Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we've crafted a new framework for Professional Development. One where teachers give shape to their development opportunities, receive the support they need, and enable them to collaborate and share their best practices.
We call it "Blueprint to PD Redesign." And we're bringing it to you.
What are the elements of the Blueprint to PD Redesign?
What does the redesign process look like?
The goals of the process as articulated above.
The method Pivot will use to facilitate the process, which is Pivot's change design model.
a. Select a sponsor and a driver for the project—these will be district staff members from the Curriculum and Instruction and Professional Development departments and should be people with whom the superintendent is prepared to work closely.
b. Make a commitment to communicate regularly with the school board, staff involved in the redesign process, and the community at large throughout the course of the work.
c. Identify members for the Design Team using existing artifact.
If the superintendent signs on, the redesign process can officially launch. In alignment with the change design model, it will take place in four phases.
These phases are described below in an interactive timeline, along with reflection videos from our pilot districts, Mt. Diablo Unified School District and Riverside Unified School District.
How will the design team succeed?
This team is charged with examining and designing solutions for core district problems. There is hard work ahead and it won't always be smooth sailing. However, in the end, not only will you create something that is desirable to stakeholders, based in best and next practices, and feasible, but it will also be something to really own and be proud of!
To better equip you and your fellow Design Team members for success, the following questions are answered below.
Haven't we done improvement work before?
In education, we continuously examine our current state and work to improve experience and outcomes of our students, families, staff, and community. This new effort honors the work that has come before us, as it is a part of the ongoing improvement continuum. It also recognizes that previous improvement work may have diminished and invites you to make innovative leaps now.
Given the effort you have already put in, it may take a leap of faith to engage on this journey. That said, you are an important part of creating new solutions. We invite you to think in new ways and help drive the change forward.
What is the Design Team?
A team comprised of 8-10 people (large enough to include diverse perspectives but small enough to move the work forward).
The Project Driver plans and drives the project forward. The Driver is also usually the person who does the day-to-day work in this area and will have ongoing responsibility for it when the project is finished.
Other team members fill the gaps that the Project Driver may not cover through experience or expertise. The Design Team is necessarily cross-district. The Design Team may consist of other members of the Drivers' district team. It may include staff from other departments critical to project success. Additionally, the Design Team should also include members of the stakeholder groups directly and/or indirectly impacted by the project. These Design Team members could include principals, teachers, other site staff, students, families, etc. They can provide the 'users' perspective and also champion the work with their peers. Also, it may be important to include members of interest groups (like union representatives, local CBO members, etc.), depending on the scope of the project.
Over time, team members will assume more responsibility. This would include examining the current context by talking to stakeholders and analyzing that information and other data with your Design Team. Next, the Design Team would be responsible for developing prototypes (draft documents or tools) and gathering feedback from stakeholders on the prototypes. Then, the Design Team would meet with your team to refine the prototypes, based on feedback.
In most cases, membership on this Design Team will add to your responsibilities, so most likely you will need to consider balance.
What will our work look like?
Collaborative: Every member of the team has a critical role to play. Active participation, both in the team meetings and in between meetings, is essential.
Iterative: The Design Team will focus on creating incremental changes, which will build toward something new, substantial and sustainable. Be prepared to rewrite and redo and do it all again.
Learning-Focused: It is critical to be willing to try new ways of doing things. It is also important to do something, rather than wait and plan for the perfect thing. Learn from mistakes, make improvements and move on. Failure is only a lesson on how to do better next time. Fail early to succeed faster.
Outcomes-Oriented: This work is focused on creating innovative solutions that will significantly change the future state, the experience of stakeholders. This requires both thinking creatively and concretely.
in and out of meetings. Take initiative and motivate others.
Give real feedback. You have a critical and valuable role to play.
Design Team members are striving to accomplish. As needed, be the public face of the change effort.


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Thugs rob, assault two EU election observers in CK
Written by MBC Online
Thugs assaulted and robbed two European Union election observers on Sunday in Chikwawa district, the EU elelction observer mission confirmed in a statement.
Poche: EU for peaceful, transparent and credible Malawi elections
"We can confirm that one of our observer teams was the victim of a robbery at their accommodation, and some money and personal items were stolen. It happened in the early hours of 12 May in Chikwawa," said Michela Sechi, Press Officer for the EU Election Observation Mission to the May 21 poll.
Sechi also added that one of the team members "sustained some injuries which have now been treated and he has been discharged from hospital."
She said the incident was now being handled by the Malawi Police Service, "which has provided great support to the mission, and we are liaising closely with them."
The EU publicist said: "Our observation of the elections continues in the same way. We are here in the country to support Malawi at this important time.
"The well-being of our observers is of course a major priority, so we will continue to liaise with the police in the areas where our observers are based to ensure their well-being."
She said the EU observers have been warmly welcomed by stakeholders and the public across Malawi and there have been no other such incidents during our deployment here.
The European Union was invited to deploy an election observation mission by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
This is the fourth time the EU has deployed an election observation mission to Malawi.
"Our presence for the 2019 polls demonstrates the European Union's continuing commitment to the conduct of peaceful, inclusive, transparent and credible elections in Malawi," Miroslay Poche, chief observer of the EU Election Observation Mission told journalists recently.
The EU mission, composed of eight analysts who arrived in Blantyre on 4 April 2019, twenty-eight long-term observers and 32 short-term observers, will be joined by diplomats of EU member states and partner countries.
On May 21, the EU will have more than 80 observers across the country, covering both urban and rural areas.
Poche said Malawi's sixth multiparty poll was "an opportunity to conduct polls which enjoy the confidence of the people, building on what has been done previously and learning also from past challenges."
This is the fourth time the EU has deployed an election observation mission to Malawi. "Our presence for the 2019 polls demonstrates the European Union's continuing commitment to the conduct of peaceful, inclusive, transparent and credible elections in Malawi," said Mr Poche.
The EU observer mission conducts a comprehensive analysis of the whole electoral process. This includes assessing the legal framework, the performance of the election administration, voter registration, campaign activities, participation of women, media coverage, voting, counting and transmission of results, and any election disputes after the vote.
The Commonwealth, the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have observer delegations already operating in the country.
Councillor Wild Ndipo bags Blantyre City mayoral post again

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High-flying, low profile, non-pretentious jet pilot and native Tennessean Andrew Bettis is a dead ringer for actor Chip Esten, who plays the fan favorite lead of "Deacon Claybourne" on ABC-TV's Middle Tennessee-filmed series, Nashville. Bettis is also, without exception the most mechanically adept guy you're likely to meet in any room, anywhere here, particularly if you are interested in discussing private jets.
Above Expectations: Andrew Bettis
This article originally appeared in Sophisticated Living Nashville in the March/April 2015 edition.
Bettis is the founder and co-owner of AB Jets, a privately owned and operated charter sales and management company, which expanded here 24 months ago after celebrating 14 years of business in Memphis. The Nashville region recently ranked at number five on Forves.com's fastest-growing cities in the nation list and home to more than 40,000 businesses and 1.8 million residents, according to the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, is no stranger to any American "Boom Town" designation. It is no wonder then that after two years of carefully testing the waters, Bettis and his partner, pilot David Turner, the company's Director of Operations, made the wisely calculated decision to soar into the clouds here.
With Bettis on the ground in Middle Tennessee, AB Jets, which operates with eight jet aircraft our of Signature Flight Support at the Nashville International Airport, can more efficiently serve the area's southeast region by offering more flight options and availability to clients. The company's focus, with two new Lear 60's sporting upgraded interiors and complimentary Wi-Fi service, is on 24-hour operations with as little as two hours' notice. Frequent customers can enjoy extra savings by purchasing an "A to B Jet Card" in increments of 15 hours of flying time, according to Bettis, who says he appreciates "the personal relationships that tend to develop with our Jet Card holders." His down-home, easy-going manner seems to have been a key factor in the 150 percent increase in business here in the past year. AB Jet's extraordinary commitment to safety has earned the company the prestigious IS-Bao Stage II registration, as well as the coveted ARG/US Platinum certification, one of only 108 charter services out of 2044 nationwide.
Bettis, whose father worked for American Airlines, knows every aspect of this highly specialized business. While working as a Lear jet captain for an air charter company, Bettis was approached at the age of 30 to start his own air charter company. "I was just young and energetic enough to do it," he says. "I quit my job and sold my motorcycle for start-up money, and AB Jets became a company." Bettis also adds, "during the economic downturn of 2008, when the prices of good, pre-owned airplanes were reduced by half, I saw an opportunity. By upgrading aircraft that still had a lot of life in them, and allowing someone else to absorb the initial depreciation costs, we could pass terrific value onto our customers. That's how our current business model was created," he explained.
AB Jets serves a niche group of individuals and companies which recognize how efficient use of time equates to adding intrinsic value to their lives and bottom lines. Through personal service and in-depth knowledge of its customer base, AB Jets is able to determine clients' preferences for each flight. Bettis likens the experience to working with a local bank versus a national or a global financial institution. At a local bank, he says, the president of the bank most likely greets customers personally while at a national or global bank, top management almost certainly will not recognize you if you walk through their doors. Though the charter jet business is an elite service, Bettis ensures that his company also provides a comfortable, concierge experience. His ultimate goal, of course, is cultivating clients who want to fly with him again and again. Round-trip, anyone?
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Dutch Tax Reform Talks Collapse as Centrists Walk Out
Opposition parties are unimpressed by the government's tax proposals.
Nick Ottens June 30, 2015 October 24, 2019
Dutch liberal Democrat party leader Alexander Pechtold visits Breda, November 7, 2009 (Wikimedia Commons/Sebastiaan ter Burg)
Six-party talks about a comprehensive overhaul of the Dutch tax system collapsed on Monday when opposition parties walked away from a deal that would have shifted the tax burden from labor to capital and consumption.
Alexander Pechtold, leader of the centrist liberal Democrats whose support the ruling parties need in the upper chamber of parliament to pass legislation, said the proposed reforms would do too little to create jobs.
Independent forecasts showed the package of tax changes would have raised employment by only 35,000.
Last month, 633,000 Dutch workers were unemployed, representing 7.1 percent of the workforce.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government — a coalition of the left-wing Labor Party and the right-wing liberals — has proposed reducing labor costs to encourage hiring and raise the capital and sales tax to make up the difference.
Ministers said on Tuesday they would push ahead with tax relief, counting on the Christian Democrats instead to support them in the Senate. But the liberals said a higher sales tax was now off the table.
The Christian Democrats, who are the second largest party in the upper chamber, have criticized Rutte for raising taxes €20 billion during his term to keep the Netherlands' deficit under the European Union's 3 percent treaty ceiling. The proposed tax relief would only amount to €5 billion per year.
The conservative weekly Elsevier suggests the reason the Democrats pulled out is that they expect to form a government with the Christian Democrats and liberals next.
It makes sense Pechtold doesn't want to needlessly stretch out Rutte's government by talking about radical tax reforms that involve six parties.
In a more right-wing coalition, reforms would not need to take into account the Labor Party's hesitations about lowering costs for employers nor its insistence on raising the tax on capital.
Polls put Labor and the liberals at forty seats together, down from the 76 they have in the 150-seat lower chamber today. The liberal Democrats are expected to almost double their seats in the next election, due in 2016.
Read more: Europe, Fiscal Issues, Netherlands, Western Europe


