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20 Worst Mortal Kombat Characters Of All Time
All filler, no killers.
When a video game series is as long in the tooth as Mortal Kombat, cracks inevitably start to show. With over two decades worth of game releases, revisions of mechanics and new roster entries, hiccups in quality are inevitably going to surface. Netherrealm Studios' gory brawler undoubtedly has more than just a handful of brilliant characters, but with age comes unnecessary baggage. Prior to Netherrealm's excellent reboot of the series back in 2011, Mortal Kombat's extended family of fighters had become extremely bloated to the point that imagination and creativity had become almost nil. Falling into the trap that games developers all too often fall prey to, the studio worked under the perceived myth that 'more always equals better', subsequently giving life to the awful cast members present here. There's no concrete formula for what makes a character detestable, but there are recurring themes as to why they've gained a reputation equivalent to being the last kid picked to play football in school. The series as a whole has been notorious in the past for ripping off its own characters, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, read on to see the worst of the worst in the world of Mortal Kombat...
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First	Posted On: 18th Apr 2015
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Q: JQuery Get total item price from EACH cell & Display it, Working, but not correctly I have this javascript, jquery function,  (below)

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*It gets the text inside each table cell (of class="total_item_price") of a table.

*It puts it into an array (prices_array)

*Adds up prices_array and formats them to 2 Decimal Places.

*Then outputs it into the total_order_price, or returns it if do_request isset.

Problem: I have a function that deletes a item from the basket, then calls this function (getTotalPrice) to update the prices field. This part does not work correctly, and is not producing the correct price.
Basically, I need this function, to:

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*Get the price(s) of (.total_item_price) which is inside a cell.

*Get the shipping price (.shipping_price) + Add them all up

*Display it inside cell (.total_order_price)

Then When I call my delete function, I can call ^this^ function to hopefully update the price correctly.
I also call this getTotalPrice function on DOM Ready to update the prices, so its important it works correctly, It also has to work when I call my delete function (below).
I have a jsfiddle but it doesn't work, but this code does work on my localhost. I had to compact it for jsfiddle, and its broken somewhere. Feel free to edit how you want.

Here Is the Code(!):
This function gets the total price and displays it.

function getTotalPrice(do_request)
{
var prices_array = new Array(); // Where our prices are held

// For each .total_item_price - a  within my table.
$(".total_item_price").each(function(e){
    var text = $(this).text();                   // Get the value
    var prices = text.substring(1, text.length); // Format it into a string
    prices_array.push(prices);                   // Push it onto our array
});

var result = eval(0);
//  Add up our array
for(i = 0; i < prices_array.length; i++)
{
    temp = eval(prices_array[i]);
    result += temp;
}
// Round up our result to 2 Decimal Places
result = Math.round(result*100)/100;
// Output/Return our result
if (do_request == null)
{
    // We want to add our shipping Price and Display the total
    // Get the Shipping Price
    var shipping_price = $(".shipping_price").html();
    shipping_price = shipping_price.substring(1, shipping_price.length);

    // Add em
    result += eval(shipping_price);

    // Round our result to 2 decimal places
    var result=Math.round(result*100)/100;

    // Update & Display the Result
    $('.total_order_price').html("£" + result + "");
}
else
{
    // Otherwise we just want the total price and return it.
    return result;
}
}

This is the function I made to delete a row from the table and update the prices.
// Delete Item from Basket, Run on click of delete button
function delete_item(e)
{
doIt = confirm('Delete Item from Basket?\r\n You can not undo this action.');
if(doIt)
{
  // Get our basket
  var basket_md5 = $(e).parent().find("input[name='basket_md5']").val();
  var url = "<?php echo SERVER_URL."shop/basket"; ?>";
  // Post to basket
  $.post(url, { "do": "delete_item","basket_md5": basket_md5});

  // Delete Row from Table
  // Row Scope
  var row = $(e).parent().parent();

  // Effect & Remove from DOM
  $(row).fadeOut(1000, function(){
      $(this).remove();

  });

  // Update the Prices (again)
  //tprice = getTotalPrice("return");
  //$('.total_order_price').html("£" + tprice + "");
  getTotalPrice();
 }
}

A: In function delete_item(e) move 'getTotalPrice(); here:
$(row).fadeOut(1000, function(){
      $(this).remove();
      // Update the Prices (again)
      //tprice = getTotalPrice("return");
     //$('.total_order_price').html("£" + tprice + "");
     getTotalPrice();
  });

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LATVIA / JEWISH RIGA WALKING TOUR
Ship Shore
Walking tour of Riga Jewish objects – Riga Jewish Synagogue, Riga Choral Synagogue memorial, Riga Jewish Ghetto Museum and stories about the history of jewish people life in Riga.
DEPARTURE TIME Beginning at Hotel (convenient time for you)
RETURN TIME After 2,5 hours
WEAR Comfortable clothing, walking boots.
Profesional english or russian guide
10:00 AM: Start
Tour starts at your hotel lobby, guide await you.
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Great Choral Synagogue
– what remains of this one-time place of worship and to meditate on one of the most beastly crimes committed during the Nazi occupation of Latvia. On July 4, 1941, hundreds of Jewish refugees from Lithuania and local Latvian Jews were herded into the basement of the synagogue which was then intentionally burned to the ground. Only ruins, a metal menorah and a memorial stone remain. A memorial to Žanis Lipke and other Latvians who saved hundreds of Jews is located next to it.
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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM:Riga Jewish Ghetto Museum
Riga Ghetto Museum is located in the historic area bordering the former ghetto. More than 70,000 names of Holocaust victims and a photo exhibition, focusing on anti-Semitic propaganda, the Holocaust in Latvia, the resistance movement and those who provided safe haven, are set on a piece of land, covered by cobblestone taken from the streets of the former ghetto.
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM:Riga Jewish Synagogue
The synagogue is one of Riga's Art Nouveau jewels and a significant cultural monument. Peitav shul is the only active synagogue in Riga. At the end of the 19th century a Jewish parish was founded in Old Riga. Land was bought and in 1903 a permit was issued for building a synagogue. The original project was drawn by architect Hermanis Zeiberlihs, later it was improved by Vilhelms Neimanis.
12:30 PM: Return
End at your hotel.
3 DAYS WALKING ALONG BALTIC SEA
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Britain's impending departure from the European Union is not just about trade for Ireland but is an existential issue for its nearest neighbor, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told Reuters on Thursday.
The future of the border between EU-member Ireland and Northern Ireland, which will be the United Kingdom's only land frontier with the bloc after its departure, is proving the major hurdle in the ratification of the Brexit divorce deal in London.
Police on both sides of the currently seamless stretch have warned that customs posts could be a target for the small number of militant groups still active in Northern Ireland after a 1998 peace deal ended three decades of violence in the province.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Varadkar highlighted those concerns to demonstrate his resolve in standing firm on the withdrawal agreement Britain agreed with EU leaders but is struggling to pass in its own parliament.
"Often when I talk about Brexit outside of Ireland, people talk about it as if it's a trade deal, as if it's about trade and jobs and the economy and migration," Varadkar said in an interview .
"All those things are important but this is different for Ireland, this is existential. We've had 20 years of peace in Ireland, increased North-South co-operation, and the foundation for all of that was the European Union. That's why for us this is a very different question. This is at a different level for us."
After the "backstop" insurance policy designed to keep the border open after Brexit was met with particular opposition in the British parliament, Varadkar said any alternative solution from London would have to achieve the same outcome - providing a legal guarantee and a workable mechanism to avoid a hard border.
With Ireland refusing to even countenance contingency plans for how the border would be managed in a no deal scenario, Varadkar said he believed all sides would cobble together a similar arrangement to the "backstop" given their need to abide by global trade rules and the terms of the 1998 peace deal.


