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Pope Francis prays for victims of terrorist attack at French basilica
Hannah Brockhaus | Catholic News Agency
Oct 29, 2020 • 2 Min Read
Police stand near Notre Dame Basilica in Nice, France, Oct. 29, 2020, after at least three people were killed in a series of stabbings before Mass. France raised its alert level to maximum after the attack. (CNS photo/ABACAPRESS.COM via Reuters)
After three people were killed in a terrorist attack in a basilica in Nice, France, on Thursday, a Vatican spokesman condemned the violence and said that Pope Francis was praying for the victims and those who mourn them.
Pope Francis "is informed of the situation and is close to the Catholic community in mourning," Matteo Bruni said Oct. 29.
According to the Holy See press office director, "it is a time of pain, in a time of confusion. Terrorism and violence can never be accepted."
An attacker killed three people at the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Nice at around 9 a.m. local time, according to French media.
"Today's attack sowed death in a place of love and consolation, as the house of the Lord," Bruni's statement continued.
Pope Francis "is praying for the victims and their loved ones, for the violence to cease, for people to look at each other again as brothers and sisters and not as enemies, so that the beloved French people, united, can respond to evil with good," he said.
Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, said the perpetrator of the attack, who was armed with a knife, was shot and arrested by the municipal police.
He also said in a video posted to Twitter that the attacker repeatedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" during and after the attack.
Police have confirmed that three people died in the attack and several were injured, according to Reuters. The news agency also reported that one of the victims, a woman, was beheaded.
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin underlined the pope's concern for the victims of the attack in an Oct. 29 condolence message to Bishop André Marceau of Nice.
In the telegram sent in the name of Pope Francis, he wrote: "Informed of the savage attack which was perpetrated this morning in a church in Nice, causing the death of several innocent people, His Holiness Pope Francis joined in prayer with the suffering of the affected families and shares their pain. He asks the Lord to bring them comfort and commends the victims to His mercy."
"Condemning in the strongest possible way of such violent acts of terror, he offers the assurance of his closeness to the Catholic community of France and all the French people, whom he calls to unity. Entrusting France to the protection of Our Lady, he gives from the depths of his heart the Apostolic Blessing to all the people touched by this dramatic event."
In a statement, Marceau said that all churches in the city had been closed and would remain under police protection until further notice.
The bishop said that his emotion was strong after learning of the "heinous terrorist act" at the basilica, noting that it occurred not long after the beheading of a Paris school teacher, Samuel Paty, in an Islamist terror attack earlier this month.
"My sadness is infinite as a human being in the face of what other beings, called human, can do," Marceau said in a statement. "May Christ's spirit of forgiveness prevail in the face of these barbaric acts."
In a statement Oct. 29, the French bishops' conference asked parishes to toll their bells at 3 p.m. local time. They also invited Catholics to pray for the victims.
San Luigi dei Francesi, the French national church in Rome, will join in tolling its bells at 3 p.m.
Cardinal Robert Sarah also responded to the news of the attack.
He wrote on Twitter: "Islamism is a monstrous fanaticism which must be fought with force and determination ... Unfortunately, we Africans know this too well. The barbarians are always the enemies of peace. The West, today France, must understand this."
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Hannah Brockhaus writes for Catholic News Agency.
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Petrified Fountain of Thought
Mostly about movies.
Stromboli, Europa '51, Viaggio in Italia
Stromboli (Rossellini, 1950) Rating: 10/10 stars.
Like an Italian Flannery O'Connor story. (Both influenced by Simone Weil: "Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it . . .") Aside from the New Wave and Antonioni, this must have had a major impact on Kiarostami--The Wind Will Carry Us is practically a more self-reflexive remake.
Here's Rohmer on its personal impact: "It was Rossellini who turned me away from existentialism. That took place in the middle of Stromboli. In the first minutes of the film I recognized the limits of the Sartrian realism to which I believed the film was going to limit itself. I hated the way of seeing the world it encouraged me to take, until I understood that it was also encouraging me to move beyond it. And then the conversion happened. That's what is amazing about Stromboli, it was my road to Damascus: in the middle of the film I was converted and I changed my way of seeing things."
Europa '51 (Rossellini, 1952) Rating: 10/10 stars.
Perhaps the least praised of the Rossellini/Bergman trilogy, no doubt because it seems the most melodramatic and least modern, I found it by far the most moving. True, the final act is forced in the way it seems to leave plausibility behind as society punishes Bergman's transgressions, but in another sense it is just as inexplicable as the endings of the other two films, though here tragic rather than eucatastrophic. Grace can come to an individual, but not to society as a whole. And if Bergman's character is inspired by St. Francis, she is a a Francis with no followers and no freedom--the film is an investigation of what someone would have to go through to truly view the world the way Francis did, and it turns out to be incredibly painful, unnatural, and perhaps unsustainable. Yet the challenge remains.
Journey to Italy (Rossellini, 1954) Rating: 10/10 stars.
There have been several times in cinema history where a single filmmaker has created an entire trilogy to explore the state of modern of Europe: Antonioni's L'Avventura/La Notte/L'Eclisse, Kieslowski's Three Colors, Gomes's Arabian Nights, and I guess Seidl's Paradise trilogy. Rossellini is the only director to give us two such trilogies, and inside of a single decade as well. (Though I wonder how Fear fits into the series--I need to see it as soon as I can.) Both Antonioni and Kieslowski owe an obvious debt here--indeed, Three Colors seems modeled on this earlier trilogy to a surprising extent, and someone should compare Kieslowski's use of his actresses to Rossellini's use of Bergman.
What else is there to say about this film that hasn't already been said better by so many others? Well, for one thing, it appears to me that Paul W.S. Anderson watched it before making Pompeii--and got something out of it, too.
The Flowers of St. Francis (Rossellini, 1950) Rating: 8/10 stars.
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If I Gave the Oscars: 2016 Edition
As usual, these are how I would give out awards to the movies of 2016, if that was a power that I had. Best Picture nominees are top 10 from my Best of 2016 post.
Each category is listed in order of preference, with the first director/actor/etc. being my choice for the winner. Things should be fairly self-explanatory from there.
1. Martin Scorsese (Silence)
2. Terrence Malick (Knight of Cups)
3. Terence Davies (Sunset Song)
4. Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
5. Robert Eggers (The Witch)
Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original, doesn't matter)
1. Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese (Silence)
3. Whit Stillman (Love & Friendship)
4. Richard Linklater (Everybody Wants Some!!)
1. Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
2. Tom Hanks (Sully)
3. Andrew Garfield (Silence)
4. Josh Brolin (Hail, Caesar!)
5. Michael Shannon (Midnight Special)
1. Kate Beckinsale (Love & Friendship)
2. Agyness Deyn (Sunset Song)
3. Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch)
4. Amy Adams (Arrival)
5. Emma Stone (La La Land)
1. Mahershala Ali (Midnight)
2. Issey Ogata (Silence)
3. Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea
4. Glen Powell (Everybody Wants Some!!)
5. Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!)
1. Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)
2. Zoey Deutch (Everybody Wants Some!!)
3. Kirsten Dunst (Midnight Special)
4. Janelle Monae (Midnight, Hidden Figures)
5. Margot Robbie (Suicide Squad)
1. Emmanuel Lubezki (Knight of Cups)
2. Rodrigo Prieto (Silence)
3. Michael McDonough (Sunset Song)
4. Khalik Allah, Par Ekberg, Snatiago Gonzalez, Chayse Irvin, Dikayl Rimmasch, Malik Hassan Sayeed (Lemonade)
5. James Laxton (Midnight)
1. Geoffrey Richman, Keith Fraase, A. J. Edwards (Knight of Cups)
2. Thelma Schoonmaker (Silence)
3. Blu Murray (Sully)
4. Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, Ben Sozanski (O. J.: Made in America)
5. Gilbert Adair (Everybody Wants Some!!)
Best Scene
1. Going to church (Sunset Song)
2. The final apostasy (Silence)
3. Grand finale (La La Land)
4. Hold Up (Lemonade)
5. Airport fight (Captain America: Civil War)