Kate Spade (KATE) is shopping herself. The high end retailer was not having a good 2016, but today the stock jumped 23% after the Wall Street Journal reported that Kate Spade was exploring a sale. The company hired investment bankers to explore a potential sale of the company after investor pressure to maximize shareholder return. Coach and Michael Kors are two potential suitors.
Nvidia (NVDA) took a hit. The hottest chip stock in the market initially made a new 52 week high this morning, but then dropped 10% after noted short seller, Andrew Left of Citron disclosed he was short the stock. Any way you slice it, Nvidia has had a great year, a great career, rising 300% year to date on improved demand and the potential for robust sales going forward for projects in the world of artificial intelligence. However, Andrew Left says the market is disregarding headwinds and in2017, stock could drop back to $90 or basically where it was two weeks ago.


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Bradley Family
Coronation Street businessmen.
Coronation Street bad boys.
1970 Marriages
Convicted Criminals.
Villains.
1980s arrivals
1980s deaths
Iconic Coronation Street characters
Jenny Bradley
Mark Eden
Alan Bradley in October 1988.
Alan Bradley was a major character in Coronation Street from Ep 2587 - 15 Jan 1986 to Ep 3002 - 8 Dec 1989. He is regarded as one of the most memorable villains in the history of the show and met a grizzly and sudden demise in December 1989 when he was hit by a Blackpool tram when trying to kidnap his on off partner Rita Fairclough. Alan was a regular villain in the show, in a time when villains were very rarely regular characters, unlike in more recent years. He started off quite humble but started to show his darker side when he beat up Terry Duckworth in the Rovers in 1986 for spreading malicious gossip about his daughter Jenny. The rest was history as he became more villainous until his demise under a Blackpool tram in December 1989. Alan was played by Mark Eden.
1.1 Backstory
3 Aftermath of death
Alan Bradley was born on the 20th July 1939 to Mr Bradley and Mrs Bradley. Not much is known about his early background. Whether Alan had a tough childhood, thus him turning into a villain in later life is unknown.
He wed Pat in around 1967 and the first 2 or 3 years of their marriage was great. They had a daughter Jenny Bradley in 1971 but this made Pat become more withdrawn. Alan worked all over Britain and spent a lot of time away from home. Pat and Alan later divorced and she died in a car crash in January 1986 and Jenny Bradley was sent to be looked after by a Rita Fairclough in Weatherfield, Salford, Lancashire. Alan was proven to be a con man and a cheat although his daughter's foster guardian in Weatherfield did not know this, and Alan would later bond with Rita.
Alan Bradley in 1988.
In January 1986 Alan Bradley turned up in Coronation Street to see Rita Fairclough as she was looking after Alan's teenage daughter Jenny Bradley, who was Rita's papergirl. Jenny started dating Terry Duckworth. He spread nasty rumours about her and Alan's darker side emerged when he thumped Terry 4 times in the Rovers. Alan and Rita begun dating. Alan was never sure Rita loved him so he had an affair with Gloria Todd. In August 1987, Alan planned to marry her and planned a surprise wedding. She was furious when he took her to the registry office.
Rita tried to get Alan involved with The Kabin, Coronation Street. He saw her as a financial burden. In the end he stole the deeds of Number 7 Coronation Street so he could take out a mortgage, and also to pretend to be Rita's deceased husband Len Fairclough. He went to a bank where no one knew who Len was. Alan set up a security firm, with Rita unaware that she was financing it, and he tried to rape his receptionist Dawn Prescott. Dawn told Rita about Alan, as she knew about the source of Alan's funding. Rita found letters addressed to Len in Alan's files. She confronted him but he tried to suffocate her with a cushion. In March 1989, Alan was arrested for assault. He was put in remand. In July 1989, Alan had his 50th birthday behind bars. Diddums.
At his trial in October 1989, he was given 2 years imprisonment but walked free due to time already served. He then took a job on the building site opposite the terraced side of Coronation Street. Baldwin's Casuals, Coronation Street and Community Centre, Coronation Street had been cleared for redevelopment, which was to include a new Kabin newsagents, garage, factory owned by Mike, and houses and salon. The builder behind the project was Maurice Jones, who was around Alan's age.
Alan tormented Rita. Rita could not cope with Alan always around her so she disappeared, not telling anyone where she was going, so no one could trace her, not even best friend Mavis Wilton.
Locals thought he had killed her and buried her body underneath the building site. Police looked for a body but nothing was found.
In late 1989, Alec Gilroy and his wife Bet Gilroy spent an overnight trip in Blackpool. Alec wanted to check out some singing acts. At a hotel owned by an old friend of his, Alec saw a "Rita Littlewood" singing on the stage. They had found her. Rita was in a terrible state and had hid it while on stage. She decided to stay in her Blackpool hotel. Alec felt guilty about accusing Alan of killing Rita so he returned to Weatherfield and told Alan where Rita was.
Armed with the info about Rita, Alan decided to go to Blackpool in early December 1989. Bet followed him, knowing he may harm Rita if he found her. Alan sneaked into the hotel Rita was staying at, and thought Rita was a sleep in the bed but it was Bet who said he should leave Rita alone.
Alan saw Rita and chased after her, he said they are going back to Weatherfield now. He frogmarched her into the car but she escaped and ran across a tram line in front of an oncoming tram. Alan chased her but was not so lucky as the tram whacked into Alan, killing him instantly. Bet Gilroy quickly arrived and comforted a crying Rita, while the dead body of Alan Bradley lay at the side of the tram. Alan's reign of terror was over. This meant Rita could return to a normal life.
Aftermath of death[]
Jenny had to identify the body. Jenny blamed people for Alan's death, especially Rita. Alan was buried at the Weatherfield Cemetery on the 15th December 1989.
Legacy[]
The dark memory of Alan Bradley still held over Rita for years, and she ended up selling her and Len's house to escape from it. Alan's daughter Jenny remained in the street until two-years after his death, with a brief return in 1993 to get money out of Rita. Jenny wanted Rita to lend her £30'000 so she could open up a business. Jenny felt she was entitled to the money as Rita had profited from her relationship with Jenny's father. Rita realised Jenny was just after her money, so she gave Jenny a cheque for £1000 and told her to leave Weatherfield. Jenny obliged.
In December 2010, exactly 21 years after Alan's death, a tram crashed into Coronation Street after it derailed off the viaduct. Rita was almost killed when the Kabin was damaged. As she lay with minor injuries in the rubble she said "What is it with me and trams?".
In 2013 when Rita was about to talk about Alan Bradley, she was clearly upset and decided to order a drink before elaborating further.
In 2015, Jenny returned to Weatherfield after 22 years away. Rita was shocked but soon put any past grievances with her almost step daughter behind her.
In 2016, Jenny Bradley went to Blackpool to visit where her dad had died, to try and "Lay that ghost to rest". History nearly repeated itself when Jenny saved Jack Webster from being struck by a tram, just narrowly being hit herself. Jack almost joined Alan on the list of Weatherfield Residents Hit By Blackpool Trams.
In 2017, Alan's daughter Jenny married Johnny Connor. Of course Alan had long since died by then so was not able to give his new son in law a ticking off, telling him to "look after her or get his legs broken". This makes Alan Bradly the posthumous step grandfather of Carla Connor, Aidan Connor and Kate Connor.
Builder Pat Phelan who lived in the street from 2016 to 2018 was a modern day version of Alan Bradley, a conniving man who will do anyone over to get what he wants.
In 2021, Sharon Gaskell remarked on how Jenny was Alan's daughter.
Mark Eden is married to Sue Nicholls who plays Audrey Roberts.
Born: 20th July 1939
Died: 8th December 1989 (Aged 50)
Full Name: Alan Bradley
Parents: Mr Bradley and Mrs Bradley
Siblings: None
Spouse: Pat Bradley (c1967-1986)
Children: Jenny Bradley (1971)
Grandchildren: Tom Midgeley
Stepchildren: Aidan Connor, Kate Connor, Carla Connor (through Jenny's marriage to Johnny Connor in 2017)
Nothing much is known about Alan Bradley's background, whether he had any siblings or his childhood. In 2018, Jenny mentioned an aunty Frances, but she could have been a maternal aunty. Wikipedia mentions Jenny's other relatives as "Richard Bradley".
Alan Bradley's first scene.
Terry Duckworth spreads rumours about Alan's daughter Jenny so Alan does his Mike Tyson impression.
Alan Bradley meets his demise. His death by tram is instant, like Nescafe.
Alan in 1989.


