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+Lu 7:36; 11:37
+Ps 37:32; Jer 20:10
Jesus—The Way, p. 193
Greatest Man, chap. 82
12/1/1988, p. 9
jy 193; gt chapter 82; w88 12/1 9
+Mt 12:10; Lu 6:9; 13:15; Joh 7:23
+Ex 23:5; De 22:4
+Mt 12:11; Lu 13:15
+Mt 22:46
+Mt 23:6; Lu 11:43; 20:46
it-2 356; w89 11/15 25;
+Pr 25:6
8/15/2010, p. 3
it-2 356; w10 8/15 3;
w71 199; ad 1126; te 104-105
ad 1126; w62 284
+Pr 15:33; Jas 4:10; 1Pe 5:5
it-2 356; w10 8/15 3; w89 11/15 25;
ad 1126; w54 31
+Ps 18:27; Pr 29:23; Mt 23:12; Jas 4:6
w61 156; w52 287; w39 83
w86 1/15 23;
w66 52; g65 1/22 7; w61 91; w53 3
+Ne 8:10; Job 31:16; Pr 3:28
it-2 653; w09 8/1 20-21;
w81 4/1 20; w77 525; w66 52; w65 455; g65 1/22 7; w63 451; w61 91; w53 3
+Joh 5:29; 11:24; Ac 24:15
w81 4/1 20; w78 9/1 28; w77 525; w65 178; g65 1/22 7; w63 451
Or, "is at the feast."
+Lu 13:29; Re 19:9
12/15/1988, p. 8
gt chapter 83; w88 12/15 8;
w78 9/1 28; fm 190-191
Lit., "He."
+Mt 22:2
Jesus—The Way, pp. 194-195
12/15/1988, pp. 8-9
jy 194-195; gt chapter(s) 83; w88 12/15 8-9;
w72 214-215; g69 9/22 27
+Pr 9:5
Insight, Volume 1, p. 1180
it-1 1180; jy 194-195; gt chapter(s) 83; w88 12/15 8-9;
w72 214-215; ad 817; g69 9/22 27; pr32 38; w31 164
Or, "Please let me be excused."
+Mt 6:24; Lu 8:14; 1Ti 6:9; 2Ti 4:10
it-1 1180; jy 194-195; gt chapter 83; w88 12/15 9;
w72 214-215; g69 9/22 27; pr32 38; w31 164
jy 194-195; gt chapter 83; w88 12/15 9;
w72 214-215
+De 24:5; 1Co 7:33
+Mt 22:9; 28:19; Ac 13:46; 1Co 1:26
ad 817; g69 9/22 27
g69 9/22 28; w44 283
w74 695; g69 9/22 28; w61 127
+Mt 21:43; 22:8; Heb 3:19
Or, "life." See App 4A.
+Re 12:11
+De 33:9; Mt 10:37; Lu 18:29; Joh 12:25
10/1/1995, pp. 8-9
1/1/1989, p. 8
it-1 1042; jy 196; w08 3/15 32; w95 10/1 8-9; w92 7/15 9; gt chapter 84; w89 1/1 8; w86 7/1 27; w86 8/15 30;
w85 7/15 17-19; w80 5/1 13-14; w75 351; w75 381; ad 718; w67 675; w64 486; g64 2/22 28; w59 690; w52 255; w42 237; wl 179; w36 71
See App 5C.
+Mt 16:24; Mr 8:34; Lu 9:23; Ga 6:14
it-2 1117; jy 196; gt chapter 84; w89 1/1 8;
ad 1609; w63 328; w59 690; wl 179
+Pr 24:27; Mt 21:33
5/1/1995, pp. 28, 31
Family Happiness, pp. 13-14, 40
w20.03 8; jy 196; w03 8/1 5; w02 5/1 32; w98 12/1 8-9; fy 13-14, 40; w95 5/1 28, 31; w92 8/15 26-29; gt chapter 84; w90 11/15 17-18; w89 1/1 8; w86 7/1 27;
w81 6/1 24; w79 2/1 15; w79 4/15 3-5; g78 10/8 16; yy 87-88; g65 3/22 4; w61 6; yb61 7; g61 11/8 4; w59 690
yy 87-88; g65 3/8 3; w59 690
yy 87-88; g65 3/8 3
+Pr 20:18
1/1/1989, pp. 8-9
it-1 89; jy 196-197; gt chapter 84; w89 1/1 8-9;
w66 503; g61 12/8 28; w59 690
Insight, Volume 1, pp. 88-89
it-1 88-89;
+Mt 19:27; Lu 9:62; Php 3:7
jy 197; gt chapter 84; w89 1/1 9;
km 12/84 1; w74 605; w73 278; w59 690; w58 563
+Mt 5:13; Mr 9:50; Col 4:6
it-2 842; jy 197; gt chapter 84; w89 1/1 9;
g75 8/8 19; ad 1433; w59 690; w55 190
+Mt 13:43; Mr 4:9; Re 2:29
w61 72; w59 690; w55 190; g31 11/25 121
Luke 14:1Lu 7:36; 11:37
Luke 14:1Ps 37:32; Jer 20:10
Luke 14:3Mt 12:10; Lu 6:9; 13:15; Joh 7:23
Luke 14:5Ex 23:5; De 22:4
Luke 14:5Mt 12:11; Lu 13:15
Luke 14:6Mt 22:46
Luke 14:7Mt 23:6; Lu 11:43; 20:46
Luke 14:8Pr 25:6
Luke 14:10Mt 23:12; Lu 18:14
Luke 14:10Pr 15:33; Jas 4:10; 1Pe 5:5
Luke 14:11Ps 18:27; Pr 29:23; Mt 23:12; Jas 4:6
Luke 14:13Ne 8:10; Job 31:16; Pr 3:28
Luke 14:14Joh 5:29; 11:24; Ac 24:15
Luke 14:15Lu 13:29; Re 19:9
Luke 14:16Mt 22:2
Luke 14:17Pr 9:5
Luke 14:18Mt 6:24; Lu 8:14; 1Ti 6:9; 2Ti 4:10
Luke 14:20De 24:5; 1Co 7:33
Luke 14:21Mt 22:9; 28:19; Ac 13:46; 1Co 1:26
Luke 14:23Mt 22:10
Luke 14:232Co 5:20
Luke 14:24Mt 21:43; 22:8; Heb 3:19
Luke 14:26Re 12:11
Luke 14:26De 33:9; Mt 10:37; Lu 18:29; Joh 12:25
Luke 14:27Mt 16:24; Mr 8:34; Lu 9:23; Ga 6:14
Luke 14:28Pr 24:27; Mt 21:33
Luke 14:31Pr 20:18
Luke 14:32Isa 33:7
Luke 14:33Mt 19:27; Lu 9:62; Php 3:7
Luke 14:34Mt 5:13; Mr 9:50; Col 4:6
Luke 14:35Mt 13:43; Mr 4:9; Re 2:29
14 And on an occasion when he went into the house of a certain one of the rulers of the Pharisees on the sabbath to eat a meal,+ they were closely watching him.+ 2 And, look! there was before him a certain man who had dropsy. 3 So in response Jesus spoke to those versed in the Law and to the Pharisees, saying: "Is it lawful on the sabbath to cure or not?"+ 4 But they kept silent. With that he took hold of [the man], healed him and sent [him] away. 5 And he said to them: "Who of YOU, if his son or bull falls into a well,+ will not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?"+ 6 And they were not able to answer back on these things.+
7 He then went on to tell the invited men an illustration, as he marked how they were choosing the most prominent places for themselves, saying to them:+ 8 "When you are invited by someone to a marriage feast, do not lie down in the most prominent place.+ Perhaps someone more distinguished than you may at the time have been invited by him, 9 and he that invited you and him will come and say to you, 'Let this man have the place.' And then you will start off with shame to occupy the lowest place.+ 10 But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place,+ that when the man that has invited you comes he will say to you, 'Friend, go on up higher.' Then you will have honor in front of all your fellow guests.+ 11 For everyone that exalts himself will be humbled and he that humbles himself will be exalted."+
12 Next he proceeded to say also to the man that invited him: "When you spread a dinner or evening meal, do not call your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors. Perhaps sometime they might also invite you in return and it would become a repayment to you. 13 But when you spread a feast, invite poor people, crippled, lame, blind;+ 14 and you will be happy, because they have nothing with which to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection+ of the righteous ones."
15 On hearing these things a certain one of the fellow guests said to him: "Happy is he who eats bread* in the kingdom of God."+
16 [Jesus]* said to him: "A certain man was spreading a grand evening meal, and he invited many.+ 17 And he sent his slave out at the hour of the evening meal to say to the invited ones, 'Come,+ because things are now ready.' 18 But they all in common started to beg off.+ The first said to him, 'I bought a field and need to go out and see it; I ask you, Have me excused.'*+ 19 And another said, 'I bought five yoke of cattle and am going to examine them; I ask you, Have me excused.'+ 20 Still another said, 'I just married+ a wife and for this reason I cannot come.' 21 So the slave came up and reported these things to his master. Then the householder became wrathful and said to his slave, 'Go out quickly into the broad ways and the lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.'+ 22 In time the slave said, 'Master, what you ordered has been done, and yet there is room.' 23 And the master said to the slave, 'Go out into the roads+ and the fenced-in places, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.+ 24 For I say to YOU people, None of those men that were invited shall have a taste of my evening meal.'"+
25 Now great crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and said to them: 26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own soul,*+ he cannot be my disciple.+ 27 Whoever is not carrying his torture stake* and coming after me cannot be my disciple.+ 28 For example, who of YOU that wants to build a tower does not first sit down and calculate the expense,+ to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, he might lay its foundation but not be able to finish it, and all the onlookers might start to ridicule him, 30 saying, 'This man started to build but was not able to finish.' 31 Or what king, marching to meet another king in war, does not first sit down and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand troops to cope with the one that comes against him with twenty thousand?+ 32 If, in fact, he cannot do so, then while that one is yet far away he sends out a body of ambassadors and sues for peace.+ 33 Thus, you may be sure, none of YOU that does not say good-bye to all his belongings+ can be my disciple.
34 "Salt, to be sure, is fine. But if even the salt loses its strength, with what will it be seasoned?+ 35 It is suitable neither for soil nor for manure. People throw it outside. Let him that has ears to listen, listen."+


