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Alan Parker, 'Evita' and 'Mississippi Burning' Director, Dies at 76
Two-time Oscar nominee also directed "Midnight Express" and "The Commitments"
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Sir Alan Parker, a British director known for "Evita," "Mississippi Burning," "Midnight Express" and "The Commitments," has died, an individual with knowledge of his passing told TheWrap. He was 76.
Parker died on Friday after a long battle with an illness.
Parker was a two-time Oscar nominee for directing both "Midnight Express" and the racial drama "Mississippi Burning."
Among some of Parker's other iconic credits include "Bugsy Malone," "Fame," "Pink Floyd: The Wall," "Angel Heart," "Angela's Ashes" and most recently "The Life of David Gale" in 2003.
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Parker received the CBE in 1995 and was knighted in 2002. He's also a founding member of the Director's Guild in Britain and was also the chairman of the UK Film Council.
Parker got his start directing TV commercials in the late '60s and early '70s, coming up in the industry around the time of other British filmmakers like Ridley Scott, Adrian Lyne and Hugh Hudson, and he directed his first film "No Hard Feelings" in 1973.
His first feature, "Bugsy Malone" from 1976, parodied American gangster cinema and did so with an all-child cast that provided early career roles for Jodie Foster and Scott Baio. He was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Direction for the film and won the BAFTA for Best Screenplay.
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Jeremy Barber, Parker's longtime agent and UTA partner, shared a statement with TheWrap in remembrance of Parker.
"Sir Alan was one of the greatest storytellers of our time. His films were transportive and transformational and made me truly believe in the magic of movies," Barber said. "Sir Alan was a humanist and his work explored all of the nooks and crannies of life and thus helped make sense of the world around us. One of my greats joys was sharing a meal with him at his favorite place Mr. Chows and getting to listen to his incredible stories. We have lost an exceptional talent and I will miss him."
"Midnight Express" then solidified Parker as a top-tier director and won Oscars for both Oliver Stone for his screenplay and electronic music pioneer Giorgio Moroder for his original score.
In all, Parker's films have won 19 BAFTAs, 10 Golden Globes and six Oscars. In 2015, he announced that he was effectively retiring from the film industry, and the same year he donated his personal archive of over 70 boxes and documents to the British Film Institute.
Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2020 (Photos)
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David Stern
The former longtime commissioner of the NBA died Jan. 1 following a brain hemorrhage, according to a statement from current NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. He was 77.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
The author of the seminal 1994 memoir "Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America" died in a Manhattan hospital on Jan. 7 at age 52.
Silvio Horta, creator of the ABC comedy series "Ugly Betty," was found dead in a Miami motel room Jan. 7. He was 45.
The drummer and lyricist for the '70s and '80s Canadian rock band Rush, died on Jan. 7, according to the band's Twitter account. He was 67.
Harry Hains
Harry Hains, an actor and producer who had appeared on "American Horror Story: Hotel," "The OA," "Sneaky Pete" and "The Surface," died on Jan. 7. He was 27.
The actor-screenwriter-director -- who co-created "Get Smart," co-wrote "The Graduate" and co-directed the hit 1978 Warren Beatty film "Heaven Can Wait" -- died on Jan. 8 in Los Angeles. He was 89.
The actor, who played Vince Fontaine in "Grease" and also starred on the series "77 Sunset Strip" as the teen idol "Kookie," died on Jan. 8. He was 87.
Ivan Passer
Ivan Passer -- a pioneering filmmaker in the Czech New Wave, a frequent collaborator with the late Milos Forman and the director of the 1981 film "Cutter's Way" -- died on Jan. 9. He was 86.
Stan Kirch
Stan Kirsch, one of the stars of the syndicated '90s fantasy drama "Highlander: The Series," died on Jan. 11. He was 51.
Rocky Johnson
Rocky Johnson, a member of the WWE Hall of Fame and the father of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, died on Jan. 15 at the age of 75.
Terry Jones, a beloved member of the Monty Python comedy troupe who directed many of its classic films, died Jan. 21. He was 77.
Tyler Gwozdz
Former "Bachelorette" contestant Tyler Gwozdz, who appeared on the 2019 season of the reality series, died Jan. 22 of a suspected drug overdose at age 29.
Retired NBA star Kobe Bryant was killed Jan. 26 in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., that killed four others. He was 41.
Kirk Douglas -- the prolific actor and producer whose "Spartacus" is credited with helping to end the Hollywood blacklist, patriarch of a successful entertainment dynasty and one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood's golden age -- died Feb. 5 at age 103.
F.X. Feeney
F.X. Feeney, a film historian, screenwriter and longtime film critic for LA Weekly, died on Feb. 5 after suffering several strokes over the previous few days. He was 66.
Kevin Conway
Kevin Conway, known for his roles in films like "Gettysburg" and 'Thirteen Days," died on Feb. 5 of a heart attack. He was 77.
Veteran character actor Orson Bean, a regular on shows like "To Tell the Truth" and "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" and star of "Being John Malkovich," died the night of Feb. 7 at age 91 after he was struck and killed by a car in Los Angeles.
Raphael Coleman
Raphael Coleman, who starred as Eric in the 2005 Emma Thompson movie "Nanny McPhee" and went on to devote himself to environmental activism, died suddenly on Feb. 7 at the age of 25.
Robert Conrad, who was the star of the '60s TV series "Wild Wild West," died from heart failure on Feb. 8 at the age of 84.
Paula Kelly
Paula Kelly, an Emmy-nominated actress known for TV series like "Night Court" and films like "Sweet Charity" and "The Andromeda Strain," died on Feb. 8 in Whittier, California. She was 77.
Joseph Vilsmaier
Joseph Vilsmaier, a German director and cinematographer behind the acclaimed 1993 World War II drama "Stalingrad" died "peacefully" at his home in Bavaria on Feb. 11. He was 81.
Daniel Lee Martin
Daniel Lee Martin, country singer and host of "Brotherhood Outdoors," was found dead in his Pasco County, Florida, home on Feb. 14 of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 54.
Caroline Flack, former host of "Love Island," died at the age of 40 on Feb. 15. A lawyer for the family told BBC that Flack died by suicide.
Nikita Pearl Waligwa
Nikita Pearl Waligwa, the young actress seen in the 2016 Disney film "Queen of Katwe," died on Feb. 15, according to the Ugandan newspaper The Daily Monitor. Waligwa, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2016, was 15.
Jason Davis, best known as the voice of Mikey Blumberg on Disney Channel's "Recess," died on Feb. 16. He was 35.
Ja'net Dubois
Ja'net Dubois, who starred on the CBS sitcom "Good Times" and wrote and performed the theme song to "The Jeffersons," passed away on Feb. 18. She was 74.
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson, a pioneering mathematician and NASA employee who was pivotal in America's space race and was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the film "Hidden Figures," died on Feb. 24. She was 101.
Dieter Laser
Dieter Laser, the German actor best known for his role as the deranged doctor in "The Human Centipede," died on Feb. 29. He was 78.
"Inside the Actors Studio" host James Lipton passed away on March 2 after a battle with bladder cancer. He was 93.
"The Exorcist" star Max von Sydow died on March 8 at the age of 90.
Lorenzo Brino
Lorenzo Brino, a former child star in the family drama "7th Heaven," died in a car accident on March 9, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said.
Beatrice, who played the beloved French bulldog Stella on the last seven seasons of "Modern Family," died March 9 shortly after the cast shot the series finale.
Stuart Whitman, a star of Westerns like "The Comancheros" and the war movie "The Longest Day," died in his home March 16, his son told TMZ. Whitman was 92.
Lyle Waggoner, an actor known for starring on "The Carol Burnett Show" and the '70s "Wonder Woman" TV series, died March 17 at age 84.
Maggie Griffin
Maggie Griffin, Kathy Griffin's mother and co-star of her Bravo reality series "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List," died March 17 at age 99.
Country music legend Kenny Rogers passed away on March 20 at the age of 81. According to a statement, he died of natural causes.
Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally died on March 24 of complications from the coronavirus. He was 81.
Bill Withers, the singer of classics like "Lean On Me" and "Ain't No Sunshine," died on March 30 at the age of 81.
Jeff Grosso, the legendary skateboarder who hosted Vans' "Loveletters to Skating" video series, died March 31 in Costa Mesa, Calif. He was 51.
Adam Schlesinger
Adam Schlesinger, the lead singer-songwriter of the rock band Fountains of Wayne and a music producer and composer on "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," died on April 1 due to complications from the coronavirus.
Ellis Marsalis Jr.
Ellis Marsalis Jr., New Orleans jazz legend and father of Wynton and Branford Marsalis, died from COVID-19 complications on April 1. He was 85.
