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Les piliers d'Ashoka sont une série de colonnes dispersées dans toute la partie nord du sous-continent indien, érigées ou du moins gravées par édit du roi maurya Ashoka pendant son règne au  Originellement, il devait y avoir de très nombreux piliers, mais seulement dix-neuf comportant des inscriptions gravées subsistent encore, dont six surmontés d'un chapiteau décoré d'animaux. D'une hauteur moyenne de douze à quinze mètres et pesant jusqu'à cinquante tonnes, ces piliers ont été traînés, parfois sur des centaines de kilomètres, jusqu'à l'endroit où ils ont été érigés.

Un des plus connus est celui de Sarnath, qui marque l'endroit où Gautama Bouddha aurait enseigné pour la première fois son dharma et marque donc le début du Sangha bouddhiste. Le chapiteau de ce pilier est devenu l'emblème national de l'Inde.

Principaux piliers subsistants
 Sarnath, près de Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, quatre lions, inscriptions (Chapiteau aux lions d'Ashoka)
 Sanchi, près de Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, quatre lions
 Rampurva, Champaran, Bihar, deux colonnes, l'une surmontée d'un taureau, l'autre d'un lion
 Vaishali, Bihar, un lion, sans inscriptions
 Sankissa, Uttar Pradesh, seulement le chapiteau (un éléphant)
 Lauriya-Nandangarh, Champaran, Bihar, un lion
 Lauriya-Araraj, Champaran, Bihar
 Delhi-Meerut, Delhi ridge, Delhi (déplacé de Meerut à Delhi par Firuz Shah Tughluq en 1356
 Delhi-Topra, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi (déplacé de Topra à Delhi par Firuz Shah Tughluq
 Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh (originellement situé à Kausambi et probablement transféré à Allahabad par Jahangir)
 Kausambi, pilier toujours en place à Kausambi, mais sans inscription.
 Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh (fragment)
au Népal :
 Lumbini
 Nigali Sagar
 Gotihawa

Chapiteaux subsistants
Sept chapiteaux subsistent, consistant en cinq chapiteaux à l'effigie de lions, le chapiteau le plus à l'ouest à l'effigie d'un éléphant, et un chapiteau à l'effigie d'un taureau dans le nord du territoire. Ces chapiteaux sont composés d'une base lotiforme, probablement d'inspiration perse, d'un tore torsadé ou non, d'un abaque représentant soit un bandeau floral intégrant des palmettes (taureau de Rampurva, éléphant de Sankissa), soit des oies sauvages hamsa (lions de Rampurva, Lauria-Nandangarh), soit des animaux et des Roues de la Loi (Sarnath). Enfin ils sont surmontés d'animaux (lions, taureau, éléphant) sculptés de façon réaliste.

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Lion de Masarh
 Édits d'Ashoka
 Pilier de fer de Delhi
 Palmette à flammes
 Sphinx de Naxos (Grèce)

Liens externes

Architecture bouddhique
Texte bouddhique
Site archéologique en Inde
IIIe siècle av. J.-C.
Symbole de l'Inde
Empire maurya
Ashoka
Colonne commémorative en Inde
Histoire du bouddhisme
Histoire de l'Inde antique
Monument en Inde
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Q: Definition of term-wise split exact sequences of complexes In Stacks, Section 13.9, one can find the definition of term-wise split exact sequences of complexes: we say that the exact sequence of complexes
$ 0 \rightarrow A^\bullet \rightarrow B^\bullet \rightarrow C^\bullet \rightarrow 0 $ is term-wise split if $ B^\bullet = A^\bullet \oplus C^\bullet $ in a way that is compatible with the morphisms $ A^\bullet \rightarrow B^\bullet $ and $ B^\bullet \rightarrow C^\bullet $.
I understood it as saying that the complex $ 0 \rightarrow A^\bullet \rightarrow B^\bullet \rightarrow C^\bullet \rightarrow 0 $  is isomorphic (in $ \mathrm{Kom}(A) $) to $ 0 \rightarrow A^\bullet \rightarrow A^\bullet \oplus C^\bullet \rightarrow C^\bullet \rightarrow 0 $. However, it seems to me that this wouldn't be the case, since afterwards the connection morphism $ C^\bullet \overset\delta\rightarrow A[1]^\bullet $ is defined as the composite $$ C^\bullet \rightarrow A^\bullet \oplus C^\bullet \overset{d}\rightarrow A[1]^\bullet \oplus C[1]^\bullet \rightarrow A[1]^\bullet $$
But wouldn't that composite vanish given that $ d $ is just $ d_A \oplus d_B $?
What is actually meant by compatibility with those morphisms?

A: The definition of termwise split is merely that for each $n$, the short exact sequence $0\to A^n\to B^n\to C^n\to 0$ splits.  This gives an isomorphism $B^n\cong A^n\oplus C^n$, but crucially, this splitting is not assumed to be compatible with the differentials in the chain complex.  So, for instance, for each $n$ we have a map $C^n\to B^n$ which splits the surjection $B^n\to C^n$, but these maps $C^n\to B^n$ may not form a morphism of chain complexes $C^\bullet\to B^\bullet$.  As a result, $B^\bullet$ is not necessarily isomorphic to $A^\bullet\oplus C^\bullet$ as a chain complex; we only have objectwise isomorphisms $B^n\to A^n\oplus C^n$ which may not commute with the differentials.

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How Theater Programs Are Adjusting to Online Learning
"Being in theater has helped me calm down and just keep going."
By Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel
Photo: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images
As schools reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students are facing challenges they've never imagined. Teen Vogue's Fear and Learning in America series is exploring what back to school means for students this year, and what they think about learning during the coronavirus crisis.
Hannah Baity, 18, and her ensemble were nearly performance ready for their next play in a year-long theater program when things took a turn at the end of March.
"[It] was really nice [when the director] called to say we were moving to virtual rehearsals and a virtual show," recalls the youth ensemble member with Free Street Theater (FST) in Chicago. During this time, Hannah, like artists nationwide, were met with emails announcing cancelations or digital transition plans. To get the opposite reaction from her program director was a relief, but also a challenge. "We had actually devised the whole play when COVID-19 happened with [the following city] shelter-in-place [order]. We had to rewrite it for the digital space and I almost quit," Hannah tells Teen Vogue.
Across the country, when high school drama programs were posed with the question of whether to go online or not, school districts and artistic directors have had to make the final call.
In Chicago's Cook County where over 128,000 coronavirus cases have been reported by The New York Times to date, Free Street Theater is transitioning from in-person to online theater. With limited theater arts resources offered throughout the Chicago Public School system, storefront theaters have provided a solid home to young creators. But with the global pandemic not allowing for gatherings, their program has had to adjust by leaning on interviews, research, and lived experiences to produce work.
"WASTED" was written by Hannah and her ensemble with an opportunity to keep some routine in their weekly schedules. The play is the second in a series covering environmental justice issues. The youth ensemble mixed digital platforms and filmmaking techniques to create a show that incorporated TikTok, puppets, and drag — with the help of film kits delivered by the director, Katrina Dion, who also serves as FST's Director of Education.
But the downside is that digital theater presents new barriers to what could previously be a spontaneous outdoor experience. According to Dion though, "[they] are reminded that theater can happen in our homes with the materials we have in front of us."
In Indiana, with uncertainty weighing heavily on teachers and students alike, theater's tangibles are prioritized. "We are really focused on keeping our students making," says Ro Ogrentz, Head of the Theater Program for Hammond Academy of the Performing Arts (HAPA) in Hammond, Indiana. This is the first year Ogrentz's program is offering classes not only online but district-wide, serving about seventeen arts schools.
"[To go online] is a very responsible choice," says Andrew Roggenkamp, 17, a senior acting major. For HAPA, online learning looks like a block schedule of 80-minute classes. "They made the classes long enough so we don't have to get homework." HAPA's "no homework policy" builds time into class for students to do work while teachers are present, both for added clarity and moral.
Students here are aware of the national legacy regarding cuts to arts funding. Jasmine Poindexter, 16, a junior dance major tells Teen Vogue, "I know sometimes theater arts get looked down upon or they get completely ignored." But she advocates for its necessity, especially after losing both her mother and grandpa between May and April to COVID-19. "Acting lets me release feelings and being online has helped me with my patience. […] Being in theater has helped me calm down and just keep going."
Ogrentz recognizes that many of her students are in similar situations, trying to juggle grief and jobs, as well as being a student: "We need to be focusing on how to help our students in life right now. […] When I think about what's going on in my life, I'm just like, wow — I have thirty-five kids in a theater arts foundation class that all have this much stuff going on. So, how can I incite passion and give them the space they need in order to just be people?"
In a sense, the theater may be one of the better-equipped learning spaces to adapt to the online in such a time of deep sadness, loss, and complexity.
Katie Dawson is the Director of Drama for Schools based in Austin. Dawson's organization has had a digital arm since its inception, putting them on the map locally and internationally. But with COVID-19, they fully transitioned to the digital with a program that creates, as she states, "partnerships with schools and school districts interested in improving the learning culture of the classroom." This means equipping teachers with drama-based strategies that can be integrated into their own teaching styles. Core principles of theater provide an engaging framework that fosters feelings of connectivity even amidst digital learning.
"As a practice, we are a collective art form. We get to richer, more complex understanding because of the contributions from all those different people and places and spaces," Dawson tells Teen Vogue. Theater centers the ensemble, a community of learners and practitioners. Now that the space for this collective is no longer physically shared, the question becomes how to incorporate shared body and movement work. "Our bodies hold histories and experiences — it is not separate from what we are doing and feeling at any given time. Finding ways to use our body in our teaching and learning online is something that drama/theatre can offer," advocates Dawson.
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Q: returning the text between a : and a? I am trying to come up with a regex that would return a string between an uppercase letter or a number followed by a : and ended by a ?. So a statement like
"2: who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?" would find a match, where a statement like " Douglas Adams" would not be.  Right now I have a series of indexOf's and substrings and I am wondering if a regex would be a more elegant solution.

