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Technology In Eye Care: Part II – Tech On The Horizon
In the first post in this series we talked about what technology is currently available to help improve the quality of life for those struggling with low vision.
In this post, we'll be taking a look at some of the technology on the horizon, technology that could soon become available to the public at large, that can continue to improve the quality of life for those with low vision.
Glasses For Your Phone?
If you wear corrective lenses, you might not need them when using your smart phone much longer. That's because researchers at UC Berkeley are working on a corrective lens of sorts for your phone's display.
Rather than a lens like in your glasses, the Berkeley researchers are using a novel approach to creating a sharp image for those with impaired vision. They are laying a plastic film covered with thousands of tiny pinholes –each measuring only 75 micrometers– sandwiched between two plastic plates over an electronic display, and then using innovative programming to control how each pixel emits light.
The combination of the new programming controlling the direction and intensity of the light from each pixel and the pinhole screen has allowed the researchers to create images and text that appear much sharper to those with impaired vision than ever before.
Despite their success in creating clear, sharp images, the technology is not yet really viable for the general public.
The overlay of the pinhole screen between plastic plates is thick and unwieldy. Likewise, the programming is still limited in that it can't change the screen's focus based on the position of the user's head.
Work is still being on both of these technologies, however, and progress is being made. The researchers say that the prototype pinhole screen could be developed into something akin to a normal screen protector. Likewise, advances are being made in camera technology that can allow the software to use a phones "selfie" camera to track the user's eyes and change the image to account for head position.
The technology is still very individual. Because it distorts the screen's display to create an image that appears clear to somebody with a particular vision impairment, it would appear distorted to a user without impaired vision, or with a different prescription.
Eventually, however, this technology could make the use of electronic displays – televisions, computers, tablets, or smartphones – easier and more convenient for people with a variety of vision issues.
The Invisible Cane
The Centers for Disease Control and prevention (the CDC) estimates that the number of Americans who either have low-vision or are blind will double by the year 2030.
For many, using a cane to help navigate can be uncomfortable. The obvious sign that they are 'different' can toy with the emotions or make them feel as if they are apart, particularly for children.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are working on a technology that might help those with low-vision or blindness in their day-to-day lives. They are working on creating an invisible cane.
Instead of a physical stick, this cane uses an invisible infra-red laser to sense the terrain in front of the user. It then lets them know what is ahead of them through a forearm band that works through hepatic feedback. That's the same thing as when your smartphone buzzes when you are using the virtual keyboard.
It might seem that using a beam of invisible light and a band would make feeling obstructions in front of the user more difficult than physically touching them. However experiments have been done using early prototypes of the infra-red cane, a physical cane, and full sight. And surprisingly, the experiments have shown the IR cane to be as effective as a traditional cane at negotiating obstacles. Even more surprising was that the IR cane works almost as well as full sight.
The invisible cane is still in development though. As you can see in the picture above, the moment the prototype – called the "Enactive Torch" – looks more like a prop from the original Star Trek series than a minimally obtrusive replacement for the traditional cane. However, as with so many things, as research continues, it will be refined and ultimately shrink in size and increase in functionality.
The Enactive Torch isn't ready for broad commercial release yet, but as it gets refined, it might not be long until the traditional white cane is replaced by an unobtrusive infra-red emitter and an easily concealed armband.
Smart Contact Lenses
Wearable smart technology is becoming more and more common. Cell phone companies are racing to create new and better smart watches to sync with smart phones to increase convenience and functionality. Google made headlines with the creation of the Google Glass, which has a head-up display and camera which sync with the owner's phone.
Now tech giant Google is taking the idea of wearable technology a step further by partnering with the Alcon eyeware division at Novartis to create a smart contact lens.
Unlike smart watches or Google Glass, the smart contact lens was conceived as a medical technology and intended from the start to help make lives better. The smart contacts are – currently – intended for use by diabetics. The contacts measure blood sugar directly from the wearer's tears. The lenses have a small microchip, roughly the size of a speck of glitter, to do the measuring and a hair-thin antenna to sync with the wearer's phone to keep them informed on their blood sugar level. There are also plans for lenses to potentially measure biomarkers related to several cancers, which would help oncologists keep track of cancer patients who are in remission. Smart lenses also present the possibility of being able to measure intra-occular pressure to help monitor glaucoma patients.
Smart lenses may also offer the possibility of dispensing medication directly into the eye, eliminating the need for eye droppers. By having the lens dispense the medicine, dosages could be carefully timed and measured to eliminate the user forgetting or using too much or too little. They could also delivers a small, constant trickle of medicine, which in some cases could be preferable to sudden –comparitively– large drops of medicine.
Further research is looking in to other lens applications, such as automatic focusing for those who only need reading glasses. Even more ambitious research is looking in to creating telescopic or night vision lenses to make super-human vision a reality.
In part III we will be looking at the future of how advances in technology will blend science with science fiction.
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\section{Introduction}
Observations of galaxy clusters have provided important clues about the formation
and evolution of stars, galaxies and AGN in these systems. And based upon the
observed correlation between supermassive Black Hole mass and galaxy bulge mass,
we expect that there should be numerous AGN in the
bright ellipticals in rich clusters as well.  Radio-loud AGN have been directly implicated in cluster
ICM heating because evacuated ``bubbles'' in the diffuse X-ray emitting gas have
been observed that are spatially coincident with non-thermal radio emission.
But what about other non-BCG radio-loud galaxies?  Is there a connection
between cluster radio galaxies and the X-ray AGN population?  What is the spatial
distribution of this combined population?

To answer these questions we present a multi-wavelength study of cluster AGN that differs from many previous
studies (e.g. \citep{1995AJ....109..853L,2007ApJ...664..761M}) that use
X-ray or radio observations, but not both, to detect AGN in only one waveband.
Most cluster AGN studies have either employed clusters in a flux-limited survey or
simply selected clusters based upon availability.  However, since most flux-limited surveys
tend to detect the most luminous clusters at higher-$z$, this selection naturally identifies more evolved
structures at earlier times.  This mismatch can result in comparisons which can obscure any true evolution,
since more massive clusters are placed at the beginning of the evolutionary sequence
and less massive objects at the end.  We describe a unique cluster selection method below which
avoids the difficulty just described and present a summary of our first results.

\section{Sample Selection}
Guided by hydrodynamical simulations to track the growth of massive cluster
halos ($M>10^{15} M_\ensuremath{\odot}$) from $z\approx1$ to the present epoch, we have used the
temperature of the ICM as a proxy for cluster mass and have
selected eleven 0.2$<$z$<$0.4 clusters that are predicted to evolve into objects like the
present-day Coma Cluster (kT=8.2$\pm$0.2 keV).
These 11 clusters are MS 0440.5+0204, Abell 963, RX J0952.8+5153, Abell 2111, MS 1455.0+2232, Abell 1758,
MS1008.1-1224, MS2137.3-2353, Abell 1995, MS1358.4+6245, and Abell 370.
Our unique method attempts to select clusters of similar mass at a given redshift and
thus these clusters on the ``Road to Coma'' will be used for consistent evolutionary comparisons later.
At z$=$0.3, the ICM temperature of a Coma Cluster progenitor is predicted to be 7.0$\pm$2.6 keV where
the temperature spread is due partly to the modest number of realizations of Coma Cluster mass-scale
objects in these simulations.  The details of the cosmological simulations
(similar to \cite{1988MNRAS.235..911E} and includes preheating of the ICM \citep{2001ApJ...555..597B})
will be described in a future publication.

