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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) & Byzantium (2012) Reviews
Saw these two together after really wanting to see them for ages. I was massively disappointed. Here are two quickie reviews…
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Directed & Written by Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, Slimane Dazi, John Hurt
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. Though their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
Good god this movie was boring. I'd really been wanting to watch it because I find Tilda Swinton interesting, Mia Wasikowska has been pretty decent in things like Stoker, and I always really liked sweet Anton Yelchin (RIP). Hiddleston is okay – I can take him or leave him. Oh! And John Hurt (RIP)! Hurt was awesome (I did a list not too long ago of My Top Ten John Hurt Movies. Luckily, I don't have to update that list to add Only Lovers Left Alive).
Anyway, Hurt was great in this – he was the best part of the film (for me). Swinton was also fun to watch. I usually like her a lot but, sometimes, she annoys me (like in Okja). Mysterious vampire is the perfect kind of role for her, though, so she was good in this. I suppose Hiddleston did well with the role but all he did was mope the whole damn time. How did Swinton's character put up with that mopey bastards for hundreds of years (or thousands, maybe – I don't remember)? If I want mopey "teen-angsty" vampires, I'll watch Twilight. Can't vampires be happy?! They're immortal! That's cool, isn't it? Grumpy fuckers. Or is that grumpy suckers? This movie just reinforces my opinion that The Lost Boys is the best vampire movie ever. 😉
Um. What else? I'm bored. Review over! Just so you know, nothing happens in this movie. Hiddleston mopes. Swinton puts up with his moping. Wasikowska is a total bitch who stays with mopey Hiddleston & big sis Swinton for a while, which makes Hiddleston mope even more. Yelchin (the only non-vampire) and Hurt (a dying vampire – I can't remember how that's possible and I don't care) were good and helped to make the movie slightly watchable. Without them… Meh. A movie having no plot is okay as long as you have really great characters (like in Dazed And Confused) and a movie with lacklustre characters is okay as long as you have a great story (like in Circle). Only Lovers Left Alive lacks both a good plot and good characters. But it has a 7.3 rating out of 10 on IMDb so what the hell do I know?!
Byzantium (2012)
Directed by Neil Jordan
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a local resort.
Good god this movie was boring as well. I actually slightly preferred Only Lovers Left Alive because at least that movie had a bit more style & better actors. To be fair, I watched these movies back to back while cleaning the house so I wasn't exactly paying full attention. But if they'd actually been GOOD, I'd have stopped doing the housework and sat down to watch them properly. Thanks to Byzantium, I now have a very organized bookshelf.
Let's see… What do I vaguely recall from this movie? I recall hating Gemma Arterton's annoying accent. I'm terrible with accents so don't know if she was doing it well or not but it was like nails on a chalkboard. Maybe I just don't like her… I don't think I've seen her in much but the quality of her acting in this film certainly didn't impress me. Saoirse Ronan was far better in this film – I usually like her okay and she's the best thing about this movie.
Er. You know, I honestly can't remember much of this movie now. Lots of blood. It was a far more bloody vampire movie than Only Lovers Left Alive. More bloody, shittier acting, an actual plot but one that I can barely remember now, less moping but still pretty mopey overall (seriously – cheer the fuck up, vampires!), and no John Hurt or anyone with true star power to help elevate the film. Oh, I now recall that all the first vampires were men & they didn't want any to be women but then Arterton became the first female vampire (if I remember right). So there's a bit of a "girl vampire power" thing going on in the film, which was okay but kind of undone by all the terrible treatment of the women in the movie. And I still don't like Arterton.
Tagged 5.5/10, Anton Yelchin, Byzantium, Film, Gemma Arterton, Horror, Jeffrey Wright, Jim Jarmusch, John Hurt, Jonny Lee Miller, Mia Wasikowska, Movie Review, Movie Reviews, Movies, Neil Jordan, Only Lovers Left Alive, Review, Reviews, Sam Riley, Saoirse Ronan, Slimane Dazi, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Vampires
T2 Trainspotting (2017) Review
T2 Trainspotting (2017)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Based on Trainspotting and Porno by Irvine Welsh
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Anjela Nedyalkova, Shirley Henderson, Irvine Welsh
20 years after the previous film, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to Scotland to make amends with his friends, Daniel "Spud" Murphy (Ewen Bremner) and Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson (Jonny Lee Miller), whilst avoiding the psychopathic Francis "Franco" Begbie (Robert Carlyle).
I enjoyed this sequel more than I thought I would and it was better than I expected. It's interesting that just last week I reviewed The Hustler (1961) and its sequel The Color Of Money (1986). It doesn't always work to revisit characters with films that are 20+ years apart. However, in the case of both The Color Of Money & T2, I did thoroughly enjoy seeing what our much older characters are now up to and I don't think either film ruined its (admittedly superior) predecessor.
Let's face it – the Trainspotting sequel was never going to be better than the original. Trainspotting was so of its time and it captured a mood, time & place in a way I don't think could ever be replicated now. All I wanted was a sequel that wasn't embarrassing & didn't ruin the characters as we remember them and I think Danny Boyle has managed to deliver this to Trainspotting fans. I've actually been extremely disappointed with some of his films I've watched lately (Trance, Slumdog Millionaire) so am very happy to say that this sequel met & even exceeded my expectations. I still like these characters. (Other than Begbie, of course… What an asshole!)
I really like the first film and think it deserves its acclaim for being something quite unique. When I first saw it years ago, it was when I was first starting to really get into films and it was unlike anything I'd ever seen before (and probably one of the most shocking I'd seen at that point in my life). I was also still in America at that point so I suppose it was very foreign to me as well. I've only watched it once more since (just after moving to the UK over a decade ago) so, while I think it's a very good film, I'm not one of its obsessive fans and had even forgotten bits & pieces of it. More than anything, it was the soundtrack from the original that stuck with me (Excellent soundtrack!). I probably could've done with re-watching the first before the sequel but, with the help of some flashbacks which I thought were well done, it filled in a few blanks in my mind.
My point is this: I'm no expert or obsessive Trainspotting fan and I've never read the books so I don't feel very qualified in reviewing this sequel. I know I personally enjoyed it and it was great revisiting the characters and seeing them together again (especially Renton & Spud. I'd forgotten how likable Spud was – he's easily my favorite character in the sequel). This is a more grown-up film and certainly not as intense as the original but it feels "right". These guys are 20 years older – they're not going to be exactly the same. However, they still stay true to their characters and, though older and supposedly wiser, still make bad decisions and mistakes.
Immediately after watching this, I was mostly curious what fellow blogger Mark of Marked Movies thought of it as I know he's a big fan of the original (and he's from Scotland, I should add). He kindly reviewed the original a couple of years ago for my IMDB Top 250 Project HERE (Thanks again, Mark!). I figure that his opinion on this sequel is far more relevant than mine so, if you'd also like the opinion of a big Trainspotting fan, you can read his review of the sequel HERE. It looks like we both feel quite similar about the sequel so Boyle seems to have done a good job keeping loyal fans (as well as casual fans such as myself) happy. Oh yeah – The soundtrack is also okay but it's not as awesome as the first film's!
Tagged 7.5/10, Anjela Nedyalkova, Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Film, Irvine Welsh, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald, Movie Review, Movie Reviews, Movies, Porno, Review, Reviews, Robert Carlyle, Sequel, Shirley Henderson, T2 Trainspotting, Trainspotting
Trainspotting (1996) IMDB Top 250 Guest Review
Today's IMDB Top 250 Guest Review comes from Mark of Marked Movies. He's also reviewed Heat (HERE) and Argo (HERE) and The Big Lebowski (HERE). Thanks for all the reviews, Mark! 🙂 Now let's hear his thoughts on Trainspotting, IMDB rank 151 out of 250…
There are still some movies up for grabs if anyone wants to do a guest IMDB Top 250 review. You can find the list of remaining films HERE. See the full list & links to all the reviews that have already been done HERE.
