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Bronzeville Mobility Pilot offered seniors $3 local rides in small, low-speed electric cars
By Brandon Bordenkircher
Left to right: Melissa Washington (VP of external affairs at ComEd), Roman Kuropas (founder/CEO of Innova EV), Joe Svachula (VP of engineering and SmartGrid at ComEd), Paula Robinson (president of Bronzeville's Community Development Partnership), and the interim manager of the TRC Senior Village. Photo: Brandon Bordenkircher
Author Brandon Bordenkircher is a vice president of business development for Innova EV, a Chicago-based electric car company. Streetsblog Chicago agreed to publish his discussion of the company's recent pilot in Bronzeville. We did not receive payment to run the piece.
Obviously, fast, frequent, and reliable transit is a safer and more space-efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective form of urban transportation than cars, even small, low-speed electric ones. However, we were interested in hearing Bordenkircher's pitch on how these vehicles, like bike-share and e-scooters, might have potential to fill in gaps in the transportation network and provide first- and last-mile trips to rapid transit.
-John Greenfield, co-editor
Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood is rich with history and cultural capital. Bronzeville was known as the "Black Metropolis," the historic heart of Black Chicago, and artists like Muddy Waters, Louis Armstrong, poet Gwendolyn Brooks, and activist Ida B. Wells called it home. Crain's Chicago has a new podcast exploring the history of Bronzeville. But even with all that cache, Bronzeville still faces transportation challenges, especially when it comes to its seniors.
Innova's research found the average commute time for Bronzeville seniors to get to their doctor was over an hour, typically involving two CTA bus rides, which can be even more challenging during Chicago's frigid winters, when sidewalks are often icy. The median income for Bronzeville residents is about $37,000, while AAA estimates the average cost of owning a vehicle to be $10,000 annually, so car ownership often isn't a viable option. Limited transportation access often makes it more difficult for residents on fixed incomes to access jobs, education, healthcare, and fresh food, and the problem disproportionately impacts people of color.
Bronzeville Mobility Pilot
The Bronzeville Mobility Pilot was an effort to address transportation challenges for seniors devised by the Community of the Future initiative. This program is a partnership between ComEd, Innova EV, Eluminocity GmbH (a Germany-based EV infrastructure company), and the Bronzeville Community Development Partnership that leverages smart grid technology with the goal of supporting the community's sustainability goals and enhancing everyday life. The pilot started in December 2017 and was paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020. Read a white paper on the pilot here.
The partners launched the pilot to test an electric car ride service specifically for seniors. The two year ride-hail pilot offered affordable transportation (subsidized $3 rides within Bronzeville) in compact electric vehicles that don't add to emissions problems in the cities where they're driven, to help seniors get to and from doctors offices, the pharmacy, the grocery store, transit stations, and other neighborhood destinations. The pilot used Innova EV's Dash, a street-legal electric vehicle with a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour (Chicago's default speed limit is 30), to provide private rides for senior citizens who live in three Bronzeville senior housing buildings.
Some numbers from Community of the Future pilot:
225 seniors transported
1,431 rides completed
1,464 pounds of CO2 offset
16 jobs created
Brought an estimated $32,000 in economic benefits to Bronzeville
Employed veterans as vehicle drivers
Pilot destination map.
Healthcare services: 39 percent of trips
"Lifestyle": 21 percent
Pharmacy: 11 percent
Groceries: 11 percent
Transit: 8 percent
TRC Senior Village: 8 percent
About the Dash vehicle
The vehicle selected for the pilot was Innova EV's Dash, which is a 100-percent electric vehicle with a range of 150 miles per charge of the lithium-ion battery. The Dash is an IoT (Internet of Things) 4G and Wifi connected vehicle with more than 50 built-in sensors that collect data about the car's performance and ridership statistics.
While only one car was in service at a time, two cars were provided to Bronzeville in order to ensure continued service in the event of one vehicles required maintenance. The Dash vehicle was supported by a Level 2 EV Charging Unit (240V, 40A) installed at a nearby bed-and-breakfast where the vehicle was stored and charged when not in use.
A Dash electric vehicle. Photo: Brandon Bordenkircher
There is a plethora of studies the negative effects of traditional ride-hail in terms of increasing the total number of vehicle miles traveled, and replacing walking, biking, and transit trips (check out this Streetsblog article on a city of Chicago study of the issue for details.) However, compared to typical gas-powered Uber and Lyft vehicles, with the Dash, the CO2 emissions are significantly lower and the roads are safer due to the Dash's 35 mph speed cap and lighter weight, about 1,000 pounds.
Moreover, since the pilot was geared towards seniors, it provided trips to people for whom walking to destinations and to access transit may be hazardous during the winter due to icy sidewalks. [Of course another way to address that obstacle is ensuring that sidewalks are effectively cleared during the winter. – Ed] For many of these residents riding a bike may not be considered an option, even when the weather is conducive. So the pilot aimed to improve mobility for those who might have otherwise lacked transportation options altogether.
CO2 Emission Breakdown by Transportation Option
William P. Davis, board secretary at the Bronzeville Community Development Partnership, championed the pilot. He says the Innova EV program is evidence that "Bronzeville is an innovation lab for demonstrating micro-transit and e-mobility solutions, as well as other displays of renewable energy and beneficial electrification."
Mr. Davis also opined that although the Bronzeville neighborhood is a transit rich area, future partnerships could help fill existing gaps pertaining to issues like "charging incentives, and electrification of mass transit and greater access to public transit. The field is wide open for new e-mobility and micro-transit solutions (including e-cargo delivery."
Although the coronavirus paused the program, Bronzeville's need for equitable, affordable, and reliable transportation did not end when the pandemic hit. In fact, the community needs such programs to not only relaunch, but to expand.
We're planning to resume the pilot this spring of 2022, while expanding to the Illinois Institute of Technology campus.
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Talk Transportation During Go Bronzeville & Streetsblog Meetup at Baderbrau
Next month Go Bronzeville, a campaign to help Bronzeville residents take advantage of the many transportation choices in our city, is co-hosting our monthly reader meetup. This will likely be the start of a series of hangout sessions for Streetsblog Chicago readers and members of transportation advocacy groups and organizations in various parts of town. The […]
Talk Transpo During the Go Bronzeville & Streetsblog Meetup Next Week
Next wednesday Go Bronzeville, a campaign to help Bronzeville residents take advantage of the many transportation choices in our city, is co-hosting our monthly reader meetup. This will likely be the start of a series of hangout sessions for Streetsblog Chicago readers and members of transportation advocacy groups and organizations in various parts of town. The upcoming […]
Go Bronzeville Promotes Travel Options in the Black Metropolis
By John Greenfield | Jan 7, 2014
[This piece also runs in Checkerboard City, John's column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] In the early twentieth century, Chicago's Bronzeville community, aka the Black Metropolis, was home to African-American innovators and barrier breakers in business, music, art, literature and other fields. Now the neighborhood is ground zero for another […]
Driver Cited After Fatally Striking Eric Morris, 54, in Bronzeville
Morris was the 38th pedestrian killed on Chicago streets this year.
Could Bronzeville Become Chicago's Next Biking Mecca?
By John Greenfield | May 8, 2014
[This piece also runs in Checkerboard City, John's transportation column in Newcity magazine.] "When we first started Bronzeville Bikes, the question was, 'If we build it, will they come?'" says cofounder Bernard Loyd. The group encourages cycling in the Near South community once called "The Black Metropolis" with free repair sessions, neighborhood tours and more. "The […]
A path to success? Here's the route Bronzeville Trail development has taken so far
By Cameron Bolton | Jan 6, 2023
While there are still many details to work out, it looks like Bronzeville Trail is well on its way to becoming a reality.


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Johannesburg — THE biblical saying that a prophet is not without honour but in his own country rings true regarding the South African music legend, Daniel Tshanda, who is to be buried in Johannesburg on Friday, 18th January.
Such was the lack of recognition of his incredible contribution to the local scene that his death occurred unnoticed by media in his country.
From the era of vinyl records, through compact discs to latest file storage cards, he had a following that cut across generations.
In South Africa, the only places you would fancy hearing music from Splash, Dalom Kids, Matshikos and Majalisa are areas largely populated by migrants (especially Zimbabweans, Malawians, Mozambicans and Zambians), mostly Hillbrow, Berea and Yeoville.
Tshanda broke into the mid-1980s but his breakthrough came with Splash after releasing the album titled "Peacock" in 1986.
This paved way for decades long career that saw Splash average an album per year, until the last offering, "Siyazenzela" in 2016.
Most of the albums where blockbusters in neighbouring countries, earning him the nickname, "The Hit Machine."