\section{Multi-wavelength Data}
We re-analyzed archival {\it Chandra} observations with adequate exposure times
to detect XPSs with L$_{X}$$>$10$^{42}$ ergs s$^{-1}$.
XPSs were identified with the CIAO program {\it wavdetect}. Net XPS counts (0.3-8.0 keV) were
estimated within the 95\% encircled energy radius and converted to X-ray fluxes by assuming a power-law
spectral index of $\Gamma$=1.7 (N$_{E}\propto$E$^{-\Gamma}$).
We have augmented radio survey data (e.g., NVSS, FIRST)
with an analysis of new and archival VLA 20cm continuum images to detect radio galaxies with
P$_{1.4GHz}$$>$3$\times$10$^{23}$ W Hz$^{-1}$ across the entire survey.  This limit allows the detection
of many lower radio power FR 1 sources while excluding the lower luminosity radio sources due to star formation
(P$_{1.4GHz}$$<$10$^{22.75}$ W Hz$^{-1}$, \citep{2003ApJS..146..267M}).

Two-color images and/or photometry are publicly available from SDSS, CNOC \citep{1996ApJS..102..269Y}, and/or
{\it ChaMP} \citep{2004ApJS..150...43G}.
We obtained new optical images (Sloan \emph{g,r,i}) of one cluster at Apache Point Observatory (APO).
For candidate cluster AGN without published redshift and/or spectra, spectroscopic observations also were obtained
for all objects with Sloan $r<20.8$ using the APO 3.5m with the Double Imaging Spectrograph (DIS-II),
which provides complete spectral coverage from 3700--9000 \AA.
Spectra for radio galaxies and XPSs are complete to $M_r$$<$-20.8 (M$^{*}_r\approx$-20.8).
We define passive galaxy spectra as those showing only
stellar absorption lines (e.g., the 4000\AA~Ca break, Mg Ib, Na I), while active galaxy spectra have detectable emission lines
(e.g., H$\alpha$, [O~III], etc. with [O~III]5007 \AA $>$ H$\beta$).  We do not find any example of a starburst optical
spectrum (strong emission lines with [O~III]5007 \AA $\approx$ H$\beta$) among either the radio galaxies or XPSs.

\begin{figure}
  \includegraphics[height=.35\textheight]{hart_q_f1.eps}
  \includegraphics[height=.35\textheight]{hart_q_f2.eps}
  \caption{(\emph{Left}) Composite Color Magnitude Diagram for 11 clusters with 0.2$<$z$<$0.4:
The color difference is the difference between the mean CRS and the observed value.
The vertical dashed line marks
M$_{r}^{*}=-20.8$.  The horizontal dashed lines display the typical $3\sigma$ spread in CRS colors.  Notice that the
majority of cluster radio galaxies and XPSs lie on or near the cluster red sequence (CRS), with the exception of sources A and D.
(\emph{Right}): X-ray Luminosity versus Radio Power for cluster radio galaxies and
XPSs compared to typical FR 1 galaxies, ``core" elliptical galaxies, and Seyfert galaxies.}
\label{fig:cmd_plot}
\end{figure}

\section{Results}
Within 1 Mpc of the cluster X-ray emission centroid, we find 8 XPSs with $L_{0.3-8.0 keV}$$>$10$^{42}$ ergs~s$^{-1}$ and
20 radio galaxies with P$_{1.4GHz}$$>$3$\times$10$^{23}$ W Hz$^{-1}$, confirmed to be cluster members and have
M$_{r}$$<$-20.8.
Figure~\ref{fig:cmd_plot} (\emph{left}) displays the composite color magnitude diagram for our 11 clusters.
The majority of cluster radio galaxies lie on the CRS, as expected since they are known to reside in
passive galaxies \citep{2003ApJS..146..267M}.
The letter identifiers (A--H) refer to our eight cluster XPSs in decreasing X-ray luminosity order.  Two cluster XPSs
(sources A and D) are much bluer than the CRS.  Source A has an optical spectrum consistent with a Seyfert nucleus
(with emission-line luminosity of [OIII]$>>$H$\beta$).  On the otherhand, Source D
is several tenths of a magnitude bluer than the red sequence, but, nonetheless, possesses a
passive absorption line spectrum.  A composite X-ray spectrum of the 7 XPSs (not including Source A) can
be fit with a power-law spectrum with $\Gamma=1.6\pm0.2$ with no evidence for intrinsic absorption and are
are hosted by luminous red galaxies with no evidence for typical Seyfert-like emission signatures.

A cumulative radial distribution plot reveals that $\approx$75\% of our cluster radio galaxies and
XPSs are located within 500 kpc of the cluster center,
compared to 40\% of the CRS galaxies within the same radius.  A two-sided K-S test between the full
X-ray $+$ radio population and the CRS galaxy population as a whole
are inconsistent with being drawn from the same parent population at $>$ 99.999\% confidence level (K-S D-statistic = 0.36 and
probability = 3.3$\times$10$^{-6}$).  Within 500 kpc 16 radio galaxies and 4 XPSs make up 8$\pm$2\% of the bright
($L>L^*\approx$ 265) CRS galaxies.  Our result strongly suggests that the triggering of a radio-loud
AGN or an XPS in these cluster galaxies is due to some, as yet undetermined, mechanism related to the ICM density such
as in the Bondi accretion model of \citet{2006MNRAS.372...21A}.  Additionally, these non-central cluster AGN sources could
provide a naturally distributed source of heating of the ICM.

Figure~\ref{fig:cmd_plot} (\emph{right}) displays L$_X$ versus P$_{1.4GHz}$ for our cluster radio galaxies and XPS, as well
as for typical FR 1s \citep{2004ApJ...617..915D}, ``core" ellipticals \citep{2006A&A...447...97B}, and Seyfert galaxies \citep{2007A&A...469...75C}.
With the exception of three sources our cluster radio galaxies and XPSs rarely overlap with our luminosity limit.
Within our survey limits our cluster radio galaxies are consistent with the X-ray/radio luminosities of FR 1s.
However, if our cluster XPSs were also FR 1s, we would have detected them in our radio survey.  The XPSs appear to have
X-ray luminosities and radio power limits consistent with Seyferts, except that the XPSs have no evidence for
obscuration in the optical nor in X-rays.  However, Source D has an optical color that is $\sim$ 0.5 mag bluer
in (g-r) than its associated CRS suggesting a possible power-law AGN excess.  We suggest that the properties of
our cluster XPSs are very similar to low luminosity BL Lac Objects of the class now called ``High-energy-Peak''
BL Lacs (or HBLs) (see \citep{1999ApJ...516..145R}).

