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Steel Partners Holdings LP announces Jason Lloyd named President of WebBank
Steel Partners Holdings LP (NYSE: SPLP) today announced the appointment of Jason Lloyd as the President of WebBank, succeeding Kelly Barnett.
Lloyd, an employee of WebBank since 2008, most recently served as Executive Vice President of Business Development and has been instrumental in the execution of the bank's business plan since he joined the company.
"Jason has a demonstrated track record of leadership and building value for all stakeholders. Jason forges strong client relationships and leads with innovation. He is an empathetic and passionate leader, and he is the right person to lead WebBank into the future," said Jack Howard, Executive Chairman of WebBank. "Jason's steady and continued success over the last twelve years is a great example of our SteelGrow program. SteelGrow provides tools and resources to retain and reward our team members and demonstrates our commitment to recruit and promote from within the Steel family of companies."
Kelly Barnett led the bank for the last nine years. Howard shares, "On behalf of the WebBank Board of Directors, I wish to thank Kelly for his long tenure at WebBank and for laying the foundation for the company's continued success."
About WebBank
WebBank is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is a FDIC insured, state chartered Industrial Bank that provides customized consumer and commercial financing solutions on a nationwide basis. WebBank is a leading provider of consumer and commercial, closed-end and revolving private-label and bank card financing programs, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Steel Partners Holdings LP
About Steel Partners Holdings LP
Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (www.steelpartners.com) is a diversified global holding company that owns and operates businesses and has significant interests in various companies, including diversified industrial products, energy, defense, supply chain management and logistics, direct marketing, banking, and youth sports.
Jennifer Golembeske
jgolembeske@steelpartners.com


I don't know about this press release about the Kids WB 2006-2007 lineup. A new Scooby Doo cartoon, Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!, features nano-technology Scooby Snacks that transform them into different things. And they live in a "bling'd out mansion" with their uncle Albert. Shudder. Via The Slumbering Lungfish.
Why Aren't Video Games Funny?


We are an event company that is looking for people to work for us full time and part time. We offer ...states that he/she is representing. The supervisors mainly are the one who is representing the company for each of the state. We will offer an attractive contract for the supervisor. There is a basic salary offered + allowances for each working days.


The blues musician and academic, Dr Tom Attah, talks about the history of blues in Britain, with music from Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Big Bill Broonzy, Josh White and many more.
The blues musician and academic - Dr Tom Attah - talks about the fascinating history of blues in Britain, with music from the likes of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Big Bill Broonzy and Josh White, charting the celebrated tours that American blues musicians made through the UK in the 1950s and 60s which helped bring about the British blues boom of the 1960s.
Plus, Cerys digs into her collection to play a selection of favourites as well as the latest releases.
Recorded Music for Your Entertainment.
When The Blues Come To Call.
The Blues Legacy: Lost & Found Series, Vol. 1 (Chris Barber Presents) [Live].
Down Home on Dog Hill.


As the world economy continues to walk its flimsy tight rope, frugal living is becoming more and more popular among people that both want and need their money to go towards their bills. For some, they want to stretch their income to better care for their families, for others they want to redirect that income into digging out of student loan debt.
One of the keystones to frugal living is cutting the fat - so to speak - out of our daily lives, removing the things we don't necessarily need and spending the money elsewhere. However, something that people don't often consider is literally cutting things in half to save money. Not everything can be halved, but the stuff that can is often not only easier on the pocketbook but easier on the environment as well. Here are the top ten household items that you can cut in half (and sometimes cut out completely) to help you save those precious pennies.
Don't fall into the trap of the directions on the back of the container. You can easily cut these items in half for the same effect. Dish detergent is easy to cut in half. It recommends two tablespoons, but only using one tablespoon works perfectly. Laundry detergent is a little bit more tricky as it can depend on your washing machine and how well it washes things. Try cutting the detergent in half and see if you notice any differences, you may or may not have to go to the full dose.
You know what makes your grocery bill soar? That's right, meat and cheese. Although, honestly it is mostly the meat and pre-prepared food (ex. frozen meals) doesn't help either. Between diseases in livestock and the general cost it takes to process the meat at each junction, meat is expensive and it has only been getting worse. If you love meat and want it cheaper, buy it with the bone in. Each process the meat has to go through before it is packaged only makes it more expensive. For recipes that call for a pound of ground beef, only use half a pound. When it is mixed in you'll barely notice it.
As for cheese, skip buying pre-shredded cheese and just buy it in a block. This is a trick I only recently discovered and I was shocked by how much farther I could stretch a block of cheese by grating it or slicing myself. Plus, cheese block is a yummy snack in a pinch.
Before everyone riots and thinks I am trying to tell them to take cold showers, settle down. I'm not saying skip the hot water all together, but rather limit it in smart ways. Instead of using the warm or hot setting on the washing machine, use the cold setting whenever possible. This not only makes your cloths last longer, but it will save a lot on energy bills.
If you turn your shower on the hottest it can go and that scalds the crap out of your hand, go to your water heater and find the knob that controls how hot it will heat your water. Turn it down one or two notches and adjust over the next couple of day until you and your family are happy with the maximum temperature. Having your water heater heating water that is insanely hot is a waste of whatever energy heats it if no one ever uses it. Over the next few months, you'll notice the difference on energy bills.
Dryer sheets are not only easy to cut in half, but easy to cut out all together. For the longest time, I used both dryer sheets and fabric softener together and you don't need both. Cut dryer sheets out for one wash and see if you can smell and feel any difference. My cloths come out smelling nice and are nicely soft without them.
Most people always use more than they need of their toiletries. Kids especially are really quite guilty of this because they don't really ever get what things cost until they are on their own. If you live on your own, it can actually be pretty fun to see how far you can stretch these toiletries, but those with a family will have to make a family-wide commitment to it, stressing the importance of how much you need to make these things last.
When you get your rectangular sponges look at them and ask yourself, "Do I really need all of this sponge?" Essentially, you will only need half of it to get the all those scrubbing, wiping and sponging jobs done. In the case of those SOS pads, they'll also sharpen your kitchen scissors when you cut them too.
These things, you barely use before you toss them away. They are also one of those things you can either cut in half to stretch further or do away with all together. Instead of using paper napkins and towels, switch to cloth. Cloth rags to wipe down kitchen counters and cloth napkins for dinner. Both of these things can just be tossed in the laundry when they are dirty and come back all clean and reusably fresh.
This is often the hardest thing to cut in half because, well, no one likes to be bored. However, you need to choose the services that provide both quality and quantity of entertainment. Sure, trips to the movies will entertain for a few hours, but Netflix will provide months of movies and television shows. On that note, if you have both Netflix and Cable, pick one or the other. Cable can be pretty expensive, so that would be the biggest money saver.
Juice is yummy, but it is an expensive habit if you are not careful. 100% juice may be the healthiest option, but it is also the most expensive, try instead cutting it in half by mixing half of it with water. You'll get the vitamins from the juice as well as a good dose of hydration, plus the juice will last longer.
You'd be surprised at the amount of people that overeat each day. Junk food isn't the only problem with the growing obesity trend, but serving sizes are an issue as well considering most people completely ignore the recommended serving size in both cooked and packaged meals. Cut the serving sizes down and you'll cut both calories and cost.
Thanks for the tips. I've been wise to the laundry detergent and toothpaste for a while. The commercials for those products all show people using way more then you need too.
Very good tips, I hardly use cleaning products at all. Yes we do clean but use mainly vinegar and carb soda. Use less Harmful chemicals its better than breathing them into your body when spraying.
These a very good tips. As far as cleaning supplies and laundry detergent, you can always make your own which is way cheaper than the store bought stuff. My household has very sensitive skin and I find it easier and safer to produce natural products.
Another hint about the cheese: Most mass produced cheeses these days have plenty of preservatives and will keep for quite some time. This means that you can take advantage of sales or coupons to buy in bulk only a couple of times a year. Many cheeses can also be frozen to extend their lifespan with out drastically altering the flavor.
Great tips. In general we eat way too much meat and use way too many unnecessary chemicals in our lives.
We purchased a high efficiency washer and dryer last year. The washer requires HE detergent and surprisingly, uses very little to clean the clothing, mostly because it uses a lot less water. The washer also takes much less clothes softener and no dryer sheets are necessary. It took a few months, but our water bill was a little less, which will also be reflected in our sewage bill when it arrives. We also only use our dishwasher every other day and buy the store brand cleaner which is lower priced and cleans well. We save on the cost of meats buying in bulk and only when they are on sale. These are cut and portioned at home into recipe sizes and then frozen. Turning your water heater temperature down is a good way to use less fuel. You can save more water with lowered flow shower assembly and the new lowered flow toilets. With the price of water and sewage where we live, these will pay for themselves.


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Q: '1 new item in your Stack Exchange inbox' email doesn't have a working logo for Area51!