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Like his own Falstaff, Shakespeare is not only witty in himself but is the cause that wit is in others. My career as a teacher of and writer about Shakespeare's plays and poems has been devoted not just to examining these extraordinary writings in their sixteenth- and seventeenth-century contexts, but to exploring how they have stimulated and enabled the creativity of other people, individually and collectively, across time – whether actors (both professional and amateur), scholars, directors, philosophers, composers, critics, sculptors, poets, or novelists. As a result I enjoy working as a consultant to theatre directors and actors as well as publishing scholarly essays and books, and although the central focus of my work has been on the interpretation of Shakespeare in the theatre down the centuries since his death, and on the history of our continuing love affair with Elizabeth and the Elizabethans more generally, I take an enthusiastic and informed interest in most things done in Shakespeare's name in different media around the world.
Before coming to Stratford in 2011 I worked at Birkbeck, University of London (where I set up an MA programme in collaboration with Shakespeare's Globe). Other previous employers include Oxford, Harvard, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and I have held visiting appointments and research fellowships at UCLA, Lund, the Sorbonne, and Peking University.
At the Shakespeare Institute I teach MA modules on the history of Shakespearean performance, and co-teach a distance learning module (organized jointly with the National University of Singapore) on 21st century Asian performances of Shakespeare. I also contribute lectures to undergraduate modules about Shakespeare and performance on the Edgbaston campus, oversee the work of visiting scholars at the Institute, and supervise a wide range of PhD students.
I supervise research students interested in: the performance and reception history of the Shakespeare canon, both within the Anglophone world and beyond; the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company; the history of amateur performance; Shakespeare's afterlives.
I am currently writing a book about the roles played by Shakespeare in the repertories of national theatre companies worldwide, and serving as a General Editor (with Abigail Rokison-Woodall and Simon Russell Beale) of the Arden Performance Editions of Shakespeare series.
I am an honorary governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a Member of Council of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, a Trustee of Flute Theatre, a Patron of Brownsea Open-Air Theatre, and co-director of the Shakespeare Centre, China.
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, second edition, with Stanley Wells as Associate General Editor and Erin Sullivan and Will Sharpe as revising editors (Oxford, 2015).
The Complete Oxford Middleton: Wit at Several Weapons (Oxford, 2007). The Oxford Middleton, produced under the general editorship of Gary Taylor, won the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition, 2007-8.
Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today: the actor's perspective (Cambridge, 2006). Contributors include Sir Antony Sher, David Warner, Simon Russell Beale, Imogen Stubbs, Nonso Anozie, Samuel West.
The New Penguin Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (Penguin, 2005).
England's Elizabeth: an afterlife in fame and fantasy, co‑authored with Nicola Watson (Oxford, 2002). The paperback edition was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2004.
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, with Stanley Wells (Oxford, 2001, revised 2005, 2009, 2011). Winner of an American Library Association Award as an outstanding reference work, 2001, and of the Bainton Prize for best reference book in sixteenth-century studies, 2001-2.
Shakespeare; the history of Shakespeare in performance and in culture generally; the Royal Shakespeare Company; British theatre history, 1570 to the present; Elizabeth I and her reputation; amateur theatre; cultural relations between the US and the UK.
Professor Dobson regularly provides programme notes for the RSC, Shakespeare's Globe, Mokwha Repertory Company, Peter Stein, and other theatre companies.
Professor Dobson is a frequent contributor to British and international media. He has made numerous appearances on BBC Radio 4's Front Row and BBC Radio 3's Night Waves and is a regular contributor to Around the Globe and The London Review of Books.
He has recently received national and regional media coverage commenting on the 2011 blockbuster movie, Anonymous including a streamed debate with the film's director Roland Emmerich on ESU, an interview for Channel 4 News and a self-penned commentary piece for The Guardian.
What did Europe mean to William Shakespeare?
Shakespeare: bard of Avon now … and Euro-laureate hereafter?


They really did a number on us with that word "anti-globalization." People assumed we were isolationists.
Wow. This is good reading. There will definitely be a time when change will come to this world, the question is how and when. With the almost fictive conflict between liberals and fascist, liberal democracies and Arab monarchies against Islamists or even between liberal democracies and communist dictatures it might be a long way to get there.
These conflicts are a good way to keep the people down with fear of an outside enemy, but: How can we avoid, if one regime falls, that another takes over? That's where I see the real challenge. Capitalism will fall, the liberal state will fall, monarchies, communist dictatures, islamic states will fall, but regimens have fallen before, and nothings ever really changed. France changed their nobles for a regime of the burgess, the Russian revolution was couped by a small group of intellectuals who imposed a suppressing system on a nation where anarchist ideas stood a lot stronger than Marxism. It did change the social structure, but it did anything but free the people. Today they are as capitalist as anyone.
The great question, which I find hard to answer is how to avoid the overtaking of other governors. Any thoughts? Any suggestions of literature and links?
The fact that Trump was not crushed in the election shows that a huge segment of our (USA) population has given up on liberal democracy. I'm not convinced that giving fascism a try is a good antidote to the failures of liberalism, but here we go again.


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package geologger.saints.com.geologger.sensors;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.hardware.Sensor;
import android.hardware.SensorEvent;
import android.hardware.SensorEventListener;
import android.hardware.SensorManager;
import android.util.Log;

import org.androidannotations.annotations.AfterInject;
import org.androidannotations.annotations.EBean;
import org.androidannotations.annotations.RootContext;
import org.androidannotations.annotations.SystemService;

import geologger.saints.com.geologger.utils.Direction;

/**
 * Created by Mizuno on 2015/02/13.
 */
@EBean(scope = EBean.Scope.Singleton)
public class MyDirectionListener implements SensorEventListener {

    private final String TAG = getClass().getSimpleName();
    public final String ACTION = "CurrentDirectionUpdated";
    private static final int DIMENSION = 3;
    private static final int MATRIX_SIZE = 16;

    private float[] mAccelerometerValues = null;
    private float[] mGeoMagneticValues = null;

    @RootContext
    Context mContext;

    @SystemService
    SensorManager mSensorManager;

    public MyDirectionListener() {}

    @AfterInject
    public void init() {

        mAccelerometerValues = new float[DIMENSION];
        mGeoMagneticValues = new float[DIMENSION];

        Sensor magneticSensor = mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_MAGNETIC_FIELD);
        mSensorManager.registerListener(this, magneticSensor, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_UI);

        Sensor accelerometerSensor = mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER);
        mSensorManager.registerListener(this, accelerometerSensor, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_UI);

    }

    @Override
    public void onAccuracyChanged(Sensor sensor, int accuracy) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent event) {

        if (event.accuracy == SensorManager.SENSOR_STATUS_UNRELIABLE) {
            return;
        }

        switch (event.sensor.getType()) {

            case Sensor.TYPE_MAGNETIC_FIELD:
                mGeoMagneticValues = event.values.clone();
                break;

            case Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER:
                mAccelerometerValues = event.values.clone();
                break;

            default:
                return;
        }

        if (mGeoMagneticValues != null && mAccelerometerValues != null) {
            onDirectionChanged();
        }
    }

    private void onDirectionChanged() {

        if (mGeoMagneticValues == null || mAccelerometerValues == null) {
            return;
        }

        float[] r = new float[MATRIX_SIZE];
        float[] i = new float[MATRIX_SIZE];

        SensorManager.getRotationMatrix(r, i, mAccelerometerValues, mGeoMagneticValues);
        if (r == null) {
            return;
        }

        float[] temp = new float[MATRIX_SIZE];
        SensorManager.remapCoordinateSystem(r, SensorManager.AXIS_X, SensorManager.AXIS_Y, temp);

        float[] direction = new float[DIMENSION];
        SensorManager.getOrientation(temp, direction);

        float orientation = ((float)(direction[0] * 180.0f / Math.PI) + 360.0f) % 360;
        Log.i(TAG, "onDirectionChanged: " + orientation);
        Direction.saveDirection(mContext.getApplicationContext(), orientation);