Ed Farmer
Ed Farmer, an MLB player-turned-White Sox radio announcer, died April 1. He was 70.
Eddie Large
Eddie Large, one-half of the comedy duo Little and Large, died April 2 after contracting coronavirus while hospitalized for heart failure. He was 78.
Patricia Bosworth, a stage and screen actress who also penned celebrity biographies, died April 2 from complications of the coronavirus. She was 86.
Honor Blackman, the British actress best known for her roles in "Goldfinger" and "The Avengers" series, died at the age of 94, her family announced on April 6.
Chynna Rogers
Rapper and model Chynna Rogers died on April 8. She was 25.
Actor Brian Dennehy, a Tony and Golden Globe-winning actor, passed away on April 15 of natural causes. He was 81.
Irrfan Khan, the Indian actor who bolstered his fame beyond Bollywood with roles in English-language hits like "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Life of Pi," died April 29 in Mumbai at age 53.
Sam Lloyd
Sam Lloyd, best known for his role as downtrodden lawyer Ted Buckland on "Scrubs," died on April 30. He was 56.
Don Shula
Legendary NFL coach Don Shula passed away on May 4 at the age of 90.
Brian Howe
Brian Howe, the lead singer for the British rock supergroup Bad Company and a former vocalist for Ted Nugent, died on May 6. He was 66.
Longtime music executive Andre Harrell, who founded the hip-hop label Uptown Records and mentored Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, died on May 7 at age 59.
Roy Horn
Magician Roy Horn, best known as half of the legendary Siegfried & Roy magic and animal act in Las Vegas, died on May 8 from complications due to coronavirus.
Little Richard, the singer and pianist who became a rock pioneer with his high-energy musicianship and boundary-pushing personality, died on May 9 at age 87 from unspecified causes.
Jerry Stiller, the Emmy-nominated comedy legend of TV sitcoms "Seinfeld" and "King of Queens," passed away on May 11. He was 92.
Phyllis George
Phyllis George, a former Miss America winner who went on to become one of the first female broadcasters covering the NFL — and later, the First Lady of Kentucky — died on May 14 at the age of 70.
Comedic actor Fred Willard, best known for his roles in "Spinal Tap" and "Modern Family," passed away on May 15 at the age of 86.
Lynn Shelton
Director and producer Lynn Shelton, who helmed independent films like "Humpday" and "Sword of Trust," died on May 16 from a previously undisclosed blood disorder. She was 54.
Ken Osmond, best known for his role as Eddie Haskell on "Leave It to Beaver," died on May 18 at the age of 76.
Chris Trousdale
Chris Trousdale, a former member of the boy band Dream Street, died on June 2. His former bandmate, Jesse McCartney, said he died "due to complications from COVID-19." He was 34.
Bonnie Pointer
Bonnie Pointer, a member of the iconic R&B group The Pointer Sisters, passed away on June 8. She was 69.
"Lord of the Rings" star Ian Holm passed away on June 19. He was 88.
Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher, director of films like "St. Elmo's Fire," "The Client" and "A Time to Kill," died on June 22 after a long battle with cancer. He was 80.
Legendary entertainer Carl Reiner, perhaps best known as the creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," died on June 29. He was 98.
Danny Hicks
The actor, who appeared in several Sam Raimi films including "Evil Dead II," "Darkman" and "Spider-Man 2," died on June 30 at the age of 68.
Ronald L. Schwary
Ronald L. Schwary, Oscar-winning producer of Robert Redford's 1980 drama "Ordinary People," died on July 2 at age 76, his family announced.
Longtime TV news anchor Hugh Downs passed away on July 2 at the age of 99.
Earl Cameron
Earl Camerson, one of the first Black actors to be cast in major roles in British films, died at the age of 102 on July 3. His first role was in the 1951 film "Pool of London."
Nick Cordero
Tony Award-nominated actor Nick Cordero died on July 5 due to complications from coronavirus. He was 41.
Mary Kay Letourneau
The Seattle-area middle school teacher -- who became infamous in 1997 after raping one of her students, serving a lengthy prison sentence, then marrying the student after her release from prison -- died on July 6 following a battle with cancer. She was 58.
Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone died on July 6 at age 91, his lawyer told the New York Times. Morricone became famous for his melodic scores for 1960s Westerns like "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" and "Once Upon a Time in the West." He drew on his work in so-called spaghetti Westerns for Quentin Tarantino's 2015 Western "The Hateful Eight," which earned the composer his first Academy Award after five previous nominations and an honorary award in 2007.
Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels, a country music and Southern rock legend known for his song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," died on July 6. He was 83.
Lil Marlo
Atlanta rapper Lil Marlo (né Rudolph Johnson), best known for his 2017 hit "2 the Hard Way" with Lil Baby, was shot and killed in his native Atlanta on July 12, the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office said. He was 30.
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Actress Kelly Preston, who starred in such films as "Twins" and "Jerry Maguire," died on July 12 after a two-year battle with breast cancer. The star, who had three children with husband John Travolta, was 57.
Former "Glee" star Naya Rivera was found dead on July 13 after going missing the week prior while out on a boat with her son in Ventura County, Calif. She was 33.
Grant Imahara
Grant Imahara, the engineer and roboticist who helped test some of the world's most famous rumors on the iconic Discovery Channel series "Mythbusters," died on July 13 at the age of 49.
Galyn Görg
The dancer and actress, who appeared in classic television shows like "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and "Twin Peaks," died on July 14 at the age of 55.
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John Lewis, the civil rights icon who played a key role in some of the most important battles of the era, died on July 17 following a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 80.
Longtime morning television host and five-time Emmy-winner Regis Philbin died July 25 of natural causes. He was 88.
The British guitarist, who co-founded the seminal rock band Fleetwood Mac, died at age 73 on July 25.
Olivia de Havilland, an Oscar-winning actress best known for her role as the timid but strong Melanie in the 1939 classic "Gone With the Wind," died July 26 of natural causes. She was 104.
Herman Cain
Herman Cain, a former GOP presidential candidate and business czar, died on July 30 from complications of the coronavirus. He was 74.
Wilford Brimley, a beloved character actor who starred in such film as "Cocoon" and "The Natural," died on Aug. 1 at age 85.
Sumner Redstone, a movie theater owner's son who became one of the most powerful moguls in Hollywood history, died on Aug. 11 at the age of 97.
Trini Lopez
The singer and guitarist, who famously covered Pete Seeger and Lee Hays' song "If I Had a Hammer," died due to complications from COVID-19 on Aug. 11 at the age of 83.
Robert Trump
Robert Trump, the younger brother of Donald Trump and a former real estate developer and executive at the Trump Organization, died on Aug. 15. He was 71 years old.
The Americana singer-songwriter and son of the country artist Steve Earle, known for his 2007 EP "Yuma," died on Aug. 20 at age 38.
"Black Panther" star Chadwick Boseman died on Aug. 28 at the age of 43. He had been battling colon cancer but never publicly disclosed his diagnosis.
Cliff Robinson
This NBA All-Star and former contestant on "Survivor" died on Aug. 29 at age 53. His cause of death was lymphoma, according to the New York Times.
Kevin Dobson
Actor Kevin Dobson, a star on beloved CBS dramas "Kojak" and "Knots Landing," died Sept. 6 of a heart attack. He was 77.
Bruce Williamson
The lead singer of The Temptations from 2006-2015 died of COVID-19 on Sept. 6, according to TMZ. He was 49 years old.
Diana Rigg, who was best known for her roles as Lady Olenna Tyrell on "Game of Thrones" and Emma Peel in the 1960s TV series "The Avengers," died Sept. 10 at her home in the U.K. following a battle with cancer. She was 82.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the celebrated Supreme Court Justice and feminist icon, died due to complications from metastatic pancreas cancer on Sept. 18. She was 87.
Michael Lonsdale, the actor who played the iconic villain Hugo Drax in 1979's James Bond movie "Moonraker" and starred in 1973's "The Day of the Jackal," died on Sept. 21 at age 89.
Jackie Stallone
The celebrity astrologer and mother of "Rocky" actor Sylvester Stallone died on Sept. 21 at the age of 98.
The "I am Woman" singer and feminist icon died Sept. 29. She was 78.
Legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen passed away on Oct. 6 following a long battle with cancer. He was 65.
Whitey Ford
Edward Charles Ford, better known as Whitey Ford, was a New York Yankees legend and Hall of Fame baseball player. The team announced his death on Oct. 8 at the age of 91.
Dubbed "The Queen of Technicolor," Rhonda Fleming -- who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound" and opposite Bing Crosby in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" -- died in mid-October at the age of 97.
