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Top 10 gambling and casino movies
2018-08-31T12:02:00+0000 by Lauri Ronkainen « Back to Stories
Gambling has inspired writers and movie makers for a long time. The chance to win life-changing fortunes is a powerful theme and an interesting psychological phenomenon. In casino-themed movies, people aren't just playing with what they can afford to lose. They risk it all.
This list of the best gambling movies is a varied bunch. Ranging from more serious movies like Casino Royale and Croupier to comedies such as Ocean's Eleven and Maverick, there's something to suit every taste.
There are both old classics and more recent gambling movies included. When it comes to good gambling movies on Netflix, the selection is a bit limited and depends on your region. You'll need to rent or buy some of the titles from Amazon, Google or Apple stores online.
We try not to include spoilers or give away too much of the plot. Since this is a list of movies about gambling, the reviews concentrate on the casino culture and gambling mindset.
Without further ado, here's the list of top 10 gambling movies:
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1. Casino Royale (2006, IMDB 8.0)
The origin story of James Bond: gorgeous ladies, brutal violence and high-stakes poker.
After gaining his "00" status and the license to kill, MI6 agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) is sent to Montenegro. Attending a high-stakes poker game organized by the cash-starved terrorist banker Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), Bond's objective is to beat his notorious host and force him to seek asylum in the UK.
On his expedition to the poker table, 007 is accompanied by a treasury agent Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). During the epic Texas Hold'em tournament culminating in a pot of $115,000,000, Bond also gets a little help from CIA's Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright).
The name's Bond... James Bond.
As an occasional gambler and life-long Bond fan, I dearly love Casino Royale. Compared to the disappointment caused Pierce Brosnan's last two Bond movies, rebooting the whole saga with a new face and an original Fleming story was a breath of fresh air.
Published in 1953, Casino Royale was Ian Fleming's very first Bond novel. Considering the 53 years between the book and the movie, the big screen adaptation is fairly loyal to the original story. Except for baccarat making way for more fashionable Texas Hold'em, it's pretty much all there, down to the legendarily nasty torture scene.
The gambling scenes in Casino Royale are intense. Even viewers who aren't poker experts can follow the game and taste the desperation. Bond and Le Chiffre battle it out on the green felt, all disguises dropped. In the old movies, you'd see 007 use some clever trickery to best his foe. In Casino Royale, it's all down to the last card.
Casino Royale is James Bond's origin story. Even though the first movie version was released back 1967, this Peter Sellers flick was never a part of the official canon, being closer to Pink Panther than Bond.
In 2007, the production company Columbia Pictures used its opportunity well. They went back to the roots to rethink the character and the world of international espionage. Whereas Brosnan's Bond was playful and boyish, Daniel Craig's serious, cold-blooded and brooding tough-guy closely resembles Fleming's portrayal of Her Majesty's hired gun.
Casino Royale is one of the great gambling movies of our time. Every gambler has probably seen it already. If not, it's about time!
2. Ocean's Eleven (2001, IMDB 7.8)
The casino heist of the century.
A con-man Danny Ocean (George Clooney) gets paroled. He gathers a crew of old acquaintances and new talent to join him on an epic heist, targeting three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.
The Bellagio, the MGM Grand and the Mirage are bursting with players and money in anticipation of the big boxing match. As if the $160,000,000 take wasn't enough, Ocean has an ulterior motive to also win back his ex-wife (Julia Roberts) in one big swoop.
All right, you proved your point. You broke into my vault. Congratulations, you're a dead man.
Directed by an Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh, Ocean's Eleven features some of the biggest Hollywood names of the era. In addition to George Clooney and Julia Roberts, the cast also includes Brad Pitt and Matt Damon. Andy Garcia plays the casino boss Terry Benedict with an icy touch.
Ocean's Eleven certainly has all the ingredients for a fun, surprising and fast-paced movie. Both the dialogue and the cinematic storytelling flow with ease and two hours go by in a flash.
For a casino movie, there's not much gambling in Ocean's Eleven. However, you'll get to take a peek inside the Las Vegas casinos of the early noughties.
After its 2001 release, Ocean's Eleven has already spawned three sequels: Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen and Ocean's Eight. Although they all feature elaborate heists, only Ocean's Thirteen and Eleven are casino robbery movies.
Ocean's Eleven is a remake of a 1960 Rat Pack movie Ocean's 11. In this mother of all casino robbery movies, a group of World War II veterans goes after the top casinos of the era: Sahara, Riviera, Desert Inn, Sands, and the Flamingo.
Starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, the original Ocean's 11 is packed with nostalgia value and old time Vegas feel.
3. Croupier (1998, IMDB 7.2)
A cynical author and dealer bites the hand that feeds him.
A failing novelist Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) decides to return to the casino industry and write about the world of gambling. Working as a dealer in a London casino, he gets tangled up in a plan for a heist.
Gambling's not about money... Gambling's about not facing reality, ignoring the odds.
Those looking for good casino movies that don't glorify gambling, look no further. Even though Croupier doesn't explore the world of addiction and frustration from the players' perspective, the detached coolness of Croupier is a change most welcome. It also underscores the difference between the cinematic traditions of the UK and the US.
Jack is an interesting character that doesn't reveal too much of himself. Even though the audience hears his internal voice narrating and commenting on the events, we don't get the complete picture of him. One thing we do know, though: Jack despises the players and enjoys seeing them lose in the classic casino table games.
With a polite smile on his face and an air of professionalism and competence surrounding him, Jack is callous enough to be every casino manager's dream employee. Clive Owen's portrayal of a cold, calculating and detached croupier is solid. Even though the inner dialogue might occasionally sound a bit pretentious, it fits the style of Croupier perfectly.
Gina McKee, Kate Hardie and Alex Kingston do a great job playing the very different women in Jack's life. The female characters are familiar archetypes: we see McKee as the straight-laced girlfriend, Hardie as the tough-exterior co-worker and Kingston as the femme fatale. In the end, though, these ladies shape the direction of the movie more actively than self-distancing Jack.
Apart from Casino Royale, Croupier is the only UK casino movie on this list. Taking place in the mid-nineties London, it's an interesting depiction of the contemporary gambling scene. Well worth 90 minutes of your time.
4. Casino (1995, IMDB 8.2)
The true story of Las Vegas' criminal past.
Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert DeNiro) is sent to Las Vegas to manage the Tangiers casino and oversee the interests of Kansas City mob families. While turning a slow skimming operation into a commercial success, he falls in love with a glamorous hustler Ginger (Sharon Stone).
The business is booming and everybody is happy, although not for long. When Sam's unpredictable childhood friend Nicky (Joe Pesci) starts to rock the boat, Sam is having a hard time juggling the mob bosses, local authorities, the friendship with Nicky and his crumbling marriage.
Back home, they would have put me in jail for what I'm doing. Here, they're giving me awards.
Sam Rothstein
Casino is one of the best-known casino mob movies. However, it is not a gambling movie. Like Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Casino uses the world of organised crime as a stage for something more universal. Even though the movie is adapted from real events in Vegas history, it's essentially a story about friendship, ambition, marriage and betrayal.
The main character Sam Rothstein is modeled after Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, who ran four Las Vegas casinos (Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina) in the seventies and eighties. Nicky, Ginger and many other characters, too have their real-life counterparts. Some of the most gruesome details, including torturing of the trigger-happy Irish mobster, really did happen.
Casino strikes a note with the nostalgics pining after the good old days when La Cosa Nostra ran Las Vegas. Starting with Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel in 1946, the mafia had the city in a strong grip for decades. Yet, from the sixties onwards, corporate ownership and increased governmental oversight were changing the game in Nevada.
The cast in Casino comprises of Hollywood royalty of the age. The acting is top-notch - Sharon Stone even won the best actress Golden Globe for her role as Ginger. However, the characters are one-dimensional archetypes. Being mainly told from the point of view of the embittered casino manager Sam, the story reeks of thinly veiled misogyny.
Sitting down for this 3-hour classic shouldn't be a chore, though. The dialogue is smart but honest; the violence brutal and nasty, devoid of any Tarantino-style flair. Different narrating voices and cinematographic techniques propel the story forward without making Casino feel gimmicky.
5. Rain Man (1988, IMDB 8.0)
One of the most iconic casino scenes in movie history.
Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is a selfish yuppie whose sportscar business is quickly sinking in debt. When his estranged father dies and leaves him practically without inheritance, furious Charlie finds out he has an autistic savant brother Raymond (Dustin Hoffman).
During a kidnapping turning into an epic road trip across the USA, the two brothers bond. After discovering Raymond's astonishing talent with numbers, they also end up in Las Vegas counting cards in live blackjack tables.
Now casinos have house rules: they don't like to lose. So you never show that you're counting cards. That is THE cardinal sin, Ray.
Usually, I'd include the movie trailer, but this seems like the perfect time to make an exception. After all, this is a list of gambling movies and strictly speaking, Rain Man isn't one.
However, the blackjack scene in Rain Man is an integral part of popular culture, a story every gambler should know. With all of the gambling distilled into 7 minutes of pure gold, go ahead and take what you came for.
If you appreciate a heart-warming, well-made eighties movie, you'll probably want to watch the whole thing, though. Rain Man did win 4 Oscars 1989, including Best Picture and Best Actor in a Leading Role (Hoffman), so it's well worth your time.
Rain Man is also one of the first movies that made autism understandable for a wider audience. Having been institutionalised for most of his life, Raymond encounters the complexities of the world outside with varying reactions. The camera subtly captures how he experiences the strange new surroundings.