6. History of the Louvre in one shot (Francofonia)
7. Final penthouse fight (Kill Zone 2/SPL 2: A Time for Consequences)
8. Running into your ex (Manchester by the Sea)
9. Calling a girl (Everybody Wants Some!!)
10. Triple crucifixion (Silence)
11. O.J.'s second criminal trial (O.J.: Made in America)
12. 155 Safe (Sully)
13. "Drive It Like You Stole It"--final concert (Sing Street)
14. Diner interrogations (Hell or High Water)
15. Police station scene--Trying to describe a mermaid (The Mermaid)
(actually posted Mary 18, 2017)
Labels: best of the year
1. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
2. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
3. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
4. Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
5. O. J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
6. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
7. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
8. Francofonia (Aleksandr Sokurov)
9. Sully (Clint Eastwood)
10. The Witch (Robert Eggers)
11. Sing Street (John Carney)
12. Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie)
Honorable Mentions: Arrival (Denis Villeneuve), La La Land (Damien Chazelle), Lemonade (Beyonce Knowles), Moonlight (Barry Jenkins), Pete's Dragon (David Lowery), Kill Zone 2/SPL 2: A Time for Consequences (Soi Cheang), Three (Johnnie To), Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen), Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight)
Most Overrated: Zootopia (Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush) (but also kinda Moonlight)
Most Underrated/Underseen: Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick), obviously, but also Pete's Dragon and Sunset Song and Francofonia
Favorite Guilty Pleasure: The Mermaid (Stephen Chow)
Worst Movie I Saw This Year: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (John Requa, Glenn Ficarra)
Complete list of movies I saw in 2016 HERE.
Top 20 Older Films I Saw for the First Time in 2016:
1. Children of Paradise (Carne, 1945)
2. Where Is My Friend's House? (Kiarostami, 1987)
3. Daughters of the Dust (Dash, 1991)
4. Point Break (Bigelow, 1991)
5. Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968)
6. The House of Mirth (Davies, 2000)
7. I Walked With a Zombie (Tourneur, 1943)
8. Risky Business (Brickman, 1983)
9. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks, 1953)
10. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, 1964)
11. Stage Door (La Cava, 1937)
12. Arsenic and Old Lace (Capra, 1944)
13. Extreme Prejudice (Hill,1987)
14. Speed Racer (Wachowskis, 2008)
15. La Promesse (Dardennes, 1996)
16. Near Dark (Bigelow, 1987)
17. The Awful Truth (McCarey, 1937)
18. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
19. Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
20. Great Day in the Morning (Tourneur, 1956)
That's the Top 20, but you can find the Top 40 in color HERE.
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Best Criticism I Read in 2016
I read a great deal of criticism this past year, some of it bad, much of it very good. I read books, magazines, online articles, and bog posts, listened to podcasts and radio interviews, and watched video essays and DVD extras. And since internet criticism and opinion journalism has exploded to such an extent over the past few years, it seems to me worthwhile to single out a few of the best pieces of criticism I encountered in 2016 for others to check out as well. So here's a small, by no means exhaustive list.
Among the books I read, none of which are really available online (and most of which are already well-known cinephile circles), I would like to single out:
When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade by Dave Kehr (2011)
Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin (2003)
An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema by James Naremore (2014)
Confessions of a Cultist: On the Cinema, 1955-1969 by Andrew Sarris (1970)
Cahiers du Cinema: The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave edited by Jim Hillier (1985)
And two major works of criticism that are not about cinema: Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus (1989), which starts with the Sex Pistols and ends up linking punk rock to the Situationist International, Dadaism, and the Paris Commune of 1871, and The Last War in Albion by Phil Sandifer, an ongoing blogging and self-publishing project that starts with the comic books of Alan Moore and Grant Morrison and ends up linking them to William Blake, William S. Burroughs, and almost every corner of the sci-fi/fantasy genres.
(As a side note: Modesty compels me to admit that I did not read every one of these books cover to cover--they are after all mainly composed of individual reviews and essays. But what I did read was challenging, mind-expanding stuff that I heartily recommend to all.)
On the individual essay front, here are several notable articles available online that I encountered for the first time this year:
Greil Marcus on John Wayne from February 1979, soon after Wayne's death
Andre Bazin's analysis and attempt to partially curtail the "Politique des Auteurs" in Cahiers du Cinema, 1957
Jacques Rivette on "The Genius of Howard Hawks" in 1953
A fascinating Jacques Rivette interview from Les Inrockuptables in 1998, where he gives off the cuff opinions on a few dozen films and directors from the '40s to the '90s
An extraordinary long profile of the great Yuri Norstein on MTV.com (I know! where did this come from?)
Dave Kehr on Jackie Chan in Film Comment 1988
Alan Jacobs compares Lena Dunham with Jane Austen (from 2013)
Tag Gallagher on auteurism and the problem with "reading" a film in 2001
Lionel Shriver's notorious and necessary speech on "Fiction and Identity Politics" from the 2016 Brisbane Writers Festival
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky consistently writes some of the best obituaries on the net at The A.V. Club, and, alas, he got to write many of them in 2016. Here's his take on Alexandre Astruc.
And finally, two heroic and necessary essays on the current problems in critical discourse that aren't afraid to call out political puritanism for what it is, even when the authors agree with the overall progressive political project: Richard Brody on "Why Movies Still Matter" and Nick Pinkerton on "Talking in Circles".
38 Sentences
(With apologies to this post by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky)
Like Clara Bow for It and Maria Falconetti for Passion of Joan of Arc, Alicia Silverstone will live forever because of Clueless. While for Miyazaki, filmmaking is primarily emotional, even physical--measured in how many frames he draws personally, how much of himself he pours into the film--for Takahata, filmmaking is primarily intellectual; he's always rethinking the way animation works, redefining its limits. Sofia Coppola shoots hotel rooms better than anyone in the history of cinema. Lightning McQueen & Mater = Bob the Tomato & Larry the Cucumber, particularly in Cars 2. Are we approaching a point when we will no longer be able to speak of "human nature" because it's too "essentializing," too rigid and meaningless and even offensive? The major problem with Stephen Curry is that he mispronounces his first name. Terrence Malick has left the proscenium further behind than anybody in narrative cinema: we are constantly aware of a world around us, a vast space stretching in every direction (even the city is Big Sky Country). The thing about the various (supposedly cuckoo) interpretations of The Shining (and I am not the first to point this out), is that the sundry clues and motifs studied by the movie's obsessives (Native American imagery, visual nods to the space program, oblique allusions to the Holocaust, constant verbal acknowledgment of colonialism, conquest, and Westward expansion) are in fact really there, and can, moreover, be nearly all integrated into a single vision when we realize that the Overlook Hotel is a nightmare maze of History, where sins and crimes (y'know, ghosts) of the past swirl everlastingly and threaten to drag the present and future of humanity down with them into eternal cycles of power, dominance, violence, and cruelty. Amy Schumer isn't funny. On Focus (2015): The camera glides along, the colors are pleasingly balanced, and everything is modulated to look "classy," but somehow there's not a single memorable image in the entire movie. One of the central appeals of the apocalypse as a fictional trope is the way it shatters the postmodern confusion of the current world situation, bringing good and evil back into view and clarifying absolutes. Appreciating art is mostly a matter of orienting oneself properly toward the aesthetic goal of the work--appreciating what it does well, not asking it to be something it's not. I bet I can think of over a dozen different TV shows off the top of my head that were directly influenced by or had their ways paved for them by Buffy the Vampire Slayer: there's the obvious ones like Angel, Firefly, and Dollhouse, the WB fellows like Charmed, Smallville, Roswell, and Supernatural, plus others like Veronica Mars, The Vampire Diaries, Teen Wolf, iZombie, Jessica Jones, Russell T. Davies' revival of Doctor Who, and even Kim Possible. Lubitsch treated his scenarios, his characters, and his audience with unfailingly good manners, and it's always good