Within 500 kpc we use our detected number of cluster radio galaxies with
P$_{1.4GHz}$$>$3$\times$10$^{23}$ W Hz$^{-1}$ and CRS galaxies with L$>$L$^*$
to extrapolate the RLF of radio galaxies \citep{2000A&A...360..463M} to
P$_{1.4GHz}$$>$10$^{21.5}$ W Hz$^{-1}$.  We estimate that $\approx$85\% of all L>L* CRS galaxies are radio-loud.
Similarly, using our cluster XPS numbers, we extrapolate the XLF of HBLs
\citep{2000AJ....120.1626R} to L$_x>$10$^{40}$ ergs s$^{-1}$ to find
that all virtually all L$>$L$^*$ CRS galaxies host an XPS.  Thus, we conclude that both the XPSs and the radio sources are most
readily identified as radio-loud AGN with jets which can transfer heat into the surrounding ICM.

\begin{theacknowledgments}
QNH acknowledges the support from the {\it Chandra} Theory/Archive Grant AR8-9013X.
EJH acknowledges the support from NSF AAPF AST-0702923.
\end{theacknowledgments}

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Ten bob each (50p in new money) was the price of my first named varieties of tuberous double begonias purchased from Ron White, a begonia nurseryman in Scotland. The varieties were Sam Philips which was a deep yellow, Rosemary Moore a delicate white ground picotee, Everest a white and T.B.Toop which was bright orange. I grew them fairly well and entered in pot plant classes at local shows with reasonable success. At this level, a poor begonia was always a good match for a well-grown fuchsia.
A visit to Southport flower Show, and a talk with the chaps on the begonia society bureau added to my interest. Needless to say, I enrolled as a member of the NBS.
The following year I decided to enter some exhibits in the Leeds Show. One exhibit being a single pot plant of Sam Philips. EUREKA! I WON! It was also awarded "The Lady Milner Vase" for the best pot plant in the show. Derek Telford, our editor was the first to congratulate me, but I am sure he was a little peeved. He had been after winning that trophy for a few years, but he is a good showman and accepted the result. I must admit that when I now look at the photograph of that plant with it's somewhat flat blooms I am rather embarrassed, but it certainly was a boost for my ego. However, Derek pulled his socks up and made sure that I didn't win the it the following year.
At this time we had no local NBS area. To meet up with the top growers we traveled over to the North West Area meetings at Chorley. These were very well attended and enjoyable meetings, and it was usual for two or three carloads to make the journey over the pennines on Friday evenings.
Eventually I came to the conclusion that we had enough local support to have our own group, so I set about organising the Yorkshire & Humberside group. This was successful, and after about two years we were designated an official area by the NBS. I was appointed area rep, and our area show was held within The Leeds Flower Show, the committee of which was and still is of tremendous help.
The NBS at that time was centred on Birmingham, all the committee lived there, and I felt that if it was to be a national society, it should have committee members from outside the Birmingham area. I therefore put myself forward for nomination and was elected. I served for a few years, but eventually through pressure of work, I resigned from committee and also my post as Area Rep.
One of the criticisms at that time was that we, as a society, didn't cater for the growers of species begonias, so about five years ago I decided to grow some of these. I found them to be very interesting. Some of them are year-round plants. At the present time (November/December) I have twelve varieties in bloom. I have now disposed of all my stock of tuberous doubles and just grow the species and hybrids.
I currently have upwards of fifty different varieties. This entails keeping a greenhouse heated over winter, but by double-glazing one greenhouse, I can do this reasonably economically.
I am now retired from my day job, so as any retired person knows, I have less time on my hands, but I am once again on NBS committee as Vice chairman, still an active member of the Yorkshire & Humberside Area, and, above all, still getting great pleasure from growing begonias.


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Totally Locally Addingham is excited to announce the annual Easter Bunny hunt. Hiding inside and outside the shops in Addingham from Saturday 13th April 2019, are 28 Easter Bunnies waiting to be found.
Pick up an answer sheet from either the Sandwich Shop, Plantation or Co-op, and start searching! Once you have found them all, take your completed answer sheet back to The Sandwich Shop, by 2.15pm on Saturday 27th April. All correct answer sheets will be entered into the draw which will take place at 2.30pm on the same day with the chance to win an Easter Egg.
So come and find our hidden bunnies, enjoy a stroll around this picturesque village, have a run in the park and browse around all the fantastic independent shops and businesses. HAPPY HUNTING!


This is book two of the Extra Credit Series by Clark. All three books in the series follow one of the three couples that become friends when they are forced to take a class in college when they have some issues. This particular story follows Matt & Annika.
It was nice to come back and read about these two characters. It was also nice to see how the first couple in book one was doing.
The story has a fast pace to it. It is very well-written. Their story began a year before the class that forced them to partner up. Glad that the history was introduced in the story but not too early, so there was still some guessing on my part. I enjoyed how the story plays out. To so see why these two hated each other and how they came to have a history. I will be looking forward to the next book and the final couple in this group.


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Home /Together Again
Together Again: Canton's former black high school will promote community once more, thanks to an effort by Gladys Knight and her husband, Canton native William McDowell
Emily Glaser
Community Vision: William McDowell and his wife, the famed singer Gladys Knight, have ambitious plans for the site of McDowell's old school.
It may be Bon Jovi who sings "Who says you can't go home?"—but it's Gladys Knight and her husband, William McDowell, who are crooning their own affirmation of the notion. McDowell, a Canton native, had long been drawn by the quiet hum of his homeplace and the opportunity to give back. When his alma mater, the former Reynolds High School, came up on the auction block in 2013, McDowell scooped up a piece of his own history.
Reynolds High School's class of 1960; William McDowell is on the far left in the back row.
Now the couple call the mountains home once more as they work to turn the 1930s-era building—long one of Haywood County's only black schools—into a bustling hub of activity. Slated for completion in 2020, the Reynolds Community Center will include child care and counseling programs, a communal kitchen, exercise facilities, nature trails, and, of course, a music center.
But 2020 is a long way away, as is the $5 million fund-raising goal. Upcoming events locally and around the country will help to meet that mark. "We're trying to get people enthused about what's going on," says RHS Community Foundation Executive Director Mike Finton, who points out that Knight's enduring fame is invaluable to the fund-raising effort.
"We are on sacred ground," McDowell said when he announced the project at the old school in February. "This particular building, this particular area, was the backbone of the community long before I came along."
Singing for the Center - Gladys Knight, the "Empress of Soul," will stage an RHS Foundation benefit concert at the U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville on October 29 at 7:30 p.m. Visit www.uscellularcenterasheville.com for pricing and tickets.
Reynolds High School
William McDowell
Photographs (high school) courtesy of Haywood County Public Library; (rendering) RHS Foundation; (Knight) by Derek Blanks