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Three Isms (3/3)
Finally, saint-and-aintism involves the reflexive mental process of separating friend and foe, black and white, good and evil. Practitioners of this ism relegate other political views that diverge from theirs even in the slightest to the nether region where ignorant and evil people, you and me that is, gnash their teeth. Contrariwise, partisans hold up their leader, except in rare moments, as virtually without flaws, or at least they transform these flaws—moral transgressions or lack of judgment—somehow into virtues, like a medieval vicar officiating transubstantiation during Mass. To be sure, saint-and-aintism intensifies during election season. Similarly, systems engineer Barbara Oakley describes in her book Evil Genes the Machiavellian personality: "each party's followers can't help but reassure themselves that their candidate and party couldn't possibly be Machiavellian, aside, perhaps, from a cursory jot and tiddle. Or perhaps they suspect 'their guy' has some Machiavellian traits, but they believe the end justifies the means." We expect editorialists and campaign managers to offer only one view as the gospel. It can be particularly aggravating, however, when you're trying to have a conversation with someone and they kick into high saint-and-aint gear.
Seeing the world in such Manichaean terms is not the preserve of religious fundamentalists whose conception of Heilsgeschichte populates the earth with the Elect and the Reprobate awaiting a Judgment Day. I suppose we're talking essentially about an "us and them" mentality. This secular winnowing of the wheat and the chaff takes on religious tones and evinces the same kind of puritanical intolerance of the Other one readily finds in the annals of theological dogma. A case in point would be our American heritage, which in the hands of painters and poets throughout the last two centuries became saturated in theological imagery. We have our martyrs and saints, St. Abraham and St. George, and their respective shrines. We have our infallible Bible, the U.S. Constitution, which like the former needs some exegetical tweaking and "clarification" once in a while to fit current cultural contexts. We have our reprobates in this unfolding epic of redemption: Pennsylvania Congressman John Dickinson who did not see the light, King George III who massacred the innocents, and Judas-like Benedict Arnold who betrayed manifest destiny, to name a few. In this context I also think of the columnist Christopher Hitchens, who, in his iconoclastic and provocative book, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, attempts to identify with the disconsolate reader, whose traditional faith he has sought to undermine, by relating his own disillusionment with Marxism. Dialectical materialism had no use for God or a spiritual realm, but "it most certainly had its martyrs and saints and doctrinaires and (after a while) its mutually excommunicating rival papacies…its schisms and inquisitions and heresy hunts."
I submit to you that every individual, consciously or not, processes information into two categories: the reprobate who are either misguided or evil, on the one hand, and the enlightened ones who share, vindicate or heroically affirm the saint-and-ainter's own viewpoint, on the other. This mental calculus is oftentimes more semi-conscious than fully cognizant. To keep the metaphor, the right hand often doesn't know what the left hand is doing. The problem with this sort of thinking is that, generally speaking, if we see no redeeming qualities in a person, viewpoint, or ideology, it's a telltale sign that we are allowing passions and partisanship to becloud our thinking. Reversely, refusal to concede blemishes in our spokesperson or candidate because we fear such a concession would be a crack in our armor or because we are temporarily caught up in fanatical devotion is an unenlightened (but not unnatural) position to take.
It doesn't take long to identify a saint-and-ainter. They usually have a compulsion to let their views be known more than most people. They're the type with the bumper stickers—a passive-aggressive form of proselytization. Though they'll say otherwise, of course, the truth is that they cannot handle living in a pluralistic society wherein diverse opinions are supposed to coexist. They are accustomed to being in the company of almost-exclusively like-minded friends and acquaintances, and they have little experience in discussing or interacting socially with those who share divergent, led alone, contrary political or religious views. Take for instance the old guy at the locker room the other day whom I overheard blurt out, "Finally we're gonna get rid of those Clinton sleazebags!"
An easy way to ferret out saint-and-ainters is to ask them, in the most courteous tone you can muster, to state some positive attributes about a particular person or viewpoint they have a proclivity to bash and denounce. The tiger will reveal its stripes before too long. How committed are they—indeed are we—to calling a spade a spade and not, as the political commentator Walter Laqueur wryly has it, an agricultural implement?
Unless we're talking about a Hitler or Jesus, the world is too complex for simple saint-and-aint categories. The good commingles with the bad, and so it's intellectually disingenuous to be selective and partisan under the guise of liberality. We pay lip service to such complexities, pluralities and ambiguities, and in our heart of heart promote our dogmas. If you want to engage in a meaningful, respectful dialogue with someone who does not share your perspective, you must exert effort to reverse the curse of xenophobia and intolerance that, optimists notwithstanding, nature has bequeathed us. For those of you who have fought this fight within and are thus more sensitive to saint-and-aintism, you know how maddening it can be when interlocutors deny they see the world as black and white and then proceed to demonstrate their "sheep and goats" worldview in their next utterance.
The Pentecostal preacher, with an unctuous smile, spittle escaping the corner of his enormous mouth, wearing a countenance intermittently kindly and stern, employs a homespun play on words as he belts out the alter call: "There are saints and there are ain'ts." He pauses for effect, fixing his gaze on first-time visitors among the congregation. "Which do you want to be tonight, my friends?" It's been said that the world is a simple place from the pulpit, but we know from the foregoing paragraphs that this subjective division between the philistines and the cognoscenti foisted upon the unsuspecting soul by those hawking their partisan tripe, is not restricted to church folk. Gird yourself against the ubiquitous saint-and-ainters in whatever guise they appear.
In the end, my contention is that politics is essentially a visceral, and not an intellectual, endeavor of our species. True, we construct intellectual arguments to make our case—for this candidate, that idea, these policies—but in the end we make our decisions based on our individual sense of morality and our partisan loyalties, ever tribal and primeval in origin, whether we're fully conscious of doing so. Maybe our "caveman" demons still dominate our will and emotions. Samuel Taylor Coleridge once wrote that history can teach us important lessons but unfortunately "passion and party blind our eyes." Rarely do intellectual arguments convince someone to change political sides or reverse their Weltanschauung. Instead, we re-trench, determined that we'll have a better answer next time. Consequently politics can become so partisan, mean-spirited, intolerant, and hateful in even putatively civil societies such as our own.
I am also suggesting that everyone, somewhere along the line, is an Apostle of a particular outlook, cause, policy, habit, or what have you. And there's a wide range here. One might be pushing for the "rational" approach to international diplomacy or perhaps the "proper" amount of milk one should add to one's Captain Crunch cereal. If I can distort Alexander Pope's words: to proselytize is human. We baptize our proclivities, our idiosyncrasies, opinions that come easy to us, as self-evident truths or general principles applicable to those who to wish live wisely—their understanding of wisely, mind you. So, while we all engage in one of the three isms from time to time, the doom-and-gloomer, axe-to-grinder, and saint-and-ainter do so on a regular basis either because they lack self-cognizance or they feel compelled to have you agree with their view. In either case they wish to conscript you into their cause. We know to take their pronouncements and lamentations with the proverbial grain of salt.
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My fiancé and I camp here in January of 2017 right before my birthday. The campground is gorgeous, with showers, white sandy beaches, and wifi for you glampers out there. Unfortunately for us it was absolutely freezing and we couldn't enjoy the beach, but we hiked all the trails there in two days and I can't begin to say how beautiful the ecosystem is. I'd love to stay there for a week and see even more. Definitely family friendly. I will definitely go back.
Amazing location alongside Deep Creek.
The campground is full of tent sites and RVs accommodations w power. My fiancé and I set up a pop up tent and a two man tent to spend the first night. It was downhill from a bathroom, which was convenient, but the bathrooms didn't have any light switches(?). So bring a headlamp. The campground is situated next to a ton of trails into the backcountry. You have to file a permit with the park rangers, just like any other backcountry trip. We went about 14 miles on our second day, spent the night alongside Deep Creek, and came back that morning. I gave the place 4 stars because there are no showers to bath in and no light switches in the bathroom. I understand there are no showers throughout the Smokies, but the light switches thing really ground my gears at midnight when I had to use the restroom.