A: If you know that those characters are the delimiters then your method of doing this is most likely fine. However, an easy to understand regular expression would be the following:
[A-Z0-9]:(.*?)\?

Example usage:
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I am wondering if a regex would be a more elegant solution.

This would surely be simpler. Do you mean 'number' or 'digit'? I don't know c#, but the regular expression would be something like:
"[0-9A-Z]:([^\?]+)\?$"

your can test the expression here: https://regex101.com/


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Callopizoma is a genus of moths in the family Lasiocampidae. The genus was erected by Yves de Lajonquière in 1972. It is known to be found in Madagascar.

Species
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Apoptotic
cell‐associated ICAM‐3 in the phagocytic removal of apoptotic cells
E.E. Torr, Leanne Thomas, D.H. Gardner, Andrew Devitt
Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing
Apoptosis is a highly controlled cell death programme that culminates in the exposure of molecular 'flags' at the dying cell surface that permit recognition and removal by viable phagocytes. Failure to efficiently remove dying cells can lead to devastating inflammatory and autoimmune disorders.
The molecular mechanisms underlying apoptotic cell surface changes are poorly understood. Our previous work has shown an apoptosis-associated functional change in ICAM-3 (a heavily glycosylated, leukocyte-restricted Immunoglobulin Super-Family member) resulting in a molecular 'flag' to mediate corpse removal.
Here we detail apoptosis-associated changes in ICAM-3 and define their role in ICAM-3's novel function in apoptotic cell clearance. We show ICAM-3 functions to tether apoptotic leukocytes to macrophages via an undefined receptor. Though CD14 has been suggested as a possible receptor for apoptotic cell-associated ICAM-3, we demonstrate ICAM-3 functions for apoptotic cell clearance in the absence of CD14. Furthermore, we demonstrate leukocytes display early changes in cell surface glycosylation and a marked reduction in ICAM-3, a change that correlates reduced cell volume throughout apoptosis. This loss of ICAM-3 occurs via shedding of ICAM-3 in microparticles ('apoptotic bodies'). Such microparticles are potent chemoattractants for macrophages. Notably, microparticles from ICAM-3-deficient leukocytes are significantly less chemoattractive than microparticles from their ICAM-3-replete counterparts.
These data support the hypothesis that ICAM-3 acts as an apoptotic cell-associated ligand to tether dying cells to phagocytes in a CD14-independent manner. Furthermore our data suggest that released ICAM-3 may promote the recruitment of phagocytes to sites of apoptosis.
2010 British Society for Immunology Annual Congress - Liverpool, United Kingdom
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) nominated eight outstanding studies by NIOSH researchers for a prestigious scientific award for 2009. NIOSH also submitted one nomination for the award's lifetime scientific achievement category.
The 2009 Charles C. Shepard Science Award is sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), of which NIOSH is a part. The award honors excellence in science at CDC during the year 2008; the winners will be announced in June 2009.
"NIOSH's research is respected for its breadth and depth, its commitment to scientific excellence, and its vital contributions in helping to make workplaces safer and healthier," said NIOSH Acting Director Christine M. Branche, Ph.D. "These qualities are exemplified in the NIOSH studies nominated this year for the respected Shepard Award."
The studies that NIOSH nominated were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The eight papers were nominated in the categories of Laboratory and Methods; Assessment and Epidemiology; and Prevention and Control.
NIOSH nominated five studies under the Laboratory and Methods categories:
Shvedova AA, Kisin E, Murray AR, Johnson V, Gorelik O, Arepalli S, Hubbs AF, Mercer R, Keohavong P, Sussman N, Jin J, Stone S, Chen BT, Deye G, Maynard A, Castranova V, Baron PA, Kagan VE [2008]. Inhalation vs. aspiration of single-walled carbon nanotubes in C57BL/6 mice: inflammation, fibrosis, oxidative stress, and mutagenesis. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 295:L522-L565.
Erdely AD, Hulderman T, Salmen R, Liston A, Erdely PD, Schwegler-Berry DE, Castranova V, Koyama S, Kim Y, Endo M, Simeonova PP [2008]. Cross-Talk between Lung and Systemic Circulation during Carbon Nanotube Respiratory Exposure – Potential Biomarkers. Nano Letters.
Frasch H, Barbero A [2008]. The transient dermal exposure: theory and experimental examples using skin and silicone membranes. J Pharm Sci 97(4):1578-1592.
James A. Snyder, Eugene Demchuk, Erin C. McCanlies, Christine R. Schuler, Kathleen Kreiss, Michael E. Andrew, Bonnie L. Frye, James S. Ensey, Marcia L. Stanton and Ainsley Weston, Impact Of Negatively Charged Patches On The Surface Of MHC Class II Antigen- Presenting Proteins On Risk Of Chronic Beryllium Disease. J. R. Soc. Interface 5, 749-758 (2008).
Rengasamy, S et al. [2008]. Filtration performance of NIOSH-Approved N95 and P100 Filtering Facepiece Respirators against 4 to 30 nanometer size nanoparticles. JOEH, Sept 2008; 5(9): 556-564
Under the category of Assessment and Epidemiology, NIOSH nominated two articles:
Stayner LT, Kuempel E, Gilbert S, Hein M, Dement J. An epidemiologic study of the role of chrysotile asbestos fiber dimensions in determining respiratory disease risk in exposed workers. Occup Environ Med 65(9):613-619, Sept. 2008.
Bell, Jennifer L., Collins, James W., Wolf, Laurie, Grnqvist, Raoul, Chiou, Sharon, Chang, Wen-Ruey, Sorock, Gary S., Courtney, Theodore K., Lombardi, David A. and Evanoff, Bradley(2008). Evaluation of a comprehensive slip, trip and fall prevention programme for hospital employees. Ergonomics,51:12,1906-1925.
NIOSH nominated one study in the Prevention and Control category:
Schrader SM, Breitenstein MJ, and Lowe BD. Cutting off the nose to save the penis. J Sex Med 2008;5:1932-1940
NIOSH also nominated Dr. Richard W. Niemeier for the lifetime scientific achievement award to recognize his distinguished service to NIOSH over four decades. Dr. Niemeier is one of the world's leading experts on the toxic effects of chemicals. He has made important contributions to public health through both his laboratory-based research on chemical carcinogens and his guidance for preventing chemical exposures in the workplace and for emergency personnel responding to chemical incidents or terrorist events. Nomination for this prestigious award recognizes not only his outstanding contribution to occupational safety and health, but also his dedication and commitment to the NIOSH mission.
The NIOSH nominations will appear on the NIOSH web page at www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/Shepard/ . For further information about NIOSH research and recommendations for preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths, visit the NIOSH Web site at www.cdc.gov/niosh/ .
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2018 was the ninth year of big butterfly count and by far the most successful so far. It smashed all previous records for the number of people taking part both in the UK as a whole and in each of the participating countries. The number of people taking part in England was up 65% on big butterfly count 2017 with even greater increases elsewhere: Northern Ireland up 79%, Scotland up 131%, Wales up 85%, the Isle of Man up 293% and the Channel Islands up 123%. The number of counts undertaken in each country showed similar increases on the previous year.