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CBN lifts foreign exchange market with $210m
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday injected N210 million dollars into the inter-bank sector of the foreign exchange market to meet customer's demand in various segments of the market.
The Acting Director, Corporate Communications, CBN, Mr Isaac Okoroafor, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
Okoroafo said the CBN offered 100 million dollars to dealers in the wholesale window.
He explained that provision was also made for customers under the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) window to receive an allocation of 55 million dollars.
The acting director said that customers in need of foreign exchange for business or personal travel, tuition fees and medical purposes were allocated a sum of 55 million dollars.
Okorafor said the apex bank would continue to make the interventions as the country's reserve had increased to about 42 billion dollars.
He said the CBN's foreign exchange management strategy was yielding the desired result, hence the bank would continue to sustain its activities in the market to maintain stability and liquidity.
Meanwhile, the naira continued to maintain its stability in the foreign exchange market, exchanging at an average of N360 to a dollar in the Bureau De Change segment of the market.
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I feel like I've been starved of Vitamin D for months. At last some warm sunshine and no rain. Just in time for show season!
We're kicking off the year at the Spring Homes and Garden Fair at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire. What a stunning location. This is an exclusive homes and gardens fair in a very luxurious marquee with a top-quality restaurant. It's a first for us, so if you're attending please come and say hello. We're here for the next 4 days and the sunshine looks set to continue.
It's been a really hectic few months trying to wind down from a busy 2017 and gear-up for an even busier 2018. Asides from shows and events there's plenty going on in the background, all of which take time and organisation.
As always, we are available for to you to ask questions. We try to get back to enquiries as quickly as possible, but often at events, especially outdoor, we have little communication with the outside world.
Anyway, enjoy the good weather while it lasts! We'll hopefully see you at Sudeley Castle or, failing that, Badminton Horse Trials from May 2-6.


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The Scotch Whisky Research Institute (SWRI) is the main, and only, research institute of the scotch whisky industry in Scotland.

History
It was founded on 30 September 1974 as Pentlands Scotch Whisky Research, at the North British Distillery.

It changed to its current name in October 1995. It moved to its present site on 1 August 1997.

Scotch whisky is the UK's fifth-biggest export, and the UK's largest food and drink commodity.

Construction
The first turf was dug on Tuesday 5 December 1995 by Brian McGregor, the chairman. It was to open in September 1996.

It has a pagoda roof, similar to that developed by the Scottish architect Charles C. Doig.

Visits
The new research institute was opened at around 2.20pm on Monday 15 December 1997 by the Princess Royal.

Structure
It is funded by over 90% of whisky producers in Scotland, who are also represented by the Scotch Whisky Association and Scotland Food & Drink.

Research
It works with gas chromatography-olfactometry. It employs biologists and chemists.

See also

Brewing Industry Research Foundation, off the M23 in eastern Surrey
Institute of Brewing and Distilling

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Hannibal Lecter Cannot Appear on the CBS Drama 'Clarice'
By Shannon Raphael
Feb. 11 2021, Published 11:58 a.m. ET
Those who didn't have nightmares for weeks upon viewing the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs may be interested in seeing the story continue on the new CBS drama, Clarice.
The series centers around Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) and her work after dealing with notorious serial killer Hannibal Lecter. Though the character has always existed opposite Hannibal Lecter, the series is instead focused on her interactions with other predators.
However, though Clarice takes place after the events in the movie, some viewers might wonder if Hannibal Lecter will make a cameo to offer guidance to the detective.
Anthony Hopkins was the first actor to take on the Hannibal Lecter role, and many can still hear him creepily uttering, "Hello, Clarice," at Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling.
Will he reprise the role in the Rebecca Breeds edition for Clarice?
Will Anthony Hopkins appear on 'Clarice?'
Though some fans of The Silence of the Lambs film might be on the lookout for Anthony Hopkins to play Hannibal Lecter once again, the character will not be part of Clarice at all.
While it has been billed as a sequel, don't expect to see many of the same characters from the movie translated onto the small screen.
The series begins in 1993, about a year after Clarice was first sent to interview the notorious killer in a Baltimore psychiatric facility.
In addition to trying to leave the movie plot behind, Clarice isn't actually allowed to mention Hannibal Lecter at all.
The character was first created in Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name. The Dino De Laurentiis Company and MGM divide the rights to portray the book's characters on screen.
While the NBC series Hannibal portrayed the relationship between the serial killer and Will Graham, Clarice will showcase many of the other remaining characters.
The situation regarding the characters is confusing both to viewers and the staff behind Clarice as well.
Executive Producer Adam Kurtzman told Entertainment Weekly that Hannibal can't be part of the show but that the writers want to tell the story beyond that hurdle.
"I'm still trying to understand how the rights are divided. But it's been quite liberating because we have no interest in writing about Hannibal — not because we didn't love the films and the show, but because it was done so well by so many people that it didn't feel fresh for us," he shared.
Hannibal Lecter might be one of the scarier characters in recent history, but Clarice will still be able to bring the creep factor.
'Clarice' will include a major character from 'The Silence of the Lambs.'
Though Hannibal Lecter is off the table for the Clarice crew, the other notorious serial killer from The Silence of the Lambs will be featured. Clarice interviewed Hannibal in the first place while the FBI was hunting Buffalo Bill (who was played by Monk actor Ted Levine in the movie). He was murdering women in order to skin them to make suits for himself.
While the character died at the end of the film, he'll be present in flashbacks in Clarice.
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Buffalo Bill will be played by Simon Northwood in the CBS series, and he's credited for three episodes according to IMDb.
Clarice airs on Thursdays at 10 p.m. on CBS.
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Windows 10 update fixes bugs in Excel, File Explorer and Wi-Fi connections
By Frank Osei Nyarko On Jul 23, 2020
Microsoft has released a new, optional update for Windows 10 versions 1809, 1903 and 1909 that addresses a number of bugs in the operating system. This is the first update since Microsoft said it would pause optional nonsecurity update releases in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
For all three version of Windows 10, the update fixes a problem that caused the Magnifier in Microsoft Excel to stop working, which also caused Excel to crash. For versions 1903 and 1909, Microsoft also addresses problems in File Explorer: It will fix an issue that caused File Explorer to stop working when you browse directories of raw images and other file types, and you'll now be able to delete previous terms from the search box.
The update for versions 1903 and 1909 also fixes a long-running issue that blocked internet access on Windows 10 devices when using a wireless wide area network (WWAN) LTE modem. It will address an issue that prevented the system from recognizing the Windows Hello face camera as well, and one that prevented family safety features like time limits and activity reporting from working on ARM64 devices.
To download the latest update, go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update. In the Optional updates available area, you'll see the link to download and install the update.
The latest major Windows 10 refresh was the May 2020 update, which added new features to Cortana, search and virtual desktops, among other changes.
Still need to download Windows 10? We've got instructions for how to do it free. You can also find out how to install Microsoft Office apps free, and check out Windows 10 tips and tricks to help you work faster.
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The Society's relationship with Spinney Avenue Primary School continues to blossom. The school have now planted all the daffodil bulbs generously donated by Len and Gail of Whitegate Daffodil Farm www.daffodilwalks.com. Raised Beds have been cleared ready for planting and this week Society members helped plant herb seeds for the school's new greenhouse.
Other positive school news : St Peter and Paul Catholic College have been accepted to take a garden to RHS Tatton Show 2019. They will again design and build a garden following their successful project at last years event.


