Passport will appeal to the Tinder traveler, allowing users to peruse profiles across the country and across the globe.
Tinder Plus will also roll out Undo, a feature that will allow users to recall a profile lost by swiping to the left, a hasty gesture that permanently eliminates potential matches. Tinder co-founder Sean Rad is confident the new services will begin bringing in cash as he insists users are both asking and willing to pay for the added features.
Tinder was born in Hatch Labs, the now defunct mobile startup incubator backed by Tinder's parent company, Barry Diller's IAC/InterActive Corp. (IACI). With its ownership of Match.com and OkCupid, IAC leads the online dating market with a reigning 23.7% market share and provides the expertise Tinder will need as it looks to monetize its services via subscription-based features. IAC's Match Group division estimates Tinder could bring in $75 million in 2015 upon implementing a monetization model via Tinder Plus.
Tinder has proven it is does not require revenue to be successful. Due to the app's investor backing, it had the security to grow its business growth model first and revenue model later. The company will want the added cash, however, after a recent and highly publicized sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit brought about by a former executive. The legal limbo increased costs and prompted IAC to invest an additional $10 million.


KUKA is adjusting its forecast for the past fiscal year 2018: The company expects a revenue of approximately €3.2 billion and an EBIT margin before purchase price allocations, investments in growth and reorganization expenditure of approximately 3.0 percent. KUKA had already reduced its original forecast in October 2018 and had assumed then that it would generate a revenue of approximately €3.3 billion and an EBIT margin of approximately 4.5 percent.
In view of that, the Executive Board no longer regards the achievement of the targets for Vision 2020 formulated in 2015 as realistic. Those targets envis-aged a revenue of between € billion and €.5 billion and a target EBIT margin of more than 7.5 percent. KUKA will publish the 2018 financial statements, including the forecast for 2019, at its Annual Press Conference on March 28, 2019.
This development is mainly due to the following factors: the increasingly no-ticeable general economic slowdown since the fourth quarter of 2018. This slowdown impacts two important business segments: the electronics industry as well as the automotive sector, in which KUKA earns half of its revenue. There is also slower growth in China, one of the key markets for robotics. The current growth rates in China have not been so low since the financial crisis. In addition, there were unforeseeable risks from the project business.
To ensure the future viability and long-term sustained profitable growth of the company, KUKA's Executive Board has passed a comprehensive immediate package covering four key areas: an efficiency program focusing on indirect areas such as administration, sourcing, sales and project management, a German-Chinese task force to ramp up the Chinese joint ventures and the development of specific products for the Asian market, the focusing of research & development (R&D) investments with shorter development cycles and a more customer-focused and less centralized organizational structure.
"The investor agreement with Midea guarantees KUKA's independence until 2023. In the long term, however, it is above all our performance that secures us. In order to boost that, we are taking prompt action. That's in the interests of our customers and our em-ployees worldwide", states KUKA's CEO Peter Mohnen. "We are sticking to our ongoing investments because they form the basis of our innovative strength, on which our cus-tomers place their trust. Between 2018 and 2020, we will invest over €500 million – more than ever before."
KUKA's strong growth in the past years – from €900 million to €3.5 billion in revenue since 2009 – has caused a sharp increase in costs as well as some inefficiencies. In order to counter that, KUKA is launching an efficiency program that aims to save a total of more than €300 million in costs by 2021. A substantial part of these savings is to be achieved as early as 2019. Drivers include administration, sales, sourcing and project management. The efficiency program will also include personnel measures.
In order to leverage the full potential of the cooperation with Midea, a new position has been created at both KUKA and Midea and filled with specialists who have intercultural experience. The joint task force will coordinate the joint ventures and promote product development. The task force reports directly to the KUKA CEO.
The Chinese robotics market remains a key growth driver for KUKA, despite the economic slowdown. KUKA therefore plans to expand the product portfolio and the production capacities in China to cater better for the specific needs of the Asian market. The focus is on smaller and simpler robot systems, such as Scara and Delta robots for the electronics market.
KUKA will continue to invest strongly in R&D in the future, but will focus more strongly and accelerate the development cycle. As before, annual funds of around five percent of revenue are earmarked for that. In the future, however, these funds will be directed more towards focus projects, including mobile robots, cobots and Industrie-4.0-applications. Thanks to its equity interest in the Munich-based company Device Insight, an Internet of Things leader, KUKA has extensive experience in handling more than a million connected devices and analyzing the corresponding data. That experience will be applied to industrial processes to an even greater extent in the future.
In order to cope with its strong international growth, KUKA has centralized numerous structures since 2012 – including IT, Human Resources, Finance and Marketing. This is to be maintained. KUKA is also sticking to its tried-and-tested principle of a central contact person for every customer. As part of service delivery itself, however, KUKA intends to rely on the decentralized areas of robotics, systems engineering and logistics. Many dis-cussions with customers and an internal evaluation have revealed that such an approach makes sense.
"The state of the economy is not in our own hands," says Peter Mohnen, "but we can adjust important internal levers. That's exactly what we're doing with our immediate package. We're building on our strengths and working relentlessly on our weaknesses. In doing so, we focus on our customers; we save where necessary and invest in our innova-tiveness."
KUKA is a global automation corporation with sales of around 3.5 billion euro and around 14,200 employees. As leading global supplier of intelligent automation solutions KUKA offers its customers in the automotive, electronics, consumer goods, metalworking, logistics/e-commerce, healthcare and service robotics industries everything they need from a single source: from components and cells to fully automated systems. The KUKA Group is headquartered in Augsburg.


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Q: C++ Compare and replace last character of stringstream I would like to check the following:

*

*If the last character appended to the stringstream is a comma.

*If it is remove it.

std::stringstream str;
str << "["
//loop which adds several strings separated by commas

str.seekp(-1, str.cur); // this is to remove the last comma before closing bracket

str<< "]";

The problem is if nothing is added in the loop, the opening bracket is removed from the string. So I need a way to check whether the last character is a comma. I did that like this:
if (str.str().substr(str.str().length() - 1) == ",")
{
    str.seekp(-1, rteStr.cur);
}

But I don't feel very good about this. Is there a better way to do this?
About the loop:
Loop is used to tokenize a set of commands received through sockets and format it to send to another program through another socket. Each command ends with an OVER flag.
std::regex tok_pat("[^\\[\\\",\\]]+");
std::sregex_token_iterator tok_it(command.begin(), command.end(), tok_pat);
std::sregex_token_iterator tok_end;
std::string baseStr = tok_end == ++tok_it ? "" : std::string(*tok_it);
while (baseStr == "OVER")
{
    //extract command parameters
    str << "extracted_parameters" << ","
}

A: The way I often deal with these loops where you want to put something like a space or a comma between a list of items is like this:
int main()
{
    // initially the separator is empty
    auto sep = "";

    for(int i = 0; i < 5; ++i)
    {
        std::cout << sep << i;
        sep = ", "; // make the separator a comma after first item
    }
}

Output:
0, 1, 2, 3, 4

If you want to make it more speed efficient you can output the first item using an if() before entering the loop to output the rest of the items like this:
int main()
{
    int n;

    std::cin >> n;

    int i = 0;

    if(i < n) // check for no output
        std::cout << i;

    for(++i; i < n; ++i) // rest of the output (if any)
        std::cout << ", " << i; // separate these
}

In your situation the first solution could work like this:
    std::regex tok_pat("[^\\[\\\",\\]]+");
    std::sregex_token_iterator tok_it(command.begin(), command.end(), tok_pat);
    std::sregex_token_iterator tok_end;
    std::string baseStr = tok_end == ++tok_it ? "" : std::string(*tok_it);

    auto sep = ""; // empty separator for first item

    while (baseStr == "OVER")
    {
        // extract command parameters
        str << sep << "extracted_parameters";
        sep = ","; // make it a comma after first item
    }