A few times over the years I have shown studies related to "Turnaround Tuesday". The bottom line is that when the market has pulled back for multiple days, going into a Tuesday, then Tuesday has seen a bounce begin on a more reliable basis than any other day of the week. That sure didn't happen yesterday. Historically, when there hasn't been a close higher on Tuesday after a 3-day pullback, what does that mean for Wednesday and beyond? The test below addresses that question.
Results here have been very strong over a long period. In the past the "Turnaround Tuesday Failure" has just been a temporary setback.


Fret not! If your best efforts to block spam at the receiving end fail, Linux can still help you!
To complain back to the source of the mail you can look up the people that run the spam site with the whois command. Just use the left hand side of the address as input.
You'll get a listing of the registrant's address, city, state, phone number, etc. There is also usually a 'Technical Contact' section. Might be time to call or send an email to that contact. They may not even be aware of a spam problem.
If traceroute and whois can't seem to find the right-hand side part of the email address, then nslookup or dig may be able to find you a good address you can use related to the mystery address. Please refer to the online documentation for more details.


Roland DG participates in a wide range of activities and events aimed at expanding the potential of digital fabrication in countries around the world. One of the most recent events was FAB12, the 12th annual meeting of the Fab Lab community, held in Shenzhen, China in August this year. Sponsoring the event for the fourth time, Roland DG hosted a booth and ran workshops at the venue as a way of demonstrating the immense potential of digital fabrication to Fab Lab managers and members as well as Chinese educators training the next generation of innovators. Some 1,500 attendees dropped by the booth over the three days with 600 people attending the workshops. Check the video to see highlights from the booth.
Many visitors left feedback, including Luo Yujie, a member of Canton I-element Maker Space at Guangzhou University. "I had heard about Roland DG products before, but after actually using the SRM-20 3D milling machine, I was very impressed with its performance. I think it will come in handy at industrial and design-based technical schools." Yang Bo, CEO of Shanghai Keybot Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., a distributor of 3D printers and other digital fabrication equipment in Shanghai which provides STEM education curriculums, had high hopes for the future. "I think the SRM-20 will be great for making small-lot custom printed circuit boards for electronics manufacturing as part of STEM education. I joined the workshop for the LEF-300 UV-LED flatbed inkjet printer and loved the fact that it can print directly on a wide variety of substrates with unique special effects and finishes. I definitely want to show my clients some of the creative works that we made here," he said.
The workshops were planned and run jointly between Roland DG (China) Corporation and the Shanghai Fab Lab XinFab. A total of seven workshop programs featuring Roland DG's digital tools were organized, including electronics manufacturing using 3D milling machines, making lampshade decorations using vinyl cutters, and creating leather bracelets using UV-LED printers.


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-Plato
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We are so excited that The Duke's Bride in Disguise by Claudia Stone is now available on Audible. It's a clean regency romance with a lovely sense of humour. We have a limited number of free review copies to distribute to those of you willing to leave a fair and honest review on Audible & Goodreads. Simply request in the comment section or send an email request to duchess@hergracereads.com.
When poor orphan Ava Smith comes face to face with a girl who looks exactly like her, she is certain she has seen a ghost! But, Lady Emily Fairfax, is no ghost and is sure that she and Ava must be long lost twins. Despite her better judgement, Ava allows Emily to convince her to swap lives for a month, in order for Ava to scupper Emily's engagement to a cold-hearted, brute of a man.
Imagine Ava's surprise when Emily's betrothed turns out to be none other than her unrequited crush, the Duke of Kilbride!
Raff Alexander Hamilton, the Sixth Duke of Kilbride, knows that he must do his duty to the line by marrying and procuring an heir. Love was never in the equation in his search for a bride. All that he required was a lady who was well-bred, quiet and biddable—and he thought that he had found just what he was looking for in Lady Emily Fairfax.
Imagine his surprise, when overnight, his betrothed goes from meek and compliant to outspoken, alluring, and decidedly unimpressed with him.
As Raff battles to woo his bride to be, Ava must navigate the sumptuous world of Regency London, while trying desperately not to fall in love - no matter how much her heart wants it.
Stay tuned for the sequel, The Duke's Governess in Disguise, due for release in late May, 2020.
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Q: PHP - Use "[ ]" to pass parameters as array I have a function that receives parameters as an array:
public myFunction($options = array("option1"=>true, "option2"=>true, "option4"=>"astring"), $anotherparameter = 0) {
    if($options["option1"] === true) {
         //And here all the magic is done
    }
}

When I use it somewhere else I use something like this:
myFunction(["option1"=>false], 1) { //Magic }

I have installed PHP 5.5 on my localhost and this WORKS, when I upload it to my remote server it throws an error, and I have to put the array parameters like:
myFunction(array("option1"=>false), 1) { //Magic }

Is it due to PHP version? The remote server has PHP 5.3, I just updated it to 5.4, but I want to know if I need an specific version of PHP to work with this kind of array syntax, or should I use always array(...) format?

A: The array short syntax [] was added in PHP 5.4 :)
See:  http://php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php


You might know James Vasanth as a TV anchor and even as a music director now he is all set to try his hands in direction. The film which is titled as Vaanavil Vaazhkai will be a pure musical entertainer, says James Vasanth.
The film stars all youngsters and it revolves around the college culturals. The music of this film will be composed by James Vasanth himself and he said that the film will have 19 songs and it will have the almost all genres of songs including rock, hip-hop and more.
Tags: james vasanth turns director, James Vasanth,Vaanavil Vaazhkai.


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Asian Voice > News > UK > London > Why Sadiq Khan did not renew Uber's licence?
Why Sadiq Khan did not renew Uber's licence?
Tuesday 10th December 2019 15:30 EST
On 5th December Sadiq Khan revealed that "several breaches that placed passenger and their safety at risk" was one of the reasons Uber didn't have their licence renewed in London. Khan claimed that a driver who was suspended for possessing an obscene image of a child was able to continue driving. Speaking to James O'Brien on LBC, the Mayor of London said,
"Tfl, as the regulator, has to have the safety of the public as a priority. Let me tell you the two biggest concerns that TfL have. There have been 14,000 times a passenger has got into an Uber car and the person they thought was driving them wasn't that driver.
"Then, number two, there have been examples when drivers had been suspended or dismissed due to serious concerns. I can now tell you one of them was a driver having obscene photographs of a child on their social media device.
"Yet those drivers who had been suspended or dismissed were able to play the system that Uber has and drive people around.
"Public safety is a priority and the independent experts that TfL hired said the systems aren't robust.
"How can TfL not err on the side of caution and say we're not convinced, we're not going to renew your licence. I don't care how big Uber is. When I am the Mayor, I want a system where everyone plays by the rules."
Now, Uber's rival Ola is expected to penetrate the London market in the American driving company's absence.
Andy Roe, London's new fire commissioner
In the meantime, London Mayor has also announced the city's new fire commissioner, after Dany Cotton was forced to step down last week in the face of criticism for her role in the Grenfell fire. Her deputy Andy Roe will step up to the top job and lead "transformational change".
The phase one inquiry into the tragedy found that the London Fire Brigade's (LFB) advice for residents to stay in their homes may have cost lives. It also found that the firefighters were not trained well enough to adequately deal with the disaster. Khan said,
"The Grenfell Tower inquiry report made it clear there were institutional failures that meant, while firefighters performed with great courage and bravery, the overall response to the disaster was not good enough, and there are significant lessons for London Fire Brigade."
Roe will be responsible in helping Sir Martin Moore-Bick in phase two of his enquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire. The inquiry will focus on factors that lead to the fire, including the use of flammable cladding in the building.