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Iker Pou got the first ascent of Big Men (5.15a) in Mallorca, Spain.
Spanish climber Iker Pou claimed the first ascent of Big Men (5.15a) in Mallorca, Spain, on Wednesday, April 29.
The route, bolted nearly 20 years ago by Carlos Raimundo, is Pou's third 5.15a.
The 38-year-old Red Bull athlete entered the spotlight when he became the third person to climb Action Direct, the world's first established 9a (5.14d). He and his brother, Eneko, are also known for various difficult big-wall projects. From 2003 through 2007, the brothers climbed a big wall in each country, including Eternal Flame (5.13a) on Pakistan's Trango Tower and Supercanaleta (5.11b/M6) on Fitz Roy in Argentinian Patagonia. Pou lives in his hometown of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.


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Saudi Arabia has likely been involved in Turkey coup: Zarif
2016/07/17 12:50:08 / NO 105150
Saudi Arabia has likely been involved in Turkey coup - Zarif
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said certain countries, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, favored the victory of coup plotters against the legal government of Erdogn in Turkey.
"Certain states like Saudi Arabia and Qatar didn't dislike the strengthening of the coup in Turkey, an issue which requires further contemplation," a member of the parliament's Presiding Board Akbar Ranjbarzadeh quoted Zarif as saying, when he was addressing a close session of the Iranian parliament.
"Given the Saudi's stance on issues in Turkey, we conclude that Saudi Arabia has likely been involved in this coup," another member of parliament Gholamreza Jafarzadeh quoted Zarif as saying.
The Iranian Foreign Minister has condemned "any coup in any parts of the world" and believes that people should play an active role in a democracy.
Addressing the Iranian parliament, Zarif condemned certain states for not taking a clear position on the coup in Turkey.
According to Behrooz Nemati, another member of Iran's parliament, Zarif has also talked about the recent terrorist attack in Nice, France, which killed at least 90 people and wounded 120 others.
The foreign ministry's assessment on Nice terrorist attack is that the two recent terrorist incidents in France aren't so much related to religion and their perpetrators are the second and third generations of immigrants from other countries who live in France and somehow want to take social revenge, Nemati quoted Zarif as saying.
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1. "In Memory of P.M. Forni: The Case for Civility in the Classroom and Beyond" (post) honours an instructor known "for his work on the history and theory of civility."
"The 12 Best Modern Classroom Management Strategies for Teachers" (post) presents an infographic entitled "12 Strategies to Manage the Modern Classroom - All Start with the Letter C."
The points below are adapted from that infographic to be more specifically applicable to the university environment.
"10 Effective Classroom Management Techniques Every Faculty Member Should Know" (pdf) explains that "[e]ffective classroom management is much more than just administering corrective measures when a student misbehaves; it's about developing proactive ways to prevent problems from occurring in the first place while creating a positive learning environment."


I was experimenting with setting up TAGS so we can make finding info easier within our forums. The only time you can actually access adding a TAG though is during the creation of a new topic. I can't add a TAG via a REPLY or during editing a post with the advanced editor.
Why is this only available during the initial creation of a post?
The Edit Topic Tags will allow you to add tags to any existing topics you have. This requires that you are either the site owner / have sufficient forum board moderator permissions which I'm assuming you have.
It is still an issue though for someone replying to a topic.. if they add a new term that should be tagged, they don't have the option. Guess it will have to be #hash-tagged instead.


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Dr Mahathir insists Goldman Sachs should pay US$9.6b, not just the US$2.5b in settlement with Putrajaya
Tuesday, 28 Jul 2020 11:09 AM MYT
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Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said on his personal blog that Malaysia was entitled to as much as US$9.6 billion from the bank that handled a controversial bond issuance for 1MDB. — Reuters pic
KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 ― Malaysia will not get anything near what the country was owed if Putrajaya proceeds with its US$2.5 billion (RM10.6 billion) settlement with US investment bank Goldman Sachs, former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.
He said on his personal blog that Malaysia was entitled to as much as US$9.6 billion from the bank that handled a controversial bond issuance for 1MDB.
"The government seems pleased with the settlement with Goldman Sachs. But the sum to be paid to the government is nothing compared to what is due to Malaysia.
"The total amount that should be due is US$9.6 billion. What Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay is US$2.5 billion in cash. US$1.4 billion will be based on the proceeds of the assets now with the Department of Justice (DOJ) of America.
Dr Mahathir's administration had started the pursuit of Goldman Sachs over the issue, filing criminal charges against the bank here while simultaneously initiating civil action against it in the US.
Today, he insisted that the US$1.4 billion also included what was already recovered under the US Justice Department's kleptocracy action on 1MDB, of which US$620 million together with S$50 million have already been returned to Malaysia.
"So actually, Goldman Sachs would be paying back only US$2.5 billion. That is very much less than what it should pay."
He then urged the government to rescind the agreement to settle the matter with Goldman.
Earlier last week, It was reported that the US investment bank has reached a settlement with the Malaysian government over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal.
The two sides reportedly said the deal includes a US$2.5 billion cash payout by Goldman and a guarantee by the bank to return at least US$1.4 billion in assets linked to the bonds.
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A rustic summer outhouse (with modern plumbing) was transformed into a tropical paradise of personal hygiene with a wide variety of artificial plants, flowers, exotic animals, a tropical waterfall, and assorted found objects.
Ghost Town Planet, an installation, is a walk-through environment of our mother planet in a process of transformation. Life forms die and decay, creating sustenance for future generations. Civilizations fall, and others emerge slowly over time. Ruination lays bare the underlying structures of a limitless variety of life forms from the animal and plant kingdoms. Ghost Town Planet reveals the remnants of lives that were slowly being swallowed by lives that will be. Nature is a powerful force that consistently through time has succumbed to death and destruction yet prevailed in its insistence on bringing forth new life again. We humans build cities, gather together in villages, create homes, join with nature, defy her, live in awe of nature's beauty and go to great lengths to annihilate it. Out of this elemental striving and conflict there at times comes a great deal of beauty and an understanding of the ephemeral nature of life as we know it. Fifteen artists come together at the NAVE Gallery to explore ideas of ruination, decay, rebirth, and spirituality.


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Q: .htaccess internal redirect not working with string parameter So i have been on this for hours but can't get it to resolve. Nothing on stackoverflow tackles my issue. The issue is that i have a redirect rule in my .htaccess as follows
RewriteRule ^store-category/(.+)/?$ /wordpress/store-category/?cid=$1 [QSA,L]

This redirect works when cid is a number but when a use a string like "my-key" it does not work. With the key i have to change the rule to this.
RewriteRule ^store-category/(.+)/?$ /wordpress/store-category/?cid=$1 [R,L]

However i do not want to use this because this redirects my users visibly and the url changes, which i don't want. Can anyone please explain why this thing is working for numbers but not for string parameters. Any help would be appreciated.
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RewriteRule ^store-category/(.+)/?$ /wordpress/store-category/?cid=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

A: I did some try on local and found that it works for me if I put these two rules:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

even before the row
RewriteRule ^store-category/(.+)/?$ /wordpress/store-category/?cid=$1 [QSA,L]

Complete .htaccess file will be:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^store-category/(.+)/?$ /wordpress/store-category/?cid=$1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Anyway, with (.+)/?$, an eventual trailing slash will be captured from the group and will go on the cid parameters. If categories doesn't have slashes inside, it's better to use ([^/]+)/?$.
Update: The understand what happen on your redirects, enable the log (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html fo this). On my host I enabled mod_rewrite.c:trace3 and I get the following log in error_log (just tracking lines with rewrite)
[Fri Aug 04 12:48:56.904099 2017] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 22823:tid 140368028878592] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client ::1:58312] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#788520][rid#7fa9e4002970/initial] [perdir /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/] strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/store-category/my-id -> store-category/my-id
[Fri Aug 04 12:48:56.904123 2017] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 22823:tid 140368028878592] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client ::1:58312] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#788520][rid#7fa9e4002970/initial] [perdir /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/] applying pattern '^index\\.php$' to uri 'store-category/my-id'
[Fri Aug 04 12:48:56.904129 2017] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 22823:tid 140368028878592] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client ::1:58312] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#788520][rid#7fa9e4002970/initial] [perdir /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/] strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/store-category/my-id -> store-category/my-id
[Fri Aug 04 12:48:56.904132 2017] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 22823:tid 140368028878592] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client ::1:58312] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#788520][rid#7fa9e4002970/initial] [perdir /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/] applying pattern '^store-category/(.+)/?$' to uri 'store-category/my-id'
[Fri Aug 04 12:48:56.904143 2017] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 22823:tid 140368028878592] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client ::1:58312] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#788520][rid#7fa9e4002970/initial] [perdir /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/] rewrite 'store-category/my-id' -> '/wordpress/store-category/?cid=my-id'
[Fri Aug 04 12:48:56.904147 2017] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 22823:tid 140368028878592] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client ::1:58312] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#788520][rid#7fa9e4002970/initial] split uri=/wordpress/store-category/?cid=my-id -> uri=/wordpress/store-category/, args=cid=my-id
[Fri Aug 04 12:48:56.904151 2017] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 22823:tid 140368028878592] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client ::1:58312] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#788520][rid#7fa9e4002970/initial] [perdir /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/] trying to replace prefix /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/ with /wordpress/
[Fri Aug 04 12:48:56.904155 2017] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 22823:tid 140368028878592] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client ::1:58312] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#788520][rid#7fa9e4002970/initial] [perdir /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/] trying to replace context docroot /var/www/localhost/htdocs with context prefix
[Fri Aug 04 12:48:56.904158 2017] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 22823:tid 140368028878592] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client ::1:58312] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#788520][rid#7fa9e4002970/initial] [perdir /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/] internal redirect with /wordpress/store-category/ [INTERNAL REDIRECT]