Cruise and Hoffman play their roles expertly; Valeria Golino charms as Charlie's kind-hearted girlfriend Susanna. The characters feel real and their timing is perfect. Even though this is not a comedy, there are plenty of hilarious moments.
6. Maverick (1994, IMDB 7.0)
A side-splitting quest for poker fortune and fame.
A card hustler Bret Maverick (Mel Gibson) is just $3,000 short of the buy-in for All Rivers Poker Championship. Joining forces with a faux southern belle Annabelle Bransford (Jodie Foster) and an upright lawman Marshal Zane Cooper (James Garner), they hurry towards the tournament.
Trying to get to the game in time and come up with some capital, our trio has to make it's way past bloodthirsty bandits, sneaky indians and pitiful settlers. With a grand total of $500,000 in the pot, winning the championship is much more than a game of chance.
It's just a pair of sixes. If you can beat that you got me licked, and that's not a totally unpleasant prospect.
Starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster - both some of the hottest names in Hollywood back then - Maverick is a perfect example of the movie industry playing it safe. Blending some clever buddy movie dialogue with a theme-park style wild west setting and zany characters, Maverick is aimed squarely at the mass market of nineties moviegoers.
This doesn't make it a bad movie, though. Maverick is a light, harmless comedy that will make you laugh. Although there are enough cliches to fill a beach with facepalm trees, you will be entertained. Mel Gibson in 1994 was just "so damn likable".
For a movie centered around a half a million dollar poker tournament, there could be even more gambling. Playing five card draw poker, Bret Maverick reads his opponents expertly and also gives Mrs. Bransford some useful tips on tells.
Mid-nineties was the heyday of western comedies and Maverick proudly continues the tradition. Made with a proper $75,000,000 budget and starring some big-name actors, Maverick stands head and shoulders above many of its contemporaries.
7. Rounders (1998, IMDB: 7.3)
Gambling destiny fulfilled.
A promising law student Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) gets tired of grinding away at the low-stakes poker tables. He goes all-in against a Russian mobster Teddy KGB (John Malkovich) and loses his life savings. After the colossal defeat, our protagonist decides to focus on his studies and vows never to play again.
Mike's resolve starts to crack when his childhood buddy Worm (Edward Norton) gets out of prison and plans on building up his bankroll at the card tables. Trying his best to save Worm from a loan shark, Mike soon finds himself neglecting his studies and his girlfriend Jo (Gretchen Mol).
If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.
Mike McDermott
The story-telling works well. Even though the events are somewhat predictable, you will enjoy the ride just the same. Especially the chemistry between Damon and Norton makes their scenes entertaining.
Rounders is a typical nineties movie. The tug-of-war between conservatism and fulfilling one's destiny takes place on the well-trodden path of the familiar movie plots. Combining the gambling theme and the road to self-discovery results in setting that's somewhat hilarious to the modern viewer.
Rounders also illustrates the nineties gambling scene and mindset. Even though the movie is "only" 20 years old, from the gambling industry's perspective it's from a completely different age. Internet poker boom was just around the corner, online casinos were taking their first baby-steps and no-one had even heard of responsible gaming.
After 20 years, underground poker games, illegal casinos and a regular pilgrimage to Atlantic City aren't the norms anymore. The gaming industry has changed their pitch, too. In the old days, casinos were selling the dream of spectacular, life-changing wins. With the advent of responsible gaming, the official mantra of new online casinos is all about entertainment and thrills.
Rounders is an entertaining story starring some quality actors. Even though the premise is a bit cheesy, it's interesting to take a look at the nineties underground poker scene.
8. The Gambler (2014, IMDB 6.0)
A privileged brat with a death wish wants to feel alive.
Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) is a failed novelist who teaches literature at a Los Angeles university. With a sharp mind, wealthy background, existential pain and bad gambling habit, Jim soon finds himself in a hole he insists on digging deeper.
Already owing loan sharks hundreds of thousands of dollars, he keeps on borrowing more, trying to turn the tables around. Eventually, he agrees to coax a promising student-athlete to shave points of his basketball game and keep the Shylocks at bay.
If I give you this money and you don't pay me back, there are no rules. Do you understand the gravity of your situation?
It seems that no matter how much the casino industry repeats the responsible gaming mantra, making smart decisions and acting like an adult don't offer saucy material for an interesting movie. Hence, Hollywood prefers to show us self-destructive idiots going out of their way to make bad situations worse.
Jim Bennett is just the kind of character the viewer wants to end up on the bottom of an empty swimming pool with a bag over his head and a couple of brothers ready to beat the living hell out of him. With every advantage in life handed to him on a silver platter, he actively aims to make dog's breakfast out of it. Somehow, though, Jim starts to grow on you, if only a bit.
Naturally, there's plenty of gambling. Jim's go-to game is blackjack and he plays it with a risky reverse martingale strategy. Check out our guide to roulette strategies for a detailed description of this and other betting systems.
There's also the sports betting aspect in the Gambler, although it's not one of the best sports gambling movies. We'll include some of those in the updated edition later on.
The cast of The Gambler is top-notch. Mark Wahlberg does an excellent job of portraying a guy you just love to hate. Alvin Ing, Michael Kenneth Williams and John Goodman play a trio of world-wise loan sharks. Goodman's fatherly pep talk on what it means to have "fuck you money" is single-handedly the best scene of The Gambler.
9. 21 (2008, IMDB 6.8)
The true-ish story of the legendary MIT card counting team.
Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is a young math genius with great aspirations. Soon to graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has been accepted into Harvard Medical School. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the $300,000 to pay for his studies.
MIT math professor Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) recognises Ben's obvious talent with numbers and recruits him into his blackjack team. Using card counting, signalling and team play, they successfully milk the Las Vegas casinos dry on their weekend forays. However, big egos collide and jeopardise the whole enterprise.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
Based on the book Bringing Down the House, 21 tells the story of MIT gamblers who gain an edge over the casinos. Both the book and the subsequent movie take plenty of artistic license; the plot and characters are mostly products of imagination.
Yet, the basic setting of academics counting cards, playing as a team and using outside investors to finance big bets is certainly true.
Instead of being a single professors ego-trip and using a couple of students to trick Las Vegas casinos, the real story of the MIT Blackjack Team astonishes in its sheer scale. Playing from 1979 to 2000, the team employed over 70 people as card counters, big players and controllers.
At its heyday in mid-eighties, there were over 35 active members and $350,000 in invested capital. The whole operation was run as a business with corporate structure, accurately calculated return on investment and strict rules governing the tactics and strategies.
The real MIT Blackjack Team didn't limit its intake to MIT only. New players were recruited from campuses all over the States. Before being admitted, they had to endure a trial by fire: playing through eight 6-deck shoes with minimal error.
Although 21 sacrifices accuracy for Hollywood suspense, it describes the counting technique and different roles in the team fairly well. The blackjack team's success depended on flying under the radar. They had to keep track of the count, signal for the big player to step in when the odds were in their favour and make it out of the casino with the cash - all without drawing attention to themselves.
21 is certainly an entertaining movie and well worth your time. If you prefer a more accurate account of the 21 years of successful card counting, you may also want to check out History Channel's Breaking Vegas Documentary: The True Story of The MIT Blackjack Team. Granted, the American documentary style of the early 2000s may appear comical in its over-dramatisation but the story is educational.
10. Win It All (2017, IMDB 6.2)
A degenerate gambler babysits a duffel-bag full of money. What could go wrong?
Eddie Garrett (Jake Johnson) isn't a poker prodigy. In fact, he's a gambling addict on a bad losing streak.
A loan shark Michael (José Antonio García) makes Eddie a tempting offer: look after a mysterious duffel bag while he's in prison and collect $10,000 dollars when he gets out.
Would you be able to not take a peek? Eddie sure isn't. After discovering a fortune hidden away under miscellaneous junk, he starts borrowing some gambling capital with the best intentions of paying back.
While celebrating his initial success, Eddie falls in love with a single-mom called Eva (Aislinn Derbez). The rest of the movie is a balancing act between building a new relationship and trying to resist the temptation of the money bag.
The fact that you're even thinking about this plan means that that bag is gonna be devoid of money in less than three weeks.
Win It All is one of the few gambling movies that doesn't show a single game round played from start to finish. More than a traditional gambling movie, it's a story about addiction, bad decisions and their social consequences.
Eddie's one-time sponsor Gene (Keegan-Michael Key) is the sound of reason and down-to-earth cynicism throughout the movie. He's the kind of friend everybody needs, although sometimes his advice is a bitter pill to swallow.
Without glorifying or gorifying gambling itself, Win It All paints a vivid picture of the emotions accompanying both the highs and lows of the game. From a party celebrating a minor win to the frustration and desperation of big losses, Johnson manages to capture what goes on in the head of many players.
More gambling in film
There are plenty of movies about casino gambling, sports betting poker out there.
If you have some favourite movies on gambling that we missed, let us know in the comments. We want to keep this list fresh with your suggestions!
PS: Here you go, finnishgambler:
Lauri Ronkainen
Lauri has worked in online gambling for 4 years reviewing hundreds of online casinos, bonuses and games. Lauri has a masters degree in history from the University of Tampere. He is a live casino aficionado who has also created his very own roulette strategy.
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finnishgambler said 2018-08-31T13:36:28+0000
This is sick. I was stunned that there was no "Con Air" in it. We all know the final scene where Steve Buscemi was asked that "Does new shooter feel lucky, well does he? - Yes, Yes he does" :D