        Intent broadcastIntent = new Intent(ACTION);
        broadcastIntent.putExtra(Direction.DIRECTION, orientation);
        mContext.sendBroadcast(broadcastIntent);
    }

    /**
     * Unregister Listener
     */
    public void stopRegisteredListener() {
        mSensorManager.unregisterListener(this);
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Curtis Gordon, Hillbilly bop and Rockabilly from Georgia
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Curtis Gordon – Play the music louder (from 1998 Rick Kienzle notes to Bear Family CD 16253)
At 1 :30 on Wednesday afternoon, October 22, 1952, newly signed RCA Victor recording artist Curtis Gordon began his first session at Brown Brothers in Nashville, with RCA A&R man Steve Sholes presiding. Three of his own band members joined him in the studio : fiddler Charles Mitchell, pianist Curly Gainous and bass player Slick Gillespie. Rounding up the band were three of Nashville's early studio A-team : guitarist and Sholes protege Chet Atkins, singer and rhythm guitarist Eddie Hill and steel guitar virtuoso Jerry Byrd.
For Gordon, landing a deal with RCA, the label of Eddy Arnold and Hank Snow, was a major break. A regional performer who mainly worked south Georgia and north Florida and did occasional national tours, he fit into the honky-tonk sound in vogue at the time. It didn't matter that he had no national home base like the Opry or Louisiana Hayride. He was a regional favorite around Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and in those days major labels didn't shy away from signing such acts, hoping to break them nationally.
Born in July 27, 1928 on a farm near Moultrie, Gordon spent his boyhood drinking in music. « Ernest Tubb and Bob Wills were two of my favorites.(…) Ernest Tubb was really my idol until I got into Bob Wills. » Soon enough, Gordon was trying to sing locally, winning a talent show sponsored by a Moultrie radio station.
His drive to perform never diminished as a teenager, though temporaly affected his education. « I went to Gulfport, Mississipi and worked with a little band at a radio station for six or eight months until my folks brought me back and put me in school » he says. Gordon also made early contacts with a fellow Moultrie resident following his own musical road : fiddler Ivy J. Bryant, years from his metamorphosis into premiere country-jazz guitarist Jimmy Bryant.
Even though Gordon's folks brought him back from Gulfport to attend high school, he continued developing his performing talents with Pee Wee Mills and the Twilight Playboys around the area and on their program on Moultrie's WMGA radio. Finally, on January 1, 1949 Gordon organized his own band. Starting around southern Georgia and northern Florida, he had enough work to keep him going. In June 1952, he and the band appeared in a talent contest at Atlanta's Tower Theater. Impressed, RCA Victor's Atlanta distributor Sam Wallace recommended Gordon to Steve Sholes, who signed the singer shortly after that. Around July, he joined the Mobile, Alabama's 'Dixie Barn Dance', on the small country stage shows in the tradition of the Opry and the Louisiana Hayride.
Making Mobile his base of operations, by October of 1952 he'd opened his first Radio Ranch nightclub, which became one of the major country music outlets in the region. Over the next four decades, he'd also own three other Radio Ranches (a copyright name) in Thomasville, Albany and Moultry, Georgia.
That busy month was capped by that RCA session on the 22nd. Whatever Gordon planned to record at hat first session, Steve Sholes, as usual, had his own ideas. Seeing Gordon as a potential ballad singer, he directed the session that way, having him record What's A Little Pride and The Greatest Sin. Both were penned by Cy Coben, whose songs (both good and lousy) wound up being recorded by many RCA artists. At the same session, Gordon did better with the strutting Jack Toombs-Vic McAlpin ditty You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, featuring bouncy guitar from Chet and Gainous's competent honky tonk piano. Jack Toombs' If You Tell Me One More Lie indicates Sholes had ideas to position Gordon to be another Lefty Frizzell.
Though Sholes encouraged artists to submit numbers for consideration on sessions, more often than that, he turned to the folks at Hill and Range for material, a sweetheart deal that resulted in many RCA artists recording great tunes but an awful lot of crap. While some artists, Hank Penny and Grandpa Jones among them, openly fought the producer over material, others, including Johnny Lee and Luke Wills, acquiesced but privately griped over the dross Sholes forced them to cut. Gordon felt differently. « I could go in to a session and we'd have some songs picked out and Steve and them picked up material, and they'd come in with another song and they'd say, « Let's do this one here », and we'd have to whip it up in a hurry. It didn't bother me that Steve picked material because I had a lot of respect for Steve Sholes being a great producer. »
Gordon chuckled over one memory of that first session involving fiddler Mitchell. « C.M. Mitchell and me were doin' one of those songs and we had Chet there and he said « What you want me to play ? » And Mitchell said, « Play a chorus like Merle Travis ! » then he realized what he'd said, and it just flipped him out. »
By 1952 Gordon had visited Bryant in Southern California and the chance to appear on Cliffie Stone's 'Hometown Jamboree', the well-known local TV show starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. His connection was Jimmy Bryant, by then the top country studio guitarist on the West Coast, known for his work with pedal steel pioneer Speedy West on such Tennessee Ernie hits as The Shot Gun Boogie and I'll Never Be Free and in Hometown's staff band. Gordon enjoyed the vacation and the chance to perform. « I was just a little old country boy, which I still am, and to me that was the greatest thing in my life. When I first met Tennessee Ernie Ford, and I was stayin' with Jimmy. »
Gordon wasn't back to record until May 18, 1953. RCA, still lacking their Nashville facilities, this time utilized the little-known Thomas Productions. With Sholes again in charge, Eddie Hill was back to play rhythm guitar. Otherwise, the session utilized Gordon's own band including pianist Gainous, bassist Gillespie, and steel player Freddie Calhoun, clearly influenced by Jerry Byrd and Speedy West. Instead of C.M. Mitchell, the studio band featured the dynamic, explosive Nashville studio fiddler Dale Potter.
At the session, he recorded Pee Wee Maddux's nondescript Rocky Road Of Love
and the slightly risqué Where'd Ja Get So Much Of, a sassy, Jimmy Dickens flavored novelty co-written by Porter Wagoner and George Earls with a swinging hard-bowed fiddle break from Potter and jazzy piano from Gainous. Surprinsingly, Sholes allowed the singer to cut two of his own songs : the ballad I Just Don't Love You Anymore and Rompin' And Stompin', the latter influenced by Louis Jordan's Saturday Night Fish Fry and Hardrock Gunter's 1951 country boogie hit Birmingham Bounce. The band was more than up to the task, as Calhoun kicked in Speedy West bar-crashes, Gillespie walked his bass and Potter played a scintillating break.
Curtis Gordon, 1954
Country boogie, which held sway from the late forties into the early fifties, was a bit passé at this point. Nonetheless, Rompin' was a strong performance, Gordon's vocal brimming with character and fire, and proving a point that of the 16 songs he recorded for RCA, the fast numbers were consistently the strongest. In this case, though it didn't chart nationally, it clearly impressed RCA. Sholes brought him back for another session to Thomas Productions on September 28, 1953 with Gillespie and Gainous along with Potter, Hill and steel guitarist Walter Haynes, then a member of Little Jimmy Dickens' road band, the Country Boys.
With Rompin's success in mind, Sholes, who'd pushed Gordon into a Lefty mode on that first session in 1952, decided to emphasize the uptempo numbers. From Georgia country artist Cotton Carrier came I'd Do It For You, a pleasant number in the vein of Carl Smith's faster material as was Boudleaux Bryant's Tell 'Em No. You Crazy, Crazy Moon was a ballad that hewed closely to Smith's ballad singing. Not everything succeeded. The corny, medium-tempo Little Bo-Peep, written by Tommy 'Butterball' Paige, Ernest Tubb's lead guitarist, was more suited to the sentimental vocal side of Moon Mullican.
Throughout this time, Gordon was not just working around his home area, but touring America as part of package shows, leaving his band behind.
Though Gordon's singles sold enough to sustain his contract, nothing came even close to the national charts. His final RCA session at Thomas's took place on February 22, 1954. He used nearly all of the band on this date including Gainous, Slick Gillespie and guitarists Hugh Harrell and C.L.Hare. The studio players included Chet Atkins, whose fortunes were rising as the New York-based Sholes depended on him to organize Nashville sessions. The steel player was the dynamic pedal steel pioneer and RCA artist Bud Isaacs, whose playing on Webb Pierce's hit recording of Slowly established the instrument in Nashville.oles returned to the ill-fated gambit of having Curtis parrot the style of others. As a result, his version of Hank Thompson's I'd Like To Tell You came off as a generic rip-off of Thompson. Detour composer Paul Westmoreland's Caffeine And Nicotine got an arrangement lifted lock, stock and barrel from the Carlisles' Mercury recordings and their hit, No Help Wanted. Everything from the Bill Carlisle-inspired, frenetic vocal, rhythm guitar with paper through the strings and the Atkins guitar solo (he played on the Carlisles' sessions), was clearly aimed at that audience. Divided Heart, a Chuck Wilson number, was an inconsequential ballad. One exception to the rule was the revival of Rompin' And Stompin's spirit with Baby, Baby Me, a boogie with sharply focused solos from Isaacs and Potter.
When The RCA contract ended, Gordon wasn't particularly bitter. He had learned how to handle himself in a recording studio, « We never did any real big ones. All of them did good enough to keep me on the label », he told in 1986.
The mass audience may not have known Gordon, but others still saw potential in him. In December, 1954, A&R man Dee Kilpatrick signed him to Mercury Records. For the most part, the music recorded here was far more satisfying than at RCA. For one thing, many of the songs were Gordon originals, though a few songs were pushed on him. The first Mercury date was done shortly after his signing at an early studio owned by Owen Bradley. Using members of his own band, including guitarist Dusty Stewart, steel guitarist Freddie Calhoun, Slick Gillespie, Curly Gainous and C.M.Mitchell, Gordon recorded Don't Trade, an Eddie Noack ballad done in waltz time. The bizarre instrumental Chopstick Mambo, the kind of thing Sholes might have pressed on him had it had lyrics, reflected a dance craze of the moment.
a demo of 2 tracks – 1955. Note the 4 holes
In 1955, Gordon and his band recorded another session, supplemented by Buddy Emmons, a gifted young steel player from Indiana who had just replaced Walter Haynes in Little Jimmy Dickens' Country Boys. Gordon recorded two songs by a new composer/singer named Bobby Bare : Our Secret Rendezvous and Baby Please Come Home, a pleasant, uptempo honky-tonker. In early 1956 Gordon did another session with a similar band (Chet Atkins on lead guitar) that yielded Hey Mister Sorrow, Too Young To Know and Play The Music Louder.
By 1956, Elvis Presley was sweeping the nation. While many in country were bewildered by him, Gordon knew him well, having met (and booked) him the previous year. (…) Elvis was certainly on Dee Kilpatrick's mind when he called Gordon to Nashville in March, desperate to get something resembling rock on record as soon as he could. Presley's success was causing a crisis,since conventional country records – honky tonk tunes with fiddle and steel guitar – were suddenly sounding old and corny. Radio began rejecting those kinds of records, and Kilpatrick needed Gordon to record something that rocked. The singer showed up at Bradley Film and Recording, the first studio on what's now called Music Row, with three of his musicians : steel guitarist Al Murray, Stewart and Slick Gillespie. The Nashville studio element again included Eddie Hill and drummer T. Tommy Cutrer.(…)
Four rockabilly compositions came out of this session, many of them featuring Murray's futuristic, unorthodox steel guitar, in the Speedy West tradition. Draggin' was a hot-rod race ditty with Sun-style slapback echo and tough Scotty Moore-inspired lead guitar, Gillespie slapping the bass in the style of Bill Black. Hearing Elvis, Scotty and Bill at Radio Ranch obviously left its mark given the authoritative accompaniment from the band. Rock, Roll, Jump and Jive combines a driven beat with searing lead guitar. Surprisingly, Mercury never issue it or Sittin' On Top Of The World. Gordon adapted the old blues to rockabilly with stinging Moore-style guitar from Stewart and strong rhythm. Mobile, Alabama, a prideful rocker about Gordon's adopted hometown, has become a favorite of rockabilly revivalists, one that also afforded the chance to hear more of Murray's rolling steel.
Gordon did part of his time with Mercury while serving a hitch in U.S. Army Special Services as part of the Circle-A Wranglers. This Army country band had been fronted by Faron Young during his early 1950s Army hitch. While in the band, Gordon met an aspiring Oklahoma singer-musician named Roger Miller. « …) I heard him play and I said 'How 'bout you comin' to play fiddle for us ?' And he didn't think he wanted to. I think he was kind of afraid if he messed up (that the Army would) ship him overseas or somewhere. And he finally agreed to do it (…) and played fiddle with the Circle-A Wranglers for a long time (…) »
In early 1957, Curtis traveled to Houston, (probably) to Gold Star Studios, where Pappy Daily, the legendary Texas record producer who co-founded Starday Records and discovered George Jones (now a Mercury artist) was to produce Gordon. With Mitchell on fiddle and, he recalled, Noel Boggs on steel guitar, he recorded three originals : So Tired Of Crying, an uptempo song in a mode between Hank Williams and George Jones, whose influence permeated One Blue Moon, One Broken Heart. Those, as well as Out To Win Your Heart, were penned with Jimmy Townsend.
In October, 1957, Gordon headed to Nashville for his final Mercury session, Pappy Daily again producing. During the trip, he had a surprise reunion with Roger Miller that had far-reaching implications for the budding singer-songwriter.