(followed by some other logging while it try to find the default document index.php)

A: Regex is greedy (left to right). You're pulling in extra slashes possibly other things. I find it easiest to use not classes for URLs (rarely '.' which will match everything).
RewriteRule ^store-category/([^\/]+)/?$ store-category/?cid=$1 [QSA,L]

You may also be able to simplify to this, depending on how you want to handle urls that may be malformed after the store category id.
RewriteRule ^store-category/([^\/]+) store-category/?cid=$1 [QSA,L]

EDIT: You are right. I didn't test the whole htaccess. You're specifying the wordpress path twice one in rewritebase and again in the rule. I have updated the rules above, as well as providing a link to the updated solution in a tester:
http://htaccess.mwl.be?share=116de701-cf8a-577c-bab5-5c357d844452

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I found this attached illustration of Moses Harris on the internet. It was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837 (I think that was the year) This is a black and white rendition of Millers portrait. I've seen colored ones , but I don't know what website I'd found the colored painting.
Harris died before photography became popular, so unlike Jim Beckwourth, Moses Harris' photo was never taken.
The stories that I sent to you written by Matthew Field are at the Missouri Historical Society among the Sublette papers. Those were stories told to Field by Harris and Sublette themselves. I don't know of any publication that contains those Field stories, however there is a book titled PONDER THE PATH (1808-1830) that tells the story of Sublette and Harris' trek from the Rockies to St. Louis in January of 1827. It was written using historical documents, but it isn't a primary source as Field's diary is.
Wind screeched through the cracks in the [Cache Valley, Utah] cabin wall, as [William] Sublette confided, "Under our contract, General Ashley has to supply S, J & S [Smith, Jackson & Sublette] with goods for the July 1, 1827 Rendezvous, if we put the list of our needs in his hand by March 1, 1827. I never counted on this blizzard. S, J & S'll fer sure go busted if I cain't make it to St. Louie in 90 days."
Moses Harris grinned, "Mus' be 1200 mile. Take dat 90 days on horseback to make it in good weathah."
to St. Louie with me on snow shoes?"
"Is pigs uglier dan us? Gonna load all I kin on dat pack dog o' yers. We boaf haul all we kin, we might kin git dere in time."
By noon Sublette, Moses and the pack dog Pony were bucking icy gales east through the mountains. With his heavy pack Pony's huge feet sank deep in the snow. They expected to find buffalo around Ham's Fork, but ate jerky instead, diving for cover from hunting Indians that barely missed Pony with any arrow.
They reached Independence Rock about the middle of January. While Moses skinned the buffalo he'd downed, Pony brought a winter hare to Sublette. When Moses came with fresh buffalo meat steaming in the cold, Sublette gave the rabbit back to Pony. After a brutally cold night they packed all the buffalo they could carry and let Pony gnaw the frozen carcass till they staggered away in the snow.
Moses and Sublette took turns breaking trail in the crackling cold. They stumbled onto the frozen North Platte, then wallowed through low hills to Ash Hollow. After trying to dodge Pawnee sign, they fell into friendly Big Elk's camp.
The Indians shared what they had, then sent them into the dawn.
Just past Cold Camp Creek, they met a small band of Indians. Sublette traded a hunting knife for a buffalo tongue. He tried to give part of the tongue to Pony, but the once mighty animal had fallen weak and listless. Sublette moved the sugar and coffee from Pony's pack to his own, hoping Pony'd get his strength back.
At Grand Island, Sublette shot a raven, but he and Moses were so hungry they wolfed it down raw. Pony ignored his piece of the gaunt bird to lick his own raw feet. Fifty miles further, Sublette and Moses got too feeble to walk, collapsing under three trees frozen together like the folds in a lady's fan. At dawn Moses knew he'd die if he didn't eat. He shook Sublette awake. "We gotta eat yo dog or die."
"Cain't eat Pony, " Sublette sprayed through bleeding lips.
"We dyin'. Gotta eat," Moses rasped as the wind blew a shawl of frost across the black man's face, turning it white as glistening salt.
Sublette knew Mose was a man among men. He couldn't let him die. "I'll do it Mose. He might turn on you." Sublette's huge hands closed around Pony's throat. The wolf-dog's yellow eyes went glassy. Pony coughed but did not fight for life. A vision of [his brother] Milton bounding through a field of spring flowers with [beloved hound] Seneca blinded William. "Milton must never know what we done here," Sublette sobbed.
His own tears freezing to his face, Moses lunged to grab the dying dog's throat. "Dis is killin' you, Bill. I'm gonna say I done it." But Moses collapsed, and Sublette squeezed until his beloved Pony lay still in his great hands.
Harris worked along side of and for William Sublette, so you'll probably see refernces to him in this history which does mention the black man named Edward Rose.
"Jedediah's unwavering eyes froze to blue ice. He generated a knife-thin smile, "Major Henry sent Edward Rose, a mulatto Crow War Chief down here with me."
"Rose -- I've heard the name. Major Henry's talked of him like he's some kind of legend. Where is Rose?"
"I dunno, but if you ever spent five minutes with Edward Rose, you'd never forget him!"
"Rose has the devil's body and the tongue of an angel. Speaks 10 languages.
Got his nose slashed as a boy in a brawl on a New Orleans keelboat. Crows he lived with called him Nez Coupe¢ -- Cut Nose -- till he slew five Minnetarees in a battle where he fought the whole tribe alone. Now the Crows call him Chee-ho-carte -- Five Scalps. They worship him as a demon. When Manuel Lisa fired Ed Rose, Major Henry says it took 15 men to hold Rose down long enough for Lisa to get away to St. Louis. And Rose was sober -- he's worse if he's drunk."
Now starkly awake, Ashley snapped, "Where is Rose? Gotta keep track of a man who acts like that."
"Can't. Rose comes and goes like the vapors."
"What good's Rose to us here?"
"First time Major Henry ran into Rose was in 1809 -- living in an Arikara village. Speaks their language fluently." "Send Rose to me when he gets here. Set up our shore camp by the river right under the noses of these Arikara villages."
"What'll we offer them for their horses, General?"
"I'll open with squaw trinkets, blankets, mirrors and vermilion sticks. If those fail, I'll trade powder and shot for horses."
Jedediah Smith's jaw dropped in disbelief. "As you say, General. As you say."
original trek from Winter Quarters, Nebraska, to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
Tribune history writer Harold Schindler, using diaries, letters, journals and reminiscences that have come to light this century, has fleshed out the following narrative.
As ox teams strained to haul Camp of Israel wagons toward the saddle that was South Pass in the Wind River Mountains, the pioneers met an eight-man party of mountaineers from Oregon leading a string of twenty packhorses laden with robes, skins and pelts. Many Mormons took the opportunity to write letters to Winter Quarters for the trappers to take with them. The wagon train continued over the summit where Orson Pratt had calculated the altitude of the Continental Divide at that point to be 7,085 feet above sea level. The company proceeded down the west slope to Pacific Springs where Pratt, George A. Smith and John Brown awaited them with Moses "Black" Harris, the celebrated mountaineer.
Harris was a monumental figure in the fur trade, despite the fact that so little is known of him. He was a South Carolinian and one of the more famous of William Ashley's "enterprising young men" of the 1820s. The sobriquet "Black"
likely came from the dark hue of his skin. Artist Alfred Jacob Miller described him as a man of wiry form, made up of bone and muscle, with a face apparently composed of tanned leather and whipcord, finished with a particular blue-black tint "as if gunpowder had been burnt into his face."
Harris had a reputation for being a raconteur of truly tall tales that rivaled the boastful Jim Beckwourth. George F. Ruxton said, "He was the darndest liar was Black Harris—for lies tumbled out of his mouth like boudins from a buffler's stomach. He was the child as saw the putrefied forest in the Black Hills"—where birds were made of stone. William Clayton thought Harris to be "a man of intelligence and well acquainted with the western country." He had carried along some newspapers and allowed the Mormons to peruse a number of issues of the Oregon Spectator and the first issue of the California Star, this published in Yerba Buena (San Francisco) by no other than Sam Brannan, who took a shipload of church members to the coast aboard the Brooklyn.
But Harris gave them a discouraging report of the Salt Lake Valley and environs. The whole region, he said, was sandy and destitute of timber; no vegetation but the wild sage. He gave a better view of the Cache Valley which he said was a fine place to winter cattle. Ah well, sighed Clayton, after so many contradictory reports from various travelers, the Latter-day Saints would just have to see the country for themselves.