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In case you have not run across them in your travels the Hunters and Collectors are, alphabetically John Archer (bass), Geoff Crosby (keyboards), Doug Falconer (drums), Martin Lubran (guitar), Robert Miles (live sound), Greg Perano (percussion), and Mark Seymour (guitar and vocals). Note the egalitarian credit of the mixer as a fully fledged band persona.
They tend to present a unified front, producing covers and songwriting as a unit. This debut untitled album was seven months in the making, partly due to the logistical hassles of an unsatisfactory mastering cut. The songs are a fair document of where the band was at six months ago.
The mix is a fuller and fatter sound than the debut untitled EP which charted last year. The packaging is innovative. You get two 12 inch discs. One 45 rpm and the other a 33 1/3 with two and six tracks respectively.
The Hunters and Collectors have never really paid much credence to the idea that a commercial release should really clock in at the three minute mark or less, and under no circumstances exceed four. At times live you sometimes get the idea that they don't pay much attention to their crowd either and would prefer to be unintelligible to the great unwashed. A few leaping sycophants leaping around in general time to the music providing percussive support with whatever they can grab from Greg Perano's arsenal are tolerated.
Still that is personal opinion and I'm reviewing a record here. On vinyl you (or at least I) can not fault them. This disc is a landmark in Australian music. It also reiterates an object lesson presented by several bands since the New Wave broke (so to speak).
It is not necessary to work yourself to death on the pub circuit. Particularly if you can find a decent day gig. You can record and press whatever you like independent of record companies without it costing the earth, particularly if you have your sound well thought out and use simple arrangements that do not require extensive overdubs. Most working bands have to think out and simplify arrangements anyway to reduce the logistics of travel and to ensure that their set is roadworthy. If you put your money where your mouth is, and have a product that is ultimately saleable you can step in the back door.
On the 33 1/3 disc the tracks are "Talking to A Strange", "Skin Of Our Teeth" and "Alligator" with "Scream Who", "Junket Head" and "Boo Boo Kiss" on the reverse. The bonus single has "Tender Kinder Baby" and "Run, Run, Run".
All members hang together around the simple, mechanical and extremely effective drumming and bass. The percussionist is not a luxury. He allows the hypnotic effectiveness of the drumming to achieve the manic quality that you get with a drum machine, alternating rhythmic reinforcement with the tricky bits. The guitar gets good mileage from single lines bases around the 7th and 8th. This is the source of the funk tag that has been bandied about in the rock press. When things get a bit repetitious, the Horns of Contempt are wheeled out and let trip.
Particularly recommended is "Skin Of Our Teeth".
The well dressed will find this as necessary as a good stick of eye-liner and a decent black coat.
The rest of us will just want this album.


