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Don't Worry, 'Ghost Hunters' Fans — Season 2 Is Definitely Coming in Early 2020
By Mustafa Gatollari
First: the thoughts, opinions, and commentary presented in this article are solely my own and do not reflect the Ghost Hunters team, Pilgrim Studios, or A&E.
The Ghost Hunters Season 1 finale at Worley Hospital was absolutely insane — with the wide gamut of evidence and repeated interactions that Brandon and I had, I knew before I even saw footage of the case that it was going to be our best one ever. (And would probably be saved for the end of the season.) But even before the episode aired, people have been asking me:
Will there be a Season 2 of Ghost Hunters?
Obviously my first answer would be: I sure as heck hope so. I love my job on the show and I believe strongly in the cases we're presenting, and everyone on the team is working their butts off. And as hard as the team toils, the crew works even harder — they're up before us and while we're reviewing evidence, they're at the location getting more shots and in many instances, having additional paranormal experiences themselves.
Tonight is the night! Be sure to watch the #ghosthunters season finale tonight at 10pm on @aetv
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As to whether or not there will be a second season of the show I can confidently say that yes, Ghost Hunters will be coming back sometime early next year! We're currently filming a bunch of episodes. When I first signed on to the show, I thought that all of the cases that we were contracted to work were going to be part of the first season, which really took me by surprise, mostly because of the nature of first seasons in general.
I saw a lot of fans expressing that they felt like the new show just only started, and that they were disappointed there weren't enough episodes in this first season.
Lots of shows, regardless of genre, really don't have that many episodes in Season 1. For example: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia had only seven episodes in its first season, its second had 10, and then it got 15 for its third. Usually, shows tend to get more episodes in their second and third seasons.
The season finale of @GhostHunters is tonight at 10pm ET/PT! What does that mean for the future of the show???? Watch the video and find out! @aetv #GhostHunters
A post shared by Grant Wilson (@grantswilson) on Oct 30, 2019 at 1:31pm PDT
When will Season 2 of Ghost Hunters air?
Grant spoke to this on social media, and he confirmed what I and the rest of the team already know: that the show's definitely coming back sometime early next year. As for a specific date? We don't know yet, but it'll probably be earlier in 2020 than later.
Season 1 had 11 new cases, not including the special we aired, along with the 'Beyond the Investigation' episode where we showed some behind-the-scenes clips from a few of our cases.
Currently, we're on the road and filming more episodes for the upcoming season, and we'll still be filming them into the new year. Relatively speaking, the turnaround time for the cases take around two months to air after we film them. However, when those episodes air is ultimately up to the network, so I'm in the same boat as fans of the show as to when we'll all be back on TV.
What location was the most haunted on the Ghost Hunters reboot?
Although I can't really spill the beans on any new cases (although I can hint that we re-visited one that Grant's been to in the past for the upcoming season) I can talk about the locations I found to be the most haunted during our investigations there. For me, that prize goes to Worley Hospital.
Super excited for next week's episode of @ghosthunters another case where we all feel we truly helped some wonderful folks! #ghosthunters
Although there were plenty of instances where we were able to find evidence of paranormal activity, I'd have to say that Worley's was the most consistent and poignant. All of the team members were on the same page, too. We had similar experiences, similar activity, and, at one point, I even asked Mary to go upstairs and visit with Grant, Kristen, and Richel while Brandon and I were investigating (Grant's idea).
What's crazy is that she actually did. They had no activity on their data logger when they attempted to establish contact with an entity... until we asked Mary to go and pay them a visit. Then their data loggers went off. I'd say a close second was the Athenaeum in Indianapolis, and Madison Seminary was pretty crazy too.
What was your favorite episode? If you haven't checked out the Ghost Hunters reboot, go to A&E to find different ways to stream/watch it.
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Our fourth New Black Showcase is now running in the B2 auditorium until Saturday, and sees a company professional actors perform rehearsed readings of two different plays, Visiting Hours by Theresa Ikoko and Red Mullett by Liz Mytton. Both plays focus heavily on the female experience and were developed as part of our Critical Mass programme run by the Belgrade's Community & Education Company.
This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the Belgrade's Critical Mass programme, an 11 week playwriting course open to new writers from Black and Minority Ethnic Communities. Participants then have the opportunity to see their work performed on our B2 stage by a company of professional actors in the New Black Showcase.
The all-female company is made up of Sabrina Barnett-Alexander, Chanelle Shea Calvin, Jade Samuels, Reaya Sealey, Natasha Godfrey and Luca Wetherby. Audiences may recognise Reaya Sealey and Luca Wetherby from Belgrade Unplugged earlier this year. Visit the Images Gallery on the right hand side of the page to see photos of The New Black Showcase. by Paul Blakemore.


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Rough seas, strong currents frustrate Thailand's efforts to raise sunken tour boat
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Published November 15, 2018 at 7:02 PM
Another frustrating day in Thailand as salvage operators try to raise a sunken tour boat. Nearly 50 tourists died when the "Phoenix" sank off the coast of Phuket last July. Officials were hoping to raise the boat, using a giant crane from Singapore. But rough seas and strong currents are proving to be more than a match for the equipment.
CGTN's Tony Cheng has more.
From the air, the waters off the southern tip of Phuket look calm and placid. There's very little traffic, as these busy waterways have been cleared for the raising of the Phoenix. A giant Singaporean crane lumbered into place, but the rapid lift promised by Thai authorities never materialized.
The salvage crane was slowly getting into position Thursday morning, but the salvage team had said they hoped to raise the boat by 8 a.m., a deadline they were clearly not going to meet. The seas were considerably more choppy than on Wednesday, although for a crane of this size, that shouldn't make a significant difference.
The Phoenix disaster has had a dramatic impact on tourism, however. At the Governor's Mansion, members of the island's civilian administration and security services assembled to discuss new safety measures across the island–not just on the high seas–to make tourists, particularly those from China, feel safe. For the chief administrator in the area, a sharp fall in arrivals from China is a very big problem on an island whose revenue is solely derived from tourism.
"After the Phoenix incident in July, from the information we've gathered, we've found that tourist numbers from China are decreasing," said Phuket Governor Pakkhapong Tawiwat.
On the island's famous Patong beach, the Chinese flag was flying high, but looking faded and torn. Certainly, there were far fewer Chinese visitors than there have been in recent years, when China delivered the largest number of arrivals to Thailand. But these tourists haven't been deterred.
"I don't feel any danger," said one man. "I try to avoid any dangerous activities at sea."
"I haven't felt any danger yet because the hotel is very close and the surrounding environment is ok," said a woman visitor.
Thailand's tourist industry has weathered many storms, but Chinese visitor numbers had been rising despite the problems. If they now turn away because of the mishandling of the Phoenix disaster, the impact will be profound.
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Alumnus on NJIT Dean's List
HOPATCONG. Charles Auriemma, a 2016 Hopatcong High School graduate, has been named to the New Jersey Institute of Technology Dean's list and has already been offered three positions.
Published May 9, 2019 at 12:58 pm (Updated May 9, 2019)
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Charles Auriemma, Hopatcong High School Class of 2016 alumni and current NJIT Dean's List student, has already been offered three full-time positions prior to graduation and will be graduating a semester early in December 2019. The offer that Charles accepted is from Fidelity Investments in Jersey City. Charles is majoring in Management with a concentration in Financial Technology. Charles earned college credits in high school and got a 5 on his Calculus AP test which has helped him graduate early. He has also been asked to do research with one of his professors. He was chosen over many applicants for four paid internships during his college career. The school would like to congratulate Charles on everything he has accomplished so far: They are very proud of him.