• So that's one uncertainty out of the way, SAB's management has entered negotiations.
• That just leaves Altria & BevCo to agree (that's likely) and the competition authorities to also okay the deal.
• The latter is not nailed down but – and AB InBev's directors are betting $3bn of their shareholders' money on this being the case – agreement (subject to acceptable disposals) is likely.
• Then there's the time value of money for an uncertain period.
• All of the above suggests to us that a price of c£41 or so would be about right at the current time.
• SAB shares are trading at around £39.50 at the moment. The wheels could drop off, of course but, at this price, the shares could still be attractive.
• AB InBev did raise the question, we forget whether it was in its first, second, third, fourth or fifth approach to SAB – it certainly can't be faulted for its persistence – as to what price SAB's shares would trade at ex a bid.
• The latter have traded around £37.50 on a number of occasions and the wider market has since fallen by around 7%.
• Arithmetically, this would suggest around £35 but, if the bid were to fail, then by definition the largest potential purchaser (of SAB) would have been removed from the market and the latter's shares could fall below this indicated level.
• Hence if there's a 70% chance of £44 and a 30% chance of, say £33 – then the shares are 'worth' £40.70.
• But that, of course, is like saying the average height of a group comprising basketball player Shaquille O'Neal and my nine-year old daughter what's-her-name is 5'6". The answer is both 100% right and, arguably, 100% misleading.
• September's retail sales numbers are the best for nearly 2yrs.
• But, factoring in the ultra-late August Bank Holiday, which may have accounted for around a 2% to 3% pickup (see Mr Bubb's comments this morning), the numbers are arguably a shade disappointing.
• If food retail was down by around 1.2% then non-food retail must have been up by between 6% and 6.5%, which is more gratifying.
• Sterling down in recent weeks against the Euro. Perhaps those changing their holiday money at around 144c to the pound back in the summer had the best of it. Rate now hovering around 134c. The move is unlikely to put too many people off their holidays but, on the margin, it does make a difference.
• Markets a bit juvenile in the short term. Oil price down, price of Carnival and TUI up. It is what it is.
• The merged Park Resorts / Parkdean will be a big old beast, perhaps £1bn in equity value. Might an IPO be on the cards in due course?
• China imports have now fallen for 11mths in a row.
• Germany looks as though it is leading the Eurozone back into deflation.
• Tesco shares are up 20% on a fortnight. See our Langton FRI comments earlier.
1. SAB says it has 'reached agreement in principle on the key terms' of an offer from AB InBev. A case of 4th (or 5th) time lucky.
3. Consumer spending growth rose 3.7% year on year in September after falling to its lowest point in 14 months in August.
5. Tui understood to have sold hotel booking website LateRooms to Cox & King as it looks to focus 'on the integrated tourism business'.
What do you think? Here we include questions for the trade. We'll report back on trends, comments and observations. The latest big question is: Are the 'Big Days' still holding up? What about the weather – now that the sun's shining, is it still the big deal that it was?
Next week's news: Quiet week w/comm. 12 Oct. We have: 14 Oct 15 – Marston's FY update, Domino's Pizza UK Q3 update. 15 Oct 15 – Rank IMS.


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import (
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// ListCollections invokes the quickbi_public.ListCollections API synchronously
func (client *Client) ListCollections(request *ListCollectionsRequest) (response *ListCollectionsResponse, err error) {
	response = CreateListCollectionsResponse()
	err = client.DoAction(request, response)
	return
}

// ListCollectionsWithChan invokes the quickbi_public.ListCollections API asynchronously
func (client *Client) ListCollectionsWithChan(request *ListCollectionsRequest) (<-chan *ListCollectionsResponse, <-chan error) {
	responseChan := make(chan *ListCollectionsResponse, 1)
	errChan := make(chan error, 1)
	err := client.AddAsyncTask(func() {
		defer close(responseChan)
		defer close(errChan)
		response, err := client.ListCollections(request)
		if err != nil {
			errChan <- err
		} else {
			responseChan <- response
		}
	})
	if err != nil {
		errChan <- err
		close(responseChan)
		close(errChan)
	}
	return responseChan, errChan
}

// ListCollectionsWithCallback invokes the quickbi_public.ListCollections API asynchronously
func (client *Client) ListCollectionsWithCallback(request *ListCollectionsRequest, callback func(response *ListCollectionsResponse, err error)) <-chan int {
	result := make(chan int, 1)
	err := client.AddAsyncTask(func() {
		var response *ListCollectionsResponse
		var err error
		defer close(result)
		response, err = client.ListCollections(request)
		callback(response, err)
		result <- 1
	})
	if err != nil {
		defer close(result)
		callback(nil, err)
		result <- 0
	}
	return result
}

// ListCollectionsRequest is the request struct for api ListCollections
type ListCollectionsRequest struct {
	*requests.RpcRequest
	AccessPoint string `position:"Query" name:"AccessPoint"`
	SignType    string `position:"Query" name:"SignType"`
	UserId      string `position:"Query" name:"UserId"`
}

// ListCollectionsResponse is the response struct for api ListCollections
type ListCollectionsResponse struct {
	*responses.BaseResponse
	Success   bool   `json:"Success" xml:"Success"`
	RequestId string `json:"RequestId" xml:"RequestId"`
	Result    []Data `json:"Result" xml:"Result"`
}

// CreateListCollectionsRequest creates a request to invoke ListCollections API
func CreateListCollectionsRequest() (request *ListCollectionsRequest) {
	request = &ListCollectionsRequest{
		RpcRequest: &requests.RpcRequest{},
	}
	request.InitWithApiInfo("quickbi-public", "2022-01-01", "ListCollections", "quickbi", "openAPI")
	request.Method = requests.POST
	return
}

// CreateListCollectionsResponse creates a response to parse from ListCollections response
func CreateListCollectionsResponse() (response *ListCollectionsResponse) {
	response = &ListCollectionsResponse{
		BaseResponse: &responses.BaseResponse{},
	}
	return
}