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The West Stafford Fire Dept. operates from a 14,200 square foot facility. This facility, dedicated in 1996, replaced our original station, which was built in 1948. The addition to the station was built in 2008. We also share a cooperative station with Staffordville Fire Dept. located at:
27 Willington Ave. Stafford Springs, Connecticut.
Steady growth in our area has taken us from about 300 runs in 1995, to 950 runs in 2018
Our Department is a public department and is 100% volunteer.
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The West Stafford Fire Dept.is a full service emergency services provider, offering Fire Suppression, Rescue and EMS services to the town of Stafford. We also provide Mutual-Aid services to the surrounding communities.
This station also serves as a community building hosting several Girl Scout Troops, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and other organizations. The Town of Stafford emergency Operations Center (EOC) is also located here.
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Operating a small business and supporting a human resources department is challenging. If your staff resources are limited -- as they are at many small businesses -- you'll need to decide how your in-house HR department can best serve your organization. In addition to hiring an HR generalist, ensure that your approach to workforce management and the HR staff person's management style are closely aligned. Also, assess whether your company's HR approach is negative or positive and how that influences your employee base.
Many employers rely on an intranet-supported employee self-service function for providing workers with information about their employment status, salary and benefits, vacation bank and health insurance enrollment. For small businesses, this might be perceived as a negative approach to handling standard employee questions. Determine whether a small organization really needs a high-tech method for providing information that employees want to learn in a face-to-face consultation with an HR staff person. This might be viewed negatively by employees who believe the technology solution for managing employee questions is too impersonal, particularly in a small business.
Developing an employee relations program is a positive step to building a productive workforce. Employee relations is the HR area responsible for strengthening the employer-employee relationship. It addresses workplace conflict, identifies employee issues and empowers supervisors and managers to resolve departmental matters as quickly as possible to avoid loss in productivity and disruption to departmental functions. Employers derive significant benefit from an employee relations program. Such programs aren't costly, and they benefit small businesses, in particular, because they mitigate the organization's risk of liability for workplace complaints, including allegations of unfair employment practices.
Labor relations is similar to employee relations -- they have a shared goal of strengthening the employer-employee relationships. However, labor relations also is focused on interactions with the labor union that represents employees. Refusing to bargain in good faith is one of the most negative approaches that HR can take in a union work environment. It doesn't serve the organization well, nor does it bode well for future relationships with the labor union. The National Labor Relations Act requires that labor unions and employers engage in fruitful negotiations to reach a collective bargaining agreement that serves all parties.
The compensation and benefits structure is an essential component of any employer-employee relationship, but by no means the most important. However, employers that pay their employees competitive wages and provide comprehensive benefits are likely to win approval from employees for managing tangible rewards with their needs in mind. Paying fair wages and offering benefits is a positive HR approach to ensure employees' health and financial well-being.
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I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?
Beth's mother has three daughters. One is called Lara, the other one is Sara. What is the name of the third daughter?
2 fathers and 2 sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they bring home only 3 fish?
答え:Because they are just 3 people — a grandfather, his son, and his grandson.


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Maplestory Update: Fantasy War Tactics x MapleStory Collaboration
Maplestoryer Date: Dec/21/16 16:27:59 Views: 638
Recently, NEXON Korea Corporation released an update that brings together Fantasy War Tactics and MapleStory.
As an up-and-coming magician, players can pioneer their way through Fantasy War Tactics using the abilities of their characters, the environment, and the support of their friends. The "Fantasy War Tactics x MapleStory Collaboration" introduces three new characters in the popular MMORPG MapleStory, as well as a new area in Hell mode: the Tower of Dawn. In addition, players can explore a whole new landscape from the Maple World - Lost Island - for a short time. In the special event shop, exclusive items can now be purchased as a souvenir of the MapleStory collaboration.
The update to the Fantasy War Tactics x MapleStory Collaboration offers players:
Three iconic Heroes from MapleStory: Unleash and recruit three of the six legendary heroes from MapleStory: The best thief ever, Phantom; Archer and ruler of the elves, Mercedes; And the inconspicuous peasant boy Evan, who became the master of the dragon.
Phantoms Explore Lost Island: Players can travel to the event dungeon "Phantoms Lost Island", where they have the opportunity to fight against hordes of enemies for great rewards (available until January 19).
Rewards for Activity: Everyone who logs in during the Collaboration receives a ★ 3 to 5 reward and 1000 Perfect Genes daily (up to four times) (available until 31 January).
MapleStory Event Shop: Exclusive items, such as the limited "Marine Boy Evan' costume for Evan, can be purchased at the Event Shop (available until 18 January).
Google Play and the App Store can now download the update free of charge.


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Hi Barbara, Great looking condo. I am sure you will have plenty of interested buyers. Best wishes for a successful open house this weekend.
Gary & Melynda Wolter (CRS) 480-269-1164 It's a wonderful community. Thank you!
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Q: Returning object slug inside of Wordpress loop I have a variable $terms that contains:
 Array (
   [230] => stdClass Object (
      [term_id] => 230
      [name] => Executive Committee
      [slug] => executive_committee
      [term_group] => 0
      [term_taxonomy_id] => 241
      [taxonomy] => team_member_filter
      [description] =>
      [parent] => 0
      [count] => 1
      [object_id] => 1561
      [filter] => raw
   )
)

Each post contains this array, obviously the '230' key is different for each post.  Inside of the default wordpress loop, i can print_r($terms) and it returns this array for every post.  I need to echo the 'slug' value for each post.  I can spit out the slug value by writing $terms[230]->slug, but of course this only returns the first instance. How do I return each posts 'slug' value in the loop?
Here's my loop:
<?php $args = array('post_type' => 'team-member','posts_per_page'=>-1,'order'=>'DESC','orderby'=>'date'); ?>
<?php query_posts($args); ?>
<?php $terms = get_the_terms(get_the_ID(), 'team_member_filter'); ?>

    <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

        <!-- Get the taxonomy -->
        <?php print_r($terms[230]->slug); ?>

   <?php endwhile; ?>

How do I replace the '230' so that I get the 'slug' value for each post.

A: You're using get_the_terms outside of the loop therefore it's returning the terms for the first post. It doesn't change as you loop through the posts.
Move $terms = ... inside the loop.
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    <?php $terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'team_member_filter' ); ?>

Next up $terms is an array. I would suggest looping through it.
<?php if ( $terms && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) {
    foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
        echo $term->slug; // don't forget to format.
    }
} ?>

If you're sure there's only one you could always do the following instead:
<?php echo current( $terms )->slug; ?>

If you do take this route it's probably worth keeping the if statement just in case something went wrong.