And the second (possibly more time efficient) solution:
    std::regex tok_pat("[^\\[\\\",\\]]+");
    std::sregex_token_iterator tok_it(command.begin(), command.end(), tok_pat);
    std::sregex_token_iterator tok_end;
    std::string baseStr = tok_end == ++tok_it ? "" : std::string(*tok_it);

    if (baseStr == "OVER")
    {
        // extract command parameters
        str << "extracted_parameters";
    }

    while (baseStr == "OVER")
    {
        // extract command parameters
        str << "," << "extracted_parameters"; // add a comma after first item
    }

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The 2019 Nissan Pathfinder. It features a continuously variable transmission, 4-wheel drive, and a 3.5 liter 6 cylinder engine. This model accommodates 7 passengers comfortably, and provides features such as: front and rear reading lights, a leather steering wheel, an outside temperature display, front bucket seats, front fog lights, an overhead console, and a blind spot monitoring system. Premium sound drives 6 speakers, providing you and your passengers a sensational audio experience. Nissan ensures the safety and security of its passengers with equipment such as: dual front impact airbags with occupant sensing airbag, head curtain airbags, traction control, brake assist, a security system, and 4 wheel disc brakes with ABS. Adaptive cruise control maintains a pre set distance behind the car ahead of you, simplifying highway driving and enhancing safety. We pride ourselves on providing excellent customer service. Stop by our dealership or give us a call for more information.


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I remember long days of summer perfumed by yellow honeysuckles and purple azaleas. I knew real seasons, built happy snowmen and played in piles of multi-colored autumn leaves. I thought those scenes would be with me until I was old enough to appreciate nature's precise order. I miss the nature that we have managed to confuse. To visit much of what I remember, I have to rely on foggy recall, cracked photos and YouTube. And sadly, I may need to do the same when recalling a time when the United States government was more stable.
I am not sounding a warning about the end of democracy. There are countless authors, bloggers and filmmakers that have done so for decades. I am merely pointing out the symptoms of a sick government that refuses to takes its medicine. A government that doesn't trust anyone—not even itself. A government that seems to operate in opposition to its usual caretaker nature. A government that seems to take pride in a shutdown of public services and public sector pay.
William Shakespeare and John Steinbeck wrote about the winter of our discontent; Shakespeare in the second sentence of his play "Richard III," and Steinbeck in a book bearing the title and borrowing the line from Shakespeare. Both authors deliver drama in their storytelling, but it is Shakespeare's "Richard III," who after falling from his horse in a most decisive battle, cries out, "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" that really grabs the reader's attention. Any resemblance to the current upheaval is not a coincidence. Steinbeck is a bit kinder to his lead character and at the last minute saves him from death, thereby allowing him to redeem himself and correct his misguided ways. Again, any resemblance to the current upheaval is not a coincidence.
For those convinced that democracy is over, you probably lean more towards Shakespeare and the tragedy he always delivers in his endings. Others, who believe in last minute acts of redemption certainly lean more towards Steinbeck's ending in his book. I'm not judging anybody, but I'm leaning Steinbeck.
It certainly would be easier to return to a time when all phones had dial tones, when all lights had manual switches or when all cars were built like a 1970's Buick. Nostalgia is always lacking in the retelling because times have never been as good as we remember. What we remember more accurately is how much we have changed as individuals and how much our changes have influenced the space we currently live in.
Any attempt at remembering what government used to look like brings about a series of questions. When did we lose our collective sense of shame and when did we begin to allow our government to reflect that loss? Why haven't we checked the not-so-subtle efforts of late that have been waged to demagnetize the notions of democracy and introduce permanent chaos, discord and discontent? Have we forgotten that we live in a republic of the people, by the people and for the people? What must we do to rescue our government? And finally, are we the ones to fix it?George Orwell in his 1936 essay entitled, "Shooting an Elephant," decried the act of killing an elephant, but lamented even more as he acknowledged that "His own face had grown to fit his mask." This quote is fitting for the times. Perhaps we allowed our government to get away from us. Perhaps we hid behind a face of approval that was anything but approving. Perhaps our face and our masks have now become indistinguishable from the other.
We may not be the ones to fix what is broken in government. We may yet be the ones we need to blame. Democracy is participation, not observation. We have watched too long and have acted too little. Citizenship does not end with a final exam in 9th grade Civics class. Citizenship begins long before then and later manifests itself in movement, change, fairness, compromise and compassion. Citizenship requires authenticity, but it breathes on faith. We have to believe in each other and when one of us is unable to see the next day, we have to believe for each other.
Citizenship is connection and at times it is pain. A shutdown is a failure of citizenship. I cannot put it any tidier nor state it any plainer. But, we are not defeated — we're energized. We are ready to move and ready to fix this because we can. This is our moment of redemption. No matter when you were born in the United States, citizenship represents a long march toward a more perfect union. Citizens don't need masks. They need comfortable shoes.
I agree with you that "a shutdown is a failure of citizenship". America appears to be undergoing political "metamorphosis" but the bottom line is that "the people are not defeated, but energized and ready to move". The government should feel the pulse of the people whom they represent. Speed is nothing if you are not traveling in the wrong direction, especially if you are traveling in the opposite direction to the law.
On a much less literary note, Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy, and they are us." It turns out to be true. Americans get the government they deserve.


Mello, Guillaume De an ascetic French author. a native of Nantes, flourished in the latter half of the 17th century. He was canon of the collegiate church of Notre Dame of Nantes. He wrote Les Elvations de l'ame a Dieu par les degres de Creatures, taken from the Latin of cardinal Bellarmine (Nantes, 1666, 4to):-Le Devoir des Pasteurs, translated from the Latin of Barthelemi des Martyr (Paris, 1672, 12mo):-Les divines Opierations de Jesus (Paris, 1673, 12mo):-Le Predicateur evangelique (Paris, 1685, 7 vols. 12mo). These works are anonymous. It is believed that Mello is also the author of a Vie des Saints (Paris, 1688, 4 vols. 8vo).