Also, if you'd like to add a link to your IMDB Review(s) on your own blogs, feel free to use any of the logos I've used at the top of any of these guest reviews. I know I've made a few that are specific to the movie being reviewed. I'll also do an IMDB update post soon & will post some more logos.
Director: Danny Boyle.
Screenplay: John Hodge.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly MacDonald, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Eileen Nicholas, Shirley Henderson, Pauline Lynch, Stuart McQuarrie, Keith Allen, Kevin Allen, Dale Winton, Irvine Welsh.
Director Danny Boyle's marvellous debut "Shallow Grave" was always going to be a hard act to follow but to attempt an adaptation of the 'unfilmable' Scottish novel "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh, seemed like lunacy. Boyle, however, captures Welsh's book brilliantly and despite "Slumdog Millionaire" gathering him a best director Oscar, this still remains his best film.
It follows the lives of a group of friends from Edinburgh as they experience the high's and low's of life through heroin use. Renton (Ewan McGregor) decides to go clean and rid himself of his affliction and his low-life chums but finds that's easier said than done. Spud (Ewen Bremner) is too needy, SickBoy (Jonny Lee Miller) is too controling, Tommy (Kevin McKidd) has just taken some bad direction and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) is just plain pychotic. Renton, however, enters into making a one off drug deal with his old pals, so as to make a new life for himself altogether.
Boyle's film has often been criticised as glorifying drug use. Glorifying drug use? Really? People who believe this must have been watching a different film. The characters involved all behave despicably. They are responsible for thefts, fights, deaths – including the death of a baby. Get imprisoned. Contract HIV. Ruin their lives and others', all because of their drug habit. What this film has in depth, vibrancy and fun, is the reason it could be mistaken for being pro-drug use but having these qualities is more of a testament to the filmmakers involved, in making a bleak and depressing subject matter, very entertaining. The characters are extremely well written (kudos to writer Welsh) and acted by an ensemble of excellent actors. It made a star of Ewan McGregor, who's character, although likeable – and brilliantly played – is essentially the person responsible for the downfall of many of the other characters. Notable other performances are Ewen Bremner as "Spud", the most endearing of the group and a character too gentle for his lifestyle. The best of the bunch though, is Robert Carlyle as the psychotic "Begbie", who's choice of drug isn't heroin but violence – and he's just as destructive with it. He's a dangerous and highly volatile person and Carlyle perfectly captures the on-edge feeling of his terrifying unpredictability. It's an award worthy performance that was sadly overlooked. Everything about the film reeks of class. From it's rollicking soundtrack, to the rich, snappy dialogue, with great characters in hilarious situations and kinetic fast paced direction. This film has everything going for it and stands as one of the finest films of the 1990′s.
A relentlessly energetic experience that leaves you craving for more, much like the habit of it's protaganists.
Pure uncut, Class A.
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The Academy Award winner for Best Picture booked more theaters and collected a lot more green following its success at the Oscars.
The box office bump is real, and for this year's Best Picture winner, the increase in ticket sales over the weekend was more noticeable than usual. Green Book followed up its big triumph on February 24th by climbing back up the box office chart, reaching sixth place for the third time in its three-and-a-half months in theaters.
The crowd-pleasing drama wasn't exactly suffering beforehand; its overall theatrical attendance was the fourth best of the eight Oscar nominees in the Best Picture category. The movie's success has been steady in the background, though, and only ever reached its previous best placement, sixth, the weekend after the Academy announced its nominees in late January.
Technically, this past weekend wasn't Green Book's greatest, box office wise. The movie sold the most tickets (609,200) in its first weekend in wide release. Next best (607,800) was its first weekend as a contender for Best Picture. This past weekend was Green Book's best attendance since then (5206,500), helped by Universal more than doubling its screen count.
That boost was a 115% increase over the movie's prior weekend. That's only the best gain for a newly cemented Best Picture winner since Moonlight two years ago, though comparisons aren't easily made given the differences in release dates and prior popularity ahead of the Academy Awards.
Green Book: 115% increase for 506,500 tickets sold (6% of the movie's total), up from 11th place to 6th in its 16th weekend.
The Shape of Water: 58.7% increase for 256,300 tickets sold (4% of then-total), down from 11th place to 12th in its 15th weekend.
Moonlight: 227% increase for 260,300 tickets sold (9% of then-total), up from 18th place to 13th in its 20th weekend.
Spotlight: 140% increase for 205,900 tickets sold (4% of then-total), up from 21st place to 14th in its 18th weekend.
Birdman: 119% increase for 236,900 tickets sold (5% of then-total), up from 15th place to 12th in its 20th weekend.
12 Years a Slave: 116% increase for 265,200 tickets sold (4% of then-total), up from 18th place to 9th place in its 21st weekend.
Argo: 15.1% increase for 264,900 tickets sold (2% of then-total), down from 12th place to 13th in its 21st weekend.
The Artist: 24.8% increase for 457,800 tickets sold (10% of then-total), up from 13th place to 11th in its 15th weekend.
The King's Speech: 15.1% DROP for 792,600 tickets sold (5% of then-total), holding at 8th place in its 15th weekend.
The Hurt Locker: 88.6% increase for 104,200 tickets sold (5% of then-total), up from 20th place to 17th in its 25th weekend.
Slumdog Millionaire: 43.4% increase for 1,612,100 tickets sold (10% of then-total), up from 5th place to 3rd in its 16th weekend.
Other Best Picture winners in the past decade have had greater increases, percentage-wise (Moonlight, Spotlight). And others sold more tickets compared to their sales up to that point (Moonlight, The Artist). Another sold more tickets in its first weekend as a Best Picture winner (The King's Speech). One other movie reached its best chart placement after winning (The Artist).
Still, Green Book looks to have had the greatest combination of data since Slumdog Millionaire was crowned back in 2009. That movie was already doing well and so only saw an increase of 43.4%, but its attendance, percentage of its then-total sales, and box office placement was its best yet at #3.
The best combination compared to Green Book goes back further with Unforgiven in 1993. Clint Eastwood's revisionist Western increased 197% for 613,100 tickets sold and a rise in placement to 8th from an unknown spot. But that still wasn't a climb to the movie's best spot yet. Unforgiven was the rare eventual Best Picture winner that opened in first place and stayed there awhile.
We have to go back to 1988 and The Last Emperor for such a boost: following the April 11th Oscars telecast that year, Bernardo Bertolucci's nearly four-hour China-set epic saw a 306% increase for 826,900 tickets and a rise in placement from 16th to 4th. And that weekend's attendance was a whopping 12% of its total so far.
More Oscar winners from this year saw boosts of their own over the weekend. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was back on more than 2,000 screens after being named Best Animated Feature, and thereby it saw an increase of 143.3% over the prior weekend's attendance. A Star is Born, which won the Best Original Song Academy Award, shot up 203.9%.
Best Actor and Best Actress winners Bohemian Rhapsody and The Favourite and Best Documentary Feature winner Free Solo all saw boosts — respectively, 54%, 46.1%, and 155.4%. Meanwhile, Best Makeup and Hairstyling winner Vice dropped 59.2%, and If Beale Street Could Talk, for which Regina King won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, dipped 8%.
Oscar losers understandably saw major decreases in attendance. The Wife fell 76.4% after Glenn Close surprisingly failed to finally win an Academy Award for Best Actress, and Ralph Breaks the Internet fell 40.1%, though that's more likely because the movie is now out on home video. The Oscar-nominated shorts programs fell a whopping 81.8%. Foreign nominees Cold War, Capernaum, Shoplifters, and Never Look Away all dropped, too.
But Mary Poppins Returns managed to increase 8.9% despite losing in all four of its Oscar categories. That's some magic.
In other box office news, while How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World held the top spot, Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral closed out the Madea franchise with its third-lowest opening yet. Greta didn't prove to be a major it, but it's still one of Neil Jordan's best openers ever and Isabelle Huppert's second-best domestic debut.
The most notable newbies were in limited release. Apollo 11 continued to prove documentaries are back in business theatrically with a 15th-place opening with 178,000 tickets sold in just 120 locations. And that wasn't even the best per-screen average of the weekend, as Gaspar Noe's Climax and Christian Petzold's Transit performed even better at fewer than 10 theaters each.
All box office figures via Box Office Mojo.