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Inner Toob kicks off the week with a fun piece that links three performances by Carl Betz: on Felony Squad, where he plays defense attorney Clinton Judd in part one of a two-part story, which concludes on his own show, Judd for the Defense, and a third role, that of an "unhinged" prosecutor in—Pat Paulson's Half a Comedy Hour.
The second Alfred Hitchcock script by Arthur A. Ross is the ninth-season story, "The Evil of Adelaide Winters," an episode I haven't seen yet. But Jack has, and he tells us all about it at bare-bones e-zine.
At The Horn Section, Hal's onto "Bullet from the Grave," the wonderfully-named episode of Get Christie Love! with Eric Braeden (who's moved on from Hans Gudegast by this point), who's always good as the bad guy.
I never collected Megos myself—didn't get past G.I. Joe and Major Matt Mason—but David does, and he shares the ten best classic TV Megos at Comfort TV.
Television Obscurities continues the "Year in TV Guide" project with this week's look at the issue of July 1, 1989. I'm always amused by the prices for movies listed in the Video Cassette Report: $89.99 for The Last Temptation of Christ??
Arte Johnson died earlier this week at the age of 90; at A Shroud of Thoughts, Terence remembers the career of the Laugh-In star, who should be known for much more.
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Wyoming: The Mountain That Runs In My Veins
By Lisa Gabrielson
When my father was 16-years old, his father took him and his older brother to Wyoming to climb The Grand Teton. Towering above beautiful Jackson Hole, WY, "The Grand" is the highest mountain in the Teton Mountain Range and the second highest in Wyoming. Its what many would call a "starter mountain." Experienced mountaineers can tackle it in one day, while those choosing a more leisurely experience can take two or three.
My Father and I attended Exum Climbing Camp
Climbing runs in my family. Besides my grandfather's expedition with his sons, my father has climbed on three continents and took my older brother climbing in Chamonix Mont-Blanc when he was 14. On that particular trip to France, my mother and I (8 at the time) tackled a different mountain- Thunder Mountain, at Disneyland Paris.
When the summer of my 16th birthday approached, it was no surprise when my mother and father decided to meet me in Wyoming after I completed an Outward Bound course in Utah. It was finally my turn to summit a mountain alongside my father.
When we arrived in Wyoming in July, the summer climbing season was in full swing. Bearded, flannel wearing (yes, in July) muscle men roamed the climbing gear shops in Jackson Hole. Training camps were full, and we fortunately had reserved two spots and a guide through Exum Mountain Guides in Moose, WY.
Over two days, we reviewed top roping and avalanche drills; we tied countless knots and fitted all of our gear. Perhaps the most fascinating part of our training was that snow and ice climbing was no longer part of the regimen- back in 1972 there had been a glacier that had covered part of The Grand. Now, that glacier is all but gone.
On the third day, we began or ascent. We camped in the saddle, or low point, between The Grand Teton and its neighbor Middle Teton. We arrived, pitched our tents, and promptly crawled inside to ride out a 20-minute hail and lightning storm that had descended on the mountains. Hail the size of dimes pelted our cover as we tried to find rest on the rocky ground.
Approaching The Grand Teton summit as the sun rises
No sooner had we fallen asleep then our 3 a.m. alarms went off. It was time to make the final push. In the dark, we climbed with hands and feet up the rock scree just above the saddle. As we moved up further and further, the sun rose with us, bathing the towering rock spiral of the peak in an orange and pink glow.
We reached the summit just after sunrise. I stood there next to my father at the top of the same mountain he had climbed 36 years before with his own father, taking in the miles of Wyoming views. We looked down at the survey marker disk, hammered into the stone below our feet. "Huh, that's interesting," he said, "This survey marker says 13,770 feet. When I climbed it last, it was 13,766!" Through my altitude-induced exhaustion, I squinted up at him, "I guess we'll just have to do another one to be even," I sighed. He sat down next to me to take in the view. "Guess so…"
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Predictive Coding's Ripple Effect
Thursday, August 14, 2014 by Thought Leadership Team
There's always a new video going viral. The best ones are often talked about over the office water-cooler, making the participants overnight sensations. Consider 5-year-old Noah Ritter of Pennsylvania. He was merely interested in the super slide at his county fair, but when a local news crew asked him how the ride was, his adorable interview immediately went viral, garnering more than 3 million views on YouTube. That single video sent a ripple effect through the internet (and likely his personal life), and his interview was featured in articles and news outlets as far away as India and earned him a spot on Good Morning America. And now, for the crème de la crème, his name even graces this fine blog.
This ripple effect of popularity got me thinking about predictive coding (no surprise there). Predictive coding certainly made a splash when the first Federal court approved its use in litigation in Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe. But since then, savvy practitioners have seen predictive coding as more than a discovery tool and have devised new uses for this powerful technology. The idea of incorporating machine learning and predictive coding into everyday business tasks is not far-fetched. This ripple effect of predictive coding can be seen in many areas, but there are three specific areas where the ripple effect will likely soon be a wave.
First, early use of predictive coding can be used to narrow the scope of discovery and refine the precision of collection. In addition, using predictive coding in this way can effect settlement. Incorporating predictive coding into EDA creates value that at least one court has already recognized.
Second, predictive coding can be used as a compliance tool. Predictive coding is a natural way to assess and detect risk patterns, and stop them from developing further. Therefore, predictive coding software could be trained to comb through all of an organization's information to detect potential risks and enable counsel to take immediate corrective action.
Finally, predictive coding can be used to combat the trials of information governance. Predictive coding can be and should be implemented in record retention policies. Predictive coding can identify which documents should be kept – and those that can be defensibly deleted. As more and more businesses become bogged down by big data, a smarter, more automated approach to record retention will be the future of information governance.