You can see the alt text is shown instead of the image^^.
The image points to http://area51.stackexchange.com/img/apple-touch-icon.png and that is Page Not Found.
I can't find the actual URL...
The :

Gmail caches all image sent, so the 'googleusercontent' is that - you can see the real URL at the end of the source (which is what I've written above)

A: This is definitely a URL issue.
The correct URL of the Area51 'apple-touch-icon.png' should be:
https://cdn.sstatic.net/area51/img/apple-touch-icon.png

and this is how it looks when you scale the width and height of the image: (width="48" height="48" style="min-height:48px;width:48px")

Here is an excerpt from Google's Official Gmail Blog: (emphasis mine)

But thanks to new improvements in how Gmail handles images, you'll
  soon see all images displayed in your messages automatically across
  desktop, iOS and Android. Instead of serving images directly from
  their original external host servers, Gmail will now serve all images
  through Google's own secure proxy servers

Embedded images will now be saved by Google, and the e-mail content will be modified to display those images from Google's cache, instead of from a third-party server.
As per the OP's raw HTML source code:

You can see Google's proxy server is caching image from: http://area51.stackexchange.com/img/apple-touch-icon.png
Whereas, the correct URL of Area51 icon image is:
https://cdn.sstatic.net/area51/img/apple-touch-icon.png

Google's proxy server only caches/proxies image used in the SE's e-mail i.e. currently pointed to http://area51.stackexchange.com/img/apple-touch-icon.png. So, the URL for the image in the e-mail is wrong as specified image does not exist at that address.
P.S.
I am not sure when was the image from area51.stackexchange.com/img/apple-touch-icon.png was moved to the current CDN location i.e. `cdn.sstatic.net/area51/img/apple-touch-icon.png'. I guessed the image location from the post "How does Stack Overflow make it so their apple-touch-icon doesn't have a border effect". All I did was replaced the 'stackoverflow' with 'area51' in the URL path.

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Mick Foley Drops To His Knees To Beg For A Push For WWE Superstar
By James Holder. Published 18th June 2021.
It's fair to say that with decades upon decades of experience between them, Mick Foley and Stone Cold Steve Austin know a little something about professional wrestling.
Not only that, it is widely accepted that both men vastly exceeded WWE's relatively low expectations of them when they joined the company. And it is this experience and ability to prove Vince McMahon wrong that has led Mick Foley to lead an impassioned plea on behalf of Cesaro.
Foley is set to be the latest guest on Broken Skull Sessions with Stone Cold Steve Austin. Ahead of the episode's premiere, WWE have released a clip of the pair doing a word association quiz.
Foley initially praised Sami Zayn, Drew McIntyre, Bobby Lashley and Bianca Belair before laying it all on the line for Cesaro.
The Hall of Famer turned to the camera, and highlighted his and Austin's experience of exceeding expectations. This was followed by Foley dropping to his knees and begging Vince McMahon to give Cesaro a chance. Mrs Foley's Baby Boy continued, imploring McMahon to "put a rocket ship" on the back of the Swiss Superman as he "wholeheartedly" believes in him.
It could be argued that Mick Foley is in perfect position to champion underutilised stars due to his own history with WWE.
Grayson Waller Jokingly Claims He's The Reason Behind WALTER's Name Change
Keith Lee Reacts To WALTER's Apparent Name Change
Signed at the repeated behest of Jim Ross, Foley was someone who it was believed wouldn't work in the bright lights of WWE. According to Ross, it took three try-outs, and Vince McMahon only relenting as he wanted Ross to know what it was like for a talent to break his heart to even sign Foley.
Something McMahon himself recently backed up, saying that he believed Foley "didn't have any talent" prior to signing him.
Meanwhile, Cesaro has been embroiled in a feud with Seth Rollins in recent months months. The Swiss Cyborg may have defeated Rollins at WrestleMania 37, but that hasn't stopped the former world champion coming for revenge.
Steve Austin's Broken Skull Session with Mick Foley premieres Sunday 20th June on Peacock and the WWE Network.