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48 Families of Flight MH17 victims demand answers almost five years on
It's almost five years since two football fans from Tyneside were killed when the plane they were travelling in was shot down over Ukraine. Today, Dutch investigators announced that three Russians and one Ukrainian are being charged with the murder of the 298 passengers and crew.
A trial of the suspects will be held in the Netherlands next year. But the father of one of the North East victims says he doubts whether they will face justice in person. He's been talking to our reporter Helen Ford.
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I'll never make a bilingual again: Bejoy Nambiar- Cinema express
I'll never make a bilingual again: Bejoy Nambiar
The director, whose Solo is ready for release, talks about the difficulties of making a film in two languages
Published: 29th August 2017
Words pour out in torrents. Bejoy Nambiar's English, a distinct Malayalam-accented English, is effortless. I tell him he speaks really fast. He laughs, "I am sorry. I'll slow down." Interestingly, this quickness in pace hasn't quite translated to his filmography. The director, who has worked with top actors including Amitabh Bachchan and Mohanlal, is now ready with his Tamil-Malayalam bilingual, Solo, which is his sixth film in the last seven years. Excerpts from the conversation:
This isn't the first time you're making a bilingual. Your 2013 film, David, was one too.
I don't know if it should be thought of as a bilingual, as it was half-dubbed and half-shot as a bilingual. Solo, however, is not. I want to emphasise on this fact: we have truly made a bilingual. I've shot every scene twice, and in some places, I've changed the actors too.(Pauses) But I'll never make a bilingual again! It's so much work, you know. But who knows, I will probably end up making another. (Laughs)
I understand Solo is conceived as an anthology.
I didn't plan it that way. I wanted to tell an interesting story... that's all. Moreover, I don't think Tamil cinema has had many successful anthologies in the past. It isn't easy to make one.
Eleven composers in the film and three cinematographers have worked on this film. For David, I had eight music directors. The more, the better, right? I am generally obsessed with music. There are songs in Tamil, English, Hindi, and Malayalam including tracks by artists like Thaikkudam Bridge, Masala Coffee, and Sooraj Kurup.
Are you worried anthologies may not be so easy to get?
Solo is a collection of four different stories on earth, water, fire, and wind, all with a mythical touch. The stories are simple, but with a unique template.
When did you decide to make the film in two languages?
It was Dulquer's idea. He has a fan following in both Kerala and Tamil Nadu. If I could have, I'd have made the film in Hindi also.
What was it like to work with him?
It was fantastic. He's extremely committed and can effortlessly switch from one character to another. Dulquer Salmaan plays the lead in each of the stories, with one of the roles being that of an army officer.
Despite being a Malayali, you've taken a while to make a Malayalam film.
I did a short film in Malayalam with Lalettan (Mohanlal). I also did a 40-minute film in Malayalam that never got released. It's not like I wanted to focus only on Hindi. As long as I get a chance to tell an engaging story, I don't mind even doing a film in Gujarati!
Rumour is you completed the bilingual in 50 days.
When you work with like-minded technicians and artistes, everything becomes easy. I hold a Masters degree in Business. It's all about effective management of resources.
Fave five
An actor par excellence
Matinee idols
Padmarajan, Bharathan
What puts me off
Regressive filmmaking
Recent great films
Angamaly Diaries, Dunkirk, Sairat, Talwar
Would like to work with
Arya, Karthi, Suriya, Vijay
Your Hollywood career didn't really take off.
I am glad it didn't. I think I'll get there eventually.
Given how you're working across languages, what's your view of how audiences are evolving?
Audiences have become more receptive towards content-driven films. Joker is a good example of that. Also, Visaaranai. The language isn't important. The story is.
You're an erstwhile assistant of Mani Ratnam. Have you shown Solo to him yet?
Not yet, but I will. It was on the sets of Guru that I realised films are my calling. I'm here today because of him, and I learned everything from him. He hates it when I say that. (Laughs)
Perhaps that explains why you've wanted to remake Agni Natchathiram for the longest time.
I like that film, but I don't even know if I will be doing a remake. I am focussing on only Solo right now.
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The Senate's Tax Cut Would Generate Little New Long-Run Economic Growth
The Senate version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) would increase Gross Domestic Product modestly until 2025, and by less after many of its tax cuts expire in that year, according to a new report by the Tax Policy Center. The Senate version of the TCJA would barely change the size of the economy in 2027 or 2037. Those effects are almost identical to those of the Senate Finance Committee's earlier version of TCJA, which TPC analyzed last week. Because the macroeconomic effects are modest they would have relatively little effect on the estimated revenue impact of the bill.
Using conventional scoring (without macroeconomic effects), the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimates the Senate bill would increase deficits by over $1.4 trillion from 2018 through 2027, not including added interest costs. After taking into account macroeconomic feedback effects (also excluding interest costs), TPC estimates that the bill would add $1.2 trillion to deficits over the 10 years. Thus, additional economic growth arising from the TCJA would trim the bill's cost by $186 billion over the decade, or roughly 13 percent.
In the 2028-2037 period, the bill would reduce deficits by about $266 billion before taking into account macroeconomic effects and extra interest. Dynamic scoring shows the bill would reduce deficits by an additional $34 billion, resulting in a net decline in deficits of about $300 billion over the second 10 years. The main reason: lower tax rates on capital income would boost private saving and investment.
Over two decades, TPC forecasts that dynamic effects would raise about $220 billion more than conventional estimates show.
In the short-run, the bill's tax cuts would increase demand for goods and services by both households and businesses. But partly because the economy is near full-employment, the increase in overall economic output from higher demand would be relatively small.
In the first few years, the bill would also boost the labor supply by cutting marginal income tax rates for most workers. But those benefits would be reversed after nearly all individual income tax provisions expire in 2025. Higher marginal tax rates resulting from the bill's less generous formula for indexing the tax code for inflation would reduce labor supply in subsequent years.
By cutting corporate income tax rates and temporarily allowing firms to more rapidly depreciate their costs of plant and equipment, the bill would also increase after-tax returns to investment. But its incentives to boost saving and investment would be largely washed out by higher interest rates caused by increased federal deficits over the first decade. Like the House version of the TCJA, the Senate bill would have little effect on the size of the overall US economy over the medium and long-term. This modest effect means that the TCJA would fall far short of paying for itself with robust new revenue.
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Tidal Stream Resource & Economic Assessment and Optimisation
Importance of Design of Tidal Stream Farms
Fig. 1 – Processes involved in assessing the optimal power output of a tidal stream generator array.
Resource assessment forms part of the design process for an array of tidal stream generators – as indicated in the flow diagram in Figure 1 – and consists of the following tasks:
Selection of sites suitable for placing of tidal stream generator arrays. This is primarily constrained by a minimum value of mean cube flow speed (For a fixed generation efficiency, this value will be proportional to the average power output for a single turbine.); and a suitable range of depths for a particular type of generator. Site selection will also be constrained by integration with the power distribution network and environmental impact.
Initial sizing and rating of the generating device to maximize energy extracted over the life of the device taking into account factors such as the long term variations in flow speed; deviation of the flow from rectilinear movement; vertical profile of flow velocity.
Investigation of different arrangements of generators within the selected area given the device parameters above, in order to maximize combined power output. Revision of generator parameters if necessary.
Investigation of the geographical extent of significant effect of the proposed tidal stream generator array on tidal parameters (extracting tidal energy in one location may lead to a reduction in available energy elsewhere). If necessary, corrections made to power output estimates due to resulting changes in boundary conditions.
Table 1 – Methods for generating tidal flow data for use in resource assessments. 1, 2 and 3-D models can also be used to assess the effect of the generator arrays on the tidal regime, whereas previous assessments have used empirical corrections to flow values in the natural state to take account of the effect of multiple generators.
Tidal flow data
Nearest representative values from navigational charts
Simple, data easily obtainable.
Inaccurate over large areas and with sparse data. Corrections made for effects of generators can only be included empirically.
Interpolate between data points
Simple, more accurate than above.
Doesn't account for changes in flow due to depth and other effects.
Simple, suitable for 'fences' of generators across well-defined channels. May be solved analytically.
Not suitable for complex topography. Can not simulate flow acceleration between generators.
2D numerical model
Well established for coastal tidal modelling. Energy extracted through added roughness.
Increasing computational expense. 3-D Wake structure not simulated. Requires tuning and validation.
Can simulate wakes of turbines and include vertical velocity profile.
Complex. Currently suitable only for highly localized models. Data may be lacking on turbulence quantities.
Table 2 – Tidal stream energy resource for five sites in the Channel Islands according to three different reports.
Black and Veatch, 2004
Joule 2, 1996
ETSU, 1993
Tidal Race
Load Factor
Race of Alderney
Casquets
NW Guernsey
Big Russel
NE Jersey
Previous Estimates
Assessments of the tidal stream energy resource have taken the form of desktop studies, produced using navigational data, for the purpose of providing government and industry with broad estimates of the economic potential for the development of tidal stream power.
Recent assessments of tidal stream energy resources around the UK have estimated the exploitable resource, when averaged over a year, in the range 2 – 7 GW, which may be compared to an average electrical power consumption in the UK for 2005 of 46 GW (Digest of UK energy statistics 2006). There is considerable uncertainty attached to these resource estimates, however; all of the assessments to date have either ignored the change in flow conditions due to the effect of the generating devices, or have been based on more or less arbitrary proportions of kinetic energy flux through a site.
Fig. 2 – Part of a finite element mesh used for modelling tidal flows around Portland Bill, with sea bed elevations in metres above chart datum (scale on right). Co-ordinates are OSGB National Grid.
The results from three reports for the five key sites in the Channel Islands (shown in maps.live.com) are shown in Table 2 above. This clearly highlights a large discrepancy between reports and a need to make more accurate estimates of the resource.
Modelling of Tidal Currents
Portland Bill on the South coast of the UK (view in maps.live.com) is a promising site for tidal stream energy, with high tidal stream velocities of up to seven knots (3.6 m/s) around the headland. Although the area with high tidal streams is smaller than other proposed sites in Scotland or the Channel Islands, the location is closer to population centres than these sites.
Fig. 3 – Tidal flows around Portland Bill headland. Colour scale is in m/s and vectors show direction and relative magnitude of the velocity field. Rectangle shows the approximate area with highest average flow speed (actually highest mean cube speed).
In order to produce high resolution data on tidal streams, independent of navigational charts, a 2D tidal hydrodynamic model of this promising site has been produced using the TELEMAC system. The model was forced by tidal elevations around the outer boundary and the results validated using tidal elevation records at Weymouth (within the model domain) and tidal diamonds from the relevant Admiralty charts. One of the finite element meshes used for the model can be seen in Figure 2, along with the bathymetry of the area. Some of the results of the model can be seen in Figure 3 and the animation of tidal flows around the headland below.
Work has been published in:
Blunden L.S. and Bahaj A.S. (2006) Initial evaluation of tidal stream energy resources at Portland Bill, UK. Renewable Energy, Volume 31, Issue 2, February 2006, pp 121-132. View paper.
Fig. 4 – 28 day prediction for speed and direction from TELEMAC simulation.
For example tidal data, simulation results around Portland Bill have been used, this site has a significant swing from the 180º flow reversal, allowing comparisons between fixed orientation and yawing devices. The variation of depth-averaged speed over 28 days from the simulation is shown in Figure 4.
The T_TIDE package for MATLAB was used to determine the constituent ellipse properties by harmonic analysis, in which nodal corrections were applied, based on the central time of the input time series. Based on the solved constituents, predictions can be made from any start date with any time step. For the predictions in this paper, the tidal stream speeds and directions from the start of 2006 for 18 years have been generated at one minute intervals.
Fig. 5 – Hodograph showing direction and strength of the tidal flow. The first 5 days are the black lines and the shaded gray area represents the full 18 year forecast.
A hodograph showing a forecast for 18 years is presented in Figure 5 and first 5 days are shown to demonstrate a typical cycle. The ellipse is offset south due to the constant flow component. This and the constituents with inclination close to 0° or 90° cause the tidal stream to swing away from rectilinearity.
Some marine current turbine concepts do not turn to face the tide and instead rely on the tidal stream at the site to be bi-directional. Thus the rotor orientation is fixed but the blades are able to twist through 180 degrees capturing the energy by running the generator backwards. For this case direction is also important.
Fig. 6 – Binned data set showing a histogram of the times in the east and west. (Red denotes higher number of hours). The bins are defined by 1° intervals and in cubed speed steps of 1 m3/s3 from 0 to 35 m3/s3 and averaged data over 18 years.
The east and west directions is presented in Figure 6. This averaged data set provides a basis for comparing designs of turbines based on know device characteristics and for use in optimisation studies.
Fig. 1 – European offshore wind energy growth. (The offshore wind data comes from the European Wind Energy Association).
In order to perform an economic assessment and predict future costs of farms, an estimate of the growth rate is required. Figure 1 shows the current exponential growth in European offshore wind energy and the predicted growth over the coming decades. This leads to the following question.
Is this sort of growth possible for tidal or wave energy and if so how long will it last?
Only the future will tell, but in order to perform economic assessments it must be assumed that there is an analogy between the past growth of offshore wind technology and the future growth of the closely related marine renewable energy technologies.
In order to predict future costs of farms, it is common practice to assume a learning rate. A basic experience curve can be expressed as:
where CCum is the cost per unit; C0 the cost of the first unit produced; X is cumulative (unit) production; b is the experience index; PR the progress ratio and LR the learning rate. For example, a PR of 85% equates to a learning rate of 15% and therefore a 15% reduction in cost for each doubling of cumulative capacity. An assessment of the reduction of the intial farm start costs (turnkey costs) is made in Figure 2. This analysis suggests that a 60% reduction in initial farm costs may be possible over 20 years.
Fig. 2 – The possibilities for reduction in start costs based on different progress rates and exponential growth rates.
Further work within SERG includes the addition of more components to generate more complex economic models, including factors such as:
effect of load factors
capital discount rates
O&M costs
decommissioning costs
Economic models are required for optimisation studies. Furthermore, their data can be used in other investigations such as assessments of socio-economic benefits.
Fig. 1 – Schematic sketch marine current energy converter.
Optimisation of marine current energy converters is a device- and location-specific problem and is constrained by large numbers of parameters. The initial studies within the research group have focused on small parts of a particular design such as the blade geometry or the effect of device orientation in the tidal flow.
However, more general global optimisation studies could require:
forecasts of the available resource
validated model of the device
validated model of assessing wake interaction effects within a farm
method of estimating costs
Optimisation is also dynamic problem and constantly varying as the markets change. A design produced one year may not represent the optimum design another year as prices may have changed, such as the cost of energy or materials.