The number of butterflies was also up in most countries. The exception was in England, where the average number of individuals of the target species seen per count was 11, unchanged from 2017, which was the lowest average abundance since big butterfly count started in 2010. In contrast, the average number of individuals was up 19% in Wales (to 12 per count), up 25% in Northern Ireland (also 12 per count) and up an amazing 70% in Scotland (10 individuals per count).
As usual, the England results closely resemble those for big butterfly count as a whole, because the majority of counts (87% in 2018) are undertaken in England. Small White came top in England, for the first time since 2013, with Large White (the winner in 2016) the second most abundant species. Both more than doubled in numbers compared to the same period in 2017. These two species made up just under half of all of the butterflies and moths counted in England for big butterfly count 2018. The Green-veined White also fared well, with numbers up 83% in England. The Gatekeeper, 2017's winner, decreased by 55% and came in third.
The two common blue butterflies did very well in the summer of 2018. Common Blue was up 50% and Holly Blue 127% year on year. The increases of these two species, along with the whites, probably stem from the beneficial effects of the warm spring and early summer on the breeding of the first generation, leading to an abundant second brood, which emerged in time for big butterfly count. The immigrant Silver Y moth was another winner, with three times as many reported as in the same period in 2017. The two other migratory target species, Red Admiral and Painted Lady both declined (by 70% and 13% respectively).
All of the colourful Nymphalid butterflies suffered declines in England. In addition to the Red Admiral and Painted Lady, numbers of Small Tortoiseshell decreased by 40%, Comma by 39% and Peacock by 14%. There was also a consistent pattern of decline across the single-brooded grassland species (Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Ringlet, Marbled White and Six-spot Burnet), although this is due, at least in part, to the early emergence of these species in the hot summer of 2018, resulting in their numbers already being past peak abundance before big butterfly count 2018 started.
The whites dominated in Northern Ireland, with Green-veined White increasing by 64% to take the top spot. Small White and Large White numbers were similar to summer 2017, but were knocked off the top of the chart by the surge in Green-veined Whites and, more surprisingly, in Peacocks. This beautiful butterfly enjoyed its best summer in Northern Ireland since the big butterfly count began, and was the second most abundant species here in big butterfly count 2018. Eight times as many Peacocks were seen per count in 2018 compared to 2017, which in turn was a major improvement on the very low numbers recorded in the 2015 and 2016 events.
Other big increases were shown by the Small Copper (291% up on 2017), Silver Y (265% up), Six-spot Burnet (88% up) and Common Blue (50% up). In contrast to the situation in England, Small Tortoiseshell numbers remained stable year on year, although Red Admiral showed a substantial decline (44% down) after an excellent summer in 2017.
Overall, the record number of people taking part in Northern Ireland in summer 2018 spotted more of the target species than in recent years. On average, 12 individual butterflies and moths were seen per 15-minute count, compared to 10 in 2017, 11 in 2016 and just 8 in 2015.
The Peacock was the big news story in Scotland during big butterfly count 2018. Almost 20 times as many were recorded during the three week survey in summer 2018 compared with the previous year. This pushed the Peacock up to second place overall in Scotland, and was a far cry from the lacklustre numbers recorded in England and Wales. Apart from the Peacock, it was the white butterflies that dominated, taking the other three places in the top four, and all increasing substantially year on year.
Several species bucked the UK trend in Scotland. Red Admiral and Comma, which had declined sharply in all of the other UK countries, both increased, by 35% and 54% respectively. Several big butterfly count 2018 participants in Scotland reported their first ever Comma sightings, as the species continued to extend its range in the country. Small Tortoiseshell numbers were also up in Scotland (by 21% compared with the 2017 count), while sightings were static or declining elsewhere.
Recorders in Scotland also experienced the largest increase in overall numbers of the target species, from just 6 individual insects per count in 2017 to 10 in 2018, an increase of 70%. No doubt inspired by the warm, dry weather, twice as many people took part in the count in Scotland in 2018 than in the preceding year.
The top of the big butterfly count 2018 chart for Wales was very similar to that in England, with Small White the most abundant species, followed by Large White, both species showing big increases on the same period in 2017, and the Gatekeeper taking third place. Gatekeeper numbers were unchanged in Wales compared with the 2017 count, contrasting with a large decrease in England.
The Common Blue, in fourth place, showed the greatest year on year increase of any big butterfly count species in Wales in 2018. Four times as many Common Blues were recorded than in 2017 and the species had its best showing in Wales of any big butterfly count. The average number seen per count in Wales in 2018 was higher than in any of the other UK countries. The Holly Blue also did well with its numbers up 162% on the summer of 2017, as did Brimstone (80% up) and the Silver Y moth (262% up).
The greatest annual declines in Wales were suffered by the Six-spot Burnet (62% down on 2017), Red Admiral (58% down), Ringlet (51% down) and Comma (32% down). While some of these may be genuine population declines, others may have been unduly influenced by the early emergence of species, meaning that their numbers were already on the wane by the start of big butterfly count. Further analysis will be required to separate out this potential effect, revealing the real underlying change in the fortunes of the species concerned.


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01:54 PM -- SB16-079
The committee took a brief recess.
The committee came back to order. Senator Todd, sponsor, introduced Senate Bill 16-079 which concerns increasing the alignment of postsecondary and workforce readiness initiatives at the secondary education level with postsecondary career and technical education.
The following people testified on the bill:
02:03 PM -- Mark Bell, representing Colorado Association of Career and Technical Educators, spoke in support of the bill. He answered questions from the committee.
02:07 PM -- Cory Notestine, representing the Colorado School Counselor Association, spoke in support of the bill. Mr. Notestine answered questions from the committee.
02:15 PM -- Michael Gifford, representing the Associated General Contractors of Colorado, spoke in support of the bill.
Senator Hill closed public testimony. Senator Todd provided closing comments to the bill. Senator Hill laid the bill over for action only to a later date.
The committee adjourned.