manners to keep your guests entertained and at ease. Looking through these lists of things only '90s kids will get, a thought occurs to me: I really envy Baby Boomers' ability to be nostalgic for things that actually happened. Zack Snyder's visual style is primarily influenced by comic panels and pulp cover art, and seems to be more concerned with bringing these still images to life than telling a coherent story--which, in the case of Batman v Superman, gives the images a weird sort of power; they feel so disconnected that the movie has a sense of a plunge into the void. Malick sees philosophy, religion, and art as a continuum, and it is because of this that we can examine each of his films from the framework of multiple philosophical theories and theological stances and find illumination and worth through each of them. If Grave of the Fireflies is Takahata's neorealist film, and Only Yesterday and My Neighbors the Yamadas are his Ozus, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is his Mizoguchi. Looking around at all his producing work, so focused on recreating the various undervalued genres and styles of his youth, one gets a sense of George Lucas as the square Tarantino. Clichés in art: the problem isn't that they're false, the problem is when they're lazy, when the artist doesn't work to find the truth in the cliché which made it a cliché in the first place. Scariest movies I've ever seen: (7) Psycho, (6) The Shining, (5) Alien, (4) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, (3) Pinocchio, (2) Dumbo, (1) Mickey Mouse in Runaway Brain. Johnnie To's signature images--crane shots and full-bodied medium shots of people standing on eerily-empty streets (that just might be sets)--remind me of nothing so much as 1940s MGM musicals, particularly those starring Gene Kelly. What makes Girl, Interrupted interesting and genuinely valuable as a movie is the extent to which it is a direct ideological response and correction to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In a '50s Hollywood landscape hyped up on the Method, John Ford often stood out as a poet among dramatists. Lana Del Rey = Nancy Sinatra + Joan Didion + lip injections. Watching the final act of A Midsummer Night's Dream on stage recently (where the Athenians kick back and mock the players), I was surprised and overjoyed to discover that Shakespeare had invented Mystery Science Theater 3000 four hundred years early. Amy Sherman-Palladino > Amy Heckerling > Nora Ephron > Eli Roth > Lena Dunham. For Hitchock, the cinema was all about the temptation/repulsion of voyeurism; for David Fincher, it's all about the terror/yearning of being watched. It might not be out of place to consider Eyes Wide Shut in light of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Cruiseman Brown, as it were. If sentimentality and brutality are linked, and they are, this might be a clue to the dark side of fandom and internet bullying: obsession and giddy investment in fictional relationships/melodrama/etc. can leads to lashing out with anger/hatred/violence at anyone who criticizes or takes it away. Orson Welles once said of Jean-Luc Godard, "[H]is gifts as a director are enormous, I just can't take him seriously as a thinker;" F for Fake can be read as Welles showing Godard how to use his style to think. I find praise of Spike Jonze's Her for its romanticism to be deeply disturbing; Her is a horror story or it is nothing. Comic books ≠ superheroes of course, though the stereotype has been limiting to both the medium and the genre. The reason many movie polls are so boring is the same reason Top 40 radio makes everything sound the same--they lack a motivating intelligence/sensibility, a sense of actual opinions being held that have a little risk and personality to them; instead, good movies/songs coexist next to bad ones with so little differentiation that it becomes one big stew of mediocrity. If cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out, too often television seems to be a matter of what comes before a commercial break and what comes after. Watch Thief and Blackhat back-to-back and you might think the latter is a high-tech remake of the former. Miyazaki places his small moments among his large setpieces, Takahata places occasional setpieces among his small moments. High aesthetic ideals for art sound great until you realize they don't let you enjoy your disreputable favorites; might that tension be the point at which new critical tastes are formed?
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Bad filmmakers (sadly for them) have no ideas. Good filmmakers (it's what limits them) tend to have too many. Great filmmakers (especially the inventors) have only one. This idée fixe enables them to keep moving on, to take the idea through ever-renewing and ever-interesting landscapes. The price to pay is well-known: a certain solitude. What about great critics? It is the same thing, except there are none. . . All but one. Between 1943 and 1958 (the year of his death: he was only forty) André Bazin was this one.
--Serge Daney
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Just a guy working my way through the world of cinema (and the rest of life) and jotting down notes as I go.
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Last Movies Seen
The Lost City of Z [Gray] --(8/10)*
Shoeshine [De Sica] --(7/10)*
For Me and My Gal [Berkeley] --(9/10)*
Children Who Chase Lost Voices [Sinkai] --(3/10)*
5 Centimeters Per Second [Shinkai] --(4/10)*
Witness for the Prosecution [Wilder] --(8/10)
Freaks [Browning] --(8/10)*
My Dad Is 100 Years Old [Maddin] --(8/10)*
Voyage in Italy [Rossellini] --(9/10)*
Europe '51 [Rossellini] --(10/10)*
The Flowers of St. Francis [Rossellini] --(8/10)*
Stromboli [Rossellini] --(9/10)*
Winter Days [Kawamoto, Norstein, et al.] --(8/10)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence [Oshii] --(??/10)*
Journey Into Fear [Foster] --(7/10)
Ghost in the Shell [Oshii] --(8/10)
Ghost in the Shell [Snaders] --(6/10)*
Passion [De Palma] --(??/10)*
Scarface [De Palma] --(8/10)*
Phantom of the Paradise [De Palma] --(8/10)*
Hi, Mom! [De Palma] --(??/10)*
Femme Fatale [De Palma] --(10/10)
Carlito's Way [De Pama] --(10/10)*
* = First time viewing
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THE DEATH OF ANTAGONY & ECSTASY
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The State of Cinema Essay 2012
So was there an actual box-office slump in 2019?
A Farewell to Ferdy
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Hugo Weaving Will Not Be In THE MATRIX 4
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Filmwell
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The Road to Overload [NORTH ON EVERS]
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It's a Roald Dahl World After All
LFM: Libertas Film Magazine
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She is Alone (彼女はひとり/ Kanojo wa hitori, 2018)
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Philip Sandifer: Writer
Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror Review
Richard Brody: The New Yorker
Rightwing Film Geek
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The Big Clock (1948, John Farrow)
UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS: THE FILMS OF 2019
The 25 best films of 2019, and other fine motion picture entertainments
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Goodbye Tativille, Hello OKCMOA Film Blog
The Arts & Faith Top 100 Films
The Exploding Kinetoscope
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The Vulgar Cinema
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Things That Don't Suck
Some Notes On The Stand
This Island Rod
Wonders in the Dark
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Let blue light influence your mood, behavior and feelings. For private relaxation.
Warm yellow light for your family time enjoy parent-child time.
Look at your soul mate each time like for the first time.
sensor and it will adjust the light according to your room temperature.
Start the sunset sleep mode and simulate the sunset light in every night, by slowly dimming over for 10 minutes until it's off gently. It gives your body the gradual shift from light to darkness that your body needs in order to prepare for sleep.
Start the morning awakening mode, and simulate sunrise light at every morning. Let a gentle sunrise ease you into your day. 15 minutes before your chosen wake-up time, the light will come on, very gently, and getting gradually brighter. By the time the 15 minutes is up, you should be fully awake, gently and naturally.
The top of the lamp shape is a large touch panel, provides flexible controls. The buttons on top could change "color" "brightness" and "scenes", very convenient and simple to use.
When you are ready to sleep, connect your bedside lamp with the Mi Band, it will automatically switch off the lamp when you fall asleep, allowing you to sleep peacefully.
Professional optical design with 14 Osram LED and accurate color-mixing algorithms makes the perfect experience with smooth color and brightness transitions. 90+ CRi makes us able to feel the natural colors that match the surroundings, even famous paintings that are hundred of years old.
* Color rendering index is as high as 95, refers to the 4000K color temperature, color rendering index (Ra) of 95.
frequency of use, and other factors.