The game show host, known for hosting "Name That Tune," "You Don't Say" and "Password Plus," died Oct. 11. He was 93.
The actress, who appeared in films like "Edward Scissorhands" and "Erin Brockovich" but was best known for playing the housekeeper Berta on "Two and a Half Men," died on Oct. 12. She was 77.
Ferrell died on Monday, Oct. 12, due to complications following a cardiac arrest
MLB Hall of Famer and broadcast commentator Joe Morgan died Oct. 12 after suffering from polyneuropathy. He was 77 years old.
The legendary Minneapolis sports columnist and Lakers general manager died at the age of 100 on Oct. 18.
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James Randi
The famed magician was known as "The Amazing Randi" and also worked as a scientific investigator who debunked sensational claims of paranormal and occult occurrences. He died on Oct. 20 at age 92.
Tony Lewis
The British lead singer and bassist for the band The Outfield passed away Oct. 20. He was 62.
The actress, known for "Show Boat" and "Give a Girl a Break," was also the model for Walt Disney animators who created the dancing in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." She died on Oct. 21 at age 101.
The creator of "Starsky & Hutch" and the writer of "Purple Rain" died on Oct. 22 at the age of 83.
Tracy Smothers
WWE star Tracy Smothers, who competed under the moniker Freddie Joe Floyd, passed away Oct. 28. He was 58.
The legendary actor known for "James Bond," "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" and "The Hunt for Red October" passed away on Oct. 31 at age 90.
Eddie Hassell
The "Devious Maids" and "The Kids Are Alright" actor was shot and killed in Texas on Nov. 1. He was 30.
Nikki McKibbin
The "American Idol" finalist and native Texan died Nov. 1. She was 42.
Alex Trebek, longtime "Jeopardy!" host and beloved TV personality, died on Nov. 8 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 80.
Bobby Brown Jr.
Bobby Brown Jr., son of Bobby Brown and Kim Ward, died in Encino, Calif. on Nov. 19. He was 28.
David Dinkins
Dinkins, the first Black mayor of New York City, passed away Nov. 23. He was 93.
Ed, the brother of Bill Murray, inspired the hit film "Caddyshack" by introducing his family to the game of golf. Ed Murray died Nov. 25 at age 67.
David Prowse
The actor behind Darth Vader's mask died Nov. 29. He was 85.
David Lander
David Lander, the actor who played Squiggy on the "Happy Days" spin-off "Laverne & Shirley," died on Dec. 4 due to complications from multiple sclerosis. He was 73.
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister
Former wrestler and actor Tommy "Tiny" Lister, best known for his role in the "Friday" movies, died on Dec. 10. He was 62.
Famed British author John le Carré, whose books include "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," died on Dec. 13 after battling pneumonia. He was 89.
Ann Reinking
The Tony-winning actor and dancer most known for directing choreography in the 1996 "Chicago" musical and as protégée of Bob Fosse, died Dec. 14 in Washington state. She was 71.
Robert Werden
Werden was a Hollywood publicist for 35 years and the Oscars' publicity lead from 1975 to 1993. He also was a unit publicist on over 40 movies, including "Pennies From Heaven" and the original "Superman" films. He died at his home in Los Angeles on Dec. 15. He was 94 years old.
The London-based actor was best known for appearing in the original "Tales of the City" miniseries in 1993. He died on Dec. 16 at the age of 55.
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Tuck Tucker
The prolific animator, writer, artist and songwriter whose work included "Spongebob," "The Simpsons," "Hey Arnold" and "The Fairly OddParents," died on Dec. 22 from undisclosed causes. He was 59.
Rebecca Luker
The Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress and singer died on Dec. 23 at age 59 following a battle with ALS.
Jonathan Huber
The professional wrestler with both WWE and All Elite Wrestling was best known under his ring names Brodie Lee and Luke Harper. He died on Dec. 26 from undisclosed causes at age 41.
Phil Niekro
The Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher best known for playing 20 seasons with the Atlanta Braves died on Dec. 26 after a battle with cancer. He was 81.
Nick McGlashan
The seventh-generation fisherman was a regular on Discovery's "Deadliest Catch" series, appearing as a deck boss on 78 episodes over seven seasons. He died on Dec. 27 at age 33, though no cause of death was given.
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The co-creator of classic TV series including "Columbo" and "Murder, She Wrote" died on Dec. 27 at age 87. His cause of death was congestive heart failure, his widow told Deadline.
Joe Clark
The New Jersey high school principal was the subject of the 1989 biopic "Lean on Me" starring Morgan Freeman. Clark died on Dec. 29 at the age of 82.
The legendary fashion designer and entrepreneur died on Dec. 29 at age 98. He was known for futuristic designs like the bubble dress.
Howard Rubenstein
The public relations heavyweight died on Dec. 29 at age 88. His past clients included Donald Trump, George Steinbrenner and the Yankees, Columbia University and the Metropolitan Opera. His cause of death was not immediately revealed.
Phyllis McGuire
The last surviving member of the 1950s singing trio The McGuire Sisters died on Dec. 29 at the age of 89. No cause of death was immediately given.
Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones
The pioneering hip-hop dancer and star of the film "Breakin'" died on Dec. 30 at age 65. His cause of death was not immediately released.
The "Gilligan's Island" star, who played Mary Ann on the classic 1960s sitcom, died of complications due to COVID-19 on Dec. 30. She was 82.
A look at all the stars in movies, TV, music, sports and media we lost this year
TheWrap pays tribute to Hollywood and media's notable deaths

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Output will start to tick up this year, but the increase will be very gradual.
At least in the short term, Mexicans will remain broadly supportive of López Obrador's agenda.
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I checked to see if there are past instances of this. I have a report of an issue where a user was logged into an iMFP session on a Xerox MFD. The printer crashed and is now inoperable. The user attempted to login to a different printer and received a message indicating he had to end his session on the other printer first. The timeout (Release Station inactivity time) for the crashed printer is set to 30 seconds. The user tried an hour later, but still got the same message. Is there a way to interact with and end this session manually?
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I would be curious to know the Pharos mechanism that handles this. Is there documentation on this? Perhaps it has simply malfunctioned but restarting the computer, site or IIS in production would have to wait for a maintenance window. However, I see that it may be the only way to clear the session.
Yes, it's not ideal to restart the services but restarting at a late hour may be a good alternative. This will minimize the impact on users. The restart is actually quite fast, only a few seconds but it will invalidate any existing user session so if someone was logged in when the restart happened, they may be forced to login again.
There is no documentation because it's part of the protocol specification between the client (MFP) and server (UP). In Pharos the concept of a release station exists and each release station is responsible for periodically pinging the Pharos server to keep the user locked. Otherwise, after 5 minutes of inactivity on the session the user is unlocked. Some solutions, like Canon, literally have code running on the MFP itself so the call originates from the MFP. Other solutions, like Xerox, don't have code running on the MFP. Instead the MPF is pointing at a web service that has all the business logic.
For Xerox the release station is a construct inside the web service and the web service manages a list of release stations. This allows some number of Xerox devices to all point at the same Management Console and the Management Console properly handles all interactions simultaneously. This arrangement relies on the MFP to notify the web service of pertinent events like login and logout so the web service can manage the user session within the context of the release station.
Because of the crash the web service either didn't get a logout event or some other side effect caused the release station to fail to terminate the session resulting in the periodic call to keep the user locked to remain running in spite of several safe guards to ensure it is eventually killed.
Going full circle, since all this happens in the web service, not the MFP, the only recourse is to restart the web service.
Thanks Nick for the detailed information. I agree that a restart of IIS would be the best fix. I experimented with recycling the Application Pool (to isolate the iMFP site folder) and this did reset existing sessions. In the end, the problem session eventually timed out, so I did not have to do the reset.


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The biotech year is ending with a light bang on the M&A front.
Suffering from a rep based more on exploiting markets than developing new drugs, Mallinckrodt $MNK is beefing up its pipeline of rare disease drugs with the $1.2 billion buyout of Sucampo $SCMP. The deal delivers one marketed drug — Amitiza (lubiprostone) for constipation — as well as two experimental ones, both in late-stage development.
The deal represents only a 6% premium over Sucampo's pre-Christmas height. But Sucampo's stock has been headed straight north for the past 5 weeks, on little hard news.
Mallinckrodt, which quit PhRMA earlier this year just before the group imposed a set of standards on R&D spending, is paying $18 a share and covering debt obligations at Sucampo. The deal follows two other acquisitions in recent months, reserving $425 million for InfaCare and $117 million for Ocera.