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The Jester Interview: Bob Wiltfong
A veteran of both TV news and the improv comedy world (with former Upright Citizens Brigade house team Neutrino), Bob Wiltfong has made his mark in appearances as a correspondent on The Daily Show and on Chappelle's Show. And right now, he's bringing all of these experiences together as he presents Talk Show With Bob Wiltfong at The People's Improv Theater. Wiltfong has designed this show, running regularly at 8 p.m. Thursdays, to showcase unusual performers and to challenge conventional notions about the Internet as a means to present comedy. In five or ten years, you may very well be reading about him bringing his take on talk shows to network television.
Jester: How did your past experiences in television as a news reporter and anchor inform what you do as a performer now?
Bob Wiltfong: It informs it in that I know exactly what I don't want to do for a living. That's probably the biggest way. I got into TV news because I knew I had an interest in performing in front of a camera or an audience but I also grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and didn't necessarily do acting or comedy, so this was one outlet to do that. People in Omaha, at least in my family, that wasn't something to pursue. It was a hobby. So when I reached college age, I figured broadcast news on TV would satisfy my desire to perform in front of a camera on a regular basis but also satisfy my interest in current events and history, while doing something more legitimate as a career. So I went down that track for a long time, 10 years, but the whole time thinking that I really liked doing comedy and acting.
Long story short, [after jobs in Kansas and Louisiana], I came to New York for a TV news job on Long Island in 1998 and was finally was at a place where I could pursue it at least as a hobby, and started taking improv comedy classes at UCB as something to keep me sane -- a nice diversion, a stress break. From TV news, I got to visit with a variety of people across the spectrum. I interviewed incredibly poor people to incredibly wealthy and powerful people. I'm thankful for that because it gives me incredible grounding in the real world -- a real good cross-section of the real world. That informs what I do. I am much more of a dry, real-based comedian. I don't find myself called to absurd type humor. I hunger for real and human, and explore the funny in that.
J: Talking about real comedy rather than absurd comedy, being from Nebraska, how is it a different view of comedy than New York and L.A. have?
BW: I appreciate after living in New York that the 'flyover' part of the country is the part that embraces Jeff Foxworthy, Larry The Cable Guy -- that brand of humor does very well in most parts of the country where I come from, as opposed to New York or California where they have much more of a niche audience and are less mainstream. In that regard, I have an appreciation or grounding in humor that is much more mainstream and clean. At the same time, I like avant garde, off-the-wall humor. But when you go to Omaha what will sell out the auditorium there is Jeff Foxworthy over Demetri Martin, because they can identify with that and it speaks to them. Demetri is much more of a New York or L.A. guy.
J: So how did you get the idea to do "Talk Show"?
BW: It had been in the back of my head for a long time. I can't point to one Eureka moment where I said that's what I want to do. But all along while I was doing TV news, even in college, getting that degree in TV news, I always admired and looked up to and thought it would be a great job to be like Johnny Carson or David Letterman. I also took a lot of inspiration from those two guys because they started in local TV news. They were Midwest guys who found their voice with a talk show and got a national audience. So I've been inspired by those guys all along. When I was building up experience in TV news, graduating from being a reporter to an anchor hosting and interviewing people on air, I started to develop skills interviewing people, dealing with a teleprompter and someone talking in your ear at times with instructions and making a conversation real and informative while you're doing all that.
I kept track of that and as I built up a resume in comedy too, I'm developing in my mind a pretty unique skill set for someone who would want to be a late-night talk show host. That I would really challenge anyone in this industry to find anyone as uniquely skilled as I am in this world of talk shows because of my TV news experience and my improv comedy experience. With that all going through my head, my acting profession and career pursuit, that's ultimately where I want to position myself -- as a legitimate candidate -- I'm not saying I could ever fill that seat -- but I want to be in the conversation when people talk about who's the next Jon Stewart, or Conan or David Letterman. I want to be one of those guys that's in the conversation.
That became a louder voice as I started doing acting and comedy. Each year I have a pow-wow with my manager and ask what my goals are for the coming year. This drive to become a talk show host became a louder and louder goal. Last year in my year-end meeting with my manager, I said let's start doing this. My hesitation was there's a ton of talk show formats in New York comedy. I don't know if it's a recent thing or I just started to notice it. But there's a lot of people doing the talk show format in these comedy sketch theaters. My hesitation is I want to bring something new to it that's not only challenging and fun for me but also new for an audience coming to see the show. So I had to give some thought to how to position the show and what kind of voice I was trying to come at with through the talk show.
J: The selection of performers is a big part of it.
BW: We're tweaking our definition of what we're trying to accomplish with guests and the voice of the show each week. The latest incarnation of what we're trying to accomplish is -- I don't want to be a star-fucker show, meaning I don't want to book people you see on TV just so you can come see them in person, because that's not the type of show I personally enjoy watching. I want to see someone generally interesting and has something new to say, not just getting up there and plugging their latest project. That's one main focus of our guest bookings.
The other main focus that has come clearly into focus in the last few weeks is that we're trying to book the Internet stars and establish ourselves as a place where you could see 'Lonelygirl' in person, talking about what she's done on the Internet, or 'Ask A Ninja' -- giving them a forum in a talk show format, saying these are the stars of the Internet, that the younger generation can identify with more so than Larry Bud Melman 15 years ago. I want to bring a platform for those kind of guests.
The final thing we're trying to do is be a forum for circus freaks [deadpan]. We want to be a place …
J: [laughs] Really?
BW: We want to be a place … where you see acts of talent and weird people that the next day people say, 'Holy shit, I saw a burlesque troupe do something to the theme from 'Chariots of Fire,' that was cool. I don't see that anywhere.' Those are the three main things we're trying to focus on in booking our guests.
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director Damien Chazelle crushes Hollywood's dream
Margot Robbie (red dress) as Nellie LaRoy in 'Babylon'. Picture Scott Garfield
The first film would be about an oncoming train. It's not true: L'Arrivée d'un train and Gare de La Ciotat (1896) by the Lumière brothers is more of a moving snapshot than what we now understand as film and was not the first of its kind. Yet everyone knows the story of the first film of a thundering train and the audience that appeared in front of it (that story turns out to be wrong, by the way).
The idea of a first film about a train that seemed so real that audiences cowered in fear is perhaps so persistent because cinema is still trying to create that mythic experience. Babylona crazy epic about three people in the film industry in the 1920s and 1930s – when the cinema went from silent films to talkies – is the latest attempt to do so. And in the film by director Damien Chazelle (La La Land, whiplash) Hollywood itself is the thunder train.
At first glance, it seems Babylon perhaps a love letter to old Hollywood, where everything was messy and dirty and exciting. As there was still plenty of improvisation on set. When you could still be discovered as an actor because you danced exuberantly during an orgasmic party where you talked to yourself.
But Babylon seeing it as just a love letter is a somewhat short-sighted interpretation of what Chazelle is trying to do with his wild, three-hour tale. He certainly evokes a sense of nostalgia for the lost glory of classic Hollywood at times. But in the end, it is precisely this nostalgia that Chazelle criticizes here.
Like in La La Land Chazelle first presents the dream of Hollywood, the place where anything is possible, only to have it crushed afterwards. "Where would you like to go if you could go anywhere?" asks aspiring movie star Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie) at the aforementioned party for jack-of-all-trades Manuel Torres (Diego Calva), who is in charge of an important movie producer's lavish parties. "A movie set," he replies.
Clean appearance
When we show up on set the next day, Chazelle introduces it with a long camera shake. We are in the pre-studio era, when movies – dozens at a time – were still shot on an open plain. We see two white men in blackface followed by a stereotypical portrayal of Asian women. At the same time, extras strike for better pay.
A few years later and Hollywood has changed completely: now films are made with black actors, such as jazz trumpeter Sidney Palmer (Jovan Adepo). The lavish, coke-fueled parties have given way to proper gatherings over hors d'oeuvres and conversations about literature and art.
But it's all apparently so late Babylon (something directly lost). Hollywood absorbs its detractors not to learn from their criticism, but to silence the criticism and keep going. Hollywood is like a train. A train must run. It doesn't matter who's in it, it doesn't matter who falls off, it doesn't matter who gets crushed.
Babylon is thus mainly a critique of the film industry. However, this criticism does not always come across well. During the preview of the film last week, the audience had to laugh out loud several times, precisely at the moments when the dark side of filmmaking is shown. It is difficult to determine whether the laughter comes from an extremely demented audience or from the film itself, which tries to depict the margins of the film world and the victims of constant renewal, but cannot reflect on all the suffering in its thunderous pace. he tries to criticize at that speed.
Brad Pitt (left) as Jack Conrad and Diego Calva as Manuel Torres. Picture Scott Garfield
Babylon is messy, excessive, reckless: the film jumps from one scene to the next to show that nothing really matters in Hollywood. In her first ever scene, Nellie cries on command. She cries, the director yells 'Cut!And then she's fine again. "Why are you so good at crying on command?" asks the director. "Oh," replies Nellie calmly, "I'm just thinking about home."
As long as she can cry on command, no one cares about Nellie's home situation. And when the silent film becomes the talkie, Nellie is pushed aside because of her annoying voice. When she eventually dies at a young age, we only see it in a newspaper clipping.
There is no 'first movie'. Instead, cinema is a steady movement forward, an accumulation of firsts and firsts that constantly reinvents the medium. In the daring, experimental ending, Chazelle presents an overview of the film history of the last decades.
Cinema is art, but it doesn't care about the people who made it possible. The apostates, the broken, we don't see when we stare at the screen in the dark. Also not in Babylon.
Direction Damien Chazelle
Of Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Li Jun Li, Jovan Adepo
Can be seen in Arena, Cinecenter, City, De Uitkijk, Eye, FC Hyena, Filmhallen, Kriterion, De Munt, Pathé Noord, Rialto VU, Studio/K, Tuschinski
After success movie as La La Land (2016) and whiplash (2014), the French-American director Damien Chazelle received a mega budget for his latest project: about 78 million dollars. But with a mixed reception and a disappointing opening weekend in the US, where the film grossed just a paltry $3.4 million, the film looks set to end in the red. Babylon is about flops in Hollywood, but seems to have turned out to be a flop in itself. Though it may well be that the film, which was praised for the acting of its star cast, will still win awards in the upcoming awards season.
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Q: Recommendation about mysqldump? I have approx 90 GB sized database, and I need to schedule a mysqldump backup. How long will it take to perform a full hot backup approximately? I'm asking because I've never had to backup a database as big as this one yet.