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/**
 * @brief a box containing the calculation
 */

#include "Result.h"

/**
 * @brief Constructor
 * @param num the whole calculation
 */
Result::Result(Expression* num) : num(num) {
	debug_creation(this);
}

/**
 * @brief Desctructor
 */
Result::~Result() {
	delete num;

	debug_destruction(this);
}

/**
 * @brief just evaluate the calculation
 * @return double
 */
double Result::evaluate() const {
	return num->evaluate();
}

/**
 * @brief format calculation as string
 * @return string
 */
std::string Result::print() const {
	return num->print();
}

/**
 * @brief unique class description for debugging purpose
 * @return string
 */
std::string Result::class_desc() const {
	return "Result";
}

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Publication - Corporate report
Personalising Realistic Medicine: Chief Medical Officer for Scotland's Annual Report 2017-2018
Chief Medical Officer Directorate
The Chief Medical Officer's fourth annual report on Realistic Medicine, with a focus here on the principle of Building a Personalised Approach to Care.
Introduction from the Chief Medical Officer
Chapter 1 Personalising Realistic Medicine For Our Patients
Chapter 2 The Challenges of Personalising Realistic Medicine
Chapter 3 Supporting Our Workforce To Deliver Personalised Care
Chapter 4 Personalising Realistic Medicine Across Our Principles
1. The Scottish Government. Practising Realistic Medicine: Chief Medical Officer for Scotland's Annual Report 2016-17. Published 2018. https://www.gov.scot/publications/practising-realistic-medicine/
2. The Scottish Government. Realising Realistic Medicine: Chief Medical Officer for Scotland's Annual Report 2015-16. Published 2017. https://www.gov.scot/publications/chief-medical-officer-scotland-annual-report-2015-16-realising-realistic-9781786526731/
3. Montori V. Why we revolt: A patient revolution for careful and kind care. Rochester, Minnesota: The Patient Revolution; 2017
4. The Scottish Government. Realistic Medicine: Chief Medical Officer for Scotland's Annual Report 2014-15. Published 2016. https://www2.gov.scot/resource/0049/00492520.pdf
5. The Scottish Government. Mental Health Strategy 2017-2027. Published 2017. https://www.gov.scot/publications/mental-health-strategy-2017-2027/
6. The Scottish Government. The Best Start: A Five-Year Forward Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Care in Scotland. 2017. https://www.gov.scot/publications/best-start-five-year-forward-plan-maternity-neonatal-care-scotland/
7. The Scottish Government. Scotland's Digital Health and Care Strategy: enabling, connecting and empowering. 2018. https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-digital-health-care-strategy-enabling-connecting-empowering/
8. Digital Health and Care Scotland. Technology Enabled Care End of Phase 1 Review and Highlight Report 2015-2018: Towards a Digital Future. 2018. https://www.digihealthcare.scot/home/resources/technology-enabled-care-tec/tec-news-resources/
9. Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Please write to me. Writing outpatient clinic letters to patients. Guidance. 2018. http://www.aomrc.org.uk/reports-guidance/please-write-to-me-writing-outpatient-clinic-letters-to-patients-guidance/
10. General Medical Council. Good Medical Practice: working with doctors, working for patients. Published 2013. Updated 2014. https://www.gmc-uk.org/ethical-guidance/ethical-guidance-for-doctors/good-medical-practice
11. Sackett DL, Rosenberg WMC, Gray JA, Haynes RB, Richardson WS. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. BMJ 1996; 312 (7023): 71-72
12. Newman J. Public leadership as public-making. Public Money & Management 2011; 31(5): 315-322
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14. Scottish Health Council. Our Voice Citizens' Jury on Shared Decision-making, Interim Report. 2019. http://scottishhealthcouncil.org/our_voice/citizens_jury.aspx#.XHcGhfZ2uM8
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16. Rabinowitz I, Luzzatti R, Tamir A, Reis S. Length of patient's monologue, rate of completion, and relation to other components of the clinical encounter: observational intervention study in primary care. BMJ 2004; 328 (7438): 501-502
17. Mulley A, Trimble C, Elwyn G. Patients' preferences matter: stop the silent misdiagnosis. The King's Fund, 2012.
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19. General Medical Council. The state of medical education and practice in the UK 2018. Published 2018. https://www.gmc-uk.org/about/what-we-do-and-why/data-and-research/the-state-of-medical-education-and-practice-in-the-uk
20. Swensen SJ. Esprit de Corps and Quality: Making the Case for Eradicating Burnout. J Healthc Manag 2018; 63(1): 7-11
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22. Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Bullying and Undermining Campaign – Let's Remove It. https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/news-public-affairs/news/2017/june/bullying-and-undermining-campaign-let-s-remove-it
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26. Perlo J, Feeley D. Why Focusing on Professional Burnout Is Not Enough. J Healthc Manag 2018; 63(2): 85-89
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30. Gray M. A culture of stewardship: the responsibility of NHS leaders to deliver better value healthcare. NHS Confederation, 2015. https://www.nhsconfed.org/-/media/Confederation/Files/Publications/Documents/NHS-DoV-Briefing-Document_WEB.pdf
31. Wojcik G. Good practice in shared decision-making and consent. The Scottish Government, 2018. https://www.gov.scot/publications/good-practice-shared-decision-making-consent/
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33. NHS National Patient Safety Agency. Being Open: Communicating patient safety incidents with patients and their carers. 2009. https://www.hsj.co.uk/download?ac=1293677
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37. Juran JM, Godfrey AB. Juran's quality handbook. 5th ed. Michigan, USA: McGraw Hill; 199
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Email: stephen.fenning@gov.scot


Images and a video of the HTC Merge have appeared online – showing off what could well be a flagship handset for the OS.
The video was leaked from US carrier Verizon and has been put on YouTube by Android Central for all to see.
The HTC Merge is said to have a 3.7-inch Super LCD display and is powered by a second-gen 800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
Other features include a 5MP camera, 720p video recording and 368MB of RAM.
The slide-out chassis joins the Motorola Milestone 2 in bringing Android to the QWERTY brigade but the build of the thing looks a lot more like a HTC Desire HD.
There is no word if and when the HTC Merge will be coming to the UK, but the rather polished video proves that the device is imminent in the US.
When we do get information on the UK release date, you lucky people will be the first to know.
For now, though, sit back, relax and have a look at the HTC Merge in all of its 360-degree glory.