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US Justice Department asks Supreme Court to block Texas heartbeat abortion law
Pro-life and pro-abortion demonstrators at the Supreme Court. | Rena Schild/Shutterstock
By Jonah McKeown
Washington D.C., Oct 18, 2021 / 12:05 pm
The US Department of Justice on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a Texas pro-life law, in effect since September, which bans abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat and relies on private lawsuits filed by citizens to enforce the ban.
In an application to the Supreme Court delivered Oct. 18, the Justice Department argued that Texas had circumvented the Supreme Court's rulings in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The department asked the Supreme Court to vacate a recent ruling by an appeals court, which reinstated the law after a temporary blockage by a lower court.
The Texas Heartbeat Act, also known as Senate Bill 8, prohibits abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected— around six weeks gestation— except in medical emergencies.
"Thus far, S.B. 8 has worked exactly as intended: Except for the few days the preliminary injunction was in place, S.B. 8's in terrorem effect has made abortion effectively unavailable in Texas after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. Texas has, in short, successfully nullified this Court's decisions within its borders," acting Solicitor General Brian Fletcher wrote on behalf of the Justice Department.
The Justice Department argued that allowing the law to remain in place would "perpetuate the ongoing irreparable injury to the thousands of Texas women who are being denied their constitutional rights. Texas, in contrast, would suffer no cognizable injury from a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a plainly unconstitutional law."
The law allows for awards of at least $10,000 for successful lawsuits, which can be filed by people in or outside Texas, against those who perform or aid illegal abortions. Women seeking abortions cannot be sued under the law, which first took effect Sept. 1.
An Oct. 6 ruling from a federal district judge had barred Texas from actions such as awarding damages to successful lawsuits or enforcing judgements in such cases. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals then temporarily reversed that decision Oct. 8.
In early September the Supreme Court declined to block the law in a 5-4 decision. It said opponents of the law had raised "serious questions" about its constitutionality but the abortion providers challenging the law had not shown they were challenging the proper defendants.
President Joe Biden, a Catholic, has called the law "an unprecedented assault on a woman's constitutional rights" and promised a "whole-of-government" effort to maintain abortion access in Texas.
He directed federal agencies, including the Justice Department, to review what actions could be taken "to ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions as protected by Roe."
Pro-life leaders have pointed out that the Texas state legislature recently increased public benefits for low-income mothers, expanding Medicaid coverage for new mothers and $100 million in annual funding for the Alternatives to Abortion program.
In late September, two non-Texas residents sued a Texas abortion doctor who announced he had performed an abortion in violation of the new law. A Texas pro-life group criticized those lawsuits, however, calling them "imprudent" and "self-serving," since neither were filed for pro-life reasons.
It is unclear how many lawsuits have been filed under the Texas law.
According to the Justice Department, "Texans with sufficient means have traveled hundreds of miles to obtain abortions in other States -- often making multiple trips to comply with those States' abortion laws...As the district court found, the influx of patients from Texas has overwhelmed providers in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and as far away as Nevada."
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Jonah McKeown is a staff writer and assistant podcast producer for Catholic News Agency. He holds a Master's Degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and in the past has worked as a writer, as a producer for public radio, and as a videographer.
Doctor sued under Texas abortion law
A Texas abortion doctor who said he performed an abortion in violation of a new state law was sued Monday by two non-Texas residents, in what appears to be the first legal action taken since the law took effect this month.
Texas 'heartbeat' abortion law temporarily reinstated amid legal fight
A federal court on Friday evening issued a ruling allowing a Texas state law, which restricts abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, to take effect again amid an ongoing court fight.
Texas abortion law survives injunction effort; Supreme Court challenge next
A federal appeals court has allowed a heartbeat-based Texas ban on abortion to remain in effect, rejecting the U.S. Department of Justice's efforts to reinstate an injunction. Biden administration officials have pledged to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate an injunction.