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Beautiful Weddings at your Fingertips.
Get updated about who's coming and who's not through RSVPs. Allot rooms and provide flight and transport information to your guests for your destination wedding.
Upload and download features on the app allow your guests to upload pictures from their gallery. They also get to view pictures and videos uploaded by others of the wedding in one place and interact with them through likes and comments.
Give a contemporary touch to your good ol' invites by sending them out on a digital platform. Use Wed Upp's E-Invites to send invitations to your guests. All you need to do is feed in details on a set-template!
Have a separate guest list for different functions? Create a bucket of guests for specific events and send invites only to them.
Download pictures directly from the application or share them instantly on other social media sites through Wed Upp.
Personalised wedding centric filters for quirky pictures. Feeling too 'jhakas'? How about stamping it on your even more jhakas picture?
You get to choose what your app looks like. Easy customisable themes that help you reflect your ideas through set-templates.
First impressions last. A user can showcase their individuality and let their friends and family know, who they are & what they like.
Capture your memories on a photo album or frame it in a collage.
Easy accessibility to all venues for various functions through in-app google maps make travel convenient for all your guests.
Don't want people to miss out on any of your functions? Send them a reminder in advance or on-day about the function, date and time through in-app notifications and SMS.
Vegetarian, vegan, non-vegetarian, social drinker, non-drinker – so many choices! Know about your guests' preferences through Food & Alcohol Preference Widgets.
Your guests are facing a problem during the wedding? Don't worry. They can send a message directly to the person in-charge from your family through the app to get more information.
Don't you want to know how well your guests know you? The '20 Questions' game is where the guests have to answer the 'Who Is More Likely To' questions about the bride & groom. E.g: Who is more likely to get late for a meeting? Ans: Bride or Groom.
Put your guests to task as they have fun scouting for things while you get all the pictures your photographer missed! ISPY gives a pre-set list of interesting things guests can photograph and upload on an album.
Posed for every flashing camera, but don't know where the pictures are? Tagging features allow others to tag a photo of you, so you can view it with ease. What's even better? You have the option to only see pictures of yourself and not scroll through hundreds of them to find yours!
No need to spin the bottle! Wed Upp's Truth & Dare game allows the guests to send a question to fellow guests that they have to answer truly. For the adventurers, send or accept 'dares' to add some zing to the wedding!
What's the secret to happy marriage? Well, there isn't a one. So how did you friends and family make this far? They had words from the wise to guide them through. Believe it or not, you'll need them too. Let your friends and family leave you well wishes and cautionary tales in your Happy Couple Manual.
Memories or Memeries? Are you even on the internet, if you haven't even made or laughed at one meme? Wed Upp's Meme Generator lets you make memes out of pictures clicked by you at the wedding!
Customisable widgets and sections that give you full control of what your users can or cannot see.
Assistance provided round the clock to solve all your queries and help you through difficulties.
A hassle-free ride for the guests through OLA Direct. Book a cab to the venues using in-app OLA Direct Services.
A unique wedding code for all invitees created by you. Your guests can log in with the code you created to be a part of your wedding.
If you're playing a game, you have to keep score! The meter keeps real-time score accounting for all games, number of photos shared, number of likes and more by the respective parties.
You have your very own fam-celebrities? Let them know how special they are by giving them a verified mark on their accounts.
If you do not prefer taking gifts from your guests, you can give them an option to donate to a charity you support.
If you and your partner have captured your love prior to the wedding and want to share it with the world, the Pre-Wedding Photo Upload option lets you post your pre-wedding shoot pictures!
A time-tracker that constantly updates you with remaining days and time left for the event.
What if you really needed a lamp for your house, but all you got was crockery? The Register lets your guests know what your gift preferences are.
All conversation of the wedding and for the wedding should happen in one space. The in-app messaging features help you to create group chats, send broadcasts as well personal message people on the app.
Once you experience a wedding on Wed Upp, you'll be able to cherish the memories forever. There's no expiration date for the app. Your guests can use the app for different weddings too!


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Q: Promise looping dynamically How to loop this code dynamically and get final response so that the response will be sent to another promise
new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {

  setTimeout(() => resolve(1), 1000);

}).then(function(result) {

  alert(result); // 1

  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { // (*)
    setTimeout(() => resolve(result * 2), 1000);
  });

}).then(function(result) { // (**)

  alert(result); // 2

  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => resolve(result * 2), 1000);
  });

}).then(function(result) {

  alert(result); // 4

});

A:     const EXIT_VALUE = null
    const MAX_RESULT = 40

    function delay(value, func){
        return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(()=> resolve(func(value)), 1000))
    }

    function cascade(value, func){
        return delay(value, func)
            .then(result => {
                if (result !== EXIT_VALUE) {
                    return cascade(result, func)
                }
            })
    }

    function done(result){
        console.log('final result:', result)
        return EXIT_VALUE
        // or even
        // return Promise.resolve(EXIT_VALUE)
    }

    cascade(1, value => {
        console.log(value)
        let result = value*2
        if (result>MAX_RESULT){
            return done(result)
        }
        return result
    })

    // outputs (every second):
    1
    2
    4
    6
    8
    16
    32
    final result: 64


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module CorreiosSigep
  module LogisticReverse
    class RequestSRO < BaseClient
      def initialize(sro)
        @sro = sro
        super()
      end

      def process
        xml = Builders::XML::RequestSRO.build_xml(@sro)
        process_response invoke(:acompanhar_pedido, xml)
      end

      private
      def process_response response
        correios_hash = response.body[:acompanhar_pedido_response][:return]