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The Gearhead Adventures of Nathaniel Salzman
Feature Interview: Laura Heidenreich (With Gallery)
You've seen the photos, now meet Laura, the woman rider who helped make the #SalzmotoBonny look so fabulous.
Nathaniel Salzman — November 23, 2014
The Moto Lady blog recently shared exclusive photos from our Moto Babe Photo Shoot and profiled our rider model, Laura Heidenreich. That profile info came from an interview we did with Laura a few weeks back, which we're sharing in its entirety below. Laura's great, and now everyone can get to know her a little better.
In the interview, Laura talks about how she got into riding, about travel, and about her aspirations to customize her own motorcycle. This conversation happened before Babes in Joshua Tree, so Laura also talks about her excitement to attend the event. You can connect with Laura on Instagram, where she's @heidenreichlaura.
Salzmoto: Where are you from?
Laura: St. Louis, MO.
What brought you to Chicago?
I went to Loyola University, and I actually played soccer there. So I want to say it was the school, but soccer was really what brought my sister and I there. We actually got to play together.
What did you study?
Finance and marketing.
So you're not playing soccer professionally, what is it that you're up to professionally these days?
I am the Associate Publisher for Green Building and Designs, which is a sustainable building magazine. I do a lot of business development there, working on the sales side of things. I do a lot of meetings to establish partnerships, but mostly I do a lot of sales. I'm on the phone a lot, but I do a lot of in-person stuff as well. It's been an amazing role, with a lot of travel over the last year. I've been there for almost five years now, so it's been a huge part of my life after I left college. It's been great.
Where have you been able to go?
I just got back from Brazil, and we actually tried renting motorcycles while we were down there, but we weren't sure just how safe that would be. I've done a ton of work on the West Coast, which is awesome for riding. I've been to Taipei, Macau, Hong Kong, London, and this is all pretty much within a year, so yeah, it's a pretty good gig.
So you tried to rent a bike in Brazil, and obviously we're here today to talk about bikes. Let's go back to the beginning. Tell us about how you got into riding. What's the origin story on you and motorcycles?
Oh gosh, so it started almost two years ago. My dad's always been the super adventurous type. He's been a train engineer for nearly 50 years and now he flies planes for fun. He has a motorcycle — just got back into it, but he's had motorcycles throughout his whole life. His zest for riding was really inspiring. So he was a big part of it, and then I have a close friend and he was a big part of it too. I was a passenger for a year and I wanted to be on two wheels myself, so I got into it.
The whole process was really fun. I took the test at the Ride Chicago two-day course. Doing it all on my own, too, as a twin, was really interesting. You know, the whole independence thing, the whole identity thing. Doing that whole process on my own was really great.
What was your first bike?
I still have it. A Suzuki GS650.
Ah, so you went with the UJM. That's a pretty standard first bike. I did a CB650 as my first one. So you really can't go wrong with the middle-aged Japanese motorcycle.
I bought it from an old Chicago cop. He barely let it go. It was his baby for years.
How many miles were on it when you got it?
What are you up to now then?
I think about 21,000 or 22,000.
Oh that's not bad for two years. It's hard to put on a lot of miles in Chicago.
It's very tight here.
It is. You can only go to Starved Rock so many times.
Isn't that the truth? I do love that little section on 71 though, where you can actually ride 60 mph and there are some corners.
You can only do Sheridan so many times too.
Exactly. That's probably my most highly run road.
So your Suzuki is what you're riding now, but the way we met was that you very generously came out and did a photo shoot with us on the Bonneville project that I've been working on this year, which was fantastic. We got some great shots. Congrats on that, it was a huge help.
It's an amazing bike. A sexy, sexy bike.
Thank you. I'm curious, and I do not want to give you any partiality with your answer, but you started with your Suzuki, what do you think your next bike is going to be?
You know what's so funny? One of my friends, Chris, asked me at the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride, "What do you want, out of all these bikes?" Well, they were all my ideal bikes, but I've wanted a Triumph Bonneville for so long. A T100. I remember being at Ride Chicago they told me, "I don't know what you're going to get first, but a T100 needs to be your first bike. It was just meant for you."
So ever since I've had my eye on that, but now I want to make my bike my own. The Suzuki has been so good to me. It's been so good to me over two years, and I have done nothing to it. I haven't treated it well. It's parked in the alley behind my house and been knocked over several times, I'm sure, but now I want to make it my own. I want to learn about the bike. I don't know a whole lot about bikes, so that whole process would just give me that much more ownership over it.
Well, you've got to be careful. If you think bikes are taking over you life now…
They're not, yet. (laughs)
Okay, well, if you get to a place where you can mess with them, they just might. Look around where we are now [the Salzmoto shop]. Be careful. This could happen to you.
I'll risk that. I'm okay with that. I'm surrounded by a lot of sexy bikes. I'm okay with that. (laughs)
So long as you're going into this with open eyes.
And an open mind.
So you want to get yourself on a Bonneville, and obviously you're doing a lot of travel for work and such. Do you have anywhere in mind that you'd like to take a big, epic bike trip?
You know, I've done parts of [Route] 66. I've met some friends about half way through, and I've done a lot on the west coast. I've done the Mae Hong Son Loop in Thailand, which is amazing, and we're hoping to do a trip with Ducati Vietnam.
Tell us more about that.
I'm hoping, fingers crossed, that it's going to happen. It's called Project HiLo (http://instagram.com/projecthilo). We'd go experience rural Vietnam to high-end, luxury Vietnam. North to south, pretty much, so a lot of different experiences in between meeting with a lot of the Ducati Club owners. We'd be hearing their experiences, maybe staying with some of them personally along the way. We'll be staying at some hotels along the way too, but in the in-between and a lot of interesting experiences along the way. So yeah, fingers crossed that can happen.
Outside of that I'd want to do a trip with my dad. I'd love to ride 66, or whatever really, but that wants to be my next trip. I'm not going to have that much time to actually do that with him, so I want to make that happen.
That sounds great. Would you want to do that on your T100? Do you have a different touring bike in mind? 66 is so iconic.
I know, I feel like maybe a Harley. The Sportster, to be honest, I love it. When I rent from Eagle Rider the Sportster is my go-to. It's so comfortable.
Do you do the 883 or the 1200?
I've rented the 1200 both times, and it's been awesome. It's been great. I tell you what though, by the time I'd drop it off, the wind just gets me. It's rough. Both trips have been a little rough in terms of the wind. Chris has been along on like a Fat Boy or something, in front of me, and he's just easy ridin' and I'm just struggling back here. I don't know, I feel like a Harley for 66. My dad's got a Fat Boy.
Well, that does seem appropriate.
I've had my eye on Sportster as well. My wife's dad, my father-in-law, has had several Sportsters and I've ridden several of those. He has an 883 right now and last time we were down there visiting I did some riding around on it, and it's actually a pretty charming bike. It's very raw, very visceral. The first time I rode one the motor felt like a bowling ball rolling around inside a washing machine — like it was just going to shake apart. But I got a little more used to it this last time. It's an iconic silhouette, and there's so many things you can do to it. So when I think of what some future custom projects might be, the Sportster is definitely up on my list. I could do something similar to what I did with the Bonneville because there's a huge aftermarket of parts, and just kind of remix it and not try to reinvent those two wheels.
So you've got this Vietnam Trip that might be coming up, and you want to do this Route 66 trip with your dad, but you've got an adventure starting tomorrow, right?
Oh yes, we booked this over a year ago, and I'm so excited. We're flying to Palm Desert — although we considered riding it but it was too much time off work.
What's the event?