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My Thoughts on Prince
I already wrote an obituary for Prince at Screen Rant; you can read that here. Below, just a few disconnected thoughts on the death of the Purple One:
Ever since Prince passed away on Thursday, I've discovered that a lot of my Minneapolis friends have Prince stories. They once ran into him somewhere, he randomly popped onstage at a club they were at, or maybe they saw him at an early club gig before Prince was Prince.
I really don't, though. I never saw him in person or in concert or came in any way close to meeting him. My father represented someone with a legal case that tangentially involved him, the details of which I don't remember, but he never met him either. Hell, I've never even been inside First Avenue.
But I've always loved Prince's music, going back as far as I can remember. He was a staple of the radio, and MTV, both of which I followed obsessively as a kid. And of course, there was always the Minnesota pride angle of it. I've written before that in the early '80s the Replacements/Husker Du music revolution was going on a few miles from my house, but I was too young to know about it and didn't even discover the music until I was in my 20s and living in New York. But Prince was different. I appreciated his music, and his larger-than-life persona, even from a very young age.
Which isn't to say that I totally got it. Even as I saw Prince perform in assless chaps on the Video Music Awards, and listened to the album ("Lovesexy") where he was naked on the cover, the pure sexuality of his music was certainly not something I grasped when I was that young. Neither was the pure complexity of the songs and genre combinations.
The songs are all great. The public persona, like no one else in history. "Purple Rain" is one of the best music movies of all time- and a clear influence on so many others since- and goes in the Minnesota Movie Holy Trinity along with the Coens' "Fargo" and "A Serious Man" (Whatever #4 is, it's a steep drop. "Grumpy Old Men"? "Jingle All the Way"? "Drop Dead Gorgeous"?)
For some reason I always really loved the "Diamonds and Pearls" album, especially the title track. And I've always dreamed of writing a book about a financial scandal at a synagogue, called "Thieves in the Temple." And yes, that Chris Rock joke about how "the only black people in Minnesota are Prince and Kirby Puckett" is funny but highly inaccurate, even now that Prince and Kirby are both gone.
Then there was at the strange fall of 2009. For years I had always joked that Prince should buy the Minnesota Vikings. He was a Minneapolis native, with plenty of money, who favored wearing purple, the NFL wanted more minorities in the ownership ranks and he couldn't possibly be worse than the Headrick Ten, Red McCombs or the Wilfs. That never happened, but that year, when the Vikings had a contending team with Brett Favre at quarterback, Prince- long a fixture at Timberwolves games but never Vikings ones- started appearing at every game, always on TV. He even wrote the team a new fight song.
Sure, the song ("Purple and Gold") was terrible, the team never used it again, the Vikings lost yet another NFC Championship Game, and Prince was never seen at a Vikings game after that. But it was one of the team's most exciting runs ever, made more special for me as my first son Noah was born in the middle of it.
I've watched and read the tributes, and listened to the songs on every radio station, just like when Michael Jackson died seven years ago. So I'm especially happy to be heading back to Minnesota on Saturday for Passover- say, is that block party outside First Avenue still going on?
This entry was posted in Home news, Minnesota on April 22, 2016 by Stephen Silver.
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The Plot Against America: Adapting a Novel for Television
"It's about: What if the magnetic forces at work in our country were just given a little push in one direction. What if a certain kind of intolerance was just given a slight nod from powers on high?"
– Zoe Kazan, actor on the HBO series, The Plot Against America
"History is a nightmare from which none of us can wake."
– James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
This review contains spoilers
Michelle K. Short of HBO photographed the screenshots
In Anti Social, a riveting account of the alt-right online trollers who elevate the persuasive narrative above any semblance of accuracy, evidence or fairness, Andrew Marantz interjects the wisdom of the philosopher, Richard Rorty, who contends that history is not preordained but is contingent and depends on the way people bend its arc. I thought about Rorty and Marantz's far-right profiles as I reread The Plot Against America by Philip Roth and watched the six-part gripping HBO mostly-faithful television adaptation by creator David Simon and his collaborator Ed Burns, widely known for their productions among others of The Wire and Treme. I found the gradual slide into fascism in America more convincing in The Plot than I did when I first read it in 2004 – likely because of the current American political climate – and that the Simon's and Burns's rendition offers innovations that enhance the relevance of the novel by creatively blurring the distinction between the early 1940s setting and our time.
Roth at one point in the novel explicitly asserts that the unspooling of history is not predetermined. It occurs when the narrator, (who toggles between the young seven-year old Philip and the older Roth retrospectively recalling this time sixty years later) recognizes the difference between the history taught in school "harmless and inevitable" and history as it is lived through, "the relentless unforeseen." Given that premise, the 1940 re-election of Franklin Roosevelt was never assured, and the Republican nomination and election of a political neophyte, the America First isolationist and anti-Semitic admirer of Hitler, Charles Lindbergh, was a plausible possibility.
The worst of the Depression was over and the electorate might have preferred a relatively young robust bona fide aviation hero, perhaps the greatest hero of his generation, over an aging, frail spent President who had already served two terms while no previous President had sought the office for a third time. Isolationist sentiment exercised a strong appeal for Americans disillusioned by the propagation of fabricated atrocity stories that prompted so many Americans to support the Great War, by the belief that the subsequent sacrifice of so many soldiers had not been worth the price and that European wars were"none of our business" Moreover, anti-Semitic sentiment increased during the 1930s and, according to one poll, 53 percent believed that Jews were different and should be restricted.
Ann and Charles Lindbergh
Lindbergh never offered himself as a candidate but he was approached by right-wing Republicans and he refused. But what if he had accepted the invitation? He would certainly have easily defeated the establishment candidate, Wendell Willkie, an internationalist, who was easily defeated in the general election by Roosevelt. It does not take much for Roth to rejigger history and to imagine Lindbergh winning the 1940 Presidential election on an anti-war, tacitly anti-Semitic platform, and quickly establishing an "understanding" with Hitler in Iceland.
Unlike Sinclair Lewis's 1935, It Can't Happen Here, which at times veers toward the author transplanting conditions from Nazi Germany into America, one of the great strengths of The Plot is that Roth's depiction of the gradual devolution of the country into fascism and the fracture of an American Jewish family feels rooted in the American experience. For instance, when the Roth family (Levin in the television series) travels from their Jewish enclave in Newark N.J. to Washington D.C. for a holiday visit to see the historic sites, they experience hostile reactions and discrimination, expertly dramatized in the television series where much of the dialogue is lifted from the novel. The father, Herman, an insurance salesman, who is outspoken in his opposition to the Lindbergh presidency, becomes the target of an anti-Semitic slur from random strangers on two separate occasions when he is reproached as a "loud-mouthed Jew." The family is denied entrance at a hotel, one that it had previously booked and paid for.
It is debatable whether the family would have faced this kind of garden-variety prejudice in the real world of Roosevelt's America, or that the election of Lindbergh would have emboldened ordinary Americans to openly express sentiments that might have been more guarded in the real world of that time. Regardless, it is this permission to utter 'politically incorrect' attitudes in Lindbergh's America that renders parallels with Trump's America, not that the current incumbent resembles Lindbergh except that each incites fear and loathing against a minority (or minorities – Muslims, Latinos, Asians) – cohort. After the first chapter which details the campaign and election of Lindbergh, he becomes a shadowy distant figure who largely vanishes from the text (and, apart from one brief anodyne radio speech, the television series); no one would say that about the celebrity demagogue after the 2016 election.
The anti-Semitism in The Plot becomes more official and overt with the creation of the Office of American Absorption (O.A.A.). Roth's portrayal of the Lindbergh creation and its insidious policies is persuasive. Under its auspices, the accommodationist, Rabbi Bengelsdorf, who becomes the leading mouthpiece and 'useful idiot' for the administration, institutes the smarmily named "Just Folks" program that encourages Jewish teenagers to spend a summer in the American heartland among Christian families. Its purpose may seem benign but as it turns out it is more an American version of the Hitler Youth movement which alienates the participants from their families.
Rabbi Bengelsdorf (John Tururro)
The Roth (Levin) family's oldest son, Sandy, eagerly travels to a tobacco farm in Kentucky despite the objections of both of his parents. If Sandy is a representative sample, the program may be considered a stellar success. After he returns from what he believes was a wonderful experience, Sandy becomes the poster boy for assimilationist Jews like Bengelsdorf (John Tururro) who has been co-opted to promote Lindbergh's goal, the erosion of the Jewish communal identity. Shielded at that time from the malevolent presence of the Ku Klux Klan stationed in Kentucky, he is brimming with enthusiasm for Lindbergh. He dismisses his parents as "ghetto Jews" for their opposition to the program and their contempt and hatred for the President. He despises their endorsement of Walter Winchell, the gossip columnist and radio journalist, who becomes the leading public opposition voice to Lindbergh.
If Sandy perceives Winchell to be a loud, offensive rabble-rouser, his parents are desperate for a spokesman to act on their behalf. They have received notification from the sinister "Homestead 42" program requiring their involuntary relocation to the "real America" in Kentucky, supposedly to help them better assimilate. (Given that Lindbergh in real life lamented the large number of Jews in New York and added in his diary, "A few Jews add strength and character to a country, but too many create chaos. And we are getting too many" further lends plausibility to Roth's depiction of a repressive Lindbergh America.)
If the prospect of forced displacement were not enough to unsettle Herman and Bess, a FBI agent is hovering about harassing family members with questions about what others are saying that could be construed as disloyal to the President. The agent is especially interested in Philip and Sandy's older cousin, Alvin (Antony Boyle). After joining the Canadian army, Alvin loses a leg in the war, and on returning home finds that he has trouble holding on to a job since he is regarded as anti-American and politically suspect, likely a Communist, because he fought against the Nazis.
Herman (Morgan Specter) Philip (Azhy Robertson) and Sandy (Calib Malis)