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In this dramatic courtroom thriller, LT Daniel Kaffee, a Navy lawyer who has never seen the inside of the courtroom, defends two stubborn Marines who ...
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Actor: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, James Marshall, J.T. Walsh, Christopher Guest, J.A. Preston, Matt Craven, Wolfgang Bodison, Xander Berkeley, John M. Jackson, Noah Wyle
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having ...
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Drama, Thriller
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, Kimberly Scott, Joshua Rudoy, Benjamin Mouton, Aeryk Egan, Kesha Reed, Hope Davis, Jim Ortlieb, John Duda, Megan Stewart, Tressa Thomas
On the night of her wedding, Justine is struggling to be happy even though it should be the happiest day of her life. It was ...
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France
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It's the summer of 1959 in Castlerock, Oregon and four 12 year-old boys - Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern - are fast friends. After learning ...
Actor: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko, Gary Riley, Bradley Gregg, Jason Oliver, Marshall Bell, Frances Lee McCain, Bruce Kirby, William Bronder, Scott Beach, Richard Dreyfuss
Set in 79 A.D., POMPEII tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against ...
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Genre: Action, History, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Actor: Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, Jared Harris, Joe Pingue, Kiefer Sutherland, Currie Graham, Dylan Schombing, Maxime Savaria, Ron Kennell, Tom Bishop Sr., Rebecca Eady, Sasha Roiz
When a meteorite from outer space hits a young California woman named Susan Murphy and turns her into a giant monster, she is taken to ...
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Animation, Family
Actor: Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Paul Rudd, Julie White, Jeffrey Tambor, Amy Poehler, Ed Helms, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski, Sean Bishop
In Canton, Mississippi, 10-year-old Tonya Hailey is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks -- James Louis "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Almost immediately ...
Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt, Charles S. Dutton, Brenda Fricker, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Patrick McGoohan, Ashley Judd, Tonea Stewart, Rae'Ven Kelly, Darrin Mitchell, LaConte McGrew
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and ...
Country: Australia, USA
Genre: Action, Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Actor: Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien, Ian Richardson, Bruce Spence, Colin Friels, John Bluthal, Mitchell Butel, Melissa George, Frank Gallacher, Ritchie Singer, Justin Monjo, Nicholas Bell
Paris, 1880. Paul Gauguin is a successful financier. He lives in Paris with his wife Mette and their four children. But when his passion for ...
Country: Australia, Germany, UK, France
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Alun Armstrong, Thomas Heinze, Chris Haywood, Nicholas Hope, Marco Andreacchio, Karel Belohradský, Jana Bittnerova, Sarah Lina Brown, Jan Chromec, Mick Corrigan, Hana Dodlova, Sam Elia, Michael Futcher
Barney teaches chemisty, and is planning to abduct a woman. Despite methodical planning and countless trial runs he always manages to mess things up. Then ...
Genre: Mystery, Horror, Drama, Thriller
Actor: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock, Park Overall, Maggie Linderman, Lisa Eichhorn, George Hearn, Lynn Hamilton, Garrett Bennett, George Catalano, Frank Girardeau, Stephen Bridgewater, Susan Barnes, Rich Hawkins
Two friends, Ralph and Scott live in a small minded town at the onset of wide public dissatisfaction with the Vietnam war. While Scott's brother ...
Genre: War, Drama
Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Winona Ryder, Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Wynne, Keller Kuhn, Steve Foster, Mert Hatfield, Welton Tootle, Don Devendorf, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jason Summers, Scott N. Stevens
A mother and her two sons move to a small coast town in California. The town is plagued by bikers and some mysterious deaths. The ...
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Actor: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Edward Herrmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Brooke McCarter, Billy Wirth, Alex Winter, Chance Michael Corbitt, Alexander Bacan Chapman, Nori Morgan
John Henry returns to his hometown in hopes of repairing his relationship with his estranged father, but a local gang is terrorizing the town. John ...
Country: Canada, France, USA
Genre: Drama, Western
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Brian Cox, Michael Wincott, Aaron Poole, Demi Moore, Jonny Rees, Dylan Smith, Landon Liboiron, Brock Morgan, Wesley Morgan, Graeme Black, Tom Carey, Chris Ippolito, David McNally
Ryan is a lion who wants to go to the wild, where his dad (Samson) once lived. When he gets himself shipped to Africa, his ...
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Family
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner, Richard Kind, Greg Cipes, Colin Hay, Miles Marsico, Jack De Sena, Don Cherry, Christian Argueta, David Cowgill, Lenny Venito, Joseph Siravo
Phone Booth
Stu Shepard is a fast talking and wise cracking New York City publicist who gets out of trouble and lies with his clever charm, connections, ...
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Actor: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes, Paula Jai Parker, Arian Ash, Tia Texada, John Enos III, Richard T. Jones, Keith Nobbs, Dell Yount, James MacDonald, Josh Pais, Yorgo Constantine
Taking Lives
The film starts in the early 1980s. Young Martin Asher took a bus for Canada. He meets another teen on the bus Matt Soulsby. When ...
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Actor: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez, Tchéky Karyo, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Paul Dano, Justin Chatwin, André Lacoste, Billy Two Rivers, Richard Lemire, Julien Poulin, Marie-Josée Croze, Christian Tessier
1878 in New Mexico: John Tunstall picks up young gun men from the road to have them work on his ranch, but also to teach ...
Genre: Action, Western, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actor: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Jack Palance, Terry O'Quinn, Sharon Thomas Cain, Geoffrey Blake, Alice Carter, Brian Keith, Thomas Callaway, Patrick Wayne
In New York, the former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watch of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that ...
Country: USA, Romania, Germany
Genre: Mystery, Horror
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Cameron Boyce, Erica Gluck, Amy Smart, Mary Beth Peil, John Shrapnel, Jason Flemyng, Tim Ahern, Julian Glover, Josh Cole, Ezra Buzzington, Aida Doina, Ioana Abur, Darren Kent
Special Agent Pete Garrison is convinced that a Neo-Nazi Aryan Disciple has managed to infiltrate the White House. When a White House Agent is murdered, ...
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime
Actor: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria, Martin Donovan, Ritchie Coster, Kim Basinger, Blair Brown, David Rasche, Kristin Lehman, Raynor Scheine, Chuck Shamata, Paul Calderon, Clark Johnson, Raoul Bhaneja, Yanna McIntosh
Designated Survivor Season 1
US President Richmond will be making his next State of the Union address later today. In his Cabinet is Tom Kirkman, Minister of Housing and ...
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Natascha McElhone, Adan Canto, Italia Ricci, LaMonica Garrett, Tanner Buchanan, Kal Penn, Maggie Q, Mckenna Grace, Kevin McNally, Malik Yoba, Arjay Smith, Alex Quijano, Richard Bekins, Peter Outerbridge
Marmaduke, the world's most lovable Great Dane, leaps from comic strip fame (appearing in 600 newspapers in over 20 countries) to big screen stardom in ...
Actor: Owen Wilson, Emma Stone, George Lopez, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Steve Coogan, Fergie, Kiefer Sutherland, Damon Wayans Jr., Marlon Wayans, Sam Elliott, Lee Pace, Judy Greer, Caroline Sunshine, Finley Jacobsen, Mandy Haines
24 Season 8
Set in New York City, Jack Bauer is unwillingly drawn back into action just as President Allison Taylor negotiates international security with Omar Hassan, a ...
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Anil Kapoor, Mykelti Williamson, Katee Sackhoff, Chris Diamantopoulos, John Boyd, Freddie Prinze Jr., Cherry Jones, Elisha Cuthbert, Bob Gunton, Nazneen Contractor, Doug Hutchison, Akbar Kurtha, Benito Martinez
Four years after Abu Fayed's reign of terror CTU has been disbanded by forces inside the government. Jack Bauer is facing questions in a US ...
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Cherry Jones, Annie Wersching, Colm Feore, Bob Gunton, Jeffrey Nordling, Rhys Coiro, Janeane Garofalo, Carlos Bernard, Kurtwood Smith, John Billingsley, Tommy Flanagan, Mark Derwin, Frank John Hughes, Nick Chinlund
After being handed over by the United States to the Chinese government, Jack Bauer is tortured.
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Tzi Ma, John Koyama, Garret Sato, Clay Cullen, Tsuyoshi Abe
Russian President Suvarov is set to meet President Logan to sign an arms treaty when David Palmer is assassinated, Tony Almeida and Michelle Dessler are ...
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Raver, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Gregory Itzin, James Morrison, Roger Cross, Louis Lombardi, Jean Smart, Reiko Aylesworth, Jude Ciccolella, Connie Britton, Brady Corbet, Sandrine Holt, Jonah Lotan
18 months after being fired Jack Bauer returns to CTU as an Assistant to Secretary of Defense James Heller. CTU nabs a suspect who bombed ...