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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the Archos 80c Xenon is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 82/100 = Very good quality.
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Q: Factors deciding the number of bytes read from the InputStream The processing of writing data in the ByteArrayOutputStream from InputStream obtained by urlConnection.getInputStream() is taking more than 1 minute.
CODE SNIPPET
URL requestUrl= new URL(_sampleurl_);
HttpURLConnection urlConnection=(HttpURLConnection)requestUrl.openConnection();
urlConnection.setConnectTimeout(10000);
urlConnection.setReadTimeout(10000);
urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
urlConnection.connect();
int statusCode=urlConnection.getResponseCode();   //200
long contentLengthByTen = urlConnection.getHeaderFieldLong("Content-Length", _defaultSize_); //7631029
InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
final byte[] byteArray = new byte[16384];
int length;
ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrOutStrm = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
int k = 0;
while ((length = inputStream.read(byteArray)) != -1)
{
    byteArrOutStrm.write(byteArray, 0, length);
    k++;
}

Some of the observations are:
The while loop alone executing for more than one minute and it is iterated for around 2650 times.
The HttpURLConnection response code is 200, so the entire content is available in the InputStream.
The Content-Length of the file is 7631029 (bytes).
I have two questions:

*

*Though the byte array size is 16384 and the status code is 200, the inputStream.read method reads only 2800 bytes averagely. Why and which factors decide these bytes?

*Proper solution to reduce the processing time?

A:

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*Though the byte array size is 16384 and the status code is 200, the inputStream.read method reads only 2800 bytes averagely. Why and which factors decide these bytes?

The number of bytes available in the socket receive buffer, which in turn is a function of the speed of the sender, the frequency of reads at the receiver, the network bandwidth, and the path MTU. What you're seen isn't surprising: it indicates that you're keeping up with the sender pretty well.

*Proper solution to reduce the processing time?

Have the sender send faster. There is nothing wrong with your receiving code, although I wonder why you're collecting the entire response in a ByteArrayOutputStream before doing anything with it. This just wastes memory and adds latency.

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« Environmental group: More than 350 species discovered in Himalayas over past decade
"Flying frog" and world's smallest deer discovered in Eastern Himalayas »
More than 350 species, including world's smallest deer, discovered in Himalayas in past decade
Binaj Gurubacharya
Tiny deer among 350 new species found in Himalayas
KATMANDU, Nepal —The world's smallest deer, a flying frog and catfish that stick to rocks — as well as more than 350 other species — have been discovered over the past decade in the Himalayas, making it one of the world's most biologically rich regions, an environmental group said Monday.
But researchers warn that the effects of climate change, as well as development, threaten the diverse habitat that supports these species.
"This enormous cultural and biological diversity underscores the fragile nature of an environment which risks being lost forever unless the impacts of climate change are reversed," said Tariq Aziz, the leader of the World Wildlife Fund's Living Himalayas Initiative, a regional conservation program that covers India, Nepal and Bhutan.
The WWF is calling on the countries to develop a conservation plan for the region — which also includes parts of Myanmar and Tibet — and for governments to give local communities more authority to manage the forests, grasslands and wetlands.
The group found that almost three-quarters of the discoveries between 1998 and 2008 were plants, including 21 new orchid species. But it also listed 16 amphibians, 16 reptiles, 14 fish, two birds, two mammals and at least 60 new invertebrates. Most of the discoveries have already been reported in peer-reviewed, scientific journals.
Among the most exciting was the miniature muntjac, the world's smallest deer species — standing just 60-80 centimeters (25-30 inches) tall and weighing about 24 pounds (11 kilograms). Scientists at first believed the animal found in northern Myanmar was a juvenile of another species, but DNA tests confirmed it was distinct.
Scientists also found Rhacophorus suffry, a bright green frog in northeast India that uses its long, webbed feet to glide in the air. They also discovered two chocolate-brown catfish from Nepal that have evolved unique adhesive undersides to stick to rocks in fast-moving streams.
"It is astonishing to observe that a large number of new species of flora and fauna are discovered even today in the Himalayas," Nepal's forest and soil conservation minister, Deepak Bohara, said at the release of the report in Katmandu.
Further study of the eastern Himalayas would find far more new species, said Bittu Sahgal, editor of Sanctuary Asia, a wildlife and environment magazine published in India.
"There will be close to 3,000-5,000 species that will be discovered if a systematic study is done over the next five years," he said.
Still, observers say there no reason to believe that the area is immune to the effects of climate change and development.
"While climate change has its impact, which is common to all other such hotspots, human-induced projects such as construction of 100-plus dams in such a fragile and relatively small area is going to worsen the situation further," said Anwarudin Choudhury of The Rhino Foundation in India.
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"Flying frog" and world's smallest deer discovered in Eastern Himalayas
August 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have discovered over 350 new species including the world's smallest deer, a "flying frog" and a 100 million-year old gecko in the Eastern Himalayas. The new species include 244 plants, 16 amphibians, 16 reptiles, 14 fish, 2 birds, 2 mammals and at least 60 new invertebrates.
Environmental group: More than 350 species discovered in Himalayas over past decade
August 10th, 2009 Over 350 species found in Himalayas in past decadeKATMANDU, Nepal —The world's smallest deer, a flying frog and catfish that stick to rocks — as well as more than 350 other species — have been discovered over the past decade in the Himalayas, making it one of the world's most biologically rich regions, an environmental group said Monday. But researchers warn that the effects of climate change, as well as development, threaten the diverse habitat that supports these species.
Smallest Possible (Less Than Four Inches) Snake Discovered
August 4th, 2008 The world's smallest snake and perhaps the smallest possible snake has been discovered on the Caribbean island of Barbados. At about ten centimeters long , the diminutive reptile might easily be mistaken for an earthworm, and could comfortably curl up on a U.S.
Pet Lovers' Fears That World's First Pet Cemeteries Will Be Sold to Developer
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Meet Mr Frog, age 37
March 30th, 2009 SYDNEY - Researchers have stumbled upon a 37-year-old frog in New Zealand, making it one of the longest living frogs known to science. A male of the threatened species called Maud Island Frog was found to be 37 years old, another male was 35 and a female was 34.
Scientists say Myanmar fossil shows ancestors of humans, apes evolved from primates in Asia
July 1st, 2009 Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolutionBANGKOK, Thailand — Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday. However, other scientists said that the finding, while significant, won't end the debate over the origin of anthropoids — the primate grouping that includes ancient species as well as modern humans.
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July 7th, 2006 While old favourites like Max and Charlie are still popular monikers, celebrity names like Beyonce, Missy Elliot, Beckham and Elvis are growing in popularity, a study carried out by pet charity PDSA found. The study found more unusual choices including a Birmingham-based cat called Ozzy after rocker Ozzy Osbourne and a mischievous tabby named after the cartoon character Sponge Bob Squarepants.
World's mangrove-dependent animals threatened with extinction
July 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - An assessment indicates that more than 40 percent of a sample of amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds that are restricted to mangrove ecosystems are globally threatened with extinction. The assessment, by David A.