It's Babes in Joshua Tree. I remember following them [Babes Ride Out] since Babes in Borrego, and even prior to that and was so jealous of all these babes getting together. They seemed so amazing, and so I've been following the trip ever since. Then immediately when they announced the event at Joshua tree, my sister (I have a twin sister) and I just jumped on it. We booked our flights and we're just going to rent [a motorcycle] again. I looked into shipping my bike out there and keeping it out there for the winter and storing it out there (I'm out west a lot and so being able to ride my own bike to Babes at Joshua Tree would have been great) but it just didn't work out. So we're going to ride from Palm Desert to Babes at Joshua Tree. I think they have a 180 mile ride set up for us out there and a lot of different events, so it should be a fun two day excursion. It should be interesting, but it's all top secret though. They just announced the final location, which I can't announce, because they don't want any spoilers.
Or any dudes. Let's just call it what it is.
(Laughs) Yeah or any dudes. Pretty much.
Yeah that kind of event I can just imagine needing armed guards to keep all the dudes out.
I'm hoping there's some police escorts. It's up to 550 babes.
I think there was 75 to 100 last year, maybe more. Maybe a couple hundred. I'm not sure, but significantly more [this year].
That is taking off.
Yeah it really is.
The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride grew exponentially this year, and it sounds like this is doing something similar.
How long has that been going on for?
I want to say it's no more than three or four years.
It started in Sydney, with about 100 riders and this year it was something over 600 riders. The ride this year in Chicago was fantastic. You were there.
Yes I was.
I was there. We had a good time riding and a great time with everybody hanging out afterwords, so it's great to see these kinds of events growing and coming together.
I've been really interested in Babes at Joshua Tree just because so many people who I already follow on Instagram have started getting really excited about the event, or are already on the way. Some are having bike issues on the road and trying not to be stranded, and here you're having your own issues with cancelled flights.
Yeah, but it'll work out. It's been really interesting on Instagram to see these women connect. Even on their way there, they're finding spots to take group rides up to Palm Desert. So many people already, it seems like, have established close friendships through Instagram. So it'll be interesting once everybody gets together to finally meet in person and learn a little bit more about each others' stories.
So I'm curious about your perspective. Obviously you're going to this women-centric event — which is an understatement — this women-only event, which is terrific. Women and motorcycling is something that's been a growing movement, which is fantastic because, well, it's just too many dudes. It's way too dude-centric of a thing. Obviously I have the things that I love about riding, but I'm curious what it is from your perspective that draws you to bikes and what you think that's going to mean for bike culture, for women in bike culture, or just what you think it is about being a woman rider that you're approaching from a different point of view? What has that been like for you?
For me I don't know if it's a different point of view, but I'd say that it's a couple different things. What I love about riding in general is what it's allowed me to see and experience. It's unbelievable. I've probably seen, over the past year, more of Chicago than I've seen in 10 [years] total. So it's been absolutely amazing just what I've been able to see and experience on a bike. Riding half of 66 was amazing. I've never seen those parts of the country. So what it's allowed me to see is amazing. The other thing that I would say for sure is that it's definitely opened my eyes to different people with different backgrounds and different personalities. That's a big reason why I want to go to Babes in Joshua Tree — to actually meet these people in person. I have to say that going to DGR on Sunday and meeting so many new people and just how amazing but different everyone was, and how everyone was so welcoming — everyone was just great to experience. That was one of my first [events], and I'm excited to get more connected to the Chicago community. Even just meeting Cat Pham [the stylist for our photo shoot]. It's been great and I'm excited for more of that — to meet more of the community and gain more friendships.
I've had the experience recently in meeting people in person who I had connected with on Instagram, so I'm excited for you to go get to do that a hundred fold at Babes in Joshua Tree.
Yeah, I'm really excited.
You mentioned before that you want to make your Suzuki your own. What did you have in mind?
Oh gosh, I don't have a lot in mind. I remember seeing my exact bike on Instagram by one of the ladies who's going to Babes in Joshua Tree and she completely rebuilt it. It was beautiful. It was actually a bike that I could imagine just buying today. I loved the look of it. I don't know. I'm kind of just now wanting to pull looks, pull bikes, pull parts and get a sense for what I like, and create my own. I don't know a whole lot about that yet, but I do know that I want to do the work and put the time in and figure out what I like. A big part of riding was finally getting to the point where I'm like "this is amazing." I remember when the light switch went on going out to Starved Rock where I'm thinking to myself, "I get it!" I just let loose and it was like an epiphany. It was amazing. So I want to keep that process going in rebuilding my bike.
Keep chasing that dragon. I know exactly what you mean. I've had that experience where you experience that "thing" and then you kind of forget about that "thing" and then you rediscover it and remember "Yeah, this is what I love about this."
Now I don't know what your experience will be on the mechanical side of things, but what I can tell you is that for me it's been interesting. On the one side there's that passion for riding, that freedom you've got on the road and for me there's something that's very meditative about that. You get out on the road and kind of forget about where you're at.
Then I've also found that there's a separate but similar experience that can happen in the shop. You can be trying to figure something out or trying to get a stubborn bolt loose, or started, or the bike just won't run for some reason and you've got to solve that problem. Or even if you're just doing something as simple as polishing — you know, some kind of grunt work and mindlessly doing it over and over again — you can get to that same kind of zen space and it's something where I'm excited for you to start on that journey because maybe you'll have that same experience.
I can see it really, hopefully, being a rewarding process, and just working toward something sounds exciting to me.
Yeah, wherever you go it'll be somewhere that you've taken yourself.
Exactly. That's it right there.
Very cool. I've run out of questions. Anything else on your mind?
Well I'm trying to get my sister on a bike of her own. She's had her license for more than a year, and she loves riding on the back of my bike too much, almost. I need her to want to be in the driver's seat a little more, but that'll be a project over the next year too, to get her to start riding [more].
Although, twin sisters on a bike is pretty damn cute.
I can't tell you how many accidents we've almost caused. It's not right. We've had other motorcycles ride up [beside us] and take photos. I mean, car drivers do it all the time, but it's been interesting to say the least.
You could get her a GS650 and you two could build matching bikes.
That be such a great project.
Yeah, that'd be fun. Maybe you could get her hooked on one drug (wrenching), and that'll get her hooked on the other (riding).
Yeah, I'll get working on that.
Well thanks, this has been fantastic.
Yes! Thank you.
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The comparison between Cristiano Ronaldo and Ronaldinho is quite puzzling, because in terms of stats Cristiano Ronaldo has Edge, But keeping the fact in mind that football cannot be rated just on the base of stats!
Ronaldinho had a magical technique whereas Ronaldo has the sheer will to compete for 90 Minutes straight, and the fight would fight for the 3 points or a goal till he draws his last breath, and it is known.
Cristiano Ronaldo in his early days was considered to be one of the most complete players in the history of football, Ronaldo was a full package of Goalscoring, Dribbling, Showboating, Playmaking, Winger, and the midfield power of the team.
On the other hand, Ronaldinho was considered to be the most gifted south American player after Pele, Maradona, and Ronaldo Luis Nazario, Ronaldinho possessed an ability to keep the ball in possession with his insane dribbling skills.
Possession tactics are always loved by coaches and that was the sole reason why Ronaldinho was rated as one of the best players of all time before his retirement.
Ronaldinho was also Known for his shooting and finishing the ball in the net, He was the main Set piece taker for most of the teams he played in, he also had a unique trait of humbleness and a lovely attitude on the field being calm and possessed towards the game.
Cristiano Ronaldo on the different side of the coin is known for his aggression and angry attitude on the field, which on the brighter side is very much loved by his fans.
Toward the start of the 2021-22 season, he got back to England to rejoin Manchester United. Even though Ronaldo keeps on getting it done, he is yet to win flatware in his second stretch at Manchester United.
Who Has More Ballon'dor?