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Raver, Alberta Watson, William Devane, Jonathan Ahdout, Roger Cross, Shawn Doyle, Lukas Haas, Louis Lombardi, Logan Marshall-Green, Lana Parrilla, Geoff Pierson, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Nestor Serrano, Faran Tahir
Three years later; CTU receives a threat that Mexican drug lord Hector Salazar is planning on releasing a deadly contagious virus in LA unless Jack ...
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert, Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth, James Badge Dale, Dennis Haysbert, Sarah Wynter, Joaquim de Almeida, Christina Chang, Wendy Crewson, Vanessa Ferlito, Vincent Laresca, Riley Smith, D.B. Woodside, Jesse Borrego
Retired federal agent Jack Bauer is pulled back into field work after CTU learns of an impending nuclear attack in Los Angeles.
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Sarah Wynter, Elisha Cuthbert, Xander Berkeley, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert, Vicellous Shannon, Reiko Aylesworth, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Billy Burke, Timothy Carhart, Michelle Forbes, Sara Gilbert, Laura Harris, Tracy Middendorf
On the day of the California Presidential Primary, between midnight and 1:00 AM, the spy Victor Rovner sends a message from Kuala Lumpur to USA. ...
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Sarah Clarke, Elisha Cuthbert, Dennis Haysbert, Mia Kirshner, Carlos Bernard, Penny Johnson Jerald, Michael O'Neill, Xander Berkeley, Rudolf Martin, Richard Burgi, Daniel Bess, Matthew Carey, Jacqui Maxwell
The Cowboy Way
Buddies Pepper Lewis (Woody Harrelson) and Sonny Gilstrap (Kiefer Sutherland) who are championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho ...
Genre: Action, Western, Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actor: Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Ernie Hudson, Cara Buono, Marg Helgenberger, Tomas Milian, Luis Guzmán, Angel Caban, Matthew Cowles, Joaquín Martínez, Kristin Baer, Christian Aubert, Emmanuel Xuereb, Francie Swift
Karen McCann's eldest daughter is raped and murdered whilst on the phone with her. When the case against Robert Doob, the perpetrator, is dismissed because ...
Actor: Sally Field, Ed Harris, Olivia Burnette, Alexandra Kyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Joe Mantegna, Beverly D'Angelo, Darrell Larson, Charlayne Woodard, Philip Baker Hall, Keith David, Wanda Acuna, Geoffrey Rivas, Armin Shimerman, Natalija Nogulich
Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families ...
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This was my husband's first experience on a wheel as he would not go on the London Eye. He has now had a wonderful experience as you can see the water, the city and other places of interest from a great viewing platform! I would recommend this to anyone visiting Singapore. We found everything we did in Singapore to be of good value for money.
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Named after George Chancellor Collyer, the chief engineer of the Straits Settlements in the 1860s, Collyer Quay is a road that houses landmarks such as Clifford Pier, Change Alley and Ocean Towers. Until the late 1960s, the front of Clifford Pier was a car park where mobile food stalls arrived after office hours, and was a late-night haunt for musicians and an assortment of night birds.
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Raffles Place, Singapore's main Central Business District, is situated south of the mouth of the Singapore River. Originally known as Commercial Square, it was named after modern Singapore's founding father, Sir Stamford Thomas Raffles, in 1858. Retailers in the district soon gave way to the rapid development of finance houses and major banks in the 1960s and 1970s.
An internationally acclaimed five-star luxury hotel located near the mouth of the Singapore River, The Fullerton Singapore was converted from Singapore's historic general post office building to one of Singapore's most prestigious hotels.
Located at the picturesque waterfront overlooking Marina Bay, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is Singapore's most exciting performance arts venue to date. Housing a 1,600-seat concert hall, a 2,000-seat theatre and several recital rooms, theatre and rehearsal studios as well as outdoor performing spaces, the dome-shaped complex also boasts a shopping mall, cosmopolitan food outlets and an arts library.
The Merlion, a half-fish half-lion hybrid, is a commanding presence standing 8.6 metres tall on the south bank of Singapore River. The Merlion originates from the legend of Sang Nila Utama, a prince who named this sunny island "Singapura" (Lion City) after sighting a lion upon his first arrival to Singapore's shores. The majestic Merlion has since become a popular tourist attraction for visitors.
Located near the mouth of the Singapore River and built as a Court House, this impressive colonial masterpiece was home to many government departments before being renamed Empress Place in 1907 to commemorate Queen Victoria's visit to Singapore. Today, Empress Place has been reincarnated as the Asian Civilizations Museum and is a trendy spot for high-end waterfront dining.
Once Singapore's lifeline for trade, where early immigrants worked and lived, and stevedores unloaded cargo from ships and bumboats, the Singapore River has been given a new lease of life with the development of art venues, alfresco dining, entertainment and retail in conserved shop-houses. Highlights on the banks of the River include popular tourist attractions such as Boat Quay, Clarke Quay and Robertson Quay.
The Padang, located at the heart of Singapore's Central Business District, was where Mr Yusof Ishak took his oath to become the Republic's first president on 3 December 1959. Today, the Padang is a popular venue for sports, line-dancing and rock concerts.
Established in 1859 as an arms store, barracks and hospital, Fort Canning Park was the site for the palatial resort of former Majapahit kings and the residence of colonial governors such as Sir Stamford Raffles. Today, the park is a popular location for picnics, exhibitions, plays, performances and other showcases for the arts.
Floating Stadium
The colourful Floating Stadium, located next to the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, consists of a 27,000-person seating gallery and the world's largest floating platform performance stage on water. Singapore's annual National Day Parade was held at the Floating Stadium for the first time in 2007 due to the planned demolition of its former home, the Singapore National Stadium.
Singapore is proud to welcome F1 motor-racing to its streets in September 2008. A capsule on Singapore Flyer will provide the best seats in the house, with a clear view of the action from the observation wheel.
The Helix Bridge, a pedestrian bridge linking Marina Centre with Marina South in the Marina Bay area, is located beside the Benjamin Sheares Bridge and is accompanied by a vehicular bridge, known as the Bayfront Bridge. Besides the Singapore Flyer, the bridge complements other icons of attractions such as Marina Bay Sands, Gardens by the Bay and the business and financial centre which will be ready by 2012.
The Youth Olympic Park, Singapore's first art park, was built and named in commemoration of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games hosted by Singapore in August 2010. The park features art installations using different media by local youths, depicting their aspirations in life. A boardwalk connects the park to the Marina Promenade, set around the bay, and grand steps leading to the Helix Bridge connects the park to the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort.
Singapore's biggest reservoir to date, Marina Reservoir, looks set to become the next hotspot for watersports enthusiasts for water activities such as canoeing, wakeboarding and F1 power-boat racing.
Singapore's very first Integrated Resort will add a new dimension to the landscape of Marina Bay in 2010. Comprising a world-class hotel, casino, convention, leisure and entertainment facilities, and a museum, Marina Bay Sands will also offer luxury retail outlets and unique dining venues. Its hotel consists of three 50-storey towers linked by a two-acre sky garden, and will be clearly visible from the top of Singapore Flyer. Try to catch the various points of interest from the Singapore Flyer in virtual reality: day view and night view.
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If you love wine, then you have probably considered taking a wine tasting tour at one point or another in your life. The main reason for this desire is that by taking a wine tasting tour, one will be able to taste several different types of wine available and also get to learn more about the wines, their origin, how they are made and even how they are aged into becoming the tasty wine that is loved by many. If one is to get the value for their money, however, they need to ensure that they get the experience possible by planning the wine tasting tour very carefully and in a very detailed manner to ensure that everything is incorporated. This can be difficult if one does not know what to look at, what to include or what to overlook. For one to ensure that they get the experience that they long for during the wine tasting tour, it is advisable for them to follow some guidelines when planning this tour so that they can ensure that they choose the right wineries to visit along the tour, which will help to make their experience worthwhile. Some of the factors that one should consider when choosing the best wineries for their wine tasting tour have been discussed below.
It is also important for one to consider the seasons for the tours. During peak season, the wineries are very full with people on wine tasting tours and one may not get the best experience they can due to the rush and the insane prices, hence one is advised to avoid peak seasons.
Finally, it is very important for one to do some research on the wineries that they intend to visit along the tour to ensure they pick the most suitable ones for the tour and to avoid getting caught off-guard. The research enables one to find out what the time for the tour for each winery is, their hours of operation as well as the costs for each tasting and tour.