« A couple months after he got out (of the Army) I was goin' into Nashville to record. When I got to the Andrew Jackson hotel, the bellboy was Roger. We grabbed each other and was glad to see each other, and I said 'Come up to the room, man. I'm here to record.' So Roger came up to my room and we sat up all night writin' songs, we wrote two or three songs. I told Roger that night, 'I'm cuttin' tomorrow and I want you to go with me.' So we went down and Pappy Daily was cuttin' George Jones, and I carried Roger down there and introduced him to Pappy Daily. Pappy Daily signed him to a writer's contract and things went boomin' for him right on. »
Surprisingly, for Gordon's last Mercury date, he was finally recording with Nashville's true A-team, including Hank Garland and Chet Atkins on guitars, bassist Bob Moore, pianist Floyd Cramer, Eddie Hill on rhythm guitar and probably Buddy Harmon on drums. This time, all numbers except Cry, Cry were Gordon originals. Cry, Cry was a down and bluesy ballad. Sixteen, an original ballad penned by Curtis and his wife, was aimed at the teenage market with Garland contributing juicy lead guitar. Curtis had someone in mind for Cry, Cry. « I wrote the song for Tommy Sands. I thought I could do it and Mercury said 'Hey, why don't you do it ? » He had someone in mind when he wrote the bluesy, raw Please, Baby, ,Please : Fats Domino…,who denied cutting the song. Instead, Gordon recorded it with Roger Miller and one Windy Wade singing backup on the session. The final song recorded at the session was I wouldn't, a Gordon-Roger Miller tune.
No matter how much Gordon toured, Radio Ranch remained home base. (…) Looking back in 1998, Gordon reflected realistically about his overall success on records. « If I had to choose a favorite one of the whole bunch it'd have to be 'Rompin' And Stompin' » he concluded.(…) He also had some luck with his compositions. In 1980 George Jones recorded Gordon's I've Aged Twenty Years, on his « I Am What I Am » LP, though Curtis's own mid-80s recordings for the tiny Duke of Country label in Nashville went nowhere. Gordon remained busy at the Radio Ranch in Moultrie thoughout the 1980s, as rockabilly revivalists rediscovered his RCA and Mercury material.(…)
In the mid 1990s, after fifty years of performing, Gordon, still happily married to wife Grace, retired from performing and the nightclub business in order to relax – most of the time. Nonetheless, in February, 1998, he was heading back to England, where he previously scored with audiences when he appeared with the Collins Kids, amazed that European fans remember the lyrics of old records that at the time, were ignored by the masses. « I wanted to retire. I've been in it so long and I got so many other things I would like to do but I love to play. I disbanded about three years ago. I still play other clubs but not regular. I go out and play clubs that have house bands. Rest of the time I'm tied up with a plantation out there with a beautiful lake, log cabin. I still love to ride horses and hunt. Never smoke or drank. I don't believe in doing something that's harmin' your health. »
In a country music industry run by music consultants, radio and media consultants and accountants, rock'n'roll refugees and arrogant Nashville superstars who try to run their record companies, Curtis Gordon remain a vital link to country's simpler, sweeter past. He summarized his career simply in 1986, a benediction that still holds today. « I hope I contributed a little bit to country music. It's been my whole life. »
Curtis Gordon died May 2, 2004, in Moultrie, Ga. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juYqSP6uSeEv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juYqSP6uSeEv
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Merci pour l'information. Fais-moi passer le titre en .mp3, sans doute remplacerai-je la version éditée. Merci d'avance. xavier.maire@free.fr
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Funeral, donation arrangements made for Broken Arrow officer killed in crash
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December 15, 2016 at 6:44 am CST
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Quick facts:
A Broken Arrow police officer died in a Coweta crash.
Funeral and donation arrangements were confirmed Monday.
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Eugene Orr died in a Coweta motorcycle crash over the weekend.
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Visitation is scheduled for December 14th, 2016 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Leonard and Marker Funeral Home at 6521 East 151st Street South Bixby, Oklahoma 74008. The Broken Arrow Police Department Honor Guard has been at the body's side since it arrived at the funeral home.
Local agencies will help take Broken Arrow calls during the funeral.
Orr's funeral service will take place December 15th, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.at the Church at Battlecreek at 3025 North Aspen Avenue Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74012.
The interment will follow at Floral Haven Funeral Home and Cemetery at 6500 South 129th East Avenue in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74012.
In an effort to assist Officer Orr's family, the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #170, has opened an account with First National Bank Broken Arrow. Donations may be made directly to that account.
Please make check donations payable to "Broken Arrow FOP #170". Please write "Memorial Fund" in the memo line.
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Leading Victim Notification Service Celebrates 25 Years
Appriss Inc., the developers of VINE—or Victim Information and Notification Everyday—has announced that the service is today marking 25 years providing automated notifications to crime victims and survivors across the United States.
VINE was developed by current Appriss CEO, Mike Davis, and his then-business partner, Yung Nguyen, in response to the tragic murder of a young Louisville woman named Mary Byron. Mary had been brutally raped and assaulted by a former partner, who was subsequently arrested and incarcerated for these acts. Two weeks later, unbeknownst to Mary and her family, her assaulter posted bond and was freed. On the evening of December 6, 1993, Mary's 21st birthday, he stalked and killed her as she sat warming her car after leaving work at a local mall.
VINE was launched in Jefferson County, KY on December 6, 1994—exactly one year after Mary's murder. Twenty-five years later, VINE has grown to be the number one victim notification network in the nation, empowering millions of victims and concerned citizens with timely and reliable information regarding offender custody status. Delivering over 40 million notifications each year, VINE allows victims and survivors to proactively plan for their safety—an opportunity Mary did not have. Today, this life-saving service is active in 48 states—covering approximately 3,000 communities.
"I am honored and deeply humbled to be marking 25 years of VINE," said Davis. "There is no doubt in my mind that every single day there is somebody who is alive because of the work that we do. While nothing can heal the pain of Mary's loss, we will continue to honor her memory by doing everything we can to equip victims with the information they need to stay safe."
VINE operates by allowing victims to call a toll-free number, visit www.vinelink.com, or use the VINELink mobile app to anonymously check on an offender's custody status. Victims can also register to receive automated notifications about changes in that status via their choice of format: phone, email, or text. TTY (hearing impaired) service is also available. It is offered free of charge to registrants, is completely confidential, and features multiple language support.
What started off as a two-person company working out of Nguyen's basement, has grown to nearly 1,000 employees across three different business units. United under the corporate mission of Knowledge for Good, Appriss continues to tackle some of the largest societal and business problems—from battling the opioid epidemic, retail fraud, and improper payments in government entitlement agencies, to strengthening law enforcement, community and workplace safety. As Appriss has grown, it has remained rooted in VINE.
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The White House has begun vetting invocations given by ministers before presidential events, said to be an unusual by members of past administration and religious authorities.
The White House Office of Public Liason has requested that the ministers of various religious traditions who are asked to give opening invocations at events submit their prayers for approval beforehand, according to a report by U.S. News, which characterizes the vetting as a "departure from previous presidents."
The White House refused to directly comment on the issue, though a spokeswoman said that the practice of preapproving the invocations has "been standard since the campaign."
"If a similar thing had been done by President Bush's White House, I guarantee you there would have been a lot of people crying foul," Bill Wichterman, deputy director of the Office of Public Liaison under President George W. Bush, told U.S. News. "Democrats can do this with immunity, but when Republicans do it, it becomes controversial."
"The only thing worse than having these prayers in the first place is to have them vetted, because it entangles the White House in core theological matters," Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "Why would you even request getting a copy of the prayer in advance if you didn't want to exercise the power to change it or even cancel it?"
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Mercedes non-executive chairman Lauda appeared on a television discussion show on Servus TV recently and is reported to have made some irrational statement against Hamilton.
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First Venturefest East a great success
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Cambridge based technology firm Alviol has won the 1,000 Guineas fast and furious pitch off prize at the East of England's inaugural Venturefest East event, held at Newmarket Racecourse yesterday (24th May 2016).
Alviol was first past the post out of eleven finalists from the East of England's most innovative tech businesses. The firm is an early stage MedTech business developing Occoris, an elegant and simple inhaler technology that delivers drugs more efficiently to the lungs. The judges thought Alviol gave a strong pitch, and that the product was destined to have a real impact on the lives of asthma sufferers in the future.
The two silver prize winners were Citrecycle, a developer of technology to provide safe, clean, local and sustainable lead-acid battery recycling for the developing world, and Healx, a start-up specialising in finding new therapeutic solutions for rare diseases with the use of advanced data analytics, machine learning and modern computational biology techniques to identify novel drug applications in the area of rare diseases.
The winners all impressed a prestigious judging panel including David Gill, Managing Director of St John's Innovation Centre; Hugh Parnell, Serial Entrepreneur and Chairman of Cambridge Cleantech; Ian Tracey, Head of Access to Finance, KTN; David Leftley, Managing Partner, Bloc Ventures; Marie Deschamps, London Business Angel; Dr Chris Winter, Managing Partner, Brightstar Partners; Caroline Hopkins, Development Director (UK & Ireland), ENGIE; and David Paul, Director, Corporate Engineering and R&D, Magna International Inc.
Venturefest East was attended by more than 800 investors, entrepreneurs and innovators including 75 exhibitors. In the main plenary session, it was standing room only for the eager delegates first thing in the morning.
Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP, New Anglia LEP and St John's Innovation Centre worked together with KTN and Innovate UK to create Venturefest East to provide the chance to drive new business opportunities, by bringing together networks and individuals.
David Gill, Venturefest Patron and Managing Director of St John's Innovation Centre, said: "The quality of entrants was very high and choosing three winners was extremely difficult. Innovation is thriving in the East and we believe the winners, and many of the others who participated, will go on to be the next big regional successes."
Neil Darwin, Chief Executive of the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP and Venturefest East Patron, said: "There has been a real buzz at Venturefest East with innovators, entrepreneurs and investors meeting to shares ideas and secure funding. Our area truly defines the future – creating products and enabling discoveries that will change the way we live our lives both now and in the future. It has been fantastic to hear from some of the leaders of entrepreneurship and innovation, such as Hermann Hauser, David Cleevely, and Charles Cotton, who have been there, done that, and have taken the time to share their experiences with everyone today. We look forward to seeing many of the start-ups in the future growing to become leaders in their own fields."
Kevin Coleman, Project Manager of Venturefest East, said: "What I love about this event is its inclusivity. Sure there are corporate sponsors, investors and there are the big guys in the room – and government is pushing the agenda. Venturefest East was targeted at the new, the hungry and the enthusiastic that could just create the next billion pound companies. If that wasn't enough we had a mix a tech from bio through games to wireless in the same place, and we just don't know what interactions between people with different backgrounds will lead to. What we have learned in this region is that once conversations start, big things can happen."
Mark Pendlington, Chairman of New Anglia LEP, said: "The East of England is full of innovation, entrepreneurship and ideas, all of which come together so brilliantly at this event. The energy and collaboration generated at Venturefest East are certain to result in more jobs and increased growth, there can be no better showcase of our region to the world."
Speaking at the event David Cleevely, Cambridge based serial entrepreneur said: "We know that getting people together always sparks new ideas and this event provides a great opportunity for people in different sectors and from different parts of the region to get together to learn from each other. I hope we will look back and say that other successful businesses were started because of conversations here."
Find out more at www.venturefesteast.co.uk.