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LE: giving the tips below I may estimate that your dump could take 20 minutes (and longer). But with these tips and high performance CPUs and lot of memory the time may be smaller.

You didn't provide enough informations regarding the specific of your data. Are there a single database or multiple? Is all data InnoDB or there are MyISAM tables around?
If you have only InnoDB tables then you may use the "--single-transaction" option of mysqldump utility.
According to manual:

--single-transaction    This option sets the transaction isolation
  mode to REPEATABLE READ and sends a START TRANSACTION SQL statement to
  the server before dumping data. It is useful only with transactional
  tables such as InnoDB, because then it dumps the consistent state of
  the database at the time when START TRANSACTION was issued without
  blocking any applications.
When using this option, you should keep in mind that only InnoDB
  tables are dumped in a consistent state.    For example, any MyISAM or
  MEMORY tables dumped while using this option may still change state.
While a --single-transaction dump is in process, to ensure a valid
  dump file (correct table contents and binary log coordinates), no
  other connection should use the following statements: ALTER TABLE,
  CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, RENAME TABLE, TRUNCATE TABLE. A consistent
  read is not isolated from those statements, so use of them on a table
  to be dumped can cause the SELECT that is performed by mysqldump to
  retrieve the table contents to obtain incorrect contents or fail.
The --single-transaction option and the --lock-tables option are
  mutually exclusive because LOCK TABLES causes any pending transactions
  to be committed implicitly.
This option is not supported for MySQL Cluster tables; the results
  cannot be guaranteed to be consistent due to the fact that the
  NDBCLUSTER storage engine supports only the READ_COMMITTED transaction
  isolation level. You should always use NDB backup and restore instead.
To dump large tables, combine the --single-transaction option with
  the --quick option.

Therefore, for a consistent snapshot, if there are any chance to get "ALTER TABLE, CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, RENAME TABLE, TRUNCATE TABLE" commands on the database, then you should use the "--lock-tables" option. Also, to get a fast restore you could use the "--disable-keys".
However, there are also other techniques to speed up the dumping, such as:
- increase the "key_buffer_size" at the maximum 4GB. The variable is dynamic so you can issue "*SET GLOBAL key_buffer_size=4*1024*1024*1024;*" (or whatever you can) just before the dump and revert the value after the dump.
- increase the "max_heap_table_size". If you have "--order-by-primary" option issued there may be a lot of temporary tables produced. I've found that setting max_heap_table_size larger than the most tables increases the speed.
- redirect the dump directly to an archive utility which support pipeline, such as: gzip, pigz, bzip2, pbzip2, 7zip, rar, etc. This way, you can avoid using the HDD during the dump.
Example of use (ordered by the speed!):
PIGZ: Parallel GZip, grade 6 from 9
PIGZ: 30 sec : 319976345 GZIP - multi-threading: 8 cpu by default
Arch: mysqldump -u root -p --opt DATABASE | pigz -6 -c > dumpname.sql.gz
Unarch: pigz -cdk dumpname.sql.gz | mysql -u root -p DATABASE
PBZIP2: Parallel BZip2. grade 6 from 9(my personal favourite)
PBZIP2: 45-60 sec : 231360931 BZ2 - multi-threading: maxim sau cu -p8
Arh: mysqldump -u root -p --opt DATABASE | pbzip2 -c >dumpname.sql.bz2
Unarch: pbzip2 -cdk dumpname.sql.bz2 | mysql -u root -p DATABASE
7Zip, container ZIP, metoda BZip2, grade 3 from 9
7ZA: 75 sec : 233503528 ZIP - multi-threading: maxim
Arch: mysqldump -u root -p --opt DATABASE | 7za a -tbzip2 -mx=3 -mmt=on -sidumpname.sql dumpname.sql.zip
Unarch: 7za e -tbzip2 -so dumpname.sql.gz | mysql -u root -p DATABASE
7Zip, container ZIP, metoda BZip2, grade 6 from 9
7ZA: 95 sec : 230986947 ZIP - multi-threading: maxim
Arch: mysqldump -u root -p --opt DATABASE | 7za a -tbzip2 -mx=6 -mmt=on -sidumpname.sql dumpname.sql.zip
Unarch: 7za e -tbzip2 -so dumpname.sql.zip | mysql -u root -p DATABASE
GZIP: container GZ, grade 6 from 9
GZIP: 95 sec : 318920792 - multi-threading: none
Arch: mysqldump -u root -p --opt DATABASE | gzip -6 --rsyncable > dumpname.sql.gz
Unarch: gzip -cdk dumpname.sql.gz | mysql -u root -p DATABASE
RAR: container RAR, grade 3 from 5, test -mt16
RAR: 95 sec : 248149972 RAR - multi-threading: auto - maxim 5 cpu
Arch: mysqldump -u root -p --opt DATABASE | rar a -m3 -sidumpname.sql dumpname.sql.rar
Unarch: unrar p -inul dumpname.sql.rar | mysql -u root -p DATABASE
"-si" switch undocumented in manual; may be found in rar.txt (/usr/share/doc/rar/)
RAR: container RAR, grade 4 from 5
RAR: 125 sec : 246759443 RAR - multi-threading: auto - maxim 6 cpu
Arch: mysqldump -u root -p --opt DATABASE | rar a -m4 -sidumpname.sql dumpname.sql.rar
Unarch: unrar p -inul dumpname.sql.rar | mysql -u root -p DATABASE
**** RAR: container RAR, grade 5 from 5 ****
RAR: 140 sec : 246242715 RAR, grade 5 from 5 - multi-threading: auto - maxim 6 cpu
Arch: mysqldump -u root -p --opt DATABASE | rar a -m5 -sidumpname.sql dumpname.sql.rar
Unarch: unrar p -inul dumpname.sql.rar | mysql -u root -p DATABASE
**** 7Zip, container 7Z, method LZMA default, grade 3 from 9 ****
7ZA: 145 sec : 266638306 7ZA - multi-threading: none (b'cose method)
Arch: mysqldump -u root -p --opt DATABASE | 7za a -mmt=on -mx3 -sidumpname.sql dumpname.sql.7z
Unarch: 7za e -so dumpname.sql.7z | mysql -u root -p DATABASE
**** 7Zip, container ZIP, metoda BZip2, grade 9 from 9 ****
7ZA: 330 sec : 228609475 ZIP(bzip2) - multi-threading: maxim - 16 cpu
Arch: mysqldump -u root -p --opt DATABASE | 7za a -tbzip2 -mx=9 -mmt=on -sidumpname.sql dumpname.sql.zip
Unarch: 7za e -tbzip2 -so dumpname.sql.7z | mysql -u root -p DATABASE
The tests are made on a 4+2GB (of data+indexes) database, with a total of 8 CPU cores and 32 GB RAM.
There are other solutions too: nanozip, zpaq, lbzip2, pXZ, pIXZ, plzip, lrzip, which some of them I've tried out (like nanozip and zpaq), but even if the dump is smaller, the time increased significantly.
You have some good clues now, but, as a conclusion, you need to check out some points before establish the right measures you need to take, like if there are moments when nobody is querying the data, the storage type (MyISAM is not transactional, but InnoDB is), amount of RAM (for key_buffer_size and max_heap_table_size), number of CPU's (to take advantage of multi-threaded archiving).