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The Awakening. A History of the Western Mind AD500 - AD1700
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Author: FREEMAN Charles
Maison d'édition: Head of Zeus
The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the ruins of the Roman Empire. The process of preservation of surviving texts, fragile at first, was strengthened under the Christian empire founded by Charlemagne in the eighth century; later, during the High Middle Ages, universities were founded and the study of philosophy was revived. Renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought provided the intellectual impetus for the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, whose ideas - aesthetic, political and scientific - were disseminated across Europe by the invention of the printing press. Equally momentous was Europe's encounter with the New World, and the resulting maritime supremacy which conferred global reach on Europe's merchants and colonists.


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'Mandalorian' Returns to Top Spot on Parrot's TV Demand Charts
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The Disney+ "Star Wars" spinoff "The Mandalorian" returned to the No. 1 spot on not only Parrot Analytics' digital originals rankings the week ended Jan. 4, but also the data firm's overall list of TV series from any platform, including broadcast and cable.
A "digital original" is a multi-episode series in which the most recent season was first made available on a streaming platform such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu or Disney+.
For the week, "The Mandalorian" registered 142.2 million average daily Demand Expressions, the proprietary metric used by Parrot Analytics to measure global demand for TV content. That was up 22.9% in expressions compared with the previous week, when it was No. 2.
The first-season finale of "The Mandalorian" became available Dec. 27, and creator Jon Favreau announced season two was coming this fall. The show might have also received a bit of a boost thanks to overall "Star Wars" chatter fueled by the theatrical release of The Rise of Skywalker, the ninth chapter of the "Star Wars" saga.
"The Mandalorian" had been the top digital original for five consecutive weeks before Netflix's "The Witcher" took over the top spot a week ago. "The Witcher" dropped to No. 2 on both charts. "The Witcher" pulled 132.3 million expressions, up 4.3% from the previous week.
Netflix's psychological thriller "You" moved up to No. 3, from No. 7 the previous week, following the Dec. 26 release of its second season. Expressions were up 176.2% to 96.3 million.
Netflix's "Stranger Things" dropped to No. 4 on the digital originals chart, registering 79 million expressions, up 5.4% from the previous week.
DC Universe's "Titans" slipped a spot to No. 5 on the digital originals chart, with expressions down 3.1% to 53 million.
Hulu's "Letterkenny" made a big move on the originals chart to No. 9, from No. 16 the previous week, following the Dec. 25 premiere of the eighth season. Expressions rose 31.2% to 30.9 million.
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The Demand Expressions metric draws from a wide variety of data sources, including video streaming, social media activity, photo sharing, blogging, commenting on fan and critic rating platforms, and downloading and streaming via peer-to-peer protocols and file sharing sites.
Of the 10 most demanded series in all of television by U.S. audiences for the week, four are digital originals: "The Mandalorian," "The Witcher," "You" and "Stranger Things." Parrot expects the trend of digital originals appearing more frequently on the overall TV chart to continue into 2020, after digital originals making rare appearances on the overall chart for much of the past two years.
Media Play News has teamed with Parrot Analytics to provide readers with a weekly top 10 of the most popular digital original TV series in the United States, based on the firm's proprietary metric called Demand Expressions, which measures global demand for TV content through a wide variety of data sources, including video streaming, social media activity, photo sharing, blogging, commenting on fan and critic rating platforms, and downloading and streaming via peer-to-peer protocols and file sharing sites.
'Star Trek: Discovery' Top Digital Original and Overall TV Show, Parrot Analytics Says
In a new weekly feature, Media Play News has teamed with Parrot Analytics to provide readers with a weekly top 10 of the most popular digital original TV series in the United States. Parrot Analytics uses a proprietary metric called…
'Mandalorian' Tops Parrot Analytics' TV Demand Charts for 3rd Week
The Disney+ "Star Wars" series "The Mandalorian" remained at No. 1 on not only Parrot Analytics' digital exclusives rankings the week ended Dec. 7, but also the data firm's overall list of TV series from any platform, including broadcast and…
'Mandalorian' Tops Parrot Analytics' TV Demand Charts for 2nd Week
The Disney+ "Star Wars" series "The Mandalorian" remained at No. 1 on not only Parrot Analytics' digital exclusives rankings the week ended Nov. 30, but also the data firm's overall list of TV series from any platform, including broadcast and…
'The Witcher' Conjures No. 1 Spot on Parrot's TV Demand Charts
Netflix's"The Witcher" took over the No. 1 spot on not only Parrot Analytics' digital originals rankings the week ended Dec. 28, but also the data firm's overall list of TV series from any platform, including broadcast and cable. A "digital…
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Q: Understanding Recurrence relations. Good morning everyone, I'd like to discuss with the following exercise and one fact of theory that I'm not understanding.
Let's take the following Recurrence relation :
$\begin{cases} & \quad x_{n+1} = (x_{n})^{n}\\
& \quad x_{1}= \frac{1}{2}
\end{cases}$
I'd like to know when I can and should discretize the Recurrence relation to obtain $f(x) = x^{n}$ and when I shouldn't.
Because if I discretize I obtain that $f(0)=0,f(1)=1$ so $0,1$ are fixed points.
After that, I'd like to study the function (limits,growth,ecc) which results are different if I explicit (or at least maybe that's the error) the Recurrence in the following way :
$(\frac{1}{2})^{(n-1)!}$
Same with this :
$x_{n+1}= x_{n} \cdot arctan(n)$ , in which I think I found that the explicit value of $x_{n} = \frac{1}{2015} \prod\limits_{i=1}^{n} arctan(i)$, in conflict (I think) the discretization.
Your help would be appreciated to clarify my doubts,
Thanks anyway.

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Barry Odom isn't happy fellow SEC coaches are allowed to recruit his seniors
Doug Samuels
Later today, Barry Odom will walk into the annual SEC coaches meeting in Birmingham with his conference coaching colleagues with a major bone to pick. Back in late January, the NCAA handed out penalties including a bowl ban and recruiting restrictions to Missouri based on some infractions by a tutor.
An article by CBS Sports points out that programs have been hounding Missouri players non-stop daily about transferring to play their senior season with them, and Odom isn't happy about the way it's being handled.
Odom's frustration has taken center stage because of NCAA bylaws more than two decades old that allow for seniors to transfer without penalty from programs hit with post season bowl bans.
He specifically called Tennessee out onto the carpet in the piece.
"Everybody is going to have a bad day," Odom said, expressing his frustration with keeping his players from transferring. "You combine that with somebody that -- who'd we beat 51-17 this year? Tennessee? Yeah, those guys. They are non-stop reaching out daily [saying], 'Hey, come here.' The grass is not always greener somewhere else."
"It's frustrating that our governing body has allowed that. You can't cut a player. You can't remove a player for not being a good player or injury, but yet, they let people go recruit our guys," Odom went on to share.
Odom shares in the article that he's reached out to some of those SEC head coaches, hasn't been getting his phone calls returned.
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Other programs that have faced post season bans in recent seasons like Penn State and Ole Miss faced very similar issues, with college coaches quickly descending on their campus just itching for the opportunity to make their pitch to players who have enjoyed a number of season in a college off season program now, not to mention their invaluable on-the-field experiences as well.
A fired up Barry Odom walking into that room of fellow SEC coaches targeting his players, not willing to return his phone calls would be fun to see, to say the least.
Almost immediately following the NCAA's announcement of the penalties and post season ban, Missouri announced plans to appeal the decision, maintaining that Odom - who had been on the job about six months at the time of the infractions - wasn't even interviewed by the NCAA and that the penalties are typical NCAA overreach.
Head here to read the full piece.
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Doug has been with FootballScoop for over a decade and currently serves as Director of Content. A former small college football player and college assistant, Samuels now serves as the head coach at Comstock Park HS (MI). He's married with two kids and lives just south of Grand Rapids in Byron Center, MI.