Notably, Mallinckrodt gains a late-stage drug for Niemann-Pick type C disease which Sucampo bagged in its $200 million acquisition of Vtesse early this year.
The drug — VTS-270 — is a unique mixture of 2-hydroxypropyl-ß- cyclodextrins (HPßCD), which registered positive data from a tiny study with 14 patients. Delivered in the spinal column every two weeks for 18 months, the symptoms of 7 of 14 patients improved, with some regaining an ability to speak as researchers tracked scores on gait, cognition and speech.
In the event that Mallinckrodt can gain an approval for this drug, the company would qualify for a priority review voucher probably worth around $125 million to $130 million.
Their other pipeline drug is CPP-1X/sulindac, in Phase III development for Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) under a collaborative agreement between Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals and Sucampo.
Mallinckrodt agreed to pay a $100 million fine to resolve a probe of the long, rather sordid history behind Acthar, an infantile spasm drug which cost $28,000 a vial when Mallinckrodt picked it up in the $5.6 billion acquisition of Questcor. Questcor had been jacking up the price on Acthar when it paid Novartis $135 million to gain US rights to a therapy that posed a direct threat to its drug franchise. And Mallinckrodt was forced to pay the fine for illegally maintaining a drug monopoly — not the kind of sanction PhRMA likes to see for members.


Senator STEWART (Queensland) -I do not see any reason why the Senate should not sit on Tuesday next. I observe that another place intends to sit on that day. Really we have not made very much progress with business this week.
Senator Playford - Look at the noticepaper for to-day ! It will be pretty well cleared by the end of the sitting.
Senator STEWART - Probably the most important portion of our work has yet to come, and that is the consideration of the Estimates. If it is the general desire of honorable senators to close the session towards the end of November, there will be very little time for. the consideration of the Estimates. We shall have a repetition of what has taken place every year. The Estimates will be passed in the last days of the session without receiving any decent scrutiny.
Senator Higgs - If the honorable senator had come here in June we might have been very much further advanced than we are.
Senator STEWART - I came here as soon as there was anything to do; in fact, I am not sure that I did not come too soon, because, even after my arrival, we were only marking time. I have always been here when there has been any real business to be done. The only occasion on which I have been absent has been when on a change of Government, the Senate has been adjourning week after week without doing any business, and when nobody has known when it was or was not to sit. Under such circumstances I came to the conclusion that f would be very much better off where I was than here, and I still think that I was correct.
Senator Walker - The honorable senator believes in coming late and going early.
Senator STEWART - I come late, and do some work when I am here. I do not wish to refer to the practice of the senators for New South Wales in running away to Sydney every week-end. For what reason are we asked to adjourn over Tuesday? Because a horse race is to be run.
Senator O'KEEFE (TASMANIA) - Because it is a general public holiday in Victoria.
Senator STEWART - It is nothing of the kind.
Senator O'Keefe - This assumption of virtuous indignation is very thin.
Senator STEWART - If the honorable senator wishes to witness a horse race on Tuesday, I have no objection, and any other honorable senators who care to go also have my permission if it is desired. But why should I be compelled to roam about idle, simply because my honorable friend wishes to attend a horse race?
Senator Mulcahy - The honorable senator can go to a prayer meeting if he likes.
Senator STEWART - I did not come to Melbourne to attend either prayer meetings or horse races, but to attend to the business of the country. Towards the end of a session time is more precious than at any other period. We cannot afford to waste time now, and I do not see why we should follow the bad example which has been set by the British Parliament of adjourning over a particular day.
Senator Sir Josiah Symon - But it does not do that now, I think.
Senator STEWART - In my time it did. I am much obliged to the honorable and learned senator for the correction, and that is another argument why the Senate should do business on Tuesday. There is no doubt that a certain section of the elec tors object to Parliament abandoning its important work for the mere purpose of going to see a number of horses compete with each other in speed. I have to incur all the odium of favouring an adjournment of business for that purpose, when I have no intention of going to see the horse races. I think I am within the mark when I saythat 75 per cent, of the senators will not go to Flemington on Tuesday. If they will not go there, why should they not come here, and do the business of the country? I suppose that a number of senators for New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania will vote for an adjournment simply because they wish to get home, and will not require to be back before Wednesday. That will influence their decision.
Senator Mulcahy - There is not a single Tasmanian senator going home.
Senator STEWART - I am not so very sure about that.
Senator O'Keefe - There is only one out of the six going home.
Senator Walker - I am afraid that the honorable senator is wasting time.
Senator STEWART - I am losing five minutes now- for the purpose of saving a whole day next week. I shall vote against the motion, because it is unnecessary and unwise, and if carried will limit our opportunities of doing useful work during the remainder of the session.


December 05, 06: Dainik Jagran is gearing up to launch its compact daily, Inext, in mid-December. The daily had been targeted at the Generation Next in the 18-34 age group, SEC A and B1 audience, said Shailesh Gupta, Director, Jagran Prakashan.
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We're very proud to once again be a part of Project Shoebox, a Cognifide partnership drive to gather cosmetics, toiletries and essential everyday items to donate to Hestia domestic abuse shelters on International Women's Day (8th March 2019).
Hestia supports adults and children in crisis across London. Through Project Shoebox, donations to the charity give women who are survivors of abuse, poverty, mental ill-health or other health-related issues, a shoebox of toiletries and home comforts as a small token of comfort at what can be a very distressing time.
We're also offering a collection point for your donations in our reception area at Greater London House or items can be donated online through Amazon.


On April 12, 2019(Friday) Greenway Modern School organized an Inter House Poster Making competition on the topic 'Save Heritage' to commemorate World Heritage Day( April 18 2019).
On 06 April 2019,Saturday, Greenway Modern School conducted a special assembly to celebrate World Health Day which is observed on April 7,every year. On this occasion, Surya of class XII B, shared his views on how one can keep & maintain good health. His speech made all the students aware of the importance of good health and hygiene. World Health Day is observed all over with a purpose to create interest and inculcate the significance of good health& hygiene.
This year, Greenway Modern School, Dilshad Garden has got an another feather added to its cap by extending hands in cultural exchange to Netherlands. On April 5 2019, an informative educational session was conducted at Netherland Embassy . The session was partaken by Ms. Jaishree Shreedhar, the activity and Exchange Program Coordinator of the school.
The organisers and facilitators of the event made the attendees aware about the various universities, courses and the scholarship programs which can be availed to the students after 12th. A discussion was also held keeping forth the various possibilities for the exchange Program with regard to Greenway Modern School and Schools at Netherlands. It was a constructive and productive discussion that rendered many possibilities for the Exchange Program to take place in future.
On April 3 2019, Greenway Modern School, Dilshad Garden started its new academic session for the year 2019-20.The Principal of the school, Mr Mohit Sachdeva, addressed the students in the assembly by welcoming the students and inspiring them with his motivational thoughts.He also encouraged the students to keep working hard throughout the session and participate in the activities and show the best results. The students were euphoric and exhilarated to have a new start and they also got inspired by the words of the principal. An interactive session for the students of class X and XII was organized by the school wherein the students were introduced to the CBSE curriculum and guidelines by the Principal of the school.


In Nigeria, the first and prime objective of any business in the private sector is to make profit but the uncertainty interest today's economic environment. Threatens the survival of every business and makes sound liquidity and cash retention the vocal point for the management rather than the achievement of maximum profitability in experience of past few years had shown that no business or industry larger or small in Nigeria Today could claim to enjoy immunity from the financial, the threats to economic survival that had development recession. Shrinking government revenue from domestic taxation and oil acute shortage of foreign exchange removal of petroleum subsidy and the creeping-devaluation of the Nigeria currency in view of above situation, management attention should therefore be focused on the management principles & techniques that can help the business to survive within the uncertain economic environment?
In recent years, the rate of business liquidates and winded up has increased tremendously. In Nigeria, the last ten years witnessed winding up of banks & other multipurpose firms. These recent change has be unfortunate development has created lack of trust on the side of the investors. Investors had lost millions of Naira in these liquidated businesses. Furthermore foreign investors have turned their back of Nigeria economy owing to fear of business Falian these led to acute unemployment low productivity & non payment of dividends to the share holders to this end a study towards solving this problems is indeed a welcome development.
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The significance of this research work is for its out come to throw more light on the management of a recessionary economy. The outcome will hope fully help to recommend solutions to those problems I also hope that this work will be of great relevance to other researchers of the same field.
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Sony's PlayStation 4 Has Sold Over 106 Million Consoles
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Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan on Monday revealed the new figure onstage at CES in Las Vegas.