This is one of those things that I always say "do as I say, not as I do!" But, according to the Center For Disease Control I should definitely cease and desist from putting any raw cookie dough in my mouth! Ugh...but it taste soooo gooood!!
They also warn not to bake or eat recalled Duncan Hines cake mixes, or eat cake or batter made with them or risk getting quite sick!
DO keep raw foods like eggs and flour separate from foods ready to eat. .
DO wash your hands with running water and soap after handling raw ingedients, and also counter tops and surfaces that they may have come in contact with.
DO read and follow label directions to refrigerate products containing raw dough or eggs until they are fully cooked.
DON'T taste or eat any raw dough or batters.
DON'T allow children to play with or eat raw dough, including dough for crafts.
DON'T use raw, homemade cookie dough in ice cream.
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2022 Common Good Awards
The fifth annual program in partnership with the Rhode Island Foundation recognizes businesses of all sizes that inspire philanthropy in their employees.
We're excited to once again partner with the Rhode Island Foundation in presenting the fifth annual Common Good Awards. This program recognizes Rhode Island businesses of all sizes that inspire philanthropy in their employees around the state, not by writing a check to a worthy cause, but by encouraging staff to go into the community and help. These companies also take it a step further, offering employees incentives including paid time off and donations to charity.
The judges were impressed by the many different projects that were submitted for consideration: "A micro business making a big impact," was one comment. "Really inspirational," was another. So, congratulations to the companies recognized here, and a major vote of thanks to everyone who participated. Rhode Island is a better place because of your involvement.
The judges: Arianne Corrente, vice president of communications and marketing, Rhode Island Foundation; Sarah Francis, editor, Rhode Island Monthly; Lisa Konicki, president, Ocean State Chamber of Commerce.
Congratulations to this year's winners
RIPTA ● GREENWOOD CREDIT UNION ● FROG AND TOAD ● LOVE CULTURE
Courtesy of Love Culture.
Love Culture
Winner, Micro Category: 9 employees or less
Location: Providence, loveculturesalon.com
A hair salon that provides a holistic perspective to hair care.
Most of Rhode Island's small businesses endured difficult challenges during the pandemic, and that included the state's hair salons. Undaunted, Love Culture, a tiny new beauty shop on Providence's West Side, stepped up to help the community by encouraging its staff, a total of five, to give back.
After closing for three months in the spring of 2020, they donated every dollar they made to the Urban League of Rhode Island on their first day back post-lockdown, inspiring other salons to do the same. They made and sold a limited run of T-shirts to benefit the Color of Change organization, and offered their community of stylists a free class on working with Afro textured hair. They debuted a partnership with Green Circle Salons to responsibly recycle salon waste and feature colorful murals on the salon's walls created by clients and local female artists. As a new small business, its mantra is even small changes can spark something big, and the judges applauded that. Love Culture may only be two years old, but giving back is in its DNA, the jurors observed.
Once salons reopened after the shutdown, a mani-pedi was back on the menu, but offering magazines to browse was a no-no.
Courtesy of Frog and Toad
Frog and Toad
Winner, Small Category: 10–49 employees
Location: Providence, frogandtoadstore.com
A Rhode Island-focused gift, pop culture and home accessories store.
Their irreverent merch is iconic: T-shirts that sport the famous "Knock It Off" slogan;
a Merry Christmas tree ornament in the shape of a dumpster fire; a St. Mac Jones Patriots prayer candle. But this twelve-person business has consistently punched above its weight since it opened twenty years ago. The Knock It Off brand, created during the early days of the pandemic, extended to local partners making hand sanitizer, masks, barbecue sauce and beer can logos, with a percentage of the proceeds going to frontline workers, the Rhode Island Foundation's COVID-19 response fund and others. Over the years, they've donated to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Read Across Rhode Island and the Nonviolence Institute. The judges particularly lauded Hopeworks, a Frog and Toad-inspired youth-mentoring organization that places Providence high school students in their first paid part-time jobs, giving them the support and skills they need to be successful in weekly workshops. The impact of this small but mighty business extends far beyond its size, the panel agreed.
Co-owner Asher Schofield co-founded the Hope Street Merchants Association and his wife and co-owner, Erin, is on the Bristol Warren Regional School Committee.