During the time of Oliver Cromwell, thousands of stained glass windows in English churches were destroyed, because the English puritans objected to objects of veneration, which they called 'abused images'. Of those stained glass windows that did survive, few were undamaged, and there was an irreplaceable loss of priceless English church heritage.
Amongst the windows that were damaged but survived is a unique medieval roundel that may be found above the north door of Holy Trinity Church in Long Melford, Suffolk.
That it required repair is sadly obvious, yet one visitor, Peter Sebbage, considered that its repair actually enhanced the inspirational value of the window. "In its repair", he said, "it illustrates God's unfailing love in reconciling a fallen world to Him through the sacrifice of Jesus".
This roundel depicts three hares chasing each other in a circle. The three hares motif has been found in Europe, the Sinai Peninsula, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and China, but it is most commonly found in churches in Devon, England, where it is often called the tinners' rabbits.
If you look closely, you will see that the three hares only have three ears between them instead of the six you would expect. In a clever optical illusion, each hare shares an ear with each of the other hares. The hares are distinct and cannot be confused with each other, yet together they comprise a unity that cannot be divided. It should therefore come as no surprise that the three hares motif has come to represent the Trinity.
Today is Trinity Sunday, one of our principal feast days, a day when we celebrate the doctrine of God as the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Another Comforter = another of the same - who re-presents Jesus. He is the One who stands beside us to strengthen and empower.


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Il gruppo dell'humboldtina è un gruppo di minerali.

Minerali del gruppo dell'humboldtina
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On Thursday, 21 June 2018, the radio in my 2014 Ford Fiesta SE would not turn off. (For identification purposes, my car has a Ford SYNC with MyFord Touch radio.) I also couldn't turn down the volume using the volume knob on the dash or the volume buttons on the left side of the steering wheel. I knew removing the negative battery cable would reset the radio and solve the problem, but so would removing the radio's fuse, which would be easier.
The owner's manual indicates that there are two fuse boxes: One underneath the hood on the driver side, and one behind the glove box on the passenger side. The radio-based fuses are in the fuse box located behind the glove box.
With the car off and the key extracted from the ignition switch, I removed F10, waited five seconds, then replaced the fuse.
It's been five days since this occurred and the problem has not resurfaced.
Radio is still working fine; problem has not recurred.
Radio is still working fine.
I just had this problem with my 2014 Ford Fiesta SE, the service center wanted to rip out my dash to find the problem, quoted around $300 when I found this article and asked them to do this. It completely worked despite their doubts and saved me $300. Thank you so much for publishing this and saving me so much time and money.
Thank you for taking the time to post this. Worked perfectly.
Had the same problem. Your solution saved the dealer from charging me over $200 to reprogram the ACM.
Had the same issue and your solution worked perfectly. Two months earlier I had the "won't turn on problem". Fixed that by disconnecting and reconnecting the battery cable.
I never post comments but this article saved my life and it also saved me a lot of money. You're awesome.
Same problem (radio won't turn off) in my 2014 Ford Fiesta SE. Your solution worked like a charm … Thank you!
Roy – I'm sending you good vibes today. Your post was easy to find. Your explanation was easy to understand and follow. And most importantly it worked. I had just made my last car payment when this happened so I was thinking the worst! You made my day.
I'm so very glad it helped, and I'm especially glad that you didn't have to fork money over to Ford for the repair.
I'm trying to fix this issue on my car. Would it be the same for a 2014 Fiesta Titanium and I have more then a #10 fuse behind my glove box. I won't be able to take my car in till Saturday, do you have any idea if it will drain the battery?
We've had the same problem on our 2014 Fiesta Titanium. Pulling the fuse and reinserting will fix it for the time being. Yes, it will drain the battery and then your remote will not work to unlock it. A whole other issue to unlock the door, unless you leave it unlocked.
However, it just happened again, about 8 months later. We have the car at the dealership now to figure it out, as we can't risk it continuing to happen. Don't want to end up stranded somewhere. I haven't found anywhere where someone has stated positive what the cause/fix is.
Want to say thanks! My 2014 Ford Fiesta has been doing the same thing. Radio sticks on and would drain battery if left alone. Had to pull this fuse 2 times in past 6 months. Believe like a previous post mentioned, that it's probably caused by faulty door switch. This is a quick fix. Thanks again!


So there's a website I was introduced to when I decided to move ahead with my goal of writing romance. I'd written business books for a long time – almost a dozen of them – but romance was something new.
Now I'm not someone who wants to write one novel, and that's it. Nope. I dream big. Like Nora Roberts big. Like counting your books up by the dozens, by the hundreds.
So of course, that means I'll have to write at a pretty healthy pace. Enter The Smarter Artist. These three guys write at a breathtaking pace. Like 1.5 million words a year.
Yep, I can deal with that.
So, back to the website. I was directed towards a course. How To Plan and Outline Novels Using Scrivener.
You already know Scrivener is my favorite tool of choice.
So I took the course, and was fascinated by how much time they spend developing their characters and settings before they ever type out their first word of a story.
Yep, it changed my approach.
My first draft was with the editor. Casey and Jordi's story had been told. But after I took the course, their lives expanded before my eyes. It gave them more life. I started seeing them in different ways. I saw them in detail before Destination Barcelona takes place.
I thought it would be fun to "interview" them, and give you a little more history about who they are – outside of the story you'll read in Destination Barcelona.
Because whenever I read a book, I always finish it off by wondering about their "next" life. What happens beyond the pages? How would the author write their next phase?
Here are a few extra things Casey and Jordi would want you to know.
Q: How nervous are you about your next phase, an empty nester, now that your daughter has chosen a school twelve hundred miles from home?
Casey: We're very close, so this is going to be hard. For the both of us. But it's a natural part of life. I've raised an independent daughter. I want what's best for her. I want her to be all she can be. And in reality, I think her heading this far from home and being on her own will give her a chance to spread her wings and fly.
I'm her mom. I have to whine a little. LOL. And of course, I'll miss her desperately. She's such a good kid; we have a very close relationship. But she is her own being. And I want her to be happy, successful.
This is the next phase of our lives. Her and me. This is going to give time to figure out what's next for me. I know that's important, that I have to be a role model for my daughter. And that means finding out who I am, today. I want to be so busy with that, that I don't have a chance to wallow in missing her.
Q: You divorced after catching your husband with another woman. How do you currently feel about marriage and commitment?
Casey: What made that whole process bad was catching him in a lie.
I'd spent several years caring for his mom, my mom, and dad. Caregiving is hard, and I'll be the first to tell you that I wasn't always a happy person to be around. Watching all three of them sink, get sicker, dying, that was hard. Life-changing hard.
But the fact that Rob didn't understand that, didn't support me more, that's where our troubles began. He didn't fall into a one-night stand because he was lonely. He'd been doing it for a very long time. He lied about where he was going. What he was doing. Trust was broken. And I'm way too strong to allow that in my life.
But that doesn't mean I don't value commitment. Marriage, I'm not sure about. That's a long ways off. But I loved being married, before. I loved being a part of a team. And I'm up for doing that again in my life. I've never thought much about it, but I'm not against it.
Q: How important are the relationships in your life?
Jordi: I knew from early on that traditional marriage wasn't for me. Not what my mom and dad had, raising four kids in a house they stayed in for forty years. Not what my sister and two brothers have, each having a spouse and children.
I didn't want kids. I wanted the ease of being able to travel, change quickly, do things spur of the moment.
But I've always been fiercely loyal to my family and friends. My sister's kids are as close to me as if they were my children. I've taken them both for weeklong trips. They stay with me often on their breaks from school.
My friends are important. We do things all the time. They've been in my life for years. I've had long-term girlfriends in my life. But when marriage comes into play, they've always wanted the "settle down and have kids" thing. I'm passed that. I don't want that.
But would I be happy with someone with the same goals I have today? Being free to travel extensively? Enjoy spur of the moment things? Definitely. I love having good conversations, familiarity of the people around me, and the intimacy that comes from stability.
Did you enjoy this sneak peak into Casey and Jordi's past?