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7 Jan, 2022 11:27
Have we reached the point where Big Tech censorship is simply accepted?
By Norman Lewis, a writer, speaker and consultant on innovation and technology
Marjorie Taylor Greene. © AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
The most shocking thing about Twitter's ban of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the first national US politician since Donald Trump to be de-platformed, was the lack of outcry about Big Tech's self-appointed role as the arbiters of truth.
Shockingly, the permanent suspension of hard-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene from Twitter and her temporary suspension from Facebook does not appear to shock us anymore.
What is at stake here is far more critical than one congresswoman spreading nonsense on social media. The precedent set a year ago, where unaccountable Big Tech simply banned an elected president from the public square, has morphed into a new reality: unaccountable tech barons have become the judge and jury of political debate and what is true or not in society.
The dangers of this reality cannot be stressed enough. Whatever one thinks of Greene or her bonkers views on Covid-19 vaccinations or the QAnon conspiracy theory, the censoring of her opinions from the public realm – particularly by private social media companies – is far worse, for two related reasons.
The first is that the censors are Big Tech oligarchs. They have by default become the unelected, unaccountable corporate Ministry of Truth. Because they are not the state, we have a naïve belief that their arbitrary ideological purges are either less odious or a welcome intervention.
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But their control over the modern public square has enormous implications for the future of elections. They, and they alone, will determine what can and cannot be said on their platforms –where, it should be remembered, millions of voters share ideas and look to for information.
With the arrogance of only those who have zero self-awareness, Facebook and Twitter are pretty proud of their role as defenders of what they regard as the truth. According to Facebook Vice President of Content Policy Monika Bickert, the company is "taking steps to combat election interference and misinformation while also working to help people vote."
Twitter's view of its role as Big Brother is even more chilling. A company spokesperson sent the following statement to Recode on Tuesday following Greene's suspension: "Our approach before and after January 6 has been to take strong enforcement action against accounts and Tweets that incite violence or have the potential to lead to offline harm. Engagement and focus across government, civil society, and the private sector are also critical. We recognize that Twitter has an important role to play, and we're committed to doing our part."
Seriously? Should accounts and tweets that have the ill-defined "potential to lead to offline harm" be banned? So, Twitter now has God-like powers, with insights into the minds of those tweeting and those reading them. One wonders what this might mean during the 2022 midterm election cycle and its coming onslaught of contentious speech from elected officials and political candidates running for office.
And this is the second problem. The assumption behind all this ideological suppression is that Big Tech knows the truth, and we, the little people, don't. They can spot misinformation, but we can't. Dubious claims do not influence them. We are easy prey, stupid and gullible, who need saving from ourselves.
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The obvious point here is that this debased view of ordinary people is why there is no outcry against Big Tech tyranny, as seen in the suspension of Greene, Trump, and others. The mainstream media, the institution that ought to be playing the role of speaking truth to power, shares the same misanthropic views of the great unwashed.
The problem is not just Big Tech and their self-appointed role of herding the sheep. Truth is not something that can be delivered from on high. Neither Big Tech nor politicians are qualified to pronounce what is true or not. That is for the electorate to decide, and to do that through the exchange of ideas, through a clash of opinions, debate, and the presentation and rejection of information in the public realm. In short, through the exercising of free speech – something the Big Tech oligarchs have shown they have no regard for whatsoever as they seek to define and police social media.
Greene has been the first big platform cancellation of 2022. She will most certainly not be the last. The fight for free speech in 2022 will be an uphill struggle. But Greene's ban shows that what is now rampant and needing to be checked is not misinformation, but the arbitrary power and tyranny of Silicon Valley's unelected oligarchs.
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Former NC State football player arrested and charged with stalking coach Dave Doeren
Former NC State football player Joseph Boletepeli was arrested this week and charged with misdemeanor stalking and communicating threats to Wolfpack head coach Dave Doeren.
According to Wake County records, the arrest stems from a tweet reportedly sent by Boletepeli, 22, that said "Imma get him I promise. Dave Doeren and the rest."
Boletepeli was a part of the 2018 and 2019 NC State football teams before transferring to Maryland. He was also charged with resisting arrest, with investigators saying he pulled away from officers who attempted to handcuff him.
Boletepeli was arrested in Raleigh and, according to reports from WRAL, investigators said on several occasions was seen near Doeren's place of work and had sent numerous text messages threatening Doeren and other staff members.
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According to court records obtained by the News & Observer, Boletepeli behaved in a way that "would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress by placing that person in fear of death, bodily injury ... or the safety of the person's immediate family."
He was released on a $25,000 bond on orders to stay clear of the NC State campus and Doeren.
WRAL reported Boletepeli was released Friday with an ankle monitoring system.
The arrest comes just days after five people, including four players on the Virginia football team, were shot by a former Cavaliers player. Lavel Davis Jr, D'Sean Perry and Devin Chandler, all members of the football team, were killed. The alleged shooter, Christopher Jones, was a walk-on at Virginia in 2018 but never played for the team.