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Q: Magento 2: Add class to pre existing xml container How do you add a class to a pre existing xml block?
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I found the above code in the core file at this location:
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You can use this file as a reference and find some other useful tags like htmlTag :)

A: I have found some code in Magento XML core file
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A mixture of hydrophobically modified silica particles and polystyrene were used for preparation of SHP silica coatings by spin deposition technique. The durability and anti-corrosion performance of SHP coating was confirmed by using resistance to water jet impact and corrosion tests in 3.5% NaCl solution with long immersion time 66. Photocatalytic SiO2-TiO2 coatings on polycarbonate were prepared by using to spin coated techniques for SC applications. A very thin water layer made on the SHP surface can easily clean-off the dirt particles while flowing were studied 67.
The polystyrene/Al2O3 nanocomposites SHP coatings were prepared by new electrospinning techniques and effect of electrospinning parameters on morphology, surface roughness and wettability tests were performed by these coating at different techniques 68. SHP coating was prepared for electro-spun ultrathin fibers and electro- sprayed nanostructure silica micro-particles for easy emptying packaging applications 58. The step-by-step methodology charted to prepare the nanostructure multilayer LDPE/PCL/SiO2 film are presented in Fig. 5C.
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Sphincter of Oddi
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By Barbara Bolen, PhD
The sphincter of Oddi (SO) is a muscular valve found at the end of the bile and pancreatic ducts where they connect to the duodenum of the small intestine. The SO's main job is to regulate the flow of bile and pancreatic juices into the small intestine.
These juices are important for the process of digestion. Bile is stored in the gallbladder for the digestion of fat, The pancreas secretes enzymes for the breakdown of protein, carbohydrates as well as fat. The SO is typically closed, but it opens after a meal is eaten to allow these juices into the duodenum. In the duodenum, these juices break down their respective food components so that nutrients can be absorbed into the bloodstream. The SO closes after releasing the juices so as to prevent the contents of the small intestine from backing into the bile and pancreatic ducts.
When the SO is not working properly, a diagnosis of SO dysfunction is considered. SO dysfunction is a functional gastrointestinal disorder in which the SO does not relax and open, resulting in a back-up of bile and pancreatic juices. SO dysfunction appears as episodes of steady pain in the central and right parts of the upper abdomen a short time after eating. SO dysfunction is mostly seen in people who have had their gallbladders removed (cholecystectomy) and people diagnosed with pancreatitis.
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Sea Shepherd Lawsuit Succeeds in Protecting Māui Dolphins
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Court of International Trade bans import of fish from certain New Zealand fisheries to protect the Māui dolphin.
Today, in a lawsuit brought jointly by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Sea Shepherd New Zealand (collectively Sea Shepherd) to protect the critically endangered Māui dolphin, the United States Court of International Trade ordered a ban of imports of nine fish species caught off the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. The ban specifically applies to set-net and trawl fisheries operating in Māui dolphin habitat.
The Māui dolphin is found only in New Zealand waters and most recent estimates suggest between only 48 and 64 individual dolphins over the age of one year remain. Sea Shepherd brought its lawsuit against the United States Department of Commerce under the Marine Mammal Protection Act because set-net and trawl fisheries that overlap with Māui dolphin habitat result in injury and death to dolphins in excess of United States standards. The preliminary import ban will remain in place until the United States makes a valid finding that New Zealand's regulatory program for the fisheries is comparable in effectiveness to the U.S. regulatory program or until the court case is fully resolved.
"The Court's ruling sends a strong signal to New Zealand and other countries that unless they can show their fisheries regulatory program is comparable to the U.S. regulatory program, they risk an import ban," said Pritam Singh, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. "The Court found we are likely to succeed on two of our legal claims and that a preliminary import ban for these nine species was in the public interest. We agree."
"This is a victory for independent science, which, in this case clearly demonstrated the technology used by the fisheries at issue – indiscriminate set nets and trawls – were putting the endangered Māui dolphin at greater risk of extinction," said Michael Lawry, Managing Director of Sea Shepherd New Zealand. "We're happy the Court of International Trade recognized the urgency of this situation for the Māui dolphin and agreed with us that an import ban was legally required."
The nine fish species included in the Court's injunction are: 1) snapper; (2) tarakihi; (3) spotted dogfish; (4) trevally; (5) warehou; (6) hoki; (7) barracouta; (8) mullet; and (9) gurnard deriving from New Zealand's West Coast North Island multi-species set-net and trawl fisheries.
Sea Shepherd is represented in the lawsuit by Lia Comerford and Allison LaPlante of Earthrise Law Center, at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.
Learn more about Sea Shepherd and Sea Shepherd New Zealand at: https://www.seashepherd.org and http://www.seashepherd.org.nz/
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Deaths foretold
A tragedy at a children's home in Guatemala
A fire draws attention to a broken social-services system
The AmericasMar 16th 2017 edition
ON MARCH 7th a team from an international human-rights group arrived in Guatemala to evaluate state-run institutions for disabled people. One stop on their itinerary was the Hogar Seguro (Safe Home) Virgen de la Asunción, a shelter for indigent children, which had been the subject of reports about sexual abuse, violence and overcrowding. The team arrived too late. That night, a fire engulfed a girls' dormitory, killing at least 40 adolescents and severely injuring a dozen.
A tragedy at Hogar Seguro was preordained. In interviews with survivors, the team from Disability Rights International (DRI) discovered that 800 children were crammed into a home built for 500. At least two staff members have been jailed for sexually abusing residents. Last year, 142 children ran away. Survivors said staff had locked around 60 girls in a room as punishment for a recent escape attempt; when the girls set mattresses ablaze to protest against their confinement, they were unable to get out.
Hogar Seguro is not an isolated case. The fire is "an indictment of the whole social-service system in Guatemala", says Eric Rosenthal, DRI's director. The group found violence, neglect and forced prostitution at several state-run institutions, including Federico Mora, a psychiatric institution for adults. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has ordered that institution to improve conditions.
The victims of the Hogar Seguro fire are among the 7,000 children who live in public and private institutions in Guatemala. Most are not orphans. They come from violent homes or from families that cannot afford to take care of them. The Guatemalan government spends the equivalent of 3.2% of GDP directly on children and adolescents, including on education. That is the lowest rate in Central America. The child-protection agency has a budget of just $2.5m to pay for state-run facilities, which house around 1,000 children, and for monitoring scores of privately run homes. These hold the bulk of children and vary greatly in quality. Even the best do not provide a healthy environment for children to grow up in, say children's-rights advocates. They have long urged Guatemala to replace them with a system of foster care like that in other countries.
This will not be easy to arrange. A move away from institutionalisation would require paying stipends to poor families who take their children back; monitoring parents who have been violent but can learn not to be; and expanding a foster-care system that now comprises just 40 families. Paraguay, which is nearly as poor as Guatemala, is an example. It began a shift towards "community placement" after the Inter-American Commission ordered the government to reduce the number of mental-health patients in institutions.
Human-rights advocates hope the Hogar Seguro calamity will spur reform. "There's finally growing awareness that things must change," says Mariko Kagoshima of UNICEF's Guatemala office. Thousands of people demonstrated on March 11th to demand a government investigation into the malpractice that led to the fire.
The government's first response to the fire was inept. It wrongly claimed that the girls were juvenile offenders who had "sharp objects hidden in their hair" and that they had protested because they didn't like the food. It sent 700 survivors to other institutions, placing some of them with gang members and adult psychiatric patients. Some rock back and forth, hit and bite themselves, and cry through the night as they relive their trauma.
The government has since taken the tragedy more seriously. It has arrested the director of Hogar Seguro and the social-services secretary, promised changes and asked UNICEF for help. But the resolve to reform must outlast the shock of the fire, which will soon be replaced by other traumas. Improvements to child protection will require "gigantic and sustained social pressure, and a majority of congressmen in favour of change", says Iduvina Hernández, the director of a Guatemalan human-rights group and a columnist for Plaza Pública, a news site. Despite the tragedy at Hogar Seguro, she fears that "the indignation hasn't yet reached that level".
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "A tragedy at a children's home in Guatemala"