Roth balances the larger historical material with the family drama and its relationship with their community. In the first chapter, readers will learn much about the history; Roth even quotes from Lindbergh's diaries to provide further evidence of the aviator's anti-Semitism and support for the Third Reich. By contrast, Simon and Burns wisely focus on the micro level while utilizing the Newsreel Theater for Herman (Morgan Spector) and his sons to watch and the Winchell radio broadcasts – that become increasingly ubiquitous – to inform the family of the larger picture that is happening in Europe and America.
Simon also shrewdly departs from Roth by abandoning Philip's limited narrative perspective and substituting a multiple viewpoint. Simon presents Philip (Azhy Robertson) as a wide-eyed boy who observes much, is deeply affected by the emotional stresses in his home and to what happens to his next door friend, Seldon Wishnow (Jacob Laval). The two leading female characters, Bess, (Zoe Kazan) Herman's wife, and her sister Evelyn (Winona Ryder) are perhaps the chief beneficiaries of this change.
For most of the novel, Bess's role is minimized and Evelyn is little more than a cipher but Simon develops them, especially Bess, to be fully rounded characters. Apart from a couple of wonderfully touching scenes between Bess and Herman, she is a quiet grounded presence exuding fear and anxiety, whether it is from her husband's public angry outbursts or the attitudes of the outside Gentile communities. As a result, she feels a strong maternal need to protect her children, even urging her husband to immigrate to Canada. (A number of the family's Jewish friends flee to Canada feeling that they would be welcomed there. In the real world, the Canadian government was intensely anti-Semitic. I wonder whether Roth was aware of that reality or that his portrayal of a generous Canada is part of his alternative history.)
Bess (Zoe Kazan)
Bess generally avoids political discussion because she, more than any other character, seems the most aware of the nightmare ahead for Jews. But when Evelyn, engaged to Bengelsdorf (John Tururro) and an administrator of the Just Folks program, obtains permission to invite Sandy (Caleb Malis), without the approval his parents, to a presidential dinner honouring the German Foreign Minister, Ribbentrop, Bess is furious. Her anger is less about politics than her sister's personal intrusion into her family. It is a forceful scene, absent from the novel in which Bess finds her voice, which she will continue to use to protect her family. She privately attempts to convince Bengelsdorf to reverse the decision to reallocate the family to Kentucky. She challenges her husband about his political engagement after he attends a Winchell Presidential rally as the police standby and offer no protection for the candidate's supporters when thugs physically assault them. She further provides a calm reassuring voice over the telephone to Philip's friend, Seldon, who is frightened and alone in a small community in Kentucky. As Herman retreats more into the background, his faith in America's better nature fading, recognizing that he has become "the other," she becomes the backbone of her family. Kazan is riveting throughout, especially in a scene when she confronts her sister with pungently personal and political salvos late in the final episode.
Herman at Winchell rally
In the novel, Evelyn is a minor character who does not even appear until the second half when Roth presents her one-dimensionally and unsympathetically, an opportunist only interested in exercising power through her attachment to Bengelsdorf. Simon and Ryder turn her into a more nuanced character: lonely, desperate to be loved, flirtatious but genuinely attracted to the charismatic Rabbi. She shares his deluded belief that Lindbergh is a good man who will protect the Jews and that she is providing in the "Just Folks" program a positive service that will benefit, among others, her nephew, Sandy. Ryder's range broadens as she becomes increasingly confused, frightened, even terrified as violence spikes against Jews and threatens her well being. Yet she also seems oblivious to how her complicity with an administration, that has encouraged a war crime, puts her sister's family at risk.
Evelyn (Winona Ryder) and Sandy
In the final wrenching episode, Simon introduces both dramatic and politically-charged departures from the novel, one that may say more about the present moment than Roth's alternative history. Like the novel, the sixth episode, chronicles the fallout of the Winchell assassination. While in the novel, the mayor of New York, Fiorello La Guardia, offers a broadcasted eloquent eulogy to Winchell, Simon uses the occasion to show three members of the Levin family attending the funeral as an expression of their own solidarity and for their slain spokesman.
Herman, Philip and Bess at Winchell funeral
As violence erupts in their community, Bess and Philip cower in their apartment as gunshots are heard while Herman and Sandy drive to Kentucky to pick up Seldon, the most tragic figure in both the novel and the series. In the novel, Herman summarizes to Bess what happened when they return while Simon adds frisson by dramatizing the trip in a sequence brimming with tension that reveals an American expression of the German Kristallnacht: the burning of cities and Jewish businesses and a close-up of the demonic and frightening presence of the KKK and their handiwork. But the trip also reveals the gradual awakening of Sandy to the malevolent reality posed by Lindbergh and his sensitivity at a crucial moment to Seldon. It finally ends with a moment of humour that enables a relaxation of the tension arising from the trip as well as a mutual understanding between father and son. The Kentucky trip is one of the most memorable tableaux in the series.
Herman and Sandy witness the destruction
By the end, Roth has tweaked history back to Roosevelt being re-elected for a third term, Pearl Harbor is postponed a year, and the Americans fight and help win the war. Because the series was made in 2020, Simon offers his own more ambiguous and I think more satisfying ending with unmistakable echoes of the present. He accepts Roth's deus ex machina in the form of the President's wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh's radio broadcast after her husband's disappearance condemning the anti-Semitic riots and calling for a special Presidential election.
Simon's inspired choice to include on the soundtrack Frank Sinatra's, "That's America for Me," while the camera pans the citizens as they line up to vote, is a moving montage redolent of a reassuring return to a democratic ritual. But this upbeat mood is counterbalanced with Sinatra's crooning turning ironical by a menacing tableau: voter suppression, election rigging, the theft and burning of ballots, and an ending that presents the election results as a cliffhanger. Simon is perhaps hinting that the final results will not be known until November 2020. The vignette consists of only a couple of minutes but it remains firmly etched in my mind.
In 2004 Roth wrote that he did not intend his novel to be a "roman clef" to the present moment in America." By contrast, Simon is under no such stricture. He has stated that he would not have dramatized the novel had Clinton been elected in 2016 and that the fascist interlude in the 1940s could serve as a precursor to Trump's America. The fascists have been displaced by the alt right who are rabid supporters of an increasingly authoritarian President who has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to fan the flames of hatred. As Herman says in the final episode, "There's a lot of hate out there and he knows how to tap into it." He is of course referring to Lindbergh but we know that Simon has someone else in mind.
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4 hospitalized after Conroe crash where ejected driver went missing
Jose R. Gonzalez, Staff writer
Nov. 3, 2021 Updated: Nov. 3, 2021 3:23 p.m.
Seen are a couple of vehicles from a four-vehicle crash Tuesday on Texas 242 in Conroe.
courtesy of the Montgomery County Police Reporter
Four people were hospitalized, including one in serious condition, after a multiple-vehicle crash Tuesday evening in Conroe where a 61-year-old man reportedly went missing hours after being ejected from his Jeep.
Shortly after 7 p.m., first responders received reports about a crash between four vehicles on FM 1314 south of Texas 242 across from the Thunder Gun Range.
Witnesses said a Jeep's driver was northbound on FM 1314 when he crossed the center line and sideswiped a southbound Kia Sol, causing it to flip into the ditch. The Jeep then went between a southbound Ford Edge and a Toyota Forerunner, landing atop the latter SUV after going airborne upon striking it, according to the Montgomery County Police Reporter.
Firefighters freed the female Toyota driver who was trapped in the SUV with internal injuries and leg fractures. They also removed an uninjured infant in a car seat in the Toyota's back seat, according to the Police Reporter.
The Toyota driver is in serious condition at the hospital, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Erik Burse told The Courier on Wednesday.
The Ford Edge driver was hospitalized in stable condition, the Police Reporter detailed. The Kia Sol driver was taken in stable condition to Methodist Hospital, The Woodlands, according to the Police Reporter.
The Jeep driver was not on scene and no one who witnessed the crash said he left the scene. The Jeep's sunroof was broken with pieces found several hundred feet down the road, according to the Police Reporter.
Firefighters with the Caney Creek and Porter fire departments searched the woods in knee-deep water as DPS troopers thought the man had not fled on foot since the Jeep's roof was open and all of the vehicle's doors were jammed shut. A DPS helicopter flew for an hour over the area, using infrared sensors and spotlights to no avail, the Police Reporter continued.
After three hours of searching for the man, he was spotted by the helicopter's crew lying alongside water some 200 yards into the woods. Troopers found him alive and he was taken in stable condition to Memorial Hermann, The Woodlands, according to the Police Reporter.
The crash remains under investigation, Burse said.
A witness said they think he hit a roadside curb and overcorrected, the Police Reporter mentioned.
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According to Coach David DeWolfe, "Several school records could fall this season for both the boys' and the girls' teams."
For the boys, a strong core of distance runners and throwers are expected to take the lead this spring. Among them are key returning competitors Greg Niccolai '16, Michael Iannaconi '16, Mathieu Petit '17, Felix Andersen '17, Bobby D'Angelo '18 and C.J. Licata '18. Promising newcomers, including freshman Matt D'Ovidio, will look to the veterans to set a positive example as the team pursues its highest place ever at this year's South Jersey Sectional Championship. The season should yield several individual medalists at the county, conference, and state levels.
Leading the way for the girls will be several key returning athletes, including seniors Colette Bilynsky, Sahara Ensley, Jackie Roettger, Lillie Wilson and Ludi Zhu and juniors Erica Phiansunthon and Sammy Bittman. Promising newcomers this season include freshmen Alicia Amoroso, Lily Fischer, Alyssa Jurewicz and Eve Ryan. With a strong core of veteran distance runners and field-event competitors, the girls' season is promising. Zhu looks to defend her State Group B titles in both the long jump and triple jump, while several girls are expected to medal at the county, conference, and state levels.
Looking ahead, key meets for the team include the Somerset County Relays in mid-April, the Skyland Conference Championships on May 10, followed closely by the Somerset County Championships on May 17 and the Prep B Championships on May 23. The South Jersey Sectional Championships take place on May 27, and June brings the State Group B Meet of Champions followed by the State Meet of Champions.