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Horror Headlines: Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
"Chuck" star Yvonne Strahovski has just been added to the cast of season 7 of "Dexter", bringing the show's Australian quotient officially up to par with 1. She'll play a young lass helping the Miami PD solve a homicide case while peaking Dexter's interest in her past. She'll also provide the entire cast with a direct line to delicious bloomin onions.
French director Alain DesRochers has been tapped by the good folks at Millennium Films and Nu Image to direct their upcoming vampire flick "The Rising". The script follows a group of mercenaries as they travel around the jungles of Cambodia looking for missing persons. As you might of guessed they run into some vampires. Because they call it a vampire film. Now that I think of it though it would be a great twist if there wasn't a single vampire in the film.
Paramount has just picked up the rights to Libba Bray's young adult novel "The Diviners". The book takes place in the 1920's and follows a group of youngsters with secret powers as they battle the forces of evil in NYC. They also do the jitterbug I assume. Everyone did the jitterbug in the 20's.
Joseph Fiennes, of "hey that guy looks like Ali G" fame has been added to the cast of the second season of "American Horror Story". Fiennes will play the head of a institution for the criminally insane where Jessica Lange's character works. Word is there will also be some romance in the air. Some old lady on middle aged man romance. The kind of romance that makes you a little uncomfortable and kind of sick.


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William Hardy Lamplough (12 June 1914 – 17 January 1996) was a British teacher and archaeologist based in Yorkshire.

Biography
William Lamplough was born in Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1914. He graduated from Hull University with a degree in Physics. During the Second World War Lamplough was appointed Pilot Officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 11 July 1939 and finished the war as a Flight Lieutenant. He was a member of the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society, through which he began excavating Bronze Age Barrows in the North York Moors. The society did not continue this work so Lamplough undertook the project personally, with the help of his friend John Ronald Lidster - a fellow archaeologist. Between 1948 and 1961, Lamplough and Lidster excavated thirty-seven such barrows in the North York Moors.

He and Lidster also led excavations for the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society in 1951 at the site of King Alfred's Cave (Ebberston, North Yorkshire).

North York Moors Barrow Excavations
Lamplough and Lidster, along with William's young son David excavated and recorded the remains of the barrows. The finds and site archive were acquired by the Yorkshire Museum in October 2011. Excavated sites included barrows at several sites.

Broxa Forest
Four barrows excavated in summer 1949 at the Western edge of Broxa Forest.
Barrow 1 measuring 37 ft in diameter was 3 1/2 ft high and contained two cremations, flint knives and scrapers and a rare bone hook.
Barrow 2 measuring 36 ft in diameter was 2 1/2 ft high and contained two cremations.
Barrow 3 measuring 44 ft in diameter was 3 1/2 ft high and contained one surviving cremation, having been part-excavated in the 1880s.
Broxa 4 measuring 50 ft in diameter was 6 ft high had at least seven cremations associated.

Suffield, North Yorkshire|Suffield
Several barrows excavated in the 1950s

Kirkless
Excavated by Lamplough and Lidster with the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society in 1949. Large barrow north of Kirkless farm (near Burniston) 75 ft in diameter and 7 ft in height. No cremation was recovered but finds included a jet block and ceramic fragments.

Hackness
Several barrows excavated in 1949

Publications
Lamplough, W. H. and Lidster, J. R. 1959. "The Excavation of King Alfrid's Cave, Ebberston", Transactions of the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society Vol 55. pp: 16-31
Lamplough, W. H. and Lidster, J. R. 1960. "The Excavation of the Kirkless Barrow" Transactions of the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society (New Series) Vol. 3. pp: 29–32

See also
North York Moors
Bronze Age Britain
History of Yorkshire
Tumulus

References

External links
North York Moors Website

1914 births
British archaeologists
York Museums Trust
20th century in England
1996 deaths
Schoolteachers from Yorkshire
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
20th-century archaeologists
Royal Air Force officers