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Kevin Ademola Aladesanmi Sánchez (Jönköping, Suecia; 12 de noviembre de 1998) es un futbolista sueco de ascendencia nigeriana y colombiana. Juega como delantero y actualmente milita en Deportivo Pereira de la Categoría Primera A colombiana.

Su padre es el exfutbolista y actual entrenador nigeriano nacionalizado noruego Felix Ademola.

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Biografía
Sus padres Felix Ademola (futbolista nigeriano) y Sandra Sanchéz (colombiana) se conocieron en la capital musical de Colombia a medidos de la década de 1990' cuando su padre jugaba para el Deportes Tolima. Luego de su paso por el equipo 'pijao' su padre toma nuevamente rumbo a Europa junto con su madre, él nació en Suecia aunque se crio en Noruega. Luego de la separación de sus padres por primera vez llega a Colombia junto con su madre, deportivamente se hizo en la Academia Tolimense la misma en la que se formó James Rodríguez. Cuenta que no fue nada fácil su nueva vida pero en su camino se atraviesa el Udinese el cual compra sus derechos deportivos y lo cede al Olhanense de Portugal donde logra su debut profesional.

En el segundo semestre de 2017, Kevin Aladesanmi regresó a Colombia, esta vez para jugar con el Barranquilla FC, donde alternó actuaciones con el equipo profesional y el equipo sub-20. Con la división juvenil del Barranquilla, Aladesanmi anotó 17 goles en el Torneo Sub-20 de 2017, quedando subcampeón al perder la final con La Equidad.

En 2018 Aladesanmi fue uno de los jugadores juveniles que fueron llamados por Alexis Mendoza para hacer parte del primer equipo de Junior. Debutó de manera oficial el 3 de febrero entrando por James Sánchez en el partido frente a Atlético Bucaramanga en el que hizo la asistencia del gol de Luis Díaz con el que Junior ganó 1-0 en la primera fecha.

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// Sanity check integration test for augeas
// Spec file: specs/posix/augeas.table

#include <osquery/tests/integration/tables/helper.h>

namespace osquery {

class augeas : public IntegrationTableTest {};

TEST_F(augeas, test_sanity) {
  // 1. Query data
  // QueryData data = execute_query("select * from augeas");
  // 2. Check size before validation
  // ASSERT_GE(data.size(), 0ul);
  // ASSERT_EQ(data.size(), 1ul);
  // ASSERT_EQ(data.size(), 0ul);
  // 3. Build validation map
  // See IntegrationTableTest.cpp for avaialbe flags
  // Or use custom DataCheck object
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  //      {"node", NormalType}
  //      {"value", NormalType}
  //      {"label", NormalType}
  //      {"path", NormalType}
  //}
  // 4. Perform validation
  // validate_rows(data, row_map);
}

} // namespace osquery


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Inspirato currently has a consensus price target of $4.75, indicating a potential upside of 254.48%. As a group, "Holding & other investment offices" companies have a potential upside of 55.00%. Given Inspirato's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Inspirato is more favorable than its competitors.
Risk and Volatility
Inspirato has a beta of -0.68, indicating that its stock price is 168% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inspirato's competitors have a beta of 0.06, indicating that their average stock price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Inspirato and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Gross Revenue Net Income Price/Earnings Ratio
Inspirato $234.75 million -$4.88 million -0.17
Inspirato Competitors $1.90 billion $107.98 million 22.72
Inspirato's competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Inspirato. Inspirato is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.
This table compares Inspirato and its competitors' net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Inspirato -8.22% N/A -5.42%
Inspirato Competitors 11.88% -78.38% 2.00%
Insider and Institutional Ownership
64.8% of shares of all "Holding & other investment offices" companies are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of Inspirato shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of shares of all "Holding & other investment offices" companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Inspirato competitors beat Inspirato on 10 of the 13 factors compared.
Inspirato Company Profile
Inspirato Incorporated operates as a subscription-based luxury travel company. The company provides affluent travelers access to a portfolio of curated luxury vacation options. As of December 31, 2021, it had approximately 425 private luxury vacation homes available exclusively to subscribers; and accommodations at approximately 420 luxury hotel and resort partners worldwide. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
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First, physicians generally tend to list their positions. Who needs to provide a description if your position was: "private practice family physician" for 10 years? People in the medical community automatically understand what that means. As a result, physicians rarely provide descriptive examples that illustrate what they accomplished during their clinical careers.
Next, physicians often do not know what to emphasize when they are transitioning into a non-clinical career since most physicians lack industry work experience. They may wish to highlight that they are effective at communication, but how to you say that on your CV? "Effective communicator?" How about "Strong communication skills?" These phrases are too vague.
Finally, many physicians are simply not effective when they are writing about their skills, talents, and capabilities that are relevant for specific non-clinical careers. They may be extremely intelligent and eloquent speakers, but their writing skills often need improvement when it comes to their resumes.
I've clearly made some gross generalizations here, but I think you get the idea. So, should they work with a professional resume writer?
Organization and format. A professional resume writer may help them improve the organization and the format of the resume.
Effective communication. A professional can help them effectively communicate skills and capabilities in writing.
Content. A professional can help you focus on relevant content and filter out content that may not be relevant.
Efficiency. A professional will probably save you time since they are more efficient. If you're too busy to rewrite your CV, then maybe you should pay someone to do it for you.
Cost. A professional resume writer can be very expensive. On TheLadders.com, you can expect to pay around $700 for professional resume writing services if you enroll in their premium UpLadder services (which runs around $15-30/month). Other professional resume writers may charge $500 to over $1,000 for their services.
Limited experience with physician career changers. A professional may not be experienced working with physicians who are changing careers. They may be great for physicians who are looking for other types of medical jobs, but the minute you switch gears into the non-clinical world, it's a totally different game when you're working with career changers.
Uncertainty about the return on your investment. The term "professional" can mean different things when you're a resume writer. How will you be able to judge the effectiveness of the professional you hire? After all, they won't be providing any type of guarantee that you'll get a job if you use their services.
A single perspective. A single writer will give you a single perspective and you may end up focusing on the wrong elements if you rely on a single writer.
Resume writing is an art, and I've found that some of the most effective ways of revising a resume is to receive some coaching from HR (human resources) professionals who evaluate resumes on a routine basis. If you don't have the communications skills to rewrite your CV, then you should definitely get some professional help. Otherwise, you may wish to invest your time to get some personalized career coaching so that you can focus on finding the right types of non-clinical job opportunities that best fit your career goals. A mentor could really help you tailor your CV for each non-clinical opportunity that you wish to pursue.
If you've had positive or negative experiences working with a professional resume writer (or writing service), then I'd welcome your comments on this topic.