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Q: Unable to read csv file uploaded on google cloud storage bucket Goal - To read csv file uploaded on google cloud storage bucket.
Environment - Run Jupyter notebook using SSH instance on Master node. Using python on Jupyter notebook trying to access a simple csv file uploaded onto google cloud storage bucket.
Approaches -
1st approach - Write a simple python program
Wrote following program
import csv
f = open('gs://python_test_hm/train.csv' , 'rb' )
csv_f = csv.reader(f)
for row in csv_f
     print row

Results - Error message "No such file or directory"
2nd Approach - Using gcloud Package tried to access the train.csv file. The sample code is shown below. Below code is not the actual code. The file on google Cloud storage in my version of code was referred to "gs:///Filename.csv"
Results - Error message "No such file or directory"
Load data from CSV
import csv
from gcloud import bigquery
from gcloud.bigquery import SchemaField
client = bigquery.Client()
dataset = client.dataset('dataset_name')
dataset.create()  # API request

SCHEMA = [
    SchemaField('full_name', 'STRING', mode='required'),
    SchemaField('age', 'INTEGER', mode='required'),
 ]
table = dataset.table('table_name', SCHEMA)
table.create()

with open('csv_file', 'rb') as readable:
    table.upload_from_file(
        readable, source_format='CSV', skip_leading_rows=1)

3rd Approach -
import csv
import urllib

url = 'https://storage.cloud.google.com/<bucket>/train.csv'

response = urllib.urlopen(url)
cr = csv.reader(response)
print cr

for row in cr:
    print row

Results - Above code doesn't result in any error but it displays the XML content of the google page as shown below. I am interested in viewing the data of the train csv file.
['<!DOCTYPE html>']
['<html lang="en">']
['  <head>']
['  <meta charset="utf-8">']
['  <meta content="width=300', ' initial-scale=1" name="viewport">']
['  <meta name="google-site-verification" content="LrdTUW9psUAMbh4Ia074-   BPEVmcpBxF6Gwf0MSgQXZs">']
['  <title>Sign in - Google Accounts</title>']

Can someone throw some light on what could be possibly wrong here and how do I achieve my goal? Your help is highly appreciated.
Thanks so much for your help!

A: I assume you are using Jupyter notebook running on a machine in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)?
If that's the case, you will already have the Google Cloud SDK running on that machine (by default).
With this setup you have 2 easy options to work with Google Cloud Storage (GCS):

*

*Use the gcloud/gsutil commands in Jupyter
Writing to GCS: gsutil cp train.csv gs://python_test_hm/train.csv
Reading from GCS:
gsutil cp gs://python_test_hm/train.csv train.csv

*Use google-cloud python library
Writing to GCS:
from google.cloud import storage
client = storage.Client()
bucket = client.get_bucket('python_test_hm')
blob = bucket.blob('train.csv')
blob.upload_from_string('this is test content!')

Reading from GCS:
from google.cloud import storage
client = storage.Client()
bucket = client.get_bucket('python_test_hm')
blob = storage.Blob('train.csv', bucket)
content = blob.download_as_string()

A: The sign in page your app fetches isn't actually the object - it's an auth redirect page that, if interacted-with, would proceed to serve the object. You should check out the documentation on Cloud Storage to see about how auth works, and look up the auth details for whichever library or means you use to access the bucket / object.

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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 35th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray Edition - Read The Press Release Here
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Most of us our driven by the goals sets by our boss, our organization, spouse, or fulfilling a dream set by our parents, thus working to realize somebody else's dreams.
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Most of us see ourselves as victims of our circumstances and blame it to our family commitments, demanding jobs, lack of time, health issues and endless list of excuses.
Let us turn around and see ourselves standing in-between our world of disappointments and limitations on one side with the reflection of the world that we can create on the other.
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Later, he asked his eighth grade guidance counselor to introduce him to Hall of Fame coach Lou Carnesecca at St. Johns while attending school there. He served as video coordinator - "when there were no video guys" - for Carnesecca, earned his law degree from Nova Southeastern University in May of 1994 and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1995.
"I think there's a time in your life where you have to look and say ... `When are you going to step out and when are you going to do your own thing? When are you actually going to take a leap and believe what you can do?"' he said. "I've always been that second guy. I've always been that guy who could help and had success at that, and I feel I'm ready."