Complements Advanced level French course books by providing practice in reading and understanding longer texts of different types and encouraging independent study.
This practical photocopiable resource follows on from livre 1, offering extra material to support teachers developing their student's vocabulary needed to understand and talk about important issues in the target language and is suitable for AS/A2 level, IB Diploma Language B and AP level. Based on authentic texts which are lively, interesting and carefully graded, the exercises include identification of key words, comprehension questions and focused practice with the new vocabulary, grammar and phrases. 'Corrigés et Explications' handout sheets help promote self-assessment. Grammar and shades of meaning are explained simply but thoroughly, helping students develop their language skills rapidly.
All units lead to a written response outcome.
Offers a motivating and accessible way of reading longer texts.
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A Dangerous and Cruel Love: Bad Boy Mafia #2
She was too pure for his world. Too good for a man like him. She had every reason to be scared, but instead she chose to fall in love...with him.
I should've gotten rid of her from the start.
Instead, I stole her away from her boyfriend.
I made her mine.
I made her believe I could keep her safe.
I made her think we had a future.
But instead I found myself breaking all of my promises.
"Look at me, Fawn." He didn't say anything else but instead waited patiently, knowing that she needed the time to accept that from here on, she could no longer run to Bennett when she was in trouble. Now, after the other man's betrayal, it was Bennett she would be running away from.
When her eyes finally lifted to his, he asked simply, "Do you know why you don't hurt when you're with me?"
"B-because we're friends?"
The prince smiled.
She smiled back.
Then the prince lowered his head, and before she realized what he was doing, he had already bitten her ear, whispering, "Friends don't do this." And his tongue licked the curve of her ear almost as if in emphasis.
She jumped back with a cry of shock, but the prince only shrugged. "You shouldn't have done that!"
The prince only laughed. "I'll do a lot more than that, and you'll want me to do it." He reached for her, and ignoring the way she stiffened, he tugged on a lock of her hair, rubbing the silky strands between his fingers.
His touch made her shiver, but still she forced herself to lift her chin, muttering stubbornly, "You're wrong. I won't want---"
"You will," the prince countered in a husky purr, "and I can even make you beg for it…because it's how I'm going to make the pain fade."
After reading part 1 I went and started part 2 right away, I just had to know what was going to happen! Part 2 keep me on my toes! The sex scenes had me grinning, Prince and Fawn have such wonderful chemistry. The action and suspense had me up til 4Am finishing this book! I would definitely recommend reading both parts to this book and I sure hope one day we will get a small follow up book as well!
Please click on my book list if you'd like to read the stories of the other BBFs.
A Dangerous and Possessive Love: Bad Boy Mafia #1
He's powerful, merciless, and so, so dangerous that people call him the Prince of Darkness. And right now, the prince wants...me.
I really should've known better.
His place looks more like a fortress than a home, and everyone living with him is armed to the teeth.
That should've been enough to send me running.
But because I was foolish, I ended up working for him.
A foolish lamb serving the terrifying wolf in a suit.
I thought having a boyfriend would make me immune to the Prince of Darkness.
I thought I could keep myself safe.
But I was wrong.
When Igor came back after escorting the girl out, the prince said idly, "She's different, isn't she?"
"In a good way, I believe." Igor took his usual place, standing at the side of the prince.
Leaning back against his seat, the prince remarked, "She calls me 'prince.'" While he was known as the Prince of Darkness, no one had really called him that to his face.
"Which you are one," Igor pointed out.
He rolled his eyes. "Not by blood or appointment, and you know that."
"The people on the island think differently." When the prince had turned eighteen, he had received a posthumous bequest from Rodrigo amounting to millions of dollars, all of which he had used to build new infrastructure on the island he had grown up in as well as set up livelihood programs for victims of gang-related crime.
The prince shook his head. "I'm just giving back what was theirs from the start."
"Not many others would." Igor's tone was unusually cynical, but both of them knew he spoke the truth. Seeing the prince's expression turn grim, he changed the subject, saying, "I believe you've made the right decision with the girl."
"Do you?" The prince's tone was unreadable.
Igor nodded firmly. "I am certain it has not escaped your notice that the last five women we dismissed had all made the mistake of thinking you were in love with them."
The prince let out an inelegant snort.
"Exactly, sir. Ms. Cornwall, however, is unlikely to do the same. After all, she is engaged to Mr. Grant Bennett---"
"Who, according to you," the prince interrupted in a lazy drawl, "is my opposite."
"Your exact opposite, sir."
The prince raised a brow. "Did you really need to emphasize that?"
The older man's expression remained bland. "Ms. Cornwall has been fortunate enough to find herself a good man to love, and I believe that Mr. Bennett is equally fortunate to have someone like Ms. Cornwall as his fiancée. It would be a pity if her employment with us would cause problems in the relationship."
"Is that your roundabout way of telling me," the prince drawled, "I should keep my hands off her?"
"Your words, not mine, sir."
The prince rolled his eyes. "She's not my type, Igor."
"I am overjoyed to hear that, sir." But privately, Igor wasn't so certain. After all, when the girl had answered back, the prince had neither reprimanded nor fired her, which he normally would have done. Instead, the younger man had almost…smiled.
A genuine smile, which Igor had only seen the prince doing in the company of his small circle of friends.
But with the women he took to bed?
Never.
A Dangerous and Possessive Love by Marian Tee was one of the most provocative, enticing stories I've ever read….!!!!!! It's the story of Reid (Prince) and Fawn. She's going to University and is engaged to Grant. She applies at a job with Reid, the Prince of Darkness…well-known for his decadent, wild parties and lots of women. They quietly, secretly entranced with one another…
This is the most delicious, tantalizing 'chase' I've ever read!!!!! Wonderfully romantic, endlessly captivating. I loved this story…and it isn't over yet!!! Absolutely LOVED it and can't wait for book 2!!!!
I am volunteering to leave a review for an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
If you enjoyed the Bad Boy Mafia romance, then you might also enjoy my Club Afxisi series, which is also set in Christopoulos University.


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Q: How to determine the patch file name through InstallShield patchDesign view Usage of InstallShield 2018 patchdesign view to create patch files (.msp):
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*Where and how can I specify the .msp file name? is it possible to be set by environment variable value that I pass to InstallShild by the -l flag?

*can you please tell if ISLatestRelease can be declared as environment variable and passed to installshield with -l ISCMDBld.exe flag?

*can "previous setup path" be declared by environment variable and passed to installshield with -l ISCMDBld.exe flag, I'm trying to avoid hardcoded path?

*does Identification tab can contain environment variable?
Thank you!
Donna

A: Installshield generates patches(.msp) with "Patch package.msp" name. You can rename it using any scripting once Iscmdbld.exe generates the msp file.
Use the IswiAuto19.ISWiProject automation interface for automation.
https://helpnet.flexerasoftware.com/installshield19helplib/helplibrary/IHelpAutoISWiProject.htm

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Debt (television) Half-hour television series on Lifetime, debuting on June 3, 1996, and ending on July 3, 1998. A game show in which contestants had a chance to pay off their credit cards and other loans by answering questions. Hosted by Wink Martindale.


Bassnectar X David Starfire & Stephan Jacobs Official Mashup!
At Bassnectar's 360 NYE show, he produced a mashup of "Seasons" and his song "Psyopia" (Bassnectar Remix) from his side project Nauxfaux. "Seasons" is co-produced with Stephan Jacobs and features Shri on vocals. I'm an old friend of Bassnectar from years ago and used to open up for him in SF and LA shows. "Seasons" was released on Muti Music and you can check it out on your favorite platform here.