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R. Kelly's Streaming Numbers Spike After Spotify Removes Him From Playlists: Report
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R. Kelly's streaming numbers are still in tact.
Last week, Spotify announced their "Anti-Hate Policy" which resulted in the streaming service pulling several alleged problematic artists on their editorial playlists. R. Kelly, Tay-K and XXXTENTACION were a few artists who have been pulled from their playlists. However, Kellz music was also slowly and quietly pulled from Pandora and Apple Music playlists as well. While you'd think this would affect R. Kelly's streaming numbers, it reportedly did the contrary.
According to Nielsen Music, R. Kelly's streaming numbers have remained intact despite several prominent streaming services pulling his music from their playlists, Hollywood Reporter reports. Spotify made the announcement on May 10th and prior to that, Kellz was hitting an average of 6,584,000 streams a week during the year, However, from May 10th-16th, the singer's streams grew to 6,676,000 for the week. Nielsen Music's bases their numbers off of Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora and other streaming services.
In the past two years, his music was still increasing on streaming services. In 2016, he averaged 4,709,000 streams per week and in 2017, he saw an average of 5,666,000 streams. He's reaching an average off 6,674,000 weekly streams this year.
Shauna Thomas, women's advocacy group UltraViolet co-founder and executive director, says it's not about people not listening to the artists but rather, these companies to stop helping these artists promote their music.
"Frankly it's not important in this context whether people are listening to his music or not, what's important is that Spotify is holding itself to the standard that they themselves established and they live up to it," She said. "This is really just about stepping into the role of champion, stepping into the role of setting the higher standard that I think they've put themselves on the track to do, and hopefully they'll do the right thing."
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What to know before launching your own venture capital fund
BYJessica Mathews
September 29, 2022, 1:33 PM UTC
There's a lot of reasons someone might decide to go it alone in venture capital: Better pay, autonomy, an opportunity to make a name for yourself, a desire to home in on a specific niche.
But that doesn't make it easy, or cheap. Venture capitalists who are launching their first fund need to have a compelling track record and a convincing pitch to limited partners—particularly in this market. They also are going to need cash.
I recently sat down with Haris Khurshid, who launched Chalo Ventures earlier this year and closed a $50 million fund to invest in early-stage Pakistani startups about two months ago, to better understand the ins and outs of launching your own fund—what to consider, and what it costs.
Here's what first-time GPs should know:
First, get ready to spend a lot on legal bills.
"That's one of the biggest kind of costs," Khurshid says, noting these fees typically run at least $50,000 to $100,000. But it's going to depend on the investor and the prestige of the law firm they select. For Khurshid, who started a hedge fund a couple years ago, he was able to draft much of the initial documentation himself, then hire an attorney to look over everything and refine it as needed. All in for Khurshid, it was about $12,000 to get everything squared away for his own fund.
While legal fees can be an expensive part of the process, it's a critical one. Here's some of the documentation you'll need to set up:
—A private placement memorandum (PPM): This is a lengthy document that outlines the strategy of the fund, the team, what you're going to be investing in, the risks, disclosure, fund structure, etc. ("It's very, very lengthy," Khurshid says).
—An investor questionnaire: This document queries LPs on things such as their risk profile and whether they are accredited
—Limited partner agreements: These will outline the agreed-upon fees and carry and what the investing relationship will look like (some LPs, and especially anchor LPs may demand unique agreements with better terms).
—General partner agreements: For VCs starting out with a partner, or several, this document would outline how to break up the profits.
—Advisor agreements: Many investors will pay their advisors via a stipend or percentage of carry. This document would outline those arrangements.
Then there's setting up the legal entity itself, which has its own time and cost requirements. Some investors may decide to go ahead and hire marketing or inbound teams as well, which can be another major expense, though it isn't necessary.
Because the upfront costs can be such a barrier, some attorneys may offer to defer the initial organization fees, according to Khurshid, particularly if an investor has a distinct strategy or team or has made a name for themselves in the industry.
One of the most significant costs of launching a new fund is time. Khurshid says it took him about two and a half months to finish all the paperwork and set up the fund. For that reason, he began pitching investors while he was working on the documentation.
"I registered the company and made the pitch deck and started raising," Khurshid says. "And then while I was raising and getting commitments, I was simultaneously drafting the documents."
Initial fees
Something GPs will need to think through is whether they will need to make trips to meet with LPs or to sit down with founders for those initial investments. If so, investors will need to budget those costs into the fund launch. For Khurshid, who is investing in Pakistani companies, travel is a major expense, as he plans to go to the Middle East at least once a quarter.
Steep upfront costs can make it tempting for GPs to keep their fees high for Fund 1. But fees cut into the money you have to invest and generate returns for LPs, warns Khurshid. For example, a $50 million fund with a 2% management fee will be taking a $1 million cut right off the bat—money that never gets invested.
"Ask yourself: Do I really need it? Or am I better off investing a lot of it in startups," Khurshid says.
Porsche prices… After a remarkably silent year in the IPO market, Volkswagen Group's listing of Porsche offers some much-needed good news. Yesterday evening, Porsche priced its shares at the high end of its range, at €82.50 ($80.23) each, and listed them this morning in Frankfurt, Germany, where its share price is currently on the rise. After the IPO, Porsche is the fifth largest carmaker in the world by market cap. The listing offers some relief to a sour IPO market, but it's unlikely the broader market will pick up anytime soon.
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- Satispay, a Milan-based mobile payment network, raised €320 million ($311.6 million) in Series D funding. Addition led the round and was joined by investors including Greyhound Capital, Coatue, Lightrock1, Block Inc.2, Tencent, and Mediolanum Gestione Fondi SGR.
- GrubMarket, a San Francisco-based software and e-commerce platform provider connecting farmers and food suppliers with customers, raised $120 million in funding. 301 Inc. led the round and was joined by investors including Squarepoint Capital, Portfolia, Grosvenor Food & AgTech, Tiger Global, Liberty Street Funds, Walleye Capital, Celtic House Asia Partners, and Apeira Capital.
- Workstream, a San Francisco-based hiring and onboarding platform for the deskless workforce, raised $60 million in Series B extension funding. GGV Capital led the round and was joined by investors including Founders Fund, Coatue, BOND, Basis Set Ventures, CRV, WiL, Soma Capital, and other angels.
- Rippl, a Seattle-based mental health company for seniors with dementia and other neurocognitive conditions, raised $32 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst and ARCH Venture Partners.
- Coalesce.io, a San Francisco-based data transformation company, raised $26 million in Series A funding. Emergence Capital led the round and was joined by investors including 11.2 Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, and Industry Ventures.
- Coral, a decentralized infrastructure developer, raised $20 million in funding. FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto co-led the round and were joined by investors including Multicoin Capital, Anagram, and K5 Global.
- Kumo, a San Francisco-based predictive analytics platform, raised $18 million in Series B funding. Sequoia Capital led the round and was joined by investors including A Capital, SV Angel, and other angels.
- careviso, a Falls Church, Va.-based molecular diagnostic patient access health care provider, raised $17 million in Series B funding. Ballast Point Ventures led the round and was joined by investors including Mercury and Lytical Ventures.
- Qnovia, a Richmond, Va.-based inhaled therapeutics developer focused on nicotine replacement therapy and cardiopulmonary diseases, raised $17 million in Series A funding. Blue Ledge Capital led the round and was joined by investors including DG Ventures, Evolution VC Partners, Gaingels, TL Capital, and Vice Ventures.
- EverestLabs, a Fremont, Calif.-based recycling operating system developer, raised $16.1 million in Series A funding. Translink Capital led the round and was joined by investors including NEC Orchestrating Future Fund, BGV, Sierra Ventures, Morado Ventures, and Xplorer Capital.
- Jeli.io, a San Francisco-based incident analysis platform, raised $15 Million in Series A funding. Addition led the round and was joined by investors including Boldstart Ventures, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal.
- Invisible AI, a Palo Alto-based manufacturing A.I. company, raised $15 million. Van Tuyl Companies led the round and was joined by investors including FM Capital, 8VC, Sierra Ventures, K9 Ventures, and Vest Coast Capital.
- CIONIC, a San Francisco-based bionic clothing company, raised $12.5 million in Series A funding. BlueRun Ventures led the round and was joined by investors including Caffeinated Capital, EPIC Ventures, JobsOhio Growth Capital Fund, and LDV Capital.
- Eclipse, a San Francisco-based blockchain solution provider, raised $9 million in seed funding. Tribe Capital and Tabiya co-led the round and were joined by investors including Infinity Ventures Crypto, Soma Capital, Struck Crypto, CoinList, and others.
- HeadsUp, a San Francisco-based conversion engine for product-led sales, raised $8.5 million in seed funding. 645 Ventures led the round and was joined by investors including Wing Venture Capital, Firstminute Capital, Character, and others.
- Aspen Creek Digital Corporation, a Boston-based renewable Bitcoin mining operator, raised $8 million in Series A funding. Galaxy Digital and Polychain Capital co-led the round and were joined by investors including Tamarack Global's Jamie Lee, Tiger Management's Alex Robertson, CMT Digital, Luxor Technologies, Mana Ventures, Gaingels, and Copper River Energy Partners.
- Femtosense, a San Bruno, Calif.-based A.I. edge platform, raised $8 million in Series A funding. Fine Structures Ventures led the round and was joined by investors including J2 Ventures, Quest Venture Partners, Amino Capital, Sand Hill Angels, Gaingels, and SV Pacific Ventures.
- Bridge Money, a Chicago-based supplemental income financial platform, raised $5.8 million in seed funding. TMV led the round and was joined by investors including Founder Collective, Kapor Capital, Acumen America, Bread & Butter Ventures, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Plug and Play Ventures, Basecamp Fund, and Ulu Ventures.
- Kopperfield, a Seattle-based EV charger installation company, raised $5 million in seed funding. General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja and Lachy Groom co-led the round and were joined by investors including Giant Ventures, MCJ Collective, Shopify founder Tobi Lutke, and other angels.
- Monnai, a San Francisco-based consumer insights infrastructure provider, raised $3.15 million in seed funding. Better Tomorrow Ventures led the round and was joined by investors including Commerce Ventures, Kearny Jackson, and 9Yards Capital.
- Tikehau Capital acquired a minority stake in Probe Test Solution Limited, a Glasgow-based semiconductor probe card manufacturer, for $30 million.
- Centroid Investment Partners acquired a minority stake in Concert Golf Partners, a Lake Mary, Fla.-based owner-operator of private golf and country clubs. Financial terms were not disclosed.
- Prescott's, a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital, acquired Preventive Maintenance Medical, a Mount Vernon, Ohio-based preventative maintenance, service, installations, and refurbishments for surgical suite and laboratory sterilizers and washers. Financial terms were not disclosed.
- Calendly acquired Prelude, a San Francisco-based recruiting operations platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.
- Cann acquired Sweet Reason, a Toronto-based CBD drink maker. Financial terms were not disclosed.
- GoTo acquired Miradore, a Lappeenranta, Finland-based cloud-based device management provider. Financial terms were not disclosed.
- Legacy Restoration, a Plymouth, Minn.-based exterior restoration and remodeling services provider, and Janney Roofing, an Orlando-based exterior restoration and remodeling services provider, agreed to a merger. Legacy is a portfolio company of Bessemer Investors. Financial terms were not disclosed.
- By spinning out Porsche, a Stuttgart, Germany-based luxury vehicle company, Volkswagen raised €19.5 billion ($18.9 billion) via Porsche's listing in Germany. The offering valued the company at around €75 billion ($73 billion) and is Germany's second largest IPO listing in history. Volkswagen remains a majority shareholder in the company.
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- Scale Venture Partners, a Foster City, Calif.-based venture capital firm, raised $900 million for a fund focused on cloud and SaaS software companies.
- Ethos Capital, a Boston-based investment firm, hired Hayley Kirman as a vice president. Formerly, she was with ABRY Partners.
- White Star Capital, a London-based venture capital firm, hired Tony Corbin as partner and CFO. Previously he was with PwC.
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ASA Monitor 03 2013, Vol.77, 66-67.
As a CA-2 resident at the University of Virginia I had the opportunity to attend the ANESTHESIOLOGY™ 2012 annual meeting as a FAER Resident Scholar. It was an honor to be chosen to represent UVA at this meeting.
FAER is a foundation dedicated to furthering the practice of anesthesia education and research through grants and funding as well as programs such as the Medical Student Anesthesia Research Fellowship and the Resident Scholar Program. While I certainly have a strong interest in anesthesia education, I was not introduced to the FAER program until I was chosen to be a scholar. I was surprised at how far-reaching and inclusive this foundation is. The sheer amount of anesthesia research and education opportunities funded by FAER is very impressive.
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Gary told Anita that he'd gone to the beach that weekend.
Donna said he'd like to visit Boston.
Claude says he goes jogging three or four times a week.
Leith can stay with me if he wants.
Revised's mother is a nurse at the hospital that's across the street from where Ian lives.
Jorge was wearing a black coat.
Art and Manolis are now completely alone.
Shahid has a beard just like his father, grandfathers and brothers do.
I don't think we should trust Claudia.
Diane began talking about what he did for a living.
Space is the one who told me how to do it.
I'm worried about Danny, too.
Brian made it clear that I shouldn't be late.
I know where Randell lives.
Vicki is a good husband.
I wondered what had happened to Kylo.
Let's leave the decision to Bart.
Terry walked back to his seat and sat down.
I can't believe that Rajendra is older than Benjamin.
It's time to wake Collin up.
Margie made up his mind to marry Ping.
Ric politely pretended not to notice that Philippe had been crying.
I assume Rafael is up to no good.
Griff prefers his clothes to be loose-fitting.
Duke never used to do that.