With attacks in the media about Lib Dem U-turns and "going back on our promises", it seems obvious that we should have had some kind of disclaimer in the manifesto, such as the following.
This manifesto contains policies that will be implemented if a majority Liberal Democrat government is elected following the 2010 general election. In the event of a coalition government in which the Liberal Democrats form a part, then compromises with the other coalition party(ies) will have to be reached, and it will not be possible to deliver every policy exactly as outlined in this document.
People just don't seem to understand that a coalition government is all about compromise and that if the Tories and Lib Dems promised different things in the respective manifestos, then clearly one or both parties will have to go against what they promised prior to the election.
This post is rather belated due to work, holidays, Lib Dem meetings, council meetings and my new toy – but I've finally found time to sit down and write about Autumn conference in Liverpool, and type up my brief intervention (1 minute speech).
It was great to be back in the city where I lived for four years, although a lot had changed. I got lost in the big new shopping centre in the city centre, and generally things are looking smarter, but I went for a drink in the Lisbon with a few friends and it was good to see that some places are still the same.
Anyway, back to conference. Apart from the airport-style security and presence of lots of big name journalists – I spotted Huw Edwards being photographed with a couple of kids – the conference was much the same as in the past. Liverpool was my fourth autumn conference, and the atmosphere was just the same as it had been in Brighton and Bournemouth. Stalls from all the Lib Dem groups, fringe meetings with big queues for the sandwiches (no one does queuing quite like Liberal Democrats), speeches and debates.
So, the debates. For those who aren't aware, Lib Dem policy is made at conference. Not decided by the leadership, but democratically debated and voted on. That means that real members get to debate with the MPs, Lords and anyone who wants to have their say generally gets their chance.
This seemed to take the media slightly by surprise. "Splits" they cried, "Activists arguing amongst themselves". Yes – that's what we always do. It's all about having an open discussion, and in the end taking a vote on it. Relatively few policies go through unamended, and sometimes they are thrown out altogether.
I attended three major debates this year. The education debate, held bizarrely when all the teachers were back at school, was a shot across the bows about academies. I voted for the compromise amendment, but the original motion was passed in the end, with an amendment about faith schools proposed by my local colleague Nader Fekri.
The other two debates were related: Equality (Equal Marriage in the United Kingdom) and diversity. The equality motion, which was passed overwhelmingly, calls for the extension of Civil Partnerships to straight couples and Marriage to gay couples – we thus become the first UK political party to call for full gay equality, which is great news.
The diversity motion was more complicated. It aimed to increase the proportion of black and minority ethnic Lib Dem parliamentarians and councillors, which is an important issue. However, it didn't consider other minorities. An amendment from Jo Swinson et al added in women, but it still didn't seem complete to me. My intervention (one minute speech) was as follows.
Conference, let's not forget that black and minority ethnic is not the only under-represented group in the various parliaments.
I welcome amendment one which will help address the lamentably small number of women Lib Dem MPs, but what about LGBT candidates, disabled candidates and other groups.
I would suggest that if we're going to have reserved places, they should not be for a specific minority, but could be for any under-represented group. Anyone could apply for one of these places, but they would have to be from a minority group, which I think would be fairer and avoid excluding potentially excellent candidates from the "wrong" minority.
Getting this right is so important, so let's make sure we have a really diverse set of candidates, particularly for the Lords elections when (not if) the coalition government introduces an elected House of Lords under a proportional system.
It clocked in at 55 seconds so I didn't have the embarrassment of having the mike turned off! The speech says it all really – I agreed with the sentiments of the motion, but it seemed poorly drafted and rather one sided. In the end, a complicated series of votes saw the compromise amendment going through which watered down the original motion. However, everyone is now aware that the issue needs urgently addressing, and I was pleased to read Tim Farron including it as one of his six commitments if he wins the party presidency. I suspect he will win, and I look forward to seeing what he comes up with.