        case correios_hash[:cod_erro].to_i
        when 0
          correios_hash[:coleta][:objeto][:numero_etiqueta]
        else
          # TODO look for a descritpion of this weird error
          raise Models::Errors::SRONotReady
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Vol. IV Number 3, Summer 2004 Crypto-Tory?
Vol. IV Number 3, Summer 2004 Book Reviews
Crypto-Tory?
How can Jefferson be rescued from the contemporary historians' obsession with sex and slavery?
by Jean M. Yarbrough
Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind
A review of Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind, by Michael Knox Beran
It was Merrill Peterson who first observed that, alone among the Founders, Thomas Jefferson acted as the mirror in which subsequent generations of Americans found reflected their most urgent political and moral concerns. Michael Knox Beran opens his study by rehearsing some of the more compelling Jeffersonian images that have been etched in the American mind. First is Lincoln's, who insisted that the principles of the Declaration belonged to all men and women, including slaves. Then came Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in the midst of the Depression, cast Jefferson as the voice of the people against "economic royalists." Two generations later, John F. Kennedy revered him for the cool, rational, scientific qualities JFK wished to project to the nation as it developed the technology to face down the Soviets and send Americans to the moon. As powerful as these images are, Beran declares them no longer serviceable, having been "killed off by exposure to scandal and DNA testing." Beran is surely correct when he observes that the latest crop of historians, caught up in the drama of slavery and sex, has diminished both the man and his actions. Beran, who is not a professional historian but a practicing attorney with a strong literary bent, draws a new portrait of Jefferson that combines psychobiography, travelogue, and political story-telling, in an effort to make Jefferson, in all his genius, new again.
To do this, Beran invites us to accompany Jefferson on "a mental odyssey" to the great ports of classical Europe, to stroll with him through the "grandest marts" of Western civilization, and watch him as he "fondled" and "intellectually caressed" the antique virtues and creeds of the Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews. Beran's Jefferson captures the spirit of our times: decidedly postmodern, more artist than statesman or, to be more precise, a political poet, who gathers up the mystical shards of now-decayed cultures to enrich the material foundations of the modern Whig republic. This, Beran claims, is Jefferson's great, but hitherto unrecognized contribution, the one most useful for us now. Though an unapologetic Whig, a materialist, and rational empiricist, Jefferson recognized at some level that this view was inadequate to plumb "the great mysteries of existence." The "fates" had once granted him the chance to capture these mysteries, and he had done so magnificently in the Declaration, ending the "cleaner and more transparent" Whig statement of principles with an appeal to "sacred honor"—"a feudal idea, dark with meanings and obligations." But then his Muse had fallen silent. A decade later, his travels to the South of France, the Mediterranean, and Rome, would revive and deepen Jefferson's inner Tory. Having drunk the dark rich wines of Burgundy and gazed on blood-stained marbles, Jefferson was now ready "to descend into the Tory crypts and assemble in those strange vaults, in the light of those dim candles," a philosophy that probed the human heart more deeply than his sunny Enlightenment outlook. The discovery of this "older European mysticism," Beran thinks, eventually led Jefferson to his greatest insight: modern republicanism must discover some way to promote those virtues necessary to human flourishing, which do not ordinarily take root in such republics.
Accept for the moment that Beran is on to something, even if his insistence on labeling this side of Jefferson "Tory" is a bit puzzling. How, concretely, would the Virginian's discovery of mysticism, irrationality, and violence have enriched American political life? Upon returning to America in 1789, Jefferson immediately joined Washington's Cabinet as Secretary of State, where he proceeded to attack Hamilton's character and motives at every turn. Beran agrees that Jefferson acted largely out of "instinct and not analysis," rehearsing a well-worn battery of "country clichés," and, as a result, failed to distinguish the useful parts of Hamilton's program from those that might fairly be called misguided or vicious. Beran nevertheless concludes that, in contrast to earlier periods in his political life (as Governor of Virginia or in the 1780s) Jefferson was able this time to marshall his "hatred and anger" and make them productive.
Fortified by his visits to the ruins and shrines of old Europe, he could draw on the language of the Old Testament prophets to pronounce anathemas on Hamilton. To be sure, Beran does wonder whether it ever occurred to Jefferson that he too was worshipping false idols, or if he ever understood that his support of free trade did as much to promote the commercial republic as Hamilton's policies, but he lets him off lightly. Jefferson had not yet done the "work he needed to do," to integrate into the emerging economic order the Tory concern with preserving the traditional habits of craft and husbandry, and so, he simply thundered against Hamilton and his party.
These creative energies, unleashed by his European travels, continued to well up in Jefferson throughout the 1790s. After retiring as Secretary of State, he returned home to build Monticello, a project well designed to "satisfy the dark spots of his soul as well as the light." Beran makes much of the "utensils of primitive slaughter" Jefferson had reproduced as architectural ornaments for his living room, though he fails to mention his many ingenious inventions and designs, or the great range of objects Jefferson assembled for display, most of them not from Tory crypts.
But even if Monticello did satisfy some deep creative need, the charms of domestic life proved too weak to hold him for long. Within a few years he was back in the thick of public life, plotting a run for the presidency in 1796, and settling for second place in the ill-starred Adams Administration. As Beran puts it, in a phrase that captures perfectly his style: Jefferson had on him "the stamp of importunate destiny, the mark by which the fates set some men apart as specially their own." Paradoxically, Adams's policies seem to have brought out the inner Tory in Jefferson. Once again, he cast himself as a visionary prophet leading his people out of bondage, though this time he turned for inspiration to the essayists and poets of the English Civil War. Appropriating the language of Protestant salvation, Jefferson denounced the Alien and Sedition Acts, and called for a swift end to this "reign of witches." In Beran's opinion, the Kentucky Resolutions, penned anonymously while Jefferson was Adams's Vice President, were his "most politically potent document" since the Revolution. The Resolutions sounded the prophetic voice that created the Democratic party and catapulted Jefferson into the presidency. Together with the Declaration of Independence, they establish Jefferson among the first rank of America's political poets, second only to Lincoln. Here Beran's own Tory sympathies overpower his reason. For how could the document that laid the groundwork for destroying the Union establish Jefferson as a political poet second only to the Lincoln who preserved it? If Jefferson is to be accorded this rank, it must be solely for his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, and not also the Kentucky Resolutions.
Although Jefferson's opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts helped him defeat Adams, Beran finds little to celebrate once the Virginian was in office. As president, Jefferson did not fail, but the office could not satisfy his deepest creative needs. His political program was "beautifully dull." Even the Louisiana Purchase, one of the greatest acquisitions in history, turns out to be one of the "drabbest." Drab, in fact, is Beran's general assessment of the modern commercial republic: its policies are drab, and so are its virtues, unless seasoned with a bit of Tory mysticism and romance. By Jefferson's second term, the exercise of executive power had so "coarsened" his feelings and perceptions that he wasted his creative energies sniping at Federalist judges, slapping on an ill-advised trade embargo, and getting caught up in the Burr conspiracy.
It was only after his retirement from the presidency, and his return to that great shrine to his creative powers, that Jefferson's demons at last spoke to him in a constructive and original way. From his mountaintop retreat, Jefferson realized that the great problem facing America was how to keep public virtue alive in a modern commercial republic where most citizens prized above all their right to be left alone. Jefferson's answer was twofold: education and the wards (his scheme for participatory local government). Both the University of Virginia and the wards put into practice Jefferson's insight that "community" or republican self-government has spatial limits, and that if we are to cultivate those qualities of soul that the modern Whig republic tends to grind down, it is to our local communities and associations that we must turn.
Beran is certainly correct that there is more to the good life than is contained within the Whig philosophy, but he is less persuasive when he tries to attribute these Tory qualities to Jefferson, or to discover in Jefferson's republicanism a hidden Tory impulse. In fact, the entire argument runs contrary to Jefferson's thoughts on the matter. More than once, he insisted that the distinctions between Whig and Tory were rooted in the "temper and constitution of mind of different individuals," and were not aspects of the same man. How could they be, when Jefferson viewed the Tory as a "sickly, weak, timid" man who "fears the people"? It may be a "continuing grief" to Beran that Jefferson could not acknowledge his imaginative Tory side more openly, but given Jefferson's understanding of the Tory personality, it comes as no surprise.
Moreover, it is not clear how this postmodern pastiche of Tory mysticism and Whig rationality can rescue Jefferson from the contemporary historians' obsession with sex and slavery. Indeed, what Beran shares with these historians is an attraction to dark, secret places, where they, if not Jefferson, can let their imaginations run wild. And finally, it's hard to see how a book that so relentlessly describes national politics as dull, drab, and prosaic, while celebrating mysticism, irrationality, and the demonic, can aspire to revive public virtue in our time.
Jean M. Yarbrough is professor of government and Gary M. Pendy, Sr., Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College. She is the author, most recently, of Theodore Roosevelt and the... read more
Next in the summer 2004 Issue
Leo Strauss and American Foreign Policy
by Thomas G. West
Is there a neoconservative connection?
Slaughtering the 14th Amendment
by Timothy Sandefur
A review of the Slaughterhouse Cases and the Fourteenth Amendment.
No Miracle In San Francisco
by Jeremy Rabkin
Examining the creation of the United Nations and its future usefulness.


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Job Creators Network Take AOC to Task in Times Square for Taking Amazon Pullout Victory Lap
Nick Kangadis | February 20, 2019
It really is this plain and simple, folks. Socialism sucks. What do you do with an ideology that shuns the free market in favor of the government being everyone's mommy and daddy? How does that ever succeed? It never has, so far.
Nonpartisan organization Job Creators Network (JCN) was none too pleased with the victory lap socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took after Amazon pulled out of their deal to build a second headquarters in New York, buying billboard space in Times Square to respond to Ocasio-Cortez's ignorance.
Here's Ocasio-Cortez's tweet following Amazon's announcement on Valentine's Day:
Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon's corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world. https://t.co/nyvm5vtH9k
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 14, 2019
The move to build in New York, despite receiving a major tax break to do so, would have resulted in 25,000 new jobs and countless amounts of money in revenue for the area by way of Amazon employees shopping at local businesses. Amazon was also planning on spending $2.5 billion towards building their new headquarters.
In response, the JCN billboard sarcastically thanked Ocasio-Cortez, while also listing what her victory cost the state of New York and New York City.
Fox News' Laura Ingraham snapped a shot of the billboard, already up in Times Square:
Check out the sign in Times Sq.! Thanks to @JobCreatorsUSA! pic.twitter.com/iIN0DTo8r2
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) February 20, 2019
Just in case you didn't notice it at the bottom of the billboard, JCN used the hashtag #SocialismTakesCapitalismCreates.
"The Amazon pullout is a perfect example of what we've been saying: socialism takes and capitalism creates," said Alfredo Ortiz, JCN President and CEO. "The economic consequences of Amazon's pullout is just a small taste of the harm that is to come if Ocasio-Cortez's anti-business canon comes to fruition and is made federal policy."
I really couldn't have said it any better myself.
H/T: Breitbart
Job Creators Network
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Nancy.Diagnostics;
using Nancy;
using Nancy.Hosting.Self;