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Subsequently, encourage your children to attempt to stump you and let yourself be stumped. At times, if you prefer to spell out the Universe you are living in accurately, you must go beyond conventional methods of thinking. You might be thinking to yourself that this is only too easy!
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Federal 'no-sail order' for cruise ships extended again, now until Oct. 31
Dave Berman Morgan Hines
Florida Today
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the official announcement of an extension of the no-sail order by he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
A federal "no-sail order" for cruise lines triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is being extended until Oct. 31.
The extension of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no-sail order matches a cruising halt previously agreed to voluntarily by the Cruise Lines International Association. In August, CLIA, the major trade organization for oceangoing cruise lines, announced its member lines would not sail in U.S. waters through Oct. 31.
A formal announcement from the CDC was made late Wednesday. The CDC's previous order had been scheduled to expire Wednesday, after extensions to the original mid-March order in April and again in July.
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The halt to sailing has negatively affected Port Canaveral and the overall Space Coast tourism industry.
Like other major cruise ports, Port Canaveral has lost much of its revenue because of the cruise industry shutdown.
Pre-coronavirus, Port Canaveral was expecting 77.6% of its revenue for the 2019-20 budget year that ended Wednesday to come from cruise-related business, including parking revenue from cruise passengers. Port Canaveral was the world's second-busiest cruise port in terms of passenger volume, trailing only PortMiami.
Instead, the only cruise-related revenue Port Canaveral currently is receiving is from the Port Canaveral-based Victory 1 gambling ship that sails twice a day and is not subject to CDC regulations; and from the occasional stops cruise ships with no passengers and minimal crew members aboard make at Port Canaveral to take on fuel and other supplies.
Port Canaveral recently reduced its staff from 268 positions to 153, largely because of lost revenue related to the cruise industry shutdown. That was done through a combination of 68 permanent layoffs, 17 unpaid furloughs, and not filling 30 positions that were left vacant because of retirement or employees taking jobs elsewhere.
Additionally, local hotels, restaurants and retail shops — particularly in the Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach areas — have lost business revenue they normally would receive from cruise passengers staying on the Space Coase before or after their cruises.
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Port Canaveral Chief Executive Officer John Murray said he believes regulators unfairly targeted the cruise industry for a shutdown that so far has lasted 6½ months.
"it's frustrating to see one industry singled out the way it's been," Murray said.
Murray noted that other maritime businesses and military vessels are operating.
"There's thousands of ships around the world — cargo ships, tankers, ferries, Navy ships, aircraft carriers, submarines. They're all operating at sea, and they all have protocols to handle COVID, if they have a case onboard," Murray said. "The cruise industry is no different. It's another ship that's got a large population of people onboard. There's a protocol in place. You manage it, if you have someone that's sick or you don't let anyone onboard that is sick. Then you control the process. It's no different."
USA Today reported late Tuesday that the CDC requested that the no-sail order be extended to Feb. 15, but compromised with the White House Coronavirus Task Force to extend until Oct. 31.
The news website Axios was the first media outlet to report that development. The New York Times subsequently also had a similar report.
Seeking government help
Murray continues to hope for some federal assistance for cruise ports out of the next potential COVID-19 relief package, adding that Florida's two U.S. senators, Mario Rubio and Rick Scott, have been sympathetic to the plight of the state's cruise industry.
"They recognize that the damage is being done to our state right now," Murray said.
But Murray is not expecting any COVID-19 relief directly from the state because of the revenue shortfall expected for fiscal 2021 in Florida's state budget, including in the Florida Department of Transportation budget.
Murray said it will take some time for cruise lines to bring their ship crews up to the levels needed to resume sailing, even after the no-sail order expires.
Murray said most cruise ship workers have returned to their home countries, and some ships have crews from as many as 120 to 130 countries. But it's possible that, because of COVID-19-related travel restrictions, cruise lines may be able to get ship crews from only 25 to 30 countries by time cruising resumes.
Additionally, Murray said, there may be some ships that must go into a required "dry dock" for repairs and upgrades before they can resume sailing. Murray said some cruise lines have delayed planned dry docks while cruises were halted as a way to cut expenses during a time revenue was not coming in.
"You don't spend that money until you need to," Murray said
And, with minimal crews now aboard passenger-less ships, Murray said there has been "minimal maintenance."
"The ships are going to need to be cleaned up before they go back in service, and that's just a fact." Murray said.
According to the Cruise Lines International Association, each day of the suspension of U.S. cruise operations results in a loss of up to $110 million in economic activity. In addition to Florida, the states heavily impacted include Alaska, California, New York, Texas and Washington.
Florida's major cruise ports — Port Canaveral, PortMiami and Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale — are likely to be among the first U.S. ports where cruises resume.
Shipboard outbreaks
The cruise industry was at the eye of the pandemic's storm early in the year, as COVID-19 began to snake its way into communities across the globe.
The world's attention turned to cruises when an outbreak infected more than 700 people and killed more than a dozen on Carnival Corp. line Princess Cruises' Diamond Princess.
It wasn't the only ship that faced an outbreak. Vessels across many cruise lines found themselves with virus cases in February and March, ahead of the CDC's no-sail order. Ships struggled to make it back to ports, and between March 1 and July 10, the CDC found 99 outbreaks across 123 ships.
But, in the more than six months since the pandemic began and effectively shut the cruise industry down, things have evolved.
"(We have done) tremendous learning about the virus over these months," Adam Goldstein, global chair of CLIA, said during a news conference Monday.
Dave Berman is government editor at FLORIDA TODAY.
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If you are a parent who provides homeschooling for your children, having the right resources is among the most important parts of your job. Without a defined curriculum, you can create a custom educational plan that represents the values you think are most important. The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West is a popular series that many homeschooling parents have gone to for their curriculum needs. It means so much to the Happy Hollisters that our books receive this endorsement from homeschooling teachers across the country. Here are just a few reasons that we believe our series has been so successful as homeschool books.
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We don't have a biography for John Carroll Lynch.
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Richmond Arquette, Bob Stephenson, John Lacy, Chloë Sevigny, Ed Setrakian, John Getz, John Terry, Candy Clark, Elias Koteas, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue, June Diane Raphael
The Good Girl
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Country: Germany, Netherlands, United States
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, Deborah Rush, Mike White, John Carroll Lynch, Zooey Deschanel, John C. Reilly, Tim Blake Nelson, Jacquie Barnbrook, Annie O'Donnell, John Doe, Roxanne Hart, Jon Shere, Alice Amter, Jean Rhodes, Aimee Garcia, Lalo Guerrero, Michael Hyatt
The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: India, United Kingdom, United States
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mark Rylance, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Shenkman, J.C. MacKenzie, Frank Langella, Danny Flaherty, Noah Robbins, John Doman, Michael Keaton, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Caitlin FitzGerald, Brady Jenness
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth, Giovanni Ribisi, Morgan Freeman, Sam J. Jones, Patrick Warburton, Michael Dorn, Bill Smitrovich, John Slattery, Cocoa Brown, John Carroll Lynch, Ron Canada, Liam Neeson, Dennis Haysbert, Patrick Stewart, Tom Brady
When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect, who proceeds to build HIS dream house instead of theirs.
Stars: Parker Posey, James Frain, John Carroll Lynch, Eric McCormack, Pamela Reed, John Aylward, Alycia Delmore, Dana Millican, Michael Panes, Macall Gordon, Nicole Santora, Todd Courson, Rodney Sherwood, Bradley Goodwill, Sheila Goold, Ray Tagavilla, Lindsay Fishkin, Evgueni Petrov
Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.
Country: Chile, China, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Stars: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Richard E. Grant, Caspar Phillipson, John Carroll Lynch, Beth Grant, Max Casella, Sara Verhagen, Hélène Kuhn, Deborah Findlay, Corey Johnson, Aidan O'Hare, Ralph Brown, David Caves, Penny Downie
Shangri-La Suite
Two young, damaged lovers head to Los Angeles to kill the King of Rock n Roll in the summer of 1974.