LE2: Consider taking the dump over a replication slave, if available.

A: You have to go with Incremental Backup.
First you must have take full backup of all the database. Then you can set the incremental backup with regular schedule.


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Story of the MCC
Originally the Miami Choral Society, the organization was founded in 1965 and offered both adult and youth choral ensembles. In 1970, the adult chorus became a stand-alone organization – The Civic Chorale – and what remained was transformed into the Miami Children's Chorus under the direction of Timothy A. Sharp, who set the organization on a trajectory of excellence that has gained praise from experts around the world. In its history MCC has performed in over ten countries – the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Wales, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, and most recently Australia.
Throughout its long history, MCC has prepared children to appear and record with artists in a wide variety of musical settings. They have sung with the Cleveland Orchestra, with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, with Queen Latifah at the 44th NFL Super Bowl, with André Rieu and Ethan Bortnick for PBS, Gloria Estefan, Jon Secada, Nestor Torres and Raul Di Blasio. MCC has performed numerous productions with the Florida Grand Opera – La Bohème, Tosca, Carmen, Turandot, Pagliacci; former Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, Master Chorale of South Florida, Miami Bach Society, Festival Miami and the Mainly Mozart Festival.
Through its New Works for Children's Voices new music project the organization has commissioned over fifty works for youth chorus. Twenty of those works are published and performed by groups around the world. Composers who have written for the MCC include David Brunner, Kevin Wayne Bumpers, René Clausen, Oscar Escalada, Sydney Guillaume, Stephen Hatfield, Robert Heath, Derrick James, Lee Kesselman, Greg Knauf, Edwin McLean, Francisco Nuñez, Nick Page, Gregg Smith, David Walker and the award-winning composer Eric Whitacre.
In addition to producing professional youth choral concerts for over five decades, MCC has proven to be a positive musical resource to the community through its many successful community projects. MCC continues to offer its signature sing-along community events that began in 1999 with a project called All Together Now. That project grew into Sing Miami! Which celebrated its 10 year anniversary at the Arsht Center in 2020.
The Miami Children's Chorus is supported, in part, by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; the City of Coral Gables; the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; The Miami Foundation; the Miami Marlins and Citizens Interested in Arts, Inc.


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Group exploring sponsoring Syrian refugee family
-by John Gillis
The Syrian refugee crisis has been called perhaps the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.
Millions of people are fleeing war-torn Syria in hopes of finding refuge in Europe or anywhere that offers them some hope for the future. They have faced arduous journeys in small boats and on foot and risk their lives in that process.
The issue has dominated world news in recent years, divided European leaders and sparked a heated discussion here in Canada on the campaign trail and in the letters pages of The Oran.
Across Canada groups have begun to mobilize to see if there is some way they can help.
Pope Francis has also issued a challenge and called upon each European parish to sponsor a Syrian family.
Joe Morris of Port Hood has been spearheading an effort that began in St. Peter's Parish, Port Hood. While the Port Hood group is inspired to action by the call of Pope Francis they emphasize that this is an interfaith or non-denominational effort open to anyone interested in helping.
"A meeting was held at St. Peter's Parish Hall, Port Hood on Sunday, October 4th to explore the possibility of sponsoring a Syrian refugee family. There it was decided to invite all interested people from Inverness to Creignish to join us in this humanitarian venture. At our next meeting, scheduled for Sunday, October 18th at 2:00 p.m. at the same location (Creignish), we hope to see a committed group from these areas so we can move quickly, form committees and apply to receive a family torn by civil war," Morris told The Oran.
Some of the people who attended the first meeting had experience assisting other refugee families that have been sponsored in Port Hood in past years.
Morris said he is also aware of an effort in a Dartmouth parish to sponsor a Syrian family and he said they have been helpful as well in the local effort.
Morris says the Immigration Services Association of Nova Scotia has been a helpful organization as well.
"The meeting should be a barometer on what support there is out there – whether we can support one family or two," said Morris.
For more information or if you are interested and cannot make this meeting, please contact Joe Morris at 902-787-3284 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..


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83″ tall x 36″ wide 26 depth. There are some discolorations inside, more noticeable on the door by thr egg holder. Please see photos for Part of Description. The item "Refridgerator Freezer SUB-ZERO MODEL 550 STAINLESS STEEL" is in sale since Friday, March 22, 2019. This item is in the category "Home & Garden\Major Appliances\Refrigerators & Freezers\Refrigerators". The seller is "epodstore" and is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. This item can be shipped to United States.


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Q: AWS ECR Lifecycle Policy is not executed but works in test I set images Lifecycle policies to delete untagged images and images with a specific prefix
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      "description": "Delete untagged images",
      "selection": {
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        "countUnit": "days",
        "countNumber": 1
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I clicked "test rules" and dryRun shows all the affected images correctly. But it actually didn't delete any untagged images even after I waited for several days. What could be the reason? Why does it work in "test", but doesn't work for the repository itself?
The untagged images are created by docker buildx for multiple architectures. Like leftovers after the buildx pushes.


The pop princess brings her hot tour to the Alamo City.
Taylor Swift performs during her "Red" tour at the AT&T Center, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.
Fans wait for Taylor Swift during her "Red" tour at the AT&T Center, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.
Fans wait for the start of Taylor Swift "Red" tour performance at the AT&T Center, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.
Fans wait for the start of Taylor Swift's "Red" tour performance at the AT&T Center, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.