Sony revealed a number of new details about its PlayStation 4 console during Monday's press conference at the CES convention in Las Vegas.
Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan took the stage on Monday evening, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the company's PlayStation 2 console and the company's current offering, the PS4. The exec revealed that the company has sold more than 106 million PS4 consoles and more than 1.1 billion games worldwide since the PS4's initial launch in 2013.
Meanwhile, Sony's VR headset, the PlayStation VR, has sold more than 5 million units since debuting in October 2016. The company's online service, PlayStation Network (PSN), has also surpassed 103 million monthly active users, a significant bump from the 94 million revealed last May.
"Community is the bedrock of how we grow our company and it's why our brand is so beloved. … It's that promise that the PlayStation brand was built on 25 years ago and we'll continue our mission to bring that to players all over the world," said Ryan.
Looking forward, the exec unveiled the logo for the upcoming PlayStation 5 console, due out at the end of the year. The new console was confirmed to have a number of updated features from its predecessor, including 3D audio sound, advanced adaptive triggers and haptic technology in its controllers, "ultra high-speed" processing power, ray-tracing technology which makes for advanced visuals and Ultra HD Blu-Ray playing capabilities.
Ryan also promised more details, "including content," for the PS5 in "the months ahead."
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The Million MAGA March in DC Got Ugly
Violence broke out when thousands of Trump supporters—including QAnon conspiracy theorists and Proud Boys—descended on Washington Saturday to insist the president won the election.
by Tess Owen
November 15, 2020, 6:49pm
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The culture wars of Donald Trump's America materialized into a battlefront near the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, for the so-called "#StoptheSteal" protest or "Million MAGA March."
Galvanized by misinformation and fake news, more than 10,000 Trump supporters—including QAnon conspiracy theorists, far-right Proud Boys, militia members, online trolls, and religious zealots—traveled to D.C. from around the country to claim that the election was "stolen" or "rigged" on behalf of Joe Biden. (Biden was declared the winner last weekend and currently holds a 5 million-vote lead in the popular vote over Trump, who has yet to concede.)
Elsewhere at the rally, an all-star lineup of MAGA-world celebrities took the stage to give speeches. Freshman congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has promoted QAnon, spoke. And Trump, as promised via Twitter a day earlier, made a brief appearance when he drove by the crowds with his motorcade.
Several times during the day, the president's most ardent—and largely unmasked—supporters angrily faced off with a smaller contingent of black-clad antifascists and racial justice protesters, often separated only by a thin line of riot police, or not at all. One person was even stabbed, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Near the Supreme Court—where Trump's third Supreme Court nominee took up the bench only weeks ago— the president's supporters cheered and chanted "Back the Blue."
"These guys are here to protect you," yelled one Trump supporter at a counterprotester while gesturing to the police.
"From who?" the protester shouted back.
"From us," replied the Trump supporter, who was wearing a T-shirt that said #SaveTheChildren, a nod to a QAnon conspiracy that believes in a global child sex trafficking ring operated by Democrats.
Trump supporters and counterprotesters argued loudly over a sparse line of riot police for hours by the Supreme Court during the so-called Million MAGA March in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, November 14, 2020. (Tess Owen/VICE News)
Throughout the day, the atmosphere in D.C. shifted between rage and celebration. The event started in Freedom Plaza at noon and then made its way to a second rally at the Supreme Court. At times, the event felt like a "last hurrah" for MAGA-world, as attendees marveled at the crowd size and danced to covers of popular songs: They replaced the lyrics to "YMCA" with "M-A-G-A" and The Pointer Sisters' "Jump (for my Love)" with "Trump." People joined together in prayer. One speaker lauded Trump as the "bodyguard of Western civilization."
Even before the event had even officially started, the fringes of the rally had already revealed a darker tone and intent. Verbal disputes with clusters of counterprotesters who taunted rally-goers about their hero's election loss quickly escalated into violent scuffles that police on bicycles had to break up by forcing the sides apart.
When the crowd marched two miles from Freedom Plaza to the Supreme Court, around 100 black-clad protesters were there, too. They'd shown up for a "F*CK MAGA RALLY," organized by the They/Them Collective with fliers on social media.
For many in the MAGA crowd, especially those who had traveled from rural areas, it was the first time coming face to face with the "ANTIFA enemy," a favorite Trump bogeyman and something they'd only seen before on Fox News.
"I've never seen them. It shocks me to death that we have domestic terrorists like that," said Michelle Rosson, 54, who had driven to D.C. from North Carolina. "It absolutely scares me, and it scares me for our children."
Near the Supreme Court, the crowd waved Trump 2020 flags, Blue Lives Matter flags, and the big yellow Gadsen flag with the words "Don't Tread On Me" and broke out into chants like "Fuck antifa," "Four more years," or "Biden loves minors."
In response, counterprotesters chanted "No more years," "Fuck Donald Trump" or "You lost." They unfurled a giant pink banner that read, "Punch MAGA in the face," held out shields emblazoned with "BLM," and carried a giant cardboard "L"—for loser.
Some had shields with BLM written on them, while others used black umbrellas to create a wall of black as they unfurled.
"This feels like a hate crime waiting to happen," said a young Black woman taking notes. She said she was briefly on the other side of the divider, among the Trump supporters, but started to fear for her safety when people around her began noticing that she wasn't cheering with them.
Trump supporters argued with antifascists outside the Supreme Court during the so-called Million MAGA March in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, November 14, 2020. (Tess Owen/VICE News)
Every now and then, a group of Trump supporters would make their way into the counterprotest and immediately be swarmed by antifascists, and press—who were on close watch for political violence—and then police.
The simmering anger and violence during the day set the tone for what would transpire in the nation's capital when night fell, raising the potential for fist-fights between warring sides down dark streets. Small outbreaks of violence cropped up outside hotels, and counterprotesters heckled Trump supporters attempting to turn in for the night, leading to police stand-offs.
Later on, some women in Trump hats were seen tearing down Black Lives Matter signs from buildings.
Local activists later reported multiple stabbings, though the circumstances aren't totally clear. D.C. police confirmed at least one stabbing that took place around 8 pm and that the victim was transported to hospital for non-life threatening injuries. Separately, an independent journalist, Talia Jane, said a Proud Boy stabbed her in the ear during a separate clash.
More than 100 Proud Boys, a far-right street-fighting gang, showed up during the so-called Million MAGA March in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, November 14, 2020. (Tess Owen/VICE News)
D.C. police kept in close proximity to the 100 or so Proud Boys, a far-right street-fighting gang who marauded around the city as a small army clad in black-and-gold Fred Perry polo shirts that they've co-opted as their uniform. The organizers of Million MAGA March released a statement ahead of the event denying any affiliation with the Proud Boys, after the group's leader urged members to attend.
But the Proud Boys, known for violent clashes with antifascists, were received favorably on the ground. Trump supporters of all ages cheered them as they walked down the street. Some shouted "Proud Boys: Stand Back and Stand By," repeating a line that Trump said at a presidential debate, when challenged to condemn his far-right supporters like the Proud Boys. Members of the group spent most of their evening drinking at Harrys' Bar, a popular watering hole for police officers, before making their way towards the counterprotest at Black Lives Matter Plaza, near the White House.
More than 10,000 Trump supporters came to Washington, D.C., to protest the results of the election, on Saturday, November 14, for the so-called Million MAGA March. Many wore festive gear and Trump merchandise. (Tess Owen/VICE News)
Toward the end of the night, the president chimed in on some of the goings-on near the White House.
"ANTIFA SCUM ran for the hills today when they tried attacking the people at the Trump Rally, because those people aggressively fought back," Trump tweeted. "Antifa waited until tonight, when 99% were gone, to attack innocent #MAGA People. DC Police, get going — do your job and don't hold back!!"
According to the D.C. police, 21 people were arrested on Saturday. Four of those arrests were for gun violations, according to the Washington Post.
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Wedgie's wonderful world: In the garden!
Happy Thursday! Sooooo...this weather has taken a turn for the worse again in the UK....the sunshine seems to have gone back into hiding again and it's been rather wet and windy this week!
Still, that hasn't stopped me popping into the garden and making sure everything is growing well. As some of you know this is the first time in years that I've had my own garden and I have really embraced it! I've been planting all over the place!
My green fingers have inspired me to create this card.....to be honest this is probably the one thing that I'd like to add to my garden. I have a pretty summer house, but I would really love a green house!
I love this stamp, its rather large, but I love the detail. I've coloured my image and added some glossy accents to the windows to give a glass effect. I've then used pretty papers and a punched border in the background.
Pop by all these fab blogs to see the gorgeous DT cards that have been created.