'Stargate SG-1' star Carmen Argenziano has died at the age of 75, his acting agency Event Horizon has confirmed.
Carmen Argenziano has passed away.
The 75-year-old actor - who was best known for portraying Jacob Carter on 'Stargate SG-1' - sadly died on Saturday (09.02.19), with his cause of death currently unknown, his acting agency Event Horizon has confirmed.
Carmen shot to fame as Michael's Buttonman in 1974's 'The Godfather: Part II' alongside Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall.
He appeared in over 50 movies and around 100 television movies/series.
He played General Carter - who was also known as Selmak - on popular sci-fi show 'Stargate SG-1' for 25 episodes between 1998 and 2005.
In a lengthy statement sharing the sad news, the agency wrote on Facebook: "It is with a heavy heart and more sadness than anyone can realize right now that I announce the passing of client Carmen Argenziano at the age of 75.
"His acting career began in the early 1970s and included a turn in The Godfather, Part II.
"Carmen worked steadily over more than 40 years and was a staple character actor on our televisions throughout that time, including on series such as Cheers, Melrose Place, ER, CSI:NY and many others, while also lending his talents to films both tentpole and intimate.
"To genre fans, he is best known for his role as Jacob Carter/Selmak on the series 'Stargate SG-1', a role he relished and recurred in for seven years.
"While Carmen was a client, he was also a good friend.
"While he was a class act and a consummate gentleman at the events he was booked for, he was also a caring and generous person.
"While I had known him for more than a decade, it wasn't until the past three years as a representative for him that our trust and friendship grew and blossomed.
"He truly treated me like family, and that sentiment was returned.
"Please join me in sending thoughts and prayers to Carmen's family and loved ones during this difficult time.
Carmen also had recurring roles in the TV shows 'Booker', 'L.A. Law', 'Melrose Place' and 'The Young and the Restless.
He was awarded the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award for his performance as Jack Delasante in Thomas Babe's 'A Prayer for My Daughter'.
His last role was 2018's comedy short 'The Real King Lear' and Carmen had a number of acting jobs in the works, including a role as Father Elias in the action movie 'Legion Maxx', which is currently in post-production and due out later this year.


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1969 Season: Greek Theater Magazine, August 1969
Joni Mitchell - Crosby, Stills, Etc., Open Run at Greek: Los Angeles Times, August 26, 1969
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Los Angeles Free Press, September 5, 1969
Joni, Crosby & Stills Still Rack 'em: Billboard, September 6, 1969
Talent on Stage: Cash Box, September 6, 1969
Crosby, Stills, etc., live: Daily Nexus (UCSB), April 29, 1971
topangabrekke on 2015-Mar-31 at 23:11:01 GMT-5 :
I was so lucky my dad bought our family season tickets that year
we saw Harry Belafonte Neil Diamond and Barbara Streisand
and then one day Joni Mitchell opened for CSNY
I was a big fan at 15 and then saw her at the Topanga Coral
with Neil Young and the Eagles only sat 150 people
that was what 1969 was like I will always love Joni what an Angel
of Voice and spirit
DSWertz on 2010-Nov-07 at 08:15:22 GMT-5 :
My best friend and I had loved JM since we discovered her in 1965 or '66 - we knew all of her albums by heart. When we heard about the concert at the Greek we were thrilled because I had my drivers license by then and could borrow my Mom's car to get there. We were more excited to see her than C,S,N & Y (although they remain favorites to this day as well.) She was amazing! Car broke down on the way home from Hollywood past midnight and my folks had to come and get us - what a memory that night was.
kramerboy on 2010-Aug-31 at 19:43:11 GMT-5 :
Just came off being at Woodstock-I was bummed Joni wasn't there,so when my"straight" parents decided to take the kids to LA,I found out about the concert and told them I wanted to go-so went solo-what a night-joni was incredible-buddy miles was a treat,john sebastian,and CSN-wow.I had the 1st santana album with me
that i found at the local record store.all around me was asking about it.
What a night-love to joni. [ed.]
Victoriah on 2010-Jul-17 at 13:18:56 GMT-5 :
I remember the Meteor that flew over the Greek Theater when Joni just started singing. All of a sudden this huge thing that was on fire with streaming flames flew over us. Everybody was looking up at the sky. Joni stopped singing and said "What's going on out there"? It was a salute to Joni I think, but, she didn't get to see it. I believe it was seen by five States it was so big. It was like the sun was going across the sky.
photofan on 2010-Jan-15 at 09:21:45 GMT-5 :
Being native Angelinos very familiar with the trails in Grifith Park and already a fan of the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and Joni, but never having heard any of them live...we hiked up the short trail that goes behind the greek and slipped (sometimes literally) down the hill and sat under the trees for the opening concert (it was sold out). What a magical revelation...we faithfully repeated this trek for the entire week and by the last performance of the week (which was not sold out), we were allowed to scale the wall and take any empty availiable seats! As the week progressed, the tree people population increased, of course and some people had no clue as to who they were seeing...'Who's that chick?...It's Joni Collins, man!'...(they only knew she played real good for free and indeed she did...they all did). I was 19 then and 41 years later, a belated THANK YOU is in order!
regostein on 2009-Sep-02 at 13:27:20 GMT-5 :
We were very lucky in those days. We had passes that we could get into any show at the Greek for $1 if there were seats left. We went to almost all of the shows that week. We were already in love with Joni, but this just solidified it. The encores with CSN and Joni were fun. There had just been this other big concert they had been to in New York...
jis010 on 2009-Jul-03 at 13:20:32 GMT-5 :
What I remember is a rocket burnt up in the air over the theater. People were looking at it. She made a comment why were people looking at the sky and not her. She had no idea what was going on. Amazing concert with CSN and others.
Elijah Butler writes: Joni opened for CSNY at the Greek Theatre in L.A. It's the only time in my life I had front row seats due to some chick turning hers in because she couldn't go. Joni was wearing white I think. Her piano was pushed back from the front of the stage so we couldn't see her because the stage was too high. Later she stood up front playing guitar. Beautiful. John Sebastian showed up and Buddy Miles shared a curtain call.


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Parenting is about "being there". It means the world.
I want to be there, too. Watching school sport on Saturday mornings is such a precious season in life.
So: I'm on the N2, in-bound, heading for Cape Town's Southern Suburbs. And, at the R300, traffic grinds to a halt. Dead-still. What? Surely not – it's Saturday!
Great. Even worse, that was 58 minutes earlier.
Exasperating. I won't "be there", cheering my son on, this time.
Half an hour later, traffic eventually freed up. The offending vehicle: a white Nissan Hardbody double-cab, with a puncture or some wheel problem.
This single vehicle has led to hundreds of vehicles being severely delayed.
There's a traffic officer, in smartly-pressed blue uniform, in an Opel sedan. Not much help.
So I wonder: Is this lumbering tow-truck, stuck in the congestion, the only resource we had?
I remember an illustration I drew of Uber's thinking. A birds-eye view of a highway, filled with traffic. There was only one bus and one taxi amidst all those vehicles. But Uber looked at the situation differently – saw every private vehicle as a potential latent resource for public transport, too. Boom.
Amidst hundreds of vehicles stuck behind that one nasty Nissan on Saturday, was an abundance of resources to solve this mess.
My old Land Rover is strong enough to tow a small country. And a few cars back was another parent, a highly trained mechanical engineer.
Between us, we could have got that Nissan down the road and out of the way in about eight minutes.
So could a traffic officer on a BMW GS Adventure, carrying a mechanic and his mobile toolbox – dispatched to the scene.
A joint venture, sponsored by the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to mitigate the crippling economic damage from our notorious traffic congestion?
Increasingly, the state is understanding its role to be an aggressive enabler of innovation and disruption – a free flow of ideas, from the whole of society, into practical action.
And, to do that, the state needs two primary qualities: credibility – as a partner worth talking to; and integrity, the promise to tenaciously stay the course, until intractable problems are jointly solved.
How do we land disruption? With credibility and integrity.
Precisely the same two qualities South Africa's Members of Parliament need tomorrow, August 8.