It has been called 21st century science in a moral dark age. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair announced the completion of the first working draft of the human genome sequence in June last year. Alongside those who were anticipating wonderful new medical advances in the near future were many who were pondering what new atrocities would be committed in the name of science. At a time when there is no consensus as to what a human person is, for what purpose will the human 'book of life' be used?
Scientific breakthroughs are big news these days. Scientists discover the gene for this or that disease; new drugs let you lose weight or feel happier or pay attention; there are techniques to make babies for infertile couples or grandmothers; and soon we'll be able to give grieving parents an exact copy of the child who died. What is more, we all have the absolute right to all of it.


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Kundan Group Launches 'MyGoldKart' Digital Gold Investment Platform
By NewsVoir On Jul 30, 2021
Kundan Group has launched 'MyGoldKart', a new age Digital Gold & Silver Investment Platform, that helps customers meet their gold and silver investment goals. The platform acts as a personal investment planner offering real-time market analyses to its users.
MyGoldKart (MGK) is an initiative by the Kundan Group to buy & sell 99.99% pure digital gold online. The application will be available in multiple regional languages to make it accessible to all. Kundan Group has also collaborated with BVC Logistics to ensure safe & secure doorstep delivery of Gold/Silver.
The group will provide secure vaulting of Gold/Silver with BRINKS – A Global Logistics Leader & Safe Vaults provider. Investors will be able to redeem their Gold/Silver anytime as Jewellery, Bullion or Cash.
Mr. Vidit Garg, Director, Kundan Gold Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Vidit Garg, Director, Kundan Gold Pvt. Ltd., said, "The legacy, trust and excellence of Kundan Refinery Pvt. Ltd. are reflected in the quality of its products & services. MyGoldKart carries forward the same trust and legacy for our customers. With the all-new investment platform, consumers can rest assured of operating in a secure environment and making profitable investments."
MyGoldKart has been strategically curated to provide its customers with an easy-to-navigate interface and meet all their gold/silver investment needs. To further ensure the protection of customer interests and built trust, the platform offers an instant certificate on completion of a transaction for the procured Gold/silver.
The platform is functional on browsers as well as an impeccably designed app available on both IOS & Android, which is easily accessible for all investors interested in gold.
MyGoldKart is a venture that carries forward the decades-old trust and experience of the Kundan Group. It is one of the best gold investment platforms in India and has an immense potential of helping people make profitable gold/silver investments.
Kundan Group
Kundan has grown into one of the nation's leading manufacturing and exporting companies of the 21st Century with a turnover of 4 billion USD. In recognition of the company's multi-business portfolio that encompasses a wide range of businesses – from gold, precious metals, gold refinery, cosmetics to chemicals, agro commodities, polymers, petro product and the import of bullion and pharmaceutical items has added to its versatile dynamism. Kundan has been awarded by the Government of India as a recognized 'Four Star Export House', a nominated agency, also ISO 9001-2008 certified.
Kundan Gold Refinery is a most treasured business unit of "Kundan". For 20 years, KUNDAN has marked its presence in precious metals and continuously progressing for the tremendous achievements. Kundan Care Products Limited established one of the largest Gold and Silver refinery in India known as "Kundan Gold Refinery" well equipped with breakthrough technologies, state-of-the-art labs and highest quality standards. Kundan Gold refinery is acknowledged as a major importer of Gold and Silver. It is well known as the largest private gold refinery in India.
Award from India International Gold Convention (IIGC) :
"Promising Bullion Refinery & Promising Non- PSU Nominated Agency" for the year 2016.
"Promising Gold Refiner of the Year and Promising Non-Govt Nominated Agency" for the year 2017.
"Best Refiner of the Year and Leading Bullion seller of the year" for the year 2018.
"Best Refiner in Private Sector of the year and Leading Bullion seller of the year" for the year 2019.
Award from Indian Bullion Jeweler Association (IBJA) as "Best BULLION TRADER in Gold" for the year 2019.
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He has high standards and I have no doubt that he will be a great asset to Holtz Realty as well as the buying and selling public of Mason City and the North Iowa area.
It's wonderful to see a young real estate agent wanting to continue the tradition of excellence with our company. It appears his long vacant desk was waiting for the best.