This is the first page of books written by authors under the letter "F"
"Olivia And The Missing Toy"
"Polo And The Runaway Book"
A shy young boy (with a gift for art) goes to school one day and finds friendship when he cheerfully lets the other kids in his class share a picture he drew of a bare tree in winter. They decorate it with leaves, grass, clouds, stars, people and animals, a visual brightening-up that's mirrored in David's life, as his new friends invite him to play with them at recess. When he goes, home, though, David sees the grey tree again, and recreates his original picture, showing that he can still be true to himself while making friends and accomodating their needs. This is a sweet little story -- a consistent favorite with my daughter -- that makes its point without being too heavy-handed. Nice multiculturalism, too, reflected in all the kids in the class. Initially I wasn't fond of the artwork, but now I like the whole package. Nice book... definitely recommended!
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New South Park Game Developer Revealed
The new South Park game reveals its developer through a new job listing that requires a candidate to work on a new game set in the world of South Park.
It seems that South Park It is one of those IPs that supports almost everything. The beloved but often controversial series has often been able to comment on current affairs almost as they occur, with episodes taking only a few weeks to produce. South Park Through the pandemic he has made multiple specials and episodes based on COVID-19. Now, South Park is looking to further expand its video game roster.
Announced last year, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed a new financing agreement with ViacomCBS, which, among other things, supported the financing of a new South Park videogame. South Park has previously owned nine video games since it started in the late 1990s, though few attracted as much attention as South Park: The Stick of Truth, and its continuation, South Park: The Fractured But Whole. The stick of truth was released in 2014 and was developed by RPG veterans Obsidian Entertainment, creators of The outer worlds Y Fallout New Vegas.
Since then, Obsidian has abandoned the development process for the following South Park games, and while it was previously reported that the new game will be developed "in-house" by South Park Digital Studios, a new job listing has revealed the studio to be working alongside South Park Digital. The developer of the new South Park it will likely be Question Games, a relatively small studio previously known for its imagination and ingenuity The magic circle.
This news comes from a job listing posted on Question Games' official Twitter, revealing that the developer is looking for a lead level designer to "work on a new video game set in the world of South Park," so it's very The studio is likely working on the game that was revealed to be in development last year. While Question Games may not have a long established history of producing games, the studio is made up of people who have worked on deshonrado, BioShock, and the previous two South Park games, making the team at least appear qualified for the job.
While details are extremely sparse in the new South Park game, hidden within the job listing in Question are some interesting details, such as the need to have submitted a multiplayer game as a requirement for the job. This has led many fans to speculate that the new South Park The title will make the leap to multiplayer, although only time will tell if this is true.
A new South Park The game is known to be in development.
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Take a peek at California history. Discover an overview of California's rich history, heritage, historic events, and culture.
Four flags have flown in earnest over California: Russia; Spain; Mexico; and the United States.
The first settlers to arrive in California after the Native Americans were Spanish, and later Mexican. Spaniard Hernando de Soto, in 1541, was among the early European explorers to visit the territory, but it was a Frenchman, Henri de Tonti, who in 1686 founded the first permanent white settlement - the Arkansas Post. Russia had some small settlements for the purpose of whaling and fur trapping in Northern California, but Russia didn't attempt to colonize the area except in very isolated areas. Spanish priests were sent to California to covert the Indians to Christianity. Spain hoped to make the California native population into good Spaniards, loyal to Spain. Spain was becoming alarmed that the Russians and English were encroaching on lands claimed by Spain.
The fight for California began almost 500 years ago with Queen Elizabeth I. She sent Sir Francis Drake to harass and raid the Spanish galleons. England was beginning to realize the value of California. England did not want Spain claiming more land in the new world, upsetting the balance of power between the super powers of the time. Tensions were already high between Spain and England. Henry VIII, Elizabeth's father, had divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, a Spanish princess. In order to accomplish the divorce, England severed ties with Catholicism and Henry had instituted protestantism as the State religion. Henry and Jane Seymore's son had assumed the throne after Henry's death and continued Henry's policies. But when Edward the IV died at the age of 16, Mary I came to the throne. She was the daughter of Henry and his first wife, Catherine. Her ties to both Spain and Catholicism were strong. Elizabeth was suspected of plotting to overthrow Mary and was imprisoned in the Tower. After "bloody Mary" died and Elizabeth I became monarch, the power struggle between catholics and protestants did not end. Eventually, Elizabeth had Mary, Queen of Scots, executed for treason. Mary was her greatest threat to the throne since Mary claimed it as her right by way of England's ties with the French throne. Even though Mary had abdicated her rights, she still remained a threat to Elizabeth since Spain and France could use Mary as a cause to move against England. With the death of Mary Queen of Scots, England had secured protestantism and Elizabeth's reign, but was short on allies. In order to build new European allies, England had to remain a power to be reckoned with. Spanish settlement along the west coast of North America could bolster Spanish power. This was the last thing England wanted.
California had come from obscurity to statehood because of the Gold Rush which started in earnest in 1849. Even though California was now part of the United States, coming to California was no small feat. If settlers on wagon trains made it over the Rockies safely, they were often stopped by the hostile Sierra Nevadas. Winter comes early and savagely and many settlers lost their lives like the Donner party.
Prior to the Gold Rush, settlers very slowly filtered into California until 1848 when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill. Suddenly, people from all over the world looking to strike it rich flooded through San Francisco. They travelled up the Sacramento River to the gold fields. The Gold Rush was devastating to the Native Americans in the area and depleted many natural resources. What is now San Francisco was once a redwood forest. Whole native tribes were scattered or destroyed. In some areas there were bounties on Indians. The California tribes still have a rich culture and heritage, but the nineteenth century was a period of great loss for all native tribes in the area.
The next several decades were marked by the development of the cotton industry and the spread of the Southern plantation system west into Arkansas. Arkansas joined the Confederacy in 1861, but from 1863 the northern part of the state was occupied by Union troops.
California had become part of the life of the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century--an exotic land of untold promise on the distant Pacific Coast. At the beginning of the twentieth century, California seemed less exotic, and the land's promises seemed more limited. And these developments resulted from many factors other than the end of the rush for gold and easy mineral wealth.
Much of California's mystery arose from the state's geographical position, a region facing squarely west across the Pacific, with its mountainous "back" turned to the rest of the nation. By 1900, American settlement had filled in the pockets of unmapped land in the Far West. Washington State and Oregon were admitted to the Union, and the Pacific Coast was occupied by three states running south from Canada to Mexico. While a few territories remained to be organized into full-fledged states, the United States could now be truly said to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific. And Alaska, far to the North on the Pacific Coast, had replaced California as a mysterious frontier land with riches of gold.
Further, the Pacific and the lands west of California were becoming more fully a part of the life of the United States. Trade to Japan and China had been opened in the second half of the nineteenth century. Chinese immigrants and their descendants, once confined entirely to California, were slowly beginning to create "Chinatowns" in cities further east.
Even more important, the United States was assuming responsibility for the government of more and more Asian peoples across that Pacific. The Spanish American War of 1898 left the United States as the custodian of the Philippine Islands. And in 1900, Hawaii, whose population included native tribes and descendants of immigrants from many Asian nations, became the United States' last organized territory. The increased importance of Asia and Asian affairs for the United States was recognized when President Theodore Roosevelt played a key role in mediating the end of a war between Russia and Japan in 1905.
If California had lost much its special nature as America's outpost on the Pacific, the new century also reminded observers around the world that California could no longer be regarded as an uncomplicated paradise of easy living. This lesson was brought home with terrible force on the morning of April 18, 1906, when an earthquake shook the proud city of San Francisco for two full minutes. The quake and the fires that followed for three days left 500 San Franciscans dead and destroyed more than 28,000 buildings--more than a third of the homes, offices, and stores in the entire city.
Although damage was greatest in San Francisco, its effects were felt in every city from San Juan Bautista to the coast at Mendocino. San Francisco would be rebuilt, and Californians would learn to construct homes and stores that could better withstand future disasters. But no one could afford to forget what had happened that week in April, and no one could pretend that California's bountiful natural resources somehow made the state or its residents immune to nature's equally generous capacity to destroy.
California faced the new century with a new maturity and sense of reality earned at a terrible cause.
Among the states, California has the largest number of senior citizens living within its borders. More than four million residents are more than 60 years of age.