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Stonington — The Board of Selectmen on Wednesday appointed Democrat Jocelyn Kepple to fill the vacancy on the board and voted to restart the work of the Permanent Committee to Study the Needs and Uses of Town Public Buildings.
First Selectman Rob Simmons and Selectman John Prue, both Republicans, voted to appoint Kepple, a Democrat, to fill the remaining term of state Rep. Kate Rotella, D-Mystic, who resigned this month.
The board also continued to fine-tune a proposed ordinance that would ban single-use plastic bags and straws, with plans to hold a public meeting on the final draft of the ordinance next month before submitting it to a town meeting vote. On Wednesday they discussed several draft revisions with Town Attorney Jeff Londregan.
The Democratic Town Committee had recommended that Kepple, a Mystic Middle School teacher whose father, Nick, once served as first selectman, fill out Rotella's term, which expires Nov. 19. Kepple has said she only plans to serve out Rotella's term and does not intend to run for the position in November.
Prue called Kepple "an excellent choice" to fill out the remainder of Rotella's term.
The Permanent Committee to Study the Needs and Uses of Town Public Buildings was formed in 2006, after a small group of residents successfully opposed a state-funded expansion of Town Hall. The committee began looking at the needs of town buildings but never produced any reports or recommendations and has been inactive for the past nine years.
With the closing of the School Administration Building in Old Mystic and West Broad Street School, the town now will have to decide what to do with the buildings, which is why the seven-member committee is being asked to begin work again.
The Board of Selectmen is seeking residents who wish to serve on the committee. At their next meeting, selectmen said they will discuss defining the scope of the committee's work.