Stars: Emily Browning, Luke Grimes, Avan Jogia, Ron Livingston, John Carroll Lynch, Tatanka Means, Paul Rae, Alan Tudyk, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Atticus Todd, Kate Butler, John Livingston, Ashley Greene, Joe Nieves, Trevante Rhodes, Amanda Aday, Lew Temple, Jean St. James
Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.
Stars: Bruce Willis, Miko Hughes, Alec Baldwin, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens, Robert Stanton, Bodhi Elfman, Carrie Preston, Lindsey Ginter, Peter Stormare, Kevin Conway, John Carroll Lynch, Kelley Hazen, John Doman, Richard Riehle, Chad Lindberg, Hank Harris, James MacDonald
A volcano erupts in downtown Los Angeles and a city official and a seismologist try to stop its inevitable flow through the city.
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline Kim, Keith David, John Corbett, Michael Rispoli, John Carroll Lynch, Marcello Thedford, Laurie Lathem, Bert Kramer, Bo Eason, James MacDonald, Dayton Callie, Michael Cutt, Kevin Bourland, Valente Rodriguez
Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer.
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Face/Off
To foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery to assume the identity of the criminal mastermind who murdered his only son, but the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain, Nick Cassavetes, Harve Presnell, Colm Feore, John Carroll Lynch, CCH Pounder, Robert Wisdom, Margaret Cho, James Denton, Matt Ross, Chris Bauer, Myles Jeffrey, David McCurley
Based on the incredible true story of the Beam family.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Stars: Jennifer Garner, Kylie Rogers, Martin Henderson, Brighton Sharbino, Courtney Fansler, Queen Latifah, Eugenio Derbez, Kelly Collins Lintz, John Carroll Lynch, Brandon Spink, Rhoda Griffis, Erica McGee, Wayne Pére, Bruce Altman, Hannah Riley, Zach Sale, Gwen Waymon, Kenny Alfonso
An uptight and by-the-book cop tries to protect the outgoing widow of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.
Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, Matthew Del Negro, Michael Mosley, Robert Kazinsky, Richard T. Jones, Benny Nieves, Michael Ray Escamilla, Joaquín Cosio, John Carroll Lynch, Jim Gaffigan, Mike Birbiglia, Vincent Laresca, David Jensen, Evaluna Montaner, Marcus Lyle Brown, Manolo Gonzalez Vergara, Kim Collins
The White Orchid
A shy investigator assumes the identity of a small town murder victim in order to solve her gruesome death.
Stars: Jennifer Beals, Janina Gavankar, Rachael Taylor, Olivia Thirlby, John Carroll Lynch, Brendan Sexton III, Nichelle Nichols, Raymond J. Barry, Michael Rodrick, Kelsey Siepser, Jeff Marchelletta, Hayley Derryberry, Jana Winternitz, Cris D'Annunzio, Kim Kendall, Alan Tafoya, Timo Chen, Andrea Lwin
This is a story about the infinite possibility of love.
Stars: John Carroll Lynch, Matt Bomer, Maura Tierney, Margot Bingham, Michael Boatman, Tanner Buchanan, Meghan Leone Cox, Brooke Culbertson, Claudia Doumit, Jason Greene, Melora Hardin, Micah Hauptman, Bradley Wayne James, Blake Scott Lewis, Peter Gray Lewis, Bonnie McNeil, Timothy V. Murphy, David Paladino
The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
Country: Greece, United States
Stars: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini, B.J. Novak, Laura Dern, Justin Randell Brooke, Kate Kneeland, Patrick Wilson, Griff Furst, Wilbur Fitzgerald, David de Vries, Andrew Benator, Cara Mantella, Randall Taylor, Lacey King, Jeremy Daniel Madden, Rebecca Ray
The Highwaymen
The untold true story of the legendary detectives who brought down Bonnie and Clyde.
Stars: Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates, John Carroll Lynch, Thomas Mann, Dean Denton, Kim Dickens, William Sadler, W. Earl Brown, David Furr, Jason Davis, Josh Caras, David Born, Brian F. Durkin, Kaley Wheless, Alex Elder, Emily Brobst, Edward Bossert
An author is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting her relationship with her husband on edge.
Stars: Kathryn Hahn, Paul Giamatti, Gabrielle Reid, Amy Russ, Caroline Martin, Nick Sullivan, Hettienne Park, Denis O'Hare, Molly Shannon, John Carroll Lynch, Emily Robinson, Kayli Carter, Alyssa Cheatham, Leah Griffin, Tracee Chimo Pallero, David Cale, Seaton Smith, Siobhan Fallon Hogan
The Invitation
A man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, an unsettling affair that reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.
Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michiel Huisman, Tammy Blanchard, Aiden Lovekamp, Michelle Krusiec, Mike Doyle, Jordi Vilasuso, Jay Larson, Marieh Delfino, Lindsay Burdge, John Carroll Lynch, Toby Huss, Danielle Camastra, Trish Gates, Karl Yune
Catch That Kid
A girl and her two friends raid a bank, looking for the money needed for financing the cure of her dying father.
Country: Germany, United States
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Sam Robards, Jennifer Beals, Corbin Bleu, Max Thieriot, John Carroll Lynch, James Le Gros, Michael Des Barres, Stark Sands, Lennie Loftin, François Giroday, Christine Estabrook, Kevin G. Schmidt, Audrey Wasilewski, Meagen Fay, Lucy Butler, Elizabeth Decker, Grant Hayden Scott
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Stars: Albert Brooks, Sheetal Sheth, John Carroll Lynch, Penny Marshall, Victoria Burrows, Paul Jerome, Emma Lockhart, Amy Ryan, Fred Thompson, B.J. Ward, Tony Montero, Lynda Berg, Steve Kramer, Conrad Bachmann, Jon Tenney, Avinash Kaur, Juliet Touzene, Nayan Raina
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, Gary Cole, Sheila Kelley, Erica Leerhsen, John Carroll Lynch, Nate Mooney, Rusty Schwimmer, Robert Wisdom, Allen Evangelista, Kelly B. Eviston, Jhon Goodwin, Christa Campbell, Jeffrey Brandle, Hollis Higgins, Bil Childress, Christopher Gabble, Shelli Lether
Gothika
A depressed psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the asylum where she worked, with no memory of why she is there or what she has done.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, Spain, United States
Stars: Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Bernard Hill, Dorian Harewood, Bronwen Mantel, Kathleen Mackey, Matthew G. Taylor, Michel Perron, Andrea Sheldon, Anana Rydvald, Laura Mitchell, Amy Sloan, Noel Burton, Benz Antoine, Andy Bradshaw
Camp X-Ray
A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.
Genre: Drama, War
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, Tara Holt, Nawal Bengholam, Joseph Julian Soria, Marwan Naji, Anoop Simon, Cory Michael Smith, Ser'Darius Blain, LaDell Preston, Daniel Leavitt, Marco Khan, Julia Duffy, Robert Tarpinian, John Carroll Lynch, Kyle Bornheimer, Yousuf Azami
Bubble Boy
Bubble Boy's been in a bubble all his life due to no immune system. A cute blonde girl befriends BB. Her boyfriend proposes and BB decides to travel across USA to Niagara Falls to stop the wedding.
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton, Danny Trejo, John Carroll Lynch, Verne Troyer, Dave Sheridan, Brian George, Patrick Cranshaw, Stephen Spinella, Ever Carradine, Geoffrey Arend, Beetlejuice, Matthew McGrory, Bonnie Morgan, Jason Sklar, Randy Sklar, Ping Wu
The Next Best Thing
Abbie, tired of failed relationships, has a one-night-stand with her gay friend; they agree to raise the resulting baby together.
Stars: Madonna, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Illeana Douglas, Michael Vartan, Josef Sommer, Malcolm Stumpf, Lynn Redgrave, Neil Patrick Harris, Mark Valley, Suzanne Krull, Stacy Edwards, John Carroll Lynch, Fran Bennett, Ricki Lopez, Ramiro Fabian, Tiffany Paulsen, Joan Axelrod
The Pretty One
A tragedy presents Laurel with the chance to reinvent herself as her idolized twin sister, Audrey. As she eases into the life she has always wanted, she must decide between continuing the lie or revealing herself as the perfect fr...
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A Thousand Acres
A family is torn apart after a father gives his valuable farm land to his daughters.
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jason Robards, Colin Firth, Keith Carradine, Kevin Anderson, Pat Hingle, John Carroll Lynch, Anne Pitoniak, Vyto Ruginis, Michelle Williams, Elisabeth Moss, Ray Toler, Kenneth Tigar, Steve Key, Dan Conway, Stan Cahill
Grumpy Old Men
A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.
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A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they've played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their jobs.
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Income inequality: Here's a look at wealth and poverty in NJ towns
These towns have the highest and lowest incomes in each NJ county. Where does your town fall?
Income inequality: Here's a look at wealth and poverty in NJ towns These towns have the highest and lowest incomes in each NJ county. Where does your town fall? Check out this story on app.com: https://www.app.com/story/news/investigations/data/analysis/2019/01/28/rich-towns-poor-towns-nj/2525888002/
Susanne Cervenka, Asbury Park Press Published 5:00 a.m. ET Jan. 28, 2019 | Updated 1:56 p.m. ET Feb. 2, 2019
How much money do you need to be considered rich? The survey says ... Video by Susanne Cervenka Susanne Cervenka | Wochit
New Jersey is home to some of the wealthiest communities in the United States, where the average home price is well over $1 million.
But its also a state where some neighboring towns — in some cases just miles down the road — have as many as two-thirds of its children living in poverty.
New Jersey's median household income is estimated at $76,475, according to U.S. Census data. Statewide, about 12 percent of households earn more than $200,000.
Here's a look at the highest and lowest income towns across New Jersey. (Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
How much money do you need to be rich? Check out the video at the top of the page.
But 10.7 percent of all New Jerseyans and 15.3 percent of children under 18 live below the poverty level, Census data shows.
More: Homeless: 'It's very hard to live in NJ if you don't make a certain level of money'
Here's a look at New Jersey's richest and poorest town in each county based on Census income data.