The Providence School baseball and softball teams have their sights set on state championships and a Beaches-area battle sent one baseball team to an early off-season this week.
The Providence baseball team put on a hitting display in their final regular-season game, beating visiting Creekside 14-4 on April 21 in a mercy rule-shortened five innings. Junior Christian Dicks, senior Ty Kelly, freshman Casey Cribb and senior Jimmy Vonthron all homered for the Stallions, who scored seven runs in the first inning and never looked back. Junior pitcher Tyler Martin (7-0) earned the win.
Top-seeded Providence continued its hot hitting on Tuesday in the District 6-2A semifinals, bouncing visiting St. Joseph 11-1 in another five-inning contest ended by mercy rule. Dicks and Vonthron each had two homers and area home run leader Walker Lockett belted his 15th of the season. Dicks, Kelly, Martin and junior Dillon McNulty also doubled in the game as junior pitcher Zac Favre (8-2) earned the win.
Lockett and Kelly are first and second in the city, respectively, in home runs and RBI. Providence (22-4) faced visiting University Christian in the district championship game Thursday.
The Nease and Ponte Vedra High baseball teams opened the District 4-4A tournament with wins on Tuesday night. Nease beat Bartram Trail 10-3 and Ponte Vedra was a 4-0 winner over Palatka as senior pitcher Elliott Warford tossed a two-hitter. The two teams met in the district semifinals on Wednesday, with tournament host Nease upending Ponte Vedra 3-1. Nease juniors Trey Kennen and Brandon Day and senior PJ Tracy doubled to lead Nease (13-12), which faced visiting St. Augustine on Friday night for the district championship. Ponte Vedra ends its season with a 17-10 record.
The Fletcher baseball team opened the District 1-6A tournament with an 11-5 win over First Coast on Monday night at Mandarin. Senior pitcher Ryan Synnes earned the win for the Senators as sophomore Seth Dewitt and junior Jack Perry doubled for Fletcher. On Tuesday night, Fletcher fell 7-4 to tournament host Mandarin in the district semifinals. Junior pitcher Zack Funkhauser (4-5) took the loss for Fletcher, which ended its season at 13-12. Mandarin faced Sandalwood for the district championship on Thursday night.
Providence senior Rachel Varnadore carried her team to the District 6-2A championship on April 21, tossing a no-hitter and blasting a home run to center field to lead the Lady Stallions to a 5-0 win over Trinity Christian at University Christian. Sophomore Paige Curtis and junior Melissa Matchett each had doubles in the game. Providence opened the playoffs on Wednesday at home with a 3-0 shutout over visiting Chiefland. Varnadore (11-4) was nearly flawless once again, tossing a two-hitter and doubling at the plate. Curtis also added a double for the Lady Stallions as part of a three-run sixth inning. Providence (20-6) hosted Gainesville P.K. Yonge in the regional semifinals Friday night.
The Fletcher High softball team could not solve Mandarin pitcher Riley Carter as the Lady Senators were shut out 2-0 in the District 1-6A championship game on April 21. Freshman pitcher Kimberly Gentry took the loss for Fletcher. Fletcher opened the playoffs in the regional quarterfinals on Wednesday at Deland, where they fell 7-1. The Lady Senators end the season with a 13-13 record.
The Ponte Vedra High boys tennis team capped its successful season with a runner-up finish at the Class 2A state finals on April 21 at Red Bug Lake Park in Casselberry. Connor Davis and Matt Larsen advanced to the finals in No. 3 and No. 5 singles respectively before falling to players from state champion Miami Gulliver Prep. Davis and Daniel Rush also advanced to the finals at No. 1 doubles, where they lost in straight sets to Gulliver Prep.
The Ponte Vedra boys lacrosse team pounded Bartram Trail 15-2 on April 21 at Nease to claim the district championship. The Sharks scored another big win on Tuesday, defeating host Gainesville Oak Hall 16-3 in the first round of the state playoffs. Ponte Vedra (17-2) faced visiting Tallahassee Leon on Friday in the second round with a trip to the state final four on the line.
The Fletcher girls lacrosse team was bounced by host Bartram Trail 17-10 on Tuesday in the first round of the state playoffs.
The TacoLu 28th annual WaveMasters surf contest will be May 7-8 in Jacksonville Beach. About 200 competitors and thousands of spectators are expected for what is annually one of the region's most popular contests. For information on participating in or sponsoring the event, go to www.wavemasters.org or contact contest director Mitch Kaufmann at 241-0600.
The Ponte Vedra High and Nease track and field teams continued their strong seasons at the Region 2-2A Championships on April 21 at Lake Highland Prep in Orlando.
The Ponte Vedra boys team placed second overall out of 32 teams competing, bested only by Jones (Orlando) High. Sharks senior Marcus Martinez repeated as regional champion in the 800-meter run, placed second in the 1,600-meter run and teamed with juniors Kyle Crompton, Paul Richardson and Brandon Paynter to win the boys 4x400 meter relay. Junior Chris Greene won the triple jump, senior Garrett Milanovich placed fourth in the pole vault, and sophomore Tyler Davidson placed fourth in the discus to punch their tickets to the state tournament as well. Crompton also placed second in the 300-meter hurdles, followed by senior teammate Michael Ellis in fourth. Richardson and Paynter also teamed with junior Jake Marshall and sophomore Wiktor Biernacki to place second in the 4x800 meter relays. All ten will compete in the Class 2A state championships today at Showalter Park in Winter Park.
The Nease boys team finished fourth, led by regional champions Cody Gibbons and Mac Reynolds. Gibbons, a senior, won the 1,600-meter run in 4:30.25 to edge Martinez by just over a second. Reynolds, a junior, smoked the field in the 3,200-meter run, finishing in 9:45.50 to win by about 14 seconds. Senior teammate Chris Roach was fourth in the 3,200 meters. Sophomore Ceolamar Ways turned in another outstanding performance for Nease, placing second in the 200 meter dash, third in the long jump, fourth in the triple jump and anchoring the Panthers' third-place 4x100 meter relay team with seniors Brandon Ronan, Brad Bennett and Xavier Allen.
The Nease girls team finished fifth out of 32 teams. Sophomore Mary Sieredzinski led the Lady Panthers, placing fourth in the 300 meter hurdles, long jump, and triple jump. Sophomore Jada Harris finished second in the high jump, while senior Jenna Goldman placed third in the 800-meter run and teamed with junior Victoria Howe, sophomore Samantha Clarke and freshman Alyssa Rodale to finish third in the 4x800 meter relay.
Leading the Ponte Vedra girls was freshman Bella Poole, who placed fifth in the 3,200-meter run, and junior Abby Solaun, who took fifth in the 100-meter hurdles. The Lady Sharks placed 20th at the meet.
Nease sophomore Rachel Reis earned an invitation to the May 15 Junior Olympic National Invitational Tournament in Long Beach, Calif. The tournament will feature the top Level 10 gymnasts in the nation. Reis finished fourth on the balance beam at the Southeast regional meet on April 17 in New Orleans to earn a 10th place all-around finish.
As a Level 9 gymnast, Reis earned a bronze medal on balance beam and finished sixth on uneven bars at the 2009 Eastern Nationals Championship. She is a two-time regional bars champion and a regional silver and bronze medalist on the balance beam. Reis, a Ponte Vedra resident, trains at TNT Gymnastics and Fitness in Jacksonville.
West Beaches resident Hannah Berman, a member of the varsity girls golf team at Bolles, came up with a unique community service project in preparation for her upcoming bat mitzvah in August.
At Monday's Jimbo Fisher Golf Tournament, put on by the Jacksonville Seminole Boosters at her home course, Jacksonville Golf & Country Club, Berman hit tee shots off the women's tees at the fifth hole with every foursome in the tournament in exchange for a $20 donation to the 65 Roses Golf Classic, a fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Berman called her service project Hitting It With Hannah, in which she promised to "help [golfers] win this tournament by getting [them] into birdie range and to raise money for a cause important to me and my family." As part of the program, Berman also set up a First Tee donation center in the pro shop of JG&CC for members to drop off old clubs, balls and shoes.
Berman, a 12-year-old seventh-grader who drives the ball an average of 180 yards off the tee, hit the fairway on 27 of her 30 drives, putting most foursomes in the scramble tournament inside 80 yards for their second shot on the par-4 fifth. With 120 players comprising 30 groups in the tournament, Berman netted $680 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, including $20 from a skeptical golfer who didn't think she could out-drive him.
"That she has found a way to do good through a sport she loves and she's good at certainly makes her mom and me proud as parents," said her father, Mark Berman, a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation board member and organizer of the foundation's golf tournament.
Following this year's golf season, Berman was named honorable mention by the Florida Times-Union in the All-First Coast Girls Golf team selections. She was the No. 3 player on the Bolles team that finished 10th in the state tournament on Nov. 3.