namespace KegelApp.Server
{
	public class ApplicationBootstrapper : Nancy.DefaultNancyBootstrapper
	{
		protected override void ConfigureConventions (Nancy.Conventions.NancyConventions nancyConventions)
		{
			nancyConventions.StaticContentsConventions.Add (Nancy.Conventions.StaticContentConventionBuilder.AddDirectory ("Static", @"Static"));

			base.ConfigureConventions (nancyConventions);
		}

		protected override DiagnosticsConfiguration DiagnosticsConfiguration {
			get { return new DiagnosticsConfiguration { Password = @"test"}; }
		}

		protected override void ApplicationStartup (Nancy.TinyIoc.TinyIoCContainer container, Nancy.Bootstrapper.IPipelines pipelines)
		{
			StaticConfiguration.DisableErrorTraces = false;

			base.ApplicationStartup (container, pipelines);
		}
	}
}


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Showing posts with label George Benson. Show all posts
Turn Your Love Around by George Benson (1982)
"Turn Your Love Around" is a pop/R&B single by George Benson. The song was written by Grammy winners Bill Champlin of Chicago, Steve Lukather of Toto and producer and guitarist Jay Graydon to help fill out Benson's 1981 greatest hits album, The George Benson Collection. The song won a Best R&B Song Grammy Award at the 25th Grammy Awards in 1983 for Champlin, Graydon, and Lukather as its co-writers.
"Turn Your Love Around" reached number one on the soul singles charts and number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts in early 1982, as well as the top ten on the jazz chart. It is ranked as the 27th biggest hit of 1982. In Canada, the song spent two weeks at number 10.
Category: '80s #1 Hits, 1982, Blues, George Benson, Jazz, Pop, Pop-Jazz, Quiet Storm, Soul, Soul Jazz, Soul/R&B


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Hito est un recueil d'histoires courtes de Yukito Kishiro publié en 1997 par l'éditeur Shūeisha, nommé en référence à la nouvelle Hito datant de 1988.

Liste des nouvelles
Le recueil comprend les histoires :
 Kikai, nouvelle datant de 1984.
 Kaiyōsei, nouvelle datant de 1988.
 Hito, nouvelle datant de 1988.
 Dai Mashin ( « La grande machine »), nouvelle datant de 1989.
 Uchū kaizoku shōnendan ( « Jeunes pirates de l'espace »), nouvelle en deux parties datant de 1990.
 Mirai Tōkyō Head Man, nouvelle datant de 1991.