Portuguese Goalscoring machine Cristiano has an edge in this debate because of his cabinet decorating score of winning 5 golden balls throughout his career.
Cristiano won 4 Golden balls in 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017 with Real Madrid and one with Manchester united in 2008 under his considered godfather in football Sir Alex Ferguson.
Ronaldo also has an eyewatering record of scoring most ballon D'or Points with being on top with 3,781 points.
Ronaldo has won the Ballon d'Or multiple times during his sparkling profession and guaranteed 3,781 points from designations of the honor, rather than 3,574 for Messi.
The couple's mastery of the honor beginning around 2008 leaves them well clear of the rest in the rundown of the most selections, as this commencement from 2020 uncovers.
Luka Modric and Virgil van Dijk were the main two current stars recorded in the best ten most named players and incorporate a large group of unbelievable greats, for example, Johan Cruyff, Zinedine Zidane, and Ronaldo Nazario.
The current year's honor to Messi has shown to be disputable most definitely, with many referring to Robert Lewandowski as a more commendable victor – the Argentine conceded the Poland skipper merited the award after last year's occasion was dropped because of the pandemic.
Ronaldinho has only won ballon dor once in his career, Ronaldinho was the reasonable champ of the Ballon D'Or from the solid waitlist that was reported for the honor by France Football magazine.
In the late spring of 2018, Ronaldo joined Juventus. He proceeded to come out on top for sequential Serie A championships with the Old Lady and scored more than 100 objectives. He won five prizes during his three-year stay at the club.
Who has more European golden boots?
European Golden Shoe, otherwise called European Golden Boot, is an honor that is introduced each season to the main goalscorer in association matches from the top division of a European public association. The prize is a figure of a football boot.
From its beginning in the 1967-68 season, the honor initially called "Soulier d'Or", which deciphers from French as Golden Shoe or Boot, has been given to the top goalscorer in all European associations during a season.
Beginning around 1997, it has been determined to involve a weighting for the most noteworthy positioned associations. Initially introduced by L'équipe magazine, it has been granted by the European Sports Media since the 1996-97 season. Lionel Messi has won the honor a record multiple times, all while playing for Barcelona.
Ronaldo has won it 4 times, Whereas Ronaldinho has none in his accounts.
Lionel Messi is the main player to win the honor multiple times, all with Barcelona. Messi holds the unsurpassed record for objectives in a solitary season with 50 out of 2011-12, which gathered to a record 100 points.
Bayern Munich's Gerd Müller was the main player to win the honor two times, in 1969-70 and 1971-72. Messi was the principal player to win the honor multiple times and Messi again was the first, thus far just, player to win it five and multiple times. Just Messi (2016-17, 2017-18, and 2018-19) has won the honor in three successive seasons.
He was likewise named in a ranking of the world's most prominent living players ordered by three-time World Cup victor Pele.
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Who Has won more trophies?
Again, Ronaldo is leading in this debate with 32 major trophies to his name, With Ronaldinho having no more than 20. Ronaldinho on contrary does have an edge in the facts of the world cup. Which the Brazilian ace has won once in 2002.
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the best footballers to have graced the game. Beginning his excursion from Sporting CP in Portugal, the striker has sparkled in each club he has played for in his renowned lifetime up until this point.
His most memorable senior prize was the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, which is played between the victors of the Portuguese League (Primeira Liga) and the Portuguese Cup (Taça de Portugal).
On joining Manchester United in 2003, the forward began to add an endless series of prizes. The 2003-04 FA Cup was the principal flatware that he won on British soil.
In the last, the Red Devils crushed Milwall and it was simply the one who opened the scoring. He proceeded to win nine prizes with Sir Alex Ferguson before leaving for Real Madrid in 2009.
In the nine years he enjoyed with Real Madrid, he won a ton of flatware. Nonetheless, his most memorable season finished trophyless at the Santiago Bernabeu.
In the 2011 Copa del Rey last, he scored the victor in the 103rd moment to win his most memorable flatware with Los Blancos. His last counterpart for Real Madrid was the UEFA Champions League last in Kyiv, where Real Madrid proceeded to come out on top for their thirteenth championship after beating Liverpool. Generally, Ronaldo won 15 prizes during his spell in Spain.
Why Ronaldinho is considered to be more talented than Cristiano Ronaldo?
Ronaldinho was a superior performer. He was unadulterated sorcery. His spilling was out of the world and he could make mystical minutes from nothing.
Be that as it may, his vocation was fleeting and he was in his best structure for a couple of years. His consistency is problematic. On the off chance that you think of him as just thriving days, you can say he is certainly a main ten player. Yet, anything over that is up for discussion.
What isolates Ronaldinho and Ronaldo is that Ronaldinho controlled a game for an entire 90 Mins and did so reliably, while Ronaldo frequently comes and shows up to a great extent to score extraordinary objectives yet in the vein of a ninja and is likewise dependent on supply (in some cases).
Ronaldinho was the wizard of the steady stockpile. Indeed Ronaldo is one of the best, however, Ronaldinho was more clever in his play. He knew when to pass or when to spill solo – undervalued expertise, was a real cooperative person, and was the best footballer ever (in a joint situation with Messi).
Ronaldinho will give a diversion to you in games to a great extent. He was never all around as powerful and steady as Ronaldo or Messi.
He scored more than 30 objectives in a season two times in his vocation, which is sufficiently not to come out on top for your championships when you're the star man in the group, he did help a ton of objectives however, Eto'o and Brazil Ronaldo being the recipients.
However, beyond his heyday, the midfield god was as yet ready to beat a large group of youthful gifts to the lofty South American player of the year in 2013.
Why Ronaldo is a better overall player than Ronaldinho?
If it is about regular talent, technical capacity, and spilling abilities Ronaldinho is top-notch, just a small bunch of players throughout the entire existence of the game can contrast him(Messi, Maradona, Pele, Best, Brazilian Ronaldo, and perhaps 2-3 more) Cristiano isn't in this gathering.
In any case, assuming it is about amazing skill, aspiration, individual accomplishments, group accomplishments, administration, records set, ability to goalscoring, perseverance, consistency, versatility, athletic capacity, and wellness Ronaldinho couldn't contrast and Cristiano.
Cristiano has 5 Ballon d'Or grants, and Ronaldinho has 1. In Europe, Cristiano has scored 573 objectives in 16 seasons till now, and Ronaldinho has scored 145 every 10 seasons.
Cristiano has won 5 Champions leagues(with 2 distinct groups), and Ronaldinho has won 1. Ronaldinho's best goalscoring record in Europe in a season was 26 in the 2005-2006 season. Cristiano has 10 seasons in which he scored over 26 objectives, his best one being the 2011-2012 season with 60 goals.
The short answer, there is no correlation. How I characterize the expression "best player" and if I consider this large number of qualities and likely a couple of others joined, I would rate Cristiano as a superior as well as an infinitely better player than Ronaldinho. Trust me, no supervisor would pick Ronaldinho as opposed to Cristiano in his beginning 11.
If somebody passes judgment on a player by his normal ability, however, Ronaldinho is far off, he was a performer with the ball and he had 3-4 brilliant seasons.
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What are your Best Achievements for Ronaldinho?
Ronaldinho holds the record for most goals in the FIFA Confederations Cup rivalry, attached with Mexican forward Cuauhtemoc Blanco, with 9 goals.
He likewise set a standard that was liable for him getting the spotlight. He scored each of the 23 goals in a 23-0 triumph over a neighborhood group at age 13.
Ronaldinho is additionally one of a handful of players to win pretty much every significant prize accessible in the realm of football. Ronaldinho won the FIFA World Cup, Champions League, Copa America, Confederations Cup, La Liga, and Serie An among different titles.