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English and Creative Writing
Stobbart Night Vale Essay
Rights statement: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93091-6_2
Accepted author manuscript, 228 KB, PDF document
Available under license: CC BY-NC: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Carlos, Cecil, Disability, Diversity, Gender neutrality, Josh Crayton, Megan Wallaby, Racism, Sexuality, Whitewashing
"Everything about him was just perfect. And I fell in love instantly": Life and love in welcome to Night Vale
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter
D. Stobbart
Host publication
Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale: Podcasting between Weather and the Void
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Palgrave Pivots
Despite, or even because of, its surreal and fantastical characters, Night Vale is an open and accepting place for most of its residents, and using the podcasts and the 2015 novel, this chapter explores Night Vale's ability to accept diversity. Focusing on representations of gender, sexuality, and disability, I show Night Vale to be an open-minded, progressive town, and that the podcast actively endorses attitudes of acceptance and understanding, not only through the actions of the characters affected by these issues, but by the actions of the inhabitants themselves, particularly radio host Cecil, and how they treat each other. © The Author(s) 2018.
Bibliographic note
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93091-6_2


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Q: Deploying to Parse.com hosting from continous Integration Does anyone know if it's possible to deploy to Parse.com hosting from CloudBees, Travis, or circle?
I'm aware of the commandline tool but I'm not sure how to integrate it with CI or if there is any other way.

A: I've found a solution that have worked well for me. Using travis-ci.com you can set it up to work with parse.com and github. Users commit to master branch and the code is auto deployed to Parse.com. Basically your credentials are encrypted using Travis's Ruby script (which can be found here: http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/encryption-keys/ . Once you're keys are made, you setup a .yml config file that, on travis downloads the parse sdk in a virtual environment, uses the hashed credentials to login to parse and then runs the parse deploy function resulting in a push to parse.


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 * A network library for processing which supports UDP, TCP and Multicast.
 *
 * (c) 2004-2011
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General
 * Public License along with this library; if not, write to the
 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
 * Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 *
 * @author		Andreas Schlegel http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/oscP5
 * @modified	12/19/2011
 * @version		0.9.8
 */

package netP5;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
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import java.io.OutputStream;

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Lali must face her fears and begin the journey to The Lill, a treacherous journey built around lies. In seeking for the truth about her past and future, she must leave Krei, the young man who loves her more than his life, and learn to trust Theon, a stranger who claims he is the only one who can help her.
At home and miles away from busy Moorgate, Lali still thought about him. How could she not when she had prayed every night to see him again? She recalled the earlier scene at the Pizza Galleria when he didn't even notice her existence before she found hope once more.
But she couldn't confirm. Several crazy ideas on how she could get Theon to admit he was the young man she thought he was crossed her mind before she finally left it all in the hands of fate.
Her thoughts of him completely vanished when she saw the cute surprise hanging on their porch's clothesline. Then, she heard a lovely voice.
Lali knew well enough that she was a messy sight. Her long, black hair was rarely combed. Her lips had never felt the smooth tip of a stick lip balm. She hardly checked herself out in the mirror because that was simply not on her 'to do' list. So with all these things in mind, Lali couldn't fathom what she may have done to deserve a guy like Krei.
Stella and Lali were foreigners to London coming from a faraway place, a place where they were not welcomed. Their own family and friends caused their banishment, and so they were not too surprised by the hostile treatment of their neighbors over them, especially Louise. No word could describe how much Krei's young stepmother hated the mother and daughter, especially Lali.
And then she had second thoughts. Maybe today she was exhausted. Thinking about Theon and why he didn't recognize her took too much of her energy.


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Our constitution We are a charitable Community Benefit Society
We are a charitable Community Benefit Society. This means we have shareholders. Shareholders meet annually and at general meetings. The shareholders appoint the board. How general meetings and the board operate is governed by Rules. Board members act as both directors of the company and shareholders and are subject to common law principles of company law and legislation under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014.
We are also an exempt charity. The Rules set out the purposes and powers of LHP as an exempt charity which must be complied with. The Board members act as trustees of the charity as well as also being directors of the company. This dual role has largely similar rights and obligations to comply with. Whenever our board acts it must take account of what is best for the beneficiaries of the charity (our tenants primarily) and the long-term interests for the success of the company.
The Rules are the most important document in our constitution. Other documents which sit below the Rules and form part of the constitution are Terms of Reference for Board and Committees, the Scheme of Delegation to the Executive, Financial Regulations and Procurement (contract) Rules.
We are committed to adhere to policies and work to governance standards. You can read about our governance documents and policies which form our Constitution in the Openness and Transparency section.


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Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein
The 40 Greatest Rock Riffs Of All Time revealed
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017 1:53pm
After thousands of Planet Rock listeners cast their votes, the full results for our Greatest Rock Riffs of All Time poll are now in.
As revealed first on Darren Redick's show last night (17th April), Ritchie's Blackmore's legendary riff from Deep Purple's seminal 1972 anthem 'Smoke On The Water' brushed aside the competition and took the coveted top spot.
Closely following behind in second place is Tony Iommi's pulverising and pioneering metal riffs from Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid' with Uriah Heep's iconic '…Very 'Eavy …Very 'Umble' opener 'Gypsy' taking third spot.
Reflecting on Deep Purple's triumph, Darren Redick said: "I was not surprised that Smoke On The Water won as it embodies all that an iconic song should be. A riff that supports the whole song, great playing, an amazing narrative lyric and a huge singalong chorus to boot! But really it's about that riff, which is essentially the first thing any aspiring guitarist is taught. Don't believe me? Watch School of Rock with Jack Black! Great documentary!"
Completing the Top 10 are The Darkness' 'Barbarian', 'Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love', UFO's 'Rock Bottom', Guns N' Roses' 'Sweet Child O' Mine', AC/DC's 'Back In Black', Derek and the Dominos' 'Layla' and AC/DC's 'Whole Lotta Rosie'.
Testament to their towering genius, Black Sabbath dominate the Top 40 with a total of six entries. AC/DC have five songs featured, while Deep Purple, Guns N' Roses, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Metallica and Van Halen all have multiple songs in the countdown.
The Top 40 Greatest Rock Riffs of All Time as voted for by YOU are:
1. Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
3. Uriah Heep - Gypsy
4. The Darkness - Barbarian
5. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
6. UFO - Rock Bottom
7. Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine
8. AC/DC - Back In Black
9. Derek and the Dominos - Layla
10. AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
11. Black Sabbath - Symptom Of The Universe
12. AC/DC - Highway To Hell
13. Budgie - Breadfan
14. AC/DC - Thunderstruck
15. Black Sabbath - Iron Man
16. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
17. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
18. Deep Purple - Burn
19. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
20. Status Quo - Caroline
21. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
22. Metallica - Enter Sandman
23. Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
24. Iron Maiden - The Trooper
25. Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
26. Iron Maiden - Phantom Of The Opera
27. The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
28. The Kinks - You Really Got Me
29. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
30. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
31. AC/DC - Riff Raff
32. Guns N' Roses - November Rain
33. Eagles - Hotel California
34. Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
35. Free - All Right Now
36. Aerosmith - Walk This Way
37. Van Halen - Unchained
38. Rush - Spirit Of Radio
39. Black Sabbath - Supernaut
40. Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
You can also see the results from our Top 100 Greatest EVER Rock Songs poll from back in 2012 right here.
And if that's not enough to quench your insatiable appetite for countdowns, The 40 Best Ever Acoustic Rock Songs can be seen by clicking this link.