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El condado de Putnam (en inglés: Putnam County), fundado en 1820, es uno de 114 condados del estado estadounidense de Misuri. En el año 2008, el condado tenía una población de 5,223 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 4 personas por km². La sede del condado es Unionville. El condado recibe su nombre en honor al general Israel Putnam de la Guerra Franco-india.

Geografía
Según la Oficina del Censo, el condado tiene un área total de , de la cual  es tierra y  (0.34%) es agua.

Condados adyacentes
 Condado de Wayne, Iowa (noroeste)
 Condado de Appanoose, Iowa (noreste)
 Condado de Schuyler (este)
 Condado de Adair (sureste)
 Condado de Sullivan (sur)
 Condado de Mercer (oeste)

Demografía
Según la Oficina del Censo en 2000, los ingresos medios por hogar en el condado eran de $26,282, y los ingresos medios por familia eran $32,031. Los hombres tenían unos ingresos medios de $22,957 frente a los $18,884 para las mujeres. La renta per cápita para el condado era de $18,884. Alrededor del 16.00% de la población estaban por debajo del umbral de pobreza.

Transporte

Carreteras principales
  U.S. Route 136
  Route 5
  Ruta 129
  Ruta 139
  Ruta 149

Localidades

Municipios

Referencias

Enlaces externos


Controller are the first point of contact for each job. They speak to the NHS hospital teams, get the details of what needs to be moved, liaises with the riders and monitors the rider progress to ensure they are safe.
A controller is based from their home or anywhere where they are free to take and receive phone calls and login to the Leicestershire and Rutland Blood Bikes files.
At the start of a shift the duty number is forwarded to the controllers phone enabling them to receive calls from the NHS and other health agencies. After taking down details of the job they will phone the rider on shift and pass on details of the delivery / pick-up needed.. They then wait for the rider to finish the job, return home safety and sign off again. While the controllers need to be awake it's a sleeping shift, you only need to get up if there is a call and stay awake for as long as the rider is out.
We use a commercial phone system that redirects a number to your chosen land line / mobile and also allows you to make calls out. This ensures you don't have to give out your personal number and you're not charged for any calls you make for us while on shift.
We are looking for anyone who can confidently speak on the phone to other people, no previous experience is necessary as training and support is given.


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The Magic of Bora Bora
By Geoff Edwards on December 9, 2009 in French Polynesia, Photos
There was an early show last night at 6:30 PM. It was listed as "the magic and illusions of Steve and Tricia Blake and International Puppet Master Ray Solaire." Ray is the Cruise Director and has been working on ships for 40 years; a cruise director for 32of them. He opened with a song and had a large parrot "puppet" attached to his legs and body. When he moved his legs, the parrot did the same. He is a good ventriloquist, but didn't interact with his dummy. So when the "parrot" sang or talked, Ray looked into the audience or off to the left. Well, OK it was cute. He then introduced the magician.
His act was the usual, lots of scarves changing color; cards disappearing, and finally he put his wife in a metal cube. In went the swords, then out came the swords. Then out of the top came his wife……and then another woman. That was cool.
Ray was back. No parrot, no puppet, just Ray. He sang a song from Jekyll and Hyde. He then introduced "black" magic; lots of things going around and up and down in vivid color. The lighting and dark clothes and head covering made the manipulators invisible. That was also cool, then not so cool, then not so hot. It went on far too long. Ray then closed with the theme from Les Miserables. Good heavens, I now know what made them so miserable. Michael was squirming in her seat; I was checking my watch hoping the song would be over before dinner. Ray got a standing ovation. I am so out of this loop.
Dinner was in Latitudes
which will serve Indian food until our last week and then switch to Indochine. The food was good and very spicy which I love. I am sure our subsequent exhales added to global warming.
This morning I felt like I had the flu. I am allergic to garlic and go to some lengths to avoid it. Our food last night was loaded with it, but the garlic was camouflaged under the fiery sauces. Who knew?
Michael and I carry our cameras wherever we go. For some reason we didn't take them to breakfast and thus missed the shot of the trip. A female officer is going home tomorrow. As a tender goodbye, three male officers threw her, fully uniformed, into the swimming pool. We were the only passengers to see it happen.
Regent's Paul Gauguin
is anchored nearby and our passengers were invited to visit her.
Gauguin's were invited to check out the Mariner.
We tendered over for lunch.
Basically there were tenders from both ships going to shore, and also back and forth between the boats. The Tahitian kayakers were having a ball riding our wake.
The immediate area near the Bora Bora dock is not terribly inviting. A gaggle of pearl shops; T-shirts; and roadside vendors. There was one grocery store that proved the French influence has not diminished.
Tonight I am dragging Michael to the jazz concert which will feature Michelle Amato. I received an e-mail asking me where to get her CD. As well here on the Mariner, try her website at www.michelleamato.com.
Geoff Edwards is a veteran radio and television broadcaster. He has an Emmy for best talk show host, and an Emmy nomination for best Game Show Host. Besides hosting network game shows, he has appeared as an actor in numerous television shows and movies. In radio, he was top rated in Los Angeles on both KMPC and KFI.
With all of this, Geoff never lost his thirst for travel. He has been cruising since 1969 and has twice cruised around the world. From Morocco, to the Marshall Islands, and even to Branson, Geoff 's wit adds a special flavor to his travel commentary. Michael, Geoff's wife, travels with him and records all on film.
Today, Geoff writes for several national magazines, currently broadcasts a weekly travel report to Monterey's KION morning show, and does on "location" special travel broadcasts for CRN, the Cable Radio Network.
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What is a table top sign? Signholders for tabletop use could mean a wide variety of things. A sign is often placed on a table top where patrons would see it, in order to promote products or services your company or business is looking to offer. By placing signage in prominent areas, your customers are more likely to notice these placards and either inquire about or simply purchase your products. This table top sign selection is ideal for use in a variety of business locations, as each model is universal in design. Retail stores, restaurant & food service locations (i.e. delis and bakeries), as well as supermarkets all make use of these tabletop signage holders. There are many different table top sign holders to choose from in this category.
Some of the table top sign holders come with a plastic cardholder. This area is designed to hold signage measuring up to 2/5" in thickness. These particular tabletop stands also come with two pivot points: one connecting the table top sign clip to the upright pole, and one connecting the upright to the base. These countertop displays also come with a "shovel" style base. This particular base is designed for the placement under items on your counter.
Where are these table top sign holders often seen?
Retail Stores – a store location often places a table top sign clip for price tags on point-of-purchase and checkout areas to point out on-sale merchandise or an upcoming, in-store event. In these locations, customers are more likely to notice your displayed signage, and be lured into purchasing the items you are highlighting.
Restaurant & Food Service Locations – This type of institution utilizes table top sign holders to display menu and drink specials on a bar. A restaurant might also place these signholders on individual tabletops to promote new menu additions.
Salons & Spas – These table top clip holders often display pricing for hair products or other items customers can purchase after receiving salon services.
Supermarkets – Delis, bakeries and even seafood departments within a grocery store often place a table top sign clips for price tags amongst their food items for sale. The shovel-style base sits under trays of food, ensuring your signage will stay in place.
Art Galleries & Museums – In these locations, the tabletop signholders often display names of artists and information about the piece of artwork, such as the period in which it was completed.
Deli tags with clips are also sold in this category. These price holders are ideal for use in locations with signs of various thicknesses. Some of the units come with an axe style clamp, which opens to hold signage measuring 3/8" in thickness. Other sign clips for price tags offered here come with a clamp-style holder, which is much longer, and open to hold 1" thick signs. These clamps give users the most freedom, allowing a variety of placard types to be displayed with ease.
What separates these signholder clips from others on the market?
This site offers a wide variety of styles to choose from, for customers to shop just one online catalog, versus having to hunt all over the web for the style they are looking for.
Many of the offered units are stocked to offer some of the shortest shipping lead times found everywhere on the web.
The majority of the counter-top styles in this category are sold in both a clear or black finish, to blend in with the particular setting they are placed in.
This site also sells a wide variety of other marketing displays and supplies to offer one-stop shopping to virtually every industry.
Tabletop clip holders for price tags are just one of the many product lines this site has to offer. Displays2go is a trusted source for restaurant displays and food service supplies. This company has been in business since 1974. The offering of fixtures on this site continues to grow each year, in an effort to offer restaurant and food service establishments the supplies they need to have a successful business. Menu holders for tabletop use, bakery cases, bar supplies and even condiment racks can all be found in this online catalog.
Signs for use on tables are ideal for advertising new menu additions. Tabletop signage and price tag holders can also be used to promote a "theme" night, such as karaoke night. A restaurant could also use the signholders to advertise for a local charity. This notifies patrons that a portion of the day's sales will go to a particular fund.
This website is home to over 7,000 unique marketing display solutions, in addition to restaurant supplies. This site has it all, from trade show fixtures to tabletop retail showcases. Many of the offered goods are stocked in three large warehouses, in an effort to provide customers with some of the shortest shipping lead times found everywhere on the web. Items ship fast to save customers both time and money.