After the thing was a stunning and very fabulous showcase in the El Clasico, where he scored two magnificent goals, the Bernabeu swarm rose to their feet to commend the Brazilian performer, making him the second player throughout the entire existence of the Clasico to get wildly energetic applause after Diego Maradona.
One of the most important snapshots of the FIFA World Cup to date stays the 40-yard free-kick that a youthful Ronaldinho put past Arsenal legend David Seaman at the 2012 World Cup in Korea and Japan.
Simply behind Zinedine Zidane and previous Brazilian colleague Ronaldo, his FIFA player of the Year Award in 2005 made him the third player in history to accomplish the honor two times.
Another accomplishment the football god has on his card is that he is additionally a rare example of Brazilians that included in the public group at each level. From the U-17 level to the senior public group.
In the wake of driving Atletico Minero to its most memorable Copa Libertadores title, Gaucho was named Serie A's Best player for the schedule year in the last long periods of his profession.
Ronaldo is a vastly improved player. Portuguese maestro has reliably conveyed many years. And he has been remembered for the FIFA FIFPro World XI and UEFA Team Of The Year, a record multiple times.
He has 5 Ballon d'Ors, 4 Golden Shoes, and 2 FIFA Best Player grants. He has acquired enormous achievements all over the place, in England, Spain, Italy as well as in Portugal. That ought to educate you something concerning his ability.
Cristiano has won 5 Champions leagues (with 2 distinct groups), and Ronaldinho has won 1. Ronaldinho's best goalscoring record in Europe in a season was 26 goals in the 2005-2006 season. Cristiano has 10 seasons in which he scored over 26 objectives, his best one being the 2011-2012 season with 60 objectives.
Ronaldinho will give a diversion to you in games to a great extent. He was never all around as powerful and steady as Ronaldo or Messi. He scored more than 30 goals in a season two times in his vocation.
That is sufficiently not to come out on top for your championships when you're the star man in the group, he did help a ton of objectives however, Eto'o and Brazil Ronaldo being the recipients.
Ronaldo alongside Messi has arrived at the average of somewhere around 55 objectives as the season for the beyond 7 years. High-scoring groups ordinarily stay nearby 100 to 120 objectives a season, the folks previously got half of them, with heaps of help too.
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The U.S. Navy has exercised a $41-million option involving its VH Presidential Helicopter contract with Sikorsky Aircraft. The modifications include integrated logistics support, security, project engineering, technical manual updates and training. Sikorsky will also perform modifications on three of the VH-3Ds in service. Work on the Presidential Helicopters is scheduled to run through September 2013.


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#SuzyNYFW: Downtown meets Uptown in Gentrified New York
Carolina Herrera, Tory Burch, Thom Browne, Derek Lam and Zac Posen are the barometers of social change
Carolina Herrera, fall 2016 ready-to-wear
Carolina Herrera: Uptown Elegance
A lush green courtyard, an old stone building, patrician elegance and calm… could this Carolina Herrera show at The Frick Collection really be part of raucous, rowdy New York Fashion Week? Uptown shows, let alone "Uptown Girls", are a rarity today in American fashion. The traffic clogged West Side Highway, rather than stately Park Lane, is the nexus of where fashion happens. But more than the physical location of where shows take place, there are no longer clear boundaries of American style. I never much liked the WASP definition ("White Anglo-Saxon Protestants").
It suggested snobbery, stuffiness, wealth and privilege. But it produced a clear vision of rangy women in the sleek sportswear and fine fabrics that were the essence of style in the late-20th century. All gone. Now "sportswear" suggests the rapper look of extreme techno fabrics, the transgression of male/female and an urgent sexuality. Since Manhattan has opened up, with gentrification penetrating once industrial and low-income quarters, societal borders are in flux. The re-opening this week of Barney's New York on Seventh Avenue at 17th Street marks the triumph of downtown over Madison Avenue. So it is not so surprising that Hervé Pierre, the designer who acted as the fashion stalwart of Carolina Herrera's uptown elegance for 15 years, should quietly have ended his term this season.
The rumour mill has it that Puig, the Spanish fragrance and fashion house that owns Herrera, is looking for someone more racy and has already focused on a fashion duo. But I admired the elegance of the Carolina Herrera outfits, built on restraint: creamy colours, light fabrics, pale and fluffy fur integrated with chiffon, skirts short or mid-calf. The details of digital flowers, big and bold, and the whipped softness of organza dresses all underlined Carolina's grace. I would describe the workmanship as being of haute couture standard but with the designer's foot light on the pedal.
Tory Burch: Horse sense
Tory Burch, fall 2016 ready-to-wear
Tory Burch is the last of the fashion Mohicans: a genuine, 100% Uptown Girl. "Riding has always been a favourite of mine," said Tory after a show of sporty clothes with an undercurrent of sensuality in the way the models swayed down the Moroccan-tiled runway. The designer quoted a nonchalant street scene from Eric Rohmer's 1972 film, "Love in the Afternoon" (L'Amour l'après-midi).
The clothes were all very nice, wearable and predictable — in a good, male-female way: a mannish diamond-patterned sweater illuminated with shimmering paillettes; a miniature-floral print top and trousers with a ginger suede jacket; paisley print tailored to mid-calf dresses. Horsey happenings? Think of a rearing stallion pattern on a dress with the orange tinge of Hermès. Tory herself, fashion filly that she is, wore it to take her bow.
Thom Browne: A Walk in the Park
Thom Browne, fall 2016 ready-to-wear
I would not have expected to view the subversive Thom Browne as a beacon of elegance, but his show, with its stage set of bare winter trees, was full of grace — and wit. If style is as simple as a walk in the park, then send out men, formally dressed, with a Proustian look to the dark tailoring. But that solemnity was dispersed by dogs, used as decoration or in silhouette as bag shapes.
Extraordinary cutting and tailoring that attached half a jacket or a sleeve to the base garment showed fine tailoring skills. Even if this territory of layers of half layers attached to the whole garment has been so deeply explored by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, Thom Browne played it in a different key.
Derek Lam: Mid-century Modernism
Derek Lam, fall 2016 ready-to-wear
Derek Lam is one of several live Downtown-think-Uptown that I am going to describe as a "DU" designer. Lam's references to American sculptor Alexander Calder and to "form, balance and joy" was a poetic expression of mid-century modernism, which was the essential American style of the 20th-century. What I saw was not "artistic", suggesting form without a clear function, but rather streamlined clothes from the simple — trousers with a scarlet sweater — to the ultra refined: a long ivory dress shaped to the body with pleats.
Graphic lines are Derek Lam's version of decoration, whether on a mink coat of black and white squares or a streamlined dress intensely beaded. Buckled ankle boots added another element for the designer's Downtown/Uptown stride.
Zac Posen: Out of Ugandan Africa
Zac Posen, fall 2016 ready-to-wear
With a full house of clients, socialites and enthusiasts, Zac Posen proved a point: that you can spend your life living Downtown, but in spirit you can cross over so-called boundaries to create genuine international appeal. The Zac Posen inspiration was historic and original: the story of the Ugandan princess Elizabeth of Toro, born in the 1936, an international diplomat and legal advisor, still admired today for her intelligence and beauty, as when Queen Elizabeth's sister Margaret asked her to model for a charity gala in the 1960s. What the designer described as "couture geometrics of the 1930s" was a sophisticated study of African shape and pattern shown on elegant African models.
Cotton dresses with mixed floral patterns were draped like silk, and black dresses cut asymmetrically looked so deceptively simple. Each piece was carefully crafted to look elegant and easy, while tailoring was done in soft cashmere with silk or stretch crepe. Seeing the enthusiastic response of client Katie Holmes and of the high-end store buyers, I asked Zac how he defined his clothes. "Uptown and Downtown is old fashioned — New York City is entirely gentrified," he said. "I'm Soho born and bred, but I think it has all fused."