University of North Carolina (UNC) junior Catherine O'Donnell, a Nease graduate, placed third overall at the Atlantic Coast Conference women's golf championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., April 15-17 to lead the Lady Tar Heels to their second conference team title. O'Donnell finished four-over for the three-day tournament, nine strokes back of winner Cheyenne Woods of Wake Forest. The win gave Woods one more tournament title than her slightly more famous uncle, Tiger, has in the last year.
Registration is open for Atlantic Beach's sixth annual Bowl Bash skateboard competition, set for noon on Saturday, May 14, at the Oceanside Rotary Skate Park. Early registration for age groups 8 and under, 9-12 and sponsored ended Friday; registration costs $25 the day of the event. Top contestants will receive awards and prizes and all contestants receive Bowl Bash T-shirts. A pro exhibition will be part of the day's event. The skate park is in Jack Russell Park at 800 Seminole Road. Participants can register at the city recreation office at 716 Ocean Blvd. or by mail. Registration forms are online at the city recreation website. Skaters 17 and under must have a skate waiver on file with the city. For more information, call 247-5828 or go to www.coab.us/recreation.
JaxKayakFishing.com will present the 2011 Columbia Sportswear Jacksonville Kayak Fishing Classic May 13-14. About 360 anglers have registered to compete for $80,000 in prizes and gifts. The event will benefit the Down Syndrome Association of Jacksonville and the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation.
Capt. Blair Wiggins, also known as the Mogan Man of television's "Addictive Fishing Show," will be the featured guest captain. Blair has been a guide, professional tournament angler and fishing phenomenon for 30 years. He will be at the captain's meeting May 13 to talk about "addictive kayak fishing" and will raffle Addictive Fishing kayak fishing gear to raise funds for Project Snook.
New kayak designs will be on display at this year's event. The tournament will also feature a new Family Cup, which will be awarded to the top family that fishes together and catches the most aggregate redfish, trout and flounder. Sponsored by FishingNosara.Com and Nosara Paradise Rentals, the winning family will receive a $2,000 Costa Rica vacation package.
To register or for more information, go to www.JacksonvilleKayakFishingClassic.com.
The first race of the 25th annual Montoya Beaches Fines Arts Sprint Triathlon (BFAST) Series will begin at 7 a.m. Saturday, May 7 at Mickler's Landing in Ponte Vedra Beach. The course will consist of a quarter-mile ocean swim, a 13-mile bike ride and a 5K (3.1-mile) run. Registration is $70 for individual USA Triathlon members, $65 for youth USAT members and $210 for teams. Participants must be at least 12 years old to participate, and entries are limited to 500. The final two races in the series will be June 11 and July 9. Volunteers are also needed for race day. For more information, go to www.bfasracing.org.
The BFAST Kids Tri, for children ages 6-13, will be on May 22 at Fletcher High. Distances for the Kids Tri vary from 50- to 100-yard swim, two- to four-mile bike and half- to one-mile run, depending on age.
The third annual Never Quit Beach Fest is shaping up to be one of the top events this year at the Beaches. Set for Saturday, May 21, at the SeaWalk Pavilion in Jacksonville Beach, the event will include runs, relays, fitness challenges, surf lessons, fishing clinics and other activities.
The main event of the day is the 5K (3.1-mile run) and Trident at 5 p.m. The Trident, open to solo competitors or relay teams, features the 5K run with a 500-meter ocean swim and a 1.5K surfboard paddle (longboards are recommended and no paddleboards are allowed).
Surfing and fishing clinics will be held through the day. Four Navy SEALs fitness challenges, in which participants can qualify to be a possible candidate for Navy SEALs training in Coronado, Calif., will be held through the day for men ages 16-33.
For more information, a schedule of events, and registration, go to www.neverquitnever.com.
The Florida Surfing Association will host a Silent Surfing surf program on June 18 to help hearing impaired people surf. The event will begin at 9 a.m. at Lot 8 in Hanna Park.
"We truly feel blessed to have the opportunities we have had to put back into the community," said FSA Director Paul West. "It began with a simple comment on Facebook by Amanda Tapley, who suggested we add subtitles to our Super Grom Surf Fest video from last summer so that deaf children could better understand and enjoy the video."
The FSA teamed up with Tapley, a photographer who is deaf, at the Special Olympic Surf Events, where they discovered her gifts and enthusiasm for assisting people with special needs. Tapley is a graduate of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) in Rochester, N.Y. Others, including Eddie Pitts from 911surfreport.com, who grew up in a home with deaf parents and several instructors who have studied American Sign Language have also signed on to participate in the event.
The program will use a "push and surf" style. A student, professional instructor and signer will go into the water to provide one-on-one supervision and instruction.
For more information or to volunteer, go to www.floridasurfing.org or contact West at 626-9090 or info@floridasurfing.org.
The 111th Women's Western Golf Association (WWGA) National Amateur Championship, one of the oldest women's amateur golf events in the country, will be at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach June 20-25. Players must have a documented handicap of below 10.4 to register, and entries will be accepted through June 14. If more than 144 players enter, priority will be given by lower handicap. For more information, go to www.wwga.org.
The UNF women's basketball program will hold several summer basketball camps for girls. Individual Camp, open to ages 8-18, will be June 27-30 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for a registration cost of $200. The Junior Ballers Individual Camp, open to ages 6-10, will be June 27-30 for $100. Advanced Camp, open to ages 13-18, will be June 11-12 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for $100. Elite Camp, for rising ninth-graders and older, will be Aug. 28 for $50. For more information, call 620-4667.
Mike Lesso and Dave Morse will hold free Jacksonville Youth Summer Fishing Clinics this summer. The clinics are designed to help kids appreciate freshwater resources and teach them the skills needed to start catching fish.
"[Lesso], a high school teacher and avid sportsman, and [Morse], a retired businessman and passionate recreational and tournament fisherman, have been teaching children how to catch fish for so long that many of their earliest pupils now have children of their own," said Eddie Leonard of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The program started in 1993 under the direction of FWC biologists but was soon turned over to Lesson and Morse. The classes begin with a 30-minute lecture on ethical angling, water pollution, fish biology, tackle and techniques and other topics, followed by fishing. The workshops host an average of 4,200 children annually. In 2003, a record 5,288 students went through the classes. For more information or to register, call 962-8560.
The University of North Florida's Department of Campus Recreation will offer three camps this summer, including a youth sports and fitness camp, an ecocamp and a soccer skills camp with coach Ray Bunch.
This summer marks the 30th year for the sports and fitness camp, which runs June 13 through Aug. 12 and is open to children ages 5 to 14. The camp includes activities such as flag football, stickball, tennis, track, soccer, arts and crafts. Field trips will take place every week to locations such as Little Talbot Island, Metropolitan Park, a Jacksonville Suns baseball game, bowling and more.
Ecocamp, an outdoor summer camp, will be June 13 through Aug. 5 for children ages 6 to 15. Campers will hike through the woods, go fishing, swim at the pool, learn to canoe, and visit habitats on the UNF campus. Eco Camp Advanced is also available for kids 13 to 15 who are ready to get an in-depth look at nature, from food-gathering to fire-building skills.
Soccer skills camp is for boys and girls ages 5 to 11 of all abilities who enjoy soccer. The camp combines the experience of players and coaches to create an atmosphere of learning and fun. Weekly sessions will run from June 13 through July 29 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Camp registration opened on March 1 at www.unf.edu/recsports/. For more information about costs and other details, call 620-2998.
The First Coast Tennis Foundation (FCTF) adult city championships will be July 28-31 at Selva Marina Country Club in Atlantic Beach. The clay court event, presented by Go Pro Tennis, is the largest fundraiser for the FCTF and will feature 300 male and female players in multiple categories. Registration is $59.63 for singles and $54.25 per player for doubles. All entries are due by July 22. For more information, contact tournament director Toy Tingsombutyout at 338-8713 or ttingombutyout@tds.net.


VoxImplant has announced the release of its Android SDK, which provides developers the ability to embed voice communication into native Android applications.
VoxImplant provides both infrastructure and scalability so that mobile developers do not need to deal with the complexities of setting up a cloud infrastructure for voice. The platform offers real time communications (RTC) functionalities in both web and mobile apps. In addition to Android, the company offers an SDK for iOS and Web apps.
Provisioning API - HTTP API for modifying account settings.
Control API - HTTP API for making calls from the VoxEngine.