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The Queen's Gambit: Writing the Limited Series
Today we're going to be talking about The Queen's Gambit by Scott Frank and Alan Scott. This is actually the first time since Chernobyl that we've looked at a limited series. So, I want to talk a little bit about limited series, how they work, and also how they've changed over the years.
I actually came up in the world of limited series (or miniseries, as we used to call them). Back in those days, when we thought about a project that could become a limited series, we thought about giant, sprawling, epic stories with a tremendous amount of plot– so much plot, so many subplots, so many twists and turns, so many characters, such huge historical scope, that you couldn't fit it into a movie.
When we thought about miniseries, back in the day, we were looking for stories about topics that people already had a feeling that they knew about, but that maybe they didn't know the real story. Something really big, because miniseries were expensive and hard to sell and hard to make. The truth is, until very, very recently, we were looking for stories a lot more like Chernobyl than The Queen's Gambit.
When you look at The Queen's Gambit, you see that shape, scope and structure when writing a limited series (or miniseries) has completely changed.
The Queen's Gambit actually started as a novel. It bounced around Hollywood for about 30 years. And the first adaptation as a feature film was written about 10 years ago. And although it was written by the same writer, Alan Scott, who would eventually pen the limited series, they simply could not sell it.
In fact, the response they kept getting when they pitched it was "nobody's going to be interested in chess! This story is too small."
It wasn't until after doing Godless that Scott Frank came up with the idea to reimagine The Queen's Gambit as a limited series.
And what's really interesting is that they conceived of it not as one of those traditional, epic, plot driven, historical limited series that had always sold in the past. But instead as a much quieter approach to a limited series, that really allows you to drop into the eyes of a character.
Back in the day when I was coming up in the industry, if you pitched The Queen's Gambit as a limited series, you would have been laughed out of the room.
There are many things about the structure of The Queen's Gambit that simply shouldn't work according to Hollywood convention. And yet today, it's become the most popular limited series in Netflix's history.
So, today I'll be talking about what's unique and original about the structure of The Queen's Gambit, and how these filmmakers flew in the face of the traditional Hollywood wisdom to make something that was greater than the sum of its parts.
When you look at the elements of The Queen's Gambit, they don't exactly suggest a blockbuster movie, much less a successful limited series.
It's about chess, which unlike football, or baseball, or any of the other typical sports about which movies get made, is a sport that nobody knows anything about!
It's a sport that you can't follow unless you're an expert. Which makes it really hard to cheer for the character like you would in a football movie. You don't even know where the end zone is! Unless you're Bobby Fisher, you can't even look at the board on screen and realize "she's got it! Checkmate!"
The Queen's Gambit is essentially a sports movie that's not a sports movie. A movie based around a game where the audience can't tell if you're winning.
You also have another really interesting thing going on, which is a character, who, for the most part, doesn't form relationships.
Beth's primary relationship is with chess. It's with an inanimate object. It's the only thing that's steady through over six hours of filmmaking. The other characters come and go, appear and disappear.
Most structure in movies, miniseries and TV shows grows from relationships between people. But it's actually central to Beth's character in The Queen's Gambit that she struggles to connect with people. And that ends up surprising all of our instincts about the structure of The Queen's Gambit.
For example, if you look at the first episode, it looks like this is going to be a movie about her relationship with Jolene: two orphans who are never going to be adopted. Except Jolene disappears for multiple episodes. She's gone. Not just gone from the movie, but gone from Beth's mind. She's not shaping and affecting Beth. Because Beth isn't connecting to people.
Similarly, we meet the "Ms. Hannigan" character at the orphanage, and we think we know where this is going. But no, that's not what the story is going to be about either. The woman who runs the orphanage is going to disappear until the end of the miniseries. And she's not going to end up having a profound effect on Beth's life, except for being the person who introduced her to tranquilizers.
You think about the janitor, and you think this is going to be a relationship between this man who can't communicate and this incredibly vulnerable, but also closed down, genius little girl. It's going to be a complicated relationship between the two of those people. But he also disappears for the rest of the movie, again not just from the plot, but from Beth's mind. Beth loses track of him. The only time she reaches out to him is when she needs a few dollars. She doesn't think about him again until she goes home back to the orphanage. So, this is another character who comes and goes.
The Queen's Gambit is also not a love story. Yes, there are men that Beth has sex with, there are men that she dates. You start to think, "Oh, it's going to be her relationship with this dude." No, it's not. "It's going to be her relationship with that dude." No, it's not. "It's going to be her relationship with the chess master." No, it's not.
Her primary relationship remains with the chessboard, remains with getting high or not getting high. Her primary character relationships come and go just like the characters in the movie.
This is, technically, what most people would normally think of as… wrong.
Normally when we build a movie, and especially when we build a miniseries, we're building a continuous relationship, a long, deep relationship that's going to develop over time.
If you think of a limited series like Chernobyl, for example, the relationship between those two men drives the whole movie. Sure, there's a couple of subplots that weave in between, as I discussed in my Chernobyl podcast, but what we're really doing is going really deep in a relationship for six hours.
In The Queen's Gambit, none of the relationships develop the way we expect. Characters come in for an episode or a couple of episodes, and then they disappear. This is contrary even to the way we normally think about ongoing TV series.
When you think about a TV comedy series, or a TV drama series, or a Dramedy Series, or even a Web Series, you think about a world where you're trying to get characters together who can't get away from each other, so they have to deal with each other and go on a journey together.
But in The Queen's Gambit, the characters don't stick. You meet Mom and think, "Oh, Okay, I get it, she's going to be adopted into this very unhappy relationship. And horrible things are gonna happen with this awful dad and this alcoholic, unhappy mom."
But those things end up not happening. Dad goes away. And though he's not a great influence, he's not a terrible one. He does let her keep the house… kind of. He's not the relationship. And even mom, who ends up becoming the primary relationship in her life, even mom comes and goes. Even mom doesn't remain a staying force in her life.
All of these things are not supposed to work. This is not supposed to be how you build a limited series.
If you want to go one level further into how The Queen's Gambit breaks the rules, think about all the "high stakes" plot, all the exciting twists and turns that you're anticipating, which simply refuse to happen in The Queen's Gambit.
The moment we meet the headmistress at the orphanage, the "Ms. Hannigan" character… we know exactly who she is.
But all the drama, and the chaos and suffering that we expect between those two characters, the power struggle, it doesn't happen.
As soon as you send this little girl down to that basement with that janitor, you're thinking, "Oh no, it's either going to be sexual abuse or something else dark and complicated." But it doesn't happen.
As soon as you send her to a family as messed up as her adopted family, you think, "Oh no, it's going to be about the toll that these people take on her." But it doesn't happen.
As soon as they give her this disconnected, stiff, alcoholic, unhappy mom, you think, "Oh no it's going to be about the psychic torture of that relationship." It doesn't happen. She's actually not so bad. And although mom is part of creating the drug dependency, the alcohol dependency, she's not the sole cause of it, and she's not the end of it. Even her death is not the thing that really causes it to happen or to stop happening.
Even when Beth finally goes to Moscow, and she's there with the State Department guy who warns her to look for signs of defection, and you think, "oh, I get it, that's The Queen's Gambit, it's going to be some kind of Russian defection story."
That doesn't happen either.
In fact, what does happen is probably the most predictable thing: she finds her way out of her addiction. And she defeats the big Russian chess player, the best in the world.
All the things that are supposed to happen, all the drama that we think we're supposed to create… all that drama doesn't get created.
In fact, every time the idea that some kind of "high stakes" drama could start to come up in The Queen's Gambit, the writers steer away from it. Which goes to show you something very important: no one can tell you what has to happen in your movie.
I don't know if The Queen's Gambit would have been the huge success it is today, if it had come out pre-Covid.
Aside from Anya Taylor-Joy's absolutely tremendous performance (her ability to use her eyes to communicate meaning is astonishing), I think one of the reasons that The Queen's Gambit is such a success is because we, as Americans, as people of the world, needed an escape from the drama. We needed something that let us feel good for a little bit. We needed something that didn't go to the darkest or the worst place. We needed something that looked pretty, and took us on a kind of journey that made us feel hopeful at a time when we feel really dark.
That's such an important lesson, because I've seen so many talented writers try to time the market. They try to write the hot script, the thing that they think is going to sell. I've seen so many talented writers try to follow the rules thinking that the rules are going to get them there.
The truth is, by the time you're done following whatever the rules of screenwriting are today, the rules will have changed.
The rules get created by a vast environment that you have very little control over. 10 years ago, The Queen's Gambit was an impossible movie, that was too small to even be a movie, about a topic that absolutely no one was interested in. Today it is Netflix's highest viewed limited series of all time, and has spawned a whole generation of interest in chess.
Pre-COVID, The Queen's Gambit was too light. Mid-COVID it's just light enough.
You've got to write the movies, you've got to write the series, you've got to write the miniseries or limited series that comes out of you. Then you have to find the form that allows it to work.
You've got to tell the stories that you want to tell. Then you have to figure out, despite all the things that maybe I'm doing wrong, despite all the things that I'm doing that don't conform to what you've been told or what you've read in a screenwriting book, how are you going to make what's beautiful and good about your script actually work?
How are you going to make that thing so good, that it transcends those other friction points?
What's a friction point? A friction point is the reason that someone says, "no" to your movie. A friction point is the excuse people used to say, "No, I pass on this movie, this series, this miniseries."
The most obvious friction point, at the beginning of The Queen's Gambit's endless journey to the screen, was chess. Even the director has admitted chess is the least visually exciting sport that you can follow.
Friction point: Sorry, we pass, it's about chess, dude.
Friction point: Sorry, the characters, they come and go… build some relationships.
That's the kind of advice you'd get from a coverage reader. It's also the advice that would destroy The Queen's Gambit.
Because The Queen's Gambit is about a character who cannot connect. That's actually what we're watching. The journey, the reason that the ending is powerful, with her dressed up in her white queen outfit, wandering amid the Russian chess players, is because we're watching her find the one community that she actually connects with. We're watching this person who can't connect, find connection.
If you follow the typical advice, if you tried to sand out the friction of that friction point until no one objected to it, you would end up with a limited series that undid its own premise.
You have to remember that the rules grow out of what you're trying to do. The rules aren't a bunch of written in stone commandments for you to follow. The rules need to serve your story.
Every good screenplay is going to have friction points. Every good story is going to have reasons why people say no. You have to be so careful who you take advice from. Because the friction points of our story, or your limited series, or your movie, or your show– these are the things that people who don't know what they're doing are going to object to, that coverage readers are going to make suggestions about.
And unfortunately what you're going to hear are all the standard suggestions:
Hey, maybe the creepy guy in the basement should molest her. Hey, what about that "Ms. Hannigan" character? Hey, maybe more messed up stuff should happen between her and her mom. Hey, why don't you build a love story?
You're going to get a ton of suggestions around your friction points. And if you accept those suggestions, they're going to destroy your script.
They're going to take what's beautiful about your movie, and they're gonna dial it down to a place where you get good coverage, but no one gets passionate, where you get to the next round of the festival, but you don't get to the final round, where people say, "sure what else have you got?" but they don't say, "I need to make this."
Although they do make your movie hard to sell, friction points are also what make people passionate about it. The friction points are the things that distinguish it.
That doesn't mean you should create friction points for their own sake.
If you've got a movie that's full of drama, and action, please have fun with it!
But remember that the form of your film, the form of your miniseries, the form of your limited series, the form of your TV show, needs to follow the function. It needs to grow out of what you're trying to say, who these characters are.
Once you know what your friction points are, the answer is never to smooth out your friction points, the answer is instead to feature them.
Now, if the friction point ends up not being that important to your theme, by all means get rid of it. If the friction point ends up not being that important to your character, by all means get rid of it. If the friction point turns out not to be that important to you, by all means get rid of it. Don't bite off your nose to spite your face; don't make it harder than it has to be.
But if the friction point is important for you, then you want to find a way to allow the movie to become about the friction. You want that friction point to become the important thing in the movie, or in the limited series or in the TV show.
And if you look at The Queen's Gambit, you can see that that's exactly what the writers did.
What's powerful about The Queen's Gambit is not what happens. It's what doesn't happen. It's the gap between your expectations of darkness, and the light that this troubled character keeps on finding, even as she navigates her own self destruction.
What made it work?
The first thing is they have a character with two exceptionally strong wants. And these two strong wants both complement and get in each other's way.
Despite the fact that it seems like the writers of The Queen's Gambit are breaking all the rules and writing a relationship free screenplay, the truth is, all characters have relationships, it just happens that this character's relationship is with chess, and with drugs.
Both of these relationships start when she is a child. And for this character, those relationships are tied together.
It is the drugs that allow her to escape her conscious mind and to see the chessboard in the sky. It is the drugs that allow her to be who she is as a chess player. She doesn't know how to be sober. She hasn't known how to be sober since she was a child.
But it's also the drugs that end up leading to sabotage of her career. The same thing that's giving her this gift is also taking it away.
Beth's very simple journey is that she needs to learn to play sober. She needs to learn to see sober. She needs to learn to do her art sober.