Your pots are going to look lovely Wedgie and your spuds don't look bad either, but like us everything needs a bit more sunshine.
And you card is just perfect for both this post and out theme at Allsorts, thanks for joining in.
Your garden is looking gorgeous. Love all the pots and pretty flowers.
Thanks for joining the challenge at Di's Digi Designs this time.
Your Garden and your card Wedgie look fabulous!!


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Putnam Looks to Amp Up Worker Savings
Participants say day-to-day expenses stand in the way of retirement savings, and Putnam Investments is responding with access to financial wellness services.
By Jill Cornfield
"We found that if you make it simple and make it intuitive, you can get participants to engage," Ed Murphy, head of defined contribution (DC) at Putnam, told PLANADVISER.
Beginning in December, Putnam will offer planning and advice services from LearnVest in what it says is the third piece of helping participants engage more fully in saving for retirement.
"In partnering with LearnVest we're partnering with an industry leader in the space with a multichannel approach to financial wellness," Murphy said. Participants are given services through a website with content and information on budgeting, savings behavior and how to establish financial goals beyond retirement savings. A financial management tool aggregates all accounts so that the user can take a holistic view of a broad financial picture of assets.
Last, Murphy said, is a dedicated financial wellness expert to offer budget and planning assistance to participants. The optional service carries a onetime signup fee of $250 that is discounted 20% from LearnVest's retail price, and a $19 monthly charge.
The offering will be integrated into a user's experience on the Putnam 401(k) platform, Murphy said. "They log on, and messaging and prompts introduce them to this capability, a continuation of the work we've been doing around personalization." Citing the Lifetime Income experience that Putnam launched in 2010, Murphy also noted the firm's Health Care Estimator that helps plan participants estimate potential future health care costs in retirement. (See "Putnam Launches Health Cost Estimator.")
Paycheck to Paycheck
Plan sponsors have shown a lot of interest in this service for participants, Murphy said, pointing to research from the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) that says employees want to save more, but many live paycheck to paycheck.
More than half of employees (68%) know they must save more than 10% to live comfortably in retirement, but day-to-day expenses is the No. 1 reason they don't contribute more, Murphy said. "If you prompt them to save more, they ask where they are going to find the money." Since few people have put together a comprehensive budget, he said, this is a way to help them find where they can find the dollars to meet expenses and save for retirement.
Access to financial wellness services will give Putnam's 401(k) plan participants the ability to examine their retirement goals within a broader context through LearnVest tools, Murphy pointed out. Participants can seek assistance with financial planning elements such as aggregating accounts, budgeting, expense tracking and debt management.
"Achieving retirement success in today's world, which we define as the ability for an individual to replace current income in retirement, requires a new, more comprehensive approach," Murphy said. "Plan sponsors and advisers have told us that many plan participants would like to save more, but feel they lack control of their finances or find it challenging to do so as they navigate expenses in paycheck-to-paycheck situations. Saving for retirement needs to be an ongoing priority that is considered not in a silo, but in concert with an individual's overall financial needs, goals, obligations—and ultimately, health."
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BlogThink You Know The Summit?
So. The Summit. If you visit the Summit Blog, you know that last year's jamboree marked the grand opening of a really cool place.
You probably know that The Summit is in the West Virginia mountains, within a day's drive of over half the U.S. population.
You probably know that the showers were built to deliver ambient temperature water ;).
But did you know you'll be able to experience The Summit every year?
Pretty sweet, right? 2014 marks the first year for Summit programs and we're kicking it off with high adventure offerings.
These programs take advantage of amazing on-site facilities. High adventure experience is more than just adrenaline; it's about accomplishment, teamwork, and finding out what makes Scouts and Venturers tick.
Bonus: Take advantage of our grand opening introductory rate by coming in 2014.
Did you know that you can come for weeklong programs or swing by for a weekend?
In fact, there's still time to sign up for 2014 weeklong programs. Choose from the overview program, Summit Experience, where Scouts and Venturers can try a little bit of everything, or focused programs that offer a more concentrated look at specific activities like mountain biking, whitewater, climbing, or shooting sports.
Bonus: Mountaineer Weekends make it easy to check out The Summit and cram a little more Scouting into your summer in 2014!
Did you know that we're already taking reservations for 2015?
Yep. The sooner you sign up, the better your chance of getting the dates you want.
Bonus: Check out 2015 program information, as we're expanding program offerings.
Did you know that we're just getting started with Summit programming?
In addition to high adventure programs, The Summit will feature leadership and training programming. Check back for more information.
Bonus: Keep your eyes peeled for Summit Day Passes coming online this spring.
What's your Summit program of choice?


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Quentin Tarantino is a purist. The director's films have always been hodgepodges of influences from the deepest corners of film history, but his reverence for cinema's legacy goes beyond his directorial style: With 2007's Grindhouse, he presented his movie Death Proof as a double feature with Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, complete with fake trailers in the middle; and since 2007 he's owned the New Beverly Cinema in LA, insisting that every movie shown at the venerable repertory house be projected on film. For Tarantino, the method of presentation is nearly as important as what's being presented, and for his epic new Western The Hateful Eight, he convinced the Weinstein Company to foot the bill for restoring around 100 70mm film projectors, so that his movie could be shown on the wide-screen film format for its opening weekend.
The version of The Hateful Eight that opens this week (in just one local theater, AMC Town Square) is the "roadshow" edition, mimicking the limited-release extravaganzas of the 1950s and '60s. It runs just over three hours, including an overture and an intermission, and it features six extra minutes of footage compared to the standard edition that will play in digital projection (minus the overture and intermission) starting next week. Tarantino's most dedicated fans will want to catch the 70mm version, although the film itself may be a bit disappointing compared to the effort put into presenting it properly.
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From cocoa to cannabis: Nigerian farmers seek fortunes inside forbidden farms
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In this report, Bayo Akinloye tells the sad story of farmers who produced cocoa, the mainstay of the economy of South-west Nigeria in the past, but have now abandoned the crop for a more rewarding but illegal one, cannabis
HIS telephone rang only twice before he picked it. His muffled voice indicated that he was speaking with head tucked between pillows. It was 10:34 pm last May. "It's not true," says Yemi Owolabi, Ondo State Commissioner for Information, when he was asked what he thought about cocoa farmers in the state going into cannabis cultivation.
"Cocoa farming is a huge money-spinner. Cocoa is gold," he explains further, even though medicinal marijuana has been projected to be a billion-dollar industry in the next few years.
Yet, a month-long investigation by THISDAY points in the opposite direction: Cannabis farming is the new money-spinner and farmers, particularly cocoa farmers, are massively embracing its cultivation.
Inside Nigeria's forbidden farms
Many former cocoa farmers who spoke on their newfound golden plant said they wished they had started planting cannabis long ago. Some even merely use their cocoa farms as a cover to cultivate cannabis.
One of them is Niyi Adams. His darting look indicated unease. He had never taken a stranger to his farm before. Even though he has been cultivating cannabis for many years, he has not been able to grapple with the risk of falling into the hands of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Adams is one of the dwindling numbers of Nigerian cocoa farmers now reaping bumper harvests cultivating cannabis.
"I've been a cocoa farmer for up to 32 years," he says in local Yoruba dialect. "I've made a fortune from the proceeds of cocoa since I was a youth. I learnt cocoa farming from my father." But he was not satisfied. With a grin on his face, Adams admitted that the allure of lucre was irresistible.
In Lagos alone, according to one of the farmers' claim, a cannabis farmer can make at least some millions of naira a day.
"Ah, the profits from cannabis are very huge and the cost of production is low," he explains matter-of-factly. "Also, cannabis does not suffer any diseases that affect other crops like cocoa."
His cannabis farm is hundreds of kilometres away from where he lives – far into the bush, away from prying NDLEA officials' eyes. As a cannabis farmer, he spends months on the farm, especially before the harvesting season. But the cultivation and consumption of Indian hemp are illegal in Nigeria and it must hold enormous risks for any farmer to engage in its production. The Ondo State commissioner did talk about the run-ins cannabis farmers have with the law.
"There's no money you want to make in cannabis that will make you as wealthy as cocoa farmers," Owolabi insists. "How much can you make from cannabis? The cannabis farmers have daily battles with the NDLEA."
But investigations reveal that in the South-west states of Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo, many cocoa farmers are not hesitating to cultivate cannabis as an alternative in spite of the enforcement agency.
Twenty-five-year-old Deji Iyanda is one of such farmers. The reporter found him at another far-flung farm. With coarse hands, hefty shoulders and a rough face, Iyanda is uncharacteristically convivial. He dropped out of college of education because his parents did not have enough money to send him to school.