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Home Property & Real Estate Bryanston Square Central London Apartment
Bryanston Square Central London Apartment
A beautifully traditional, yet unique apartment located in London's sought-after Bryanston Square has become available on the market for the first time in 35 years with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Kay & Co. The stunningly-converted, ground floor duplex Georgian apartment complete with historic detailing, is firmly nestled between Hyde Park and Regents Park overlooking the picturesque Bryanston Square gardens.
Martin Bikhit, Managing Director of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Kay & Co comments, "This is the first time in 35 years that this luxury apartment has been available for sale reflecting how rarely properties on desirable Bryanston Square come onto the market. Set within a quiet suburban street, the apartment boasts a vast 30 foot wide reception with beautiful views across Bryanston Square and is perfectly situated in one of central London's most sought after areas.
With a gross internal area of approximately 2,485 sq. the distinctive apartment features a large eat-in kitchen and an impressively wide 30-foot-wide reception room with 13 foot floor-to-ceiling windows leading onto an ornamental balcony overlooking the gardens. Following on from the living area it has three well-sized bedrooms, two bathrooms and two guest cloakrooms.
With traditional features such as historic cornicing, sash windows and a cosy fireplace, the light and airy apartment has a classic appeal. All residents are privy to the private resident-only garden.
Built between 1810 and 1815, Bryanston Square has a remarkable history, previously home to numerous influential people such as Sir Reginald Hanson, members of parliament in the late 19th century and Wallis Simpson, the wife of Edward VIII – all of which have subsequently presided there.
The timeless converted Georgian house is perfectly located to the west of Baker Street, just to the north of Marble Arch. Marylebone High Street, Oxford Street and Regent's Park and Hyde Park all in the nearby vicinity.
Originally a series of 50 sequentially numbered houses, the area of Bryanston Square is a long, rectangular, terraced square located in the heart of Marylebone, Westminster, London – some of which have been subsequently combined into bigger units, such as the Swiss Embassy.
The three-bedroom apartment in Bryanston Square is priced at £4,150,000.
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» 2021 » LoI 2077
Letters of Intent received in 2019
LoI 2021-2077
Serving Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Lensing
Date: 5 July 2021 to 9 July 2021
Location: EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Contact: Frederic Courbin (frederic.courbin@epfl.ch)
Coordinating division: Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
Other divisions: Division A Fundamental Astronomy
Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
Co-Chairs of SOC: Frédéric Courbin (EPFL)
Sherry Suyu (MPG)
Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL)
Jennifer Schober (EPFL)
Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
Co-Chairs of LOC: Martin Millon (EPFL)
Elodie Savary (EPFL)
Aymeric Galan (EPFL)
Yves Revaz (EPFL)
Sophie Oblette (EPFL)
Gravitational Lensing: strong, weak, micro - Cosmology - Sky surveys - AGN and quasars - Galaxy evolution - Gravitational waves - Instruments and analysis methods - Visualisation tools and outreach.
Gravitational lensing, first seen as mere theoretical curiosity, is now broadly acknowledged as a natural tool to tackle a vast range of astrophysical problems at all spatial and temporal scales, and to constrain cosmological parameters. More than 15 years have passed since the last IAU Symposium directly related to gravitational lensing. Now is the time to review the field and its past and current achievements and to explore new avenues made possible thanks to the emergence of totally new fields such as gravitational waves astronomy. This comes at a time when major surveys will be very close to their start of operations, all with gravitational lensing as the main science driver, e.g. Euclid and LSST, to mention only the most advanced ones. It also comes in a new era where data mining in large - completed - ground based surveys is possible and for which data are now or will soon be in the public domain: DES, PanSTARRS, KiDS, HSC, BOSS, eBOSS, CFIS, Gaia.
The meeting will be hosted by Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland (http://www.epfl.ch). Located on the shore of Geneva Lake, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, EPFL is one of the top interdisciplinary institutes in Europe. While the core of the week-long meeting will be gravitational lensing, the goal is to gather a broad community of scientists working in theory, observations, instruments and analysis methods to foster interdisciplinary work about this natural phenomenon and to extend its fields of applications in areas where it may have been overlooked.
The meeting itself will include the following areas.
Strong, Micro and Weak Lensing: will include a broad presentation of the 3 lensing regimes, each time confronting theoretical and observational aspects to reflect what's possible and what's not practical with gravitational lensing in terms of measurements and realistic astrophysical and cosmological constraints. This section will emphasize the merits, expectations and limitations of gravitational lensing and will draw the best possible picture of where the field stands, now.
Cosmology: will review the expectations we have for weak lensing surveys, confront (and combine) them to spectroscopic surveys and explore lensing in the vicinity of black holes. The impact of time delays in strongly lensed quasars and supernovae on the measurement of H0 will be evaluated as well as ways to reconcile the growing tension between measurements of H0 in the early and later universe.
AGN, Quasars, and Galaxy Formation and Evolution: will emphasize the use of lensing in all 3 regimes to measure dark matter in LSS, clusters, and galaxies or in the form of primordial black holes through microlensing. Focus will be on the evaluation of the level of compatibility of purely lensing-based results with other more traditional approaches.
Gravitational Waves and Black Holes: will include strong and weak lensing of gravitational waves and explore the impact of GW and black hole science. Conversely, it will address how/if GW can be used to constrain cosmology, in particular their use to measure H0.
Instruments and Surveys: will be dedicated to a presentation of the most promising surveys over a broad range of wavelengths, from optical and infrared (Euclid, LSST) to the radio domain (SKA). An overview of synergies with purely optical spectroscopic surveys will be given and of the follow-up facilities that are being put in place (or that are needed) for imaging and spectroscopic data, in particular in the time domain (transient science).
Signal Processing and Analysis Methods: will focus on how to deal with massive surveys at all wavelengths, including the radio domain covered with ALMA and SKA. A part will be devoted to data-mining methods, shape measurements of galaxies, machine learning methods to find, characterize and model strong lensed systems and on how to confront the results achieved solely with lensing to others.
Outreach and Pedagogical Aspects: will emphasize the efforts of the lensing community to advertise the field and to make it understandable to the general public. This will also include presentations in the area of citizen science and virtual reality and will gather the authors of existing pedagogical tools. Eventually it will foster interactions between the different outreach committees of past, ongoing and future surveys.
Note that, depending on the selected invited speakers and participants, the above broad themes will not be addressed sequentially, but mixed, so that gravitational lensing remains perceived as a tool rather than a field in itself.


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    Description:        All value properties of the Number object should have
                        the attributes [DontEnum, DontDelete, ReadOnly]

                        this test checks the DontDelete attribute of Number.prototype

    Author:             christine@netscape.com
    Date:               16 september 1997
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Tres de la Cruz Roja is a 1961 Spanish comedy film directed by Fernando Palacios and written by Vicente Coello and Pedro Masó

Plot
Jacinto, Pepe and Manolo are three friends and Real Madrid supporters who are upset with the high price of tickets to Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. They pursue an offer from the Spanish Red Cross to get free access to the football matches. But once in there, they abandon their selfishness and work for the cause.

Cast
 José Luis López Vázquez as Jacinto
 Tony Leblanc as Pepe
 Manolo Gómez Bur as Manolo
 Ethel Rojo as Laura
 Licia Calderón as Luchi
 Francisco Camoiras as Felipe
 Jesús Puente as Ct. Martín

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"This study, which represents, possibly, the largest experience reported in the literature, may also help medical oncologists, since stereotactic radiation could also be used for patients who have limited sites of disease progression while receiving systemic therapy," said Dr. Brugarolas, leader of the Kidney Cancer Program. It can also assist surgeons, since when kidney cancer has spread, the tumors are often not amenable to surgical removal.
The research was conducted in the Kidney Cancer Program, one of two programs in the country to be recognized with an $11 million SPORE (Specialized Program of Research Excellence) from the National Cancer Institute. As part of the SPORE, researchers are improving the ways in which radiation is given, by evaluating combinations with drugs and identifying those tumors that are most likely to respond. In particular, investigators are evaluating combinations with immunotherapy, iSABR immunotherapy and Stereotatic Ablative Radiation Therapy.
Five-year survival rate averages run from 81 percent for stage 1, when cancer is contained in the kidney, to about 53 percent for stage 3, when it has spread beyond the kidney, and just 8 percent for stage 4, when the cancer spreads to more distant parts of the body or other organs. However, 5-year survival rates at the UT Southwestern's Kidney Cancer Program are double national benchmarks.


Two weeks after a hand and two legs of a woman were found in the Pallikaranai dumpyard, the Chennai police on Wednesday claimed to have solved the gruesome crime, with the arrest of a film director-producer. In his confession to the police, Balakrishnan, who helmed and produced a movie titled Kadhal Ilavasam, has said that he had murdered his wife and actress Sandhya due to marital dispute, chopped off her body into parts and dumped them in various places.
A police official said, "Sandhya was murdered on January 19. She and her husband were both staying in Chennai. He suspected her fidelity and murdered her. He admitted it when we questioned him." A statement from the Greater Chennai police said Commissioner A K Viswanathan appreciated the special teams led by Deputy Commissioner Muthusamy for cracking the case with the help of just body parts.
Balakrishnan first murdered her, cut her body into several pieces and dumped some parts at a garbage bin at Power House. Along with the garbage, they were taken to dumpyard, police said.
Her hand and legs were first found by the staff of the Chennai corporation who were levelling waste at the Pallikaranai dumpyard. The police were then informed, leading to intense investigation.


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