Longport borough
Median Income: $106,719
Above $200,000: 26 percent
People living below the poverty line: 3.2 percent
Children living below the poverty line: 0 percent
Median Income: $26,006
Above $200,000: 2.1 percent
People living below the poverty line: 40.6 percent
Children living below the poverty line: 59.2 percent
Above $200,000: 44.5 percent
Children living below the poverty line: 1.6 percent
More: NJ property taxes have doubled in 20 years; see how much they've gone up in your town
Above $200,000: 0 percent
**Census data suppresses income information for Tavistock and Pine Valley, affluent communities centered on golf courses, because their populations are too small.
People living below the poverty line: 23 percent
Salem County
Upper Pittsgrove Township
Montgomery Township
Children living below the poverty line: 26 percent
Greenwich Township
Susanne Cervenka: @scervenka; 732-643-4229; scervenka@gannettnj.com
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Democrats' Boycott Of Netanyahu Gains
By William Douglas, McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)
WASHINGTON — The head of the Congressional Black Caucus said Thursday he will boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's scheduled address to a joint session of Congress next month, joining a small band of Democrats skipping the event that could include Vice President Joe Biden.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) said House Speaker John Boehner's invitation to Netanyahu — without coordinating with President Barack Obama — undermines the office of the president.
"For the Speaker to invite a head of state, of any country, to address the U.S. Congress without the consent of the (House) minority leader and the White House goes beyond the traditions of his office," Butterfield said in a statement. "It is baffling that Speaker Boehner, who incessantly proclaims executive overreach by the president, would buck long standing diplomatic protocol to extend such an invitation."
Butterfield stressed that "the United States is and will remain Israel's strongest ally. However, I refuse to be a part of a political stunt aimed at undercutting President Obama."
Reports suggest that dozens of lawmakers could join the three Democrats who have said publicly they will stay away from the address: Reps. John Lewis (D-GA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), and Butterfield. They contend that Boehner breached protocol in issuing the invitation and put the U.S. in an awkward position of appearing to favor Netanyahu in Israel's coming elections.
"It was an insult to the president, to the State Department, what the speaker did, by not consulting the State Department and not consulting the White House," Lewis said.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Thursday left open the possibility that Biden, the president of the Senate, also might not attend Netanyahu's talk.
Earnest told reporters that he anticipates Biden attending Pope Francis' speech to Congress in September, an event that was announced Thursday. When asked about Netanyahu's speech, Earnest noted that Biden's schedule is not yet set, and opened the door to Biden missing it.
"The vice president takes very seriously the ceremonial responsibilities that he has before the United States Senate," Earnest said. "Now, there has been at least one previous occasion during his tenure as vice president where he's been unable to attend a joint session of Congress, because he was traveling overseas."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), said Thursday the House chamber will be filled for the prime minister — even if many seats are filled with aides rather than elected members.
"I don't think anybody should use the word 'boycott,' " House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). "When these heads of state come, people are here doing their work, they're trying to pass legislation, they're meeting with their constituents and the rest. It's not a high-priority item for them."
Pelosi said that often when dignitaries speak at joint sessions, "you look at that audience and it looks like … the average age is 21 years old," a suggestion that young staffers or interns fill the seats instead of their bosses.
Despite criticism from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and from some Jewish groups in the U.S. and Israel, Boehner defended his decision to invite the prime minister at a time Congress is weighing sanctions against Iran in support of Israel and defiance of the White House desire to hold off while engaged in nuclear talks with Iran.
"It was a very good idea," Boehner told reporters. "There's a message that the American people need to hear and I think he's the perfect person to deliver it. The threat of radical Islamist terrorists is a real threat. The threat of Iran to the region and the rest of the world is a real threat. And I believe that the American people are interested in hearing the truth about what's happening in that part of the world."
Republicans have backed Boehner's action, saying he has a right to invite Netanyahu or any other world leader or dignitary he wants to speak on Capitol Hill.
"I'm very pleased the speaker took the initiative to invite him. I think it's perfectly appropriate," said Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK). "I don't think we have to clear it with the president. We are a co-equal branch of government. He (Obama) certainly has been kind of thumbing his nose at Congress lately, so I'm kind of surprised he would complain when something like this happens."
Democratic outrage reached such a crescendo that Ron Dermer, Israel's U.S. ambassador and a key figure in Boehner's Netanyahu invite, met with some Democratic lawmakers Wednesday to allay their concerns.
"There's serious unease, but don't even think in terms of the word 'boycott,' " Pelosi said. 'Members will go or they won't go, as they usually go or don't do."
Photo: Rep. G.K. Butterfield introduces Vice President Joe Biden in 2012 (Keith Kissel via Flickr)
Meaghan Ellis
#EndorseThis: Lindell Loses It When CNN Says His 'Proof' Is 'Completely Ridiculous'
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is now claiming that some financial institutions no longer want to do business with him because he poses a "reputation risk" as he continues to push former President Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
On Friday, January 14, Lindell appeared on Steve Bannon's podcast "War Room" where he claimed "Heartland Financial and Minnesota Bank and Trust are attempting to 'de-bank' him over concerns that they could face fallout related to having him as a client," Newsweek reports. During the broadcast, the two right-wing enthusiasts played an audio recording of what they claim was a discussion between Lindell and a banking official.
"Just because of our organization saying, 'Well, why are we connected with somebody that could be in the news.' And, not that the FBI is even sniffing and looking, but what if somebody came in and said, 'You know what, we are gonna subpoena all his account records...and then also we make the news,'" the person was reportedly heard saying in the recording. "So it's more of a reputation risk."
According to Lindell, he has been given 30 days to close his accounts but he has no plan to comply with the order.
"I said, 'I am not being part of this. I'm not leaving. So you're going to have to throw me out of your bank,'" he said. During their discussion, Bannon also exposed the names of the bankers and their contact information as he urged his listeners to flood their phone lines with complaints.
Lindell also appeared to echo Bannon as he complained about being criticized for his beliefs. "Where does it end everybody? Where does it end?" Lindell asked.
Lindell's latest interview comes follows his reaction to having his phone records subpoenaed in connection with the House Select Committee's Jan. 6 investigation.
In a text message to CNBC News, Lindell said, "I wasn't there on January 6th and yes they did subpoena my phone records, but we filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the January 6th committee and Verizon to completely invalidate this corrupt subpoena," the businessman told the news outlet in a text message.
Despite ongoing criticism and blowback, Lindell is continuing his efforts to prove that his so-called claims of voter fraud are valid.
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Trump's Catastrophic Boast About Coronavirus
Arizona Republican State Representative Jake Hoffman made news this week when it was revealed he signed a forged "certification" falsely stating Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, won his state's Electoral College electors.
Video that's gone viral of Hoffman shows him defending signing the forged documents in which he falsely identifies himself as a duly elected elector for Trump.
His defense: "in unprecedented times, unprecedented action does occur." He goes on to claim, "there is no case law, there is no precedent that exists as to whether or not an election that is currently being litigated in the courts has due standing."
He called the forged electoral documents "dueling opinions" in this video:
The video has been viewed over 800,000 times in just 14 hours.
Hoffman, it turns out, was banned from Twitter after his company, Rally Forge, worked with Charlie Kirk's far right wing political activist group, Turning Point USA during the 2020 election, establishing "a domestic 'troll farm' in Phoenix, Arizona, that employed teenagers to churn out pro-Trump social media posts, some of which cast doubt on the integrity of the US election system or falsely charged Democrats with attempting to steal the election, the Washington Post revealed," according to The Guardian.
The Washington Post also reported that "the posts are the product of a sprawling yet secretive campaign that experts say evades the guardrails put in place by social media companies to limit online disinformation of the sort used by Russia during the 2016 campaign."
Some of those teens, The Post noted, were minors.
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