Both of those wants are really strong. The obstacles to both of those wants are really strong.
We know that she is the ultimate talent, we know from the very beginning that we're never going to see a better chess player than Beth Harmon. However, because she has these two competing wants, her want to get the pills, her want to get drunk, and this want to win at chess.
This want that goes even beyond winning, because she's addicted to winning. But beyond that tangible objective of winning, there's something else that's much deeper, this desire to know, to understand, to see.
You have these wants that are driving her, this want for chess, with all these obstacles: from the mom who won't buy her a chess board, to having to learn in the basement, to being a woman, to not being respected, to not having money, to undermining her own career, all these conflicts, these obstacles that get in the way and force her to make choices. This gives you structure.
Similarly, there are challenges to getting the drugs, like when the orphanage stops distributing the drugs to the kids, and she has to climb in and sneak in and steal the drugs. And later, when she discovers her mom takes the same pills, and realizes she can sneak them that way, and that their shared addiction can tie them together. So there's a relationship that's developing there, there are obstacles that she's navigating, and these obstacles relate to choices.
There are men who are in love with her. And these men are both aids and obstacles, because there is not one of them that she really is in love with… the one she can come closest with is gay. They are aids, in that they can teach her chess, and they are obstacles in that they are going to want something from her that she cannot get back. Because her primary love is chess. And because she struggles with human connection.
So the pressure is between the love story that wants to happen, and the choices that she keeps on making, and the biggest obstacle of simply being smarter than everybody else, of simply being so smart, that nobody can keep up with her. Even the people who are teaching her are ultimately disappointing, so she has to navigate the loneliness of that.
As you can see, the first thing that makes The Queen's Gambit work, is that despite breaking every other rule, it follows one really simple one, which is a character has got to want things. And those things have got to be really hard to get.
They've got to be so hard to get that the character has to keep making new choices. Choices that change them, choices that mess them up, choices that transform them and allow them to transcend.
Despite all the ways that The Queen's Gambit seems to be totally flaunting the rules, this one simple lesson stays with you, that the character is going to want stuff and it's gotta be hard to get.
The second thing that The Queen's Gambit does that allows it to transcend its friction points is the way it captures the world.
World is so important. And it's one of those amorphous things that sometimes we don't know exactly how to use.
We know that the world of every story is super important. But in a lot of movies, a lot of lesser movies and a lot of lesser limited series, and even a lot of lesser TV shows, the world is a barely realized thing. It's there, but it's not there.
If you look at The Queen's Gambit visually, you can see the way they amplified the world, how they amplified the period, how every location is incredibly beautiful, but also incredibly interesting.
This is another trick you can take from The Queen's Gambit: really think about where you are setting your scenes. Really think about what your scene looks like… but not like a set designer. Like a screenwriter.
Ultimately, just like they did for The Queen's Gambit, you're going to bring in brilliant designers who are going to create your interiors and your exteriors, and who are going to make sure your script looks right.
But think about how you are visualizing the world yourself and how the character is interacting with that world. What are the things they're doing in that world that are going to bring that world to life? Think of the visual imagery.
If you're a director, then you can even think about The Queen's Gambit used the visual eye-candy of world to make up for some of its limitations.
By amplifying the poetic qualities of the world, the writers and director of The Queen's Gambit made up for some of the spectacle that we would normally expect to see in a limited series that wasn't there.
We didn't have the plot spectacle that we're used to in miniseries. But we did have the visual, cinematic spectacle, with everything from the costumes to the sets and the way that the characters moved through those worlds and those locations.
If you take my Write Your Screenplay class, we talk about isolating visual moments of action to hypnotize the reader.
Think about the way The Queen's Gambit hypnotized you visually, to the point where you barely even noticed that in so many scenes, there is, quite frankly, not a hell of a lot going on.
By amplifying this one really cool thing and by playing that drumbeat of want, obstacle, completion, the piece elevates itself above being this tiny little story set in the offbeat world of chess.
There's a final element which is tied together with this: Beth is a character whose main struggle is internal. But in The Queen's Gambit, the writers found a way to externalize her internal struggle.
Beth's main struggle is an internal struggle with drugs and alcohol, and an internal struggle to decide if she's actually good enough, or deserving enough.
Her main journey happens on the inside, which works great in a novel, but in a movie, in a limited series, in a TV show, we must externalize the internal. We must take the internal thing and take it out of the character.
There are a couple of brilliant ways that the filmmakers did this.
The first and most obvious one is the way that they visualized those chess pieces. If you think of the visual eye-candy of watching Beth play chess in her mind, if you think of the image of her ripping open the canopy of her bed in her new home, so she can see the ceiling, if you think about her externalized struggle to unlock those chess pieces with drugs or without drugs, you can start to see how by externalizing this internal thing the filmmakers gave you something to root for.
You couldn't root in the traditional sports movie way for Beth to win because you couldn't tell if she was winning.
Rather, you could root for her to see.
Even though The Queen's Gambit departed a little bit from the real rules of chess, where characters don't actually speak to each other during a game, by allowing those conversations to happen, by reading Beth's face and the interactions between her and the other chess players, by focusing on the interplay around the game, and her personal journey around the game, the writers gave you something to root for.
It allowed you to understand where the "end-zone" was: is she seeing it or not? Is she able to visualize or not? Are the pieces appearing for her or is she stuck in her head?
Just like Beth, so many of us, as artists, end up stuck in our heads.
We end up believing we have to do things the way we were told, or the way we've always experienced them. We convince ourselves that there's only one way we can get to our gift– whether it's something destructive, like drugs or alcohol, or something beautiful, like being captured by the muse. Whether it's following a formula that worked before, or only writing things that actually happened to you, or only writing your own projects or not being able to take notes from other people.
We all have these beliefs that either allow us to access our gifts, or feel like we're cutting off from them.
The beautiful thing about The Queen's Gambit is the way that Beth's journey is like ours. Our journey as writers, just like Beth's, is very simple, which is to take this raw and shapeless thing inside of us, this raw gift that we writers call voice, and that Beth calls chess… to take that internal thing that resides inside of us and wants to come out and learn how to harness it, not just when we're out of control, or in the mood, or when it happens to come to us. But to learn how to actually control and shape our gift, to learn how to actually step into it.
That's one of the reasons that I love to be a teacher. They say that you can't teach talent, and maybe that's true. I've always felt, as a teacher, that talent is so unimportant. Beth happens to be a character who has a lot of talent, but what we're actually watching is not her talent, what we're actually watching is her desire and her process.
What I've always found working with writers, is every single one of us has a voice. Our voice leads to friction points. So, starting when we're kids in school, we learn to dull that voice. We learn to hide that voice. Sometimes we learn that there are only certain ways that we can unlock it and let it get free.
What I love about teaching what I do as a writer, and also what I've been learning to do over a lifetime for myself, is not to be dependent on external circumstances to unlock that gift, but actually to become more comfortable with your own friction points. To actually learn how to harness your friction points.
These odd things about you, these friction points that you're ashamed of or that you feel inadequate about, finding your voice is about realizing that they are actually your gift. And your actual journey as an artist is to learn how to externalize them, to learn how to get them out, not when they want to come out, but when you need them to come out, to learn how to shape them and in that way to take control of your artistic life.
And in that way, you learn to root for yourself.
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Annese Continues to Invest in Data Center Virtualization Practice; Hires 4 New Members to Team
The Data Center Virtualization Team at Annese continues to grow with the hire of 4 new members.
Bob Winters, Mark Dingee, Mohamed Issa, and Bob Drouin
I am extremely excited to be part of the Annese family knowing the history, culture, and reputation that the organization carries in the technology marketplace.
Clifton Park, NY (PRWEB) December 05, 2013
Annese & Associates, Inc. is continuing to invest in its Data Center Virtualization practice and welcomes two new Solutions Architects, Bob Winters and Bob Drouin; and two Systems Engineers, Mark Dingee and Mohamed Issa, to the team. They will each report to Tom Gdula, Practice Manager.
Bob Winters and Mohamed Issa are located in Annese's Clifton Park office, while Mark Dingee and Bob Drouin are based in the company's Brewster location.
BOB WINTERS
Bob Winters (pictured top left) was most recently employed with GSS Infotech as a Solutions Design Manager. He has his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from SUNY Albany.
"Bob Winters joined our Data Center Virtualization Practice providing pre-sales consultation and solutions design recommendations to our customers in the East. Bob brings a deep swath of industry experience spent designing, implementing, and supporting Data Center grade server, storage, and virtualized workload infrastructures. Bob's insight has had an immediate and positive impact on our customer's strategic plans in the East and Metro regions," said Tom Gdula.
MARK DINGEE
For the past 14 years, Mark Dingee (pictured top right) was the Technical Lead at Cartus. Prior to this he was a Senior Engineer at Jackson Lewis and a Windows NT Systems Engineer and VMS Systems Manager at Reuters. Mark is a graduate of Pace University in New York City, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and a minor in Math.
"I am thrilled to join Annese and the Data Center Virtualization team. I am looking forward to combining my 27 years of IT experience with an exceptional team to build our virtualization practice over the coming years. These are exciting times and I believe Annese has the right plan and the brightest people to take this company to the next level," said Mark.
"Mark is a highly experienced engineer with critical knowledge gained through implementation and support of various VMware infrastructures, disparate storage platforms, Data Center networking, Active Directory, and Windows Server configurations. Mark's teamwork, talent, and sound approach make him a solid partner for our customers in the Metro region," said Tom Gdula.
Mohamed Issa (pictured bottom left) has been an IT Engineer for over 16 years. His most recent position was working with the United Nation Peace Keeping Mission in Darfur, Sudan as a VMware Virtualization Engineer. Prior to this role, Mohamed was CITS IT Supervisor for Sector North—Zamzam for the United Nations in Sudan, and a Network Operation Centre Senior Specialist with CGI in Ottawa, Canada. Mohamed has a Bachelor Degree in Geological and Mining Engineering at The University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene.
"After serving over five years with the UN Peace Keeping Mission in Darfur, I'm so excited to be back and to be part of Annese's success story in the moving sand of today's technology," said Mohamed.
"Mohamed's formidable international virtualization expertise has most recently brought him home from a UN assignment in Darfur, Sudan where he successfully designed, implemented, and supported highly available infrastructures for virtual sever, desktop, and application workloads. In addition to further expanding on the team's Microsoft skills, Mohamed also adds his Linuz and Unix operations knowledge to the practice," said Tom Gdula.
BOB DROUIN
Bob Drouin (pictured bottom right) graduated from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with a Master of Science in Information Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Professional Management. Most recently, Bob was employed with IBM Smartcloud Enterprise+ as a SAN Storage Engineer. He has also worked at Citigroup, Computer Science Corporation, and Concurrent Computer Corporation.
"During my interview process with Annese, it became clear to me how much the company cares about its employees. Annese gets it. After working for very large IT organizations, I can really appreciate that," said Bob.
"Bob's real-world hands-on implementation experience serves him well in the pre-sales Solutions Architect role. He brings with him significant knowledge in operating system requirements, storage infrastructure design, and networking configuration for daily operations and disaster recovery considerations," said Tom Gdula.
About Annese & Associates, Inc.
Expertise. Relationships. Innovation. Throughout the past four decades, these principles have established the foundation upon which Annese & Associates has emerged as the trusted adviser to our customers, partners, and communities. With a full-circle approach to integrating communications systems, Annese wraps professional and managed services around Infrastructure, Collaboration and Data Center Virtualization solutions. Guided by our services methodology, we design an end-to-end IT experience for our clients, implementing the tools of today and administering a plan for tomorrow. Our business is the art, science, and passion of connecting devices to networks, people to people, and ideas to action.
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Today, Bon Iver release "Naeem," the band's first official, non-lyrical music video since 2012's "Beth/Rest." The film marks Bon Iver's first collaboration with Los Angeles-based, Barcelona-born director AG Rojas, who – after traveling the world as the child of a Colombian writer and Costa Rican painter – has credits including Gil Scott-Heron's last and Earl Sweatshirt's first music videos. He has also directed pieces for Kamasi Washington, Florence + The Machine, Emeli Sandé, Run The Jewels, and Zack de la Rocha.
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"Naeem" is the midpoint of Bon Iver's new album i,i (Jagjaguwar), which just earned 2020 Grammy nominations for Album of the Year, Record of the Year ("Hey, Ma"), Best Alternative Music Album, and Best Recording Package (Bon Iver Art Directors Eric Timothy Carlson & Aaron Anderson). These bring Bon Iver's career total Grammy nominations to seven, having won two in 2012 for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album (Bon Iver, Bon Iver).
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Q: Android 6.0 permissions and mounting OBB I have a problem with permissions on Android 6.0 and higher.
The game I'm working on was using the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. On Android 6.0 and higher the alert which asks a user to allow it had to be displayed.
I've received a request to get rid of this alert, which means, the game cannot use WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE anymore.
Technically the game is not writing and reading the external storage anywhere right now. All saves and cached files are stored in the application-specific directory (/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.company.productname)
But, the game has to read (and sometimes download) the OBB file, which is stored in /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/com.company.productname directory.
The game has an access to this directory, even without WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE or READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE on devices:

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*Motorola Nexus 6

*LG Nexus 5

But it seems it doesn't have na access to this directory on:

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*Samsung Galaxy S5, S6 and S7

*Nvidia Shield tablet

I've checked it even using the Alpha Tests in order to simulate downloading the game from the store.
When the permission to the Storage is given (via App Settings) then everything runs fine.
How the OBB is mounted?
The Unreal Engine 4, which I use, is using the C open() function to handle the OBB file:
int32 Handle = open(LocalPath, O_RDONLY);

Where LocalPath is a full path to the obb file: /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/com.company.productname/main.10003.com.company.productname.obb
The questions are:

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*Does the game need a READ/WRITE _EXTERNAL_STORAGE in order to read and download OBB file?

*If yes, then how can I possibly get rid of the alert which asks the user for permissions.

*If no, then why Samsung Galaxy S series make such troubles?

A: You are kindly invited to check if your application from store has writting permission.

A: Ok, it seems the issue was listed somewhere else, but I couldn't find because I didn't know it was the exact issue...
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=197287
The API23 for some reason set's the user of the OBB to root, not the proper user and because of it the app has no access to it.
After rebooting the device everything works fine.
At this point there is no clear workaround for this.
Thanks @Larry for providing all necessary and helpful information :)

A: Thanks to @Larry for pointing to right solution.
For those, who is wondering, why AOSP APK Expansion Support libray is not working without permission, here is the modified APKExpansionSupport.java
package com.android.vending.expansion.zipfile;
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2012 The Android Open Source Project
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
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 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Vector;

import android.content.Context;

public class APKExpansionSupport {
    public static String[] getAPKExpansionFiles(Context ctx, int mainVersion, int patchVersion) {
        String packageName = ctx.getPackageName();
        Vector<String> ret = new Vector<>(2);
        File expPath = ctx.getObbDir();
        // Check that expansion file path exists
        if (expPath.exists()) {
            if ( mainVersion > 0 ) {
                String strMainPath = expPath + File.separator + "main." + mainVersion + "." + packageName + ".obb";
                File main = new File(strMainPath);
                if ( main.isFile() ) {
                    ret.add(strMainPath);
                }
            }
            if ( patchVersion > 0 ) {
                String strPatchPath = expPath + File.separator + "patch." + mainVersion + "." + packageName + ".obb";
                File main = new File(strPatchPath);
                if ( main.isFile() ) {
                    ret.add(strPatchPath);
                }
            }
        }
        String[] retArray = new String[ret.size()];
        ret.toArray(retArray);
        return retArray;
    }

    public static ZipResourceFile getResourceZipFile(String[] expansionFiles) throws IOException {
        ZipResourceFile apkExpansionFile = null;
        for (String expansionFilePath : expansionFiles) {
            if ( null == apkExpansionFile ) {
                apkExpansionFile = new ZipResourceFile(expansionFilePath);
            } else {
                apkExpansionFile.addPatchFile(expansionFilePath);
            }
        }
        return apkExpansionFile;
    }

    public static ZipResourceFile getAPKExpansionZipFile(Context ctx, int mainVersion, int patchVersion) throws IOException{
        String[] expansionFiles = getAPKExpansionFiles(ctx, mainVersion, patchVersion);
        return getResourceZipFile(expansionFiles);
    }
}

A: Providing an answer here based on the above comment thread.  The problem is the way that LocalPath is being provided.  In Android, the filesystem paths are not consistent between different manufacturers and you should make no assumptions about storage paths.
So rather than have this (just example code):
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
    static final String LocalPath = "/storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/com.company.productname/main.10003.com.company.productname.obb ";
    ...
}

You need to do something like this:
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
    File mObb;
    ...

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate();
        ...

        mObb = new File(getObbDir(), getPackageName() + ".obb");

        //  Get the path for passing to UE4 later
        String LocalPath = mObb.getAbsolutePath();
    }

This will ensure that your code gets the correct OBB location for your app on primary external storage for the given device.  You can then save the OBB there and later on when your app gets UE4 started it can point right to the file.
An app's location on primary external storage for OBB (and other files) does not require permissions to read and write for that app.  If the path on external storage is not one generated by the above methods then the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission is needed in order to write data.