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Whither the House of Gandhi?
The Nehru-Gandhi family has dominated Indian politics since the nation's independence in 1947, but it now faces a walloping at the polls, possibly its worst ever. While voting in national elections won't be finished until next month, every indication is the Congress Party—for which a Gandhi presides as president and vice president—will lose the prime minister's seat and watch its share of parliament thin considerably.
The face of that probable political calamity is Rahul Gandhi, a 43-year-old, good-looking Cambridge man who speaks of the need for a more inclusive political process. And as I've heard more than one liberal, middle-class Indian acknowledge with regret in their voices, he's not much of a public politician.
via The Reluctant Prince of India's Political Dynasty and His Anticampaign – Businessweek.


Alba Chocolate makes bespoke chocolates and truffles.
Born from a simple love of good chocolate, Alba Chocolate makes ethical and delicious treats, lovingly crafted with the best possible ingredients. The founders love the wild, natural beauty of Scotland, and as members of 1% For the Planet, they donate 1% of their income — not just profit — directly to the John Muir Trust. A conservation charity, the John Muir Trust is dedicated to protecting and enhancing wild places in the UK. Alba is based in Newtonmore, in the Highlands of Scotland, and all of their chocolates are handmade with quality Fair Trade ingredients; no preservatives or artificial colors in sight.
Founders Gemma and Mehmet first got started making truffles for themselves. They were so good that when it came time to pick a new full-time venture, the two decided to start their own business. The couple is very transparent about what it takes to start and run a small business, and detail their story on their website and social media channels, including their new kitchen buildout (where they now offer chocolate making workshops!). The name "Alba" is both the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland and a particularly bittersweet genre of love poem.


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Presidio Trust Announces Agreement on Development of Historic Hospital Building in the Presidio
Presidio of San Francisco (April 27, 2007) -- The Presidio Trust today announced that it has signed a record of decision and a development agreement with Forest City Enterprises for the former Public Health Service Hospital Complex at 15th Avenue in the Presidio. The main hospital was closed in 1981 and has been empty awaiting rehabilitation. "I applaud the Presidio Trust and its neighbors for coming together in a public process that has resulted in an improved plan that addresses the traffic, safety and environmental concerns of the surrounding community," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "Revenue from the renovated Public Health Service Hospital will be invested back into the Presidio to continue the revitalization of this jewel in our national park system for the benefit of all San Franciscans." In 1996, Congress passed legislation drafted by Speaker Pelosi that created the Presidio Trust to preserve the Presidio as an enduring resource for the American people. The selected project comprises 332,000 square feet of building space. The historic buildings on the site will be rehabilitated and the non-historic wings of Building 1801, the main hospital building, will be removed. Up to 133,000 square feet will be demolished and no more than 51,000 square feet of replacement construction will be allowed. The project will accommodate up to 186 residential units in 256,000 square feet, and a mix of cultural, office and educational uses in 76,000 square feet. "We are thrilled to have signed a lease to redevelop the Public Health Service Hospital, and excited to work with Presidio Trust and the neighbors as we move into the design phase for the project," said Susan Smartt, senior vice president of Forest City West, San Francisco office. The Presidio Trust convened a series of five public Community Working Group meetings in November and December, 2006, to review and discuss options for the size and redevelopment of the project. Members of seven local neighborhood groups, as well as the Ft. Point and Presidio Historical Association, Presidio Environmental Council, San Francisco Architectural Heritage and San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) participated in the meetings. Representatives of Forest City Enterprises also took part. "We are pleased that the Presidio Trust provided a forum for community input so that our concerns regarding traffic and environmental impacts could be fully addressed. The result is a project that is a win-win for the park and the neighborhood," said Claudia Lewis, president of the Richmond Presidio Neighbors community group. The Presidio Trust issued a request for proposals for the project in November, 2003 and, after an environmental assessment process, selected Forest City as its development partner in the Spring of 2004. The Trust sought public comment on the project throughout the process, and convened the working group meetings to gather input from neighborhood groups. "This process has resulted in a project that allows us to achieve our principle objective, to preserve the historic buildings located on the site, while addressing the concerns of our neighbors," said Craig Middleton, executive director of the Presidio Trust. "We are pleased to announce a development agreement with Forest City for a project that is responsive to the overarching themes heard throughout the public process." Forest City intends to use sustainable practices and materials on the project and will seek a silver level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating. The redevelopment of the site will include upgrades to the surrounding landscape and a new trail head. The Presidio Trust: The Presidio Trust was established by the United States Congress in 1994 to manage the Presidio of San Francisco, a former army base located in San Francisco at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge. The 1,500-acre site contains the infrastructure of a small city as well as expansive open space, a 300-acre historic forest, spectacular views, and rare and endangered plants and wildlife. It comprises nearly 6 million square feet of buildings, including 469 historic structures that contribute to its status as a National Historic Landmark District, making it unlike any other national park. In establishing the Trust, Congress mandated that it make the park financially self-sufficient by 2013. The Trust is the only federal agency with this mandate. The Presidio Trust Management Plan sets the framework for the Presidio's financial and preservation goals. Forest City Enterprises: Forest City Enterprises, Inc., a publicly traded real estate company, is principally engaged in the ownership, development, acquisition and management of premier commercial and residential real estate throughout the United States. Sustainability is an integral part of our core values and a principle to which Forest City is committed. Sustainable development fosters sensitivity to the site, reduces resource consumption and minimizes a project's environmental footprint. Likewise, Forest City has a long history of revitalizing historic buildings and executing adaptive reuse projects - both inherently sustainable project types because of the reuse component. For more information on this or other Presidio projects:www.presidio.gov."


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An enigmatic young woman in conflict – torn between reason and passion; between her woman's body and being raised as a prince; between the ancient and modern worlds and between the brilliance of her educated mind and the conservative forces around her. Crowned Queen at the age of six, Kristina of Sweden was thrust into a labyrinth of power and tradition, where a court of austere, Lutheran men pressure her to marry and produce an heir to fulfill her destiny. She finds sanctuary and love with her lady-in-waiting, the beautiful and elegant, countess Ebba Sparre, although the Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna, pressures her to pair with his son, Johan. Soon the forces around the Queen realize that Ebba is the key to controlling her, but they underestimate Kristina's brilliant mind and her drive to be free.—Triptych Media Inc.
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Director Mika Kaurismäki said this film was very difficult to produce. First off, he had to find the right balance for the screenplay, which was very complicated. Also, coming from a small country, he didn't have access to a lot of funds to produce these kinds of films so he had to go out and look for the money, which wasn't easy. He said if the film had been about a male king, it might have been easier to find the money, but a female lead in this kind of role made it more difficult.
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My best guess is that a conversion is taking place, and it is on your computer. The same non-ASCII codes entered by me produce êëìíî. The "ALT" method doesn't work for me, as I'm on a different OS - I wrote a quicky C program to output these character codes to a text file, then cut and paste into the browser window.
That "extended ASCII" table is one of multiple 8-bit encodings that add to ASCII, not compatible with UTF-8 and not itself part of ASCII. In particular, that looks like IBM code page 437, which at this point I would only expect to work on MS operating systems. Some browsers may assume you intend to send the exact characters you type, others may convert to Unicode.
Using the ALT+number method in the forum yields different characters then indicated in the above web page. For instance ALT+916 yields ö instead of the letter delta. What I've done in the past is to type the code into Word and then copy and past the letter into the forum, thus I get Δ.