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"Keys" to COTS encrypting of data-at-rest
March 10, 2014 | BY: Paul Davis
Data security is a major concern for all businesses these days. One only has to follow the news coverage of data breaches at large retailers, major corporations, and government agencies to see the financial and security fallout from these attacks. However, for deployed military applications, data security has always been a concern and thanks to new Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) options, data-at-rest security has become more efficient and affordable.
After data that is "on-the-move"reaches its intended destination and is stored, it is considered "Data-At-Rest"(DAR). For deployed applications, the preferred DAR storage technology is solid-state memory. Rotating disks have been used in rugged deployed applications, but only with elaborate and costly vibration-damping systems. Today there are three types of NAND flash used as the basic building blocks for solid-state memory. Multi-Level Cell (MLC) memory is commonly used in USB sticks and SD cards, but its temperature range is too narrow for deployed applications. While significantly less costly than Single-Level Cell (SLC) memory, MLC has only one-tenth the endurance. SLC memory supports a wide temperature range and provides high endurance (100,000 writes to a single cell), making it today's preferred memory for deployed applications. A new type of memory provides a compromise approach: "enterprise MLC"(eMLC) offers a wide temperature range and good endurance at a cost between that of SLC and MLC.
All solid-state memory systems employ common methods to ensure that data is properly retained - methods that include wear leveling, bad-block mapping, error correction, and write-amplification techniques to improve the storage life. Now that we have cost-effective memory options for deployed applications, how do we protect that critical data?
Encryption choices
Regardless of whether SLC or eMLC memory is used to store the data-at-rest, choosing the optimal encryption method can be complicated. While a variety of encryption schemes and methods are available, the final choice will depend on the application. The decision about which level of encryption is required for a particular application rests with the program's Designated Approving Authority (DAA). When selecting and approving the ideal encryption approach, the DAA must trade off costs, schedule, risks, and operational constraints. The DAA may decide, for example, that even though an encryption method is below the level of NSA-certified, the security level is satisfactory for protecting classified data because the stored data will be protected by armed guard. The DAA will also likely evaluate other factors such as the storage medium's anti-tamper mechanisms.
Encryption built into the SSD
Today, encryption is frequently offered within the Solid-State Drives (SSDs). Some SSDs support AES 128-bit encryption, while newer models are upgrading to AES 256-bit. In either case, the SSD is shipped with the encryption key already installed. The user must log in with a password in order to use the drive. The current key can be cleared or purged by initiating a "Secure Erase"or "Enhanced Secure Erase"process. A new key can be internally generated, often using a random-number generator. However, any data that was encrypted with the old key will be irretrievably lost.
For deployed applications, having the key reside with the SSD poses concerns when the SSD (and data-at-rest) need to be transported. If the SSD were lost or stolen and the password coerced from the user, the key can be accessed, making sensitive data readable. Purging the key prior to transport makes the data unreadable and irretrievable. Sensitive data, such as that captured on an airborne mission, may have been very costly to acquire, making its loss unacceptable.
By itself, encryption within the SSD may be satisfactory for Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) applications, but the technique is unlikely to satisfy applications requiring higher security levels, such as Secret and Below Information (SABI) or Top Secret and Below Information (TSABI). As noted earlier, the DAA determines which method is acceptable for a particular application. If the SSD is guarded during transport by a soldier with an M-16, the DAA may find this method of encryption adequate.
FIPS 140-2 encryption
Encryption modules for use with SBU data are defined in Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS PUBS) issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). FIPS products are controlled by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and are not normally International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)-restricted. "Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules,"defined by the FIPS PUB 140-2 or FIPS 140-2 standards, specify the security requirements for a cryptographic module utilized within a security system to protect SBU data.
FIPS 140-2 provides four increasing qualitative levels of security, which cover the wide range of potential applications and environments. The standard provides guidance for design and testing for cryptographic module specification; cryptographic module ports and interfaces; roles, services, and authentication; finite-state model; physical security; operational environment; cryptographic key management; Electromagnetic Interference/Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMI/EMC); self-tests; design assurance; and mitigation of other attacks.
The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP), a joint effort between NIST and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of the Government of Canada, provides validation for cryptographic modules to FIPS 140-2. FIPS 140-2 validated products are accepted by the federal agencies of both countries for the protection of SBU information (United States) or Designated Information (Canada). CMVP-accredited labs - listed on the NIST website - are located in numerous countries, indicating the international nature of FIPS 140-2 and broad acceptance of FIPS 140-2 validated encryption products.
FIPS 140-2 certification can be pursued by any company, which then covers all costs for validating their particular product. Unlike certification for the higher-level Type 1 encryption, FIPS 140-2 does not require a program sponsor. The FIPS 140-2 validation certificate not only indicates that an encryption product is fit to handle SBU data, but also demonstrates a certain discipline in the design and documentation process. Some SSD manufacturers have already obtained or are in the process of obtaining FIPS certification.
FIPS 140-2 validated encryption (and storage) modules are available that incorporate FIPS validated 256-bit AES algorithms. These modules offer administrator options in which the AES key can be either internally generated or externally provided. The security risks of using an internally generated key were discussed above, and if the key is purged, the data-at-rest is lost forever. When the externally provided (or pre-placed) key option is used, the AES key can be provided via commands after properly logging into the FIPS encryption module and the user is authenticated. An externally provided key also gives the DAA additional options. The key can be cleared, the module safely transported, and after, the key can be re-inserted providing access to the data-at-rest once again.
Secret and Below Information
If an application requires SABI data security, the encryption product used must be NSA Type 1-certified for at least SABI. Type 1 products contain approved NSA algorithms and are available to U.S. government users, their contractors, and federally sponsored non-U.S. government clients. Type 1 encryptors are subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) restrictions.
An example of a DAR system with an encryptor certified for SABI is Curtiss-Wright's rugged Compact Network Storage (CNS). The CNS-T1 is a convection-cooled network file server that supports CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP, and PXE protocols for connection to any computer system supporting industry-standard protocols. Designed for use in manned and unmanned ground, air, and sea vehicles, the CNS features an internal third party SATA-to-SATA encryptor. This encryptor was developed and certified under the auspices of a program that required SABI encryption in an attended vehicle. It is now available for use in similar programs of record with a need for SABI encryption. It can support applications for secret data as well as SBU data.
The encryptor was embedded into the CNS. The CNS acts as the front-end interface to network clients. CNS converts the data from these clients to SATA, after which the data is routed to the encryptor, which encrypts it with an internally generated key. The encrypted SATA data is then sent to an encryption-free SSD-based storage module.
When using internal generated keys, both the encryptor and the storage module must be removed for transportation to a CNS in another location. For example, after an aircraft lands from a mission, you must remove the encrypted storage module from the aircraft and utilize a ground station to allow the analyst to read and interpret that data garnered during the mission. In the case of self-generated keys, you must keep the encryptor with the storage module or the data will be unreadable. For applications where this is not practical, mediation is being developed to support the use of Pre-Placed Keys (PPK). With PPK support, the encryptor can be left in place so that only the storage module need be transported. The same key can be loaded in the second location, providing access to the data. Transport of the data without any key is highly desired.
Top Secret and Below Information and unattended operation
For applications that require TSABI security, an encryption product will need a minimum of NSA Type 1 certification. A few TSABI encryptors, developed at government expense for a program of record, are currently available for DAR applications. At present, none of these encryptors have been certified for unattended operation on platforms such as unmanned air, ground, or undersea vehicles. Currently, some programs are considering combined requirements for TSABI and unattended operation. It will require one program of record and a Department of Defense (DoD) sponsor to step forward and drive TSABI encryptor certification for unattended operation.
System designers have broad encryption options, ranging from SSD encryption and FIPS to SABI and TSABI encryption. For unattended operation, the industry awaits the first program and sponsor to step forward before vendors can take the next steps needed to provide data-at-rest security in unmanned vehicles.
Author's Biography
Director, Product Management - Data Solutions
Paul Davis began his career for Curtiss-Wright as a Research Manager for the Dayton, OH facility in 1997. Paul has held positions including: Director of Engineering managing a staff of 40+ engineers, managers, technicians, and co-op students; Product Manager for the switches, recorders, and various board level products; and then Director of Product Management. Now retired, Paul worked in engineering and engineering management positions for 19 years.
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import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