The school bell rings at 8.40am. KS1 pupils line up and are taken into class by their teacher, Reception pupils are taken into school by their Parents/Carers. Registers close at 9am and anyone arriving after that time must report to the School Office in order to be marked as attending and to book a lunch. The day ends at 3.15pm when pupils should be collected from class exits on the playground.
The bell rings – Reception pupils taken into class by their Parents/Carers. Older pupils line up on the playground and are taken into the class by the teachers.
At 3.15pm Parents/Carers should wait on the playground near to the class exit. Pupils wait with their teacher until the person collecting each child has been seen.


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← FILM REVIEW: Vincent Perez's 'Alone in Berlin'
FILM REVIEW: Christopher Nolan's 'Dunkirk' →
Do film critics matter any more?
By Ray Bennett
LONDON – When everyone is a critic, who needs critics?
It's a question asked more and more in the movie industry as the ranks of mainstream critics dwindle and the tide of those with something to say online surges ever stronger.
The consensus is that some critics do still matter but their employers, the film industry and the general public hold them in less esteem than they used to. Meanwhile, everyone's on Facebook. And Twitter. And YouTube. And Instagram.
Industry folk on both sides of the question tend to be reluctant to talk about it because of two key words: access and applause. Critics want the access to films that distributors control and distributors want the applause that only critics can bring before release.
Glowing reviews from major newspaper and magazine critics and glittering quotes have traditionally been gold dust to boost exhibition. Screenings for top critics are still held in the week of release but other screenings have a very different makeup. Many of them now include those who are deemed to be "influencers" of fan opinion.
Sean Evans, who runs a marketing and blogging website called Back to the Movies, says, "An influencer is anyone with a microphone and an audience; anyone with a keyboard and some waiting eyes. Anyone with passion and a projection can be 'influential' in some shape or form. Most advanced screenings are open to the public so it's mainly full of eager fans. If it's a press-only advanced screening then it tends to be more bloggers and independent sites than the UK and global media outlets. Just from my experience."
Jason Solomons, who appears in print and broadcast and has his own film website jasonsolomons.com, says, "Increasingly, publicity people seek 'influencers', which means fashion bloggers, food bloggers and those people who put pictures of their avocado breakfasts on Instagram. I've been at screenings where these folks are invited just so they can mention the film in a hashtag."
Anna Smith (twitter), president of the Film Critics' Circle and a busy freelancer across print, online and broadcast, says she has no real problem with that: "Criticism evolves according to the times and the current means of communication. Social media and blogging mean that the landscape has changed. It's up to distributors to decide who they want to invite. At what are called 'multi-media' screens, the press allocation is getting smaller, however. The marketing department invites its target audience and good on them, I guess, as they have to be increasingly inventive."
David Gritten, former critic for the Telegraph who writes now for Saga Magazine, says, "I do think the importance of critics has diminished over the years. It used to be that a bad review might hurt a film but not now. Social media, online, Twitter, Instagram – the mere flood of voices means they are less important. It's not about the quality of a review, it's simply: It's opening near you on Friday."
Henry Fitzherbert, of the Sunday Express, who is now the U.K.'s longest-serving film critic on a national paper, says, "I do feel critics are under siege. Everyone is diversifying as fast as they can. If they're on staff they don't just write reviews, they do interviews, profiles, commentary, tweeting, podcasts. They have to write across the paper."
Zak Brilliant, head of distribution at Icon Films, says the situation has changed over the last decade: "The value of a review depends on the content of the picture. Film critics are key to smaller, festival films. The best critics have loyal readerships and it's important to their readers when they like a film. If it's a tentpole movie – Marvel is a beast that nothing stops – then it could be Jack from Rotherham on Twitter."
Dean of UK film publicists Charles McDonald says, "There's no doubt that the world has changed but it depends on the movie, More films tend to be review-proof when you have a big budget as movie critics don't have the clout to negate them."
Soft television and radio exposure is insignificant, McDonald says, but social media is important: "Awareness is essential. A blockbuster can cope generally with bad mainstream reviews and simply benefit from enormous coverage although publicists must be careful not to over-hype."
YouTube video bloggers – vloggers – play a major role and often they are paid, McDonald says: "Putting trailers online at the right time is essential and the online outlets need content just as much to drive people to their sites."
One distribution publicity chief, who requested anonymity, agreed that marketing now includes payments to bloggers and video-bloggers: "Distributors look at outlets to decide on exclusivity. The marketing department advertises and then the outlet shouts about the movie. YouTube stars are used more and more and they are paid to watch a film. It has to be made clear that it is sponsored. An influencer can be someone who has influence in a smaller world. If it's an historical drama, you go to that world. 'Influencer' is a broad term but it can be a great way to reach young people."
The impact of critics on box office success remains an open question. Heat Magazine film critic Charles Gant notes, "The impact of reviews – positive and negative – can only be guessed at, although box office figures do provide some clues."
He cites the "Wolverine" movies. He points out that the first film in the franchise has the lowest score on aggregator Metacritic but it had a "pretty decent" box office: "Critics gave warmer scores to the second 'Wolverine' but audiences burnt by the 'X-Men Origins' film did not return, and box office slumped in both the U.K. and the U.S. Critics and audiences both gave 'Logan 'the thumbs up and box office bounced back."
Gant says that distributors evidently still believe critics do have an impact: "Why else would they lay on press screenings as early and often as possible for films that are creatively strong, and screen as late as possible with embargo restrictions films likely to suffer at the hands of the critics?"
David Gritten suggests: "A few names are influential: Mark Kermode in the Observer and on BBC, Peter Bradshaw in the Gaurdian, Robbie Collin in The Telegraph and Kate Muir in the Times. I admire them very much. To look beyond them, I'm not sure a critic can influence the fortunes of a film in the U.K."
Jason Solomons admits: "Critics are infinitely egotistical and all get a thrill from seeing their names correctly spelled in big letters on a tube station poster. Particularly they then feel they've 'championed' a film and helped usher it to success."
Sometimes, they serve just to reposition the narrative of a movie, he says: "With something like 'Beauty and the Beast', many critics seemed to buy the whole 'Emma Watson as feminist Belle' shtick which really opened up the movie to its young audience of Hermione fans and pretended that it's a modern take on the old tale. It's not. Likewise the gay character in that film, which is actually hideously retrograde, if you ask me."
Mainstream critics also are susceptible to the seductive offers of the film industry. Solomons says, "Increasingly, studios are pumping critics up with exclusive, quasi-premiere screenings and embargoing up to the last minute so as to ensure some excitement in the reviews, some response to the movie as an event, rather as part of a series of dull drudges on a Monday afternoon. That happened with 'Spectre', 'Rogue One', 'Ab Fab', 'Bridget Jones's Baby' and 'Trainspotting T2'. They all received better reviews than they had any right to get through the creation of that 'event' hype 'Ab Fab' plied everyone with free and decent champagne, which really helped. Gushing reviews helped these sustain their runs at the box office, I think."
If there is a sunset on mainstream criticism, it's not only distributors who are to blame, Gritten says: "It's not a Machiavellian idea by publicists. Critics are less important to newspapers now; they don't add to the money-making side of publishing. Most arts editors on newspapers would be much happier with an interview with a glamorous movie star than a stinky review. You cannot monetise that. The heyday of what we used to call film criticism has gone."
Adds Solomons: "It shows how desperate critics have become that they are dependent on hyping up their reviews to 'get them in the paper', or justify selling the review, the reaction, as some kind of story on the radio, or to click through to their blog. Unless it's a screaming endorsement or a holler of failure, the review has little effect these days, to the point of not actually existing – editors are as bad as readers in this instance."
Henry Fitzherbert (a burgeoning screenwriter: "Slaughterhouse Rulez", "Born a King") is no longer on staff at the Sunday Express but writes a column as a freelancer. He says: "Slashing of support for critics in journalism does impact on the films, too, especially for smaller distributors. There are more releases than ever but I don't review as much as I used to. I'm paid for my column whether I review five films or two, it doesn't make any difference."
Saga's Gritten says: "There's been a shift in people's attitudes: they don't want to be talked down to by experts or specialists but they respond to Facebook and Twitter because they think, this person is more like me. You've got to be very keen on film to see how good the good critics are."
It's not all bad news, even though Film Critics' Circle President Anna Smith says there are fewer full-time jobs for film critics and several have been laid-off at national outlets or taken pay cuts.
Heat's Gant says, "For arthouse, indie and awards season releases, of course critics definitely play an important role. Those audiences do read and do pay attention to reviews. Critical acclaim can be vital in getting awards buzz building on a film. Marketing communications in this sector typically feature critical endorsements quite prominently."
The nameless distribution publicist insists: "I'm glad we have strong critics who write beautifully. They enhance the filmgoing experience. The tide has changed but we use our quotes very carefully."
Anna Smith says that when she speaks at universities, she hears more people than ever say they want to be a movie critic. She says, "I wish them luck."
This story appeared in Cue Entertainment
My photo: Gala screening at the Krakow Film Music Festival
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Harvey Neal Sheffield age 81 of Thomasville, AL died August 26, 2018 at Covenant Hospice in Mobile, AL. He was born July 23, 1937 in Grove Hill, AL to Wilson and Sadie Sheffield. He was a retired heavy equipment operator.
He is survived by his wife, Lucille N. Sheffield of Thomasville, AL; two sons, Harvey Neal Sheffield, Jr. of Frisco City, AL; and Larry Sheffield of Thomasville, AL; six grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
Visitation will be held at O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Graveside funeral services will be held at Choctaw Corner Cemetery on Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 10:00 am with Rev. Cecil Nelson, Rev. Bill Faircloth, Rev. Ty Parten, and Dr. James Best officiating.
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It is unlikely there will be any new federal legislation in the next two years, with one exception. There has been some talk among the Republicans supporting a federal paid family leave. With Ivanka Trump being a close advisor to President Trump, it is possible that a federal paid leave statute could be enacted in 2019.
In contrast to the federal landscape, we will continue to see increased regulation on the local and state level. I think we can expect to see more local governments enacting scheduling and sick and safe time ordinances, which will make it all the more difficult for employers which have offices or do business in other states. We will probably also see more counties and states increasing minimum wage beyond the federal minimum wage.
Multi-employer pension plans are creating a cloud looming over many construction and other companies. It has been estimated that over 10 million workers and retirees are covered by multi-employer pension plans. Many of these multi-employer pension plans are underfunded, if not insolvent, and it has been estimated that plans are underfunded by a total of $48.9 billion. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is a government insurance company that is intended to provide financial support for underfunded pension plans. The PBGC predicts that it will run out of money by 2025. A special Congressional committee was appointed to investigate new legislation regarding pension reform. 2019 may be the year in which Congress enacts legislation to save the PBGC as well as employees and retirees who participate in underfunded pension plans.
I think we are going to see the NLRB continue its retreat from decisions made under the Obama administration. The NLRB is already considering revising the quicky election rules and the joint employer standard promulgated under President Obama. The NLRB has issued decisions which allow employers to have certain work rules and policies which the Obama NLRB disallowed. We should expect to see more employer-friendly decisions from the NLRB than we have seen previously.
Obviously, the Me Too Movement has resulted not only in increased media attention on sexual harassment but in more claims of sexual harassment. In 2018, the EEOC filed 41 lawsuits alleging sexual harassment, which is a 50% increase from the previous year. The EEOC also stated that it has recovered nearly $70 million through either litigation or settlement of charges of sexual harassment claims. This increase in sexual harassment claims is most likely going to continue into 2019.
Lastly, the operative word in employment law in 2019 is training. Employees and supervisors need to be continuously trained on harassment, protected class discrimination and employer policies on equal employment, to name just a few. Employers will use new approaches in training, and there will be a focus on civility and respect, not just the legal definitions of protected class harassment.
These are just a few of the developments we can expect to see in 2019. I hope you all have a prosperous and productive year.