Unfortunately, nothing I do at TheSpaceRace works. I can't get that form to display special characters no matter what I do.
Another solution is to add a Symbol font to the forum. Is that possible?
The 900-series codes are for UTF-8, and when I cut the above text here, paste it into a text editor on my computer, and then write a quick C program to print out the decimal values of the bytes, I get that each Greek letter above is two bytes, beginning with either 206 or 207 decimal. Haven't specifically checked, but I'm pretty confident this is UTF-8.
The early codes you linked were not UTF-8 encoding, but CP-437, and I'm surprised they worked at all. I suspect, as cjameshuff proposed, that your browser was intelligent about it and converted the CP-437 encodings to UTF-8 encodings when shipping them off to the board.
If I may ask for a confirmation - the trouble you have at this board occurs when you try to enter the 900-series codes into a browser window, then post?
I think I understand what is happening. When you enter the 916 code, which is supposed to specify the UTF-8 encoding for a Greek delta, you are getting an ö. In the CP-437 encoding, this letter has the eight-bit code 148 (decimal). In hexadecimal, 916 is 0x394, and 148 is 0x94. I suspect that is not coincidence. So you are entering the code for the UTF-8 encoding of a Greek delta, but your browser thinks you want CP-437, and misinterprets your input (also throwing away the "3" digit, since CP-437 codes are all two hexadecimal digits).
So I would have a look around all the browser settings, to see how you have "encoding" or something similar set. I suspect it is set for "CP-437", "US", or something like that. If so, and you have a UTF-8 option, try changing to that, and see if it works any better.
Correct. It's when I'm in a reply text box in the Browser.
Thanks. I'll look into that when I get an opportunity.
In Firefox, the default encoding is in Options|Content, in the dialog box shown by Advanced... under Fonts & Colors.
However, the server can also specify, in the headers, the character set it is using. From a quick web search, user agents (that is, browsers) can choose to return POST content using the same value. It is also possible to explicitly specify the character set to be used in a FORM (i.e. the type-in boxes for posting messages).
Inspecting the content of this page, the Quick Reply box does just that; see the following. Note the accept-charset="UTF-8". That means that, at least for that box, the browser must send UTF-8 to the server.
For reference, here are the headers supplied by this server; note that the character set is UTF-8.
ETA: Bob B., what browser are you using? (product, e.g. IE, and version, e.g. 9).
Bob B., what browser are you using? (product, e.g. IE, and version, e.g. 9).
At work I'm using IE8. I don't remember what I'm using at home, but probably the same.
I just found "Encoding" listed under the "View" menu. It is currently set to "Unicode (UTF-8)".
I think there are two distinct phenomena at work here. One is an issue with the way the other board is set up (this is a conjecture, not proved). The other has to do with the way your computer is set up.
suggests that a registry hack is needed in Windows to get the Unicode (the 900-series) codes to work. It also explains how the CP-437 codes (which you seem able to use successfully here, but not at the other board) get converted to UTF-8 - this seems to have been a deliberate measure by Microsoft to maintain compatibility with what had become a popular input method.
So I think that explains pretty much all the behaviour you see at this board, except that you are able to use the 900-series codes in Word. I wonder if specific applications have the ability to access/override the normal key handling methods, and the new version of Word has chosen to do this.
Regarding the other board, I have been able to replicate the behaviour you describe in PMs to myself - the Greek letters (entered in Unicode) look fine in the preview, then become question marks in the final version. I suspect (no proof whatsoever) that the final "post" fails to specify (or specifies incorrectly) the encoding, so the nice Unicode characters in the preview are forced to be converted to CP-437 or Windows-1252 or something like that, and they just get killed instead.
So if you are willing to futz around with your registry, you could enable the Unicode alt-codes (like the 900-series). It sounds like you could still use the CP-437 codes (the ones from 128-255), just pick whichever is most convenient in a given situation. I think this would probably eliminate the need to go through Microsoft Word, and would get the 900-series codes working on your other computer as well, at least at this board.
I suspect the issue at the other board is beyond your control. I'll see if I can have a look at the page source, and work out what the encoding is.
I think there are two distinct phenomena at work here. One is an issue with the way the other board is set up (this is a conjecture, not proved).
This is probably true, but I can't figure out what the difference is. Both forums are using the same software, on the same server. TheSpaceRace.com is over a decade old now, and has gone through many software updates, so I'm thinking the database might be corrupt. ApolloHoax.net, on the other hand, is less than a year old (in it's current incarnation) and has a "fresher" database. It's only had a few minor updates installed.
The weird thing is that I can copy & paste Bob's greek characters into the forum, hit preview and see the characters fine... it's only after I have saved the post that the characters get converted into question marks. So I think the MySQL database is doing the character conversion, not the forum software.
The other has to do with the way your computer is set up.
Maybe, but like I said, I can reproduce the same problem that Bob is experiencing, so I don't think it's related to his computer.
I'll see if I can have a look at the page source, and work out what the encoding is.
That is another strange thing about the problem. Both forums are not only using the same software, they're both using modified versions of the same template.
Yes, that's right, I did not mean to suggest there was something idiosyncratic about his computer - it appears to be the default way Windows computers work, not to accept the Alt-key codes for UTF-8.


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Wherein those damn Ross kids talk about swimming pools, elitism, and public safety.
I'm not on the microphone. "Public Swimming Pool. Whites Only". A long time ago, in a parking lot far, far away. Scent of a Woman With Gonorrhea. Muggers only want iPhones. Designer vaginas. Highway to Rapeton. Here, have these spiders. Runaway implant. Tebowing is illegal. Dance Floor Danger. The Science Zone: Birds in Danger.
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African/Black Community (ABC)
Network of Africans /Black people in Germany
The ABC is a German-wide Afrocentric and Pan-African network of Organisations and individual activists. It is run under the auspices of exclusively African and/or Blacks people with African genealogical roots (hence, the name African/Black Community) whose objectives are stipulated in its Code of Conduct (CoC) and Policy Paper (PP).
Aims/Objectives
Although the main idea of an ABC sprang up at the Black Community Congress held from the 18th to 20th October 2002 in Löhne-Gohfeld and subsequent meetings in 2004 in Berlin, the first practical consultation meeting called for by African activists within "The VOICE Refugee Forum" however took place in 2005 in Göttingen. The objective was to bring together again diverse African/Black activists from different Organisations, with the aims of networking and of a collective development of activities, galvanized and inspired by our Struggle for JUSTICE for Oury Jalloh and all other Sisters and Brothers killed by the German State terror, through structural and institutional racism, in short Systemic Racism.
The main objective of these meetings and other consultative engagements that later continued until 2011 was to breach the conflictual understanding of "Identity representation, class and privileges" within the Community. From 2013, the impulse was reignited by new activists and networks from within the Community, with help from those who followed up the previous processes since 2005. And here we are today.
How did the name ABC come about and is it the same as BC (Black Community)?
The name came about after a long deliberation about our objectives, which were to bring together again diverse African/Black activists from different Organisations, with the aims of networking and of a collective development of activities that would strengthen our independence (or reduce our dependence on) from the White majority society in which we find ourselves. It is the same as the Black Community (BC) in many levels and ways, but some of the differences are expressed in our conviction that uplifting Africa (through different liberation struggles, engagements and achievements) is at the centre of all our engagements. We follow the principle of self-organisation and intra-supportive community mechanisms and processes.
That said, it would not be a genuine process to talk about the history of the ABC just by recounting our experiences and Community engagements since the first Black Community Congress in 2001. While acknowledging the roles played by individual activists and Networks in the process of establishing and recording this rich history, a rather legitimate appraisal would be to formulate questions that can be used to express the background and documentation of the process of founding the ABC, the African / Black Community in Germany. This would enable the participation of many, in documenting our history of the foundation of the network.