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public class InfoTask implements Callable<Book> {

	private static final String TAG = "RecTask";
	private String searchTerm;
	public InfoTask(String searchTerm) {
		this.searchTerm = searchTerm;

	}
	@Override
	public Book call() throws Exception {
		Book book = null;
		String recUrl = "http://brownbookhunter.appspot.com/info";
		HttpClient hc = new DefaultHttpClient();
		try{
			HttpPost request = new HttpPost(recUrl);

			List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
			params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("call_no", searchTerm));
			request.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params, "UTF-8"));

			HttpResponse response = hc.execute(request);

			JSONObject info = readResponse(response);
			book = new Book(info);

			Log.d(TAG, "Hopefully this is something?" + info);
			Log.d(TAG, "Requested book is " + book);

		} catch (JSONException e) {
			Log.e(TAG, "Json exception: " + e.getMessage());
			Log.e(TAG, "Json exception: " + e.toString());
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
			Log.e(TAG, "Unsupported encoding: " + e.getMessage());
		} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
			Log.e(TAG, "client protocol: " + e.getMessage());
		} catch (IOException e) {
			Log.e(TAG, "io exception: " + e.getMessage());
		} finally {
			hc.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
		}
		return book;
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			result.append((char) c);
		}
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Saturday, June 10th - HopeFest 2017 is the must-attend, outdoor music festival of the year! HopeFest is a unique, family-friendly, positive message, faith-based music festival and experience, providing top-level national artists. Their goal is to bring a clear message of love while encouraging the crowd to share the hope that lies in each one of us.
Festival grounds will be open from 11:00am - 10:00pm.
Held outside at the award-winning Centennial Park Amphitheater, just a short commute from Denver. This one-day festival features A-list national acts and the best of Colorado's local music scene. Featuring Colorado vendors, gourmet food, crafters and artisans.


A vial of Dopamine, labeled as "DOPamine HCl"
Tall man lettering (tall-man lettering or tallman lettering) is the practice of writing part of a drug's name in upper case letters to help distinguish sound-alike, look-alike drugs from one another in order to avoid medication errors. For example, in tall man lettering, "prednisone" and "prednisolone" should be written "predniSONE" and "predniSOLONE", respectively. The Office of Generic Drugs of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) encourages manufacturers to use tall man lettering labels to visually differentiate their drugs' names, and a number of hospitals, clinics, and health care systems use tall man lettering in their computerized order entry, automated dispensing machines, medication admission records, prescription labels, and drug product labels.
Wrong-drug errors have been found to occur at a rate of about one per thousand orders filled or dispensed. Evidence regarding the effect of Tall Man lettering on error rates is mixed.
A 2004 eye-tracking study found that Tall Man lettering resulted in fewer errors when selecting a target drug from an array of choices. Other laboratory-based studies of Tall Man lettering show a mixture of positive and null results, which may be further complicated due to demand characteristics of some of the studies.
A 2016 time-series analysis of data from 42 children's hospitals over a 9-year period found no significant difference before and after a 2007 recommendation for hospitals to adopt Tall Man lettering. However, this study has been criticized due to methodological limitations, such as not recording when and how Tall Man lettering was adopted, if at all, at each of the hospitals studied.
^ a b "U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Name Differentiation Project, website browsed 2007/12/20"
^ "Institute for Safe Medication Practices FAQ #5, browsed 2007/12/20"
^ Examples: "University of Utah Health Care Pharmacy Alert #191" dated 2006/12/04, browsed 2007/12/20; Fraser Health 'Doctors in the Know' newsletter dated September, 2006, browsed 2007/12/20; Johns Hopkins Hospital "Pharmacy and Therapeutics Newsletter" dated July 2005, archived 2007/3/15.
^ a b c Lambert, Bruce L; Schroeder, Scott R; Galanter, William L (2016). "Does Tall Man lettering prevent drug name confusion errors? Incomplete and conflicting evidence suggest need for definitive study". Editorial. BMJ Quality & Safety. 25 (4): 213–217. doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004929.
^ Filik, R; Purdy, K; Gale, A; Gerrett, D (December 2004). "Drug name confusion: Evaluating the effectiveness of capital ("Tall Man") letters using eye movement data". Social Science & Medicine. 59 (12): 2597–601. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.04.008. PMID 15474212.
^ Zhong, Wenjun; Feinstein, James A; Patel, Neil S; Dai, Dingwei; Feudtner, Chirs (2016). "Tall Man lettering and potential prescription errors: A time series analysis of 42 children's hospitals in the USA over 9 years". BMJ Quality & Safety. 25 (4): 233–240. doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004562.
^ "FDA and ISMP Lists of Look-Alike Drug Names with Recommended Tall Man Letters" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-06-16.
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A Schofield Barracks soldier died Tuesday from wounds he received while on patrol in Iraq.
He is the fourth soldier from Schofield Barracks killed in Iraq since September.
The Associated Press and Bloomberg News Service quoted the U.S. military in Iraq yesterday as saying that a soldier assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, was hit by enemy fire Tuesday near the northern city of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad. He died later of his wounds.
The soldier's name was not released.
Schofield Barracks officials confirmed that a Schofield soldier had been killed, but would not confirm the soldier's unit or identify him pending notification of his family.
Since September all of the Schofield soldiers killed in Iraq belonged to the 25th Division's 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment.
» Pfc. Jeremy R. Shank, 18, who was killed Sept. 6 while on patrol near Balad.
» Sgt. Velton Locklear, III, 29, of Lacey, Wash., and Pfc. Kenneth E. Kincaid, IV, 25, of Lilburn, Ga. Both were killed by a homemade bomb exploding near their Humvee in Riyadh on Sept. 23.
Seven thousand Schofield soldiers began a year's deployment in Iraq in August.
Since the war started in March 2003, 17 Schofield soldiers have died in Iraq.