"I ventured into cannabis farming as soon I realised that my parents could not cater for my higher education," explains Iyanda.
Unlike the much older Adams, this young cannabis farmer talked about his activities with ease.
"I'm not boasting. It's true. I've built two houses and have two cars," he reveals with two fingers from each of his hands raised to the sky, "and I'm taking care of my aged parents."
Without specifying though, he claimed he has made a lot of money as a cannabis farmer.
"I have markets in the South-west and in the South-east."
Cocoa farming has never had an appeal for young Iyanda. "I can't wait for years – ah! I can't spend years in the sun trying to dry any crop and some wicked middlemen will come and rip me off," he says. Iyanda, Adams and their ilk cannot wait to have cannabis legalised in Nigeria.
Cannabis farming: The world leaving Nigeria behind
In Nigeria, there seems to be no sign of foreign companies' interest in local cannabis. But farmers who spoke with THISDAY said they are already 'exporting' the product to neighbouring countries.
James Akorede is 35 years old, who began to cultivate cannabis 10 years ago. Like Iyanda, he was eager to show off his cannabis-gotten material success.
"I began cannabis farming 10 years ago. I have two houses and a car," he announces.
Though he inherited cocoa farms from his grandfather went to school with their proceeds, Akorede feels cultivating the crop is a thing of the past. According to him, there is no chocolate industry in the country. He also pointed out that the government at all levels have no plans to rejuvenate the cocoa industry.
"No cocoa processing plants anymore. But the cannabis market is huge; the consumer is large," he explains. He sells his cannabis beyond the borders of Nigeria.
"I have customers from neighbouring West African countries like Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Cameroon," he reveals, as he scratched his armpit under the scorching sun.
"I have markets in Lagos, Ibadan, and Abuja too."
Walking deep into the bush with dry leaves rustling under one's feet, Shadrach Arinola led the way into his cannabis farm after trekking for more than an hour.
The vast cannabis farm of the 67-year-old is incredible. Even though he has been into cocoa cultivation all his years, "built many houses and sent many of his children abroad from cocoa farming's proceeds", he soon fell into hard times.
"But things fell apart a few years back," he notes. "Though I still make some income farming cocoa but not like before." One of his sons, who had returned from the United States of America, introduced him to cannabis farming. "NDLEA destroyed a large part of my cannabis farm two years ago", he said, but today, he is back to the business.
"I said goodbye to cocoa and welcomed cannabis because of its huge profits. The return on investment is very high. There is no amount of frustration from the NDLEA that will stop me from investing in cannabis," Arinola vows.
The statistics of cannabis seizure and destruction by the anti-narcotic agency can be daunting for any would-be cannabis farmer. Between 2013 and 2015, the NDLEA destroyed farmlands containing 68.1million kilogrammes of cannabis, worth N681 billion on the street.
In 2013, out of the 339,968kg of drug seized by the NDLEA, 205,373kg of it was cannabis alone. That year, the agency destroyed 847 hectares of farmland across the country, containing an estimated 10,051,554kg of cannabis.
In 2014, it confiscated 158,852kg of cannabis and destroyed 4,529 hectares of cannabis farmland containing an estimated 53,719,342kg of cannabis plants. In 2015, the cannabis, the NDLEA said it seized 871,480kg of cannabis and destroyed 377 farmlands with 4.4 million kilogrammes of cannabis.
For 72-year-old Hafiz Ogundele, those figures are not sufficient to stop him from joining the set of farmers working "less but making more money".
It is Arinola's conviction and success that is pushing him to start a cannabis farm. His plan is to begin cultivating cannabis by 2020. "Since cocoa farming is not encouraging," he reasons, "and new improved varieties of cocoa seeds aren't available, I'm determined to start a cannabis farm next year." Ogundele lamented that he had attended many seminars organised by various government's agencies.
"The ADP promised cocoa farmers new varieties and pesticides to combat cocoa plant diseases. But all the promises did not yield any results. So my production was very low which resulted in low revenue," the aged farmer says.
According to him, at a point, he was unable to take care of his family. All his responsibilities could not be met.
"Next year, I've made up my mind. I'm jumping on the bandwagon of cannabis farming."
Olusola Adeleke, a consultant for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), believes that what makes cocoa farmers ditch cocoa for cannabis is because "cocoa planting is a perennial crop that needs a lot of good agronomic practices year in, year out.
"But cannabis is not like that. It is a sought-after crop. A bag of cannabis can fetch a farmer some N200,000," the agriculture expert says. Adeleke believes legalising cannabis farming will do more good than harm to Nigerians.
"With what I have seen the legalization of cannabis will be a huge welcome and it will add to the government's internally-generated revenue – both farmers and the government will be happy," Adeleke says.
Cannabis farming: The billion-dollar industry
As Nigerian authorities continue to live in self-denial about the booming local Indian hemp industry, other countries of the world have started to see the economic potential of this psychoactive drug. Last April, a Ugandan producer consummated deals to export $160 million worth of cannabis to pharmacy chains in Canada and Germany.
In fact, an Israeli firm, Together, has set up a business called 'Industrial Hemp Uganda Ltd' in partnership with local Ugandan businessmen. Two months ago, Industrial Hemp received 20,000 orders from pharmacies in Canada and Uganda.
"We signed annual supply contracts with pharmacies in Canada to the tune of $100 million and €58 million for Germany," the company has said. "The current contracts run for 10 years, but along the way, we shall expand to satisfy future demands." This is happening even though cannabis is illegal in Uganda and Together is opening an export-focused cannabis cultivation facility there and coordinating with regulatory bodies. As of April, the Ugandan authorities had received applications from 14 different companies that want to cultivate cannabis and export it, which is legal under the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act 2015 of the country.
Since 2018, many stores in Canada have been struggling to meet the demand for cannabis. Most residents are made to get the products through a government-run website, and on the first day of legalization, the Ontario cannabis store had processed 100,000 orders and had only been able to supply a few. When cannabis was legalized in Colorado, the United States of America, it took three years to meet up with demand.
It was only in 2012 that Uruguay announced it would be the first country in the world to legalize recreational cannabis use. In large part, the move was aimed at replacing links between organised crime and the cannabis trade with more accountable state regulation.
Later the same year, voters in Washington State and Colorado became the first in the United States to support the legalization of the drug for non-medical use. Some reports from Colorado State University, recently found that the cannabis industry has contributed more than $58 million to the local economy primarily through tax and other fees.
In many parts of Latin America, governments want their farmers to have access to the potentially lucrative medicinal cannabis markets that are developing. Corporations have also expressed interest. For example, Altria, which owns cigarette brands including Marlboro, has made a $1.86 billion (£1.46 billion) investment in a Canadian cannabis company. A report from Prohibition Partners estimates that the European cannabis market will eventually reach €56.2 billion ($62.6 billion), of which €37.5 billion ($41.8 billion) will be medicinal and the rest recreational. Many European countries, including Germany, have legalized cannabis for medical purposes.
African countries such as Zimbabwe and Lesotho have also legalised medicinal marijuana. In Zimbabwe, both individuals and cooperation may apply for a license to grow the plant while in Lesotho, they solicit for foreign investment to grow medical marijuana on their soil, in order for them to become one of the top exporters.
Ondo governor advocates legal production of cannabis
Oluwarotimi Akeredolu
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has relentlessly canvassed for the legalisation of production of cannabis for economic gain, particularly in terms of exports. When our reporter spoke to Owolabi weeks ago, he disclosed that his boss and the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Col. Muhammad Abdallah (retd.), were on their way to Thailand to strike a deal on how to export cannabis. The governor told his hosts, "We are here to study how cannabis can be of more advantage to the state (Ondo) and Nigeria at large just the way the Thai government has done. Cannabis is used for medical purposes." While in Thailand, Akeredolu, with Abdullah in tow, visited the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok and were shown how to control cannabis, licensing and pharmaceutical benefits of cannabis. They also toured the university's cannabis research laboratory.
With an estimated value of $145 billion in 2025, Akeredolu said his state must have a bite of the cannabis 'pie'. "We all know that Ondo State is the hotbed of cannabis cultivation in Nigeria. We know how to grow it and it thrives well in the Sunshine State," he had said on Twitter. "We would be short-changing ourselves if we fail to tap into the legal marijuana market."
According to Akeredolu, the state government's focus will be on medical marijuana cultivation in controlled plantations under the full supervision of NDLEA. After his visit to Thailand, the Ondo State governor appealed to the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to reconsider the country's stance on cannabis.
"I strongly implore the federal government to take this (commercialising cannabis) seriously as it is a thriving industry that will create thousands of jobs for our youths and spur economic diversification," he said.