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Oakville is a place where modern influence meets the spirit of the past
Originally inhabited by the indigenous Mississaugas, early European settlement of Oakville centered around its vast shoreline. The natural harbour at Bronte provided a commercial port of entry for merchants and sailors in the early 1800s. In 1827, Colonel William Chisholm purchased land at the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek on Lake Ontario, later developing a shipbuilding yard and harbour in the area. Shipbuilding and lumber became important industries that soon attracted a variety of settlers.
Oakville's Black History
The lakeshore also played an important role in Oakville's Black History, as the entry point for many American slaves travelling the Underground Railroad in search of freedom. The Oakville Museum has two permanent exhibits that chronicle our Black History, something that is celebrated every year at the Emancipation Day Picnic.
Oakville is home to a number of historic buildings, including Bronte Village's Sovereign House and Downtown Oakville's Erchless Estate, the original home of the town's founding family and current home of the Oakville Museum. A walk through the historic streets of Old Oakville offers a first-hand look at classic architecture, and the Oakville Museum continues to tell the town's stories through its exhibitions, special events and programs.
Oakville's rich history is preserved and promoted by three active historical societies: the Bronte Historical Society, the Oakville Historical Society and the Trafalgar Township Historical Society, each of which offers tours, hosts events and commemorates Oakville's oldest communities.
Oakville is now home to over 200,000 people in 13 traditional neighbourhoods. Our present identity is very much shaped by our relationship to the natural wonders of the land, the spirit of our residents and our thriving industries – just as it was in the very beginning.
Walker's Chocolate
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Q: Div's Height and Width issue? is it is necessary to give the height and width to the div when we can manage it without these two portieres.
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All the colors of the rainbow are explored against the striking backdrop of two different worlds. Lyrical text tells the story of a girl who has moved from a farm into the city, and learns that color surrounds all of us, no matter where we live.
Sophie Masson was born in Indonesia of French parents and was brought up in France and Australia. A bilingual French and English speaker, she has a master's degree in French and English literature. Sophie is the prolific and award-winning author of more than fifty novels for children, young adults and adults, many of which have been published internationally. Two Rainbows is her first picture book. Sophie is Chair of the Australian Society of Authors, Chair of the New England Writers' Centre, President of the New England and North West sub-branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia, and has served on the Literature Board of the Australia Council and the Book Industry Collaborative Council. She is also currently a writer ambassador for Room to Read Australia. Michael McMahon grew up in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. He graduated from Swinburne University School of Design in 2009 with honours in Communication Design and currently works full-time as a freelance designer and illustrator. He collaborates with local studios on various projects ranging from branding, education and packaging to illustrated animations. Michael has been drawing ever since he could hold a pencil and often dreamt of one day publishing his very own books. Michael is currently drawing and living in Melbourne working on his next children's book. You can find him here www.illo.com.au.


Lucas di Grassi claims his 29th Formula E podium in a thrilling Hong Kong E-Prix.
Formula E celebrated a milestone 50th race and Audi driver, Lucas di Grassi took the 29th Formula E podium finish of his career in an exciting race in Hong Kong.
Wet treacherous conditions marked the running of the 50th official Formal E race in Hong Kong over the weekend. With the safety car deployed and even at the red-flagging of the race just after the start, drivers had to be careful with search overtaking opportunities on a wet track.
For Audi though, the weekend proved yet another success in the ongoing 2018/19 Formula E Championship season, with both Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler cars finishing in the points and indeed all four Audi FE05 race cars – including the two customer racing cars of Envision Virgin Racing – finishing in the top six.
Burt for Audi the strongest performance again came from Lucas di Grassi who claimed the 29th podium result of his Formula E career with a second in Hong Kong.
His teammate, Daniel Abt, also showed a strong performance, fighting his way up from 12th on the starting grid to finish just off the podium himself in fourth.
In the teams' classification, the weekend was hugely successful for Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler, putting the team in second position after five of 13 races.
"In conditions like these, you can only overtake by forcing the issue and risking a non-finish or penalty. I kept cool and was rewarded for it"
The Formula E championship heads to Sanya on Hainan Island in China on March 23 for the sixth round of the championship.


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Odynerus lesnei är en stekelart som beskrevs av Giordani Soika. Odynerus lesnei ingår i släktet lergetingar, och familjen Eumenidae. Utöver nominatformen finns också underarten O. l. warmbadensis.

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This photograph shows Isaac Jefferson, a free blacksmith in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1847. Born at Monticello, he was one of ten Jefferson slaves who escaped with the British during the Revolution, only to be returned to their master by the victorious Americans. He went to Petersburg in the 1820s, but it is unknown how he obtained his freedom.


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English-Only States and Native Language Assessment Under ESSA
The passage of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December of 2015 was welcomed by many advocates and leaders as a huge step toward equitable education for English learners (ELs). These new benefits for ELs under ESSA include expanded requirements in reporting EL data, the possibility of increased funding for EL programs, and more nuanced school rating systems that take into account the English proficiency of students.
Another key component of the new law is how states must address native language assessment for ELs. The new law stipulates that states must "identify languages other than English that are present to a significant extent in their participating student populations," indicate the languages for which annual student achievement tests are not available, and "make every effort" to develop such assessments. In providing achievement assessments in each student's native language, the idea is that state education agencies can get a potentially more meaningful read of EL's knowledge of the subject matter, rather than their English proficiency.
Not all states, however, seem to be making every effort to develop native language assessments for their EL populations. Due to the flexibility provided to the states by the law, each state is able to interpret the law in relation to their state laws.
Approximately thirty states have laws or constitutional amendments that establish English as their official language (Alaska and Hawaii have laws that establish multiple official languages). Some of these laws—such as those of Kentucky, Arkansas, and Mississippi—are brief, non-descript, and seemingly benign. Others are somewhat absurd, such as the one in Illinois that left "American" as the state's official language for over forty-five years.
But these examples are more general policies for state affairs versus education-specific ones. That is, the above laws do not specifically target how schools should educate ELs. In contrast, other states, such as Tennessee and Arizona, take a more aggressive stance: they explicitly prohibit the use of languages other than English in public school instruction. Historically, other states such as California, Massachusetts, and Arkansas have also passed laws prohibiting the use of bilingual instruction in public schools. California has since repealed that measure, and Massachusetts is close to repealing theirs.
When it comes to state efforts to developing native language assessments under ESSA, several states are leaning on these official language laws to justify their negligence in this area—even when it puts separate state laws in direct tension with each other. As mentioned, Arkansas has a short, seemingly benign official language law. It clearly states that the adoption of English as the state's official language "shall not prohibit the public schools from performing their duty to provide equal educational opportunities to all children." But the state's drafted ESSA plan then cites the separate, education-specific law mentioned earlier, which stipulates that English is the sole language of instruction in schools. Furthermore, the ESSA plan claims that the education-specific law also extends to assessments and that, according to that law, students cannot be tested on content in languages other than the language of instruction.
Therefore, the state is making no concerted effort to develop native language assessments and is outwardly defying this part of ESSA. Other states that completely disregard this part of the law for similar reasons include Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, and Arizona. Florida seems to be taking the route of asking for permission rather than forgiveness by seeking a waiver from the portion of ESSA that requires states to develop native language assessments.
But not all state plans ignore the ESSA provisions that are meant to push states to better support ELs with native language assessment and native language instruction more generally. The vast majority of states identify the existing native language assessments available to EL students who make up a significant proportion of the population, as well as where improvement and additional translated assessments are necessary.
States such as Indiana, Louisiana and North Carolina go even further in valuing ELs' native language by explicitly mentioning the benefits of dual language immersion classes for their English learners and indicating a diversion of funds to support training bilingual teachers and expanding dual language classes. Similarly, Hawaii's draft plan exhibits a commitment to ELs' education by developing a professional pipeline to recruit, train, and support multilingual community members who are paraprofessionals or part-time teaching assistants to gain teacher certification and increase the pool of qualified EL teachers. The efforts of these states to utilize bilingual education will increase demand for native language assessments for ELs more widely. Through such initiatives, these states are going above and beyond in their commitment to ensuring equitable education for their EL populations.
It remains to be seen whether Betsy DeVos' Department of Education will approve the state plans that actively elude portions of ESSA by ignoring requirements to develop native language tests. Florida's waiver request may or may not be granted. While only time will tell, the drafts that outwardly defy the law in this regard represent an underlying problem for English learners: too much state flexibility. There is no consistency across states in policies regarding the language of instruction and assessment for ELs.
It will be interesting to see if these plans are approved, and if not, whether states look to outliers like Indiana, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Hawaii for inspiration. Ultimately, all EL students should be afforded the same accommodations and high quality of education—including access to native language assessment—regardless of their state of residence.