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Studying in English in Hong Kong and Beijing: Three Differences
Hong Kong and Beijing boast some of the best universities in Asia. Having studied at the University of Hong Kong and Peking University, here is my personal take on three differences between studying in English in Hong Kong and Beijing:
Firstly, in Hong Kong typically universities use English as the medium of instruction. Chinese (Cantonese and, increasingly, Mandarin) is used as a supplement. So in theory, you are on the same playing field as your Chinese classmates. Very often this means you can choose courses in line with your interests and career plan.
The situation is different in Beijing. While Chinese universities continue to increase the number of English-language programs to attract for more international students, the vast majority of classes, particularly electives taught in conjunction with those "normal" programs, are conducted almost exclusively in Chinese. So, if you are a non Chinese-speaker, then you may be faced with a limited number of courses to choose from. More often than not, your choice for some courses are done out of necessity (to fulfill credit requirements) than preference or interests.
Secondly, there are some of us who plan to study in English Hong Kong and hope to pick up Chinese language skills on side, either for further studies in China or career. This could be a good strategy. Nevertheless, your success, in particular in attaining a workable command of Chinese (i.e. beyond ordering food) will depend on your determination and commitments. For one reason, being an international city as Hong Kong is, one can get around and live a daily life fairly easily in English. In other words, you can be spoilt for language choices.
In Beijing, the English language "luxury" may not be readily available. This could be frustrating for non-Chinese speakers especially if you are new arrivals. However, if your plan is to learn Chinese language while studying in English for a degree, this could work to your advantage. So, in this case exposure is the key. In Beijing, you are in a 24/7 Chinese language lab; and fees for private language lessons are typically cheaper than Hong Kong. Plus, the "Capital" accent (perhaps minus the "er") is said to be as posh as the Queen's English. And for those aspiring "China watchers", Beijing as the centre of power in Chinese politics is certainly the place to be.
Thirdly, degree programmes in English are still rare at universities in Beijing. As a result, you do have to pay a premium for such "privilege". In general, tuition fees for courses in English are higher than similar ones on offer in Hong Kong. The fees can be higher for those courses organised in collaboration with a third English-speaking university. This was the case for the Masters programme I was in (Peking University – London School of Economics and Political Science Double MSc in International Affairs). I recalled paying back then a whooping RMB 80,000 for a one-year tuition at Beida. It would have cost me half that amount for a similar MSc course in Hong Kong.
Nevertheless, the cost of living in Hong Kong is generally higher than that in Beijing (although the latter is fast catching up). This includes accommodation, transports, and food. So, all things considered, cost-wise there may not be much differences in studying in English in Hong Kong and Beijing. They can be equally expensive, but worthwhile for future career.
My suggestion? Hong Kong if you are a non Chinese-speaker, and want to play it safe and convenient, both in living your daily life, and in choosing courses that you are really interested in, subject to availability. For those who fancy an adventure in Chinese and in observing what is going on in China, Beijing is the place to be.
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At the ALDO Group, we believe that hard work, dedication and passion deserve to be rewarded and recognized. It is without question that our company's strength comes directly from the strength of our people, which is why it is imperative that we foster the talent and creativity of our team.
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Strikes and protests at delivery platform Gorillas
Stop the slave labor! Build rank-and-file committees!
Sozialistische Gleichhheitspartei (Germany)
For months, the drivers (riders) and workers of the delivery service Gorillas have been fighting against miserable working conditions, low wages, hire-and-fire policy, lack of health protection and a thuggish management. Through spontaneous strikes, demonstrations, protest rallies and gate blockades, they are protesting extreme exploitation and slave-like working conditions.
The significance of this struggle goes far beyond Berlin and the delivery industry. Thirty years ago, working conditions like those the Gorillas workers face today were simply illegal. At most, they existed in developing countries. But since then, all the barriers that stood in their way have been removed. Work contracts, temporary employment and other precarious forms of work are also spreading in industrial companies. Many companies have used the Corona pandemic as an opportunity to outsource parts of their business and rehire workers under much worse conditions.
That's why the labor dispute at Gorillas is receiving a lot of support in the social media. On the other hand, entrepreneurs and politicians fear that it will become the starting point for a broad mobilization. Because the miserable working conditions are no longer the exception, but are becoming the rule.
This makes it all the more important to have a clear conception of how the struggle can be continued and won. To achieve this, one must learn to distinguish between true and false friends.
All sorts of politicians and trade unionists are now discovering their heart for the Gorillas riders. Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) wants to meet with them personally on Tuesday to 'talk about their situation.' The office of SPD Member of Parliament Cansel Kiziltepe, who can make good use of publicity in the Bundestag election campaign, has invited him.
The trade unions, the Left Party, the anarcho-syndicalist trade union federation FAU and various pseudo-leftist groups are campaigning for the formation of a works council or "Betriebsrat".
But it was the SPD, the Greens, the Left Party and the trade unions that removed all obstacles to slave labor. A milestone were the so-called Hartz laws, of which Hartz IV is only the most notorious. Drawn up by IG Metall member and car manager Peter Hartz, they were supported by the unions and passed by the red-green federal government in 2003.
The Hartz laws have laid the foundations for a huge low-wage sector that did not exist in this form before. This low-wage sector has in turn served as a lever to smash regular wages and working conditions.
The result is an explosion of social inequality. In Germany, there were 136 billionaires in the Corona year 2020, 29 more than the previous year, and 542,000 millionaires, 35,000 more than the previous year. On the other hand, 40 percent of employees suffered a loss of income. 13 million people lived in poverty, the highest number since reunification.
The trade unions and their works councils have played the decisive role in this social assault. They do not represent the workers, but the employers - and they are paid very well for this. Hundreds of thousands of layoffs in the steel and metal industry bear the signatures of IG Metall and its works councils. The so-called employee representatives sit on the supervisory boards, collect large sums of money and work closely with the corporate management and the management.
Here in Berlin, the Verdi trade union – in close cooperation with the ruling parties in the red-red-green Senat (SPD, Left Party and Greens) – has decimated public service jobs, privatized clinics, outsourced services and lowered wages at the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG).
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) is therefore against the establishment of a works council (Betriebsrat). It leads to a dead end.
Works councils are not allowed to call for industrial action and are obliged by law to work for the 'welfare of the enterprise,' to cooperate with the employer in a spirit of trust, and to keep all information secret.
The formation of a works council does not abolish slave labor at Gorillas, but regulates and cements it by contract. It also would make the organization of strikes more difficult, because during the term of collective bargaining agreements, there is a statutory peace obligation, i.e. a ban on strikes.
Works councils are used by the unions to suppress any kind of opposition. To put it bluntly, they are a kind of company police. This is precisely why the Bundestag passed a so-called Betriebsrätemodernisierungsgesetz (Works Council Modernization Act) last month, which is intended to make it easier to set up works councils.
We propose another way: The creation of a rank-and-file committee based on the tradition of workers' councils (Arbeiterräte).
Join together and elect trusted and respected colleagues to represent you and be accountable for their actions at all times.
Contact colleagues in other service, production and administrative areas, exchange information and plan joint actions. Connect with workers in other countries, not to make slave labor tolerable and 'humanize' it, but to abolish it.
The SGP and its sister parties in the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) took the initiative on May 1 to establish the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) to create independent fighting organizations of workers in all industries and link them across borders.
Such a struggle against the appalling working conditions in logistics and other industries raises fundamental political questions. Just as the enrichment of shareholders is based on the exploitation of the working class, this exploitation can only be ended by the expropriation of the big banks and corporations by the international working class.
'Workers of all countries must be united in a common political offensive to take power, expropriate the oligarchs, and establish a socialist society based on the rational, scientific and democratic control of production for the purpose of serving social need, not private profit,' insists our call to build the IWA-RFC.
We call on all Gorillas workers to contact us to form rank-and-file committees and organize an international struggle.
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