Sowore thinks Nigeria can do better
Omoyele Sowore
Akeredolu is not the only Nigerian who sees potential in Indian hemp production. During the last general election campaigns in Nigeria, Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), strongly believes Nigeria can do better with cannabis. At least, he once vowed that Nigeria would export marijuana if he was elected president of the country. He said people are making billions from cannabis while Nigeria is lagging behind.
"We have to start taking care of our weed (cannabis), such that we can also contribute to the GDP of the world," he said. Sowore claims that Nigeria has the best weeds (types of cannabis) in the world and that they are grown in Ekiti State.
"I'm very serious," he says. "People are making billions out of that particular plant that is very potent in Nigeria. We should be focusing on it," he stated.
"Our NDLEA should get the notice, memo in advance that Nigeria will be exporting weed to cure cancer in other parts of the world. Instead of chasing after people who are growing weed (cannabis) whereas we are not chasing after our politicians who are smoking cocaine in their houses." But Abdallah is not buying any of that, saying: "The NDLEA under my leadership has been consistent in our opposition to legalisation and decriminalisation of cannabis. "For example, 'Operation Thunderstorm' undertaken by the Ondo State Command of the NDLEA destroyed 3,900.73 hectares of cannabis sativa planted in forest reserves."
Many cannabis farmers who spoke with THISDAY think Abdallah is lying through his teeth. "Ask him and his boys why they haven't prosecuted any of us? Ask them to show you all the cannabis they've claimed to seize before burning?" one of the farmers says. "You can quote me: NDLEA agents collude with big-time cannabis farmers. They don't collect bribes. They get many bags of cannabis as kickbacks. They sell them outside the borders of Nigeria." But the agency's Head of Public Affairs, Jonah Achema, said the opposite.
"Who said we don't prosecute cannabis farmers? We do. We have zero tolerance for illicit drugs and the highest number of people we have arrested so far are those who cultivate cannabis and those who deal in cannabis," Achema says. Though he did not provide a figure of the number of cannabis farmers prosecuted in Nigeria, he directed attention to the NDLEA's website.
"The statistics are there on our website – go and check it," he advises.
After a repeated search of the website, no record was found regarding the number of cannabis farmers arrested, prosecuted or undergoing prosecution. Yet, according to the Nigerian Hemp Act, "In this Act "Indian hemp" means any plant or part of a plant of the genus cannabis… Any person who knowingly plants or cultivates any plant of the genus cannabis shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to be sentenced either to death or to imprisonment for a term of not less than twenty-one years." The legislation also states that any person who exports any Indian hemp "shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than twenty-one years".
Kayode Ajulo, an Abuja-based lawyer and former National Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), observed that under the NDLEA Act, which came about by the promulgation of Decree Number 48 of 1989, the possession or smoking of cannabis, or even allowing one's premises to be used for dealing in cannabis, can result in a prison sentence from 15 years to life. "A careful perusal of the NDLEA Act will reveal that there was no mention of the legal use of narcotics. What could appear to seem as a provision for legal use is provided for under Section 3 of the NDLEA Act," he notes. That section provides that NDLEA shall have responsibility for facilitating "rapid exchange of scientific and technical information and the conduct of research" geared towards eradication of illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
It is based on that provision that the NDLEA gave a letter of "No Objection" to Medis Oil Company Limited and two others to import seeds of industrial cannabis for research purposes.
"Similarly, Under Article 3 paragraph 5 of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs to which Nigeria is a signatory to, it is envisaged that as a result of research, a drug may be deleted from schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention," explains Ajulo, "if researches reveal its therapeutic advantages." Considering the high rate of unemployment in Nigeria, Ajulo believes that legalising cannabis will provide job opportunities for many Nigerian youths – that is already happening in Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, and Oyo. "It is succinct to point out that the war on drugs is often far costlier than the drugs themselves," he adds. "Thus if the money pumped against the use of drugs could be redirected in cultivating marijuana for economic use, there will be a great boost in the economy of the country."
At this point, he thinks the National Assembly should be lobbied to amend the provisions of the NDLEA Act and other relevant laws in order to make room for the legal production, manufacturing, sale, and use of cannabis in Nigeria, which, in turn, will boost the economy of the nation as a whole. "The NDLEA should also enforce the provisions of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs," Ajulo argues, "and allow the use of Marijuana for medicinal purposes."
Cocoa farming: going, going, gone?
Owolabi did not admit that cocoa production and its profitability have dipped.
Against the backdrop of declining production and the collapse of the commodity board members due to market liberalisation, the National Cocoa Development Committee was established in December 1999 by the Olusegun Obasanjo's administration. Its objective was to develop a sustainable blueprint for reviving the waning cocoa sector.
Other objectives included improving cocoa quality and increasing production from 170,000 tons to 320,000 tons per annum in the short term and in the long term to 600,000 tons per annum.
Decades earlier, in the 1950s and 1960s, it was a top foreign exchange earner and at a point, Nigeria was the world's second largest producer of cocoa. The average cocoa production soon began to decline from 420,000 tons in the '60s to 170,000 tons in 1999.
Production climbed to 389,272 tons between 2000 and 2010 but fell back to 192,000 tons in 2015 and 2016. After dropping to fourth place, Nigeria is now the sixth largest producer of cocoa in the world.
Besides the numbers, there is a growing army of cocoa farmers ready to move on to where the pastures are greener.
A cocoa farmer in Osun State, South-west Nigeria, complained about the menace of middlemen in the cocoa farming value chain.
In the cocoa production chain, Abolaji Sunday, who has been planting cocoa for 15 years complained about cocoa farmers becoming peasant farmers, toiling day and night while produce buyers and exporters smile. "After spending so much on hiring labour and purchase of chemicals, the farmer is not in a position to cost his input and give a price – he has no option than to sell at the price dictated by the buyer," laments Sunday.
There was a time, he said, that he had to source for a loan through a cooperative society when the landowner raised his yearly rent from N25, 000 to N100,000.
"This is because of the sudden jump of cocoa price from N18,000 to N50,000 per stone in the 2015/2016 season," he discloses.
"I paid upfront for two years to avoid losing the farm. By 2017, the price of cocoa dropped to N29,000 per stone. Even when I had to renegotiate with my landowner to adjust the rent as regarding the new price, I am still servicing the loan to date."
For Olugbenga Ojo, in his 27 years of cultivating cocoa, the situation in its production chain has continued to impoverish the farmer. "The produce buyer sits comfortably in his office in the city and dictates how much the farmer gets paid for his efforts," a tired Ojo lamented, sighing.
"As farmers, we cannot dictate the selling price of our cocoa – the buyers do that. There is nothing we can do about it for now."
Another cocoa farmer of 25 years, Lateef Okunola admitted that it is no longer possible to live comfortably only on cocoa farming. He sees many problems plaguing cocoa cultivation.
"If I have enough capital, I would be able to do things differently. The cost of hiring labour to work on the farm is now high. I would have gone into cassava production, piggery, palm tree plantation, etc. It is no longer possible for a farmer to live on proceeds of the yearly cocoa production," laments Okunola.
"The old people that planted these cocoa trees," he says pointing to the plants, "over forty years ago were getting five to 10 tons as yield per year. Hardly can we get five bags of cocoa from the same farm at the end of the season nowadays. It explains why young people are leaving cocoa farms."
There are other issues like the poor application of chemicals on cocoa farms, which affects the quality of cocoa produced – and often leads to huge loss of foreign exchange earnings on the global market due to rejection of cocoa produced in Nigeria.
"There was a report of too many chemicals in the cocoa produced in Nigeria when we were using copper sulphate (CUSO4) to spray our cocoa. It was later banned with the warning that any farmer caught using it will be arrested and prosecuted," he recalls.
"We now use Altrax, Redomin, and Blueboat, Red Force or Cham D fungicides as substitutes. We also have pesticides like Gammalin 20, Adrex 40, Rocket, AK-47, etc. This problem was as a result of the disappearance of extension officers from the farm. They used to be around decades ago to educate farmers on the application of chemicals on our farms."
Even after 20 years of cocoa farming, Fatai Babatunde cannot hide his frustration.
"We need a lot of money to buy farm implements, pesticides and hire labour to work on the farm. We also need money to embark on cocoa regeneration by replanting new cocoa on our farms that are already getting old," Babatunde complains.
"But unfortunately, the government does not support us in any way that could enhance our productivity. We only hear that the government distributes pesticides, fertilizers, cocoa seedlings, etc. None ever got to us – the real cocoa farmers."
This investigation was supported by Ford Foundation and the International Centre For Investigative Reporting, ICIR.
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