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Adrianus Michiel de Jong (Nieuw-Vossemeer, 29 maart 1888 – Blaricum, 18 oktober 1943) was een Nederlandse schrijver. Hij publiceerde zijn meeste werk onder eigen naam (A.M. de Jong), maar enkele werken werden onder pseudoniem uitgegeven (Frank van Waes, Herbert D. Ross).

De Jong werd geboren in Nieuw-Vossemeer, een dorp in het westelijk deel van Noord-Brabant. Het gezin had 13 kinderen. De Jongs vader was landarbeider en ging op zoek naar meer welvaart als arbeider in Rotterdam. Veel van De Jongs jeugdherinneringen zijn verwerkt in de romancyclus Merijntje Gijzens jeugd en jonge jaren.

Tijdens de mobilisatie in de Eerste Wereldoorlog werd De Jong opgeroepen voor dienst. Vanuit zijn gevoel voor onrecht publiceerde hij in zijn Notities van een landstormman kritische stukken over de situatie in het Nederlandse leger. Als gevolg daarvan werd De Jong van de officiersopleiding verwijderd. Later zou hij deze ervaringen verwerken in zijn roman Frank van Wezels roemruchte jaren.

A.M. de Jong schreef de teksten voor de strip Bulletje en Boonestaak, waarvoor hij in 1922 de in Nederland wonende Belg George Van Raemdonck aantrok voor het maken van de tekeningen. Deze strip wordt tegenwoordig als een klassieker beschouwd, zowel wegens de gedurfde tekeningen als de controversiële onderwerpen van De Jong.

In augustus 1930 begon De Jong als medewerker bij de VARA, waar hij tot na het uitbreken van de Tweede Wereldoorlog verantwoordelijk zou zijn voor de wekelijkse boekenrubriek. Vanaf de jaren twintig was hij daarnaast literatuurcriticus voor het dagblad Het Volk.

In 1942 werd De Jong wegens zijn socialistische sympathieën door de Duitsers gearresteerd, maar al snel weer vrijgelaten wegens zijn slechte gezondheid. Als represaille voor de moord op een aantal NSB'ers werd hij in 1943 vermoord door Nederlandse SS'ers, een van de zogenaamde Silbertanne-acties.

In 1947 bleek hij volgens een enquete van het toenmalige dagblad  De Tijd de meestgelezen Nederlandse auteur.

In 1974 werd in zijn geboorteplaats Nieuw-Vossemeer het A.M. de Jong-museum geopend.

In 2001 kwam er een biografie uit, geschreven door de neef van A.M. de Jong, Mels de Jong.

Bibliografie

 Studies over literatuur (essayistisch) (1912)
 De bewaarschool (vertaling) (1914)
 Ondergang (roman) (1916)
 De zware weg (roman) (1917)
 Vacantiedagen (kinderboek) (1917)
 Marcus van Houwaert (roman) (1920)
 De handel in pornografie (schetsen) (1920)
 Vertellingen rond de bewaarschool (vertaling) (1920)
 Amsterdam bij nacht (schetsen) (1921)
 Het evangelie van den haat (roman) (1923)
 I De stormloop
 II De overwinning
 III De ineenstorting

 Dostojewski (essay over de Russische schrijver Fjodor Dostojevski) (1923)
 Bloemlezing van revolutionaire poëzie (essayistisch) (1923)
 De wereld van Bulletje en Boonestaak (kinderboeken) (1923-1935)
 De wilde man (vertaling) (1923)
 Een zwerftocht over zee (reisbeschrijving) (1924)
 Aan den stroom (kinderboek) (1924)
 Merijntje Gijzens jeugd I: Het verraad (roman) (1925)
 Vrede op aarde (schetsen) (1925)
 Notities van een landstormman: recht voor de mobilistieslachtoffers (schetsen) (1925)
 Fathma, de roos van het Oosten (roman) (1926)
 Merijntje Gijzens jeugd II: Flierefluiters oponthoud (roman) (1926)
 Een kluchtige zomerreis (reisbeschrijving) (1926)
 Merijntje Gijzens jeugd III: Onnozele kinderen (roman) (1927)
 De arbeiders en het boek (essayistisch) (1927)
 Naar zonnige landen in donker getij (reisbeschrijving) (1927)
 Onder de Jefkes (schetsen) (1927)
 Leven en sterven van oom Anghel (vertaling) (1927)
 Codine (vertaling) (1927)
 De kinderziel, god en het leven (beschouwing) (1928)
 Merijntje Gijzens jeugd IV: In de draaikolk (roman) (1928)
 De rijkaard, een dorpstragedie (novelle) (1928)
 Frank van Wezels roemruchte jaren (roman) (1928)
 Nerrantsoula (vertaling) (1928)
 Kruisende wegen (roman) (1929)
 Flierefluiters tussenkomst (novelle) (1929)
 De beeldhouwer Adrianus Remiëns (essayistisch) (1929)
 Kyra Kyralina (vertaling) (1929)
 De martelgang van kromme Lindert (roman) (1930)
 De sponzenvisser (vertaling) (1930)
 Tsatsa-Minnka (vertaling) (1931)
 Een verdoolde (roman) (1932)
 De dood van een patriarch (novelle) (1932)
 Dag des oordeels (vertaling) (1932)
 De schotel (novelle) (1933)
 Israël Querido, de mens en de kunstenaar (essayistisch) (1933)
 Vrij geboren (vertaling) (1933)
 Vrolike vertelsels (schetsen) (1933)
 De avonturen van den baron van Munchhausen (kinderboek) (1933)
 De ondergang van het huis van Thuringen (vertaling) (1933)
 Metgezellen (verhalen) (1935-1943)
 Chattinbakkie (1935)
 Merijntje Gijzens jonge jaren
 I: De grote zomer (roman) (1935)
 II: De goede dood (roman) (1936)
 III: Het boze gerucht (roman) (1937)
 IV: Een knaap wordt man (roman) (1938)
 De erfgenaam (roman) (1938)
 Spiegelt u zacht (bloemlezing) (1938)
 Mustapha, of de tragedie van het geweten (1939)
 Thanatos, de vreemdeling (1939)
 De dans op de vulkaan (schetsen) (1939)
 Jack London, zijn leven en werk (vertaling) (1939)
 De mijn (vertaling) (1940)
 De vreemde broeders (roman) (1940)
 Een Bataafs Driemanschap (kinderboek) (1940)
 Poeske (roman) (1941)
 De wonderlijke waard van hotel Carlecas (schetsen) (1941)
 Merijntje in Filmland (schetsen) (1941)
 De hemelbestormer (vertaling) (1941)
 De heks van de Riethoek (roman) (1942)
 De baldadige vertelsels (vertaling) (1943)
 De dolle vaandrig -in twee delen- (roman) (1946)
 De achterhoede (vertaling) (1946)
 Een held keert weer (1947)
 Metgezellen, een hondenboek (schetsen)(1949)
 Hotel du Commerce (vertaling (1951)
 Leven in de brouwerij (1955)
 Gijzeling (1955)
 Carmen (1957)
 De avonturen van Appelsnoet en Goudbaard (kinderboek-bundel) (1963 – 1925/1927)