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Joyce Howard works on her bluebird.
Instructor Barbara McBride offers advice to Deborah Barry and Donna Rhodes.
Terry Ridenour's oil paints used to belong to his father-in-law.
Terry Ridenour works on paintings of barns his late father-in-law started in the 1990s.
Shirley Warrick puts the finishing touches on her painting of a girl holding an umbrella.
Barbara Marese, right, adds more touches to her bee.
Barbara McBride advises John Lane, a retired band director from Bartlett, as he paints an angel.
Donna Rhodes is standing at the back of the room with her head cocked toward her right shoulder, analyzing her work in progress.
Trying to make her crow look as lifelike as possible is giving her fits of frustration.
"Is this something you'd want to shoot out of a tree?" she jokingly asks museum volunteer Jim Harger as he passes by.
She is one of nearly a dozen people in the room in front of a canvas, paint tubes and brushes scattered about a table.
Each Friday morning they gather to take part in Barbara McBride's art class at the Tipton County Museum. Anyone is welcomed to attend, no matter if you've painted in the past or not.
"We have either oil or acrylic, however we start with a drawing lesson (unless they don't need it)," she explains. "Everything comes in shapes and once you start seeing shapes you can draw it. You work from the shapes."
At the head of the room is John Lane, a retired band director. He spent 47 years teaching middle schoolers to play instruments and always wanted to "do art," he said.
Lane, who is dressed in a tie-dye shirt that looks very similar to the background he's painting behind an angel, says he drives from Bartlett each Friday to attend the class. McBride was recommended to him by a friend.
"I always told my wife, 'One of these years when I retire I'm going to do art. I found a wonderful teacher at Hobby Lobby and she quit after about a year. I kind of stumbled around looking for somebody and a friend told me that there's an art teacher up here. I love it, she's a wonderful instructor –"
"I didn't pay you, either," McBride jokes from across the room.
Lane says he was surprised recently when he noticed another person in the class – his former brother-in-law, Terry Ridenour, whom he hasn't seen in three decades.
Both just so happened to be taking the same art class in Covington.
"We met last week," says Lane. "I really didn't recognize him because he has his hat on and then when I was sitting here and he was over there and I got to looking at him, I said, 'So help me, that's Terry!' I walked over there and he says, 'You don't remember me, do you Johnny?' It was a shock – I didn't expect it."
At the back of the room there's a tackle box opened on the chair next to Ridenour. Tubes of oil paint, with smudges showing their contents, are organized inside its dividers, one tube per vertical slot, while frayed brushes and palette knives are stored in the longer, horizontal slots.
He usually paints with acrylics, he says, and the two barns in progress on his easel are special.
His wife's father, though he had Parkinson's Disease and it was difficult to hold a brush still, began painting in his late 80s when he married his long-lost sweetheart. She was a painter and encouraged him to give it a shot.
"She was a real good painter so she got him painting too," Ridenhour explains. "And he won some awards for best beginner. He painted barns and covered bridges and he died in the late '90s. These are pictures he started but he didn't finish, so I thought I'd finish them for him."
As he paints he shares anecdotes from his father-in-law's life, like the time the former cash register repairman had the opportunity to fix a register on the spot while shopping with Terry and his wife.
Painting is another way to connect with his father-in-law's legacy.
"I had a bunch of his stuff, so I decided to do it. I'm not sure if he'd be happy about it, but I am."
Most everyone else works from smaller inspiration photos.
Shirley Warrick loves painting umbrellas.
She dabs a brush into black paint before touching up the silhouette of a young girl in yellow rain boots holding a bright red umbrella. Behind the girl, color rains down from the sky.
She has been taking art classes for three months.
"I do it for fun," she says.
Warrick, like other participants, has lead a wonderful life, raised children and finds the class is a way to get out of the house and let the creativity flow from her.
She doesn't think her paintings are any good and says the other women – like Joyce Howard and Barbara Marese – are much more talented.
Both Howard and Marese are taking cues from nature with their work.
Howard began the class by painting tulips that'd been growing in her yard last spring. Like Rhodes, she was frustrated with getting the details just right and has moved on to painting a bluebird from the cover of a glossy publication.
"My brain got dead on my tulips," she jokes. "The more I worked on it the worse it was getting, so I quit."
Known for working in local schools and being a talented cake decorator – she taught herself to do so many years ago – she and Marese have also taken a stained glass class where they've produced beautiful pieces of work.
Marese, who says she's been "playing" with painting for several years adds highlight to her painting of a bee.
"I don't know why I picked the bee but I did. I usually pick more landscapes. I decided to do a bee for some reason and I'm kinda liking it. I'm liking learning to do it and I know I could do better eventually."
She said she enjoys the painting class at the museum in the room where the gardens are on display.
"A nice atmosphere, good surroundings, great teacher, pleasant people," she said. I like the interaction of the people.
Somewhere in the room Rhodes is still laughing in frustration over the crow, but she and her classmates are working diligently to produce work for an upcoming show.
There will be an art exhibit at Dyersburg State Community College featuring the work of this class, museum director Barrie Foster's class and other Tipton County artists for two months beginning Feb. 19.
The Tipton County Museum also hosts other classes – Stunning Watercolor Seascapes with Foster begins Wednesday, Feb. 5 and Art is for Everyone with McBride begins Friday, Feb. 7. Students may paint in oils or acrylics. No previous art experience required.
For more information, call 901- 476-0242. Program fee is $60 for museum members and $80 for non-members. The museum is located at 751 Bert Johnston Ave. in Covington.
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Bankhall Boosts Face-To-Face Adviser Support, And Focus On Proposition Development, With Three New Appointments
In addition to helping Bankhall strengthen the relationships with the firms it currently serves, and expanding its reach across the UK to support more new firms, the three appointments will focus on proposition development. Their conversations with existing and prospective Bankhall clients will give them a unique and pertinent perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing advice businesses operating within the current regulatory landscape. Along with their existing market knowledge, they will use this insight to develop new and innovative solutions to support directly authorised firms in key strategic areas.
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Frank O'Donnell joins from BMO Asset Management where he was Vice President of Regional Sales, with a focus on firms and advisers based in the north and Scotland, an expertise which he will carry with him into his new role. Frank has 34 years of experience in the industry having held various senior positions whilst working with both national and key regional advisers.
Andrew Lock has more than 30 years' experience in financial services starting his career with Equity and Law in Cardiff. Most recently he was a Regional Manager Advisory Relationships at Standard Life in the South West. Andrew also worked as a Business Development Manager in the platform team. Andrew has worked with both national and key regional accounts across the UK.
John Wilson also has more than 30 years of experience in financial services and also joins from Standard Life where most recently he was Regional Manager Advisory Relationships. John also worked in the Major Distribution Team working with advisory firms across the UK. John's career began in general insurance broking in Scotland.
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Advisory firms tell us how much they value the consultancy approach our Group offers, which is why we are bolstering our business development further. Bankhall is investing in its business support solutions, with a keen focus on delivering personalised and practical support, emphasising how compliance can support firms to improve the running of their business, ensuring that all processes are designed to benefit firms and their customers. This latest development is another example of how we are helping our clients to thrive and prosper in a competitive market, so that they can achieve their future ambitions.
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Study: Ocean Depths 'No Haven' From Global Catastrophes; 'Far More Connected Than We Realized'
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Underwater Sponges And Worms May Hold Key To Cure For Malaria; 'We Haven't Even Begun To Explore The Oceans' Depths'
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SOUTHAMPTON, U.K. -- There may be nowhere for life to hide from the effects of climate change or asteroids hitting the Earth, according to research presented by a Southampton marine biologist at the BA Festival of Science.
Presenting the Charles Lyell Award Lecture at the BA Festival, Dr Jon Copley of the University of Southampton is sharing a first-hand account of recent discoveries on the ocean floor, where "islands" of exotic deep-sea life thrive around volcanic vents and other seabed features that were unknown 30 years ago.
Scientists used to think these "islands" on the ocean floor acted as air-raid shelters for some species during global catastrophes. Carpets of mussels and swarms of shrimp thrive in these seemingly hostile environments, nourished by minerals seeping from the Earth's crust. This food source is independent of the world above and anything that disrupts it—such as an asteroid slamming into the Earth and blotting out the Sun.
But Dr Copley and his colleagues have discovered seasons in the sex lives of these shrimp and mussels on the seafloor. Despite living in the dark ocean depths, these species still follow the seasonal cycles of the sunlit world above, breeding in late autumn and hatching their offspring in early spring.
The inhabitants of these "islands" on the ocean floor have plenty of food all year round as adults, thanks to life-sustaining minerals seeping from the Earth's crust. But their offspring grow up away from these havens, feeding on whatever sinks from sunlit surface waters. So the animals time the release of their offspring to coincide with a spring bloom in microscopic plant life growing at the surface. This link to the sunlit world above has been overlooked, according to Dr Copley.
"I used to think these deep-sea communities would be safe from whatever havoc happens up here," says Copley. "But finding seasonality down there shows that life beneath the waves is far more connected than we realised.
Like nineteenth-century naturalists, we are enjoying a golden age of discovery as we visit these previously-unexplored "islands" in the abyss – and we are gaining new insights into the patterns of life throughout the oceans as we do so."
Dr Copley warned that as climate change alters the pattern of life in surface waters, these newly-discovered connections could carry its effects to the remote corners of the ocean depths – although researchers have no evidence yet of impacts down there from climate change.