FROM THE ARCHIVES:This informative obituary of Bram Stoker a few days after his death thought he was a better biographer then novelist.
IN THE early seventies there was no more popular man in Trinity College. As an athletic he was facile princeps, being one of the finest walkers who ever won the championship. His attainments in science gained him honours in pure mathematics, but his fame was made not in the Examination Hall, but in the Undergraduate Debating Societies.
He was Auditor of the College Historical and President of the Philosophical Societies, a double distinction which it is reserved for few to obtain. The exuberance of his spirits, the friendliness of his manner, and his firm, straight- forward character gained for him a welcome wherever he went. Mr. Stoker was born in Dublin on the 8th of March, 1847. His father, Mr. Abraham Stoker, was an official in the Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, which position he held for over fifty years. He married the daughter of Captain Thomas Thornley, of Ballyshannon, and they had a large family of sons.
Bram was appointed to the office of Registrar of Petty Sessions Clerks in Dublin Castle, where he remained until 1878. During this period he took the M.A. degree in the University of Dublin, and, having also gone through the Law School, he was called to the English Bar.
Mr. Stoker's literary ability was shown at an early age, and while still a college student, in addition to his office work, he found time to act as dramatic, art, and literary critic for several journals both in England and Ireland.
It was at a supper party given in the rooms of that Mr. Stoker first made Sir Henry Irving's acquaintance, which resulted in his becoming manager and confidential secretary to Irving, then lessee of the Lyceum .
Many of his friends in Dublin thought at the time that it was hardly wise on his part to give up the certainty of a Government position and to commence life afresh in the hazardous theatrical profession. Events proved the risk was worth taking, and he remained with Sir Henry Irving until the great actor's death in October, 1905.
Since then, his attention was more fully directed to literary work. He was on the staff of the Daily Telegraph, and has written several novels, mostly of a sensational character. In 1906 he brought out his Life of Henry Irving, which was one of the books of the year, and financially and in every other respect proved a huge success. As a biographer dealing with the life of a man he knew so intimately, he did better work than as a novelist. There was a demand for his books, however, and from 1882, when he published Under the Sunset, until 1905, when he wrote The Man, he brought out eight tales, which were readable, though they were not marked by any originality. Before attempting fiction he published a valuable work on The Duties of Clerks of Petty sessions in Ireland, which is a standard authority on the subject.


Rapper Cj Biggerman, who is sometimes referred to as 'Obolo', has disclosed to Dawuroo.com that music has always been his first love and has being doing music for almost ten years now.
Being influenced by Sarkodie, Jay Z, M.I, Drake, Big Sean, J Cole, Kojo-Cue, Ntelabi and a fews others, he can confidently say, MTN Hitmaker has really being a great stepping stone into his career. According to him, he now gets paid for shows he never received any amounts from and as such helped in expanding his fanbase.
The rapper made this revelation to Dawuroo.com in an online twitter interview when asked if MTN Hitmaker has really being of great help to his career.
He further went on to say MTN Hitmaker platform is the biggest platform as far as reality shows in Ghana are concerned and it gave him exposure.
Known for the popular 'Enwii' song, the rapper has to his credit a Mixtape; I.R.E.D the acronym for 'I Rap Extremely Dangerous' an 18 songs tape which was released in 2014 and a playlist in 2018 with numerous song releases.


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Many people often underestimate the amount of money that they need for a hassle free retirement. In just few years of their retirement, they realise that they will be running out of money. And the thought of the number of years that they may have to survive without any income is rather horrifying. So, in order that you do not land up in such a situation, it is necessary to calculate your retirement corpus carefully.
In this session, we'll tell you how to go about calculating your retirement corpus.