Contact us and be part of our struggles and empowerment processes.
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Brady Campaign Launches PSAs with Shooting Victims' Family Members
David De Lossy/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The nation's leading gun-control-advocacy group has launched a new series of YouTube public service announcements as part of a, "long-planned public-awareness campaign" not tied to the Newtown, Conn., shootings.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence's YouTube series, "We Are Better Than This," features celebrities speaking straight to camera, some of whom, like Avengers star Mark Ruffalo -- who lost his brother to a gun homicide -- have been personally touched by firearm violence.
Perhaps more significantly, families of mass-shooting victims will appear in the videos.
In the first three videos, Brady staffer and Virginia Tech shooting survivor Colin Goddard appears, as do Lonnie and Sandy Phillips, whose daughter Jessica Redfield Ghawi was killed in the Aurora, Colo., mass shooting in July.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 8:47PM by Carmen Cox Permalink
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Jaycee Dugard Releases PSA
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Jaycee Dugard, the woman who was held captive for 18 years by Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender, released a public service announcement Friday compelling people to keep kids safe, by always being vigilant and reporting suspicious behavior.
The 20-second spot is from the JAYC Foundation, which stands for Just Ask Yourself to Care, an organization Dugard founded. The foundation provides support services for families impacted by abduction or other traumatic events.
The PSA begins with families walking along tree-lined sidewalks and Dugard saying, "Just ask yourself to care."
It then cuts to an empty swing swaying in a park, and Dugar says, "If you see something that looks wrong or amiss, speak out. You might be wrong, but you might just save someone's life."
The announcement ends with Jaycee and her mother, Terry Probyn, walking arm-in-arm.
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Clowns: A National Crisis
There is an epidemic spreading across our nation….and no I'm not talking about Zika.
I'm talking about clowns.
Lately people have been claiming to see clowns all over the United States. Yes some of these so-called clowns have been real….but are all the sightings real?
In the day and age of camera phones why is it that no one can seem to get a picture of these fast-moving clowns that vanish suddenly?
We may never know…but it reminds me of a simpler time…you know when they found that Leprechaun in a tree in Mobile, Alabama.
A simpler time INDEED! Let's now divulge into this epidemic!
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31 Days, 31 Scary Movies!!
Growing up in the late 80's and early 90's it was a simpler time.
A time when cable networks didn't really have original programming and basically only played scary movies.
In fact on weekends you could hang out at home and watch MonsterVision with Joe Bob Briggs. It was pretty great!
So I have compiled a list to go along with the family friendly Halloween movies found here!
So please enjoy 31 scary movies for October! Continue reading →
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Politics Report: A Disturbing Week - Voice of San Diego
Politics Report: A Disturbing Week
Why Darrell Issa will have to explain his votes this week forever. Plus, a new candidate for Shirley Weber's Assembly seat.
Scott Lewis
Darrell Issa / Photo by Megan Wood
On Friday, Rep. Darrell Issa tried to rebrand his votes to overturn the U.S. presidential election as expressions of his concern about proper procedure. He had written, the night of the violence, that what happened was unacceptable and it was time for us all to come together.
"This is a time to give our all, honor our institutions and uphold our American democracy," he wrote.
But he still felt obligated to explain his votes. They were just expressions of concern about the law.
"In Pennsylvania, the State Supreme Court extended the ballot deadline in violation of state statute. In Arizona, the Federal District Court changed election registration deadlines in violation of state statute, letting tens of thousands of voters to inappropriately cast votes," he wrote.
He went on: "My colleagues and I spoke out in support of ballot integrity and the sacred right to vote. The process is now complete and a peaceful and orderly transition of power will occur, as it should."
I'm not entirely convinced he thought it should.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was much clearer about what actually was happening with those votes. "We are debating a step that has never been taken in American history: whether Congress should overrule the voters and overturn a presidential election," he said.
Issa was trying to overturn the election. The president expressly wanted him to, and pressured many of his colleagues in the House and Senate to. As the latest videos and witness testimony from inside the mob make horrifically clear, had the marauders been able to locate the lawmakers or Vice President Mike Pence, they would have tried to murder them.
And after that happened, Issa indulged the conspiracy theory that drove the mad horde into the Capitol.
That's what makes this so different and disturbing from anything I have ever seen in politics and unrest. Issa and others have several times referred to the mass demonstrations and ancillary violence this summer as comparable. They aren't close. The attack this week was deliberately coordinated to disrupt and violently subjugate the Congress.
"This failed insurrection only underscores how crucial this task is for our republic," McConnell said after he re-entered the Capitol safely.
If you genuinely believed the things that the mob who went after lawmakers believed – that the election was stolen by these lawmakers along with an alliance of corporations and communists and pedophiles – you may feel like doing what they did. That's what makes endorsing, validating and amplifying the lie so dangerous.
And that's what Issa did.
He's minimizing it now but it is not a dragon you can ride. It will get out of control. It did — and people died.
Related: I have been following closely the reporting about Ashli Babbitt, the Ocean Beach resident who flew to Washington D.C. to participate and was shot by Capitol Police as she tried to break into the Speaker's Lobby on the second floor of the Capitol.
The Washington Post has the most complete, clear video compilation of her death. I think it's an important window into what happened but it is very disturbing, so think twice. The website bellingcat compiled all Babbitt's social media drops to try to make sense of how she went from an Air Force veteran to a radical storming the Capitol.
She was heavily influenced by QAnon — the mother of all conspiracy theories that has evolved into a quasi-religion. I recommend following the QAnon Anonymous podcast if you want to understand it more. If you're new, start with their introductory podcast.
This stuff is not in the shadows anymore.
Local Republicans Set to Elect Next Chair
Monday, the Republican Party of San Diego County will go forward with choosing its new chair.
Paula Whitsell, the South Bay Realtor who Chairman Tony Krvaric promoted as his choice, looks like she still has the votes to take the volunteer role.
This week, she was also not ready to move on from the contention that Trump should still be president. She retweeted a Dinesh D'Souza post where he said any Republican who did not support the effort to overturn the election would have no future as a leader in the party.
"President Trump had the backs of the American people for 4 years. The least we can do now is stand up for our President! We got your back!" she wrote.
San Diego City Councilman Chris Cate was horrified by what unfolded Wednesday: "It's all fucking ridiculous. It's tragic that it's come to this and it doesn't bode well for those of us who are trying to present a case that reasonable people can have pol differences and there's a means to resolve those that is befitting the vision of the founders of this country."
Shirley Weber's Seat
Before the end of the year, I compiled that list of candidates who may run for Shirley Weber's 79th Assembly District seat. We've seen some developments since then. It could be a fascinating race.
Dr. Akilah Weber confirmed she was running.
Ammar Campa-Najjar also formed an exploratory committee.
And this week we got a new entrant: Leticia Munguia. She's the business representative for the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, District 36, the union of unions representing public workers across Southern California. She grew up in San Diego as a daughter of immigrants from Mexico and went on to law school at Michigan State.
She may have some powerful allies in the race. Newly elected Supervisor Nora Vargas and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez both cheered Munguia's announcement she was running.
"She's a woman who went to law school and committed her life to serving workers! I love that! I'm supportive of her running. The Latino Caucus will weigh in soon and then I will endorse officially. There may be other candidates running still. But she is smart, hard working and a badass," Gonzalez told me.
Andy will be out a couple of weeks and then he'll be back. Until then it's just me. He's only left me really normal weeks of Politics Reports. Very easy. Don't need him. Happy New Year. Send ideas and feedback to scott@voiceofsandiego.org.
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