The Youth Choir is an environment where youth can grow spiritually, relationally, and musically through monthly worship leadership in the 10:15 Sanctuary service. The Youth Choir strives to cultivate a culture where students grow towards God and serve Him through the gifts they have been given by worship leadership in the church and in the community.
On Sunday mornings, students have the opportunity to lead through choral anthems, solo opportunities, and unique approaches to contemporary worship music offerings. Our vision is to have our students sing to build up the underprivileged and forgotten youth and adults everywhere. The students also worship, play and pray together, which fosters new friendships and closer relationships with God.
Join: Youth Choir is a place for serious musicians and for those who can't carry a tune (seriously)! To join Youth Choir, come to rehearsal on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm. (Times may change do to schedule conflicts...Please check church bulletin for updates.) After you've come to rehearsal, we invite you to join us in leading worship during our Sanctuary service on Sunday!
Invite: Encourage your youth and their friends to come to Youth Choir. If you're nervous about sending them for the first time, please contact us at tbridges1536@gmail.com.
Serve Monthly: We need parents who will provide refreshments for rehearsal and help with supervision on Sunday morning. Contact us at tbridges1536@gmail.com if you are available to serve in Youth Choir on a weekly basis.
Serve Periodically: The Youth Choir has several events throughout the year, including concerts, Dinner Theater, retreats, and team building events. Contact us at tbridges1536@gmail.com if you are interested in supporting the Youth Choir through one of these programs.


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Teeth grinding is the most common problem seen both in children and adults. From a recent report of the American Dental Association, 32% of children and 80% of adults in the United States are suffering from teeth grinding. They recommend to take precaution measure as soon as possible, because the affects of teeth grinding are irreversible. Wearing a night guard is one of the best ways to reduce the damage caused by the tooth grinding.
Night guards are the best way of treatment for teeth grinding, but they are also expensive, costing several hundred dollars. There are certain things under consideration before choosing a night guard.
Guards that are available in stores are free sized ones which fit mostly for any one. Be careful while buying, as there will be no trial before buying these products. For optimum protection, buy the boil and bite night teeth guards.
There are cheap and expensive teeth guards available in market. Choose to buy mouth guards made of soft but strong plastic, over rubber guards.
These are the most expensive teeth guards, as they are designed by a dentists to meet your particular requirements. But they are the best.
There are two type of guards when it comes to the way of construction, double wall or single wall. Double wall teeth guards give more protection compared to the single walled ones, and they are more costly than the single wall guards. Single wall teeth guards are preferred for short term use.
Just wearing a night guard does not stop you from night grinding, it just prevents the effects caused on the teeth. To get good results from a night guard for teeth grinding the following certain precautions is necessary.
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Q: Regarding the impact of length increase of power cord on the EMC-EMI performance of electronics device Is there any impact of the length increase of the power cord on the EMC-EMI performance of the electronic devices? If yes then how it affects the performance? Are there any standards for the length of Power Cords?
Thanks in advance.

A: Sure.  In the EMC testing lab, the cable is terminated into a LISN (Line Impedance Stabilization Network).  Wavelengths on par with the length of the cable, may be radiated.  (Lower frequencies being radiated less, as the cable and other material makes an electrically short mono/di-pole.)   A shorter cable may radiate less, or starting from higher frequencies.
This may not be a very significant effect anyway, as longer cables are generally folded up such that the cable does not lie on the ground.  The folding will introduce inductance and have an impact on radiated frequencies, but not in any obvious way (notching some frequencies but promoting others).
In any case, the fact that it depends, is a good reason to keep the configuration consistent and well documented.  (Take lots of photos in the lab, and if possible, fix items to a board to maintain orientation between test outings.)
Whether this matters in the real world -- who knows.  Mains wiring is largely an extension of the power cord itself, ground isn't a ground plane; the power network can be arbitrary (long, branching, routing parallel to other circuits, etc.); etc.  The standards presumably are constructed such that, given natural variation, actual emissions (including radiation below 30MHz) are only rarely problematic.
As for standards, basically: distribute the product with the cord, or power adapter, etc. it was tested with (and recommend such in the product manual).


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Q: Meteor Collectionfs, how to save all images I want to save all my images in a imageStore, saving, uploading and so on works fine, just this "little" problem. With this code, i go through all images and want to save them.
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The Problem, I'm getting all images as an image, not as a file but the insertion method need files. So how can i convert my image to a file ?


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Sep 22, 2017 - 08:33 am
Infiniti, Mahindra, Volvo, Toyota, Tacita, Tesla.
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Dedicated EV by Infiniti: Nissan got electrification in its veins and it will pump up its premium arm by 2019 when Infiniti plans to launch its first electric model. Rather than building on an existing one or even on a Nissan platform though, it shall be an all new model and a sleek and powerful one on top. Debut is set for Detroit next year. Infiniti showed an electric concept back in 2012 and also electrified Pebble Beach this year (we reported).
autocar.co.uk
EV brand by Mahindra and Pininfarina? The Indian conglomerate may engage its Pininfarina subsidiary in setting up an all-electric label to target the premium segment. Multiple models could emerge over the next 3 – 5 years, effectively turning the design house that used to sign responsible for Ferrari into an EV manufacturer to catch up with Tesla.
Volvo presents XC40: The new compact SUV has made it into the Swedes' line-up and is the first to utilise the CMA platform, which builds the base for all following 40 series Volvo. This includes the plug-in versions although these are not offered at this initial launch of the XC40. Volvo has not given a precise on-sale date for the EV and PHEV in Europe but it is certain, they will come. Fancy stuff like a smartphone compartment with inductive charging is included in all variants.
carscoops.com, autonews.com, volvocars.com
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www.ecomobiel.nl
Toyota pushes for performance and has created a new label called GR for Gazoo Racing. The first GR versions will hit Japan before they reach European markets at a later date. As Toyota announced recently, its wants to offer its hybrod bestsellers in two variants, one efficient the other powerful, so expect to see a Prius GR soon.
autoexpress.co.uk, japantimes.co.jp
Electric motorbike from Italy: Tacita has brought its T-Cruise to the AIMExpo in the States. The electric motorcycle is offered in three battery variants (7.5 – 27 kWh) with the highest lasting for a cruise of up 270 km. Prices start at 11,000 dollars in the USA.
tacita.it
Tesla understatement: The EPA has rated the long range version of the Model 3 and attests 537 km, more than the manufacturer's estimate of 500 km. Tesla may have understated the range on purpose in order to distinguish the economy model more clearly from the Model S.
teslarati.com
EV Sales in China.
Andy Goss, Andy Palmer.
https://www.electrive.com/2017/09/22/infiniti-mahindra-volvo-toyota-tacita-tesla/