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from pprint import pprint
import json
import yaml
from ciscoconfparse import CiscoConfParse

# CREATE LIST

test_list = [range(6), 'test1', 'test2', [{'mykey': 2, 'myotherkey': 3}]]

# YAML

print(yaml.dump(test_list, default_flow_style=False))

with open ("l1_yaml.yaml", "w") as f:
    yaml.dump(test_list, f)

with open ("l1_yaml.yaml") as f:
    ylist = yaml.load(f)

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pprint(ylist)

print("\n")

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with open ("l1_json.json", "w") as f:
    json.dump(test_list, f)

with open ("l1_json.json") as f:
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jlist.insert(0, "JSON: ")
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print("\n")

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cisco_cfg = CiscoConfParse("/home/jspiers/pynet_training/config_files/cisco_ipsec.txt")
crypto = cisco_cfg.find_objects(r"^crypto map CRYPTO")
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Florida Governor Signs Package Of New Gun Restrictions
By Tanya Ballard Brown,
Ed McNulty, Barbara Campbell
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signs the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Act on Friday. The legislation includes a number of gun restrictions and also permits school personnel who are not full-time teachers to be armed.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed legislation tightening gun restrictions in the state. Among other things, the legislation raises the legal age for gun purchases to 21, institutes a waiting period of three days, and allows for the arming of school personnel who are not full-time teachers.
In a statement, Scott's office highlights mental health provisions in the bill:
"Creates "Risk Protection Orders," which allows a court to prohibit a violent or mentally ill individual from purchasing or possessing a firearm or any other weapon. If a law enforcement officer believes that a person poses a danger to themselves or others by possessing a firearm, they can petition a court to have the individual immediately surrender the firearm and prohibit them from possessing or purchasing firearms;
"Allows law enforcement to seize firearms when a person has been detained under the 'Baker Act.' Also prohibits a person who has been 'adjudicated mentally defective' or who has been 'committed to a mental institution' from owning or possessing a firearm."
Florida's Baker Act allows families to get mental health evaluations of loved ones who resist such intervention.
The governor's statement notes that the three-day waiting period includes exceptions for "the purchase of rifles and shotguns by law enforcement officers, correctional officers, active duty military members and all members of the Florida National Guard and United States Reserve Forces."
At the signing, Scott was flanked by family members of the victims of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Families of the shooting victims wrote a letter to the House legislators on Tuesday, urging them to pass the gun package.
The National Rifle Association has filed a lawsuit against Florida officials, arguing that the law violates the constitutional rights of adults below the age of 21.
NRA Executive Director Chris Cox released a statement that said, "This bill punishes law-abiding gun owners for the criminal acts of a deranged individual. ... Instead of looking to the root cause of this premeditated violence [in schools], the gun control provisions in this law wrongly blame millions of Floridians who safely and responsibly exercise their right to self-defense."
Florida lawmakers approved the legislation earlier this week with the state House voting 67-50 to approve the bill and the state Senate passing it by a 20-18 vote.
On Wednesday, a grand jury in Fort Lauderdale formally charged 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in the deadly school shooting in Parkland, with 17 counts of first-degree murder. The indictment also included 17 counts of attempted murder. Prosecutors could seek the death penalty if Cruz is convicted of first-degree murder.
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The Organization: Founded in 1964, the Cantata Singers is widely regarded as Boston?s finest choral ensemble and one of the region?s premier musical organizations. Under the direction of David Hoose, the Cantata Singers is dedicated to challenging performances of works from the 17th century to the present, including the commissioning of new works. Winner of the 1995 ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, the 44-member Cantata Singers chorus presents an annual subscription series of eight concerts with its chamber orchestra in New England Conservatory?s Jordan Hall in Boston, as well as a chamber series under the direction of pianist Kayo Iwama. In addition to concert activities, the Cantata Singers sponsors a composition and performance program called ?Classroom Cantatas? in the Bosto
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Chilean wine producer Viña Errázuriz is expecting to register 4.5% growth in volume terms this year compared to 2001. Viña Errázuriz is owned by the Chadwick family and owns 539 hectares of vineyards in the Chilean valley regions of Aconcagua, Curicó and Casablanca. The winery is expecting total volume sales to reach 450,000 cases, 87% of which are destined for export.


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Putting The "And" In Random: A Chat With The Pathological Upstagers
By Lord Neville Charles Randolph-Gladstone III
The reviews have been staggering: "The Pathological Upstagers follow the formal conventions of traditional comedy, only to degenerate into artful anarchy" (The London Telegraph). "Never have what is best about comedy and what is worst about acting been combined so successfully. Most actor/comedians lapse into the ridiculous…The Upstagers leap into it whole-heartedly" (The Washington Post). "We transcribe and print every one of the Upstagers' improvisational acts. Their work may not be poetry, but it is some funny s***!" (The New Yorker). "If I ever see the Upstagers' work, I will love it!" (The New York Times). Amongst the accolades, one question emerges: Who in the hell are the Pathological Upstagers?
As those in the London theatre scene already know—and audiences worldwide will soon discover—The Pathological Upstagers are an improvisational comedy duo comprised of Vee Levene, often called the love child of Jennifer Saunders and Henry Rollins, and Jill Summerville, often called the love child of Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde. Sitting on the cardboard box in their London flat that serves as a sofa, the two seem too reserved to be associated with the absurdist comedy for which they are known. However, they have what has been referred to as an "inner flamboyance." After about five minutes in their company, the charisma that underlies their shyness like the crimson lining on a black satin cloak begins to emerge.
"Vee and I met when I was begging on the streets of London. I was in London because I thought that I had been cast as The Little Match.com Girl in Jill Does London. Unfortunately, I had actually been cast as the Little Match Girl in a miniseries entitled Hans Christian Anderson's Fairytales. Of course, I turned it down. Me, play a beggar? I have morals…So I had to beg for a job. I knocked on the door of Jennifer Saunders' (of Absolutely Fabulous fame) house, where Vee was staying at the time." Adds Levene: "The randomness of our meeting is what inspired us to form The Pathological Upstagers. We realised that people do not embrace the random events in life. Our comedy is founded on the idea that order breeds chaos, and chaos creates truth, and all of the humour and brutal honesty that truth allows…That is really confusing! We put the "and" in random, okay?"
The line between order and chaos that intrigues the Upstagers is explored within their sketches, most notably Bus Stop and Confessions of a Fantasexual. The latter—for which the two donned lingerie—brought them to the attention of their idols, Jennifer Saunders and Rupert Everett. While smoking a cigarette outside of the Upstagers' flat after one of her weekly half-hour meetings with Levene, Saunders expresses her admiration of the group. "Vee has such an amazing physicality. Her limbs are so flexible. Supple. That is the only way that I can describe them. She is a fledgling contortionist, and she has a move called…" Just then, she is interrupted by Rupert Everett. The notoriously aloof film actor is impressed by the group's dedication. "Jill is always pulling all-nighters. And her tongue is so…Sharp. She is so quick-witted. She does wonders with her mouth…With words, I mean."
Although their supple tongues, limbs, and wit are partially responsible for their success, Levene and Summerville both agree that the heart of The Pathological Upstagers is their partnership with each other. "We make each other laugh," says Summerville. We could never entertain an audience if we did not amuse each other." Levene agrees. "We may upstage each other—pathologically—but even our most caustic remarks come out of love."
THE PATHOLOGICAL UPSTAGERS will be appearing as part of the Open Stage Night at Antioch College on November 18, 2005. For more information about this, and future engagements, visit their website.
This is LORD NEVILLE CHARLES RANDOLPH-GLADSTONE'S first article for The Independent. He was a member of the House of Lords until October of 2005, when he resigned his seat in Parliament in order to follow the Pathological Upstagers.
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