Autour de l'œuvre
La nouvelle Kikai permet à Yukito Kishiro d'être récompensé du prix des jeunes dessinateurs de Shōgakukan.
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Name: Social Security Amendment Act 1998 (No. 19 of 1998).
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LoC 69: Top 51 Gameshows Countdown!
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Re: LoC 69: Top 51 Gameshows Countdown!
# 20 Win Ben Stein's Money - 43 Points
http://www.youtube.com/v/8DZHxeGChrE
http://www.youtube.com/v/Ujk7Z-6JCqs
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Highest Ranking #7 Johnny Unusual
Win Ben Stein's Money aired on Comedy Central from 1997 to 2003 and starred, wait for it... Ben Stein!
Ben would start with $5000 in his bank. The first round of play, three contestants answered questions from categories usually written using particularly bad puns. Any money won by the contestants was subtracted from Ben's bank. In the second round, the lowest scorer was eliminated and Ben got that contestant's money back. Then he would take over the third position himself. Of the remaining two contestants, which ever was in the lead and the end of the second round. went on to the final bonus round:
The Best of Ten Test of Knowledge. The contestant could chose to go first or second. The host would ask each of them the same ten questions, with a time limit of 60 seconds. If the contestant answered less, he only kept his winnings from the first two rounds. If they were equal, he won and additional $1000. But if he beat Ben Stein, he would win the entire $5000 bank.
Now, contrary to the show's marketing claims, Stein wasn't really risking any of his own money. How it actually worked was that the producers set aside a certain, undisclosed, amount of prize money for each season, from which all the contestants winnings were taken. Any money that was left at the end of the season went to Stein, in addition to his regular salary. If the winnings went over what was budgeted, the producers paid the extra, and Stein won nothing. He still got paid either way, but he did have an incentive to play well.
The show was also know for co-starring Jimmy Kimmel for it's first three seasons. Kimmel went on to create and co-host The Man Show, and currently, Jimmy Kimmel Live.
What's the best use for all those extra quarters? Arcade games of course!
Counting down the Top 50 Coin Operated Games!
Mrs. Dick Courier
The FBI Pays Me to Surf
keeping an eye on the sammich since 1993
The ones with Kimmel were great, can't remember who replaced him, but he wasn't as good.
Or am I thinking of The Man Show?
Opticians are easy on the eyes
goflyblind
Ephialtes
i was told there would be sugar syrup.
it was a she, and she was really meh. tried to continue kimmel's sarcastic snark, and didn't pull it off quite so well.
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You could be thinking of the Man Show. It sucked after Jimmy and Adam left.
And there were two more hosts to Win Ben Stein's Money, a woman who was pretty forgettable, and Jimmy's cousin Sal, who was better, but not as good as Jimmy.
#19 (Tie) Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? - 44 Points
http://www.youtube.com/v/_w22aasWIPU
Highest Ranking Tie #4 Kete & Johnny Unusual
WitWiCS ran on PBS from 1991 to 1995. It was based on the series of computer games of the same name, and like those games, was intended to teach kids about Geography.
Three children played the game as "gumshoes", who were supposed to be helping to track down the location of one of Carmen's lackeys. The host of the show, ACME Special agent Greg Lee (his real name) would present a series of sketches describing a geographic location. The kids would be given three choices, and had to pick the one that fit. At some point during this rounds, the "Lightning" round would spontaneously begin, and a series of questions would be asked related to the most recently mentioned location. After which would be some skit involving the Chief (broadway actress Lynne Thigpen). For the final season, there was also a Training Exercise, where they'd go through trash cans looking for clues. Then would come the Phone Tap, where the contestants would hear a conversation between the episode's crook and Sandiego. Sandiego would describe some location, and again, the kids would be given three choices to pick from. Then the Chase, effectively another lightning round. And finally, the Final Clue, which was like Final Jeopardy. The lowest scorer at this point would be eliminated. We'd now know the location of the episode's crook.
The two remaining contestants would be shown a slide show of locations in the general vicinity of the crook. They then be shown a board with the names of fifteen locations. Behind three of them were the Loot, the Warrent and the Crook. The players took turns guessing them. Whoever found all three, in that order, went on the last game: The Map. The crook would give up Carmen's location, narrowed down to a continent. The Map was a large map of that continent on the floor. The host would name a series of locations on the continent, and the contestant had to place markers on the map that indicated the location named. They got up to two guess per location. They had to get eight in 45 seconds to win.
The show was very entertaining and creative, loaded will interesting characters and well put together skits. And it was also informative, which was the whole point. And I would be remiss not to mention Rockapella, the excellent barbershop quartet that did much of the music and songs for the show. There was also a game show version of Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego that lasted two seasons.
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Oooh. I forgot Carmen Sandiego.
DO IT ROCKAPELLA!
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I love Wait Wait. Fav panel member has to be Mo Rocca. But all the panelists are great.
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#18 Password - 44 Points
http://www.youtube.com/v/C_n5kzOTCd8
http://www.youtube.com/v/08M2yorJ028
http://www.youtube.com/v/3M2BbzCCR8c
Highest Rank #9 Mrs Dick Courier
the password is... password
The original Password ran from 1962 to 1967 and starred Allen Ludden. The premise for the show was pretty simple. Two contestants would be paired up with two celebrities. One member of each side would be given the "password" and they had to try and make their teammate say it. However, they could only give them one word clues. A correct answer would start out being worth 10 points, with the value decreasing by one for each incorrect guess or illegal clue. The two sides would alternate until someone got it, or ten clues had been given with no successful answer (this was later reduced to six). First team to 25 wins $100/$250 depending on daytime or evening. The winning team goes to a lightning round, where they have 60 seconds to go through five more passwords, with the celebrity always giving the clues. Each correct answer was worth extra money ($50 originally). An extra "betting" round was later added where they could wager up to all their winning on getting one more within 15 seconds. Then they'd do it again, with the players swapping celebrities.
However, I expect most people are more familiar with the two follow-up shows, Password Plus and Super Password, which were effectively the same show. In these versions, the individual passwords weren't worth anything, points or money. However, all the passwords were themselves clues for one big Password Puzzle. Each time a side successfully guessed one of the words, the contestant on that side got to guess the puzzle word. It was this final word that was worth money. Whoever reached a certain total first would go on to the bonus round. The bonus round was also altered. There were now 10 words they had to get through, but the first letters of each word were in alphabetical order. So if one started with A, the next would start with B, and so on.
Betty White was on all three shows, but I can't think of anyone else who was. Also, these shows became somewhat notorious for their screw ups.
http://www.youtube.com/v/NEfa99LbSYo
http://www.youtube.com/v/3MlOkZCms-w
http://www.youtube.com/v/LjOx8AqbcAU
And the the very last episode:
http://www.youtube.com/v/28eeruMnRUY
Johnny Unusual
Despite it being a kids show, I was expecting Carmen Sandiego to make into the top 10. Best kids game show of all time.
I love it when Jimmy Fallon plays Password withe Betty White. He gets very competitive.
God damnit, I just lost the entire next entry. Now I'll have to retype it all from scratch
#17 Who Wants to be a Millionairre - 46 Points
http://www.youtube.com/v/OhmsXtqJQBU
http://www.youtube.com/v/9qO1wUalsMw
http://www.youtube.com/v/BZGxiApPiWE
There, done.
The above is the complete game of John Carpenter, the first person to win the Million in the US version of the game, beating the first UK winner Judith Keppel by a year and a day (Nov 19, 1999 vs Nov 20, 2000. That's weird). I'm amazed at how easy those questions were.
Anyway, WWtbaM was originally a UK show that started in 1999 and is still on the air. It's had the same host for it's entire run, Chris Tarrant. 12 contestants would play a "fastest finger" question where whoever answered it correctly the fastest got to play the main game. In the main game they had to answer a series of 15 questions (later reduced to 12) of increasing difficulty. With each one answered correctly, their prize amount aproximately doubled. They could quit at any time before giving an answer and take their prize. If they got one wrong, they dropped to 0, 1000, or 32000 pounds, whichever was the highest they had reached.
And of course, the show has the famous "life-lines": Poll the Audience, 50-50 and Phone a Friend, that they can use one each. Later on another lifeline was added, which would replace the question with another one. Initially contestants were given unlimited time on every question. This proved extremely boring, so they changed it in 2010 so there was a time limit for the first 7 questions.
Nobody won the top prize until the sixth series, when Judith Keppel won a million pounds. And there's some speculation that that game was rigged. Apparently BBC One was showing the finale of One Foot in the Grave at the same time, and they hoped to draw ratings away from that. Or so some people believe.
The US version came about when producer Michael Davies heard about this British show, and thought it might be what ABC needed to pull it's ratings out of last place. The show was such a success that they began showing it multiple evenings per week, until people got sick of it. It ran from 1999 to 2002, hosted by Regis Philbin, and followed the original format of the UK version almost exactly. After ABC dropped it, it went into syndication, with Meredith Viera as host. During that time, the show adopted many changes, first of which was getting rid of the fastest finger game. It adopted most of the same changes as the UK version did, but made up some of it's own, such as randomizing the order of the questions. Meredith Viera left the show last year, and Cedric the Entertainer is set to replace her in September.
#16 (Tie) Supermarket Sweep - 47 Points
http://www.youtube.com/v/CcXWOPam704
http://www.youtube.com/v/djBLnIYkvNg
Highest Ranking #5 Mrs Dick Courier
I had no idea this show was originally from the 60's. Supposedly this is all that remains from those tapings. At least that's available to the public. I heard that ABC deleted all the episodes they had.
Anyway, the show was originally on ABC from 1965 to 1967. Other than that, I couldn't find out much. The show was held at an actual supermarket chain, namely Food Fair, which has since gone out of business. The three couples start with 1:30, and the women have to guess the prices of various grocery items. For each item, whoever guesses closest gets 15 seconds added to their time. Then they'd run the Big Sweep. There are bonus items worth $10-100 extra. And they get to keep everything they collect during the sweep, even if they lose.
The version that most of us know was the remake that first aired on Lifetime from 1990 to 1995, and later on PAX from 2000 to 2003. It had the same basic idea as the original show, but there was a lot more variety in the types of games played to earn extra time. There was also a second round added where the contestants had to alternate answering. And finally, there was a bonus game, aptly named the Bonus Sweep. The team started with one minute and one clue. This clue was meant to lead then to the first product, which had the second clue attached to it. That led to a third clue, which led to one final product. Behind this was $5000. If they found it, they won it, but they had to find all three products in the right order for it to count.
That's it for tonight. I have to sing in church tomorrow, so I can't stay up till 2am like I usually do.
I remember when the pauses on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire carried weight... but then when we got used to it, it just ate time. Still, despite it's over-airings, it was a solid quiz show.


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By - Associated Press - Wednesday, March 13, 2019
BOSTON (AP) - A woman who grew up in Massachusetts was one of the 157 people who died in an Ethiopian Airlines crash last weekend.
Family members say 24-year-old Samya Stumo was aboard the plane that crashed Sunday minutes after takeoff.
Stumo grew up in Sheffield and graduated from Mount Everett High School in 2010. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015 and had just taken a job with ThinkWell, a global health organization.
Her grandmother, Laura Nader, an anthropology professor at the University of California Berkeley, tells The Boston Globe that Stumo was heading to Uganda for her first project for the group.
A UMass spokesman says Stumo was known "for engaging others by earning their respect, friendship and trust."
She was the grand-niece of consumer advocate Ralph Nader.


CAIRO – 16 November 2017: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi issued a decree approving a one-million-euro grant offered by the French Development agency to back the first aid project in Egypt.
The grant agreement was signed between the French agency and the Egyptian government on March 27, 2017 and it was later approved by the House of Representatives.
The decree was published in the Gazette out Thursday.