On the fifth anniversary of Amy Winehouse's death, the Amy Winehouse Foundation is set to open a home for women recovering from alcohol and drug addiction in her hometown of London. Named after the singer, the new Amy's Place home will help recovering addicts adjust back to everyday life and reintegrate into society.
"There are about six women-only rehabs, and beyond that, there's an even greater paucity of women-specific recovery housing beds," the Amy Winehouse Foundation's special project director Dominic Ruffy told The Guardian. "There is only one other women-only recovery house in London and it's only a four-bed with a six-month waiting list."
The foundation consulted with women at one of the few women-only rehab centers in London to determine the ideal recovery set up and will offer a three-month program that includes yoga, relapse prevention groups, and workshops meant to teach skills and help find jobs for the women.
Amy Winehouse's life was plagued by struggles with addiction and an intense media scrutiny as she rose to stardom before she tragically passed away five years ago at the young age of 27 from alcohol poisoning. Since her death, Winehouse's legacy has been celebrated by family and friends as well as fellow artists and filmmakers. An Amy Winehouse exhibition opened at The Jewish Museum in London two years after she passed away and a bronze sculpture of the singer was built in her honor. More recently, Asif Kapadia's documentary Amy offered a look at the late icon's life through previously unseen home footage and went on to become the highest grossing British documentary ever, but her family went on record and criticized the film as being "misleading."
You can learn more about The Amy Foundation and the new Amy's Place home here.


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IPL 2019: 5 players who might be playing their last season
These cricketers have reached the twilight of their careers and expecting for them to continue for one more season will only be over exaggeration.
by Suryesh Jr. Staff Writer
Published - Nov 28, 2018 10:39 am | Updated - Nov 28, 2018 10:39 am
Chennai Super Kings' Shane Watson (Photo by IANS)
The twelfth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) promises to bring a lot of excitement to the table. It surely will treat and delight the fans with some great shows and thorough entertainment. All the teams will be eager to take the title home and might have already begun strategizing their plans.
However, this season could also leave the fans with scenes they would never want to witness. It might hurt them more than any other IPL season ever did as some of their favourite cricketers from around the globe might not play next year. These cricketers have reached the twilight of their careers and expecting for them to continue for one more season after this will only be over exaggeration.
Here are five such cricketers who could be playing their last IPL:
5. Harbhajan Singh
Harbhajan Singh. (Photo Source: Facebook)
It sprung up quite a surprise when the Chennai Super Kings decided to retain Harbhajan Singh for the upcoming season. The Turbunator doesn't spin batsmen around his web as much as he used to do earlier. He has lost the kind of skill he used to possess with the ball a few years ago.
Hence, this forced Mumbai Indians to end their 10-year association with him. Since 2016, Bhajji has picked only 24 wickets in 38 matches which is disappointing. He conceded runs at an economy rate of close to 8 in these three seasons. He bowled the least number of overs in his entire IPL career while playing in 2018 (min. 10 matches). With Mitchell Santner available this season, Harbhajan might have his opportunities limited in what could be turn about to be his last season.
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RCB shocked with Gary Kirsten applying for India Women's head coach position
by Suryesh
Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh to miss out on the Ranji opener against Himachal
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The recent, endless, brave strikes by Iranian workers prompted the regime to send the henchman Sadegh Larijani, the head of the regime's judiciary, to the scene on November 26, to intimidate the participants.
According to a report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the clerical regime, which has become furious and aggravated by recent work stoppages and demonstrations of workers of the Haft Tappeh sugar cane mill, on Thursday, November 29 arrested Mr. Ali Nejati, former president of the Haft Tappeh sugar cane workers union, along with his son, and transferred them to an unknown location. The repressive forces arrested and beat him while he was suffering from heart disease and was badly ill.
Despite these arrests and the presence of suppressive forces in the city of Shush, the workers of the Haft Tappeh sugar cane mill continued their protest for the 25th day. They chanted in the gathering in front of the regime's governorate – Imprisoned worker must be freed! The governor, a regime MP, and the head of the Revolutionary Guards went to the area to force the workers to end the strike by giving deceptive promises. However, they were faced with a negative response from the workers. Workers interrupted the speech of the member of the regime's parliament by chanting slogans.
Meanwhile, students of Tehran's Art University also rallied on Wednesday, expressing their solidarity with the protesting workers of Haft Tapeh in Shush and steelworkers in Ahvaz, both in the southwest Iranian province of Khuzestan.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Labor Organization, trade unions and labor unions all over the world to take urgent action to free Ali Nejati and other detained workers and to support the striking workers.
"People's living conditions, except a certain few, are bad and even very poor. High prices are robbing people from anything to eat… The officials need only visit the alleys, streets, markets, supermarkets and small stores to listen to people's protests and hopeless nature in regards to their living conditions, and their concerns about the future that lies ahead. It has nothing to do with being a dissident or not," the report reads.


Why isn't the RPI and SOS updated until after game #7?
How are the Top 25 rankings determined?
SOS stands for strength of schedule. It's calculated as 67% opponents' winning percentage (OWP) and 33% opponents' opponents' winning percentage (OOWP) - the same ratio as in the RPI formula.


Melbourne councilman wants to name city street for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Melbourne City Hall discussions date to at least 1987, when Rev. Carol Williams called to rename University Boulevard for the civil rights leader.
Melbourne City Councilman Tim Thomas wants to select a street to name in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., then conduct a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the slain civil rights leader's namesake holiday in January.
Thomas' request resurrects one of Melbourne's longest-running political debates — which dates back more than 30 years.
In 2006, amid polarizing debate, petition drives and demonstrations outside City Hall, City Council rejected proposals to rename Airport Boulevard and the Melbourne Auditorium for King.
During those discussions, a senior research associate at The King Center in Atlanta told FLORIDA TODAY that Melbourne's road-naming debate was "probably the longest I've heard of." That was 13 years ago.
"This council cannot leave this dais in years to come without having taken action on this," Thomas said during the March 12 City Council meeting.
"It's sad. I mean, I've lived in a lot of different cities across our country. And every one of them have had a Martin Luther King road, boulevard, highway or something," Thomas said.
"We have nothing. And we've got to fix that. We've got to fix it," he said.
City Hall staffers will research the topic, then report back to the council.
Melbourne City Hall discussions date to at least July 14, 1987, when the late Rev. Carol Williams called to rename University Boulevard for the slain civil rights leader.
Council members have voted down University Boulevard (1987 and 1991), Lipscomb Street (1994), Apollo Boulevard (2005), Airport Boulevard (twice in 2006) and the Melbourne Auditorium (2006).
Historically, Melbourne residents who opposed naming a street for King have cited fiscal costs associated with address changes: brochures, letterheads, licenses, labels and the like.
"I remember that it was very heated, if you will, during times during those discussions with some of the community leaders and some council at that time," Councilwoman Yvonne Minus said.
During last week's discussion, Thomas said he will raise the topic during every future City Council meeting.
"There's a saying that goes, 'I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and succeed.' Guys, we have an opportunity to do something great — that no other council has done in the history of our city. Let's do it," Thomas said.
Three weeks ago, City Council unanimously voted to rename Mill Street in honor of Rev. Nathaniel L. Harris. He was ordained in 1987 as the youth minister of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, and he became interim pastor in 1990. He has served as the church's permanent pastor since 1992.
Mill Street extends for roughly two blocks just south of the church, between Lipscomb and Main streets. Church members applied to name the road in Harris' honor, and 73 percent of abutting property owners signed a petition approving the switch.
City officials estimated new road signs would cost $210, and the road-naming application fee was $200.
The King Center for the Performing Arts was dedicated for Maxwell C. King — the former Brevard Community College president — in 1990. The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library, which opened in 1999 on University Boulevard, is part of Brevard County's library system.