They have a preview up, too. Two things immediately spring to mind: first, we already saw this game back in the eighties, only it was less embarrassing even without adjusting for historical context, and second, somebody get these people an editor. This stuff is just… I mean, Christ, just look at this: "Human life is a commodity and death is common place, the computer systems are like its street, despite the latest firewalls, backup power systems and virus software, things still go wrong; but of course the Corporations will try to make you believe otherwise." My, what a highly original image you paint… OF THE FUTURE.
It was a rough city. A mean city. A place where bullets flew fast and hackneyed clichés flew faster. Of all the chatrooms in all the world, why did that batwinged dame have to step into mine? Suddenly, three leather-clad, sunglasses-wearing assholes burst through the window in slow-motion.
They also tell us that "Each social group from the outside perspective seems very stereotypical, its not until you get to the core that you find a myriad of people all with differing opinions and ideas." You have to work extra hard to get that kind of insight in 2005, folks.


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Just a day after the Hom, I saw that Tanrinnar had turned into husband of an active spirit – a charred, dead girl. She was seeing him as her murderer while he was enjoying his victory over the gods of darkness of Tanrev and their feminine accomplice of deceit, machination and torture.
We carry only truth after our death. This was true even of Dansatim clad as Swati when she jumped into fire in a fit. But truth of Dansatim was not the truth of facts, as we see in life or I experienced with the active spirit of Malun – the Khasi queen killed by me. Truth carried over by Dansatim was a gospel truth, which maybe nothing more than fables but believed as truth by illogical gullible men. Dansatim also had lived in false stories about Tanrinnar after her marriage with the man.


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Children, youth, and adults participate in this 45 minute narrated reenactment of the nativity story with lots of music.
Dr. David Renwick will preach on "One of the Family" from Matthew 1:18-25 and Isaiah 6:1-8 in these beautiful candlelight services. Communion will be served.


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How lucky we are to live in a safe country. I have family and friends in USA, Australia, and Portugal. All have faced the horrors of forest fires.
A friend in Tasmania found herself surrounded by bush fires of eucalyptus while on the road and had no option but to put her foot down and charge through the inferno and hope to high heaven that that the petrol tank would not explode and blow her into Kingdom Come. My uncle lived there too, and experienced an air explosion of eucalyptus oil evaporating from the forest all around him. He said all he could do was 'stand upright in the privy and hope for the best.' He had inherited all the family silver at some point in his life and when he came out of the closet into the charred remains of his garden, found it all in a molten heap on the ground. He was phlegmatic old lad and had all those spoons, forks and milk jugs made into a rose bowl.
In California my sister watches the ignition and destruction of whole towns a hundred miles south of where she lives and realises that never again will all those lovely hills on the Pacific seaboard with their pine forests and glades of open grassland and aromatic shrubs be allowed to thrive. The monterery pines now exploding into pillars of fire have no future alongside the human race. Such a pity.
I had first-hand experience of them as a child on the Devon coast at my father's small property high above the Atlantic Ocean and much enjoyed their murmurations in the ocean gales and their shade in summer's heat as the big old cones cracked open like alligators' teeth. He had planted them in 1927 and now they are 'ancient trees' and have tree preservation orders on them above the village of Georgeham. In Portugal my son and his family escaped in the nick of time when the scrub and grass of the Alentejan Forest surrounding him exploded in sky-reaching flames but somehow did not torch his house. A large Calor-gas cylinder exploded on the patio and was found split open half a mile away. Now he has to remove all the fragrant cistus bushes and wild flowers that grow naturally in this rich landscape for they are too dangerous to live with anymore. But here in Sussex this autumn the fire is just the colour of the trees.
Has there ever been such a cloth of gold? The oaks were burnished brown, and glowed throughout St. Martin's Little Summer, as a fine spell in autumn was once called. Beeches on the downs were massive pillars of flame, and the field maples in the hedgerows primrose yellow. The chestnuts threw down spears of bronze, and hazel bushes cast a vast confetti of gold.


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On Tuesday after her 6-0, 6-1 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at the Australian Open, Giorgi confirmed that she had visited the doctor but said she had done nothing wrong. ... "I don't really know any ...
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El martes, luego de vencer 6-0, 6-1 a Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova en la primera ronda del Abierto de Australia, Giorgi confirmó que visitó a la doctora pero que no hizo nada impropio.
Pilot Pen notebook: Main draw announced
In the second round she could face American Melanie Oudin or Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who she defeated in the second round of last year's Pilot Pen. Pavlyuchenkova was at the main draw helping out as ...
After rain delays, Na wins marathon New Haven match
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Na overcomes long rain delay to advance to semifinals Mike Cardillo, Staff writer NEW HAVEN -- Before she even took the Stadium Court at the Connecticut Tennis Center for her match Thursday afternoon against ...
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Jankovic's entry brings the number of Top 25 players coming to New Haven to nine, highlighted by current No. 1 in the world -- and three-time defending Pilot Pen champion -- Caroline Wozniacki, along with No. 8 ...
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On the women's side, Anastasia Rodionova of Australia, Varvara Lepchenko and Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the U.S. along with Elena Vesnina advanced to the women's singles main draw. Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia ...
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The tournament field this year includes nine players ranked in the WTA top 25: Wozniacki, Schiavone, Kuznetsova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (No. 13), Agnieszka Radwanska (No. 14), Flavia Pennetta (No. 21), ...
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September 1, 2009 | David Fierro
After breezing through her opening round match against Edina Gallovits on Tuesday night in less than an hour, the second-seeded Wozniacki recorded an impressive 6-1, 6-4 triumph against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova ...
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NEW HAVEN OPEN: Li Na overcomes Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in rain-delayed quarters
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The world's seventh-ranked player began to bound toward the net to shake hands with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who overcame a right ankle injury suffered early in the third set and two rain delays (2 hours, 8 ...
Daniil Medvedev asks umpire who takes responsibility if he dies during Olympic tennis match
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Russian tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova said she didn't enjoy playing in the weather at all.
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Three-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka, who won the title in Melbourne two years ago, played the opening match in Rod Laver Arena and beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 6-2.
Pliskova out in 3rd round
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Pliskova, a semifinalist here last year, lost 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) Saturday to 30th-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in match lasting almost 21/2 hours. ... The 2016 Australian Open winner will play Pavlyuchenkova ...
Simona Halep and Angelique Kerber advance; Karolina Pliskova and Belinda Bencic fall
January 25, 2020 | Associated Press
I'm not focusing on other players — just focusing on myself," Halep said after her 6-1, 6-4 win over Yulia Putintseva on Rod Laver Arena, the match after Pliskova lost to 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) to 30th-seeded ...
Aussie Open champ Kenin ousted at Dubai
Third-seeded Elina Svitolina was ousted 6-2, 6-1 by American Jennifer Brady, while Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defeated fourth-seeded Belinda Bencic 1-6, 6-1, 6-1.
Stephens reaches 4th round at US Open for 1st time
August 31, 2013 | Mike Groll
Mike Groll Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland reacts after a shot against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia during the round of the 2013 U.S. ... (AP Photo/Mike Groll) US Open Tennis Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland ...
TENNIS: Serena, Nadal win; Roddick ousted at French Open
Serena Williams returns the ball to Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova during their third-round match of the French Open at Roland Garros Stadium in Paris on Saturday.
Singles championship caps Murray recovery
More tennis: Belinda Bencic recovered from a set down to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 in the Kremlin Cup final in Moscow.
Hawks pick up options on Huerter, two others
Bencic's 6-3, 6-4 victory set up a final with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who defeated Karolina Muchova 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-1.