Zie ook
 A.M. de Jong-museum

Externe links

 de Jong, Martien J. G. - 'A.M. de Jong 1888 - 1943' in Salverda, Murk & Anton Korteweg (1986) - 't Is vol van schatten hier. Amsterdam / 's-Gravenhage, p. 279 / 280.
 A.M. de Jong op schrijversinfo
 A.M. de Jongmuseum in Nieuw-Vossemeer
 Over het radiowerk van A.M. de Jong

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Contribute significant amounts to retirement savings plans.
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Google's Income Tax Rate Was Only 8 Percent.
Google paid a 16.2% effective tax rate, with only modest benefit from lower tax rates on foreign income outside of FDII.
Large multinational companies can still save billions of dollars by using foreign subsidiaries and tax havens. Other methods used by Fortune 500 companies to reduce taxes include accelerated depreciation and stock options, while some industries even offer specific tax breaks.
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FedEx and Nike are among those found to have avoided U.S. tax liability for three straight years.
Between 2011 and 2020, Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet (the owner of Google), Netflix, Apple and Microsoft — known as the "Silicon Six" — paid roughly $219 billion in income taxes, which amounts to just 3.6% of their $6 trillion-plus in total revenue, according to the Fair Tax Foundation.
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Girls on Film: The untapped talents of Sandra Oh
Monika Bartyzel
Oh's leaving the scrubs behind. (Facebook.com/Grey's Anatomy)
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Last night, Sandra Oh's impressive, 10-season span on Grey's Anatomy finally came to an end. Oh's Dr. Cristina Yang was one of the show's primary balancing forces, playing by her own rules as she evolved into an uncompromising surgeon destined for greatness. Her work on the series has earned her five Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe in 2006.
The show's loss, however, is the viewer's gain. Spending that long on a TV show makes it hard for audiences to see an actor as anything other than the character they play — particularly when the show has taken up a full half of the actor's 20-year career.
Fortunately, Oh's lesser-known film work offers a roadmap for the wide-open potential for her career going forward. Her supporting roles have showed plenty of range, from the quirkiness of the wacky British comedy Bean to the teenage fairy tale of The Princess Diaries to the darkness of Hard Candy. But Oh has also starred in a handful of films where she commanded more of the spotlight, facing everything from familial pressures to the end of the world. Each reveals Oh's extraordinary ability to move from happiness to despair, filming many of her most cutting and resonant moments without saying a word.
Grey's Anatomy may have lost Cristina Yang, but there's no limit to what we might gain — especially if Hollywood notices that one of its most talented women of color has freed up some room in her schedule. As Sandra Oh's career moves on to its next phase, these are the five performances that show off her true capabilities:
1. Double Happiness
Twenty years ago, Sandra Oh made her feature debut in writer/director Mina Shum's Double Happiness, which won Oh her first Genie Award (the Canadian equivalent of the Oscars). She plays Jade Li, a young woman from a strict Chinese family who struggles with her parent's expectations and her desire to be an actress.
Double Happiness is a sweet and modest '90s dramedy — but it's also a compelling exploration of personal and public identity. Jade is caught in a myriad of systems she doesn't completely fit into. As a daughter, she struggles with the strict demands her family places upon her. As an actress, Jade is too talented for the minority roles available, and too Canadian for the Chinese-centric opportunities that arise. But rather than get bogged down in stories of defiance and struggle, Shum focuses the camera on Jade's optimism and search to figure out what's right for her. Oh plays Jade with a mixture of naivete and strength that bolsters the material and plays against the usual commanding roles she ends up in.
2. Dancing at the Blue Iguana
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Oh's performance as Jasmine in Dancing at the Blue Iguana is the dark counterpoint to her work in Double Happiness. In Blue Iguana, Oh plays a woman caught between hope and her dark reality as one of the exotic dancers at the titular strip club. The escort/stripper role is a typical move for women in film, but Iguana sticks out because it really belongs to the women who star. Giving only the basic framework — a film set in a strip club — writer/director Michael Radford hired a cast who went through five-months of improvisation, workshops, and rehearsals to create their characters.
Oh's Jasmine is a fascinating portrayal of performance and pain, focusing on her desire to be a poet, and the everyday guy whose idealism for her future clashes with the reality of her life. Oh repeatedly plays with juxtaposition in the film, choosing to often explore the depth between the words as she jumps between her dancer and poet personas, and ultimately has to face her lover's disdain over what she does.
3. Sideways
Oh is talented enough that she manages to give depth to what could have been a superficially one-note character. Sideways' Stephanie is a secure flirt and adventurous wine aficionado who becomes the unwitting victim of Jack's (Thomas Hayden Church) cheating — an onslaught of empty declarations and promises of love and commitment.
Oh's performance is bolstered by the screenplay, which adds rationale to the "other woman" role — it gives her many reasons to believe Jack, and pulls Stephanie out of the usual pit of characters who "should know better." He gives her the promise of the world she'd love, and she is, unwittingly, another version of his dream woman: someone who's "just cool," who isn't controlling, and who lets him daydream of another life he could have had. Stephanie's revenge is a nice capper to her story in Sideways, but it's hard not to wish that her motorcycle-riding wine pro had gone on to top-line a comedy about her own boozy adventures.
4. Wilby Wonderful
Just as Oh was primed for Hollywood success in Sideways and her long run on Grey's Anatomy, she co-starred in Daniel MacIvor's wickedly dark Canadian comedy Wilby Wonderful. As the wonderfully manic, connective glue of the ensemble, Oh plays Carol French, a controlling, frazzled realtor trying to sell her recently deceased mother-in-law's home to the town's mayor. As she frets and tries to stage the house, her cop husband is flirting with an old flame, and a desperate man zeroes in on the home when his previous suicide attempts kept getting interrupted.
Carol is, in a sense, the Canadian soul sister of Annette Bening's similarly named Carolyn Burnham in American Beauty. She should have a normal life — but extraordinary circumstances keep testing the threads of her sanity, which slip with each passing challenge.
5. Last Night
One of Canada's best films is also Sandra Oh's best role, which earned her a second Genie Award. When a number of filmmakers were tasked with coming up with Y2K stories, filmmaker Don McKellar ended up envisioning a Melancholia-esque dark comedy about the end of Earth — one that explores the calm that sets in once the world has come to terms with its impending, inevitable doom.
Oh plays Sandra, a woman desperate to get home to her husband — not to face the end together, but to kill each other and steal one last bit of control in a world that's spinning out of control. Over the course of Earth's final night, she runs an emotional gamut of highs and lows, desperation and connection. She is the human to balance McKellar's wry, dark humor, offering equal parts deep emotion and relatable practicality.
Girls on Film is a weekly column focusing on women and cinema. It can be found at TheWeek.com every Friday morning. And be sure to follow the Girls on Film Twitter feed for additional femme-con.
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